Patents Examined by James H. Blackwell
  • Patent number: 9158757
    Abstract: A system, method and computer-readable medium that previews words and commands recognized by a continuous stroke recognizer based on input into a virtual keyboard layout is presented. The system and method allows a user to see the word that will be recognized or output before the user commits the continuous stroke input to the system. Further, after recognition and output, the system presents the recognized output word and the closest word candidates in a correction display integrated with the virtual keyboard layout. Among other things, the user is provided with options to change the current output word by selecting another word candidate on the correction display, and to delete the current output word by selecting the representation of the current output word on the correction display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Per Ola Kristensson
  • Patent number: 9152619
    Abstract: Systems and methods for constructing a markup language template and corresponding input data structure specification are provided. A plurality of different markup language representations of a user interface can be obtained multiple times for different input data for a web application. The different markup language representations can be aligned and compared to identify both common elements and variable elements. A markup language template can be constructed that includes the common elements. The variable elements can represent the input data associated with markup language representations. From a detected variable element, three things can be generated: (1) a data field associated with the variable element in an input data structure corresponding to the markup language template; (2) a template processing instruction that maps the data field of the input data structure to the newly constructed markup language template; and (3) an instance of the input data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Steffen Meschkat
  • Patent number: 9152759
    Abstract: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide an image display method including selecting an image hanging protocol and displaying an image set based at least in part on the image hanging protocol. The image hanging protocol includes a rule set for displaying the image set based at least in part on a key image note. Certain embodiments of the present invention provide an image display system including a display device adapted to display an image set based at least in part on an image hanging protocol. The image hanging protocol includes a rule set for displaying the image set based at least in part on a key image note. Certain embodiments of the present invention provide an image hanging protocol including a rule set for displaying the image set based at least in part on a key image note.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Benjamin D. Novatzky, Himanshu Jay Mehta
  • Patent number: 9148536
    Abstract: A display control apparatus that controls to display images so that a plurality of images are assigned to each page changes display from a page being displayed to another page according to a user's operation. Here, the display control apparatus performs pre-reading in which images to be displayed in pages other than the page being displayed are read from a device storing the images and stored in a temporary memory unit while the page is being displayed. In the pre-reading, a predetermined number of images fewer than the number of images assigned to each page are pre-read for each page other than the page being displayed, in ascending order of distance of each page to the page being displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomohiro Yano
  • Patent number: 9146915
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for automatically adding a tag to a document are provided. The method comprises: determining a plurality of candidate tag words corresponding to the document; determining a corpus comprising a plurality of texts; selecting commonly-used words from the corpus as characteristic words; determining, for each of the characteristic words and each of the candidate tag words, a probability for co-occurrence of the candidate tag word with the characteristic word; abstracting characteristic words from the document, and calculating a weight for each of the abstracted characteristic words; and calculating, in the corpus, a weighted probability for co-occurrence of each of the candidate tag words with all of the characteristic words abstracted from the document; selecting the candidate tag word with a high weighted co-occurrence probability as a tag word to be added to the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Xiang He, Ye Wang, Feng Jiao
  • Patent number: 9104653
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for automatically adding a tag to a document are provided. The method comprises: determining a plurality of candidate tag words corresponding to the document; determining a corpus comprising a plurality of texts; selecting commonly-used words from the corpus as characteristic words; determining, for each of the characteristic words and each of the candidate tag words, a probability for co-occurrence of the candidate tag word with the characteristic word; abstracting characteristic words from the document, and calculating a weight for each of the abstracted characteristic words; and calculating, in the corpus, a weighted probability for co-occurrence of each of the candidate tag words with all of the characteristic words abstracted from the document; selecting the candidate tag word with a high weighted co-occurrence probability as a tag word to be added to the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Xiang He, Ye Wang, Feng Jiao
  • Patent number: 9092414
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, to assemble a collection of documents according to a document list. The document list represents documents to be included in the collection, and includes multiple entries that identify document templates. Each document template includes instructions that a web server can execute to generate a web document based on one or more parameters. A web document corresponding to each of the multiple entries is requested; the requested web documents are received and stored in the collection of documents. Links in the received web documents can be identified and updated. The collection of documents can be accessed as part of a web site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Philip Levy, Naoki Hada
  • Patent number: 8977953
    Abstract: A system and method for obtaining information embedded in unstructured text is provided. The method comprising generating computer-readable annotations based on the unstructured text, at least one of the computer-readable annotations comprising an indication of a linguistic feature. A pair of the computer-readable annotations may be used to generate at least one computer-readable relation between the pair. The annotations and/or relations may be stored as characteristic data structures in a database. A query comprising at least one criterion may be received. In response to the query, an information result may be generated based on at least one of the characteristic data structures stored in the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Linguastat, Inc.
    Inventors: John M. Pierre, Mark H. Butler
  • Patent number: 8972855
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing case restoration in a communication network are disclosed. For example, the method obtains one or more content sources from one or more information feeds, and extracts textual information from the one or more content sources obtained from the one or more information feeds. The method then creates or updates a capitalization model based on the textual information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Zhu Liu, David Gibbon, Behzad Shahraray
  • Patent number: 8972862
    Abstract: An approach provides for remote digital media ingest with centralized editorial. A remote ingest process is initiated over a data network to create a media file from a feed (such as a live broadcast feed). The media file is stored at a central repository. A device is configured to edit the media file by using a proxy file of the media file, wherein the proxy file represents a reduced file size of the media file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignees: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Verizon UK Limited
    Inventors: Maxime G. G. Haot, Richard G. Moore, Sreenivas Rachamadugu
  • Patent number: 8935607
    Abstract: A method of displaying a webpage includes: receiving a first request message from a client requesting to browse a webpage; sending a second request message to the client requesting for a screen resolution adopted by the client; receiving, form the client, information indicative of the screen resolution adopted by the client; selecting a font size corresponding to the screen resolution adopted by the client according to the screen resolution adopted by the client and a predetermined correlation between screen resolutions and font sizes; generating the webpage in a scale corresponding to the screen resolution adopted by the client and the selected font size; and sending the webpage to the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventor: Yifeng Zhu
  • Patent number: 8826118
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of accessing data through an independent intermediary mechanism (IIM) is described. The method includes displaying a frame including a user interface of the IIM, the frame framing a destination server display area (DSDA). The method further includes having one or more of the following functions provided by the IIM: a home page, a history list, bookmarks, a one-click account log-in function, a transaction record accessible to the user, a forms database permitting new forms to be added to the forms database, a user profile, and automatic form-fill function based on the forms database and the user profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: F5 Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Sudhir Mohan, Umesh R. Patil, Daniel S. Jordan
  • Patent number: 8826161
    Abstract: Various embodiments for forming an image of selected objects from a web page are provided. An example of an image processing apparatus comprises a web page display unit which, based on web page data supplied from a web page data source, is configured to display web pages on a web page display range present on the screen of a display apparatus, an object information storage control unit configured to control the storing of object information including information necessary to print selected objects from the web pages based upon a user selection in a storage unit, an object information update control unit configured to control updating of object information describing the stored object with object information describing the latest object corresponding to the stored object, and an image forming control unit configured to control the formation of images of objects on an output medium based on the stored object information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takafumi Yamada
  • Patent number: 8799759
    Abstract: A method and computer program product for pre-rendering web content is described. A method may comprise receiving, via a computing device, an implicit indication of a request for web content associated with a web element. The method may further comprise pre-rendering the web content associated with the web element based upon, at least in part, the implicit indication of the request for the web content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Matthias Falkenberg, Richard Jacob, Stephan Laertz, Sascha Sambale
  • Patent number: 8799767
    Abstract: A transformer system receives medical status data generated by a monitoring device. The medical status data represents one or more physiological characteristics of a patient. In response to receiving the medical status data, the transformer system applies a transformation to the medical status data. A script file results from the transformation of the medical status data. The transformation is specified by an Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) document. The transformer system then executes the script file. When the transformer system executes the script file, the transformer system can perform various actions. For example, the transformer system can generate result data and provide the result data to one or more other systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Welch Allyn, Inc.
    Inventors: Chad E. Craw, Christopher M. Keegan, James J. DelloStritto
  • Patent number: 8762837
    Abstract: A document management platform system and methodology for capturing, transmitting, storing, retrieving and displaying documents, document versions, and images in a shared-system environment using the Internet or other network. Through utilization of thumbnail images along with full images, transmission of multipage documents is facilitated, avoiding system bottlenecks. Document security is hierarchically based with document control being available to system users in addition to system administrators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Critical Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: James W. Rule, Kim Stroh
  • Patent number: 8762830
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a document encoded in a markup language, having a page with an image and text, and creating a first high-level graphics (HLG) object corresponding to the image. The first HLG object specifies a first z-index less than zero for the first HLG object. The method further includes generating a first entry in an input file including a pointer to the first HLG object, generating a second entry in the input file corresponding to the text, and generating an output file using a typesetting program and the input file. In response to the first z-index not being zero, the method includes parsing the output file to identify the page, creating the page ItemHandles List (IL), and adding a first ItemHandle including the pointer and corresponding to the first entry to the IL. The method further includes generating a display list using the output file and the IL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Laboratory U.S.A, Inc.
    Inventor: Tim Prebble
  • Patent number: 8745498
    Abstract: An exemplary system includes a media control operable to begin playing a media segment automatically after buffering the media segment, and a host application operable to receive a reference to the media segment, initialize the media control with the media segment, and cause the media control to postpone playing of the media segment after the media segment is buffered. An exemplary method includes receiving a playlist referencing a first media segment and a second media segment, the second media segment operable to play automatically without a prompt after being loaded, presenting the first media segment, and prerolling the second media segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Shafiq Ur Rahman, Sohail Baig Mohammed, Khurshed Mazhar, Kevin P. Larkin, Patrick N. Nelson, Bret P. O'Rourke
  • Patent number: 8726150
    Abstract: Provided is a web page distribution system capable of distributing web pages that satisfy the output condition of a distribution target. The web page distribution system comprises a plurality of mobile phones and a web page distribution server. The mobile phones can communicate with Internet and have individually set output conditions for outputting all web pages including text data and image data referred to from the text data. The web page distribution server specifies, based on the reception of the distribution request for the web pages, the output conditions of the mobile phones and determines whether the web pages satisfy the specified output conditions or not. When it is determined that the output conditions are not satisfied, the web page distribution server converts the web pages that do not satisfy the output conditions into the ones that satisfy the output conditions and performs a process for distributing the web pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Symmetric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazutoshi Sakata
  • Patent number: 8595612
    Abstract: A method for executing a web application comprising sending at least one query to at least one data source. After receiving data in response to the query, a web page is created having separate portions. A first of said portions provides for displaying received data, while a second of said portions provides for displaying a first placeholder for yet to be received data. A refresh code is inserted in the second portion. The web page is then transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development, L.P.
    Inventors: Edgar Circenis, Bryan J. Jacquot, Mike Kingdom