Patents Examined by David Choi
  • Patent number: 9542148
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are presented for adapting a user interface of a remote desktop host. The apparatus includes a processor, a memory, a detection module and an adaptation module. The detection module detects a remote desktop connection between a remote client and a host. The remote client and the host may have different user interface characteristics. The adaptation module adapts a user interface of the host to accommodate user interface characteristics of the remote client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Michael Thano Matthews, Scott Edwards Kelso, Howard Locker, Axel Ramirez Flores
  • Patent number: 9544197
    Abstract: At a communication terminal, visual information reflecting an operation state of a candidate counterpart terminal and a graphical image that allows the communication terminal to switch from a first communications protocol to a second communications protocol, is displayed, respectively, when the communication terminal activates the first communications protocol. In response to a user instruction for selecting the graphical image, the communication terminal activates the second communications protocol to cause the communication terminal to communicate using the second communications protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kanda, Takahiro Asai
  • Patent number: 9537933
    Abstract: An information-sharing system includes a server in a wide-area network coupled to a data repository, software executing on the server, providing services for a first person, wherein the first person is enabled to create one or more personae stored in the data repository, at least one interactive window associated with individual ones of the personae and deployable to one or more electronic appliances, and one or more rule sets associated with individual ones of the personae, the rule sets defining and limiting server functions that may be initiated through individual ones of deployed interactive windows, the interactive windows and rule sets enabling the first person to control identity and contact information made available to users of deployed interactive windows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Forte Internet Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Clemmett Macleod Beck, Mark Franklin Sidell, Thomas Knox Gold, James Karl Powers, Charles Dazler Knuff
  • Patent number: 9524076
    Abstract: A web page management method and apparatus are provided in which a selection signal is received for a plurality of web pages, and identification information is received. The plurality of web pages are grouped and managed based on the identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Chang-seok Oh
  • Patent number: 9519570
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for recording and displaying graphical user interface snapshots during automated testing. A computer captures a first snapshot of a complete graphical user interface, wherein the graphical user interface has at least one graphical user interface control. The computer determines a location of the at least one graphical user interface control. The computer determines that a first test step has altered the at least one graphical user interface control. The computer captures a second snapshot of the altered graphical user interface control. The computer stores the second snapshot and the location of the graphical user interface control in association with the test step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Balaji Srinivasan, Madhu Tadiparthi
  • Patent number: 9483161
    Abstract: A structure of an interactive collaboration session is generated. The structure is typically based on an activity defined by a leader of the interactive collaboration session. The structure of the interactive collaboration session comprises different levels. For example, the structure of the interactive collaboration session may contain hierarchical levels that include top level items to discuss, a secondary level for responses to top level items, and a tertiary level for responses to the secondary level items. The structure of the interactive collaboration session is displayed to the leader. The leader controls the participants' display of the structure of the interactive collaboration as the interactive collaboration session progresses. For example, the leader may click on a button that disables the participants' ability to make comments during one part of the interactive collaboration session. Later, the leader can click on a button to enable the participants to make comments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: GroupSystems Corporation
    Inventors: Matt Wenger, Travis R. Allison, Justin K. MacLean
  • Patent number: 9479468
    Abstract: Methods and systems for presenting instant messaging contacts are provided in which a plurality of contacts associated with a user are identified. They are formatted for display, in a display region within an instant messaging application. Responsive to a display adjustment to the display region, a contact in the plurality of contacts is identified in accordance with interactions between the user and the contact. Then, automatically, without user intervention, display of the contact within the instant messaging application is terminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: David Bau, Jonathan David Perlow
  • Patent number: 9395884
    Abstract: Described are methods and systems for navigating between pages of a document. A pagination scrollbar is provided on a portion of the computer user interface, to navigate from a first portion of the document to a second portion of the document. The pagination scrollbar includes a navigation selection area that displays a page selection menu based on a user action performed by the user. The page selection menu includes one or more pagination links, each pagination link representing a unique page in the document. The pagination links are operable to navigate from the current page to a page represented by one of the pagination links selected from the page selection menu, based on a pagination link selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Thomas Uhl, Michael Krenkler
  • Patent number: 9361007
    Abstract: Techniques are described for providing visualizations of data with options for a user to manipulate the data visualizations. These data visualization options may provide flexible and rapid comparison of different fragments of data. In one example, a method includes outputting a display of a data visualization in a graphical user interface. The method further includes receiving a first user input selecting a first fragment of the data visualization to freeze. The method further includes receiving a second user input selecting a second fragment of the data visualization to reposition to a new position relative to the frozen fragment of the data visualization. The method further includes outputting a revised display of the data visualization in the graphical user interface that displays the repositioned fragment of the data visualization in the new position relative to the frozen fragment of the data visualization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Prakash Dewan
  • Patent number: 9354774
    Abstract: A mobile device with a graphical user interface for remotely monitoring and/or remotely interacting with a configurable building automation systems (BAS). In particular, the mobile device's graphical user interface that has a portrait mode and a landscape mode, and the graphical user interface is displayed on the touchscreen in the portrait mode or the landscape mode based on the orientation of the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Susan M. Mairs, Bryan George Kinney, Kimberly Hayman, Melissa Rose Schumann, Rachel Michael Nilsson, Jacob Larson
  • Patent number: 9317201
    Abstract: In general, aspects of this disclosure are directed to techniques for predictive text correction and completion for text entry using virtual keyboards on touch-sensitive displays. A user may be able to type on a representation of a virtual keyboard displayed on touch-sensitive displays by contacting representations of virtual keys included in the virtual keyboard, and the word the user intended to type on the virtual keyboard may be predicted and displayed in place of characters associated with the virtual keys actually contacted by the user. In some examples of the present disclosure, a virtual spacebar key included in the virtual keyboard may be treated in a probabilistic fashion to determine whether a contact received by the touch-sensitive display is intended to select the virtual spacebar key to perform an autocorrect or autocomplete function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Shumin Zhai, Lawrence Diao
  • Patent number: 9286246
    Abstract: The display computer displays a management screen having a first area and a second area. In the first area, information related to a computer system, and an input object for a work operation that is a user operation for registering a task of a processing to a computer system into a management computer or an object for displaying the input object are displayed. In the second area, a summary view related to at least one task registered into the management computer is displayed. The summary view has a status object for each status of task, the status object includes an object indicating a status and a value indicating a number of tasks of the status. When the management computer detects a modification of a status of each task that has been registered, the display computer updates a value of a number of tasks in the second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Saito, Tomoaki Kakeda, Eitaro Ito, Daisuke Nogami, Junko Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9285965
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable medium comprises displaying a panel associated with at least one script, presenting a branching logic associated with the panel and creating a graphical map of the panel and the branching logic where the graphical map allows zooming in to show panel logic associated with the panel, and the graphical map allows zooming out to show the branching logic associated with the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: ALORICA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey William Cordell, Anthony Mathew Stach, Jereomy K. Frum
  • Patent number: 9274679
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to user interfaces and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for graphically labeling widgets in a mashup dashboard. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for graphically labeling widgets in a mashup dashboard can be provided. The method can include identifying a widget, assigning a care label to the identified widget based on a type of datafeed payload information associated with the identified widget and displaying the identified widget with the assigned care label in a user interface to enable a user to make a visually matched selection of widgets to create a self service dashboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Richard Redpath
  • Patent number: 9256282
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer readable media are disclosed for manipulating virtual objects. A user may utilize a controller, such as his hand, in physical space to associate with a cursor in a virtual environment. As the user manipulates the controller in physical space, this is captured by a depth camera. The image data from the depth camera is parsed to determine how the controller is manipulated, and a corresponding manipulation of the cursor is performed in virtual space. Where the cursor interacts with a virtual object in the virtual space, that virtual object is manipulated by the cursor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen G. Latta, Kevin Geisner, Relja Markovic, Darren Alexander Bennett, Arthur Charles Tomlin
  • Patent number: 9244533
    Abstract: Techniques for managing a presentation of information in a gesture-based system, where gestures are derived from a user's body position or motion in the physical space, may enable a user to use gestures to control the manner in which the information is presented or to otherwise interact with the gesture-based system. A user may present information to an audience to an audience using gestures that control aspects of the system, or multiple users may work together using gestures to control aspects of the system. Thus, in an example embodiment, a single user can control the presentation of information to the audience via gestures. In another example embodiment, multiple participants can share control of the presentation via gestures captured by a capture device or otherwise interact with the system to control aspects of the presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph F. Friend, Christopher Hugh Pratley, Ashok Kuppusamy, Steven Bathiche, Robert Scott Dietz
  • Patent number: 9239670
    Abstract: Techniques are described for providing visualizations of data with options for a user to manipulate the data visualizations. These data visualization options may provide flexible and rapid comparison of different fragments of data. In one example, a method includes outputting a display of a data visualization in a graphical user interface. The method further includes receiving a first user input selecting a first fragment of the data visualization to freeze. The method further includes receiving a second user input selecting a second fragment of the data visualization to reposition to a new position relative to the frozen fragment of the data visualization. The method further includes outputting a revised display of the data visualization in the graphical user interface that displays the repositioned fragment of the data visualization in the new position relative to the frozen fragment of the data visualization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Prakash Dewan
  • Patent number: 9239667
    Abstract: Computer-readable media, computerized methods, and user interfaces (UIs) for manipulating display areas on a GUI workspace by transitioning the display areas from an original state to one of a set of enhanced window states are provided. Initially, an indication to resize a display area is received at an operating system, which consequently invokes an appropriate window state. The indication may include capturing an edge of the display area and vertically dragging the edge to a dock-target region, thereby invoking a vertically-maximized state. Accordingly, configuration settings of the vertically-maximized state are applied such that the display area is stretched to approximately the screen height. In another instance, the indication may include capturing the display area and dragging a display area into a dock-target region, thereby invoking a semi-maximized state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENCING, LLC
    Inventors: David A. Matthews, Mohamed A. M. Sadek, Stephan Hoefnagels, Ivan Brugiolo, Patrice L. Miner
  • Patent number: 9218051
    Abstract: A system, method, and various software tools enable a video hosting website to graphically display statistics of data associated with videos posted on a video hosting website. Data associated with videos is collected, analyzed and stored. A graphical representation of the data and corresponding geographic map are generated based on the collected data. The graphical representation shows the data along a timeline. The corresponding geographical map shows the data by geographic market. The graphical representation and geographical map are associated such that a modification to the graphical representation modifies the geographical map accordingly and a modification to the geographical map modifies the graphical representation accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Tracy Patrick Chan, Thomas Broxton, Oliver Heckmann, Nicholas Jakobi, Uwe Maurer, Shashi Seth, Jonas Yngvesson
  • Patent number: 9210247
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable mediums for managing a subset of user contacts on a telecommunications device are provided. In one embodiment, a software application executed by a processor of a telecommunications device determines at least two contact groups from a subset of contacts accessible by a telecommunications device. The software application executed by the processor of the telecommunications device also generates a contact display including a representation of at least a portion of the first or second contact groups and a divider display object. The divider display object partitions the first contact group from the second contact group and is positioned adjacent to at least one contact from the first or second contact groups presented in the contact display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: T-MOBILE USA, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Steffen Vance, Jared T. Benson, Christian Robertson, Shilpa R. Shah, Gabriel J. White