Patents Examined by David Choi
  • Patent number: 11961611
    Abstract: A computer system includes memory hardware and processor hardware configured to execute instructions, including training a machine learning model to generate a claim prediction output, obtaining structured claim data and demographic data specific to a patient entity, processing the structured data to generate the claim prediction output, storing the claim prediction output as a predicted future claim value specific to the patient entity, and assigning the patient entity to a first entity subset or to a second entity subset according to the structured demographic data specific to the patient entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Evernorth Strategic Development, Inc.
    Inventor: Xiaodong Zheng
  • Patent number: 10175862
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for providing an advertisement in a sidebar, and/or in a slidesheet associated with an application module displayed in the sidebar. The advertisement is targeted to the sidebar user based upon user specific information maintained by a content provider. The user specific information can comprise, sidebar application information, user preference information, shared user information and other information associated with the user that can be used to select an advertisement targeted to the user. An advertisement displayed in a slidesheet can be selected based upon user information and/or the functionality provided by the application module associated with the slidesheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: EXCALIBUR IP, LLC
    Inventors: Ashit Gandhi, Vincent Sollicito, Marc Bishop, Stephen Miller
  • Patent number: 10133452
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to performing data science operations. In particular, the present disclosure relates to a data science system that improves data science operations as well as enhances a user's experience in performing data science operations. For example, the data science system provides an improved framework that enables a data source to be paired with one or more algorithms to create a data science operation. In many instances, the data science operation outputs visual results, such as charts and graphs, that are easy for the user to understand. Further, using the framework, the data science system provides tools that enable the user to further customize data science operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: David Tompkins
  • Patent number: 10107887
    Abstract: A method for displaying a user interface on an electronic device is described. The method includes presenting a user interface. The user interface includes a coordinate system. The coordinate system corresponds to physical coordinates based on sensor data. The method also includes providing a sector selection feature that allows selection of at least one sector of the coordinate system. The method further includes providing a sector editing feature that allows editing the at least one sector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Lae-Hoon Kim, Erik Visser, Phuong Lam Ton, Jeremy Patrick Toman, Jeffrey Clinton Shaw
  • Patent number: 10110698
    Abstract: A method, computer readable medium and apparatus for providing control of social networking sites are disclosed. For example, the method establishes an owner profile, receives a request from a third party user to post information on a social networking site associated with an owner, determines if the request should be granted in accordance with the owner profile and posts the information on the social networking site associated with the owner if the request is granted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Joseph Anderson Alfred, Joseph M. Sommer
  • Patent number: 10108392
    Abstract: A user terminal apparatus including: a display configured to display an execution screen of a music application; a user interface configured to receive a user command; a communicator configured to perform communication with an external display apparatus; and a processor configured to: provide, in response to the user command, a user interface (UI) screen including information regarding the external display apparatus, the external display apparatus being connected to the user terminal apparatus through a network, and control the communicator to transmit identification information of a music content provided on the music application execution screen to the external display apparatus selected on the UI screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong-jin So, Jung-geun Kim, Ji-hyae Kim
  • Patent number: 10097598
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a meeting management system including an interface for defining the structure of a meeting, an unstructured waiting space to facilitate communication between participants, an interface to display the structure, process and timings of a meeting, a check-in/out process, an input and exchange process, and a task allocation process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: NOWHERE DIGITAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Bozwell Kay, Marc Cornwell, Nicholas Udall
  • Patent number: 10095393
    Abstract: A mobile device with a graphical user interface for remotely monitoring and/or remotely interacting with a configurable building automation systems (BAS). In particular, the mobile device's graphical user interface that has a portrait mode and a landscape mode, and the graphical user interface is displayed on the touchscreen in the portrait mode or the landscape mode based on the orientation of the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Susan M. Mairs, Bryan George Kinney, Kimberly Hayman, Melissa Rose Schumann, Rachel Michael Nilsson, Jacob Larson
  • Patent number: 10088996
    Abstract: One or more processors provide a first instruction to a first user. One or more processors receive a user input in response to the first instruction provided to the first user. One or more processors determine whether the user input is a correct response to the first instruction. Responsive to determining that the first user input to the first instruction is the correct input, one or more processors provide a second instruction to the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andreas Arning, Klaus Rindtorff
  • Patent number: 10091020
    Abstract: A method of operating an electronic device is provided. The method includes displaying a space drawing visualizing an indoor space and at least one icon related to an execution instruction to be transmitted to a network device, recognizing that an icon selected among the displayed at least one icon is overlapped on an image of the network device included in the space drawing, and transmitting the execution instruction corresponding to the selected icon, to the network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Bum Han, Eun-Young Cho, Woo-Kwang Lee
  • Patent number: 10082943
    Abstract: A scrolling method and apparatus devices having display screens such as a mobile terminal. When a first image on a screen cannot be moved in a direction by a touch input, a region of the first image is modified in response to the touch input and the modified image is subsequently restored to the first image after the touch is released or a preset amount of time passes. The modification of the region of the image provides an indication that is fed back to the user so that the end or last part of the image is displayed and cannot be moved further, so that undesired repetitive touch input can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mee Young Kim, Sung Sik Lee, Kyoung Sik Yoon, Byung Joo Kim
  • Patent number: 10084902
    Abstract: Telephonic computing devices having touch screen displays with new and improved methods and user interfaces for performing actions related to selected messages in a message in-box and for transferring calls, thereby increasing the effectiveness, efficiency, and user satisfaction with such devices. Such methods, devices, and interfaces may complement or replace existing methods, devices, and interfaces for performing actions related to selected messages in a message in-box and for transferring calls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: RingCentral, Inc.
    Inventors: Curt T. Larson, Natasha Nayberg
  • Patent number: 10078627
    Abstract: Collaboration cards are provided to enable people to collaborate and receive instant replies to comments or questions from anywhere in a collaboratively generated document. A collaborator may add somebody's name to a collaboration card and ask that person for information, for example. That person may receive the question/comment via an email, a text message, a posting, or comparable communication methods, and respond back with the requested information through the same communication channel or another communication channel. The replied content may be placed into the collaboration card created in the document, and the original sender may be enabled to accept a change to the document content based on the collaboration card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Shikha Desai, Gary Caldwell, Rolf Ebeling, Taili Feng, Paul Scudieri, Sung Joon Won, Eugene Y. Suh, Ruth Kikin-Gil, Patrick Davis, Derik Stenerson, Suzan Marashi, Navneet Kambo, Zachary Burstain, Erin O'Connell
  • Patent number: 10055206
    Abstract: A building management system (BMS) includes building equipment configured to provide raw data samples of a data point and a data collector configured to collect the raw data samples from the building equipment and generate a raw data timeseries including a plurality of the raw data samples. The BMS includes a timeseries service configured to generate one or more optimized data timeseries from the raw data timeseries and a timeseries database configured to store the raw data timeseries and the one or more optimized data timeseries. The BMS includes a dashboard layout generator configured to identify each timeseries associated with the data point and to generate a framework-agnostic dashboard layout description capable of being rendered by multiple different rendering frameworks to visualize each of the identified timeseries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Youngchoon Park, Vijaya S. Chennupati, Gerald A. Asp, Peter A. Craig
  • Patent number: 10055114
    Abstract: A building energy management includes building equipment, one or more data platform services, a timeseries database, and an energy management application. The building equipment operate to monitor and control a variable and provide raw data samples of a data point associated with the variable. The timeseries database stores a plurality of timeseries associated with the data point. The plurality of timeseries include a timeseries of the raw data samples and the one or more optimized data timeseries generated by the data platform services based on the raw data timeseries. The energy management application generates an ad hoc dashboard including a widget and associates the widget with the data point. The widget displays a graphical visualization of the plurality of timeseries associated with the data point and includes interactive user interface options for switching between the plurality of timeseries associated with the data point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Barkha Shah, Vivek Narain, Vipul Devre, Youngchoon Park, Gerald A. Asp, Peter A. Craig, Vijaya S. Chennupati
  • Patent number: 10048858
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for swipe shift photo browsing, wherein a first image is displayed on a touch sensitive display, a transition for the first image and an adjacent image is automatically created or determined, a swipe gesture of the user is recognized with the touch sensitive display, and the image shown on the display is shifted. The shifting comprises displaying the transition of the first image and of a second image synchronized with the speed and direction of the swipe, wherein the second image is the adjacent image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Jens Eggert
  • Patent number: 10048835
    Abstract: Space interaction (SI) functionality is described herein for assisting a user in interacting with a space without unduly distracting the user. The SI functionality includes an application interface module that presents information and/or exposes functionality within a plurality of workspaces. Each workspace has a determined spatial relationship with respect to other workspaces. Further, the application interface module may detect and respond to various gestures, by which the user may move among workspaces and interact with menus and other information that are presented in those workspaces. The user's interaction with these workspaces and menus may be supplemented by various sounds generated by a sound generation module, and/or various haptic cues (e.g., vibration cues) generated by a haptic cue generation module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Bradley Neville Cotier, Catalin Nicolae Doroftei, Jarnail Singh Chudge, Matthew Robin Farmer, Michael James Belfield Parker, Robert John Wilcox
  • Patent number: 10042519
    Abstract: Disclosed are several methods, apparatus, and a system to create, expose, and hide embedded secondary content data relevant to a primary content page of an electronic book generated by a content generating device. The method, system, and apparatus is enabled through a Y-axis slide apart gesture that is applied to a notification region of the primary content page such that the secondary content data is made visible when the Y-axis slide apart gesture is applied to the notification region. The method, system, and apparatus is also enabled through a Y-axis pinch close gesture that is applied to a boundary of an exposed pane that is appearing in the primary content page such that the Y-axis pinch close gesture collapses the exposed pane in which the secondary content data is made visible. In one embodiment, the system comprises an association server, an electronic book distribution server, and a content rendering device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Nook Digital, LLC
    Inventor: Peter Farago
  • Patent number: 10031639
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate an association between a recognizable identifier and a client device connecting to a central device. Identification information associated with a client device may be received at a central device within a request for configuration parameters. The identification information may be used to retrieve a recognizable identifier associated with the client device. In embodiments, the client device may be identified within a display using the associated recognizable identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventor: Shi Jin Chen
  • Patent number: 10033545
    Abstract: A GUI providing method and a GUI providing apparatus are provided. According to the GUI providing method, a GUI from among GUIs for an external apparatus connected to a video apparatus is determined and displayed. Accordingly, if there are many GUIs for an apparatus, a GUI most suitable for the current circumstance is automatically determined and provided to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Deok-ho Kim, Ki-ho Kim