Patents Examined by Eric J Yoon
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Patent number: 11294615Abstract: A technique for modifying a virtual reality (VR) environment via a first computing device includes establishing a network connection with a VR application that is executing on a second computing device and generating the VR environment, receiving metadata associated with the VR environment from the second computing device via the network connection, receiving at least one user input VIA the first computing device, and, based on the metadata and on the at least one user input, transmitting data to the VR application via the network connection to modify the VR environment being generated by the VR application.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2017Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventor: Michael McNabb
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Patent number: 11283916Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to interfaces and techniques for media playback on one or more devices. In accordance with some embodiments, an electronic device includes a display, one or more processors, and memory. The electronic device receives user input and, in response to receiving the user input, displays, on the display, a multi-device interface that includes: one or more indicators associated with a plurality of available playback devices that are connected to the device and available to initiate playback of media from the device, and a media playback status of the plurality of available playback devices.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Patrick L. Coffman, David Chance Graham
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Patent number: 11278808Abstract: A computer device is configured to provide a computer implemented game. At least one processor of the computer device is configured to determine that one more matches have been made by a plurality of game elements in a game board area and in response to provide one or more game entities in the game board area. The at least one processor is configured to control one or more of the game entities to move from the game board area to an interaction area.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: KING.COM LTD.Inventors: Sebastian Knutsson, Klas Norden
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Patent number: 11275597Abstract: Techniques for augmenting data visualizations based on user interactions to enhance user experience are provided. In one aspect, a method for providing real-time recommendations to a user includes: capturing user interactions with a data visualization, wherein the user interactions include images captured as the user interacts with the data visualization; building stacks of the user interactions, wherein the stacks of the user interactions are built from sequences of the user interactions captured over time; generating embeddings for the stacks of the user interactions; finding clusters of embeddings having similar properties; and making the real-time recommendations to the user based on the clusters of embeddings having the similar properties.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: German H Flores, Eric Kevin Butler, Robert Engel, Aly Megahed, Yuya Jeremy Ong, Nitin Ramchandani
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Patent number: 11271795Abstract: Systems and methods include obtaining telemetry data associated with a network having a plurality of network elements; presenting a list of ongoing issues and predicted issues based on the telemetry data, on a display; responsive to a selection of an issue that is one of the ongoing issues and the predicted issues in the list, presenting a root cause analysis of the issue including one or more diagnosis; presenting a list of prescriptive actions on the display to address the issue based on the root cause analysis including a mechanism for a user to cause execution of any of the prescriptive actions; and receiving a selection of one or more of the prescriptive actions from the user.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2019Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Ciena CorporationInventors: Shelley A. Bhalla, Magdi Wissa, Thomas Triplet, David Côté
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Patent number: 11244067Abstract: Security credentials associated with a first account maintained by a database system are authenticated. Based on authenticating the security credentials, a user interface element is provided to enable sharing of customer data associated with the first account with an application. A request to share customer data with the application is received. Based on the request, third-party data that is accessible by the first account is identified. The third-party data corresponds to a second account maintained by the database system. The second account corresponds to a third-party data provider. The application is enabled to access cloud data associated with the first account based on the request. The cloud data comprises the customer data and the third-party data.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Snowflake Inc.Inventors: Christopher Peter Child, Matthew J. Glickman, Justin Langseth
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Patent number: 11240325Abstract: A system is provided for tracing end-to-end transactions. The system uses bytecode instrumentation and a dynamically injected agent to gather web server side tracing data, and a browser agent which is injected into browser content to instrument browser content and to capture tracing data about browser side activities. Requests sent during monitored browser activities are tagged with correlation data. On the web server side, this correlation information is transferred to tracing data that describes handling of the request. This tracing data is sent to an analysis server which creates tracing information which describes the server side execution of the transaction and which is tagged with the correlation data allowing the identification of the causing browser side activity.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Dynatrace LLCInventors: Bernd Greifeneder, Helmut Spiegl, Markus Gaisbauer, Clemens Fuchs
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Patent number: 11235240Abstract: A computer device has a user interface which receives user input to control movement of a game entity in a collection run of a computer implemented game. The computer device has a display which displays the game entity moving in response to the user input in the collection run. At least one processor of the computer device determines resources collected by the movement of game entity in the collection run. When one or more required resources have been collected, the at least one processor causes, in response to user input. one or more further items for the computer implemented game to be provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2020Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: KING.COM LTD.Inventor: Stephen Jarrett
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Patent number: 11224810Abstract: This disclosure relates to a distance information display method in a virtual scene and a terminal. The method includes: obtaining location information of a target location point in the virtual scene; obtaining distance information according to the location information of the target location point; and displaying the distance information corresponding to an indication icon of the target location point in a scene picture of the virtual scene. According to the foregoing solution, in a virtual scene, for a target location point at which an indication icon exists in a scene picture of the virtual scene, the terminal may display information about a distance between a current controlled object and the target location point corresponding to the indication icon in the scene picture of the virtual scene.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2020Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventor: Jin Yang
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Patent number: 11216650Abstract: A server including a processor to receive an electronic photo having at least one face from a user and compare the electronic photo with a template having a design element, and a computer implemented algorithm. The processor compares the electronic photo to the template and determines if the face is overlapped by the design element or if the face is cropped out of the photo slot. The processor presents the template combined with the electronic photo to the user only if the design element of the template does not overlap the face in the electronic photo. Multiple templates are compared to the electronic photo, and the templates are displayed based on a priority using criteria.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: PlanetArt, LLCInventors: Erik Malkemus, Thomas Dylan Squires, Roger Bloxberg, Todd Helfstein
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Patent number: 11209977Abstract: The present invention discloses a quick data browsing method for an electronic device. The electronic device stores a plurality of data set. The quick data browsing method includes: displaying initial data of the data set on a screen of the electronic device, the data set being cyclically arranged; receiving a gesture and determining whether the gesture is consistent with a preset gesture; when the gesture is consistent with the preset gesture, obtaining an offset based on an angle of the gesture relative to a central line of the screen; and finding target data based on the offset and displaying the target data. In the quick data browsing method, data can be quickly shifted through a specific gesture, and a user can quickly find required data.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2020Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: PEGATRON CORPORATIONInventor: Cheng-Hung Wu
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Patent number: 11210608Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating a model, and a method and apparatus for recognizing information are provided. An implementation of the method for generating a model includes: acquiring a to-be-converted model, a topology description of the to-be-converted model, and device information of a target device; converting, based on the topology description and the device information, parameters and operators of the to-be-converted model to obtain a converted model applicable to the target device; and generating a deep learning prediction model based on the converted model. This embodiment enables the conversion of an existing model to a deep learning prediction model that can be applied to a target device.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2019Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yongkang Xie, En Shi, Xiaoyu Chen, Shupeng Li, Shimin Ruan, Tuobang Wu, Ying Zhao, Lianghuo Zhang
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Patent number: 11205138Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for utilizing provenance data to improve machine learning is provided. Embodiments of the present invention may include collecting provenance data. Embodiments of the present invention may include identifying model quality improvements based on the collected provenance data. Embodiments of the present invention may include identifying related models based on the collected provenance data. Embodiments of the present invention may include recommending model quality improvements to a user.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2019Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Samiulla Zakir Hussain Shaikh, Himanshu Gupta, Rajmohan Chandrahasan, Sameep Mehta, Manish Anand Bhide
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Patent number: 11201961Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to interfaces and techniques for media playback on one or more devices. In accordance with some embodiments, an electronic device includes a display, one or more processors, and memory. The electronic device receives user input and, in response to receiving the user input, displays, on the display, a multi-device interface that includes: one or more indicators associated with a plurality of available playback devices that are connected to the device and available to initiate playback of media from the device, and a media playback status of the plurality of available playback devices.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Patrick L. Coffman, David Chance Graham
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Patent number: 11200916Abstract: Techniques and apparatuses for highlighting media through weighting of people or contexts are described. This document describes techniques that allow a user to quickly and easily highlight media, such as through generating a highlight reel. The techniques also enable selection of context and person weightings by which to tailor highlight reels.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2020Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Babak Robert Shakib, Yuriy Musatenko, Andrii Gushchyk
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Patent number: 11194452Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems are disclosed for providing an interactive virtual event to a plurality of participants. According to one embodiment, a computer implemented method includes providing a first participant graphical user interface (GUI) to a first participant client device of the interactive virtual event, providing a second participant GUI to a second participant client device of the interactive virtual event, providing a first production control GUI to a first event coordinator, receiving first participant audio/video (A/V) data from the first participant client device in near real-time, receiving second participant A/V data from the second participant client device in near real-time, providing the first participant A/V data to the first production control GUI, transmitting the first participant A/V data to a plurality of participant client devices associated with the plurality of participants, and providing the second participant A/V data to the first production control GUI.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: GATHER WHOLESALE, INC.Inventors: Jerry Shen, Roberto Ortiz, Tiger Shen
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Patent number: 11188197Abstract: A side menu displaying method receiving a sliding operation of sliding starting from a side of a screen; detecting whether the sliding operation meets a predefined condition, where the predefined condition includes that a sliding speed of the sliding operation is greater than a preset threshold, and an end position of the sliding operation is not within a preset false touch area; and displaying a side menu corresponding to the side of the screen if a detection result is that the sliding operation meets the predefined condition.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhenyong Zhang, Zhangquan Zhao
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Patent number: 11185777Abstract: This disclosure relates to a distance information display method in a virtual scene and a terminal. The method includes: obtaining location information of a target location point in the virtual scene; obtaining distance information according to the location information of the target location point; and displaying the distance information corresponding to an indication icon of the target location point in a scene picture of the virtual scene. According to the foregoing solution, in a virtual scene, for a target location point at which an indication icon exists in a scene picture of the virtual scene, the terminal may display information about a distance between a current controlled object and the target location point corresponding to the indication icon in the scene picture of the virtual scene.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventor: Jin Yang
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Patent number: 11182053Abstract: A method for generating a plurality of graphical menu items for user selection, each graphical menu item having one or more sibling menu items, the one or more sibling menu items being on a first hierarchical level, at least one of the sibling menu items having one or more children menu items, the one or more children menu items being on a second hierarchical level different from the first hierarchical level; receiving user input selecting one or more graphical, sibling, or children menu items, wherein receiving user input includes receiving user input selecting one or more graphical, sibling, or children menu items in a sequence, and includes receiving user input selecting a graphical menu item followed by a sibling menu item and subsequently a children menu item; and constructing a graphical user interface that includes one or more selectable links arranged in accordance with the sequence, wherein constructing a selectable link for the graphical menu item followed by a selectable link for the sibling menu iType: GrantFiled: January 13, 2020Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Inventor: Armin Moehrle
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Patent number: 11175823Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for controlling a terminal device, and a storage medium. The method includes: when a gesture control function is activated on a current interface of the terminal device, obtaining an interface identifier of the current interface and a preset motion corresponding to the interface identifier; turning on a camera and displaying an image taken by the camera in a preset display area of the current interface; determining whether the image contains a motion image matching with the preset motion; and if the image contains the motion image matching with the preset motion, obtaining an operation instruction corresponding to the motion image, and controlling the current interface according to the operation instruction.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2020Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignees: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., Shanghai Xiaodu Technology Co. Ltd.Inventors: Lu Qian, Wenbo Li, Mingwei Li, Yawen Diao