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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7958446 | Systems and methods for language translation in network browsing applications A browsing application for accessing resources over a network includes code for receiving a command from a user to translate textual material appearing on an arbitrary page displayed in the content display area, and code for causing the textual material to be passed... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7908553 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, recording medium, and program An input assistance button that is repeatedly operated in a state in which characters are displayed in a character input area. The characters serve as input assistance to words, as they are repeatedly displayed in the character input area in a predetermined order. T... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7802175 | Automated address formatting The automated insertion of formatted address information includes the generation of one or more electronic documents based on a document template having specific guidelines for the format of the address information. From this template, address information is inserte... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7698642 | Method and apparatus for generating prompts Techniques are provided for generating a prompt in a particular language. Multiple prompt components are selected and arranged based on the language in which the prompt is generated. ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7669124 | System and method for managing resource loading in a multilingual user interface operating system A system and method is provided to manage different UI language settings in a central place by merging different UI language settings and related dependency data to an integrated UI language preference list. A set of API functions is provided that enables each resou... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7610548 | Method and apparatus for applying locale behaviors to regions of a form A method, apparatus and computer program product for identifying a form, the form having a form template and including at least one object. A locale property definition is assigned for the at least one object of the form. The locale property definition is stored wit... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7536640 | Advanced translation context via web pages embedded with resource information A computer automatically changes a web page that would otherwise be normally generated by a first application program (such as a web-conferencing tool for example) in a first language (e.g. English), by adding metadata to one or more translatable text strings in the... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7372851 | Method and system for automatic language negotiation on voice (over IP) calls A method for negotiating a common language on a voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network, the method comprising: allowing a plurality of users to connect to the VoIP network, each of the plurality of users having at least one of a plurality of VoIP compatible tra... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373520 | Method for computing data signatures A method and mechanism for generating object signatures within a file system. A file system is configured to generate signatures for objects such as files. The file system periodically scans objects to identify those which require computation of a new signature. Upo... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369129 | Automated user interface testing Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing techniques for testing user interfaces of software application. The techniques include interacting with a user to identify one or more straight lines in a first rendering of a user interface fo... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7353465 | Method 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... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349920 | Simultaneous display of multiple calendar systems A calendar display, method and system are disclosed that can provide a calendar display showing a period of one or more days and simultaneously showing information for the days in the display period in more than one calendar system. The calendar system displays cale... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7340389 | Multilanguage UI with localized resources A multi-language user-interface (MUI) for use in a mobile electronic device accesses language-dependent information. The MUI system includes a display, an operating system, a localized data store, and an application. The MUI system is used in displaying information ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7334232 | Clustered enterprise Java™ in a secure distributed processing system A clustered enterprise distributed processing system. The distributed processing system includes a first and a second computer coupled to a communication medium. The first computer includes a virtual machine (JVM) and kernel software layer for transferring messages,... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7315988 | System and method for using short captions to map user interfaces A system and method is provided to map alternative short captions that are displayed in a constrained display environment instead of displaying standard captions. When designing a display panel, the designer identifies shorter captions to use in a constrained enviro... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313514 | Validating content of localization data files The invention provides for extracting language and culture information from a POSIX™* conforming locale source file for the purpose of formatting sample data for country and language expert validation. The invention is performed on a computer system by obtaining a... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7302643 | System and method for scheduled events to subscribe to live information topics A calendar system stores and organizes materials related to scheduled events, to-dos, addresses, etc. and allows a user to browse a calendar and select entries for viewing. In addition, each entry is linked to any number of topics related to that entry and up-to-dat... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7296232 | Calendar control for selection of time periods to filter data The invention is directed to filtering data in a database with a calendar user interface. The invention returns data associated with time periods selected by the user. In particular, the calendar user interface provides options to the user to individually select a r... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7257701 | Method and system for configuring an operating system in a computer system A method and system for configuring an operating system in a computer system including language selection during bootup rather than at manufacture. A first aspect of the method and system comprises providing a plurality of operating system images in the computer sys... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257440 | Multilingual defibrillator This invention relates to an external defibrillator whose language of operation can be easily changed when the defibrillator is deployed for use. Defibrillators include, manual defibrillators, automatic or semi-automatic external defibrillators (“AEDs”) and defi... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7250939 | Display motion multiplier Navigating on a display includes tracking coordinate information of an input tool on a display and moving a visible portion of a page of information on the display a distance equal to a change in the coordinate information of the input tool multiplied by a multiplie... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7236089 | Vehicle-mounted display unit The vehicle-mounted display unit includes a display having a meter area and an auxiliary indication area. The meter area indicates a dial image for showing measured values of an operational condition of a motor vehicle. The auxiliary indication area indicates inform... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7231342 | Method, system, and computer program product in a logically partitioned data processing system for displaying messages in a management console's native language A method, system, and computer program product within a logically partitioned data processing system that includes multiple partitions and a management console are described for displaying messages in a language specified by the console. A language is specified by t... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7209115 | Force-feedback input device to compensate output to actuator and apply fixed force-feedback in response to movement of operating section A force-feedback input device comprising an operating section, actuators to supply force-feedback by way of a transmission mechanism to the operating section, a movement quantity detector to detect a quantity of movement of the actuators and a controller to control ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7181689 | Method for sorting and displaying a multiple user database A method for organizing and displaying multiple calendars (200, 300, 400, and 500) from multiple devices (102, 104, 106, and 108) to give an appearance of a single user calendar (1100 and 1200) on a user's device is disclose... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7178142 | System and method for dynamically verifying the compatibility of a user interface resource In a computer operating system having a user interface, a resource loader, and a registry resource database, a method for dynamically verifying whether the resource content of a resource module is compatible with the most current version of the operating system. Upo... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7155443 | System and method for application text localization A method for application text localization includes retrieving a format string using a string identifier supplied by an application. The format string defines a format of a text string. The method also includes generating the text string using the retrieved format s... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7149964 | Creation and delivery of customized content A method, apparatus, and software are disclosed for delivering customized content to clients with diverse content needs, such as clients from diverse geographical areas and language backgrounds. Customizable content is separated from the underlying code, which is us... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7129995 | Control device with easy lock feature Methods for identifying control keys with particular devices are disclosed along with methods of assigning control keys to particular devices. In particular, a remote control comprises a set of hard keys comprising channel group keys and volume group keys and a set ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7111116 | Reducing micro-controller access time to data stored in a remote memory in a disk drive control system A method and system for reducing micro-controller access time to information stored in the remote memory via the buffer manager in a disk drive control system comprising a micro-controller, a micro-controller cache system having a plurality of line-cache segments gr... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7110937 | Translation leveraging An application archive is searched for an existing translation for a text string in an application to be localized. The text string is associated with context information that identifies a location of the text string in the application. If an existing translation is... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7111237 | Blinking annotation callouts highlighting cross language search results The invention provides a system and method for translingually searching a piece of information from an electronic document, a website or the Internet. The system first dialectally standardizes the primary query in the input language entered by the user and then tran... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7073125 | Integrated display of gauges An integrated display including a plurality of analog gauges concentrically arranged about a common center. Each analog gauge includes a pointer indicating a value of a parameter represented by the analog gauge. The integrated display is optionally semi-transparent ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7065718 | System and method for configuring time related settings using a graphical interface A system and method for configuring time related settings using a graphical interface is presented. A user is able to configure a time-of-day and select a time zone on an electronic device using a maximum of two stylus movements. The user contacts a display with the... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7051278 | Method of, system for, and computer program product for scoping the conversion of unicode data from single byte character sets, double byte character sets, or mixed character sets comprising both single byte and double byte character sets Provided are a method, system and program for translating a source character string in a first character encoding into a target character string in a second character encoding. A plurality of specifications are maintained. Each specification has one of a plurality o... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7039867 | Method and system for controlling an operator interface with display fields containing graphics and text A method and system for displaying an operator interface on a computer includes graphic elements with text portions. A language is selected by a user and the graphic elements are displayed with text portions in the selected language. The text portions in the selecte... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7024546 | Automatically enabling editing languages of a software program A method for enabling editing languages in an application program module is disclosed. The method begins with a determination when the application program boots whether it is the first boot of the application program module. If so, then the user interface (UI) langu... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7013260 | Display device and sample analysis device equipped with the display device A display device including an operator information storer for relating operator information and information concerning the type of language which the operator uses. The display device include a two or more character storers, including at least a first display charac... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6922811 | Chinese character encoding input method and its input apparatus Disclosed are a method which is used in a computer or a communicative mobile telephone to achieve the JiuGong input of Chinese characters and a Chinese language computer or mobile telephone thereof, in which Chinese characters are divided into two classes, that is, ... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6697089 | User selectable application grammar and semantics In order that an improved communications interface between a human and a computer be provided, the interface to the computer program is directed to accommodate the variabilities of human communication rather than accommodate the rigid structure of syntax,... | 02/24/2004 |
