Patents Examined by Rashawn N Tillery
  • Patent number: 11099806
    Abstract: A system is provided for streaming media content in a vehicle. The system includes a personal media streaming appliance system configured to connect to a media delivery system and receive media content from the media delivery system at least via a cellular network. The personal media streaming appliance system operates to transmit a media signal representative to the received media content to a vehicle media playback system so that the vehicle media playback system operates to play the media content in the vehicle. Various types of rotations of a knob part of the personal media streaming applicant system result in different media playback actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Spotify AB
    Inventors: Daniel Bromand, Richard Mitic, Johan Oskarsson
  • Patent number: 11093100
    Abstract: A virtual reality device can implement varying interactive modes for document viewing and editing by displaying, at an application container level, a current mode view in a view frame of the virtual reality device; and in response to receiving an overview command trigger, determining context, including that the current mode view is at the application container level; expanding to a next level view of, e.g., a task level or an overview level; and displaying, at a next level, the next level view in the view frame of the virtual reality device. The current mode view of the application container level includes a container space of an application and an application container level rule for the container space. Conversely, the virtual reality device can adjust the next level view back to the application container level in response to a focused command trigger and identified region of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Michael M. Bennett, Gregory C. Hitchcock, Jonathan S. Kaufthal, Akshay Bakshi, Sean Shiang-Ning Whelan
  • Patent number: 11068155
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for implementing a user interface (UI) tool for a touchscreen computer device displays a UI tool on a display of the touchscreen computer device. The UI tool is initially offset from a position of an object touching the surface of the display. The user controls the UI tool using the object. A command is executed, which operates on an entity indicated by the UI tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: DASSAULT SYSTEMES SOLIDWORKS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Priya Dalmia, Chinloo Lama, Kevin F. Berni
  • Patent number: 11062299
    Abstract: A system to indicate to a user to enter a personal identification number (PIN) on a commercial off the shelf (COTS) device, the system comprising: a secure card reader communicatively coupled to the COTS device, and wherein the secure card reader receives a payment card; a payment application installed on the COTS device; and one or more devices other than the COTS device. The payment application installed on the COTS device transmits one or more prompts to the one or more devices other than the COTS device based on a set of signals received from the secure card reader. The secure card reader transmits the set of signals after the payment card is received at the secure card reader, and the one or more prompts comprise at least one indication to the user to enter the PIN on a display of the COTS device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: BBPOS LIMITED
    Inventors: Hwai Sian Tsai, Chi Wah Lo
  • Patent number: 11055117
    Abstract: A method for displaying a graphic object, which is generated by a remote server in a local window, which is displayed on a display device, the local terminal communicating with the server via a proxy gateway for the remote office protocol, the gateway establishing a connection between the terminal and the server, the connection comprising a primary connection, which is established between the local terminal and the proxy gateway of the remote application type, and a secondary connection, which is established between the proxy gateway and the remote server, comprises a step of detecting the type of secondary connection and a step, carried out by the proxy gateway, of converting data, which are from the remote server, and which relate to a local window of the office type, into data, which are intended for the local terminal and which relate to a local window of the application type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: WALLIX
    Inventors: Raphaël Zhou, Christophe Grosjean
  • Patent number: 11048404
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an operation unit, a movement amount correction unit, and a display control unit. The operation unit is configured to acquire a drag operation on a display unit. The movement amount correction unit is configured to increase a movement amount of the drag operation. The display control unit is configured to control the display unit according to the increased movement amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Harada, Takeo Doi, Junji Itoyama
  • Patent number: 11023202
    Abstract: A system and computer-implemented method are provided for enabling an audio interface enhanced autocorrect feature in a mobile device. The method includes detecting activation of an autocorrect feature of a mobile device in response to a portion of text not appearing in a system dictionary, enabling a microphone in response to activation of the autocorrect feature, receiving audio input from a user responsive to a word replacement by the autocorrect feature, and implementing an enhanced autocorrect action based on the audio input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jill Dhillon, Michael Bender, Jeremy R. Fox, Kulvir S. Bhogal
  • Patent number: 11006076
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments relate to techniques for providing modifiable views when capturing an image of a video call. When a user takes a picture of a video call (e.g., a screen shot), associated applications may scrape the phone of the call participants to acquire a better-quality image than what might be displayed in the call interface, which may be of reduced quality due to compression and/or bandwidth limitations. Problematically, the layout of the call interface is different on each user's device, which can cause the resulting screenshot to not look as expected. Exemplary embodiments therefore place the data scraped from each device into movable elements, which can be rearranged on the screen to alter the layout (even post-capture). Moreover, new layouts are possible, potentially with additional graphical elements. In some embodiments, information gathered from a user's social networking information can determine the layout parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventor: Anne Raynor
  • Patent number: 11003317
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for unifying graphical user interface (GUI) displays across different device types. In an embodiment, a unification system may convert various GUI view appearing on, for example, a desktop device into a GUI view on a mobile device. Both devices may be accessing the same application and/or may use a cloud computing platform to access the application. The unification system may aid in reproducing GUI modifications performed on one user device onto other user devices. In this manner, the unification system may maintain a consistent look-and-feel for a user across different computing device type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Eric Jacobson, Michael Gonzalez, Wayne Cho, Adheip Varadarajan, Daniel McCall, Victor Oliveros, Annie Abrahamian, David Klein, Nicholas Howland, Kyle Haskins, John Vollmer, Benjamin Snyder, Mike Rosenbaum
  • Patent number: 10990241
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a system for creation and engagement with rich media icons over a wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Inventor: Kirill Vishnevskij
  • Patent number: 10990421
    Abstract: An artificial intelligence (“AI”) based system is disclosed for associating low-level user content, such as documents, email messages, and calendar invites, with high-level user activities using topics as an abstraction. The associations can enable a computing system to provide, among other things, activity-specific views that present a specific selection of low-level user content that is most relevant to a user at a particular point in time. The activity-specific views present the right information to users at the right time based on a context of a user and a user's past activities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Aniruddha Prabhakar Kulkarni, Nathaniel M. Myhre, Yogesh Madhukarrao Joshi, William Henry Gates, III, Vignesh Sachidanandam, Peter Loren Engrav
  • Patent number: 10990615
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improving a search process by providing a visual guided search experience is provided. A networked system determines a location of a user device. A user interface (UI) is presented illustrating a map at a first level view of an area based on the location. The networked system receives, via the UI, a first touch input indicating a zoom selection. In response, the UI shows a second level view of the area that includes a plurality of nodes each representing a point of interest in the area. The second level view is a lower level view than the first level view. The networked system then receives, via the UI, a second touch input selecting a node of the plurality of node. In response to the selecting of the node, navigation information for a selected point of interest corresponding to the selected node is presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Karim Fateem, Yu Zhang, Brandon Iles
  • Patent number: 10976898
    Abstract: A system for hierarchical navigation of menus on a screen and particularly from one menu to another menu at the same level of a menu hierarchy. The system may provide side-to-side movement between menu elements to more easily navigate the menu pyramid. It may facilitate access to the details of a list of devices by selecting next and previous devices in the list, without navigating back to the list. The system may provide an operator or user with a simple, convenient method of browsing the details of devices in a list without the need to move back and forth throughout the list. The display may automatically adapt to the disparate properties of each type of device in the list. Also, the displayed details may be unique for a characterization of each device but be rendered in a common format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Steven Majewski, Joe Stough, Don L. Brett
  • Patent number: 10976916
    Abstract: Various examples of the present invention relate to an electronic device and a method for displaying applications used in the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jongkee Lee, Jungyeob Oh, Bonghak Choi
  • Patent number: 10970330
    Abstract: A method is provided to search for images. The method includes identifying an object in a two-dimensional reference image. The method includes determining a three-dimensional reference orientation axis of the object based on at least one attribute of the object. The method includes receiving an input that requests a change in a three-dimensional perspective of the object. The method further includes determining a new orientation axis based on the input and the reference orientation axis. The method includes executing a search query on a set of two-dimensional images, where the search query is based on the new orientation axis and at least one attribute of the object. The method also includes displaying image search results that are ranked based on correlations with the new orientation axis and the attribute of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kulvir Singh Bhogal, Alexandre Polozoff, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Jeremy R. Fox
  • Patent number: 10966044
    Abstract: A system, computer-implemented method, and tangible computer-readable media for media playback. The method includes receiving a request from a user to play a media asset, detecting capabilities of the playback device, detecting playback environment acoustic characteristics, optimizing media playback settings for the playback device and the playback environment characteristics, preparing the media asset for playback on the playback device, and transferring the prepared media asset to the playback device for playback. The method can further transfer optimized playback settings to the playback device. Media asset preparation can be based at least in part on the optimized playback settings. A playback profile can store environment characteristics and playback device capabilities. The method continuously detects changes in the playback environment characteristics, and optimizes media playback settings when detected changes exceed a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Andrea Basso, Zhu Liu, Bernard S. Renger, Behzad Shahraray
  • Patent number: 10949229
    Abstract: Techniques for tracking software platform utilization by a plurality of entities are described herein. In an embodiment, a management computer system stores first entity data defining a first entity and associating the first entity with a plurality of first accounts, the first entity having access to the management computer system programmed which provides options for performing a plurality of tasks. The management computer system tracks a first plurality of interactions with the management computer system that are performed by each of the plurality of first accounts. The management computer system stores first interaction data defining one or more aspects of interaction with the management computer system that are performed by each of the plurality of first accounts. The management computer system stores second entity data defining a plurality of second entities and associating each of the plurality of second entities with a plurality of second accounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Coupa Software Incorporated
    Inventors: Donna Wilczek, Parand Tony Darugar, David Williams, Vincent Toesca
  • Patent number: 10949071
    Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided that display various geographic maps and depth graphs in an interactive user interface in substantially real-time in response to input from a user in order to determine information related to measured data points, depth levels, and geological layers and provide the determined information to the user in the interactive user interface. For example, a computing device may be configured to retrieve data from one or more databases and generate one or more interactive user interfaces. The one or more interactive user interfaces may display the retrieved data in a geographic map, a heat map, a cross-plot graph, or one or more depth graphs. The user interface may be interactive in that a user may manipulate any of the graphs to identify trends or current or future issues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Julius Wilson, Tom Alexander, Daniel Cervelli, Trevor Fountain, Quentin Spencer-Harper, Daniel Horbatt, Guillem Palou Visa, Dylan Scott, Trevor Sontag, Kevin Verdieck, Alexander Ryan, Brian Lee, Charles Shepherd, Emily Nguyen
  • Patent number: 10915224
    Abstract: A portable electronic device displays a plurality of icons (e.g., graphical objects) in a region in a touch-sensitive display; detects a predefined user action, with respect to the touch-sensitive display, for initiating a predefined user interface reconfiguration process; and varies positions of one or more icons in the plurality of icons in response to detecting the predefined user action. The varying includes varying the positions of the one or more icons about respective average positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marcel Van Os, Freddy Allen Anzures, Scott Forstall, Greg Christie, Imran Chaudhri
  • Patent number: 10884579
    Abstract: A portable electronic device displays a plurality of icons (e.g., graphical objects) in a region in a touch-sensitive display; detects a predefined user action, with respect to the touch-sensitive display, for initiating a predefined user interface reconfiguration process; and varies positions of one or more icons in the plurality of icons in response to detecting the predefined user action. The varying includes varying the positions of the one or more icons about respective average positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marcel Van Os, Freddy Allen Anzures, Scott Forstall, Greg Christie, Imran Chaudhri