Patents by Inventor Sean S. Rogers

Sean S. Rogers 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: 20150373146
    Abstract: The various embodiments provide systems, devices, and methods which optimize the way in which data is delivered between devices a group of interconnected devices. In one embodiment a data set intended for multiple devices may be segmented and different portions of the data set may be provided to each device. The intended devices may then share their data set portions to recreate the complete data set on each device. In another embodiment, multiple devices each storing a complete data set may need to upload the complete data set to a single device. The multiple devices may assign upload responsibility for segments of the complete data set among each other, and the multiple devices may each upload their assigned segments to the single device. The single device may then combine the segments to recreate the complete data set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventor: Sean S. Rogers
  • Patent number: 9182897
    Abstract: The methods and devices of the various aspects provide a visual indication in a graphical user interface that a document boundary is or will soon be reached, and a mechanism for wrapping the list on the display so that it appears to snap to the other end of the list (i.e., from beginning to end if scrolling up, or end to beginning if scrolling down) when sufficient user input is applied. The displayed snap to the end or beginning of the list may also be implemented in response to a momentum list scroll initiated by a flick gesture when the momentum scroll would otherwise scroll the list a threshold distance beyond a list boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sean S. Rogers, Samuel J. Horodezky
  • Patent number: 9160697
    Abstract: The various embodiments provide systems, devices, and methods which optimize the way in which data is delivered between devices a group of interconnected devices. In one embodiment a data set intended for multiple devices may be segmented and different portions of the data set may be provided to each device. The intended devices may then share their data set portions to recreate the complete data set on each device. In another embodiment, multiple devices each storing a complete data set may need to upload the complete data set to a single device. The multiple devices may assign upload responsibility for segments of the complete data set among each other, and the multiple devices may each upload their assigned segments to the single device. The single device may then combine the segments to recreate the complete data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Sean S. Rogers
  • Patent number: 9058092
    Abstract: A method and system for providing context dependent pop-up menu icons that activate menu icons in response to a select & drag operation by manipulation of a pointing device. Presented icons may correspond to functions or actions that can be implemented with the particular type of content selected. Icons may be displayed in a consistent manner in terms of position and content with respect to the selected file or object. Icons may appear only during a select & drag operation, thereby leaving the display uncluttered at other times. Presentation of icons may be discontinued when the selected file or object is dragged beyond the area of the presented icons. New applications can register with the operating system to specify icons to be presented when corresponding files are selected or when particular content objects are selected within the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Sean S. Rogers
  • Patent number: 8766984
    Abstract: Methods and devices enable rendering of graphic images at a minimum frame rate even when processing resource limitations and rendering processing may not support the minimum frame rate presentation. While graphics are being rendered, a processor of a computing device may monitor the achieved frame rate. If the frame rate falls below a minimum threshold, the processor may note a current speed or rate of movement of the image and begin rendering less computationally complex graphic items. Rendering of less computationally complex items continues until the processor notes that the speed of rendered items is less than the noted speed. At this point, normal graphical rendering may be recommenced. The aspects may be applied to more than one type of less computationally complex item or rendering format. The various aspects may be applied to a wide variety of animations and moving graphics, as well as scrolling text, webpages, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: John Liam Mark, Michael U. Schwartz, Sean S. Rogers
  • Patent number: 8624925
    Abstract: Methods and devices provide a user interface that provides visual cues when a document pan or scroll has reached an end or boundary by distorting the document image in response to further user inputs. The image distortion functionality may include shrinking, stretching, accordion expansion, or bouncing of a document image. The degree of image distortion may be proportional to the distance that a user input would have the document move beyond the encountered boundary. When a boundary of a document image is reached during a rapid pan or scroll, a bouncing image distortion may be applied to the document image to inform the user that the document reached a boundary during the movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Diego A. Wilson, Sean S. Rogers, Per O. Nielsen
  • Publication number: 20130173716
    Abstract: The various embodiments provide systems, devices, and methods which optimize the way in which data is delivered between devices a group of interconnected devices. In one embodiment a data set intended for multiple devices may be segmented and different portions of the data set may be provided to each device. The intended devices may then share their data set portions to recreate the complete data set on each device. In another embodiment, multiple devices each storing a complete data set may need to upload the complete data set to a single device. The multiple devices may assign upload responsibility for segments of the complete data set among each other, and the multiple devices may each upload their assigned segments to the single device. The single device may then combine the segments to recreate the complete data set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 1, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventor: Sean S. ROGERS
  • Patent number: 8321802
    Abstract: A method and system for providing context dependent pop-up menu icons that activate menu icons in response to a select & drag operation by manipulation of a pointing device. Presented icons may correspond to functions or actions that can be implemented with the particular type of content selected. Icons may be displayed in a consistent manner in terms of position and content with respect to the selected file or object. Icons may appear only during a select & drag operation, thereby leaving the display uncluttered at other times. Presentation of icons may be discontinued when the selected file or object is dragged beyond the area of the presented icons. New applications can register with the operating system to specify icons to be presented when corresponding files are selected or when particular content objects are selected within the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Sean S. Rogers
  • Publication number: 20120272181
    Abstract: The methods and devices of the various aspects provide a visual indication in a graphical user interface that a document boundary is or will soon be reached, and a mechanism for wrapping the list on the display so that it appears to snap to the other end of the list (i.e., from beginning to end if scrolling up, or end to beginning if scrolling down) when sufficient user input is applied. The displayed snap to the end or beginning of the list may also be implemented in response to a momentum list scroll initiated by a flick gesture when the momentum scroll would otherwise scroll the list a threshold distance beyond a list boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Inventors: Sean S. ROGERS, Samuel J. HORODEZKY
  • Publication number: 20120044251
    Abstract: Methods and devices enable rendering of graphic images at a minimum frame rate even when processing resource limitations and rendering processing may not support the minimum frame rate presentation. While graphics are being rendered, a processor of a computing device may monitor the achieved frame rate. If the frame rate falls below a minimum threshold, the processor may note a current speed or rate of movement of the image and begin rendering less computationally complex graphic items. Rendering of less computationally complex items continues until the processor notes that the speed of rendered items is less than the noted speed. At this point, normal graphical rendering may be recommenced. The aspects may be applied to more than one type of less computationally complex item or rendering format. The various aspects may be applied to a wide variety of animations and moving graphics, as well as scrolling text, webpages, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Inventors: John Liam Mark, Michael U. Schwartz, Sean S. Rogers
  • Publication number: 20110090255
    Abstract: Methods and devices provide a user interface that provides visual cues when a document pan or scroll has reached an end or boundary by distorting the document image in response to further user inputs. The image distortion functionality may include shrinking, stretching, accordion expansion, or bouncing of a document image. The degree of image distortion may be proportional to the distance that a user input would have the document move beyond the encountered boundary. When a boundary of a document image is reached during a rapid pan or scroll, a bouncing image distortion may be applied to the document image to inform the user that the document reached a boundary during the movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Inventors: Diego A. Wilson, Sean S. Rogers, Per O. Nielsen
  • Publication number: 20100145676
    Abstract: The various aspects provide methods and devices which can reduce the length of a text string to fit dimensions of a display by identifying and deleting elements of the string that are not essential to its meaning. In the various aspects, handheld devices may be configured with software configured to analyze and modify text strings to shorten their length by adjusting font size, changing fonts, deleting unnecessary words, such as articles, abbreviating some words, deleting letters (e.g., vowels) from some words, and deleting non-critical words. The order in which transformations are affected may vary depending upon the text string according to a priority of transformations. Such transformation operations may be applied incrementally until the text string fits within the display size requirements. Similar methods may be implemented to increase the length of text strings by adding words in a manner that does not substantially change the meaning of the text string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Sean S. ROGERS
  • Publication number: 20100122194
    Abstract: A method and system for providing context dependent pop-up menu icons that activate menu icons in response to a select & drag operation by manipulation of a pointing device. Presented icons may correspond to functions or actions that can be implemented with the particular type of content selected. Icons may be displayed in a consistent manner in terms of position and content with respect to the selected file or object. Icons may appear only during a select & drag operation, thereby leaving the display uncluttered at other times. Presentation of icons may be discontinued when the selected file or object is dragged beyond the area of the presented icons. New applications can register with the operating system to specify icons to be presented when corresponding files are selected or when particular content objects are selected within the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2008
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Sean S. ROGERS