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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8135620 | Network banner advertisement system and method A network advertising system and method includes a network server, a computer user, an electronic banner advertisement (BA) file, multiple web page files, a BA program, and a monitor. The BA is displayed on the monitor in a window of a browser program from about the... | 03/13/2012 |
| 7992098 | System, method, and computer software product for linked window interfaces Systems, methods, and computer program products are described for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) that may include a first openable window of image features constituting, for example, a pseudo-image of a scanned probe array. The image features each have o... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7870504 | Method for monitoring a graphical user interface on a second computer display from a first computer A high level interface between a remote computer and local computer operator permits the remote computer to be controlled via a sequence of interactions. The remote computer may be monitored for display information which is expected, and also controlled in the event... | 01/11/2011 |
| RE41922 | Method and apparatus for providing translucent images on a computer display A method and apparatus is described for producing a translucent image over a base image created on the display screen of a computer system by a selected first application program, and conducting image operations either on the base image created by the selected appli... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7676761 | Window grouping A framework is provided for obtaining window information. The window information can be applied to different assignment models to assign windows to different groups. A group may correspond to a task being performed by a user. The window information can be semantic o... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7565620 | System and method for comparing attributes of documents A system and method for comparing information from different sources in which anchor links identifying categories of information are embedded within reports on a plurality of items to be compared, and in which a plurality of dynamic frames are provided in a visual d... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7559034 | Method and system for using a hyperlink, banner, or graphical icon to initiate the overlaying of an object on a window A method and system for overlaying an object in a window of a software application where an overlay plane is composed of at least one object and the overlay plane is overlaid with the window using either a layering feature of the software application or by directly ... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7386805 | User interface for phased data entry A wizard user interface capable of being cancelled and later resumed without loss of data is disclosed. Canceling from the wizard prior to its completion will optionally cause data entered on any of the wizard's pages to be saved to a file and stored in non-volatile... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7376901 | Controlled interactive display of content using networked computer devices The invention provides a novel method for interacting with content objects stored in computer devices connected as nodes of a communications network, each node including an input interface and an output interface, the output interface including a display area. A fir... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373592 | Modeless child windows for application programs A computer system that assists the user of computer drawing programs is described. The computer system runs an application that displays modeless windows by first displaying an application window that presents information associated with the application. After the a... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370284 | User interface for displaying multiple applications Multiple applications are displayed. A request to change a display of a first application is received. A determination is made regarding how displays for one or more other applications should change in response to changing the display of the first application in ord... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7356823 | Method for displaying single monitor applications on multiple monitors driven by a personal computer A direct access driver solves limitations of DirectX operation under the Microsoft architecture when using multiple monitors. The direct access driver allows applications employing DirectX application program interfaces to use hardware acceleration without display e... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356569 | Apparatus and method for tracing the distribution of diversely sourced internet content The invention includes a method of tracking distributed content within a computer network. The method includes the step of identifying the delivery of a set of Network Information Monitors (NIMs). Information about each NTM within the set of NIMs is tracked. The inf... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356472 | Enabling speech within a multimodal program using markup A method for speech enabling an application can include the step of specifying a speech input within a speech-enabled markup. The speech-enabled markup can also specify an application operation that is to be executed responsive to the detection of the speech input. ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7343415 | Display of software notes indicating that content from a content provider site is available for display First program code is executed at a content recipient so as to identify a content provider having posted content of interest to the content recipient. Second program code is executed at the content recipient so as to automatically access the content provider and ini... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343566 | Method and apparatus for displaying a window for a user interface Methods and apparatuses to display windows. In more than one embodiments of the invention, a window is closed automatically (e.g., after a timer expires, or when a condition or criterion is met, or a system input is received) without user input. In some examples, th... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7315310 | Clipping device A clipping device for reducing the number of processing cycles, and simplifying the circuit, while increasing the speed of the processing. The clipping device has a clip code generation circuit for generating clip codes corresponding to results of a comparison of ve... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313764 | Method and apparatus to accelerate scrolling for buffered windows Methods and apparatuses to accelerate scrolling for buffered windows. In one aspect of the invention, a method to scroll a buffered window on a data processing system includes: determining a second region of a second pixel image of a window in a frame buffer, which ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7302647 | Display control device and method The present invention provides a device and a method for displaying appropriately on the display area for each processing unit such as an application according to the applied equipment. The CPU 12 processes display area acquisition requests from a plurality o... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7302648 | Method and apparatus for resizing buffered windows Methods and apparatuses for resizing buffered windows. In one aspect of the invention, a method to resize a buffered window on a data processing system includes: determining an estimated size for a window which has a first pixel image of a first size buffered in a f... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7302650 | Intuitive tools for manipulating objects in a display A method and system for providing a user with user-friendly handles for manipulating graphics and other displayed objects using a pointer. An initial toolset of handles can evolve into a toolset with enhanced functionality. Selecting an object can invoke a first too... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295178 | Display apparatus and display method A display apparatus of the present invention is provided with (i) a second memory for storing therein data of one frame for a whole display area of a display section, (ii) a first memory, provided in addition of the second memory, for storing therein data of one fra... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7293243 | Application sharing viewer presentation An improved application sharing system and method are described wherein an application sharing viewing display is modified to increase the likelihood that a viewing user is able to see without scrolling the entirety of a window of interest displayed by a sharing use... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7287234 | Methods, systems and computer program products for use of color saturation to highlight items in a tree map visualization Data from a data set is displayed as a tree map visualization by identifying data elements in the data set to be highlighted and generating a tree map visualization based on the data set where a location of bounding boxes corresponding to the identified data element... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7271831 | Image input apparatus and method An image input apparatus is provided which is capable of taking a still image with high quality and with easy operations. The image input apparatus disclosed herein has a video camera and an expansion board mounted on a personal computer. The video camera has a lens... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7269797 | Mechanism to organize windows in a graphic application A method and system for organizing windows associated with an application are described. In one embodiment, a user command pertaining to multiple internal windows is received. The multiple internal windows are contained within a first frame controlled by an applicat... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7265762 | Method and apparatus for representing data using layered objects A multilayer data animation program is provided that controls the simultaneous display of objects that represent complex or interrelated data, where the appearance of the objects may change over time to reflect changes in the data. The multilayer data animation prog... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7260784 | Display data mapping method, system, and program product A method, system, and program product are provided in which display data for a display area that includes at least one window is mapped to a shared format. Attribute information for each window in the display area is determined and stored in a unique node. A hierarc... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7259656 | System and method for displaying safe exit routes during an emergency condition A system and method displays a safe route from a location to a destination that avoids one or more hazards detected, such as a fire or a gas leak. ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7246329 | Multiple menus for use with a graphical user interface An approach for using multiple menus with a graphical user interface is disclosed. A multiple menu comprises a menu panel with two or more selection regions, each of which is associated with a base menu. A user requests the menu panel without selecting a menu object... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7237202 | Multiple document viewing apparatus and user interface An apparatus for display of multiple electronic documents. The apparatus includes one or more tilting, rotatable, and detachable display devices coupled to a display stand, or to a personal computer or other data processing apparatus via a hinge or the like. A scree... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7228318 | System and methods for invalidation to enable caching of dynamically generated content Various systems and methods are describe for determining dynamically generated content to be invalidated as a result of changes to underlying data. In one method, invalidation processing is performed using a delayed version of the database that reflects the state of... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7224404 | Remote display control of video/graphics data A method and apparatus where a source delivers graphics data to a target, which receives and displays the graphics data. The source of the graphics data controls how the graphics data is to be displayed at the target. The source transmits a display control signal pr... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7221475 | Color image processing apparatus The invention relates to a color image processing apparatus and, more particularly, to adjusting means of a color tone and a sharpness. According to the invention, there is provided a color image processing apparatus characterized by having processing means for perf... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7219304 | System and method for developing and administering web applications and services from a workflow, enterprise, and mail-enabled web application server and platform A workflow, enterprise, and mail-enabled application server and platform supports distributed computing and remote execution of web applications. Lotus Domino online services (DOLS) is used by a web site administrator to configure Internet Notes (iNotes) clients to ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7216303 | Menu emulation for content browser clients A network distributable emulated menu. The menu can include one or more composite images, each image including menu text and a graphical icon, the icon denoting a selectable menu; one or more selectable form-based input elements, each element encapsulating one of th... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7213255 | Set-top preview program Disclosed is a system for generating a graphics window that is capable of emulating enhanced video from a combined video and interactive content stream. The set-top emulator can randomly access the combined video and interactive content stream to provide an easy man... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7203755 | System and method for application sharing in collaborative setting A distributed collaborative computer system that supports application sharing is provided that comprises a plurality of server computers interconnected via a high-speed link. Client computers can connect to any available server computer and start or join a conferenc... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7194696 | Document processing method and system The present invention provides a document processing method and system which implement display that improves efficiency and usability of edit operations when inserting, moving, or copying & pasting data, by taking full advantage of the feature of retaining data and ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7184003 | Personal electronics device with display switching A novel personal electronic device includes a first (embedded) and second (non-embedded) processors including associated operating systems and functions. In one aspect, the first processor performs relatively limited functions, while the second processor performs re... | 02/27/2007 |
