Patents by Inventor Samuel Weinig

Samuel Weinig 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).

  • Associating a URL or link between two applicatons
    Patent number: 10387131
    Abstract: Methods and systems for associating, in a secure manner, a link between web sites (or other network resources) and installed applications. In one embodiment, a signed list of one or more URLs is downloaded and validated to establish an association, which is stored in a data structure, between a first application and a second application. In response to receiving a selection of a URL in the second application, comparing the selected URL to URLs in the data structure and displaying, in the first application, content of the selected URL in response to determining that at least a prefix portion of the selected URL matches one of the URLs associated with the first application in the data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Falkenburg, Christopher Linn, Maciej Stachowiak, Jonathan Grynspan, Andrew Whalley, Robert Bradley, Samuel Weinig
  • ASSOCIATING A URL OR LINK BETWEEN TWO APPLICATIONS
    Publication number: 20170255457
    Abstract: Methods and systems for associating, in a secure manner, a link between web sites (or other network resources) and installed applications. In one embodiment, a signed list of one or more URLs is downloaded and validated to establish an association, which is stored in a data structure, between a first application and a second application. In response to receiving a selection of a URL in the second application, comparing the selected URL to URLs in the data structure and displaying, in the first application, content of the selected URL in response to determining that at least a prefix portion of the selected URL matches one of the URLs associated with the first application in the data structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Steven Falkenburg, Christopher Linn, Maciej Stachowiak, Jonathan Grynspan, Andrew Whalley, Robert Bradely, Samuel Weinig
  • Rocket effect in a progress bar
    Patent number: 9104296
    Abstract: Some embodiments relate to providing an improved progress indicator in a graphical user interface. In addition to conveying a completion status of a task to a user, an improved progress indicator in some embodiments can convey additional information about the task to the user. For example, some embodiments can display a visual cue when a triviality threshold indicating that the task is “substantially complete” is met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Damian Kaleta, Kevin Decker, Dan Bernstein, Beth Dakin, Simon Fraser, Samuel Weinig, Dave Hyatt, Geoffrey Garen
  • ROCKET EFFECT IN A PROGRESS BAR
    Publication number: 20130239039
    Abstract: Some embodiments relate to providing an improved progress indicator in a graphical user interface. In addition to conveying a completion status of a task to a user, an improved progress indicator in some embodiments can convey additional information about the task to the user. For example, some embodiments can display a visual cue when a triviality threshold indicating that the task is “substantially complete” is met.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Damian Kaleta, Kevin Decker, Dan Bernstein, Beth Dakin, Simon Fraser, Samuel Weinig, Dave Hyatt, Geoffrey Garen