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Pillow with retractable umbrella
A pillow assembly having a supporting assembly and a retractable umbrella assembly that is easily transportable and allows a user to support his/her head while covering their face from sunlight.
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| 8166418 | Device and method of conveying meaning Methods of and devices for inserting a pictorial artifact into a text document are described. A relational database is used to link possible text-entries with pictorial artifacts. A pictorial artifact has a meaning that corresponds to its linked possible text-entry.... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8146016 | User interface for displaying a gallery of formatting options applicable to a selected object An improved user interface is provided for displaying a gallery of images showing different formatting options combinations that may be applied to a selected object. When a particular image is selected an associated formatting options combination is automatically ap... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140999 | Display process device and display process method A display process device that includes a screen definition information interpretation section that interprets screen definition information which defines a moment in which a first screen event is to be issued, and issues a first screen event. The first screen event ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8117561 | Method and system for managing apparatus A storage unit is configured to store screen element data on screen elements included in an operation screen of each apparatus. A receiving unit is configured to receive screen design data on the screen elements that forms the operation screen and setting data on se... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8103968 | Apparatus, method, and system for representing a multimedia display A system, an apparatus, and a method for representing a multimedia display are proposed in the present invention for displaying multimedia data and a menu. The system comprises an interface from which the user may input signals and the apparatus comprising screens f... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103969 | Automatic generation of TV history list that stacks TV channels and other objects A television system presents the user with a list of recently viewed objects as a History list that meets one of a set of History list criteria. The History list is maintained as an ordered stack list with a limited number of entries, the order being an order in whi... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099678 | Dynamic determination of actions on selected items on a report Various technologies for processing a selection on an item on a report. In one implementation, a request to perform an action on the item may be received. Whether one or more actions corresponding to the item exist based on one or more parameters and one or more val... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099679 | Method and system for traversing digital records with multiple dimensional attributes A system facilitates traversing digital records with dimensional attributes. The system stores a number of digital records. The system further associates a respective digital record with a number of attributes, wherein a respective attribute can be specified in a nu... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095891 | Smart menu apparatus A smart search menu is displayed on a video display unit, wherein the menu includes an accumulated search criteria list and a results list. A user's selection is input from the menu as a selected element, and, if the user has selected an element of the search criter... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8060840 | Orientation free user interface Generation and display of a dynamically orientable graphical user interface (GUI) is described. The GUI can include user input controls that are configured to receive user input. In one exemplary embodiment, the GUI is displayed as a band around a perimeter of a hor... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7975239 | System and method for providing metadata interaction and visualization with task-related objects A system and method for providing metadata interaction and visualization with task-related objects is described. A plurality of task-oriented items is defined. Each task-oriented item includes a storage component specifying metadata relating to at least one of plann... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7941763 | Image processing apparatus operating as based on history of utilized function and method of controlling the same An image processing apparatus is connected on a network to another image processing apparatus and has an operation portion displayed at a display portion for implementing a function setting of a combination corresponding to a condition when a history of a function u... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7921378 | Information processing device An information processing device is provided with a display unit, a selecting unit which allows a user to select one of the icons displayed on a display unit. A relevance acquisition unit is provide to acquire the degree of relevance between a selected setting item ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7921377 | Method for generating an interactive menu A method for generating an interactive electronic menu on a display, the menu comprising menu items, wherein a menu item may be in a deselected, selected or activated state, and the menu being coded into a menu data segment, comprises that at least a first and a sec... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7921356 | Method, system and computer readable medium for addressing handling from a computer program A method, system and computer readable medium for providing for providing a function item, such as a key, button, icon, or menu, tied to a user operation in a computer, whereby a single click on the function item in a window or program on a computer screen, or one s... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7913187 | Method and system for unified communication Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for providing Unified Communication (UC) service, which includes obtaining communication information displayed on a terminal where a mouse locates; triggering a corresponding UC service based on the communicatio... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7900160 | System and method for illustrating a menu of insights associated with visualizations A system and method are provided for generating one or more menus having options that display insights from visualizations. The options presented in the menus enable users to determine relationships between elements of the visualization. The relationships may be dis... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7865843 | Dynamic toolbar for markup language document A toolbar that is provided or inserted in a markup language document so as to facilitate features or functionality provided by a server is disclosed. The toolbar is able to determine whether the toolbar should be displayed as part of the markup language page being d... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7831612 | Apparatus and method for generating reports from shared objects The invention includes a computer readable medium with executable instructions to generate a report. The executable instructions include executable instructions to supply a prompt group corresponding to a cascading prompt. A list of values is accessed to identify va... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7802201 | System and method for panning and zooming an image on a display of a handheld electronic device Method and arrangement for panning and zooming a displayed image on a display screen of a handheld electronic device 300 using the same auxiliary user input device 328 is described. The displayed image can be toggled between panning and zooming modes t... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7797644 | Method and system for inputting optional values into an input field A method for inputting optional values into an input field that includes receiving an event to trigger input into the input field, identifying a first optional value and a second optional value associated with the input field, and dynamically assigning, in response ... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7788602 | Method and system for providing restricted actions for recognized semantic categories Strings are recognized and annotated, or labeled, with a type label by a recognizer plug-in. Application program modules may use the type label and other metadata to provide users with a choice of electronic commerce actions. In addition, the user may be provided wi... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7721228 | Method and system of controlling a context menu An embodiment of the invention, for controlling a context menu, used with a Web page, wherein the Web page is divided into regions, can comprise downloading additional menu items that are not part of the context menu prior to download, and monitoring for when a user... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7716571 | Multidimensional scorecard header definition An object model and a user interface (UI) enable users of a scorecard application to define an order and categorization of elements including header and row components to break out the scorecard data for effective presentation of multidimensional scorecard views com... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7689932 | Maintenance of shortcut keys in a mobile device A device and method provide for maintenance of a shortcut key to an application accessible at the device. The method includes assigning a first application to a shortcut key at a device, wherein the shortcut key at the device is a button on the device; storing an id... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7669142 | Viewable and actionable search results Search results can be viewed and acted upon. Searches may be conducted using a search input in conjunction with a selected category. The search results may be produced from such a search. One or more of the produced search results may be highlighted for previewing. ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7594191 | Visually presenting information to a computer user Information is visually presented to a computer user by receiving, in a computer system, a request to present a first visual item representing a first information portion selected from an information collection available in the computer system. It is determined, in ... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7546549 | Constrained creation of data hierarchies A constrained user interface for selecting and creating categories (e.g., folders, properties) is provided in such a way as to prevent the creation of empty categories, or categories which are not associated with any underlying object or file. The user interface sel... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7526735 | Aiding visual search in a list of learnable speech commands A method, a system, and an apparatus for aiding a visual search in a list of learnable speech commands. The present invention is capable of making less commonly-used commands more salient and more commonly-used commands less salient. The present invention takes meas... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7512899 | Method and apparatus for a unified user interface A unified user interface includes one or more component tables and a master table. The one or more component tables include resource information for the user interface with respect to a particular component. The master table includes resource information for the app... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7512900 | Methods and apparatuses to generate links from content in an active window Various methods and apparatuses are described to generate a list of one or more links related to the content in an active window without a user having to request the query. The text from content in an active window may be analyzed. A query may be executed on the con... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7458036 | Display device, display method and image forming apparatus A display device for displaying a plurality of options. When the number of the options to be displayed is to be changed according to aspects of display, the display device is controlled so that at least one of the options can be displayed in a display position which... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7441194 | Calendar-based user interface system A calendar-based interface system accommodates innate human memory by associating computer-related events, and other events, based upon when they occur. The calendar user interface system utilizes a calendar as a top-level user interface for accessing computer infor... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7418670 | Hierarchical in-place menus A hierarchical menu system displays submenus in place of parent menus, and vice versa, when appropriate menu items are selected from within parent menus and submenus. Parent menu items selected from within parent menus are displayed within submenus as links back to ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7411582 | Soft input panel system and method A method and system for receiving user input data into a computer system having a graphical windowing environment. A touch-sensitive display screen for displaying images and detecting user activity is provided. A management component connects to the graphical window... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412665 | Menu management in an OLE document environment A system that facilitates menu management in an OLE document environment. The system includes a menu component that receives a server menu of a server application with a container menu of a container application. The menu component detects a menu conflict between th... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7398480 | System and method of providing multiple installation actions A system and method are presented for a suite integration toolkit (SIT) allowing for the provision and display of a rich set of installation actions. The user interface (UI) provides a list box interface having pull down menus for the display and selection of compon... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7395512 | Character input system and communication terminal An ambiguous key character input method is adopted, enabling appropriate character input without enlarging or complicating the structure of a portable terminal. In a mobile telephone having a keypad where a plurality of characters are respectively allocated to input... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7395513 | System and method of providing multiple installation actions A system and method are presented for a suite integration toolkit (SIT) allowing for the provision and display of a rich set of installation actions. The user interface (UI) provides a list box interface having pull down menus for the display and selection of compon... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7389417 | Modular user interface A modular user interface (UI) with consistent sensory interactions across a plurality of selectable UI features that involve user interactions with a computing device. A controlling program invokes one or more functional UI modules each of which performs a data func... | 06/17/2008 |
