Patents by Inventor Lance Wilson

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).

  • Configuring context-specific user interfaces
    Patent number: 11073799
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Lance Wilson, Lee S. Broughton, Christopher Wilson
  • User interface object manipulations in a user interface
    Patent number: 11068128
    Abstract: Systems and processes for manipulating a graphical user interface are disclosed. One process can include receiving user input through a crown to rotate a virtual object. The process includes selecting a surface of the object from among the multiple surfaces of the object in response to determining that the crown rotation exceeded a speed threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Zambetti, Gary Ian Butcher, Imran Chaudhri, Jonathan R. Dascola, Alan C. Dye, Christopher Patrick Foss, Aurelio Guzman, Jonathan P. Ive, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Duncan Robert Kerr, Stephen O. Lemay, Natalia Maric, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson, Lawrence Y. Yang
  • USER INTERFACE OBJECT MANIPULATIONS IN A USER INTERFACE
    Publication number: 20210208750
    Abstract: Systems and processes for manipulating a graphical user interface are disclosed. One process can include receiving user input through a crown to rotate a virtual object. The process includes selecting a surface of the object from among the multiple surfaces of the object in response to determining that the crown rotation exceeded a speed threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Nicholas ZAMBETTI, Gary Ian BUTCHER, Imran CHAUDHRI, Jonathan R. DASCOLA, Alan C. DYE, Christopher Patrick FOSS, Aurelio GUZMAN, Jonathan P. IVE, Chanaka G. KARUNAMUNI, Duncan Robert KERR, Stephen O. LEMAY, Natalia MARIC, Christopher WILSON, Eric Lance WILSON, Lawrence Y. YANG
  • Providing complications on an electronic watch
    Patent number: 11029831
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices can allow applications to provide complication data to be displayed in a complication of a watch face. A client application can create a complication data object according to a template to efficiently select how the complication data is to be displayed. For example, a complication controller on the watch can receive new data and determine which template to use. The complication 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 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    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
  • Movement of user interface object with user-specified content
    Patent number: 11016643
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to interacting with user interface objects in a user interface. An input is detected directed to the user interface object that includes a respective amount of movement in a first direction. In response to detecting the input, if the user interface object includes user-specified content, then the user interface object is moved a first distance selected based on the respective amount of movement of the input in the first direction. If the user interface object does not include user-specified content, then the user interface object is moved a second distance selected based on the respective amount of movement of the input in the first direction, wherein the second distance is larger than the first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Cas Lemmens, Christian Dalonzo, Christopher Patrick Foss, Pani Page, Eric Lance Wilson
  • User interfaces for controlling or presenting information about multiple cellular identifiers on an electronic device
    Patent number: 10999158
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device presents settings user interfaces associated with cellular identifiers. In some embodiments, a first electronic device accesses a first cellular identifier regardless of the first electronic device's connection to a second electronic device and accesses a second cellular identifier when the first electronic device is connected to the second electronic device. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents visual indications of cellular identifiers in relation to communication functions. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents visual indications of the status of cellular identifiers active on the electronic device. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents alerts associated with one or more cellular identifiers that have been removed from the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Vitalii Kramar, Marcel Van Os, Patrick L. Coffman, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Context-specific user interfaces
    Patent number: 10990270
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    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
  • REDUCED SIZE USER INTERFACE
    Publication number: 20210073741
    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: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    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
  • Electronic device with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D913325
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Teofila Connor, Thalia Jimena Echevarria Fiol, Aurelio Guzmán, Vincenzo Vuono, Christopher I. Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Electronic device with animated graphical user interface
    Patent number: D914056
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Teofila Connor, Alan C. Dye, Thalia Echevarria Fiol, Aurelio Guzmán, Jonathan P. Ive, Vincenzo Vuono, Wan Si Wan, Christopher I. Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D914729
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Balles, Gary Butcher, Imran Chaudhri, Jonathan P. Ive, Ernest Rowe, Alessandro Francesco Sabatelli, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D916748
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Imran Chaudhri, Alan C. Dye, Jonathan P. Ive, Brian Andrew Schmitt, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D916867
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Taylor Gerard Carrigan, Patrick Lee Coffman, Thalia Echevarria Fiol, Christopher P. Foss, Bon Min, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Display screen or portion thereof with a set of icons
    Patent number: D916889
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alan C. Dye, Jonathan P. Ive, Christopher Daryl Soli, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Display screen or portion thereof with a group of icons
    Patent number: D916922
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan P. Ive, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Display screen or portion thereof with animated graphical user interface
    Patent number: D917508
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Broughton, Alan C. Dye, Jonathan P. Ive, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Electronic device with animated graphical user interface
    Patent number: D920372
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mani Amini, Christian Xavier Dalonzo, Christopher P. Foss, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D921690
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Broughton, Kevin Will Chen, Alan C. Dye, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Electronic device with pair of display screens or portions thereof each with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D927529
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Anton, Patrick Lee Coffman, Dylan Ross Edwards, Aram Kudurshian, Raymond Sepulveda, Andre Souza Dos Santos, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson, Chun Kin Minor Wong
  • Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D930029
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Balles, Gary Butcher, Imran Chaudhri, Jonathan P. Ive, Ernest Rowe, Alessandro Francesco Sabatelli, Eric Lance Wilson