Patents Examined by Di Xiao
  • Patent number: 10423290
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus including a display screen, a display controller that displays a first display window with a second display window on the display screen in a superposed manner, and an input obtaining unit for obtaining a user's input for moving the first display window on the display screen. The display controller changes, when a user's input for moving the first display window toward an outside of the display screen is obtained during a first display state in which the first display window is displayed in the display screen and the movement satisfies a predetermined criterion, the state of the first display window to a second display state in which the first display window is displayed in a region at an end of the display screen in accordance with a direction of the movement of the first display window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidenari Koshimae, Pál Szász, Samuel Sjöblom, Sara Berg
  • Patent number: 10417185
    Abstract: Provided are a system and method for semantic generation and enrichment. In one example, the method includes displaying a plurality of tiles on a user interface, each displayed tile visually representing a data entity obtained from a data file, detecting, via the user interface, a selection of a first displayed tile visually representing a first data entity and a second displayed tile visually representing a second data entity, and in response to detecting the selection via the user interface, generating a new data entity based on the first data entity visually represented by the first displayed tile and the second data entity visually represented by the second tile, and displaying a new tile visually representing the newly generated data entity. Accordingly, an end user can provide semantic creation and enrichment to visually displayed data without the need for an administrator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Limited
    Inventors: Louis Rakotoarivony, Alexandre Fortin, Andrew Brown
  • Patent number: 10409882
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides method and a system (200) for navigation in a webpage. The system (200) operates at least in accordance with the method that comprises: receiving (step 101) a navigation command to navigate in the webpage, identifying (step 104) at least one content based setting; and navigating (step 106) through the webpage from a webpage element to another webpage element based on said content based setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Biswajit Dey, Gitanshu Mehndiratta, Mukesh Kumar Gupta
  • Patent number: 10409455
    Abstract: A system for selecting, through a mobile device provided with accelerometer sensors, items of lists that can be displayed on a visual display of an interactive display system, is provided. The system includes a receiver located at a surface of a user interaction station distinct from the visual display and adapted to wirelessly receive data from the mobile device when in short range communication with the mobile device. The system further comprises a processor adapted to collect acceleration data received through the receiver and generated by the accelerometer sensors in response to movements of the mobile device carried out when the mobile device is in short range communication with the receiver. The processor is further adapted to associate the collected acceleration data with corresponding selection values over a selection scale. The processor is also adapted to control the interactive display system to select items based on the selection values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Telecom Italia S.p.A.
    Inventors: Fabrizio Antonelli, Mattia Pasolli, Massimo Zancanaro
  • Patent number: 10402073
    Abstract: An electronic device displays a user interface of a first software application that includes one or more draggable objects and one or more control objects; and, detects a contact on a touch-sensitive surface at a first location while a focus selector is displayed over a first draggable object and a movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface to a second location that corresponds to a first control object. In accordance with a determination that the contact at the first location satisfies object selection criteria, the device moves the first draggable object to the first control object in accordance with the movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface to the first control object. In accordance with a determination that the contact at the second location satisfies first intensity criteria, the device performs a first predetermined operation that corresponds to activation of the first control object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Aram D. Kudurshian, Christopher P. Foss, Gary I. Butcher, Patrick L. Coffman, Jeffrey Traer Bernstein, Nicole M. Wells, Wayne C. Westerman
  • Patent number: 10387555
    Abstract: A method includes presenting a list of current projects in a dashboard interface, upon a successful login from a first user; allowing the first user to create or upload an asset once the user selects a project from the list of current projects and is presented with the list of all assets in the project; notifying all users associated with the project with a first notification that the first user uploaded an asset; receiving comments to the asset from a second user via an asset viewer and then sending out a second notification to all users associated with the project; processing changes made by the first user to the asset via the asset viewer based on the comments from the second user on the asset and then sending out a third notification to all users associated with the project; and sharing the asset with clients once the second user sends approval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Inventors: Kris Baumgartner, Akshay Dhalwala, Jeffrey Downer
  • Patent number: 10387006
    Abstract: A method of displaying a user interface (UI) on a screen of a device is provided. The method includes selecting, when an event occurs, a first object, which is related to the event, from among the one or more objects included in the UI, determining a second object for executing a second operation related to a first operation, the first operation being executed when the first object is selected by an input to the device, and changing the first object into the second object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sin-ae Kim, Young-sun Kim, Jae-young Lee, Seung-eok Choi
  • Patent number: 10382572
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed which facilitate management and monitoring of page-level usage data. Specifically, a client computing device may retrieve content from a remote system for local display. A local interaction monitoring component may monitor local interaction with the content, and transmit local interaction information to the remote system. In one embodiment, interaction may be monitored with regard to predefined portions of the content. In another embodiment, interaction may be transmitted to the remote server for processing, in order to generate page-level usage data. In still more embodiments, page level-usage data may be processed or formatted in order to facilitate ease of retrieval and display. In yet more embodiments, the remote system may enable clients, such as administrators, to view aggregate page-level usage data why viewing a corresponding content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Aurel Dumitrascu, Alexandru Burciu, Sebastian Kohlmeier, Alexandru Tronciu
  • Patent number: 10380674
    Abstract: The present embodiments provide a system for generating design palettes over a network. In one embodiment, the system comprises a database configured to store design product data corresponding to one or more design features of a plurality of design products. A user interface is configured to allow submission of information specifying one or more requested design features. An e-palette server is in operative communication with the database and the user interface. The e-palette server is configured to receive the requested design features and to generate a subset of the design products. Each design product in the subset of the design products shares at least one design feature in common with the requested design features. An e-palette generator is configured to generate a design palette including at least one design product from the subset of design products and to send the design palette to the user interface for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: MOMENTUM TEXTILES, LLC
    Inventors: Gerald Thomas Freeman, Tamara Davis
  • Patent number: 10358203
    Abstract: A vessel display system includes a first screen display unit, a second screen display unit, and a screen transition unit. The first screen display unit displays a first screen that includes vessel-related information related to navigation of a vessel. The second screen display unit displays a second screen including function information related to a function usable during the navigation of the vessel and common display information including at least one of the vessel-related information displayed in the first screen. The screen transition unit performs transition from the first screen to the second screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shu Akuzawa
  • Patent number: 10346516
    Abstract: A computerized method for converting a graphical representation of an activity flow to a structural text-based representation according to a plurality of human readability considerations, said computerized method comprising: converting a graphical representation of an activity flow to a structural text-based representation having a plurality of text elements which are related to one another in a hierarchical manner; identifying a subset of said plurality of text elements having an equal number of hierarchical degrees of separation from a root of said plurality of text elements; acquiring a plurality of human readability rules; ordering said subset of plurality of text elements by applying said plurality of human readability rules to said subset of plurality of text elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tomer Bentov, Samuel Kallner, Dany Moshkovich, Balunaini Prasad, Ravi Ray, Yoav Rubin
  • Patent number: 10345992
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for processing unread message unread contents in an electronic device includes displaying a plurality of unread message contents for a particular application, and if all of the unread message contents is not displayable on a single screen, automatically displaying the unread message content is a scroll motion is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soo-Ji Hwang, Yun-Ju Lee
  • Patent number: 10324584
    Abstract: A touch screen user interface display for an appliance has a touch screen with a plurality of icons. Each icon represents information that may be selectively invoked by touching the icon on the touch screen, wherein the icon may be moved by maintaining a touch of the icon and dragging it across the touch screen. The display also has a physical element having a portion partly overlapping the touch screen for association with screen icons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventor: Neomar Giacomini
  • Patent number: 10318106
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for controlling a computing device using gesture inputs. The gesture inputs may be operative to move screens corresponding to applications executing on the handheld computing device from one display to another. Additionally, a multi portion gesture may be used to target different screens. For example, a first portion of the gesture may maintain or “pin” a screen in a display such that a second portion of the gesture is operative to move a different screen behind the pinned application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Z124
    Inventor: Sanjiv Sirpal
  • Patent number: 10310729
    Abstract: A receiver receives a second webpage including a link destination indicating a first webpage. A display displays the second webpage. A touch sensor detects a user's touch operation on the display. The at least one processor changes a display size of the second webpage displayed on the display based on a first touch operation by the user. The at least one processor displays the first webpage on the display upon detection of a second touch operation performed on the link destination displayed on the display when the second webpage is displayed in a first display size. The at least one processor does not display the first webpage on the display upon detection of the second touch operation performed on the link destination displayed on the display when the second webpage is displayed in a second display size larger than the first display size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masuo Kondo
  • Patent number: 10296178
    Abstract: A system and methods for facilitation of user interactions with an electronic device. A number of user interface methods are described and may be used alone or in combination with one another to present an enhanced interface to a user. A method of providing user interaction using a compact status indicator is described. A method for providing a virtual scroll wheel to a user for interaction with content sets is described. A method for allowing a user to dynamically modify a scalable user interface is described. A method for providing gesture based input to a user via a virtual gesture pad is described. A method of providing an interactive graphic search query interface is described. A method for indicating and selecting available content type is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Universal Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Chambers, Wayne Scott, Cheryl Scott, Allen Yuh, Paul D. Arling
  • Patent number: 10296179
    Abstract: A system and method for textually displaying weather data on an onboard aircraft display comprises receiving weather data from onboard weather radar. A data collector is coupled to the weather radar and collects relevant data, which is then manipulated to place it in a PIREP (pilot report) format. The formatted data is then rendered on the aircraft display and subsequently transmitted to a ground station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Naveen VenkateshPrasad Nama, Dilip Kumar Behara
  • Patent number: 10291688
    Abstract: Methods and systems may be provided for user association of a computing application with a contact in a contact list. A view of one or more contacts of the user may be transmitted to a user, the view included a first contact. A request may be received from the user to associate an application with the first contact. A revised view may be transmitted to the user responsive to the received request, the revised view including a user-selectable mechanism for invoking the application on the first contact. The user may be redirected to a user interface of the application subsequent to the user selecting the user-selectable mechanism associated with the contact in the revised view, and the redirection may include transmission of information associated with the user and information associated with the first contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: CHECKFREE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mark T. Harris, Hans D. Dreyer, Donald Kenneth Hobday, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10289433
    Abstract: Systems and processes for generating output dialogs for virtual assistants are provided. An output dialog can be generated from multiple output segments that can each include a string of one or more characters or words. The contents of an output segment can be selected from multiple possible outputs based on a predetermined order, conditional logic, or a random selection. The output segments can be concatenated to form the output dialog. In one example, a dialog generation file that defines the possible outputs for each output segment, an ordering of the output segments within the output dialog, and format for the output dialog can be used to generate the output dialog. The dialog generation file can include any number of functional blocks, which can each output an output segment, that can be arranged hierarchically and in a particular order to generate a desired output dialog.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Harry J. Saddler, Nicolas Zeitlin
  • Patent number: 10275046
    Abstract: In some implementations, an access device may sense movement in six degrees of freedom for interacting with information in a user interface. In some implementations, a security feature may be included for verifying an authorization of a user to use the access device. Additionally, in some implementations, the access device may establish communication with an available computing device for accessing and interacting with information that may include remotely stored information, cloud data, cloud services, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Chunhui Zhang, Min Wang, Richard Harper, Tong Yuan, Chunshui Zhao, Xiangwei Zhu