Patents Examined by Matthew Ludwig
  • Patent number: 8910032
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a media-editing application that includes several background-rendering modules. These modules automatically render segments of a media presentation in the background of a system on which the media-editing application is being executed. By performing rendering in the background, the background-rendering modules produce rendered results for the segments. That is, the modules pre-generate playable media output data (e.g., composite video frames or audio samples) of the media presentation without interrupting other operations (e.g., editing operations, etc.) of the media-editing application. The background-rendering modules in some embodiments include a first background-rendering module and a second background-rendering module. The first background-rendering module determines a prioritized order in which the segments are to be rendered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Eric J. Graves, Giovanni Agnoli, Vijay Sundaram
  • Patent number: 8904268
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method, an apparatus, and a communication system for transmitting graphic information. In the technical solution of the present invention, the graphic information carries a hyperlink and an identifier of the hyperlink so that when the terminal receives the graphic information, the terminal may judge, according to the identifier of the hyperlink, whether the hyperlink has been processed, and the terminal requests the graphic from the network according to the hyperlink only when determining that the hyperlink has not been processed, therefore ensuring an effective decrease in bandwidth consumption of broadcast or multicast channels, effectively avoiding repeated processing and presentation of a same hyperlink by the terminal, and reducing the complexity of the processing of the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Teng Shi
  • Patent number: 8898561
    Abstract: A method and a device for determining a display mode of an electronic document on a screen are provided. The method may comprise: obtaining the size of the screen and the original layout size of the electronic document; determining, from the obtained original layout size, a document layout length in a layout direction of the original layout of the electronic document; determining, from the obtained size of the screen, a screen reading length in a reading direction of the screen; and comparing the document layout length with the screen reading length to determine whether a fixed-layout display mode or a flow display mode shall be selected to display the electronic document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignees: Peking University Founder Group Co., Ltd., Beijing Founder Apabi Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei Guo, Zhan Li
  • Patent number: 8887035
    Abstract: The invention provides a display interface in a social networking system that enables the presentation of information related to a user in a timeline or map view. The system accesses information about a user of a social networking system, including both data about the user and social network activities related to the user. The system then selects one or more of these pieces of data and/or activities from a certain time period and gathers them into timeline units based on their relatedness and their relevance to users. These timeline units are ranked by relevance to the user, and are used to generate a timeline or map view for the user containing visual representations of the timeline units organized by location or time. The timeline or map view is then provided to other users of the social networking system that wish to view information about the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul M. McDonald, Ryan Case, Nicholas Felton, Drew W. Hamlin, Jeff Huang, Samuel Lessin, Ryan David Mack, Serkan Piantino, Josh Wiseman, Raylene Kay Yung, Mark E. Zuckerberg
  • Patent number: 8887060
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a method of performing web-based keyboard, video and mouse (KVM) redirection implemented by a baseboard management controller (BMC). The method includes: (a) receiving, at a BMC, first and second video frames redirected from a host computer, the BMC performing a management function of the host computer, (b) generating a webpage at a web server of the BMC and sending the webpage to a browser program running on a computing device in a network, the webpage being programmed to instruct the browser program to initiate a drawable area and to establish a Web Socket connection with the web server, (c) generating a processed image representing the second video frame, (d) establishing a Web Socket connection between the web server and the browser program, and (e) sending the processed image to the browser program through the Web Socket connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: American Megatrends, Inc.
    Inventors: Sanjoy Maity, Baskar Parthiban, Samvinesh Christopher, Varadachari Sudan Ayanam
  • Patent number: 8881002
    Abstract: A trial based layout builder generates multiple trial multi-column layouts for content until a multi-column layout that satisfies particular criteria for multi-column balancing is generated. Multiple trial multi-column layouts can be generated in parallel based on different boundaries until a layout that does satisfy the criteria is identified. Different elements of the content laid out in different trial multi-column layouts can be reused in subsequently generated trial multi-column layouts. The content can also optionally be separated into multiple different portions at various break points, and trial multi-column layouts for the different portions can be generated in parallel. Additionally, if a trial multi-column layout for one of the portions that satisfies the particular criteria is identified, the content in that portion can be displayed while continuing to attempt to identify a layout for the content of the other portion that satisfies the one or more criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Evgeny N. Veselov, Peter G. Salas, Phillip F. Cupp, Michael Jacob Jolson, Markus W. Mielke, Veljko Miljanic
  • Patent number: 8880990
    Abstract: An information processing device that acquires data constituting a Web page that is to be provided to a terminal device via a network and is designed for displaying predetermined content information. The information processing device then acquires a script that is programmed to allow reference to correspondence information associating candidate content information that is set beforehand as a candidate for content information to be displayed on the Web page, with variation information specifying variations of at least the display form of an object to be displayed on the Web page. The information processing device incorporates the script into the page data in an executable manner. In response to a request from the terminal device, the information processing device transmits the page data having the script incorporated thereinto, to the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventors: Soh Masuko, Hiroshi Abe
  • Patent number: 8856642
    Abstract: Information extraction and annotation systems and methods for use in annotating and determining annotation instances are provided herein. Exemplary methods include receiving annotated documents, the annotated documents comprising annotated fields, analyzing the annotated documents to determine contextual information for each of the annotated fields, determining discriminative sequences using the contextual information, generating a proposed rule or a feature set using the discriminative sequences and annotated fields, and providing the proposed rule or the feature set to a document annotator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Recommind, Inc.
    Inventors: Julian Markus Riediger, Andy Homg
  • Patent number: 8832543
    Abstract: A formatting tool enables “smart” copy and paste functions. The “smart” copy and paste functions can be invoked in a context-sensitive manner, depending on the conditions under which the copy and paste functions are implemented. The present invention will automatically include in a selection a paragraph marker at the end of a selected paragraph, if every other textual character in the paragraph has been selected. The present invention will discard a paragraph mark that is included in pasted text if the pasted text is pasted into the middle of another paragraph, indicating that the user prefers the formatting of the pasted-into paragraph. The present invention also reduces inconsistencies in formatting styles that may exist between source and target documents automatically redefining a style in the target document to conform to a corresponding style in the source document. The present invention also automatically adjusts paragraph spacing, in response to text being pasted into a target document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Broman, Glenn Frankel, Roberto C. Taboada
  • Patent number: 8826116
    Abstract: A method, system and program product for annotating a transient state of a computer displayed application enables annotation of transient applications particularly web based applications. A transient application address (or key) and state information related to an application at a transient state are stored in an annotation store along with an annotation. The annotation is related to the transient application by the application address or key. The application is automatically restored to the transient state when the annotation is requested. Optionally a screen capture of the application at the transient state is also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sean J. Martin, Simon L. Martin, Chetan R. Murthy
  • Patent number: 8826122
    Abstract: According to an example, a method for displaying a webpage includes: A, obtaining, by the webpage parsing server, an original webpage corresponding to a Universal Resource Locator (URL) request transmitted by a mobile terminal, and executing JavaScript (JS) in the original webpage to obtain a result webpage; B, adding, by the webpage parsing server, a JSNODE attribute to the result webpage, transmitting the result webpage containing the JSNODE attribute to the mobile terminal, and the mobile terminal fills in a JS request protocol packet according to a JS event triggered by a user and the JSNODE attribute; and C, executing, by the webpage parsing server, the JS event according to the JS request protocol packet transmitted by the mobile terminal, and transmitting the result webpage in which the JS event has been executed to the mobile terminal for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Shudong Ruan, Kaixiang Zhang, Dexian Chen
  • Patent number: 8782513
    Abstract: An electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface stores a document having primary content, supplementary content, and user-generated content. The device displays a representation of the document in a segmented user interface on the display. Primary content of the document is displayed in a first segment of the segmented user interface and supplementary content of the document is concurrently displayed in a second segment of the segmented user interface distinct from the first segment. The device receives a request to view user-generated content of the document. In response to the request, the device maintains display of the previously displayed primary content, ceases to display at least a portion of the previously displayed supplementary content, and displays user-generated content of the document in a third segment of the segmented user interface distinct from the first segment and the second segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Charles J. Migos, Jay Christopher Capela
  • Patent number: 8762833
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus displays document information obtained from a storing unit for storing document time/date information at which document data is processed and the document information including storing time/date information at which the document data is stored. The apparatus obtains displaying order information for deciding order of displaying the document information when the document information is displayed, sorts the document information in accordance with the obtained displaying order information, displays the sorted document information. The displaying order information is displaying order based on the storing time/date information. The document information is sorted in accordance with the storing time/date information in order from the old storing time/date information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masami Ueda, Takuya Miyazato
  • Patent number: 8751916
    Abstract: The disclosure details the implementation of apparatuses, methods, and systems for a Composite Content Generator. The disclosure teaches a Composite Content Generator, which provides a straightforward, unified, and transparent interface that presents users with the ability to customize publication purchases. Buyers of content may desire to customize their purchases in order to acquire certain sections of a work (e.g., select chapters from a travel book, select recipes from a cook book, choose certain subjects out of reference or medical journals, and specific sections of a periodical). In one embodiment, the Composite Content Generator allows buyers to view, select, and purchase portions of various works (e.g., such as books, periodicals, reference materials, and/or the like) and receive fulfillment of their purchase as a customized and modular composite publication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Inventors: Gary T. Bender, Stephen A. Cox
  • Patent number: 8751917
    Abstract: Posts are ranked for display on a page in a social network environment based on interaction and user score signals associated with the post and a viewing user. The signals for each of the posts are scored, and a ranking score for each post is determined. The posts are ranked in an order for display based on the ranking score and displayed for the viewing user on the page. Posts submitted by other users who have established connections with the viewing user are also filtered for display in a social box on the page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Rohit Dhawan, Yuankai Ge, Jeffrey Andrew Kanter
  • Patent number: 8726142
    Abstract: The invention provides a display interface in a social networking system that enables the presentation of information related to a user in a timeline or map view. The system accesses information about a user of a social networking system, including both data about the user and social network activities related to the user. The system then selects one or more of these pieces of data and/or activities from a certain time period and gathers them into timeline units based on their relatedness and their relevance to users. These timeline units are ranked by relevance to the user, and are used to generate a timeline or map view for the user containing visual representations of the timeline units organized by location or time. The timeline or map view is then provided to other users of the social networking system that wish to view information about the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Serkan Piantino, Ryan Case, Stanislav Funiak, Daniel Klatzko Gibson, Jeff Huang, Ryan David Mack, Paul M. McDonald, Arun Vijayvergiya, Josh Wiseman, Zizhuang Yang, Steven Young, Raylene Kay Yung, Mark E. Zuckerberg
  • Patent number: 8694883
    Abstract: The document management system assigns property information of a scanned document when transmitting the scanned document from an MFP to a document management server PC, and stores history information related to the transmission job in a memory. Further, the MFP, on receipt of incorrectness information related to property information from the document management server PC, adds the incorrectness information to the history information. Thereafter, when a user logs into the MFP, the MFP determines whether incorrectness information is included in history information having the same user ID as a user ID of the user, and if incorrectness information is included, displays a modification screen for modifying incorrect property information. Further, once the property information has been modified via the modification screen, the MFP transmits the modified information to the document management server PC, and causes information managed by the document management server PC to be updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 8683311
    Abstract: A method described herein includes receiving data that identifies a web page, wherein the data that identifies the web page is desirably displayed to a first individual and resolving the web page to generate a markup language document, wherein the markup language document comprises unstructured data. The method also includes extracting portions of the markup language document and generating a structured data object, wherein the structured data object includes the portions of the markup language document. The method further includes causing a summary of the web page to be displayed to the first individual, wherein the summary of the web page is based at least in part upon the structured data object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Francislav P. Penov, Patrick Jakubowski, Wissam Kazan, Amandeep S. Ghag, György K. Schadt
  • Patent number: 8683321
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for registry driven transformation of a document exchanged between businesses or applications. More particularly, it relates to systems and protocols for using one or more commonly accessible registries to transform electronic commerce documents among dissimilar interfaces, preferably XML documents. Particular aspects of the present invention are described in the claims, specification and drawings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Open Invention Network
    Inventors: Christopher Todd Ingersoll, Jayaram Rajan Kasi, Alexander Holmes, Michael Clark, Ashok Aletty, Sathish Babu K. Senathi, Helen S. Yuen
  • Patent number: 8677230
    Abstract: Methods and computerized apparatus for shared business modeling involving multiple spreadsheet-based business models in a network of computers, report generation involving consolidation from at least two different spreadsheet-based business models as well as report generation involving multiple different spreadsheet-based business models are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Morgan Stanley
    Inventors: Milliken Fernandes, Robert I. Lee, Jr., Dragan Masnikosa, Supriya Samanta