Patents Examined by Boris Pesin
  • Patent number: 8972845
    Abstract: The present invention is a method and system for accurately coding documents for a legal matter. The method, if used by experienced and motivated document reviewers, has the potential to dramatically improve adjusted review consistency, reduce coding errors, and produce the best review product. The method can also result in useful case history files, which are useful to litigation attorneys in every phrase of litigation including motion argument, merit trial, appeal, and future litigation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Inventor: Jianqing Wu
  • Patent number: 8972889
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a display processing apparatus, including: a display unit configured to display an image, the display unit having a screen on which the image is displayed; an input module configured to receive a first manipulation and a second manipulation, the first manipulation being a trace manipulation performed on the screen to define a tracing locus on the image being displayed, the second manipulation being different from the first manipulation; and a display controller configured to control the display unit to enlargedly display the image in a given range, upon simultaneously receiving the first manipulation and the second manipulation through the input module, the given range being determined based on the tracing locus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Yasuyuki Mizuura
  • Patent number: 8972876
    Abstract: A software-based customer relationship management system and method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Sugarcrm Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob Taylor, John Roberts, Clinton Oram, Ajay Gupta, Majed Itani, Sadek Baroudi, Roger Smith
  • Patent number: 8966377
    Abstract: An approach is provided for managing desktop components. A device determines to facilitate access to at least one interface for subscribing to one or more inputs of one or more desktop components, advertising the availability of one or more subscriptions to one or more outputs of the one or more desktop components, publishing the one or more outputs of the one or more desktop components, or a combination thereof. The one or more desktop components generate the one or more outputs based, at least in part, on the one or more inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Sasu Tarkoma
  • Patent number: 8966391
    Abstract: A system and associated method for contextualizing a page turn in an electronic book pursuant to a maximum amount of force applied by a user in a snap gesture triggering the page turn as performed by an e-reader program running in a tablet device having a strain gauge touch screen. The snap gesture is quantified with data elements including applied pressure and direction of the snap gesture. The quantified snap gesture is utilized in identifying a target page number to display on the strain gauge touch screen responsive to at least one predefined data element of the quantified snap gesture such that the e-reader program enables the user to turn multiple pages of the electronic book by the snap gesture in a manner similar to turning multiple pages of a paper book.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rick A. Hamilton, II, Andrew R. Jones, Mauro Marzorati, Brian M. O'Connell
  • Patent number: 8966372
    Abstract: A method is implemented in a video playback system that includes a video editing interface for assigning geotagging data to a video. The method comprises receiving, by the video playback system, the video from a tangible storage medium. The method further comprises reading metadata associated with the video, selecting a frame from the video, providing a user interface with a map, displaying a default location of the selected frame on the map according to the metadata, receiving geotagging data via the user interface, and associating the geotagging data with the selected frame of the video to generate a geo-based timeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Cyberlink Corp.
    Inventors: Meng Hui Lin, Huang-Hsin Wu
  • Patent number: 8959447
    Abstract: A method for controlling subsea components from multiple manufacturers, each having a proprietary communication interface. The method can include creating a graphical representation of a production system to be controlled by a universal master control station, setting control sequences for the system, creating a script for comprising control code for a universal master control station associated with subsea/topside equipment at a field, and configuring the universal master control station using the script.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Englobal Corporation
    Inventors: Bert M. Weldon, Artemus Ward Hancock, Jr., Anthony King Ho, Van Kent Wilson
  • Patent number: 8959441
    Abstract: A variably displayable mobile device keyboard includes a display for presenting two or more groups of basic images, such that a different keyboard display can be generated by each of these groups of basic images, a filter for filtering one or more groups of basic images so that a single group of basic images will be displayed; and a touch screen transparent to ambient light for selecting a key of the displayed single group of basic images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Inventor: Israel Fermon
  • Patent number: 8949725
    Abstract: A method and graphical user interface intended to simplify interaction between a user and a chat information system running on a portable electronic device that includes a touch screen. User interfaces and methods include user input controls (i.e., a virtual keyboard or voice recognition devices). The system also includes output trays, means for viewing chat history, means for displaying the Internet content and means for displaying graphical elements and avatars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Speaktoit, Inc.
    Inventors: Artem Goncharuk, Ilya Gelfenbeyn, Pavel Sirotin
  • Patent number: 8943441
    Abstract: Graphical user interface relationship graph for displaying relationships between image backup files in a backup job. In one example embodiment, one or more non-transitory computer-readable media store a program that causes a processor to generate and visually present, on an electronic display device associated with the processor, a graphical user interface (GUI) relationship graph for displaying relationships between image backup files in a backup job. The GUI relationship graph includes multiple image nodes each representing an image backup file of a source storage and a chain path including multiple links. Each of the links represents a parent-child relationship between one of the image nodes and another of the image nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Storagecraft Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Nathan A. Patrick, S. Blake Fordham
  • Patent number: 8918737
    Abstract: Zoom display navigation is described. In embodiments, a client device renders media content with a rendering system. A focus window is generated to display a section of the media content in the focus window that maintains a display resolution quality of the media content when the media content is displayed at a zoomed magnification level. Responsive to a navigation input, the focus window can be repositioned to a different section of the media content and/or the focus window can be zoomed to a different magnification level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Eduardo S. C. Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8914753
    Abstract: A Web page display apparatus includes: an acquisition unit for acquiring a Web page; a generation unit for generating a reduced Web page by reducing the Web page so that the particular element has a width smaller than that of the display size when a user-specified particular element in a plurality of elements constituting the Web page has a width greater than that of display size of a display unit; and a display control unit for controlling the display unit to display a particular reduced element of the reduced Web page corresponding to the particular element when the particular element has a width greater than that of the display size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiromasa Miyata
  • Patent number: 8910050
    Abstract: A manipulation-monitoring device may include a storage unit that stores page image data, the page image data being used for displaying a manipulation-monitoring-page, the manipulation-monitoring-page being displayed on a display unit based on data collected from a control device of a plant, the manipulation-monitoring-page being used for controlling operation of the plant, and a display control unit that controls the display unit to display a pseudo-manipulation-monitoring-page instead of the manipulation-monitoring-page, displaying the pseudo-manipulation-monitoring-page being performed by using the page image data without using data from the control device until data collection from the control device is completed, the pseudo-manipulation-monitoring-page showing a summary of the manipulation-monitoring-page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Norikatsu Kataoka, Miyu Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 8904289
    Abstract: A system for presenting and controlling content on a display device includes a network, a server system coupled to the network and comprising one or more servers, a display device coupled to the network and having a display, and a personal computing device operable to transmit a first message according to a specified format over the network to the server system. The server system stores an association between the personal computing device and the display device. The first message identifies user-selected content and a media player to play the content. The server system is operable, in response to receiving the first message from the personal computing device, to provide to the display device a second message identifying the user-selected content and the media player to play the content. In response to receiving the second message, the display device is operable to obtain a first media player needed to play the content, to load the media player and to present the content on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Touchstream Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: David Strober
  • Patent number: 8904312
    Abstract: A touchless sensor device (110) for touchless signing and recognition is provided. The sensor device can include a recognition engine (114) for recognizing at least one finger sign (140), and a controller (120) for composing a text from the recognized at least one finger sign and providing predictive texting. A recognized pattern can be an alphanumeric character or a finger gesture. The controller can generate a trace (145) from the finger sign. The trace can include spatio-temporal information (153) that is characteristic to a touchless writing style. The controller can provide text messaging services, email composition services, biometric identification services, phone dialing, and navigation entry services through touchless finger signing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: NaviSense
    Inventor: Marc Boillot
  • Patent number: 8893034
    Abstract: A method for generating a multi-frame image rendering of a challenge-response test on a display is presented. The method begins by identifying a pattern with graphical elements, and a display region for rendering an entry object of the multi-frame image of the challenge-response test. Then a foreground sampling window having a non-patterned area defined by the entry object is defined. The foreground sampling window captures graphical elements of the pattern along a first path. In addition, a background sampling window that captures graphical elements of the pattern along a second path is defined. The foreground sampling window is overlaid on the background sampling window at the display region of the display, such that the entry object of the challenge-response test is discernable from the pattern during a period of time when multiple frames are rendered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventor: Simon P. King
  • Patent number: 8887061
    Abstract: The magnifier interface system determines a level of user activity with a screen magnifier user interface and determines a current user interface mode. If the system is currently in the full mode and the level of user activity indicates user interaction with the screen magnifier user interface below a threshold, then the system transitions from the full mode to the watermark mode based on the lack of determined user activity. If the system is currently in the watermark mode and the level of user activity indicates user interaction with the screen magnifier user interface, then the system transitions from the watermark mode to the full mode based on the determined user activity. Thus, the magnifier interface system presents a full user interface that transitions into a smaller watermark interface when not in use to take up less screen real restate yet remain available to users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Nazia Zaman, Harold S. Gomez
  • Patent number: 8887047
    Abstract: Learning content management systems and processes are described that enable a user to independently define or select learning content, frameworks, styles, and/or protocols. The frameworks may be configured to specify a flow or an order of presentation to a learner with respect to a learning content presentation. The style definition may define an appearance of learning content. At least partly in response to a publishing instruction, the received learning content and the received framework definition are merged and then rendered in accordance with the defined style. The rendered merged learning content and framework definition are packaged in accordance with the defined/selected protocol to provide a published learning document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Breakthrough Performancetech, LLC
    Inventors: John DiGiantomasso, Martin L. Cohen
  • Patent number: 8881054
    Abstract: Information associated with an unavailable option is provided to a user upon detecting the user's interest in that option in a configuration environment or user interface control environment. The provided information may explain why the option is unavailable, what alternative options may be available, and which actions may be needed to render the option available. The user may be further enabled to unselect conflicting options or re-select among a subset of relevant options to render the unavailable option available without losing the context of the current selection screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Brian Elgaard Bennett
  • Patent number: 8875026
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to directed communication in a virtual environment. A method for method for providing directed communication between avatars in a virtual environment in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: determining a relative location of a first avatar and a second avatar in a virtual environment; and adjusting an aspect of a communication between the first avatar and the second avatar based on the relative location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rick A. Hamilton, II, John P. Karidis, Brian M. O'Connell, Clifford A. Pickover, Keith R. Walker