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...that to encourage use of his new invention, the shopping cart, market owner Sylvan Goldman hired fake shoppers to push the carts around his store in Oklahoma City? Seems his customers were reluctant to give up their hand-carried baskets.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8122354 | Systems and methods for providing an indicator of detection of input related to an element of a user interface Systems and methods are provided for detecting an action providing input associated with an element of a user interface and/or graphical model, and providing an indicator to indicate the action has been detected. The user interface and graphical model may provide on... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8028231 | Document management system for searching scanned documents A method for storing, organizing and providing remote electronic access to documents. A cover sheet including a standard set of identification data characterizing each document is developed and stored. A digital version of each document is created and stored by scan... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7836400 | Snooze support for event reminders Snooze support for event reminders produced on a hand held mobile device is disclosed. Snooze support in at least one example embodiment is characterized by an event reminder rescheduling method. This event reminder rescheduling method includes the step of prompting... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7802187 | Method for displaying user interface in accordance with user's intention A user interface is controlled to support a user using an image processing apparatus which can perform a task, for example, for storing image data obtained by a scanner in a memory or printing the image by a printer. In a display apparatus which can display a user i... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7627822 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a display unit, a plurality of types of input units, an input unit recognizing unit that recognizes a type of input unit via which input is being performed, and a display control unit. If a function menu has been selected of the f... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7523397 | Centralized alert and notifications repository, manager, and viewer A central notifications manager user interface is employed for presenting and managing notifications and alerts received from a plurality of different sources in a consistent and uniform format. The different sources can include one or more business productivity pro... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7516406 | Partial functionality indicator A property inspector with a partial functionality indicator is described that analyzes a selected group of objects within the design canvas of an ADE to determine the properties available to each of the objects and also which of the properties applies to the individ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7421655 | Presenting information indicating input modalities M_IDs corresponding to “not available” and “recommended 1” in respective setup items are read, and images corresponding to “recommended 1” and “not available” are read (S803). An image indicating “not available” and that indicating “reco... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418497 | Automatically infering and updating an availability status of a user A system, system, and program for automatically inferring and updating an availability status of a user are provided. At least one current activity of a user is detected, where the current activity includes at least one system level event within a computer environme... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7366977 | Method and systems of automated client-server data validation The present invention provides a way to validate data entry at both the client and the server with minimal engineering effort. The system allows the specification of data validation rules for a form on a server. The system provides a version of the rules with the fo... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363145 | Ground operations and imminent landing runway selection A method, computer program product and apparatus for locating aircraft with respect to airport runways, generating and annunciating imminent landing situational awareness advisories as a function of aircraft height above runway. ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363585 | Methods and arrangements for providing non-model reminder information in a graphical user interface Methods and arrangements are provided that display at least one user input field within a graphical user interface and automatically display reminder information associated with the user input field through a non-modal mechanism within the graphical user interface. ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7346846 | Strategies for providing just-in-time user assistance Help functionality is described for integrating help information into a primary application in a just-in-time fashion. The help functionality can perform this task by providing a see-through panel which is presented on top of an application interface provided by the... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7280241 | Print driver user interface A print driver user interface method for printing copies of a document, which includes receiving a number corresponding to the number of copies to be printed from an application, receiving at least one command relating to an operation to be performed on each of the ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7251782 | Method and apparatus for validating user input fields in a graphical display For validating user input fields in a graphical user interface, a data entry field includes a graphical validation indicator. In response to user activation of the validation indicator, such as by hovering with an on-screen pointer, a message is displayed in visual ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7246351 | System and method for deploying and implementing software applications over a distributed network A system for deploying applications over a distributed network to web-enabled devices uses a server, with stored text files containing application logic, and an application assembler. The application assembler downloads and installs on each web-enabled device. Then,... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7237258 | System, method and computer program product for a firewall summary interface A system, method and computer program product are provided for summarizing firewall activity. Initially, a plurality of types of events associated with a firewall of a local computer is organized. Further, a number of occurrences of each type of event is tracked uti... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7188006 | Device and process for documentary assistance of an aircraft operator, in particular a pilot of the aircraft The documentary assistance device (1) comprises sources of computer data (S1 to Sn, B1 to Bp) relating to said aircraft, to elements of the latter, as well as to the outside environment, an interrogation means (2) capable of being activat... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7167786 | Dynamic management of aircraft part reliability data A system for recording and analyzing reliability data for an aircraft during a dynamically-planned maintenance check of the aircraft includes means for obtaining and logging warranty-based reliability data from maintenance records generated during the performance of... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7146305 | Analytical virtual machine An analytical virtual machine (AVM) analyzes computer code using a software processor including a register that stores behavior flags indicative of behaviors identified by virtually executing the code within the virtual machine. The AVM includes a sequencer that sto... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7143342 | Distributing condensed versions of displayable information in hypertext markup language documents transmitted on the world wide web to personal palm-type display computers There is provided to developers and owners of Web documents, the ability to create Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) documents, which in addition to their basic set of natural language data conveying a first version of information of a particular content displayable ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7142131 | Method and apparatus for displaying aircraft engine characteristics A method and system for displaying aircraft engine information. In one embodiment, the method includes directing the display of an icon that represents a qualitative, overall operational state of an aircraft engine, with the overall operational state being determine... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7130070 | System and method for asynchronous tracking and quantifying of printing events A two-phase asynchronous print tracking system and method is described. The separation of detection of print activity and billing of print activity is accomplished by means of a quota-based message queue. Print jobs sent by a user are allowed to print without interr... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7127704 | Interactive software engineering tool with support for embedded lexical contexts In response to programmer input of a trigger token, a program editor creates a pair of boundary tokens encapsulating an embedded lexical context and positions an insertion point within the embedded lexical context. The operations on the embedded lexical context are ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7117451 | Method and apparatus in a data processing system for list ordering with multiple selection A method, apparatus, and computer implemented instructions for ordering multiple elements within a set of elements in a list in a data processing system. The set of elements are presented in a list format in a graphical user interface. The present invention waits fo... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7100030 | System for identifying, based on setup use history, and displaying a setup of a system to indicate enabled and disabled setting items to a user A computer that can easily identify which setting items are enabled and which setting items are not enabled when conducting setup setting operations, and can efficiently conduct correct setup. Setup history information is stored when the use environment settings are... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7079010 | System and method for monitoring processes of an information technology system A system and method are provided for monitoring processes of an information technology (IT) system. In one example, the system comprises a monitor agent configured to collect performance and availability metrics associated with a host machine, a network, an operatin... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7046254 | Displaying transparent resource aids A method, system and program for displaying transparent resource aids are provided. A user interface is displayed comprising at least one displayable object within a display area controlled by a computer system. Responsive to an initiating event, a transparent resou... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7043573 | Method of improving stability and communication efficiency of IrDA communication between host device and peripheral device An IrDA control method enabling communication by an optimum procedure without command collision even in an environment where plural host devices and plural peripheral devices exist. The plural host devices respectively have a unique back-off value, and the plural pe... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7027037 | Conditionally illuminated keypad legends A user input device employs a number of legends that are selectively illuminable to indicate an active one of alternative input values of a user selectable key. ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7023364 | Medical keyboard A computer keyboard designed to facilitate and simplify a user's interaction with medical software applications includes color-coded key groups and function specific icons. One key group is associated with medical image display tasks such as, for example, the displa... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6636990 | Electronic data acquisition method and data processing system In order to prevent that applications (6) of a computer system are working with erroneous data, the validity of all data inputs is checked before the data inputs are transferred to one or more applications (6), wherein erroneous or invalid data inputs are... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6618059 | Diver's information display device In a divers' information display device, a plurality of display modes or the manner of switching features has been improved in order to thus improve the display ability of the device. The divers' information display device has simplified switching of indi... | 09/09/2003 |
| 5524194 | Data communication apparatus A multi-media communication apparatus has functions of receiving/transmitting images, audio signals, code data and the like. A detection unit detects an error in an image signal received from a communication partner's terminal. A transmission unit transmi... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5522026 | System for creating a single electronic checklist in response to multiple faults A computer-based electronic checklist system automatically generates a single electronic checklist upon the detection of two or more control system faults. The checklist contains a plurality of notes to be read by, and action items to be performed by, the... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5485618 | Methods and interface for building command expressions in a computer system The system of the present invention comprises a development system having an Expression Builder for assisting a user with creating an expression. With full syntax checking enabled, the user builds an expression in "token" mode. As the user enters each tok... | 01/16/1996 |
| 4947346 | Word processor displaying instructions by monitoring user's key operations A word processor stores sequences of key operations corresponding to its many word processing functions and monitors the sequence of key operations by the user. If it is found that the user has operated keys in one of the stored sequences for a specified ... | 08/07/1990 |
