Patents Examined by TuyetLien Tran
  • Patent number: 8640053
    Abstract: In a method and user interface for the presentation of multiple image data sets within the scope of a comparative evaluation, a determination is made of at least three organization parameters that describe a sorting of images within an image data set and/or across image data sets, at least one organization parameter is associated with at least one dimension of a three-dimensional matrix, which one dimension is associated with a spatial direction, the images of the image data sets are arranged in the three-dimensional matrix according to the sorting, using the organization parameters and the dimensions, and at least a portion of the images is shown on a presentation device according to their arrangement in the three-dimensional matrix and the spatial directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Marion Hellinger, Sebastian Schmidt
  • Patent number: 8640035
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer accessible medium for an identity based user interface. An identity based user interface may display user interface elements including communication-related information for a plurality of identities. The communication related information may indicate multiple communication mechanisms for each identity. In response to selection of one of the communication mechanisms, an identity based user interface may initiate communication with the corresponding identity using the selected mechanism. An identity based user interface may also display information regarding the presence, reach-ability or future availability for one or more of the identities and may request and receive such information from an identity framework. An identity based user interface may utilize shared identity objects to store and maintain the communication related information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Oracle America, Inc.
    Inventors: Kuldipsingh A. Pabla, Curtis J. Sasaki, Frank E. Ludoph
  • Patent number: 8631352
    Abstract: Methods, computer systems, and computer readable media for a provider care card graphical user interface are provided. The provider care card comprises a requirements display area configured to display at least one or more clinical measures relating to at least one patient, a measurements display area configured to display one or more measurements completed for one or more clinical measures relating to at least one patient, a first plurality of microdisplays configured to display a first visual indicator for each of the clinical measures that has been met, and a second plurality of microdisplays configured to display a second visual indicator for each of the clinical measures that has not been met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Alan Ash, Thomas Anthony Fangman, Daniel Martin Feimster, Theresa Marie Wavada
  • Patent number: 8631345
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a display control section for displaying a window showing a first icon and a second icon of a predetermined display size on a display screen. The display control section reduces the display size of at least either the first icon or the second icon so as not to overlap with each other if it determines that the icons overlap with each other when it alters a display area of the window being displayed on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kimitaka Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 8627205
    Abstract: A system is provided to i) Allow a computer to access multiple streams of multi-media content, such as video, audio and RSS content; ii) put a “place holder” inside software applications into which the multi-media content can be directed; and iii) direct the multi-media content to any software application running in the foreground that contains a place holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Inventors: Cristian Alfred Worthington, Ping Chen
  • Patent number: 8607154
    Abstract: Systems, computer implemented methods, and computer readable medium having program products are provided to customize by a user weather-risk products and to provide a customized weather-risk product to be purchased by user. Embodiments of a system include a tract-user computer having a display to display graphical user interfaces to a user and an input to receive user selections, the tract-user computer being connected to a communications network to receive graphical user interfaces and transmit user selections to a weather-risk product issuer computer. Embodiments of a system can also include a database to associate user selections with actuarial data, location data, and basis weather data and a weather-risk product issuer computer to transmit graphical user interfaces to the tract-user computer, receive user selections, and process user selections to generate virtual weather data and to generate weather-risk products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Watts and Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Tim J. Watts, Craig R. Landgren, Steven A. Loar, John Kuhling, Myles Watts
  • Patent number: 8601391
    Abstract: A system and method are described for changing window's functionality upon detecting resizing events. According to one example method, a plurality of size thresholds is defined that are associated with a plurality of functional states for a window. Upon detecting that a size of a window reaches a first size threshold, a first functional state is applied to a window. Then, upon detecting another size threshold as the window is being increased or decreased in size, another functional state associated with the detected threshold is applied to the window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Trading Technologies International, Inc.
    Inventor: Raymond J. Jezek, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8589808
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are disclosed which include gathering future location information of one or more friends of a user, receiving from a computing device, an indication of a second future date, displaying the future locations that are associated with a first future date that matches the second future date, receiving, at the computing device from the user, a selection of one of the future locations displayed, displaying one or more friends of the user associated with the selected future location, determining that a digital connection does not exist between the first friend and the second friend in a social network, providing an indication on the computing device showing that the digital connection does not exist, receiving an indication from the user to initiate contact between the first friend and the second friend, and providing a first notification to the first friend and the second friend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Ribbon Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Alfaro, Austen Boyd, Robert Palmer
  • Patent number: 8589824
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for a gesture recognition interface system. The interface system may comprise a first and second light source positioned to illuminate a background surface. The interface system may also comprise at least one camera operative to receive a first plurality of images based on a first reflected light contrast difference between the background surface and a sensorless input object caused by the first light source and a second plurality of images based on a second reflected light contrast difference between the background surface and the sensorless input object caused by the second light source. The interface system may further comprise a controller operative to determine a given input gesture based on changes in relative locations of the sensorless input object in the first plurality of images and the second plurality of images. The controller may further be operative to initiate a device input associated with the given input gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation
    Inventors: William Daniel Hillis, H Keith Nishihara, Shi-Ping Hsu
  • Patent number: 8578278
    Abstract: Upon receiving a request for a user interface view from a user interface, a user identity and a user authorization class for a user of the user interface can be checked against a user registry and an authorization class registry, respectively. A user interface view component can be retrieved according to the user identity and the user authorization class. The user interface view can be generated by aggregating the retrieved user interface view component with at least one other user interface view component consistent with the user identity and user authorization class, and the generated user interface view can be returned for display to the user via the user interface. Related systems, articles of manufacture, and computer-implemented methods are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Alexander Rauh, Lars Erbe, Thomas Gieselmann, Franz Mueller, Sri Vidhyaan, Nina Tabitha Paul, Stefan Haffner, Vibhor Tomar, Holger Schmidt
  • Patent number: 8578291
    Abstract: A method for setting an image in a terminal and a terminal using the same are disclosed. The image setting method includes according to an embodiment displaying a list of one or more files settable as an image of the second display, on the first display; moving an indicator to indicate one of the one or more files on the displayed list; and displaying data contained in the indicated one file, on the second display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Serk Park, Choon Jae Lee, Hye Jin Choi
  • Patent number: 8572500
    Abstract: A screen design user interface that may operate in an interactive mode and a design mode. The user interface includes a screen presentation portion for presenting an application screen under design, and a mode control for selecting between the interactive mode and the design mode. When the user interface is in interactive mode, the user interface actually allows interaction with one or more application element of a screen displayed in the screen presentation portion such that interaction with the corresponding application element causes execution of a corresponding function and thus a corresponding change in state of the screen. When the user interface is in design mode, the user interface supports design of the application screen by recognizing design gestures, but disables the application elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ryan J. Salva, Erik A. Saltwell, Heather T. Brown, Georgios Kounenis, Matthew Hall
  • Patent number: 8572504
    Abstract: In an embodiment, degree of comprehensibility of a graphical representation of a model is identified. The model is provided in a graphical modeling environment. The degree of comprehensibility of the graphical representation of model is identified based at least in part on one or more visual characteristics of one or more elements in the model. The one or more elements in the model include at least one of entities in the model, or relationships in the model. The degree of comprehensibility assigned to the model is communicated, for example, to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: The MathWorks, Inc.
    Inventors: Dave Aaron Forstot, Gregory Thomas Wolff, Jeffrey Paul Chapple
  • Patent number: 8543934
    Abstract: A method includes, displaying a content selection icon on a touch-sensitive display of an electronic device, detecting touch input at a touch location on the display operable to select a content selection function associated with the content selection icon, and, modifying the displayed content selection icon to display a touch portion at a location on the display corresponding to said detected touch location and a content selection portion operatively coupled to, but spatially separated from, the touch portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Simon Martin Thorsander, Margaret Elizabeth Kuo, Nils Roger Andersson Reimer
  • Patent number: 8527899
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an display processing apparatus includes, an operation receiver, a relation calculator, a display information generator, and a display controller. The operation receiver receives operation to select a key content of a first type. The relation calculator calculates relation between the key content and each of second contents of a plurality of types including the first type. The display information generator generates first display information of the key content and second display information of the second contents. The display controller displays list information including the first display information and relation item information indicating a plurality of items involved in calculating the relation and display areas each corresponding to one of the items. In the list information, pieces of the second display information are arranged such that second display information of second content with higher relation to the key content is closer to the first display information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Mieko Miyazawa, Takahisa Yoneyama, Takashi Nakamura, Yasunobu Yamauchi, Isao Mihara, Masahiro Sekine, Yasukazu Higuchi, Yoshihisa Kizuka, Hitoshi Saijo, Sayoko Tanaka, Toshihiro Fujibayashi
  • Patent number: 8522144
    Abstract: A computer readable medium storing a media editing application for creating media presentations is described. The application includes a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI has (1) a presentation display area for displaying a composite presentation that the application creates by compositing several media clips, (2) a composite display area for displaying a set of graphical representations that represent a set of committed media clips that are committed to be a part of the composite presentation, (3) several selectable location markers that are associated with several locations in the composite display area, and (4) an audition display area associated with each location marker for receiving and displaying one or more candidate media clips for adding to the composite presentation at the location of the associated location marker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Lyons, Wendy Van Wazer
  • Patent number: 8516378
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling presentation of a menu over a network are disclosed. In one embodiment, an information processing apparatus has a communication unit configured to communicate with an information-providing apparatus over the network, an input unit configured to receive input from a user of the information-processing apparatus, a storage unit storing one or more menus, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to receive, via the input unit, a selection of information for processing, to retrieve, from the storage unit, a first menu associated with the selected information, to receive, via the communication unit, a second menu associated with the selected information from the information-providing apparatus over the network, and to generate a third menu associated with the selected information based on the first menu and on the second menu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Norifumi Kikkawa, Yasunori Nagatomo, Masahiro Hara, Atsushi Onoe
  • Patent number: 8504938
    Abstract: A graphical user interface component includes visual controls for expanding and collapsing a subset of content inside of a desktop widget, an application side pane, or other software.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Misha Vaughan, Tony Chen
  • Patent number: 8499255
    Abstract: A process for enabling objects displayed on a multi-input display device to be grouped together is disclosed that includes defining a target element that enables objects displayed on a multi-input display device to be grouped together through interaction with the target element. Operations are invoked that establish a relationship between a particular displayed object and a position on the target element and that causes transformations applied to the target element also to be applied to the particular displayed object while maintaining the relationship between the particular displayed object and the position on the target element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Perceptive Pixel Inc.
    Inventor: Philip L. Davidson
  • Patent number: 8473847
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for comparing two slide decks using a compare service. The compare service generates a comparison analysis for the two slide decks based on a comparison theme selected by the user. The result of the analysis is displayed in a comparison display that includes a slide selector section, a slide pair viewer section, and a navigable change summary section. In one embodiment, the compare service allows the user to select preferred slides from the two slide decks displayed in the comparison display, and subsequently generates a new slide deck that contains only the preferred slides selected by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Workshare Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Robin Wallace Glover