Patents Examined by Tuyetlien T Tran
  • Patent number: 10423713
    Abstract: In a collaborative presentation document, changes may be propagated throughout related elements in dependent slides. When making a change to an individual slide in the presentation, if any master-dependent elements are found to exist in the presentation, an option is provided to allow the change to be added as a master element in the presentation. The added master element can be applied to the master slide and any resulting dependent slides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Sarah Cooper, Michael Owen Thomas, Shoshana Holtzblatt, Ajay Dev Surie
  • Patent number: 10409792
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and computer program product are provided to generate, transform, and control menu data object in network environment. In some example implementations, menu data objects and related parameters are parsed and translated into a stratified data structure that can be used in connection with creating a renderable object associated with an interactive user interface accessible via a mobile system associated with a user. Control over the menu data object and its associated interface can be automated, and/or implemented in a manner that detects interrelated elements of the data structure such that alterations made to one element cause the related elements to be rendered in an alternate manner for visual verification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Groupon, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle Fritz, Nicholas Pellegrini
  • Patent number: 10387556
    Abstract: Display of supplemental information about selected e-book object. A method identifies relationships between objects of a plurality of objects presented in an electronic book. The plurality of objects include character and non-character objects presented in the electronic book. The method selects a first object, of the plurality of objects, presented on a display of an electronic device as part of presenting the electronic book on the display. A determination is made as to which of the identified relationships is between the first object and one or more second objects of the electronic book and has been presented in displayed portions of the electronic book. This determination indicates at least one relationship of the identified relationships. The method displays supplemental information about the selected first object, the supplemental information including one or more depictions of the indicated at least one relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vijay Ekambaram, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
  • Patent number: 10365816
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, media and/or methods may involve creating content. A property component may be added to a media object to impart one or more of a perceptual property or a contextual property to the media object. The property component may be added responsive to an operation by a user that is independent of a direct access by the user to computer source code. An event corresponding to the property component may be mapped with an action for the media object. The event may be mapped with the action responsive to an operation by a user that is independent of a direct access by the user to computer source code. A graphical user interface may be rendered to create the content. In addition, the media object may be modified based on the action in response to the event when content created including the media object is utilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Amit Moran, Gila Kamhi, Ron Ferens, Barak Hurwitz, Kobi Nistel, Nadav Zamir
  • Patent number: 10353575
    Abstract: A touched display item from among a plurality of display items is dragged by a touch operation, and in a case where an amount of movement of the touch operation is less than a predetermined distance in a second direction, a plurality of items located between an original position of the touched display item and a current position of the touched display item are moved, and in a case where the amount of movement of the touch operation is greater than or equal to the predetermined distance in the second direction, in a case where the touch operation ends, the touched display item is inserted where the touch operation ended and a display item located at the position where the touched display item is inserted is moved to the original position of the touched display item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tsukasa Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10346030
    Abstract: A method is performed at an electronic device with a display, a touch-sensitive surface, and one or more sensors to detect intensity of contacts. The method includes displaying, on the display, a user interface for an application; detecting an edge input that includes detecting a change in a characteristic intensity of a contact proximate to an edge of the touch-sensitive surface; and, in response to detecting the edge input: in accordance with a determination that the edge input meets system-gesture criteria, performing an operation that is independent of the application, wherein: the system-gesture criteria include intensity criteria; the system-gesture criteria include a location criterion that is met when the intensity criteria for the contact are met while the contact is within a first region relative to the touch-sensitive surface; and the first region relative to the touch-sensitive surface is determined based on one or more characteristics of the contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Nicole M. Wells, Andrew B. Cato, Matthew H. Gamble, Craig M. Federighi, Wayne C. Westerman
  • Patent number: 10346023
    Abstract: One or more embodiments increase the visual appeal and organization of presenting digital content items. In particular, one or more embodiments improve the visual appeal of a presentation of digital content items by emphasizing one or more digital content items within the presentation of digital content items. For instance, one or more digital content items may be emphasized within a graphical user interface including a gallery of digital content items. The emphasized digital content items can be selected based on a score reflecting a particular characteristic of the digital content item and/or a metric of user interest in the digital content item. Digital content items with relatively high scores as compared to other digital content items may be emphasized when presented in conjunction with the other digital content items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.
    Inventors: George Milton Underwood, IV, Ramesh Balakrishnan, Boris Babenko, Christopher Lee, Brian Smith
  • Patent number: 10331329
    Abstract: An electronic device and a method for changing an order and location of content are provided. The method includes receiving a selection of a content from among a displayed plurality of contents, displaying, in a set region, a guide interface of expressing a current location of the selected content among the entire contents of a storage region, and changing the location of the selected content among the contents of the storage region according to sensing a control of the guide interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soon-Hyun Cha, Yang-Su Kim, Jae-Wan Cho
  • Patent number: 10318110
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for location-based visualization of geo-reference content are provided. Apparatus may include logic for causing a display of a map having at least one tag displayed therewith, and logic for causing the display of a set of content objects in response to selection of the tag, the set of content objects associated with the tag and the geographical location of the map. The content objects may be displayed in a viewing window adjacent the map and selectable by a user. The content objects may be filtered by a user, e.g., indicating that a content object is incorrectly tagged or geo-referenced. The apparatus may dynamically update the content based on user interaction. The set of tags and content objects displayed may vary based on a particular zoom level and associated tags may be displayed in response to selection of a tag and/or a content object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: OATH INC.
    Inventors: Mor Naaman, Shane Ahern, Simon P. King, Rahul Nair
  • Patent number: 10303354
    Abstract: An electronic device displays a plurality of user interface representations in a stack on a display. The device detects a first drag gesture by a first contact at a location on a touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to a location of a first user interface representation on the display. While the first contact is at a location on the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to the location of the first user interface representation on the display and is moving across the touch-sensitive surface in a direction that corresponds to a first direction on the display, the device moves the first user interface representation in the first direction on the display at a first speed in accordance with a speed of the first contact on the touch-sensitive surface and moves a second user interface representation, disposed above the first user interface representation in the stack, in the first direction at a second speed greater than the first speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Sebastian J. Bauer, Andrew B. Cato, Imran A. Chaudhri, Jonathan R. Dascola, Christopher P. Foss, Joseph A. Hagedorn, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Stephen O. Lemay
  • Patent number: 10289287
    Abstract: Devices are configured to capture and share media based on user touch and other interaction. Functional labels show the user the operation being undertaken for any media captured. For example, functional labels may indicate a group of receivers, type of media, media sending method, media capture or sending delay, media persistence time, discrimination type and threshold for capturing different types of media, etc., all customizable by the user or auto-generated. Media is selectively captured and broadcast to receivers in accordance with the configuration of the functional label. A user may engage the device and activate the functional label through a single haptic engagement, allowing highly-specific media capture and sharing through a single touch or other action, without having to execute several discrete actions for capture, sending, formatting, notifying, deleting, storing, etc. Devices include any number of sensors to properly detect and act in accordance with the user engagement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: OneSnaps Technology Pvt Ltd
    Inventor: Yogesh Chunilal Rathod
  • Patent number: 10282085
    Abstract: A method of displaying data and an electronic device thereof are provided. The method includes receiving a first gesture input when a first program is displayed on a first layer of a touch screen of the electronic device, displaying a second program corresponding to the first gesture input on a second layer of the touch screen, receiving a second gesture input on the second layer, and displaying a third program corresponding to the second gesture input on a third layer of the touch screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: In-Won Jong, You-Jin Im, Hye-Bin Park, Joo-Hyung Lee
  • Patent number: 10275110
    Abstract: A system for moving search results visibly comprises an interface, a processor and a memory. The processor is configured to a) determine an ordering of one or more results in a subsequent set of search results as merged into a displayed set of search results; b) determine one or more interleaving positions for the subsequent set of search results in the displayed set of search results; c) cause the creation of one or more blank spaces in the one or more interleaving positions; and d) cause a display of one or more results in the subsequent set of search results in the one or more blank spaces. The memory causes a display of one or more results in the subsequent set of search results in the one or more blank spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Pierre-Yves Chevalier, Marc Brette
  • Patent number: 10268491
    Abstract: A system to improve user messaging in a mobile device by providing an intelligent interactive travel as a GUI that receives verbal and text input and outputs offers to provide travel-related information, offers to provide travel-related actions, offers to send a travel-related communication, or offers to save travel-related information, wherein processing content of the user input comprises analyzing message content to collect travel-related parameters relating to geographic travel path, airport information, air travel route information, airline flight information, flight availability, flight status, flight booking information, flight cancelling information, airport fees, baggage fees, local and remote ground transportion options, local and remote weather information, message priority, channel type, channel availability, user schedule, user time zone, user time and date, user travel-related preferences, type of content, and number of recipients, and saving said collected parameters to memory, wherein the trav
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Inventor: Vishal Vadodaria
  • Patent number: 10261599
    Abstract: Interrogative punctuation is automatically added to a sequence of characters entered into a handheld device upon termination of the sequence, such as by double actuation of the spacebar, when the first word, or the first and third words at the beginning of the sequence, of after a comma or semicolon, are indicative of an interrogatory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Jason Tyler Griffin
  • Patent number: 10248301
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention analyze a context in which a user interacts with a computer interface and automatically optimizes the interface for the context. The controller or control mode the user selects for interaction may define the context, in part. Examples of control modes include gesturing, audio control, use of companion devices, and use of dedicated control devices, such as game controllers and remote controls. The different input devices are designed for different tasks. Nevertheless, a user will frequently attempt to perform a task using a control input that is not adapted for the task. Embodiments of the present invention change the characteristics of the user interface to make it easier for the user to complete an intended task using the input device of the user's choice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Szymon Piotr Stachniak, Kenneth Alan Lobb, Mario Esposito, Clinton Chi-Wen Woon
  • Patent number: 10241643
    Abstract: Navigation of multiple information item hierarchies within a same application display pane or view is provided. Information items may be displayed in a customized collection of information items, for example, a “favorites” collection, that may be assembled from a variety of content sources and that may be persisted across a variety of information item views.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Erez Kikin-Gil, Mark Eugene Pearson, Vignesh Sachidanandam, Doreen Grieb, Patrick Malatack
  • Patent number: 10235713
    Abstract: A method and system are described to provide a user-widget-based transaction environment. In one example embodiment, an electronic magazine may be presented to a user device as a widget without using a browser. The electronic magazine may comprise two or more data pages. A user selection of at least one of the two or more data pages may be detected and then communicated from the user device across a network for further processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventor: KyungChun Yum
  • Patent number: 10217064
    Abstract: An operating system executing on a computing device can move an application's icon to a prominent position within an operating system user interface in response to determining that specified conditions related to that application are currently satisfied. Alternatively, the operating system can automatically create an alias icon for the application in such a prominent position in response to determining that the specified conditions are currently satisfied, thereby leaving the original application icon in its expected position for later use. A set of rules stored on the computing device can specify, for each application, the set of conditions that are to be satisfied in order to make that application's icon or alias icon prominent. The set of conditions can involve a current location, current settings, the current date, the current day of the week, the current time of day, information pertaining to contacts, information pertaining to a calendar, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: David Charles Cassano
  • Patent number: 10216386
    Abstract: A display system includes a display unit that is provided to a portable terminal and displays a larger size document image than a size of a display area, a displacement amount calculating unit that calculates a displacement direction and a displacement amount of the portable terminal on a virtual surface set along a display screen of the display unit, and a document image specifying unit that specifies, in the document image, a partial area to be displayed in place of a partial area of the document image displayed on the display unit, based on the displacement direction and the displacement amount that are calculated by the displacement amount calculating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: RAKUTEN, INC.
    Inventor: Yukiko Ochiai