Patents Examined by John T Repsher, III
  • Patent number: 11615079
    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: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Aurea Software, Inc.
    Inventors: David Cooke, Vivie Lee, Nima Niakan, Binay Mohanty
  • Patent number: 11602992
    Abstract: A method for displaying points of interest on a digital map on a display, each point of interest being assigned at least one category and the space in front of the display being segmented into spatial regions where each spatial region is assigned a category. The method includes detecting the position of a hand of a user or part of the hand of the user by sensors, more particularly by cameras, identifying the spatial region in which the position of the hand or the part of the hand lies, identifying the category assigned to the identified spatial region, and displaying or highlighting the points of interest that have been assigned to the identified category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jesper Bellenbaum, Fabian Gruss, Florian Roider, Sonja Ruemelin
  • Patent number: 11574119
    Abstract: Methods and systems for navigating to an initial position in a document include weighting historical user actions within a document. Initial display positions within the document are determined based on the weighted historical user actions. A selected initial display positions is navigated to in accordance with a user selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Sean Callanan, Mark Gargan, Fred Raguillat
  • Patent number: 11567650
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for managing exposure notifications. In some embodiments, after enabling exposure notifications, an exposure notification is received; upon interacting with the notification: if an associated application is installed, a user interface of that application is displayed; if the associated application is not installed, a user interface object associated with a process to install the application is displayed. In some embodiments, an exposure notification management interface is displayed that includes a plurality of entities that have been authorized to provide notifications, along with a user interface object to disable transmission of data to those entities and to disable notifications from those entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew W. Crowley, Heather E. Daniel, Kevin Lynch
  • Patent number: 11538572
    Abstract: A user input obtainer receives an image movement instruction including identification information specifying a position shift or an image capture time shift to be performed and also including a displacement amount. When the identification information specifies the position shift, a slice position selector determines a tomographic image at a destination of the position shift based on the displacement amount from a set of tomographic images captured at the same time. On the other hand, when the identification information specifies the image capture time shift, the image capture time selector determines a tomographic image at a destination of the shift based on the displacement amount from sets of tomographic images that are identical to each other in terms of a patient, an examination portion, and a modality. A displaying image obtainer reads out the determined tomographic image from an image storage device and gives it to a display information generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki Kozuka, Kenji Kondo, Kazutoyo Takata
  • Patent number: 11531458
    Abstract: Described herein are a video enhancement control method, an electronic apparatus, and a storage medium. The method includes: detecting whether to enter a video enhancement configuration mode in response to displaying a video playback interface; displaying a sliding control on the video playback interface in response to being detected to enter the video enhancement configuration mode; acquiring a target video enhancement parameter in response to a sliding operation acting on the sliding control; and performing video enhancement of a video playback interface played on the video playback interface based on the target video enhancement parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Jinquan Lin
  • Patent number: 11528196
    Abstract: A cognitive database system matches a particular data element, that is specified as part of received user input, to a first set of data elements in a set of data models based on semantic commonality, and matches the particular data element to a second set of data elements in the set of data models based on visual commonality between graphical representations of the particular data element and the second set of data elements. The cognitive database may determine interdependency between the particular data element and a particular subset of the first and second sets of data elements based on a measure of semantic commonality and/or visual commonality, and may generate a response to the user input with values from the particular subset of data elements that are updated directly from the interdependency that is determined upon receiving the user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Kishore K. Guntuku, Vamsi Krishna Boyapati
  • Patent number: 11513670
    Abstract: A User Interface (UI) interface object detection system employs an initial dataset comprising a set of images, that may include synthesized images, to train a Machine Learning (ML) engine to generate an initial trained model. A data point generator is employed to generate an updated synthesized image set which is used to further train the ML engine. The data point generator may employ images generated by an application program as a reference by which to generate the updated synthesized image set. The images generated by the application program may be tagged in advance. Alternatively, or in addition, the images generated by the application program may be captured dynamically by a user using the application program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Automation Anywhere, Inc.
    Inventors: Sudhir Kumar Singh, Jesse Truscott, Virinchipuram J Anand
  • Patent number: 11512974
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for managing waste services by a service vehicle. The system may have a locating device configured to generate a location signal indicative of a location of the service vehicle, a sensor configured to generate a service signal indicative of a waste service being performed by the service vehicle, an input device, and a processing unit in communication with the locating device, the sensor, and the input device. The processing unit may be configured to make a determination that the service vehicle has made a plurality of service stops based on the location and service signals, and to automatically generate at least one service route including the plurality of service stops. The processing unit may also be configured to display the at least one service route and the plurality of service stops on a map in at least one graphical user interface on the input device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Rubicon Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Philip Rodoni
  • Patent number: 11487564
    Abstract: Switching shells attached to a terminal. Suppose that a shell has already output text into the terminal, and at that point a new shell is to be attached to the terminal. That subsequent shell is then started up, and text output is gathered from that new shell. Content representing that new shell is then displayed in the terminal. As an example, if the output is the same for the new shell as it was for the old shell, the terminal can just keep the old output displayed in the terminal, and eliminate the need to also output the identical output from the new shell. If the output of the new shell is different than that of the old shell, the terminal may be refreshed and the new content rendered perhaps in a single frame and/or without displaying text associated with this switching activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel John Imms, Kai-Uwe Maetzel
  • Patent number: 11483728
    Abstract: A system and method for multimode graphic visualization of wireless link parameters is disclosed. In embodiments, the system receives sensed or simulated network performance data relevant to wireless link connections (e.g., communications, navigation, ranging) between network nodes or platforms. The system derives from the network performance data link performance parameters for each wireless link between a first platform or node and other platforms of the network, e.g., bandwidths, waveform types, success/failure indicators, link non-reception or jamming statuses, low probability of intercept (LPI) signal detection/interception statuses, and negative link margins. The system generates graphic visualizations of the network nodes, the wireless links therebetween, and selected performance parameters for each link in one or more selectable performance modes for presentation to a user/operator via a display system; the user/operator may control the presentation mode or displayed elements via control input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael L. Hageman, Ronald Zozaya, Paul S. Corwin
  • Patent number: 11461732
    Abstract: A logistics apparatus for a user to assist delivery of items to recipients situated at different recipient locations. The logistics apparatus has access to an overall schedule of deliveries for agents acting as parent and delivery agents, with each item represented as a record, wherein each parent agent has a parent cluster of records allocated to it for a first transport stage along a route to a hub position, and the records in each parent cluster are further clustered according to recipient location into one or more child clusters for a second transport stage, each child cluster being allocated to a delivery agent which operates along a route from the hub position of the parent agent and delivers at recipient locations. The overall schedule includes an individual schedule for each agent with events and locations and timings for the events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Tom Robert George Thompson, Angela Fessler, Phil Danne, Ruth Tilsley, Gabor Bakler-Kugler, Ahmad Jasim
  • Patent number: 11461544
    Abstract: A spreadsheet application displays a spreadsheet of cells in tabular form. User input is received specifying an input range of cells of the spreadsheet, a destination range of cells of the spreadsheet and a local modification. A memory stores a representation of the spreadsheet indicating formatting, values and formulas. An update of the representation is computed by applying the local modifications to the representation. Values of cells of the input range of the spreadsheet are calculated by using the updated representation and the calculated values are displayed at the destination range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Advait Sarkar, Andrew Donald Gordon, John Herbert Martin Williams
  • Patent number: 11448747
    Abstract: An electronic device that selectively performs a predefined action is described. The predefined action can be any action performed by the electronic device, such as changing the power state of the electronic device or a component, change the state of a display, initiating a process, ending a process, etc. During operation, the electronic device may transmit a wireless signal. Then, the electronic device may receive a wireless-return signal associated with an object, which can indicate a time-of-flight of the wireless signal between the electronic device and the object. Moreover, the electronic device may determine a range between the electronic device and the object based at least in part on the wireless-return signal. When the range between the electronic device and the object is less than a threshold value, the electronic device may determine: whether the range between the electronic device and the object is varying and/or whether to perform the predefined action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sujeet Milind Patole, Jouya Jadidian, Mikheil Tsiklauri
  • Patent number: 11425063
    Abstract: One or more systems and/or techniques for generating a content item from content within a content area are described herein. A first boundary and a second boundary may be defined for a content area based upon a first user input and a second user input, such as swipe gestures. A content item may be generated based upon content within the content area. In an example, a beginning boundary designator may be displayed for the first boundary and an ending boundary designator may be displayed for the second boundary in response to one or more swipe gestures of a user interface. In an example, the content item may be stitched to a second content item to create a stitched content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Lipman, David Robinson, Kevin Cheng, Jeffrey Bonforte
  • Patent number: 11422682
    Abstract: A distributed interface is provided with real-time updates. A first user accessing the interface through a first user window is dynamically updated within the first user window and in real time when a second user accessing the interface through a second user window changes a field/character within the second user window. In an embodiment, the updated notification is achieved without window refreshing and without a committed update for the field/character change being committed by the second user to a back end system associated with the distributed interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph Jover PiƱon Mendoza, Ferdinand Salarda Acedera, Clem Paradero Pepito
  • Patent number: 11416679
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system comprising a user interface configured to receive text input by a user, a text prediction engine comprising a plurality of language models and configured to receive the input text from the user interface and to generate concurrently text predictions using the plurality of language models, and wherein the text prediction engine is further configured to provide text predictions to the user interface for display and user selection. An analogous method and an interface for use with the system and method are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin William Medlock, Jonathan Paul Reynolds
  • Patent number: 11354033
    Abstract: An electronic device displays a plurality of icons in a predefined area on the display, and detects a gesture that includes a contact on a touch-sensitive surface while a focus selector is over a respective icon, and subsequent movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to movement of the focus selector outside of the predefined area. In response to detecting the gesture, if the contact had a maximum intensity during the gesture that was below a respective intensity threshold, the device retains the respective icon in the predefined area after the gesture has ended. But if the contact reached an intensity during the gesture that was above the respective intensity threshold, the device moves the respective icon in accordance with the movement of the contact during the gesture and removes the respective icon from the predefined area after the gesture has ended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Nicholas Zambetti, Julian Missig
  • Patent number: 11334210
    Abstract: A window adjustment method is provided and includes operations of: when an application program in a mobile terminal being displayed in the form of a free window, monitoring touch-control information on a display interface of the mobile terminal; if the monitored touch-control information is sliding information of two touch points, determining a free window corresponding to the touch-control information, and determining an angle between the sliding directions of the two touch points; and based on the angle between the sliding directions of the two touch points, zooming or moving the free window corresponding to the touch-control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiyong Lin, Liangjing Fu, Tongxi Li, Lei Jing
  • Patent number: 11327639
    Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure provide a split view exiting method and device, a storage medium and an electronic device. The method includes: detecting, in a split view state, a moving operation from a user for a first split window and a second split window; moving the first split window and the second split window according to the detected moving operation; acquiring window overlap information of the first split window and the second split window when detecting that the first split window and the second split window are partially overlapped; and exiting the split view state when the window overlap information meets a preset split exiting condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Liangjing Fu, Zhiyong Lin, Tongxi Li, Dan Cao