Patents Examined by James T Tsai
  • Patent number: 11385759
    Abstract: A virtual object is arranged in a virtual space, and an image in the virtual space is generated to be presented to a user. In addition, information indicating an operation from the user is received, a virtual manipulator for operating the virtual object is displayed in the virtual space in accordance with the received information indicating the operation, the magnitude of a virtual force applied to the virtual object by the virtual manipulator is determined, and information indicating the determined magnitude of the force is presented to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Arimatsu, Hiroshi Matsuike, Yasushi Okumura
  • Patent number: 11334166
    Abstract: A method for dynamically presenting a multi-sensory notification of a selected event in an application, a computer program product, and a system for dynamically presenting a multi-sensory notification for weather events in a mobile weather application. One embodiment may comprise presenting a multi-sensory experience to a user reflecting a selected phenomenon responsive to a user selection in an application. The multi-sensory experience may include presenting an animation, a sound, and a haptic pattern reflecting the selected phenomena. At least one of the sound and the haptic pattern may be dynamically adjusted to correspond to real-time data about the selected phenomena.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rachel Chukura, Juan Jose Mondragon Sandoval, Yu Feng, Kaitlyn Pannunzio
  • Patent number: 11316805
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for transmitting a message in an electronic device are provided. The method for transmitting a hidden message includes displaying one or more hiding frames in an input message display area of a display, and transmitting a message including information on the hiding frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Choel-Hwi Kwon
  • Patent number: 11314756
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software described herein provide enhancements for managing and comparing data from multiple information sources. In one implementation, a method of operating a comparison service includes obtaining, from a plurality of data sources, data objects in a plurality of formats corresponding to an event, wherein the data objects each comprise data items for the event. The method further includes maintaining a data structure for the event, wherein the data structure relates data items of similar data type from the plurality of data sources. The method also provides identifying a user request for a summary of the event, generating an event summary based on the data structure, and providing the event summary to the requesting user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Advertising Production Resources, Inc.
    Inventors: Holly Vezina, Kathy Lynn Keith
  • Patent number: 11307748
    Abstract: In some implementations, a computing device can perform multi-display alignment through observed user interactions. The computing device can receive user input aligning a first alignment object on a first display device with a second alignment object on a second display device. The computing device can align the display buffers for each display device based on the positions of the alignment objects in each display buffer corresponding to each display device. The computing device can align display buffers based on observed movements of graphical objects between multiple display devices. When display buffers corresponding to the display devices are misaligned, the user may correct the path of a graphical object when moving the graphical object between display devices. The computing device can detect the correction and align the display buffers of the display devices so that graphical objects are presented at the appropriate locations when moved between the display devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth I. Greenebaum, John C. Gnaegy
  • Patent number: 11301622
    Abstract: Described embodiments provide a method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving, by a computing device, first and second images of an application, the first image indicative of no input data present within input fields of the application, and the second image being received after input data is present within at least one input field of the application. The input data of the second image may be identified based upon, at least in part, a comparison with the first image. The identified input data of the second image may be provided into the input field of the application after restart of the application so as to prevent loss of the input data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: CITRIX SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Ke Xu, Eamon Yao, Jie Zhuang, Shutian Yao, Junying Gao
  • Patent number: 11288033
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method for outputting audio data of applications in a display device. The method includes: while first audio data of one or more first applications is playing by the display device through an audio output interface of the display device, receiving a first input instruction for playing second audio data of a second application; controlling output volume of the first audio data to be muted, and output volume of the second audio data to be maintained in response to the first input instruction; and outputting superimposed data of the muted first audio data and the second audio data with maintained output volume through the audio output interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: HISENSE VISUAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yongrui Sun
  • Patent number: 11275554
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus to provide a technology that allows a user to intuitively select an item when items are audibly presented. The information processing apparatus according to the present technology includes a control section. The control section controls output of voices corresponding to respective items in such a manner that the voices corresponding to the respective items are output to a user alternately from a first direction and a second direction, executes processing related to selection of an item corresponding to a voice output from the first direction in response to a gesture of the user in the first direction, and executes processing related to selection of an item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kei Takahashi, Junichi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11269483
    Abstract: An electronic device: detects, via one or more input devices, a first input that corresponds to selection of a transport affordance while displaying a content item; and, in response to detecting the selection of the transport affordance, displays, on a display, a transport interface provided to perform one or more operations on the content item, including: a tag modification affordance provided to modify tags associated with the content item; and one or more transport option affordances associated with different selectable options for performing the one or more operations on the content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Richard R. Dellinger, Raymond S. Sepulveda, Chun Kin Minor Wong
  • Patent number: 11262969
    Abstract: A collaboration system is provided and includes memory storing collaboration data including a spatial event map locating events in a virtual workspace and a local display including a screen space. The collaboration system further includes logic to identify a local client viewport in the virtual workspace, logic to render, in the screen space on the local display, graphical objects identified by events in the spatial event map that have locations within the local client viewport, logic to change a location and a dimension of the local client viewport in the virtual workspace in response to input signals, logic to render, in the screen space on the local display, graphical objects identified by events in the spatial event map that have locations within the changed local client viewport, and logic to generate a viewport change event in response to the change of the local client viewport in response to input signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Haworth, Inc.
    Inventors: Satish Santhakumar, Demian Entrekin
  • Patent number: 11263249
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products are described herein that provided context to user queries to a chat bot. In one embodiment, the method may include receiving a user query at a chat bot. The chat bot is communicating with a system providing conversation interaction with the user. The chat bot accessing a user profile being initiated by the user. The user can revoke the permission to the system for creating and/or using a user profile at any time. In some embodiments, the user profile includes a query history and profile information about the user that correlates keywords to context. The chat bot weighs query keywords for comparison with the keywords of the user profile that are correlated to context. The chat bot interacts with the user using the context correlated to the user in accordance with the weight of the query keywords matched to the keywords of the user profile that are correlated to the context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: KYNDRYL, INC.
    Inventors: Beth A. Layton, Thomas M. Reeves, Brian J. Snitzer, Michael Treadway
  • Patent number: 11243661
    Abstract: Technologies and techniques for providing navigation within a workspace on a processing device for electronic healthcare record systems are disclosed. Systems, apparatus, and methods disclosed provide generation of a workspace to be displayed for the processing device, which receives data relating to the workspace and at least one toolbar to be displayed with the workspace. A toolbar manager is used is process the received data related to the workspace and the at least one toolbar in order to generate at least one toolbar. The toolbar is configured according to a particular domain and includes one or more areas selectable for expanding the toolbar within the workspace to display information relevant to the particular domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: ALLSCRIPTS SOFTWARE, LLC
    Inventors: George A. Chauvin, Jefferson Wilson, Thomas A. Hartman, Jeanne Marie Armstrong
  • Patent number: 11237711
    Abstract: A device receives a request to enroll in music sharing. After receiving the request, the device displays an enrollment user interface that includes concurrently displaying representations of a plurality of playlists created by a first user and privacy settings for the plurality of playlists. The privacy settings have default values. The enrollment user interface includes a first affordance that corresponds to a first playlist of the plurality of playlists, and a second affordance that corresponds to a second playlist of the plurality of playlists. The device receives one or more user inputs changing the privacy settings from corresponding default privacy settings to user-specified privacy settings. After completing enrollment, the device provides access to the plurality of playlists of the first user to other users with a predetermined relationship to the first user based on the privacy settings for the plurality of playlists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Ofer Morag
  • Patent number: 11231845
    Abstract: A display adaptation method for an application executed by a terminal includes: displaying a setting interface for setting at least one zone boundary of an interface safe operation zone, the interface safe operation zone being a zone used for displaying a human-computer interaction control responsive to one or more gesture operations in the application; receiving a boundary setting operation triggered on the setting interface; determining positional parameters of zone boundaries of the interface safe operation zone according to the boundary setting operation; and generating, according to the positional parameters, the interface safe operation zone adapted to the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Junxiang Wang, Guoju Zhang, Yizhong Hu
  • Patent number: 11210057
    Abstract: The Multi-User Media Player GUI is a user interfaces designed to manage media players that allow group sessions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Inventor: James Matthew Gielarowski
  • Patent number: 11188633
    Abstract: A password authentication device includes a display control unit that displays plurality of input key groups, an input operation unit operated by a user to select a soft key on the display screen to enable the input of a password, a sight line detection sensor that detects the direction of the line of sight of a user who operates the input operation unit, an operation target specifying part that specifies an input key group located at the end of the line of sight of the user among the plurality of input key groups, based on the direction of the line of sight detected by the sight line detection sensor, and a password acquisition part assumes an operation in the input operation unit as an operation for the input key group specified by the operation target specifying part and acquires a password inputted through the input operation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Toru Michigami
  • Patent number: 11178214
    Abstract: A method for transmitting an electronic key of a device is provided. The method includes transmitting a user command for providing an electronic key to another device, providing a User Interface (UI) for setting a use condition of the electronic key when the user command is received, and transmitting the use condition information set through the UI to the other device together with the electronic key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-young Kim, Hee-won Jung
  • Patent number: 11160497
    Abstract: A software configuration generates, with a processor, a graphical user interface that renders a menu of a plurality of selection indicia. The plurality of selection indicia includes a skincare rejuvenation area indicium, a skincare assessment indicium, and a skincare interactive cue indicium. Furthermore, the software configuration receives, with the processor, a first user input corresponding to a skincare rejuvenation area associated with the skincare rejuvenation area indicium. Moreover, the software configuration receives, with the processor, a second user input corresponding to the skincare assessment indicium to initiate a skincare assessment based on the skincare rejuvenation area. Furthermore, the software configuration performs, with an image capture device, an image capture of the skincare rejuvenation area. Additionally, the software configuration performs, with the processor, an image analysis of the image capture with one or more previous image captures captured by the image capture device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: ELYSE ENTERPRISES LLC
    Inventor: Hillary Hayman
  • Patent number: 11144177
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for executing at least one application by a display device having a touch screen. An application execution method according to the present invention may include the steps of: displaying a window for executing an application in each of a plurality of areas arranged on a touch screen; displaying a button on at least one boundary line dividing the plurality of areas; receiving an input for selecting the button; and displaying, in a predetermined area, on the basis of the received input, a list of at least one application executed in the predetermined area among the plurality of areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dae-wook Park, Young-jin Kim, Jae-yeol Lee, Tae-soo Kim, Jung-hwan Choi, Kang-tae Kim
  • Patent number: 11086486
    Abstract: A first interface having a control object that is associated with a first option and a second option is launched. The control object is engaged at a first time to select the first option. A first set of differences between a first current state of the interface and a preconfigured state of the first interface is determined. The control object is engaged at a second time to select the second option. A second set of differences between a second current state of the interface and the preconfigured state of the first interface is determined. Integration code that, upon execution by a client device, causes the client device to modify a second user interface is generated based on the first set of differences or the second set of differences. The integration code is provided to the client device to cause the client device to modify the second user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Klarna Bank AB
    Inventors: James W. Barrett, Oliver Edholm