Patents Examined by Alvaro R Calderon, IV
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Patent number: 12379819Abstract: The prevent disclosure provides a method and apparatus for adjusting a perspective of a direction indicator, an electronic device, and a storage medium, which includes that: a first area and a second area corresponding to a first direction indicator are acquired, where the first direction indicator is configured to indicate a forward direction in a panorama display scene, the first area is a visible area of the first direction indicator in a graphical user interface, and the second area is an invisible area of the first direction indicator outside the graphical user interface; an initial perspective range corresponding to the second area is acquired; a target perspective range to which a first perspective belongs is determined from the initial perspective range, and a second direction indicator corresponding to the target perspective range is displayed; and the first perspective is adjusted to a second perspective based on the second direction indicator.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2022Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yanan Liu, Da Qu
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Patent number: 12373513Abstract: Provided are systems and methods for automatically detecting a change in screen content and generating a hint message in response. As another example, the system may auto-capture the detected change in the screen content instead of or in addition to the hint message. In one example, a method may include capturing user interface metadata of content being displayed by a client-side of the software application, activating a recorder that is configured to record events transmitted between the client-side and a server-side of the software application, receiving updated user interface metadata based on a user interaction on the client-side of the software application, determining that user interface content has changed based on a comparison of the captured user interface metadata to the updated user interface metadata, and displaying a hint message via the user interface of the client-side of the software application.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2021Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: SAP SEInventors: Chandrakanth S, Sudha Karanam Narasimha Murthy, Sharmika Parmar, Suvajit Dutta, Vinay Kumar, Satyadeep Kumar Dey, Mithilesh Kumar Singh
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Patent number: 12360656Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling desktop virtualization function, per-display device window layout provision function, and user input-based external display device utilization function are provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2022Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Doyoun Kang, Sungjin Park, Gwanglim Lee, Sangjin Lee, Boram Park, Soochan Lim
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Patent number: 12353703Abstract: An application can be launched and operated in conjunction with a user-interface accessory (UIA). A launching engine can, using a wireless interrogator, detect an identifier of the UIA. The launching engine can determine and execute a software application corresponding to the UIA identifier. An interaction engine can, using the wireless interrogator, detect an identifier of an object. The interaction engine can detect a force exerted against a sensing surface of a force sensor by the object. The interaction engine can provide to the software application information of the second identifier and the detected force. Some examples include presenting a user interface based on the identifier of the UIA, determining a representation of the object using the identifier of the object, and presenting the representation arranged based on spatial data of the object. Some examples include presenting a user interface specific to the identifier of the UIA.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2015Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC.Inventor: Oscar Koenders
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Patent number: 12354196Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure include methods and systems for leveraging a controllable diffusion model for dynamic image search in an image gallery recommendation service. An exemplary method can include displaying an image gallery having a plurality of gallery images and a dynamic image frame. The dynamic image frame can include a generated image and an interactive widget. The method can include receiving a user input in the interactive widget and generating, responsive to receiving the user input, an updated generated image by inputting, into a controllable diffusion model, the user input. The method can include replacing the generated image in the dynamic image frame with the updated generated image.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2023Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Hong Xuan, Li Huang, Huangxing Li, Xi Chen
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Patent number: 12260235Abstract: Examples provide a system for automatically identifying a user with a visual impairment and providing assistance navigating a website. A visual assist (VA) manager monitors user interactions with a webpage, such as zooming-in to increase the size of text and graphics and navigation errors, such as clicking on an area outside a clickable icon, failing to enter text in the correct field, etc. A trained machine learning model analyzes the user interaction data using visual assist criteria to predict whether the user has a visual impairment. If the VA manager predicts a visual impairment, an audible VA activation prompt is provided to the user. If the user activates the VA manager, a chatbot is provided to assist the user in performing tasks while navigating the webpage. The VA manager optionally applies user-specific VA settings adjusting the webpage layout and appearance to accommodate the user's visual impairment.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2023Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Marion Bonnet, Ankurjyoti Bordoloi, Karan Paresh Trivedi
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Patent number: 12236073Abstract: An example may include a display in which a display area of the display is expandable and retractable, a memory, and a processor operatively connected to the display and the memory, wherein the memory includes instructions causing, when executed, the processor to: display an execution screen of a running application on the display area at a first magnification value; expand the display area on the basis of a first designated input; based at least in part on the first designated input, information related to the application, and a first user content included in the execution screen, determine whether to maintain a display magnification of the display at the first magnification value or change the display magnification to a second magnification value different from the first magnification value; and display the execution screen on the expanded display area based on the determined display magnification.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Duyeong Choi, Seonkeun Park, Jungwon Lee, Jaewoong Chung
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Patent number: 12189920Abstract: A window arrangement method includes the following steps. The method obtains the first program identifier of a foreground window. The method determines whether the first program identifier belongs to a preset identifier. In response to the first program identifier belonging to the preset identifier, the method obtains the first handle and the first window data of the foreground window and sets the application handle of a window arrangement application as the parent window handle of the first handle. The first toolbar or the first address bar of the foreground window is removed through the window arrangement application to generate a first simplified window. Moreover, the first simplified window is displayed in a window of the window arrangement application through the window arrangement application according to the first window data and the first default window position.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Wistron Corp.Inventors: Fang-Wen Liao, Ping-Hung Chen
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Patent number: 12182373Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to techniques and user interfaces for transitioning between a standard display mode and a low power display mode.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2021Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Edward Chao, Kevin W. Chen, Aurelio Guzman, Paul T. Nixon, Kevin M. Lynch
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Patent number: 12164941Abstract: Disclosed herein is a computing system. The computing system includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores processor executable instructions for a workflow recommendation assistant engine. The processor is coupled to the memory. The processor executes the workflow recommendation assistant engine to cause the computing device to analyze images of a user interface corresponding to user activity, execute a pattern matching of the images with respect to existing automations, and provide a prompt indicating that an existing automation matches the user activity.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2023Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: UiPath, Inc.Inventors: Brandon Nott, Christian Berg, Vaclav Skarda
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Patent number: 12159026Abstract: A system includes a development tool for adding electronically-driven effects to a dynamic user-influenced media experience. The development tool is adapted to receive first user input and second user input. The first user input defines an audio trigger corresponding to one or more words or phrases appearing in a textual transcript of an audio content stream that includes audio data to be played as part of the dynamic user-influenced media experience. The second user input defines an event that is to be executed in temporal association with an audible occurrence of the audio trigger. The development tool generates metadata based on the first user input and the second user input, and an application engine interprets the metadata as an instruction to selectively trigger execution of the event in association with the audible occurrence of the audio trigger while presenting the dynamic user-influenced media experience.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2020Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: James Aaron Crowder
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Patent number: 12153773Abstract: Computer generated objects can be associated with a plurality of bookmarked pins. In some embodiments, one pin of the plurality of bookmarked pins can be designated as an object origin and one or more other pins of the plurality of bookmarked pins can be used for other actions during editing in the computer graphics editing environment. For example, the one or more other pins can be used as a temporary locus of manipulation (e.g., for rotation, movement, resizing, etc.). The plurality of bookmarked pins can be selectable to display a manipulator element corresponding to a selected pin.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2021Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Adam Bolton
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Patent number: 12147650Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling window arrangements for tabbed user interface elements. An example method includes displaying a plurality of application windows including at least one application window for a web browser application having multiple open tabs, the multiple open tabs including at least one active tab and multiple inactive tabs, receiving an input to invoke a snap assist mode; in response to the input, display a snap assist user interface to reconfigure the display of one or more the plurality of the application windows, the snap assist user interface including tab representations and an application-window representation. In response to receiving a selection of a tab representation, a web browser application window is displayed with the corresponding tab as the active tab.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Leo Tian Yue, Kenneth Martin Tubbs, Jr., Stacy Diane Carson, Peter Josef Kreiseder, Bret Paul Anderson, Sailesh Dahal, Neil Agarwal, Gregory Thomas Mattox, Jr.
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Patent number: 12141433Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system for providing an interactive participation-type drawing making service, which provides a remote drawing making service that is capable of real-time interaction between a first user and a second user in a contactless environment, wherein the system includes: a first terminal that is capable of inputting a first event signal of the first user; a second terminal that is capable of inputting a second event signal of the second user; a control part that constructs a network with the first and second terminals and a web, generating a server module for using a pre-stored drawing making program while undergoing communication, reflects all of each data resulting from real-time input of the first and second event signals to the drawing making program in real time, when both of the first and second terminals connect to the generated server module, and controls a preset alarm signal so as to be output in response to a result of reflection; and an alarm part that is equipped to tType: GrantFiled: November 16, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: I-Scream arts Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jong-min Kim, Seung-ah Kim
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Patent number: 12124678Abstract: Systems, devices, methods and instructions are described for generating and displaying a reply menu within a graphical user interface (GUI). One embodiment involves receiving a selection of messages received at a client device, detecting a reply message generated by the first client device in response to selected messages, generating a reply menu comprising an ordered list of user account identifiers, the user account identifiers representing user accounts, each user account associated with a corresponding selected message, causing display of the reply menu within a GUI, receiving a selection of a subset of user account identifiers from the reply menu, initiating independent communication sessions with the selected subset of user account identifiers and transmitting the reply message via independent communication sessions.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Ty Giacalone, Donald Giovannini
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Patent number: 12118464Abstract: A neural network system can select content based on user and item content embeddings in an approach that can be updated in real time on the user device without server support. Requests for content sent to the server can include an anonymous user embedding that includes data describing the user's inputs. The content that is nearest to the user embedding in a joint embedding space can be returned as suggested content.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2022Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Lawrence Jason Muhlstein, Leonardo Ribas Machado das Neves, Yanen Li, Ning Xu
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Patent number: 12106125Abstract: A computerized method of generating an automated control pathway for a user interface includes displaying a graphical development environment having a palette area and multiple graphical programming elements, displaying a user selected question programming element and multiple associated pathway branches in the palette area, and assigning a received answer field to one of the branches. The method includes associating a selected determination programming element with one of the branches, and assigning a status value to the selected determination programming element that includes a drug request approval indication or a drug request denial indication. The method further includes running the automated control pathway to receive, via the user interface, an answer to a question associated with the selected question programming element, determining one of the branches associated with the received answer, and automatically transmitting an approval status or a denial status according to the determined branch.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2021Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: Evernorth Strategic Development, Inc.Inventors: John Covert, David Spangler, Scott Betzel
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Patent number: 12106130Abstract: Applet-based guided operation computer-implemented method, medium, and system are disclosed. In one computer-implemented method, a trigger instruction for a target applet is detected. In response to detecting the trigger instruction, a host program and a function page of the target applet are opened, a guiding page loaded on the function page is opened, and a guiding video on the guiding page is played. The guiding video includes a directional action, voice prompt, or text prompt performed by a virtual character on the guiding page, and the guiding page includes a guiding touch point. A user operation on the guiding touch point on the guiding page is detected, where the operation is based on the directional action, voice prompt, and/or text prompt. A service function corresponding to the guiding touch point in the target applet is executed based on the user operation.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Bo Li
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Patent number: 12093502Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems, device configurations, and processes for displaying presentation control interfaces as overlays of content being displayed by an interactive whiteboard computing system in an interactive presentation environment, including one or more panels displaying selectable icons for performing various control tasks, including: viewing a present position and changing position within a sequence for the presentation; inputting, finding, and loading data to be stored for the presentation; interacting with the computing system or connected devices; and the like. Additional configurations include automatically showing, hiding, and/or repositioning control interface panels so that they are accessible by the presenter without substantially interfering with the presentation.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: PEARSON EDUCATION, INC.Inventors: Jacqueline Martin, Yvette Roberts, Joanne Hunter, Nathan Harris
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Patent number: 12079648Abstract: Performance of a computer implementing a machine learning system is improved by providing, via a graphical user interface, to an annotator, unlabeled corpus data to be labeled; obtaining, via the interface, labels for the unlabeled corpus data; and detecting, with a consistency calculation routine, concurrent with the labeling, internal inconsistency and/or external inconsistency in the labeling. Responsive to the detection, intervene in the labeling with a reactive intervention subsystem until the inconsistency is addressed. The labeling is completed subsequent to the intervention; the system is trained to provide a trained machine learning system, based on results of the completed labeling; and classification of new data is carried out with the trained system. Proactive intervention schemes are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2017Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Evelyn Duesterwald, Austin Zachary Henley, David John Piorkowski, John T. Richards