Patents by Inventor Mathew Jay Van Orden
Mathew Jay Van Orden 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).
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Patent number: 8640040Abstract: A method, system, and medium are provided for presenting on a user interface of a mobile communications device a persistently visible predetermined region capable of receiving touch input. An illustrative method includes presenting a persistently visible predetermined region capable of receiving touch input on a first screen and transitioning to a second screen. The predetermined region is persistently viewable during and after the transition between the first and second screens. Incident to receiving touch input to the predetermined region, a listing of a set of statuses of events is presented on the display.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2008Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Michael T. Lundy, Mathew Jay Van Orden, Brandon Christopher Annan
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Patent number: 8627231Abstract: A method, system, and medium are provided for efficiently locating a desired item within an ordered list of items, such as a list of contacts, pictures, or football teams. An illustrative method includes presenting a selectable option on a mobile device's display, presenting a positional indicator on the display when the selectable option has been selected that indicates to the user its position within the ordered list of items, and if the selectable option is moved, dynamically indicating the positional indicator's position among the list of items. The selection of the selectable option may be made by any object, such as a finger or stylus. Further, releasing the selection of the selectable option, such as removing the object used from the display, allows for a display of an item in the ordered list of items that corresponds to the position of the positional indicator.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2008Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Michael T. Lundy, Mathew Jay Van Orden, Brandon Christopher Annan
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Patent number: 8473843Abstract: A method, system, and medium are provided for inputting data into a mobile communications device having a touchscreen. An illustrative method includes receiving a user-entered character string and automatically replacing the user-entered character string with a suggested character string. The suggested character string is marked with a visual indication of the replacement and the visual indication is maintained even if the suggested character string is a correctly spelled word. An input region associated with the visual indication is provided such that a set of alternative character strings as suggested replacements may be provided incident to receiving touch input to the input region.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2008Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Michael T. Lundy, Mathew Jay Van Orden, Brandon Christopher Annan
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Patent number: 8421770Abstract: A device, medium, and method are provided for enabling a user to control a mobile communications device that includes a vibration component. One embodiment of the method includes presenting an object on a touchscreen display of the mobile communications device; enabling the object to be moveable on the touchscreen by way of a touch interaction; in real time, continuously varying an output of the vibration component to cause a vibrational response of the mobile communications device, such that movement of the object in a first direction causes a first continuous vibrational output, and movement of the object in a second direction causes a second continuous vibrational output.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2012Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Michael T. Lundy, Mathew Jay Van Orden
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Publication number: 20120244914Abstract: A device, medium, and method are provided for enabling a user to control a mobile communications device that includes a vibration component. One embodiment of the method includes presenting an object on a touchscreen display of the mobile communications device; enabling the object to be moveable on the touchscreen by way of a touch interaction; in real time, continuously varying an output of the vibration component to cause a vibrational response of the mobile communications device, such that movement of the object in a first direction causes a first continuous vibrational output, and movement of the object in a second direction causes a second continuous vibrational output.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2012Publication date: September 27, 2012Applicant: SPRINT COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY L.P.Inventors: MICHAEL T. LUNDY, MATHEW JAY VAN ORDEN
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Patent number: 8228300Abstract: A method, system, and medium are provided for enabling a user to control a mobile communications device that includes a vibration component. One embodiment of the method includes presenting an object on a touchscreen display of the mobile communications device; enabling the object to be moveable on the touchscreen by way of a touch interaction; in real time, continuously varying an intensity of an output of the vibration component to cause a vibrational response of the mobile communications device, such that movement of the object in a first direction causes a first continuous vibrational output, and movement of the object in a second direction causes a second continuous vibrational output.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2008Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Michael T. Lundy, Mathew Jay Van Orden
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Publication number: 20090247112Abstract: A method, system, and medium are provided for responding to an event by way of a mobile communications device. One embodiment of the method includes receiving at the mobile communications device an indication of an occurrence of an event; presenting an informational element (e.g., a slideable graphical-user-interface control) on a display of the device that presents contextually relevant data that is related to the event; and receiving user input that disposes the informational element to one of at least two drop zones that are defined by respective portions of the display and that are respectively associated with certain actions such that moving the informational element to one of the at least two drop zones invokes a certain response that is consistent with the corresponding drop zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2008Publication date: October 1, 2009Applicant: SPRINT COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY L.P.Inventors: Michael T. Lundy, Mathew Jay Van Orden
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Publication number: 20090249252Abstract: A method, system, and medium are provided for efficiently locating a desired item within an ordered list of items, such as a list of contacts, pictures, or football teams. An illustrative method includes presenting a selectable option on a mobile device's display, presenting a positional indicator on the display when the selectable option has been selected that indicates to the user its position within the ordered list of items, and if the selectable option is moved, dynamically indicating the positional indicator's position among the list of items. The selection of the selectable option may be made by any object, such as a finger or stylus. Further, releasing the selection of the selectable option, such as removing the object used from the display, allows for a display of an item in the ordered list of items that corresponds to the position of the positional indicator.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2008Publication date: October 1, 2009Applicant: SPRINT COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY L.P.Inventors: Michael T. Lundy, Mathew Jay Van Orden, Brandon Christopher Annan
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Publication number: 20090247230Abstract: A method, system, and medium are provided for enabling a user to control a mobile communications device that includes a vibration component. One embodiment of the method includes presenting an object on a touchscreen display of the mobile communications device; enabling the object to be moveable on the touchscreen by way of a touch interaction; in real time, continuously varying an intensity of an output of the vibration component to cause a vibrational response of the mobile communications device, such that movement of the object in a first direction causes a first continuous vibrational output, and movement of the object in a second direction causes a second continuous vibrational output.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2008Publication date: October 1, 2009Applicant: SPRINT COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY L.P.Inventors: MICHAEL T. LUNDY, MATHEW JAY VAN ORDEN
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Publication number: 20090249240Abstract: A method, system, and medium are provided for presenting on a user interface of a mobile communications device a persistently visible predetermined region capable of receiving touch input. An illustrative method includes presenting a persistently visible predetermined region capable of receiving touch input on a first screen and transitioning to a second screen. The predetermined region is persistently viewable during and after the transition between the first and second screens. Incident to receiving touch input to the predetermined region, a listing of a set of statuses of events is presented on the display.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2008Publication date: October 1, 2009Applicant: SPRINT COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY L.P.Inventors: MICHAEL T. LUNDY, MATHEW JAY VAN ORDEN, BRANDON CHRISTOPHER ANNAN
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Publication number: 20090249232Abstract: A method, system, and medium are provided for inputting data into a mobile communications device having a touchscreen. An illustrative method includes receiving a user-entered character string and automatically replacing the user-entered character string with a suggested character string. The suggested character string is marked with a visual indication of the replacement and the visual indication is maintained even if the suggested character string is a correctly spelled word. An input region associated with the visual indication is provided such that a set of alternative character strings as suggested replacements may be provided incident to receiving touch input to the input region.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2008Publication date: October 1, 2009Applicant: SPRINT COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY L.P.Inventors: Michael T. Lundy, Mathew Jay Van Orden, Brandon Christopher Annan
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Patent number: D615546Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2008Date of Patent: May 11, 2010Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Michael T. Lundy, Mathew Jay Van Orden, Brandon Christopher Annan