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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8171427 | Mobile terminal and controlling method thereof A method for controlling a mobile terminal includes displaying icons within a region of a display of the mobile terminal, forming a group icon as being associated with a plurality of the icons, displaying the group icon within the region of the display to permit use... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8046716 | Creating, displaying, and editing a sub-process within a process diagram Technologies are described herein for creating, displaying, and editing a sub-process within a process diagram. A diagramming application provides for the grouping of existing process operations of a process diagram into a sub-process. The sub-process is displayed w... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7996790 | Button area having a mixed state button for collapsing and expanding user interface items A method of indicating expanded states and collapsed states of lower level expander/collapser items in a higher level visual control of a user interface display. The method includes providing, in the higher level visual control, a lower level expander/collapser indi... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7873918 | Method and apparatus for displaying workflow A display method for displaying a workflow system composed of a plurality of discrete Boxes each associated with a document process and linked in a predetermined order. The workflow is defined for causing the processes to be sequentially executed. The workflow is di... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7818687 | Dynamic graphic user interface A Graphical User Interface or “GUI” for use with a computer operating systems that operates dynamically according to the user's preferences. Each element of the GUI is surrounded by a dynamic edge which allows the user to combine two or more elements together to... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7788604 | Three state icon for operations A three state icon for a computer is disclosed. The icon prevents inadvertent starting of an operation on a computer. The icon has a first state which conceals a second state. Upon selection of the first state with a computer pointing device (i.e., mouse), the icon ... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7730427 | Desktop management scheme The present invention introduces a “contextual icon” to an icon-driven interface in which a single icon represents a shortcut to a suite of computer applications. The icon is associated with a single main application that may be invoked if an operator double-cli... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7681148 | Method for enabling ease of use with page exception programming A page exception icon is provided for programming a page exception during a document processing job. The page exception icon is pre-programmed by selecting at least one document job processing parameter from a plurality of document job processing parameters and stor... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7631276 | Method for indication and navigating related items A method is provided to enable a user to quickly identify related items in a list environment. A relationship icon is used to identify the presence of related items, such as email messages, occurring before and after a selected item. The relationship icon is used to... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7434172 | Color and symbol coded visual cues for relating screen items to each other Described is a system and method for visually delineating a relationship between diverse, but related graphical objects in a graphical user interface. An icon that has a specified color scheme is associated with the diverse, but related graphical objects. When one o... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7373603 | Method and system for providing data reference information Reference information related to data that is copied using computer software is provided. The data can be copied from a first computer application to a memory. Reference information related to the data can also be copied to the memory. The copied data can be pasted ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373244 | Information mapping approaches Methods, systems and applications for updating, enhancing, organizing, and utilizing geographic maps, for locating points of interest and places of businesses, or POI's. Embodiments provide a method for collecting geo-coordinate data on POIs by eliciting participati... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369843 | Portable cellular phone having function of searching for operational function and method for searching for operational function in portable cellular phone A portable cellular phone having a search function to do a search for operational functions in which a focused search for a desired operational function by combining an icon search with a keyword search can be performed and the operational function for which the use... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7359762 | Measurement and alignment device including a display system A graphical user interface communicatively coupled with a non-contact measurement and alignment device enables user control over and display of the readings from the non-contact measurement and alignment device. In operation with a power tool, the graphical user int... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356774 | Grouping components of a measurement system One embodiment of the invention comprises a system and method method for creating a sub-system in a measurement system. A user may group together various components of the measurement system into a sub-system. Grouping a subset of components together in the sub-syst... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7342581 | Method and apparatus for displaying 3-D state indicators A method for presenting a user selected status of an object in a three dimensional graphic display is disclosed. The method includes the step of receiving a request to select a property of an object for display. The method further includes the step of displaying at ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7336256 | Conveying the importance of display screen data using audible indicators An audible indicator such as an audio tone is associated with the importance of data elements displayed on a visual display screen of data processing apparatus such as a personal computer or work station. At least one characteristic of the audible indicator, for exa... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7322013 | Launch and edit user interface improvements A system and method is described for editing, in its native application, a source file of an object or image in a first application, wherein the source file includes computer-readable code or script associated with the source file and editable in either the first or... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321866 | Dish-providing assisting system, dish-providing assisting application providing system, dish-providing assisting software and recording medium A dish provider provides a user with dishes, through a dish-providing assisting server, in cooperation with one or a plurality of dish makers. An ingredient information DB stores date information representing dates before that ingredients should be best used. In res... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7315987 | Image administration method, image administration apparatus and image administration program An image administration method, apparatus or program for storing image data and for making contents of the image data to be browsed from outside of an image administration apparatus. The image administration method, apparatus or program comprising the steps or means... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315893 | Method and apparatus for filtering messages based on context A method for reporting alert conditions is disclosed which includes defining alert filter criteria, identifying an alert condition, analyzing one or more properties of the alert condition based on the alert filter criteria, and determining whether to report the aler... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7302649 | Operation method for processing data file In an operation method for processing data file of the present invention, reduced-size images and file icons of small area associated with the reduced-size images are displayed in pairs at predetermined interval between a reduced-size image and a file icon in each p... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7299419 | Apparatus and method for combining discrete logic visual icons to form a data transformation block A method of constructing a data transformation block includes selecting a first discrete logic visual icon and a second discrete logic visual icon from a logic repository. A combination valid state is established when the first discrete logic visual icon can be comb... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7284234 | System and method for implementing maintenance functions for a switch In the invention, a system and method providing maintenance functions for an electronic device is provided. The system and method utilize configurable software tools to provide executable routines for a maintenance function related to the electronic device. The syst... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7284271 | Authorizing a requesting entity to operate upon data structures Authorizing a requesting entity to have a service perform a particular action in a manner that is at least partially independent of the underlying target data structure. An authorization station maintains a number of role templates that each define basic access perm... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7281221 | Work cell problem identification and notification system The present invention generally relates to a network based graphical user interface allowing individuals at a facility such as a factory work to efficiently communicate problems at the facility in real time. The graphical user interface of is comprised of one or mor... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7278142 | Dynamic computing environment using remotely allocable resources A system and a method of providing a dynamic computing environment to a user, in which the dynamic computing environment is configured to communicate and to operate under the control of the user. The dynamic computing environment has one or more virtual resources in... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7275066 | Link management of document structures Links are managed and units of information are linked based on a list having identifiers placed in a hierarchical order relative to other identifiers, the identifiers for identifying the units of information. Lists are stored and examined to determine the hierarchic... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272818 | Creation of an object within an object hierarchy structure An object generator provides for creation of object(s) in an object hierarchy structure. In response to a command to expand a node/object, the object generator provides an initiator node that facilitates generation of a new object within the object hierarchy upon ex... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272708 | System for configuration of dynamic computing environments using a visual interface The present invention discloses a user interface for creating a dynamic computing environment using allocateable resources. The interface enables the fast, efficient selection and configuration of resources for the computing environment. The resources are fully sele... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7269798 | Information processing apparatus for project management and its computer software The information processing apparatus for project management comprises: a function of displaying on a screen a task area 12 where a symbol 123 representing a document relating to a task constituting a project is displayed; and a function of performing d... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7269504 | System and method for assigning a level of urgency to navigation cues System and method for guiding a driver of a vehicle (20) from a starting point to a destination point using an assignment of levels of urgency of navigation cues. The system comprises a navigation unit (38), a controller (22) and a user interfac... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266423 | Facilitating vending of customer-configured pizza preparation kits A vending machine comprises a first product dispensing unit configured for dispensing packaged pizza crust product, a second product dispensing unit configured for dispensing packaged pizza topping product, and an information processing apparatus coupled to the firs... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7263670 | Information displaying method, information displaying device, and computer program In order to display all information to be displayed on a computer screen in a manner which is easy to understand in hierarchical window displaying, an entire screen is taken as a root window, and display objects of windows and icons corresponding to child windows of... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263661 | Multi-function device having graphical user interface incorporating customizable icons A method for customizing the graphical user interface of a multi-function device includes the steps of: (a) providing a multi-function device including a multi-function unit and a document server, where the multi-function device includes three or more built-in funct... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7246323 | Displaying information to indicate both the importance and the urgency of the information Data items contained in personal information are displayed in manner that is indicative of both the importance and the urgency of the data items. A first visual cue is assigned to the data item based on an importance of the data item. The first visual cue may cause ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7240296 | Unified navigation shell user interface A user interface for navigating among screens on a personal computer. The screens, which include layers of a shell user interface and various locations within applications, are presented as pages. In addition, commands and help information of an application are pres... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7231611 | Apparatus and method for dynamically building a context sensitive composite icon A method and apparatus for dynamically building a context sensitive composite icon are provided. A base icon is used to represent a particular object in a graphical user interface. This base icon has addition points where icon additions may be attached to the base i... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7213231 | Cross-spectrum application model for dynamic computing environments in software lifecycle Dynamic Computing Environments (DCEs) are used throughout phases of a software lifecycle. The DCE is configured through a remote user for a phase in the lifecycle. The DCE is then configured according to the command. The user then uses the DCE to fulfill the require... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7197701 | Management of hierarchies Computer-implemented methods, computer systems and computer program products for display state adjustment of tree-nodes. A tree has a plurality of nodes, wherein each node has a predefined control attribute and a predefined display attribute. A computer system chang... | 03/27/2007 |
