Patents Examined by Scott Baderman
  • Patent number: 9412187
    Abstract: The invention relates to a computer implemented method for preparing content of a document, wherein a document file is received as an input, the content of the document file is parsed, the parsed content data items forming the content of the document file are classified into at least two separate categories. Further, within the method at least one of the following is performed for the classified parsed content data items: rendering the content data items classified in a first category into a raster canvas and storing the rendered content of the raster canvas into a raster image file, generating and storing a meta file comprising at least one preprocessed rendering instruction for at least one content data item classified in a second category. The invention also relates to a system configured to perform the method and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer program code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: DOCUMILL OY
    Inventors: Rami Hanninen, Mika Konnola, Terho Laakso
  • Patent number: 9405426
    Abstract: Embodiments are described for a system and method for adapting an online user input form that provides user input to a web-based application. A method comprises defining one or more attributes related to one or more fields of the online user input form, obtaining historical data comprising past user input to related user input forms, calculating historical most common values for each attribute of the one or more attributes; and modifying the one or more fields of the online user input form in accordance with the calculated historical average values. The attributes may include at least one of the size, location, and datatype of each field of the form. The method may be implemented through an application programming interface for implementation through server-side and client-side processes that are written in a web-browser compatible markup language.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: Jamison M. Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9400769
    Abstract: A method for generating a document, comprising providing a set of content items in a first configuration for the document, using a processor, generating alignment data representing a measure for the alignment of the content items in the first configuration, using the alignment data to determine if the content items are aligned with one another within a predefined threshold measure for alignment for the document, and a document layout system comprising a processing module configured to generate a document layout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Helen Balinsky, Anthony Wiley, Matthew Roberts
  • Patent number: 9400633
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for voice-enabling a web application, wherein the web application includes one or more web pages rendered by a web browser on a computer. At least one information source external to the web application is queried to determine whether information describing a set of one or more supported voice interactions for the web application is available, and in response to determining that the information is available, the information is retrieved from the at least one information source. Voice input for the web application is then enabled based on the retrieved information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: David E. Reich, Christopher Hardy
  • Patent number: 9401941
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system (and method and computer readable storage medium) are disclosed for processing interactions with song lyrics. The system is configured to provide for display on a screen of a computing device the song lyrics. The system detects a selection of a segment of the song lyrics and provides for display a menu of options for interacting with the selected segment of the song lyrics. The system receives a selection of an option from the menu of options and updates, in a user interaction database, a data field corresponding to the selected segment with the selected option from the menu of options. The system executes the selected option from the menu of options.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: CBS Interactive Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Juristovski, Milun Tesovic, Sushant Sund
  • Patent number: 9396282
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system, method, and software application for enabling a user to view data from an external data source in a visual map, wherein the external data source has a web services interface. Visual mapping software on a computer provides a visual mapping interface in which a user can create, edit, and/or view a visual map. Within the visual mapping interface, the visual mapping software provides the user with an option to obtain data from one or more data sources associated with a web service. In response to the user selecting a data source associated with a web service, the visual mapping software builds a web service request for the web service associated with the selected data source. The visual mapping application makes a call to the applicable web service with the web service request. The visual mapping application subsequently receives data from the web service and transforms the data into a format that can be used to generate visual map data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Mindjet LLC
    Inventors: William J. Creekbaum, Michael B. Jetter, Steven Bashford
  • Patent number: 9390077
    Abstract: Computer-readable media stores instructions that perform operations including receiving a first electronic document; determining a first information gain value associated with a first line that divides the first electronic document into a first portion and a second portion; determining a second information gain value associated with a second line that divides the first electronic document into a third portion and a fourth portion; and determining which of the first information gain value and second information gain value is greater. Information gain values are determined by calculating a difference between an entropy value associated with a line and an entropy value associated with an electronic document. Entropy values associated lines or electronic documents are determined based at least in part on document objects in the portions created by a line or an electronic document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Shumeet Baluja
  • Patent number: 9384251
    Abstract: Provided are techniques for presenting a data visualization on an off-line mobile device. A report specification is parsed to detect a drill definition to navigate from a report viewer to an interactive visualizer. Data package report specifications are generated to create data and metadata. Data package report output is obtained for each of the data package report specifications. Data and metadata in each data package report output are converted. The converted data and metadata are stored into a data package. A mobile content package is created using the data package and a visualization specification. A report and the mobile content package are delivered to the off-line mobile device. The report viewer is used to present the report. In response to a user interacting with a user interface control on the presented report, the interactive visualizer is launched to present the data visualization using the mobile content package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James D. Miller-Cushon, Emilie Noel, Murray J. Reid, Qing Wei, Stewart J. Winter
  • Patent number: 9384101
    Abstract: A web application architecture can use a wrapper application to provide a virtual machine environment within a web browser and web applications can run on the wrapper application. The wrapper application can provide life cycle management for the web applications and provide other functions such as log in and log out for all of the web applications in the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ramiro Calvo, Onar Vikingstad, William Kakes, Charles Everett Edwall, III, Juan Camilo Pinzon, Megan Frost, Jae Woo Chang, Mischa McLachlan, Everaldo Coelho
  • Patent number: 9384173
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus having a display function capable of easily designating a page and skipping pages to a page desired to be displayed. A CPU displays data on a page-by-page basis according to a display instruction. The CPU extracts consecutive pages of each of document sections of the data, as logical pages, in association with physical page numbers each sequentially assigned to each at least one of the pages of the data. The CPU decides a leading logical page of each document section, as a reference logical page, and gives the display instruction so as to cause a display unit to consecutively display a plurality of reference logical pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenta Matsui
  • Patent number: 9384300
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, a method and apparatus are provided to receive a first application archive, create a generic view model based on the first application archive, and create a second application archive based on the generic view model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Nimrod Barak, Doron Lehmann, Eyal Nathan
  • Patent number: 9378188
    Abstract: A method is provided for rewrapping text when changing from a first to a second zoom level when displaying an electronic document. The line length at which to rewrap the text is chosen such that no horizontal scrolling becomes necessary. Since the rewrapping may result in a change to the layout of the document, the method may further include identifying an element in the electronic document and ensuring that the element is included in the display after a zooming-in or zooming-out operation. Also described is a device configured to perform the method and a computer program including instructions for performing the method when executed by a computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: OPERA SOFTWARE ASA
    Inventor: Karl Anders Oygard
  • Patent number: 9372849
    Abstract: In a method for dynamically highlighting repetitive text in electronic documents, obtaining one or more user preferences related to a user reading an electronic document. The method further includes determining whether the electronic document contains one or more repetitive text associations, wherein a repetitive text association is data that provides one or more indications of repetitive text segments interspersed within a document. In response to determining that the electronic document contains one or more repetitive text associations, the method further includes identifying one or more repetitive text segments in the electronic document corresponding to the one or more repetitive text associations and determining a time duration expended by the user reading an instance of the identified one or more repetitive text segments within the electronic document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Olympia Gluck, Itzhack Goldberg, Gilad Sharaby, Neil Sondhi
  • Patent number: 9372843
    Abstract: A document association device includes a document memory, a reference operation receiving unit, an editing operation receiving unit, an operation memory, and an association unit. The document memory stores one or more electronic documents each including plural elements. The reference operation receiving unit receives a reference operation for one or more elements in an electronic document stored in the document memory. The editing operation receiving unit receives an editing operation for one or more elements in an electronic document stored in the document memory. The operation memory stores information on a received operation. When the editing operation receiving unit receives an editing operation after the reference operation receiving unit receives a reference operation, the association unit associates one or more elements targeted by the reference operation with one or more elements targeted by the editing operation, in accordance with information stored in the operation memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenichi Numata
  • Patent number: 9372833
    Abstract: A system an method provide for user interaction document processing via event generation and processing. An underlying document is displayed and worked with (ranging from a blank document, or a presentation display of a non-blank document or an image of anything relative to which a user can make annotations that can result in a respective combined display presentation of the underlying image combined with the selected ones of the annotations). The annotations to be displayed are selected by criteria such as user, time, location, etc. A combined display presentation is generated responsive to respective display presentation data, and is associated with and representative of a specific combination view of edit events. A second version of a display presentation can be provided by selecting the events associated with a respective one or more users' annotations to form a selected set that is used to generate said display presentation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Inventors: David H Sitrick, Russell T Fling
  • Patent number: 9369595
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus accesses a server that provides a Web application to enable Web application to be utilized. The image forming apparatus receives an instruction to utilize the Web application, and acquires a document expressing a Web page of the Web application in response to the received instruction. The image forming apparatus determines whether a previously-set fixed name is included in a URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) included in the acquired document. When it is determined that the fixed name is included in the URI, the image forming apparatus acquires data correlating to the URI from a predetermined location previously correlated to the fixed name. Using the acquired data, the image forming apparatus generates a display screen of the Web application based on the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Kawabata
  • Patent number: 9367641
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for improving a user experience during viewport scrolling is herein disclosed. Rendering and drawing of a viewport is performed for a destination viewport based on a viewport scroll vector calculated from a user scroll input at a display device. The destination viewport is rendered before viewports between a starting viewport and the destination viewport so that there is no lag in rendering when the scrolling action reaches the destination viewport. The compromise is that intermediate viewports may be rendered based on a thumbnail image in low resolution, but since these low-resolution portions of the webpage are viewed briefly as the webpage scrolls to the destination viewport, a user is unlikely to notice the reduced resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
    Inventors: Wilson Kwan, Stewart Chao
  • Patent number: 9367938
    Abstract: Various methods are provided for automated real-time detection of overlapping painted html elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Aaron Brenzel, Paul Sernatinger, James Werwath
  • Patent number: 9367522
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for time-based editing of an electronic presentation. An electronic presentation editing interface for editing an electronic presentation is provided. The interface includes a digital canvas including multiple canvas objects in multiple canvas layers and a digital timeline including multiple timeline objects. Each canvas object is linked to a timeline object, and a location of a timeline object on the digital timeline is indicative of a time and a canvas layer that each linked canvas object is displayed on the digital canvas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff Harris, Sarah Cooper, Yiyang Joy Ding
  • Patent number: 9367535
    Abstract: Formulas in dashboards can be executed at a client executing web technologies such as HTML5 and JavaScript. The formulas specified by a spreadsheet file are transformed into a pre-defined notation format and then recursively evaluated. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: BUSINESS OBJECTS SOFTWARE, LTD.
    Inventors: Jason Bedard, Viren Kumar