Patents Examined by David Choi
  • Patent number: 9927953
    Abstract: A method, performed by a device, of providing a menu interface on a lock screen of the device, includes receiving a touch input on the lock screen; displaying, on the lock screen, a first level of the menu interface, the first level comprising a first plurality of menu items; receiving a first drag input in a direction of a first menu item from among the first plurality of menu items; and displaying, on the lock screen, a second level of the menu interface, the second level comprising a second plurality of menu items based on the direction of the first drag input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nam-wook Kang, Do-hyoung Kim, Yong-gook Park, Young-kyu Jin, Woo-hyoung Lee
  • Patent number: 9927868
    Abstract: A system for perspective based tagging and visualization of avatars in a virtual world may include determining if another avatar has moved within a predetermined proximity range of a user's avatar in a virtual world. The system may also include allowing the user to tag the other avatar with information in response to the other avatar being within the predetermined proximity range of the user's avatar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brian R. Bokor, Daniel E. House, William B. Nicol, II, Andrew B. Smith
  • Patent number: 9930102
    Abstract: Emotional state data is used to tailor the user experience of an interactive software system, by monitoring and obtaining data about a user's emotional state. The resulting emotional state data is analyzed and used to dynamically modify the user's experience by selecting user experience components based on the analysis of the user's emotional state data. In this way, different types of user experience components can be utilized to provide the user with an individualized user experience that is adapted to the user's emotional state. Different types of user experience components can be utilized to adjust the user experience to adapt to the user's new emotional state, prevent the user from entering an undesirable emotional state, and/or encourage the user to enter into a desirable emotional state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Paulus, Luis Felipe Cabrera, Mike Graves
  • Patent number: 9921715
    Abstract: Systems and methods to generate and provide a user interface to display a shape-based icon that visually represents a server in a user interface. An example method may include identifying a media access control (MAC) address associated with a server, the MAC address including a vendor identifier and a server identifier; determining a first color in view of the vendor identifier and a second color in view of the server identifier; determining a first shape in view of the vendor identifier and a second shape in view of the server identifier; generating a shape-based icon comprising the first shape having the first color and the second shape having the second color; and providing the user interface to display the shape-based icon that visually represents the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventor: Lukas Zapletal
  • Patent number: 9921889
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for managing an electronic device are provided. The method comprises: determining a state of the electronic device; monitoring whether an instruction for invoking a notification component in the electronic device has been generated when the state of the electronic device satisfies a predetermined condition; and intercepting the instruction for invoking the notification component to prevent a notification event associated with the instruction from being executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Hongliang Gu, Hao Chen, Qian Zhao
  • Patent number: 9911166
    Abstract: A method for tracking interactions in an emergency response environment according to embodiments of the present invention includes receiving color images and depth information from within a field of view of a sensor array; maintaining an emergency encounter record; monitoring one or both of a position of an object and movement of the object in the emergency response environment based on the color images and depth information received by the sensor array; and recording an occurrence of a condition in the emergency encounter record, wherein the condition is based on the one or both of the position of the object and the movement of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: ZOLL Medical Corporation
    Inventors: C. Shane Reid, Chad Ashmore, Robert H. Gotschall, Martin Bures
  • Patent number: 9912620
    Abstract: A method for an instant messaging application is disclosed comprising receiving source data sent from a third party server, wherein a tag of the instant messaging application is embedded in the source data; and implementing a function of the instant messaging application, on a third party interface displayed based on the source data, based on a script or a Software Development Kit of the instant messaging application and the tag of the instant messaging application. Also disclosed is relevant system and devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventor: Wei Li
  • Patent number: 9904444
    Abstract: A device which provides a user interface through which a user further easily selects an object and a method of providing the user interface are provided. The device includes at least one sensor which senses a motion of the device, a processor which compares a motion value determined by using the sensor with a preset threshold value and determines a movement value of the object based on a result of the comparing, and an Input/Output (I/O) unit which displays the object, wherein the object moves according to the movement value of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chi-hyun Cho, Kil-su Eo
  • Patent number: 9886505
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for handling contact information in a communication device. The method can include a step of presenting content within a visual interface of the communication device. A contact detection algorithm can execute to detect contact items included in the content. A visual indication can be presented next to each detected contact item. User input can be received, which causes the communication device to perform a contact action relating to one of the contact items. The contact action can add contact information to an address book, can initiate a communication session, and/or can place the contact item in a memory space for later use by an application other than one in which the content was presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Oscar J. Blass, Men T. Lien, Rodrigo Jose Pastrana, Roberto Vila
  • Patent number: 9886487
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable mediums for managing a subset of user contacts on a telecommunications device are provided. In one embodiment, a software application executed by a processor of a telecommunications device determines at least two contact groups from a subset of contacts accessible by a telecommunications device. The software application executed by the processor of the telecommunications device also generates a contact display including at least one contact group associated with the subset of contacts based on a current context of a user of the telecommunications device. The current context can include, for example, one or more of a location, time, date, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Steffen Vance, Jeffrey Allen Armantrout, Jared T Benson, Christian Robertson, Shilpa R. Shah, Gabriel J. White
  • Patent number: 9880719
    Abstract: Techniques are described for providing visualizations of data with options for a user to manipulate the data visualizations. These data visualization options may provide flexible and rapid comparison of different fragments of data. In one example, a method includes outputting a display of a data visualization in a graphical user interface. The method further includes receiving a first user input selecting a first fragment of the data visualization to freeze. The method further includes receiving a second user input selecting a second fragment of the data visualization to reposition to a new position relative to the frozen fragment of the data visualization. The method further includes outputting a revised display of the data visualization in the graphical user interface that displays the repositioned fragment of the data visualization in the new position relative to the frozen fragment of the data visualization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Prakash Dewan
  • Patent number: 9876988
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods, and software for facilitating a video conference environment. In at least one implementation, video captured of a scene is received. A modification to display of the video is identified based at least in part on a share of a display space associated with an object in the scene relative to a share of another display space associated with another object in another scene. The modification to the display of the video is then initiated. In another implementation, the modification may also be based on a target share indicated by way of an interactive graphic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ankit Tandon, Robert Aichner, Ross Cutler, Senthil Velayutham
  • Patent number: 9864562
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display control device includes a receiving module, a transmission module, a reception module, and a display processor. The receiving module is configured to receive an operation on a first cursor represented on screen information received from an information processing device via a network when the screen information is displayed. The transmission module is configured to transmit positional information on a second cursor making the first cursor move in accordance with the operation received by the receiving module. The reception module is configured to receive screen information after the positional information on the second cursor is transmitted from the information processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Hitoshi Oitaira
  • Patent number: 9860198
    Abstract: A method for referencing a message comprises the steps of receiving selection of an area or object associated with the message on a display, optionally providing an indication that the selection of the area or object has been received, allowing a further message to be formed with a link to the message, wherein the link is associated with the further message responsive to the selection, and causing display of the information associated with the message responsive to selection of a further area or portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Wrinkl, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc A. Cohen, Erik S. Katz
  • Patent number: 9857947
    Abstract: Dialog metadata is used to generate a metadata driven dialog definition. The metadata can define logic that is run on the dialog, and customizations to the dialog are made by modifying the dialog metadata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Anusha Shankar, Bharath Swaminathan, Zhi J. Zhao
  • Patent number: 9851747
    Abstract: A portable electronic book reading machine has two display screens juxtaposed in close proximity to allow for automatic cross referencing between primary textual material displayed on the leftmost display screen and related secondary textual material displayed on the rightmost display screen. The machine has memory in which both primary text and secondary text are stored. As the user of the machine changes the page of primary text displayed on the leftmost screen display, ebook controller circuitry automatically refreshes the rightmost screen display to allow the user to cross reference between the primary textual material and the secondary textual material, or at his or her discretion to change the page of secondary textual material displayed, thereby fine tuning the juxtaposition of pages for study.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Inventor: Peter G. Winsky
  • Patent number: 9846680
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable medium comprises displaying a panel associated with at least one script, presenting a branching logic associated with the panel and creating a graphical map of the panel and the branching logic where the graphical map allows zooming in to show panel logic associated with the panel, and the graphical map allows zooming out to show the branching logic associated with the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: ALORICA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey William Cordell, Anthony Mathew Stach, Jereomy K. Frum
  • Patent number: 9847955
    Abstract: There is provided a device that displays an image in a chatting area where a text is displayed. The device includes a data communication unit that receives a text from an external device via a network; a text display unit that displays the received text in the chatting area; an image search unit that searches for image data of an image selected through a user interface; a position detection unit that detects position information of a region selected through the user interface in the chatting area; and an image display unit that displays the searched image data in a region corresponding to the detected position information. Further, when the displayed text is shifted in the chatting area, the displayed image data are also shifted in the chatting area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: KAKAO CORP.
    Inventor: Joo Hyun Ji
  • Patent number: 9830047
    Abstract: Asset data streams are provided that facilitate the display of large numbers of media assets. Encoded asset data streams provide approximated aspect ratio information for media assets to be used in determining a position for each media asset in a dataset, thus being able to position all of the media assets in a media asset arrangement prior to being scrolled into view by the user. By communicating aspect ratio approximations as part of an encoded asset data stream of data to a web application, a user is able to scroll to any part of a dataset (e.g., a photo library) when presented in the web application without having to wait on the receipt of information for all media assets. Encoded asset data streams may further include asset identification offsets that indicate a sequential ordering of the individual assets in a dataset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: APPLE
    Inventors: Brian E. Kirsch, Charles E. Edwall, Christopher J. Shull
  • Patent number: 9830364
    Abstract: A method, item communication arrangement and a computer program product communicate items representing process control objects to a user of a wireless terminal in a process control system. The arrangement includes an item communication control unit providing the items representing process control objects and configured to continuously determine weights of the items and visually communicate items to the user via the wireless terminal in an order defined by the weights of the items. The weight of an item is determined based on an item selection pattern of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: ABB Research Ltd
    Inventors: Fredrik Alfredsson, Elina Vartiainen, Jonas Brönmark, Magnus Larsson