Patents Examined by Phenuel Salomon
  • Patent number: 9575643
    Abstract: Described herein are techniques for automatically forming groups of application windows. The techniques may be performed with a computing device executing a windowing system, the windowing system having a user interface element that can be interacted with by a user to manage applications executing on the computing device. Each application may correspond to a separate process and application window. It may be determined that an operation has occurred that will evict the application windows of target applications from the display, and in response an application group may be automatically formed. The application group may have indicia of the evicted target applications. The application group may be provided to the user interface element, and when the user interface element is interacted with by the user the user interface element displays user-selectable graphic application indicators for both the application group and applications other than the target applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Miron Vranjes, Matthew Worley, Richard Fang, Nils Sundelin, Robert Jarrett, Jesse Satterfield, Alice Steinglass, Chaitanya Sareen, Bret Anderson
  • Patent number: 9575594
    Abstract: A virtual object can be controlled using one or more touch interfaces. A location for a first touch input can be determined on a first touch interface. A location for a second touch input can be determined on a second touch interface. A three-dimensional segment can be generated using the location of the first touch input, the location of the second touch input, and a pre-determined spatial relationship between the first touch interface and the second touch interface. The virtual object can be manipulated using the three-dimensional segment as a control input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventor: Ruxin Chen
  • Patent number: 9569065
    Abstract: A method for controlling an electronic device that executes and displays an application is provided. The method includes displaying an execution screen of the application on a touch screen, projecting and displaying a projection image corresponding to the execution screen of the application, displaying a pointer on the projection image, and moving and displaying the pointer on the projection image to correspond to a gesture detected on the touch screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Antoni Jakubiak, Pawel Zborowski, Adam Strupczewski, Magda Talarek
  • Patent number: 9565226
    Abstract: A system, computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for creating video streams is provided. An indication is received that is related to a first video being received or requested. The first video includes attributes characterizing content of the first video. A second video stored in a database is selected in response to receiving the indication. The selection is based on at least one attribute of the first video. An order of the first video and the second video is determined by one or more processors. The order is based on the at least one attribute characterizing the content of the first video. A video stream is generated on a user display by providing the first video and the second video in the determined order and in a substantially seamless manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Inventor: Guy Ravine
  • Patent number: 9558191
    Abstract: An automatic identification of one or more content books system and method are provided in which the one or more content books are identified based on holidays or events selected by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Picaboo Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin McCurdy, Dennis John
  • Patent number: 9547433
    Abstract: The disclosed technology includes using horizontal components and vertical components of a velocity vector associated with movement of an input gesture to determine a user's intended, dominant direction of movement and corresponding control function at various points during the input gesture. Thresholds may be dynamically adjusted to prevent a user from unintentionally changing control functions during the input gesture. By adjusting the sensitivity associated with changes in a direction of movement of a continuous input gesture, it can be made effectively more difficult for the user to unintentionally cause a change in control functions. In example implementations, one or more thresholds associated with changing a control function may be increased or decreased during a continuous input gesture. For example, the thresholds may be increased or decreased in proportion to an increase or decrease in a velocity vector component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Feldstein, Daniel Marc Gatan Shiplacoff, Hector Ouilhet Olmos
  • Patent number: 9542093
    Abstract: A graphical user interface (GUI) including an illustration can be rendered. In response to receiving a signal from an input device indicating a location within the illustration, a layer can be defined. When the layer is applied to the illustration, the GUI can be updated such that a portion of the illustration under a filter is displayed as an altered feature. The filter can overlay the indicated location. In some embodiments, another portion of the illustration different from indicated location may not be filtered. Similarly stated, only a portion of the layer can include the filter and/or the layer may not overlay the entire illustration. A signal can be received from the input device indicating a use of the tool on the layer and, in response, the altered feature can be modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: FiftyThree, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew S. Allen, Julian Walker, Amit Pitaru
  • Patent number: 9529518
    Abstract: This information processing device enables a user to easily move objects between applications simultaneously displayed on touch panels. The information processing device is provided with touch panels on which applications are simultaneously displayed. A touch panel coordinate management unit detects that an application object has existed for a prescribed time in a defined area of the touch panel when the object is being dragged. An application control unit and a display control unit move the display of the application to a position that allows the object to be dropped as a trigger for detecting the existence of the object in the defined area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yasuo Kohashi, Kazushige Yamada, Hirokazu Kobayashi, Kohei Yamaguchi, Ryo Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9529508
    Abstract: A system for alerting a user to a region of interest within an image of interest, the image of interest being one of a sequence of medical images from a patient, the system sequentially displaying the sequence of medical images for enabling the user to navigate through the sequence of medical images. The system includes an input for receiving a sequence navigation command from the user for requesting the system to display images from the sequence of medical images as part of pixel data shown on a display, and a signal generator for providing a sensory signal to the user in separation from the pixel data and in dependence on a difference between a position of a currently displayed image of the sequence of medical images in the sequence and a position of the image of interest in the sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Klaus Erhard, Michael Grass
  • Patent number: 9531879
    Abstract: This document is directed to, among other things, communication systems involving networked contact center interfaces. One example method includes presenting a frame on a user interface to present information in a selectable format. Another example method includes using a circuit device to detect selection of a frame as displayed and causing display of further graphical information in an un-selectable format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: 8×8, Inc.
    Inventors: Mansour Salame, Richard Southwick, William James Fernandez, Robert Townsend
  • Patent number: 9519422
    Abstract: A graphical user interface is provided for navigating and/or manipulating content simply via touch of a touch-sensitive surface. The content may include discrete content items (e.g., songs, video clips, documents, web pages) and/or actions (e.g., place a call, read a message, play a game), and may or may not be hierarchical in nature. The interface may be presented on a touch-screen display, such that a user may navigate to a content item or action via a single touch on the display (e.g., with a finger or other tool), followed by gliding through any number of levels or clusters of nodes (representing content items, content compilations/categories and/or actions). The desired content item or action may be initiated automatically (e.g., opened, performed) simply by touching it, by lifting the gliding finger or by performing some other input (e.g., tapping a node, speaking a command, touching with a second finger).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Inventors: Wendell D. Brown, Daniel E. Vaughan
  • Patent number: 9519410
    Abstract: A method for dynamic presentations management of electronic presentations including multiple slides, wherein each slide has at least one presentation constraint parameter assigned thereto, and wherein a presentation software is used for generating and displaying the presentation can include gathering metadata regarding the presentation by the presentation software, evaluating the metadata regarding the presentation and determining at least one presentation constraint parameter by the presentation software, and automatically arranging and/or selecting slides and/or modifying a content of slides according to the determined at least one presentation constraint parameter to be presented by use of the presentation software.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sandro Piccinini, Luigi Pichetti, Marco Secchi, Stefano Sidoti
  • Patent number: 9513764
    Abstract: A computer processor determines a first span of a communication, wherein a span includes content associated with one or more dialog statements. If the content of the first span contains one or more topic change indicators which are identified by at least one detector of a learning model, the computer processor, in response, generates scores for each of the one or more indicators. The computer processor aggregates scores of the one or more indicators of the first span, which may be weighted, to produce an aggregate score. The computer processor compares the aggregate score to a threshold value, wherein the threshold value is determined during training of the learning model, and the computer processor, in response to the aggregate score crossing the threshold value, determines a topic change has occurred within the first span.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Anand B. Bhagwat, Amit P. Bohra, Manojkumar Pal, Abhishek Shrivastava, Swapnasarit Sahu
  • Patent number: 9509799
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for providing a status report with a personal assistant feature of a user device (e.g., mobile phone). In some embodiments, when a user inputs a status command at an interface of a user device, a personal assistant feature will display a status report. The status report may include information that is responsive to a plurality of different personal assistant commands, but a user need only input the single status command to obtain all the information. The status report may be customized based on user-editable status report settings. The status report may be based on local status data from a database on the user device and remote status data from third party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: GRANDIOS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: John Cronin
  • Patent number: 9507483
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a series of photos and a map are displayed on an electronic device. In response to a user viewing a first photo, indicating a first location on the map where the first photo is taken. In addition, in response to the user viewing a second photo, indicating a second location on the map where the first photo is taken.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Matas
  • Patent number: 9495096
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which a handwriting input is enabled and by which a handwritten character saved as an image can be further utilized. According to the present invention, when a user directly inputs a character by handwriting, a text corresponding to each handwritten character is saved by being linked to the handwritten character. The user is facilitated to correctly search handwritten characters saved as image for a specific word or the like using the saved confirmed text. By mapping the handwritten character saved as the image correctly using the saved confirmed text, the handwritten character is modifiable or utilizable in various ways. Therefore, a handwritten character saved as an image in a mobile terminal can be further utilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Taeyong Kim
  • Patent number: 9495472
    Abstract: Presently described are systems and methods for newsroom management with electronic-publish-point integration. One example embodiment takes the form of a non-transitory computer-readable medium containing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause a set of steps to be carried out for submitting content to an electronic publish point. The set of steps includes providing a newsroom script to a user via a user interface; receiving a selected portion of an on-air text portion of the newsroom script from the user via the user interface; and retrieving, from a media database, media associated with the newsroom script. The set of steps further includes submitting content to the publish point, wherein the content includes text associated with the selected portion of the on-air text portion, and wherein the content further includes the retrieved media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC
    Inventor: Hank J. Hundemer
  • Patent number: 9489120
    Abstract: This information processing device enables a user to easily move objects between applications simultaneously displayed on touch panels. The information processing device is provided with touch panels on which applications are simultaneously displayed. A touch panel coordinate management unit detects that an application object has existed for a prescribed time in a defined area of the touch panel when the object is being dragged. An application control unit and a display control unit move the display of the application to a position that allows the object to be dropped as a trigger for detecting the existence of the object in the defined area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yasuo Kohashi, Kazushige Yamada, Hirokazu Kobayashi, Kohei Yamaguchi, Ryo Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9483164
    Abstract: User-centric widgets and dashboards are automatically modified to reflect a user's goals and needs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: John O. Louch, Imran A. Chaudhri
  • Patent number: 9477402
    Abstract: A portable electronic device having an input device for receiving a gesture based input from a user is used to control a navigation operation of an appliance. The portable electronic device receives via the input device the gesture based input and uses one or more parameters stored in a memory of the portable electronic device and one or more characteristics associated with the gesture based input to cause the portable electronic device to transmit a navigation step command to thereby control the navigation operation of the appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Universal Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Arsham Hatambeiki, Jeffrey Kohanek, Pamela Eichler Keiles, Patrick H. Hayes