Patents Examined by Nicole E Kim
  • Patent number: 10469426
    Abstract: A group feed is displayed for a selected group by a private social network service. The group feed displays only threads with unviewed content along with a user actuatable display element that allows the user to switch to a feed that displays all content for the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Stephanie Hsu, Wooju Choi, Mario Estrada, Anthony Lawrence Jackson, Isura Harshana Edirisinghe, Stephen Quirk, Cameron Hindle Hughes Lock, Manuel Munoz Selera, Omer-Moshe Gelbard
  • Patent number: 10346129
    Abstract: Implementations disclose gamifying voice search experience. A method includes receiving, by a user device, a user request to perform a search associated with an audio input and upon determining that the audio input for the search has not been provided during a first predefined time interval, displaying on a graphical user interface (GUI) of the user device, one or more GUI elements representing one or more audio prompts pertaining to the search. In response to an activation of one of the GUI elements within a second predefined time interval, an audio prompt corresponding to the activated GUI element is played. The method further includes receiving an audio response to the audio prompt, the audio response indicating a query for the search, and presenting, on the user device, a search result for the indicated query, the search result including one or more media items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Shiva Jaini, Satoe Haile, Aaron Schurman