Patents Examined by Ayesha Huertas Torres
  • Patent number: 9477379
    Abstract: This application discloses systems and methods for receiving information associated with a first set of processing instructions and presenting a second icon indicating a change in status of data associated with the first set of processing instructions. A user selection of one of a first icon or the second icon may then be received. The selection of the first icon may cause execution of the first set of processing instructions, whereas selection of the second icon may cause execution of a second set of processing instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo Utsuki, Kazuhiro Hara
  • Patent number: 9477391
    Abstract: A user interface includes a tactile interface on a client device that allows users to interact with social networking system content in a manner that is optimized for touch screens and mobile devices. The tactile interface allows users to efficiently navigate the social networking system data as well as to capture new content for upload to the social networking system. New content may be captured in a way that allows the user to preview the content in-context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: William Joseph Flynn, III, Michael Dudley Johnson
  • Patent number: 9477771
    Abstract: A uniform resource locator (URL) shortener relies on client-side support to embed links to websites into, for example, text messages, emails, tweets, or other forms of microblogging, and that provides additional capabilities. A method may include: recognizing a token indicator; recognizing a token in conjunction with the token indicator; selecting a template corresponding to the token indicator; and executing a process enabled according to the token and the template. Executing an enabled process may include one or more of: generating a URL; generating a URL that is itself a server-based URL shortener, in which the token indicator is substituted for the server-based URL shortener hostname to reduce the character count from that of the server-based URL shortener; displaying information from a destination website of the URL generated from the token and the template; or generating a URL according to a distinctive visual characteristic of the token indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventor: Norihiro Edwin Aoki
  • Patent number: 9442621
    Abstract: During an interaction with a web page, user interface events are recorded and augmented with page layout data from the document object model. An event stream is formed with the page layout data and communicated to an event server. The event server processes the event stream to determine a location at which the events were generated, which can be used to predict an area of a user's attention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: SUBOTI, LLC
    Inventor: Robert R. Hauser
  • Patent number: 9442652
    Abstract: A method for a multi-touch gesture-based user interface wherein a plurality of gestemes are defined as functions of abstract space and time and further being primitive gesture segments that can be concatenated over time and space to construct gestures. Various distinct subset of the gestemes can be concatenated in space and time to construct a distinct gestures. Real-time multi-touch gesture-based information provided by user interface is processed to at least a recognized sequence of specific gestemes and that the sequence of gestemes that the user's execution a gesture has been completed. The specific gesture rendered by the user is recognized according to the sequence of gestemes. Many additional features are then provided from this foundation, including gesture grammars, structured-meaning gesture-lexicon, context, and the use of gesture prosody.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Inventor: Lester F. Ludwig
  • Patent number: 9419932
    Abstract: A method for managing an e-mail response based on the e-mail domains of the recipients is provided. The method receives a first e-mail sent to a plurality of e-mail addresses that includes e-mails with different domain names, provides a list of different domain names associated with a plurality of e-mail addresses and an e-mail address of a sender of the first e-mail, generates, based on a selection of one or more of the different domain names, a distribution list including one or more e-mail addresses limited to e-mail addresses having a selected domain name, and providing the distribution list in an addressee field associated with the e-mail response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Avinash V. Ramakrishna, Shishir Saha, Aparna Subramanian
  • Patent number: 9418178
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments disclose controlling of the size and content of a hierarchical visualization by a software component executing on a computer that displays a multi-level hierarchical visualization of nodes including a collapsed sub-hierarchy. The exemplary embodiments include displaying a user interface that enables a user to invoke a contextual search that is contextual to the collapsed sub-hierarchy; responsive to the user invoking the contextual search, receiving search criteria entered by the user; displaying any nodes from the collapsed sub-hierarchy matching the search criteria; receiving a user selection of which ones of the matching nodes from the collapsed sub-hierarchy to show; and displaying a partial rendering of the collapsed sub-hierarchy that shows the selected matching nodes while keeping remaining non-matching nodes hidden.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Lucinio Santos-Gomez
  • Patent number: 9396505
    Abstract: A caregiver user interface displays information from a patient's electronic medical record. The interface associates medical records together that include a common data item. The interface also displays information about data items, such as the status of a data item in an associated historical record. Controls can be displayed in the user interface, which are linked to the historical records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Medicomp Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Edmund M. Herrold, David A. Polivka
  • Patent number: 9378354
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing identification tests. In some embodiments, a system and a method are provided for generating and serving to a user an animated challenge graphic comprising a challenge character set whose appearance may change over time. In some embodiments, marketing content may be incorporated into a challenge message for use in an identification test. The marketing content may be accompanied by randomly selected content to increase a level of security of the identification test, hi some embodiments, a challenge message for use in an identification test may be provided based on information regarding a transaction for which the identification test is administered. For example, the transaction information may include a user identifier such as an IP address. In some embodiments, identification test results may be tracked and analyzed to identify a pattern of behavior associated with a user identifier. A score indicative of a level of trustworthiness may be computed for the user identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: NuData Security Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher Everett Bailey
  • Patent number: 9367848
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing an interactive seat map showing locations of available tickets in an event venue are described. A client computer receives, from a network-based system, a base map illustrating locations of sections within the event venue, a coded image map for building a map overlay having a polygon for each section depicted in the base map, and an inventory for an event at the event venue. The inventory provides, for each section, section data that includes available tickets for each section within the event venue. The client computer displays an interactive seat map by loading the base map and building the map overlay on top of the base map so that each polygon of the map overlay aligns with the respective section of the base map. The client computer determines one or more characteristics for each polygon of the map overlay based on the received section data corresponding to each polygon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Stubhub, Inc.
    Inventor: Benjamin Salles
  • Patent number: 9330395
    Abstract: During an interaction with a web page, user interface events are recorded and augmented with page layout data from the document object model. An event stream is formed with the page layout data and communicated to an event server. The event server processes the event stream to determine a location at which the events were generated and determines attention data for each event stream that indicates where a user's attention was directed during an interaction. The attention data for a plurality of event streams is aggregated to determine common or popular areas of interest of the web page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: SUBOTI, LLC
    Inventor: Robert R. Hauser
  • Patent number: 9311061
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for designating the order in which a plurality of tasks are to be executed on a computer system. In one embodiment, a plurality of task icons, each of which represents a respective one task, are shown in defined positions in a view on the computer system, and these defined positions of the task icons are used to determine the order in which the tasks are to be executed by the computer system. In an embodiment, the task icons are shown in a grid pattern, having rows and columns. Tasks represented by task icons shown in successive rows of the grid pattern are executed in series, and tasks represented by task icons shown in the same row of the grid pattern are executed in parallel. In an embodiment, at least one of the task icons represents an embedded executable workflow folder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Wayne M. Delia, Stuart B. Tener
  • Patent number: 9298340
    Abstract: A method of inputting text to a display device using a mobile device, the method including transmitting a text input box activation signal that instructs the display device to activate input to a text input box displayed on a screen of the display device, receiving a request to execute a text input mode of inputting the text to the display device using a keyboard displayed on a screen of the mobile device, displaying the keyboard of the text input mode on the screen of the mobile device, receiving a text input through the keyboard displayed on the screen of the mobile device, and transmitting a text input display signal that instructs the display device to display text corresponding to the text input received through the keyboard displayed on the screen of the mobile device in the text input box displayed on the screen of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Doh-hyeong Lee
  • Patent number: 9286088
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products are described that provide a user interface to a user of a first operating system to enable the user to interact with a second operating system executing in a virtual machine. If the first and second operating systems are in communication in accordance with an operating system remote terminal (OSRT) protocol, such as Remote Desktop Protocol, a first user interface is provided as the user interface. If the first and second operating systems are not in communication in accordance with the OSRT protocol, a second user interface is provided as the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Prasad Thiruveedu, Rahul S. Newaskar, Eric P. Traut, Hari Krishna Pammi, Yogesh K. Sharma
  • Patent number: 9285974
    Abstract: An interface for configuring an interaction site is provided. First values corresponding to first parameters of an interaction page of the one or more interaction pages are received. Recommended interaction pages for the interaction site are selected based on the first values. An interface for selecting any interaction page of the recommended interaction pages is provided. Data indicating a selection of a particular interaction page is received. In response to receiving the data indicating the selection of the particular interaction page, an interface for configuring the particular interaction page is provided. Second values corresponding to second parameters of the particular interaction page are received. A second multi-step communication flow is determined based on (i) values corresponding to the parameters associated with the first multi-step communication flow and (ii) the second values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: ANGEL.COM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Praphul Kumar, Leon Vymenets
  • Patent number: 9285589
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns an interactive head-mounted eyepiece with an integrated processor for handling content for display and an integrated image source for introducing the content to an optical assembly through which the user views a surrounding environment and the displayed content, wherein the eyepiece includes an event and sensor triggered control of eyepiece applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Ralph F. Osterhout, John D. Haddick, Robert Michael Lohse, Charles Cella, Robert J. Nortrup, Edward H. Nortrup
  • Patent number: 9288117
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a hosting system for managing virtual and dedicated servers. The system includes a front-end user interface (UI) that allows users to configure, provision, and control virtual and dedicated servers through UI elements. The back-end system includes different actuators that perform different tasks related to the virtual and dedicated server. To interface with these different actuators, the hosting system includes a remote management component (1) that receives a user request from the front-end UI, (2) identifies an actuator that can fulfill the user request, and (3) sends the user request to the identified actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: GoGrid, LLC
    Inventors: Yogesh Angrish, Yueqin Lin, Martin A. Berryman, Justin M. Kitagawa, Paul Lappas
  • Patent number: 9280257
    Abstract: A navigation system for navigating a three-dimensional (3D) scene that includes a model or object with which a user can interact. The system accommodates and helps both novice and advanced users. To do this, the system provides cursor wrapping around the view id the 3D scene with continued motion of the cursor in the direction of movement by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: AUTODESK, INC.
    Inventors: George Fitzmaurice, Justin Matejka, Gord Kurtenbach, Azam Khan
  • Patent number: 9275215
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing identification tests. In some embodiments, a system and a method are provided for generating and serving to a user an animated challenge graphic comprising a challenge character set whose appearance may change over time. In some embodiments, marketing content may be incorporated into a challenge message for use in an identification test. The marketing content may be accompanied by randomly selected content to increase a level of security of the identification test, hi some embodiments, a challenge message for use in an identification test may be provided based on information regarding a transaction for which the identification test is administered. For example, the transaction information may include a user identifier such as an IP address. In some embodiments, identification test results may be tracked and analyzed to identify a pattern of behavior associated with a user identifier. A score indicative of a level of trustworthiness may be computed for the user identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: NuData Security Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher Everett Bailey
  • Patent number: 9269110
    Abstract: A graphical user interface system for displaying content on a user interface and for integrating and manipulating social network content includes a display window for displaying and manipulating content from at least one social network; a horizontal panel for manipulating content from at least one social network; and tabs on the horizontal panel and user-selectable for manipulating the content. The tabs disposed on the horizontal panel may include a post tab for selecting a type of content to be manipulated; a media tab for manipulating audio/visual media content; a social tab for manipulating one or more social media or communication content in the social network; a persona tab for configuring at least one user-persona associated with the content to be manipulated; and an account tab for managing at least one external user account or profile when interacting with the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Inventors: Jonathan Blake, Clayton Gunars Strauts