Patents Examined by Joseph R. Burwell
  • Patent number: 9830053
    Abstract: A screen definition device includes a screen data generating unit that outputs screen data generated by combining model screen data in which section information is set, with screen definition tables for the model screen data; a screen data combining unit that combines the screen data with the other screen data based on a reference relation indicated by link information of the screen data and the link information of the other screen data; and a screen definition table setting unit that sets screen definition tables in a table form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Terukazu Senda, Kentaro Takasu
  • Patent number: 9804772
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for managing a menu item in a portable terminal are provided. In the method, at least one item is selected from items displayed on a screen according to a user control. An attribute of selected at least one item is determined. A new item is generated by one of dividing and merging the at least one item depending on the determined attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Hoon Oh, Nam-Il Lee, In-Yong Choi, Seok-Yeong Jung
  • Patent number: 9804752
    Abstract: A method for managing contacts in a messaging application includes receiving a request from relating to obtaining conversations associated with a client device, in response to the request, retrieving data corresponding to the conversations and causing displaying a list of the conversations on the client device, determining, based on a least one conversation attributes, a rating value for each conversation among the conversations, identifying a particular conversation of the conversations wherein the rating value associated with the particular conversation is below a threshold rating value, and in response to identifying the particular conversation, causing updating the list that is displayed on the client device by removing the particular conversation from the list of the conversations that is displayed on the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: ATLASSIAN PTY LTD
    Inventor: Orpheus Mall
  • Patent number: 9760631
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for analyzing performance of video content are disclosed herein. In one aspect, performance data indicative of a number of presentations of a video at user devices is received. The performance data specifies a portion of the total duration of the video that was presented prior to presentation being terminated. For each of two or more segments of the total duration, a play-through rate is determined for the segment. The play through rate for each segment is based on a number of the presentations of the video that were not terminated prior to an end of the segment. A play-through graph generated based on the play through rates is provided. A determination is made that user interaction occurred with a particular area of the play-through graph. A portion of the video from a particular segment that corresponds to the particular area is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas J. Broxton, Tim Carlo Jorges
  • Patent number: 9754085
    Abstract: Gestures for creating chemical structure symbols representing rings of carbon atoms on a touch screen device include circular motions that cause a touch screen enabled device to display symbols representing chemical structures or related information in response to the gestures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Integrated Chemistry Design, Inc.
    Inventors: John D. Clark, Mary Catherine Johnson, Atsuo Kuki
  • Patent number: 9686224
    Abstract: A provision device (100) in a provision system providing a user conducting activities through a service with reactions of other users to the user is configured as follows. A presenter (101) presents a current state of the reactions from the other users to the user that have occurred while the user is conducting activities through the service to the user via the service while the user is conducting activities through the service. A notifier (102) gives notice of a summary of the reactions from the other users to the user that have occurred while the user is not conducting activities through the service to the user with no intervention of the service while the user is not conducting activities through the service. Then, as the user conducts a given operation on information contained in the notified summary, the notifier (102) prompts the user to start conducting activities through the service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventors: Takaaki Tanno, Hideaki Usui
  • Patent number: 9665240
    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 interface may further be facilitated by accessing, by a processor, business data corresponding to the plurality of items. The interface may be facilitated by determining, by the processor, a visual bias for at least one of the plurality of dynamic icons based on the business data corresponding to the plurality of items and may be facilitated by applying, via the interface, the visual bias to the at least one of the plurality of dynamic icons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Groupon, Inc.
    Inventors: David Gomez-Rosado, Tihomir Tsankov Georgiev
  • Patent number: 9658732
    Abstract: Providing a bridge interface for managing virtual workspaces is disclosed. A plurality of workspace images is presented in a user interface, each workspace image corresponding to a different virtual workspace available to a user of a computer system. A plurality of application windows associated with one of the virtual workspaces is displayed. A user's selection of at least one of the displayed application windows and dragging the selected application window in the user interface from a first location to a second location in the user interface is detected. A virtual workspace associated with the selected application window is changed based on the second location in the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bas Ording, John O. Louch
  • Patent number: 9652439
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided through which data parseable against a document type definition by generating a list of a possible paths of an input element that is not encoded against the document type definition, determining the path that is the best fit with the document type definition, and then generating the element in the syntax of the document type definition. Determining the path that is the best fit includes parsing the path against the document type definition. The best fit is expressed in a scoring scale, in which the best score indicates the best fit. Thereafter, the path with the best fit is translated in accordance to the document type definition or markup language.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources
    Inventor: Michael S. Zaharkin
  • Patent number: 9569544
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide for persisting and retrieving search results based on a context of the search results and an application providing those results. For example, one embodiment of the present invention allows a user to access previous search result from a current page of a user interface, e.g., by clicking on an icon in the interface page. Additionally, these previous results can be made available without requiring the user to leave a current page in order to view the saved results. For example, the previous results can be indicated and accessible through an icon on the breadcrumb menu that, upon the user clicking of otherwise selecting the icon, causes the user interface to render the previous search results in a pop up dialog without leaving the current page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rahul K. Joshi, Venkata R. Gujjula, Mark D. Martin
  • Patent number: 9542202
    Abstract: Providing a bridge interface for managing virtual workspaces is disclosed. A plurality of workspace images is presented in a user interface, each workspace image corresponding to a different virtual workspace available to a user of a computer system. A user input indicating a selection of a presented workspace image is received. The user interface is updated to display a plurality of application windows associated with the selected virtual workspace in addition to displaying the plurality of workspace images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Bas Ording, John O. Louch
  • Patent number: 9535583
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided that allow a user to draw and edit a chemical structure. Aspects of the present disclosure may include receiving an input corresponding to an amendment to a portion of an in-progress chemical structure, and identifying, based at least in part upon the amended in-progress chemical structure, one or more molecular scaffolds from a set of candidate molecular scaffolds. Each molecular scaffold may be configured to, upon one or both of (i) appending to the amended portion of the in-progress chemical structure and (ii) replacing or partially replacing the amended portion of the in-progress chemical structure, provide a resulting chemical structure or chemical structure fragment that has been previously rendered. The one or more molecular scaffolds may be provided for presentation on the graphical display as option(s) for selection by a user in creating the graphical representation of the chemical structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: PERKINELMER INFORMATICS, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew Smellie, Mark L. Olson
  • Patent number: 9535600
    Abstract: A touch-sensitive device has a touch-based input interface and includes a touch-based folder control for creating, moving or arranging folders in response to an input of a touch-based user interaction. The touch-sensitive device receives an input from a touch-based user interaction on a home screen of the touch sensitive device and creates a new folder in response to at least one object selected by the user interaction. The touch based folder control visually disposes the new folder at a specific place on the home screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Ki Lee, Su Jung Youn, Kyoung Ae Lim, Su Mi Shim, Wan Soo Lim
  • Patent number: 9513710
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and a method for controlling the operation of the mobile terminal are provided. In the method, a stereoscopic 3D image that utilizes binocular disparity between a left-eye image and a right-eye image is displayed on a display and a stereoscopic 3D pointer is displayed in the stereoscopic 3D image when a user's hand is detected according to analysis of visual data acquired by a camera. The position of the stereoscopic 3D pointer is moved according to movement of the hand when the movement of the hand is detected according to analysis of the visual data. According to this method, the operation of the mobile terminal can be controlled by the user's hand movement or gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jinsool Lee, Dongok Kim, Taeyun Kim, Seungmin Seen
  • Patent number: 9507872
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method of accessing multi-page data via a user interface can include: displaying a scrollbar on the user interface, where the scrollbar includes a page index and a scroll indicator; receiving a selection of a page of the data using the page index in the scrollbar on the user interface, where the data is arranged as a plurality of pages; indicating the selected page in the scrollbar with a predetermined indicator, such as a highlight indicator; receiving a selection of a portion of the selected page using the scroll indicator in the scrollbar on the user interface; and displaying the selected portion of the selected page in a main window on the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: Nadia Naderi
  • Patent number: 9503710
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a memory configured to store at least one 2-dimensional (2D) image and at least one 3-dimensional (3D) image. A display unit is configured to display the images. A controller is configured to control the display unit to display a list including the at least one 2D image and the at least one 3D image when a command for displaying the list is input, and to control at least one image being one of the 2D image or the 3D image distinguishably displayed from another of the 2D image or the 3D image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Jinsool Lee
  • Patent number: 9471215
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for controlling display of a context toolbar, comprising: receiving a screen touch signal for displaying the context toolbar; determining a selected object according to the screen touch signal; selecting function buttons corresponding to the selected object, and obtaining an overall display width by summating the display width of the selected function buttons; comparing the overall display width with a preset value, when the overall display width?the preset value, displaying the context toolbar, and displaying all the selected function buttons and a close button for closing the context toolbar in the context toolbar; and when the overall display width>the preset value, displaying the context toolbar, and displaying some of the selected function buttons and a close button for closing the context toolbar in the context toolbar, and in response to slide touch information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignees: ZHUHAI KINGSOFT OFFICE SOFTWARE CO., LTD, ZHUHAI KINGSOFT SOFTWARE CO., LTD
    Inventors: Hui Wang, Jian Zhu
  • Patent number: 9448724
    Abstract: A touch screen keyboard is dynamically customizable to modify the active regions of one or more keys in the keyboard to adapt the keyboard to a user's unique physiology. The active regions may be modified in response to monitoring user input directed to the keys in the keyboard so that the keyboard automatically adapts to the user's physiology. In addition, while the locations and/or sizes of the active regions may be modified to adapt to a user's physiology, in some instances the shapes of the active regions may also be distorted such that the resulting active regions are irregular in nature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Ryan S. Arnold
  • Patent number: 9430923
    Abstract: Moving object detecting, tracking, and displaying systems are provided. Systems illustratively include a graphical user interface and a processing unit. The processing unit is a functional part of the system that executes computer readable instructions to generate the graphical user interface. The graphical user interface may include an alert and tracking window that has a first dimension that corresponds to a temporal domain and a second dimension that corresponds to a spatial domain. In some embodiments, alert and tracking windows include target tracking markers. Target tracking markers optionally provide information about moving objects such as, but not limited to, information about past locations of moving objects and information about sizes of moving objects. Certain embodiments may also include other features such as zoom windows, playback controls, and graphical imagery added to a display to highlight moving objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: INNOVATIVE SIGNAL ANALYSIS, INC.
    Inventors: Stacy K. Kniffen, Daniel P. Gibbs, Weldon T. Bailey, Mark J. Hillebrand, Stephen R. Erbert
  • Patent number: 9420257
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a controller and a display configured to display a stereoscopic image comprising a first image provided to a left eye and a second image provided to a right eye. The controller searches for a plurality of objects within the first image and the second image, wherein each of the plurality of objects is correspondingly present in both the first image and in the second image to form a stereoscopic image; calculates a separation distance for each object; changes only a position of a selected object of each of the first and second images when the calculated separation distance for the selected object is equal to or greater than a threshold value to decrease the separation distance for the selected object to less than the threshold value; and causes the display to display the changed first and second images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Yunhwan Seol