Patents Examined by William Titcomb
  • Patent number: 9910503
    Abstract: In an embodiment, hand gestures, such as hand or finger hovering, in the proximity space of a sensing panel are detected from X-node and Y-node sensing signals indicative of the presence of a hand feature at corresponding row locations and column locations of a sensing panel. Hovering is detected by detecting the locations of maxima for a plurality of frames over a time window for a set of X-node sensing signals and for a set of Y-node sensing signals by recognizing a hovering gesture if the locations of the maxima detected vary over the plurality of frames for one of the sets of X-node and Y-node sensing signals while remaining stationary for the other of the sets of X-node and Y-node sensing signals(Y).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Nunziata Ivana Guarneri, Alessandro Capra
  • Patent number: 9900422
    Abstract: A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to provide wireless communication; a memory; a touch screen; and a controller configured to select a first function for executing the first function corresponding to a first fingerprint input, store the first function to correspond to the first fingerprint input in the memory, receive a fingerprint input via a fingerprint sensor, and execute the first function when the received fingerprint input corresponds to the first fingerprint input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jaehwa Lee, Jinsung Yi, Seungsook Han, Jaeyoung Ji, Jungmin Park, Minsoo Park, Yunjueng Mhun
  • Patent number: 9898172
    Abstract: A content management system provides event data relating to other users' activity or interactions with a content item for display in an activity feed provided in conjunction with a user interface of a native application displaying the content item. Though provided in conjunction with the native application, the event data is maintained separate from the content data of the content item and displayed in the activity feed by an application separate from the native application of the content item. The activity feed permits users to exchange chat messages and retrieve information for multiple versions of the content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Bo Hu, Maxime Larabie-BĂ©langer
  • Patent number: 9900658
    Abstract: A system detects a first activity performed by a first user with respect to a media service while the first user is logged in to the media service with a particular user account and a second activity performed by a second user with respect to the media service while the second user is logged in to the media service with the particular user account, determines that the first activity is performed within a first device context and that the second activity is performed within a second device context, includes, based on the determination, the first activity in a local activity set associated with the first device context, the local activity set including one or more activities performed with respect to the media service exclusively in the first device context, and uses the local activity set to provide a personalized interaction experience with the media service within the first device context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Verizon and Redbox Digital Entertainment Services, LLC
    Inventors: Brian F. Roberts, Imran Arif Maskatia, Anthony Lemus
  • Patent number: 9891812
    Abstract: A method for selecting multiple content items in a list of content items is presented. In an embodiment, the method first displays a list of content items along the first direction on a display of the computing device. Then, the method detects a first portion of gesture for selecting a first content item in the list of content items. While the first content item is selected, the method detects a trigger for a second portion of the gesture, and then selects at least one second content item based on the second portion of the gesture. The trigger for the second portion of the gesture is a scroll gesture, and while the first content item is selected the scrolling of the list is disabled. A method for manipulating multiple content items in a list of content items is also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Inventor: Changwat Tumwattana
  • Patent number: 9886181
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatuses for a scrollbar for dynamic content are described herein. In one or more implementations, a portion of initial content is displayed in a user interface along with a scrollbar configured for selection to navigate to other portions of the initial content. While the scrollbar is selected, dynamic content for display in the user interface is detected. In response, a dynamic scroll mode for the scrollbar is activated to enable navigation to the initial content and the dynamic content. The dynamic scroll mode dynamically adjusts one or more scroll ratios of the scrollbar without changing a visual position of the scrollbar's thumb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventor: Henry Gabryjelski
  • Patent number: 9881282
    Abstract: Meeting and conferencing systems and methods are implemented in a variety of manners. Consistent with an embodiment of the present disclosure, a meeting system is implemented that includes a computer server arrangement with at least one processor. The computer server arrangement is configured to provide a web-based meeting-group subscription option to potential meeting participants. A meeting scheduling data is received over a web-accessible virtual meeting interface. The meeting scheduling data includes group identification information and meeting time information. In response to the group identification information, participant identification information is retrieved for participants that subscribe to a meeting group identified by the group identification information. In response to the meeting time information and the participant identifying information, audio connections are established for participants of the meeting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: 8x8, Inc.
    Inventor: Ramprakash Narayanaswamy
  • Patent number: 9874992
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, comprising: displaying text data on a display device; receiving, using a processor, a user input positioning a cursor within the text data; and displaying, on a preview pane, at least a portion of the text data in which the cursor is positioned. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeffrey E. Skinner, Jonathan Jen-Wei Yu, Aaron Michael Stewart
  • Patent number: 9876829
    Abstract: There is provided a display control apparatus including an acquisition section configured to acquire display information for displaying a state of collaborative editing in which a plurality of editors collaboratively edit a same editing target, and a display control section configured to cause an editing screen to display, based on the display information, the state of the collaborative editing performed on a not displayed part not included in a display range displayed when the editing target is displayed on the editing screen referenced to by a first editor among the plurality of editors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuya Hyodo, Shuichi Konami, Tomoya Narita, Akemi Tazaki
  • Patent number: 9864486
    Abstract: Disclosed are a mobile terminal and controlling method thereof, by which saved image data can be effectively searched. The present invention includes a memory configured to store at least one image data, a touchscreen, and a controller outputting a thumbnail list for the stored image data on a 1st scale through the touchscreen, the controller receiving a scroll input to the outputted thumbnail list plural times, the controller, if the scroll input received plural times meets a scale change condition, changing the 1st scale of the outputted thumbnail list into a 2nd scale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jinuh Joo, Sanghun Joo, Eunshin Kim
  • Patent number: 9864578
    Abstract: Computer software allowing enhanced control of the playout of audio/video works on a computer system. In various embodiments, the software allows key events from dedicated audio/video keys, whether part of a full sized keyboard or on a hand held remote, to control the actions of an audio/video playout program without requiring the user to direct the key event focus of the operating system to the audio/video playout program. Also, the invention distinguishes between key presses from a local, full sized keyboard and key presses from a remote keyboard so that the audio/video playout program can enlarge its screen display when a key event is received from the remote keyboard. In one embodiment, the invention constantly instructs the operating system to move the focus to the audio/video playout program. In another embodiment, if the focus is received by any of various windows in a display, software associated with the window forwards to the audio/video playout program any key events received from audio/video keys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: StreamZap, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonah Peskin, Robert Richmond
  • Patent number: 9860583
    Abstract: A method and system to navigate viewable content in the context of television entertainment is provided. In one example embodiment, the system comprises a presentation module to present main content on a display screen, a communications module to receive a first request associated with a first directional key on a remote control device, a navigation mode detector to determine a navigation mode associated with the first request; a margin menu module to activate a margin menu associated with the determined navigation mode. The margin menu may be presented along one of the margins of a display screen, while permitting viewing of the main content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: OPENTV, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Huntington, David A. Merkoski, Celine Pering, Jordan Kanarek, David Scott Nazarian, Joshua Wagner, Benjamin A. Rottler, Andrew Zeldis, Gina Terada, Jared Marr
  • Patent number: 9854043
    Abstract: A data processing device comprises a graphics processing component configured to obtain first graphic data being related to a first graphical human machine interface for control of a first network domain; one or more second graphic data, the one or more second graphic data being related to one or more second graphical human machine interfaces for control of one or more second network domains; and a display unit configured to display a human machine interface, wherein the main human machine interface comprises the first graphical human machine interface and at least one of the one or more second graphical human machine interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Christian Riedel
  • Patent number: 9846535
    Abstract: An electronic device, while displaying a user interface that includes a first region corresponding to a first software application and a second region corresponding to a second software application, receives a first touch input, on a touch-sensitive display, that originates from a first location corresponding to the first region and extends to a second location corresponding to the second region. The first region includes a non-boundary region and a boundary region. In response to receiving the first touch input, when the first location corresponds to a non-boundary region of the first region, the device processes the first touch input with the first software application. When the first location corresponds to a boundary region of the first region, the device conditionally processes the first touch input with the second software application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Brittany D. Paine, Jonathan E. Drummond, Benjamin E. Nielsen
  • Patent number: 9846524
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for scrolling through a list comprising a plurality of selectable items and configured so that a single item in the list is displayed at a given instant on an interface, the display of the next item in the list being triggered by the detection of a scrolling action performed by a user on an input device associated with the interface, the method being such that it has steps of display of an item in the list, of determination that a predetermined item in the list is displayed, and of opening of a period of inactivity of predetermined duration during which scrolling actions on the input device are ignored. The invention likewise relates to a device and a piece of electronic equipment that implement the method for scrolling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: ORANGE SA
    Inventors: Richard Guignon, Olivier Thunin
  • Patent number: 9841874
    Abstract: Expandable application representation techniques are described. The techniques may include support of an expandable tile that may function as an intermediary within a root level (e.g., start menu or screen) of a file system. The expandable tile, for instance, may be output via a gesture to gain additional information that was not included in an unexpanded version of the tile, may be utilized to provide inputs to an application such that a user, and so on. Thus, this may support non-modal interaction by a user. Techniques are also described in which the expanded representation is included in a taskbar, which may also be used for non-modal interaction, sending of content represented in the representation to a device or application, continuation of interaction initiated with the representation by a mobile computing device, and so on. Expandable tile techniques may also be utilized to support interaction between shells of an operating system, such as a desktop and immersive shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Jiawei Gu
  • Patent number: 9842088
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment, a system and method described herein provides a concrete and tangible solution to solve a problem of remotely and programmatically activating and manipulating a device to capture screen shots of a complete web page and, in at least one embodiment, prevent and, if necessary, recover from device crashes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Springbox Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd Berry, Dina Fitzpatrick, Brian Brooks
  • Patent number: 9836185
    Abstract: Extracorporeal blood treatment systems and methods to display and select various historical data for extracorporeal blood treatments. Historical data related to extracorporeal blood treatments may be displayed on a two-dimensional graph and in a list view that may be switched there between. Further, historical data may include various datasets (e.g., fluid datasets, patient fluid removal datasets, anticoagulation datasets, etc.) and event information that may be displayed simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Gambro Lundia AB
    Inventors: John O'Mahony, Jonas Schaefer, Andrew Wenger
  • Patent number: 9836198
    Abstract: A selection method for selecting content includes the steps of: (a) receiving a first touch point triggered, the first touch point sliding to a second touch point along a first moving track, and recording the first moving track; (b) determining whether the first touching object has left the touch screen; (c) while Step (b) is negative, allowing to receive a third touch point triggered by a second touching object, the third touch point sliding to a fourth touch point along a second moving track, and recording the second moving track; (d) determining whether both the first touching object and the second touching object have left the touch screen; and (e) while Step (d) is positive, basing on the first moving track and the second moving track to simultaneously select and label a first and a second contents of the document corresponding to the first and the second moving tracks, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignees: INVENTEC (PUDONG) TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, INVENTEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yimin Wang
  • Patent number: 9826267
    Abstract: Examples are described for integrating interface functionality with other experiences. For example, if a user is interested in a particular item of scheduled or on-demand content (e.g., a television series episode), the user may also be interested in a web page devoted to the television series and/or other extras such as cast interviews, news, related theme apps, and the like. These types of experiences may be integrated into an interface by presenting the experiences as supplemental services that may be presented and/or selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Arpit Mathur