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Mouse device with a built-in printer
A mouse device for use as an input device of a computer is provided that includes a housing in which recording paper is loadable, and a printer unit provided within the housing for printing on the recording paper print information received from the computer.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8117548 | Image preview A method, apparatus, and system are provided for displaying a graphical representation of at least a portion of a file by interfacing with a graphical interface relating to the file. A request for viewing a file content is received. A window for viewing a graphical ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8032836 | Configuring a graphical user interface on a multifunction peripheral A method and apparatus for customizing a graphical user interface on a multifunction peripheral is provided. User interface specification data is transmitted from a device to the multifunction peripheral. User interface specification data defines a desired display a... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8020105 | Unified user interface for instant messaging and email The present invention relates to a unified user interface for instant messaging and electronic mail. In one aspect, a single user interface is provided to allow a user to view email and instant messages. Instant messages and email are received and displayed within a... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8015494 | Melded user interfaces In one embodiment, a method for combining the user interfaces of several applications is disclosed. Data generated by a first application is extracted from a display buffer. The data is associated with a user interface from the first application. From the extracted ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010899 | System offering a data-skin based on standard schema and the method The present invention provides to a system and method of providing a data-skin based on a standard schema. In the data skin provision method, a user accesses and logs in to a data skin server. A meta-database is searched for a list of XSDs and skins to represent dat... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7971145 | Systems and methods for adapting service interface behaviors In one embodiment, the present invention includes a computer-implemented method of adapting software component interfaces by providing a user interface for specifying a provided interface, a required interface and interface operators. In another embodiment the prese... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7921367 | Application generator for data transformation applications A utility is provided for generating applications for a variety of data conversion or handling application environments. A user can use a graphical user interface to purpose application adaptable modules to define a desired application. In one implementation, the us... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7917856 | Converting between user interface technologies Converting components for a first user interface (UI) technology into components for a second UI technology includes enabling the second UI technology to access first components of the first UI technology, modeling second components of the first UI technology as nat... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7913174 | Method and apparatus for displaying a user interface in an image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus having a display function and a method of displaying a user interface display are provided. The method includes searching for interface information corresponding to screen layout information from a stored interface information, and display... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7904819 | Self-configuring component for recognizing and transforming host data An improved technique is provided for recognizing a character based user interface having several host component types and transforming the character based user interface to a web enabled user interface. Agents are deployed to consume a character stream which compos... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7895522 | Layout of platform specific graphical user interface widgets migrated between heterogeneous device platforms A scaleable graphical user interface system utilizes a device platform independent model to provide dynamic layout of graphical user interface widgets migrated between any of a plurality of heterogeneous device platforms. The device platform independent model includ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7882440 | System and method of switching appearance of a graphical user interface A styleswitcher displayed in a graphical user interface allowing a user to transform the appearance of the graphical user interface with one-click access. The styleswitcher captures viewing settings previously selected and saved by the user. By clicking on an availa... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7882441 | Apparatus for interoperation between legacy software and screen reader programs A computer program for facilitating operation of a screen reader with legacy programs whose user interface definitions do not conform to the design guidelines expected by the screen reader program. A graphical user interface is analyzed to identify a logical sequenc... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7877694 | Hosted notifications templates Method and systems for generating notifications in a notifications system. A parameter-driven template received from a content provider contains one or more parameters related to a subscription for notifications. The notifications system enables an application based... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7827496 | Method and system for dynamically generating user interfaces A method and a system are for dynamically generating user interfaces for an application, independently of resolution and platform. In this case, a configuration file is read in and interpreted. A layout engine generates the user interface by accessing a mapping whic... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7712034 | System and method for shell browser A previewing system that permits selection from a plurality of interactive previewers for use in a system shell browser is disclosed. The previews may be extensible, such that different application developers may write custom previews for different file types, and t... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7673245 | Converting user interface panels Converting a computer user interface panel between different panel types. An automated process is activated that reads field attributes of a first panel in a computer system. A configuration table associated with the first panel is tied to logic that specifies how t... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7647558 | User interface for presenting object representations A graphical user interface (GUI) for presenting representations of selected objects in a computer system. The GUI presents an object selected from a collection of objects using a selected visual representation selected from at least first and second visual represent... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7577912 | Suggestive form factors A development environment and/or method for generating a user interface for a plurality of computing devices. The development environment and/or method may include a user interface modeling process for configuring information representing display capabilities of com... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7571388 | Computer-readable memory medium for fast drawing of text fields and labels using a Java swing application program interface A system and method are disclosed for fast text drawing in an enhanced version of the Swing application program interface for Java applications. According to the system and method, two lightweight component peers, JTextFieldPeer and JfastLabelPeer, are created. Thes... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7562306 | System and method for reducing memory use associated with the graphical representation of a list control A system and method are disclosed whereby a list-based control (e.g., a Listbox or Choice control) in a graphical user interface may share a single copy of a list with the peer component of the control in the application program interface (API) used to display the c... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7487453 | Multi-modal content presentation A method is provided that includes receiving a user input, the user input having been input in a user interface in one of multiple modalities. The method also includes accessing, in response to receiving the user input, a multi-modality content document including co... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7484174 | Method for interoperation between legacy software and screen reader programs A method for facilitating operation of a screen reader with legacy programs whose user interface definitions do not conform to the design guidelines expected by the screen reader program. A graphical user interface is analyzed to identify a logical sequence of user ... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7480868 | Methods and systems for creating skins Methods and systems for creating and rendering skins are described. In one described embodiment, a skin-organizing method comprises providing one or more file types that define different aspects of a skin; and organizing the files types using a hierarchical tag-base... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7437675 | System and method for monitoring event based systems A method and apparatus of monitoring business metrics, the method and apparatus providing an interface with which a user can specify what metrics to monitor, what type of visual element to use to display monitored information, and how to position the visual element ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7430722 | Method and system for selecting skinnable interfaces for an application A method for selecting skinnable interfaces and a system for implementing the same. The method discloses accessing user specific information upon installation of an application on a computing resource. The computing resource is associated with a user that is associa... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7412656 | Method of data processing service for digital camera and system using the same Disclosed is a data processing service for digital camera having a storage medium with a capacity for small number of images. The service is intended to increase obtainable number of images in an easy and less expensive manner while the user carries the camera away ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7392483 | Transformation of platform specific graphical user interface widgets migrated between heterogeneous device platforms A scalable graphical user interface system may dynamically transform platform specific graphical user interface widgets migrated within an application graphical user interface between any of a plurality of heterogeneous device platforms. The scalable graphical user ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7372451 | Industrial augmented reality This invention includes a system and method for displaying a data including detecting visual markers (18) within view of a wearable camera (14) worn by a human worker, determining the environmental status and displaying data associated with at least on... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366993 | Automatic graph display System and method for displaying signals. First user input requesting display of a first signal is received, e.g., to a graphical user interface (GUI) comprised in a signal analysis function development environment, and the first signal programmatically analyzed in ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366989 | Element management system with data-driven interfacing driven by instantiation of meta-model A network element management system which can exploit the customized interface features of a variety of versions of a variety of complex system products from a variety of manufacturers. This is done by maintaining a meta-model, which is not itself a model until inst... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363590 | Calendar bar interface for electronic mail interaction A calendar bar utility with a special user interface may be integrated and displayed simultaneously with an electronic mail list inbox. The calendar bar user interface comprises a linear display arranged into multiple, chronologically-arranged, time periods. Upon se... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363588 | GUI for organizational environment A method and apparatus are described for providing a graphical user interface for a plurality of users under a predetermined format substantially controlled by an employer of the plurality of users. The method includes the steps of disposing a proxy server between t... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363586 | Component localization In an implementation of component localization, control components are maintained that each define a localization format, such as a display format for a section of a display. A locale designation is received and a control component is obtained that corresponds to a ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359942 | Apparatus, method, network system, recording medium and computer program for processing transmitted information An information processing apparatus that executes processing of a message transmitted among a plurality of sites connected via a network. The information processing apparatus includes a message reception part that receives a message to execute a prescribed piece of ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356332 | Mobile information system for presenting information to mobile devices Mobile communications devices display contextually relevant information based on the presence, status, and identification of a user. Lens templates control how the information is displayed and can be customized and designed for specific usage profiles. The lenses th... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353234 | Customized user interface based on user record information A user interface including one or more references to content is customized. Several user profiles are provided from which a user may be associated. Each user profile includes user profile information. The user profile associated with a user to whom a user interface ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353229 | Post-session internet advertising system The present invention is directed to a post-session advertising system that may be used in media such as computers, personal digital assistants, telephones, televisions, radios, and similar devices. In one preferred embodiment, a first display is viewed in a first p... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7346843 | Low-latency, incremental rendering in a content framework Techniques are disclosed for incrementally rendering content in a content framework (such as a portal page provided by a portal system). Upon receiving a request for a portal page, a portal server immediately returns a response including the results from portlets wh... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7340682 | Method and system for controlling a complementary user interface on a display surface An alternate display content controller provides a technique for controlling a video display separately from and in addition to the content displayed on the operating system display surface. Where the display is a computer monitor, the alternate display content cont... | 03/04/2008 |
