Patents Examined by Boris Pesin
  • Method of managing groups of arrays of documents
    Patent number: 8607155
    Abstract: A method of grouping arrays of documents is provided, the method comprising providing a first plurality of documents in a first array of documents, providing a second plurality of documents in a second array of documents, grouping the first array of documents and the second array of documents in a first group of arrays of documents, and displaying the first group of documents. A tangible machine-readable medium and a graphical user interface providing same are also provided herewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: 9224-5489 Quebec Inc.
    Inventor: Mathieu Audet
  • Portable multifunction device, method, and graphical user interface for providing maps and directions
    Patent number: 8607167
    Abstract: A device has a touch screen display configured to display a map application, which is configured to separately display a list of bookmarked locations, a list of recent queries, and a list of contacts. In response to detecting a finger gesture on an input icon associated with a search term input area, the map application displays at least one of the list of bookmarked locations, the list of recent queries, and the list of contacts. In response to detecting a finger gesture on a bookmarked location, an area corresponding to the bookmarked location is displayed on a digital map. In response to detecting a finger gesture on a recent query, one or more results corresponding to the recent query are displayed on a digital map. In response to detecting a finger gesture on a contact, an area associated with the contact is displayed on a digital map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Matas, Chris Blumenberg, Andre M. J. Boule, Richard Williamson
  • User interface for creating a spreadsheet data summary table
    Patent number: 8601383
    Abstract: A graphical user interface for creating a data summary table includes a field pane including a list of a plurality of fields, and a layout pane including a plurality of zones. The zones represent areas of the data summary table, and the layout pane allows a field of the plurality of fields from the field pane to be added to a first zone of the zones. A data summary table is updated upon the field being added to the layout pane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Allan Folting, Konrad Tupaj, Brandon Weber, Denise Cathleen Carlevato, Sander Martijn Viegers
  • System and method for organizing icons for applications on a mobile device
    Patent number: 8601370
    Abstract: A method for moving icons on a display of a mobile device, either on the display or into a folder is provided. When an icon has been selected to be moved, its appearance is altered with respect to the other icons so as to provide a visual cue to the user regarding the move and the altered icon is overlaid on the other icons as it moves thereover. The icon may be displayed with a move cursor indicating where the icon will be placed if the current position is selected. A method is also provided for creating new folders on the display using a dialog box that is configured to enable a name and icon for the folder to be chosen and/or selected. Default names and folder icons may be used and alternative icons may also be presented in the dialog box to enable a preview of the choices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Blackberry Limited
    Inventors: Hui Yu Chiang, Sherryl Lee Lorraine Scott, Alen Mujkic, Jose Jose Rojas Ealo, Julian Paas
  • Accessibility in virtual worlds using tags
    Patent number: 8595631
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a method and apparatus for describing elements within a virtual world to a user of the virtual world. An element may be identified based on a position of an avatar within the virtual world. The avatar is a representation of the user within the virtual world. A tag associated with the element is selected. The tag includes a description of the element. The element is described to the user based on the description.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brian John Cragun, Zachary Adam Garbow, Christopher A. Peterson
  • Distributed hosting of web application styles
    Patent number: 8595634
    Abstract: A method for facilitating distributed hosting of web application styles may include storing original style sheets at a first location, where the original style sheets pertain to a user interface (UI) provided by the service provider, and allowing a third party to customize a subset of the original style sheets and to store the customized style sheets at a second location. The method may further include causing the customized style sheets to be combined with the original style sheets when the user interface is presented to a user associated with the third party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventors: James P. Schneider, Marshall Smith
  • Moveable viewport for indicating off-screen content
    Patent number: 8589818
    Abstract: An off-screen content indication system receives an identification of a geographic term, generates an off-screen content indicator that indicates a location of an off-screen entity associated with the identified geographic term, places the off-screen content indicator outside a viewport that currently displays a portion of a map to a user, and temporarily moves or shifts the viewport toward the general direction of the location of the off-screen entity to reveal the generated off-screen content indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jonah Jones, Willem Van Lancker
  • Systems and methods for navigating, finding, and presenting data objects
    Patent number: 8584045
    Abstract: Various systems and related methods involve navigating, finding, and visually presenting data objects or sets of data objects. In one implementation, a set of data objects is visually presented as a graphical element and one or more semantic relationships between the graphical element and other sets of data objects are visually presented. Furthermore, this includes a method for finding related sets of data objects by presenting different search paths and enabling the user to select a destination set of data objects based on the presented paths. One possible operation associated with this system includes presenting relationships between data objects outside of predefined work flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Jochen Rode, Patrick Boettcher
  • Location and time user interface dial
    Patent number: 8584051
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are disclosed which include displaying a circular slider on a mobile device, the circular slider displaying a current date, displaying a geographic map relative to the circular slider on the mobile device, receiving from a user of the mobile device, at a location on the circular slider, a touch gesture indicating a circular motion; in response to the touch gesture indication of the circular motion being received, changing the current date on the circular slider to a future date for each predetermined amount of circular motion received, and displaying on the geographic map on the mobile device, a representation corresponding to each of one or more future locations indicating that one or more friends of the user are going to be physically present at on the respective future location on the future date.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Ribbon Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Alfaro, Austen Boyd, Robert Palmer
  • Methods for scanning, printing, and copying multimedia thumbnails
    Patent number: 8584042
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and article of manufacture for creating visualizations of documents are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an electronic visual, audio, or audiovisual content; generating a display for authoring a multimedia representation of the received electronic content; receiving user input, if any, through the generated display; and generating a multimedia representation of the received electronic content utilizing received user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Berna Erol, Kathrin Berkner, Jonathan J. Hull, Peter E. Hart
  • Visual toolkit for a virtual user interface
    Patent number: 8578282
    Abstract: An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) (100) for creating a touchless Virtual User Interface (VUI) 120 is provided. The IDE can include a development window (152) for graphically presenting a visual layout of user interface (UI) components (161) that respond to touchless sensory events in a virtual layout of virtual components (261), and at least one descriptor (121) for modifying a touchless sensory attribute of a user component. The touchless sensory attribute describes how a user component responds to a touchless touchless sensory event on a virtual component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: NaviSense
    Inventor: Marc Andre Boillot
  • Docking and undocking user interface objects
    Patent number: 8578290
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for displaying information or a part within a second application, such as a sidebar application. The part can be docked in the sidebar application or undocked from the sidebar application and can send corresponding docking messages in a docking protocol to the sidebar application based on the docking status of the part or the location of the part in relation to the sidebar application. Graphically depicted animations indicate to a user the docking and/or undocking processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Louis Amadio, Paul Erickson, Oliver Fisher, Keira Amos
  • Mobile device messaging application
    Patent number: 8572493
    Abstract: A social networking mobile software application for particular mobile device which allow end users on their mobile devices to view profiles of themselves that contain images and/or videos while simultaneously hearing and audio description of their ad via wireless connection to the internet and/or cellular provider data network using streaming or intact multimedia file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Inventor: Rick Qureshi
  • Rendering graphical objects based on context
    Patent number: 8572501
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products and computer readable media, for rendering graphical objects. A context of a user interface element in a graphical user interface is identified. The identified context is mapped to one or more effects. A graphical object associated with the user interface element is rendered using the effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ken Ferry, David Andrew McLeod
  • Framework for development and customization of web services deployment descriptors
    Patent number: 8572494
    Abstract: An extensible software framework is used for the development and customization of XML based Web service deployment descriptors. The framework may provide for the mapping and synchronization of XML data fragments in the XML files to user interface components, resulting in an interface that can be used for the development and customization of the Web service configuration. This mechanism may allow concurrent read and write accesses to the XML based Web service deployment descriptors. The mechanism may be extensible, providing for the mapping between the user interface and the XML data fragments to be customized. Additional extensibility may come from the ability of the framework to readily accommodate the situation where the complete configuration of the Web service is described in multiple XML files. The resulting editor may present one unified display of all of the information across multiple files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rupam Sinha Kuehner, Jeffrey Yu Kwan Liu, Allan S. L. Zhang
  • Automatically testing a web application that has independent display trees
    Patent number: 8572505
    Abstract: An automatic testing application is provided that can simulate a user interaction with a web application. The automatic testing application can determine that the web application has been completely displayed within a graphical user interface of a web browser using a consistent global page state. The automatic testing application can test that the web application has been correctly displayed by verifying a state of a visualization component of the web application using a communication component. Subsequently, the automatic testing application can transmit an event to the web application that can modify the state of the visualization component using the communication component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Teck Hua Lee, Gary Look, Hugh Zhang, Diar Ahmed, Prashant Singh
  • Editing key-indexed graphs in media editing applications
    Patent number: 8566721
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide media editing applications with novel key-indexed graph editing operations. In some embodiments, the media editing application allows a user to modify such a graph without actually selecting any key index on the graph. In some embodiments, the media editing application allows a user to modify the graph by interacting with one or more shapes that are defined in terms of the graph, without selecting any of the key indices that are used to specify the graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Langmacher, Samuel Joseph Liberto, III
  • GUI pointer automatic position vectoring
    Patent number: 8566751
    Abstract: A method and computer system for rapid and accurate automatic vectoring of a graphical user interface pointer to a selectable item on a display. Based upon pointer movement input from a pointing device (e.g., a mouse, touchpad or specially configured keyboard), a direction of travel vector from an initial anchor position towards a target item is determined. The location of the target item is extrapolated and the pointer is automatically moved to that target item. To ensure that the pointer moves to the intended target item, the location of the target item is extrapolated based upon the direction of travel vector and default and/or user defined parameters. Optional user defined parameters include initial pointer anchor position, vector sensitivity, automatic selection of target item, and user defined pointer limitations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Edward E. Kelley, Franco Motika
  • Multiple-carousel selective digital service feeds
    Patent number: 8566722
    Abstract: Methods and systems for presentation of content through an interface to provide personalized video feeds to a user. The video feeds are harvested from feed items gathered at various Internet sources. Those video feeds are referenced by icons or channels that rotate about, or scroll within, a first carousel. Video feeds are arranged in columns and/or rows that rotate about, or scroll within, a second carousel. Movement in one carousel causes movement in the other in a synchronous manner even though the movement may be at different speeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Frequency IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Michael M. Gordon, Blair R.R. Harrison, Adrian K. Roston
  • Touch event model
    Patent number: 8560975
    Abstract: A device with a touch-sensitive surface detects a touch on the touch-sensitive surface, determines that the touch is cancelled, and in accordance with a determination that the touch is cancelled, sends a touch cancel event to at least one of the one or more applications. Also disclosed is a device configured to determine that a respective touch has been cancelled by the device. If the respective touch has been cancelled, the device ignores the respective touch. If the respective touch has not been cancelled, the device processes the respective touch. In addition, a device configured to detect one or more touches and process at least a subset of the touches with at least one application is described. While processing at least a subset of the touches, the device receives a touch cancel event, and, in response to receiving the touch cancel event, ignores the touches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Clay Beaver, Andrew W. Platzer