Patents Examined by Andrea Leggett
  • System and method for providing a messaging interface
    Patent number: 9413701
    Abstract: Computer-implemented systems and methods for providing a simplified messaging interface are provided for allowing users to initiate and engage in messaging conversations. In some embodiments, the systems and methods reduce the overhead involved in initiating and/or engaging in messaging conversations. In addition, the messaging interface may allow users to initiate and/or engage in conversations without having to open a separate standard messaging window for every conversation. Further, the simplified messaging interface may be used in conjunction with a standard messaging interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: AOL Inc.
    Inventor: Ronen Artman (Arad)
  • Systems and methods for spatial thumbnails and companion maps for media objects
    Patent number: 9411896
    Abstract: Under one aspect, a computer-implemented method of displaying information about a media object, the media object being associated with location-related content corresponding to a location, includes receiving a request to display a representation of the media object; in response to the request, obtaining a summary of the media object; in response to the request, obtaining a spatial thumbnail of the media object, the spatial thumbnail comprising an image of a spatial domain encompassing the location; and simultaneously displaying both the summary of the media object and the spatial thumbnail on a visual display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventor: John R. Frank
  • Device and method for distributed database keyword searching
    Patent number: 9411863
    Abstract: A method performed by a mobile communications device, including: populating a central database on the device with a title for each of a plurality of software modules installed on the device and associating each title with its software module; populating the central database with at least one keyword associated with each of the plurality of software modules and associating each keyword with its software module; receiving at the device a search query; displaying at the device a search result identifying at least one of the software modules installed on the device having either a title or one or more associated keywords matching the search query; and in response to receiving at the device a selection of a software module identified in the search result, activating the selected software module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Mihal Lazaridis, Joseph Eytan Benedek, Karthigesu Niranjan
  • Method and system for navigating video to an instant time
    Patent number: 9407964
    Abstract: A system and method are presented for navigating through image frames of video content to display particular frames of the video content while the video content continues to play. The system provides a viewer the ability to interact with and operate a device playing video content using touch input or input from a peripheral device to permit locating and displaying particular frames of video content concurrently with ongoing display of the video content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Poothabalan Somasundaram, NarayanaDhoss Gopalakrishnan, Saravanan Vijayakumar, Arunkumar Surulinathan, Manjunathan Ramanathan, Thamilenthi Palanivelu, Maria M. Sagayaraj, Ravi Chandra Appasani, Rajeswaran Venugopal
  • Direct file transfer without sending requested file through requesting device
    Patent number: 9407720
    Abstract: A requesting device can browse global file repositories and select a file in a source to be copied to a target directly without having to pass the file through the requesting device. A servlet-established controller can manage and monitor the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignees: SONY DADC US INC., SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andrii Gomilko, David Anthony VanHaaster, Andrew Marc Shenkler
  • Identification of semantically relevant concepts in a graphical model
    Patent number: 9395889
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a plurality of graphical elements of a graphical model may be displayed on a display device. An indication of a graphical operation involving a first graphical element of the plurality of graphical elements may be received. The graphical operation when performed may establish a relationship between the first graphical element and one or more other graphical elements of the plurality of graphical elements that are compatible with the graphical operation. Two or more graphical elements of the plurality of graphical elements that are compatible with the graphical operation and one or more characteristics associated with the first graphical element may be identified. A visual indication may be provided on the display device. The visual indication may indicate that the identified plurality of graphical elements is compatible with the graphical operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: The MathWorks, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel F. Higgins, Syed Salman N. Qadri, Aditya Agrawal, Kenneth Weiss
  • Facilities controlling device, screen displaying method, and recording medium
    Patent number: 9395872
    Abstract: A facilities controlling device includes a file acquiring portion that acquires a screen file from a storing portion and acquires a corresponding image file, display script file and processing script file from the storing portion, a data processing portion that acquires, from a device, device data corresponding to data identifying information in the screen file acquired by the file acquiring portion, and performs data processing on the acquired device data based on a processing script in the processing script file corresponding to the device data obtained by the file acquiring portion, and a display processing portion that displays, in a screen, the device data produced by the data processing portion and a symbol of the image file acquired by the file acquiring portion, based on the display script in the display script file acquired by the file acquiring portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: AZBIL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao Yamada, Hiroyuki Yamamoto
  • Data pasting method and apparatus
    Patent number: 9383912
    Abstract: A data pasting method and apparatus. The method determines attributes of a source object that is data to be pasted. The attributes of each candidate paste target is obtained among a plurality of candidate paste targets, the attributes of the candidate paste targets contrain an editable component which determines a matching relationship between each of the candidate paste targets and the source object based on the attributes of the source object and the attributes of the editable component. The method provides recommendation for pasting the source object based on the matching relationship. By adopting the technical solution according to the present application, the efficiency of data pasting operation can be improved. Also provided is an apparatus for implementing the above data pasting method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sheng Hua Bao, Jian Chen, Zhong Su, Xin Ying Yang, Xiang Zhou
  • Method and device for executing object on display
    Patent number: 9377937
    Abstract: A method and device for executing an object on a display. The method of executing an object includes receiving a user input to an object displayed on a display; gradually enlarging and displaying the object; and executing the application corresponding to the object as the object is enlarged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Se-Hee Han, Jun-hyung Kim, Jong-hyun Ryu, Jong-hyo Lee, Joo-Yeol Lee, Ji-hye Lee
  • Flipping through content
    Patent number: 9377932
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enabling users to rapidly flip through displayed pages of content in an intuitive manner are provided. Graphical animations for transitioning from one page to another can be executed so that portions of three or more pages can be simultaneously viewed. This enables a user to make snap judgments as to whether she wishes to explore anyone of those pages in more detail as she rapidly flips through the pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Flipboard, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Hugo Ying, Marcos A. Weskamp, Michael S. McCue, Didier Hilhorst, Michael Johnston
  • Method and apparatus for interactive mobile device guidance
    Patent number: 9378030
    Abstract: Described are a method and system that remotely instructs and guides end users of mobile devices to navigate through its various functions and configurations. The system comprises a repository, a control center, and an intelligent client on the mobile device, where the control center and mobile device operate in a client-server relationship and are in communication during a help session. An administrator uses the system to create step by step navigational instructions called story boards and reference device navigational maps which are uploaded to a repository. The control center pulls the relevant story boards and device navigation maps from the repository and uses it to remotely and interactively direct the end user of the mobile device to navigate through its various applications and functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: AetherPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Deepak Gonsalves, Calvin Charles
  • Hub coordination service
    Patent number: 9363250
    Abstract: In implementations of a hub coordination service, a device includes a communication interface for communication coordination with one or more associated devices of the device, and the associated devices correspond to hub members. A hub manager is implemented to receive a task input to create a task for one or more of the hub members to complete. The hub manager can register the task in a hub that is a private, shared space of the hub members, and then initiate communication of the task to respective associated devices of the one or more hub members for notification of the task to be completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph H. Matthews, III, Lavanya Vasudevan, Shawn M. Thomas, Joseph A. Schrader, Ted Tai-Yu Chen, Raman K. Sarin
  • Systems and methods for making content
    Patent number: 9357268
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, a content marking command is received from a mobile device at a particular time. For example, a user selection of the content marking command may be received via a user interface displayed on the mobile device. The content marking command may indicate a user interest in a particular moment of an event viewed by the user. Moreover, the event viewed by the user and video content data corresponding to the event may be identified. Further, content marking data may be generated, whether content marking data indicates a particular portion of the identified video content data corresponding to the particular moment of the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew Scott Zises
  • Virtual interface devices
    Patent number: 9342239
    Abstract: A touch screen device configured to implement an auxiliary virtual keyboard on a touch screen, the device having touch/gesture sensing and image display functions, a processor, and memory storing control code and data defining the keyboard comprising a set of keys and a key layout map. The processor is configured to determine a size of a window in which the keyboard is to be displayed as a strip of keys; send instructions to display a partial view of the keyboard within the window so that a subset of keys are displayed, whereby the keyboard is scrollable in response to user input to alter the partial view to display a different subset of keys; receive touch data; map said touch data to a key using the key layout map to identify a touched key; and provide a response dependent on the identified touched key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: RealVNC Ltd
    Inventors: Jason Barrie Morley, Andrew S. T. Lee, Mark Boxall, Andy Harter
  • Graphical user interface for map search
    Patent number: 9342552
    Abstract: Particular embodiments include a method comprising accessing location data representing a first location of a first user wherein the first location corresponds to geographic coordinates, retrieving image data defining a graphical map from a remote server based on the first location accessing a search query inputted by the first user, retrieving one or more second locations in response to the search query, where the one or more second locations correspond to geographic coordinates, and displaying a first view comprising a list of the one or more second locations overlaying at least a portion of the graphical map, wherein the graphical map includes indicators for the first location and at least one of the one or more second locations in accordance with their respective geographic coordinates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Brandon Marshall Walkin, Zhen Fang
  • Method for providing in-vehicle notification service, machine-readable storage medium, head unit device, and mobile device
    Patent number: 9338235
    Abstract: A method for providing an in-vehicle notification service on a head unit device is provided. The method includes receiving a notification message including event information regarding an event from a mobile device, upon an occurrence of the event; generating an action request message requesting execution of an application related to the event based on the event information and transmitting the action request message to the mobile device; and displaying a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to a user according to the execution of the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Ho-Yeon Park, Sung-Jin Lee, Wuk Kim
  • Private interaction hubs
    Patent number: 9325752
    Abstract: In embodiments of private interaction hubs, a mobile device has memory storage to maintain hub data that is associated with a private interaction hub, where the hub data includes multiple types of displayable data that is editable by different types of device applications. The memory storage at the device also maintains private data that is displayable and is viewable with one of the device applications. The mobile device also includes a display device to display the multiple types of the hub data in a hub user interface of a hub application. The display device can also display the private data and a subset of the hub data that are both associated with a device application in a device application user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Lavanya Vasudevan, Shawn M. Thomas, Joseph H. Matthews, III, Joseph A. Schrader, Ted Tai-Yu Chen, Raman K. Sarin
  • Digital device for providing text messaging service and method for controlling the same
    Patent number: 9319366
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a digital device and a method for controlling the same, which displays an application related to a text message, extracts additional information from the application and inserts the extracted additional information to the text message, in order to provide additional information associated with a text message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Jihyun Kim
  • Method for presenting documents using a reading list panel
    Patent number: 9310969
    Abstract: A reading list panel is displayed as a sidebar window with respect to a main window of a content viewing application. In response to a first input, a first article representation of a first article associated with a presentation page displayed in the main window is listed in the reading list panel, where the first article representation includes information identifying the first article. In response to a selection of a second article representation from the reading list panel, content of a second article represented by the second article representation is presented in a reader mode within the main window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Donald D. Melton, Darin B. Adler, Alice Liu, Kevin W. Decker, Brady K. Eidson, Gavin Barraclough, Steven J. Falkenburg
  • Method and apparatus for facilitating message selection and organization
    Patent number: 9304665
    Abstract: One or more messages may be selected and grouped and one or more group-level actions may be initiated for the group, such that the group-level action is performed on each message in the group. Each message in a group shares the at least one attribute value. A messaging user interface may comprise a listing of the set of messages and a message group display portion that displays one or more message groups and a group-level toolbar comprising a selectable indicator for each group-level action. A message, or messages, shown in a message list portion of the user interface may be selected from the message list based on similarity of the message(s) to previously selected messages, and the selected message(s) may be grouping based on shared attribute values. The messages belonging to a group may be modified in the same way via a single action taken on the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: YAHOO! INC.
    Inventor: Brian Coe