Patents Examined by Dino Kujundzic
  • Patent number: 11307752
    Abstract: Systems and processes for user configurable task triggers are provided. In one example, at least one user input, including a selection of at least one condition of a plurality of conditions and a selection of at least one task of a plurality of tasks, is received. Stored context data corresponding to an electronic device is received. A determination is whether the stored context data indicates an occurrence of the at least one selected condition. In response to determining that the stored context data indicates an occurrence of the at least one selected condition, the at least one selected task associated with the at least one selected condition is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph E. Meyer, Kelan Champagne, Joao Pedro De Almeida Forjaz De Lacerda, Aleksandr Gusev, Conrad B. Kramer, Yuan Li, Ari Weinstein
  • Patent number: 11294472
    Abstract: A method for augmenting a two-stage hand gesture input comprises receiving hand tracking data for a hand of a user. A gesture recognition machine recognizes that the user has performed a first-stage gesture based on one or more parameters derived from the received hand tracking data satisfying first-stage gesture criteria. An affordance cueing a second-stage gesture is provided to the user responsive to recognizing the first-stage gesture. The gesture recognition machine recognizes that the user has performed the second-stage gesture based on one or more parameters derived from the received hand tracking data satisfying second-stage gesture criteria. A graphical user interface element is displayed responsive to recognizing the second-stage gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Sheng Kai Tang, Julia Schwarz, Thomas Matthew Gable, Casey Leon Meekhof, Chuan Qin, Nahil Tawfik Sharkasi, Nicholas Ferianc Kamuda, Ramiro S. Torres, Joshua Kyle Neff, Jamie Bryant Kirschenbaum, Neil Richard Kronlage
  • Patent number: 11287963
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are described for creating custom user interface (“UI”) controls. A networked computing service may determine that an action performed by a user of the service is likely to be repeated, based on previous actions performed by the user and/or other users, parameters of the action including characteristics of an item associated with the action, and other criteria. The networked computing service may generate, or recommend generation of, a custom UI control that automates performance of the action. The networked computing service may automatically determine parameters of the action, and may determine alternative parameters and/or alternative actions if the action cannot be performed using the determined parameters. Custom UI controls may be associated with various computing devices and/or other electronic devices, and categories of custom UI controls may be determined and displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephan Josef Andrizzi, Kara Cavallaro, Jai Prakash Chabria, Nicole Dare, Kenneth DeLand, Nirav Praful Desai, Anindya Guha, Marc Hensley, Douglas James Herrington, Samuel Stevens Heyworth, Apoorva Iyer, Nitish Kumar, Hannah McClellan Richards, Jae Park, Amir Pelleg, Jessica Protasio, Daniel Benjamin Rausch, Laura Allison Ridlehoover, Jeffrey Rosenberg, John Shaw, Paul Warren Smart, Amirali Virani
  • Patent number: 11281357
    Abstract: A method and system provide for entering text into a text field by determining complete-text terms, displaying the complete-text terms, and receiving a selection of a complete-text term as text to be entered into the text field. In some cases, a complete-text term can include all prior text entries used to determine the complete-text terms. In other cases, a complete-text term can include only a portion or none of the prior text entries used to determine the complete-text term. The determination of the complete-text terms can be based on a vehicle identifier. The determination of the complete-text terms can be based on one or more complete-text term selection-limiters, such a location, use, or diagnostic trouble code associated with the vehicle. The system can include a vehicle service tool that requests a set of complete-text terms and receives the set from a complete-text term storage device or an off-board processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Snap-on Incorporated
    Inventors: Joshua Covington, Patrick S. Merg
  • Patent number: 11277485
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces and techniques for monitoring fitness activity. In accordance with some embodiments, user interfaces and techniques for transitioning between a user interface mode for measuring an activity metric to a user interface mode for measuring a different activity, based on detecting that a user characteristic has changed, are described. In accordance with some embodiments, user interfaces and techniques for measuring activity data and providing activity commentary in response to activity-based events, where different activity commentary is provided based on a characteristic of a user, are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Julie A. Arney, Niharika Milind Bedekar, Jay Blahnik, Eamon F. Gilravi, Brett L. Lareau, Danvin Ruangchan
  • Patent number: 11275794
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a first set of documents. The method further includes generating a map of terms and words based on the first set of documents, where the map of terms and words correspond to concepts. The method further includes receiving an initial document relating to a data discovery issue. The method further includes identifying at least one of a key term, a person, a date, and a key document based on the map of terms and words. The method further includes generating a story that includes the at least one of the key term, the person, the date, and the key document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Casepoint LLC
    Inventor: Vishalkumar Rajpara
  • Patent number: 11272017
    Abstract: Application notification techniques are described. Implementations are described in which a representation of an application may include notifications that pertain to the application. Techniques are further described which may be used to manage the notifications, including replacement of notifications, use of queues, overrides, selection of notifications based on execution state of an application, cycling a display of a plurality of notifications, cycling a display of different subsets of notifications, examination of a manifest of an application to determine criteria to be used to display the notifications, display priority of the notifications, and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Tyler J. Donahue, Brian K. McNeil, Kevin Michael Woley, Matthew R. Ayers, Gaurav S. Anand, Anshul Rawat, Relja Ivanovic
  • Patent number: 11250046
    Abstract: An image viewing method and a mobile terminal are provided. The method includes: detecting whether a viewing instruction of a user for a display identifier on a target position is received, where the display identifier is a display identifier of a target image selected by the user from an image selection interface; displaying the target image corresponding to the display identifier, in a case that the viewing instruction is received; and jumping to a position where the target image is located in the image selection interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yanni Zhang
  • Patent number: 11238287
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for curating content that follows a narrative structure. A narrative structure comprises narrative portions that have a defined order. Signature analysis of known content that follows the narrative structure is used to train machine learning models for the narrative structure and the narrative portions that make up the narrative structure. Signature analysis of candidate content segments, along with machine learning models for the narrative portions, are used to identify candidate content segments that match the respective narrative portions. A candidate playlist is generated of the identified candidate content segments in the defined order. In one embodiment, the machine learning model for the narrative structure is used to validate the generated playlist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Ambrozic, Michael Dean Hoffman
  • Patent number: 11237708
    Abstract: A device configured to display a first video scene and a progress bar for a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) video and to receive a user input that indicates a time instance value on the progress bar. The device is further configured to identify a first source scene identifier for a second video scene and an animation identifier that is linked with the second video scene based on the time instance value. The device is further configured to identify HTML code that is associated with the first source scene identifier and the first animation identifier and to compile the identified HTML code to render the second video scene. The device is further configured to generate a scaled second video scene by reducing a size of the rendered second video scene to fit a preview frame and to display the scaled second video scene in the preview frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventor: Shankar Sangoli
  • Patent number: 11212882
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of changing a presentation of a cooking situation in accordance with a user emotion. An information processing apparatus including an emotion detection unit that detects an emotion of a user and a control unit that performs control such that a heating situation during cooking is displayed and output. The control unit changes display of the heating situation in accordance with a user emotion detected by the emotion detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshinori Takagi
  • Patent number: 11188147
    Abstract: A display control method for a display control system includes: acquiring eye gaze information concerning eye gaze of a user; specifying, as a highlight target display element, among at least one display element to be displayed based on data indicating at least one item of information, a display element that has a predetermined positional relationship with the eye gaze of the user indicated by the eye gaze information and that satisfies a certain requirement as a highlight target candidate; and performing display control so that the specified highlight target display element is highlighted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventor: Mayu Yokoya
  • Patent number: 11183279
    Abstract: A system and method for generating and displaying a treatment timeline user interface includes maintaining a database of patient information. The patient information includes patient identification information and exam data associated with patients. In response to a request for information pertaining to a particular patient, a treatment timeline user interface is generated and displayed based on information associated with the particular patient stored in the database. Input is received requesting modification of the displayed treatment timeline and, in response, the treatment timeline is updated and displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Topcon Healthcare Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: John Thomas Trefethen, James Alvin Morris, Travis Christopher Ryan, Junsheng Zhang
  • Patent number: 11175932
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for generating user interfaces are described. In an embodiment, a monitoring tool can observe the user's interaction with a computing device, collect input and output operation data, and calculate a user effectiveness score based on the collected data. A user interface can be generated based on the user effectiveness score to match the user's proficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Watson, Kenneth Taylor, Fardin Abdi Taghi Abad, Vincent Pham, Anh Truong, Jeremy Goodsitt, Reza Farivar, Austin Walters
  • Patent number: 11151518
    Abstract: A server system suitable for generating calendar events based on guided hints is provided. The server system receives, from a device of a first user, an indication to create a calendar event. The server system derives, using natural language processing, guided hints for information for the calendar event, and causes presentation of the guided hints on a user interface displayed on the device of the first user. The server system receives the information in response to the guided hints presented on the device of the first user, and generates the calendar event based on the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jaime J Hwacinski, Cindy Kwan, Eva Britta Ka Burlin, Shahil Soni, Ian Dwyer Curry, Teslim Abiodun Alabi
  • Patent number: 11137886
    Abstract: A system and method for providing content for broadcast by a messaging platform, including: receiving an identifier selected by a user of a client computing device during composition of a message; identifying a content provider associated with the identifier; providing, by a computer processor, a set of content items of the content provider for presentation by the client computing device, wherein the user of the client computing device selects a content item from the presented set of content items; and broadcasting the message with a reference to the selected content item to a plurality of accounts of the messaging platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Twitter, Inc.
    Inventors: David Richards, George Oliver Young, Noah Vihinen, Indranrita Deshmukh, Scott Listfield, Joel Lunenfeld
  • Patent number: 11112952
    Abstract: A user interface for display of multiview image sets captured by slide scanning digital microscopes, including a graphical user interface (GUI) for the display of one or more of multi-level, multi-angle, and multi-region images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Microscopes International, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan C. Ward, Richard K. Rainbolt
  • Patent number: 11112953
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of an electronic device including outputting an image through a display according to running of an application, receiving at least one of information on a state and an external situation of the electronic device while the image is output, determining, based on at least one of the information on the state and the external situation of the electronic device, whether at least one of the state and the external situation of the electronic device corresponds to a designated condition for storing at least part of the output image, and storing at least part of the output image based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Inventors: Joong Seob Kim, Dongkyung Kim
  • Patent number: 11106710
    Abstract: A user session for a client device may be initiated by a computerized answering system. Answers to one or more questions may be provided via a network for presentation in a user interface of a display of the client device, where the presentation of the answers may be based on a default profile. User interaction with one or more of the answers presented in the user interface of the display of the client device is monitored during the user session. A first user profile is selected from a plurality of user profiles in response to determining attributes of the user interaction correspond to attributes of the first user profile. The user interface of the display of the client device is modified to change from presenting the answers based on the default profile to presenting the answers based on the first user profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John B. Gordon, Scott H. Isensee, Mark Marrara, William G. O'Keeffe, Cale Vardy
  • Patent number: 11086505
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a program for controlling an information processing device that receives an operation on an object to be possessed disposed in a virtual space from a user, the program causing the information processing device to execute rendering a spatial image that depicts an aspect of an interior of the virtual space on a basis of a position and a direction of a given viewpoint, receiving a housing operation of adding the object to be possessed to user's personal belongings from the user, and controlling so as to dispose a list of personal belongings to which the object to be possessed has been added at a position in the virtual space determined depending on the position and the direction of the viewpoint at a time of receiving the housing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Masaaki Yamagiwa, Teruyuki Toriyama, Hidetaka Miyazaki