Abstract: A display generating or computer system, and particularly a mobile client system, in which a markup language browser application program is provided which minimizes the display area occupied by the navigational tools of the browser, in order to maximize the informational display area related to a user's task at hand. The browser application is simplified in order to accommodate ease in learning to use the browser.

Abstract: A network browser is provided with working list maintenance and creation facility which contains an indicator for each URL's listing duration level of permanence for controlling how long a URL will be kept or maintained in the working list and also includes an activity duration permanence level indicator for controlling how long the URL will be kept active. This enables the browser to maintain multiple, concurrently active URLs and thereby enable the browser to provide the functional emulation of a desktop working environment to the user.

Abstract: Programs stored in memory devices associated with microcontrollers controlling a display to a user are constructed in a language which uses layered statements, each of which can have a description portion, an action portion, and a unique connecting character.

Abstract: A display generating system, particularly a computer or mobile client system, in which a system message (by which is meant an unsolicited prompt from a computer system to a user) is displayed to a user in a manner particularly contemplated as attracting the attention of the user. Accommodating such a system message in the small screen area available in a mobile client computer is a particular problem, addressed and solved as here described.

Abstract: A display generating system, such as a mobile client computer system, in which a scroll bar is selectively deployed from a less active or "stored" position to a fully active or "extended" position. Deployment of the scroll bar may be by an animated process resembling an unrolling. By deploying the scroll bar only as required and requested by a user, the scroll bar may be enlarged for use and additional functions supported.

Abstract: A network providing a server using an object-database enables an author to create and store an original document, as a source file with a first format. Software in the data base will provide multiple sets of shadow file-converter groups connected to the source file of the original document. Each shadow file-converter set enables the transformation of the original source file format into a particular other specific type of format. Any client or user of the network can access and receive a copy of the original source document which is automatically reformatted to match the requirements of the receiver's appliance. Thus, one original source document can be created and then published in any specific format to multiple numbers of and type of receiving appliances.

Abstract: A form handling or processing system, such as a computer or mobile client system, in which data relevant to a form being completed is drawn from fields in the form into a title bar or line for the form, thereby facilitating recognition by a user of the linkage of the form to a particular data record.

Abstract: A computer system comprising a central processing unit (CPU) configured to accept coordinate type data from a touchpad or the like. The CPU has an operating system executing thereon with special support for interfacing to the touchpad. The operating system has the following capabilities: (1) mapping out geometric regions of the touchpad and assign the regions to specific region identifiers responsive to application programs and (2) determining the region identifier of a touched region and passing that region identifier to the application program. Support is also provided for changing the units of the commands used to define the regions.

Abstract: A method is provided in a server for storing and retrieving files of various formats in an object database coupled to a network including a multiplicity of clients also coupled to the network. The server includes a storage device for storing objects of the database. The method begins by determining the type and content of files received by the server from the clients coupled. Each file received by the server is transformed into an object. The transformed objects are stored in a hierarchy in accordance with the type and content thereof. The retrieving part of the process includes transmitting a "get" request to the server; searching a Virtual File class for an object whose name matches the file name; and examining corresponding properties of the matching object for compatibility with the first parameter. If compatible, a next parameter is examined for corresponding properties for compatibility.

Abstract: 058643404 A computer system preferably a mobile client computer, optimizes data handling and display through the use of predictive widgets. A predictive widget uses a predictive list of possible entries into a defined field of a form, as in a form filling application, to provide one or both of a predictive default entry for a field or a predictive fill once a user has started an entry into the field.

Abstract: A content server using an object database supports a network of multiple User clients. The database is loaded with virtual objects which constitute source documents in the form of a multiplicity of resource objects, which may be file-oriented objects or message-oriented objects, which enable the format of any source document to be converted to another format compatible for transport via an appropriate protocol to a requesting client User. The resource objects include a multiplicity of converter objects which are defined and placed in the database to provide format transformation from the format of the original source document content into the format required by a calling requester. The object database will be searched to find the proper converter object to transform the contents of the source document into the required format for the calling requester's facilities or for transmittal to a digital appliance in a protocol appropriate to the receiving requester or digital appliance.

Abstract: A computer in which entry of data from an area provided on a display, touch screen or the like is accomplished by the provision of a "soft keyboard". Misentry of data is avoided by providing for the adjustment of the input by raising the area of input by a fixed percentage of the size of the target soft key.

Abstract: The computer is enhanced to include software processes for detecting the contents of data to be displayed and, responsive thereto, for changing the user interface selected for display and use. These processes determine which of a plurality of possible user interfaces shall be loaded into the computer memory for employment on the display for user interaction therewith so that, for example, functionally rich user interfaces will be employed for adult use of a given data load, but simplified user interfaces may be employed for the same data when a child desires to use the system. The entire user interface is changed based on data type or content as compared with a register of desired user interfaces for differing types or contents of data to be displayed.

Abstract: A display generating system, and particularly a computer such as a mobile client system, in which a control program such as an application or interface program cooperates with a processor in reflowing table elements. In particular, the present invention breaks apart tabular portions of documents to be displayed and reorganizes such portions to facilitate top-to-bottom or vertical scrolling while retaining all information to be displayed.

Abstract: A computer system preferably a mobile client computer, optimizes data handling and display through the use of predictive widgets. A predictive widget uses a predictive list of possible entries into a defined field of a form, as in a form filling application, to provide one or both of a predictive default entry for a field or a predictive fill once a user has started an entry into the field. A first predictive widget for a first data field interacts to determine the performance of a second predictive widget for a second field.

Abstract: A computer in which entry of data from an area provided on a display, touchscreen or the like is facilitated by the provision of a "soft keyboard" having keys configurable as hexagonal cells. Hexagonal cells enable display of larger areas for engagement by the finger or other input pointer used by a user of the computer of this invention. A user can be permitted a choice between hexagonal and rectangular cells.

Abstract: A computer system, preferably a mobile client computer, optimizes data handling and display through the use of predictive widgets. A predictive widget uses a predictive list of possible entries into a defined field of a form, as in a form filling application, to provide one or both of a predictive default entry for a field or a predictive fill once a user has started an entry into the field. Predictive lists are shared and copied between and among a plurality of communicating computer systems.

Abstract: A computer in which entry of data from an area provided on a display, touch screen or the like is accomplished by the provision of a "soft keyboard". Misentry of data is avoided by providing for the calculation of an offset as may be required by the entry habits of a user which target areas of a defined key cell spaced from the center of the cell.

Abstract: In accordance with the disclosed invention there is provided a method in a system server for storing and retrieving messages of various formats in an object database coupled to a network including a multiplicity of clients also coupled to the network. The server includes a CPU and at least one storage device coupled thereto for storing objects of the database. The method includes steps for driving a database that solves the problem of transforming incoming messages into objects for storage in the database and organizing the transformed messages into a hierarchy of objects in accordance with the purpose and destination of such incoming messages for storage in the database.

Abstract: A display system, particularly a computer such as a mobile client system, in which an empty element, cell or field of a displayed table is suppressed from being displayed until called for purposes of entry.