Patents by Inventor Eric L. WILSON

Eric L. WILSON 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: 20250373578
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to selectively displaying a summary for a message, displaying a summary for related messages, and displaying a message summary affordance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2025
    Publication date: December 4, 2025
    Inventors: Marcel VAN OS, Bryn BOWMAN, Grant R. PAUL, Eric L. WILSON
  • Publication number: 20250350569
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to visual effects for messages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2024
    Publication date: November 13, 2025
    Inventors: Grant R. PAUL, Loic A. SANDER, Eric L. WILSON, Giancarlo YERKES
  • Publication number: 20250317412
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to selectively displaying a summary for a message, displaying a summary for related messages, and displaying a message summary affordance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2025
    Publication date: October 9, 2025
    Inventors: Marcel VAN OS, Bryn BOWMAN, Grant R. PAUL, Eric L. WILSON, Marcos A. WESKAMP
  • Patent number: 12438840
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to selectively displaying a summary for a message, displaying a summary for related messages, and displaying a message summary affordance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2025
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marcel Van Os, Bryn Bowman, Grant R. Paul, Eric L. Wilson, Marcos A. Weskamp
  • Patent number: 12182319
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide a software-based privacy indicator for a camera and microphone that focuses not purely on hardware status (e.g., on or off), but on whether potentially private data is flowing to the system or an application. If based purely on hardware status, the indicator for an electronic device may be shown in scenarios where no data actually flows to the system or applications. The privacy indicator will be enabled if any camera or microphone data is relayed to the operating system or an application that is executed via the operating system. When the device uses the microphone and camera to capture environmental metadata about the surroundings of the device without providing any audio samples, images, or video frames to the system or an application, the privacy indicator will not be enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Deepak Iyer, Jessica Aranda, Cindy M. Barrett, Patrick Coffman, Julien Freudiger, Alexander S. Haas, Nahir A. Khan, Behkish J. Manzari, Kevin M. Miller, Brian Pietsch, Stephen J. Rhee, Stefan Stuerke, Eric L. Wilson
  • Patent number: 12135863
    Abstract: Systems and processes for providing and updating user interfaces for search functions are provided. An example process includes, at a computer system including a touch sensitive display and one or more input devices: receiving, via the one or more input devices, a request to display a user interface; in response to receiving the request to display the user interface, displaying, via the touch sensitive display, the user interface including an affordance including an indication of a number of pages of the user interface; and while displaying the user interface: detecting an occurrence of a predetermined condition; and in response to detecting the occurrence of the predetermined conditions, updating the affordance to include an indication of a search function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Cameron Burgess, Ramon Gilabert Llop, James N. Jones, Jamie L. Myrold, Alan C. Dye, Eric L. Wilson
  • Publication number: 20230367458
    Abstract: Systems and processes for providing and updating user interfaces for search functions are provided. An example process includes, at a computer system including a touch sensitive display and one or more input devices: receiving, via the one or more input devices, a request to display a user interface; in response to receiving the request to display the user interface, displaying, via the touch sensitive display, the user interface including an affordance including an indication of a number of pages of the user interface; and while displaying the user interface: detecting an occurrence of a predetermined condition; and in response to detecting the occurrence of the predetermined conditions, updating the affordance to include an indication of a search function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Cameron BURGESS, Ramon GILABERT LLOP, James N. JONES, Jamie L. MYROLD, Alan C. DYE, Eric L. WILSON
  • Publication number: 20210397751
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide a software-based privacy indicator for a camera and microphone that focuses not purely on hardware status (e.g., on or off), but on whether potentially private data is flowing to the system or an application. If based purely on hardware status, the indicator for an electronic device may be shown in scenarios where no data actually flows to the system or applications. The privacy indicator will be enabled if any camera or microphone data is relayed to the operating system or an application that is executed via the operating system. When the device uses the microphone and camera to capture environmental metadata about the surroundings of the device without providing any audio samples, images, or video frames to the system or an application, the privacy indicator will not be enabled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Deepak Iyer, Jessica Aranda, Cindy M. Barrett, Patrick Coffman, Julien Freudiger, Alexander S. Haas, Nahir A. Khan, Behkish J. Manzari, Kevin M. Miller, Brian Pietsch, Stephen J. Rhee, Stefan Stuerke, Eric L. Wilson
  • Publication number: 20160358592
    Abstract: In some implementations, a computing device can improve the legibility of text presented over an image based on a complexity metric calculated for the underlying image. For example, the presented text can have display attributes, such as color, shadow, and background gradient. The display attributes for the presented text can be selected based on the complexity metric calculated for the underlying image (e.g., portion of the image) so that the text will be legible to the user of the computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Alexander William ROGOYSKI, Aurelio GUZMAN, Christopher WILSON, Eric L. WILSON, Giovanni M. AGNOLI