Patents Examined by William L. Bashore
  • Patent number: 11087081
    Abstract: A synthetic document generator that obtains a configuration for a synthetic document derived from real-world documents. The configuration specifies element templates to be included in the synthetic document and weights for the specified element templates. The system generates synthetic documents based on the configuration; the synthetic documents include diversified versions of the element templates specified in the configuration. Annotation documents are generated for the synthetic documents that include information describing the respective synthetic documents. A machine learning model for analyzing real-world documents can then be trained using the synthetic and annotation documents. Feedback from the analysis of real-world documents by the machine learning model can be used to generate a new configuration for generating additional synthetic and annotation documents which are used to further train the model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Amulya Srivastava, Vivek Bhadauria, Gowtham Jeyabalan, Paul H. Kang, Mohammed El Hamalawi
  • Patent number: 11055422
    Abstract: A method for sharing a digital image between a first user terminal and at least one second user terminal over a communications network. The method includes: displaying on the second terminal a “degraded image”, the degraded image being obtained from a “first image” by digital processing of the first image, the digital processing visually concealing content of the first image; and following detection of an interaction of a user with the screen of the second terminal: defining a zone of interaction of the degraded image depending on the location of the interaction on the screen; obtaining a portion of the first image corresponding to the determined zone of the degraded image; and displaying on the screen of the second terminal the portion of the first image in the place of the corresponding area of the degraded image, throughout the duration of the interaction of the user with the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventors: Cedric Floury, Violaine Mercier
  • Patent number: 11041732
    Abstract: A computing system is can determine a match between a requesting user of a transport service and a matched driver traveling to a pick-up location of the requesting user. Based on the match, the computing system can transmit a trigger signal to the computing device of the requesting user. The trigger signal can cause the computing device of the requesting user to generate a selectable feature that, when selected, cause the computing device to prominently display a specified color on a graphical user interface of the computing device to facilitate a rendezvous between the requesting user and matched driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin Le Cun, John David West
  • Patent number: 11010422
    Abstract: An image display system includes an acquisition means for acquiring operation information containing a moving direction and a moving amount of an input position in an input operation on a first display object, the input operation being performed when the first display object is displayed on a display device, an extraction means for, when the moving amount of the input position in a predetermined first direction exceeds a predetermined threshold, acquiring a first attribute parameter of the first display object which corresponds to the first direction, and extracting a second display object associated with the first display object and having a first attribute parameter different from the first display object from a storage means where a plurality of display objects are associated with attribute parameters, and a display control means for displaying the second display object extracted by the extraction means, instead of the first display object, on the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventors: Soh Masuko, Tomoyuki Mukasa
  • Patent number: 11012391
    Abstract: An email client includes a network interface, a hardware processor, a user interface, an identification module, a content email management module and one or both of a grouping module and bypass email handling module. The network interface communicates with at least one service provider email server. The identification module identifies content emails by analyzing email traffic in an email account established on the service provider's email server. Content email senders are classified as content providers. The content email management module obtains content emails. The grouping module groups content emails from each content provider for display as respective single content item. Optionally, a bypass email handling module implants content emails received over said bypass channel into an email account or accounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: MAILWISE EMAIL SOLUTIONS LTD.
    Inventors: Shai Geva, Amitay Svetlit
  • Patent number: 11003321
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to the display of multidimensional structures and provide a method, system and computer program product for managing an integrated multidimensional view of a structured collection of objects. In one embodiment of the invention, a data processing system can be configured to render an integrated view of a multidimensional structured collection of objects. The data processing system can include a GUI for a host application in a computing platform and multidimensional view processing logic coupled to the host application. The logic can include program code enabled to render a single, integrated multidimensional view of a structured collection of objects in the GUI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Michael Muller
  • Patent number: 10993837
    Abstract: An ocular surgical apparatus is provided, including a processor configured to receive ocular surgical data and a graphical user interface configured to display the ocular surgical data to a user. The processor configured to filter the ocular surgical data and the graphical user interface configured to display filtered ocular surgical data. The processor is configured to receive a number of ocular surgical data samples, discard selected ocular surgical data samples thereby yielding a number of emphasized samples, and perform an operation on the number of emphasized samples to produce filtered ocular surgical data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.
    Inventors: Abraham Hajishah, Mitchell W Mallough, Joseph E Pedroza
  • Patent number: 10996793
    Abstract: Systems and methods for correcting a vibration-induced error on a touch screen display device on an aircraft are provided. A method can include providing a user interface for display on a touch screen display device. The user interface can include one or more virtual elements associated with functions to be performed by a component of the aircraft. The method can include receiving data indicative of an actual user interaction with the touch screen display device. The method can include receiving data indicative of an intended user interaction. The method can include receiving data indicative of a sensed vibration. The method can include determining a corrected user interaction corresponding to a selected virtual element based on the data received. The method can also include sending one or more command signals to one or more components to perform a function associated with the selected virtual element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems Limited
    Inventors: George R. Henderson, Paul Richard Hickman, Luke Patrick Bolton
  • Patent number: 10984068
    Abstract: A proxy server receives from a client device a request for a network resource that is hosted at an origin server for a domain. The request is received at the proxy server as a result of a DNS request for the domain resolving to the proxy server. The origin server is one of multiple origin servers that belong to different domains that resolve to the proxy server and are owned by different entities. The proxy server retrieves the requested network resource. The proxy server determines that the requested resource is an HTML page. The proxy server scans the HTML page to locate one or more modification tokens that each indicates content that is subject to being modified. For at least one of the located modification tokens, the proxy server automatically modifies at least a portion of the content of the HTML page that corresponds to that modification token. The proxy server then transmits the modified HTML page to the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: CLOUDFLARE, INC.
    Inventors: Lee Hahn Holloway, Matthew Browning Prince, Matthieu Philippe François Tourne
  • Patent number: 10983667
    Abstract: The disclosure describes systems and methods related to moving object content that is enhanced with textual content presented using rapid serial visual presentation (“RSVP”). In one embodiment, video content is enhanced with RSVP content. Related embodiments provide systems and methods for displaying, creating, and editing such content. A particular embodiment provides for RSVP enhanced video previews. In another embodiment, augmented reality content is enhanced with RSVP content. In some embodiments, RSVP enhanced moving object content is provided on various end user electronic devices including smart phones, smart watches, and head mounted displays. These and other embodiments are disclosed further herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Spritz Holding LLC
    Inventors: Francis Abbott Waldman, Maik Steffen Maurer, Oleg Skrypnyuk
  • Patent number: 10963126
    Abstract: A method and system for element navigation. The method includes: selecting a designated element from a plurality of elements; displaying the designated element on a display; monitoring for a predetermined primary user input from an input module; and upon receiving the predetermined primary user input, displaying an initial set of elements related to the designated element overlaid on the display of the designated element. The system includes: an element display module configured to display a designated element, the designated element selected from a plurality of elements; an input module configured to receive a predetermined primary user input; and a set display module configured to display an initial set of elements related to the designated element upon the input module receiving the predetermined primary user input, the initial set of elements overlaid on the display of the designated element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: D2L Corporation
    Inventor: Colin Heics
  • Patent number: 10956652
    Abstract: Applications may be created and registered to an online ecosystem and then execute within individual web applications such as productivity applications, communication applications, collaboration applications, and so on. These non-native applications may be enabled to interact with files and provide custom experiences for a user. The applications may also be enabled to interact with additional information discovered about the user within the ecosystem to provide custom experiences. The applications may further be enabled to create custom workflows to allow users to accomplish new tasks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Dorrene Brown, Joey Masterson, Nate Waddoups, Shreedhar Thirugnanasambantham, Xiao Wu, Jay Rathi, Mauricio Ordonez, Darren Miller, Ela Malani, John Wang, Sreekanth Lingannapeta, Gabriel Hall
  • Patent number: 10949048
    Abstract: Organizations may comprise a variety of resources that are assigned to various organizational units, and allocated for various projects or tasks. A user who wishes to understand the organizational structure of the resources may examine information sources, such as resource manifests and resource access logs, and interpret such information with the user's knowledge of the organization, but may fail to achieve a comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date understanding of the organization. Instead, interactions among users and resources may be monitored to infer organizational structure; assignment of resources to organizational units; relationships among resources; and usages arising within such resource relationships. Based on such inferences, an interactive visual map may be automatically generated that depicts the arrangement of the organization and the interrelationships of the resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Christian Liensberger, James Eldon Tillinghast, Mark Wade Heninger, Christina Storm, Chairy Chiu Ying Cheung
  • Patent number: 10942647
    Abstract: A keyboard input mode switching apparatus includes a processor for an information handling device and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to determine an operational state of a keyboard and, in response to detecting a particular operational state, switch an input mode of a portion of the keyboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Itoh, Garner Jervis Kong Tan, ZhePeng Wang
  • Patent number: 10929368
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product for performing database maintenance is described. Index information for data stored in a tree based file system running in a computer is received. The file system includes a set of data blocks arranged in logical layers and a set of pointers within the set of data blocks which reference respective data blocks in different logical layers. The received index information is parsed. A model of the file system is built based on the parsed index information. A graphical user interface having an index panel is presented. In the index panel, ones of a plurality of icons respectively represent ones of the set of data blocks and are arranged in layers representing the logical layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Neal E Bohling, Roity Prieto Perez, Helen M Witter
  • Patent number: 10928974
    Abstract: The methods, systems, techniques, and components described herein may facilitate user interactions with virtual objects in a three-dimensional virtual environment using user input into a graphical interface of a control device that is coupled to a display that may display the three-dimensional virtual environment. The control device may be configured to display a 3D representation of a virtual object having a non-virtual reality representation of the virtual object. The graphical interface of the control device may receive selection information that corresponds to a user selection of the 3D representation of the virtual object. Transformation parameters that provide a basis for rendering a three-dimensional representation of a virtual object in the three-dimensional virtual environment may be obtained to define a transformation of the 3D representation of the virtual object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Meta View, Inc.
    Inventor: Yishai Gribetz
  • Patent number: 10929007
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a sensor network, Machine Type Communication (MTC), Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication, and technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the above technologies, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Provided are methods, apparatuses and systems for controlling an object displayed on a device, based on a hovering input obtained by the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung-uk Ryu, Yu-sung Joo, Yo-han Kim, Eun-kyo Baek, Jong-won Lee
  • Patent number: 10915220
    Abstract: This input terminal device 1 for receiving a user operation via a position input object PS is provided with: a position detection unit 106 which detects the position of the position input object; a display unit 109a which displays a cursor; and an operation processing control unit 1024 which causes operation processing to be performed. The operation processing control unit has a plurality of operation modes and one of these modes includes a state M0 in which the operation processing control unit does not cause any operation processing to be performed, except for movement of the cursor in accordance with the position of the position input object. The operation processing control unit is configured to switch between the plurality of operation modes when the user has performed a specific operation by means of the position input object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Motoyuki Suzuki, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Nobuo Masuoka, Hiroshi Shimizu, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Mitsunobu Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10909308
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a text extraction unit that extracts selection candidate text from a text string displayed on a display screen, and a selection area placement unit that places selectable areas for the selection candidate text on the display screen in a manner that the selectable areas differ from a display area of the selection candidate text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Inventors: Maki Imoto, Shinichi Kawano, Kunihito Sawai, Tsubasa Tsukahara, Ikuo Yamano
  • Patent number: 10902222
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses methods and systems for selective translation of a language of a multi-function device, wherein the language of the multi-function device is a pre-defined language. The method includes receiving a print job from a user along with one or more job attributes, wherein at least one job attribute indicates a local language of the user. Then, the local language is identified from the at least one job attribute. One or more job specific user interfaces are identified. Based on the identified local language of the user, the identified one or more job specific user interfaces are translated in the local language of the user and stored. After this, an input from the user is received. Based on the input, at least one translated job specific user interface is displayed in the local language of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Muralidaran Krishnasamy, Narayan Kesavan, Raj Kumar