Patents Issued in August 21, 2018
  • Patent number: 10055081
    Abstract: There is provided a display control device including a display control unit that superimposes and displays a sub-screen in which a partial image displayed in a partial region of an input image displayed on a display unit is enlarged and displayed on the input image in a manner that the sub-screen does not overlap with the partial region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hisashi Ohashi
  • Patent number: 10055082
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing a user interface overlay. In one embodiment, a toolbar remains visible and can be selected at any time to activate the interface overlay. The interface overlay provides an easily visible list computing options, such as contacts, that overlays the entire display area. The background of the overlay may be semi-transparent so that underlying windows are still visible, but the list is highlighted. The list includes selectable display elements with display characteristics, such as size or color, that indicate one or more attributes associated with the corresponding computing options, such as a frequency of interaction with certain contacts. In one embodiment, groups of contacts can be sorted or filtered by the attributes before display. Each selectable display element identifies a contact and may indicate a current availability. A user selects a display element to initiate communication, such as an instant messaging chat session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: OATH INC.
    Inventor: David S. Cortright
  • Patent number: 10055083
    Abstract: Techniques for aiding user input with a graphical user interface (GUI) are disclosed. A target object among various command regions of the GUI is predicted, e.g., substantially before the cursor reaches any of the regions. The command region corresponding to the predicted target object is enlarged to facilitate user selection of the predicted target object. Enlarging the predicted target object may cause the target object to overlap and/or occlude nearby command regions. After a first target object is predicted, the prediction may be changed based on updated cursor movements. By using predictive target enlargement, users are given early visual feedback about the target, and are given a larger target to acquire, thereby allowing them to be faster and less precise (their mouse direction can wander) yet still acquire their desired result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Dassault Systemes SolidWorks Corporation
    Inventors: John Sweeney, Thomas M. Spine
  • Patent number: 10055084
    Abstract: A first data visualization based on first and second sets of data items is provided on a first dashboard. A second data visualization based on third and fourth sets of data items is provided on a second dashboard. Each data item of the first and third sets has at least a first tag. Each data item of the second and fourth sets does not have the first tag. A selection of the first tag is received. In response to the selection, a third data visualization based on the first set of data items and not based on the second set of data items is provided in place of the first data visualization and a fourth data visualization based on the third set of data items and not based on the fourth set of data items is provided in place of the second data visualization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Randal L. Bertram, Gregory R. Hintermeister, Anthony D. Mora, Nicole X. Xie
  • Patent number: 10055085
    Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a first computing device having a controller to present an avatar having characteristics that correlate to a user profile and that conform to operating characteristics of the first computing device, and transmit to a second computing device operational information associated with the avatar for reproducing at least in part the avatar at said second computing device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP
    Inventors: Madhur Khandelwal, E-Lee Chang, Horst Juergen Schroeter, Linda Roberts, Darnell Clayton
  • Patent number: 10055086
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a mobile terminal and a method for controlling the mobile terminal. The present invention includes a touch screen, and a controller configured to display a 3D view in a first direction on the touch screen with a view point of a first location when the controller displays a 2D map on the touch screen and receives a touch input in the first direction from the first location of the 2D map. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a user may check the 3D view in a particular direction from a particular location in the 2D map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sunghye Yoon, Sooyon Chung, Sujin Kim
  • Patent number: 10055087
    Abstract: A mobile terminal is provided that includes a wireless communication unit, a display unit and a controller. The display unit is configured to display a first content including one or more constituent units that contain at least one respective semantic component. The controller is configured to analyze the one or more constituent units and respective semantic components. The controller is further configured to display icons corresponding to the respective constituent units of the first content. The controller is also configured display text related to the content on the display unit responsive to a touch input applied to an icon from among the icons corresponding to the respective constituent units of the first content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Younhwa Choi, Sooyoung Her, Jiyoung Park, Hyekyoung Han, Hyungtae Jang
  • Patent number: 10055088
    Abstract: Some implementations include displaying icons on a home screen of a computing device based, at least in part, on a predicted likelihood that an individual one of the icons will be selected. The predicted likelihoods may be determined based on a current time of day, a geo-location of the computing device, a current mode of the computing device, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Lee Boggan, Sasha Mikhael Perez, David Michael Rowell
  • Patent number: 10055089
    Abstract: A device for managing image and audio files displays thumbnails, which are representative of the files, on a screen in different arrangements, depending on the selected layout and order. When the user enters input to indicates that he or she wishes to browse through the thumbnails, the thumbnails move across the screen in sequence, following a path through a focus outline in the center of the screen. The path followed by the thumbnails depends on the selected layout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Tessera Advanced Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Eduardo Agusto Sciammarella, Masakazu Hayashi, Makoto Imamura, Masato Kuninori, Haruo Oba, Junichi Rekimoto, Hideyuki Agata
  • Patent number: 10055090
    Abstract: Navigating on a display includes tracking motion of an input tool on a display, comparing a motion of the input tool to a threshold, and changing a position of the visible portion of a page of information on the display if the input tool motion exceeds the threshold. The position of the visible portion of the page of information on the display is constrained if the motion does not exceed the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventor: Luigi Lira
  • Patent number: 10055091
    Abstract: Autosave and manual save modes in an application user interface on a computing device are provided. The computing device may be utilized to display a menu for receiving a selection of a menu option from the application user interface. The application user interface may display an electronic document to be saved. The menu option may include an option for switching between an autosave mode and a manual save mode for saving the electronic document. A selection of the menu option may then be received by the computing device. The computing device may then be utilized to activate one or more unique features associated with either the autosave mode or the manual save mode, based on the selected menu option, from the application user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Han-yi Shaw, Ying Huang, Sukhmeet Singh Toor, Keith B. Chellis
  • Patent number: 10055092
    Abstract: An electronic device and a method of displaying an object are provided. The method of displaying an object includes displaying a plurality of objects on a screen, determining a plurality of objects corresponding to a selected item in accordance with selection of the item based on which the plurality of objects is classified, and displaying the plurality of determined objects on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Seoul National University R&DB Foundation
    Inventors: Mee-Sun Song, Heon-Jin Park, Dong-Hwa Shin, Jin-Wook Seo, Hyun-Joo Song, Myoung-Su Cho
  • Patent number: 10055093
    Abstract: A vehicle has a navigation unit provided with a display unit displaying information related to the vehicle. The navigation unit detects whether a menu related function needing to be displayed on the display unit is present by analyzing a condition of the vehicle and a driving pattern. The navigation unit outputs the menu related function through the display unit when the menu related function is present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventor: Kyudae Shim
  • Patent number: 10055094
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for dynamically displaying a device list to reduce operations switched by a user between different application programs by displaying parameter contents of corresponding devices in the device list, whereby the operation is easier, and the parameter contents are displayed more intuitively and conveniently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Feiyun Li, Yang Wang, Qiang Fu
  • Patent number: 10055095
    Abstract: A method may include determining a first autocomplete option with respect to a data-field of a graphical user interface (GUI) of an electronic device. The method may further include generating the first autocomplete option such that a plurality of characters of the first autocomplete option are individually selectable by a user action. The method may additionally include providing the first autocomplete option via the GUI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: EBAY INC.
    Inventors: Junlong Wu, Shenyi Ge
  • Patent number: 10055096
    Abstract: A content list panel displays a list of article representations. In response to a selection of an article representation from the content list panel, the content application loads an article associated with the selected article representation in addition to one or more second articles. By preloading the second articles, the user can continuously read through different articles in the main window of the content application without having to select an article representation from the content list panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Steven J. Falkenburg, Kevin W. Decker, Darin Benjamin Adler, Ada Y. Chan
  • Patent number: 10055097
    Abstract: A change operation changing a displayed portion of an electronic document from a first portion to a second portion is detected. First and second ranges of displayable portions of the electronic document are determined. The first range includes the first portion of the document and the second range includes the second portion of the document. A character string appears at a first frequency in the first range, and appears at a second frequency in the second range. Change information is generated that relates the second appearance frequency to the first appearance frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kurokawa, Takahisa Mizuno, Tomohiro Shioya, Sayaka Tamai
  • Patent number: 10055098
    Abstract: Generating unique document identifiers from content within a selected page region is disclosed. A selection of a first region within a first page of the documents is received from a user, and is defined by a set of first boundaries relative to the first page. A text string of a first base selection page content within the first region is retrieved from the first page. Then the retrieved text string is assigned to a page location index associated with the first page. A text string of a first replicated selection page content is retrieved from a second page. The first replicated selection page content is included in the same first region defined by the set of first boundaries relative to the second page. The retrieved text string of the first replicated selection page content is assigned to a page location index of the second page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Bluebeam, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Hartmann, Peter Noyes
  • Patent number: 10055099
    Abstract: A system and method for providing a more relevant user viewing experience on a mobile device includes providing a video application providing access to a virtual video channel store with selectable tiles representing digital video content sources (channels). A user is able to select channels from the virtual channel store and interact with the selections within a graphical user interface that enhances the channel viewing experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Excalibur IP, LLC
    Inventors: Anthony Cafaro, Paul Nathan Schlacter, Bart Jacob Stein, Robert Michael Stein
  • Patent number: 10055100
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for displaying resources. The method includes: presenting a first object set on a display device in a hierarchical manner of an application layer, a virtual layer, and a physical layer; and based on an input for a first object, prominently presenting, on the display device, an object having an association with the first object, where the first object belongs to the first object set. Using the method and the apparatus for displaying resources according to the embodiments of the present invention, when a fault occurs on a cloud computing network, a user can quickly locate a fault source and a related object, thereby improving efficiency of handling a cloud fault for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jian Gao, Jianbo Liang, Li Li
  • Patent number: 10055101
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a mobile terminal which includes a display unit that is configured to output screen information, a sensing unit that is configured to sense a touch input applied by a pen unit onto the display unit, and a controller that is configured to output an input window for receiving a user input when a touch input of a specific pattern is applied to a graphic object within the screen information, and process a content input through the input window regarding the graphic object, wherein at least part of the screen information is continuously output such that the user can recognize the screen information even when the input window is output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seol Namgung, Jieun Lee, Sungyoung Yoon
  • Patent number: 10055102
    Abstract: A device of promptly starting windowed applications installed on a mobile operating system (OS) provides a starting button on a mobile device running the mobile OS installed thereon to promptly start a windowed application menu. The windowed application menu can be used to add or remove applications installed on the mobile OS to be started under a windowed mode to or from the windowed application menu. When users press the starting button to open the windowed application menu and execute any application in the application menu, the selected application is displayed in the windowed mode. The windowed application menu includes, but is not limited to, default applications installed on the mobile OS. Execution of any third-party application under the windowed mode can be supported by the windowed application menu. Accordingly, the operational efficiency and convenience of the mobile OS can be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: INSYDE SOFTWARE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsung-En Wu
  • Patent number: 10055103
    Abstract: A system for entering text in an application that includes a memory and one or more processors configured to execute instructions stored in the memory to perform operations including receiving an input gesture within an input field with autocomplete of the application. The operations include determining, in response to the received input gesture, if the input field with autocomplete of the application contains characters. The operations include presenting an interface for cycling through one or more characters available for entry into the input field with autocomplete when the input field with autocomplete is determined to contain no characters. The operations also include cycling through the one or more characters within the input field with autocomplete for a duration of the input gesture. The operations further include selecting at least one of the cycled characters at an end of the duration of the input gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Yusuf Ozuysal
  • Patent number: 10055104
    Abstract: A system may provide a toolbar in a browser at a client, where the toolbar permits user selection from multiple different services for sharing document content. The system may receive a selection of a first one of the multiple different services from a user via the toolbar and may receive a selection of content of a first document browsed by the user. The system may post the selected content in a second document associated with the first one of the multiple different services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Matthew E. Blain, Alexander M. Mendes Da Costa, Na A. Tang
  • Patent number: 10055105
    Abstract: An example method for providing simultaneous interaction with a plurality of application programs is described herein. The method includes providing a remote access framework for enabling a client to remotely access the application programs over a network, receiving a communication from the client through the remote access framework, and maintaining a state model within the remote access framework. The state model includes respective application states of the application programs. The method also includes, using the state model, linking interactive functionalities of the application programs, and generating display data indicative of a single user interface including the plurality of application programs. The method further includes communicating the display data to the client through the remote access framework.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Calgary Scientific Inc.
    Inventors: Colin John Holmes, Monroe Milas Thomas, Glen Lehmann, Pierre Joseph Lemire
  • Patent number: 10055106
    Abstract: To identify a time period having an increased object editing amount in an editing image shared by multiple users and to extract the editing image in a desired state on the basis of the identified time period, an information display processing system includes: a display unit which displays information acquired in response to a predetermined request issued by at least one of multiple users; a data storing unit which stores data including user data identifying a user, editing-image data identifying an editing image, and object data identifying an object; and a processing unit which identifies, in response to the predetermined request, a time period having an object editing amount exceeding a predetermined threshold value as an editing-amount increasing time period by use of the data stored in the data storing unit and extracts an object edited in the identified editing-amount increasing time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mitsuyoshi Ueno
  • Patent number: 10055107
    Abstract: Probabilistic determination of selected image portions is described. In one or more implementations, a selection input is received for selecting a portion of an image. For pixels of the image that correspond to the selection input, probabilities are determined that the pixels are intended to be included as part of a selected portion of the image. In particular, the probability that a given pixel is intended to be included as part of the selected portion of the image is determined as a function of position relative to center pixels of the selection input as well as a difference in one or more visual characteristics with the center pixels. The determined probabilities can then be used to segment the selected portion of the image from a remainder of the image. Based on the segmentation of the selected portion from the remainder of the image, selected portion data can be generated that defines the selected portion of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Brian L. Price, Ian D. Sachs
  • Patent number: 10055108
    Abstract: An example implementation may involve a device of a multi-zone media playback system displaying a control interface that is associated with a first zone of the media playback system, where the media playback system further includes a second zone. The implementation may also involve the device determining that it is outside of a threshold proximity to the first zone. The method may further involve displaying (i) an indication that the first zone is under control of the device, and (ii) an indication that the device is outside of the threshold proximity to the first zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul Andrew Bates
  • Patent number: 10055109
    Abstract: An image forming system includes a first display input part that displays a first selection screen for selecting an item to perform a setting among a plurality of predetermined items for performing a setting for an image forming apparatus, and receives a setting for an item selected on the first selection screen, and a second display input part that displays a second selection screen for selecting an item to perform a setting among the predetermined items in which an already set item is eliminated, the already set item being defined as an item for which the setting has been performed, and receives a setting for an item selected on the second selection screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Oki Data Corporation
    Inventor: Koji Urasawa
  • Patent number: 10055110
    Abstract: Operations includes receiving a first data set, from a user, via a user interface; generating a first plurality of commands that are based on a plurality of actions performed by the user to submit the first data set via the user interface; executing the first plurality of commands to submit the first data set to a data repository; recording the plurality of actions performed by the user to obtain a recorded plurality of actions; receiving a second data set, from one or more devices, to be submitted to the data repository; responsive to determining that the second data set is associated with the first data set: generating a second plurality of commands that are based on the recorded plurality of actions and the second data set; executing the second plurality of commands to submit the second data set to the data repository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Darryl Shakespeare, Aaron Johnson, Nicole Laurent
  • Patent number: 10055111
    Abstract: An approach is provided for determining and presenting notifications and options to users for reconfiguring a vehicle environment of the users. The approach includes determining whether to initiate a reconfiguration of a vehicle environment for one or more users based, at least in part, on one or more reconfiguration criteria. The approach also includes determining a reconfiguration model for the vehicle environment based, at least in part, on one or more preferences associated with the one or more users. The approach further includes causing, at least in part, a presentation of one or more notifications about the reconfiguration model to the one or more users. Furthermore, the approach includes determining one or more responses from the one or more users based, at least in part, on the presentation. Additionally, the approach includes initiating the reconfiguration of the vehicle environment based, at least in part, on the one or more responses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: HERE Global B.V.
    Inventors: Mary Anne Junge, Gregg Bresnahan, William Gigliotti, James Halik, David Mauer
  • Patent number: 10055112
    Abstract: A control panel includes an input portion to which an operation by an operator is input; a unified screen storage element that stores a unified screen that is a screen that is unified with respect to the plurality of types of controllers, and displays the data; a display portion capable of displaying a special screen and the unified screen; and an operation control portion that switches between displaying the special screen and the unified screen on the display portion based on information input to the input portion, and controls an actuator control portion based on information input to the input portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yosuke Okado, Hiroyuki Takahara, Tatsuya Kimura
  • Patent number: 10055113
    Abstract: The present disclosure involves systems, products, and methods for modifying elements within a user interface (UI). One method includes operations for identifying an instance of a UI text element for modification within a UI associated with a software application, wherein the UI is displayed to at least one user; retrieving a set of metadata associated with the identified instance of the UI text element, where each instance of the UI text element is associated with the retrieved set of metadata; receiving at least one modification to the retrieved set of metadata associated with the identified instance of the UI text element; and persisting the modified set of metadata associated with the UI text element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Frank Brunswig, Frank Jentsch, Bare Said
  • Patent number: 10055114
    Abstract: A building energy management includes building equipment, one or more data platform services, a timeseries database, and an energy management application. The building equipment operate to monitor and control a variable and provide raw data samples of a data point associated with the variable. The timeseries database stores a plurality of timeseries associated with the data point. The plurality of timeseries include a timeseries of the raw data samples and the one or more optimized data timeseries generated by the data platform services based on the raw data timeseries. The energy management application generates an ad hoc dashboard including a widget and associates the widget with the data point. The widget displays a graphical visualization of the plurality of timeseries associated with the data point and includes interactive user interface options for switching between the plurality of timeseries associated with the data point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Barkha Shah, Vivek Narain, Vipul Devre, Youngchoon Park, Gerald A. Asp, Peter A. Craig, Vijaya S. Chennupati
  • Patent number: 10055115
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a controller and a display unit having a display screen configured for displaying an output of multi-windows on which executions of a plurality of applications are displayed. When rotation of the electronic device is detected, if frame rotation information of the multi-windows are different from each other, the controller controls a rotation of the frames of the multi-windows such that the frame rotation information respectively set for the multi-windows are maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo-Kun Choi, Ki-Dong Hong
  • Patent number: 10055116
    Abstract: A graphic interaction method for piloting an aircraft, comprises receiving an indication of an object selected on a display screen of the aircraft; determining one or more flight plan revisions of the aircraft associated with the selected object and displaying one or more of said flight plan revisions; receiving an indication of selection of a displayed revision; determining a revision type associated with the revision displayed and selected; and as a function of the revision type determined, displaying a tactile interface data entry graphic symbol. Developments notably concern the symbology used, the validation or the modification of a selected revision, the taking account of the flight context, the taking account of the speed of manipulation of the tactile interface, etc. System and software aspects are described. In particular, the human-machine interface may be exclusively of tactile type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: François Coulmeau, Frédéric Bonamy, Patrick Mazoyer
  • Patent number: 10055117
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a refrigerator including a terminal and to a method for controlling same, and particularly, to a refrigerator including a terminal and to a method for controlling same which can visually provide necessary information to a user. To achieve this aim, the present invention provides a refrigerator including a terminal, comprising: a display module provided on the refrigerator; a communication unit communicating with the outside; and a control unit performing control to display various information on the display module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Ji Hea Kim, Jung Ah Hwang, You Sook Eun
  • Patent number: 10055118
    Abstract: An information processing method and an electronic device are provided. The method is applicable in the electronic device having a display unit. The electronic device is capable of running a voice application. Once the voice application is started, prompt information is displayed in a first display region of the display unit, for directing a user to operate the electronic device in a voice input mode by following the prompt information to implement an operation function corresponding to the prompt information. The method includes: detecting a first operation performed by the user on the first display region in a first operation mode different from the voice operation mode; and in response to the first operation, triggering a first operation instruction and executing the operation function corresponding to the prompt information. Hence, the user may use the function of the electronic device conveniently and the user experience is good.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guangjie Zhang, Haisheng Dai
  • Patent number: 10055119
    Abstract: A user input method in an electronic device and the electronic device are provided. The user input method in an electronic device includes receiving, from a user input module configured to receive a touch input and having an inner region and a peripheral region defined as a specific area with a predetermined width, an input from the inner region to the peripheral region, detecting a moving path of the received input, and performing an operation mapped to the detected moving path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yongsang Yun
  • Patent number: 10055120
    Abstract: Approaches are provided for managing content displayed on a touch screen enabled device. An approach includes detecting a gesture on a surface of a computing device. The approach further includes collecting data about touch events generated from the gesture on the surface of the computing device. The approach further includes evaluating the collected data to determine whether the gesture is recognized for changing a layout or format of content displayed on the computing device. The approach further includes performing a service call to an application programming interface of a layout tool to have the change in the layout or format of the content executed when the gesture is recognized. The approach further includes displaying the content on the computing device with the change in the layout or format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: James E. Bostick, John M. Ganci, Jr., Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Craig M. Trim
  • Patent number: 10055121
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to varying threshold and feedback based on activity. The present disclosure includes receiving an input having an input intensity. Further, in response to receiving the input and in accordance with a determination that an electronic device is in a second activity state different from a first activity state, determining whether the input intensity of the input meets or exceeds a second characteristic intensity threshold different from a first characteristic intensity threshold. Additionally, in accordance with a determination that the input intensity of the input meets or exceeds the second characteristic intensity threshold, performing the application process and/or providing a haptic feedback of a second feedback level different from a first feedback level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Imran Chaudhri, Nicholas Zambetti, Stephen O. LeMay
  • Patent number: 10055122
    Abstract: A method for the determination of a speed vector for a gesture recognition system in a motor vehicle is disclosed. The method includes detection of movement data by a detection unit, and transmission of the movement data to a processing unit in the form of vectors. A totalling of the vectors to form a total vector occurs using the processing unit, until either the total vector reaches a predetermined minimum length or a predetermined number of vectors is totalled. If the predetermined number of vectors is totalled and the predetermined minimum length of the total vector is not reached, a determination of the speed vector as a zero vector occurs. If the predetermined minimum length of the total vector is reached, a determination of the speed vector occurs by averaging the information contained in the total vector. An accurate and dynamic determination of the speed vector is thereby achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Volker Entenmann
  • Patent number: 10055123
    Abstract: A method for automatically changing information originating from at least either of a first user and a second user by using a mobile device includes steps of: (a) a first device searching second devices as a target to perform interaction and then selecting a specific second device among the searched second device to change the user-originating information; (b) the first device transmitting to, or receiving from, the specific second device data related to the interaction, if a touch gesture is detected in the first device; and (c) at least either of the first and the second devices allowing a server to update the information originating from at least either of the first user and the second user by referring to the transmitted data related to the specific interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: IPNOLOGY LTD.
    Inventors: Byoung Chan Son, Byeong Ho Na
  • Patent number: 10055124
    Abstract: A mobile terminal including a wireless communication processor configured to provide wireless communication; a display including a main region and an extended region extended from the main region toward at least one side of the main region; and a controller configured to deactivate the main region and the extended region of the display, activate the main region of the display without activating the extended region in response to a knock code being input on the main region of the display, and activate the extended region of the display without activating the main region in response to the knock code being input on extended region of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yoomee Song, Minkyoung Chang, Arim Kwon, Cheongha Park, Kyunghye Seo, Jaehwa Lee
  • Patent number: 10055125
    Abstract: A device to read data stored on a memory device of a printed circuit board (PCB) while the memory device is installed on the PCB is disclosed, including, a microcontroller to control acquiring memory data from the memory device when a processor on the PCB is in an idle state, and a resistance measurement and signal driver to measure the resistances of the signals controlling a memory device and to read the memory data from the memory. A method and system are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: S34A, Inc.
    Inventors: Henry B. Wallace, David Sun
  • Patent number: 10055126
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a wireless network interface may include a transmit/receive path comprising an antenna for transmitting and receiving wireless transmissions and a baseband controller communicatively coupled to the transmit/receive path and configured to receive fused sensor information indicative of environmental conditions detected by a plurality of sensors and, based on the fused sensor information, tune one or more parameters of the transmit/receive path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Liam B. Quinn, Liam Prendergast
  • Patent number: 10055127
    Abstract: An operational parameter is accessed at a data storage device. The operational parameter is encoded using a serial data protocol. The encoded operational parameter is superimposed on an activity indicator signal outputted by the data storage device. The activity indicator signal is configured to be coupled to a light emitting diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS, LP
    Inventors: Kevin W. Mundt, Sandor Farkas
  • Patent number: 10055128
    Abstract: A method for storing XML documents a hybrid navigation/streaming format is provided to allow efficient storage and processing of queries on the XML data that provides the benefits of both navigation and streaming and ameliorates the disadvantages of each. Each XML document to be stored is independently analyzed to determine a combination of navigable and streamable storage format that optimizes the processing of the data for anticipated access patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Sam Idicula, Balasubramanyam Sthanikam, Nipun Agarwal
  • Patent number: 10055129
    Abstract: Threads using hardware transactions and executing instrumented critical sections that do not perform any writes may complete as long as the thread holding the lock has not yet executed its first write operation. If the thread executing the instrumented critical section performs any writes, or if the thread holding the lock performs any writes during its critical section, the hardware transaction may be aborted. A write flag may be used to determine whether the thread holding the lock performs any writes. The thread holding the lock may set the flag before performing any write operation. The thread executing the hardware transaction may subscribe to that flag and abort the transaction if the flag is set to true, indicating that the thread holding the lock performed a write operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Alex Kogan, Yosef Lev
  • Patent number: 10055130
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a storage system receives, from a host, a data copy command including an address of a copy source block, an address of a copy start page in the copy source block, an address of a copy destination block, an address of a transfer start page in the copy destination block, management data indicating validity/invalidity of data in each page, and a termination condition. The storage system starts, beginning with the copy start page, a data copy operation of copying valid data in the copy source block to a copy destination region of the copy destination block beginning with the transfer start page of the copy destination block, and skipping copying of invalid data in the copy source block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi Kanno