Patents Examined by Enrique W Iturralde
  • Patent number: 8024666
    Abstract: A computer implemented method includes selecting a portion of a data set in a first visualization. A list of visualizations relevant to the context inferred from the selection of the portion of the data set in the first visualization is generated. A second visualization from the list of visualizations is rendered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Ltd.
    Inventor: Michael Emmett Thompson
  • Patent number: 8024656
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and system for analyzing data using a data warehouse application are provided. The method, computer program product, and system provide for displaying a facet in a user interface of the data warehouse application, the facet classifying a plurality of documents, and displaying a facet attribute of the facet in the user interface of the data warehouse application, the facet attribute corresponding to a characteristic associated with each of the plurality of documents classified by the facet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Marion Behnen, Richard L. Cole, Qi Jin, Timo Pfahl, Holger Pirk
  • Patent number: 7941760
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for displaying soft keyboards at a portable electronic device with a touch screen display is disclosed. An application with a plurality of objects is displayed on the touch screen display. A first gesture by a user on a first object in the plurality of objects is detected. In response to the first gesture, a first soft keyboard is displayed that contains a plurality of keys including primarily letter keys and including a key for selecting a second soft keyboard different from the first soft keyboard. A second gesture by the user on a second object in the plurality of objects is detected, the second object being other than the key for selecting the second soft keyboard. In response to the second gesture, the second soft keyboard is displayed, which contains a plurality of keys including number keys and including a key for selecting the first soft keyboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Kocienda, Bas Ording
  • Patent number: 7934159
    Abstract: A media timeline is described. In an implementation, a method includes receiving a request from an application at an application programming interface (API) to interact with a plurality of media. Based on the request, a media timeline is generated. The media timeline is for exposure via the API to the application and includes a plurality of nodes. The media timeline defines a presentation of a first media referenced by a first node with respect to a second media referenced by a second node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Shafiq Ur Rahman, Sohail Baig Mohammed, Michael J. Novak, Adil Sherwani, Alexandre V. Grigorovitch, Xiqiang Zhi, Kirt A. Debique, Stephen T. Leroux, Sumedh N. Barde
  • Patent number: 7925977
    Abstract: Architecture solution maps can be generated which graphically represent an interrelation among a plurality of topics related to the deployment of software in a computing landscape. A user, when generating the architecture solution map, can define that only topics having a predefined level of relatedness are included within a rendered architecture solution map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventor: Oleg V. Figlin
  • Patent number: 7921367
    Abstract: A utility is provided for generating applications for a variety of data conversion or handling application environments. A user can use a graphical user interface to purpose application adaptable modules to define a desired application. In one implementation, the user interface (1500) includes a node tree panel (1502) and a process assembly panel (1504). The node tree panel (1502) lists tool sets (1508) including transformations, maps and input-output tools. These tools can then be assembled together with identified data sources and then elements using the assembly panel (1504) to define an application. In this manner, an application is generated from a number of generic modules simply by linking the modules to perform a purpose of the desired application. In this manner, an application is generated from a number of generic modules simply by linking the modules to perform a purpose of the desired application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Oracle International Corp.
    Inventors: Luis Rivas, Mark Kreider, Alec Sharp
  • Patent number: 7921366
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a plurality of displays; a plurality of display instruction units; and an assignment unit that assigns a target selected on at least any one of the displays to one of the display instruction units so as to configure the display instruction unit that the target is to be displayed on one of the displays in accordance with a command input by the assigned one of the display instruction units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akinori Komura, Yoshifumi Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 7900151
    Abstract: A tool and graphical user interface (GUI) may be provided for a customer relationship management (CRM) system that enables a user to create, maintain, display and use individual object (iObject) data that relates to a unique asset in a family of assets. A tool or GUI for maintaining information that relates to individual objects may be referred to herein as an “individual object workbench” (workbench). In general, a workbench may include a selection area for selecting an individual object to be defined, and a definition area in which a user may define information to be associated with the selected individual object. Each individual object may be associated with a unique identifier (e.g., a particular car is associated with a vehicle identification number) as a consistent identifier of an individual asset throughout that asset's lifecycle, which may span multiple owners, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Gerhard Gebhard, Christiane Kuntz-Mayr, Steffen Horndacher
  • Patent number: 7873918
    Abstract: A display method for displaying a workflow system composed of a plurality of discrete Boxes each associated with a document process and linked in a predetermined order. The workflow is defined for causing the processes to be sequentially executed. The workflow is displayed using icons representing the Boxes. If execution of the associated process has been completed, an icon representing a corresponding Box is overlaid with oblique lines. If execution of the associated process is currently in process, an icon representing a corresponding Box is overlaid with a graphical representation of a sand timer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoichi Kawabuchi, Daisuke Sakiyama, Okihisa Yoshida, Tomonari Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 7840906
    Abstract: A display control unit that is used to display a current portion of a document on a screen when an interactive or scrollable page of said document requires a larger display area than that of the screen. The display control unit includes a unit which is connected to a remote server configured to deliver interactive documents including principal and secondary documents. The display control unit also includes a display unit used to control the display of a current portion of the scrollable interactive page on the screen, and a memory control unit including a priority level allocation unit configured to assign a priority level to each secondary document of the scrollable interactive page and a memory control unit used to control the storage of secondary documents with the highest priority levels in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing S.A.
    Inventor: Jean-Stéphane Villers
  • Patent number: 7810048
    Abstract: Apparatus for displaying information from at least one information source, the information being arranged, labeled or indexed to define a hierarchical information structure, the apparatus comprising: a display controller for displaying information and user selectable menu items on at least one display, each menu item corresponding to a node of the information hierarchy or to information in the at least one information source. The display controller is configured such that during said navigation, in response to a user selection of a menu item from either one of the first or second display areas, a sub-set of menu items corresponding to sub-nodes and/or information in the information hierarchy at the level of the hierarchy below said selected menu item is displayed in the other of the second or first display areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Inventor: Yisia Young Suk Lee
  • Patent number: 7774706
    Abstract: A visual display interface is provided that comprises an associated display icon. The display icon is dragged across the visual display interface in a movement so as to cause the mixing of a plurality of media streams. The output is a new mix of the various media streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Ryutaro Sakai
  • Patent number: 7757179
    Abstract: A display method wherein a labeled scatter chart is displayed on a graphical user interface, the scatter chart having a plurality of labels. A first modification of one of the labels is entered via a graphical user interface by a user. Execution of labeling instructions that implement a labeling algorithm for generating a first modified labeled scatter chart in response to the entry of the first modification is started. The first modified labeled scatter chart is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Think-Cell Software GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian Theophil, Arno Schoedl, Markus Hannebauer
  • Patent number: 7757177
    Abstract: A technology enabling a developer to configure a graphical user interface (GUI) such that only a subset of the inputs contained in the GUI will be processed, depending on the user's interaction with the GUI. The configuration identifies one or more logical units known as virtual forms, with each virtual form identifying zero or more input components from the GUI that are said to participate in the virtual form, and one or more submission components from the GUI that are said to submit the virtual form, such that when a user interacts in some particular way with (e.g., clicks) a component that submits a virtual form, only the inputs that participate in that virtual form are processed while other inputs in the GUI are not processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Oracle America, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew B. Bohm, Craig R. McClanahan
  • Patent number: 7747960
    Abstract: A control for, and method of, operating at least two medical systems, each of which generates its own visual display output and accepts commands from an input device. The control includes a display, having an active display area, and at least one inactive display area, at least one input device which provides inputs to the medical system whose visual display output is being displayed on the active display area, and a controller that automatically selects the medical system whose visual display output is displayed on the active display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Stereotaxis, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey M. Garibaldi, Walter M. Blume, Nathan Kastelein, Raju R. Viswanathan
  • Patent number: 7747968
    Abstract: Content abstractions are emerged in to an ingress terminus of a multidimensional path and depth transitioned through the multidimensional path to an egress terminus. The content abstractions are eliminated at the egress terminus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Rainer Brodersen, Rachel Clare Goldeen, Jeffrey Ma, Mihnea Calin Pacurariu, Thomas Michael Madden, Eric Taylor Seymour, Steven Jobs
  • Patent number: 7747954
    Abstract: A method for testing connectivity of virtual private networks, the virtual private networks including customer edge routers and provider edge routers, the provider edge routers belonging to a network managed by a service provider, the method comprising: displaying a list of the virtual private networks on a display screen of a network management system for the network; receiving a signal from a user to select a virtual private network from the list of the virtual private networks, the virtual private network having a topology, an import route target, and an export route target associated therewith; generating a list of operations to test connectivity of the virtual private network from the topology, the import route target, and the export route target; displaying the list of operations to the user on the display screen; receiving a signal from the user to select an operation from the list of operations, the operation having a source provider edge router and a destination provider edge network associated there
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Hamdy Mahmoud Farid, Satvinder Singh Bawa, Susan Patricia Callow
  • Patent number: 7743341
    Abstract: Icons are arranged in foreground background positions in an interface environment to define a multidimensional path extending from a terminus. The icons transition between the foreground position and the background positions along the multidimensional path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Rainer Brodersen, Rachel Clare Goldeen, Jeffrey Ma, Mihnea Calin Pacurariu, Thomas Michael Madden, Steven Jobs, Jeff Robbin, Eric Taylor Seymour
  • Patent number: 7743333
    Abstract: A system, method, computer program and system for suspending a result set and continuing from a suspended result set for a scrollable cursor is disclosed. The rows from a row source corresponding to the scrollable cursor result set are suspended into storage so that when a fetch is requested the data can be sent (continued) from the suspended storage and does not depend on the original scrollable cursor row source or session to be available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Mehul D. Bastawala, Lakshminarayanan Chidambaran, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Sanjay Kaluskar, Srinath Krishnaswamy, Debashish Chatterjee
  • Patent number: 7716598
    Abstract: Methods and systems for scaling down a Web page image enables the image to be displayed on a standard television without horizontal scrolling of the image. A Web page image that initially has a horizontal dimension larger than the horizontal dimension of a television display is received from a web server and subsequently scaled down by a scaling factor that is based only upon the amount of scaling that is necessary to fit the image within the horizontal dimension of the television display. This scaling factor is used to scale the image horizontally and vertically, thus preserving the aspect ratio of the image. When a hyperlink from the scaled down Web page image is selected, coordinates to the hyperlink are scaled up based on the same scaling factor so that they will correspond with the server-side image map of the Web page image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher M. White, Phillip Y. Goldman, David R. Anderson, Keith R. Ohlfs, Bruce A. Leak