Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080244448 | GENERATION OF MENU PRESENTATION RELATIVE TO A GIVEN MENU ORIENTATION - Methods are disclosed for a computational machine presentation including an origination point for a user, re-arranging a first selectable target more likely to be selected first, to a presentation nearer the origination point. The presentation format persists for any given user across a variety of computational machines, thus minimizing the effort for a given user in terms of cross computational-machine transfer and in terms of an on the average shortened navigational distance for any of the computational machines. The persistent format is consistent for cross computational-machine transfer, and this consistency coincides with a systematic decrease in navigational distance. | 10-02-2008 |
20080244451 | ADAPTIVE DYNAMIC NAVIGATIONAL CONTROL FOR NAVIGATING WITHIN AN APPLICATION - Methods are disclosed for navigating between and within applications that display most recently visited applications and application parts, with redundancies eliminated from the display. The methods can be carried out in a computational machine that compiles a list of visited data-access locations, and identifies data-access locations that have been visited more than once, wherein each data-access location that has been visited more than once is presented in a collapsed form as a single navigational target. The methods then can present the visited data-access locations as a navigational control record including navigational targets that represent the visited data-access locations. | 10-02-2008 |
20080256454 | Selection of list item using invariant focus location - A method to perform selection of a list item using an invariant selection location includes retrieving multiple data items to present for selection by a user. A single invariant selection location is recognized within a presentation window presented to the user. A subset of the multiple data items are then presented to the user within the presentation window, each of the presented data items are being presented within a respective presentation position defined within the presentation window. A single advance input mechanism is associated with the presentation window. The single advance input mechanism is operative to advance the presentation of data items within the presentation window. An advance input is received from the user, via the advanced input mechanism. The presentation of the subset of data items within the presentation window is advanced to locate a selected data item at the invariant selection location. | 10-16-2008 |
20080319947 | Mixed initiative semantic search - In one embodiment, a method is illustrated including receiving a search query, parsing the search query to identify first and second search terms, determining a relationship between the first and second search terms based on their respective domain assignments, conducting a search based on the respective domain assignments, and displaying a result of the search based on the respective domain assignments, and the relationship between the first and second search terms, as at least one rephrasing of the search query. | 12-25-2008 |
20110264697 | MIXED INITIATIVE SEMANTIC SEARCH - In one embodiment, a method is illustrated including receiving a search query, parsing the search query to identify first and second search terms, determining a relationship between the first and second search terms based on their respective domain assignments, conducting a search based on the respective domain assignments, and displaying a result of the search based on the respective domain assignments, and the relationship between the first and second search terms, as at least one rephrasing of the search query. | 10-27-2011 |
20120078611 | CONTEXT-AWARE CONVERSATIONAL USER INTERFACE - An input handler may receive natural language input associated with a command from a user through a user interface, and a language parser may parse the natural language input to determine parsed natural language input. A context monitor may receive context information associated with the user, and a context parser may parse the context information to obtain parsed context information associated with the natural language input and with the command. A command interpreter may interpret the parsed natural language input, using the parsed context information, to thereby determine the command. | 03-29-2012 |
20120166178 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MODEL-BASED PROCESSING OF LINGUISTIC USER INPUTS - The present invention includes model-based processing of linguistic user inputs. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a computer-implemented method comprising receiving linguistic inputs, parsing the linguistic inputs, mapping the linguistic inputs to a formal representation used by a model, applying the formal representation against the model, where the model comprises said formal representation, and where the model specifies relationships between the elements of the formal representation and defines process information, and accessing software resources based on the formal representation of the user input and the relationships and process information in said model. | 06-28-2012 |
20130006967 | SEMANTIC ACTIVITY AWARENESS - A domain-specific task may be defined from a library of domain-independent task patterns. A task pattern may be selected based on inferences made from a user's initial input, or just based on receiving sensor information through events or contextual information, or a combination of user input and sensor information. One or more elements of a selected task pattern may be defined in the context of a given domain to define the domain-specific task. | 01-03-2013 |
20130091448 | TRANSFORMATIVE USER INTERFACES - Various embodiments herein include systems, methods, and software that provide transformative user interfaces. Some embodiments include a container renderable within a user interface of a computing application. In some such embodiments, code of the container may be executable to receive an object to present within the container. Further, and based on a context of the container, such embodiments may present a view of the object within the container based on rendering information retrieved by the container via a rendering service of the object defining how the object is to be presented within the particular context of the container amongst a plurality of possible contexts within which the object can be rendered. In some embodiments, a container may further override and modify object behaviors when depending upon at least the particular container or context the context thereof. | 04-11-2013 |
20130117319 | OBJECTS IN A STORAGE ENVIRONMENT FOR CONNECTED APPLICATIONS - In one general aspect, a computer system can include instructions stored on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The computer system can include an application link manager configured to receive an indicator that a first application is linked to a second application, and an object generator configured to store a copy of data from a database of the first application and represented within a user interface of the first application as a core object in a storage environment in response to the indicator that the first application is linked to the second application. The computer system can also include a database link manager configured to link a database of the second application with the core object stored in the storage environment in response to the copy of the data being stored as the core object in the storage environment. | 05-09-2013 |
20130312087 | PERSONAL AUTHENTICATIONS ON COMPUTING DEVICES - A computer device receives a personal authentication statement from a user seeking to access concealed computer objects or applications on the computer device. A parser syntactically parses the personal authentication statement to extract a user-authentication token and a computer objects-authentication token. The computer objects-authentication token can identify one or more concealed computer objects on the computer device. The computer device reveals the one or more concealed computer objects to the user upon authentication of the user and verification that the authenticated user is authorized to access the concealed computer objects. | 11-21-2013 |
20130346889 | System and Method of Implementing a Transformative User Experience - A system and method of implementing a user experience. The method includes adjusting an elastic property of a container to change its context. The elastic property is one of an elastic purpose, and elastic collaboration, and an elastic practice. A revised view of a task object is presented according to the elastic property of the container having been adjusted and the context having been changed. | 12-26-2013 |
20140096056 | DATA EXPLORATION COMBINING VISUAL INSPECTION AND ANALYTIC SEARCH - A computer device displays a graph of a data set. The computer device includes a hybrid data analysis and visualization tool to query implicit properties of data items in the data set that are not evident upon visual inspection of the graph of the data set itself. The hybrid data analysis and visualization tool combines the graph of the data set with analog representations of data query results for visual data exploration. | 04-03-2014 |
20140136519 | TASK-ORIENTED SEARCH ENGINE OUTPUT - A task-oriented search tool searches for one or more tasks related to a search term submitted via a computer-user interface. The task-oriented search tool displays search results that include a task related to the search term and a task-solving tool for performing the task related to the search term. | 05-15-2014 |
20140258882 | COLLABORATIVE TASK MANAGEMENT - A computer-implemented method includes providing a collaborative task management tool coupled to a workflow management application. The method further includes generating, using the collaborative task management tool, user-selectable options for addressing an exception in an established workflow. | 09-11-2014 |