Patents Examined by Shourjo Dasgupta
  • Patent number: 11711406
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for providing dynamic and interactive content in an online chat session. When it is determined that an online chat session is established between two devices, an interactive chat engine may begin monitoring chat messages exchanged between the devices to derive a context for the online chat session. A particular workflow from multiple workflows may be selected and initiated for the online chat session based on the derived context. The interactive chat engine may generate a chat object for presenting dynamic and interactive content to the user related to the workflow within the online chat session. The chat object may be inserted into the chat flow of the online chat session. Once inserted the chat object may generate and subsequently modify presentations for the devices participating in the online chat session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramakrishna Rosanuru, Ragunath Jayabalakrishnan
  • Patent number: 11709550
    Abstract: Provided are an information processing apparatus, a method for processing information, and a program capable of adjusting a perceptual position of a tactile stimulus even with one tactile stimulus unit. The information processing apparatus (20) includes an output control unit (120) that performs output control of a vibration on at least one tactile stimulus unit (130), in which the output control unit changes a frequency of the vibration to be output from the tactile stimulus unit depending on a position of the tactile stimulus unit and predetermined positional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Yokoyama, Takeshi Ogita, Yohei Fukuma, Ikuo Yamano
  • Patent number: 11693490
    Abstract: To provide an information output system and an information output method capable of providing appropriate information for the user's current situation. The operation device comprises a state detection section for detecting a posture of the operation device, and a state information transmission section for transmitting state information to a home-use computer based on the state detected by the state detection section. The home-use computer outputs information depending on the state information transmitted by the state information transmission section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventor: Ken Kutaragi
  • Patent number: 11675494
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for displaying augmented reality content. The program and method provide for displaying, within a messaging application running on a device, a first user interface for viewing a media content item, receiving user input via the first user interface, the user input corresponding to a predefined touch gesture; and in response to receiving the user input, switching, within the messaging application, from the first user interface to a second user interface in which a camera of the device is activated to capture an image, and displaying, via the second user interface, a resized version of the media content item with the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis
  • Patent number: 11662796
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device displays one or more representations of power usage of the electronic device, including across various periods of time and subperiods of time within those periods. In some embodiments, the displayed information reflects power usage both for periods of the display being on and periods of the display being off. In some embodiments, the displayed information includes power usage attributed to various mobile applications running on the electronic device. In some embodiments, the electronic device displays recommendations to reduce the usage of power by the electronic device, which a user has the option of applying. In some embodiments, the electronic device displays prose insight into power usage, indicating causes of the power usage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Abhinav Pathak, Amit K. Vyas, Albert S. Liu, Conor J. O'Reilly, Anand Ramadurai, Craig M. Federighi, Aakriti Mittal, Daniel J. Etter, Tianhe Wu, Patrick L. Coffman, Nicholas D. Felton
  • Patent number: 11645628
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for translating time between calendar systems is described herein. The method includes accessing a first tree structure for a first calendar system, where data corresponding to the first tree structure include time intervals for the first calendar system that are arranged into layers of nodes, and where the layers of nodes are mapped to universal time. The method also includes scheduling a calendar content item corresponding to a time fragment relative to the universal time. The method further includes translating the calendar content item to a first human-readable time fragment for the first calendar system by traversing the first tree structure corresponding to the first calendar system to convert the time fragment to the first human-readable time fragment based on the mapping of the layers of nodes of the first tree structure to the universal time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Malia Douglas, Rachel Sirkin, Aaron E. Erlandson, Stephen White, Peter L. Engrav, Erin Greenly
  • Patent number: 11635874
    Abstract: Methods for pen-specific user interface controls are performed by systems and devices. Users activate pen-specific menus at user devices by activating controls of a touch pen such as a tail button. A communication is received by a device, from a touch pen, that indicates an activation control of the touch pen has been physically activated. The user device selects a touch pen menu that includes selectable menu options for respective launching of separate pen applications from among available menus based at least on the received communication. The device determines menu presentation information specifying a location within a user interface (UI) from a state of the UI at a time associated with the communication. The touch pen menu is displayed via the UI according to the menu presentation information. A detection for selection of a selectable menu option causes the device to launch a pen application associated therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Sean Shiang-Ning Whelan, Scott David Schenone, Young Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 11635890
    Abstract: An arrangement of alphabet keys is provided in a total of three rows. Two of the three rows have a total of nine keys each, and the other row has a total of eight keys. The vowel keys are grouped together in a vowel group having a symmetric shape in which an imaginary line extending vertically divides the vowel group into a left half and right half that is a mirror image of the left half. The vowel group traverses the three rows and at least two columns, and at least a portion of the vowel group is located at a center of the arrangement. The consonant keys are arranged in alphabetical order from left to right on opposite sides of vowel group. A vowel key in the vowel group is centered along the imaginary line to be at a midpoint of the vowel group in a horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Inventor: Gail Elizabeth Davis
  • Patent number: 11620143
    Abstract: Interface and mode selection for digital action execution is provided. For example, a system loads a script library embedded in an electronic resource. The system determines a historic level of engagement between a client computing device and one or more digital assistants. The system selects, based on a first property of the client computing device and the historic level of engagement, a type of digital interface. The system generates, based on the type of digital interface, a digital interface with the call-to-action. The system determines, responsive to an instruction to execute the call-to-action, a mode of execution. The system selects a digital assistant and a second client device to execute the call-to-action. The system transmits the call-to-action to the second client device for execution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Prithvi Balaram, Nikhil Rao, Ian Baker, Adam Coimbra
  • Patent number: 11614859
    Abstract: Described herein is a method for managing media item playback. A method includes presenting a media player in a first portion of a user interface (UI) provided by a first application on a screen of a user device, the media player to provide playback of a first media item from a first post of a plurality of posts of the first application. The method also includes relocating the media player to a second portion of the UI while continuing to provide playback of the first media item by the relocated media player, and receiving a user gesture to scroll through the plurality of posts of the first application on the screen of the user device, the plurality of posts comprising a second post having a second media item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Thomas Darby, Clifford Curry, Bryce Gibson Reid, Andrey Doronichev, Andrew Janich, Alan Joyce, Taeho Ko, Justin Lewis, Kevin Greene
  • Patent number: 11609691
    Abstract: A method includes a hierarchical dataset that includes a root-data object and data collections nested under the root-data object. Each data collection includes one or more data objects, each data object associated with one or more other data collections. The method also includes displaying a hierarchical user interface on a screen. The hierarchical user interface includes column. The columns include data-object columns and data-collection columns, wherein the columns alternate between data-object columns and data-collection columns. Each data-object column displays a list of the one or more data objects of a respective data collection. Each data-collection column displays a list of the one or more data collections of a respective data object, the data-collection columns includes a root-data-collection column displaying a list of the one or more data collections associated with the root-data object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Michael Kleinerman
  • Patent number: 11586485
    Abstract: Methods and systems for generating notifications are described. A notification of a given notification type is provided in a manner defined according to a first notification category to which the given notification type is assigned. A user interaction associated with the notification is detected. A mismatch is identified between the user interaction and the first notification category. In response to identifying the mismatch, the given notification type is assigned to a second notification category that defines a second, different manner for providing a subsequent notification of the given notification type. The subsequent notification of the given notification type is provided according to the second notification category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: SHOPIFY INC.
    Inventors: Paisley Laurenzio, Jordan Pollock, Anna De Medeiros, Emily Keefe
  • Patent number: 11543857
    Abstract: Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to receive data related to a gaze of a user, determine that a display should be adjusted based on the received data related to the gaze of the user, and activate a motor, where the motor causes the height of the display to be adjusted. In an example, the electronic device can also determine that the display should be rotated based on the received data related to the gaze of the user and rotate the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Samarth Alva, Krishnakumar Varadarajan, Sean Jude William Lawrence
  • Patent number: 11520474
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns the providing of media, and more particularly to the streaming of media. In accordance with an example embodiment: a portion of a day is determined; a first data message is sent to a computer server system. The first data message comprises instructions to the computer server system to return media content associated with the determined portion of the day. A second data message is received from the computer server system, the second data message comprising media content associated with the determined portion of the day. In response thereto is playback performed of the media content at the user interface of the electronic device in dependence of the determined portion of the day. While performing playback is a visual appearance parameter of the user interface adjusted according the determined portion of the day.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: SPOTIFY AB
    Inventors: Karl-Johan Persson, Steven Paul Everington, Fredric Vinnå, Stig Gustav Viktor Söderström, Daniel Galfvensjö, Ari Liusaari, Dejan Sormaz, Felice Mancino, Samwoo E
  • Patent number: 11507261
    Abstract: A method and a terminal device for providing a suspend button display are disclosed in order to improve display flexibility of a suspend button. In the solutions, when a terminal device detects that a tap operation or a second touch and hold operation, the terminal device may the suspend button to present an effect that the graphic displayed in the suspend button is zoomed in or zoomed out, and then display the suspend button restored to the default state. Therefore, according to the method, the display flexibility of the suspend button can be improved, so that visual experience of a user is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Liang, Xue Yang, Kang Li, Lina Tao, Haigen Lu, Guangfeng Gao, Yu Song, Xueyan Huang
  • Patent number: 11500518
    Abstract: The present technology can provide a contact card specific to a particular user on one service, showing a plurality of the other interaction points with that user in other, third-party services. A viewing user can interact with the contact card to cause an interaction with the particular user at the third-party service. In some embodiments, the present technology can provide a contact card listing points of contact for multiple team members at one or more third-party services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Phan, Flora Ellis, Henry Liu, Constance Wellman
  • Patent number: 11487501
    Abstract: An audio control system can control interactions with an application or device using keywords spoken by a user of the device. The audio control system can use machine learning models (e.g., a neural network model) trained to recognize one or more keywords. Which machine learning model is activated can depend on the active location in the application or device. Responsive to detecting keywords, different actions are performed by the device, such as navigation to a pre-specified area of the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Xin Chen, Yurii Monastyrshyn, Fedir Poliakov, Shubham Vij
  • Patent number: 11475175
    Abstract: Embodiments for intelligent design structure selection in an Internet of Things (IoT) computing environment by a processor. Levels of satisfaction and behavior patterns of one or more users having similar user profiles influencing the behavior patterns may be learned and evaluated. One or more design structure solutions may be cognitively suggested according to the levels of satisfaction and the behavior patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peeyush Jaiswal, Priyansh Jaiswal, Paul Krystek, Shikhar Kwatra
  • Patent number: 11460925
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to providing time feedback on an electronic device, and in particular to providing non-visual time feedback on the electronic device. Techniques for providing non-visual time feedback include detecting an input and, in response to detecting the input, initiating output of a first type of non-visual indication of a current time or a second type of non-visual indication of the current time based on the set of non-visual time output criteria met by the input. Techniques for providing non-visual time feedback also include, in response to detecting that a current time has reached a first predetermined time of a set of one or more predetermined times, outputting a first non-visual alert or a second non-visual alert based on a type of watch face that the electronic device is configured to display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher B. Fleizach, Giovanni M. Agnoli, Kevin Will Chen, Shawn Henning, Stephen O. Lemay, Catherine B. B. Morrison, Camille Moussette, Tu Nguyen, Matthew J. Sundstrom, Molly Pray Wiebe, Christopher Wilson, Alan C. Dye, Gary Ian Butcher, Hugo Verweij, Jules K. Fennis, Charles C. Hoyt
  • Patent number: 11460977
    Abstract: A method that prepares data for analysis includes displaying a user interface that includes a data a data flow pane that displays a flow diagram having a plurality of nodes, each node specifying a respective primary operation, a change list pane corresponding to a user-selected node in the data flow pane, and a data pane that displays a plurality of rows for an intermediate dataset of the user-selected node. The method also includes, in response to receiving a user input to perform a secondary operation at the user-selected node: (i) displaying, in the change list pane, an ordered list of secondary operations performed at the user-selected node, including displaying the secondary operation, and (ii) updating the data pane in accordance with the secondary operation, including updating the plurality of rows for the intermediate dataset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: TABLEAU SOFTWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Anushka Anand, Arthur Gyldenege, Brice Johnson