Patents Examined by John Repsher, III
  • Patent number: 9436669
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for interfacing with dynamic web forms may include (1) identifying a web page, (2) parsing the web page in order to identify an attribute of at least one interactive element that indicates that the interactive element may be used to create at least one input field on the web page, (3) in response to identifying the attribute, monitoring the interactive element in order to detect a user interaction with the interactive element, (4) in response to detecting the user interaction with the interactive element, identifying at least one new input field on the web page, and (5) performing an automated task on the new input field in response to the input field being newly identified. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventor: Jens Sorensen
  • Patent number: 9430126
    Abstract: The present description refers to a technique for receiving a request to create a new business object where the request includes one or more business object attributes, determining a type of business object based on one or more business object attributes, identifying a plurality of fields associated with the type of business object, selecting a subset of the plurality of fields, causing a business object creation interface to be inserted into the application window including the selected subset of fields, receiving, information entered into the one or more fields by a user via the business object creation interface, generating the new business object with the received information, causing the new business object to be added to the list of business objects in the application window, and causing the business object creation interface to be removed from the application window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Sabine Finke, Joachim Foerderer, Christian Kirschnick
  • Patent number: 9418490
    Abstract: A graphical user interface that is capable of being used on a computing device, such as a vehicle diagnostic tool. The graphical user interface includes various buttons that when actuated causes the vehicle diagnostic tool to perform a corresponding functionality such as read diagnostic trouble codes and collect and display a data stream of diagnostic data of a vehicle. The graphical user interface also displays buffered data in a data window and the data may be moved using various input buttons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Bosch Automotive Service Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Gray, Harry Gilbert
  • Patent number: 9405842
    Abstract: A content selection unit refers to a content information database, which stores content provided to a plurality of client devices and information related to provision of the content, linking the content with the information to one another, and selects, based on the information acquired by referring to the content information database, a predetermined number of content items from the content currently provided to at least one of the plurality of client devices. A user selection unit refers to the content information database and selects, for each content item selected by the content selection unit, a user who is executing the selected content. A publication unit publicizes moving images showing a screen in which the content currently executed by the user selected by the user selection unit is being executed such that the screen is viewable on a network, cyclically switching from one content item to another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventor: Makoto Ishii
  • Patent number: 9400551
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are herein provided for causing presentation of a notification on a display based on the user's susceptibility to notice the notification and the desired intrusiveness of the presentation of the notification. A method may include determining that a notification should be presented to a user on a display. The method further includes determining a susceptibility level pertaining to the likelihood the user will notice the notification. The method further includes causing presentation of the notification on the display based at least in part on the susceptibility level and an intrusiveness level for presentation of the notification. The intrusiveness level pertains to how intrusive presentation of the notification should be to the user's experience. Corresponding apparatuses and computer program products are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Daniel L. Ashbrook, David H. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 9383216
    Abstract: One embodiment of the invention comprises a method including the step of responsive to receiving a map request from a user that pertains to a specified geographical feature, generating a first view that shows the geographical feature. The method further includes specifying each of one or more preference categories of the user, wherein a user preference is needed for each category, in order to show an additional feature corresponding to each user preference on a map view which includes the geographical feature. The method further includes determining the user preference for each category, wherein at least one of the user preferences is determined from information obtained by accessing an online social network in which the user participates. Each determined user preference is used with one or more search engines in order to acquire information for use in generating each of the additional features for a map view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Divya Gopinath, Rajesh Radhakrishnan, Jennifer A. Watson
  • Patent number: 9372601
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that controls a user interface to display content, acquires position information corresponding to an input received at the user interface, determines a condition corresponding to the position information, and controls the user interface to display data corresponding to the input based on a result of the determining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Reiko Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 9372589
    Abstract: Structured information about nodes may be generated and shared using sub-nodes. A node in a social networking system may be associated with sub-nodes that are definable by the node owner, such as menu items for a restaurant or songs in playlists for an artist. Users of the system may interact with the sub-nodes, and the interactions may be presented back on the page to a user, aggregated according to the user's connections in the social networking system (e.g., which songs your friends listened to the most by the artist, which menu items were consumed the most). Users may associate other sub-nodes to the node, such as identifying other menu items served by a restaurant, and the node owner may confirm these associations. Location awareness functionalities may be used to inform a user of highly recommended sub-nodes nearby as indicated by other users of the social networking system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruno Rahle, Blaise DiPersia, Rousseau Kazi
  • Patent number: 9361651
    Abstract: Methods and systems of displaying response data provide for identifying a pegged area of display content during a first retrieval of the display content by a client device at a first moment in time. Additionally, first data associated with the pegged area may be stored, wherein a comparison can be conducted between the first data and additional data associated with the pegged area at one or more subsequent moments in time. In one example, a user interface is generated that highlights a quantitative trend of the pegged area between the first moment in time and the one or more subsequent moments in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Al Chakra, John A. Feller, Trudy L. Hewitt, Francesco C. Schembari
  • Patent number: 9361022
    Abstract: A plurality of characters that are candidates for entry are displayed on a display surface of a display corresponding to an operation surface of a touch panel as character buttons. A touch detector judges whether a user touches the operation surface either with a single point or plural points, and detects a position touched by the user. An input receiver receives an entry of a character associated with a character button in the position touched by the user among the plurality of characters displayed on the display surface of the display. Then, the input receiver receives the entry of the character which varies in type depending on whether the user touches an area in the operation surface corresponding to an identical character button with a single point or plural points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU TEN LIMITED
    Inventors: Tetsuaki Aono, Takashi Ohta, Takaho Okada, Masahiro Iino
  • Patent number: 9357056
    Abstract: There are provided a portable device, and a control program and a control method of the portable device. The portable device includes a display unit, an input unit configured to detect an input to the display unit, and a control unit configured to set and cancel a limit function of limiting an input by the input unit. The control unit is configured to display two or more objects on the display unit and to cancel the limit function when two of the displayed objects are matched with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Takayoshi Fuchigami, Sunao Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 9344591
    Abstract: A display method for displaying a schedule screen which indicates an execution reservation state of JOBS on a display section, the method including the step of displaying a part or the whole of information concerning two or more of the JOBs, by superimposing on the schedule screen, according to a display condition; and displaying, in cases where information which is required to be recognized by a user exists in the information displayed by superimposing, the information required to be recognized by the user on an uppermost layer to be visible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Shigeo Konuma
  • Patent number: 9323452
    Abstract: A system and method for processing a touch input are provided. An initial press action that is associated with a number of simultaneous touches is detected on a touch interface. One or more commands that are mapped to one or more sequences of user interaction is determined based on the number of simultaneous touches, where each of the one or more sequences of user interaction is initiated by the initial press action. One or more graphical interface components, where each of the one or more graphical interface components correspond to a different one of the one or more sequences of user interaction are provided for display. Each of the one or more graphical interface components indicate at least part of the corresponding sequence of user interaction and indicates respective command mapped to the corresponding sequence of user interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Alexander Friedrich Kuscher, Stefan Kuhne, John Nicholas Jitkoff
  • Patent number: 9323445
    Abstract: Methods may provide drilling of displayed content in a touch screen device. A method may include detecting a touch gesture by a user on a first portion of displayed content on a touch display. The first portion may include a drillable data element having at least a first dimension, a second dimension and a third dimension. The method may further include detecting information associated with the touch gesture, determining a requested drilling action based at least in part on the detected information, the requested drilling action including at least one of a change of a displayed drill dimension and a change of a displayed drill degree, sending the requested drilling action of the first portion to a report server and presenting a drilled first portion on the touch display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Barry A Kritt, Sarbajit K Rakshit
  • Patent number: 9323443
    Abstract: Systems and computer program products may provide drilling of displayed content in a touch screen device. A system or computer program may provide detecting a touch gesture by a user on a first portion of displayed content on a touch display. The first portion may include a drillable data element having at least a first dimension, a second dimension and a third dimension. The system or computer program may further provide detecting information associated with the touch gesture, determining a requested drilling action based at least in part on the detected information, the requested drilling action including at least one of a change of a displayed drill dimension and a change of a displayed drill degree, sending the requested drilling action of the first portion to a report server and presenting a drilled first portion on the touch display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Barry A. Kritt, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
  • Patent number: 9305026
    Abstract: Systems and methods presenting digital images utilizing an infinite cylinder user interface that includes a plurality of modes of movement to variously display the digital images in an efficient and convenient manner. An image viewing system utilizing an infinite cylinder user interface includes a data store storing a plurality of images in a local visual dictionary, each of the plurality of images configured to convey a message to at least one additional user as a replacement for words; a network interface communicatively coupled to a network; a processor communicatively coupled to the data store and the network interface; and instructions executable by the processor, and in response to such execution causes the processor to: present a set of the plurality of images in an infinite cylinder user interface; and manipulate the infinite cylinder user interface in a plurality of movement modes based on user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Beyondvia Technologies
    Inventor: Mark Grace
  • Patent number: 9292505
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for generating a graphical user interface (GUI) for a research system that identifies documents relevant to several categories. The method receives a user objective and at least one initial category for a recurring search that identifies documents relevant to several categories for presentation to a user. The method provides for display in the GUI several selectable additional categories related to the received initial category for the user objective. The method receives a selection of a set of categories through the GUI. The method provides for display in the GUI an optimized modifiable set of filters for removing specific types of documents that are relevant to the set of categories from the recurring search. The method generates the recurring search for the user based on the received categories and a modified set of filters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: FIRSTRAIN, INC.
    Inventors: David Cooke, Vivie Lee, Nima Niakan, Binay Mohanty
  • Patent number: 9275420
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for changing user profile impression. The system includes a controller, a preview module, a determination module and a graphical user interface module. The controller receives an input describing a selection of a profile impression from a user. The preview module determines profile preview data based at least in part on the selection and source data describing one or more user activities. The determination module receives user review data that describes a user review input based at least in part on the profile preview data. The determination module determines profile impression data based at least in part on the profile preview data and the user review data. The graphical user interface module determines graphical data based at least in part on the profile impression data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Dan Fredinburg, Andrew Swerdlow
  • Patent number: 9256352
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a touch screen terminal and a method for locating an electronic document thereof. The touch screen terminal comprises a setting module, a directory listing module, a detection module, a mode switching module, a real-time directory module, a preview module and a chapter/section switching module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tao Xue
  • Patent number: 9256447
    Abstract: Application programs delivered from one or more cloud computing systems (“clouds” or “CCSs”) are integrated into a desktop being delivered/hosted by another cloud (“primary” CCS). In one respect, the integration includes integration of controls for directly launching a separately hosted application program from a desktop hosted by the primary CCS, such as by selection of a start menu entry or activation of a “shortcut” icon that points to the application program. In another respect, a separately hosted application program is launched based on a user opening or accessing content (e.g. data file) that is specifically associated with the separately hosted application program but residing more locally, such as in the hosted desktop. In this aspect, the content is seamlessly redirected to the other cloud without requiring any direct network connectivity between the clouds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: CITRIX SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Ashish Gujarathi, Michael East