Patents Examined by Asher Kells
  • Patent number: 9772978
    Abstract: Touch input visualizations for web-based interaction are described. Script associated with a web application is configured to process information regarding touch input events and produce corresponding visualizations for touch inputs when executed at a client device. In one approach, touch input events at the client device are captured and analyzed to determine characteristics of touch input including at least locations within a user interface corresponding to the touch input. A mark-up language document that is rendered in the user interface may be modified to define visualizations for the touch input at the locations. The mark-up language document including the visualizations at the locations may then be output via the user interface. A collaboration module may be used to share the user interface including the touch visualizations to another screen, such as during a meeting or online demonstration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventor: Tobias M. Bocanegra Alvarez
  • Patent number: 9772982
    Abstract: A system of forming a help file in a computer system, including an external configuration file containing information about a computer application running on the computer system, a help file having at least one page of help and an internal configuration file, and a control element to generate the at least one page of help according to the internal configuration file, wherein the control element incorporates the information from the external configuration file to the at least one page of help upon activation of the pages of help.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: S-PRINTING SOLUTION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ivan V. Pozharsky
  • Patent number: 9773073
    Abstract: A web page may be rendered for display on a client device. The rendered web page may be based on a first document. It may be determined that (i) a scroll position of the rendered web page has changed such that the scroll position is below a threshold scroll position, and (ii) the change of the scroll position is due to an event other than receiving a scrolling command from a user. Possibly responsive to this determination, a second document may be requested and received from a content server device. The web page may be re-rendered for display on the client device. The re-rendered web page may include content from the first document and content from the second document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: tronc, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Krecichwost, Jeremy Wayne Majors, Dennis J. Huh, James Thomas Burnett
  • Patent number: 9766769
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for evaluating interactions with a user interface are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes identifying a set of mutation events specifying changes to the structure of a user interface that occurred during the user session, and generating user interface states specifying different structures of the user interface throughout the given user session. Based at least in part on the user interface states, playback data that present visual changes of the user interface corresponding to the set of mutation events that occurred during the user session are generated. Session activity data describing user interactions that occurred during the user session are also generated. At least a portion of the playback data and the session activity data are output to a requesting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: FullStory, Inc.
    Inventors: Joel Grayson Webber, Stephanie Jill Brubaker, Hollis Bruce Johnson, Jr., Ian Thomas Rose, Scott Mitchell Voigt, Jaime Michael Yap
  • Patent number: 9762651
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for sharing a screen from a mobile device. For example, a method includes capturing an image of a screen displayed on the mobile device in response to a command to share the screen, receiving user instructions for redacting a portion of the image, and transmitting the image with the selected portion redacted to a recipient device selected by the user. As another example, a method includes receiving, from a first mobile device, an identifier for a recipient and an image representing a captured screen of a first mobile device, copying the image to an image repository associated with the recipient, performing recognition on the image, generating annotation data for the image, based on the recognition, that includes at least one visual cue, and providing the image and the annotation data to a second mobile device, the second mobile device being associated with the recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Sharifi, David Petrou
  • Patent number: 9753905
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating a document structure. The method includes the steps of: aligning various parts in the first version and the second version in at least one pair of historical versions among a plurality of historical versions of a document; dividing the first version and the second version into a plurality of blocks on the basis of a Levenshtein distance between the aligned parts; evaluating a level of the block in the document structure on the basis of text features of the block among the plurality of blocks; and generating the document structure on the basis of a position of the block according to an evaluation result. An apparatus for generating a document structure is also provided. According to the present invention, document structures can be more conveniently and rapidly generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sheng Hua Bao, HongLei Guo, Zhili Guo, Davide Pasetto, Wei Hong Qian, Zhong Su
  • Patent number: 9727561
    Abstract: A method of contextual activity awareness content selection operates a switch to release a document viewer activation control to a first selector, operate the first selector to select the application location for the application interface, selects document view logs, associated with application location, operates document prioritization logic to calculates average document view rate, calculates an average view rate for each document at the application location, normalizes, weights, and rank average view rates document relevance set, operates a second selector to select matching documents and release to the document viewer, configures the document viewer to prioritize rendering based on document relevance set, operates the switch to release a document view signal to a compiler, in response to a document viewing in the document viewer, and operates the compiler to generate a new document view entry for the document viewing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Answerdash Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Ko, Victor Medina
  • Patent number: 9727550
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes techniques pertaining to computer implemented systems and methods for transforming data. In one embodiment, data sources are specified by a user and copies of specified data are received in local storage. Data is presented to the user as a spreadsheet of columns and rows and the user manipulates the data in the spreadsheet. The user manipulations are automatically translated into data flow objects and a data flow graph, which is executed to transform the data. The modified data is presented to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Min He, Ricardo Saito, Vei Ming Seah, Barbara Stortz, Daniel Culp
  • Patent number: 9721031
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods are disclosed for anchoring bookmarks to individual words for precise positioning within electronic documents. The bookmarks may be anchored based on user input selecting particular words, based on gaze tracking identifying most recently read words, or based on estimated reading speed. The bookmarks may be a link used to navigate within the document, may be used as an anchor for a new layout after content reflow or may be automatically saved when the e-reader turns off the display to provide the user with a most recently read passage. If a bookmark isn't anchored to specific words by the user, the device may anchor the bookmark to the beginning of a sentence or a paragraph including the recently read words determined using gaze tracking or estimated reading speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Stanton Todd Marcum, Michael Patrick Bacus, Timothy Thomas Gray
  • Patent number: 9710439
    Abstract: In general, the technology relates to a method for displaying objects on a webpage. The method includes receiving a request to transition to the webpage in a web application from a device and in response to the request: obtaining a set of object identifiers, providing the set of object identifiers to a link relationship manager and receiving, from the link relationship manager, a set of link relationships. The method further includes providing the set of link relationships and a link relationship evaluator to the device, where the link relationship evaluator only permits objects that are associated with a link relationship from the set of link relationships to be displayed on the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Open Text Corporation
    Inventors: Sachin Gopaldas Totale, Lan Wu, Yuhui Zhao
  • Patent number: 9703762
    Abstract: In general, the technology relates to a method for using reusable themes. The method includes receiving, from a device, a request for a style sheet language file, where the style sheet language file defines a reusable theme for a webpage and specifies a relative location for an image that is used by the reusable theme. The method further includes receiving a request for the image including the relative location of the image, resolving the relative location for the image to obtain an absolute location for the image using a location of the style sheet language file in a web application structure, obtaining the image from the absolute location of the image, and providing the image to the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Open Text Corporation
    Inventors: Sandip V. Chitale, Sachin Gopaldas Totale
  • Patent number: 9703887
    Abstract: A computer implemented method and system for managing browser tabs includes identifying a plurality of URLs (Uniform Resource Locator(s)) in response to detecting the URLs in a web browser running on a computer. The plurality of URLs are organized based on each of the URLs, and each of the plurality of URLs correspond to a tab opened by the web browser. The tabs of the web browser are grouped based on the URLs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew E. Broomhall, Christopher R. Dotson, Fabrizio N. Caldas, Michael R. Spano, Sr.
  • Patent number: 9690468
    Abstract: A method of providing an interactive media presentation may include, by an electronic device, receiving, from a user electronic device, an indication that an interactive portion of a media presentation is about to begin, and causing a graphical representation of a conversation atlas to be displayed. The conversation atlas may include a plurality of selection elements that are each associated with an audio element for a character that is featured in the interactive portion. The method may include receiving a user response comprising conversational information received from a user that is directed to a character of the media presentation, in response to receiving the user response, receiving a selection of at least one of the plurality of selection elements of the conversation atlas, identifying the audio element that corresponds to the selected selection element, and causing the identified audio element to be presented at the user electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: CONTENT MAKER, INC.
    Inventors: George Kaltner, Maxim Doumkine
  • Patent number: 9690763
    Abstract: A first computer may download one or more webpage files containing code that specifies webpage elements for display on a first computer and second computer (or the second computer only). The first computer may send an indication of the webpage elements to the second computer for the second computer to display, or the first computer may send an indication of certain webpage files to the second computer for the second computer to download and process for display. Also, some webpage files may contain webpage elements for the first computer to display. In some cases, the first and second computer may both display elements of a webpage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Inventor: Bryant Christopher Lee
  • Patent number: 9684643
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing and processing building plan documents. An electronic building plan document including a plurality of plan sheets is received. A first plan sheet is provided for display. A user interface is provided via which a user can select or enter a first comment associated with the first plan sheet. A user interface is provided via which the user can associate metadata, including a project type or discipline, with the first comment. A first plurality of comments, including the first comment, is stored in association with respective metadata. A user interface via which the user can select, by category and/or subcategory a plurality of comments to be included in a plan correction list, and a correction list is generated including a plurality of comments specified by a plurality of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: E-PLAN, INC.
    Inventors: Michael M. Chegini, Sholeh Noori-Chegini, Stacy Ann Reno, Jesse Bethke, Matthew David Smart
  • Patent number: 9684646
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to implementing changes to a data structure, such as a formula, in a collaborative context. In certain embodiments, collaborative changes made to a formula containing references to other portions of a table are retained or account for when an undo operation is performed. In one aspect, unique identifiers are used to identify and track table features, such as columns, rows, or cells, which may be moved, deleted, or created during a collaborative session. In some instances, collaborative changes may be logged for later application or applied to commands in an undo stack to prevent loss of changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Jeremy Coblenz, Shawn Patrick Flisakowski
  • Patent number: 9678935
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for facilitating dynamic cross-block joining of reports in an on-demand services environment in a multi-tenant environment according to one embodiment. In one embodiment and by way of example, a method includes receiving, at a server computing device, a joining request to merge a plurality of reports into a joined report, each of the plurality of reports having data including customer relationship management (CRM) data, where the request is placed at a client computing device, and merging the plurality of report into the joined report. The joined report comprises a single report representing the merged plurality of reports. The method may further include facilitating access, via a user interface at the client computing device, to the plurality of reports represented as the joined report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: salesforce.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremiah Lu, Thomas Tobin, Zuye Zheng, Venkata Vepa, Vladislav Eroshin, Daphne Annina Kao, Siddhi Mehta, Arunkumaran Varadharajan
  • Patent number: 9672585
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and media for presenting panel-based electronic documents are provided. In accordance with some embodiments, systems for presenting panel-based electronic documents are provided, the systems comprising: at least one processor programmed to: receive an electronic document, a definition of a first panel on a page in the electronic document, and a definition of a second panel on the page in the electronic document; control a display of the first panel based on the definition of the first panel; and transition from the display of the first panel to a display of the second panel by re-scaling the display and panning from the first panel to the second panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David Timothy Steinberger, Cyrus Najmabadi
  • Patent number: 9659103
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide online tools for helping a business improve its online presence. A contact importance score rates a contact's engagement with business via purchases and online contact, and may further gauge the contact's engagement with other contacts and potential contacts. An engagement score rates a business' engagement with online visitors with respect to industry best practices. A method of generating the engagement score may include providing recommendations to the business for improving the engagement score. A method for recommending online content can identify public and privately-created content that is likely to engage a business' users. A website builder can include a tool for aligning content on the website. The website builder can further include a tool for creating a video for promoting the business.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Justin Tsai, Josh Berk, Rajatish Mukherjee
  • Patent number: 9658994
    Abstract: Supplemental information to a media content such as a video can be shown to the user. The supplemental information can be selected based upon a profile of the user and one or both of the identity of the media content and the identity of an entity of interest in the media content. The supplemental information can be customized to the user based on the content being viewed and an entity of interest to the user in the viewed content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Andrew Sipe, Henry Will Schneiderman