Patents Examined by Aaron Lowenberger
  • Patent number: 9395865
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces for concurrent display of a reply message and two or more response options are disclosed. In some implementations, a method includes, at a computer, maintaining the display of a reply message associated with a plurality of response options. Each respective response option in the plurality of response options is independently associated with one or more recipient addresses for the reply message. While maintaining the display of at least a portion of the reply message, at least one recipient address for the reply message is updated in accordance with a selected response option. In some implementations, the maintaining of the display of at least a portion of the reply message includes maintaining the display of at least a portion of a message body of the reply message. In some embodiments, the selected response option is one of: reply, reply to all, and forward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Bay-Wei Chang, Jing Yee Lim, Sanjeev Singh
  • Patent number: 9395900
    Abstract: A mobile terminal is disclosed. The mobile terminal may include a touch screen configured to display a specific page a plurality of pages including at least one icon and a controller configured to move a specific icon displayed on the specific page to a page corresponding to a specific indicator a plurality of indicators when a predetermined user manipulation for selecting the specific indicator is detected, the plurality of pages having indicators corresponding the pages respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Donghee Bae
  • Patent number: 9391933
    Abstract: One or more embodiments described herein include methods and systems of organizing a user interface of a communication system. More specifically, systems and methods described herein provide users the ability to easily and effectively compose an electronic communication directly in a communication thread, thus reducing user interface clutter. Additionally, systems and methods described herein selectively provide display elements within a messaging user interface according to the type of message a user is creating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventor: Benjamin S. Langholz
  • Patent number: 9372596
    Abstract: In general, techniques are described for providing a user interface to create report specifications and included source definitions for business reporting and analysis. For example, a computing device includes a user interface (UI) module for displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) and receiving a selection of a data element at a start location of the GUI. The UI module may display an overlay element having a boundary forming a plurality of paths from the start location to a plurality of end locations, the paths corresponding to a plurality of report options associated with the data element. The UI module may receive a second input indicative of a traversal of the overlay element along a chosen path. The computing device may include a definition module operable to create a definition for a report specification based at least in part on the report option corresponding to the chosen path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Ilse M Breedvelt-Schouten
  • Patent number: 9372594
    Abstract: A method for adding an icon to an interface of an Android system, where the Android system has N interfaces, includes: a. obtaining add command information; b. obtaining, according to the add command information, space information of an icon to be added; c. obtaining remaining space information of an Mth interface according to the add command information; d. judging whether the space information of the icon to be added is greater than the remaining space information of the Mth interface; if yes, executing step e; if no, executing step f; e. judging whether the Mth interface is a last interface to be judged; if yes, executing step g; if no, assigning M+1 to M and returning to step c; f. adding the icon to the interface; and g. establishing another interface, and adding the icon to the newly established interface; where M and N are natural numbers, and 1?M?N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: HUAWEI DEVICE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Pei Wang
  • Patent number: 9373148
    Abstract: Configurations are provided for suggesting one or more other users within a same or proximate geolocation to enable the user to engage in activities with these suggested users. When the user performs a check-in for a new or different geolocation in an online social networking service, the subject technology can suggest other users who have recently checked-in and/or changed their location to the same place or region. The subject technology can sort one or more suggested users based on geographic proximity, how recently the user checked-in, a distance from the user, and other criteria (e.g., interests, demographic information (e.g., gender, age, etc.), social networking profile, etc.). The suggested users are selected, in one example, to identify one or more users that are typically not in the same place or geolocation but have newly arrived here. The subject technology can prioritize the selection of suggested users based on different criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Frances Bordwell Haugen, Madelaine Boyd
  • Patent number: 9367208
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for providing a content information viewing mode in electronic devices. In an embodiment, in response to a gesture performed on an electronic touch sensitive device, a content icon may be moved from its original location and information about that item of digital content may be displayed to the user. The information may be displayed on the portion of the screen previously occupied by the content icon. Releasing contact with the touch screen allows the icon to return to its original location. Moving the content icon past a certain point, may allow the user to edit the newly displayed content information. An audio and/or visual indicator may be output by the electronic device alerting the user that the newly visible information may now be edited. Movement that extends further may indicate that icon movement is desired, not the information viewing/editing mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: BARNES & NOBLE COLLEGE BOOKSELLERS, LLC
    Inventors: Kourtny M. Hicks, Amir Mesguich Havilio
  • Patent number: 9354796
    Abstract: Various embodiments generally relate to user interface elements informative of referral incentives. In some embodiments, contact information may be obtained for contacts associated with a user of a content management system. Various amounts of additional storage space available to the user upon acceptance of referral requests sent by or on behalf of the user to the contacts may be determined. One or more graphic indicator of various types may be displayed to the user indicating one or more of: amounts of additional storage space obtainable through successful new referrals, the user's current storage space, and the relative sizes of the user's current storage space and the amounts of additional storage space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.
    Inventor: Joshua Puckett
  • Patent number: 9342236
    Abstract: A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one other terminal; a sensing unit configured to sense tapping gestures; a memory configured to store a matching of a plurality of actions to perform with a plurality of tapping gestures; and a controller configured to display a first execution screen on a display unit corresponding to a first function executing on the mobile terminal, and perform a first action on the first function matched with a first type of tapping gestures and perform a second action different than the first action on the first function matched with a second type of tapping gestures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jongseok Park, Jinhae Choi, Andy Kim, Chulbae Lee, Yoosok Saw, Hyunghoon Oh, Eunyoung Kim, Younghoon Lee
  • Patent number: 9317172
    Abstract: A computer readable medium storing a media editing application for creating media presentations is described. The application includes a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI has (1) a composite display area for displaying graphical representations of a set of media clips that are part of the composite presentation and (2) a navigation tool including several selectable navigation markers associated with several navigable locations in the composite presentation. The selection of a navigation marker causes the composite display area to present the navigable location in the composite presentation that is associated with the selected navigation marker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Charles Lyons, Wendy Van Wazer, Lisa Diener, Douglas DeVore, Peter Warner
  • Patent number: 9317178
    Abstract: In an apparatus configured to reproduce audio guidance corresponding to a screen, when there is an instruction to switch to a screen in a backward direction, since audio guidance has already been reproduced once during a screen transition in a forward direction, the same audio guidance is not reproduced again.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takahiro Matsushita
  • Patent number: 9276991
    Abstract: A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for providing a tool menu based upon a document displayed on an endpoint device are disclosed. For example, the method opens the document requested by a user in the endpoint device, detects one or more portions of the document that require data entry, determines a type of data entry that is required for the one or more portions of the document that are detected to require data entry, detects one or more configuration settings of the endpoint device and displays one or more tools selected from a plurality of tools on the tool menu based upon the type of data entry that is required for the one or more portions of the document and the one or more configuration settings of the endpoint device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Matthew H. DeRoller
  • Patent number: 9274746
    Abstract: A multi-modal user interface is described that hides response latency delays. A graphical user interface (GUI) supports different user input modalities including low delay inputs which respond to user inputs without significant delay, and high latency inputs which have a significant response latency after receiving a user input before providing a corresponding completed response. The GUI accepts user inputs in a sequence of mixed input modalities independently of response latencies without waiting for responses to high latency inputs, and responds to each user input in the sequence as if each preceding user input in the sequence had been performed without response latencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Andreas Neubacher, Miklós Pápai, Attila Muszta, Herwig Häle, Christina Drexel
  • Patent number: 9274683
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for presenting data are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes presenting, by a user device, an answer box as a search result in a search result location of a search results page. The answer box can include first content responsive to a query that submitted with a first resource request over a network. The user device determines that a user interaction with the answer box has occurred. In response to determining that the user interaction has occurred, the user device can presents second content in the answer box. The second content is selected from available content that has not been presented prior to the user interaction. The second content is presented independent of submission of a second resource request over the network subsequent to submission of the first resource request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas G. Fey, Michael van Ouwerkerk, Yury Pinsky
  • Patent number: 9268480
    Abstract: When it is determined that a touch position by a user has shifted on a scroll image display region in a direction different from a first direction (scrolling direction), a scroll target image is scrolled and displayed in the first direction (scrolling direction).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobutaka Torigoe, Eriko Kimura
  • Patent number: 9262052
    Abstract: Elements of a list are caused to scroll in a first display mode on a display device in response to a movement made on a touch interface along a determined scroll axis, and starting from the first mode, a display is triggered on the display device of the list in at least one second display mode in response to a movement made on the touch interface along a trigger axis that is different from the list scroll axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Orange
    Inventor: Stephane Roulliere
  • Patent number: 9230238
    Abstract: Techniques are described to share items from a favorites list. In an implementation, a list entry for a favorites list may be associated with content from a third party source by a first user. The favorites list may be presented in a webpage to display the list entry and the associated content to another user. A control operable to share the list entry with the other user may be exposed with the list entry. Responsive to operation of the control, the content and/or related data may be obtained from the third party source and data may be stored to associate the list entry including the obtained content with the other user. In at least some embodiments, the control is operable by a single-click to cause the sharing of the list entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Eric J. Zappa, Abdul Haadi Mohammed, Wendy Wenjing Wang, Jeffrey E. Steinbok, Joseph Andrew Bono
  • Patent number: 9223483
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of operating an electronic device having a display and means for receiving user input, the method comprises: displaying on the display a menu adjacent an edge of the display, the menu containing one or more icons, each icon representing a function and being selectable by the user; and in response to detection of a user input in relation to an icon, causing the device to display a description of the function of the icon, wherein the description is displayed to project from the menu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Simon Martin Thorsander, Per Åke Daniel Johansson, Nils Roger Andersson Reimer, Robert Simon Lessing, Jonas Ove Arbsjö, Charles Anton Nilsson Boman, Ahmed ElSaeed Mohamed Gad Eldessouki, Andreas Pal Drén
  • Patent number: 9218116
    Abstract: Touch interaction with a curved display (e.g., a sphere, a hemisphere, a cylinder, etc.) is enabled through various user interface (UI) features. In an example embodiment, a curved display is monitored to detect a touch input. If a touch input is detected based on the act of monitoring, then one or more locations of the touch input are determined. Responsive to the determined one or more locations of the touch input, at least one user UI feature is implemented. Example UI features include an orb-like invocation gesture feature, a rotation-based dragging feature, a send-to-dark-side interaction feature, and an object representation and manipulation by proxy representation feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Inventors: Hrvoje Benko, Andrew D. Wilson, Billy Chen, Ravin Balakrishnan, Patrick M. Baudisch
  • Patent number: 9212928
    Abstract: There is provided a navigation apparatus including: a display unit having a display screen; a touch panel provided to the display screen; and a display controller that selectively changes first, second, and third screens in response to contacting the touch panel to be displayed, wherein each of the screens has a manipulation-button display area for displaying a screen-changing button, and wherein, the display controller performs a first displaying operation of circulatingly changing the screens in a predetermined order to be displayed at each time of contacting the manipulation-button display area, a second displaying operation of displaying a pop-up menu including first, second, and third screen-selecting buttons for directly selecting the screens at the same time of the first displaying operation, and a third displaying operation of displaying on the display screen one screen selected among the screens in response to contacting the screen-selecting buttons displayed by the second displaying operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Yamazaki, Kaori Amano