Patents Examined by Jasmine Wan
  • Patent number: 10129321
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for sending a first message to a recipient using a messaging channel, the message including information identifying an electronic news article provided by a data channel; receiving a second message from the recipient over the messaging channel, the second message having been composed in a news application; and displaying the second message in association with the electronic news article in the news application. A system and method are also provided for receiving a first message from a sender over a messaging channel, the message including information identifying an electronic news article provided by a data channel; obtaining the electronic news article using the data channel; enabling a second message to be composed in a news application displaying the electronic news article; and sending the second message to the sender using the messaging channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Niranjan Mayya, Jay David Steele, Jon-David Kenneth Lacey, Peter Hantzakos
  • Patent number: 10121023
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for controlling presentation of sensitive information in a user interface of an application. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention provide for masking the sensitive information when being entered by the user. However, if the user wants to verify the entry or display the sensitive information in readable text, the information can be displayed or unmasked upon request. For example, in response to the user clicking a button or other control of the user interface associated with the sensitive information or by another mouse or keyboard event, the requested sensitive information can be unmasked and displayed in the clear, for example as a tool tip or in the originally presented element of the user interface. The user can then close the tooltip or mask the information, e.g., after verification of what he/she typed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventor: Nagasravani Akula
  • Patent number: 10108964
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for smart user feedback. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for smart user feedback is provided. The method includes loading into memory of a computer hosting execution of an application, a set of nominal end user interactions with the application. The method also includes monitoring interactions with the application by an end user and comparing the monitored interactions with the set of nominal end user interactions in order to compute a threshold variance. Finally, the method includes responding to the threshold variance computed for the monitored interactions, by displaying a prompt in a display of the application in the computer recommending an initiation of a customer support session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: SugarCRM Inc.
    Inventor: Vladyslav Kulchytskyy
  • Patent number: 10088909
    Abstract: A method, including receiving, by a computer, a sequence of three-dimensional maps containing at least a hand of a user of the computer, and identifying, in the maps, a device coupled to the computer. The maps are analyzed to detect a gesture performed by the user toward the device, and the device is actuated responsively to the gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Micha Galor, Jonathan Pokrass, Amir Hoffnung, Ofir Or
  • Patent number: 10073618
    Abstract: A method and system. A first computer device receives a selection of a form field in a web page from a second computer device that is displaying a virtual keyboard on a display screen in the second computer device. The first and second computer devices are different computer devices. The first computer device determines one or more candidate character keys. The first computer device removes one or more matching character keys from the one or more candidate character keys that match keys in the virtual keyboard. The first computer device determines one or more supplement character keys. The first computer device communicates the one or more supplement character keys to the second computer device. The first computer device causes the second computer device to simultaneously display, on the display screen in the second computer device, the virtual keyboard and the one or more supplement character keys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tamer E. Abuelsaad, John E. Moore, Rajeshkumar N. Singi, Robert R. Wentworth
  • Patent number: 10067651
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are generally directed to navigable layering of viewable areas corresponding to a hierarchical structure of computer-readable content. In exemplary embodiments, a stack of viewable areas including a first viewable area and a second viewable area can be rendered on a display within a footprint area. An order of the viewable areas in the stack can correspond to a hierarchical relationship of computer-readable content and the viewable areas can include information associated with the hierarchical relationship. The second viewable area in the stack can be adjusted, for example, by resizing and/or repositioning the second viewable area, based on a compression criteria to accommodate the viewable areas of the stack within the footprint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company
    Inventors: Daniel Bennett, John Scott Daup, Aaron Cooper, Jose Hernandez
  • Patent number: 10067640
    Abstract: In the case where selection of an icon representing an air conditioner is sensed in a region corresponding to a first room on the floor plan that is larger than a predetermined area, the region corresponding to the first room is switched to an adjustment region for changing the set temperature of the air conditioner. In the case where selection of the icon representing the air conditioner is sensed in a region corresponding to a second room on the floor plan that is equal to or smaller than the predetermined area, an adjustment screen for changing the set temperature of the air conditioner installed in the region corresponding to the second room is displayed on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takamitsu Sasaki, Minehisa Nagata
  • Patent number: 10042900
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for shared folder backed integrated workspaces. In some implementations, a content management system can provide a graphical user interface (GUI) that integrates communications and content management into a single user interface. The user interface can include mechanisms that allow a user to provide input to generate a new workspace. The user interface can provide a mechanism to allow a user to view conversations related to the workspace and/or content items associated with the workspace. The user interface can present representations of content items associated with the workspace and allow the user to provide input to generate, view, edit, and share content items associated with the workspace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.
    Inventors: Sean Beausoleil, Matteus Pan, Jean-Denis Greze, Anthony DeVincenzi
  • Patent number: 10032436
    Abstract: Provided is an image displaying method of a display device. In the image displaying method, a menu screen is displayed, an image output mode is set on the menu screen, code information corresponding to the set image output mode is transmitted to a computer main body, an image corresponding to the set image output mode is received from the computer main body, and the received image is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Junghyun Lee
  • Patent number: 10031308
    Abstract: A total front access double sided frame includes a first access side opposite a second access side, and fiber blocks received in the first and second access sides. The fiber blocks may include splice modules and patch modules and have capacity to receive about 6,900 fiber terminations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Telect, Inc.
    Inventors: Spencer Williams, David Knaggs, Steven W. Ellison
  • Patent number: 10001902
    Abstract: Provided herein are method, apparatus, and computer program products for facilitating a learning user interface. The interface may be presented as a plurality of dynamic icons representing a plurality of items. The plurality of dynamic icons may include at least one suggested dynamic icon representing at least one suggested item of the plurality of items and at least one secondary dynamic icon representing a secondary item of the plurality of items. The interface may be facilitated by determining, via a processor, a visual bias for the at least one suggested dynamic icon relative to the at least one secondary dynamic icon. The interface may be facilitated by applying the visual bias, via the interface, to the at least one suggested dynamic icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventors: David Gomez-Rosado, Tihomir Tsankov Georgiev
  • Patent number: 9999116
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method enabling commissioning of a system comprising a plurality of controllable devices capable of transmitting their identification signals. The method includes receiving identification signals from the devices, displaying a map of a structure and icons corresponding to the devices from which the identification signals have been received, detecting a first user input indicating a selection by a user of a first icon from the displayed icons, the first icon corresponding to a first device, and, in response to the first user input, providing a command to the first device to issue a cue identifying the first device to the user. The method further includes, subsequent to the first device issuing the cue, detecting a second user input indicating a selection by the user of a location on the map for the first icon, and displaying the first icon on the map at the selected location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: PHILIPS LIGHTING HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Luca Tiberi, Martijn Marius Hultermans, Ralf Gertruda Hubertus Voncken
  • Patent number: 9992115
    Abstract: A method and a device for controlling traffic of a mobile router are provided. The method includes: generating a traffic control widget and displaying the traffic control widget on a control interface of the mobile router according to a total amount of traffic available to the mobile router; receiving a traffic operation on the traffic control widget; and limiting traffic of the mobile router according to the traffic operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: XIAOMI INC.
    Inventors: Sitai Gao, Mu Tang
  • Patent number: 9978040
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing discussion workspaces linked to workspaces containing work items stored in a web-based content management system with collaboration environment are disclosed. Workspaces can be organized hierarchically. Designated collaborators of a workspace containing work items can participate in an online discussion in the linked discussion workspace regarding the work items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Box, Inc.
    Inventors: David T. Lee, Philip Sheffield
  • Patent number: 9977504
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for easily operating an additional function associated with an application are provided in a mobile device. In the method, the apparatus detects a gesture inputted while a specific application is running, and invokes an additional function corresponding to the detected gesture. Also, the apparatus displays an execution screen that contains at least one link item for offering a connection with the specific application. Furthermore, when a signal for selecting the link item is inputted, the apparatus applies an execution result of the additional function to the specific application. The inventive method and apparatus thus enhance a user's convenience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sunyoung Min
  • Patent number: 9952764
    Abstract: A method and apparatus, such as an electronic device (104), for displaying suggestion words in response to a touch input to a presence-sensitive display (106). The presence-sensitive display (106) displays a touchscreen keyboard (110) having a plurality of key areas (112) each associated with a character (114). The method and apparatus may determine (308) the character (114) of the touchscreen keyboard based on a touch location of the touch input on a key area (112) of the touchscreen keyboard (110), and may display (310) a plurality of suggestion words that include the determined character over at least a portion of the touchscreen keyboard during the touch input. When the touch input has ended, the method and apparatus may stop displaying the plurality of suggestion words. The method and apparatus may also display a plurality of suggestion words in a text view area separate from the touchscreen keyboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Xiaojun Bi
  • Patent number: 9940679
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for verifying parameters for a user-created event. In accordance with one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided that comprises receiving a set of parameters for an event created by a user. Further, the method includes verifying the set of parameters for the event by comparing the set of parameters to source data and determining, based on a result of the verification, replacement data for one or more of the set of parameters for the event. The method also includes presenting, on a display device, the replacement data for selection by the user and updating, based on a selection received from the user, the set of parameters for the event to include the replacement data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Courtney Lynn Hampson, Jason Robert Richard Sanio
  • Patent number: 9912726
    Abstract: A control method causes a computer of an information apparatus to: display a display screen representing a floor plan on a display; display on the display screen device icons, the device icons including a dehumidifier icon; when selection of the dehumidifier icon is sensed, display on the display an operation screen for operating a dehumidifier corresponding to the dehumidifier icon, the operation screen being displayed on the display screen and outside of a region corresponding to a room where the selection of the dehumidifier icon is sensed; output a control command for operating the dehumidifier to a network based on an operation on the operation screen; and display an operation state of the dehumidifier in the region corresponding to the room where the selection of the dehumidifier icon is sensed based on the operation on the operation screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takamitsu Sasaki, Minehisa Nagata
  • Patent number: 9836203
    Abstract: In general, the subject matter described in this disclosure can be embodied in methods, systems, and computer-readable devices for presenting, by a computing system, multiple cells that are arranged in a multi-dimensional grid of cells. The computing system may display content in a first cell without displaying the content in a second cell. The computing system may present a first user interface element that is to expand the display of the content from the first cell to both the first cell and the second cell. The computing system may receive first user input that selects the first user interface element. The computing system may display, in response to receiving the first user input, the content in the first cell and the second cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Axiom One Ltd.
    Inventor: Jan Schultink
  • Patent number: 9811865
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for measuring perceptible properties of media content. The method comprises displaying media content comprising a plurality of perceptible properties; receiving a selection of an perceptible property from the plurality of perceptible properties; receiving at least one comment related to the selected perceptible property in the plurality of perceptible properties; and calculating a measurement of an overall quality of the media content based on the received at least one comment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Sharad Baliyan, Nakul Kumar