Patents Examined by Toan H Vu
  • Patent number: 11348618
    Abstract: Methods and systems for dynamic bookmarking in branched video are described. An application provides a video tree having a plurality of video segments, with each video segment including a predefined portion of one or more paths in the video tree, and each path being associated with a different video presentation. One of the paths in the video tree is traversed based on one or more decisions made by a user during playback of the video presentation associated with the path being traversed. A selection of a particular location in the path being traversed is received by the application, which stores a bookmark of the location for subsequent retrieval. The bookmark identifies a sequence of video segments in the video tree having been traversed to reach the location. The structure of the video tree is modified, and the bookmark is automatically updated, if necessary. At a later time, the application receives a selection of the stored bookmark and seeks to the bookmarked location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: JBF Interlude 2009 LTD
    Inventors: Jonathan Bloch, Barak Feldman, Tal Zubalsky, Yuval Hofshy, Amiel Shapiro
  • Patent number: 11347943
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to mail application features. In some embodiments, a contact identifier is selected. In some embodiments, an adaptive toolbar is provided. In some embodiments, document functions are accessed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Garcia, III, Marcel Van Os, Marcos Weskamp
  • Patent number: 11330392
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for enabling beta testing of new features within a native application. In one embodiment, a native application executed by a client device may include executable instructions that are activated and executed only upon indication of a user belonging to a beta test group. The client device may receive a signal from a service or content provider that includes test group information indicating whether a user is a member of a test group. The client device may process the received signal to determine whether the user is a member of a test group and, if so, activates and executes certain instructions received as part of the native application that define a user interface enabling access to additional functionality unavailable to a user determined not to be a member of a test group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Kjell Hegstad, Dennis Brandt
  • Patent number: 11320958
    Abstract: Techniques for moving about a computer simulated reality (CSR) setting are disclosed. An example technique includes displaying a current view of the CSR setting, the current view depicting a current location of the CSR setting from a first perspective corresponding to a first determined direction. The technique further includes displaying a user interface element, the user interface element depicting a destination location not visible from the current location, and, in response to receiving input representing selection of the user interface element, modifying the display of the current view to display a destination view depicting the destination location, wherein modifying the display of the current view to display the destination view includes enlarging the user interface element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Luis R. Deliz Centeno, Avi Bar-Zeev
  • Patent number: 11316753
    Abstract: A system and methods comprise a touchscreen at a premises. The touchscreen includes a processor coupled to a security system at the premises. User interfaces are presented via the touchscreen and include a security interface that provides control of functions of and access to data collected by the security system, and a network interface that provides access to network devices. A plurality of network devices at the premises is coupled to the touchscreen. A security server at a remote location is coupled to the touchscreen. The security server comprises a client interface through which remote client devices exchange data with the touchscreen and the security system. The client interface is a cross-client interface provided by a client view model of at least one of the touchscreen and the security server that normalizes information of the plurality of network devices and the security system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: iControl Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Dawes, Chris Decenzo, Pramod Patel, Ken Sundermeyer
  • Patent number: 11314387
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for investigating an analyzable incident for a period of time has a database to receive and store data sets, coupled to a data processing computer system that operates upon the data sets, and a display module comprising a graphical user interface (“GUI”). Each data set comprises a series of events comprising a timestamp, a source, and a content about the analyzable incident. The GUI comprises an event map, a control panel, and an annotation panel viewable in an event list view or a swim lane view. The event list view has a tabular list of the timestamp, source, and the content of each event. The swim lane view comprises a graphical representation of the timestamp and the source of each event, and a user selectable icon associated with the content of each event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: ADAPTIVE CAPACITY LABS, LLC
    Inventors: John Allspaw, Richard Cook, Christopher Fairbanks
  • Patent number: 11287954
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device that includes a display that outputs execution screens of a plurality of applications, a memory that stores the plurality of applications, and a processor electrically connected with the display and the memory. The processor retrieves a history of one or more applications among the plurality of applications that were previously executed in the electronic device, in response to a user input detected by the electronic device and outputs the history on the display based on information about the one or more applications and information about layouts of execution screens of the one or more applications. If at least one of the one or more applications is selected from the history, the processor outputs an execution screen of the selected application on the display according to the corresponding layout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeong Won Ko, Mun Hwi Kim, Joon Hwan Kim, Hye Jin Kim, Kyung Wook Ro, Myoung Soo Park, Jung Woo Shin, Ji Hun Lee, Han Ju Cho
  • Patent number: 11275439
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for predicting a state of a user (e.g., asleep or awake). In some embodiments, the location sharing system accesses historical activity data of the user and extracts historical sleep records from the historical activity data. The system clusters the historical sleep records into a plurality of clusters and extracts a sleep pattern from each one of the plurality of clusters. Then, when the location sharing system receives current activity data of the user, the system can predict whether the user is currently asleep based on the current activity of the user and at least one of the sleep patterns. Some embodiments additionally compute an estimated wake up time of the user. Some embodiments share the predicted physiological state of the user with the user's friends via the map GUI. Some embodiments additionally share the estimated wake up time of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Xabier Jaureguiberry, Alexy Lean, Antoine Martin, Antoine Sinton
  • Patent number: 11275718
    Abstract: A mobile flight application obtains, via a network, a content pack having aeronautical files, and determines a set of waypoints in the content pack from the aeronautical files in the content pack. In a geolocation mapping structure, a waypoint is related with a matching subset of the aeronautical files in the content pack. Integrated into the corresponding sections of a user interface of the mobile flight application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: ForeFlight LLC
    Inventors: Charles Gehin-Scott, Jr., Travis Scott Clayton Root
  • Patent number: 11270386
    Abstract: It is desirable to provide a technology for enabling to make a reply to a received message by simple operation. There is provided an information processing device including an output control unit that, in a case where a received message has been obtained through a communication unit, controls display of first and second candidates of a transmission message, and sets the first candidate as a candidate in a selected state, in which: in a case where first pressing force has been detected by a first pressure sensor, the output control unit switches the candidate in the selected state from the first candidate to the second candidate; and in a case where second pressing force has been detected by a second pressure sensor, the output control unit controls the communication unit in such a manner that the candidate in the selected state is transmitted as the transmission message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaharu Asano, Yosuke Kiyama, Akinori Yamada, Ryo Yamamoto, Takashi Hasegawa, Takuya Goda, Tatsuya Tsuzuki, Keita Hibi, Kazuhiro Ishida, Keishi Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 11269513
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, a computer-implemented method for use in conjunction with a device with a touch screen display is disclosed. In the method, a movement of an object on or near the touch screen display is detected. In response to detecting the movement, an electronic document displayed on the touch screen display is translated in a first direction. If an edge of the electronic document is reached while translating the electronic document in the first direction while the object is still detected on or near the touch screen display, an area beyond the edge of the document is displayed. After the object is no longer detected on or near the touch screen display, the document is translated in a second direction until the area beyond the edge of the document is no longer displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Bas Ording
  • Patent number: 11262848
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for reducing motion sickness in virtual reality (VR) of a user, comprising determining a pattern of force cue based on a motion signal of a locomotion in the VR, the pattern of force cue including a type of force cue, a position of application or a direction of application, a time of application, and an amplitude of force cue, and applying a force cue to a head of the user according to the pattern of force cue, wherein the force cue corresponds to an inertial force and/or a centrifugal force in connection with the motion signal. Also disclosed is a head-mounted device thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Neng-Hao Yu, Yen-Yang Chen
  • Patent number: 11256399
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display controller, a detector, a corrector, and an adder. The display controller performs control to display an image on a horizontal screen. The detector detects a position of a user. The corrector corrects an image in accordance with an operation performed on the horizontal screen by a user. The adder adds the image corrected by the corrector to the horizontal screen in accordance with the position of the user and an orientation of the horizontal screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Yamazoe
  • Patent number: 11250096
    Abstract: Provided is a method, computer program product, and system for navigating a webpage with a screen reader using a prioritization model. A processor may collect analytics information for a webpage. The processor may generate, based on the analytics information, a prioritization model for sorting a plurality of elements of the webpage. In response to a user accessing the webpage with a screen reader, the processor may navigate the plurality of elements of the webpage using the prioritization model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Spencer Thomas Reynolds, Raden Tonev, Adam Thomas Lankford, Ty Tyner, Randall Horwitz
  • Patent number: 11250941
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a system of controlling a dental laser system. The system can include a dental laser and a control system for controlling certain functions of the dental laser. A graphical user interface can be used to provide input to the control system. The graphical user interface can include a first display and an second display with selectable segments, and a menu navigation portion located adjacent the second display. Treatment categories, procedures or laser control options can be selected using the interface, and the interface can be updated based on data from the station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: BIOLASE, INC.
    Inventors: Douglas Patton, Dmitri Boutoussov, Christopher J. Walinski, Richard Jackson
  • Patent number: 11241962
    Abstract: An evaluation apparatus for display arbitration control or a generation apparatus for a rule definition file includes a model generation portion that models the display arbitration control and generates a rule-based arbitration specification model that includes a content definition that defines a content, an area definition that defines a display area, and a constraint expression that shows a constraint related to display of the content; and a rule definition file generation portion that generates the rule definition file for software that is installed in a product and is related to the display arbitration control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shigeo Kato
  • Patent number: 11240358
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first touch sensitive display positioned on a first major surface of the electronic device and a second touch sensitive display positioned on a second major surface of the electronic device, or alternatively a single display wrapping about the first major surface and the second major surface. One or more processors cause a presentation of content on the first touch sensitive display while the one or more sensors receive user input. In response to the user input, which can be received by the second touch sensitive display, the one or more processors cease the presentation of the content on the first touch sensitive display and commence another presentation of the content on the second touch sensitive display. The process is reversible to send the content back to the first touch sensitive display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: John Gorsica, Kathryn Thomas, Rachid Alameh
  • Patent number: 11231844
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for enabling customized notifications on an electronic device. The method comprises displaying a recommendation on the electronic device to create a custom notification for at least one communication type. The method also comprises enabling the custom notification to be created for the at least one communication type. The recommendation may be determined using usage data associated with the at least one communication type. The custom notification may be created by navigating to a custom notifications user interface. The custom notification may also be created by automatically determining at least one custom notification setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Ryan David Steeves
  • Patent number: 11226730
    Abstract: An infotainment computer device for use in controlling an infotainment system in a vehicle is provided. The infotainment computer device includes at least one processor communicatively coupled to at least one memory device and a display device communicatively coupled to the at least one processor. The infotainment computer device is programmed to display an active page and a toolbar. The active page includes a plurality of buttons and the toolbar includes a shortcut area including at least one shortcut button. The infotainment computer device is also programmed to receive a first input requesting access to a customization mode, retrieve a current speed of the vehicle, activate the customization mode if the current speed of the vehicle is zero, receive a second input indicating a desired change to at least one of the active page and the toolbar, and change the display based on the desired change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Steven Feit, David A. Vanderburgh, Ross C. Miller, Koo Ho Shin
  • Patent number: 11221748
    Abstract: Systems, interfaces, and methods for implementing the systems and interfaces include a dynamic environment generation subsystem that changes objects and subobjects based on locations of the motion sensors and/or the nature, time and/or location of sensed motion and include selection attractive movement as the selection protocol, where a selection object is used to discriminate between selectable objects and attract a target object toward the selection objects, where the direction and speed of the motion controls, discriminates, attracts, and activates the selected objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: QUANTUM INTERFACE, LLC
    Inventors: Damon Chandler, Jonathan Josephson