Patents Examined by Kevin Nguyen
  • Patent number: 9860201
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a register module, a determining module, and a transfer module. The register module is configured to store event data corresponding to a specific QR code. The determining module is configured to obtain the event data, and to communicate with a mobile device, so as to determine whether application programs on the mobile device includes a first application program which is corresponding to any one of the event data. If yes, the determining module transmits launch information to make the mobile device lunch the first application program. If not, the determining module transmits install information to make the mobile device install the first application program. The transmitting module is configured to transmit a message corresponding to the first application program to the mobile device, so that the first application program launched by the mobile device displays the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION INDUSTRY
    Inventors: Chien-Chung Chiu, Jing-Ming Chiu, Ren-Dar Yang, Hsiao-Chen Chang, Yeh-Kuang Wu, Wen-Tai Hsieh
  • Patent number: 9857946
    Abstract: An example system and method elicits reviews and opinions from users via an online system or a web crawl. Opinions on topics are processed in real time to determine orientation. Each topic is analyzed sentence by sentence to find a central tendency of user orientation toward a given topic. Automatic topic orientation is used to provide a common comparable rating value between reviewers and potentially other systems on similar topics. Facets of the topics are extracted via a submission/acquisition process to determine the key variables of interest for users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Summize, Inc.
    Inventors: Abdur Chowdhury, Gregory Scott Pass, Ajaipal Singh Virdy, Ophir Frieder
  • Patent number: 9851875
    Abstract: A method and system for generation of widgets based on mobile applications are provided. The method includes receiving from a user device a request to analyze at least one application on the user device; analyzing the at least one application to identify at a plurality of functions in the at least one application; analyzing each of the identified plurality of functions to identify contextual content items; generating at least one widget respective of at least one preferred function and preferred contextual content item of the identified functions and contextual content items; and displaying the widget on a display of the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Doat Media Ltd.
    Inventors: Joey Joseph Simhon, Amir Taichman, Avi Charkam, Dvir Volk
  • Patent number: 9854024
    Abstract: Example embodiments relate to the display of operating status information in a remote desktop session. In example embodiments, a client transmits operating status information to a server via a remote desktop session established with the server. In response, the client may receive graphics information including displayed status information inserted by the server based on the operating status information. Finally, the client may output the graphics information on an available display. Other embodiments relate to a corresponding server and processing performed in the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Irwan Halim, William R Whipple, Norman P Brown
  • Patent number: 9852711
    Abstract: A content receiver may establish a communication connection with an entertainment system component. Utilizing the communication connection, the content receiver may control the entertainment system component in order to synchronize user interfaces the content receiver is operable to provide with user interfaces the entertainment system component is operable to provide. Hence, the user interfaces provided by the various entertainment system components may more closely resemble user interfaces of the content receiver, reducing user confusion. The content receiver may synchronize such user interfaces by altering software of the entertainment system component. In altering the software, the content receiver may replace or modify the software to change one or more aspects of one or more entertainment system user interfaces to that of one or more aspects of a content receiver user interface. The aspects may include visual properties, audio properties, and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: EchoStar Ukraine, LLC
    Inventors: Hans Meijer, Zane Eaton
  • Patent number: 9817550
    Abstract: A system for providing a cloud streaming-based service menu, a method and a terminal device. The terminal device selects a particular step in a step-by-step service menu to make a request for driving a content and the service device, in response to the request, provides content access information and menu step information corresponding to the particular step selected and initializes a step in the step-by-step service menu provided to the terminal device for switching a state of the service menu to a state in which an additional access of another terminal device is possible, so as to provide the initialized step-by-step service menu to another initially accessed terminal device. When the terminal device re-accesses, the service device will provide the service menu of the particular step corresponding to the menu step information to another accessed terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: ENTRIX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae Meon Bae, Hyun Sig Na, Sang Woo Rhie, Sang Bum Lee
  • Patent number: 9804744
    Abstract: A method for operating a control device in a vehicle, wherein the control device includes a control element having a user interface. In the method, menus are simultaneously displayed on a display surface. Furthermore, a detection region is formed, which is divided into detection zones, wherein each detection zone is associated with a respective menu. The position of an actuation object in the detection region is detected and associated with a detection zone. The menu that is associated with the detection zone in which the actuation object was detected is enlarged and the menus that are associated with the other detection zones are reduced in size. Also disclosed is a control device in a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Heino Wengelnik, Holger Wild
  • Patent number: 9805327
    Abstract: A system and machine-implemented method for providing a user with a to-do list of tasks, the method including determining one or more goals associated with a user, the one or more goals including objectives that the user wants to achieve, identifying one or more notifications associated with the user, each notification notifying the user of an event comprising an action by another user with respect to the user, identifying one or more tasks, the one or more tasks contributing to at least one of the one or more goals and providing a response to the event relating to at least one of the one or more notifications and providing the one or more tasks for display to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Xander Pollock, Dorington George Little, IV
  • Patent number: 9804750
    Abstract: A user interface is provided next to a textbox in a cross-platform mobile application to access one or more native features of a mobile device. Once the user interface is selected by a user, the mobile application operates to access one or more associated native feature of the mobile device and retrieve data to automatically populate it on the textbox in the mobile application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Unisys Corporation
    Inventors: Ellaiyaraja B., Stephen A Burdeau, Raju Yadava, Saurabh Sood
  • Patent number: 9799138
    Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) lighting processing device and method that apply a partial 3D lighting effect to a two-dimensional (2D) image is provided. The 3D lighting processing device includes a first information providing unit that provides a first image including normal direction information for a shade effect and a second image including color information, a second information providing unit that provides a third image including lighting area information, and a shader unit that detects, from the first image, an area corresponding to the lighting area information of the third image as a lighting application area, and performs rendering by applying the detected lighting application area to a 2D Graphic User Interface (GUI).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Joon-Yong Park, Jung-Eun Lee
  • Patent number: 9798442
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display control unit that displays a list screen of thumbnails associated with content, an execution unit that executes any application using the content associated with the thumbnails, and an image generation unit that generates an execution state image showing an execution state of the application by the execution unit, wherein the display control unit displays the execution state image generated by the image generation unit in at least a portion of an area where the list screen is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: DRNC Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Takahashi, Kenji Ozawa, Maki Yamamoto, Pieter Coenen
  • Patent number: 9798718
    Abstract: In one example, a computing device includes at least one processor that is operatively coupled to a presence-sensitive display and a gesture module operable by the at least one processor. The gesture module may be operable by the at least one processor to output, for display at the presence-sensitive display, a graphical keyboard comprising a plurality of keys and receive an indication of a continuous gesture detected at the presence-sensitive display, the continuous gesture to select a group of keys of the plurality of keys. The gesture module may be further operable to determine, in response to receiving the indication of the continuous gesture and based at least in part on the group of keys of the plurality of keys, a candidate phrase comprising a group of candidate words.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Shumin Zhai, Yu Ouyang, Ken Wakasa, Satoshi Kataoka
  • Patent number: 9792001
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, a computer-implemented method is performed at a portable multifunction device with a touch screen display. The computer-implemented method includes displaying a multiweek calendar on the touch screen display, detecting a contact on an individual day in the multiweek calendar, and in response to detecting the contact on the individual day, displaying at least a portion of a list of events on the contacted individual day while continuing to display the multiweek calendar, wherein the list of events on the contacted individual day includes an invitation to an event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Freddy Allen Anzures, Marcel Van Os, Stephen O. Lemay, Michael Matas
  • Patent number: 9792570
    Abstract: A reminder system is provided. The system provides a user-friendly interface to a user's existing email, and in some embodiments to the user's document management, calendar and other systems, in order to ensure that an appropriate user is notified when action should be taken, and also provides notation to the user indicating the appropriate course of action to be taken. The system provides a calendaring feature where a supervisor or manager can determine the workload of a group of workers for an upcoming time period. The system provides an easily accessible and traceable database of information pertaining to a project checklist, document, a client name, a client matter number, a document type, or other customizable fields in order for a user to search and sort the information for their own use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: DOCSOF, LLC
    Inventor: Bruce Karlson
  • Patent number: 9785398
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automatically adjusting volume of a media asset are provided. A display of a content navigation page is generated. The content navigation page is associated with a media asset. A navigation distance from a current position in the content navigation page to the media asset within the content navigation page is determined. The navigation distance is cross-referenced with a database of volume levels associated with navigation distances to identify a volume level that is associated with the navigation distance. Audio of the media asset is caused to be presented at the identified volume level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventor: David John Wheatley
  • Patent number: 9785310
    Abstract: Techniques to control addition of representations to an application launcher are described. In one or more implementations, an input is received by a computing device to add a representation of an application or content to the application launcher of the computing device. The application launcher has a plurality of representations of applications or content that are selectable to navigate to a user interface corresponding with a respective application or content and are assigned into respective ones of a plurality of groups that together compose a plurality of linear arrangements of the groups. A location is controlled by the computing device at which to include the added representation in the application launcher based at least in part a determination of whether one of the plurality of groups is associated with a positional tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Poorva Singal, Harnoor Singh, John Christopher Whytock
  • Patent number: 9778823
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a difference-information acquiring unit that acquires difference information indicating a correspondence relationship between a difference section and a page having the difference section in two electronic documents each having multiple pages; a difference-display-document acquiring unit that acquires a difference display document in which the difference section is indicated in contents of at least one of the two electronic documents; an electronic-bookmark adding unit that adds first electronic-bookmark information to a page having the difference section in the difference display document and that adds second electronic-bookmark information to a page not having the difference section in the difference display document based on the difference information; and a display controller that causes a display unit to display a first electronic bookmark corresponding to the first electronic-bookmark information and a second electronic bookmark corresponding to the second electron
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akane Yoshizaki, Shigeru Okada, Katsuya Koyanagi, Shintaro Adachi, Minoru Sodeura, Shinji Hanaoka, Hiroyuki Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 9781179
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for sharing presentation data, interactions, and annotation information between devices. The method includes: converting the presentation data into at least one image; transmitting the at least one image to the second device; displaying an image from among the at least one image on a screen of the first device, and transmitting image identification information about the displayed image to the second device; adding annotation data to the displayed image, based on a user input; and transmitting annotation information about the annotation data to the second device. The second device displays an image corresponding to the image identification information on a screen of the second device based on the image identification information, and the second device displays the annotation information on the image displayed on the screen of the second device the annotation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung-kih Hong, Min-suk Choi, Yoon-suk Choi, Sang-Il Lee, Seong-hoon Kang
  • Patent number: 9772770
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for configuring a tool with at least one pointing element on a screen comprising the steps of: pointing and activating (S1) a tool with a pointing element, said tool comprising a list of customizable parameters; and without releasing the pointing element, providing (S2) a first direction for selecting a customizable parameter of the list; providing (S3) a second direction for customizing a selected parameter of the list; and defining (S4) series of moves of the pointing element according to first and second direction for configuring the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Dassault Systemes
    Inventors: Frederic Letzelter, Mathieu Gunther
  • Patent number: 9766790
    Abstract: This document describes techniques for application reporting in an application-selectable user interface. These techniques permit a user to view reports for applications in a user interface through which these applications may be selected. By so doing, a user may quickly and easily determine which applications to select based on their respective reports and then select them or their content through the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Nazia Zaman, Adrian J. Garside, Christopher T. Bush, Lindsey R. Barcheck, Chantal M. Leonard, Jesse Clay Satterfield