Patents by Inventor Janette Markel

Janette Markel 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).

  • Accessible contextual controls within a graphical user interface
    Patent number: 9990105
    Abstract: A user device may provide a graphical user interface which presents content navigation objects, where each content navigation object may be associated with a content item and is presented within a portion of the graphical user interface. The user device may detect an action that corresponds to a content navigation object, and determine whether the detected action is a command to display content options that may be contextually related to the content item associated with the content navigation object. The user device may display the content options by altering the appearance of the content navigation object, receive an action selecting the content option from the displayed content options, and conceal the content options after the action for selecting the content option has been received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. D'Argenio, Lonnie Hiroshi Katai, Alice Yuan Bain, Kristopher T. Frazier, William Andrew Fish, Richard E. Sodon, Jennifer Yu, Sheryl Soo, Janette Markel, Harry Lawson Kight, Andrew Allen Haskin
  • ACCESSIBLE CONTEXTUAL CONTROLS WITHIN A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE
    Publication number: 20160011725
    Abstract: A user device may provide a graphical user interface which presents content navigation objects, where each content navigation object may be associated with a content item and is presented within a portion of the graphical user interface. The user device may detect an action that corresponds to a content navigation object, and determine whether the detected action is a command to display content options that may be contextually related to the content item associated with the content navigation object. The user device may display the content options by altering the appearance of the content navigation object, receive an action selecting the content option from the displayed content options, and conceal the content options after the action for selecting the content option has been received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Michael J. D'Argenio, Lonnie Hiroshi Katai, Alice Yuan Bain, Kristopher T. Frazier, William Andrew Fish, Richard E. Sodon, Jennifer Yu, Sheryl Soo, Janette Markel, Harry Lawson Kight, Andrew Allen Haskin