Patents Examined by Erik V Stitt
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Patent number: 10613642Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed herein that relate to tuning gesture recognition characteristics for a device configured to receive gesture-based user inputs. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a head-mounted display device including a plurality of sensors, a display configured to present a user interface, a logic machine, and a storage machine that holds instructions executable by the logic machine to detect a gesture based upon information received from a first sensor of the plurality of sensors, perform an action in response to detecting the gesture, and determine whether the gesture matches an intended gesture input. The instructions are further executable to update a gesture parameter that defines the intended gesture input if it is determined that the gesture detected does not match the intended gesture input.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2014Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Michael Scavezze, Adam G. Poulos, John Bevis, Jeremy Lee, Daniel Joseph McCulloch, Nicholas Gervase Fajt
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Patent number: 10592085Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment determines whether an object which is a target of processing corresponding to user operation is displayed in a display area. If the object of the target is displayed in the display area, the apparatus executes the processing on the object in accordance with the user operation, but if the object of the target is not displayed in the display area, the apparatus suspends execution of the processing.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Akihiro Hamana
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Patent number: 10559027Abstract: Methods and systems to process a selection of a browser back button are described. The system includes a server that receives a request, over a network, for an initial user interface and communicates the initial user interface to a client machine. The initial user interface includes a client application program that monitors and identifies whether a storage location in a hidden frame is updated by a browser. The browser updates the storage location with a first user interface identifier in response to receipt of a single browser back navigation element selection. The client application program associates the first user interface identifier to a second user interface identifier responsive to the identification of the storage location as being updated. The client application program displays the second user interface in a visible frame responsive to the identification of the storage location as being updated.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2015Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: eBay Inc.Inventor: Anselm Paul Baird-Smith
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Patent number: 10549856Abstract: The control device of a communication system of an aircraft having a predefined number of communication channels comprises a processing unit and one or more sets of buttons each associated with a communication channel. The number of sets of buttons is less than the predefined number of communication channels of the communication system. The device comprises a set of call buttons comprising at least one transmission button, and a display area on a display screen, this display area being associated with the set of call buttons. The processing unit is configured to display an indication in the display area associated with the set of call buttons when the communication system receives a call on a channel with which no set of buttons is associated and to select this channel for transmission following an action of a user on the transmission button of the set of call buttons.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2017Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SASInventors: Florient Chouteau, Aymeric Perrin, Christine Charbonnier, Jerome Gouillou
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Patent number: 10552109Abstract: Methods are provided for assessing reliability of a power system of a utility company. At least one main overview display is obtained. Violation markers are displayed on the one main overview display. A monitored elements tab is updated with a list of monitored elements.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2016Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: General Electric Technology GmbHInventors: Gennaro Castelli, Michael Hackett, Michael Quinn Howard, Lawrence Edmund Jones, HuiChu Su Shung, Heath Daniel Brand
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Patent number: 10545756Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable media are provided for provisioning a service using a web-based user interface. An exemplary method may include establishing, using the web-based user interface, a profile including one or more services; and configuring an environment by specifying a computer to use for provisioning the one or more services in the profile. Furthermore, the method may include provisioning the one or more services in the configured environment, such that the one or more services generate a return code indicating a status of the provisioning.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2017Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE CORPORATION (FREDDIE MAC)Inventor: Yih-Jen Huang
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Patent number: 10521068Abstract: A portable device and a screen displaying method of a portable device are provided. The method includes displaying a screen of an executed application on a screen of a portable device; detecting an approaching direction of an external device by using a sensor; and overlapping a directional layer for content sharing corresponding to the approaching direction of the external device, on the screen of the application.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2014Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Jong-Sung Joo, Bo-Keun Kim, Kyu-Ok Choi
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Patent number: 10509840Abstract: A customizable web site access system is comprised of a software program incorporating both a composing portion and a performing portion. The composing portion of the software program is used to create a presentation. The presentation includes a list of URLs for display, a desired sequence of display of the URLs, and a duration of display of the URLs. The performing portion of the software program operates to load and display the presentation to a user of the web in an automatic slide show presentation.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2006Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: ADAPTIVE AVENUE ASSOCIATES, INC.Inventor: David H. Quimby
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Patent number: 10489011Abstract: In one embodiment, an information handling system may include a processor, a display that may provide a user interface allowing a user to select one or more system utilities to be accessed, memory that may include a plurality of memory partitions storing a plurality of system utilities, and a management controller. During a configuration of the information handling system, the management controller may receive a request from the user via the user interface to access one or more selected system utilities; identify one or more memory partitions storing the one or more selected system utilities; and cause the display to display one or more user-selectable icons corresponding to the one or more identified memory partitions to provide the user access to the one or more identified memory partitions.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2014Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Jon Robert Hass, Charles Terrence Perusse, Jr., Elie Antoun Jreij, Abhay Arjun Salunke
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Patent number: 10460260Abstract: A method and system for providing an overlay window for an application to display augmentation data over the user interface of the application is provided. An overlay system includes an overlay component and an engine component that interface with the application and a presentation manager used by the application to provide the application window. When the overlay system starts up, it initializes the overlay component and the engine component. The overlay component tracks the portion of the application that is currently visible and displays augmentation data in an overlay window over the application window. The engine component provides augmentation functionality that generates the augmentation data and generates the overlay window based on the augmentation data. When the visible portion of the application data changes, the overlay component requests the engine component to generate the overlay window for the currently visible application data.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2012Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Incisive Software CorporationInventor: Andrew Yip
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Patent number: 10454998Abstract: An information management and distribution system is disclosed. The information management and distribution system includes a client-side application and a server application that interact to facilitate the controlled exchange of contact information over a network. The client-side application can provide creation and design, rolodex, exchange, and update features. The information management and distribution system can also include a corporate administrator application. Still another aspect of the invention is that contact information can be distributed to registered users in a common format.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2012Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventor: Chris Cheah
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Patent number: 10387175Abstract: A tool data engine displays instructional information to an end-user of a software application that pertains to one or more tools associated with the software application. The tool data engine displays the instructional information within a graphical user interface (GUI) after the user has indicated interest in that tool. The instructional information includes a detailed description of the tool and one or more video clips associated with the tool. The tool data engine also allows end-users to record and/or upload video clips that demonstrate usage of the tool.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2010Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: AUTODESK, INC.Inventors: Tovi Grossman, George Fitzmaurice
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Patent number: 10386989Abstract: The implementations described herein include methods and systems for displaying graphical representations of datasets. A method is performed at a computer having one or more processors and memory storing programs for execution by the processors. The method receives a request from a user to display a graphical representation of a dataset. In response to the request, the method identifies a plurality of alternative graphical representations of the dataset. Each alternative graphical representation has a respective associated view type. The method ranks the plurality of alternative graphical representations in accordance with a rating system. The rating system is based on a set of criteria, which includes at least one user-specific criterion. The method selects for display a resulting graphical representation from among the plurality of alternative graphical representations based on the ranking.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2014Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: Tableau Software, Inc.Inventors: Jock Douglas Mackinlay, Christopher Richard Stolte, Patrick Hanrahan
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Patent number: 10372291Abstract: Click-to-callback provides an icon or link on a webpage that a user can select or click on. When the icon or link is clicked or otherwise selected, the user is provided with a list of his phone numbers to choose from, or a blank field to enter an alternate number, for an immediate return call from a representative of the entity (e.g., the company) associated with the webpage. When this request is submitted, the representative desirably calls the user back immediately (e.g., within about 10 seconds) to provide assistance. Thus, the user remains on the website, and gets the help he desires to continue on the website, which may, for example, lead to the user making an online purchase.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2012Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)Inventors: Gregory N. Lewis, Bradly J. Billman, Kevin A. Kossow, Nataraj Davalath, Andre R. Buentello
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Patent number: 10331306Abstract: A computer-implemented method for managing computing objects within enterprise software applications may include (1) providing, in connection with an enterprise software application, a graphical user interface that includes (i) a graphical tree structure that includes one or more pre-defined computing objects and (ii) an additional graphical tree structure that includes one or more user-specific object inventories, (2) detecting a user selection of at least one pre-defined computing object included in the graphical user interface in connection with at least one user-specific object inventory included in the additional graphical tree structure, and then (3) populating the user-specific object inventory included in the additional graphical tree structure with the selected pre-defined computing object in response to detecting the user selection. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2013Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Veritas Technologies LLCInventors: Yiyong Wan, Claudia L. Rudolph
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Patent number: 10318121Abstract: A control method according to the present disclosure is used in a remote control system including apparatuses and an information terminal that controls at least one of the apparatuses via a network. The control method includes: a step (S2) of displaying, on a user interface region of a display unit of the information terminal, apparatus icons indicating target apparatus candidates among the apparatuses; a step (S3) of obtaining, via the network, (a) apparatus state information related to the apparatuses and (b) sensor information that is a value indicating a spatial environment in which the apparatuses are located; and a step (S4) of (i) determining priorities of the target apparatus candidates based on the apparatus state information and the sensor information, all of which are obtained in the step (S3), and (ii) sorting, according to the determined priorities, the apparatus icons displayed on the user interface region.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2013Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Chikara Yoshida, Masayuki Kozuka, Toshihisa Nakano, Tsutomu Sekibe, Jun Yamaguchi, Kazushige Yamada, Kenji Shimizu, Masaki Takahashi, Yuri Nishikawa, Motoji Ohmori, Hiroyuki Takemura, Takeshi Hosaka
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Patent number: 10296185Abstract: Provided are techniques for viewing selected zoomed content. A first device is paired with a second device to enable the first device and the second device to communicate. Content is displayed on a first display screen on the first device. In response to receiving a request to zoom a portion of the content on the first device, a zoomed portion of the content is displayed on a second display screen on the second device, without changing the display of the content on the first display screen on the first device.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2015Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Billy W. Chang, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
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Patent number: 10289284Abstract: Provided are techniques for viewing selected zoomed content. A first device is paired with a second device to enable the first device and the second device to communicate. Content is displayed on a first display screen on the first device. In response to receiving a request to zoom a portion of the content on the first device, a zoomed portion of the content is displayed on a second display screen on the second device, without changing the display of the content on the first display screen on the first device.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2014Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Billy W. Chang, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
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Patent number: 10269388Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for an asset binder configured to select a media asset to be associated with a media segment that is represented in media seamline of a user interface at a client system, thereby creating a relationship between the media segment and the media asset. At the client system, in real-time, the media asset is layered upon the media segment in order to present the media asset in conjunction with playback of the media segment in the user interface. The relationship between the media segment and the media asset can be described as a parent-child relationship, such that media segment content and media asset content are not intermingled. The asset binder does not combine content of the media segment with content of the media asset within a rendered and compiled media file.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2007Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: Adobe Inc.Inventors: Ty Lettau, Ryan Tandy
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Patent number: 10250672Abstract: An information management and distribution system is disclosed. The information management and distribution system includes a client-side application and a server application that interact to facilitate the controlled exchange of contact information over a network. The client-side application can provide creation and design, rolodex, exchange, and update features. The information management and distribution system can also include a corporate administrator application. Still another aspect of the invention is that contact information can be distributed to registered users in a common format.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2012Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventor: Chris Cheah