Patents Examined by Peiyong Weng
  • Patent number: 9495384
    Abstract: A method for determining latitude and longitude coordinates for geographic addresses input into an address book on a mobile device is provided. For each geographic address received for storing in a contact record, latitude and longitude coordinates are automatically determined and associated with the geographic address in a database of contact records. In some embodiments, for each geographic address to be input, the method first searches existing contact records for the geographic address and if the latitude and longitude coordinates for the geographic address are in an existing contact record, the contact record for the contact is cross-referenced to the existing record for accessing the latitude and longitude coordinates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Ngoc Bich Ngo, David Paul Yach
  • Patent number: 9495074
    Abstract: An example information processing device includes: a selection unit that selects a predetermined number of contents including at least one of first contents available at an information processing device and at least one of second contents usable with restriction; a display controller that displays objects each corresponding to a content included in the selected at least one of first contents and the selected at least one of second contents; and an execution unit that executes a processing corresponding to an object included in the displayed objects in response to designation of the object by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisashi Nogami, Kiyoshi Mizuki, Ryota Oiwa, Ichiro Suzuki, Wataru Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9489131
    Abstract: A method of presenting a web page is described which incorporates navigation techniques and tools to allow impaired users to navigate throughout a web page in a convenient and geographically intuitive manner. Elements are sampled for in a region located in a user-specified direction, and a UI tool is presented for a detected element. Elements that are “hit” during sampling may be tested for materiality, and the material element with precedence will become the detected element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Taylor Seymour, Patti P. Hoa, Richard W. Fabrick, II
  • Patent number: 9488992
    Abstract: The invention is a system for selecting and previewing a configuration for a wall module before a download of the configuration to the wall module. The configuration may be selected from a set of standard applications or it may be a customized standard application. The configuration may instead be a new application. The configuration may be changed, such as screen segment selection, during a preview of it. A memory usage meter may indicate how much memory is used relative to the amount available in the wall module for the configuration. Also the system may have an autobind to a controller feature for time parameters. New application or customized standard application configurations may be saved to a library for future use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Laberge, Ankur Jhawar, Siddharth Ghule, Gary Paul Kasper, William Bray
  • Patent number: 9477372
    Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided that allow reviewers to quickly save, identify, retrieve, and share communications. For example, systems and methods described herein may allow a reviewer to store at least a portion of a communication, called a snippet, in a postboard. For example, a reviewer can highlight a portion of the content of a communication. Once the portion is highlighted, the reviewer can select a snippet command, which stores the highlighted portion in the postboard. Each snippet stored in a postboard includes at least a portion of the content that was highlighted and a link to the communication from which the snippet originates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Lee, Joshua Goldenberg, Drew Wolpert, Dan Cervelli, Brit Yonge, Carl Freeland, Tie Zhong, Gregory Martin
  • Patent number: 9471193
    Abstract: A method for displaying a relational diagram on a screen where at least one view of the relational diagram is larger than an available viewing area provided by the screen. The method comprises steps of detecting a predetermined action performed on a first element of the relational diagram, determining one or more relevant elements associated with the first element, and modifying a view of the relational diagram to display the first element and the one or more relevant elements on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Sreenivasulu Valmeti
  • Patent number: 9467409
    Abstract: An email system that enables users to request for and receive recommended messages which are relevant and contextually related to a received message via activation of a user interface element is disclosed. When a message is received, it is analyzed and keywords relevant to the received message along with named entities comprised in the received message are retrieved and stored. Upon activation of a user interface element, the relevant keywords are employed to retrieve other similar messages which are grouped into clusters. The clusters are further ranked based on their relevance to the received message and the top ranked messages from the most relevant cluster are selected for display to the user as the messages that are contextually relevant to the received message. The email system also facilitates execution of batch operations on the contextually relevant messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Sainath Vellal, Naveen Belkale
  • Patent number: 9465881
    Abstract: Identifying a set of information sources from a plurality of N diverse information sources, then, responsive to user input, retrieving a first set of data items from a first information source after determining a first extent of information retrieval, and retrieving a second set of data items from the second information source after determining a second extent of information retrieval and so on for all of the N diverse information sources. The extents of the retrieval comprise at most a number of data items specified by a user (e.g., corresponding to a page size). The method continues by sorting all of the N set of data items fetched from the diverse sources in Round Robin fashion until at least a specific number of elements are merged for generating a paged, sorted set of data items to be displayed in a paginated format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Chandrashekar M., Ganesh Jothikumar, Krishnaprasad Shivdasan
  • Patent number: 9459756
    Abstract: A user terminal apparatus is provided. The user terminal apparatus includes: a display which displays a map indicating a location of the user terminal apparatus and a location of one other user terminal apparatus, a communicator which receives a message which is input through the one other user terminal apparatus, and a controller which, when the message is received, controls to display the message on a region corresponding to the location of the one other user terminal apparatus on the map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min-suk Choi, Jung-kih Hong, Lie xin Chen, Lin Xie
  • Patent number: 9459887
    Abstract: Techniques for automated graphical user interface (GUI) creation and/or rendering are provided. Establishments are defined via items for sale and rules defining workflow processing for purchasing the items. Each establishment representing a sub hierarchy. A GUI is rendered to represent a custom hierarchy of the sub hierarchies and presented to a user. The user interacts with the GUI to select a specific establishment and perform a specific transaction with that establishment in accordance with that establishment's items for sale and rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Larry J. Salmen, Kip Oliver Morgan
  • Patent number: 9454517
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a device, a method, and a computer-readable recording medium, all of which reduce the processing load when a document is opened, and improve the operability for editing a document. A smartphone includes a touch-screen display and a controller. The controller displays a virtual keyboard and a document area which displayed an editing document inputted via the virtual keyboard, on the touch-screen display. The controller maintains displaying of the virtual keyboard while switching the editing document over from a first document to the second document, in a case in which a touch operation to switch the editing document over from the first document to the second document is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuka Ishizuka
  • Patent number: 9448707
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus having a display unit and an input device capable of detecting a plurality of designated points designated on a screen, and its method of controlling the same. The apparatus detects, on a plurality of coordinates a plurality of designated points that a user designates on the input device, a movement of the coordinates, and a change in a distance between two designated points accompanying the movement, and performs enlargement or reduction of a whole image displayed on the display unit in a case where an operation of the user is a predetermined operation designating at least two points and a first condition is satisfied, and performs enlargement or reduction of a character displayed on the display unit in a case where an operation of the user detected the predetermined operation and a second condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoshi Okuma
  • Patent number: 9449027
    Abstract: Mechanisms are described for providing visual representations of metadata so as to allow for an easier, more intuitive, and more entertaining way for a user to manage metadata by allowing a user to execute operations relating to the metadata through interactions with the visual representations of that metadata. A user can further define visual objects and use such objects for searching media content items, such as by using a visual representation of metadata as a filter and displaying graphical depictions of associations between the visual representations of metadata and the associated media content item. Moreover, operations executed on the visual representations, such as copying, pasting, and modifying the visual representations, are translated to actions on the metadata itself and can be applied across different devices, as well as different media content items and groups of media content items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Arto Juhani Lehtiniemi, Antti Johannes Eronen, Juha Henrik Arrasvuori, Jukka Antero Holm
  • Patent number: 9424208
    Abstract: A method includes steps determining individual ones of speakers and microphones connected to a first computerized appliance by execution of a software routine, determining individual ones of computer applications executable on the first or a second computerized appliance, and capable of audio input and output, and associating the speakers and microphones with the computer applications such that audio output from individual applications is provided to associated speakers only and audio input from individual microphones is provided to associated applications only.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Inventor: Padmanabhan Mahalingam
  • Patent number: 9423934
    Abstract: A method for displaying a background screen in a mobile terminal is provided. The method includes resizing at least one of a plurality of background screens according to a first input, displaying at least one of the at least one resized background screen, detecting a second input, and transitioning among the resized background screens based on the detected second input, wherein the background screens respectively include an icon that may represent a grouping of a first icon and a second icon respectively displayed on one of the plurality of background screens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-Jun Kim, Youn Seog Chang, Joon Woo Kim
  • Patent number: 9424600
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, a method for providing a portable and interactive storefront is provided. The method may comprise receiving information associated with a product to be placed in electronic commerce. Content is therefore generated based on the received information, in which the content may provide an interactive storefront. A link to the content is generated and then provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Su-I Lu, Deborah Yee-Ky Liu
  • Patent number: 9418126
    Abstract: A system may include at least one data source configured to provide network usage data indicative of the existence of communications with subscriber devices, and web and application usage data indicative of data usage of the subscriber network by the subscriber devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Cellco Partnership
    Inventors: Altaff Mohiddin Shaik, Narendra Polavarapu, Dustin Logan Applegate, Satish Kumar Hosanagara, Richard Stemper
  • Patent number: 9413908
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus remotely operated by an external terminal includes a generation unit generating a first composite image by combining an operation screen image corresponding to an operation screen of the image forming apparatus that includes software keys, and the hardware key area image of an area including hardware key images corresponding to hardware keys of the image forming apparatus, a setting unit not setting a dead area within the hardware key images but setting the dead area in a portion of an area of at least one software key among the software keys, the portion being on a side close to the hardware key area image, and the at least one software key being adjacent to the hardware key area image, and a transmission unit transmitting the first composite image as a remote operation image used in remotely operating the image forming apparatus, to the external terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Mitsutaka Morita, Yoichi Kurumasa, Yoshiyuki Tamai, Mie Kawabata, Ryosuke Nishimura
  • Patent number: 9412119
    Abstract: An engine, platform, system and method of interconnecting content generation, advertisement relevance, and traffic stimulation. The present invention may include the generation of one or more content items into a primary content window, the presentation of one or more content items in a secondary content window, a repeated crawl of the one or more content items in the primary content window, the presentation of a first plurality of advertisements relevant to the repeated crawl, the maintenance of a viewer of the primary content window at least partially based upon the one or more content items in the secondary content window, at least until the presentation of a second plurality of advertisements relevant to the repeated crawl, a targeting of at least one subset of traffic in accordance with the generation of the content in the primary content window, and a tracker that increases proportionally with the relevance of the first plurality of advertisements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Uniloc Luxembourg S.A.
    Inventor: Tod C. Turner
  • Patent number: 9410819
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for displaying navigation objects for managing operations of a vehicle. A number of navigation objects for managing the operations of the vehicle is displayed in a graphical user interface to form a display of the number of navigation objects. Responsive to a user input to the number of navigation objects, the display of the number of navigation objects in the graphical user interface is changed to include one or more navigation objects identified based on the user input. The navigation objects in the number of navigation objects have a number of associations with each other. The display of the number of navigation objects includes a number of graphical indicators providing a visualization of the number of associations for the number of navigation objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventor: Jeffrey Lee Williams