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| 20080256457 | SEARCH QUERY USER INTERFACE - In a client-server system where a client system presents a browser for user interaction, a browser user interface includes functionality for handling dynamic interface elements received by the browser in connection with received pages, presented as part of the browser user interface and modified in response to selected user input without requiring farther interaction with a server. In addition to, or in place of, dynamic interface elements such as slide sheets, the browser user interface might also include a rotation display area, tool displays that can overlay a page, opaquely or semi-transparently, menu structures, and an ability for the user to modify a page layout without requiring server interaction. The browser might comprise storage for a plurality of rotation display items for storing a summary and a primary presentation for each rotation display item, logic for displaying, by the browser, primary presentations for less all of the plurality of rotation display items in the rotation display area, logic for displaying, by the browser, summaries for items wherein the number of summaries is greater than the number of primary presentations presented at one time, logic for highlighting, among the summaries displayed, the ones of the summaries that correspond to the primary presentations displayed in the rotation display area; and logic for rotating the plurality of rotation display items to display primary presentations for a different subsets of the rotation display items and for updating highlighting of summaries to correspond to the different subsets of rotation display items. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080276180 | METHOD AND SYSTEM CONFIGURED TO ASSESS A FEE FOR COMMUNICATION FACILITATION REGARDING PUBLICATION INFORMATION - A method and system are configured to assess a fee for communication facilitation regarding publication information. An electronic publication system includes a publication module configured to generate a user interface based on an information search. The user interface includes search result information associated with a first entity and communication initiation information associated with the first entity. The communication initiation information includes identification information configured to identify a contact module of the first entity. The communication initiation information is configured to be selectable to facilitate communication between a second entity and the first entity. The publication system also includes a receiving module configured to receive a lead data record from a communication system that facilitates communication between the first entity and a second entity via the contact module upon selection of the communication initiation information generated from the publication module. The publication system also includes a fee assessment module configured to receive the lead data record from the receiving module and to assess a fee to the first entity based on the lead data record. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20080294996 | CUSTOMIZED RETAILER PORTAL WITHIN AN ANALYTIC PLATFORM - The methods and systems disclosed herein include an analytic platform, with a customized retailer portal application, that may be used to perform data projection and release methodologies in order to create an integrated, flexible, actionable view of data such as data relating to consumers, consumer behavior, commodity sales, and other commercial activities like those pertaining to relationships between consumers and stores. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080313547 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRESENTING A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device having a controller to present a graphical user interface (GUI) with a plurality of toolbars, detect a selection of a web-based toolbar, present the GUI with a hierarchical listing of content associated with the selected web-based toolbar, detect a selection of content from the hierarchical listing of content, create a new toolbar associated with the selected content with at least one selectable GUI element, present the GUI with the new toolbar intermixed with at least a portion of the plurality of toolbars, poll a web service for content updates, wherein the web service is associated with the selected content, and present the GUI with content updates supplied by the web service displayed in a portion of the new toolbar. Additional embodiments are disclosed. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20090089680 | ALIASING UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATIONS WITHIN A BROWSER - A computer implemented method, data processing system, and a computer program product are provided for resolving uniform resource locator addresses. A first uniform resource locator address is input from a user. The first uniform resource locator address is identified within a database list of uniform resource locator addresses. Each of the list of uniform resource locator addresses corresponds to a second uniform resource locator address contained in the database. Responsive to identifying the first uniform resource locator address with the list of uniform resource locator addresses, information for the corresponding second uniform resource locator address is displayed. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090113309 | ADAPTIVE GREEDY METHOD FOR FAST LIST INTERSECTION VIA SAMPLING - The embodiments of the invention provide a method of intersecting a group of lists. The method begins by performing a first selecting process including selecting a top list from the group of lists to leave remaining lists. The top list can be the smallest list of the group of lists. The method can also select a pair of lists from the group of lists, such that the pair of lists has the smallest intersection size relative to other pairs of lists of the group of lists. Next, the method estimates intersections of the remaining lists with the top list by estimating an amount of intersection between the remaining lists and the top list. This involves sampling a portion of the remaining lists. The method also includes identifying larger list pairs having smaller intersections sizes when compared to smaller list pairs having larger intersections sizes. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090132929 | USER INTERFACE AND METHOD FOR A BOUNDARY DISPLAY ON A MAP - The invention provides a user interface including an input to transmit a request from a client computer system at a server computer system, a view transmitted from the server computer system to the client computer system in response to the request, the view being displayed at the client computer system, wherein the view may include a map with boundary of an area displayed on the map. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090177971 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING DLNA DEVICE IN DLNA NETWORK - Disclosed is a method for controlling a Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) device in a DLNA network, the method including the steps of: discovering the DLNA device performing communication with a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol based format in the DLNA network; converting description provided from the discovered DLNA device into a web-message in order to create a DLNA device list within a corresponding network where the discovered DLNA device is positioned as a web-page; creating the DLNA device list as the web-page, based on the converted web-message, and displaying the DLNA device list; selecting a certain DLNA device from the displayed DLNA device list, and executing/controlling content of the selected DLNA device. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090187829 | AGGREGATION AND VISUALIZATION OF REUSED SHARED LISTS - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for aggregating and visualizing reused shared lists. A method for aggregating and visualizing reused shared lists can include selecting an existing shared list, determining a topic for the selected shared list, receiving list items by rank for the determined topic, generating a new shared list with the determined topic and received list items, and storing the new shared list in association with the existing shared list. The method further can include providing a reused shared list view for all reused shared lists for a common topic. Finally, the method can include aggregating all reused shared lists for a common topic and providing a view of the aggregation with list items either for each rank for each reused shared list or in rank order for all reused shared lists for the common topic. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090222738 | Maintaining tags for individual communities - Techniques for managing tags for communities are described herein. According to one embodiment, in response to tagging a document page with one or more tags, where the document page is displayed within a main window of a browser, the one or more tags are associated with one or more communities selected from a list of available communities. The one or more tags are then stored in a storage having information linking with the document page tagged with the one or more tags and the associated with and published within one or more communities such that a member of the selected communities is able to search within the storage based on the one or more tags to identify and retrieve the document page tagged by the one or more tags. Other methods and apparatuses are also described. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090271709 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SETTING UP WIRELESS LAN OF DEVICE - A wireless local area network (LAN) set up method and apparatus by which a client apparatus not having a character input function can easily provide wireless LAN setup. The wireless LAN set up method includes the operations of scanning associable wireless LAN devices so as to search for information about wireless LAN devices that support wireless security setup; and providing user interface information associated with wireless LAN setup of the wireless LAN devices according to found information about the wireless LAN devices that support the wireless security setup. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090300508 | METADATA-BASED ENTERTAINMENT CONTENT SELECTION - A method of accessing content stored on a digital media content storage device on which one or more content records contain metadata defining media content on the device, comprising downloading from the device to a controller unit at least some of said metadata, storing said downloaded metadata in a database accessible to the controller, and accessing content on the storage device from the controller using the database of downloaded metadata. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090300509 | PROFILE AND CONSENT ACCRUAL - Consent management between a client and a network server. In response to a request for consent, a central server determines if requested user information is included in a user profile associated with a user and if the user has granted consent to share the requested user information. A user interface is provided to the user via a browser of the client to collect the requested user information that is not included in the user profile and the consent to share the requested user information from the user. After receiving the user information provided by the user via the user interface, the service provided by the network server is allowed access to the received user information, and the central server updates the user profile. Other aspects of the invention are directed to computer-readable media for use with profile and consent accrual. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090319907 | EVALUATION OF ORDERED LISTS TO DETERMINE SIMILARITY BETWEEN CONNECTED USERS OF A NETWORK - The method and system to evaluation of ordered lists to determine similarity between connected users of a network are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes presenting a defined list having ‘n’ number of options of a set of items to a user of a network, allocating the set of items of the defined list to a preference list when the user of the network identifies which of the ‘n’ number of options are preferred, determining a preference of the user based on which of the ‘n’ number of options are preferred earlier than other ones of the ‘n’ number of options, generating an ordering of the user in response to the defined list when all the ‘n’ number of options are individually selected and allocated to the preference list by the user based on an order of selection of each of the ‘n’ number of options by the user. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090319908 | Website and network system for commercial establishments - A website and social network system where Customers, such as bars and entertainment venues, use an account interface through which management of the venue can enter and control contact information, daily specials, and upcoming events that are displayed to viewers of the Website System and to viewers of a viewer interface (widget). The Customers are also able to send instant messages to viewers of the Website System to an interface (widget) and to Members of the network from a customer account to the Members' e-mail, or via instant messaging, or with the use of cellular telephone text messaging. Customer promotional information is controllable directly by the Customer on multiple remote advertising websites simultaneously via the Website System and/or Customers' mobile devices. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090327906 | SUPPORTING BRAND ASSETS IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICE - Brand assets including iconography, background images, slogans, and the like are supported in a social networking service by an arrangement that enables service members to visit a brand site to select and then embed the brand assets into their personal profile on the service. Brand assets can then be treated as any other asset used by the member and may thus be shared with other users, rated, and discussed. Brands can be associated with a variety of different brand sources including, for example, personalities, artists, celebrities, products, services, and institutions, in both commercial and non-commercial contexts. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090327907 | INTEGRATING CHARACTER-BASED PROFILES WITHIN A SOCIAL NETWORK - Profiles that are character-based and which reflect various brand assets are supported in a social networking service by an arrangement that enables members to interact with the branded character-based profiles in the same way as profiles of any real members of the social network. Branded characters may thus be befriended and their profiles shared with other users, rated, and discussed. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100037143 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UPDATING OF REMOTE DOCUMENT PROCESSING DEVICES - The subject application is directed to a system and method for remote document processing device administration. Administrative data is communicated between an administrative thin client and a plurality of document processing devices, the administrative data including identifier data, status data, and corresponding configuration data for each document processing device. A display corresponding to the document processing devices is generated on the administrative thin client in accordance with received administrative data. Selection data is received corresponding to at least one document processing device selected in accordance with document processing devices on the display. Each selected document processing device is polled for updated administrative data in accordance with activation of the selection means, and a detail listing of at least one of status data and configuration data is generated for each selected document processing device. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100037144 | VARIABLE PATH MANAGEMENT OF USER CONTACTS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable mediums for managing a subset of user contacts on a telecommunications device are provided. In one embodiment, a software application executed by a processor of a telecommunications device identifies a subset of contacts selected at least in part by a user of the telecommunications device. The subset of contacts includes a portion of the user's contacts accessible by the telecommunications device. The software application executed by the processor of the telecommunications device then causes display of a first portion of graphical identifiers associated with a first portion of the subset of contacts along a first path on a display of the telecommunications device about an axis positioned external to the display of the telecommunications device. The software application further causes display of a second portion of graphical identifiers associated with a second portion of the subset of contacts along a second path on the display of the telecommunications device about the external axis. Aspects of systems, methods, and computer-readable mediums for further arranging the graphical identifiers are also provided. Even further, aspects of systems, methods, and computer-readable mediums for providing functionality associated with the graphical identifiers are provided. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100050086 | PREFERRED CONTACT GROUP CENTRIC INTERFACE - A preferred contact group centric interface for a communication device can be used to facilitate communications by a user. The user interface can be arranged to activate from a user's “home page” on the display, from an idle screen that is accessed after a timeout period expires, or any other appropriate mechanism that activates the preferred contact group centric experience. A user selects the preferred contact group from among an array of the user's contacts. Once the contact group is configured, a minimal number of navigation/selection features is necessary to activate any number of communication modes available to the contacts. The contact group is configured such that simple and quick navigation between the contact members is achieved. The contact group can be presented in 2D and 3D arrangements, in any number of list or geometric configurations. A pricing plan can optionally be tied to each member of the contact group. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100050087 | PREFERRED CONTACT GROUP CENTRIC INTERFACE - A preferred contact group centric interface for a communication device can be used to facilitate communications by a user. The user interface can be arranged to activate from a user's “home page” on the display, from an idle screen that is accessed after a timeout period expires, or any other appropriate mechanism that activates the preferred contact group centric experience. A user selects the preferred contact group from among an array of the user's contacts. Once the contact group is configured, a minimal number of navigation/selection features is necessary to activate any number of communication modes available to the contacts. The contact group is configured such that simple and quick navigation between the contact members is achieved. The contact group can be presented in 2D and 3D arrangements, in any number of list or geometric configurations. A pricing plan can optionally be tied to each member of the contact group. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100083125 | CONNECTED ADDRESS BOOK SYSTEMS AND METHODS - In an exemplary method, contacts data for a network address book is maintained, data representative of at least a portion of a local address book maintained on an access device is received over a network, and the received local address book data is used to perform at least one connected address book operation. In one example in which the contacts data includes data representative of a network address book listing associated with a user, data representative of a persona associated with the user is maintained, a request to access the network address book listing is received, and at least a subset of the data representative of the network address book listing is identified and provided in response to the request and based at least in part on the persona. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100083126 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A communication apparatus comprises a data receiving unit, a display, a selection receiving unit and a controller. The controller is configured to acquire the content summary information via the data receiving unit and to control the display to display a plurality of titles included in the acquired content summary information with scrolling in a single line. The controller is further configured to accept a first selection and to determine a first selected title which is displayed when the first selection is inputted. The controller is still further configured to control the display to display a list of a plurality of titles of content summary information acquired from the external server. Moreover, the controller is configured to accept a second selection received via the selection receiving unit and determine a second selected title among the plurality of titles displayed in the list. The controller is further configured to acquire a content corresponding to the second selected title via the data receiving unit. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100088607 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAINTAINING CONTEXT SENSITIVE USER - A system and method for resolving topically relevant contacts for a user is provided. One example embodiment provides for a method including acts of presenting, within a web page, a communication list with content that is presented to various user based at least in part on the users being associated with another user and the topical content of the web page. Another example embodiment provides or a system that serves web pages including a communication list with content that is presented to various users based at least in part on the user to user and user to topic associations. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100146397 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GEO-CODING USER GENERATED CONTENT - A system and method for geo-coding user generated content is described. The system comprises a content source, a content management module, a content repository, a location source, a location repository, a geo-coding module, and a geo-location object data sheet (GDS). The content source captures the user generated content. The content management module manages the user generated content. The content repository stores the user generated content. The location source generates a plurality of location data, and the location repository stores the location data. The geo-coding module generates the geo-located object data sheet (GDS) that associates the user generated content with the corresponding location data. The GDS depository stores the geo-located object data sheet. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100241965 | MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS - An apparatus includes: a display; a memory for storing site address used by first application and contents information including title and associated contents data used by second application independently from the first application; and a processor for executing a process including: controlling operation of the first and second applications independently; displaying a bookmark including the address on the display, accessing one site when the user selects address corresponding to the site displayed on the bookmark, and displaying contents retrieved from the one site by the first application; and enabling any of the title to be added to the bookmark by a user operation, extracting, when the title added to the bookmark is displayed and selected by the user, a portion of the contents data selected by the user, and displaying the extracted portion of the content data. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100251130 | Creation of Segmentation Definitions - A system and method for defining a segment for filtering website visitation data is disclosed. The method allows for creation and editing of a segment using various rules. The rules are defined using events and containers, which act as criteria by which the data is filtered. The system displays the segments and allows the user to apply them to stored data. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100299610 | USER INTERFACE CONTROL APPARATUS, USER INTERFACE CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A UI control apparatus includes: a UI storage unit ( | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100306666 | HUMAN DATA MANAGEMENT - The present invention discloses methods and systems for managing data in user-centric environment. In this environment an entity is authorized to receive user data based on the relationship between the entity and a user. A user provides message data for communication to a selected entity by one or more communication channels. Based on privileges assigned to the entity, user data may be retrieved, including a contact method for the entity. In addition a communication template is retrieved based on the communication channel. By populating the template with the first data and the user data; a communication is created and transmitted to the selected entity using the communication method. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100313136 | MENU SCREEN DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND MENU SCREEN DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, a display control apparatus includes a memory, an output module, and a setting module. The memory is configured to store first menu configuration information to compose a first menu screen and second menu configuration information to compose a second menu screen. The output module is configured to output first menu screen display information to display the first menu screen based on the first menu configuration information and content data in response to a selection operation of the first menu screen, and to output second menu screen display information to display the second menu screen based on the second menu configuration information and content data in response to a selection operation of the second menu screen. The setting module is configured to set one of the first menu screen and the second menu screen as a top menu displayed at a startup timing. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100325555 | Method and Apparatus for Providing Auto-Registration and Service Access to Internet Sites for Internet Portal Subscribers - A method and apparatus is provided for populating and submitting electronic forms by proxy over a data-packet-network. The apparatus comprises a software application running on a system of network-connected servers that enables a user, connected in session with one of the servers, to navigate to a site containing an electronic form and obtain data about the site and about the form. The data obtained is used in conjunction with data about the user to construct a machine readable job order upon user request that may be executed for the purpose of automatic form population and submission to a host sponsoring the site. Upon acceptance of the submitted form, data used for passwords, log-in codes and user-names is returned to a data repository where it is entered along with specific site data as a new registered site item for a registering user such that future navigation to the site, auto log-in and data return may be performed automatically on behalf of the user. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20110010634 | Management Apparatus and Management Method - A highly reliable management apparatus and management method capable of allocating a resource that satisfies a user's request is suggested. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110029884 | Process for Recommending Photos for Single or Multiple Photo-Bearing Products Editable in an Online Collage Editor - In a server-based system for creating and editing image and or text-based projects, the system having access to a digital medium containing an executable graphics user interface (GUI) accessible by computer browser, a method is provided for selecting a photo from a plurality of photos placed in the project by a project contributor for recommendation in a photo product. The method includes the steps (a) accessing the contributor's project photos stored in the database, (b) weighting data associated with each photo used in the project against one or more business rules, (c) selecting one or more photos based on the weighting results of step (b), and (d) recommending one or more photo products containing one or more photos selected at step (c) to the contributor at an appropriate time. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110035673 | METHOD FOR INTEGRATING APPLICATIONS IN AN ELECTRONIC ADDRESS BOOK - A method for integrating interactions in an address book application that includes managing a plurality of contacts of an electronic address book, identifying a contact with a relationship to an interaction service, collecting dynamic information corresponding to the identified contact, and facilitating an interaction using the dynamic information. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110041070 | OPERATING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAKING RESOURCES AVAILABLE VIA A COMPUTER SYSTEM - The present invention relates to an operating system for a computer system connected to a telecommunication network, the operating system comprising selection display means arranged for displaying the resources. The resources comprise network resources which are accessible via the telecommunication network and system resources which are accessible via the computer system. The operating system further comprises means for receiving a resource selection and means for making the resources available dependent on the received selection. The selection display means are arranged for displaying selectable resource classes and for displaying within each of the resource classes resources belonging to that resource class. The operating system further comprises means for having the computer system autonomously classify each of the resources under one or more resource classes, and means for maintaining a classification of resources under the one or more resource classes. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110041071 | MULTIMEDIA DATA PROCESSING DEVICE WHICH CAN EASILY PREPARE MULTIMEDIA CONTENTS - A multimedia processing device implements a script having a data structure that is formed of a drawing information describing portion where media data is chronologically described, and a user navigation information describing portion where correspondence between events and actions and implementation conditions are chronologically described. The multimedia processing device implements this script, and thereby, media data is chronologically reproduced, and at the same time, a user interface showing operations that can be chronologically carried out is outputted. Then, a predetermined process, such as an insertion of media data, can be implemented by carrying out the operations following the user interface according to predetermined timing. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110041072 | AUTHENTICATION AND PERSONAL CONTENT TRANSMISSION METHOD FOR SHARING PERSONAL CONTENTS AND DISPLAY APPARATUS AND SERVER THEREOF - A method of authenticating and transmitting personal contents in order to easily share personal contents with acquaintances by using a display apparatus capable of accessing a network, and a display apparatus and a server therefor are provided. The method of transmitting contents includes: the display apparatus receiving at least one personal content of the at least one acquaintance from the server through the network; storing the received personal contents in relation to each acquaintance; and if the personal contents of the acquaintance are requested by the user of the display apparatus, reading the personal contents of the acquaintance among the stored personal contents and displaying the read personal contents. According to the method and apparatus, even when the user of the display apparatus does not perform linking with a corresponding server (or service provider), personal contents can be easily shared with acquaintances. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110047471 | Apparatus and Methods for Associating a User's Activity in Relation to a Physical Location with a Virtual Community - A system permits a user's activity in relation to a physical location to be associated with a virtual community web site and, therefore, with a virtual community created by the web site. Users indicate their presence at, or association with, a physical location by sending messages from their personal communication devices, such as mobile telephones or Internet-connected computers. Users may participate in activities at the locations by sending such messages, accessing location proxy web sites or via virtual communities. An exemplary activity includes a network-connected jukebox. Users may obtain information about music being played on the jukebox. In addition, the jukebox may display information about music being played on other jukeboxes, possibly in other locations. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110055714 | MANAGING VIRTUAL MACHINES - Tools and techniques for managing virtual machines, including without limitation virtual machines running in a cloud computing environment. Certain tools provide a user interface that allows a user to browse machine images to find an image that meets the user's needs. In some aspects, these tools and techniques can provide the ability for users to customize machine images to meet their own needs and/or to share their customized machine images with other users. In other aspects, these tools and techniques can provide users with the ability to export virtual machines for use on an actual computer system. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110066948 | Method and apparatus for accessing and managing a multi-layered virtual server by deploying web folder tree - The central controlled distributed scalable virtual machine (“CCDSVM”) of the present invention can be expanded across network domains such as Intranet and Internet, and thousands of systems in the virtual server can be organized into multiple groups (service pools) with a multi-layered hierarchy. The CCDSVM includes at least a control system to control and organize a management pool that comprising a plurality of middle level control systems, and each middle control system can control a service pool that comprising a plurality of system units. In addition, different privileged users can login different level of the control system to further centralized access the permitted system units in each pool. Specially, the present invention including a method of supporting of web folder tree and a method of supporting web based multi-tasking to enhance the manageability and operations of the CCDSVM. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110083079 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED TYPE-AHEAD FUNCTIONALITY IN A TYPE-AHEAD FIELD BASED ON ACTIVITY OF A USER WITHIN A USER INTERFACE - An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for improved type-ahead functionality in a type-ahead field based on activity of a user within a user interface. The method includes identifying a user activity context including one or more activities of a user within a user interface. Each activity includes an associated recipient identifier. The method includes determining a set of potential recipients based on the user activity context. Each potential recipient corresponds to one or more associated recipient identifiers from the user activity context. The method includes registering the set of potential recipients with one or more type-ahead modules of the user interface. The one or more type-ahead modules suggest one or more recipients from the set of potential recipients to autocomplete a type-ahead field managed by the one or more type-ahead modules. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110107228 | METHOD OF SIMULTANEOUSLY DISPLAYING STATUS OF A PLURALITY OF CONTACTS IN AN ADDRESS BOOK AND RELATED COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method of simultaneously displaying status of a plurality of contacts in an address book of a communication device includes accessing the address book, editing a plurality of accounts of a plurality of internet communication software of the contacts in the address book interface, connecting to the network, acquiring an online status of the accounts, and displaying images representing the contacts in the address book and displaying a plurality of status icons corresponding to the accounts of the plurality of internet communication software of the contacts so as to display the online status of the accounts of the contacts. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110119596 | Social Interaction Hub - Hubs for social interaction via electronic devices are described. In one aspect, a data processing device includes a display screen displaying a social interaction hub, the social interaction hub including a collection of records. Each record includes a counterparty identifier identifying a counterparty of a past social interaction event, a mode indicium identifying a mode by which the past social interaction event with the counterparty occurred, and a collection of mode indicia each identifying a mode by which a future, outgoing social interaction event with the counterparty can occur. The counterparty identifier, the mode indicium, and the collection of mode indicia are associated with one another in the records of the social interaction hub. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110126116 | APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING MULTIMEDIA DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE - An apparatus for controlling a multimedia device and a method for providing a graphic user interface are disclosed. In the apparatus, a network interface transmits and receives data to and from the at least one multimedia device. A display displays a screen. A controller controls to display at least one place selection menu indicating a place in which the at least one multimedia device is located on the screen, display, upon selection of the at least one place selection menu, at least one player selection menu indicating a player located in the place, on the screen, and display at least one source selection menu indicating a source capable of outputting contents to the player on the screen, upon selection of the at least one player selection menu. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110138294 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ELECTRONIC PHONEBOOK - A method for providing a phonebook in a mobile terminal and a mobile terminal for performing the method are provided. The method for providing a phonebook in the mobile terminal includes displaying a phonebook list, searching, if a phonebook entry is selected from the phonebook entry list, for linkage information representing a specific phonebook entry, building a relationship diagram based on the linkage information, and displaying the relationship diagram graphically. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110145718 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRESENTING A FIRST-PERSON WORLD VIEW OF CONTENT - An approach is provided for presenting a global view of content. A content mapping platform receives an access address of content, the content including location information. The content mapping platform then determines availability information of the content by causing, at least in part, detection of the content at the access address and causing, at least in part, presentation of the content on a user interface of a user device indicating the location information based on the availability information of the content. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145719 | PEOPLE RECOMMENDATION INDICATOR METHOD AND APPARATUS IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE - An indicator method and system recommends people in a computerized social networking site. Indicators in a user interface indicate user-relatedness and/or connectedness information between a given user and other people of the social networking site. The user interface employs the indicators to consistently make people recommendations to the given user. The indicators may be visual including symbolic, graphically illustrative and recommendation score (extent) indicating. The user interface places and displays the indicator at each occurrence of the recommended person's name and/or image throughout each pertinent screen view/page of the social networking site. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145720 | Feeds for Address Books - A feed system for an address book includes a news feed module and a sales feed module. The news feed module accesses news sources to find related news articles as a function of data in an address book. The sales feed module accesses sales sources to find related sales items as a function of the data in the address book. At least one of the news feed module and the sales feed module forwards the related news articles and the related sales items, respectively, to the address book to be displayed. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145721 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING A WEBPAD TO CONTROL A DATA STREAM - A system and method for using a webpad to select a target device which is to receive from a source device a stream of a digital representation of a media. The webpad is used to send a transmission to the source device to cause the source device to route the stream of the digital representation of the media to the target device where the target device decodes and converts the digital representation of the media into analog signals to thereby allow for a reproduction of the media | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110161829 | Method and Apparatus for Dictionary Selection - An apparatus and method for receiving a first user input indicative of a geographical locus; selecting a first dictionary from a plurality of available dictionaries, based upon said geographical locus; and enabling use of the first dictionary during a second user input. Exemplary uses of the dictionary include predictive text, spellchecking, autocompletion, and translation in respect of the second user input. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110173544 | Method and Apparatus Providing Omnibus View of Online and Offline Content of Various File Types and Sources - An online service provider (OSP) operates online data centers to store members' data objects relating to various online member services of the OSP. An aggregated catalog lists members' data objects residing in the online data centers and also those residing in member computers' local storage. An aggregator monitors contents of the online storage facilities to detect new storage of prescribed types of data objects owned by the members, and also communicates with member computers to identify prescribed types of data objects newly stored in the respective local storage. The aggregator updates the aggregated catalog to list the newly stored data objects. Responsive to a request by a member, a finder searches the aggregated catalog and utilizes results of the search to provide, for display at the requesting member's computer, a consolidated listing of online data objects and locally stored data objects owned by the requesting member. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110185281 | MESSAGE DATA MANAGEMENT - A workflow manager application transfers message data received from an originating device via a communication network to a target application for processing. A graphical user interface displays the received message data and allows the user to view and designate one or more target applications for processing the message data. The workflow manger application is responsive to user input to transfer message data to the designated one or more target applications for processing the message data. Alternatively, the workflow manager application analyzes received message data to identify one or more target applications, and transfers the message data to the identified one or more target applications for processing. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110191689 | ENHANCED KNOWLEDGE CREATION SYSTEM FOR A SPONTANEOUS ONLINE COMMUNITY - A method of sending notice to a group of users in a cooperative online platform which has a page with a content area and a question and answer area is described. The method provides a first notice method to receive benefit by a first user and a responsibility to answer a second notice by the first user. The second notice is given by the person have contribution in the page. The user question is designated by the person who contributes content in the page to the page and a second notice is sent to the first user. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110197140 | ORDERING DATA ITEMS PERTAINING TO CONTACTS ACCORDING TO RELEVANCE OF THE CONTACTS - There is provided a system and method for providing an ordered arrangement of data items pertaining to contacts of a user. The order of the arrangement may be determined based on a comparison of ranks of the contacts. An exemplary method comprises registering communications in at least two communication formats between the user and the contacts. A weight may be assigned to each communication format. The exemplary method also comprises determining a rank of a contact based on the communications registered for the contact. A communication may be incorporated into the determination of the rank with a weight. Further, the weight may be determined based on the weight assigned to the communication format used for the communication. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110219312 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING USER INTERFACE FOR TRANSMITTING CONTENTS - Provided is a digital apparatus displaying a user interface for a contents transmission. The digital apparatus generates and displays a user interface including a first area, a second area, and a third area, the first area displaying, based on the communication records, user lists up to a predetermined communication record rank among the plurality of user lists, the second area displaying, based on the usage records, contents lists up to a predetermined usage record rank among the plurality of contents lists, and the third area dynamically displaying at least one function menu list that is applicable to the plurality of the displayed contents lists. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110225501 | Document Management Systems, Apparatuses And Methods Configured To Provide Document Notification - Apparatuses, systems and methods are provided for providing document management services to a terminal, wherein a document notification is provided to one or more notification destinations. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110225502 | Accessing web services and presenting web content according to user specifications - A way for enabling a user to discover, present, save and share Web content is disclosed. A user is provided a means of executing searches across Web services, as well as for saving those searches for later use. An embodiment of the method and system employs the use of a Transmuter to display Web media in a format deemed optimal by the user. Users are also provided a means of saving references to Web content on their device, as well as posting those references along with certain annotations using Web services. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110258551 | INQUIRY-ORIENTED USER INPUT APPARATUS AND METHOD - User input from a reduced keypad is disambiguated and compared with a first dynamic lexicon, and predicted matches (e.g. either a single word or phrase) are offered. If a user continues to type beyond a boundary condition, then input is no longer predicted from the first lexicon, but instead is interpreted as a request for matches from a second, quasi-static lexicon allowing words or phrases to be entered. When the entry is accepted, data is transmitted to a remote receiver and may be parsed as an inquiry for subsequent operation. Following acceptance, the apparatus invokes a program suitable for interacting with the response generated to the inquiry. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110258552 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTABLISHING AND USING A SOCIAL NETWORK TO FACILITATE PEOPLE IN LIFE ISSUES - Embodiments described herein provide numerous applications and implementations of a social network to facilitate individuals to resolve various life issues. These issues may include issues that arise when individuals or families relocate, including logistic problems, assimilation of family members in a community, and roommate pairings. As will be described, embodiments described herein greatly facilitate corporations in relocating their employees logistically, and also assist employees and their families with life issues that may determine whether the employees' relocation will be a success. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110258553 | Current Updates - This document describes tools capable of differentiating a superset of entities from which a user may receive current updates effective to provide current updates for only some of the entities of the superset. In one embodiment, for example, the tools enable a user of a mobile device to select a set of entities from which the user will automatically receive updates that are current, easily accessible, and visible at-a-glance. The tools may forgo providing current updates for entities that are not selected by the user, though the tools may provide these updates when explicitly requested by the user or at particular times or events. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110271197 | Distributing Information Between Participants in a Conference via a Conference User Interface - Various embodiments of systems, methods, and computer programs are disclosed for distributing information between participants in an online conference via a graphical user interface. One such method comprises: a conferencing system establishing a conference between a plurality of participants accessing the conferencing system via a communication network; presenting a conference interface via a graphical user interface to a client device operated by one of the participants; displaying in the conference interface a participant object identifying each of the plurality of participants in the conference, each participant object having corresponding profile information; selecting one of the participant objects via the graphical user interface; moving the selected participant object via the graphical user interface to a contact capture location in the conference interface; and creating a new contact containing at least a portion of the profile information associated with the selected participant object. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110276891 | VIRTUAL ART ENVIRONMENT - Computer-based methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for presenting a first virtual art canvas at a graphical user interface; receiving instructions from a remote control unit to apply one or more markings to the virtual art canvas, where the one or more markings are applied according to the remote control unit's movements relative to a stationary sensor; and displaying one or more indicators on the virtual canvas to guide a user's movement of the remote control unit to create a virtual piece of art on the first virtual art canvas based, at least in part, on movements of the remote control unit. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110289421 | USER INTERFACE FOR CONTENT BROWSING AND SELECTION IN A CONTENT SYSTEM - A computer-implemented system and method for providing a user interface for content browsing and selection in a content system. Embodiments include: gathering available content information related to particular items of content from at least one source of a plurality of content sources; processing the content information to provide a digital representation of a content item; receiving a selection of the content item, the selection being in response to a user action performed on the digital representation corresponding to the content item; and displaying an expanded dimension of information associated with the selected content item in response to receiving the selection of the content item, the expanded dimension of information including at least one user-selectable display object to obtain an additional level of detailed information related to the selected content item. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110289422 | Interactive calendar of scheduled web-based events and temporal indices of the web that associate index elements with metadata - A system for generating an interactive calendar guide to scheduled web-based events is described. The guide can be presented in any format, including a grid view and a first view, within various media, including at a website hosting the interactive guide and as a widget on a computer display. A user can interact with elements of the guide, select elements of the guide for more information, customize events presented in the guide, filter the results displayed in the guide, send a response to attend an event, go directly to an event from the guide, and modify the presentation format of the guide. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110302500 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REMINDING AND BROWSING RELATED INFORMATION OF CONTACTS AND RECORDING MEDIUM USING THE SAME - A method and an apparatus for reminding and browsing related information of contacts, and a recording medium using the same are provided. In the present method, a communication device displays a contact list comprising at least one contact on a screen thereof. Meanwhile, the communication device checks whether each contact has unread related information and displays an indicating icon on the corresponding contact in the contact list when it is determined that the contact has related information unread, so as to remind a user of the communication device that the contact has unread related information. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110307797 | FILE EXCHANGE SYSTEM AND MOBILE DEVICE - A mobile device includes a file information acquiring unit, a file information display unit that displays the file information acquired on a display unit, a file presence identifying unit that determines whether or not a file specified by file information designated by a user from among the file information displayed on the display unit is stored in a storage unit, a first file transmitting unit that transmits the stored file to another mobile device when the file presence identifying unit determines that the file is stored in the internal storage unit, a file acquiring unit that downloads the file specified by the designated file information from the server when the file presence identifying unit determines that the file is not stored in the internal storage unit, and a second file transmitting unit that transmits the file acquired by the file acquiring unit to the other mobile device. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110314384 | METHOD FOR HANDLING EMAIL MESSAGES AND ATTACHMENTS IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An email handling system having a mobile terminal with a processor, a user interface and an email database for storing email messages with attachments. The processor is arranged for fetching from the email database and displaying on the user interface, a list of email messages of an email account, responsive to an input command from a user to add an attachment to an outgoing email message. The processor fetches from the email database and displays on the user interface a list of attachments of a selected first email message out of the list of email messages, responsive to an input command from a user selecting the first email message. The system adds to the outgoing email message a selected first attachment out of the list of attachments from an existing email message responsive to a user input command. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110320954 | RELATED WEB FEED CORRELATION WITH DYNAMIC CONTENT ACCESS - At least one element of received first feed content of a first feed is determined by a computer client device to include a first feed correlation identifier. The first feed correlation identifier identifies a portion of a second feed associated with the at least one element of the received first feed content. The received first feed content is displayed with a first selectable user interface element associated with the at least one element of the received first feed content determined to include the first feed correlation identifier. A selection of the first selectable user interface element is detected. In response to detecting the selection of the first selectable user interface element, a feed server is queried for the portion of the second feed identified by the first feed correlation identifier. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20120036446 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING ACCESS TO A RESOURCE BASED ON SOCIAL SYNCHRONY AND HOMOPHILY - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for managing resources. A system for managing resources is configured for categorizing users according to at least one of common user characteristics and common user behaviors with respect to at least a first domain to yield a group of users. The system is also configured for identifying a resource associated with at least one user behavior in a second domain different from the first domain during a first time interval for at least one user from the group of users. The system is further configured for modifying an accessibility of the resource, during a second time interval after the first time interval, with respect to the second domain for at least other users in the group of users based on the at least one user behavior. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120042259 | WebConnect: Website for increasing ease of website and media accessiblity on the world wide web - WebConnect is a collection of methods combined onto one website. These methods include: an advanced bookmarking method, a social network, time-management tools, a personal media, and simple mail transfer protocol tool. WebConnect allows easy access to websites, specifically those that require accounts with passwords. When a user has bookmarked a website, websites over an https require you to log in; even when the user has exercised the option of having the browser remember the username and password. The application provided by WebConnect gives the user the option of saving the website in memory even while logged in. So the next time the user wants to visit that specific web page, they can simply navigate to the website without signing in. This application is referred to as trapping, and it is the central part of WebConnect that eliminates having to memorize various logins. In the context of a website, to trap means to save any page on an open account, or any page in general, for later access to avoid having to sign in later. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120042260 | BACKDOOR ADOPTION PROCESS AND TOOL - A customer service tool which is used to locally adopt a virtual item in a virtual world. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120079391 | SUPPORTING LINKED MULTI-USER DECISION MAKING IN ENVIRONMENTS WITH CONSTRAINED SHARED RESOURCES - Embodiments of the present invention manage multiple requests to allocate real world resources in a multi-user environment. A request for interacting with a database environment comprising records of allocations of a plurality of resources is received from a user in a plurality of users. The database environment is shared between the plurality of users. A set of action choices available for the request is provided to the user via the user interface. A set of resources required by each action choice is identified. The set of resources is associated with a decision context. The decision context exists for a period of time. The set of resources are allocated to the user for a duration of the decision context. The allocating prevents the set of resources from being allocated to other users for the duration of the decision context irrespective of a set of actions performed by the other users. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120079392 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR LOCATING NETWORK FILES - A system, method, and computer program product for accessing web pages on a network are provided. In use, different users are provided access to a plurality of sections of a file selected by the different users based on a community value for at least one community dimension assigned to each section of the file selected by the different users. In particular, a user is conditionally provided access to a section of a file selected by the user, based on a comparison of a user value indicating a community with which the user is associated to the community value for the at least one community dimension assigned to the section of the file selected by the user. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120089919 | LEVERAGING SOCIAL NETWORKING FOR COMPUTER HELP - Computer help is provided through a user's social networking sites. For example, a computer help desk can request permission to be added to a user's social networking contacts or can add itself automatically as a contact of the user to provide help information through the social network as an RSS feed. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120089920 | PLATFORM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING REAL-TIME POSITION AND MOVEMENT DATA - A geospatial platform for building applications involving location and time is disclosed. The applications allow users to analyze and make sense of the location and time-based data generated by a wide variety of devices in real time, as it is generated. The platform in one example features a dashboard for associating code statements with a variety of data visualizations. The code statements access real-time and/or location based data and generate a result set that is optimized for displaying a selected data visualization in the dashboard. The code statements are ideally executed on a server so that large quantities of data can be manipulated as it is generated by various devices in real-time. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120117483 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING AND MANAGING MEDIA CONTENT ON MULTIPLE DEVICES - A method, system, and apparatus for a consumer electronics device that allows access to stored data, media files, and/or content on a remote storage device through a profile. A menu is then provided on the consumer electronics device that contains information relating to stored data, media files, and/or content located on the remote storage device, where the menu only relates to data, media files, and/or content capable of being presented on the consumer electronics device. Based at least on receiving a user's selection of a menu item, the consumer electronics device receives the data, media file, and/or content from the remote storage device for presentation on the consumer electronics device. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120131470 | Integrated Application Feature Store - An application feature store may be integrated with an application. The feature store may be accessed by a user through a feature storefront hosted within the application. The user may search the feature store for additional desired features available for the augmentation of the productivity application. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120144309 | ATTRACTION-BASED DATA VISUALIZATION - A plurality of digital resources are identified in a set of digital resources. An indication of a user selection of at least one criteria is received, the user selection received through a user interface. A degree of correlation is determined between each digital resource in the plurality and each of the criteria. Data is sent that is configured for use in presenting, in a window of the user interface, a plurality of graphical resource objects and at least one graphical attractor object, each graphical resource object representing a digital resource in the plurality of digital resources and each graphical attractor object representing one of the criteria. Each resource object is presented a distance from each attractor object, the distance based at least in part on the corresponding degree of correlation between the digital resource represented by the resource object and the criteria represented by the attractor object. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120144310 | INTELLIGENTLY ENABLED MENU CHOICES BASED ON ONLINE PRESENCE STATE IN ADDRESS BOOK - A computer implemented method for intelligently enabling menu choices includes rendering, on a client system, an address book user interface comprising information related to one or more contacts, selecting a contact from the address book user interface, determining an online presence state for the selected contact, enabling one or more menu options based upon the determined online presence state, with the menu options enabled for a first online presence state differing from the menu options enabled for a second online presence state, and presenting the enabled menu options to a user in a user interface. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120159341 | INTERACTIONS WITH CONTEXTUAL AND TASK-BASED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS - Concepts and technologies are described herein for interacting with contextual and task-focused computing environments. Tasks associated with applications are described by task data. Tasks and/or batches of tasks relevant to activities occurring at a client are identified, and a UI for presenting the tasks is generated. The UIs can include tasks and workflows corresponding to batches of tasks. Workflows can be executed, interrupted, and resumed on demand. Interrupted workflows are stored with data indicating progress, contextual information, UI information, and other information. The workflow is stored and/or shared. When execution of the workflow is resumed, the same or a different UI can be provided, based upon the device used to resume execution of the workflow. Thus, multiple devices and users can access workflows in parallel to provide collaborative task execution. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120173989 | Automatically Selecting Internet Browser and Providing Web Page Service - Automatically selecting a browser and providing a web page service. In one embodiment, this comprises: sending a request to a server; receiving a web page from the server; determining whether the web page has at least one preference tag; selecting a preferred browser according to the at least one preference tag; and initiating the preferred browser. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120185779 | Computer System and Method of Audience-Suggested Content Creation in Social Media - A computer based system and method of audience-based suggestion for content creation in social media is disclosed. The content suggestor system and method receive user requests including title of content that the requester would be interested in viewing/reading. The system routes the request to any number of target users that would be likely to responsively create/upload such content, including both users the requester has deemed appropriate as well as any the system deems appropriate. A user interface displays topic requests to the target users (users the request was routed to). Upon content being uploaded in the global computer network in response to the request, the system notifies each requesting user. The content responsively created and uploaded may be in media different from the medium of the initial request. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120198348 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INTEGRATED USER INFORMATION - An apparatus and method for providing integrated user information is provided. An apparatus to provide integrated user information includes a user information storage unit to store first user information of a first contact user including at least one of name information of the first contact user, phone number information of the first contact user or identification information of the first contact user; and a control unit to acquire first social network information of the first contact user registered in a first application, to generate first integrated user information having the first user information of the first contact user and the first social network information of the first contact user, and to store the first integrated user information. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120210240 | USER INTERFACES FOR PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATIONS - A ranked set of users may be calculated from an expertise categorization for each user and a person's trust in the users for specific categories. The ranked set of users may be used for presenting search results, recommendations, social marketing, or other uses. A person's expertise may be determined through various online activities. A person's trust in another person may be related to their proximity and activity in one or more social networks. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20120210241 | REMOVAL OF UNAVAILABLE SERVICES AND/OR CONTENT ITEMS FROM A LIST OF FAVORITE AND/OR RECENTLY VIEWED SERVICES AND/OR CONTENT ITEMS ASSOCIATED WITH A USER ACCOUNT - Software is provided to handle the playback of media in browsers that in addition may use second display protocols to instruct a separate display device to play the media. The software can transmit the content or specify a network location of the same for subsequent playback on a content playback device. The software may be in the form of a web browser or other application that is configured for the playback of selected media types. The browser maintains a list of favorite and/or recently viewed services and content items and is configured to filter the list to eliminate those content items or services which are no longer available. In this way, favorite content items and services and/or recently viewed content items and services, as available to the user, are made accessible using the second display. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20120216124 | BUNDLING WEB BROWSER SESSION CONTEXTS - Bundling web browser session contexts may include aggregating a list of currently open browser web pages and presenting the list to a user. A user may select one or more browser web pages from the list. Based on the selected one or more browser web pages, a context bundle is generated and saved. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120221957 | Method and Apparatus for information exchange over a web based environment - Exchanging information via web is a way of life in modern society. Present invention utilizes dynamic workspace technology to allow people much efficiently and flexibly to exchanging information across global environment. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120254765 | Current Updates - This document describes tools capable of differentiating a superset of entities from which a user may receive current updates effective to provide current updates for only some of the entities of the superset. In one embodiment, for example, the tools enable a user of a mobile device to select a set of entities from which the user will automatically receive updates that are current, easily accessible, and visible at-a-glance. The tools may forgo providing current updates for entities that are not selected by the user, though the tools may provide these updates when explicitly requested by the user or at particular times or events. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120260188 | POTENTIAL COMMUNICATION RECIPIENT PREDICTION - One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for identifying potential recipients for a communication (e.g., email, instant message, content sharing platform, etc.) a user is presently preparing based at least in part upon a user's communication history. That is, information about the user's interactions with past recipients of his/her communications are compared with information known about the present communication and potential recipients of the present communication are identified based upon this comparison. Moreover, in one embodiment, based upon the past interactions of the user with others, one or more communication groups can be identified and presented to the user. In this way, a user may select a communication group and recipients included in the communication group can be added as recipients for the communication the user is presently preparing without the user having to manually create such groups, for example. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120260189 | INTEGRATED CONTACT CARD COMMUNICATION - Embodiments provide integrated reply functionality within the context of a contact card or panel. Contact information is provided for display in the contact card (e.g., a portion of a user interface of a computing device). The contact information is associated with a contact. The contact information identifies one or more transport modes for communication with the contact. In some embodiments, the computing device receives a request from a user to communicate with the contact via at least one selected transport mode. Based on the received request, the computing device provides an input field within the contact card. In other embodiments, the transport mode is automatically selected and the input field is displayed. Data from the user is received into the input field for communication to the contact. The computing device sends the data received into the input field to the contact via the selected transport mode. The integrated reply functionality is accessible from a conversation history displayed in the contact card. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120260190 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ONLINE AND MOBILE MEMORIES AND GREETING SERVICE - A system, a method, and a user interface are described for personalizing and sending stationery/cards. A reminder list on the user interface includes a list of reminder entries each identifying an upcoming event including events generated based on a specified relationship between the user and one or more contacts of the user. A recommendation region is populated one or more recommended stationery/card designs associated with one of the entries in the reminder list. A stationery/card personalization engine provides the user with a set of personalization options related to the selected stationery/card design, and generates personalized stationery based on the selected stationery/card design and the user input. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120266077 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE PROVIDING FEEDBACK MESSAGES - A digital image display device for displaying a collection of digital media assets, comprising: a display screen; a network connection; a user interface; and a program memory. The program memory stores executable instructions for receiving a set of digital media assets and associated metadata using the network connection, wherein each digital media asset is provided by a particular individual using a particular sharing method; displaying a digital media asset on the display screen; identifying a subject depicted in the displayed digital media asset; displaying a set of feedback message choices on the display screen; receiving input via the user interface to select a particular feedback message choice; and using the network connection to provide the selected feedback message to the particular individual who provided the digital media asset using the particular sharing method that was used to provide the displayed digital media asset. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20120272155 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING NETWORK RESOURCES - A method is disclosed for presenting network resources on a computer having a browser. The method includes determining at least one network resource to be independently presented and obtaining network attribute information of the at least one network resource. The method also includes obtaining a resource list window for listing network resources that need to be presented independently using network resource as unit and displaying identification information of the at least one network resource in the resource list window. Further, the method includes, when a network resource corresponding to an entry of identification information in the resource list window needs to be independently presented, presenting the network resource independently using the network attribute information of the network resource. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20130007627 | PRESENTING ENTITY PROFILE INFORMATION TO A USER OF A COMPUTING DEVICE - Entity profile information is presented to a user of a computing device. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving a communication associated with a first entity; in response to receiving the communication, creating or updating, by at least one processor, a first entity profile, wherein the first entity profile is for display to the user on the computing device; and storing a plurality of entity profiles for entities, the entity profiles including the first entity profile. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007628 | USER INTERFACE FOR A HANDHELD DEVICE - A user interface and method for composing a message to be sent over a wireless network environment using a handheld device is disclosed. According to the method, upon receipt of a user request to compose a message, a screen is displayed with a recipient field for a recipient address, an associated label to indicate that the recipient field is for a recipient address, and a message body field for holding message content. The method further includes, upon each keystroke entry of text to the recipient field, looking up entries from an address book which match the text, and displaying a selection menu representing addresses from at least a portion of the entries as well as cached entries previously looked up from a global address book. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130014021 | Presenting Quick List of Contacts to Communication Application User - Methods and systems of presenting a quick list of contacts to an instant messaging user are disclosed. A set of contacts is identified. From the set of contacts, a first subset is selected based on first predefined criteria and a second subset is selected from second predefined criteria. The first and second predefined criteria may include contact interaction criteria, user activity criteria, and connectedness criteria. From the first and second subsets, one or more lists of contacts are generated. The one or more lists may be displayed in a display region of an instant messaging application. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130024776 | OUTBOUND HUNT GROUPS - A system may include a communications device configured to select a contact from an address book, the contact including information descriptive of a user and including at least one address of the user. The communications device may be further configured to associate an outbound hunt group with the contact, the outbound hunt group configured to provide a list of addresses to be called in sequence to locate the user. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130047089 | System and Method to Consolidate and Update Digital Address Books - Computer software applications, systems and methods for managing contact information online in a central database, and automatically updating information on addressees' online communications accounts, such as their Gmail®, Yahoo®, LinkedIn®, and Facebook® accounts. The present invention incorporates online email accounts, social network accounts, and personal information managers into a central address book stored on a server database that is accessible from users' workstations and mobile devices. Users may set permission levels for access to their contact information by addressee category and/or customize it to each addressee. Users may also post updates to their contact information into their addressees' online accounts if the addressee is a member of the system database who has granted permission for automatic updates to their email accounts, social network accounts, and the like. Alternatively, the system will automatically generate an email to addressees requesting that they manually enter the user's update into their online communications accounts. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130055099 | Unified Messaging System with Integration of Call Log Data - Methods and systems directed to a user interface having a conversations view that aggregates all the communications a given users has with his or her contacts across multiple communication means and protocols. Messages between a user and a particular contact are threaded together, regardless of their format or protocol in order to provide the user with a quick history of all communications with his or her contacts. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130055100 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REMEDIATING NONFUNCTIONAL WEBSITE CONTENT - A method and system for website content remediation are provided. The website content remediation computer system includes a memory device and a processor in communication with the memory device. The website content remediation computer system is programmed to determine items of nonfunctional content within a website, display a plurality of nonfunctional content types of the determined items to a user on a graphical user interface, and receive from the user a selection input of one of the displayed nonfunctional content types. The computer system is further programmed to display a report of items of nonfunctional content of the selected nonfunctional content types, receive from the user a selection input of one of the items, and receive from the user an action command that remediates the selected item. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130055101 | System and Method for Tagging Belongings in Photos and Posts - A system and machine-implemented method is provided for tagging of belongings maintained within a social graph of belongings in photos and posts including receiving a request to tag a belonging within a selected area of a display from a user of a system, providing, in response to the request, a list of belongings including the one or more belongings associated with the user within the social graph of belongings, wherein the social graph of belongings defines an association between each of the one or more users and one or more belongings, receiving an indication of a user selection of a first belonging from the list of belongings, generating a link corresponding to the first belonging in response to receiving the indication of the user selection and associating the link with the selected area. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130067339 | INTELLIGENTLY ENABLED MENU CHOICES BASED ON ONLINE PRESENCE STATE IN ADDRESS BOOK - A computer implemented method for intelligently enabling menu choices includes rendering, on a client system, an address book user interface comprising information related to one or more contacts, selecting a contact from the address book user interface, determining an online presence state for the selected contact, enabling one or more menu options based upon the determined online presence state, with the menu options enabled for a first online presence state differing from the menu options enabled for a second online presence state, and presenting the enabled menu options to a user in a user interface. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130067340 | INTELLIGENTLY ENABLED MENU CHOICES BASED ON ONLINE PRESENCE STATE IN ADDRESS BOOK - A computer implemented method for intelligently enabling menu choices includes rendering, on a client system, an address book user interface comprising information related to one or more contacts, selecting a contact from the address book user interface, determining an online presence state for the selected contact, enabling one or more menu options based upon the determined online presence state, with the menu options enabled for a first online presence state differing from the menu options enabled for a second online presence state, and presenting the enabled menu options to a user in a user interface. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130067341 | INTELLIGENTLY ENABLED MENU CHOICES BASED ON ONLINE PRESENCE STATE IN ADDRESS BOOK - A computer implemented method for intelligently enabling menu choices includes rendering, on a client system, an address book user interface comprising information related to one or more contacts, selecting a contact from the address book user interface, determining an online presence state for the selected contact, enabling one or more menu options based upon the determined online presence state, with the menu options enabled for a first online presence state differing from the menu options enabled for a second online presence state, and presenting the enabled menu options to a user in a user interface. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130067342 | BUDDY LIST-BASED SHARING OF ELECTRONIC CONTENT - Instant messaging (IM) entities may be invited to an electronic calendar event using an instant message. Selecting the IM entities as invitees to the event may include dragging and dropping names of the IM entities from a buddy list of an IM application to an event from an electronic calendar application, or vice versa. A method of inviting an entity to a calendar event includes providing a calendar event from a calendar application and recognizing, by the calendar application, an IM entity as an invitee to the event. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130067343 | BUDDY LIST-BASED SHARING OF ELECTRONIC CONTENT - Instant messaging (IM) entities may be invited to an electronic calendar event using an instant message. Selecting the IM entities as invitees to the event may include dragging and dropping names of the IM entities from a buddy list of an IM application to an event from an electronic calendar application, or vice versa. A method of inviting an entity to a calendar event includes providing a calendar event from a calendar application and recognizing, by the calendar application, an IM entity as an invitee to the event. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130073974 | Methods for Verifying Person's Identity through Person's Social Circle Using Person's Photograph - One embodiment of a method of the present invention provides for obtaining an image from a requester, obtaining contact information for vouching people, whom requester identifies as having personal knowledge of the requester, and sending an electronic message to the vouching people, with a link to an image lineup. The image lineup contains the image obtained from the requester and other images. Then receiving a selection choice from the vouching people, identifying whether the image in the image lineup depicts the requester, and calculating a statistical rating of a likelihood that the image obtained from the requester depicts him/her. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073975 | Systems for Verifying Person's Identity through Person's Social Circle Using Person's Photograph - One embodiment of a system of present invention includes means for obtaining an image from a requester, means for obtaining contact information for vouching people, whom requester identifies as having personal knowledge of the requester, and means for sending an electronic message to the vouching people, with a link to an image lineup. The image lineup contains the image obtained from the requester and other images. The system further includes means for receiving a selection choice from the vouching people, identifying whether the image in the image lineup depicts the requester, and means for calculating a statistical rating of a likelihood that the image obtained from the requester depicts him/her. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073976 | Capturing Structured Data About Previous Events from Users of a Social Networking System - The invention provides a display interface in a social networking system that enables the presentation of information related to a user in a timeline or map view. The system accesses information about a user of a social networking system, including both data about the user and social network activities related to the user. The system then selects one or more of these pieces of data and/or activities from a certain time period and gathers them into timeline units based on their relatedness and their relevance to users. These timeline units are ranked by relevance to the user, and are used to generate a timeline or map view for the user containing visual representations of the timeline units organized by location or time. The timeline or map view is then provided to other users of the social networking system that wish to view information about the user. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073977 | BULK UDTA CONTROL GUI - A method, user interface, and system are provided for controlling multiple universal digital terminal adapters (UDTAs). This involves providing a listing of UDTAs available for control and providing controls for one or more of the UDTAs in the listing of UDTAs. Commands can then be provided via the controls and performed to control one or more of the UDTAs available for control. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130097516 | USER TERMINAL DEVICE AND CONTENT SHARING METHOD THEREOF - A user terminal device is provided. The user terminal device includes a network interface unit for connecting to a network; a storage unit for storing content; a control unit for operating in local mode to search for content from the storage unit or network mode to search for content from the network in response to a user's selection; and a display unit for displaying the local mode User Interface (UI) or the network mode UI in accordance with whether the control unit is operating in the local mode or the network mode, respectively. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130111350 | EXECUTION SCREEN PUBLICATION DEVICE, EXECUTION SCREEN PUBLICATION METHOD, CLIENT DEVICE, AND CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEM | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130117681 | Method and Apparatus for Targeting Updated Personal Data to Providers - A method and apparatus for targeting updated personal data to providers, performed in an electronic device having a display screen, the method including displaying an indication of an update application, on the display screen, for user selection, displaying personal data obtained by the update application on the display screen, receiving updated personal data input by a user as updated personal data, receiving at least one target provider input by a user as selected target provider/s, and initiating transmission of the updated personal data to each selected target provider. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130125008 | Systems And Methods For Providing Content Streams - Various embodiments can concern a method of organizing and displaying two or more content elements. The method can include: receiving a first content element from one or more users; creating a parent content stream for the first content element; displaying the parent content stream to the one or more users; after displaying the parent content stream, receiving one or more second content elements from the one or more users, the one or more second content elements are related to the first content element; perform content analysis of the one or more second content elements; determining whether to create one or more child content streams from the parent content stream based at least partially upon the content analysis of the one or more second content elements; creating based at least partially upon the content analysis of the one or more second content elements at least one of: the one or more child content streams or one or more orphan content streams; and displaying to the one or more users the parent content stream and the at least one of the one or more child content streams and one or more orphan content streams. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130185646 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CUSTOMIZING A PROJECT - A method, system, and computer readable media for managing a project over a computer network is disclosed. A project selection is received. Data associated with the project is retrieved in response to the selection. Data associated with a user profile is also retrieved, and compared to the data associated with the project to detect inconsistencies between the project and the user profile. In an embodiment, substitutions are determined based on the inconsistencies and automatically incorporated into the project. Data associated with the project including the substitutions is then delivered to the user over a computer network. In another embodiment, data associated with the project and the inconsistencies is delivered to the user over a computer network. In some embodiments, data associated with alternative project inputs and/or project actions consistent with the user profile is delivered to the user for substitution into the project. In some implementations, a selection of one or more alternative project inputs and/or project actions may be received from the user over a computer network. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130198643 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A USER INTERFACE - A method and apparatus for providing a user interface, at a device, is provided. The method includes displaying a first user interface associated with a specific user; receiving a selection of the first user interface; and displaying a communication function list for connecting with the specific user. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130205217 | Display of an Online Catalog for Concurrent Downloading of Files - Example embodiments relate to provision of an online catalog of files. In example embodiments, a computing device may display an online catalog that identifies files available for download. The computing device may also output a corresponding user interface element for each file and set each user interface element to an initial state. Upon selection of a first file for download, the computing device may modify the user interface element for that file to a downloading state to indicate a status of the download while continuing to display the online catalog. Subsequently, upon selection of a second file for download, the computing device may modify the user interface element for the second file to the downloading state, such that the computing device may concurrently download multiple files. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130219284 | DEVICE SEARCHING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA TRANSMISSION - A device searching system and method for data transmission are provided. A method of searching for another device in a first device for data transmission includes outputting a widget window for a device search, receiving an address book stored in a second device connected to the first device, and if the widget window is selected, searching for a device included in the received address book, wherein the searching of the device includes searching for at least one of devices included in the received address book based on a keyword input through the widget window. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130246930 | TOUCH GESTURES RELATED TO INTERACTION WITH CONTACTS IN A BUSINESS DATA SYSTEM - A business data system generates a user interface display showing a business data record. The business data system receives a touch gesture user input manipulating a contact within the business data system. The business data system manipulates the contact based on the touch gesture user input. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130246931 | USER ASSOCIATION OF A COMPUTING APPLICATION WITH A CONTACT IN A CONTACT LIST - Methods and systems may be provided for user association of a computing application with a contact in a contact list. A view of one or more contacts of the user may be transmitted to a user, the view included a first contact. A request may be received from the user to associate an application with the first contact. A revised view may be transmitted to the user responsive to the received request, the revised view including a user-selectable mechanism for invoking the application on the first contact. The user may be redirected to a user interface of the application subsequent to the user selecting the user-selectable mechanism associated with the contact in the revised view, and the redirection may include transmission of information associated with the user and information associated with the first contact. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130254673 | AGENT SERVICE METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE, SERVER, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM THEREOF - An agent service method and an electronic device are provided. The agent service method includes displaying an additional contacts list that is received from at least one of at least one contact server and at least one agent registration server in response to a contact addition request using the electronic device, adding first contact target information to a contacts list of the electronic device in response to a registration request for the first contact target information that is selected from among the additional contacts list, and performing an agent service with respect to user's input information of a user of the electronic device via a communication channel between the electronic device and the at least one contact server or between the electronic device and the at least one agent executing server according to second contact target information that is selected from the contacts list. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130263008 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONNECTED SALES ASSOCIATE SERVICES - A method and system for providing a connected sales associate service application via a mobile device. The application provides for an integrated platform upon which various tools for providing support to a sales associate are built. The application includes a database of information regarding the sales associates and operational information regarding a retail establishment, and provides a user interface for allowing the sales associate to access a central server for the retail establishment along with multiple additional sales associates on multiple additional mobile devices. The user interface enables the store associate to initialize and conduct VoIP calls with any of the other additional sales associates through each of their respective mobile devices. In addition, stationary user interfaces can be positioned throughout the store to enable customers to request assistance from sales associates. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130263009 | SNS PROVIDING METHOD USING PHONE BOOK AND MOBILE TERMINAL USING THE METHOD - A method of providing a Social Networking Service (SNS) based on a phone book of a mobile terminal is provided. The method includes executing the phone book, receiving a selection of a group tab of the phone book from a first user of the mobile terminal, displaying a list of social groups that shares group activity information of its group members including a second user registered in the phone book in response to the selection of the group tab, and, when at least one social group is selected from the list of social groups, providing at least one piece of information from among group information, a group share space including group activity information, and link information corresponding to the selected at least one social group. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130283180 | MANAGING SUBSET OF USER CONTACTS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable mediums for managing a subset of user contacts on a telecommunications device are provided. In one embodiment, a software application executed by a processor of a telecommunications device identifies a subset of contacts selected at least in part by a user of the telecommunications device. The subset of contacts includes a portion of the user's contacts accessible by the telecommunications device. The software application executed by the processor of the telecommunications device then causes display of a graphical identifier associated with each contact of the subset of contacts in an arrangement on a display of the telecommunications device about an axis positioned external to the display of the telecommunications device. Aspects of systems, methods, and computer-readable mediums for further arranging the graphical identifiers are also provided. Even further, aspects of systems, methods, and computer-readable mediums for providing functionality associated with the graphical identifiers are provided. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130305161 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - Systems and methods for controlling presentation of a menu over a network are disclosed. In one embodiment, an information processing apparatus has a communication unit configured to communicate with an information-providing apparatus over the network, an input unit configured to receive input from a user of the information-processing apparatus, a storage unit storing one or more menus, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to receive, via the input unit, a selection of information for processing, to retrieve, from the storage unit, a first menu associated with the selected information, to receive, via the communication unit, a second menu associated with the selected information from the information-providing apparatus over the network, and to generate a third menu associated with the selected information based on the first menu and on the second menu. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130305162 | MANUAL CLICKER APPLICATION - A method for manual intervention in a dialing process includes maintaining a list of records containing phone numbers in a database stored on a computer readable storage medium, receiving at a computer and from the user a click for each of the records within the list of records in the database stored on the computer readable storage medium, and storing on a computer readable storage medium a record of the click, an identity of the user performing the click, and an association between the click and one of the records within the list of records. For each click, the method provides for electronically communicating the corresponding phone number of one of the records within the list to a dialing device for dialing the phone number. The method may further include dialing the phone number using the dialing device. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130339868 | SOCIAL NETWORK - Social networks may include computers which cause information to be displayed on maps. A computer may receive temporal and geographic data comprising a location and a moment in time linked to one another, and the temporal and geographic data being associated with an icon linked to a position on a map. The computer may receive a command to filter the icon based on a period of time. The computer may cause a portion of the map to be displayed and the icon to be displayed at the linked position on the portion of the map when the moment in time is within the time period and the location is within the portion of the map. The computer may determine that the icon is not to be displayed when the moment in time is not within the time period and/or the location is not within the portion of the map. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20140013233 | INTERACTIVE EVENT-BASED INFORMATION SYSTEM - In one general aspect, an interactive event-based information system is disclosed that includes an event-based data store for storing information about events selectively extracted from a plurality of machine-readable information sources. A live feed extraction interface is responsive to the event-based data store and has a feed publication output operative to publish a live feed of selected information about events. A live event feed user interface includes a live feed display interface operative to present a succession of visual information elements corresponding to events covered in the live event feed, and a drill-down interface responsive to user interaction to provide access to further information about the information elements from the data store. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140019871 | Systems, Apparatuses, Methods and Computer Executable Code for Providing Interactive Friends and/or Contacts Graphic User Interfaces - The present invention includes systems, apparatuses, methods and computer executable code for providing interactive friends and/or contacts graphic user interfaces (GUI). According to some embodiments of the present invention, there may be provided an Interactive Friends and/or Contacts Interfacing Module (IFI) residing within or otherwise functionally associated with a computational device, which computational device includes a friends or contacts functionality (e.g. a cellular phone). An IFI may be adapted to retrieve contact/friend data and provide a user of a mobile phone with an interactive display of contact/friends lists, including data relating to the contacts/friends (e.g. online status) in graphic form and control elements for accessing actions relating to the listed contacts/friends. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140026061 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING CLOUD SERVICE AND TERMINAL FOR SUPPORTING THE SAME - Provided a method and a system for supporting a cloud service capable of providing a user environment specified in the cloud service, and a terminal for supporting the same. The system for supporting a cloud service includes: a cloud service device allowing a plurality of users to upload or download contents to or from at least one sharing box, or to generate memo contents; and a terminal outputting a content viewing menu displaying the contents according to types and characteristics of the contents so that the terminals users can manipulate and share the contents stored in the cloud service device. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140047349 | Application Neutral Visual Sharing - A comprehensive visual sharing application, method and/or technique that combines all elements of sharing in a visual and seamless manner for data that resides either on a personal computer or on remote storage servers. A user has the ability to share data where almost every activity related to sharing data is done through visual representations of data and contacts to enhance ease of sharing. The visual sharing process may occur across several different application platforms, such as web interfaces, desktop application, and social networks. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140047350 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING A CONTENT OF PORTABLE TERMINAL THAT USES A CLOUD SERVICE - A method of displaying a content of a portable terminal connectable with a cloud server. The method includes displaying a content list including a first object corresponding to a first content stored in the portable terminal and a second object corresponding to a second content stored in the cloud server, determining whether a condition for a display change of the content list has occurred, and changing the second object to a third object and displaying the third object if the condition occurs. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140075325 | CONTACT SIDEBAR TILE - Methods, systems, and computer program products for tracking real-time communication data within a single contact tracking application for diverse communication providers and applications. A global data store is synchronized with real-time communication data, such as presence, status, unread messages, and unread notifications, from each application/provider. Real-time communication data for contacts dynamically determined to be recent contacts is retrieved from the data store, based on properties such as a most recent communication time, a communication count, and the like. Real-time communication data corresponding to contacts identified as pinned contacts for which display of real-time communication data is preferred, also may be retrieved. A user interface is generated for displaying the one or more recent and/or pinned contacts, which may vary in size based on the number of contacts identified as pinned contacts, from which a contact may be selected for real-time conversation or e-mail. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140075326 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPLOADING A FILE - Methods and apparatus for uploading a file based on a webkit kernel browser are disclosed herein. A UIWebView control in the webkit kernel browser can be used to monitor a url request. The url request is linked with a triggering button related to a file for uploading on a webpage. It is then determined whether the url request monitored by the UIWebView control contains an agreed protocol header. When the url request is determined that contains the agreed protocol header, the file for uploading is received and uploaded. When it is determined that the url request does not contain the agreed protocol header, the file for uploading is not uploaded. An apparatus for uploading a file based on a webkit kernel browser can include a monitoring module and a determination executing module. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140082508 | SIMPLIFIED AND UNIFIED MANAGEMENT FOR NETWORK-ATTACHED STORAGE - Methods and systems for configuring a network-attached storage (NAS) unit for use with heterogeneous client computers are described. Consistent with some embodiments of the invention, a NAS management module executing on a host computer provides a graphical user interface, and a wizard-like workflow in particular, which enables an administrator to provide configuration settings that make a folder accessible to both CIFS- and NFS-based clients. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140082509 | CONTACT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A family-plan management system integrating family plan widgets on mobile devices that interact with an API maintained and used by a central server is described. The family-plan management system enables high-visibility, low-effort communications between family-plan members as well as easy access to family-plan services offered by the central server. The API automatically identifies family plan members by accessing a database and then implements high-value web and mobile add-on services for the family plan members. The family-plan management system enables control and use of the family plan by the family plan member and enables the carrier to upgrade family plan services without direct action on the part of family plan members. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140082510 | PREFERRED CONTACT GROUP CENTRIC INTERFACE - A preferred contact group centric interface for a communication device can be used to facilitate communications by a user. The user interface can be arranged to activate from a user's “home page” on the display, from an idle screen that is accessed after a timeout period expires, or any other appropriate mechanism that activates the preferred contact group centric experience. A user selects the preferred contact group from among an array of the user's contacts. Once the contact group is configured, a minimal number of navigation/selection features is necessary to activate any number of communication modes available to the contacts. The contact group is configured such that simple and quick navigation between the contact members is achieved. The contact group can be presented in 2D and 3D arrangements, in any number of list or geometric configurations. A pricing plan can optionally be tied to each member of the contact group. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140096024 | DYNAMIC CONFIGURABLE MENU USING SELF-DESCRIBING APPLICATIONS - A menu application provides an integrated interface for launching multiple mobile applications from a dynamically configurable menu. Each of the mobile applications is associated with a servlet that provides the application's menu data to the menu application. The servlet may query design-time data and application run-time data to generate the menu data for the application. Additionally, the set of applications included by the menu application in a menu list may be based on a user authorization level, such that the menu list only includes applications that the user is authorized to access. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140096025 | INTEGRATED EXPERIENCE FOR APPLICATIONS WITHIN A MOBILE APPLICATION - A system and method that supports an integrated user interface experience with third party hosted applications selected and installed by a user within a user-installed native application of a user communication device. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140101563 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RETRIEVING INFORMATION WHILE COMMANDING OPERATION OF AN APPLIANCE - When a command key of a controlling platform is activated, the platform performs an operation to initiate a playing of media content and also initiates the retrieval of information from an information source. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140108946 | Gathering and Organizing Content Distributed via Social Media - The present disclosure relates to a method for gathering and organizing media content in a social media is provided. The method initiates with providing a stream of postings of media content for a user account and receiving, from the user account, selection of media content provided within the stream. The selected media content is moved from the stream to a playlist interface. The selected media content is organized within the playlist interface into categories based on content type to generate a playlist for the user account. The organized playlist of the selected media content is provided for rendering at a display device that is used for accessing the user account. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140115486 | MANUAL CLICKER APPLICATION - A method for manual intervention in a dialing process includes maintaining a list of records containing phone numbers in a database stored on a computer readable storage medium, receiving at a computer and from the user a click for each of the records within the list of records in the database stored on the computer readable storage medium, and storing on a computer readable storage medium a record of the click, an identity of the user performing the click, and an association between the click and one of the records within the list of records. For each click, the method provides for electronically communicating the corresponding phone number of one of the records within the list to a telecommunications system for dialing the phone number. The method may further include dialing the phone number using the telecommunications system. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140143675 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CONTACT INFORMATION THROUGH INTERWORKING BETWEEN MESSAGING SERVICE AND ANOTHER SERVICE - Disclosed is a method of providing contact information through an interworking between a messaging service and another service, the method including: receiving a preference of a user from an application client by an application server; receiving a request for a list of new contacts from the application client; transferring the request for the list of the new contacts to an interworking server; receiving a profile of the contact from a service provider through the interworking server; filtering the received profile of the contact; and transferring a list of filtered contacts to the application client. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140149878 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RAPID ACCESS TO A CONTACT IN A CONTACT LIST - A method and apparatus for displaying and accessing contacts in a contact list on a display device. In some embodiments, the method includes displaying a list of contacts on the display device, wherein the list of contacts is separated into groups of contacts by contact group separators based on at least one configuration setting, generating a quick access index including a plurality of selectable index items each associated with a group of contacts, wherein the selectable index items are only generated for the groups of contacts that include at least one contact, and displaying the quick access index over at least a portion of the list of contacts. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140157138 | PEOPLE AS APPLICATIONS - The subject disclosure relates to associating contacts with corresponding system actions. It includes identifying a contact profile for configuring with system actions, based on one or more of an address book, user input, online accounts, or an interaction with a contact corresponding to the contact profile, retrieving contact information for the identified contact profile and determining at least one available system action based on the retrieved contact information for the identified contact profile. The disclosure also includes generating, based on the retrieved contact information, a system icon representing the contact profile for displaying the contact profile in a graphic user interface component of an operating system and associating the at least one available system action with the contact profile by configuring the at least one available system action to automatically launch when selected at the system icon representing the contact profile. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140157139 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING AND PRESENTING GEOLOCATION DATA - A system for managing and presenting geolocation data. The system includes a plurality of electronic devices and a server in data communication with a plurality of electronic devices. The server has a processor that is configured to receive requests from an electronic device for a map including a feature of interest and the feature having associated location information therewith. The location information is indicative of a geographic location of the feature and comprises information indicative of a precision of the geographic location. The processor provides a precise icon and an imprecise icon for representing a feature on a map, each having a constant size. The processor is also configured to determine whether to use the precise icon or the imprecise icon to represent the feature on the map based upon information indicative of a scale of the map and the precision of the location information associated with the feature. The processor generates the map including the feature being represented by the precise icon or the imprecise icon. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140164938 | Displaying a Stream of Content - A system and method for generating and providing user interfaces for interacting with a stream of content are disclosed. A system having one or more processors and a memory is configured to perform operations including receiving a stream of content including one or more content items; selecting a content item; determining a tile type for providing the content item based upon an attribute of the content item; populating tile components for the tile type using the content item; organizing content tiles in a dynamic grid using the attribute of the content items; and providing the dynamic grid of content tiles for display. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140181680 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTACTING CONTACT PERSON - Embodiments of the present invention relate to the network communications field and disclose a method and a device for contacting a contact person, so as to increase probability of contacting the contact person successfully at a single attempt and save user time and the operator's operation resources. The method for contacting the contact person includes: obtaining a current state of the contact person on a communications platform, where the current state indicates a state of the contact person on the communications platform at current time, and the state is determined according to an operation performed by the contact person on the communications platform or a terminal bound to the communications platform; determining a contact manner of the contact person, where the contact manner corresponds to the obtained current state; and setting the determined contact manner as a preferred contact manner of the contact person. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140181681 | HANDLING INFORMATION ITEMS - A method comprises receiving, via a user interface of a user terminal, an indication of a user selection of a contact identifier, identifying, from plural event information items stored in at least one memory, an event information item which is associated with the selected contact, wherein each of the plural event information items has a timestamp associated therewith, and causing a graphical chronology to be displayed on a display ( | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140189522 | User Interface for Integrating Applications on a Mobile Communication Device - A user interface, in accordance with the teachings described herein, is provided for integrating applications on a mobile communication device. An instant messaging user interface may be included for displaying an instant messaging communication that includes an instant messaging contact. An instant messaging user interface menu may be included for displaying a list of commands, one or more of the commands being specific to the displayed instant messaging contact, and the list of commands including a command associated with a calendar application. The user interface may be operable to automatically launch the calendar application in response to a user selecting the command associated with the calendar application. A field in the calendar application may be automatically populated with the instant messaging contact. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140215346 | ADDRESS ENTRY LIST VALUES - Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for configuring and using an enhanced address List of Values (LOV). According to one embodiment, configuring and using an enhanced address List of Values (LOV) can comprise installing, by a computer system, an application using address information. The address information can have a predefined format for a plurality of geographic regions relevant to the application. The address LOV can be configured by the computer system for a selected geographic region from the plurality of geographic regions relevant to the application and the configured address LOV and used by the computer system in a user interface of the application to define values for attributes related to entry of an address within the selected geographic region. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140223319 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTENT BASED ON VISUAL SEARCH - Information technology tools can be provided to provide user access to content based on an image captured on a user device. One or more image objects are extracted from the captured image and are utilized, for example, along with the location of the user device, to perform a visual search in an image association database to retrieve and display content information corresponding to a matched image object. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140237374 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Enlargement of a reference list is prevented by supporting appropriate deletion of transaction objects, which are unnecessary to register in the reference list, from the reference list. An information processing apparatus includes: a selecting means that selects, as candidates for deletion from a reference list, a transaction object associated with a transaction object targeted for operation among transaction objects registered in the reference list, based on reference list information of a user, which is stored in a storing means that stores the reference list information indicating transaction objects registered in the reference list holding a reference to information associated with the transaction objects, when a predetermined operation relating to selection of the transaction object is performed by the user; and a controlling means that suggests the deletion candidates selected by the selecting means. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140282040 | Delivering Future Plans - Methods, systems, and apparatus are disclosed which include gathering trip information from one or more friends of a user, generating a geographic map including displaying friend representations on the geographic map, each friend representation corresponding to each of the respective future locations where one or more friends are going to be physically present, displaying the geographic map on a user interface, receiving a first selection of a first friend representation, and in response to receiving the first selection, displaying, relative to the map, a first list of one or more friends associated with a future location corresponding to the first friend representation selected. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140282041 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR REPLACING A CONTACT ENTRY CORRESPONDING TO A COMMUNICATION DEVICE WITH A CONTACT ENTRY CORRESPONDING TO A USER GROUP - Apparatuses, systems and methods for presenting a change contact entries option to a user of a first communication device, and causing a contact entry corresponding to the first communication device to be replaced with a contact entry corresponding to a user group to which the first communication device belongs. The first communication device is configured to communicate with one or more servers responsive to being addressed both with a first unique identifier assigned thereto and a first group unique identifier assigned thereto as a member of the user group. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140282042 | GENERATING AND IMPLEMENTING LOCALIZED JUMP LISTS - Embodiments are directed to implementing localized jump lists and to generating a locale-specific jump list. In one scenario, a computer system sends a synchronization request to receive a current contact list that includes a user's contacts. The computer system receives both a synchronized contact list and a locale-specific jump list, which includes jump header sort keys that indicate the relative sorting position of each jump header. The computer system receives a user input indicating that the user has selected a specified jump header and intends to jump to a specified point in the contact list. The computer system then jumps to the user-specified point in the contact list using the jump header sort key that corresponds to the selected jump header in the locale-specific jump list and displays the contact list to the user at the selected jump header that was jumped to using the jump header sort key. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140282043 | PROVIDING LOCAL EXPERT SESSIONS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing local expert sessions. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a request to initiate a local expert session from a user; identifying available local experts in response to the request, wherein a local expert is a user who has registered to offer local expert sessions in a geographic location relevant to the physical location of the user; selecting an available local expert; and initiating a local expert session between the user and the selected local expert, wherein initiating the local expert session comprises providing video captured by a session accessory worn by the user to a user device for presentation to the selected local expert and establishing communication between the user and the selected local expert. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140298187 | DIALING METHOD, DIALING DEVICE, MOBILE TERMINAL AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The present invention relates to instant communications and provides a dialing method, a dialing device, a mobile terminal and a storage medium, and the method comprises: drawing a slider on a main interface, which is a screen lock interface or any desktop interface; receiving a dialing startup instruction from the slider, and obtaining N contact identifiers from a contact list, where N is an integer no less than 1; drawing dial object identifiers on the main interface; and obtaining a first contact identifier selected by a user from the dial object identifiers, and dialing a phone number associated with the first contact identifier. With the invention, the dialing operation flow may be shortened, the dialing speed may be improved, and direct dialing on the desktop of a mobile terminal may be supported; at the same time, the dialing gesture may be enriched, and user experience may be improved greatly. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140304610 | HANDLING, MANAGEMENT AND CREATION OF ICE CONTACTS - A method includes receiving input at a user equipment that designates a particular entity recorded in a user equipment contacts database as being an entity to be contacted in case of an emergency and setting an indication in a first field of a corresponding contacts database entry, where the first field is separate from a second field of the contacts database entry that stores a name of the entity. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140317520 | PREFERRED CONTACT GROUP CENTRIC INTERFACE - A preferred contact group centric interface for a communication device can be used to facilitate communications by a user. The user interface can be arranged to activate from a user's “home page” on the display, from an idle screen that is accessed after a timeout period expires, or any other appropriate mechanism that activates the preferred contact group centric experience. A user selects the preferred contact group from among an array of the user's contacts. Once the contact group is configured, a minimal number of navigation/selection features is necessary to activate any number of communication modes available to the contacts. The contact group is configured such that simple and quick navigation between the contact members is achieved. The contact group can be presented in 2D and 3D arrangements, in any number of list or geometric configurations. A pricing plan can optionally be tied to each member of the contact group. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140325371 | MEDIA HAND-OFF WITH GRAPHICAL DEVICE SELECTION - A wireless user device has a first antenna operable within a first wireless function frequency band and a second antenna operable within a second wireless function frequency band different than the first operable within a first wireless function frequency band. Circuitry configured to process signals received by the first antenna and the second antenna is further configured to identify and resolve locations of a plurality of remote wireless devices by signal phase comparison. A display screen is configured to display an icon for the identified remote wireless device at an area of the display screen that corresponds to the relative location of the remote wireless device with respect to the user device. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140331144 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING NUI - A method and system for providing a Network-based User Interface (NUI) is provided. The method for providing the NUI includes: selecting one from among devices connected to a network; acquiring a UI regarding the selected device through the network; and interacting with the device by using the acquired UI. Accordingly, the user terminal can acquire the UI regarding the device connected to the network through the network and interact with the device, so that the user can easily manipulate the device at a remote distance and can easily grasp the statue of the device. | 11-06-2014 |
| 20140337744 | Systems and Methods for Image File Processing - Systems and methods are provided for processing image files. For example, an IP interface for image-file remote connections is searched for on a Local Area Network (LAN) based on at least information associated with one or more predetermined search operations on a user interface for image-file control; an image file is extracted using the IP interface for image-file remote connections; and the extracted image file is processed based on at least information associated with a click operation detected on a control-program interface provided by the user interface. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140337745 | ENHANCED BUDDY LIST USING MOBILE DEVICE IDENTIFIERS - A graphical user interface on a display device of a computer enables communications using a computer service. The graphical user interface includes a list of potential message recipients selected by a user as significant to the user. The graphical user interface also includes a mobile device identifier associated with one or more of the listed potential message recipients and a user account identifier associated with one or more of the listed potential message recipients. At least one of the listed potential recipients includes a mobile device identifier as the only available conduit for data delivery to the potential message recipient using the computer service. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140359466 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EVALUATING USER ACTIVITY IN AN ANONYMOUS SOCIAL SYSTEM - The present invention is applicable to the field of information processing and provides a method and apparatus for evaluating user activity in an anonymous social system. The method includes: configuring a status option in the anonymous social system and configuring at least two statuses for the status option, detecting the status selected by a user, determining an activity of the user in the anonymous social system according to the status selected and pushing a functional experience related to the activity to a client of the user. By the present invention, the push of the functional experience in the anonymous social system can be of more pertinence and higher accuracy, and has stronger real-time performance. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140380181 | PRESENTING INFORMATION ON A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Techniques for presenting information on a mobile communication device to an employee of an organization include receiving an indication to present information associated with an organization to an employee of the organization; in response to receiving the indication, determining a current geographic location of the employee; identifying a facility of a plurality of facilities associated with the organization based on the determined current geographic location of the employee; retrieving information associated with the identified facility from a local memory of the mobile communication device; and presenting the retrieved information to the employee. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20150019983 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED VIRTUAL OBJECT FOR MANAGING DIGITAL CONTENT - A computer-implemented virtual three dimensional object for organizing a plurality of files. The virtual object is presented on a display of a user computing device, and has a plurality of delineated surfaces. A user can manipulate the virtual object to select one of the surfaces for more prominent presentation on the display. The surface may have disposed thereon a graphical element, which the user can choose to perform a predetermined task associated with at least one of the plurality of files. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150019984 | METHOD AND SERVER FOR PROCESSING REPORT DATA - A method and server for processing report data are disclosed according to the disclosure. The method includes: receiving a download identifier in a download area of a browser, where the download identifier is dragged into the download area by a drag operation; generating a first report data based on the received download identifier and displaying the first report data in the download area of the browser, the first report data being associated with the download identifier; receiving a delete operation for the download identifier, generating the second report data based on a remained download identifier and displaying the second report data in the download area, where the second report data is formed by screening the first report data and corresponds to the remained download identifier; sending the second report data based on a received downloading request. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150026584 | PREVIEWING EXPANDABLE CONTENT ITEMS - This specification describes methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage device, for providing a preview of an expandable content item. The subject matter of the specification is embodied in a method that includes presenting an interface configured to receive input for designating characteristics associated with an expandable content item and receiving, via the interface, a designation of one or more directions for expansion of the expandable content item. The method also includes presenting a control for enabling selection of a preview option, and receiving a selection of the control. The method further includes presenting a preview interface responsive to receiving the selection of the control, the preview interface including an option for designating a selection of at least a first or a second different preview environment. The preview interface also includes a preview area that displays the expandable content item in accordance with the one or more directions in a position on a page. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150033138 | Phone Number Based Task Assignment, Task Tracking And Tasks Management System - A task supervising system for allowing registered users to assign a task to a phone number that is pre sent in contact list of their respective communication devices. Further, the task supervising system also allows its registered users to assign a supervisor for the task by typing a phone number. In addition, the task supervising system enables the users to view tasks related to their phone numbers. The users may manage their tasks, or track or update status/progress of their tasks. Furthermore, the task supervising system enables the users to add attributes and remarks to their tasks. Moreover, the task supervising system enables the users to send reminders to other users for completing tasks or for sharing status of the tasks. Additionally, the task supervising system enables the users to mark a task or a phone number as a junk-task or as a source of junk-tasks, respectively. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150040021 | METHOD FOR LOADING ADDITIONAL CONTENT ACCORDING TO CHARACTERISTIC OF USER'S CONTENT CONSUMPTION IN TABLE VIEW CONTROLLER ENVIROMENT, AND SYSTEM THEREFOR - A method and a system for loading additional content based on a user's content consumption propensity in a table view controller environment are disclosed. The method for loading additional content includes a listing step of listing loaded contents; an UI providing step of providing an UI tap on the list, the UI tap for allowing a user to select a loading criterion for additional content not included the list; and a loading step of loading the additional content based on the loading criterion selected by the user. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150040022 | DOWNLOADING OF CONTENT - Desired content may be selected from a content server and added to a wishlist or a shopping list. If the desired content is added to a wishlist, a receiving device other than the device from which the selection(s) were received may be identified or selected. The receiving device may be identified based on capabilities of the receiving device (e.g., ability to play music or video). A sample of the desired content may be selected, generated and/or customized based on the capabilities (e.g., resolution, storage capacity) of the receiving device. The sample may then be transmitted to the receiving device at a predefined time or once specified conditions have been met. Content added to a shopping list may be purchased by a user and downloaded to a selected device. The selected device may be the device on which the content was selected or an alternate device. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150046828 | CONTEXTUALIZING SENSOR, SERVICE AND DEVICE DATA WITH MOBILE DEVICES - A method and system for contextualizing and presenting user data. The method includes collecting information comprising service activity data and sensor data from one or more electronic devices. The information is organized based on associated time for the collected information. One or more of content information and service information of potential interest are provided to the one or more electronic devices based on one or more of user context and user activity. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150046829 | Application Notifications - Application notification techniques are described. Implementations are described in which a representation of an application may include notifications that pertain to the application. Techniques are further described which may be used to manage the notifications, including replacement of notifications, use of queues, overrides, selection of notifications based on execution state of an application, cycling a display of a plurality of notifications, cycling a display of different subsets of notifications, examination of a manifest of an application to determine criteria to be used to display the notifications, display priority of the notifications, and so on. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150052445 | PRESENTING DATA ON A MOBILE DEVICE IN COMMUNICATION WITH AN ON-DEMAND DATABASE SYSTEM - Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer program products for presenting data on a mobile device in communication with an on-demand database system. In some implementations, a mobile device receives information identifying one or more data objects stored in the on-demand database system based on captured behavioral data for a user of the mobile device. The captured behavioral data may be based on interactions with the one or more data objects. The mobile device provides the information for display in a user interface for a mobile application. The mobile device provides for display a subset of a plurality of information items in the user interface, the plurality of information items provided from the on-demand database system, the subset determined based on the identified one or more data objects and based on user input received via the user interface. In some implementations, the user input comprises a selected type of data object. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150052446 | COMPUTERIZED INFORMATION ACCESS AND PRESENTATION METHODS - Methods for providing information useful to a user of a computerized apparatus. In one embodiment, the method includes utilizing the speech of the user as an input to access, for example, a database having a plurality of business entities nearby to the user. Where multiple possible matches to the input are located, the user is presented with at least a portion of the name of each of the possible matches, so that the user can select the one of interest, and obtain imagery of a location of the selected entity of interest, including its surroundings, to orient themselves and find the selected entity. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150058739 | DAILY TASK TOOLS THAT INTERFACE WITH BACKEND SYSTEMS - In one embodiment, an improved computer based daily task tool is provided that interfaces with backend systems to leverage the stored information and/or processing capabilities of backend systems to provide better information and more effective task tool functionality. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150067526 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION ABOUT IMAGE PAINTING AND RECORDING MEDIUM THEREOF - A method of providing image painting information is provided. The method includes: displaying a paintable first image on a screen of a terminal; receiving a user input requesting reference painting information about the first image; requesting painting information of a second image related to the first image from a server, based on the user input; receiving the painting information of the second image from the server; and displaying the received painting information of the second image on the screen of the terminal. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150067527 | Cloud-Based Custom Metric/Timer Definitions and Real-Time Analytics of Mobile Applications - A method for real-time capture of analytics from real users of a native mobile application (app) includes storing a custom metric/timer definition for a native mobile application (app) in a configuration file on a server. The custom metric/timer definition includes one or more identifiers of an element or object of the native mobile app selected by touch gesture input via a user interface on a mobile device running the native mobile app in a special mode. The configuration file is downloaded from the server to real users running the native mobile app on associated mobile devices. Immediately thereafter, one or more collector servers receive data beaconed in real-time from the associated mobile devices of the real users. The beaconed data includes custom metric/timer data obtained from the custom metric/timer definition. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150074539 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING CONTACT INFORMATION GROUPS - A method and a device for processing contact information group are proposed. The method includes: entering a contact interface according to a first operation command from an user; displaying a contact in a contact list corresponding to a focus group as picked according to a second operation command from the user; and identifying a targeted group of the contact and moving the contact to the targeted group according to a third operation command from the user. By using the present invention, the user can rapidly groups all the contacts through a single operation interface. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150074540 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A communication apparatus includes a detection unit and a display control unit. The detection unit detects a network. The display control unit causes a display unit to display information. In a case where information about a provider providing a network is not obtained from the network detected by the detection unit, the display control unit causes the display unit to display identification information about the network. In a case where information about a provider providing the network is obtained from the network, the display control unit causes the display unit to display information about the provider instead of causing identification information about the network to be displayed. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150089378 | Graphical bookmark realization method and device for embedded browser, and Terminal - Described is a graphical bookmark implementation method and device for an embedded browser, and a terminal. The method includes: accessing a Web site through the embedded browser; acquiring a Favicon or a site logo of the Web site; and binding the Favicon or the site logo with information of a bookmark when the Web site needs to be stored as the bookmark, and presenting the Favicon or the site logo as a graphical bookmark on a browser interface. As such, graphical bookmark information can be acquired to distinguish different sites, and the Favicon and a site logo picture are much smaller than the whole web page and very suitable for the embedded browser on a portable mobile communication terminal with a smaller screen, so that the problem that a web page thumbnail cannot be clearly seen due to the adoption of a web page thumbnail manner is avoided. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150089379 | ADDING EVENTS TO A CALENDAR FROM ANOTHER APPLICATION - A method and apparatus is provided that allows a user to automatically add content, such as an event, to a container, such as, a calendar without directly accessing the container. Second and third preferred embodiments are also provided. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150089380 | COMPONENT SPECIFYING AND SELECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD USING INTELLIGENT GRAPHIC TYPE SELECTION INTERFACE - A method generates an output identifying components for a system, each of the components having one of a plurality of types, each of the components defined by a plurality of specifications. The method includes employing a network interface to receive a selection tool into a computer system memory. The method further includes executing the selection tool on a processing device to: open a multi-window display that includes a schedule window, a product type select window, and a product window; display a menu of a plurality of graphic elements; receive a user input selecting a first graphic element from the menu; update the multi-window display to display the menu of the plurality of graphic elements without the first graphic element and to display the first graphic element in the product type select window; and filter a component database to identify components having a component type corresponding to the first graphic element. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150106725 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTATION OF CANDIDATE DOMAIN NAME STACKS IN USER INTERFACE - A system and method for the generation and presentation of candidate domain names are presented. The method includes receiving, by at least one server communicatively coupled to a network, a request to access or purchase access to a software application, the request being received from a user. Keywords associated with at least one of the user, a website of the user, and a business of the user are generated and a candidate domain name relevant to the keywords is generated. A user interface is displayed including the candidate domain name. The user interface enables the user to register the candidate domain name. A plurality of candidate domain names may be generated and organized into carousels or stacks according to a common theme. The candidate domain names may be displayed on a user interface and arranged thereon according to a relevance score of the domain name bundles. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150106726 | USER INFORMATION INPUT APPARATUS AND INPUT SCREEN DISPLAY METHOD - A user information input apparatus (an information terminal) includes a display unit and a display control unit configured to cause the display unit to display an input screen including a first editing area including a first object group for displaying and editing first user information and a second editing area including a second object group for displaying and editing second user information. When causing the display unit to display the input screen, the display control unit causes the display unit to display at least a part of the second object group together with the first editing area. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150106727 | INTERNET RADIO AND BROADCAST METHOD WITH DISCOVERY SETTINGS - Data streams are generally selected according to user preferences and transmitted to the user in general alignment with expressed preferences of the user. Such data streams may be music, including music videos. Users may indicate their general or specific preferences with regards to song, artists, or albums. Any other aspects or factors that might affect the user's preferences can be taken into account. A playlist is created that combines all of these factors. The playlist then serves as the basis for feeding the data streams to the user. Each user is able to express his or her own preferences and receive music corresponding to those preferences on an on-going basis. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150113420 | OVERLOADED SCHEDULE DETECTION AND NOTIFICATION - A method, system and computer program product for overloaded schedule detection and notification in a calendaring and scheduling (C&S) system is provided. A method for overloaded schedule detection and notification in a C&S system includes loading a task list for an end user into memory of the C&S system. The task list includes a set of tasks scheduled for completion by the end user over a range of time. The method also includes displaying the task list in a user interface of the C&S system, comparing a capacity of the end user to complete tasks during the range of time to the tasks in the set. Finally, the method includes responding to a determination that the tasks in the last exceeds the capacity by displaying an alert in the user interface of the C&S system indicating an overloaded condition. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150113421 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR MANAGING A PLURALITY OF APPLICATIONS VIA A SINGLE INTERFACE - A system, method and computer program product are provided for managing a plurality of applications via a single interface. It is initially identified as to which of a plurality of applications are installed on a computer. A status of each of the applications is then presented via a single graphical user interface. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150113422 | PROVIDING AN INTERACTIVE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT DASHBOARD DISPLAY - A method for presenting an interactive emergency department (ED) dashboard display for an ED at a user computing device is provided. The method may include presenting a plurality of user interface indicators on the interactive ED dashboard display at the user computing device. Each of the plurality of user interface indicators may correspond to a real-time performance metric for the ED, where the real-time performance metric is based on patient data for a plurality of patients in the ED. A user input may be received at the user computing device. The user input may indicate a selection of one of the plurality of user interface indicators. The method may further include, in response to the user input, presenting on the interactive ED dashboard display the patient data that is associated with the real-time performance metric corresponding to the selected one of the plurality of user interface indicators. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150121240 | WEB INPUT THROUGH DRAG AND DROP - A system for enabling the drag and drop behavior detects a cursor over a non-input element and creates a container to receive an object dragged by the cursor. When the cursor drops an object on the non-input element, the container receives and stores the dropped object. The system then removes the container and provides the stored object to input field associated with the non-input element. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150121241 | VISUAL REPRESENTATION FOR PERMISSION TO CONTACT - Embodiments of the invention include systems and methods for assigning visual representation to contacts. The embodiments include receiving selection criteria, identifying data associated with a plurality of customers meeting the selection criteria, wherein each of the customers is associated with one or more contacts, determining that at least one contact associated with each customer comprises one or more contact statuses, and assigning one or more indicators to the at least one contact based on the one or more statuses. In particular embodiments, the one or more statuses are related to a contact locked status, a contact external request status, a contact geography status, a contact time period status, a contact velocity status, and/or a permission-to-communicate status. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150121242 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A SCREEN - The present disclosure relates to an electronic device and a method of controlling a screen. The method of controlling a screen of an electronic device includes transmitting a request comprising at least one keyword to a server. Thumbnails are arranged into an image. The thumbnails are associated with digital content corresponding most with at least one keyword in the request. The image is rendered on a screen. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150128058 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTIVE ACTIONS BASED ON USER COMMUNICATION PATTERNS - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for identifying, providing, and launching predictive actions, as well as remote device based predictive actions. An example system identifies a communication event such as a calendar event, an incoming communication, an outgoing communication, or a scheduled communication. The system identifies a context for the communication event, and retrieves, based on the context, an action performed by a user at a previous instance of the communication event. The system retrieves the action from a set of actions associated with at least part of the context, and wherein the action exceeds a threshold affinity with the context. The system presents, via a user interface, a selectable user interface object to launch the action. Upon receiving a selection of the selectable user interface object, the system can launch the action. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150128059 | System and Method for Displaying a Timeline Associated With a Plurality of Applications - Methods and systems are provided for providing an improved three-dimensional graphical user interface. In one embodiment, the method generally comprises: receiving an input from an end user, and capturing computing output from at least one computer source in response to the received end-user input. The computing output can be presented as two or more objects within a three-dimensional virtual space displayed to the end user. In one embodiment, the method further comprises generating a timeline that includes an icon for each object presented within the virtual space. In another embodiment, the method further comprises providing a database for storing and categorizing data regarding each object presented within the virtual space. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150128060 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF PROVIDING APPLICATION PROGRAM INFORMATION IN MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE - A method and an apparatus for providing application program information in a mobile terminal device are provided. The method includes: providing a first operation entrance for selecting a concerned application program to a user in a user interface; determining the concerned application program based on a selection operation received via the first operation entrance; obtaining information that is pending for display in the concerned application program; and displaying the information that is pending for display in a lock screen interface of the mobile terminal device. Using the present disclosure, the path of acquiring information for a user can be shortened. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150135085 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACTIVITY MANAGEMENT PRESENTATION - A system, computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and computer-implemented method for presenting a set of intention objects arranged by coarse time windows is disclosed. In example embodiments, the method may include accessing a set of intention objects belonging to a user. Each of the intention objects may define the intention of the user to undertake an intention and each object may comprise a data structure including a plurality of activity attributes of the intended activity. The method may further include assigning particular intention objects of the set of intention objects to a coarse time window based on the attributes of the respective intention objects. The method may further include presenting at least a portion of the set of intention objects to a user in a day view that is arranged based on the assigned coarse time windows. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150135086 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING APPLICATION INFORMATION - A method for providing application information in an electronic device includes providing at least one application item including information regarding a corresponding application, by using a first specified area of a display operatively coupled to an electronic device, identifying or selecting at least one item from the at least one application item, providing execution information of an application corresponding to the at least one item via a second specified area of the display based on the identifying, and providing additional information related to the execution information via the first specified area, based on the execution information. Other embodiments are also possible. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150143247 | VISUALLY MODELING SCREEN-FLOWS IN COMPONENT-ORIENTED WEB-BASED SYSTEM - A method includes selecting portal resources of a portal system within a graphical modeling tool. Data fields of the selected portal resources are mapped to each other using the graphical modeling tool to generate an execution flow path of the selected portal resources. The execution flow path is stored as a portal resource in the portal system. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150143248 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING AN ACTION ON A DATABASE RECORD - Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer program products for performing an action on a database record in an on-demand database service. What actions are presented to a user interface of a mobile device can depend on attributes of the database record, such as metadata stored in association with the database record. Selection of one of the actions can cause the mobile device to integrate data from hardware components, databases, and applications using mobile device. The data identified from the mobile device can be automatically associated with various data fields of the action. The selected action can be performed on the database record using the data in the data fields. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150149918 | IN-VEHICLE INFOTAINMENT DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD USING THE SAME - A method of controlling an infotainment device including displaying a web browser page corresponding to an executing web application; determining if a first characteristic value corresponding to a first image of the vehicle to be displayed is included in received vehicle data; displaying the first image of the vehicle on the web browser page if the first characteristic value is included in the received vehicle data; determining if a second characteristic value of the vehicle is included in the received vehicle data when the first characteristic value is not included; estimating the first characteristic value of the vehicle using the second characteristic value if the first characteristic value is not included and the second characteristic value is included; and displaying a second image of the vehicle on the web browser page corresponding to the estimated first characteristic value. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150149919 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING INFORMATION - An information processing system including at least one computer includes a receiving unit that receives user identification information from an apparatus connected through a network; a returning unit that returns a portion which is associated with the user identification information received by the receiving unit out of screen information which is stored in association with the apparatus and is common to a plurality of users in response to an acquisition request to acquire the screen information from the apparatus; and a processing unit that receives a request which is sent from the apparatus in response to an input into a screen displayed based on the returned portion. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150301701 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATING USER INTERFACES BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND USERS OVER A NETWORK - A search result set is communicated to a first user as hypertext descriptions of data items constituting the result search set. A check box is displayed adjacent each hypertext description, utilizing which the first user may select a subset of the search result set. This subset is then communicated to a second user, again as hypertext descriptions of the subset. Check boxes are furthermore displayed to the second user so as to enable the second user to select a further and narrower subset of the search result set. Selected items of a result set of an Internet-based search may in this way conveniently be communicated between first and second users. Each of a number of interfaces provides the hypertext descriptions of the data items of the search result set. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150317039 | GUI Integrated Request for Enhancement - A computer-assisted method of receiving request for enhancement (RFE) information includes providing, in a product, a graphical user interface (GUI) configured to present to the user one or more inputs for submitting RFE information. The method further includes conveying, by a first processor associated with the product, the RFE information the user submits to the one or more inputs, the RFE information being tagged with an identifier associating the RFE information with the product. The method also includes receiving, by a second processor, the RFE information and the associated identifier, and providing the RFE information and the associated identifier to a service team associated with the product. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150317047 | HOTKEY ACCESS TO LEGACY APPLICATION TASKS - Methods, systems, and techniques for assigning hotkeys to legacy tasks as part of modernizing such tasks are provided. A user can assign a hotkey to an individual task so that the user can have instant access to a legacy or a non-legacy task without needing to navigate to “sub-” tasks of the legacy task. Hotkey access may be used with role-based modernization of legacy tasks to provide navigation to and from legacy tasks without starting and stopping sessions. Example embodiments provide a Role-Based Modernization System (“RBMS”), which uses these enhanced modernization techniques to provide role-based modernization of menu-based legacy applications. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150317066 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION WITH A CONTACT THEREOF - A method and system for displaying an item for communication with a contact stored in an electronic device are provided. The method includes storing, by the electronic device, a frequency of usage of at least one item for each contact in a database. Further, the method includes receiving an interaction event performed on the at least one contact stored in the electronic device. Furthermore, the method includes identifying the at least one item for communication with the at least one contact from the database and displaying the at least one identified item, based on the frequency of the usage of the at least one identified item, as a response to the at least one interaction event performed on the at least one contact. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150324071 | EXPANDABLE AND COLLAPSIBLE ARRAYS OF ALIGNED 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 expendable axes of user-selectable element displaying same user-selectable elements in corresponding axial locations along the axes of user-selectable elements to provide axial correspondence of user-selectable elements simultaneously displayed on more than one axis of user-selectable elements. A system and a graphical user interface providing the same are equally provided herein. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150326676 | Account Administration for Hosted Services - A graphical user interface for rendering hosted services is provided. The user interface includes a set of hosted service identifiers associated with a domain name. The set of hosted service identifiers is further broken down into a first subset of service identifiers and a second subset of service identifiers. Each identifier in the first subset corresponds to a service provided by a first service provider and each identifier in the second subset corresponds to a service provided by a second service provider. One of the services provided by the first service provider is rendered in response to a user selection of one of the first subset of service identifiers. One of the services provided by the second service provider is rendered in response to a user selection of one of the second subset of service identifiers. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150331559 | Selection System for an Interactive Display - A system for selecting, through a mobile device provided with accelerometer sensors, items of lists that can be displayed on a visual display of an interactive display system, is provided. The system includes a receiver located at a surface of a user interaction station distinct from the visual display and adapted to wirelessly receive data from the mobile device when in short range communication with the mobile device. The system further comprises a processor adapted to collect acceleration data received through the receiver and generated by the accelerometer sensors in response to movements of the mobile device carried out when the mobile device is in short range communication with the receiver. The processor is further adapted to associate the collected acceleration data with corresponding selection values over a selection scale. The processor is also adapted to control the interactive display system to select items based on the selection values. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150331883 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - A note-type personal computer according to the present invention has an LCD for displaying information stored in an internal storage provided therein, and an external storage or an external picture server connected thereto, via the internet. And, operation for the information stored in the respective storages is performed by the user in the same procedure using operation units such as a keyboard, a touch pad, with indication on the LCD confirmed. When the information stored in the picture server is displayed, the LCD displays auxiliary information indicative of this notice. The LCD displays the auxiliary information using a different folder name, or displays the auxiliary information on the background of a display area of the LCD. So, the user can confirm contents on the internet easily without the need of performing complicated operations. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150339007 | PORTABLE INFORMATION TERMINAL - The present invention provides a Portable information terminal provided with a method for recommending application software and/or a method for controlling screen display capable of granting ideal ease of use to a user. A screen for executing application software recommended by the portable information terminal and an icon correlated with application software arbitrarily selected by the user of the portable information terminal are displayed at the same time in separate areas on the same screen. An icon correlated with the application software recommended by the portable information terminal and the icon correlated with the application software arbitrarily selected by the user of the portable information terminal are displayed at the same time in separate areas on the same screen. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150339009 | PROVIDING DYNAMIC CONTENTS USING WIDGETS - The present invention pertains to a method for providing different contents in correspondence to visibly changed widget on a smart device screen. The method includes (a) displaying a changing widget visibly changed on a user screen of a smart device, (b) selecting, by an input unit of the smart device, the changing widget, and (c) calling content corresponding to the selected changing widget to the user screen of the smart device. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150339011 | PORTABLE WIRELESS TERMINAL, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND CONTENT REFERENCE SYSTEM - A portable wireless terminal | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150339013 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPERATING APPLICATION OF A TOUCH DEVICE WITH TOUCH-BASED INPUT INTERFACE - A method and system is disclosed that allows a user to easily and intuitively operate applications that require contact information, in a touch device, via a tray item associated with the contact information. The method for operating applications includes: displaying a contact tray comprised of a number of tray items based on contact information, on an execution screen; receiving an interaction to use a tray item in the contact tray; configuring an execution screen for an application based on contact information of the tray item; and operating the application based on the configured execution screen. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150339030 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR DATA TRANSFER ACROSS APPLICATIONS - Embodiments of the present application relate to a method, apparatus, and system for transferring data between applications. The method includes, in response to receiving an operating system interface call out message, providing an interface of an operating system running on a device, in response to a data access interface conforming to a first preset standard definition being invoked, receiving a data entity associated with a first application installed on the device, and in response to a data access interface of a second application being invoked, writing the data entity into the second application. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150339387 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR FURNISHING A USER OF A CLIENT DEVICE WITH A NETWORK RESOURCE - Furnishing a user of a client device having a user interface with a display displaying search bar, with a network resource, comprising: Receiving, by a server from the client device, a portion a search term having been entered in the search bar. Sending, by the server to the client device, identification of a network resource associated with the portion of the search term. Receiving, by the server from the client device, a request to furnish the client device with the network resource associated with the portion of the search term. Sending, by the server to the client device, the network resource associated with the portion of the search term. All prior to the user having requested a search in respect of the portion of the search term. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150346923 | System & Method of Providing & Reporting a Real-Time Functional Behavior Assessment - A plurality of web pages prompts a user to record data through a series of graphical user interfaces which provide inputs for a user to select. The data is related to the actions and behavior of individuals being observed and the functional relationship between the individual and his/her environment. The present method provides a means for assessing the data and providing a proposed intervention method and presents the data in a modified form by way of charts, graphs and compiled data for simplicity of use. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150346930 | EXTENSIBLE FRAMEWORK FOR EREADER TOOLS - The functionality of an ereader module that is displaying an electronic book (“ebook”) is extended. A user identifier specifying a user using a client device executing the ereader module and an ebook identifier specifying the ebook displayed by the ereader module are received from the client device. One or more layers associated with the user are determined. One or more layers associated with the ebook are determined. A list of one or more layers is assembled. The layer list is transmitted to the client device. The client device enables the user to select a layer and use the selected layer to interact with content of the ebook. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150355793 | RULE BUILDER FOR DATA PROCESSING - Disclosed are various embodiments for a rule builder for data processing. A proper subset of a data set of strings is selected from one or more columns into which the data set is organized. A selection pattern is identified based at least in part on substring selections and a set of pattern rules. The substring selections are received by way of a first user interface that presents strings from the proper subset. The selection pattern is separately represented in the individual substring selections. A second user interface is generated to present the selection pattern. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150363051 | RADIAL DISPLAY GENERATION AND INTERACTIVE SYSTEM - A visual display and interactive system for displaying data describing sequences and patterns which contain entities (e.g., search terms or keywords from web searches) may be provided to analyze the sequences. A generated visual display may include a radial display with a dimension that is fixed and all sequences of entities of that dimension are used in generating the radial display, such as all conversion path sequences. Such a radial display may be used for visual searching and/or viewing the impact of certain entities, such as search terms, keywords, campaigns, etc. that lead to a desired action, such as a conversion action. The interactive system may include a radial sunburst diagram and a breadcrumb area that can selectively display drilldown information. The interface may be interacted with to display further information via selection of a conversion path prefix via mouseover (e.g., hover) and/or selecting an entity via mouse click. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150363059 | MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS - A mobile phone includes a storage module configured to store a correspondence table which associates notification information and a plurality of applications used for a response to the notification information, and a notification control module configured to display notification information on a display surface, display on the display surface a menu dialog for selecting an application to be launched from among a plurality of applications associated with notification when an operation to designate notification information is received by a touch detection module, and launch the selected application when an operation to select an application is received by the touch detection module. The notification control module is configured to change an arrangement of a plurality of applications in the menu dialog in accordance with a priority. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150363065 | WATCH TYPE TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A watch type terminal including a main body; a touch screen provided on a front surface of the main body and configured to display time information; and a controller configured to receive an input for selecting a specific time range included in the displayed time information, and display event information corresponding to at least one event associated with the specific time range on the touch screen. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150370420 | METHOD FOR QUICK EXECUTION OF AN OPTION - A main remote application menu in a local device provides a user with multiple mechanisms by which the user effectively and quickly share and transform files (text, music, video, etc.). The main remote application menu can be used in fast sharing of a data file, data transformation and other data options for provision of associated functions related to the format of a corresponding file compared with that of the data file. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150370421 | LOCATING EVENT ON TIMELINE - Locating an event on a timeline is provided. A calendar application may locate an event on a timeline by detecting a selection action on the event on a calendar. A context menu is displayed on the calendar, where the context menu includes a search control. An activation of the search control is detected. The event is located on the timeline of the calendar. The event is displayed on the timeline. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150370428 | LAUNCHING APPLICATIONS ON AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - In some examples, an electronic device may offload an application to a network storage. For instance, the application, associated application data, and/or saved application state information may be deleted from the electronic device. Subsequently, an application launcher may present a launcher user interface (UI) on a display associated with the electronic device. The launcher UI may include a first set of application representations corresponding to applications offloaded from the electronic device, and a second set of application representations corresponding to applications currently installed on the electronic device. In response to receiving a selection of one of the representations from the first set via the launcher UI, the selected application may be onloaded onto the electronic device. Further, in some cases, the electronic device may receive from the network storage at least one of the application data or the application state information for the onloaded application. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150370465 | Software Interface and Method for Ranking or Rating Items - A software user interface for rating items using a set of rating criteria is provided, and a method for using that user interface for rating items. Criteria for the rating are assigned weights, and items are assigned a score within each criteria. An overall rating score is calculated for each item based on its scores under each rating criteria and the weights assigned to the rating criteria. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150381714 | APPLICATION REGISTRATION AND INTERACTION - Measures are described which provide a framework for the registration and selection of applications and/or services. A registration procedure comprises receiving an indication of one or more services that an application is configured to perform; receiving an indication of one or more characteristics of data objects in respect of which the indicated service is configured to be performed; and storing, in the data store, data entries indicating each of the services and associated characteristics. A selection procedure comprises determining one or more data objects for selection; identifying, one or more services that may be performed in relation to at least one of the one or more data objects; and displaying one or more selectable elements corresponding to the identified services and data objects. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20160004714 | Computer Installation For The Management Of A Set Of Files, Method, Program And Computer Medium Associated Therewith - The invention relates to a computer installation for the management of a set of files, comprising a network including a server and a workstation, said installation further comprising a graphical user interface that is adapted to: —display a virtual space ( | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160012101 | USER INTERFACES FOR PROVIDING UPDATED CONTACT INFORMATION | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160014190 | LINK PER IMAGE | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160018963 | OPERATING ROOM CHECKLIST SYSTEM - Techniques for generating and providing a checklist, and for providing updates to a checklist based on event data. In some aspects, a checklist is provided to a terminal device by receiving a notification of a trigger event, which is used, at least in part, to obtain a checklist template and to generate a checklist from the checklist template, which is then provided to the terminal device. In some aspects, a server device provides a checklist to a terminal device, the checklist comprising a sequence of prompts, each prompt indicating one or more actions, and the server device provides an update to the checklist based on received event data. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160026650 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND APPARATUS TO INTERACT WITH RECORDS USING A PUBLISHER OF AN INFORMATION FEED OF AN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK - Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable storage media for interacting with records using a publisher configured to publish information to a feed of a social network. In some implementations, a computing device receives a request to interact with a child record related to a parent record stored in a database system. The request is generated via the publisher displayed in a user interface on a display device. The user interface is also configured to display the feed in association with an entity of the social network. Child record information indicating a type of the child record and field data to populate one or more fields of the child record can be received. The field data is differentiated from message content generated via the publisher to include in a feed item for presentation in the feed when displayed to one or more users following the parent record. The requested interaction with the child record can be performed using the child record information. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160026651 | Bookmark-Based Access to Content Feeds - A method executes at a computing device having one or more processors and memory. The memory stores one or more programs configured for execution by the one or more processors. The process analyzes content of a first content item provided by a first content feed against a first set of content-based labeling rules. The first content item is selected from among a set of unread content items of the first content feed to which a user of the computing device has subscribed. When it is determined that the first content item satisfies the first set of content-based labeling rules, the process automatically (without human intervention) assigns the first content label to the first content item and causes the first content label to be displayed concurrently with information identifying the first content item. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160028791 | METHODS FOR EVALUATION OF ITEMS AND SERVICES ON THE INTERNET AND DEVICES THEREOF - The present invention is related to the evaluation of items or services on the Internet in web pages, social networks or applications running in mobile devices. In such context, the present invention provides a method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and an evaluation management computing device capable of allowing an unsatisfied user to evaluate a given item or service with a negative classification represented by a trash bin icon. Additionally, the method of evaluation of the present invention is capable of informing whether a certain item or service received any trash bin classification, and in the affirmative, how many users evaluated the same with that classification. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160034118 | DETERMINING APPROPRIATE BROWSING APPLICATIONS FOR SELECTED NETWORK RESOURCES - A network resource, such as a page, may be loaded or rendered in different manners on a plurality of different browsers. Data and information regarding the loading and/or rendering of various network resources on a variety of browsers, including data or information regarding errors, latencies or customer ratings of the loading or rendering of such resources on such browsers, may be evaluated in order to identify the most appropriate browser for viewing a requested network resource. If that network resource is available to a user who requests the network resource, then a recommendation or an instruction to view the network resource in the most appropriate browser may be provided to the user. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160036888 | OBJECT TRANSFORMATIONS AND THE PERSISTENCE OF ALL STATES DURING THE TRANSFORMATION LIFECYCLE - A system for object transformations and persistence of all states during a transformation lifecycle includes a user interface for receiving or creating a data object, a first application capable of processing and transmitting attributes of a data object, a server capable of receiving, persisting or distributing these attributes, a second application capable of receiving and processing these attributes to create or recreate a data object, a user interface for displaying the created or recreated data object, wherein the first and second applications of the system may be the same, may reside on the same device or platform, or may reside on different devices or platforms. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160041611 | ENHANCED HANDHELD SCREEN-SENSING POINTER - Enhanced handheld screen-sensing pointing, in which a handheld device captures a camera image of one or more fiducials rendered by a display device, and a position or an angle of the one or more fiducials in the captured camera image is determined. A position on the display device that the handheld device is aimed towards is determined based at least on the determined position or angle of the one or more fiducials in the camera image, and an application is controlled based on the determined position on the display device. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160042004 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing device, comprises: a link information obtaining part that obtains link information to a file corresponding to a selected web content in response to detecting a select of at least one of web contents from a first contents screen on which the web contents obtained from a first storage server are laid out; a storage information obtaining part that obtains storage information of a second storage server corresponding to a designated display area in response to detecting a designating operation of the display area of the web content on a second contents screen after the link information is obtained; a file obtaining part that obtains the file corresponding to the selected web content from the first storage server based on the link information; and a file transmitting part that sends the file obtained by the file obtaining part to the second storage server based on the storage information. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160048294 | Direct Access Application Representations - Direct access application representation techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a user interface is exposed by an operating system of a computing device. The user interface includes a concurrent display of a plurality of representations of applications that are selectable by a user to launch respective applications, at least one of the plurality of representations includes a concurrent display of a plurality of user-selectable targets for a respective application, and each of the plurality of user-selectable targets is selectable by a user to obtain direct access to a respective one of a plurality of application functionality of the respective application. Responsive to an input indicative of user selection of one of the plurality of user-selectable targets of the at least one representation of the respective application, the direct access is provided to the respective one of the plurality of application functionality of the respective application. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160048603 | Online decision engine for applied research and statistics - This non-provisional patent application pertains to an embodiment of an online decision engine for applied research and statistics. Users will interact with a point-and-click interface that asks questions to guide researchers to the correct research methods and statistics to answer their research questions. A number of decision engines exist in the overall decision engine. These decision engines include: Research questions, research designs, statistical power, sample size, evidence-based medicine, epidemiology, diagnostic testing, variables, statistics, databases, surveys, psychometrics, and education. Users are presented a series of questions and based on their answers and clicking on buttons with the answers embedded in them, they are linked to webpages with the correct research method or statistical test based on their responses to the questions presented. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160054865 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAP BASED EXPLORATION - A system and method for map based exploration is described. The system includes a dynamic graphical user interface (GUI) that includes a list of targeted content elements for each different group profile, in which a first dynamic GUI corresponding to a first group profile that is served to a first user is different from a second dynamic GUI corresponding to a second group profile is served to a second user at approximately the same location, when the group profiles are different. A map is displayed on the touch screen display and the map displays a plurality of geofences. A geofence selection received by the touch screen display presents the dynamic graphical user interface that includes the list of targeted content elements for the particular group profile associated with the particular wireless device at the geofence selection. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160054870 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING MENU DATA FOR MOBILE APPLICATIONS - A menu application provides an integrated interface for launching multiple mobile applications from a dynamically configurable menu. Each of the mobile applications is associated with a servlet that provides the application's menu data to the menu application. The servlet may query design-time data and application run-time data to generate the menu data for the application. Additionally, the set of applications included by the menu application in a menu list may be based on a user authorization level, such that the menu list only includes applications that the user is authorized to access. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160062574 | ELECTRONIC TOUCH COMMUNICATION - Touch inputs such as single-finger contacts and multiple-finger contacts are detected at an electronic device and translated into electronic touch communications for playback at an external electronic device. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160062608 | BUTTON FUNCTIONALITY - Button functionalities for user interfaces, e.g., for use with a portable multifunction device, are disclosed. Exemplary button functionalities are described for an electronic device with a display, a rotatable and depressible input mechanism, and/or a button. Different device features may be accessed, depending on whether the rotatable and depressible input mechanism or the button is activated, and further depending on whether the activation represents a single press, a double press, or an extended press on the rotatable and depressible input mechanism or the button. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160062609 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - The present disclosure provides a mobile terminal capable of providing information stored therein in a simplified manner, the mobile terminal including a touch screen configured to display one of a plurality of home screen pages, a wireless communication unit that is configured to perform communication with an external server, and a controller configured to generate a widget page associated with information, when the information is received from the external server through the wireless communication unit, wherein the widget page is a newly-generated home screen page, different from the plurality of home screen pages. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160062612 | Information Access Technique - The present invention discloses a method for interactively providing information about a product service to a user when the user engages with a special image using an electronic device. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160062630 | ELECTRONIC TOUCH COMMUNICATION - Touch inputs such as single-finger contacts and multiple-finger contacts are detected at an electronic device and translated into electronic touch communications for playback at an external electronic device. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160066258 | DEVICE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY SELECTION AND DISPLAY IN MULTI-TECHNOLOGY WIRELESS ENVIRONMENTS - Radio network technology and display thereof can be managed when multiple services and radio network technologies are available to a multi-technology mobile device. Management relies at least in part on a subscriber profile that comprises a network selection profile constructed through market policy, subscriber policy, and application policy for radio technology utilization. Network preference(s) profile is generated on per subscriber, or per subscriber type, basis and is conveyed to a subscriber station over the air. Initial subscriber profile can be delivered at a time of provisioning a multi-technology mobile device, and updated based at least upon subscriber demand, a schedule established by a network operator or service provider, or an event related to coverage area relocation or contracted services. Radio technology preferences and display of associated technologies available to a multi-technology mobile device can be controlled dynamically on a per-call and/or per-application basis. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160072871 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DASHBOARD IMAGE GENERATION - Systems and methods for generating a dashboard image for viewing on a remote computing device. The system may include a business database storing a plurality of business values; a dashboard generator; an image generator and a web page generator. The dashboard generator may be configured to derive a plurality of key performance indicator values from the business database and generate a dashboard corresponding to the plurality of key performance indicator values. The image generator may be configured to generate the dashboard image, such that the dashboard image corresponds to the dashboard. As well, the web page generator may be operatively coupled to the image generator and configured to generate a dashboard web page corresponding to the dashboard image. The method may include: receiving a dashboard image request from the remote computing device; deriving a plurality of key performance indicator values from a business database; creating a dashboard image corresponding to the key performance indicator values; and generating a dashboard web page corresponding to the dashboard image. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160077683 | PROCESSING SELECTED BROWSER REQUESTS - Processing a browser request that specifies a destination network resource generally includes intercepting a browser request that specifies a selected destination network resource and redirecting the browser request to a network server that differs from the destination resource specified by the browser request. Processing a browser request also may include intercepting a browser request received from a client computer at a proxy server when the browser request specifies a selected destination network resource and performing instructions associated with and in addition to instructions performed to download the selected destination network resource. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160077690 | DISPLAYING A CONTEXTUAL ORGANIZATION CHART WITH AWARENESS - A contextual organization chart based on two selected individuals is constructed from a database of individual names, manager names, and profiles. Awareness data is provided for people in the organization, a people awareness indicator and a nesting control indicator are appended to names in the constructed view. A user may access profile data by selecting a name in the view, expand the view to show additional individuals by selecting a nesting control indicator, or initiate a communication with an individual by selecting an awareness indicator. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160085412 | System and Method to Have Location Based Personalized UI Updates on Mobile App for Connected Users In Security, Video and Home Automation Applications - An apparatus including a plurality of user controlled devices, each located at a respective predetermined location within a geographic area of a user, a respective location indicator associated with each of the plurality of user controlled devices, a portable user device including a respective controlling application of each of the plurality of user controlled devices embodied in a memory of the portable user device, a monitoring processor of the portable user device that detects a location of the portable user device within the geographic area based upon a wireless signal from one of the respective location indicators and an interface processor of the portable device that loads the controlling application of one of the plurality of user controlled devices based upon the detected location of the portable user device. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160085847 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR THE SAME - An information processing device includes: a storage unit; a first display control unit; and a demanding unit. The storage unit that stores attribute data representing specified attribute of contents and category data representing a category of the attribute correlated to each other. The first display control unit that provides controls for displaying information for a selected attribute and for displaying, in a categorized state, information for related attributes correlated to the same category as that of the attribute on a correlation display screen. The demanding unit that demands data search by referring to the correlated attribute selected corresponding to information selected from among those displayed on the correlation display screen to an information provision device. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160092045 | Event View Selector - An event view selector for a search user interface is described. In one or more implementations, a service may operate to collect and store data as events and apply a late binding schema to extract events that match the search criteria and provide search results for display via the search user interface. The search user interface exposes an event view selector operable to enable transitions between multiple different views of the events associated with different levels of detail. The views may include at least a raw view, a list view, and a table view. Responsive to receiving an indication of a view selected via the event view selector, the selected view may be exposed via the search user interface. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160092048 | DISPLAY OF HIERARCHICAL DATASETS USING HIGH-WATER MARK SCROLLING - Techniques are disclosed for the efficient display of hierarchical datasets using high-water mark scrolling. Certain techniques allow for the creation of simple, intuitive, and computationally inexpensive user interfaces for displaying hierarchical data sets. According to some embodiments, a defined number of items of a hierarchical list are presented in a hierarchical user interface module. This defined number of items may be referred to as a “high-water mark” value. When one of the items having associated child items (that are not currently displayed) is selected, one or more presented items in the hierarchical list are replaced with a corresponding one or more of the child items, thus maintaining a same number of displayed list items (i.e., the high-water mark number of displayed list items). | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160094672 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING INFORMAL PROBLEM SOLVING NETWORKS - The present invention is a system that: assists network-level interests in analyzing of the effectiveness of informal problem solving networks; provides data and analysis to network-level interests that can be used to justify the development and implement of improvements to the informal problem solving networks; and makes it easier for network-level interests to work in partnership with network participants to develop improvements to the network by enabling network-level interests to evaluate the impact of improvements to the informal problem solving networks. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160098173 | PRESENTATION OF MULTIVARIATE DATA ON A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE OF A COMPUTING SYSTEM - Various systems, methods, and media allow for graphical display of multivariate data in parallel coordinate plots and similar plots for visualizing data for a plurality of variables simultaneously. These systems, methods, and media can aggregate individual data points into curves between axes, significantly improving functioning of computer systems by decreasing the rendering time for such plots. Certain implementations can allow a user to examine the relationship between two or more variables, by displaying the data on non-parallel or other transformed axes. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160100037 | ONLINE COLLABORATIVE SUITE - A system and method for a system for server-side database-driven services that can be accessed by a variety of client side applications, as disclosed in this disclosure. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160103586 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTHORING, DISTRIBUTING, VIEWING AND SAVING WRAP PACKAGES - A system of tools and components that enable wrap users to interact with a wrap package infrastructure, creating and improving a wrap user experience. The system and components include a wrap authoring tool, a wrap runtime viewer, a wrap asset management tool, and a wrap library. Through these tools and components, wrap users (i) contact and interact with the wrap infrastructure and (ii) are empowered with the ability to author, receive, distribute, share, view, consume, categorize, organize and distribute wrap packages, which together, enhance and define the overall wrap user experience. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160103587 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTHORING, DISTRIBUTING, VIEWING AND SAVING WRAP PACKAGES - A system of tools and components that enable wrap users to interact with a wrap package infrastructure, creating and improving a wrap user experience. The system and components include a wrap authoring tool, a wrap runtime viewer, a wrap asset management tool, and a wrap library. Through these tools and components, wrap users (i) contact and interact with the wrap infrastructure and (ii) are empowered with the ability to author, receive, distribute, share, view, consume, categorize, organize and distribute wrap packages, which together, enhance and define the overall wrap user experience. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160117063 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING HASHTAGS - A hashtag management system permits a user to review a ranked or unranked list of hashtags that are correlated with an object of interest and to manipulate the list, such as by adding or deleting hashtags or by rearranging the ranking and to use the list for the purposes of contextual search and/or discovery. Based on the inputs of multiple users manipulating the hashtags, the system determines trends and/or preferences, search and/or discovery priorities and provides information about the trends and/or preferences to users who may use such information in order to select one or more of the hashtags for sharing across a social media platform and/or for the purposes of search and/or discovery. Additionally, the system facilitates the process by which the selected hashtags are shared across social media platforms in conjunction with the corresponding object and/or searching and/or discovering related objects. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160117064 | MEDIA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM SUPPORTING A PLURALITY OF MOBILE DEVICES - An interactive media management server that facilitates management of interactive media and delivery of such interactive media. It comprises a first interface to an interactive media distribution server communicatively coupled to a plurality of mobile devices, and a second interface to a service provider system or a content provider system. It comprises a manager module for managing creation, distribution and tracking of a plurality of interactive media. The manager module, via the second interface, manages the delivery of the plurality of interactive media from the service provider system or the content provider system, and the communication of user responses to the plurality of interactive media to the corresponding service provider system or content provider system. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160117065 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - Provided is information processing device capable of issuing a notification of an occurrence of an event depending on a current operation mode in a case where the information processing device operates in a plurality of operation modes. An information processing device operates in a plurality of operation modes including at least a first mode and a second mode, receives event information output by an event output program, and notifies a user that the event information has been received, and the information processing device changes a pattern of notification between a case where the event information is received during the operation in the first mode and a case where the event information is received during the operation in the second mode. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160117372 | SOFTWARE APPLICATION THAT DETERMINES THE OPTIMAL TIMES FOR OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES BASED ON OUTDOOR CONDITIONS - Users of mobile devices may be concerned about outdoor conditions while engaged in outdoor activities. A software application for mobile devices can provide access to data representing various outdoor conditions, such as pollution, pollen, weather, sun. etc., and can suggest to the user optimal times in which to engage in the activity and avoid one or more of the undesirable conditions. In various embodiments, the software application may display the data on a graph and/or a map. The software application may also determine the accumulated value of the data for a given time period, and provide the lowest accumulated value and the time at which it occurs, the highest accumulated value and the time at which it occurs, and/or a minimum accumulated value for one or more periods of one or more days. The software application may also display these values on a meter. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160124585 | TYPEAHEAD FEATURES - Techniques for providing improved typeahead features are described. According to various embodiments, it is determined that a user has specified, via a user interface, a first metric term. A list of one or more suggested operators associated with the first metric term is then generated and displayed, and it is determined that the user has selected one of the suggested operators. Thereafter, a list of one or more suggested metric terms associated with the selected operator is generated and displayed, and it is determined that the user has selected a second metric term from the suggested metric terms. Thereafter, a custom metric definition data entity that references information defining a custom metric is generated, the information specifying that metric values associated with the custom metric are generated by processing metric values associated with the first metric term and the second metric term based on the selected operator. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160132198 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES PROVIDING PEOPLE RECOMMENDATION BASED ON ONE OR MORE SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES - A graphical user interface having a dashboard for people recommendation to a first user, including: a first section presenting a plurality of second users one at a time and a second section presenting a plurality of people searches one at time. The first section has: a first area showing a profile image of a corresponding user in the second users; a second area showing profile text information of the corresponding user; a third area showing profile matching information between the corresponding user and the first user; and at least one first user interface element selectable to change a selection of the corresponding user from the second users. The second section has: a fourth area showing a corresponding search in the plurality of people searches; and at least one second user interface element selectable to change a selection of the corresponding search from the plurality of people searches. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160139742 | METHOD FOR MANAGING MEDIA CONTENTS AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME - A method of managing contents is provided. The method includes selecting at least one content; storing the at least one selected content in at least one content sharing server; receiving a user input about the selected contents shared through the content sharing server; and reflecting the user input in the selected contents and displaying the contents. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160139743 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BROWSING A LIST OF OBJECTS - A method and an apparatus for browsing an object list are disclosed. The method includes providing an object list, wherein the object list includes a first region and a second region, multiple first-level categories are displayed in the first region, and multiple second-level categories are displayed in the second region; obtaining a status of the object list, and determining whether the status of the object list meets a preset condition; and performing a switching control on a second-level category displayed in the second region based on a status of the second-level category displayed in the second region upon determining that the status of the object list meets the preset condition. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160139792 | SOCIAL BALANCER FOR INDICATING THE RELATIVE PRIORITIES OF LINKED OBJECTS - A method and system for indicating a priority of a first linked node and a second linked node within a plurality of linked nodes associated with an electronically interactive social relations service. The method may include assigning a weight to the first linked node within the plurality of linked nodes. The method may also include assigning a weight to the second linked node within the plurality of linked nodes. Additionally, the method may include determining an adjustment of the weight of the first linked node within the plurality of linked nodes. The method may further include adjusting the weight of the second linked node based on the determining of the adjustment of the weight of the first linked node, the adjusting of the weight of the second linked node corresponding to a link strength of the second link node relative to the first link node. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160147403 | CONTINUOUSLY SCROLLABLE CALENDAR USER INTERFACE - A method is provided to scroll a calendar user interface (UI) comprising: displaying on a device display screen a visible range of a calendar UI, wherein the calendar UI includes a display grid that includes individual date display panes that are associated with individual dates, wherein the date panes are arranged in rows corresponding to weeks and columns corresponding to days of the week and wherein the visible range of the calendar UI includes multiple rows of date panes; receiving user input to indicate a scroll direction in which to scroll the display grid to display a different date range that includes earlier or later date display panes; and in response to the user input, scrolling the calendar UI by rows to the different date range. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160147417 | VIEWING SELECTED ZOOMED CONTENT - Provided are techniques for viewing selected zoomed content. A first device is paired with a second device to enable the first device and the second device to communicate. Content is displayed on a first display screen on the first device. In response to receiving a request to zoom a portion of the content on the first device, a zoomed portion of the content is displayed on a second display screen on the second device, without changing the display of the content on the first display screen on the first device. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160149769 | Automating Cloud Services Lifecycle Through Semantic Technologies - This invention relates to methods and systems of procuring services in the cloud and specifically procurement where the requirements are defined by the consumer in a machine understandable knowledge representation language such as RDF and OWL using semantic web technology to establish a cloud agent for discovery of a service provider and effectuate the automatic generation of a contract, or service-level agreement, that can be monitored due to the coupling between the machine understandable knowledge representation language and the contract. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160154543 | Generating a List of Content Items | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160154569 | Matching Process System And Method | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160162132 | DYNAMICALLY ORGANIZING APPLICATIONS BASED ON A CALENDAR EVENT - A method for dynamically organizing applications based on a calendar event includes presenting a plurality of icons on an electronic display of a mobile device. Each icon of the plurality of icons represents an application configured to execute on the mobile device. The method further includes identifying an upcoming calendar event on a calendar linked to the mobile device and determining if there is a correlation between the application and the calendar event by comparing one or more characteristics of the application to one or more characteristics of the calendar event. The method also includes positioning the plurality of icons on the electronic display according to the determined correlation between the application and the calendar event such that icons representing applications having a positive correlation to the calendar event are positioned to be more visible than icons representing applications that do not have a positive correlation to the calendar event. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160162595 | Window switching method and device and storage medium thereof - Provided are a window switching method, and device and storage medium thereof. The method comprises the steps: obtaining a first pre-reading keyword meeting the requirement in all contents on a page opened through a current window, determining a first pre-reading URL corresponding to the first pre-reading keyword, utilizing the pre-reading window to load a pre-reading page corresponding to the first pre-reading URL, and switching the pre-reading window loaded with the pre-reading page to the current window when an instruction of entering the pre-reading page is received. An improved pre-reading function can be achieved, and the technical problem of low user experience caused by the fact that contents on a pre-reading page cannot be displayed completely after switching to the pre-reading page is further solved. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160163003 | DISPLAYING NEWS TICKER CONTENT IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A social networking system displays raw stories about a user's friends' actions in a news ticker as those actions occur. The social networking system is monitored for actions associated with users connected with the target user. The social networking system may be continually monitored such that actions are identified in real-time as they are performed. The news ticker is updated such that stories including the identified actions and the associated connected users are displayed within a news ticker interface. The news ticker interface may be a dedicated portion of the social networking system interface, for example in a column next to a newsfeed. The news ticker interface may be updated in real time as actions associated with connected users are performed. The target user may select a displayed story in the news ticker, and additional information related to the selected story may be displayed, for instance in a separate interface. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160170575 | APPLICATION ACTIVATION METHOD AND APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160170587 | Method for Presenting Documents Using a Reading List Panel | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160179308 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMAGE-BASED CONTENT DELIVERY | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160179798 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NAVIGATING THROUGH A DATACENTER HIERARCHY IN A MOBILE COMPUTER DEVICE | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160188174 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT SERVICES - A system facilitates the procurement of one or more document services for a document directly from a document preparation software application used to create the document. The system activates a graphical user interface within the document preparation software application, contacts a server to identify available document services, and configures the graphical user interface based on the available document services. The system detects selection of one of the available document services and provides the document from the document preparation software application to one or more service providers for performance of the selected document service. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160191711 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO AVOID COLLISIONS IN ESTABLISHING REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION CONNECTIONS - A computing apparatus configured in the communication system to store data about advisers, including availability status of the advisers for real time communications with customers, ratings of the advisers by prior customers, compensate rates of the advisers, probability of being connected within a period of time for real time communication with customers, etc. The computing apparatus customizes the selection of lists of advisers for presentation to customers and/or the sequences of the lists to reduce collisions in concurrent requests for connections to same advisers for real time communication connections. The customization may include randomizing top portions of the lists, selecting and/or ranking the advisers in real time based on probability of advisers being connected within a period of time for real time communication with customers, etc. | 06-30-2016 |
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| 20220138763 | LOST ITEM RECOVERY WITH REPORTING AND NOTIFYING SYSTEM - In one embodiment, a system and method for reporting lost items includes presenting a lost item reporting link associated with an entity having a plurality of different physical establishment locations; receiving a user selection of the lost item reporting link; presenting at a website, in response to the user selection of the lost item reporting link, a graphical user interface configured to solicit lost item recovery information, the website being associated with the entity having the plurality of different physical establishments; receiving the lost item recovery information via the graphical user interface; and transmitting the lost item recovery information to a third party online lost and found system. | 05-05-2022 |
