| 06th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 74 |
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| 20140040709 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING ERRORS IN AUDIO DATA - An application programming interface (API) executed by a first processing unit combines audio data samples with error code values generated for those samples. The API then causes a data stream to be opened having sufficient bandwidth to accommodate combined samples made up of audio data samples and corresponding error code values. The combined samples are then transmitted to a decoder and validation unit within a second processing unit that receives the combined data, strips the error code values and validates the audio data based on the error code values. When the error code values indicate that the audio data has been compromised, the second processing unit terminates the output of sound derived from the audio data. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040710 | System for setting fees for iterative parsing, matching, and correlation of sets of text strings drawn from real time crowd-sourced streamed data and using said matches to initiate APIs or trigger alerts to participants in a crowd sourced pervasive computing environment. - A system for a user to use electronic devices to accept text input parameters to iteratively parse and process streams of data collected or converted from multiple data formats into text strings; correlating or matching said text strings against lists, tables, spreadsheets or datasets of text strings; posting and recording said text strings responsive to one or a plurality of correlations or matches with one or a plurality of items in said lists, tables, spreadsheets or datasets; posting and recording the number of parsing operations responsive to correlations or matches or user instructions upon discovery of matches or correlations of said strings of text against said one or a plurality of lists, tables, spreadsheets or datasets; and calculating a price or fee for matches or correlations discovered through said parsing process, or for other server events initiated by electronic devices responsive to said matches or correlations. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040711 | AUTONOMOUS GADGET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Techniques are described for outputting web page components, or gadgets, on a web page or other graphical user interface. A gadget automatically conforms to particular styles based on the styles of the other gadgets and of controlling relationships to the other gadgets that are determined from page analysis and other policies. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040712 | SYSTEM FOR CREATING STORIES USING IMAGES, AND METHODS AND INTERFACES ASSOCIATED THEREWITH - A system and method are provided for arranging photographs, drawings, videos and other media elements in a logical and visually appealing manner. Media elements may be selected, automatically or manually arranged in a progression to collectively tell a complete narrative. The arrangement for the progression may provide some direction but not limit the creator to sending single elements at a time, or using templates, pages, folders, or albums. Images may be intelligently placed and/or sized. When viewing the story, a viewer can advance through the media and understand the full story or perspective. A user may resize, move, delete or add images to enhance the story. The story may be shared with others, some or all of which may also collaborate to add or change the story progression to provide different perspectives or content. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040713 | SELECTING CONTENT PORTIONS FOR ALIGNMENT - Generally described, a content alignment service may generate content synchronization information to facilitate the synchronous presentation of corresponding audio content and textual content. In some embodiments, portions of body text (as opposed to front matter, such as a table of contents; or back matter, such as an index) in the textual content are identified and synchronized with corresponding audio content. In one example application, an audiobook may be synchronized with an electronic book. As the body text portions of the electronic book are consumed, corresponding words of the audiobook may be audibly presented. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040714 | Information Management System and Method - A system and method for receiving, categorizing, arranging and displaying information is provided, wherein the method includes creating a database, wherein the database is governed by a database taxonomy defined by a user, introducing information into the database and generating classified information by classifying the information objects based on the database taxonomy, where the classified information objects includes information object metadata and an information taxonomy. The invention further includes assembling a virtual information package file responsive to the classified information objects, wherein the binder file includes links to the classified information objects in the database and providing a taxonomy and process to manage, edit, manipulate and distribute virtual information packages from a one or more collections of virtual information packages publishing the virtual information package file in the desired electronic document format. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040715 | APPLICATION FOR SYNCHRONIZING E-BOOKS WITH ORIGINAL OR CUSTOM-CREATED SCORES - An application for electronic devices through which users can synchronize custom sound recordings and sound scores with eBooks. The application allows a computer to receive audio reference lists; values representing how similar users are to each other based on various factors; and a structural representation of an eBook. The application then tracks a first user's position in the eBook, synchronizing the relative position with the structural representation of the eBook, and determining if the first user's position has progressed to a specific point. If the first user has reached the specific point, the application suggests audio that was previously synchronized by other users with the point, and the application orders the suggestions based on the similarity between the first user and a previous user that created a suggested sound score. The first user can then associate a presented audio with the point. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040716 | METHOD FOR PERSONALIZING A CALENDAR BY COLLECTING WEB PAGE INFORMATION ACCORDING TO DATA ENTRIES IN THE CALENDAR - The present invention is to provide a method for personalizing a calendar by collecting web page information according to data entries in the calendar, which is applicable to a network system including a server and a terminal device connected to the server through the Internet and installed with calendar software. The method is designed that, after a user writes predetermined data entry into a calendar created by the calendar software and shown on the terminal device, the terminal device automatically collects web page information matching with the data entry from the Internet by way of the calendar software and the server. Once the web page information collected is properly sorted, the terminal device imbeds the web page information into the calendar or adds the web page information to the calendar as a plugin, thereby creating a personalized calendar which enables the user to obtain the desired information conveniently and rapidly. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040717 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING APPLICATION FORMS - A method for processing application forms comprising extracting content from filled first forms of consumers, each of the first forms comprising one or more fields, arranging the extracted content of one or more fields of the plurality of fields of the plurality of filled first forms in a first matrix; encoding the content of each of the rows of the first matrix to define a second matrix; and disposing the encoded content of the second matrix in multiple empty second forms such that content of one column is disposed on only one of the empty second forms, each of the second forms includes the same type and number of fields as that of one of the filled first forms, further wherein the number of the filled second forms is based on the number of the one or more fields in the filled first forms. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040718 | TRACKING NEW SUBMISSIONS FOR AN ONLINE FORMS SERVICE - A method and system to track new submissions for an online forms service is provided. The system may include a request detector to detect a request to load a view (e.g., a web page) and a view provider to provide the view for display in response to the request. The view may comprise submission information for an electronic form and a value indicative of a number of new submissions. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040719 | BROWSER-BASED TEXT FITTING - A method and system to automatically adjust content being layed out into a target area for browser rendering is provided. An example method comprises a first pass module, a progress data collector, a second pass module, and a communications module. The first pass module may be configured to perform a first pass of laying out source content into a total target area to determine a total crash area consumed by the source content. The progress data collector may be configured to collect progress data associated with the laying out of the source content into the total target area. The second pass module may be configured to perform a second pass of laying out of the source content into the total target area to generate a data object model. The communications module may be configured to provide the data object model to a browser engine for rendering. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040720 | PRESENTATION OVERLAYS TO MODIFY PRESENTATIONS OF PACKAGED FILES - Various embodiments described herein provide one or more systems, methods, software, and data structures for the presentation of files packaged within a page description language document, such as a Portable Document format (“PDF”) document. Some embodiments include a packaged file presentation shell that may be instantiated within a user interface of a page description language reader application and then modified by a presentation overlay. Such as presentation overlay typically includes at least one standardized graphical element, which, when applied to the packaged file presentation shell, overrides respective standardized graphical element properties and presentation nodes. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040721 | RESOURCE-ADAPTIVE CONTENT DELIVERY ON CLIENT DEVICES - Techniques are disclosed for serving a webpage based on a zoom level. The techniques include requesting, by a client device, contents of a webpage. The request may include indications of a zoom level and a viewable area of the webpage as shown on a display of the client device. A server system may determine that the zoom level indicated in the request is less than a threshold value and identify content items within the viewable area which meet predefined criteria for being considered expensive. Further, the server system may serve a modified webpage which includes replacement items in lieu of the expensive content items. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040722 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR VOICED-ENABLING A WEB APPLICATION - Methods and apparatus for voice-enabling a web application, wherein the web application includes one or more web pages rendered by a web browser on a computer. At least one information source external to the web application is queried to determine whether information describing a set of one or more supported voice interactions for the web application is available, and in response to determining that the information is available, the information is retrieved from the at least one information source. Voice input for the web application is then enabled based on the retrieved information. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040723 | ENRICHING WEBSITE CONTENT - A method for enriching contents of a website includes obtaining a corpus from the current website and other websites, and extracting object features from the corpus, wherein the corpus comprises specifications of the object and user reviews about the object; according to the corpus, constructing multi-dimensional vectors for the extracted features; for a specified feature, making similarity comparison of its multi-dimensional vector and multi-dimensional vectors of other extracted features; determining features with similarities higher than a predetermined threshold as the same features, and reinforcing the current website with features different from that of the object on the current website and their corresponding attributes. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040724 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WEBSITE CREATION - Described is a system and method for creating and editing a theme of individual widgets through the use of child widgets. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040725 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING AN RSS FEED ON AN ELECTRONIC DISPLAY - An electronic billboard comprises at least one processor, at least one computer-readable tangible storage device, and program instructions stored on the at least one storage device for execution by the at least one processor. The program instructions comprise first program instructions configured to receive media content comprising text and at least one image. The program instructions further comprise second program instructions configured to separate the text and the at least one image. The program instructions further comprise third program instructions configured to cause the electronic billboard to display the text on a first predetermined portion of the electronic billboard. The program instructions further comprise fourth program instructions configured to cause the electronic billboard to display the image on a second predetermined portion of the electronic billboard. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040726 | ADAPTIVE DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A GAMING MACHINE - The present invention provides a system and method for a configurable gaming system. Certain embodiments of the system include a local storage for storing a markup language file and token resolution information and a markup language viewer for processing the markup language file. The markup language viewer processes contents of the markup language file and resolves tokens in the markup language file using the token resolution information from the local storage to generate a resolved markup language file for display at a gaming system. The markup language file may include display content, markup language tags, and tokens. The markup language file may include read-only information and variable information to be resolved by the markup viewer for display. The markup language file may be a binary markup language file including tokens or other indicia for resolution. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040727 | ENRICHING WEBSITE CONTENT - A method for enriching contents of a website includes obtaining a corpus from the current website and other websites, and extracting object features from the corpus, wherein the corpus comprises specifications of the object and user reviews about the object; according to the corpus, constructing multi-dimensional vectors for the extracted features; for a specified feature, making similarity comparison of its multi-dimensional vector and multi-dimensional vectors of other extracted features; determining features with similarities higher than a predetermined threshold as the same features, and reinforcing the current website with features different from that of the object on the current website and their corresponding attributes. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040728 | METHOD FOR ADJUSTING WEB PAGE ON TOUCHSCREEN AND DISPLAY TERMINAL - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for adjusting a web page on a touchscreen and a display terminal. The method includes: when a browser is started, determining, by using a correspondence, a display ratio corresponding to a collected touch area value of a user; and displaying the web page in the browser according to the display ratio. By presetting a correspondence, the correspondence is used to determine the display ratio after the touch area value of the user is collected, thereby implementing that a proper display ratio can be automatically provided to the user when the user opens a browser to browse a web page. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040729 | PERSONALIZING A WEB PAGE OUTSIDE OF A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM WITH CONTENT FROM THE SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM DETERMINED BASED ON A UNIVERSAL SOCIAL CONTEXT PLUG-IN - To allow third-party websites to leverage social information maintained in a social networking system, a third-party website may include social information for a user in a web page provided by the third-party website. The social information is obtained from the social networking system. The web page provided by the third-party website includes a social context plug-in that causes a user's browser to obtain social information from a social networking system and to incorporate it within the web page. Customization rules are specified by the web page or by the third-party website to determine how the social information is aggregated and presented on the web page. Hence, the customization rules allow an operator of the third-party website to customize the social content displayed with the web page to provide more relevant information to social networking system users interacting with the third-party website. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040730 | Rule-based structural expression of text and formatting attributes in documents - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, that use record-based styles. In one aspect, a system receives an input selecting a portion of some formatted content, and generates from the selected content one or more style definitions defining a corresponding style in terms of contiguous fields, each defined in terms of units of formatted content. In another aspect, a system applies a record-based style to formatted text content, identifies one or more logical records within the formatted text content matching the style, and displays one of the logical records with a demarcation of boundaries between occurrences of fields in the record. In another aspect, a system also receives a second record-based style, and applies the second style to a result set of logical records that match the first style. In another aspect, a system also uses a record-based style as a search term to search a set of documents. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040731 | MANIPULATING DESIGN MODELS BY EDITING GENERATED REPORTS - A method and system are disclosed for manipulating a model, where that model represents some or all of a design. The design includes a multitude of design elements, the model includes a multitude of model elements, and each of the design elements is represented by a single model element. The method comprises the steps of generating a suite of documents from the model, each of the documents describing a view of the model; and displaying the documents to a user as a series of forms. The user provides information to the forms to change the documents, and changes to the documents result in both changes to the model and consistent changes across the suite of documents. In the preferred embodiment, the model identifies specific relationships between the elements of the model, and each of the model elements has defined properties. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040732 | INFORMATION INPUT DEVICES - Control section ( | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040733 | RESPONDING TO SELECTION OF A DISPLAYED CHARACTER STRING - A method comprises causing a character string to be displayed on a display, receiving a signal indicative of user input for selecting the displayed character string, and responding to the signal by using a language engine to predict a location within the selected character string for modification of the selected character string. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040734 | VISUALIZING CONTENT REFERENCED IN AN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT - Method and system for visualizing content referenced in an electronic document are provided. Example system includes an access module, a reference detector, and a float window loader. The access module can open electronic documents. An electronic document may include descriptive textual content and one or more illustrative objects. The reference detector detects that a cursor is positioned over text in the descriptive content that refers to an illustrative object. In response, the float window loader presents the illustrative object in a float window. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040735 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING VOICE GUIDANCE FUNCTION AND AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF - Embodiments of the present disclosure include a voice guidance function for visually challenged people in an electronic device, and more particularly, an apparatus and method for inducing a touch input location of a user who uses contents data in the electronic device and for changing a data analysis (or data reading) direction and area. A method provides a voice guidance function in an electronic device. The method includes outputting a reproduction screen of contents, determining a data analysis area by confirming an arrangement of data constituting an output screen, and inducing a user input to the determined data analysis area, wherein the data arrangement comprises at least one of a line, a line start point, a line end point, a sentence start point, a sentence end point, and a page of the output screen. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040736 | SYSTEM FOR CREATING AND DISTRIBUTING A CARTOON TO MOBILE DEVICES - A system for creating cartoons for mobile devices facilitates the creation and dissemination of cartoons to a plurality of mobile devices and computers. A cartoon can comprise of multiple panels, and each panel, in addition to graphics and text, can have an ordered set of audio (voice, music, etc.) provided, which are played back in a mobile device by a cartoon client component in the specified order for each of the panels. A computer or PC comprising the cartoon creator functionality is used to generate cartoons and communicate it to a cartoon distribution server. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040737 | COLLABORATIVE MEDIA EDITING SYSTEM - A media editing system includes one or more machines that are configured to support cloud-based collaborative editing of media by one or more client devices. A machine within the media editing system may be configured to receive a render request for generation of a media frame, determine whether a client device is to generate the media frame, and initiate generation of the media frame. Moreover, a machine within the media editing system may facilitate resolution of conflicts between edits to a particular piece of media. Furthermore, a machine within the media editing system may facilitate provision of convenient access to media from a particular client device to one or more additional client devices. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040738 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An information processor includes: a playback position holder configured to hold a content playback position at which a user starts inputting a comment on content that is being played back; and a comment information holder configured to hold the comment input by the user in association with the content playback position held by the playback position holder. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040739 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, CLIENT DEVICE, SERVER DEVICE, LIST GENERATION METHOD, LIST ACQUISITION METHOD, LIST PROVIDING METHOD AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing device including a plurality of specifying devices used to respectively specify a plurality of types of parameter values representing music features; a music extraction portion that extracts, from a first database in which a plurality of pieces of music and the parameter values are associated with each other, pieces of music that match the parameter values specified using the specifying devices; and a list generation portion that generates a list of the pieces of music extracted by the music extraction portion. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040740 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed are an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of easily classifying contents as a processing target in reproduction and the like. For example, a screen is displayed by arranging a (thumbnail of a) cover art as a symbol image serving as a symbol representing a content such as a song on a 2-dimensional plane, and a carpet area which is a band-shaped area having a width extending, for example, in an x-direction as a direction perpendicular to a predetermined axis of the 2-dimensional plane is displayed. The content whose symbol image is included in the carpet area is regarded as a processing target in a predetermined process. The present technology may be applied to, for example, a case where a song to be registered in a playlist is classified from contents such as songs. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040741 | Smart Auto-Completion - Auto-completion techniques are provided. In some embodiments, a multimedia object can be determined based upon a received textual input. A displayable representation of the multimedia object can be provided as an auto-complete suggestion. In response to user selection of the displayable representation, the received textual input can be replaced with a representation that enables the multimedia object to be accessed. In some embodiments, a mathematical operation can be performed based upon the received textual input. The result of the operation can be provided as an auto-complete suggestion. In response to user selection of the suggestion, the received textual input can be replaced with the result of the mathematical calculation. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040742 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which various kinds of informations and/or functions for at least one content can be provided through a plurality of partitioned regions generated by partitioning a region of a display object for the at least one content into a plurality of the partitioned regions. The present invention may include creating a display object corresponding to an upper content in a manner of having an inner space partitioned into a plurality of regions and displaying the created display object on a touchscreen, wherein different lower contents subordinate to the upper content are displayed on a plurality of the regions, respectively. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040743 | SELECTING COLOR SPACES FOR CINEMA OR VIDEO DATA - A computer-implemented method includes presenting one or more user interface controls configured to receive selection of a first color space, from a plurality of first color spaces corresponding to media encodings for recording cinema or video data, and a second color space, from a plurality of second color spaces corresponding to output devices, receiving the selection, combining a first transform corresponding to the first color space and a second transform corresponding to the second color space, in accordance with the selection, to form a combined transform, and providing the combined transform for use in previewing the cinema or video data in accordance with the output devices corresponding to the selection. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040744 | MULTIPURPOSE MEDIA PLAYERS - A computer readable medium containing a set of instructions that causes a computer to perform a process comprised of receiving one or more media files. The one or more media files having one or more scenes and each scene including a starting time point and ending time point. The set of instructions may include changing the starting time point and/or the ending time point of a scene from the one or more scenes in response to an input command. The set of instructions may create a new scene and save the new scene based on the new starting time point and/or ending time point of the scene. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040745 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR VOICED-ENABLING A WEB APPLICATION - Methods and apparatus for voice-enabling a web application, wherein the web application includes one or more web pages rendered by a web browser on a computer. At least one information source external to the web application is queried to determine whether information describing a set of one or more supported voice interactions for the web application is available, and in response to determining that the information is available, the information is retrieved from the at least one information source. Voice input for the web application is then enabled based on the retrieved information. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040746 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR VOICED-ENABLING A WEB APPLICATION - Methods and apparatus for voice-enabling a web application, wherein the web application includes one or more web pages rendered by a web browser on a computer. At least one information source external to the web application is queried to determine whether information describing a set of one or more supported voice interactions for the web application is available, and in response to determining that the information is available, the information is retrieved from the at least one information source. Voice input for the web application is then enabled based on the retrieved information. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040747 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING CONTENT ITEMS ON AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Content items can be viewed on an electronic device based upon a property defined for each of the content items, allowing the user to navigate through the content list and view or select content items. When navigating portions of the list where a selection has been made where no content items are associated with the properties, the result may be the presentation of no data. In order to re-orient users, the selection is modified to display at least one content item. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040748 | Interface for a Virtual Digital Assistant - The digital assistant displays a digital assistant object in an object region of a display screen. The digital assistant then obtains at least one information item based on a speech input from a user. Upon determining that the at least one information item can be displayed in its entirety in the display region of the display screen, the digital assistant displays the at least one information item in the display region, where the display region and the object region are not visually distinguishable from one another. Upon determining that the at least one information item cannot be displayed in its entirety in the display region of the video display screen, the digital assistant displays a portion of the at least one information item in the display region, where the display region and the object region are visually distinguishable from one another. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040749 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE AT A WIRELESS DEVICE - A method of controlling a graphical user interface (GUI) at a wireless device is disclosed and includes storing a set of audio GUI controls at an interactive voice response server and creating an audio GUI control string that is to be communicated to the wireless device within a voice stream. The audio GUI control string corresponds to a text string that is selectably presentable at the wireless device. Further, the method can include embedding the audio GUI control string within the voice stream. Additionally, the method can include transmitting the voice stream with the embedded audio GUI control string to the wireless device. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040750 | ENTITY MANAGEMENT DASHBOARD - An entity management dashboard is implemented according to systems and methods disclosed herein. An example method may include displaying a first entity of a computer network in an entity management dashboard. The example method may also include linking the first entity to a second entity of the computer network when the first entity is graphically connected to the second entity to deliver content against a context. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040751 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a data processing device including: a selection unit which selects a server from among a plurality of servers; an acquisition unit which acquires messages from the plurality of servers; and a display unit which display a message acquired by the acquisition unit from the server selected by the selection unit, wherein the acquisition unit acquires, before acquiring a remaining message from the server, a message from a server which is next likely to be selected by the selection unit after the server. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040752 | Method and Apparatus for information exchange over a web based environment - Exchange information through the World Wide Web is a way of life in modern society. The innovated dynamic workspace technology of present invention allows people much efficiently and flexibly to exchange information across a global environment. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040753 | MULTI-DIMENSIONAL DYNAMIC VISUAL BROWSING - Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to present a first plurality of visible images indicating a corresponding group of visible element navigation pathways associated with a first level of an online marketplace, receive a selection of one of the first plurality of visual images to provide a selected image, and navigate to a second level of the online marketplace along the visible element navigation pathways by presenting a second plurality of visible images representing one of a super-category including the selected image and a sub-category included in the selected image, wherein the first and second levels form part of at least three levels of visual navigation. Selections may be saved for future manipulation, review, and navigation as a collection of thumbtacked images. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040754 | ADAPTIVE MAPPING OF SEARCH RESULTS - Systems and method are provided for updating the presentation of a map based on search request information. The method may display, at a computing device, an interface that includes a search mode view of a map and a search box. Additionally, the method may receive input into the search box. The input may cause a display of a menu that includes a list of geographic locations according to the received input. Furthermore, the method may display visual indicators on the search mode view of the map according to the list of geographic locations. Moreover, the method may receive selection input corresponding to a selected geographic location from the list of geographic locations. Subsequently, the method may update the interface by replacing the search mode view with a confirmed mode view. The confirmed mode view may include a selection highlight indicator that corresponds to the selected geographic location. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040755 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DISPLAYING, ON A FIRST MACHINE, DATA ASSOCIATED WITH A DRIVE OF A SECOND MACHINE, WITHOUT MAPPING THE DRIVE - Methods and systems for displaying data associated with a client drive of a client computing device in a virtualized desktop executing on a remote computing device without explicitly mapping the client drive onto the remote computing device are described. A first client agent executing on a client computing device establishes a user session with a remote computing device. The first client agent transmits data identifying the client drive of the client computing device to a second client agent executing on the remote computing device. The second client agent receives data associated with the client drive and generates a shell link using the received data associated with the client drive in the context of the user session. The second client agent displays the data associated with the client drive of the client computing device in a virtualized desktop executing on the remote computing device. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040756 | SELECTIVE INBOX ACCESS IN HOMESCREEN MODE ON A MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device, such as a mobile communication device, and a method are provided for selective access to certain homescreen panels displayable by the device. The device is provided with a homescreen display, which includes a plurality of panels. The panels include at least one panel that is a fullscreen view of a first application executing on the device. This first application can be a messaging application, and the fullscreen view can be a unified inbox view for a plurality of different message types. The panels also include at least one launch panel having a number of graphical user interface elements, such as icons, representing access points to a corresponding application on the device. When navigating from one of the launch panels to the fullscreen view, an intermediate lock interface for receiving an unlocking input is displayed. The unlocking input is received before the fullscreen view is displayed. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040757 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PRESENTATION OF SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE APPLICATIONS - Methods and apparatus are disclosed for flexible presentation of Software As A Service (SAAS) applications to one or more client devices such as multi-function devices (e.g., MFPs). A management system receives presentation layout information for subscribed SAAS applications from users and administrators, generates a menu of subscribed SAAS applications for presentation to a user on a display of the client device, and transmits the menu to a client device for presentation to the user on a display of the client device. The management system may also provide for user/administrator customization of the menu of applications available to users, and for revocation of applications by an administrator of the management system. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040758 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTIVE HUMAN INTERFACE - A method and system for providing a predictive human interface for a plurality of user electronic devices assigned to a plurality of user categories, which includes storing, in an electronic database, user preferences regarding how certain specified communications related to the user electronic devices assigned to a designated user category 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 assigned to the designated user category, generating a similar predictive human interface for each of the user electronic devices assigned to the designated user category, based upon the stored user category preferences and the stored specific characteristics for the user electronic devices, and providing the predictive human interface to each of the user electronic devices assigned to the designated user category for use during communications. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040759 | USER INTERFACE (UI) CREATION SUPPORT SYSTEM, UI CREATION SUPPORT METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a UI creation support system ( | 2014-02-06 |
| 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. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040761 | PROVIDING AN UPDATE ASSOCIATED WITH A USER-CREATED POINT OF INTEREST - The subject technology enables a user to create a point of interest based on a specified geolocation and allows one or more user to update the point of interest by posting messages. By way of example, the subject technology can provide an electronic map that enables the user to interactively choose the desired geolocation for the point of interest. Further, a user can create multiple points of interest for the same location, and have different audiences for each point of interest to the same location (e.g., a restaurant). This functionality provided by the subject technology also applies for multiple users creating points of interests to the same location. The subject technology designates a target audience for the point of interest. The target audience sets a scope of users that are permitted to view and post updates or messages to the point of interest. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040762 | SHARING A DIGITAL OBJECT - A system and method for sharing a digital object on a device with another device or service. A user request to associate at least one edge region of a display on a device with another device or service is received. In response to the request, the at least one edge region of the display on the device is associated with the other device or service. An input gesture comprising a movement from a first location on the display towards the at least one edge region of the display is received. A digital object associated with the first location is sent to the other device or service in response to the input gesture. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040763 | MANAGING ACTIVE GUI ELEMENTS REMOTELY - A method, system or computer usable program product for selectively forwarding activated graphical user interface (GUI) elements from a source system to a remote device for user interaction including configuring the source system for selectively forwarding to the remote device activated GUI elements that are for front of screen display on the source system, receiving user preferences for GUI elements to forward to the remote device, in response to a user request, identifying an activated GUI element for front of screen display on the source system and related information that meets the user preferences, and forwarding only the identified GUI element and related information to the remote device for interaction with the user. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040764 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING AN ANIMATION TO CONFIRM DESIGNATION OF AN IMAGE FOR SHARING - Techniques to allow for ease of use of a photo browsing interface of a social networking system. In an embodiment, a designation of a first image for sharing is received from within a view. A first animation indicating that the first image has been designated for sharing is displayed. The displaying may comprise miniaturizing a copy of the first image. The miniaturizing may proceed from a first location within the view to a second location within the view. The first location may be associated with at least one of a center of the view and an option to designate the first image for sharing. The second location may be associated with a message compose option. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040765 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCES AND CONTROLLERS THEREFOR - Systems and methods of multi-participant interactive experiences are disclosed. Participants located location can interact with one another and share gaming, educational and other experiences. The system includes a coordination node to coordinate experiences between participants and one or more of interactive nodes. At each interactive node there is a main display that shows shared information to each of the participants and to other viewers. Each of the participants also uses a personal controller such as a smart phone which has a personal display. Information that is specific to the participant can be displayed on the personal controller. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040766 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A method is provided for enabling sharing of data. The method comprises defining a sharing region corresponding to a portion of a surface of an apparatus. The method further comprises enabling sharing of data with an external device in response to user input associating the data with the sharing region. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040767 | SHARED DIGITAL WHITEBOARD - An aspect of the present invention provides a peer-to-peer communication between source and target boards of a shared digital whiteboard. In one embodiment, a first system executing a first browser displaying a first web page containing a source board of the shared electronic whiteboard sends multiple packets (over a network) to a second system executing a second browser displaying a second web page containing a peer/target board of the shared electronic board, with each sent packet having a network destination address set to an IP address of the second system, the multiple packets specifying a content of the source board. The second system receives the multiple packets and reproduces the content in the target board. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040768 | MULTIPE-STAGE INTERFACE CONTROL OF A MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device, such as a mobile communication device, and a method are provided for multiple-stage interface control of the device. The device is provided with a homescreen display, which includes a plurality of panels. The panels include at least one panel that is a fullscreen view of a first application executing on the device. This first application can be a messaging application, and the fullscreen view can be a unified inbox view for a plurality of different message types. The panels also include at least one launch panel having a number of graphical user interface elements, such as icons, representing access points to a corresponding application on the device. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040769 | MULTIPLE-STAGE INTERFACE CONTROL OF A MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device, such as a mobile communication device, and a method are provided for multiple-stage interface control of the device. The device is provided with a homescreen display, which includes a plurality of panels. The panels include at least one panel that is a fullscreen view of a first application executing on the device. This first application can be a messaging application, and the fullscreen view can be a unified inbox view for a plurality of different message types. The panels also include at least one launch panel having a number of graphical user interface elements, such as icons, representing access points to a corresponding application on the device. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040770 | Enhancement of E-Mail Client User Interfaces and E-Mail Message Formats - An enhancement to e-mail user interfaces and message formats includes a dynamic preview window to view and retrieve attachments and summaries of e-mail messages directly in the e-mail list view or inbox view without opening an e-mail message. The efficient viewing mechanism further allows previews without cluttering the listing of the e-mails in the inbox by allowing the client to detect special preview instructions within an e-mail and run executables within the preview window. The enhancement is applicable to standalone e-mail clients (POP or IMAP based) and to web-based e-mail systems. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040771 | Systems and Methods for Downloading and Viewing Images - A system for displaying images associated with a received electronic message concurrently displays the received electronic message, a view-all-images icon and a respective view icon for each image of a plurality of images attached to the received electronic message as a plurality of distinct attachments. In response to a single user selection of the view-all-images icon, where the user selection of the view-all-images icon is made while the received electronic message and the view-all-images icon are concurrently displayed, the system fetches from a document storage system a single document containing the plurality of images and display the plurality of images contained in the document. In response to user selection of the view icon for a respective image attached to the received electronic message, the system displays the respective image. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040772 | HIGHLIGHTING GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE COMPONENTS BASED ON USAGE BY OTHER USERS - In one example embodiment, a method to highlight graphical user interface (GUI) components is provided. In this method, a computing device on a network is queried to identify which of the GUI components to highlight based on tracking information associated with other users. A response to the query is then received from the computing device, the response of which identifies a GUI component, and this identified GUI component is highlighted. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040773 | Transient Panel Enabling Message Correction Capabilities Prior to Data Submission - A programmable device such as a smart phone allows a user an opportunity to make final corrections to textual data in a message after the user has instructed the device to send the message, but before transmittal of the message. The opportunity is temporary, to avoid impeding the flow of communication, and the textual data is transmitted unmodified if the opportunity to modify it is not accepted. Modifications made during the opportunity period may be used to adapt an autocorrect functionality of the programmable device. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040774 | SHARING PHOTOS IN A SOCIAL NETWORK SYSTEM - Embodiments generally relate to sharing photos in a social network system. In one embodiment, a method includes determining a geographic location associated with each photo of a plurality of photos associated with a user. The method also includes providing a geographic map to the user, where each photo is displayed on the geographic map based on the geographic location of each photo. The method also includes enabling the user to select photos to share based on interaction with the geographic map. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040775 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTIPLE PHOTO SELECTION - Techniques to allow for ease of navigation within a photo browsing interface of a social networking system. In one embodiment, designations of a first image and a second image for sharing are received from within at least one of a single-image view and a camera view. Based on the designations, the first image and the second image are added to a communication. The designations may be based on a user selection of an option provided by an interface of a mobile device. The first image and the second image may be received from within a social networking application or from within a dedicated camera application. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040776 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BI-DIRECTIONAL DISPLAY OF CONTENT OF A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - Techniques to allow optimized scrolling of information from a social networking system. In one embodiment, bi-directional display of references, such as content, is provided on a computer system, such as a mobile device. References are presented in a first orientation in a scrollable stream. In response to an interaction by a user, presentation of the scrollable stream is transformed from the first orientation to a second orientation. The first orientation may be substantially parallel with a length of an interface of the computer system. The first orientation and the second orientation may be orthogonal. Components of the references are omitted from presentation when the scrollable stream is presented in the first orientation. At least one of the omitted components of the references is included for presentation when the scrollable stream is presented in the second orientation. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040777 | Customizing Participant Information in an Online Conference - Various embodiments of systems, methods, and computer programs are disclosed for customizing participant information in an online conference. One embodiment is a method for customizing display of participant information in an online conference. The method comprises: a conferencing system establishing an online conference with a plurality of client devices via a communication network, each client device associated with a participant in the online conference; the conferencing system presenting a conference user interface to the client devices, the conference user interface displaying an interactive participant object identifying each of the participants; and during the online conference, one of the participants customizing presentation of at least one of the interactive participant objects via the conference user interface. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040778 | System and Method for Displaying and Operating Multiple Layered Item List In Web Browser With Support of Concurrent Users - Support of end-user to view and operate computing resources through logically organized and graphically represented multi-layered item list (“hierarchical list”) has been fully realized on native window based computer user work environment with modern operating system such as Windows Explore of Microsoft. The present invention has implemented the hierarchical list to represent structured resources, such as for a central controlled distributed scalable virtual machine (CCDSVM), and to be displayable and operable via a browser on an end-user device for user to access and manage the actual structured resources. The implementation of the hierarchical list is accomplished by creating the hierarchical list in memory to mirror the actual structure resource, where the mirrored hierarchical list is sent to the end-user device, where the end-user device executes the browser to display the hierarchical list to allow the user to access the actual structured resources via the displayed hierarchical list. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040779 | NETWORK BASED CROWD SOURCED COLLABORATION TOOLS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF CREATIVE WORKS - Systems and methods are provided for creative collaboration among multiple persons, such as network-based crowd-sourced collaboration tools for the development of creative works. Users are able to post content with specific reference to previously posted content. Content postings that are related to one another based on such specific references are organized in accordance with such specific reference relationships to establish a tree-like content structure in which the initial content posting is like the trunk of the tree-like structure, and later content postings are like branches of the tree-like structure. Included are features for encouraging collaboration, such as: (1) features designed to prevent a single author and/or a limited number of authors from generating all of the content of a creative work, and/or (2) features designed to enable the development of multiple creative works that are related to one another in that they share one or more common content bases. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040780 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING COLLABORATION INFORMATION AROUND PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES USING REMOTE TIME TRIGGERS - Providing collaboration information between a primary user and a collaborative user on a collaborative activity associated with the primary user and the collaborative user. A user computer receives a start trigger event that starts a collaborative activity session, sends a notification of the start of the collaborative activity session to a collaborative user and after receiving an end trigger event that ends the collaborative activity session, sends a notification of the ending of the collaborative activity session to the collaborative user. The method includes providing collaborative data to the collaborative users, and storing time and location information of the collaborative users. The method further includes for the prompting or automation of start or stop triggers for an activity based on other factors including the time and location of an individual moving in or out of a defined or geo-fenced region. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040781 | Egalitarian Control Apparatus and Method for Sharing Information in a Collaborative Workspace - A method and system of selecting information from video sources to be displayed on at least a subset of a plurality of display screen presentation spaces, the method comprising the steps of providing at least first and second independent selectable control interfaces, each interface including a separately selectable control uniquely associated with each of the display screen presentation spaces, uniquely associating first and second video sources with the first and second control interfaces, for each control interface, receiving an indication each time one of the selectable controls is selected and, upon receiving an indication, providing the video source associated with the control interface used to make the selection to the display screen presentation space associated with the selected selectable control. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040782 | VIRTUAL UNIVERSE DESKTOP EXPLORATION FOR RESOURCE ACQUISITION - The present invention is directed to a system, method and program product that allows a user to acquire resources from a local computer during a session with a virtual universe. Disclosed is a system that allows a user to: invocate a local operating system session that displays an operating system interface onto a client computer during a virtual universe session; navigate the operating system interface using an avatar; and acquire resources from the client computer via the operating system interface using the avatar. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040783 | VIRTUAL SOCIAL SUPERVENUE FOR SHARING MULTIPLE VIDEO STREAMS - A social media platform is provided for interacting in a three-dimensional platform. The platform leverages a social graph from a user's social network to enable the user to invite social networking friends to interact within a three-dimensional virtual social venue. The platform also enables users to select multiple videos to display simultaneously within the virtual social venue. User selection of a clickable advertisement within the virtual social venue causes a web browser to launch with a point-of-sale opportunity related to the advertisement. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040784 | MULTI-USER CHAT - A method for providing a multi-user chat includes: receiving a request from a first participant to initiate a first live chat with a second participant; receiving a request from the first or second participants to invite a third participant to the first live chat; establishing the first live chat having multiple participants including at least the first, second, and third participants; receiving from one of the multiple participants a selection of one of the other participants in the first live chat from a participant indicator field after establishing the first live chat among the multiple participants; and displaying a live chat area separate from a displayed area for the first live chat that allows the participant who made the selection and the participant who was identified by the selection to chat between themselves in a second live chat that is not displayed to other participants of the first live chat. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040785 | BROWSER-BASED PROCESS FLOW CONTROL RESPONSIVE TO AN EXTERNAL APPLICATION - A method, system, and computer program product for browser rendering and control extensions for browser rendering that is responsive to external applications that are at least partially controlled by user gestures from the browser. The method commences by authenticating a user, then rendering an initial display comprising a plurality of graphical components corresponding to respective prescribed user activities. The browser receives a user interface gesture corresponding to a user selected one of the prescribed user activities, and proceeds to access a flow metadata repository to retrieve external application launch parameters which are then used to launch one or more external applications. The browser receives task state indications from the external application and re-renders the display based on the received task state indications. The user activities correspond to a READ type of user activity, a SEE type of user activity, or DO types of user activity, or in any combinations thereof. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040786 | AUTOMATIC TRACKING OF USER ENGAGEMENT WITH COMPUTING INTERFACES - An engagement tracking system is described herein that automatically scans, identifies, and tags available events to track, monitor, record, and report on various unique webpages and/or electronic/digital content sources for any domain(s) designated by a user. The system eliminates the need for manual tagging/coding yet allows users to easily administer the tracking, monitoring, recording, and reporting of events through a hosted user interface or through an integrated third-party reporting application. In some embodiments, the system automatically scans and identifies text-based telephone numbers, image-based telephone numbers, and call-to-action images to alter the content and images to generate a URI/hypertext reference in order to initiate a telephone call (either through dialing protocols or third-party software). Each URI/hypertext reference is then tagged to track, monitor, record, and report as with other events managed by the system. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040787 | PAGE ELEMENT IDENTIFIER PRE-CLASSIFICATION FOR USER INTERFACE BEHAVIOR IN A COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - Systems and methods are described for modifying user interface behavior according to page element identifier pre-classification. For example, a number of content page (e.g., webpage) element identifiers (e.g., object classes or identifiers) are pre-classified as linking to associated media objects. When a content page or domain is requested by a user's web interface, the response is intercepted and analyzed to see if it has pre-classified element identifiers. If so, a script is injected in the webpage code or otherwise communicated to the requesting web interface, and the script is executed at the client side. Having executed the script, when a user interacts with a page element having one of the pre-classified element identifiers, the user interface is modified to provide enhanced functionality relating to the media object linked to by the page element. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040788 | DECLARATIVE AND MULTI-MODE WIZARD FRAMEWORK - A user interface mechanism may be defined by a story from which a wizard engine may create a user interface. The engine may present the story using various user interface containers that define a layout and general functions of a user interface, along with styles that may define the ‘look and feel’ of the user interface. The story may define an action performed once data are collected from the user. The story may also define data passed to the action, as well as the data collected from a user. The story may further define translation routines or other actions that may be launched in response to receiving user action and used to generate data that may be passed to the action. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040789 | TOOL CONFIGURATION HISTORY IN A USER INTERFACE - An example device may present content within a user interface on a display screen. The user interface may support a tool that is controllable by a user to modify the content. Such a tool may be configurable to have various effects on the content. The tool may have a current configuration that specifies a current effect of the tool on the content presented in the user interface, and the current configuration may be distinct from a previous configuration that specifies a previous effect of the tool on the content. The device presents a first icon that indicates the current configuration of a tool and may present a second icon that indicates a previous configuration of the tool. The device may detect user input that indicates a request that the current configuration be replaced with the previous configuration. The device may configure the tool according to the previous configuration. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040790 | VISUAL EDITING TOOL BUFFER REGION - A website construction tool allows website construction via an interactive graphical user interface (GUI) using containers and modules defining predetermined website constructs from a robust assortment of common and popular rendering formats and content source definition for individual webpages, and arranges the individual pages for navigation. A user selects from the predefined constructs by selecting modules for generating code, corresponding to the desired content, source and rendering format. Pointing device positioning locates the on-screen location by generating a container dedicated to the desired content. Webpage structure, or page flow, is generated by insertion of navigation controls and page insertions for navigating between pages in the deployed site, The predetermined constructs, therefore, provide templates of complex rendering formats allowing for content insertion without burdening the user with development of the constructs so rendered. Constructed websites may be hosted by the development entity, further relieving the user from website maintenance. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040791 | DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM FOR SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE (SAAS) IN A MULTI-TENANT ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments of the present invention relate to software as a service (SaaS) development in a multi-tenant environment. Specifically, a platform for software as a service (SaaS) application development and customization in a multi-tenant environment is provided. An interface template is defined based on application metadata. Application metadata may comprise and/or be based upon tenant metadata (e.g., via transformation). A desired graphical user interface is rendered based on the interface template. The desired graphical user interface may be edited by the tenant. An SaaS application for the tenant based on the desired graphical user interface is generated. A tenant data service is processed using the SaaS application. The SaaS application is provided to at least one other tenant in the multi-tenant environment. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040792 | Physics Based Graphical Program Editor - System and method for editing a graphical diagram. A graphical diagram, such as a graphical program, is displayed on a display device. User input may be received editing the graphical diagram, thereby generating an edited graphical diagram. Placement of one or more elements in the graphical diagram may be adjusted in response to the editing based on determined forces applied to the one or more elements in the edited graphical diagram based on the said editing, resulting in an adjusted edited graphical diagram. The adjusted edited graphical diagram may be displayed on the display device, which may include displaying an animation illustrating the movement of the elements to an equilibrium state in which the forces balance and movement ceases. The editing, adjusting, and displaying may be performed sequentially and/or concurrently, as desired. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040793 | APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING A DIAGNOSTICS MODULE FOR AN INDUSTRIAL PLANT - An apparatus for configuring a diagnostics module for an industrial plant, the apparatus comprising an application module configured to run on a computer, the application module comprising a graphics builder; the graphics builder comprising a workspace configured to present a display area on a monitor of the computer, the display area configured to be shown by the diagnostics module on a client machine, and graphics tools configured to be manipulated via at least one user input device of the computer for customization of the display area. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040794 | Data Visualization Interface - Provided is a method of preparing a data-visualization interface. The method may include receiving a request to view data; retrieving a display configuration responsive to the request to view data, the display configuration identifying two or more context dimensions and three or more sub-display dimensions; retrieving data responsive to the request to view data; designating, in visualization data, a portion of the data as visible data and a portion of the data as cache data based on the display configuration; assigning, in the visualization data, positioning data to a plurality of sub-displays based on the two or more context dimensions, the sub-displays displaying data markers; assigning, in the visualization data, a portion of the cache data to groups of the sub-displays that are co-linear based on the context dimensions; and transmitting the visualization data. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040795 | SECONDARY OUTPUT GENERATION FROM A PRESENTATION FRAMEWORK - A secondary output of a user interface created using a presentation framework may be created by making a clone of the user interface, then modifying the cloned user interface by expanding various components. The cloned user interface may also be configured to the output characteristics of the secondary output, which may be a printer or other hardcopy device. The user interface may be created with callbacks or other actions that may be executed when the cloned user interface is configured. The callbacks may cause certain user interface components to be changed on the cloned version of the user interface. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040796 | INTERACTING WITH GRAPHICAL WORK AREAS - Among other disclosures, a method may include receiving a repositioning request, relative to a work area marker, and an adjustment request, relative to a work area, wherein the work area is associated with a portion of graphical data, and the marker allows interaction with the work area. The method may include deriving an updated marker and an updated work area, wherein the updated marker reflects the repositioning request, the updated work area is associated with the portion, and the work area reflects the adjustment request. The method may include providing visually the updated marker, wherein the updated marker allows interaction with the updated work area. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040797 | WIDGET PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND MOBILE TERMINAL - The present invention provides a Widget processing method and a mobile terminal. The method includes: receiving a Widget placing instruction given by a user,; if on the designated Home screen, there is not enough position for presenting the designated Widget, determining a display position of the designated Widget on a Home screen adjacent to the designated Home screen according to attribute information of the designated Widget, where the attribute information of the Widget includes position occupation information of the Widget; and placing the designated Widget in the display position on the Home screen adjacent to the designated Home screen. Technical solutions of the present invention solve a problem that operations are complicated when there is not enough space on the designated Home screen for placing the designated Widget, and increase Widget processing efficiency of the mobile terminal. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040798 | Physics Based Diagram Editor - System and method for editing a graphical diagram. A graphical diagram, such as a graphical program, is displayed on a display device. User input may be received editing the graphical diagram, thereby generating an edited graphical diagram. Placement of one or more elements in the graphical diagram may be adjusted in response to the editing based on determined forces applied to the one or more elements in the edited graphical diagram based on the said editing, resulting in an adjusted edited graphical diagram. The adjusted edited graphical diagram may be displayed on the display device, which may include displaying an animation illustrating the movement of the elements to an equilibrium state in which the forces balance and movement ceases. The editing, adjusting, and displaying may be performed sequentially and/or concurrently, as desired. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040799 | EFFICIENT USAGE OF SCREEN REAL ESTATE ON AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Exemplary embodiments provide a computer implemented method and computer program product for efficient usage of screen real estate, and an electronic device configured to execute the computer program product, by controlling the display of GUI objects on a display screen of an electronic device. This controlled display further comprises identifying a user-selected part of an original GUI object that is associated with an application program, in response to detection of a predefined user interaction with the original GUI object. A new representative GUI object is then created and displayed on screen, and this new object comprises a visual representation of the selected part of the first GUI object. This second GUI object automatically replaces the first GUI object on the display screen. Subsequent user interactions with the second GUI object are mapped to instructions to the application program. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040800 | ENHANCED ORGANIZATION AND AUTOMATIC NAVIGATION OF DISPLAY SCREENS FACILITATING AUTOMATION CONTROL - The disclosed subject matter comprises an enhanced screen organizer component (ESOC) that can efficiently control organization and presentation of desired screens, which relate to an industrial control system, to a user. At design time, a designer employs the ESOC to select and organize one or more screens for a project relating to a control system, create and organize screen folders that can contain desired folders or screens in a hierarchical fashion, select a home screen or favorite screens, respectively, for the operator, role or group, wherein a home screen can be a screen a user views when authenticated into a terminal or the screen the user can be returned to in response to selection of a home control. During run time, the user can access desired screens, and use context menus to select a home screen, favorite screens, or other screens, in accordance with user access rights. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040801 | FREE-FORM ENTRIES DURING PAYMENT PROCESSES - Various methods and systems are provided that allow a user to perform a free-form action, such as making a mark on a device, speaking into a device, and/or moving the device, to cause a step to be performed that conventionally was performed by the user having to locate and select a button or link on the device. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040802 | ADAPTABLE TRANSPARENCY - By adjusting visual settings on a display behind a section of a background to emphasize menu options, a user can determine the status in the series of menus and sub-menus and can better read the menu options. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040803 | ENHANCED USER INTERFACE TO SUSPEND A DRAG AND DROP OPERATION - A method is provided for sharing a media content displayed in a window of the touch input interface of a first electronic device with at least one second electronic device. The first electronic device includes a processor controlling the touch input interface. The method is carried out by the processor and includes the acts of enabling the displacement of the window responsive to the capture of a first touch input indicative of the initiation of the transfer, capturing a continuous touch input across the interface from an initial position in the window, displacing the window with each additional touch input of the continuous touch input, and sending an activation message that the media content is to be played on the second device when determining that the window is within a given distance of a virtual representation of the second electronic device on the interface. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040804 | INTERFACE METHOD FOR A PORTABLE TERMINAL - An interface method for a portable terminal includes generating a separate display area in a display screen when a predetermined area of the display screen is touched and displaying one or more applications in the newly generated display area. Thereafter, when a particular application among the displayed applications is dragged to an outside of the newly generated display area, at least one data item or function associated with the dragged application is displayed within in the newly generated display area. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040805 | CHART GENERATION BASED ON USER CONTROL INFERENCES - In some example embodiments, a computer-implemented method includes receiving, for each of a number of user interface controls, selections by a user of at least one of exactly one value, a subset of values, all values, and no values. The selections by the user define non-chart-related settings, The method includes inferring intent of the user of at least one attribute of a chart based on the selections by the user via the number of user interface controls. The method includes defining at least one characteristic of the chart for displaying the chart based on the intent. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040806 | DYNAMIC REPORT BUILDING USING A HETEROGENEOUS COMBINATION OF FILTERING CRITERIA - Methods and apparatus are presented for flexibly building a dynamic report using a heterogeneous mix of dimensions, segments, and metrics. Within a report building tool a user may introduce any number of dimensions and segments at any point within a generated report. Further within the report building tool, a user may break down existing dimensions and segments within a report with nested dimensions and segments, which may be added without limits on a nesting level. Given a generated report, a user may pivot the generated report, where the pivot includes pivoting any heterogeneous combination of dimensions, segments, and metrics within the generated report defined along each axis. Further, the pivot operation maintains the relative groupings and nestings of dimensions, dimension items, segments, and metrics in going from a column to a row or from a row to a column. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040807 | System, Method, and Computer Medium Having Computer Program Stored Thereon to Provide User Access to Consolidated, Interconnected Facility Equipment Information and Operating Status - One or more interconnected facility equipment databases store one or more interconnected facility equipment data files predetermined for a specific facility. The interconnected facility equipment data files include facility location data files and facility equipment data files associated with equipment located within a facility to indicate operating status of the equipment, separate from control of facility equipment, in specific facility locations during operation. A facility maintenance user accesses the interconnected facility equipment data for maintenance, repair, or operating status purposes. The facility maintenance user accesses the data through a graphical user interface readily navigable by the facility maintenance user in a direct, interrelated, non-sequential, and non-ordered arrangement of user selections so as to define a multidimensional lattice arrangement, thereby allowing freedom of movement within the multidimensional lattice arrangement. | 2014-02-06 |
| 20140040808 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR SEARCHING MAP THROUGH MAP BROWSING HISTORY AND METHOD THEREOF - An operation method of an electronic device is provided. The method includes calling a stored map browsing history, receiving a selection of one of one or more maps stored in the map browsing history, and displaying the selected map. | 2014-02-06 |
