Patents Examined by Rashawn Tillery
  • Patent number: 9936245
    Abstract: A digital television (DTV) and a method of providing a GUI using the DTV are disclosed. The method of providing a GUI in a DTV comprises: first displaying an image on a display unit provided on the DTV; receiving a display command of a first GUI; and second displaying the image and the first GUI such that a different spatial depth is formed between the image and the first GUI according to the received display command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Eun Seon Ahn, Jung Hoon Son, Byung Hun Lee, Su Re Bak, Kun Sik Lee
  • Patent number: 9916085
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a mobile terminal including a display unit configured to enable a touch input, and a controller configured to execute a first touch sensing mode for processing a touch input applied to a specific position of the display unit as a control command for the specific position, wherein the controller configured for cooperating with the display unit to: execute a second touch sensing mode which is a different type of sensing mode from the first touch sensing mode, sense a user's touch input within a first region of the display unit in the second touch sensing mode, and process the user's touch input as a control command corresponding to a touch input to a second region of the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Suyoung Lee, Hyunjoo Jeon
  • Patent number: 9904453
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes: a display device for displaying an image; an operation receiving device for receiving a scroll operation for scrolling the image displayed on the display device in a specific direction; a processor; and a memory for storing instructions. When executed, the instructions cause the processor to: acquire a scroll-amount indicator value, that indicates an amount by which the image being displayed on the display device is to be scrolled by the current scroll operation, based on a current scroll operation received by the operation receiving device and on a display of the image on the display device by at least one previous scroll operation which is received by the operation receiving device in advance of the current scroll operation; and control the display device to display the image scrolled according to the acquired scroll-amount indicator value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yutaka Urakawa
  • Patent number: 9891808
    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: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    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: 9884556
    Abstract: A vehicle telemetry data dashboard and display system includes display dashboards comprising dashboard objects that may be stored, organized, or accessed as a group, list or tree hierarchy. The dashboard objects may overlap, and have a display state such as visible or hidden, and properties such as shapes, colors, values, etc. The dashboard objects may be rendered on a graphical display device to display vehicle telemetry data obtained from a vehicle data port. Applying vehicle telemetry data to the dashboard objects may cause differing transformations to different properties of the dashboard objects, and transformation of a one property may also cause a transformation of another property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Auto Meter Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian Palmer
  • Patent number: 9880736
    Abstract: A method may include providing for display a first set of touch-screen keys corresponding to a first set of symbols. The method may also include providing for display at least partially underneath the first set of touch-screen keys a second set of touch-screen keys corresponding to a second set of symbols. At least a portion of the second set of touch-screen keys are visible through the first set of keys. The method may also include detecting a touch gesture by the user over the first and second sets of keys intending to input a symbol. The method may also include determining a context of the input by the user. The method may also include selecting based at least in part on the context a symbol in the first set of symbols or a symbol in the second set of symbols as the symbol that the user intended to input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Jenny Yuen, Luke St. Clair
  • Patent number: 9882966
    Abstract: A method for providing static data and dynamic data of a service/display menu for a mobile device from a field device. The field device contains identification data, and, associated therewith, a total amount of static data and dynamic data. Upon query of the mobile device, dynamic data and/or static data are transmitted with a data transmission rate from the field device to the mobile device via a wireless interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Conducta GmbH+Co. KG
    Inventors: Tilman Benkert, Bjorn Haase, Gunter Jahl, Stefan Robl
  • Patent number: 9870120
    Abstract: An applications presentation method and system is provided, the method and system including displaying, a map on a display when a map application is executed, the map scaled to a location range, searching via a processor for installed applications having location information corresponding to the location range among a plurality of applications stored in the mobile terminal, transmitting information identifying at least the location range and the installed applications to an application provision server, receiving information on non-installed applications having the location information corresponding to the location range from the application provision server, and displaying icons including icons of the installed applications and icons of the non-installed applications on the map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaesung Ku, Joohyun Kim, Jongsang Won
  • Patent number: 9870125
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a novel auto-scanning method for navigating elements within a user interface (UI) of a computing device. This method associates the UI elements into several overlapping groups, with each group having more than one element and having at least one element in common with at least one other group. The method successively identifies a different group of elements as a selectable group for a different duration of time. While a group is selectable, a user can select the group through an input device or mechanism. If a user does not select a first group of elements that is selectable during a first time period, the method identifies a second group of elements as being selectable during a second time period. While identifying the second group as selectable during the second time period, the method identifies the first as not being selectable during this time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Patti P. Hoa
  • Patent number: 9866645
    Abstract: The ACTIONABLE NOTIFICATIONS APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“ACNO”) transforms inputs such as actionable notification enrollment input, action input, and trigger messages via ACNO components into actionable notification message output. In one embodiment, the disclosure describes a processor-implemented actionable notification method, which comprises, receiving an actionable notification enrollment request with a device identification, and criteria for receiving actionable notifications, and receiving an actionable notification trigger message. The method further comprises determining an actionable notification message based on the actionable notification trigger message and the criteria for receiving actionable notifications, and determining actionable notification associated actions. The method further comprises transmitting the actionable notification message and the associated actions, and receiving an action selection from the associated actions, and effecting the action selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: VISA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION
    Inventor: Dhiraj Sharda
  • Patent number: 9836214
    Abstract: When it is discriminated by an input-means determining unit that an input to display unit is a first input by a pen, a function of an application allocated in advance to an area on a screen of the application specified by an input coordinate of first input means determined by an input-position determining unit is executed on the basis of the first input. When it is discriminated that the input to the display unit is a second input by a finger, the execution of the function of the application allocated in advance on the screen of the application is prohibited and a predetermined function not allocated to the area on the screen of the application is executed on the basis of the second input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Kenta Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 9826329
    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: August 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Andrea Basso, Zhu Liu, Bernard S. Renger, Behzad Shahraray
  • Patent number: 9823811
    Abstract: Techniques and architectures for implementing a team of virtual assistants are described herein. The team may include multiple virtual assistants that are configured with different characteristics, such as different functionality, base language models, levels of training, visual appearances, personalities, and so on. The characteristics of the virtual assistants may be configured by trainers, end-users, and/or a virtual assistant service. The virtual assistants may be presented to end-users in conversation user interfaces to perform different tasks for the users in a conversational manner. The different virtual assistants may adapt to different contexts. The virtual assistants may additionally, or alternatively, interact with each other to carry out tasks for the users, which may be illustrated in conversation user interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Next IT Corporation
    Inventors: Fred A Brown, Tanya M Miller
  • Patent number: 9811252
    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: April 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Harada, Takeo Doi, Junji Itoyama
  • Patent number: 9798826
    Abstract: A process is disclosed for using the existing Universal Resource Identifier (URI) history feature of browsers to maintain user preference settings, or other state information, used by one or more web sites or other systems. In one embodiment, when a user makes a particular preference selection on a web site, the user's selection is recorded in the browser's URI history by causing the browser to access a URI (or a set of URIs) representing the particular selection. The same or a different web site may subsequently test the browser's URI history for this particular URI by including appropriate JavaScript or other executable code in a page requested by the browser. Depending upon the outcome of this test, the web site and/or the page's executable code may take an appropriate action or inaction consistent with the preference selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Oath Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey T. Wilson, Mark H. Goldstein
  • Patent number: 9792026
    Abstract: Systems and methods for editing and controlling video playback using a dynamic timeline. The dynamic timeline allows a user to edit a video content structure that includes a plurality of video content paths, each video content path including a plurality of video content segments. The video content segments in a first video content path are visually represented on the dynamic timeline. A selection in the dynamic timeline is received that changes a first video content segment from the first video content path to a second video content segment in an alternative video content path in the video content structure. Subsequently, the dynamic timeline is updated to display visual representations of at least some of the video content segments in the alternative video content path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: JBF Interlude 2009 LTD
    Inventors: Jonathan Bloch, Barak Feldman, Tal Zubalsky, Yuval Hofshy
  • Patent number: 9792015
    Abstract: Technologies are generally described for providing a system for visualizing items and conversations in a communication application. Conversations are presented as a list of items in the communication application. A quantity of presented items is limited based on a size of a client device employed for viewing the items. Visualizations are applied to the presented items to attempt to maximize a number of items that are presented while providing information about the items to enable a user to preview content and take actions on the items. The visualizations include different templates applied to each item based on a type of item and content associated with the item, and the templates may be are dynamically updated based on user interactions with the items. The templates for items are determined by applying a set of rules and factors to each item to determine a most appropriate visualization for each item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Matthias Baer, Ned Bearer Friend, Nicholas Smith, Bryan Eric Baird, Benjamin Franklin Carter, Hiroshi Tsukahara
  • Patent number: 9779176
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for incorporating functionality of a first web application into a second web application composed and managed by a component-based application framework, such as JSF. For example, the web pages of an existing application may be displayed to the user of a web application composed in the JSF framework, thus enabling the user to access the functionality of the secondary web application in a transparent and seamless manner. Further, the web application may be displayed using AJAX technology, in which page updates are performed asynchronously to user interactions. Embodiments of the invention may allow an application based on a component-based application framework to access functionality of a secondary web application, without requiring the applications to communicate directly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eric T. Dybdahl, James A. Iuliano, Scott P. Mills
  • Patent number: 9779387
    Abstract: Dynamic user interfaces for displaying and optionally modifying and/or overriding B2B parameter values in electronic B2B documents are generated based on the B2B standards, parameter names, and values defined for specific B2B electronic documents. An electronic document is selected and a document parameter data structure is accessed to identify associated document parameter values and application attributes. An attribute data structure is then accessed to identify document parameter names corresponding with these parameter values. The application attributes link document parameter values for a B2B document with document parameter names based on the B2B document's associated standard or protocol. A document parameter override data structure may optionally include document parameter override values for an electronic document that replace the document parameter values for specific B2B transactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventor: Yong Lu
  • Patent number: 9762659
    Abstract: A display configuration system enables a graphical designer to create reusable template graphical display elements that can be easily modified by, for example, other graphical designers with less experience in graphical design programming, such that the modified graphical display elements can reflect one of various different possible functionalities of plant equipment or plant usages to which the modified graphical display element is to be tied during operation. The display configuration system includes a graphical design application that enables the creation of generic or library graphical elements that include basic graphical functionality associated with particular types of plant equipment or associated with particular types of graphic display functionality and includes a configuration form editor that enables a user to create quick configuration forms that define predetermined potential modifications to be made to the template graphical element when creating a usage from the template graphical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Herschel O. Koska, Larry O. Jundt, Stephen C. Gilbert, Robert B. Havekost, Paul K. Daly