Patents Examined by Rashawn N Tillery
  • Patent number: 11669237
    Abstract: An operation method is applied to a terminal device, and the terminal device includes a first screen that is bendable and a second screen that is disposed on a side frame of the terminal device. The method includes: displaying shortcut function icons on the second screen in a case that the first screen is bent and displays an information input box; receiving a first input operation performed on a target function icon in the shortcut function icons; and in response to the first input operation, executing a function corresponding to the target function icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Lili Du
  • Patent number: 11669223
    Abstract: An image search method includes: receiving a first input that is performed by a user on a first identifier in a preset control displayed at a target position of an image display interface, wherein the image display interface includes at least one image; in response to the first input, displaying at least one thumbnail associated with the first identifier; receiving a second input that is performed on a first thumbnail of the at least one thumbnail; and in response to the second input, marking a first display position of a first image corresponding to the first thumbnail on the image display interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuantao Lin
  • Patent number: 11663584
    Abstract: A system to indicate to a user to enter a personal identification number (PIN) on a commercial off the shelf (COTS) device, the system comprising: a secure card reader communicatively coupled to the COTS device, and wherein the secure card reader receives a payment card; a payment application installed on the COTS device; and one or more devices other than the COTS device. The payment application installed on the COTS device transmits one or more prompts to the one or more devices other than the COTS device based on a set of signals received from the secure card reader. The secure card reader transmits the set of signals after the payment card is received at the secure card reader, and the one or more prompts comprise at least one indication to the user to enter the PIN on a display of the COTS device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: STRIPE, INC.
    Inventors: Hwai Sian Tsai, Chi Wah Lo
  • Patent number: 11651795
    Abstract: An audio signal processing device including: an input reception section that receives input from a user for selection of a channel of a mixing device; an audio signal input section that receives an audio signal corresponding to the channel of the mixing device selected according to the input from the user for the selection of the channel received at the input reception section; an audio source identification section that analyzes the audio signal received at the audio signal input section and identifies a kind of audio source of the audio signal; a setting data acquisition section that acquires setting data corresponding to the kind of audio source identified by the audio source identification section; and a setting data setting section that prompts the mixing device to set the setting data acquired by the setting data acquisition section for the channel received at the input reception section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaaki Okabayashi
  • Patent number: 11650713
    Abstract: A portable electronic device displays a plurality of icons (e.g., graphical objects) in a region in a touch-sensitive display; detects a predefined user action, with respect to the touch-sensitive display, for initiating a predefined user interface reconfiguration process; and varies positions of one or more icons in the plurality of icons in response to detecting the predefined user action. The varying includes varying the positions of the one or more icons about respective average positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marcel Van Os, Freddy Allen Anzures, Scott Forstall, Greg Christie, Imran Chaudhri
  • Patent number: 11650791
    Abstract: A computing device and a method for generating relative narration. In one instance, the computing device include a display device displaying a graphical user interface including textual information received from a first application. An electronic processor of the computing device receives a user interface element associated with the textual information scheduled for relative narration. The electronic processor extracts a plurality of entities from the user interface element, converts the plurality of entities into a narrated string using a second application, generates the relative narration of the textual information using the narrated string, and output the relative narration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: David Lu, Allen L. Ussher, Jennifer L. Bost, Brian S. Stucker
  • Patent number: 11645584
    Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying recommended topics are disclosed. An example method may be performed by one or more processors of a system and include identifying one or more attributes of a system user, identifying a subset of topics relevant to the system user based on analyzing the one or more attributes of the system user using an analysis model trained with a machine learning process to identify relevant topics for system users based on historical user attributes, generating, for each respective topic of the subset of topics, using the trained analysis model, a relevance score for the respective topic based at least in part on a most recent system page previously accessed by the system user and a current system page accessed by the system user, and generating one or more recommended topics for the system user based on the relevance scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Sirigiri Venkata Giri, Govinda Raj Sambamurthy, Charu Garg, Samar Ranjan, Anshika Pandita, Manish Jain, Anand Patil, Satyajit Nath Bhowmik
  • Patent number: 11636102
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described, which provide a natural language-based content system with corrective feedback and training service. The natural language-based content system with corrective feedback and training service may collect data based on interaction with search results from users. The natural language understanding model may generate feedback data based on the collected data, and use the feedback data to further train the natural language understanding model and update search and discovery logic for searching and discovering contents. The feedback data may categorize errors based on the interaction, and identify differences between search queries received during a search session with a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Haripriya Srinivasaraghavan, Praveen Kumar Bandaru, Veena Chugani
  • Patent number: 11630680
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product for modifying a user interface in a web browsing session is described. During a learning session with a first user, a user model is created. The user model includes associating user movement of the first user with a set of user focus types. During the web browsing session with the first user, the system determines that a first user focus of the set of user focus types in the user model is appropriate to modify a web application user interface to present a priority user interface element in the user interface. The web application user interface is modified according to the first user focus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shikhar Kwatra, Liam S Harpur, Zachary A Silverstein, Craig M Trim
  • Patent number: 11625160
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described that include generating a content repository to store content items satisfying a recency condition. In response to receiving an indication to access and store an additional content item in the content repository, the systems and methods may include triggering rendering of a user interface in a taskbar associated with a computer operating system, the user interface depicting at least a representation of the additional content item, storing the additional content item in the content repository, and triggering expansion of the user interface to include at least two regions where the at least two regions include a rendering of a representation of the content items satisfying the recency condition and a representation of the additional content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Gabrielle Zadina, David Black, Kejia Shao, Gary Hyun Jin Kim, Toni Barzic, Thomas Homer Rutledge, Alex Newcomer
  • Patent number: 11620550
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a system, program product, and method for leveraging cognitive systems to facilitate the automated data table discovery for automated machine learning, and, more specifically, to leveraging a trained cognitive system to automatically search for additional data in an external data source that may be merged with an initial user-selected data table to generate a more robust machine learning model. Manual efforts to find and validate data appropriate for building and training a particular model for a particular task are significantly reduced. Specifically, a learning-based approach to leverage with machine learning models to automatically discover related datasets and join the datasets for a given initial dataset is disclosed herein. Operations that include dataset selection facilitate continued reinforcement learning of the systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dakuo Wang, Mo Yu, Arunima Chaudhary, Chuang Gan, Qian Pan, Daniel Karl I. Weidele, Abel Valente, Ji Hui Yang
  • Patent number: 11610676
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a plurality of identifiers that discriminates whether abnormal data that is information indicating an abnormal value is included in treatment data and detects the abnormal data; and a hardware processor that: customizes evaluation data used when evaluating discrimination accuracy of the plurality of identifiers; calculates the discrimination accuracy of each of the plurality of identifiers using the evaluation data customized by the hardware processor; and selects one identifier out of the plurality of identifiers as an identifier used for discrimination based on a calculation result by the hardware processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Matsumoto, Hitoshi Futamura, Satoshi Kasai, Shinsuke Katsuhara, Tsuyoshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11593705
    Abstract: Techniques for feature engineering pipeline generation for machine learning using decoupled dataset analysis and interpretation are described. A feature engineering engine obtains a dataset and utilizes a number of analyzers to generate data facts associated with the columnar values of the dataset. The data facts are consolidated together as a set of data statements that are used by multiple interpretation engines that implement different strategies for treating the data in order to generate feature engineering pipeline code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Laurence Louis Eric Rouesnel
  • Patent number: 11567851
    Abstract: A graph model of a graphical user interface (GUI) may be generated by processing usage data of the GUI where the usage data comprises sequences of GUI pages and actions between GUI pages. The nodes of the graph model may be determined by obtaining GUI pages from the usage data, identifying dynamic GUI elements in the GUI pages, generating canonical GUI pages by modifying the GUI pages using the dynamic GUI elements, and creating graph nodes using the canonical GUI pages. The edges of the graph may be determined by processing actions from the GUI data that were performed by users to transition from one GUI page to another GUI page. The graph model of the GUI may be used for any appropriate application, such as determining statistics relating to the GUI or statistics relating to individual users of the GUI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: ASAPP, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Alfredo Ciolek, Clemens Georg Benedict Rosenbaum, Adrian Philip Botta
  • Patent number: 11567645
    Abstract: Computer-readable media, methods, and systems are disclosed for displaying paginated growing widgets. At generation time, a pagination service negotiates widget bounds. The pagination service transmits proposed bounds and a starting index to the growing widgets and receives a number of items that can be displayed as well as updated bounds for all items that can be displayed. The pagination service creates a cache entry including a widget identifier, updated widget bounds, and a starting and ending widget data item index. If a particular page is not present in the widget pagination cache, the pagination service performs another bounds negotiation. At display time, the pagination service instructs each of the paginated growing widgets to render updated widget data items based on a corresponding widget pagination cache entry, without reprocessing a document object model associated with a front-end application on which the paginated growing widgets are displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: BUSINESS OBJECTS SOFTWARE LTD.
    Inventors: Alain Bonnamy, Christophe Ricard
  • Patent number: 11552966
    Abstract: In an approach to mature a knowledge corpus using artificial intelligence (AI) and user collaboration, embodiments create, by an AI response system, a knowledge corpus based on retrieved data associated with a first user. Additionally, embodiments execute, by the AI response system, a search to locate one or more matching knowledge corpora based on a request of the first user, and identify, by an anonymous network, at least one cluster of one or more anonymous second users having respective search requests that substantially match the search request of the first user. Furthermore, embodiments execute an AI exchange between the identified one or more anonymous second users and the first user, and mature the knowledge corpus, via the AI response system, based on the AI exchange between the first user and the identified one or more anonymous second users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shikhar Kwatra, Adam Lee Griffin, Indervir Singh Banipal, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Laura Grace Ellis
  • Patent number: 11550468
    Abstract: Various examples of the present invention relate to an electronic device and a method for displaying applications used in the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jongkee Lee, Jungyeob Oh, Bonghak Choi
  • Patent number: 11535101
    Abstract: An intelligent user manual system for vehicles includes: a digital manual database; an input module including a voice input device which is configured to receive a voice input of the user; a recognition module communicatively connected with the input module and configured to recognize a query instruction input by the user via the input module; a processor module communicatively connected with the recognition module and the manual database and configured to perform a checking operation based on the user's query instruction that has been recognized by the recognition module; and an output module communicatively connected with the processor module and configured to output content to the user that has been obtained by the processor module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Volvo Car Corporation
    Inventors: Baojun Xie, Daniel Yang, William Miao, Tianyun Chen, Jianyun Jiang
  • Patent number: 11531808
    Abstract: A method of notifying a user of a cloud-based content management platform of a comment made in a document associated with the user includes determining a set of comments associated with documents to which the user has access via the cloud-based content management platform, the set of comments including one or more comments added by other users to each document within a last predetermined time period, selecting one or more comments from the set of comments for notification to the user, the selecting being based at least on interactions of the user with a comment thread associated with each comment from the set of comments and characteristics of the comment thread, wherein a comment thread is a group of a plurality of comments comprising a first comment and a second comment added in reply to the first comment, determining one or more documents associated with the one or more selected comments, and providing a graphical user interface (GUI) of a cloud storage of the user hosted by the cloud-based content managem
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Timothy Vis, Jesse Sterr, Michael Colagrosso, Michael Procopio, Sandor Dornbush
  • Patent number: 11526430
    Abstract: A test manager receives notification by a version control hosted service of one or more files, containing plain text instructions, being stored in a repository to be used for guiding a human tester to perform operations and observe behavior for a system under test. The manual test includes callable automated software, executed by a serverless computing platform, to set the system under test in a predefined state required for the manual test. The test manager is configured to display a user interface having information indicating the manual tests to be executed, including required automated software to be executed, and to provide guiding instruction for the execution of the tests. The test manager communicates with the serverless computing platform, issuing instructions regarding the required automation. The user interface is also configured to receive status information from both the human tester and the serverless computing platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: S2 Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Underseth