Patents Examined by John T Repsher, III
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Patent number: 10564824Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes detecting a plurality of faces within one or more images, and, for each of the plurality of faces, registering the face with a contact. The method further includes receiving a selection of one of the plurality of faces from a user, and, in response to the selection of the one of the plurality of faces, determining the contact associated with the selected one of the plurality of faces. Still further, the method includes retrieving information about the contact, and generating a list of selectable communication types to be displayed to the user on a display device.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2018Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANYInventors: James M. Freeman, Vaidya Balasubramanian Pillai, Matthew Eric Riley, Sr., David W. Thurber, Gregory Dwayne Carter, Jason Chang
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Patent number: 10558677Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for shared folder backed integrated workspaces. In some implementations, a content management system can provide a graphical user interface (GUI) that integrates communications and content management into a single user interface. The user interface can include mechanisms that allow a user to provide input to generate a new workspace. The user interface can provide a mechanism to allow a user to view conversations related to the workspace and/or content items associated with the workspace. The user interface can present representations of content items associated with the workspace and allow the user to provide input to generate, view, edit, and share content items associated with the workspace.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2015Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.Inventors: Sean Beausoleil, Matteus Pan, Jean-Denis Greze, Anthony DeVincenzi
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Patent number: 10551912Abstract: A disclosed method for displaying a display object according to real-time information may comprise: acquiring location information of a display object corresponding to real-time information for each of multiple periods; determining a starting point according to the location information acquired in a previous period, and determining a finishing point according to the location information acquired in a current period; displaying the display object as sliding between the starting point and the finishing point.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2018Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITEDInventor: Yuewei Zeng
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Patent number: 10535043Abstract: A calendar view smoothly and progressively transitions between different calendar views. Instead of snapping to a week view in response to changing from a month view to the week view, the month view progressively transitions to the week view while receiving an interaction. For example, the week view may smoothly expand while the view of the other weeks in the month smoothly decrease in size while the interaction is being received. A user may navigate between different calendar views such as year to month, month to week, week to multiple days, days to single days, and the like. When navigating month to month, week to week, day to day, and the like, the transitions between each time element are progressively and smoothly transitioned. Task information or other information that is displayed in the calendar progressively transitions to show more or less information depending on the interaction being received.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2013Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Kirk Fernandes, Kathryn Elizabeth Suskin, Zachary Justin Miller, Robert Meyer, Nelson Siu, Choon-mun Hooi, Jonathan Cadiz
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Patent number: 10492883Abstract: A user input obtainer receives an image movement instruction including identification information specifying a position shift or an image capture time shift to be performed and also including a displacement amount. When the identification information specifies the position shift, a slice position selector determines a tomographic image at a destination of the position shift based on the displacement amount from a set of tomographic images captured at the same time. On the other hand, when the identification information specifies the image capture time shift, the image capture time selector determines a tomographic image at a destination of the shift based on the displacement amount from sets of tomographic images that are identical to each other in terms of a patient, an examination portion, and a modality. A displaying image obtainer reads out the determined tomographic image from an image storage device and gives it to a display information generator.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2016Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuki Kozuka, Kenji Kondo, Kazutoyo Takata
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Patent number: 10466663Abstract: Embodiments provide systems, methods and apparatus for a computer implemented graphical user interface (GUI) for monitoring and controlling an energy management system (EMS) in real time. The GUI includes a card carousel GUI control wherein the card carousel GUI control includes a plurality of cards arranged in a sequence, each card displaying a unique set of status information about related EMS parameters, wherein the unique set of status information of each card is concurrently visible. Numerous other aspects are provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2015Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: SIEMENS INDUSTRY, INC.Inventors: Jo S. Soo, Jeff Walz, Tuan Le, Touhid Khan
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Patent number: 10466893Abstract: Touch screen operator control panel for industrial machines, in particular for the control of maneuvering of the axes of injection presses for plastics, including an operator interface on which icons are displayed indicating the various axes of a press, the icons being individually selectable in order to be dragged into an area of maneuvering where they are translatable in the two ways of a prefixed direction to impart the corresponding movements to the selected axis, wherein the possibility is provided of simultaneously displaying in the maneuvering area icons of several press axes correlated one to the other and of actuating sequentially/selectively the movements of these press axes by dragging a central zone of the maneuvering area in the corresponding different directions wherein the respective icons of the press axes are displayed.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2017Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: NEGRI BOSSI S.P.A.Inventors: Craig Ward, Davide Mosca
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Patent number: 10452333Abstract: A user interaction method of a user terminal device including a bent touchscreen includes: establishing a connection between the user terminal device and an external device located external to the user terminal device, such that the user terminal device and the external device are able to communicate with each other; displaying a UI element associated with the external device on a sub-region of the bent touch screen; and performing a function associated with the UI element in response to a user gesture selecting the UI element.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2016Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hee-seok Jeong, Se-jin Kwak, Hyun-jin Kim, Shi-yun Cho, Yeo-jun Yoon, Moon-joo Lee, Nipun Kumar, Joon-kyu Seo
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Patent number: 10445424Abstract: The present invention provides a system comprising a user interface configured to receive text input by a user, a text prediction engine comprising a plurality of language models and configured to receive the input text from the user interface and to generate concurrently text predictions using the plurality of language models, and wherein the text prediction engine is further configured to provide text predictions to the user interface for display and user selection. An analogous method and an interface for use with the system and method are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2014Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: TOUCHTYPE LIMITEDInventors: Benjamin William Medlock, Jonathan Paul Reynolds
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Patent number: 10437419Abstract: A control method according to the present disclosure causes a computer of an information apparatus to: display on a display a display screen representing a floor plan including one or more rooms; and using at least one memory that associates first information indicating a type of each of one or more device icons representing one or more target devices with second information indicating an attribute of each of the one or more rooms, display a device icon having a room that corresponds to a type of a device icon among the one or more device icons in a region on the display screen corresponding to a room that corresponds to the device icon and display a device icon not having a room that corresponds to the type of the device icon among the one or more device icons in a prescribed region on the display screen.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2017Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Takamitsu Sasaki, Eiichi Naito
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Patent number: 10416835Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for a user interface (UI) for a head-mountable display (HMD). The method includes generating three-dimensional content for display by the HMD. The method also includes identifying three-dimensional coordinates for UI elements of the UI that are associated with the three-dimensional content. The three-dimensional coordinates identified within an angular range for the UI that includes a viewable region of a user while wearing the HMD. Additionally, the method includes, in response to a user input, displaying the UI elements at the identified three-dimensional coordinates over the three-dimensional content. The method may further include, after displaying the UI elements, moving the display of the UI elements on the HMD in a direction corresponding to a movement direction of the HMD in response to detecting movement of the HMD corresponding to movement of a head of the user wearing the HMD.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Alexander Chu, Sophie Kim
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Patent number: 10393537Abstract: A system is disclosed for managing waste services by a service vehicle. The system may have a locating device configured to generate a location signal indicative of a location of the service vehicle, a sensor configured to generate a service signal indicative of a waste service being performed by the service vehicle, an input device, and a processing unit in communication with the locating device, the sensor, and the input device. The processing unit may be configured to make a determination that the service vehicle has made a plurality of service stops based on the location and service signals, and to automatically generate at least one service route including the plurality of service stops. The processing unit may also be configured to display the at least one service route and the plurality of service stops on a map in at least one graphical user interface on the input device.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Rubicon Global Holdings, LLCInventor: Philip Rodoni
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Patent number: 10372817Abstract: The present invention provides a system comprising a user interface configured to receive text input by a user, a text prediction engine comprising a plurality of language models and configured to receive the input text from the user interface and to generate concurrently text predictions using the plurality of language models, and wherein the text prediction engine is further configured to provide text predictions to the user interface for display and user selection. An analogous method and an interface for use with the system and method are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2014Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: TOUCHTYPE LIMITEDInventors: Benjamin William Medlock, Jonathan Paul Reynolds
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Patent number: 10352713Abstract: A method and system. A request to generate for a user a geographical map is received, wherein the map depicts one or more travel routes from a specified initial address to a specified destination address, specified features relating to the one or more travel routes, and unique identifiers of preferred service providers of the specified features. After the request is received, it is ascertained that user preferences of the user for service providers of the specified features are not contained in a user preference database and that user preferences of the user for service providers of the specified features have not been provided with the request. User preferences of the user for service providers of the specified features are determined and in response, the map is generated and displayed.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Divya Gopinath, Rajesh Radhakrishnan, Jennifer A. Watson
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Patent number: 10346489Abstract: Structured information about nodes may be generated and shared using sub-nodes. A node in a social networking system may be associated with sub-nodes that are definable by the node owner, such as menu items for a restaurant or songs in playlists for an artist. Users of the system may interact with the sub-nodes, and the interactions may be presented back on the page to a user, aggregated according to the user's connections in the social networking system (e.g., which songs your friends listened to the most by the artist, which menu items were consumed the most). Users may associate other sub-nodes to the node, such as identifying other menu items served by a restaurant, and the node owner may confirm these associations. Location awareness functionalities may be used to inform a user of highly recommended sub-nodes nearby as indicated by other users of the social networking system.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2016Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Bruno Rahle, Blaise Andrew DiPersia, Rousseau Kazi
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Patent number: 10346028Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a region control unit that provides a plurality of objects arranged in a predetermined direction with a detection region that detects contact or proximity of a pointing member, and conducts control in a manner that a plurality of modes exist with differing states of overlap between ranges in the predetermined direction of the detection region for the objects that neighbor each other.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2013Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Nao Matsumura
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Patent number: 10282089Abstract: In one example, a method includes outputting, by a computing device (102) and for display at a display device (104) operatively coupled to the computing device, a graphical keyboard (124) comprising a plurality of keys, and receiving, by the computing device, an indication of a gesture detected at a presence-sensitive input device operatively coupled to the computing device. In this example, the method also includes detecting, by one or more sensors (154) of the computing device, data indicative of one or more user states determined to affect gesture accuracy; selecting, by the computing device and based at least in part on the indication of the gesture and the data, a particular candidate string; and outputting, by the computing device and for display at the display device, the particular candidate string.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2015Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jakob Foerster, Othar Hansson
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Patent number: 10254942Abstract: This document describes techniques and apparatuses enabling adaptive sizing and positioning of application windows. In some embodiments, these techniques and apparatuses enable sizing and positioning of application windows to provide an optimized layout of application windows.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2014Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Miron Vranjes, Oliver R. Jones, Nils Anders Sundelin, Chaitanya Dev Sareen, Steven J. Frederickson
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Patent number: 10257133Abstract: One or more systems and/or techniques for generating a content item from content within a content area are described herein. A first boundary and a second boundary may be defined for a content area based upon a first user input and a second user input, such as swipe gestures. A content item may be generated based upon content within the content area. In an example, a beginning boundary designator may be displayed for the first boundary and an ending boundary designator may be displayed for the second boundary in response to one or more swipe gestures of a user interface. In an example, the content item may be stitched to a second content item to create a stitched content item.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2014Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Oath Inc.Inventors: Steven Lipman, David Robinson, Kevin Cheng, Jeffrey Bonforte
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Patent number: 10254928Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for generating cards that include personalized content that is relevant to tastes or preferences of a user and contextually relevant to a current, historical, or future use context of a user device. The card content is determined to be relevant to a current use context of a user device based on an evaluation of contextual data with respect to constraints associated with the card. The card content is transmitted to a card client for presentation via a user interface of the client when the card content is deemed relevant to the current use context of the device.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2014Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: James Joseph Jesensky, Samuel Scott Gigliotti, Anil Kumar Kalagatla, Jean Sevak Froundjian, Angela Lam, Ari Liberman Garcia, Leon Amdour, Ronald Alan Morris, Tracy Dianne Schultz, Raghav Kishor Phadke