http://www.freshpatents.com/Data-processing--presentation-processing-of-document-dtnewntc715.php USPTO Class 715 - Data processing: presentation processing of document en-us Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 1000 Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 141 31 http://www.freshpatents.com/index.php?rss=true http://www.freshpatents.com/images/freshpatentsnav_rss.gif http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-system-for-providing-a-widget-for-displaying-multimedia-content-dt20080424ptan20080098289.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 A system and computer implemented method for providing a widget for dynamically displaying multimedia content are described. The method and system include receiving a plurality of parameters for an ancestor widget of the widget. The ancestor widget is embeddable, copyable, and for dynamically displaying at least a portion of the... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-system-for-providing-a-widget-for-displaying-multimedia-content-dt20080424ptan20080098290.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 A system and computer implemented method for providing a widget are described. The method and system include receiving a rule and at least one condition corresponding to the rule for the widget. The widget is embeddable and dynamically displays multimedia content. The widget provides input to a provider and receives... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-system-for-cross-platform-form-creation-and-deployment-dt20080424ptan20080098291.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 The present invention is directed to systems and methods of creating and deploying electronic forms for collecting information from a user using a browser, where the browser may be one of a plurality of browser platforms. Characteristics of forms are entered by a human designer using a form designer by... http://www.freshpatents.com/Automatic-document-reader-and-form-population-system-and-method-dt20080424ptan20080098292.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 A system, and method for automatic population of a form with data from an identification document. The system has a computer and an identification document reader or card scanner coupled to the computer. The card scanner is operable to read machine-readable indicia (e.g., magnetic stripe, bar codes) from one or... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-system-for-stylesheet-execution-interactive-feedback-dt20080424ptan20080098293.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 A method (and structure) for displaying mapping relationships defined by a plurality of instruction elements, each instruction element providing a relation between zero or more source elements and zero or more result elements, where each source element includes one of a plurality of source elements and each result element includes... http://www.freshpatents.com/Collaborative-annotation-of-electronic-content-dt20080424ptan20080098294.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 An apparatus, program product and method provide a collaborative annotation environment that permits viewers of electronic content to share their personal annotations with other viewers of the electronic content only after the personal annotations have been reviewed by a party other than the original authors of such annotations. In addition,... http://www.freshpatents.com/Annotation-management-system-dt20080424ptan20080098295.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 An annotation management system for providing real-time annotations for media content during a videoconference session is provided. The annotation management system includes a media management server configured to manage media data and annotation data for distribution to participants of the videoconference session. A storage server in communication with the media... http://www.freshpatents.com/Compound-web-document-generation-method-and-web-based-editing-system-for-generating-a-compound-web-document-dt20080424ptan20080098298.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 Files of various file formats are converted into markup language files, such as HTML files or XML-based files, and a compound web document is generated from the markup language files so that the compound web document may be displayed using a web browser, such as Internet Explorer. Files of the... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-system-for-providing-presence-information-dt20080424ptan20080098297.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 The present invention discloses a method for providing presence information, including: setting a validity period of the presence information; publishing, by a presentity client, the received presence information and the validity period to a presence server; and distributing the received presence information and the validity period to a watcher client... http://www.freshpatents.com/Rendering-hypertext-markup-language-content-dt20080424ptan20080098296.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in a method that includes rendering Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) content, in an HTML rendering engine, to primitives of a vector graphics rendering engine; rendering the primitives, in the vector graphics rendering engine, to... http://www.freshpatents.com/Document-conversion-and-use-system-dt20080424ptan20080098299.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 A document conversion and use system which converts a first structured document into a second structured document different in structure from the first structured document, comprising: a template storage unit storing a template indicating the structure of the second structured document; a structure specification unit for reading out the template... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-system-for-extracting-information-from-web-pages-dt20080424ptan20080098300.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 A crawler collects webpage data and obtains a list of URL's of interest used to construct a searchable index. The HTML stream is received for each relevant URL and each HTML stream is imported onto a browser or rendering engine so as to render the page. From the browser, the... http://www.freshpatents.com/Peer-to-web-broadcasting-dt20080424ptan20080098301.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 A method for peer-to-portal broadcasting, including providing a web page for a portal, the web page including an inline frame (iFrame), receiving meta-data for media files selected by a user for broadcast to the portal, and dynamically generating source code for the iFrame upon request, the source code including instructions... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-for-spell-checking-location-bound-words-within-a-document-dt20080424ptan20080098302.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 The present invention uses spatial dictionaries (termed locationaries), for meaningfully checking and correcting the spelling of text on Geographic Information System (GIS) maps or other computer documents containing spatially, or coordinate-, bound text. Locationaries keep track of correctly spelled words and the geographic areas within which they are considered correctly... http://www.freshpatents.com/Document-managing-system-and-method-thereof-dt20080424ptan20080098303.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 For each of documents or folders containing the documents, setting data on a plurality of setting items in a print settings window for printing the document and display setting data on the print settings window are stored. When an instruction is provided to print a document, the print settings window... http://www.freshpatents.com/Methods-and-systems-for-prompting-users-of-computing-devices-dt20080424ptan20080098304.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 Systems and methods for prompting a user of a computing device on a scheduled basis and interpreting the user's responses to the prompting, are described.... http://www.freshpatents.com/System-and-method-for-content-management-in-electronic-displays-dt20080424ptan20080098305.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 Methods, systems, and computer readable media are disclosed for presenting media content, which may include visual content and audio content, on a display network. A computing server and a plurality of electronic displays at a variety of display locations and in communication with the computing server are provided. A plurality... http://www.freshpatents.com/Web-integrated-interactive-voice-response-dt20080424ptan20080098306.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 One embodiment of a representative system for web integrated interactive voice response includes an interactive voice response system adapted to provide a plurality of voice menus to a user over a telephone and a graphical user interface system adapted to provide a plurality of menus in a graphical format to... http://www.freshpatents.com/Device-for-controlling-the-switching-of-a-user-interface-dt20080424ptan20080098307.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 This invention relates to a device for controlling the switching of a user interface (100) to a plurality of computers (120, 130, 150), said user interface including display means (111) and at least one input peripheral (112), and being interconnected with said plurality of computers via a switch (165). The... http://www.freshpatents.com/Unified-interface-for-managing-dsl-services-dt20080424ptan20080098308.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 A method for providing access to internet services includes displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) comprising a first pane configurable to display internet connection identifiers. The method also includes connecting simultaneously to the internet through a non-secure internet service provider and through a secure virtual private network over a single... http://www.freshpatents.com/Managing-virtual-machines-and-hosts-by-property-dt20080424ptan20080098309.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 Virtual machines and hosts of virtual machines are dynamically organized and managed in accordance with specific properties of the virtual machines and hosts. A system can be browsed for virtual machines/hosts having a specific property(s). Properties and property values are represented by a hierarchical structure of folders and subfolders, and/or... http://www.freshpatents.com/System-for-displaying-and-managing-information-on-webpage-using-indicator-dt20080424ptan20080098310.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 Disclosed is a system for displaying and managing information on a webpage using an indicator in which, a memo and so forth can be recorded in the desired contents of the webpage through the indicator and the URL of the webpage can be stored with the indicator to call out... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-system-for-navigating-in-a-database-of-a-computer-system-dt20080424ptan20080098311.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 The invention is directed to a computer program, a computer system and a method for navigating in a database of a subject system. The subject system comprises a graphical user interface. The invention method comprising steps of (i) returning results (110a-g) from a query in the database, and (ii) displaying... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-system-and-graphical-user-interface-for-dynamically-updating-transmission-characteristics-in-a-web-mail-reply-dt20080424ptan20080098312.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 A method, system and graphical user interface for dynamically updating transmission characteristics in a web mail reply are described. In one embodiment of the invention, a graphical user interface includes a web mail reply form that includes: one or more address fields; an input area for inputting a reply message;... http://www.freshpatents.com/System-and-method-for-developing-and-managing-group-social-networks-dt20080424ptan20080098313.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 A system and method for facilitating the configuration and management of events within a social networking system is disclosed. The system enables members of similar or different geographic region and/or like interests, hobbies, social status, relationship status, family status, etc. to interact with the system to view activities, register to... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-system-for-preparing-and-delivering-an-archive-of-information-reposed-on-a-collaborative-transaction-management-platform-dt20080424ptan20080098314.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 A method and a system for preparing and delivering an archive on a computer-readable medium is provided. A platform gathers and stores data on the platform that can be viewed through a first graphical user interface over the Internet. In addition, the platform generates an archive of the data in... http://www.freshpatents.com/Executing-an-operation-associated-with-a-region-proximate-a-graphic-element-on-a-surface-dt20080424ptan20080098315.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 Executing an operation associated with a region proximate a graphic element on a surface. A user interaction with a region proximate a graphic element on a surface is detected, where the surface comprises a plurality of regions proximate the graphic element. Responsive to the user interaction, an operation associated with... http://www.freshpatents.com/Automatic-reference-note-generator-dt20080424ptan20080098317.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 Content is transferred from one computer resource to another computer resource by receiving a first insertion point or replacement area from a first user interface to a destination computer resource, receiving an enablement to perform automatic paste operation, switching to a user interface to a source computer resource, receiving a... http://www.freshpatents.com/User-interface-for-browsing-image-dt20080424ptan20080098316.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 This invention discloses an image search and display system that includes a graphic user interface to provide to a user with visual display of three-dimensional selections of location, time and people to navigate pictures. The location and time will be presented on a distorted map and timeline respectively, where the... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-apparatus-for-interacvtive-multimedia-author-tool-and-dynamic-toolbar-dt20080424ptan20080098319.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 A method of relying upon intelligent feedback to create a dynamic toolbar that provides navigation and creation options that change dependant upon the location of the dynamic toolbar and the type of multimedia page being viewed.... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-for-providing-menu-screen-suitable-for-menus-provided-by-external-device-and-imaging-device-using-the-same-dt20080424ptan20080098318.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 A method for providing a menu screen suitable for menus provided by a connected external device, and an imaging device using the same, are provided. The method includes acquiring menu name information on names of menus provided by a connected external device; and displaying names of menus provided by the... http://www.freshpatents.com/Media-editing-and-creating-interface-dt20080424ptan20080098320.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 A computer readable medium containing media creating application code which implements the following procedures, generating in a user interface an application window having a window frame the window frame defining a pane, displaying a theme in the pane, displaying a plurality of buttons on the frame; and displaying a status... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-apparatus-for-in-band-discovery-of-capabilities-of-managed-devices-dt20080424ptan20080098321.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 An in-band mechanism for discovery of device management capabilities is provided. The in-band discovery mechanism is similar to an out-of-band discovery mechanism and uses a non-proprietary mechanism. A management provider may query the management capabilities of devices and may register devices that may only be managed in-band with a directory... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-apparatus-for-collecting-and-analyzing-surface-wound-data-dt20080424ptan20080098322.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 A 3D surface wound, injury, and personal protective equipment (PPE) data entry system provides an easily usable graphical user interface through which an examiner can objectively record data relating to surface wounds and injuries sustained by a subject human, as well as PPE used when the wounds/injuries were sustained. The... http://www.freshpatents.com/Multimedia-visual-progress-indication-system-dt20080424ptan20080098323.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 A multimedia visual progress indication system that provides a cache bar that is overlaid onto the program material or displayed on a dedicated display. A cache bar indicates the length of a recording session or the length of stored program material and expands to the right when material is being... http://www.freshpatents.com/System-for-assisting-input-of-dates-in-data-processing-system-dt20080424ptan20080098324.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 Assisting the computer input of date values includes storing a pre-specified reference date in a storage device, storing one or more user-inputted digits in the storage device, complementing the input digit sequence with a digit sequence generated on the basis of the reference date, and displaying the one or more... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-system-for-facilitating-social-payment-or-commercial-transactions-dt20080424ptan20080098325.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 A system and computer implemented method for providing a widget are described. The widget is embeddable and for dynamically displaying multimedia content. The method and system include receiving an event configuration for an event, receiving a configuration of the widget, and allowing the widget to be copied to provide a... http://www.freshpatents.com/Laying-out-web-components-using-mounting-and-pooling-functions-dt20080424ptan20080098326.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 To edit a web page so that various contents can be displayed, while ensuring fine uniformity of the whole web page, a mount (board art) is displayed within the web page so that content, such as an image or a text, can be pasted in the mount. When pasting the... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-system-for-presenting-information-in-a-summarizing-accordion-view-dt20080424ptan20080098327.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 A user interface for providing an information gateway between a user and a computer platform includes two or more windows for displaying information, and for facilitating information entry from a user. The windows may be in the form of a rectangular box, although other shapes may be used. The size... http://www.freshpatents.com/Animation-of-icons-based-on-presence-dt20080424ptan20080098328.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 A method and system for indicating availability of a contact is provided. The presence system displays to the user an indication of the presence state in association with the contact. The presence system provides an indication of the availability associated with the presence state of the contact when the user... http://www.freshpatents.com/Patient-information-bar-and-method-for-tracking-and-displaying-blood-products-dt20080424ptan20080098329.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 A method and system for managing blood products and tracking their movement in which a database is provided for entering and storing information pertaining to each patient, and a patient toolbar is provided for selectively displaying patient information and condition including but not limited to each patient's special needs, prior... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-apparatus-for-accelerated-scrolling-dt20080424ptan20080098330.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 Improved approaches for users to with graphical user interfaces of computing devices are disclosed. A rotational user action supplied by a user via a user input device can provide accelerated scrolling. The accelerated nature of the scrolling enables users to scroll or traverse a lengthy data set (e.g., list of... http://www.freshpatents.com/Portable-multifunction-device-with-soft-keyboards-dt20080424ptan20080098331.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 A portable multifunction device displays a first icon and a second icon on its touch screen display. In response to a sequence of finger movements across the first and second icons, wherein the finger stays in contact with the touch screen display during the movements, the portable device highlights the... http://www.freshpatents.com/Displaying-group-icons-representing-respective-groups-of-nodes-dt20080424ptan20080098332.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 Information is displayed regarding an arrangement of nodes coupled by a communications network. The nodes are associated with corresponding characteristics. Plural groups of the nodes are defined based on the characteristics associated with the nodes. Group icons representing the respective groups of nodes are displayed.... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-apparatus-for-collecting-and-analyzing-surface-wound-data-dt20080424ptan20080098333.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:20 -0700 A 3D surface wound, injury, and personal protective equipment (PPE) data entry system provides an easily usable graphical user interface through which an examiner can objectively record data relating to surface wounds and injuries sustained by a subject human, as well as PPE used when the wounds/injuries were sustained. The...