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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8122377 | Preserving user interface customizations while upgrading an enterprise application In an embodiment, a system for preserving user interface customizations while upgrading an enterprise application is provided. The system preserves customizations by identifying customizations made to user interface (“UI”) objects of an enterprise application, a... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8091042 | Apparatus and method for displaying selectable icons in a toolbar for a user interface A user interface display provides selectable icons and a control symbol in a toolbar. The control symbol can be selected by a user to display additional selectable icons within the toolbar. The additional icons can be inserted adjacent the control symbol or in anoth... | 01/03/2012 |
| 7966345 | Method, system, and graphical user interface for generating firmware code for a programmable integrated circuit A method, computer system, and graphical user interface for generating firmware code for a programmable integrated circuit are disclosed. Embodiments are directed to a configurable menu hierarchy which is displayed as part of a graphical user interface, and therefor... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7788603 | Method and system of facilitating automatic login to a web site using an Internet browser A method and system of adding functionality to an Internet browser interface. In one embodiment of the present invention, the added functionality may facilitate automatic login to a web site using an Internet browser. In another embodiment, the added functionality m... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7676762 | Method of controlling an Internet browser interface and a controllable browser interface The present invention is directed to a method of dynamically controlling and displaying an Internet browser interface, and to a dynamically controllable Internet browser interface. In accordance with the present invention, a browser interface may be customized using... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7577922 | System and method for providing dynamic user information in an interactive display The present invention is directed to a method and system for use in a computing environment to present and provide access to information that a user cares about. A scheme is provided for presenting frequently used controls and information in tiles within a sidebar. ... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7434170 | Drag and drop metadata editing A method and system for modifying metadata of one or more media files via a drag and drop operation. A media library stores one or more media files. A graphical user interface displays the one or more media files in the media library via a display. The graphical use... | 10/07/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7406665 | Display method and apparatus for navigation system A display method and apparatus for a navigation system which is capable of easily and quickly specifying a destination in the navigation system when using a “Point of Interest (POI)” method by preventing unwanted POI names or types from appearing on the navigati... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7365866 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, medium that stores control program for realizing the method An image processing apparatus that performs an output processing based on document data including a command to refer to an external resource is disclosed. The image processing apparatus includes an output data processing unit that reads document data from a storage ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7356537 | Providing contextually sensitive tools and help content in computer-generated documents A method and system are provided for creation, implementation, and use of computer-generated “smart” documents to which functionality is attached for providing contextually sensitive tools, controls and help content to users of those documents. Portions of docum... | 04/08/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7343567 | System and method for providing dynamic user information in an interactive display The present invention is directed to a method and system for use in a computing environment to present and provide access to information that a user cares about. A scheme is provided for presenting frequently used controls and information in tiles within a sidebar. ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7333933 | Speech based status and control user interface customisable by the user The present invention provides a means for an end user to customize a speech-based user interface, such as those used in status and control for such applications as messaging, unified communications, automobile control, and many others. The invention consists of two... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7325194 | Method, system, and apparatus for converting numbers between measurement systems based upon semantically labeled strings Number conversion between different units of measurement in a document is enabled. A string of text entered into an application program is analyzed to determine whether it includes a number having an associated unit name. Found numbers with associated unit names are... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7320112 | Information processing apparatus and method, and information processing program Executing a desired processing immediately by a simple operation using a jog dial for example. The display unit (3) has a jog dial (4) (a first operating means) and a back button (5) (second operating means) provided vertically at the right uppe... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7310782 | Method and apparatus for arranging program and I/O controls A computer system includes a display and a processor. The processor operable to implement a user interface on the display. The user interface including a plurality of program controls for initiating processing tasks. The processor is operable to, responsive to an ac... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7308654 | Information processing apparatus, menu processing method and recording medium storing a menu processing program Characteristic menu information corresponding to applications are stored in a menu storage unit. A menu development unit discriminates an application which is now started and develops a menu corresponding to the application on a screen using the stored menu informat... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7305624 | Method for limiting Internet access A method for limiting Internet access via the World Wide Web is disclosed. The method may be used to help provide a safe Internet experience for children, to help enforce business practices with respect to the World Wide Web, and analogous purposes. Rather than rely... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7292774 | System and method for creating and displaying a preference based menu for a viewing session A video system has an input port to receive display contents including a plurality of broadcast display contents and has an output port to couple to a video display. Further, the system includes a preference engine, a storage device and a management module. The pref... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7287144 | Hit ratio estimation device, hit ratio estimation method, hit ratio estimation program and recording medium Using a counter of the Web server 10, a leave probability p1, average value m and variance s2 of think time, and hit ratio r are calculated for a session data cache 12 involving a predetermined Web application. For a first reading of a gr... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7287227 | System and method for editing web pages in a client/server architecture A method for the editing of web pages by selectively providing editing logic and data that associates portions of the page with data sources used to provide the portions. Identical pages are provided to both editors and non-editors, preferably by retrieving and view... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7284206 | Image processing apparatus, its control method, and storage medium An object of this invention is to process image data in which a plurality of link destinations are set in one region. Another object of this invention is to allow the user intuitively to recognize the setup states of links, since link regions have different display ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7281214 | Automatically updating user programmable input sensors to perform user specified functions In a portable multimedia device, a method, apparatus, and system for automatically updating programmable buttons on a remote client device using a set of user preferences is described. A remote client device is coupled (either wired or wirelessly) to the host comput... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7281245 | Mechanism for downloading software components from a remote source for use by a local software application A method and system are provided for downloading software components from a remote source to a software application for providing updates or additions to the application's functionality. All components and files that may be utilized to update or add to functionality... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280097 | Human interface input acceleration system A human interface and input system is implemented on an input accelerator device to remotely operate hand-held host electronic devices such as cellular phones, PDA's, pocket PC's, and smart phone's. The input accelerator device can control some or all functions of t... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7278110 | Programmable device control system and method The present invention provides method and apparatus for defining and redefining adynamic graphical user interface, which can control multiple applications or applets with one graphical user interface. As new applications or applets are launched, the graphical user i... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7272835 | Apparatus and method for obtaining a string representation of objects in displayed hierarchical structures An apparatus and method for obtaining a string representation of objects in a displayed hierarchical structure are provided. With the apparatus and method, a list having separators may be converted into a path equivalent for a specified hierarchical structure. In or... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7257598 | System and method for generating descriptive link names A system and method for descriptively naming links to facilitate subsequent identification of the links. Various naming sources are identified as candidates for inclusion in a link name for the link. Naming rules are applied to identify one or more of the naming sou... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7254779 | Customizable presentation environment A customizable environment is disclosed including an interactive presentation having a plurality of object placeholders, each for holding a presentable object or a presentable reference to an object. Each placeholder has a selector for selecting the presentable obje... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7240328 | System and method for visual application development without programming A method and system for creating distributed applications without programming is disclosed. A Connection Editor interacts with an interface manager attached to each program in the visual development system. The interface manager allows connections to be made using t... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7237186 | Exiting a spreadsheet edit mode during a mouse drag operation A user can click on a spreadsheet cell to enter edit mode and alter the contents of the cell. Edit mode can be exited through a click and drag maneuver. The click and drag maneuver not only exits edit mode, but also selects a range of cells. The click and drag is pe... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7222296 | Configurable display of web site content A method and system of displaying data from a database onto a page. The database is provided with a view having data therein, and with a configuration document describing characteristics of the page. The database is also provided with a form for reading the configur... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7216152 | Mobile web A system and method of interfacing includes a mobile web information exchange device. Information about a user is recorded on a mobile web recording medium. Information terminals are provided at locations which receive the mobile web recording medium. Information is... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7178102 | Representing latent data in an extensible markup language document Methods and systems allow style and other formatting settings to remain latent until one or more particular style or formatting settings is instantiated by a user. Data representing each latent style or formatting object is persisted in a data structure apart from t... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7149975 | Optical network administration graphical user interface This invention provides an improved graphical user interface (GUI) for optical network administration. The GUI allows a user to view a network topology in which only those nodes at which channel traffic may be added to and/or dropped from a muxed signal are displaye... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7134090 | Graphical association of program icons A system and method for creating and using configuration diagrams for configuring distributed systems. The methods described herein may be used for various types of operations in configuring distributed systems, including creating programs, managing programs in the ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7114160 | Web content customization via adaptation Web services A user agent in a Web access device transmits an HTTP request for Web content to an origin server. The request contains a set of capabilities of the Web access device. A content authoring mechanism and adaptation determination service on the origin server process th... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7114021 | System and method providing configuration services for communications devices A communications system and method is provided for enabling remote user configuration of a communications device. The system includes at least one communications device configurable for a plurality of users and at least one remote computer for storing configuration ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7111250 | Image transfer apparatus An image transfer system for transferring an image from a first medium, comprising an image transfer apparatus and a computer. The image transfer apparatus has a scanner for scanning the image on the first medium, and a display. The computer is removably connected t... | 09/19/2006 |
