Patents Examined by Tan H Tran
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Patent number: 10394437Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation comprising receiving input specifying a first portion of a graphical user interface (GUI) of a first application executing on a first computing device, wherein the GUI is outputted on a display device, rendering the GUI of the first application on a first virtual display of the first computing device, and not on the first display device, and generating a first widget which displays the first portion of the GUI of the first application on the display device, wherein a unique identifier of the first widget is associated with a unique identifier of the first virtual display.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Emmanuel Jambou
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Patent number: 10360925Abstract: A computer based tool and method for automatically producing, from an existing presentation, a new presentation that fits within a specific presentation duration based on the priority associated with each element within the existing presentation and the presentation time for each individual element.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2014Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sara H. Basson, Michael Bender, David J. Delia, Wayne M. Delia
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Patent number: 10359928Abstract: For reconfiguring a user interface (UI) layout according to a deterioration of an interface device, a UI layout is analyzed to determine a position of a UI element on the interface device according to the UI layout determination is made that the UI element is positioned in a first area of the interface device, the first area having a first sensitivity to touch, where the first sensitivity is below a level of sensitivity. A second area of the interface device is identified, the second area having a second sensitivity to touch, where the second sensitivity is at least equal to the level of sensitivity. The UI element is relocated from the first area to the second area thereby forming a modified UI layout. The modified UI layout is sent for rendering on the interface device.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2015Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHIES CORPORATIONInventors: Al Chakra, Gary Denner, Jonathan Dunne, Liam Harpur
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Patent number: 10359919Abstract: Updating graphical user interface elements. A method includes accessing a graphical user interface which includes an initial view including graphical elements. Each of the following are performed (in order) if determined to be applicable: (1) updating in the graphical user interface any pan elements that are outside of the initial view; (2) animating any changes in axes of the graphical user interface to set the stage for data modifications; (3) performing any data element animations in the graphical user interface, including any moves, any additions, any removals and any changes for all updates except those already added in when updating any pan elements that are outside of the initial view and pan element removals that will not be visible in a final view; (4) animating any changes in the axes to the final view; and (5) updating any remaining elements that are now out of view.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Kevin David James Grealish, Randy Joe Dodgen, Oscar P. Kozlowski
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Patent number: 10346472Abstract: A portable electronic device for automatically rating a music track comprised in a set of music tracks and a method therein are provided. The portable electronic device detects at least one user interaction during performance of the music track. Next, the portable electronic device adjusts a rating of the music track based on the detected at least one user interaction, thereby automatically rating the music track.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2012Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: SONY CorporationInventors: Petter Alexandersson, Jenny Fredriksson
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Patent number: 10346036Abstract: A method and an apparatus are provided for executing a plurality of objects displayed on a screen of an electronic device. The plurality of objects are displayed on the screen of the electronic device. Each of the plurality of objects is used to execute an application upon selection of a respective object. Information about a first object, of the plurality of objects, corresponding to a first application and information about a second object, of the plurality of objects, corresponding to a second application, are linked. Link information about the linked first and second objects is stored. The second application is executed upon receipt of a predetermined input value from an input means during execution of the first application.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2014Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Moo-Young Kim, Hong-Seok Yang
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Patent number: 10346029Abstract: For reconfiguring a user interface (UI) layout according to a deterioration of an interface device, a UI layout is analyzed to determine a position of a UI element on the interface device according to the UI layout determination is made that the UI element is positioned in a first area of the interface device, the first area having a first sensitivity to touch, where the first sensitivity is below a level of sensitivity. A second area of the interface device is identified, the second area having a second sensitivity to touch, where the second sensitivity is at least equal to the level of sensitivity. The UI element is relocated from the first area to the second area thereby forming a modified UI layout. The modified UI layout is sent for rendering on the interface device.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2015Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Al Chakra, Gary Denner, Jonathan Dunne, Liam Harpur
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Patent number: 10331291Abstract: In general, one innovative aspect of the subject matter described in this specification may be embodied in methods that include verifying a digital identification using visual indicators displayed to an authorized user. For instance, the visual indicators may be a set of graphical representations that are variably selected to be displayed on the digital identification. The visual indicator information may be provided to the authorized user to enable verification of the digital identification without any additional detector devices.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2015Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Morpho Trust USA, LLCInventors: Daniel Poder, Richard Austin Huber
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Patent number: 10324998Abstract: A method of stacking tabs in a browser window executable by an electronic device includes, in a first tab associated with a first web resource, receiving a user request for opening a second web resource. A type of the first web resource is identified, the type being one of a hub type and a node type. Responsive to the first web resource being of the node type, the second web resource is opened in the first tab replacing the first web resource. Responsive to the first web resource being of the hub type, a second tab is created, the second web resource is opened therein, and the second tab is stacked on the first tab, the first tab being thereby stacked under the second tab. The first and second tabs are comprised in a tab stack of the browser window, the tab stack comprising a plurality of stacked tabs.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2015Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: YANDEX EUROPE AGInventors: Fedor Sergeevich Romanenko, Konstantin Pavlovitch Gorskiy, Gennadii Vladimirovich Lokhtin, Mikhail Gennadievich Milnikov, Konstantin Nikolaevich Ivanov
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Patent number: 10318924Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for user interface date selectors for historical reports. A user interface outputs a date selector including a calculated dates option, wherein the calculated dates option is based on a date frequency applied to a date range. The user interface receives a selection via the date selector. Dates associated with the selection are identified. The user interface outputs the dates as a preview of a historical report, wherein the dates are output in a chronological order.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2013Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: salesforce.com,inc.Inventors: Abraham Adam, Alex Gitelman, Daphne A. Kao, Eric Nash, Harish Bellamane, Michael Tang, Stefan Eberl, Twisha Mehta, Venkatachalam Muthukrishnan
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Patent number: 10310727Abstract: Apparatuses and methods related to a user terminal and a control method thereof are provided. More particularly, apparatuses and methods relate to a user terminal which enables a user to select a part of an image and to transmit the part of the image to a display apparatus. The user terminal includes a display unit configured to display an image and a drop area thereon, a communication portion configured to be connected to a display apparatus, and a controller configured to select at least a part of an image of the display unit by receiving a user's input, and if the selected part of the image is dragged and dropped into the drop area, controls the communication portion to transmit the selected part of the image to the display apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jong-chan Park, Im-kyeong You, Sun-young Han, Kang-min Lee
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Patent number: 10310702Abstract: An image display apparatus and a method for operating an image display apparatus are disclosed. According to embodiments of the present invention, the image display apparatus comprises: a microphone; a display unit configured to output a pointer on a screen; and a controller generating a representative image corresponding to a first voice signal and attaching the representative image to the pointer when the first voice signal is input into the microphone in a state in which the pointer is output on the screen. Here, the controller enables the representative image attached to the pointer to be displayed along a moving path of the pointer in response to the movement of the pointer on the screen and, when a specific object on the screen is selected using the pointer to which the representative image is attached, enables a function related to the representative image corresponding to the first voice signal to be applied to the selected specific object while a display corresponding to the selection is output.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Saehun Jang, Sihwa Park, Jungdo Kim, Hyeonhui Kim, Jiho Choi, Junhee Yeo
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Patent number: 10158597Abstract: A method controls an Internet portal for a social network service from a motor vehicle. The Internet portal provides functions that can be activated by sending a control command to the Internet portal. An immobile proxy device provides a module that receives a selection, which is made by a user in the motor vehicle, for one of the functions and then sends a control command, which is specific to the Internet portal, for activating the function to the Internet portal. The module also produces suitable display data for the motor vehicle from output data from the Internet portal. The module also receives additional data from an additional data source and produces an additional control command for the Internet portal and/or display data for the motor vehicle therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2013Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: AUDI AGInventors: Edwin Foris, Arne Zoerb-Schliefer
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Patent number: 10139986Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display controller configured to cause a first icon to be displayed, an operation acquisition part configured to acquire a user operation for moving the first icon in a first area within a display surface, an area detector configured to detect an overlapping area in which the first area overlaps with a second area, the second area being present within the display surface and being different from the first area, and a metadata sharing processing part configured to share, between the first icon which is moved from the first area to the overlapping area and a second icon which is different from the first icon and is moved from the second area to the overlapping area, pieces of metadata associated with pieces of content corresponding to the respective icons.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2014Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yuuji Takimoto, Atsushi Okamori, Hiroshi Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 10142459Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, determine a first impairment associated with a first user of a first end user device, receive user input captured at a second end user device during a communication session between the first and second end user devices, store instructions for executing a group of adjustment techniques for modifying the user input where the group of adjustment techniques includes amplifying selective frequencies and translating the user input into sign language images, select an adjustment technique from among the group of adjustment techniques, adjust the user input according to the adjustment technique to generate adjusted user input, and provide the adjusted user input to the first end user device during the communication session. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2016Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Randolph Wohlert, Aaron Bangor, Mark Stockert
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Patent number: 10139983Abstract: A user terminal comprising: a display having an available display area; a processor configured to run a client application having a user interface capable of operating in a full screen mode whereby a single layer of content is displayed in the available display area or in a split-view mode; wherein the client application is configured to: detect, while controlling the user interface to operate in the full screen mode, a user selection that the user interface operates in the split-view mode, and in response display a first layer of content in a predetermined position to partially overlap a second layer of content such that a portion of the second layer of content is displayed in the available display area and a remaining portion of the second layer of content is not displayed; and display an indicator providing an indication of how content displayed on the two layers is related.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2015Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Stuart A. Bayston, Guilherme Schneider, Daniel Winston, Richard James West, Daniele Pizziconi
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Patent number: 10108269Abstract: During a medical scan session, a computing device executing a medical scan application receives a touch input from a touch sensitive medical scanning device. The computing device determines whether the touch input comprises at least one of a hold gesture or a swipe gesture. The computing device then performs a first function responsive to determining that the touch input comprises a hold gesture. The computing device then performs a second function responsive to determining that the touch input comprises a swipe gesture.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2015Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.Inventors: Michael Sabina, Leon Rasovsky
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Patent number: 10088989Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for computing operations based on a first and second user input. In use, a first user input in a first region of a graphical user interface is received. Next, while receiving the first user input, a second user input is received in connection with one or more portions of displayed content in a second region of the graphical user interface. Lastly, one or more operations are computed in connection with the one or more portions of the displayed content, based on the first input and the second input. Additional systems, methods, and computer program products are also presented.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2014Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Duelight LLCInventors: William Rivard, Adam Feder, Brian Kindle
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Patent number: 9996250Abstract: A mobile device comprising a first touch panel and a second touch panel for displaying images is disclosure. A decision module is operable to indicate a touch condition, if a touch position on a first touch panel is changed to a predefined direction toward a second touch panel, and if a touch is detected on both the first touch panel and the second touch panel. A display control module is operable to display at least some of an image displayed on the second touch panel on the first touch panel in response to the touch condition.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2014Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Takashi Hata
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Patent number: 9965135Abstract: Various embodiments illustrated and described herein include one or more of systems, methods, and software providing for configurable metrics and metric visualizations with regard to company data. Such embodiments provide flexibility to users in defining metrics, such as Key Performance Indicators (KPI), and dashboard views. One such embodiment includes receiving a dashboard view request from a requestor. A dashboard configuration may then be retrieve from a database. The dashboard configuration typically includes various data elements that define either directly or by reference to other data and graphical elements from which a dashboard visualization can be rendered. The various data elements and graphical elements generally are user configurable and standardized to be interchangeable in defining and generating dashboard visualization based on underlying operational data of an organization.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: SAP SEInventors: Christian Hauschild, Benedikt Gabriel Steffan, Christian Reinhardt, Thorben Krieger