Patents Examined by Henry Orr
  • Patent number: 11954318
    Abstract: A method of adjusting elements of a GUI to reflect multi-selection of GUI items, comprising presenting a plurality of selectable GUI items each characterized by one or more unique attributes and one or more action GUI configured to initiate one or more actions adjusted according to a multi-selection of the selectable GUI items, analyzing user input to detect multiple indications gradually indicated by a user to select a group of selectable GUI items, responsive to detection of each of the indications, appending the unique attribute(s) of the respective selectable GUI item selected in the respective indication to the action GUI element(s) such that the action GUI element(s) is dynamically adjusted to aggregate the unique attribute(s) of all of the selectable GUI items of the group, and responsive to activation of the action GUI element(s), initiate the action(s) adjusted according to all of the selectable GUI items of the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: monday.com Ltd.
    Inventors: Barak Bengad, Eran Huberman, Alon Bar David, Danielle Hassan
  • Patent number: 11880554
    Abstract: Computerized systems and methods are provided for automatically generating an application overflow tool that is dynamically updated and arranged to provide improved access to popular or recently used applications. These systems and methods improve existing technologies by generating an overflow panel different from a task bar, such that the overflow panel provides access to most recently used applications that are not on the task bar. As such, ease of access to applications is improved to increase user efficiency. These systems also improve the way computers operate by leveraging existing GUI layouts to reduce computing resource consumption, such as memory, network latency, I/O, and the like, that would otherwise be required improve access to applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Edward Taylor, Jr., Peter E. Hammerquist, Benjamin J. Schoepke, Jessica Leigh Douma, Albert Peter Yih, Emilia Marie Nobrega, Hadley Meryl Griffin, Ashley Nicole Ferguson, Robert Joseph Disano
  • Patent number: 11875276
    Abstract: A method includes presenting a first graphical user interface (GUI) including a first listing of a first plurality of objects within a project library, presenting a second GUI comprising a second listing of the second plurality of objects, receiving a second input indicative of a selection of the one or more objects in the second listing, receiving a third input indicative of a command to import the one or more objects to the project library, retrieving one or more respective portions of computer code corresponding to the one or more objects of the second plurality of objects from a second database, and updating the first GUI to include the one or more objects in the first listing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew R. Stump, Anthony Carrara, Christopher W. Como, Sharon Billi-Duran, Matthew R. Ericsson, Srdjan Josipovic, Eashwer Srinivasan, Michael D. Kalan
  • Patent number: 11868600
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and non-transitory machine-readable mediums for ranking on an absolute scale include displaying, on an electronic display, a first handle, a second handle, and an interactor, determining a value of the first handle and a value of the second handle based on their respective positions on the interactor, in response to a user dragging the first and second handles on the interactor, and determining a rank of the first and second handles based on the values of the first and second handles, in response to the user dragging the first and second handles on the interactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Scott Carter, Alex Filipowicz, Shabnam Hakimi
  • Patent number: 11853650
    Abstract: In an example, a computing system receives an instruction to initiate audio presentation of electronic communications for a recipient. Responsive to the instruction, the computing system audibly outputs each unreviewed electronic communication in a most-recent conversation thread including a most-recent set of unreviewed, reply-linked electronic communications for the recipient. Each unreviewed electronic communication in the most-recent conversation thread may be audibly output in a chronological-sequential order beginning with an oldest unreviewed electronic communication and continuing to a most-recent unreviewed electronic communication. Responsive to completing audible output of the most-recent unreviewed electronic communication from a conversation thread, the computing device audibly outputs each unreviewed electronic communication in a next-most-recent conversation thread including a next-most-recent set of unreviewed, reply-linked electronic communications for the recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: August Kathryn Niehaus, Saurabh Choudhury, Eugene Y. Suh, Gunjan Sood
  • Patent number: 11809884
    Abstract: A driving method for an electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a touch display panel, and a display surface of the touch display panel is divided into multiple application launching regions. The driving method includes: determining a movement trajectory of a touch point that is at least partially overlapped with the appearance identifier of an application program; and in a case where an end point of the movement trajectory is located in one of the multiple application launching regions, displaying an application interface of the application program in the application launching region in which the end point of the movement trajectory is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Wenke He
  • Patent number: 11782591
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display, a single physical button and a processor configured to control the display to display a guide user interface (UI), a selection UI and a plurality of menu items, based on a user input received via the single physical button being identified as a short click input, move the selection UI from one menu item among the plurality of menu items to another menu item among the plurality of menu items, based on the user input being identified as a long press input, select the one menu item and execute a control function corresponding to the selected one menu item, and based on an execution of the control function, control the display to display a setting UI indicating a current setting value of the control function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong-hyuk Kim, Seung-hyun Moon, Dae-hyun Jang
  • Patent number: 11775010
    Abstract: A method for monitoring device usage includes: receiving user device information; based on the user interaction data, determining a state associated with the user device; and based on the state of the user device, determining a set of tap parameters. Additionally or alternatively, the method can include any or all of: determining a risk score based on at least on the set of tap parameters; determining an output based on the risk score; and/or any other suitable processes performed in any suitable order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Zendrive, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan A. Matus, Pankaj Risbood
  • Patent number: 11763211
    Abstract: Various examples are described for optimizing a reservation workflow in a user interface. In a calendar user interface element, a user can move from a single day reservation to multi-day reservation without having to choose a multi-day reservation to begin the reservation workflow. Additionally, the user interface can instantly recover from an unavailable booking without requiring the user to navigate to another user interface to select an alternative booking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: VMware, INC.
    Inventors: Kira Chung, Ajayan Subramanian
  • Patent number: 11727290
    Abstract: A (GUI) for designing an industrial automation system includes a design window and a first accessory window. The GUI presents a library visualization representative of a plurality of objects within the first accessory window, each object is represented by an icon and corresponds to a respective industrial automation device. The GUI receives inputs indicative of a selection of one or more objects of the plurality of objects from the library, presents the one or more objects in the design window, determines that the one or more inputs do not comply with a set of industrial automation system rules comprising one or more relationships between a plurality of industrial automation devices, and displays a warning message that the one or more inputs do not comply with the set of industrial automation system rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew R. Stump, Anthony Carrara, Christopher W. Como, Sharon Billi-Duran, Matthew R. Ericsson, Srdjan Josipovic, Eashwer Srinivasan, Michael D Kalan
  • Patent number: 11710111
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for collecting and releasing virtual objects between disparate augmented reality environments. One method comprises receiving user selection to collect an object in a first environment displayed on a user device at a first time. A search request may then be transmitted to a content server from which a virtual object corresponding to the collected object is received in response. The virtual object may be stored in a user library associated with a user identifier of the user. When a second environment is displayed on the user device, the virtual object may be added to the second environment in response to receiving user selection to add the virtual object and determining that the user is associated with the user identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Worldpay Limited
    Inventors: Kevin Gordon, Charlotte Spender
  • Patent number: 11671538
    Abstract: An image to be printed is displayed in an image display region EA1 set on a center line L passing through a center of a screen in a width direction. A print button PB for providing an instruction for printing of the image and an image editing menu buttons EB1 to EB3 are displayed in a button display region EA2 side by side along the width direction of the screen. The print button PB is disposed on the center line L and displayed in a larger size than other buttons EB1 to EB3. In a case in which the image editing menu button is touch-operated, a plurality of operation buttons for image editing are expanded and displayed in an operation region EA3 between the button display region EA2 and the image display region EA1. The operation buttons for image editing are displayed in a radial pattern on the same circumference around a point set on the center line L.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiaki Nagai, Tsuneo Sato
  • Patent number: 11631028
    Abstract: A tendency of an action of a robot may vary based on learning data used for training. The learning data may be generated by an agent performing an identical or similar task to a task of the robot. An apparatus and method for updating a policy for controlling an action of a robot may update the policy of the robot using a plurality of learning data sets generated by a plurality of heterogeneous agents, such that the robot may appropriately act even in an unpredicted environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co.. Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun-Won Jang, Kyung-Rock Kim, Taesin Ha
  • Patent number: 11625876
    Abstract: A display device according synthesizes icons and messages with a portion where no descriptive display image is displayed by OSD for display. Icon functions are set by a PC so that the setting of the operation of the PC and the display device, and the setting of an external device can be conducted. The number of lines of the message to be displayed is determined according to distortion correction at the case of oblique projection to correct position coordinates detected by a camera. In a presentation system including an interactive white board device, the display device (for example, a liquid crystal projector), and the PC, the display of the icons are improved to extend the functions, and the display of the messages at the case of oblique projection, and a position detection precision on a screen by the camera incorporated into the display device are improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Uchida, Shinji Onodera, Satomi Morishita, Kenichi Iwahara
  • Patent number: 11620104
    Abstract: Characteristics of a speaker are estimated using speech processing and machine learning. The characteristics of the speaker are used to automatically customize a user interface of a client device for the speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Eugene Weinstein, Ignacio L. Moreno
  • Patent number: 11620551
    Abstract: A method includes receiving an input indicative of a selection of an object associated with an industrial automation project, each object of a plurality of objects corresponding to a respective industrial automation component, retrieving logic associated with the object from a storage component, evaluating an operability of the logic when executed by the respective industrial automation component corresponding to the object, wherein evaluating the operability of the logic comprises running one or more scripts, executing one or more algorithms, applying one or more rules, or a combination thereof, and updating a GUI to present: a first window visualization comprising a logic schematic visualization of one or more tasks that the logic is configured to cause the object to perform and a second window visualization comprising an indication of the operability of the logic when executed by the respective industrial automation component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew R. Stump, Anthony Carrara, Christopher W. Como, Sharon Billi-Duran, Matthew R. Ericsson, Srdjan Josipovic, Eashwer Srinivasan, Michael D. Kalan
  • Patent number: 11604577
    Abstract: A method including receiving a command to display a modal dialog. The modal dialog is displayed using both first and second scrolling frames. The first scrolling frame permits scrolling when a modal dialog height exceeds a first scrolling frame constraint. The second scrolling frame permits scrolling of a content section when a content section height exceeds a second scrolling frame constraint. The first scrolling frame constraint has a first and second priorities. The second scrolling frame constraint has a third priority. An orientation of the display screen is determined as being either in a portrait orientation or a landscape orientation. Responsive to determining the physical orientation, an applicable priority that is applicable to the first scrolling frame constraint is assigned. The applicable priority is the first priority in the portrait orientation, and is the second priority in the landscape orientation. After assigning the applicable priority, the modal dialog is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome Parker Lane, Cindy Chen, Jing Jing Wu, Bill Clarke
  • Patent number: 11599928
    Abstract: A method for managing products in a refrigerator comprises the steps of: registering user information including a face image, in association with at least one vendor; after a refrigerator door is opened, photographing an external area around the refrigerator and then recognizing a user's face; while the door is closed after the opening of the refrigerator door, photographing the inside of a storage chamber of the refrigerator and processing the captured image to acquire product information of a product taken; storing the acquired product information of the taken product as a product use history, in association with the recognized user's face; and when receiving a user input, displaying a purchase recommendation product list per user with information of an associated vendor on the basis of the product use history. In an embodiment of the present invention, a refrigerator to which an IOT is applied may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jinok Kim, Sungmok Hwang
  • Patent number: 11579902
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for improving user interface rendering performance. A network page is received from one or more servers, where the network page includes code that renders a graphical placeholder for a user interface component. The code that renders the graphical placeholder for the user interface component is executed. Code that renders an updated view of the user interface component is received from the server(s) in response to a scrolling action or a viewport manipulation bringing the graphical placeholder for the user interface component into view. The code that renders the updated view of the user interface component is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Alexandru Burciu
  • Patent number: 11574219
    Abstract: A (GUI) for designing an industrial automation system includes a design window and a first accessory window. The GUI presents a library visualization representative of a plurality of objects within the first accessory window, each object is represented by an icon and corresponds to a respective industrial automation device. The GUI receives inputs indicative of a selection of one or more objects of the plurality of objects from the library, presents the one or more objects in the design window, determines that the one or more inputs do not comply with a set of industrial automation system rules comprising one or more relationships between a plurality of industrial automation devices, and displays a warning message that the one or more inputs do not comply with the set of industrial automation system rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew R. Stump, Anthony Carrara, Christopher W. Como, Sharon Billi-Duran, Matthew R. Ericsson, Srdjan Josipovic, Eashwer Srinivasan, Michael D. Kalan