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7404152 Displaying messages on handheld devices  
A method of displaying messages on handheld devices. The device displays messages in a scrollable viewport of vertically arranged fields. Date separators inserted into the vertically arranged list...
7395500 Space-optimizing content display  
An apparatus, method, computer system, and computer program product to optimize space available for displaying text descriptions in a limited area, such as a sidebar. Space is optimized by...
7353461 Method and apparatus for selection control  
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for selection control using a touch screen, wherein first and second intersecting bars ( 1, 2 ) are displayed, preferably near the edge, on the...
7328411 Scrollbar enhancement for browsing data  
A graphical user interface for browsing information displayed to a user. The information displayed includes zero or more elements and may be displayed in a display window. The display window has a...
7310084 Multi-way operation switch, input device and input unit  
A multi-way operation switch of the present invention includes an operation unit that is horizontally movable and rotatable; a plurality of first switch contacts for turning on and off the...
7237205 Parameter evaluation system  
A parameter evaluation system comprising a boundary input device for setting boundaries in a variation range of one or more parameters, thereby to define regions within said variation range, a...
7159188 System and method for navigating content in an item  
A system and a method for a user interface which generates a preview display to aid in the navigation of items of content on a computer. A screen displays an item to a user. Upon receipt of a user...
7117450 Method and apparatus for determining font attributes  
A method to determine a font attribute includes: determining a first number and a second number; receiving input resulting from repositioning of a thumb of a slider to a position; and determining a...
7100121 Franking system user interface  
A franking machine control panel and its associated method provide users with touch screen displays in which the main screens contain history tabs. When a history tab is pressed, the display...
6963349 Information processing apparatus, control method therefor, and computer-readable memory  
A RAM stores a management table for making the indication state of an indicator in the display direction correspond to control information for controlling the operation an information processing...
6865593 Dynamic integration of web sites  
A method for displaying information includes identifying computer-readable service code at a service site, which code, when read by a client computer via a network, causes the computer to display...
6857128 Electronic programming guide browsing system  
An electronic programming guide (EPG) browsing system and method for its operation are disclosed. A viewer navigates this EPG using traditional up, down, left, right commands. But unlike the prior...
6816174 Method and apparatus for variable density scroll area  
A method and system to provide a user additional positional context for the information they are browsing and allows for rapid browsing through large data sets thereby providing a more usable...
6778192 System and method for creating markers on scroll bars of a graphical user interface  
The present invention is embodied in a system and method for creating markers on scroll bars of a graphical user interface. Basically, the present invention allows users to reference locations of...
6771284 System and method of providing a navigational aide  
The present invention is directed to a system and method of providing a navigational aide. In a first aspect of the present invention, a system and method of providing a navigational aide includes...
6750913 Camera control system with image parameter display device  
A camera control system acquires present camera parameter information, and simultaneously displays camera parameter information set by a user and the acquired present camera parameter information...
6738787 Method and apparatus for displaying and header scrolling a hierarchical data structure  
Methods and apparatus can scroll a displayed hierarchical data structure. A hierarchical data structure can include a first parent node and a plurality of child nodes of the parent node, the...
6714221 Depicting and setting scroll amount  
A user interface and methods for controlling and presenting information concerning scrolling of an on-screen document are described. In one aspect of the invention, an exemplary method of the...
6677965 Rubber band graphical user interface control  
A rubber band variable-rate GUI control for use in conjunction with GUI controls, such as sliders, scroll bars, virtual joysticks, and oppositional buttons (up/down, left/right, plus/minus,...
6590595 Mechanism for providing intuitive scrolling feedback  
An intuitive scrolling feedback mechanism is provided to enable novice and infrequent computer users to understand and to utilize the scrolling functionality offered by a computing device....
6590594 Window scroll-bar  
A method, system, and program product for generating a window scroll-bar. In the preferred embodiment, a controller displays the window scroll-bar on a display screen. The window scroll-bar...
6570594 User interface with non-intrusive display element  
Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention improve display systems by providing a non-intrusive user interface where an application displays data in a...
6473104 Slider control  
A slider control cooperates with a viewport of a graphic user interface interactive application in which information is displayed. The invention is applicable where this information is divisible...
6430574 Method and apparatus for displaying and header scrolling a hierarchical data structure  
Methods and apparatus can scroll a displayed hierarchical data structure. A hierarchical data structure can include a first parent node and a plurality of child nodes of the parent node, the...
6421071 Synchronous scrolling of time stamped log files  
A computer based data analyzing system includes a memory storing a plurality of different log files. The memory is accessed to select a group of log files for simultaneous display in corresponding...
6411274 Digital map display zooming method, digital map display zooming device, and storage medium for storing digital map display zooming program  
A digital map display zooming method for continuously enlarging and reducing a displayed portion of a digital map as map information in digital form within a display screen is provided which...
6342902 Controlling audio and/or video replay  
Apparatus for controlling replay of video and/or audio material comprises cursor control means for providing user control of a cursor on the display screen; selection control means for selecting an...
6339438 Scroll bar with integrated advertisement  
An apparatus, program product and method display an advertisement on at least a portion of a scroll bar. Doing so permits advertisements to be presented to users with reduced impact on the...
6339437 Relevance-enhanced scrolling  
A graphical user interface enhances user information when scrolling through a document by determining the amount of relevant information at a particular scrolling location and changing one or more...
6337697 Method for scrolling automatically on a display device and device therefor  
An automatic scrolling method for showing a document which is larger than a screen of an information device and device therefor. The method includes the steps of (a) displaying a portion of the...
6331866 Display control for software notes  
A method for controlling presentation of the content of a note on a display facilitates the editing of note content by a user. A computer user can view different portions of the note content...
6300967 Method and apparatus for providing feedback while scrolling  
The present invention comprises a method for providing feedback to the user of a graphical user interface using visual and operational clues. In an embodiment of the invention, the user is provided...
6195089 Television graphical user interface having variable channel changer icons  
A TV graphical user interface provided on a TV screen includes a graphical channel changer for enabling a user to select a required TV channel among about 1000 channels provided by a satellite TV...
5999178 Selection, type matching and manipulation of resource objects by a computer program  
A method is provided for enabling a user to select and manipulate resource objects of a given type by selecting a program of a type compatible with the type of the resource objects via the...
5999176 Method to provide a single scrolling control for a multi-window interface  
A single scrolling control mechanism is provided for any active display window in a graphical user interface. As a different display window becomes active, a determination is made of whether the...
5943052 Method and apparatus for scroll bar control  
An apparatus for touchpad-based scroll control and method for scroll control comprising a data packet processor working in conjunction with a touchpad. A scroll zone, having a central axis, is...
5886696 Display apparatus and method dynamically indicating elevator movement between floors by scrolling information  
In a display (202) comprised in an elevator system, more than one floor symbol (205) but less than all the floor symbols corresponding to different floors in the elevator system are highlighted at...
5805166 Segmented status area for dynamically reporting status in a data processing system  
Methods, systems and program products which provide dynamic status to a user. The status is provided by providing a plurality of icons arranged in a pattern corresponding to the relationship...
5793369 Apparatus for visualizing program slices  
Apparatus for visualizing slices of transitive closures of entities having dependence relationships with one another. A preferred embodiment visualizes slices of programs. A display in a computer...
5790819 Mechanism for fine-grained and coarse-grained control of zooming in a display of a one-dimensional data set  
A zoom control mechanism includes a context display for displaying a representation of a data set, a zoom display for displaying a representation of a zoom interval within the data set, a context...
5757370 Method, memory, and apparatus for effectively locating an object within a compound document  
A method, memory, and apparatus locate a portion (e.g., page) in a compound document. The method directs a computer, having at least a display device, to locate the specific page in the compound...
5742777 Apparatus for selective simultaneous display of information about plurality of entities  
Techniques for displaying an intermediate level of detail in a computer system. The techniques are employed in a system for discovering information about a large body of software. The system...
5739817 Method and apparatus for displaying position information adjacent to a scroll box  
A method and apparatus for locating a predetermined position in a computer file. A continuous, static ECG waveform is displayed in rows on a CRT screen. A scroll bar permits a user to use a...
5682489 Method and device for monitoring, manipulating, and viewing system information  
A system monitoring device has the capacity of displaying historical or real time information and also allows a user to set, via direct manipulation, a range of values in relation to other...
5680561 Effectively locating an object within a compound document using an elevator  
A method, apparatus and memory direct a computer system, having at least a processor, display, and user controls, to locate at least one portion (e.g., page containing one or more objects and text)...
5644692 Information display apparatus and methods  
Apparatus for displaying information about a very large number of entities. The apparatus includes very small entity representations which represent the entities. The entity representations are...
5623588 Computer user interface with non-salience deemphasis  
A relativity controller is a scroll bar/window combination that provides a way to see data in relation to both the context of its wholeness and the salience of its contents. To accomplish this, the...
5592604 Method and system for indicating boundaries of connected data subsets  
A method and system for indicating boundaries of data subsets that are displayed in a display window in a data processing system. Data having data subsets are displayed within a display window with...
5550969 Graphical method of indicating the position of and performing an operation on a plurality of selected objects in a computer system  
A method of indicating the position of multiple selections of objects in a windowed computer user interface. The method includes displaying objects to be selected in a window which includes a...
5479600 Attribute-enhanced scroll bar system and method  
An attribute-enhanced scroll bar is presented. A selected portion of a stored data file, for example a document, is displayed in a window, and a scroll bar field including a scroll bar is used to...
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