Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090018887 | Method of and System for Modifying Attendance Status for Electronic Calendar Events - An electronic calendar system and method permits an attendee of a calendar event to modify the terms of his or her attendance and notifies a requester of the event of the modification of terms of attendance by the attendee. The terms of attendance may include an event start time and an event end time. The system displays to the attendee an attendance modification dialog. The attendance modification dialog may include a late arrival field and an early departure field. The attendance modification dialog may include a telephone attendance option. The attendance modification dialog may be displayed to the attendee in connection with an event invitation, an event reminder, or a calendar event item. When the attendee completes the modification dialog, a message informing to the event requester of the modification is automatically sent. | 01-15-2009 |
20090315752 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR AUTOMATICALLY TURNING ON OR OFF MULTIPLE DEVICES WITH A REMOTE CONTROL - A programmable universal remote controller is programmed with adjustable inactivity period timeout and control capabilities whereby each individual external controlled device's activity status may be monitored and the device automatically turned on or off by the remote controller when the remote controller detects that the device has been inactive for a desired period of time based on the history of the remote controller's interaction with the controlled device. | 12-24-2009 |
20100146378 | Optimize View Elements Sizes to Maximize Most Data Viewed in a Multiple View Elements GUI - A View Element Adjuster (VEA) comprises a web page rewrite program and a view element optimization program. The rewrite program monitors a web page having a plurality of view elements and resizes one or more of the plurality of view elements in accordance with a set of user configured preferences, a plurality of priorities for each of the plurality of view elements, and the data dynamically retrieved for each of the plurality of portlets. VEA also has a window preference program, a portlet preference program, and a portlet priority program. | 06-10-2010 |
20120096385 | MANAGING THE SCHEDULING OF EVENTS - A method for managing scheduling of events includes receiving a constraint for a type of event and limiting scheduling of the type of event based on the constraint for the type of event. A computerized event management system includes a processor and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor. The processor is configured to have a constraint for a type of event and limit the scheduling of the type of event based on the constraint for the type of event. | 04-19-2012 |
20130144802 | PERSONALIZING AGGREGATED ONLINE REVIEWS - A method for processing reviews includes identifying reviews that match a request criterion in a request from a user; filtering the identified reviews using preferences and characteristics of the user; and outputting a compilation of only those reviews filtered according to preference and characteristics of the user. | 06-06-2013 |
20130290434 | NOTIFYING ELECTRONIC MEETING PARTICIPANTS OF INTERESTING INFORMATION - Described are a system and method for notifying electronic meeting participants of information of interest. For an electronic meeting, a relationship is determined between a first participant and one or more second participants having a relationship with the first participant. A degree of interest by the second participants of a portion of the electronic meeting is determined. A notification is generated for the first participant in response to the determined degree of interest. | 10-31-2013 |
20140135997 | DYNAMIC TEMPERATURE CONTROL FOR A ROOM CONTAINING A GROUP OF PEOPLE - Optimum temperature in a room is controlled by directly and dynamically sensing the body temperatures of one or more people in the room and storing a set of parameters to be correlated with the sensed body temperatures in determining a selected optimum room temperature. The sensed body temperatures are wirelessly transmitted to be correlated with the set of parameters wherein optimum room temperature is determined based on those parameters. In response to this correlation, a selected optimum room temperature may be provided by appropriate heating or cooling. | 05-15-2014 |
20140358292 | Dynamically Modifying Temperatures At Positions in a Room Having a Plurality Of Positioned People Responsive To Input Requests From Individual Positioned People - Controlling the temperature gradient in an enclosed auditorium with positioned people by initially generating, by thermal input, a level selected base temperature plane coextensive with the plane of the enclosed room. Each of the positioned people is enabled to dynamically input a request for a temperature change in the base temperature plane at a position corresponding to the position of the person in the room plane. All of the input requests of positioned people may then be correlated with the base temperature plane to convert the base temperature plane into a base temperature curvature coextensive with the plane of the enclosed room. The thermal input may then be varied responsive to the sensed temperature variations to maintain the base temperature curvature. | 12-04-2014 |