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).

  • Publication number: 20210042028
    Abstract: Methods for sharing user-configurable graphical constructs, e.g., for use with a portable multifunction device, are disclosed. The methods described herein allow for sharing user-configurable graphical constructs that contain independently configurable graphical elements and graphical assets. Further disclosed are non-transitory computer-readable storage media, systems, and devices configured to perform the methods described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Eliza BLOCK, Giovanni M. AGNOLI, Aurelio GUZMAN, Kevin LYNCH, Christopher WILSON, Eric Lance WILSON, Paul W. SALZMAN, Vera CARR
  • Patent number: 10908864
    Abstract: A method is performed at a computing system with a first housing that includes a primary display and a second housing at least partially containing (i) a physical keyboard and a touch-sensitive secondary display (“TSSD”) that is distinct from the primary display. The method includes: displaying, on the primary display, a first user interface for an application and displaying, on the TSSD, a first set of affordances corresponding to a first portion of the application. The method further includes: detecting a swipe gesture on the TSSD. If the swipe gesture was performed in a first direction, the method includes: displaying a second set of affordances corresponding to the first portion on the TSSD. If the swipe gesture was performed in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction, the method includes: displaying a third set of affordances corresponding to a second portion of the application on the TSSD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Traer Bernstein, Duncan R. Kerr, John B. Morrell, Lawrence Y. Yang, Eric Lance Wilson, Adam S. Meyer
  • Publication number: 20210011963
    Abstract: A system for determining relevant information based on user interactions may include a processor configured to receive data and associated relevance information from a data source and a set of signals describing a current environment of a user or historical user behavior information in which the data source being local to a computing device. The processor may be further configured to provide, using a machine learning model, a relevance score for each of multiple data items based at least in part on the received relevance information and the set of signals. The processor may be further configured to sort the data items based on a ranking of each relevance score for each data item. The processor may be further configured to provide, as output, the multiple data items based at least in part on the ranking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Giovanni M. AGNOLI, Joshua C. WEINBERG, Joshua R. FORD, Antoine J. ATALLAH, Roozbeh MAHDAVIAN, Eric Lance WILSON
  • Publication number: 20210004148
    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: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    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: 10884592
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display, a rotatable input mechanism, one or more processors, and memory. The electronic device displays content on the display and detects a first user input. In response to detecting the first user input, the electronic displays an enlarged view of the content that includes displaying an enlarged first portion of the content without displaying a second portion of the content. While displaying the enlarged view of the enlarged first portion of the content, in response to detecting a rotation of the rotatable input mechanism, the electronic device performs different tasks based on the operational state of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Everitt, Christopher B. Fleizach, Gregory F. Hughes, Eric T. Seymour, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Patent number: 10872318
    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: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    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
  • Publication number: 20200393957
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to techniques accessing and displaying information pertaining to past times and future times. In some embodiments, a device displays a first current-time indicator and a user interface object configured to display information corresponding to a first information source and to the current time. In some embodiments, in response to and in accordance with detecting a rotation of a rotatable input mechanism, the device displays a non-current-time indicator indicating a non-current time, and updates the first user interface object to display information corresponding to the first information source and the non-current time. In some embodiments, the device continues to display an indication of the current time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Eric Lance WILSON, Aurelio GUZMAN, Paul W. SALZMAN, Kevin Will CHEN, Lee S. BROUGHTON, Christopher WILSON
  • Publication number: 20200356242
    Abstract: Context-specific user interfaces for use with a portable multifunction device are disclosed. The methods described herein for context-specific user interfaces provide indications of time and, optionally, a variety of additional information. Further disclosed are non-transitory computer-readable storage media, systems, and devices configured to perform the methods described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Christopher WILSON, Gary Ian BUTCHER, Kevin Will CHEN, Imran CHAUDHRI, Alan C. DYE, Aurelio GUZMAN, Jonathan P. IVE, Chanaka G. KARUNAMUNI, Kenneth KOCIENDA, Kevin LYNCH, Pedro MARI, Alessandro SABATELLI, Brian SCHMITT, Eric Lance WILSON, Lawrence Y. YANG
  • Patent number: 10831357
    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: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Alan C. Dye, Christopher P. Foss, Cyrus Daniel Irani, David Chance Graham, Drew Domm, Eric Lance Wilson, Jeffrey L. Robbin, Matthew Joseph Cielak, Monika Ewa Gromek, Ofer Morag, Prashant J. Desai, Stephen Olivier Lemay, Taylor Gerard Carrigan, William Martin Bachman
  • Publication number: 20200348827
    Abstract: Context-specific user interfaces for use with a portable multifunction device are disclosed. The methods described herein for context-specific user interfaces provide indications of time and, optionally, a variety of additional information. Further disclosed are non-transitory computer-readable storage media, systems, and devices configured to perform the methods described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventors: Christopher WILSON, Gary Ian BUTCHER, Kevin Will CHEN, Imran CHAUDHRI, Alan C. DYE, Aurelio GUZMAN, Jonathan P. IVE, Chanaka G. KARUNAMUNI, Kenneth KOCIENDA, Kevin LYNCH, Pedro MARI, Alessandro SABATELLI, Brian SCHMITT, Eric Lance WILSON, Lawrence Y. YANG
  • Patent number: 10817579
    Abstract: A system for determining relevant information based on user interactions may include a processor configured to receive data and associated relevance information from a data source and a set of signals describing a current environment of a user or historical user behavior information in which the data source being local to a computing device. The processor may be further configured to provide, using a machine learning model, a relevance score for each of multiple data items based at least in part on the received relevance information and the set of signals. The processor may be further configured to sort the data items based on a ranking of each relevance score for each data item. The processor may be further configured to provide, as output, the multiple data items based at least in part on the ranking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Giovanni M. Agnoli, Joshua C. Weinberg, Joshua R. Ford, Antoine J. Atallah, Roozbeh Mahdavian, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Publication number: 20200333945
    Abstract: Techniques for configuring context-specific user interfaces for use with a portable multifunction device are disclosed. The context-specific user interfaces provide indications of time and, optionally, a variety of additional information. The methods provided herein allow for configuring such user interfaces, e.g., at a first electronic device coupled via wireless communication to a second electronic device. Further disclosed are non-transitory computer-readable storage media, systems, and devices configured to perform the methods described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Eric Lance WILSON, Lee S. BROUGHTON, Christopher WILSON
  • Patent number: D902250
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Alan C. Dye, Jonathan P. Ive, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Patent number: D904451
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mani Amini, Patrick Lee Coffman, Vitalii Kramar, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Patent number: D907055
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniele De Iuliis, Markus Diebel, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Joe Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Eric Lance Wilson, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D908715
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Imran Chaudhri, Alan C. Dye, Jonathan P. Ive, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Patent number: D910040
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    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: D910043
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Broughton, Kevin Will Chen, Alan C. Dye, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Patent number: D910071
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Alan C. Dye, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Patent number: D910648
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Taylor Gerard Carrigan, Drew Rocky Domm, Alan C. Dye, Christopher Foss, David C. Graham, Jonathan P. Ive, Pedro Mari, Eric Lance Wilson