Patents Examined by Alex Olshannikov
  • Patent number: 10108308
    Abstract: First content is rendered on a display screen of a computing system according to a first setting for an attribute of the first content. In response to sensing motion proximate to a sensing device, second content is displayed on the display screen according to the first setting for the attribute. The second content is displayed in a window within the first content displayed on the display screen. In response to sensing further motion, the first setting is changed to a second setting, and the second content is displayed in the window according to the second setting for the attribute. In response to sensing cessation of the further motion, the window is closed, the first content is reformatted according to the second setting for the attribute, and at least a portion of the reformatted first content on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: RAKUTEN KOBO INC.
    Inventors: Paul McDougall, Arpit Guglani, Reilly Watson
  • Patent number: 10007897
    Abstract: The description relates to auto-calendaring. One example can obtain content relating to a calendarable event. The example can also communicate the content to an auto-calendaring service. The example can also receive a response from the auto-calendaring service. The response can indicate that the calendarable event has been added to a calendar or can request further information about the calendarable event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Denis L. Possing, Gail Giacobbe, Jane T. Kim, Nathaniel E. B. Auer, Stefanie J. Danhope, Lorrissa J. Reyes
  • Patent number: 9996063
    Abstract: There is provided a transmitter. The transmitter includes: a display portion; an first input receiver configured to receive a first selecting operation for selecting one of setting items and a second selecting operation for selecting one of setting values; and a second input receiver configured to receive a switching operation for sequentially switching the setting values of the selected setting item, wherein the second input receiver is rotated in a first rotation direction or in a second rotation direction opposite to the first rotation direction; and a first controller configured to display the setting values of the selected setting item on the display portion such that the setting values are sequentially switched in a forward direction or a backward direction when the second input receiver is rotated in the first rotation direction or the second rotation direction by the switching operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Miyazaki, Takafusa Nakayama, Yosuke Iwata
  • Patent number: 9892251
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes: a display; and a controller. The controller puts at least one screen corresponding to the current display screen and having the same execution depth into standby, and when a predetermined trigger operation is performed, further displays on the display a screen chosen from the at least one screen by the trigger operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Hyungbin Park
  • Patent number: 9893904
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for generating a message. During operation, the system receives user interaction event data. The user interaction event data describes explicit or implicit interactions of a user with a web application and/or mobile application. Next, the system modifies a graph describing the user's current context associated with the user based on an analysis of the user interaction event data, as interpreted by the system learning from previous processing of user interaction event data. The context graph includes information about the user's state, behavior, and interests, and some or all portions of the context graph may be shared between users. The system determines a set of rules associated with a group of users that includes the user, and then applies the determined set of rules to any context graph associated with the user to generate the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Michael Roberts, Victoria M. E. Bellotti, Shane P. Ahern
  • Patent number: 9754286
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the disclosure include methods and systems that allows for improved user navigation within a group of content items. For example, a content navigation system can identify a content item within a group of content items to provide to a user in response to a user interaction. In some embodiments, the content navigation system can identify a content item to provide to the user based on one or more factors, such as a characteristic of a user interaction and a relevance of a content item. In addition, the content navigation system can strategically provide advertisement content items to a user by adjusting one or more factors with respect to advertisement content items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventor: Mark A. Richardson
  • Patent number: 9740394
    Abstract: A display/input device has a display portion and a touch panel portion. The display portion displays selection keys and displays a setting screen of a selected setting item. The touch panel portion is provided for the display portion to detect a touch position of user input and a tap-and-drag operation in which while a touch is maintained the touched position is moved. When a tap-and-drag operation is detected within the display position of a selection key, the display portion displays a setting item explanation screen that explains the setting item corresponding to the selection key at the position where the tap-and-drag operation has been made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 9729403
    Abstract: One embodiment is directed to a method performed by a computing device. The method includes (1) receiving a command from a user to display a current GUI page of a set of GUI pages on a client device, the set of GUI pages providing the user with control over a system, (2) selecting, with reference to a proficiency level associated with the user, a version of the current GUI page from a plurality of versions of the current GUI page, and (3) causing the selected version of the current GUI page to be displayed to the user on a display of the client device. Other embodiments are directed to a computerized apparatus and a computer program product for performing a method similar to that described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Bruce R. Rabe, Kendra Marchant, Rhon L. Porter
  • Patent number: 9696872
    Abstract: Dynamic display of hierarchical data in the form of a treemap. A first instance of an object representation is selected in a first visualization of a hierarchy encoded by containment. A second instance of the object representation is designated, wherein each instance is a tier for object occupation. An object within the hierarchy is displayed as a shape comprising at least two opposing surfaces, and the object is selected through the opposing surfaces. The hierarchy is dynamically re-ordered in response to the selection and designation, and the second representation of the hierarchy is displayed based on the dynamic re-ordering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew R. Claycomb, Trenton J. Johnson, James L. Lentz, Dana L. Price, Charmant K. Tan, Ramratan Vennam
  • Patent number: 9600595
    Abstract: In a method for redrawing a two web page windows that are being moved from a first display screen to a second display screen, an indication is received that each respective web page window is being moved from a first display to a second display. A processor identifies different scaling factors corresponding to uniform resource locators (URLs) of each respective web page window for scaling the web page windows for display on the second display screen. The processor causes the first web page window to be scaled according to the first scaling factor and the second web page window to be scaled according to the second, different scaling factor, wherein each web page window is scaled differently relative to the other on the second display screen than on the first display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Dana L. Price, Shelbee D. Smith-Eigenbrode
  • Patent number: 9582519
    Abstract: In the proposed approach cluster elements (bins) are made available as a keypad in the form of a cluster map. The user directly selects the cluster element (bin) with a mouse, touch or actual keypad. For each of the associated attributes, a cluster map is available that orders the attributes from high-to-low by color or shade intensity. When a cluster element is selected in one cluster map, that same cluster element is also highlighted in other cluster maps. For each of the cluster maps, a value axis is available which shows the value of the parameter for the selected cluster element. In the case of numerical values, the high/low attribute pattern across the cluster maps is easily visible. The selected data objects in the cluster map are displayed in a separate widget.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Dassault Systemes Simulia Corp.
    Inventor: Alexander Jacobus Maria Van der Velden