Patents Examined by Ting Zhou
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Patent number: 7657841Abstract: A display device for a construction machine has a display switching means, output control means, operation detecting means, and display prohibiting means. The display switching means switches information displayed on a monitor placed in an operation cabin, where the switching is made to prevent display of unnecessary information on the monitor while the construction machine is performing work. The output control means selects display information recorded in information recording means and outputs the selected information to the monitor. The operation detecting means detects whether or not the construction machine is in a working state. When the operation detecting means detects that the construction machine is in the working state, display switching operation of the monitor is performed by the display switching means, and the display prohibiting means prohibits the display of specific information.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2005Date of Patent: February 2, 2010Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiro Shibamori, Keiichiro Nakamura, Tsuyoshi Sakyo, Kazunori Nakamura, Tadatoshi Shimamura, Genroku Sugiyama
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Patent number: 7647557Abstract: An apparatus, system, method, and article for shuffling video information are described. The apparatus may include a media processing node to receive video information. The media processing node may include a shuffling module to shuffle the video information according to a shuffle order and a trusted entity programmed based on the shuffle order to provide access to the video information. The video information may be provided in an unshuffled manner when accessed through the trusted entity. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2005Date of Patent: January 12, 2010Assignee: Intel CorporationInventor: Scott Janus
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Patent number: 7640501Abstract: The present invention is directed to a system and method for editing music on a computer. A preferred embodiment according to the present invention provides a score window display containing various types of execution graphical icon layers onto which graphical execution ions (representing musical symbols such as bend-up/down, grace-up/down, dynamics, glissando, tremolo) can be attached and arranged in conformity with a progression of a musical tune on a screen of the display. In accordance with the preferred embodiment, may select desired execution icons from an icon select palette that provides lists of execution icons and attach or detach them to the displayed layers via graphical drag-and-drop operations to edit the underlying musical score. In addition, a user may modify parameters of a specific icon.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2003Date of Patent: December 29, 2009Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Hideo Suzuki, Masao Sakama, Eiji Akazawa
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Patent number: 7634734Abstract: In response to a user instruction to initiate media playback, which instruction may come from a dedicated media playback hardware button or from a user interface on a display screen, a computer operating system activates a predesignated media playback user account. The account may be limited to access of media playback applications and files located within shared directories. The operating system also launches a media playback application in response to the user instruction to initiate media playback. Instead of activating an account in response to a media playback instruction, the operating system can execute a media player application within a login screen.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2005Date of Patent: December 15, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Andrew J. Fuller, Issa Y. Khoury, Allen Marshall, Vikram Madan, Sterling M. Reasor, Ravipal S. Soin, Tse-Ching James Yu
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Patent number: 7634738Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media process computer input data (such as electronic ink data, speech input data, keyboard input data, etc.), including focus change data, in a manner so that the input insertion range better comports with the user's original intent. More specifically, user input data may be accepted, before, during, and/or after a focus change event is initiated, and the systems and methods will process this input data in an intuitive manner, directing the data to areas of an application program or the operating system that better comport with the user's original intent. In this manner, loss of input data may be avoided and misdirected input data may be avoided, thereby lowering user frustration during focus change events.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2004Date of Patent: December 15, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Josh A. Clow, Adrian J. Garside, David V. Winkler
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Patent number: 7634735Abstract: A system and method for providing a collaborative platform, the system including a server configured to create a collaborative back room folder environment on the server in response to a request from a renter, wherein the collaborative back room folder environment includes at least one parameter configurable by the renter, and wherein the collaborative back room folder environment is capable of supporting an exchange of information between a plurality of computers wherein the information is configurable by the renter.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2005Date of Patent: December 15, 2009Inventor: David W. McCary
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Patent number: 7631277Abstract: System and method for integrating media objects for viewing on and manipulation via a computing device such as a personal computer. The system and method may be provided via an application program interface (API) which provides functions that allow an application program to create a scene and add media objects to the scene. The method includes preparing a translation vector and a rotation matrix for each of the media objects to define an orientation and a location of each of the media objects in the scene. The scene including the media objects is displayed. An interface is provided so that a user may manipulate the scene and the objects therein. The system and method may be implemented on a personal computer or other computing device.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2001Date of Patent: December 8, 2009Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Xiaochun Nie, Christopher L. Flick
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Patent number: 7627822Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a display unit, a plurality of types of input units, an input unit recognizing unit that recognizes a type of input unit via which input is being performed, and a display control unit. If a function menu has been selected of the first screen via the input unit, the display control unit displays a second screen, on the display unit, for selecting an item in the function menu selected on the first screen. Herein, based on a type of input unit recognized by the input unit recognizing unit when the function menu was selected on the first screen, the display control unit displays the second screen that corresponds to the recognized input unit on the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2005Date of Patent: December 1, 2009Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Shigeo Konuma, Kimikazu Saitoh, Tadashi Tenda
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Patent number: 7624347Abstract: Systems and methods for forwarding full header information in email messages are presented. When an email message is received by a user, and the user chooses to forward the received email message, an option is provided to the user to either include the full header information of the received email in the forwarded email, or to not include the full header information of the received email in the forwarded email. The option may be presented to the user as a user-selectable option, such as a check box that the user can select or de-select.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2002Date of Patent: November 24, 2009Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventor: W. Todd Daniell
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Patent number: 7620898Abstract: A method and system for providing click-once links is disclosed. Elision is used to automatically remove a URL and associated content from a web page as hyperlinks are selected, reducing previously visited material and providing visual feedback to a user. When a user selects an elision-enabled hyperlink, the hyperlink and its associated content are not displayed during subsequent displaying of the same web page. Web pages may be generated on the origin server and a browser client updates the content automatically. Click-once links may be flagged in an enclosing HTML source page through a combination of an indirection through a JavaScript function in an anchor and an additional HTML tag. Cookies may be used to record information about which links have been followed and to share such information with the origin server for use in subsequent page generation, or the browser may be adapted to perform elision without using cookies.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2007Date of Patent: November 17, 2009Inventors: Frederick Douglis, Sonia Jain, John C. Klensin, Michael Rabinovish
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Tree visualization system and method based upon a compressed half-plane model of hyperbolic geometry
Patent number: 7620913Abstract: A node-link structure is displayed within a display area having a narrow rectangular shape with an edge along one side acting as a horizon of a hyperbolic space half-plane. Lower level node features that share a parent node feature have centers of area positioned on the display in order along a line parallel with the horizon, with sufficiently similar spacings along an axis perpendicular to the horizon from the region around a parent node feature, and with sufficiently similar spacings in a dimension parallel to the horizon from adjacent node features along the line, that the lower level node features sharing the parent node feature are perceptible as a group of related node features. The half-plane model with compression is used for layout of the node-link data, and the hyperbolic layout data is mapped to a Euclidean space for display.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2005Date of Patent: November 17, 2009Assignee: Business Objects AmericasInventors: Yozo Hida, John O. Lamping, Ramana B. Rao -
Patent number: 7613998Abstract: A method for automatically creating at least one dialog box on an operator interface of a computer user station, which is connected to an industrial process installation via at least one interface so as to transmit data (e.g., process data, status data, control and/or regulating data). The created dialog box displays the transmitted data of the process installation on the operator interface. Further, the data of the process installation that is to be displayed is assigned to certain, stored data types. The at least one dialog box is created on the operator interface of the computer user station so as to display the data to be graphically represented by means of display types (e.g., pointers, bars, numerical displays, etc.), which are assigned to the respective data types.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2004Date of Patent: November 3, 2009Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Peter Wiedenberg
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Patent number: 7614005Abstract: A method, computer program product, and data processing system for facilitating the traversal of a hierarchy of GUI components containing components and/or containers from disparate GUI toolkits is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, auxiliary associative data structures relating parent components in one toolkit to children in another toolkit are defined. When examining a component to determine if it has children, an appropriate associative data structure is consulted to determine if that component has a child from a disparate toolkit. In accordance with this preferred embodiment, additional associative data structures are defined, which also record the reverse “child-parent” relationship, so as to allow the GUI component tree to be traversed in both directions.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2005Date of Patent: November 3, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Barry Alan Feigenbaum
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Patent number: 7614006Abstract: The present invention concerns methods and apparatus for implementing the ability to transpose rows and columns of a table displayed in a graphical user interface of a computer system. In embodiments of the invention, at least one in-line table row and column control is incorporated in the table; when selected, the in-line table row and column control causes information originally arrayed in columns to be displayed in rows, and causes information originally arrayed in rows to be displayed in columns. In other embodiments of the present invention, a user can select subsets of rows or columns for display in a transposed table with a filter function that operates in combination with the in-line table row and column control. After a filter selection is made, information contained in rows and columns not selected is filtered out and only information in selected rows and columns will be displayed in the transposed table.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2005Date of Patent: November 3, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Mark E. Molander
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Patent number: 7610564Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that displays and facilitates browsing through a sparse view of content items in a hierarchy. First, the system receives a request to display a set of content items with a common parent in a hierarchy. If the display area has insufficient space to display some of the items, the system logically splits the content items into a first subset of content items and a distinct second subset of content items. The system then displays the first subset, and displays a search element that represents the second subset. When the system detects the selection of the search element by a user, the system initiates a search operation that allows the user to determine and select a desired item from the second subset.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2006Date of Patent: October 27, 2009Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Pfohe, Klaus Ruehl, Jaime F. Guerrero
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Patent number: 7607090Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for presenting data from a plurality of computer applications for display. Briefly described, in architecture, one embodiment of the system, among others, can be implemented as follows. A graphical interface control to launch execution of a plurality of computer applications is provided on the computer desktop. In addition, one embodiment of the system includes first logic configured to display a launched first computer application within a first graphical window on the desktop. The first graphical window is capable of being positioned on the desktop by a user, where the positioning of the first graphical window is independent from the positioning of the graphical interface control. In some embodiments, the plurality of computer applications includes call center applications.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2004Date of Patent: October 20, 2009Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: James M. McGlennon, Paige Amato Beckum, Lisa K. Sims, Richard Omanson, Robert Schumacher, Jill Wene Cheeks
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Patent number: 7607094Abstract: A method and user interface for designating an element of data as having a type of downloadable status, wherein the user interface is processable by a mobile terminal including a transceiver arranged to receive data indicative of a set of data accessible from a network location. The user interface includes a display arranged to display a plurality of selectable display objects which are assigned to corresponding elements of the set of data. The display is responsive to selection of a given display object so as to designate the element of data corresponding thereto as having a first type of downloadable status. The transceiver transmits selection data to a network node for use in controlling the selection of elements of the set of data to be subsequently transmitted to the mobile terminal and to receive the selected elements of the set of data when transmitted to the mobile terminal.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2008Date of Patent: October 20, 2009Assignee: CVON Innvovations LimitedInventors: Janne Aaltonen, Timo Ahopelto, Sami Saru
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Patent number: 7600198Abstract: A method of tracking data objects is provided in accordance with an aspect of the invention. The method includes the step of storing in a workspace memory a first data object having first data object attributes. The method includes the step of storing in a palette memory the first data object where the first data object attributes do not match all attributes of any preexisting data object stored in the palette memory. The method includes the step of generating on a workspace window the first data object. The first data object is in accordance with the first data object attributes. The method includes the step of generating on a palette window a first thumbnail. The first thumbnail is a depiction of the first data object scaled to a predetermined size. A method for using a graphical computer application is also providing according to another aspect of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2005Date of Patent: October 6, 2009Assignee: Bluebeam Software, Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Gunderson, Peter Noyes
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Patent number: 7600188Abstract: An interface directs a user to build a website. A first interface element directs the user to create an account. A second interface element directs the user to create a home page. A third interface element directs the user to create a directory. A fourth interface element directs the user to create at least one site page. A designator indicates to the user at least one of the first, second, third, and fourth interface elements to select in order to build the website.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2006Date of Patent: October 6, 2009Assignee: Glogood, Inc.Inventors: Frederick L. Good, Thuy Tu Pham, Craig Stuber, Tony Pham
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Patent number: 7596760Abstract: The techniques and mechanisms described herein are directed to a method for managing and selecting one out of large set of open tabs in a tabbed browser. Browsing software is configured to provide a quick pick user-interface that visually displays the content of the several tabs, such as a by displaying a thumbnail for each tab. The thumbnails allow a user to easily distinguish between each opened tab. The browsing software may also be configured to recognize a user selection from within the quick pick user-interface and in response, switch back to a tabbed window view and display the selected tab in that view. The browsing software may adjust the tab row so that the selected tab is positioned in a favorable position within the tab row. In addition, within the quick pick user-interface, the user may reposition the thumbnails and/or close the thumbnails, thus affecting the associated tab in the tab row.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2005Date of Patent: September 29, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Aaron J. Sauve, Cornelis K. Van Dok, Donald J. Lindsay, Tony E. Schreiner