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...that the Band-Aid Bandage was invented by a Johnson & Johnson employee whose wife had cut herself? Earl Dickson's wife was rather accident prone, so he set out to develop a bandage that she could apply without help. He placed a small piece of gauze in the center of a small piece of surgical tape, and what we know today as the Band Aid bandage was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8176436 | Temporary communication areas for a computer user interface Techniques are disclosed for displaying information to a user on a display device of a computer system. In one general aspect, a first view is displayed on the display device, where the first view has at least a first work area. In response to the receipt of a first... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8166065 | Searching metadata from files Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata. In one exemplary method, metadata from files created by several different software applications are captured, and the captured metadata is searched. The type of information in metadata for one type of file dif... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8151210 | Vehicle-mounted apparatus, information providing method for use with vehicle-mounted apparatus, and recording medium recorded information providing method program for use with vehicle-mounted apparatus therein A vehicle-mounted apparatus is disclosed which includes a displaying unit for providing information to a user, an inputting unit for inputting operations carried out by the user, and a controlling unit for controlling a display of the displaying unit based on the op... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8131779 | System and method for interactive multi-dimensional visual representation of information content and properties A system and method of information retrieval and triage for Information analysis provides an for interactive multi-dimensional and linked visual representation of information content and properties. A query Interface plans and obtains result sets. A dimension interf... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8122373 | Image display control apparatus and program and method therefor An image display control apparatus, an image display control method for the image display control apparatus, and a program for the image display control apparatus that control display of windows on a screen on the basis of window headers, the program including the s... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8086967 | Multi-monitor support for MDI applications System and a method by means of which different windows of an Multi Document Interface (MDI) application can be displayed at the same time within an application on several screens. In addition, instances of the source frame of the MDI application are displayed on fu... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8078990 | Secure device sharing A device and method for placing the device in a locked state having an associated set of permitted tasks so as to permit the device owner to share the device with others but maintain security over aspects of the device. A task change request is evaluated to determin... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8042059 | System for providing multiple window environments in a mobile computing system and method thereof Disclosed is a system for providing multiple window environments in a mobile computing system and a method thereof, which enables a user to conveniently and selectively use a window system suitable for the use environment. A plurality of sub-window systems having di... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8037420 | Maintaining browser navigation relationships and for choosing a browser window for new documents A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for managing the display of a new document. In response to receiving a user input indicating that the new document is to be displayed, a list of browser windows including an indication of a presently displayed document ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7979807 | Method and system for communicating and exchanging data between browser frames Browser frames residing on different domain servers may exchange information indirectly without compromising security that ordinary restricts frame to frame communication. The first browser frame causes the browser to generate a notification of a change of state of ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7958458 | Method for supporting data linkage between applications A screen plug extracts screen image data of a display screen from a target application and acquired data to be linked from the screen image data. The acquired data is output to a linkage application. Thus the screen plug realizes data linkage between the linkage app... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7937670 | Data sharing system, method and software tool A method, software tool and system for communicating data between components in a client computer system is provided. The client computer system has a user interface for displaying a page comprising content rendered by a plurality of components. A property broker is... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7930649 | Method and system for sharing and managing context information A method and system for managing the presentation or display of information items or context are described. In one aspect of the invention, the method comprises the steps of selecting an entity of a context type associated with a first display, determining at least ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7895527 | Systems, user interfaces, and methods for processing medical data Illustrative embodiments comprise systems, user interfaces, machine-readable media, and/or methods for automatically acquiring data representing a plurality of different types of medical parameters of a patient, processing the data for presentation to a user via a d... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7877406 | System and method for name grabbing via optical character reading A system and method for generating text data from graphical image information of a first data form and passing the generated text data to another data form is disclosed. The system comprises a computer-based platform configured to obtain search criteria data from a ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7814431 | Method and system for predictive form completion A method for completing a form including selecting a first topic appearing on the form, receiving a first panel within a graphical user interface (GUI), where the first panel is associated with the first topic and is used to complete a section of the form, assigning... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7743339 | Rendering text in a brew device Methods, systems and program products for hiding the presentation of a first input field that would obscure the presentation of a distinct second input field on a display device. User input directed to the second input field is accepted and provided the first input ... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7730419 | Communication between browser windows A system for communication between browser windows includes a first web page configured to enable a first browser window into which the first web page is loaded to write a first message into a cookie; a second web page configured to enable a second browser window in... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7721224 | Electronic calendar with message receiver It is difficult to effectively manage an electronic calendar that is shared by a group of people such as family members. This is achieved by enabling users to send messages to an electronic calendar apparatus. The messages are received and stored at the apparatus an... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7707513 | System for streaming data from server to multiple slave browser windows in client computer through a master browser window A client computer has a master window and at least one slave window. The client computer receives streaming data at the master window. The master window includes a list of slave windows and the data includes an envelope that has a destination window identifier. The ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7703042 | System and method for a seamless user interface for an integrated electronic health care information system An interface for a medical record database allows multiple different applications to be opened accessing the records of a common and/or different patients. For those applications accessing the records of a common patient, a visual indication is provided indicating w... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7703041 | Screen display apparatus, program, and screen display method A screen display apparatus for controlling the size each display area to appropriately display content information of each display area into one display screen. The screen display apparatus includes a selection accept block for accepting selection of first content i... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7587680 | Information displaying apparatus, information displaying program and storage medium An information displaying apparatus includes a mark displaying unit which displays on a display a file mark to identify each of files stored in a file memory and a folder mark to identify a folder by which the files are grouped, a viewer generating unit which genera... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7581193 | System and method for facilitating interactive selection and presentation of datasets A system and method to facilitate interactive selection and presentation of datasets are described. An interactive data interface is presented to a user in a display window, said interactive data interface containing distribution of a dataset accessed by the user. A... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7512897 | Integrated method for creating a refreshable web query The present invention allows a user to graphically create a refreshable Web Query by selecting tabular data displayed in a Web page. When the user invokes the refreshable Web Query command, an Internet browser module is launched within a Web Query dialog box open in... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7475361 | Data processing device, data processing method, and storage medium A data processing device capable of rapidly processing data through simple operations by the user without requiring a tape editor to be already executing when capturing data from a Web browser and supplying that data to the tape editor and without requiring the user... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7434164 | User interface for adaptive document layout via manifold content A user interface for a system and method for improving document layout on arbitrary devices of different resolutions and size using manifold representations of content. Manifold representations of content are: multiple versions of anything that might appear in a doc... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433581 | Interactive video playback A system for interactive video playback includes a store for holding a set of video streams and an input device for obtaining a set of action inputs. The system includes a video processor that generates the interactive video playback by switching among the video str... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7434233 | Inter-program communication apparatus, inter-program communication method, computer-readable recording medium, and program An inter-program communication method and apparatus for performing inter-program communication between an image correction program and an image print program. During an initialization phase, a communication path is established between the programs and the image corr... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7426699 | Communication between browser windows A method for communication between browser windows including configuring a first web page to enable a first browser window into which the first web page is loaded to write a first message into a first cookie, and configuring a second web page to enable a second brow... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7426698 | Methods and apparatus for communicating messages in a computer display The invention is directed to techniques for communicating messages between windows or frames in a computer display. A computer system suited for use with the invention includes a computer display providing a source window and a target window, as well as respective s... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7421665 | Node scrollers Techniques employed in displays of graphs with large numbers of nodes for viewing details of an area of interest while preserving context. The techniques take advantage of parent-child and sibling relationships. Sibling nodes and children of sibling nodes are displa... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7421657 | Handling open browser requests in a single window environment In a single window browser environment, a request to open a new browser window is either allowed or ignored, depending on whether the request was generated in response to user input. The request is ignored if it was not generated in response to user input. If, on th... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7415677 | Temporary communication areas for a computer user interface Techniques are disclosed for displaying information to a user on a display device of a computer system. In one general aspect, a first view is displayed on the display device, where the first view has at least a first work area. In response to the receipt of a first... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412661 | Method and system for changing visual states of a toolbar A method and system for changing the area in which to view the content of a document while maintaining access to various viewing options. In a first state, toolbar items are displayed in a toolbar area while a document is displayed in a document area. In changing to... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7406498 | Dynamic integration of web sites A method for displaying information includes identifying computer-readable service code at a service site, which code, when read by a client computer via a network, causes the computer to display at least one service page containing service information. Some service... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7406667 | Information-processing apparatus and clock information display control method for use in the apparatus An apparatus controls a main display and a sub-display. The apparatus includes a section which displays, on the sub-display, clock information indicating of time, a section which acquires changed time information, when the time information has been changed, and a se... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7404004 | Page function architectural framework An architectural software framework is provided for creating Web-style application software incorporating protocols and means for expansion and interfacing with other Web-style programs, as well as a reusable basic programming structure, consisting of abstract and c... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7395525 | Method and apparatus for displaying computer program errors as hypertext According to one embodiment a method and apparatus for displaying the path of a computer program error as a sequence of hypertext documents in a computer system having a display is disclosed. The method includes displaying a first function in the control-flow path o... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7383238 | Inductive monitoring system constructed from nominal system data and its use in real-time system monitoring The present invention relates to an Inductive Monitoring System (IMS), its software implementations, hardware embodiments and applications. Training data is received, typically nominal system data acquired from sensors in normally operating systems or from detailed ... | 06/03/2008 |
