Patents Examined by Reza Nabi
  • Patent number: 10146399
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a plurality of spatial publishing objects (SPOs) is provided in a multidimensional space in a user interface. Each of the plurality of spatial publishing objects is associated with digital media data from at least one digital media source. The user interface has a field for the digital media data. A user is provided via the user interface with a user presence that is optionally capable of being represented in the user interface relative to the plurality of spatial publishing objects. The digital media data associated with the at least one spatial publishing object are combined to generate a media output corresponding to the combined digital media data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: AQ Media, Inc.
    Inventor: Jan Peter Roos
  • Patent number: 10139909
    Abstract: An electronic device with a touch-sensitive surface, a display, and tactile output generator(s) displays a user interface including a moveable component representing a plurality of selectable options. The device detects a scroll input directed to the moveable component including movement of a contact followed by a lift-off. In response to detecting the scroll input: the device moves the moveable component through moving a first selectable option and a second selectable option, where the movement of the moveable component gradually slows down after the lift-off of the contact. As the first moveable component moves through the first selectable option with a speed: the device generates a tactile output and an audio output. As the moveable component moves through the second selectable option with a slower speed: the device generates a different tactile output in a first property but is the same in a second property and generates a different audio output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Imran A. Chaudhri, Sebastian J. Bauer, Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Hugo D. Verweij, Gary I. Butcher, Camille Moussette, Jean-Pierre M. Mouilleseaux, Madeleine S. Cordier, Joshua B. Kopin
  • Patent number: 10133538
    Abstract: An audio file analyzer computing system includes technologies to, among other things, localize audio events of interest (such as speakers of interest) within an audio file that includes multiple different classes (e.g., different speakers) of audio. The illustrative audio file analyzer computing system uses a seed segment to perform a semi-supervised diarization of the audio file. The seed segment is pre-selected, such as by a human person using an interactive graphical user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: SRI International
    Inventors: Mitchell Leigh McLaren, Aaron Dennis Lawson, Harry Bratt
  • Patent number: 10126912
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for displaying a browser navigation page. The disclosed methods and apparatuses may generate a browser navigation page that have one or more icons displayed with preset areas at irregular positions in the browser navigation page. The disclosed methods and apparatuses may generate a browser navigation page in which the areas of the icons may be adjusted according to click counts of the icons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Guangzhou UCWEB Computer Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Le Wang, Guang Chen, Haowei Wang, Yao Li
  • Patent number: 10102824
    Abstract: A computing device, and method thereof, may have a first display. A first user input is received from an input device of the computing device. In response, a task manager is displayed, the task manager having representations of respective objects on the computing device. When a second user input is received via the input device, a target representation is selected according to the second user input and an application window of an application corresponding to the target representation is displayed on the second display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Issa Khoury, William Scott Stauber, Petteri Mikkola, Holger Kuehnle, Ryan Pendlay, Keri Moran
  • Patent number: 10095385
    Abstract: The principles described herein provide methods and systems of providing a user interface to allow a user to compose and send an electronic communication quickly and conveniently. For example, a user interface includes split-pane interface having a navigable tray area and a composition area. The navigable tray area may include categories of trays, each tray including a navigable listing of content items that may form part of the electronic communication. The navigable tray area allows the user to navigate from one tray to the next to access different types of content items to be used in composing the electronic communication. When composing an electronic communication, a user can select an item in a tray, and the item is previewed in the composition area and can become part of the electronic communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventors: Brandon Marshall Walkin, Michael James Matas
  • Patent number: 10095372
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a wireless communication circuit and one or more processors. The one or more processors are operable to the one or more processors to detect an inability of the wireless communication circuit to transmit an electronic communication that includes one or more temporally dependent content elements. When this occurs, the one or more processors monitor a duration during which the wireless communication circuit is unable to transmit the electronic communication. Later the one or more processors alter the one or more temporally dependent content elements as a function of the duration to obtain a modified electronic communication, which is transmitted from the wireless communication circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Krishnan Raghavan, Amit Kumar Agrawal, Vignesh Karthik Mohan
  • Patent number: 10095528
    Abstract: Systems and methods may replace and/or enhance green screens. A green screen may be replaced and/or enhanced by receiving green screen data, determining a modification to be applied to the green screen data, generating a user interface screen including the green screen data and the modification, and causing the user interface screen to be displayed on a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Micro Focus (IP) Development Limited
    Inventors: Avihai Suissa, Dorian Hugues
  • Patent number: 10089069
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for controlling voice emoticons in a portable terminal for providing a recipient portable terminal with various voice files according to the emotions and feelings of the user in place of text-based emoticons, thereby enabling the various voice files to be played and to express rich emotions compared to the existing monotonous and dry TTS-based voice files. The present invention comprises the steps of: displaying a voice emoticon call menu for calling a voice emoticon menu on one area of a touch screen; displaying the voice emoticon menu provided with a voice emoticon list after the voice emoticon call menu is user-selected; and transmitting a voice emoticon user-selected from the voice emoticon list to a recipient portable terminal in place of the voice of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignees: OPENVACS CO., LTD
    Inventor: Young Min Jeoung
  • Patent number: 10088981
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for communicating and collecting data across multiple applications through a single user engagement application includes displaying multiple applications and a single user engagement application in a single window. Each of the multiple applications includes a user interface and user interface data objects being displayed in the single window. The user engagement application includes a chat user interface and a collection user interface, where the chat user interface displays multiple chat threads and the collection user interface includes multiple collections of saved user interface data objects. The user engagement application is a separate and distinct application from each of the multiple applications. The method includes copying and inserting selected user interface data object into a selected chat thread in the chat user interface and posting the inserted user interface data object to the other users of the selected chat thread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Christina Hall, Anja Fehlau, Christian Geldmacher, Joerg Goeppert, Sophie Kraut, Bjoern Bader, Hergen Siefken, Klaus Herter
  • Patent number: 10079971
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for setting a shooting parameter. The method includes displaying a digital color temperature adjusting key and at least one scenario color temperature adjusting key in a menu bar on the touch screen, receiving a tapping signal on a digital color temperature adjusting key displayed on a touch screen, displaying a scrolling list according to the tapping signal. A first set of n color temperature values are displayed in the scrolling list and one color temperature value in the n color temperature values is in an active state. The method further includes receiving a scrolling signal associated with the scrolling list, scrolling the first set of n color temperature values to display a second set of n color temperature values in the scrolling list in response to the scrolling signal, and selecting as the shooting parameter a color temperature value which is in an active state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Lin Liu, Haipo Zhang, Chuan Gao
  • Patent number: 10075484
    Abstract: Roughly described, a system includes a database containing publications, and a server coupled to the database. Each publication in the publication database contains images on various pages. The server is programmed to serve toward a user a page from a selected publication. The user can select a clip region to share, and the clip region can be any desired portion of the page, including a part of an image. The server then writes to the publication database the location of the clip region, and a version of the image cropped to the clip region. The server will also share the clip on a sharing service upon selection by the user. The user can also comment on the clip, and the server writes the comment into the publication database in association with the clip. The clip is discoverable by other users, both on the server website and on the sharing service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: ISSUU, INC.
    Inventors: Christian Mulvad Sejersen, Tav Klitgaard, Jeremy James LaCroix
  • Patent number: 10073674
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for rewinding media content based on detected audio events are provided. In some embodiments, a method for providing media guidance is provided, the method comprising: causing media content to be presented; receiving, using an audio input device, audio data that includes ambient sounds in an environment in which the media content is being presented; receiving a user command to rewind the media content; detecting that a portion of the audio data corresponds to an audio event that occurred during the presentation of the media content in response to receiving the user command to rewind the media content; determining a playback position in the media content based on the audio event; and causing the media content to be presented from the determined playback position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: James Stout
  • Patent number: 10073590
    Abstract: A method includes, at an electronic device: receiving data representing a sequence of images stored on an external device; displaying, on a touch-sensitive display, a representation of the sequence of images; determining whether a contact detected on the touch-sensitive display at the representation of the sequence of images has a characteristic intensity above a threshold intensity; in response to a determination that the characteristic intensity is above the threshold intensity, displaying a user interface menu including a user interface object representing an option to display a background of a user interface based on the sequence of images; detecting a selection of the user interface object; detecting a motion indicative of a wrist raise gesture; and in response to detecting the motion indicative of a wrist raise gesture, displaying the background of the user interface on the display of the electronic device based on the sequence of images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan R. Dascola, Christopher Patrick Foss, Lawrence Y. Yang, Alan C. Dye, David Chance Graham, Jonathan P. Ive, Kevin Lynch, James Howard, Giovanni M. Agnoli, Eric Lance Wilson, Christopher Wilson, Jeffrey Meininger
  • Patent number: 10067919
    Abstract: A device may receive a request to generate a feedback report regarding an error. The device may cause an image associated with a user interface and the error to be captured based on receiving the request to generate the feedback report. The device may cause the image to be altered, to highlight or redact information of the image, by: altering the image to highlight a first portion of the image or altering the image to redact a second portion of the image. The device may obtain contextual information associated with the image. The device may provide the feedback report for resolution of the error. The feedback report may include the contextual information and the image that is altered to highlight or redact information of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Suma Manoraj, Raul Alvarado Ramirez, Jonathan Paul Bastidas
  • Patent number: 10067630
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to hierarchical tree file browsers and provide a method, system and computer program product for selectably flattening a hierarchical tree object structure in a hierarchical tree object browser. In one embodiment of the invention, a method of flattening an object hierarchy in an object browser can be provided. The method can include selecting a node in an object hierarchy in an object browser and, responsive to selecting the node, displaying content for the selected node and content for at least one node below the selected node in the object browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Josef Scherpa, Andrew L. Schirmer
  • Patent number: 10055020
    Abstract: In an approach for visually enhancing tactile metadata, a computer receives an image on a first computing device. The computer selects an object from one or more objects depicted within the received image. The computer determines boundaries of the selected object. The computer assigns an object tag to the selected object within the determined boundaries, wherein the assigned object tag includes one or more keywords and terms describing the selected object. The computer assigns tactile metadata to the selected object within the determined boundaries based on one or more physical properties associated with the assigned object tag. The computer creates a visually enhanced image based on the assigned tactile metadata, wherein the assigned tactile metadata includes one or more physical properties associated with the assigned object tag capable of being represented visually.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Vinicio Bombacino, Nicola Milanese, Riccardo Pizzutilo, Andrea Tortosa
  • Patent number: 10055110
    Abstract: Operations includes receiving a first data set, from a user, via a user interface; generating a first plurality of commands that are based on a plurality of actions performed by the user to submit the first data set via the user interface; executing the first plurality of commands to submit the first data set to a data repository; recording the plurality of actions performed by the user to obtain a recorded plurality of actions; receiving a second data set, from one or more devices, to be submitted to the data repository; responsive to determining that the second data set is associated with the first data set: generating a second plurality of commands that are based on the recorded plurality of actions and the second data set; executing the second plurality of commands to submit the second data set to the data repository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Darryl Shakespeare, Aaron Johnson, Nicole Laurent
  • Patent number: 10050851
    Abstract: Visualizing conditions of information technology environment includes creating a visual with an initial unit set and an interactive section, each unit in the initial unit set depicting at least two types of information about at least one current condition in the information technology environment and changing the visual in response to commands from the interactive section to reveal data about the information technology environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: ENTIT SOFTWARE LLC
    Inventor: Goranka Medhi
  • Patent number: 10048841
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and program product are disclosed for collaborative project management. One apparatus includes a selection module that receives a selection by a local user of an information handling device to display an application screen of a remote user of multiple remote users. The application screen of the remote user displays a project used by the multiple remote users in a collaborative environment. The apparatus includes a display module that displays on the information handling device the application screen of the remote user. The application screen of the remote user is updated immediately as modifications to the project are made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Brigham Young University
    Inventors: Brett Stone, Philip Cox, David French, Ammon Hepworth, Charles Gregory Jensen, Walter Edward Red