Patents Examined by Raymond J. Bayerl
  • User interface and method for providing search query syntax help
    Patent number: 7062711
    Abstract: A search engine user interface and method are presented for providing search syntax help. The method comprises: presenting a search engine user interface with a selectable edit box for formulating a search request; formulating a search engine search request by selecting the UI edit box; and, in response to the search request, automatically supplying search syntax help in the form of a popup window. Automatically supplying search syntax help includes displaying search syntax characters supported by the search engine, where the search syntax characters are selected from the group including connectors and operators. Further, the help can be the displaying of search syntax character definitions, frequently-used search syntax characters, a list of every supported search syntax character, or examples in which the search syntax characters are used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, inc.
    Inventor: Amarender Kethireddy
  • Synchronizing text/visual information with audio playback
    Patent number: 7058889
    Abstract: A method of synchronizing visual information with audio playback includes the steps of selecting a desired audio file from a list stored in memory associated with a display device, sending a signal from the display device to a separate playback device to cause the separate playback device to start playing the desired audio file; and displaying visual information associated with the desired audio file on the display device in accordance with timestamp data such that the visual information is displayed synchronously with the playing of the desired audio file, wherein the commencement of playing the desired audio file and the commencement of the displaying step are a function of the signal from the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Karen I. Trovato, Dongge Li, Muralidharan Ramaswamy
  • Displaying content from multiple servers
    Patent number: 7058892
    Abstract: A request is sent for a web page and the web page is received from a first server. The web page is displayed by a browser. An identification of the web page is sent to a second server. Content is received from the second server. The content is selected by the second server based on the identification sent to the second server. A toolbar that includes a button is displayed, and the received content is displayed in response to a user selecting the button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: America Online, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce A. MacNaughton, Leigh R. Turner
  • Graphical interface for receiving eyeglass prescription information
    Patent number: 7051290
    Abstract: A high volume lens curing system is described. The high volume lens curing system is configured to cure multiple eyeglass lenses in a continuous manner. The lens curing system includes a computer-implemented method configured to collect prescription information, save prescription information, and generate one or more job tickets. One or more of the job tickets may be readable by a monitoring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: Q2100, Inc.
    Inventors: John T. Foreman, Galen R. Powers, Matthew C. Lattis
  • System and method for displaying a layout of GUI properties panel
    Patent number: 7047497
    Abstract: Mechanism for displaying a layout of graphic user interface properties in a panel. The data is stored in managed object format (MOF) files and defines how the data to be displayed is interrelated. The generic mechanism defines the layout of interrelated object properties, where the layout of similar panels appear differently based on the type of the object of focus. An object is associated with a defined set of properties that may correspond to properties of other objects, as well. The system isolates information that determines the look and feel of status and property layout displays of a GUI into one file. This file can be quickly edited to change the appearance when needed. The application source code utilizes a class schema and the modifiable file is read in and processed when the application is launched. Further changes require the application to be restarted to read in the modified file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jonathan Patrizio, Eric Soderberg
  • Object selection using hit test tracks
    Patent number: 7043694
    Abstract: A method for labeling the pixels within a selected visual area of at least one image frame containing that visual area from a sequence of image frames stored in memory and operative to be displayed on an interactive display so that a user may subsequently select the selected visual area on a pixel accurate, frame accurate basis. To label the selected visual area within an image frame, the scene within that image frame is segmented to identify the selected visual area, each pixel within that selected visual area is then labeled with an area identifier which is unique to that selected visual area, and the pixels containing the area identifiers are mapped into an item buffer. The item buffer is then compressed and stored within a labeled portion of memory linked with the stored frame image from which the item buffer was derived.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: Apple Computer, Inc.
    Inventors: Gavin Stuart Peter Miller, Eric Michael Hoffert
  • Method and system of creating floating windows for displaying sponsor information, messages or programs in non-obtrusive areas of the graphic user interface of a software application
    Patent number: 7039872
    Abstract: Most software applications of the present time have graphic user interface comprising of a document display window and a document supporting substrate area. The document display window is the area where the application user inputs the data and views the results. The substrate areas contain the menus, tools, controls and other accessories, which support the execution of the document. The focus of the application user most of the time is the document window. The substrate area is accessed only intermittently for using the menus, tools and other controls. Depending upon the type of application and the view settings, about 60 to 80 percent of the visible display area is covered by the document window. The remaining 40 to 20 percent is the substrate area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: Mossman Associates Inc
    Inventor: Fazal Sved Raheman
  • Global lab software
    Patent number: 7039869
    Abstract: A computer program and method are used in connection with a system article of manufacture, operator-system interface, and propagated signal for processing digital images, which are extremely flexible in terms of availability, connectability, and the number and types of receivable input formats and outputs. The computer program, article of manufacture, propagated signal, system, and operator/system interface permit users to input image information in a wide variety of formats, input the image information in many different ways, process the image information utilizing various techniques, in various languages, and produce outputs in a plurality of different format types and as a plurality of different products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Milton Smith
  • Secure data access in a multidimensional data environment
    Patent number: 7039871
    Abstract: A web-based data access system is described that allows users to securely access, manipulate and share information. The data access system includes a database that stores multidimensional data and transactional data. A server presents a user interface for setting access rights to members of the multidimensional data and access rights to transactional data. The server presents a web-based interactive environment for creating electronic reports from the multidimensional data. A page generation module executing on the server generates web pages for the environment based on the set access rights. The page generation module formats the web pages to permit an author of the electronic report to include only the accessible dimensions and members in the electronic report according to the set access rights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: Swiftknowledge, Inc.
    Inventor: David Wesley Cronk
  • Apparatus for processing and displaying patient medical information
    Patent number: 7039878
    Abstract: A network compatible, configurable user interface system for displaying a set of user-selectable, sequentially generated patient medical parameters, together with an associated time indication comprises a display menu generator for generating a customization menu that enables user selection of a default set of medical parameters from a plurality of available sets of default medical parameters. The customization menu further enables user modification of the default set of medical parameters. A display generator responsive to a user command operates to display the modified default set of medical parameters in a graphical or tabular format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: Draeger Medical Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: John A. Auer, Jolyn Rutledge, Rand J. Monteleone
  • Systems and methods for digital document processing
    Patent number: 7036076
    Abstract: Display technologies that separate the underlying functionality of an application program from the graphical display process, thereby eliminating or reducing the application's need to control the device display and to provide graphical user interface tools and controls for the display. Additionally, such systems reduce or eliminate the need for an application program to be present on a processing system when displaying data created by or for that application program, such as a document or video stream. Thus it will be understood that in one aspect, the systems and methods described herein can display content, including documents, video streams, or other content, and will provide the graphical user functions for viewing the displayed document, such as zoom, pan, or other such functions, without need for the underlying application to be present on the system that is displaying the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Picsel Technologies Limited
    Inventor: Majid Anwar
  • Graphic-information flow method and system for visually analyzing patterns and relationships
    Patent number: 7036085
    Abstract: A novel display control and information management system seamlessly integrates layered and slotted formatted data from both local and remote sources to provide a highly versatile information display. The system permits selective control of display so that complex data and data flows can be seamlessly accessed with enhanced cognition of salient information by the User.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Inventor: Barbara L. Barros
  • User interface for exploring a graph of information
    Patent number: 7036093
    Abstract: A method for displaying a source node having connections to contained nodes and linked nodes peripherally within and around the source node to which they are connected, computing a focus position for each of the contained and linked nodes; displaying a first contained node at an inclusion start angle, and displaying a first linked node at an adjacency start angle. Focus positions are calculated for a first contained node and a first linked node based on the start angles, a direction of rotation, either clockwise or counterclockwise, and the number of contained and linked nodes connected to the source node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Groxis, Inc.
    Inventor: Jean-Michel Decombe
  • Pen-based interface for a notepad computer
    Patent number: 7032187
    Abstract: A notepad computer is disclosed with a page display region displaying a page of a document on which a user can write using a pen. Associated with the page is an interface useable with the pen including a core task tool region where tool icons are partially visible until the pen is brought near a tool icon. A radial menu pops up at an edge of the document where menu choices are located in a semi-circle away from the edge. A page flipping tool is also provided. A page scrolling tool is further provided that, when activated, includes an implicit button allowing scrolling in one implied direction. A stack region adjacent to the page display region has stack icons each representing a stack of documents. A typing tool is also provided overlaying a portion of the page and including a writing zone and a page zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Leroy Bertrand Keely, Jr., Douglas Alan Young, Andrew James Palay
  • Window display system and method for a computer system
    Patent number: 7028265
    Abstract: An example window display device on a window-system type computer system displays a main window and a sub-window. The window display device includes a sub-window moving mechanism for moving the sub-window in accordance with movement of the main window so that the sub-window may always keep a specified relative position with respect to the main window on a display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenichi Kuromusha, Tsuguhiro Aoki, Ikuo Keshi, Junko Nakagawa, Kenichi Inui
  • System and method for generating and presenting multi-modal applications from intent-based markup scripts
    Patent number: 7020841
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for rendering modality-independent scripts (e.g., intent-based markup scripts) in a multi-modal environment, whereby a user can interact with an application using a plurality of modalities (e.g., speech and GUI) with I/O events being automatically synchronized over the plurality of modalities presented. In one aspect, immediate synchronized rendering of the modality-independent document in each of the supported modalities is provided. In another aspect, deferred rendering and presentation of intent-based scripts to an end user is provided, wherein a speech markup language script (such as a VoiceXML document) is generated from the modality-independent script and rendered (via, e.g., VoiceXML browser) at a later time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul M. Dantzig, Robert Filepp, Yew-Huey Liu
  • Method for visual display unit-based definition and parametrization of interfaces
    Patent number: 7017121
    Abstract: A method for visual display unit-based parameterization of interfaces of the software components of an automation system, the interface being a software interfaces having at least one interface parameter. The interface parameter is further characterized by at least one attribute. A display window is provided which can be divided horizontally or vertically, the hierarchical structure of the interface parameters of the respective software components of the automation system, which parameters can be selected using a movable cursor, being displayed in a first partial window, and the at least one attribute of the selected interface parameter being displayed in a second partial window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Diamantis Gikas, Ralf Klose, Thomas Jachmann, Elisabeth Heindl
  • Method and system for generating user-interface output sequences
    Patent number: 7012607
    Abstract: A system and/or method that generates user interface output sequences controlled by a user interface output system. The user interface output system can provide event definitions to an application pro that specify high-level actions to be performed by the sequence and can issue low-level commands to direct the actions of the user interface output sequence. The user interface output system provides a user interface output controller, which acts as an interface between an application program and the low-level commands which specify tasks for the user interface output sequence to perform. The user interface output controller is generated from a specification, using a planning methodology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2006
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: David J. Kurlander, Daniel T. Ling
  • Rapid graphical analysis of waveforms using a pointing device
    Patent number: 7013430
    Abstract: A signal waveform is displayed on a display. In response to a user using a pointing device to select a location on the display, values for a selected parameter of the displayed signal waveform are adjusted based on locations on the display selected by the user using the pointing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2006
    Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Stanley Edward Jaffe
  • Method for graphical collaboration with unstructured data
    Patent number: 7010752
    Abstract: Briefly, the method for graphical collaboration with unstructured data provides multiple concurrent collaboration displays. One or more of the collaboration displays may be configured as a free-form display where a data object may be generated and viewed. Structure may be added to the data object by associating the data with one or more categories, where each category relates to a higher-level concept. Each collaboration display may use a selectable set of categories to display the data object. In this way, each collaboration display may be configured to view the data object with a desired level of structure. In a particular example, the data object may be added or modified in one of the collaboration displays, and that addition or change is indicated on the other collaboration displays substantially simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: Enactex, Inc.
    Inventor: Eric Thichvi Ly