Patents Examined by Alex Olshannikov
  • Patent number: 11956571
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a web-based videoconference system that allows for video avatars to navigate within a virtual environment. Various methods for efficient modeling, rendering, and shading are disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: KATMAI TECH INC.
    Inventors: Gerard Cornelis Krol, Petr Polyakov
  • Patent number: 11868519
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments for managing a task including one or more skills. A server stores a virtual environment, software agents configured to collect data generated when a user interacts with the virtual environment to perform the task, and a predictive machine learning model. The server generates virtual entities during the performance of the task, and executes the predictive machine learning model to configure the virtual entities based upon data generated when the user interacts with the virtual environment. The server generates the virtual environment and the virtual entities configured for interaction with the user during display by the client device, and receives the data collected by the software agents. The system displays a user interface at the client device to indicate a measurement of each of the skills during performance of the task. The server trains the predictive machine learning model using this measurement of skills during task performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Architecture Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Scott Aloisio, Dahyun Hollister, Robert A. Joyce
  • Patent number: 11556567
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and systems that generate and visualize bias scores within segment-generation-user interfaces prior to executing proposed actions with regard to target segments. For example, the disclosed systems can generate a bias score indicating a measure of bias for a characteristic within a segment of users selected for a proposed action and visualize the bias score and corresponding characteristic in a segment-generation-user interface. In some implementations, the disclosed systems can further integrate detecting and visualizing bias as a bias score with selectable options for a segmentation-bias system to generate and modify segments of users to reduce detected bias.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Moumita Sinha, Shankar Srinivasan, Pari Sawant
  • Patent number: 11501104
    Abstract: An approach is provided for image labeling for cross view alignment. The approach, for example, involves determining camera pose data, camera trajectory data, or a combination thereof for a first image depicting an area from a first perspective view. The approach also involves processing the camera pose data, the camera trajectory data, or a combination thereof to generate meta data indicating a position, an orientation, or a combination thereof of the first perspective view of the area relative to a second image depicting the area from a second perspective view. The approach further involves providing data for presenting the meta data in a user interface as an overlay on the second perspective view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: HERE Global B.V.
    Inventors: Alex Ung, Zhanwei Chen, Anish Mittal, Nicholas Pojman, David Lawlor
  • Patent number: 11417220
    Abstract: A method for providing task management assistance in managing the flight path to the flight crew is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Barbara Holder, Stephen Whitlow, Christopher Heine, Steven Crouch, Kelsey Keberle
  • Patent number: 11200380
    Abstract: A disclosed sentiment topic modeling tool identifies issues within voluminous customer review data, based on particular categories of review submission (e.g., particular products and experiences) and concern areas (e.g., quality, performance, suitability of features), and abstracts the extracted topic data into a manageable set of focus areas for business operations improvements. An exemplary process includes: receiving a plurality of reviews; selecting a category of review to use for a topic network; selecting a number of topics for generating the topic network; generating, based at least on the selected category and the selected number of topics, the topic network; generating a plurality of topic networks in a topic network group, and determining a set of themes for the group. Additional network groups are generated, and a set of themes is determined for each. A set of focus areas is determined, based at least on the sets, and reports are generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Mani Kanteswara Garlapati, Lakshmi Kommuru
  • Patent number: 11188206
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that are capable of providing a particular feedback in a displayed image in response to a predetermined operation by a plurality of users at matched timing. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit for recognizing a plurality of users, detecting operation, by each user, on a display surface where an image is being displayed, and outputting feedback on the image displayed on the display surface according to timing of detected operations by the plurality of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takanobu Omata
  • Patent number: 11188359
    Abstract: A method for intelligent screen capture in an electronic device includes: receiving, by the electronic device, a user input for capturing a screenshot of contents displayed on a screen of the electronic device; dividing, by the electronic device, the screen of the electronic device into a plurality of blocks, each of the plurality of blocks including inter-related contents displayed on the screen of the electronic device; identifying, by the electronic device, at least one block from the plurality of blocks based on a plurality of parameters; and displaying, by the electronic device, a guide user interface for capturing the screenshot of the at least one block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Siva Prasad Thota, Naresh Purre, Debi Prasanna Mohanty, Sukumar Moharana, Rachit Sindhi Munjal, Manoj Goyal, Divija Nagaraju, Kriti Singh, Deepak Garg, Chirag Batra
  • Patent number: 11106758
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products for providing a customized display of social media content are provided. Aspects include receiving a plurality of social media posts that have been published for display by a social media service. Aspects also include receiving a profile associated with a user of the social media service including social media post filtering preferences. The social media post filtering preferences are created based at least in part upon an analysis of social media posts that were previously disliked by the user. Aspects further include identifying a set of acceptable social media posts and a set of unacceptable social media posts. Aspects also include causing the set of acceptable social media posts to be displayed in a news feed window of the social media service in association with an account of the user of the social media service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuk L. Chan, Michael L. Greenblatt, Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt, Deepti M. Naphade
  • Patent number: 11099731
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a graphical user interface (GUI) that includes a gesture sensitive element. The gesture sensitive element can be used to display or hide different amounts of GUI control elements, reducing complexity until it is requested and increasing screen area available for content. By including a gesture sensitive element that can be used to invoke various actions and to provide a progressive level of controls, the number and complexity of elements shown in a GUI can be reduced, improving usability and reducing the number of interactions required to perform a desired action which reduces the processing required by the computer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil Wade Everette, Traci Wei-Fien Tsai Gadow, Marisa Cathleen Gallagher, Aaron Koop, Kevin Moran
  • Patent number: 11086592
    Abstract: A method for integrating audio recording and distributing. The method can include: detecting a user interface selection made by a user of a computing device; recording an audio snippet in response to the user interface selection; generating, by the first computing device, a social network message including an indication of the audio snippet; and transmitting the social network message to an external server for broadcasting to a set of user accounts of a real-time messaging platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Twitter, Inc.
    Inventor: Sean Wang
  • Patent number: 11061539
    Abstract: A device receives information that identifies a primary node included in a computational graph. The primary node represents a first operation, that modifies a state value associated with the primary node and a reference node, when the primary node is executed. The device receives information that identifies the reference node included in the computational graph. The reference node represents a second operation, that modifies the state value associated with the primary node and the reference node, when the reference node is executed. The device obtains the computational graph that includes the primary node and the reference node, and executes the primary node and the reference node in a single iteration of the computational graph. The device modifies the state value, associated with the primary node and the reference node, based on executing the primary node and the reference node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: The MathWorks, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald P. Orofino
  • Patent number: 11058597
    Abstract: A system and method for safely controlling a device, such as a medical device, via an input unit using a verification unit, wherein the input unit communicates with the verification unit via a communication channel is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: KARL STORZ SE & Co. KG
    Inventor: Klaus Bruederle
  • Patent number: 11037256
    Abstract: A process, and corresponding system for performing the process, is described for editing and representing property values for a digital map. The process retrieves electronic map data from a style sheet corresponding to a vector map tile set for a digital map. The process displays a plurality of templates and receives selection of a template. The process displays a visual map representing the electronic map with the set of map style layers of the selected template. The process displays a theme and a plurality of components. Each component is a set of map style layers and is a subset of the set of map style layers of the template. The process receives selection of a component. The process displays a plurality of property values associated with the selected component. The process receives an edit to a property value. The process updates the visual map to reflect the edited property value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Mapbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Dana Alexander Sulit, Saman Bemel-Benrud, Eli Fitch, Nicki Zippora Dlugash
  • Patent number: 11036364
    Abstract: Disclosed is an improved systems and method for navigation and manipulation of browser windows in a 3D mixed reality environment. An improved approach is provided to view a user's windows, regardless of the current location for the user relative to one or more previously-opened windows. A method for displaying windows in a computing environment includes receiving an instruction to select multiple open windows. The method also includes retrieving information for the multiple open windows, where the multiple open windows are associated with different physical locations. The method further includes displaying a representation of the multiple open windows in a single user interface. Moreover, the method includes upon receiving a selection of a selected window of the multiple open windows, loading the selected window into a foreground of a field of view for a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Tim Zurmoehle, Andrea Isabel Montoya, Robert John Cummings MacDonald, Sakina Groth, Genevieve Mak
  • Patent number: 11036821
    Abstract: A browser is disclosed that provides for browsing a hierarchical dataset including potentially millions of nodes. The hierarchical dataset may be located on a machine that is remote to the machine hosting the browser. Through selective, intelligent fetching and local cache management of sparse portions of the hierarchical dataset, the browser provides consistent and predictable response times for displaying a randomly-selected node in the context of proximate nodes in the hierarchy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Anurag Garg, Jeffrey Leon Woodard
  • Patent number: 11030445
    Abstract: For sorting and displaying digital notes on a digital whiteboard, an apparatus is disclosed. A system, method, and program product also perform the functions of the apparatus. The apparatus for sorting and displaying digital notes on a digital whiteboard includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores code executable by the processor. The processor receives a plurality of digital notes, identifies a plurality of categories, and sorts each digital note with at least one category based on metadata associated with each digital note. The processor displays, on the digital whiteboard, each of the plurality of digital notes at a location based on the at least one category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Jonathan Jen-Wei Yu, Lincoln Penn Hancock, Jeffrey E. Skinner, Aaron Michael Stewart
  • Patent number: 11025569
    Abstract: Users who are experiencing a shared content stream can exchange messages. Each user device can present a graphical user interface that includes controls to interact with a shared content stream being received and presented at the user device; a control to begin composing a message to other users who are receiving the shared content stream, and a display area to display previously received messages associated with the shared content stream. A message can be associated with a shared content stream, e.g., by providing a tag that identifies the content being played at the time the message was sent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Shaun C. Lind, William Martin Bachman, Alexander C. D. Fringes, Monika E. Gromek, Ofer Morag, Steve S. Gedikian, Jeffrey L. Robbin
  • Patent number: 11023099
    Abstract: In one implementation, a system for managing data includes a tag engine to maintain associations among objects of a data set, an associates engine to identify a first set of objects having a tag that matches a tag coupled to a focal object, a filter engine to identify a second set of objects based on the filter evaluated on the first set of objects, and a load engine to cause the second set of objects to load for display in a window of a UI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Micro Focus LLC
    Inventors: Klaus Baumecker, Stefan Bergstein, Timo Schneller
  • Patent number: 11016643
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to interacting with user interface objects in a user interface. An input is detected directed to the user interface object that includes a respective amount of movement in a first direction. In response to detecting the input, if the user interface object includes user-specified content, then the user interface object is moved a first distance selected based on the respective amount of movement of the input in the first direction. If the user interface object does not include user-specified content, then the user interface object is moved a second distance selected based on the respective amount of movement of the input in the first direction, wherein the second distance is larger than the first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Cas Lemmens, Christian Dalonzo, Christopher Patrick Foss, Pani Page, Eric Lance Wilson