Patents Examined by Justin R Blaufeld
  • Patent number: 11256384
    Abstract: A viewing angle switching method is provided. The viewing angle switching method includes: displaying a first user interface, the first user interface including an environment picture and a viewing angle switching region, the environment picture including a three-dimensional virtual environment observed from a first viewing angle direction by a virtual object, and the viewing angle switching region including a viewing angle jumping element used for viewing angle jumping; receiving a viewing angle jumping signal triggered on a target viewing angle jumping element, the at least one viewing angle jumping element including the target viewing angle jumping element; determining a second viewing angle direction corresponding to the target viewing angle jumping element; and displaying a second user interface, the second user interface including the environment picture of the three-dimensional virtual environment observed from the second viewing angle direction by the virtual object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LTD
    Inventors: Meng Qiu, Junming Wang, Jiaqi Pan, Ya Zhang, Shuting Zhang, Qinghua Xiao
  • Patent number: 11237636
    Abstract: A method and system of configuring a network using a network application of a mobile device including detecting a gesture sequence that comprises at least one gesture, in response to a user performed action. The detected gesture sequence may be indicative of network configuration rules associated with at least one network device. The method may further include receiving and storing network access credentials, and accessing a network configuration database. The network configuration database may comprise a plurality of gesture sequences and a plurality of associated tasks. The method may also include determining a match for the detected gesture sequence among the plurality of gesture sequences; determining an associated task based on the match; and performing the associated task to achieve the network configuration action. The associated task may include a network configuration action based on the network configuration rules associated with at least one network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Zehler, Gavan Leonard Tredoux, Premkumar Rajendran, Kanishk Jain
  • Patent number: 11232409
    Abstract: Entity profile information is presented to a user of a computing device. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving a communication associated with a first entity; in response to receiving the communication, creating or updating, by at least one processor, a first entity profile, wherein the first entity profile is for display to the user on the computing device; and storing a plurality of entity profiles for entities, the entity profiles including the first entity profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.
    Inventor: Peter Monaco
  • Patent number: 11228675
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of displaying frequently used applications and an apparatus using the same. The method of displaying frequently used applications includes: collecting application usage information in at least any one of a time period of a day or a user activity; determining an application usage pattern based on the collected application usage information; and determining frequently used applications in the time period of a day or the user activity based on the determined application usage pattern, and displaying the determined frequently used applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sung Hyun Park, Mun Ho Yun, Soo Jin Lee, Yong Suk Lee, Il Hwan Choi
  • Patent number: 11212127
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for a digital collaborative workspace system. The system includes a server-side network node having a communication module, a processor and a database accessible thereto. The database can store a shared digital workspace. The server-side network node can include logic to send a display identification code (DIC) to a client-side network node such as a display client for display of the DIC. The system can detect an input from a user identifying a shared digital workspace, and a requested DIC. The system can start a collaboration by sending data of the shared digital workspace to the client-side network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Haworth, Inc.
    Inventors: Rupen Chanda, Peter Jackson
  • Patent number: 11199944
    Abstract: A widget browser module configured to display data item descriptors is disclosed. The widget browser module is configured to: generate, responsive to a request from an executing application that is causing the display of an application window on a display device, a widget browser window for display over a portion, but not all, of the application window, the widget browser window including a two-panel display window and a status bar display window positioned underneath the two-panel display window; display a plurality of sibling data item descriptors in a first panel of the two-panel display window that are contextually relevant to content in the application window; and display, after selection of a data item descriptor, the selected data item descriptor and sibling data item descriptors in the first panel and child data item descriptors of the selected data item descriptor in a second panel of the two-panel display window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Tanveer Singh Randhawa, Avaneesh Desai, Kumar Kasimala, Davina Lim, Shradha Kohli, Bhagyashree Deokar, Kathryn Basye, Gautam Vasudev
  • Patent number: 11194599
    Abstract: A system for processing a handwritten message received by a messaging app can modify playback over time of the handwritten message based on a set of rules to determine how to modify the playback. In one embodiment, graphics data (e.g. vector graphics data) that represents the handwritten message is processed using the rules to determine how to modify the playback such that the resulting playback includes at least one modification over a portion of time of the playback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Brandon M. Tennant, Conrad R. Carlen, Bradley Griffin
  • Patent number: 11181985
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to using gestures to supplant or augment use of a standard input device coupled to a system. It also relates to controlling a display using gestures. It further relates to controlling a system using more than one input device. In particular, it relates to detecting a standard input device that causes on-screen actions on a display in response to control manipulations performed using the standard input device. Further, a library of analogous gestures is identified, which includes gestures that are analogous to the control manipulations and also cause the on-screen actions responsive to the control manipulations. Thus, when a gesture from the library of analogous gestures is detected, a signal is generated that mimics a standard signal from the standard input device and causes at least one on-screen action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventor: David Holz
  • Patent number: 11182073
    Abstract: A system and method for selecting distant actions on a user interface using cursor gestures includes calculating a trajectory path of a cursor digitally represented on the display screen, using a direction of the cursor, in response to receiving cursor motion towards distant action as first input from the input mechanism. At least a portion of an action object that intersects the trajectory path of the cursor is detected as a result of a second input of the input mechanism. The user interface is augmented by presenting an action menu proximate the cursor as a function of the detecting, the action menu including one or more actions associated with the action object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Richard W. Ragan, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11178090
    Abstract: A method for facilitating document review includes obtaining data indicative of an ordered relationship among electronic communication documents in a conversation thread group and one or more missing electronic communication documents. The method also includes causing a visualization of the conversation thread group to be presented to a user via a graphical user interface of a client device, in part by causing one or more graphic elements, corresponding to the missing electronic communication document(s), to be displayed at respective positions along axes of the visualization with a particular visual coding that is reserved for missing electronic communication documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: RELATIVITY ODA LLC
    Inventors: Andrea Beckman, Elise Tropiano, David Bishop, Benjamin George Cabot, Brandon Gauthier
  • Patent number: 11150923
    Abstract: A method for providing a manual of an electronic apparatus is provided. The method includes providing a display device with one of a plurality of manuals for an external device, obtaining a user response for the provided manual, determining an understanding level for the manual based on the obtained user response, and substituting the provided manual with another manual among the plurality of manuals according to the understanding level. The plurality of manuals may include a general manual, a detailed manual, and a simple manual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wonjong Choi, Soofeel Kim, Yewon Park, Jina Ham
  • Patent number: 11120400
    Abstract: Disclosed is a social networking system which provides personal pages for users and enables other users to modify the personal page of a given user. Generally, a given webpage is enabled to be collaboratively modified and edited by multiple users. In some embodiments, the owner of the personal page approves the trusted users and may define one or more rules that automatically define a trusted user. In some embodiments, rules for modifying/editing a social webpage may specify the type of operations users can perform on the page and may specify one or more potential target actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Slack Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: William Clement Aldrich, Ryo Chijiiwa, Vu Hao Thi Truong, Michael Speiser
  • Patent number: 11119651
    Abstract: A method for displaying a multi-task management interface, a device, a terminal and a storage medium are provided. The method includes receiving a touch operation acting on a target screen region, where the target screen region is the first screen region or the second screen region; and displaying a multi-task management interface based on the touch operation, where the multi-task management interface is configured to display at least one running application that is in a running state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhe Liang, Zhenzhou Lu, Xiaodong Li, Lan Li
  • Patent number: 11113449
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods, computer readable mediums (CRMs), and systems for creating, organizing, viewing, and connecting annotations of web documents within web browsers that are made to be annotation capable. Methods, CRMs, and systems for an annotation capable web browser transmitting annotation highlighted text, annotation comment, uniform resource locator (URL), document object model (DOM) context, screenshot with marked annotation highlighted text, and annotation symbol to an annotation server are presented. Furthermore, methods, CRMs, and systems of organizing annotations within an annotation organization context area, visual queues for viewing and recognizing annotations in web documents, and a notepad for connecting annotations between web documents are presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: ExactNote, Inc.
    Inventor: Sunil Pinnamaneni
  • Patent number: 11106349
    Abstract: A system comprising an on-screen QWERTY keyboard having a left zone to which the four left letters of each of the rows of letters of said keyboard are assigned, and a right zone to which the rest of the letters of said keyboard are assigned and wherein an interaction provided with any of said zones is related by a processor to one or more of the letters assigned to the interacted zone, and wherein said processor is adapted to execute a word predictive software for predicting one or more words from a database of words upon detection of a sequence of interactions with said zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Inventor: Benjamin Firooz Ghassabian
  • Patent number: 11108721
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for communication using multiple media content items stored on both a sending device and a receiving device. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems receive an application package. The application generates a message from input text and matches a portion of the text input to an audio content item using mapping data. The application generates a message including the text input and an identifier to the audio content item. A receiving system receives an application package. The application receives the message and locates the audio content item on the application package using the identifier and presents the message, including the text and the audio content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Inventors: David Roberts, Glenn Sugden
  • Patent number: 11093210
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate generally to systems comprising a display device, a display device-coupled computing platform, a mobile device in communication with the computing platform, and a content server in which methods and techniques of capture and/or processing of audiovisual performances are described and, in particular, description of techniques suitable for use in connection with display device connected computing platforms for rendering vocal performance captured by a handheld computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Smule, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Hersh, John Shimmin, Jeannie Yang, Perry R. Cook
  • Patent number: 11089052
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for contemporaneous in-browser searching, viewing, tagging, comparison, and harvesting of specific elements in digital content in a networked environment via enhanced browser environment, and for refining an operation of a portal based on the contemporaneous in-browser searching, viewing, tagging, comparison and harvesting of elements in digital content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: OpSec Online Limited
    Inventors: Jeremy Lee Epstein, Joshua Alan Davidson, Michael Dana Huntington
  • Patent number: 11086921
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enabling digital content aggregation and distribution are disclosed. In some aspects, the system comprises a user computing device and digital content information stores each communicatively coupled to a control circuit. The computing device comprising a display configured to render a digital content UI. The digital content information stores each comprising digital content items and associated with a unique content platform. The control circuit configured to: receive authentication data; receive a query for a digital content item of interest; access the digital content information stores; determine the presence of digital content item of interest in at least one of the digital content information stores; and transmit the digital content item of interest to the digital content UI for rendering via the display when the digital content item of interest is determined to be present in one of the digital content information stores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Inventors: Sorin Mihail Pigulea, Orlando Razvan Matei
  • Patent number: 11061502
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for selecting a graphical element displayed on a touch-sensitive display. The method comprises displaying a graphical element on the touch-sensitive display; detecting a first location of a first user interaction on the touch-sensitive display; displaying a window on the display, the window comprising a pointer for selecting a graphical element; rendering in the window an area surrounding the first location of the first user interaction; detecting a second user interaction on the touch-sensitive display; detecting a move of the second user interaction on the touch-sensitive display; and moving the pointer within the window according to the move of the second user interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: DASSAULT SYSTEMES
    Inventors: Avinash Dawari, Sameer Garde