Patents Examined by Kavita Stanley
  • Patent number: 11200413
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for table recognition in PDF documents are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes discretizing one or more contiguous areas of a PDF document; identifying one or more white-space separator lines within the one or more discretized contiguous areas of the PDF document; detecting one or more candidate table regions within the one or more discretized contiguous areas of the PDF document by clustering the one or more white-space separator lines into one or more grids; and outputting at least one of the candidate table regions as a finalized table in accordance with scores assigned to each of the one or more candidate table regions based on (i) border information and (ii) cell structure information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas Ronald Burdick, Wei Cheng, Alexandre Evfimievski, Marina Danilevsky Hailpern, Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, Shajith Ikbal Mohamed, Prithviraj Sen, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan
  • Patent number: 11194885
    Abstract: Computer-implemented techniques can include obtaining a document object model (DOM) tree having a plurality of elements arranged in a plurality of nodes, the DOM tree being generated from a source document for a web page, rendering the web page using the DOM tree, based on an update to the web page, obtaining, by the computing device, a virtual DOM tree having a plurality of virtual elements; establishing a pointer indicative of a current location in the virtual DOM tree, for each specific virtual element of the plurality of virtual elements, determining whether the specific virtual element corresponds to the update and when the specific virtual element corresponds to the update, based on the pointer, obtaining a modified DOM tree by transforming a particular DOM element in the DOM tree corresponding to the specific virtual element, and re-rendering the web page using the modified DOM tree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Sepand Parhami, Malte Ubl
  • Patent number: 11194595
    Abstract: A generation apparatus that generates a mapping between individual properties included in an object in a program and individual elements of a structured document. The generation apparatus includes: an object tree generation unit that generates a tree structure representing hierarchical structure of the object by assigning the individual properties included in the object to nodes of the tree structure; and a selection unit that selects a mapping minimizing conversion cost of converting the tree structure of the object to a tree structure that includes the individual elements of the structured document as its nodes. The selection is from mappings that associate the individual properties included in the object with the individual elements of the structured document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Toyotaro Suzumura, Michiaki Tatsubori, Akihiko Tozawa
  • Patent number: 11188298
    Abstract: An electronic device and method are disclosed. The electronic device includes a display, a microphone, a communication circuit, a processor, and a memory. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, implement the method. The method includes determining whether the electronic device is communicatively coupled to an external display device, when the electronic device is not communicatively coupled to the external display, receiving a first user utterance, executing a task corresponding to at least one of a word, phrase or sentence included in the first user utterance as indicated by the mapping, the task preconfigured by a user, and when the electronic device is communicatively coupled to the external display device, displaying at least one of a text and a graphical user interface (GUI) indicating the at least one word, phrase, and sentence on the external display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoonju Lee, Jeongpyo Lee
  • Patent number: 11182045
    Abstract: In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method includes, in response to receiving usage information for each application in a set of applications associated with a mobile device, identifying the usage information per application within predetermined time intervals. The method further includes determining a relative order of each application within each of a plurality of application categories using predetermined ranges of the predetermined time intervals that a respective application was used. The method further includes, in response to determining a particular time of day, modifying a size of icons for display relative to other icons for applications within the application category to highlight applications within the application category according to the relative order. The method further includes displaying, on a display, icons of the set of applications within the application category using a modified size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Iman Johari
  • Patent number: 11176223
    Abstract: An intermediary system identifies a portion of the library that is used to load a page, generates a hint file based on just the portion of the library that is used to load the page, and retrieves the hint file each time the page is loaded in the future. For example, the intermediary system may determine a portion of the library that is used to load the page when a page is first requested. Once the intermediary system determines the portion of the library that is used to load the page, the hint file is generated based on the portion. Each subsequent time that the intermediary system receives a request to load the same page, the intermediary system may retrieve the hint file to determine how to load the page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Frank Hill
  • Patent number: 11175930
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and systems for determining that a user has been presented an element in a user interface. In certain embodiments, a certain dataset of past user-inputs may be de-duplicated. The de-duplicated dataset may then be reduced to a set of data structures by identifying all the data fields of the dataset that correspond to questions that were presented to certain users but were not required to be answered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: INTUIT, INC.
    Inventors: Larry Buzi, Michael A. Artamonov, Jennifer Lynn Keenan, Kevin McCluskey
  • Patent number: 11170164
    Abstract: A method and system for cell tracking between spreadsheets. The method includes: assigning a unique first identifier to each cell containing data within a first spreadsheet; identifying characteristics of each cell containing data within the first spreadsheet and each cell containing data within at least one second spreadsheet, wherein the characteristics include data and metadata associated with each of the cells and wherein the first spreadsheet and the at least one second spreadsheet comprise at least a two-dimensional array of cells; analyzing the cells of the at least one second spreadsheet to compare each cell therein to the cells of the first spreadsheet, wherein the comparison is based on the identified characteristics of each cell, and wherein a comparison above a predetermined threshold is identified as a match; and assigning the unique first identifier of a cell of the first spreadsheet to a matching cell of the at least one second spreadsheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Datarails Ltd.
    Inventors: Oded Har-Tal, Adam Spiro
  • Patent number: 11169666
    Abstract: Server systems are provided that receive content request and respond with hardware-independent graphics commands instead of, or in addition to, unprocessed content items. Some server systems may act as intermediaries between user devices and content sources. The server systems can obtain content pages from content sources, process the content pages (e.g., using a headless browser), and provide hardware-independent graphics commands (e.g., vector graphics commands, that do not require specialized graphics hardware for execution) to user devices in response to requests for content. The hardware-independent graphics commands can be executed by client browsers to generate a representation of the content page that is the same or substantially the same as the representation that would have been generated by processing the content pages locally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Dmitry Sokolowski, Saral Jain
  • Patent number: 11169650
    Abstract: A method of operating a UI for controlling a virtual musical instrument can include receiving a first input corresponding to a selection of an array of cells within a cell matrix, each array of the cell matrix assigned to audio sample data stored in a computer-readable medium that, when triggered, causes the audio sample data to output corresponding audio, and each cell within its particular array of the cell matrix, in response to being selected for playback and upon being triggered to begin playback, causes the audio sample data corresponding to the cell's particular array to be played. The method can further include receiving a second input corresponding to a changing of a number of cells within the particular selected array; and changing the number of cells within the selected array based on the second input and maintaining a number of cells in other arrays within the cell matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua W. Decker, Robert W. Baker
  • Patent number: 11158342
    Abstract: Systems herein allow a user to record a presentation with a slides file. The system can record action events generated by a viewer application that displays slides of the slides file. The system can also record an audio segment for each displayed slide. An action information file can be created that links action events and audio segments to slides, and provides timing information for the action events. This can allow for playback of a narrated presentation where actions are recreated in synchronization with the narration while reducing the reliance on large video files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: AIRWATCH LLC
    Inventors: Ramani Panchapakesan, Neelima Bojja, Suhas S Kulkarni
  • Patent number: 11151187
    Abstract: The current invention is a recommendation system that translates a user's mood into activities and/or files (music, video, and/or literature) that are personalized. The user selects an icon, emoticon, or emoji, that represents their desired mood and the system matches files and/or events and activities to that desired mood, personalized to each user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Inventor: Eric Koenig
  • Patent number: 11150779
    Abstract: A computerized method for operating a zoom function in a web browser is described. The method uses a user's computer to access a network; operate a web browser; and control the operation of a method for performing a zoom function within the web browser. The zoom function presents to the user an icon which directly controls the zoom function for a webpage displayed in an active window. The zoom icon indicates a current zoom factor and where a single selection of the zoom icon directly causes the web browser to perform several actions. The actions include changing the current zoom factor for the webpage displayed in the active window and updating the zoom icon to indicate the zoom factor. Changing the zoom factor enlarges a viewed area or makes it smaller, thereby improving the rendering of information that may be too small or too large to be useful.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Empire IP LLC
    Inventor: Alan Earl Swahn
  • Patent number: 11146646
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes launching, by a client system of a first user, a video-call session to enable a video stream for display in a small-overlay-window on a display of the client system of the first user; receiving, by the client system of the first user, a video stream comprising video from a client system of a second user; determining at least one property for the small-overlay-window based on information associated with the second user; and displaying the video stream in the small-overlay-window, wherein the small-overlay-window is customized based on the determined at least one property, and wherein the small-overlay-window is positioned directly over an interface of an active application running on the client system of the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephane Taine, Edward Young Zhang, Dwayne B. Mercredi, Michael Leggett, Brendan Benjamin Aronoff, Peter Henry Martinazzi, Evan Patrick Noon, Duckjin Kang, John Randall Ehrhardt
  • Patent number: 11137881
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for changing a screen in an electronic device that provides a plurality of windows are provided. The method includes providing, by an electronic device, a plurality of windows functionally connected to the electronic device, selecting at least one window displaying a first application among the plurality of windows, obtaining an input related to a second application being executed in the selected at least one window, and displaying the second application through the at least one window, based on the obtained input. The present disclosure is not limited to a specific embodiment, but various embodiments based on a technical spirit of the present disclosure may be implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyeongseop Shim, Hyesoon Jeong, Daesik Hwang
  • Patent number: 11140255
    Abstract: A user interface for a messaging client application can include a message list. By executing various input operations on a representation of a message in the message list, the user can take an action on the message. For example, a user operating a pointing device can perform a drag operation on a representation of the message in the message list, and the action to be taken on the message can be indicated by the direction and distance of the drag. Visual feedback can be provided during the drag operation to indicate the action that will be taken if the user ends the drag at the current location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Kijun Seo, Anthony DeVincenzi, George Milton Underwood, IV, Sean Beausoleil, Darian Edwards
  • Patent number: 11132496
    Abstract: While reducing memory usage, page related data is made available. Data obtaining means (101) of an electronic book display device (1) obtains electronic book data including a plurality of pages stored in storing means (100) for storing the electronic book data. Display controlling means (103) displays, on display means (14), one or more pages specified in the plurality of pages based on the electronic book data obtained by the data obtaining means (101). Page related data generating means (104) generates, before the display means (14) displays at least one of preceding and succeeding pages to the one or more pages displayed on the display means (14), page related data based on the at least one of the pages and writes the generated page related data in the storing means (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Rong Liu, Junichi Harada
  • Patent number: 11113451
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the generation of customised documents using document templates or master documents in which a mark-up notation is used in a master document, for example to specify the content of a customised document generated from the master document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Inventor: Philip E. Vasey
  • Patent number: 11113458
    Abstract: During operation of a program, various different editing actions can be performed on data (e.g., image or video data) in a document. The data includes multiple objects, each of which is a user-selectable element of the data, such as a line, a shape, or a filter applied to the data. A record of actions taken on objects in the data is maintained, and the actions can be undone. A document-based undo operation can be performed, which undoes the last action performed in the document. An object-based undo can also be performed, which undoes the last action performed on a selected one or more objects in the document. A document-based redo operation can be performed, which redoes the last action undone in the document. An object-based redo can also be performed, which redoes the last action undone on a selected one or more objects in the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventor: Anant Gilra
  • Patent number: 11107567
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to devices and processes for monitoring attributes of a user's physical activity (e.g., workout) or inactivity, and to user interfaces (e.g., an activity indicator) for displaying the same. In some examples, a device determines whether physical activity corresponds to a first type based on a first set of criteria, and whether physical activity corresponds to a second type based on a second set of criteria. In some examples, the device controls an inactivity timer that measures user's inactivity. In some examples, the device displays a first visual representation of an attribute or amount of a first type of physical activity, and a second visual representation of an attribute or amount of a second type. In some examples, the device displays a third visual representation of an attribute or amount of a third type of activity. In some examples, the third visual representation corresponds to user's inactivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jay Blahnik, Gary Ian Butcher, Kevin Will Chen, David Chance Graham, Daniel S. Keen, Justin Shane Rushing, T. Allan Shortlidge, Anton M. Davydov, Alan C. Dye, Jonathan P. Ive, Zachery Kennedy, Zachury Minjack, Dennis S. Park, Brian Schmitt