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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6011555 | Method and apparatus for a drop down control that changes contents dynamically A dynamic drop down control divides a drop down list into a plurality of sections. At least a first section has categories listed therein and at least a second section has items specific to a selected category listed therein. As the selected category is c... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5969969 | Vehicle driving support system which is responsive to environmental conditions A vehicle driving support system is provided with an environment detecting means for detecting objects existing around a vehicle and for producing output environment information, a command unit to specify a running mode of the vehicle, information process... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5910799 | Location motion sensitive user interface A method, data processing system and program product for providing a location sensitive user interface by acquiring a geographic location of the portable data processor and selecting a user interface environment associated with the acquired location of th... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5889518 | Apparatus for and method of acquiring, processing and routing data contained in a GUI window An apparatus for and method of acquiring, processing and routing data contained in a graphical user interface window. The data contained in a window selected by the user is captured by an acquisition unit and stored in a data buffer. The data, whether str... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5886700 | Three-dimensional volume selection tool A method for manipulating a three-dimensional sub-volume within a graphical display is disclosed and includes selecting an option from a menu screen to relocate or re-size a three-dimensional sub-volume within the graphical display, and upon selecting the... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5886694 | Method for automatically laying out controls in a dialog window A computer-based method of sizing and positioning controls within a window is disclosed. The method divides a window, and in particular a dialog window, into rectangular regions, referred to as frames. A logical description of the relative positions and s... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5884056 | Method and system for video browsing on the world wide web A system and method are provided for supporting video browsing over a communication network such as the Internet/World Wide Web. A graphical user interface is provided through a client software tool such as a Web browser. A client/user selects a video dat... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5884015 | Image forming apparatus for plural scanning An image forming apparatus has an upper print head unit and a lower print head unit that print plural printing areas in order on a printing medium. The image forming apparatus defers printing, as long as the image data corresponding to the areas to be pri... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5883626 | Docking and floating menu/tool bar A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for providing a selectively docking and floating menu/tool bar for windows displayed on a monitor connected to a computer. The docking or floating nature of the menu/tool bar is selectable by the user, gener... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5881213 | Deferred printing Facilities are provided within an operating system for supporting deferred printing of print jobs. The process of spooling a print job and the process of despooling the print job are decoupled, such that a printer need not be available at the time of spoo... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5880733 | Display system and method for displaying windows of an operating system to provide a three-dimensional workspace for a computer system The present invention provides a three-dimensional perspective, virtual workspace to window based display systems. The user may activate control buttons to transform a typical two-dimensional window to a three-dimensional perspective, virtual workspace. T... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5874960 | Method and system for sharing applications between computer systems A method in a computer system for displaying data generated by a shared application on a host computer system on both a host display of the host computer system and a shadow display of a shadow computer systems The host computer system has a window manage... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5867164 | Interactive document summarization A real-time interactive document summarization system which allows the user to continuously control the amount of detail to be included in a document summary.... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5862309 | Header/footer text string parsing using callback routines for additional processing A spreadsheet program provides a generalized approach to parsing text strings for a header or footer of a page of a spreadsheet document. Parsing is separated from further interpreting of information in the text string, thereby enhancing the expandability... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5859640 | Method and apparatus for warning a user that feedback has been provided in a graphical user interface A graphical user interface (GUI) for a data processing system which allows to monitor the feedbacks from the processes in execution through a window representation. Such GUI comprises means for warning the user that a feedback is received from one of the ... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5852439 | Object browser and manipulation system A method of manipulating objects using an object browser and manipulation system is described. The system comprises components for representing on a display unit respective objects, the components each comprising an object identifier region. Each componen... | 12/22/1998 |
| 5850221 | Apparatus and method for a graphic user interface in a medical protocol system An apparatus and method for providing a medical protocol graphic user interface is provided. The apparatus and method generates a plurality of graphic images representing a medical treatment plan. The graphic images are presented in a chronological order ... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5850531 | Method and apparatus for a slider A system that has a graphical user interface (GUI) that allows a user to readily define and manipulate a transform function from one attribute, such as numerical value, to another attribute that is more understandable by by the user such as color, size or... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5845058 | Device independent spooling in a print architecture Print jobs are automatically and transparently spooled in a device-independent format, such as an enhanced metafile format. The enhanced metafile format provides a format into which documents are readily converted and which occupies a minimal amount of st... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5838320 | Method and system for scrolling through data An improved method and system for scrolling through data are provided. An image viewer is used in conjunction with a scroll bar to allow a user to preview which image will be displayed next on a display device. The scroll bar includes a scroll box which m... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5835690 | Header/footer text string parsing using callback routines for additional processing A spreadsheet program provides a generalized approach to parsing text strings for a header or footer of a page of a spreadsheet document. Parsing is separated from further interpreting of information in the text string, thereby enhancing the expandability... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5835088 | Method and apparatus for providing programmable window-to-window focus change within a data processing system using a graphical user interface A method and apparatus are disclosed that allow rapid positioning of a cursor within a data processing system graphical user interface. The method involves establishing a preferred order of the cursor movement between at least a subset of windows with all... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5831616 | Apparatus, and method for searching and retrieving moving image information An apparatus and method for searching and retrieving moving image information by using 3-dimensional icons is disclosed. The method for searching and retrieving moving image information in a computer system having a pointing device, a display unit, and ex... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5831611 | Apparatus and method for creating and executing graphically depicted communication A process management system is described for creating and executing graphically depicted communication processes. The process management system includes a graphical process editor facilitating the creation of communication processes on a graphical user in... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5831609 | Method and system for dynamic translation between different graphical user interface systems The present invention is directed towards a translation software that provides remote access to an application program that is executing on a host machine in its native operating system environment. The translation software monitors messages that are rela... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5828376 | Menu control in a graphical user interface In a graphical user interface (GUI) for a personal computer system, an improved method and apparatus for accessing and executing commands associated with user applications. In addition to the standard menu categories of a menubar and control icons of a to... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5825360 | Method for arranging windows in a computer workspace A method for arranging windows in a workspace on a computer display screen. The method includes the steps of assigning, using a central processing unit, a priority to each of a first plurality of windows in the workspace according a predefined criteria, a... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5819011 | Media boundary traversal method and apparatus A method and data processing system are disclosed for media boundary traversal. In one embodiment, the invention transforms an electronic data processing file to a printed output that is understandable to humans and then transforms the printed output back... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5819009 | Dual directional recording apparatus and recording system A text portion is extracted by scanning each page of drawing information from application software. When the height of characters used in the text to be recorded falls within the range of the width of recording head elements of a recording apparatus, comm... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815152 | Method and apparatus for defining and evaluating a graphic rule A method and apparatus is provided for graphically defining a rule to be evaluated by a computer system for determining actions to be taken when processing a particular instance of a system entity. Each rule contains one or more conditions, each of which ... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5805164 | Data display and entry using a limited-area display panel A user interface utilizes a variable or changeable displayed field label and an associated data entry field for displaying and entering stored database properties. A pop-up list box is associated with the displayed field label, to be selectively displayed... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5801699 | Icon aggregation on a graphical user interface Using a graphical user interface (GUI), users manipulate, organize, classify, and/or arrange icons by having the icons bind (stick) to one another and be moved as aggregates. Icons sticky sites may be on icons, windows, or other graphical objects. For exa... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5802259 | Data processing device for processing print data A data processing device processes print data based on print information to quickly provide a printing form desired by a user. The device comprises first converting means for converting a command form of a hard control command for a printer to a command f... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5798758 | Gesture-based data processing method and apparatus The invention aims to provide a data input method and apparatus with improved operations capable of reusing previously input gestures with simple operations. The invention aims to improve the operation of a command designation by notifying previously inpu... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5796394 | User interface and rule processing for a personal communications routing system A user interface provides a uniform control scheme among different devices in a personal communications routing system. The system allows devices such as a personal computer, personal information communicator, pager, fax machine and base station to be ope... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5796396 | Multiple user/agent window control A system is provided to automatically control input permission when multi users and/or software agents interact with a single, shared application in a window-based computing environment, and to indicate to all users which user or software agent currently... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5790819 | Mechanism for fine-grained and coarse-grained control of zooming in a display of a one-dimensional data set A zoom control mechanism includes a context display for displaying a representation of a data set, a zoom display for displaying a representation of a zoom interval within the data set, a context indicator that indicates a start point or an end point of a... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5790768 | Process and configuration for an internal cost accounting printout A postage meter module has a printing unit, a control unit connected to the printing unit, input/output devices connected to the control unit, and memory devices connected to the control unit. A configuration for an internal cost center printout includes ... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5786819 | One button searching of long lists A method for one button searching long lists is initiated by depressing a first search button to initiate a first mode scrolling search of a plurality of list members ordered in a list. Each list member is sequentially displayed on a small display, with t... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5786814 | Computer controlled display system activities using correlated graphical and timeline interfaces for controlling replay of temporal data representing collaborative activities A system for controlling the playback of a recorded session. Timestream and event information for the session is captured by one or more recording devices. Playback of a session is performed under the control of a session access device. A session access d... | 07/28/1998 |
