Patents Examined by Wendy Nicholas
  • Patent number: 10814231
    Abstract: A system and method for displaying auxiliary content during an idle time in a virtual space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Electronic Arts Inc.
    Inventor: Ziqiang Xu
  • Patent number: 10768809
    Abstract: A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to provide wireless communication; a display configured to display at least a first notification information at a first position on the display indicating a first event occurred on the mobile terminal, and display a second notification information at a second position on the display indicating a second event occurred on the mobile terminal; and a controller configured to in response to a selection of the first notification information, display a first input region and a first key region for inputting a character string into the first input region on the display adjacent to the first notification information, in response to a selection of the second notification information, display a second input region and a second key region for inputting the character string into the second input region on the display adjacent to the second notification information, and process the character string input into the first input region or the second input reg
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Eunhye Kim, Taeyoung Jeon
  • Patent number: 10684768
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing graphical user interface elements optimized for touch-based input in connection with an application that is designed for conventional input received from a keyboard and a mouse. The touch-based graphical user interface elements are displayed when the computer system detects that a user is about to switch from conventional input devices to touch-sensitive input devices. The touch-based graphical user interface elements are hidden when the user provides input with the conventional input devices such that the touch-based graphical user interface elements do not distract from the applications normal operation. The display device includes a sensing capability that enables the computer system to detect when an object, such as a user's finger or a stylus, is proximate to, but not in contact with, the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.
    Inventors: Tovi Grossman, George Fitzmaurice, Xing-Dong Yang, Pourang Polad Irani
  • Patent number: 10657685
    Abstract: A method is performed at an electronic device. The process displays a line chart, which includes a first plurality of data marks and a first plurality of line segments connecting adjacent data marks. The process detects a touch input, and expands the line chart horizontally, including expanding a first line segment. The process adds a second plurality of data marks on the first line segment, thereby subdividing the first line segment into a second plurality of line segments, which are initially collinear. After expanding the chart and adding the second plurality of marks, the process determines an ordinate value for each of the second plurality of marks, and animatedly moves each of the second plurality of marks from the first line segment to a respective vertical location defined by the respective determined ordinate value. The process concurrently moves each of the second plurality of line segments according to its endpoints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Tableau Software, Inc.
    Inventor: Robin Stewart
  • Patent number: 10592863
    Abstract: A method for preparing a presentation connects a plurality of geographically dispersed contributors to a controller through a network to collaborate to prepare the presentation, allows the contributors to propose contributions to the presentation residing on storage devices under the control of the contributors, makes the proposed contributions available for viewing and comment by all contributors, allows the controller to select one or more of the proposed contributions, and provides the controller access through the network to the storage devices to retrieve the selected contributions for inclusion into the presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Inventor: Nicholas T. Hariton
  • Patent number: 10551987
    Abstract: Provided are a method and a mobile terminal for simultaneously displaying at least two application windows on a display unit of a mobile terminal. The method may include displaying a first application window associated with a first application on an entire display area of the display unit, receiving a multi_screen mode initiation input from a user, dividing a display area of the display unit into at least two display areas including a first display area and a second display area in response to the multi_screen mode initiation input, and displaying the first application window and a second application window on the at least two display areas, respectively, in a multi_screen mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: KT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haeng-Suk Chae, Kyoung-Tae Choi
  • Patent number: 10528318
    Abstract: For a mobile computing device, enhanced functionality may be provided by associating actions with combined speech and touch gestures. A touch gesture is received into the device and simultaneously or near-simultaneously speech is received into the device. The touch gesture and speech are processed to determine a result and the device performs an action based on the result. In particular embodiments, commands for a mapping application may be based on spoken search terms and geographic areas marked by touch gestures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: OPEN INNOVATION NETWORK LLC
    Inventor: David Gerard Ledet
  • Patent number: 10469417
    Abstract: Described herein is a computer implemented method for displaying a dynamic content item in a chat interface running on a client device. The method comprises receiving, from a collaboration platform, a dynamic content item descriptor which defines the dynamic content item and a content provider that is configured to provide dynamic data for the dynamic content item; receiving, from the content provider, dynamic data; and displaying the dynamic content item with the dynamic data in an area of the chat interface that is distinct from a messaging area of the chat interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: ATLASSIAN PTY LTD
    Inventors: Tanguy Crusson, Julien Hoarau, Anatoli Kazatchkov, Michael Oates, Patrick Streule, Royce Wong
  • Patent number: 10437779
    Abstract: In an approach for creating a screen capture, a computer selects at least a portion of visual output on a computing device, wherein the selected visual output includes one or more instances of application software. The computer identifies metadata associated with the one or more instances of application software in the selected visual output. The computer creates a screen capture file that includes the selected visual output and the identified metadata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lin Fu, Di Hu, Shi Kun Li, Ka Lin
  • Patent number: 10423299
    Abstract: Methods of providing a menu display for a GUI together with a computer program, a computer-readable storage medium and apparatus for the same. Methods include displaying a first menu in a rotatable window; and, in the event of a second menu being selected by a user, displaying the second menu in place of the first menu by rotating the window to reveal the second menu on the flipside of the window, wherein in a first mode the user is enabled to select the menu being displayed and not enabled to select an option in the selected menu, the user is enabled to switch to a second mode and in the second mode, the user is enabled to select an option in the selected menu and not enabled to select the menu being displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Zeenat Jetha, Johannes A. Jansen
  • Patent number: 10303495
    Abstract: A robot system preventing a worker from mistaken operation due to mistaken assumptions resulting from differences in operation of the GUIs. The robot system includes a machine attribute value storage part storing a combination of values corresponding to attributes of types, appearances, and display positions for addition of display elements of the robot on the GUI screen of the display device and a combination of values corresponding to attributes of various definition types of both operations and responses of the display elements and includes a machine screen generation part using a combination of values corresponding to attributes stored in the machine attribute value storage part as the basis to generate and add display elements of the robot to the GUI screen of the machine. The machine screen generation part is configured to generate the GUI screen of the display device including the display elements of the robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroji Nishi, Masahiro Oyamada
  • Patent number: 10289297
    Abstract: In general, the subject matter described in this disclosure can be embodied in methods, systems, and computer-readable devices. A computing device presents a user interface that includes first and second images. The computing device receives first user input that moves the user interface in a first direction. The computing device moves the user interface in the first direction by moving the first and second images in the first direction, and modifying a presentation of the second image at the same time that the second image is moved in the first direction, to indicate that the second image is an image that is pannable. The computing device receives second user input that interacts with the second image to pan the second image. The computing device pans the second image by replacing a first portion of the second image with a second portion of the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: William Young Chang, Dana A. Bright, Thomas Homer Rutledge, Soufi Esmaeilzadeh, Antin Harasymiv, Su Chuin Leong
  • Patent number: 10282905
    Abstract: A computing device includes at least one processor and at least one module operable by the at least one processor to output, for display, a graphical user interface (GUI) comprising one or more graphical objects representing one or more data elements, receive input to select a graphical object representing a data element, wherein the selection occurs at a start location within the GUI, and determine a set of spatial locations with which the data element can be associated. The at least one module is further operable to output, for display, a plurality of overlay elements, each comprising a respective boundary that forms a respective path from the start location to a respective graphical representation of a respective spatial location, receive input to traverse a chosen overlay element, and associate the data element with the respective spatial location corresponding to the chosen overlay element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ilse M. Breedvelt-Schouten, Blair E. P. Moxon
  • Patent number: 10248311
    Abstract: An electronic device for supporting a virtual keyboard is provided. The electronic device includes an interface unit configured to receive a touch input and display the virtual keyboard, and a controller configured to generate a control point based on calibration points, the calibration points being included in a first set of calibration points for configuration of the virtual keyboard, the control point being movably disposed on the interface unit relative to the first set of calibration points, and generate a graphical representation of the virtual keyboard on the interface unit based on the control point, the virtual keyboard being adjustable relative to movement of the control point in a direction of the second set of calibration points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: John Nikole Miranda Pingco, Danilo Jr Pilar Ocray, Roland Joseph M. Gudani, Ronald Phillip C. Cui
  • Patent number: 10209873
    Abstract: A method for controlling a digital device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present specification includes activating a display unit, when a first input is detected in a Standby mode, wherein the display unit is deactivated, activating the display unit, when a second control input is detected in the Standby mode, wherein the display unit is deactivated, and displaying a quick control menu based upon a position where the second control input is detected, detecting a third control input selecting the quick control menu, and displaying an execution screen of the application respective to the third control input, and, herein, the first control input and the second control input may each include two parts, and the first control input and the second control input may be partially identical to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Eunhyung Cho, Doyoung Lee, Sinae Chun
  • Patent number: 10209868
    Abstract: A display terminal includes a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, executed by the processor, to cause the processor to execute receiving information regarding one or more applications via a network; displaying, on a display screen of the display terminal, displayed images corresponding to each application related to the received information; detecting a predetermined operation for one of the displayed images; storing, for the one of the displayed images for which the predetermined operation was detected, arrangement position information of the image, wherein, in the displaying, the one of the displayed images for which the arrangement position information is stored, is displayed at a fixed position indicated by the arrangement position information independently of the received information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Naruhiro Kusumine, Kota Itakura, Kazumasa Ushiki, Akira Fujii, Tatsuro Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10185542
    Abstract: An electronic device with one or more processors and memory includes a procedure for enabling conversation persistence across two or more instances of a digital assistant. In some embodiments, the device displays a first dialogue in a first instance of a digital assistant user interface. In response to a request to display a user interface different from the digital assistant user interface, the device displays the user interface different from the digital assistant user interface. In response to a request to invoke the digital assistant, the device displays a second instance of the digital assistant user interface, including displaying a second dialogue in the second instance of the digital assistant user interface, where the first dialogue remains available for display in the second instance of the digital assistant user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Carson, Daniel Keen, Evan Dibiase, Harry J. Saddler, Marco Iacono, Stephen O. Lemay, Donald W. Pitschel, Thomas R. Gruber
  • Patent number: 10175999
    Abstract: Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for converting video into a walkthrough for an application or an online service. For example, a database storing data objects identifying walkthrough stages can be maintained. Each walkthrough stage can be associated with one or more features of an application or a service. Video comprising a plurality of frames can be received. A spatial region of one or more of the frames can be matched to a graphical component of the application or the service to produce a mapping. One or more of the frames can be processed using the mapping to determine that an update to a user interface (UI) displayed on a computing device has occurred. One or more walkthrough stages stored in the database can be identified based on the mapping. The one or more identified walkthrough stages can be assigned to a walkthrough. The walkthrough can be stored as a data file in a database of a database system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Everett Jemiolo, Jason Wagner, Michael Burr
  • Patent number: 10168771
    Abstract: A content subject matter area of interest to a user is determined, using eye-gaze analysis of a user viewing existing activity stream content, according to content at a content location viewed by the user within the existing activity stream content. User-specific activity stream content augmentations are configured that are applicable to new activity stream content viewed by the user that includes the content subject matter area of interest to the user determined from the eye-gaze analysis. Using the configured user-specific activity stream content augmentations, portions of the new activity stream content viewed by the user determined to include the content subject matter area of interest to the user are augmented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alaa Abou Mahmoud, Paul R. Bastide, Fang Lu
  • Patent number: 10169727
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating participation in a remote meeting or virtual conference are described. A client device can detect an upcoming calendar event and, based on a record associated with the calendar event, identify elements for participating in the event, as well as one or more access codes associated with the one or more participation elements. A notification can be displayed to a user, the notification including a prompt for selection by the user to automatically initiate participation in the event. After initiating the user's participation in the event, an interface can be displayed to the user including a link to the access code corresponding to the participation element(s) used to initiate participation in the event. Upon selection of the link, the access code can be automatically provided to the service hosting the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: AirWatch, LLC
    Inventors: Evan Hurst, David Pierce Shaw