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7421155 Archive of text captures from rendered documents  
A facility for storing a text capture data structure for a particular user is described. The data structure comprises a number of entries. Each entry corresponds to a text capture operation...
7418137 System and method for accepting disparate types of user input  
A user interface allows a user to input handwritten, key-press, and spoken text in a seamless, synchronized manner. A text input panel accepts soft keyboard presses and handwritten words,...
7411582 Soft input panel system and method  
A method and system for receiving user input data into a computer system having a graphical windowing environment. A touch-sensitive display screen for displaying images and detecting user activity...
7401299 Method and apparatus for providing a presumptive drafting solution  
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for providing a presumptive drafting solution. Input from a cursor control device is received, wherein the input reflects a movement in a computer...
7392485 System and method for providing a server control interface  
A method and system for providing a computing device control interface are provided. A system administrator accesses a graphical user interface and selects a group of actions that are to be...
7382354 Interaction with computer software using handwritten input on a form  
A system for enabling user interaction with computer software. The system includes a computer system which transfers print data to a printer, the printer being responsive to the print data to print...
7358956 Method for providing feedback responsive to sensing a physical presence proximate to a control of an electronic device  
In a computer system, a touch sensitive input device having touch sensitive auxiliary controls can be used to provide a user with information regarding the functionality of an auxiliary control....
7350152 System and method for providing a server control interface  
A method and system for providing a computing device control interface are provided. A system administrator accesses a graphical user interface and selects a group of actions that are to be...
RE40153 Multi-touch system and method for emulating modifier keys via fingertip chords  
A multi-touch system is disclosed that recognizes simultaneous touchdown of four fingers on, above, or below the home row of keys as a modifier chord and applies modifiers such as Shift, Ctrl, or...
7345681 Pen data capture and injection  
A tool that allows a user, such as a software developer, to create test data that can consistently be employed to simulate the operation of a hardware pen or stylus. Raw pen data, such as position...
7339580 Method and apparatus for integrating manual input  
Apparatus and methods are disclosed for simultaneously tracking multiple finger and palm contacts as hands approach, touch, and slide across a proximity-sensing, compliant, and flexible multi-touch...
7337408 System and method for providing a server control interface  
A method and system for providing a computing device control interface are provided. A system administrator accesses a graphical user interface and selects a group of actions that are to be...
7336828 Multiple handwriting recognition engine selection  
A system and method for switching between handwriting recognizers is described. A user may select between various recognizers to associate received handwritten ink with the recognizers....
7308511 System for allocating resources in a computer system  
A system for allocating resources for use by devices of a computer. Device information for the devices of the computer is collected to uniquely identify the devices and to describe the device...
7305630 Ink gestures  
A system and process for capturing and implementing handwritten gestures is described. A user may use gestures to quickly command a pen-based input device to perform operations. Using the described...
7263551 Distributed computing services platform  
A server federation cooperatively interacts to fulfill service requests by communicating using data structures that follow a schema in which the meaning of the communicated data is implied by the...
7256770 Method for displaying information responsive to sensing a physical presence proximate to a computer input device  
In a computer system, a touch sensitive input device having touch sensitive auxiliary controls system can be used to anticipate a user's action. When a user's hand approaches a touch sensitive...
7233316 Multimedia user interface  
A user interface for multimedia centers advantageously utilizes hand-held inertial-sensing user input devices to select channels and quickly navigate the dense menus of options. Extensive use of...
7227527 Handwritten text capture via interface surface and processing sensor  
A method and system for enabling user interaction with computer software running in a computer system via an interface surface and a sensing device. The interface surface contains information...
7203903 System and methods for spacing, storing and recognizing electronic representations of handwriting, printing and drawings  
A system for spacing, storing and recognizing electronic representations of handwriting and printing comprises a central processing unit that couples with a display device, an input device, and a...
7190351 System and method for data input  
The invention provides a system and a method for data input that can be used with or incorporated into electronic, computer, and portable devices. The interface includes a small set of control...
7170499 Handwritten text capture via interface surface  
A method and system for enabling user interaction with computer software running in a computer system via an interface surface and a sensing device. The interface surface contains information...
7113173 Local handwriting recognition in a wireless interface tablet device  
A pen-based portable computer system, and more particularly, to a computer system which includes a host computer or a server that is adapted to interface with one or more wireless interface devices...
7109978 Object position detector with edge motion feature and gesture recognition  
A method of generating a signal comprising providing a capacitive touch sensor pad including a matrix of X and Y conductors, developing capacitance profiles in one of an X direction and a Y...
7092928 Intelligent portal engine  
A human-computer interface system and methods for providing intelligent, adaptive, multimodal interaction with users while accomplishing tasks on their behalf in some particular domain or...
7069499 Spreadsheet having a clocked delay line object, for processing a continuous data stream  
An improved electronic spreadsheet is provided for applications that require the processing of continuous data streams over a time-based data interval of size greater than one. The improved...
RE39090 Semantic user interface  
A system and method that allows a user to use their everyday language or user defined words to operate the computer in a highly efficient way. In short, every word, letter, control character and...
7036077 Method for gestural interpretation in a system for selecting and arranging visible material in document images  
A graphical input and display system for creating and manipulating image object(s) includes input devices permitting a user to select elements of image object(s) received from various image input...
6990513 Distributed computing services platform  
A server federation cooperatively interacts to fulfill service requests by communicating using data structures that follow a schema in which the meaning of the communicated data is implied by the...
6980200 Rapid entry of data and information on a reduced size input area  
A method and device designed to improve the speed, accuracy, and ease of entry of characters and other symbols by a user. The device is designed to use a reduced size input area as an input source...
6938222 Ink gestures  
A system and process for capturing and implementing handwritten gestures is described. A user may use gestures to quickly command a pen-based input device to perform operations. Using the described...
6938220 Information processing apparatus  
An information processing apparatus obtains a distance that an input pen is moved in terms of the number of dots covered on a display screen, and from that number, judges whether a pen stroke is a...
6859907 Large data set storage and display for electronic spreadsheets applied to machine vision  
An electronic spreadsheet is improved for machine vision applications by incorporating single method objects, and a data display buffer position beneath a variably transparent spreadsheet grid. The...
6807668 Method and apparatus for improved interaction with an application program according to data types and actions performed by the application program  
A method and apparatus for performing actions while selecting objects on a user interface display. A user may select a first item in an area of a display controlled by a first process and drag that...
6804817 Information-object designation system  
An information-object designation system in which two character strings, a character string expressive of a name of each of information objects stored in an information processing system, and a...
6788815 System and method for accepting disparate types of user input  
A user interface allows a user to input handwritten, key-press, and spoken text in a seamless, synchronized manner. A text input panel accepts soft keyboard presses and handwritten words,...
6763454 System for allocating resources in a computer system  
A system for allocating resources for use by devices of a computer. Device information for the devices of the computer is collected to uniquely identify the devices and to describe the device...
6750852 Object position detector with edge motion feature and gesture recognition  
The disclosed device is directed towards a method for recognizing a gesture made on a touch-sensor pad in a touch-sensing system providing X and Y position information to a host comprising...
6654955 Adding speech recognition libraries to an existing program at runtime  
A method and apparatus for enabling existing application programs for operation in speech recognition environments. Existing applications programs written with a dynamically linked library or...
6651221 System and methods for spacing, storing and recognizing electronic representations of handwriting, printing and drawings  
A system for spacing, storing and recognizing electronic representations of handwriting and printing comprises a central processing unit that couples with a display device, an input device, and a...
6639584 Methods and apparatus for controlling a portable electronic device using a touchpad  
Apparatus and methods for controlling a portable electronic device, such as an MP3 player; portable radio, voice recorder, or portable CD player are disclosed. A touchpad is mounted on the housing...
EP1351123A2 Method for gestural interpretation  
A graphical input and display system for creating and manipulating image object(s) includes input devices (130, 120) permitting a user to select elements of image object(s) received from various...
6610936 Object position detector with edge motion feature and gesture recognition  
Methods for recognizing gestures made by a conductive object on a touch-sensor pad and for cursor motion are disclosed. Tapping, drags, pushes, extended drags and variable drags gestures are...
6587587 System and methods for spacing, storing and recognizing electronic representations of handwriting, printing and drawings  
A system for spacing, storing and recognizing electronic representations of handwriting and printing comprises a central processing unit that couples with a display device, an input device, and a...
6583723 Human interface system using a plurality of sensors  
An image sensor, a voice sensor, an auxiliary sensor part (infrared sensor, etc.), a total analyzing part, and an application communicate with each other through data/control signal communication...
6546431 Data processing system and method for sharing user interface devices of a provider assistive technology application with disparate user assistive technology applications  
A data processing system and method providing for the sharing of inputs and outputs between a first assistive technology application and a second assistive technology application. An input/output...
6535930 Method and apparatus for improved interaction with an application program according to data types and actions performed by the application program  
A method and apparatus for performing actions while selecting objects on a user interface display. A user may select a first item in an area of a display controlled by a first process and drag that...
6535897 System and methods for spacing, storing and recognizing electronic representations of handwriting printing and drawings  
A system for spacing, storing and recognizing electronic representations of handwriting and printing comprises a central processing unit that couples with a display device, an input device, and a...
6477499 Window control apparatus and method having function for controlling windows by means of voice-input  
A display unit displays at least a window from among a plurality of windows. A window switching unit switches a currently active window between windows among the plurality of windows in accordance...
6438545 Semantic user interface  
A system and method that allows a user to use their everyday language or user defined words to operate a computer in a highly efficient way. In short, every word, letter, control character and...
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