Patents Examined by Andrew L Tank
  • Patent number: 11743302
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatus, systems, computer program products for performing functionality requiring network connectivity in an interactive electronic technical manual system (IETM) configured to provide electronic and credentialed access to technical documentation for an item. In one embodiment, a method is provided comprising: receiving input comprising informational data; and responsive to receiving the data: generating a graphical security code; receiving input indicating a scanning of the code, wherein the scanning of the code (1) is performed by a user using a remote device connected to a network and (2) causes access to scanning functionality provided by an application installed on the device; and responsive to receiving the input: generating a graphical form code comprising the data; and causing display of a third window comprising the code, wherein the code can be scanned using the application to send the data to a third party over the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: MBTE HOLDINGS SWEDEN AB
    Inventors: Ran Meriaz, Yoram Meriaz, Alexander Tkachman
  • Patent number: 11743994
    Abstract: A load control system may be configured using a graphical user interface software. The graphical user interface software may display a first icon and a second icon. The first icon may represent a first electrical device and the second icon may represent a second electrical device. The first icon and the second icon may represent the relative location of the first electrical device and the second electrical device within a load control environment. The graphical user interface software may display a line from a selected icon (e.g., first icon) to a cursor. The graphical user interface software may adjust the line from the selected icon, for example, as the cursor moves. The graphical user interface software may define and store an association between the first electrical device and a second electrical device, for example, in response to the user selecting the first icon and the second icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Ritika Arora, Manisha Dahiya Baluja, John N. Callen, Erica L. Clymer, Sanjeev Kumar, Mark Law, Sandeep Mudabail Raghuram, Anurag Singh, Christopher Spencer
  • Patent number: 11726819
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for viewing jobs managed by heterogeneous job schedulers on heterogeneous computing systems. Organizations often rely on workflow schedulers or job schedulers to execute and manage their workflow pipelines. However, different departments within a large organization may rely on different job scheduling applications for managing their workflows. Without the capability to monitor and manage all or a subset of jobs running on heterogeneous job scheduling applications across the organization at the same time, organizations lack the insight they need to make their workflow pipeline more efficient. The disclosed system and method allows users to monitor jobs or computer applications, including details regarding job execution and service level agreements, running on heterogeneous job schedulers across the organization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonghoon Joey Ahnn, Gaurav Gupta, Prashanth Sandela, Praveen Kumar Thota
  • Patent number: 11716679
    Abstract: An electronic device of determining proximity of a wireless external device is provided. The electronic device includes a transceiver, a sensor, and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to transmit a first signal to the external device through the transceiver, acquire, when the first signal is transmitted, information about a user's gesture made in a vicinity of a sensor positioned within a certain distance from the transceiver through the sensor, wherein the first signal is distorted by the user's gesture and provided to the external device, receive, from the external device through the transceiver, a second signal generated as the external device copies the distorted first signal, and determine the proximity of the external device based on the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Stanislav Pedan, Mykola Alieksieiev, Roman Gush
  • Patent number: 11700288
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatus, systems, computer program products for transferring a performance of a procedure found in technical documentation for an item via an interactive electronic technical manual system (IETM) configured to provide electronic and credentialed access to the technical documentation. In one embodiment, a method is provided comprising: providing the steps of the procedure in an order in which the steps are to be carried out; and while a user is participating in the performance of the procedure: causing a particular step that is being carried out to be highlighted; receiving input of a selection of a transfer mechanism and in response: causing an indication to be displayed between the particular step and a next step to be carried out identifying where the performance has been suspended; providing a transfer window displaying transfer information; and recording the transfer information and an identifier for the indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: MBTE HOLDINGS SWEDEN AB
    Inventors: Ran Meriaz, Yoram Meriaz, Alexander Tkachman
  • Patent number: 11681416
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for dynamically adjusting a website of an entity using information that has been received, stored, gathered, and/or otherwise obtained about what people want to find on the entity's website. A website may be dynamically adjusted using trending information. Dynamically adjusting may comprise generating and presenting links on the website to webpages in order of volume over a defined time threshold, or by variance over a standard volume over a longer established time frame. Dynamically adjusting the website may comprise providing an element on a website for what is most urgent to customers. A unit associated with a website may be monitored, and when the unit volume or activity starts to spike beyond normal expectations, then information about the unit is proactively and/or preemptively offered on the website, or a webpage of the website, without ever having a conversation with a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Verint Americas Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy James Hewitt
  • Patent number: 11656737
    Abstract: An icon can be created for a contact (e.g., an individual(s) or an entity) and presented on a user interface of a mobile device, such as a “home screen.” The icon can be used to retrieve and display contact information. The icon can also be used to invoke one or more applications that are personalized to the contact. The icon can be modified to display information related to the contact. In one aspect, an icon associated with an entity can be temporarily displayed on the mobile device based on the proximity of the mobile device to the entity. The icon can be used to retrieve and display information related to the entity. Additionally, the icon can be removed from the display on the mobile device when the mobile device is no longer within a certain proximity of the entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Marcel Van Os
  • Patent number: 11651330
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for using machine-learning concepts to determine predicted recovery rates/scores for claims, determine priority scores for the claims, and prioritizing the claims based on the same, and updating a user interface based at least in part on the prioritization of the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: OPTUM SERVICES (IRELAND) LIMITED
    Inventors: Peter Cogan, Lorcan B. MacManus, Conor Breen
  • Patent number: 11615144
    Abstract: A computer method, system, and device of training an empathy model for detecting a type of query, the method including defining an intent for detecting closed ended queries, providing a plurality of queries that are closed ended queries to a machine learning model generator, said plurality of queries comprising training data, providing a plurality of corresponding labels identifying the plurality of queries as closed ended queries, and generating a model that classifies closed ended queries as a function of the training data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Monty Hammontree, Travis Lowdermilk, Valentina Strachan, Maxim Lobanov, Kelley Zhao, Steven Clarke, Jessica Rich, Juan P Carrascal-Ruiz
  • Patent number: 11574005
    Abstract: In one or more implementations, content generated using a client application may be associated with a classification. The content may be accessed based on one or more classifications associated with the content. Content may be generated by a client application executed by a client device of a content creator and sent to a server system that may distribute the content to one or more additional client devices of recipients of the content. The server system may also aggregate content having a same classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Andrew Grosvenor Cooper, Suraj Vindana Samaranayake, Vu Tran, Yamill Vallecillo, Yiwen Zhan
  • Patent number: 11568567
    Abstract: Methods and systems for optimizing performance of a machine vision system are disclosed herein. An example method includes obtaining one or more first and second images of a target object, where each of the one or more first and second images include a pass indication and a fail indication, respectively. The example method further includes conducting, by a feasibility setup tool, a feasibility setup analysis by (i) performing machine vision techniques on each of the one or more first and second images and (ii) generating a respective updated result indication for each of the one or more first and second images. The example method further includes comparing the respective updated result indication to the respective pass indications and fail indications for the one or more first and second images, respectively; and based on the comparing, generating one or more suggestions to optimize the performance of the machine vision system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Zebra Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: James Matthew Witherspoon, David D. Landron, Ankan Basak, Matthew Lawrence Horner
  • Patent number: 11561758
    Abstract: A virtual sound engineer system includes a mobile device having a processor connected to an interface, the processor being configured to initiate a first remote access digital mixing session to remotely access a first digital mixing console communicatively coupled to a first plurality of peripheral devices disposed at a first location, initiate a second remote access digital mixing session to remotely access a second digital mixing console communicatively coupled to a second plurality of peripheral devices disposed at a second location different from the first, such that remotely accessing the first console and the second console includes adjusting sound output by at least one of the peripheral devices of the first console and at least one of the peripheral devices of the second console and at least a portion of the first mixing session and at least a portion of the second mixing session occur concurrently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Virtual Sound Engineer, LLC
    Inventors: Wallace Levi Coleman, Charles Homer
  • Patent number: 11531730
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system that enables manipulation of a persistent display of shared content. Content can be shared with a host device from a guest device. A rendering of the content is configured to be manipulated by a user at the host device. For instance, a rendering of the content can be resized, scaled, rotated and moved within a graphical user interface. Annotations can also be added to the rendering of the content. The rendering of the content can also be persistently and automatically displayed in response to a device operating in a predetermined state. The predetermined state can include, for example, a lock screen mode, a bulletin board mode, or a mode when application user interfaces are minimized. The rendering may be removed from a display when the device exits the predetermined state or when the device receives a specific command to remove the rendering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Travis Jay Popkave, Jessica Bourgade, Mark Derek Raymond, Jr., Bryan Kim Mamaril, Regina Hajin Son, Corey Joseph Loman, Cassandra Lynn Hoef
  • Patent number: 11531450
    Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a method to display a graphical user interface (GUI) of a graphics application, receive a selection of a first granular medium tool (GMT), receive a first input associated with the first GMT, the first input comprising one or more first input values characterizing placement of a first amount of a granular medium (GM) on a virtual drawing canvas, access one or more settings of the first GMT, determine, using the one or more first input values and the one or more settings, a first spatial distribution of the first amount of the GM on the virtual drawing canvas, and display, on the GUI, a first image corresponding to the first spatial distribution of the first amount of the GM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Corel Corporation
    Inventor: Stephen Bolt
  • Patent number: 11494071
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for displaying handwritten input content, an electronic device and a non-volatile computer readable storage medium. The method includes: acquiring handwritten input content; modifying image stored in a display cache based on the handwritten input content, and synchronizing a modified image to a display screen; and drawing the handwritten input content in a custom graphic layer located above other graphic layers in a system cache, performing a graphic layer merging operation for the other graphic layers and the custom graphic layer, and replacing the modified image stored in the display cache in response to a result of the operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: ZHANGYUE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Hongtao Tao, Wenzhi Zhu
  • Patent number: 11494200
    Abstract: The devices, systems, and methods described herein enable automatically configuring an electronic device using artificial intelligence (AI). The devices, systems, and methods enable accessing telemetry data representing device usage data, inputting the accessed telemetry data into machine learning models that are matched to device metadata, and determining notifications to publish to components of the electronic device. The notifications represent events predicted to occur on the electronic device. The notifications are published to the components of the electronic device such that the electronic device is configured according to the published notifications. The determined notifications enable the identification of optimal settings for the electronic device based on the usage pattern of the device and enable components of the electronic device to preemptively take action on events which are predicted to occur in the future.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Chen Liang, Bryston M. Nitta, Shayak Lahiri, Adrian Francisco Teran Guajardo
  • Patent number: 11464055
    Abstract: Systems and methods for configuring a media playback device to connect to a local area network (LAN) and be controlled by a mobile device also configured to connect to the LAN are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes displaying screens on a graphical user interface on the mobile device indicating the status, scanning for Bluetooth low energy (BLE) devices using the mobile device, detecting a media playback device as a BLE device, connecting the mobile device to the media playback device using BLE, obtaining LAN connection information, configuring the media playback device to connect to the LAN using the BLE connection from the mobile device, and setting speaker configuration information for the media playback device using the graphical user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Yore, William Shoesmith
  • Patent number: 11461129
    Abstract: A data processing method, comprising: receiving a task management function instruction; calling a task management interface according to the task management function instruction, wherein the task management interface includes a task object area comprised of a chain of task objects and a function area; determining a task object to be processed in the task object area; implementing functional processing on the task object to be processed through function area. Further a terminal and a storage medium are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Guanghua Zhang
  • Patent number: 11455420
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system configured to provide a user with transparency and user control over how browsing data is shared. The system can determine that a user has initiated use of a browser. The system displays, as part of the management of browser settings in accordance with a user account, a graphical UI that presents functionality to receive input indicating whether the user allows or prevents sharing of the browsing data. The graphical UI can list the identities of data aggregators and corresponding incentives offered by each of the data aggregators in exchange for the user sharing his or her browsing data. The browser can collect the browsing data based on interactions with web sites and share the browsing data with individual ones of the data aggregators based on the input. Upon sharing the user browsing data, the system can enable the incentive to be provided to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventor: Lillian Kravitz
  • Patent number: 11422694
    Abstract: A multitouch device can interpret and disambiguate different gestures related to manipulating a displayed image of a 3D object, scene, or region. Examples of manipulations include pan, zoom, rotation, and tilt. The device can define a number of manipulation modes, including one or more single-control modes such as a pan mode, a zoom mode, a rotate mode, and/or a tilt mode. The manipulation modes can also include one or more multi-control modes, such as a pan/zoom/rotate mode that allows multiple parameters to be modified simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Patrick S. Piemonte, Bradford A. Moore, Billy P. Chen