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| 20080209338 | Browser supporting multiple users - A method and apparatus for a browser supporting multiple user identifying states. A plurality of browser instances are initiated on a client. One of a plurality of user identifying states is selected for each of the plurality of browser instances. Each selected user identifying state is used in a distinct session between the browser and a server. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080209339 | PERSONALIZATION TECHNIQUES USING IMAGE CLOUDS - Systems and methods for personalization using image clouds to represent content. Image clouds can be used to identify initial user interest, present recommended content, present popular content, present search results, and present user profile information. Image clouds are interactive, allowing users to select images displayed in the image cloud, which can contribute to presenting more personalized content as well as updating a user's profile. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080209340 | PEER-TO-PEER ACCESS OF PERSONALIZED PROFILES USING CONTENT INTERMEDIARY - A method for personalizing content for a particular user in a computing system comprising a user interface configured to display content. The method comprises identifying a content item accessed by a user, identifying features associated with the content item; using the features of the content item to identify one or more third party profiles that substantially match a content profile of the content item, and displaying a list of the identified third party profiles. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080250327 | Content commenting and monetization - A code is included in content, which code allows a user to use a comment tool to select some or all of the content, to create and submit comments, and to view previously submitted content selections and comments in conjunction with additional content. The additional content may comprise advertisements. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080263454 | METHOD OF PROVIDING A CONSUMER PROFILE ACCESSIBLE BY AN ON-LINE INTERFACE AND RELATED TO RETAIL PURCHASE OF CUSTOM PERSONALIZED TOYS - A method for continuing the purchase experience of a personalized semi-custom toy in a follow-up on-line interface experience or in a physical retail experience. The method includes the steps of a consumer assembling a semi-custom toy configuration by selecting from among multiple major component styles and assembling the major component styles selected and selecting additional optional accessories to add to the major components resulting in a semi-custom toy configuration; the consumer inputting identifiers for the selected major component styles and accessories so that an over all toy identifier can be assigned, which is associated with and correlates to the resulting configuration; memorializing the information electronically into a consumer/toy-configuration profile stored in a database having electronic memory for future retrieval and manipulation. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20090049389 | Usage Pattern Driven Graphical User Interface Element Rendering - A method of adaptively updating rendering of a graphical user interface (GUI) element within a GUI operating on a computer monitors a computer user's usage pattern of the GUI element and updates enables updating the appearance of the GUI element displayed on the computer's display to correspond to the computer user's usage pattern of the GUI element. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090063989 | Methods and Devices for Reconstructing Visual Stimuli Observed Through Browser-Based Interfaces Over Time - In one embodiment, the invention allows an operator to identify a specific article of online-content to be reconstructed and displayed, and specify a duration of time to be used when graphically representing what areas of the visual stimuli were actually visible to the user. First, the operator selects an article of online-content based on its original network address, or from a substitute name from a database that contains a record of all online-content visited by the original user. Next, the operator enters a specific duration of time to reconstruct, preferably by using slider-bar, a timeline equal to duration, preferably the maximum duration, that the online content was visible to the original user. Next, the user selects from various compositions that can be used to represent the visual stimuli as it was originally displayed to the user. Finally, the original visual stimuli displayed to the user is recreated based on the article of online content and period of time specified, using the selected form of composition. In yet another embodiment, the invention is a method for retrieving multiple instances of an article of online content from a database of previously recorded content. In yet a further embodiment, the invention is a method for reconstructing visual stimuli as originally displayed to a user as one form of composition. Still another embodiment of the invention is a method for reconstructing a field of visual stimuli that could be observed by a user as one form of composition. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090070685 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RAPID ACCESS TO FREQUENTLY USED OR SEARCHED OBJECTS - A method and system to rapidly access frequently used objects and/or items is provided. More particularly, the method and system is designed to rapidly access frequently used or search objects and/or items using a placeholders (e.g., Memory Indicators) in a graphical user interface a method of retrieving items is provided. The method includes detecting one or more selected items from a list of items; creating placeholders representing each of the selected one or more items in a graphical user interface; and continuously updating the placeholders in the graphical user interface upon detecting of newly selected items in the list of items. The placeholders are configured to eliminate subsequent searches for the one or more items in the list. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090070686 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CONTROLLING A DISPLAY ON A DATA EDITING SCREEN - The invention provides a method, system, and program product for controlling a display on a computer-aided design (CAD) data editing screen, whereby commands more likely to be utilized are preferentially displayed. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090094528 | USER INTERFACES AND UPLOADING OF USAGE INFORMATION - A graphical user interface (GUI) can be used to provide information reflecting a user's interaction with a product using a stand-alone portable device. The user can respond to questions while interacting with the product. The responses are logged by the portable device and subsequently uploaded to the computer system, which forwards them via the Internet to a server. The computer system also forwards registration information to the server. The registration information identifies the user and the product. Based on information received from the server, the computer system generates a GUI that includes a report summarizing the information forwarded from the computer system, including the name of the product the user was interacting with, and that also includes names of additional products selected based on the forwarded information. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090106664 | PUBLIC STATUS DETERMINATION AND SECURITY CONFIGURATION OF A BROWSER - The illustrative embodiments described herein provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for dynamically identifying a publicly accessed system. A plurality of user profiles is generated for a plurality of users associated with a browser on a system. A set of unique user profiles is identified in the plurality of user profiles. The number of users associated with the set of unique user profiles is compared to a preconfigured threshold. Responsive to the number of users exceeding the preconfigured threshold, the system is identified as a publicly accessed system. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090119600 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING RESPONSE PATTERNS - A method and computer program product for evaluating response patterns including monitoring a plurality of interactions of a user. A response pattern of the user is defined based upon, at least in part, the plurality of interactions of the user. A response profile of the user is provided based upon, at least in part, the response pattern. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090138805 | MEDIA PREFERENCES - An electronic media device may be controlled based on personalized media preferences of users experiencing content using the electronic media device. Users experiencing content using the electronic media device may be automatically identified and the electronic media device may be automatically controlled based on media preferences associated with the identified users. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090158166 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR AUTOMATIC REARRANGEMENT OF MODULES BASED ON USER INTERACTION - A method, system, and computer program product for rearranging a plurality of modules displayed on a content aggregated webpage is presented. In an exemplary manner, the method includes monitoring one or more of a plurality of user interactions associated with one or more of a plurality of modules. A rank value is assigned to a particular one of the plurality of modules, whereby rank value assignment is based on the one or more of the plurality of user interactions. Based on the rank value that is assigned to the particular one of the plurality of modules, the particular module is automatically displayed at a particular position on the content aggregated webpage. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090158167 | SYSTEM FOR CUSTOMIZING MENU OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF - A method for customizing a menu of an electronic device is disclosed. First, various menu options are selected. Frequency of use values of the selected menu options is recorded and values thereof archived for a predetermined time. The amount of the menu options displayed corresponding to the frequency is prioritized. Sizes of the menu options according to the frequency are set. The priority of the menu options based on frequency of use is displayed. The displayed menu options are dynamically reorganized according to the records when the predetermined period of time has expired or the records of the selected menu options exceed a predetermined value. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090172562 | USER INTERFACE DYNAMIC LAYOUT SYSTEM, METHOD FOR ARRANGING USER INTERFACE LAYOUT AND TOUCH CONTROL DISPLAY SYSTEM USING THE SAME - A method for arranging a user interface layout is provided. The method is adapted for a touch control display displaying a plurality of icons. Each icon corresponds to a sensing range thereof on the touch control display. The method includes: statistically calculating a utilization frequency of each icon generated by touching the icon on the touch control display; and adjusting the sensing ranges of the icons according to the corresponding utilization frequencies thereof. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090199107 | PLATFORM FOR MOBILE ADVERTISING AND PERSISTENT MICROTARGETING OF PROMOTIONS - An end-to-end mobile advertising system characterizes user behavior (e.g., location, interaction with advertisements on a mobile communication device, etc.) in order to select micro-targeted advertisements. A marketplace platform handles the formatting required for presentation suitable for mobile communication devices in accordance with negotiated tags for a desired audience (“reach”), for a suitable number of presentations (“frequency”) and for an effective duration (“time”) within a particular scheduled window. Effectiveness is gauged even in the instance of impression advertisements by monitoring user location and/or interaction with the communication device to see a change in behavior (e.g., whether goes to a location of a competitor or advertiser, calls the advertiser, clips the advertisement, etc.). This effectiveness is further tracked across applications and/or platforms to capture reach, frequency, and duration of a particular advertising campaign for a user. The marketplace platform secures user identification for privacy reasons from advertising entities that provide the advertisements. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090204901 | End to End Response Enabling Collection and Use of Customer Viewing Preferences Statistics - Targeted advertisements with associated dynamic content for response and feedback embedded into the ad's header are delivered to mobile viewing devices. The mobile viewing device records a user's response to advertisements and reports it back to an ad serving platform. The ad serving platform generates user profiles that incorporate the response data. Ads are further targeted to the user according to the user's profile data to maximize the impact of the ads. The user can select the preferred format for providing advertisement feedback. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090228805 | Management of User Interaction History with Software Applications - A system and method are disclosed for history management a plurality of objects within an application, wherein each of the plurality includes at least a software method for saving the object's state and a software method for loading the object's state and a history manager function including a software method for recording an application interaction state for each user interaction with the application, wherein the application interaction state comprises the object's state for each of the plurality of objects at a time of the each user interaction with the application, wherein the user selects a desired one of the application interaction states to set the application to a desired one of the user interactions. | 09-10-2009 |
| 20090249218 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING CUSTOM VIEWS BASED UPON TIME AND/OR LOCATION - An application for a computer system for providing favorites to users based upon time, date and/or location includes a server computer and a user computer. The server computer knows at least one of a location of the user computer, a time at the location of the user computer and a date at the location of the user computer. A plurality of favorites is stored at the server computer; each favorite is classified by at least one of location, time and date. Software running on the server computer displays one or more of the favorites selected from the plurality of favorites based upon at least one of the location of the user computer, the time at the location of the user computer and the date at the location of the user computer. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090254836 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PROVIDING A PERSONALIZED PERFORMANCE - A computer for use with a system capable of providing a personalized performance of at least one story having a predefined timeline and a method of operating the system. The method comprises receiving one or more inputs from one or more users; analyzing at least said received inputs in order to recognize one or more components comprised in said inputs thus giving rise to actual input components; matching said actual input components to a set of predefined input components; modifying the story timeline in accordance with results of said matching; and generating the performance in accordance with the modified story timeline. The method and/or computer may be used to at least one of the following applications: personalized presentation; message positioning and persuasion application; simulated teacher performance application; performance and business indicators analysis application; simulated tour guide application; simulated hostess application; self-introduction related application; dating services related application; blog service and navigation application; social and networking service application; public relations and promotional services application; entertainment application; medical and health care services application; customer support services application, etc. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090288014 | Widget platform, system and method - A widget platform is disclosed. The widget platform includes a plurality of widget templates, a plurality of widget code portions, wherein at least a portion of the code portions are available for placement into ones of the plurality of widget templates, a search engine, wherein the search engine locates, responsive to a request, ones of the plurality of widget code portions, and a publisher, wherein the publisher publishes, responsive to a publication instruction, at least one widget prepared in accordance with at least one of the plurality of widget templates. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090293001 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND REPORTING COOKIE VALUES AT A CLIENT NODE - A method and apparatus for tracking and reporting traffic activity on a web site whereby cookie data is compiled at the visitor computer using cookie processing script embedded within the web page downloaded over the Internet and operable on the visitor computer. Data mining code within the downloaded web page is operable on the visitor computer to obtain web browsing data. The cookie processing script operates in consideration of this web browsing data and an old cookie previously stored on the visitor computer and associated with the visited web page to obtain new cookie values. These new cookie values are then stored on the visitor computer and also attached to an image request sent to a data collection server where they are processed and posted for viewing by the web page owner. As cookie processing and writing occurs completely within the visitor computer, cookie-blocking technologies are circumvented. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090300511 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STREAMLINING USER INTERACTION WITH ELECTRONIC CONTENT - Various aspects and embodiments are directed to a graphical user interface that organizes interface elements into views of computer content for presentation to a user. Different views of are used to provide an interface that is responsive to configurations of the device and responsive to activity being performed by the user. Aspects include permitting the user to transition the device from one configuration to another during its use, for example from easel to laptop modes. Further the elements that comprise the graphical user interface are configured to present a summarized view of available actions and content, in order to simplify user interaction. The different views present different organizations of the interface elements and in some example display only certain ones of the modes of content in order to reduce the number of options a user must navigate to accomplish an objective. According to another aspect, methods and systems for streamlining user interaction with computer content are provided. In some embodiments, streamlining includes pre-configuring a user device based on received information. Other embodiments include presenting consistent visual representations used to navigated to views that present computer content. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090313551 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERSONALIZED HOLD - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer readable-media for contextual adaptive advertising. The method for personalized hold comprises collecting a set of data elements about a user, generating a user profile based on the set of data elements, selecting media content from one or more content repositories based on the user profile, and delivering selected media content to a device for playback to the user during noncommunicative gaps. One aspect provides further for recording a playback order of delivered media content in order to avoid playing the same media content back to back. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090327913 | USING WEB REVISITATION PATTERNS TO SUPPORT WEB INTERACTION - Supporting web interaction using web revisitation patterns is enabled by described methods and devices. In an example embodiment, a method involves collecting, analyzing, and utilizing. Revisitation data is collected. The revisitation data includes two or more visit times for visits to a web page by one or more users. The revisitation data is analyzed to produce at least one revisitation characterization that reflects a revisitation pattern for the web page. The at least one revisitation characterization is utilized to support web interaction. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090327914 | RELATING WEB PAGE CHANGE WITH REVISITATION PATTERNS - Web page change may be related to revisitation patterns to support web interaction. In an example embodiment, a method involves analyzing change and revisitation data for a web page, determining a relationship between the data, inferring consumption intent by a user for the web page, and utilizing the inferred consumption intent. More specifically, change data is analyzed to produce a change characterization, with the change data reflecting differences between content of a web page at different times. Revisitation data is analyzed to produce a revisitation characterization, with the revisitation data including visit times to the web page by a user. A relationship is determined between the change and the revisitation data based on the change and the revisitation characterizations. Consumption intent of the user for the content of the web page is inferred responsive to the relationship. The inferred consumption intent is utilized to support interaction with the web page. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090327915 | Automatic GUI Reconfiguration Based On User Preferences - Systems and methods for configuring a graphical user interface on the basis of user preferences are disclosed. The systems and methods aggregate elementary user interactions with a graphical user interface into higher level actions on the basis of temporal markings and thresholds. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090327916 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING TARGETED CONTENT - An intelligent commerce module is described that provides a contextual based commerce experience by: (1) determining the context under which a user wishes to acquire an asset; (2) determining the context under which the asset is being offered; and, (3) delivering a buying experience appropriate for the user and the context under which the asset is being offered. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100017725 | AMBIENT COLLAGE DISPLAY OF DIGITAL MEDIA CONTENT - Disclosed are methods and systems for automatically displaying media items ( | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100023871 | Methods and Systems Providing an Interactive Social Ticker - A user interface for use in one or more processor-based devices comprising an interactive, social ticker shared among a plurality of users, the interactive social ticker including an animated flow of selectable content. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100023872 | WEB PAGE SERVING ARCHITECTURE - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to presentation of content on web page protocols. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100031161 | CUSTOMIZED USER INTERFACE - Regulating user interface controls includes identifying a grouping from among different groupings and providing a set of user interface controls corresponding to the identified grouping. The groupings can correspond to the maturity levels (e.g., kids and teenagers) of different network service provider users. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100050088 | CONFIGURING A VIRTUAL WORLD USER-INTERFACE - A particular user's user-interface to a virtual world is customized based at least upon an analysis of behavioral characteristics of the user, the behavioral characteristics indicating how the user controls an avatar in the virtual world. In this regard, image-capture-or-sharing tools, avatar-appearance-editing tools, or both may be configured in the user-interface based at least upon the analysis of the behavioral characteristics. Information pertaining to results of the configuring of the user-interface may be stored in a processor-accessible memory system. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100070872 | ADAPTIVE TECHNIQUE FOR SIGHTLESS ACCESSIBILITY OF DYNAMIC WEB CONTENT - One aspect of the present invention includes adaptive techniques used to render dynamic web content for accessibility software applications, such as screen readers. In one embodiment, an operation for improving webpage browsing with accessibility software includes detecting if an accessibility software application is in use, tracking the position of user focus on the webpage, and presenting information to the user based on the position of user focus on the webpage. In a further embodiment, additional content is rendered on the webpage to screen reader applications, and is placed at the position of the screen reader focus in response to dynamic content appearing or changing on the webpage. This additional content is read by the screen reader to inform the user of the dynamic content change, and/or enable the user to quickly perform a specific action on the webpage. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100070873 | Image display device, server, mobile terminal, image display method, and system - The image display device includes a content control section for making a display screen display image content, a terminal information acquisition section for acquiring terminal information sent by a mobile terminal, a user information storage section in which user information indicating an attribute of a user of the mobile terminal is stored, and a terminal information control section for making the display screen display the terminal information acquired by the terminal information acquisition section, based on the user information of the mobile terminal that sent the terminal information. Thereby, an image display device, a server, a mobile terminal, an image display method, and a system that enable more effective information sharing among a specific group can be provided. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100070874 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING CRITICAL INFORMATION BASED ON PROFILE DATA - Systems and methods for providing critical information to a user of a content providing service based on profile data associated with the user are disclosed. Such systems and methods can include storing a user profile that identifies a plurality of communication pathways via which a critical information alert can be provided to a user associated with the user profile. The critical information alert contains critical information provided by the content providing service. The user profile includes a respective set of decision criteria associated with each of the plurality of communication pathways. A satisfied set of decision criteria is identified from among the respective sets of decision criteria. The critical information alert is provided to the user via the communication pathway associated with the satisfied set of decision criteria. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100077313 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION IN A VIRTUAL WORLD - Providing tracking information about events in a virtual world using a computer is presented including: causing the computer to provide a re-usable code portion, the re-usable code portion configured with a unique identifier and an address of an external data storage; causing the computer to configure at least a set of events to be tracked for sending information about tracked events to the external data storage; causing the computer to associate the re-usable code portion with a virtual object to be tracked in the virtual world. In some embodiments, methods are presented wherein the causing the computer to associate the re-usable code portion with the virtual object comprises causing the computer to integrate the re-usable code portion on a source code level into the virtual object.” | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100077314 | System and Measured Method for Multilingual Collaborative Network Interaction - Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer readable media for providing a collaborative communication environment. The method embodiment comprises receiving user profiles, establishing a collaborative communication environment where a plurality of users simultaneously interact over a network, converting data to be sent to each user in a collaborative environment based on the respective user's profile, and presenting a localized experience to each user using the converted data. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100083131 | Method, Apparatus and Computer Program Product for Providing Relevance Indication - An apparatus for providing relevance indication may include a processor. The processor may be configured to identify tags associated with a place. In this regard, the place may be a virtual location where information is shared. The processor may be configured to determine a relevance value for the place by analyzing the tags relative to user attributes. The processor may also be configured to provide for an output of a representation of the relevance value to a user interface. Associated methods and computer program products are also provided. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100088612 | Method and System for Displaying Web Page - Disclosed is a method for displaying a web page. According to the method, upon receiving a data block including web page display data from a server, a client stores a data block identifier and a correspondence relationship between the data block identifier and the data block. The client then uses the identifier of the needed data block to determine whether the needed data block identifier is stored in the client, if affirmative, obtains the data block corresponding to the found data block identifier according to the correspondence relationship, and displays the web page display data of the obtained data block on a web page. Further discloses a system for displaying a web page. The disclosed method and system can be used to greatly reduce the pressure on a server end, save network bandwidth resources, and improve a client's speed for displaying a web page. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100095218 | USER INTERFACE MONITORING IN A MULTIMEDIA CONTENT DISTRIBUTION NETWORK - A method for controlling a displayed user interface for accessing content provided by a multimedia content delivery network is disclosed. A plurality of user interface events, representing user actions during operation of the user interface, are recorded for one or more end users. The recorded user interface events include user actions that do not result in a command or transaction received by the service provider of the network. The recorded user interface events may be stored in a data warehouse and mined for business purposes. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100095219 | SELECTIVE HISTORY DATA STRUCTURES - Methods and apparatuses which create and use selective history data structures are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes monitoring presentations accessed by a user, automatically selecting some of the presentations accessed by the user according to, at least in part, the user's access patterns, and displaying representations of the some of the presentations in a pattern of an n×n array, wherein n is greater than 1. Other methods are disclosed, and various apparatuses and machine readable media are also disclosed. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100095220 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING A MINI-WEBPAGE WITHIN A WEBPAGE - Methods and systems to enable an Intermediate Network Entity (INE) to modify a Web Page requested by an end-user. The modification may involve placing a Mini-Webpage designated areas of the requested Web Page. An INE may be enabled to receive a request for a Web Page, process the request, modify the requested Web Page by placing Mini-Webpages in designated areas of the Web Page. The methods would allow the Mini-Webpages to be formed by the INE, Web Page provider or a third party ad server. The Mini-Webpages may be targeted based on certain criteria such as the nature of the Web Page requested, the information about the end-user, and the information about the INE. An INE may share some of the economic benefits associated with the ability to convey desired information to an end-user. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100100826 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTENT CUSTOMIZATION BASED ON USER PROFILE - A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to present a script of content comprising one or more content items to a user online, wherein such content is not only relevant to addressing a problem raised by the user, but is also customized and tailored to the specific needs and preferences of the user based on the user's profile. Such an approach enables a personal “agent” that understands the user's specific needs and interests by maintaining a personal profile and history of the user. Based on in-depth personal knowledge and understanding, the agent is capable of identifying, retrieving, customizing, and presenting to the user a unique experience that distinguishes it from the experiences of any other users in the general public. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100107086 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING REPORT CONDITION INPUT INTERFACE - A method and system for generating a report condition input interface are provided. In an embodiment, the method includes: inquiring a corresponding relation list according to the condition data type entered by a user, to obtain at least one graphical control corresponding to the condition data type; assembling at least one determined graphical control to generate a condition input interface. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100115419 | GRATITUDE PROVIDING SYSTEM AND GRATITUDE PROVIDING METHOD - A gratitude providing system is configured to present gratitude expressed as visual value information (chao) to the other user (gratitude presentee) who has given a moved or kind act. The gratitude providing system specifies attribute items (job) owned by the user of the gratitude presentee; transmits predetermined chao determined by the user from a communication terminal device; stores the chao, which a user eventually has owned, at a chao passbook in connection with the job owned by the user; sets each user job level in accordance with each user job recorded and held at the chao passbook and each user chao quantity or a presenting frequency, and publicly discloses this set job level of the user through a communication network. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100122182 | BROWSING WITHIN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT TO DETERMINE VIRTUAL OBJECTS OF INTEREST BASED ON INTERACTIONS WITH WEB CONTENT - Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for integrating web browsing with a three dimensional (3D) immersive environment. In one embodiment, characteristics describing a user's web browsing history may be used to identify objects that are of interest to the user. The objects of interest may be matched to objects included in a virtual environment. The virtual objects may then be presented to the user within an interface to the virtual environment. In another embodiment, characteristics of user interactions with virtual objects may be used to determine related web content. The related web content may be presented to the user in a web browser. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100138753 | APPLICATION MODIFICATION BASED ON FEED CONTENT - A data format provides a mechanism to dynamically change the appearance of an application. During operation, the application obtains streaming feed data for presentation to a user. The feed data may be formatted according to a Really Simple Syndication (RSS) data format. The application detects, within the feed data, branding extensions that identify branding content to be displayed concurrently with channel data and content items when a user selects a channel defined by the feed data. The application detects a user selection of the channel defined by the feed data, and in response, references the branding extensions to obtain and display the branding content within a display region of the application that is separate from the content presentation region of the application for display of content items defined within the feed data. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100146400 | PROVIDING PARALLEL GENERIC WEB SITE SUPPORTING ANONYMOUS OR SEMI-ANONYMOUS INTERNET ACTIVITY - Parallel generic and non-generic versions of a Web site allow a user of the site to either remain anonymous (if accessing the generic version) or allow user information to be collected (if accessing the non-generic version). In one exemplary embodiment, a Web site may provide a user an interface for entering and processing a search query. A search query processed by a generic version of the Web site includes a marker that informs a Web server supporting the generic Web site that the user wishes to remain anonymous. A parallel non-generic version of the Web site may also interface with the same Web server as interfaced by the generic Web site, but permit a data collecting scheme at the Web server to collect user-specific or user-identifiable information. Such user information, if collected, can be used by the Web server to enhance the user's experience with the Web site. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100162129 | Methods, Systems, And Computer Program Products For Synchronizing Second Level Resources With First Level Resources Of A Multi-Level Navigation History - Methods and systems are described for synchronizing second level resources with first level resources of a multi-level navigation history. In one aspect, presenting a plurality of first level resources sequentially in a widget of a browser is provided for, each resource presented in a corresponding widget of the browser along with an associated second level resource. A resource presentation history is maintained including first level resource information identifying an order of presentation of the first level resources and second level resource information identifying an order of presentation of each second level resource presented along with each resource. A previously presented first and/or second level resource identified in the resource information is provided for presenting in a widget of the browser in response to receiving a first or second level resource history request. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100174995 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY BUILDING A WEB INTERFACE PER DATA COLLECTING RULES - A system and associated method for dynamically building a web interface per data collecting rules. An interface module receives a request to perform a business transaction from a caller application. The interface module determines a series of interface screens pursuant to data collecting rules associated with the requested business transaction. The series of interface screens have a subsection which enables a user of the caller application to provide a value of an attribute component of the subsection. The value provided by the user is employed in performing the business transaction. A result of the business transaction is produced to the caller application. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100174996 | Rendering Destination Instant Messaging Personalization Items Before Communicating With Destination - Perception of a personalization item in an instant messaging communications session may be enabled by perceiving an identifier corresponding to an intended instant message recipient designated by an instant message sender system, accessing personalization items corresponding to the perceived identifier, and making perceivable the personalization items corresponding to the received identifier to the instant messaging sender system for rendering in an instant messaging application running on the instant messaging sender system, where the personalization items are made perceivable prior to communication with the intended instant message recipient. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100180207 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AND FULFILLING CELEBRITY MEMORABILIA REQUESTS REMOTELY - A system and method which allows celebrities to manage and fulfill memorabilia requests remotely including personalized audio or video greetings, simply, securely, remotely, and at the time and place of their choosing. They may also use this device to post video blog entries, video e-mail, video chat with others, or appear live. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100180208 | SERVER SIDE DATA CACHE SYSTEM - In an example embodiment, a system and method to store and retrieve application data from a cache and a database are provided. The example method may comprise receiving location data associated with application data from a user device, using the location data to determine a cache or database on which the application data is stored, and requesting application data from the cache or database. The system and method may further include monitoring requests for application data associated with instructions having a set of characteristics, identifying application data as associated with the instructions having the set of characteristics, and requesting the application data based on receiving subsequent instructions sharing the same set of characteristics. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100192069 | Differentiating a User from Multiple Users Based on a Determined Pattern of Accessing a Prescribed Network Destination - In one embodiment, a method comprises detecting, by an apparatus at a user premises, a user method executed by a user at the user premises for submitting a web request for an identified web destination, the user method being one of a plurality of available user methods for submitting the web request; associating, by the apparatus, the user method with the identified web destination specified in the web request; and outputting, by the apparatus, the web request with at least one of a user method identifier specifying the corresponding user method or a user identifier that identifies the user independent of any data structure received from any web destination. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100211885 | QUICK DESIGN USER PROFILES FOR IMPROVING DESIGN TIME OF PERSONALIZED PRODUCTS - QuickDesign User Profiles allowing users to store personalized information for auto-population of template designs when the user visits a website to design personalized products. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100211886 | Management of User Interface Elements in a Display Environment - A widget manager facilitates management of widgets in a dashboard layer. Management functions can include enablement, preview, importation, exportation, organization, installation, deletion, acquisition, etc. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100218111 | User Challenge Using Information Based on Geography Or User Identity - Example embodiments of methods and apparatus for challenging an online user. In an example embodiment, a method includes receiving, at an online service provider, a request from a user to access one or more features of an online service running on a host server and also receiving an indication of a geography associated with the user. The example method further includes sending, to the user, information associated with the indicated geography in combination with information not associated with the indicated geography and a request that the user select the information associated with the indicated geography from the combined information or select the information not associated with the indicated geography from the combined information. The example method still further includes receiving, at the online service provider, a selection from the user and, in the event the selection correctly corresponds with the request, allowing the user access to the one or more features. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100218112 | TRACKING WEB PAGE CLICK INFORMATION - Methods and apparatus are described for tracking web page click information. The web page click information includes user information representing one or more users who visited a corresponding web page. The web page click information also includes click location information representing one or more click locations selected by the one or more users in the corresponding web page. Embodiments of the invention enable selection of a web page and generation of a representation of the web page click information for the selected web page. The representation includes at least some of the click location information for that page. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100229100 | Methods and Systems for Storing and Accessing Application History - In a communication device, multiple instances of different applications may execute. Advantageously, at least one instance of an application records and stores a browsing history of data items accessed during its execution. This stored browsing history may be made available to later instances of applications. Furthermore, one or more such stored histories may be accessed via a global back or a global forward command, allowing the histories to be browsed according to the order in which they were recorded. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100235756 | TRANSACTION SYSTEM, TRANSACTION PROCESSING DEVICE, SCREEN INFORMATION GENERATING METHOD, AND SCREEN INFORMATION GENERATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - Provided are a transaction system, a transaction processing device, a screen information generating method and a screen information generation processing program capable of setting link information simply, giving a reward when an act relating to a transaction via the link information is committed, and also giving the reward without any work such as web site management, web page creation or the like. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100235757 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INTERACTING WITH INTERNET CONTENT - The invention includes a method of presenting distributable computer readable media to a user in response to a user request. The method comprises the steps of identifying a definition of a Networked Information Monitor (NIM). A NIM frame is defined for the NIM using the definition. Content is then retrieved for the NIM. Then, the content is placed in NIM viewer defined by the frame. The invention also includes a method of altering a Networked Information Monitor (NIM). The method includes the step of receiving a message at a NIM. The message specifies a configurable feature of the NIM. The NIM is altered in accordance with the configurable feature of the message. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100251135 | GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL, VISUALIZATION AND INTERPRETATION SOFTWARE BOOKMARKS - A method for creating a bookmark for geological and geophysical, visualization and interpretation software is described herein. A visualization of seismic or borehole data may be displayed on a computer screen. A request to create the bookmark may be received. The bookmark may represent a state of the displayed visualization and include one or more settings of the GGVI software. The settings may be determined. The bookmark may be created. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100262920 | Apparatus and Method for Providing a User Interface for Facilitating Communications Between Devices - An apparatus and method for providing a user interface for facilitating communications between devices are provided. According to one aspect, an interface device provides communications between a first device and a second device. The interface device has an input for receiving data in a first format from the first device. Logic within the interface device is configured to receive a request to interact with the interface device and to provide a user interface in response to receiving the request. The logic identifies a second device for receiving the data from the first device. The logic identifies a second format that is compatible with the second device and translates the data to the second format. The interface device further has an output for transmitting the translated data to the second device. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100269051 | STATISTICAL MODELS AND METHODS TO SUPPORT THE PERSONALIZATION OF APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES VIA CONSIDERATION OF PREFERENCE ENCODINGS OF A COMMUNITY OF USERS - A statistical methodology is employed for assisting people with the setting of parameters of software applications or services. With the method, information about demographics and/or about the complete or partial preferences of other people, are analyzed to infer recommendations for settings and functionality of a computer application or service. A system is reviewed with the ability to receive data regarding a plurality of users, and stores respective profiles for these users in a community store. The system can leverage off of these completed and/or partially completed profiles of parameters representing preferences about software operation in connection with building new profiles for users (new and/or existing). Data regarding a user that desires to build a new profile is employed in connection with the community profiles to facilitate the user building a personalized profile. Various statistical and/probabilistic schemes can be employed, for example, collaborative filtering techniques to identify to the user the top n settings by particular parameter(s), top m settings by popularity, top x most similar profiles to facilitate the user selecting most appropriate sub-profiles as part of a personalized profile building and selection effort. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100275129 | Internet-based small-business promotional network - In accordance with the principles of the resent invention, an Internet-based business promotional service that helps traditional “brick and mortar” small businesses link-up and promote one another through an online, automated service is provided. A user registers for the system. The user searches for businesses that are also members. The user invites members to join a user's unique businesses promotional network. The user creates a promotion. A promotional material is automatically generated based on the user's and any user's promotional network member's promotions. Which members of the user's promotional network who are sending a user customers is tracked. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100281393 | Widget Platform, System and Method - A widget platform is disclosed. The widget platform includes a plurality of widget templates, a plurality of widget code portions, wherein at least a portion of the code portions are available for placement into ones of the plurality of widget templates, a search engine, wherein the search engine locates, responsive to a request, ones of the plurality of widget code portions, and a publisher, wherein the publisher publishes, responsive to a publication instruction, at least one widget prepared in accordance with at least one of the plurality of widget templates. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100313139 | BINARY INTEREST VECTOR FOR BETTER AUDIENCE TARGETING - A binary interest vector is herein described, which represents information in a string of bits about user interest in a set of topics. The binary interest vector may represent the interests of a particular user, or the interests of users associated with a particular client machine. Such a binary interest vector can store a large amount of information in a very small space by assigning bit subsets of the string of bits to represent interest in respective topics of the set of topics based on the positions of the bits in the subsets. Additionally, the bits of a particular binary interest vector may include a version indicator identifying the pattern of topics assigned to the bits of the particular vector. The user interest information in a particular binary interest vector may be utilized in selecting content to display to the user that is associated with the particular vector. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100318919 | MEDIA ASSET RECOMMENDATION SERVICE - A media asset recommendation service is described. In embodiments, friends of a user are identified in a social graph that is associated with the user, and interactions with media assets by the friends of the user are compiled. Friend interaction data for each of the media assets can be determined from the media assets, the social graph, and the interactions with the media assets by the friends of the user. When a selection of one of the media assets is received from the user via a user device, the friend interaction data that is associated with the media asset selected by the user is communicated to the user device. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100332995 | ADAPTIVE INFOTAINMENT DEVICE - The present invention provides an adaptive infotainment device, comprising a display unit, a processing module, and a network module. The processing module is coupled to the display unit to decrypt and process the multi-media content. The network module is coupled to the processing module to receive the multi-media content and selecting paths and accessing nodes. The network module collects the usage log to be processed by the processing module to generate an accumulated user profile to be fused with user default information in a user default unit coupled to the processing module to generate at least one threshold value so that the display unit is capable of displaying the processed multi-media content according to the threshold value. Hence, the user's network behavior can be learned by combining the pre-determined preferences and the past usage preferences so as to generate the most favorable displaying means to enhance the convenience for browsing information. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110004829 | Method for Human-Centric Information Access and Presentation - In a method for composing and presenting information in a user context, the information shall be presented for the user on a man-machine interface in the form of a visual or graphic display. The method comprises steps for determining a user context in which the information is required, selecting a set of content sources, and the content components are retrieved from the content sources. The information in selected content components are computed using an information measure that reflects the information as perceived by human cognition, and an optimum presentation of the selected content components are determined and presented for the user. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110016408 | Method for Ranking Creative Assets and Serving those Ranked Assets into an Online Image and or Text-Based-Editor - In a networked system for creating and editing image and or text-based-based projects, the system including a graphics user interface (GUI) residing on and executable from a digital medium, the GUI hosted by a Web site accessible by computer browser and a network-connected data repository containing creative assets not limited to stickers, shapes, backgrounds, layouts, and frames, an asset recommendation system implemented in software integrated with the GUI for presenting certain assets to users operating the GUI by hierarchical order of importance and/or by relativity to current assets being used. The system has a receiving function for receiving server calls relative to user GUI activity, a weighting function for ranking creative assets based on input against one or more rules for ranking asset appeal, and a server function for serving the recommended assets into the GUI. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110022962 | Method and System Utilizing User-State-Monitoring Objects and Relevant Data to Monitor and Provide Customer Service Online - A system and method for providing customer service to a website user online, includes downloading a user-state-monitoring object and a user profile from a website to a client site when a website user loads up any web page through the website, wherein the user-state-monitoring object is configured to monitor and analyze the website user's behavioral patterns in real time by comparing the user's actions to a set of pre-defined business rules, and utilizing the user-state-monitoring object to notify an available customer service representative and enable communication between the customer service representative and the website user. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110022963 | METHOD FOR INTEGRATING USER MODELS TO INTERFACE DESIGN - Designing user interfaces includes categorizing users, by at least one processor, into a predetermined number of behaviorally distinct groups each specified by behavioral characteristics. The users are re-categorized, by the at least one processor, into the predetermined number of new behaviorally distinct groups each specified by revised behavioral characteristics. The user interfaces are designed, by the at least one processor, based on describing and modeling at least one of the re-categorized users and the new behaviorally distinct groups. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110029889 | SELECTIVE AND ON-DEMAND REPRESENTATION IN A VIRTUAL WORLD - A metaverse system and method for representing multiple versions of a user's avatar to other users of a virtual world. The system includes a metaverse server connected to a network. The metaverse server executes a metaverse application. The metaverse application enables an avatar of a first user to interact with avatars of other users within a metaverse virtual world. The system also includes a representation engine connected to the metaverse server. The representation engine conveys a first representation of the avatar of the first user to a second user according to a default profile. The representation engine simultaneously conveys a second representation of the avatar of the first user to a third user according to an alternative profile. The alternative profile is typically different from the default profile. Other embodiments of the system are also described. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110035674 | RECOMMENDATIONS MATCHING A USER'S INTERESTS - Particular embodiments generally relate to providing recommendations to users. In one example, profile information from a user is received. Profile information may be received in a section of a user's profile, such as an areas of interest section. The profile information is used to determine content that might be of interest to the user. For example, content that is tagged with similar tags to the areas of interest is determined. A recommendation is generated for the user based on the determined content. The recommendation may be determined automatically based on the profile information without a query from the user. Recommendations may then be displayed for a user. For example, the recommendations may be displayed on a profile page in which the user has input the profile information. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110035675 | PORTABLE TERMINAL REFLECTING USER'S ENVIRONMENT AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME - A portable terminal reflecting a user's environment and a method for operating the same are disclosed. The method includes: generating usage pattern information that contains pattern environment information of the portable terminal and function information corresponding to the pattern environment information; collecting current environment information of the portable terminal; searching for pattern environment information that substantially identical to the collected current environment information; extracting function information corresponding to the searched pattern environment information; and configuring a graphic user interface (GUI) based on the extracted function information. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110035676 | Apparatus and Method for Routing Communications Between Networks and Devices - An apparatus and method for testing communication capabilities of networks and devices are provided. According to one aspect, an interface device for providing communications between a first and a second device comprises an input, logic, and an output. The input of the interface device receives data in a first format from the first device. The logic identifies the second device for receiving the data and identifies a second format compatible with the second device. The data is then translated to the second format. The logic may also determine a status of the interface device by testing components of the interface device to determine if the components are accessible and functioning. The output of the interface device then transmits the translated data to the second device. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110041075 | SEPARATING REPUTATION OF USERS IN DIFFERENT ROLES - One or more server devices may determine a first reputation for a user acting in a first role and determine a second reputation for the user acting in a second role. The second role is different than the first role. The one or more server devices may further associate, in a memory associated with the one or more server devices, an identifier of the user with a first value representing the first reputation and a second value representing the second reputation. The one or more server devices may also provide a ranked list of users, the user being placed in the ranked list at a location based on the first reputation or the second reputation. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110041076 | PLATFORM FOR DELIVERY OF HEAVY CONTENT TO A USER - Heavy content is selectively provided over a network to a client device using a background mode based on a user's tracked behavior and other profile information, such that the heavy content may be served up within a web page, messenger application, and/or other application when the user of the client device performs a particular action, such as requesting a web page configured to display the heavy content. Based on the user's profile, heavy content is downloaded onto the user's client device automatically without the user performing additional actions and before the user accesses a web page that may enable access to the heavy content. When the user requests a web page, the web page is parsed to determine whether it is configured for use with heavy content. If so, then the downloaded heavy content is served to the user based on the requested web page and user identifier. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110041077 | Method and apparatus for adapting computer-based systems to end-user profiles - The present invention relates to a method of adapting computer programs to user profiles, including providing a user with a questionnaire to determine at least one of the user's intelligence, personality, emotional state, computer experience, sensory skills, motor skills, education, and training; compiling a user profile based on data received from the questionnaire; modifying the computer programs used by the user based on the user's profile; and storing the user profile and the computer program modifications in a database for future utilization by the user. The modification of the computer programs includes modifying at least one of a user interface, workstation tools, input device and navigation, image presentation, analysis of information presented, and reporting. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110066953 | System and Method of Skinning Themes - A method and media engine for rendering a graphical interface on a device is disclosed. A skinning theme document describing rendering characteristics of the graphical interface is parsed. The document comprising at least one data element representing data generated by an application and at least one custom event representing events generated by the application. The parsed information is stored in a template including at least one named data element and at least one custom event describing the graphical interface using a markup language. Updated data element or custom event information is received from an application through an interaction interface. The template is updated with the received updated data element or custom event information. The template is rendered as the graphical interface wherein the graphical user interface presents one or more data elements from each application is rendered. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110072361 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a communication apparatus includes a storage unit, a generating unit, and a display unit. The storage unit is configured to store operation history each time an operation is performed. The generating unit is configured to retrieve operation history information from the storage unit. And the generating unit is also configured to generate recommended information based on the operation history information. The display unit displays a home screen as a starting point of operation so that the home screen contains the recommended information generated by the generating unit. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110087966 | INTERNET CUSTOMIZATION SYSTEM - An apparatus for structuring web content including a structuring web server. The structuring web server includes a data collection server, a data analyzer, and a structured content server. The data collection server is configured to collect usage data associated with at least one user. The data analyzer is configured to generate improvement data based on the usage data. The structured content server is configured to send the improvement data to a browser associated with the at least one user. The browser uses the improvement data to alter a webpage displayed to the at least one user. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110093788 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERSONALIZING CONTENT FOR A MOBILE DEVICE - A system and method for personalizing content for a mobile device is provided. The system for personalizing content for a mobile device may comprise an acquisition module that may capture user identifiable content associated with the current user of the mobile device. The acquisition module may be coupled to the mobile device. The system may also comprise a storage module that may store personalized content associated with one or more users of the mobile device. The system may additionally comprise a selection module that may receive the user identifiable content. The selection module may also compare the user identifiable content to the personalized content. The selection module may further determine the current user of the mobile device based on the user identifiable content. The selection module may additionally retrieve the personalized content directly associated with the current user of the mobile device. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110093789 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPLETING AN EDIT AREA OF A WEB PAGE - Disclosed is a method and apparatus that detects an input focus proximate an edit area of a web page navigated to by a user of a computing device via a web browser. The edit area is configured to receive input in a particular format. The method also includes the step of displaying, on a display of the computing device, information associated with the user and maintained by a service provider, the displayed information having a format matching the particular format of input for the edit area of the web page. In one embodiment, the web page is associated with the service provider. In another embodiment, the web page is not associated with the service provider. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110093790 | PREEMPTIVE CACHING FOR WEB-BASED SYSTEMS - The present invention provides a system and methods for pre-fetching of customized web content associated with a user profile in a cache upon receiving user identification, but before the user provides authentication details. Further, the present invention provides a method and system for rendering of the cached customized web content to the user once the user authentication is received. The method and system decrease the time required for a user to request and receive a dynamically generated user-tailored web page post-authentication. It controls the cache pre-fetch mechanism through a trigger. The trigger notifies the cache (web server) to pre-fetch user-specific resources into a user profile graph either when a user cookie is present when the user navigates to the web site or as user authentication credentials are entered to the web page by the user. The present invention permits the pre-fetching of user information prior to actual authentication by the web application. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110107231 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING PROCESS-BASED ACCESS CONTROL FOR A COLLABORATION SERVICE IN ENTERPRISE BUSINESS SOFTWARE - The present invention relates to access control objects directly associated with collaboration process nodes, which are themselves associated with a collaborative software object. The direct association of the access control objects allows for a fine granularity of per-party access control at every step of a collaborative process. Systems and methods for constructing access lists from the access control objects are described, as well as restricted GUI rendering according to access indicators associated with an access control object. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110107232 | Directory and notification system for college students based on individual user profiles - An Internet (web based) system is adapted for enriching a user's college experience by helping the user discover and keep informed of events, activities, organizations (e.g., clubs), lectures, local businesses (i.e., merchant advertisements) and other matters that may be of particular interest to the user based on a “user interests profile” generated from personal data collected from the user. The system provides a searchable and current directory of events, activities, organizations and other matters of interest to students at a particular university. A notification feature provides updates and reminders to each individual student member (user) through a medium(s) that the user chooses (e.g., email, text messaging, RSS, calendar) to keep informed of events and to suggest other events that might be of interest to the user. The system further supports an advertising mechanism for delivering targeted advertisements of local businesses to particular users based on their specific user interests profiles. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110126122 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING PROFILES FOR USE IN CUSTOMIZING A WEBSITE - Systems and methods are disclosed for constructing a profile that obtain text associated with web content. Logic instructions are provided by a party that is unaffiliated with a party that provides the web content to allow a profile associated with a user to include information from two or more web sites that are unaffiliated with one another. A match between the text and a target in a target set is detected. The profile associated with the user is modified based on the match. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110131504 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STORING AND DISTRIBUTING SOCIAL AND BUSINESS CONTACT INFORMATION ONLINE - An information management and distribution method and system for updating contact information over a network. A plug-in associated with a cloud-based back-end unit interacts with a Web application. A virtual card comprising a set of pluggable user interface components associated with the plug-in can be displayed in a user interface associated with the Web application. The contact information with respect to a user can be updated and automatically distributed to other users associated with the Web application that is configured with the virtual card plug-in module. The back-end unit can be employed to keep track of the contact information in a database and provide management functions associated with the data via a Web services application programming interface. A hard copy version of the virtual card can also be rendered utilizing a variable data composition engine and a rendering technology. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110131505 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACQUIRING RUI-BASED SPECIALIZED CONTROL USER INTERFACE - Methods and apparatuses are provided for acquiring a specialized Control User Interface (CUI) in a remote control device of home network. A first message is transmitted to a client requesting a User Interface (UI) list. The UI list is received from the client. The UI list comprises specialized CUI information from a server. A second message is transmitted to the client requesting the specialized CUI in accordance with the specialized CUI information in the UI list. The specialized CUI is received from the server via the client. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110138298 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CONTROL OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES - A method, computer readable medium and apparatus for providing control of social networking sites are disclosed. For example, the method establishes an owner profile, receives a request form a third party user to post information on a social networking site associated with an owner, determines if the request should be granted in accordance with the owner profile and posts the information on the social networking site associated with the owner if the request is granted. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110145723 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDIRECTING CLIENT-SIDE STORAGE OPERATIONS - A method and system for redirecting client-side storage operations to a remote storage device. A user agent module executing on a client device receives a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) message that includes a client-side storage operation directed to a client storage device. The user agent module detects the client-side storage operation and accesses defined criteria to identify one or more remote storage devices on which to implement the remote storage device in lieu of the client storage device. The user agent module then implements the client-side storage operation on the remote storage device. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110154216 | GUI CUSTOMIZING METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROGRAM - A processor executes different types of programs in the memory. Namely, the processor customizes the user's GUI by utilizing a processing unit to judge the user's skill level based on the quality of task results and task time, a processing unit to extract the GUI usage status based on the GUI operating history of the user, a category sorter unit to sort the users into the multiple categories according to the task content and skill level of the user, a processing unit to perform clustering the user group based on the usage status for each sorted category, and a processing unit to customize the GUI based on the usage status in each cluster grouped by a clustering method, and sorts the user for GUI customizing into one of clusters and customizes the user's GUI by applying the GUI customizing method set for that corresponding cluster. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110173546 | INFORMATION MANAGEMENT - An approach to managing information makes use of a multi-program graphical user environment (e.g., a virtual desktop). The graphical environment includes a first part in which information elements are presented to a user. A user selection of one or more information elements is accepted and corresponding representations of those elements are formed in another part of the graphical environment. The representations formed in the other part of the graphical environment are persistent as further information elements are presented to the user in the first part of the environment. In some examples, information elements may be classified by users such that application of and access to classifications is mediated a privilege system. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110185283 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE MOBILE TERMINAL - A mobile terminal and a method of controlling the mobile terminal are provided. According to the mobile terminal and the method of controlling the mobile terminal, it is possible to automatically change widgets on a home screen in accordance with a user-defined time or location condition. Therefore, it is possible for a user to manually delete or add a widget to or from the home screen. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110197143 | Virtual World Location Display Sorting - A method for presenting prioritized navigation links in an interactive display presented by an enterprise hosting a web site including places as destinations of the navigation links has steps for (a) identifying a person interacting with the interactive display, which is presented by software executing on a computerized appliance from a machine-readable medium; (b) determining characteristics of the person's interactive behavior with the web site; (c) determining characteristics of the places; (d) comparing the characteristics of the places with the characteristics of the person's interactive behavior to determine a likely preference for places to the person; and (d) presenting the navigation links in a descending order of preference in the interactive display to the person accessing the interactive display. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110202850 | Automatic Removal of Sensitive Information from a Computer Screen - A method for automatic censoring of a graphical user interface (GUI) screen includes receiving a censoring trigger by a censoring module; identifying information present in the GUI screen by a object recognition module; comparing the identified information with a set of preferences stored in a censoring preferences module to determine content to be removed from the GUI screen; and removing the determined content from the GUI screen by the censoring module. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110214066 | Integration of active interest information with an address book - A system, method, and apparatus for integrating active interest information with an address book are provided. Active interest information is indicative of a current or ongoing interest of a first user and may be generated based on use of an application client by the first user. The active interest information is used to update an active interest field in a contact record describing the first user in an address book associated with a second user. The contact record may be updated by an address book client or a converged address book server. Provided is a converged address book server that manages the sharing and updating of active interest information and address books. The active interest information may also be updated using a personal contact card associated with the first user. Also provided is a method and apparatus for prompting communication between contacts based on active interest information. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110214067 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AN ADAPTIVE INPUT USER INTERFACE FOR DATA ENTRY APPLICATIONS - Embodiments are described for a system and method for adapting an online user input form that provides user input to a web-based application. A method comprises defining one or more attributes related to one or more fields of the online user input form, obtaining historical data comprising past user input to related user input forms, calculating historical most common values for each attribute of the one or more attributes; and modifying the one or more fields of the online user input form in accordance with the calculated historical average values. The attributes may include at least one of the size, location, and datatype of each field of the form. The method may be implemented through an application programming interface for implementation through server-side and client-side processes that are written in a web-browser compatible markup language. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110231778 | CUSTOMIZING CONTENT DISPLAYED FOR A USER BASED ON USER PREFERENCES OF ANOTHER USER - In one embodiment, a server receives a request from a first user to share content from a first forum (e.g., a webpage) with a second user. In response, the server generates a link to the content for use by the second user. This link includes a pointer to a first user preference associated with the first user. In some instances, the first user preference is stored in conjunction with a unique identifier associated with the first user. Subsequently, when the second user attempts to access the content, the server generates a second webpage that includes the content. The server customizes the webpage (that is to be displayed to the second user) by using the user preferences associated with the first user. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110246905 | ADAPTIVE USER INTERFACE ELEMENTS - Presented is a method of adapting user interface elements. The method includes identifying state of a computer application, adapting one or more user interface elements associated with the computer application based on the state of the computer application, and displaying the one or more user interface elements. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110246906 | Using Visitor Context and Web Page Features to Select Web Pages for Display - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a current-visitor context of a current visitor to a web page in a current web-browsing session. The current-visitor context includes one or more data associated with or concerning the current visitor. The method includes selecting based on the current-visitor context a particular one of multiple possible instances of the web page for presentation to the current visitor. The particular one of the multiple possible instances of the web page is substantially most likely to generate a highest expected outcome from interaction with the web page by the current visitor as indicated by the current-visitor context. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110252336 | INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SUPPORT METHOD, MANAGEMENT INFORMATION VISUALIZATION DEVICE, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND MANAGEMENT INFORMATION VISUALIZATION METHOD - A management information visualization device (management provider server | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110276893 | ACCESS CHANNEL DEFINITION TECHNOLOGY - Access channel definition technology, in which a user experience for a secondary access channel is defined using one or more pre-configured user experience components that enable mapping of a user experience defined for a primary access channel to the user experience for the secondary access channel and that adapt the user experience for the secondary access channel to characteristics of devices that access the secondary access channel. In addition, a portal for the secondary access channel is defined using one or more pre-configured portal components and content management for the secondary access channel is defined using one or more pre-configured content management components that leverage content developed for the primary access channel and that customize presentation of the content for the secondary access channel. The secondary access channel is configured based on the defined user experience, the defined portal, and the defined content management. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110289426 | EVENT BASED INTERACTIVE NETWORK FOR RECOMMENDING, COMPARING AND EVALUATING APPEARANCE STYLES - A method is provided of assisting a user with a selection of a personal appearance style over an interactive computer based network. Digital images of personal appearance styles are stored on a host computer in a database. Combinations of physical characteristics and personality characteristics are also stored on the host computer in the database, as are various business and/or social events. Information is received from the user related to physical and/or personality characteristics of the user, and related to an event the user will be attending. The host computer then determines personal appearance styles that are compatible with the user's physical and/or personality characteristics and the event the user will be attending, and transmits and displays those personal appearance styles to the user. A method is further provided to receive and compile feedback through a social networking arrangement over an interactive computer based network on a personal appearance style selected by a user for a past event. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110307800 | Methodology for Creating an Easy-To-Use Conference Room System Controller - In embodiments, a user interface provides for manipulating one or more physical devices for use in a conference room setting. The user interface includes a touch screen for presenting a variety of options to a user. The touch screen includes controllers, such as buttons, to enable the user to select any one of the options. Each of the controllers has goals-oriented information, enabling the user to select a goal, while insulating the user from the underlying complex processes required to carry out the goal through the selection of one of the controllers. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20120011447 | FACILITATING PROPAGATION OF USER INTERFACE PATTERNS OR THEMES - A user interface architectural pattern for product/platform user experience is described. In an embodiment, a request associated with a first macro file is made. The first macro file refers to a second macro file, and includes one or more elements embedded in a wrapper associated with the second macro file. Based at least in part on the second macro file, a user interface component is generated. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120030583 | PERSONALIZED KIOSK - A method is provided for personalized touch-based computing devices for individual users. A user would provide identification data to a touch-based computing device. The touch-based computing device, or ordering system that supports the touch-based computing device, identifies the user from the identification data and retrieves user interface format data from a database. User interface data is retrieved and transmitted to the touch-based computing device. A user interface is displayed to the user in a format based on the user interface format data. The format of the user interface and the order of items displayed in the user interface are controlled by the user interface format data. Transaction data from the user is stored in a database and the transaction data may also be used to improve how the data is displayed for future visits. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120036449 | System for Creating Customized Web Content Based on User Behavioral Portraits - A method is provided for determining a website user behavioral portrait based on navigation on the website and dynamically reconfiguring web pages based on those portraits. In accordance with the method, data relating to the progress of a user through a website is recorded, and an ongoing behavioral portrait of the user is built based on the data. The portrait is then used to dynamically reconfigure web content. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120042262 | POPULATION SEGMENTATION BASED ON BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS - The present technology analyzes a user's behavior to assign a user to targeted segments. The segments to which the user is assigned can be a reflection of a user's context with respect to potential targeted content. While a user can be assigned to many different segments, the user is likely to be most interested in content that she is presently interested in. Accordingly, the system can also prioritize or rank or order segments based on the user's present context. Content is then provided to the user on the basis of the segments to which the user belongs and the priority of segments. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120047444 | RELATING WEB PAGE CHANGE WITH REVISITATION PATTERNS - Web page change may be related to revisitation patterns to support web interaction. In an example embodiment, a method involves analyzing change and revisitation data for a web page, determining a relationship between the data, inferring consumption intent by a user for the web page, and utilizing the inferred consumption intent. More specifically, change data is analyzed to produce a change characterization, with the change data reflecting differences between content of a web page at different times. Revisitation data is analyzed to produce a revisitation characterization, with the revisitation data including visit times to the web page by a user. A relationship is determined between the change and the revisitation data based on the change and the revisitation characterizations. Consumption intent of the user for the content of the web page is inferred responsive to the relationship. The inferred consumption intent is utilized to support interaction with the web page. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120072850 | WEB PAGE BEHAVIOR ENHANCEMENT CONTROLS - A web page behavior enhancement (WPBE) control element is provided on a rendered web page enabling a user to perform actions on at least a portion of the web page content such as customizing, editing, sharing, analyzing, exporting, and/or annotating the content. The processed content may be presented on the original web page, on a locally stored version of the web page, or archived for subsequent use, where any changes to the original web page content may be tracked and the user notified about the changes. The WPBE control element(s) may be embedded into the web page at the source web application or at the local browser based on factors like web application capabilities, browser capabilities, user preferences, usage pattern, and comparable ones. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120072851 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CUSTOMIZING AN INTERFACE RELATED TO ACCESSING, MANIPULATING AND VIEWING INTERNET AND NON-INTERNET RELATED INFORMATION - A system and method are disclosed for accessing, generating, presenting and manipulating Internet and non-Internet related information, data and content, including information netcast over the Internet. The system is also capable of controlling operatively connected, privately networked devices. A number of graphical user interfaces are utilized to facilitate user access, manipulation and control of information, data and content and networked devices. Some of the graphical user interfaces are time and topic oriented, are customizable by the user, and allow for the manipulation of information, data, content and operatively connected networked devices from the graphical interfaces themselves. The system is preferably enhanced through the use of an intelligent, dynamically updated user profile that is fully integrated with the system. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120079395 | AUTOMATING WEB TASKS BASED ON WEB BROWSING HISTORIES AND USER ACTIONS - Embodiments of the invention relate to the automated processing of web tasks to provide information relevant to user tasks based on past user actions and web histories. An aspect of the invention includes a system for automating the processing of web tasks in response to user requests. The system may include a transport router that receives a user task from a transport such as a short messaging system (SMS), an email system, or a telephone system. The system may further include a web task synthesizer that generates a sequence of actions to accomplish the task, typically in the form of a script for execution by a browser automation server. The script is based on past user actions, logs, and web browsing histories. The system compiles the most relevant information from the visited web pages and returns the results to the user. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120079396 | Automatic Content Creation Based on Group Collaboration Spaces - Devices described herein are configured to receive a post to a collaboration space shared by a group of users and provide the post to the group of users through a user interface associated with the collaboration space. In some embodiments, the group of users is a social network or social network group. The devices are further configured to automatically create a content item associated with an application of a device of at least one user of the group of users based on the post, the content item accessible through a user interface of the application. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120102411 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING USER INTERACTIONS WITH SELECTABLE SEGMENTS OF A CONTENT PACKAGE - An apparatus may include a content package selector configured to provide for selection of a content package including one or more selectable segments. A monitoring module may be configured to insert a script into the content package. Further, the monitoring module may monitor one or more user interactions with the selectable segments as directed by the script. The apparatus may further determine one or more contextual characteristics relating to the user interactions. Thereby, the user interactions, the contextual characteristics, and/or the selectable segments may be stored and/or transmitted so as to build a data model based thereon. The data model may be used to make content recommendations based on the monitored user interactions and determined contextual characteristics as they related to the user interaction events with the selectable segments of the content package. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120110467 | CENTRALIZED USER PREFERENCE MANAGEMENT FOR ELECTRONIC DECISION MAKING DEVICES - Systems and techniques for centralized user preference management for electronic decision making devices are provided. A user preference profile is received. A user preference profile manager may transmit a user preference from the user preference profile to a requesting user transaction terminal. the user preference manager may also receive a dynamic user preference from a user preference profile and extend the user preference profile with the dynamic user preference, where the dynamic user preference includes a preference definition and the preference definition includes read and write access controls for the dynamic user preference. Then the user manager may update the user preference profile based on data received from the user transaction terminal. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120117486 | Method and Apparatus for Web Page Glancing - A method and a system for a personalized web page display an image that captures at least part of a targeted web page. The image of the at least part of the targeted web page displayed on the personalized web page is updated by creating an updated image of the targeted web page, storing the updated image on a server and inserting the updated image in the personalized web page. The lay-out of the personalized web page, including selecting a targeted web page and determining a position and a size of the updated image of the at least part of the targeted web page on the personalized web page is determined during a design phase. The personalized web page including the updated image is displayed during an operational phase. During the operational phase an image of the total targeted web page is previewed on the personalized web page. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120137226 | Educational Support System - A system to integrate all aspect to the operation and administration of an educational institution, including customized interfaces for different classes of users, allowing differing levels of access and functionality, including, teachers, parents, students, administrators, secretaries, and school nurses. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120159345 | Automatically Personalizing Application User Interface - A computer-implemented method for automatically personalizing applications includes: receiving, in a computer system, user behavior data for multiple users of at least one application program, the application program having a user interface with multiple input controls displayed on multiple different panes, and the user behavior data reflecting actions performed using the input controls on the panes; identifying, using the computer system, at least one usage pattern in the user behavior data as meeting a usage pattern criterion; storing a personalization record based on identifying the usage pattern, the personalization record specifying the usage pattern as a sequence of activating at least some of the input controls on at least some of the panes; and automatically generating, using the computer system and based on the personalization record, a modified user interface according to the identified usage pattern. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120166964 | MODULAR USER PROFILE OVERLAY - In one embodiment, a social networking system receives a selection of a user in a first user interface, accesses one or more data stores for the user's user profile information, constructs a frame containing the user's user profile information, and displays the frame overlaying the first user interface. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120192081 | DETERMINING A HIGH CONTRAST DISPLAY SETTING ON A CLIENT DEVICE TO PROCESS A WEB DOCUMENT - Described herein are processes and devices that determine a high contrast setting on a client. Some embodiments include creating an object in a web document, assigning a pre-determined color value to the object, associating the object to the web document, and generating a computed color display value for the object in response to the object being associated with the web document. Some embodiments are further directed to .comparing the pre-determined color value to the computed color display value and generating a result based on the comparing of the pre-determined color value to the computed color display value, which result indicates whether the system is set to the high contrast setting. Some embodiments are further directed to storing the result in a variable; and sending the variable to a server to process additional web documents, using the variable, before the additional web documents are loaded onto the client device. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120198352 | NAVIGATION THROUGH HISTORICAL STORED INTERACTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH A MULTI-USER VIEW - An illustrative embodiment provides a computer-implemented process for navigation through historical stored interactions associated with a multi-user view that receives a previously saved multi-user view, wherein the multi-user view comprises a set of artifact attributes, receives an identified filter from a user, and presents a filtered view to the user. The process further determines whether to amend the filtered view, and responsive to a determination to amend the filtered view, generates an amended view from the filtered view, and responsive to a determination to save the amended view, saves the amended view as one of a new view or an updated view. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120233552 | PERSONALIZING THE USER EXPERIENCE - A database device generates a personalized remote user interface corresponding to a user. The database device discovers devices in a network and receives device information and user information from the devices. The database device generates a profile based on the device information and the user information. Using the profile, the database device generates a personalized remote user interface. After the personalized remote user interface is sent to a rendering device, the personalized remote user interface displays a remote user interface specific to the user. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120240050 | INTERNET PRIVACY USER INTERFACE - A method and system that provide an intuitive user interface and related components for making Internet users aware of Internet cookie-related privacy issues, and enabling users to control Internet privacy through automatic cookie handling. Default privacy settings for handling cookies are provided, and through the user interface, the privacy settings may be customized to a user's liking. Further, through the user interface, for each individual site that forms a page of content, the site's privacy policy may be reviewed and/or the privacy controlled by specifying how cookies from that site are to be handled. To make users aware, the user interface provides an active alert on a first instance of a retrieved web site's content that fails to include satisfactory privacy information, and thereafter, provides a distinctive passive alert to allow the user selective access to privacy information, per-site cookie handling and cookie handling settings. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120240051 | Graphical Objects Bonding Society System and Method of Operation - The present inventions relates to an Internet service based on two fundamental beliefs, first that identity on the Internet and in real life is substantially based on a individual's or organization's relationship to other people, objects, places, spaces, and organizations and second that individuals or organizations themselves should create, manage and control that identity. Based on these beliefs the present invention offers the Internet's leading tools, services and ecosystem that enables individuals and organizations to intuitively create and manage their identity based on relationships, effortlessly customize their internet experience to fit that identity and empower themselves to use that identity for benefit in their real life. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120260192 | AUTOMATED BROWSER MODE BASED ON USER AND ACCESS POINT - A browser system and corresponding method of operation has a personalized browser display mode configured for inter-operation with a cloud-based service. The display mode is automatically selected based on user information (e.g., user login) and a user access point. The system and method enables a browser application operating in conjunction with a cloud-based service to recognize a particular user logged in under a single user login, and automatically select one display mode and or user profile of a plurality of browser display modes or user profiles for that same user and user login based on which access point the user is accessing the browser from, without requiring the user to log in with different user login to effect the same change in browser display. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120304072 | SENTIMENT-BASED CONTENT AGGREGATION AND PRESENTATION - A content partitioning system is described herein that receives content and automatically determines sentiment information about the content that affects how the content will be displayed. The system can combine sentiment and moderator controls to automatically segregate users by their previous interactions so that they are presented with a subset of content on the site and their influence on the rest of the content is thereby minimized. Upon receiving a request by another user to display content in a forum, the content partitioning system conditionally displays each item based on a variety of criteria. In this way, one group of users can have a reasoned discussion in the same forum that another group of users is behaving badly. Thus, the content partitioning system provides automated moderation of online content that allows discussions to continue in a manner particularly tailored to each user. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120304073 | Web Browser with Quick Site Access User Interface - Various embodiments provide a unified and organized Web browser navigational experience that draws potential navigable pages from multiple different sources and presents the pages in an easily-explorable user interface. Presentation of these potentially navigable pages occurs automatically, in a contextually relevant manner, based upon an implied user intent to navigate away from a current page. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20130019183 | DYNAMIC CROSS-ENVIRONMENT APPLICATION CONFIGURATION/ORIENTATION - Dynamic configuration of cross-environment applications enhances the computing experience in a computing environment with an extended active user environment and/or multiple active user environments. A mobile computing device maintains multiple active device configurations associated with multiple active user environments and/or application windows within active user environments. Device configuration qualifiers are determined from a variety of sources including device characteristics, device indicators, user settings, and/or application presentation. The mobile computing device selects active resource sets for applications based on the device configuration qualifiers. Application presentation is dynamically updated by disestablishing an application screen and establishing a new active application screen using a different resource set. The mobile computing device may be a smartphone running the Android mobile operating system and a full desktop Linux distribution on a modified Android kernel. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130036367 | Updating a user Interface - A computerized method for updating a user interface is provided to receiving information indicative of the behavior of a plurality of previous users with respect to a user interface and determine, based on the received information, an updated version of the user interface likely to be useful. The method may further output data indicative of the updated version of the user interface. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130042182 | Method And Apparatus For Abstracting Internet Content - A method and apparatus for abstracting Internet content is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a terminal device having a user interface element that links a graphical user interface element to each internet resource identifier of one or more subject matters of interest defined in a profile by an end user, and presents the one or more graphical user interface elements in a graphical user interface window without association to an Internet browser. Additional embodiments are disclosed. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130080911 | PERSONALIZING WEB APPLICATIONS ACCORDING TO SOCIAL NETWORK USER PROFILES - Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for personalizing applications, such as web applications, based on social networking data. A system configured to practice the method first identifies a user of an application, such as by requesting the user to log in to or create a user profile. The system optionally requests authorization from the user to access the social networking data, such as if all or part of the social networking data is private. The system can cache the social networking data in order to save bandwidth or keep requests within the terms of service of a social networking API. The system can assign the user into a user category based on the social networking data, and customize a user interface of the application based on the social networking data and/or the user category by adjusting at least one of location, size, and appearance of a user interface element. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130086481 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE COMMUNICATION USER INTERFACE - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for implementing, via a communication device, a set of algorithms to learn about user's usage of the device and provide automated customization to the device's user interface to improve ease of use and productivity of the end-user. This approach does not require the user's involvement by manually customizing the user interface, such as by setting up a speed dial list or a screen layout. The system automates rendering decisions and the content that is rendered based on the usage information. For example, if a user consistently calls a number every Tuesday and Wednesday morning regardless of scheduled calendar information, the communication device can provide a dynamic widget in the user interface for easy access to that number every Tuesday and Wednesday morning. The user can dial the number easily via the widget without the dial pad or a contacts application. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130097522 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF GENERATING COMPOSITE WEB PAGE ELEMENTS WITH AN ANNOTATING PROXY SERVER - In one exemplary embodiment, a computer-implemented method can include the step of obtaining a first web page with a server. An element of the first web page that has been indicated by a first user is determined. A first profile element of the first user that is related to the element is obtained. A second profile element of a second user that is related to the element is also Obtained. A graphical representation of the first element and the second element is visually associated (e.g. with HTML code) with the element of the first web page in another element that overlays the element indicated by the first user. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130097523 | CUSTOMIZING USER INTERFACES BASED ON USER ACTIVITIES - A user interface including one or more references to content is customized. Several user profiles are provided from which a user may be associated. Each user profile includes user profile information. The user profile associated with a user to whom a user interface will be provided is accessed. A user interface is configured for the user, based at least in part upon the user profile accessed as being associated with the user. Access to content is enabled based on user manipulation of the configured user interface. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130125011 | ENABLING SERVICE FEATURES WITHIN PRODUCTIVITY APPLICATIONS - Systems, methods, and software are described herein for enhancing features within program applications. In an implementation, a user associated with a productivity application is identified and a service application associated with the user is identified. A service feature that corresponds to the service is enabled within the productivity application. The service feature allows the user to perform a function on content generated with the productivity application that is related to the service. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130125012 | DYNAMIC USER CUSTOMIZED WEB ADVERTISEMENTS - A device receives a user profile associated with a user of a user device, where the user profile is generated based on information associated with one or more transactions performed by the user, via the user device, with a first web site. The device also receives, from a second web site, a cookie associated with the user device. The device further generates, based on the user profile and when the cookie is received, an advertisement customized to the user, and provides, to the second web site, the advertisement customized to the user. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130132858 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTIVE HUMAN INTERFACE - A method and system for providing a predictive human interface for a plurality of user electronic devices, which includes storing, in an electronic database, user preferences regarding how certain specified communications related to the user electronic devices are to be processed. The method and system also includes monitoring and storing, by a network server, specific characteristics associated with communications originating from the user electronic devices, generating a similar predictive human interface for each of the user electronic devices, based upon the stored user preferences and the stored specific characteristics for the user electronic devices, and providing the predictive human interface to each of the user electronic devices for use during communications originating from one of the user electronic devices. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130151983 | ADJUSTING USER INTERFACE SCREEN ORDER AND COMPOSITION - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for user interface screen order and composition. Embodiments of the invention include using historical data and/or contextual data to augment, rearrange, or reconfigure menus and/or screen flows and add/remove/hide/expose content and functionality for users. Screen flow adjustments are formulated based on historical data and/or contextual data. The formulated adjustments facilitate more appropriate access to specified user interface elements within a screen flow in view of indentified user interface elements of interest. The screen flow is adjusted in accordance with the formulated adjustments to facilitate more appropriate access to the specified user interface elements. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130151984 | CUSTOMIZED USER INTERFACE BASED ON USER PROFILE INFORMATION - A user interface including one or more references to content is customized. Several user profiles are provided from which a user may be associated. Each user profile includes user profile information. The user profile associated with a user to whom a user interface will be provided is accessed. A user interface is configured for the user, based at least in part upon the user profile accessed as being associated with the user. Access to content is enabled based on user manipulation of the configured user interface. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130159873 | BROWSER SUPPORTING MULTIPLE USERS - A client machine initiates a browser instance of a browser. The client machine selects a first user identifying state for the browser instance prior to accessing any web pages by the browser instance, wherein the first user identifying state is associated with a first data structure set that comprises a first browser history, a first browser cache and/or a first cookie that are stored at the client machine. The client machine uses the first user identifying state in a session between the browser instance and a server. The client machine updates one or more of the first browser history, the first browser cache or the first cookie of the first data structure set based on the session without updating a second data structure set associated with a second user identifying state. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130174046 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING USER INTERFACE ACCORDING TO LOCATION INFORMATION - According to one embodiment, a system and a method of providing a user interface (UI) according to location information, and a device for providing a UI according to location information includes a usage-history generating unit configured to generate a usage-history of the device based on a location and a movement state of the device, a UI setting unit configured to set the UI according to the usage-history, and a UI changing unit configured to change the UI to be outputted by the device according to a current location and a current movement state of the device based on the setting. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130179798 | APPLICATION DISSEMINATION AND FEEDBACK - Application dissemination and feedback is described. In one or more implementations, a system includes a developer portal module that is accessible as a network service via an Internet to expose a user interface, as part of a developer portal. The developer portal module includes an application coding module configured to code an application through interaction with the user interface and an application deployment module configured to accept one or more inputs via the user interface to specify how the application is to be deployed over the Internet for local execution by one or more users. The developer portal module also includes a feedback manager module to configure the application automatically and without user intervention to collect feedback from the one or more users regarding the local execution of the application. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130198650 | MANAGING ITEMS IN A NETWORKED ENVIRONMENT - A system, methods and interfaces are provided for managing items in a networked environment. A set of items, such as publications or other works, can be embodied in tangible media that are mutually exclusive. In response to a selection of an item, a prioritized order of the tangible media corresponding to the selected item is provided. Each tangible media can be further subdivided into a prioritized order of physical attributes of the respective tangible media. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130212487 | Dynamic Page Content and Layouts Apparatuses, Methods and Systems - The DYNAMIC PAGE CONTENT AND LAYOUTS APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“DPCL”) transform dynamic layout template requests and layout usage monitor packages using DPCL components into customized dynamic layouts. In some implementations, the disclosure provides a processor-implemented method of transforming the content of an electronically generated user facing page for displaying on a user display. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130219286 | N-WAY SYNCHRONIZATION OF DESKTOP IMAGES - Methods and systems for n-way cloning and synchronization of a user desktop image are provided. Example embodiments provide a Cloning and Synchronization System (“CSS”) which binds a server stored CVD object representing the user's desktop image to one or more endpoint devices. Each endpoint device receives a clone of the CVD object that comprises one or more layers of the server CVD depending upon the suitability of the endpoint device hardware and operating system to the server stored desktop. The cloned CVDs in the endpoint devices are then kept synchronized by synchronization operations. In one embodiment, the CSS allows only one endpoint device to act as a master device and push up changes to the server CVD. These changes are then pushed down to the other devices using different synchronization methods dependent upon the layer. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130246934 | PREFERENCE STACK - Systems and methods for customizing a display of records. In an embodiment, a plurality of records are identified, and a virtual map comprising representations of the records is generated. In response to a selection of a property attribute, a range of values for the attribute is determined and divided into a plurality of segments. Each record is associated with one of the segments, and a graph is generated comprising visual representations. Each visual representation in the graph corresponds to one of the segments and comprises a representation of a number of the records which are associated with the corresponding segment. In response to selection of one or more of the visual representations, the virtual map is updated to visually identify a subset of the representations of the records which are associated with the segment corresponding to the selected visual representation(s). | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130246935 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CUSTOMIZING A USER INTERFACE TO AN ON-DEMAND DATABASE SERVICE - In embodiments, methods and systems for customizing a user interface to an on-demand database service. These mechanisms and methods for customizing a user interface to an on-demand database service can enable embodiments to provide a user interface designed by a tenant of the on-demand database service. The customization can include including third party content into the customized user interface, overriding a standard object, and providing content inline at a specified location. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130263011 | CONTROL OF COMPUTING DEVICES AND USER INTERFACES - A controlling computing device connected to an interconnecting network can control specified functionality of a controllable computing device connected to the interconnecting network by using at least one unique identifier to establish a connection between the controllable computing device and the controlling computing device, with a user interface being provided to the controlling computing device. User interfaces enabling the controlling computing device to control the specified functionality of the controllable computing device may be created and modified by receiving control input comprising associations between actions on the controlling computing device and commands for controlling the specified functionality of the controllable computing device, and storing the actions, associations and commands as part of the user interface. User interfaces may be made available by storing a library of predefined user interfaces and, responsive to a request for a particular one of the user interfaces, transmitting that particular user interface to the requestor. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130275879 | END-TO-END RESPONSE ENABLING COLLECTION AND USE OF CUSTOMER VIEWING PREFERENCE STATICS - Targeted advertisements with associated dynamic content for response and feedback embedded into the ad's header are delivered to mobile viewing devices. The mobile viewing device records a user's response to advertisements and reports it back to an ad serving platform. The ad serving platform generates user profiles that incorporate the response data. Ads are further targeted to the user according to the user's profile data to maximize the impact of the ads. The user can select the preferred format for providing advertisement feedback. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130290862 | USER-TAILORED SEARCH ENGINE HOMEPAGE EXPERIENCES - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for selecting and serving user-customized search engine homepage experiences. Upon receiving a request for presentation of a search engine homepage from a user, data points about the user are accessed to determine the type of homepage experience the requesting user desires to receive. The type of homepage experience the user desires to receive may include a user-tailored image to be presented as the background of the search engine homepage. Upon determining the type of experience the user desires, a search engine homepage experience is selected for the user. In this way, the user is provided with a search engine homepage experience that is tailored to his or her interests and behavior, thus increasing user satisfaction and engagement with the search engine homepage. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130332846 | EXTENSIBLE APPLICATION STATE PRESERVATION ARCHITECTURE - The preservation of the user interface state of first application on a first device allows, in one embodiment, a user to resume use of at least a portion of the user interface state on a second application on second devices. The first and second applications can be the same or different (with some common user interface UI features or elements and other UI features that are different). Other embodiments are also described. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130332847 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING IDLE SCREEN THEREOF - A mobile terminal and a method for configuring a screen of the mobile terminal are discussed. According to an embodiment, the method includes collecting status information and usage information of the mobile terminal while menus displayed on the screen of the mobile terminal are used, forming a menu usage pattern based on at least one of the status information and the usage information, and selectively changing, based on at least the menu usage pattern, at least one display configuration of menus to be displayed on the screen when the screen is idle. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130346875 | Personalized Interactive Entertainment Profile - Described is a technology by which an entity's (e.g., a user's or group's) usage of a digital entertainment service is used to automatically generate an interactive, personalized three-dimensional visualization representing the entity's career on a digital entertainment service. Usage events are collected as profile information, which is processed to generate the visualization, as well as to automatically theme the user's experience. Filtering and prioritization of data within the profile information is performed based on the predicted degree of interest to the entity and to others; the entity may provide preference data to vary the automatically generated visualization and/or theme. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20140026066 | USER INTERACTION-BASED WEBSITE OPTIMIZATION - A system, such as a user interaction-based website optimization system, for effectively evaluating performance of a website and/or webpage with respect to a specific user, and then being operable to automatically generate or adjust the website and/or webpage based on past performance of the web site and/or webpage and expectations of the user. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140033062 | Dynamic Execution Environment in Network Communications - A computer-implemented system and method for providing a dynamic execution environment. In an embodiment, the system and method comprises receiving a base user interface from a server, creating and storing one or more intermediate representations (IRs) which represent a mapping between the base user interface and a modified user interface, executing the one or more IRs to intercept network communication from the server, map between the base user interface and the modified user interface, and send the modified user interface to one or more clients, and executing the one or more IRs to intercept network communication from the one or more clients to the server with user data, map between the modified user interface and the base user interface, and send the base user interface and the user data to the server. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140033063 | CONTENT VISUALIZATION - Displaying a preference by a user of a content contribution is disclosed. A preference event by the user is detected. A plurality of detected events is stored. In response to a query from a client, at least a portion of the stored detected events is stored. At least a portion of the received events is displayed in an interface. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140040760 | PERSONALIZED ENTERTAINMENT SERVICES CONTENT SYSTEM - An entertainment content personalization system is described. A method may comprise accessing content for presentation on a user interface, the content comprising entertainment services content associated with content data; generating user data comprising user profile data and user interaction data, the user interaction data based on interactions with the content through the user interface; and presenting personalized content on the user interface comprising content selected based on the user data and the content data. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140082514 | AUTOMATIC ADJUSTMENT OF SELECTABLE FUNCTION PRESENTATION ON ELECTRONIC DEVICE DISPLAY - An interface controller may control the way a function is presented for selection by a user interface in an electronic device. The interface controller may include a usage detection system configured to detect the way in which the electronic device is being or has been used. The interface controller may also include a presentation controller configured to automatically change the way in which the function is presented for selection by the user interface based on the way in which the usage detection system detects the electronic device is being or has been used. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140082515 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE SIZING AND ARRANGEMENT SYSTEM - A system for adjusting a graphical element, such as a widget, a menu, and/or an icon of a graphical user interface (GUI) associated with one or more user actions, applications, and/or electronic media. The adjusting of the graphical element may be based at least partially on data regarding frequency, duration, and/or time of the one or more actions and/or use of the applications or the electronic media by a user. Additionally or alternatively, the adjusting of the graphical element may be based on a routine of the user. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140096028 | MOBILE INFORMATION SERVICES - Building a data template for a mobile computing device. An aggregate usage profile correlates past usage of services by a mobile computing device that is associated with a user identifier with past usage of the services by other computing devices that are also associated with the user identifier. Presence information concerning a current presence of the mobile computing device includes a physical location and/or a temporal state. Portions of information, which are relevant to the current presence of the mobile computing device, are identified based on the aggregate usage profile. The portions of information include data from the services that is identified as being data that the user will want to access given the current presence of the mobile computing device. A data template, which is configured to present the portions of information at the mobile computing device, is built and pushed to the mobile computing device. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140115491 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING A USER INTERFACE FEATURES WHICH ARE ADJUSTABLE BASED ON USER BEHAVIOUR PATTERNS - A portable electronic device is presented which has a display and control means for setting of a user interface feature, and user behavior monitoring means. The user behavior monitoring means is configured to watch for a predefined user behavior pattern and, upon detection of said user behavior pattern, cause said control means to set a corresponding user interface feature. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140123019 | Multi-Device Visual Correlation Interaction - Multi-device visual correlation interaction includes displaying, by a first device, a user interface representation of a user interface displayed by a second device, the user interface representation containing one or more element representations, each element representation corresponding to an element contained within the user interface displayed by the second device; receiving from a user of the first device, a selection of a particular element representation of the user interface representation, the particular element representation corresponding to a particular element contained within the user interface; transmitting to the second device, by the first device, a contextual information request corresponding to the selection; in response to transmitting the contextual information request, receiving from the second device, by the first device, contextual information corresponding to the selection; and generating based on the contextual information, by the first device, a contextual list of actions associated with the particular element. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140129955 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL, PROGRAM AND STORAGE MEDIUM - To enable dynamic changing of a range of information that forms a basis of a screen provided to a user depending on a change in an environment of an information processing terminal, an environmental information acquisition unit sequentially acquires environmental information representing an environment of a user terminal. A monitoring unit changes a publicly-displayable range of information on a user of the user terminal depending on a change in the environmental information sequentially acquired by the environmental information acquisition unit. A page changing unit limits the range of the information that forms the basis of the screen provided to the user so that the range of the information falls within the publicly-displayable range after the change. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140143677 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR MANAGING RESOURCE LINKS - Resource links also known as Unified Resource Links (URL's), bookmarks, hyperlinks etc. located in a category hierarchy. The resource links are used to navigate on the world wide web, on a local machine, on the internet, or on an intranet. A method of assessing a users competence in a category in the category structure comprising the steps of analysing the users interaction with the resource links placed in the hierarchy table for that category and extracting a competence level for the user in that category. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140157145 | SOCIAL MENU PAGES - Embodiments of this disclosure include a social networking system that can generate or utilize a social menu in a social network page. The social menu can be generated based on a crowd-sourced user interaction, an external database of business offerings, an administrator interface of the social network page, or any combination thereof. A user interaction of one user account with a menu item of a social menu can be presented to another user account. A user account can select the menu item by querying the social networking system for creating a reference link to the menu item. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140189525 | USER BEHAVIOR MODELS BASED ON SOURCE DOMAIN - A method for tailoring content in a web page is provided. There is a relationship between the source domain a user comes from and the behavior pattern of a user on a website. To predict the behavior patterns of a particular user coming from a particular source domain, first a large dataset is compiled from user logs. Second, session analysis is performed on the dataset to identify sessions, session characteristics, page view categories, and source categories. Third, sessions are clustered and analyzed to determine how the behavior changes according to a source category. Fourth, a mapping between source categories and behavior patterns is generated. When a user requests a page view from a source domain, if the source domain is mapped to a source category, then a tailored version of the page view is presented to the user based on the mapping between source categories and behavior patterns. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140189526 | CHANGING LOG FILE CONTENT GENERATION - In a method for changing log file content generation, a computer extracts content of a log file. The content was generated by one or more computer programs at run-time. The content comprises a plurality of portions. The computer causes the extracted content to be displayed in a user interface. The computer detects a user interaction in the user interface. The user interaction manipulates at least one of the portions. The computer generates a rule for generating future log file content, wherein the generated rule is based on the user interaction in the user interface. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140215349 | PERSONALIZED CONTENT SUGGESTIONS FOR SUBSCRIBERS OF A CHANNEL OF A CONTENT SHARING PLATFORM - A method for providing personalized content suggestions for subscribers of a channel of a content sharing platform is disclosed. The method includes determining that a user accessing a page of a channel of a content sharing platform is a subscriber of the channel. The method also includes accessing a viewing history of the user, the viewing history identifying content items of the content sharing platform that have been accessed by the user. The method further includes providing a user interface on the page of the channel, the user interface tailored to the user and the channel based on the user being a subscriber of the channel and the accessed viewing history of the user. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140215350 | USER INTERFACE TAILORED BY SUBSCRIPTION STATE FOR A CHANNEL OF A CONTENT SHARING PLATFORM - A method for providing a user interface tailored by subscription state for a channel of a content sharing platform is disclosed. The method includes determining a subscription state of a user that is accessing a page of a channel of a content sharing platform. The method further include when the subscription state of the user is a non-subscriber of the channel, providing a non-subscriber user interface on the page of the channel, the non-subscriber user interface comprising a non-subscriber content item. The method also includes when the subscription state of the user is a subscriber of the channel, providing a subscriber user interface on the page of the channel, the subscriber user interface comprising one or more content items from the channel that are tailored to the user and to the channel. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140237377 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE METHODS TO DETERMINE AND DEPICT RELATIVE POPULARITY OF INTERNET OFFERINGS - The present invention relates generally w a method to enable computerized device users, Internet service and product providers, media companies and others to be aware of the relative popularity of offerings, such as media, other digital files, products, services, representations of people and other items, available is the Internet, including through mobile applications (offerings), through a simple, easy to view graphical user interface (GUI) which can be viewed on computer platforms such as desktop, tablet and laptop computers, smart phones, head and wrist mounted computers and other devices. Based on number of web-hits to, selections of addition to or subtraction from a favorites database, number of purchases of, duration of viewing, listening to, or otherwise experiencing a certain offering by a user, or combination thereof, the offering's popularity rank is dearly graphically depicted and updated in real time, or regularly, with the capability to view the offering popularity relative to other offerings in a certain database of offerings. The GUI may be interactive with down-select options and possibility to zoom in and out to small or large numbers of offerings represented therein. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140237378 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING MULTIPLE PERSONAS ON MOBILE TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS - A mobile technology platform equipped with a display and a processor is provided. The platform comprises an operating system executed by the processor; and a software program configured to run on the operating system, wherein the software program is further configured to establish a plurality of personas for a user of the mobile technology platform, wherein each of the plurality of personas has a unique set of user preferences associated with a persona, each of the unique set of user preferences corresponds to a unique execution environment, wherein the software program is further configured to establish a first display portion comprising a first persona environment and a second display portion comprising a second persona environment, wherein the first and second persona execution environments do not overlap. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140245169 | USER PREFERENCE AND CAPABILITY PROFILE - An aspect provides a method, including: receiving an identification at a device having a user interface that accommodates at least one modifiable accessibility setting; in response to receiving the identification identifying a user preference and capability profile, loading the user preference and capability profile identified using the identification; and modifying one or more accessibility settings of the user interface in accordance with one or more user preference and capability profile settings of the user preference and capability profile. Other aspects are described and claimed. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140245170 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, OR METHODS FOR ACCESSING INFORMATION EMPLOYING A TUMBLER-STYLE GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE - A tumbler-style graphical user interfaces (TSGUI) facilitates high context rapid selection of content objects from at least a plurality of tumbler components. Selection of content objects can relate to a path for a memory to access a related final information. The TSGUI can be employed in mobile computing devices, including telephonic mobile computing devices. In an embodiment, a TSGUI of a mobile device can facilitate access to content in relation to messaging applications native to the mobile device. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140282061 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CUSTOMIZING USER INPUT INTERFACES - Methods and systems are provided for determining a suitable user input interface type based on a particular user. Specifically, a media guidance application determines a demographic category of a user, and based on that demographic category of the user, automatically selects a user input interface for manipulating media objects that is suitable for the user. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140282062 | TECHNIQUES FOR EFFICIENT AND GRANULAR COMPOSITION OF A USER PROFILE - Techniques are provided for customizing user settings for applications. Each user profile includes one or more packages that each includes user settings for one or more applications. Each package may be application specific, may be directed to common settings for an application suite, or may contain functional groups of user settings. For each application, a template may be stored that is associated with the application. The template identifies the application and indicates locations where the application stores the user settings. An agent may be associated with a trigger mechanism. The agent is configured to access the template of the application and to open a corresponding package at a central storage location if the trigger mechanism is triggered. The agent is configured to apply the user settings included in the package to the application at the locations indicated in the template. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140289640 | LAYOUT FOR DYNAMIC WEB CONTENT MANAGEMENT - A request for content is sent via a client device. The client device negotiates with a server content provider regarding the layout of the content using a dynamically configurable content layout profile describing layout preferences for content. When the content is received from the server content provider, the content is displayed according to the dynamically configurable content layout profile. The server may format the content in accordance with the profile and send the formatted content to the client device via a network. A user of the device may modify the profile dynamically to specify a different layout and receive reformatted content. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140289641 | Adaptive User Interface - A system and method for issuing an instruction includes a parsed hierarchical list including a parent level with parent nodes, and a child level with child nodes. The child level is associated with at least one parent node, each parent node associated with a parent label, the child nodes being associated with a child label. Selectable labels are displayed, each respective label corresponding to a respective parent label with a spatial arrangement corresponding to predetermined criteria. A first label selection is received from an input device and replaced with a second selectable label plurality in a spatial arrangement. Each second selectable label corresponds to a respective child label, the spatial arrangement corresponding to predetermined criteria. A second selection from the second plurality of labels is received from the input device, and an instruction for execution by a computer processor is executed based on the second selection. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140289642 | METHOD OF SINGLE-HANDED SOFTWARE OPERATION OF LARGE FORM FACTOR MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICES - A method of enabling single-handed user-software interactions in a large form-factor electronic device having a touch screen for receiving user thumb input actions via an operating system desktop, the method comprising the steps of: positioning a single-handed utilization zone on the mobile electronic device desktop at about a determined location of the thumb of a device holding user; and populating said single-handed utilization zone with a plurality of actionable icons arranged in a horizontal pitch and a vertical pitch determined based on a user profile and the size said single-handed utilization zone. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140298194 | PROVIDING A PERSONALIZED NAVIGATION EXPERIENCE IN A MOBILE APPLICATION - The disclosed embodiments relate to a system for presenting navigation options to a user of a mobile application. During operation, the system receives usage data comprising a record of actions performed while the user was interacting with the mobile application. Next, the system analyzes the usage data to identify areas of interest within the mobile application that the user is likely to access. The system then constructs a set of personalized navigation options for the user based on the identified areas of interest, and possibly other areas of the application based on promotional considerations. Finally, the system outputs the set of personalized navigation options to be presented to the user through a navigation pane in the mobile application, wherein the navigation pane includes shortcuts to the set of personalized navigation options. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140298195 | PRESENCE-AWARE INFORMATION SYSTEM - A presence-aware information system (PAIS) can identify a user interacting with an end-user device, such as a computer, and can identify a device that is connected to the PAIS nearby the user. Additionally, the PAIS can identify the user and other people nearby the user. Using this information, the PAIS can act, such as provide content, accordingly. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140317526 | Intelligent Display of Information in a User Interface - User interfaces such as web pages may be customized in terms of appearance and content based on user interests. For example, information items may be arranged such that items corresponding to strong user interests are displayed in more visually identifiable locations while items corresponding to weaker user interests are displayed in less visually valuable positions. The size of and space allocated to the information items may also be customized based on the relative strengths of the corresponding interests. For example, information associated with a strong user interest may be allotted 50% of the user interface. Other visual characteristics of the user interface and the information items such as font size/style, color, transparency and the like may also be customized to reflect the importance or strength of corresponding user interfaces. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140325378 | Method and apparatus for generating a personalized page - A method for generating a personalized page is provided, in which: various characteristic behaviours of a user when the user visits a website are recorded, and for each of the characteristic behaviours, information of a subject matter corresponding to the characteristic behaviour is recorded, a page request is received from a client, and in response to the page request, a current behaviour of the user is detected, if the current behaviour belongs to one of the various characteristic behaviours, recorded information of all subject matters corresponding to the current behaviour is acquired, and a personalized page is generated according to the information of all subject matters corresponding to the current behaviour, and the personalized page is returned to the client. Additionally, an apparatus and a server for generating a personalized page are also provided. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140331147 | AUTOMATIC USER-BASED CONFIGURATION OF OPERATING SYSTEM SHELL - In one embodiment, a method performed by a computing device includes receiving one or more command-line options; determining a user associated with the computing device; accessing, based on the command-line options and the user, configuration file for configuration settings for one or more user interfaces with the operating system shell hosted by the computing device; and creating the user interfaces within the operating system shell based on the configuration settings. | 11-06-2014 |
| 20140351708 | CUSTOMIZING A DASHBOARD RESPONSIVE TO USAGE ACTIVITY - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for user interface customization. A computer records activity of a first computer on a user interface. The computer determines one or more repetitive activities of the first computer utilizing the recorded activity of the first computer. The computer determines a customized user interface for the first computer corresponding to the one or more repetitive activities of the first computer. In another embodiment, the computer initiates display of the customized user interface to the first computer. In another embodiment, the recorded activity of the first computer includes navigation through links in the user interface, applying filters to data in the user interface, and accessing data on the user interface. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140359469 | Coordination of System Readiness Tasks - Various systems, such as operating systems and application suites, have multiple programs that are installed and settings that are configured in order to put the system in a desired operational state (e.g., a substantially fully functioning state). Different users can have different experiences based on different programs they use, and the set of programs they use can come from network locations. A set of system readiness tasks is created that identifies the various actions to be performed to put the system in the desired operational state. Performance of the set of system readiness tasks is coordinated to display, prior to achieving the desired operational state, a preview of a user interface of the system that is customized to a specific user of the system. Performance of the set of system readiness tasks continues, while displaying the preview of the user interface, until the desired operational state is achieved. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140359470 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PLAYING MEDIA SYNCHRONOUSLY - The present disclosure provides a method and terminal device for playing media synchronously. The method comprises: triggering a function of playing media synchronously, acquiring a preset identification (ID) corresponding to an end user, obtaining a media history playlist including a history of an address and a play location of a media file that is listened or viewed by the end user corresponding to the end user according to the preset ID, and resuming the media file that is chosen by the end user according to the media history playlist. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140359471 | CONSUMER SELF-PROFILING GUI, ANALYSIS AND RAPID INFORMATION PRESENTATION TOOLS - An input and processing system allows user input information such as user affinity to efficiently determine user characteristics from content as well as novel input of commands such as copy/paste on a small mobile device screen among other computing devices. A client/server is also made more efficient due to the enhanced gathering of information. Also disclosed is a system for rapid presentation of information such as barcodes at barcode scanners. A system can request multiple barcodes, coupons or the like by detecting a signal from a scanner that information presented has been read. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140372901 | USING VISITOR CONTEXT AND WEB PAGE FEATURES TO SELECT WEB PAGES FOR DISPLAY - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a current-visitor context of a current visitor to a web page in a current web-browsing session. The current-visitor context includes one or more data associated with or concerning the current visitor. The method includes selecting based on the current-visitor context a particular one of multiple possible instances of the web page for presentation to the current visitor. The particular one of the multiple possible instances of the web page is substantially most likely to generate a highest expected outcome from interaction with the web page by the current visitor as indicated by the current-visitor context. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140380185 | HANDHELD DEVICE WITH RECONFIGURING TOUCH CONTROLS - Embodiments of the invention provide a system for reconfiguring touch controls on a device, such as a cell phone, in reaction to a user's changing mode of operation. For example, a standard display of icons that works well in two-handed operation may not work as well for one-handed operation where the user tries to operate the controls with a thumb of the holding hand. In such a case, a device can detect that the user is trying to operate the controls with a thumb of the holding hand and the controls can be reconfigured to be more suitable for thumb operation. Reconfiguration can also occur in other modes of operation, such as when the user is using a stylus, multiple fingers of a second (non-holding hand), fingers on both hands, etc. In some embodiments, detection of the mode of operation can be automatic such as where a camera takes an image to determine the mode. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20150012838 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING MOBILE PROVING GROUND - The disclosed embodiments include methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for enabling beta testing of new features within a native application. In one embodiment, a native application executed by a client device may include executable instructions that are activated and executed only upon indication of a user belonging to a beta test group. The client device may receive a signal from a service or content provider that includes test group information indicating whether a user is a member of a test group. The client device may process the received signal to determine whether the user is a member of a test group and, if so, activates and executes certain instructions received as part of the native application that define a user interface enabling access to additional functionality unavailable to a user determined not to be a member of a test group. | 01-08-2015 |
| 20150012839 | MOBILE PHONE AND FILE CONFIGURATION METHOD THEREOF - A file configuration method for a mobile phone includes generating, before an application program is closed to stop processing a target file, habit setting information in response to a user's use manner for the target file and saving the habit setting information in a configuration record file; storing the configuration record file in a preset directory; determining, when the application program is restarted to process the target file, whether the configuration record file is present; and if yes, reading the configuration record file, retrieving the habit setting information, and introducing the habit setting information to the application program so as to enable it to open the target file according to the habit setting information. The disclosure can automatically adjust an application program according to a user's use habits for different files, thereby reducing troublesome operations and enhancing the user's experience. | 01-08-2015 |
| 20150019989 | System and Method for Superimposing a Context-Sensitive Virtual Agent on a Web-Based User Interface - A sever with processor(s) and memory provides a user interface to a client device for presentation to a user including user interface objects corresponding to functions of an online application. The server obtains a user profile for the user, including performance metrics of the user and determines whether to provide informative materials to the client device based on the user profile. In accordance with a determination that the informative materials are to be superimposed on the user interface, the server: determines a portion of the informative materials to be provided to the client device based on the performance metrics of the user; and provides the portion of the informative materials to the client device for presentation to the user, including media content overlaid on the user interface. The server responds to user interaction with any of the user interface objects by performing corresponding functions of the online application. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150019990 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING DISPLAY AND MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION FOR COMMUNICATION DEVICES - Apparatus, methods and computer-readable storage media are provided for information management and display. In one embodiment, a method includes displaying, via a user interface of a communication device, a dynamically updatable wallpaper comprising a personalized theme personalized to a user of the communication device. The method also includes updating the dynamically updatable wallpaper to display one or more animated icons. Displaying the animated icons is based, at least, on detected activity of respective contacts associated with the one or more animated icons. In another embodiment, an apparatus comprises: a user interface component configured to display images indicative of contacts, wherein the plurality of contacts are predefined by a user of the apparatus. The apparatus also includes a messaging component configured to: integrate different types of text messages for one of the contacts; and provide concurrent display of the text messages and social media information for one of the contacts. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150026588 | INTEGRATED COMBAT RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An integrated combat resource management device is in the form of a smartphone with a display screen and user input device. The smartphone has a set of integrated applications stored therein which when executed provide an interactive display offering dynamic real-time situational awareness information to the user. Configuration files contain user-specific profiles. A launcher application offers access control and the management of several user profiles on the same smartphone such that upon successful login the appropriate user-specific profile is applied. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150026589 | RELATIONSHIP QUALITY EVALUATION AND REPORTING - A system for relationship information evaluation and management. The system incorporates relationship quality parameters that define the contextual parameters of quality, which are mutually validated and are accepted by the respective parties within an existing or prospective relationship. A computer, computing device, written documents or other means are used to capture the perspectives of each person, representative, or entity within the relationship or prospective relationship. This can be done automatically, on a random, periodic, or scheduled basis, or upon manual initiation. The information or data may then be analyzed and coalesced into a meaningful whole (or segments thereof), which may then be archived, printed, reported, and presented to one or both of the parties, or others. The information can be processed and stored based upon certain parameters, attributes, types or classes or relationships, so as to provide history, patterns, trends, alerts, warnings, analyses or comparisons concerning relationship quality. All information collected can be further applied or aggregated within an organization (or beyond, such as in a general locality or marketplace). | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150040026 | USER INTERFACE PROVISIONING SYSTEM - Systems and methods for providing a user interface include collecting user activity data that includes navigation details provided from each of a plurality of user devices in navigating through a user interface. User interface use profiles are determined using the user activity data and include information on the likelihood of at least one subsequent navigation detail based on at least one present navigation detail. A new user navigation detail is received from a new user device accessing the user interface, and a first user interface use profile is retrieved based on a first present navigation detail in the first user interface use profile that corresponds to the new user navigation detail. A customized user interface is then created using a first subsequent navigation detail associated the first present navigation detail in the first user interface use profile, and that customized user interface is provided to the new user device. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150052448 | PROVIDING TAG SETS TO ASSIST IN THE USE AND NAVIGATION OF A FOLKSONOMY - Tag sets are provided to assist in the navigation and use of a folksonomy. The collaborative tag sets are social in nature. As more users group two tags together into tag sets, the disclosed system causes the association between those two tags to grow stronger, as exposed in the bookmark system user interface when alternative tags are suggested for browsing the bookmarks in a folksonomy. Tags that are grouped together by a user into a tag set have the strongest possible weight for that user, and accordingly the disclosed system automatically applies all tags in a set when that user is retrieving bookmarks if the user selects at least one of tags in the set. Tags not in the user's tag sets, but included in the public tag set(s) of another user(s) are displayed in the user interface as tag suggestions. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150067531 | USER-BASED CUSTOMIZATION OF A USER INTERFACE - A customized user interface service includes a self-customization and an auto-customization of user interfaces. A user interface is customized based on usage data of the user. The usage data includes historical navigational data. The usage data is analyzed to identify a pattern of usage. The user interface is customized based on the identified pattern of usage. The customized user interface service also allows a user to select and execute customizations. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150074543 | Device Context-based User Interface - Device context-based user interface techniques are described. In one or more embodiments, a context is determined for a device based on a configuration of hardware associated with the device. When the configuration of hardware associated with the device changes, the context of the device may also change. Based on the determined context of the device, a user interface configuration may be selected for display. For example, when the device is connected to a mouse or a keyboard a user interface configuration may be selected that facilitates interactions performed substantially with a mouse and keyboard. However, when a mouse and keyboard are not connected to the device, but touch functionality of the device is used, a user interface configuration may be selected that facilitates interactions performed substantially using the touch functionality. A user interface for an application may be configured using the selected user interface configuration. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150074544 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of offering a more accurate taste of a user. A presented contents selecting unit selects a plurality of items dissimilar to each other from a group of items used by a presented user as a target presented to a user. A display control unit allows the plurality of selected items to be presented to the user together with information about the presented user. The present technology is applicable to a server providing social services, for example. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150089384 | DYNAMICALLY PICKING CONTENT FROM SOCIAL SHARES TO DISPLAY IN A USER INTERFACE - A dynamic selection of content from social shares to display in a user interface is performed. A request for a user interface (UI) document is received. A set of identifiers is associated with the UI document. The set of identifiers includes a page identifier for the UI document. An identifier list for a social share associated with the UI document is obtained in view of the page identifier. The identifier list associated with the social share is updated in view of the set of identifiers associated with the UI document. The UI document is modified to provide a representation associated with an identifier selected from the updated identifier list for the social share. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150089385 | DYNAMIC ROLE-BASED VIEW DEFINITIONS IN A REPOSITORY SYSTEM - The present disclosure relates generally to techniques for displaying information in a repository system. In certain embodiments, techniques are described for dynamically determining a view, based on a role of a user, to display information stored in a repository system about one or more objects in a computing environment. An object can include an application, a process, a service, an endpoint device, a method, etc., which can exist in a computing environment. An object can include a resource (e.g., a data structure or a database) in a computing environment. The repository system can store information about an object and its attributes. The information stored in the repository system about an object can be dynamically displayed to a user based on the role associated with the user. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150100891 | REFLOW OF DATA PRESENTATION USING TRACKING DATA - In an example embodiment, a script defining a flow of a user interface is distributed to a user application operating on a client device. Then interactions between users on one or more client devices and one or more server devices are tracked. The script is then modified based on the information about the interactions, the modification changing the flow. The modified script may then be distributed to the user application, thus causing a modification in the flow of the user interface of the user application. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150106734 | EXPEDITED ACCESS TO A WEBSITE BY A MOBILE DEVICE - A method for expediting access to a website includes receiving by a server from a partner website an identification of a user device that has accessed the partner website via a browser. It is determined by the server that a designated software development kit (SDK) that includes an event receiver is installed on the user device. The partner website is instructed by the server to generate an event indicative of an offer of expedited access to the partner website from the user device that is receivable by the event receiver, and to install a shortcut on the user device for expedited access to the partner website if the offer is accepted. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150106735 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE OPERABLE FOR USER TASTE CONFIGURATION - A system and method for a graphical user interface operable for configuration of a user profile. The method includes accessing, within a mobile device, a data store corresponding to a plurality of pieces of content and displaying a first image corresponding to a first piece of content of the plurality of pieces of content. The first image is displayed in a first area of a display device. The method further includes receiving a first user input corresponding to a movement of the first image and determining whether the first image has been moved into a second area of the display device. In response to the first image being moved into the second area of the display device, the first image is displayed in the second area of the display device. The method further includes updating a user profile with a first indicator that the user is interested in the first piece of content corresponding to the first image. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150106736 | ROLE-BASED PRESENTATION OF USER INTERFACE - Disclosed are some examples of systems, apparatus, methods and storage media for configuring the presentation of a user interface (UI) based on a role of the user with respect to a data object. In some implementations, a database system stores a plurality of data objects and user profiles. The system further includes processors operable to receive a first request for a data object from a user device, identify available UI configurations based on the user profile and on the data object, communicate first information to the user device for displaying a UI having a first one of the available UI configurations, receive a second request to change the UI to have a second one of the available UI configurations, and communicate second information to the user device for displaying the second UI configuration. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150106737 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING CONTEXT-BASED USER INTERFACE - Systems and methods for providing context-based user interface are disclosed. In some implementations, a method includes, obtaining one or more contextual factors associated with an electronic device; predicting context information in accordance with the one or more contextual factors; and formatting a user interface on the electronic device in accordance with the predicted context information. In some implementations, formatting the user interface on the electronic device in accordance with the predicted context information includes: selecting, in accordance with the predicted context information, a first set of applications; and formatting for display to the user the first set of applications as part of a user interface of the electronic device; and formatting the user interface includes: selecting, in accordance with the predicted context information, a second set of applications; and forgoing display to the user the second set of applications as part of the user interface of the electronic device. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150113428 | Widget Setting Method and Terminal Device - A widget setting method and a terminal device. The method includes presenting a widget setting interface on a display device based on first input, where the first input is used to select the widget setting interface, and the widget setting interface includes a widget setting region; and presenting a widget unit in a first setting sub-region based on second input, where the second input is used to select the widget unit and select the first setting sub-region that is used to present the widget unit and belongs to the widget setting region, and the widget unit is mapped to at least one application program. In the widget setting method and the terminal device provided in the embodiments of the present invention, a shape, content, and a mapped application program of a home screen widget can be user-defined, which meets a requirement of a user. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150121245 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DISPLAYING PERSONALIZED INFORMATION ON DIGITAL OUT OF HOME - A method of displaying personalized information on a digital out of home (DOOH) includes receiving location tagging information of a user; and displaying a picture related to the location tagging information on the DOOH when a location of the location tagging information complies with the location of the DOOH or a location within or near a viewing area of the DOOH. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150121246 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING USER ENGAGEMENT IN CONTEXT USING PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BEHAVIORAL MEASUREMENT - The present disclosure is directed to an engagement-adaptive system. The system includes a content delivery module configured to deliver content to a user, a context logger configured to associate events in the delivered content with temporal locations in a first time-series. The system also includes an indicator measurement module configured to measure at least one engagement indicator and associate the measurements with temporal locations in a second time-series. The system includes an engagement analysis module configured to generate at least one engagement value based on a calculated relationship between the first and second time-series and an adaptation module configured to receive the at least one engagement value and modify execution of computer executable instructions by a processor based on the received engagement value. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150121247 | Self-Aware Profile Switching on a Mobile Computing Device - In one implementation, a computer-implemented method includes detecting, by a mobile computing device, a current context associated with the mobile computing device, the current context being external to the mobile computing device and indicating a current state of the mobile computing device in its surrounding environment. The method can also include identifying, based on at least a first portion of the current context, a location description for the mobile computing device, wherein the location description includes a textual description of the location; and determining, based on the identified location description and at least a second portion of the current context, whether to switch the mobile computing device from operating using a current profile to operating using a second profile, wherein the current profile and the second profile each define one or more settings of the mobile computing device. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150135087 | USER INTERFACE FOR SENSOR SYSTEM - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program for displaying application data associated with a sensor apparatus. The method includes: acquiring, by a user interface apparatus from a sensor apparatus, an identifier as a result of wireless communication between the user interface apparatus and the sensor apparatus; transmitting, by the user interface apparatus, the identifier to a server computer; receiving, by the user interface apparatus from the server computer, a user interface template configuration defining a user interface template corresponding to the identifier; and launching, by the user interface apparatus, a software application and configuring a display screen of the user interface apparatus to display a visual interface of the software application including the user interface template and application data in the user interface template. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150135088 | AGGREGATING AND PRESENTING EVENT INFORMATION - Embodiments of the disclosure aggregate and present event information relating to a calendar event associated with an application executing on a computing device. In some embodiments, data relating to the calendar event is obtained from a content source that is outside an execution context of the application. The data relating to the calendar event is obtained and/or presented intermittently in a user interface element associated with the application. The content source that is outside the execution context of the application may be within an execution context of one or more other applications, an operating system of the computing device, and/or a web service. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150135089 | ADJUSTMENT OF USER INTERFACE ELEMENTS BASED ON USER ACCURACY AND CONTENT CONSUMPTION - Systems and methods for adjusting user interface elements based on user accuracy and content consumption are disclosed. According to an aspect, a method includes receiving user input for interacting with one or more elements presented by a user interface. The method also includes determining an estimate of user accuracy for correctly selecting the one or more elements. Further, the method includes determining a rate of consumption of content presented by the user interface. The method also includes adjusting one of a position and size of at least one of the elements based on the estimate of user accuracy and the rate of consumption of content. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150135090 | USER ADAPTIVE INTERFACE PROVIDING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Provided are a system and a method that analyze a use environment of a user to provide a user adaptive interface suitable for the user. The system acquires an image of a user by using a camera built/equipped in a display displaying an interface, analyzes a physical use environment of the user from the acquired image, sets/changes the interface displayed by the display according to the analyzed result, and provides the set/changed interface. The system provides a user adaptive interface by using a camera which is included in general displays. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150135091 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus is disclosed. The display apparatus includes a display which displays a content, a user interface which receives user interaction regarding a content, and a controller which assigns at least one symbol item to the content based on the user interaction and provides the content from among a plurality of content based on the symbol item assigned to the content according to a predetermined event. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150143253 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device that is equipped with a plurality of applications and includes: a display unit that displays a menu screen for selecting an application from among the plurality of applications; and a control unit that detects the frequency of use of each of the plurality of applications, generates a menu screen that shows, from among the plurality of applications, applications in which the detected frequency of use is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value, by means of icons, and shows other applications by means of character strings, and displays the menu screen on the display unit. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150149921 | CONTENT FILTERING FOR PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY APPLICATIONS - A set of context profiles containing profile content rules for filtering which content within a set of personal productivity applications (such as e-mail, chat, calendar, and contacts applications) is accessible by a user. Content rules support filtering content by, for example, content originator, and/or subject matter. The context profiles are centrally maintained for control of integrated, non-integrated, and/or independently administered personal productivity applications. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150149922 | Method and Apparatus for Context-Aware Delivery of Informational Content on Ambient Displays - A method and apparatus is disclosed whereby the context of user activity can be used to tailor the ambient information system. The method and apparatus use both short-term context such as recent activity and long-term context such as historical patterns to highlight specific content on channels or widgets that are likely to be of most immediate interest to the user. This contextual information provided by the framework can also be used to make intelligent decisions about how to tailor the user experience after a user has interacted with the item in question. Additionally, context information accumulated on one device such as a mobile phone can be broadcasted to other devices to influence the ambient information display application on a second device such as a desktop based on enabling remote access to the local context repository. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150295914 | DYNAMIC, CUSTOMIZABLE, CONTROLLED-ACCESS CHILD OUTCOME PLANNING AND ADMINISTRATION RESOURCE - A cloud-based access to child care planning and outcome resource is described. The resource allows multiple end-users to access content related to child care. Such content includes reports, table, graphs, multimedia, lists, forms, reminders, and/or other appropriate elements. The content may be presented via one or more graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Each such GUI may include various input elements such as tabs, buttons, icons, etc. and various content elements such as portlets, or frames, etc. Each GUI may be customized for a particular end-user and/or a particular group of end-users. In this way, an administrator or super-user may generate multiple GUIs, where each is associated with a user group (e.g., parents, teachers, administrators, etc.). In addition, each end-user may be able to customize the GUIs available to the end user. Such customization may include selection of input and/or content elements, layout of elements, graphical features, and/or other appropriate customizations. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150304449 | METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY DISPLAYING A PERSONALIZED HOME SCREEN ON A USER DEVICE - A method and system for dynamically generating and displaying a home screen on a display of a user device are provided. The method includes receiving a portion of a query; determining a query based on the portion of a query and a user experience; determining at least one estimated user intent based on the query and at least one input variable; selecting a plurality of resources of information based on the at least one estimated user intent; providing the plurality of resources to the user device; receiving a selection of a desired resource from the user device; determining a definitive user intent from the at least one estimated user intent based on the selection; generating a new home screen respective of the definitive user intent; and causing the user device to replace a current home screen with the new generated home screen. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150312181 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING DISPLAY AND MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION FOR COMMUNICATION DEVICES - Information management and display is enabled. A method can include displaying, via a user interface of a communication device, a dynamically updatable wallpaper comprising a personalized theme personalized to a user of the communication device. The method can also include updating the dynamically updatable wallpaper to display one or more animated icons. Displaying the animated icons can be based, at least, on detected activity of respective contacts associated with the one or more animated icons. An apparatus can comprise a user interface component configured to display images indicative of contacts, wherein the plurality of contacts are predefined by a user of the apparatus. The apparatus can also include a messaging component configured to: integrate different types of text messages for one of the contacts; and provide concurrent display of the text messages and social media information for one of the contacts. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150317038 | Method and apparatus for organizing, stamping, and submitting pictorial data - Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for organizing, stamping, and submitting pictorial data. In some embodiments, a stamping mechanism is provided that allows a user to create stamp chains for stamping pictorial data. In some embodiments, a sketching mechanism is also provided that allows a user to add input through sketching pictorial data. In some embodiments, a proposal mechanism is also provided to allow a user or other entity to propose a new stamp to add to the application. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150346936 | TOOLS AND METHODS FOR INTERACTIVE, PROFESSIONAL-LEVEL AT-HOME SKIN CARE - A method for providing professional-level skin care to consumers at home using an integrated system of one or more cosmetic skincare tools, skincare products and a mobile App, where the tool settings/frequency of use and a complementary skincare product regimen (product selection, frequency and order of use) are selected and changed based on user interaction with and data from the tool and/or App. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150346993 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING WIDGETS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT - Apparatus and methods relating to mobile widgets. In particular, apparatus and methods for integrating network services and/or network resources with widget capabilities, managing mobile widgets, providing portability to mobile widgets, and generating content with respect to a mobile widget. In one aspect, a method for integration of network services and/or resources with widget capabilities is provided. The method may include providing for an interface between a widget management component and at least one of a network resource or a network service. The method may also include accessing, at the widget management component via the interface, at least one of a network resource or network service. Further, the method may include integrating the network resource or the network service with a widget functionality. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150355816 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ARRANGING A PLURALITY OF ICONS ON A SCREEN - A method and apparatus are provided for arranging icons on a screen of a device, wherein a first device receives information about a layout of a plurality of icons displayed on a screen of a second device, and then displays the plurality of icons on a screen of the first device, based on the received information. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150378537 | CUSTOMIZING DEVICE BASED ON COLOR SCHEMES - A device may obtain information associated with a user, such as information regarding a user item of the user. The device may identify a particular color scheme based on the information regarding the user item. The device may apply the particular color scheme to a user interface of the device. For example, the device may apply a color of the particular color scheme to the user interface. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150378579 | MOBILIZING AN EXISTING WEB APPLICATION - In an approach for adjusting a web application to comply with user interface capabilities of a device type, a processor receives user interface capabilities of a device type. A processor analyzes a web application for compatibility with the user interface capabilities of the device type. A processor determines at least one user interface element to be modified within presentation of the web application on the device type based on the analyzed compatibility of the web application with the user interface capabilities of the device type. A processor generates a version of the web application compatible with the user interface capabilities of the device type. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150379152 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF PERSONALIZED APPLICATIONS - Disclosed is a system, method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium for creating personalized instantiations of an app. User input is accepted to create, by a computing device, a personalized instantiation of an app, the app comprising a home screen, the creating of the personalized instantiation occurring by generating a deep linked shortcut on the home screen of the app that links into the app with parameters to configure the app into the personalized instantiation of the app. A display is generated for displaying, on the computing device, the personalized instantiation of the app so that the personalized instantiation of the app can be launched as configured with the parameters. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150381834 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus includes a storage unit that stores a personal setting value of a user, a reception unit that receives a login of the user, and a control unit that that determines whether the personal setting value of the user whose login is received can be stored in the storage unit, and in a case where it is determined that the personal setting value cannot be stored and registration of the personal setting value is instructed by the user whose login is received, performs control so as to store the personal setting value of which the registration is instructed in a virtual storage area prepared for temporary storage. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20160014223 | PERSONALIZED SERVICE METHOD USING USER HISTORY IN MOBILE TERMINAL AND SYSTEM USING THE METHOD | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160018953 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AN INTERACTIVE USER INTERFACE FROM A DATABASE - Systems and methods are provided for generating interactive user interface pages from a data store. At least a portion of metadata is received from a data store, wherein the appearance and functionality of a plurality of interactive user interface pages is based on the metadata. The display and functionality of an interactive maintenance page is generated based on at least a portion of the metadata, wherein the interactive maintenance page is one of the plurality of interactive user interface pages, and wherein the interactive maintenance page maintains the plurality of interactive user interface pages. One or more instructions are received from the interactive maintenance page. The metadata is updated based upon the one or more instructions, and the appearance and functionality of at least one of the interactive user interface pages and/or the interactive maintenance page is modified based on the metadata. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160036775 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM - A method, computer program product, and computing system for rendering an alias configuration window for defining an alias that is linked to/associated with a user profile for a user of a dating website. One or more alias selections are received from the alias configuration window concerning the alias that is linked to/associated with the user profile for the user of the dating website. The alias is generated that includes the one or more alias selections received from the alias configuration window. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160044091 | EXTENDING MOBILE APPLICATIONS TO THE LOCK SCREEN OF A MOBILE DEVICE - App content, such as an app notification, is displayed on a lock screen or home screen of a mobile device even when the app is closed. In contrast to present app content, the content may be full-screen, engaging, interactive, and media-rich. An app content SDK is inserted into an app and works directly with native app software. The content SDK determines whether the app has permission to display content on, for example, a lock screen. It may also determine whether the app has priority in displaying the content. The content itself is retrieved either from a content server or from the app itself. In either case, the retrieval and display of the content is coordinated and managed by the SDK which may use other constraints, such as date/time, geographic location, and device motion patterns to determine which content should be displayed. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160048296 | Methods for Implementing a Display Theme on a Wearable Electronic Device - A user controls a pair of devices—a wearable electronic device, such as a watch (e.g., a smart watch) and a companion electronic device, such as a smart phone. The user takes a picture (of him or herself or of something in the environment) with the companion electronic device. The companion electronic device transfers information about attributes of the image (or, in some embodiments, transfers the image itself) to the wearable device. The wearable electronic device changes its appearance based on one or more attributes of the image, including color and the identity of objects in the picture. For example, if the wearable electronic device is a watch and the user is wearing pink, the watch could change its display to pink or to a complementary color. If user is wearing jeans (determined by object recognition, for example), the watch could change its display to a Western theme. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160048309 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY CHANGING DISPLAY VERSION OF WEBSITE - The invention provides a method for automatically switching to a desktop version website when using a display to show an image of a smartphone. The method includes the steps of: a) connecting a docking station with a switch to a smartphone and a display; b) echoing an image from the smartphone onto the display; c) starting an internet connection function of the smartphone; and d) opening a proprietary web browser with a default of displaying a desktop version. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160054864 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus and method are provided. The display apparatus includes a display configured to display a user interface (UI) screen, a storage configured to divide and store information about a user preference content and a user preference function according to a user preference type, and a controller configured to, in response to a predetermined event, control the display to display a UI including a graphic user interface (GUI) item indicating the user preference content and a GUI item indicating the user preference function, respectively, based on the information stored in the storage. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160055126 | USER INTERFACES GENERATED BY A WORKFLOW ENGINE - According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a first processor with a store of application rules and a second processor communicably coupled to the first processor. The second processor generates a request for a next user application screen. The request comprises a current application screen identifier and user data. The second processor transmits the request for the user application screen to the first processor. The first processor receives the request for the next user application screen and determines dynamically, based on the current application screen identifier, the user data, and the plurality of application rules, user interface contents of the next user application screen. The first processor formats a response describing the user interface contents of the next user application screen and transmits the response to the second processor. The second processor receives the response and renders the next user application screen. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160062562 | AUTOMATIC PROCESSING WITH MULTI-SELECTION INTERFACE - A multi-selection system allows selection of multiple displayed items in a GUI, and processes an underlying data set based on the selection. Users may utilize swipes or concurrent point interactions with the GUI to co-select items. The system identifies actions to perform for selected items based on selection criteria associated with the selected items, or mapping data that maps the selected items to actions. The system automatically identifies grouping criteria for data returned from performed actions and displays resulting groups for further user selection. The system provides suggestive visual highlights that identify commonly co-selected items in the interface. The system collects instrumentation items, for historical usage data, that record aspects of users' interactions with the system. As such, the system may identify, from the historical usage data, sets of commonly co-selected items, mappings between combinations of items and one or more actions, productive arrangements of items displayed in GUIs, etc. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160070440 | USER INTERFACE WITH DYNAMIC TRANSITION TIMES - An adaptive user interface of a computing device receives a user input triggering an animation in the user interface. The animation is configured to progress from an animation start to an animation finish in a transition time dynamically selected from a range of possible transition times based on a duration between the user input triggering the animation and an immediately previous user input. The animation is presented with the dynamically selected transition time. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160092415 | USER INTERFACE COMPONENT WIRING FOR A WEB PORTAL - A system that generates a portal web site that includes a plurality of reusable components defines, for each reusable component, metadata for each event raised and generates event wiring for the portal web site. In response to an event being raised by a producer component, the system makes the event available to all consumer components on the portal web site by generating an event context storage. The system then configures each consumer component based on the event. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160103929 | CLOUD BASED REPUTATION SYSTEM FOR BROWSER SETTINGS - A method and apparatus for an automated classification and reset of browser settings is provided. A set of disreputable browser setting values is maintained based on statistics associated with the browser setting values. In response to determining that an attempt is made to set a browser setting to a value in the set of disreputable browser setting values, a notification can be presented to the user. The notification can include options in a set of reputable browser settings. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160124580 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CONTENT WITH A USER INTERFACE - Method and system for content presentation are provided. A request is received for content from a user via the communication platform. Content is obtained based on the request. One or more parameters are determined based on information related to the user. The one or more parameters are associated with a user interface (UI) for presenting the content to the user. A UI is generated based on the one or more parameters. The content and the UI are transmitted to the user as a response to the request. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160124980 | PERSONALIZED WEBSITE PRESENTATION - Systems and methods of dynamically presenting a website. The system includes a storage medium and a server. The storage medium includes data adapted for presentation on a first website. The server includes computer executable instructions configured to receive initial preference data and build a preference profile based on the initial preference data. The server also includes computer executable instructions configured to retrieve select first data from the storage medium based on the preference profile, structure a presentation of the first website based on the select first data; and provide targeted queries or prompts based on the first data. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160127203 | ARRANGEMENT OF NATIVE APPLICATIONS ON A MOBILE DEVICE USER INTERFACE BASED ON USAGE PATTERNS - A method includes performing operations as follows on a processor: detecting invocations of a plurality of native applications residing on a mobile device by a user through a user interface, determining usage patterns for the plurality of native applications based on the invocations by the user, and configuring the user interface to present the native applications for invocation based on the usage patterns that were determined. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160132199 | TARGETED PRESENTATION AND DELIVERY OF THEMES - A content delivery system supplying themes for user computers based on user interest. Each theme may be a collection of components that define an audio, visual or functional aspect of computer operation related to a topic or area of interest, such as sports, a sports team, travel or fine art. The system includes client and server components. At each client, information about user interactions is collected and compared to information defining a set of user interest categories, allowing the client to determine one or more interest categories for the user. The client offers themes that are classified in accordance with the same set of user categories. The server can supply information defining user interest categories and a manifest of themes with associated categories. Additionally, the server can receive indications of when each theme is presented to a user and when the user elects to acquire a theme or engages with theme elements. The server may also supply, unlock or otherwise provide selected themes. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160139739 | Simplified User Interface for the Elderly and the Vision Impaired - The present invention relates to user interfaces for smartphones and tablet computers generally. Particularly, the invention relates to user interfaces for smartphones and tablet computers optimized for use by the elderly and the vision impaired. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160139791 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A USER PROFILE BASED ON SKILL INFORMATION - Disclosed are systems, apparatus, and methods for generating a user profile interface based on skill information associated with a user. Skill information associated with the user may be received. The skill information may include data values that identify at least one skill associated with the user, and that further identify a skill level associated with the at least one skill. A plurality of user interface components may be generated based on the received skill information. The plurality of user interface components may be configured to display a graphical representation generated based on at least some of the skill information. An input may be received. The input may identify a configuration of the plurality of user interface components and may further identify a representation of the skill information within the plurality of user interface components. The plurality of user interface components may be rendered and displayed on a display device. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160147423 | ENUMERATION AND MODIFICATION OF COGNITIVE INTERFACE ELEMENTS IN AN AMBIENT COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A method and system are provided. The method includes cataloging a plurality of user interface elements belonging to a plurality of user interfaces on a plurality of devices included in an ambient computing environment. The method further includes estimating a current cognitive state of a user. The method also includes modifying at least one of the plurality of interface elements to align current cognitive demands of the ambient computing environment on the user with the current cognitive state of the user. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160147425 | ENUMERATION AND MODIFICATION OF COGNITIVE INTERFACE ELEMENTS IN AN AMBIENT COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A method and system are provided. The method includes cataloging a plurality of user interface elements belonging to a plurality of user interfaces on a plurality of devices included in an ambient computing environment. The method further includes estimating a current cognitive state of a user. The method also includes modifying at least one of the plurality of interface elements to align current cognitive demands of the ambient computing environment on the user with the current cognitive state of the user. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160155410 | DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH MULTI-SCREEN | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160162142 | User Interface Configuration Tool - A system, a method, and a computer program product for providing a user interface configuration tool are disclosed. A first user interface containing a presentation is generated. The presentation is generated based on a template stored in a memory and includes a plurality of portions. The presentation is modified based on information stored in the memory. The information relates to at least one user and at least one activity to be performed by the user. A modified presentation is generated for displaying in the first user interface, where the modified presentation is presented in a first format. A second user interface is generated for displaying the modified presentation in the first format. The modified presentation is presented to the user in the second user interface. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160162454 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PRESENT CONTENT - A content presentation system in which a set of content items, which may include static stored content documents and/or live content streaming from computing devices, is provided by a web channel engine to a web channel. A rules engine (e.g., of a web channel server or a web channel presenter) is configured to sequentially present some of the contents to a user in a video form in an automated way, based on real-time sensor data of user devices and/or interactions of the users with the web channel, including users who are provided with permissions to edit the content, look and feel of the web channel, and users who watch the web channel without editing privileges. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160165000 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PUBLIC COMPUTING - Provided are systems and methods for configuring a portable computer for transient use by a plurality of guests at a selected location. According to some embodiments, the system and methods include displaying a first selection of content on a display screen of the portable computer, initiating a first session responsive to a first guest accessing the portable computer via a user interface of the portable computer, creating a first guest profile responsive to the first session being initiated, displaying a second selection of content on the display screen during the first session, the second selection of content comprising more available content than the first selection of content, terminating the first session responsive to one of a termination action taken by the first guest and expiration of a time-out period, and erasing history of the first session on the portable computer responsive to termination of the first session. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160165003 | MODIFYING AVATAR BEHAVIOR BASED ON USER ACTION OR MOOD - Techniques are described for enabling the selection of wallpaper to modify the mood projected by an avatar. The mood projected by an avatar may be modified, for example, by modifying behaviors and/or appearance of the avatar to characterize a mood to be projected. The mood projected by an avatar also may be modified based on user action, such as user input of a mood to be projected by the avatar. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160179299 | Visually Indicating A Replay Status Of Media Items On A Media Device | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160188139 | GENERATING COLLAPSED USER INTERFACE INTERACTION SEQUENCE CONTROLS IN MOBILE APPLICATIONS - Generating a set of single collapsed user interface interaction sequence controls for an application is provided. A single collapsed user interface interaction control is generated for one or more identified user interface interaction sequences that are collapsible within the application. A customized version of the application is generated for a plurality of users associated with a plurality of registered client devices by inserting each generated single collapsed user interface interaction sequence control into the application. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160188144 | GENERATING COLLAPSED USER INTERFACE INTERACTION SEQUENCE CONTROLS IN MOBILE APPLICATIONS - Generating a set of single collapsed user interface interaction sequence controls for an application is provided. A single collapsed user interface interaction control is generated for one or more identified user interface interaction sequences that are collapsible within the application. A customized version of the application is generated for a plurality of users associated with a plurality of registered client devices by inserting each generated single collapsed user interface interaction sequence control into the application. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160188145 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONFIGURING SELECTION OF CONTEXTUAL DASHBOARDS - An electronic device may have multiple users and multiple customized user interfaces for each user resulting in a large number of user customized UI dashboard configurations. However, defining these user customized UI dashboard configurations is performed by each user such that addition and/or replacement of software applications requires users to reconfigure customized UI dashboards. Similarly, organization generated dashboards must be configured on each user device. It would be beneficial for such user customized UI dashboard configurations to be updateable in response to information provided during new software installation, software upgrades etc or for UI dashboard configurations to be adjusted absent any such update/upgrade. It would also be beneficial for context rules to be adaptable based upon learned behaviour or external adjustments just as it would be beneficial for the context rule engine to automatically identify new potential rules as a result of current and previous behaviour. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160188163 | CONTEXT SENSITIVE ICON - Techniques for providing a context sensitive icon to a mobile device are discussed herein. Some embodiments may provide for a method that includes storing an icon on a mobile device, and changing the icon to modify its association in accordance with a location of the mobile device. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160188166 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND DEVICES FOR DISPLAYING BROWSER NAVIGATION PAGE - Methods and apparatuses are provided for displaying a browser navigation page. The disclosed methods and apparatuses may generate a browser navigation page that have one or more icons displayed with preset areas at irregular positions in the browser navigation page. The disclosed methods and apparatuses may generate a browser navigation page in which the areas of the icons may be adjusted according to click counts of the icons. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160188177 | SEAMLESS EDITING AND SAVING OF ONLINE CONTENT ITEMS USING APPLICATIONS - A user viewing an online content item using an online content client application can, from within that application, launch an operating application to operate on the content item. The operating application can interact with the online content management provider to obtain a current copy of the content item and to save a modified content item back to the online content management service, e.g., if the user instructs the operating application to save the item. Interactions between the client application, the operating application and the online content management service can occur without requiring the user to manually initiate upload or download of any content items. Operations on an online content item can also be initiated from within an operating application. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160188190 | CONFIGURABLE DASH DISPLAY - Methods and systems for a configurable vehicle dash display are provided. Specifically, a configurable dash may comprise one or more displays that are capable of receiving input from a user. At least one of these displays may be configured to present a plurality of custom applications that, when manipulated by at least one user, are adapted to control and/or monitor functions associated with a vehicle and/or associated peripheral devices. It is anticipated that the function and appearance of the plurality of custom applications may be altered via user and/or processor input. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160191655 | INTERACTIVE CONTACT CENTER MENU TRAVERSAL VIA TEXT STREAM INTERACTION - Interactive contact center menu traversal via text stream interaction is disclosed. A user device establishes an interactive session with a server device. The user device receives, from the server device, a first text stream comprising a first contact center prompt. The user device scrolls a plurality of text components of the first text stream on a display over a first text stream presentation period of time, with text components presented earlier in time being replaced on the display with subsequent text components. The user device receives, from a user, a first user input in response to the first text stream and communicates the first user input to the server device. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160196053 | APPLICATION BUILDER PLATFORM | 07-07-2016 |
| 20160205198 | DELIVERY OF PERSONALIZED CONTENT IN SEMI-CONNECTED NETWORKS | 07-14-2016 |
| 20160253052 | SEMANTIC SELECTION AND PURPOSE FACILITATION | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160255496 | METHOD AND SERVER FOR CONFIGURING A MOBILE TERMINAL AND PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160378307 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC FORMATTING OF IMAGES FOR MEDIA ASSETS BASED ON USER PROFILE - Systems and methods are provided herein for personalizing images that correspond to a media asset identifier by using user profile information. As an example, the television series “Community” has several actors, such as Joel McHale, Chevy Chase, and Ken Jeong. Poster art developed by an editor o50533238_1f “Community” may include an image that portrays each of Joel McHale, Chevy Chase, and Ken Jeong. In order to personalize the image, control circuitry may determine which actor(s) the user prefers, and crop out only those actors in the poster art to create a personalized image. As an example, if the user prefers Joel McHale, control circuitry may crop out the portrayal of Joel McHale and use only that portion of the image to display next to other text describing “Community.” | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160378308 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AN OPTIMAL IMAGE FOR A MEDIA ASSET REPRESENTATION - Control circuitry may identify a plurality of images corresponding to a media asset, where each image of the plurality of images comprises at least one portion, and where each portion comprises a respective entity. Control circuitry may determine an identity of each respective entity. Control circuitry may access a user profile from a database. Control circuitry may cross-reference metadata of the user profile with each identity of each respective entity to determine a preferred entity. Control circuitry may then determine an image of the plurality of images where the preferred entity is more prevalent, and may generate for display that image. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160381204 | MOBILE MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK - A method for adjusting aspects of an application in a user interface is provided. A user profile is received, wherein the user profile corresponds to a first user of a mobile device. Data corresponding to an application is received, wherein the application is compatible with the mobile device. An application is determined to be likely to be accessed by the first user based on the data corresponding to the application. At least one aspect of the application is adjusted on a user interface of the mobile device. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20180024716 | CARTOON DATA DISPLAYING METHOD AND CARTOON DATA DISPLAY DEVICE | 01-25-2018 |
| 20180027281 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF SEPARATELY DISPLAYING USER INTERFACE THEREOF | 01-25-2018 |
