Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090327560 | AUTOMATIC TRANSFER OF INFORMATION THROUGH PHYSICAL DOCKING OF DEVICES - A personal media player is arranged to capture information, such as wireless network information (including network ID and key) and other kinds of information such as credentials (e.g., user name and password), and then share the information with a wireless networkable device when the player is physically coupled to the device in a docking process. When the personal media player is docked, the information is automatically transferred from the player to the device to enable the device to perform some action without any additional effort by the user. This could include, for example, discovering and be securely admitted to the wireless network, or accessing a remote service using the transferred credentials. | 12-31-2009 |
20100241954 | Method and System for Deriving and Matching Local Formatting in an Electronic Document - Determining and applying format attributes associated with content in an electronic document that is cut or copied from an electronic document and pasted into the same or different electronic document. The determination may be based on the format attributes of the content within a region of an electronic document containing the cut or copied content and the format attributes of a region of content that includes the location where the cut or copied text may be pasted. Local formatting may be associated with the source region of content and the destination region of content. Direct, or emphasis formatting, may be associated with content that has been cut or copied. | 09-23-2010 |
20100241969 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING TEMPORARY VISUAL INDICIA - The present invention relates to new and improved embodiments of systems and methods for using a “pen” input as a temporary pointer to highlight a portion of a document and having the “ink” disappear. In embodiments, a method and system for temporarily marking a portion of a document comprises sending a marking directive that produces a visual indicia on a document being viewed on two or more display devices connected over a network, waiting a period of time, and automatically erasing the visual indicia on the document being viewed on the two or more display devices. | 09-23-2010 |
20110252302 | FITTING NETWORK CONTENT ONTO A REDUCED-SIZE SCREEN - A computer-implemented method for fitting content of a network document onto a reduced-size screen comprises displaying the document on the reduced-size screen and receiving a user input to indicate a desired portion of the displayed document. In response to the user input, content is extracted from the desired portion of the document and displayed in a manner formatted to fit the reduced-size screen. An apparatus for displaying a network document in a graphical user interface for a reduced-size screen is also described. | 10-13-2011 |
20120047432 | Aligning Content in an Electronic Document - Aligning the contents of document objects on an electronic document page. Organizing a page of document objects so textual content is aligned to natural eye scanning patterns promotes readership and usability. When a user creates a new island of text, the new text can be snapped into alignment with an existing island of text. Invisible guidelines that emanate from textual features in a document object can page. In response to placing a content insertion point (“IP”) on an electronic page with an existing document object, the IP can be automatically aligned to the content of the existing document object. A page with several arbitrarily positioned document objects can be automatically rearranged so that the contents of the document objects are each aligned to one another. | 02-23-2012 |
20130033414 | Display Environment for a Plurality of Display Devices - A display environment for a plurality of display devices is described. In one or more implementations, a display environment of an operating system of a computing device is configured to display a plurality of shells that support user interaction with the operating system by launching a first shell for display on a first display device of the computing device and launching a second shell for display on a second display device of the computing device such that the first and second shells are displayable simultaneously by the computing device. | 02-07-2013 |
20130061162 | PROCESS RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT - Various embodiments for process relationship management are described. In at least some embodiments, a user interface is presented that provides an integrated view of processes that are running on a computing device and relationships between the processes. For example, the user interface can display a visual indication that a first process is related to a second process and that if a user closes the first process, the second process will also close as a result. Further to one or more embodiments, the user interface can display status messages regarding processes, such as that a process is not responding to a request to close or that a process is waiting on user input. | 03-07-2013 |
20130061167 | Process Management Views - Two different process management views can be displayed, and a user can request to switch between the two views. The user can select a process in either view and have the selected process terminated. One view is a simplified view that identifies processes and whether they are non-responsive. The other view is an expanded view that identifies processes and the amount of various system resources used by each of those processes. Various additional information can be displayed in the expanded view, such as identifiers of various windows, tabs, and/or services associated with each of the processes. | 03-07-2013 |
20130067378 | Resource Usage History User Interface - Various embodiments provide a user interface that displays a history of resource usage of a computing device's applications over time. Historical resource usage data can be presented in a manner which informs the user, on an application-by-application basis, of each application's resource usage across a plurality of resources. In at least some embodiments, the user interface can provide one or more instrumentalities that enable the user to interact with and/or modify operational characteristics of various applications based upon the presented historical resource usage data. | 03-14-2013 |
20130067381 | RESOURCE USER INTERFACE - This document describes techniques for presenting a resource user interface. These techniques present, in a summary section of a user interface, multiple selectable resource tiles that each include real-time and/or static information corresponding to one of multiple resources of a computing device. Each of the multiple selectable resource tiles are presented simultaneously, which enables a user to compare live, real-time resource usage for different resources of the computing device. Further, these techniques present, in a detailed view section of the user interface, additional real-time resource information and/or a real-time resource graph corresponding to a selected one of the multiple resources. | 03-14-2013 |
20140359475 | Dynamic Panel of Inlined Control Settings - The techniques and systems described herein present various examples of a settings analytics component which provides for different ways to create a customized control settings panel for a user to modify system or application control settings. For example, in an environment where a user of a computing device with an operating system allows user configuration of system control settings, the settings analytics component may track and store user behaviors in regard to the modification of system control settings. The settings analytics component may then base the creation of a customized control settings panel on the tracked and stored user behaviors in regard to the modification of system control settings. | 12-04-2014 |