Patents Examined by TuyetLien Tran
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Patent number: 9111018Abstract: Methods, computer systems, and computer readable media for a patient care card graphical user interface are provided. The patient care card graphical user interface comprises a requirements display area configured to display one or more clinical measures relating to a patient, and a visual indicator that changes depending on whether the at least one or more clinical measures has been met.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2010Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: CERNER INNOVATION, INCInventors: Michael Alan Ash, Brian Robert Carter
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Patent number: 9111582Abstract: A video tapestry comprising a plurality of blended frames of a media presentation can be presented, with the frames comprising two or more frames displayed simultaneously. A dynamic tag cloud can be presented based on data identifying different portions of the tapestry for use in navigation or understanding the video content. A method can comprise obtaining a plurality of keywords for content of a media presentation, associating a first keyword with a first tag cloud and associating a second keyword with a second tag cloud, and generating a program component for providing a dynamic tag cloud using the first and second tag clouds. The program component can display the first tag cloud when the first portion of the video tapestry is referenced and the second tag cloud when the second portion of the video tapestry is referenced. The portions may be referenced by user input, a play head, or other activity.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2009Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventors: Costin-Ioan Eseanu, Blanariu Gheorghe
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Patent number: 9110589Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing tab bar controls on a mobile computing device are described. In one aspect, a method includes displaying a first tab graphic in a first tab bar control, the first tab bar control being displayed at a first default position on a first edge of a touchscreen display, detecting a user selection in a first region of the touchscreen display, the first region associated with the first tab graphic, detecting user motion, animating the first tab bar control to extend from the first edge of the touch-screen display in response to detecting user motion, determining a measure of user motion, comparing the measure of user motion to a threshold measure, and performing one or more functions on the mobile device in response to the measure of user motion exceeding the threshold measure.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2010Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey D. Yaksick, David A. Brown, Michael A. Cleron, Amar S. Gandhi, James B. Miller
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Patent number: 9111014Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for a rule builder for data processing. A proper subset of a set of strings is selected. A first user interface is generated that is configured to present the proper subset of the set of strings. The first user interface is further configured to obtain multiple substring selections corresponding to each one of the proper subset of the set of strings. One or more selection patterns are identified based at least in part on the corresponding substring selections. A second user interface is generated that is configured to present the selection patterns for user verification.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2012Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Michael G. Brown, Yu Pan, Abhijit S. Tambe, Joanna K. Wiebe, Anne M. Siddall
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Patent number: 9098815Abstract: Examples of a user interface are described that may include a master risk landscape map that includes nodes representing risks and links representing correlations between the risks. The visual appearance of the nodes and links may provide information about their characteristics, such as risk likelihood, risks severity, risk detectability, and/or strength of interconnectivity. The user may be able to interact with the master risk landscape map to drill down to further detail while simultaneously removing less relevant information as desired, thereby potentially allowing the user to focus on the most relevant information.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2011Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: Bank of America CorporationInventors: Jingni Li, Benjamin T. Teal, Lisa E. Matthews
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Patent number: 9086779Abstract: This invention relates to a mobile communications device and a method for controlling a menu on a mobile communications device having a display with an idle mode background image. The method comprises receiving a user input from a control device, relating the user input to an area of said display, determining an application which is linked to said area such that said application is executed in response to the selection of said area, and superposing an application icon associated with said application over at least a part of said idle mode background image.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2005Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: Core Wireless Licensing S.a.r.l.Inventors: Sanna M. Koskinen, Sanna Lindroos, Nina Maki
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Patent number: 9086781Abstract: A pop reader of a browser searches HTML code for a webpage with a plurality of links for a first link specified with a first target file name comprising a pop type element. The pop reader, responsive to detecting the first link specified with the first target file name comprising the pop type element, inserts a first command into the HTML code to disable the first link and set an event to pop up a first menu layer of a plurality of layers of a cascading menu and inserts a second command to specify the content of the first menu layer from a file accessed for the first target file name. The browser, responsive to detecting the event, displays the first menu layer with the specified content by the second command within the interface displaying the webpage.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2009Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Flemming Boegelund, Steven E. Hicks, Anders Westberg
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Patent number: 9086777Abstract: A smart display allows a user to build custom layouts of user interface blocks on the smart display independent of the software on the computer creating the user interface. A customization mechanism in the smart display allows a user to select portions of a user interface and move them to different positions on the display. The customization mechanism creates custom layout metadata that defines a screen offset for portions of a user interface moved by the user. The smart display monitors the incoming display data and re-assigns pixel rendering data to the new location in the moved user interface blocks as the data coming from the computer application changes.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2013Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Michael J. Branson, Gregory R. Hintermeister
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Patent number: 9075517Abstract: A system for enabling the drag and drop behavior detects a cursor over a non-input element and creates a container to receive an object dragged by the cursor. When the cursor drops an object on the non-input element, the container receives and stores the dropped object. The system then removes the container and provides the stored object to input field associated with the non-input element.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2012Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Tobias Boonstoppel, Michael Bürge, Bernhard Seefeld
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Patent number: 9069518Abstract: Methods and devices for selectively presenting a user interface or “desktop” across two devices are provided. More particularly, a unified desktop is presented across a device and a computer system. The unified desktop acts as a single user interface that presents data and receives user interaction in a seamless environment that emulates a personal computing environment. To function within the personal computing environment, freeform windows are generated to encapsulate user interfaces for device applications. The freeform windows allow the user interfaces for the device applications to function as other windows in the personal computing environment.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2012Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: Z124Inventors: Paul E. Reeves, Sanjiv Sirpal, Martin Gimpl
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Patent number: 9057874Abstract: A method to select a feature in a view in front of a vehicle includes monitoring the view in front of the vehicle visible through a graphic projection display, monitoring a user input to the graphic projection display, determining the selected feature based upon the monitored view and the monitored user input, determining a registered graphic representing the selected feature for display upon the graphic projection display, and displaying the registered graphic upon the graphic projection display.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2010Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Thomas A. Seder, Joseph F. Szczerba, Dehua Cui
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Patent number: 9050534Abstract: A user interface for a virtual world controls and allows registering new characters and also registering achievement when the user has carried out a number of different items.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2011Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: GANZInventors: Joseph Benjamin Ganetakos, Frank James Caron, Jesse Daniel Scoble, Gord Scott McLeod, John Alexander Larsen, Felix Leung, Karl Joseph Borst
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Patent number: 9049302Abstract: A computer-implemented method, performed at a portable multifunction device with a display, includes: receiving a plurality of communications via a plurality of communication modalities while the device is in a locked state; and detecting an unlock interaction by the user with the device. In response to detecting the unlock interaction, the method further includes unlocking the device and presenting a communication, or information about the communication, in the plurality of communications that was received while the device was in the locked state. The presented communication or information is presented in accordance with the corresponding communication modality.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2007Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Scott Forstall, Scott Herz, Freddy Allen Anzures, Greg Christie, Imran Chaudhri, Marcel Van Os
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Patent number: 9009622Abstract: An exemplary method includes maintaining data representative of a plurality of media content instances, displaying within a graphical user interface a plurality of graphical objects positioned along a viewing axis, each of the graphical objects representing a metadata value within a metadata category associated with the media content instances, shifting a graphical object included within the plurality of graphical objects into a center focus portion of the viewing axis in response to a user input command, and transforming the graphical object from a book end depiction into a cover art depiction when the graphical object enters the center focus portion. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2009Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventor: Brian F. Roberts
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Patent number: 9009609Abstract: A state transition model is dynamically generated for an active application. A graphical user interface is generated based upon, at least in part, the state transition model for the active application. The graphical user interface includes an indication of a current state of a record within the active application. The record is manipulated within the active application in response to an input received in association with the graphical user interface.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2011Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Brian C. Schimpf, Bruce R. Katz, Monica Luke
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Patent number: 9003302Abstract: A method and system for providing anonymous sidebars between participants in a existing conference session such as a push-to-talk session for instance. Each applicable participant in the session has a private handle that represents the participant but that does not reveal the true identity of the participant. Further, the conference server hosting the session maintains or has access to mapping data that correlates each participant's private handle with a participant identifier that is sufficient to allow the conference server to engage in network communication with the participant. The server provides each participant with a list of other participant's private handles, and a given participant can then initiate a sidebar by sending a sidebar-initiation request designating one or more private handles selected from the list. Using its mapping data, the server then identifies the corresponding participants and sets up the anonymous sidebar.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2007Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.Inventors: Anthony J. Wageman, Diane E. Carder, Thomas M. Sladek, Ronald J. Rice, Russell G. Kindred
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Patent number: 8997010Abstract: A user interface device which displays an operation key in a display unit using a predetermined design.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2010Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Toshihisa Motosugi, Jiro Goto, Shin Ohba, Masayuki Ito, Kana Yamauchi
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Patent number: 8984441Abstract: While a user is using the electronic device, user interaction information for keystrokes, button pushes, and activation of functional controls may be recorded. The user interaction information is stored and when the electronic device is connected to a network, the user interaction information is sent over the network to a user interface analyzer. The user interface analyzer analyzes the user interaction information to determine patterns of usage regarding a hierarchy of menu items for the user interface. The analysis may show that a user interface may be improved for better usability. The user interface on the electronic device may be dynamically changed to alter the menu hierarchy, or the analysis may be used to improve future generations of products. For example, menu items may be positioned such that the user can more easily access menu items that are used more frequently.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2007Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics, Inc.Inventors: Mark Eyer, Peter Douma
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Patent number: 8984403Abstract: The present invention provides methods and systems for bringing user attention to guidance information presented on a display device. These methods and systems comprise displaying guidance information in an initial animation mode, receiving a first user input in response to the displayed guidance information, determining whether the first user input satisfies validation criteria for responses to the guidance information, and displaying the guidance information in an altered animation mode when the first user input fails to satisfy the validation criteria.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2007Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Oluf Nissen, Marguerite Letulle
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Patent number: 8972871Abstract: A graphical object is rendered to a pixel buffer, such that a software application executing on a computing device displays the contents of the pixel buffer via a user interface. An invisible element is created and positioned under the cursor in response to detecting that the cursor is positioned over the feature being displayed via the user interface. The software application automatically repositions the invisible element in accordance with a movement of the cursor. A change in the position of the invisible element is determined, and the graphical object is repositioned within the pixel buffer in accordance with the change in the position of the invisible element.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2013Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Susannah Alice Raub, Enoch Chee-Lok Lau