Patents Examined by Jung-Mu T Chuang
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Patent number: 10320861Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for generating and sharing a document with individuals determined to be participants in an interaction or meeting. A first device of a first user receives a selection to create a document for the interaction. The device searches for data associated with the interaction and determines the participants in the interaction based on the data and on proximity of other users or user devices. A document including information from the data associated with the interaction is created for the interaction. An access control list for the document is assigned which includes the participants determined to be in the interaction. The document is then shared with the participants according to the access control list.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2015Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Nicholas Trent Caston, Jennifer Delphine King, Cayden Joel Meyer, Harold H W Kim, Xudong Yang
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Patent number: 10289278Abstract: Provided are a method, computer program product and computer system for displaying webpage information of a parent tab associated with a new child tab on a graphical user interface. The method includes the following steps: opening a link for identifying a new tab in a new webpage from a parent webpage; creating the new tab; recording a position of the link; capturing a screen of the parent webpage to generate a screenshot; highlighting the link in the screenshot; and saving the screenshot with the highlighted link to a tooltip attribute of the new tab.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2015Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Luke Chen, Paige Chen, Ken Liu, Paul Yuan
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Patent number: 10248286Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises: a display which allows users to connect a first icon to a second icon on a first screen and is capable of displaying the first screen with a still image of the first icon in motion and a second screen matching an event; a completion detector which detects completion of the connecting operation; a processor which performs an operation predetermined for the first and second icon when the connecting operation is completed; an event detector which detects occurrence of an event during the connecting operation; and a controller which performs, if an event occurs before completion of the connecting operation, a control operation consisting of: storing composition information of the first screen with a still image of the first icon in motion; interrupting the first screen; and reproducing the first screen after disappearance of the second screen on the basis of the composition information.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2013Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Manabu Furukawa, Hideyuki Matsuda, Nobuhiro Mishima, Kazusei Takahashi, Mitsuharu Nagai
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Patent number: 10216400Abstract: A display controller including a storage storing a list image including a plurality of object images, a display having a display area configured to concurrently display a particular number of object images, and a control unit configured to display the particular number of object images arranged along a particular direction in the display area, display a specific indication image indicating a specific direction along the particular direction, detect a dragging operation of dragging the specific indication image in the specific direction, detect a dragging operation amount of the detected dragging operation, and control the display such that the particular number of object images are scrolled in the particular direction at a scrolling speed, the scrolling speed being associated with the detected dragging operation amount.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2015Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Sadaaki Miyazaki, Dai Kadota
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Patent number: 10203867Abstract: A device displays a listing of items in an item data display area on a display. The device receives an indication of a pinch gesture from a touch-enabled screen and scales a facet of the item data to produce a scaled-facet listing responsive to the pinch gesture. The device scales by modifying a degree of a characteristic corresponding with a facet of the item data displayed in the scaled-data display area in an increasing amount responsive to the pinch-in gesture. The modifying further comprises producing a scaled-out listing implemented as an updated portion of item data having a temporal indicator that is later than an initial display of item data by an amount proportional to a magnitude of a pinch gesture characteristic corresponding to the pinch-in gesture. Finally, the device displays the scaled-facet listing as an updated set of item data.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2014Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: eBay Inc.Inventors: Han-Shen Yuan, Ryan Melcher, Steve Yankovich
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Patent number: 10152199Abstract: This disclosure describes systems and methods that enable users to easily take action on objects through use of a contextual menu. The contextual menu may be independent of the application and/or device through which the object is accessed and allows the user to perform actions with respect to an object. The selected action may be locally performed and/or performed at a location remote from the client device.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2014Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Pinterest, Inc.Inventors: Jason Luke Wilson, Naveen Gavini, Steven Ramkumar, Anthony T. Falzone
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Patent number: 10042514Abstract: Techniques for providing improved typeahead features are described. According to various embodiments, it is determined that a user has specified, via a user interface, a first metric term. A list of one or more suggested operators associated with the first metric term is then generated and displayed, and it is determined that the user has selected one of the suggested operators. Thereafter, a list of one or more suggested metric terms associated with the selected operator is generated and displayed, and it is determined that the user has selected a second metric term from the suggested metric terms. Thereafter, a custom metric definition data entity that references information defining a custom metric is generated, the information specifying that metric values associated with the custom metric are generated by processing metric values associated with the first metric term and the second metric term based on the selected operator.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2014Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Erin Louise Delacroix, Christina Lynn Lopus, James Lee Baker
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Patent number: 10042952Abstract: A social networking system generates a friendship page that displays social graph data common to two or more social networking system users. A user requests the page by identifying two or more social networking system. The social networking system obtains social graph data common to the identified social networking system users and generates a friendship page containing that social graph data. The obtained social graph data may include interactions between each of the identified user and/or social networking system objects with which each of the identified users has interacted. Examples of the types of social graph data may include photos, videos, communications, content items, events, locations, friends, family members, biographical data, and location data. The friendship page may be displayed to the requesting user in a web browser or in a native application.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2015Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventor: Wayne Kao
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Patent number: 10025487Abstract: A method includes, detecting a location of a text selection icon on a display of an electronic device, and, detecting touch input representing a selection of text displayed on the display using the text selection icon, wherein: if the detected location of the text selection icon is maintained within a zone adjacent an edge of the display, the displayed text is selected on a row by row basis, and, if the detected location of the text selection icon moves outside said zone, the displayed text is selected on a letter by letter basis.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2012Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventor: Simon Martin Thorsander
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Patent number: 10025454Abstract: A navigation system for navigating a three-dimensional (3D) scene that includes a model or object with which a user can interact. The system accommodates and helps both novice and advanced users. To do this, the system provides a first contact tool graphic that introduces a user to the types of navigation tools, their uses and the capabilities of their action tools. A graphical user interface is played on a display when a user initially starts navigation operations for navigating a three dimensional scene.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2008Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: AUTODESK, INC.Inventors: George Fitzmaurice, Justin Matejka, Gord Kurenbach, Azam Khan
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Patent number: 9990101Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for preventing unintentional GUI control advances. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for preventing unintentional graphical user interface (GUI) control advancing associated with an auto-advance feature can be provided. The method can include defining a threshold time period, selecting a GUI control in a GUI for which auto-advancement is enabled, receiving complete input for the selected GUI control, and suppressing a manual directive to advance to a next ordered GUI control in the GUI responsive to the manual directive being received within the threshold time period between the receipt of the complete input and the manual directive.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2016Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Patrick M. Commarford, Lauren M. Shupp
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Patent number: 9959907Abstract: A computer-implemented method can include displaying, within a user interface in a digital media system, a media pane, and a project pane, displaying, within the media pane, a thumbnail group representing a media item, the thumbnail group comprising one or more thumbnails, a thumbnail comprising a plurality of frames, enabling a user to select, from the thumbnail group, a frame of the media item, and upon detecting that the user has selected a frame, creating a group of frames, the group of frames including the selected frame and one or more adjacent frames.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2011Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Randy Ubillos, Greg Gilley