Patents Examined by Liang Li
  • Patent number: 10523737
    Abstract: An information processing method and apparatus are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: BEIJING KINGSOFT INTERNET SECURITY SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wentao Zhang, Chuanjia Cheng
  • Patent number: 10185457
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a display, comprising: a display control unit configured to display a first window and a second window on the display with the second window positioned behind the first window and at least partially overlapped with the first window; a first obtaining unit configured to obtain a first position information representing a position within a display range of the display designated on the display. The information processing apparatus further comprises a second obtaining unit configured to obtain a second position information corresponding to position information representing a position within the display range of the display, the second position information designated in an area corresponding to a rear side of the display and existing on one surface among the surfaces constituting the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takumi Miyakawa
  • Patent number: 10104162
    Abstract: It is described a location based interactive method, user terminal, server, system and computer storage medium, which relate to the field of computers. The method includes: it is send a geographic coordinate of a user's location to a location server; it is received from the location server and displayed a POI list containing at least one POI corresponding to the geographic coordinate; it is acquired a group creating instruction, and a group creating request is sent to a login server based on the group creating instruction; and interaction is performed with the login server based on a group to provide the user with an intra-group interactive service, where the group is created by the login server based on the POI carried in the group creating request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yucao Tao, Tao Zhou, Jinfeng Meng, Xijun Dong, Rui Zhong, Jun Yu, Boqiang Wang, Han Lian, Chunlei Zheng, Wei Wang, Ye Liu
  • Patent number: 10084828
    Abstract: Users are able to browse a digital-media content based on social-graph-related criteria, time-related criteria, and geolocation-related criteria. A social-chronographic-geographic media file browsing system builds a social-chronographic-geographic media query and retrieves digital-media content (and associated metadata) based on a given user's search criteria. In accordance with various embodiments, the social-chronographic-geographic media file browsing system retrieves an interactive map from cartographic data provider and then places a graphical media control on the interactive map according to the provided geolocation-related criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: RealNetworks, Inc.
    Inventors: Sorin, Christopher Carl Petersen
  • Patent number: 9977569
    Abstract: Systems and methods for omnidirectional application navigation are provided. In example embodiments, a navigation icon associated with a first user interface context is caused to be displayed on a device. A change is sensed, by a device, of a change from the first user interface context to a second user interface context. A graphics database is accessed. From the graphics database, a graphic which is associated with the second user interface context is identified. Responsive to the change from the first user interface context to the second user interface context, the navigation icon is changed using the identified graphic from the graphics database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Visual Supply Company
    Inventors: Wayne Kong Wu, Grant Thomas Heinlein, Charles Fredrik Gruber, Hae Jin Shim, Isaac Joel Daniels, Joakim Carl Tobias Jansson, Joyce Kim
  • Patent number: 9971499
    Abstract: An electronic device with a display, a touch-sensitive surface, and sensors to detect intensity of contacts with the touch-sensitive surface displays, on the display, an affordance corresponding to respective content at a respective size and detects a gesture that includes an increase in intensity of a contact followed by a subsequent decrease in intensity of the contact. In response to the increase in intensity, the device decreases a size of the affordance below the respective size. In response to the subsequent decrease in intensity: when a maximum intensity of the contact is above a content-display intensity threshold, the device ceases to display the affordance and displays at least a portion of the respective content; and when a maximum intensity of the contact is below the content-display intensity threshold, the device increases the size of the affordance to the respective size and forgoes displaying the respective content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Traer Bernstein, May-Li Khoe, Nicholas Zambetti
  • Patent number: 9946516
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to utilizing an application workflow framework to manage workflow on an application executing on a computing device. An illustrative workflow routine can include multiple tasks than need to be completed in order to complete the workflow routine. Accordingly, a workflow framework has a workflow definition that that matches the specific workflow routine. Each of the specific tasks defined in the workflow routine can be represented by a number of interface elements within the application. At least some of the interface elements can have a number of states of execution defined by the workflow definition and having different content and display attributes. In one embodiment, the states of execution can include a pre-active state, an active state, and a post-active state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: STARBUCKS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jesse James Herlitz, Jeffrey Ryan Peters, Bryan John Clark, Dana Marie Kruse, David C. Loewenthal, Justin T. Morgan
  • Patent number: 9916037
    Abstract: A computing device includes a housing and a display assembly having a screen. The housing at least partially circumvents the screen so that the screen is viewable and a set of touch sensors are provided with the display assembly. A processor is provided within the housing to detect a gesture via the set of touch sensors, and to interpret the gesture as one of a plurality of user inputs. The processor further detects a presence of extraneous objects on a surface the screen of the display assembly, and adjusts one or more settings of the computing device in response to detecting the presence of extraneous objects. For example, the processor may adjust the one or more settings by reconfiguring a set of actions to be performed in response to the plurality of user inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Rakuten Kobo, Inc.
    Inventors: James Wu, Ramesh Mantha, Trevor Hunter, Robert Beghian
  • Patent number: 9909891
    Abstract: Various implementations described herein are directed to a method for displaying a route to be travelled by a marine vessel on a computer screen. In one implementation, the method may include receiving a command to display a predetermined navigation pattern corresponding to the route, receiving a request to place a center of turn on a first geographical location, and displaying the predetermined navigation pattern based on the center of turn on the computer screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: NAVICO HOLDING AS
    Inventor: Robert Langford-Wood
  • Patent number: 9891791
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating presentations of views of building entities according to an interaction graph. One of the methods includes processing building information model data to identify a plurality of building entities, wherein each building entity represents a respective feature of a building modeled by the data. Relationships between different respective pairs of the building entities are determined. The relationships are traversed according to simulated user interactions with respective presentations of a plurality of the building entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.
    Inventors: Azam Khan, Simon Breslav, Alexander Tessier, Ramtin Attar, Michael Lee
  • Patent number: 9891801
    Abstract: Data is received that includes a multi-dimensional data set having data at different hierarchy levels. Using the received data, a first view of a chart having a branch corresponding to each dimension within the data set is rendered in a graphical user interface. Each branch extends outwardly from a center point and has graphical indicators corresponding to each corresponding hierarchy level. The hierarchy levels are arranged in order such that a highest hierarchy level is closest to the center point and a lowest hierarchy level is closest to or at a termination point of the corresponding branch. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Philipp Roesch, Axel Schroeder
  • Patent number: 9880713
    Abstract: An information processing system that acquires captured image data corresponding to a user interface displayed on a first display, the user interface including a plurality of graphic representations each corresponding to a respective function; and controls a second display to display a representation of the user interface based on a recognition process performed on the user interface, the representation of the user interface indicating whether a function corresponding the plurality of the graphic representations is capable of being accessed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunichi Kasahara
  • Patent number: 9851874
    Abstract: Techniques for generating and providing personalized interactive tours of various features of a webpage are described. According to various embodiments, it may be determined that a device associated with a user is accessing a webpage including various webpage features. Personalized experience scores corresponding to the webpage features may be calculated. Each of the personalized experience scores may indicate a current experience level of the user with the corresponding webpage feature. Thereafter, a specific webpage feature may be identified, where the personalized experience scores indicate that the user has a relatively low current experience level with that specific webpage feature. A user-selectable tour entry user interface element may be displayed on the webpage, wherein the tour entry user interface element includes a link to an interactive tour describing the specific webpage feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Hans van de Bruggen, Matthew David Shoup, Gordon Koo
  • Patent number: 9851878
    Abstract: A control method according to the present disclosure causes a computer of an information apparatus to: display on the display a display screen representing a floor plan of a building; display on the display screen device icons respectively representing the one or more target devices, the device icons being movable when dragged and including an air purifier icon that represents an air purifier; and when it is sensed that the air purifier icon is selected, and is moved on the floor plan, display an effect range in which an effect of the air purifier extends in a region corresponding to a room in the floor plan where a drop of the air purifier icon is sensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takamitsu Sasaki, Minehisa Nagata
  • Patent number: 9839848
    Abstract: A controller causes a display unit to display N candidate values selected from natural numbers in a target range having a predetermined base value as the maximum value, as candidates to be selected by a user. The controller selects M values that are multiples of a plurality of different reference values, from among the natural numbers in the target range as candidate values, and causes the display unit to display a candidate value list that lists N candidate values that include the M values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomoharu Umekawa
  • Patent number: 9836179
    Abstract: Persisting atomically linked entities when utilizing an auto-complete mechanism is provided. A computing device may be utilized to receive an input in a user interface. The computing device may then display an auto-complete suggestion list in response to receiving the input in the user interface. A selection of an entity may then be received from the auto-complete suggestion list. The selected entity may then be atomically linked to program code defining an action. The atomically linked entity may then be inserted in the user interface. The atomically linked entity may then be persisted among the input received within the user interface. The input is modifiable and the atomically linked entity is unmodifiable within the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Kieran K. Gupta
  • Patent number: 9830060
    Abstract: Various embodiments enable expeditious manipulation of content on a surface so as to make the content quickly visually available to one or more attendees or participants. In at least some embodiments, content can be automatically manipulated to automatically present the content in a surface location that provides an unobstructed view of the content. Alternately or additionally, content can be manually selected to become “floating” in a manner which moves the content to a surface location that provides an unobstructed view of the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Simone Leorin, Nghiep Duy Duong, Steven Wei Shaw, William George Verthein
  • Patent number: 9778821
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing a graphical user interface involve, for example, one or more processors displaying on a display screen a visualization of a hub element defined in part by an arc-shaped boundary portion and defining a badge element within the visualization of the hub element. Thereafter, a radial menu element may be animated by the one or more processors for rotation to a position adjacent and extending radially from the arc-shaped boundary portion of the hub element and defined in part by an arc-shaped boundary portion of the radial menu element spaced apart from the arc-shaped boundary portion of the hub element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Citibank, N.A.
    Inventors: Andrew Robert Blackman, Alaa Abdulkhaleq Saeed, David Niall O'Byrne, Javier Anthony Diaz
  • Patent number: 9760650
    Abstract: A method may include displaying a document including a first item, receiving a first user input selecting the first item and receiving a second user input providing a target value associated with the first item. The method may also include accessing a site associated with the document, monitoring a value associated with the first item and determining whether the value associated with the first item meets the target value. The method may further include generating a notification when the value associated with the first item meets the target value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Michelle Ho, Jungle Chu
  • Patent number: 9753639
    Abstract: An electronic device with a display, a touch-sensitive surface, and sensors to detect intensity of contacts with the touch-sensitive surface displays, on the display, an affordance corresponding to respective content at a respective size and detects a gesture that includes an increase in intensity of a contact followed by a subsequent decrease in intensity of the contact. In response to the increase in intensity, the device decreases a size of the affordance below the respective size. In response to the subsequent decrease in intensity: when a maximum intensity of the contact is above a content-display intensity threshold, the device ceases to display the affordance and displays at least a portion of the respective content; and when a maximum intensity of the contact is below the content-display intensity threshold, the device increases the size of the affordance to the respective size and forgoes displaying the respective content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Avi E. Cieplinski, May-Li Khoe, Bianca C. Costanzo, David J. Hart