Patents Examined by Scott T. Baderman
  • Patent number: 10963629
    Abstract: A server in a cloud-based environment interfaces with storage devices that store shared content. A user retrieves a web-based application from the server. The web-based application comprises a set of native operating system application code, a web content viewer, and a native operating system interface, which are configured to facilitate a transfer of one or more objects between the native operating system application code and the web content viewer. In response to a user upload request, the server generates an object placeholder in an editable document. Using the native operating system application code, objects can be selected for incorporation into the editable document. Shared access to the editable document and shared access to uploaded objects are provided by the server by posting links to locations in the storage devices. The web-based application replaces the object placeholder with a link to the object as stored by the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Box, Inc.
    Inventors: Sahil Amoli, Brian James Emerick, Shuo Liu, Naeim Semsarilar, Rico Sebastian Yao
  • Patent number: 10956731
    Abstract: Techniques described herein implement heading identification and classification for a digital document in a digital medium environment. A document analysis system is leveraged to extract structural features from a digital document, identify heading candidates from among the structural features, validate the headings candidates, and classify validated headings into different headings types. The classified headings are then utilized to generate a sectioned version of the digital document (“sectioned document”) that is divided into different sections based on the headings. Further, a document directory is generated that includes the headings and that enables navigation to different sections of the sectioned document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Mohit Gupta, Uttam Dwivedi, Shawn Alan Gaither, Jayant Vaibhav Srivastava, Ashutosh Mehra
  • Patent number: 10949603
    Abstract: An apparatus for executing an application on a virtual machine, directed to setting a font size of a font in detail, includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a font size specified by the application operating on the virtual machine and font setting data including a font size conversion rule, and a control unit configured to control a display apparatus to display a font with a font size based on the specified font size and the font setting data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kentaro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10949488
    Abstract: Image quality optimization during remote isolated sessions. In one embodiment, a method may include a remote isolation server receiving, at a remote isolation server, a request from a local browser on a local network device to obtain webpage data from a webserver, requesting, from the webserver, the webpage data, receiving, from the webserver, the requested webpage data, rendering a first image of the requested webpage data, storing a first copy of the first image of the requested webpage data in memory associated with the remote isolation server, compressing a first portion of the first image using a first compression method, sending, from the remote isolation server, the compressed first portion of the first image to the local browser, compressing a second portion of the first image using a second compression method, and sending the compressed second portion of the first image to the local browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: CA, Inc.
    Inventors: Amit Kanfer, Yoav Horman
  • Patent number: 10936340
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and method for selecting a preloading application by considering a user pattern of an electronic device and for determining a preloading level. The electronic device according to the present disclosure includes a data management unit for determining a score of an application, and an application selection unit for selecting a preloading application based on the score of the application. In addition, the electronic device may further include a preloading level determination unit for determining a preloading level based on a variable indicating a state of the electronic device with respect to the selected preloading target application and the score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyojeong Lee, Jinkyu Koo, Kwonsik Kim, Ki-Beom Kim
  • Patent number: 10937085
    Abstract: A display system includes a plurality of smart products arranged in a physical display setting in a retail store and being available for purchased by a customer, a display screen located behind the plurality of smart products, an input device and a controller coupled to the input device and to the display screen. The controller is configured to receive an indication from the input device to instruct digital media content to be displayed on the display screen. The digital media content includes a sequence of frames of digital images that describe information related to functional features of at least a first smart product and a second smart product on physical display in front of the display screen including the functional features of how the first smart product is interconnected to the second smart product so that the first smart product prompts the second smart product to perform a function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam M. Laskowitz, Patricia S. Adler, Jacob A. Barton, Nathan G. Adkisson, Paul A. Hoppe, Philipp Rockel, John D. Ryan, Nico Guillin
  • Patent number: 10936797
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods, systems, and computer products for providing state-based revisions in a document collaboration system. In some aspects, a plurality of users may be simultaneously editing the same document on their respective computing devices. The document may comprise a plurality of editable objects having unique objects identifiers. In such aspects, when a user edits an object in a local version of the document, a state-based revision (“SBR”) record is created. The SBR is populated with information such as, information describing the type of object being edited, a descriptor that uniquely identifies the specific instance of the object being edited, a collection of common references that can be adjusted by the document collaboration engine and an opaque binary stream comprising the modified state of the edited object. The SBR record is then transmitted to one or more additional devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Ryan, Danny Khen, Jenefer Monroe, Alexander Babanov, Kartik Nathan, Dmitri Kotchetov, Konrad Tupaj, Douglas Mangini, Sam Gensburg, Duane Campbell
  • Patent number: 10929499
    Abstract: A client executes a resource such as a webpage or software application including modules that are received based on information about the resource. The resource includes tags that can be replaced by modules specific to the resource. To decrease the time it takes to prepare a resource for execution, the client requests a set of modules known to be previously requested for the resource. The client can replace the tags with the modules from the requested set of modules, without needing to first parse the resource to determine which tags are in the resource and require associated modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Eeosk, Inc.
    Inventor: Tyler R. Warnock
  • Patent number: 10929013
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for adjusting an input virtual keyboard and an input apparatus, which are directed to solve the problem of one-hand operation in existing input virtual keyboards. The method comprises: based on a received keyboard floating instruction: adjusting a size of an input window to a screen size; intercepting a click event performed on a touchscreen by a user and detecting the click event; and when the click event is detected as a keyboard adjustment instruction, based on the keyboard adjustment instruction, adjusting at least one of a drawing position and a drawing size of an input view, wherein the input view is a region for drawing the input virtual keyboard in the input window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING SOGOU TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaofei Wang, Min Liu, Conghui Du, Lei Yang, Liping Li
  • Patent number: 10921959
    Abstract: A workspace system includes a non-transitory, machine-readable medium and one or more processors that executes instructions stored in the non-transitory, machine-readable media to perform operations. The operations include generating a list of records in a workspace, wherein the list provides the records in a card layout and a table layout. The operations also include receiving a selection of at least one record from the list. The operations further include generating at least one tab in the workspace based at least on the selection of the at least one record. The operations also include generating tab content associated with the at least one tab, wherein the tab content provides a ribbon container and includes one or more form sections configured in columns in the workspace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajesh Swaminathan, Ruchika Dhingra, Sathiyan Seran
  • Patent number: 10922482
    Abstract: A method of processing data represented as an electronic spreadsheet includes identifying a first cell of a first sheet of the electronic spreadsheet, the first cell having a first cell identifier and including a formula having a first function call, the first function call including an argument having a plurality of formula elements that comprise a second cell identifier. The method further includes identifying, based on the second cell identifier, a second cell that includes a function identifier, and identifying a value of the second cell, wherein the value of the second cell is a string corresponding to a function name corresponding to a second function call to be used in the argument of the first function call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Joseph J. Kaptur, Zachary E. Lloyd
  • Patent number: 10915712
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for unsupervised tunable stylized text transformations are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes identifying stylistically amendable portions of input text by applying at least one neural network to the input text; determining stylistic text modifications to the amendable portions of the input text, the text modifications encompassing a set of stylistic parameters, wherein the determining comprises applying at least one neural network to the set of stylistic parameters; generating a stylized output set of text by transforming the input text, wherein the transforming comprises modifying at least one of the stylistically amendable portions of the input text via at least one of the stylistic text modifications encompassed by the set of stylistic parameters; and outputting the stylized output set of text to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Parag Jain, Amar P. Azad, Abhijit Mishra, Karthik Sankaranarayanan
  • Patent number: 10915173
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to providing haptic feedback. One example provides a haptic feedback system comprising a wearable device configured to be worn by a user, the wearable device including a fluidic channel, a fluid disposed within the fluidic channel, the fluid including an adjustable viscosity, a circuit configured to vary a field within the fluidic channel, and a controller. The controller is configured to receive a first input, and in response to receiving the first input, apply a first field within the channel via the circuit to set the adjustable viscosity of the fluid to a first viscosity, and receive a second input, and in response to receiving the second input, apply a second field within the channel via the circuit to set the adjustable viscosity of the fluid to a second viscosity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: James David Holbery
  • Patent number: 10915700
    Abstract: A contract negotiation platform stores a plurality of contract documents in a database and stores metadata for the contract documents. Each contract document includes a plurality of phrases. Metadata for each contract document includes an identification of whether each respective phrase in the respective contract document has been agreed upon by parties to the respective contract document. When a respective phrase has not been agreed upon by the parties, the metadata stores a count of the number of times that the respective phrase has been modified. The platform displays each contract document according to the metadata for the phrases. Phrases that have been agreed upon by the parties are indicated by a first color. Phrases that have not been agreed upon by the parties are indicated by a plurality of second colors according to the respective count of times the respective phrase has been modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Nexwriter Limited
    Inventors: James Chance Theodore, Rob Portil
  • Patent number: 10915599
    Abstract: A system and method of producing a web page by at least one processor may include: receiving at least one web page component (WPC), associated with one or more WPC attributes; producing at least one first scheme, comprising a representation of the at least one WPC, in a unified scheme format; interpreting the at least one scheme to produce at least one second scheme, comprising a representation of one or more instantiations of WPCs in an interpreted format; and producing a web page comprising one or more instantiations of WPCs of the at least one second scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Elementor Ltd.
    Inventor: Mati Horovitz
  • Patent number: 10909303
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for adapting tabular data for narration are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A set of categories used to organize data is identified in a first tabular portion of a document. A structure of the categories is analyzed. An inference is drawn about data in a first cell in the first tabular portion based on a position of the first cell in the structure. The first tabular portion of the document is transformed into a first narrative form using the inference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Donna Karen Byron, Alexander Pikovsky, Matthew B. Sanchez
  • Patent number: 10909189
    Abstract: Described herein is a system and method for embedding an electronic file in a document canvas of an application. User input of an electronic file to be embedded in a document canvas of an application is received. Information regarding the electronic file to be embedded, a target page and/or a user is analyzed to determine parameter(s) regarding representation of the electronic file in the document canvas. The electronic file is embedded in the document canvas of the application in accordance with the determined at least one parameter regarding representation of the electronic file in the document canvas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Christopher James Clarke
  • Patent number: 10909212
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for inhibiting or preventing automated data extraction from network pages. A form is provided to a client, where the form includes a set of form elements and a randomization. A form submission of the form is obtained from the client, where the form submission includes the randomization. A set of form parameters is obtained from the form submission. The set of form parameters is processed to yield a form result. A network page is generated based at least in part on the form result. The network page is provided to a network page obfuscation application to be obfuscated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven M. Bougon
  • Patent number: 10911385
    Abstract: A method of synchronizing the display of instant messages between multiple clients is performed at a computer system. Upon receipt of a first synchronization request from a client, the first synchronization request including a conversation identifier and a last message timestamp, the computer system identifies a conversation including a set of messages associated with the conversation identifier. The set of messages was generated after the last message timestamp and have not been received by the client. The computer system then assigns display parameters to the set of messages based on their read-or-not indicators, content, and their temporal relationship with other messages in the conversation. Next, the computer system sends the set of messages and their respective display parameters to the client in a reverse chronological order. The client then displays the set of messages in accordance with their respective display parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Chao Ji, Gang Cheng
  • Patent number: 10902656
    Abstract: A system and method for generating a digital image collage is provided. The method comprises displaying a user interface comprising a collage template including a layout, and a catalog segment; displaying a plurality of digital images in the catalog segment; generating a first aperture in the layout to establish a first arrangement, and populating the first aperture with the first selected digital image; changing the layout from the first arrangement to a second arrangement, wherein the second arrangement comprises randomly dividing the first aperture into a second aperture and a third aperture, populating the second aperture with the first selected digital image, and populating the third aperture with the second selected digital image thereby generating the digital image collage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM North America Corporation
    Inventors: William A. Fuss, Nathaniel P. Curry, Christopher T Asbury