Patents Examined by Nathan Shrewsbury
  • Patent number: 10025758
    Abstract: Applications may be created and registered to an online ecosystem and then execute within individual web applications such as productivity applications, communication applications, collaboration applications, and so on. These non-native applications may be enabled to interact with files and provide custom experiences for a user. The applications may also be enabled to interact with additional information discovered about the user within the ecosystem to provide custom experiences. The applications may further be enabled to create custom workflows to allow users to accomplish new tasks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Dorrene Brown, Joey Masterson, Nate Waddoups, Shreedhar Thirugnanasambantham, Xiao Wu, Jay Rathi, Mauricio Ordonez, Darren Miller, Ela Malani, John Wang, Sreekanth Lingannapeta, Gabriel Hall
  • Patent number: 10013262
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to methods and devices for adding indicative icon in interactive application. The device obtains the objects that are in the operable state in the application scenarios of associated accounts and obtaining the previous operation record of the local account. The device obtains the objects that have not been dealt with by the local account according to the previous operation record of the local account. The device adds indicative icons to the associated account list of the local account according to the objects that have not been dealt with by the local account and sends the associated account list of the local account to the local account for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Guoliang Wang
  • Patent number: 9965144
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an image display unit, an arrangement unit, and a marker display unit. The image display unit displays images. Upon acceptance of an instruction to rearrange an image selected from among the images in an arrangement area including one of the images, the arrangement unit rearranges the selected image at a rearrangement position in the arrangement area on the image display unit. The marker display unit displays a marker image between an image at the rearrangement position and an image arranged lower in rank than the image at the rearrangement position when the rearrangement position is lower than the position of the selected image, or displays the marker image between the image at the rearrangement position and an image arranged higher in rank than the image at the rearrangement position when the rearrangement position is higher than the position of the selected image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi Nakamura, Nozomi Noguchi, Hideaki Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 9965296
    Abstract: A method is provided to measure a relative frame rate of a remote desktop on a first computer and accessed by a second computer. The method includes playing a video timestamp on the remote desktop at the first computer where the video timestamp includes unique timestamps, screen capturing the remote desktop at the first computer and the second computer, determining a first frame rate at the second computer based on the screen capturing the remote desktop at the second computer, determining a second frame rate at the first computer based on the screen capturing the remote desktop at the first computer, and determining the relative frame rate as a ratio between the first and the second frame rates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Yue Gong, Yanni Wu, Meng Chen, Yang Liu, Ning Ge
  • Patent number: 9965445
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods displaying and formatting text on an electronic display. A gesture input may be received via a gesture input device associated with the electronic display. For instance, a touchscreen may receive a touch gesture input. Each of a plurality of gesture inputs may be associated with a formatting rule and/or a text-component for selecting a portion of displayed text. Selected text may be formatted according to the formatting rule associated with the received gesture input. The formatted text may be displayed on the electronic display. A data store may associate each of the plurality of gesture inputs with a formatting rule that can be applied to selected text. Alternatively, a data store may associate each of the plurality of gesture inputs with a formatting rule and a text-component that defines to which component of text the formatting rule should be applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: FIFTYTHREE, INC.
    Inventors: Julian Walker, Ian Curry
  • Patent number: 9958843
    Abstract: A management system has a topology display screen of a management target system with an area, where icons of system components are typically displayed in the related art, which is embedded and displayed with a graph of a monitor value of the system component. A band having a predetermined width is displayed to show a relation between system display objects indicating the system components. The width of the band is determined by the number of requests which are transmitted or received by the system components. When a time-sequential graph of the monitor value of a system component is displayed, a vertical bar which can be operated by an input/output device is displayed in the graph. When the operation of the vertical bar is detected, an icon indicating integrity of the management target system at a time indicated by the vertical bar is displayed in the vicinity of the vertical bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenta Yamasaki, Mariko Miyaki, Yoko Shiga, Tomohiro Morimura
  • Patent number: 9928304
    Abstract: An example information-processing device that includes: a first registering unit that registers, in accordance with an operation performed by a user, a link data set indicating a specific data set, a specifying unit that specifies a status of use of a link data set registered by the first registering unit or a status of use of a specific data set indicated by a link data set registered by the first registering unit, and a second registering unit that registers at least one of a plurality of link data sets registered by the first registering unit based on a status of use specified by the specifying unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Sasaki, Munetaka Tsuda, Yasuto Kakimoto, Ryoma Aoki
  • Patent number: 9910566
    Abstract: Methods and systems execute different optical character recognition processes on an image using a network-based server to automatically recognize characters in the image, and aggregate the recognition results from the different optical character recognition processes to produce a final character recognition result that includes relatively higher confidence recognized characters and relatively lower confidence recognized characters. These methods and systems then output the final character recognition result from the network-based server to a remote computerized device over a computerized network. The output provides the relatively higher confidence recognized characters as default characters for pasting, and also provides the relatively lower confidence recognized characters as alternate characters for pasting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Thierry Armand Lehoux
  • Patent number: 9904467
    Abstract: A display device 100 for displaying content on a display 12, integrated with a touch panel 23, includes position detection means 32 for detecting a position indicated on the display; and content layout determination means 33 for determining a layout of a plurality of contents displayed on the display wherein, when the position detection means detects that a predetermined position on the display is indicated or a display position of a predetermined content is indicated, the content layout determination means moves at least one of displayed contents, based on a priority of displayed contents predetermined according to the display contents displayed on the display, and displays a soft key at a position where a line of sight movement amount is smaller than a line of sight movement amount of the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Munechika Okita, Hiroshi Nishimura
  • Patent number: 9904670
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for determining whether the meaning of a word included in an electronic message needs to be presented to a user, according to a dynamic determination whether the user currently knows the meaning of the word. In a client, a communication control unit receives a message sent between users, a morphological analysis unit extracts a word from the message, and a history acquisition unit acquires history information on viewing, usage, or the like of the word. A display determination unit determines whether the meaning of the word needs to be displayed, according to the acquired history information, the language level of a user stored in a user level storage unit, and the difficulty level of the word stored in a dictionary storage unit. An input/output control unit performs control such that the meaning of the word is presented to the user according to the determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoju Kamada, Ryo Kamimura, Shingo Kato, Takayuki Sato
  • Patent number: 9900175
    Abstract: A display apparatus according to an exemplary aspect of the invention includes a display unit which displays information on a system, which includes a plurality of system resources and one or more than one networks connecting the system resources, on a screen of a display device, wherein the display unit displays system resource identifiers which identify the system resources respectively, and network identifiers which identify the networks respectively, and furthermore displays a state of connection between the system resource and the network at an area determined on the basis of the displayed system resource identifier and the displayed network identifier, on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeo Ohno, Kentaro Sonoda
  • Patent number: 9891787
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus of operating an electronic device are provided. The method includes receiving an input for displaying an object screen in a state where a function execution screen is displayed, displaying the object screen in an overlaid manner on a part of the function execution screen in response to the input, and executing a function in response to a user input made on the object screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Yoon, Youngjoo Park, Sungjae Park
  • Patent number: 9888967
    Abstract: A method for guiding a user during surgical planning includes receiving input information; applying an algorithm to the input information to develop an initial surgical plan; and guiding a user by providing a plurality of suggested actions to the user. If the user performs the plurality of suggested actions, the plurality of suggested actions leads the user to the initial surgical plan. The user has an option to deviate from one or more of the plurality of suggested actions by performing non-suggested actions. Deviation from one or more of the plurality of suggested actions leads to development of a final surgical plan that is different from the initial surgical plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: MAKO Surgical Corp.
    Inventors: Carinne Granchi, Jason Otto, Thomas M. Coon, Michael Ballash, Tamas Erdos
  • Patent number: 9891821
    Abstract: A method for controlling a control region on a display screen of a computerized system is presented. The method includes obtaining data from a touchpad. The data is associated with a position of a portion of the hand of a user when the user operates the touchpad. The method includes transmitting the data from the touchpad to the computerized device and analyzing the data in accordance with a model of a human hand. In certain embodiments, the method includes identifying different sets of virtual keys to be associated with the different fingers of the user's hand and generating a control region comprising the sets of virtual keys. In some embodiments, the method may include displaying the control region in a position on the display screen in accordance with a position of one or more fingers of the user's hand on the touchpad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Handscape Inc.
    Inventor: Tong Luo
  • Patent number: 9886189
    Abstract: Server-side systems and methods may: execute a virtualized application instance based on a version of the application in a virtual computing environment; capture first object data regarding an application object of the virtualized application instance; transmit to a remote client device the first object data; receive from the remote client device second object data relating to a client-side object at the remote client device, the client-side object representing the application object; and synchronize the application object with the client-side object based on the second object data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: CLOUDON LTD.
    Inventors: Jay Zaveri, Tzahi Glik, Meir Morgenstern, Doron Yaacoby, Christian Crumlish, Lucian Masalar, Justin Copeland
  • Patent number: 9888167
    Abstract: A system includes an image capture device configured to capture an image of at least a portion of an industrial device or machinery. The system also includes a display configured to display the image. The system further includes a processor communicatively coupled to the image capture device and the display and configured to cause the display to display a graphical user interface (GUI) on the display, wherein the GUI comprises a first indicator located in user selectable first portion of the display and a window configured to display a portion of the image corresponding to a location of the first indicator, wherein the processor is configured to cause the first indicator to move to a second portion of the display in response to receiving an indication of a user interaction with the window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Bryan David Maule, Daniel McClung, Melissa Rose Stancato, Thomas Charles Ward
  • Patent number: 9875012
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a computer memory that is not a transitory has instructions executable by a processor to present on a display of a mobile device a user interface (UI) facilitating media shifting between the mobile device and an audio video device (AVD) separate from the mobile device. The UI has a grid of thumbnails, with each thumbnail being associated with a respective media asset. Responsive to a user touching and dragging a first thumbnail of the grid, a drop region is presented outside the grid indicating that a drop of the thumbnail will cause the media asset associated with the first thumbnail to be presented on the AVD. Responsive to a user releasing the first thumbnail in the drop region, a signal is sent to the AVD to cause the AVD to present the media asset associated with the first thumbnail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tanmay Agnihotri, Aravind Asam
  • Patent number: 9805015
    Abstract: Methods and systems that implement enhanced user interactions with a grid are described. A method may include generating a grid of cells arranged in a number of rows and columns. Each row may correspond to a data record of a database. The grid may be displayed to a user while identifying one or more cells as editable cells. Input data may be received from the user for each of the editable cells. The input data may be validated using predefined criteria to identify incorrect input data and errors associated with the incorrect input data may be displayed to the user. Additional methods and systems are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Teradata US, Inc.
    Inventor: Mona Singh
  • Patent number: 9779457
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems, and computer-readable storage medium for providing personalized navigation control items of an application. In an embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a user, at least one identification element of the user on a page of the application via a mobile computing device. The method includes transmitting, to a financial institution system, the user's identification element. Upon authenticating the user by the financial institution system, the method further includes receiving, at the mobile computing device, information related to personalization of navigation control items associated with a plurality of service sections of the application. The personalization of the navigation control items are generated by applying business rules to user data by the financial institution system. The navigation control items that personalized for the user's convenience and need are displayed on a page of the application on the mobile computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Jeremy Fisher, Joshua Goforth
  • Patent number: 9766913
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided for managing assignment of peripheral devices in a virtualization environment. The electronic device can include a user interface configured to display one or more representations of virtual desktops. The virtual desktops are associated with corresponding virtual machines. The electronic devices can also include one or more processors configured to provide to the user interface to display one or more representations of the peripheral devices based on detection that the peripheral devices are communicatively coupled to a control virtual machine of the virtualization environment. The one or more processors can be further configured to detect one or more first inputs received with respect to the one or more representations of the virtual desktops and the one or more representations of the peripheral devices; and facilitate to establish one or more associations between the peripheral devices and the virtual machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert James Moran, Zoe Carol Moran, Christopher Stephen Smyth