Authoring Diverse Media Presentation Patents (Class 715/202)
  • Patent number: 11461546
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for receiving location information for source data associated with a publisher identifier and determining a set of selectors associated with the publisher identifier, each selector comprising specified content to extract from the source data and one or more rules for extracting the specified content. The systems and method further provided for extracting from the source data, specified content for each selector of at least a subset of the set of selectors based on the one or more rules specified in each selector of the at least subset of the set of selectors, determining a first template to use to generate the media content item, the first template comprising regions corresponding to one or more selectors, populating each region of the first template using specified content for the corresponding selector and generating the media content item from the populated first template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ian Anthony Wehrman, Giles Goodwin, Jared Iwata, Eugene Feingold, David LeMieux
  • Patent number: 11449205
    Abstract: Status-based reading and authoring assistance is provided. A status-based reading and authoring assistance feature can automatically determine a status of a user and automatically adapt reading and authoring tools provided for display based on the determined status. The status-based reading and authoring assistance feature provides the right reading and authoring tools at the right time, according to the current use of the application. During a user session with respect to a productivity application that includes status-based reading and authoring assistance, signals (e.g., user actions and context information) associated with a file can be received. A status regarding the use of the file can be determined using at least the signals. The status can comprise a reading status or an authoring status (or even a sub status). Reading and authoring tools provided for a display of the productivity application can be adapted based on the status during the user session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Domenic Joseph Cipollone, Susan Hendrich, Kaushik Ramaiah Narayanan, Kevin Field, Alfredo R. Arnaiz, Kyle Matthew Von Haden, Kevin Roland Powell
  • Patent number: 11449471
    Abstract: A method can include, in response to receiving sharing input from a local user into a local computing device, sending a file from the local computing device to a recipient, in response to sending the file, storing a sharing record on the local computing device, the sharing record identifying the file and the recipient, in response to receiving modification input from the local user into the local computing device to modify the file, determining that the sharing record identifies the file and the recipient, and based on determining that the sharing record identifies the file and the recipient, initiating sending at least a portion of the file to the recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Steffen Meschkat
  • Patent number: 11442609
    Abstract: A graphical user interface for setting speed and direction of video playback may include a timeline representation of video duration. Playback speed and playback direction from a selected point of the video may be determined based on user interaction with the graphical user interface. An extent of the video duration to which the selected playback speed and selected playback direction is applied may be determined based on movement of the timeline representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Jean-Baptiste Noël, Nicolas Duponchel, Renaud Cousin, Darren Carpenter
  • Patent number: 11431775
    Abstract: Systems and methods of synchronizing multiple media streams, including identifying a time stamp for a plurality of cuts in a master stream, identifying a corresponding time stamp for each of a plurality of cuts in at least one secondary stream, determining a first set of time differences between the identified time stamps of consecutive cuts in the master stream and at least a second set of time differences between the identified time stamps of consecutive cuts in the at least one secondary stream, calculating at least one time offset between the master stream and at least one secondary stream for each pair of consecutive cuts in the master stream, and synchronizing the master stream and the secondary stream based on the at least one time offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: W.S.C. SPORTS TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
    Inventor: Amos Bercovich
  • Patent number: 11430485
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include accessing an audio track that is associated with a video recording, identifying a section of the accessed audio track having a specific audio characteristic, reducing a volume level of the audio track in the identified section, accessing an audio segment that includes a synthesized voice and inserting the accessed audio segment into the identified section of the audio track, where the inserted segment has a higher volume level than the reduced volume level of the audio track in the identified section. The synthesized voice description can be used to provide additional information to a visually impaired viewer without interrupting the audio track that is associated with the video recording, typically by inserting the synthesized voice description into a segment of the audio track in which there is no dialog. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Netflix, Inc.
    Inventors: Yadong Wang, Murthy Parthasarathi, Andrew Swan, Raja Ranjan Senapati, Shilpa Jois Rao, Anjali Chablani, Kyle Tacke
  • Patent number: 11410706
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a content pushing method and device for a display device and a display device. The content pushing method includes: detecting audio in an environment; acquiring at least one keyword of the audio; acquiring a content to be displayed associated with the keyword of the audio; and pushing the content to be displayed to the display device to display the content to be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wenchu Dong
  • Patent number: 11405437
    Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for presenting a media location browsing interface to facilitate a media search and/or seek. A client device receives a media stream from a streaming server. This client device provides a media location browsing interface after receiving the media stream. This media location browsing interface includes a plurality of key frames representing locations along the media stream that are selectable at the client device. A seek request to play the media stream from a seek location corresponding to one of the plurality of key frames is captured. The client device begins playback of the media stream at the seek location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: TiVo Corporation
    Inventors: David Casey, Tommy Isaksson, Kelvin Komensen, Fidel Zawde, Bob Carlson
  • Patent number: 11385847
    Abstract: A user interface includes a display and a controller configured for displaying image frames with variable contents. Each image frame includes a selection of display items. At least some of the image frames include a summary window displayed at a fixed location on a screen of the display. The controller is configured to assign a summary attribute to at least some of the display items and to display these display items in the summary window. The controller has an editing function allowing a user to change a configuration of the image frames. The editing function includes a function allowing the user to assign the summary attribute to a display item by dragging the display item into the summary window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: CANON PRODUCTION PRINTING HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Jeroen Blom, Pascal A. M. S. Hagens
  • Patent number: 11366983
    Abstract: One or more processors may identify a missing image in the set of multi-view images. Each of the images is associated with a particular view type. The one or more processors may generate, utilizing a replacement AI model, a replacement image for the missing image in the set of multi-view images. The replacement image is generated utilizing an AI model trained to generate a replacement image using training images from two or more time-adjacent sets of images. The one or more processors may identify a duplicate image in the set of multi-view images. The one or more processors may generate, utilizing a quality generative AI model, a characteristic improved image based on the duplicate image for the set of multi-view images. The one or more processors may output the replacement image and the characteristic improved image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sun Young Park, Dustin Michael Sargent, Marwan Sati, Mark D. Bronkalla
  • Patent number: 11361022
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a terminal, an apparatus, and a method for providing search information based on color information, the method including, acquiring a search keyword; selecting one or more colors, correlated with the acquired keyword, based on a pre-stored keyword-color information correlation; searching for an object that matches with the selected color; and configuring an interface page information including information about the searched object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: MYCELEBS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jun Woong Doh
  • Patent number: 11361447
    Abstract: In operating an ecommerce marketplace, pre-generated metadata is used to transform images after a request is received, in real-time, and with low latency. To accomplish the high-speed image transformation, an offline annotation of relevant image features is obtained using machine learning and metadata is stored based upon the results. The metadata is then used to perform the high-speed image transformation at request time. The transformations can include image cropping, adjustment in saturation, contrast, brightness, extracting portions of the image, etc. In one example, the metadata includes a bounding box giving coordinates of how to crop an image so that the image can be cropped without analyzing content or context of the image. Instead, to obtain the coordinates of the bounding box, content and context of the image are analyzed in pre-request processing. In this way, when the request is received, the more difficult and time-consuming processing is already completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sabine Sternig, Luitpold Staudigl, Pablo Barbachano, Thomas Sydney Austin Wallis, Muhammad Bilal Javed, Michael Donoser
  • Patent number: 11361475
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for generating a file color scheme. The method includes: acquiring a picture in a target file (S101); performing color analysis on the picture to obtain a first color set of the picture and then determining a target color set of the target file (S102); determining a collocated color set that matches the color set (S103); generating a color scheme of the target file using the collocated color set (S104). The above solution can achieve the generation of a color scheme according to a color of a picture in the file, reducing the workload of the user in generating the color scheme, and improving the visual effect of the target file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Inventor: Xian Zhou
  • Patent number: 11340763
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and computer system for non-linear video navigation. The method, computer program product and computer system may include a computing device that collects source content and source content metadata from a content device. The computing device may extract the metadata from the source content and store the source content and the metadata on a server. The computing device may receive user profile data from a user device. The computing device may map the semantic data of the source content, the metadata, and the user profile data to a knowledge graph. The computing device may create navigational panels for navigating the source content based on the knowledge graph, the navigational panels enabling non-linear navigation of the source content by a user. The computing device may provide the navigational panels to the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Malolan Chetlur, Danish Contractor, Bikram Sengupta
  • Patent number: 11341125
    Abstract: This application relates to updating collection views in a computing device. A method includes receiving a first data array of a current view of a data collection and receiving a second data array of a future view of the data collection. The method also includes generating a difference data array that, based on a determination that the first data array element is equal to the second data array element, includes the second data array element. The method also includes, based on whether the first data array element is not included in the second data array and/or the second data array element is not included in the first data array, indicating, in the difference data array, that the first data array element is not in the future view or that the second data array element is not in the current view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Inventors: Stephen R. Breen, Scott C. Perry
  • Patent number: 11340965
    Abstract: A computerized platform provides centralized access for users to for on-line (electronic) services, such as social media, travel, education, and online banking including payments, via public Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: BOOMERSURF, LLC
    Inventors: Joshua Simon Leichty, Paula Adelman
  • Patent number: 11334570
    Abstract: An electronic medical records (EMR) system that enables a user to import paper-based clinical form templates (typically Word documents) and insert data tags in the data fields on the templates. This approach allows the user to retrieve clinical data from user inputs and from hospital recordkeeping systems, such as HIS, LIS, RIS/PACS, and others to generate EMR forms. Medical personnel can then access the data to generate descriptive, predictive, or prescriptive analytics including vital sign charts, drug interaction warnings, and drug recommendations. The system also enables secure data sharing between healthcare facilities using a blockchain system or a FHIR server. Upon signing an EMR form with one or more electronic signatures, the system generates a digitized image including images of the electronic signatures. The system generates hash of the digitized image and store the hash to the blockchain system, wherein the hash is used to verify the signed EMR form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: INFOMED VIET NAM
    Inventor: Francis Tuan Anh Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11327220
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display apparatus including a display panel, a backlight disposed in the rear of the display panel, an optical sheet disposed between the display panel and the backlight and on which support slots are provided, and a middle mold including support protrusions to support the optical sheet. The support protrusion is formed such that a central portion of a front surface thereof has an updown width larger than that of the support slot and opposite sides of the front surface thereof have an up-down width smaller than that of the support slot, so that the front end of the support protrusion easily passes through the support slot and the optical sheet is prevented from being separated from the support protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yeon Ho Kim, Dae Jin Kim, Heong Seog Lee, Hyun Jun Jung, Hyun Joong Chae
  • Patent number: 11308258
    Abstract: Aspects receiving, by a processor, observation data about an activity. The processor identifies overlapping content between the observation data and a base electronic document. The order of the overlapping content in the observation data is compared, by the processor, to the order of the overlapping content in the base electronic document. The processor changes an order of content in the base electronic document to create a modified electronic document in response to the order of the overlapping content in the observation data being different than the order of the overlapping content in the base electronic document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: John S. Werner, Tyler Gross, Arkadiy O. Tsfasman, Brandon M. Kobilka
  • Patent number: 11307762
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus and a machine-readable medium are disclosed. The method relates to operating a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Andrew Hunter, Madhu Sudan Athreya, Will Allen
  • Patent number: 11301431
    Abstract: A client computer includes a synchronization manager. The synchronization manager communicates with a remote content management system to determine a set of objects in a content navigation hierarchy. The synchronization manager provides a user interface with controls to allow a user to independently select multiple objects in the content navigation hierarchy for synchronization and receives an input, via the interface, that selects objects from the set of objects for synchronization. The synchronization manager stores local peers of the selected objects in a local cache in a local file system. The synchronization manager synchronizes changes to the selected objects at the content management system to the local peers in the file system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT SA ULC
    Inventors: Brian Alexander Jewell, Brennen Matthew Walsh, Jinshan Yang
  • Patent number: 11295261
    Abstract: Apparatus and associated methods relate to a risk trace matrix engine for managing database associations, in a quality management system (QMS), between risk mitigations and features of a system having a risk-based profile. In an illustrative example, metadata may be created to associate risk mitigations with elements of a product and then metadata may be stored in a database during the design or operating lifecycle of the product, for example. The engine may dynamically build one or more trace matrices for the product design, each matrix associating risk mitigations to elements of the product design documentation. In response to any modifications that may relate to the component's specifications, for example, the engine may retrieve associated metadata and generate notifications prompting for user verification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: DEEPWELL DTX
    Inventor: Ryan Douglas
  • Patent number: 11288865
    Abstract: There is provided a method for generating a 3D physical model of a patient specific anatomic feature from 2D medical images. The 2D medical images are uploaded by an end-user via a Web Application and sent to a server. The server processes the 2D medical images and automatically generates a 3D printable model of a patient specific anatomic feature from the 2D medical images using a segmentation technique. The 3D printable model is 3D printed as a 3D physical model such that it represents a 1:1 scale of the patient specific anatomic feature. The method includes the step of automatically identifying the patient specific anatomic feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Axial Medical Printing Limited
    Inventors: Niall Haslam, Lorenzo Trojan, Daniel Crawford
  • Patent number: 11256735
    Abstract: Systems for generating content summaries in a web content management service, wherein in one embodiment a digital page editor and a component browser are launched to enable selection of a first content item. A summary of the first content item is automatically generated according to parameters that may have default values or values set by a user. The parameters may specify a size for the summary as a percentage of the first content item's size, as a particular number of lines, characters or words, as a size for a particular type of device, etc. The automatically generated summary is provided to the digital page editor, which can edit it and add it to the digital page. The summary is stored in a content repository as an independent summary content item with its own metadata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Paul Kieron Carl Narth, Gregory Aaron Parmiter, Jason Jackson, Partha Saradhi Govind
  • Patent number: 11243724
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses methods and systems for printing an address directly on an output medium. The method is implemented at a multi-function device. The method includes providing a user interface for displaying an address print option; based on receiving a selection of the address print option, displaying, by a controller, an address form requiring address details on the user interface, wherein the user provides the address details via the user interface; receiving, by the controller, the address details to be printed on the output medium; and printing, by a printing engine, the address details on the output medium based on receiving a selection of a type of the output medium. The method enables the user to print the address on the output medium without requiring an external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Sakthivel Murugan, Hariprasad Thiruthamarai Seshamani, Murugesan Pandi, Muthukumar Periyasamy, Uma Mageswari Mariyappan
  • Patent number: 11237721
    Abstract: A method and system may detect an external display coupled to the mobile device. A digital input device may be presented on the integrated touch sensitive display of the mobile device to operate the mobile device. Multimedia content may be presented on the external display in response to the operation of the mobile device through the digital input device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Arther Sing Hook Teng
  • Patent number: 11238628
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for an intelligent auto-fill process capable of smartly filling objects on a canvas using selected context-based images. Content related to the canvas is analyzed to determine context tags related to the canvas. The context tags are used to generate a media list comprised of one or more context-based image. The media list is used to automatically fill at least one object on the canvas such that a relevant part of the context-based image is visible. In this way, objects on a canvas can be automatically filled with images related to the context of the canvas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Saurabh Mehta, Saurabh Gupta, Sameer Bhatt
  • Patent number: 11226715
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device, an indication to display an element; identifying, using a processor, a universal size designation for the element; and displaying, on a display associated with the information handling device, the element at a size associated with the universal size designation and irrespective of a screen scaling factor associated with the display. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Robert James Kapinos, Scott Wentao Li, Robert James Norton, Jr., Russell Speight VanBlon
  • Patent number: 11200936
    Abstract: A volatile memory circuit includes a first flip-flop, a second flip-flop having a set input coupled to an output of the first flip-flop. Logic circuitry of the memory circuit logically combines an output of the second flip-flop and information representative of the output of the first flip-flop to generate an output of the memory circuit. In response to a read command, the first flip-flop is reset and content of the second flip-flop is output by the circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: PROTON WORLD INTERNATIONAL N.V.
    Inventor: Michael Peeters
  • Patent number: 11199960
    Abstract: Methods, media, and systems are disclosed for creating and sharing interactive media. A set of media files are received, from which a background image is selected. A representation of the background image is displayed. A placement gesture is received having a release point on the display corresponding to placement of an interactive media icon within the background medium. Icon properties information is received regarding one or more properties of the interactive media icon. Icon placement information. A request to access the interactive media package is received from a second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: SLCKET, Inc.
    Inventors: Manzilla Queen, Jeffrey Christopher Daniel
  • Patent number: 11200052
    Abstract: Disclosed are approaches for enforcing requirements that documentation be up to date. In response to initiation of a build process for an application, a source-code file associated with the application is evaluated to determine an identifier and a location for a corresponding documentation file. A determination can be made regarding whether the documentation file exists at the location. Another determination can be made regarding whether each function specified in the source-code file has a corresponding entry in the documentation file. The build process can be halted in response to determining that at least one function specified in the source-code file fails to have the corresponding entry in the documentation file. If the build process is halted, a message can be displayed on the computing device, the message identifying the at least one function specified in the source-code file that fails to have the corresponding entry in the documentation file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICE COMPANY, INC
    Inventors: Chetana Kadatoka, Anurag Mandloi, Buddhika Rathnayaka, Sriram Sundararajan, Avishekh Tewari, Anthony Wooten
  • Patent number: 11194959
    Abstract: An example method and system for providing smart assistance in unused table space. A smart table assistance framework identifies table information of a table being presented on a table area of a display device. The table information comprises a set of table functions offered by the table and a table size, where the table size includes a table width of the presented table and a total columns' width of columns presented in the table. The framework determines a size of free space available inside the table based on the table width and the total columns' width. The smart table assistance framework determines whether smart guidance preconditions have been met based on the set of table functions and the free space size. In response to determining that the preconditions have been met, a smart guidance of a set of smart guidances is added to the free space available inside the table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Sabina Hitzler, Georg Christoph
  • Patent number: 11191499
    Abstract: A radiographic imaging apparatus includes a sensor substrate including a flexible base material, and an active area which is provided on a first surface of the base material and in which a plurality of pixels, which accumulate electrical charges generated in accordance with light converted from radiation, are formed; a conversion layer that is provided on the first surface side in the sensor substrate to convert radiation into the light; and a grid that is disposed on a second surface side opposite to the first surface of the base material and has a removal portion that has a mesh-like radiation absorbing member provided between a plurality of partitions in units of a predetermined number of pixels to remove scattered radiation according to the radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Naoto Iwakiri, Keiichiro Sato, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa
  • Patent number: 11157138
    Abstract: Detecting a first facial region in a first image. Extracting the detected first facial region. Generating a first facial thumbnail based on the extracted first facial region for use in representing the first image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jin Yan Chen, Fang Lu, Li Wang, Dan Zhang, Xi Fang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11151107
    Abstract: Provided are methods, systems, and computer readable media for user interaction with database methods and systems. In an aspect, a user interface can be generated to permit dynamic display generation to view data. The system can comprise a visualization component to dynamically generate one or more visual representations of the data to present in the state space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: QLIKTECH INTERNATIONAL AB
    Inventors: Håkan Wolgé, Tobias Linsefors
  • Patent number: 11151178
    Abstract: In one aspect, there is provided a method. The method may include adding a tuple phrase to a phrase index as part of a lazy creation of the phrase index. The adding may include adding the tuple phrase to a dictionary mapped to the phrase index, adding to the phrase index a document identifier and a positional information for the tuple phrase, and adapting a first threshold and a second threshold value, the first threshold representing a threshold lower estimate of query processing burden associated with a least burdensome tuple phrase in the dictionary and the second threshold representing a top estimate of query processing burden associated with a most burdensome tuple phrase in the dictionary. The method may further include sending a query response including a generated query result corresponding to the tuple phrase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Frederik Transier, Joern Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11151313
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to processing operations that generate and present personalized content suggestions to assist a user with document creation. Machine learning modeling may be trained and implemented to evolve pre-canned suggestions for document creation into highly personalized content suggestions, thereby improving the document creation process and user interface experience for users of applications/services that are utilized to create digital documents. As an example, signal data may be detected and analyzed, identifying a specific user's intent to create a digital document. Machine learning modeling may be implemented to evaluate different aspects of collected signal data and identify content from previously created documents, associated with a user account, that may be most relevant to the real-time document creation experience of the user. Personalized contextual suggestions may be presented to a user through a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Marian Kimberley Chua, Michael Schreiber, Christopher Andrews Jung
  • Patent number: 11153654
    Abstract: An interactive television program guide application is provided that queries a user regarding the user's interest in television programs and suggests television programs to the user based on the user's responses. The interactive television program guide application identifies a television program that is potentially of interest to the user. The interactive television program guide application then queries the user regarding the user's interest using questions that are formulated based on attributes associated with the identified television program. Using the user's responses to the questions, the interactive television program guide application identifies and suggests one or more television programs to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: ROVI GUIDES, INC.
    Inventor: Thomas E. Westberg
  • Patent number: 11141656
    Abstract: Technology is described for creating a video access anchor for an application interface. A server may send application data for the application interface to a first client. The server may receive a virtual object identifier from the first client, and the virtual object identifier may be associated with a virtual object in the application interface. The server may receive a video identifier from the first client, and the video identifier may be associated with the virtual object. The server may create the video access anchor for the application interface based on the virtual object identifier and the video identifier, as received from the first client. The video access anchor may enable a second client to access a video having the video identifier when the second client initiates an event that corresponds to the virtual object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Simon Cooper
  • Patent number: 11138367
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and computer program product for dynamic interaction behavior commentary are provided. The embodiment may include receiving, by a processor, a plurality of posted comments. The embodiment may also include analyzing the plurality of posted comments based on a semantic distance of the topic of discussion measured by content analysis of the plurality of posted comments. The embodiment may further include determining optimal frameworks for a plurality of users in response to a comment from a user within the plurality of posted comments. The embodiment may also include identifying interaction behavior responses containing statistically significant words or phrases that may improve a tone of the next comment when the user responds to a certain post. The embodiment may further include notifying the user when the next statement is generated based on a pre-identified or dynamically-learned interaction behavior comment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sushain Pandit, Shikhar Kwatra, Jonathan Dunne, Liam S. Harpur
  • Patent number: 11138255
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems, computer-readable media, and methods for providing customized media effects for use in media communications. For example, systems and methods described herein utilize search terms along with contextual information associated with a client-computing device and characteristic information associated with a digital media item to identify pre-generated media effects and to generate dynamic media effects. Systems and methods described herein score and rank the identified and generated media effects to as to provide listings of media effects that are most likely to appeal to a user of the client-computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Henry Martinazzi, Christian Xavier Dalonzo, Jennifer A. Burge, Xiaobin Wu, Chih Shao Lee, Puneet Sethi, Jennifer Terra Hansen
  • Patent number: 11132712
    Abstract: Three-dimensional positional spatial olfaction for virtual marketing associates a product with a product location within a virtual reality environment and identifies a product aroma associated with the product. A distance and a direction from the product location to a positional presence of a participant within the virtual reality environment is determined, and the product aroma is delivered to the participant in accordance with the distance and the direction. Delivery of the product aroma to the participant in accordance with the distance and the direction is used to lead the participant through the virtual reality environment to the product location where an interface for obtaining a physical copy of the product is displayed to the participant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin D. Briggs, Lawrence A. Clevenger, Leigh Anne H. Clevenger, Christoper J. Penny, Michael Rizzolo, Aldis Sipolins
  • Patent number: 11132703
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing augmented reality (AR) advertisements are described herein. An example method may commence with providing, to a user, at least one virtual object via an AR interface. The AR interface may be associated with an application running on an AR-enabled device. The method may further include streaming a gamified interactive content to the AR interface based on user data. The gamified interactive content may be associated with the at least one virtual object and designed to inform and educate the user by providing information about available options and features with regard to a product. The method may continue with analyzing user interactions with the gamified interactive content in response to the information and education provided to the user. The method may further include providing, based on the analysis, rewards to the user according to predetermined rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Inventor: Eric Koenig
  • Patent number: 11120374
    Abstract: An intake management system provides a number of tools and features to memorial event providers. The intake system is configured to provide appropriate and necessary intake forms to an event planner via configured devices, and may also pre-populate fields of the forms based upon information from an automatically generated intake dossier, from friends and family of the memorialized person, and from custom configured rules. During an event planning interview, the system provides tools and features that provide flexibility to planners in order to increase the accuracy of event details and improve customer experience. This system may be combined with custody tracking of remains during event preparation, which may be implemented within a custody tracked environment in order to track remains, reduce mistakes, and drive event management based upon transit between areas of the tracked environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: CRÄKN, LLC
    Inventors: Clifford James Campbell, Matthew Garett Howes, John K. Sentz, Gordon Scott Mindrum
  • Patent number: 11113447
    Abstract: A content generation computing system includes content generating application logic. The content generating application logic runs a content generation application to generate content. It also includes content ingestion and transformation logic that allows a user to identify slide presentation content from a source document for ingestion into a document that is being generated. The system automatically restructures graphical objects in the ingested slide presentation content based upon the content generation application into which it is being ingested.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ron Ben-Ishay, Oren Gordon, Tal Bouhadana, Lior Zilberstein, Daniel Hoter
  • Patent number: 11113478
    Abstract: Systems, devices, methods, computer-readable storage media, and electronic apparatuses for responsive document generation are provided. An example system includes at least one processor, and memory storing instructions. When executed by the at least one processor, the instructions may cause the system to generate response options based on a document section of a correspondence document. The instructions may also cause the system to generate a user interface with a user-actuatable selection input associated with at least some of the response options. The instructions may also cause the system to receive, via the user-actuatable selection input of the user interface, a user input to select a response option and generate a response document based on the received user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Patomatic LLC
    Inventor: Brian P. Wallenfelt
  • Patent number: 11100954
    Abstract: In the field of media editing, in one embodiment, a computer-implemented method may include steps for presenting a representation of a video at a user device; receiving a user selection of a selected portion of the video at a first time; generating a reversed video portion based on the selected portion; and combining at least a first portion of the video and a second portion of the reversed video portion to produce the media file. In some embodiments, the method further comprises receiving a user input at the user device, the user input indicative of playback of the selected portion of the video in a forward direction and in a reverse direction; updating the reversed video portion based on the user input to yield an updated reversed video portion; and generating instructions to combine the selected portion and the updated reversed video portion to produce the media file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Lomotif Private Limited
    Inventors: Paul Yang Zhiwen, Donald Lee
  • Patent number: 11087751
    Abstract: A system of reducing transmissions of packetized data in a voice activated data packet based computer network environment is provided. A natural language processor component can parse an input audio signal to identify a request and a trigger keyword. Based on the input audio signal, a direct action application programming interface can generate a first action data structure, and a content selector component can select a content item. An interface management component can identify candidate interfaces and determine if prior instances of the packetized data was transmitted to the candidate interfaces. The interface management component can prevent the transmission of the packetized data if determined to be redundant, such as having previously received the data, and instead transmit it to a separate client device of a different device type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Gaurav Bhaya, Tarun Jain, Anshul Kothari
  • Patent number: 11086883
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described to suggest new content to a writer. An intelligent tool is initiated to obtain content of a document that is being written by an author. The intelligent tool then determines a topic of the content of the document, and identifies one or more predictive topics related to the determined topic. The one or more predictive topics are different from the topic. The intelligent tool then performs a content search based on the topic and the one or more predictive topics, and provides results from the content search to the author.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Kishore Papineni, Brian Kravitz, Richard Zens, Christopher Welty
  • Patent number: 11074404
    Abstract: Upon closing and/or saving a file, a user may view changes made to the file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: CFPH, LLC
    Inventors: Geoffrey M. Gelman, Dean P. Alderucci, Gregory P. Manning, Michael D. Brinton