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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8115769 | System, method, and computer program product for conveying a status of a plurality of security applications A system, method and computer program product are provided for displaying a status of a security application. A status of at least one security application is initially identified. An index is calculated that is representative of a degree of risk associated with the... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8098248 | Method for semantic modeling of stream processing components to enable automatic application composition A method for modeling components of a stream processing application, includes: defining an input message pattern of a processing element, wherein the input message pattern includes variables representing data objects that must be included in a message input to the p... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098249 | Apparatus and method for automatic scaling of tick marks A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to calculate a default number of major tick marks as a function of a minimum distance between major tick marks and the length of a GUI control. A whole number of major tick marks that evenly divides... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094154 | Intelligent leading indicator display According to typical inventive practice, a baseline describing a statistical distribution is established for a set of historical occurrences of an event. Comparison is made between the baseline and at least one current occurrence of the same event. Any current occur... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089482 | Artists' color display system An assortment of color elements is grouped within a plurality of color families which are organized in accordance with a bi-radial circular color chart (FIG. 10-A) and a columnar chart (FIG. 11-A). Except for the neutral-gray color family, a pair of bo... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085269 | Representing and editing audio properties Technologies relating to user interfaces for visualization and editing of audio signals. In some implementations, a method is provided that include the actions of receiving one or more audio signals including digital audio data; generating one or more audio objects,... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8077178 | Displaying multi-ownership in a tree-map visualization A multi-ownership tree-map visualization system can include a tree-map configured to visualize a set of interrelated nodes in which at least one individual node in the set is related to at least two parent nodes in the set. The system further can include an event ha... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073821 | Method and apparatus for managing and archiving performance information relating to storage system A data management and archive method and apparatus, such as for implementation in an automated system to monitor and manage status, performance and configuration data for a plurality of networked storage components. Analysis and cross-correlation of data related to ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072457 | System and method for providing a dynamic expanded timeline Generating a child timeline on a drawing sheet of a diagramming program such that the child timeline is dynamically linked to a parent timeline. An automated method allows for the automatic placing of information on the child timeline that was on the parent timeline... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068104 | Totally integrated intelligent dynamic systems display An apparatus for graphically displaying analytical data, comprising a generic model to graphically represent a complex set of physical characteristics potentially leading to catastrophic failure of a physical system. A central region represents failure of the physic... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068105 | Visualizing audio properties Technologies relating to user interfaces for visualizing audio properties. In some implementations, a method is provided that includes the actions of receiving one or more audio signals including digital audio data; generating one or more audio objects, each of the ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8063904 | Project timeline visualization methods and systems Methods, systems, and computer readable storage mediums for presenting project information are disclosed. Project information may be presented by receiving electronic planning information associated with a project, the planning information including project resource... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059125 | Computer-aided parallelizing of computation graphs An approach to automatically specifying, or assisting with the specification of, a parallel computation graph involves determining data processing characteristics of the linking elements that couple data processing elements of the graph. The characteristics of the l... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8044958 | Material creation support device, material creation support system, and program When a position on a displayed graph is selected, a graph information processor acquires time information which is a parameter on an axis at the selected position. A character information acquirer acquires character information that includes date/time information as... | 10/25/2011 |
| RE42847 | Expression tree optimization for processing obscured graphical objects The present invention relates to a method, apparatus and system for optimizing an expression tree (101,902,1102) for compositing an image. Such an expression tree (101,902, 1102) can comprise at least two nodes. Each node is either a graphical element (102,104) or i... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8031195 | System and method of providing interactive data analysis with varying subjective parameters An interactive data analysis system is disclosed. The interactive data analysis system has a computer-generated user interface which includes a plurality of histogram elements having data band controls. The data band controls allow modification of subjective paramet... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8022952 | Generating a visualization to show mining results produced from selected data items and attribute(s) in a selected focus area and other portions of a data set To visualize and analyze data, selection of at least one focus area in a visualization of a data set is received. Based on characteristics of the selected at least one focus area, using at least one analytic technique to mine relationships between data items and at ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8022953 | Dimensions and computer aided modeling An object to be dimensioned may have such a small dimension that the dimension text will not fit within a space defined by extension lines. A dimensioning method is provided that exaggerates extension lines (24) of small dimensions so that the dimension text ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8018459 | Calibration of transmission system using tonal visualization components The present disclosure relates to broadcast signal calibration devices and methods. A system is provided that permits calibration or tuning of broadcast signal transmission and reception equipment through the use of visual representation of test signals. The generat... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8013858 | Statistical waveform drawing routine A statistical waveform drawing routine includes forming an image, determining discrete points of the image, forming count totals of the number of discrete points of the image in a sweep of the discrete points in a first direction, and determining a statistical value... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8013859 | Graphical display for illustrating effectiveness of resource management and resource balancing A graphical display combines multiple dimensions of information relating to resource allocation and usage by a group of computer systems and sub-systems of the computer systems. The graphical display includes a series of graphics, each indicating resource usage by o... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8009170 | Systems and methods for computing a variogram model Systems and methods for computing a variogram model, which utilize a variogram map and a rose diagram to compute the model. ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8004525 | Displaying interconnects having an appearance indicating data characteristics A method for determining a depth ordering between two planes in a 3D workspace of an application is provided. The method includes projecting vectors from a reference position through points of interest on the planes, determining corresponding points on the other pla... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8004526 | Waveform data display device and method This invention discloses a waveform data display device and method, wherein the device comprising a microprocessor, for receiving collected parameter information and generating information on a position, a length and a color value with the maximum brightness of each... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7999809 | Computer systems and methods for automatic generation of models for a dataset A method of automatically generating models from a dataset includes multiple steps. First, a description of a view of a dataset is provided. The description includes multiple fields associated with the dataset. Next, a set of properties is determined for each of the... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7995061 | Displaying of item through electronic apparatus An electronic apparatus, a computer program product and a method of displaying an item using the same are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a memory for storing an item list having at least one item, a display for displaying at least one object capable of ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7995062 | Methods for utilizing human perceptual systems for processing event log data A method is provided for utilizing the human perceptual system by providing a spectrum of event log data for viewing. Event log data is received. Events of the event log data are mapped to an x-axis of a spectrum based on time, where the events of the event log data... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7990383 | Sequential browsing and visible representation of a user's watch list of stocks and market indices A user's watch list comprising stocks and stock market indices is organized into a browsing sequence using a computer. The computer provides a sequential browsing feature to sequentially browse, in an order according to the browsing sequence, the stocks and the indi... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7990382 | Virtual display Display objects are defined that are capable of visually indicating physiological measurements and physiological monitor status. A virtual display utilizing these display objects is characterized by selecting those display objects corresponding to one or more partic... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7986323 | Two dimensional user interface for multidimensional data analysis Multiple two dimensional graphs are combined into a single two dimensional graph wherein correlations between dimensions are maintained. Dimensions in the graph can be superimposed on each other and displayed while maintaining the two dimensional format. This enable... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7986324 | Display device, display program storage medium and display method A display device which displays a list of data, including a date and time acquisition section which acquires the date and time associated with a piece of the data. The display device further includes: a three-dimensional display section which displays a three-dimens... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7978195 | Method for superimposing statistical information on tabular data A method is disclosed for displaying a plurality of statistical data usually presented in a histogram, such as sample counts and percentages of a collection of categorized samples, in a compact single table. The method comprises presenting grouped statistical data t... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7969439 | Method and apparatus for fast flicker-free displaying overlapped sparse graphs with optional shape A method for converting graphic elements containing sparse graphs into graphic layers is described, comprising the steps of: correspondingly mapping respective sparse graphs to respective sparse graphic layers, and projecting sequentially from top to bottom the regu... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7961189 | Displaying artists related to an artist of interest A graph of nodes and edges is used to represent artist influence between different artists. Each node of the graph represents an artist. An edge between two nodes represents an influence relationship between two artists. The relative influence between artists is com... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7961190 | Colored investment data display system and method A method and system that provides a unique data display tool for use in the investment area and utilizes color coated entries in various data displays to aid in the client's assimilation of investment data and information. More specifically, the method and system us... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7961188 | Persistent formatting for interactive charts User requested format alterations to interactive chart elements, including, but not limited to, legends, axes, gridlines, data labels, axes labels, error bars, and datapoints, whether they be represented as points, bars, pie wedges, etc., are persisted in spite of c... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7948491 | System and method for reorienting clusters within a display to provide a perspective-corrected representation A system and method for reorienting clusters within a display is provided. Clusters are maintained within a display. Each cluster includes a center located at a distance relative to a common origin for the display and a radius measured from the center. A pair of the... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7944446 | Device and method for displaying delay analysis results, and computer product Fluctuations of cumulative delay value and delay dispersion in a path of a circuit are displayed graphically. Cumulative delay values of circuit elements in the path are obtained from delay analysis results of the circuit and dispersion is obtained from a probabilit... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7944445 | System and method for providing a dynamic expanded timeline Generating a child timeline on a drawing sheet of a diagramming program such that the child timeline is dynamically linked to a parent timeline. An automated method allows for the automatic placing of information on the child timeline that was on the parent timeline... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7940271 | System and method for large scale information analysis using data visualization techniques A system and method for processing a stored original data set for subsequent display on a user interface of a computer, the original data set having multiple dimensions and a number of original data points greater than the number of pixels available on the user inte... | 05/10/2011 |
