Previous Menu Indication Patents (Class 715/820)
  • Patent number: 11416124
    Abstract: Described herein is an issue tracking system (ITS) comprising one or more processors; one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing sequences of instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to: render a user interface depicting an issues queue that includes two or more issues defined in the ITS; receive in the user interface, a selection of at least two issues; receive in the user interface a section of an action; and launch an operation to apply the selected action to each selected issue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignees: ATLASSIAN PTY LTD., ATLASSIAN INC.
    Inventor: Jacob Bass
  • Patent number: 9485411
    Abstract: Processing for pressing a shortcut key to close a menu and processing for pressing the same shortcut key to enter a specific menu are made compatible. A specific menu among hierarchical menus including a plurality of menus for making a setting or an operation instruction about a display control apparatus is assigned to a specific operation unit. If the specific operation unit is operated when the specific menu is displayed, display of the menu is cleared. If the specific operation unit is operated when a menu different from the specific menu and a menu one level above the specific menu is displayed, the specific menu is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichi Okada, Koichi Nakagawa, Soichiro Shigeeda
  • Patent number: 8887075
    Abstract: A plugin for an Integrated Design Environment is provided, including a set of commands for defining an appearance of a UI design window in the Integrated Design Environment. The appearance of the application design window simulates a display screen of a portable electronic device and the set of commands being related to one type of portable electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Timothy Neil
  • Patent number: 8869061
    Abstract: A graphical user interface (GUI) capable of presenting a display that indicates that navigation controls can be used for navigating through results of a search using a search engine. The GUI highlights the GUI control that accepts text characters for indicating a search term such that the area contrasts with the display of an adjacent display area in response to entering the search term. Once the search is initiated, such as by actuating a search initiation control, the GUI may change to highlight navigation controls to indicate that those controls can be used to navigate between search result hits. Additional icons or controls may be displayed to further indicate the function of navigation controls and actions that may be taken to further modify the display of controls, such as collapsing some of the controls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Krista Bendig
  • Patent number: 8863030
    Abstract: A system includes a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory includes instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform a method that includes displaying a plurality of menu items (each associated with one of a plurality of media content items) in a graphical user interface. The method also includes, when a particular promotion associated with a particular media content item is to be displayed, displaying the particular promotion proximate to a particular menu item of the plurality of menu items and enabling a direction command. Selection of the direction command causes a cursor position to jump directly to the particular menu item from a different menu item of the plurality of menu items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Scott White
  • Patent number: 8769432
    Abstract: In general, the invention relates to a method for capturing information from a web site. The method includes accessing the web site using a browser with a browser module, where the web site comprises a number of web pages having information in a first format, and obtaining a profile corresponding to the web site, where the profile defines a manner to capture information in a first format from the web site. The method further includes capturing information, by the browser module, from at least one of the number of web pages based on the profile and sending the information captured by the browser module to a destination application, where the destination application is external to the browser and where the destination application is configured to use the information in a second format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Clifford L. Rhyne, Larry John Raab, Gang Wang
  • Patent number: 8745664
    Abstract: The technology is a system and method for displaying a non-grid electronic program guide. Available television channels and episodes are identified in a program guide database. The available television channels are displayed in a first window of the guide. The television series associated with the available episodes are displayed in a second window of the guide. In response to selecting one of the available television channels, the available television episodes are narrowed to the television series that air on the selected television channel. In response to the selection of one of the television series, episodes of the selected television series are displayed in a third window of the guide. Selecting an episode displays the episode information in a fourth window of the guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Schwesinger, Cory Cirrincione, Joseph McClanahan
  • Patent number: 8707212
    Abstract: A graphical user interface for a display devised for presentation of hierarchical information includes a first menu field carrying a list of menu items, at least one of the menu items indicating a submenu field which is expandable within the first menu field. A graphical layer effect is applied to an expanded submenu field such that the submenu field is displayed as an underlying layer to the first menu field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications AB
    Inventor: Per Ogren
  • Patent number: 8694917
    Abstract: In menu structure, information is separately displayed on a menu item-by-menu item basis. Therefore, the adoption of menu structure involves inconvenience. (For example, pieces of information under different menu items cannot be viewed at the same time.) A portable information communication terminal eliminates this inconvenience. Information is configured in list structure wherein items (A1, . . . , A5, B1, . . . , B4, B5, B6, C1, . . . , C5, D1, . . . (A to D represent groups.)) are arranged in succession. List information (B5 to C5) which is within a predetermined range (the second precedent line through the fourth subsequent line) from a specific item C1 of a predetermined serial number (top number) in a selected group (group C) is displayed. Since the top item in group C is the specific item, items corresponding to group B are also displayed. Thus, items corresponding to different groups (group B and group C) can be displayed at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Shigeya Yasui, Kayo Sasaki, Emi Arakawa, Mayu Irimajiri
  • Patent number: 8683382
    Abstract: Provided is a display apparatus including a display panel and a display frame to support the display panel. The display apparatus including an input unit, provided on the exterior surface of the display apparatus, for outputting a contact detection signal when a user contacts the input unit; a signal processor for generating a function adjustment user interface (UI) menu to be displayed on the display panel; and a controller for controlling the signal processor to display the function adjustment UI menu corresponding to the user's contact through the input unit when the user's contact is detected based on a detection result of the input unit. Thus, provided is a display apparatus which improves accessibility to a function adjustment UI menu, simplifies a manipulation process of the function adjustment UI menu, and enables a user to quickly and easily access a desired adjustment item when the function adjustment UI menu is displayed, and a control method thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-kyu Yun, Hye-young Seong
  • Patent number: 8667419
    Abstract: A system and method for displaying a set of hierarchical menu items is disclosed. Each menu item may be associated with at least one sub-item and/or with content data. Each sub-item may be associated with content data for display upon selection of the sub-item. The system simultaneously displays each menu item in a list format. Upon selection of one of the menu items, the system displays each sub-item associated with the selected menu item. For any selected sub-item, the system displays the display data associated with the selected sub-item and stores data indicating that the selected sub-item is the most recently-selected sub-item associated with the selected menu item. When any menu item is selected, the system determines the most recently-selected sub-item (if any) associated with the selected menu item and displays the display data associated with the most recently-selected sub-item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Applied Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert E. Gorczowski, Paul T. Klawitter
  • Patent number: 8634876
    Abstract: Location-based display characteristics in a user interface are described. In an implementation, a determination is made by mobile communications device that icon is to be displayed at a particular location in the user interface. A display characteristic is applied by the mobile communications device that is defined for the particular location such that a display of the icon is changed. The icon is displayed having an applied display characteristic on the display device of the mobile communications device at the particular location in the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan D. Friedman, Paula Guntaur, Michael K. Henderlight, Rosanna H. Ho, Michael J. Kruzeniski, Michael A. Smuga, Stephanie E. Teng, Chad Aron Voss, Brian M. Wilson
  • Patent number: 8621390
    Abstract: A method for providing table-of-contents extensions for items displayed on an electronic device may include displaying contents of the item other than a table of contents for the item. The method may also include receiving user selection of a navigation option while the contents of the item are being displayed. The navigation option may correspond to a part of the item that is listed in the table of contents for the item. The method may also include navigating to the part of the item corresponding to the navigation option in response to the user's selection of the navigation option.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean J. Findley, Edward J. Gayles, Martin Görner
  • Patent number: 8615721
    Abstract: A thumbnail image generating unit generates thumbnail images from a plurality of images having a sequential relation. A thumbnail image displaying unit displays the thumbnail images generated according to the sequential relation. A thumbnail image designating unit receives a designation of a thumbnail image from among the thumbnail images. An enlarging unit generates an enlarged image of a designated thumbnail image. An enlarged image displaying unit displays the enlarged image. A forward-advance designating unit designates a forward advance of the enlarged image displayed by the enlarged image displaying unit according to the sequential relation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Junichi Hara
  • Patent number: 8560965
    Abstract: Provided are a display device and a display method for displaying a setup screen with a screen navigation path. In various examples, provided are a user-friendly display device and a user-friendly display method that enable a user to understand in advance what information will be displayed in a setup screen when a reverse transition operation (e.g., a return or cancel operation) is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Kawashima
  • Patent number: 8561008
    Abstract: A method, a computer product and a device for presentation of elements of a software environment arranged in a hierarchical structure are provided. To allow an easy-to-understand and user-friendly navigable presentation of the elements, the following steps are proposed for the presentation: displaying a linear chain of precisely one representative element of each hierarchy level in each case, with the representative elements being arranged within the linear chain in accordance with their hierarchy level, and display of further elements of a first hierarchy level after the user has selected a first representative element of the linear chain which is assigned to the first hierarchy level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Jochen Steiner
  • Patent number: 8473868
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for facilitating navigation of a hierarchy including a plurality of categories within a user interface. A method includes displaying a first set of categories in the hierarchy as respective graphical images along a first axis of a user interface. A reverse navigation option is also displayed along the first axis with the first set of categories. The method continues by allowing the first set of categories and the reverse navigation option to be scrolled along the first axis to place the reverse navigation option within a focus area of the user interface. In response to the reverse navigation option being placed within the focus area, the user interface displays one or more ancestor categories of the first categories as respective graphical images along a second axis of the user interface. In response to an ancestor category being selected from the second axis, the user interface replaces the first categories with second categories along the first axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: ARRIS Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey R. Kauffman
  • Patent number: 8381132
    Abstract: A method of the interactive features on a DVD utilizing restricted user inputs e.g. reduced number of key pad buttons. The DVD menu may be collapsed to form an indexed linear list of the menu buttons. A user then sequentially navigates through the menu using a one or two directional input to find the desired menu choice, which is then selected using a predetermined user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Philips & Lite-On Digital Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Gabriel Muresan, Peter Dittmann
  • Patent number: 8321802
    Abstract: A method and system for providing context dependent pop-up menu icons that activate menu icons in response to a select & drag operation by manipulation of a pointing device. Presented icons may correspond to functions or actions that can be implemented with the particular type of content selected. Icons may be displayed in a consistent manner in terms of position and content with respect to the selected file or object. Icons may appear only during a select & drag operation, thereby leaving the display uncluttered at other times. Presentation of icons may be discontinued when the selected file or object is dragged beyond the area of the presented icons. New applications can register with the operating system to specify icons to be presented when corresponding files are selected or when particular content objects are selected within the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Sean S. Rogers
  • Patent number: 8316320
    Abstract: In one of many possible examples, a system includes a media content processing subsystem configured to successively display a plurality of history tabs configured to graphically represent and facilitate access to a corresponding plurality of hierarchical representations within a browsing thread. The media content processing subsystem is further configured to collapse at least two of the history tabs into an expandable history tab after a pre-determined number of the history tabs are displayed. The expandable history tab is configured to graphically represent and facilitate access to a plurality of the hierarchical representations within the browsing thread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Don Relyea, Brian Roberts, Heath Stallings
  • Patent number: 8281254
    Abstract: A computer implemented method is disclosed. The method includes determining, at a set-top box device, that a plurality of menu items in a menu includes a particular menu item associated with a content item that is to be promoted when displaying the plurality of menu items in the menu. The method further includes displaying the plurality of menu items in the menu. A determination is made at the set top box whether to display a promotion of the content item. In response to determining to display the promotion, the promotion of the content item is displayed beside the plurality of menu items, and a right command is enabled allowing a cursor position to jump directly to the particular menu item from a different menu item of the plurality of menu items. The jump is performed after a single application of the right command, where the different menu item does not have a restriction as to a position in the menu. In response to determining not to display the promotion, the right command is disabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Scott White
  • Patent number: 8276097
    Abstract: A key control system disposed in a display apparatus includes a hierarchical menu, a power key, and a key module. The hierarchical menu includes a first layer menu and a second layer menu. The first layer menu has an item corresponding to the second layer menu. The power key is adapted to turn on the power supply of the display apparatus. The key control system is used to execute a key control method includes steps of defining the function of the power key as opening the first layer menu of the hierarchical menu after the power supply is turned on; defining the function of the key module as selecting the item of the first layer menu when the first layer menu is opened; and defining the function of the power key as opening the second layer menu after the item of the first layer menu is selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Jui-Chi Chen, Wen-Chang Chien
  • Patent number: 8239782
    Abstract: A data processing system includes telecommunication means for providing a data entry form to a client device and for receiving user data that has been entered into the data entry form from the client device, database means for storage of the user data, and program means for extracting application specific data from the database means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Werner Sinzig, Andreas Vogel
  • Patent number: 8127229
    Abstract: The present invention enables a focus to be moved easily among focus items in different frames when frames are displayed. To do so, the last focused item in an in-frame document once activated is stored (S11) and, when a frame movement event is caused by a focus movement operation (S12, Yes), the focus is moved to a focus item stored for a new frame (S13). If the stored focus item is not in the display area of the frame, the focus is moved preferably to a predetermined (for example, the first) focus item in the display area. Operation means for the focus movement operation may be used with frame switching means for switching the active frame among frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Access Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yohei Inoguchi, Takeshi Sasaki, Tat Jhetson
  • Patent number: 8112718
    Abstract: A playback apparatus includes a menu screen display unit for displaying a content menu screen, an input unit for detecting a user's input operation to detect a selection of the content, and a control unit for causing the menu screen display unit to switch the menu screen, and for instructing playback of the selected content. The menu screen display unit, under the control of the control unit, switches an upper layer menu screen to and from a lower layer menu screen through an intermediate layer menu screen. The upper layer menu screen shows categories of the contents using menus. The lower layer menu screen shows some of contents using menus. The intermediate layer menu screen displays the menu selected in the upper layer menu screen in an area and a plurality of menus displayed in the lower layer menu screen in another area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Nezu, Satoshi Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 8077329
    Abstract: A display device of an electronic apparatus according to the present invention is a display device of an electronic apparatus for setting a plurality of conditions for a process of the electronic apparatus through an input portion 57 while displaying the conditions before the electronic apparatus performs the process in accordance with the conditions. The device comprises a determination portion 58 of determining whether or not each of the conditions has not yet been set, and a liquid crystal display panel 41 of displaying notifying information indicating to what degree conditions remain to be set. The liquid crystal display panel 41 displays buttons for setting the respective conditions on a screen thereof, and displays button(s) which have already been pressed as being unfilled and the number of buttons which have not yet been pressed. Therefore, by viewing the screen, the number and types of conditions which have not yet set can be known.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Norihide Momose, Norihide Kunikawa, Suehiro Ueda, Masayuki Gomi, Atsushi Umekage
  • Patent number: 8074184
    Abstract: Systems and methods enhance editing capabilities associated with a wide variety of different types of electronic documents. Such systems and methods may include a processor that maintains an electronic document having a first portion (e.g., an individual word, character, character string, or the like) provided by a recognizer (e.g., by handwriting or speech recognition software), and they may provide access to potential alternative characters, words, or character strings generated by the recognizer during various user editing functions and operations. Other data associated with the first portion of the document also may be stored and made available to the user during various functions and operations. This invention further relates to computer-readable media including instructions for performing various methods and/or operating various systems for editing electronic documents, including systems and methods like those described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Mocrosoft Corporation
    Inventors: Adrian James Garside, David Vaughn Winkler, Joshua Clow
  • Patent number: 8015501
    Abstract: One implementation provides a method for accessing a window previously viewed by a user in a graphical user interface (GUI) during an interaction with an individual. The method includes displaying to the user a first window in the GUI. The first window contains a collapsible/expandable menu. The menu contains an entry that refers to a window previously viewed by the user. Upon selection of the entry in the menu, the method further includes displaying to the user the corresponding window previously viewed by the user in the GUI. The corresponding window has a data-entry field that contains a latest version of information that is related to the interaction with the individual that was previously entered or modified by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: SAP Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Conrad, Theo Held, Michael Kuehn, Janaki P. Kumar, Dietrich Mayer-Ullmann, Deborah Rodgers
  • Patent number: 7823087
    Abstract: A data model for navigating data. In a preferred embodiment, the data model abides rules that limit the total number of nodes displayable and that limit the number of child nodes displayable beneath a given parent. collapsed or folded nodes are replaced by embedded navigation controls that indicate the hidden nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alexandru Paul Nan, Marius Slavescu
  • Publication number: 20100199218
    Abstract: A method and system for previewing a media item recommendation queue. A server receives a request from a first device for at least a portion of a media item recommendation queue associated with a second device. The server provides to the first device a plurality of recommendation queue entries from a top portion of the media item recommendation queue associated with the second device. The order of the plurality of recommendation queue entries in the media item recommendation queue is based on a plurality of priority indicators associated with the second device. The server receives a request from the first device to couple the second device to the first device and couples the second device to the first device, wherein media item recommendations generated by the second device are directed to the first device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: NAPO ENTERPRISES, LLC
    Inventors: Eugene Matthew Farrelly, Sean T. Purdy
  • Patent number: 7765489
    Abstract: Participants of a medical study are notified of and perceive information related to adverse events on a toolbar. The configuration of a toolbar may be different if a serious adverse event is being presented than if an insignificant adverse event is being presented. Serious adverse events include adverse events having severity greater than insignificant adverse events, having severity greater than a predetermined threshold, requiring hospitalization, and/or being life-threatening. Insignificant adverse events include adverse events that affect patients in an unexpected manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Inventors: Shalin N. Shah, Nayan Shah
  • Patent number: 7742054
    Abstract: A display module for displaying information on a screen, using a display data structure, wherein the display data structure is a doubly linked list. A display space in defined in video memory and the display space is filled by sequentially copying at least a portion of a set of characters from the display data structure into the video memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Inventor: Jacques Nault
  • Patent number: 7689937
    Abstract: A computer implemented method and system for displaying categorized information on a user interface is provided, in which the user may choose one or more categories of information. In response, data associated with the chosen category is retrieved. The display of the categories and the retrieval of the data is performed independently, so that the displayed categories remain responsive to user interaction while the data is being retrieved. In one implementation, the display of the categories and information on the user interface is handled by the main thread and the retrieval of the data associated with the chosen category is performed by a worker thread executing asynchronously with respect to the main thread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Igor Pankovcin
  • Patent number: 7657843
    Abstract: If a plurality of menu items in a menu includes a particular menu item that leads to a content item that is to be promoted when displaying the menu, a promotion for the content item is displayed beside the menu items. An up command is provided to move a cursor position upward by one menu item in the menu. A down command is provided to move the cursor position downward by one menu item in the menu. A right command is provided to move the cursor position to the particular menu item from any other one of the menu items. When the cursor position is at the particular menu item, both the particular menu item and the promotion are displayed with a cursor-position-indicating visual characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Scott White
  • Patent number: 7614017
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided and includes a receiving section for receiving content data, a selection area movement instructing section for receiving an operation signal to instruct movement of a selection area and giving an instruction corresponding to the operation signal, a selection area displaying section for moving the selection area according to the instruction given by the selection area movement instructing means, a link display position information extracting section for extracting display position information of a link display from the content data, a link selection instructing section for receiving an operation signal to instruct a selection of a predetermined link and giving an instruction corresponding to the operation signal, a link selection controlling section for selecting the link instructed by the link selection instructing means, and a sending the link destination section for sending a request for replying content data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Junichirou Misawa, Masahiro Kobori, Shinichi Yamada
  • Patent number: 7596761
    Abstract: A graphical user interface for a portable electronic device includes an application display region that displays a current application context of an application and a navigation bar adjacent to the application display region. The navigation bar includes two horizontally adjacent regions, comprising a current context region for displaying an indicator of the current application context and a prior context region for displaying an indicator of an application context preceding the current application context. The application display region simulates shifting of the application display in a first direction upon detecting user selection of the prior context region, and simulates shifting of the application display in a second direction, opposite the first direction, upon detecting user selection of an application context different from the current application context and the prior application context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen O. Lemay, Scott Forstall, Greg Christie, Bas Ording, Imran Chaudhri, Marcel Van Os, Freddy Allen Anzures
  • Patent number: 7581195
    Abstract: A device for managing image and audio files displays thumbnails, which are representative of the files, on a screen in different arrangements, depending on the selected layout and order. When the user enters input to indicates that he or she wishes to browse through the thumbnails, the thumbnails move across the screen in sequence, following a path through a focus outline in the center of the screen. The path followed by the thumbnails depends on the selected layout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Eduardo Agusto Sciammarella, Junichi Rekimoto, Haruo Oba, Makoto Imamura, Hideyuki Agata, Masakazu Hayashi, Masato Kuninori
  • Patent number: 7581194
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention provide context menus useful in, e.g., a computing device receiving user input via a stylus. Icons representing actions performable on an object are displayed in a context menu for the object. Additional aspects of the invention include cascading menus that also minimize hand and/or wrist motion, as well as placement of menus based on user handedness and/or stylus orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Marieke Iwema, Leroy B. Keely, David Switzer
  • Patent number: 7543246
    Abstract: To enable a user to grasp the detailed contents of respective files constituting a file group by allowing the user to view index images representing the file group along with file information, a data reader judges the file to which the on-screen index image belongs, and the page number of the page represented by the index image in the file, and displays file information relating to the judged file and the judged page number when the index image is displayed by an image display controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: Kyocera Mita Corporation
    Inventor: Eiji Mifune
  • Patent number: 7539950
    Abstract: A computer implemented method and system for displaying categorized information on a user interface is provided, in which the user may choose one or more categories of information. In response, data associated with the chosen category is retrieved. The display of the categories and the retrieval of the data is performed independently, so that the displayed categories remain responsive to user interaction while the data is being retrieved. In one implementation, the display of the categories and information on the user interface is handled by the main thread and the retrieval of the data associated with the chosen category is performed by a worker thread executing asynchronously with respect to the main thread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Igor Pankovcin
  • Patent number: 7503013
    Abstract: Methods, devices and systems are provided that display images in a manner that provides for effective space management. At least one item is horizontally displayed in a first display area. Upon selection by a user of at least one item from the first display area, an indication of the at least one item is vertically displayed in a second display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: Cablevision Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Patrick J. Donoghue, Dale Herigstad, Edgar McLaughlin, Brian Sweeney
  • Patent number: 7503014
    Abstract: In order to provide a configuration with which a desired function can be started rapidly from a function menu of an electronic device having a plurality of functions together, a circular menu is displayed on a main LCD 21, a function item activated is shifted item by item in response to left-and-right directional operation of a cross-shaped key in a main operation part 25, and a function item located at the opposite position in the circular menu is activated in response to up-and-down directional operation of the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignees: Fujitsu Limited, NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Tojo, Takuma Sudo
  • Patent number: 7475365
    Abstract: A data model for navigating data. In a preferred embodiment, the data model abides rules that limit the total number of nodes displayable and that limit the number of child nodes displayable beneath a given parent. Collapsed or folded nodes are replaced by embedded navigation controls that indicate the hidden nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alexandru Paul Nan, Marius Slavescu
  • Patent number: 7432928
    Abstract: The size of a tool displayed in a user interface can be dynamically adjusted based on the current needs of the tool. When the user chooses a new function to perform using the tool, the tool's size and appearance is adjusted to an interface tailored for the selected function. To minimize confusion to the user, these dynamic adjustments can be performed using animation effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Han-Yi Shaw, Shavinder S. Multani
  • Patent number: 7350157
    Abstract: A memory associates a media quality indicator with each media program in a set of media programs. A filter selects from the set those media programs having at least a specified media quality. A display interface displays a list of the selected media programs in an electronic program guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: Digeo, Inc.
    Inventors: James A. Billmaier, John M. Kellum, Dewey Reid, Philip Rogan
  • Patent number: 7124373
    Abstract: Provided for run time ordering open tasks are a status bar; a plurality of task tabs presented in the status bar in sequential order, with a task tab for each open task within an open application; a content window for displaying task content associated with a current selected task tab; a linked list of tab elements, with a tab element associated with each task tab and task content; and a task tab order component responsive to user drag and drop of a given task tab for moving the given task tab from a drag position in the status bar to a drop position in the status bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Rajesh V. Patil
  • Patent number: 6999066
    Abstract: What is presented is a system and method by which a visually impaired worker could easily and quickly navigate menu options on touch screen displays. An Audible Feedback ON/OFF Switch is provided which turns the audible feedback feature of the present invention on or off. The software monitoring which row/column areas of the touch screen's display grid have been touched by the user in response to a menu option selection is made switchable into one of two modes. A first mode is when the audible feedback feature is OFF or otherwise disabled. In this mode the software operates the touch screen's menu selections in the normal manner in which the machine is intended to perform. When a user selects an option, the option is immediately activated whether it be a machine activity or a jump to another level of menus. A second mode is when the audible feedback feature has been turned ON or otherwise activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Debora Margaret Hejza Litwiller
  • Patent number: 6938207
    Abstract: A direction indicator for navigating within a web site is installed relative to a link shown on a web page within the web site. The direction indicator is surfaced prior to selection of the link in order to inform the user whether the link will take the user forward or backward within the web site. The direction indicator may comprise an arrow. The arrow points upward to indicate movement backward within the web site, and the arrow points downward to indicate movement forward within the web site. The direction indicator may be surfaced by hovering a pointing device over the link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas Richard Haynes
  • Patent number: 6934913
    Abstract: A graphical user interface and method for data entry of a plurality of fields of information in a computer system, such as a web browser interface, using small scrolling and paging of tabular data and entry fields. A JAVA script is employed to produce a form-like user interface in which a user may enter information in fields shown in a graphical user interface (“GUI”) window display area. The GUI is provided with a NEXT button which allows the user to indicate that he or she has more data to enter than can be entered in the currently available view of the form in the GUI window display area. The script saves the currently entered data into a set of hidden fields or variables, and provides a new screen with clear fields for additional data entry. By selecting the PREVIOUS button provided by the JAVA script on the GUI, the user may cause the script to recall previously saved data from the hidden fields or variables and to redisplay them so that the user may review or edit previously entered information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corp.
    Inventors: Hanh Kim Le, Gongxian Liu
  • Publication number: 20040250217
    Abstract: In order to provide a configuration with which a desired function can be started rapidly from a function menu of an electronic device having a plurality of functions together, a circular menu is displayed on a main LCD 21, a function item activated is shifted item by item in response to left-and-right directional operation of a cross-shaped key in a main operation part 25, and a function item located at the opposite position in the circular menu is activated in response to up-and-down directional operation of the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2004
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Applicants: FUJITSU LIMITED, NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Tojo, Takuma Sudo