Patents Examined by William Trapanese
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Patent number: 9798857Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product therefore provide an integrated display of clinical data. In this regard, the method, apparatus and computer program product may provide access to patient clinical data during a medical study. The relevant clinical data may be obtained from patient medical records, and displayed along with information from the medical study. An interface may be provided, allowing for selection of one or more portions of the relevant clinical data by a user. The portion of relevant clinical data associated with the particular interface element may be displayed. The method, apparatus, and computer program product may also incorporate adaptive learning techniques, monitoring user input during various study operations to identify particular relevant clinical data and/or interface elements that are selected by the user during the study.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Change Healthcare LLCInventors: Ohad Arazi, Joe Biegel
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Patent number: 9785401Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph that includes a plurality of nodes and edges, receiving from a first user a voice message comprising one or more commands, receiving location information associated with the first user, identifying edges and nodes in the social graph based on the location information, where each of the identified edges and nodes corresponds to at least one of the commands of the voice message, and generating new nodes or edges in the social graph based on the identified nodes or identified edges.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2015Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Jenny Yuen, David Harry Garcia
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Patent number: 9779097Abstract: In one embodiment, a method of controlling a user interface can include: displaying first objects in a foreground on a display screen, where each first object represents media content, and where the first objects are displayed with a first display characteristic; accepting a signal indicating user selection of one of the first objects; displaying media content for the selected object in a background on the display screen, where the media content is displayed in the background with a second display characteristic, where the second display characteristic includes a changed cinematic characteristic from the first display characteristic in order to reduce attraction of attention for the second display characteristic relative to the first display characteristic; and displaying second objects in the foreground on the display screen, where the second objects are associated with the selected object, and where the second objects are displayed with the first display characteristic.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2012Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY NETWORK ENTERTAINMENT INTERNATIONAL LLCInventors: George Arriola, Carsten Schwesig, Michael Bauerly
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Patent number: 9766779Abstract: In various embodiments, methods and systems for dynamic validation of selectable data are provided. This may be accomplished by receiving a selection of an item such that preview interface elements associated with the validity of the selection are dynamically presented via an interface. The received preview-selected item is validated based on determining whether the preview-selected item and a set of one or more selected items are valid for a computation involving both the preview-selected item and the set of the one or more selected items. Upon determining that the preview-selected item is not combinable with at least one selected item in the set of one or more selected items, a preview interface element associated with the at least one selected item is provided for display such that an anticipated effect of executing a full selection of the preview-selected item is dynamically previewed.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2013Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Audrey C. Colle, Charles Travis Scott Haberman, Jason A. Dujardin-Terry, Seak Fei Lei
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Patent number: 9760248Abstract: In a data visualization configuration system, a method of creating one or more modifiable data interface objects that are used to represent data values for visualization in a graphical representation, the method comprising the steps of: detecting an instruction to create a new modifiable data interface object from a list of parent modifiable data interface objects, creating a proxy modifiable data interface object as the new modifiable data interface object for each parent modifiable data interface object associated with the instruction, and enabling the proxy modifiable data interface object to be available for modification, where the proxy modifiable data interface object refers to its associated parent modifiable data interface object.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2012Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: New BIS Safe Luxco S.à.r.l.Inventors: Andrew John Cardno, Guillermo Quiros Manser
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Patent number: 9754558Abstract: Methods, program products, and systems for heads-up scrolling are described. In heads-up scrolling, a scrolling control can be used to scroll through multiple data records in a database. When a slider of the scrolling control receives an input dragging the slider, a semitransparent window can be overlaid on content being displayed. The semitransparent window can have a user-specified layout for formatting one or more data fields of a data record. When the slider is dragged, the content being overlaid upon can remain static. Content in the semitransparent window can be updated to reflect content in a data record corresponding to a position of the slider. The content in the semitransparent window can be formatted according to the user-specified layout, which may be different from a format of the content under the semitransparent window.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2012Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Ben Rooke, Dexter A. Dorris, Wesley Powell
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Patent number: 9749367Abstract: An online collaborative meeting is established, utilizing at least one meeting server, where the meeting includes a plurality of meeting endpoints that communicate with each other via the meeting server. The meeting server establishes a plurality of electronic work spaces that are commonly assigned to each meeting endpoint, where each work space for each meeting endpoint provides different content and each work space that is common to each meeting endpoint provides the same content for real-time display. During the online collaborative meeting, the meeting server facilitates modification to content at any of the work spaces by any meeting endpoint, where modification to content at a work space by one meeting endpoint results in a real-time distribution and display at all other meeting endpoints of the modification to the content at the work space.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2013Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Shaun Kirby, Bharat Popat, Kristopher Linquist, Paul Grey, David Evans, Rachael McBrearty
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Patent number: 9747941Abstract: A method that applies supplementary attribute information to the e-book content is provided. The method includes retrieving the e-book content; identifying objects in the retrieved e-book content; selecting one or more of the objects; defining one or more screen alteration attribute values regarding the selected objects; collecting an application condition for applying the defined screen alteration attribute values to the selected objects; and generating the supplementary attribute information by binding the defined screen alteration attribute values to the selected objects, and an action condition.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2012Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Sunghyun Cho, Junegeol Kim, Artem Kozlov
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Patent number: 9720566Abstract: Embodiments are provided for managing user interface elements. In some embodiments, a first positioning of a user interface indicator is detected within a target region of a user interface, responsive to the first positioning, at least a portion of a user interface element is overlaid onto the user interface and at least one user interface control for receiving input on incorporation options for the user interface element into the user interface is presented, and the user interface is presented based on whether incorporation option input is received.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2013Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Inkling Systems, Inc.Inventors: Logan Falconer Smyth, Olof Alexander Mathé, Chanpory Rith
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Patent number: 9684662Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods are provided for managing documents, files, folders and cabinets. A user interface is provided for creating a new cabinet as well as allowing the user to customize a permission set for access to the new cabinet.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2013Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventor: Oscar Lakra
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Patent number: 9678651Abstract: Some embodiments provide a mapping application that includes a novel compass control that can be used to navigate a presentation of a map. The mapping application displays one of a two-dimensional (2D) presentation of the map and a three-dimensional (3D) presentation of the map at a given time. The compass control may be used to rotate a view of the map based on a first type of input to the compass control and transition between the 2D presentation and the 3D presentation based on a second type of input to the compass control. In addition to causing the application to perform the various operations, the compass control in some embodiments serves as (1) an indicator as to whether the mapping application is currently in a 2D mode or a 3D mode and (2) an indicator that continuously points to north.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2013Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Alexandre Moha, Alexandre Carlhian, Edouard D. Godfrey, Guillaume Borios, Laurent Baumann, Marcel van Os
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Patent number: 9658756Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods for display and navigation of a clinical decision support process with portions thereof on separate display screens, as well as systems and methods for dynamically changing visual characteristics of softkeys on a patient monitor/defibrillator user interface screen based on clinical decision support or differential diagnosis processes, as well as a code review interface configured to permit a user to see what was displayed on a patient monitor/defibrillator user interface screen at any time during a medical event, as well as to see snapshots of other recorded parameters over the course of the medical event for purposes of code review, patient transfer, and improved patient care.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2014Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: ZOLL Medical CorporationInventors: Gary A. Freeman, Annemarie Elizabeth Silver
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Patent number: 9659276Abstract: An example of a method includes determining, electronically, a social network associated with a user in response to the user visiting a web page. Further, the method includes determining, electronically, a first buddy of the user on the social network. Furthermore, the method includes identifying, electronically, a first event from events associated with the first buddy which matches an event associated with the web page. In addition, the method includes displaying the first event and information associated with the first buddy on the web page.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2010Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: EXCALIBUR IP, LLCInventors: Travis Kuhl, Steve Krutzler, Sarah Gallivan Mitchell, Scott Rocher
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Patent number: 9654347Abstract: A system has a rules engine for applying rules for managing appliances in the system. Each rule defines at least one action to be executed when at least one condition is fulfilled. To define a rule, a configuring device is used for: obtaining for each appliance descriptions of possible states and executable functions; transcribing the descriptions as semantic expressions; supplying the semantic expressions to a user interface; enabling a user, via the user interface, to define at least one rule from at least one condition, on the basis of the semantic expressions of states, and at least one action, on the basis of the semantic expressions of functions; and transcribing each management rule, defined semantically via the user interface, as instructions interpretable by the rules engine.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2012Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: Sagemcom Broadband SasInventor: Eric Masera
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Patent number: 9645726Abstract: Some embodiments provide a mapping application that includes a novel dynamic scale that can be used to perform different zoom operations. In some embodiments, the scale also serves as a distance measurement indicator for a corresponding zoom level. The application continuously adjusts several different attributes of the scale, including the scale size, the number of segments on the scale and the representative distance of a segment on the scale. In some embodiments, the mapping application provides a smart zoom feature that guides a user during a zoom to a location. In particular, the smart zoom detects that a location of a zoom is near a pin on the map, and if so, zooms to the pin on the map. Otherwise, if the location is near a cloud of pins, the application zooms to the cloud of pins. Otherwise the zoom is directed towards the user's selected location.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2013Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Bradford A. Moore, Alexandre Carlhian, Edouard D. Godfrey, Guillaume Borios, Albert P. Dul, Marcel van Os, Woo-Ram Lee
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Patent number: 9645715Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method for electronic design simulation. The method may include receiving, using at least one processor, an electronic design and displaying, at a graphical user interface, at least a portion of the electronic design. Embodiments may also include allowing a user to select at least one design variable at the graphical user interface. Embodiments may also include simulating the electronic design, based upon, at least in part, the selected at least one design variable and in response to the simulation, automatically displaying an updated value at the graphical user interface.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.Inventors: Abha Jain, Hitesh Mohan Kumar, Parag Choudhary, Viren Agarwal
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Patent number: 9648281Abstract: Several ways are provided for a viewer of a movie to create a deep tag, that is, a bookmark for a segment of the movie. The deep tag can be associated with descriptive text and sent to an address provided by the viewer, either an e-mail address or an instant messaging address. Additionally, before the deep tag is created, it can be checked whether the content owner of the movie is known. If known, the content owner's rules, if any, regarding deep tagging are followed. If unknown, a set of registered content owners can be alerted of the presence of new content. When ownership of the new content is established, the already-created deep tags can be updated in accordance with the content owner's rules, if any, regarding deep tagging.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2007Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Open Text SA ULCInventors: Thomas S. Gilley, Eric Hoffert, Brenda Pomerance, Razvan Pop
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Patent number: 9639243Abstract: Exemplary systems and methods for calendaring are provided. Exemplary systems include a natural language receiving component configured to receive a natural language entry corresponding to a future status, a calendar generation engine configured to create a calendar entry based on the natural language entry, a social network database configured for accessing and querying by the calendar generation engine, a privacy component configured to receive a privacy setting indicating a person who is approved to view the calendar entry, and a display module configured to display the calendar entry on a calendar. Exemplary methods include receiving a natural language entry corresponding to a future status, creating a calendar entry, and displaying the calendar entry.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2011Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Peter Deng, Scott Marlette, Marcel Laverdet, Mark Zuckerberg
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Patent number: 9632667Abstract: A map lens may take the form of a shape that may be superimposed on a map displayed in the user interface, moved around the map by the user, and activated by the user to select a region of the map bounded by the map lens. Activation of the map lens may cause the user interface to display only those markers that are within the region bounded by the map lens. In situations where the user moves the map lens over unselected regions of the map, the user interface may dynamically show or hide markers on the map. This may have the effect of presenting to the user a visually uncluttered map in which markers are only shown in the region in which the user has expressed some interest, as indicated by the user moving the map lens to that region of the map.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2014Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: Hipmunk, Inc.Inventors: Steven Ladd Huffman, Carly Lane Plaskett, Ryan James Schwers
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Patent number: 9626223Abstract: Service models may be generated in response to services exposed by two or more IaaS service providers, and an interface may be provided for selection and specification of the service models.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2011Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LPInventors: Shi Xing Yan, Guopeng Zhao, Ding Ma, Bu Sung Lee, Sharad Singhal