Patents Examined by Hugo Molina
  • Patent number: 10797958
    Abstract: An enterprise model associated with an operational environment within an operational dashboard can be identified. The model can include an entity which can be an operational node, an architecture component node, a resource, a goal, or a constraint of an enterprise organization. The environment can include element which can be a computing resource and a computing resource state associated with the organization. An operational state change within the operational environment can be performed. A result of the change can be presented within an architectural view of the model within the dashboard. The result can include a context, a policy, a function, or a relationship affecting the model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Romelia H. Flores, Leonard S. Hand
  • Patent number: 10788927
    Abstract: A device includes a touch-sensitive display, one or more processors, and memory storing one or more programs including instructions for receiving data from an external device representing user input received over a duration of time at the external device. The programs may include instructions for determining whether the electronic device is actively executing an application for playback. The programs may further include instructions for in accordance with a determination that the electronic device is not actively executing an application for playback: displaying an indication of the receiving of the data; and displaying an affordance, wherein the affordance when selected launches the application for playback and causes the electronic device to playback the received data according to the duration of time of the user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Freddy Allen Anzures, Imran Chaudhri, Alan C. Dye, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Nicholas V. King, Kevin Lynch, Gregory Novick, Daniel Trent Preston, Monica Jenkins, Lawrence Y. Yang
  • Patent number: 10788960
    Abstract: An apparatus includes: a display unit; a communication unit configured to communicate with a plurality of devices external to the apparatus; and a processor configured to control the display unit to display a first user interface (UI) image including a list of content files stored in a first device of the plurality of devices and a second UI image including a list of applications stored in a second device of the plurality of devices, and, in response to receiving a first user input selecting a content file from the list of content files in the first UI image and a second user input selecting an application from the list of applications in the second UI image, to control the selected content file to be processed by the selected application in the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-jun Ryu, Byung-jin Hwang, Jae-hong Ahn, Dong-jin Lee, Hye-jeong Lee
  • Patent number: 10775885
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides embodiments of systems and methods that may be used by an information handling system (IHS) to improve the accuracy of eye tracking data generated by an eye tracking system of the IHS when a user's gaze is not directed to a gaze interaction plane of the eye tracking system. In one embodiment, the method may include receiving first data corresponding to a hinge angle (?) measured between a first surface and a second surface of the IHS, receiving second data corresponding to a user's gaze on the first surface or the second surface, and using the first data and the second data to provide accurate eye tracking data when the user's gaze is directed to the second surface. When the user's gaze is directed to the first surface, the method may use the second data, but not the first data, to provide accurate eye tracking data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Jake Mitchell Leland, Spencer Grant Bull
  • Patent number: 10768949
    Abstract: Profile information describing an attribute of a user is received from a network based service. Selection of a goal relating to the attribute is received from the user. A start point with respect to the goal is determined based on the profile information, and a path from the start point to the goal is determined utilizing a planning algorithm. A map is generated based on the path, which is visually represented on the map. At least one GUI descriptor is created, specifying instructions for rendering a user-specific GUI that displays the map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Erik Schutzman, Tambra Nichols, Susan Bell McCraw, H. Brock Kolls
  • Patent number: 10768812
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method of operating objects displayed on a graphical user interface (GUI) includes: displaying on the GUI a skill indicator object; performing rendering, at one of a pre-set location and a wheel rendering location on the GUI, to obtain a skill-release supplementary control object, when detecting a skill-release trigger gesture on a skill object displayed on the graphical user interface, the skill-release supplementary control object including a skill-release control halo object and a virtual joystick object located within a radiation range of the skill-release control halo object; positioning the skill-release control halo object within the skill indicator object; adjusting, when detecting a drag operation on the virtual joystick object, a skill release location of the skill object on the GUI; and performing a skill release operation on the skill object when detecting a release operation of the drag operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Haosu Wang
  • Patent number: 10769226
    Abstract: A graphical user interface allows a user to dynamically select a scope of friends to share media content based on a sharing criteria and interest degree analysis. The sharing criteria may be selected by the user to filter friends for sharing content. The interest degree analysis may be provided from a social media platform that identifies the topic and content of the media which is being shared and determines a degree of interest for each friend on the identified topic. The degree of interest is used to assign each friend to a sharing scope on the graphical user interface to allow the user to select a scope of friends to share the media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Su Liu, Cheng Xu, Jun Su, Debbie Anglin
  • Patent number: 10762149
    Abstract: A system and method for inducing user activity via enhanced web content. The method includes receiving data respective of interactions of a user with web content displayed on a user device during at least one electronic transaction, wherein the web content is associated with at least a product; determining, based on the received data, a user impression; generating a user profile including at least the determined user impression; determining at least one content modification parameter respective of the generated user profile; determining at least one criterion respective of the at least one content modification parameter; and causing a display of enhanced content based on the at least one content modification parameter, when the at least one criterion is met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Namogoo Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Keren Zimmerman, Noam Javits
  • Patent number: 10761614
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improved command line interface (CLI) auto-completion. According to one embodiment, a command auto-complete assistant running on a network security device receives input text entered by a user via a command line interface (CLI) console associated with the network security device. A list of auto-complete suggestions is determined by the command auto-complete assistant by matching the input text with multiple commands of a command set based on a matching condition. A score is calculated by the command auto-complete assistant for each auto-complete suggestion in the list of auto-complete suggestions based on at least one priority weighting factor. The list of auto-complete suggestions is sorted by the command auto-complete assistant based on their respective scores. At least one of the sorted auto-complete suggestions is displaying by the command auto-complete assistant on the CLI console.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Fortinet, Inc.
    Inventor: Mohammad Mehdi Zeinali Zadeh Ranjhbar Ranjbar
  • Patent number: 10740413
    Abstract: Techniques and/or mechanisms to provide efficient system user management via a user interface (UI) page. In one embodiment, a search string is received via a dialog box of a UI page. Based on the search string, a first list is provided for display in the UI page, the first list including one or more items each representing a respective user of a plurality of users. Based on a focus on a first item of the first list, a second list is displayed in the UI page, the second list including one or more items each representing a respective a user management command corresponding to the user represented by the first item. Based on a focus on a second item of the second list, a user management command is executed without requiring navigation away from the UI page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Jamie No, Michelle Jowitt, Eugene Li, Theresa Vietvu, Carol Franger
  • Patent number: 10732832
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for form operation on a mobile terminal. An exemplary method may include detecting an input hand gesture on a screen, and acquiring a trajectory of the input hand gesture. The method may also include matching the acquired trajectory of the input hand gesture with the hand gestures in correspondence in accordance with the hand-gesture comparison rules. The correspondence between hand gestures, hand-gesture comparison rules, and form operations is preset. The method may further include triggering a corresponding form operation if the matching is successful.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED
    Inventor: Qin Zhu
  • Patent number: 10719225
    Abstract: While displaying one or more views of a first software application, an electronic device detects a sequence of touch inputs. The electronic device, in accordance with a determination that no gesture recognizer of the first software application recognizes a portion of the sequence of touch inputs, delivers the sequence of touch inputs to the second software application, and in accordance with a determination that at least one gesture recognizer in the second software application recognizes the sequence of touch inputs, processes the sequence of touch inputs with the at least one gesture recognizer in the second software application that recognizes the sequence of touch inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Joshua H. Shaffer, Kenneth L. Kocienda, Imran Chaudhri
  • Patent number: 10712914
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and computer program product for: receiving an indication of a lock signal at a first point in time, receiving an indication of an unlock signal at a second point in time, determining a lock period based on the first point in time and the second point in time, and, in dependence on the determined lock period, selecting a user interface view for displaying upon unlocking a device, wherein the unlocking is performed in response to the received indication of the unlock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Liang Zhang
  • Patent number: 10705689
    Abstract: A method and a device for managing a tab window indicating a group including heterogeneous applications. The method includes outputting a display window comprising at least one or more objects for executing one or more applications on a terminal window, receiving a user input that selects the at least one or more objects and moves the selected at least one or more objects to a region excluding the display window, generating an application group comprising at least one or more applications corresponding to the selected at least one or more objects according to the received user input, and outputting a tab window indicating the generated application group to the terminal window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Doo-hwan Kim, Kang-tae Kim, Chul-joo Kim, Tae-soo Kim, Young-seok Lee
  • Patent number: 10705863
    Abstract: Disclosed are an Internet of Things (IoT) based method and system for interacting with users. The intelligent customer service system collects and stores real-time status information of at least one device in an IoT; receives a request of a user; queries a device knowledge graph according to content of the request, and invoke the real-time status information of a related IoT device to acquire a corresponding request result, wherein the device knowledge graph is established according to usage information and/or maintenance information of one or more IoT devices; and return the request result to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Leiming Sun
  • Patent number: 10691301
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to enabling a user of data-sharing applications executing on a computing device to indirectly exchange objects between the applications by adding objects from the applications to a journal application that manages a display area. The objects are displayed in the display area. The journal application collects metadata related to the objects and automatically curates lists of the objects according to the metadata. Curation of a list may involve moving objects into a list, merging objects, creating new objects out of content of existing objects, grouping objects according to a commonality thereof, etc. Machine learning services may be invoked to acquire additional metadata about the objects and to make curation decisions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Adolfo Hernandez Santisteban, Bryant Daniel Hawthorne, Matthew Steven Johnson, Donna Katherine Long, Mario Emmanuel Maltezos, Christian Michael Sadak, Andrew Austin Jackson, Jamie R. Cabaccang
  • Patent number: 10691321
    Abstract: A value of a display property of an affordance changes based a value of the same display property of the portion of content over which the affordance is displayed. The value of the display property of the affordance is constrained to vary within a second value range smaller than a first value range over which the value of the display property of the content is permitted to vary. A decrease of the value of the display property of the content causes an increase of the value of the display property of the affordance based on the magnitude of the value change for the content and the second value range. An increase of the value of the display property of the content causes a decreases of the value of the display property of the affordance based on a magnitude of the value change for the content and the second value range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Wan Si Wan, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Bartosz Ciechanowski, Benjamin E. Nielsen
  • Patent number: 10664154
    Abstract: An operation track response method and an operation track response apparatus, where the method includes detecting a touch operation triggered by a user on a current display interface, determining a radian of an arc when a track of the touch operation includes the arc, and adjusting, according to the radian of the arc, content presented on the current display interface, where different radians correspond to adjustment of different degrees. The operation track response method and the operation track response apparatus are applicable to a touchscreen device with a small screen and media can still be controlled when an operating area is relatively small, have an extremely wide application scenario, and do not need assistance from a physical button, thereby improving practicability of the solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rui Li, Zongbo Wang, Guosheng Gu
  • Patent number: 10656902
    Abstract: Example techniques may involve tuning a music discovery dial. An implementation may include displaying, on the touch-sensitive circular graphical display, a circular graphical user interface including multiple wedge-shaped selectable regions arranged around the circumference of the circular graphical user interface, each wedge-shaped selectable region corresponding to a respective streaming audio channel. The implementation may include detecting a touch input in a circular motion to the touch-sensitive circular graphical display and causing a paired playback device to play back an audio content snippet corresponding to each selectable regions that the touch input enters. The implementation may further include switching the playback device from playing back a given pre-cached audio content snippet to playing back the full audio track from one or more servers of a streaming audio service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Alexis Kotelly, Dayn Wilberding, Ron Kuper
  • Patent number: 10656815
    Abstract: A parameter control device includes a parameter updating unit, and an operational screen displaying unit. In a case where any one of the individually operated portions is operated, the parameter updating unit changes the parameter of the controlled device, which is associated with the relevant individually operated portion, by following an operation amount of the individually operated portion. In a case where a cooperative operated portion is operated, the respective parameters of the plurality of controlled devices are changed by following an operation amount of the cooperative operated portion. The operational screen displaying unit displays the respective parameters of the plurality of controlled devices, displays the plurality of operated portions in positions corresponding to displays of the parameters of the respectively associated controlled devices, and displays the cooperative operated portion in a position corresponding to a display of a parameter of the master device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiko Suyama, Kazuya Mushikabe, Keisuke Tsukada