Patents Examined by Maikhanh Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11227106
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein for enhancing functions and formulas in spreadsheets. A computing apparatus detects a beginning of a formula in a cell of a spreadsheet. In response to detecting the beginning of the formula, the computing apparatus identifies one or more vector representations of a context of the cell and supplies the one or more vector representations as input to one or more machine learning models. The one or more machine learning models produce output comprising one or more suggested functions for the formula and one or more suggested operands, which the computing apparatus presents in a user interface to the spreadsheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew William Stegmaier, Johnny Campbell, Joseph John McDaid, Christian Canton, Vikas Yadav, Sjoerd Roelof de Jong, Robert David Ohn Tinn, Marc Manuel Johannes Brockschmidt, Juliana Patricia Vicente Franco, Sneha Khullar
  • Patent number: 11210451
    Abstract: A method for dynamic linking between graphic documents and comment databases is described and includes entering a base graphic representation of a project in a computer system. The base graphic representation may be the conversion of a user supplied format graphic to a web support format graphic. A coordinate overlay grid of a coordinate overlay program may be linked to the base graphic representation for overlay positioning and display on the base graphic representation. The coordinate overlay program may have a notation subprogram linked to the coordinate overlay grid for a user to designate notation with an identifier relative to a distinct location of the base graphic representation on the coordinate overlay grid. A text or graphic comment data record may be entered in a comment data record referenced to an identifier and displayed using a computer cursor device and display to activate an identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: E-PLAN, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Chegini, Steven Hooper, S. Jay Hedjazi
  • Patent number: 11205042
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system, method and computer program product to transform content and to generate a visual indicator of that transformation, by: performing the transformation on the content, wherein the content is transformed from one state to another state; and displaying the visual indicator representative of the transformation adjacent the content; wherein the visual indicator is selected to display the content in a state that existed prior to or at a time when the transformation was performed. As subsequent transformations are performed, additional visual indicators are listed in the order performed. The visual indicator acts as a user interface element that allows a user to view or revert the content to a state that existed prior to or at a time that the transformation was performed. Selection of the visual indicator follows the control to the destination. The visual indicator also serves to relay information sent from the destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ami H. Dewar, Rachael M. Dickens, Ethan A. Geyer, Thomas J. Blanchflower
  • Patent number: 11205207
    Abstract: As part of generating a digital catalog, a creative professional interacts with digital content via a user interface to specify an arrangement of the digital content in relation to each other. This is used by a digital layout creation system to generate a layout block that is to serve as a basis for digital catalog entries in the digital catalog. As part of arranging the digital content, the digital layout creation system generates metadata automatically and without user intervention in real time that specifies the arrangement of the digital content and what digital content is associated as part of that arrangement. Once a desired arrangement is achieved by the creative professional, an input is received by the digital layout creation system to create a layout block that is used as a basis to generate digital catalog entries of a digital catalog.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Sanyam Jain, Ramnik Singh, Pragya Kandari, Gaurav Bhargava, Anshul Jain, Abhinav Agarwal
  • Patent number: 11194958
    Abstract: A fact replacement and style consistency tool is described. Rather than rely heavily on human involvement to replace facts and maintain consistent styles across multiple digital documents, the described change management system identifies factual and stylistic inconsistencies between these documents, in part, using natural language processing techniques. Once these inconsistencies are identified, the change management system generates a user interface that includes indications of the inconsistencies and information describing them, e.g., an indication noting not only a type of inconsistency but also presenting a first portion and at least a second portion of the multiple documents that are factually inconsistent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Pranav Ravindra Maneriker, Vishwa Vinay, Sopan Khosla, Niyati Himanshu Chhaya, Natwar Modani, Cedric Huesler, Balaji Vasan Srinivasan, Anandha velu Natarajan
  • Patent number: 11182052
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a wireless communication unit configured to communicate with a beverage-making apparatus; a display unit; an input unit configured to receive a recipe input request for inputting information about a recipe of a beverage for the beverage-making apparatus; and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to: in response to the recipe input request, display a recipe input interface for inputting the information about the recipe of the beverage; and based on displaying the recipe input interface, receive recipe information for the beverage through the displayed recipe input interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Mina Suh, Hyungsun Kim
  • Patent number: 11176365
    Abstract: Techniques are described for capturing data from a digital document through the use of targeted user feedback regarding the position(s) of particular data field(s) in the document. Implementations enhance the speed and accuracy of data capture from documents and/or images of documents by providing a helpful and intuitive set of controls to enable the end user to indicate the position(s) of field(s) on a document. Through specification of the position of the field in the document, implementations may isolate the portion of the document where data extraction is to be performed to determine the associated value of the field. Any suitable number of field values may be extracted from the document in this manner, based on positions indicated by the user using the provided control(s). In some implementations, one or more actions may be automatically performed based on the extracted data, such as automated bill payment actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association
    Inventors: Michael Joseph Gaeta, Salvador Rodriguez, Bharat Prasad, Jason Algernon Webster
  • Patent number: 11170171
    Abstract: Systems and methods to modify images, extract features, convert image to text and vice versa, etc., includes deriving multimedia operations from requirements (e.g., resize, crop as modification, mark artifacts in image, face detection for query), and extending current integration foundations (i.e., integration patterns) by new patterns and uses for multimedia along the identified requirements for read, write, update, query operations. Conditions and expressions are defined for pattern configuration and execution as semantic, application-level constructs (e.g., detect face on image, extract address or account data). Patterns to a language are composed with embedded multimedia operations and configuration constructs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Daniel Ritter, Yannik Bart, David Thol
  • Patent number: 11172038
    Abstract: A client application of a device receives presence information and other interaction information from other devices synchronized to a set of content items. The interaction information indicates interactions of at least one other device with respect to a synchronized content item. The client application displays a browser depicting the synchronized content items and permitting navigation among organizational elements. The browser also displays the interaction informationa associated with the content items received from the other devices. The browser displays the interaction information with respect to particular content items or for an organizational element. The browser may also include an activity feed displaying interaction information specific to a content item or relating to a synchronized folder or organizational element. This permits a user to view, at a browser, activity and interactions of other users with respect to content items using native applications on another device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventor: Maxime Larabie-Belanger
  • Patent number: 11169831
    Abstract: A system and method that provides customized graphical user interfaces on mobile devices based on user inputs. An exemplary method includes detecting a computing device remotely connected to a remote server over a network and having an active session of a software application running on the remote server. Moreover, the method further includes identifying and selecting one or more hotkey buttons based on the detected software application, transmitting the one or more hotkey buttons to the computing device to be displayed in a customized interface while the software application is active, detecting an activation of the one or more hotkey buttons displayed on the computing device, and executing, by the remote server, an operation for the active software application in response to the activation of the one or more hotkey button by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Parallels International GmbH
    Inventors: Pavel Semenov, Ivan Korobov, Serguei M. Beloussov, Nikolay Dobrovolskiy, Liubov Kulakova, Ruslan Sadovnikov
  • Patent number: 11157544
    Abstract: Using natural language analysis of content at URLs accessed by a user, content metadata is generated. From the content metadata and from activity information associated with a set of URLs accessed by the user, a class model is generated that represents a probability that content referenced by a URL will distract the user. Using the class model to analyze content referenced by a received URL, a probability is forecasted that the content referenced by the received URL will distract the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kelley Anders, Liam S. Harpur, Al Chakra, Robert H. Grant
  • Patent number: 11157165
    Abstract: Disclosed is a device for inputting symbols in an entry field. An example of the device includes an interface unit having a touch screen and a module for processing graphics objects. The module may include a detection unit for detecting a start and an end of a current graphics object being input; a storage unit for storing graphics data corresponding to the input graphics object; a recognition unit for generating a list of candidate strings of symbols from the graphics data, each candidate string being associated with a pertinence value; and an insertion unit for inserting into the entry field a string selected by the user from the list, a data group comprising the graphics data, the candidate strings, the pertinence values, and an identifier of the selected string being stored during a predetermined duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: MYSCRIPT
    Inventors: Edgard Baudry, Denis Manceau, Robin Melinand, Arnoud Boekhoorn, Nicolas Torneri
  • Patent number: 11151307
    Abstract: An annotation corresponding to a first range of text of a first document may be received. Based on the annotation, comparisons may be performed between a text string that comprises the first range of text and a group of text of a second document at different positions in the group of text. Based on the comparisons, similarity scores between the text string and the group of text may be determined at the different positions in the group of text. A position for the annotation in the group of text may be selected based on the similarity scores at the different positions. The annotation may be associated with a second range of text in the group of text that corresponds to the position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Mudit Rastogi, Prakhar Mehrotra, Souvik Sinha Deb, Gaurav Tarlok Kakkar
  • Patent number: 11138367
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and computer program product for dynamic interaction behavior commentary are provided. The embodiment may include receiving, by a processor, a plurality of posted comments. The embodiment may also include analyzing the plurality of posted comments based on a semantic distance of the topic of discussion measured by content analysis of the plurality of posted comments. The embodiment may further include determining optimal frameworks for a plurality of users in response to a comment from a user within the plurality of posted comments. The embodiment may also include identifying interaction behavior responses containing statistically significant words or phrases that may improve a tone of the next comment when the user responds to a certain post. The embodiment may further include notifying the user when the next statement is generated based on a pre-identified or dynamically-learned interaction behavior comment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sushain Pandit, Shikhar Kwatra, Jonathan Dunne, Liam S. Harpur
  • Patent number: 11126794
    Abstract: A method for providing targeted rewrites can include receiving a selection of text in a file; generating a set of target rewrites of the selection of text, the set of target rewrites comprising: at least one phrase or sentence having semantic similarity to a phrase or sentence of the selection of text; and a style that corresponds to a particular target style, wherein a target style is a representative style for a genre, profession, or environment; and providing for selection one or more of the target rewrites of the set of target rewrites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Zhang Li, Christopher John Brockett, William Brennan Dolan, Christopher Brian Quirk, Alice Yingming Lai, Susan Michele Hendrich, Olivier Gauthier, Kaushik Ramaiah Narayanan, Maria Isabel Carpenter, Juhi Amitkumar Naik, Michael Wilson Daniels
  • Patent number: 11129259
    Abstract: A method or apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a method for retrieving a plurality of sensory information from an environment of a device. A digital representation of the environment of the device is identified corresponding to the plurality of sensory information from the environment of the device. A media presentation element of the device associated with media content of the device is identified. A user interface of the media presentation element is adapted to modify a presentation of the media content by the media presentation element of the device according to the digital representation of the environment of the device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Andrea Basso, Tara Hines, Aleksey Ivanov, Jeffrey Mikan, Nadia Morris
  • Patent number: 11120213
    Abstract: Various examples for performing an intelligent verification of a user interface to be rendered or otherwise presented, for instance, in a display of a client device are described. A web server can simulate, for at least one of a plurality of geographic locations, a rendering of a web page using hypertext markup language (HTML) for various geographic locations, where the rendering of the web page is simulated using a corresponding language. The web server can identify an anomaly in at least a portion of the web page as rendered based on a user interface verification rule stored in a data store. The web server can perform a remedial action based at least in part on a type of the anomaly identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Lucy Shang, Daniel Ni, Zhenjun Zhuo, Zohar Hirshfeld, Jim Peng
  • Patent number: 11112984
    Abstract: A method and system for formatting datalink messages is disclosed. The method comprises providing a format style of parameters and/or portions of free text for a datalink message; sending the datalink message to a destination; decoding the datalink message at the destination for both content and format style information; sending the content and format style information to a display processor; and generating parameter or free text highlighting information on a display screen corresponding to the content and format style information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Divya Swarup Giriyappa Srinivasan, Thomas D. Judd, Kathryn Bates Hill
  • Patent number: 11113460
    Abstract: The multi-path copying and pasting method provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: detecting a selection operation made on a to-be-copied content in a first file; outputting a first prompt box in accordance with the selection operation, a first option indicating the addition of the to-be-copied content into a pasting source list and a second option indicating the addition of the to-be-copied content into a target file in a pasting destination list being included in the first prompt box; receiving a first selection operation made on at least one of the first option and the second option; and in response to the first selection operation, adding the to-be-copied content into the pasting source list as a to-be-pasted content, and/or pasting the to-be-copied content to the selected target file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yi Tang
  • Patent number: 11106867
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes techniques for adding a marker to a second document, the marker corresponding to a marker in a first document. The process may include identifying a token in a first document associated with a marker based upon a location of the marker in the first document. The process may further include identifying a particular token group that the token belongs to. The particular token group may be identified from a set of token groups for the first document. A particular token group from a set of token groups for the second document is then identified for the particular token group in the first document. A location for placing the marker in the second document is identified based upon the location of the particular token group in the second document. The marker is then placed in the second document at the identified location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: David Diamond, Michael Gianatassio, John Janosik, Michael Rubino