Patents Examined by Tan H Tran
  • Patent number: 11726639
    Abstract: A facility for managing the displayed documents by an application is described. The facility displays a plurality of tabs each corresponding to a document loaded by the application. The facility receives a document stowing command in connection with a distinguished document to which one of the displayed tabs corresponds. For each of the documents to which a displayed tab corresponds, based on the contents of the document, the facility semantically determines one or more subjects of the distinguished document. At least in part in response to receiving the document stowing command in connection with the distinguished document, for each of two or more subjects determined for the distinguished document, the facility displays a visual indication of the determined subject. The facility receives user input selecting one of the displayed visual indications. The facility hides the tabs corresponding to the documents for which the subject indicated by the selected visual indication was semantically determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Neha Motghare, Kaustav Mukherjee
  • Patent number: 11720324
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention relate to an apparatus and a method for displaying an electronic document for processing a user's voice command in an electronic device. The electronic device includes an input device; a display; and a processor, wherein the processor may be configured to detect a voice command of a user using the input device, if outputting an electronic document corresponding to the voice command, identify at least one input field in the electronic document, determine guide information based on information of the at least one input field, and display the electronic document comprising the guide information using the display. Other embodiments may be possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyungtae Kim, Seonho Lee, Yoonjeong Choi, Hosung You, Bunam Jeon, Taeho Ha, Changho Lee
  • Patent number: 11715276
    Abstract: An example system includes a first and second digital device. The first digital device may be configured to provide an interface displaying an image including a depiction of an object, place a bounding shape around the object, and crop contents of the bounding shape to create a portion. The second digital device may be configured to receive the portion, retrieve high-level features and low-level features, apply first Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP) to the high-level features to aggregate the high-level features as aggregate features, concatenate results to create the aggregate features, up-sample, apply a convolution to the low-level features, concatenate the aggregate features with the low-level features after convolution to form combined features, segment the combined features to generate a polygonal shape outline along outer boundaries of the first object, and provide the first polygonal shape outline to the first digital device for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Sixgill, LLC
    Inventors: Logan Spears, Carlos Anchia, Corey Staten, Wei Xu
  • Patent number: 11716297
    Abstract: An illustrative communication provider system presents, to a first user, a communication interface that displays a representation of a shared virtual space that the first user shares with a second user. The communication provider system determines a virtual location status and an availability status for the second user. The virtual location status is representative of a virtual location of the second user within the shared virtual space. The availability status is representative of a particular availability mode included in a plurality of selectable availability modes. The communication provider system displays, within the communication interface presented to the first user, a profile icon for the second user. The profile icon indicates both the virtual location status and the availability status of the second user to the first user. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: David Skuratowicz, Alagu Periyannan, Mohammad Raheel Khalid, Selina Hu
  • Patent number: 11698800
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for providing a framework to integrate independent fragment modules into an integrated user interface. The fragment modules can be simultaneously rendered on a user interface page or sequentially rendered across multiple user interface pages. The fragment modules are configured to interact with a user via the user interface. The interactions with the user may trigger an event. When an event associated with a fragment module occurs, the fragment module is configured to broadcast the event. An orchestrator is configured to monitor events associated with different fragment modules. The orchestrator may include an event handler for performing one or more action in response to an event. The action may include configuring another fragment module to modify a presentation and/or perform a transaction based on the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventor: Titus Woo
  • Patent number: 11698713
    Abstract: The claimed invention relates to graphical user interfaces (GUI), in particular to a method for controlling devices using a multifunctional context toolbar. The technical result is to raise the operating speed of the graphical interface owing to the fact that there is no need to switch imaging modes of the graphical user interface for accessing functions of an electronic device. The claimed solution is achieved by a method for controlling functions of an electronic device using a graphical user interface, comprising steps in which: a region of a dynamic context toolbar is formed comprising a primary functional element and two additional functional elements for activating application states, wherein the centers of all three elements are on the same line; using said toolbar, user control commands are received for the current application state; application functions are distributed among said toolbar elements; at least one application function is executed by means of interaction with the primary toolbar element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY “PEERF”
    Inventors: Vladimir Nikolaevich Bashev, Nikolay Olegovich Ilyin
  • Patent number: 11683278
    Abstract: In a data processing method that based on an instant messaging application and which is performed by a data processing device, audio data from an instant messaging application is obtained, and sampled volume data corresponding to the audio data is obtained based on a sampling frequency. A spectrogram corresponding to the audio data is generated according to the audio data and the sampled volume data, and a message bar comprising the spectrogram and the audio data is outputted. Audio progress control is then performed on the audio data in response to a target trigger operation on the message bar, and display control is performed on the spectrogram based on an audio progress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Liqiang Liu, Sha Sha, Jun Wu, Qinghua Zhong
  • Patent number: 11675492
    Abstract: Techniques for measuring a user's level of interest in content in an electronic document are disclosed. A system generates a user engagement score based on the user's scrolling behavior. The system detects one scrolling event that moves content into a viewport and another scrolling event that moves the content out of the viewport. The system calculates a user engagement score based on the duration of time the content was in the viewport. The system may also detect a scroll-back event, in which the user scrolls away from content and back to the content. The system may then calculate or update the user engagement score based on the scroll-back event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventor: Michael Patrick Rodgers
  • Patent number: 11662895
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to a media playback user interface. In some examples, the media playback user interface displays text corresponding to speech of audio content. In some examples, the media playback user interface facilitates management of bookmarks corresponding to the audio content. In some examples, the media playback user interface enables a search for text corresponding to speech of the audio content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alastair K. Fettes, Sherry T. Shao
  • Patent number: 11630947
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a value referred to as a compound object that stores multiple values in a single cell, wherein those multiple values are organized according to a defined structure. The compound object may store multiple values according to a known defined data structure such as, for example, a record, vector, matrix, table, or array. In other embodiments, the compound object may store multiple values as any nested combination of any one of the known or user-defined data structures. Each of the values stored in the compound object are individually referenceable and can fully participate with spreadsheet functionality including calculations, referencing, and formatting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: John Campbell, Carlos Augusto Otero, Benjamin Edward Rampson, Allison Rutherford, Steven Kraynak, Christian Canton, Samuel C. Radakovitz, Simon Peyton Jones, Andrew Becker
  • Patent number: 11615635
    Abstract: A computer implemented method configured to analyze contents of a page of a vector graphic format file includes dividing text content on the page into text blocks, pre-classifying each text block to be one of a raw body text block and a non-body text block, processing the raw body text blocks to form a plurality of body text blocks and combining the body text blocks into a text flow including the plurality of body text blocks. The method further includes defining a semantical role of each of the non-body text blocks, and combining the non-body text blocks among the body text blocks of the text flow in a geometrical order. Result data is provided, formatted as any one of a data structure and a data stream, the result data including text content of the page as geometrically arranged non-body text blocks and body text blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: VUOLEARNING LTD
    Inventor: Otto Pellinen
  • Patent number: 11610239
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing machine-learning enabled user-specific evaluations are disclosed. Implementations include obtaining a first set of evaluation data from a user interface, obtaining a first set of target-descriptive data including target-specific characteristics objectively describing the evaluation targets, and training, with a machine-learning algorithm, a user-specific evaluation profile indicating evaluation patterns relative to the first set of evaluation data and the first set of target-specific characteristics. Implementations include applying the user-specific evaluation profile to a second set of target-descriptive data to predict a user-specific evaluation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Chapman, Mehul Patel, Joseph Popp, Benjamin Havey
  • Patent number: 11604561
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for identifying and providing highlight messages from a group messaging thread. For example, systems and methods described herein detect when a group messaging thread participant becomes absent from the group messaging thread, and identifies one or more highlight messages that were submitted to the group messaging thread while the participant was absent. Systems and methods described herein identify highlight messages that are specific to the absent participant, such that when the participant again accesses the group messaging thread, the participant can review the identified highlight messages in order to quickly “catch up” on the group messaging thread without having to read each electronic message submitted to the group messaging thread during the participant's absence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: WhatsApp LLC
    Inventors: Charles Donald Deets, Jr., Randall Sarafa, Anton Borzov
  • Patent number: 11599204
    Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes a display, a storage unit configured to store a combination rule of letters constituting a word; and a processor configured to provide a letter input UI of a specific language, to predict a first letter inputted on the letter input UI and a second letter to be selected based on the letter combination rule of the specific language stored in the storage unit, and to control the display such that an active area of a key corresponding to the second letter is expansively provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuan Toi Nguyen, Chang-wan Huh
  • Patent number: 11561675
    Abstract: A method for implementing visualization of public welfare activities includes: displaying to a target user a map of a geographic region for carrying out a public welfare activity in response to the target user's selection, wherein the map comprises a first geographic location associated with a first icon indicating that the public welfare activity has been carried out at the first geographic location and a second geographic location associated with a second icon indicating that the public welfare activity is able to be carried out at the second geographic location; when a relationship exists between the target user and a public welfare activity participant user that has carried out the public welfare activity on the map, displaying on the map user information of the public welfare activity participant user; updating the second icon to be a first icon in response to the target user's selection on the second icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: ADVANCED NEW TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fang Fang, Han Li
  • Patent number: 11543943
    Abstract: An on-image navigation guide can be generated utilizing coordinates of table data of a table in a document image. The on-image navigation guide enables a user to populate a data entry form with the table data by interacting directly with the document image. The data entry form is configured with the same number of columns as the table and the document image and the data entry form share the same data structure. The on-image navigation guide is presented on top of the document image. As a user navigates the document image, a focus point of the on-image navigation guide moves from table cell to table cell, providing an immediate visual feedback on what is captured in a corresponding data entry field. The on-image navigation guide includes an on-image context menu and a pin through which the user can make adjustments and/or corrections without leaving the document image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Open Text SA ULC
    Inventor: Michael Drescher
  • Patent number: 11531443
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a method, a device, and medium for determining a relative position relationship of a click event. The method includes receiving, by a device, a click event in an interface view, the interface view comprising an image region configured to respond to the click event. The method also includes determining, by the device, a click position of the click event in the interface view; obtaining, by the device, color information of a pixel corresponding to the click position based on the click position of the click event in the interface view; determining, by the device according to the color information of the pixel corresponding to the click position, a relative position relationship between the click position and the image region; and processing, by the device, the click event based on the relative position relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Zhi Chen
  • Patent number: 11474838
    Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for modifying content interfaces based upon levels of activity are provided. For example, a content interface may be displayed using a device. First activity performed using the first content interface may be detected. An activity profile associated with the device may be generated based upon the first activity. The first activity profile may be indicative of a first level of activity associated with the device. Second activity performed using the first content interface may be detected. It may be determined that a difference between the first level of activity and the second level of activity is greater than a threshold difference. Responsive to determining that the difference is greater than the threshold difference, the content interface may be modified to a modified version of the content interface associated with an exhaustion management mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Mohit Goenka, Ashish Khushal Dharamshi, Nikita Varma
  • Patent number: 11449219
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device including a display device including a touch sensor and a processor electrically connected to the touch sensor and the display device, wherein the processor is configured to control the electronic device to: display content and a cursor on a first area of the display device, display a touch pad user interface configured to receive a touch input on a second area of the display device, and control the cursor on the first area based on the touch input received through the touch pad user interface displayed on the second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seungyup Lee, Jinseok Kim, Minjeong Moon, Minjung Moon, Myojin Bang, Seoyoung Yoon, Dami Jeon, Jaegi Han, Jiyoon Heo
  • Patent number: 11436192
    Abstract: Systems and methods of integrating message content into a target processing device configured to process input data having a predefined data structure. A messaging server is configured to receive a message from a messaging client device executing a messaging application. An orchestrator device is configured to integrate at least a part of the message content into a target data processing device, receive the part of the message content from the messaging server, and transmit a file derived from the part of the message content to a file processing device. The processing device is configured to transform each received file into a description file comprising a set of predefined keys. The orchestrator device is configured to derive an input file having the predefined data structure from the description file and transmit the input file to the target data processing device for processing of the input file by the target processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Amadeus S.A.S.
    Inventors: Eduardo Rafael Lopez Ruiz, Nicolas Guillon, Paul Krion, Jürgen Oesterle, Martin Stammler, Martin Kuhn, Sebastian Bildner, Thomas Stark