Patents Examined by Jeffrey A. Gaffin
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Patent number: 10162474Abstract: A navigation system for navigating a three-dimensional (3D) scene that includes a model or object with which a user can interact. The system accommodates and helps both novice and advanced users. To do this, the system provides the capability of tapping a hotkey to activate and deactivate tools.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2008Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: AUTODESK, INC.Inventors: George Fitzmaurice, Justin Matejka, Gord Kurtenbach
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Patent number: 10164842Abstract: Techniques for providing visualization and analysis of performance data are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a system for providing visualization and analysis of performance data. The system may comprise one or more processors communicatively coupled to a mobile communications network. The one or more processors may be configured to provide a user interface at a mobile device for a user to view network performance data associated with the mobile communications network. The one or more processors may further be configured provide one or more user-selectable options to a user at a mobile device to view the network performance data. The one or more processors may also be configured to dynamically filter the network performance data based on the one or more user-selectable options.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2014Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: VIAVI Solutions Inc.Inventors: Edoardo Rizzi, Sameh Yamany
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Patent number: 10156963Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating reports. A computer system displays an application with fields in a graphical user interface on a display system. The application is used to perform transactions for an organization. The computer system identifies a group of the fields displayed in the graphical user interface that is selectable for use in a group of the reports. The computer system displays a group of graphical indicators in association with the group of the fields in the graphical user interface. The computer system receives a selection of a portion of the group of the fields displayed in the graphical user interface in user input. The computer system creates the group of the reports using the portion of the group of the fields. The computer system sends the group of the reports to an output device, enabling performing an operation for the organization using the group of the reports.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2015Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: ADP, LLCInventors: Amitkumar Patel, Renata Vieira Palazzo, Diego Tremper, Leandro da Silva Bianchini, Roberto Rodrigues Dias
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Patent number: 10157039Abstract: A method includes: detecting activation, on a device, of a content capturing and presenting (CCP) interface for receiving content that can be inputted via both speech-input and tactile-input; and in response to the activation, automatically enabling both (i) a tactile input mechanism for capturing tactile inputs and (ii) a microphone for capturing audible speech inputs. The method further includes: monitoring for detection of one of (i) a tactile input, which involves use of the tactile input mechanism to input the content and (ii) audible speech, which triggers use of the microphone to input the content; and in response to detecting audible speech: closing the tactile input mechanism; capturing the audible speech via the microphone; and presenting content corresponding to the audible speech within the CCP interface.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2015Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLCInventor: Sharad Joshi
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Metadata tagging system, image searching method and device, and method for tagging a gesture thereof
Patent number: 10157191Abstract: A metadata tagging system, an image searching method, a device, and a gesture tagging method are provided. The metadata tagging system includes a first device which tags metadata to an image and transmits the image tagged with the metadata and a second device which allows at least one image from among stored images to be searched. Accordingly, generated data may be searched and used more easily and conveniently.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2010Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Keum-koo Lee, Ji-young Kwahk, Seung-dong Yu, Hyun-joo Oh, Yeon-hee Roh, Joon-hwan Kim, Soung-min Yoo -
Patent number: 10156977Abstract: A watch type terminal including a main body; a touch screen provided on a front surface of the main body and configured to display time information; and a controller configured to receive an input for selecting a specific time range included in the displayed time information, and display event information corresponding to at least one event associated with the specific time range on the touch screen.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2015Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Taeseong Kim, Yujune Jang, Jeongyoon Rhee
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Patent number: 10153996Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide a Threaded Conversation User Interface (“TCUI”) on a display area of a computer used to connect a social network. The TCUI comprises a plurality of nested columns. First, second, and third nested columns of the plurality of nested columns includes first, second, and third comments, respectively. The first nested column is positioned at a left margin of the display area, the second nested column is indented a single indentation width from the display area's left margin, and the third nested column is indented multiple indentation widths from the display area's left margin. A type of input gesture is determined from a received input gesture and in response, the TCUI is scrolled. The scrolling is terminated with at least one of second, third, or another nested column positioned at the left edge of the display area, the termination being based at least on the determined input gesture.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.Inventor: Ashoat Tevosyan
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Patent number: 10151599Abstract: An interactive viewing system of the present invention provides a user with a viewing duality in which a user is shown a floor plan, schematic layout, or other diagram on one side of a display and a visual representation, such as a digital image, corresponding to a selected portion of the schematic layout or diagram, on the other side of the same display. The user is presented with a current position marker and a directional indicator as they navigate through the schematic layout. At designated positions within the schematic layout, a corresponding image is concurrently displayed. In this manner, the user maintains a sense of where they are within the entire structure, while at the same time seeing images of the corresponding area.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2003Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Inventors: Pamala Meador, Tony Meador
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Patent number: 10146843Abstract: A computer network-implemented method for displaying a tag cloud representing a data structure. The data structure includes data entities and representations of relationships between the data entities. The method enables one or more users to interact with the data structure, and via the data structure, to interact with one another. In an example embodiment, the method comprises, via a computer processor, populating a display of a user interface showing a tag cloud populated with images of data entities from the data structure, such images, and in response to user input to the interface, associating one or more visual properties of the user interface with one or more of said relationships between data entities in the data structure.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Primal Fusion Inc.Inventors: Peter Joseph Sweeney, David Janik-Jones, David Goodwin
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Patent number: 10146908Abstract: A processor receives a selection of an image display mode via a user input device. The image display mode defines a number of medical images for display. The processor configures a surface of a touch panel user input device to define a plurality of fields. Each of the plurality of fields corresponds with a different one of the medical images. The processor receives an input, via the touch panel user input device, which selects one of the plurality of fields of the surface of the touch panel user input device and commands the processor to manipulate a medical image corresponding with the selected one of the plurality of fields. The processor manipulates at least the medical image corresponding with the selected one of the plurality of fields at one or more display devices based at least in part on the input.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventor: Klaus Pintoffl
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Patent number: 10146406Abstract: A meta guiding mode can be implemented on a computing device to alter or disable touch inputs that the computing device otherwise recognizes as input.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: RAKUTEN KOBO INC.Inventors: Benjamin Landau, Vanessa Ghosh
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Patent number: 10146764Abstract: A computing device is described that outputs, for display at a presence-sensitive display, a graphical keyboard comprising a plurality of keys. The computing device determines, based on an initial selection of one or more keys from the plurality of keys, one or more candidate words. The computing device also determines, based on the one or more candidate words, a probability that a particular key will be selected after the initial selection of the one or more keys. Responsive to determining that the probability does not satisfy a probability threshold, the computing device outputs, for display at the presence-sensitive display, an updated graphical keyboard that includes a graphical indication designating an area of the graphical keyboard associated with the particular key as being an additional portion of the graphical keyboard for selecting a character associated with an adjacent key.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventor: Xiaojun Bi
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Patent number: 10147062Abstract: Mechanisms are described for helping users manage their time and achieve predefined goals. One or more goals for a user may be received (e.g., from the user or some other source), and activities that the user performs over a period of time may be monitored, where the activities are informative regarding how the user is progressing towards the goal. A calendar entry may be determined based on the user's monitored activity, where the calendar entry is designed to help the user move closer to his goal. The calendar entry may be accepted or rejected by the user, and if accepted may be added to the user's calendar. In this way, the user's time may be optimized, and the user may be able to take defined steps towards his goal by taking the actions suggested.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2014Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventor: Roope Rainisto
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Patent number: 10139991Abstract: A method includes receiving input data pertaining to a user. Based on the input data, the method includes rendering a graphical user interface (GUI) that includes an initial icon arrangement (arrangement) presentable in a virtual environment. The initial icon arrangement includes a set of icons representative of portions of an overall time period represented by the initial icon arrangement. The method includes determining whether a portion of the input data is representable in the initial icon arrangement. If so, the method includes quantifying the second portion of the input data with a target and a timeframe, associating the target and the timeframe with the second portion of the input data, modifying icons in the arrangement that correspond to the timeframe to represent the target, rendering the modified icons as an opportunity layer on the arrangement, and displaying the arrangement with the opportunity layer in the virtual environment.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2016Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Ajay Chander, Sanam Mirzazad Barijough
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Patent number: 10140007Abstract: Various embodiments include a graphical user interface for a social network system. The graphical user interface includes a slider for selecting recipients who may receive communications from a user (or sources who may send communications to the user). Various positions of the slider may correspond to or otherwise constrain the size of the communication recipient (or source) set.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2017Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Chieh Ho, Shawn Shihang Wei, Meng Lu
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Patent number: 10133454Abstract: Instead of displaying interface elements such as pagination indicators side-by-side on a display, a device can present such interface elements in other visible configurations relative to each other. For example, the device can display pagination indicators of different sizes stacked on top of each other. When such stacked pagination indicators are presented as viewed from directly overhead, the pagination indicators can be appear as concentric rings. Alternatively, the device can display such stacked pagination indicators from various different non-overhead angle perspectives. When shown at some of these angles, the stacked pagination indicators can appear as a three-dimensional stack of discs. The device can highlight a particular pagination indicator to distinguish that particular pagination indicator visibly from the other pagination indicators. The highlighted pagination indicator can serve to indicate which of several interface segments, such as pages, is currently being shown on the display.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Christopher Wilson, Imran A. Chaudhri
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Patent number: 10133342Abstract: Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for selecting an Augmented Reality (AR) object on a head mounted device (HMD) are presented. In some embodiments, an HMD may define a Region-of-Interest (ROI) based on a gesture formed by at least one hand of a user. Subsequently the HMD may display to the user a shape on the HMD. In at least one arrangement, the shape outlines the ROI. Additionally, the HMD may display to the user a plurality of AR objects, each of the plurality of AR objects being associated with a target inside the ROI. Furthermore, the HMD may reduce the size of the ROI based on a first movement of the at least one hand of the user to form a reduced-sized ROI. In at least one arrangement, the reduced-sized ROI is used to select a specific AR object from the plurality of AR objects.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2013Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Arpit Mittal, Giuliano Maciocci, Michael L. Tunmer, Paul Mabbutt
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Patent number: 10133447Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide for determining user input of a presentation. Specifically, aspects disclosed herein provide differentiating between interacting with selectable objects within a slide and scrolling between slides, editing a selectable object within a slide, scrolling between slides, viewing off slide content, zooming out from a slide view, and zooming in to a slide view.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2014Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Shen Wang, Alexandre Gueniot, Cheng-Kai Chen, Jonathan Ko
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Patent number: 10126944Abstract: A method and system are provided for triggering display of an application. The method includes: in response to receiving a gesture denoting an approximate closed region or a closed region on a display screen, determining a non-full-screen display region corresponding to the gesture on the display screen; displaying shortcuts of at least one application in the non-full-screen display region; and in response to a user selecting one of the shortcuts, launching an application corresponding to the selected shortcut, and displaying an interface of the application in the non-full-screen display region.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2015Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Yu Wang, Yi Xiao, Guang Yang, Jia Zou
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Patent number: 10126824Abstract: Generating a screenshot is disclosed, including: obtaining, from a non-contact gesture identifying sensor associated with a device, a plurality of position points associated with an object's non-contact gesture movement corresponding to respective ones of a plurality of sampling times; determining that the object's non-contact gesture movement comprises a preset non-contact screenshot gesture based at least in part on the plurality of position points meeting a condition associated with the preset non-contact screenshot gesture; and generating a screenshot in response to the determination that the object's non-contact gesture movement comprises the preset non-contact screenshot gesture.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2015Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding LimitedInventor: Jianjiang Fang