Patents Examined by Quoc A. Tran
  • Metadata tagging mechanism
    Patent number: 10445625
    Abstract: A method is disclosed. The method includes detecting an object within Advanced Presentation Document (AFP) print data and inserting a Metadata Object Content Architecture 2.0 (MOCA-2) object into the AFP print data to associate contextual information with a component of data within the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: John Barker Condon, Reinhard Heinrich Hohensee, Harry Reese Lewis
  • Display assist apparatus, method, and program
    Patent number: 10423700
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display assist apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a first processor, a second processor, and a display controller. The acquisition unit acquires a character string. The first processor divides the character string into first segments each of which is a segment representing a semantic cluster and generates a plurality of divided character strings. The second processor detects, for the character string, second segments each of which is a segment larger than the each of the first segments. The display controller performs display control to make a distinction between the first segments and the second segments when displaying the plurality of divided character strings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Akiko Sakamoto
  • Apparatus and method for executing application
    Patent number: 10417333
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for executing an application may execute a text string selected by a user or an application associated with a type of text string to input the text string to increase the user's convenience. The apparatus of executing an application includes a text string recognizer to determine a text string, a determiner to determine one or more candidate applications related to the text string, and an input location of the selected text string based on a type of the selected text string and the association model, an application list provider to generate and display a list of the candidate applications, and an application executer to execute a candidate application selected from the list and to input the selected text string into the input location of the candidate application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltdd.
    Inventors: Ji Hyun Lee, Kyoung Gu Woo, Seok Jin Hong, Yo Han Roh, Sang Hyun Yoo, Ho Dong Lee
  • Dynamic annotation in user information system of IR camera
    Patent number: 10417323
    Abstract: The present invention relates in general to the field of applications and functions of an IR-camera device operated by a user in connection with the recording of IR images and to processing of IR images on a computer application program. A system for managing annotations to IR images comprising selectable annotation input functions that are actuatable by means of control commands displayed on the display is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: FLIR SYSTEMS AB
    Inventors: Mikael Erlandsson, Erland George-Svahn, Torsten Sandbäck
  • Tabular data compilation
    Patent number: 10409907
    Abstract: One or more table content documents (TCDs) can be constructed for a set of tabular data or portion thereof. A set of query features corresponding to a question can be matched to one or more TCDs. A respective candidate answer can be generated for each of the one or more TCDs having a set of features matching the set of query features above a threshold. Zero or more candidate answers can be output to a user consumable data object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ashish Mungi, Purushothaman K. Narayanan, Ankur Parikh
  • Computing device and corresponding method for generating data representing text
    Patent number: 10402476
    Abstract: An example method involves (i) accessing first data defining multiple portions of a content item, wherein at least a plurality of the portions represent text; (ii) selecting, from the plurality of portions representing text, a subset of the portions representing text, wherein the selecting is based on each portion of the selected subset having a particular characteristic; (iii) based on the text represented by the portions of the selected subset, generating second data that represents a concatenation of the text represented by the portions of the selected subset; and (iv) providing output based on the generated second data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Gracenote Digital Ventures, LLC
    Inventors: Venkatarama Anilkumar Panguluri, Gregory P. Defouw
  • Method, server, browser, and system for recommending text information
    Patent number: 10402479
    Abstract: A method for recommending text information, a server, a browser, and a system thereof are provided. The method includes: a keyword is obtained by a server from a text index pool in response to a visiting request for a webpage from a browser; a recommended text information list is obtained from the text index pool according to the corresponding keyword; the recommended text information list is embedded into the webpage and the webpage is returned to the browser for displaying to a user; and the user may click the keyword to obtain the recommended text information list as required, thereby the keyword is set as the connection between the user and the webpage text information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Bing Cai
  • Screenshot processing device and method for same
    Patent number: 10402483
    Abstract: Disclosed is a screenshot processing method including: generating a screenshot of a displayed screen; determining at least one target area, to which a preset function is added, from a whole area of the generated screenshot; and generating a screenshot file where data for executing the preset function is combined with the screenshot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Fan, Sun Yanlong
  • Apparatus, system and method for embedding data in an image file
    Patent number: 10395402
    Abstract: An image processing device is provided to generate electronic document data representative of at least one physical document having at least one page. A unique document identifier value is determined to identify the at least one page, the unique document identifier being determined based on an end document identifier value associated with an electronic document project managed by a document management system. An annotated electronic document is generated by embedding data representing the unique document identifier within the at least one page of the electronic document data. An information file is generated and includes at least one characteristic associated with the annotated electronic document. The information file and annotated electronic document are communicated to the document management system for incorporation into an associated electronic document project stored therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignees: CANON INFORMATION AND IMAGING SOLUTIONS, INC., CANON U.S.A., INC.
    Inventor: Kosuke Nakashima
  • Document tracking in heterogeneous application environments
    Patent number: 10394899
    Abstract: A method of naming documents according to a document naming convention (DNC) includes receiving, from any of a plurality of data processing applications (DPAs) within an enterprise, a request for a document name and generating a document name “infix” portion in compliance with the DNC for inclusion in the document name. The prefix may be descriptive of a characteristic of the document and the suffix may indicate a document type, a document format, or both. The infix may include a fixed portion and a modifiable portion. The fixed portion may include a datestamp and a document unification identifier. The infix may include a variable portion that can be modified by a DPA that creates a new or modified document, but the name of the modified document maintains the fixed portion of the original document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Charles Stanley Fenton
  • Scalable display of internet content on mobile devices
    Patent number: 10394934
    Abstract: Mobile devices enabled to support resolution-independent scalable display of Internet (Web) content to allow Web pages to be scaled (zoomed) and panned for better viewing on smaller screen sizes. The mobile devices employ software-based processing of original Web content, including HTML-based content, XML, cascade style sheets, etc. to generate scalable content. The scalable content and/or data derived therefrom are then employed to enable the Web content to be rapidly rendered, zoomed, and panned. Display lists may also be employed to provide further enhancements in rendering speed. Context zooms, including tap-based zooms on columns, images, and paragraphs are also enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Softview, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Gary B. Rohrabaugh, Scott A. Sherman
  • Method of computerized presentation of a document set view for auditing information and managing sets of multiple documents and pages
    Patent number: 10387010
    Abstract: A method of computerized presentation of a document set view for auditing information of a set of documents. The method includes the initial step of receiving on a computer a selection of an original document. The original document has multiple pages with each of the pages of the original document having corresponding page content. A selection is received from the user of a first region a page of the original document. This process is repeated to retrieve a text string from all of the pages. An addendum document with multiple pages is received. A text string is retrieved from the pages of the addendum document without user intervention. A document set view is provided using the retrieved text stings and displayed for the user to update the associated information and thus allowing for the user to perform a data audit of the automated portion of the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Bluebeam, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph W. Wezorek, Elliot Chenault
  • Timeline-video relationship presentation for alert events
    Patent number: 10386999
    Abstract: A method at an electronic device with a display includes: displaying a user interface having a first region and a second region; receiving, and displaying in the first region of the user interface, a live video stream of a physical environment captured by a remote video camera, where at least some of the live video stream is recorded at a remote server; displaying, in the second region, a timeline corresponding to a timespan for a first portion of a duration during which the live video stream may have been recorded; in response to receiving a user interaction to move the timespan to a second portion of the duration, transitioning the displayed timeline to a new timeline that corresponds to the timespan for the second portion, and while transitioning, displaying, in the first region, a subset of video frames representing the first and/or second portion of the duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Charles Burns, George Alban Heitz, III, James Edward Stewart, Cameron Hill, Seungho Yang, Joe Delone Venters, William Alex Finlayson, Carsten Hinz, Timothy Samuel Psiaki, Nathan Scott Klee, Gregory Rourk Nelson, Kevin James Avery, Lawrence W. Neal, Martin Davidsson
  • Creating an on-demand blueprint of a mobile application
    Patent number: 10387172
    Abstract: An analysis of a mobile app is performed to determine each UI configuration in a set of UI configurations that is reachable in a possible use of the mobile app. A set of elements is detected that is used in the mobile app relative to a selected UI configuration from the set. A function performed by a selected element relative to the selected UI configuration is analyzed and matched with a function identified in a hierarchy of elements. The hierarchy is applicable to several mobile apps. A category of the function identified in the hierarchy is assigned to the selected element. The category and a numerosity of occurrences of the selected element in the mobile app are output in a blueprint of the mobile app.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Frederick H. Balboni, Blaine H. Dolph, Raman Harishankar, Susan L. Sylvia, Catalin Sava, Ram Viswanathan
  • Output generation based on semantic expressions
    Patent number: 10380228
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments generally relate to logically describing and modeling the layout of an output (e.g., a document or a presentation) by capturing author intent. Author intent can be captured based on the author's selection of visual exemplars (e.g., lists, grids, collages, etc.) with which to express content. Each visual exemplar identifies one or more semantic expressions (e.g., specific, often implied, relationships that are represented in visual exemplars of content) that are represented by those visual exemplars. The identified semantic expressions form a contract that can be observed in any generated output. The output can be formatted and laid out in a variety of different ways (e.g., for a variety of different presentation devices) to provide aesthetic and semantic efficiency in the generated output while maintaining the intent of the author.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventor: David Lee
  • Creating an on-demand skills blueprint of a mobile application
    Patent number: 10379879
    Abstract: A mobile app is analyzed to determine each UI configuration in a set of UI configurations that is reachable in a possible use of the mobile app. A set of elements used in the mobile app relative to a selected UI configuration from the set of UI configurations is detected. A function performed by a selected element relative to the selected UI configuration is analyzed. The function is matched with a function identified in a hierarchy of elements, the hierarchy being applicable to a plurality of mobile apps. A category of the function identified in the hierarchy is assigned to the selected element. Using the hierarchy, a type of development skill used in developing the selected element is determined. In a blueprint of the mobile app, the category, the type of the development skill, and a numerosity of occurrences of the selected element in the mobile app are output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Frederick H. Balboni, Blaine H. Dolph, Raman Harishankar, Susan L. Sylvia, Catalin Sava, Ram Viswanathan
  • Systems and methods for using linked documents
    Patent number: 10380196
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are provided for using linked documents. A system may receive, from a computing device, a request for a document. Content of the document may be defined based on state information and stateless information. A system may determine a local replica of the document in a local database. The local replica of the document may be linked to a primary replica of the document. The local replica of the document may include a snapshot of the primary replica of the document. The primary replica of the document may be stored in a remote database which may be accessible through a remote server. The system may subscribe to the primary replica of the document through the remote server, and may provide access to the document to the computing device based at least in part on the subscription to the primary replica of the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: David Skiff, Peter Wilczynski, Timothy Wilson, John Carrino
  • Validating an XML document
    Patent number: 10372809
    Abstract: At least one XML document to be validated is parsed, and XML data in the at least one XML document is represented as data objects in at least one data object model in a memory. At least one rule document is parsed and a rule object model that includes rule objects is created in the memory. At least part of the data objects are extracted from the at least one data object model and at least part of rule objects are extracted from the rule object model. Partial validation is performed in a corresponding execution context that validates the extracted at least part of the data objects based upon the extracted at least part of the rule objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Timothy J. Baldwin, Duncan G. Clark, Xin Peng Liu, Xi Ning Wang, Liang Xue, Yu Chen Zhou
  • Force-based interactions with digital agents
    Patent number: 10372412
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to enabling force-based interactions with an intelligent personal assistant (IPA). A computing device capable of sensing the force exerted to input touch inputs is configured with a pressure-based filter that checks pressures of touch inputs to determine which touch inputs are to be diverted to the IPA or which are to be passed on to underlying user interface that is not related to the IPA. Touch inputs designated for the IPA based on their pressure characteristics can become part of the context of the IPA. Some IPA uses of the touch inputs include selecting graphic objects on the display, resolving exophoric phrases (e.g., “that”, “those”) as referring to such selected graphic objects, displaying transient user interface to provide information about (or actions for) the selected object, incorporating a selected object into the current context of the IPA, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Christian Klein, Callil R. Capuozzo, Brendan D. Elliott, Christopher M. Barth, Otso Joona Casimir Tuomi, Shuo Shen
  • Suppression of input images
    Patent number: 10372310
    Abstract: A computing device is described which has a memory storing at least one indicator of image use; a user interface which receives user input; and a processor configured to trigger prediction, from the user input, of a plurality of candidate images for input to the computing device. The processor is configured to at least partially suppress the prediction of the plurality of images using the indicator of image use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: David Martinez Del Corral, Alice Elizabeth Rosam, Vladyslav Kolesnyk