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Thomas Brugler, Fuquay-Varina, NC US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090210405Method, system, and apparatus for providing advice to users - In one embodiment of this invention, one can record and provide answers to users problems. When a user selects a command (e.g., Show Tips) on the user interface (UI), the mouse pointer is changed, so when the user clicks on an aspect of the UI, a web window displays all of the problems that the users have entered on the particular clicked item by querying a forum knowledge base. One embodiment provides capability to expand the search, e.g., to anything the user clicked on recently or items which are related to the selected item.08-20-2009

Thomas S. Brugler, Fuquay-Varina, NC US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080229250METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NAVIGATION TREE NODE LEVEL CONTROL - A method for implementing a software based navigational control interface for organizing and presenting a hierarchical user interface structure, includes: displaying the hierarchical user interface structure on a user device; using the navigational control interface to determine which level of the hierarchical user interface structure appears on the same level as an initial root directory; and wherein based on the setting of the navigational control interface the number of hierarchical user interface structure levels is reduced or expanded.09-18-2008
20100185905CONTEXTUAL AND INLINE ERROR RESOLUTION AND USER COMMUNITY - An event log system for capturing event information associated with error events occurring within a computer system. The event log system includes an event log displaying error messages associated with the error events captured within the computer system, and displaying inline error resolution information within each error message corresponding to each respective error event. User community information such as links to wiki topics and forum threads are contextually provided for and inline with individual error log entries. Also, action buttons to help the user resolve errors and problems are also contextually provided, as are surfaced links to domain experts within the user community, such as online chat buttons to them.07-22-2010
20100268672ACTION MANAGER FOR SYSTEM MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - An advisement manager is provided. One embodiment includes a processor connected to a memory device. A manager module executing on the processor, and is configured to receive an event signal triggered by an event, store content of the event signal in the memory device, retrieve information for responding to the event from different sources, and transmit the response information to an output device. An interface module is configured to display event information and the response information, and accept a response selection.10-21-2010
20110271234CUSTOMIZABLE BRANCH NAVIGATIONAL AREA CONTROL - The invention provides customizable branch navigational area control. Navigational area branches are displayed on a device. Expansion of the navigational area branches is controlled. Selection is accepted for particular navigational area branches. The selected particular navigational area branches are prevented from collapsing upon exceeding a predetermined maximum number limit, by collapsing other navigational area branches to maintain the predetermined maximum number limit. The predetermined maximum number limit represents a limit of navigational area branches allowed to remain in an expanded state.11-03-2011

Patent applications by Thomas S. Brugler, Fuquay-Varina, NC US

Thomas S. Brugler, Raleigh, NC US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120066615GRAPHICALLY INDICATING RELEVANCY OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - Methods and systems for determining a relevancy of an electronic message, and for graphically indicating the relevancy to a user are disclosed. A method may include receiving an electronic message, such as an email, at an electronic messaging system. The method may also include determining a relevance level of the electronic message to a user based on one or both of a number of primary addressees and a number of secondary addressees identified in the electronic message. Further, the method may include displaying graphical indicia based on the relevance level.03-15-2012

Thomas Stanton Brugler, Fuquay-Varina, NC US

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20090210827Web navigation user interface for orienting and organizing navigation links - This embodiment, a navigation module, includes two unique features to address two long standing usability problems associated with today's current navigation scheme. First, it contains a selector that allows the end-user to change the layout of the navigation area relative to the content area. That is, the user can elect to view the navigation area in a horizontal or vertical layout by selecting the orientation toggle. Second, it provides alternative views to the standard hierarchical tree-structure. By retaining individual end-user usage data, the navigation module provides views where the links are sorted by frequency of use and access date/time.08-20-2009
20100192087SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR GENERATING A REPRESENTATIVE VIEW FOR A MULTIPAGE COMPILATION OF INFORMATION - A method according to one embodiment includes outputting one page of a multipage compilation of information; receiving a request to show portions of multiple pages of the multipage compilation of information, the request originating from a user input device; selecting the portions of the multiple pages of the multipage compilation of information; generating a view having the selected portions; and outputting the view to a graphical display device.07-29-2010
20100192092KEYSTROKE ACTIVATED DYNAMIC TASK MENU - According to one embodiment, a method includes detecting textual input from a user and determining a position of a cursor associated with a user input device on an electronic page. In addition, the method includes selecting entries based on the textual input and the position of the cursor. Also, the method includes generating a task list having the selected entries and outputting the task list to a graphical display device.07-29-2010
20100192097METHODS FOR SHOWING USER INTERFACE ELEMENTS IN AN APPLICATION - In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving user input requesting display of information associated with user interface elements displayed on a page; analyzing the page for determining the information associated with the user interface elements; and outputting the information associated with a plurality of the user interface elements for concurrent display on the page with each other and with the user interface elements. Additional systems, methods, and computer program products are also presented.07-29-2010
20100218135CURSOR THUMBNAIL DISPLAYING PAGE LAYOUT - A method according to one embodiment includes determining a position of a currently-displayed area relative to a viewable area of at least one page of an electronic document; determining if a criterion is met; if the criterion is met, generating a graphical representation of the currently-displayed area relative to the viewable area of at least one page of the electronic document; and outputting the graphical representation to a display device, the graphical representation being positioned in an immediate vicinity of a cursor associated with a user input device. Additional methods and computer program products are presented.08-26-2010