Patents Examined by Andrey Belousov
  • Patent number: 11226726
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for managing associations between production elements and production approaches includes displaying, within a breakdown panel, a representation of at least one scene obtained from a script, the representation including a plurality of production elements; displaying, within an approaches panel, a representation of at least some of the plurality of production elements displayed within the breakdown panel, and associated respective user selection indicators; and displaying, within the approaches panel, a representation of at least one production approach. The method further includes receiving a user selection of at least one production element displayed within the approaches panel; receiving a user selection of the at least one production approach. The selected at least one production element is associated with the selected at least one production approach.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Weta Digital Ltd.
    Inventors: Joseph Bruce Letteri, Geo H. Snelling, Matt J. Penman, Rebs Senga Guarina
  • Patent number: 11216073
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for improved techniques for consuming and interacting with media content. Specifically, a media guidance application may present a holographic structure using a holographic interface. Moreover, the media guidance application may monitor the user and/or area about the holographic interface for user interactions that may cause the media guidance application to alter the holographic structure based on a user interaction. The media guidance application may also after altering the holographic structure, generate for display a media asset associated with the holographic structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Walter R. Klappert, Jason W. Conness, Todd Mariani
  • Patent number: 11209911
    Abstract: A data replacement apparatus according to one aspect of the present invention includes an acquisition unit, a determination unit, and a replacement unit. The acquisition unit acquires first control data having a value based on the position of a first device which can be mounted on a user's head and the position of a second device which can be gripped by a user. The determination unit determines whether or not a prescribed condition is satisfied. The replacement unit replaces the first control data with second control data when it is determined that the condition is satisfied. The second control data has a value not based on the position of the first device and/or the position of the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: DWANGO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Kawakami, Kentarou Matsui, Shinnosuke Iwaki, Takashi Kojima, Naoki Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11209955
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to display a structure of a combined workflow including multiple workflows as elements by displaying an array of icons corresponding to the workflows as elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Itsusei Matsushita
  • Patent number: 11194459
    Abstract: A computer-implemented technique is described herein for efficiently and reliably interacting with a nonconforming application component in a windowing environment. The nonconforming application component corresponds to a type of application (such as, but not limited to, an immersive-type full-screen application) that was not originally designed for presentation of application content in a windowing environment, or was not originally designed for presentation of application content in a windowing environment of a certain type. In some implementations, the computer-implemented technique generates a composite window by: creating a system-owned frame; receiving an application-owned window; and creating the composite window by combining the frame and the application-owned window. The technique can thereafter control the composite window by performing operations on the composite window via its system-owned frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Yaou Wei, Christopher E. Swan, Alex Snitkovskiy, Tsz Yan Wong, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Steven J. Tricanowicz, Brian D. Beck, Miron Vranjes
  • Patent number: 11182049
    Abstract: Techniques and solutions are described for configuring a computer-implemented process defined by a data model. The data model includes a plurality of data objects, each data object having an object type. Displays are rendered that request selection of first and second values for respective first and second data objects of first and second object types. The first and second values are assigned to the respective first and second data objects. The computer-implemented process defined by the data model is executed, using the first and second values, to provide execution results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Jaison Jacob, Kannan Presanna Kumar
  • Patent number: 11176949
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for assigning differential weight to participants in a meeting, and for automatically generating summaries of meetings. A transcript of the meeting is generated or obtained; and meeting data and meta-data is analyzed, optionally utilizing textual analysis and Natural Language Processing (NLP). Roles or titles are determined for each participant; and a differential weight is allocated to utterances of each participant based on his role or title. Optionally, the weight is modified based on the relation between the participant's role and the topic of an utterance, or by taking into account the level of activity or passiveness of each participant. Optionally, a high-ranking participant is assigned a prevailing weight, with regard to all topics or with regard to a subset of topics. The system generates automatically a summary of approved decisions, approved action items, rejected proposals, or other insights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: AUDIOCODES LTD.
    Inventors: Shabtai Adlersberg, Menachem Honig, Tatiana Adar
  • Patent number: 11175813
    Abstract: A screen control method, an apparatus, a device and a computer readable storage medium are provided. A display interface of a display screen includes a main display interface and a secondary display interface. The method includes: receiving a component call request sent by a user; switching the main display interface to the secondary display interface according to the component call request; and displaying preset component content on the secondary display interface according to a preset component display mode. Thus, the component content preset by the user can be uniformly displayed on the secondary display interface, which thus improves the user stickiness, makes the presented content more personalized and more compatible with the user's needs, thereby improving the user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignees: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., Shanghai Xiaodu Technology Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Lu Qian, Zhen Li, Xiangnan Yuan
  • Patent number: 11170160
    Abstract: A method, device and computer program product are provided. The method is under control of one or more processors includes program instructions to perform resource context awareness (RCA) by automatically. The method accesses an active destination resource at a computing device, matches the active destination resource to a resource context of interest (COI) from an RCA transfer library and transfers an outbound resource advancement (RA) content segment stored in memory of the computing device to the active destination resource based on the resource COI from the RCA transfer library.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Daryl Cromer
  • Patent number: 11163433
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for displaying content without obscuring key details on a computer screen. After the computing system detects the display of overlapping application windows, objects in the application windows are detected using an object recognition service. A determination is then made as to which of these detected objects correspond to objects that are being focused by the user, will be focused by the user and/or have been focused by the user based on the tracking of the eye gaze of the user and/or prior recorded patterns of activity. A score may then be generated for each of these focused objects indicating a level of obstruction using the location of the focused objects, the location of overlays and/or prior recorded patterns of activity. An optimal layout of the overlapped application windows is determined in response to the score for the focused object(s) exceeding a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Robert E. Loredo, Matthew E. Broomhall
  • Patent number: 11157153
    Abstract: Techniques for customization of user interfaces in a computing system are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at a server, data representing a change signal from a first client device of a first user. The change signal indicates that the first user has modified a display layout of profile information of a person of interest viewed by the first user on the first client device. The method also includes identifying a second user having a viewing context that is sufficiently similar to the first user. The method further includes automatically applying the modified display layout of the profile information on a second client device corresponding to the identified second user upon receiving a request from the second user for viewing the profile information of the person of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Andreea Sandu, Iuri Tolica, Srinivas Pushkar Ravipati, Ion Morozan
  • Patent number: 11138381
    Abstract: A method, a computer device and a readable medium user's intent mining are disclosed. The method includes: obtaining text feature information corresponding to behavior data of a user; extracting an intent information list corresponding to the behavior data by using a pre-trained intent extracting model; and obtaining the target intent information of the user from the intent information list corresponding to the behavior data of the user, according to the text feature information and the intent information list corresponding to the behavior data, and a preset semantic similarity threshold, and adding the target intent information of the user to an intent information queue for advertisement recommendation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hao Zhou, Hao Huang, Deqiang Cao, Dongdong Su, Sitong Chen
  • Patent number: 11126322
    Abstract: An image sharing method and device is provided. An electronic device of the present disclosure includes a communication module comprising communication circuitry, a memory, and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to control the electronic device to: receive information on an image selected to be shared with another external electronic device from an external device, ascertain link information of the image that is stored as part of attribute information of the image based on the received information, transmit, if the link information is stored as part of the attribute information of the image, the link information to the other external electronic device, and store the information on the other external electronic device as part of the attribute information in association with the link information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Arang Lee, Hyunho Kim, Hyunhee Park, Jiwon Choi, Donghyun Yeom
  • Patent number: 11119625
    Abstract: A remote control device for a manufacturing equipment and a method for detecting manual control are provided. The method for detecting the manual control on the manufacturing equipment includes the following steps. A cursor pattern is created. When the user interface is automatically controlled, a history location of the cursor pattern shown on a user interface of the manufacturing equipment is detected to obtain a location distribution. The location distribution is stored. A current location of the cursor pattern shown on the user interface is detected. If the current location is not within the location distribution, it is deemed that the user interface is manually controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Zheng-Yang Li, Chung-Jung Chen, Chun-Man Li, Li-Hsin Yang, Ching-Pei Lin, Ji-Fu Kung
  • Patent number: 11120229
    Abstract: There is a need for solutions for more effective and efficient natural language processing systems. This need can be addressed, for example, by a system configured to obtain a term correlation data object for a plurality of digital documents; determine, based at least in part on the term correlation data object, a term-topic correlation data object for the plurality of digital documents; determine, based at least in part on the term-topic correlation data object, a document-topic correlation data object for the plurality of digital documents; determine, based at least in part on the term-topic correlation data object, a document-sentiment correlation data object for the plurality of digital documents; generate the topic detection based at least in part on the document-topic correlation object; and generate the sentiment detection based at least in part on the document-sentiment correlation object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: OPTUM TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Suman Roy, Siddhartha Asthana, Anurag Miglani, Sumit Jindal, Surajit Das, Ashish Chaturvedi
  • Patent number: 11112940
    Abstract: To provide an information processing device capable of improving manipulability for a user while efficiently displaying menus on a screen. Provided is an information processing device including: a detection unit configured to detect a position of a manipulating object; and a display control unit configured to cause a menu to be displayed on a screen according to the position of the manipulating object detected by the detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Sakai, Teruya Kaneda, Anna Ariga, Shunichi Sugiura, Hiroyuki Mitsubori
  • Patent number: 11106346
    Abstract: A battery optimization method for sensors in communication with a first device is provided. The battery optimization method includes receiving, by a graphic user interface of the first device, an input on the graphic user interface. The input is an operation of a graphic element of the graphic user interface. The battery optimization method includes associating, by the first device, the input with a configuration parameter. The configuration parameter is assigned to each the sensors. The battery optimization method includes adjusting, by the first device, the configuration parameter to generate an adjusted parameter. The battery optimization method includes transmitting, by the first device, the adjusted parameter to the sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert W. Peitz, Jing Li
  • Patent number: 11106341
    Abstract: Techniques for media album display and management are described. An apparatus may comprise a messaging component operative to receive a plurality of messaging packages from a messaging server and determine a plurality of visual media items referenced by the plurality of messaging packages; a media layout component operative to determine a visual media item layout; and a display component operative to display the plurality of visual media items based on the visual media item layout Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: WHATSAPP LLC
    Inventors: Jan Boris Koum, Brian Lange Acton, Randall Sarafa, Kuan Loong Yong
  • Patent number: 11099812
    Abstract: Provided is a device including a display, an audio inputter, and a controller. The display displays at least one screen page of an application that is being executed. The audio inputter receives a voice command of a user. The controller performs an operation corresponding to the voice command by using screen page transition information for transition between application screen pages corresponding to the voice command, which is obtained from information about user interface (UI) elements included in the application screen pages of the application. Each of the UI elements performs a predetermined function when selected by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Han-min Bang, Hyok-sung Choi
  • Patent number: 11099657
    Abstract: Remote information input method, device and system are disclosed. The method includes: receiving a screen snapshot of a terminal device and sending the screen snapshot to a remote input device; receiving a keyboard input instruction from the remote input device, the keyboard input instruction including an identification of the terminal device and a keyboard code; determining a corresponding target key in the terminal device based on the keyboard code and a key code mapping table; identifying the screen snapshot of the terminal device and determining whether the target key exists in the screen snapshot; acquiring a coordinate of the target key in a screen snapshot in response to determining that the target key exists in the screen snapshot; and sending a click instruction to the terminal device, according to the coordinate of the target key in the screen snapshot and the identification of the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhenxing Hao