Context Location Indication (e.g., Previous Or Next Menu Item Indication) Patents (Class 715/817)
  • Patent number: 11880387
    Abstract: A computer identifies, within a hierarchical database, data elements associated with a selected function associated with the database, comprising. The computer identifies at least one function associated with a hierarchical database containing data elements. The computer, in response to identifying the function, identifies within a list of indica, at least one reference indicia corresponding to the at least one function. The computer identifies within a monolithic application relevant code elements associated with the reference indicia. The computer generates an activity log associated with execution of the relevant code elements. The computer identifies, within the activity log, a group of data elements associated with the execution of the relevant code elements. The computer generates a group data element clusters using a Machine Learning algorithm. The computer identifies at least one of the group of data element clusters as relevant to the at least one function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Harish Bharti, Balakrishnan Sreenivasan, Joydeep Banerjee, Sandeep Sukhija, Shweta Jain
  • Patent number: 11574429
    Abstract: A client device executes a display layout application that receives a size of each display item included in a set of display items. The set of display items is associated with a first frame included in a bounding box associated with a display screen. The display layout application determines a reference size based on the sizes of the set of display items. The display layout application determines a size of the first frame based on the reference size. The display layout application determines a position for a first display item included in the set of display items based on a position of the first frame within the bounding box. The display layout application generates a layout for display on the display screen, where the layout includes the first display item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: SPLUNK INC.
    Inventors: Simon Tam, Everett Yip
  • Patent number: 11494052
    Abstract: A contextual menu system may be configured to perform operations that include: identifying a media category based on a user profile, the user profile comprising user profile data; causing display of a GUI that includes a content menu, the content menu comprising at least a display of a set of media items associated with the media category identified based on the user profile data, the set of media items comprising at least a first media item; accessing the user profile data of the user profile, the user profile data including a browser history associated with the user profile; identifying the first media item among the browser history; and removing the content menu within the GUI in response to the identifying the first media item among the browser history.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Newar Husam Al Majid, Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Laurent Desserrey, Patrick Mandia, Matthew Thompson, Jeremy Voss
  • Patent number: 11409756
    Abstract: An integrated data analytics tool is described that enables users to efficiently create and communicate data analysis flows or storylines. The data analytics tool includes graphical user interfaces (GUIs) that enable users to create data analysis “pipelines” that serve as both a visual and technical representation of a data analysis flow. Among other features, a data analysis pipeline enables users to easily add and link related data visualizations in a pipeline, to update datasets and filters associated with data visualizations in a pipeline and to have those updates be propagated automatically to other visualizations in the pipeline, and to create side-by-side comparisons of visualizations based on different datasets/filters. Users presented with such data visualization pipelines can also interact with the visualizations and dynamically update a displayed analysis by selecting different datasets, filters, pipeline paths, and so forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Isabelle Park, Horst Werner
  • Patent number: 11334760
    Abstract: A device configured to emulate an actor in a correlithm object processing system includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores an actor table that includes a string correlithm object comprising a plurality of sub-string correlithm objects. The actor is implemented by the processor and receives an input correlithm object, determines n-dimensional distances between the input correlithm object and at least a portion of the plurality of sub-string correlithm objects, and identifies a sub-string correlithm object from the actor table with the shortest determined n-dimensional distance. The actor outputs the real-world output value associated with the identified sub-string correlithm object in the actor table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventor: Patrick N. Lawrence
  • Patent number: 11308665
    Abstract: Automatically generating an onboarding tour for a business analytic application is provided. Columns of a dataset used by the business analytic application are analyzed. Characteristics of visualizations of the business analytic application are analyzed. Ordered groups of visualizations corresponding to the business analytic application are generated based on a result of analyzing the columns of the dataset used by the business analytic application and the characteristics of the visualizations of the business analytic application. A set of visualization paths corresponding to the business analytic application is generated based on the ordered groups of visualizations. Visualization paths in the set of visualization paths corresponding to the business analytic application are ordered to form the onboarding tour based on the result of analyzing the columns of the dataset used by the business analytic application and the characteristics of the visualizations of the business analytic application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Firas Kazem, Peter Djeneralovic, Aly Gemae
  • Patent number: 11067307
    Abstract: An HVAC controller includes a housing, a user interface and a controller that is operably coupled to the user interface and is configured to display a HOME screen on the user interface that provides the user with current system operating information and enabling the user to access a hierarchical menu structure for viewing and/or editing one or more settings of the HVAC controller. The hierarchical menu structure includes a plurality of menu branches each having two or more hierarchical menu levels with a leaf menu at the bottom of each branch, where for a first group of the leaf menus, the user must navigate “back” to return to the HOME screen while for a second group of the leaf menus, the user is returned to the HOME screen after the user indicates the user is done with the leaf menu, without having to wait for the timeout period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Ademco Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Heintzelman, Christopher R. Jones, Joseph Carlos Vargas
  • Patent number: 10531138
    Abstract: Automatically and programmatically generating markers for streaming media in a crowdsourced manner is described herein. The method operates in a media device that is communicatively coupled to a display device. The display device includes a graphical user interface (GUI) having a playback bar. The playback bar includes a current playback time (CTI) and a plurality of markers. The method operates by detecting user interactions as an user navigates through a movie or TV show (or other content) being presented on the display device. Point values are assigned to the user interactions. The detected user interactions and assigned point values represent training data. The training data is provided to a crowdsource server. The crowdsource server is configured to determine correlations and patterns in the training data to automatically and programmatically define crowdsourced markers for the movie/TV show.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: ROKU, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher James Tegethoff, Abhijit Pol
  • Patent number: 10444935
    Abstract: A user interface display method is provided. The method includes: displaying at a first location a current body type information related to a user; displaying a plurality of icons at a plurality of second locations adjacent to the first location respectively; when receiving a first input operation corresponding to the plurality of icons, displaying a first body type information of a plurality of body type information at the first location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: CAL-COMP BIG DATA, INC.
    Inventors: Chia-Ming Yong, Hung-Tai Hsu, Ching-Sheng Tsai
  • Patent number: 10390110
    Abstract: Automatically and programmatically generating content trailers in a crowdsourced manner is described herein. An example method operates in a media device coupled with a display device. The display device displays a graphical user interface (GUI) having a plurality of tiles each corresponding to content available for display. The GUI also includes at least one preview display area. The method operates by detecting selection of one of the tiles, and automatically and programmatically generating a trailer for content associated with the selected tile in a crowdsourced manner. Then, the trailer is played in the preview display area while the selected tile remains selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: ROKU, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher James Tegethoff, Abhijit Pol
  • Patent number: 10209707
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for a safety system including: selecting an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) command on a controller, the controller comprising a first processor with addressable memory; presenting a first activator and a second activator on a display of the controller for the selected UAV command, wherein the second activator is a slider; and sending the UAV command to a UAV if the first activator and the second activator are selected, the UAV comprising a second processor with addressable memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: AEROVIRONMENT, INC.
    Inventors: Thaddeus Benjamin Matuszeski, William Arden Lott, Derek Lisoski
  • Patent number: 10176519
    Abstract: A system for navigating products and services presented via a computer interface. The system may include a three-dimensional isometric view of a virtual store that may be displayed on a computer touchscreen. The displayed virtual store may include at least one internal wall of the virtual store, a plurality of virtual rows of shelves, each shelf containing virtual products, and a plurality of icons that, when selected, allow entry into at least one sub-store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: CVS PHARMACY, INC.
    Inventors: Dustin Wayne Humphreys, Vijay I. Kukreja
  • Patent number: 10037308
    Abstract: A method for updating a page of an electronic device is provided. The page includes a first row and a second row. Each of the first row and the second row includes one or two tiles. Each tile comprises a picture. The method comprises the following steps. After an update that results in insertion of a plurality of new tiles into the page occurs, three new tiles of the plurality of new tiles are displayed by using either a first tile layout or a second tile layout in a third row and a fourth row. The number of tiles in the third row is one and the number of tiles in the fourth row is two in the first tile layout. The number of tiles in the third row is two and the number of tiles in the fourth row is one in the second tile layout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: David Brinda, Jesse John Penico, Drew Bamford, Sheng-Hsin Huang, Fang-Ju Lin, Ying-Jing Wang, Pei-Ju Lee, Peter Chin, Wendy Wai Mun Chan, Keng-Yu Chen, Shih-Wun Peng
  • Patent number: 9924008
    Abstract: It is configured that, when an operation of selecting a type is accepted by an operation acceptance processing unit 8, an item re-selection unit 9 re-selects one or multiple information processing items from among information processing items that are included in a plurality of information processing items stored in an information-processing item storage unit 2, and are information processing items of the type for which the operation of selecting is accepted, except for an information processing item already displayed on a liquid-crystal display 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideo Imanaka, Masato Hirai, Atsushi Shimada, Reiko Sakata
  • Patent number: 9886565
    Abstract: A user input is received for accessing a page in an application. Page display element metadata is retrieved that defines how the display elements are related to other objects in the application. It is determined whether the user has license rights and user permissions to access the information represented by the related objects. If not, the display elements are removed, hidden or disabled and a remainder of the page is rendered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Nielsen, Per Reitzel, Elly Nkya, Anders Larsen
  • Patent number: 9823813
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer program products for performing an action on a database record in an on-demand database service. What actions are presented to a user interface of a mobile device can depend on attributes of the database record, such as metadata stored in association with the database record. Selection of one of the actions can cause the mobile device to integrate data from hardware components, databases, and applications using mobile device. The data identified from the mobile device can be automatically associated with various data fields of the action. The selected action can be performed on the database record using the data in the data fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Scott D. Beechuk, Steven Tamm, Orjan Kjellberg, Arvind Krishnan, Benjamin Snyder, Luke A. Ball, Shannon Hale, Khanh Kim P. Nguyen, William Gradin, Anna Bonner Mieritz, Beril Guvendik Maples, Gregg Johnson, Andrew Waite, Jean Elie Bovet, Scott Peter Perket
  • Patent number: 9384420
    Abstract: A computing device classifies user activities. The device receives eye tracking data for a person viewing a page having multiple contiguous regions. The eye tracking data comprises a temporal sequence of fixations, where each fixation has a duration and a location. The device partitions the fixations into clusters, where each cluster has a consecutive sub-sequence of the fixations. The device assigns a provisional user activity label to each fixation based on a set of characteristics of the fixation. The device also groups together consecutive fixations that have the same label to partition the fixations into groups. For each group that matches a respective cluster, the device retains the provisional label assignment as a final user activity label assigned to each of the fixations in the respective group. The device also reconciles non-matching groups with non-matching clusters, using the regions, to form a set of non-overlapping modified groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Pernilla Qvarfordt
  • Patent number: 9324065
    Abstract: In some examples, a merchant device at a point of sale (POS) location may present information to a merchant in a first language preferred by the merchant, and may present information to a buyer in a second language preferred by the buyer. The merchant device may switch between the different languages in response to detecting a change in the physical orientation of a display. For instance, in a first orientation in which the display is viewable from a merchant direction, the merchant device may present information in the language preferred by the merchant. When the orientation of the display is changed to a second orientation in which the display is viewable from a buyer direction, the merchant device may present information in the language indicated to be preferred by the buyer. Various techniques may be used for determining the preferred language of a particular buyer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Square, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Lang Mocko, Koun Han, Hsuan-Yu (Jerry) Lin, Michael Wells White
  • Patent number: 9256785
    Abstract: A computing device classifies user activities for a person interacting with a computer user interface using one or more user interface devices. The computing device receives eye tracking data for the person, which includes a sequence of fixations ordered temporally. Each fixation corresponds to a plurality of consecutive measured gaze points. Each fixation has a duration and location based on the corresponding gaze points. For each fixation, the computing device determines a plurality of features for the fixation, including characteristics of the fixation, context features based on preceding or subsequent fixations, and user interaction features based on information from the user interface devices during the fixation. The computing device assigns a user activity label to the fixation according to the features. The label is selected from a predefined set. The computing device then analyzes the fixations and their assigned user activity labels to make recommendations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Pernilla Qvarfordt
  • Patent number: 9183398
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to rendering content on a display. An embodiment creates a plurality of sessions between the display and a content delineating device, determines, by the content delineating device, a sensitivity level of content, and renders content having a first sensitivity level in a first session and content having a second sensitivity level in a second session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Isaac David Guedalia, Ravinder P. Chandhok, Jacob Guedalia, Gaurav Sethi
  • Patent number: 9173639
    Abstract: The diagnostic imaging apparatus according to the present embodiments includes a display unit, an input unit, and a display control unit. The display unit includes a display area in which a medical image and a menu in relation to the medical image are displayed. The input unit receives input to the display area. The display control unit displays different menus in the display area in accordance with the input received by the input unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Ichioka, Kuramitsu Nishihara, Muneki Kataguchi
  • Publication number: 20150143294
    Abstract: A system and method for presenting a scrollable-list interface comprising defining an ordered set of elements which includes elements classified into at least two layers; rendering a set of first layer elements of the ordered set in a navigable interface, the set of first layer elements ordered according to the ordered set; rendering a condensed indicator element associated with at least one element classified in a second layer in the navigable interface, the condensed indicator element ordered within the set of first layer elements according to the ordered set; receiving a user input to the navigable interface; and augmenting a layered representation of the ordered set in the navigable interface, wherein the layered representation is augmented in accordance with the user input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Mathew Piccinato, Gregory Schwartz, Christopher Kaufman, David Webber, Jesse Hendrickson
  • Patent number: 9015620
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for user interface navigation engine is provided. A number of items to display is determined based on an interface screen parameter. The number of items is displayed based on the numerical position on a list selected for display. A displayed item is highlighted, wherein a position of the highlighted displayed item on a screen indicates a position relation of the displayed number of items to the count of items in the list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Jason R. Delker, John M. Everson, Wing K. Lee, Jason K. Whitney
  • Patent number: 9009630
    Abstract: A note-capture application is disclosed that allows notes to be displayed on the lock screen. In one embodiment, a note-capture application can be invoked when a mobile device is in an above-lock state. Note data can be captured using the note-capture application, and the captured data can be persistently displayed on the lock screen. A user can perform a unique gesture from the lock screen to invoke the note-capture application. In another embodiment, multiple input modes can be available for note data capture. For example, voice data, text data, camera data, etc. can all be used to capture notes for display on the lock screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Michael J. Kruzeniski, Joseph B. Tobens, Jon Bell, William Scott Stauber, Rohit Bhatia, Ram Pattabhi Papatla, Daniel Escapa
  • Patent number: 9003323
    Abstract: A method is provided for automatically displaying context information to an information fragment with no user interaction. The method includes: displaying the fragment in a first window, wherein the window and fragment each relate to a source process; pointing with a cursor to a part of the fragment displayed in the first window; generating an event object comprising coordinates of the cursor and part of the information fragment; broadcasting the event object to the source process, wherein the only information exchange between the target process and the source process is based on the event object; interpreting the event object by the target process and generating a response by the target process; and displaying the response of the target process in a second window, wherein the second window is related to the coordinates of the cursor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas H. Gnech, Regina Illner, Joachim Rese
  • Patent number: 8972890
    Abstract: The present invention provides a transition between two or more menu bars. The transition provided is both useful and aesthetic in that is enhances the aesthetic transition between the menu bars and serves to notify a user of such a transition. The transition is animated with one of a number of different animation techniques, such as rotation, scrolling, shading, virtual lighting, and the like. Three-dimensional graphics mapping may be provided to enhance the animation of the menu bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Bas Ording
  • Publication number: 20150052482
    Abstract: A system for a computer implemented interactive comparative display of information organizes a visual screen display to a user in such a way that the user is able to efficiently select information content, be presented with topical associations relating to that content, and readily compare different information content from a single display. The information content represented by each selectable result indicator is comparable with the information content represented by other selectable result indicators, wherein the information content is of a same type of information content but from a different perspective, vantage point, or provides a different alternative. A user may navigate to a particular segment of information content, and then be presented with a string of topically related segments, as well as with one or more connecting categories of information, which may otherwise not have been readily apparent to the particular selected segment, but for the display system and method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Inventor: Drue A. Hontz, JR.
  • Publication number: 20140372948
    Abstract: Persistent feedback for bidirectional navigation is provided. A user may navigate from a list of items in a first user interface to a second user interface where a specific item from the list of items may be opened. When the user navigates back to the first user interface, the item which the user opened in the second user interface may be marked with a persistent visual indicator. The persistent visual indicator provides an indication to the user which item he previously had opened. The persistent visual indicator may be functionally selectable, which when selected, may reopen the item it is associated with in the second user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2013
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventor: Han-Yi Shaw
  • Patent number: 8910065
    Abstract: A secondary output of a user interface created using a presentation framework may be created by making a clone of the user interface, then modifying the cloned user interface by expanding various components. The cloned user interface may also be configured to the output characteristics of the secondary output, which may be a printer or other hardcopy device. The user interface may be created with callbacks or other actions that may be executed when the cloned user interface is configured. The callbacks may cause certain user interface components to be changed on the cloned version of the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Gaurav Kapila, Vipul Malhotra, Bahadir Onalan, Jagadeesh Kalki, Mark Sterin, Dan Boldo
  • Publication number: 20140351757
    Abstract: The present invention envisages a GSM mobile telephone in which a line of icons is displayed on a display. As a user navigates through the displayed line of icons, the positions of the icons alter so that the selectable icon moves to the head of the line. This approach makes it very clear (i) which icon is selectable at any time and (ii) where that icon sits in relation to other icons at the same functional level (e.g. only first level icons will be present in one line). First level icons typically relate to the following functions: phonebook; messages; call register; counters; call diversion; telephone settings; network details; voice mail and IrDA activation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventor: Christopher De Bast
  • Patent number: 8893043
    Abstract: In a method for automatically navigating potential websites for predictive browsing based on user activities along with efficiency of verifying content updates, a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of websites and its associated attributes that a user visits can be recorded and stored in a storage engine. The potential sites can be predicted by a predictive engine component based upon a past browsing history and various environmental factors that are recorded in the storage engine. A dynamic content detection engine component examines each potential websites and detects if the site has been updated. The predictive engine component enables the user to navigate to the potential websites thereby permitting faster website browsing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher N. Dodson, Keith R. Walker, Brian M. O'Connell, Richard A. Locke
  • Patent number: 8881062
    Abstract: A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one other terminal; a display unit including a touchscreen; a memory configured to store a specific application, an application icon for executing the specific application, and a first widget application displaying a partial executed function of the specific application; and a controller configured to when receiving a first touch gesture on the application icon, execute the specific application, and when receiving a second touch gesture on the application icon that is different than the first touch gesture, control the display unit to display the first widget application on the touchscreen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Moonkyung Kim, Jihye Ham, Harim Jang, Minsoo Park, Hyoungmi Kim
  • Patent number: 8869061
    Abstract: A graphical user interface (GUI) capable of presenting a display that indicates that navigation controls can be used for navigating through results of a search using a search engine. The GUI highlights the GUI control that accepts text characters for indicating a search term such that the area contrasts with the display of an adjacent display area in response to entering the search term. Once the search is initiated, such as by actuating a search initiation control, the GUI may change to highlight navigation controls to indicate that those controls can be used to navigate between search result hits. Additional icons or controls may be displayed to further indicate the function of navigation controls and actions that may be taken to further modify the display of controls, such as collapsing some of the controls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Krista Bendig
  • Patent number: 8863030
    Abstract: A system includes a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory includes instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform a method that includes displaying a plurality of menu items (each associated with one of a plurality of media content items) in a graphical user interface. The method also includes, when a particular promotion associated with a particular media content item is to be displayed, displaying the particular promotion proximate to a particular menu item of the plurality of menu items and enabling a direction command. Selection of the direction command causes a cursor position to jump directly to the particular menu item from a different menu item of the plurality of menu items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Scott White
  • Patent number: 8863029
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to user interfaces and more particularly to techniques for providing user interface which allows users to select filtering criteria and display filtered information accordingly. In various embodiments, related information is displayed on a hierarchical chart as nodes that are connected to one another. The hierarchical chart is updated after filtering criteria are applied, and the display visibility of the nodes are changed based on the filtering results. The hierarchical relationships among the nodes are maintained before and after the filtering process. In a specific embodiment, the nodes that do not meet filtering criteria are displayed at a low visibility level on the hierarchical chart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Chun-Yi Chen, Aylin Uysal, Sally Baggett, Lulit Bezuayehu, Aaron Joseph Green, Julian Challenger
  • Patent number: 8839147
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and data extracting method therein are disclosed, by which specific data meeting a specific condition can be selected and extracted conveniently and quickly in the course of displaying a data list constructed with a plurality of data. The present invention includes receiving an input of a touch action for selecting specific data and a classification condition corresponding to the specific data using a displayed data list upon receiving the input of the touch action, selecting at least one data including the specific data as the data including the classification condition from a plurality of data, receiving an input of an extraction command signal for extracting the selected at least one data, and extracting the selected at least one data upon receiving the input of the extraction command signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Rae Hoon Kang, Seung Hyun Woo, Min Jeong Lee, Hyun Ho Jee, Dong Gwan Im, Choon Jae Lee
  • Patent number: 8819569
    Abstract: The subject invention provides a unique interactive system and method that facilitate single-handed navigation and interaction with applications within a display space on any type of mobile computing device. The system and method include or employ scalable application tiles corresponding to applications, whereby the application tiles can provide or indicate the current state of the corresponding application. The state information provided in each tile can vary as well depending on the current size of the tile. The tiles can be arranged into a plurality of zones such that a user can view one particular zone at a time and obtain more context and information from the application tiles in that zone rather than working with all tiles and all zones at the same time. The view of the display space can be of the world or all application tiles, zone, or application. Panning and zooming among the zones, application tiles and/or views can be performed single-handedly using designated on or off screen controls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Zumobi, Inc
    Inventors: John SanGiovanni, Daniel C. Robbins
  • Patent number: 8819555
    Abstract: A graphical user interface (GUI) for an audio video display device (AVDD) such as a TV includes content panels which can be selected for searching for additional information related to the content underlying the content panels. A history of previous searches is maintained in memory “stacked” notionally to the left or right of the current display so that a viewer can easily review previous search results using a simple scroll command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Friedlander, David Young, Sabrina Tai-Chen Yeh
  • Patent number: 8806334
    Abstract: A display device includes a display unit, a storing unit, a navigation string generating unit, and a display control unit. The display unit includes a first region and a second region. The display unit displays, in the first region, one of a plurality of screen images managed hierarchically. The plurality of screen images includes a first screen image and a second screen image. The storing unit stores a plurality of character strings corresponding to the plurality of screen images. The navigation string generating unit includes a specifying unit and a generating unit. The specifying unit specifies a setting value selected for at least the second screen image that was navigated through to arrive at the first screen image currently displayed in the first region. The generating unit generates a navigation string including at least one of the character strings corresponding to the second screen image and a setting data representing the setting value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoru Arakane, Hajime Inada
  • Patent number: 8806377
    Abstract: A method and system for providing a graphical user interface with contextual views. In various embodiments, the present invention provides a graphical user interface that allows the changing contents of a global menu in the graphical display based upon the selected nodes that belong to a hierarchical chart. Only those actions applicable (contextual) to the selected nodes will be determined and displayed in the menu. Accordingly, the contents of the selectable options are updated based upon the selected nodes. When more than one node is selected, the displayed selectable actions are an intersection of the actions permitted for each selected node. In a specific embodiment, a comparison menu is provided to allow the user to be able to compare unique corresponding properties of selected nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Chun-Yi Chen, Aylin Uysal, Sally Baggett, Lulit Bezuayehu, Prashant Singh, Aaron Joseph Green, Julian Challenger
  • Patent number: 8806379
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method and system for providing a user interface representing organization hierarchy wherein a group of entities can be displayed as a node, and the node is displayed as a part of a hierarchical chart. In various embodiments, the present invention provides a graphical user interface displaying nodes that represent groups of entities, and the nodes are displayed as a part of a hierarchical chart based on the hierarchical relationship among the nodes that represent groups of entities. In various embodiments, a user is able to select actions for a group of entities displayed on the same node. Based on various criteria, nodes displaying one group of entities may, based on user selections of different grouping criteria, display a different group of entities. There are other features as well, in the graphical interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Chun-Yi Chen, Aylin Uysal, Sally Baggett, Lulit Bezuayehu, Aaron Joseph Green, Julian Challenger
  • Patent number: 8781297
    Abstract: A method for providing a content entity from a storage disc is described. The storage disc comprises at least one further content entity. Each content entity comprises a main menu and at least one submenu accessible via the main menu. The storage disc further comprises an entity selection menu. The entity selection menu comprises a link to the main menu of the content entity to be provided. The method comprises providing the entity selection menu for reproduction, receiving a selection of the content entity to be provided, detecting that the storage disc comprises a plurality of content entities, mapping a pre-defined start address to a different start address and providing the selected content entity for reproduction based on the different start address. The pre-defined start address is mapped to a different start address of the storage disc associated with the main menu of the selected content entity to be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Nero AG
    Inventor: Richard Lesser
  • Patent number: 8782554
    Abstract: A computer implemented method is represented for providing to a user a context menu with entries representing relationships. The relationships are applicable to relate objects selected from a set of objects. The method comprises following method operations: receiving a first identification of a first selected object from the set of objects, receiving a second identification of a second selected object from the set of objects, identifying object types of the selected objects in a plurality of object types, determining one or more relationship types of which one or more relationships are applicable to the selected objects by using the identified object types, and generating for the context menu an entry representing a relationship of the one or more relationship types, wherein the relationship is selectable by the user to be created between the selected objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventor: Thomas Kern
  • Patent number: 8769432
    Abstract: In general, the invention relates to a method for capturing information from a web site. The method includes accessing the web site using a browser with a browser module, where the web site comprises a number of web pages having information in a first format, and obtaining a profile corresponding to the web site, where the profile defines a manner to capture information in a first format from the web site. The method further includes capturing information, by the browser module, from at least one of the number of web pages based on the profile and sending the information captured by the browser module to a destination application, where the destination application is external to the browser and where the destination application is configured to use the information in a second format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Clifford L. Rhyne, Larry John Raab, Gang Wang
  • Patent number: 8769430
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method and system for scrolling in a document having multiple columns. A method for scrolling in a page of a document having multiple columns, includes: displaying a plurality of the columns in a display window; associating a different scrollbar with each of the plurality of displayed columns; and selectively enabling a synchronous or independent operation of each of the scrollbars; wherein in synchronous operation, a use of any of the scrollbars results in a corresponding scrolling of the page within the display window, and wherein in independent operation, a use of a selected one of the scrollbars results only in a corresponding scrolling of the column of the page associated with that scrollbar within the display window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven M. Miller, Lloyd W. Allen, Jr., Jana H. Jenkins
  • Patent number: 8751971
    Abstract: An electronic device presents a first user interface element of a first type and a second user interface element of a second type. In a sighted mode, the device detects a first interaction with the first user interface element, and performs an operation in accordance with sighted-mode gesture responses for the first user interface element. The device detects a second interaction with the second user interface element, and performs an operation in accordance with sighted-mode gesture responses for the second user interface element. In an accessible mode, the device detects a third interaction with the first user interface element, and performs an operation in accordance with accessible-mode gesture responses for the first user interface element. The device detects a series of interactions with the second user interface element; and, for each interaction, performs an operation in accordance with the sighted-mode gesture responses for the second user interface element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher Brian Fleizach
  • Patent number: 8751959
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is disclosed. The information processing apparatus executes a function corresponding to a menu item of application software which menu item is selected by a user. The information processing apparatus includes an information processing unit which executes plural small functions of which the function corresponding to the selected menu item is formed, a recipe data forming unit which forms recipe data in which an executing condition and an executing order of the plural small functions corresponding to the selected menu item are defined, and an information process executing unit which causes the information processing unit to execute the plural small functions based on the formed recipe data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Jun Murata
  • Patent number: 8739073
    Abstract: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for providing a table of contents for a document viewer application. A document viewer application is provided that can display a document that has multiple pages of content. Upon receiving a selection from the user to access a table of contents for the document, a table of contents is displayed that contains a representation of at least some of the pages of content in a manner that is overlaid on top of a current position in the document. A navigation feature allows a user to navigate through the table of contents while retaining the current position in the document. A preview size adjustment feature allows the user to adjust a size of the representation of the pages of content for the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Chris Han, Nathan Dunlap
  • Patent number: 8736553
    Abstract: A text input method is implemented in a device with a plurality of keys. If a first key is activated by a first touch operation, one character in a first character set associated with the first key is selected as a first character. If a second key is activated by a second touch operation one character in a second character set associated with the second key is selected as a last character. Each of the first and second touch operations includes a press, a touch track, or a combination of a press and a touch track on a key. An auto-completed word is generated based on a database of words in response to the second touch operation. The auto-completed word includes the first character as a leftmost character of the auto-completed word and the last character as a rightmost character of the auto-completed word.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Gold Charm Limited
    Inventor: Chi-Chang Lu
  • Patent number: 8730172
    Abstract: A character input method is implemented in a device with a plurality of keys. If a key is activated by a first operation matching a first input pattern, a first route is selected to traverse a plurality of characters corresponded by the key during presentation of the plurality of characters. If the first key is activated by a second operation matching a second input pattern, the plurality of characters corresponded by the first key are orderly retrieved and presented according to a second route in response to operations on the first key. The order for presenting two characters corresponded by the first key in the first route is reversed in the second route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Gold Charm Limited
    Inventor: Chi-Chang Lu