Display Processing Patents (Class 715/273)
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Patent number: 8239764Abstract: A system and method for determining which program to display from multiple content sources at a power-on event of a content display device at a certain location is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving metadata containing content information about multiple programming available from multiple content sources on an integrated network. The content information can be analyzed so as to determine if any of the programming satisfies rules pertaining to programming appropriate for the location of the display device within a home. The content information can be analyzed in advance such that when a power-on command is received at the content display device, a program that has been determined to satisfy the rules is displayed on the display device.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2007Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chung Shun John Pong, Byung Chan Kang, Shiang Feng Lee, Fei Xie
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Patent number: 8239765Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed for visually displaying data points using stacked bar charts on a display screen with limited display area. A magnification region allows presentation of detailed information for a stacked bar compared to other stacked bars displayed. A stacked bar within a magnification region can be further magnified to display additional information for individual bars within the stacked bar. An individual bar is expanded to a height suitable for displaying information associated with the bar. The stacked bar chart can be moved relative to the magnification region thereby changing the stacked bar displayed within the magnification region.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2009Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Mellmo Inc.Inventors: Quinton Alsbury, David Becerra
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Patent number: 8234343Abstract: An electronic device includes a receiving unit configured to receive a plurality of e-mails having a message body and an attached file, a determination unit configured to judge whether or not the message body and the attached file of each e-mail thus received by the receiving unit have been checked, a mail management unit configured to manage mail information with respect to the plurality of e-mails, including at least determination results obtained by the determination unit, a display unit, and a display control unit configured to display the mail information on the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2008Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignee: Fujitsu Toshiba Mobile Communications LimitedInventor: Yoshiaki Otaki
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Patent number: 8234571Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer program products for text composition are provided. In some implementations, a method is provided. The method includes processing a plurality of paragraphs in parallel, including defining a paragraph layout for each paragraph, the paragraph layout including line breaks. The method further includes composing the text in an electronic document including serially composing each paragraph, the serial composing including shuffling the processed paragraphs into a particular position within a page frame of the electronic document.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2006Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventors: Eric A. Menninga, Douglas Waterfall
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Publication number: 20120192066Abstract: Processing documents by highlighting a portion of a document displayed on a computer display, where the portion is highlighted when a cursor is in a predefined location of the display relative to the location of the portion of the document, where the portion is identified as a candidate for selection for a post-selection operation prior to the cursor being in the predefined location of the display, and where the highlighting is done independent of any input received via a computer input device to indicate the extents of the portion, and recording a selection of the portion when an input that is predefined to indicate a selection action is received in association with the portion via a computer input device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2012Publication date: July 26, 2012Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Joshua Fox, Michael Pelts, Vladislav Rybak
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Publication number: 20120192065Abstract: A device, configured to operate in a first operational mode at some times and in a second operational mode at other times, detects a first gesture having a first gesture type; in response to detecting the first gesture: in accordance with a determination that the device is in the first operational mode, performs an operation having a first operation type; and, in accordance with a determination that the device is in the second operational mode, performs an operation having a second operation type; detects a second gesture having a second gesture type; and in response to detecting the second gesture: in accordance with a determination that the device is in the first operational mode, performs an operation having the second operation type; and in accordance with a determination that the device is in the second operational mode, performs an operation having the first operation type.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2011Publication date: July 26, 2012Inventors: Charles J. Migos, Jay Christopher Capela, Markus Hagele, Diego Bauducco, Akiva D. Leffert, Britt S. Miura, Donald Rozinak Beaver
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Patent number: 8230043Abstract: The use of a map at a server allows flexibility to the operation of a help system.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2006Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Oracle International CorporationInventor: Cheryl Solis
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Patent number: 8223364Abstract: Disclosed are methods of controlling operation of a printer, apparatus and computer-readable medium. The embodiments control operation of a printer by displaying to a user a print user interface including selectable document settings and a default/saved settings control, the default/saved settings control displaying a list of at least one saved default setting and command settings, the at least one saved default setting including selected ones of the document settings, the command settings allowing the user to create additional default settings and to delete the at least one saved default setting, and controlling printing of a document to print on the printer using the saved default setting and the selected ones of the document settings.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2007Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: David Salgado, Jeremy Griffith, Jonathan Allen Edmonds, Raymond Sabbagh
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Publication number: 20120179606Abstract: Systems and methods for integrated management and scheduling of events associated with both physical and digital mail are provided. A print stream processor utilizes recipient preferences to determine that a mail piece should be delivered by physical mail. The server then processes the mail piece print stream to extract time sensitive data such as a payment amount and due date. The server utilizes the identity of the physical mail piece recipient and the time sensitive data to provide a scheduling message to the recipient. Here, the scheduling message includes injecting a calendar entry to a centralized mail management system having an account for the recipient. Additionally, reminder messages are provided to the recipient based upon recipient and/or sender preferences. Similarly, entries relating to physical coupons or other offers sent to the recipient are placed on the recipient's calendar including offer deadline entries.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2011Publication date: July 12, 2012Applicant: PITNEY BOWES INC.Inventors: Surya R. Sagi, Bernard E. Gracy
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Publication number: 20120179962Abstract: A viewer for displaying electronic books and having various features for restricting access to their content. A user may assign ratings to stored electronic books, or use standard ratings, and assign access levels to potential users. The ratings and access levels determine which electronic books, or portions of the electronic books, a particular user may access on the viewer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2011Publication date: July 12, 2012Applicant: ADREA LLCInventors: John S. Hendricks, Michael L. Asmussen
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Patent number: 8219903Abstract: A display information verification method, when display data of financial data is generated from the financial data and scripts for the financial data, includes: searching the scripts for an arithmetic instruction to process a numeric value in the financial data or a conversion instruction to convert a character string included in the financial data; and judging whether or not the arithmetic instruction or the conversion instruction detected in the searching is an instruction considered to manipulate the financial data. Thus, it is possible to detect the instruction considered to manipulate data from the scripts, and to avoid display including the manipulation of the data. In addition, for example, by using information of the instruction, which is stored inside in advance and is allowed to be used, it is possible to detect only the arithmetic instruction or the conversion instruction, which is not allowed to be used.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2008Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventor: Masaya Naitou
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Patent number: 8219925Abstract: Tickers are populated with location-based information that is selected according to the geographic location of communication devices. The location of a communication device is identified based on a GPS system, proximity to transmitters in a wireless network, user input, or using other techniques. Location-appropriate content is obtained either in real-time from the network or from a local data store at the communication device. In general location-based, context-aware content can be displayed on tickers associated with a variety of communication devices, including mobile communication devices and “immobile” or stationary personal computers.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2010Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Smith Micro Software, IncInventors: Konstantin Othmer, Carl J. Stocklein
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Publication number: 20120162115Abstract: A portable multimedia device for displaying a document having multiple pages. The portable multimedia device comprises a memory for storing the document; at least one display screen for displaying the document; and a central control unit for reading the document from the memory and displaying the document on the at least one display screen according to an operating mode selected by a user, wherein the central control unit comprises a page indicator display module for displaying page indicators, indicating current, previous, and next pages of the document, to be selected by the user, and a target page select module for displaying on the at least one display screen a target page that corresponds to one of the page indicators [finally] selected by the user. Accordingly, with the portable multimedia device, the user may easily spot a desired page of the document and may turn over pages to the desired page.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2010Publication date: June 28, 2012Inventor: Byung Keun Lim
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Publication number: 20120166943Abstract: An electronic device which comprises a storage unit to store files and a division information table, an input unit generating input signals in response to user input operations, a display unit displaying information, and a processing unit controlling the electronic device to enter into a reading mode, controlling the display unit to a page of a file, determining whether the page has a portrait layout or a horizontal layout according to the properties of the page, dividing the page into a plurality of blocks according to a division information table, controlling the display unit to display all the blocks thereon, and displaying a selected block of the page with a magnified display size according to an input signal from the user. A page display method is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2011Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicants: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD., HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (ShenZhen) CO., LTD.Inventors: HUI-LING HUANG, XIAO-GUANG LI, HONG-YE LIU, XIAO-LE LI
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Patent number: 8209601Abstract: A text formatting system parses text and reformats it to establish optimal spacing for readability and reader comprehension. It also reduces the incidence of rivers and therefore enhances the aesthetic quality of the formatted text. The formatting applied to the text by the present invention is based on structure rules that determine key parameters of page layout including for example column width, font, font size, color, leading and kerning.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2010Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: Language Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Thomas G. Bever, John Robbart, II
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Patent number: 8209605Abstract: The user is enabled to move smoothly between viewing an entire document in a word by word display, through views that display only elements of increasing landmark value, to an overview of the document in a single display window. A document is parsed into a hierarchy, of which each node at every level (from chapter to sentence, clause or long word) has a display state (invisible, tokenized or open) for the way it is shown as part of an expandable view of the document. The contents opted for display within a tokenized view may be prioritized according to a system of landmark values. The view is modified by user input using an explicit data structure of nodes and states within the device controlling the display, or by structuring in another system the underlying logic of the arrangement of code that is acted upon by a web browser.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2007Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: Pado Metaware ABInventors: Timothy Poston, Tomer Shalit, Mark Dixon
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Publication number: 20120159296Abstract: A method including creating a universal view of a document in an archive, where the universal view comprises individual portions of information from the document as individual elements of the universal view; applying classifications to at least some of the individual elements; and supplying the individual elements with their respectively applied classifications from the archive.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2011Publication date: June 21, 2012Inventors: John Michael Rebstock, Christopher K. Schrichte
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Publication number: 20120159319Abstract: A method is disclosed for simulating a page turn in an electronic document comprising a plurality of pages having a given width, the method comprising displaying a first page; detecting a signal indicative of a page turn of the first page in a given direction; displaying a first image having a first portion having a first width and comprising the first page and a second portion having a second width substantially smaller than the first width and comprising a selected visible portion of a third page located behind the first page wherein the width of the first portion decreases while the width of the second portion increases such that the sum of the first width and the second width remains constant and further wherein the selected visible portion of the third page is a portion of the third page unmasked by a projection of the first portion of the first page; when said first width is equal to zero, displaying a second image adjacent to said first image, said second image comprising a corresponding second image pType: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2011Publication date: June 21, 2012Inventor: Jean-Baptiste MARTINOLI
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Publication number: 20120159318Abstract: An improved full screen view user interface is provided that presents a user interface-light reading mode for reading a document, and a user interface-light editing mode for editing or authoring a document. A full screen view reading mode provides a full page reading environment that simulates real world effects, such as page curls, to enhance a reading experience that is intended to be focused on the task of reading a document. A full screen editing mode provides a full page editing environment that, upon demand, reveals selectable controls that are relevant to editing or authoring a document to provide a simplified, non-distracting writing environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2010Publication date: June 21, 2012Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Han-Yi Shaw, Brian T. Kelley
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Publication number: 20120159320Abstract: A method of associating attributes with an information element adapted to be individually or collectively retrievable on a basis of at least one of the attributes is presented. Attributes adapted to have a direct attribute configuration, when associated with the information element for characterizing the information element, and a bridge attribute configuration, when associated with the information element for providing a link between the information element and another information element without characterizing the information element it is associated therewith; and associating an attribute from the plurality of attributes with an information element, the associated attribute being in one of the direct attribute configuration and the bridge attribute configuration is also hereby provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2012Publication date: June 21, 2012Inventor: Mathieu Audet
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Patent number: 8205156Abstract: Described herein are processes and devices that determine a high contrast setting on a client. One of the devices described is a high contrast mode detector. The high contrast mode detector creates an object in a web document and assigns a pre-determined value to a displayable property of the object. The predetermined value is different than a high contrast value that the client would use to display the web document object if a high contrast setting is enabled. The high contrast mode detector associates the object with the web document. The client generates a computed value used to display the object. If high contrast mode is enabled, the client applies the high contrast value as the computed value, otherwise the client applies the pre-determined value. The high contrast mode detector compares the pre-determined value to the computed value and detects the high contrast setting based on the comparison result.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2007Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Becky J. Gibson, Douglas E. Hays
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Publication number: 20120151336Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for sharing the contents of a presentation in a web conference. A web conference server in a web conferencing system extracts a document that is likely to be viewed by the presenter during the web conference prior to the presenter actually viewing the document. The web conference server processes the extracted document into a displayable screen image which is sent to the participant computers in the web conference to be cached. When the presenter computer actually displays the extracted document, the web conference server informs the participant computers to display the cached screen image. Since the screen image of the document has already been cached by the participant computers, the document will be more quickly viewed by the participant computers and will reduce the time lag between when the presenter views the document and when the audience views the same content.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2010Publication date: June 14, 2012Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Josef Scherpa, Amy D. Travis
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Publication number: 20120151337Abstract: A system and method for displaying periodical digital content. A device sorts and organizes the periodical content stored on the device according to the title of the periodical and further according the dates of the periodicals. Each periodical, e.g., newspapers and magazines, after sorting, are displayed on the device's user interface on its own virtual shelf according to the periodical, and then preferably in chronological order within the shelf that is dedicated to the periodical. Alternatively, the periodicals are sorted by issue date, and virtual shelves are dedicated specific date ranges, e.g., “Today,” “This Week,” “This Month.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2011Publication date: June 14, 2012Inventors: MATT PALLAKOFF, Jeff Tycz, Jennifer Ng, Josh Feldman, Laurie Vertelney
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Publication number: 20120151338Abstract: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for creating mobile custom views for tenants of an on-demand database service. These mechanisms and methods for creating mobile custom views for tenants of an on-demand database service can enable embodiments to allow tenants to create and push instructions for generating user-defined views to mobile devices, etc. The ability of embodiments to provide such feature may allow tenants to efficiently and effectively create interfaces on mobile devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2012Publication date: June 14, 2012Applicant: SALESFORCE.COM, INC.Inventors: Eric Forsberg, Bagrat Mazyan, Jason Schroeder, Deepak Kothule
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Patent number: 8201089Abstract: A content item, e.g., an icon or advertisement content, is selected for placement in a display environment (e.g., on a map or adjacent to a map) in response to a request for the display environment based on a probability that the content item is relevant to a user that is requesting the display environment. The selection is facilitated by content targeting data (e.g., feature selection and query submission) that can be received from user devices while the map space is presented.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2008Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Mike Perrow, James Robert Macgill, Dana Zhang, Nicholas Verne, David Symonds
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Publication number: 20120144296Abstract: A plaque management server provides document delivery and update services to a digital plaque, such as delivering a document whose status can change. The plaque management server is communicatively coupled to the Internet and accessible over the Internet 113. The plaque management server updates the document currently displayed on the digital plaque device. The plaque management server facilitates the replacement of the document currently displayed on the digital plaque device. It also provides a document status to the plaque when requested, or based on a schedule of reporting updates. The plaque management server interacts with the digital plaque device and provides updates to displayed documents, purchase of copies of displayed documents, access to information related to displayed documents, searches for infringement, helps management of the document that is displayed, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2012Publication date: June 7, 2012Inventors: Bindu Rama Rao, Madhavi Jayanthi
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Patent number: 8196040Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments of a color management system and an associated method that display a visual representation of a digital version of a document and further annotate selected object(s) in the visual representation with corresponding statement(s) containing a natural language description of any color differences between the selected object and the same object in a different digital version of the same document. For example, a visual representation of the print-preview version of a document can be displayed and a selected object within the visual representation can be annotated with a statement containing a natural language description of any color differences between the selected object and the same object in the selected-for-print-preview version of the document. By annotating selected object(s) on the display in this manner, the embodiments provide an accurate indication of color variations between the two versions even in a non-calibrated and/or non-optimal viewing environment.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2009Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Robert J. Rolleston, Jutta K. Willamowski, Frederic Roulland, David B. Martin, Jacki O'Neill
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Patent number: 8194280Abstract: A method and apparatus for direct printing of multiple views of 3-D objects in a PDF file is described. When a PDF file containing 3-D object data is sent to a printer, without using an application or print driver, the controller of a printer generates and prints a plurality of views of the 3-D object based on pre-defined viewing angle settings. The printer controller opens the PDF file, converts the 3-D PDF data to PS data based on the viewing angle, performs raster image processing, prints the bitmap images corresponding to the viewing angle, and repeats the process for all viewing angles. The plurality of views may be printed on separate pages, or on one page in an N-in-1 format. More generally, the method applies to direct printing of files containing objects that are capable of providing multiple appearances, where multiple or desired appearances of the objects are automatically printed.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2007Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Konica Minolta Laboratory U.S.A., Inc.Inventor: Tetsuhiro Kodera
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Patent number: 8196030Abstract: A document processing system for accurately and efficiently analyzing documents and methods for making and using same. Each incoming document includes at least one section of textual content and is provided in an electronic form or as a paper-based document that is converted into an electronic form. Since many categories of documents, such as legal and accounting documents, often include one or more common text sections with similar textual content, the document processing system compares the documents to identify and classify the common text sections. The document comparison can be further enhanced by dividing the document into document segments and comparing the document segments; whereas, the conversion of paper-based documents likewise can be improved by comparing the resultant electronic document with a library of standard phrases, sentences, and paragraphs. The document processing system thereby enables an image of the document to be manipulated, as desired, to facilitate its review.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2008Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: PricewaterhouseCoopers LLPInventors: Lever Wang, Glenn Ricart, Cynthia Ann Thompson, Keith Wishon, Sheldon Laube
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Publication number: 20120137219Abstract: A MFP is a document viewing device for displaying document data divided for each page. The document viewing device includes a processing device which performs a process of generating a viewing history of a document by a user based on a user operation performed for the document currently displayed on a display device; a process evaluating relevance to an object displayed on the display device to extract the page relevant to the object displayed on the display device from the document data; a process of determining based on the viewing history whether the object is checked or unchecked by the user to extract, from the extracted pages, a page for which it is determined that the object is unchecked; and a process of causing the display device to display, together with the displayed object, a shortcut linked to the page for which it is determined that the object is unchecked.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2011Publication date: May 31, 2012Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Masaya HASHIMOTO, Yoshio Komaki, Tomonari Yoshimura, Takeshi Hibino, Atsushi Tamura
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Patent number: 8190661Abstract: In one embodiment, a computer system performs a method for providing repository item information from one or more different perspectives using virtual repository items within a customizable presentation scheme. A computer system accesses a user-defined presentation scheme that describes a manner in which repository items are to be presented. The computer system generates virtual repository items for actual repository items based on the user-defined presentation scheme. The virtual repository items are generated for presentation along with their actual repository items. The computer system maps the virtual repository items to different virtualized sets of repository items according to the user-defined presentation scheme. The virtualized sets comprise at least one of actual repository items and virtual repository items. The computer system presents the virtualized sets of repository items in one or more different perspectives within the user-defined presentation scheme.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2007Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventor: Anthony Christopher Bloesch
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Patent number: 8185820Abstract: Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and systems associated with document generation are disclosed. For example, methods, apparatuses, devices, and systems associated with formatting content for display are disclosed. Including method apparatuses, devices, and systems to read a data file and a template file, create one or more sub-assemblies based at least in part on said template file and/or said data file; and execute one or more tags in said template file to populate said one or more sub-assemblies with data from said data file.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2005Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventor: Charles Good
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Patent number: 8185821Abstract: A method of generating a table in which data having time or period information is laid out at corresponding positions along a chronological axis includes the steps of displaying a table generating screen including a table generating area; displaying the chronological axis in the table generating area; obtaining a plurality of pieces of the data according to a selecting instruction; and generating the table by laying out the plurality of pieces of the data in the table generating area along the chronological axis on the basis of the time or period information of the individual pieces of the data.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2007Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoichiro Sako, Mitsuru Takehara, Yuichi Abe, Takatoshi Nakamura, Itaru Kawakami
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Patent number: 8185814Abstract: More particularly, methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for differential dynamic content delivery. Typical embodiments include providing a session document for a presentation, wherein the session document includes a session grammar and a session structured document; selecting from the session structured document a classified structural element bearing a preview designation; presenting the selected structural element to a prospective user participant; and receiving from the prospective user participant an indication of interest in the selected structural element. Typical embodiments also include recording the indication of interest in association with the selected structural element.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2004Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: William Kress Bodin, Michael John Burkhart, Daniel G. Eisenhauer, Daniel Mark Schumacher, Thomas J. Watson
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Patent number: 8185514Abstract: A visitor of a network site is provided information about previously viewed content from that site. One or more internal pages of the network site that the user selects to view during one or more visits to the network site is recorded. At least one of the one or more internal pages is associated with a heading or category that is displayed on the network site. A user-activity is detected corresponding to the visitor directing attention to the heading or category. In response, a dynamic display is generated that provides a link to the at least one internal page that is associated with the category or heading.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2009Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Topix LLCInventor: Richard Skrenta
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Patent number: 8185822Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method that from a source external to a device, imports a first image and a lower resolution second image that corresponds to the first image into the device. The method assigns the second image as a temporary preview of the first image. The method generates a preview third image for the first image. In some embodiments, the method further selects the first image for display before generating the preview third image. The selecting causes the temporary preview image to be displayed as a preview of the first image. In some embodiments, the method further selects the first image for display after generating the preview third image. The selecting causes the preview third image to be displayed as a preview of the first image.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2008Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Nikhil Bhatt, Alex Wallace, Curt Bianchi, Mark Kawano, Greg Gilley
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Patent number: 8185487Abstract: A process, system and computer software are rovided to facilitate at least one recommendation to one or more users (420) and/or one or more applications (430) using multidimensional data (410). In particular, the multidimensional data (410) which define a multidimensional space (400) is accessed. The multidimensional space (400) can have more than two dimensions, each capable of providing variable information. Then, information from the multidimensional space is retrieved. Further, the recommendation is generated based on the retrieved information. In addition, it is possible to generate a recommendation-specific query (440). This can be performed by generating the recommendation-specific query (440) to access a multidimensional cube and retrieve data stored therein. Then, the recommendation can be issued based on the data retrieved from the multidimensional cube.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2002Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Alexander Tuzhilin, Gediminas Adomavicius
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Publication number: 20120117468Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system are provided for displaying a graphical representation of at least a portion of a file by interfacing with a graphical interface relating to the file. A request for viewing a file content is received. A window for viewing a graphical representation of at least a portion of the content of a file is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2012Publication date: May 10, 2012Inventor: Gene Z. Ragan
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Publication number: 20120117467Abstract: A transaction automation and archival system is provided for controlling, real-time logging, and archiving complex commercial transactions such as the purchase and financing of an automobile. An electronic contract disclosure unit or ECDU includes a digitizing display that includes a video display for imaging to participants the various documents involved in the transaction and a digitizer for allowing participants to sign, indicate choices, and otherwise interact directly on documents and images presented on the display. A computer controls the progress of the transaction, controlling, for example, the order of presentation of documents to a vehicle purchaser, receiving signatures on the displayed documents, offering choices of various packages to the purchaser, and insuring that the transaction is carried out properly. The transaction is logged for future review which may include a video record.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2011Publication date: May 10, 2012Inventors: William C. Maloney, Mark A. Singleton
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Publication number: 20120117466Abstract: Methods, systems and computer readable medium allow a user to open an electronic document in one of various applications while revealing hidden information, without having to know or execute manual steps or procedures to reveal the hidden information. A user interface of a reveal hidden information application is displayed, the user interface displaying a list of one or more native applications each of which is associated with an electronic document type. An input is received selecting a first native application from the list, and one or more hidden information types are displayed corresponding to the selected native application. Settings for the hidden information types corresponding to the first native application are received. Using the first native application, an electronic document whose document type corresponds to the first native application is then displayed with hidden information revealed/not revealed in accordance with the settings.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2010Publication date: May 10, 2012Applicant: NativeReveal, LLCInventors: Gordon Russell KAULBACK, Guggan DATTA
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Patent number: 8176414Abstract: A method for formatting an electronic document for display on an electronic device includes receiving a first electronic document, determining a first entropy value associated with a first line that divides the first electronic document into two portions, determining a second entropy value associated with a second line that divides the first electronic document into two portions, and generating a second electronic document that includes at least a portion defined by the line having the lower entropy value. The first and second entropy values may comprise summing portion entropy values associated with the portions defined by the first line to obtain the first entropy value and summing portion entropy values associated with the portions defined by the second line to obtain the second entropy value.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2005Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Google Inc.Inventor: Shumeet Baluja
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Patent number: 8176025Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a partial image extracting unit configured to extract partial images from input documents, a meta information setting unit configured to associate a given one of the input documents with the partial images of the given one of the input documents to generate meta information indicative of the association regarding the given one of the input documents, and a search unit configured to search for and retrieve one of the input documents as a first document from the document storage unit to display the first document on a display unit, wherein the meta information setting unit adds copy-source information indicative of the partial image of the first document to the meta information regarding a second document of the input documents when the partial image of the first document is copied and pasted onto the second document.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2009Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Ota, Seiji Takahashi, Masaki Tasaka, Yuichiro Sakuta
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Publication number: 20120110446Abstract: A computer-readable recording medium on which a program is recorded for causing a computer to execute a data management method includes the steps of obtaining document identification data used for identifying a target document, obtaining page identification data used for identifying a page of the target document, obtaining document use data indicating a display time and a display location in which the page of the target document has been displayed, obtaining recording data indicating a recording time and a recording location in which AV (Audio Visual) data has been recorded in a case where the recording location is within a predetermined range from the display location, identifying a portion of the AV data corresponding to the display time of the page of the target document, and outputting access data that provides access to the portion of the AV data.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2011Publication date: May 3, 2012Inventor: Takayuki KUNIEDA
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Publication number: 20120102397Abstract: Integration applications and methods non-programmatically collect application data from a mapped source reference of an application. The integration application retrieves at least one of a document and a list of documents associated with the first collected application data for display on a user interface and monitors the collected application data from the mapped location for a difference with a subsequently collected application data. Upon detecting a difference, the integration application removes at least one of a document and the list of documents from the user interface. The integration application may automatically notify a user of the difference using a visual indicator or an audio signal. The integration application may modify the appearance of at least one of a document and the list of documents on a user interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2011Publication date: April 26, 2012Inventors: RANDALL ARMS, Brian G. Anderson, Scott Coons
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Publication number: 20120102396Abstract: A method for presenting detailed information for an item within overview information on a display screen, comprising: displaying a first presentation of the overview information on the display screen, the overview information being presented on one or more lines of a grid; receiving a signal selecting the item from the first presentation; generating a second presentation by displacing the overview information at least partially away from a region in the first presentation and inserting the detailed information for the item into the region, wherein the overview information remains at least partially visible in the second presentation to provide context for the detailed information in the region, wherein the displacing displaces the one or more lines of the grid away from the region without distorting the lines, and wherein the inserting inserts one or more additional lines into the grid in the region upon which the detailed information is presented; and, displaying the second presentation on the display screenType: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2010Publication date: April 26, 2012Applicant: Inetco Systems LimitedInventors: NICOLE DANIELLE ARKSEY, Angus Richard Telfer, Michael Anthony Blackstock
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Publication number: 20120099156Abstract: A personalized photo album preparing system edits digital photos according to the page format of a photo album and allows people to browse or print on a network after saving them. The system includes a processing unit, a displaying unit, a human-machine interface, and an outputting unit. The processing unit is built in with design software. One can manipulate the design software via the human-machine interface to selectively edit the page format and digital photos in the album. The user can further output the digital photos that are edited and saved. Therefore, the invention enables its user to create a desired page format and digital photos.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2010Publication date: April 26, 2012Inventor: YI-LIN CHEN
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Patent number: 8166386Abstract: A method and system for producing a patent specification is capable of producing a patent specification draft rapidly for the inventor, applicant or patent attorney, thereby reducing the time to complete the specification and improving the mutual understanding between the inventor and the patent attorney. After the inventor inputs the technical characteristics and other related description via a graphic interface, a patent specification draft can be produced rapidly. The method includes the steps of inputting a title, selecting the type of invention, entering the graphic interface, inputting the name and function of each element to form an output data section, inputting the data having multiple sets of text areas, cooperating the input data having multiple sets of text areas with individual output data section, combining, trans-pasting and composing the corresponding input description to form multiple sets of output data sections. In this way, the contents of a patent specification can be formed.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2008Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Inventors: Chung-Yuh Chang, Yao-Hui Chang
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Publication number: 20120096348Abstract: A workflow executing device includes a workflow executing unit; a first extracting unit that extracts a first preview property including a first element constituting a first data item and first position information; a second extracting unit that extracts a second preview property including a second element constituting a second data item and a second position information item, the second data item being obtained as a result of processing the first data item; a preview property managing unit that saves preview properties; a preview property generating unit that inserts the second element that is the processing result into the first preview property in place of the first element that is the processing target, and generates a new second preview property by associating the first position information with the second element; and a preview creating unit that creates preview images based on preview properties.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2011Publication date: April 19, 2012Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Shoh Nagamine, Hiroki Ozaki, Hiroshi Baba, Masateru Kumagai, Shinsuke Yanazume
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Patent number: 8159701Abstract: Disclosed are methods of controlling operation of a printer, apparatus and computer-readable medium. The embodiments control operation of a printer by receiving a print command for printing from a user, displaying a print user interface including selectable document settings, receiving an indication from the user of selected ones of the documents settings, receiving an indication from the user to save the selected document settings as an application default setting corresponding to an application, and controlling printing of documents opened in the application to print on the printer using the application default setting and the selected document settings.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2007Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventor: Jonathan Allen Edmonds
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Patent number: 8159702Abstract: Disclosed are methods of controlling operation of a printer, apparatus and computer-readable medium. The embodiments control operation of a printer by receiving a print command for printing from a user, displaying a print user interface including selectable document settings, receiving an indication from the user of selected ones of the documents settings, receiving an indication from the user to save the selected document settings as a document default setting, and controlling printing of the document to print on the printer using the document default setting and the selected document settings.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2007Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventor: David Salgado