Patents Examined by Hugo Molina
  • Patent number: 10343067
    Abstract: A computer system has at least one memory and at least one processor. The at least one memory stores one or more options. Each option is associated with a gaming application provided to a user device. Each option has a respective identifier and a respective weight. The at least one processor retrieves one or more of the options from the at least one memory. The weight provides a weighting for each option in dependence on previous selections of that option.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: KING.COM LTD.
    Inventors: Robert Reillo, Jonas Johansson
  • Patent number: 10303850
    Abstract: An item name display region where item names of a plurality of items included in the medical information of a patient are displayed and a content display region where a graph for each item is displayed are provided on a display screen of a medical assistance client. On the display screen, a display/non-display setting of the graph for each item is possible in the content display region by a first operation including a mouse click operation. The graph of a non-display setting item can be temporarily displayed by a mouse-over operation not including the click operation. The mouse-over operation is an operation of just overlapping a pointer on the item name display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kurami, Akinari Tsugo
  • Patent number: 10303330
    Abstract: When a user sees a content item presented by a social networking system, the user may select an option to save the content item. The saved content item may be reinserted in a newsfeed presented to the user, integrated into collections, archived, used for notifications to the user, or otherwise subsequently presented to the user. A plug-in may be used to save content items accessed through websites external to the social networking system. As privacy settings associated with a saved content item are modified, the modified privacy settings are applied to the saved content item, which may prevent the user saving the content item from subsequently viewing the saved content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Jane Leibrock, Loren Alfred Cheng, Matthew Brown, Jessica Gronski, Marc Horowitz, William Jacobs, Zhengzheng Pan, Xiao Ou Wang, Joshua Van Dyke Watzman, Luke Woods, Rachel Margaret Wong
  • Patent number: 10282079
    Abstract: Using a memory that manages a user log including at least a cooking time and a food to be cooked with a cooking device used by each user in a plurality of users, a recommended cooking time corresponding to a first user's food to be cooked included in recommended cooking times for respective foods calculated based on cooking times with the cooking devices is acquired from a server, a user interface that prompts the first user to select one of candidates of cooking times including at least the recommended cooking times is displayed on a display, and in response to detecting that a cooking time is selected by performing an input operation on the user interface, a setting command to set the selected cooking time is output to the first cooking device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yuki Shinomoto, Hiroyuki Kubotani, Yasuhiro Yuki
  • Patent number: 10275131
    Abstract: Various methods and systems for documenting interactive graphical design are provided. An exemplary graphical design environment stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprises a documentation element in an interactive graphical design. The design environment also comprises a design element that displays a plurality of states in a rendering of the interactive graphical design in an external player. The documentation element: (i) is enabled to receive a selection from the user of a state in the plurality of states; and (ii) displays a representation of the design element in the state in response to receiving the selection from the user. The documentation element and design element are both instantiated by a processor operating in combination with the non-transitory computer-readable medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Axure Software Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor Hsu, Martin Smith, Ben Fraser
  • Patent number: 10275151
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of editing text in a mobile terminal include a display unit, configured to display a text display area, a touch sensitive keypad display area, at least one text character in the text display area, and a cursor in the text display area; and at least one processor, configured to detect a first gesture in a touch input in the touch sensitive keypad display area, and control moving, upon detecting the first gesture, the cursor in the text display area, according to the touch input in the touch sensitive keypad display area. The first gesture includes a touch of a point in the touch sensitive keypad display area where no key is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yo-Han Lee, Se-Jun Song, Da-Som Lee
  • Patent number: 10248192
    Abstract: A gaze target is recognized via an eye tracking camera. An application launcher is displayed, via a display, at the gaze target based on a user trigger. The application launcher presents a plurality of applications selectable for launching. A user selection of one of the plurality of applications is recognized. The application launcher is replaced with the selected one of the plurality of applications at the gaze target via the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Taylor Lehman, Kim Pascal Pimmel, Xerxes Beharry, Ranjib Badh, Jiashi Zhang
  • Patent number: 10237150
    Abstract: Effects of content communications propagated to users of a social networking system may be tracked and measured by the social networking system. Identifiers of content presented to users within a time period before the users interact with the content are recorded. As users interact with the content, additional data describing the interactions with the content and the users interacting with the content are stored. Various metrics may be determined from the data describing interactions with the content. For example including virality metrics and reach metrics, may be determined and presented to the user that posted the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Robyn David Morris
  • Patent number: 10216374
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for displaying a notification message. The method includes receiving a first notification message, parsing the first notification message to obtain a message type of the first notification message or an application server identifier of the first notification message, acquiring, according to the message type of the first notification message or the application server identifier of the first notification message, a moving track used to dynamically display the first notification message and an icon used to dynamically display the first notification message, and dynamically displaying the first notification message according to the icon and the moving track. By using the method and the apparatus for displaying a notification message, a user can conveniently learn a real-time notification message in a timely manner, thereby improving service quality for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fen Yang
  • Patent number: 10216352
    Abstract: Method, device, and storage medium for selecting edge content of a webpage. The method includes, upon detecting that a user performs the operation of dragging the cursor part of the two cursors used to define a selection area toward a screen edge of a touch-screen of a mobile terminal, moving the cursor toward the screen edge of the touch-screen; determining whether the distance between the screen edge and the cursor part after the movement of the cursor is within a first predetermined distance; and, when within the first predetermined distance, triggering the content webpage to move in an opposite direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU UCWEB COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jie Liang, Yongfu Yu, Xiaopeng He, Shunyan Zhu, Yongchao Lao
  • Patent number: 10209810
    Abstract: A device with a touch-sensitive display, a rotatable input mechanism, processors, and memory storing programs for displaying, on the touch-sensitive display, a user interface comprising a plurality of objects each associated with a contact and an affordance representing a first contact is disclosed. The memory may include programs for, in response to receiving the first input, updating the visual appearance of the affordance to represent the second contact among the plurality of contacts, and the memory also may include programs for, after updating the visual appearance of the affordance, updating display of the affordance to an add contact affordance, where the add contact affordance was not displayed prior to detecting the second input corresponding to the selection of the object that is not associated with any contact. Further, the memory may include programs for displaying a user interface for adding a contact upon selection of the add contact affordance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    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: 10191641
    Abstract: A device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface: displays a geographic map in a first mode of an application, the geographic map including a plurality of landmarks, the geographic map being displayed at a first magnification level; detects a first input, the first input including a first finger contact at a location on the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to a first landmark on the display; in response to detecting the first input: when the first input does not satisfy one or more predefined mode-change conditions, changes the magnification level in accordance with the first input and remains in the first mode; and when the first input satisfies the mode-change conditions, selects the first landmark and enters a second mode of the application; while in the second mode, detects a second input; and, in response to detecting the second input, displays information about the first landmark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Billy Chen, Patrick Steven Piemonte
  • Patent number: 10156962
    Abstract: A method includes displaying a first application view. A first input is detected, and an application view selection mode is entered for selecting one of concurrently open applications for display in a corresponding application view. An initial group of open application icons in a first predefined area and at least a portion of the first application view adjacent to the first predefined area are concurrently displayed. The initial group of open application icons corresponds to at least some of the concurrently open applications. A gesture is detected on a respective open application icon in the first predefined area, and a respective application view for a corresponding application is displayed without concurrently displaying an application view for any other application in the concurrently open applications. The open application icons in the first predefined area cease to be displayed, and the application view selection mode is exited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Imran Chaudhri
  • Patent number: 10108314
    Abstract: A tone mapping graphical user interface (GUI) is provided that allows a video engineer to process a video using a set of tools for changing high dynamic range data into lower dynamic range data. The tone mapping GUI includes a video player region that includes the current video output section for a region-based method of performing HDR conversion, and a current video output section for a reference method that performs HDR conversion using, for example, a global process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS
    Inventors: Jiefu Zhai, Joan Llach, Zhe Wang
  • Patent number: 10108333
    Abstract: A method and associated systems for inferring insights from enhanced user input. A computerized messaging system identifies a user operating a mobile, location-enabled, “scribble” device and associates the user or the device with a domain of interest or with other metadata that characterizes the user. When the user enters an ad hoc “scribble” input via the device, the system automatically tags the input with the user's location, with sensory data received from one or more sensor devices, and with ancillary data received from extrinsic data repositories. The system may then consider this ancillary and sensory data in order to identify or infer rules or insights associated with the user and the scribble. These rules may then be used to identify targeted, user-specific steps to perform in response to receiving the scribble, where these user-specific steps accommodate a user preference without exposing confidential user information to a public data repository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Faried Abrahams, Kerrie L. Holley, Gandhi Sivakumar
  • Patent number: 10101827
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for controlling an application ported in a smart device include receiving a key signal of a triggered key that is sent by a control apparatus of the smart device; obtaining image information corresponding to the triggered key of the control apparatus from a pre-stored correspondence relationship between the key and the image information based at least in part on the key signal; determining a matched image from a currently displayed view based at least in part on the image information; and simulating a click event on the matched image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Wei Peng, Cheng Chen
  • Patent number: 10101879
    Abstract: A first application view is displayed that corresponds to a first application in a plurality of concurrently open applications. A first input is detected. In response, an application view selection mode is entered and images of open applications are displayed in a three-dimensional stack extending backwards on the display. A gesture is detected on a respective image of an open application in the three-dimensional stack. In response, a respective application view for a corresponding application is displayed, the three-dimensional stack of images ceases to be displayed, and the application view selection mode is exited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Imran Chaudhri
  • Patent number: 10075537
    Abstract: Cloud computing technical components are provisioned into many different service platforms provided by many different service providers. Once provisioned, it is often the case that actions need to be performed against the technical components. An action execute architecture executes the actions across a wide range of disparate service providers hosting both public and private target hosting platforms, while also providing a much more flexible and dynamic environment for implementing and deploying those actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Mark Duell, Thomas W. Myers, Jack Q. W. Cantwell
  • Patent number: 10067655
    Abstract: A collection of machine readable instructions stored in a storage medium and process for graphical modeling including defining a plurality of resources comprising a plurality of resource objects and associating attributes with said task objects; defining a plurality of tasks comprising a plurality of task objects, said task objects comprise elements, with a plurality of hierarchical elements and sub-elements, and associating attributes with said elements and sub-elements; selecting at least one cognitive model defining a human cognitive process or model; determining if at least one relationship between said plurality of task objects, resource objects, and at least one cognitive model exists; graphically associating said at least one relationship with said task object, resource, object, and at least one cognitive model element where said relationship is determined; defining attributes associated with each said graphical relationship; and generating a graphical dashboard or data output associated with said task
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: John Hamilton, Gail Nicholson, Gary Bullock
  • Patent number: 10057318
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program are provided for enabling a user to edit and access local and remote objects via a virtual drive, including objects synchronized to a plurality of synchronization clients. A virtual drive is displayed on the user's local client device with all objects, which a user has synchronized to a synchronization server. A user is able to access and edit any object displayed in the virtual drive. In response to detecting a change in an object in the virtual drive, the object is updated on the synchronization server. All remote clients of the user or of any other users whom have access to the changed folder are identified and notified of the change. In response to the change being a change to content within the folder, the content of the folder is automatically updated on any identified remote clients that have a corresponding folder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.
    Inventors: Fuad Rashid, Michael Phillip Morford, Eric Wayne Wagner, James David Wong, Sing Yip