Patents by Inventor Virgil King

Virgil King 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: 20140337730
    Abstract: Context information associated with a selected portion of a media item is presented to a user via a user client. The user client receives a selection of a portion of the media item being presented to the user by the user client. The user client determines context information based on the selected portion of the media item, and generates a context presentation card using the determined context information. The user client presents a partial portion of the context presentation card containing a subset of the context information to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Virgil King, Robert Francis Keohane, Marco Paglia
  • Publication number: 20090276730
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to providing third party applications a standardized framework for presenting user interface elements for its content. In particular, embodiments may provide application programming interfaces (APIs) to user interface views and user interface control elements. In some embodiments, the APIs may provide user interface views and control elements that can be arranged in a stack, which can allow for efficient transition and navigation between the various views of the third party applications as well as other applications on a device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2009
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Inventors: ALEXANDRE AYBES, Evan Doll, Sean Kelly, Virgil King, Paul Marcos, Greg Novick, Charles John Pisula
  • Publication number: 20070152978
    Abstract: A plurality of icons are displayed on a touch-sensitive display. A respective icon in at least a subset of the plurality of icons corresponds to two or more symbols. A contact by a user with the touch-sensitive display that corresponds to the respective icon is detected. A respective symbol in the two or more symbols to which the contact further corresponds is determined. The displayed respective icon is modified to indicate that the contact corresponds to the respective symbol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2006
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Inventors: Kenneth Kocienda, Scott Herz, Richard Williamson, Gregory Novick, Virgil King, Chris Blumenberg, Marcel Vanos, Bas Ording, Scott Forstall, Imran Chaudhri, Greg Christie, Stephen Lemay
  • Publication number: 20070152980
    Abstract: A plurality of icons are displayed on a touch-sensitive display. A respective icon in the plurality of icons corresponds to at least one symbol. An actual contact by a user with the touch-sensitive display is detected. An estimated contact that corresponds to the respective icon and at least the one symbol in accordance with the actual contact and a pre-determined offset is determined. A magnitude of the pre-determined offset corresponds to a difference between the actual contact and the estimated contact. One or more corrections for one or more errors in one or more selected symbols are received. The offset for at least the respective icon is modified in accordance with the one or more received corrections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2006
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Inventors: Kenneth Kocienda, Scott Herz, Richard Williamson, Gregory Novick, Virgil King, Chris Blumenberg, Marcel Van Os, Bas Ording, Scott Forstall, Imran Chaudhri, Greg Christie, Stephen Lemay