Patents Examined by William L. Bashore
  • Patent number: 11334328
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for displaying graphical objects in a user interface of a mobile device. In one embodiment, methods may include receiving a request to display a primary status associated with a plurality of facilities, querying at least one database for data associated with each one of the plurality of facilities, calculating a score for each one of the plurality of facilities based on the associated data, determining the primary status associated with each one of the plurality of facilities based by comparing the score with threshold rules, selecting a primary graphical object style for each one of the plurality of facilities based on the primary status, and generating for display a user interface screen including primary graphical objects in a screen of the mobile device, wherein the primary graphical objects include the respective selected style.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: TeleTracking Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shawn Melvin, Jason Spector, Jason Harber
  • Patent number: 11331146
    Abstract: A method for improving the development of an initial surgical plan includes receiving input information, developing an initial surgical plan based upon the input information, and allowing a user to customize the initial surgical plan by providing input related to modifications to the initial surgical plan. The method further includes storing information related to the modifications to the initial surgical plan and using the stored information to develop a subsequent initial surgical plan based on the modifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: MAKO Surgical Corp.
    Inventors: Carinne Granchi, Jason Otto, Thomas M. Coon, Michael Ballash, Tamas Erdos
  • Patent number: 11320982
    Abstract: An electronic device displays a messaging user interface on a display, the messaging user interface including a conversation transcript of a messaging session between a user of the electronic device and at least one other user, a keyboard, a message-input area, and a digital image affordance. While displaying the messaging user interface, the device detects an input that activates the digital image affordance. In response, the device replaces display of the keyboard with display of a plurality of digital images, the plurality of digital images including one or more digital images stored in memory and a live preview image from a digital camera. The device detects an input that selects the live image displayed within the plurality of digital images. In response, the device captures a digital image with the digital camera, while maintaining display of the conversation transcript.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Imran A. Chaudhri, Freddy A. Anzures, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Nicholas V. King, Hoan Pham, Wan Si Wan, Giancarlo Yerkes, Darin B. Adler, Justin N. Wood, Robert Garcia, Soin Shedlosky, Emilie Kim, Bethany Bongiorno
  • Patent number: 11321781
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for facilitating financial planning of an objective. The system includes a storage unit for storing computer program instructions, a display unit for displaying processed computer program instructions, a processing unit is coupled to the storage unit and the display unit for processing the computer program instructions. The computer program instructions includes a data input computer program instruction, a data category display computer program instruction, a threshold computer program instruction, a slide computer program instruction and a heat map computer program instruction. The heat map computer program instruction with a color computer program instruction to display the degree of difference with the intensity of the color. A red color to display the degree of difference for a negative value and a green color to display the degree of difference for a positive value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Bottomline Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Seona Standard
  • Patent number: 11314379
    Abstract: A user interface (UI)-providing system and method for device control are provided. The User Interface (UI) providing method, the method includes: identifying at least one controlled devices relating to an activity mode selected by a user; collecting control information relating to functions provided by the identified at least one controlled devices; and generating a UI used to control the at least one controlled devices relating to the activity mode based on the collected control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Inventors: Hyung-rae Cho, Ji Hyeon Kweon, Seok-min Oh
  • Patent number: 11314371
    Abstract: A method of providing a Graphical User Interface (GUI) is provided. The method includes receiving an image to be used for the GUI, and selecting one or more object areas to be used for the GUI from the image, setting a GUI icon corresponding to the selected object area, and outputting the set GUI as a home screen for executing at least one of application on a display of the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ho-Young Jung, Do-Hyeon Kim, Ji-Hoon Kim, Dong-Chang Lee, Dong-Hyuk Lee, Jae-Woong Lee, Won-Suk Chang, Seong-Taek Hwang
  • Patent number: 11305953
    Abstract: Systems and associated methods for controlling operation of loading dock equipment are described herein. In some embodiments, the system and associated methods can be used to control operation of loading dock equipment (e.g., a vehicle restraint, a dock door, a dock leveler, etc.) according to a sequence of operations. The sequence of operations can include different sub-sequences based on loading dock conditions. The system can include a display screen that sequentially presents a series of control elements that enable operation of the loading dock equipment. Additionally, the visual appearance and/or sequence of presentation of the control elements indicate the proper sequence of selection to the user, thereby reducing user confusion and simplifying the operation of the loading dock equipment. Some functionality of the control panel can be enabled or disabled based on a current level of authorization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: ASSA ABLOY Entrance Systems AB
    Inventors: Richard K. Hoofard, Brett A. Walford, Stephen Kosek, Daryl Day
  • Patent number: 11305886
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system for displaying information for an aircraft on a display device in a flight deck of the aircraft. A computer system in the aircraft displays a dynamic home page in a graphical user interface on the display device in the flight deck of the aircraft. The information in the dynamic home page is based on the information used to operate the aircraft during a current phase of flight. The computer system changes the information in the dynamic home page as the current phase of flight changes or non-normal conditions occur during operation of the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Brian David Gilbert, Alireza Majd, Paul D. Burkhead, Alessandro Edward Galli, John Wiedemann
  • Patent number: 11281349
    Abstract: Systems and methods involving processing and/or mirroring data in real time between one or more mobile devices and a plurality of near field communication (NFC) connected interactive posters are disclosed. In one embodiment, an exemplary computer-implemented method may comprise: connecting a user mobile computing device to a server as well as coupling the device to a plurality of interactive posters via NFC; receiving user selections made on the interactive posters; processing content data related to the posters based on the user selections and/or other information; generating a GUI comprising interactive simulations corresponding to respective posters and/or statistics related to selections made on the posters; tracking, in real time, a specific experience of a user interacting with the posters; and transmitting, in real-time, data regarding the specific experience to the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Amanda Harrington Legge, Sunil Shah, Michael Ramos
  • Patent number: 11281743
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for dynamically creating hyperlinks associated with relevant multimedia content in a computer network. A hyperlink generation module receives an electronic text file from a server. The module searches the text file to identify keywords present in the file. Once the keywords have been identified, a database is queried to identify multimedia content that is related to the keywords. Generally, multimedia content is associated with metadata to enable efficient searching of the multimedia content. Typically, the multimedia content is contextually relevant to both the identified keywords and text file. One or more hyperlinks corresponding to the keywords are then generated and inserted into the text file. The hyperlinks provide pointers to the identified multimedia content. After insertion into the text file, the hyperlinks may be clicked by a user or viewer of the file to retrieve and display the identified multimedia content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: TiVo Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew G. Berry
  • Patent number: 11275497
    Abstract: Methods of controlling the display and use of a UI element are disclosed. In an embodiment, the UI element may configured so that it initially maintains a topmost position but eventually allows other applications to assume the topmost position. In an embodiment, the display of the element may be adjusted in response to an input so that the UI element is not visible on the display. In an embodiment, the use of the UI element may allow for seamless dragging of the UI element even if the user inadvertently fails to make consistent contact with the touch-sensitive display while dragging the UI element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Reed L. Townsend, Steven P. Dodge, Bryan D. Scott, Alexander J. Kolmykov-Zotov
  • Patent number: 11275499
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, a method is performed at a device with one or more processors, non-transitory memory, a display, and an input device. The method includes displaying, on the display, a first column and a second column in an application region. The method includes detecting, via the input device, a first user input that starts at a location at a top of the application region and moves toward an edge of the application region. The method includes, in response to detecting the first user input, changing the number of columns displayed in the application region, wherein changing the number of columns displayed in the application region includes, in accordance with a determination that the first user input was in a first direction, displaying a third column in the application region while maintaining display of the first column and the second column in the application region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Bruce D. Nilo, Jason Clay Beaver
  • Patent number: 11270058
    Abstract: A mechanism for referencing a portion of a document. A method includes identifying, by a processing device of a user device, a portion of a document, the portion selected by a user of the user device. The method also includes displaying, by the processing device, the selected portion of the document as a graphical representation of an icon on the user device. The method also includes detecting, by the processing device, a reference to the icon displaying the selected portion of the document, the reference performed by the user. The method further includes providing, by the processing device, the referenced selected portion of the document associated with the icon to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Vecera, Jiri Pechanec
  • Patent number: 11262900
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system for displaying information for an aircraft on a display device in a flight deck of the aircraft. Aircraft information is received for a current flight of the aircraft. An interactive strip is displayed in a graphical user interface on the display device in the flight deck of the aircraft. The aircraft information and controls are displayed within regions in the interactive strip, enabling a pilot to operate the aircraft using the interactive strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Paul D. Burkhead, Alireza Majd, John Wiedemann
  • Patent number: 11263284
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the Internet, and disclose a method and system for loading a web page, and a server. In the present disclosure, a method for loading the web page is applied to an edge server of a content delivery network, including: obtaining a loading list corresponding to a page according to a page loading request when the page loading request is received from a user terminal, and the loading list includes several add-ins to be loaded; identifying from a resource to be accelerated the add-ins to be loaded; rewriting the resource to be accelerated in the loading list according to a predetermined optimization scheme; and feeding back the rewritten loading list to the user terminal for the user terminal to request each add-in on the loading list to perform a page loading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Wangsu Science & Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tiantian Han, Chen Li, Kewei Huang
  • Patent number: 11262901
    Abstract: Described are various embodiments of an electronic device for a user having reduced visual acuity to fine tune a prescription thereof corresponding with their reduced visual acuity. The device comprises a digital light-field display, a hardware processor; and a non-transitory computer-readable medium having statements and instructions stored thereon for execution by said hardware processor in correcting an output image to be rendered by said digital light-field display in accordance with an image pre-filtering function, wherein said image pre-filtering function receives as input a light-field display optics parameter and a progressively adjustable vision correction parameter that corresponds to vision correction prescriptions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Evolution Optiks Limited
    Inventors: Nathan L. Hough, Christopher J. S. Hough, Jennifer K. Sharpe, Ryan M. Hough, Luke A. Vigeant
  • Patent number: 11256334
    Abstract: A system for permitting a medical practitioner to interact with medical information, the system including: a sensing unit for detecting a position of a reference object used to interact with the sensing unit; at least one control unit for determining a gesture performed by the medical practitioner, identifying a command relative to the medical information that corresponds to the gesture, and executing the command in order to display the medical information; generating a graphical user interface including a virtual representation of the reference object and at least one virtual icon and/or a virtual representation of the sensing unit, with each of the at least one virtual icon corresponding to one of a respective mode of operation, a respective user notification, and a respective system setting option; and displaying the GUI along with the medical information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: NZ Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Nima Ziraknejad, Pranav Saxena, Anshul Porwal
  • Patent number: 11244285
    Abstract: A method for displaying e-mail messages to a user of an e-mail message viewer comprises displaying a list of received e-mail messages with a list entry for each received email message and displaying binary information indicating the read/unread status of each received email message in the list. The read/unread status information of each received first email message is switched from “unread” to “read” when the text and/or attachments of this particular first e-mail message have been displayed at least partially to the user when opening this particular first e-mail message. The read/unread status information of each received second email message is switched from “unread” to “read” when the text and/or attachments of this particular second e-mail message have been displayed at least partially to the user when opening a particular first e-mail message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: RINGCENTRAL, INC.
    Inventor: Thomas Lederer
  • Patent number: 11237851
    Abstract: Various methods and devices control operating components using a device operation program, control a user interface device using a menu program to display a device menu having menu options, receive menu choices in response to the device menu, control the operating components based on the menu choices, and convert the device menu into a browser-compatible menu compatible with internet protocols using the menu reproduction program. The browser-compatible menu has the same menu options included in the device menu. These methods and devices provide the browser-compatible menu to external devices using a wired or wireless communications device, receive external device input from the external devices responding to the browser-compatible menu, supply, from the wired or wireless communications device, the external device input to the device operation program and control the operating components by the device operation program based on the external device input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy D. Thomas, Giuseppe Pandolfo, James P. Russell
  • Patent number: 11238428
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an optical module based on silicon photonics. The optical module provides a cyptocurrency wallet stored in a memory resource and includes an optical communication block with a direct-to-cloud interface for connecting to entities in a cloud infrastructure. The optical module further includes an application block to enable a cryptocurrency transaction via the direct-to-cloud interface. The optical module is configured to be an optical Quantum Key Generation Distribution device using a quantum key generation encryption protocol to encrypt a private key protected transaction in an encrypted transaction envelope. Furthermore, the optical module includes an external interface connecting the application block to a user/host via a physical layer to establish a secure link before executing a peer-to-peer transaction between entities in the cloud infrastructure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd.
    Inventor: Radhakrishnan L. Nagarajan