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Steven Alfred Isaac
Researcher at Microsoft
Publications - 8
Citations - 1621
Steven Alfred Isaac is an academic researcher from Microsoft. The author has contributed to research in topics: User requirements document & Personalization. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 8 publications receiving 1621 citations.
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Dynamically updating themes for an operating system shell
Abstract: A theme provides a group of multi-media resources for enhancing displays in a graphical user interface to an operating system of a computer according to a topic of the theme. The theme's resources are periodically updated by retrieving updating resources from a remote computer at which the updating resources are stored by a theme provider, so as to provide continually updating enhancements to the graphical user interface display consistent with the theme's topic. The theme's resources can include hypertext templates which define the graphical user interface displays as hypertext pages, allowing the theme to provide a wide variety of enhancements to the displays including text, graphics, hyperlinks, and software components, among others. The theme also enhances a graphical user interface with a view port that plays live or locally cached information from the Internet in each of a plurality of categories, by adding a category for the theme so as to play information from the theme's provider in the view port.
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System and method for displaying data items in a ticker display pane on a client computer
TL;DR: In this article, a system and method for dynamically displaying data items on a client computer is described, where the data items are displayed in a substantially continuous sequence and may be provided from Internet servers, Intranet servers, LAN servers and/or the client computer itself.
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System and method for integrating a document into a desktop window on a client computer
TL;DR: In this paper, a client computer connects to a computer network, such as the Internet, and retrieves a channel guide or list of content providers from which a user can select one or more content providers.
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Systems and method for displaying control objects including a plurality of panels
TL;DR: In this paper, an interactive computer system displays informational and control objects consisting of multiple panels that facilitate browsing and selecting an element from a group of menus, where each panel is connected to another to form the three-dimensional object.
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Web controls validation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define web control validation declarations that specify server-side objects that validate the input data received in the web page and provide error handling in the event of a validation failure error.