Patents Examined by Gregory Vaughn
  • Patent number: 10108594
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein enable a residual error image to be added and rendered in an existing HTML canvas using native primitives. A current image and a residual error image containing pixel value differences between the current image and an updated image are received. A positive residual error image and a negative error image are generated from the residual error image. The positive residual error image is added to the current image to generate a partially updated image, and the partially updated image is xored to generate an inverse image. The negative residual error image is added to the inverse image to generate an updated inverse image, and xoring the inverse image to revert the inverse image to generate the updated image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventor: Jonathan Clark
  • Patent number: 10088976
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques and systems to provide a narration of a text in multiple different voices. In some aspects, systems and methods described herein can include receiving a user-based selection of a first portion of words in a document where the document has a pre-associated first voice model and overwriting the association of the first voice model, by the one or more computers, with a second voice model for the first portion of words.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: EM Acquisition Corp., Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond C. Kurzweil, Paul Albrecht, Peter Chapman
  • Patent number: 10083160
    Abstract: A metadata item may be generated that includes metadata content corresponding to a selected portion of digital content stored on a first device, the metadata item may be associated with a first user profile, and the metadata item may be distributed to a second user device storing the digital content such that the metadata item can be accessed via a second user profile and rendered on the second user device in association with the digital content. In this manner, metadata content corresponding to digital content may be shared across user profiles that access the digital content. In addition, a collaborative content item may be generated that includes collaborative content associated with a word or phrase in digital content and that is editable by multiple user profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Wainwright Gregory Siady Yu, Shanmugarasa Muhunthan, Robert Wayne Roth, Ashish Singh, Brian David Rosenblat, Jeffrey Craig Kunins, Eric Michael Franklin, Walter Manching Tseng, Seth Gershom Goldstein, Otis Yeager Chandler, Andrew Olcott, Arjun Subramanian, Jay Prashant Subhash, Manigandan Natarajan
  • Patent number: 10083239
    Abstract: To generate stories for presentation to social networking system users, one or more story generation engines receives a set of actions of social networking system users. Various story generation engines output stories of different types that collect particular types of actions and arrange the actions in a specified format for presentation. The story generators may avoid selecting the same actions for different stories. Stories generated by the various story generators may be ranked and the ranking used to select stories for presentation to one or more social networking system users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Raylene Kay Yung, Daniel Schafer, Li Zhang, Serkan Piantino, Maxim Gubin
  • Patent number: 10025875
    Abstract: Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are provided for providing an enhanced media presentation. In one embodiment, an enhanced media presentation is provided. To provide the enhanced media presentation, one or more content items associated with subject matter associated with a segment of an enhanced media presentation are identified. Each content item may be associated with at least one uniform resource identifier. Then, a content object based at least in part on at least one content item is created. The content object is an abstract representation of the content item. The content object can be associated with the segment and provided for simultaneous displayed simultaneously with at least a portion of the segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
    Inventors: Alex Wellen, Marisa Gallagher, Don Loheide, Michael Wise, Rajin Persaud, Michael Koetter, KC Estenson, Dave Ehlers, Chris Hinton, Michael Quigley, Jeremy Legg, Scott Teissler
  • Patent number: 9984055
    Abstract: Provided are a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a display control program, an image display apparatus and a display control method. The apparatus includes a touch panel configured to receive a handwriting input and display a document and handwriting information in a display area thereof. The display control program, when being executed by a processor of the apparatus, causes the processor to perform the following processes. The processes includes: operating the touch panel to display a document and handwriting information in the display area; and in response to detecting an operation onto the document, controlling display of the handwriting information by using a first display mode or a second display mode. The first display mode is a mode to display the handwriting information with being associated with the document. The second display mode is a mode to display the handwriting information with being associated with the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Masafumi Aikawa
  • Patent number: 9979774
    Abstract: A digital magazine server receives feeds of content items from various sources and formats content items from the feed for presentation in a digital magazine. The digital magazine server determines whether the content items from the feed satisfy one or more rules specifying presentation of content items by the digital magazine server. Content items from a feed are compared to the one or more rules to generate results specifying whether various content items satisfy one or more of the rules. To simplify review of the content items, results are grouped for each content item to allow the source of the feed to individually edit the content items to comply with the one or more rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Flipboard, Inc.
    Inventors: Diane Chang, Victor V. Greenwich, Chaitanya Laxminarayan
  • Patent number: 9971751
    Abstract: Multiple versions of a service can be supported by taking advantage of the fact that version information can be included in any received request. Multiple templates may be stored, with each template being associated with a particular version of the service. There may also be multiple templates associated with each version of a service for various response types. Using the version information, an appropriate template can be determined up front to be used for the response. An instance of the template can be filled in using appropriate data sources, as may be specified using metadata in the template itself. Once the instance of the template is filled, the response can be finalized and sent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Vanessa Y. Sun, Feras Karablieh, Xiaohu Liu, Ajay M. Desai
  • Patent number: 9971755
    Abstract: A digital magazine server provides a digital magazine including content items to a client device for presentation to a user. To increase user interaction with the digital magazine, the digital magazine server identifies a content item in the digital magazine and determines one or more topics associated with the identified content item. From the one or more topics, the digital magazine server identifies a topic and obtains candidate content items that are also associated with the identified topic. A candidate content item is selected from the candidate content item and the selected candidate content item is presented in conjunction with the identified content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Flipboard, Inc.
    Inventors: Sang Chi, Yuechen Zhao, Ben Frederickson
  • Patent number: 9965568
    Abstract: Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are provided for providing an enhanced media presentation. In one embodiment, an enhanced media presentation is provided. To provide the enhanced media presentation, one or more content items associated with subject matter associated with a segment of an enhanced media presentation are identified. Each content item may be associated with at least one uniform resource identifier. Then, a content object based at least in part on at least one content item is created. The content object is an abstract representation of the content item. The content object can be associated with the segment and provided for simultaneous displayed simultaneously with at least a portion of the segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: TURNER BROADCASTING SYSTEM, INC.
    Inventors: Alex Wellen, Marisa Gallagher, Don Loheide, Michael Wise, Rajin Persaud, Michael Koetter, KC Estenson, Dave Ehlers, Chris Hinton, Michael Quigley, Jeremy Legg, Scott Teissler
  • Patent number: 9934322
    Abstract: Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are provided for providing an enhanced media presentation. In one embodiment, an enhanced media presentation is provided. To provide the enhanced media presentation, one or more content items associated with subject matter associated with a segment of an enhanced media presentation are identified. Each content item may be associated with at least one uniform resource identifier. Then, a content object based at least in part on at least one content item is created. The content object is an abstract representation of the content item. The content object can be associated with the segment and provided for simultaneous displayed simultaneously with at least a portion of the segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
    Inventors: Alex Wellen, Marisa Gallagher, Don Loheide, Michael Wise, Rajin Persaud, Michael Koetter, KC Estenson, Dave Ehlers, Chris Hinton, Michael Quigley, Jeremy Legg, Scott Teissler
  • Patent number: 9922008
    Abstract: A method of creating a dynamically adaptable tutorial, comprising: selecting at least one web document having a plurality of separate objects; providing by a user a plurality of descriptive elements; separately associating between each of said plurality of descriptive elements and each of said plurality of separate objects according to a user input; associating a plurality of calling scripts with said plurality of separate objects; making said at least web document available so that a loading thereof by a browser includes triggering said plurality of calling scripts for a retrieval of each of said plurality of descriptive elements; wherein said web document enables a browsing user who uses said browser to initiate a tutorial session during which at least a group of said plurality of descriptive elements are sequentially presented in accordance with a current layout of a respective group from said plurality of separate objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: WALKME LTD.
    Inventors: Eyal Cohen, Dan Adika
  • Patent number: 9910843
    Abstract: Methods, systems and articles of manufacture for creating an electronic spreadsheet using a web-based spreadsheet application. A web-server hosting a web-based spreadsheet website comprises one or more computer(s) having at least one computer processor, memory, data storage and a network communication device (e.g. a network adapter). The web-server is configured to transmit a spreadsheet web application to a user computing device (e.g. a personal computer, smartphone, etc.) having a web-browser via the internet. The spreadsheet web application is configured to program the web-browser of the computing device to display and execute a spreadsheet web application having various features and functionality, including one or more of a separate design section and preview panel, a test data feature, line by line building of a spreadsheet without a starting grid of rows and columns, an embedded spreadsheet feature, an embedded worksheet display within a line feature, or any combination of these features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: INTUIT INC.
    Inventor: Peter Thomas
  • Patent number: 9891802
    Abstract: Methods and systems for selecting multiple rows, columns, and/or cells are described. A user opens or otherwise accesses a file or document containing multiple rows, columns, and/or cells. The user hover a cursor or pointer over a particular row, column, or cell, or the user touches a particular row, column, or cell on a touchscreen. A single checkbox appears for that particular row, column, or cell. When the user selects that checkbox, unselected checkboxes for the other rows, columns, or cells appear. From there, the user can choose to select all the checkboxes or just some of the checkboxes to perform a mass action on the selected rows, columns, or cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Snowflake Computing, Inc.
    Inventor: Egan Schulz
  • Patent number: 9892097
    Abstract: This document describes techniques and apparatuses that enable absolute positioning with publishable HTML code. These techniques permit a designer to place objects at absolute positions in a design interface and see how a webpage will actually look in response to that placement. A designer need not publish the design before seeing how it will actually look because the design interface determines and then uses publishable HTML code to present the design, even in real time. Furthermore, in some embodiments, the techniques provide real-time feedback showing parameters of the publishable HTML code, thereby permitting the designer to quickly and easily change the publishable HTML code by altering the shown parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Christopher R. Bank, Jacob Aaron Surber, Kristofer G. Joseph
  • Patent number: 9892107
    Abstract: A document processor for associating mentioned items with each other in two documents. A conversion unit converts at least a portion of mentioned items expressed in table format among the mentioned items included in the two documents. An association processing unit associates mentioned items with each other in the two documents including at least some mentioned items converted to text format. The conversion unit converts each of a plurality of cells included in the mentioned items expressed in table format to separate mentioned items in text format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Hara, Masatoshi Nogo, Eiichi Tazoe
  • Patent number: 9886519
    Abstract: A method and system for adjusting webpage layout are disclosed. The method includes calculating a width for displaying an image on a webpage; determining whether the image is inserted in a segment of text of the webpage; and adjusting the size of the image display based on a mobile terminal's screen width and the width for displaying the image, if the image is inserted in the segment of text of the webpage. The disclosed methods and systems adjust the images on a webpage based on the width of the image and the screen width of a mobile terminal. As such, an adjusted webpage can be viewed by scrolling up and down the display screen. In addition, a user's online experience may be further improved by adjusting the images on the webpage to be left justified and aligned with the text on the page. A user does not need to scroll horizontally (e.g., from left to right) to read the webpage including the images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignees: UC MOBILE LIMITED, GUANGZHOU UCWEB COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jie Liang
  • Patent number: 9875070
    Abstract: A method for displaying indicia that is to be printed on a double-sided item on a computer screen. The double-sided item has first and second surfaces. The indicia has at least one print orientation when the indicia is printed on the item's first and second surfaces, and at least one view orientation when the indicia is displayed on the computer screen, which has a vertical orientation. The method includes providing information that characterizes the indicia's print orientation, using the information to compare the print orientation to the vertical orientation; and if, as a result of the comparison, the print orientation does not match the vertical orientation, adjusting the view orientation so the view orientation matches the vertical orientation while maintaining the indicia's print orientation when the indicia is printed on the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: CCL LABEL, INC.
    Inventors: Bradley K. Nelson, Phillip W. McGee
  • Patent number: 9875318
    Abstract: Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are provided for providing an enhanced media presentation. In one embodiment, an enhanced media presentation is provided. To provide the enhanced media presentation, one or more content items associated with subject matter associated with a segment of an enhanced media presentation are identified. Each content item may be associated with at least one uniform resource identifier. Then, a content object based at least in part on at least one content item is created. The content object is an abstract representation of the content item. The content object can be associated with the segment and provided for simultaneous displayed simultaneously with at least a portion of the segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
    Inventors: Alex Wellen, Marisa Gallagher, Don Loheide, Michael Wise, Rajin Persaud, Michael Koetter, KC Estenson, Dave Ehlers, Chris Hinton, Michael Quigley, Jeremy Legg, Scott Teissler
  • Patent number: 9864809
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable medium for facilitating selection of a preferred language associated with a website. In one example, information including information relating to a user is first received via the communication platform. The received information is then automatically analyzed to estimate a preferred language in which the user likely uses to view content from the website. A selector is displayed with an available selection of a language that most closely matches the estimated preferred language to allow the user to specify the user's preferred language with respect to the website. The user's preferred language is stored, and the user is redirected to the website in the user's preferred language.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: MOTIONPOINT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Enrique Travieso, Eugenio Alvarez, Charles Whiteman, Adam Rubenstein, William Fleming