Patents by Inventor David James Woodward

David James Woodward 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: 20210240319
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to measuring presentation aspects of portions of a user interface (UI) that have been identified to be presented neutrally and automatically generating a new UI that reduces differences in the presentation aspects of the identified portions. Portions of the UI identified to be presented neutrally may include elements or content in the UI identified to be presented neutrally. Portions for neutral presentation may include portions of UI that, for example, portions that present legal decisions, portions with survey data, forms or information displays, or portions where a user is requested to make a choice between alternative options. Presentation aspects that may be measured include, for example, visual aspects, clarity aspects, or tonal aspects. Reducing the differences in the presentation aspects may present the elements or content with more neutrality to reduce influence in decisions due to visual, clarity, or tonal aspects between the elements or content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Owen Winne Schoppe, Sönke Rohde, Brian J. Lonsdorf, Jessica Lundin, David James Woodward, Alan Martin Ross
  • Publication number: 20210240452
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for automatically generating stencils for content of a user interface (UI) to be rendered. A computer system receives information specifying content of a user interface (UI) to be rendered. Based on this information, the computer system identifies one or more bounding regions of content within the UI, including analyzing metadata and a rendered version of the UI. The computer system then automatically generates, one or more UI stencils based on the identified bounding regions, that are displayable as progress indicators prior to rendering corresponding UI content. Once it has generated the stencils, the computer system stores information specifying the one or more UI stencils for use in the UI. Automatically generating stencils for UIs may advantageously reduce the time gap from development to deployment of these UIs while improving their perceived performance and, by extension, improving user experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Owen Winne Schoppe, Brian J. Lonsdorf, Alan Martin Ross, Sönke Rohde, David James Woodward, Jessica Lundin
  • Publication number: 20210240320
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for generating custom user interfaces (UIs) for completing a task. One embodiment operates by obtaining contextual information associated with a user and an application on a user device operated by the user, where the application includes a plurality of UI elements. Then, determining the user is attempting to complete a first task within the application based on the contextual information and a prediction model. The embodiment further operates by obtaining a minimum set of UI elements required for the first task. Further, the embodiment operates by transmitting a first custom UI including the minimum set of UI elements for the first task to the user device for display to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: David James WOODWARD, Brian J. LONSDORF, Owen Winne SCHOPPE, Alan Martin ROSS, Jessica LUNDIN, Sönke ROHDE
  • Publication number: 20210240451
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to determining a similarity of components of a current user interface (UI) to new UI components for use in automatically generating a new UI. A computer system may receive information specifying a current UI including a particular current UI component and information specifying a plurality of new UI components for a new UI. The computer system may then identify characteristics of the particular current UI component. Based on these identified characteristics, the computer system may score ones of the plurality of new UI components, where the scoring is performed to determine a similarity to the particular current UI component. The computer system may then select, based on the scores, a particular new UI component from the plurality of new UI components for use, in the new UI, for the particular current UI component. Such techniques may advantageously improve user experience by automatically providing up-to-date user interfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Owen Winne Schoppe, Brian J. Lonsdorf, Alan Martin Ross, Sönke Rohde, David James Woodward, Jessica Lundin
  • Publication number: 20210240910
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to determining locations of child elements in a user interface (UI), automatically updating the locations of the child elements in the UI, and generating an updated UI with the updated locations. A computer system may receive information specifying content of the UI and render an image of the UI based on the received information. Computer vision algorithms may be applied to the rendered of the UI to determine locations of elements in the UI. The locations of the elements may be updated to position the elements in selected locations relative to each other. The updated locations of the elements as determined by the computer vision algorithms may be implemented to generate updating information specifying content for the updated UI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Jessica Lundin, David James Woodward, Alan Martin Ross, Brian J. Lonsdorf, Owen Winne Schoppe, Sönke Rohde
  • Publication number: 20210240501
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for determining the minimum set of user interface (UI) elements for a task. One embodiment operates by transmitting UI elements associated with an application to a first computing device operated by a first user and a second computing device operated by a second user. Further, the embodiment includes obtaining data structures corresponding to a first task and a second task and then grouping, using a machine learning model, the data structures into a first cluster corresponding to the first task and a second cluster corresponding to the second task. Further still, the embodiment also includes determining a minimum set of UI elements required for the first task based on the first cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: David James WOODWARD, Brian J. LONSDORF, Owen Winne SCHOPPE, Alan Martin ROSS, Jessica LUNDIN, Sönke ROHDE
  • Publication number: 20210149961
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for determining a user-preferred attribute type. An embodiment operates by maintaining user-presented attributes associated with user-presented records, wherein the user-presented attributes comprise one or more user-presented attribute types. After receiving a user-desired attribute of the user-presented attributes, a user-preferred attribute type of the user-presented attribute types is determined based on the user-presented attributes and the user-desired attribute. Thereafter, a new record and associated attribute are to be presented with the new attribute being of the user-preferred type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Brian J. Lonsdorf, Jessica Lundin, Owen Winne Schoppe, Sönke Rohde, Alan Ross, David James Woodward
  • Patent number: D884027
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Jason Day, Stephen Goforth, Zachary McNulty, David James Woodward
  • Patent number: D913319
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Jason Day, Stephen Goforth, Zachary McNulty, David James Woodward
  • Patent number: D924907
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Jason Day, Stephen Goforth, Zachary McNulty, David James Woodward