Patents Examined by Joseph R. Burwell
  • Patent number: 10359921
    Abstract: The invention introduces a method for operating interactive whiteboards, performed by a processing unit of a control node, which contains at least the following steps. A connected-device display region, a multi-screen layout region and a whiteboard display region are provided on an interactive display device. After detecting that an icon of the connected-device display region is dragged and dropped into a block of the multi-screen layout region, a network address associated with the icon is obtained. A TCP port number associated with the block of the connected-device display region, which contains the dropped icon, is obtained. A ready notification containing the TCP port number is transmitted to the network address. Screen data with the TCP port number is received. The screen data is displayed on a block of the whiteboard display region, which is associated with the block of the connected-device display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: WISTRON CORP.
    Inventors: Fang-Wen Liao, Pen-Tai Miao, Ping-Hung Chen
  • Patent number: 10341276
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can transmit at least a media content item to a recipient device. A response can be received from the recipient device. At least the media content item can be obscured to produce an obscured media content item. The response and the obscured media content item can be presented. The response can overlay the obscured media content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Samantha P. Krug, Ian Mc Intyre Silber, Christopher Cunningham, Ryan Jacob Gomba
  • Patent number: 10261658
    Abstract: Methods for automating user operations include analyzing a name of an image file to identify an operation to be automated. One or more embodiments compare a content of the image file to a graphical user interface of a computing device to identify a location of a graphical user interface element in the graphical user interface. One or more embodiments perform the operation identified from the name at the location of the graphical user interface element identified from the content of the image file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventors: Jun Zhang, Weihua Li, Zhilei Yang
  • Patent number: 10228837
    Abstract: An intuitive dashboard framework for creating, managing and publishing a collection of visualization gadgets for critical environments. It may further reveal intelligent gadgets to visualize critical environmental data in wet chemistry laboratories, and a healthcare and life science environment that are easy to configure, customize and deploy for a web dashboard presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Hua, Christopher Martin, James Barrette, Liwen Yu, Ajay N. Nair, Prabhat Ranjan, Barnali Chetia, Upender Paravastu, Robert Klamka, Sreedharan Venkataraman
  • Patent number: 10191627
    Abstract: An electronic device with a touch-sensitive surface, a display, and one or more sensors to detect intensity of contacts with the touch-sensitive surface displays a graphical object inside of a frame on the display, and detects a gesture. Detecting the gesture includes: detecting a contact on the touch-sensitive surface while a focus selector is over the graphical object, and detecting movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface. In response to detecting the gesture: in accordance with a determination that the contact meets predefined intensity criteria, the device removes the graphical object from the frame; and in accordance with a determination that the contact does not meet the predefined intensity criteria, the device adjusts an appearance of the graphical object inside of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Avi E. Cieplinski, Jeffrey Traer Bernstein, Julian Missig, May-Li Khoe, B. Michael Victor
  • Patent number: 10185491
    Abstract: An electronic device with a display, a touch-sensitive surface and one or more intensity sensors displays content. While a focus selector is over the content, the device detects a gesture on the touch-sensitive surface, the gesture including a contact on the touch-sensitive surface and movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to movement of the focus selector on the display. In response to detecting the gesture, when the contact has an intensity below a selection intensity threshold, the device scrolls the content on the display in accordance with the movement of the focus selector on the display. In response to detecting the gesture, when the contact has an intensity above the selection intensity threshold, the device displays an enlarged representation of a portion of the content corresponding to the location of the contact on the touch-sensitive surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Traer Bernstein, Julian Missig
  • Patent number: 10182069
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for blocking access to restricted elements of application interface and covering the restricted elements by trusted interface elements. The system includes an analyzer module, a database of restricted elements and a blocking module. The analyzer module is configured to detect interface elements of an active application rendered on a computer or a mobile device. The analyzer module determines if an application interface element is restricted by comparing the application interface element against the known restricted interface elements from the database. If the restricted element is detected, the analyzer module sends the data about the restricted element to the blocking module. The blocking module covers the restricted interface element by a trusted interface element or by an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Kaspersky Lab, ZAO
    Inventors: Konstantin M. Filatov, Victor V. Yablokov
  • Patent number: 10175864
    Abstract: An electronic device: displays a plurality of objects, where two or more of the objects are grouped together in a group of objects and one or more other objects of the plurality of objects are not in the group; detects a first gesture that includes a first press input at a location that corresponds to a respective object in the group. in response to detecting the first gesture, the device selects one or more of the plurality of objects as a set of selected objects. If the first press input had a maximum intensity below a first intensity threshold, the set includes the objects in the group and excludes the other objects that are not in the group. If the first press input had an intensity above the first intensity threshold, the set includes the respective object and excludes one or more objects in the group and the other objects that are not in the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Julian Missig, Matthew I. Brown, Evan Torchin
  • Patent number: 10175757
    Abstract: An electronic device with a touch-sensitive surface and a display displays a user interface object on the display, detects a contact on the touch-sensitive surface, and detects a first movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface, the first movement corresponding to performing an operation on the user interface object, and, in response to detecting the first movement, the device performs the operation and generates a first tactile output on the touch-sensitive surface. The device also detects a second movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface, the second movement corresponding to reversing the operation on the user interface object, and in response to detecting the second movement, the device reverses the operation and generates a second tactile output on the touch-sensitive surface, where the second tactile output is different from the first tactile output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Julian Missig, Jeffrey Traer Bernstein
  • Patent number: 10175879
    Abstract: An electronic device with a display, a touch-sensitive surface and one or more intensity sensors displays content. While a focus selector is over the content, the device detects a gesture on the touch-sensitive surface, the gesture including a first contact on the touch-sensitive surface and movement of the first contact across the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to movement of the focus selector on the display. In response to detecting the gesture, when the contact has an intensity below a selection intensity threshold, the device scrolls the content on the display in accordance with the movement of the focus selector on the display without selecting the content. In response to detecting the gesture, when the contact has an intensity above the selection intensity threshold, the device selects at least a portion of the content in accordance with the movement of the focus selector over the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Julian Missig, Matthew I. Brown
  • Patent number: 10152192
    Abstract: In some implementations, a method for managing virtual workspaces is described. In some implementations, workspace images corresponding to different virtual workspaces can be displayed on a user interface of a computing device. When an application window is moved onto one of the workspace images, the window can be scaled down to fit within the workspace image. In some implementations, a window grouping or cluster can be moved onto one of the workspace images and scaled down accordingly. In some implementations, a method for generating a new virtual workspace is described. In some implementations, a placeholder workspace image that has no corresponding virtual workspace can be displayed on a user interface of a computing device. In response to an application window being moved onto the placeholder workspace image, a new virtual workspace (and new workspace image) can be generated that includes the windows that were moved onto the placeholder workspace image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bas Ording, John O. Louch
  • Patent number: 10120529
    Abstract: A system may include a touchscreen and a computing device executing an application. The application displays on the touch screen a navigation area including a centrally disposed selection element. There is a first display area in the navigation area, wherein the first display area shows a first menu item from a list of menu items. The application changes the first display area, when a next menu select action is detected based on interactions with the touch screen, to show a second menu item from the list of menu items, where in the information on the touch screen is updated to corresponds to the second menu item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Michelle Felt
  • Patent number: 10108331
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus and a computer readable medium for window management of multiple screens are provided. In the method, an external screen is detected and connected. A first touch operation performed on a window displayed on a touch screen is received. The window is moved to the external screen and displayed on the external screen according to the first touch operation, and a window management panel is displayed on the touch screen, where the window management panel includes a window icon corresponding to the window moved to the external screen. A second touch operation performed on the window icon is received, and the window moved to the external screen is controlled accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: WISTRON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sunny MX Li
  • Patent number: 10095367
    Abstract: Managing metadata associated with a digital media asset includes selecting the digital media asset, displaying the digital media asset in a filmstrip format that presents one or more scenes from the digital media asset along a timeline, wherein each scene corresponds with an underlying point in time along the timeline, and wherein the digital media asset has a start time and an end time that define the timeline, displaying at least one track in timeline alignment with the film strip format wherein the at least one track corresponds with a type of metadata associated with the digital media asset, and displaying on the at least one track, one or more segments, wherein each segment has a start point and an end point along the timeline and wherein each respective segment represents a span of time in which the type of metadata occurs within the digital media asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: TIVO SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Matthew G. Berry, Tim Jones, Isaac Kunkel
  • Patent number: 10078442
    Abstract: An electronic device with a display, a touch-sensitive surface and one or more intensity sensors displays content. While a focus selector is over the content, the device detects a gesture on the touch-sensitive surface, the gesture including a first contact on the touch-sensitive surface and movement of the first contact across the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to movement of the focus selector on the display. In response to detecting the gesture, when the contact has an intensity below a selection intensity threshold, the device scrolls the content on the display in accordance with the movement of the focus selector on the display without selecting the content. In response to detecting the gesture, when the contact has an intensity above the selection intensity threshold, the device selects at least a portion of the content in accordance with the movement of the focus selector over the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Traer Bernstein, Julian Missig
  • Patent number: 9990121
    Abstract: An electronic device, with a touch-sensitive surface and a display, includes one or more sensors to detect intensity of contacts with the touch-sensitive surface. The device displays a user interface object on the display. The device further detects a press input on the touch-sensitive surface while a focus selector is at a first location in a user interface. In response to detecting the press input on the touch-sensitive surface, upon determining that the press input has an intensity above a predefined activation threshold, the device moves the user interface object directly to the first location in the user interface; and upon determining that the press input has an intensity below the predefined activation threshold and meets gradual-movement criteria, the device moves the user interface object toward the first location in the user interface in accordance with the intensity of the press input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Avi E. Cieplinski, May-Li Khoe
  • Patent number: 9977876
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided that allow a user to draw and edit a chemical structure using one or more gestures performed on an input interface, such as a touch pad or touch screen. For example, the user may rotate the chemical structure representation in the graphical display by performing one or more rotation gestures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: PerkinElmer Informatics, Inc.
    Inventors: Robin Young Smith, Scott Gregory Flicker, Daniel Malcolm Oberlin, Andrew Smellie
  • Patent number: 9891822
    Abstract: An input device is provided. The input device includes a display that displays a keypad for input of a character and a character input window showing a character string input through the keypad; a gesture sensor that senses a gesture of a user; and a controller that controls the display, based on the gesture, wherein the keypad comprises: a central item; a plurality of peripheral items arranged while being spaced from one another around the central item; and a plurality of guide lines corresponding to the plurality of the peripheral items, the plurality of the guide lines are in a straight or curved line form directed from each of the plurality of the peripheral items toward the central item, and have different forms and directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Korea University Research and Business Foundation, Sejong Campus
    Inventor: Hyeon Joong Cho
  • Patent number: 9894261
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for presenting DVM system information. In overview, a hierarchical tree structure is used to display DVM system elements (such as cameras). The tree structure is defined by a plurality of nodes arranged in hierarchical levels. Each level in the tree structure corresponds to an element characteristic. The nodes for each level correspond to element characteristic values. For example, one level might correspond to “camera status”, and the nodes at that level each define camera status values (e.g. operational or non-operational). A tree customization module allows a user to customize the tree structure by designating element characteristics for levels in the tree structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Flannery
  • Patent number: 9836502
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide a platform of at least partially pre-defined panel templates that a user can select and manipulate to customize the visualization of data of interest within an interactive dashboard. Each panel template may be defined by a developer in advance to include a set of inputs, a query, and a visualization. Users may select pre-defined panel templates for inclusion in the dashboard, and when the dashboard is displayed, use the set of inputs of a particular panel to specify criteria that may further define the corresponding query and/or the visualization of data produced by executing the query. An electronic dashboard has a combination of available panel templates that may be selected and arranged according to a desired page layout or design. One or more reusable panel templates may be provided to a user of an enterprise application for data analysis and visualization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Joseph Papale, Mark A. Groves