Patents by Inventor Didier Hilhorst

Didier Hilhorst 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: 10264034
    Abstract: A digital magazine server user may identify a content item presented by the digital magazine server to save or present to other digital magazine server users by interacting with a client device presenting the content item. For example, providing a gesture to the client device identifies a content item for presentation to other digital magazine server users. The gesture may begin by the user interacting with a portion of a display device that displays a portion of the content item and continue as the user interacts with the display device along a path from the portion to an additional portion. When the gesture is completed, the user may be presented with options to present the content item to additional digital magazine server users, or the content item may be presented to other digital magazine server users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Flipboard, Inc.
    Inventors: Marcos A Weskamp, Evan R. Doll, Didier Hilhorst
  • Patent number: 10091326
    Abstract: A digital magazine application executing on a client device presents content retrieved from various sources to a user by presenting content regions that are each associated with various content items. When the digital magazine application identifies a type of interaction with a content region, the content region is modified to present information about various content items associated with the content region. For example, if the digital magazine application determines that a user positions a pointer at least a threshold distance from a surface of a display device for at least a threshold length of time at a location along a length and along a width of a display device where a content region is presented, the content region is modified. For example, the content region is increased in size and information describing content items associated with the content region is presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Flipboard, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Rietveld, Jing Zhao, Didier Hilhorst
  • Patent number: 9712575
    Abstract: A digital magazine server user interacts with a client device presenting one or more content items from the digital magazine server to access various content items identified by the digital magazine server. For example, the user interacts with a portion of a display device of the client device and traverses to an additional portion of the display device to view additional content items on the display device. Based on a rate at which the user traverses from the portion to the additional portion, a content update rate is determined and used to select an indication of modification that is presented. The indication of modification provides the user with a visual indication that the content items presented by the display device are modified, and may include a subset of content items from the digital magazine server if the content update rate does not exceed a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Flipboard, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles H. Ying, Marcos A. Weskamp, Evan R. Doll, Didier Hilhorst, Michael Johnston
  • Patent number: 9377932
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enabling users to rapidly flip through displayed pages of content in an intuitive manner are provided. Graphical animations for transitioning from one page to another can be executed so that portions of three or more pages can be simultaneously viewed. This enables a user to make snap judgments as to whether she wishes to explore anyone of those pages in more detail as she rapidly flips through the pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Flipboard, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Hugo Ying, Marcos A. Weskamp, Michael S. McCue, Didier Hilhorst, Michael Johnston
  • Publication number: 20150370432
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enabling users to rapidly flip through displayed pages of content in an intuitive manner are provided. Graphical animations for transitioning from one page to another can be executed so that portions of three or more pages can be simultaneously viewed. This enables a user to make snap judgments as to whether she wishes to explore anyone of those pages in more detail as she rapidly flips through the pages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Charles Hugo Ying, Marcos A. Weskamp, Michael S. McCue, Didier Hilhorst, Michael Johnston
  • Publication number: 20150350271
    Abstract: A digital magazine server user may identify a content item presented by the digital magazine server to save or present to other digital magazine server users by interacting with a client device presenting the content item. For example, providing a gesture to the client device identifies a content item for presentation to other digital magazine server users. The gesture may begin by the user interacting with a portion of a display device that displays a portion of the content item and continue as the user interacts with the display device along a path from the portion to an additional portion. When the gesture is completed, the user may be presented with options to present the content item to additional digital magazine server users, or the content item may be presented to other digital magazine server users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Marcos A. Weskamp, Evan R. Doll, Didier Hilhorst
  • Patent number: 9165314
    Abstract: A digital magazine server user may identify a content item presented by the digital magazine server to save or present to other digital magazine server users by interacting with a client device presenting the content item. For example, providing a gesture to the client device identifies a content item for presentation to other digital magazine server users. The gesture may begin by the user interacting with a portion of a display device that displays a portion of the content item and continue as the user interacts with the display device along a path from the portion to an additional portion. When the gesture is completed, the user may be presented with options to present the content item to additional digital magazine server users, or the content item may be presented to other digital magazine server users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Flipboard, Inc.
    Inventors: Marcos A. Weskamp, Evan R. Doll, Didier Hilhorst
  • Patent number: 9134883
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enabling users to rapidly flip through displayed pages of content in an intuitive manner are provided. Graphical animations for transitioning from one page to another can be executed so that portions of three or more pages can be simultaneously viewed. This enables a user to make snap judgments as to whether she wishes to explore any one of those pages in more detail as she rapidly flips through the pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Flipboard, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Hugo Ying, Marcos A. Weskamp, Michael S. McCue, Didier Hilhorst, Michael Johnston
  • Publication number: 20150244830
    Abstract: A digital magazine application executing on a client device presents content retrieved from various sources to a user by presenting content regions that are each associated with various content items. When the digital magazine application identifies a type of interaction with a content region, the content region is modified to present information about various content items associated with the content region. For example, if the digital magazine application determines that a user positions a pointer at least a threshold distance from a surface of a display device for at least a threshold length of time at a location along a length and along a width of a display device where a content region is presented, the content region is modified. For example, the content region is increased in size and information describing content items associated with the content region is presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Mark Rietveld, Jing Zhao, Didier Hilhorst
  • Publication number: 20150169744
    Abstract: A digital magazine server creates cover pages identifying relevant content items relevant to a user. Candidate feeds of content items are identified from various sources, such as user-defined sections of content items, social networking systems, external content providers, and recommended content. The digital magazine server retrieves content items from the candidate feeds and generates clusters including retrieved content items based at least in part on the content elements contained in the content items. The content items in various clusters are scored, and one or more content items are selected from each cluster. The selected content items are placed in a consolidated feed, which is used to create a cover page describing a digital magazine for presentation to a digital magazine server user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Andrew David Walkingshaw, Boris Lev Aleksandrovsky, Xiaoyu Suzanne Fei, Evan R. Doll, Marcos Weskamp, Didier Hilhorst, Michael S. McCue, Joshua Quittner, Todd Lappin, Eugene Wei, Charles Hugo Ying, Christopher Hamamoto Partridge
  • Publication number: 20150121297
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enabling users to rapidly flip through displayed pages of content in an intuitive manner are provided. Graphical animations for transitioning from one page to another can be executed so that portions of three or more pages can be simultaneously viewed. This enables a user to make snap judgments as to whether she wishes to explore any one of those pages in more detail as she rapidly flips through the pages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Charles Hugo Ying, Marcos A. Weskamp, Michael S. McCue, Didier Hilhorst, Michael Johnston
  • Patent number: 8935629
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enabling users to rapidly flip through displayed pages of content in an intuitive manner are provided. Graphical animations for transitioning from one page to another can be executed so that portions of three or more pages can be simultaneously viewed. This enables a user to make snap judgments as to whether she wishes to explore any one of those pages in more detail as she rapidly flips through the pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Flipboard Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Ying, Marcos Weskamp, Mike McCue, Didier Hilhorst, Michael Johnston
  • Publication number: 20140075339
    Abstract: A digital magazine server user may identify a content item presented by the digital magazine server to save or present to other digital magazine server users by interacting with a client device presenting the content item. For example, providing a gesture to the client device identifies a content item for presentation to other digital magazine server users. The gesture may begin by the user interacting with a portion of a display device that displays a portion of the content item and continue as the user interacts with the display device along a path from the portion to an additional portion. When the gesture is completed, the user may be presented with options to present the content item to additional digital magazine server users, or the content item may be presented to other digital magazine server users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: Flipboard, Inc.
    Inventors: Marcos A. Weskamp, Evan R. Doll, Didier Hilhorst
  • Publication number: 20140074624
    Abstract: A digital magazine server user interacts with a client device presenting one or more content items from the digital magazine server to access various content items identified by the digital magazine server. For example, the user interacts with a portion of a display device of the client device and traverses to an additional portion of the display device to view additional content items on the display device. Based on a rate at which the user traverses from the portion to the additional portion, a content update rate is determined and used to select an indication of modification that is presented. The indication of modification provides the user with a visual indication that the content items presented by the display device are modified, and may include a subset of content items from the digital magazine server if the content update rate does not exceed a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: Flipboard, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles H. Ying, Marcos A. Weskamp, Evan R. Doll, Didier Hilhorst, Michael Johnston
  • Publication number: 20130111395
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enabling users to rapidly flip through displayed pages of content in an intuitive manner are provided. Graphical animations for transitioning from one page to another can be executed so that portions of three or more pages can be simultaneously viewed. This enables a user to make snap judgments as to whether she wishes to explore any one of those pages in more detail as she rapidly flips through the pages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: Flipboard Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Ying, Marcos Weskamp, Mike McCue, Didier Hilhorst, Michael Johnston