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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5995106 | Graphical user interface for displaying and navigating in a directed graph structure An intuitive graphical user interface is based upon a geographic map structure, and includes a system for controlling remote external electronic devices. In the defined graphical user interface, each space of the geographic map structure is rendered on a ... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5886697 | Method and apparatus for improved graphical user interface having anthropomorphic characters An intuitive graphical user interface is based upon a geographic map structure, and includes a system for controlling remote external electronic devices. In the defined graphical user interface, each space of the geographic map structure is rendered on a ... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5818437 | Reduced keyboard disambiguating computer A reduced keyboard disambiguating computer. The keyboard has twelve keys, nine of them labeled with numerous letters and other symbols, and those nine plus one more are labeled each with one of the ten digits. Textual entry keystrokes are ambiguous. The u... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5809266 | Method and apparatus for generating reports using declarative tools The present invention is a method and apparatus for declarative report definition and generation using an enhanced, graphical data model and a graphical user interface (GUI) for graphically specifying data items and data computations to be performed on th... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5801701 | Method and system for in-place interaction with contained objects A computer method and system for interacting with a containee object contained within a container object. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the container object has a container application with a container window environment that has con... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5774121 | User interface method and system for graphical decision making with categorization across multiple criteria A computer system and method operate on a number of user interfaces to provide a graphical decision making tool that allows a user to graphically define and manipulate objects representing options, criteria, and ratings, to analyze and produce a decision.... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5767851 | Method and apparatus for emulating an environment's drag and drop functionality in a host environment The present invention supports allows an emulated environment to interface with a host environment, thereby enabling drag and drop functionality of the emulated environment to function in the host environment. The look and feel of an environment's drag an... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5760770 | System and method for defining a view to display data Views and view controls are used to display and access data created from multiple applications. Namespaces, folders, items, views and view control objects are used to abstract the data type of the data, contained in items. Therefore, data can be displayed... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5757371 | Taskbar with start menu A taskbar is provided that supplies visual cues, such as buttons, for each application having an active window. These visual cues inform a user of the currently active windows and may be used to display the active windows. The taskbar may also include a s... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5754175 | Method and system for in-place interaction with contained objects A computer method and system for interacting with a containee object contained within a container object. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the container object has a container application with a container window environment that has con... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5751927 | Method and apparatus for producing three dimensional displays on a two dimensional surface A process is used to produce the visual perception of spatial structure through manipulations of images displayed on an essentially flat screen. The same images are presented simultaneously to both eyes. The images are derived from small discrete shifts i... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5748188 | Hypertext markup language (HTML) extensions for graphical reporting over an internet A hypertext data processing system wherein graphical data is sent from a server to a client computer using extensions to the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). The client computer parses the graphical data and formulates an object representative of the gra... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5748930 | Method and apparatus for interfacing with a host computer system sharing tasks with another user on a client computer system A task sharing manager including control logic for managing task sharing for the user, and an end user interface for interacting with the user is provided to a computer system. The control logic of the task sharing manager keeps track of the sharable acti... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5745718 | Folder bar widget A computer-implemented method for simultaneously displaying and manipulating the contents of a container using a folder bar widget by displaying a plurality of tabs within the folder bar widget, each tab representing a sub-container of the container there... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5745114 | Graphical display for an energy management device A graphics based display for use with an electronic circuit protection device is taught. Briefly stated, a utility-type electric meter or an electronic circuit protection device has incorporated therewith an LCD display which allows for the graphical disp... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5745110 | Method and apparatus for arranging and displaying task schedule information in a calendar view format Method and apparatus for quickly arranging task schedule information in a calendar view format using internal caches and configurable, moveable task bars. The internal caches dramatically improve display, layout and access time to task information. The co... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5742285 | Virtual screen display system A virtual screen processing section sets a virtual screen larger than is allowed by the display performance of the screen of a display section, displays a part of the virtual screen as a real screen on the display section, and controls the position of the... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5736983 | Shell extensions for an operating system An operating system provides extensions through which application developers may extend the capabilities of a shell of the operating system. For example, application developers may add menu items to context menus for objects that are visible within an int... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5734853 | Set top terminal for cable television delivery systems A viewer interface for a television program delivery system is described. The innovation relates to methods and devices for viewer pathways to television programs. Specifically, the interface involves hardware and software used in conjunction with a telev... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5726688 | Predictive, adaptive computer interface A predictive, adaptive interface for a computer, wherein a user's interaction with the computer is monitored, and future interactions are predicted, based on previous interactions. The invention adapts the interface to the user's preferences, using the pr... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5721849 | Method, memory and apparatus for postponing transference of focus to a newly opened window A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture direct a computer system to postpone transferring focus to a newly opened window displayed on the computer display. The method includes the first step of in response to a command from user controls to open a... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5717877 | Object-oriented data access framework system An object-oriented user interface utilizes object-oriented controls that operate together and compartmentalize the response code in three separate objects. The first object is called an interactable object and is incorporated into the application program.... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5704050 | Snap control for relocating elements of a graphical user interface A computer programming technique is presented for improving the usability of graphical user interfaces. A snap control is provided with individual elements of the graphical user interface, such as windows or container objects, which upon invocation by a u... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5699535 | Method, memory and apparatus for automatically resizing a plurality of windows displayed on a computer display A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture direct a computer system to automatically resize a plurality of open windows displayed on the computer display. The method includes the first step of in response to detecting a command from user controls ove... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5694560 | Workstation for displaying dynamic image with real-time special effects A dynamic-image displaying workstation provided with a display device for displaying an image, a video signal processing circuit for outputting dynamic-image data representing a dynamic image corresponding to a video signal, a first dual port memory for r... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5689662 | Shell extensions for an operating system An operating system provides extensions through which application developers may extend the capabilities of a shell of the operating system. For example, application developers may add menu items to context menus for objects that are visible within an int... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5684967 | System and method for generalized network topology representation System and method for storing in a generalized format, and representing on a graphical user interface, the topology information for a plurality of logical and physical resources in a heterogeneous computer communications network. Topological data for each... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5684942 | Image processing apparatus and method for generating a third image from first and second images An image processing apparatus and method for handling digital image data having tones, in which, for each of a plurality of types of digital image data that have been input, an area is set, the digital image data in each area set are transformed and digit... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5682510 | Method and system for adding application defined properties and application defined property sheet pages A method and system for adding application defined properties and application defined property sheet pages are provided. The application defined properties may be added to a list of system defined properties. Once added, the application defined properties... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5680563 | Object-oriented operating system enhancement for filtering items in a window A filtering framework in an object oriented operating system with a processor, such as an IBM PowerPC, a storage connected to and controlled by the processor, a display connected to and controlled by said processor, an object-oriented operating system res... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5675721 | Computer network data distribution and selective retrieval system A method of accessing a distributed virtual world such that the only data requested of the network data sources and transmitted to the requesting computer is the data that codes for objects that the viewer can perceive, and to prioritize the data to be se... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5666501 | Method and apparatus for installing software A computer-implemented method, apparatus, memory embodying computer-readable code for installing software stored on a second machine to a first machine in a distributed computing network is provided. The first machine includes at least a display, processo... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5664129 | Visual programming method A program described by using a graphic representation is edited and a text language type programming language is generated from the edited graphic representation. A data table for managing data to be used in programming, a process management table for man... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5664132 | Directional actuator for electronic media navigation Complete navigation of electronic media through very fine movements of a pointing device by application of a directional actuator having a next page actuator, previous page actuator, and media movement actuator. Errors associated with coarse pointing devi... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5659671 | Method and apparatus for shading graphical images in a data processing system The present invention provides an apparatus for displaying an image of an object, as illuminated by a light source, on a display within a computer graphics display system. The image is graphically represented by a mesh of polygons and each polygon within ... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5655095 | Method and sysetm for design and drafting A dimension indicator is automatically created to define the size of a geometric object or the spatial relationship between two geometric objects for a user of a computer-aided design and drafting system by the data processing steps of displaying one or m... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5642498 | System for simultaneous display of multiple video windows on a display device A system for simultaneous display of multiple video windows on a display device. This system includes a primary interface for receiving a primary video signal and a primary storage memory for storing data representing the primary video signal. Further, th... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5638522 | Graphically constructed control and scheduling system A system and method for controlling a model train system and for defining a finite state machine for implementing control of the system. A computer (32) that is running a graphic user operating system is coupled through its serial port to a master control... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5634019 | Method and system for in-place interaction with contained objects A computer method and system for interacting with a containee object contained within a container object. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the container object has a container application with a container window environment that has con... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5630081 | Connection resource manager displaying link-status information using a traffic light iconic representation A communication and file-transfer program can be used to link a portable computer to a remote computer. The portable-computer link program displays on a user's screen a dynamic icon. The dynamic icon changes appearance as a connection to a remote computer... | 05/13/1997 |
