Patents Examined by Andrew L Tank
  • Patent number: 11360728
    Abstract: A head mounted display apparatus and a method for displaying a content are provided. More particularly, a head mounted display apparatus which changes an operation of a virtual character in a content displayed on a display in accordance with a plurality of touches and a method for displaying a content are provided. One of the exemplary embodiments include a head mounted display apparatus which changes an operation of a virtual character in a content displayed on a display corresponding to combination of a first touch detected from a touch pad of the head mounted display apparatus and a second touch detected from a peripheral portable apparatus and a method for displaying a content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dae-myung Kim, Ji-yeon Kwak, Yang-wook Kim, Jae-ho Jung
  • Patent number: 11338207
    Abstract: When a first giving condition is satisfied, first giving of giving an in-game content selected from a content group including a plurality of in-game contents as selection target contents, to a user, is performed. Furthermore, an option as to whether or not to execute second giving for which an upper limit number of times of further giving is possible in addition to the first giving is set is presented to the user. When execution of the second giving is selected, if an exchange parameter satisfies a second giving condition, the parameter is changed and the second giving is performed. Moreover, the in-game content for which the first giving or the second giving has been performed is excluded from subsequent selection targets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Yasuhara, Kazuyoshi Sensui
  • Patent number: 11340941
    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: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonghoon Joey Ahnn, Gaurav Gupta, Prashanth Sandela, Praveen Kumar Thota
  • Patent number: 11321206
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and techniques to manage activation of software features deployed at computing clusters. Features can be initially activated at a cluster using cluster licensing management components and processes described herein. After initial activation, the disclosed cluster licensing management components and processes can update licenses for the features as may be desired in view of changes to the cluster configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Adam Marshall Seungshik Thompson, Carter Smithhart
  • Patent number: 11269931
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided to visualize data related to one or more assets utilizing an interactive geospatial map. The system may receive query criteria, indicating a geographic region of interest and/or timespan of interest, and may access a plurality of datasets including a first dataset comprising data items associated with default locations of assets and a second dataset comprising data items associated with transit events of assets, and wherein the plurality of datasets are associated with geographic locations and respective times. The system may query the plurality of datasets to determine, for assets associated with the one or more data items, expected geographic locations of the assets, and may generate user interface data configured for rendering an interactive user interface including an interactive geospatial map with indications of the expected geographic locations of the assets, and a plurality of interactive tables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Jesse Hampton, Andrew Higgins, Akshay Krishnaswamy, Aaron Rubin, Frank Chen
  • Patent number: 11270156
    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: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Optum Services (Ireland) Limited
    Inventors: Peter Cogan, Lorcan B. MacManus, Conor Breen
  • Patent number: 11256774
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can provide a content feed through a display interface. The content feed can include at least a snippet of a first content item that is associated with a preview time threshold. A determination can be made that the snippet of the first content item has been positioned within a viewport region of the display interface for a duration of time that satisfies the preview time threshold. Data associated with the first content item can be obtained from a content distribution system. The data associated with the first content item can be stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaojun Liang, Varun Kacholia, Maher Afif Saba, Mahmud Sami Tas, Gang Liu
  • Patent number: 11137876
    Abstract: The embodiment of the disclosure discloses an information display method, device and terminal. The method includes: a system application process creating a task of downloading or updating an application, acquiring relevant information of the application, and transmitting the relevant information of the application to a desktop process, wherein the relevant information of the application comprises a package name, an icon storage path, a downloading progress, and a downloading/installing status of the application; the desktop process acquiring an icon of the application based on the icon storage path, and displaying the icon of the application on a system desktop, displaying a translucent mask corresponding to the download progress of the application on an upper layer of the icon of the application; and displaying the downloading/installing status of the application around the icon of the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Liang Gao
  • Patent number: 11132105
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes methods and systems for receiving an electronic signature in an electronic document utilizing an interface area. In particular, in response to a user interaction, one or more embodiments of an electronic signature system can provide a signature overlay for capturing a signature to provide within an electronic document. For instance, an electronic signature system can detect user input of an original signature on the signature overlay and modify the original signature entered on the signature overlay so that the modified signature fits within a bounded area of an electronic document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventor: Shannon Hickey
  • Patent number: 11093119
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating and presenting engagement heatmaps. In one aspect, a method includes generating and providing, to a client device, an interactive interface that includes a session replay area that presents playback of user interfaces presented during a user session. A detection is made, based on interaction data received from the client device, of user interaction with an interface control for viewing engagement heatmaps. In response to detecting the user interaction with the interface control, playback is paused. The interactive interface is updated to present, for each of two or more user interface elements presented by the given user interface, an engagement heatmap visualization that visually represents a relative quantity of user interactions with the user interface element when the user interface element was presented by the given interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: FullStory, Inc.
    Inventors: Jaime Michael Yap, Joel Grayson Webber, Joshua Calvin Teague, Robert Adam Rice
  • Patent number: 11079901
    Abstract: Systems and methods for presenting data to one or more users in a visualizable format and obtaining information based upon the user's interaction with the data are disclosed. A system may include a processor and a non-transitory, processor-readable storage medium. The non-transitory, processor-readable storage medium may include one or more programming instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to provide data to at least one user via a user interface, receive one or more inputs from the at least one user, and direct a storage medium to record the one or more inputs. The data may be arranged in a user-visualizable format. The one or more inputs may correspond the user's interaction with the user interface that causes manipulation of the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: GANALILA, LLC
    Inventors: Shreedhar Natarajan, Jaisree Moorthy
  • Patent number: 11061650
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to automatically generate code for graphical user interfaces are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a textual description analyzer to encode a user-provided textual description of a GUI design using a first neural network. The example apparatus further includes a DSL statement generator to generate a DSL statement with a second neural network. The DSL statement is to define a visual element of the GUI design. The DSL statement is generated based on at least one of the encoded textual description or a user-provided image representative of the GUI design. The example apparatus further includes a rendering tool to render a mockup of the GUI design based on the DSL statement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Javier Sebastian Turek, Javier Felip Leon, Luis Carlos Maria Remis, David Israel Gonzalez Aguirre, Ignacio Javier Alvarez, Justin Gottschlich
  • Patent number: 11055974
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, for defining and monitoring an event for a physical entity and the performance of an action in response to the occurrence of the event. A method includes receiving data indicating an event for a physical entity, the event specified in part by a physical environment feature for which the occurrence of the event is to be monitored by the data processing apparatus; receiving data indicating an action associated with the event and to be taken in response to the occurrence of the event; monitoring for the occurrence of the event for the physical entity; and in response to the occurrence of the event, causing the action associated with the event to be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Fergus Gerard Hurley, Robin Dua
  • Patent number: 11036355
    Abstract: A method for controlling displaying, an electronic device therefor, and a server and method therefor are provided. The method includes transmitting information including at least one input keyword to a server, receiving, from the server, a recognition model for filtering out an object included in a received webpage, installing the recognition model, determining whether a first object corresponding to the at least one input keyword exists in the webpage, when the first object corresponding to the input keyword exists in the webpage, processing the first object to become a second object, and displaying the webpage including the processed object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ki-Bum Bae
  • Patent number: 11032227
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for automatic arrangement of communications for improved functionality. A client device presents a stacked set of conversation cells on a display of the client device. The stacked set of conversation cells is stacked such that a first conversation cell corresponding to a first chat conversation from the stacked set of conversation cells is a top conversation cell of the stacked set of conversation cells. While presenting the stacked set of conversation cells, the client device receives a first chat communication that is a part of a second chat conversation that is different than the first chat conversation. In response to the receiving of the first chat communication, the client device modifies the presentation of the stacked set of conversation cells such that a second conversation cell corresponding to the second chat conversation is presented as the top conversation cell of the stacked set of conversation cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: William Wu
  • Patent number: 11024314
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for acquiring and processing operation instructions. The systems and methods may include receiving a first operation instruction. The system may determine an application associated with the first operation instruction, and determine whether the first operation instruction satisfies one or more predetermined conditions, wherein the predetermined conditions are associated with the application. The system may also, responsive to determining that the first operation instruction satisfies the predetermined conditions, and after the second operation instruction is received, invoke the application, and transmit the second operation instruction to the application for execution. The system may also, responsive to determining that the first operation instruction does not satisfy the predetermined conditions, execute the first operation instruction as a standalone instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: BANMA ZHIXING NETWORK (HONGKONG) CO., LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiaodong Li, Hongxing Wu
  • Patent number: 11003339
    Abstract: Methods and arrangements to manage transparent windows are described herein. Embodiments may comprise logic such as hardware and/or code to select one or more windows to make transparent and to switching the active window between source and target windows via the position of the mouse. Many embodiments provide a right click, pop-up menu (i.e., pressing the right mouse button generates a pop-up menu), a pull-down menu, or a button associated with windows. These features may allow a user to select individual or all windows to be transparent. A transparent window provides some view of windows or objects below the transparent window while providing some view of the contents such as graphics and/or text in the transparent window. Embodiments may also include management logic such as hardware and/or code to facilitate selection of a transparent window to make the window active.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Douglas S. Brown, Jehan Moghazy, James R. Rudd, Robert J. Torres
  • Patent number: 11003836
    Abstract: There is disclosed a system, including apparatus, methods and computer programs, for running native software applications (apps) and HTML5 web-based apps on a computing device, particularly a mobile computing device, in a multitasking mode of operation. In one embodiment, touch screen displays having one or more browsers are adapted to run one or more HTML5 apps, and receive input from hand gestures. One or more software modules execute on the operating system and are responsive to a dragging gesture applied to an HTML5 app displayed in a full screen mode, to subdivide the screen display and display the HTML5 app in one of the subdivided areas and display icons used to launch a second HTML5 app in a different one of the subdivided areas. The second HTML5 app is run concurrently with the first HTML5 app in order to provide multi-tasking between the first and second apps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Rita H. Wouhaybi, David Shaw
  • Patent number: 10997230
    Abstract: The present invention enables an image selected by a user on the server side to be sent to a client in a client-server protocol. An image supply apparatus includes a storage unit storing images; a communication unit; and a processing unit that returns a response by performing processing in accordance with a type of a request received from a client. Here, the processing unit includes a display unit that displays, when a predetermined request is received, a list of images stored in the storage unit; a generation unit that generates, when a user has selected an image, information specifying the selected image for enabling the client to make a sending request for the selected image; and a sending unit that sends the generated information to the client as a response to the predetermined request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akihiko Ishizu
  • Patent number: 10996847
    Abstract: Method for providing content search interface in electronic device including executing content on screen; displaying first graphic user interface (GUI) including a first object indicating starting point of content, second object indicating ending point of content, and third object indicating point of playback of content, wherein first object and second object are near each other and third object is displayed on curved path connecting first object and second object; in response to receiving first user input on first GUI, moving third object on curved path; in response to receiving second user input, displaying second GUI forming angle within selected range on curved path, wherein second GUI comprises plurality of discrete labels representing different speeds or rates at which third object moves on curved path; and in response to receiving third gesture input on second GUI while content is executed, changing speed at which third object moves on curved path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Inventors: Gi Yong Lee, Min Kyu Park, Ji Won Jeon