Patents Examined by Dino Kujundzic
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Patent number: 10915236Abstract: Systems and methods for providing one or more user interface layouts are disclosed. The method includes receiving one or more user interface parameters from an input device of a web designer device; identifying, by the web designer device, one or more user interface layouts based on the one or more user interface parameters received; and providing the one or more user interface layouts identified to be stored in a user interface layout library database, the one or more user interface layouts being configurable by the web designer device.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: Target Brands Inc.Inventors: Devon Hague, Eric Weidmann
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Patent number: 10901756Abstract: A method may include obtaining context data describing a context of a user of an electronic device and transmitting the context data to a back-end device. The method may also include receiving instructions from the back-end device, the instructions directing the electronic device to dynamically generate a single user interface including interactive content from a plurality of related resources, the plurality of related resources determined by the back-end device to be related to each other and to the context of the user, features of the interactive dynamic content extracted by the back-end device. The method may additionally include dynamically generating the single user interface, and displaying the single user interface to the user of the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2016Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventor: Wei-Peng Chen
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Patent number: 10895959Abstract: A system for fan interaction is disclosed including, in some embodiments, a fan-interaction module stored in a memory of a mobile device; a touchscreen display interface; and one or more sensors selected from a touchscreen sensor, an accelerometer, a gyroscope, and a global positioning system receiver. The fan-interaction module can be configured to: 1) provide a notification to a fan that an entity the fan supports is to perform or an event the fan supports is to occur; 2) log an interaction of the fan with the device regarding the entity ready to perform or the event ready to occur; 3) calculate an amount of kinetic energy associated with the interaction; and 4) provide the amount of kinetic energy to a server for combination with a combined amount of calculated kinetic energy for up to all fans of the entity ready to perform or the event ready to occur.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2018Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: EkRally LLCInventor: Mark Walker
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Patent number: 10895963Abstract: A client-based application includes sections that are used to define user interface displays for the system. The sections are customizable by a backend system so customizations are accommodated by modified versions of the mobile application.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2018Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Alexander Argutin, Sudarsanan Krishnan, Janeth Guerrero Gomez, Robert A. Drollinger, David J. Runde, Jorn Mortensen
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Patent number: 10884608Abstract: An electronic device displays content of a first content item, wherein the first content item is one of a sequence of content items. The device detects a user input that includes movement of a contact in a respective direction on the touch-sensitive surface. In response to detecting the user input: in accordance with a determination that the user input meets item-switching criteria, the device replaces display of the first content item with display of a second content item in the sequence of content items, wherein the item-switching criteria include a criterion that is met when a characteristic intensity of the contact is above a first intensity threshold; and, in accordance with a determination that the user input does not meet the item-switching criteria, the device navigates through the content of the first content item in accordance with the movement of the contact.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2019Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Nicholas V. King, Daniel T. Preston
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Patent number: 10871881Abstract: A dynamic selection of content from social shares to display in a user interface is performed. A first set of media items that have graphic representations on a user interface (UI) are compared with a second set of media items referenced in a social share to be presented on the UI. Media items from the second set are identified that are not included in the first set of media items. The UI is modified to include a graphic representation of at least one identified media item from the second set in the social share.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2017Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Justin Lewis, Ruxandra Georgiana Paun
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Patent number: 10860180Abstract: A method and system provide for entering text into a text field by determining complete-text terms, displaying the complete-text terms, and receiving a selection of a complete-text term as text to be entered into the text field. In some cases, a complete-text term can include all prior text entries used to determine the complete-text terms. In other cases, a complete-text term can include only a portion or none of the prior text entries used to determine the complete-text term. The determination of the complete-text terms can be based on a vehicle identifier. The determination of the complete-text terms can be based on one or more complete-text term selection-limiters, such a location, use, or diagnostic trouble code associated with the vehicle. The system can include a vehicle service tool that requests a set of complete-text terms and receives the set from a complete-text term storage device or an off-board processor.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2020Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: Snap-on IncorporatedInventors: Joshua Covington, Patrick S. Merg
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Patent number: 10852912Abstract: An image creation app is used in conjunction with the messaging app to create one or more drawn images which can be sent by the messaging app to other messaging apps. In one embodiment, the image creation app can be either a plug-in, of the messaging app sir an extension app of the messaging app. In one embodiment, a counterpart image creation app on the receiving device can create modifications of the one or more images and send those back to the first messaging app.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2017Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Nicholas V. King, Lisa K. Kvarda, Anthony D'Auria, Christopher P. Saari
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Patent number: 10805592Abstract: A method for gaze tracking is provided. One embodiment of the method for gaze tracking, comprising: presenting a content to a viewer via a playback device, tracking a gaze path of the viewer with a gaze tracker coupled to the playback device, selecting a viewer profile from a plurality of viewer profiles stored in a viewer profile database based on the gaze path of the viewer, and predicting a future gaze location of the viewer based on the viewer profile. Systems perform similar steps and non-transitory computer readable storage mediums each store one or more computer programs are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2016Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventor: Dennis D. Castleman
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Patent number: 10768952Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for generating user interfaces are described. In an embodiment, a monitoring tool can observe the user's interaction with a computing device, collect input and output operation data, and calculate a user effectiveness score based on the collected data. A user interface can be generated based on the user effectiveness score to match the user's proficiency.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2019Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLCInventors: Mark Watson, Kenneth Taylor, Fardin Abdi Taghi Abad, Vincent Pham, Anh Truong, Jeremy Goodsitt, Reza Farivar, Austin Walters
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Patent number: 10761711Abstract: A combine harvester comprises a storage bin for storing harvested crop, an unload conveyor, a flow gate for regulating a flow of harvested material from the storage bin to the unload conveyor, a first sensor for detecting a position of the flow gate and a second sensor for detecting a position of the unload conveyor. The harvester further comprises a controller configured to enable a user interface for receiving from an operator of the combine harvester a set point for the flow gate, an on/off indicator for the unload conveyor and an unload conveyor position indicator, presenting a graphic element including a graphical depiction of the unload conveyor, and indicating, using only graphical variations of the graphical depiction of the unload conveyor, a position of the unload conveyor, an operating status of the unload conveyor, the set point of the flow gate and the position of the flow gate.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: AGCO CorporationInventors: Jared J. Koch, Jay Anthony Leininger, Rodrigo Souza
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Patent number: 10756986Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for presenting notifications that can receive input data. The techniques include presenting a notification in response to occurrence of an event, wherein the notification is associated with a specified data type and a data source from which data is to be received, receiving input data of the specified data type from the data source, wherein the notification is presented until the input data is received, and storing the input data. The notification can block access to a user interface of at least one application until the input data is received. The data source can be a data entry component of a user interface that receives user input, or can be an application that provides data of the specified data type, and receiving input data can include requesting data of the specified data type from the application, and receiving the input data from the application via inter-process communication.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2019Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Gencer Cili
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Patent number: 10754711Abstract: A multi-window control method and an electronic device supporting the same is provided. The multi-window control method includes changing a size of at least one specific window among a plurality of windows, and altering a focus to the at least one specific window based on a changed size of the at least one specific window.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2017Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sun Yeal Hong, Ji Hun Kim, Hye Soon Jeong, Dae Sik Hwang, Sung Jun Kim
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Patent number: 10732925Abstract: A multi-device in-vehicle-infotainment system is configured to playback audio files one after another using a media device shuffling operation and an audio file shuffling operation. Specifically, in response to instructions from a user interface, a controller is further configured to automatically provide a plurality of audio files, one audio file after another, to an audio output component where the controller selects the plurality of audio files randomly shuffling between a plurality of electronic media devices selecting one or more audio files from differing ones of the plurality of electronic media devices for audio playback.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2017Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Nissan North America, Inc.Inventors: Rami Daman, Adrian Tan, Adam Saganski
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Patent number: 10732795Abstract: An electronic device includes a touch-sensitive surface, a display, and a camera sensor. The device displays a message region for displaying a message conversation and receives a request to add media to the message conversation. Responsive to receiving the request, the device displays a media selection interface concurrently with at least a portion of the message conversation. The media selection interface includes a plurality of affordances for selecting media for addition to the message conversation, the plurality of affordances includes a live preview affordance, at least a subset of the plurality of affordances includes thumbnail representations of media available for adding to the message conversation, and the live preview affordance is associated with a live camera preview. Responsive to detecting selection of the live preview affordance, the device captures a new image based on the live camera preview and selects the new image for addition to the message conversation.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2017Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Lawrence Y. Yang, Roberto Garcia, Imran Chaudhri, Richard R. Dellinger, Justin Wood, Stephen O. Lemay, Patrick L. Coffman, Matthaeus Krenn
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Patent number: 10712929Abstract: Systems and methods are for enabling a group of individuals, each using an individual computing device, to collaboratively answer questions or otherwise express a collaborative will/intent in real-time as a unified intelligence. The collaboration system comprises a plurality of computing devices, each of the devices being used by an individual user, each of the computing devices enabling its user to contribute to the emerging real-time group-wise intent. A collaboration server is disclosed that communicates remotely to the plurality of individual computing devices. Herein, a variety of inventive methods are disclosed for interfacing users and calibrating for their variable confidence in a real-time synchronized group-wise experience, and for deriving a convergent group intent from the collective user input.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Unanimous A. I., Inc.Inventor: Louis B. Rosenberg
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Patent number: 10705686Abstract: A method and system provide for entering text into a text field by determining complete-text terms, displaying the complete-text terms, and receiving a selection of a complete-text term as text to be entered into the text field. In some cases, a complete-text term can include all prior text entries used to determine the complete-text terms. In other cases, a complete-text term can include only a portion or none of the prior text entries used to determine the complete-text term. The determination of the complete-text terms can be based on a vehicle identifier. The determination of the complete-text terms can be based on one or more complete-text term selection-limiters, such a location, use, or diagnostic trouble code associated with the vehicle. The system can include a vehicle service tool that requests a set of complete-text terms and receives the set from a complete-text term storage device or an off-board processor.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2018Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Snap-on IncorporatedInventors: Joshua Covington, Patrick S. Merg
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Patent number: 10699063Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and computer program products for authoring content for digital books. In some implementations, a single graphical user interface (GUI) is presented that allows an author to design a layout for the digital book, including editing text and inserting various types of interactive elements in the text. The GUI functions as both a digital book layout design tool and a word processor to facilitate the building of a digital book. The relative page location of inserted widgets can be determined by a user-selectable anchor point placed within the text. An outline view of the digital book can be created and presented in the GUI based on a hierarchical structure determined by paragraph styles applied to the text. The GUI can provide a hybrid glossary and index page for allowing the author to create and manage a glossary and index for the digital book.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2012Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Charles J. Migos, Diego Bauducco, Markus Hagele, Jay C. Capela, Gary W. Gehiere, Alexander C. MacLean, Jacob G. Refstrup, Christopher E. Rudolph, Peter W. Rapp, David M. Hall, Peter G. Berger, Simon A. Ward, Steven J. Israelson, Mark Ambachtsheer, Paul Elseth, Roger Rock Rosner, Yaniv Gur
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Patent number: 10664146Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are described for creating custom user interface (“UI”) controls. A networked computing service may determine that an action performed by a user of the service is likely to be repeated, based on previous actions performed by the user and/or other users, parameters of the action including characteristics of an item associated with the action, and other criteria. The networked computing service may generate, or recommend generation of, a custom UI control that automates performance of the action. The networked computing service may automatically determine parameters of the action, and may determine alternative parameters and/or alternative actions if the action cannot be performed using the determined parameters. Custom UI controls may be associated with various computing devices and/or other electronic devices, and categories of custom UI controls may be determined and displayed.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2017Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Stephan Josef Andrizzi, Kara Cavallaro, Jai Prakash Chabria, Nicole Dare, Kenneth DeLand, Nirav Praful Desai, Anindya Guha, Marc Hensley, Douglas James Herrington, Samuel Stevens Heyworth, Apoorva Iyer, Nitish Kumar, Hannah McClellan Richards, Jae Park, Amir Pelleg, Jessica Protasio, Daniel Benjamin Rausch, Laura Allison Ridlehoover, Jeffrey Rosenberg, John Shaw, Paul Warren Smart, Amirali Virani
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Patent number: 10664133Abstract: A method for autolinking hierarchies is provided. The method includes receiving an initial hierarchy and a final hierarchy. The method includes determining a set of links from the initial and final hierarchies. The method includes, for each link from the set of links, identifying an unlinked child node from the initial hierarchy of a particular link. The method includes determining a match between the unlinked child node to a second unlinked child node from the final hierarchy of the particular link. The method includes generating a link between the unlinked child node to the second unlinked child node. The method includes providing a new set of links based on the generated link and the set of links. The method includes generating a transition hierarchy based on the new set of links, and the initial and final hierarchies. The method includes generating an animation based on the transition hierarchy.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2018Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: InVisionApp Inc.Inventors: Jonathan Rowny, Donald Abrams, Tom Giannattasio