Patents Examined by Cao H. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11921933
    Abstract: Computing devices, computer-readable storage media, and methods associated with human computer interaction. In embodiments, a computing device may include a display, a processor coupled with the display, a user interface engine and one or more applications to be operated on the processor. In embodiments, the user interface engine or the one or more applications may be configured to detect movement of the portable computing device indicating a direction a user of the portable computing device would like a portion of the user interface to move and cause the portion of the user interface to be moved, from a current location on the display to another location on the display, in accordance with the indicated direction. Such movement may facilitate the user to interact with the portion of the user interface via the interaction zone of the display. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Vinod Govindapillai, Tomer Rider
  • Patent number: 11907499
    Abstract: A method of composing an email message at an electronic device and an electronic device operable to carry out the method are provided. The method includes receiving an email command from a user input of the electronic device through a calendar user interface, the email command relating to at least one of a plurality of intended attendees of a calendared meeting, and providing an email composition interface in response to receiving the email command. The email composition interface includes a user-editable portion of an address field. The user-editable portion of the address field is automatically populated with email address information for the at least one of the plurality of intended attendees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited
    Inventors: Darrell Reginald May, Atif Khan, Andrew Douglas Bocking
  • Patent number: 11907501
    Abstract: An information processing device including: an operation display; a storage section configured to store transaction content information including a transaction content that has been previously executed and date/time information of the executed transaction content; a processor configured to, based on an operation date/time information of a user operating the operation display, search in the storage section as to whether there is a recursive transaction that has been repeatedly executed with a same transaction content in a same time band as a time band of the operation date/time information; and in a case in which there is the recursive transaction, display a first screen including a selection button for selecting the recursive transaction on the operation display, and, after the selection button is selected, automatically switch displays of plural screens showing a transaction content of the recursive transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co, Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira Takekawa
  • Patent number: 11908343
    Abstract: Exercise-based watch faces and complications for use with a portable multifunction device are disclosed. The methods described herein for exercise-based watch faces and complications provide indications of time and affordances representing applications (e.g., a workout application or a weather application). In response to detecting a user input corresponding to a selection of the affordance (e.g., representing a workout application), a workout routine can optionally be begun. Further disclosed are non-transitory computer-readable storage media, systems, and devices configured to perform the methods described herein, as well as electronic devices related thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Wilson, Aled Hywel Williams, Kevin Will Chen, Chester H. Chipperfield, Stanley Carl Ng
  • Patent number: 11898765
    Abstract: A programmable thermostat usable to program their thermostat in a more intuitive manner using the fewer commands. The programmable thermostat provides a simplified level of programming that is intuitive and quick, based on a common set of settings, such as a nighttime setback programming that automatically adjusts the thermostat setpoint down in the evening and resetting the setpoint up in the morning, and a “five and two” programming reflecting the normal five-day work week and two-day weekend, as well as four events per day during the work week but only two events during the two weekend days. By compromising infinite flexibility and customization of programming for the efficiency of assuming that the most common settings are sufficient for most users, and these most common settings can be accomplished with a greatly reduced set of intuitive commands, making it easier for users to making use of thermostat programming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Warmboard, Inc.
    Inventor: Terry Wayne Alsberg
  • Patent number: 11893211
    Abstract: A display method includes displaying a list of a plurality of groups in a first area which is a first partial area of a display, and a name of a component belonging to at least one of the plurality of groups in a second area which is a second partial area of the display and is different from the first area. In the displaying, switching a display mode between a first display mode and a second display mode is performed in the second area. The first display mode is a mode in which all of the plurality of groups are displayed and a group, out of the plurality of groups, to which the component belongs is displayed in a display appearance different from that of a different group of the plurality of groups. The second display mode is a mode in which, out of the plurality of groups, only the group to which the component belongs is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kosuke Saito
  • Patent number: 11875016
    Abstract: A computer system receives, by a first application, a plurality of shared media items and receives a request to display a view of a media application that includes the media library that includes a first plurality of media items. The computer system displays a collection of media items in the media application that are selected based on first criteria. Displaying the collection of media items includes displaying a second plurality of media items selected from the media library based on the first criteria. In accordance with a determination that a first shared media item from a set of one or media items that have not been added to the media library meets display criteria, the display criteria including the first criteria, displaying the first shared media item in the collection of media items concurrently with the second plurality of media items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Nicole R. Ryan, Chia Yang Lin, Graham R. Clarke, Aaron Moring, William A. Sorrentino, III
  • Patent number: 11874970
    Abstract: During control of a user interface via free-space motions of a hand or other suitable control object, switching between control modes can be facilitated by tracking the control object's movements relative to, and its penetration of, a virtual control construct (such as a virtual surface construct). The position of the virtual control construct can be updated, continuously or from time to time, based on the control object's location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Raffi Bedikian, Jonathan Marsden, Keith Mertens, David Holz
  • Patent number: 11853540
    Abstract: A method for interface control across several electronic devices having different operating system includes: starting a first application in response to a first operation; obtaining, by the first device, a first presenting interface associated with the first application in a second device based on the first application; in response to an adjust instruction on the first presenting interface, generating a second presenting interface by adjusting content and/or a layout format of the first presenting interface in the first application; and sending the second presenting interface to the second device, to instruct the second device to generate and display a third presenting interface based on the second presenting interface. A first electronic device such as a mobile device or laptop may have a strong processing capability, and an auxiliary electronic device, such as a watch or other wearable device, may have a different operating system depending on its application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuewei Cui, Jun Zhu
  • Patent number: 11849180
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for behavioral modeling based on content genre and utilizing results for content recommendation and other network handling and storage of the content. Viewing events with respect to a content item are aggregated. An affinity is calculated based on the viewing events. Additional viewing events occurring during the delivery of the content item and associated with other content items are also selected. A sampling bonus is added to the affinity if these additional viewing events have a duration below a threshold and the other content items share a same genre as the content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Bernard Burg, Ryan March, Ranjit Padmanabhan, Tyler Kareeson
  • Patent number: 11798319
    Abstract: A vehicular driver monitoring system includes an interior electrochromic rearview mirror assembly and a camera disposed at the interior electrochromic rearview mirror assembly behind and viewing through an electrochromic mirror reflective element into the interior cabin of the vehicle. Supplemental sources of near infrared illumination are integrated into the mirror assembly that, when powered to emit near infrared light, illuminate at least the driver-side front seating area within the interior cabin of the vehicle. Presence of the camera is not readily apparent to an occupant of the vehicle. The camera at least (a) views the driver-side front seating area of the equipped vehicle and (b) views a passenger-side front seating area of the equipped vehicle. The driver of the equipped vehicle is monitored via processing at the processor of image data captured by the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Mark E. Kramer, Niall R. Lynam, David P. O'Connell, Vernon R. Nise
  • Patent number: 11800193
    Abstract: An interaction processing method and apparatus operates for an information flow. An information flow is displayed in an information flow region, which is inserted between information in the information flow. Interaction material is displayed in the interaction region and the information in the information flow is updated along with a position of the interaction region in an information flow display interface in response to a movement operation on the information flow. An interaction process is displayed in the interaction region when the position of the interaction region reaches a set position. The interaction process includes a process in which the interaction material changes with an interaction operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jing Kou, Qiqi Luo, Yanhui Shen, Jingwen Wang, Leibing Qiu, Junhui Xi, Qian Zhang, Runlin Han
  • Patent number: 11797168
    Abstract: Provided are systems and methods for determining and displaying automatically binned information via a graphical user interface. A graphical user interface (GUI) may include a first graphical element representing a first metric value for a first time window and a second graphical element representing a second metric value for a second time window. An indication of a selection of the first time window may be received via the GUI. An updated GUI comprising a third graphical element representing a third metric value for the third time window and a fourth graphical element representing the fourth metric value for the fourth time window may be displayed, wherein the third time window and the fourth time window may be sub-ranges of the first time window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SPLUNK INC.
    Inventors: Nicholas Filippi, Siegfried Puchbauer-Schnabel, Cary Noel
  • Patent number: 11797248
    Abstract: There is provided a wearable device, comprising: at least one processing core; at least one memory including computer program code; the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processing core, cause the wearable device to: receive one or more recipes being indicative of input elements for the computer program code, the input elements comprising at least one or more triggering events; one or more display templates; one or more content elements; receive user input for selection of a recipe of the one or more recipes; detect a triggering event corresponding to the one or more triggering events; in response to detecting the triggering event, provide the one or more content elements corresponding to the triggering event for display on a display of the wearable device according to a display template corresponding to the triggering event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Suunto Oy
    Inventors: Janne Kallio, Tuomas Hapola, Erik Lindman
  • Patent number: 11783212
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure may relate generally to software-based service platforms and graphical user interface (GUI) architectures for determining and presenting rule-based conclusions, along with explanations identifying the factor or factors influencing the conclusions. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Avalara, Inc.
    Inventors: Naveen Kumar Agrawal, Marshal Kushniruk, Mark Wilhelm, Aaron David Wilson
  • Patent number: 11775142
    Abstract: An industrial integrated development environment (IDE) comprises a development interface that affords a user a great deal of control over the editing tools, workspace canvases, and project information rendered at a given time. The industrial IDE system automatically filters the tools, panels, and information available for selection based on a current project development task, such that a focused subset of editing tools relevant to a current development task or context are made available for selection while other tools are hidden. The development interface also allows the user to selectively render or hide selected tools or information from among the relevant, filtered set of tools. This can reduce or eliminate unnecessary clutter and aid in quickly and easily locating and selecting a desired editing function. The IDE's development interface can also conform to a structured organization of workspace canvases and panels that facilitates intuitive workflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew R Ericsson, Andrew R Stump, Anthony Carrara, Eashwer Srinivasan, Christopher W Como, Sharon M Billi-Duran
  • Patent number: 11775149
    Abstract: In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for interacting with sharable dynamic objects are presented. A sharable dynamic object comprising a source file for a component may be accessed. A distributed data structure corresponding to the component may be generated. The component may be rendered in a host software application by processing the distributed data structure. An interactive control element may be rendered in the component, wherein the interactive control element comprises: a component location portion populated with identities of a plurality of distributed host experiences the component is included in, a component embedding portion populated with identities of a plurality of sharable objects that are selectable for automatically embedding the component in, and a copy component portion selectable for copying a link to the source file for the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Seth Kaufthal, Nathan Darrel Kile, Jr., Azin Zohdi, Jenna Rose Ammerall, Nicolas Gunnar Alexander Nuzzaci, Maya Rodrig
  • Patent number: 11775849
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure may relate generally to software-based service platforms and graphical user interface (GUI) architectures for determining and presenting rule-based conclusions, along with explanations identifying the factor or factors influencing the conclusions. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Avalara, Inc.
    Inventors: Naveen Kumar Agrawal, Marshal Kushniruk, Mark Wilhelm, Aaron David Wilson
  • Patent number: 11768653
    Abstract: Presented herein are techniques in which a conference endpoint receives a request to share content generated by a user device with one or more participant devices. The user device is connected to the conference endpoint and the conference endpoint is participating in a communication session with the one or more participant devices. The conference endpoint detects one or more windows displayed on a display of the conference endpoint; receives a selection of a first window; and shares contents of the first window with the one or more participant devices. The conference endpoint detects that a second window is overlapping the first window such that a first portion of the first window is covered by a second portion of the second window; and performs one or more actions with respect to the second portion of the second window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventor: Paul Brian Giralt
  • Patent number: 11769184
    Abstract: A method for enhancing dialog systems is disclosed herein. The method may include maintaining an online marketplace that may have a plurality of dialog system extension elements. The plurality of dialog system extension elements may include at least one of a dialog system plugin, a dialog system add-on, a dialog system update, and a dialog system upgrade. The method may further include receiving a selection of one of the plurality of dialog system extension elements from an end user. The end user may be associated with a dialog system. The method may continue with associating the one of the plurality of dialog system extension elements with the dialog system of the end user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Ilya Gennadyevich Gelfenbeyn, Artem Goncharuk, Pavel Aleksandrovich Sirotin