Patents Examined by D. Chaudhuri
  • Patent number: 9766774
    Abstract: Communicating information through a user platform by representing, on a user platform visual display, spatial publishing objects as entities at locations within a three-dimensional spatial publishing object space. Each spatial publishing object associated with information, and each presenting a subset of the associated information. Establishing a user presence at a location within the spatial publishing object space. The user presence, in conjunction with a user point-of-view, being navigable by the user in at least a two-dimensional sub-space of the spatial publishing object space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: AQ Media, Inc.
    Inventor: Jan Peter Roos
  • Patent number: 9747009
    Abstract: A user-friendly graphical user interface is proposed to enable creation of a playlist of data elements of any type. A graphical object is displayed representing a content based logical map arranged in two or three dimensions and defining characteristics at predefined coordinates. A trajectory defined by a mathematical spline function and having a start point, an end point and one or more intermediate points is drawn and can be changed by moving the steering point of at least one of the start point and the end point. The data elements for the playlist are selected by searching in meta-data for characteristics that best match the characteristics of points along the trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Inventors: Shubhangi Mahadeo Jadhav, Rahul Kashinathrao Dahule
  • Patent number: 9747358
    Abstract: A pattern analysis system enables a user to obtain specific analysis from multi-dimensional storage structures. The patterns analysis system guides the user interaction through the selection of specific available patterns. This enables the user to gain access to analytics data available in the multi-dimensional storage structure without specific knowledge of a command system syntax or semantics. Also, the user does not need knowledge of the contents or organization of the multi-dimensional storage structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventor: Jenngang Shih
  • Patent number: 9635195
    Abstract: Customizable graphical elements for use in association with a user interface are described. An example apparatus for use in a broadcast media presentation system includes a user interface to enable a user interaction with the broadcast media presentation system, and a controller to implement one or more customizable graphical elements to be displayed in association with the user interface, wherein the one or more customizable graphical elements are to be animated to interact with the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.
    Inventors: David P. Green, Tommi J. Iten, Eric J. Bennett, Tyson L. Wintibaugh
  • Patent number: 9594877
    Abstract: The present disclosure involves a method of facilitating visualization in a medical context. The method includes displaying a virtual reality representation of a medical device via a touch-sensitive user interface. The virtual reality representation of the medical device includes a movable and rotatable three-dimensional model of the medical device. The method includes displaying a virtual reality representation of an anatomical environment of a patient via a touch-sensitive user interface. The virtual reality representation of the anatomical environment is zoomable and scalable. The method includes customizing the virtual reality representation of the medical device. The method includes positioning the customized virtual reality representation of the medical device in an appropriate location of the virtual reality representation of the anatomical environment. The customizing and the positioning are performed in response to user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Nuvectra Corporation
    Inventors: Norbert Kaula, Yohannes Iyassu
  • Patent number: 9582049
    Abstract: A mobile device and a method for controlling a user interface of the mobile device are disclosed. According to an embodiment, the method includes detecting a movement of the mobile device as applied by a user's gesture, scrolling at least one of a page displayed on the display and a selection point on the display according to the detected movement of the mobile device, determining whether a selectable item displayed within the page is positioned on the selection point of the display, and selecting the selectable item in response to a predetermined event, once the determining step determines that the selectable item is positioned on the selection point of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Joo Min Kim, Youk Kwon
  • Patent number: 9542088
    Abstract: A digital device and a method for controlling the same are disclosed, in which a scroll bar different from that provided when a user input for a front side is detected is provided to control the front side if a digital device, which enables double-sided touch recognition, detects a user input for a rear side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Hyorim Park
  • Patent number: 9536012
    Abstract: A system, computer-implemented method and computer-readable medium for generating a magazine edition menu, is provided. Dimensions of a display screen on a mobile device are determined. Based on the dimensions, the size of an edition preview pane is determined, where the edition preview pane displays multiple images from the magazine editions. Based on the dimensions the size of a thumbnail section is determined, the thumbnail section displays a plurality of thumbnail editions associated with each magazine edition. Based on the size of the thumbnail section and a number of magazine editions, a layout of the plurality of thumbnail editions on a display screen is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Maurice Bennett Shore, Thomas William Schneider, William Frederick Kiefer, III, Cassandra Lynn Doll
  • Patent number: 9529899
    Abstract: Visual structures are produced to represent corresponding motifs, where the motifs correspond to repeating patterns in an input data set, where sizes of the visual structures are based on values of a characteristic associated with the motifs, and where a first of the motifs is nested within a second of the motifs to represent a hierarchical relationship of the patterns represented by the first and second motifs. The visual structures of corresponding motifs are presented for display in a visualization screen, where the visualization screen depicts the data in the input data set with the visual structures overlapping parts of depicted data. Interactive input is received specifying modification of a region containing motifs, wherein the specified modification includes interactive distortion of the visual structures in the region to change a size of the visual structures in the region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Ming C. Hao, Manish Marwah, Umeshwar Dayal, Halldór Janetzko, Ratnesh Kumar Sharma, Daniel Keim
  • Patent number: 9367635
    Abstract: Methods and systems of co-browsing may provide for determining a custom set of display parameters for a co-browsing session based on a first set of display parameters corresponding to a first type of browser and a second set of display parameters corresponding to a second type of browser. One or more web applications can be notified of the custom set of display parameters, wherein the web applications may override responses to web requests during the co-browsing session based on the custom set of display parameteters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Erik J. Burckart, Andrew J. Ivory, Todd E. Kaplinger, Aaron K. Shook
  • Patent number: 9361012
    Abstract: Manipulation of elements in a graphical user interface is aided by allowing the graphical user interface to treat certain mouse button actuation and releases as holding the mouse button in an actuated state. When predetermined conditions are satisfied, the graphical user interface will treat a mouse button actuation and release as if the mouse button were held in an actuated state. A user can then manipulate elements in the graphical user interface as if the user held the mouse button in an actuated state. The types of manipulation can include the moving of a window, the resizing of a window, moving an icon, and the scrolling through the visible portion of a window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Eric Schlegel
  • Patent number: 9361013
    Abstract: Manipulation of elements in a graphical user interface is aided by allowing the graphical user interface to treat certain mouse button actuation and releases as holding the mouse button in an actuated state. When predetermined conditions are satisfied, the graphical user interface will treat a mouse button actuation and release as if the mouse button were held in an actuated state. A user can then manipulate elements in the graphical user interface as if the user held the mouse button in an actuated state. The types of manipulation can include the moving of a window, the resizing of a window, moving an icon, and the scrolling through the visible portion of a window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Eric Schlegel
  • Patent number: 9304658
    Abstract: Menu items are displayed on a screen, for example in the form of user-activatable on-screen buttons. A root menu is displayed, including a “more” button that allows the user to navigate to one or more sub-menus. Each menu can contain function buttons, menu buttons, or any combination thereof. Function buttons provide direct access to functions. Menu buttons provide access to sub-menus, which may be provided in a hierarchical arrangement. In some sub-menus, a menu title button replaces the “more” button and provides access to a previously displayed menu. The user can activate a displayed function button in any menu or sub-menu to perform an action associated with the function button. In one aspect, all menus are displayed in the same area of the screen. When a menu is to be displayed, it replaces the previously displayed menu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Paul Mercer
  • Patent number: 9292198
    Abstract: For rotational graphical user interface navigation, a display module displays a first face of a uniform prism rotatable only about a central horizontal axis. The uniform prism includes a plurality of faces. Each face has Graphical User Interface (GUI) controls for a unique function set. Only one face of the uniform prism is visible at a time. Each face is displayed with a geometric shape conforming to a face geometry of the multidimensional solid when the multidimensional solid is being rotated, and a face is displayed as filling a screen when the multidimensional solid is not being rotated. An input module receives a rotational command. The rotational command rotates the uniform prism around the central horizontal axis. The rotation module rotates the uniform prism to display a second face in response to the rotational command, displaying the rotation of the uniform prism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Justin Tyler Dubs, Eric Edward Dudkowski, Karen Ruth Kluttz, Aaron Michael Stewart
  • Patent number: 9106686
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and techniques for configuring customizations to legacy tasks as part of modernizing such tasks are provided. Example embodiments of a Role-Based Modernization System (“RBMS”) provide tiered configuration so that end users can be provided with tools with which they can further modernize legacy tasks in ways that do not tamper with the integrity of the system. For example, in one embodiment at least two configuration levels are available: (1) an administrator level that can control and configure aspects of the RBMS such as the legacy and non-legacy tasks associated with a particular role and defining what tools will be provided to the end user level and (2) an end user level. Example embodiments provide an RBMS, which uses these enhanced modernization techniques to provide role-based modernization of menu-based legacy applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Advanced BusinessLink Corporation
    Inventor: Christopher F. Lategan
  • Patent number: 9032313
    Abstract: In a mobile phone, even when an audio-related function is running in background processing in parallel with a function running in the main processing (foreground processing) where operations by the main operating section have been assigned to the function running in the main processing, the control section operates the audio-related function based on a user operation detected by the touch screen, the imaging section, the sound collecting section, or the housing movement detecting section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Limited (Hong Kong)
    Inventor: Akio Shiga
  • Patent number: 9009612
    Abstract: A method is performed by an accessible electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface. The method includes: displaying a plurality of user interface elements on the display, wherein a current focus is on a first user interface element; detecting a first finger gesture on the touch-sensitive surface, wherein the first finger gesture is independent of contacting a location on the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to a second user interface element; and, in response to detecting the first finger gesture: changing the current focus from the first user interface element in the plurality of user interface elements to the second user interface element in the plurality of user interface elements; and outputting accessibility information associated with the second user interface element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Brian Fleizach, Eric Taylor Seymour, Reginald Dean Hudson
  • Patent number: 8990698
    Abstract: Social network service synchronization techniques are described. In an implementation, a determination is made by a client that a browser has been used to navigate to a website. A prompt is displayed by the client, responsive to the determination, that is selectable to cause data that describes activities that are performable in conjunction with the website to be communicated to a social network service to be stored in conjunction with a user account of the user at the social network service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Wissam S. Kazan, Felipe Luis Naranjo, Shazaan T. Bahrainwala, Mona Akmal, Francislav P. Penov, Patrick R. Jakubowski
  • Patent number: 8910067
    Abstract: Displaying information is disclosed. A plurality of widgets is provided within a single interface. At least one widget in the plurality of widgets includes at least one toggle button. The at least one widget is associated with a first set of dimensions. A maximize request is received, through an interaction with the toggle button. A second set of dimensions is determined. At least one widget is displayed in an area defined by the second set of dimensions and within the single interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: The Clic, Inc.
    Inventor: Donna Michelle Anderson
  • Patent number: 8893036
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for a Region Scroller. The Region Scroller renders a view of at least a portion of a set of headers, where each header is associated with a respective, expandable-collapsible (E-C) display region The Region Scroller identifies a newly-selected header based on an extent of directional input and modifies the view to include concurrent presentation of (i) the newly-selected header and (ii) an E-C display region in an expanded state, where the E-C display region is associated with the newly-selected header.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventor: Daniel A. Wabyick