Patents Examined by Li Sun
  • Patent number: 10126822
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to creating user-defined interaction spaces and modalities in a three dimensional (3D) sensor space in response to control gestures. It also relates to controlling virtual cameras in the 3D sensor space using control gestures and manipulating controls of the virtual cameras through the control gestures. In particular, it relates to defining one or more spatial attributes of the interaction spaces and modalities in response to one or more gesture parameters of the control gesture. It also particularly relates to defining one or more visual parameters of a virtual camera in response to one or more gesture parameters of the control gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Leap Motion, Inc.
    Inventors: Isaac Cohen, Maxwell Sills
  • Patent number: 9971496
    Abstract: A method for adjusting a graphical user interface on an electronic device includes receiving, from a detection element positioned at a backside of an electronic device, first data generated when a hand is positioned at the backside of the electronic device. Further, a one-handed or two-handed operation of the electronic device is determined based on the first data. A displaying of a graphical user interface on the electronic device is adjusted when the one-handed operation is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Umesh Navsariwala, Deepesh Patel
  • Patent number: 9959040
    Abstract: An example method includes designating a corner region of a display device as active, and outputting, for display at the display device, a user interface including at least one element positioned at a first location substantially diagonally opposite and at a first distance from the active corner region. The method further includes receiving an indication of a gesture interpreted by the computing device as originating within the active corner region and terminating within a center region of the display device, and responsive to receiving the indication of the gesture, outputting, for display at the display device, an updated user interface including the element positioned at a second location a second distance from the active corner region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Eric Zhang
  • Patent number: 9880735
    Abstract: A device concurrently displays a background user interface and a first version of a notification associated with a first application. The device detects a first contact at a location that corresponds to the first version of the notification. In response to the detection, and upon a determination that the contact meets application-launching criteria, the device initiates a process to launch the first application. In response to the detecting, and upon a determination that the contact meets notification-expansion criteria, where the notification-expansion criteria require that the characteristic intensity of the contact meet a preview intensity threshold, the device displays a second version of the notification, where the second version of the notification has a size larger than the first version, includes expanded notification content that is not displayed in the first version, and is overlaid on the background user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan R. Dascola, Richard R. Dellinger, Christopher P. Foss
  • Patent number: 9832423
    Abstract: A method of providing a number of versions of a presentation in a web conference may comprise streaming at least two different versions of a presentation associated with a web conference over a network to at least one client device, and providing an option to the client device to view an alternative one of the versions. An associated computing system and computer program product are also described. Finally, a method of viewing a number of versions of a web conference presentation in a web conference may comprise, with a client device, joining a web conference presented over a network, and switching between at least two different versions of the presentation based on permissions assigned to a passcode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul Roger Bastide, Robert Edward Loredo
  • Patent number: 9800473
    Abstract: The present technology utilizes agents to monitor and report data from Java virtual machines (JVM) to a controller as part of application performance monitoring. When a JVM is loaded, code defining an interface for agents is loaded as well. A determination may be made as to whether the loaded agent implements the interface defined at the JVM. If the loaded agent does not implement the interface, for example if it is missing one or more methods defined by the interface, the agent class may be modified to define the missing methods. The modification to the agent class may be made after compilation but before the class is loaded into the JVM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: AppDynamics LLC
    Inventors: Rey Ong, Valeriy Chibisov
  • Patent number: 9778829
    Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes at least one processor, a display accessible to the at least one processor, and a memory accessible to the at least one processor. The memory bears instructions executable by the processor to detect first eye input to a first location on a user interface (UI) presented on the display, identify at least two selector elements as at least being presented on the display proximate to the first location, and present a magnification interface on the UI. The magnification interface comprises a larger rendition of the at least two selector elements relative to presentation of the at least two selector elements on the UI prior to the detection of the first eye input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Neal Robert Caliendo, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9740393
    Abstract: A system and method for processing a hover event on a touchscreen device includes obtaining web page data on the touchscreen device. Content corresponding to the web page data is displayed on a touchscreen of the touchscreen device. A determination is made if the web page data includes a web page element associated with a hover event. If the web page data includes the web page element associated with the hover event, a hover button is displayed on the touchscreen in association with the displayed content corresponding to the web page data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventor: Mohamed S. Eldawy
  • Patent number: 9740777
    Abstract: A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for saving and presenting a state of a communication session are presented. The communication session may be established between a client device and an application server of a content publisher, and may include the presentation of content on the client device. In some embodiments, the method may include receiving user input to save a state of the communication session, and in response, temporarily storing session data representative of the state of the communication session for a predetermined duration of the communication session. The method may further include generating and presenting an interface that includes a visual representation of the session data, and allows a user to return to the saved state of the communication session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Esmeralda Carrillo, Kristy Brambila, Cassandra Gordon, Enrica Montilla Beltran, Neelakantan Sundaresan
  • Patent number: 9704135
    Abstract: A web conferencing system includes web conferencing server for outputting a visual presentation which includes a visual cue. The visual cue is linked with an executable action. A visual robot operated by the web conferencing server graphically recognizes the visual cue when the visual presentation is displayed in a web conference, and associates the visual cue with the executable action. The executable action is then executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul Roger Bastide, Matthew E. Broomhall, Robert Edward Loredo
  • Patent number: 9706040
    Abstract: A method, system and program product comprise processing a sender's inputted text message. The text message is combined with a selected avatar representing the sender. The avatar is combined with a selected state of mind. The selected state of mind is modified with a selected intensity. At least the text message and the combined avatar are ordered into a scene of a sender's message in an order specified by the sender. The sender's message is transmitted to a receiver's device where the sender's message is operable to be viewed by the receiver in the order specified by the sender.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Inventors: Udayakumar Kadirvel, Subrhmanyam Sarada Ayyagari, Cherukulath Ravi Sujith Kumar, Vinnakote Siddhartha
  • Patent number: 9678635
    Abstract: Computer systems and methods may display multi-dimensional data sets in a dynamically-generated ocular view, which may show the relationship between data points in the different dimensions. For example, such a data set may include in one dimension results of one or more laboratory tests and, in another dimension, body systems or functions that the respective tests may relate to. The ocular view may depict the relationships between the tests and the systems. By being generated dynamically, moreover, the ocular view may be able to present this information for arbitrary sets of test results, without a template having been generated in advance to specify the layout of some particular combination of results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Quest Diagnostics Investments Incorporated
    Inventors: Peter Wilkinson, Kerry O'Brien
  • Patent number: 9658768
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of controlling a mobile terminal including steps of implementing a first application; implementing a second application during the implementation of the first application; and overlay-displaying by displaying a screen of the second application or the first application on a screen of the other, wherein a screen of the front application has implementable input and output function in a semitransparent state, and a screen of the rear application has a restricted input function and an implementable output function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Juha Hyun
  • Patent number: 9652147
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for altering a key function of a software input panel (SIP) of an electronic device and a recording medium thereof are provided, wherein the SIP includes a plurality of keys, and the number and layout of the keys are fixed. In the present method, first, an operating interface of an electronic device is switched, wherein the operating interface includes the SIP. Then, each key of the SIP is switched to an input word corresponding to the operating interface. As a result, the input word corresponding to each key of the SIP is automatically altered according to the current operating interface, and accordingly inputting through the SIP is made very convenient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: HTC Corportion
    Inventors: Yu-Chuan Chen, Hung-I Weng
  • Patent number: 9652131
    Abstract: A “safe zone” can be created within which the effect of the actual cursor position is overridden when selecting content. The start position and the end position of the selection can be compared. If the selection is a forward selection but the cursor position has moved upwards, the vertical component of the cursor position is overridden by the vertical position of the cursor at the start of the selection. If the selection is a reverse selection but the cursor position has moved downwards, the vertical component of the cursor position is overridden by the vertical position of the cursor at the start of the selection. The safe zone can have any kind of shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: David E. Pugh, Paul van Brenk
  • Patent number: 9652867
    Abstract: A method and system for providing a dynamic grain effect tool for a media-editing application that generates a grain effect and applies the grain effect to a digital image. The application first generates a random pixel field for the image based on a seed value. The application then generates a film grain pattern for the image by consecutively applying a blurring function and an unsharp masking function, based on an ISO value, to the randomly generated pixel field. The application then blends the grain field with the original image by adjusting each pixel based on the value of the corresponding pixel location in the grain field. The application then adjusts the grain amount in the previously generated full-grain image by receiving a grain amount value from a user and applying this value to the full-grain image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Russell Y. Webb, Garrett M. Johnson, Alexis Gatt
  • Patent number: 9639265
    Abstract: The described embodiments allow for the association of an interaction with a target in a display. One embodiment includes detecting an interaction with an area associated with a graphical element in a display, detecting a later interaction displaced from the area, and associating the later interaction with a target in the display based at least on the time between the interaction with the area and the later interaction. User interactions with one or more displayed hit targets are based on corresponding time-varying hit zones. In response to unlimited user interaction with a hit target, subsequent user selections are validated based on a time-varying hit zone that is typically extended with respect to the previously selected hit target. The extended selection zone can overlap one or more other hit targets to favor re-selection of the individually selected hit target. The extended selection zone generally decreases as a function of time from prior selections of a hit zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Douglas Peterson, Jeffrey Stall, Eric Norman Badger
  • Patent number: 9632671
    Abstract: A computer implemented system and method for displaying information pertaining to physical infrastructure in a building or on a property via a mobile software application operating or a mobile device are provided. The mobile software application includes steps of (a) optionally displaying a list of selectable buildings and/or areas at a property, (b) optionally displaying a list of selectable floors if a building having multiple floors is selected, (c) displaying a list of points of interest for the selected floor, building or area, and (d) displaying a floor plan or area map with selected points of interest highlighted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Albright Holdings, Inc.
    Inventor: James R Albright
  • Patent number: 9632687
    Abstract: A control method according to the present disclosure causes a computer of an information apparatus to: display on a display a display screen representing a floor plan of a building; display on the display screen device icons respectively representing one or more target devices, the device icons being movable when dragged and including a humidifier icon that represents a humidifier; and when it is sensed that the humidifier icon is selected, and is moved on the floor plan, display an effect range in which an effect of the humidifier extends, in a region corresponding to a room in the floor plan where a drop of the humidifier icon is sensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takamitsu Sasaki, Minehisa Nagata
  • Patent number: 9613086
    Abstract: A method generates a graphical user interface, which includes a schema information region and a data visualization region. The schema information region includes field names, each associated with a data field from a data source, and relationship names, each associated with a relation between rows of the data source. The data visualization region includes a row shelf, a column shelf, and a connector shelf. The method detects user selection of field names and a request to associate those field names with respective shelves in the data visualization region. The method also detects user selection of relationship names and a request to associate those relationship names with respective shelves in the data visualization region. The method generates a visual graphic in the data visualization region according to the associations between the user-selected field names and corresponding shelves and the associations between the user-selected relationship names and corresponding shelves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: TABLEAU SOFTWARE, INC.
    Inventor: Scott Sherman