Patents Examined by Aaron Lowenberger
  • Patent number: 10206007
    Abstract: Enabling a first user to send to a second user a promotional program icon used to enable recording of a program promoted by the icon includes enabling the first user to access a display of content accessible via a network environment. The display of content includes the promotional program icon, and the first user is able to select the promotional program icon and request presentation of the icon to a second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Oath Inc.
    Inventor: Peter G. Nush
  • Patent number: 10191649
    Abstract: A mobile terminal including a body; a touch screen disposed on a front surface of the body, and having a touch panel and a display unit; and a controller configured to display a home screen page or an application execution screen on the touch screen in response to the display unit being turned on, turn off the display unit and execute a lock mode requiring input of a password, in response to a plurality of touch inputs being consecutively received on a preset region of the home screen page, and turn off the display unit and not execute the lock mode, in response to a plurality of touch inputs being consecutively received on a preset region of the application execution screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Soyeon Yim
  • Patent number: 10152299
    Abstract: Systems and processes for reducing response latency of intelligent automated assistants are provided. In one example process, a speech input containing a user request can be received from a user. A representation of the speech input can be transmitted. A domain signal representing a relevant domain associated with the user request can be received. The process can determine whether the relevant domain is associated with a predefined action of a set of predefined actions. In response to determining that the relevant domain is associated with a predefined action of a set of predefined actions, the predefined action can be performed. Data content relevant to satisfying the user request can be received. A result based on the data content can be outputted to at least partially satisfy the user request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Michael R. Sumner, Evan S. Dibiase
  • Patent number: 10140087
    Abstract: The disclosure provides methods and systems for processing audio signals. The method may comprise receiving, via an application displayed at a client computing device, an audio signal and a user control input for controlling an audio processing effect of the audio signal. Then, the method may comprise sending, via a wide area network connection, the audio signal and the user control input to an audio server and then relaying the audio signal through the audio server to an input of an audio processing device. The method may also comprise controlling a setting on the audio processing device through a hardware controller based on the user control input, and returning a processed version of the audio signal from the audio processing device to the client computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Access Analog, LLC
    Inventor: Christopher Barrett
  • Patent number: 10116509
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for monitoring and managing one or more objects on granular object level across datacenters is provided. The method includes following steps: (i) creating an application id; (ii) searching the one or more objects across the datacenters; (iii) adding the one or more objects to the application ID; (iv) monitoring configurations of the one or more objects; (iv) providing a graphical depiction of logs of the one or more objects; (v) providing an option to check a work order and configuration changes of the one or more objects; (vi) providing a graphical depiction of the configuration changes occurred on the one or more objects over a period of time; (vii) providing a trend graph for the one or more objects; and (viii) creating a new rule for the application ID to monitor and manage the one or more objects on granular object level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Inventors: Anand Purusothaman, Murali Palanisamy
  • Patent number: 10095473
    Abstract: An intent managing system and a method for operating the same are provided. The system, for example, may include, but is not limited to a processor communicatively coupled to an input system and a memory. The processor may be configured to receive a voice command, determine how many of a plurality of voice controllable systems utilize the voice command, automatically select one of the plurality of voice controllable systems, generate an indication of the selected one of the plurality of voice controllable systems, receive, from the at least one input system, confirmation of the selected one of the plurality of voice controllable systems, and execute the received voice command at the selected one of the plurality of voice controllable systems when the confirmation is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Jeff Lancaster, Robert E De Mers, Erik T Nelson, Chaya Garg
  • Patent number: 10073536
    Abstract: In one example, a computing device includes at least one processor configured to output for display, a graphical keyboard. The at least one processor may also be configured to model, in a first lattice, a plurality of candidate character strings that include symbols of a first alphabet. The first lattice may indicate spatial probabilities of the plurality of candidate character strings. The at least one processor may be configured to determine, using a second lattice that indicates probabilities of one or more words of a second language based at least in part on the spatial probabilities of the plurality of candidate character strings, a probability that the at least one of the plurality of candidate character strings corresponds to at least one word included in the second language. The at least one processor may be configured to output for display, the one or more symbols representing at least one word.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Liangyi Ou, Zhe Su, Yuanbo Zhang, Jie Pan, Song Fu, Zhiheng Li, Ruiyi Chen, Robert Stuart Jung
  • Patent number: 10061598
    Abstract: One or more processors monitor usage of an application on a first computing device. The one or more processors determine whether the usage of a feature of the application on the first computing device was successful. Responsive to determining that the usage of the feature of the application on the first computing device was not successful, the one or more processors create a usage tip associated with the feature of the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Swaminathan Balasubramanian, Ravi P. Bansal, Rajib Bhattacharya, Sandip D. Mahajan
  • Patent number: 10019559
    Abstract: A method, a system and a device are provided for aggregating data to provide a display in a user interface. The method includes populating data records in data storage of a data management system; authenticating a user; retrieving a list from the data records and displaying the list for the authenticated user; selecting an item from the list through the user interface; receiving an item authentication token associating with the authenticated user; retrieving the plurality of attributes for the item authentication token and a progress status of the object history record; and in response to receiving a user selection, providing a text input field on the display for receiving a user's text inquiry; determining a numerical figure for the authenticated user; and aggregating data for displaying the plurality of attributes, displaying the progress status and determining the numerical figure for the authenticated user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Sjoerd Gehring, Thomas Dziekan, Hari Ganapathy, Leandro Cartelli
  • Patent number: 10009232
    Abstract: A controller of a large-scale information handling system (LIHS) includes a memory containing visual representations of architecture and sub-architecture associated with respective data center (DC) configurations. An interactive component-level visual monitoring and control (ICVMC) system includes a processor in communication with the component level monitors and the memory and includes an ICVMC module executing on the processor to receive identification information from one or more component-level monitors of a DC. The DC includes-functional components operationally configured and interconnected in a core architecture in a first DC configuration and monitored respectively by the one or more component-level monitors. The ICVMC module determines the first DC configuration and associated core architecture based on the received identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Tyler B. Duncan, Michael M. Toulouse
  • Patent number: 10002035
    Abstract: A system, method and program product for facilitating copy and paste operations of an object between a source application and a target application in an interactive computing environment. A system is disclosed that includes: a formatting system for determining a set of target formats for the object; and a container system for installing a container into the target application, wherein the container includes a selection system for selectively rendering the object in each of the target formats within the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Steven Miller
  • Patent number: 10001901
    Abstract: A system includes hardware processors and a texturing module configured to display a texturing tray within a virtual reality environment or a mixed reality environment, the texturing tray including a first plurality of texturing mode objects, detect that a user has grabbed a first texturing mode object of the first plurality of texturing mode objects from the texturing tray with a virtual hand of the user, based on motion of the virtual hand after the grabbing, moving the first texturing mode object into a position adjacent to a surface of a target object, detect that the user has applied a texturing agent toward the first texturing mode object, and apply a texture effect to the surface of the target object based on a virtual interaction between the texturing agent and the first texturing mode object, the texture effect altering the appearance of the surface of the target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Unity IPR ApS
    Inventor: Gregory Lionel Xavier Jean Palmaro
  • Patent number: 9978083
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided herein for determining a dynamic advertisement schedule. These methods and systems are provided by way of associating a first value with a selectable delay option on a playlist menu, and associating a second value with a selectable skip option on the playlist menu. Each time the selectable delay option is selected, the first value may be added to a composite value, and each time the selectable skip option is selected, the second value may be added to a composite value. The composite value may be compared to a threshold value, and when the composite value corresponds to the threshold value, an advertisement may be generated for display on a display screen and the composite value may be reset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Shane Losey, Maeve Kathleen Sullivan
  • Patent number: 9933931
    Abstract: A grid structure has a header section and a content section. A scroll user input is detected and columns in the content section are scrolled without scrolling the header section. The displayed grid structure is snapped to a column boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Michael Helligsø Svinth, Adriana Horina Serbanescu Dale, Jacob Winther Jespersen
  • Patent number: 9860135
    Abstract: A method and a system for preparing a plurality of installed field devices for operation in a process control network. In some embodiments, a computing device provides a visual summary of the installed field devices to a user via a user interface. A configuration database stores predefined device preparation scopes, each scope being indicative of one or more of the installed field devices. Based on a user selection of one or more predefined device preparation scopes in the user interface, the computing device implements each of the predefined device preparation scopes by, among other things, retrieving configuration information from the configuration database for each installed field device indicated by each predefined device preparation scope and transmitting the information to each respective installed field device for updating the device configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Invensys Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles W. Piper, Vladimir D. Kostadinov
  • Patent number: 9798400
    Abstract: A displaying device is configure to obtain a moving direction and a moving amount of the input element from a touch panel, scroll a currently displayed page in a direction same as the moving direction of the input element such that the currently displayed page is switched to a target page. When the moving amount of the input element is less than a predetermined threshold amount, the target page is set to be a next page which is next to the currently displayed page on a side opposite to the moving direction of the input element, while, when the moving amount of the input element is not less than the predetermined threshold amount, the target page is set to be a page further advanced from the next page on a side opposite to the moving direction of the input element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yutaka Urakawa
  • Patent number: 9727926
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for an online community management system. One method includes an operation for detecting a post on a social network, where the post is associated with an article. The social network has a plurality of entity pages associated with respective entities. Further, the method includes operations for determining a topic of the article based on a content of the article, and for determining whether the topic is associated with a related entity page on the social network. The related entity page is recommended to a user accessing the post when the topic is associated with the related entity page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jon Napper, Tsung-Yuan Liu, Bruce Leendert Polderman, Grace Chung, Edward Kessler
  • Patent number: 9697264
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for selecting items from a collection of items are indexed by a list of item identifiers. The item identifiers may be in the form of text, symbols, graphics, etc. An initial display is generated which includes on or more parts of the item identifiers. Selection of the one or more parts may be made and results in the generation of a display of further one or more parts for selection. The further one or more parts may be selected in order to the selected on or more parts to build a larger part or whole of an item identifier. Accordingly, selection from a large list of item identifiers may be carried out in a relatively short time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Kannuu Pty. Ltd.
    Inventor: Kevin W. Dinn
  • Patent number: 9679062
    Abstract: A recommendation engine and a user profile stored on a user device are employed by the user device to select from a content store, content that is relevant to a current display of the user device. The selected content is combined with the current display to generate the contextually relevant display. The user profile on the user device is updated based on user interaction with the displayed content and the updated profile may be uploaded to the server in accordance with privacy settings associated with the user profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: EXCALIBUR IP, LLC
    Inventors: Benoit Schillings, John J. Thrall
  • Patent number: 9665276
    Abstract: Techniques are described for character deletion on a computing device that utilizes a gesture-based keyboard. The computing device includes a processor and at least one module operable by the processor to output, for display at a presence-sensitive display, a graphical keyboard comprising a plurality of keys and a text editor field. In response to receiving an indication of a gesture that comprises a first path, the module outputs a first character, based at least in part on the first path, associated with a first key and a second character associated with a second key. In response to determining that the gesture further comprises a second path that retraces at least a portion of the first path, the module removes the second character from the text editor field of the presence-sensitive display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaojun Bi, Kurt Edward Partridge, Yu Ouyang, Shumin Zhai