Patents Examined by Sabrina Greene
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Patent number: 9886159Abstract: Processing documents by highlighting a portion of a document displayed on a computer display, where the portion is highlighted when a cursor is in a predefined location of the display relative to the location of the portion of the document, where the portion is identified as a candidate for selection for a post-selection operation prior to the cursor being in the predefined location of the display, and where the highlighting is done independent of any input received via a computer input device to indicate the extents of the portion, and recording a selection of the portion when an input that is predefined to indicate a selection action is received in association with the portion via a computer input device.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2012Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Joshua Fox, Michael Pelts, Vladislav Pavel Rybak
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Patent number: 9600134Abstract: Processing documents by highlighting a portion of a document displayed on a computer display, where the portion is highlighted when a cursor is in a predefined location of the display relative to the location of the portion of the document, where the portion is identified as a candidate for selection for a post-selection operation prior to the cursor being in the predefined location of the display, and where the highlighting is done independent of any input received via a computer input device to indicate the extents of the portion, and recording a selection of the portion when an input that is predefined to indicate a selection action is received in association with the portion via a computer input device.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2009Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Joshua Fox, Michael Pelts, Vladislav Rybak
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Patent number: 9569099Abstract: A method and an apparatus thereof display a key pad and solve the trouble and difficulty of a user in selecting the key pad displayed in a terminal having a touch screen. The method detects a touch gesture with respect to the touch screen; determines whether the detects touch gesture is zoom-out; displays thumbnails representing key pads, respectively, when the detected touch gesture is the zoom-out; and displays a key pad of a selected thumbnail when one of the displayed thumbnails is selected by a user.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2012Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ilgeun Bok, Chulwoo Kim, Seungah Oh
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Patent number: 9513883Abstract: A method is provided that receives an image that includes graphical metadata for specifying alignment information. The method renders the image by using the alignment information. Rendering the image by using the alignment information includes positioning text on the image, aligning the image with another image, and identifying visual boundaries of the rendered image. The graphical metadata includes a geometric shape that specifies a region on the image where the text is to be rendered. The alignment metadata also specifies a maximum size for text rendered on the image. In some embodiments, the image is a multi-layer image that includes a first layer for the image and a second layer for the graphical metadata. In some embodiments, the layer that includes the graphical metadata is designated to include graphical metadata. The graphical metadata is not rendered on a graphical user interface where the image is rendered.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2010Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Patrick O. Heynen, Marian E. Goldeen, Jordan P. McCommons, William J. Feth
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Patent number: 9513762Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for an updatable package application. Updated static content elements of the packaged application are obtained from a content delivery service. The content update is verified as a function of the component static content elements and a manifest file. The application is reconfigured to execute as a function of the updated static content elements.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2012Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Mustafa Hakim, Patrick Lee Baumann, Abdullah Mohammed Jibaly, Jordan Petrov Marinov, Kenley Bryan Capps, Brigham Mark Brown
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Patent number: 9495275Abstract: Techniques for segregating one or more logs of at least one multitasking user to derive at least one behavioral pattern of the at least one multitasking user are provided. The techniques include obtaining at least one of at least one action log, configuration information, domain knowledge, at least one task history and open task repository information, correlating the at least one of at least one action log, configuration information, domain knowledge, at least one task history and open task repository information to determine a task associated with each of one or more actions and segregate the one or more logs based on the one or more actions, and using the one or more logs that have been segregated to derive at least one behavioral pattern of the at least one multitasking user. Techniques are also provided for deriving intelligence from at least one activity log of at least one multitasking user to provide information to the at least one user.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2008Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Prasad M. Deshpande, Raghuram Krishnapuram, Debapriyo Majumdar, Deepak S. Padmanabhan
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Patent number: 9477401Abstract: A function executing method and apparatus for a mobile terminal is disclosed. The mobile terminal may execute a function. The function is associated with a target item according to information written in a selection item. The function executing method may include detecting an event related to a selection item and a target item among a plurality of menu items. The method then parses, upon detecting the event text information of the selection item. The method then executes a function associated with the target item according to the parsed text information.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2010Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoon Mi Hwang
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Patent number: 9471192Abstract: Roughly described, different drawing regions are opened for different users on the same whiteboard. Each drawing region has its own set of line appearance properties, which the user can set with a toolbar. Lines drawn in a drawing region adopt the line appearance properties then in effect for that drawing region, which also apply to replications of the line on other devices in the collaboration session. As the user draws toward a boundary of the user's drawing region, the boundary automatically moves so that the drawing continues to contain the user's drawing activity.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2013Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: HAWORTH, INC.Inventor: Steve Mason
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Patent number: 9465434Abstract: Roughly described, different drawing regions are opened for different users on the same whiteboard. Each drawing region has its own set of line appearance properties, which the user can set with a toolbar. Lines drawn in a drawing region adopt the line appearance properties then in effect for that drawing region, which also apply to replications of the line on other devices in the collaboration session. As the user draws toward a boundary of the user's drawing region, the boundary automatically moves so that the drawing continues to contain the user's drawing activity.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2013Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: HAWORTH, INC.Inventor: Steve Mason
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Patent number: 9454455Abstract: Techniques for segregating one or more logs of at least one multitasking user to derive at least one behavioral pattern of the at least one multitasking user are provided. The techniques include obtaining at least one of at least one action log, configuration information, domain knowledge, at least one task history and open task repository information, correlating the at least one of at least one action log, configuration information, domain knowledge, at least one task history and open task repository information to determine a task associated with each of one or more actions and segregate the one or more logs based on the one or more actions, and using the one or more logs that have been segregated to derive at least one behavioral pattern of the at least one multitasking user. Techniques are also provided for deriving intelligence from at least one activity log of at least one multitasking user to provide information to the at least one user.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2008Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Prasad M. Deshpande, Raghuram Krishnapuram, Debapriyo Majumdar, Deepak S. Padmanabhan
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Patent number: 9448715Abstract: A stage-based user interface for a mobile device may include a sequence of panels that each include a cluster or grouping of items, such as graphical links, application shortcuts, representations of documents, or representations of other data associated with the mobile device. The panels in the sequence of panels may be grouped so that panels that are related or that include similar items may be placed next to one another in the sequence of panels. In one implementation, the device may particularly display a graphical window that presents a panel selected from a sequence of panels, the panels in the sequence of panels each associated with a group of items and the sequence of panels having an order determined at least partially by the groups of items associated with the panels.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2010Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.Inventors: Heath Stallings, Sok Y. Hwang
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Patent number: 9448711Abstract: It is disclosed a method for displaying previously visited hypermedia pages in a hypermedia browser application executing on a mobile communication terminal comprising a display. The method comprises the steps of: rendering a first hypermedia page on said display, accepting a first input to modify rendering of said first hypermedia page according to a first content display mode, rendering said first hypermedia page according to said first content display mode, accepting a second input to render a second hypermedia page, rendering a second hypermedia page, accepting a third input to again render said first hypermedia page, and rendering said first hypermedia page according to said first content display mode.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2005Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventor: Matti Väisänen
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Patent number: 9451004Abstract: This description relates to methods for initiating a server-based action using a timing mechanism. Furthermore, the description relates to the implementation of the aspects and embodiments of the method for initiating a server-based action described herein in hardware or software, or a combination thereof. The description suggests a mechanism to trigger the delayed execution of a server-based action based on hovering over interactive elements in a graphical user interface.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2013Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: Crytek GmbHInventor: Cevat Yerli
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Patent number: 9448723Abstract: A jog control for navigating a media program having a plurality of frames and a method for using the navigation control is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, the control comprises a radial control at one of a plurality of user-selectable radial distances from a center of the jog control, the radial distance indicative of a jog control scale factor, wherein selection of the radial control selects and fixes the jog control scale factor until the control area is unselected, and wherein rotation of the selected radial control about a center of the jog control commands navigation through the plurality of media program frames at a rate determined by the selected jog control scale factor and an angular rate of the selected radial control about the center of the jog control.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2010Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: HULU, LLCInventors: Robert Masao Wong, Charles Barclay Reeves, Eugene Chuan-Huai Wei
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Patent number: 9400773Abstract: The present invention provides a document processing method and system which implement display that improves efficiency and usability of edit operations when inserting, moving, or copying and pasting data, by taking full advantage of the feature of retaining data and set values hierarchically in the system. In document processing for editing a document consisting of multiple sets of original data, when a user moves a graphic object which represents a desired original by dragging it on the document in order to move or copy the desired original data to a certain position on the document, the present invention detects the boundary between originals in the document, nearest to the position of the cursor dragging the graphic object which represents the desired original, and displays an identifiable mark on the boundary between originals in the document.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2009Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yasuo Mori
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Patent number: 9395866Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product for summoning a palette to a cursor location is presented. An application is run, the application having a work area in a Graphical User Interface (GUI). The application includes at least one palette associated therewith. A cursor can be operated within the work area. An input is provided causing one of the at least one palette to be presented at a location adjacent the cursor, and wherein the palette is maintained at the location.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2007Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventor: Ty Lettau
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Patent number: 9381289Abstract: This invention relates to a device for peritoneal dialysis with a means for the regular discharge and reuptake of dialysate, wherein the means includes an agent by which the color and turbidity of the dialysate can be determined.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2009Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbHInventors: Frank Hedmann, Stephan Klatte
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Patent number: 9298474Abstract: A method and system for managing overlapping windows on a computer screen of a computer system. A hook filter intercepts an event that has occurred. An association of the hook filter with the event was established prior to the occurrence of the event. The event is characterized by an overlapping condition in which a floating window partially or totally overlaps an active window on the computer screen. A software application is associated with the active window. Response to intercepting the event, the hook filter detects the overlapping condition. Response to detecting the overlapping condition, the hook filter eliminates the overlapping condition to make the active window totally visible.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2005Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Frederic Bauchot, Jean-Luc Collet, Marc Charles Fiammante, Gerard Marmigere, Joaquin Picon
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Patent number: 9261952Abstract: The shifting and recharging of an emotional state with word sequencing is disclosed. A selection of a first word sequence set is received from the user. The word sequence set is defined by a mood recharging characteristic value, and includes a plurality of words each with at least one corresponding definition. A first one of the plurality of words in the selected first word sequence set is displayed. Then, a first one of the at least one corresponding definition of the first one of the plurality of words in the first word sequence set is displayed while the first one of the plurality of words remains displayed. The definition remains displayed for a time duration corresponding to a predefined cadence rate value. The user is prompted with a question related to the mood recharging characteristic value and associated with the first word sequence set.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2013Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: Spectrum Alliance, LLCInventors: Pamela Gail Greene, David L. Greene, Mary Anne Thomas
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Patent number: 9177140Abstract: A system, method and computer program product are provided for managing a plurality of applications via a single interface. It is initially identified as to which of a plurality of applications are installed on a computer. A status of each of the applications is then presented via a single graphical user interface.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2007Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Inventors: Brent J. Lymer, Atri Chatterjee