Patents by Inventor Whitney Taylor

Whitney Taylor 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).

  • GESTURE-BASED NAVIGATION SYSTEM FOR A MOBILE DEVICE
    Publication number: 20120179965
    Abstract: Systems and methods to facilitate the navigation of functions of an application of a mobile device using a gestural input scheme. A navigation scheme based on simple user-initiated gestures reduces the safety hazards and physical challenges that are introduced when interacting with a mobile device in the wild. A mobile device having a motion sensor is programmed with an application that allows a user to navigate between the various functions (e.g., features, screens, and menu options) of the application by moving the mobile device according to predefined gestures. The motion sensor in the mobile device senses a user gesture imposed on the mobile device and the application on the mobile device responds to the gesture by navigating to the function that is correlated to the gesture as part of the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2012
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Inventor: Whitney Taylor
  • Display screen or portion thereof with a transitional graphical user interface
    Patent number: D788168
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Zynga Inc.
    Inventors: Whitney Taylor, Greg Hill, Nicholas Markby