Patents by Inventor Kevin Markman

Kevin Markman 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: 11941354
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a summary of suggested changes made to an electronic document. A suggested change is iteratively selected from a first list of suggested changes. A second list of modified suggested changes is generated by processing each selected suggested change in the first list of suggested changes. The processing comprises marking the selected suggested change for including or excluding the summary. If the selected suggested change is marked for including the summary, the processing further comprises at least one of combining the selected suggested change with a previously processed suggested change to form one of the modified suggested changes for including in the second list, and truncating the selected suggested change to form one of the modified suggested changes for including in the second list. The second list of modified suggested changes is provided as the summary of suggested changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Markman, Kevin Winter, Luiz Do Amaral De Franca Pereira Filho, Yunchi Luo
  • Patent number: 11531460
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described that include providing, on a touchscreen display of an electronic device, a stream of content items, at least some of which are associated with a corresponding display anchor. Inputs are detected at the touchscreen display and the inputs are associated with a scroll speed. The scroll speed may be based on a detected distance between the inputs on the touchscreen and an elapsed time between at least two of the inputs. In response to determining a lack of input for a predefined time period, a display anchor can be determined and selected. The display anchor may correspond to a content item to be used as a pause location for the stream. The scrolling of the stream of content items can be paused at the pause location to use the selected display anchor to display the content item in a top viewable portion of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Twitter, Inc.
    Inventors: Simon Corsin, Richard Arnold, Michel Loenngren, Kevin Markman, Jason J. Mante, Adam Feldman
  • Patent number: 11250210
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a summary of suggested changes made to an electronic document. A suggested change is iteratively selected from a first list of suggested changes. A second list of modified suggested changes is generated by processing each selected suggested change in the first list of suggested changes. The processing comprises marking the selected suggested change for including or excluding the summary. If the selected suggested change is marked for including the summary, the processing further comprises at least one of combining the selected suggested change with a previously processed suggested change to form one of the modified suggested changes for including in the second list, and truncating the selected suggested change to form one of the modified suggested changes for including in the second list. The second list of modified suggested changes is provided as the summary of suggested changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Markman, Kevin Winter, Luiz Do Amaral De Franca Pereira Filho, Yunchi Luo
  • Publication number: 20210096714
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described that include providing, on a touchscreen display of an electronic device, a stream of content items, at least some of which are associated with a corresponding display anchor. Inputs are detected at the touchscreen display and the inputs are associated with a scroll speed. The scroll speed may be based on a detected distance between the inputs on the touchscreen and an elapsed time between at least two of the inputs. In response to determining a lack of input for a predefined time period, a display anchor can be determined and selected. The display anchor may correspond to a content item to be used as a pause location for the stream. The scrolling of the stream of content items can be paused at the pause location to use the selected display anchor to display the content item in a top viewable portion of the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Simon Corsin, Richard Arnold, Michel Loenngren, Kevin Markman, Jason J. Mante, Adam Feldman
  • Patent number: 10891044
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described that include providing, on a touchscreen display of an electronic device, a stream of content items, at least some of which are associated with a corresponding display anchor. Inputs are detected at the touchscreen display and the inputs are associated with a scroll speed. The scroll speed may be based on a detected distance between the inputs on the touchscreen and an elapsed time between at least two of the inputs. In response to determining a lack of input for a predefined time period, a display anchor can be determined and selected. The display anchor may correspond to a content item to be used as a pause location for the stream. The scrolling of the stream of content items can be paused at the pause location to use the selected display anchor to display the content item in a top viewable portion of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Twitter, Inc.
    Inventors: Simon Corsin, Richard Arnold, Michel Loenngren, Kevin Markman, Jason J. Mante, Adam Feldman
  • Patent number: 10740543
    Abstract: A plurality of objects associated with respective footnote reference information within a document are generated. An overflow object associated with overflow footnote reference information corresponding to a previous footnote marker appearing on a previous page is invoked to lay out the overflow footnote reference information, generating overflow layout data. A current page object associated with current page footnote reference information that corresponds to a current page footnote marker appearing on the page is invoked to lay out the current page footnote reference information, generating current page footnote reference information layout data, if an available footnote height is sufficient to lay out the current page footnote reference information. The page is displayed based on the overflow layout data and the current page footnote reference information layout data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Luiz Do Amaral De Franca Pereira Filho, Edgard Lindner, Venkat Ganesan, Kevin Markman, Lily Shu-Yi Xia
  • Patent number: 10521498
    Abstract: A document editor may manage suggested edits in a collaborative document. The document editor may instantiate a document model associated with the collaborative document. When a first editing suggestion is received for the collaborative document, a first suggestion command is associated with the first editing suggestion based on a type of the first editing suggestion and a type of the document model. The document editor may apply the first suggestion command on the document model to present the first editing suggestion within the collaborative document. When an acceptance indication for the first editing suggestion is received, the document model can be updated with the first suggestion command in response to the received acceptance indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Luiz Do Amaral De Franca Pereira Filho, Steven Joseph Saviano, Kevin Markman, Thomas John Schirripa, Isaac Quinn Shum, Kevin Winter, Ian Gunn, Stephen Alexander Garcia-Wright, Olga Sergeyevna Saviano, Venkat Ganesan, Augustin O. Venezuela, III
  • Patent number: 9817805
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a summary of suggested changes made to an electronic document. A suggested change is iteratively selected from a first list of suggested changes. A second list of modified suggested changes is generated by processing each selected suggested change in the first list of suggested changes. The processing comprises marking the selected suggested change for including or excluding in the summary. If the selected suggested change is marked for including in the summary, the processing further comprises at least one of combining the selected suggested change with a previously processed suggested change to form one of the modified suggested changes for including in the second list, and truncating the selected suggested change to form one of the modified suggested changes for including in the second list. The second list of modified suggested changes is provided as the summary of suggested changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Kevin Markman, Kevin Winter, Luiz Do Amaral De Franca Pereira Filho, Yunchi Luo
  • Patent number: 9558173
    Abstract: Systems and methods of pasting a discontinuous selection from a first document are provided, comprising receiving, at a processor, the discontinuous selection modeling the selection as a data structure, and pasting each of the plurality of portions including contextual formatting for each portion. The discontinuous selection includes a plurality of portions of the first document and the portions are discontinuous. The portions may include one or more cells from a table, and pasting the one or more cells includes pasting at least borders of the cell, a background color of the cell, and text contained in the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Markman, Olga Sergeyevna Saviano, Luiz Amaral Franca Pereira Filho, Isabella Ip
  • Publication number: 20150370769
    Abstract: A document editor may manage suggested edits in a collaborative document. The document editor may instantiate a document model associated with the collaborative document. When a first editing suggestion is received for the collaborative document, a first suggestion command is associated with the first editing suggestion based on a type of the first editing suggestion and a type of the document model. The document editor may apply the first suggestion command on the document model to present the first editing suggestion within the collaborative document. When an acceptance indication for the first editing suggestion is received, the document model can be updated with the first suggestion command in response to the received acceptance indication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Luiz Do Amaral De Franca Pereira Filho, Steven Joseph Saviano, Kevin Markman, Thomas John Schirripa, Isaac Quinn Shum, Kevin Winter, Ian Gunn, Stephen Alexander Garcia-Wright, Olga Sergeyevna Saviano, Venkat Ganesan, Agustin O. Venezuela, III
  • Publication number: 20150193381
    Abstract: Systems and methods of pasting a discontinuous selection from a first document are provided, comprising receiving, at a processor, the discontinuous selection modeling the selection as a data structure, and pasting each of the plurality of portions including contextual formatting for each portion. The discontinuous selection includes a plurality of portions of the first document and the portions are discontinuous. The portions may include one or more cells from a table, and pasting the one or more cells includes pasting at least borders of the cell, a background color of the cell, and text contained in the cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Inventors: Kevin Markman, Olga Sergeyevna Saviano, Luiz Amaral Franca Pereira Filho, Isabella Ip
  • Patent number: 8943399
    Abstract: A list indicating positions of positioned elements on a page of a document is maintained by a page object associated with the page. First position information indicating a first position of a first positioned element having a position that conflicts with a location of a first element associated with the page is transmitted by the page object to a first element object associated with the first element, the first element object being subordinate to the page object within a hierarchy. The first element object generates first layout data. The list is updated by the page object based on a position of a second positioned element having a position that conflicts with the first element. A second element object associated with a second element associated with the page, and subordinate to the page object within the hierarchy, is invoked by the page object to generate second layout data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Luiz Pereira, Edgard Lindner, Kevin Markman, Lily Xia
  • Patent number: 8909596
    Abstract: Solutions, systems, and techniques for applying 2-dimensional changes to a shared document are discussed. The document is divided into vertical columns of a particular width, each column represented as a one-dimensional vector that is a sequential list of blocks in that column, each block representing a content item included in the document. Each block has a starting column, a block height, and a block width indicated by how many columns the block occupies. Each block has row indexes that represent a relative position of the block in each column it occupies. A document modification command is represented as transfer functions, each transfer function corresponding to a document column. The transfer functions are applied to the document columns to alter a row index of block(s) in the corresponding column(s), thereby altering the relative position of a block with respect to other blocks in that column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Zhang, Santos Cordon, Kevin Markman, James Watts, Michael Verrilli, Olga Sergeyevna Belomestnykh
  • Patent number: 8892994
    Abstract: Data defining a document is received from an online document processing service, and a plurality of elements within the document is identified. The plurality of elements may comprise paragraphs, lines of text, images, tables, headers, footers, footnotes, footnote reference information, etc. For each of the plurality of elements, a respective object comprising a layout function and a render function is generated. An object corresponding to an element is invoked to generate layout data associated with the element, and the element is rendered based on the layout data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Luiz Pereira, Edgard Lindner, Lily Xia, Kevin Markman
  • Patent number: 8856644
    Abstract: Data defining a document is received from an online document processing service, and a plurality of elements within the document is identified. The plurality of elements may comprise paragraphs, lines of text, images, tables, headers, footers, footnotes, footnote reference information, etc. For each of the plurality of elements, a respective object comprising a layout function and a render function is generated. An object corresponding to an element is invoked to generate layout data associated with the element, and the element is rendered based on the layout data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Luiz Pereira, Edgard Lindner, Lily Xia, Kevin Markman
  • Patent number: 8700986
    Abstract: A plurality of objects associated with respective footnote reference information within a document are generated. An overflow object associated with overflow footnote reference information corresponding to a previous footnote marker appearing on a previous page is invoked to lay out the overflow footnote reference information, generating overflow layout data. A current page object associated with current page footnote reference information that corresponds to a current page footnote marker appearing on the page is invoked to lay out the current page footnote reference information, generating current page footnote reference information layout data, if an available footnote height is sufficient to lay out the current page footnote reference information. The page is displayed based on the overflow layout data and the current page footnote reference information layout data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Luiz Pereira, Edgard Lindner, Venkat Ganesan, Kevin Markman, Lily Xia
  • Publication number: 20120240027
    Abstract: Data defining a document comprising a plurality of elements is received from an online document processing service. First layout data is generated for the plurality of elements occurring at or before a specified location of the document. A segment comprising a reduced portion of a particular element located at the specified location is defined, when it is determined that an available page height is insufficient to lay out the particular element, and second layout data associated with the segment is generated. A page associated with the specified location is displayed based on the first layout data and the second layout data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: Luiz Pereira, Edgard Lindner, Lily Xia, Kevin Markman
  • Publication number: 20120240028
    Abstract: Data defining a document is received from an online document processing service, and a plurality of elements within the document is identified. The plurality of elements may comprise paragraphs, lines of text, images, tables, headers, footers, footnotes, footnote reference information, etc. For each of the plurality of elements, a respective object comprising a layout function and a render function is generated. An object corresponding to an element is invoked to generate layout data associated with the element, and the element is rendered based on the layout data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: Luiz Pereira, Edgard Lindner, Lily Xia, Kevin Markman