Patents by Inventor Sergiy Lavrenko

Sergiy Lavrenko 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: 20160306438
    Abstract: An input device comprising a housing, a plurality of physical keys disposed in the housing, and a processor to generate an output signal in response to one of the plurality of physical keys being activated, and control an operation of one or more virtual keys displayed on a touch-sensitive display, the physical keys and the one or more virtual keys configured for concurrent operation. The processor can be further configured to communicate with a software application operating on the touch-sensitive display and control a selection of the one or more virtual keys based on features of the software application. In some embodiments, the virtual keys can be one or more emojis. The emojis can include a context specific emoji corresponding to at least a portion of a recently input word or phrase on the plurality of physical keys, trending emojis associated with a social media platform, and more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Aidan Kehoe, Jan Findlater, Damien O'Sullivan, Andreas Connellan, Erik Guack, Vilasinh Vilaylack, Sergiy Lavrenko, Denis O'Keeffe