Patents Examined by Tuyetlien T Tran
  • Patent number: 10705729
    Abstract: A touch control method and apparatus for a function key, and a storage medium are provided. The touch control method includes: determining a current handheld operation mode of a terminal, the handheld operation mode including at least one of a left hand operation mode, a right hand operation mode and a double hand operation mode; determining an operation area corresponding to the current handheld operation mode, activating a surface touch control function of the operation area and displaying the function key in the operation area; and determining whether a user performs a touch control operation on the function key in the operation area, according to a touch position of the user in the operation area and a position of the function key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: XIAOMI INC.
    Inventors: Ning Hao, Dawei Yang, Huanhuan Liu
  • Patent number: 10705718
    Abstract: A method includes: displaying a first view of a first application; detecting a first portion of a first input; if the first portion of the first input meets application-switching criteria, concurrently displaying portions of the first application view and a second application view; while concurrently displaying the portions of the application views, detecting a second portion of the first input; if the second portion of the first input meets first-view display criteria (liftoff of contact detected in a first region), ceasing to display the portion of the second application view and displaying the first application view; and if the second portion of the first input meets multi-view display criteria (liftoff of contact detected in a second region), maintaining concurrent display of a portion of the first application view and a portion of the second application view on the display after detecting the liftoff of the contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Jonathan R. Dascola, Christopher P. Foss, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Imran A. Chaudhri
  • Patent number: 10701206
    Abstract: A system can connect multiple disparate web products and services through a common interface. Each product can function with or without other plugins as the features are dynamic based on what plugins are available. Desktops for contact centers can provide dynamic adjustment for given usage contexts. Secure electronic communication between parties reduce exposure to a man-in-the-middle attack within a contact center deployment equipped with interactive voice response functionality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Inventors: Benjamin Friend, Marat Irner, Christopher Connolly, Herbert Willi Artur Ristock, Leonid Vymenets, Colin Leonard, Vladimir Mezhibovsky, Josef Eric Eisner
  • Patent number: 10691293
    Abstract: An image forming device includes; a control unit acting as a display control section, an operation receiving section and a controller; and a display section having a touch panel function of sensing proximity and contact of an object to and with a display screen. The display control section displays an operation image in which icons are arranged on the display screen. When the operation receiving section receives a user operation of instructing execution of a function of one of the icons, the controller executes the function. After the operation receiving section receives a user operation of putting an object close to one of the icons, when the state where the object is close to the icon continues for a predetermined time, the display control section displays an explanatory image including the icon and an explanatory note describing the function of the icon in the whole area of the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Manabu Kitabayashi
  • Patent number: 10678336
    Abstract: A display and an input member. A controller to generate a user interface on the display and orient the displayed user interface to a side of the display in response to an activation of the input member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Ronald Andrew DeMena, III
  • Patent number: 10674942
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces and more specifically to techniques for displaying user interfaces associated with physical activities. Exemplary user interfaces related to activity competitions are described. Exemplary user interfaces related to a friends list for activity sharing are described. Exemplary user interfaces associated with alerts presented to a user in response to automatically determining a boundary of a workout are described. Exemplary user interfaces associated with configuring a pace alert for a workout application are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Aled Hywel Williams, Gary Ian Butcher, Matthew J. Sundstrom, Molly Pray Wiebe
  • Patent number: 10671253
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein for a multimode graphical user interface (GUI), where a first mode of the GUI uses an unguided navigation model and a second mode uses a guided navigation model in which the GUI is distilled down to only its most critical elements. This may be achieved by sequentially displaying a single user interface element and removing all other user-interface elements of the GUI. The second mode of the GUI may lead a user through multiple options one at a time, thus creating a guided navigation model. The second mode may be initiated upon detecting a certain event (e.g., a period of inactivity, an explicit command from the user, etc.). The multimode GUI may be used to guide a user through one or more recommended items of media content from one or more different content-providing sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Caavo Inc
    Inventor: Andrew E. Einaudi
  • Patent number: 10635283
    Abstract: A multi-function peripheral (100) includes a main controller (400) which executes a function in a normal mode and stops in a power-saving mode, a sub-controller (401) which executes a function in the power-saving mode, an accumulation unit (402) which is operable, in the case where setting information for a prescribed setting item is changed in the function executed in the power-saving mode, to accumulate the setting information before and after the change in a prescribed memory (403), and a notification unit (404) which is operable, in response to switching from the power-saving mode to the normal mode, to make notification to a user by displaying the accumulated setting information before and after the change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Atsushi Kimura, Muneki Yamada
  • Patent number: 10572128
    Abstract: A user interface may present multiple presentation slides for user selection. Each slide may include one or more shapes, and a shape thread may be associated with each shape on the slide. For a selected slide, the user interface may present one or more shape threads associated with the selected slide. Each shape displayed on the selected slide may be associated with a particular shape thread, and a user may independently adjust one or more slide transition attributes of a shape via the associated shape thread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Darren Keith Edge, Koji Yatani, Genki Furumi
  • Patent number: 10552009
    Abstract: An electronic device may display a first lap time representation, and may move the first lap time representation in accordance with a first amount of elapsed time. While moving the first lap time representation, the electronic device may detect a lap input. In response to the lap input, the electronic device may cease movement of the first lap time representation, display a second lap time representation, and move the second lap time representation in accordance with a second amount of elapsed time. A relative positioning of the first lap time representation and the second lap time representation may correspond to a difference between a first lap time and a second lap time. In some embodiments, the electronic device may update the timescales of lap time representation(s) in accordance with a rotational input. In some embodiments, the electronic device may update a timer duration setting in accordance with a rotational input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Eric Lance Wilson, Christopher Wilson, Jonathan R. Dascola, Gary Ian Butcher, Imran Chaudhri, Alan C. Dye, Stephen O. Lemay, Natalia Maric, Lawrence Y. Yang
  • Patent number: 10545634
    Abstract: Systems and methods for sequencing electronic files include generating a first file sequence and one or more alternative file sequences. An alternative file sequence may be generated based in part on a characteristic of a file in the first sequence. The first and alternative sequences may be used in an electronic slideshow that allows a user to switch between file sequences. In some implementations, which alternative file sequences are generated may be determined based in part on a prediction of characteristics that may be of interest to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Robert Brett Rose
  • Patent number: 10545652
    Abstract: A method for navigating video content comprising the steps of receiving a video content item; receiving a plurality of thumbnails from the video content item, each thumbnail associated with a time point in the video content item; playing the video content item starting at a first time point; receiving in the user interface a gesture having a magnitude and a direction, the magnitude associated with a speed of playing of the video content item, the direction associated with a direction of playing of the video content item, and the gesture received at a second time point in the video content item; displaying a first subset of the plurality of thumbnails; receiving a selection of a third time point in the video content item; and playing the video content item at the third time point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Julian Frumar, Jasson Schrock, Ryan Junee, Simon Ratner, Geoff Stearns
  • Patent number: 10521095
    Abstract: Systems, computer implemented methods, and computer readable medium having program products are provided to customize by a user weather-risk products and to provide a customized weather-risk product to be purchased by user. Embodiments of a system include a tract-user computer having a display to display graphical user interfaces to a user and an input to receive user selections, the tract-user computer being connected to a communications network to receive graphical user interfaces and transmit user selections to a weather-risk product issuer computer. Embodiments of a system can also include a database to associate user selections with actuarial data, location data, and basis weather data and a weather-risk product issuer computer to transmit graphical user interfaces to the tract-user computer, receive user selections, and process user selections to generate virtual weather data and to generate weather-risk products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: WATTS AND ASSOCIATES, INC.
    Inventors: Tim J. Watts, Craig R. Landgren, Steven A. Loar, John Kuhling, Myles Watts
  • Patent number: 10489016
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for identifying and recommending events of interest in real-time media content. Individual ones of multiple media content streams are analyzed to determine whether events of interest are occurring in real-time. It is then determined that an event of interest is occurring in real-time in a particular media content stream of the multiple media content streams. A user interface is generated that recommends the particular media content stream based at least in part on the event of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Felicia Yue, Danny Ryan Stephens, Jeromey Russell Goetz, Zachary Christopher Mouri
  • Patent number: 10489044
    Abstract: In an electronic file system, preview information is provided to the user during a drag operation of a selected object onto a target object. The information indicates what type(s) of action is to be taken should the selected object be dropped onto the target object. The action(s) to be taken may depend upon the type of the selected object and/or the type of the target object. For example, where the selected object is an item and the target object is a persisted auto-list, the action may include adding, removing, or modifying one or more properties of the selected object to conform to one or more criteria defined by the persisted auto-list. Also, numerical feedback may be provided to the user where multiple objects are selected. For example, where seven objects are selected, the textual number “7” may appear next to the cursor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Cummins, Cornelis K. Van Dok, David G. De Vorchik, Stephan Hoefnagels, Timothy P. McKee, Tyler K. Beam
  • Patent number: 10466875
    Abstract: Provided are a device and a method which facilitate continued focusing of a user on specific content information even when said specific content information has been moved off the display screen by scrolling or page transitioning. Focus content information, which is identified from content information displayed on the display screen of the terminal device, is set in advance as content information for user focus. Then, in response to user operations which transition said focus content information out of the display area, copy content information, being a copy of said focus content information, is displayed for a certain period of time on the display screen of said terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventor: Shinya Takami
  • Patent number: 10452230
    Abstract: A method for operating an electronic device includes determining whether a preset triggering condition is satisfied; when satisfying the preset triggering condition, requesting extended page data corresponding to the triggering condition, from either a server or a connectable device; and receiving the requested data from either the server or the connectable device, and adding and displaying at least one page in a home screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo-Kun Choi, Doo-Suk Kang, Geon-Soo Kim, Dong-Hyun Yeom, Pil-Joo Yoon, Yong-Joon Jeon, Min-Kyung Hwang
  • Patent number: 10452763
    Abstract: Instant messaging, also known as chat, is integrated with electronic mail in a user interface that provides for automatic completion of recipient names or addresses, such as email addresses or chat addresses, as a user types characters of the name or address when addressing a message. The automatic completion feature displays a list of matches, which are names or addresses in, for example, the user's online contact list, that match the characters the user types. The matches list may contain names or addresses for multiple different communication methods. The user may then select one of the names or addresses to compose a message to be sent to the selected name or address. A user interface is then provided for composing a message to be sent to the selected name or address using the communication protocol associated with the selected name or address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: OATH INC.
    Inventors: Greg A. Rosenberg, Kevin R. Johnston, Samir B. Mehta
  • Patent number: 10437416
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided and include receiving, at a user device, a first user input from a user, the first user input selecting an application icon displayed at the user device. In response to receiving the first user input, the user device launches the native application and sets the native application into the home state. The user device receives a second user input configured to set the native application into a state of the native application other than the home state. In response to receiving the second user input, the user device sets the native application into the other state using the user device. The user device determines that the user frequently sets the native application into the other state, and configures the application icon to, upon being selected, cause the user device to launch the native application and set the native application into the other state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gilead Mark, Thomas Francis
  • Patent number: 10423291
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and products manage events in an electronic calendar. A calendar event may be associated with a rule, with the rule comprising a reminder and a date and a time of expiration. After the date and time of the expiration, the electronic calendar ceases to present the reminder. That is, no reminders of expired events are visually/audibly presented by the electronic calendar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: James C. Bedingfield, Sr.