Patents Examined by Andrew Tank
  • Patent number: 10146403
    Abstract: System (100) for enabling an interactive inspection of a region of interest (122) in a medical image (102), the system comprising display means (160) for displaying user interface elements (310, 320, 330) of actions associated with the interactive inspection of the region of interest and a processor (180) for executing one of the actions when a user selects an associated one of the user interface elements, the system further comprising establishing means (120) for establishing the region of interest in the medical image, determining means (140) for determining an anatomical property (142) of the region of interest in dependence on an image property of the region of interest, and the display means (160) being arranged for (i), in dependence on the anatomical property, establishing a display configuration (162) of the user interface elements, and (ii) displaying the user interface elements in accordance with the display configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Juergen Weese, Irina Wächter-Stehle, Axel Saalbach
  • Patent number: 10048681
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a system and method for system status visualization. In one embodiment, an operating system may comprise an expandable component tree graphic, comprising a plurality of parent icons and a plurality of child icons. In some embodiments of the present techniques, a plurality of dynamic component graphics are associated with the plurality of parent icons and the plurality of child icons, whereby the dynamic component graphics are adapted to change based on changes relating to the status of a computer resource. Additionally, a configurable sorting system may be adapted to pass a dynamic component graphic feature up the expandable component tree graphic from one of the plurality of child icons to at least one of the plurality of parent icons based on a configuration of the sorting system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Kevin A. Retlich
  • Patent number: 10025446
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system is provided for automatically creating screen captures of a user interface. In an implementation, a method may include identifying a portion of a user interface display associated with a page object. The method may also include creating a screen capture image including the portion of the user interface display associated with the page object. The method may further include associating the screen capture image with a documentation record for the page object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Incorporated
    Inventors: Laurence A. Hey, William J. Izard, Matthew J. Ponsford
  • Patent number: 10025445
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system is provided for automatically creating screen captures of a user interface. In an implementation, a method may include identifying a portion of a user interface display associated with a page object. The method may also include creating a screen capture image including the portion of the user interface display associated with the page object. The method may further include associating the screen capture image with a documentation record for the page object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Laurence A. Hey, William J. Izard, Matthew J. Ponsford
  • Patent number: 9971712
    Abstract: A method for operating an electronic device is provided. In the method, an electronic cover is connected. Configuration information of the electronic cover is obtained. A User Interface (UI) corresponding to the configuration information is set. Various other embodiments are also possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hun Cheol Oh, Soo-Hyung Kim, Seok-Hyun Yoon, Jin-Woo Kim, Hyun-Jung Kim, Cheol-Ho Cheong, Myunggon Hong
  • Patent number: 9967524
    Abstract: A user-centric management application system and method for a security system that conceptualizes the security devices and the tasks to perform on the security devices as separate objects with common properties and behavior. Operators of the system create abstract containers, called dockviews, which the operator adds objects to in order to perform specific tasks. Because the operator assigns user access to dockviews and objects, the system tailors system access for both application users and tenants of the security system based on policy objectives. Dockviews have the ability to open in separate application windows to support priority display and isolation of critical management tasks. The system provides integrated user administration, event management and reports capability, a consistent “look and feel,” and system-wide automated event notification via a watchlist window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Tyco Safety Products Canada Ltd.
    Inventors: Yanik Brunet, Scott McNulty
  • Patent number: 9965172
    Abstract: Disclosed are a video transition method and system, including performing a screen transition operation from a first moving picture to a second moving picture in response to a first transition gesture input during playing the first moving picture when the first moving picture and a second moving picture connected with the first moving picture are sequentially played at predetermined times, suspending the first moving picture being played and playing the second moving picture in response to a completion in the screen transition operation to the second moving picture, performing a screen transition operation from the second moving picture to the first moving picture in response to a second transition gesture input during playing the second moving picture, and suspending the second moving picture being played and playing the first moving picture in response to a completion in the screen transition operation to the first moving picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Naver Corporation
    Inventors: Seil Hwang, Naeun Kim
  • Patent number: 9958979
    Abstract: A web server includes a pressure-sensitive page rendering mechanism that renders web pages that have one or more selectable inputs according to a client pressure profile corresponding to the requesting user. When the web server receives the request, the web server may dynamically generate and render a web page that satisfies the client pressure profile by placing one or more selectable inputs on the web page in one or more preferred regions of the touch screen display. In the alternative, the web server may have multiple versions of a web page that correspond to multiple different server pressure profiles, and when a web page is requested, the web server identifies a server pressure profile that corresponds to the client pressure profile, identifies a web page that corresponds to the identified server pressure profile, then renders the web page to the user's device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Eric L. Barsness, Jay S. Bryant, James E. Carey, Joseph W. Cropper, John M. Santosuosso
  • Patent number: 9952824
    Abstract: A system and method of providing for the control of a music player to a device driver. One embodiment of the system comprises an electronic music player that is connected to a plurality of music renderers via device drivers via a music renderer controller. The music renderer controller comprises a device integration application program interface for providing a standard interface for communicating with each of the device drivers. Each of the device drivers manage a selected music renderer. The device drivers can display a graphical interface for displaying notifications, customized controls, links to websites, or any other type of information desired by the manufacturer of the device driver. The device drivers can also customize the interfaces of the music render to rename textual elements that are displayed by the device driver. Furthermore, the device drivers can command the music player to suspend and resume playback of music items during selected periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jeremy P. Chaney
  • Patent number: 9929987
    Abstract: A user is prompted to select a social site for generating a voice enabled social artifact. A user selection of the social site is received. Responsive to receiving the user selection, information associated with an account of the user on the social site is obtained. The user is prompted to select a social artifact associated with the social site for voice enablement. A user selection of the social artifact is received. The selected social artifact is configured for voice enablement. The selected social artifact is displayed on the social site with an indication that the selected social artifact is voice enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: GENESYS TELECOMMUNICATIONS LABORATORIES, INC.
    Inventors: Ahmed Tewfik Bouzid, David James Rennyson, Michael Jerry Saylor
  • Patent number: 9923990
    Abstract: User information is provided to web applications by embedding a widget in a web page served to a user's client from a web application server. The widget is a software component that is configured to retrieve user information from a user information web server repository in response to a request by a web application for user information. The widget is also configured to request user permission to retrieve user information from the repository and to request user verification of retrieved information prior to providing the retrieved information to the requesting web application. The user information widget is configured to authenticate a user prior to retrieving user information from the repository. The user information widget authenticates a user by requesting credentials from the user and verifying that the received credentials are valid for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Gregory Leitheiser
  • Patent number: 9904456
    Abstract: A mobile device user may quickly and naturally explore data received in a data grid from a remote database. A mobile device engine receives the database data including dimensions and measures, in a grid format comprising rows and columns of numerals. In response to a recognized suite of user gestures (e.g., horizontal swipe, vertical swipe, drag and drop), the engine may modify the data grid to provide a changed visualization, without the user device having to re-access a remote database server. In one example, a touch swipe down a column of the data grid may result in display of column data in vertical bar chart form, rather than exclusively as numerical values. Other user recognized gestures can include a user dragging and dropping one column into another, with horizontal bar visualizations combined into stacked bar charts that serve to rapidly apprise the user of a relative magnitude of column information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Ltd.
    Inventors: Yingyu Xie, Youdong Miao
  • Patent number: 9900277
    Abstract: A system and method for resolving topically relevant contacts for a user is provided. One example embodiment provides for a method including acts of presenting, within a web page, a communication list with content that is presented to various user based at least in part on the users being associated with another user and the topical content of the web page. Another example embodiment provides or a system that serves web pages including a communication list with content that is presented to various users based at least in part on the user to user and user to topic associations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Excalibur IP, LLC
    Inventors: Vishweshwar Rao Dumpeti, Christopher Patrick Moeller, Sean Lyden, Maria Isabel Figueroa, Enrique R. Domenech, Santiago Gamboa
  • Patent number: 9886453
    Abstract: An apparatus according to the present invention includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain information for specifying an event corresponding to a predetermined period and a content corresponding to the event from a memory, and an specifying unit configured in a case a user designate the predetermined period, based on the information obtained by the obtaining unit, to specify the event corresponding to the predetermined period and specify the content corresponding to the specified event as an output target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koji Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9880723
    Abstract: Systems and methods of operating a human-machine interface (HMI) with a graphical user interface (GUI). A color spectrum is displayed along with a topic. A selection of a point on the color spectrum is received, and associated in a memory with the displayed topic. A data record is stored indicating a sentiment associated with the topic. The sentiment includes an intensity level and an emotion level. The intensity level is one of multiple intensity levels that change along a first dimension of the color spectrum, and the emotion level is one of multiple emotion levels that change along a second dimension of the color spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: SPKDRM LLC
    Inventor: Joel Thomas Burns
  • Patent number: 9880724
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and non-transitory, tangible computer-readable medium for generating a graphical user interface to view status events for devices operating within an electrical distribution system over various time interval granularities and ranges are disclosed. The graphical user interface provides users with the ability to select various overall ranges of time and time intervals within these ranges. By generating a simple graphical user interface in this manner, operating personnel can more easily view an aggregation of data for the electrical power system, predict trends, and isolate and rectify recurring problems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: S & C ELECTRIC CO.
    Inventors: Zhen Chen, Gokturk Ozer, Nathan Patrick Hall
  • Patent number: 9870141
    Abstract: Gesture recognition is described. In one example, gestures performed by a user of an input device having a touch-sensitive portion are detected using a definition of a number of regions corresponding to zones on the touch-sensitive portion, each region being associated with a distinct set of gestures. Data describing movement of the user's digits on the touch-sensitive portion is received, and an associated region for the data determined. The data is compared to the associated region's set of gestures, and a gesture applicable to the data selected. A command associated with the selected gesture can then be executed. In an example, comparing the data to the set of gestures comprises positioning a threshold for each gesture relative to the start of the digit's movement. The digit's location is compared to each threshold to determine whether a threshold has been crossed, and, if so, selecting the gesture associated with that threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Peter John Ansell, Shahram Izadi
  • Patent number: 9836189
    Abstract: A method and apparatus enabling inter-widget communication and control uses a central server to receive selected widgets and settings associated with at least one widget, wherein the received settings are used to at least partly determine the settings of the other selected widgets according to a pre-defined relationship between or among the widgets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Excalibur IP, LLC
    Inventors: Gary Clayton, Victor Chen, Athellina Athsani, Ronald G. Martinez
  • Patent number: 9817563
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a data analysis system configured to implement cross-application coordination between a chart creation tool and a data analysis workspace, in order to create one or more charts from customized sets of data points, synchronize chart manipulations between charts, and drill down into the metadata of data points in the created charts. The user uses the data analysis workspace to select, remove, or cherry-pick data items to be used to create a chart, which may be transmitted from the workspace to the chart creation tool as data points. In addition, the user may select the data points in the chart to retrieve one or more identifiers to be transmitted back to the workspace, where they are used to identify the data items associated with the data points, and retrieve the full metadata of the data items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Stokes, Peter Maag, Tom O'Brien, Naytri Shroff, Maciej Albin, Alexis Daboville
  • Patent number: 9792005
    Abstract: Modular auxiliary processor circuitry, capable of performing telematics services, including wireless communications, diagnostic assessment and reporting, location based services, and internetworking, couples with a vehicle head unit through an auxiliary processing module interface. When so coupled, the auxiliary processing module circuitry can perform tasks, services, functions, and aspect that a lower-capability processor of the head unit cannot perform as quickly or as efficiently, if at all. When the auxiliary processor module is coupled and active, its display output can couple to a display device either permanently fixed in the vehicle, or portable and mobile with respect to the vehicle, through conductors or a wireless link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Verizon Telematics Inc.
    Inventor: Charles M. Link, II