Patents Examined by Amy Ng
  • Patent number: 10681196
    Abstract: Provided are a mobile terminal and method for providing a human network management service in the mobile terminal, the method including receiving human network data from a social network service site; checking and converting a schema of each received human network data into a predetermined schema; and updating human network data in the mobile terminal according to the converted schema.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Hye-Soo Lee, Ji-Young Kim, Seong-Hoon Kang, Sun-Haeng Jo
  • Patent number: 10680905
    Abstract: Techniques to establish a communication system between an administrative node, such as a remote help desk, and an instance of a managed mobile app running on a mobile device are disclosed. In various embodiments, an indication is received to establish a help desk session associated with a mobile device. A help desk library embedded in mobile app code comprising a managed mobile app installed on the mobile device is used to provide the help desk session. The help desk library is configured to provide in real time to a help desk system external to the mobile device mobile app data associated with the managed mobile app while the managed mobile app is running on the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: MOBILE IRON, INC.
    Inventors: Mansu Kim, Benjamin Markines, Suresh Kumar Batchu
  • Patent number: 10671337
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for automatic or adaptive sizing of a customer service agent's co-browsing view of a contact's user interface. According to one embodiment, at least a portion of the agent's interface in which the customers interface is presented can be resized so that the agent's view matches the customer's view, e.g., one-to-one. This sizing of the agent's view may be performed automatically, when the co-browsing view of the customer's interface is first presented to the agent or, according to one embodiment, may be toggled on and off by the agent, e.g., by the agent selecting a button or other control presented in the agent's interface. In this way, embodiments allow the agent to see exactly the same view of the web site as the customer sees in the customer's interface regardless of the device or screen size used by the customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Igor Khalatian, Albert Manukyan
  • Patent number: 10642448
    Abstract: Disclosed are a mobile communication device and a method of controlling the same in which an image of a web page is stored as a thumbnail image when the web page is added to a list of favorites. When the list of favorites is requested from the mobile communication device, a plurality of thumbnail images corresponding to a plurality of web pages added to the list of favorites are displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Jung Young Park
  • Patent number: 10635257
    Abstract: A display control apparatus including a memory that stores color arrangement information defining a first combination of a background color and a text color, and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to obtain first display information including a second combination of the background color and the text color from the first device, the display information indicating a content of a user interface related to the first device, and cause a display to display a user interface related to the first device based on second display information, the second display information being generated by substituting the first combination for the second combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Shuji Hara
  • Patent number: 10627895
    Abstract: For providing a virtual control, a processor identifies a hand of a user forming a specified control activation position in a physical image of the augmented reality display. The processor further presents a virtual control with one or more virtual buttons in a virtual image in the augmented reality display in response to identifying the control activation position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE LTD
    Inventors: Timothy Winthrop Kingsbury, Matthew Jacyno, Ryan Charles Knudson, Christopher Donald Oman
  • Patent number: 10599742
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for sharing and consuming web content across multiple computing devices. Each device registers with an account on a cloud-based service using a unique identifier. When one of the registered devices requests a web page, a set of rules is processed by the cloud-based service to determine whether the page content should be shared with other registered devices. If the rules are satisfied, the cloud-based service requests and receives the content from a content provider in various formats that are compatible with each of the registered devices. Once all assets associated with the content are received by the cloud-based service, the content is shared by pushing the content out to each registered device in the compatible format. In some cases, the scroll position is adjusted automatically so that the user may resume reading at the same point where she left off with another registered device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: William Brandon George, Kevin Smith
  • Patent number: 10591998
    Abstract: To allow for easy entry of a plurality of characters by handwriting gestures in the air, a user interface device includes template data storage means for storing template data indicating changes in a predetermined writing position when a gesture to write each of a plurality of characters in the air is made, position obtaining means for sequentially obtaining the predetermined writing position when a user makes gestures to sequentially writing characters in the air, similarity evaluation information output means, every time the predetermined writing position is obtained by the position obtaining means, for sequentially outputting similarity evaluation information indicating a similarity between data to be evaluated including a predetermined number of the predetermined writing positions taken in order from newly obtained data and the template data related to each of the plurality of characters, and character string determination means for determining a character string related to the gestures of the user based
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: RAKUTEN, INC.
    Inventors: Soh Masuko, Masato Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 10585576
    Abstract: Systems and methods for attributing a scroll event are described herein. The system can provide, to a client device, an infinite scroll attribution script. The script can cause the client device to set a dimension of an inline frame, embedded with a content document, of an page to a dimension corresponding to a viewport of an application and determine, responsive to detecting a scroll event, that a first offset between a first content document end and a first viewport end is less than or equal to a first predetermined threshold. The script can further cause the client device to determine, responsive to detecting the scroll event, that a second offset between a second content document end and a second viewport end is greater than or equal to a second threshold and assign the scroll event to the inline frame responsive to the determinations of the first and second offsets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Tianjiu Yin, Kun Zhang
  • Patent number: 10572124
    Abstract: Methods and systems for bound based contextual zoom are disclosed. Legacy WINDOWS desktop and web applications were designed for a mouse or other high-precision pointing device, and as such, small controls and closely grouped controls/icons were commonly designed/used on the screen. Interacting with such applications remoted to a touch-based device (e.g., a smartphone or tablet) is difficult. Bound based contextual zoom overcomes at least some of these limitations by permitting a user to zoom in on an area of interest within an application or desktop, and for a period of time long enough to complete the touch interaction. The area zoomed might be a group of controls on a ribbon bar, the minimize/maximize/close buttons in the top-right corner of a window, a group of form input controls, or any other natural cluster of related user interface (UI) elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Adam Ryman, Jayadev Marulappa Niranjanmurthy
  • Patent number: 10567331
    Abstract: Identifying notification sent to user devices may provide an optimal approach to identifying data sources and updating a user device with information pertinent to known or identified user interests. One example method of operation may provide parsing notification message content of a notification message, linking a data source to the notification message content to create a hybrid user interface data feed, transmitting the initial hybrid user interface data feed to a number of message recipients, monitoring at least one of the data sources to identify a change to data content of the initial hybrid user interface data feed, and intercepting a change parameter during the monitoring of the data sources, and updating the hybrid user interface data feed based on the intercepted change parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventor: David Gerard Ledet
  • Patent number: 10564804
    Abstract: An improved jukebox user interface that includes standard and simplified interface screens is provided. A home screen includes control elements arranged along a first axis. At least a first one of these elements displays a search screen, at least a second one displays a curated list of songs and/or artists via a first selection screen, and at least a third one displays a curated list of curated lists of songs via a second selection screen. The home screen also includes user-selectable song objects arrangeable along a second axis generally perpendicular to the first axis; user-selectable song list objects arrangeable along a third axis generally parallel to the second axis; and a status area extending along a peripheral edge thereof. Some/all standard interface screens include the control elements of the home screen in a position that is common across all such screens, but the simplified interface screens lack them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: TouchTunes Music Corporation
    Inventors: Ed Rivera, Zachary Silverstein
  • Patent number: 10551996
    Abstract: A method and a device for starting an application under a screen-locked state, which are applied in an electronic device, said method comprising: detecting whether the electronic device is under the screen lock state; receiving a sliding operation instruction with respect to an icon of the application to be started; providing memory resources for starting the application to be started, if a sliding operation with respect to the icon of the application to be started satisfies a first predetermined condition; performing a screen unlocking operation and starting the application to be started, if the sliding operation with respect to the icon of the application to be started satisfies a second predetermined condition. With embodiments of the present disclosure, it is convenient for a user to start the application under the screen lock state, an efficiency of starting the application may be enhanced and an experience effect of the user may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: CHEETAH MOBILE INC.
    Inventors: Yong Chen, Shengsheng Huang, Mengxue Zhan, Yandan He
  • Patent number: 10551989
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for an interface system comprising a communication device and a system administrator, the system administrator is configured to initiate a setup process, receive an identification number, receive user information, and in response to the setup process, associate the identification number with the user information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Nextiva, Inc.
    Inventor: Tomas Gorny
  • Patent number: 10534599
    Abstract: Methods and systems for envisioning benefits of a software upgrade. One system includes at least one electronic processor configured to detect when a user performs actions within a software application, capture data about user actions and application features, and determine through a set of rules if an updated or new feature to perform the user actions exists in an upgraded version of the application software. The electronic processor is also configured to, when a rule triggers, store user and application data and present to the user a visualization of the updated feature available in the upgraded application software. User and application data can be aggregated for a plurality of users, a plurality of application software, or both. Display of new features to a plurality of users can be user controlled or controlled by a super user based on analysis and reporting of user data accumulated over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: David Mowatt, Terry Farrell
  • Patent number: 10514816
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and system distinct from an item that provides user assistance for the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Edward K. Y. Jung, Royce A. Levien, Mark A. Malamud, John D. Rinaldo, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10481784
    Abstract: A display device includes a display section and a control unit including a processor. The control unit displays, upon deciding that an image to be displayed in the display section is a scrollable image larger than a predetermined display region of the display section, and an entirety of which can be displayed in the display region by scrolling the image in a vertical or horizontal direction in a display screen of the display section, a portion of the scrollable image in the display region, the portion being shifted in the vertical direction or horizontal direction to a predetermined position away from a head position, and then displays, in the display region, the scrollable image scrolled until the head position thereof appears at an end of the display region in a direction of the shifting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Documents Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Norie Fujimoto, Takanori Miyamoto, Naoto Hanada, Takushi Dandoko
  • Patent number: 10474329
    Abstract: A user device may provide, for display in a first area of a graphical user interface (GUI), a first link to a first predicted interface within a website or a program. The first predicted interface may be an interface to which a user is predicted to navigate. The first link may be a graphical representation of at least a portion of the first predicted interface. The user device may provide, for display in a second area of the GUI, additional links to additional predicted interfaces within the website or the program. The first link may be more prominently displayed in relation to the additional links. The additional predicted interfaces may be interfaces to which the user is predicted to navigate. The additional links may be graphical representations of at least a portion of the additional predicted interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventor: Mark Yamashita
  • Patent number: 10474318
    Abstract: A system comprises a display unit rendering a document in a user interface, a selection tool receiving information selecting an arrangement of invocable actions, and an association unit associating the document with the selected arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Gaurav K. Choudhary, Vishal K. Gupta
  • Patent number: 10469426
    Abstract: A group feed is displayed for a selected group by a private social network service. The group feed displays only threads with unviewed content along with a user actuatable display element that allows the user to switch to a feed that displays all content for the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Stephanie Hsu, Wooju Choi, Mario Estrada, Anthony Lawrence Jackson, Isura Harshana Edirisinghe, Stephen Quirk, Cameron Hindle Hughes Lock, Manuel Munoz Selera, Omer-Moshe Gelbard