Patents Examined by Tam Tran
  • Patent number: 9874994
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a device includes a touch screen display and a controller. The touch screen display displays a folder for containing therein an icon corresponding to an application. The controller changes a display mode of the folder according to the number of icons contained in the folder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mitsuo Hanazaki
  • Patent number: 9853923
    Abstract: A technology for a computing device that is operable to capture a content object. A first content object can be received from a first computing device via a graphical user interface. The first content object can be displayed on a display screen of the computing device using a graphical user interface. A contemporaneous response object can be captured from a camera of the computing device at a time contemporaneous to the time the first content object is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Inventor: Justin Bingham
  • Patent number: 9779151
    Abstract: Some examples of visualizing relationships in data sets can be implemented as a method by one or more computer systems. Dimension objects and multiple measure objects are displayed adjacent to a cause region and an effect region in a user interface. Each dimension object represents an input category associated with an input quantity that contributes to a total quantity in a data set. Each measure object represents an output category associated with an output quantity based on an input category. A dimension object and a measure object can be moved into the cause region and the effect region, respectively, in response to input. From the data set, an output quantity associated with the measure object is determined based on an input quantity associated with the dimension object from the total quantity in the data set. A result representing the output quantity is displayed in the measure object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Ltd.
    Inventors: Minghao Lu, Muthuraj Thangavel, Jianhua Wen
  • Patent number: 9733821
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for diagnosing inadvertent activation of user interface settings on an electronic device. The electronic device receives a user input indicating that the user is having difficulty operating the electronic device. The device then determines whether a setting was changed on the device within a predetermined time period prior to receiving the user input. When a first setting was changed within the predetermined time period prior to receiving the user input, the device restores the changed setting to a prior setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Christopher B. Fleizach
  • Patent number: 9672049
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method for generating a mobile device's user interface is provided. The method may include: receiving, via the mobile device, input from a user of the mobile device, the input being related to a property for presenting dynamic context-dependent informational cues; determining a context; identifying a subset of a set of informational cues, the subset being associated with the context; and predominately presenting, via the mobile device, the identified subset to the user, the presentation being predominate as compared to any presentation of other informational cues in the set of informational cues, wherein the presentation accords with the received user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Govindarajan Krishnamurthi
  • Patent number: 9665246
    Abstract: In one example, a method includes outputting, by a computing device and for display, a graphical user interface including a plurality of text suggestion regions. The method further includes receiving, by the computing device, an indication of gesture input detected at a presence-sensitive input device, and selecting, based at least in part on the indication of the gesture input, a candidate character string from a plurality of candidate character strings. The method further includes determining that the candidate character string was previously selected while being displayed within a particular text suggestion region from the plurality of text suggestion regions, and outputting, for display and based at least in part on determining that the candidate character string was previously selected while being displayed within the particular text suggestion region, the candidate character string within the particular text suggestion region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Shumin Zhai, Philip Quinn
  • Patent number: 9647964
    Abstract: A method usable by an electronic device displays in display image, content of a plurality of transmitted and received conversation messages. In an aspect, the messages may be displayed for an individual date, sequentially collated by date and time. In response to at least one detected touch on a touch screen, the method may compress at least one of (a) the transmitted or (b) received, conversation messages and displays an image element representing at least one of the compressed conversation messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Young-Keun Choi
  • Patent number: 9632742
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, a method and apparatus are provided to receive an application type and a platform environment type. An application based on the received application type and the platform environment type is created. The application comprises an instantiation of the received application type configured for the received environment type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Doron Lehmann, Nimrod Barak, Eyal Nathan
  • Patent number: 9619124
    Abstract: Described herein are frameworks, devices and methods configured for enabling display for facility information and content, in some cases via touch/gesture controlled interfaces. Embodiments of the invention have been particularly developed for allowing an operator to conveniently access a wide range of information relating to a facility via, for example, one or more wall mounted displays. While some embodiments will be described herein with particular reference to that application, it will be appreciated that the invention is not limited to such a field of use, and is applicable in broader contexts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: John D. Morrison, Graeme Laycock, Yi-Chang Hsieh
  • Patent number: 9594494
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments include apparatus, method and storage medium associated with interactive messaging. In embodiments, an apparatus may include an interactive message service to selectively display messages of a collection of messages, in response to navigation controls received from a proximally located portable client device, through a navigation interface provided to the proximally located portable client device by the interactive message service. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: XEVO INC.
    Inventors: Travis Beaven, Randy Anderson
  • Patent number: 9558013
    Abstract: Environments are disclosed in which a server executes an application on behalf of a client device and, in particular, to providing responsive scrolling in server-hosted applications. In one example, a remote computing device may be a mobile (or stationary) computing device with (or without) a touch screen input surface. Some or all of the client-server communication between a client-side scrollable UI control module of the remote computing device and a server-side scrollable UI control module of the server device may occur in an asynchronous manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Adam Ryman, Donovan Ross Hackett
  • Patent number: 9529786
    Abstract: A facility for generating a graphic image is described. The facility receives from a user a body of text whose creation is not subject to any rules or prototypes. The facility discerns from the body of text a textual organization. The facility then generates a graphic image conveying the discerned textual organization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Lawrence Fubini Waldman, Dawn M. Wright, Gary A. Pritting, Lutz Gerhard, Matthew J. Kotler, Cynthia C. Shelly
  • Patent number: 9531862
    Abstract: A system to optimize a user's messaging by having a mechanism to recommend that a user utilizes an alternative communication channel. The invention relates to mobile messaging applications and to analyzing message content and providing feedback to the user in the form of a graphical or spoken output containing an offer of an alternative communication mode, wherein processing content of the user input comprises analyzing message content to collect parameters relating to message priority, channel type, channel availability, user schedule, user time zone, relationship of user to recipient calculated using a familiarity index, type of content, and number of recipients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Inventor: Vishal Vadodaria
  • Patent number: 9495698
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer program products for facilitating searching, obtaining and displaying product choice recommendations using inputs, including continuum-based inputs, and variable-sized visual representations are disclosed. In an embodiment, a user is presented with at least one continuum-based selector and at least one product choice visual representation. At least one input indicating user interest value in a product attribute is received and compared with stored result values of product choices. A unique weighing value indicating the relevancy of the product choice is generated for each product based on the comparison performed. The user is then presented with at least one product choice visual representation which may be modified based on the unique weighing value of the product choice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Inventor: Theodore Michael Evers
  • Patent number: 9413870
    Abstract: A terminal controls an application attribute based on a motion. The terminal includes a motion measurement unit, an attribute mapping unit, an attribute control unit, and a controller. The motion measurement unit measures a motion of the terminal. The attribute mapping unit classifies motion directions of the terminal, classifies a motion degree, and maps an attribute type and a control strength of an application installed in the terminal in response to each motion direction and each motion degree. The attribute control unit activates an attribute control of the application based on a motion of the terminal. When the attribute control of the application is activated by the attribute control unit and the motion of the terminal is measured by the motion measurement unit, the controller controls an attribute of the application based on the attribute type and the control strength mapped by the attribute mapping unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hyun-Su Hong
  • Patent number: 9367201
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein that are capable of generating a graphic flow having an unlimited number of connections between shapes. The shapes are provided in a visual representation of a workspace defined by pixels. For instance, a first shape may have an outer perimeter defined by a first subset of the pixels; a second shape may have an outer boundary defined by a second subset of the pixels, and so on. Any pixel in each subset may serve as a connection point. For example, a first pixel of the first subset may serve as a first connection point based on any of a variety of first criteria, and a second pixel of the second subset may serve as a second connection point based on any of a variety of second criteria. In accordance with this example, a connection may be provided between the first and second connection points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ping Song, Chao Tian
  • Patent number: 9323436
    Abstract: Technologies are described herein for utilizing drawing guides in determining the display of smart guides in a drawing program. The drawing program detects that an active drawing object is being manipulated on a drawing canvas. The drawing program determines if one or more drawing guides are visible on the drawing canvas. Upon determining that one or more drawing guides are visible on the drawing canvas, the drawing program treats the drawing guides as drawing objects in determining the display of smart guides on the drawing canvas and the snap-to positioning of the active drawing object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel John Altin, Ankit Prasad, Hannes Ruescher
  • Patent number: 9268462
    Abstract: Methods for suggesting in search results an action that is to be performed in an external application based on a previous search query are provided. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, from an application on a device, a search query that was previously submitted by a user or another user, and providing, as a result of the search query, an interface to perform an action to launch an external application on the device, wherein the action was previously selected by the user or the other user in response to previous results of the search query. Systems, graphical user interfaces, and machine-readable media are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jay Pierre Civelli, Theodore Nicholas Choc
  • Patent number: 9240218
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a mobile terminal displaying an image and a control method of the same. A mobile terminal according to an aspect of the invention may include: a display unit displaying an image; and a controller receiving data according to a user's selection, storing the data to be associated with the image, and displaying an icon on the display unit to indicate that the data is stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seunghee In, Silhee Sung, Yeaeun Kwon, Nayeoung Kim, Sesook Oh, Yunjueng Mhun
  • Patent number: 9223458
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described for identifying a media file selected for playback by a user, determining whether an alternate media file is available that includes at least some of the same content as the first media file, and transitioning between playback of the first media file and the alternate media file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Aneeb Naveed Qureshi