Patents Examined by Kieu D. Vu
  • User interface for an application displaying page permissions
    Patent number: 10698578
    Abstract: Systems and methods for presenting information in a header region of an application are provided. In some aspects, a URL is received in an omnibox of an application window of a computer. A page corresponding to the URL is presented in a page display region of the application window. The URL is presented in the omnibox. A collapsed form of the URL and connection information associated with the page are presented in a button of the application window adjacent to the omnibox. The collapsed form of the URL includes a representation of a top-level domain and a hierarchy of the URL. The collapsed form of the URL includes different text from the URL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Alex Neely Ainslie, Ruby Lee, John Nicholas Jitkoff
  • Systems and methods for improved cellular quality of experience
    Patent number: 10698568
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing an improved cellular user quality of experience (QoE) are disclosed. The system can comprise a database including multiple cell towers and their operating frequencies. The system can also include a database of frequencies for a plurality of user equipment (UE). The system enables user to input a chosen UE, a chosen location, and a connection type. The system can then provide a compatibility map depicting the coverage provided by cell towers proximate the chosen location that operate at the same frequencies as the chosen UE. Improved knowledge of UE and cell tower compatibility in areas of interest to the user can improve cellular customer satisfaction, retention, and loyalty, and reduce UE returns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Kyle Edward Harrison
  • User interface for learning management system
    Patent number: 10691302
    Abstract: A GUI for an LMS includes a plurality of graphical modules, each representing a lesson, medium, or deliverable for a project. Each module has attributes permitting interconnection with other modules within the context of the project when moved adjacent to one another within a course creation workspace. The course creation workspace includes a visual editing facility allowing a user to assemble the project through drag and drop interconnection of the modules within a project prompt that is a visual instantiation of learning goals associated with an educational standard. Such assembly automatically generates lesson content and associates badges representing the lessons, which badges become available to students as they complete the respective lessons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: JUCI INC.
    Inventor: Sharon Eva Marzouk
  • Systems, articles of manufacture, and methods for multi-screen visualization and instrument configuration
    Patent number: 10682102
    Abstract: Example systems and methods to visualize and manage medical device operations and troubleshooting are provided. Interface information from a plurality of medical devices is used to generate a visualization of the interface information from the one or more of the plurality of medical devices. Each medical device interface is represented by a miniature representation of the interface in the visualization. Each miniature representation is to convey information shown on the interface of the medical device. The visualization is provided to a user via a user interface at a remote control computer. The user interface is to facilitate user selection of a miniature representation to trigger display of a larger representation of the selected medical device interface information via the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Fenwal, Inc.
    Inventor: Frederic Declerck
  • Review data entry, scoring, and sharing
    Patent number: 10679264
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for receiving, processing, and presenting user reviews, or logging user experiences, with products and services, e.g., restaurant services. One aspect is a method providing user interface elements including a region having panels each for receiving ratings of a general aspect of the product or service, a region having panels each for receiving ratings of a specific item of the product or service, where each panel includes an analog user interface element to input a rating and presents an image corresponding to the rating. Another aspect is a method that includes providing for each panel an analog user interface element for a user to input a rating for a corresponding item of the product or service, and accepting as a completed review a review input by the user that does not include any text input by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Inventor: Dev Anand Shah
  • Display and interface for driver assistance apparatus in a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 10664139
    Abstract: A display and operator control apparatus in a motor vehicle, which display and control apparatus can be used at least to display information from various driver assistance systems and to select functions which are associated with these driver assistance systems. At least one mode of operation in which a digital map display with specific display parameters is displayed and, in the process, at least one function can be selected. A changeover in respect of the possibility to select at least one other function can be activated and this changeover is not made from a fundamental basic display to the user even when a changeover is made between selectable functions, which may be separately displayed via buttons. Only one or more display parameters are changed, and therefore the display to the user can be adapted in an optimum manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Julia Kleeberger, Christoph Waeller, Mike Salzer
  • Page content display with conditional scroll gesture snapping
    Patent number: 10664892
    Abstract: A platform allows experts, for example home improvement professionals, to upload their portfolios, i.e. content such as photos, videos, text, and sound, to a publicly available resource, such as a Web browser accessible, network based commerce system. Users may then browse the content, for example by room, style, and metro area. The content is arranged in collections that are in part passively sorted, based upon user relevance. Tags are shown on objects, for example within photos, for which there is more information. In the case of a movable display device, the tags can simulate the physics of real tags, for example they can move back and forth when the device is shaken. In another embodiment, a snap point is set to impart either a scrolling transition or a step transition between display pages, based upon user scroll activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Houzz, Inc.
    Inventors: Alon Cohen, Guy Shaviv
  • Audio-visual navigation and communication
    Patent number: 10664126
    Abstract: Communicating information through a user platform by representing, on a user platform visual display, spatial publishing objects as entities at locations within a three-dimensional spatial publishing object space. Each spatial publishing object associated with information, and each presenting a subset of the associated information. Establishing a user presence at a location within the spatial publishing object space. The user presence, in conjunction with a user point-of-view, being navigable by the user in at least a two-dimensional sub-space of the spatial publishing object space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: AQ MEDIA, INC.
    Inventor: Jan Peter Roos
  • Audio-visual navigation and communication
    Patent number: 10664125
    Abstract: Communicating information through a user platform by representing, on a user platform visual display, spatial publishing objects as entities at locations within a three-dimensional spatial publishing object space. Each spatial publishing object associated with information, and each presenting a subset of the associated information. Establishing a user presence at a location within the spatial publishing object space. The user presence, in conjunction with a user point-of-view, being navigable by the user in at least a two-dimensional sub-space of the spatial publishing object space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: AQ MEDIA, INC.
    Inventor: Jan Peter Roos
  • Selecting a behavior of a virtual agent
    Patent number: 10664741
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method for operating a virtual agent will be described. An interaction context is obtained. An agent state is determined based on the obtained interaction context. The agent state indicates an activity of the virtual agent. The emotion of the virtual agent is updated based on the obtained interaction context, the determined agent state and/or a personality of the virtual agent. One or more behaviors are selected. Each behavior involves or indicates a change in an appearance of the virtual agent or generation of audio. Various embodiments relate to devices, servers, software and systems arranged to implement one or more of the above operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Simon J. Gibbs, Anthony Liot, Yu Song
  • Network site tag based display of images
    Patent number: 10657573
    Abstract: A platform allows experts, for example home improvement professionals, to upload their portfolios, i.e. content such as photos, videos, text, and sound, to a publicly available resource, such as a Web browser accessible, network based commerce system. Users may then browse the content, for example by room, style, and metro area. The content is arranged in collections that are in part passively sorted, based upon user relevance. Tags are shown on objects, for example within photos, for which there is more information. In the case of a movable display device, the tags can simulate the physics of real tags, for example they can move back and forth when the device is shaken. In another embodiment, a snap point is set to impart either a scrolling transition or a step transition between display pages, based upon user scroll activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Houzz, Inc.
    Inventors: Alon Cohen, Guy Shaviv
  • Terminal, for gesture recognition and operation command determination, vehicle having the same and method for controlling the same
    Patent number: 10649587
    Abstract: A terminal is provided with an input unit configured to detect contact of an object and a position of the object, and a controller configured to generate a control signal corresponding to a recognition of a gesture of the object, which is detected at a position spaced apart from the input unit when touched by the object. The terminal may allow an operation command desired by the user to be completed since a gesture is initiated at a surface of the terminal, and terminated at the surface of the terminal again after being performed in a space on the surface of the terminal. By specifying a start or an end of the gesture, the intention of the user may be clearly presented and may improve the recognition rate. Therefore, the user may easily manipulate mobile phones and various equipments while driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Seung Hwan Lee, Sunjun Kim, Geehyuk Lee, Jaehyun Han, Eunhye Youn
  • Method for an initial setup and electronic device thereof
    Patent number: 10649791
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an apparatus and method for performing an initial setup on an electronic device. An embodiment of the disclosed method for operating an electronic device may include performing initial booting of the electronic device and displaying at least one icon for the initial setup of the electronic device. Other embodiments of this disclosure include further operations beyond the displaying at least one icon for the initial setup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Insil Han, Hyunyeul Lee, Sholudko Oleksandr, Na-Woong Han
  • Indexing and annotating a usability test recording
    Patent number: 10649634
    Abstract: A method for indexing a user interface test recording includes capturing, during a session, a recording of a plurality of interactions with the user interface, capturing, during the session, an event stream including a plurality of user interface events, synchronizing, in time, the plurality of interactions and the plurality of user interface events, identifying a point of interest in the event stream, wherein the point of interest is correlated to a time in the recording by the synchronization, and annotating the recording at a time correlated to when the point of interest occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rogerio Abreu De Paula, Claudio Santos Pinhanez, Vagner Figueredo De Santana
  • Dynamically selecting stored content for display based on real-time parameters calculated for operations performed on image data displayed by an electronic device
    Patent number: 10635277
    Abstract: An information processing system that calculates an estimated display duration for which a content item will be displayed on a page displayed by a display of an electronic device; determines an amount of content to be included in the content item, wherein the determining includes reducing an amount of content included in the content item in a case that the estimated display duration is less than a predetermined threshold value; and causes the content item to be displayed on the page displayed by the display of the electronic device based on the determining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: RAKUTEN, INC.
    Inventor: Jinyong Kim
  • Organization mode support mechanisms
    Patent number: 10627980
    Abstract: An organization mode in a user interface that displays multiple user interface elements. The multiple user interface elements fit over a grid positions that are at least conceptually imposed over a canvas. In organization mode, the grid positions are displayed, allowing the user to more easily see where user interface elements may be placed. As the user moves and/or resizes a user interface element, one or more corresponding grid positions are highlighted to show where the user interface element would be placed if the move or resize operation were to conclude at that moment. The organization mode may also provide a contextual actions menu with respect to a particular user interface element. The contextual actions menu includes multiple organization mode commands, including one or more that may be directed selected from the contextual actions menu to invoke the command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Leon Ezequiel Welicki, Mo Wang, Christopher Scrosati, Kristofer John Owens, Jon Harris, Jonah Bush Sterling, Dina-Marie Ledonna Supino, Vishal R. Joshi, Jesse David Francisco, Stephen Michael Danton
  • System to present additional item information
    Patent number: 10620776
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method for displaying additional information corresponding to an item represented by a visual indicator in response to a mouseover event is disclosed. Various embodiments receive a mouseover event corresponding to a visual indicator displayed on a display screen and generate additional information corresponding to an item represented by the visual indicator in response to the mouseover event, the additional information being obtained from various databases and used to generate additional information corresponding to the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas David Posner, Randall Scott Shoup, Sriram Samu, Thomas Lo
  • Systems and methods for determining and providing event media and integrated content in connection with events associated with a social networking system
    Patent number: 10614116
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can receive information about an event. Event attendees are invited to the event. A presence of an event attendee at the event is determined. Content is received from the event attendees present at the event. The content is integrated into event media. The event media is provided for presentation to at least one of the event attendee during the event and an event invitee during or after the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Aditya Brij Koolwal, Michael James LeBeau, Jiawen Connie Yang, Nicholas John Gavalas
  • Device, method, and graphical user interface for managing multiple display windows
    Patent number: 10606469
    Abstract: A method is performed at an electronic device with a touch screen. The method includes: selecting one or more windows to be rendered on the touch screen and a display order associated with the selected windows; determining a respective display location for each of the selected windows based at least in part on the display order and a total number of the selected windows; and rendering the selected windows on the touch screen according to their respective display locations in a card fan manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: CHEETAH MOBILE INC.
    Inventors: Xiaoming Jiang, Jian Yan, Xiongfeng Yu, Ming Xu
  • Method and device for displaying an application interface
    Patent number: 10599288
    Abstract: A method for displaying an application interface on a terminal. The method includes determining a first application of an application group. The application group includes multiple identical applications installed on the terminal, and the first application is a most recently used application of the multiple identical applications. The method further includes displaying application indication information in a specific area in an interface of the terminal, for indicating the first application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Le Wang, Minghao Li, Peng Zhou