Patents Examined by Di Xiao
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Patent number: 11190907Abstract: An access control system includes a mobile application executing on a mobile computing device rendering a graphical user interface (GUI), which presents available access points, which are prioritized based on predictions of the next access points to be engaged. These predictions are based on prioritized lists of access points associated with times of day, days of the week and/or locations. The prioritized lists are modified based on recently selected access points, authorization status, prescribed schedules and/or prescribed sequences of access points. A selection pane of the GUI includes graphical elements associated with the access points. Graphical elements associated with the access points predicted to be next engaged by the user are displayed near the top of the selection pane. An inferred location of the user, based on the predictions, is sent to a monitoring center in response to selecting a help request option.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2017Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics, LLCInventors: Stephan Frenette, Gabriel Labrecque, Jean-Sebastien Decoste
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Patent number: 11184309Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for presenting a reminder to view content are provided. In accordance with some embodiments, a method for presenting a reminder to view content is provided, the method comprising: determining that a message that includes a link to a first content item has been received by a user device; determining whether the link to the content item has been selected; in response to determining that the link to the content item has not been selected, storing metadata associated with the content item; determining that a user is viewing a second content item that is related to the first content item; determining a probability value that indicates a likelihood that the user would be interested in viewing the first content item; and causing an interface that includes a reminder to view the first content item to be presented on the user device.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Courtney Hampson, Jason Robert Richard Sanio
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Patent number: 11175802Abstract: User-generated input is received that triggers deletion of a configuration object used by a computing system. In response, all active processes using the configuration object are identified so that subsequently initiated processes are prevented from using the configuration object. It is then determined when all active processes using the configuration object have completed. In response to such determination, the configuration object is deleted. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2018Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: SAP SEInventor: Roland Hoff
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Patent number: 11170286Abstract: Implementations are directed to methods for providing an enhanced encounter via a holographic virtual assistant, including detecting, by one or more processors, an encounter request from a user, selecting a first encounter including a first holographic representation and a first dialog output, providing the first encounter for presentation to the user on the holographic virtual assistant, receiving, from the user, a first user reaction, the first user reaction including a first user dialog input and a first user engagement input, and training, using the first user reaction, a conversational goal model.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2020Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions LimitedInventors: Arnaud Dolignon, Ouassim Fari, Carolyn Mulhern
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Patent number: 11169599Abstract: It is preferable for a user to experience sensation corresponding to the sensation actually experienced by the user or another user. There is provided an information processing apparatus including a data acquisition unit configured to acquire relevance data of a plurality of pieces of sensory information sensed in advance, a sensory information determination unit configured to determine second sensory information relevant to first sensory information on the basis of the relevance data, and a presentation control unit configured to control presentation of presentation data associated with the second sensory information to a user.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2018Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Yufeng Jin
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Patent number: 11169672Abstract: The described technology is directed towards determining the rendering of user interface (UI) elements, referred to as views, based upon styles, in which styles comprise property values such as color value data, font data, border data, position data, and/or animation-related data applied to a view. A view object instance is returned upon request based upon an identifier that is used to select an unstyled view object and a style applied to that view object. The styles may be maintained as a fixed set of styles for a runtime session.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2020Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: HOME BOX OFFICE, INC.Inventors: Brandon C. Furtwangler, Brendan Joseph Clark, J. Jordan C. Parker
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Patent number: 11150782Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include accessing content channels available to a user, where each content channel includes a communication space with at least one specified type of content and an audience with various audience members. The method may also include generating a channel overview that provides context information related to the content channels available to the user. The channel overview may include a navigable list of the accessed content channels. The method may further include receiving a selection input indicating that a specified content channel has been selected from the channel overview. The method may also include navigating to the selected content channel from the channel overview. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Patrick Joseph Roark Underwood, Geoff David Joseph Teehan, George Lewis Kedenburg, III, Jason Holland
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Patent number: 11144184Abstract: A user of a graphical visualization program controls what data is selectable through the program interface. Data for display may be grouped and assigned an opacity value. The opacity value may correspond to the number of data points within an n-dimensional grouping, a particular type or other grouping parameter. Two or more data groupings may overlap within the interface. The visualization program may set a threshold selectability level, for example based on user input. The input may be received based on an selection threshold slide bar within a graphical portion of the display. When a user selects a data grouping at a point where two or more data groupings overlap, the data groupings that satisfy the threshold selection level may be selected. Data groupings that do not satisfy the threshold selection level will not be selectable.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2014Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: Mineset, Inc.Inventor: Marc Hansen
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Patent number: 11126325Abstract: A node of a collaboration system is provided to establish communication with other nodes, store data identifying graphical targets having locations in a virtual workspace and including locations in the virtual workspace of the identified graphical targets, and compute a mapping of a local client viewport to a local client screen space. The node is configured to render on the local client screen space graphical targets having locations within the local client viewport, provide a user interface to display a list of viewport markers representing viewports, where each viewport defines an area in the workspace, and respond to an input indicating a selected viewport marker from the list of viewport markers, update the local client viewport to match the location and dimensions of the viewport represented by the selected viewport marker, and render on the local client screen space graphical targets having locations within the updated local client viewport.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2017Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Haworth, Inc.Inventors: Ariel Jakobovits, Satish Santhakumar, Demian Entrekin
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Patent number: 11112957Abstract: An electronic device, while displaying a user interface of a first software application, detects a first input, including a contact that does not satisfy a first threshold and is detected at a location associated with region of the user interface associated with at least a first operation. In response to the first input, if a first tactile output setting is active for the first input, the device performs the first operation without generating a tactile output, and if a second tactile output setting is active for the first input, the device forgoes performing the first operation. In response to a second input that includes a contact that satisfies the first intensity threshold and is detected at a location associated with the region of the user interface, if the second tactile output setting is active for the second input, the device performs the first operation and generates a tactile output.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2019Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Aram D. Kudurshian, Christopher P. Foss, Gary I. Butcher, Patrick L. Coffman, Jeffrey Traer Bernstein, Nicole M. Wells, Wayne C. Westerman
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Patent number: 11113025Abstract: An interaction management device fills items with data based on user's speech content. The interaction management device includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to estimate data with which to fill in a blank item that is not yet filled in with data based on a past action history of the user when there is the blank item, inquire of the user whether the data with which to fill in the blank item is the estimated data, and determine that the estimated data is data with which to fill in the blank item if a response indicating that the estimated data is correct is received from the user.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2018Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masanobu Washio
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Patent number: 11099640Abstract: A computer system for improving a user interface (UI) is disclosed. The system includes a reinforcement module that obtains (i) a shortest path to a goal in the UI and (ii) user interaction experiments; a distance module that determines a reinforcement distance for each page of the UI based on the user interaction experiments; and a step analysis module that determines a count of times that user interaction experiments indicate a deviation from each step of the shortest path. The determination is based on the determined reinforcement distance for the page of the UI associated with the step. The reinforcement module is configured to, in response to determining that a step requires reinforcement, generate a reinforcement for the step. Generating the reinforcement includes at least one of generating a prompt for an action associated with the step and altering a UI element associated with the step.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Express Scripts Strategie Development, Inc.Inventor: Christopher M. Myers
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Patent number: 11086513Abstract: A method of displaying a function of a button of an ultrasound apparatus on the button includes displaying information about one or more functions provided by the ultrasound apparatus, selecting one from among the one or more functions which have been displayed, determining a button in which the selected function is to be set based on an external input signal for matching the selected function to the button in which the selected function is to be set; and displaying information about the selected function on the determined button.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Chi-young Ahn, Jong-chan Kwon, Ki-soo Kim, Jung-hoon Kim, Sang-min Hyun
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Patent number: 11086506Abstract: A method and system for data management are presented. A plurality of data objects is generated in a graphical user interface. Each data object includes a lift handle, which may be selected by a user click clicking a mouse, for instance. A cargo is generated and placed in a carrier when the user selects the lift handle using a pointer. While the lift and drop action is pending, each additional selection of a data object by the user via its lift handle is added to the cargo. A graphical representation of the carrier showing the cargo manifest is attached to the pointer. When the user maneuvers the pointer to or over a drop zone, a list of available actions for the cargo in the carrier is presented to the user. A drop action can then be performed on the cargo when the user selects the drop zone.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2020Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: ICEBOX, INC.Inventors: Matthew Simpson, Ofer Bleiweiss, Jeremiah Kelman
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Patent number: 11088970Abstract: A method, apparatus and system for displaying an interactive message, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes acquiring, by a client, an interactive message. The interactive message is added into a queue of messages to be displayed, and a pre-created message base class with a motion path is invoked according to a display duration to sequentially display interactive messages in the queue of messages to be displayed on an interactive interface. The message base class with the motion path specifies motion paths of the interactive messages on the interactive interface.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2017Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Lin Zhu, Fang Zhou He
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Patent number: 11074053Abstract: Various methods and systems for providing a user interface (UI) generation system for processing UI generation data based on a multi-layer architecture and hierarchically interrelated and supervised scene processes are provided. The UI generation system supports generating UIs based on a scene layer, a viewport layer, and a driver layer that each use protocols and data structures to support UI generation, UI fault recovery operations, and distributed UI generation for UI viewing devices. In operation, scene configuration data is communicated to a viewport engine from a scene engine, the viewport engine uses the scene configuration data to construct a scene management data structure that is defined based on hierarchically arranging and supervising different scene processes. The scene management data structure is used to define scene rendering data that is accessed by a driver engine to cause generation of UI display content, locally or remotely based on the scene rendering data.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Boyd Cannon MultererInventor: Boyd Cannon Multerer
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Patent number: 11063895Abstract: A system and method for creating custom music/video messages to facilitate and/or improve social interaction. The music/video messages may include at least portions of: music, video, pictures, slideshows, and/or text. Custom music/video messages may be created by a user in communication with a music/video provider and a music/video messaging system. The music/video messaging system and/or a distribution network send the music/video messages to one or more intended recipient(s). The custom music/video messages are representative of feelings or emotions to be communicated by the user to the one or more recipient(s).Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2017Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Inventors: Nader Asghari Kamrani, Kamran Asghari Kamrani
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Patent number: 11062382Abstract: Example embodiments described herein disclose a travel search machine configured to retrieve and present search results as graphical elements within a graphical user interface. The travel search machine presents graphical elements with a slider configured to define a subset of the search results, where the subset is defined by a location of the slider among the graphical elements within the graphical user interface, and is further configured to receive a user input that moves the slider from a first location in the graphical user interface to a second location in the graphical user interface and in response to the first user input, cause the user device to display a notification window in the graphical user interface at a position relative to the slider in the first location, the notification window indicating a count of search results within the subset of search results defined by the location of the slider.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Hipmunk Inc.Inventors: Nancy Tu Hang, Carly Lane Lodge, Phillip Aquilina
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Patent number: 11061525Abstract: A system for a map calendar is described herein. The map calendar includes a calendar content database that is to store at least one item of calendar content and a navigation system that determines a zoom level and a panning position of the map calendar. The map calendar also includes a processor that is to determine a summarization level based on the zoom level and the panning position of the map calendar and render the calendar content according to the summarization level.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Peter L. Engrav, Aaron E. Erlandson, Stephen White, Trevor J. Harris, Malia M. Douglas, Rachel Sirkin, Shikha Devesh Desai, Jie Dong, Evan W. Lavender, Christian Harper-Cyr, Yoon Jin Lee, Caitlin E. Ashley-Rollman
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Patent number: 11055050Abstract: In embodiments of multi-device pairing and combined display, mobile devices have device touchscreens, and housing bezels of the mobile devices can be positioned proximate each other to form a combined display from the respective device touchscreens. An input recognition system can recognize an input to initiate pairing the mobile devices, enabling a cross-screen display of an interface on the respective device touchscreens, such as with different parts of the interface displayed on different ones of the device touchscreens. The input to initiate pairing the mobile devices can be recognized as the proximity of the mobile devices, as a gesture input, as a sensor input, and/or as a voice-activated input to initiate the pairing of the mobile devices for the cross-screen display of the interface.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2016Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Kenneth P. Hinckley, Koji Yatani