Patents Examined by Claudia Dragoescu
  • Patent number: 11537269
    Abstract: Provided are systems, methods, and apparatuses for aggregating information adapted for output to a graphical user interface. The methods can include providing a first menu command for a first menu of one or more user-selectable menu items to be displayed on a menu portion of an Aggregated User Interface (AUI) display and providing a content command for content to be displayed on the menu portion of the AUI display in response to the user's selection. The methods can further aggregate information relating to the one or more user-selectable menu items from the first menu and adapt them to be displayed on a content portion of the AUI display. By aggregating new information and displaying it on a graphical user interface, users can quickly and efficiently view and manipulate content in a more organized fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: METHODICAL MIND, LLC.
    Inventors: Jacob Wohlstadter, Michael Vock, Arvind Prabhu, Bradley Christiansen, Xinri Cong
  • Patent number: 11537746
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and a method for determining whether data utilization is privacy compliant. The program and method includes receiving input, via a graphical user interface, that includes identification of an application feature that utilizes user data collected from a plurality of users of the application; generating, for display in the graphical user interface, a plurality of fields that characterize utilization of user data; receiving, via the graphical user interface, a selection of one or more fields, the selected one or more fields characterize the utilization of the user data by the application feature; determining, based on the selected one or more fields, whether the utilization of the user data is privacy compliant; and generating, for display, an approval status indicating whether the utilization of the user data is privacy compliant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Subhash Sankuratripati, Dhanuja Shaji, Masoud Akhoondi, Amit Datta
  • Patent number: 11520477
    Abstract: Systems and methods for displaying a group of virtual objects and a scrollbar in a virtual, augmented, or mixed reality environment are disclosed. The group of virtual objects can be scrolled, and a virtual control panel can be displayed indicating objects that are upcoming in the scroll. The scrollbar can provide real-time feedback that can give the user an indication of the point from which the scrolling started, the point at which the scrolling currently has reached, an amount of the group of virtual objects that are displayed to the user relative to the total amount of the group of virtual objects, or a relative position of the currently-viewable virtual objects relative to the entire group of virtual objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard St. Clair Bailey, Brian Everett Meaney, John Austin Day, Lorena Pazmino, James Cameron Petty, James M. Powderly, Savannah Niles
  • Patent number: 11511424
    Abstract: A surgical robot includes: a plurality of manipulator arms; a platform to which the plurality of manipulator arms are coupled; a positioner configured to change the position and posture of the platform; a controller configured to control the positioner; and a user interface. The user interface includes: first manipulation tools each configured to receive an input of manipulation which selects one of a plurality of operating modes for changing the position and posture of the platform; and a single second manipulation tool configured to receive an input of manipulation information regarding the position and posture. The controller generates a command regarding the position and posture of the platform based on the acquired manipulation information and the selected operating mode and operates the positioner based on the generated command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignees: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MEDICAROID CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuji Kishida
  • Patent number: 11481184
    Abstract: Computing systems, database systems, and related conversational updating methods are provided for dynamically updating graphical user interfaces responsive to conversational user inputs received via a chatbot or other conversational interactions with a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Alan Molina, Carlos Jimenez, Chaitanya Malla
  • Patent number: 11481357
    Abstract: A method includes: After scanning a picture in a first folder, an electronic device displays a first user interface, where the first user interface includes a first album that includes the picture in the first folder, a quantity of times the first album has been hidden, and a hide operation item, wherein the quantity of times which the first album has been hidden is from a server. After detecting an operation performed on the hide operation item, the electronic device adds a first file to the first folder, and changes a media type of the picture in the first folder to a non-media file type. In response to the operation performed on the hide operation item, the electronic device displays a second user interface on the electronic device, where the second user interface is an interface obtained after the first album on the first user interface is hidden.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liping He, Zhiyan Yang, Kunqi Tong
  • Patent number: 11474662
    Abstract: An information processing method includes: a receiving step for receiving a message; an outputting step of outputting display information for associating and displaying the message received in the reception step with an icon associated with an account that is associated with the user that has transmitted the message; and a changing step of changing the ion associated with the account that has transmitted the message, if the message includes icon information to be displayed as the speaker of the message. When the changing step has changed the icon, the outputting step outputs display information for associating and displaying the message received in the receiving step with the changed icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: LINE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shohei Niki, Takumi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11467673
    Abstract: A method for controlling a camera of an electronic device is provided. The method includes generating a plurality of beams using an antenna array including a plurality of antenna elements and detecting an external object using the plurality of beams, sensing a movement of the external object using a first beam corresponding to the external object among the plurality of beams, identifying a gesture corresponding to the movement based on the movement of the external object, and controlling a first camera of the electronic device based on the gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Inventor: Tushar Balasaheb Sandhan
  • Patent number: 11460975
    Abstract: Disclosed are some implementations of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for using metrics in association with process flows. For instance, a set of metrics associated with a flow can be generated or updated based, at least in part, on flow performance data. Provided for presentation via a display device and within a flow builder application is an indication of the set of metrics associated with the flow in relation to one or more elements of the flow. At least a portion of the set of metrics is provided for presentation in close proximity to a visual representation of an element of the flow. A request to modify the flow can be received via the flow builder application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Ritika Gulabrani, Alejandro Lopez, Brady Sammons, Yenjui Liu, Namrata Mehta
  • Patent number: 11442691
    Abstract: Computing systems, database systems, and related conversational updating methods are provided for dynamically updating graphical user interfaces responsive to conversational user inputs received via a chatbot or other conversational interactions with a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Alan Cardel Molina, Carlos Enrique Mogollan Jimenez, Chaitanya Malla
  • Patent number: 11422679
    Abstract: Systems and methods navigating a digital map are provided herein. A method includes displaying a plurality of clusters. Each cluster includes a plurality of page icons and each page icon linking to a page. The method includes receiving a control input to move a page icon from a first one of the clusters to a second one of the clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Shan Chy Chueh, Yifan Chen, Hao Howard Yang, John Vincent
  • Patent number: 11416136
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to assigning tasks to various user inputs, and detecting and responding to user inputs. In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to assigning tasks to various user inputs received on a back surface of a device, and detecting and responding to user inputs on the back surface of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: John M. Nefulda, Keith P. Avery, Madhu Chinthakunta, Christopher B. Fleizach, Varun Maudgalya, Sommer E. Panage, Xinyi Yan, Garrett L. Weinberg, Michal K. Wegrzynski, William Caruso, Kenneth S. Friedman, Jamil Dhanani, Muhammad Amir Shafiq, Minwoo Jeong, Timothy S. Paek, Viet Huy Le, Heriberto Nieto, Brandt M. Westing, Rishabh Yadav
  • Patent number: 11416211
    Abstract: Computing systems, database systems, and related conversational updating methods are provided for dynamically updating graphical user interfaces responsive to conversational user inputs received via a chatbot or other conversational interactions with a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Alan Molina, Carlos Jimenez, Chaitanya Malla
  • Patent number: 11409432
    Abstract: A system and method for invoking and executing a command using a digital pen are provided. The system is configured to receive a stroke from a digital pen, determine context of the stroke, detect a hold and press action from the digital pen, determine a type of the command based on the context of the stroke, responsive to detecting the hold and press action and determining the type of the command, invoke the command of the determined type, and execute the invoked command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Irina Smolyanskaya, Julio Estrada
  • Patent number: 11397599
    Abstract: Described herein is a system for rendering a graphical user interface (GUI) indicating eligibility for triggering a predefined action. In an embodiment, a central system may render a graphical user interface (GUI) including a visual representation of a given calendar month sectioned by each day in the given calendar month. A visual indicator may be rendered on the visual representation of the calendar month. The central system may further render columns in each section of the of the visual representation of the given calendar month as each day in the calendar month passes, in response receiving a data transmission on at least one day within the given time period. A height of each column may increment a given amount in response to a total amount of days with a data transmission in the given time period being incremented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: HealthSnap, Inc.
    Inventors: Chase Preston, Yenvy Truong
  • Patent number: 11395033
    Abstract: A video content controller includes a memory and a microprocessor. The memory is configured to store non-transitory computer-readable instructions and video data representing a temporally-varying scene having a plurality of scene-regions. The microprocessor adapted to execute the instructions to (i) receive a current stream-segment of a video stream corresponding to a first scene-region of the plurality of scene-regions during a current playback-time interval, (ii) download, to a memory, a first video segment of a tagged scene-region within the first scene-region, (iii) receive a first display-region signal indicating at least one of a selection and a feature of the first scene-region, (iv) combine the current stream-segment and the first video segment as a video signal, and (vi) transmit, in response to the first display-region signal, the video signal to a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventor: Timo Kunkel
  • Patent number: 11385767
    Abstract: A method of presenting a user interface object. The method includes providing data to a display panel of an electronic device having a memory and one or more processors to concurrently display a plurality of user interface objects in a user interface, the plurality of user interface objects including a plurality of menu user interface objects and a plurality of user interface control objects, the plurality of menu user interface objects including at least a first menu user interface object and a second menu user interface object, and the plurality of user interface control objects including at least a first user interface control object and a second user interface control object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qifei Chen, Liangliang Ren, Zhetao Xu, Xiaofeng Liu, Xing Zhou, Kun Lu, Guannan Song, Laiyou Cui
  • Patent number: 11385911
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for providing a framework to integrate independent fragment modules into an integrated user interface. The fragment modules can be simultaneously rendered on a user interface page or sequentially rendered across multiple user interface pages. The fragment modules are configured to interact with a user via the user interface. The interactions with the user may trigger an event. When an event associated with a fragment module occurs, the fragment module is configured to broadcast the event. An orchestrator is configured to monitor events associated with different fragment modules. The orchestrator may include an event handler for performing one or more action in response to an event. The action may include configuring another fragment module to modify a presentation and/or perform a transaction based on the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Arseniy Kotov, Suket Ramkishan Somani, Ankur Tiwari, Titus Woo
  • Patent number: 11372641
    Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed containerizing a source code file. In some embodiments, the system detects a command to navigate a user interface to a machine station. The system responsively generates for display using the user interface a station identifier corresponding to the machine station and a drag-and-drop interface. The system receives a source code file by way of a drag-and-drop operation being performed with respect to the drag-and-drop interface. The system selects a machine of the machine station to execute the source code file, containerizes the source code file based on a language used by the selected machine, and commands the selected machine to execute the containerized source code file. The system generates for display results of the executed containerized source code file using the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Hypernet Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd Allen Chapman, Ivan James Ravlich
  • Patent number: 11360654
    Abstract: In an example, a method to display a graphical diagram includes displaying multiple graphical objects in a graphical drawing canvas. The graphical objects represent multiple nodes identified in structured source data. The method includes receiving first input effective to group first and second graphical objects of the multiple graphical objects based on a property of the nodes. The method includes replacing the first and second graphical objects with a summary graphical object in the graphical drawing canvas in response to receiving the first input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: LUCID SOFTWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin Michael Ellsworth, Kevin Joseph Reece, Jonathan Bronson, Aditya More, Alexander R. Williams