Abstract: A method for managing a user interface template container is provided. The method can include creating, in a business process management platform, the user interface template container. The method can include determining whether a container load event is present, the container load event includes calling the user interface template container at run time. The method can also include locating, in response to the container load event, a component element for an original user interface component from the one or more original user interface components in the user interface template container. The method can also include locating, at run time, modification information corresponding to the component element. The method can also include writing, at run time and responsive to the locating the modification information, the modification information into a modified user interface component.

Abstract: In some embodiments, a method or system for visualizing data generated from one or more reaction devices, chips, or reaction sites may be provided. On a scatter plot, data points may be displayed indicative of results from nucleic amplification, wherein the nucleic acid amplification comprises a first target and a second target and the data points are designated as being indicative of amplification of the first target, the second target, both targets, or neither target. In response to user input, an adjustable threshold may be varied used to designate the data points. And, in response to the varying, designations and a display of the designations may be altered for one or more of the data points whose designation is changed based on the varied threshold.

Abstract: An exemplary multimode communication system presents a single on-screen user interface on a communication device associated with a user. The user interface includes a contact communication pane that displays a communication history between the user and a selected contact, and a communication initiation pane that displays a first user input panel configured to allow the user to initiate a communication session of a first communication mode with the selected contact. While the communication history is displayed in the contact communication pane, the multimode communication system detects a user action with respect to the communication initiation pane and, in response, graphically replaces the first user input panel with a second user input panel configured to allow the user to initiate a communication session of a second communication mode with the selected contact. Corresponding systems and methods are also described.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a technique is utilized to generate a virtual-room of a virtual room-based user interface that controls one or more devices within a physical room of a structure. A user is prompted to select one or more services provided by the one or more devices within the physical room. A plurality of images of the physical room are obtained that each share substantially a same perspective. The plurality of images include an all-off image, in which all of the one or more of the services are in an inactive state, and one or more service-specific images, in which a single service is in an active state and any other services are in the inactive state. The plurality of images are aligned to create an aligned image stack. One or more hit boxes are designated. The virtual room is generated based on the aligned image stack and the designated one or more hit boxes.

Abstract: A method for managing a user interface template container is provided. The method can include creating, in a business process management platform, the user interface template container. The method can include determining whether a container load event is present, the container load event includes calling the user interface template container at run time. The method can also include locating, in response to the container load event, a component element for an original user interface component from the one or more original user interface components in the user interface template container. The method can also include locating, at run time, modification information corresponding to the component element. The method can also include writing, at run time and responsive to the locating the modification information, the modification information into a modified user interface component.

Abstract: The techniques and mechanisms described herein are directed to a method for pinning a tab in a tabbed browser. Briefly stated, browsing software is configured to recognize a “pin” event, such as a hot key, a menu selection, and the like. Upon recognizing the pin event, the browsing software splits a display screen into a pinned window and a tabbed window. The tabbed window displays one or more open tabs and the content of the currently in focus tab. The pinned window may display content that was previously displayed within one of the tabs in the tabbed window or may display new content. The browsing software may configure the navigation of the pinned window differently than the navigation for the tabs in the tabbed window.

Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide a map application with novel map exploration tools. In some embodiments, the map application executes on a mobile device (e.g., a handheld smartphone, a tablet, etc.) with a touch sensitive screen. The map application of some embodiments has a first display area to display a map of a region, and second and third display areas to display information about items displayed on the map in the first display area. In some embodiments, the second display area slides over the first display area to overlap at least a portion of the first display area. After the second display area slides over the first display area, the third display area in some embodiments slides over the first display area to overlap at least a portion of the first display area. In some embodiments, the second and third display areas slide over the first display area from one side of the first display area. This side is the bottom of the first display area in some embodiments.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method and system for use in managing data storage. A plurality of discrete management operations is recorded in connection with a data storage system. A management operation is received in connection with the data storage system. The plurality of discrete management operations is analyzed in connection with the data storage system. Based on the analysis, a sequence of management operations performed on a predetermined number of occasions in connection with the data storage system is identified. The received management operation is one of the management operations in the sequence. A graphical user interface wizard is generated such that a user can be guided through at least a portion of the sequence of discrete management operations in response to identifying the sequence.

Abstract: A customized configuration of controls on a dynamic keyboard is provided for an application using a control configuration file separate from the application. The control configuration file includes a control configuration for each custom control and a layout description. Each control configuration includes a visual description and a command description for a corresponding custom control. The visual description provides data regarding visual aspects of the custom control, while the command description includes data regarding behavioral aspects of the custom control. The layout description includes data for positioning visual representations of the custom controls on a dynamic keyboard. When the application is launched, a storage location is scanned to identify the control configuration file, and the control configuration file is used to configure the custom controls on the dynamic keyboard.

Abstract: A system configured to generate and/or modify three-dimensional scenes comprising animated character(s) based on individual asynchronous motion capture recordings. The system may comprise sensor(s), display(s), and/or processor(s). The system may receive selection of a first character to virtually embody within the virtual space, receive a first request to capture the motion and/or the sound for the first character, and/or record first motion capture information characterizing the motion and/or the sound made by the first user as the first user virtually embodies the first character. The system may receive selection of a second character to virtually embody, receive a second request to capture the motion and/or the sound for the second character, and/or record second motion capture information. The system may generate a compiled virtual reality scene wherein the first character and the second character appear animated within the compiled virtual reality scene contemporaneously.

Abstract: A reproduction device including a reproduction unit configured to reproduce content data including at least one of audio, video, and text for which attribute data is assigned for each of a different plurality of attributes; a display unit; and a control unit configured to make the display unit display a playback screen containing at least one attribute data among the plurality of attribute data assigned to the content data when reproducing the content data and, when one attribute data among the attribute data composing the playback screen is selected, switch the display content of the content from the playback screen to the list relating to the selected attribute data.

Abstract: In order to provide a technology with which an area that meets the intention of a user is scrolled when the user gives a scroll instruction while specifying a part of an image, provided is an information processing device which performs control for scrolling an image that is displayed on a display unit and that includes a scrollable first area and a second area which is a part of the first area and which is scrollable independently, the information processing device including: a unit configured to receive information that specifies a point on the display unit and that instructs to scroll an image corresponding to the specified point; a unit configured to determine, when the specified point corresponds to the second area, whether the first area is to be scrolled or the second area is to be scrolled independently.

Abstract: A device (10) is provided having a visual user interface enabling a user to select one of one or more displayed objects (O1, O2, O3, O4) with a cursor (CR) having a cursor area. The device comprises a cursor control facility (12) for controlling display of the cursor and a calculating facility (14) for calculating for each object that is at least partly within the cursor area a coverage fraction (?oi). The coverage fraction (?oi) is indicative for the fraction of that object (Oi) covered by the cursor and for summing these coverage fractions to obtain a coverage indicator (CI). The cursor control facility is arranged for adapting a size of the cursor to a size that achieves a predetermined value for the coverage indicator. Furthermore a method and a storage medium are provided.

Abstract: Users' interaction performance with an automated voice system is improved, as is users' efficiency, by visually displaying options audibly presented by the automated voice system, thereby enabling users to interact with the system more quickly and accurately. Options can be obtained from a centralized audible menu database with the communicational identifier utilized to establish a communication connection with the automated voice system. The database is populated from crowdsourced information, provided when users establish communicational connections with portions of automated voice systems whose options have not yet been stored in the database, and then transcribe the options that are audibly presented by the automated voice system. Transcription of audibly presented options likewise serves as a double check to verify options already displayed.

Abstract: A method, computer program product, and/or computer system structures and displays social media feeds from a social media service. A social media feed is received. The social media feed is composed of content postings from multiple sources, where each content posting has metadata that is an attribute of one or more content postings. Multiple icons are generated and displayed on a user interface. Each of the multiple icons graphically represents one of the metadata that is an attribute of one or more content posting. An input, which is received from a user of the user interface, indicates a selection of one of the icons, thus causing the display, on the user interface, of at least one content posting that is associated with the selected icon.

Abstract: Electrostatic friction textures on a touchscreen panel are used to create the sensation of braille text in a contextual menu adapted to an automotive environment. In particular, a center stack touchscreen friction display in a passenger vehicle provides one set of touch controls and HMI data to the driver while simultaneously providing either the same control options and HMI to the passenger in Braille form or a completely different set of information and menu structure in Braille form. The manner of providing a Braille display in an automobile is adapted for vehicle vibration and movement, the types of functions normally presented and/or controlled by passengers, and other challenges Braille readers of different ages, health, or experience may face when attempting to read Braille in a vehicle cabin.

Abstract: A method for displaying a user interface (UI) in an electronic device having a touch screen is provided. The method receiving an input for executing the UI of a first user function. The method further includes, in response to the input, displaying the UI having an object associated with the first user function and first items associated with the first user function and arranged in a radial pattern around the object, and when an item is selected from the first items and is dragged to the object, executing the first user function in connection with the particular item.

Abstract: Dynamic configuration of cross-environment applications enhances the computing experience in a computing environment with an extended active user environment and/or multiple active user environments. A mobile computing device maintains multiple active device configurations associated with multiple active user environments and/or application windows within active user environments. Device configuration qualifiers are determined from a variety of sources including device characteristics, device indicators, user settings, and/or application presentation. The mobile computing device selects active resource sets for applications based on the device configuration qualifiers. Application presentation is dynamically updated by disestablishing an application screen and establishing a new active application screen using a different resource set. The mobile computing device may be a smartphone running the Android mobile operating system and a full desktop Linux distribution on a modified Android kernel.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for customizing user icons may include (1) detecting that a user has accessed an application, (2) automatically capturing an image of the user in response to detecting that the user has accessed the application, (3) abstracting the image of the user to produce a customized representation of the user, and (4) overlaying the abstracted image of the user onto an icon within the application. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Abstract: Webpage loading method and system. While browsing a webpage, a user can uninterruptedly browse subsequent contents without waiting for page loading since whether subsequent pages need to be loaded is determined by the prediction of remaining page browsing time. The method comprises: in response to a page loading completion event, recording a current page end scroll bar value, a current page initial scroll bar value and a current page loading completion moment; in response to a scroll bar scrolling event, recording a present scroll bar triggering moment and a present scroll bar value; calculating a page browsing speed and a remaining page browsing time; and when the remaining page browsing time meets a preset condition, sending to a server a page acquisition request related to subsequent pages of the current page and loading and updating page data about the subsequent pages to the end of the current page.