Patents by Inventor Samuel M. Weinig

Samuel M. Weinig 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).

  • Publication number: 20240004536
    Abstract: Methods for preventing three-dimensional content from obscuring portions of a web browser or other user interface in a three-dimensional environment. In some embodiments, the methods include applying one or more visual treatments to the three-dimensional content. In some embodiments, the methods further include applying one or more visual treatments to portions of the web browser or portions of the other user interface. In some embodiments, the one or more visual treatments are applied at least from a viewpoint of a user. In some embodiments, applying the or more visual treatments is based on a three-dimensional visual effect of the three-dimensional content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Samuel M. WEINIG, Lucie BELANGER, Angel Suet Yan CHEUNG, David H. HUANG, Dean JACKSON
  • Publication number: 20230370401
    Abstract: A first messaging app, in one embodiment receives text and detects that the text includes a URL that refers to audio or audiovisual media content in a catalog of media content, and the messaging app obtains metadata about the media content and transmits the metadata to a second messaging app. Both the first and the second messaging app can operate, through interprocess communication, with its own music extension app that displays a user interface within a view hosted by the respective messaging app.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas M. Alsina, Samuel M. Weinig, Chance Graham, Taylor G. Carrigan, Nathan de Vries, Timothy P. Horton
  • Patent number: 11601385
    Abstract: A first messaging app, in one embodiment receives text and detects that the text includes a URL that refers to audio or audiovisual media content in a catalog of media content, and the messaging app obtains metadata about the media content and transmits the metadata to a second messaging app. Both the first and the second messaging app can operate, through interprocess communication, with its own music extension app that displays a user interface within a view hosted by the respective messaging app.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Thomas M. Alsina, Samuel M. Weinig, Chance Graham, Taylor G. Carrigan, Nathan de Vries, Timothy P. Horton
  • Patent number: 11258866
    Abstract: In various embodiments described herein, a content extension and programming interface enable third-party content extensions to supply transformation and filtering actions and associated criteria to native web clients on a system. In one embodiment, the native web client loads data for a third-party content filtering, blocking, or transformation extension and conducts extension defined actions without requiring additional intermediation by the third-party content. In one embodiment, a third-party application downloaded to a mobile or handheld device can include an extension data object that provides actions and triggers that are loaded by a native web client of the system. The third-party application is not required to execute continuously and can exit or be terminated once the web client retrieves the extension data object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Samuel M. Weinig, Jessie Berlin, Benjamin Poulain, Adele Peterson, Brian Weinstein, Richard Mondello, Alex Christensen
  • Patent number: 11231831
    Abstract: An electronic device displays a content region including first content that contains an image; and, while displaying the first content, detects an input at a location that corresponds to the location of the image. In response, the electronic device, in accordance with a determination that the input includes an intensity above a respective threshold and that the image is associated with a link to second content that is different from the first content, displays a preview of the second content while maintaining display of at least a portion of the first content in the content region; and, in accordance with a determination that the input includes an intensity above the respective threshold and that the image is not associated with a link to additional content, displays an enlarged version of the image while maintaining display of at least a portion of the first content in the content region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Beth M. Dakin, Dean R. Jackson, Samuel M. Weinig, Jonathan J. Lee
  • Publication number: 20220006763
    Abstract: A first messaging app, in one embodiment receives text and detects that the text includes a URL that refers to audio or audiovisual media content in a catalog of media content, and the messaging app obtains metadata about the media content and transmits the metadata to a second messaging app. Both the first and the second messaging app can operate, through interprocess communication, with its own music extension app that displays a user interface within a view hosted by the respective messaging app.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas M. Alsina, Samuel M. Weinig, Chance Graham, Taylor G. Carrigan, Nathan de Vries, Timothy P. Horton
  • Publication number: 20220005028
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for validating online access to secure device functionality are provided that may use shared secrets between different subsystems and limited use validation data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Karl Anders CARLSSON, Anton K. DIEDERICH, Christopher SHARP, Gianpaolo FASOLI, Maciej STACHOWIAK, Matthew C. BYINGTON, Nicholas J. SHEARER, Samuel M. WEINIG
  • Patent number: 11107071
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for validating online access to secure device functionality are provided that may use shared secrets between different subsystems and limited use validation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Karl Anders Carlsson, Anton K. Diederich, Christopher Sharp, Gianpaolo Fasoli, Maciej Stachowiak, Matthew C. Byington, Nicholas J. Shearer, Samuel M. Weinig
  • Patent number: 11088973
    Abstract: A first messaging app, in one embodiment receives text and detects that the text includes a URL that refers to audio or audiovisual media content in a catalog of media content, and the messaging app obtains metadata about the media content and transmits the metadata to a second messaging app. Both the first and the second messaging app can operate, through interprocess communication, with its own music extension app that displays a user interface within a view hosted by the respective messaging app.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas M. Alsina, Samuel M. Weinig, Chance Graham, Taylor G. Carrigan, Nathan de Vries, Timothy P. Horton
  • Publication number: 20200259905
    Abstract: In various embodiments described herein, a content extension and programming interface enable third-party content extensions to supply transformation and filtering actions and associated criteria to native web clients on a system. In one embodiment, the native web client loads data for a third-party content filtering, blocking, or transformation extension and conducts extension defined actions without requiring additional intermediation by the third-party content. In one embodiment, a third-party application downloaded to a mobile or handheld device can include an extension data object that provides actions and triggers that are loaded by a native web client of the system. The third-party application is not required to execute continuously and can exit or be terminated once the web client retrieves the extension data object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Samuel M. Weinig, Jessie Berlin, Benjamin Poulain, Adele Peterson, Brian Weinstein, Richard Mondello, Alex Christensen
  • Patent number: 10567517
    Abstract: In various embodiments described herein, a content extension and programming interface enable third-party content extensions to supply transformation and filtering actions and associated criteria to native web clients on a system. In one embodiment, the native web client loads data for a third-party content filtering, blocking, or transformation extension and conducts extension defined actions without requiring additional intermediation by the third-party content. In one embodiment, a third-party application downloaded to a mobile or handheld device can include an extension data object that provides actions and triggers that are loaded by a native web client of the system. The third-party application is not required to execute continuously and can exit or be terminated once the web client retrieves the extension data object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel M. Weinig, Jessie Berlin, Benjamin Poulain, Adele Peterson, Brian Weinstein, Richard Mondello, Alex Christensen
  • Patent number: 10554599
    Abstract: A text messaging system which converts at the sending device a detected URL in a text message to a representative image or other content and transmits the representative image (which represents the URL) to one or more messaging servers for delivery to a receiving device. In one embodiment, the messaging servers do not have access to clear text of either the representative image or the URL. In one embodiment, the retrieval occurs in response to a selection of a send command. Heuristics (such as rules) can be used to determine whether to convert a detected URL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Samuel M. Weinig, Timothy P. Horton, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Kevin J. Lindeman
  • Patent number: 10445396
    Abstract: A host application executing on a client device includes a content processing extension that extends its functionality to process content items to a requesting host application executing on a client device. The content processing extension is an executable file that includes data conversion code and application code. The data conversion code, when executed in requesting host application, identifies content items provided by the requesting host application and formats the identified content items to be received by the content processing extension. The application code is native code executable by the host application associated with the content processing extension. The application code processes the results from execution of the data conversion and the identified content items in accordance with one or more functions of the host application, and returns the processed content items to the requesting host application via the content processing extension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Inventors: Samuel M. Weinig, Jeffrey S. Miller, Yongjun Zhang
  • Patent number: 9934066
    Abstract: The method for managing a plurality of windows of a browser application on an electronic device includes assigning a priority level to each process, including the browser application, running on the device, and distributing computing resources based on priority level. In response to receiving an action to open a window, the browser application starts the execution of a process for opening the window, associates the process with the window, and assigns a priority level to the process associated with the window. The browser application then monitors an activity level of each process associated with its windows. If the activity level decreases, the browser application assigns the process with the decreased activity level to a lower priority level. If requested computing resources exceed a maximum threshold, a process is selected from the lowest priority level processes, and the selected process is suspended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gavin Barraclough, Samuel M. Weinig
  • Publication number: 20180039388
    Abstract: An electronic device displays a content region including first content that contains an image; and, while displaying the first content, detects an input at a location that corresponds to the location of the image. In response, the electronic device, in accordance with a determination that the input includes an intensity above a respective threshold and that the image is associated with a link to second content that is different from the first content, displays a preview of the second content while maintaining display of at least a portion of the first content in the content region; and, in accordance with a determination that the input includes an intensity above the respective threshold and that the image is not associated with a link to additional content, displays an enlarged version of the image while maintaining display of at least a portion of the first content in the content region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Beth M. Dakin, Dean R. Jackson, Samuel M. Weinig, Jonathan J. Lee
  • Publication number: 20170359282
    Abstract: A first messaging app, in one embodiment receives text and detects that the text includes a URL that refers to audio or audiovisual media content in a catalog of media content, and the messaging app obtains metadata about the media content and transmits the metadata to a second messaging app. Both the first and the second messaging app can operate, through interprocess communication, with its own music extension app that displays a user interface within a view hosted by the respective messaging app.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Thomas M. Alsina, Samuel M. Weinig, Chance Graham, Taylor G. Carrigan, Nathan de Vries, Timothy P. Horton
  • Publication number: 20170359285
    Abstract: A text messaging system which converts at the sending device a detected URL in a text message to a representative image or other content and transmits the representative image (which represents the URL) to one or more messaging servers for delivery to a receiving device. In one embodiment, the messaging servers do not have access to clear text of either the representative image or the URL. In one embodiment, the retrieval occurs in response to a selection of a send command. Heuristics (such as rules) can be used to determine whether to convert a detected URL.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Samuel M. Weinig, Timothy P. Horton, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Kevin J. Lindeman
  • Patent number: 9830048
    Abstract: An electronic device, while displaying a user interface that corresponds to at least a portion of a web page on a display, detects a touch input on a touch-sensitive surface at a first location that corresponds to the displayed portion of the web page on the display. While detecting the touch input on the touch-sensitive surface, the electronic device detects an intensity of the touch input on the touch-sensitive surface, determines whether the intensity of the touch input on the touch-sensitive surface has changed from below a first intensity threshold to above the first intensity threshold, and in response to determining that the intensity of the touch input on the touch-sensitive surface has changed from below the first intensity threshold to above the first intensity threshold, generates a force down event that is distinct from a mouse down event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Beth M. Dakin, Dean R. Jackson, Samuel M. Weinig, Jonathan J. Lee
  • Patent number: 9811393
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, in response to an inquiry received from a first application for an extension service associated with a first of a plurality of extension points of an operating system, a list of one or more extensions is identified that have been registered for the first extension point with the operating system, where the first application is executed within a first sandboxed environment. The identified list of extensions is displayed to prompt a user to select one of the extensions to be associated with the first application. In response to a selection of one of the extensions, the selected extension is launched in a second sandboxed environment. The selected extension and the second application were packaged in an application bundle, and when the application bundle was installed, the selected extension and the second application appeared in a registry of the operating system as separate applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Kiehtreiber, Olivier Gutknecht, Ivan Krstic, Adele Peterson, Samuel M. Weinig, Yongjun Zhang, Ian J. Baird
  • Publication number: 20170221055
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for validating online access to secure device functionality are provided that may use shared secrets between different subsystems and limited use validation data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Karl Anders Carlsson, Anton K. Diederich, Christopher Sharp, Gianpaolo Fasoli, Maciej Stachowiak, Matthew C. Byington, Nicholas J. Shearer, Samuel M. Weinig