Patents Examined by Anil N Kumar
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Patent number: 9201560Abstract: A computer program acts as a data collection, compilation, storage, and display in an autonomous and dynamic fashion. The software may be used by numerous separate and unrelated facilities working as a network on related projects with diverse hardware. A portable storage device is used to store the necessary software. This storage device will be shared between computer systems on site to collect, compile and store information from each facility. Once all sections are complete, it will be handed to a final arbitrator for review. The ultimate goal of a preferred embodiment is a portable system capable of dynamic modification capable of use in many different fields of operation.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2012Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: AFIX Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Joan L. Vitt, Tony L. McCowan, Derald E. Caudle
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Patent number: 9197512Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards determining an overall success of a plurality of features and recommending a subset of those features to a user for generating new content. For each feature that is associated with content, an overall success may be determined based on a success of each of a plurality of content that the feature is associated. A subset of the features may be displayed to the user—from which the user can select features to utilize for generating the new content. Based on the features selected by the user, the displayed features may be dynamically updated to include one or more recommended features. A feature may be recommended to the user based on a combination of the overall success of each selected feature and the overall success of each recommended feature. The selected features may be utilized to create the new content.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2013Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: Wetpaint.com, Inc.Inventors: Alex David Weinstein, Bo Steven Finneman, Dmitry Frenkel
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Patent number: 9117198Abstract: Embodiments provide on-line non-downloadable software for use by others to access media content, such as musical selections, songs, song hooks, videos, video hooks, audio media, visual media, websites, website content, etc. to solicit listener or viewer participation in surveys to determine listener or viewer approval of the content, musical selections, songs, song hooks, videos, video hooks, audio media, visual media, websites, website content, etc. and to assist in planning future content, musical selection, songs, song hooks, videos, video hooks, audio media, visual media, websites, website content, etc. to be presented on radio, television, movies, websites, released to the public or other media outlets in International Class 042. Time stamping is generally used in conjunction with display of the media content and surveys, allowing for better recordation of user interactions with the media.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2011Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: iHeartMedia Management Services, Inc.Inventor: William Richards
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Patent number: 9058589Abstract: Disclosed is a subjective user interface that allows a user to define a worknet from a set of data objects of a business enterprise. The user may instantiate channels which are subsets of the worknet. In embodiments, predefined channels may be created and then installed in the user's subjective user interface, which the user may choose as a new channel. Activity spaces may be defined within a channel comprising members of the channel. The data objects that comprise a worknet, or a channel, or an activity space may comprise people as well as non-person (inanimate) entities.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2011Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: SAP SEInventor: John P. Armitage
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Patent number: 9026925Abstract: A method to create an aspect oriented, color coding algorithm for a graphical user interface, wherein a graphical user interface (“GUI”) is generated when a code base is executed, and wherein the GUI comprises a plurality of interactable graphical objects, wherein the method compiles the code base, identifies in the compiled code base a first object join point, wherein the compiled code base at the first object join point creates and displays a first interactable graphical object, and determines a first address in the code base for the first object join point. The method further creates a mapping table, writes the first interactable graphical object and the first address to that mapping table, and encodes the mapping table in an aspect oriented, color coding algorithm written to a computer readable medium.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2008Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ezequiel Cervantes, Paul Anthony Jennas, II, Jason Lee Peipelman, Matthew John Ward
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Patent number: 9021363Abstract: Systems and techniques for centralized user preference management for electronic decision making devices are provided. A user preference profile is received. A user preference profile manager may transmit a user preference from the user preference profile to a requesting user transaction terminal. the user preference manager may also receive a dynamic user preference from a user preference profile and extend the user preference profile with the dynamic user preference, where the dynamic user preference includes a preference definition and the preference definition includes read and write access controls for the dynamic user preference. Then the user manager may update the user preference profile based on data received from the user transaction terminal.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2010Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: NCR CorporationInventors: Norman Perkins Blake, III, Christopher Lee Collier, George Mark McGregor, Vincent Robert Koser
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Patent number: 9021404Abstract: In one of many possible embodiments, a system includes a content processing subsystem and a user device communicatively coupled to the content processing subsystem. The content processing subsystem is configured to provide content for experiencing by a user, the content processing subsystem being further configured to modify at least one element of the content based on a positional relationship between the content processing subsystem and the user device.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2006Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Brian Roberts, Heath Stallings, Don Relyea
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Patent number: 9009600Abstract: An embodiment relates generally to a method of filtering for a browser. The method includes providing a browser with a browser history function, the browser history function configured to store each site web page visited and stored in time sequential order as a browser history. The method also includes providing a filter module for the browser; and applying the filter module to the browser history function to eliminate intermediary web pages from entering the browser history.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2008Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.Inventors: Bryan William Clark, Colin Walters
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Patent number: 9003318Abstract: Example embodiments are directed towards graphical user interfaces for declarative specification languages that express the logic of a computation without describing its control flow. These user interfaces are based on a visual representation of specifications where geometric proximity may be the sole determinant of the resulting configuration. Modularity is improved as each proximal grouping is functionally independent of others. Moreover, a system that executes such specifications may treat groupings independently and execute them in parallel.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2011Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Linden Research, Inc.Inventors: Martin Magnusson, Magnus Hallin
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Patent number: 8997012Abstract: An acquisition unit acquires, via a communication unit, presence information including status information indicating the status of execution of an application from a separate information processing device. A status image generation unit refers to the status information and determines a display mode for presenting the status of execution of the application to a user. The status image generation unit determines a display mode of a mark to indicate whether the user can participate in a session of an application.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2011Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Hiroaki Aonuma, Yasutaka Miwa, Masayuki Kasai, Nobukazu Koyama
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Patent number: 8990687Abstract: Method, article of manufacture and apparatus for playing back recorded database activity in a graphical user interface. Chronologically ordered database event information is dynamically displayed in a user interface having user-selectable graphical elements associated with predefined playback controls.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2012Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Lance C. Amundsen, John M. Santosuosso
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Patent number: 8984440Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to methodologies and devices for handling maximizing and minimizing of expose views.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2011Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Z124Inventors: Sanjiv Sirpal, Martin Gimpl
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Patent number: 8972900Abstract: A computer-implemented method for displaying a filterable hierarchy includes: receiving, in an application, a user input that requests at least part of a hierarchy to be displayed; generating a request based on the user input, and forwarding the request to a server for performing a query on non-hierarchical information in a database; receiving, in the application, a response by the server to the request; identifying, in the response, at least one selectable node in the hierarchy and at least one non-selectable visible node in the hierarchy; and presenting, using the application, a view in which the selectable node and the non-selectable visible node are structured according to the hierarchy.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2011Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: SAP SEInventors: Meir Rotshtein, Omer Sharav, Eyal Barlev
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Patent number: 8959436Abstract: A method of selecting a frame (e.g., 301-306) from a motion video file is disclosed. A first representation of the motion video file is displayed in a list. The first representation is responsive to one or more playback commands. The frame of the motion video file is selected in response to a command received in relation to the first representation. A second representation of the motion video file is displayed in the list in response to the selection. The second representation displays the selected frame.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2009Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Jonathan Anthony Duhig
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Patent number: 8959449Abstract: Variables incorporated into a hypertext markup language document enable location of hypertext elements. Once the variable is located, the information contained within the identified hypertext element may be used in other applications. The information may be received, as a recognized input, by the application.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2012Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Intel CorporationInventor: Oleg B. Rashkovskiy
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Patent number: 8949737Abstract: A package installer identifies a utility tool that is capable of opening a file attempted by a user based on metadata downloaded from a remote server, where the metadata includes information identifying one or more packages available for download from the remote server, including mime types of files that the one or more packages support. A graphical user interface (GUI) is displayed to the user prompting whether the user desires to install the identified utility tool. In response to an input from the user via the GUI, the package installer downloads a package associated with the identified utility tool from the remote server for local installation.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2009Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.Inventor: Richard Hughes
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Patent number: 8935622Abstract: An approach is provided in which a user selection is received with the selection being a number data elements with each of the selected data elements being displayed in a Web browser software application. A first set of functions that apply to the selected data elements is identified and the identified first set of functions is applied to the selected data elements. The result is a set of resulting values which are displayed a window that appears on the display screen. If the user has selected numeric data then numeric functions are applied to the data, however if the user has selected date-type data then date functions are applied to the data.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2012Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Barry Alan Kritt, Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit
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Patent number: 8935621Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for selecting components to include in portions of a displayable file. Selecting the components may include determining an order of the components for each portion of the displayable file. The components' order for a given portion may be based on a score for each component, where a component's score is based on an estimated value and standard error associated with the component. The component to include in each portion of the displayable file may be selected based at least in part on the determined component order for each portion and a predetermined priority of each portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2010Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Brett E. Lounsbury, Samuel A. Minter, Vishal M. Shanbhag, Jeffrey B. Slosberg, Michal M. Brye, Daniel B. Lloyd, Joseph Steven Mate, Tri M. Cao, Stephen B. Ivie
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Patent number: 8914726Abstract: A user interface of a device for displaying a representation of a network of objects wherein a plurality of selectable objects are rendered, and each of the plurality of selectable objects are rendered having a given positioning relative to each other of the plurality of selectable objects. One or more edges are rendered interconnecting the plurality of selectable objects within a first region of the user interface. A second region is rendered in response to one or more of the selectable objects of the first region being selected. Objects corresponding to the selected objects are depicted in the second region while maintaining the given relative positioning. A number of additional objects may be retrieved from a database that indicates objects that are adjoining the corresponding objects. The adjoining objects are positioned in the second region and are interconnected to the corresponding objects by one or more additional edges.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2006Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Riverbed Technology, Inc.Inventors: Robert C. Mollitor, Yevgeny Gurevich, Vivek Narayanan, Patrick J. Malloy
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Patent number: 8893028Abstract: An approach is provided in which a user selection is received with the selection being a number data elements with each of the selected data elements being displayed in a Web browser software application. A first set of functions that apply to the selected data elements is identified and the identified first set of functions is applied to the selected data elements. The result is a set of resulting values which are displayed a window that appears on the display screen. If the user has selected numeric data then numeric functions are applied to the data, however if the user has selected date-type data then date functions are applied to the data.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2011Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Barry Alan Kritt, Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit