| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 715204000 | Presentation attribute (e.g., layout, etc.) | 44 |
| 20080294974 | WEBPAGE HISTORY VIEW - A system and method of selecting a web page from a plurality of web pages, wherein the plurality of web pages are represented using a plurality of thumbnails is provided. In addition, the plurality of web pages can comprise previously visited web pages and previewed web pages. The system and method further provides a visual indicator that is either displayed by default upon the selection of the web page or is drawn by a user. The visual indicator substantially encompasses a desired portion of the selected web page for initial viewing upon loading or re-loading of the selected web page. Alternatively, the visual indicator can be positioned so that at a predetermined proximity to a desired portion of the web page, the desired portion of the web page is focused on for initial viewing. Remaining portions of the selected web page not encompassed by the visual indicator are not initially displayed. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20090024910 | ASYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATION AND CONTENT SHARING - Techniques and mechanisms are provided for allowing a user to communicate and share content with other users in an asynchronous manner. A user can generate or dynamically create postings including video files, text, audio clips, greeting cards, calendar information, etc. A spatial plane or wall allows efficient manipulation and customization of posts. Other users can submit posts in a post tray and provide comments for any post on the wall of in the post tray. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090055719 | Geographic Management System - A geographic management system (GMS) comprises a web server, a database server, and a map server. A user browser connected to the GMS transmits a search criteria to the web server. The web server transmits the search criteria to the map server. The map server geocodes the search criteria, obtains network data and geospatial data from the database server corresponding to the geocode, and transmits the geocode, the network data, and the geospatial data to the web server. The web server transmits the geocode, the network data, and the geospatial data to the user browser. The network data and the geospatial data are displayed on the user browser as a map displaying network elements of a telecommunication network relative to other network elements, geographic elements, and customers. One or more of the network elements have associated performance elements or sectored performance elements that display performance characteristics or sectored performance characteristics that signify performance attributes associated with the network element. The user browser can navigate through other network data and geospatial data by selecting network elements on the map or by selecting navigation tools or navigation tabs displayed in conjunction with the map. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090113280 | Enabling Pseudo-Class Styles without Revealing Personal Information - Various embodiments enable particular CSS pseudo-classes to be employed, but limit particular functionality aspects of those pseudo-classes that can lead to divulging personally identifiable information. Thus, various embodiments can change how a CSS pseudo-class is allowed to function. For example, in at least some embodiments, CSS pseudo-classes are permitted to be used to make the visual formatting changes to a web page, but not structural formatting changes. That is, changes that do not affect the structure of content within a web document are allowed, while changes that affect the structure of the content are not allowed. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090249177 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING ALBUM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A required number of images for creating an album are compensated using existing still images, and an album with a fine appearance is created by effectively using a small number of available still images (still images in stock). A value N, which is obtained by subtracting the total number of selected images from the total number of images that a template of a photo album requires (the total number of combination frames), is determined as the minimum number of shortfall images that are required for compensating the shortage of images. An image (original image for creation) appropriate for the original, from which images for compensating the shortage of images are created, is selected from among selected images. New images are created by applying a predetermined image processing to the selected original image for creation, until the minimum number N of shortfall images is satisfied. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090254799 | SYSTEM FOR CREATING GRAPHICAL DISPLAY FROM TEXT - A graphical creation software system implemented on a computer comprising a program embodied on a computer-readable medium, the system being for use by a user to create a graphical presentation of text input into the system having, a screen display, a library of graphical images, a computer-based interface to correlate images from said library with text input by a user; and an output mechanism for displaying the graphics correlated with text input. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090287988 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR AUTOMATICALLY AND SECURELY CITING AND TRANSFERRING ELECTRONICALLY FORMATTED INFORMATION AND FOR MAINTAINING ASSOCIATION BETWEEN THE CITED OR TRANSFERRED INFORMATION AND BACK-END INFORMATION - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for automatically and securely citing and transferring electronically formatted information and for maintaining association between the cited or transferred information and back-end information are disclosed. According to one method, a selection of media content copied from an electronic source is received. The selection of media content is inserted into an electronic destination. Citation information is automatically determined for the selection of media content by parsing a data structure provided by an author or publisher of the media content. The citation information is automatically inserted into the electronic destination. The inserted selection of media content and the citation are made uneditable. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20100005380 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC MEDIA POPULATION OF A STYLE PRESENTATION - A method for automatic media population of a style presentation comprises collecting presentation media; positioning the collected presentation media on a storyboard; and selecting a style presentation; wherein the selection of the style presentation results in the automatic population of the style presentation with the presentation media positioned on the storyboard is described herein. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100180184 | ALBUM EDITING APPARATUS, ALBUM EDITING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The present invention is directed to enabling a user to easily confirm errors that are generated when an electronic album is created in which a mixture of text and images is laid out on a plurality of pages. An apparatus according to the present invention automatically switches whether to display a text entry field on a list or a dialog screen according to a type of a page on which the text entry field exists and an entry status. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20110010611 | AUTOMATED SEQUENTIAL MAGNIFICATION OF WORDS ON AN ELECTRONIC MEDIA READER - A method for displaying text of an e-book on an electronic media reader is disclosed. The method includes reading a rate setting that may be input by a user via a human input device. The method further includes reading a magnified text size setting input by the user via a human input device. The method further includes displaying on the electronic media reader a page of the e-book at a first text size that may be smaller than the magnified text size. The method further includes sequentially displaying subsequent words or groups of words of the page of the e-book at the magnified text size and at the rate, wherein only one word or one group of words may be displayed at the magnified text size at one time. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110029849 | FILE BROWSER OUTPUT APPARATUS AND METHOD - A file browser output apparatus and method that may display contents two-dimensionally are provided. The file browser output apparatus sets a retrieval object, sets an arrangement condition associated with a time in one of a horizontal axis and a vertical axis, and sets an arrangement condition unassociated with time in the other axis. The file browser output apparatus displays retrieval object contents based on the arrangement condition of the horizontal axis and the arrangement condition of the vertical axis. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110060979 | Spatiotemporal Media Object Layouts - A determinate spatiotemporal layout specification ( | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110314361 | GENERATING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVING A PRESENTATION DOCUMENT - User actions, content, and other elements related to a presentation document are received. These elements are analyzed to generate recommendations for improving a presentation document. The presentation document may be modified in accordance with the recommendations. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20120005564 | CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A content distribution system comprising an anchor point information generation unit to analyze anchor points that are positions at which a reader's visual line stops and a transition order of the anchor points with respect to original contents in accordance with a specific analytical rule corresponding to the original contents and generate anchor point information indicating the analyzed anchor points and the transition order of the anchor points. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120124457 | PRESENTATION PROGRESS AS CONTEXT FOR PRESENTER AND AUDIENCE - A presentation tool that includes visual progression graphics which represents progress of a presentation. The presentation tool automatically creates and presents the progression graphics for viewing by the presenter and the audience. As the presentation progresses, animation can be applied to the progression graphics to track the progress through the presentation materials. An option is also provided to hide the progression graphics. The progression graphics can also be utilized to navigate across the presentation materials. Thus, the presenter can select portions of the progression graphics as a means to navigation or jump between sections of the materials. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20130019150 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC AND DYNAMIC LAYOUT DESIGN FOR MEDIA BROADCAST - A system, device and method for automatic layout design. A first set of media objects may be displayed in a broadcast within a first layout. A request may be received to change the first set of media objects to a second set of media objects to be displayed in the broadcast. A plurality of different candidate layouts may be provided, wherein each of the different candidate layouts is predefined to display a different set of media objects. A second layout may be selected from among the plurality of different candidate layouts, where the second layout is predefined to display the second set of media objects. The second set of media objects may be displayed in the broadcast within the second layout. In some embodiments, the displayed layout may be switched from the first layout to the second layout in real-time, for example, as the request is received. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130024757 | Template-Based Page Layout for Hosted Social Magazines - Page layout of content items from a variety of sources is performed. A content processing system queues content items, such as user-generated blogs, tweets, social networking status updates and other postings, received from a variety of sources. Each content item comprises one or more assets from one or more asset types. The asset types include text, images, and video. A page builder retrieves items from the queue and determines the item's size constraints. A template is selected from a template database to use as a layout for the items on a page; each template has a number of slots into which content can be placed. A layout module lays out the items into the slots of the selected template based on the respective size and aspect ratio constraints of the items, in order to build a page to serve a client device. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130073934 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image display apparatus includes an audio information reproducing unit that reproduces audio information, a document image information reproducing unit that reproduces document image information in synchronization with reproduction time of the audio information, a partitioning unit that partitions the document image information into a plurality of image information segments, an extracting unit that extracts first character-information from each of the plurality of image information segments partitioned by the partitioning unit, a converter unit that converts the audio information into second character-information, a calculator unit that calculates a similarity degree between the first character-information and the second character-information, and a display magnification modifier unit that modifies a display magnification of the document image information, reproduced by the document image information reproducing unit, in response to a region of the image information segment in accordance with the similarity degree calculated by the calculator unit. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130104015 | DIGITAL COMIC EDITOR, METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A digital comic editor, comprising: a data acquisition device acquiring a piece of master data of a digital comic, the master data including: an image file corresponding to each page of the comic, the image file having a high resolution image of the entire page; and an information file corresponding to each page or all pages of the comic, the information file having a piece of frame information including a piece of frame region information of each frame within the page; a display control device controlling display device to display an image thereon based on the image file in the master data acquired and to display a frame boundary while superimposing the same on the image based on the frame region information included in the information file in the master data; an indication device indicating a position on the image displayed on the display device; a frame addition device adding a new frame boundary to a position indicated; a frame deletion device that deletes the frame boundary from the position indicated; and an editing device updating the frame region information included in the information file based on the frame boundary added or the frame boundary deleted. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130104016 | DIGITAL COMIC EDITOR, METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - The digital comic editor edits a piece of master data of a digital comic suitably for efficiently viewing a digital comic which has an image size larger than a screen size of a predetermined mobile terminal. The digital comic editor enables the master data of the digital comic to be appropriately edited. The master data includes a piece of image file having high resolution image of the entire page of the comic and an information file having described therein a piece of frame information including a piece of frame region information of the frame within the page. Particularly, the digital comic editor displays a frame boundary while superimposing the frame boundary on the image based on the frame region information included in the information file and displays a border F corresponding to the screen size of the predetermined mobile terminal on the image. The digital comic editor allows an editor to virtually drag and shift the position of the displayed frame boundary while referring to the border F; thereby the frame region information can be corrected to match with the screen size of the mobile terminal. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130159823 | ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE OUTPUT METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An electronic document display apparatus includes a display unit and an analysis-and-setting unit including a determination unit and a first correction unit. The display unit displays an electronic document in display layout set by the analysis-and-setting unit. If the determination unit determines that an image related to a display-range text of a display range to be displayed by the display unit is not included in the display range, the first correction unit adds an image display region where the image is displayed to the display range so as to correct the display layout in such a way that the image and at least a portion of an image text related to the image are included in the display range. The analysis-and-setting unit changes a display state of the image displayed in the image display region on the basis of a predetermined condition. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20140101524 | PORTABLE DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAYING METHOD THEREOF - A portable device and an image displaying method thereof are provided. An method of displaying images in a portable device includes displaying a plurality of text blocks and at least one multimedia block when the portable device is in a first display mode, and arranging and displaying the plurality of text blocks and the at least one multimedia block in a second display mode, wherein the arrangement is determined based on distances between the plurality of text blocks and the at least one multimedia block as displayed in the first display mode. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140122985 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC MEDIA POPULATION OF A STYLE PRESENTATION - A method for automatic media population of a style presentation comprises collecting presentation media; positioning the collected presentation media on a storyboard; and selecting a style presentation; wherein the selection of the style presentation results in the automatic population of the style presentation with the presentation media positioned on the storyboard is described herein. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140129911 | Edition Grid Layout - A system, computer-implemented method and computer-readable medium for displaying content are provided. In an embodiment, content for display within a tiled interface and a screen size for display of the tiled interface are determined. Grid segments of the tiled interface are determined based on the content and the screen size. The grid segments are grouped into tiles of the tiled interface based on a relative importance of the articles. The content is displayed on the tiled interface within the tiles of the tiled interface. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140136935 | DIGITAL MEDIA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHODS OF USE - The present invention is directed to a system and methods of producing electronic, digital signage that is customizable by a user through a user interface which allows the user to create digital displays specific for the needs of the user's business. In particular, the digital signage system and methods employ a template, modules occupying space within the template, with each module possessing media content displayed in the module and a theme for the template providing a background and coloration for the template. Each module utilizes media content such as a single image or video file, or alternatively, can utilize category content that is comprised of one or more images or video files. To prepare a digital signage advertisement, one or more layouts are combined in sequence and arranged by the user with the schedule, frequency and duration determined automatically or by a user according to the particular needs of the user. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140181627 | ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT STYLE MATRIX - A method and system for rendering electronic document objects is provided in which a style matrix holds potential attribute values, and attribute references are used to address values in the style matrix. A mix of attribute references and actual attribute values may be used so make some attributes theme- and application-specific, and others theme- and application-independent. Further, a method for rendering a gallery of potential styles is provided. Additionally, a method for associating a style matrix with an electronic document application is provided. Finally, a computer-readable medium for storing a computer-interpretable data structure that identifies a matrix of style attribute types and style attribute values is provided. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140337694 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY OPTIMIZING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A WEBSITE - A method of an evolutionary nature to automate the process of optimizing website elements, such as web page designs and/or colors and/or content and/or functionality, in order to optimize desired effectiveness and performance by dynamically monitoring performance and adjusting web page and/or website elements accordingly or randomly or as a combination of the two, while optionally dynamically changing test parameters. The process can result in either static or dynamic web design, and can be either stopped or started or become static at any time so that a continual and dynamic process is achieved. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140372843 | FAST BULK Z-ORDER FOR GRAPHIC ELEMENTS - A plurality of graphical elements may be represented as a document object model (DOM) having a plurality of nodes, each node representing a different graphical element, the DOM having an ordering of the nodes, each node having a z-value of front or back, indicating that the corresponding graphical element is to be displayed in a front layer for a z-value of front or a back layer for a z-value of back. The z-value of one or more of the plurality of nodes corresponding to one or more graphical elements to be moved to the front layer or back layer may be altered. The DOM can then be reordered so that the one or more graphical elements to be moved to the front layer or back layer are at the front or back of the DOM, while maintaining the ordering between nodes having z-values of front and the ordering between nodes having z-values of back. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140372844 | INTERFACE FOR CAPTURING A DIGITAL IMAGE WITH REAL-TIME TEXT - The interface provides a means of capturing a composite digital image on a mobile computer, wherein a captured image is a composite of digital camera image data and text. The interface presents a real-time preview wherein the geometry, quality, and resolution of the preview are allowed to differ from the geometry, quality, and resolution of a captured image. The interface responds to computer characteristics' changes, data changes over time, and interface interactions by updating the preview in real-time, wherein text updates are introduced in an animated manner. The interface permits customization of the text's presentation, including position, scale, font, and style, where style includes color and other common attributes of text that affect visual presentation. The interface contextually adds sections based on the type of textual information composited. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20150019943 | HIERARCHICAL PAGE TEMPLATES FOR CONTENT PRESENTATION IN A DIGITAL MAGAZINE - A digital magazine server creates a section of a digital magazine including content items based on a page template describing the relative positioning and sizing of content items. A page template may include display regions specifying the size of content items as a percentage of a display area. Additionally, a display region in a page template may specify use of a sub-template for presenting content items. The sub-template includes display regions specifying the relative positioning of content items presented in the display region specifying use of the sub-template. To generate the section of the digital magazine, various page templates are scored and a page template is selected based on the scoring. One or more diversity policies may be enforced when selecting the page template to improve user interaction with the digital magazine. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150026548 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR BINDING ATTRIBUTES BETWEEN VISUAL COMPONENTS - Methods and systems are described for binding attributes between visual components. A first visual component, including a first presentation space for presenting first data by an operating first application, is detected. Binding information, for the first application, is identified that specifies a mapping between a first visual attribute of the first visual component and a second visual attribute of a second visual component including a second presentation space for presenting second data by a second application. A change to the first visual attribute is detected. In response to the detection of the change, change information is automatically sent to change the second visual attribute according to the mapping. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150113370 | OBJECT MATCHING IN A PRESENTATION APPLICATION - Object matching between slides of a presentation is disclosed. In certain implementations, different objects within separate slides are matched and can be separately and independently handled during slide transitions as compared to unmatched objects. In certain embodiments, this involves matching objects on both an outgoing and incoming slide and providing specific animation or handling for those matched objects. Further, different degrees or levels of object matches may be provided and this information may be leveraged in the slide transition process. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150113371 | PRESENTATION SYSTEM MOTION BLUR - Disclosed embodiments provide techniques for enhancing presentation system animations by applying motion blur to animated objects within a presentation system. Clipping the blur effect to particular regions may increase efficiencies over calculations of motion blur across an entire screen. Further, in certain embodiments, the motion blur may be calculated and presented on a per-object basis. Accordingly, relational objects (e.g., objects seemingly inside other objects and/or overlapping or crossing objects) may each have their own blur effect without impacting the other objects' blur effects. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150113372 | TEXT AND SHAPE MORPHING IN A PRESENTATION APPLICATION - Character morphing between slides of a presentation is disclosed. In certain implementations, Characters with varying styles within separate slides are matched and can be animated during slide transitions using distance field morphing. In certain embodiments, this involves matching characters on both an outgoing and incoming slide and providing a morphing process in order to smoothly transition from the outgoing slide to the incoming slide. Additionally, different techniques may be provided along with the distance field morph to further improve the slide transition process. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150310126 | CREATION AND DELIVERY OF PRE-RENDERED WEB PAGES FOR ACCELERATED BROWSING - The process of rendering web pages can be significantly improved with a content delivery system that pre-renders web content for a client device. A web page “program” can be pre-executed and the result delivered to a requesting client device, rather than or before sending a traditional set of web page components, such as a markup language document, cascading style sheets, embedded objects. This pre-execution can relieve the client device of the burden of rendering the web page, saving resources and decreasing latency before the web page is ready, and can reduce the number of network requests that the client device must make before being able to display the page. Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and devices for creating and delivering pre-rendered web pages for accelerated browsing. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150370759 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT IN BROWSER - A method, terminal, cache server and system for displaying multimedia content in a browser, comprising receiving a webpage identifier in a browser window for a webpage comprising multimedia content, generating a multimedia content display request corresponding to the multimedia content, and sending the multimedia content display request to server, receiving multimedia content returned from the server, activating a multimedia display plug-in of the browser to display a multimedia display window, and displaying the received multimedia content in the multimedia display window, wherein the multimedia display window in an initial state is smaller than the browser window. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20160012022 | USER TERMINAL DEVICE AND SCROLL METHOD SUPPORTING HIGH-SPEED WEB SCROLL OF WEB DOCUMENT | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160071300 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEDIA STREAMING AND PRESENTATION IN AN APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT - A method for displaying data is disclosed. The method may include displaying an application on a mobile electronic communication device. The method may further include contacting at least one media server configured to store media data and receiving, at the mobile electronic communication device, first available media data from the at least one media server. The method may further include displaying the received available media data in a media stream within the application. The method may also include contacting, after a predetermined amount of time, the at least one media server and receiving, in response to the contacting, at the mobile electronic communication device, second available media data from the at least one media server. The method may further include displaying the second available media data in the media stream. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160085728 | INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE, DELIVERY DEVICE, INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - According to one aspect of an embodiment, an information display device includes a display unit configured to display first content and second content which are individual pieces of content side by side. The information display device includes a change unit configured to changes a display range of the first content and changes the second content to third content according to a change operation of changing a display range serving as a range in which the first content is displayed on a screen. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160124914 | Page Processing for Mobile App - Methods, devices, and systems for processing mobile application pages and updating mobile application pages on a client terminal. A method for processing mobile application pages includes parsing, by a computing device, the mobile application page returned from a server terminal to convert the mobile application page to an object recognizable by a client terminal. The computing device may traverse the page components of the object and generate instances of the page components. The computing device may further configure the instances of the pate components, render the instances of the page components, and return the rendered instance to the object to generate a local object corresponding to the mobile application page on the client terminal. The implementations enable mobile application pages to be developed in low cost and to have good user experience similar to those of native applications. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160179845 | ENHANCED VIEWING OF IMAGES IN CONTENT | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160189407 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING TEXTUAL SOCIAL REMARKS OVERLAID ON MEDIA CONTENT - Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can identify, in an image, a face associated with a user. It can be determined that the user has posted a comment in association with the image. A position in the image at which the face is located can be determined. The comment can be presented to appear to overlay the image and to appear within an allowable proximity from the position at which the face is located. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20180024726 | Personified Emoji | 01-25-2018 |
| 20220138407 | Document Writing Assistant with Contextual Search Using Knowledge Graphs - A writing assistant may compare the context and structure of a document being written with a preexisting knowledge graph. The comparison may highlight overlaps, differences, and other comparisons that may assist an author. A document graph may be extracted from the author's words and other context, so that a search of the knowledge graph has a deep, rich context for the search. A document graph may include hierarchies, topics, and relationships between different elements. The document graph may identify elements as nodes and relationships as edges of the graph. In some cases, the document graph may include additional contextual information, such as information about the author, external organizations associated with the document, other context about the document itself. The comparison of the document graph with other knowledge graphs may be presented alongside an editing window, such that the comparisons may assist the author during document creation and editing. | 05-05-2022 |
