Patents by Inventor Derek Jason Phillips

Derek Jason Phillips 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: 10200322
    Abstract: Methods for responding to an email message by a phone call from a mobile device are described. In some embodiments, mobile devices are capable of receiving emails. The emails may be in form of messages in a threaded conversation. Each message has metadata and the metadata includes a phone number corresponding to a sender of the message. The text or information associated with the message is displayed but not the metadata. While a user is reading the message displayed on the mobile device, the user is provided with a plurality of options to respond to the message, an option is for the user to call the sender of the message using the phone number in the metadata. Upon selecting such an option, the user is able to initiate a call to the sender of the message by activating a feature to call using the phone number stored in the metadata without physically looking up and dialing the sender's number. Other embodiments are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jimmy S. Shih, Cedric Beust, Joanne McKinley, Derek Jason Phillips
  • Patent number: 9678933
    Abstract: Methods for implementing an auto-complete feature for contact entry on mobile devices are described. In some embodiments, a mobile device downloads from a server a number of contacts associated with a user, wherein the number of contacts is a subset of contacts in a contact list of the user. Upon receiving a partial contact entry from the user that includes a string of one or more characters, the mobile device identifies contacts from the downloaded contacts matching the partial entry. The mobile device displays no more than a preset number of matching contacts on the display of the mobile device at any one time, in a particular order, with an option for the user to display and fetch for more matching contacts. Other embodiments are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Derek Jason Phillips, Zhanna Shamis, Joanne McKinley, Jimmy S. Shih
  • Patent number: 8407590
    Abstract: Systems and methods to provide a user-interface graphic are implemented on a client system having one or more processors and memory to store programs. The method includes, while executing a browser application on the client system, displaying a page on a display of the client system; displaying the user-interface graphic over the page at a first position relative to the page. The method further includes receiving a request to scroll the page, responding to the request by scrolling the page, and in response to detecting an end of the scrolling, displaying the user-interface graphic at a second position relative to the page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Zhanna Shamis, Bryan Yeung, Derek Jason Phillips, Robert John Kroeger, Alex Nicolaou, Shyam Sheth
  • Patent number: 8379053
    Abstract: Interest mapping systems and/or methods determine areas of interest on a web page or other information resource based on the time a user spends in various scroll positions on the page. The system identifies scroll positions on a web page that are maintained for at least a predetermined period of time. The system may further generate one or more interest maps for web page or other information resource indicative of those areas of the web page which seem to be of relatively more or less interest to users. The system may further generate trend data for the web page based on the scroll position data over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Derek Jason Phillips, Steven Gregory Woods