Patents Examined by Xiomara L. Bautista
  • Patent number: 10489014
    Abstract: A system and method to create and update a live map of venues and events by defining a polygonal area around a pre-determined point, the point being defined by a latitude and a longitude, associating a time window with the polygonal area, associating a geographical region with the polygonal area, creating a dataset including one or more venues identified within the geographical region defined by the polygonal area, and outputting the created dataset to the user interface, wherein the user interface device is configured to generate data objects corresponding to the identified one or more venues in the created data set and present the data objects on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Calendre Company
    Inventors: Jason Greenwald, Robert Levitan, James Glaser, Henry Clifford, Adam Alix, Josh Fisher, Daniel Langus, Adam Greenwald
  • Patent number: 10481785
    Abstract: At least certain embodiments of the present disclosure include an environment with user interface software interacting with a software application. A method for operating through an application programming interface (API) in this environment includes transferring a set bounce call. The method further includes setting at least one of maximum and minimum bounce values. The set bounce call causes a bounce of a scrolled region in an opposite direction of a scroll based on a region past an edge of the scrolled region being visible in a display region at the end of the scroll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Platzer, Scott Herz
  • Patent number: 10474902
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enabling the download of a set of media files with a specific order and specific contents and, more particularly, to enabling a download manager to automatically receive the information it requires to retrieve those elements required to replicate a streaming edit through local playback after the downloads complete.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Synergy Sports Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Nils B Lahr, Garrick C Barr
  • Patent number: 10460763
    Abstract: Methods and systems for automatic audio loop generation from an audio track identify suitable portions of the audio track for generating audio loops. One or more embodiments identify portions of the audio track that include a beginning beat and an ending beat that have similar audio features that provide for seamless transitions when generating the audio loops. One or more embodiments generate scores for the portions based on the similarity of the audio features of the corresponding beginning and ending beats. Additionally, one or more embodiments use the generated scores to determine whether each portion is a suitable audio loop candidate. One or more embodiments then generate one or more audio loops using one or more suitable portions of the audio track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Zhengshan Shi, Gautham J. Mysore
  • Patent number: 10460025
    Abstract: An online system provides one or more forms on which users provide information to the online system. A form includes various fields configured to receive input from the user. While entering information on a form presented by a client device, the client device transmits a request for content to the online system. The request identifies the user, the field, and the input received via the field. Upon receiving the request, the online system applies a set of rules to information identified in the request and characteristics of the user. Information describing objects included in rules having criteria satisfied by the information in the request and the characteristics of the user is communicated to the client device for presentation to the user in conjunction with the form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Dmytro Okhonko, Palash Agarwal, Atol Fortin de Oliveira
  • Patent number: 10440803
    Abstract: A lighting control apparatus according to some exemplary embodiments includes: a touch screen configured to display a first graphic user interface in order to provide a VLC (Visible Lighting Communication) service; and a controller configured to perform visible lighting communication with at least one lighting in order to provide the VLC service selected through the first graphic user interface, wherein the VLC service may include a lighting registration service, and wherein the controller may receive unique address information of a first lighting transmitted through the visible lighting communication from the first lighting to be registered, and may register the first lighting using the received unique address information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dae Hun Kim
  • Patent number: 10423292
    Abstract: In some implementations, vehicle data indicating a state of a vehicle is received. A current vehicle context is determined based on the vehicle data. Message data indicating one or more candidate messages is received, with each message having a corresponding display context. It is determined whether a particular message of the candidate messages has a display context that matches the current vehicle context. In response to determining that a particular message of the candidate messages has a display context that matches the current vehicle contexts, the particular message is provided for output on a display of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Victor Chan, Joseph Pieter Stefanus van Grieken, Anthony Jesse Chen
  • Patent number: 10394413
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method are provided, each of which: displays, on a display, a plurality of windows for a user to perform inputting for an application; receives selection of a first window to be set to an active state out of the plurality of displayed windows, the active state being capable of receiving user's operation; reads a function related to image editing, the function having been enabled in a second window of the plurality of displayed windows different than the first window, which has been in an active state immediately before receiving selection of the first window; and changes a display of the first window to an active state with the read function enabled in the first window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuko Shimizu, Fumiko Tsuwano, Hiroki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10365802
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, a user interface is distributed to a user application operating on a client device. Then interactions between users on one or more client devices and one or more server devices are tracked. The user interface is then modified based on the information about the interactions. The modified user interface may then be distributed to the user application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventor: John Patrick Edgar Tobin
  • Patent number: 10353576
    Abstract: An electronic device, with a display, a touch-sensitive surface, one or more processors and memory, displays a first representation of a first controllable external device, where the first controllable external device is situated at a location. The device detects a first user input corresponding to a selection of the first representation of the first controllable external device. The device, after detecting the first user input, adds data identifying the first controllable external device and a first state of the first controllable external device in a scene profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick L. Coffman, Arian Behzadi, Christopher Patrick Foss, Cyrus Daniel Irani, Ieyuki Kawashima, Stephen O. Lemay, Christopher D. Soli, Christopher Wilson
  • Patent number: 10346771
    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: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: LEADLINE LLC
    Inventor: Patrick Thean
  • Patent number: 10346900
    Abstract: Described are techniques for determining a confidence value associated with the probability that a user will access a particular second user interface by interacting with a first user interface. The confidence value may be determined based on user interaction data indicative of prior interactions by the user. Based on the confidence value, the second user interface may be pre-generated, in advance of user interaction with the first user interface. If the user interacts with the first user interface in a manner that would cause presentation of the second user interface, the user may be provided with the second user interface promptly, avoiding the latency that would normally be experienced during the time that the second user interface is generated. Pre-generation of only the user interfaces indicated by the user interaction data may limit unnecessary use of computing resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Nicholas Richard Wilson, Graeme Kieth Friedrich, Anoop Balakrishnan, Janick M. Bernet, Aaron Lewis Hoosier, Ronil Sudhir Mokashi, Jason Allan Patrao, Prashant Verma
  • Patent number: 10338776
    Abstract: An Optical Head Mounted Display (OHMD) and a method therein for controlling a Graphical User Interface (GUI) as well as a television portal module and a method therein for enabling the OHMD to control the GUI displayed by the television portal module. The television portal module displays a GUI element for enabling the OHMD to enter into a mode for controlling the GUI. The OHMD displays, at a display of the OHMD, a sight element for aiming, by the user, at the GUI element. The OHMD enters into a mode for controlling the GUI, when detecting that the sight element is aimed at the GUI element by means of detecting a movement of a head of a user or an eye of a user. The television portal module receives, from the OHMD, a command for controlling the GUI. Corresponding computer programs and computer program products are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Ola Andersson, Narciso Oliveira, Jr., Pablo Esteban Garay, Gabriel Vanegas
  • Patent number: 10338781
    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: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    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: 10336602
    Abstract: A console for a fuel delivery management system, including a processor, a touch-sensitive display, a plurality of ports configured to facilitate communications with a plurality of lines, tanks, containments, sensors and pumps, and a memory including a plurality of instructions which when executed by the processor cause the console to generate a home screen on the display, the home screen having a quick jump menu icon which when activated by a user, causes the processor to generate a navigation window on the home screen, the navigation window including a plurality of function icons, each corresponding to a function screen, wherein activation of one of the plurality of function icons causes the processor to generate a function screen including a graphic indication of a parameter of one of the plurality of lines, tanks, containments, sensors and pumps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Franklin Fueling Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel H. Marston, Andrew P. Knapp, Jason A. Nees, Randall S. Boucher, Barrett L. Stetson
  • Patent number: 10334095
    Abstract: A method for switching off communication screen to avoid false triggering based on a mobile terminal and system employing the same are described. The method comprises: controlling the mobile terminal to switch off the touch-screen and enter a communication gesture mode when the mobile terminal is detected to be in the communication mode and there is no touch operation in the mobile terminal during a predetermined interval; and acquiring a gesture operation instruction of a user and controlling the mobile terminal to perform a plurality of corresponding operations based on a preconfigured gesture operation instruction. The present invention switches off the communication screen to avoid false triggering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: HuiZhou TCL Mobile Communication Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianqiang Chen, Feifei Chai
  • Patent number: 10318815
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can identify a set of media content items based on at least one search query. The set of media content items can be ranked based on information associated with one or more media content items in the set of media content items to produce a ranked set of media content items. The ranked set of media content items can be provided for sequential video presentation. A set of image frame previews can be selected for at least some media content items in the ranked set. Each image frame preview in the set of image frame previews can be selected based on a respective confidence score associated with viewer interest. One or more image frame previews, out of the set of image frame previews, can be provided during media navigation associated with the sequential video presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: John Samuel Barnett
  • Patent number: 10296198
    Abstract: A method and system to program multiple sets of digital content to be displayed in time sequence in a designated display area in a webpage, and automatically changing the displaying content-set, cycling through the multiple sets of content in the designated display area without user initiated action for each change of the displaying content-set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Inventor: Catherine Lin-Hendel
  • Patent number: 10289654
    Abstract: A system and method for creating, sending, receiving, or displaying messages with smart variable expressive text or graphics is described. The method includes providing a user interface for inputting content and specifying an appearance of the content, receiving the content and an appearance control input via the user interface, responsive to the appearance control input, creating a message including the content and formatting information, and sending the message including the content and the formatting information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Mark Chang, Joy Barlow, Anton Volkov, Matthew Austin, James Buyayo, Jason Cornwell, Debbie Kim, Richard Lo, Johnathon Schlemmer, Christopher Tompkins, Megan Torkildson
  • Patent number: 10289258
    Abstract: A method for controlling a portable device comprising a first body in the center thereof, a second body positioned on the left side of the first body and a third body positioned on the right side of the first body, according to one embodiment of the present specification, may comprise the steps of; detecting a first triggering signal if a first faulted state is converted to a second faulted state; displaying a menu interface in the converted second faulted state on the basis of the detected first triggering signal; detecting a first control input with respect to the displayed menu interface; and if the second faulted state is converted to a third faulted state, displaying a first application in the third faulted state on the basis of the first control input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Doyoung Lee, Sinae Chun, Juhwan Lee, Sihwa Park