Patents Examined by Mahelet Shiberou
  • Patent number: 11343864
    Abstract: An embodiment provides a method, including: receiving data relating to a first command from a user; recognizing the data relating to the first command as being directed to a first user device; receiving data relating to a second command from a user; recognizing the data relating to the second command as being directed to a second user device; determining that the first user device and the second user device are to be paired with one another based on the data relating to the first command and the data relating to the second command; and pairing the first device with the second device; wherein one or more of the data relating to the first command and the data relating to the second command comprises data related to a non-touch input modality. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Howard Locker, Xin Feng, Paul Hilburger
  • Patent number: 11327640
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices can allow applications to provide complication data to be displayed in display of an electronic device. A client application can create a data object according to a template to efficiently select how the data object is to be displayed. For example, a complication controller on the electronic device can receive new data and determine which template to use. The data object can be sent to a display manager that can identify the selected template and display the data according to the template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Eliza C. Block, David A. Schimon, Eric Lance Wilson, Joshua H. Shaffer, Paul W. Salzman, Christopher C. Jensen, Timothy C. Lee, Daniel B. Pollack, Alexander Ledwith, Kevin Will Chen, Lawrence Y. Yang, Alan C. Dye
  • Patent number: 11320976
    Abstract: In order to facilitate creation of a controller program and a UI program in which variables match each other, this program development support unit is provided with: a calculation unit and a program development support program which implement a sequence program editing unit, a UI editing unit, and a copy function unit; a display unit; and an operation input unit. The copy function unit detects selection, through the input operation unit, of an element of the sequence program and movement to an editing screen in a user interface program, and causes elements in the user interface program that correspond to elements in the sequence program to be reflected on the editing screen of the user interface program. The copy function unit detects the type of the sequence program being edited, and, depending on the type of sequence program, determines the type of elements of the user interface program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Shintaro Iwamura
  • Patent number: 11303732
    Abstract: A uniform resource locator (URL) shortener relies on client-side support to embed links to websites into, for example, text messages, emails, tweets, or other forms of microblogging, and that provides additional capabilities. A method may include: recognizing a token indicator; recognizing a token in conjunction with the token indicator; selecting a template corresponding to the token indicator; and executing a process enabled according to the token and the template. Executing an enabled process may include one or more of: generating a URL; generating a URL that is itself a server-based URL shortener, in which the token indicator is substituted for the server-based URL shortener hostname to reduce the character count from that of the server-based URL shortener; displaying information from a destination website of the URL generated from the token and the template; or generating a URL according to a distinctive visual characteristic of the token indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventor: Norihiro Edwin Aoki
  • Patent number: 11281369
    Abstract: In an example method, a user interface is presented by a device on a touch sensitive surface of the device. The device presents a keyboard image on a touch sensitive surface of the device. The device then receives a first touch input selecting a key of the keyboard image and responsive to receiving the first touch input, displays a primary character associated with the selected key. While maintenance of physical contact is detected by the touch sensitive surface, the device receives a touch gesture starting at the key of the keyboard image and continuing in a diagonal direction along a face of the key. Responsive to receiving the touch gesture, the device displays an alternative character associated with the selected key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Inventors: Behzad Aghaei, Timothy V. Isted, Maxwell O. Drukman, Donald M. Firlik, Christopher A. Lattner, Kenneth S. Orr, Andreas Wendker
  • Patent number: 11281354
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for digital navigation menus of swipeable cards with dynamic content. Example methods may include determining a first request from a mobile device for digital content to be presented at a plurality of cards in a digital navigation menu. The plurality of cards may include floating user interface elements that can be swiped in succession. Example methods may include determining a first card of the plurality of cards, and determining a second card of the plurality of cards, the second card having third content on a first side and fourth content on a second side. The third content may include an image-based representation of a first text-based link. Example methods may include sending first data associated with the first card and second data associated with the second card to the mobile device, and causing the first card to be presented at a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jeff Gelfuso, Anna Maria Godfrey, Mintoo Kakati, Timothy Whalin
  • Patent number: 11283739
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide real-time communication between website operators and website visitors including monitoring, gathering, managing and sharing of information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: LiveHelpNow LLC
    Inventor: Michael Kansky
  • Patent number: 11269662
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for driving multiple user interfaces using a backend view controller. A view interface system that is capable of displaying multiple user interfaces of different view formats may receive a data set request to display a data set in a particular view format. The view interface system may then transmit, to the backend view controller, the data set request and receive an indication that the data set is exposed by the backend view controller. Based on the indication, the view interface system may perform data binding of the data set to interface objects associated with the view format to form a user interface based on the view format and display the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Reinhold Kautzleben, Eduardo Berlitz, Eduardo Carvalho, Alexandre Faltz, Joachim Fitzer, Willian Mendes
  • Patent number: 11258732
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and product for defining an automation process to be invoked in response to a conversation of a user with a natural language interface. A conversation that is configured to obtain from a user values for parameters and is implemented by a natural language interface is defined. The conversation is associated with the automation process that is configured to utilize a user interface of a computer program to input data thereto or execute functionality thereof. The automation process is a parameterized automation process depending on parameters. The conversation is published to be made accessible to a user via the natural language interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: WALKME LTD.
    Inventors: Nir Nahum, Shlomi Sasson
  • Patent number: 11256528
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to streaming individual application windows and/or other desktop elements of a remote desktop. Data used to represent irrelevant desktop areas may be replaced with lower entropy data that may be highly compressed in a video stream and/or with data representative of other visual content. The video stream may also include desktop metadata (e.g., locations for desktop visuals, etc.) used to render the desktop elements on the local desktop. The desktop visuals of an application window may be rendered in a proxy window on the local desktop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Andrija Bosnjakovic, Johannes Zimmermann, Ashley Reid
  • Patent number: 11250204
    Abstract: A method for generating a context-aware knowledge base is provided. The method may include extracting document object model (DOM) tag elements associated with one or more webpages. The method may further include identifying and extracting webpage data associated with the extracted DOM tags. The method may further include determining a context associated with the identified and extracted webpage data by detecting and extracting resource description framework (RDF) triplets in candidate DOM tag elements. The method may further include ranking the extracted RDF triplets. The method may also include validating one or more RDF triplets associated with the ranked RDF triplets. The method may further include connecting the validated RDF triplets to a knowledge graph associated with a knowledge base of the one or more webpages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jatin Ganhotra, Cheng Wu
  • Patent number: 11241979
    Abstract: Described herein are various embodiments for using a touch screen with polar coordinates thereon to control the movements of seats in a vehicle. An exemplary method of adjusting seats in a vehicle includes the operations of detecting a touching on a circumference of a circular graphic on a touch screen in a vehicle, wherein the circular graphic is in a polar coordinate system on the touch screen; and determining a polar angle formed by a point of the touching on the circumference of the circular graphic in the polar coordinate system. The method further includes the operations of calculating a first value and a second value associated with the polar angle, each of the first value and the second value representing a movement range in a direction; and adjusting a vehicle seat based on the first value and the second value, including simultaneously moving the vehicle seat in in a first direction indicated by the first value and a second direction indicated by the second value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: BYTON NORTH AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chan Vincent, Johnson Mark
  • Patent number: 11241615
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for controlling shooting in a football game, including: responding to a first touch operation acting on a shooting control, and determining an auxiliary input reference graphic within a preset range of the shooting control; and responding to a second touch operation acting on a screen region corresponding to the auxiliary input reference graphic, determining a target shooting position in a goal in the football game according to touch point position information of the second touch operation and a mapping relationship between the auxiliary input reference graphic and the goal, and controlling a virtual character in the football game to execute a shooting action. In addition, the present disclosure further provides an apparatus for controlling shooting in a football game, a computer device and a storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: NETEASE (HANGZHOU) NETWORK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yiyang Tao
  • Patent number: 11230379
    Abstract: A time-sensitive, data reduction system is described. According to an aspect of the system, a method is disclosed that comprises: receiving at least a portion of an airline-specific dataset, wherein the airline-specific dataset comprises a plurality of location records, wherein each location record comprises a point of interest (POI) and a unique rank, wherein the POI is defined by unique geographic identifier; determining a current position of the aircraft; and based on the current position and based on the unique rank of each of the plurality of location records, controlling, at a passenger display in the aircraft, a presentation of a map and a plurality of POI indicators associated with a highly-ranked subset of the plurality of location records. According to another aspect of the system, a plurality of servers are used provide relevant location-related content to an aircraft passenger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Betria Interactive, LLC
    Inventors: Duncan Charles Jackson, Boris Veksler, David Neil Dyrnaes
  • Patent number: 11222090
    Abstract: In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for integrating web services in shell constructs are provided. Web browsing data, application activity data, and/or device data for a user may be received. A machine learning model may be applied to the data. One or more recommendations may be surfaced based on application of the machine learning model to the data. The recommendations may comprise one or more of: recommendations to install applications; recommendations to add service extensions; recommendations to pin and/or add a shortcut to a website; and/or recommendations to add platform integration services amongst multiple devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Tecnology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Thomas Mattox, Jr., Raju Jain, Jeffrey Jay Johnson, David Michael Schab
  • Patent number: 11199906
    Abstract: Systems and approaches enable concurrent interaction with multiple user applications in a multi-tasking environment. User input, such as voice commands, head movement, hand or finger gestures, device motion, can be received to a centralized component of a system. State information for each user application can be determined, and the centralized component can send a recognized command or gesture to the appropriate user application(s) based on the state information and/or rules for propagating user input. Additionally, users can configure the input modalities of each user application to customize interaction with systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Ryan Halley Curtis, Andrew Dean Christian
  • Patent number: 11194545
    Abstract: The electronic device according to an embodiment may receive a first user input including a first request for performing a first task requiring one or more first parameters for execution, to transmit first data associated with the first user input through the communication circuit to a server including an intelligence system providing a sequence of action states for the electronic device performing at least one task using the at least one application program, to receive the first sequence of the action states for performing the first task, from the server through the communication circuit, to perform not all but part of the first sequence of the action states, based at least on the first user input, and to transmit second data associated with an action state of the electronic device caused from the performing of the part of the first sequence, to the server through the communication circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyoung Gu Woo, Ho Jun Jaygarl, Han Jun Ku, Kyung Tae Kim, Ga Jin Song
  • Patent number: 11182042
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing an application input and feedback system. An embodiment operates by receiving a request for a user input interface corresponding to a particular screen of an application. Responsive to the request, the user input interface associated with the particular screen is provided. A real-time context corresponding to the particular screen of the application and the request is captured. User-generated data is received via the user input interface and a context-related data package including the user-generated data and the context is generated. The context-related data package is provided to another system configured to receive the context-related data package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Nicole Schilling, Johann Kemmer
  • Patent number: 11182055
    Abstract: An interactive sticker system to perform operations that include: causing display of a presentation of media at a client device, the presentation of the media including a display of an icon within the presentation of the media; receiving an input that selects the icon from the client device, the input comprising an input attribute; generating a menu element based on the icon and the input attribute in response to the input that selects the icon; and presenting the menu element at a position within the presentation of the media at the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Shaun Harrison, Christie Marie Heikkinen, David Phillip Taitz
  • Patent number: 11176153
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing extension points to alter a data source in a data pipeline. By providing a before-state-change extension point, a data orchestration system may allow connected clients to aggregate delta from a changed state source, allowing the data orchestration system to include only changed or added data in a transferred data state. By providing an after-state-change extension point, a data orchestration system may harness additional customizations, for example, effectively and efficiently handle changes to the state made by a viewing client following the transmission of a delta of changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Eduardo Carvalho, Alexandre Faltz, Eduardo Berlitz, Joachim Fitzer, Reinhold Kautzleben, Willian Mendes