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Tjeerd Hoek

Michael A LaJoie

Adrienne E O'Donnell

Robert Kenneth Stein, Iii

Michael Jay Gilmore

Greg S Melander

Mark R Ligameri

Charles Cummins

Jenny T Lam

Benjamin N Truelove

Martijn Eldert Van Tilburg

Marieke Iwema Watson

Paul Alexander Gusmorino, Iii

Cornelis K Van Dok

Michael James Hone

Robert Ward Massa

Bryan Pieratt

Aaron Wesley Cunningham

Luciana Bordallo Misura

Michael Curato

Donald James Lindsay

Patrice Lynn Miner

Judson Craig Hally

Richard M Banks

Shawna Swanson

Talos Shu-Ming Tsui

Michael Anthony Martinez

Christina Szi-Gia Chen

Harold S Gomez

Jeremy S Knudsen

Glenn L Frankel

David C Parker

Peter G Morcos

Ravindra K Agrawal

Lawrence W Baldwin

Martijn Van Tilburg

Manuel Christian Clement

Denise Michele Trabona

Lindsey R Barcheck

Christopher M White

Richard Malcolm Banks

Zeke Koch

Justin Michael Maguire

Sean Olin Blagsvedt

Hillel Noah Cooperman

Michael Philip Arcuri

Jan Thomas Miksovsky

Jeffrey J Johnson

Kent Rogers Lowry

Russell Scott Randall

Kanwal Vedbrat

Eric L Brechner

Willard Bruce Jones

Dean Alan Slawson

Aaron Weiss

Catherine Rose Morrow

Dana Nunnelly

Howard Wesley Cherry

John A Tholen

Terrence T Huang

Display screen with an icon

A Visual Thesaurus program is provided that allows a user to find media clips through successive queries by example. Clips similar to the example clip may be retrieved based on artistic style, color and shape, or keywords. Clips retrieved based on keywords may be found based on a single keyword, multiple keywords, or all keywords associated with the example clip. The keyword may be the clip format (e.g., 'mpeg' or 'gif').

Visual thesaurus as applied to media clip searching

User interface for a portion of a display screen

Methods, systems, and computer program products for making real-time communication user interfaces less intrusive by automatically adjusting the user interfaces based on the user's level of interaction. An initial representation of a user interface for real-time communication is displayed and automatically adapted to the user's activity level based on user input directed to the user interface. For example, the initial representation may be automatically adjusted, either reduced or enlarged, to an intermediate representation, a larger representation, or a smaller representation. When a representation is reduced, a message may be displayed to indicate the reduced representation's location. For smaller representations, subsequently received real-time messages may be displayed adjacent to the smaller representation, at least for a predetermined time. The initial representation may display in a desktop bar that displays other user interfaces, such as for a calendar, etc. As the initial representation adjusts, these other representations may adjust as well.

Non-persistent user interface for real-time communication

Icon for a portion of a display screen

A method for changing a color value and/or level of opacity value of a glass appearance window frame for an application window is described. The method includes steps of determining a defined color value and a defined level of opacity value to apply to a glass appearance window frame and displaying the glass appearance window frame in accordance with the defined color value and the defined level of opacity value. A command may be received to apply the defined color value and the defined level of opacity value to the glass appearance window frame, thereby applying the defined color value and level of opacity value to the glass appearance window frame. Color values and/or level of opacity values may be changed automatically, be application specific, and/or be changed in response to receipt of an input from a user to change one or more portions of a default configuration.

Glass appearance window frame colorization

Aspects for changing a reflective highlight on a glass appearance window frame of an application window are described. An illustrative method includes steps of displaying a first reflective highlight on a glass appearance window frame of an application window, calculating a second reflective highlight in response to detection of an event, and changing the displayed first reflective highlight on the glass appearance window frame of the first application window to the second reflective highlight. The event may correspond to a command to move and/or resize the application window, determination of a time of day event, determination of a change in active/inactive status of the application window, or to a command to change a reflective highlight configuration. Reflective highlights may be changed automatically and/or in response to receipt of an input from a user to change one or more portions of a reflective highlight configuration.

Dynamic reflective highlighting of a glass appearance window frame

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