Patents by Inventor Samuel C. Cates

Samuel C. Cates 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).

  • Publication number: 20200242560
    Abstract: In an example method, a mobile device receives a first calendar item associated with a first event. The first calendar item includes a first text string. The mobile device determines a correlation between the first text string and one or more locations associated with one or more second events. The mobile device determines a suggested location for the first event based on the correlation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Scott Adler, Daniel C. Gross, Lili Cao, Samuel C. Cates, Hyo Jeong Shin
  • Patent number: 10643185
    Abstract: In an example method, a mobile device receives a first calendar item associated with a first event. The first calendar item includes a first text string. The mobile device determines a correlation between the first text string and one or more locations associated with one or more second events. The mobile device determines a suggested location for the first event based on the correlation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Adler, Daniel C. Gross, Lili Cao, Samuel C. Cates, Hyo Jeong Shin
  • Publication number: 20180349488
    Abstract: Events that are described in either structured data (e.g. HTML web page or email) or text in a natural language description can be extracted and entered into one or more calendars on a user's device. In one embodiment, selecting an add event command in a calendar application can cause the calendar application to search, without having received any search input, in a database of extracted events, and events extracted within a predetermined period of time can be suggested as events to add to the calendar. In one embodiment, an extracted event can cause a notification to be displayed to a user. Other embodiments are also described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: SOFIANE TOUDJI, ERIK M. BERGET, SCOTT ADLER, SAMUEL C. CATES
  • Publication number: 20170357904
    Abstract: In an example method, a mobile device receives a first calendar item associated with a first event. The first calendar item includes a first text string. The mobile device determines a correlation between the first text string and one or more locations associated with one or more second events. The mobile device determines a suggested location for the first event based on the correlation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Adler, Daniel C. Gross, Lili Cao, Samuel C. Cates, Hyo Jeong Shin
  • Patent number: 8869050
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and graphical user interfaces are provided for showing calendar events that are not visible on screen. Event objects are shown when an event is within a viewable time range, but the event object is partially drawn on screen (e.g. clipped) when the event is not within a viewable time range. The displayed parts of event objects indicating off-screen event can stack on top of each other to provide information about a number of off-screen events for a particular day. With the events clipped and stacked, a user has a visual indicator that there are events off screen for a particular day. As a user scrolls to the time of the event, the event can completely reveals itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel C. Cates, Raymond S. Sepulveda, Viktor Miladinov, Patrick Coffman, Lala Dutta
  • Publication number: 20130201218
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and graphical user interfaces are provided for showing calendar events that are not visible on screen. Event objects are shown when an event is within a viewable time range, but the event object is partially drawn on screen (e.g. clipped) when the event is not within a viewable time range. The displayed parts of event objects indicating off-screen event can stack on top of each other to provide information about a number of off-screen events for a particular day. With the events clipped and stacked, a user has a visual indicator that there are events off screen for a particular day. As a user scrolls to the time of the event, the event can completely reveals itself.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Samuel C. Cates, Raymond S. Sepulveda, Viktor Miladinov, Patrick Coffman, Lala Dutta