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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8191008 | Simulating multi-monitor functionality in a single monitor environment The systems and methods of the present provide techniques for virtualizing, simulating or providing multiple displays for an environment having one display device or less display devices than desired. The techniques of the present invention virtualize a client's dis... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8176435 | Pinch to adjust Methods and systems for resizing a display area of a display device are disclosed. An example method may include receiving an on-screen pinch gesture associated with a first location and a second location, the second location being different from the first location ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171423 | Window broker architecture Retrieving information from a display server. Information about all visible windows displayed on a display by the display server is retrieved. Descriptive information about visible windows displayed on the display, and windows on a shelf is retrieved from the displa... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166390 | Figure sizing and positioning on dynamic pages Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that provide ways to position, size, and/or anchor page elements for display on varying output devices. A user can assign rendering specifications to both text and graphic elements. Rendering specifications include, ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8156444 | Systems and methods for determining a user interface attribute Systems and methods for determining a user interface attribute are described. In one method described, a display processor receives a request to display a content display in a user interface, detects an area of the user interface comprising non-primary content, and ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8136047 | Multi-application tabbing system A method for displaying a plurality of windows on a display screen is described. The method includes steps of associating a first window with at least one second window, the at least one second window being independent of and external to the first window, and combin... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8127247 | Human-machine-interface and method for manipulating data in a machine vision system This invention provides a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that operates in connection with a machine vision detector or other machine vision system, which provides a highly intuitive and industrial machine-like appearance and layout. The GUI includes a centralized im... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8112717 | Automatic formatting of display screen to reflect past correlative changes to data display windows A method for automatically formatting a display screen upon initialization or refresh to reflect a user's prior resizing of frames with respect to one another. ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8095887 | Apparatus for providing multiple screens and method of dynamically configuring multiple screens An apparatus for providing multiple screens and a method of dynamically configuring multiple screens are provided. The apparatus for providing multiple screens includes a service processing module which generates logical screens displaying services and a display scr... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8086958 | Layout determination method, layout determination apparatus, and layout determination program A layout determination method is provided in which, if arrangement information of areas laid out on a predetermined page satisfies a condition set for the predetermined page, a distance between objects arranged on a page different from the predetermined page is chan... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082519 | Efficient display systems and methods Methods and systems for making a more efficient use of a display area for the purpose of displaying items, for example on an Internet store web site. In one embodiment of the invention the items are displayed in rows in a manner which allows for optimization of the ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8065601 | System and method for tagging data A system and related methods for tagging data, especially in the context of a web-based application, includes various features associated with a tag bar. A text field is displayable in conjunction with such tag bar, as is a list of any potential tags. Data can be re... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8065627 | Single pass automatic photo album page layout A method for quickly and efficiently locating objects, such as images having fixed aspect ratios, within a predefined space, such as a printed page, is provided. The method comprises generating a binary tree containing a first image. The system generates a second tr... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8065628 | Dynamic user interface for previewing live content A dynamic user interface for previewing live content includes multiple tiles. Information for multiple pieces of live content available from a gallery is obtained, and this information is presented in the multiple tiles of the user interface in accordance with a cur... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8056014 | Web portal page interactive user interfaces with maximum accessibility to user selected portlets A Web portal page at a Web display station having a plurality of portlet sections, each portlet including text and at least one active hyperlink to another Web page. An implementation enabling a user to enter one of the displayed portlet sections, enlarging the area... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8056013 | Method for arranging graphic assemblies A method for arranging a set of graphic assemblies within an area includes establishing a candidate tree associated with the set of graphic assemblies; determining if the candidate tree is a feasible candidate tree; and in response to the candidate tree being a feas... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8046713 | Display apparatus, method for display, display program, and computer-readable storage medium A mobile phone (1) includes: a blank area detection section (55) which detects a blank area whose size is determined by subtracting, from an entire area of a display screen, an image display area where an image is displayed and a character string displ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046712 | Management of multiple window panels with a graphical user interface A method in a user interface, according to one embodiment, allows for the docking of window panels within a software application. A palette in the user interface can, in this embodiment, have three states: (i) the palette is open within a window panel; (ii) the pale... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8020090 | Small form factor web browsing A large web page is analyzed and partitioned into smaller sub-pages so that a user can navigate the web page on a small form factor device. The user can browse the sub-pages to find and read information in the content of the large web page. The partitioning can be p... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8020116 | System and method for visualizing a multi-screen workspace on a single display screen A system (200) and method (600) for visualizing on a single display screen (SDS) a first plurality of display screen windows (FPDSWs) displayed on display screens (234, . . . , 240) of a multi-screen workspace. The method involves determining a ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8015502 | Dynamic layout for a search engine results page on implicit user feedback The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for providing dynamic search results based upon historical data through the use of one or more widgets. The method of the present invention comprises receiving a request for content from a client and gene... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8006197 | Method and apparatus for output of search results Methods and systems for generating search results for output to a user. A number of “views” of search results may be provided each having particular formats. In a product search engine implementation, a grid view may be provided that allows multi-column display ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7996786 | Dynamically rendering visualizations of data sets Computerized methods and systems for dynamically rendering visual representations of data sets are provided. Upon receiving a request for a particular data set (for instance, in response to receiving a search request), a data set is identified and a minimum portion ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7996787 | Plug-in architecture for window management and desktop compositing effects A system and method that relates to a plug-in architecture that enables accelerated rendering and compositing of one or more graphical effects instantiated by one or more separate visual effect plug-ins. The plug-in architecture enables setting up visual effects, ac... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7930647 | System and method for selecting pictures for presentation with text content One or more pictures may be selected for use with a text item, such as an article (news story, blog entry, online magazine) or post (e.g. informal blog entry). Pictures may be selected from a library, such as a collection of stock photographs. Stock photographs are ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7904827 | Sticky note display processing device and sticky note display processing method A sticky note display processing device is connected to an image reading device and a display device and is provided with at least a storage device and a control device. The control device includes image reading unit that controls the image reading device to read an... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899802 | Moveable interface to a search engine that remains visible on the desktop Methods and systems for a moveable search engine interface that remains visible on the desktop are provided. In one embodiment, a search engine interface is created by displaying a graphical image of a window on a screen of the computer. The window may receive searc... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7890882 | Content and proximity based window layout optimization A content and proximity based window layout optimizer is described, including receiving a request to adjust one or more windows in a user interface, the one or more windows having content, determining an adjustment order based on the request, the adjustment order co... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7890881 | Systems and methods for a fold preview The invention comprises systems and methods for a fold preview. Various embodiments of the present invention provide a fold preview of a web page, including fixed-width and flexible-width web page designs. Other embodiments of the present invention provide a fold pr... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7814414 | Relative attributes of floating objects Relative attributes of floating objects are disclosed. A user may obtain a floating object and specify that an attribute of the floating object is relative to a layout object of a page. In one aspect, the magnitude of relativity is determined, and the attribute of t... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7810044 | Electronic device display adjustment interface A calculator comprises a display screen configured to display a graphical representation of at least a portion of a dataset and a module configured to display an interface on the display screen to enable a user to perform at least one adjustment function for the dis... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7779365 | Display control device and program A display control device for displaying a first display area and a second display area on a screen comprises: first control means for controlling at least one of the configuration, display content, character input direction and arrangement position of the first disp... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7774715 | System and method for computer-created advertisements The invention relates to a computerized method for a user to create an advertisement by displaying a plurality of advertising formats for selection by a user; displaying a template corresponding to a selected advertising format; displaying a plurality of product ref... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7770131 | Subsystem, shared-control apparatus and method A method for integrating and sharing the monitoring and control of multiple subsystems. The method may include identifying an integration system comprising a first display processor and a first command processor. The first display processor may receive a display sig... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7761807 | Portable electronic device and method for displaying large format data files A portable electronic device includes a rendering circuit to visualize large format data files on a narrow display. The large format data files are rendered using either a desktop display mode or a mobile display mode. The desktop display mode renders the data file ... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7739616 | File content display device, file content display method, and computer program therefore The present invention relates to a technique for displaying the contents of a file on a display of a computer. Upon receiving an enlargement instruction for performing an enlarged display of a file, a computer detects whether an object included in the file is to be ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7730416 | Communication apparatus and display method A communication apparatus and display method are capable of displaying one frame of a plurality of frames, and displaying automatically an appropriate frame for a user in the case that there are changes in display contents. A display part displays screen data while ... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7716598 | Resizing internet document for display on television screen Methods and systems for scaling down a Web page image enables the image to be displayed on a standard television without horizontal scrolling of the image. A Web page image that initially has a horizontal dimension larger than the horizontal dimension of a televisio... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7712045 | Displaying content for various aspect ratios A resource manager can vary content for various display aspect ratios used to display information in a computing environment. This allows providing content that is more suitable and/or especially designed for display on a particular aspect ratio. It will be apprecia... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7707495 | Layout processing method, layout processing apparatus, and layout processing program for dynamically changing a layout of a template having a plurality of a data regions in accordance with content data inserted into the data regions In a layout processing method for adjusting the amount of change in the sizes of containers, a link that associates a plurality of containers with each other is set so as to extend between a plurality of pages. Accordingly, it is determined whether to insert content... | 04/27/2010 |
