Patents by Inventor Edward Cunningham

Edward Cunningham 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: 12499223
    Abstract: A method includes detecting a user interaction with a particular region of a graphical user interface (GUI), and determining that the user interaction will be consumed by a particular user interface (UI) component that is overlaid by a plurality of UI components configured to allow the user interaction to pass through to the particular UI component. The method also includes, based on determining that the user interaction will be consumed by the particular UI component, determining a cumulative opacity of the plurality of UI components at the particular region of the GUI. The method further includes determining that the cumulative opacity exceeds a threshold opacity and, based on determining that the cumulative opacity exceeds the threshold opacity, blocking the particular UI component from consuming the user interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Bernardo Rufino, Linus Tufvesson, Edward Cunningham, Alan Michael Stokes
  • Publication number: 20240086529
    Abstract: A method includes detecting a user interaction with a particular region of a graphical user interface (GUI), and determining that the user interaction will be consumed by a particular user interface (UI) component that is overlaid by a plurality of UI components configured to allow the user interaction to pass through to the particular UI component. The method also includes, based on determining that the user interaction will be consumed by the particular UI component, determining a cumulative opacity of the plurality of UI components at the particular region of the GUI. The method further includes determining that the cumulative opacity exceeds a threshold opacity and, based on determining that the cumulative opacity exceeds the threshold opacity, blocking the particular UI component from consuming the user interaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Bernardo Rufino, Linus Tufvesson, Edward Cunningham, Alan Michael Stokes
  • Patent number: 10620801
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and interfaces for generating information cards for a video and rendering the information cards during playback of the video are provided. In an embodiment, a client device can an interface component configured to generate a graphical user interface comprising media player configured to play a video streamed to the device from a streaming media provider. The interface further comprises an information icon positioned within the media player and overlaying the video during playing of the video, the information icon indicating association of one or more information cards comprising additional information associated with the video, wherein, the interface component is configured to generate the one or more information cards and include the one or more information cards in the graphical user interface in response to user input indicating selection of the information icon. A presentation component further displays the graphical user interface via a display of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Avi Fein, Vipul Vinod Thakur, Molly Castle Nix, Dhruv Bakshi, Edward Cunningham, Shmuel Salem, Jakob Foerster, Anthony William Ruscoe, Jacob Paul Richard Robinson, Werner Beroux
  • Patent number: 9630726
    Abstract: A self transportable aerostat system comprising: a first motorized mooring truck; a mooring tower removable attached to a base assembly of the first mooring truck, generally vertically arranged in relation to the bed of the first mooring truck; a proximal and distal boom deck removably attached to the base assembly; a flying sheave for redirecting a tether carried by the base assembly and attachable to an aerostat; a second motorized mooring truck attachable to the outer edge of the distal boom; and, an aerostat truck having an electrical connection for connecting to the first mooring truck and having an aerostat storage compartment for storing the aerostat is a retracted configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: TCOM, L.P.
    Inventors: Edward Cunningham, Han Dinh Phan
  • Publication number: 20160297546
    Abstract: A self transportable aerostat system comprising: a first motorized mooring truck; a mooring tower removable attached to a base assembly of the first mooring truck, generally vertically arranged in relation to the bed of the first mooring truck; a proximal and distal boom deck removably attached to the base assembly; a flying sheave for redirecting a tether carried by the base assembly and attachable to an aerostat; a second motorized mooring truck attachable to the outer edge of the distal boom; and, an aerostat truck having an electrical connection for connecting to the first mooring truck and having an aerostat storage compartment for storing the aerostat is a retracted configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Applicant: TCOM, L.P.
    Inventors: Edward Cunningham, Han Dinh Phan
  • Patent number: 9399506
    Abstract: A self transportable aerostat system comprising: a first motorized mooring truck; a mooring tower removably attached to a base assembly of the first mooring truck, generally vertically arranged in relation to the bed of the first mooring truck; a proximal and distal boom deck removably attached to the base assembly; a flying sheave for redirecting a tether carried by the base assembly and attachable to an aerostat; a second motorized mooring truck attachable to the outer edge of the distal boom; and, an aerostat truck having an electrical connection for connecting to the first mooring truck and having an aerostat storage compartment for storing the aerostat is a retracted configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: TCOM, LP
    Inventors: Edward Cunningham, Han Dinh Phan