Patents Examined by Hua Lu
  • Patent number: 11960580
    Abstract: A system and method of managing applications and event notifications using a cursor-based GUI, wherein the cursor-based GUI is located adjacent to the cursor and provides a user with the ability manage and monitor a plurality of dynamically updated applications, commands and event notifications via a persistent and centralized interface. Since the cursor-based GUI is persistent in nature, the plurality of applications, commands and event notifications can be accessed regardless of the user's computer environment. The user can manage user authentication requirements and other configuration information for the cursor-based GUI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Transparence LLC
    Inventor: James J. Nicholas, III
  • Patent number: 11960601
    Abstract: A system for managing an infrastructure includes extraction engine is in communication with a managed infrastructure that includes physical hardware. A signalizer engine includes one or more of an NMF engine (Non-negative matrix factorization), a k-means clustering engine (a method of vector quantization), and a topology proximity engine. The signalizer engine determines one or more common characteristics of events and produces clusters of events relating to the failure or errors in the infrastructure. The signalizer engine uses graph coordinates and optionally a subset of attributes assigned to each event to generate one or more clusters to bring together events whose characteristics are similar. One or more interactive displays provide a collaborative interface coupled to the extraction and the signalizer engine with a collaborative interface (UI) for decomposing events from the infrastructure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Philip Tee, Robert Duncan Harper
  • Patent number: 11960374
    Abstract: A system is provided for managing a managed infrastructure that has physical hardware components. A signalizer engine is coupled to the managed infrastructure. The signalizer engine includes a central processor and a main memory. In response to input from the managed infrastructure, the central processor and the main memory use graph coordinates to determine hop proximity of a source of an event. Clusters of events are then produced relating to one or more failures or errors in the physical elements of the managed infrastructure. Each event being is converted to words to group the events into the clusters that relate to a failure or an actionable problem in the physical hardware components to produce an output. A compare and merge engine is coupled to the signalizer engine to receive the output. In response to the output, the system executes physical corrections to the physical hardware of the managed infrastructure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Philip Tee, Robert Duncan Harper
  • Patent number: 11947606
    Abstract: A search engine system generally includes a user interface in a computing environment configured to receive at least a first fragment from a user and a content display module configured to automatically generate an anticipated search result in the computing environment based on at least the first fragment. The content display module is configured to automatically display search results that include an arrangement of a plurality of visual content elements based on the anticipated search result. The content display module is configured to direct the user to content at one of a network and a local destination associated with one of the visual content elements selectable by the user with the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: STRONG FORCE TX PORTFOLIO 2018, LLC
    Inventors: William Tod Gross, Paul Thomas Ryan
  • Patent number: 11947724
    Abstract: An electronic device with a touch-sensitive surface, a display, and one or more tactile output generators displays, on the display, a respective user interface element within a user interface region. The device detects a gesture on the touch-sensitive surface for moving the respective user interface element by a respective amount. In response, in accordance with a determination that moving the respective user interface element by the respective amount would cause the respective user interface element to move beyond a predefined limit, the device generates a respective tactile output via the tactile output generators and moves the respective user interface element by the respective amount and beyond the predefined limit. In response to detecting liftoff of a contact used to perform the gesture, the device at least partially reverses the movement of the respective user interface element, such that the respective user interface element is moved to the predefined limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Traer Bernstein, Julian Missig, Avi E. Cieplinski, May-Li Khoe, Bianca C. Costanzo
  • Patent number: 11941232
    Abstract: In implementations of context-based copy-paste systems, a computing device implements a context system to receive input data describing a selection of a vector object. The context system detects vicinity vector objects based on a bounding box of the vector object and bounding boxes of the vicinity vector objects. A transformation is identified based on similarities between the vicinity vector objects and target vector objects. The context system generates a modified vector object for display in a user interface by transforming the vector object using the transformation and reproducing the transformed vector object relative to a particular target vector object of the target vector objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Harish Kumar, Praveen Kumar Dhanuka, Arushi Jain
  • Patent number: 11928116
    Abstract: A system and method for boosting items or news posts in a news feed on an organization news site. A boost module allows an organization communicator or administrator to set boost parameters for a selected news post. The boost parameters may include boosting a news post until it is viewed, boosting for a number of impressions, boosting until a particular date, and setting a rank for the news post relative to other boosted items. Boosting a news post may be done when the news post is created and published or after it has been published. Boosted items or news posts may include an icon or symbol to indicate the item is boosted in the user's newsfeed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Patrick James Kelleher, Brian Arthur Vannoy
  • Patent number: 11922910
    Abstract: A digital audio workstation organizes musical information in a visually consistent manner, such that it is easier for the user to see and to manipulate the content in a song. The organization includes a multitrack music stream, which depicts multiple adjacent streams (or “tracks”) of musical content playing in parallel; a Play Bar, which is a visual plane intersecting the music stream; and two or more data layers, which are spatially aligned with the underlying musical stream, but each of which contains a specific type of musical data which can be viewed and manipulated in isolation. This approach to visual organization of music information has some major benefits to the user. Many different kinds of musical content and transformations can be depicted in a clear and consistent manner, making it easier for the user to see and manipulate the song.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Inventors: Gregory Bernard LoPiccolo, Samuel Paul Levine
  • Patent number: 11914486
    Abstract: Aspects of a data environment, such as the cloning, hibernation, and recovery of databases, are managed using a separate control environment. A monitoring component of the control environment can periodically communicate with the data environment to determine any necessary actions to be performed, such as to recover from faults or events for a data instance in the data environment. A workflow can be instantiated that includes tasks necessary to perform actions such as recovery, hibernation, resumption from hibernation, or backup or cloning. Tasks of the workflow can cause certain jobs to be performed by host managers in the data environment to affect calls made to the control environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Grant Alexander MacDonald McAlister, Milovan Milovanovic
  • Patent number: 11911325
    Abstract: A graphical user interface (GUI) of a patient bed is used by a caregiver to manually enter location data indicative of a location in a healthcare facility at which the patient bed is located. A first screen for manually entering location data is displayed on the GUI after a threshold period of time elapses subsequent to a power plug of the patient bed being plugged into an alternating current (AC) outlet of the healthcare facility and subsequent to casters of the patient bed being braked. A voice prompt is also given from the patient bed after the threshold period of time elapses to remind the caregiver to manually enter the location data. After manual entry of the location data, circuitry of the patient bed transmits the location data entered by the caregiver and a bed identification (ID) from the bed for receipt by a remote computer for purposes of making a bed-to-room association.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard H. Heimbrock, Jennifer A. Gunn, John S. Schroder, Hubert Lechable, Jean-Marie Remoleur, Jimmy Samson, Richard J. Schuman
  • Patent number: 11907525
    Abstract: A system for controlling the screen of a device comprising a device having a screen for displaying output and a virtual window displayed on an edge of said device. Said window functions independently from any other application running within said device and is always available on the screen. Providing a swiping action from said window towards inside the screen blocks said screen to some type of interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Inventor: Benjamin Firooz Ghassabain
  • Patent number: 11886888
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device, a command from a user to load an application; determining, using a processor, whether a forecasted loading time for the application exceeds a loading tolerance threshold associated with the user; and providing, responsive to determining that the forecasted loading time exceeds the loading tolerance threshold, a reduced view of the application during a time period that the application is loading. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Mark Patrick Delaney, Nathan J. Peterson, Russell Speight VanBlon, John Carl Mese, Arnold S. Weksler
  • Patent number: 11875034
    Abstract: Systems and methods for displaying a scorecard for rating pilot performance by registering a wearable device based on the identification of the wearable device through pilot profile data, location data, and an identification key data received from the wearable device; linking, the wearable device to the avionic system to receive flight data, and to a cloud server to receive computed performance scores for in-flight display by the wearable device; alternately, in response to a manual input action, authenticating pilot identity to enable pilot access and linking of the flight data to the cloud server for display; generating a set of flight components via a model specified for a flight phase based on data from the wearable device if available, and the flight data, the model includes flight performance score values; displaying a flight phase performance score; and displaying on the graphical user interface in a cockpit display the performance scorecard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Inventors: Thea Feyereisen, Gang He, Abiram Rajendran, Ryan Milmoe
  • Patent number: 11871495
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for a load control system which produces a show by adjusting one or more parameter values, such as color temperature, intensity, spectrum, volume, load state, and position of a window covering, as a function of a show time equal to a current time of day. The load control system is responsive to receiving commands to adjust the show time with respect to the current time of day. The load control system is configured to respond to the received commands by initiating a temporary system override in which the one or more parameter values may rewind or forward in time according to the defined show. The temporary override may exit and the defined show may resume at the current time of day after a predetermined amount of time has passed, at a reset time, or in response to a command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Horace C. Ho, Julianne M. Trenary, Matthew R. Blakeley
  • Patent number: 11860587
    Abstract: An electronic device, such as a watch, has a variable friction mechanism for providing variable frictional feedback as an input mechanism, such as a crown, is rotated. The variable frictional feedback may correspond to operational states, events, or other conditions at the electronic watch. The variable frictional feedback may be provided by changing a frictional force between the crown and the variable friction mechanism. The variable friction mechanism may include a friction element adapted to contact a shaft of the crown and an actuator adapted to change a frictional force between the friction element and the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Steven J. Taylor, Brenton A. Baugh
  • Patent number: 11861145
    Abstract: A method of interactively navigating a user through a path of menu choices on a user interface may include displaying a current menu of choices on a first portion of a user interface display. The user interface allows for selecting of a menu item from the current menu of choices and to drill down through levels of menu choices based on selecting a menu item from a prior level of menu choices. A second portion of the user interface display presents past selected and past unselected menu items of the drilled-down levels. The past unselected menu items are displayed as selectable options. The user interface allows for jumping to a different path of menu choices by selecting a past unselected menu item from a previously navigated menu level displayed on the second portion of the user interface display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: METHODICAL MIND, LLC
    Inventors: Jacob N. Wohlstadter, George Sigal, Edward J. S. Roques, Louis W. Pang, Pankaj Oberoi, Kin Ng, Michael Vock
  • Patent number: 11853368
    Abstract: A method is disclosed. The method may include: acquiring an image including at least a part of an object; identifying the object based on the image; searching a document database for a document corresponding to the object; and displaying the object and information related to the document. A system is disclosed. The system may include: one or more memories configured to store a document database; one or more electronic devices configured to acquire an image including at least a part of an object; and one or more computing devices configured to identify the object based on the image, and search the document database for a document corresponding to the object, wherein the one or more electronic devices are further configured to display the object and information related to the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: HANGZHOU GLORITY SOFTWARE LIMITED
    Inventors: Qingsong Xu, Qing Li
  • Patent number: 11829581
    Abstract: A method includes displaying, by a terminal, a first screen on a touchscreen, receiving, by the terminal, a page flip operation from a user on the first screen, playing, by the terminal, a first page flip animation for switching from the first screen to a second screen in response to the page flip operation, where animation play parameters of the first page flip animation are related to first touch parameters generated on the touchscreen by a user finger during the page flip operation, and playing, by the terminal after the page flip operation ends, a second page flip animation for switching from the first screen to the second screen until the terminal displays the complete second screen, where animation play parameters of the second page flip animation are related to second touch parameters generated when the user finger leaves the touchscreen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lang Song, Quanfei Xu
  • Patent number: 11829592
    Abstract: Methods and systems for improved integration of an overhead representation (e.g., a map) with a street view representation. A user interface with at least two regions is output for display to a user. One region includes an overhead representation of an area and an interactive control overlaid onto the overhead representation. Another region includes a street view perspective that has a point of view corresponding to a position and directional orientation of the interactive control. Information about a user input that adjusts the interactive control is received and the street view perspective is updated to track the control as it is adjusted. The field of view of the street view perspective may be reflected in the appearance of the interactive control. Additionally, the street view perspective may follow the location of a marker as it is moved around the overhead representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Sreejit Unnikrishnan, Arijit De, Vihari Venkata Komaragiri, Lalitesh Kumar Katragadda
  • Patent number: 11823593
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for displaying learning content of a terminal and an application program therefor. The method for displaying learning content of a terminal of the present invention comprises the steps of: displaying text with a group of questions on a first layer; displaying a first question card corresponding to a first question on a second layer; and when a continuous touch gesture in a touch input is received in the second layer, displaying, on the second layer, a second question card corresponding to a second question according to the touch gesture, wherein the question card includes one or more examples that are selectable by a learner. According to the present invention, it is possible to effectively display learning content including a large amount of information such as multiple choice questions on a limited size screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Inventors: Kyung Hoon Kim, Min Sung Noh, Jae We Heo, Soon Woo Kwon, Jin Seo Yoon