Patents by Inventor Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill

Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill 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: 10304163
    Abstract: An electronic device with a display showing a user interface (UI) in different orientations relative to the display. In landscape orientation the user interface includes a dock region displayed along the right or left edge of the user interface. Application icons or other UI objects that are arranged in a row on the dock region in portrait orientation are arranged in a column on the dock region in the landscape orientation. UI objects and folders from other pages move from underneath the dock region onto the user interface. Furthermore, notification and control windows are overlay on top of portions of the dock region in landscape orientation of the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill, Freddy A. Anzures, Marcos Alonso Ruiz
  • Publication number: 20180348962
    Abstract: An electronic device displays a user interface that includes a plurality of affordances including a first affordance. The first affordance is selectable to perform a respective operation. The first affordance is displayed at a first size. The device receives a user input at a location corresponding to the first affordance. In response to receiving the user input and in accordance with a determination that a text display setting has a first value, the device displays an overlay that includes an enlarged representation of the first affordance. The enlarged representation of the first affordance has a second size that is bigger than the first size. In response to receiving the user input and in accordance with a determination that the text display setting has a second value that is different from the first value, the device forgoes display of the enlarged representation of the first affordance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill, Conor Hughes, Lauren Trottier, Clare Kasemset, Christopher B. Fleizach
  • Publication number: 20180309875
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for management of voicemail messages, performed at a portable electronic device with a touch screen display, includes: displaying a list of voicemail messages; detecting selection by a user of a respective voicemail message in the list; responding to the user selection of the respective voicemail message by initiating playback of the user-selected voicemail message; displaying a progress bar for the user-selected voicemail message, wherein the progress bar indicates the portion of the user-selected voicemail message that has been played; detecting movement of a finger of the user from a first position on the progress bar to a second position on the progress bar; and responding to the detection of the finger movement by restarting playback of the user-selected voicemail message at a position within the user-selected voicemail message corresponding substantially to the second position on the progress bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Freddy Allen ANZURES, Gregory N. CHRISTIE, Scott FORSTALL, Gregory NOVICK, Stephen P. JOBS, Imran CHAUDHRI, Stephen O. LEMAY, Patrick L. COFFMAN, Elizabeth Caroline CRANFILL
  • Publication number: 20180308485
    Abstract: Systems and processes for operating a digital assistant are provided. In one example, a method includes receiving a first speech input from a user. The method further includes identifying context information and determining a user intent based on the first speech input and the context information. The method further includes determining whether the user intent is to perform a task using a searching process or an object managing process. The searching process is configured to search data, and the object managing process is configured to manage objects. The method further includes, in accordance with a determination the user intent is to perform the task using the searching process, performing the task using the searching process; and in accordance with the determination that the user intent is to perform the task using the object managing process, performing the task using the object managing process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Aram D. KUDURSHIAN, Bronwyn JONES, Elizabeth Caroline CRANFILL, Harry J. SADDLER
  • Publication number: 20180091732
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to creating and editing user avatars. In some examples, guidance is provided to a user while capturing image data for use in generating a user-specific avatar. In some examples, a user interface allows a user to intuitively customize a user avatar. In some examples, avatars are generated for a messaging session based on an avatar model for a user of the messaging application. In some examples, an avatar editing interface updates a user avatar in response to gestures and based on the type of gesture and the avatar feature that is selected for editing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Christopher WILSON, Guillaume BARLIER, Sebastian BAUER, Elizabeth Caroline CRANFILL, Aurelio GUZMAN, Tiffany S. JON, Behkish J. MANZARI, Nicole R. RYAN, Nicolas SCAPEL, Marco TRIVERIO, Marcel VAN OS, Giancarlo YERKES
  • Patent number: D769273
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Freddy Anzures, Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill, Alessandro Francesco Sabatelli
  • Patent number: D771129
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill
  • Patent number: D771638
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill, Mikio Inose, Stephen O. Lemay
  • Patent number: D771646
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Imran Chaudhri, Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill, Tiffany Jon, Christopher Daryl Soli
  • Patent number: D771656
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill, Stephen O. Lemay
  • Patent number: D775159
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Imran Chaudhri, Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Patent number: D781899
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill, Jonathan Dascola, Wan Si Wan
  • Patent number: D796537
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Imran Chaudhri, Greg Christie, Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill, Stephen O. Lemay, Bas Ording, Marcel van Os
  • Patent number: D804502
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mani Amini, Samuel Howard Bebbington, Gary Butcher, Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill, Alan C. Dye, Stephen O. Lemay, Daamun Mohseni, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Patent number: D813267
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Freddy Anzures, Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill, Chanaka Karunamuni
  • Patent number: D816100
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Imran Chaudhri, Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Patent number: D823299
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Daniel J. Coster, Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Richard P. Howarth, Mikio Inose, Jonathan P. Ive, Steven P. Jobs, Duncan Robert Kerr, Stephen O. Lemay, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D831040
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mani Amini, Samuel Howard Bebbington, Gary Butcher, Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill, Alan C. Dye, Stephen O. Lemay, Daamun Mohseni, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Patent number: D835661
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Imran Chaudhri, Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill, Tiffany Jon, Christopher Daryl Soli
  • Patent number: D850482
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mani Amini, Samuel Howard Bebbington, Gary Butcher, Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill, Alan C. Dye, Stephen O. Lemay, Daamun Mohseni, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson