Patents by Inventor Alan Ni

Alan Ni 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).

  • ACCESSING APPLICATION FEATURES FROM WITHIN A GRAPHICAL KEYBOARD
    Publication number: 20200142718
    Abstract: A keyboard application executing at a computing device is described that outputs, for display, a graphical keyboard that includes an embedded-application strip. The embedded-application strip includes one or more graphical elements, with each graphical element corresponding to a particular embedded-application from a plurality of embedded-applications that are each executable by the keyboard application. The keyboard application receives user input that selects the embedded-application strip, determines a particular embedded-application based on the user input, and launches the particular embedded-application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Dewey Burks, Alan Ni, Christian Paul Charsagua
  • Display screen with an animated graphical user interface
    Patent number: D859453
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Tim Wantland, Alan Ni, Peter Ciccotto, Christian Charsagua, John Weber, Lirong Yuan
  • Display screen with an animated graphical user interface
    Patent number: D917535
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Tim Wantland, Alan Ni, Peter Ciccotto, Christian Paul Charsagua, John Weber, Lirong Yuan