Patents Examined by Jennifer N Welch
  • Patent number: 11567624
    Abstract: A computer-based method for rendering modified graphical content is disclosed. The graphical content includes a plurality of cells. The method includes receiving the graphical content with metadata modifying the graphical content, rendering the graphical content upon a screen according to the metadata, and receiving user input. The method also includes in response to the user input, progressing through at least a subset of the cells, wherein the progressing includes moving a camera view from cell to cell in the at least a subset, each of the cells in the at least a subset being displayed as a focus point with surrounding area being adjusted in opacity according to the metadata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: ZUMOBI, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin B. Bederson, John SanGiovanni
  • Patent number: 11567583
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to creating user-defined interaction spaces and modalities in a three dimensional (3D) sensor space in response to control gestures. It also relates to controlling virtual cameras in the 3D sensor space using control gestures and manipulating controls of the virtual cameras through the control gestures. In particular, it relates to defining one or more spatial attributes of the interaction spaces and modalities in response to one or more gesture parameters of the control gesture. It also particularly relates to defining one or more visual parameters of a virtual camera in response to one or more gesture parameters of the control gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Isaac Cohen, Maxwell Sills
  • Patent number: 11563702
    Abstract: An avatar notification system is disclosed, which performs operations that include: causing display of a notification at a client device associated with a first user account, the notification including an identification of a second user account; receiving an input that selects the notification from the client device; presenting a composition interface at the client device in response to the input that selects the notification, the composition interface including a display of a media element that comprises a first identifier associated with the first user account and a second identifier associated with the second user account; receiving a selection of the media element from the client device; and generating a message that includes the media element in response to the selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: SNAP INC.
    Inventor: Jeremy Voss
  • Patent number: 11561683
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for selecting region of a flexible screen based on a detected curvature of the flexible screen. A mobile device detects a vertex and degree of the curvature of the flexible screen. The mobile device selects a region of the flexible screen that is centered at the vertex and whose size is proportional to the degree of curvature. The mobile device highlights the region of the flexible display to visually indicate the selected region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventor: Vinayaka Prakasha Bandishti
  • Patent number: 11562411
    Abstract: Disclosed is a virtual rating device that associate online ratings with differential time costs by endowing the graphical user interface that solicited ratings from the users with “physics,” including an initial (default) slider position and friction. When ratings are associated with differential time cost, scores correlated more strongly with objective service quality. The differential time costs optimize information when proportional to the deviation from the median score. Correlations between subjective rating scores and objective service performance can be further improved by boosting time costs for reporting extreme scores. The disclosed device lowers the sample size (and therefore costs) required for obtaining reliable, averaged crowd estimates. The disclosed device improves information quality in online rating and feedback systems. By endowing a rating widget with virtual friction to increase the time cost for reporting extreme scores, one can obtain a more reliable crowd estimates of quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Dalton Conley, Ofer Tchernichovski
  • Patent number: 11561602
    Abstract: The first time a display device is turned on, is turned on after it has been factory reset, or is factory reset, the display device displays a message indicating that in a default and current power mode of the display device, a hardware component of the display device different than display hardware is powered off when the display device enters a low-power state. A user is permitted to have the hardware component remain powered on when the display device enters the low-power state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, LP.
    Inventors: Timothy P. Guynes, Humberto M. Fossati, Wen Shih Chen
  • Patent number: 11562006
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for receiving, processing and interactively displaying real-time air traffic data representative of the movement of aircraft throughout an airspace. The apparatus is an interactive data visualization framework which provides an immediately visualized aviation-oriented insights, with a focus on evaluating the deviations among flights by route, type, airport, and aircraft performance. The apparatus includes utilities for such as capacity planning, flight route prediction, and fuel consumption analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: OHIO STATE INNOVATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Seth Young, Arnab Nandi, Behrooz Omidvar Tehrani
  • Patent number: 11556219
    Abstract: A method includes displaying a first graphical representation on a screen. The first graphical representation includes a box-and-whisker plot of a dataset. The method also includes receiving a first interaction indication indicating a graphical user interaction by a user at a first interaction location on the first graphical representation. In response to the received first interactive indication, the method includes displaying a second graphical representation on the screen based on the first interaction indication, the second graphical representation including a density plot of the dataset having a respective scale equal to a corresponding scale of the box-and-whisker plot. The method also includes receiving a second interaction indication indicating the graphical user interaction by the user at a second interaction location on the second graphical representation, and in response, displaying an updated second graphical representation of the dataset on the screen based on the second interaction indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ryan Vernon, Ali Abdelhadi, Pedro Jorge Cunha Nunes, Keith Simmons, Ali Kashefian Naieni, Sherzat Aitbayev, Kimberly Faughnan, Roman Nurik
  • Patent number: 11550420
    Abstract: A method may include presenting an image capture user interface on a display device of a multipurpose device including a live view portion configured to display a live view of image data currently sensed by an image capture device of the multipurpose device and a recall portion configured to display a thumbnail preview of stored image data most recently captured by the image capture device; receiving an indication of a first touch input on the display device, the first touch input starting at a first position on or near the recall portion of the user interface; receiving an indication of a swiping gesture from the recall portion to a second position with contact being maintained of the first touch input; and in response to the first touch input, displaying an enlarged preview of the stored image data, the enlarged preview being larger in size than the thumbnail preview.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Simon I. Bovet, Elliott Harris, Andreas J. Karlsson
  • Patent number: 11550538
    Abstract: An information processing terminal includes a display, an identifier, an arrangement data generator, an obtainer, and a display processor. The identifier identifies a model of an I/O device that includes a plurality of input/output terminals. The arrangement data generator generates arrangement data that shows arrangement of the plurality of input/output terminals, based on an identification result of the identifier. The obtainer obtains an audio processing parameter corresponding to each of the plurality of input/output terminals. The display processor displays the audio processing parameter corresponding to each of the plurality of input/output terminals on the display, based on the arrangement data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Takeshi Nonaka
  • Patent number: 11550702
    Abstract: Disclosed here is a system to enable interaction between a user with a disability and a computer program. The system can obtain a representation of a user interface to present to a user. The system can determine an element associated with the user interface, where the element is configured to provide information to the user, however, the user interface presentation of the element at least partially fails to provide the information to the user. Based on the element, the system can determine an appropriate test to perform. The appropriate test indicates at least two of: a test to perform with a keyboard, a gesture test to perform with a mobile screen reader, and an audio test to perform with a screen reader. The system can generate an indication of the appropriate test. The system can provide the indication of the appropriate test prior to releasing the user interface to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles Roy Triplett
  • Patent number: 11550467
    Abstract: A method includes, while an application is installed on a device and a representation of the application has a designated location in a respective portion of an application launching user interface, detecting an application-demotion request to delete the application from the device without deleting associated data for the application. In response to detecting the application-demotion request, deleting the application from the device without deleting the associated data for the application. After deleting the application from the device, detecting a request to display the respective portion of the application launching user interface and, in response to detecting the request to display the respective portion of the application launching user interface, displaying the respective portion of the application launching user interface, including displaying the representation of the application in the designated location in the respective portion of the application launching user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Yanagihara, Frank de Jong, Patrick Lee Coffman, Robert Ulrich
  • Patent number: 11550601
    Abstract: The subject technology receives a command to initiate an application. The subject technology, in response to the command, generates a root node related to a root view of a first hierarchy of views representing a user interface (UI). The subject technology generates a child node of the root node for including in the first hierarchy of views, the child node corresponding to a first type of view. The subject technology generates a first child node of the child node for including in the first hierarchy of views, the first child node corresponding to a second type of view. The subject technology generates a graph including nodes, each node corresponding to a different attribute of the UI, wherein the root node, the child node, and the first child node have relationships with respective nodes from the graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob A. Xiao, Kyle S. Macomber, Joshua H. Shaffer, John S. Harper
  • Patent number: 11550542
    Abstract: An electronic device can implement a zero-latency digital assistant by capturing audio input from a microphone and using a first processor to write audio data representing the captured audio input to a memory buffer. In response to detecting a user input while capturing the audio input, the device can determine whether the user input meets a predetermined criteria. If the user input meets the criteria, the device can use a second processor to identify and execute a task based on at least a portion of the contents of the memory buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: William F. Stasior, David A. Carson, Rohit Dasari, Yoon Kim
  • Patent number: 11544080
    Abstract: A device context of a device is identified based on device data including a current state of the device, and a user context of a user is identified based on user data including user interaction with a user interface for the device. A current task that the user is performing on the device in relation to the current state of the device is identified, and knowledge regarding how the user is performing the current task using the user interface is extracted, using an artificial intelligence technique with respect to the identified device context and the identified user context. The extracted knowledge for the identified current task is stored within a knowledge base, and can be used to adapt the user interface for another user performing the current task on the device in the current state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: MICRO FOCUS LLC
    Inventors: Krishna Mahadevan Ramakrishnan, Sumit Kumar, Dipankaj Medhi, Shileen Upadhyay, Shiva Prakash S M
  • Patent number: 11544081
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods may include a method for enabling customized jobs deployment in Autosys™, reviewing of execution results of the jobs in Autosys™, and querying the execution results. The method may include providing a verification of the deployment of a plurality of job scripts in a staging area. The staging area may be configured for arranging and deploying a plurality of job scripts in Autosys™. The method may include visually indicating, in a status line, whether each of the plurality of job scripts has been deployed in Autosys™ or is set to be deployed to, and executed in, Autosys™. The method may include importing selected contents of a log folder from Autosys™. The importing may use an import utility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Mohammad Nejad, Rudolph D. Hoffman, Nadeem Panjwani, Paul Eric Hazboun
  • Patent number: 11543936
    Abstract: Disclosed are various approaches for generating a user interface in which data items are grouped together. Additionally, a bulk action can be taken by a user on a grouping of data items within the user interface. An example of such a user interface can be within an email client used to manage email messages. Email messages can be grouped according to a grouping factor and a bulk action can be taken on a grouping from within the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: AirWatch LLC
    Inventor: Rohit Vairamohan
  • Patent number: 11537263
    Abstract: An electronic device displays, on a display, a user interface that includes first and second interactive regions of an application. While displaying the user interface, the device detects an input by a contact on the touch-sensitive surface at a location that corresponds to a user interface element in the first interactive region on the display. In response to detecting the input by the contact, when the input meets intensity-based activation criteria (e.g., the contact has a characteristic intensity above an intensity threshold), the device obscures the first interactive region of the application with the exception of the user interface element without obscuring the second interactive region of the application. When the input meets selection criteria (e.g., the contact has a characteristic intensity below the intensity threshold), the device performs a selection operation that corresponds to the user interface element without obscuring the first interactive region of the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Nathan de Vries, David C. Graham, Freddy A. Anzures
  • Patent number: 11531465
    Abstract: A display control apparatus, including a processor and a storage storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, controls the processor to determine whether input of one or more first operations which are correlated to any position within a screen of a display is accepted, in a case where it is determined that the input of one or more first operations is accepted, specify one first position corresponding to the any position within the screen of the display, newly create one first-kind display area according to the one or more first operations, and display the newly created one first-kind display area on the specified one first position within the screen of the display, determine whether input of one or more second operations which are correlated to the displayed one first-kind display area is accepted, and in a case where it is determined that the input of the one or more second operations is accepted, specify one second position within the screen of the display, newly create one second-kind displa
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Akae, Takayuki Inoue
  • Patent number: 11531453
    Abstract: A system and method for grouping and organizing structured responses in a communication application at a computing device. A structured question in a plurality of messages can be detected based on a structured question model trained via machine learning. A structured question can be a question predicted by the structured question model to have a number of possible answers fewer than a threshold. A user interface element, corresponding to the structured question, can include a structured summarization that includes one or more answers to the structured question present in the plurality of messages from the plurality of users, and/or a structured response template in which at least a subset of possible answers are presented and are selectable. A command to include the generated graphical user interface element in a record of the communication session in a graphical user interface corresponding to the communication application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Sharifi, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster