Patents by Inventor Nicholas Howland

Nicholas Howland 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: 11029818
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for unifying graphical user interface (GUI) displays across different device types. In an embodiment, a unification system may convert various GUI view appearing on, for example, a desktop device into a GUI view on a mobile device. Both devices may be accessing the same application and/or may use a cloud computing platform to access the application. The unification system may aid in reproducing GUI modifications performed on one user device onto other user devices. In this manner, the unification system may maintain a consistent look-and-feel for a user across different computing device type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Eric Jacobson, Michael Gonzalez, Wayne Cho, Adheip Varadarajan, Daniel McCall, Victor Oliveros, Annie Abrahamian, David Klein, Nicholas Howland, Kyle Haskins, John Vollmer, Benjamin Snyder
  • Patent number: 11003317
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for unifying graphical user interface (GUI) displays across different device types. In an embodiment, a unification system may convert various GUI view appearing on, for example, a desktop device into a GUI view on a mobile device. Both devices may be accessing the same application and/or may use a cloud computing platform to access the application. The unification system may aid in reproducing GUI modifications performed on one user device onto other user devices. In this manner, the unification system may maintain a consistent look-and-feel for a user across different computing device type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Eric Jacobson, Michael Gonzalez, Wayne Cho, Adheip Varadarajan, Daniel McCall, Victor Oliveros, Annie Abrahamian, David Klein, Nicholas Howland, Kyle Haskins, John Vollmer, Benjamin Snyder, Mike Rosenbaum
  • Patent number: 10963127
    Abstract: System, method, and computer product embodiments are described for populating and managing a polymorphic favorites list from a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI provides an interface that allows a user to efficiently populate a favorites list and quickly access the favorites list via a global access point in a GUI, from anywhere in an application. The method enables the user to view objects in the favorites list, add objects to the favorites list, remove objects, and rearrange objects from the user's current application view as the user navigates across applications. The favorites list is configured to include a plurality of objects of a plurality of object types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Howland, Kyle Haskins, Victor Nikolai Carunungan Oliveros
  • Patent number: 10885079
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing voice-activated events management. An embodiment operates by receiving an audio-formatted query through an application associated with an event. A first user ID, registered with the event, is determined to be associated with the mobile device. It is determined whether the query is an event query or a user query based on one or more keywords. Based on the determination that the query is either the event query or the user query, the answer to the event query is determined from data retrieved over a network, or the answer to the user query is determined from the locally stored data at the mobile device. The determined answer to the query is provided via the application operating on the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Ota, Adam Drazic, Nicholas Howland, Rob Christensen, Karson Miller, Jo Chan, Takashi Arai
  • Publication number: 20200097137
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for unifying graphical user interface (GUI) displays across different device types. In an embodiment, a unification system may convert various GUI view appearing on, for example, a desktop device into a GUI view on a mobile device. Both devices may be accessing the same application and/or may use a cloud computing platform to access the application. The unification system may aid in reproducing GUI modifications performed on one user device onto other user devices. In this manner, the unification system may maintain a consistent look-and-feel for a user across different computing device type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Eric JACOBSON, Michael Gonzalez, Wayne Cho, Adheip Varadarajan, Daniel Mccall, Victor Oliveros, Annie Abrahamian, David Klein, Nicholas Howland, Kyle Haskins, John Vollmer, Benjamin Snyder, Mike Rosenbaum
  • Publication number: 20200097141
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for unifying graphical user interface (GUI) displays across different device types. In an embodiment, a unification system may convert various GUI view appearing on, for example, a desktop device into a GUI view on a mobile device. Both devices may be accessing the same application and/or may use a cloud computing platform to access the application. The unification system may aid in reproducing GUI modifications performed on one user device onto other user devices. In this manner, the unification system may maintain a consistent look-and-feel for a user across different computing device type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Eric JACOBSON, Michael Gonzalez, Wayne Cho, Adheip Varadarajan, Daniel Mccall, Victor Oliveros, Annie Abrahamian, David Klein, Nicholas Howland, Kyle Haskins, John Vollmer, Benjamin Snyder
  • Publication number: 20200089805
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing voice-activated events management. An embodiment operates by receiving an audio-formatted query through an application associated with an event. A first user ID, registered with the event, is determined to be associated with the mobile device. It is determined whether the query is an event query or a user query based on one or more keywords. Based on the determination that the query is either the event query or the user query, the answer to the event query is determined from data retrieved over a network, or the answer to the user query is determined from the locally stored data at the mobile device. The determined answer to the query is provided via the application operating on the mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Kevin OTA, Adam DRAZIC, Nicholas HOWLAND, Rob CHRISTENSEN, Karson MILLER, Jo CHAN, Takashi ARAI
  • Publication number: 20190138163
    Abstract: System, method, and computer product embodiments are described for populating and managing a polymorphic favorites list from a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI provides an interface that allows a user to efficiently populate a favorites list and quickly access the favorites list via a global access point in a GUI, from anywhere in an application. The method enables the user to view objects in the favorites list, add objects to the favorites list, remove objects, and rearrange objects from the user's current application view as the user navigates across applications. The favorites list is configured to include a plurality of objects of a plurality of object types.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Nicholas HOWLAND, Kyle HASKINS, Victor Nikolai Carunungan OLIVEROS
  • Patent number: D838738
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Howland, Kyle M. Haskins
  • Patent number: D895657
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Howland, Kyle M. Haskins
  • Patent number: D895682
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Howland, Kyle M. Haskins