Patents by Inventor Charles Goran

Charles Goran has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8388146
    Abstract: An anamorphic projection device is described. In one aspect, the device includes at least one camera and a projector such as a pico projector. The device receives information from the camera to sense position and orientation of a projection surface independent of the device. Based on this received information, the device renders an anamorphic image for perspective viewing on the sensed projection surface. In one implementation, the device receives the image wirelessly, for example, from a website. In one aspect, the device includes a user interface or UI. The UI allows a device user to navigate a projected image (e.g., use a cursor control or other means to navigate a webpage), present/download a new projected image, lock a projected image to a coordinate space on the projection surface to reduce or eliminate movement of the projected image responsive to user or device movement, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles Goran
  • Patent number: 8370770
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable mediums for managing a subset of user contacts on a telecommunications device are provided. In one embodiment, a software application executed by a processor of a telecommunications device identifies a subset of contacts selected at least in part by a user of the telecommunications device. The subset of contacts includes a portion of the user's contacts accessible by the telecommunications device. The software application executed by the processor of the telecommunications device then causes display of a first portion of graphical identifiers associated with a first portion of the subset of contacts along a first path on a display of the telecommunications device about an axis positioned external to the display of the telecommunications device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Steffen Vance, Jasdeep Singh Chugh, Jared T. Benson, Christian Robertson, Shilpa R. Shah, Gabriel J. White, Charles Goran, Valerie Lynn Goulart, Feridoon Malekzadeh, Alejandro J. Amano-Palacios
  • Publication number: 20120079396
    Abstract: Devices described herein are configured to receive a post to a collaboration space shared by a group of users and provide the post to the group of users through a user interface associated with the collaboration space. In some embodiments, the group of users is a social network or social network group. The devices are further configured to automatically create a content item associated with an application of a device of at least one user of the group of users based on the post, the content item accessible through a user interface of the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: T-MOBILE USA, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Neer, Charles Goran
  • Publication number: 20120026376
    Abstract: An anamorphic projection device is described. In one aspect, the device includes at least one camera and a projector such as a pico projector. The device receives information from the camera to sense position and orientation of a projection surface independent of the device. Based on this received information, the device renders an anamorphic image for perspective viewing on the sensed projection surface. In one implementation, the device receives the image wirelessly, for example, from a website. In one aspect, the device includes a user interface or UI. The UI allows a device user to navigate a projected image (e.g., use a cursor control or other means to navigate a webpage), present/download a new projected image, lock a projected image to a coordinate space on the projection surface to reduce or eliminate movement of the projected image responsive to user or device movement, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2010
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles Goran
  • Publication number: 20120026088
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a device with a user interactive image projector disposed in a distal end of the device from the user are described. In one aspect, the device is operatively configured to project at least a portion of a user interactive image on a projection surface separate from the device. The device locks at least a portion of the projected user interactive image with respect to the projection surface. Responsive to receiving user input, the device allows the user to navigate the user interactive image in accordance with the user input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2010
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles Goran
  • Publication number: 20110296351
    Abstract: A user interface presents a plurality of items configured as a stack in a display of a device. The stack is scrollable in a direction oblique to a plane of the display for successively viewing the items in the stack. Some implementations provide multiple stacks of items laterally navigable into a viewable area of the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: T-MOBILE USA, INC.
    Inventors: Richard Alan Ewing, JR., Jonathan L. Mann, Prarthana H. Panchal, Parker Ralph Kuncl, Jupiter Macleod Barton, Charles Goran, Steven A. Rossan
  • Publication number: 20110131497
    Abstract: A device configured to select a portion of an image, the selecting being based at least on parameters associated with a user interface element of the device, is disclosed herein. The device is further configured to apply the selected portion of the image to the user interface element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: T-MOBILE USA, INC.
    Inventors: Charles Goran, Feridoon Malekzadeh
  • Publication number: 20110126095
    Abstract: A router having a touch-sensitive display and user interface configured to provide a plurality of category screens corresponding to a plurality of categories and a plurality of navigation keys is described herein. Actuation of one or more of the plurality of navigation keys allows for navigation between the plurality of categories and within screens associated with one of the categories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: T-Mobile USA, Inc
    Inventors: Yaro Brock, Charles Goran, David Winkler
  • Publication number: 20100329642
    Abstract: Dynamic icons associated with remote content provide one or more pieces of information to a user by changing the appearance of the icon based on changes to data of a data source associated with the icon. For example, when the icon represents data available from a Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed, the icon may be represented as an image extracted from the RSS feed, which may change when the RSS feed is updated or includes new content. In some embodiments, the icon may by dynamically updated based on user information and/or device information, such as an icon for a weather forecast that is based at least in part on a location of a device and thus directs the icon to show imagery and/or information based at least in part on the respective location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: T-MOBILE USA, INC.
    Inventors: Gordon Kam, Charles Goran, Eric London, Brian Ehrhart, Larry Jordan, Katherine Caricaburu
  • Publication number: 20100037144
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable mediums for managing a subset of user contacts on a telecommunications device are provided. In one embodiment, a software application executed by a processor of a telecommunications device identifies a subset of contacts selected at least in part by a user of the telecommunications device. The subset of contacts includes a portion of the user's contacts accessible by the telecommunications device. The software application executed by the processor of the telecommunications device then causes display of a first portion of graphical identifiers associated with a first portion of the subset of contacts along a first path on a display of the telecommunications device about an axis positioned external to the display of the telecommunications device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Inventors: Michael Steffen Vance, Jasdeep Singh Chugh, Jared T. Benson, Christian Robertson, Shilpa R. Shah, Gabriel J. White, Charles Goran, Valerie Lynn Goulart, Feridoon Malekzadeh, Alejandro J. Amano-Palacios
  • Patent number: D652033
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Inventor: Charles Goran