Patents by Inventor Lawrence Yang

Lawrence Yang 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).

  • Method and system for marking email threads
    Patent number: 9450902
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a technique for marking email threads as important. When an email thread is marked as important, all email messages belonging to the email thread are marked as important in an email user interface. Also, notifications are generated for any incoming messages belonging to the email thread that has been marked as important.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Carsten Guenther, Cristobal Baray, Stephen O. Lemay, Tiffany S. Jon, Lawrence Yang, Imran Chaudhri
  • Context-Based Alerts for an Electronic Device
    Publication number: 20160063850
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a system and method for providing an output for an electronic device. In certain embodiments, an alert is output in accordance with a current alert mode, which are selected based on one or more environmental conditions. The environmental conditions may be detected using one or more environmental sensors. The alert can optionally include one or more of: an audio component, a haptic component and a visual component. One or more of alert components correspond to an aspect of the environmental condition detected by the one or more environmental sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Lawrence Yang, Jonathan R. Dascola, Camille Moussette, Hugo D. Verweij, Jonah A. Harley, John B. Morrell
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MARKING EMAIL THREADS
    Publication number: 20150350142
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a technique for marking email threads as important. When an email thread is marked as important, all email messages belonging to the email thread are marked as important in an email user interface. Also, notifications are generated for any incoming messages belonging to the email thread that has been marked as important.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Carsten GUENTHER, Cristobal BARAY, Stephen O. LEMAY, Tiffany S. JON, Lawrence YANG, Imran CHAUDHRI
  • Automatic Event Scheduling
    Publication number: 20150347982
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for creating a new appointment for an electronic calendar. The method receives a set of proposed attendees for the new appointment. The method retrieves and analyzes calendars of the proposed attendees. The method proposes a time for the new appointment at which all proposed attendees, including an organizer of the appointment, are available to attend the new appointment. In some embodiments, the proposed time is an earliest future time at which all proposed attendees are available to attend the new appointment. In some embodiments, the method also proposes a second time for the new appointment at which a subset of the proposed attendees are available to attend the new appointment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Tiffany S. Jon, Stephen O. Lemay, Lawrence Yang
  • Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D752623
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alan C. Dye, Jonathan P. Ive, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson, Lawrence Yang
  • Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D753696
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alan C. Dye, Jonathan P. Ive, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson, Lawrence Yang
  • Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D762693
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Freddy Anzures, Gary Butcher, Joseph Chan, Imran Chaudhri, Alan C. Dye, Jonathan P. Ive, Lawrence Yang, Giancarlo Yerkes
  • Display screen or portion thereof with animated graphical user interface
    Patent number: D765700
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Craig M. Federighi, Christopher Foss, Woo-Ram Lee, Stephen O. Lemay, Caelan G. Stack, Lawrence Yang
  • Display screen or portion thereof with a set of graphical user interfaces
    Patent number: D768723
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Freddy Anzures, Imran Chaudhri, Alan C. Dye, Jonathan P. Ive, Wan Si Wan, Christopher Wilson, Lawrence Yang