Patents Examined by Jung-Mu T Chuang
  • Patent number: 11231833
    Abstract: An approach is provided that detects when multiple apps are being displayed on a display screen with each of the apps having any number of user interface controls. A set of user interface controls is identified from the user interface controls being displayed. The identified set of user interface controls have an increased display preference. The identified set of user interface controls are enlarged on the display screen making such controls easier to read and select.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Jennifer J. Lee-Baron, Amy Leigh Rose, Nathan J. Peterson, Gary David Cudak, John Scott Crowe
  • Patent number: 11228875
    Abstract: An electronic notebook system is described that comprises a housing, a computing device, wireless interfaces, antennas, sensors, a touch display configured to receive input via a stylus and/or human digit input, the stylus comprising a pressure and/or an inclination sensor, a microphone, camera, the notebook system configured to provide a user condition interface, receive a user selection of a first user condition, provide an interface configured to receive user details, receive audible user details via the microphone, convert the audible user details received via the microphone to text, perform natural language processing to identify text keywords utilizing sentence segmentation, part-of-speech tagging, paraphrase recognition, and/or co-reference resolution, identify a condition based at least in part on the identified one or more keywords, dynamically generate an alert based at least in part on the identified condition, wirelessly transmit the generated alert to one or more destinations via at least a first
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: The Notebook, LLC
    Inventor: Karen Elaine Khaleghi
  • Patent number: 11216065
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for input control display based on eye gaze. An apparatus includes an eye-tracking device, an input device, a processor, and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable to track an eye gaze of a user in relation to a display using the eye-tracking device, determine one or more interface controls presented on the display that are within an area of the user's eye gaze, and dynamically map the determined one or more interface controls to one or more corresponding input controls on the input device such that actuation of an input control on the input device activates the corresponding interface control presented on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Mark Patrick Delaney, Nathan J. Peterson, John Carl Mese, Arnold S. Weksler
  • Patent number: 11216182
    Abstract: A system includes an electronic display to display a virtual keyboard and a processor communicatively coupled to the electronic display. In some embodiments, the virtual keyboard includes a plurality of keys. In certain embodiments, the electronic display receives a first string of erased characters and a second string of replacement characters. In certain embodiments, the processor compares the first string and the second string to determine a difference at corresponding character locations of the first string and the second string. In some embodiments, the processor increments a counter based on the comparison, the counter corresponding to a first character of the first string and a second character of the second string. In certain embodiments, the processor adjusts at least one of the plurality of keys of the virtual keyboard in response to the counter meeting a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Roland P. Wooster, Alexander Conrad Erdman
  • Patent number: 11209968
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes causing a first one of a plurality of digital photographs to be displayed on a video display device. Responsive to receiving an indication that a user desires to digitally link the first digital photograph with another one of the plurality of photographs, the method includes prompting the user to select one of the plurality of digital photographs to be digitally linked to the first digital photograph. Responsive to the user selecting a second one of the plurality of digital photographs, the method includes digitally linking the first digital photograph with the second digital photograph. The method includes causing the first digital photograph to be displayed with a user-selectable flipping element. Responsive to receiving a selection of the displayed user-selectable flipping element, the method includes causing the first digital photograph to be digitally flipped such that the second digital photograph is displayed on the video display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: MemoryWeb, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher J. Desmond, Nancy L. Desmond, L. Michael Taylor
  • Patent number: 11199940
    Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a method to display a graphical user interface (GUI) of an application, display, on the GUI, a projection of a three-dimensional object onto a projection plane, receive a selection of a first region of the object, obtain a geometric information related to the first region, wherein the geometric information comprises at least one of a geometric relationship of the first region to a second region of the object or an identification of a shape belonging to the first region, determine, based on the geometric information, a spatial orientation of the first region of the object relative to the projection plane, and display, on the GUI, an indication of the spatial orientation of the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Corel Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen Mereu, Christian Schmaehl, Konstantin Titov
  • Patent number: 11199955
    Abstract: Methods and systems for enhanced techniques for building user interfaces. An example method includes presenting a builder user interface to create a consumer user interface. The builder user interface receives information usable to filter data objects associated with a data object type. The information includes a variable associated with a property indicated by the data object type and the variable is associated with a first user interface element of the consumer user interface. An association between a second user interface element included in the consumer user interface and presentation of information generated based on data objects is received. Adjustment of the first user interface element causes filtering of the data objects via adjustment of the variable updating of the information. Access to the consumer user interface is enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Tiong Tjin Saw, Geoffrey Cameron, Sixin Li, Ali Mavrakis, Xinyi Wang, Myles Scolnick, Sander Kromwijk
  • Patent number: 11199948
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for displaying an alert and options when deleting a file associated with a sequence. A system is disclosed herein that can comprise receiving a first request to display, via a display device, content information, wherein the content information is associated with contents of a folder, determining that the folder comprises at least one file associated with a file sequence, wherein the file sequence represents a group of files assigned a filename comprising a sequence name portion and a sequence value portion, wherein the sequence name portion is assigned a sequence name and the sequence value portion is assigned a sequence value selected from a group of sequence values, and generating a display image according to a first format, wherein the display image comprises a sequence name image and a sequence value image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventor: Bhavesh Sharma
  • Patent number: 11200028
    Abstract: Media content event review systems and methods are operable to present member content reviews of a media content event by presenting a plurality of member avatars in a virtual world, wherein the member avatars present audio commentary about a media content event identified in a user request, and wherein the community members who generated the audio commentary about the media content event have an interpersonal relationship with the requesting user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.
    Inventors: Nicholas Newell, Rob Johannes Clerx
  • Patent number: 11168466
    Abstract: A shovel includes a lower traveling body, an upper turning body turnably mounted on the lower traveling body, an attachment attached to the upper turning body, and a display device provided in a cab mounted on the upper turning body. The display device is configured to display a first image and a second image. The first image includes a first graphic representing the position of a preset target work surface and a second graphic vertically arranged relative to the first graphic. The second graphic represents a change in the size of the distance between a working part of the attachment and the target work surface by changing an indicator position. The second image represents the change in the size of the distance by changing a display format in the same part. The first graphic is displayed at the same height as the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO(S.H.I) CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takeya Izumikawa
  • Patent number: 11169685
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for controlling application programs are described. A first item and a docking interface having a second item are displayed on a screen space. A selection of the first item is received. A proxy of the first item is positioned over the second item. Next, a window is displayed in response positioning. An application is executing to display the window. In another embodiment, synchronizing a first docking interface on a first screen space of a first machine to a second docking interface on a second screen space of a second machine is performed. The first docking interface has an item that identifies a first application supported by the first machine and the second docking interface has another item that identifies a second application supported by the second machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: John Louch, Eric S. Peyton
  • Patent number: 11155457
    Abstract: A supply control apparatus includes a display information output unit configured to output display information to allow a user to recognize an identifier of a supply object and information to prompt the user to decide on the supply object when the supply object is supplied to a supply destination container and a supply control unit configured to remove a supply limit for the supply destination container of the supply object when a decision operation in which the user confirming the display information decides on the supply object is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Nishimura
  • Patent number: 11144187
    Abstract: An example of a computer of an information processing apparatus causes a display device to display, in a scrollable manner, a part of an item group image which includes a plurality of items arranged in an order. The computer causes the display device to display a scrollbar including a knob that indicates the part, of the item group image, which is displayed on the display device, and a track area in which the knob is movable. The computer causes a marker to be displayed in association with the scrollbar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Waki Shigeta, Atsuki Yoshinaga
  • Patent number: 11138265
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content providing, searching and/or hosting systems supported by or configured with devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide a universally applied framework for analyzing all forms and types of messages being communicated over network, and providing functionality to an inbox for alerting a user to specific forms or types of content included within received and displayed messages. Such functionality can include determining and displaying specific message content in a modified manner when its associated message is displayed from a message inbox. The messages can be modified upon display within in the inbox to indicate and identify that the message includes content of a specific type or form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.
    Inventors: Ariel Raviv, Irena Grabovitch-Zuyev, Joel Oren
  • Patent number: 11126260
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a control method and apparatus of an intelligent device, and a storage medium. The control method includes: determining a state of a target function to acquire target function state information; detecting an operation of a user gazing at a local screen to acquire gazing operation information; and controlling the state of the target function to switch according to the gazing operation information and the target function state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lu Qian, Gang Zhang, Shasha Wang, Mingwei Li, Yibo Chen, Fenglei Wang
  • Patent number: 11112961
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing system, an information processing method, and a program capable of adaptively controlling a display on a display surface in response to an operation of moving an object in a certain display surface with respect to a transfer object. The information processing system includes a processing unit that performs, on a first display surface, a predetermined display control indicating that one or more pieces of display information in a second display surface corresponding to the first display surface is changed to be operable in the first display surface when a first operation for a first user to move a first object to a detection area having a predetermined positional relationship with one or more predetermined transfer objects positioned in the first display surface, and changes a display state of the second display surface based on a detection result of a second operation by the first user after the first operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ikeda, Haruo Oba, Makoto Niijima, Rei Fukuda, D. Forrest Matthew
  • Patent number: 11113762
    Abstract: Interactive graphical user interfaces (GUI) are provided. An interactive GUI is generated on a display of a user device, comprising one or more screens to display baseline portfolios and user adjustment tools for customizing variables of the baseline portfolios. The portfolios comprise a combination of data structures, with each data structure defined by a combination of components and/or parameters. The variables comprise a portfolio strategy and/or a customizable parameter. An adjustment indication is received from the user device via the interactive GUI via the user adjustment tools. A variable is adjusted responsive to the adjustment indication. The interactive GUI dynamically updates and displays the adjusting and an impact of the adjusting on at least one other variable as the adjusting occurs. A confirmation indication is received from the user device via the interactive GUI. A user-customized portfolio of data structures is created and issued responsive to the confirmation indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Raisin Technology Europe, S.L.
    Inventors: Daniel J. Smith, Iñigo San Martín, Emilio Fernández
  • Patent number: 11086477
    Abstract: A system and method for facilitating automatic execution of user interaction in a virtual space are disclosed. For such facilitations, interactions initiated by users may be monitored and examined. The examination of the user interactions may be made based on various parameters that depend on user interaction levels in the virtual space. Based on results of such examinations, user interactions to be automatically executed in the virtual space while the users are not participating in the virtual space may be determined. In some examples, such determinations may be based on the user interaction levels in the virtual space and/or one or more virtual items and/or real-world currencies spent by the users for the automatic execution of the user interactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Kabam, Inc.
    Inventors: Kent Wakeford, Clifford J. Harrington
  • Patent number: 11074618
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus accesses a memory to obtain information regarding sharing history (as pertains, for example, to a particular user and/or device) and uses that sharing history to display at least one recommended sharing action (from amongst a plurality of available candidate sharing actions) as regards to a particular content item (such as, for example, a particular digital photograph, a video, a presentation, and so forth). This sharing history can comprise previously-selected sharing actions as correlated to content item types including shared-content recipients, corresponding temporal data, shared-content size, corresponding location data, and so forth. By one approach the apparatus itself serves to automatically track user-based content-sharing selections over time, which information is stored as the aforementioned sharing history.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Cody Stephen Bryant, Geordon Thomas Ferguson, Christofer Bengt Thure Leyon, Arun Kumar, Orlin Vesselinov Stoev
  • Patent number: 11068913
    Abstract: There is provided systems and method for determining a user's event experience through user actions. A user may attend an event at a venue and take various actions with respect to the event. For example, the user may dance and cheer at the event, which may be captured by a biometric reading device on a user device that the user has in their possession. Additionally, the user may share media and generate social networking interactions while at, or after the event. The user may also make purchases at the event or after the event, such as purchasing media content corresponding to the event, Based on the actions taken by the user, an enjoyment level may be determined, which may be used to further determine a quality or how overall enjoyable was the event. Thus, users may be provided with sales of products or future events matching their interests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Stubhub, Inc.
    Inventors: Kamal Ahmad Zamer, Praveen Nuthalpati, Andrei Margea