Emphasis Patents (Class 715/821)
  • Publication number: 20150067599
    Abstract: A computer implemented technique for real-time exploration of a vessel network is disclosed. According to the technique, medical image data of a region of interest (ROI) is accessed and a medical image of the ROI is displayed based on the medical image data. Real-time exploration of vessels of a vessel network associated with the medical image are enabled based on received operator input, so as to provide for generating and displaying a vessel curve preview of a vessel on the medical image based on an operator initiated positioning of a cursor in the medical image, generating and displaying a highlighted vessel curve of a vessel on the medical image based on an operator initiated input, and generating and displaying one or more parameters associated with a vessel based on an operator initiated input. The real-time exploration may be performed with/without any prior vessel validation in the vessel network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Sylvain Germain, Jerome Francois Knoplioch, Celine Pruvot, Faycal El Hanchi El Amrani
  • Patent number: 8972890
    Abstract: The present invention provides a transition between two or more menu bars. The transition provided is both useful and aesthetic in that is enhances the aesthetic transition between the menu bars and serves to notify a user of such a transition. The transition is animated with one of a number of different animation techniques, such as rotation, scrolling, shading, virtual lighting, and the like. Three-dimensional graphics mapping may be provided to enhance the animation of the menu bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Bas Ording
  • Patent number: 8971973
    Abstract: A device includes a device body comprising a user input interface for receiving user inputs, a member slidably engaged with the device body and slidable from a first position to a second position, and at least one processor configured, under the control of machine-readable code to detect incidences of user inputs via the user input interface, to detect the sliding of the member from the first position to the second position, and to be responsive to detecting a composite user input comprising a sliding of the member from the first position to the second position while a user input is incident via the user input interface to cause a first operation to be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Aki Petri Happonen, Hannu Vilpponen, Henrik Stefan Markus Hakala, Matti Aleksi Malmstedt
  • Publication number: 20150058806
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory, configured to cause a display to display a menu, determine whether or not a menu item selected from among menu items included in the menu defines that the menu continues to be displayed when the menu item is selected, maintain a state in which the menu is displayed when the processor determines that the selected menu item defines that the menu continues to be displayed, and deletes the displayed menu when the processor determines that the selected menu item defines that the menu does not continue to be displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Ryuuta TSUMURA, Katsuaki AKAMA
  • Patent number: 8959446
    Abstract: When a plurality of overlapping windows are displayed on a display screen, each window is displayed in a convenient state for a user operation, thereby reducing the load of the user operation. Upon detecting an object drag operation, an information processing apparatus displays the window of a predetermined application, which is displayed behind another window, as the topmost window. At this time, the window of the predetermined application reduces its size or changes the display position so as not to interfere with the other window displayed in front of it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Satoshi Igeta
  • Patent number: 8954885
    Abstract: A method of and apparatus for preparing an image signal includes combining with a video signal having a number of objects of interest metadata identifying the objects as Area of Interest (AOI). Exemplary objects includes an object in a group of objects, such as a horse in a horse race, a sports object, such as a hockey puck, and so on. The object may be an objectionable, such as a representation of violence, sex or vulgar language. A user may provide an input to select an object of interest to alter the prominence of the selected object. A display system responsive to the image signal for showing images having AOI with altered prominence based on user input. A non-transitory computer readable medium containing logic code for carrying out the foregoing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Fergason Patent Properties, LLC
    Inventors: Arthur L. Berman, John D. Fergason
  • Publication number: 20150026639
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an image display unit, an arrangement unit, and a marker display unit. The image display unit displays images. Upon acceptance of an instruction to rearrange an image selected from among the images in an arrangement area including one of the images, the arrangement unit rearranges the selected image at a rearrangement position in the arrangement area on the image display unit. The marker display unit displays a marker image between an image at the rearrangement position and an image arranged lower in rank than the image at the rearrangement position when the rearrangement position is lower than the position of the selected image, or displays the marker image between the image at the rearrangement position and an image arranged higher in rank than the image at the rearrangement position when the rearrangement position is higher than the position of the selected image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi NAKAMURA, Nozomi NOGUCHI, Hideaki SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20150019983
    Abstract: A computer-implemented virtual three dimensional object for organizing a plurality of files. The virtual object is presented on a display of a user computing device, and has a plurality of delineated surfaces. A user can manipulate the virtual object to select one of the surfaces for more prominent presentation on the display. The surface may have disposed thereon a graphical element, which the user can choose to perform a predetermined task associated with at least one of the plurality of files.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventor: Stephen White
  • Patent number: 8935249
    Abstract: A system for visualizing concepts within a collection of information analyzes a set of materials from at least one collection of information and defines an attribute space associated with the set of materials. The system then determines automatically similarity of members of the attribute space. The system then generates a graphical model of the members of the attribute space, where the generating includes generating a display of the members of the attribute space, each of the members having a respective display distance from other respective members of the attribute space reflective of the determined similarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Oracle OTC Subsidiary LLC
    Inventors: Omri Traub, Ray Kuo, Vladimir Gluzman Peregrine, Vladimir V. Zelevinsky
  • Patent number: 8935634
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to user interface control groups and provide a method, system and computer program product for rendering a set of user interface controls with dynamic content in a GUI. In one embodiment, the invention can include a data processing system including a set of user interface controls and control data including a set of cumulative selection metrics for each user interface control in the set. Each user interface control in the set, in turn, can include a label and an indicator of cumulative metrics for the user interface control. For instance, the set of user interface controls can include a set of radio buttons in a radio button control group. As another example, the set of user interface controls can include a set of check boxes in a check box control group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Muller, Andrew L. Schirmer
  • Patent number: 8933958
    Abstract: Embodiments of enhanced user interface elements in ambient light are described. Sensor inputs can be received from light sensors that detect ambient light proximate an integrated display of a portable device. A determination is made that the ambient light detracts from the visibility of user interface elements displayed in a user interface on the integrated display. Display properties of graphic components of a user interface element are interpolated through a light range from approximately complete darkness to full sunlight, and the graphic components of a user interface element can be modified based on interpolating the display properties within the light range to enhance the visibility of the user interface element for display in the ambient light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ross N. Luengen, Michael H. LaManna, Gavin M. Gear
  • Publication number: 20150012885
    Abstract: A mobile telecommunication terminal has a screen and a controller which provides a graphical user interface on the screen. The user interface is capable of simultaneous provision of a plurality of selectable icons or buttons representing respective functions of the mobile telecommunication terminal. The icons are presented in at least one list, and the user interface is configured to allow scrolling of the at least one list of selectable icons to allow presentation of different parts of the list on the screen. The graphical user interface is configured to automatically switch focus from one icon which was focused in a presented part of the linearly ordered list immediately prior to application of the scroll, to another icon in the list, wherein the another icon is shown as focused at the top of the now-presented part of the list on the screen after application of the scroll.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Thomas Bergdahl, Peter Cullin, Yves Cammarata, Maria Benktzon, Theresa Harmanen, Olof Bendt, Fredrik Ericsson
  • Patent number: 8930852
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for manipulating folder and file icons on a screen of an electronic device. A folder icon representing a folder is displayed on a screen, in a first mode, at a first location on the screen. The folder may contain a plurality of individual files and the folder icon is configured to indicate the plurality of individual files. An activation event is detected comprising a movement from the first location on the screen to a second location on the screen. In response to detecting the activation event, the folder icon is displayed on the screen along with icons representing the individual files on the screen. The screen may display the icons of the individual files as fanning out from the folder icon and/or may display the icons of the individual files entirely outside of the folder icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Ting-Pang Chen, Chih-Hsiang Lin, Shao-Chieh Lin, Chia-Hui Feng, Yi-Hsun Liu, Ching-Sheng Tsai
  • Patent number: 8922579
    Abstract: A VCI (visual context indicator) color is assigned deterministically and proactively at runtime to user data contexts, and is not stored in the database, spreadsheet, or other context. VCI colors can be high contrast friendly colors. The same color is assigned to a given context each time the application runs unless the context's identifying property has changed. Color assignments are not made by users or by the application's designer, but are done instead by hashing from a context's identifying property into a VCI color palette containing, e.g., eight to sixteen colors. Unlike text-selection coloring, VCI coloring is based on the user data context's identifying property. The color assignment visually indicates context by displaying the context's name in the VCI color, or by displaying a graphical element in the VCI color near the context name. VCI color assignment also shows the occurrence and result of changes in user data context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Zheng Mi, Nigel Christopher Wolters, Hua Wang, Jennifer Lee Beckmann, Joseph Dallas Milan, Steven Merlin Twitchell
  • Patent number: 8898575
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein for indicating unavailability of an uploaded video file that is being bitrate encoded. For instance, upon a determination that the uploaded video file is being bitrate encoded, a graphical user interface may be provided that includes an interface element indicating that the uploaded video file is unavailable for processing except for the bitrate encoding. The interface element may be an icon, a textual message, or any other suitable interface element that is capable of indicating that the uploaded video file that is being bitrate encoded is unavailable. When the bitrate encoding is completed, the interface element may be automatically updated to indicate that the uploaded video file is available for processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Priyanka Jain, Durgadatt R. Kamath, Kishore Nair
  • Patent number: 8898595
    Abstract: An apparatus and method helps a user to determine parts of an electronic document that are of interest by allowing the user to define preferences for processing an electronic document, and by automatically highlighting one or more portions of the document according to the user preferences. Highlighting includes any way to enhance or alter the appearance of text, including bold, italics, underlining, change in font style, change in font size, change in color, change in background color, etc. The automatic highlighting of portions of the document attract the user's eyes to that portion of the document, which helps the user to discern whether or not the highlighted portion is relevant or interesting. The preferred embodiments also include a document generator that takes an input document and generates therefrom an output document that has one or more highlighted portions that are hard-coded into the document according to the user preferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brian John Cragun, Paul Reuben Day
  • Patent number: 8893038
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to task bar management and provide a method, system and computer program product for graphical association of task bar entries. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for graphically associating a window with a task bar entry in a windowing operating system GUI can be provided. The method can include rendering multiple windows in a z-space sequence in a desktop of the windowing operating system graphical user interface and detecting a proximity event for an entry in a task bar for the windowing operating system graphical user interface. In response to detecting the proximity event, a corresponding one of the windows in the desktop can be highlighted without re-ordering the z-space sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Albert D. Bennah, William G. Pagan
  • Publication number: 20140331181
    Abstract: An enhanced control, in which a guide line is defined relative to an object in a user interface, items aligned with the guide line are displayed without obscuring the object. A selected item is output based on receiving a selection of one of the displayed items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Evan Hildreth
  • Patent number: 8875030
    Abstract: A method for rendering an e-mail item listing within a graphical user interface of an e-mail application on a display device is disclosed. The method includes identifying a field of the e-mail item listing having a displayed value that matches a pre-determined value, applying a color coding to the identified field so that the color coding is visually distinguishable from a background color of the e-mail item listing, receiving an input from an input device to select either an item of the e-mail item listing that includes a color coded field or an item related to the item that includes the color coded field, and applying a selection highlighting to the item that includes the color coded field so that the applied selection highlighting is visually distinguishable from the color coded field and the background color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Darrell J. Loverin, Jodi L. Coppinger, Mary Elizabeth Raven, Paul B. Moody
  • Patent number: 8856669
    Abstract: Systems and methods record graphical marks input through a graphic user interface of a computerized device. The graphical marks comprise input other than keyboard button input. The recording includes recording different input times when the graphical marks are input and recording whether the graphic marks are uninterrupted graphic marks, using a processor of the computerized device. An uninterrupted graphical mark is one of the graphical marks that is input through a discrete and continuous user input action, and is made without the user pausing such discrete and continuous user input action. The systems and methods also display the graphical marks, and provide an erasure option on the graphic user interface. The erasure option allows the user to distinguish which of the graphical marks are erased based on the different input times and/or by distinguishing between erasure of different ones of the uninterrupted graphic marks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Brian D. Goodman
  • Patent number: 8839147
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and data extracting method therein are disclosed, by which specific data meeting a specific condition can be selected and extracted conveniently and quickly in the course of displaying a data list constructed with a plurality of data. The present invention includes receiving an input of a touch action for selecting specific data and a classification condition corresponding to the specific data using a displayed data list upon receiving the input of the touch action, selecting at least one data including the specific data as the data including the classification condition from a plurality of data, receiving an input of an extraction command signal for extracting the selected at least one data, and extracting the selected at least one data upon receiving the input of the extraction command signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Rae Hoon Kang, Seung Hyun Woo, Min Jeong Lee, Hyun Ho Jee, Dong Gwan Im, Choon Jae Lee
  • Patent number: 8826180
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes: a storage section for storing a plurality of content items sorted using categories of a higher level; a display section for displaying either of the content items or the categories; an operating section generating a first operation signal according to a first operation performed with a weak pressing force and a second operation signal according to a second operation performed with a pressing force stronger than that of the first operation; and a control section receiving the input of the first operation signal and the second operation signal and controlling a display image displayed on the display section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomotaka Ogura, Tetsuo Morimoto, Shunichi Kasahara
  • Patent number: 8799821
    Abstract: A method for initiating a user-selected operation on a computer system includes sensing a user contacting the user interface device at a first position with one finger of a user, determining whether the one finger is a first finger of the user or is a second finger of the user, wherein when the one finger is the first finger, the method includes determining a first operation to be performed in response to the first finger, and performing the first operation on the computer system, and wherein when the one finger is the second finger, the method includes determining a second operation to be performed in response to the second finger, and performing the second operation on the computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Pixar
    Inventors: Tony De Rose, Kenrick Kin, Allison Styer, Kurt Fleischer, C. Bart Sullivan
  • Patent number: 8799823
    Abstract: A display device includes a display unit, a first display control unit, a title string storing unit, a concatenated string creating unit, a determining unit, a navigation string creating unit, and a second display control unit. The display unit includes a first portion and a second portion. The first display control unit is configured to display one of a plurality of screen images on the first portion. The plurality of screen images includes a base screen image. The first display control unit changes a screen image to display from one to another of the plurality of screen images along a screen navigation path starting from the base screen image. The title string storing unit is configured to store a plurality of title strings. Each title string indicating one of the plurality of screen images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Kawashima, Daisuke Kasamatsu
  • Patent number: 8793613
    Abstract: A graphical user interface (GUI) on an audio video display device (AVDD) can be operated in at least first and second input modes. When the first input mode is active the GUI has a first behavior and/or appearance whereas when the second input mode is active the GUI has a second behavior and/or appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Friedlander, David Young, Sabrina Tai-Chen Yeh
  • Patent number: 8788956
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system member selector module is described. The member selector module comprises presentation module, a request detector, and a tree view updater. The presentation module presents a tree view representing hierarchically organized data comprising a plurality of member nodes. The request detector detects a request to apply a selection function to one or more member nodes. The tree view updater updates the tree view in response to the request and produces an updated tree view that identifies the one or more member nodes as parameters of the selection function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Ltd.
    Inventor: John O'byrne
  • Patent number: 8782557
    Abstract: Techniques and mechanisms providing a visual indication of ordinal ranks of objects in an ordered list. When an object is selected for the ordered list, an ordinal rank for the object within the ordered list is determined and a visual indication of the ordinal rank is rendered to a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Mitchell Stephen Dernis
  • Patent number: 8775970
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a button mapping method comprising comparing an image difference between images before and after a keyboard event, the images including a first and second version of buttons in a menu, respectively; constructing by the processor a button map based on the comparison, the button map comprising button information for at least two buttons in the menu; receiving one or more selection signals corresponding to one or more non-keyboard events; and translating the one or more selection signals into one or more keyboard events based on the button map, wherein the button in the menu is selected based on the translation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Cyberlink Corp.
    Inventors: Shan-Chun Pan, Yu Chung Lee
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20140173516
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a method of providing a user interface (UI) thereof are provided. The method includes: displaying at least one item in a first area of a display screen; when one of the at least one item is selected, displaying a first sub screen corresponding to the selected item in a second area of the display screen and displaying at least one first lower item of the selected item; and when one of the at least one first lower item is selected, displaying a sub screen corresponding to the selected first lower item to overlap with at least a part of the first sub screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Woo-seok HWANG, Yong-hwan KWON, Hee-jeong BAE, Jang-won SEO, Myung-kwan CHOI, Yoo-jin CHOI
  • Patent number: 8755061
    Abstract: A display input device 1 includes: a display part 11 displaying character string regions; an input part 12 accepting operation; a storage part 18 storing data including data for an image; and a display control part 10 controlling the display at the display part. The display control part 10 judges whether or not, of the character string regions, the adjacent character string regions include the same character string, and if they include the same character string, makes the display part highlight characters other than the same character string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Yasushi Saito
  • Patent number: 8751963
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards real time display of event records with an indication of previously provided extraction rules. A plurality of extraction rules may be provided to the system, such as automatically generated and/or user created extraction rules. These extraction rules may include regular expressions. A plurality of event records may be displayed to the user, such that text in a field defined by an extraction rule is emphasized in the display of the event record. The same emphasis may be provided for text in overlapping fields, or the emphasis may be somewhat different for different fields. The user interface may enable a user to select a portion of text of an event record, such as by rolling-over or clicking on an emphasized part of the event record. By selecting the portion of the event record, the interface may display each extraction rule associated with the selected portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: R. David Carasso, Micah James Delfino, Johnvey Hwang
  • Patent number: 8751967
    Abstract: A method of selecting files and a portable electronic device configured to perform the method are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a method of selecting one or more files on a portable electronic device, comprising: displaying a file selection user interface screen on a display of the portable electronic device, the file selection user interface screen comprising a slider comprising a reference bar and an indicator moveable within the reference bar; selecting one or more files in accordance with a position of the indicator; and attaching the selected files to an electronic message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Thanh Vinh Vuong
  • Patent number: 8743411
    Abstract: Among other things, methods, systems and computer program products are disclosed for manipulating media. In one aspect, a first set of media item images is displayed in a first region of a display screen. The media item images are moved about a predetermined path within the first region in response to a received input. A second set of media item images is displayed in a second region of the display screen where the second set of media item images are associated with an indicated media item image displayed in the first region. At least one of the media item images in the second set of media item images displayed in the second region is different from the indicated media item image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: William Martin Bachman, Timothy B. Martin, Rachel Patricia Max, Brian Frick, Michael Neuman
  • Patent number: 8739038
    Abstract: A user interface (UI) includes floating action buttons. Respective hot zones are established for associated respective UI elements. When a focus is targeting (e.g., located at) a given hot zone, one or more floating action buttons that are associated therewith are presented as part of the UI. Activation of a particular action button of the one or more floating action buttons causes an action corresponding to the particular action button to be implemented. In an example implementation, the actions available through the one or more floating action buttons may be context-sensitive such that the actions thereof are tailored to the type of item corresponding to the UI element (e.g., an icon, a graphical element, a text portion, a screen area, etc.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Michael J. McCormack, Christopher W. Bryant, Andrew R. Miller, Robert E Coggins, Scott T. Gardner
  • Patent number: 8738449
    Abstract: A system and method for providing an online ordering machine that manages the distribution of products over a distributed computer system is herein disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: IPDEV Co.
    Inventors: Bryan T. Cupps, Tim Glass
  • Patent number: 8739048
    Abstract: A system described herein includes a receiver component that receives an indication that a conversation window for a first messaging contact is desirably collapsed, wherein the conversation window for the first messaging contact corresponds to an instant messaging application that is executable on a computing device. The system can further include a window minimizer component that collapses the conversation window into a contacts window of the instant messaging application, wherein the contacts window depicts a graphical indication of at least the first contact, wherein the graphical indication is highlighted to indicate that a conversation exists with the first messaging contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Scott Moudy, Aarthi Natarajan, Geeven Singh, Amy Wai-Yee Ip
  • Patent number: 8717283
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media, for utilizing device motions to manipulate a display screen feature. One or more motion data that indicate a motion of a device are referenced. Upon referencing motion data, manipulations to apply to a display screen feature are identified. Thereafter, the display screen feature is manipulated in accordance with the one or more manipulations identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Michael T. Lundy, Jason K. Whitney, Robert Brian Landers
  • Patent number: 8713463
    Abstract: A mobile terminal is disclosed. According to one embodiment, the mobile terminal includes: a housing including a front side, a rear side and a plurality of lateral sides; a touchscreen located on the front side of the housing, configured to display at least one touch-executable object, and including a predefined edge region; and a controller. The controller is configured to preempt execution of a function corresponding to a particular object of the at least one touch-executable object if a first touch of the particular object is detected in the predefined edge region of the touchscreen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Changmok Kim, Nayoung Hong, Minjoo Kim
  • Patent number: 8689142
    Abstract: A method including receiving a user selection of a first media content, determining a second media content based on characteristics of the first media content in relation to characteristics of the second media content, and determining a third media content based on the characteristics of the second media content in relation to characteristics of the third media content. The method further includes causing, at least in part, display of a first icon representing the second media content and a second icon representing the third media content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Craig Pugsley, Jesmond Allen, Jonathan Davies
  • Patent number: 8677274
    Abstract: The present invention provides a search capability to allow a user to easily locate a preference control, file, folder, control, or other system resource or data item associated with a search result. In one embodiment, a user enters a search term (or a portion thereof) in a search field associated with one or more resource types that may be searched. The user may be presented with a pop-up menu containing a list of likely matches. The user selects the desired preference control from the pop-up menu, and the corresponding preference pane, or other container, containing the selected data item, control, or other resource is displayed. In one aspect, as the user enters the search term (or portion thereof), certain icons are highlighted. Specifically, those icons that represent containers containing matching data items (such as preference panes having controls that match the search term) are highlighted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Maxym I. Runov, Bas Ording, Steve Ko, Gregory N. Christie, Kevin Tiene
  • Patent number: 8667526
    Abstract: A system may present video content with a data scroll on a video display device. The data scroll may include data scroll items that are automatically and consecutively presented on the video display device. Each of the data scroll items may include information associated with a particular topic. The system may receive a selection of a softkey corresponding to one of the data scroll items, retrieve, in response to receiving the selection of the softkey, additional content corresponding to the particular topic associated with the one of the data scroll items, and present the additional content on the video display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew J Afram, D. Beau Morley, Hannah Y Moon
  • Patent number: 8667420
    Abstract: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for presenting and browsing hierarchical data. A hierarchical chart is displayed with a primary entity being displayed in a center region of the display. One or more peers to the primary entity are displayed along a horizontal axis in comparison to the primary entity. One or more parents to the primary entity are displayed above the primary entity, and one or more children to the primary entity are displayed beneath the primary entity. A method for performing searches against a hierarchical chart is also described. Input is received for a name to search for in a hierarchical chart. A filter criteria selection is received. A search is performed against the hierarchical chart to find one or more matching records that match the name and the filter criteria. The one or more matching records are displayed, with at least a name and photo.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Benoit Schmitlin, Sander Martijn Viegers, Chris Edwards
  • Patent number: 8645864
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide an interface for simultaneously inputting multiple data parameters for a software application. Generally, a single user input made using the input interface results in multiple data parameters being received by the application. In one embodiment, the input interface may be defined with a plurality of dimensional nodes, where each dimensional node corresponds to a dimension of input that may be specified for the software application using the input interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Nvidia Corporation
    Inventor: David A. Wright
  • Patent number: 8645829
    Abstract: A property inspector with a partial functionality indicator is described that analyzes a selected group of objects within the design canvas of an ADE to determine the properties available to each of the objects and also which of the properties applies to the individual objects. The inspector interacts with a user by identifying which properties apply to only some of the selected objects. This interaction may take on any useful form of sensual identification data, such as visible, audible, or tactile indications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventor: Stefan Cameron
  • Publication number: 20140033126
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and related computer program products for processing and displaying computer-aided detection (CAD) information associated with medical breast x-ray images, such as breast x-ray tomosynthesis volumes, are described. An interactive graphical user interface for displaying a tomosynthesis data volume is described that includes a display of a two-dimensional composited image having slabbed sub-images spatially localized to marked CAD findings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: HOLOGIC, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin A. Kreeger, Julian Marshall, Georgia K. Hitzke, Haili Chui
  • Publication number: 20140013276
    Abstract: Accessing a marine electronics data menu. A non-transitory computer-readable medium may store a plurality of computer-executable instructions which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to display marine electronics data on a touch screen on a multi function display unit, receive a display request to display a marine electronics data menu that is generally hidden from the touch screen, and display the marine electronics data menu on the touch screen in response to the display request by moving the marine electronics data menu across the touch screen in a first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Inventor: Paul Butterworth
  • Patent number: 8619317
    Abstract: A display input device 1 includes: a display part 11 displaying character string regions; an input part 12 accepting operation; a storage part 18 storing data including data for an image; and a display control part 10 controlling the display at the display part. The display control part 10 judges whether or not, of the character string regions, the adjacent character string regions include the same character string, and if they include the same character string, makes the display part highlight characters other than the same character string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Yasushi Saito
  • Patent number: 8615722
    Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for providing a preview of a menu object in a technique of displaying a menu object. The apparatus includes an input unit that receives an event from a user, an event processing unit that highlights objects, from among objects displayed on a screen, to which a user input can be applied according to the received event, and a display unit that displays the highlighted objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hye-kyung Ko, Min-ho Shin, Sun-il Choi
  • Patent number: 8607159
    Abstract: A graphical user interface (GUI) on an audio video display device (AVDD) can be operated in at least first and second input modes. When the first input mode is active the GUI has a first behavior and/or appearance whereas when the second input mode is active the GUI has a second behavior and/or appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Friedlander, David Young, Sabrina Tai-Chen Yeh