Patents Examined by Xiomar L Bautista
  • Patent number: 10068253
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for creating, editing, sharing and distributing high-quality, media-rich web-based communications. The communications are created in a layered fashion that integrates user-selected text, colors, background patterns, images, sound, music, video, or other media. The systems and methods are used to generate, edit, broadcast, and track electronic presentations, brochures, advertisements (such as banner advertisements on highly trafficked media websites), announcements, and interactive web pages, without the need for the user to understand complex programming languages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Impact Engine, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil Greer, Bennett Blank, Bryan Depew
  • Patent number: 10055117
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a refrigerator including a terminal and to a method for controlling same, and particularly, to a refrigerator including a terminal and to a method for controlling same which can visually provide necessary information to a user. To achieve this aim, the present invention provides a refrigerator including a terminal, comprising: a display module provided on the refrigerator; a communication unit communicating with the outside; and a control unit performing control to display various information on the display module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Ji Hea Kim, Jung Ah Hwang, You Sook Eun
  • Patent number: 10031656
    Abstract: A computer-implemented user interface method includes displaying on a touch screen a portion of a large scale graphical space that is at least multiples larger than the device display, receiving from a user of the device an input to pan within the graphical space, automatically generating a pop up graphical panning control in response to receiving the user input, and receiving a user input to the panning control and providing panning in the graphical space, wherein movement of the panning control in a single selection is able to pan the display across a substantial portion of the large scale graphical space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Erick Tseng, Amith Yamasani, Michael A. Cleron, Paul A. Dickinson
  • Patent number: 10025457
    Abstract: Techniques for display a file folder are described herein. In one example, a system includes a processor to detect a transmission of one or more files from a file folder to a service and calculate a popularity value for each of the one or more files based on detected feedback from the service. The processor can also display the file with the highest popularity value as an icon for the file folder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Boaz Mizrachi, Lisa S DeLuca
  • Patent number: 9996823
    Abstract: A mobile device includes a client application configured to process and display a push notification specifying an appointment reminder originating from a server acting as an appointment manager. The client displays a menu of available options for conducting additional appointment-related transactions, such as confirmation, rescheduling, or cancellation of the appointment. Based on the user selection, the client conducts a user-interactive transaction with the server to complete the requested appointment service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventors: James K. Boutcher, Michael T. Mateer
  • Patent number: 9971502
    Abstract: A device with a touch-sensitive surface detects one or more touches that start within a view on the touch-sensitive surface, and processes the one or more touches on the touch-sensitive surface with a software element associated with the view. The device receives, at the software element associated with the view, a touch event that includes data structure including a phase value indicating that a respective touch on the touch-sensitive surface has been canceled by the device. The device responds to receiving the touch event by ignoring the respective touch on the touch-sensitive surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jason Clay Beaver, Andrew Platzer
  • Patent number: 9965036
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques and apparatuses enabling haptic guides for a touch-sensitive display. The techniques enable users to interact with their mobile devices using haptics, including to make touch selections for their devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Itisha C. Deokar, Jiri Slaby
  • Patent number: 9952433
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a wearable device and a method of outputting content thereof. According to one embodiment, the wearable device for outputting the content according to the present invention includes a sensor, a display, and a processor configured to: determine an output mode of the wearable device based on tracking information detected by the sensor, and cause the display to display content in a playback window of a screen, wherein: the playback window corresponds to an entire portion of the display when the output mode is an active mode, and the playback window corresponds to a portion of the display when the output mode is an inactive mode, wherein the portion of the display is less than the entire portion of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sangwon Um, Sunryang Kim, Jongpil Won, Jeongho Ahn, Hyungmin Park
  • Patent number: 9952756
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods and storage media for user interface adjustment are described. In one instance, an apparatus may include a processor and a user interface engine operated by the processor to detect a user interface to be provided on a computing device, with the user interface including at least one user interface component, identify one or more color characteristics of an image to be used as a background for the user interface, and adjust one or more color parameters of the at least one user interface component of the user interface or the background image identified, based at least in part on the identified color characteristics of the background image, or the at least one user interface component of the user interface. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jeremy B. Conn, Alycia Naples
  • Patent number: 9952741
    Abstract: Disclosed are a mobile terminal application icon management method and a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal application icon management method comprises: presetting class information about an application, and establishing a mapping relation table among an application class, a screen serial number of a display screen and an application icon; receiving an object moving instruction, obtaining regular pattern information corresponding to a moved object according to the object moving instruction, and displaying the regular pattern information; and after the moved object is successfully moved to the corresponding region of a regular pattern, updating the corresponding mapping relation table among the application class, the screen serial number of a display screen and the application icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventor: Xiaohui Liang
  • Patent number: 9921719
    Abstract: A touch display apparatus and a wallpaper replacing method thereof are provided to select from wallpapers the one different from a currently displayed wallpaper according to a page-replacing operation when touch display apparatus is in an unlocked state, so as to replace the currently displayed wallpaper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: GETAC TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Chin-Jung Chang
  • Patent number: 9889375
    Abstract: A multi-instance, multi-user animation platform includes a plurality of modeled parallel dimensions in a computer memory. Each of the parallel dimensions may be an independent model of a physical, three-dimensional space having corresponding features such that the parallel dimensions are recognizable as counterparts to each other. Avatars are located within corresponding ones of the parallel dimensions so as to prevent over-population of any one of the parallel dimensions by avatars. Avatars are animated within different ones of the parallel dimensions using input from respective users to provide virtual-reality data. A common space is modeled in the computer memory configured in relation to the plurality of parallel instances so that an object located inside the common space is visible from viewpoints located inside each of the plurality of parallel instances. Remote clients may output an animated display of a corresponding one of the parallel dimensions and avatars therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Inventors: Brian Mark Shuster, Gary Stephen Shuster
  • Patent number: 9891817
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and a computer system for processing an infrared (IR) image based on a swipe gesture are provided. For example, the method may comprise: displaying an IR image within one or more graphical objects displayed on a touch screen; receiving a user indication of a swipe gesture via said touch screen, wherein receiving a user indication further comprises generating first data representing a first swipe gesture starting location and second data representing a first swipe gesture direction; processing the one or more graphical objects, wherein the processing comprises modifying various parameters or attributes associated with the IR image and/or image processing the IR image based on the first and the second data; and displaying the one or more processed graphical objects including the IR image processed according to the modified parameters or attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: FLIR Systems AB
    Inventor: Mattias Andersson
  • Patent number: 9858541
    Abstract: A method for providing an energy map may include receiving an indication of status for each of a plurality of individual entities with respect to corresponding priorities defined for each respective individual entity, correlating received indications of status to respective group priorities, providing a representation of a plurality of the group priorities, and mapping an amount of energy associated with the group priorities by providing a graphical representation of a respective amount of resources associated with the group priorities based on the received indications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Leadline LLC
    Inventor: Patrick Thean
  • Patent number: 9817554
    Abstract: Techniques and systems for centralized access to multimedia content stored on or available to a computing device are disclosed. The centralized access can be provided by a media control interface that receives user inputs and interacts with media programs resident on the computing device to produce graphical user interfaces that can be presented on a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Imran A. Chaudhri, Thomas Michael Madden, Scott J. Forstall, Duncan Robert Kerr, Nicholas V. King, Stephen O. Lemay, Richard W. Fabrick, II, Bas Ording, Eric Taylor Seymour, Marcel van Os
  • Patent number: 9805393
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for creating, editing, sharing and distributing high-quality, media-rich web-based communications. The communications are created in a layered fashion that integrates user-selected text, colors, background patterns, images, sound, music, video, or other media. The systems and methods are used to generate, edit, broadcast, and track electronic presentations, brochures, advertisements (such as banner advertisements on highly trafficked media websites), announcements, and interactive web pages, without the need for the user to understand complex programming languages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Impact Engine, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil Greer, Bennett Blank, Bryan Depew
  • Patent number: 9785690
    Abstract: A method for automated analysis and visualization of log data is provided in the illustrative embodiments. A subset of information to be visualized is selected from a set of information. Each information in the set comprises a result of a corresponding analysis technique applied to the log data. For an information in the subset of information, a tagged portion of the log data is analyzed according to the corresponding analysis technique to discern the information. The information corresponds to a tag used in conjunction with the tagged portion. For the information, a manner of visualizing the information is selected. A set of graphical visualizations comprising a corresponding graphical visualization for each information is generated, including a visualization in the selected manner of visualizing the information. The graphical visualizations in the set are combined such that a subset of graphical visualization is selectable for presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Deborah H. Bandera, Denise A. Bell, Alex D. Little, Billy B. York
  • Patent number: 9786328
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and systems for previewing a recording. In one aspect, the methods and systems are configured to display a video recording/stream in a first viewing window on a display, receive a selection of a time within the video recording/stream at which to preview a portion of the video recording/stream, display a second viewing window on the display, and display the preview of the portion of the video recording/stream that corresponds to the selection within the second viewing window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Discovery Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew B. Lee, Joel Fiser
  • Patent number: 9785315
    Abstract: An intelligent event information presentation method and terminal is provided for facilitating information utilization by processing various event information, intelligently generated in association with a function of the terminal. The event information presentation method of the present invention includes collecting event information; and presenting at least one of the collected event information, according to a current operation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Eunhee Rhim, Suckho Seo, Kisuh Ahn, Hyejung Yang, Kyungsoo Lim, Jinha Jun, Siejoon Cho
  • Patent number: 9785688
    Abstract: A system, and computer program product for automated analysis and visualization of log data are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A subset of information to be visualized is selected from a set of information. Each information in the set comprises a result of a corresponding analysis technique applied to the log data. For an information in the subset of information, a tagged portion of the log data is analyzed according to the corresponding analysis technique to discern the information. The information corresponds to a tag used in conjunction with the tagged portion. For the information, a manner of visualizing the information is selected. A set of graphical visualizations comprising a corresponding graphical visualization for each information is generated, including a visualization in the selected manner of visualizing the information. The graphical visualizations in the set are combined such that a subset of graphical visualization is selectable for presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Deborah H. Bandera, Denise A. Bell, Alex D. Little, Billy B. York