Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190993 | Menu selection using a rotating dial and button A system and method for making menu items easily adjustable on the setting screen of a camera with regard to the predetermined object to be operated. The camera setting utility screen for the CCD camera is displayed on the liquid crystal display any one of the plura... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8176002 | Method and system for user alteration of the configuration of a data warehouse Disclosed are methods usable by non-experts for altering a configuration of a data warehouse. The initial configuration of the data warehouse is represented in terms of metadata, and that metadata configuration is presented to a user. The user can choose to alter th... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171406 | Automating user interface navigation A system processes a set of instructions, each of which indicates an action to perform on a user interface. The system does not have prior information concerning the layout of the user interface, nor does the system interact with the user interface through an automa... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166394 | Systems and methods for implementing and using event tracking and analytics in electronic content A tool or other feature is provided during electronic content creation that allows the designer or other content creator to configure analytics for electronic content being created. For example, an analytics tool icon may be selected from a palette of other common t... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8156433 | Embodied music system An embodied music system. The system creates an interactive interface between a listener and the external environment. The system includes a physical device located in the environment that provides sensory input to the listener. An audio signal of the system is adap... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156014 | Communication service method and communication apparatus thereof for transmitting advertisements in a private communication environment Each user terminal apparatus is connected with a service business enterprise system by a connection business enterprise system in a state that a live image can mutually be transmitted through the service business enterprise system. An user beforehand sets its live i... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8135727 | Methods and systems for managing data Methods and systems for processing data, including metadata and an index database. In one exemplary method, a first folder, representing a first search query, is stored, and a second folder, representing a second search query wherein the second folder has a predeter... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8108428 | Vendor/client information system architecture A data network storing data relating to work done by vendors for clients is described. The network includes two or more servers, each server containing (1) an exhaustive vendor data base that contains client-independent vendor data for every vendor, and (2) one or m... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103956 | Adaptive technique for sightless accessibility of dynamic web content One aspect of the present invention includes adaptive techniques used to render dynamic web content for accessibility software applications, such as screen readers. In one embodiment, an operation for improving webpage browsing with accessibility software includes d... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8090236 | Optical record/playback apparatus and control method thereof An optical record/playback apparatus and a control method thereof are disclosed. The optical record/playback apparatus has an easy mode to automatically initialize an optical disk loaded on the optical record/playback apparatus, regardless of a type of an optical di... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8091025 | Systems and methods for processing content objects Watermark encoders and decoders can be integrated into operating systems, Internet browsers, media players, and other applications and devices. Such integration enables the watermark-enabled application or device to provide additional functionality and information a... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8065345 | Visualization as input mechanism A visualization input system is provided. The system includes a visualization component that receives input gestures from a user (or users) and translates the gestures into one or more data manipulation commands. A distribution component receives the data manipulati... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8051083 | Forum web page clustering based on repetitive regions Described is a technology by which forum web pages are processed into clusters for classification purposes, including by determining repetitive regions between pages and associating pages that have similar repetitive regions into a common cluster. Patterns correspon... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8041738 | Strongly typed tags In one or more embodiments, a tag is provided and includes a property that associates a strongly typed variable with the tag. Strongly typed variables can include any suitable types. For example, in at least some embodiments, the strongly typed variable is a people ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8041714 | Filter chains with associated views for exploring large data sets In an embodiment, a filter chain object comprising an association of a starting set of data items and two or more filter links is created and stored in computer memory. Each of the filter links comprises a component object that associates a set operation and a membe... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8019753 | Method and system for generating a dynamic help document A method for generating a dynamic help document involves obtaining question-answer pairs associated with a client-server application, determining rankings of the question-answer pairs based on user feedback about the question-answer pairs, and determining a first pr... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8015216 | Systems and methods of providing possible value ranges Embodiments of the invention relate generally to incremental computing. Specifically, embodiments of the invention include systems and methods that provide for the concurrent processing of multiple, incremental changes to a data value while at the same time monitori... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8006177 | Documents for commerce in trading partner networks and interface definitions based on the documents Machine readable documents connect businesses with customers, suppliers and trading partners. The self defining electronic documents, such as XML based documents, can be easily understood amongst the partners. Definitions of these electronics business documents, cal... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7979796 | Searching for commands and other elements of a user interface The present invention provides a search capability to allow a user to easily locate a menu command or other user interface element associated with a search result. In one embodiment, a user enters a search term (or a portion thereof) in a search field. A list of res... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7966558 | Snipping tool Systems and methods for capturing content and performing operations associated with the content are described. A stylus or other pointing device may be used designate content to be captured. After content is designated, a new window is generated that includes the de... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7953621 | Systems and methods for displaying agent activity exceptions Systems and methods are disclosed for scheduling a workforce. In one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of: collecting an agent activity of a first class and an agent activity of a second class; and displaying the agent activity of the first class and the ag... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7945549 | Electrical or electronic cable system design tool A computer-assisted design tool for identifying, specifying, ordering, pulling, connecting and labeling one or more types of electrical cable at a job site uses a job plan as a primary organizing concept. The job plan has one or more applications for which the cable... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941395 | System for storing documents in a repository A system stores documents in a repository and includes a repository for storing data representing a document. An interface processor receives and stores document data representing a first document and an associated document identifier. A document processor automatic... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937659 | Method for displaying roll-down messages on an aircraft display, and a device employing the said method The invention relates to a method to display page by page a roll-down message in a display zone of a viewer in an aircraft's cockpit, comprising, for each message, the following operations: selection of a full length for the messag... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7930635 | Relegendable interface device design-time environment system and method A technique is provided for adapting or “relegending” interface device views. The views include static content and dynamic content. At least a part of the static content defined a look and feel of the interface screens, including screens in a design-time environ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7917511 | Query system using iterative grouping and narrowing of query results A query system comprises a search component, a grouping component, and a narrowing component. The search component is configured to apply search criteria to an input data set and to generate an output data set. The grouping component is configured to divide an input... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7912860 | Strongly typed tags In one or more embodiments, a tag is provided and includes a property that associates a strongly typed variable with the tag. Strongly typed variables can include any suitable types. For example, in at least some embodiments, the strongly typed variable is a people ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7913169 | Recording medium, reproduction apparatus, recording method, program, and reproduction method A BD-ROM has recorded therein an AV Clip generated by multiplexing a video stream and a graphics stream. The graphics stream represents an interactive display to be overlayed with the video stream, and includes a sequence of three Button State groups. The interactiv... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7908289 | System and method for providing an improved graphical user interface for search There is provided a system for visually associating a search region containing search criteria with a search category from which the results of a search are found. The system contains a search region containing a user's search criteria, a result region comprising in... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7908278 | Recommendation system for assisting mashup developers at build-time A recommendation system exploits a repository of mashups to provide design-time assistance to the user through relevant suggestions as to what outputs can be generated along with the best plans to generate those outputs. An output ranker ranks the outputs of the sys... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7890546 | Analytical server including metrics engine Disclosed is a method for determining database queries to be sent by an analytical server to a Relational Dababase Monitoring System (RDBMS) by using hierarchical level metadata to describe the various structures within the database. ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7889976 | System and method for television programming data management A system, method, and service of managing data comprises establishing a computerized user profile guideline corresponding to selected television programming interests of a user; instructing a processor to manage data based on the computerized user profile guideline,... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7890528 | Dynamic refining of search results and categories based on relevancy information A search can be refined to locate information about an item based on dynamically selected and ordered search categories. More specifically, methods and systems identify a set of search categories based on search category preference information obtained from the sear... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7882433 | System and apparatus for managing personal and work-related matters A family management system provides a family manager with family-related and work-related information. This information may be provided to the family manager in the form of one or more screens depicting calendars, e-mail, and/or other tasks. In particular, family-re... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7877367 | Computer method and apparatus for graphical inquiry specification with progressive summary A computer method and system provides for graphical specification of inquiries and includes a corresponding progressive summary. The inquiries operate on stream data. Users graphically specify an inquiry in a graphical user interface according to an ontology. The in... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7861168 | Removable hard disk with display information A system and method is disclosed for visually communicating disk storage meta information comprising a removable data storage device (RDSD). An RDSD enclosure comprising a disk storage drive, input/output interface, one or more connectors, a storage information modu... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7860881 | Data parsing with annotated patterns The subject disclosure pertains to data parsing with patterns or regular expressions. A mechanism is provided for annotating a regular expression with additional information regarding data extraction such as output fields and mapping of the output fields to sub-sect... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7861167 | Dynamically extensible application program framework including message and notification routing Dynamically configuring an application program at run-time via one or more extension objects. The invention software implements a framework with one or more extension objects providing functionality to an application program and an application manager for integratin... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7831609 | System and method for searching, formulating, distributing and monitoring usage of predefined internet search queries A user interface aids in creation of customized pre-defined queries that can be used for identifying particular search results relevant to a topic. Provision can be made to allow express inclusion or exclusion of certain results. Metrics relating to how much the pre... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7823061 | System and method for text segmentation and display The present invention provides a system and method for dividing patent claims into segments for display. A segmentation engine of a computer program searches for transitional phrases or other strings and divides the patent claims into a segment for each claim. The s... | 10/26/2010 |
