Patents by Inventor Eric Lance Wilson

Eric Lance 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).

  • Patent number: 11327640
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices can allow applications to provide complication data to be displayed in display of an electronic device. A client application can create a data object according to a template to efficiently select how the data object is to be displayed. For example, a complication controller on the electronic device can receive new data and determine which template to use. The data object can be sent to a display manager that can identify the selected template and display the data according to the template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Eliza C. Block, David A. Schimon, Eric Lance Wilson, Joshua H. Shaffer, Paul W. Salzman, Christopher C. Jensen, Timothy C. Lee, Daniel B. Pollack, Alexander Ledwith, Kevin Will Chen, Lawrence Y. Yang, Alan C. Dye
  • Patent number: 11323559
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to viewing and updating application views. A device receives a user input, the input, when received initiating display of a plurality of application views of a set of application views. The device, in response to receiving the user input, displays the plurality of application views of the set of application views, wherein the set of application views includes preselected application views and an adaptive view that corresponds to a most recently opened application that is not one of the preselected application views.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan De Vries, Lee S. Broughton, Kevin Will Chen, Christopher Patrick Foss, Stephen O. Lemay, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson, Giancarlo Yerkes
  • Patent number: 11321041
    Abstract: An example method of indicating to a user that a biometric input was authenticated. The method is performed at a computing system comprising a processor, memory, a first housing that includes a primary display, and a second housing containing a physical keyboard, a touch-sensitive secondary display, and a biometric input device. The method includes displaying, at the primary display, a web page that identifies items for purchasing, and detecting a selection of an affordance displayed on the web page. In response, displaying, on touch-sensitive secondary display, an alert prompting a user to provide a biometric input to the biometric input device, and detecting a biometric input on the biometric input device that is in second housing. In response to detecting the biometric input, and in accordance with a determination that the biometric input has been authenticated, displaying on the display an indication that purchase of the items has been validated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Traer Bernstein, Duncan R. Kerr, John B. Morrell, Lawrence Y. Yang, Eric Lance Wilson, Adam S. Meyer
  • Publication number: 20220129858
    Abstract: Techniques for a displaying user interfaces screens of a calendar application include displaying different screens based on an input modality. The calendar application may respond differently to inputs from a touch-sensitive screen, inputs from a rotatable input mechanism, inputs having higher intensities, inputs having lower intensities, and so forth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Imran CHAUDHRI, Stephen O. LEMAY, Alan C. DYE, Christopher Patrick FOSS, Christopher WILSON, Eric Lance WILSON, Lawrence Y. YANG, Jonathan P. IVE, Britt K. NELSON, Dennis S. PARK
  • Patent number: 11314392
    Abstract: An electronic device may display a first lap time representation, and may move the first lap time representation in accordance with a first amount of elapsed time. While moving the first lap time representation, the electronic device may detect a lap input. In response to the lap input, the electronic device may cease movement of the first lap time representation, display a second lap time representation, and move the second lap time representation in accordance with a second amount of elapsed time. A relative positioning of the first lap time representation and the second lap time representation may correspond to a difference between a first lap time and a second lap time. In some embodiments, the electronic device may update the timescales of lap time representation(s) in accordance with a rotational input. In some embodiments, the electronic device may update a timer duration setting in accordance with a rotational input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Lance Wilson, Christopher Wilson, Jonathan R. Dascola, Gary Ian Butcher, Imran Chaudhri, Alan C. Dye, Stephen O. Lemay, Natalia Maric, Lawrence Y. Yang
  • Publication number: 20220121358
    Abstract: A method includes: displaying a first display region in a full-screen view that includes a first type of component displayed with a first set of display properties; detecting a first user input to display a second display region; and, in response to detecting the first user input: in accordance with a determination that the first user input corresponds to a request to display the second display region in the full-screen view, displaying the second display region in the full-screen view that includes the first type of component displayed with the first set of display properties; and in accordance with a determination that the first user input corresponds to a request to display the second display region in a partial-screen view, displaying the second display region in the partial-screen view that includes the first type of component displayed with a second set of display properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Mani Amini, Wan Si Wan, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Publication number: 20220113862
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, a method is performed at a device with one or more processors, non-transitory memory, a display, and an input device. The method includes displaying, on the display, a playback status indicator regarding playback of a media item. The method includes displaying, on the display, an image associated with the media item. The method includes detecting an input interacting with the image. In response to a first portion of the input, the method includes adjusting the appearance of the image on the display in accordance with the first portion of the input. In response to a second portion of the input, the method includes changing playback of media items on the device in accordance with the input in accordance with the second portion of the input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Alan Dye, Christopher P. Foss, Cyrus D. Irani, David Chance Graham, Drew R. Domm, Eric Lance Wilson, Jeffrey L. Robbin, Matthew J. Cielak, Monika Ewa Gromek, Ofer Morag, Prashant Desai, Stephen O. Lemay, Taylor G. Carrigan, William M. Bachman
  • Patent number: 11275502
    Abstract: A method includes: displaying a first display region in a full-screen view that includes a first type of component displayed with a first set of display properties; detecting a first user input to display a second display region; and, in response to detecting the first user input: in accordance with a determination that the first user input corresponds to a request to display the second display region in the full-screen view, displaying the second display region in the full-screen view that includes the first type of component displayed with the first set of display properties; and in accordance with a determination that the first user input corresponds to a request to display the second display region in a partial-screen view, displaying the second display region in the partial-screen view that includes the first type of component displayed with a second set of display properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Mani Amini, Wan Si Wan, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Patent number: D947214
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Thalia Jimena Echevarria Fiol, Dylan Ross Edwards, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Patent number: D948536
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Imran Chaudhri, Alan C. Dye, Jonathan P. Ive, Brian Andrew Schmitt, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Patent number: D949894
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Taylor Gerard Carrigan, Thalia Echevarria Fiol, Bon Min, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Patent number: D949901
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    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: D949903
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Broughton, Kevin Will Chen, Alan C. Dye, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Patent number: D951268
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alan C. Dye, Jonathan P. Ive, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Patent number: D954095
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alan C. Dye, Aurelio Guzmán, Jonathan P. Ive, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Patent number: D951996
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Teofila Connor, Alan C. Dye, Thalia Jimena Echevarria Fiol, Aurelio Guzmán, Jonathan P. Ive, Vincenzo Vuono, Wan Si Wan, Christopher I. Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Patent number: D952656
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Foss, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Patent number: D952683
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Teofila Connor, Thalia Jimena Echevarria Fiol, Aurelio Guzmán, Vincenzo Vuono, Christopher I. Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Patent number: D957412
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Xavier Dalonzo, Alan C. Dye, Deena Ahmed Khattab, Eileen Y. Lee, William McMillan Tyler, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Patent number: D957448
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kellie L. Albert, Patrick Lee Coffman, Eric Lance Wilson