Patents by Inventor Robin M. Tafel

Robin M. Tafel 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: 9933846
    Abstract: An electronic system includes: a control unit configured to: detect a motion applied to a device with a display in a mode; select another mode of the display based on the device motion; and a user interface, coupled to the control unit, configured to apply a screen motion to the another mode of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daniel William Simmons, Nina F. Shih, Robin M. Tafel, Eugene W. Becker, Natasha Tan, Christoph Dressel, Kwame Ferreira, Guy Bar-Nahum
  • Patent number: 9894164
    Abstract: An computing system includes: a communication unit configured to receive a discovery request, including a client presence factor, having a scan pattern for discovering a target device; a control unit, coupled to the communication unit, configured to: determine a target device coordinate based on the discovery request for identifying a client device relative to the target device, determine a device connectivity based on the target device coordinate, the client presence factor, or a combination thereof for establishing a backhaul communication between the client device and the target device, and a user interface, coupled to the control unit, configured to present a device information based on a trust level for displaying the device information of the client device having the device connectivity of connected with the target device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nicolai Munk Petersen, Chris Turkstra, Daniel William Simmons, Guy Bar-Nahum, Robin M. Tafel, Seungeun Lee, Kwame Ferreira, Justin L. Gregg
  • Publication number: 20160072896
    Abstract: An computing system includes: a storage unit including a memory configured to store a device interface; and a control unit including a processor, coupled to the storage unit, configured to: determine a communication frequency based on a discovery communication for identifying a target device, determine a channel type based on the communication frequency for establishing a backhaul communication to the target device, and determine the device interface to be displayed based on the channel type for controlling the target device for displaying on a client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Nicolai Munk Petersen, Chris Turkstra, Daniel William Simmons, Guy Bar-Nahum, Robin M. Tafel, Seungeun Lee, Kwame Ferreira, Justin L. Gregg, Dhana Dhanasarnsombat, Nina F. Shih, Michael Rosenblatt, Moe Tanabian
  • Publication number: 20150058462
    Abstract: A content delivery system includes: a content article module for providing a content article having content elements; a navigation template module, coupled to the content article module, for generating a navigation template with a source template region and a target template region, the source template region having a navigation destination linking to the target template region and the target template region having a formatting command; a content path module, coupled to the navigation template module, for generating a content path having content nodes by combining the target template region of the navigation template with one of the content elements and formatting one of the content elements with the formatting command; and a content navigation module, coupled to the content path module, for receiving a navigation command for navigating to the navigation destination of the target template region of one of the content nodes for displaying the content article on a device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventor: Robin M. Tafel
  • Publication number: 20140365671
    Abstract: An computing system includes: a communication unit configured to receive a discovery request, including a client presence factor, having a scan pattern for discovering a target device; a control unit, coupled to the communication unit, configured to: determine a target device coordinate based on the discovery request for identifying a client device relative to the target device, determine a device connectivity based on the target device coordinate, the client presence factor, or a combination thereof for establishing a backhaul communication between the client device and the target device, and a user interface, coupled to the control unit, configured to present a device information based on a trust level for displaying the device information of the client device having the device connectivity of connected with the target device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Nicolai Munk Petersen, Chris Turkstra, Daniel William Simmons, Guy Bar-Nahum, Robin M. Tafel, Seungeun Lee
  • Publication number: 20140210708
    Abstract: An electronic system includes: a control unit configured to: detect a motion applied to a device with a display in a mode; select another mode of the display based on the device motion; and a user interface, coupled to the control unit, configured to apply a screen motion to the another mode of the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daniel William Simmons, Nina F. Shih, Robin M. Tafel, Eugene W. Becker, Natasha Tan, Christoph Dressel, Kwame Ferreira, Guy Bar-Nahum