Patents Examined by Abdullah-Al Kawsar
  • User interface
    Patent number: 10073608
    Abstract: An apparatus, a method, a computer program and a graphical user interface is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Wei Wang, Kongqiao Wang, Xiaohui Xie, Yingfei Liu, Xia Wang, Huanglingzi Liu, Bin Wang, Zhen Liu, Yuezhong Tang
  • Grasping contents of electronic documents
    Patent number: 10055097
    Abstract: A change operation changing a displayed portion of an electronic document from a first portion to a second portion is detected. First and second ranges of displayable portions of the electronic document are determined. The first range includes the first portion of the document and the second range includes the second portion of the document. A character string appears at a first frequency in the first range, and appears at a second frequency in the second range. Change information is generated that relates the second appearance frequency to the first appearance frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kurokawa, Takahisa Mizuno, Tomohiro Shioya, Sayaka Tamai
  • Method and apparatus pertaining to sharing content with scheduled-event participants
    Patent number: 10049342
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus is configured to facilitate sharing a particular content item (such as, for example, a particular digital photograph, a video, a presentation, and so forth) with the participants of a scheduled calendar event (such as a face-to-face meeting, a distance meeting, an appointment, and so forth). By one approach the user is presented with an opportunity to assert a non-specific share command that triggers the aforementioned display of one or more recommended sharing actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Cody Stephen Bryant, Orlin Vesselinov Stoev
  • Information processing apparatus and information processing method for utilizing various cross-sectional types of user input
    Patent number: 10042541
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a processor configured to cause a display to show a screen, the screen including an input area which accepts a text input or a drag & drop input performed by a user, a first icon which is associated with the input area and executes a first operation based on an input accepted by the input area, a second icon which is associated with the input area and executes a second operation based on an input accepted by the input area, the second operation being different from the first operation, a first display area for information acquired by the first operation, and a second display area for information acquired by the second operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Sutou, Hiroaki Kitano, Midori Kawano
  • Methods and systems for viewing embedded content
    Patent number: 10042532
    Abstract: An item of content includes an embedded content item and one or more portions distinct from the embedded content item. An electronic device simultaneously displays the embedded content item and a first portion of the item of content distinct from the embedded content item in a display area having a display height and a display width. The embedded content item is displayed at a first resolution at which its entire width is contained within the display width of the display area. In response to a first user input indicating selection of the embedded content item, display of the first portion of the item of content ceases, and a first portion of the embedded content item is displayed at a second resolution that is greater than the first resolution, wherein a height of the first portion of the embedded content item at the second resolution equals the display height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventors: Michael James Matas, Benjamin S. Langholz, Brian Daniel Amerige
  • Modifying a segment of a media item on a mobile device
    Patent number: 10037129
    Abstract: Systems and methods for permitting selection and modification of a set of video segments on a mobile device is described. A user interface is provided on a screen of the mobile device to allow a user to select any of a plurality of original video segments of an original video. A selection of at least one of the original video segments is received via the user interface. A request for a modification to the selected at least one original video segment can also be received via the user interface. The systems and methods can cause a modification of the selected at least one original video segment to be performed to provide at least one modified video segment. The at least one modified video segment can be presented via the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Justin Lewis, Ruxandra Georgiana Paun
  • System and method for content size adjustment
    Patent number: 10019139
    Abstract: Methods and systems for inferring and predicting the desirable font size of a content area are disclosed. An example method may include detecting a use gesture changing a size of a first content area displayed on a touchscreen, determining that the user has found an optimal font size based on the user gesture detected, and calculating an average that size of the first content area. The method may further include receiving an indication to display a second content area and displaying the second content area on the touchscreen. The method may also include adjusting the font size of the second content area based on the average font size of the first content area, and displaying the second content area with the adjusted font size on the touchscreen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Michael David Smith, John F. J. Mellor
  • Alternate screen reveal for instant privacy
    Patent number: 10007810
    Abstract: A system and method for assuring the privacy of a computer application includes generating a user interface with a privacy feature coupled with a computer application. Through the user interface, the user is able to activate the privacy feature while interacting with the computer application. The computer application displays application-based screen elements against a backdrop. Once activated, the privacy feature presents a visual display hiding the application-based screen elements in the application from view without closing or logging out of the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Excalibur IP, LLC
    Inventors: Vince Magistrado, Utkarsh Shrivastava
  • Digital device and method of controlling therefor
    Patent number: 9990103
    Abstract: The present specification is related to a digital device including a front side display unit and a back side display unit and a method of controlling therefor, more particularly, to a method of controlling an application in the back side display unit by rotating an icon corresponding to the application in the front side display unit and a digital device therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyorim Park, Doyoung Lee, Yongsin Kim
  • Accessible contextual controls within a graphical user interface
    Patent number: 9990105
    Abstract: A user device may provide a graphical user interface which presents content navigation objects, where each content navigation object may be associated with a content item and is presented within a portion of the graphical user interface. The user device may detect an action that corresponds to a content navigation object, and determine whether the detected action is a command to display content options that may be contextually related to the content item associated with the content navigation object. The user device may display the content options by altering the appearance of the content navigation object, receive an action selecting the content option from the displayed content options, and conceal the content options after the action for selecting the content option has been received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. D'Argenio, Lonnie Hiroshi Katai, Alice Yuan Bain, Kristopher T. Frazier, William Andrew Fish, Richard E. Sodon, Jennifer Yu, Sheryl Soo, Janette Markel, Harry Lawson Kight, Andrew Allen Haskin
  • Dynamic user interfaces based on multiple data sources
    Patent number: 9983775
    Abstract: In some implementations, a user interface is adjusted using a set of customization rules and displayed on a user device. A first subset of customization rules is selected from among a set of customization rules that is associated with an application on a user device. A user interface is generated based at least on the selected first set of customization rules. After generating the user interface, user interaction data is received, and sensor data from the user device is also received. A second subset of customization rules is selected that includes one or more rules different from the first subset of customization rules. The user interface is adjusted according to the selected second subset of customization rules and provided for display on the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Vignet Incorporated
    Inventors: Praduman Jain, Josh Schilling
  • Touchscreen keyboard
    Patent number: 9959039
    Abstract: Operating a touch-screen device includes displaying at least a portion of a keyboard on a touch-screen, detecting a touch on the touch-screen, and detecting movement of the touch on the touch-screen. Operating the touch-screen device also includes moving the displayed keyboard in response to the detected movement of the touch on the touch-screen, detecting a release of the touch from the touch-screen, and assigning a character according to a final location of the touch relative to a location of the displayed keyboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Olivier Artigue, Jean-Michel Douliez, Francois Trible
  • Augmented reality representations across multiple devices
    Patent number: 9952820
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to produce augmented reality representations across multiple devices are described. In one example, operation include generating a virtual object, generating a reality space including a first display, and presenting the virtual object in the reality space including the first display on a second display. Further operations include tracking a location of the virtual object in the reality space as the virtual object moves through the reality space, updating the presentation of the virtual object on the second display using the tracked location, and presenting the virtual object on the first display when the tracked location of the virtual object coincides with the location of the first display in the reality space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Glen J Anderson, Wendy A. March
  • Method for managing multiple windows on a screen for multiple users, and device and system using the same
    Patent number: 9954927
    Abstract: Real-time managing multiple display windows on a screen for multiple users each allowed to request reserving an area on the screen and each having a priority value indicating a level of right to use the screen is considered. In a method, the screen is partitioned into grid-area units. Upon receiving a request from a requesting user, determine a target window formed by one or more of these units to cover the area to be reserved. Whether the requesting user is permitted to use the target window is then determined. If permitted, the target window is allocated to the requesting user as a new window. If the target window overlaps any already-allocated display window, the already-allocated window is adjusted (resized/removed) to not overlap the target window. All the allocated windows are then tiled one by one in an order according to the users' priority values for maximizing the screen's usage percentage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventor: Yat Cheung Ngai
  • Methods and systems for navigating a list with gestures
    Patent number: 9939992
    Abstract: Methods and systems for facilitating the navigation of a list of content items with gestures are described. Consistent with some embodiments, a computing device detects simple gestures, and in response, display a preview of content items preceding, or following a currently selected content item, from the list of content items. Upon detecting a selection gesture, the computing device updates the view of the currently selected content item to display the newly selected content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Frank Taehyun Yoo, Steven Thomas Flory, Sean Edward Beausoleil
  • Electronic apparatus and image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 9942422
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a display; a setting change determining section configured to, after the receipt of a command to execute a function, determine whether or not any of setting items for the function has been changed; a change frequency value storage section configured to store a change frequency value indicating a frequency of change of the individual setting item; a shortcut screen creating section configured to create one or more shortcut keys each for receiving a command to change one of the setting items in different sizes depending upon the change frequency value stored in the change frequency value storage section and create a shortcut screen on which the shortcut keys are arranged; and a display control section configured to read the shortcut screen created by the shortcut screen creating section and allow the display to display the shortcut screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Masahiro Nakao
  • Hybrid systems and methods for low-latency user input processing and feedback
    Patent number: 9927959
    Abstract: A system for processing user input includes an input device, an input processing unit, a high-latency subsystem, a low-latency subsystem, input processing unit software for generating signals in response to user inputs, and an output device. The low-latency subsystem receives the signals and generates low-latency output and the high-latency subsystem processes the signals and generates high-latency output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Tactual Labs Co.
    Inventors: Daniel Wigdor, Steven Leonard Sanders, Ricardo Jorge Jota Costa, Clifton Forlines
  • Messaging application with in-application search functionality
    Patent number: 9930167
    Abstract: The disclosure provides examples of a messaging application search service in which a search is performed from a messaging application for content to be incorporated into a message being composed using the messaging application. The messaging application responds to a search function indicator to provide a search function without leaving the messaging application. The search function indicator is interpreted by the messaging application as a request for a search to be performed by a search application. Upon receipt of the search request, the messaging application allows search terms to be entered in a messaging application user interface for subsequent search by the search application. Returned search results are presented to the user within the messaging application to allow the user to incorporate a search result into a message being composed via the messaging application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Sean F. Bruno
  • Detection of pan and scaling during multi-finger touch interactions
    Patent number: 9910579
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a graphical display device may use a set of one or more thresholds to remove a scaling motion from a panning input using multiple fingers. The graphical display device may receive a user input in a user movement interface having at least a first bio-point 210 and a second bio-point 210. The graphical display device may detect a panning motion from the user input. The graphical display device may filter out a scaling motion from the user input based on a scaling threshold. The graphical display device may present a pan of a graphical user interface to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Nathan Pollock, Lauren Gust, Uros Batricevic
  • Activity triggered photography in metaverse applications
    Patent number: 9875580
    Abstract: A system, method and program product for collecting image data from within a metaverse. A system is provided that includes: a graphical user interface (GUI) for allowing a user to install and administer a camera within the metaverse; a system for collecting image data from the camera based on an occurrence of a triggering event associated with the camera; and a system for storing or delivering the image data for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ulysses L. Cannon, Angela Richards Jones, Ruthie D. Lyle, Susan S. McVey