Patents by Inventor Gray Norton

Gray Norton 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: 10235791
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present specification are a digital device and a service processing method thereof. The digital device and the service processing method thereof according to the present invention may comprise the steps of: receiving text data; activating a text field for displaying the received text data; displaying the text data within the activated text field; checking whether or not the attribute type of the text field is a marquee attribute; and as a result of checking, if the attribute type of the text field is a marquee attribute, moving the text displayed within the text field in a predetermined direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Soongil Choi, Kunmyon Choi, Gray Norton
  • Publication number: 20160364897
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present specification are a digital device and a service processing method thereof. The digital device and the service processing method thereof according to the present invention may comprise the steps of: receiving text data; activating a text field for displaying the received text data; displaying the text data within the activated text field; checking whether or not the attribute type of the text field is a marquee attribute; and as a result of checking, if the attribute type of the text field is a marquee attribute, moving the text displayed within the text field in a predetermined direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Soongil CHOI, Kunmyon CHOI, Gray NORTON
  • Patent number: 7962465
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for automatically annotating a document to offer, to a viewer, a choice of operations that a user can take relative to identified entities to which the document refers, where the choice of operations offered in relation to each such entity is appropriate to and based on the types of that entity. In one embodiment of the invention, for each “interesting” entity within a document, a mechanism automatically determines one or more types for that entity. The mechanism automatically annotates the document so that an application will present entity-type-specific data (including operation choices) that is generated by modules that are mapped to the types of the entities within the document. The annotations comprise metadata that indicates types of each “interesting” entity. The entity-type-specific data may be presented along with the rest of the document. A user need not navigate to a different document prior to viewing the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Reiner Kraft, Farzin Maghoul, Gray Norton
  • Publication number: 20080098026
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for automatically annotating a document to offer, to a viewer, a choice of operations that a user can take relative to identified entities to which the document refers, where the choice of operations offered in relation to each such entity is appropriate to and based on the types of that entity. In one embodiment of the invention, for each “interesting” entity within a document, a mechanism automatically determines one or more types for that entity. The mechanism automatically annotates the document so that an application will present entity-type-specific data (including operation choices) that is generated by modules that are mapped to the types of the entities within the document. The annotations comprise metadata that indicates types of each “interesting” entity. The entity-type-specific data may be presented along with the rest of the document. A user need not navigate to a different document prior to viewing the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2006
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Inventors: Reiner Kraft, Farzin Maghoul, Gray Norton
  • Publication number: 20070038619
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide the capability of receiving at least a portion of a message in natural language format from a user prior to submission of the message to an automated agent for a response, analyzing the at least the portion of the message, and providing a suggestion to the user, based upon the analyzed at least the portion of the message, for altering the message to improve ability of the automated agent to respond to the message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2006
    Publication date: February 15, 2007
    Inventors: Gray Norton, Francois Huet, Pierre Berkaloff
  • Publication number: 20070011270
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for an automated agent to initiate a conversation with a user and alter the conversation based upon various parameters and/or user information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Publication date: January 11, 2007
    Inventors: Stephen Klein, Gray Norton, James Pawlika, Jennifer Villany, Adam Erlebacher
  • Publication number: 20060282257
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to evaluate the semantic proximity between reference free-form text entry and a candidate free-form text request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Inventors: Francois Huet, Gray Norton
  • Publication number: 20050213743
    Abstract: A conversational agent receives a textual user message and escalates the user to a live agent if predetermined criteria are met.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2005
    Publication date: September 29, 2005
    Inventors: Francois Huet, Damien Macary, Gray Norton, Stephen Klein, Timothy Kay