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20080201666 | Webpage presentation method for mobile phone - A webpage presentation method for a mobile phone having a limited screen size is provided for efficiently presenting webpages. A webpage presentation of the present invention includes presenting a preset number of webpages including a current and previously visited webpages on a display screen in response to a zoom-out command input during a web browsing session, thereby facilitating search for interested information and improving usability of web browsing function of a handheld device. | 08-21-2008 |
20080235631 | SYSTEM FOR ASSOCIATING MAP ITEM IMAGES AND TEXT INFORMATION - A system and method for manipulating digital map information, that allows the operator to view or modify map object or item attributes from either a graphical window or a text window. In one embodiment, when the user selects a map item within the graphical window ( | 09-25-2008 |
20080235632 | NAVIGATION HISTORY - A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that in an embodiment represent previously-accessed data items as nodes in a tree or trees and display the tree or trees with the access time on an axis. The root node of a tree represents a data item accessed via an address entered by a user while a child node of the tree represents a data item selected from a parent node of the child node. In an embodiment, data items that were displayed in the same window as their parents have different connectors between their associated nodes than do data items that were displayed in different windows from their parents. | 09-25-2008 |
20080244458 | Remoting of Windows Presentation Framework based Applications in a Non-Composed Desktop - Described are systems and methods for remoting applications, such as those based on Windows® Presentation Foundation (WPF). The systems and methods are based on remoting information associated with a structural representation. The structural representation corresponds to visual contents or elements of a desktop to be displayed at a remote end or client end, without rendering the contents at a client or remoted end. The information associated with the structural representation or structural information includes data that specifies the placement of the visual contents on the desktop when displayed. The information is used for recreating the structural representation at the client end and displaying the visual contents in conformance with the structural representation. | 10-02-2008 |
20080250356 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC, THREE-DIMENSIONAL NETWORK PERFORMANCE REPRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS - Techniques for representing data network performance characteristics from many different sources shows in three-dimensions client stations representations, server station(s) representations, and various forms of data transmission representations a video animation subsystem. Operational characteristics representations associate with the client stations, server system, data transmission representations forming a dynamic, three-dimensional representation of the network for displaying operational characteristics of the client stations, server system(s), and data transmission. The dynamic, three-dimensional representation of the network interfaces with a network performance analysis system for further analyzing perceived operational characteristics with reference to a plurality of network performance metrics from the network performance analysis system. | 10-09-2008 |
20080250357 | VISUALIZING DIFFERENCES IN SIMILARITY METRICS OF HIERARCHIES - A hierarchy differences visualization system and method for visualizing differences between two hierarchical structures based on similarity metrics. The two hierarchical structures are merged into a merged hierarchical structure and differences between the two hierarchical structures are computed and displayed in a user interface using node visualization metrics. In addition, at least one path is computed to a root of the merged hierarchical structure from a selected node and displayed in the user interface. The user interface uses various node visualization metrics including color, shapes, size, underlining, strikethrough, and text transparency. In some embodiments the hierarchical structures are tree structures and the similarity metric is structural uncertainty including location uncertainty and sub-tree structure uncertainty. The location uncertainty of a node is indicated by a color of the node label and sub-tree structure uncertainty of a node is shown by various levels of transparency of node labels. | 10-09-2008 |
20080276201 | Multidimensional Structured Data Visualization Method and Apparatus, Text Visualization Method and Apparatus, Method and Apparatus for Visualizing and Graphically Navigating the World Wide Web, Method and Apparatus for Visualizing Hierarchies - A method of displaying correlations among information objects includes receiving a query against a database; obtaining a query result set; and generating a visualization representing the components of the result set, the visualization including one of a plane and line to represent a data field, nodes representing data values, and links showing correlations among fields and values. Other visualization methods and apparatus are disclosed. | 11-06-2008 |
20080295038 | AUTOMATED TREEMAP CONFIGURATION - Systems and methods in accordance with various embodiments of the present invention provide for representing a plurality of source data values as graphical elements in a default treemap visualization, where each data value is associated with a plurality of data dimensions. A first data dimension is selected to be mapped to an area cell characteristic based on the first data dimension having a quality of numeric and a quality of non-negative. A second data dimension is selected to be mapped to a color cell characteristic based on the second data dimension having a quality of numeric and a quality of previously unmapped. The default treemap visualization is generated based on the selected first data dimension and the selected second data dimension. | 11-27-2008 |
20080301590 | NAVIGATION OF A DIRECTORY STRUCTURE - A user interface for navigating a directory structure includes a first screen area for showing a directory path to a currently identified target location and a second screen area for showing the contents of a currently identified target location, a user control having a plurality of predetermined modes of actuation, there being at least one predetermined mode for navigating within an area, and at least one predetermined mode for navigating between the areas. The user interface allows the user to navigate the directory structure, and operate on the contents, using a conveniently small number of inputs. | 12-04-2008 |
20080307367 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A DRAG AND DROP OPERATION IMPLEMENTING A HIERARCHICAL PATH NAME - A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for transferring a file item. The process selects a file item in response to receiving a first input command. The process selects a file item in response to receiving a first input command. The process then identifies a file path name from a hierarchical file path to form a selected file path name. The file path name is identified by detecting a pointer passing over the file path name. In response to receiving a second input command, the process transfers the file item to a storage location associated with the selected file path name. | 12-11-2008 |
20080313571 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATING THE CREATION OF CUSTOMER-CENTRIC INTERFACES - An interface is provided by creating prompts for the interface. The prompts represent tasks to be accomplished by a user and are obtained based on user input. The prompts are grouped according to relationships, obtained from the user input, among the tasks. The interface is updated based on user feedback. Each of the prompts is designated using user terminology obtained from the user input. | 12-18-2008 |
20090013287 | AGGREGATE LAYOUT FOR DATA VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUES - Systems and methods in accordance with various embodiments of the present invention provide for representing a hierarchical dataset as graphical elements in a configurable data visualization having at least one graphical attribute. At least one aggregate function of a plurality of aggregate functions are determined. Aggregate values of the hierarchical dataset for each hierarchical depth level is determined. The aggregate function is used to determine the aggregate values. The data visualization based on the aggregate values is rendered. | 01-08-2009 |
20090044149 | Method and Device for Generating a Procedural Map from an External Parameter such as an Image Characteristic - Method to generate a procedural map ( | 02-12-2009 |
20090077502 | CREATION OF A HELP FILE - Methods of generating a help files are presented including: accessing a user model, where the user model defines a number of objects and a number of relationships between the number of objects; selecting an object of the user model; receiving a text file corresponding with the object; creating a component of the help file from the text file; selecting an additional object of the user model, the additional object having a relationship with the object, the relationship corresponding with the number of relationships; and creating an additional component of the help file corresponding with the additional object. In some embodiments, methods further include: detecting a change to the user model; and regenerating the help file to incorporate the change. In some embodiments, methods are presented where the additional component includes: a link to the additional object, and a link to a respective text file of the additional object. | 03-19-2009 |
20090083675 | HIERARCHICAL REPRESENTATION OF CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION - Method and system enabling a user to select a data element out of a set of available data elements through the use of a hierarchical view (e.g. a tree). Whenever the user needs to choose a data element, the system collects the descriptions of all data elements that are both available and relevant in accordance with the specific use from a set of available data elements through the use of a hierarchical view. The tree represents each entity (data element) as a node and the properties of each entity as sub-nodes under it, possibly grouped into property groups represented as tree nodes. The system hides all implementation aspects of the data structure from the user—selection of the required value causes the underlying system to automatically perform all required actions in order to retrieve, calculate or search for the desired data element. | 03-26-2009 |
20090083676 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROPAGATING ALERTS VIA A HIERARCHY OF GRIDS - The present solution addresses the displaying of multiple levels of information in a constrained display footprint in a manner that allows a user to be vigilant over the information. Systems and methods are described herein for organizing data and information queries against data sources in a relational display with hierarchical grids, linked to query results, score displays, and alert monitoring. In an embodiment of the present solution, a system allows an analyst to view results and status from monitoring numerous and persistent queries against real-time data streams. Many of these queries may be inter-related and composed in a way to comprehensively analyze a problem. To display, monitor, and interact with a collection of queries, the present solution provides a relational display that makes use of a set of grids via a feature referred to as “grid of grids”. The grids may be arranged in a hierarchy of any number of levels. For example, the grids may be arranged as a directed acyclic graph to facilitate nesting of grids, in which the grids are expanded according to the complexity and levels of granularity in the decomposition of queries for a problem or domain of interest. | 03-26-2009 |
20090089715 | Automatic Re-Positioning of Graphical Program Nodes during Node Placement or Node Movement - A system and method for automatically re-positioning one or more nodes in a block diagram of a graphical program in response to a new node being displayed in the block diagram are described. A new node may be displayed at a first position in the block diagram in response to user input. One or more of the plurality of nodes already in the block diagram may be automatically re-positioned in response to displaying the new node at the first position. In other embodiments, a particular node in the block diagram may be moved from a first position to a second position in response to user input, and one or more of the other nodes may be automatically re-positioned in response to the user moving the node. | 04-02-2009 |
20090094559 | MANAGING A RELATIONSHIP NETWORK - This disclosure provides various embodiments of systems, methods, and software for the management of relationship networks. In one implementation, the software identifies an electronic communication, parses the electronic communication into a first communication attribute and a second communication attribute, and stores the first and second communication attributes in an attribute repository. Based on this persisted information, the software calculates one or more relationship indicators based on at least one of the first and second communication attributes and, perhaps in response to a request, communicates at least a subset of the relationship indicators to an interface for presentation as a graphical relationship network. | 04-09-2009 |
20090106705 | Data Management Apparatus And Method For Organizing Data Elements Into Multiple Categories For Display - A data management apparatus includes a storage operative to organize a plurality of data elements into a plurality of categories, to assign a subspace to each of the plurality of categories, to place a plurality of subspaces in a multidimensional space, to create a data element space by distributing, in each of the subspaces respectively assigned to the plurality of categories, objects representing data elements belonging to the associated category, and to store positional information on the objects in the data element space thus created; a display unit operative to establish a viewing position and a viewing direction in the data element space, and to generate and display an image of the data element space by referring to the storage and by rendering the objects located in the data element space; and a control operative to acknowledge an instruction for updating the viewing position or viewing direction so as to update the viewing position or viewing direction. | 04-23-2009 |
20090113350 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VISUALLY SUMMARIZING AND INTERACTIVELY BROWSING HIERARCHICALLY STRUCTURED DIGITAL OBJECTS - A system and method of visually summarizing a hierarchically structured set of digital objects and for facilitating efficient access to such objects through the selection of representative summary objects. These digital objects are typically media objects such as digital image files, digital video clips, digital audio objects, such as “MP3” files, or other digital documents, such as text documents, that can be collected by a user and distributed over a variety of storage media and storage locations. | 04-30-2009 |
20090113351 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD AND DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - There is provided a technique which can contribute to the improvement of management efficiency of a document file. Metadata relating to a document as a management object are acquired, and the plural metadata are hierarchically displayed in a tree form based on respective attributes of the acquired plural metadata. | 04-30-2009 |
20090125846 | Facility to Show Secondary Relationships in a Topological Graph Using an Associated View - A method, system, and computer program product for identifying the relationships between managed resources and displaying these relationships and resources in an interactive computerized system. A Relationships Display and Highlight (RDH) utility provides both an interactive view of a primary relationship via a topological graph and an interactive associated view to highlight the secondary relationships between a set of managed resources. The RDH utility links the graphical view to the associated view by displaying and/or highlighting the resources in the graphical view when secondary relationships are interactively explored in the associated view. When a secondary relationship is selected via the associated view, each resource which participates directly in the selected secondary relationship is highlighted, within the topological graph. When a resource is selected via the primary view, the RDH utility identifies a set of relationships in the associated view in which the resource participates. | 05-14-2009 |
20090132965 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - Embodiments of the invention are directed to a display control method in an information processing apparatus, which can display a hierarchical structure of folders, which can classify and store electronic files according to attribute information, using folder names based on attribute information. The method includes specifying a folder to be displayed and electronic files classified to the folder in response to an instruction from a user, determining whether or not the specified folder includes electronic files, access rights of which are granted to the user. The method also includes controlling display of the specified folder when the specified folder includes electronic files, the access rights of which are granted to the user, and controlling hiding of the specified folder when the specified folder does not include any electronic files, the access rights of which are granted to the user. | 05-21-2009 |
20090132966 | Method and System for Modifying Properties of Graphical User Interface Components - A method, computer program product, and data processing system for modifying attributes of GUI components without invasive code modification are disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, a set of attributes for GUI components is loaded into memory from persistent storage, such as a file. A root container component forming the root of a hierarchy of components defined by a containment relation is identified and passed as a parameter to a routine that traverses the hierarchy so as to visit each GUI component. As each GUI component is visited, if one or more attributes from the aforementioned set of attributes are found to be applicable to the visited GUI component, the GUI component's attributes are modified to comport with the set of attributes. | 05-21-2009 |
20090138828 | ORDERING OF CONVERSATIONS BASED ON MONITORED RECIPIENT USER INTERACTION WITH CORRESPONDING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - A system and computer-implemented method includes presenting a user interface having a visual representation for each of multiple ongoing conversations involving a recipient user identity who is associated with each of the conversations. Message activity of the recipient user identity with respect to one or more of the multiple ongoing conversations is monitored and activity level associated with at least one incoming message for a recipient user identity is identified based upon the monitored message activity. The monitored message activity includes the recipient user identity's interaction with a conversation associated with the incoming message. A relative hierarchy for the ongoing conversations is determined based on the activity level associated with the at least one incoming message, and the user interface is arranged such that a conversation associated with an incoming message having a relatively high activity level is positioned to reflect hierarchical prominence in comparison to another conversation associated with an incoming message having a relatively low activity level. | 05-28-2009 |
20090138829 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus for processing content data obtained from a plurality of capturing devices by capturing an object includes a storing device, an obtaining device, and a searching device. The storing device stores additional information in association with the content data. The additional information includes address information for linking the content data obtained from the plurality of capturing devices that are grouped. The obtaining device obtains the additional information stored by the storing device. When content data corresponding to a specified capturing device in the plurality of capturing devices is read from the storing device, the searching device automatically searches for the content data to be linked to the read content data. | 05-28-2009 |
20090144665 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE PRESENTATION TO IMPLEMENT FILTERING OF A LARGE UNBOUNDED HIERARCHY TO AVOID REPETITIVE NAVIGATION - Systems, methods, and computer program products for graphical user interface presentation to implement filtering of a large unbounded hierarchy. Exemplary embodiments include a system having a processor for retrieving the file hierarchy tree for presentation on a computer monitor, the file hierarchy tree representative of a plurality of nodes, navigating the file hierarchy tree to identify nodes for selection in a sub-group of nodes, presenting the selected node with a highlight on the computer monitor, displaying a menu on the computer monitor including an option to create a filter, displaying a popup dialog box on the computer monitor, the popup dialog box including an option to create a new filter and edit an existing filter, and displaying a filtered hierarchy tree on the computer monitor, the filtered hierarchy tree including the sub-group of nodes. | 06-04-2009 |
20090164946 | HIERARCHICAL TAG BASED BROWSING OF MEDIA COLLECTIONS - A method of browsing a plurality of media items is disclosed. At least one of the media items being associated with a plurality of tag values, each tag value having a level. The method constructs a hierarchical tree structure of tag values according to the levels of the tag values, such that any tag value on any branch of the tree structure from a first tag value is associated with a media item with which said first tag value is associated. At least a first portion of the constructed tree structure is displayed in a graphical user interface. User input is detected to change the level of a second tag value in the displayed portion. The tree structure is reconstructed according to the changed levels of the tag values, such that any tag value on any branch from a third tag value remains associated with a media item with which said third tag value is associated. At least a second portion of the reconstructed tree structure is then displayed in the graphical user interface. | 06-25-2009 |
20090172601 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIEWING ARBITRARY HIERARCHIES IN A BROWSER - A method and system are provided for displaying a hierarchy of nodes. The method may include, responsive to a request to display a set of nodes, requesting node information for each node from a browser provider. The method may include receiving node information for each node to be displayed from the browser provider. The method may include displaying the set of nodes and the node information for each node at a browser to a user. | 07-02-2009 |
20090172602 | TECHNIQUE THAT ENHANCES THE MANIPULATION OF AN HTML TREE PRESENTATION BY USING AN ARRAY REPRESENTATION OF THE HIERARCHICAL PATH OF A TREE NODE - The present invention discloses a method for manipulating the presentation of an AJAX tree using an array representing the hierarchical path of a tree node. Such a method can begin with the receipt of a user-request to expand a selected tree node of an AJAX tree in a Web page. Next, it can be determined if the tree node is present in the existing path array. When the tree node is present in the existing path array, the existing path array can be modified for the selected tree node. A new path array can be requested from the AJAX engine when the tree node does not exist in the existing path array. A path array handler can be invoked to expand the AJAX tree using the existing path array. | 07-02-2009 |
20090210826 | Network-Based System for Automatically Generating a Graphical Program Based on User Supplied Measurement Task Requirements - A system and method for online configuration of a measurement system. The user may access a server over a network and specify a desired task, e.g., a measurement task, and receive programs and/or configuration information which are usable to configure the user's measurement system hardware (and/or software) to perform the desired task. Additionally, if the user does not have the hardware required to perform the task, the required hardware may be sent to the user, along with programs and/or configuration information. The hardware may be reconfigurable hardware, such as an FPGA or a processor/memory based device. In one embodiment, the required hardware may be pre-configured to perform the task before being sent to the user. In another embodiment, the system and method may provide a graphical program in response to receiving the user's task specification, where the graphical program may be usable by the measurement system to perform the task. | 08-20-2009 |
20090254867 | ZOOM FOR ANNOTATABLE MARGINS - The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates interacting with a portion of data that includes pyramidal volumes of data. A portion of image data can represent a computer displayable multiscale image with at least two substantially parallel planes of view in which a first plane and a second plane are alternatively displayable based upon a level of zoom and which are related by a pyramidal volume, wherein the multiscale image includes a pixel at a vertex of the pyramidal volume. An edit component can receive and incorporate an annotation to the multiscale image corresponding to at least one of the two substantially parallel planes of view. A display engine can display the annotation on the multiscale image based upon navigation to the parallel plane of view corresponding to such annotation. | 10-08-2009 |
20090276732 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STORAGE, DISPLAY AND REVIEW OF ELECTRONIC MAIL AND ATTACHMENTS - A method for managing email messages. The method comprises: (a) identifying a root email message sent by a first party to a second party; (b) assigning a tracking identifier to the root email message, (c) linking the tracking identifier and the root email message, (d) identifying first branch email messages branching from the root email message, wherein each of the first branch email messages comprises an email message having one or more elements in common with the root email message, (e) storing the root email message and elements of any first branch email message not previously stored, (f) assigning to each first branch email message a same first branch identifier, (g) assigning to each first branch email message a unique serial identifier identifying the location of each email message in the first branch, (h) linking each first branch email message to the corresponding tracking identifier of the root email message, the first branch identifier and the unique serial identifier, (i) repeating steps (d)-(h) for email messages branching from the root email message along branches other than the first branch and (j) displaying the root email message and elements of any branch email message that were not displayed as elements of a previously-displayed email message. | 11-05-2009 |
20090313586 | PREVIEW WINDOW INCLUDING A STORAGE CONTEXT VIEW OF ONE OR MORE COMPUTER RESOURCES - A preview window generator can be configured to sense a presence of navigation input applied to a resource reference (e.g., an icon, file path, etc.) displayed in an application window. The resource reference displayed in the application window can represent a resource such as stored content (e.g., a file, folder, etc.). While sensing input such as presence of a pointer in a vicinity of the resource reference in the application window, the preview window generator displays a context view (e.g., a file system view) including a representation of the stored content. Accordingly, a user can view the stored content in a relevant context view such as a storage context indicating where the content is stored in a file system without having to launch a separate windows explorer application. The preview window can be configured to receive input, enabling a viewer to modify a particular context view. | 12-17-2009 |
20090327971 | INFORMATIONAL ELEMENTS IN THREAT MODELS - Excluding selected elements in a data flow diagram from a threat model. The selected elements are marked as informational. An automated threat modeling system generates a threat model report for the elements in the data flow diagram except for the elements marked as informational. Excluding the informational elements from the threat model and threat model report reduces the complexity of the threat analysis and enables a modeler to focus the threat model on elements of interest. | 12-31-2009 |
20090327972 | AGGREGATE AND HIERARCHICAL DISPLAY OF GROUPED ITEMS SPANNING MULTIPLE STORAGE LOCATIONS - Techniques for the aggregate and hierarchical display of grouped items spanning multiple storage locations are described. Some techniques may aggregate items in response to user input identifying a scope for item retrieval. The user input may identify a scope such as selection of a local storage location or a search query for retrieving items. The aggregated items may span multiple storage locations and include items within the identified scope and related items outside the identified scope. A group of aggregated items are presented in a hierarchical display within a user interface. The hierarchical display may visually differentiate items inside and outside of the identified scope, and may identify parent-child relationship between related items. An aggregate header for the group of aggregated items may be displayed indicating total items in the group and a status for items in the group within the identified scope. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 12-31-2009 |
20100005425 | CONFIGURATION DIAGRAM WITH CONNECTIONS THAT REPRESENT PHYSICAL COUPLINGS BETWEEN DEVICES - A system and method for creating and using configuration diagrams for configuring distributed systems. The methods described herein may be used for various types of operations in configuring distributed systems, including creating programs, managing programs in the distributed system, deploying programs to various distributed devices, configuring remote execution or inter-operation of distributed programs, and executing distributed applications. Embodiments of the invention utilize graphical iconic-based techniques for performing the above operations. The configuration diagram may include device icons which represent devices and program icons which represent programs. Device icons and program icons may be associated with each other to accomplish various program creation and deployment operations. Device icons and program icons may also interact with graphical program nodes or icons. Context sensitive device connections and/or program connections are displayed. An asynchronous data flow node may be used to facilitate asynchronous data flow between two graphical programs. The distributed system may also support distributed graphical debugging. | 01-07-2010 |
20100031197 | DESIGN PACKAGE DATA FORMAT - A method, apparatus, and data structure provide the ability to author and maintain assets in a computer system. Assets belonging to disconnected applicative fields are defined and represented in a hierarchical structure. The structure includes data (i.e., physical resources), nodes that act as a container for the data and other nodes, and constructs that establish a template that defines a contextual structural view for the data and nodes. The constructs are bound to the data and nodes and access is provided to the assets to a user using a computer and display. | 02-04-2010 |
20100031198 | Data-Oriented User Interface for Mobile Device - A user interface for a mobile device allows users to interact across applications with information relevant to known people, organizations, or locations, referred to herein as “recognized entities.” Every type of recognized entity has associated action options that populate a node menu for that type. The node menu options are selectable, for example, through a touchscreen interface, to rapidly execute the associated action. In another embodiment, a plurality of data windows, referred to as “spinners,” are viewed simultaneously on one display. Each spinner is a view of one or more data objects provided that are distinguished from one another by data type, context, parsing or sorting algorithms, or user interaction with this data. The spinners respond to user actions, to new information from the server, or external events by automatically visibly scrolling the data displayed in the spinner windows. | 02-04-2010 |
20100050130 | User Interface Rendering - Elements are used to define a user interface. Each element can include a corresponding user interface widget and/or arrangement information for the user interface. The elements and/or corresponding widgets are hierarchically related. Each element implements a set of application programming interfaces that enable the rendering of both design-time views (e.g., design view and preview view) of the user interface as well as a runtime view of the user interface. As a result, a designer is able to view exactly what will be generated during runtime, and a widget developer will not need to develop additional software to support the design environment. | 02-25-2010 |
20100050131 | Interface And Method For Exploring A Collection of Data - An interface is provided for permitting a user to explore a collection of data. The data collection provides nodes as structural elements, and references which are assigned to nodes and hold identifiers of other nodes. Multiple references can be assigned to each node, thus guiding a user of the system to multiple other nodes, and multiple references can hold the same address, so that multiple nodes can have references pointing to the same node. Embodiments of the interface allow visualizing the network created by the interconnection of the nodes on a display region. Embodiments of the interface also allow the user to intuitively navigate along the references in both directions of the references, so that the user can explore which nodes are referenced by a certain node, and also by which nodes a certain node is referenced. Electronic documents can be assigned to each node, and embodiments of the interface allow these documents to be displayed either directly in a reserved display region of the interface, or by launching a matching application on the user's computer. | 02-25-2010 |
20100083184 | Selective grouping and manipulation of chart components - Selective grouping and manipulation of chart components is disclosed. In some embodiments, exploding chart components comprises receiving an indication of a selection of an option to explode a subset of chart components as a single unit and exploding the subset of chart components as a single unit, wherein a relative spacing and positioning between chart components in the subset is preserved when the subset is exploded as a single unit. | 04-01-2010 |
20100083185 | COMPUTER PROGRAM, MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEM, AND GROUPING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a grouping method for process units, each including basic modules and data, the process units being assigned to processors in a program for a multiprocessor system, the program including the basic modules and a parallel statement describing relationships between parallel processes for the basic modules, the method includes displaying a dataflow graph visually showing a process status of each process unit based on the parallel statement, and specifying a candidate for a connection of process units on the dataflow graph, wherein the dataflow graph displays data entries, nodes in the basic modules, and edges connecting the data entries and the nodes. | 04-01-2010 |
20100122218 | Method and System for Implementing a Compensation System - Described is an improved method, system, and computer program product for implementing an improved approach for a compensation system and related interfaces that avoids the problems of the prior approaches. According to some approaches, interfaces are provided that comprises multiple modes of compensation entry, in which data elements within the multiple modes are linked together in a coordinated way. | 05-13-2010 |
20100122219 | COMPUTER INPUT CONTROL FOR SPECIFYING SCOPE WITH EXPLICIT EXCLUSIONS - Methods and systems providing a user interface control allowing a user to specify a scope of items on a computer system or network is disclosed. Certain aspects provide an input control through which a user can specify an explicit scope, or range, of items, while also identifying explicit exclusions from the specified scope, thereby reducing ambiguity regarding identification of items included and items excluded from the scope. When a user explicitly selects an item for inclusion in the scope, the explicitly selected item is added to the scope definition, and all descendants of the explicitly selected item are implicitly selected for inclusion. When a user explicitly selects an item for exclusion from the scope, the explicitly selected item is added to the scope definition as an exclusion from an explicitly included item, and all descendants of the explicitly selected item are implicitly selected for exclusion. | 05-13-2010 |
20100125813 | Nested Dimensions Presentation Structures - A method and apparatus for rendering data on a display is provided. A configurable number of dimensions are rendered on the display in a manner that depicts a sequential relationship between the configurable number of dimensions. Each rendered dimension on the display depicts one or more dimension instances. For the rendered dimension having the lowest sequential position in the sequential relationship between the configurable number of dimensions (hereafter the “lowest sequential dimension”), a determination is made as to whether hierarchical data is associated with a particular dimension instance of the lowest sequential dimension, and if so, at least a top level node of a tree of nodes is rendered in association with the particular dimension instance of the lowest sequential dimension on the display. Each node of the tree of nodes may, but need not, comprise a row of data. | 05-20-2010 |
20100125814 | USER INTERFACE FOR A PROJECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A user interface for a project management system is disclosed. The interface utilizes a circular format to convey various project task and entity relationships including hierarchical abstraction levels, relative priority, percent completion, and various other pertinent data. The system also provides the ability to quickly transverse through levels of abstraction or priority within a project or data set in a spatially efficient manner. | 05-20-2010 |
20100138794 | WIRELESS INTERFACE FOR ACCESS CONNECTIONS - A process of pairing a wireless PAN (personal area network) device with a system can be facilitated first by assuming default PIN codes that are traditionally used with wireless PAN devices and then by attempting such presumed default codes before querying the user for input. Accordingly, a cumbersome task conventionally required of the user is most often removed. Also, the devices that are paired and connected are preferably graphically conveyed on a display or graphical user interface (GUI) in a manner that solidly implies that each PAN device is connected only to its system, and not (directly) to other PAN devices. | 06-03-2010 |
20100138795 | MANAGING ADVISORIES FOR COMPLEX MODEL NODES IN A GRAPHICAL MODELING APPLICATION - A system for managing advisories for complex model nodes that can include a complex model, a graphical modeling application, and an advisory manager. The complex model can be configured to graphically represent a user-defined system as multiple nodes and relationships. The graphical modeling application can be configured to execute operations upon the complex model. The graphical modeling application can store data defining the graphical characteristics of the complex model as a notation model and data defining the semantic characteristics of the complex model as a semantic model. The notation model and the semantic model can be stored as separate data entities. The advisory manager can be configured to aggregate notifications and potential resolutions for the nodes of the complex model. The notifications and potential resolutions can be visually presented within the graphical modeling application. | 06-03-2010 |
20100162173 | TECHNIQUES FOR PRESENTING AND BROWSING HIERARCHICAL DATA - 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. | 06-24-2010 |
20100175032 | DATA DISPLAY APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A data display apparatus comprising, a display unit operable to hierarchically displays a plurality of folders, a management unit operable to manage information associated with each of the plurality of folders, a determination unit operable to, when the display unit displays each of the plurality of folders, determine based on the information associated with the folder and acquired from the management unit whether to integrally display the folder and a plurality of lower folders included under the folder as an integrated folder, and a control unit operable to control to cause the display unit to perform integral display using the integrated folder when the determination unit has determined to perform the integral display. | 07-08-2010 |
20100199222 | DYNAMIC FAMILY TREE REPRESENTATION - In one aspect, a method for interacting with a representation of a family tree is provided. The method comprises receiving family tree information from a user with respect to the family tree, displaying a representation of the family tree based, at least in part, on the received family tree information, receiving update information from the user indicating at least one modification to the family tree and/or the family tree representation, the update information received via the user interacting directly with the graphical representation of the family tree, performing the at least one modification to the family tree and/or family tree representation, and displaying a representation of the family tree with the at least one modification. | 08-05-2010 |
20100199223 | HIERARCHY DISPLAY - A method for establishing a hierarchy display includes identifying a basis for a hierarchy. A root of a data set is determined using the basis. A hierarchy is configured beginning at the root. The hierarchy is populated with selected values from the data set. Supplemental data is generated based on the selected values. The hierarchy is embedded with the supplemental data. The resulting hierarchy is displayed. | 08-05-2010 |
20100205569 | AGENDA DETERMINATION IN AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method of displaying an agenda at an electronic device includes retrieving, from at least one database of the electronic device, calendared events that meet a set of constraints, determining free time periods absent of the calendared events, and providing the calendared events and at least some of the free time periods in a time-ordered list. | 08-12-2010 |
20100223581 | VISUALIZATION OF PARTICIPANT RELATIONSHIPS AND SENTIMENT FOR ELECTRONIC MESSAGING - Providing for graphical visualization of contextual information pertinent to electronic messaging is described herein. By way of example, contextual network usage information or messaging disposition can be determined for a set of participants to electronic communication. The contextual information is compiled into categories and organized at least as a function of category. The compiled data can be transformed into a visualization of user disposition or context and output to a user device as a multi-dimensional graphical rendering. By rendering contextual data graphically, the rich and diverse information available from usage histories, current user context and user dispositions can be output and consumed rapidly and efficiently, resulting in productive electronic interaction. | 09-02-2010 |
20100251187 | LOCALIZED INFORMATION-PRESERVING LEVELS IN MODEL VISUALIZATION - Local areas of a visualized modeling language diagram are viewable at different levels of detail without losing information such as model elements and their connectivity. Multiple elements are associated with a group element, which has a visual portion derived from the appearance of a group member element. Connectors between group member elements and non-member elements are suppressed in favor of replacement connectors between the group element and the non-member element(s). The integrity of incoming and outgoing connections to the group is maintained relative to the rest of the model. Ungrouping elements restores the elements to their original state. Grouping can be applied locally to one or more parts of the visual model. | 09-30-2010 |
20100306708 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HANDLING PROFILES IN A COMMUNITY - Systems and methods for handling profiles in a community are provided. A profile hub-and-spoke arrangement may be provided which includes a profile representation associated with a user as the hub and one or more media asset representations as one or more spokes. The media asset representations that are included in the hub-and-spoke arrangement may match preferences of the user. As a cursor is positioned over various items of the hub-and-spoke arrangement, a window of information corresponding to the item may be provided. A selection of the item may be received and a new hub-and-spoke arrangement may be generated and displayed to correspond to the selected item. A similar media asset hub-and-spoke arrangement may be provided which includes a media asset representation as the hub and one or more community member representations as one or more spokes. | 12-02-2010 |
20100325587 | INCREMENTAL RUN-TIME LAYOUT COMPOSITION - Performing incremental runtime composition. A method includes a computing system receiving a user input gesture modifying a diagram displayed on a diagram surface. The diagram includes a first element, a second element, and a plurality of elements connected to the second element laid out in a particular layout pattern with respect to the second element. The method further includes interpreting the user input gesture to be a gesture creating a graph by connecting the first element to the second element of the diagram. The method further includes performing an auto layout of the diagram by automatically, and without user intervention, repositioning the second element with respect to the first element but without substantially repositioning the plurality of elements with respect to the second element by moving the second element and the plurality of elements as an atomic unit. | 12-23-2010 |
20100325588 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A VISUALIZER FOR RULES OF AN APPLICATION FIREWALL - The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for generating a representation a plurality of learned rules from a learning engine of an application firewall. The representation may be generated based on a history of URL communications with a web server. A learning engine of an application firewall may determine a plurality of learned rules based on a history of URL communications with a web server. Each of the plurality of learned rules mat be assigned a URL string. A visualizer can categorize a subset of the plurality of learned rules under a first check type of a plurality of check types. The visualizer may further generate a tree representation of URL strings of the subset of learned rules. Each node of the tree corresponds to a segment of the URL strings identified based on a delimiter for the URL strings. | 12-23-2010 |
20110004851 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF ASSOCIATING APPLICATION STATE INFORMATION WITH CONTENT AND ACTIONS - An approach is provided for associating applications, such as widgets, with content and actions. The approach specifies a hierarchy of content and/or actions to be presented and/or executed by a first widget based on state information of a second widget. This hierarchy is stored in an association framework for retrieval by active widgets. | 01-06-2011 |
20110029932 | Evaluation of Graphical Program Nodes - Evaluation of graphical program nodes. A first graphical program may be displayed on a display. The first graphical program may include a plurality of interconnected nodes which visually specifies functionality of the first graphical program. User input may be received which selects at least one of the plurality of interconnected nodes while editing the first graphical program. A second graphical program may be automatically generated based on the user input. The second graphical program may include the at least one node. The second graphical program may be executable to allow the user to evaluate the at least one node. The second graphical program may be displayed on the display. | 02-03-2011 |
20110047516 | RAPID MANIPULATION OF FLOWSHEET CONFIGURATIONS - A user initiated move action can be detected on a selected graphical object on a flowsheet within a rendered canvas of a graphical user interface. During the user initiated move action, based a predetermined threshold distance between the selected graphical object and the other graphical objects, candidate graphical objects are identified from the other graphical objects. Provided at least one candidate graphical object is identified, at least one proposed connection is visually presented between the selected graphical object and the candidate graphical object in a contrasting visual style to a style for established interconnections between the plurality of graphical objects within the rendered canvas. Upon the user confirming the proposed connection, a new established connection is visually presented in a canvas final state to replace the proposed connection using the style for established interconnections within the rendered canvas between the selected graphical object and the candidate graphical object. | 02-24-2011 |
20110072398 | Methods and Systems Involving Browser Nodes - A method comprises creating a first node, determining whether an indicator associated with a head node is present, and designating the first node as a head node, defining and associating a head node identifier with the first node, define a link from the first node to the first node, and create and save an indicator associated with the head node responsive to determining that the indicator associated with a head node is not present. | 03-24-2011 |
20110088000 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING A HIERARCHICAL SET OF BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM INFORMATION - A computing system for displaying hierarchical set of building management system information is shown and described. The computing system includes a processing circuit configured to render a shape for each software defined building object and to render the shapes for lower level software defined building objects as nested within the shapes for the higher level software defined building objects. | 04-14-2011 |
20110088001 | AUTOMATED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING GOALS - A goal management system stores at least first and second goals. The goal management system also stores a relationship between the first goal and the second goal. In one aspect, the goal management system detects modification of the first goal and, in response, causes the second goal to be automatically highlighted for alignment verification. In another aspect, the second goal is a parent goal to the first goal, and the relationship is stored as a parent link associating the first goal with the parent goal. The goal management system also stores an owner for the first goal. In response to detecting modification of the parent goal, the goal management system causes the first goal to be automatically highlighted for alignment verification in a display associated with the owner of the first goal, based on the parent link. Additional aspects relate to additional technological solutions which facilitate goal management through, for example, goal alignment. | 04-14-2011 |
20110093818 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A GENERIC INTERFACE CONTEXT MODEL - An apparatus for providing a generic interface context model may include at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code may be configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least defining a set of generic interfaces independent of any particular event scheme in which the generic interfaces include at least root node interfaces and provider node interfaces that support security classes, and enabling data providers and consumer applications to access a context model via the generic interfaces. The context model includes an object registry providing an object representation of properties of respective ones of the data providers. | 04-21-2011 |
20110107272 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING AND DISPLAYING CONTENTS IN A USER INTERFACE - This invention relates to a display method and apparatus, and more particularly, this invention relates to a user interface with multiple applications which can be operated concurrently and/or independently by using simple finger gestures. Furthermore, the user is allowed to intuitively operate and control digital information, functions, applications, etc. to improve operability. In one exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the user is able to use finger gesture to navigate the user interface via a virtual spindle metaphor to select different applications. The user can also split the user interface to at least two display segments which may contain different applications. Moreover, each display segment can be moved to a desirable location on the user interface to provide a seamless operation environment. This invention can also be used in vehicle navigation systems to reduce driver distraction when the display segments can be split and each application can be moved around, so that the passenger can operate the navigation system while the user is driving. | 05-05-2011 |
20110113385 | VISUALLY REPRESENTING A HIERARCHY OF CATEGORY NODES - In a method of visually representing a hierarchy of category nodes that identify one or more concepts, accesses to documents are tracked and one or more concepts that are relevant to the accessed documents are determined. In addition, one or more category paths through the hierarchy of category nodes for the determined one or more concepts are determined and relevance levels for the category nodes with respect to the determined one or more concepts are determined based upon the generated one or more category paths. Moreover, a graph depicting a visual representation of the relevance levels determined for each of the category nodes in the hierarchy of category nodes is constructed. | 05-12-2011 |
20110113386 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR CREATING AND MANIPULATING DATA STRUCTURES USING AN INTERACTIVE GRAPHICAL INTERFACE - The present invention relates to a system, method and computer program for creating, visualizing and manipulating a data structure using an intuitive and interactive graphical interface. It is operable to display a data structure and enable users to interact with the data structure by means of a user interface. The data structure includes data entities and relationships between the data entities. One or more user context properties are associable with the data entities. The user interface is populated with data entities from the data structure by enabling the users to associate visual properties of the user interface with the user context associable properties of the data structure. This enables the users to interact with the data structure by means of the user interface. | 05-12-2011 |
20110119633 | Audio Apparatus - An audio apparatus contains a plurality of playable files stored in a database and organized in folders. The folders can be listed in a manner understandable at a glance even when viewed on a small display area and when the hierarchical structure shows a minimum level of detail. A folder selection section selects a folder from a database, and a directly-under-folder detection section detects if a playable file exists directly under a folder selected. A folder-under-folder detection section detects if a playable file exists directly under any folder located under the selected folder assuming no playable file exists directly under the selected folder. | 05-19-2011 |
20110138337 | LEVEL BASED DATA SUPPLY FOR REUSABLE INTERFACE COMPONENTS - A system and method for handling reusable graphical components in a dynamic environment. A configuration is buffered in a computer system. An object corresponding to a graphical component is instantiated and assigned a level within the graphical hierarchy. The object is configured based on its location in the hierarchy from the buffered configuration. The object reads its parent identifier from a level buffer based solely on its assigned level and writes its object identifier into the level buffer in association with its assigned level. | 06-09-2011 |
20110138338 | Patent Claims Analysis System and Method - A system and method for facilitating patent grant and patent application claims examination; including the functions of automated importing of patent claims, automated parsing of the claims into their hierarchy, and compression/expansion of the parsed claims to/from the independent claim level. | 06-09-2011 |
20110161886 | TRANSFORMATION OF HIERARCHICAL DATA FORMATS USING GRAPHICAL RULES - There is provided a method of creating computer instructions for transforming inbound instances, being instances of a hierarchical inbound data format, into outbound instances, being instances of at least one hierarchical outbound data format, wherein each inbound instance is transformed into zero, one or more outbound instances, the inbound and outbound data formats each having a number of segments arranged in a hierarchical manner, the method using a computing device having at least a processor, a memory, a display device and an input device, and the method including: | 06-30-2011 |
20110185315 | SIMPLIFIED USER CONTROLS FOR AUTHORING WORKFLOWS - A workflow design system provides user interface controls that allow a workflow author to focus on the steps of the workflow before deciding on how to control the flow of the workflow. With the system, an author can change the control flow of a workflow without re-ordering the sequence of steps within the workflow. The workflow design system allows the author to define a sequence of steps and then drag a control block over these steps to capture them within the control block. The author can also later remove the control block without affecting the sequence of steps if his needs change. In addition, the system presents error-handling workflows side-by-side with the main workflow, so that the author can modify the main workflow and notice the effects and any corresponding changes for error handling workflows at the same time. | 07-28-2011 |
20110202886 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING DOCUMENTS - A computer system that includes a graphical user interface used to organize a group of documents is provided. The system includes a processor that is adapted to execute machine-readable instructions. The system also includes a storage device that is adapted to store data. The data includes a plurality of documents and instructions that are executable by the processor to generate the graphical user interface. The graphical user interface includes a cluster map that includes the results of a clustering algorithm applied to the documents. The graphical user interface also includes a principal documents screen that includes a principal document that is identified by weighting each of the documents in a cluster based, at least in part, on an occurrence of representative terms in the document. The representative terms are terms that have been identified by the clustering algorithm as being more effective for distinguishing between documents that belong to different clusters. | 08-18-2011 |
20110202887 | Automatically Suggesting Graphical Program Elements for Inclusion in a Graphical Program - System and method for editing a graphical program. One or more nodes are included in a graphical program in response to user input selecting the one or more nodes, where each node has a respective one or more terminals for receiving input to or providing output from the node. User input is received indicating a terminal on a first node of the one or more nodes to which a node is to be connected. One or more suggested graphical program elements to include in the graphical program are automatically presented based on the indicated terminal, where the one or more suggested graphical program elements are selectable by the user for inclusion in the graphical program. | 08-18-2011 |
20110225551 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRACKING CHANGES TO A SET OF DATA - A method and apparatus for tracking changes to a set of data stored in association with a first time period in a memory device are provided. Change data indicative that the set of data is to be associated with a second time period is received. The set of data is associated with the second time period, while the association with the first time period is maintained, such that a first visual representation of the set of data is be provided in the first time period and a second visual representation of the set of data is be provided in the second time period. A link between the first visual representation and the second visual representation is provided, the link enabled to indicate that the set of data has been moved to the second time period, thereby preventing receipt of further data to determine the first time period. | 09-15-2011 |
20110239163 | DISPLAY SCREEN CONTROL METHOD, GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a tree structure generation unit that generates a tree structure in which a leaf node represents content data associated with position information, serving as metadata, representing a location of a feature space defined based on a predetermined feature quantity, and a set of nodes whose distance in the feature space satisfies a predetermined condition is defined as a parent node of the nodes satisfying the predetermined condition, and a node extraction unit that, when any position information is specified, identifies a node in the tree structure to which the specified position information belongs, and extracts, according to a position of the identified node in the tree structure, one or a plurality of nodes, other than the node to which the specified position information belongs, from among the nodes in the tree structure. | 09-29-2011 |
20110252382 | PROCESS PERFORMANCE USING A PEOPLE CLOUD - A method, data processing system, and computer program product are present for managing projects in a network data processing system. A computer system identifies a plurality of tasks for a project. The computer system creates a model for the project using the plurality of tasks. The model identifies people to perform the plurality of tasks. The computer system selects a group of people with knowledge about the plurality of tasks. The computer system sends a number of requests to the group of people to update the model of the project. The number of requests includes the model. The computer system updates the model of the project using a number of responses in response to receiving the number of responses to the number of requests. | 10-13-2011 |
20110276924 | PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT CONTEXT LINKS - An apparatus and method for managing information in a mobile terminal are provided. The method includes selecting a first object to be linked, selecting a second object for linking with the first object, and linking the first object with the second object. By linking two objects, a user is better able to determine the context in which one or both object are known, thus improving usability of the information. Moreover, a descriptive tag may be used to link the two objects, thus providing additional information by which to associate one object with another object. | 11-10-2011 |
20110283239 | VISUAL ANALYSIS AND DEBUGGING OF COMPLEX EVENT FLOWS - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media to generate a user interface (UI) to analyze a complex event processing (CEP) query are disclosed. A particular method includes receiving data representing an event flow associated with execution of a CEP query. The CEP query includes a plurality of operators. A UI including a graph is generated. The graph includes a plurality of nodes. Each node of the graph corresponds to an operator of the CEP query, and each edge of the graph corresponds to a stream between operators of the CEP query. The method includes receiving an input identifying a particular node of the graph, where the particular node corresponds to a particular operator of the CEP query. In response to the input, an operator-specific output associated with at least one event processed by the particular operator is displayed. | 11-17-2011 |
20110283240 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS - Systems and methods whereby, for example, one or more functional elements can be established and/or employed. Such functional elements might serve a number of purposes. For instance, such functional elements might be employable in interoperating with devices, software, and/or the like, in working with entities, and/or the like. Such functional elements may, for example, be arrangeable in an associative and/or hierarchical manner. | 11-17-2011 |
20110302537 | Systems And Methods For Facilitating Access To Documents Via A Set Of Content Selection Tags - Systems and methods are provided to facilitate access to documents via a set of content selection tags. According to one embodiment, information is received from a content reader. For example, a content controller may receive information from a content reader via a Web site. A set of content selection tags are then established based on the received information, each content selection tag being associated with a hierarchical tag domain. It is then arranged for the content reader to receive an indication of a document tag in accordance with the set of content selection tags. For example, a content controller may retrieve one or more documents based on a set of content selection tags and document tags and transmit indications of the retrieved documents to a content reader via a Web site. | 12-08-2011 |
20110320985 | INFORMATION LANDSCAPE MODELING, ANALYSIS & VALIDATION - Managing and validating a project using an information landscape. Embodiments include providing an information landscape including a topology of landscape elements for the project, linking the topology of landscape elements to a plurality of solution artifacts, and validating at least one of the plurality of solution artifacts and semantics of the information landscape. | 12-29-2011 |
20120005630 | Highly Responsive Screen Output Device, Screen Output System, and Screen Output Method - An input information acquisition unit in an information processing device acquires information related to a user operation provided in an input device. A screen data generation unit generates data for a basic screen that should be displayed in response to the user operation. A hierarchical data generation unit generates hierarchical data from the data for the basic screen. A frame area determination unit determines a frame area that should be displayed. An updated area determination unit determines an area that should be updated in response to the user operation. A loading unit loads data necessary for display from a hard disk drive. A decoding unit decodes image data. A displayed image processing unit renders a displayed image. | 01-05-2012 |
20120023454 | SCHEDULE MANAGEMENT USING LINKED EVENTS - An event scheduler may schedule a first event having a first recurrence characteristic within a scheduling module, and to schedule a second event having a second recurrence characteristic within the scheduling module. A link manager may store a link between the first event and the second event within the scheduling module. A view generator may provide an event view which indicates the link in association with at least one of the first event and the second event. | 01-26-2012 |
20120023455 | HIERARCHICAL ORGANIZATION CHART FOR MOBILE APPLICATIONS - According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for creating and displaying a hierarchical organization chart in a mobile application is provided. The method includes obtaining information from a database. The information represents a first node, second node, and, optionally, at least one third node. The nodes are related to each other according to a hierarchy. The method also includes displaying the information representing the first, second, and third nodes, if any, in a graphical user interface of a mobile device. The graphical user interface may include, for example, a three-level row-based chart. The information representing the first node is displayed in a first level of the chart, the information representing the second node is displayed in a second level of the chart, and the information representing the at least one third node is displayed in a third level of the chart. | 01-26-2012 |
20120036484 | RELATIONSHIP VISUALIZATION AND GRAPHICAL INTERACTION MODEL IN IT CLIENT MANAGEMENT - Displaying a hierarchy. A method includes identifying a set of nodes representing sites in a hierarchy. The set of nodes share one or more common characteristics not shared by any other nodes in the hierarchy. The method further includes determining that the set of nodes, as a set, meet a predetermined condition. As a result of the nodes sharing the one or more common characteristics not shared by any other nodes in the hierarchy and as a result of the set meeting the predetermined condition, the method further includes aggregating at least a portion of the set of nodes. The method further includes displaying in a graphical user interface a representation of the hierarchy including displaying the aggregated portion as a single entity in the hierarchy. | 02-09-2012 |
20120047467 | PORT COMPATIBILTY CHECKING FOR STREAM PROCESSING - A port compatibility connection engine for a large scale stream processing framework is provided. The port compatibility management unit analyzes port definitions of processing elements (PEs) to validate interconnectivity between said elements. In particular, the port compatibility management unit determines the ability of the PEs to produce and/or consume data streams based on the data stream schema definitions specified on the PE ports. In addition, the port compatibility management unit analyzes security, scope, persistence, and other factors that impact interconnectivity. The port compatibility management unit generates a connection topology snapshot based on the above analysis and identifies the combination of PEs that cannot interconnect and provides the information in an output format that allows for visualization, filtering, and automatic fix capability. | 02-23-2012 |
20120060125 | RELATIVE CLASSIFICATION OF DATA OBJECTS - Systems and methods for use in presenting a plurality of data nodes that include one or more data sets and one or more data objects, wherein each data set includes zero or more data objects and zero or more other data sets. The method includes determining, by a computing device, a data node of interest from the plurality of data nodes, wherein the data node of interest is included in one or more data sets. The computing device depicts the data node of interest as a primary node and depicts at least one of the data sets that includes the data node of interest as a secondary node that is subordinate to the primary node. The computing device also depicts an edge between the primary node and the secondary node. | 03-08-2012 |
20120110513 | AGGREGATING BASED ON HIERARCHY AND SCALING INPUT - According to an example embodiment, a method may include accessing, by at least one processor from at least one non-transitory computer-readable memory device, a map and a hierarchy of places included in the map. The method may also include accessing, by the at least one processor from the at least one non-transitory computer-readable memory device, quantitative information associated with places in the hierarchy. The method may also include receiving a scaling input from a user. The method may also include determining, by the at least one processor, a level in the hierarchy at which to aggregate the quantitative information, based on the scaling input. The method may also include aggregating, by the at least one processor, the quantitative information for a plurality of the places at the determined level, the aggregating including independently aggregating the quantitative information associated with places below at least two of the plurality of places at the determined level. The method may also include generating, by the at least one processor, graphical data configured to display the map. | 05-03-2012 |
20120110514 | Graphical User Interface for Managing Virtual Machines - A graphical user interface (GUI) for managing virtual machines (VMs) that are running in one or more hosts provides a search interface that is intuitive and presents search results in a tree structure that lists or marks items that meet user-designated search criteria. User-designated search criteria include favorite VMs, powered-on VMs, VMs running in a specified host, and text-based search criteria. Both VMs that are running locally in a local host and VMs that are running remotely in a remote host are listed so long as they meet the user-designated search criteria and thus can be managed using the GUI. | 05-03-2012 |
20120117515 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF INFORMATION - An apparatus, comprising computer program code configured to cause the apparatus to perform at least generating visual representation of a message chain comprising a plurality of nodes, each node representing a message, and a plurality of node connectors, identifying messages of the message chain that are associated with at least one attribute, identifying messages of the message chain that are unassociated with the attribute, indicating nodes that represent messages unassociated with the attribute, and indicating nodes that represent messages associated with the attribute is disclosed. | 05-10-2012 |
20120117516 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INFORMATION MANAGEMENT USING SOCIALLY VETTED GRAPHS - The present invention allows for an easy-to-use, web-based, schema-less database system that provides organizations the ability to organically model, store, and access information in an iterative and evolutionary manner. Users are encouraged to grow and explore the information domain intuitively. One embodiment is a method of collaboratively managing an entity-relationship graph, including: displaying the entity-relationship graph to a voting user; collecting data on expert status of the voting user indicating whether the voting user is an expert on a given topic; assigning a voting weight to one or more relationships in said entity-relationship graph in response to an input from the voting user and based on the voting user's expert status; and sorting the relationships in the entity-relationship graph based at least on said voting weight. | 05-10-2012 |
20120151418 | LINKING OF A PLURALITY OF ITEMS OF A USER INTERFACE TO DISPLAY NEW INFORMATION INFERRED FROM THE PLURALITY OF ITEMS THAT ARE LINKED - A first item and a second item that are displayed in a user interface are selected via a computational device. A determination is made as to whether a linkage between the first item and the second item is a valid linkage, wherein the valid linkage indicates that inferences that relate the first item to the second item may be drawn by interpreting properties of the first item and properties of the second item. In response to determining that the linkage between the first item and the second item is a valid linkage, the properties of the first item and the properties of the second item are interpreted to infer new properties that relate the properties of the first item to the properties of the second item. | 06-14-2012 |
20120167015 | PROVIDING VISUALIZATION OF SYSTEM LANDSCAPES - One or more processors may provide visual representations of a system landscape. A first visual representation of the system may be displayed, the first visual representation providing a first level of detail of at least one first system component. An indication from a user to display a second visual representation of the system may be received, and the processor may determine a second level of detail of the system based on the received indication. Data associated with the second level of detail of the system may be identified, and the second visual representation of the system may be displayed, the second visual representation of the system including the data associated with the second level of detail of the system. | 06-28-2012 |
20120185804 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING VISUALIZATION OF A PARAMETER ON MULTIPLE BRANCHES OF A DISTRIBUTION NETWORK - A method of displaying a representation of a power distribution network and a representation of a parameter of the power distribution network on a display device includes displaying the representation of a power distribution network on the display device as an expandable tree structure in a first region, the expandable tree structure having branches that can be expanded and collapsed; displaying the representation of the parameter on the display device during a time period that the representation of the power distribution network is displayed; and collapsing or expanding a portion of the of the representation of the parameter when a branch is expanded or collapsed. | 07-19-2012 |
20120198389 | EXPANDABLE AND COLLAPSIBLE ARRAYS OF DOCUMENTS - An embodiment provides a product comprising a machine-readable medium and machine-executable instructions for causing a computer to perform a method comprising providing a first array of information elements adapted to be expanded into at least one other array of information elements on a display. Another embodiment provides a method of displaying information elements on a display of a computer system with arrays of information elements, the method comprising displaying a first array of information elements, expanding the first array of information elements into at least one other array of information elements, wherein the first array of information elements and the at least one other array of information elements have a commonality. A system and a graphical user interface providing same are equally provided herein. | 08-02-2012 |
20120246600 | INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An apparatus comprises a module which stores document information to which content that includes link character strings linked to other items on an item basis is caused to correspond, a first display control module which displays content on an arbitrary item stored as first content according to a user operation, a second display control module which lists the link character strings included in the displayed first content and displays them together with the first content, a selection module which selects, according to a user operation, a link character string displayed, and a third display control module which displays content on an item stored in such a manner that the item is linked to the selected link character string. | 09-27-2012 |
20120290988 | Multifaceted Visualization for Topic Exploration - A multifaceted visualization technique is provided for visually exploring topics in multi-relational data. A data set is visualized by obtaining the data set comprising a plurality of entities, facets and relations, wherein the entities are instances of a particular concept, the facets are classes of entities and the relations are connections between pairs of the entities; obtaining a selection of one of the facets as a topic facet, wherein entities in the topic facet are topic entities, wherein facets in the plurality of facets other than the topic facet are keyword facets; generating a visualization comprising the topic entities rendered as nodes arranged within a central region; and generating one or more surrounding shapes around the central region, wherein each of the surrounding shapes corresponds to one of the keyword facets, wherein entities within the corresponding keyword facet of a given one of the surrounding shapes are rendered as keyword entities. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290989 | Presentation of an Interactive User Interface - Examples of a user interface are described that may include a master risk landscape map that includes nodes representing risks and links representing correlations between the risks. The visual appearance of the nodes and links may provide information about their characteristics, such as risk likelihood, risks severity, risk detectability, and/or strength of interconnectivity. The user may be able to interact with the master risk landscape map to drill down to further detail while simultaneously removing less relevant information as desired, thereby potentially allowing the user to focus on the most relevant information. | 11-15-2012 |
20120311504 | EXTENSIBLE ARCHITECTURE FOR NAVIGATING A HIERARCHY - Described herein are methods and systems for providing an extensible architecture for navigating a data hierarchy. For example, in at least certain embodiments, a module on a system provides a hub architecture for navigation. One or more selections can navigate within a hub and also between hubs with each hub having selectable navigation options. | 12-06-2012 |
20120311505 | Document Management System and Program for the System - Provided is a document management system to be used in research institutes or similar organizations to utilize various data (documents) as intellectual properties, in which users can browse and locate documents from any desired point of view on a tree view showing folders with documents stored therein. The system allows users to assign each of the predetermined classifications, which are defined in a master file, to one of the hierarchical levels whose number equals that of the classifications. Subsequently, the system creates a tree view showing folders and documents based on the classifications respectively assigned to the hierarchical levels. Unlike conventional systems using fixed hierarchical structures, the present system allows users to freely change the hierarchical structure. | 12-06-2012 |
20120317518 | GENERATING TREEMAPS BASED ON GRAPHICAL SELECTIONS - Various example embodiments are disclosed. According to an example embodiment, non-transitory, computer-readable medium comprising instructions stored thereon. When executed by at least one processor, the instructions may be configured to cause the at least one processor to provide a treemap module and a tile module. The treemap module may be configured to generate treemaps within or in association with a first treemap within a first treemap graphical user interface (GUI). The treemaps may include sets of tiles, the tiles in the each set representing subsets of records in a database, based on filtered results obtained from application of groups of filters to the records. The tile module may be configured configured to process the selections of the sets of tiles in the first treemap. | 12-13-2012 |
20120331423 | METHOD FOR NAVIGATING A STRUCTURE OF DATA USING A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE HAVING A LOOPED HISTORY CHAIN - An improved navigation method implemented as a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI has navigation tools to allow a user to navigate to different locations of a structure of data. The GUI stores a history chain containing a sequence of nodes including a first node and a last node, each node represents a location the user has previously navigated to. The GUI moves backward or forward along the history chain in response to a back or forward command from the user. When a current node position in the history chain is the first (or last) node and a back (or forward) command is received, the GUI moves to the last (or first) node of the history chain, thereby forming a looped history chain. | 12-27-2012 |
20130007671 | MULTI-FACETED RELATIONSHIP HUBS - Multi-faceted relationship hubs can support browsing an extensible set of relationship types from within a single tool window. A user can switch between relationship types within a single tool window without disrupting user flow by having to change context in a plurality of tool windows. Multiple instances of relationship hubs can be created. Browsing navigation history can be stored, allowing a user to maintain and reacquire relationship contexts. A user can preview the content of one or more files without opening the file. | 01-03-2013 |
20130055166 | User Interface for Large Scale System Monitoring - User interfaces that enable monitoring of the configuration and status of computing systems are disclosed. The user interfaces may summarize data collected from a plurality of computing systems. The data may be summarized by flagging collected information that does not match a set of reference information or the collected information from other systems. The flags may be presented at a variety of levels of granularity, and the presence of a flag at one level of granularity may indicate the presence of a flagged item at any lower level of granularity. A dynamic hierarchical user interface provides a user with a high level overview of system status, as well as the ability to drill down to identify specific system information that does not adhere to a specified configuration. | 02-28-2013 |
20130061182 | INTERFACE AND METHOD FOR EXPLORING A COLLECTION OF DATA - An interface is provided for permitting a user to explore a collection of data. The data collection, in embodiments, provides nodes as structural elements, and references which are assigned to nodes and hold identifiers of other nodes. Multiple references can be assigned to each node, thus guiding a user of the system to multiple other nodes, and multiple references can hold the same address, so that multiple nodes can have references pointing to the same node. The interface allows visualizing the network created by the interconnection of the nodes on a display region. The interface also allows the user to intuitively navigate along the references in both directions of the references, so that the user can explore which nodes are referenced by a certain node, and also by which nodes a certain node is referenced. Electronic documents can be assigned to each node, and the interface allows these documents to be displayed either directly in a reserved display region of the interface, or by launching a matching application on the user's computer. | 03-07-2013 |
20130125058 | Hierarchy-Indicating Graphical User Interface For Discussion Threads - Techniques are described for display and navigation of hierarchical messages, which displays include contextual data for the messages. Context information for a current message includes reply messages, parent messages, and metadata representations. Message representations are also associated with visual depth indicators that are independent of the text of the messages. Users may navigate displays of hierarchical message data using different navigational inputs. For example, more information may be requested for messages, without selecting a new message for viewing as a focal message, using swipes across portions of the display dedicated to displaying the messages. A limited number of messages for a requested list of messages is initially retrieved and displayed, and a mechanism for viewing more messages from the list is provided. Historical usage of the mechanism is recorded and the number of messages to be displayed for the list of messages is adjusted based on the historical usage data. | 05-16-2013 |
20130125059 | Hierarchy-Indicating Graphical User Interface For Discussion Threads - Techniques are described for display and navigation of hierarchical messages, which displays include contextual data for the messages. Context information for a current message includes reply messages, parent messages, and metadata representations. Message representations are also associated with visual depth indicators that are independent of the text of the messages. Users may navigate displays of hierarchical message data using different navigational inputs. For example, more information may be requested for messages, without selecting a new message for viewing as a focal message, using swipes across portions of the display dedicated to displaying the messages. A limited number of messages for a requested list of messages is initially retrieved and displayed, and a mechanism for viewing more messages from the list is provided. Historical usage of the mechanism is recorded and the number of messages to be displayed for the list of messages is adjusted based on the historical usage data. | 05-16-2013 |
20130125060 | VISUAL DEPTH-INDICATORS FOR MESSAGES - Techniques are described for display and navigation of hierarchical messages, which displays include contextual data for the messages. Context information for a current message includes reply messages, parent messages, and metadata representations. Message representations are also associated with visual depth indicators that are independent of the text of the messages. | 05-16-2013 |
20130179842 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING A GRAPHICAL INTERFACE IN AN AIRCRAFT COCKPIT - The invention relates in particular to a method and a system for monitoring a graphical interface in a computer system of an aircraft cockpit. The method comprises, in addition to the display of a graphical interface of a client application based on a tree structure of graphical interaction objects composing said graphical interface, the following steps: obtaining a plurality of graphical interaction objects having a tree-structure organization; creating and adding, to said obtained tree structure, at least one new graphical interaction object defining a critical graphical display zone; modifying the tree-structure dependency of at least one critical graphical interaction object, of the obtained tree structure to make it dependent from the new graphical interaction object defining the critical zone; and performing critical monitoring only of the critical graphical objects attached to the critical zone. | 07-11-2013 |
20130305192 | Methods and Systems for Entering Object Assignments - Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for entering object assignments. In one implementation, a system is provided that comprises means for storing first and second object hierarchies, the second object hierarchy including a plurality of objects and at least one folder object being the root of a sub-hierarchy of objects, and each object of the first and second object hierarchies having an object type of a pre-defined set of object types. The system may further comprise a rule base for storage of object types and associated sub-sets, means for displaying the object hierarchies on a graphical user interface which enables a user's selection of the first object from the first object hierarchy and displays an indicator for the at least one folder object if the sub-hierarchy of the folder object contains at least one object having an object type of the sub-set associated with the first object and, in response, further displays an assignment symbol between the first object and the folder object and/or the at least one object of the sub-hierarchy. | 11-14-2013 |
20130332891 | TECHNIQUES TO MANAGE ACCESS TO ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION OF AN ENTITY - Techniques to manage access to organization information for an entity are described. An apparatus may include a presentation component operative to present an organizational chart on a presentation area. The organizational chart may comprise multiple nodes associated with members of an organization, and connections between the nodes representing hierarchical relationships between the nodes. A security component may be communicatively coupled to the presentation component. The security component may be operative to receive a request to modify a characteristic of the organizational chart from an operator, access security settings for the operator, and authorize the operator to modify a characteristic of the organizational chart. Authorization may be granted, for example, when the operator is a delegate and a permission level for the delegate allows a modification operation associated with the modify request. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 12-12-2013 |
20130339907 | User Interface Editor - In one embodiment, a method performed by one or more computing devices including defining a hierarchical structure for a user interface (UI) that includes defining one or more layers of the hierarchical structure, adding one or more objects at each layer, and specifying one or more relationships among particular objects. The method further including associating metadata with each object at each layer, the metadata describing how the corresponding object is presented in the user interface. | 12-19-2013 |
20140013283 | Summary and Navigation of Hierarchical Levels - In one embodiment, one or more components of a user interface are arranged in a hierarchy of layers. The user interface is presented according to the structure of the hierarchy, with a first component of the user interface presented at a first layer. One or more second component are presented at a second layer, the second components being one or more children of the first component and the second layer being one layer above the first layer. | 01-09-2014 |
20140053110 | Methods for Arranging and Presenting Information According to A Strategic Organization Hierarchy - Methods for arranging and presenting information according to a strategic organization hierarchy are described. A method for arranging and presenting information according to a strategic organization hierarchy includes the steps of receiving organization information comprising a plurality of organization components, arranging the organization information into an organization hierarchy, and displaying at least a portion of the organization hierarchy in a graphical user interface. | 02-20-2014 |
20140082568 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING A FAMILY TREE DATA STRUCTURE - A tree building system that accesses data from a social networking site and, in some embodiments, other data sites having information that may pertain to the relationships between users of the social networking site. A rules engine within the system implements logic for analyzing the data from the social networking site. The system provides a candidate list of possible relatives for selection by a user and solicits information from the user through the use of guided questions. | 03-20-2014 |
20140096088 | Methods and Systems for Visually Forming Relationships Between Electronic Content - Methods and systems are discussed for visually forming relationships between electronic content. Electronic content from a computing device may be received. The electronic content may be displayed on a graphical user interface. The received electronic content may be analyzed to identify characteristics of the electronic content. The received electronic content may be visually related to previously received electronic content on a graphical user interface. The received and the previously received electronic content may be visually related by applying a relationship hierarchy to the identified characteristics. | 04-03-2014 |
20140096089 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING MIND-MAP USER INTERFACE AND METHOD FOR MANIPULATING MIND-MAP USING THE SAME - An electronic device includes a display, at least one processor, a memory, and a mind-map user interface stored in the memory, executed by the processor, and configured to create or edit a plurality of topic objects which are formed of user-entered input data and connected to each other in a hierarchical tree structure. The processor is configured to display on the display the plurality of topic objects distributed in the hierarchical tree structure when the mind-map user interface is executed. At least one of the plurality of topic objects contains text string data including numeric data and an arithmetic identifier, and also at least one of the plurality of topic objects contains text string data including a function identifier which indicates a predefined function. The processor is further configured to convert specific text string data, corresponding to the numeric data combined with the arithmetic identifier among the text string data contained in subordinate topic objects connected to a specific topic object having the function identifier, into equivalent numeric string data, and to calculate a result value of the function indicated by the function identifier on the basis of the numeric string data. | 04-03-2014 |
20140109014 | GRAPHICAL STORAGE SYSTEM VISUALIZATION, TIMELINE BASED EVENT VISUALIZATION, AND STORAGE SYSTEM CONFIGURATION VISUALIZATION - A method and system for visually displaying and navigating a computer storage system are disclosed. The storage system can be graphically browsed to select a particular entity in the storage system. A graphical timeline of events relating to the selected entity is displayed. Selecting an event from the timeline displays a graphical representation of the storage system at a time relating to the selected event or additional graphical detail about the selected event. Based on the selected event, configuration information for the entity in the storage system that experienced the event can be displayed and compared against the configuration of the entity at a different time or against a predefined template. | 04-17-2014 |
20140123074 | Dynamic Self-Reorganizing Trees in a User Interface - Methods and systems may provide for receiving a display request associated with a parent node of a hierarchical tree, wherein the parent node has a plurality of child nodes. Additionally, a graphical representation of the parent node and the plurality of child nodes may be determined based on a plurality of factors, and a display response can be generated based on the graphical representation. In one example, the display request is received from a browser and the plurality of factors include a browser type associated with the browser. | 05-01-2014 |
20140123075 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND ACCESSING TRAILS - A device for generating a trail. The device includes a processor for executing a set of instructions and a memory for storing the set of instructions. The set of instructions are executed to receive user input to create a trail in response to content generated or retrieved by a user, establish a hierarchy for the trail in response to receiving the content, establish characteristics for the multiple nodes including at least shape and color, and generating the trail utilizing the hierarchy and the characteristics and according to user preferences established by the user, the trail includes multiple nodes that are interconnected. | 05-01-2014 |
20140143734 | BUSINESS OBJECT EXPLORER - A method and system for displaying an business object explorer within a development environment includes displaying a control bar including actionable items; in response to selection of an actionable item, displaying a list of business objects in a tree area, the business objects including at least one expandable business object; and in response to selection of the at least one expandable business object, expanding the at least one expandable business object to display a hierarchical tree including attributes of the selected at least one expandable business object in the tree area. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143735 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED DECISION TRACKING SYSTEMS, DISPLAYS, AND METHODS - Systems, displays, and methods for recording and tracking protocols being followed by businesses or individuals in particular real-world scenarios. The system enables users to generate and share customized decision tree displays and files indicating decisions involved in real-world scenarios. The system allows users to support or defend particular decisions by inputting customized/specific information and associating the user-input information with specific decision nodes in a decision tree. The user-input information can be saved in a decision tree file and displayed in conjunction with the decision tree in such a way that the user-generated association is conveyed to any viewer of the decision tree. Users can be enabled to upload supporting documents, select supporting regulatory/authoritative citations, add commentary, post hyperlinks, indicate that independent or additional approval/review was given, and the like. | 05-22-2014 |
20140157207 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE (GUI) TO ASSOCIATE INFORMATION WITH AN OBJECT - Provided is a graphical user interface (GUI) to associate information with an object. Different views are maintained providing different hierarchical arrangements of a set of objects. Selection is received of one view and one object in the selected view. Information is associated with the selected object, wherein the associated information is accessible in all views in which the object with which the information is associated is accessible. | 06-05-2014 |
20140165011 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - When a plurality of images are laid out within one page, the images may overlap each other. There is provided a layer change unit configured to, if the images overlap each other, intuitively change the hierarchical level of an image to perform processing for an image hidden behind another image, thereby allowing processing for the image hidden behind the other image by changing the hierarchical level of the image while maintaining its position without moving the image. | 06-12-2014 |
20140195984 | ANALYTIC FRAMEWORKS FOR PERSONS OF INTEREST - The present systems and methods relate to frameworks for identifying persons of interest identified through datasets collected from law-enforcement agencies, financial institutions, or other public resources. The present systems represent network data regarding individuals and explicit connections between them as a network graph. The present systems determine a statistical model representing the network graph, the statistical model generating hidden parameters for decomposing and projecting the network graph onto a space of baseline communities. The present systems categorize cliques of nodes in the network graph as the space of baseline communities and infer a category for a received potential person of interest by determining a node corresponding to the received potential person of interest, and associating a clique from the categorized cliques to the node corresponding to the received potential person of interest, where the inferred category for the potential person of interest identifies the potential person of interest as suspicious. | 07-10-2014 |
20140237431 | ENDOSCOPE IMAGE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND ENDOSCOPE IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - An endoscope apparatus displays a folder tree on a screen of an LCD, the folder tree including multiple folders according to zones in which endoscope image files are registered and multiple folders according to dates set as a hierarchical layer higher than the multiple folders according to zones. The endoscope apparatus extracts folder names of lower folders which include at least one endoscope image file, the lower folders being included in each of the multiple higher folders, as virtual folder names, based on folder names of the multiple folders, collects and integrates the same folder names, associates endoscope image files included in folders having the same folder name with the extracted virtual folder, and displays endoscope images associated with the selected virtual folder. | 08-21-2014 |
20140245233 | READABLE STRUCTURAL TEXT-BASED REPRESENTATION OF ACTIVITY FLOWS - A computerized method for converting a graphical representation of an activity flow to a structural text-based representation according to a plurality of human readability considerations, said computerized method comprising: converting a graphical representation of an activity flow to a structural text-based representation having a plurality of text elements which are related to one another in a hierarchical manner; identifying a subset of said plurality of text elements having an equal number of hierarchical degrees of separation from a root of said plurality of text elements; acquiring a plurality of human readability rules; ordering said subset of plurality of text elements by applying said plurality of human readability rules to said subset of plurality of text elements. | 08-28-2014 |
20140258939 | SELECTION OF HIERARCHICALLY ORGANIZED ITEMS - Disclosed herein are user interfaces and related systems and methods for selecting hierarchically arranged items in order to facilitate subsequent operations on an accumulation of such data selected from throughout a hierarchy. More specifically, a columnized user interface is disclosed that includes a final column containing an accumulation of items selected from various locations within the hierarchy. A user may interactively navigate throughout the hierarchy in one or more other columns, while selectively adding specific items from any such hierarchical locations in the final column for subsequent processing. Other tools may support grouping into favorites, recall of previous selections, or other operations to facilitate rapid creation and recreation of item groups for processing. | 09-11-2014 |
20140282268 | USER INTERFACE NAVIGATION ELEMENTS FOR NAVIGATING DATASETS - One embodiment of the invention sets forth a data navigation engine that generates user interface navigation elements for navigation large and expanding datasets. The user interface navigation elements may include a pivot control zoom slider for adjusting the data resolution with respect to different zoom pivot locations, an interactive ruler for consistent visual feedback and navigation of intervals of data within the dataset, a context bar for viewing the data proximate to a current view, and a multi-scale slider for repositioning the dataset within the current view. These user interface navigation elements provide the end-user with consistent control and visual feedback while navigating the dataset, independent of the size of the dataset or the portion of the dataset displayed within the current view. Therefore, large and expanding datasets can be navigated more effectively relative to prior art approaches. | 09-18-2014 |
20150046881 | ARCHIVING BUSINESS OBJECTS - An identification of a business object may be received. Nodes of the business object may be displayed. In response to a selection of a node from the nodes, an archiving status of the node may be set. The selected node may be linked to a parent node. The selected node may be archived based on the archiving status. The nodes may be displayed in response to receiving an indication that the business object is to be partially archived. In an embodiment, the current respective archiving statuses of the nodes are displayed. In an embodiment, an identification of an archival object may be received. The archival status of the node may be saved in the identified archival object. | 02-12-2015 |
20150095854 | PERSISTING STATE AT SCALE ACROSS BROWSER SESSIONS - The management of application state storage associated with a hierarchical application. The hierarchical application includes multiple parent user interface elements, each of at least some having child user interface elements arranged in a corresponding hierarchy. The user may navigate through the hierarchical application. For instance, by selecting a child user interface element of a first parent user interface element having a first hierarchy of child user interface elements, the user might navigate to (and potentially also create) a second parent user interface element having a second hierarchy of child user interface elements. A hierarchical storage agent manages the state of the hierarchical application. The hierarchical storage agent provides application state to a remote storage over an application program interface in a manner that preserves at least some of the hierarchy of one or more parent user interface elements of the hierarchical application. | 04-02-2015 |
20150149966 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AN EXPLORER FOR USER INTERFACE PROTOTYPING - A method for generating an interactions explorer for a user interface prototype comprising detecting one or more prototyping actions while a user creates a user interface prototype, adding the one or more prototyping actions to an interaction hierarchy and generating an interactive visual depiction of the interaction hierarchy. | 05-28-2015 |
20150378562 | CHAIN LAYOUT FOR DISPLAYING HIERARCHICAL DATA - A chain visualization shows cards representing first, second and third hierarchical data items from a database. The second data item descends from the first. The third descends from the second. The visualization shows an ancestors chain, a descendants chain, and an active item location where the chains meet. The visualization shows a card visually associated with the ancestors chain for the first data item, a card in the active item location for the second data item, and a card visually associated with the descendants chain for the third data item. The cards present information from the data items. When a card is activated, it moves to the active item location. A descendant data item, descending from the new active item, is retrieved from the database. A card representing the descendant data item is displayed as visually associated with the descendants chain. | 12-31-2015 |
20160041953 | INHERITANCE OF RULES ACROSS HIERARCHICAL LEVELS - Rules, such as condition-action rules, are configured at different levels of a hierarchy. For example, a top level site administrator may configure rules, lower level administrators may configure rules and end users may configure rules. Rules created at a higher hierarchical level are automatically inherited by lower hierarchical levels in the same branch of the hierarchy. The source of the inherited rule is indicated with its display such that the hierarchical level of creation can readily be determined. The inherited rule(s) may be toggled on/off at the lower hierarchical levels but edits to inherited rule(s) are restricted. Instead, a copy of any inherited rule may be made to create a local copy of the rule that is editable. Rules may be ordered and when a lower hierarchical level inherits the rules, the ordering is preserved. While the ordering of any rules remains constant when inherited at the lower levels, the lower level may toggle on/off the execution of each rule within the ordering. | 02-11-2016 |
20160077691 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A data processing method of a data processing apparatus includes designating a folder element, an expansion element, and an abbreviation element to be displayed on an address bar. The method further includes generating an abbreviation element that can be used to realize an abbreviation display of an intermediate hierarchy, based on each designated element, and displaying the generated abbreviation element on the address bar. Further, the method includes expanding and displaying hierarchy information including both a folder element and an expansion element that corresponds to the folder element on the address bar. | 03-17-2016 |
20160103576 | NAVIGATING APPLICATION INTERFACE - When detecting a preset trigger event, the techniques of the present disclosure determine a current application interface on a terminal screen and display interface navigation information corresponding to an application to which the current application interface belongs, in which the interface navigation information includes a plurality of display elements in a hierarchical structure, and the hierarchical structure corresponds to a hierarchical relationship among a plurality of application interfaces of the application. Through the technical solution of the present disclosure, it is easy for users to figure out the hierarchical relationship among the application interfaces of the application, and to complete the operation navigation of the application interfaces. | 04-14-2016 |
20160162598 | EFFICIENT NAVIGATION THROUGH HIERARCHICAL MAPPINGS - The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method comprises displaying a first portion of a representation a first and a second hierarchical structure, each of the first hierarchical structure and the second hierarchical structure including a plurality of fields, displaying a representation of mappings between fields of the first hierarchical structure and the second hierarchical structure, receiving a predetermined user command associated with a particular field of the second hierarchical structure, in response to receiving the predetermined user command, if the displayed first portion of the representation of the first hierarchical structure includes no field mapped to the particular field of the second hierarchical structure, displaying a second portion of the first structure including at least one field mapped to the particular field of the second hierarchical structure, and, if the at least one field mapped to the particular field of the second hierarchical structure is hidden, expand the second portion of the first hierarchical structure until the at least one field mapped to the particular field of the second hierarchical structure becomes visible. | 06-09-2016 |
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