Patents by Inventor Matthew Benjamin Blank

Matthew Benjamin Blank 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: 11703990
    Abstract: A system that generates animated visual cues for providing previews that indicate the availability of associated content is provided. The system can display a landing page in response to a command to display selected content, such as messages of a chat session. The landing page generates a visual cue that displays an animated preview of associated content, such as files related to the chat session, concurrently with the selected content before transitioning to view that shows the selected content, such as a chat session UI. The disclosed techniques also enable systems to generate a visual bounce cue providing awareness of salient content. For example, a device displaying selected content, e.g., messages in a chat session UI, may create a controlled animated movement of the chat session UI to let a user know of an update to associated content that may be displayed in a UI layer under the selected content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Lawrence Fubini Waldman, Cole Jagger Poelker, Annika Elias, Matthew Benjamin Blank, Caleb Warren
  • Publication number: 20220050578
    Abstract: A system that generates animated visual cues for providing previews that indicate the availability of associated content is provided. The system can display a landing page in response to a command to display selected content, such as messages of a chat session. The landing page generates a visual cue that displays an animated preview of associated content, such as files related to the chat session, concurrently with the selected content before transitioning to view that shows the selected content, such as a chat session UI. The disclosed techniques also enable systems to generate a visual bounce cue providing awareness of salient content. For example, a device displaying selected content, e.g., messages in a chat session UI, may create a controlled animated movement of the chat session UI to let a user know of an update to associated content that may be displayed in a UI layer under the selected content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Lawrence Fubini WALDMAN, Cole Jagger POELKER, Annika ELIAS, Matthew Benjamin BLANK, Caleb WARREN
  • Patent number: 10863227
    Abstract: Systems and methods for displaying a teleconference session are described. Teleconference data including display streams is transmitted to a number of client computers. Each of the streams may include at least a video and an audio component. A user interface includes a first display area rendering a first stream and a second display area rendering a second stream. An event may occur that removes a video component from the first stream. In response to the event, the rendering of the first stream may be removed from the first display area, and one or more streams of the plurality of streams may be displayed in at least a portion of the first display area. Such techniques for modifying user interface displays based on the actions of select users that have transitioned to an audio-only mode can optimize the use of a display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Thomas Faulkner, Ekaterina Bassova, Thaddeus A. Scott, Marcelo Daniel Truffat, Mansoor Malik, Matthew Benjamin Blank, Kevin D. Morrison, Timothy Michael Cleary
  • Publication number: 20180367757
    Abstract: Systems and methods for displaying a teleconference session are described. Teleconference data including display streams is transmitted to a number of client computers. Each of the streams may include at least a video and an audio component. A user interface includes a first display area rendering a first stream and a second display area rendering a second stream. An event may occur that removes a video component from the first stream. In response to the event, the rendering of the first stream may be removed from the first display area, and one or more streams of the plurality of streams may be displayed in at least a portion of the first display area. Such techniques for modifying user interface displays based on the actions of select users that have transitioned to an audio-only mode can optimize the use of a display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Jason Thomas Faulkner, Ekaterina Bassova, Thaddeus A. Scott, Marcelo Daniel Truffat, Mansoor Malik, Matthew Benjamin Blank, Kevin D. Morrison, Timothy Michael Cleary
  • Patent number: 10038877
    Abstract: Systems and methods for displaying a teleconference session are described. Teleconference data including display streams is transmitted to a number of client computers. Each of the streams may include at least a video and an audio component. A user interface includes a first display area rendering a first stream and a second display area rendering a second stream. An event may occur that removes a video component from the first stream. In response to the event, the rendering of the first stream may be removed from the first display area, and one or more streams of the plurality of streams may be displayed in at least a portion of the first display area. Such techniques for modifying user interface displays based on the actions of select users that have transitioned to an audio-only mode can optimize the use of a display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Thomas Faulkner, Ekaterina Bassova, Thaddeus A. Scott, Marcelo Daniel Truffat, Mansoor Malik, Matthew Benjamin Blank, Kevin D. Morrison, Timothy Michael Cleary
  • Publication number: 20170093653
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and a memory comprising code that, when executed on the at least one processor, causes the apparatus to: communicate with at least one other apparatus via a network apparatus; receive from the network apparatus for each of said at least one other apparatus an indication of a transmission link quality of a link extending from said at least one other apparatus to the apparatus; and display the received transmission link quality indication(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Robert Andreas Aichner, Matthew Benjamin Blank, Martin Koo Rosenmejer