Patents by Inventor Chanaka G. Karunamuni

Chanaka G. Karunamuni 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).

  • Patent number: 11537281
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to user interfaces for manipulating user interface objects. A device, including a display and a rotatable input mechanism, is described in relation to manipulating user interface objects. In some examples, the manipulation of the object is a scroll, zoom, or rotate of the object. In other examples, objects are selected in accordance with simulated magnetic properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Zambetti, Imran Chaudhri, Jonathan R. Dascola, Alan C. Dye, Christopher Patrick Foss, Aurelio Guzman, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Duncan Robert Kerr, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson, Lawrence Y. Yang, Gary Ian Butcher, Nathan De Vries, Jonathan P. Ive
  • Patent number: 11526270
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and processes for limiting notifications on an electronic device. In one example process, data representing a user input can be received by an electronic device. The data representing the user input can include touch data from the touch-sensitive device, ambient light data from an ambient light sensor, intensity data from a contact intensity sensor, and/or motion data from one or more motion sensors. Based on the data, it can be determined whether the user input is a cover gesture over a touch-sensitive display of the electronic device. In response to determining that the user input is a cover gesture over the touch-sensitive display, the electronic device can be put into a DND mode for a predetermined amount of time. While in the DND mode, the electronic device can cease to output some or all notifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Gary Ian Butcher, Imran Chaudhri, Duncan Robert Kerr, Kevin Lynch, Curtis A. Rothert, Monica Jenkins
  • Publication number: 20220393997
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device displays a plurality of content items in a messaging conversation. In some embodiments, the electronic device displays user interfaces associated with one or more content items in a messaging conversation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Zheng Xuan HONG, Chia Yang Lin, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Nicole R. Ryan, Graham R. Clarke
  • Publication number: 20220394003
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device displays a plurality of content items in a messaging conversation. In some embodiments, the electronic device displays user interfaces associated with one or more content items in a messaging conversation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Zheng Xuan HONG, Chia Yang Lin, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Nicole R. Ryan, Graham R. Clarke
  • Patent number: 11513677
    Abstract: An electronic device displays a messaging interface. The messaging user interface includes a search affordance and a conversation between a user of the device and another user. While displaying the messaging interface, the device detects activation of the search affordance. In response, the device ceases displaying the messaging interface and displays a search interface. The search user interface includes a search field and categorized content items. The categorized content items include a content item stored on the device and a content item from the Internet. While displaying the search interface, the device detects selection of a first item in the categorized content items; and, afterwards, displays the first item in the conversation. The device transmits the first item to the device that corresponds to the other user in the messaging session. The other user's device displays the item in a conversation that corresponds to the messaging session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 29, 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, Roberto Garcia, Soin Shedlosky, James A. de Guerre, Bethany Bongiorno
  • Patent number: 11513675
    Abstract: User interface navigation on a personal electronics device based on movements of a crown is disclosed. The device can select an appropriate level of information arranged along a z-axis for display based on crown movement. The navigation can be based on an angular velocity of the crown.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Zambetti, Imran Chaudhri, Jonathan R. Dascola, Alan C. Dye, Christopher Patrick Foss, Aurelio Guzman, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Duncan Robert Kerr, Stephen O. Lemay, Natalia Maric, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson, Lawrence Y. Yang, Gary Ian Butcher, Anton M. Davydov, Dylan Ross Edwards, Jonathan P. Ive, Zachery Kennedy, Nicholas V. King, Daniel Trent Preston
  • Patent number: 11494072
    Abstract: An electronic device with a touch-sensitive surface and display can execute a messaging application. In the messaging application, swipe options can be displayed for messages and threads. Swipe options correspond to actions that can be taken on the messages or threads. Messages and threads can be associated with notification rules as well as be ignored. Composition interfaces and messages can be displayed simultaneously in the messaging application. The messaging application can display a conversation view of a message thread with a common header that can include subject information and names of participants in the threads. The messaging application allows for adding and removing participants to the conversation view. The messaging application allows for grouping search results from a search of messages using a search term. The grouping can be based on the location of the search term within the messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence Y. Yang, Stephen O. Lemay, Tiffany S. Jon, Mohammed N. Jisrawi, Cristobal Baray, Chanaka G. Karunamuni
  • Patent number: 11422691
    Abstract: In response to detecting a movement input directed to an application switcher user interface including application representations: the device, in accordance with the movement input meeting deletion criteria corresponding to a respective application representation, moves the respective application representation while maintaining the respective size of the respective application representation during its movement, and removes the respective application representation from the application switcher user interface; and the electronic device, in accordance with the movement input meeting home display criteria, changes the respective sizes of application representations, ceases to display the application switching user interface, and displays an application launching user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Brandon M. Walkin, Shubham Kedia
  • Publication number: 20220253189
    Abstract: While concurrently displaying representations of a plurality of recently used applications, including a first application representation that corresponds to a first application and a second application representation that corresponds to a second application, at least a first portion of a first user input, including first movement of an input object, is detected. If the first movement of the input object includes movement in a first direction that meets first criteria, the representations of the plurality of recently used applications cease to be displayed and an application launching user interface is displayed. If the first movement of the input object includes movement in a second direction that meets second criteria, the representations of the plurality of recently used applications cease to be displayed and a first user interface of the first application is displayed in an enhanced-reachability mode and shifted in a predefined direction at least partially off of the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Brandon M. Walkin, Shubham Kedia
  • Patent number: 11409414
    Abstract: A device with a display and, optionally, a touch-sensitive surface detects a first input corresponding to a request to share first content from a first application while displaying the first application on the display. In response to detecting the first input, the device displays a sharing interface that includes a plurality of options for sharing the first content. While displaying the sharing interface, the device detects selection of an affordance in the sharing interface. In accordance with a determination that the affordance is a respective user-first sharing option for a respective user, the device initiates a process for sharing the first content with the respective user. In accordance with a determination that the affordance is a protocol-first sharing option for a respective protocol, the device initiates a process for sharing the first content using the respective protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jeremiah D. Shaw, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Stephen O. Lemay, Martin O. Pedrick, Marcel van Os, Imran Chaudhri
  • Patent number: 11385860
    Abstract: Systems and methods for displaying an icon representation of a webpage are provided. In one exemplary method, while displaying a web browser, an electronic device receives a request to display an icon representation of a webpage. In response to receiving the request, the device determines whether the webpage provides access to an image that meets predefined quality standards. In accordance with a determination that the webpage provides access to an image that meets predefined quality standards, the device displays the high-quality image as an icon associated with the webpage at a respective location in the web browser. In accordance with a determination that the webpage does not provide access to an image that meets the predefined quality standards, the device identifies other content associated with the webpage, generates a generated icon based on the content, and displays the generated icon at a respective location in the web browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Decker, Ada Chan, Steven Falkenburg, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Richard Mondello, Patrick L. Coffman
  • Publication number: 20220187985
    Abstract: An electronic device, while displaying a first user interface that includes a plurality of activatable user interface objects, detects an input by a contact on the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to a first activatable user interface object, which is associated with a first control function having a first value as a current value of the control function. In response to an input that meets toggle criteria, the device toggles the first control function between a first state based on the first value for the control function and a second state. In response to an input that meets control adjustment criteria, the device replaces the first user interface with a second user interface for selecting among a set of available values for the control function. In response to movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface, a current value for the control function is changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Jonathan R. Dascola, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Daamun Mohseni, Christopher D. Soli
  • Patent number: 11360644
    Abstract: In response to a substantially stationary input directed to a user interface object on a first user interface: if the input does not meet an input threshold, the device, after detecting an end of the input, replaces display of the first user interface with a second user interface corresponding to the user interface object; if the input meets the input threshold and does not meet a greater, second input threshold, the device displays, after detecting the end of the input, a first respective user interface region that includes information corresponding to the user interface object overlaying a portion of the first user interface; and if the input meets the greater, second input threshold, the device displays, prior to detecting the end of the input, the first respective user interface region that includes information corresponding to the user interface object overlaying a portion of the first user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Michael T. Turner, Mohammed N. Jisrawi
  • Publication number: 20220179553
    Abstract: An electronic device, in response to receiving a first message from an electronic device that corresponds to another user, displays the first message in a first message region in a conversation transcript. In response to a first input by a contact at a location of the first message in the conversation transcript, the device displays plurality of acknowledgement options in an acknowledgement selection affordance at a location that corresponds to the first message region. In response to a second input by a second contact at a location of a first acknowledgement option in the acknowledgement selection affordance, the device applies the first acknowledgement option to the first message and transmits information that causes the electronic device that correspond to the other user to apply the first acknowledgement option to a corresponding first message in a conversation transcript that corresponds to the messaging session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Imran A. Chaudhri, Freddy A. Anzures, Richard R. Dellinger, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Nicholas V. King, Daamun Mohseni, Hoan Pham, Wan Si Wan, Giancarlo Yerkes, Darin B. Adler, Bethany Bongiorno, Justin N. Wood, Roberto Garcia, Soin Shedlosky
  • Publication number: 20220182480
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for delivery/read receipts for electronic messaging are disclosed. During one-on-one electronic messaging sessions in a conversation view format, only a single read receipt is shown only for the most recent message transmitted in the conversation. In some implementations, a delivery receipt is shown which then can be replaced or morphed into a read receipt. In a group conversation, a read receipt can be displayed for the recipient who most recently caught up in the ongoing conversation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Chanaka G. KARUNAMUNI, Richard R. DELLINGER
  • Publication number: 20220155951
    Abstract: An electronic device, while displaying a user interface with a favored navigation axis, detects first movement of a contact on a touch-sensitive surface that includes a first component along the favored navigation axis and a second component in a direction different from the favored navigation axis. In response, if first movement meets direction-lock termination criteria, the device moves one or more user interface objects in two dimensions in accordance with both components of the first movement; and if first movement does not meet the direction-lock termination criteria, the device moves user interface objects in one dimension along the favored navigation axis in accordance with the first component of the first movement. After meeting the direction-lock termination criteria, in response to continued second movement of the contact, the device moves user interface objects in accordance with the second movement without regard to whether the second movement meets the direction-lock termination criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Nicholas Zambetti, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Imran Chaudhri, Christopher P. Foss, Eugene M. Bistolas, Kyle S. Macomber, Keith W. Rauenbuehler, Lee S. Broughton, Arnold Freidling
  • Patent number: 11334238
    Abstract: An electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface displays a user interface with a plurality of content units, where the content units are arranged along a first axis in the user interface, and a respective content unit is associated with corresponding metadata. The device detects a contact on the touch-sensitive surface and a first movement of the contact. In response to detecting the first movement of the contact, the device moves a first set of one or more of the content units perpendicular to the first axis in the user interface in accordance with the first movement, and for one or more respective content units in the first set of content units, the device displays metadata for the respective content unit adjacent to the respective content unit that was not displayed immediately prior to detecting the first movement of the contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Nicholas Zambetti, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Imran Chaudhri, Christopher P. Foss, Eugene M. Bistolas, Kyle S. Macomber, Keith W. Rauenbuehler, Lee S. Broughton, Arnold Freidling
  • Publication number: 20220150195
    Abstract: An electronic device displays a messaging user interface of a message application, including a conversation transcript of a messaging session between a user of the electronic device and at least one other user, a message-input area, the conversation transcript including a plurality of messages and a plurality of message regions, each message region containing a respective message of the plurality of messages. In response to a first input corresponding to a first respective message in the conversation transcript, displaying an indication that the first respective message has been selected. In response to one or more second inputs, including message composition inputs, displaying in a second message region in the conversation transcript a second message corresponding to the message composition inputs, and displaying a grouping indicia that connects the first respective message region with the second message region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Imran A. Chaudhri, Freddy A. Anzures, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Nicholas V. King, Wan Si Wan, Bethany Bongiorno, Justin N. Wood, Roberto Garcia
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20220129121
    Abstract: An electronic device has multiple audio output elements at distinct locations along a periphery of the electronic device. In response to detecting an input directed to a user interface object: if the first input meets predefined criteria and the user interface object is located closer to a first audio output element than to a second audio output element, the device generates a first audio output that corresponds to the first input, wherein the first audio output has a greater amplitude at the first audio output element than at the second audio output element. If the user interface object is located closer to the second audio output element than to the first audio output element, the device generates a second audio output that corresponds to the first input, wherein the second audio output has a greater amplitude at the second audio output element than at the first audio output element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventor: Chanaka G. Karunamuni