Patents Examined by Sara M Hanne
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Patent number: 7640508Abstract: Embodiments provide a system and method for generating images of a document with interaction of a primary user with the document in an interaction session. Briefly described, one embodiment comprises an image capture means adapted to capture an initial image of the document without interaction by a user and to subsequently capture at least one additional image of the document during an interaction session including interaction from the user during that session, and a processing means adapted to generate a data set representing the interaction session from the initial image and the additional image, the data set containing at least the initial image along with information indicative of the interaction of the user during the session obtained from the additional image.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2004Date of Patent: December 29, 2009Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Stephen Bernard Pollard, Stephen Philip Cheatle, David Arthur Grosvenor
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Patent number: 7620912Abstract: A system for intuitively associating behaviors with objects. The script or code defining those behaviors may then be automatically generated. The generated script or code is downloadable to a client system. The intuitiveness may involve gestures, such as dragging and dropping, between a source object and itself or between a source object and a destination object, that preferably assigns a behavioral association with objects without the requirement of knowing any specific programming or scripting language.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2001Date of Patent: November 17, 2009Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventors: Douglas S. Benson, Dennis E. Griffin
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Patent number: 7590944Abstract: The present invention relates to new and improved embodiments of systems and methods for displaying content within a spreadsheet graphical user interface. In one embodiment, a computer system has a graphical user interface that performs a method for displaying data within a spreadsheet application. The method comprises displaying a formula bar comprising a text box that displays data contained in the spreadsheet, displaying a first portion of the spreadsheet data in the text box, and expanding the formula bar to display a second portion of the spreadsheet data in the text box.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2005Date of Patent: September 15, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Brandon G. Weber, Charles D. Ellis
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Patent number: 7568163Abstract: A computer implemented method for gathering user feedback of one or more units of hypermedia content. Notice is made available to a user explaining a preestablished mapping between (1) at least one prescribed aspect of an operation of performing a predefined SELECT function to feedback objects and (2) user-indicated opinion of content units. Feedback objects comprise predetermined types of display objects provided to depart content units for different content units. Responsive to a user positioning a cursor upon a feedback object of a current content unit and performing the SELECT function, user-indicated opinion of the current content unit is ascertained by applying the preestablished mapping to the prescribed aspect of how the SELECT function was performed. Storage is initiated for a machine-readable record of the ascertained user-indicated opinion.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2005Date of Patent: July 28, 2009Assignee: Applied Minds, Inc.Inventors: W. Daniel Hillis, Bran Ferren, Daniel Abrutyn
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Patent number: 7555718Abstract: The invention displays video search results in a form that makes it easy for users to determine which results are truly relevant. Each story returned as a search result is visualized as a collage of keyframes from the story's shots. The selected keyframes and their sizes depend on the corresponding shots' respective relevance. Shot relevance depends on the search retrieval score of the shot and, in some embodiments, also depends on the search retrieval score of the shot's parent story. Once areas have been determined, the keyframes are scaled and/or cropped to fit into the area. In one embodiment, users can mark one or more shots as being relevant to the search. In one embodiment, a timeline is created and displayed with one or more neighbor stories that are each part of the video and which are closest in time of creation to the selected story.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2004Date of Patent: June 30, 2009Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Andreas Girgensohn, John E. Adcock, Lynn D. Wilcox
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Patent number: 7543235Abstract: Methods and systems for creating and rendering skins are described. In one described embodiment, a method of providing a skin model for use in rendering a skin comprises receiving a skin definition file that contains information associated with a skin, and one or more other files that are associated with the skin; providing at least some of the one or more other files directly into computer memory, without the files entering a computer file system; and processing the skin definition file to provide a hierarchical data structure that describes the skin.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2005Date of Patent: June 2, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Michael J. Novak, David M. Nadalin, Kipley J. Olson, Kevin P. Larkin, Frank G. Sanborn
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Patent number: 7539948Abstract: A manipulation menu display location control device includes a display for displaying a screen on which a plurality of predefined selection items are shown, a display location information table for storing information indicating the locations of the selection items on the display, and a receiving program for receiving an item on the screen selected by a user. A display location determining program determines the location of a manipulation menu to be shown on the display by referring to the display location information storing table based on information received by the receiving program, and a manipulation menu display program displays the manipulation menu at the location determined by the display location determining program.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2006Date of Patent: May 26, 2009Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventor: Narushige Kubota
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Patent number: 7536652Abstract: 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 more important items to be displayed with increased size and less important items to be displayed with decreased size. A second visual cue is assigned to the data item based on an urgency of the data item. The second visual cue may cause more urgent items to be displayed in a first color and less important items to be displayed in a second color. The data item is displayed using the first and second visual cue as to provide a visual indication as to both the importance and urgency of the data item.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2005Date of Patent: May 19, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Marcelo R. Uemura, Daniel Joseph Rogers
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Patent number: 7526727Abstract: A user interface extension allows data entry into a marking machine user interface field from an electronic device, such as a PDA, attached to the marking machine via compatible communications ports. The marking machine includes a UI field into which data must be entered, the user lets the machine know that data will come from the electronic device, and the machine begins monitoring its communications ports for the data. The user enters or selects data to be transmitted from the electronic device, then indicates that the data is ready to be sent, at which point the electronic device transmits the data to the machine via a communications port of the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2002Date of Patent: April 28, 2009Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Donald L. Wegeng, Bruce E. Talbert
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Patent number: 7451399Abstract: Methods and systems for creating and rendering skins are described. In one described embodiment, a skin is defined using at least one skin definition that defines the skin in a hierarchical tag-based language.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2005Date of Patent: November 11, 2008Assignee: MicrosoftInventors: Michael J. Novak, David M. Nadalin, Kipley J. Olson, Kevin P. Larkin, Frank G. Sanborn
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Patent number: 7426700Abstract: An apparatus and method for execution in a graphical user interface environment are provided. The apparatus and method are used to display a set of items within a content collection, such as a set of files within a folder on a computer operating system. The method includes obtaining data from the items that describes an item type for a number of the items. Based upon the obtained item types a distribution of the types of items within the collection is determined. The content collection is categorized based upon the determined distribution and, based upon the category, the content collection is displayed in a certain format that is chosen to best display that category of content. A user interface is also provided that includes a working area that displays the contents of a content collection. In the working area, the format of the display varies based upon the type of contents in the content collection.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2006Date of Patent: September 16, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Michael G. Sheldon, Todd Ouzts
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Patent number: 7409645Abstract: An apparatus and method for execution in a graphical user interface environment are provided. The apparatus and method are used to display a set of items within a content collection, such as a set of files within a folder on a computer operating system. The method includes obtaining data from the items that describes an item type for a number of the items. Based upon the obtained item types a distribution of the types of items within the collection is determined. The content collection is categorized based upon the determined distribution and, based upon the category, the content collection is displayed in a certain format that is chosen to best display that category of content. A user interface is also provided that includes a working area that displays the contents of a content collection. In the working area, the format of the display varies based upon the type of contents in the content collection.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2005Date of Patent: August 5, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Michael G. Sheldon, Todd Ouzts
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Patent number: 7395512Abstract: An ambiguous key character input method is adopted, enabling appropriate character input without enlarging or complicating the structure of a portable terminal. In a mobile telephone having a keypad where a plurality of characters are respectively allocated to input keys according to number keys from 0 to 9, like a telephone keypad, am ambiguous key input method is adopted where a user respectively presses keys containing each character of a character string or word they want to input one at a time. At the mobile telephone, a disambiguation server network connected using a wired network or a wireless network returns a character string or selection list postulated by a user intending input from a series of keys received from the portable terminal to the portable terminal, and by selecting a character string or word the user wants to input from the character string selection list the character string or word is efficiently input.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2002Date of Patent: July 1, 2008Assignees: eValley Inc., e for us Inc.Inventors: Koichi Makabe, Junya Mizuno, Ayumi Kawahara
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Patent number: 7376896Abstract: An implementation for the generation of a surrogate Web browsing session at a Web receiving display station by a user who does the basic browsing or searching for a principal user, e.g. the physically limited individual or the executive/professional ordering the browsing session. A user to is enabled to interactively navigate the Web through a sequence of linked hypertext documents in a browsing session at a receiving display station in combination with recording on a real-time basis, keystroke by keystroke and mouse point and click by point and click, page by page and selected hyperlink by selected hyperlink, the interactive navigation of said user in said browsing session.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2002Date of Patent: May 20, 2008Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Cristi Nesbitt Ullmann, Lorin Evan Ullmann
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Patent number: 7322013Abstract: 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 native applications. The first application graphically displays an edit option selectable by the user to launch the source file's native application. The native application opens the source file and code or script associated with the object or image in the first application. Within the workspace of the native application edit session, an end function or button is displayed to the user. Upon selection of the end function in the native application, the user then returns automatically to the first application as the active application.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2001Date of Patent: January 22, 2008Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventors: Douglas S. Benson, Alain M. Dumesny
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Patent number: 7269797Abstract: A method and system for organizing windows associated with an application are described. In one embodiment, a user command pertaining to multiple internal windows is received. The multiple internal windows are contained within a first frame controlled by an application. In response to the user command, a second frame controlled by the application is opened. Further, one or more of the multiple internal windows are moved to the second frame. In one embodiment, the internal windows are moved to the second frame in response to an operation performed by a user (e.g., a drag-and-drop operation). Alternatively, the internal windows are moved to the second frame automatically based on a criterion controlling the organization of the internal frames.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2002Date of Patent: September 11, 2007Inventors: Fabrizio Bertocci, Victor Gavrilenko
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Patent number: 7246327Abstract: An interactive, menu-driven interface to a cellular site information database is disclosed. The user may enter a form name such as channel, cell, trkgrp, trkmem, etc. into a form selection screen. The user may enter the operation desired to be performed on the form such as review, delete, insert, update, etc. to choose which form to view. After the user has entered the form name and the operation desired into the interface, the entered form is displayed to the user. A query, such as a SQL query, is issued to populate the fields of the form displayed on the interface with data from the database. The user may select one or more of the fields in the form and make revisions, addition, edits, etc. The user may then select the action command such as insert, review, update or delete. Commands, such as SQL commands, are generated to perform the action desired by the user on the database.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2001Date of Patent: July 17, 2007Assignee: BellSouth Intellectual Property CorporationInventor: Gopal N. Iyer
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Patent number: 7200813Abstract: The computer-implemented system stores user performance data representing multiple parts. The system also stores style data representing various different musical accompaniments that are displayed in a style data window. The user selectively copies constituent parts of the style data into a user performance data window, thereby incorporating the copied parts into the performance data. Tone pitches and musical length of the copied parts are automatically modified to suit the chord information and timing represented in the existing performance data. As the user records performance data, the on-screen start switch is displays differently (e.g., different color) to show whether the specific part corresponds to a recording part or a non-recording part.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2001Date of Patent: April 3, 2007Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventor: Tomoyuki Funaki
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Patent number: 7194699Abstract: Images displayed on a display device are animated to reflect a user's selection of the images. According to one embodiment, the displayed images include keyboard characters that are selected when the user touches the display at the locations of the display where the images are shown. Selection of the displayed images can also be made through any combination of audio, optical, mechanical and electrical input devices. A plurality of selected images can also be animated simultaneously and by varying degree to reflect a sequence in which the images were selected by the user.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2003Date of Patent: March 20, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Michael J. Thomson, Uri Pomerantz, Larry A. Morris
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Patent number: 7114129Abstract: A view controller, such as a scroll bar, for a first application which is currently displayed within an inactive window is detached and remotely displayed within an active window in addition to the view controller associated with the content of that active window. A Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) link is then established between the remotely displayed view controller and the first application such that user inputs to the remotely displayed view controller can be utilized to modify the display of the first application without requiring the user to activate the inactive window. In this manner data within the first application can be scrolled and visually accessed by the user while the user is working within an active window, without requiring the user to toggle the focus back and forth between two windows.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2002Date of Patent: September 26, 2006Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Faisal M. Awada, Joe Nathan Brown, Philip Bernard Burkes