Patents Examined by Omar Abdul-Ali
  • Patent number: 9588667
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed regarding the reformatting tabular data in a browser on a client device received from a server. The browser on the client device is capable of being resized in a number of potential sizes—e.g., desktop browser viewport, laptop browser viewport, tablet browser viewport and mobile browser viewport. Tabular data may comprise main data, row data and associated column data. Depending on the browser viewport, one embodiment may dynamically position the tabular data so that the associated column data is displayed near its associated row data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Rohan Singhal, Joel Schweitzer, Annice Jumani, Carolina Hernandez, Panuruj Khambanonda
  • Patent number: 9588659
    Abstract: A system and method for a computer implemented display of information organizes a visual screen display to a user in such a way that the user is able to efficiently select information content, and then be presented with topical associations relating to that content. The display enables selection of a particular information segment having an association with particular information content. A selected information segment has multiple topical associations with various categories and sub-categories of information. A user may navigate to a particular segment of information content, and then be presented with a string of topically related segments, as well as with one or more connecting categories of information, which may otherwise not have been readily apparent to the particular selected segment, but for the display system and method. One or more of the information segment indicators can optionally include a publication date and/or a source identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Kazark, Inc.
    Inventor: Drue A. Hontz
  • Patent number: 9591071
    Abstract: Features are disclosed for managing presentation of content to improve the content consumption experience as a user moves around or when there are multiple users. Based on user positions within a content consumption location and optionally on the layout of the location, presentation of content can be adjusted. The volume of audio content may be raised or lowered based on a user's position. Audio or visual content can be paused or stopped if a user leaves the location or the user's view is obstructed. When multiple users are consuming a content item, one or more users may have priority and any adjustment may be made to first improve the experience of the priority user. In some cases, no user has priority, and adjustments may be made to improve the experience of many or all users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Audible, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas Scott Goldstein, Ajay Arora, Douglas Cho Hwang, Guy Ashley Story, Jr., Shirley C. Yang
  • Patent number: 9582738
    Abstract: Automatically classifying multimedia content that is specific to a video production includes obtaining, from a video sensor embedded in a video capturing device that captures a video, a time series of location data, direction data, orientation data, and a position of the first user and the second user, identifying for any given duration in the video, corresponding first user data, corresponding second user data, and corresponding video sensor data, annotating the video with the corresponding first user data, the corresponding second user data, and the corresponding video sensor data to obtain an annotated multimedia content, performing a comparison of a data pattern of the annotated multimedia content with data patterns of a script stored in a database to obtain a recommended section for the annotated multimedia content, and automatically classifying the annotated multimedia content by associating the annotated multimedia content with the recommended section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Invent.ly LLC
    Inventor: Stephen J. Brown
  • Patent number: 9582504
    Abstract: A method for providing a playlist, a remote controller applying the same, and a multimedia system are provided. The method for providing a playlist includes displaying a plurality of content lists of a plurality of kinds of contents in which contents of a same kind are arranged together, the plurality of content lists being displayed on a first area of a screen, if at least two different kinds of contents are selected from the plurality of content lists in a selecting, collecting the selected contents of the at least two different kinds of contents, and generating and displaying a playlist including play information regarding the collected contents of the at least two different kinds of contents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung-jin Hwang, Dong-jin Lee, Young-jun Ryu, Jae-hong Ahn, Hye-jeong Lee
  • Patent number: 9582818
    Abstract: A multiphase interactive advertisement includes a first phase having a first graphical interface and a second phase having a second graphical interface including at least a streaming media component space. In an exemplary embodiment, the second phase has a dimension that is greater than a dimension of the first phase. The multiphase interactive advertisement further includes a streaming media component incorporated into the streaming media component space of the second phase. The multiphase interactive advertisement, and specifically, the streaming media component, is generated using a software player engine that includes a core set of player variables and controls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: YAHOO! INC.
    Inventors: Alan Scott Florschuetz, Christopher J. Manchini
  • Patent number: 9575565
    Abstract: A selectable element or an element image associated with the element is displayed on a screen of a display unit. A representation of a person whose image is captured with a detection unit, or an indicator that moves in conjunction with a motion of the person is displayed on the screen. The element or the element image is moved so as to be driven out of the representation or the indicator thus displayed. The element is judged as selected based on a movement degree or a post-movement position of the element or the element image thus moved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: JUICE DESIGN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Taro Isayama
  • Patent number: 9569075
    Abstract: An example information-processing device includes: a first display controller that displays one or more objects in a virtual space; a first accepting unit that accepts a instruction to select one of the one or more displayed objects displayed by the first display controller; a second accepting unit that accepts shared information; and a posting unit that posts the shared information accepted by the second accepting unit, associated with the object selected by the first accepting unit, to an information sharing service for sharing information among a plurality of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Aya Kyogoku, Keiko Kochi
  • Patent number: 9569004
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to switching tabs in an application. A system is configured to provide for the display an application interface. The application interface includes a toolbar and content associated with a first tab from a plurality of tabs open in the application. The system is further configured to receive, via an input device, a swipe gesture on the toolbar in the application interface and switch, in response to the receiving of the swipe gesture, from displaying in the application interface the content associated with the first tab to displaying content associated with a second tab in the plurality of tabs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: David Andrew Trainor, Arnaud Claude Weber, Carson L. Holgate
  • Patent number: 9571428
    Abstract: A system for providing a local computer user with detailed activity information regarding remote users, in order to assist the local user in determining whether to initiate a communication session with a remote user. The system provides activity information that may describe the number of instant messaging sessions one or more remote users are currently involved in, the identities of participants in those sessions, activity levels, time period information, and other information. The system further provides detailed activity information describing recent instant messaging sessions of one or more remote users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: RAKUTEN, INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan Feinberg, Paul B. Moody, Daniel M. Gruen, Richard M. Wilson
  • Patent number: 9563328
    Abstract: A user interface through which information is proactively provided utilizes visual cues indicative of the relevance of the information that is being proactively provided. Such visual cues include sizing, color, intensity, movement, and other like visual attributes. A single discrete visual element proactively presents information to the user. The user is provided with the opportunity to define discrete events, whereby information associated with such events is presented through other discrete elements. The physical orientation of such discrete elements indicates relationships between elements. Ranking functionality identifies more immediately relevant information and the rankings of related elements are increased based upon other, contextual information with which such information is associated, and on which the importance of such information is based.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Donald Robert Coyner, David Jones, Rudy Poot, Christopher Eoin Miles, Ammon Haggerty
  • Patent number: 9560413
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating a notification when activity exceeds an authorization level are provided. A determination is made as to whether content currently being presented to a first user exceeds an authorization level associated with the first user. In response to determining that the content exceeds the authorization level, the content being presented is monitored to determine whether the content meets a criterion. An amount of time the content being presented meets the criterion is measured. In response to determining that the amount of time exceeds a threshold, a communication is transmitted to a second user indicating that the content currently being presented to the first user exceeds the authorization level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventor: Danielle Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 9558174
    Abstract: A method to synchronize data between a spreadsheet application and a marketplace application is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request to synchronize data items between the spreadsheet application and the marketplace application, the data items relating to a type of listing of items associated with the marketplace application. Additionally, the method includes executing a process to synchronize the data items between the spreadsheet application and the marketplace application, the process to include at least one of downloading one of the data items from the spreadsheet application and uploading one of the plurality of data items to the marketplace application, the executing of the process to occur independently of the executing of the spreadsheet application. Furthermore, the method includes displaying a status of the executing of the process in a native user interface element of the spreadsheet application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Brandon Lai, Auston McReynolds, Dilip Varadarajan, Venkat Mavram
  • Patent number: 9547432
    Abstract: A mobile terminal including a terminal body; a display unit configured to display a lock screen including a plurality of regions in a lock mode in which an input of a control command with respect to an application is limited; and a controller configured to, when a touch input applied to a region among the plurality of regions of the lock screen to release the lock mode is sensed, detect information regarding a home screen corresponding to the touched region, and display the home screen corresponding to the touched region based on the detected information regarding the home screen corresponding to the touched region on the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Suyoung Lee, Sungyoung Yoon, Jieun Lee, Victoria Bondarchuk
  • Patent number: 9542060
    Abstract: User interfaces for selecting content for presentation or other actions is described in this disclosure. Using a small number of input controls a user may quickly and easily navigate content available for presentation from one or more content providers. Additional information may be presented to the user to facilitate selection of the content. Users may select content using one or more of a graphical user interface, or voice input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew S. Brenner, Jared T. Benson, Eric A. Breitbard, Michael Patrick Bauerly, Vincent G. Uttley, Panos Vassiliadis, Lowell W. Goss, Nathan Daniel Cox
  • Patent number: 9536140
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an image pickup unit, a recognition unit and an execution unit. The image pickup unit photographs a recording medium to generate a picked-up image. The recognition unit recognizes a handwritten mark in the picked-up image generated by the image pickup unit. The execution unit performs a predetermined process according to the handwritten mark recognized by the recognized unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD
    Inventors: Tatsuzi Ichikawa, Koji Nishitani, Fuminori Sano, Noriyoshi Katsumura, Kazuyasu Yamane
  • Patent number: 9532164
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for mapping addressable information (e.g. locations denoted by name or address, street addresses, landmarks, etc.) off of disparate applications on a mobile device, onto an existing map on the mobile device, are disclosed. An application on a mobile device may display addressable information (e.g. a website displaying a location name and/or address, an email containing an address, etc.) In response to a user's selecting the addressable information and invoking a mapping command, a map-display application (e.g. Google Maps®, Yahoo! Maps®, Windows Live Search Maps®, MapQuest®, iPhone® maps, Waze® etc.) may be automatically presented (e.g. launched, become visible, displayed, etc.) displaying the addressable information in addition to at least one prior mapping content previously displayed by the map-display application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Empire IP LLC
    Inventors: Gabriel Jakobson, Steven L. Rueben
  • Patent number: 9529491
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for displaying a screen on an electronic device. A locked screen is displayed on which at least one object is arranged. A location is determined on the locked screen at which event information corresponding to an event is displayed, based on an attribute of the at least one object, when the event occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd
    Inventors: Soo Jung Bae, Kyung Lim Choi, Wan Kyu Kim, Jeong Hyo Kim, Jee Won Lee, Hui Chul Yang
  • Patent number: 9524482
    Abstract: A three dimensional virtual retail space representing a physical space for designing a retail store space layout is provided. A three dimensional virtual object representing at least one physical object for the retail space is provided. Input can be received from a virtual reality input interface for interacting with the virtual object in the virtual retail space. Based on the input, the virtual object can be placed in the virtual retail space. An updated video signal can be sent to a head mounted display that provides a three dimensional representation of the virtual object in the virtual space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: John Yopp, Charles Pilon
  • Patent number: 9519421
    Abstract: In a system for dynamically and remotely providing user interface (UI) display and processing information to a touch panel embedded within a multifunction peripheral (MFP) such as a digital copier having an internal computer for controlling the touch panel, a method that comprises linking the internal computer to an external data communication network having an external remote computer on the network; and upon the inputting of desired selections by a user at the UI and communicating the same over the network to the external computer, providing information from the external computer via the network back to the internal computer that enables dynamically changing or updating the UI display and behavior during run time of the MFP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Conley, Eric Hansen