Patents by Inventor Wan Si Wan

Wan Si Wan 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: 11966579
    Abstract: An electronic device displays a messaging user interface of a message application, including a conversation transcript of a messaging session between a user of the electronic device and at least one other user, and a first message region that includes a current version of a first message in the messaging session. The conversation transcript includes an indication that the current version of the first message is a revised version of the first message in the conversation transcript. In response to detecting an input that corresponds to a request to see versions of the first message, the electronic device displays a versions user interface that includes the current version of the first message and one or more prior versions of the first message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Imran A. Chaudhri, Freddy A. Anzures, Richard R. Dellinger, Nicholas V. King, Hoan Pham, Wan Si Wan, Darin B. Adler, Bethany Bongiorno, Justin N. Wood, Roberto Garcia, Soin Shedlosky
  • Patent number: 11954323
    Abstract: An electronic device displays a messaging user interface of a messaging application, including a conversation transcript of a messaging session between a user of the electronic device and another user, a message-input area, and a representation corresponding to the other user. In response to detecting a first user input corresponding to the representation of the other user, a menu is displayed that contains an activatable menu item for initiating a payment action with the other user. While displaying the menu, in response to detecting a second user input corresponding to the activatable menu item for initiating a payment action with the first other user, a user interface configured to initiate sending of payment to, and/or requesting payment from, the first other user is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Imran A. Chaudhri, Freddy A. Anzures, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Nicholas V. King, Wan Si Wan, Darin B. Adler, Justin N. Wood, Roberto Garcia, Soin Shedlosky, George R. Dicker
  • Publication number: 20240103694
    Abstract: An electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface: displays a first user interface that includes a plurality of selectable objects; while a focus selector is at a location that corresponds to a respective selectable object, detects an input that includes detecting a contact on the touch-sensitive surface; and in response to detecting the input: in accordance with a determination that detecting the input meeting input criteria, including a criterion that is met when the contact meets a respective input threshold, displays a menu that includes contact information for the respective selectable object overlaid on top of the first user interface; and in accordance with a determination that detecting the input includes detecting a liftoff of the contact without meeting the input criteria, replaces display of the first user interface with display of a second user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher P. Foss, Jonathan R. Dascola, Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Stephen O. Lemay, Gregory M. Apodaca, Wan Si Wan, Kenneth L. Kocienda, Sebastian J. Bauer, Alan C. Dye, Jonathan Ive
  • Patent number: 11922004
    Abstract: Reduced-size user interfaces for providing weather information are disclosed. At an electronic device with a touch-sensitive display, indications of a location and a temperature at the location may be displayed. In some examples, a user may provide input through a touch on the touch-sensitive display and/or through a rotation of a rotatable input mechanism to display additional weather information, such as weather information for another location, another temperature, another time, and so forth. In some examples, the device may obtain data representing an upcoming activity, determine whether the activity is to begin within a threshold amount of time, and display weather information based on the upcoming activity. In some examples, the device may display an affordance at a position to indicate the time of day for which a weather condition is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence Y. Yang, Wan Si Wan, Alan C. Dye, Christopher Patrick Foss, Kevin Lynch, Brian Schmitt, Christopher Wilson
  • Publication number: 20240069720
    Abstract: A method includes: displaying a first display region in a full-screen view that includes a first type of component displayed with a first set of display properties; detecting a first user input to display a second display region; and, in response to detecting the first user input: in accordance with a determination that the first user input corresponds to a request to display the second display region in the full-screen view, displaying the second display region in the full-screen view that includes the first type of component displayed with the first set of display properties; and in accordance with a determination that the first user input corresponds to a request to display the second display region in a partial-screen view, displaying the second display region in the partial-screen view that includes the first type of component displayed with a second set of display properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Mani Amini, Wan Si Wan, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Publication number: 20240045564
    Abstract: An electronic device displays a first application and a second application along an edge of the display and, while concurrently displaying the first and second applications, detects an edge-swipe gesture. in response, if the location corresponds to a location of a respective application on the display, the respective application is associated with standard edge-swipe gesture criteria, and the edge-swipe gesture meets the standard edge-swipe gesture criteria, the device performs a system operation that includes displaying a system user interface at a portion of the display previously occupied by at least a portion of the first application and at least a portion of the second application; if the location of the edge-swipe gesture corresponds to a location of the respective application, the respective application is associated with enhanced edge-swipe gesture criteria, and the edge-swipe gesture does not meet the enhanced edge-swipe gesture criteria, the device forgoes performing the system operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Brandon M. Walkin, Wan Si Wan
  • Patent number: 11836343
    Abstract: A method includes: displaying a first display region in a full-screen view that includes a first type of component displayed with a first set of display properties; detecting a first user input to display a second display region; and, in response to detecting the first user input: in accordance with a determination that the first user input corresponds to a request to display the second display region in the full-screen view, displaying the second display region in the full-screen view that includes the first type of component displayed with the first set of display properties; and in accordance with a determination that the first user input corresponds to a request to display the second display region in a partial-screen view, displaying the second display region in the partial-screen view that includes the first type of component displayed with a second set of display properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Mani Amini, Wan Si Wan, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Patent number: 11797150
    Abstract: An electronic device displays a system user interface element that indicates a location for performing a gesture that triggers a system operation, a first application having a first set of behaviors associated with the element, and a second application having a different, second set of behaviors associated with the element. The first and second applications are both displayed along an edge of the display; the element overlaps the first application without overlapping the second application; and an appearance of the element is determined based on the first set of behaviors. The device detects an input corresponding to a request to resize the second application; and, in response, resizes the second application in accordance with the input and, if the element overlaps the second application without overlapping the first application, changes the appearance of the element to an appearance based on the second set of behaviors associated with the element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Brandon M. Walkin, Wan Si Wan
  • Publication number: 20230259271
    Abstract: An electronic device displays a messaging user interface of a message application, including a conversation transcript of a messaging session between a user of the electronic device and at least one other user, and a first message region that includes a current version of a first message in the messaging session. The conversation transcript includes an indication that the current version of the first message is a revised version of the first message in the conversation transcript. In response to detecting an input that corresponds to a request to see versions of the first message, the electronic device displays a versions user interface that includes the current version of the first message and one or more prior versions of the first message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Imran A. Chaudhri, Freddy A. Anzures, Richard R. Dellinger, Nicholas V. King, Hoan Pham, Wan Si Wan, Darin B. Adler, Bethany Bongiorno, Justin N. Wood, Roberto Garcia, Sion Shedlosky
  • Publication number: 20230214089
    Abstract: In response to detecting that an external device is within communication range of an electronic device and in accordance with a determination that the external device is in a pairing mode, the electronic device displays an affordance corresponding to a pairing application of the electronic device. In response to detecting that an external device is within communication range of an electronic device and in accordance with a determination that the external device is not in the pairing mode, the electronic device forgoes display of the affordance. In response to user input corresponding to selection of the affordance, the electronic device displays a user interface associated with initiating a process to pair the electronic device and the external device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Lawrence Y. YANG, Christopher WILSON, Wan Si WAN, Gary Ian BUTCHER, Imran CHAUDHRI, Alan C. DYE, Jonathan P. IVE, Stephen O. LEMAY, Lee S. BROUGHTON
  • Publication number: 20230214107
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to user interfaces for receiving user input. In some examples, a device determines which user input technique a user has accessed most recently, and displays the corresponding user interface. In some examples, a device scrolls through a set of information on the display. When a threshold criteria is satisfied, the device displays an index object fully or partially overlaying the set of information. In some examples, a device displays an emoji graphical object, which is visually manipulated based on user input. The emoji graphical object is transmitted to a recipient. In some examples, a device displays paging affordances that enlarge and allow a user to select a particular page of a user interface. In some examples, the device displays user interfaces for various input methods, including multiple emoji graphical objects. In some examples, a keyboard is displays for receiving user input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Nicholas ZAMBETTI, Jonathan R. DASCOLA, Imran CHAUDHRI, Anton M. DAVYDOV, Jonathan P. IVE, Stephen O. LEMAY, Kevin LYNCH, Bas ORDING, Wan Si WAN, Lawrence Y. YANG
  • Publication number: 20230114043
    Abstract: A computer system concurrently displays a view of a physical environment; and a computer-generated user interface element overlaid on the view of the physical environment. An appearance of the computer-generated user interface element is based on an appearance of the view of the physical environment on which the computer-generated user interface element is overlaid. In response to an appearance of the physical environment changing, the appearance of the computer-generated user interface element is updated at a first time based on a graphical composition of the appearance of one or more portions of the physical environment at different times prior to the first time, including: an appearance of a first portion of the physical environment at a second time that is before the first time; and an appearance of a second portion of the physical environment at a third time that is before the second time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Wan Si Wan, Gregory M. Apodaca, William A. Sorrentino, III, Miquel Rodriguez Estany, James J. Owen, Pol Pla I. Conesa, Alan C. Dye, Stephen O. Lemay, Richard D. Lyons, Israel Pastrana Vicente, Evgenii Krivoruchko, Giancarlo Yerkes
  • Patent number: 11625165
    Abstract: An electronic device displays a messaging user interface of a message application, including a conversation transcript of a messaging session between a user of the electronic device and at least one other user, a message-input area, the conversation transcript including a plurality of messages and a plurality of message regions, each message region containing a respective message of the plurality of messages. In response to a first input corresponding to a first respective message in the conversation transcript, displaying an indication that the first respective message has been selected. In response to one or more second inputs, including message composition inputs, displaying in a second message region in the conversation transcript a second message corresponding to the message composition inputs, and displaying a grouping indicia that connects the first respective message region with the second message region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Imran A. Chaudhri, Freddy A. Anzures, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Nicholas V. King, Wan Si Wan, Bethany Bongiorno, Justin N. Wood, Roberto Garcia
  • Patent number: D987669
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Julian Hoenig, Jonathan P. Ive, Wan Si Wan, Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniele De Iuliis, Markus Diebel, M. Evans Hankey, Richard P. Howarth, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Joe Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D995549
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Imran Chaudhri, Jonathan P. Ive, Tiffany Jon, Woo-Ram Lee, Wan Si Wan, Christopher Wilson, Chun Kin Minor Wong
  • Patent number: D997199
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond Sepulveda, Andre Souza Dos Santos, Wan Si Wan, Christopher Wilson, Chun Kin Minor Wong
  • Patent number: D1001829
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Aurelio Guzmán, Wan Si Wan, Christopher I. Wilson
  • Patent number: D1002660
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alan C. Dye, Christopher Foss, Wan Si Wan, Christopher Wilson
  • Patent number: D1008281
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Butcher, Alan C. Dye, Aurelio Guzmán, Brian Andrew Schmitt, Wan Si Wan
  • Patent number: D1020773
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alan C. Dye, Daniel Satoru Hamaguchi, Wan Si Wan