Patents Examined by Joseph R. Burwell
  • Patent number: 9400850
    Abstract: Exemplary systems and methods for providing a tailored user interface associated with a web page are disclosed. An exemplary method includes a user interface computing system identifying, from computing code representative of a web page and based on a predefined element selection heuristic, one or more select elements of the web page and generating a user interface including data representative of the one or more select elements for display on a display screen, the user interface having a presentation scheme that is different from a presentation scheme of the web page and that is tailored to facilitate interaction with the data representative of the one or more select elements by a user utilizing a set of user inputs. Corresponding systems and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Brian F. Roberts, Armando P. Stettner
  • Patent number: 9367824
    Abstract: An action item specifying one or more tasks is instantiated. Thereafter, data characterizing the action item is associated with at least one tool to perform at least one task. Each tool comprises at least one service, application or procedure to facilitate or perform the at least one task. Subsequently, the at least one tool is initiated. User-generated input and/or other data is received from the at least one tool. Performance of one or more of the tasks specified by the action item is then finalized using the at least one tool and the user-generated input and/or other data. In some variations, the action item can be provisioned with at least one contextual resource to facilitate performance of at least one task. The at least one contextual resource can be associated with the action item and/or at least one user associated with the action item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Joerg Beringer, Prasad Bhamidipati, Frederic Samson, Murray Spork
  • Patent number: 9342579
    Abstract: Visualization techniques are provided for a clustered multidimensional dataset. A data set is visualized by obtaining a clustering of a multidimensional dataset comprising a plurality of entities, wherein the entities are instances of a particular concept and wherein each entity comprises a plurality of features; and generating an icon for at least one of the entities, the icon having a plurality of regions, wherein each region corresponds to one of the features of the at least one entity, and wherein a size of each region is based on a value of the corresponding feature. Each icon can convey statistical measures. A stabilized Voronoi-based icon layout algorithm is optionally employed. Icons can be embedded in a visualization of the multidimensional dataset. A hierarchical encoding scheme can be employed to encode a data cluster into the icon, such as a hierarchy of cluster, feature type and entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nan Cao, David H. Gotz, Jimeng Sun
  • Patent number: 9344684
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for managing video data. Embodiments are described by reference to a Digital Video Management (DVM) system, for example methods for facilitating collaborative incident management. In overview, a DVM system provides a user interface, which is renderable at a plurality of client terminal. This allows an operator of each client to independently view DVM content items. In some cases the user interface is provided by components delivered to the clients via a web-server arrangement. The user interface is configured thereby to allow an operator of a first client terminal to provide a request to share a specified DVM content item with the operator of a second client terminal. In response to this request, the content item is delivered to the operator of the second client terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua Worrill, Graeme Laycock
  • Patent number: 9342813
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for displaying log information, comprising: a receiving unit for receiving at least one content and correlation information; the correlation information including correlation that correlates each of a plurality of segments formed at a display and each of the at least one content outputted to the plurality of segments, an output unit for outputting the at least one content to the plurality of segments based on the correlation information; and a processor; wherein the processor is configured to generate the log information including segment information and content information, the log information representing content output history, the segment information identifying each of the plurality of segments, and the content information identifying each of the at least one content, extract part of the log information based on either of the segment information or the content information, and output the extracted log information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: GVBB Holdings S.A.R.L.
    Inventor: Kyoji Oishi
  • Patent number: 9342515
    Abstract: A device and a method for searching for an electronic book (e-book) in a portable terminal are provided. More particularly, a device and a method for searching for an e-book in a portable terminal, which can conveniently manage and search for a plurality of e-books in a portable terminal, are provided. The device includes a display unit for displaying categories of e-books that each include one or more e-books, and a controller for controlling such that an e-book is searched for by displaying and scrolling through the categories of e-books according to a detected shift of the portable terminal, a corresponding category is enlarged according to a touch to the corresponding category, and at least one of the one or more e-books included in the enlarged category is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji-Woo Lee, Sung-Hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 9330279
    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: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Kaspersky Lab, ZAO
    Inventors: Konstantin M. Filatov, Victor V. Yablokov
  • Patent number: 9298745
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and an operation control method thereof are provided. The operation control method includes displaying a display screen including a first group of objects corresponding stereoscopic three-dimensional (3D) images and a second group of objects corresponding two-dimensional (2D) images on a display module; receiving a 3D indication input for distinguishing the first group of objects from the second group of objects; and displaying the first group of objects differently from the second group of objects in response to the received 3D indication input so that the first group of objects can be distinguished from the second group of objects. Since the objects corresponding to stereoscopic 3D images are displayed differently from the objects corresponding to 2D images, it is possible for a user to instantly determine whether an image corresponding to a given object is a stereoscopic 3D image or a 2D image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Shinhae Lee, Taeyun Kim, Seunghyun Woo, Dongok Kim, Jonghwan Kim, Hayang Jung
  • Patent number: 9292196
    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 presented. The presented application windows are visually grouped into one or more clusters, at least one cluster including a set of application windows, and at least a first of the application windows in the set of application windows visually overlaps a second application window in the set of application windows. User input indicating a movement of the application windows in the at least one cluster is received. The presentation of the at least one cluster is modified to make the second application window appear more visible to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bas Ording, John O. Louch
  • Patent number: 9280273
    Abstract: A method comprises causing at least one of a set of content items to be displayed in a first region of a display; causing at least one of the set of content items to be displayed in a second region of the display; in response to an input in relation to the second region, causing at least one other of the set of content items to be displayed in the second region; and, in response to determining that a selected one of the set of content items is not being displayed in the second region, causing an element associated with the selected content item to be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Petri Matti Olavi Piippo
  • Patent number: 9268465
    Abstract: A system for managing a plurality of child profiles is provided that allows parents of children to capture a child's life events in media files, which are automatically imported into a life album for each child. The system also generates different views for the child's life album based upon both user-generated information and computer-generated information, and allows users to identify favorite media files for review using other tree structures. The system could automatically generate a face transformation video from life album media files, and could automatically generate expert queries from common issues gleaned from community discussions that are summarized and exported to experts for review.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Guguly Corporation
    Inventor: Behzad Yari
  • Patent number: 9207859
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed. A plurality of moveable objects are displayed on a touchscreen of the mobile terminal. A background image is displayed as a background of the plurality of objects. In response to user selection of a specific object among the plurality of objects after an object edit mode is entered, the specific object is set to an independent type object, and another object of the plurality of objects is set to a dependent type object. The independent type object is displayed at a specific position on the touchscreen. In response to a touch drag in a specific direction performed with respect to the background image, the background image and the dependent type object are shifted while the independent type object remains fixedly displayed at the same specific position irrespective of the shift of the background image and the dependent type object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seunghyun Woo, Yongdeok Lee, Kange Lee, Shinhae Lee, Jinhwan Jung, Kunho Lee, Hayang Jung
  • Patent number: 9185251
    Abstract: An operation device according to the present disclosure includes a number of hard keys, a function icon display unit, a condition icon display unit, a function item receiving unit, a function item change unit, a condition item receiving unit, and a setting condition receiving unit. The function icon display unit can display a number of function icons indicating the function item respectively assigned to the number of hard keys. The condition icon display unit can display a condition icon indicating a condition item. The function item change unit changes an assignment to the hard keys from the function item to the condition item. The condition item receiving unit displays a condition icon corresponding to the condition item assigned to the hard key. The setting condition receiving unit receives a setting condition indicated by the condition item corresponding to the hard key for which the selection was received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Dai Shigenobu, Nobuyasu Mori
  • Patent number: 9161021
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and a method for converting a display mode thereof are disclosed. The mobile terminal performs a first display action for three-dimensionally displaying a part of a image in a first zone of an entire display zone and two-dimensionally displaying the other part of the image in a second zone as a gesture externally input for conversion between two-dimensional display and three-dimensional display is recognized, and performs a second display action subsequently to the first display action for three-dimensionally displaying a part of the image in a third zone of the entire display zone and two-dimensionally displaying the other part of the image in a fourth zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jonghwan Kim, Ahyun Park, Hyunho Jee, Donggwan Im, Doyoung Park
  • Patent number: 9154775
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which a user interface for appreciating a 3-dimensional (3D) stereoscopic image more conveniently can be provided. The present invention includes a display unit including a parallax generating means for displaying a 3D stereoscopic image on at least one portion of the display unit and a controller, when a planar (2D) image is displayed via the display unit, determining whether the 3D stereoscopic image is outputted via the display unit within a preset duration, the controller, if the 3D stereoscopic image is outputted as a result of the determination, controlling a prescribed visual effect indicating that the 3D stereoscopic image is outputted to be given to at least one region of the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seunghyun Woo, Shinhae Lee, Hayang Jung
  • Patent number: 9141332
    Abstract: A system can mask specific components of an application, such as a web page, displayed during a screen sharing session. As the web page is being displayed on a first computer screen (i.e., screen), the system can automatically mask specific components of the web page. Thus, when the first screen is captured, and the capture is transmitted to a second screen, the specific components of the web page that have been masked will not be displayed at the second screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Oracle OTC Subsidiary LLC
    Inventors: Barry Gordon Coleman, Keith Speers
  • Patent number: 9134876
    Abstract: An information processing device stores a window of an application and designation information for designating an external device associated with the window. The information processing device detects an external device located near the information processing device, and when multiple windows are displayed having an overlapping portion the information processing device identifies an external device associated with the multiple windows. Next, the information processing device determines whether there is a window associated with the detected external device, and if the window(s) exists the information processing device displays the window or any one of the windows in the foremost position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Izua Kano, Kazuhiro Yamada, Dai Kamiya, Yasushi Onda, Keiichi Murakami
  • Patent number: 9104275
    Abstract: A method may include displaying at least one first object on a perceived 3D space having at least a first layer and a second layer, wherein the first layer has a 3D level of a first depth and the second layer has a 3D level of a second depth, and wherein the at least one first object is arranged on the first layer. The method may also include receiving a user input for selecting one of the at least one first object while displaying the at least one first object, arranging at least one second object on the second layer when the 3D level of the second layer changes to the first depth, and displaying the at least one second object, wherein each of the at least one second object corresponds to a sub-menu of a menu corresponding to the selected first object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jong Hwan Kim, Yeon Joo Kang, Seung Woo Nam
  • Patent number: 8984443
    Abstract: An information processing device displays in a display area a key image indicating an associated key to which a process is allocated as a soft key. In the information processing device, a key to which a process is allocated can be changed. The information processing device changes what is displayed based on the display mode. For example, if processes are allocated to a key, the information processing device displays an associated key image. If the user desires to change the orientation of the device, the key and associated key image and allocated process can be changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Izua Kano, Kazuhiro Yamada, Dai Kamiya, Yasushi Onda, Keiichi Murakami
  • Patent number: 8943438
    Abstract: For each smartphone application included in a smartphone, an identifier, such as a name of the smartphone application, and information on whether the smartphone application operates in cooperation with a vehicle-mounted device, are registered in a smartphone application management table. From the smartphone applications included in the connected smartphone, higher priority is given to the smartphone applications that are registered in the smartphone application management table as applications that operate in cooperation with the vehicle-mounted device. A lower priority is given to other smartphone applications. Icons of the high priority smartphone applications are arranged on a first page of a smartphone application menu, whereas icons of the low priority smartphone applications are sequentially arranged on second and following pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Alpine Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Nobuo Matsumoto, Masahito Kazuno