| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080229242 | Navigator for displays - Various embodiments include apparatus, methods, and systems for column navigation within a view of a table or other source of two-dimensional data. Various embodiments include method comprising displaying a first column of data from a plurality of columns of data included in table and having one or more rows across each of the plurality of columns of data, displaying a second column of data from of the plurality of columns of data directly beside the first column of data so that the one or more rows in the second column of data align with the same one or more rows in the first column and displaying with the second column of data a symbol that when actuated provides an overview menu including a list of selectable columns of data included in the plurality of columns of data included in the table. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080244448 | GENERATION OF MENU PRESENTATION RELATIVE TO A GIVEN MENU ORIENTATION - Methods are disclosed for a computational machine presentation including an origination point for a user, re-arranging a first selectable target more likely to be selected first, to a presentation nearer the origination point. The presentation format persists for any given user across a variety of computational machines, thus minimizing the effort for a given user in terms of cross computational-machine transfer and in terms of an on the average shortened navigational distance for any of the computational machines. The persistent format is consistent for cross computational-machine transfer, and this consistency coincides with a systematic decrease in navigational distance. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080244451 | ADAPTIVE DYNAMIC NAVIGATIONAL CONTROL FOR NAVIGATING WITHIN AN APPLICATION - Methods are disclosed for navigating between and within applications that display most recently visited applications and application parts, with redundancies eliminated from the display. The methods can be carried out in a computational machine that compiles a list of visited data-access locations, and identifies data-access locations that have been visited more than once, wherein each data-access location that has been visited more than once is presented in a collapsed form as a single navigational target. The methods then can present the visited data-access locations as a navigational control record including navigational targets that represent the visited data-access locations. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080288877 | System for composing software appliances using user task models - A method, of composing a software application having a user interface, includes receiving input relating to a plurality of tasks and defining a task model of a process, the plurality of tasks including at least one user task to be performed by a user of the application; automatically identifying a plurality of user interface templates by identifying at least one user interface template associated with at least a subset of the plurality of tasks; and creating a user interface model for an application using the plurality of user interface templates. | 11-20-2008 |