Patents Examined by Liang Y Li
  • Patent number: 10798155
    Abstract: It is described a location based interactive method, user terminal, server, system and computer storage medium, which relate to the field of computers. The method includes: it is send a geographic coordinate of a user's location to a location server; it is received from the location server and displayed a POI list containing at least one POI corresponding to the geographic coordinate; it is acquired a group creating instruction, and a group creating request is sent to a login server based on the group creating instruction; and interaction is performed with the login server based on a group to provide the user with an intra-group interactive service, where the group is created by the login server based on the POI carried in the group creating request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Yucao Tao, Tao Zhou, Jinfeng Meng, Xijun Dong, Rui Zhong, Jun Yu, Boqiang Wang, Han Lian, Chunlei Zheng, Wei Wang, Yu Liu
  • Patent number: 10795695
    Abstract: A method and system that timely processes webpage windows after a window is in an unresponsive stage, a parent window of the webpage window will not be affected and closed, thereby reducing operating resources. The method includes creating a child window corresponding to a parent window, a proxy window corresponding to the child, setting a parent of the child to be the proxy, and setting a parent of the proxy to be the parent window, where a thread to which the proxy window belongs communicates with a thread to which the child window belongs by using an asynchronous message, determining based on the proxy thread, a state of the child window and in response to determining that the child window is unresponsive, setting the proxy window to have no parent and removing the child window from a current display by removing the proxy window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Zi Feng Shang
  • Patent number: 10795574
    Abstract: An input method is provided by embodiments of the present invention, relating to the communications field, and invented to improve the input experience of a user. The input method includes: providing an input interface on a touch display screen, where the input interface includes a virtual soft keyboard distributed in a sector area around a lower left corner or lower right corner of the input interface; receiving an input instruction which is input by a user through the virtual soft keyboard; and displaying input information corresponding to the input instruction. An input apparatus and a terminal device are also provided by embodiments of the present invention. The present invention is applicable to a mobile device or a handheld device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI DEVICE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yun Yang
  • Patent number: 10732800
    Abstract: Method and device of storing content objects within a social network application are disclosed. The method includes: a user device providing a user interface of the social network application on the user device, the user interface including an affordance for forming a content group including respective content objects of one or more object types; receiving a selection of a first plurality of images for inclusion in the first content group; providing a listing of context objects that are associated with at least one of the first plurality of images; receiving a user input indicating completion of the first content group; and forming the first content group containing the first plurality of images and the one or more content object selected from the listing of context objects information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yi Shan, Jun Wang, Wei Luo, Ling Li, Likai Wang
  • Patent number: 10705715
    Abstract: Generally, a computer implemented group distance learning system including one more servers which serve a group distance learning computer code executable to provide a graphical user interface which by user interaction allows a plurality of client users to be allocated into a plurality of client user groups each user group having access to a common graphic user interface to collaborate in performance of group assignments. Specifically, a group distance learning computer code which implements a graphical user interface accessed in common by a plurality of client users from remote locations to facilitate collaborative group video production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: eduPresent LLC
    Inventor: Jeffrey S. Lewis
  • Patent number: 10635456
    Abstract: Provided is a method for entering a desktop of an operating system, including: entering a screen locking interface, the screen locking interface displaying a prompt for password input; acquiring an unlocking password input on the screen locking interface; comparing the unlocking password with preset passwords; if the unlocking password is a privacy information setting password, entering a setting interface for setting a hiding function for personal privacy information; or, if the unlocking password is a switching password, entering a desktop of an operating system corresponding to the switching password.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Lu Wu, Yaoguang Chen, Yaoxin Liu
  • Patent number: 10592000
    Abstract: A computing device provides augmented reality images of an environment in which the computing device is used. The computing device is further configured to display a graphical user interface for interacting with the computing device. The graphical user interface may be displayed according to one or more configured graphical user interface layouts. The computing device further includes an inertial measurement unit, which provides input for interacting with one or more portions of the graphical user interface. As a user of the computing device moves the computing device, corresponding graphical changes are made to the displayed graphical user interface. In this way, by moving the computing device, the user is able to interact with, and provide input to, the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: DAQRI, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Trevor Freeman, Michael Kozlowski, Sterling Crispin, Ari Green
  • Patent number: 10579708
    Abstract: Server and client methods and systems for improving efficiency, accuracy and speed for inputting data from a variety of networked resources into an electronic form in a continuously streaming manner by multiple operators using intelligent input systems are described. The present disclosure relates to client/server system and methods for continuous streaming to a series of networked input devices a re-organized forms to allow for multiple operator using intelligent input devices to improve speed, accuracy and efficiency of electronic form population.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
    Inventors: Michal Knas, Jiby John
  • Patent number: 10558338
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can detect an initiation of a drawing to a media content item. A first drawing option that is selectable via a first dimension can be provided. A second drawing option that is selectable via a second dimension can be provided. A first current state of the first drawing option and a second current state of the second drawing option can be indicated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventors: William Joseph Flynn, III, Timothy Paul Omernick, Nilesh Vinubhai Patel, William Samuel Bailey
  • Patent number: 10553003
    Abstract: The present invention is applicable to the field of Internet, and provides an interactive method and apparatus based on a web picture. The method includes: obtaining a web picture including a human image; determining a region where a specific part of the human image in the web picture is located; receiving an interactive instruction in the region where the specific part is located, and generating the interactive information corresponding to the specific part. When receiving the interactive instruction in the region where the specific part is located, generating the interactive information corresponding to the specific part by determining the region where the specific part of the human image in the obtained web picture including the human image is located. The interactive method provided by the embodiment of the present invention is simple to operate, and the interactive manners are various.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhenwei Zhang, Fen Xiao, Jingjing Liu, Wenpei Hou, Ling Wang, Zhehui Wu, Xinlei Zhang
  • Patent number: 10545637
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing an idle screen service are disclosed. A mobile communication terminal receiving contents provided from at least one content provider server in a mobile communication system environment is also disclosed. The mobile communication terminal may include a content receiver module which receives contents provided through a mobile communication system by separating into layers, a handset operating system module which operates the terminal and runs an application and which has a user interface, and a content management application mod ole which synthesizes the contents separated into layers received from the content receiver module into one idle screen layer and which provides it to the idle screen of the mobile communication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: INTELLECTUAL DISCOVERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-hyun Lim, Gwi-Ho Chun
  • Patent number: 10546379
    Abstract: A method includes receiving an input from a user, the input including a selection of an object, where the object is contained in a video, identifying, in response to the input, the object in the video, determining an attribute of the object associated with a profile of the user, where the profile contains a preference of the user regarding at least one object to be viewed, and determining, in response to the attribute of the object associated with the profile, a target segment in the video, where the target segment includes the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hong Wei Jia, Qian Li, Shuang Li, Hai Lei Song, Yun Ting Wang, Xin Ying Yang, Wenyan Yuan, Guang Ming Zhang
  • Patent number: 10531043
    Abstract: A method and computer system for determining a reputation threshold requirement for participating in a collaboration session. A determination is made whether a reputation of a user satisfies the reputation threshold requirement for the collaboration session. Access to the collaboration session is enabled if the reputation of the user satisfies the reputation threshold requirement for the collaboration session. Access to the collaboration session is disabled if the reputation of the user fails to satisfy the reputation threshold requirement for the collaboration session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Paul Moody, Anand Paka
  • Patent number: 10521182
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a terminal for controlling grouping play of a playing system. A playlist is set independently of a playing device group, and one or more playlists can be applied to one or more playing device groups according to actual needs. Add or removal of the playlist with regard to the playing device group can be achieved via operations on a graphic label of the playing device group and a graphic label of the playlist on a user interface of a terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Shangbo Lin
  • Patent number: 10507729
    Abstract: A graphic meter mounted on a vehicle is provided with a display unit of an image display type, which displays an instrument of the vehicle, an acquisition unit which acquires a course information indicating a course of the vehicle and a control unit which is connected to the display unit and the acquisition unit. The control unit controls a display content of a highlight which is displayed in the instrument of the display unit based on a position of a virtual light source located in a virtual space projected on a plane surface. The control unit identifies a change of the course of the vehicle based on the course information acquired by the acquisition unit, and causes the virtual light source to move, according to a result of the identification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Tomotake Wakatsuki
  • Patent number: 10503375
    Abstract: A display control method is provided. An example method includes monitoring a first window and a second window of an application which are separately displayed on a screen of a terminal. The first window and the second window each is provided with at least one attachment point. The method further includes determining a position of the first window on the screen when it is monitored that the second window moves on the screen. A master attachment point of the first window and a slave attachment point of the second window are determined according to the position. The second window is attached to the first window by merging the slave attachment point into the master attachment point to form a merged window. The merged window is displayed on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Kai Yang, Xin Yang, Yanhui Shen
  • Patent number: 10489027
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a selection unit that displays a drawing indicating a search word or an attribute of the search word on a trajectory at one corner of four corners of a screen in a selectable state, moves the drawing along the trajectory in response to an operation of a user, and selects the drawing to select the search word with the attribute attached thereto or the attribute of the search word, and a search unit that performs a search using the search word or the attribute of the search word that is selected by the selection unit, wherein the selection unit displays a plurality of trajectories, each of which an attribute is associated with and the drawing is arranged on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Fuse, Masako Kitazaki, Kimitake Hasuike
  • Patent number: 10412196
    Abstract: A client device provides mapless user interfaces to show a service provider's progress in movement toward a start location. One type of mapless interface is a grid interface, which the device selects if the device is subject to low network connectivity. The grid interface includes graphics representing the start location and the service provider. The two graphics are displayed at their respective location coordinates on a coordinate grid. Because the grid interface does not include a map, it can be loaded relatively quickly even when the service requestor device is experiencing low network connectivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Bryant Jow
  • Patent number: 10402060
    Abstract: Optimized distributed disambiguation of gestures is disclosed. In one innovative aspect, there is a gesture controlled device. The gesture controlled device includes a sensor configured to detect an input gesture. The gesture controlled device also includes a gesture detector configured to obtain the input gesture. The gesture controlled device further includes a transmitter configured to transmit a candidate gesture request including a first portion of the input gesture, the transmission based at least in part on a resource characteristic of the gesture controlled device. The gesture controlled device also includes a receiver configured to receive a set of candidate gestures for the candidate gesture request. The gesture detector is configured to identify the input gesture based on a second portion of the input gesture and the received set of candidate gestures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventors: Julian Gay, Guillaume Payan, Boris Henriot
  • Patent number: 10394330
    Abstract: Access terminals are adapted to facilitate automated wireless communication interactions based on implicit user cues. According to one example, an access terminal can obtain a plurality of user cues, including user cues from at least two primary sensor inputs, as well as other optional user cues. The access terminal may identify the occurrence of a predefined combination of user cues from among the plurality of user cues. In response to the identification of the predefined combination of user cues, the access terminal may affect a wireless communication link with an access terminal associated with another user. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Jill Sayuri Iwasaki, Bennett Michael King, Kexi Liu, Martin Hans Renschler