Patents Assigned to Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC
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Publication number: 20190320284Abstract: Examples are generally described that include methods and systems for providing a reminder and/or identifying availability of a good or service, or both. In many examples, a reminder may be provided when a computing device satisfies one or more criteria associated with a reminder request. For instance, a reminder may be provided when the location associated with a computing device is proximate a destination and when the direction of travel associated with a computing device indicates that the proximity of the computing device is increasing or decreasing relative to a predetermined location. In other examples, a computing device may be utilized to identify an entity that associated with a requested good or a requested service, or both. In some examples, a location associated with the computing device may be determined and servers associated with an entity within a range of the location may be searched to identify the request good or the requested service, or both.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2019Publication date: October 17, 2019Applicant: INTELLECTUAL VENTURES FUND 79 LLCInventor: Michael L. Howard
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Patent number: 10225683Abstract: Examples are generally described that include methods and systems for providing a reminder and/or identifying availability of a good or service, or both. In many examples, a reminder may be provided when a computing device satisfies one or more criteria associated with a reminder request. For instance, a reminder may be provided when the location associated with a computing device is proximate a destination and when the direction of travel associated with a computing device indicates that the proximity of the computing device is increasing or decreasing relative to a predetermined location. In other examples, a computing device may be utilized to identify an entity that associated with a requested good or a requested service, or both. In some examples, a location associated with the computing device may be determined and servers associated with an entity within a range of the location may be searched to identify the request good or the requested service, or both.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2010Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: INTELLECTUAL VENTURES FUND 79 LLCInventor: Michael L. Howard
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Patent number: 9892498Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems and methods for producing panoramic images. The systems and methods may include storing a first image in a memory device, overlapping a plurality of sections of the stored first image over corresponding portions of a second image such that the second image is visible between adjacent pairs of the plurality of sections in response to the plurality of sections and the second image being displayed on a display device, and aligning at least one of the plurality of sections of the first image with at least a portion of the second image prior to storing the second image.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2011Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: INTELLECTUAL VENTURES FUND 79 LLCInventor: Joon Maeng
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Patent number: 9577974Abstract: In one example, an electronic device may be configured to receive over a network a user selection of media information that corresponds to a media streaming server, wherein the received user selection corresponds to a first account of the media streaming server. The electronic device may be configured to determine a second account that corresponds to an electronic messaging server in response to receiving the user selection. The second account may be different than the first account. The electronic device may be configured to cause a message including at least a portion of the media information to be electronically delivered to the electronic messaging server using the second account.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2012Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: INTELLECTUAL VENTURES FUND 79 LLCInventor: Reda Harb
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Patent number: 9514158Abstract: In an example, an electronic device may be configured to determine whether a selection is received to display a change history corresponding to a value of information. The electronic device may be configured to generate a change history listing of at least one change instance corresponding to the value of the information in response to determining that the selection is received.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2014Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: INTELLECTUAL VENTURES FUND 79 LLCInventor: Michelle C. Macartney
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Patent number: 9372859Abstract: A first document may be identified, wherein the first document may be created in a first file format. A second document may be identified, wherein the second document may be created in a second file format. A page of the first document may be linked with a page of the second document. The page of the first document may be stored with the page of the second document in a file. The page of the first document may be displayed. An input may be received selecting the page of the second document and the page of the second document may be displayed in response to the input.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2011Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: INTELLECTUAL VENTURES FUND 79 LLCInventor: Joon Maeng
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Patent number: 9342598Abstract: An apparatus may include a memory device configured to store instructions, and a processing device that, in response to executing the instructions stored in the memory device, may be configured to perform operations. The operations may include identifying a first set of search results associated with a first user and identifying a second set of search results associated with a second user. The first set of search results may be compared with the second set of search results, and the second set of search results may be modified based, at least in part, on the comparison. The processing device may be configured to generate a modified version of the second set of search results that is displayed to the second user.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2011Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLCInventor: Joon Maeng
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Patent number: 9332240Abstract: A method, device, and/or medium may be associated with controlling media content delivery to a remote device by generating and transmitting a request to schedule media content for recording. An identification of a remote device that is prohibited from accessing the scheduled media content may be generated and included in the request. A request to transmit the recorded media content may be denied based, at least in part, on the identification of the prohibited device.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2013Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: INTELLECTUAL VENTURES FUND 79 LLCInventors: Lakshmi G. Raman, Lawrence E. Lycke
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Patent number: 9247014Abstract: A method, device, and/or medium may be associated with identifying user information associated with user behavior and generating keywords based, at least in part, on the user information. The keywords may be compared to metadata associated with user applications, and the user applications may be prioritized according to a correlation of the metadata with the keywords based, at least in part, on the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2013Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLCInventor: Abhijit Rao
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Patent number: 9235864Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems, methods, and mediums configured to create a conversational email message. A computing device is configured to transmit an outgoing message from a sender to a plurality of recipients and create a conversational message by combining the outgoing message with a chronological listing of reply messages received from any of the plurality of recipients or the sender in response to a conversational email indicator. A memory device is configured to store the outgoing message or any of the reply messages.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2011Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLCInventor: Joon Maeng
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Patent number: 9219361Abstract: An apparatus may comprise a first controller configured to identify a power requirement associated with an electrical device, and a transmitter configured to communicate the power requirement to a second controller. The second controller may be associated with an electrical circuit configured to provide power to a plurality of electrical devices including the electrical device. Additionally, the apparatus may comprise a receiver configured to receive a response from the second controller. The response may identify an available power associated with the electrical circuit, and the first controller may be configured to enable operation of the electrical device based, at least in part, on a comparison of the power requirement and the available power.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2012Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLCInventors: David William Wine, Andrew Konstantaras
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Patent number: 9134944Abstract: Examples are generally described that include methods and systems for selecting a printing device from a plurality of printing devices. Some exemplary methods and systems may include receiving a print job from a computing device coupled to the plurality of printing devices via a network. In some examples, the printing device may be selected based on a printing device meeting one or more criteria. In some examples, first identification information also may be received via the network. In addition, second identification may be received from a selected one of the plurality of printing device. In response to identifying a correlation between the first identification information and the second identification information, the stored print job may be provided to the selected one of the plurality of printing devices.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2013Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLCInventors: Brian N Platt, Thomas Sachio Kobayashi
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Patent number: 9055187Abstract: A method, device and/or medium for sensing, by an image sensor in an imaging device, light corresponding to an image, in which the image sensor is one of a plurality image sensors interleaved with a plurality of picture elements in the imaging device and displaying, by a picture element in the imaging device, a representation of the image, in which the picture element is one of the plurality of picture elements.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2011Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLCInventor: Joon Maeng
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Patent number: 9033304Abstract: An apparatus includes a light foil device configured to move based on radiation pressure associated with light received by the light foil device. The apparatus includes a mechanism configured to transition between operational states in response to the movement of the light foil device, or includes a valve configured to control a flow of material through a conduit based, at least in part, on the movement of the light foil device.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2013Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLCInventor: William Neil Robinson
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Patent number: 8997016Abstract: A method, device, or medium may display an electronic document in an electronic window. An electronic pane may be displayed over a portion of the electronic document. Objects may be displayed in the electronic pane. The electronic pane and the object in the electronic pane may be associated with a location in the electronic window and/or a location in the electronic document and the electronic pane moved according to movements of the electronic window and/or electronic document.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2011Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLCInventor: Joon Maeng
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Patent number: 8935300Abstract: Streaming media may include a plurality of visual objects. User-selectable fields may be associated with the visual objects. In response to receiving a selection from the user-selectable fields, a search criteria associated with the corresponding visual object may be identified. A method, device, or medium may be associated with a request for search results based on the search criteria. Information associated with the search results may be displayed to the user.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2011Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLCInventor: Joon Maeng
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Patent number: 8930999Abstract: Associating each of a plurality of identifiers with a respective one of a plurality of media streams and prompting a concurrent presentation of each of the plurality of identifiers and at least one image from each of the associated media streams in a display of a programming menu.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2011Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLCInventor: Joon Maeng
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Patent number: 8886392Abstract: A method, device, and/or medium associated with managing vehicle maintenance activities may include monitoring data associated with an operating condition of a particular vehicle and updating historic operational data associated with the particular vehicle based on the data associated with the operating condition of the particular vehicle. The updated historic operational data may be updated with a predetermined maintenance standard associated with a substantially similar type of vehicle and a maintenance recommendation may be generated based, at least in part, on a result of the comparing.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2011Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLCInventor: Joon Maeng
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Patent number: 8863272Abstract: A processing device is configured to populate a document template with first content and second content and publish a document with the first content from the document template. The processing device is configured to suppress the second content from the published document.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2011Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLCInventor: Joon Maeng
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Patent number: RE47967Abstract: Associating each of a plurality of identifiers with a respective one of a plurality of media streams and prompting a concurrent presentation of each of the plurality of identifiers and at least one image from each of the associated media streams in a display of a programming menu.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLCInventor: Joon Maeng