Patents Examined by Jennifer N Welch
  • Patent number: 11741140
    Abstract: In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for enabling conversational bot communications are presented. A marketplace comprising an identity of a plurality of skills may be maintained, each of the plurality of skills associated with a manifest and a conversational bot. A request for execution of a specific skill may be received. A plurality of conversational bots may be identified, each of the plurality of conversational bots being associated with a manifest for executing the specific skill. The plurality of conversational bots may be ranked. The specific skill may be caused to be executed by the highest ranked conversational bot. In some examples, a plurality of highest ranked conversational bots may be surfaced and a bot that is selected may execute the specific skill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Lee Mullins, Scott Jeff Gellock, Thomas Matthew Laird-McConnell, Steven Wayne Ickman, Gabriel Gilabert, John Anthony Taylor
  • Patent number: 11740785
    Abstract: An electronic device, while displaying a first user interface that includes a plurality of activatable user interface objects, detects an input by a contact on the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to a first activatable user interface object, which is associated with a first control function having a first value as a current value of the control function. In response to an input that meets toggle criteria, the device toggles the first control function between a first state based on the first value for the control function and a second state. In response to an input that meets control adjustment criteria, the device replaces the first user interface with a second user interface for selecting among a set of available values for the control function. In response to movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface, a current value for the control function is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan R. Dascola, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Daamun Mohseni, Christopher D. Soli
  • Patent number: 11733845
    Abstract: A personal display system with which a user may adjust the configuration of displayed media is provided. The personal display system may include an electronic device operative to provide media to a personal display device operative to display the received media. Using one or more optical and digital components, the personal display device may adjust displayed media to overlay features of a theater, thus giving the user of the personal display device the impression of being in the theater. In some embodiments, the personal display device may detect the user's movements using one or more sensors and may adjust the displayed image based on the user's movements. For example, the device may detect a user's head movement and cause the portion of media displayed to reflect the head movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: John G. Tang
  • Patent number: 11733843
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires a count result indicating the number of objects included in a predetermined area of an image captured by an imaging unit, a display control unit that displays on a display unit a graph based on acquired count results, the graph including a first element that is based on a plurality of count results from a plurality of images captured by the imaging unit in a first time period, and a selection unit that, in a case where a user operation specifying the first element in the displayed graph is received, selects, based on a number indicated by the first element, an image whose count result corresponds to the number indicated by the first element from the plurality of images captured in the first time period. The display control unit displays on the display unit the image selected by the selection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshiya Komata
  • Patent number: 11733827
    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 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Groupon, Inc.
    Inventors: David Gomez-Rosado, Tihomir Tsankov Georgiev
  • Patent number: 11726647
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display, a communication circuit, a processor operably connected to the display and the communication circuit, and a memory operably connected to the processor, wherein the memory stores instructions which, when executed, cause the processor to display a content list through the display, select a first content from the content list, configure at least one security section for the first content, and share the first content for which the at least one security section is configured through the communication circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yejin Kim
  • Patent number: 11727068
    Abstract: Disclosed are some implementations of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for implementing a customizable intent driven action triggering system. The system retrieves, for at least a first intent, a corresponding list of actions. The system provides, to a first client device associated with a first user account, a first graphical user interface (GUI) identifying the first intent, the list of actions, and for at least the first action in the list of actions, a corresponding user-selectable option configurable to indicate whether the first action is activated for the first intent in association with the first user account. The system processes a first request received from the first client device in association with the user-selectable option, where the first request indicates that the first action is activated for the first intent in association with the first user account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Franck Barbedor, Thomas Foulon, Florent Rochette, Christophe Mourot
  • Patent number: 11727204
    Abstract: Systems and methods include reading of a spreadsheet workbook including a plurality of rows and a header row comprising a plurality of column labels, automatic determination of a hierarchical schema based on the plurality of column labels, the hierarchal schema comprising a hierarchy of nodes, where each of the plurality of column labels is associated with a single node of the hierarchy of nodes, and, for each row of the plurality of rows, determination of a value associated with each of the plurality of column labels, and, for each determined value, population of a node of an instance of the hierarchical schema associated with an associated column label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventor: Sebastien Lavoignat
  • Patent number: 11726634
    Abstract: An electronic device with one or more processors and memory, and in communication with a display and an audio system presents, under control of the electronic device, via the audio system, a first audio output, the first audio output having a volume and an audio property other than volume (e.g., a reverberation time, a low-pass filter cutoff, or a stereo balance). While the audio system presents a first audio output, the device receives an input that corresponds to a request to present a second audio output, and in response, the device concurrently presents, via the audio system, an adjusted version of the first audio output in which the audio property other than volume of the first audio output has been adjusted and the second audio output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Nathan de Vries, David C. Graham, Freddy A. Anzures, Hugo D. Verweij, Afrooz Family, Matthew I. Brown
  • Patent number: 11729228
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes displaying first content within an interface of a group-based communication channel of a group-based communication platform on a first user device associated with a member of the group-based communication channel; receiving a request from the first user device to share the first content outside of the group-based communication platform; in response to the request from the first user device, generating a link to the first content for sharing outside of the group-based communication platform; receiving a request to view the first content from a second user device, wherein the request to view the first content originated outside of the group-based communication platform and is associated with the link; and displaying the first content on the second user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: SLACK TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Britton Jamison
  • Patent number: 11720236
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating a multi-view report in a content management system. A number of report views may be defined and a report type may be configured. The report type configuration may define the report views to be included, the field the report views match on, and how the report views should be joined. The multi-view report is generated according to the report type configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Veeva Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Graham Gelwicks, Peter Gassner, Jon Stone, Shu-Shang Sam Wei
  • Patent number: 11720378
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods to facilitate task-specific workspaces for a collaboration work management platform. Task-specific workspaces for individual ones of the users for individual ones of the tasks may be facilitated. Presentation of the first task and/or the first task-specific workspace for the first task for the first user may be effectuated. Information characterizing interactions of the first user with the first set of applications within the first task-specific workspace at or near a first time may be obtained and/or stored responsive to a pause and/or completion of the first task at the first time. The one or more windows corresponding to the first set of applications for the first task may be minimized and/or closed. Responsive to a re-start of the first task, the first set of applications may be restored based on the environment state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Asana, Inc.
    Inventors: Justin Rosenstein, He Lu, Alexandra Estrada
  • Patent number: 11716298
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: acquire user data posted in a chat room participated by multiple users; and with multiple display forms changed, display association information that associates at least one piece of information of the user data or response information responsive to the user data with a user having posted the user data and posting time of the user data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kosuke Tomokuni, Kosuke Aoki, Seiichiro Hiratsuka, Makoto Toriyama, Kengo Tokuchi
  • Patent number: 11714521
    Abstract: Virtual buttons for dynamically displaying giveaway information are disclosed. The virtual buttons may include an interactive body, and dynamic information displayed within the body. The dynamic information may be associated with a giveaway. The dynamic information may include a first set of information relating to the giveaway and displayed prior to a user's interaction with the interactive body, a second set of information relating to the giveaway and displayed after the user's interaction with the interactive body, and a third set of information relating to the giveaway and displayed after the giveaway has ended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: STICKER MULE, LLC
    Inventors: Anthony Constantino, David Traver, Mitchell Millsaps
  • Patent number: 11714955
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for dynamic document annotations. In some implementations, a keyword is identified in a first view of a document, the first view being provided on a user interface. An annotation for the keyword is provided for display at a first location with the first view provided on the user interface. An adjustment to the first view is detected that causes a second view of the document on the user interface, where a position of the keyword in the second view is different from a position of the keyword in the first view. In response to detecting the adjustment to the first view, the annotation is hidden from the user interface, and, after hiding the annotation, the annotation for the keyword is provided for display at a second location with the second view of the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: MicroStrategy Incorporated
    Inventors: Jose Nocedal, Jiande Yu, Raul de Leon, Hunter Edward Harris
  • Patent number: 11704497
    Abstract: In an approach to generating and using a sentence model for answer generation, one or more computer processors ingest a first corpus of a plurality of text sentences. One or more computer processors convert the plurality of text sentences into a plurality of sentence vectors. One or more computer processors group the plurality of sentence vectors into a plurality of sentence clusters, wherein a sentence cluster is composed of sentences that are semantically similar. One or more computer processors receive a second corpus. One or more computer processors determine, for each sentence cluster of the plurality of sentence clusters, a frequency each sentence cluster appears in the second corpus. Based on the determined frequency, one or more computer processors calculate a probability of each sentence cluster of the plurality of sentence clusters. Based on the calculated probabilities, one or more computer processors generate a first sentence model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kyle Croutwater, Zhe Zhang, Vikrant Verma, Le Zhang
  • Patent number: 11704282
    Abstract: A method at an electronic device having a display, the method including displaying a user interface on the display, wherein the user interface includes at least one folder icon for a folder, the folder including at least two applications; determining that at least two applications in the folder have at least one notification and at least one application in the folder has more than one notification; and appending, to the folder icon, a badge having a number, wherein the number represents a number of applications in the folder having notifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Sean Michael McBeath
  • Patent number: 11703994
    Abstract: A computing system is provided. The computing system includes a head mounted display (HMD) device including a display, a processor configured to execute one or more programs, and associated memory. The processor is configured to display a virtual object at least partially within a field of view of a user on the display, identify a plurality of control points associated with the virtual object, and determine that one or more of the control points associated with the virtual object are further than a predetermined threshold distance from the user. The processor is configured to, based on the determination, invoke a far interaction mode for the virtual object and receive a trigger input from the user. In response to the trigger input in the far interaction mode, the processor is configured to invoke a near interaction mode and display a virtual interaction object within the predetermined threshold distance from the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Sheng Kai Tang, Julia Schwarz, Thomas Matthew Gable, Casey Leon Meekhof, Nahil Tawfik Sharkasi, Nicholas Ferianc Kamuda, Joshua Kyle Neff, Alton Kwok
  • Patent number: 11704016
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, a method for multiple device interaction includes detecting an orientation of a first device relative to a second device. The method also includes detecting a first gesture performed with either the first device or the second device, wherein the first gesture causes a first action that is based at least in part on the orientation of the first device relative to the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: AUTODESK, INC.
    Inventors: Xiang Anthony Chen, Tovi Grossman, Daniel Wigdor, George Fitzmaurice
  • Patent number: 11704628
    Abstract: The system provides a method and process for displaying and sorting messages in a communication system. The system allows multiple folders of messages to be opened simultaneously. The system also displays sent and received messages in the same display when desired. The system includes automatic and/or custom color coding of messages for ease of identification of message types, sent or received messages, root sender, cc messages, responsive messages, etc. The system also includes a unique navigation system to allow the user to more easily move through related messages, threads, and folders. The navigation system can be used in situations where the prior art would have required a search to be executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Bitvore Corp.
    Inventors: Carl Mandel, David Mandel