Patents Examined by Jennifer N Welch
  • Patent number: 11816304
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and a method for performing operations comprising: receiving, by a messaging application, a first content item generated by a first client device using a third-party resource; generating the first content item for display on a second client device together with an indication of the third-party resource used to generate the first content item; receiving, from the second client device, selection of the indication of the third-party resource; generating, for display on the second client device, a first user interface that includes a plurality of content items associated with the third-party resource and a first option to access the third-party resource, the plurality of content items including the first content item; and enabling the second client device to use the third-party resource in response to receiving selection of the first option to access the third-party resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob Catalano, Patrick Mandia, Sriram Raman
  • Patent number: 11809683
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display method, a display device, and a storage medium, which are used to solve the technical problem that contents of only one application can be displayed on a same interface in related technologies. The display method can include receiving a content viewing instruction, acquiring content data of a plurality of content providers in response to the content viewing instruction, and displaying the content data of the plurality of content providers on an interface in a form of stitched segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yizhan Lu, Xiaoyong Xi, Yiwei Huang
  • Patent number: 11809886
    Abstract: Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant in a messaging environment are provided. In one example process, a graphical user interface (GUI) having a plurality of previous messages between a user of the electronic device and the digital assistant can be displayed on a display. The plurality of previous messages can be presented in a conversational view. User input can be received and in response to receiving the user input, the user input can be displayed as a first message in the GUI. A contextual state of the electronic device corresponding to the displayed user input can be stored. The process can cause an action to be performed in accordance with a user intent derived from the user input. A response based on the action can be displayed as a second message in the GUI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Petr Karashchuk, Tomas A. Vega Galvez, Thomas R. Gruber
  • Patent number: 11809897
    Abstract: The technology disclosed herein enables presenting, via a user interface, one or more builds, wherein each build comprises one or more first software build operations, and at least one first software build operation is currently executing, presenting, via the user interface, one or more computing jobs, wherein each job comprises one or more second software build operations, receiving, via the user interface, an input associating a job selected from the one or more jobs with a build selected from the one of the builds, and responsive to receiving the input, scheduling, execution of the second software build operations to occur in response to a completion of execution of the first software build operations. The input may be, for example, a drag-and-drop operation between the job and the build.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventors: Arie Bregman, Ilan Gersht
  • Patent number: 11797258
    Abstract: A method implements data visualization collaboration. The method displays, for a second user, an interface with a comment pane that displays a first comment text and a first thumbnail image of a data visualization generated according to a first visual specification, from a first user. In response to detecting an input from the second user to select the first thumbnail image, the method generates and displays the data visualization. The method receives, from the second user, input modifying the data visualization, and input specifying a second comment that refers to the data visualization. In response, the method generates a second thumbnail image and a second visual specification corresponding to the modified data visualization, and transmits that information along with the second comment text to the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Tableau Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Quentin Moy, Gaurav Chandna, Michael Chen
  • Patent number: 11797166
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for reporting printhead conditions. One embodiment is a system that includes a user interface, a display, and a controller configured to present a Graphical User Interface (GUI) via the display. The GUI includes a first area depicting an array of printheads. Each printhead of the array is represented by a first visual indicator that signifies a frequency of printhead conditions detected at that printhead over a period of time. In response to receiving a selection of at least one of the printheads via the user interface, the controller presents a second area of the GUI via the display. The second area depicts locations of printhead conditions detected at the selection over the period of time. Each of the locations is represented by a second visual indicator that signifies a frequency of printhead conditions detected at that location over the period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Patrick Gonzalez, Carlie Charp, Ziling Zhang
  • Patent number: 11789589
    Abstract: Usability improvement is achievable with respect to use of screen divisional display of windows of plural applications. Provided is an information processing apparatus including a control unit that displays divisional display information on a display screen as information associated with screen divisional display of windows of plural applications on the display screen, on the basis of a trigger operation, and displays the windows of the plural selected applications on the basis of a following operation for the displayed divisional display information while dividing display of the windows into at least a first region and a second region of the display screen. The following operation includes an operation that selects the applications for which the screen divisional display is to be executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiko Naito, Akitaka Kimura, Takashi Hemmi, Yuumi Ozawa, Kenji Yokoyama, Hiroaki Adachi, Keishi Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 11789693
    Abstract: An audio stream is subjected to speech-to-text processing in order to obtain a textual representation of the audio stream. Hierarchical topic extraction is performed on the textual representation to obtain a multi-level hierarchical topic representation of the textual representation. A user interface actuator is generated, which allows a user to search through the audio stream. Different levels of the multi-level hierarchical topic representation are displayed to the user, based upon the speed of actuation of the user interface actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Tom Neckermann, Romain Gabriel Paul Rey, Alexander James Wilson
  • Patent number: 11789598
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides to graphical user interfaces for controlling a flow therapy apparatus. The graphical user interface can provide a display of flow therapy treatment information and indicators of a patient's health. The graphical user interface can be configured to display the information associated with the patient on one or more user interface screens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: FISHER & PAYKEL HEALTHCARE LIMITED
    Inventors: Jae Chui Han, Hamish Chan, Michael Jesse Robertson, Kevin Peter O'Donnell, Christopher Malcolm Crone, Robert Stuart Kirton, James Alexander Michael Revie, Jose Ricardo Joven Catapang, Jonathan Jaeheuk Lee, Hayden Ross Purdy, Anton Kim Gulley, Christopher Harding Campbell
  • Patent number: 11782590
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present application are a scene-operation method, an electronic device, and a non-transitory computer readable medium, relating to the field of the Internet of Things. The method includes: acquiring a plurality of scenes corresponding to a scene-trigger condition; acquiring a priority of each scene of the plurality of scenes; sorting the plurality of scenes according to the priority of each scene, and obtaining an execution sequence for the plurality of scenes; and executing the plurality of scenes according to the execution sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignees: SHENZHEN HEYTAP TECHNOLOGY CORP., LTD., GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiangwen Huang
  • Patent number: 11783122
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for automated testing of templates of a mobile message. One method includes generating at least a first template of the mobile message and a second template of the mobile message, each of the first template and the second template having at least a different content or a different send time, assigning a respective group of mobile message recipients to the first template of the mobile message and the second template of the mobile message, determining automatically whether the first template of the mobile message has a statistical advantage over the second template of the mobile message through testing, and sending the mobile message of the first template to a remainder of the planned mobile message recipients when the first template of the mobile message is determined to have the statistical advantage over the second template of the mobile message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Klaviyo, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael T. Lawson, Woody Austin, Ally Hangartner, Carola Leiva, Nicholas Hartmann, Thomas Culp, Justin Xu, Maritza Ebling
  • Patent number: 11782736
    Abstract: Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for implementing an attended automation module are disclosed. A processor implements a primary desktop on a graphical user interface (GUI) window. The primary desktop is being created in response to calling a higher level application programming interface (API) from a higher level library in connection with a primary desktop session. The processor also determines that a primary session is being conducted on the primary desktop; accesses a lower level library that stores lower level APIs; calls the lower level APIs; dynamically creates, in response to calling the lower level APIs, a plurality of child desktops each associated with a corresponding lower level API; displays the plurality of child desktops on the GUI window; and simultaneously runs each of the plurality of child desktops on the GUI window in parallel independent of running of the primary desktop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Sridhar Ranganaboina, Arvind Bhanushali, Rajya Kotamraju, Raghu Narahari
  • Patent number: 11775880
    Abstract: Provided are an intelligent reservation method and device for a seat, and a computer-readable storage medium. The intelligent reservation method for a seat includes: sending a seat information acquisition request; receiving and displaying seat distribution information and seat usage status information of a target site fed back by a server-end device for the seat information acquisition request; receiving a reservation request for a target seat inputted by a user, and sending the reservation request; and receiving and displaying a reservation success message or a reservation failure message fed back by the server-end device for the reservation request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guohua Zhang, Nan Chen, Yu Xiao, Dong Wang, Yongzhi Song
  • Patent number: 11775139
    Abstract: Implementations are related to providing image selection suggestions. In some implementations, a method includes receiving first user input indicative of selection of one or more first images in an image library and determining one or more first image characteristics of the one or more first images. The method further includes identifying one or more second images in the image library. Each image of the one or more second images is associated with at least one second image characteristic that matches at least one of the one or more first image characteristics. The method further includes causing a user interface to be displayed. The user interface includes the one or more second images and enables selection of the one or more second images by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Julia Winn, Timothy Novikoff, Juan Carlos Anorga
  • Patent number: 11771977
    Abstract: A computing system causes instructional media to be played on a device to a user. An instructor in the instructional media provides guidance as to how to perform an activity when the instructional media is played on the device. The computing system obtains user data pertaining to performance of the activity by the user. The computing system generates a user-customized portion of the instructional media based upon the user data and a computer-implemented model. The computing system causes the user-customized portion to be played on the device to the user, where the device emits audible words reproduced in a voice of the instructor, where the audible words are based upon the user data, and further where the device displays generated images of the instructor depicting the instructor speaking the audible words as the device emits the audible words.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Lars Hasso Liden
  • Patent number: 11767126
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for automatic time keeping of an electronic checklist. One method may include: receiving a user and/or system input associated with a graphical user interface (GUI) of an electronic checklist; determining whether the user and/or system input triggers a timer event; in response to determining that the user and/or system input triggers the timer event, determining whether the timer event is a first type of timer event or a second type of timer event; in response to determining that the timer event is the first type of timer event, performing a first timer process; and in response to determining that the timer event is the second type of timer event, performing a second timer process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Cody Ryan Conaway, Barbara Holder, Steven Curtis Crouch
  • Patent number: 11763318
    Abstract: A method for implementing chats that includes: providing a chat feature and chat interface on a webpage; providing two types of the chat resources for generating the text inputs of the chats, an automated chat resource type and a human chat resource type; providing a routing function that selectively routes incoming chats between the two types of the chat resources; providing a first selectable portion on the chat interface that, when selected by a customer, indicates a customer chat preference as to whether the customer prefers to chat with chat resources of the automated chat resource type or human chat resource type; receiving input from the customer device indicating that the customer selected the first selectable portion; determining from the received input the customer chat preference; and routing in accordance with the determined preference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Inventor: Andrea Friio
  • Patent number: 11762539
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a display control unit that displays map information including a plurality of points and a route between the plurality of points, and displays at least a setting screen that enables setting of a trigger and a task to be performed in a case where the trigger is established, on the basis of a predetermined input made to the map information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori Katsu, Takashi Ogata
  • Patent number: 11762543
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for managing vehicle guidance using a GUI. One method may include: obtaining flight management system (FMS) data; updating an aircraft configuration state based on the FMS data; obtaining a current mode, active command, and a second command for a guidance panel based on the configuration state; and generating a guidance panel GUI based on the current mode, the active command, and the second command. Another method may include: obtaining vehicle data; updating a vehicle configuration state based on the vehicle data if the vehicle data has updated information; obtaining a current mode, active command, and a second command for a guidance panel of the vehicle based on the vehicle configuration state; generating a guidance panel GUI based on the current mode, the active command, and the second command; and displaying the guidance panel GUI on the guidance panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Smith, Susan McCullough, David McGloughlin
  • Patent number: 11755924
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for machine learning for home understanding and notification. In one aspect, a method includes collecting activity data from one or more devices in a home network, generating a graph-based knowledge base including two or more nodes based on the activity data, where each node is an object, person, or routine and wherein each link is a relationship between two nodes, generating, based on the graph-based knowledge base, one or more rules, determining, based in part on the activity data, an occurrence of a particular rule of the one or more rules, generating a notification responsive to the particular rule, presenting the notification to a user, receiving, user feedback responsive to the notification, where the user feedback includes a natural language label for the particular rule, and updating the particular rule based on the user feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: ObjectVideo Labs, LLC
    Inventors: Donald Madden, Allison Beach