Patents Examined by Sang H. Kim
  • Patent number: 11620346
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed that transmits a plug-in module to a web browser of a client computer. The web browser displays web content in a main window. The plug-in module, when activated, causes the web browser to display a user interface to a user of the client computer. The user interface is separate from the main window of the web browser, displays at least a portion of the web content, and is configured to enable the user to operate on the displayed at least a portion of the web content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: SEARCH AND SHARE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: John S. Shriber, Roman Zaks
  • Patent number: 11611596
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, apparatus, and methods for managing user reviews of publications within an online user network. Various user interfaces may provide access to view a publication and request a review thereof, solicit and receive reviewing information from the requesting or another user (or multiple users), and provide access to a review generated from the received reviewing information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: ResearchGate GmbH
    Inventors: Ijad Madisch, Horst Fickenscher, Sören Hofmayer, Axel Tölke, Eduardo Ojeda, Volker Dusch, Andrew Clark
  • Patent number: 11604569
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating a personalized lobby interface based on contest attributes and user attributes for one or more users of a contest management system. The contest management system can generate, execute and maintain a plurality of contests, such as but not limited to, fantasy sports contests. Further, the contest management system can maintain a plurality of user profiles with each of the user profiles associated with at least one user. To provide content and/or recommendations to one or user profiles, the contest management system can create one or more personalized lobbies for each of the user profiles. The personalized lobbies can display one or more contests selected by the contest management system that a user associated with the respective user profile may be interested in based in part on their respective profile attributes and/or contest history.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: DraftKings, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank Lo, Brandon Joseph Ward, Brendan Thompson Grove, Jordan Mendell, Travis Dunn
  • Patent number: 11593067
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems and methods that identify activities for which scripts can be built to perform an activity when requested by a user. The scripts can be voice-activated by a defined customized voice command and can include delivery preferences. The user's identity can be verified by analyzing voice biometrics of the customized voice command. After performance of the activity, results can be delivered to the device in the format indicated in the script.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Charise Renee Whitaker, Michael J. Maciolek
  • Patent number: 11588915
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes techniques of pushing information associated with the at least one location that is associated with a video. The disclosed techniques comprises obtaining video data, wherein the video data comprise a plurality frames of a video and information associated with the video; determining at least one location associated with at least one frame among the plurality of frames of the video based on comparing the video data with data included in a database; determining information associated with the at least one location; and pushing the information associated with the at least one location to a first computing device based on a time point of playing the at least one frame among the plurality of frames of the video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: SHANGHAI BILIBILI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yunjie Ji, Yongcheng Dai
  • Patent number: 11536585
    Abstract: In some implementations, a computing device can provide a map application providing a representation of a physical structure of venues (e.g., shopping centers, airports) identified by the application. In addition, the application can provide an inside view that includes the physical layout and geometry of the venue's structure as well as the location, structure and layout of points of interest (e.g., stores, security check points, restrooms) within the venue. The views become more detailed as the user zooms into the venue to reveal points of interest and to give the user a feel for traversing the venue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan D. Shelby, Ryan W. Apuy, Vincent P. Arroyo, Sunny Chan, Jae Woo Chang, Megan M. Frost, Brett L. Lareau, Sean P. O'Brien, Tadayasu Sasada, Sebastian A. Araya
  • Patent number: 11526262
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to a computer system displaying user interfaces for accessing passes and transfer accounts. In some examples, passes are added to the computer system. In some examples, passes are accessed. In some examples, transfers relating to the passes and transfer accounts are displayed, such as in search user interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor W. Young, Thomas John Miller, Russell Fenenga, Morgan Grainger
  • Patent number: 11520470
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method for graphically displaying and interacting with digital standards, the method including: displaying, on an interactive display, a digital standard interface display for displaying and interacting with information corresponding to at least one digital standard, wherein the digital standard interface display comprises a plurality of icons that are selectable by a user; wherein at least one of the plurality of icons comprises a standards category icon for displaying information related to digital standards within a category corresponding to the standards category icon; displaying a digital standard selection field in response to a user selection of one of the standards category icons; and displaying, responsive to a user providing input to the digital standard selection field, information related to a digital standard identified from the provided input and of the category type corresponding to the selected standards category icon. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: SAE International
    Inventors: Audra Ziegenfuss, Arijith S. Roy, Michael David McCumber, Uxue Zurutuza Dorronsoro, Francis Carayol, Divyesh Gaur, John Patrick Joseph McBride
  • Patent number: 11500514
    Abstract: An enhanced control, in which a guide line is defined relative to an object in a user interface, items aligned with the guide line are displayed without obscuring the object. A selected item is output based on receiving a selection of one of the displayed items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Evan Hildreth
  • Patent number: 11501231
    Abstract: A method for process analysis, where the process includes at least one succession of steps associated to objectives to be achieved to obtain the target objective. The steps include receiving a process map, receiving a progression value of each node of the process map and the state of each node of the process map, updating the process map for each node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE
    Inventors: Corentin Kerbiriou, Henri Reydon, Jeffrey Honion, Laurie Pacini
  • Patent number: 11494056
    Abstract: A user interface configuration may permit a user to make selections while the interface is dynamically adjusting and reconfiguring its layout and appearance for optimized user satisfaction. One example method of operation may include receiving an input command on a first menu displayed on a touch receptive surface of a user device and modifying a current view of the first menu by moving a menu item either upward or downward among a number of different menu options. The method may also include selecting the menu item responsive to the received input command and also receiving an additional input command to select a functionality to apply to the menu item, and applying the functionality to the menu item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: OPEN INVENTION NETWORK LLC
    Inventor: David Gerard Ledet
  • Patent number: 11494064
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and a control method therefor are disclosed. The mobile terminal includes a body, an input unit configured to sense user input, a display coupled to the body to vary a display region viewed from a front of the body according to switching between an enlarged display mode and a reduced display mode, and a controller. The controller controls output of at least one application on the display in the enlarged display mode, controls output of an editing screen upon receiving a signal for switching to the reduced display mode, and controls switching to the reduced display mode based on a result of the editing screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Dongwan Kang, Kensin Noh, Seungyong Lee
  • Patent number: 11481205
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device presents a subscription management user interface. The subscription management user interface optionally includes one or more selectable options that, when selected, change the status of a subscription associated with a user account of the user. In some embodiments, the subscription management user interface is presented in response to detecting deletion of an application that utilizes an active subscription associated with the user account of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: John Vidnovic, Bryan Wegman
  • Patent number: 11461397
    Abstract: The invention is directed to an electronic device. The electronic device provides, for display on a display device, a user interface including a first set of columns, two or more columns in the first set of columns each including two or more menu items. The electronic device receives a selection input. In response to receiving the selection input, in accordance with a determination that the selection input corresponds to selection of a first column the electronic device provides, for display on the display device, a second set of columns, two or more of the columns in the second set of columns corresponding to different subsets of menu items that were displayed in the first column that was selected in response to the selection input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marcel Van Os, Joe Howard, Joshua McGlinn, Jonathan Lochhead, Benjamin W. Keighran, William M. Bachman, Elbert D. Chen, Jeffrey L. Robbin, Jennifer L. C. Folse, Lynne Kress
  • Patent number: 11461408
    Abstract: A mobile device is fitted with a receiver, a location sensor, and optionally a camera. The mobile device may be further fitted with a data visualization software application program, which may include extended reality (XR) functionality, executing on a processor within a system. Via the data visualization software application program, various techniques are performed for displaying data visualizations based on any number of geofences and beacon devices in proximity to the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: SPLUNK INC.
    Inventors: Devin Bhushan, Jesse Chor, Glen Wong
  • Patent number: 11442610
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a virtual item adjustment method performed at a computing device having a touchscreen. The method including: displaying a virtual object presenting interface on the touchscreen, the virtual object presenting interface comprising a first virtual object and a second virtual object, the first virtual object and the second virtual object being two virtual objects respectively controlled by two different user accounts; receiving a slide operation signal on the touchscreen, the slide operation signal having a start position on the second virtual object and an end position on the first virtual object; and adjusting a virtual item of the first virtual object according to a virtual item of the second virtual object. The embodiments of this application implement the function of adjusting a virtual item of a virtual object only through a slide operation. Therefore, the operation simpler and more efficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Meng Qiu, Ya Zhang, Jiaqi Pan, Junming Wang, Shuting Zhang, Qinghua Xiao
  • Patent number: 11429146
    Abstract: Methods and devices for minimizing and maximizing displayed output associated with applications are provided. More particularly, an application presented across two or more screens of a device in a landscape mode can be minimized to present portion of the application in one of the screens. With respect to a maximization operation received with respect to a page of an application results in the expansion of the displayed portion of the application to multiple screens of the device. Input to effect minimization and maximization operations can be entered in one or more gesture capture regions associated with the screens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Z124
    Inventors: Sanjiv Sirpal, Mohammed Selim
  • Patent number: 11402984
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining proximity information for each of a plurality of assistant-enabled devices within an environment of a user device. Each assistant-enabled device is controllable by an assistant application to perform a respective set of available actions associated with the assistant-enabled device. For each assistant-enabled device, the method also includes determining a proximity score based on the proximity information indicating a proximity estimation of the corresponding assistant-enabled device relative to the user device. The method further includes generating, using the proximity scores determined for the assistant-enabled devices, a ranked list of candidate assistant-enabled devices, and for each corresponding assistant-enabled device in the ranked list, displaying, in a graphical user interface (GUI), a respective set of controls for performing the respective set of actions associated with the corresponding assistant-enabled device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Sharifi, Victor Carbune
  • Patent number: 11385781
    Abstract: In some implementations, a computing device can perform multi-display alignment through observed user interactions. The computing device can receive user input aligning a first alignment object on a first display device with a second alignment object on a second display device. The computing device can align the display buffers for each display device based on the positions of the alignment objects in each display buffer corresponding to each display device. The computing device can align display buffers based on observed movements of graphical objects between multiple display devices. When display buffers corresponding to the display devices are misaligned, the user may correct the path of a graphical object when moving the graphical object between display devices. The computing device can detect the correction and align the display buffers of the display devices so that graphical objects are presented at the appropriate locations when moved between the display devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth I. Greenebaum, Ian C. Hendry, John C. Gnaegy
  • Patent number: 11360660
    Abstract: An item page may be displayed on a client device in response to a request to view an item page from the client device. They item page may include a description of the item. An icon may be generated and the icon may be displayed within a portion of the displayed item page at an icon location. A plurality of selectable actions each being performable with respect to the item described by the item page may be generated and displayed in response to an initial gesture being performed at the icon location for at least a pre-defined threshold duration. Lastly, the plurality of selectable actions may be displayed around the generated icon and within a pre-defined distance from the icon location of the generated icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Joseph Eppolito, Shawn Piper, Brandon Fasching, Jessica Tobar, Chris Murray