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6144380 Method of entering and using handwriting to identify locations within an electronic book  
A method for controlling a screen display of an electronic book. The contents of the book are displayed on a screen of the computer system as pages with which the user interacts by a pointer such...
6141010 Computer interface method and apparatus with targeted advertising  
A method and apparatus for providing an automatically upgradeable software application that includes targeted advertising based upon demographics and user interaction with the computer. The...
6133919 Method and apparatus for using a graphical user interface (GUI) as the interface to a distributed platform switch  
A graphical user interface (GUI) can support the effective and efficient supervision of increasingly complex distributed switching hardware and software. The GUI can support a concurrent view of...
6128013 User interface for an image capture device  
A graphical system interfaces user selections with an image capture device by means of a series of display screens produced by a processor and presented to the user on a display device. After...
6111574 Method and system for visually indicating a selection query  
A method and system for specifying a selection query for a collection of data items. The system allows a user to define a various conditions (e.g., "Supervisor=Smith") that relate to the...
6104396 Information processing system  
An appearance change of an information processing device, which has a plurality of operation modes and whose appearance is changed in accordance with change of operation mode, is displayed on a...
6094196 Interaction spheres of three-dimensional objects in three-dimensional workspace displays  
A system, method and computer program are provided for a virtual three-dimensional workspace with means for navigating the user's viewpoint into said workspace. Potentially interactive...
6094195 Dynamic presentation of frequently changing values  
A user interface component, gauge, is adapted to present a changing value according to a pre-determined behavioral and presentational characteristic. The component includes a kernel which is...
6091417 Graphical user interface  
A virtual mall consists of a graphical user interface having a web page with graphical image that represents the physical structure of a mall. Various sub-regions in the graphical image represent...
6088030 Implicit legend with icon overlays  
Described is a mapping function and Graphic User Interface (GUI) for use in an interactive computer system. The GUI is generated by a computer program and includes a view of events or objects...
6078325 Object oriented customer information exchange system and method  
A computer-based information exchange system permits customers to request and receive different types of information from various sources. The operation of the system is controlled by an...
6075529 GUI automatic generating system for inputting data of a manufacturing process  
When an LSI manufacturing process is to be input by a simulation system, a format reading and analyzing section selectively reads a format of one stop of the manufacturing process from format data...
6069629 Method of providing access to object parameters within a simulation model  
A method of providing access to object parameters of a simulation model involves the display of a diagram panel within a user interface, this diagram panel including icons representative of objects...
6065012 System and method for displaying and manipulating user-relevant data  
A dynamic summary view is generated by defining an HTML page that links data binding HTML tables and other HTML controls to predetermined data within a storage of data. For each type of data, a...
6064387 Animated cursor and icon for computers  
In general, a plurality of embodiments include an animated "target" icon and/or cursor for guiding a user to take a desired action. In particular, the user is guided to click on the target icon,...
6064384 Computer user interface system and method having book image features  
A computer user interface system and method arranges a set of information hosted on a computer into a set of books, where each book includes a subset of the set of information, labels each book...
6057834 Iconic subscription schedule controller for a graphic user interface  
Using a graphical user interface (GUI), users manipulate, organize, classify, and/or arrange web-page icons by having the icons be consolidated in schedule-control icons (SCI) containing regions....
6054988 Expand to wells function in graphical user interface system  
A method apparatus and application is provided for displaying wells containing objects related to objects initially displayed. The computer system has at least a visual operator interface, an...
6031537 Method and apparatus for displaying a thought network from a thought's perspective  
A method and apparatus for organizing and processing pieces of interrelated information (or "thoughts") is used with a digital computer. The invention employs a graphical user interface to...
6031533 Graphical user interface for use in a de-centralized network environment  
A method of providing a graphical user interface on a client network device is described. The client network device is coupled to a server network device and has a local storage facility, such as a...
6025838 Interactive display interface for media presentation with direct access to media sequences  
A computer supported display control system for switching between and tracking of sequences in electronic media presentations having multisequences. During switching, the selected tracks or...
6025828 Display system with nested objects  
A method, system and program for including selections in the menu bar that are icons. The support for menus containing icons includes an algorithm in the memory of a processor that presents a menu...
6014135 Collaboration centric document processing environment using an information centric visual user interface and information presentation method  
A new computer interface displays a plurality of icons representative of people, documents and time. Various functions, including media independent functions, for interacting between these three...
6011553 Data transfer displaying/operating method  
When a pointer is clicked on a connector (subicon) graphically attached to a source object (text file icon) to be transferred, the connector moves together with the pointer. The source object and...
RE36444 Selecting and locating graphical icon objects to define and configure the workstations in data processing networks  
A system and method for configuring communication and database networks in a user friendly graphical environment and automatically generating related configuration files. In a preferred practice,...
6002401 User definable pictorial interface for accessing information in an electronic file system  
A pictorial user interface for accessing information in an electronic file system provides a pictorial image which is linked to a file directory and which identifies the file directory. Objects in...
6002400 Method and apparatus for handles to components in graphical windows user interface  
A method and apparatus for use with a computer having a graphical user interface, including a desktop, displayed on a computer screen. The system is designed for controlling the execution of a...
6002396 System and method for defining a process structure for performing a task  
A system and method for defining a process structure for performing a task. The system comprises a computer, having a data storage memory, a keyboard for inputting data and a screen. A user inputs...
5990891 Apparatus and method for transmitting an attribute value between items by a user's operation  
In an operation support apparatus, an item memory section stores a plurality of items and attribute data. The plurality of items to be operated are displayed. A user's operation for one of the...
5986655 Method and system for indexing and controlling the playback of multimedia documents  
An electronic multimedia document system provides temporal icons that provide indices into a recording of a meeting or presentation. The temporal icons index the times of occurrence of events and...
5986654 System and method for rendering on-screen iconic buttons with dynamic textual link  
A display button for a web page integrating both a graphic pictorial image with character based textual information (with link) into a single iconic button. By providing a graphic image within a...
5977974 Information processing apparatus and method  
A plurality of data items are stored in a storage medium, and time information of each of the plurality of data items is obtained. In a display window on a display screen, a time axis, having a...
5977968 Graphical user interface to communicate attitude or emotion to a computer program  
A graphical user interface for a computer program includes the representation of a face (an avatar) on a computer screen which allows a user to communicate the user's attitude to a situation...
5956033 Document control interface and method for graphical message document software  
The present invention includes a document control interface method for graphical message document computer software. The method is performed by a computer system executing graphical message...
5956032 Signalling a user attempt to resize a window beyond its limit  
In a graphical user interface, a method for resizing the windows which visually indicates to the user that an illegal resizing action is attempted. A graphical icon provides an immediately and...
5953007 System, method, and program for using animations to show page layout combinations in a user interface for submitting print jobs  
The system, method, and program of this invention allows a user to specify one of a plurality of print layout combinations. Upon specifying a specific combination, an animation, embedded in the...
5943055 Computer interface method and system  
A method and system are disclosed for processing and presenting graphic objects using a telephone station at which a user is capable of performing a number of functions. The telephone station...
5929856 Method and system for design and drafting  
A dimension indicator is automatically created to define the size of a geometric object or the spatial relationship between two geometric objects for a user of a computer-aided design and drafting...
5929851 Grouping of operations in a computer system  
A computer system connectable to a display device to display a graphical user interface through which a user can select an action in order to invoke a desired operation, and a method of operation...
5909690 Apparatus and method for page-retrieval using electronic book display  
An apparatus and method for page-retrieval for use with an electronic display, especially suited for so-called electronic books, wherein a current relative position of a current page of the book...
5903309 Method and system for displaying images and associated multimedia types in the interface of a digital camera  
A method and system for displaying a series of images captured by a digital camera, which includes a user interface that includes a view finder. The method and system first stores each of the...
5898422 Method and system for recognition of pointers  
A system and method for determining whether or not a non-system pointer is equivalent to a system pointer. The system and the non-system pointer each have pointer IDs. The system first determines...
5896491 System and method for executing functions associated with function icons  
A data processing system and method in which processing operations represented as icons are selectable by a user for application to subsequently selected data items. The icon representing the...
5896133 Graphical user interface for navigating between street, hallway, room, and function metaphors  
A graphical navigation user interface for enabling user control of a computer system may incorporate navigation levels. Each navigation level is based on a physical real-word metaphor. The...
5893908 Document management system  
An electronic document management system that takes advantage of advanced document analysis techniques. The electronic document management system may provide automatic archiving of documents and...
5886699 Method and system for transferring data to common destinations using a common destination list  
A method and system for transferring data to common destinations using a common destination list is provided. In a preferred embodiment, a user uses a software facility ("the facility") that is...
5886697 Method and apparatus for improved graphical user interface having anthropomorphic characters  
An intuitive graphical user interface is based upon a geographic map structure, and includes a system for controlling remote external electronic devices. In the defined graphical user interface,...
5859638 Method and apparatus for displaying and scrolling data in a window-based graphic user interface  
A user interface includes an object oriented graphic user interface having overlapping windows and provides an access window having topics, index and look for button functions for selection by a...
5831617 Browsing and manipulating objects using movie like icons  
A method to access appropriate versions of files or objects in a computer with a graphical user interface. The invention creates a container "movie" object which "contains" a user or program...
5831611 Apparatus and method for creating and executing graphically depicted communication  
A process management system is described for creating and executing graphically depicted communication processes. The process management system includes a graphical process editor facilitating the...
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