Patents Assigned to Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC
  • Publication number: 20190320284
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: INTELLECTUAL VENTURES FUND 79 LLC
    Inventor: Michael L. Howard
  • Patent number: 10225683
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: INTELLECTUAL VENTURES FUND 79 LLC
    Inventor: Michael L. Howard
  • Patent number: 9892498
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: INTELLECTUAL VENTURES FUND 79 LLC
    Inventor: Joon Maeng
  • Patent number: 9577974
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: INTELLECTUAL VENTURES FUND 79 LLC
    Inventor: Reda Harb
  • Patent number: 9514158
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: INTELLECTUAL VENTURES FUND 79 LLC
    Inventor: Michelle C. Macartney
  • Patent number: 9372859
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: INTELLECTUAL VENTURES FUND 79 LLC
    Inventor: Joon Maeng
  • Patent number: 9342598
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC
    Inventor: Joon Maeng
  • Patent number: 9332240
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: INTELLECTUAL VENTURES FUND 79 LLC
    Inventors: Lakshmi G. Raman, Lawrence E. Lycke
  • Patent number: 9247014
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC
    Inventor: Abhijit Rao
  • Patent number: 9235864
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC
    Inventor: Joon Maeng
  • Patent number: 9219361
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC
    Inventors: David William Wine, Andrew Konstantaras
  • Patent number: 9134944
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC
    Inventors: Brian N Platt, Thomas Sachio Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9055187
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC
    Inventor: Joon Maeng
  • Patent number: 9033304
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC
    Inventor: William Neil Robinson
  • Patent number: 8997016
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC
    Inventor: Joon Maeng
  • Patent number: 8935300
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC
    Inventor: Joon Maeng
  • Patent number: 8930999
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC
    Inventor: Joon Maeng
  • Patent number: 8886392
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC
    Inventor: Joon Maeng
  • Patent number: 8863272
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC
    Inventor: Joon Maeng
  • Patent number: RE47967
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC
    Inventor: Joon Maeng