Patents Examined by William Trapanese
  • Patent number: 9619127
    Abstract: A method in accordance with an embodiment allows for a user to change a wireless speed setting for a device. The method includes sending, from a server over a network, information for displaying an interface in a web page to allow a user to change a wireless speed setting for the device. The method further includes receiving, by the server over the network, a selected wireless speed setting as input by the user into the interface. The change of the wireless speed is then performed by sending, to a computer of a wireless network provider, a request to change the wireless speed setting for the device to the selected wireless speed setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: NETZERO WIRELESS, INC.
    Inventors: Curtis Varner, Andrew Rosen, David Dowling
  • Patent number: 9607074
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided that is stored on computer readable non-transitory media. One or more data fields are accessed within a file. Accessed data field, are mapped mapping on a display computer system. The accessed one or more data fields are from one or more data sources that relate to alerts from clustering messages received from managed infrastructure. The mapping being performed based on a input of the alert summaries using a graphical user interface. Displayed on the display computer system are one or more dashboards of alerts relative to summaries from clustering messages received from managed infrastructure. The one or more dashboards include at least one of actions that a user can take relative to clustered messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: MOOGSOFT, INC.
    Inventors: Philip Tee, Robert Duncan Harper, Charles Mike Silvey, Andrew John Leonard, Jeffrey Ellison Townsend
  • Patent number: 9600149
    Abstract: It is possible for a user to intuitively and efficiently set a predetermined condition for each parameter. A display processing system includes GUI display means for displaying a plurality of parameter components (103) corresponding to a plurality of parameters and a plurality of parameter condition components (104) corresponding to a plurality of conditions set to a plurality of parameters (103) on a display, and condition specification means for associating one parameter condition component (104) with a first parameter component (103) by means of the display position of the first parameter component (103) and the display position of each of a plurality of parameter condition components (104), and specifying the condition corresponding to the parameter condition component (104) as a condition set to the parameter corresponding to the first parameter component (103).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junko Togami
  • Patent number: 9588992
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for displaying images in a user's online page, such as to provide an engaging and interesting user experience. A subset of one or more images is identified from a set that comprises user accessible images. Images for the subset are identified selecting one or more images from the set of user accessible images that meet a desired user interest threshold. The subset of selected images is then loaded onto the user's online page, such as an online service landing page, in an arrangement (e.g., slide show) of the images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Sarah Michelle Filman, Jason Fergus Moore, Jiamin Zhu, Mark Kramer
  • Patent number: 9582180
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are described for automated zoom and selection of content on a touch screen device. A described technique includes receiving a first touch input contacting a touch screen display of a user device at a first position in a user interface presented at a first magnification, while continuing to receive the first touch input determining that a duration of the first touch input has exceeded a predetermined threshold duration, and increasing, based on determining that the duration of the first touch input has exceeded than the predetermined threshold duration, the magnification of the user interface to a second magnification, and performing an action based on the first touch input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Wenlong Shao, Yueting Zhang
  • Patent number: 9584375
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide real-time communication between website operators and website visitors including monitoring, gathering, managing and sharing of information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: LiveHelpNow, LLC
    Inventor: Michael Kansky
  • Patent number: 9582141
    Abstract: The invention discloses a mobile terminal, comprising a display unit configured to display an image to be displayed in three-dimensional space beyond the mobile terminal, a determination module configured to determine an instruction input by a user through the displayed image via spatial position detection, and a processing module configured to execute an operation corresponding to the determined instruction. In the invention, both the display of the image in the three-dimensional space beyond the mobile terminal and the spatial position detection are beneficial to execute the operation corresponding to the instruction from the user accurately, so that the user can observe the image conveniently, the limitation of a screen size is eliminated, the instruction from the user can be judged and executed accurately, and user experience is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Weiguo Wu
  • Patent number: 9554185
    Abstract: The present invention monitors a user's activities to determine how much attention he is paying to one or more devices. Based on the information gathered about the user's current “attention profile,” a “user-interaction parameter” is set that reflects where the user's attention is focused and, ideally, how much of his attention is given to each device. Then, based on the user-interaction parameter, the user interface of at least one of the user's devices is configured to optimize the user's interactions, given the amount of attention he is currently giving to this user interface. If the user is giving the majority of his attention to the television, for example, then the user interface of a companion device can be configured to emphasize the types of interactions available to a user who is not actively watching the companion device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Nitya Narasimhan, Silviu Chiricescu, Venugopal Vasudevan, Joseph F. Wodka
  • Patent number: 9529423
    Abstract: A system and method to modify audio components in an online environment based on avatar characteristics and/or inventory items. The system includes a component to allow one or more audio modification algorithms to be selected. The system also includes a component to identify one or more avatar characteristics and a component to identify one or more avatar inventory items. The system further comprises a component to modify an audio communication in a virtual universe based on at least one of the one or more audio modification algorithms, the one or more avatar characteristics, and the one or more avatar inventory items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jeffrey D. Amsterdam, Rick A. Hamilton, II, Brian M. O'Connell, Keith R. Walker
  • Patent number: 9519402
    Abstract: A screen display method by which to configure a screen in which media objects are moved according to navigational inputs in order to easily browse for a desired media object from among a plurality of media objects. The screen display method in a mobile terminal includes displaying media objects to be piled up at first and second positions and media objects to be arranged along a course that connects the first and second positions; and displaying the piled-up media objects at one of the first and second positions to be sequentially moved along the course toward the other of the first and second positions when an input event occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seung-Myung Lee
  • Patent number: 9513930
    Abstract: Systems, methods, computer-readable mediums, user interfaces and other implementations are disclosed for workflow widgets. In some implementations, a widget workflow method includes: launching a widget at a first device; and updating the widget with content created at a second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Forstall, Imran A. Chaudhri, John O. Louch, Eric Steven Peyton
  • Patent number: 9509579
    Abstract: A method for providing Layer 2 link attributes to a user includes transmitting a query using a Layer 3 network protocol to at least a first network element to determine a link attribute for a Layer 2 link between the first network element and a second network element in a network, receiving a response indicative of the link attribute for the Layer 2 link, determining based on the received response a graphical line attribute corresponding to the link attribute according to a predetermined mapping of link attributes to graphical line attributes, and updating a line element at a graphical user interface according to the graphical line attribute, the line element connecting at the graphical user interface a first graphical element corresponding to the first network element and a second graphical element corresponding to the second network element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Marvell Israel (M.I.S.L) Ltd.
    Inventors: Robi Goldschlager, Ronen Tausi, Gad Hutt
  • Patent number: 9507484
    Abstract: A method for configuring a data analyzer is provided. The method comprises displaying to a user, on a presentation interface coupled to a processor, a graphical representation of at least a portion of the data analyzer. A data analyzer configuration for the data analyzer is then generated using a user input interface, which is coupled to the presentation interface and the processor. The presentation interface then displays to the user a plurality of selectable machine train components. The method also comprises generating, using the user input interface, an interactive graphical representation of a machine train including at least one of the selectable machine train components. Using the processor, a configuration file is generated based on the data analyzer configuration and the graphical representation of the machine train. The configuration file facilitates diagnosing operation of the machine train using the data analyzer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Gregory Mark Alldredge, Daryl Ronald Frogget, Donald Evan Marshall, Brian Dean Abbott, Jacqueline Marie Tappan, John Whitney Kingham
  • Patent number: 9497234
    Abstract: A method includes: determining a first user interaction on a social network system; identifying a social network object in the social network system associated with the first user interaction by traversing a social graph of the social network system; identifying a user account based on the first user interaction; generating an implicit social graph connection between the user account and the social network object; and selecting a content entry for displaying to a user device signed-in under the user account or a friend account based on the implicit social graph connection, the friend account socially connected to the user account via the social graph of the social network system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Abheek Anand, Julia Lee
  • Patent number: 9485411
    Abstract: Processing for pressing a shortcut key to close a menu and processing for pressing the same shortcut key to enter a specific menu are made compatible. A specific menu among hierarchical menus including a plurality of menus for making a setting or an operation instruction about a display control apparatus is assigned to a specific operation unit. If the specific operation unit is operated when the specific menu is displayed, display of the menu is cleared. If the specific operation unit is operated when a menu different from the specific menu and a menu one level above the specific menu is displayed, the specific menu is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichi Okada, Koichi Nakagawa, Soichiro Shigeeda
  • Patent number: 9454747
    Abstract: A system and computer-implemented method includes presenting a user interface having a visual representation for each of multiple ongoing conversations involving a recipient user identity who is associated with each of the conversations. Message activity of the recipient user identity with respect to one or more of the multiple ongoing conversations is monitored and activity level associated with at least one incoming message for a recipient user identity is identified based upon the monitored message activity. The monitored message activity includes the recipient user identity's interaction with a conversation associated with the incoming message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: AOL Inc.
    Inventors: David Schultz, Michael R. Longe, W. Karl Renner
  • Patent number: 9442636
    Abstract: Described herein are implementations of various technologies for a method and apparatus for displaying marine electronic data. In one implementation, a non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions which, when executed by a computer, causes the computer to perform various actions. In one implementation, the actions may include displaying a plurality of possible marine electronic data types to be displayed. A selection to display one of the plurality of possible marine electronic data types in the plurality of possible marine electronic data types may be received. A plurality of possible combinations of marine electronic data types to be displayed with the one of the plurality of possible marine electronic data types may be displayed. A selection from the plurality of possible combinations may then be received. A combination of marine electronic data that correspond to the selection from the plurality of possible combinations may be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: NAVICO HOLDING AS
    Inventor: Paul Butterworth
  • Patent number: 9430134
    Abstract: A request is sent from a client device to a host device hosting an application capable of providing a split window view of content. Generation of a split window associated with execution of the application on the host device may include at least two split windows. Information regarding the split windows may be sent from the host device to the client device over the communication network. The client device may then use information regarding a first split window to generate an image display corresponding to the first split window. In addition, the client device may process the information regarding a second split window to stitch an image display corresponding to the second split window to the image display corresponding to the first split window. As such, upon scrolling of the display of the client device, the image display corresponding to the second split window may be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: hopTo Inc.
    Inventor: C K Hsu
  • Patent number: 9423935
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus operates according to manipulation by a user on a Graphical User Interface (GUI) screen. The terminal apparatus includes: a generator that generates the GUI screen, the GUI screen including an object selectable in the manipulation and a pointer for selecting the object; and a blur calculator that calculates a vertical blur amount and a horizontal blur amount of a position at which the pointer is displayed on the GUI screen. The generator changes the GUI screen in a vertical direction depending on the vertical blur amount, and changes the GUI screen in a horizontal direction depending on the horizontal blur amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Ebina, Yoshifumi Sakata, Seiji Kubo
  • Patent number: 9424016
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods are presented. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a graphical user interface part of a deployment file on a first computer, the deployment file configured to cause a second computer to perform a computer-implemented job. The method may also include loading the graphical user interface part of the deployment file on the first computer. Additionally, the method may include displaying an interactive graphical user interface on a display device in data communication with the first computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Automic Software GmbH
    Inventors: Steve Pordash, Johann Niederer, Franz Leimer, Andreas Griessler