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Joseph J Brychell

Cornelis K Van Dok

Melissa Wood Dunn

Oliver Griffith Fisher

Joel K Grossman

Vivien Park

Naji Shaheimi Shafi

Jesse G Tobiason

Patrick Allan Gianelli

Jeffery S Welden

Charles Cummins

Vincent J Pasceri

Danny Van Velzen

Randall Knight Winjum

Jan Thomas Miksovsky

Arungundram C Narendran

Kamaljit S Bath

Nora S Selim

Hagen Green

Jeffrey S Miller

Robert Jervis

Mikhail Vassiliev

Mark D Coburn

Xavier Bocken

A door frame is comprised of extruded door frame elements, each coupled with an extruded molding, and each including a compartment for containing an elongated light emitting element that is coterminous with the extruded door frame element and emits light evenly along its length and away from a wall. The compartment includes a back wall and an outer side wall with a flanged end. One or more light sources supply light to the lighting element. A controller and a sensor activate the light source upon detection of a stimulus.

Extruded door frame with connecting molding and compartment for elongated light emitting element

Techniques involving gestures and other functionality are described. In one or more implementations, an input is recognized by a computing device as corresponding to a gesture, the gesture defined using a plurality of parameters, at least one of which having a threshold that varies with respect to another one of the parameters. An operation is caused to be performed by the computing device that corresponds to the gesture.

Dynamic gesture parameters

A task dialog having a main instruction and a command region, and optionally a content and/or footer region, is automatically generated in response to a request from an application program. The task dialog main instruction is automatically sized and located so as to form a concise instruction or question located prominently in the dialog. A command region is below the instruction and includes UI controls for responding to the dialog. Optional content and footer regions can be used by a developer for inclusion of text that provides guidance to the user regarding the main instruction. If included, however, the content and/or footer regions are automatically sized and placed so that they do not obscure the main instruction or the command region controls.

Task dialog and programming interface for same

The present invention is directed to utilizing contact data controls to simplify access to schematized contact data. Contact data controls abstract the formatting of schematized contact data from applications. In some embodiments, applications that lack the configuration to natively access schematized contact data (e.g., lack the functionality to convert between schematized and non-schematized data or are not authorized) forward requests to access schematized contact data to an external contact data control. In other embodiments, applications that lack the configuration to natively access schematized contact data forward non-schematized data, which is to be used to update schematized contact data, to an external contact data control. External contact data controls appropriately interact with the schematized data and can provide user-interface such that an application designer need not have extensive knowledge of contact schemas associated with the schematized contact data.

Simplifying application access to schematized contact data

Systems, methods, and computer program products for management of data that is stored in a hierarchical format such as, e.g., a relational database, when the data is retrieved and manipulated using a schema-driven format such as, e.g., XML are disclosed. In one implementation a copy of the XML data retrieved from the database and is generated and each logical unit in at least one of the original XML data or the copy of the XML data is annotated in a manner that uniquely identifies each logical unit. For example, each XML node may be assigned a unique numerical or string identifier. As the data is manipulated, algorithms may be implemented to use the annotations to track changes to the XML data and to ensure that the manipulated XML data complies with one or more required data formats. When the XML data is ready to be transferred back to the database(s) from which it was obtained, a series of operations are implemented to validate the data and to determine the nature of operation to be performed to restore the data to the databases.

Managing XML documents containing hierarchical database information

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Kirkland, WA, United States of America

Joseph J Brychell