Abstract: Supervising a distributed switch having a set of interconnected distributed switch processors each having its own set of components. State information about a distributed switch processor from the set of distributed switch processors is received. A graphical user interface (GUI) having a set of glyphs within one output unit is displayed. Each glyph from the set of glyphs representing a component of the distributed switch processor. Each glyph from the set indicates the state information about its own component.

Abstract: A computer managed communication network with user interactive access via a plurality of display terminals and including a plurality of network objects, each respectfully associated with one of a plurality of linked network nodes. The network includes means such as databases for storing data representing attributes of network objects. There is graphically displayed on at least one of said display terminals, at least a portion of said linked network nodes and associated objects. In addition, there is a user interactive implementation for activating a transient display of a selected attribute of one of said displayed objects proximate to said object in combination with user interactive means for selecting the attribute to be transiently displayed. Preferably, the attribute is dynamically selected by user interactive means for activating the display of an attribute menu during the time of said transient display so that another attribute may be selected during said time.

Abstract: A disclosed processing device, including an on-screen User interface display, incorporates a means for generating a display of a plurality of hierarchically ordered menus. The menus include a current menu) and a preceding parent menu showing a selection path from the parent menu to the current menu. Also a menu selection item within the hierarchical menu display provides a User at least one of, a) a display of control information for the device, and b) control parameter data entry capability. The processing device also incorporates a means for updating the on-screen display in response to User menu item selection. The processing device may also include a means for altering the device operation in response to an updated operating parameter value. Also, the selection path may indicate menu entry and exit points separated by at least one intervening menu item.

Abstract: A method includes creating a first window to receive video which at least partially overlaps a second window on a region of overlap of a display. When the video is to be displayed in the background, the second window is configured to draw after the first window, and the first and second windows are configured as children of a common parent window. Otherwise, the first window is configured as a child of the second window.

Abstract: In accordance with the present invention a process is provided for interfacing a legacy application and internet-based application and for displaying information from each application in a frame of a multi-frame browser on a client workstation. Further, the interface system enables users to transact business with the legacy application based on information retrieved from the internet-based application, and to retrieve information from the internet-based application based on information retrieved from the legacy application.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus configured to provide graphical symbols indicative of a separation value between a first and second location, measured from a predetermined reference point. In one embodiment, the separation value relates to at least one of the direct distance between said first and second locations and the angle subtended between said first and second location at the said predetermined reference point. In one embodiment, the separation value may be resolved into mutually orthogonal components. An alpha-numeric display may also be included and configured to represent the magnitude of said separation values.

Abstract: The menu displays of a base-station device and its data-correlated, portable device are managed. In the base-station device, first icon information corresponding to the menu is displayed on a first display screen. In the portable device, second icon information (corresponding to the first) is displayed on a second display screen. The base-station device has a first storage unit for storing the first icon information, a first display control unit for controlling a first display unit, and a first communication unit for communicating with the portable device. The portable device has a second storage unit for storing the second icon information, a second display control unit for controlling a second display unit, and a second communication unit for communicating with the base-station device and for matching pieces of display data stored in the first and second storage units. Thus, the size of the second icon information is maintained smaller than the size of the first.

Abstract: Described are methods to accommodate user interests in content available in information-rich software environments. As a dynamic process, user profiles are surreptitiously obtained by discerning and collating user interest based upon patterns of search and selection of displayed descriptor-based content. Based upon encapsulated user profiles, content characteristics of interest to users may be discerned, and content display altered to optimize individual user interest potential.

Abstract: A screen rotation tool for use on Internet web sites is disclosed that rotates the order in multiple screens in a list are sequentially displayed to more equitably display all screens in the list.

Abstract: A display device including a display unit for displaying, on a menu screen, a plurality of types of information including first through N-th information having different attributes; a storage unit for storing first through N-th background screen character data for presenting first through N-th background display areas that respectively display icon information corresponding to the first through N-th information, and first through N-th icon information corresponding to the first and N-th information; and a control unit for performing control to create the first through N-th background display areas on the menu screen on an area by area basis, based on the first through N-th background screen character data, and to display the icon information on an area by area basis.

Abstract: A method, system, and program product for generating a window scroll-bar. In the preferred embodiment, a controller displays the window scroll-bar on a display screen. The window scroll-bar contains sections associated with respective windows on the display. The window scroll-bar also contains a slider, which moves within a section and between sections. As the slider moves within a particular section, the window associated with that section moves on the display toward the nearest boundary of the display. Thus, by moving the window scroll-bar slider, the user can move overlapping windows out of the way and find the window of interest.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for remotely controlling a first computing device from at least one of a plurality of second computing devices, the first computing device having a user interface and a data communications connection to the second computing device and the second computing device adapted to present a user interface. The method comprises analyzing the static and dynamic logic of the first computing device's user interface and creating a logically equivalent user interface in a platform-independent format for the second computing device. The equivalent user interface enables control of the first coupling device from the second computing device.

Abstract: A recording medium library apparatus made up of a combination of units and capable of readily outputting information representing the configuration and readily collecting management information. A library controller of a recording medium library apparatus recognizes the configuration of a library. Based on the information on the recognized configuration, a status monitoring view showing the actual arrangement of consoles is provided on a display. Part of the statuses of the sections are displayed on the status monitoring view. The library controller collects system information as management information sorted according to the functions or structural part of the library for each function or structure block element and rearranges the collected system information into data in a form which can be outputted all at a time, and the data is recorded as a system information file on, for example, a hard disk.

Abstract: A method for capture of computer screens in a sequence of frames. A first set of one or more windows appearing in a first frame in the sequence is identified, each window in the set having respective first-frame window characteristics and window contents. A description of the first set of windows is encoded, indicative of the appearance of the computer screen in the first frame. In a second frame in the sequence, a second set of one or more windows is identified, having respective second-frame window characteristics and window contents, the second set including one or more windows corresponding respectively to one or more of the windows in the first set. One or more transformations are determined, which are applied to the first-frame window characteristics of the windows in the first set to generate the second-frame window characteristics of the corresponding windows in the second set.

Abstract: Interactive interfaces to video information provide a displayed view of a quasi-object called a root image. The root image consists of a plurality of basic frames selected from the video information, arranged such that their respective x and y directions are aligned with the x and y directions in the root image and the z direction in the root image corresponds to time, such that base frames are spaced apart in the z direction of the root image in accordance with their time separation. The displayed view of the root image changes in accordance with a designated viewing position, as if the root image were a three-dimensional object. The user can manipulate the displayed image by designating different viewing positions, selecting portions of the video information for playback and by special effects, such as cutting open the quasi-object for a better view.

Abstract: Items related by a tree are further organized by determining a depth-first search of the tree having an optimum value associated therewith. The associated value of a depth-first search is based upon an order of considering items in the tree, and similarity values between pairs of items in the tree.

Abstract: A credit card processing system includes a layer of abstraction between the presentation layer and the display, which enables rapid modification of the display by a user who is not necessarily knowledgeable about the inner workings of the presentation layer. To enable rapid modification of the program that controls a graphical user interface, the present invention uses generic statements in the commands in the underlying computer program that reference a series of tables (termed “Meta Data Tables”), in which are stored the values necessary to effect the desired command. These tables are known as Meta Data Tables because they store Meta Data, which is defined as data or information about other data. A powerful example of the use of the Meta Data Table is to define the nodes within the tree of screens presented to the user in a Graphical User Interface (GUI).

Abstract: An apparatus and methodology for use in a signal measurement system having a graphical user interface. The apparatus constructed and arranged to simultaneously render on a display of pixels a main waveform display and a magnified waveform display is disclosed. The main waveform display is adapted to have displayed therein one or more waveforms and associated data on a first graticule with a background while the magnified waveform display is adapted to have displayed therein a magnified view of a region of the main waveform display on a second graticule with a background. The region of the main waveform display to be magnified is defined by a graphically-controllable selection window positioned over the main waveform display to encompass the region. Preferably, the operator-controllable selection window has a position and extent that may be graphically manipulated.

Abstract: Systems and methods for presenting (e.g., displaying) a hierarchical structure are presented. The hierarchical structure includes multiple elements and defines hierarchical relationships between the elements. The hierarchical structure may be embodied within an electronic document such as a Web document, an interactive application program, or a map divided into sections. Each element has a “presentation property” which may be a value or a function. One of the elements has “focus” (e.g., as created, by default, etc.). A “branch isolation” method includes forming a tree-like model of the hierarchical structure having multiple nodes and at least one branch. Each node represents one of the elements. One node is a root node and occupies a highest level in the hierarchical structure. A given branch connects a first node in a first level to a second node in a level directly below the first level. Each branch represents a hierarchical relationship between connected nodes.

Abstract: A display system receives image data from a plurality of image sources and displays the received image data on a display unit. The display system includes an input unit for inputting a control signal supplied from an input/output unit, a controller for controlling an image to be displayed on the display unit in accordance with the control signal input from the input unit, and an image selection unit for selecting a desired image from images displayed on the display unit. A switching unit switches an image to be controlled by the controller in accordance with the image selected by the image selection unit.