Patents Examined by Rayeez Chowdhury
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Patent number: 8869062Abstract: Screen magnification software on a touchscreen device detects when a low-vision user reaches the boundary of a magnified viewport. If additional canvas or menus lay on the other side of the boundary the present invention enables the low-vision user to maintain the same exploration gesture on the touchscreen while causing the underlying canvas to scroll into view in the direction of the gesture. This invention enables the low-vision user to navigate about the entire underlying canvas of a touchscreen graphic user interface with a single, intuitive touchscreen gesture even under magnification.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2013Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Freedom Scientific, Inc.Inventors: Gerald Lee Voorhees, Robert Steinberger
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Patent number: 8863032Abstract: The present disclosure includes, among other things, systems, methods and program products for presenting object properties by receiving selection of a component of a model presented in a graphical user interface (GUI) of a computer aided design tool, the GUI including an interactive display element having an arrangement of property fields related to the selected component, determining property values associated with the property fields based on the selected component, and providing the determined property values in corresponding property fields of the interactive display element for presentation in the GUI in conjunction with the model, such that responsive to receiving selection of a different component of the model, the property fields are updated with property values corresponding to the different component.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2011Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.Inventors: Todd Christopher Nicol, Jeff Maisano, Josh Dagg
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Patent number: 8832582Abstract: A link curvature processing module enables a user with the ability to control the curvature of links in a node-link diagram. As a node-link diagram is displayed to a user, the user may interact with the diagram and adjust the curvature of one or more links in the diagram to improve the readability of the diagram. The user's modification to the curvature of a link alters the shape of the link so that the position of the nodes connected to the link does not change. By providing the user with such control, the user is able to tailor the visual display of the links to the user's preference.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2012Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Timothy Dwyer, Nathalie Henry Riche, Bongshin Lee, Sheelagh Carpendale
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Patent number: 8819566Abstract: Solutions for providing context-driven communications mode determinations. Some such solutions use a communications hub located in a home (e.g., a user supersystem) to facilitate context-driven, multi-modal communications. For example, a tablet system may be used as a graphical communications hub in a family's home, used by the family to communicate to and from the home via multiple communications modes (e.g., family chat, family activities, user-based messaging, etc.) over one or more communications channels. Determination of an appropriate mode for communications may be driven by contextual (rather that channel-based) factors relating to the communications.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2010Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Qwest Communications International Inc.Inventors: Afshin Frederick Mehin, Valentina Venza, Suzanne Gibbs Howard, Astrid van der Flier, Elger Oberwelz, Nicholas Zambetti, Jesse Tane, Katrin B. Gosling, Coe Leta Rayne Stafford, Martin Nicholas John Heaton, Matthew Robert Adams, Peter Riering-Czekalla, Andrew Paul Switky, Daniel Stillion, Michael Gibson, Richard Cerami
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Patent number: 8819579Abstract: A method for opening a file on a virtual desktop for a cloud-based system includes the following steps: The at least one external cloud server does not belong to the cloud-based system. A virtual desktop is provided to a client. The client displays the virtual desktop by a browser. An open-file request for opening a target file is received through the virtual desktop. A corresponding application service, which is utilized for opening the target file, is searched among the external application services. When the target file is an internal file stored in the cloud-based system and the corresponding application service is provided by the at least one external cloud server, the at least one external cloud server is driven to provide the corresponding application service for opening the target file, and the opened target file is displayed on the virtual desktop of the client.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2011Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Institute For Information IndustryInventors: Jui-Hao Sun, Yu-Wei Chuang, Feng-Cheng Lin
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Patent number: 8812958Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for analyzing a social network having a plurality of members, each member having declared a connection with each of one or more other members of the social network. Exemplary techniques include monitoring activity performed by members on the social network, the monitored activity including actions other than the declaring and undeclaring of connections between members. A graphical representation of at least a portion of the social network may be computed to include at least one indication of the monitored activity.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2012Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Saba Software, Inc.Inventors: Bernard P. Willis, Babak Yazdani
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Patent number: 8799796Abstract: A system, machine-readable medium and a method that may provide a dashboard that may be created with menu controls that allow a user to navigate to the underlying data, manipulate the data, and present the manipulated data in the dashboard upon navigation back to the dashboard. The menu controls may include a data link to an address of a data location containing the data presented in the dashboard.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2010Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: SAP AGInventors: Stefan Ehrler, Judith Roess, Kattia Jordan-Philipp
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Patent number: 8788966Abstract: An electrical switch apparatus including a movement sensitive form is disclosed. The apparatus includes a housing, a motion sensor and a processing unit, where motion on, near or about the motion sensor is translated into output commands adapted for list scrolling, where the list can be arranged in a hierarchy such as menus or for changing a value of an attribute of a electrical device under the control of the switch.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2010Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Quantum Interface LLCInventors: Jonathan Josephson, Kurt Edward Nalty
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Patent number: 8782552Abstract: The present invention is directed in general to imaging technologies and more particularly to medical imaging and picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) having an image display wherein system features and functions are provided to a user via active overlays located over displayed images. A system and method are provided to imbed an ability to interact with an image by activating traditional annotations that are displayed in conjunction with an image in a PACS. Users are able to access program functionalities in an improved, quicker, accurate and more intuitive means. More specifically, the present invention relates to providing the capability to customize multiple context menus, and flatten the command hierarchy of an imaging system. The present invention also provides the ability to “overload” current text and graphic annotations that are already displayed within an image of interest.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2009Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Inventors: Sinan Batman, Richard Kiesel
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Patent number: 8782522Abstract: According to one embodiment, a video display device includes a menu screen display module. The menu screen display module displays a menu screen. The menu screen includes at least two hierarchical levels. A higher hierarchical level includes a first group formed by arranging select elements representing classifications of various functions related to video image displaying. A lower hierarchical level includes a second group formed by arranging select elements representing the functions. Upon receipt of a signal from a direct key to which one of the classifications represented by the select elements of the higher hierarchical level is assigned, the menu screen display module displays the menu screen in a state in which one of the select elements is selected. Here, the one of the select elements represents the one of the classifications to which the direct key is assigned, and the operation device includes the direct key.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2011Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Akira Nakanishi, Hideyuki Toma
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Patent number: 8775966Abstract: A method is provided in a user interface of an electronic device with a touch screen display with a first touch-sensitive surface on a first side and a second touch-sensitive surface on a second side. The method includes operating the device in a default mode; receiving a predetermined first touch input while in the default mode; enabling a navigation mode on the second touch-sensitive surface based on the receiving the predetermined first touch input; navigating through an image on the a touch screen display based on a further touch input on the second touch-sensitive surface while in the navigation mode; and disabling the navigation mode on the second touch-sensitive surface and operating the electronic device in the default mode based on a predetermined second touch input.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2011Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLCInventors: Denis B Stolyarov, Hoi L Young
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Patent number: 8751961Abstract: A computer-automated image visualization method for displaying images from an image data set comprising a plurality of image elements, each image element having an associated image value, including providing a visualization application with a library of presets, each preset defining a mapping between image values and their representation in a graphical user interface; loading an image data set from a data file containing the image data set; displaying an initial representation of the loaded image data set on a graphical user interface; receiving user input from a location in the representation to indicate a region of interest in the image data set; determining properties of image elements in the region of interest; making a list of potentially suitable presets from the library of presets based on the determined properties of the region of interest; and presenting the potentially suitable presets to the user for selection.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2012Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Ian Douglas Bird, Colin John Roberts
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Patent number: 8732609Abstract: A system and method for providing a visual scrollbar position indicator whereby data included in a defined data field, or other data, associated with each entry in a list of entries is selected for display and as the list of entries is being scrolled through, the data included in the defined data field, or other data, associated with each entry in the list of entries selected for display is displayed to the user as each entry is passed, i.e., scrolled through, and as the scrolling is in progress, i.e., while the scrolling function is still activated.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2010Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Intuit Inc.Inventors: Mitchell D. Bayersdorfer, George A. Hansen
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Patent number: 8701047Abstract: A configuration management and monitoring system may use a hierarchical knowledge base to identify configuration settings, resolve conflicts between configuration settings, and implement and monitor the configuration settings for one or more devices in a network environment. The system may produce a file that may be consumed by an application and with which the application may be configured to conform to the configuration settings. The system may also produce a set of settings that may be used to automate deployment and monitor compliance with the settings.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2009Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Thomas Cloward, Xiaoxi Tan
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Patent number: 8694903Abstract: Exemplary methods and systems for managing an e-reader interface are disclosed herein. An exemplary method includes an e-reader interface management system directing an e-reader device to display a plurality of graphical objects representative of a plurality of segments of an e-publication, detecting a user interaction with a graphical object within the plurality of graphical objects and representative of a segment within the plurality of segments, and directing the e-reader device to remove at least one other graphical object within the graphical objects from the display of the graphical objects, wherein the at least one other graphical object is representative of at least one other segment within the plurality of segments that is unrelated to the segment. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2011Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Soumya Tiwari, Ruchir Rodrigues, John F. Gallagher, Raju T. Ramakrishnan, Ashish Phutela, Peter Joseph, Manisha Gupta, Manidipa Bhattacharyya, James Y. Hwang
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Patent number: 8694918Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for generating a view of a data flow model. One or more groupings of data flow objects in the data flow model is determined, based on an ontology. At least a first one of the groupings is collapsed in the view. The view is output for display in a user interface configured to selectively expand and collapse the first group based on user input.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2012Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Dan J. Mandelstein, Ivan M. Milman, Martin A. Oberhofer, Sushain Pandit
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Patent number: 8683360Abstract: A redrawing area displaying unit sets a redrawing area SD based on an area redrawn by a drawing processing unit in each frame, and displays an image representing the set redrawing area SD by overlapping the image on a GUI. Each time a frame of the GUI is updated by the drawing processing unit, a target redrawing area displaying unit measures a drawing processing time TS of the updated frame, and when the measured drawing processing time TS exceeds a predetermined reference processing time TR, calculates a target redrawing area MD that is drawable within the reference processing time TR, and overlaps an image representing the calculated target redrawing area MD on an excess frame and displays this image.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2011Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Mitsuhiro Aso, Hidehiko Shin
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Patent number: 8671348Abstract: A terminal includes: a camera configured to capture an image using a lens; a memory configured to store the image captured by the camera and identification information corresponding to the captured image; a controller configured to provide control to generate schedule information based on the identification information and to store the generated schedule information in a scheduler; and a display unit configured to display the generated schedule information or the scheduler under the control of the controller.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2010Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Seungwon Lee, Jinwook Choi, Seungcheon Baek, Jungsu Lee
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Patent number: 8667411Abstract: A copy and paste operation allows selection from a copy source display area to be copied from a display screen of a display unit and pasted to a paste destination display area without losing the original appearance and style. A processing unit determines from data generated on the style of a copy source and data on the paste destination style, whether the paste destination style would change the copy source style. If it is determined that the paste destination style would change the copy source style, the copy source style is processed into the paste destination style in order to make the paste destination style consistent with the copy source style. The paste destination display area then displays the copy source display area pasted therein with the copy source style.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2010Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Tatsuya Miyoshi
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Patent number: 8645873Abstract: Exemplary methods and systems for managing an e-reader interface are disclosed herein. An exemplary method includes an e-reader interface management system directing an e-reader device to display a plurality of graphical objects representative of a plurality of segments of an e-publication and arranged in a plurality of overlapping rows, detecting that a user has accessed a particular segment within the plurality of segments and represented by a particular graphical object within the plurality of graphical objects, and dynamically altering at least one display attribute associated with the particular graphical object to indicate that the particular segment has been accessed by the user. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2011Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Manisha Gupta, Raju T. Ramakrishnan, Balamurugan Natarajan, Peter Joseph, Soumya Tiwari, James Y. Hwang, Ashish Phutela, Manidipa Bhattacharyya