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6437808 Apparatus and method for transmitting graphical representations  
An apparatus and method for transmitting graphical representations is disclosed. The present invention has an image generator ( 112 ) that generates an image ( 114 ) of a head ( 106 ) with facial...
6437810 Shell extensions for an operating system  
An operating system provides extensions through which application developers may extend the capabilities of a shell of the operating system. For example, application developers may add menu items...
6429885 GUI resource editor for an embedded system  
A technique for converting displayable objects of a graphics user interface (GUI) display into a code representation with minimal user intervention. The technique includes creation of the GUI...
RE37811 Distributed application load distribution aid tool  
A tool at the service of a distributed application running on machines of a distributed data processing system running in a local area network, intended for balancing the load on each of the...
6421068 Method for collecting and displaying information for activex controls simplifying CTI enabled application development  
Described is a method of creating objects for collecting textual information from a CTI server and display the textual information in an application for controlling a telephony system and for...
6414697 Method and system for providing an iconic progress indicator  
A method and system for providing a progress indicator for an application in a computer system is disclosed. The method and system includes issuing a task request to the application, and...
6407739 Article and method for displaying a graphical history list  
A tool is disclosed that assists a user to assimilate, interrelate, and remember a succession of resources that are retrieved by a computer under the direction of the user. In particular, some...
6407755 Method for selectively or automatically matching the characteristics of a display to a language  
A method for selectively matching or automatically matching one or more items that is visually observable on a display of electronic devices to a selected language, the method comprises the steps...
6401122 Communication management apparatus  
There is provided a communication management apparatus for managing a joining of symbols in a virtual world in a message communication system in which a plurality of user terminals are...
6388683 Object oriented data arranger graphical user interface  
A graphical user interface permits a user to graphically designate a range within data files as input to operations that manipulate the data and permits the user to graphically represent operations...
6377283 Man-machine interface for a custom tabular display  
A power management control system (“PMCS”) provides control and graphical representation of a plurality of electrical devices and components of an electrical distribution system. The PMCS...
6360357 Adding code in an application during runtime to enrich object behavior  
A method, apparatus and system for allowing an end-user to define at run-time the way an object in the system will react to existing operations, or events, that are later performed on the object....
6360365 System, method, and program for preserving background settings during install and uninstall operations  
Disclosed is a method, system, program, and data structure for managing background display information being installed on a computer system. Certain embodiments include at least one file set...
6353449 Communicating screen saver  
A method and implementing computer system are provided in which screensavers are used to lock a workstation and present an eye-pleasing display while the user is away from the workstation. Users...
6346953 Method and system for recreating a user interface of an existing application text based user interface into a graphical user interface  
A method for recreating a user interface of an existing application screen into a graphical user interface having the same functionality of the original interface includes matching the structure...
6344860 Methods and apparatus for a stereoscopic graphic user interface  
A stereo graphic user interface (GUI) includes stereo pairs of conventional GUI interface objects, such as a cursor, menu bars, buttons, and so on. In one implementation, a slave component is...
6340981 Method and apparatus for stroke substitution  
The invention provides a method and apparatus for customizing and substituting strokes provided by a standard API. In a preferred embodiment, a stroke interface that encapsulates stroking...
6339436 User defined dynamic help  
The present invention provides a method for providing user-defined dynamic help text which is displayed integrally with the application. The method includes utilizing a monitoring program to...
6339439 Device for modifying appearance of related display planes  
An information display device capable of displaying logical display planes includes a first part for storing items of display plane forming information respectively defined for the logical display...
6335743 Method and system for providing a resize layout allowing flexible placement and sizing of controls  
A system and method for providing a window capable of being resized is disclosed. The window includes at least one control. In one aspect, the method and system include allowing a developer to...
6330007 Graphical user interface (GUI) prototyping and specification tool  
A Dynakey Screen Generator (DSG) is disclosed which is a graphical user interface prototyping and specification tool. DSG is a Microsoft Windows-based tool for prototyping and specifying a...
6317143 Programmable graphical user interface control system and method  
The present invention provides method and apparatus for defining and redefining a dynamic graphical user interface, which can control multiple applications or applets with one graphical user...
6310632 System and method for a graphical user interface including buddy dialogs  
A graphical user interface includes a buddy dialog which dynamically becomes part of a current dialog upon selection of a selectable object on a property page. A unique buddy dialog format is...
6297837 Method of maintaining characteristics information about a system component either modified by an application program or a user initiated change  
An operating system provides a number of window elements that the operating system itself or applications may use in displaying a window. The operating system includes a dialog box for enabling a...
6295062 Icon display apparatus and method used therein  
An icon display apparatus reduces data to icons and displays those icons. The data corresponds to items classified into a plurality of groups and to apparatus for processing the data. A storage...
6189142 Visual program runtime performance analysis  
A method, system, and computer program for providing runtime performance analysis in a visual programming environment. A performance data collection technique for visual programming is defined,...
6175364 Framework and method for interfacing a GUI, container with a GUI component  
Methods, software and data structures for installing a component in a container suitable for display on a display screen as part of a graphical user interface are disclosed. In one embodiment, a...
6111572 Runtime locale-sensitive switching of calendars in a distributed computer enterprise environment  
A display method operative within a display device of a data processing system connected in a distributed computing environment having nodes located across geographically-dispersed boundaries. The...
6104394 Data processing system for automatic storage of objects of an object type within a logical containment system and method therefor  
A data processing system, software program and method effectively and intuitively display a storage space of a data processing system to an end-user to allow the end-user to create a filing system...
6057837 On-screen indentification and manipulation of sources that an object depends upon  
Manipulating an object that is dependent upon one or more cells in a spreadsheet is facilitated by manipulating indicators that bound the relevant cells. The object can be a spreadsheet cell...
6054985 Data processing system and method for simulating compound objects  
A data processing system and method is provided for performing "drag and drop" operations of compound objects using system platforms, such as JAVA, which do not support compound objects or nested...
6014138 Development system with methods for improved visual programming with hierarchical object explorer  
A system of the present invention includes a relational database management system (RDBMS), having an object-based, interactive visual-programming language providing programming by "visual...
5990888 Method and system for manipulating graphical objects  
A data processing system for efficiently manipulating a graphic object displayed within a graphic user interface in the data processing system. The graphic object is defined by interrelated...
5977966 System-provided window elements having adjustable dimensions  
An operating system provides a number of window elements that the operating system itself or applications may use in displaying a window. The operating system includes a dialog box for enabling a...
5977967 Object-oriented business object interface framework and method  
Interface object classes providing a template class (402) for list boxes (500) and a template class (410) for combo boxes (506) which encapsulates a linkage mechanism to associate the items listed...
5973686 GUI edition aiding apparatus, GUI edition aiding method, and record medium recording GUI edition aiding program  
The GUI edition aiding apparatus is for editing a display screen that a computer application program provides. In this apparatus, predetermined data that composes display parts is input. In...
5917487 Data-driven method and system for drawing user interface objects  
Systems and methods for drawing objects on a display and, in particular, on a graphical user interface are described. Arbitrarily sized objects having straight sides and arbitrarily shaped corners...
5818444 Method, apparatus and application for object selective but global attribute modification  
An application, method and apparatus for revision of attributes of selected objects as controlled by a computer system. The computer system has at least a visual operator interface, an operating...
5742284 Object based system comprising weak links  
A distributed object based system (10) comprising primary (P) and secondary (S) objects with provision for containership links between primary objects and objects which they contain and for weak...
5737557 Intelligent window user interface for computers  
A system for implementing an intelligent window user interface for computers ("software suite") is disclosed. Each of a plurality of software suites of the present invention comprises a compound...
5680557 Natural computing system  
A natural computational system and environment replaces domain-specific centional application programs by allowing the juxtaposition of text, graphs, tables, equations, and sketches while...
5673401 Systems and methods for a customizable sprite-based graphical user interface  
An object-oriented system for generating and displaying control items that allow users of an interactive network to recognize and select control functions via a graphical user interface. The...
5584035 Object based system comprising user interface permitting manipulation of objects by users  
A distributed object based system includes primary and secondary objects. Primary objects can sustain containership links to other objects in the same storage domain and weak links can exist...
5555370 Method and system for creating complex objects for use in application development  
A data processing system for permitting a user to efficiently create an application utilizing a plurality of objects in a graphic user interface. Objects are graphically presented to the user in...
5555369 Method of creating packages for a pointer-based computer system  
A development environment and method is provided in which a first computer system is used to develop an application for execution in a second computer system--such as a pen-based computer--having a...
5555365 Method and system for optimizing static and dynamic binding of presentation objects with the object data they represent  
A data processing system having an object oriented environment. The object oriented environment includes a plurality of graphic user interface objects and a plurality of application objects, each...
5513311 Method and system for creating logical connections in a data processing system  
A method and system for efficiently creating connections between a new graphic object and at least one of a plurality of existing graphic objects displayed within a graphic editor. In response to a...
5414809 Graphical display of data  
A method of using a computer system 20 to implement a graphical interface 10. The method displays a graph 160 of data from a database system 11, and permits a user to change the data by changing...
5357603 Method and system for changing a shape type while maintaining existing graphic characteristics  
A computer method and system for changing a shape type of a graphic data object. A first shape type is obtained through user selection and a graphic data object is created having graphic...
5339392 Apparatus and method for creation of a user definable video displayed document showing changes in real time data  
A software program providing a facility for a user to compose a custom active document using tools provided by the program. The active document can be comprised of one or more sheets each of which...
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