Patents Examined by Mahelet Shiberou
  • Patent number: 10430061
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for controlling an electromagnetic energy source is disclosed. Instructions are executed on a processor to display on a computer-human interface display device a user interface region. The user interface region includes a pie-graph. An input is received via the user interface region, where the input is an interaction with the pie-graph that changes one of the radius or a sector of the plurality of the sectors. A power output of one or more of the electromagnetic energy sources is adjusted based on the input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Biolase, Inc.
    Inventors: Dmitri Boutoussov, Glenn Empey, Ryuichi Iwamura, Danny Quang Tran
  • Patent number: 10423297
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which a selection and/or execution of an application can be designated using a list of applications currently executed in a multitasking environment. The present invention includes a display unit, a user input unit configured to receive an input of a command from a user, and a controller, when a plurality of applications are being executed, if there is a first input via the user input unit, controlling a list of a plurality of the currently executed applications to be displayed on a first region, the controller, if one of at least one or more applications running in the background in the list is selected by a second input via the user input unit, controlling the selected application to be displayed on a second region of the display unit by having a prescribed visual effect applied thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jong Cheol Jung, Hong Joo Kim, Jae Woong Yun
  • Patent number: 10419372
    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: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: LiveHelpNow, LLC
    Inventor: Michael Kansky
  • Patent number: 10416843
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display module functionally connected to the electronic device and an object control module configured to create object property information based on a characteristic of an application and configure and display an object for controlling at least some functions of the application based on the object property information when the application is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jee-Eun Hong, Kyung-Moon Kwak, Young-Il Jung
  • Patent number: 10409552
    Abstract: Systems and methods for displaying an audio indicator including a main portion having a width proportional to a volume of a particular phoneme of an utterance is described herein. In some embodiments, audio data representing an utterance may be received at a speech-processing system from a user device. The speech-processing system may determine a maximum volume amplitude for the utterance, and using the maximum volume amplitude, may determine a normalized amplitude value between 0 and 1 associated with a volume that phoneme's of an utterance are spoken. The speech-processing system may then map the normalized amplitude value(s) to widths for a main portion of an audio indicator, where larger normalized amplitude values may correspond to smaller main portion widths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David Adrian Jara, Timothy Thomas Gray, Kwan Ting Lee, Jae Pum Park, Michael Hone, Grant Hinkson, Richard Leigh Mains, Shilpan Bhagat
  • Patent number: 10387017
    Abstract: An electronic device having a plurality of display areas and an operation method therefor are provided. The electronic device includes a first display area; a second display area; and a processor configured to display an application screen including a control object on the first display area, detect an input to move the application screen from the first display area to the second display area, rearrange the control object on the application screen, based on a type of the control object and a movement direction of the application screen, and display the application screen including the rearranged control object on the second display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jihun Lee, Sunhee Moon, Haemi Yoon
  • Patent number: 10387444
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a non-transitory computer-readable medium that stores a program executable by at least one processing unit of a first device. The program receives from a second device a selection of a set of measures associated with data. The program also receives from the second device a selection of a set of dimensions associated with data. The program further receives from the second device a selection of a type of analysis. Based on the set of measures, the set of dimensions, and the type of analysis, the program also determines a type of visualization of the set of measures and the set of dimensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: SUCCESSFACTORS, INC.
    Inventors: Dominic Philip Haine, Maria Clarisse Gatchalian, Anthony Ashton, Lisa Meehan, Anastasia Ellerby
  • Patent number: 10371401
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for creating a domain visualization are described herein. One method includes receiving a selection of a particular visualization template from a plurality of visualization templates, receiving instance information associated with a domain specified by the template from an instance source, receiving operating information from at least one instance of the domain, and displaying a visualization of the domain using the template, the instance information, and the operating information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Conrad B. Beaulieu, Henry Chen
  • Patent number: 10365807
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a touch-sensitive display, a rotatable input mechanism, one or more processors, and memory. The electronic device displays content on the display, where the content includes a first edge and a second edge opposite the first edge. The electronic device further detects a first user input, and in response to detecting the first user input, displays an enlarged view of the content that does not include the first edge. The electronic device further detects a rotation of the rotatable input mechanism in a first rotation direction, and in response to detecting the rotation, translates the enlarged view of the content in a first translation direction on the display to display the first edge of the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Everitt, Christopher B. Fleizach, Gregory F. Hughes, Eric T. Seymour, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Patent number: 10360657
    Abstract: Methods and systems may provide for detecting a manual addition of first content to an interactive display and defining a content boundary around the first content. Additionally, a first automatic rescaling of the first content within the content boundary may be conducted in response to one or more of a manual modification of the first content or a trigger related to a characteristic of the first content. In one example, a manual reposition request is detected with respect to the first content, the first content is moved to a new position on the interactive display based on the reposition request, and a second automatic rescaling of the first content is conducted based on a state of second content that is adjacent to the new position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporations
    Inventors: Gary D. Cudak, Lydia M. Do, Christopher J. Hardee, Adam Roberts
  • Patent number: 10353538
    Abstract: A user interface method comprises: causing a plurality of first objects to be displayed; causing one or more second objects to be displayed, each second object associated on the display with one or more of the first objects; and, in response to an input, causing at least one of the first objects to be displayed with decreased prominence and causing at least one second object that is associated with the first object to be displayed such that the relative decrease in prominence of the second object, if any, is less than the relative decrease in prominence of the first object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Inventor: Richard Gammons
  • Patent number: 10353546
    Abstract: User's connection operation is facilitated using a user interface screen. A user interface screen is displayed on which a combination of an arbitrary source apparatus and a destination apparatus is designated from a predetermined number of source apparatuses and destination apparatuses, to operate a connection. Based on operation on the user interface screen, the connection between the source apparatus and the destination apparatus is controlled. On the user interface screen, a button is disposed in which a combination of a source apparatus and a destination apparatus is registered. When the button is operated, control is executed such that the source apparatus and the destination apparatus of the registered combination are connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuo Okumura, Hirofumi Hibi
  • Patent number: 10346020
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for relatively changing a parameter value from a first value using a pressure sensitive user interface (UI) element. In an embodiment, the techniques include: activating the UI element in response to pressure signals received at the UI element; displaying the first value as the parameter value; converting the pressure signals to corresponding parametric values; presenting the parametric values as feedback concurrently with the converted pressure signals and with the displayed first value; unlocking the activated UI element when the parametric values fall within a first window of the first value for a first time period; after the unlocking of the activated UI element, relatively changing the parameter value from the first value to the parametric values concurrently with the displayed parametric values; and deactivating and locking the UI element in response to a lack of pressure signals received at the touch point of the UI element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Chirogene, Sören Ammedick
  • Patent number: 10341424
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of enabling participation by a first client and a second client in a communication session in a multi-dimensional virtual environment, the multi-dimensional virtual environment having first and second avatars respectively associated with the first and second clients and a plurality of objects distinct from the avatars. The method includes receiving from the first client a first annotation associated with a first object of the plurality of objects, transmitting the first annotation to the second client for display at the second client in association with the first object, receiving from the second client a second annotation associated with a second object of the plurality of objects, and transmitting the second annotation to the first client for display at the first client in association with the second object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Mendes da Costa, Niniane Wang, Joey Chiu-Wen Liaw
  • Patent number: 10341275
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide a commenting system for multiple users to provide and share comments to shared documents. For example, users can share a web link to a collection of content items, such as documents, spreadsheets, photos, and any other media, with other users stored in an online content management system. The commenting system can provide a comment interface displayable alongside a respective content item and the comments can be saved for each user and the content item with associated comments can be synced across the multiple users. The comments can scroll independently of the content in a content item or the comments can be linked to a location therein and the scrolling of the comments can be linked to the scrolling of the content item such that corresponding comments are displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Carriero, Mark Delamere, Phil Rha, Jon Vincent, Sujay Jayakar
  • Patent number: 10331335
    Abstract: Techniques for an electronic montage system are described. An apparatus may comprise a logic device arranged to execute a montage application comprising an authoring component operative to provide a presentation surface having multiple presentation tiles, receive control directives to associate content files with presentation tiles, generate tile objects for the content files based on content file types for the content files, and store the presentation surface and tile objects as a montage. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Tali Roth, Matthew Wood, Scott Stiles, Michael Affronti, Jodie Draper, Malia Douglas, Janet Schorr, Zeyad Rajabi, Robin Troy
  • Patent number: 10318128
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for facilitating manipulation of images in response to gestures. A user can provide a gesture to effectuate a desired rotation or scaling of an image region. In some implementations, a user might provide a rotation gesture (i.e., a circular pattern) to cause a rotation of an image region or a stroke gesture (i.e., a straight line pattern) to cause a scaling of an image region. Using intuitive gestures, such as touch gestures, the user can control the direction and magnitude of manipulation to accomplish a desired manipulation (e.g., rotation or scaling) of an image region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Byungmoon Kim, Gahye Park
  • Patent number: 10310715
    Abstract: An e-book includes a rendering definition that specifies how content of the e-book is to be displayed to a user and how the user may interact with the displayed content. The rendering definition defines, for each portion of the e-book, the visual layout of content associated with the portion when the portion is displayed. The rendering definition also defines transition controlled animations for objects displayed in association with the content. The transition controlled animation of an object is an interpolation of the object over time and space that is manipulated by a continuous transition input. The transition input causes a transition from one portion of the e-book to another portion of the e-book. The transition controlled animation of the object is performed during transition from one portion of the e-book to the other portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Chak, Xingxing Gu
  • Patent number: 10296308
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to providing a network application creation system that facilitates generating network applications from a design layout. In general, the network application creation system automatically generates one or more network applications from a design mock-up created by a user, such as a designer. For example, the network application creation system can provide one or more network applications to a user without requiring the user to hand code the design layout into the one or more network applications. In some example embodiments, the network application creation system generates structured files, style files, and/or asset files from a design layout and create a network application based on the generated files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventor: Renee Helen Lance
  • Patent number: 10277940
    Abstract: A user terminal apparatus is provided. The user terminal apparatus includes a communication interface unit which receives user interface (UI) information data regarding a UI screen corresponding to at least one application displayed on an external apparatus in communication with the external apparatus, a storage unit which stores a UI information conversion format, an information conversion unit which converts the received UI information data using the UI information conversion format, a display unit which displays a UI screen, and a control unit which controls the information conversion unit to convert the UI information data received by the communication interface unit using the UI information conversion format and display on the display unit the UI screen corresponding to the converted UI information data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Doh-hyeong Lee