Patents by Inventor Alan C. Dye

Alan C. Dye has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20210335055
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to creating and editing avatars, and navigating avatar selection interfaces. In some examples, an avatar feature user interface includes a plurality of feature options that can be customized to create an avatar. In some examples, different types of avatars can be managed for use in different applications. In some examples, an interface is provided for navigating types of avatars for an application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Nicolas SCAPEL, Arian BEHZADI, Alan C. DYE, Lisa K. FORSSELL, Robert GARCIA, III, Aurelio GUZMAN, Jason RICKWALD, Marcel VAN OS, Christopher WILSON, Giancarlo YERKES
  • Patent number: 11157143
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to music user interfaces. A device, comprising a display and a rotatable input mechanism, one or more processors, memory, and one or more programs, is described. In response to receiving the first user input, the one or more programs may include instructions for ceasing display of an audio playback user interface and displaying a first user interface of a first set of user interfaces. While displaying the user interface of the first set of user interfaces, the one or more pogroms may include instructions for: receiving a second user input representing a directional swipe in a second direction and, in response to receiving the second user input, ceasing display of the first user interface of a first set of user interfaces and displaying the audio playback user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence Y. Yang, Anton M. Davydov, Alan C. Dye, Christopher Patrick Foss, David Chance Graham, Jonathan P. Ive, Stephen O. Lemay
  • Patent number: 11137904
    Abstract: While displaying a first page of a home screen user interface in a first reconfiguration mode, the computer system detects a first input that corresponds to a request to enter a second reconfiguration mode, where the availability of pages in the home screen user interface can be changed in accordance with user inputs in the second reconfiguration mode. The computer system displays respective representations of at least two of the plurality of pages of the home screen user interface in the second reconfiguration mode. While displaying the second reconfiguration mode, the computer system detects a second input. If the second input is directed to a second representation of a second page that is displayed in the second reconfiguration mode, and the second input meets first criteria, the computer system displays the second page of the home screen user interface in the first reconfiguration mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: William M. Tyler, Caelan G. Stack, Christopher P. Foss, Christian X. Dalonzo, Craig M. Federighi, Alan C. Dye
  • Patent number: 11131967
    Abstract: A device displays a clock face in response to receiving a request to display a clock face. In accordance with a determination that a respective graphical element is to be displayed at a respective location on the clock face, the clock face includes a plurality of analog-dial graphical elements corresponding to respective units of time, where the plurality of analog-dial graphical elements includes a first analog-dial graphical element that occupies a first position and has a first size. In accordance with a determination that the respective graphical element is not to be displayed at a respective location on the clock face, the clock face includes the plurality of analog-dial graphical elements corresponding to the respective units of time, and the first analog-dial graphical element of the plurality of analog-dial graphical elements occupies a second position and/or has a second size. In some embodiments, clock faces are reordered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Aurelio Guzman, Kevin Will Chen, Wan Si Wan, Christopher Wilson, John George Slagle, Jr., Alan C. Dye
  • Publication number: 20210294487
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices can allow applications to provide complication data to be displayed in display of an electronic device. A client application can create a data object according to a template to efficiently select how the data object is to be displayed. For example, a complication controller on the electronic device can receive new data and determine which template to use. The data object can be sent to a display manager that can identify the selected template and display the data according to the template.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Eliza C. Block, David A. Schimon, Eric Lance Wilson, Joshua H. Shaffer, Paul W. Salzman, Christopher C. Jensen, Timothy C. Lee, Daniel B. Pollack, Alexander Ledwith, Kevin Will Chen, Lawrence Y. Yang, Alan C. Dye
  • Publication number: 20210294438
    Abstract: Reduced-size user interfaces for providing weather information are disclosed. At an electronic device with a touch-sensitive display, indications of a location and a temperature at the location may be displayed. In some examples, a user may provide input through a touch on the touch-sensitive display and/or through a rotation of a rotatable input mechanism to display additional weather information, such as weather information for another location, another temperature, another time, and so forth. In some examples, the device may obtain data representing an upcoming activity, determine whether the activity is to begin within a threshold amount of time, and display weather information based on the upcoming activity. In some examples, the device may display an affordance at a position to indicate the time of day for which a weather condition is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Lawrence Y. YANG, Wan Si WAN, Alan C. DYE, Christopher Patrick FOSS, Kevin LYNCH, Brian SCHMITT, Christopher WILSON
  • Publication number: 20210286509
    Abstract: A computer system displays a first home screen user interface that includes a first subset of application icons. While displaying the first home screen user interface, in response to detecting a first input that meets second criteria and corresponds to a request to navigate to a second home screen user interface, replacing the first home screen user interface with the second home screen user interface. While displaying the second home screen user interface, in response to detecting second input that meets third criteria: replacing the second home screen user interface with a respective user interface that includes representations of a plurality of automatically-generated groupings of a plurality of applications. Activation of a respective representation of a respective automatically-generated grouping of the plurality of automatically-generated groupings in accordance with the first criteria causes display of a third subset of application icons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: William M. Tyler, Caelan G. Stack, Christopher P. Foss, Christian X. Dalonzo, Craig M. Federighi, Alan C. Dye
  • Publication number: 20210286510
    Abstract: While displaying a first page of a home screen user interface in a first reconfiguration mode, the computer system detects a first input that corresponds to a request to enter a second reconfiguration mode, where the availability of pages in the home screen user interface can be changed in accordance with user inputs in the second reconfiguration mode. The computer system displays respective representations of at least two of the plurality of pages of the home screen user interface in the second reconfiguration mode. While displaying the second reconfiguration mode, the computer system detects a second input. If the second input is directed to a second representation of a second page that is displayed in the second reconfiguration mode, and the second input meets first criteria, the computer system displays the second page of the home screen user interface in the first reconfiguration mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: William M. Tyler, Caelan G. Stack, Christopher P. Foss, Christian X. Dalonzo, Craig M. Federighi, Alan C. Dye
  • Publication number: 20210286488
    Abstract: A computer system displays a respective page of a home screen user interface, where the respective page includes a first plurality of application icons in a first predefined arrangement. The computer system detects a sequence of one or more inputs corresponding to a request to insert, into the respective page, a first user interface object containing a plurality of application icons that are automatically selected by the computer system. In response to detecting the sequence of one or more inputs, the computer system concurrently displays on the respective page: two or more of the first plurality of application icons in the first predefined arrangement, and a second plurality of application icons that are automatically placed on the respective page in locations that are aligned with the first predefined arrangement of the first plurality of application icons on the respective page of the home screen user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: William M. Tyler, Caelan G. Stack, Christopher P. Foss, Craig M. Federighi, Alan C. Dye
  • Publication number: 20210286502
    Abstract: A computing system displays, via a first display generation component, a first computer-generated environment and concurrently displays, via a second display generation component: a visual representation of a portion of a user of the computing system who is in a position to view the first computer-generated environment via the first display generation component, and one or more graphical elements that provide a visual indication of content in the first computer-generated environment. The computing system changes the visual representation of the portion of the user to represent changes in an appearance of the user over a respective period of time and changes the one or more graphical elements to represent changes in the first computer-generated environment over the respective period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Stephen O. Lemay, Jonathan Ive, William A. Sorrentino, III, Alfred B. Huergo Wagner, Felipe Bacim De Araujo E Silva, Alan C. Dye, Gregg S. Suzuki, Peter D. Anton, Richard D. Lyons, Wan Si Wan, Pavel Pivonka, Seung Wook Kim
  • Patent number: D930661
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Broughton, Alan C. Dye, Jonathan P. Ive, Behkish Johnnie Manzari, Pani Page, Grant R. Paul, William A. Sorrentino, III, Andre Souza Dos Santos, Christopher Wilson
  • Patent number: D930672
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alan C. Dye, Christopher Foss, Jonathan P. Ive, Britt Nelson, Christopher Daryl Soli, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Patent number: D930692
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Guillaume P. Barlier, Arian Behzadi, Alan C. Dye, Lisa K. Forssell, Robert Garcia, III, Aurelio Guzmán, Nicolas V. Scapel, Marcel van Os, Christopher I. Wilson, Giancarlo Yerkes
  • Patent number: D930693
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel Howard Bebbington, Lee Broughton, Gary Butcher, Alan C. Dye, Jonathan P. Ive, Pedro Mari, Pani Page, Aled Williams, Christopher Wilson
  • Patent number: D930694
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alan C. Dye, David C. Graham, Wan Si Wan
  • Patent number: D932516
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Patrick Lee Coffman, Alan C. Dye, Stephen O. Lemay, Raymond Sepulveda
  • Patent number: D933672
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ian V. Bambao, Alan C. Dye, Patrick Lee Coffman, Aram D. Kudurshian, Raymond Sepulveda, Christopher Wilson, Chun Kin Minor Wong
  • Patent number: D934903
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alan C. Dye, Aurelio Guzmán, Jonathan P. Ive, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Patent number: D934904
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Alan C. Dye, Christopher I. Wilson
  • Patent number: D934905
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Freddy Anzures, Gary Butcher, Joseph Chan, Imran Chaudhri, Alan C. Dye, Jonathan P. Ive, Giancarlo Yerkes