Patents Examined by Stephen Alvesteffer
  • Patent number: 9213462
    Abstract: A unified communications application is described herein. The unified communications application is displayable in one of two views: a full view and a condensed view. When displayed in the condensed view, which consumes less than fifty percent of a display screen, the unified communications application is employable by a user thereof to participate in real-time conversations/meetings with contacts of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Nathan Gunderson, Phillip Garding, Zaoyang Gong, Kris Durgin, Punit Java
  • Patent number: 9213474
    Abstract: A method of delivering data from an energy industry or formation operation includes: receiving a data set representing parameter values generated during at least a portion of the operation; generating at least one data structure on a display area, the at least one data structure providing a visual representation of at least a portion of the data set; selecting a visual indicator associated with each of the at least one data structure, the visual indicator including information identifying an associated data structure; iteratively determining a suitable location for placement of the visual indicator on the display area by a processor using a probabilistic algorithm; and generating the display including the visual indicator located at the suitable position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: David W. Green, William T. Block
  • Patent number: 9182890
    Abstract: An image display apparatus and a method for operating the same are disclosed. The method for operating the image display apparatus includes displaying a home screen including at least one card object including a content list, displaying a card object generation screen if card object generation input is received, and, if at least one content item displayed on the card object generation screen is selected, adding the selected content item to a card object to be generated. Therefore, it is possible to increase user convenience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyungsuk Kang, Youngkon Yu, Yongbum Cho, Sungjae Rho
  • Patent number: 9164578
    Abstract: An input device includes an input unit for inputting a predetermined motion image signal, a motion detector for detecting a motion on the basis of the motion image signal inputted into the input unit, a video signal processor for outputting a predetermined video signal, and a controller. The controller controls the video signal processor so that, when a motion detector detects a first motion, the video signal processor outputs a video signal to explain a predetermined second motion to be next detected by the motion detector after the detection of the first motion to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: HITACHI MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Matsubara, Tomochika Ozaki, Tatsuya Tokunaga
  • Patent number: 9164542
    Abstract: A mobile unit includes a processor, a memory, and a display. The display shows a user interface including a plurality of commands. Each sensory activated command of the plurality of commands is shown with a respective icon indicative of at least one of a motion and an orientation assigned to the sensory activated command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Tilley, James Morley-Smith, Dan Sadler
  • Patent number: 9141264
    Abstract: Illustrative embodiments disclose setting refresh rates for different portions of a shared screen in a sharing session. A processor sets an initial refresh rate for the sharing session. The processor selects a portion of the shared screen. The processor selects a refresh rate for the selected portion of the shared screen that is different from the initial refresh rate for the sharing session. The processor refreshes the selected portion based on the selected refresh rate and a portion not selected based on the initial refresh rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kulvir S. Bhogal, Gregory J. Boss, Rick A. Hamilton, II, Anne R. Sand
  • Patent number: 9134889
    Abstract: Illustrative embodiments disclose setting refresh rates for different portions of a shared screen in a sharing session. A processor sets an initial refresh rate for the sharing session. The processor selects a portion of the shared screen. The processor selects a refresh rate for the selected portion of the shared screen that is different from the initial refresh rate for the sharing session. The processor refreshes the selected portion based on the selected refresh rate and a portion not selected based on the initial refresh rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kulvir S. Bhogal, Gregory J. Boss, Rick A. Hamilton, II, Anne R. Sand
  • Patent number: 9119925
    Abstract: This disclosure describes improved systems and methods for efficiently configuring respiratory settings and/or parameters in a ventilatory system. Specifically, the present methods and user interface provide an efficient and consistent means for configuring ventilatory settings for a new patient. Specifically, the ventilator may be preconfigured with appropriate parameter settings based on an institution-specific protocol, a physician-specific protocol, or other suitable protocol or specification. Indeed, the present disclosure provides an institution and/or physician with increased control over routine ventilatory settings by pre-configuring the ventilator with these routine settings. Further, the present disclosure provides increased assurance as to the consistency of the routine ventilatory settings by eliminating repeated data entry by clinicians, decreasing the chances of error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Joseph D. Vandine, Peter R. Doyle, Warren G. Sanborn
  • Patent number: 9113106
    Abstract: A method for providing a list of contents and a display apparatus applying the same are provided. The method displays images corresponding to a plurality of items included in a specific category of contents. If one of the displayed images is selected, a list of contents included in the item corresponding to the selected image is displayed. Accordingly, a user can easily identify what the item represents by viewing the image corresponding to the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yeo-ri Yoon, Chang-soo Lee, Sang-hee Lee, Dae-Hyun Kim, Eung-nan Kim
  • Patent number: 9104773
    Abstract: A content syndication platform, such as a web content syndication platform, manages, organizes and makes available for consumption content that is acquired from the Internet. In at least some embodiments, the platform can acquire and organize web content, and make such content available for consumption by many different types of applications. These applications may or may not necessarily understand the particular syndication format. An application program interface (API) exposes an object model which allows applications and users to easily accomplish many different tasks such as creating, reading, updating, deleting feeds and the like. Further, in at least some embodiments, a user can subscribe to a particular web feed, be provided with a user interface that contains distinct indicia to identify new feeds, and can efficiently consume or read RSS feeds using both an RSS reader and a web browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Amar S. Gandhi, Jane T Kim, John H Lueders, Sean O. Lyndersay, Warren G Stevens, Wayne Wy Choi, William Gould, Bruce A Morgan
  • Patent number: 9105028
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention relates to tracking and analyzing a computer user's behavior after viewing a particular search result or a particular advertisement to assess the impact of having viewed the search result or advertisement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Compete, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric R. Richard, Lauren S Moores, Alina V. Motienko, Kyle S. Johnson
  • Patent number: 9098275
    Abstract: A method and a device for controlling power of a mobile terminal are provided. The method of controlling power of a mobile terminal includes, activating a low power mode, and applying a predefined setting value for reducing power consumption by limiting some functions of the mobile terminal in the low power mode. Therefore, by providing a low power mode of limiting some functions of the mobile terminal, unnecessary battery consumption can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Young Soo Chun
  • Patent number: 9081483
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a navigation apparatus for displaying maps on a display section based on map data held in a recording section, the navigation apparatus including: a current position detection section configured to detect the current position of the navigation apparatus; a touch-sensitive panel configured to be installed on a display screen of the display section; and a control section configured to control changes in what is displayed on the display section in response to operations performed by a user on the touch-sensitive panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Nezu
  • Patent number: 9081472
    Abstract: A definition of a new user interface feature of a business software architecture supporting a business configuration used by an organization can be received and a rule in a scenario model of a business scenario can be accordingly modified to associate the new user interface feature with business process feature(s) of the business scenario. A selection of a business process feature received as a user interaction with first user interface elements arranged in a linear order in a navigation pane of a user interface to represent at least some of the plurality of business process features of the business process can result in the concurrent display via the user interface of a work frame comprising the new user interface feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Holger Knospe, Marianne Brosche, Ulrich Keil, Jochen Mayerle, Joachim Fessler
  • Patent number: 9070097
    Abstract: A single meta-model can include metadata defining a business scenario landscape that includes business scenarios accessible to members of an organization that are supported by a business software architecture. The metadata can include business process definitions and relationships between business processes. A user interface can present first, second, and/or third visualization layers based on the metadata. The first visualization layer can include first user interface elements forming a business scenario landscape map showing business scenarios and at least one relationship between the business scenarios. The second visualization layer can include second user interface elements displayed in a navigation pane concurrently with a work pane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Jochen Mayerle, Johan Christiaan Peters, Marianne Brosche, Joachim Fessler, Ulrich Keil, Holger Knospe
  • Patent number: 9064220
    Abstract: Transactional data associated with a specific instance of a business scenario that includes an intersecting process feature requiring prerequisite action by a prerequisite process feature that is part of another business scenario can be linked to a scenario model providing a linearized representation in which other process features of the business scenario, the intersecting process feature, and the prerequisite process feature are arranged in a linear sequence. A navigation pane including a linear progression of user interface elements representing the linear sequence can be concurrently displayed with a work pane including other user interface elements corresponding to functionality provided by business software architecture features related to a currently selected process feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Marianne Brosche, Holger Knospe, Guenter Pecht-Seibert, Jochen Mayerle, Ulrich Keil, Joachim Fessler, Otfried Geisau, Uwe Schultz, Jochen Steinbach
  • Patent number: 9058695
    Abstract: In a data visualization system, a method of creating a visual representation of data points from metric data, wherein the method includes the steps of: a data retrieval module retrieving the metric data from a data storage module in communication with the data visualization system, a determination module determining the data points based on the retrieved metric data, and a display module arranging the data points for displaying on a display device according to a predetermined visual representation, arranging the data points into a plurality of meta groups in a hierarchical manner, and arranging the meta groups into a plurality of layers, where each layer represents the data points at different levels of granularity, and a statistical distance determination module determining a statistical distance between items in the meta groups, and the display module arranging the items within the meta groups based on the determined statistical distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: New BIS Safe Luxco S.A R.L
    Inventors: Andrew John Cardno, Peter Stewart Ingham, Bart Andrew Lewin, Ashok Kumar Singh
  • Patent number: 9052744
    Abstract: Provided is a method and apparatus for controlling a user interface (UI) of an electronic device by using a specific region of a virtual plane. In the method, the virtual plane is initialized according to spatial coordinates of two or more images detected by using locations of the images displayed in an image display unit of a first image capture device and an image display unit of a second image capture device. Furthermore, the location of a marker is determined and is indicated by a specific image on the virtual plane. Furthermore, a screen pointer corresponding to the marker is displayed at a position where the marker is located in an image display unit corresponding to the virtual plane. Furthermore, a menu of the electronic device is selected which is pointed to by the screen pointer while moving the marker. Accordingly, a user can conveniently control the UI of the electronic device by performing a simple operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gengyu Ma, Young-su Moon, Yong-seok Yoo
  • Patent number: 9053196
    Abstract: A method, computer readable medium and system for providing an interactive desktop and/or browser-based information workspace (or “playground”) includes obtaining at a workspace management processing system a selection of one or more condensed information objects and one or more of application tools. A customized interactive workspace for non-video game based information in a video game display graphical user interface format is provided to the computing system from the workspace management processing system based on a default interactive workspace populated with the selected one or more condensed information objects and one or more application tools. The customized interactive workspace is configured to enable at least one of the one or more application tools to act upon, affect or interact with at least one of the one or more condensed information objects from within the customized interactive workspace and the customized interactive workspace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: COMMERCE STUDIOS LLC, INC.
    Inventors: Cordell Ratzlaff, Gaspard de Dreuzy, Serge Kreiker, Frederic Markus
  • Patent number: 9052810
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to manage zones of a multi-zone media playback system are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a user interface; a controller to configure one or more zone groups each associated with one or more media playback devices; a detector to monitor the user interface for a drag of an icon representative of a first one of the zone groups on the user interface from a first position to a second position; and a configuration implementer to change a configuration of the one or more zone groups in response to a detected drag of the icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: SONOS, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Reimann, Joni Hoadley