Patents Examined by Gregory A DiStefano
  • Patent number: 10241658
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display section, a storage section, and a control unit. When accepting a predetermined gesture under a gesture acceptance control, the control unit allows the storage section to store window information indicating a size and a position of a window being displayed on the display section, creates an icon associated with a file being displayed in the window, and allows the display section to display the icon. When accepting a launch gesture on the icon under the gesture acceptance control, the control unit retrieves the window information from the storage section and allows the display section to display a window for displaying the file associated with the icon in the size and position indicated by the window information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Isaac Judd, Yoshihisa Tanaka, Tetsuya Nishino
  • Patent number: 10241669
    Abstract: A method is provided which includes displaying an output of an application on a touchscreen, receiving a user input for the application on the touchscreen, and determining the location of the received user input on the touchscreen. Further, the method includes generating an additional pop-up window for display on the touchscreen, and selecting a location for the additional pop-up window, where the selected location for the additional pop-up window does not coincide with the determined location of the user input for application. Further, the method includes displaying the additional pop-up window at the selected location for the additional pop-up window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sophie D. Green, Grace Jansen, Joe Pavitt, Antony Protonotarios, James Russell, Alexandros E. Vlissidis
  • Patent number: 10216767
    Abstract: Methods for performing a structured collection procedure by utilizing a collection device are disclosed herein, in which a collection procedure is initiated for performing one or more data collections for one or more data event instances occurring according to a schedule of events. Each data event instances comprises a data collection pertaining to a biomarker to be performed according to one or more conditions of an adherence criterion. Each data event instance is determined to be successful or unsuccessful on the basis of actual performance of the data collection and meeting certain conditions of the predetermined adherence criteria for the data event instance. Contextual information for successful data collections is generated and a data file generated for storing records relating to successful data collections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven A. Bousamra, Abhishek Soni
  • Patent number: 10216370
    Abstract: Techniques for exposing tabs in system task switchers are described herein. In one or more implementations, input is received to initiate a switch between different applications executed in a multi-application computing environment. In response, a system task switcher is launched to facilitate selection of and switching between the different applications. representations of the different applications are exposed via a user interface for the system task switcher. In the system task switcher configured to include functionality accessible via the system task switcher to exposed representations of individual tabs open in applications having tabbed user interfaces. Responsive to a selection of a particular application via the system task switcher, a switch occurs to the particular application in the multi-application computing environment. If a particular tab is selected, the switch occurs to expose the application UI with the selected tab being presented as the active/top tab with focus in the application UI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Adam E. Barrus, Richard Fang, Andrew M. Pickard, Samuel George Gates
  • Patent number: 10210253
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus of providing comments and statistical information for each section of a video content and the method thereof, the apparatus and the method thereof being capable of writing and displaying replies for each section of the video content which is edited section by section and providing a user interface which plays each section of the video content respectively, so as to allow a user to access the video content section by section in order to easily grasp the characteristics of the corresponding video and to intuitively search fast and play the wanted parts (or sections) of the video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: VEAVER, INC.
    Inventor: Hyun Sun Ju
  • Patent number: 10203761
    Abstract: A glasses type mobile terminal including a camera configured to obtain an image; a display unit including a transparent display; and a controller configured to recognize a user is gazing at their hand, display an execution screen in a first transparent display area corresponding to a palm of the hand, recognize a first gesture corresponding to a virtual connection between the execution screen and a specific finger, associate the execution screen with the specific finger upon recognition of the first gesture, display a first item indicating association of the execution screen with the specific finger in a second transparent display area corresponding to the specific finger, recognize a second gesture of virtually connecting the first item with the displayed execution screen corresponding to the palm of the hand, and display a result of executing the first item to the application in the first transparent display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jungtae Seo, Wonsang Yi, Chaemin Lim, Wonsul Jeon, Bomi Noh
  • Patent number: 10198411
    Abstract: Additional document information may be stored through change tracking. In some examples, an application, such as a document processing application, may allow collaborative creation and/or editing of a document. As individual collaborators enter new content or make changes to existing content, the new content and/or changes go through two phases. As an individual collaborator is editing, the change is temporary. The collaborator may decide not to integrate it to the document. The temporary content may become permanent or integrated through a save action (manual or automatic). In some examples, the temporary content may be shared with other collaborators through a scheme to indicate its status as temporary giving the collaborators a true collaboration experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Michelle Keslin, Daniel Snyder, Ali Taleghani, Jitesh Sachdeva
  • Patent number: 10191619
    Abstract: Display apparatus and method of an electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a display, and a processor. The processor fetches a display region for displaying a screen when an application is executed, and fetches and displays a plurality of screens in the fetched display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pil-Joo Yoon, Yong-Joon Jeon
  • Patent number: 10175938
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for navigation on the World Wide Web using voice commands. The name of a website may be called out by users several different ways. A user may speak the entire URL, a portion of the URL, or a name of the website which may bear little resemblance to the URL. The present technology uses rules and heuristics embodied in various software engines to determine the best candidate website based on the received voice command, and then navigates to that website.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew S. Zeigler, Michael Han-Young Kim, Rodger William Benson, Raman Kumar Sarin
  • Patent number: 10133972
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory that stores, for each one of a plurality of paper types, paper profile information that includes multiple paper attribute information each defining an attribute of paper and stores preferentially displayed paper attribute information in association with at least one configuration, the preferentially displayed paper attribute information indicating paper attribute information to be displayed preferentially compared to other paper attribute information of the multiple paper attribute information and circuitry that obtains preferentially displayed paper attribute information corresponding to paper to be printed in the at least one configuration, and control a display to display preferentially displayed paper attribute information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Fujioka, Yuu Yamashita
  • Patent number: 10120564
    Abstract: A user interface device, a vehicle having the same, and a method of controlling the same, implement a display unit configured to display a plurality of characters, a dial part configured to select any one character among the plurality of characters, and a touch part configured to be touched by a user. A control unit of the interface is configured to select a handwritten recognition mode as a character input mode when the touch part is touched, and select a dial operation mode as the character input mode when the dial part is operated, thereby improving user convenience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventor: Kyudae Shim
  • Patent number: 10110522
    Abstract: Functionality is disclosed herein for setting sharing options for files using a messaging client. A message interface is displayed that allows a user to compose an electronic message. While the message is being composed, the user may specify sharing options for a file, or files, associated with the message. The sharing options may specify access settings used to identify the users that are allowed to access the file through a sharing service, feedback settings that are used to indicate when feedback is expected, and expiration settings that are used to indicate when sharing of the file expires. The sharing options are communicated from the messaging client to the sharing service. The sharing service may utilize the sharing options to control the manner in which the file, or files, is shared.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Floor Mesters, Milo Oostergo, Ivo van Doorn
  • Patent number: 10095388
    Abstract: A system includes a processor and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory stores instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to provide a graphical user interface (GUI) including a plurality of user-selectable elements accessible by a user to select a patent strength calculator from a plurality of patent strength calculators, to edit a patent strength calculator, or to create a new patent strength calculator. The memory further stores instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to apply a selected patent strength calculator to a list of documents to determine a patent strength score for each patent of the list of documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Innography, Inc.
    Inventors: Tyron J. Stading, Clifford Scott Herrick, John Gallner
  • Patent number: 10088997
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating data includes a display unit that displays an area object the contour of which is extracted from an image to be processed by an image processing application, an operating unit that receives selection conditions for selecting an area object that is intended by a user out of the area objects displayed by the display unit, and a contour extracting unit that extracts a contour of an area object selected based on the selection conditions received by the operating unit. When the contour extracting unit extracts a contour of a selected area object, the display unit displays the selected area object and an unselected area object in a distinguishable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Yamamoto, Masahide Horiuchi, Fumiko Tsuwano
  • Patent number: 10055124
    Abstract: A mobile terminal including a wireless communication processor configured to provide wireless communication; a display including a main region and an extended region extended from the main region toward at least one side of the main region; and a controller configured to deactivate the main region and the extended region of the display, activate the main region of the display without activating the extended region in response to a knock code being input on the main region of the display, and activate the extended region of the display without activating the main region in response to the knock code being input on extended region of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yoomee Song, Minkyoung Chang, Arim Kwon, Cheongha Park, Kyunghye Seo, Jaehwa Lee
  • Patent number: 10048842
    Abstract: In some implementations, data indicating a touch received on a proximity-sensitive display is received while the proximity-sensitive display is presenting one or more items. In one aspect, the techniques describe may involve a process for disambiguating touch selections of hypothesized items, such as text or graphical objects that have been generated based on input data, on a proximity-sensitive display. This process may allow a user to more easily select hypothesized items that the user may wish to correct, by determining whether a touch received through the proximity-sensitive display represents a selection of each hypothesized item based at least on a level of confidence that the hypothesized item accurately represents the input data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jakob Nicolaus Foerster, Diego Melendo Casado, Glen Shires
  • Patent number: 10044888
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an operation display unit, a display range registration unit, an icon registration unit, and a display control unit. In the operation display unit, an icon for selecting an image forming apparatus operation is displayed. In the display range registration unit, information on a display range of the icons displayed on the operation display unit is registered. In the icon registration unit, information on a display position of the icon on the operation display unit is registered. In the display control unit, a movement button for moving the icon based on the information on the display range which is registered in the display range registration unit is displayed when the icon is selected. In the display control unit, the information on the display position which is registered in the icon registration unit is updated when the movement button is pressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuuki Okada
  • Patent number: 10025472
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a device that employs novel processes for displaying data regarding its movement in a region. For instance, in some embodiments, the device captures and stores location data at a plurality of locations traversed along the route. Upon receiving a request to view the traversed locations along the route, the device displays a representation of at least a subset of locations along the route based on the stored location data. Upon receiving an identification of a particular location in the displayed representation of the subset of locations, the device displays information regarding the particular location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Alessandro F. Sabatelli
  • Patent number: 10013143
    Abstract: A technology is described for interfacing with a computing application using a multi-digit sensor. A method may include obtaining an initial stroke using a single digit of a user on the multi-digit sensor. A direction change point for the initial stroke can be identified. At the direction change point for the initial stroke, a number of additional digits can be presented by the user to the multi-digit sensor. Then a completion stroke can be identified as being made with the number of additional digits. A user interface signal to can be sent to the computing application based on the number of additional digits used in the completion touch stroke. In another configuration of the technology, the touch stroke or gesture may include a single stroke where user interface items can be selected when additional digits are presented at the end of a gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Hrvoje Benko, Daniel Wigdor
  • Patent number: 10013406
    Abstract: A container is created that includes two sides. A front side of the container displays viewable content. A back side of the container displays editing controls corresponding to the viewable content. A button may be displayed that, when activated, switches the display between the front side and the back side. The button may be displayed only while the editing controls are displayed and hidden while the content is displayed. While the content is displayed, the entire display area may be responsive to a user input to cause display of the editing controls. Switching between the front-side element display and the back-side editing display may be accompanied by a flipping animation. Enabling the flip-to-edit container may be based on permissions of a user account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventor: Hans-Michael Graf