Patents Examined by Matthew Ell
  • Patent number: 10824309
    Abstract: A method of operation of a navigation system includes: providing a docking area adjacent to a map interface; determining a docking location within the docking area; and generating a docking notification with a control unit for displaying the docking notification at the docking location on a device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Telenav, Inc.
    Inventors: Yiwei Chen, Liang Ma, Zongyoung Wang
  • Patent number: 10817135
    Abstract: Rendering graphical user interfaces to display post-interaction collectible icon animations experiences to users comprises an application of a user. An application provides a display to a user to initiate a wireless interaction and receives a notification of a tap of the one or more computing devices to conduct a pending interaction at a third party system. The application receives a notification from the third party system that the interaction has been conducted and communicates to an application system associated with the application that the interaction has been conducted. The application receives from the application system a post-interaction collectible icon animation. The graphical user interface renders the post-interaction collectible icon animation for display to the user. The graphical user interface allows the user to collect the collectible icon as part of a set for future display or sharing with a social network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Dennis Yung-Chi Hu, Kimberly Cianci, Chunxiao Diao, Min-Hao Wu, Clifford Tse-Yan Chan, Mallinath Bareddy, Denise Ho, Michal Palczewski
  • Patent number: 10817149
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a video displaying method and apparatus, a device and a computer storage medium, wherein the method comprises: positioning a target video; displaying a video preview of the target video, the video preview being a video segment extracted from the target video. This displaying manner exhibits a stronger capability of expressing the video content. The user can better know whether the video is the desired content. The present disclosure may reduce a probability of the user missing desired video resources and reduce a probability that the user finds that the video content does not meet an expectation after he views the video content, thereby helping the user to conveniently and effectively view the desired video resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xinwei Yu, Xi Zeng, Fu Li, Shilei Wen, Jiaqi Jiang, Xin Zhang, Feng Li, Baoyu Zhang, Meng Qi, Lixing Gong, Rongrong Han, Yueyang Song, Fantian Meng, Haiping Wang, Xiao Liu, Hao Sun, Xubin Li, Chenghao Chang
  • Patent number: 10809906
    Abstract: A method for capturing display data on a screen together with display data not currently visible is applied to an electronic device. The method displays a user interface of an application on a touch screen of the electronic device, the user interface being divided into a sliding area and N number of non-sliding areas, when a preset user operation is applied to the electronic device. The method sets a starting position and an ending position in the sliding area. Content between the set starting and ending positions is read, and a screenshot corresponding to the read content is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Chiun Mai Communication Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Yueh-Chi Wang
  • Patent number: 10795565
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method of accelerating scrolling input and a mouse using the method. The mouse detects a scrolling operation through a scrolling input receiving device thereof and determines whether a trigger condition is satisfied. If the trigger condition is satisfied, the mouse operates in an accelerating output state and outputs a scrolling count value in accordance with the corresponding predetermined accelerating output relation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: DARFON ELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventor: Xi-Sheng Chen
  • Patent number: 10795539
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for visualizing migration of a resource of a distributed computing environment are provided. Embodiments include displaying, within a graphical user interface (GUI), one or more graphical resource representations. Each graphical resource representation represents a resource of a distributed computing environment. Each graphical resource representation is displayed in a particular location within the GUI according to a location of the resource within the distributed computing environment. Embodiments also include displaying, within the GUI, a first graphical migration representation. The first graphical migration representation represents a first transfer operation of a first resource of the distributed computing environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lance Bragstad, Bin Cao, James E. Carey, Mathew R. Odden
  • Patent number: 10795540
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for visualizing migration of a resource of a distributed computing environment are provided. Embodiments include displaying, within a graphical user interface (GUI), one or more graphical resource representations. Each graphical resource representation represents a resource of a distributed computing environment. Each graphical resource representation is displayed in a particular location within the GUI according to a location of the resource within the distributed computing environment. Embodiments also include displaying, within the GUI, a first graphical migration representation. The first graphical migration representation represents a first transfer operation of a first resource of the distributed computing environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lance Bragstad, Bin Cao, James E. Carey, Mathew R. Odden
  • Patent number: 10788973
    Abstract: An electronic picture frame and an image display method thereof are provided. In the electronic picture frame, a plurality of images are arranged and displayed on one side of a screen, and among the plurality of images, an image at a particular position is enlarged and displayed. Alternatively, a screen is divided into a plurality of sub-screens, so images stored in each of a plurality of storage areas can be displayed on a respective sub-screen. Accordingly, the images stored in the plurality of storage areas can be displayed on the electronic picture frame in diverse forms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Soo-hyun Jho
  • Patent number: 10789519
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes: obtaining, by an application client executing on a terminal, a display request; and controlling, based on the display request, a display screen of the terminal to simultaneously display a scanning region and a first identification code in an interface, in which the first identification code stores information corresponding to a user of the terminal, in which the scanning region displays a second identification code scanned by a camera of the terminal, and in which the second identification code is usable by the terminal to perform operations based on the second identification code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Xin Wang, Hongwei Luo
  • Patent number: 10769367
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for a low latency interactive user interface. In one aspect, a method includes while individual characters in a sequence of characters are being entered into a field of an interactive user interface and before the sequence has been completely entered parsing the entered characters using a string pattern and presenting the parsed characters in a second field according to a presentation format. The method also includes sending one or more of the entered characters to a server. The method also includes receiving a different second string pattern and a different second presentation format from the server in response to the sending. The method also includes parsing one or more second entered characters using the second string pattern and presenting the parsed second entered characters in the second field according to a second presentation format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Tomer Kol
  • Patent number: 10747420
    Abstract: In one aspect, method is provided for controlling a display device, comprising: displaying, on a touchscreen display, a first window executing a first application and a second window executing a second application; receiving, at the touchscreen display, a first command input to the first window and a second command input to the second window; determining whether the first command and the second command are received simultaneously; dispatching, by a processor, the first command; and dispatching, by the processor, the second command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sung-Jae Cho
  • Patent number: 10747555
    Abstract: The present invention relates to technology for controlling a user interface (UI) of a wearable device, and a system for properly controlling a UI based on characteristics of a wearable device according to an embodiment of the present invention which includes a wearable device and a terminal device configured to interwork with each other, wherein the wearable device provides device specification information when interworking with the terminal device, and the terminal device sets a UI and situation notification method to be controlled in response to a notification situation, based on the device specification information, and uses the set situation notification method to control the set UI in response to the notification situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: KOREA ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Seung Woo Kum, Jae Won Moon
  • Patent number: 10739938
    Abstract: A system for customizing a tag cloud includes at least one processor to access and execute computer readable instructions stored on a computer readable storage medium, where the computer readable instructions are to cause the at least one processor to, upon execution of the computer readable instructions identify tags from a source; assign a score to each tag in the source based on tag attribute; temporarily increase the score for a new tag during a time period measured from a creation of the new tag; and create a tag cloud in a graphical user interface that emphasizes each tag according to its score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul Eric Bastide, Matthew E. Broomhall, Robert Edward Loredo, Matthew Stephen Rosno
  • Patent number: 10739969
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a mobile terminal and a method for controlling the same, which can allow the use of a terminal to be implemented by further considering user convenience. According to at least one of the embodiments of the present invention, the present invention provides the advantage of easily sharing copied and scraped content through a plurality of mobile terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hangdong Seong, Dongseon Park, Younjeong Min
  • Patent number: 10725610
    Abstract: A method for customizing a tag cloud includes assigning a score to each tag in a source of tags, the score being based on a tag attribute; temporarily increasing the score for a new tag during a time period measured from a creation of the new tag; and customizing said tag cloud in a graphical user interface by emphasizing each tag according to its score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Matthew E. Broomhall, Robert E. Loredo, Matthew S. Rosno
  • Patent number: 10725640
    Abstract: A user interface element includes a display area configured to display a value, an increment button configured to increment the displayed value, a decrement button configured to decrement the displayed value, and a slider configured to allow a user to rapidly increase or decrease the displayed value by sliding a finger across the slider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: ALLSCRIPTS SOFTWARE, LLC
    Inventors: Christy Jill Reed, Anthony Stuart, Art Swanson
  • Patent number: 10713853
    Abstract: Aspects of the technology described herein provide a control interface for manipulating a 3-D graphical object within a virtual drawing space. The control can automatically group objects together for common manipulation. Example manipulations include position and orientation adjustments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Charles Cullum, Barry John Ptak
  • Patent number: 10712988
    Abstract: A method of controlling at least one controlled device at an external device outside a network including a control device and the controlled device is provided. The method includes transmitting a message accepting a control request requesting to control the controlled device in a session established with the control device; receiving and displaying an identifier for identifying the controlled device; and selectively controlling the controlled device via the control device based on an input generated using the displayed identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hark-joon Kim, Kuk-hyun Han, Sang-jun Han
  • Patent number: 10705696
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect a position of a manipulation body on a display screen and a control unit configured to, if a first manipulation on the display screen in a locked state is detected, display, on the display screen, icons to be arranged based on a reference point indicating a position of the manipulation body when the first manipulation is completed, and if a second manipulation indicating a direction from the reference point is detected, start up an application corresponding to the icon specified by the second manipulation. An associated method and computer readable storage medium are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Reiko Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 10699242
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to social bookmarking and provide a method, system and computer program product for automated surfacing of tagged content adjunct to a vertical application. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for automatically surfacing tagged content in a vertical application can be provided. The method can include receiving and parsing text from content in an end user application, comparing the parsed text to social bookmarks and associated metadata from a social bookmarking system and matching portions of the content to respective ones of the social bookmarks and associated metadata based upon the comparison, and directing a visual emphasis of the matched portions of the content in the end user application, whereby the end user application is unmodified to perform the receiving, comparing and directing steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Patrick J. O'Sullivan, Edith H. Stern, Robert C. Weir, Barry E. Willner