Patents Issued in February 6, 2024
  • Patent number: 11893198
    Abstract: A first user, who is currently online, is associated with a meeting spot. A plurality of other users that have selected the meeting spot and are online is identified. Information about these other users is sent to a client device associated with the first user. Information for a second user of the plurality of other users is received from the client device associated with the first user. A third user is identified who is online and associated with the first and second users. Online communication is facilitated between the client devices associated with the first and second users and a client device associated with the third user responsive to a request from the client device associated with the first user to the client device associated with the third user to be introduced by the third user to the second user, while the second user has still selected the meeting spot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Joseph F. Karam
  • Patent number: 11893199
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein enable a browser to display content of a web page that is incompatible therewith. When such a page is to be traversed, the first browser causes a virtual machine that executes an instance of a second browser with which the page is compatible to be instantiated. The browsers communicate via communication channels utilized to share information therebetween. For instance, the first browser provides a URL of the page to the second browser for traversal thereby. Graphics information corresponding to the page is provided to the first browser. The first browser generates an image corresponding to the page based on the graphics information and renders the image in a tab of the first browser. This enables a visual experience for the user where it appears that the page is being rendered by the first browser when it is in fact being rendered by the second browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Michael J. Ens, Alex Glover
  • Patent number: 11893200
    Abstract: A user interface (UI) display method is provided. The UI display method includes displaying an operation window including one or more setting items on a screen, and if a first one of the setting items is inputted, causing at least a part or all of the remaining operation window part except for the first item not to be displayed on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sung-Jin Yoon
  • Patent number: 11893201
    Abstract: An Always On Display (AOD) theme display method is provided. In the method, when a mobile device is under a screen-on theme, one or more first controls included in the screen-on theme are separately selected on an AOD settings interface based on a detected operation, and one or more second controls are selected on a second control settings interface, where the second control is a lower-level control of the first control, and at least one first control includes the second control. When the mobile device is switched from a screen-on state to an AOD state, a control displayed in an AOD theme is a part of the first controls included in the screen-on theme and/or a part of the second controls. The method meets a user requirement for more refined or personalized settings, so that the AOD theme is consistent with or close to the screen-on theme in style. This improves user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haoping Zhang, Chao Zhang
  • Patent number: 11893202
    Abstract: A portable communication device (1) is capable of setting a sleep mode as an operation mode. An operation receiver (101) receives operations given by a user. A setter (102) sets the operation mode to the sleep mode when the operation receiver (101) receives no operation for a first time period. A displayer (103) displays an indicator on a display when the operation receiver (101) receives a first operation in the sleep mode. A launcher (104) launches, when the operation receiver (101) receives operations for specifying the indicator, an application program associated with the specified indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sho Ryo
  • Patent number: 11893203
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to methods and user interfaces for establishing communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Pablo F. Caro, Gregory M. Apodaca, Kristin M. Canavan, Kaely Coon, William B. Easley, III, Craig M. Federighi, Travis Jones, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Vitalii Kramar, Caelan G. Stack, Marcel Van Os, Aleksey Shlyapnikov
  • Patent number: 11893204
    Abstract: In some examples, a method to present an affordance user interface element within a user interface of an interaction application includes detecting an association of a supplemental media content item with a primary media content item presented within the user interface. The supplemental media content item is identified from among a plurality of supplemental media content items supported by the interaction application. The method may include retrieving metadata related to the supplemental media content item and presenting, within the user interface, a supplementation affordance that presents the metadata. In some examples, the supplementation affordance is user selectable via the user interface to invoke a supplementation function that enables a user to apply the supplemental media content item to a further primary media content item. The supplementation function is invoked responsive to detecting a user selection of the supplementation affordance within the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Christie Marie Heikkinen, David Phillip Taitz, Jeremy Baker Voss
  • Patent number: 11893205
    Abstract: In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for enabling real-time gestures on shared canvases are presented. A shared object service may be associated with a plurality of shared objects. A plurality of user accounts and/or client devices may be granted access to a shared object. Each client device that accesses the shared object may store a distributed data structure locally that corresponds to the shared object. When client devices perform operations associated with the shared object the operations are logged by the shared object service and timestamped. Those operations are then reported to the client devices, where cursor movements can be rendered in real time. If cursor movements and/or user input device operations associated with a cursor meet conditions for a gesture operation the cursor may be transformed to a gesture/animation and rendered on canvases of each connected client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Nathan Darrel Kile, Jr., Jaewon Hwang, Nicolas Gunnar Alexander Nuzzaci, David Adam Stephens, Kyle David Ryan, Maria Montserrat Lozano Dieck
  • Patent number: 11893206
    Abstract: A hybrid workstation enables a virtual reality (VR) interface, a traditional (TD) interface, and transitions between the interfaces. The VR interface comprises three-dimensional (3D)-based software and hardware components. The TD interface comprises two-dimensional (2D)-based software and hardware components. The state of the hybrid workstation is defined by three parameters comprising interface (VR interface or TD interface), position (seated or standing), and movement (stationary or room-scale). The hybrid workstation detects a transition from a current state to a next state upon determining that any of the three parameters have changed. The hybrid workstation then determines a transition response based on the particular transition that is detected. The transition response comprises a set of operations that are performed on the VR interface and/or the TD interface that mitigate the disruption and inefficiency caused when the particular transition occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: AUTODESK, INC.
    Inventors: Fraser Anderson, George Fitzmaurice, Tovi Grossman, Johann Wentzel
  • Patent number: 11893207
    Abstract: In some implementations, a method includes obtaining environmental data corresponding to a physical environment. In some implementations, the method includes determining, based on the environmental data, a bounding surface of the physical environment. In some implementations, the method includes detecting a physical element located within the physical environment based on the environmental data. In some implementations, the method includes determining a semantic label for the physical element based on at least a portion of the environmental data corresponding to the physical element. In some implementations, the method includes generating a semantic construction of the physical environment based on the environmental data. In some implementations, the semantic construction of the physical environment includes a representation of the bounding surface, a representation of the physical element and the semantic label for the physical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Drummond, Bo Morgan, Siva Chandra Mouli Sivapurapu
  • Patent number: 11893208
    Abstract: Systems, devices, methods, and instructions are described for generating and using expressive icons with status indicators for a map based graphical user interface (GUI). One embodiment involves accessing location information, map data icon information, and action indicator information associated with an account of a social media platform. A device then causes generation of a combined action icon generated using the icon information and the action indicator and causes display of a map interface with the map data and the combined action icon positioned at a location indicated by the location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Newar Husam Al Majid, Laurent Desserrey, Donald Giovannini, Daniel Rakhamimov
  • Patent number: 11893209
    Abstract: In a countermeasures control interface for use in deploying countermeasures in response to user commands, which are deployed from a first countermeasure dispenser that deploys a first type of countermeasure and a second countermeasure dispenser that deploys a second type of countermeasure different from the first type. A user interface receives user commands regarding countermeasures deployment and includes a display that shows a user-selectable image formats. At least one of the user-selectable image formats includes a graphic representation of a loadout of the first countermeasure dispenser and the second countermeasure dispenser, as well as a graphical representation of currently-available countermeasures deployment options. The user interface also receives input regarding a user countermeasure deployment choice and generates a signal corresponding to the countermeasure deployment choice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Mercury Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Jurgen R. Ihns
  • Patent number: 11893210
    Abstract: Provided are systems and methods which generate and display a control overlay for user interface elements such as checkboxes and the like. The control overlay provides a larger selection area than an underlying user interface element. In one example, the method may include receiving a request associated with a user interface element from among a plurality of user interface elements displayed within a user interface, the user interface element comprising a selectable area, displaying a control overlay for the user interface element via the user interface, the control overlay being partially translucent and comprising a selectable area that is larger than and encompasses the selectable area of the user interface element, detecting an input command via the selectable area of the control overlay, and in response to the detection of the input command, selecting the user interface element displayed via the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventor: Patrick Simon
  • Patent number: 11893211
    Abstract: A display method includes displaying a list of a plurality of groups in a first area which is a first partial area of a display, and a name of a component belonging to at least one of the plurality of groups in a second area which is a second partial area of the display and is different from the first area. In the displaying, switching a display mode between a first display mode and a second display mode is performed in the second area. The first display mode is a mode in which all of the plurality of groups are displayed and a group, out of the plurality of groups, to which the component belongs is displayed in a display appearance different from that of a different group of the plurality of groups. The second display mode is a mode in which, out of the plurality of groups, only the group to which the component belongs is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kosuke Saito
  • Patent number: 11893212
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces that include application widgets. In some embodiments, a computer system displays a home screen, where displaying the home screen includes displaying a set of user interface elements based on whether an account that was used to set up the computer system is associated with a first type of content. In some embodiments, a computer system displays a user interface in response to detecting a request to change the orientation of the user interface. Displaying the user interface includes displaying an arrangement of application widgets and application icons, where a set of application widgets has a same spatial organization as in a previous arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christian X. Dalonzo, William M. Tyler, Shubham Kedia
  • Patent number: 11893213
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for causing dynamic activity in an electronic word processing document are disclosed. The systems and methods may involve accessing an electronic word processing document; presenting an interface enabling selection of a live application for embedding in the electronic word processing document; embedding, in-line with text of the electronic word processing document, a live active icon representative of the live application; presenting, in a first viewing mode, the live active icon; receiving a selection of the live active icon; in response to the selection, presenting in a second viewing mode, an expanded view of the live application; receiving a collapse instruction; and in response to the collapse instruction, reverting from the second viewing mode to the first viewing mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: MONDAY.COM LTD.
    Inventors: Roy Mann, Tal Haramati, Ron Zionpour, Guy Greenhut
  • Patent number: 11893214
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to real-time communication user interfaces. A computer system displays a plurality of selectable options for sharing a link to a real-time communication session via a plurality of respective communication protocols. A computer system displays a selectable user interface element corresponding to a link to a real-time communication session that, when selected via user input, initiates a process to send the link to a user and displays a user interface for participating in the real-time communication session with the user. A computer system displays a visual representation of a user attempting to join a real-time communication session that includes an option that is selectable to determine whether the user is allowed to participate in the real-time communication session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marco Triverio, Jae Woo Chang, Lauren E. Tappana, Marcel Van Os
  • Patent number: 11893215
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, an electronic device may include: a flexible display having a first portion disposed to be visible from an outside and a second portion extending from the first portion and accommodated in an inner space to be invisible from the outside in a slide-in state; a housing whose having a variable size wherein the flexible display is configured to be expanded in response to a change from the slide-in state to a slide-out state; a sensor disposed in the inner space and configured to detect a moving distance of the flexible display; a memory; and a processor operatively connected to the flexible display, the sensor, and the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jookwan Lee, Yongjin Kwon, Myunghoon Kwak, Changryong Heo
  • Patent number: 11893216
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for implementing a multi-function control element in a Graphical User Interface (GUI). The method includes responsive to a cursor being away from a control element, present the control element in a compact state in the Graphical User Interface (GUI) within a display. The method also includes responsive to the cursor being over the control element, present the control element in an expanded state. The method includes responsive to receiving the selection of the option and determining the cursor is away from the control element, return the control element to the compact state from the expanded state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Cinthya Rossana Urasaki, Zachary Paul Maier
  • Patent number: 11893217
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for aiming at a virtual object in a virtual environment, which: displays a user interface (UI), the UI including a picture of a virtual environment including a first virtual object and at least one second virtual object located in the virtual environment; displays a dot aiming indicator in the virtual environment in response to an aiming instruction, the dot aiming indicator being used for indicating an aiming point selected by an aiming operation on a ground plane of the virtual environment; and controls the first virtual object to aim at a target virtual object, which is a virtual object selected from a second virtual object in a target selection range which is a selection range determined by using the aiming point as a benchmark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yu Lin Wan, Jianmiao Weng, Xun Hu, Shan Dong Su, Yong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11893218
    Abstract: Systems and techniques that provide improvements to designer applications as described to address, for example, limitations associated with constructing a user interface as it is being designed by a user in a development environment. In some implementations, a system provides a design interface through which a user can view, develop, and test functional aspects of an electronic form in real-time while the user is building the application. The system maintains associations between components of the electronic form and expressions for the components referenced in program logic for the electronic form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Appian Corporation
    Inventors: John Rogers, Charles Tsui, Alison Cowley, Indraja Karnik
  • Patent number: 11893219
    Abstract: A method for quickly invoking a small window when a video is displayed in full screen, a graphic user interface, and a terminal are provided. The method may include: When a terminal displays a video playing interface in full screen, the terminal may display a small window in a hover box based on a user operation. A display interface of the small window may be switched. The terminal may further quickly switch between multi-window display and full-screen display based on a user operation. In this process, the terminal continuously plays the video. According to this method, the terminal can quickly switch between multi-window display and full-screen display when continuously playing a video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liang Zhou, Ping Wen
  • Patent number: 11893220
    Abstract: An embodiment for generating and modifying graphical user interface elements based on user item interests. The embodiment may detect a user interacting with a connected application. The embodiment may determine item interests of the detected user. The embodiment may generate and store a personalized user profile based on the determined item interests of the user. The embodiment may, in response to detecting a query made by the user, extract from the detected query interest topics, subject matter, and a series of associated key terms. The embodiment may determine a highest-prioritized key term. The embodiment may identify a first GUI element displayed by the connected application based on the detected query. The embodiment may generate, using a generative adversarial network (GAN), a custom GUI element based on the highest-prioritized key term. The embodiment may replace the first GUI element with the custom GUI element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zachary A. Silverstein, Logan Bailey, Su Liu, Kenneth C Accetta
  • Patent number: 11893221
    Abstract: A method for generating a texture shader is described. A user interface for editing the texture shader is displayed. The texture shader has a plurality of parameters that affect rendering characteristics of the texture shader. Displaying includes displaying a widget for at least one parameter of the plurality of parameters, and applying the texture shader to an input image using current values of the plurality of parameters to generate a preview of the texture shader. A user input that changes a value of a parameter of the at least one parameter is received via at least one widget. The texture shader is applied to the input image using the changed value of the parameter to generate the preview of the texture shader. The preview of the texture shader applied to the input image is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Lemon Inc.
    Inventors: Kexin Lin, Qianyi Li
  • Patent number: 11893222
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems that cause rendering of a gas concentration trend chart user interface on a display is provided. The gas concentration trend chart user interface includes a gas concentration data point graphic section configured to display a first data set in an hourly mode, a left graphic slider user interface element, and a right graphic slider user interface element. A first user interaction input causing a reduced graphic distance between the left graphic slider user interface element and the right graphic slider user interface element is received and identified. The reduced graphic distance is determined to satisfy a minute mode triggering distance threshold and in response to determining that the reduced graphic distance satisfies the minute mode triggering distance threshold, the gas concentration data point graphic section is caused to display a second data set in a minute mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Yi Liu, DongHeon Shin, Fox Alexander Kiester
  • Patent number: 11893223
    Abstract: A respiratory therapy device, which may include a flow generator, is provided. The RPT device includes a touch screen display that displays user interface screens to a user and accepts input from users to control parameters and functionality of the RPT device (e.g., a flow generator).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: RESMED PTY LTD
    Inventors: Robert Hudson, Rowan Furlong
  • Patent number: 11893224
    Abstract: A method includes a hierarchical dataset that includes a root-data object and data collections nested under the root-data object. Each data collection includes one or more data objects, each data object associated with one or more other data collections. The method also includes displaying a hierarchical user interface on a screen. The hierarchical user interface includes column. The columns include data-object columns and data-collection columns, wherein the columns alternate between data-object columns and data-collection columns. Each data-object column displays a list of the one or more data objects of a respective data collection. Each data-collection column displays a list of the one or more data collections of a respective data object, the data-collection columns includes a root-data-collection column displaying a list of the one or more data collections associated with the root-data object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Michael Kleinerman
  • Patent number: 11893225
    Abstract: A computer system is provided. The computer system includes a memory, a user interface, and a processor coupled to the memory and the user interface. The at least one processor is configured to render, via the user interface, a first representation of the computer system and a second representation of a remote computer system distinct from the computer system; receive, via the user interface, input initiating a drag-and-drop operation of a digital resource provided by the remote computer system; detect entry of a cursor effectuating the drag-and-drop operation into the first representation; confine the cursor to a portion of the first representation; move a target proxy window to encompass the portion of the first representation; and free the cursor to continue effectuation of the drag-and-drop operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Inventor: Qing Dai
  • Patent number: 11893226
    Abstract: A display method, a graphical interface, and a related apparatus. In the method, when an electronic device detects, in a process of detecting an operation of dragging an identifier of to-be-shared content to a target identifier, that an identifier before the target identifier disappears, the electronic device may maintain a position of the target identifier in a display screen unchanged, so that a user drags the identifier of the to-be-shared content to the target identifier and releases the same, to send the to-be-shared content to a device corresponding to the target identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: HONOR DEVICE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bolun Gao, Ruilin Quan
  • Patent number: 11893227
    Abstract: In one example, a computing device includes one or more user input detection components, and one or more processors configured to receive an indication of a first user input detected by the one or more user input detection components, responsive to receiving the indication of the first user input, adjust a level of an attention buffer at a defined rate; responsive to determining that the level of the attention buffer satisfies a first threshold, prevent further interaction with a user interface of the computing device, responsive to determining that an indication of a second user input has not been received within a time period, adjust a level of the attention buffer, and responsive to determining that the level of the attention buffer satisfies a second threshold, allow further interaction with the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Mason Neiswander, Sabrina Silk Billinghurst, Yuan Hang Li, Daniel Holle, Yan Yan, Jorge Taketoshi Furuya Mariche, Jia Wei Tam, Stefan Day Dierauf, Rasekh Rifaat, Ian Douglas Barlow
  • Patent number: 11893228
    Abstract: While concurrently displaying representations of a plurality of recently used applications, including a first application representation that corresponds to a first application and a second application representation that corresponds to a second application, at least a first portion of a first user input, including first movement of an input object, is detected. If the first movement of the input object includes movement in a first direction that meets first criteria, the representations of the plurality of recently used applications cease to be displayed and an application launching user interface is displayed. If the first movement of the input object includes movement in a second direction that meets second criteria, the representations of the plurality of recently used applications cease to be displayed and a first user interface of the first application is displayed in an enhanced-reachability mode and shifted in a predefined direction at least partially off of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Brandon M. Walkin, Shubham Kedia
  • Patent number: 11893229
    Abstract: A portable electronic device and a one-hand touch operation method thereof are provided. A touch operation performed on a touch screen is detected. When a shift amount of the touch operation in a first direction is greater than a first threshold, whether to activate a one-hand mode is determined according to a shift amount of the touch operation in a second direction. When the one-hand mode is activated, the operation interface image is zoomed out or shifted, and displayed in a one-hand mode interface display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Meng Chen Hsieh, Chen-Yu Hsu, Chih-Hsien Yang, I-Hsi Wu, Hsin-Yi Pu
  • Patent number: 11893230
    Abstract: Semantic zoom techniques are described. In one or more implementations, techniques are described that may be utilized by a user to navigate to content of interest. These techniques may also include a variety of different features, such as to support semantic swaps and zooming “in” and “out.” These techniques may also include a variety of different input features, such as to support gestures, cursor-control device, and keyboard inputs. A variety of other features are also supported as further described in the detailed description and figures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Theresa B. Pittappilly, Rebecca Deutsch, Orry W. Soegiono, Nicholas R. Waggoner, Holger Kuehnle, William D. Carr, Ross N. Luengen, Paul J. Kwiatkowski, Jan-Kristian Markiewicz, Gerrit H. Hofmeester, Robert Disano
  • Patent number: 11893231
    Abstract: A computer system displays a first user interface for configuring a wake user interface. The first user interface displays a first representation of a first version of the wake user interface illustrating a first plurality of editable user interface objects overlaying a first background. While displaying the first user interface, the system detects a first input. In response, when the first input meets first criteria, the system displays a second user interface for editing a first user interface object of the first plurality of editable user interface objects. The first user interface object is selected based on a location of the first input. When the first input meets second criteria, the system updates the first user interface to display a second representation of a second version of the wake user interface having a second plurality of editable user interface objects overlaying a second background.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Graham R. Clarke, Eric Lance Wilson, Andrew P. Clymer, Caelan G. Stack, Christopher P. Foss, William M. Tyler, William A. Sorrentino, III
  • Patent number: 11893233
    Abstract: An electronic device, while displaying a user interface with a favored navigation axis, detects first movement of a contact on a touch-sensitive surface that includes a first component along the favored navigation axis and a second component in a direction different from the favored navigation axis. In response, if first movement meets direction-lock termination criteria, the device moves one or more user interface objects in two dimensions in accordance with both components of the first movement; and if first movement does not meet the direction-lock termination criteria, the device moves user interface objects in one dimension along the favored navigation axis in accordance with the first component of the first movement. After meeting the direction-lock termination criteria, in response to continued second movement of the contact, the device moves user interface objects in accordance with the second movement without regard to whether the second movement meets the direction-lock termination criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Nicholas Zambetti, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Imran Chaudhri, Christopher P. Foss, Eugene M. Bistolas, Kyle S. Macomber, Keith W. Rauenbuehler, Lee S. Broughton, Arnold Freidling
  • Patent number: 11893234
    Abstract: Touch control surfaces for electronic user devices are disclosed herein. An example electronic device includes a microphone array and processor circuitry to detect a first acoustic event based on signals output by the microphone array, the first acoustic event indicative of a first touch on a surface of the device at a first time; detect a second acoustic event based on the signals, the second acoustic event indicative of a second touch on the surface at a second time; determine a first location of the first touch and a second location of the second touch; identify the first time and the second time as occurring within a threshold period of time; identify a gesture based on the first location, the second location, and the occurrence of the first touch and the second touch within the threshold; and cause an output at the device in response to the gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Tongyan Zhai, Srikanth Potluri, Devon Worrell
  • Patent number: 11893235
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an application display method and a terminal, where the method includes: acquiring a first flicking gesture, where a start position of the first flicking gesture is located in a first preset operating area; and when the terminal detects that the first flicking gesture is a first preset flicking gesture, displaying an application that is in a first state, where the first state includes at least one of the following states: a state of running in the foreground, a state of running in the background, and a state of being buffered in the background. Therefore, a recently used application can be displayed to a user according to a gesture of the user, without a need to dispose a dedicated button, thereby improving operation and control efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Device Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zheng Hu, Bingtian Han, Xiangning Liu
  • Patent number: 11893236
    Abstract: This application discloses a method of displaying information in a program interface of an application performed by a computer device. The method includes: displaying a virtual keyboard control and an extension bar control in the program interface; in response to an input operation in the virtual keyboard control, displaying at least one character string in the extension bar control, the at least one character string being determined according to the input operation in the virtual keyboard control; and in response to a select operation on a target string among the at least one character string in the extension bar control, displaying a function interface of applying a target function to the target string. This embodiment allows a user to quickly switch between function interfaces when using an application, thereby reducing operation steps of the user and improving human-computer interaction efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Hao Zhou, Zhe Feng, Yuxuan Zhang, Xiaosi Lai, Xiangyi Feng, Jiayi Ding, Tao Huang, Ge Wang, Chuangmu Yao, Yixiang Fang, Haitao Chen, Jiashuai Shi, Meng Zhao, Qiang Yan, Jianxiong Feng, Cong Jiang, Jiamin Chen, Tianyi Liang, Hongfa Qiu, Huawei Zhang, Heyi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11893237
    Abstract: A memory system includes a nonvolatile memory including a plurality of blocks as data erase units, a measuring unit which measures an erase time at which data of each block is erased, and a block controller which writes data supplied from at least an exterior into a first block which is set in a free state and whose erase time is oldest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuya Kitsunai, Shinichi Kanno, Hirokuni Yano, Toshikatsu Hida, Junji Yano
  • Patent number: 11893238
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a non-volatile semiconductor memory, a block management unit, and a transcription unit. The semiconductor memory includes a plurality of blocks to which data can be written in both the first mode and the second mode. The block management unit manages a block that stores therein no valid data as a free block. When the number of free blocks managed by the block management unit is smaller than or equal to a predetermined threshold value, the transcription unit selects one or more used blocks that stores therein valid data as transcription source blocks and transcribes valid data stored in the transcription source blocks to free blocks in the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yao, Shinichi Kanno, Kazuhiro Fukutomi
  • Patent number: 11893239
    Abstract: A high-bandwidth memory (HBM) system includes an HBM device and a logic circuit. The logic circuit includes a first interface coupled to a host device and a second interface coupled to the HBM device. The logic circuit receives a first command from the host device through the first interface and converts the received first command to a first processing-in-memory (PIM) command that is sent to the HBM device through the second interface. The first PIM command has a deterministic latency for completion. The logic circuit further receives a second command from the host device through the first interface and converting the received second command to a second PIM command that is sent to the HBM device through the second interface. The second PIM command has a non-deterministic latency for completion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Inventors: Krishna T. Malladi, Hongzhong Zheng
  • Patent number: 11893240
    Abstract: Various embodiments include methods and devices for reducing latency in pseudo channel based memory systems. Embodiments may include a first pseudo channel selection device configured to selectively communicatively connect one of a plurality of pseudo channels to a first input/output (IO), and a second pseudo channel selection device configured to selectively communicatively connect one of the plurality of pseudo channels to a second IO, in which the first pseudo channel selection device and the second pseudo channel selection device may be operable to communicatively connect a first pseudo channel of the plurality of pseudo channels to the first IO and to the second IO concurrently. Embodiments may include the pseudo channel based memory system configured to receive a memory access command targeting the first pseudo channel, and use a first pseudo channel data bus and a second pseudo channel data bus to implement the memory access command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shyamkumar Thoziyoor, Pankaj Deshmukh, Jungwon Suh, Subbarao Palacharla
  • Patent number: 11893241
    Abstract: A variable latency cache memory is disclosed. A cache subsystem includes a pipeline control circuit configured to initiate cache memory accesses for data. The cache subsystem further includes a cache memory circuit having a data array arranged into a plurality of groups, wherein different ones of the plurality of groups have different minimum access latencies due to different distances from the pipeline control circuit. A plurality of latency control circuits configured to ensure a latency is bounded to a maximum value for a given access to the data array, wherein a given latency control circuit is associated with a corresponding group of the plurality of groups. The latency for a given access may thus vary between a minimum access latency for a group closest to the pipeline control circuit to a maximum latency for an access to the group furthest from the pipeline control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Brian P. Lilly, Sandeep Gupta, Chandan Shantharaj, Krishna C. Potnuru, Sahil Kapoor
  • Patent number: 11893242
    Abstract: Semiconductor devices, packaging architectures and associated methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, a multi-chip module (MCM) is disclosed. The MCM includes a common substrate and a first integrated circuit (IC) chip disposed on the common substrate. The first IC chip includes a first memory interface. A second IC chip is disposed on the common substrate and includes a second memory interface. A first memory device is disposed on the common substrate and includes memory and a first port coupled to the memory. The first port is configured for communicating with the first memory interface of the first IC chip. A second port is coupled to the memory and communicates with the second memory interface of the second IC chip. In-memory processing circuitry is coupled to the memory and controls transactions between the first memory device and the first and second IC chips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Eliyan Corporation
    Inventors: Ramin Farjadrad, Syrus Ziai
  • Patent number: 11893243
    Abstract: A storage system has a memory that is organized in wordlines. Each wordline has a number of strings. A controller in the storage system changes, in each of the wordlines, which of the strings is a last string programmed. Doing so can unmask a program disturb error when triple-level cells in the memory are used as pseudo-multi-level cells. By unmasking the program disturb error, the controller can detect and correct the error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel J. Linnen, Prakash Subedi, Khanfer A. Kukkady, Mark Murin
  • Patent number: 11893244
    Abstract: Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) wherein a non-volatile memory (NVM) array provides a memory bank for the RNN. The RNN may include a Neural Turning Machine (NTM) and the memory bank may be an NTM matrix stored in the NVM array. In some examples, a data storage device (DSD) that controls the NVM array includes both a data storage controller and a separate NTM controller. The separate NTM controller accesses the NTM matrix of the NVM array directly while bypassing flash translation layer (FTL) components of the data storage controller. Additionally, various majority wins error detection and correction procedures are described, as well as various disparity count-based procedures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Joseph Linnen, Ariel Navon, Alexander Bazarsky, Ofir Pele
  • Patent number: 11893245
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for multi-purpose signaling for a memory system are described. One or more signal paths of between a host device and a memory device may be configured to support shared pathways between multiple channels and to support multiple functions. For example, a signal path may be configured to communicate a state signal for an initialization sequence of the memory device, an error signal for the memory device to indicate that errors have occurred, or a low-power signal for the host device to request that the memory device enter a low-power mode, or a combination thereof. The signal path may be shared between two or more channels of the memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: James Brian Johnson, Brent Keeth
  • Patent number: 11893246
    Abstract: The present application provides a method and a system for calculating a stripe of a strip for a disk, a terminal and a storage medium. The method includes: calculating a pack offset of a parity block according to a given disk index; calculating an address of a strip where the parity block is located in the disk according to the pack offset; comparing an address of a to-be-checked strip with the address of the strip where the parity block is located in the disk to determine whether the parity block is on the to-be-checked strip; and calculating a stripe index of the to-be-checked strip by considering redundant elements caused by the parity block in response to determining that the parity block is on the to-be-checked strip; or calculating the stripe index of the to-be-checked strip directly in response to determining that the parity block is not on the to-be-checked strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: INSPUR SUZHOU INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xinling Liang
  • Patent number: 11893247
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an electronic device. According to the present technology, a data storage device providing an improved security function includes a memory device including a protected memory block by a security protocol and a memory controller configured to receive a command protocol component associated with the security protocol including a host side protection message requesting data from a host to be written in the protected memory block, perform an authentication operation on the protected memory block using a host message authentication code included in the host side protection message, and store data from the host according to a result of the authentication operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SK HYNIX INC.
    Inventor: Hui Won Lee
  • Patent number: 11893248
    Abstract: A data storage device includes a memory device and a controller coupled to the memory device. The controller is configured to receive a read command from a host device to read data from the memory device, fetch the read data from the memory device, check metadata associated with the read data, determine if the metadata corresponds to the read command, and provide modified read data to the host device when the metadata does not correspond to the read command. The modified read data may be encrypted read data, corrupted read data, or read data that is replaced with debug information. When the host device receives data that is different than the read data that is requested, the modified read data may be unreadable to the host device so that unprivileged access to the read data may be avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Amir Segev, Shay Benisty