Patents Examined by Steven Sax
  • Patent number: 9075507
    Abstract: A computing device may store a notification selection application executable by a processor of the computing device to provide operations including providing a user interface of a computing device including a notification selection control configured to receive user selection of a notification mode from a normal mode in which device notifications are enabled, a silent mode in which device notifications are disabled, and a timer mode in which device notifications are temporarily disabled until expiration of a countdown timer; receiving a gesture to select the timer mode from the notification selection control; starting the countdown timer based on receiving the gesture to select the timer mode; and automatically transitioning the computing device from the timer mode to the normal mode upon expiration of the countdown timer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Cellco Partnership
    Inventor: David R. Dempski
  • Patent number: 9070117
    Abstract: Configurations for providing a widget that displays participants involved in the conversation thread and provides different graphical elements (e.g., buttons) to initiate one click actions to start a group chat, create a meeting on each participant's calendar, or start a new conversation thread. In the case of the group chat, the subject technology can include the contents of the group chat session as an additional electronic message in the conversation thread. In one example, the widget is implemented as a floating toolbar that can be positioned in the user interface while in the conversation thread view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Ariel Lauren Rideout, Steven Henry Bills, Maria Khomenko, Andrew James Palay, Jason Briggs Cornwell, Mark Striebeck, Paul Morell McDonald, Zohair Hyder, Richard James Treitel, Jamison Richard Gray
  • Patent number: 9053080
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide access to architectural documents in a network based on-line web based system. Servers that are accessible from the Internet maintain persistent multiple architectural documents of different media types. An online user is provided, from the servers via the Internet, a set of basic virtual design tools that have persistent properties and may be copied. The virtual design tools may also be utilized to work with the architectural documents. A workspace is also provided for viewing, accessing, and modifying the architectural documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas G. Look, Lawrence David Felser, John Rogers Wallace
  • Patent number: 9053455
    Abstract: In systems that enable collaboration, techniques are provided for communicating and displaying positional information with respect to these systems so as to enhance the collaborative experience. The systems may include interactive whiteboard (IWB) systems participating in a collaborative session. The position of an object (e.g., a user) at a first IWB system may be tracked and displayed at a second IWB system located remotely from the first IWB system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: John Barrus
  • Patent number: 9052927
    Abstract: A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one other terminal; an input unit configured to enter an application indicator edit mode for editing application indicators providing information on corresponding applications; a display configured to display a first display region including a plurality of settable application indicators and a second display region including a guide screen indicating at least one of a display location and a display size of the settable application indicators on the guide screen when entering the edit mode; and a controller configured to receive a selection signal indicating a selection of a specific application indicator among the plurality of settable application indicators included in the first display region, and to determine whether the specific application indicator can be set on the guide screen included in the second display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Songyi Baek, Jina Chang, Hyolin Kim, Hannah Na, Yongwon Cho, Hanseop Kim, Meejeong Kim, Changhee Han
  • Patent number: 9052806
    Abstract: A user interface for a mobile device allows a user of a social networking service to conveniently view information of a related user and media items associated with the related user. The user interface enables the user to select a view of a related user by providing first user inputs. Each view has a defined section that displays media items associated with the selected user. The displayed media items in the defined section can be varied in response to receiving second user inputs. The user can select a media item in the defined section for further view or other actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Erick Tseng
  • Patent number: 9047005
    Abstract: A user can toggle between GUI input and touch screen input with the GUI hidden using touch gestures correlated to respective hidden GUI elements and, thus, to respective commands for a TV and/or disk player sending AV data thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seth Hill, Travis Baurmann, Scott Szabo, Guru Balasubramanian
  • Patent number: 9043704
    Abstract: A method for configuring an interactive platform for monitoring the performance and the quality of a computer network, the monitoring data being suitable to be displayed on a dynamic page of type webpage in a form of graphic components called “displets”; including providing, on the interactive platform a configuration interface in which are defined, for at least one given user, filtering criteria for displaying displets, the criteria being defined in the form of parameters for configuring the rights of the at least one user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Infovista SA
    Inventor: Jean-François Allot
  • Patent number: 9015613
    Abstract: Method of operating a device (60; 100) for controlling home automation equipment (1a, 2a, 2b, 2c, 3a, 3b, 5a) for orienting and/or displacing a moving product of a building, comprising a display screen (101), on which a portion of the screen is assigned to the display of a first graphic representation, such as an equipment icon (4, 5, 123, 125, 131), symbolizing this equipment, which method comprises a step for graphic adjustment of the first graphic representation so that it represents, at least approximately, the real degree of orientation and/or deployment of the moving product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Somfy SAS
    Inventors: Isabelle Duchene, Luc Marais, Jean-Noël Loiseau
  • Patent number: 9009596
    Abstract: An exemplary method includes a media content presentation system receiving a plurality of timestamped and geotagged media content instances generated during a live event by a plurality of attendees of the live event, detecting input provided by a user specifying a time period associated with the live event and input provided by the user specifying a viewing area within a venue associated with the live event, identifying one or more media content instances that have a timestamp included within the specified time period and a geotagged location within the specified viewing area, and presenting the identified one or more media content instances to the user within a graphical user interface in a manner that is temporally synchronized with an event timeline associated with the live event. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Guillermo Ortiz
  • Patent number: 8990689
    Abstract: A user can toggle between GUI input and touch screen input with the GUI hidden using touch gestures correlated to respective hidden GUI elements and, thus, to respective commands for a TV and/or disk player sending AV data thereto. When in the GUI input mode, an animated hand can be presented on the display moving through the touch gesture corresponding to a selected GUI element to train the user on which touch gestures correspond to which GUI elements (and, thus, to respective commands for a TV and/or disk player sending AV data thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seth Hill, Travis Baurmann
  • Patent number: 8990692
    Abstract: In one example, a method includes: receiving from a first user interface a first input from a first user specifying a first particular instant in a video other than a beginning of the video; in response to the first input, generating by one or more computer systems first data for inclusion in a link to the video, the first data representing the first particular instant in the video and being operable automatically to direct playback of the video at a second user interface to start at the first particular instant in the video in response to a second user selecting the link at the second user interface; and communicating the first data to a link generator for inclusion in the link to the video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Ciprian I. Chelba
  • Patent number: 8984414
    Abstract: Computer implemented methods and systems for generating a menu of browser extensions. A first user interaction with a first set of information is detected. The first set of information is associated with one or more browser extensions. A first menu for display of the one or more browser extensions is generated. A second user interaction with the one or more associated browser extensions is detected, wherein the second user interaction executes at least one of the associated browser extensions. A second set of information is extracted from one or more uniform resource locators in response to the second user interaction with the one or more associated browser extensions. A second menu for display of the second set of information is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Adam Stevens
  • Patent number: 8972884
    Abstract: Presenting information in an instant messaging (IM) application includes loading a tab configuration file comprising attribute information pertaining to a plurality of tabs in a main interface in the IM application, the attribute information comprising presented content information associated with the plurality of tabs; receiving a selection of one of a plurality of tabs in the main interface; retrieving attribute information that corresponds to the selected one of the plurality of tabs based at least on the tab configuration file information; and dynamically creating an extended window for the tab; and displaying the presented content information of the selected tab in the extended window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Jing Li, Hongbing Tang
  • Patent number: 8972867
    Abstract: A method for editing media objects in a capture device having a display is provided. The method displays a representation of each media object, where each media object has a plurality of media types associated therewith. The plurality of media types includes at least two of a still image, a sequential image, and a video clip. The method enables selection of a media object to edit and invokes a plurality of edit screens for editing the plurality of media types. In each one of the plurality of edit screens, a representation of the media object's content and items to be applied to the media object are displayed. Each one of the plurality of the edit screens invokes soft keys to ease use and operation of the capture device and facilitate creation of multimedia presentations on the capture device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Flashpoint Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: John F. Pavley, Eric C. Anderson
  • Patent number: 8972891
    Abstract: An interactive input system, method and computer readable medium for handling objects representing annotations on an interactive input system are disclosed. The method includes creating an annotation on the interactive input system, associating the annotation with a temporary grouping region, and in the event that a threshold amount of time passes before a further annotation is created within a threshold distance of the temporary grouping region, disabling the temporary grouping region to thereafter prevent automatic grouping with the annotation of any further annotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: SMART Technologies ULC
    Inventors: Alexander Garin, Ann Dang Pham, Kathryn Rounding, Kenny Tsang, Tom Willekes
  • Patent number: 8954878
    Abstract: In one example, a method includes outputting for display a first graphical user interface (GUI) of an application executing at the portable computer terminal, wherein the first GUI displays information received from the mobile computing device at a first degree of specificity. The method also includes, in response to receiving input to display a second GUI of the application: outputting, for display at a presence-sensitive display device of the portable computer terminal, the second GUI and removing the first GUI from display. The second GUI may be different from the first GUI, and the second GUI may display information received from the mobile computing device at a second degree of specificity that is different than the first degree of specificity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Morten Just Peterson, Emmet Connolly, Joao Paulo Gil de Paiva
  • Patent number: 8954865
    Abstract: A stand-alone icon (i.e., an icon that is not part of an application interface) is provided to facilitate communications across a network between users of at least one communications program. The icon represents a contact or a set of contacts. Status information regarding the contact or set of contacts is received and displayed using the icon or in response to an operation performed on the icon. The icon additionally may provide an interface for performing actions related to the contact or set of contacts. The actions may generally include, for example, retrieving profile information about the contact, setting an alert to indicate that the contact's network/login status (e.g., login, logout, or idle) has changed, or performing communications with the contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott A. Quillen, Ira Rosenblatt
  • Patent number: 8954863
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving information from a user in a collaboration network, the information including a unit of content, a title, an indication of one or more entities in the collaboration network allowed to access the unit of content, and for each of the entities in the collaboration network allowed to access the unit of content, an indication of a permission level with respect to the access. The permission level includes view, comment, edit, or share. The method further includes determining a format for presentation of the unit of content based at least in part on the permission levels indicated for the one or more entities in the collaboration network allowed to access the unit of content, and publishing the unit of content and the title for the unit of content to the collaboration network in the determined format and according to the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph F. Khouri, Raghurama Bhat, Ashish S. Chirputkar, Muralidhar K. Sitaram, James P. Beno, David H. Law
  • Patent number: 8935614
    Abstract: A method, computer readable medium and apparatus for providing control of social networking sites are disclosed. For example, the method establishes an owner profile, receives a request from a third party user to post information on a social networking site associated with an owner, determines if the request should be granted in accordance with the owner profile and posts the information on the social networking site associated with the owner if the request is granted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Joseph Anderson Alfred, Joseph M. Sommer