Patents by Inventor Patrick Lee Coffman

Patrick Lee Coffman 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: 9924010
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods to communicate audio data from either an active wireless device or a requesting wireless device to one or more audio reproduction devices that are simultaneously communicatively coupled to both the active wireless device and to the requesting wireless device are disclosed. Responsive to a request from the requesting wireless device to transmit audio data to the one or more audio reproduction devices, the active wireless device determines whether to transmit audio data from the requesting wireless device based at least in part on an audio status of the active wireless device and a set of predetermined arbitration criteria that prioritizes among applications and operating system processes that generate the audio data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Robert D. Watson, Ganesha Adkasthala Ganapathi Batta, Anthony Guetta, David John Shaw, Craig Dooley, Chris Saari, Gregory Novick, Nathan De Vries, Sriram Hariharan, Patrick Ian Bernhard, Dana McLaughlin, Jeffrey Chandler Moore, Patrick Lee Coffman, Jonathan Anderson Bennett, Deepak Iyer, Albert Riley Howard, Jr., Jason Conn
  • Patent number: 9911099
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing an electronic calendar are described. One exemplary method includes displaying a calendar on a display device, the calendar having at least one time range, and displaying an invitation, before it is accepted, on the calendar in the at least one time range with other events which are already accepted. Another exemplary method includes displaying a calendar on a display device and displaying a list of user-selectable calendars comprising an invitation calendar which presents invitations which have not yet been accepted or declined on the invitation calendar. Other methods are described, and machine readable media and systems are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Patrick Lee Coffman, Greg Christie, Manuel Colom
  • Patent number: 9880704
    Abstract: Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems receive a reply or forward command for a selected email message in an email user interface, determine that the email user interface is in full screen mode and that the selected email message is at least partially outside of a visible area of the email user interface, and display a composition window in response to the command, wherein the displaying includes a sequence of images to create the illusion of the composition window sliding up from the bottom of the screen. In an example, a user interface includes a collapsible panel of mailboxes and folders, and a separate and independent favorites bar including a plurality of the mailboxes and folders. One of the mailboxes and folders in the favorites bar may be a hierarchical folder that includes a subfolder that is accessible via a drop down menu from the hierarchical folder in the favorites bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Angela Guzman, Bas Ording, Brendan Langoulant, Daniel Shteremberg, Patrick Lee Coffman, Stephen Decker, Stephen O. Lemay
  • Publication number: 20170357418
    Abstract: An electronic device: displays a first window and a second window within a display area, the first window having a first edge parallel to a second edge of the second window; and detects an input moving the first edge toward the second edge. In response to detecting the input, the device: pairs the first edge to the second edge such that the first window stops moving before it overlaps the second window when the user input satisfies pairing criteria, the pairing criteria include a first pairing criterion that is met when the input corresponds to movement of the first edge toward the second edge that deviates from a predefined axis by less than an angular threshold value; and continues the movement of the first window based on the input so that the first window overlaps the second window when the user input does not satisfy the pairing criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Corbin Robert Dunn, John O. Louch, Kevin James Van Vechten, Patrick Lee Coffman, Troy N. Stephens
  • Publication number: 20170357422
    Abstract: An electronic device: displays a plurality of representations of electronic communications associated with a first grouping and a filter affordance that corresponds to a set of filter criteria; and detects a selection input selecting the filter affordance. In response to detecting the selection input, and in accordance with a determination that the selection input corresponds to a first input type, the electronic device: ceases to display a first set of representations of electronic communications from the first grouping that do not match the set of one or more filter criteria; displays a second set of representations of electronic communications from the first grouping that match the set of one or more filter criteria; and displays an indication of the set of filter criteria that have been applied to the electronic communications associated with the first grouping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Tiffany Jon, Stephen Olivier Lemay, Patrick Lee Coffman
  • Publication number: 20170357627
    Abstract: An electronic device: displays an electronic form with a plurality of fields; detects an autofill input that corresponds to a field of the plurality of fields in the electronic form; and in response to detecting the autofill input, updates the electronic form to display fields that have been populated based on a user profile. If the autofill input is associated with a first category of information in the user profile, updating the electronic form includes populating at least two of the plurality of fields using information from the user profile that corresponds to the first category of information. If the autofill input is associated with a second category of information in the user profile, updating the electronic form includes populating at least two of the plurality of fields using information from the user profile that corresponds to the second category of information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Adele C. Peterson, Chelsea Elizabeth Pugh, Conrad Aarne Schultz, Jessie Leah Berlin, Richard Mondello, Steven Jon Faulkenburg, Zhuo Li, Patrick Lee Coffman, Maureen Grace Daum
  • Publication number: 20170357394
    Abstract: An electronic device: displays a conversation view of a plurality of messages within a first pane of a messaging application, where the conversation view includes a first message region of a portion of a first message and a second message region of a portion of a second message; and detects a user input selecting the first message region within the conversation view. In response to detecting the user input selecting the first message region, and in accordance with a determination that the user input satisfies first input criteria, the device displays one or more affordances provided to perform corresponding actions on the first message. In response to detecting the user input selecting the first message region, and in accordance with a determination that the user input satisfies second input criteria, the device replaces display of the conversation view with a message view that corresponds to the first message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Tiffany Jon, Stephen Olivier Lemay, Patrick Lee Coffman
  • Publication number: 20170279967
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a portable multifunction device with a touch screen display performs a method that includes: displaying a phone call user interface on the touch screen display, wherein the phone call user interface includes: a first informational item associated with an active phone call between a user of the device and a first party, a second informational item associated with a suspended phone call between the user and a second party, and a merge call icon; upon detecting a user selection of the merge call icon, merging the active phone call and the suspended phone call into a conference call between the user, the first party, and the second party, and replacing the phone call user interface with a conference call user interface. The conference call user interface includes: a third informational item associated with the conference call, and a conference call management icon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Scott FORSTALL, Imran CHAUDHRI, Michael MATAS, Marcel VAN OS, Stephen O. LEMAY, Patrick Lee COFFMAN, Elizabeth Caroline Furches CRANFILL, Greg CHRISTIE
  • Publication number: 20170199631
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a request to display device status information for participant devices corresponding to participants in a group included on a roster, wherein a participant in the group is associated with a participant device. In response to receiving the request to display the device status information for the participant devices, displaying, respective graphical representations that include respective device status indicators for a respective set of the participants in the group, including concurrently displaying, on the display, a first graphical representation of a first participant in the group including a first device status indicator providing a status of a first participant device, associated with the first participant and a second graphical representation of a second participant in the group including a second device status indicator providing a status of a second participant device, associated with the second participant, that is different from the first device status indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Patrick Lee Coffman, Andreas W. Wendker, Todd Robert Fernandez, Mark William Whittemore, Maxwell Oliver Drukman
  • Publication number: 20160357357
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, a method is performed at an electronic device with a display, one or more input devices, one or more processors, and a non-transitory memory. The method includes displaying a navigation window of an application and an interface object associated with the navigation window; and while displaying the navigation window and the interface object, detecting selection of the interface object. In response to detecting selection of the interface object the method includes adjusting display of the navigation window in order to provide display space adjacent to a first edge of the navigation window; and displaying a content-creation window as at least partially overlapping the provided display space that was occupied by the navigation window immediately before the display of the navigation window was adjusted in order to provide the display space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Stephen Olivier Lemay, Patrick Lee Coffman, Tiffany Jon
  • Publication number: 20160357510
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for detecting a wearing status of a wearable device, the wearing status indicating whether a user is wearing the wearable device and sending wearing status data to a companion communication device to control a behavior of the companion communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Robert D. WATSON, David John SHAW, Arun Dhyaneshwar CHAWAN, Matthew GILLETTE, Ganesha Adkasthala GANAPATHI BATTA, Jeffrey Chandler MOORE, Patrick Ian BERNHARD, Baek San CHANG, Patrick Lee COFFMAN, Jonathan Anderson BENNETT, Anthony GUETTA, Jahan Christian MINOO, Keith Walter RAUENBUEHLER
  • Publication number: 20160360018
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods to communicate audio data from either an active wireless device or a requesting wireless device to one or more audio reproduction devices that are simultaneously communicatively coupled to both the active wireless device and to the requesting wireless device are disclosed. Responsive to a request from the requesting wireless device to transmit audio data to the one or more audio reproduction devices, the active wireless device determines whether to transmit audio data from the requesting wireless device based at least in part on an audio status of the active wireless device and a set of predetermined arbitration criteria that prioritizes among applications and operating system processes that generate the audio data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Robert D. WATSON, Ganesha Adkasthala GANAPATHI BATTA, Anthony GUETTA, David John SHAW, Craig DOOLEY, Chris SAARI, Gregory NOVICK, Nathan DE VRIES, Sriram HARIHARAN, Patrick Ian BERNHARD, Dana MCLAUGHLIN, Jeffrey Chandler MOORE, Patrick Lee COFFMAN, Jonathan Anderson BENNETT, Deepak IYER, Riley HOWARD, Jason CONN
  • Patent number: D778941
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Lee Coffman, Woon Yung Choi, Maxwell O. Drukman, Peter Walter Roman, Chun Kin Minor Wong
  • Patent number: D778942
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Lee Coffman, Woon Yung Choi, Maxwell O. Drukman, Peter Walter Roman, Chun Kin Minor Wong
  • Patent number: D781336
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Butcher, Patrick Lee Coffman, Craig M. Federighi, Raymond Sepulveda
  • Patent number: D785045
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Lee Coffman, Chun Kin Minor Wong
  • Patent number: D809551
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Butcher, Patrick Lee Coffman, Craig M. Federighi, Alexander Julian Perry, Raymond Sepulveda
  • Patent number: D813905
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Lee Coffman, Maxwell O. Drukman, Chun Kin Minor Wong
  • Patent number: D814509
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Lee Coffman, Woon Yung Choi, Maxwell O. Drukman, Peter Walter Roman, Chun Kin Minor Wong
  • Patent number: D815138
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Lee Coffman, Raymond Sepulveda, Chun Kin Minor Wong