Patents Examined by Thu Huynh
  • Patent number: 10133719
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods that enable a workbook author to break a workbook out into a set of logically separate pieces, referred to herein as “workbook parts.” Calculation dependencies between the workbook parts may be maintained, so that all the calculations are correct across the entire spreadsheet. An organization may be enabled to manage each workbook part separately, thus certain users may be denied access to view or edit certain workbook parts. Accordingly, where multiple authors are contributing to a tightly controlled workbook, the person responsible for spreadsheet management is enabled to allow each of those authors access to edit only the portion that they need to be concerned with.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Johnny Sterling Campbell, Eran Megiddo, Robert George Hawking
  • Patent number: 10133335
    Abstract: In general, embodiments of the invention provide an approach to proactively adjust timeout settings on a display device based on user activity. Specifically, a system and method are presented to adaptively adjust the inactivity timeout settings on a display device based on the application being used, the content being displayed on the device, and an analysis of the user's history with the application. The present invention calculates an inactivity timeout modifier which is utilized to modify the default operating system timeout value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey D. Amsterdam, Rick A. Hamilton, II, Mauro Marzorati, Brian M. O'Connell, Keith R. Walker
  • Patent number: 10133710
    Abstract: Social networking systems benefit from techniques that improve the ability of users to share online content with other users of a social networking system. In one embodiment, when a user types, pastes, or otherwise inserts a URL, or some other hyperlink, into a message or post to the social networking system, a set of data on the referenced hyperlink target is acquired and stored on a server of the social networking system. The stored data is analyzed, to automatically generate a preview for the hyperlink; and the hyperlink preview is transmitted to the client device for approval. In one embodiment, follow-up actions related to the content are performed when the content is posed, which enables users to perform social graph actions to user nodes and concept nodes related to the message or post. In one embodiment, the shared content is cached on the social networking system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventor: Vojin Katic
  • Patent number: 10114821
    Abstract: A method for storing, organizing and providing remote electronic access to documents. A coversheet including a standard set of identification data characterizing each document is developed and stored. A digital version of each document is created and stored by scanning each contract. Each digital version includes a scanned image and a searchable text file, wherein the text is overlaid with the image. An index of bookmarks identifying sections of the digital version of each document is generated. Selected fields of information are captured from the digital version of the document. The documents are organized and cross-referenced in a database that includes the captured information and additional information related to each document. Designated parties are alerted of critical dates associated with each document. Remote electronic access to the documents is provided over the internet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: TractManager, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas A. Rizk, Scott R. Jeffery
  • Patent number: 10108734
    Abstract: A method for importing document data into a website hosted on a server computer includes a block of document data that is received at the server computer. The block of document data includes data from an identified section of a document. In response to receiving the block of document data, the server computer automatically updates a web page component on the website. The web page component is selected via a document widget on the server computer. The document data is mapped to the web page component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Alan Billharz, Michael Monarch, Marta Rey-Babarro
  • Patent number: 10083398
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which a knowledge manager generates term tokens from terms included in an original text stream, and generates annotation tokens with corresponding term location information. In turn, the knowledge manager generates a knowledge structure that indexes the term tokens into original text fields and indexes the annotation tokens into parallel fields that align to the original text fields based upon the term location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kay Mueller, Christopher M. Nolan, William G. Visotski, David E. Wilson
  • Patent number: 10031898
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a domain split display are provided. A first request call directed to a first domain is received. In response, a first response is transmitted to a client device, which causes generation of a parent page comprising a content iframe that is a child frame of the parent page. The parent page is associated with the first domain and the content iframe is associated with a second domain. A second request call directed to a second domain is received and a second response is transmitted to the client device. The second response causes a plurality of grandchild iframes to be generated within the content iframe, whereby a first grandchild iframe is associated with the first domain and a second grandchild iframe is associated with the second domain. The plurality of grandchild iframes are sibling iframes at a same level that are enabled to communicate with each other regardless of domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Jaquish, Nancy Silverstein, Ari Shapiro, Krithivasan Nagarajan, Sudhakar Chintu, Hui Chen Vivian Lee, Hemal Doshi
  • Patent number: 9977772
    Abstract: Methods and systems for organizing information in a grid. Aspects of this grid may be easily manipulated via user interface operations. This grid may be easily manipulated to create or edit a hierarchy. Grid elements may be expanded or collapsed alternatively to show or hide hidden elements. A canvas may contain objects that may be easily moved and/or repositioned via user interface operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Inventor: Mehrdad Samadani
  • Patent number: 9953007
    Abstract: Methods, systems and program products for generating content from a user-created template. Embodiments of the invention may provide an interface configured to allow users to create templates, where the templates further include a user-specified formatting. Embodiments may receive a template created by a user using the provided interface, and responsive to receiving the template, may retrieve data associated with the variable fields in the received template. Embodiments may generate new content based on the received template and the retrieved data, where the generated new content is formatted according to the user-specified formatting in the received template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Randy E. Oyarzabal, Jeffery A. Turner
  • Patent number: 9910682
    Abstract: A method of simultaneously creating a website and an app including providing, at the at least one server, a first coding template operably configured to create a website and a second coding template operably configured to create a mobile app; receiving a client selection of one of a plurality of pre-determined website-app templates stored at the at least one server; and creating a channel including the website and the corresponding mobile app by executing the first code template to create the website and simultaneously executing the second coding template to create the corresponding mobile app with the client-selected one of the plurality of pre-determined website-app templates being an input to each of the first and second coding templates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: FRANDME, INC.
    Inventor: Dimitry Shaposhnikov
  • Patent number: 9892101
    Abstract: A processing device receives data associated with consumer interactions with an electronic work. The processing device determines, based on the received data, a plurality of aggregated consumption behaviors with regards to the electronic work. The processing device associates one or more of the plurality of aggregated consumption behaviors with portions of the electronic work in a data file. The processing device then provides the data file to a user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel Ytzhak Donnelley, Sarah Elizabeth Funk, Kelli Martin, Jill Haick Taplin, Justin Larsen Golenbock, Christina J. Wiley, Julie Lynne Teodorescu-Badia, Anne Michelle Fisher
  • Patent number: 9886424
    Abstract: The present disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for a web application framework for extracting content. In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method of dynamically extracting context associated with a web request comprises, at a context analyzer layer, receiving a web request context, wherein the web request context comprises a coded expression. Some embodiments further comprise, at the context analyzer layer, invoking the context key of the context analyzer name class, determining that the context analyzer name class is not identified or if the value of the context key is not specified, and throwing an invalid configuration exception. Other embodiments of related methods and systems are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: WAL-MART STORES, INC.
    Inventors: Bhupesh Tuteja, Abhay Maruti Kamble, Amit Khanchi
  • Patent number: 9852229
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for navigating content on a single page. These mechanisms and methods for navigating content on a single page can enable optimized navigation of displayed content, more efficient content processing and resource use, increased content display speed, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: Todd Stellanova
  • Patent number: 9747263
    Abstract: A system comprising a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to identify a page on a website, retrieve a stream of posts related to the page, determine whether the page is dynamic, in response to the page being determined to be dynamic, modify the stream of posts related to the page biased toward including more recent posts, generate a user interface element for display of the stream of related content; and provide the user interface element for presentation to the user. The disclosure also includes similar methods and computer program products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Mikhail Dhruv, Mario Ventura Anima, Ming Lei, Prasenjit Sarkar, Lucian Florin Cionca
  • Patent number: 9727543
    Abstract: A method of processing an interactive document is enclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Open Text Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel J. Kloiber, Davis L. Marksbury, Christopher J. Heinz, Robert C. Guckenberger, Ronald L. Heiney, Kenneth E. Gibbs
  • Patent number: 9703761
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for delaying code parsing. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a resource that includes markup language code and executable code embedded within the markup language code, invoking the markup language code without parsing the executable code, extracting the executable code from within the markup language code, and invoking the executable code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Grieve, Bikin Chiu
  • Patent number: 9639531
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to play and control playing of media content in a web page are disclosed. In one example, a method of monitoring media content in a web page loads a web page containing a media player and media content, processes an image of the web page to determine a control associated with the media player, and monitors the media content based on the control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventor: Alexandros Deliyannis
  • Patent number: 9626351
    Abstract: In various embodiments, methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable media are disclosed that allow developers to providing spreadsheets in a desktop integration framework that include error reports for validations. In various embodiments, a modeless error viewer is provided that allows end users to view an errors list for any failed row at the same time as the user corrects these errors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Edmund Alexander Davis, Yuandi Jin, Kelsey Von Tish
  • Patent number: 9614927
    Abstract: Tools and techniques are provided to support presentation analytics, such as Flash or Flex analytics, independently of embedded JavaScript web analytics code used in web pages. A presentation analytics engine, which may be implemented in ActionScript, includes code for capturing information about user interaction with a multimedia presentation, code for dynamically generating a string or other data structure reflecting such captured information, and code for sending the data structure to an analytics server without using a getURL( ) call or embedded JavaScript. Functionality is also provided for tracking objects without object-specific code, for dynamically sending such tracking information, and for supporting a visual presentation analytics overlay report illustrating such information. The Flash presentation analytics may use the same visitor ID as standard JavaScript analytics, without synchronizing the two analytics codes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Adobe System Incorporated
    Inventor: Stephen Hammond
  • Patent number: 9575945
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method that parses an unstructured document that includes a number of primitive elements. The method stores the primitive elements in a random order in a first storage. The method stores references to the primitive elements in a second storage in an order based on locations of the primitive elements in the unstructured document. The method receives instructions to perform a document reconstruction operation. The method performs the received instructions without storing any new references to the primitive elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Philip Andrew Mansfield, Michael Robert Levy