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5347628 |
Method of graphically accessing electronic data
A computer system user interface that includes a method of accessing electronic data. The method includes displaying on a computer display screen a control window that includes a perspective view...
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5339391 |
Computer display unit with attribute enhanced scroll bar
An attribute-enhanced scroll bar is graphically displayed. A selected portion of a stored data file, for example a document, is displayed in a display field, and a scroll bar field including a...
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5317511 |
Method of finding definitions in computer source programs
A computer program is described which makes it easier for a computer programmer to view and understand the source code of other programs. The user can look up the definition of, or references to, a...
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5305435 |
Computer windows management system and method for simulating off-screen document storage and retrieval
A novel computer display interface which simulates familiar document handling activities based upon a unique display metaphor representative of a standard office filing system and work area of a...
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5305434 |
System and method for executing panel actions from procedures
In a relational database system, facility is provided for a navigator controlling a procedure executor and a panel executor. Procedures are specified by a procedural language which includes current...
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5301301 |
Polymorphic dataflow block diagram system and method for programming a computer
A computer system is programmed by a user to perform dataflow computations by constructing a dataflow block diagram that utilizes function icons. At least a subset of the function icons are...
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5297249 |
Hypermedia link marker abstract and search services
A set of hypermedia linking services enable client applications to incorporate hypermedia capabilities in an open system architecture. The users are provided with a consistent hypermedia interface...
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5297027 |
Method of and apparatus for promoting the understanding of a text by using an abstract of that text
A method and an apparatus for extracting text information for use with a computer system including an input unit, an output unit, and a storage is described. The storage is loaded with documents,...
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5297253 |
Computer user interface navigational tool
A navigational tool is disclosed for traversing information units stored in a memory of a computer system. The computer system has a monitor and a control device and operates according to a...
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5295243 |
Display of hierarchical three-dimensional structures with rotating substructures
A processor presents a sequence of images of a hierarchical structure that is perceived as three-dimensional. The hierarchical structure includes conic substructures that can have vertical or...
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5295062 |
Facility management apparatus having touch responsive display screens
A facility management apparatus includes a display unit for designating a facility system and selectively displaying a corresponding individual facility system screen. The individual facility...
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5295244 |
Network management system using interconnected hierarchies to represent different network dimensions in multiple display views
A network management system includes a user interface, a virtual network and a device communication manager. The virtual network includes models which represent network entities and model relations...
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5283865 |
Computer-assisted parts sales system
A computerized system provides a salesperson with assistance related to training and sales of parts corresponding to particular products. More particularly, a computerized system incorporating a...
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5283864 |
Computer apparatus and method for graphical flip book
Computer apparatus and method replicates a book in screen views of a video display unit. A book representation is formed of a multiplicity of entities positioned in a series and successively...
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5272769 |
Emission system component inspection system
A computer-based system for providing visual images to assist in the inspection of a vehicle emission-control system and components consists of a database of text and graphics data both for...
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5267145 |
Method and apparatus for program navigation and editing for ladder logic programs by determining which instructions reference a selected data element address
The present invention is a method that provides productivity aids for developing, debugging, and troubleshooting ladder logic programs used in Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs). The present...
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5261042 |
Menu management system
A menu management system providing application developers a flexible tool for building a consistent user interface. A menu data base is created and edited using a maintenance module. The menu data...
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5257349 |
Interactive data visualization with smart object
A computer analysis tool enables an operator to analyze and visualize more effectively data objects having a large number of individual physical attributes. In the tool, one or more visual...
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5253337 |
Method and apparatus for searching image information
An image information search apparatus includes an input unit inputting a search start instruction and a search stop instruction, an image information storage unit for storing a plurality of pieces...
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5237654 |
Hierarchical inter-panel process flow control
An inter-panel process flow control method and system for enabling an uninhibited change of scope from the active panel to another panel visible on a display screen. The process relies on...
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5222210 |
Method of displaying the state of an artificial neural network
A computer simulator is provided for displaying the state of an artificial neural network in a simplified yet meaningful manner on a computer display terminal. The user may enter commands to select...
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5220652 |
Computer application programs data input interface for handicapped persons responsive to multiple push buttons for selecting data stored in binary tree
A text processing method to be practiced by a handicapped person. A programmed computer has a dictionary of words stored in files accessed by selection of the initial letters of the words. The...
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5212771 |
System for establishing concurrent high level and low level processes in a diagram window through process explosion and implosion subsystems
A computer system for creating and manipulating subprocesses in a dynamic model of information management systems of organizations. The system enables a user to "explode" a process from a graphical...
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5204947 |
Application independent (open) hypermedia enablement services
A set of hypermedia linking services enable client applications to incorporate hypermedia capabilities in an open system architecture. The users are provided with a consistent hypermedia interface...
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5187797 |
Machine interface system with hierarchal menus allowing user sequencing and selection of menu items by actuation of three switches
A user interface, typically to an irrigation controller, prompts user responses by asking questions. The questions are hierarchally organized, preferably in a hierarchal tree having approximately...
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5172245 |
Electronic information retrieval apparatus for image information using primary and secondary menus
Disclosed is an electronic information retrieval apparatus in the apparatus when a retrieval instruction is supplied to the electronic information retrieval apparatus, broad sort names are read...
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5159669 |
Automatically creating a second workspace operation record including history data and a unit ID based on a first workspace operation
A data processing system creates a log of operations performed on data units within a data structure, such as on objects corresponding to cards and links in a hypermedia database. The log includes...
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5123088 |
Method and apparatus for creating and displaying navigators for guiding to related image information
Image information units, related with one another in the order of their magnitudes defined for each of a plurality of properties of each image, are prestored in an image information storage and...
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5121478 |
Window system with independently replaceable window functionality
A workspace data structure, such as a window hierarchy or network, includes functional data units that include data relating to workspace functionality. These functional data units are associated...
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5107443 |
Private regions within a shared workspace
In a shared navigable workspace that is presented at more than one workstation, a region is made private in response to a user request. The user can also indicate the region's level of privacy by...
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5065347 |
Hierarchical folders display
Method and apparatus of accessing and displaying hierarachical files on an electronic workstation screen that includes: (1) an Open Next-To operation that opens a separate window for a file to...
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5050105 |
Direct cursor-controlled access to multiple application programs and data
A method for navigating between and within application programs resident in a computer system provides easy access to the programs and data within the programs. Two or more windows may be...
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5047959 |
Flexible data display
A data display, preferably having screens or windows, is built from data in a data base according to a hierarchy of display knowledge. Therefore, the data values themselves are separate from the...
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5021976 |
Method and system for generating dynamic, interactive visual representations of information structures within a computer
A method and system for generating dynamic, interactive visual representations of information structures within a computer which enable humans to efficiently process vast amounts of information....
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5008810 |
System for displaying different subsets of screen views, entering different amount of information, and determining correctness of input dependent upon current user input
An input software system is used to provide input to a process simulation software device. The input software system includes an expert system which guides the user step by step through required...
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4982344 |
Accelerating link creation
A data processing system includes a workspace network data structure, such as a hypertext data structure, in which data units corresponding to displayable workspace sets such as cards are linked by...
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4954981 |
Method and apparatus for accessing and manipulating time series
This invention relates to a system for accessing, manipulating and displaying time series from a stored collection of time series. In particular, the system permits the user to reconfigure the...
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4845653 |
Method of displaying multi-parameter data sets to aid in the analysis of data characteristics
The method involves displaying at least three different parameters of particle-related data in multiple two-parameter data fields on a screen for viewing by a user. A position variable cursor is...
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4821211 |
Method of navigating among program menus using a graphical menu tree
The menu hierarchy of one or more computer programs on one or more computer systems is visually displayed in a graphical tree structure to facilitate the navigation by a user from one menu in a...
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4805119 |
User terminal for videotex
A method and apparatus for retrieving picture information stored in an information center and subsequently storing the picture information in a user terminal by registering in the information...
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4779080 |
Electronic information display systems
An electronic information display system which is organized as a reference information display system. The system comprises a reference source in the form of a compact disc CD ROM, which...
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4740912 |
Quinews-electronic replacement for the newspaper
A system for replacing the newspaper. A radio transmitter transmits the news as "pages" of code. The transmission is received in the home and the encoded pages stored in computer memory. The user...
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4712191 |
Display system with nested information display
An information display system which can produce an information display (e.g. on a television monitor) from any one of a plurality of different information sources. The information sources are...
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4710763 |
Method for generating and displaying tree structures in a limited display area
There is disclosed a method for constructing and displaying tree structures with automated data processing equipment. A focused view of a portion of the tree is provided to enable an operator to...
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4649499 |
Touchscreen two-dimensional emulation of three-dimensional objects
Computer programs are provided which utilize a touchscreen to emulate three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional computer screen. One program, called personal cardfile (PCF), combines the...
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4613946 |
Method and apparatus for generating hierarchical displays
Method and apparatus are described for drawing tree structures on output displays and on printed output reports. The tree structures include complete illustration of nodes and branches connecting...
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4601003 |
Document rearrangement system
A document rearranging system is disclosed which includes an optical disk device storing a totality of electrical image information representing paper documents, a first CRT for displaying new...
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3623157 |
BRANCH CONTROL OF ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES AND DISPLAY INFORMATION
Information presented on a display screen is responded to by an operator and dependent on the operator's response the apparatus of the invention branches to another instruction presently available...
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3292489 |
Hierarchical search system
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