Patents Examined by Mylinh Tran
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Patent number: 7844907Abstract: A system and method for dynamic modification and generation of data. One embodiment includes an annotation server that is connected to a user and a content provider. The annotation server is configured to modify a copy of an enterprise's stored Web content without necessarily modifying the actual stored Web content. The annotation server then provides the modified content to the user for viewing or other use.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2002Date of Patent: November 30, 2010Inventors: William Watler, Jonathan Phillips, David Young
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Patent number: 7831932Abstract: An electrical switch apparatus including a movement sensitive form is disclosed. The apparatus includes a housing, a motion sensor and a processing unit, where motion on, near or about the motion sensor is translated into output commands adapted for list scrolling, where the list can be arranged in a hierarchy such as menus or for changing a value of an attribute of a electrical device under the control of the switch.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2003Date of Patent: November 9, 2010Assignee: Revelations in Design, Inc.Inventors: Jonathan Josephsoon, Kurt Edward Nalty
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Patent number: 7827492Abstract: Collaboration space object model provides for a Place consisting of rooms. A room is made up of pages. Folders are used to organize pages. Members belong to rooms, and are those users authorized to access them. Place type controls the creation of a place, including how many rooms it has, for example. Room type controls the appearance and content of rooms. A form manages the display of data notes. A form can contain fields for containing data and employ scripts to process and compute data. A page is the basic vehicle for content. Content is created using an or importing content from an external source. A member is also a data note, and each place contains its own member directory. A place is created and managed from a client browser in on-line mode and in offline mode with respect to a replicated copy of the space. Room security is independently managed, and security and aesthetics characteristics of subrooms selectively inherited.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2004Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Julio Estrada, Miguel A. Estrada, Maurice B. Shore
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Patent number: 7739613Abstract: Various embodiments employ a graphics tiering approach that utilizes multiple different tiers, each of which defines how a user interface is presented to a user. In accordance with at least some embodiments, a higher end tier is provided and utilizes a combination of both bitmaps and realtime window geometry computations to provide a user interface that can include both transparent and blurred user interface elements. In addition, at least some additional tiers repurpose the higher end tier by incorporating an opaque element behind the transparent element to satisfy the limitations associated with the additional tiers.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2006Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventor: Donald J. Lindsay
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Patent number: 7725842Abstract: A system and method for behavior modification through dynamic identification of behavior patterns, assistance in finding and implementing healthy alternatives to undesirable behavior patterns, preparation of dynamically variable user-specific programs, monitoring of current user activities, and presenting feedback and information to the user. The system and method further support incorporation of professional and other information into a user-specific package from which the user-specific program is determined, and synchronization and data integrity across the platforms of the system.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2004Date of Patent: May 25, 2010Inventor: Valentina G. Bronkema
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Patent number: 7707510Abstract: A user desiring to import digital images from a specified location may select that location. In response, a graphical element such as an arrow will be displayed with the beginning point of the element visually associated with the location. The user may then select a destination for the digital images. In response, the graphical element will be displayed with the ending point visually associated with the destination. In one embodiment, this is accomplished by having an arrow point as the graphical element. In one embodiment, graphical controls are located on the arrow. In response to a user clicking these controls, the digital images may be imported from the origin to the destination, or the process may be cancelled.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2005Date of Patent: April 27, 2010Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Randy Ubillos
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Patent number: 7703046Abstract: A system and method are provided for notifying a user about the occurrence of at least one predetermined event associated with an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) in operable communication with the system. The system comprises a worker module and a user interface module. The worker module determines whether the predetermined event has occurred and, responsive to said determination, the user interface module generates an user interface providing information relating to an operating parameter of the UPS. The user interface comprises at least one of a graphical portion and an alphanumeric portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2002Date of Patent: April 20, 2010Assignee: American Power Conversion CorporationInventors: Raymond Fallon, T. Noel Fegan, David Mathieson, Jacqueline Hayes
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Patent number: 7676759Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed which provide a scroll bar for use with a display device. The scroll bar has an index and the data displayed on the display device is presented according to the index. In response to user commands the method and apparatus provide additional nested indexes for the displayed data.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2005Date of Patent: March 9, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: John Mervyn Carter
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Patent number: 7665035Abstract: A media presentation apparatus includes a user preference storage module to store a user preference associated with a user activity and a content selection, coupled to a content selection module to select a content offering based on the user preference. A system includes a media presentation apparatus coupled to a preference manipulation apparatus. A method of processing user preferences includes storing a user preference associated with a user activity and a content selection, and selecting a content offering based on the user preference. The content offering can be selected from a plurality of offerings, based on a combination of user preferences.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2002Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: Gateway, Inc.Inventor: Robert J. Burnett
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Patent number: 7665034Abstract: A system and method for accelerating scrolling of a display is disclosed. When a wheel of a wheeled pointing device is actuated by a user at a first rotational rate, the display in a window scrolls up or down one line at a time. When the wheel is rotated at a second rotational rate, the display in the window scrolls up or down multiple lines at a time. In additional embodiments, the scrolling technique shifts from one line at a time/multiple lines at a time to a page or pages at a time when the wheel is rotated for at a rotational rate for a minimum period of time.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2004Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventor: Alessandro Levi Montalcini
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Patent number: 7661072Abstract: A system and method for accelerating scrolling of a display is disclosed. When a wheel of a wheeled pointing device is actuated by a user at a first rotational rate, the display in a window scrolls up or down one line at a time. When the wheel is rotated at a second rotational rate, the display in the window scrolls up or down multiple lines at a time. In additional embodiments, the scrolling technique shifts from one line at a time/multiple lines at a time to a page or pages at a time when the wheel is rotated for at a rotational rate for a minimum period of time.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2004Date of Patent: February 9, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventor: Alessandro Levi Montalcini
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Patent number: 7650576Abstract: The invention relates to a method and tool which allows users to create interactive representations of input and output data, and simulate the associated algorithms used to manipulate this data, that are used in spreadsheet applications and other similar software programs. The interactive simulation is visually represented by a customizable set of components which hereinafter will be referred to as a control panel. The control panels can consist of a variety of components which include user interface elements (such as sliders, buttons, and checkboxes), charts and maps. The underlying simulation is generated based on data sources within an application software program file (e.g., spreadsheet data cells) selected by the user during the control panel creation process.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2002Date of Patent: January 19, 2010Assignee: Business Objects AmericasInventor: Santiago E. Becerra, Jr.
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Patent number: 7644365Abstract: A network security monitor system groups a plurality of security events into network sessions, correlates the network sessions according to a set of predefined network security event correlation rules and generates a security incident for the network sessions that satisfy one of the network security event correlation rules. The system then presents the information of the network sessions and security incidents to a user of the system in an intuitive form. The user is able to not only learn the details of a possible network attack, but also creates new security event correlation rules intuitively, including drop rules for dropping a particular type of events.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2003Date of Patent: January 5, 2010Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Partha Bhattacharya, Imin Lee, Aji Joseph, Eli Stevens, Diwakar Naramreddy
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Patent number: 7631265Abstract: The present invention is directed to a system and a method for configuring and loading a user interface. The method for configuring the user interface includes receiving user interface data from a remote device describing one or more user interface functions on the remote device. This user interface data is compared with a user interface template. A display of one or more representations is configured based on the user interface data, with each representation corresponding to one of the user interface functions on the remote device. The user is then able to interact with the display of the representations in order to utilize the user interface functions available on the remote device.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2000Date of Patent: December 8, 2009Assignee: Gateway, Inc.Inventor: Bradley J. Quinn
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Patent number: 7617458Abstract: History and navigation information in a computer application are managed by establishing a global context that can communicate with multiple resources, each of which resides in an associated local context. State information from one or more of the local contexts is communicated to the global context, and global navigation information (for example, defining a drop-down history list or back/forward button states) is generated based on the communicated state information. Using the global navigation information, a user of the computer application can move among previously visited resources in a global manner.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1998Date of Patent: November 10, 2009Assignee: AOL LLCInventors: John T. Wassom, Jr., Jerry L. Harris
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Patent number: 7614014Abstract: A system and method for displaying content in a browser window associated with an end-user is described. In one implementation, data that includes links is received from a content provider, each of the links is identified and encoded, and the received data along with the links are displayed in the end-user's browser window.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2001Date of Patent: November 3, 2009Inventors: Daniel Keele Burgin, Scott Moore Gosling, David L. Young, William Randy Watler
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Patent number: 7610559Abstract: A method and system for generating a user interface in a plurality of multiple devices connected to the network system for controlling devices that are currently connected to a network. A network system includes a physical layer, wherein the physical layer provides a communication medium than can be used by devices to communicate with each other, and multiple devices connected to the physical layer, one or more of the multiple devices storing information including device information.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2000Date of Patent: October 27, 2009Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Richard Humpleman, Dongyan Wang
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Patent number: 7596755Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for retrieving and displaying multimedia information. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a graphical user interface (GUI) is provided that displays multimedia information that may be stored in a multimedia document. According to the teachings of the present invention, the GUI enables a user to navigate through multimedia information stored in a multimedia document. The GUI provides both a focused and a contextual view of the contents of the multimedia document.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2002Date of Patent: September 29, 2009Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Jamey Graham
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Patent number: 7574654Abstract: A system for monitoring a user's usage of a target application. Such a target application can, as examples, be a software program running on a computer or a workstation, an image forming device, an appliance, etc. The target application includes a user interface with a plurality of commands which a user can select. In the example of the target application being a software program, the commands may be icons displayed on a computer screen which a user can point to with a mouse pointer and then click on. In the case of the target application being an image forming device or an appliance, the interface may be an operation panel with buttons, a touch pad, etc. which a user can press. The present invention monitors the user's usage of such interfaces and logs data of the user's usage of such interfaces. The logged data can then be communicated by Internet mail to a designated location.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2006Date of Patent: August 11, 2009Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuro Motoyama, Avery Fong, Yevgeniya Lyapustina
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Patent number: 7533344Abstract: A system for monitoring a user's usage of a target application. Such a target application can, as examples, be a software program running on a computer or a workstation, an image forming device, an appliance, etc. The target application includes a user interface with a plurality of commands which a user can select. In the example of the target application being a software program, the commands may be icons displayed on a computer screen which a user can point to with a mouse pointer and then click on. In the case of the target application being an image forming device or an appliance, the interface may be an operation panel with buttons, a touch pad, etc. which a user can press. The present invention monitors the user's usage of such interfaces and logs data of the user's usage of such interfaces. The logged data is stored in the form of an abstract class, and the abstract class is sent to a sending unit. The logged data can then be communicated by the sending unit by Internet mail to a designated location.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 1999Date of Patent: May 12, 2009Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuro Motoyama, Avery Fong, Yevgeniya Lyapustina