| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7610562 |
Task-sensitive methods and systems for displaying command sets |
October 27, 2009 |
| Methods and systems present commands to a user within a software application program by determining the user's context within the application program and automatically presenting in a user interface commands that pertain to the user's current context. When the user's context changes, |
| 7549125 |
Information picker |
June 16, 2009 |
| A user is able to informatively control how contact information is provided to one or more applications through the use of a persona interface object, corresponding personas and contact information, and an information picker interface. The persona interface identifies available perso |
| 7512896 |
Task-sensitive methods and systems for displaying command sets |
March 31, 2009 |
| Methods and systems present commands to a user within a software application program by determining the user's context within the application program and automatically presenting in a user interface commands that pertain to the user's current context. When the user's context changes, |
| 7430719 |
Contact text box |
September 30, 2008 |
| A contact text box interface for resolving user input with contact information selected from contact directories and compared against usage patterns. Users are provided with a list of potentially relevant contacts from which a selection can be made. When a contact is selected, the co |
| 7424682 |
Electronic messages with embedded musical note emoticons |
September 9, 2008 |
| A computer implemented method for authoring a message includes enabling a user to compose an electronic message that includes a sequence of musical note emoticons, embedding the musical note emoticons in the electronic message, and sending the electronic message. The sequence of musical |
| 7418663 |
Contact picker interface |
August 26, 2008 |
| An interface for enabling a user to quickly access contact information automatically displays a list of expected contacts that are most likely to be selected by the user when attention is directed to an appropriate object requiring contact information. When a contact is selected, the |
| 7370290 |
Contact card |
May 6, 2008 |
| An interface for enabling a user to quickly access contact information and contact-centric tasks is displayed when an appropriate request for a contact card associated with a contact is received. The contact card displays contact information corresponding with the contact as well as |
| 7360174 |
Contact user interface |
April 15, 2008 |
| An interface for enabling different contact information for a plurality of different contacts to be aggregated from numerous data stores into a single contact management system includes a window frame for displaying the contact information in a variety of rich views that graphically |
| 7360172 |
Contact controls |
April 15, 2008 |
| One or more contact controls associated with one or more corresponding contacts are displayed by a computing system at a display device. The contact controls can be hosted by any number of third party applications. The contact controls may include static and/or animated images associated |
| 7313760 |
Contact picker |
December 25, 2007 |
| An interface for enabling a user to quickly access contact information automatically displays a list of expected contacts that are most likely to be selected by the user when attention is directed to a type-in line requiring contact information. When a contact is selected, the corres |
| 7240298 |
Contact page |
July 3, 2007 |
| A computing system and a user interface display requested data corresponding with a contact at a display device. The requested data includes contact information, communication histories, and files associated with the contact. The requested data is obtained from one or more contact in |
