Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120005599 | Visual Cues in Web Conferencing - A web conferencing system includes web conferencing server for outputting a visual presentation which includes a visual cue. The visual cue is linked with an executable action. A visual robot operated by the web conferencing server graphically recognizes the visual cue when the visual presentation is displayed in a web conference, and associates the visual cue with the executable action. The executable action is then executed. | 01-05-2012 |
20120039505 | DYNAMICALLY RESIZING TEXT AREA ON A DISPLAY DEVICE - Dynamically resizing a text area in which text is displayed on a display device. A camera device periodically captures snapshots of a user's gaze point and head position while reading text, and the captured snapshots are used to detect movement of the user's head. Head movement suggests that the text area is too wide for comfortable viewing. Accordingly, the width of the text area is automatically resized, responsive to detecting head movement. Preferably, the resized width is set to the position of the user's gaze point prior to the detected head movement. The text is then preferably reflowed within the resized text area. Optionally, the user may be prompted to confirm whether the resizing will be performed. | 02-16-2012 |
20120116580 | Biodegradable Device and Mesh Network for Optimization of Payload Material Delivery - A biodegradable payload material delivery and notification device includes a biodegradable shell enclosing at least a portion of a biodegradable detector that includes a payload material, and biodegradable circuitry electrically connected to the detector and capable of performing a delivery notification operation. The biodegradable shell degrades upon exposure to environmental conditions causing release of an amount of the payload material, and the detector communicates release of the amount of the payload material to the circuitry causing the circuitry to perform the delivery notification operation. The delivery notification operation includes generating and transmitting to a mesh network a signal having one or more parameters that are correlated with the amount of the payload material released. A mesh network includes a plurality of biodegradable devices and one or more edge collection devices. Each biodegradable device is configured to broadcast a signal that may be received and processed by the edge collection devices. | 05-10-2012 |
20120159399 | SYSTEM FOR ORGANIZING AND NAVIGATING DATA WITHIN A TABLE - A table navigation system includes: a table identifier to identify a table and columns within the table; a navigation identifier to determine whether a navigation input by a user to navigate within a column of the table exceeds a threshold, wherein the threshold relates to an expectation of continued navigation input by the user; a filter to filter unique elements in the column into separate categories; and a display engine to present the into separate categories in an interactive display that overlays the table. | 06-21-2012 |
20120174029 | DYNAMICALLY MAGNIFYING LOGICAL SEGMENTS OF A VIEW - Exemplary embodiments disclose a method and system for dynamically magnifying logical segments of a view. The method and system include (a) in response detection of a first user gesture in a first location on a display screen, determining if the first user gesture represents a magnification event; (b) in response to detection of the magnification event, determining a shape of a first object displayed on the display screen within proximity of the first user gesture; (c) magnifying the shape of the first object to provide a magnified first object; (d) displaying the magnified first object in a first window over the first object; and (e) in response to detection of a second user gesture in a different location of the display screen, repeating steps (a) through (d) to magnify a second object and display the second object in a second window simultaneously with the first window. A further embodiment may include dynamically magnifying the magnified first object to various magnification levels. | 07-05-2012 |
20120262291 | BIODEGRADABLE SMART SENSOR FOR MESH NETWORK APPLICATIONS - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for a biodegradable sensor device for mesh networking applications. In an embodiment of the invention, a biodegradable sensor device for mesh networking applications is provided. The device includes a frame formed of biodegradable material such as a mixture of polylactic acid and a resin, a biodegradable battery such as a flexible biodegradable lithium ion battery, an antenna, an environmental event detector formed from biodegradable material responsive to a change in environmental conditions, and signal generating circuitry configured to be responsive to detecting an environmental event by broadcasting a signal to other sensor devices in a mesh network and also to re-broadcast signals received from other sensor devices in the mesh network. | 10-18-2012 |
20130019169 | WORD CORRECTION IN A MULTI-TOUCH ENVIRONMENTAANM Bastide; Paul R.AACI BoxfordAAST MAAACO USAAGP Bastide; Paul R. Boxford MA USAANM Broomhall; Matthew E.AACI South BurlingtonAAST VTAACO USAAGP Broomhall; Matthew E. South Burlington VT USAANM Loredo; Robert E.AACI North Miami BeachAAST FLAACO USAAGP Loredo; Robert E. North Miami Beach FL US - A method for word correction on a multi-touch device, including: detecting a selection by a user of a word displayed in a user interface of the multi-touch device; breaking the word into logical segments; presenting the logical segments in the user interface; detecting a user-selected segment of one of the logical segments; displaying at least one alternative segment for the user-selected segment in the user interface; and altering the selected segment in response to receiving a user-selected replacement from the at least one alternative segment. | 01-17-2013 |
20130179806 | CUSTOMIZING A TAG CLOUD - A system for customizing a tag cloud includes at least one processor to access and execute computer readable instructions stored on a computer readable storage medium, where the computer readable instructions are to cause the at least one processor to, upon execution of the computer readable instructions identify tags from a source; assign a score to each tag in the source based on tag attribute; temporarily increase the score for a new tag during a time period measured from a creation of the new tag; and create a tag cloud in a graphical user interface that emphasizes each tag according to its score. | 07-11-2013 |
20130227484 | CUSTOMIZING A TAG CLOUD - A method for customizing a tag cloud includes assigning a score to each tag in a source of tags, the score being based on a tag attribute; temporarily increasing the score for a new tag during a time period measured from a creation of the new tag; and customizing said tag cloud in a graphical user interface by emphasizing each tag according to its score. | 08-29-2013 |
20130230248 | ENSURING VALIDITY OF THE BOOKMARK REFERENCE IN A COLLABORATIVE BOOKMARKING SYSTEM - A method, system and computer program product for ensuring that the tags accurately describe a resource referenced by a bookmark in a collaborative bookmarking system. A user bookmarking an Internet resource that is referenced by a bookmark is detected. The user provides a description of the bookmark in the form of metadata, which includes tags, to be associated with the bookmark. The Internet resource is analyzed to determine its meaning. A second user bookmarking the same Internet resource that is referenced by the bookmark is detected. The second user provides a description of the bookmark in the form of metadata, which includes tags. The Internet resource is analyzed a second time to determine its meaning If the relatedness of these meanings is beyond a threshold limit, then the original bookmark metadata is invalidated and the invalidated tags are replaced with the tags provided by the second user. | 09-05-2013 |
20130262594 | MANAGEMENT AND SYNCHRONIZATION OF RELATED ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS - Embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method, and program product for managing and synchronizing electronic communications having one or more common topics. A computer system detects a first electronic communication involving a first user and a first set of users. The computer system analyzes the first electronic communication to identify a topic and determines whether the identified topic matches a topic of a second electronic communication involving the first user and a second set of users. Responsive to the identified topic of the first electronic communication matching a topic of the second electronic communication, the computer system provides to the first user an option to initiate an electronic communication involving the first user and the first and second sets of users. | 10-03-2013 |
20130304827 | ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK HANDLE TYPE AHEAD ENHANCEMENT - Determining a correct user with whom to communicate, e.g., the correct intended recipient of an electronic message in electronic communications. In one aspect, an unintended recipient may identify the message as unintended. In another aspect, a time lapse in response or lack of response from the recipient may flag an unintended recipient. Using a likeness algorithm, users related to the recipient is identified and the message may be sent to those identified related users. | 11-14-2013 |
20130311177 | AUTOMATED COLLABORATIVE ANNOTATION OF CONVERGED WEB CONFERENCE OBJECTS - A methodology may be provided that automatically annotates web conference application sharing (e.g., sharing scenes and/or slides) based on voice and/or web conference data. In one specific example, a methodology may be provided that threads the annotations and assigns authorship to the correct resources. | 11-21-2013 |
20130326020 | PREVENTING PERSONAL INFORMATION FROM BEING POSTED TO AN INTERNET - A method of preventing personal information from being posted to an internet, comprising determining whether text within a post includes a pre-identified text pattern indicative of a first user's personal information, replacing any identified personal information with a number of trackback identifiers, and posting the text to the internet with the post including the number of trackback identifiers. A system for replacing personal information in an interact post with a number of trackback identifiers, the system comprising a processor, a discovery module, and a trackback generation module, in which the discovery module, when executed on the processor, searches through text within a post for any personal information associated with a first user, and in which the trackback generation module, when executed on the processor, replaces any identified personal information with the number of trackback identifiers before the information is posted to the internet. | 12-05-2013 |
20140006400 | AUTOMATED ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK INTER-ENTITY RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT | 01-02-2014 |
20140079238 | AUTOMATED LEFT-RIGHT HEADPHONE EARPIECE IDENTIFIER - Methods and systems of automatically identifying left-right earpieces may provide for determining an orientation of a device, and determining an earpiece orientation of a headset relative to the orientation of the device. Additionally, an audio output of the device may be configured based on the earpiece orientation. In one example, the earpiece orientation indicates whether the earpiece is facing either left or right with respect to the device. | 03-20-2014 |
20140152583 | OPTIMISTIC PLACEMENT OF USER INTERFACE ELEMENTS ON A TOUCH SCREEN - Optimistic positioning or repositioning of user interface (UI) elements on a touch screen performed by program instructions comprises storing a map of user interaction with a first UI element at a first position on the touch screen, including a force of the user interaction, to identify an area on the touch screen having repeated stress; maintaining a history of user force with the positions on the map; and responsive to the history of user force, moving the position of the first UI element on the touch screen to a second position. | 06-05-2014 |
20140237340 | DYNAMIC LOADING OF TABULAR DATA - Dynamic data loading of tabular data includes identifying a plurality of formulas within tabular data of a document, wherein the tabular data is arranged in cells. Using a processor, a hierarchy for the tabular data is determined according to cell dependencies defined in the formulas. Each of a plurality of different portions of the document is sent from a first computing system to a second computing system in an order determined from the hierarchy. | 08-21-2014 |
20140337781 | OPTIMIZED NON-GRID BASED NAVIGATION - An optimized content navigation system includes a display device including a touch screen user interface and a navigation adjustor engine coupled to the display device. The navigation adjustor engine is configured to display navigable content on the touch screen user interface. The navigation adjustor engine is further configured to determine from the content at least one preferred path of navigation through the content. The preferred path of navigation is based on the content. The navigation adjustor engine is further configured to receive a user input that defines a path of navigation and adjust the user defined path of navigation to follow the preferred path of navigation in response to detection of the user defined path of navigation to be within a tolerance level of the preferred path of navigation. The navigation adjust engine is further configured to navigate through the content along the adjusted path of navigation. | 11-13-2014 |