Patents Examined by Phuong H Nguyen
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Patent number: 11675783Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for determining relationships between content items to create a visualization associated with the various content items. The visualization may provide information regarding what various individuals in a group, team, or organization have been working on (e.g., content, documents, projects).Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Jon Meling, Torbjørn Helvik, Vegar S Wang, Jakob Werner
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Patent number: 11668811Abstract: A method for identifying ghost aircraft and a system for displaying information in an aircraft including a flight display onboard the aircraft and configured to display a visual expression of at least some air traffic information and an interrogation module configured to determine information about an other aircraft based on the identification address to define interrogated data, determine real-time information about the other aircraft, compare the real-time information and the interrogated data and update the flight display based on the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2019Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LimitedInventor: Stefan Alexander Schwindt
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Patent number: 11651421Abstract: A portable web widget for distribution of multimedia content over a computer communications network, the web widget adapted for viral distribution and execution in a web browser on a client device wherein the widget includes a content retrieval component communicatively coupled to an application server over the computer communications network, the content retrieval component configured to retrieve one or more multimedia display files and metadata into an embedded electronic commerce store in the web widget after it enters an active operational mode, the widget also including a content preview component configured to enable a streamed execution of a portion of the multimedia content files associated with each of the multimedia display files from a multimedia content distribution system executing on the application server, and a transaction processing component operative to execute and complete a commercial transaction in the embedded electronic commerce store pertaining to the multimedia content files.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2022Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: DKR Consulting LLCInventors: David Robb, Grant Neerings, Cameron Patterson, Joseph Rodriguez, Quinton Richard Harris, Benjamin Cook
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Patent number: 11640206Abstract: A method for large scale integration of haptic devices is described. The method comprises forming a first elastomer layer of a large scale integration (LSI) device on a substrate according to a specified manufacturing process, the first elastomer layer having a plurality of fluid based circuits, the first elastomer layer adhering to a plurality of formation specifications. The method further comprises curing the first elastomer layer. Additionally, one or more additional elastomer layers of the LSI device are formed with the first elastomer layer according to the specified manufacturing process, the one or more additional elastomer layers having a plurality of fluid based circuits, the one or more additional elastomer layers adhering to the plurality of formation specifications.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2020Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Sean Jason Keller, Tristan Thomas Trutna
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Patent number: 11620000Abstract: The techniques disclosed herein provide systems that can control the invocation of precision input mode. A system can initially utilize a first input device, such as a head-mounted display device monitoring the eye gaze direction of a user to control the location of an input target. When one or more predetermined input gestures are detected, the system can then invoke a precision mode that transitions the control of the input target from the first input device to a second input device. The second device can include another input device utilizing different input modalities, such as a sensor detecting one or more hand gestures of the user. The predetermined input gestures can include a fixation input gesture, voice commands, or other gestures that may include the use of a user's hands or head. By controlling the invocation of precision input mode using specific gestures, a system can mitigate device coordination issues.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Sophie Stellmach, Julia Schwarz, Erian Vazquez, Kristian Jose Davila, Thomas Matthew Gable, Adam Behringer
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Patent number: 11592897Abstract: Apparatuses and methods of operating the same are described. An apparatus including a display, an input device, and a processing device coupled to the display and the input device. The processing device may send an output to the display. The output may include a graphical object associated with a first step of a user-implemented procedure. The processing device may receive an input from the input device. The input may indicate a progress on an execution of the first step by an operator. The processing device may determine whether the input indicates that the operator has completed the first step. The processing device may determine whether the first step is a final step in the user-implemented procedure. The processing device may identify a second step in the user-implemented procedure when the input indicates that the operator has completed the first step and the first step is not a final step.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: WEST TEXAS TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS, LLCInventors: Mohamed Nabil Hajj Chehade, Chieh Wang, Mohamed Fayez Taha, Karim Fikani, Paul Neil Iglesias Paulino
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Patent number: 11585637Abstract: A system determines a location of a sighting apparatus for a weapon simulator in three-dimensional space using a three-dimensional positional tracking system. Upon placement of a virtual reality (VR) head mounted display (HMD) in proximity to the sighting apparatus for the weapon simulator, the system determines a location of the VR HMD in three-dimensional space using the tracking system. The system then analyzes the relationship between the locations of the virtual trainer and the VR HMD, and upon determining that the VR HMD is properly positioned in relation to the virtual trainer, the system locks a visual feed to the VR HMD.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Raytheon CompanyInventors: Gregory K. Toy, Michael D. Wetherill, Jr., Christopher A. Velez
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Patent number: 11580300Abstract: Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for composing and sharing a message based on the motion of a handheld electronic device such as a ring. The methods in some implementations include presenting a keyboard on a display, collecting course data associated with a course traveled by the ring, and overlying a trace onto the keyboard, such that the trace is correlated in near real-time with the course traveled by the ring. In some implementations the display element is part of a portable device, such as the lens of an electronic eyewear device. Based on the course data relative to the key locations on the keyboard, the system identifies and presents candidate words to be included in a message.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Yu Jiang Tham, Jonathan M. Rodriguez, II, Nir Daube
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Patent number: 11567576Abstract: A wearable glove for interacting with virtual objects is described herein. An example wearable glove includes a fabric material to be worn on a user's hand. The wearable glove also includes a matrix made of an elastic polymer, the matrix including a plurality of voids, each respective void (i) including at least one fluidic actuator and (ii) not being fluidically coupled with a positionally adjacent void. The wearable glove additionally includes a non-fluidic actuator configured to restrict movement of one of the user's digits; and one or more position sensors for monitoring positional data used to a determine a position of the wearable glove within a three-dimensional space. The wearable device can control the at least one fluidic actuator and the at least one non-fluidic actuator to simulate real-world interactions in the artificial-reality environment based on the position of the wearable device as compared to respective positions of virtual objects.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2022Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Sean Jason Keller, Tristan Thomas Trutna
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Patent number: 11550446Abstract: A method includes retrieving a webpage requested by an extended reality (XR) web reader. The method further includes determining one or more content elements of the webpage and one or more menu elements of the webpage. The menu elements may comprise navigational controls for accessing additional content linked to the webpage. The method further includes mapping the one or more menu elements to one or more pre-defined menu interfaces of the XR web reader. The method further includes presenting the webpage via the XR web reader. The one or more content elements may be presented on one or more first layers of an interface of the XR web reader, and the one or more pre-defined menu interfaces may be presented on one or more second layers of the interface of the XR web reader.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Winston Chen, Laszlo Gombos
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Patent number: 11551442Abstract: An apparatus comprising a processor and memory including computer program code, the memory and computer program code configured to, with the processor, enable the apparatus at least to: identify a target object, from a plurality of objects, which is within a field of view of a first user based on a determined location and orientation of the first user relative to respective predefined locations of the plurality of objects; and generate a command signal configured to trigger a corresponding action associated with the target object.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2018Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Khan Baykaner, Troels Ronnow, Hongwei Li, Krishna Dubba
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Patent number: 11543952Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media are provided for data analysis. A user interface comprising boards corresponding to one or more objects and one or more operations on the input and/or output objects of the boards can be generated for high-scale top-down data analysis.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.Inventors: Ethan Bond, Michael Nazario, Teofana Hadzhiganeva, Devin Halladay
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Patent number: 11531442Abstract: Systems and methods are provided which implement techniques for providing supplemental and social information along with primary information. In one implementation, a user interface is provided with various sections. One section plays back a main item of content, while a second section displays supplemental information. A third section provides interactive tools for a user to communicate or share information with other users. For example, while playing a movie in the first portion, the social networking section may provide a chat interface in the third portion along with social network service controls to post or share user input, or to view posts from friends about the item of content.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2014Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: CRACKLE, INC.Inventors: Tarik Didomenico, Victor Thompson
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Patent number: 11521607Abstract: For login based command activation is disclosed, a processor detects a login interaction that includes a login time interval. The processor further detects a voice command concurrent with the login time interval. The processor activates the voice command based on the voice command being concurrent with the login time interval.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Roderick Echols, Ryan Charles Knudson, Jonathan Gaither Knox
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Patent number: 11504200Abstract: Wearable user interface devices are described. A wearable user interface device can include a wearable base connected to a trackable device component by a linkage. The linkage can connect to a pivoted support that the trackable device is mounted on, and which maintains poses when the user interface device is not manipulated by a user's hand. The pivoted support has several orthogonal axes intersecting at a center of rotation located inside a device body of the trackable device. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: VERB SURGICAL INC.Inventors: Joan Savall, Richard Edward DeMartini, Randall Blake Hellman, Denise Ann Miller, Anette Lia Freiin von Kapri, Pablo E. Garcia Kilroy
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Patent number: 11488237Abstract: A portable web widget for distribution of multimedia content over a computer communications network, the web widget adapted for viral distribution and execution in a web browser on a client device wherein the widget includes a content retrieval component communicatively coupled to an application server over the computer communications network, the content retrieval component configured to retrieve one or more multimedia display files and metadata into an embedded electronic commerce store in the web widget after it enters an active operational mode, the widget also including a content preview component configured to enable a streamed execution of a portion of the multimedia content files associated with each of the multimedia display files from a multimedia content distribution system executing on the application server, and a transaction processing component operative to execute and complete a commercial transaction in the embedded electronic commerce store pertaining to the multimedia content files.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2022Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: DKR CONSULTING LLCInventors: David Robb, Grant Neerings, Cameron Patterson, Joseph Rodriguez, Quinton Richard Harris, Benjamin Cook
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Patent number: 11467659Abstract: A facial tracking device including an illuminator and a photon detector. The illuminator configured to project a light toward a first portion of a head of a user and the photon detector configured to detect light reflected from a second portion of the head of the user. The facial tracking device further including a processor that is connected to the illuminator and photon detector and configured to cause the illuminator to project the light toward the head of the user, receive information from the photon detector, and determine a facial expression of the user.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Manoj Bikumandla, Chao Han
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Patent number: 11467853Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to setting up an account for a service. A request to set up an account for a first service is received. In response to receiving the request to set up the account for the first service, a first login option and a second login option are displayed. If an input selecting the first login option is detected, a request to use first contact information for a user to set up the account for the first service is transmitted. If an input selecting the second login option is detected, a request to use second contact information for the user to set up the account for the first service is transmitted. The second contact information is automatically generated for the service and does not reveal the first contact information for the user.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Frank De Jong, Hannah S. Story, Keetae Ryu, Dmitry V. Belov, Gokul P. Thirumalai, Wayne Loofbourrow, Jonathan Birdsall, Nagarjuna Thottempudi, Felipe Marin Cypriano, Patrick L. Coffman
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Patent number: 11455678Abstract: A portable web widget for distribution of multimedia content over a computer communications network, the web widget adapted for viral distribution and execution in a web browser on a client device wherein the widget includes a content retrieval component communicatively coupled to an application server over the computer communications network, the content retrieval component configured to retrieve one or more multimedia display files and metadata into an embedded electronic commerce store in the web widget after it enters an active operational mode, the widget also including a content preview component configured to enable a streamed execution of a portion of the multimedia content files associated with each of the multimedia display files from a multimedia content distribution system executing on the application server, and a transaction processing component operative to execute and complete a commercial transaction in the embedded electronic commerce store pertaining to the multimedia content files.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2019Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: DKR Consulting LLCInventors: David Robb, Grant Neerings, Cameron Patterson, Joseph Rodriguez, Quinton Richard Harris, Benjamin Cook
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Patent number: 11442599Abstract: An integrated approach is provided to running web applications with various compatibilities that do not require third-party extensions or sacrifice user experience. When a page of an application incompatible with a first browser is to be executed, an instance of a second browser with which the page is compatible is separately invoked and/or executed without opening a window for that second browser. Instead, the second browser opens a page within the window of the first browser. Moreover, rendering and/or contextual information for a page opened via the second browser is provided to the first browser. Such information is utilized by the first browser to provide a visual experience to the user in which the web page is being hosted by the first browser, even though it is in fact being hosted by the second browser.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Adrian Bogdan Guta, Joshua P. H. Tseng, Stefanie K. McCallum, Navin Agarwal, Corey M. Bloodstein, Thomas W. Bolds, Venkatraman V. Kudallur, Fredric W. Pullen, III, Tony E. Schreiner, Michael J. Ens, Benjamin J. Bamesberger, Ning Zhong, Alex Glover, Andrew M. Lake, Clifton J. Hebert, Emily K. Andrews, Stefan F. Smolen, Todd A. Sahl, Wenming Ju, Xiaoying Huang