Patents Examined by Roland J Casillas
  • Patent number: 11972087
    Abstract: A method may include generating a graphical user interface (GUI) that includes a canvas visually displaying a virtual audio environment representing an arrangement of speakers in a real-world audio environment. The virtual audio environment may include an audio object that represents sounds that are grouped together to provide a particular sound effect. The method may include obtaining, via the GUI, a selection of a particular audio object displayed in the virtual audio environment and user input relating to the audio properties associated with the selected audio object. The method may include performing an audio computation based on the user input and updating the selected audio object represented in the canvas. The method may include displaying, via the GUI, the updated audio object in the canvas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Inventors: Rainer Brodersen, John Trudeau, Robert Aric Marshall, Kenneth Pearce, Michael Plitkins, Calin Pacurariu
  • Patent number: 11943559
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to providing live video. An example method includes, at a computer system, while in an editing mode for a presentation, receiving, via one or more input devices, a request to insert an object onto a first slide of the presentation, wherein the request includes associating the object with a source for live video; and while in a presentation mode for the presentation, displaying, via a display generation component, the first slide including concurrent display of the object and one or more visual elements, wherein: in accordance with a determination that the object is associated with a camera, the object includes a live video stream from the camera; and in accordance with a determination that the object is associated with a non-camera external device, the object includes a live video stream that mirrors a portion of a display of the non-camera external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Underwood, Gary W. Gehiere, Michael W. Greiner, Amy W. Hung, Scott G. Marnik, David A. Turner
  • Patent number: 11937021
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to camera and visitor user interfaces. In some examples, the present disclosure relates to techniques for switching between configurations of a camera view. In some examples, the present disclosure relates to displaying indications of visitors detected by an accessory device of the home automation system. In some examples, the present disclosure relates to displaying a multi-view camera user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis S. Park, Patrick L. Coffman, Christopher John Sanders
  • Patent number: 11921973
    Abstract: Provided is a content playback program and a content playback device that are capable of selecting a “favorite character” of a user as an application launcher icon, in accordance with the user's progress status of a game. The user selects a single character that is a favorite character from among characters for each of which an already-obtained flag and an icon-setting flag are both set to logical “true”, thereby making it possible to set an icon of the favorite character as a game-application launcher icon on a menu screen displayed by an application launch processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: CYGAMES, INC.
    Inventor: Shuichi Kurabayashi
  • Patent number: 11921972
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of diagnosing a technology environment using augmented reality may include: receiving status information corresponding to the technology environment; generating, based on the status information, a 3D visualization of the technology environment; causing an augmented reality device to display the 3D visualization, the 3D visualization including one or more first level icons; receiving first selection information from the augmented reality device, the first selection information corresponding to a first selection gesture performed by a user of the augmented reality device; and in response to the first selection information, causing the augmented reality device to display one or more second level icons as part of the 3D visualization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Arunkumar Natarajan, Omari Felix, Colleen Frank, Venkata Mandali
  • Patent number: 11921980
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for displaying notifications received from multiple applications. In some embodiments, an electronic device can monitor notifications that are received from the multiple applications. Responsive to receiving the notifications, the electronic device can control the manner in which the notifications are displayed while the device is operating in a locked or an unlocked state. In some embodiments, the electronic device can allow users to customize how notifications are to be displayed while the device is in the locked and/or unlocked states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Imran Chaudhri, Eliza Block
  • Patent number: 11907429
    Abstract: A system and apparatus for interacting with a virtual reality environment by means of a virtual reality glove comprising artificial muscles. A plurality of artificial muscles comprising individual artificial muscles operable to either expand or contract is embedded in or attached to a virtual reality glove. Individual artificial muscles are actuated in response to stimulus in the virtual reality environment such that a user wearing the virtual reality glove experiences resistance to virtual objects simulating a resistance the user would feel from a tangible object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Inventor: Jonathan P. Nieman
  • Patent number: 11908331
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method of managing a fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is provided. A fleet management computing system receives telemetry information from a plurality of UAVs. The fleet management computing system generates a map interface having a plurality of UAV icons based on the telemetry information. The fleet management computing system receives a selection of an initial group of UAV icons via the map interface, wherein the initial group of UAV icons includes two or more UAV icons. The fleet management computing system receives a de-selection of one or more UAV icons from the initial group of UAV icons to create a final selected group of UAV icons. The fleet management computing system transmits a command to UAVs associated with the UAV icons of the final selected group of UAV icons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Wing Aviation LLC
    Inventor: Fan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11902228
    Abstract: Media, methods, and systems of presenting and assigning interactive user statuses within a group-based communication system. The interactive user statuses may include links to resources and/or actuatable controls for accessing collaboration activities with other users. The interactive user statuses may be assigned manually or automatically based on user activity within the group-based communication system or within external applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Anna Niess, Noah Weiss, Kevin Marshall
  • Patent number: 11880543
    Abstract: An orthogonal or multi-dimensional fabric user interface is described herein. A remote server executes an operating system that provides a multi-dimensional fabric user interface for storing content for a particular user. The user can access select content by manipulating the multi-dimensional fabric user interface through a graphical user interface displayed on a personal mobile computing device. In this way, the user experiences and manipulates various data dimensions around the specific content they are accessing, rather than selecting a particular file structure location. The remote server also enables the user to enter a first location side of a portal and travel to a virtual representation a second actual physical location in the multi-dimensional fabric user interface from a virtual representation of a first actual physical location in the multi-dimensional fabric user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: PEER INC
    Inventor: Thinh Tran
  • Patent number: 11874942
    Abstract: A method including receiving a request to access a meeting record from a user is provided. The meeting record may indicate at least one meeting participant, an audio/video recording and a presentation from one of the participants in the meeting. The method includes verifying an access privilege of the user for the meeting record, providing the meeting record to the user, for playback of a selected portion, and providing, in the meeting record, a selecting tool to the user, for playing the selected portion, wherein the selecting tool is configured to playback the selected portion for one of multiple participants in the meeting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Fuze, Inc.
    Inventors: Luke Surazski, Elias Sardonis, Jedidiah Brown
  • Patent number: 11875107
    Abstract: A solution for formatting document objects by visual suggestions is proposed. For a document including multiple editing units each of which contains multiple objects, a first editing rule is generated, the first editing rule indicating an edit performed on a first object in a document. Then, an editing suggestion is generated based on the first editing rule, the editing suggestion describing a candidate edit to be performed on a second object within a suggestion scope. The editing suggestion is then presented in a visual form to a user for selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Darren Edge, Taoyu Li, Xiongjian Mo
  • Patent number: 11868399
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for providing a reply to a query related to a media asset. A query may be received from a user while the media asset is being played on a first device, and in response to determining that the query is related to the media asset, a snapshot of the media asset may be captured, where the snapshot comprises a depiction of a first object and a second object, and the snapshot may be generated for display at a second device. In response to determining there is ambiguity whether the query is related to the first or second object, a disambiguating query based on the first and second objects of the snapshot may be generated for simultaneous output with the snapshot. In response to receiving a reply to the disambiguating query, a response to the query may be generated for output based on the reply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Ankur Anil Aher, Jeffry Copps Robert Jose
  • Patent number: 11861133
    Abstract: Various example implementations are directed to apparatuses and methods for providing data communications, and for monitoring and/or analyzing operations of computing data-communication servers. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus includes processing circuitry to generate graphical-user data and further includes cloud-based data-communication servers. The cloud-based data-communication servers are to provide over one or more broadband networks including the Internet, data-communication services to recipients having respective accounts associated with use of the data-communication services and, for one or more of the accounts, to allow the recipients to permit the recipients to designate, for provisioning and/or deploying, certain of the one or more resources which are available from the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: 8x8, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Britt, Bryan Martin, Christopher Peters
  • Patent number: 11861139
    Abstract: Methods and systems for deferring and resuming content from multiple applications. An application executing a client device may have an open content item, such as a file, document, or message. An input to park or defer the content item may be received. In response to the input, a data container for a parked item for the content item is created in a remote content-deferral platform. Metadata for the content item is retrieved and stored within the data container along with additional data, which may be user curated, to form the parked item. The parked item may then be accessed from multiple different applications via a park pane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Peter Loren Engrav, Trevor Joel Harris, Nathaniel Marvin Myhre, Vishal Mathur, Archil Tskhondiya, Davis Lindsay Wanless, Christopher Bobbi Yanasak, Maliha Sanaa Lakhani, Jokko Korhonen
  • Patent number: 11853355
    Abstract: Example methods and systems for inserting information into playing content are described. In some example embodiments, the methods and systems may identify a break in content playing via a playback device, select an information segment representative of information received by the playback device to present during the identified break, and insert the information segment into the content playing via the playback device upon an occurrence of the identified break.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Gracenote, Inc.
    Inventors: Vadim Brenner, Markus K. Cremer
  • Patent number: 11853537
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods that provide a graphical user interface for intuitively generating digital action sequences across one or more digital platforms. For example, the disclosed systems generate graphical user interfaces with tools to construct digital action sequences of platform actions performed based on event triggers. To facilitate building such digital action sequences, in some cases, the disclosed systems provide data for digital-action-sequence templates for easy selection of pre-matched event triggers and platform actions or tools to mix-and-match combinations of specific event triggers and platform actions. By providing such intuitive tools in a centralized graphical user interface, the disclosed systems can connect events across multiple platforms or across disconnected components of a single platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Qualtrics, LLC
    Inventors: Evan Paul Child, Vernon W Hui, Joseph Scott Reese
  • Patent number: 11847378
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interface for audio routing. In some examples, a computer system detects an audio device and displays a selectable option in accordance with a determination that a set of criteria is met. The selectable option, when selected, enables the computer system to connect to the audio device and transmit audio data to the audio device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher J. Sanders
  • Patent number: 11836832
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media directed to adaptable drawing guides. In implementations, a guide mode is identified. Generally, a guide mode indicates a manner in which to use a drawing guide to confine strokes corresponding with input paths. Upon detecting an input path, a stroke is drawn in accordance with the guide mode. For example, when an edge mode is employed, the drawn stroke is confined to align with at least one edge of the drawing guide, when an inside mode is employed, the drawn stroke is confined inside of the set of edges of the drawing guide, and when the outside mode is employed, the drawn stroke is confined outside of the set of edges of the drawing guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Elissa A. Welsh, Rishabh Vij, Gaurav Gilhotra, Ayush Bansal, Nipun Mitra, Pulkit Mehta, Karan Batra, Rohit Kumar Guglani, Deep Sinha, Will Eisley, Laura Serghiou
  • Patent number: 11838423
    Abstract: An embodiment involves persistent storage and one or more processors. The persistent storage may contain a plurality of hardware models specifying types of computing devices, wherein the hardware models include attributes representing manufacturer names, product names, and model numbers of the computing devices. The processors may be configured to: obtain, from the persistent storage, a hardware model; calculate a hash value over attributes of the hardware model; compare the hash value to hash values in a curated list, the curated list including normalized hardware models that map the hash values to normalized manufacturer names, normalized product names, or normalized model numbers; determine that the hash value matches a particular hash value for a normalized hardware model; and update, in the persistent storage, the hardware model to include at least one of a normalized manufacturer name, a normalized product name, or a normalized model number associated with the normalized hardware model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Charles Ferrington, Venkat Rao Vadranam, Vishal Reddy Wudaru, Thankaselvi Kumaresan, Jugal Kishore, Vijaya Sankara Gopisetty, Uttej Kumar Reddy Gade, Saurabh Dewan