Authoring Diverse Media Presentation Patents (Class 715/202)
  • Patent number: 10922479
    Abstract: A method for creating an electronic signed document from an original electronic document includes: generating a document-related image based on content of the original electronic document; displaying the original electronic document; recording a real-time video of a user as the user inputs a set of signature strokes that constitute a signature; generating a superimposition video based on the real-time video and the document-related image, wherein in the superimposition video, the document-related image overlaps apart of the real-time video; and generating an electronic signed document by embedding the superimposition video in the original electronic document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: THINKCLOUD DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yu-Jen Wu
  • Patent number: 10915756
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for determining video material of news. The method for determining video material of news comprises: acquiring a weighted score value of a score of a keyword of a news text in a plurality of dimensions; filtering a keyword set of news based on the weighted score value of the score of the keyword; searching a pre-selected video using the keyword set of the news; and determining video material of the news based on the pre-selected video. The present disclosure improves the consistency between the video material of the news and the news text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Baidu USA LLC
    Inventors: Darning Lu, Hao Tian
  • Patent number: 10911575
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating and managing stories and sub-stories presented to a user's client device are described. In one example embodiment, a server system communicates a portion of a first story to a first client device based on a first client device association with a user segment assigned to the first story. The server system receives a first selection communication associated with a first piece of content of the first story, accesses a second story based on the selection, and communicates a portion of the second story to the first client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Maria Pavlovskaia, Evan Spiegel
  • Patent number: 10902192
    Abstract: Techniques and systems are described for dynamic digital document visual aids in a digital medium environment. For example, a content creation system receives user input indicating a portion of a digital document that is of interest to a user. The content creation system generates keywords based on the indicated portion, and locates data corresponding to the keywords by parsing content associated with the digital document, such as in a hierarchical table. Then, the content creation system generates visual aids based on the indicated portion of the digital document that is of interest to the user and the data. The content creation system may select a subset of visual aids for display based on a determined relevance of the multiple visual aids to the indicated portion and a display size of the digital document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Zhicheng Liu, Sriram Karthik Badam
  • Patent number: 10896478
    Abstract: Implementations relate to an image grid with selectively prominent images. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes identifying a plurality of images, where each image of the plurality of images has a respective importance score. A subset of the images is selected based at least in part on the respective importance score for each image. The method determines respective one or more cells in a grid for occupation by each of the images, where at least one image of the subset is placed in the grid such that it occupies at least two cells in the grid. The method causes the images to be displayed in a user interface on a display screen based on the grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Paul Sowden, Madhur Khandelwal
  • Patent number: 10878034
    Abstract: A method can include rendering a first closed curve to a display where the first closed curve represents a number of members of a dataset according to a first criterion; receiving a selection for a second criterion for the dataset; transmitting at least the second criterion via a network interface; responsive to the transmitting, via the network interface, receiving information as to at least the second criterion and the dataset; and rendering to the display, based at least in part on the information, a second closed curve that represents a number of members of the dataset according to the second criterion where the first and second closed curves overlap to an extent that depends on a number of common members thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Inventor: Mark LeVell
  • Patent number: 10878851
    Abstract: Technologies for implementing embedding interactive content into a shareable online video. The technologies include an authoring tool including a graphical user interface (GUI). The tool can be used to input an edit decision list (EDL) file and a video file that has a video. The GUI can provide a view of specific scenes of the video according to the EDL file and the video file. The GUI can also provide interactive features. Through the GUI and/or the tool, a selection of a scene of the specific scenes can be inputted as well as a selection of an interactive feature from the interactive features can be inputted. Then, the tool can embed the selected interactive feature into the selected scene at a selected specific spatial location in the selected scene. The tool can also output the video file with the embedded interactive feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: BON2 MEDIA SERVICES LLC
    Inventor: Ntana Bantu Key
  • Patent number: 10880350
    Abstract: At least one layer may be selected from layers of media content available on a local device. An output layer may be created by capturing the at least one layer without capturing unselected layers. The output layer may include output frames captured at an initial frame rate of the local device. A desired output frame rate may be determined for the output layer. The initial frame rate of the output layer may be converted to the desired output frame rate. The output layer may be transmitted at the desired output frame rate to the media hosting service for presentation at a remote device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Brian Schmidt, George Leiming Xing, Matt Snider, Sunbir Gill
  • Patent number: 10867281
    Abstract: A system and method supporting the assisted creation of media content documenting the details of completing a step-by-step project by a consumer in an Internet-based, social networking/social e-commerce environment. For example, a first user may create web pages documenting a multi-step project, including tagging items such as ingredients, products, utensils, and/or materials that appear in project web page images, with information and links for purchasing the tagged items. A collection of images for use in creating the project web pages may be automatically retrieved from web pages identified by the user. Other users, upon viewing the project web pages may create additional web page(s) documenting their own step variations that are then associated with one or more steps of the project of the first user. Users may choose which of the original project steps and/or step variations to include when requesting information for a customized project of their own choice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Transform SR Brands LLC
    Inventors: Shubham Agarwal, Eui Chung
  • Patent number: 10847975
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques to evaluate power usage and characteristics on a power distribution system. The power distribution system may include local distribution systems as well as transmission systems. Additionally, this disclosure describes techniques to evaluate the effectiveness of Conservation Voltage Reduction (CVR), for example, by using two variable characteristics to model a power load as a sum of a constant impedance load and a constant power load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Avista Corporation
    Inventors: Darrell Richardson, Erik Jon Lee, Matthew Michael, Greg Paulson, Will Stone
  • Patent number: 10838618
    Abstract: A work machine display device is provided with a touch panel which displays software buttons and operation conditions which are necessary for selecting the software buttons at the same time in a state in which the software buttons and the operation conditions are related.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masashi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 10817286
    Abstract: Provided is a method and apparatus for tracking and managing a code change between multiple projects. The apparatus includes a code management unit for generating function flow graphs by analyzing a structural and functional flow and annotated annotation from the project code input to a code management unit, comparing the generated function flow graphs for respective projects, and tracking changes based on information recorded in annotation formed by annotating the difference and changes deduced via comparison and generating a change tracking result, a change management unit for providing information on requirement and an ID by the request for a change of additional information as annotated annotation, receiving the change tracking result from the code management unit, and managing the change tracking result, and a display element for receiving the change tracking result from the code management unit and displaying the change tracking result on a monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: KOREA AEROSPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventor: Hyun-Kyu Shin
  • Patent number: 10820058
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces related to sources of video data. User interfaces enables users to configure and interact with the sources of video data, such as for displaying a live video feed and a recorded video from an external source of video data. In some embodiments, a device provides user interfaces for displaying video from a video source and controlling external devices related to the source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Taylor G. Carrigan, Patrick L. Coffman, Christopher Patrick Foss, Pani Page
  • Patent number: 10817653
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for optimizing the loading of a web page. The server receives indications (e.g., Document Object Model (DOM) elements) of web page elements of interest of a web page from multiple client devices. The server updates a list of web page elements for the requested web page that is sorted in terms of popularity based on these received indications of web page elements of interest. The server may then appropriately respond to a request to retrieve that web page by accessing such a list and transmitting to the browser of the requesting client device the data to populate the content of the web page elements for the requested web page in an order based on the sorted list. In this manner, the browser will be able to optimize the loading of the web page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew J. Ivory, Todd E. Kaplinger, Aaron K. Shook, David M. Stecher
  • Patent number: 10817606
    Abstract: A malicious content detection (MCD) system and a computerized method for manipulating time uses a time controller operating within the MCD system in order to capture the behavior of delayed activation malware (time bombs). The time controller may include a monitoring agent located in a software layer of a virtual environment configured to intercept software calls (e.g., API calls or system calls) and/or other time checks that seek to obtain a “current time,” and time-dilation action logic located in a different layer configured to respond to the software calls by providing a “false” current time that indicates considerably more time has transpired than the real clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: FireEye, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Vincent
  • Patent number: 10812574
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to multicomputer processing of client device request data using a centralized event orchestrator and a dynamic endpoint engine. A computing platform may receive, from a client computing device, event definition information defining an event. Subsequently, the computing platform may receive, from a recipient computing device associated with the event, a request for a recipient-selection user interface, and may determine that a dynamic endpoint option is available for a user of the recipient computing device. Thereafter, the computing platform may send, to the recipient computing device, a delivery selection user interface that includes a user-selectable option that, when invoked, causes the computing platform to create a new endpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Akiva D. Kates, Joseph Benjamin Castinado, Rob Oddy, Brandon Castagna
  • Patent number: 10812208
    Abstract: A system and method for generating an audio output file are provided. The method includes using one or more processors to perform steps of: receiving audio tracks, each audio track created according to audio parameters; separating each audio track into at least one selectable audio block, each audio block including audio content from a musical instrument involved in creating the audio track; assigning a unique identifier to each audio block; using the unique identifiers to select audio blocks, and generating the audio output by combining the audio blocks. The present invention prevents the use of the same combination of audio blocks in the generation of audio output to ensure that the audio output files generated a sufficiently unique. Also provided are audio file recording, editing and mixing modules enabling a user to have full creative control over mix and other parameters to modify as desired the audio file generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Score Music Interactive Limited
    Inventors: Michael John Kiely, Conor Tee
  • Patent number: 10803232
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for optimizing the loading of a web page. The server receives indications (e.g., Document Object Model (DOM) elements) of web page elements of interest of a web page from multiple client devices. The server updates a list of web page elements for the requested web page that is sorted in terms of popularity based on these received indications of web page elements of interest. The server may then appropriately respond to a request to retrieve that web page by accessing such a list and transmitting to the browser of the requesting client device the data to populate the content of the web page elements for the requested web page in an order based on the sorted list. In this manner, the browser will be able to optimize the loading of the web page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew J. Ivory, Todd E. Kaplinger, Aaron K. Shook, David M. Stecher
  • Patent number: 10802664
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for facilitating layout designs. In embodiments, an input event is detected indicating a desire to include a new object within a layout design including a first component. Thereafter, it is determined that the first component within the layout is to be modified to accommodate a second component containing the new object. The layout design is automatically modified to include the first component and the second component in the layout design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: William Thomas Ruby, Michael Spencer Cragg, Danielle Takara Morimoto
  • Patent number: 10805386
    Abstract: Provided is a group-based communication interface and an apparatus configured to programmatically generate and provide digests of relevant group-based communications transmitted between a plurality of client devices and a group-based communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Slack Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Renaud Bourassa-Denis, Jerry Talton, Jenna Zeigen, Michael Montazeri, Noah Weiss
  • Patent number: 10795974
    Abstract: Techniques for memory assignment for guest operating systems are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a license blob containing data representing a product key copied from a record of license information in the host storage upon receiving a user request to launch an application in the guest operating system. The method also includes storing the generated license blob in a random memory location accessible by the guest operating system. The guest operating system can then query the license blob for permission to launch the application and launching the application in the guest operating system without having a separate product key for the guest operating system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ahmed Saruhan Karademir, Sudeep Kumar Ghosh, Ankit Srivastava, Michael Trevor Pashniak, Benjamin M. Schultz, Balaji Balasubramanyan, Hari R. Pulapaka, Tushar Suresh Sugandhi, Matthew David Kurjanowicz, Giridhar Viswanathan
  • Patent number: 10782937
    Abstract: A method and system may be provided for recording discussions about computer code in an integrated development environment (“IDE”). In some aspects, a communication channel is integrated with an IDE. Communications and discussions may be tracked and linked with specific code sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: CodeStream, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Pezaris
  • Patent number: 10771612
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium and method for processing information are provided. The information processing apparatus includes a display device; and one or more processors configured to form a display area to be displayed on a screen of the display device; set a first display area and a second display area next to each other in the display area; assign a first and a second conversation screens to the first and second display areas respectively, each of the first and second conversation screens comprising a plurality of conversation messages; and move the display area along the screen in response to an operation on the screen, such that the screen sequentially displays all of the first display area, a portion of the first display area and a portion of the second display area, and then all of the second display area and none of the first display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kengo Tokuchi
  • Patent number: 10754612
    Abstract: A system is described for maintaining synchrony of operations among a plurality of devices that have independent clocking arrangements. The system includes a task distribution device that distributes tasks to a synchrony group comprising a plurality of devices that are to perform the tasks distributed by the task distribution device in synchrony. The task distribution device distributes each task to the members of the synchrony group over a network. Each task is associated with a time stamp that indicates a time, relative to a clock maintained by the task distribution device, at which the members of the synchrony group are to execute the task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas A. J. Millington
  • Patent number: 10747952
    Abstract: An application automatically saves drafts of a document in association with the document. Drafts are saved, for example, whenever the application closes the document. Thus, the application stores a separate draft of the document for each session in which the document was used. The saved drafts are logically associated with each other and their original document. Because of this association, whenever the user accesses the document in the application, the application may present to the user a list of the various drafts of the documents. The user may continue working on the last saved draft, or the user may select another draft from which to continue working. The application further includes a collaborative interface for listing objects at a server. The server pushes new changes or additions to the objects directly to the client, and the client updates the interface accordingly, without user intervention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew Aymeloglu, Nicholas Miyake, Brandon Burr, Derek Cicerone, Kevin Simler, Garry Tan
  • Patent number: 10739938
    Abstract: A system for customizing a tag cloud includes at least one processor to access and execute computer readable instructions stored on a computer readable storage medium, where the computer readable instructions are to cause the at least one processor to, upon execution of the computer readable instructions identify tags from a source; assign a score to each tag in the source based on tag attribute; temporarily increase the score for a new tag during a time period measured from a creation of the new tag; and create a tag cloud in a graphical user interface that emphasizes each tag according to its score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul Eric Bastide, Matthew E. Broomhall, Robert Edward Loredo, Matthew Stephen Rosno
  • Patent number: 10739989
    Abstract: A technique is provided for customizing a presentation. The technique includes recording multimedia corresponding to a presenter of a presentation. The recorded multimedia is analyzed to extract a representative information corresponding to the multimedia. Further, one or more pre-recorded multimedia files are determined from a multimedia database. The determination is based on a comparison of the representative information with one or more tags associated with each of a plurality of pre-recorded multimedia files. Subsequently, the presentation is customized by inserting the one or more pre-recorded multimedia in the presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Wipro Limited
    Inventors: Raghottam Mannopantar, Raghavendra Hosabettu
  • Patent number: 10740423
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device, user input comprising a query from a user, wherein the query does not comprise an explicit request for visual data; identifying, based upon results of the query, that visual data is associated with the query; and providing, based on the identifying, output associated with the identified visual data. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Daryl Cromer, Scott Patrick DeBates, Ming Qian, Song Wang, David Alexander Schwarz
  • Patent number: 10732789
    Abstract: A unique user interface for improving machine learning algorithms is described herein. The user interface comprises an icon with multiple visual indicators displaying the machine learning confidence score. When a mouse hovers over the icon, a set of icons are displayed to accept the teaching user's input. In addition, the words that drove the machine learning confidence score are highlighted with formatting so that the teaching user can understand what drove the machine learning confidence score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Bottomline Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Marcinelli, Flora Kidani, John Canneto, Anne Baron, Jonathan Hewitt, William Cashman
  • Patent number: 10733210
    Abstract: Techniques for reducing electronic resource consumption using search data are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises: identifying a cohort of profiles from profiles based on a determination that at least one attribute is shared among the profile data of the cohort; receiving corresponding search appearance data including an impression count for the cohort of profiles; selecting reference profiles from the cohort based on the impression counts of the reference profiles; selecting a target profile from the cohort based on the impression count of the target profile; identifying a trend corresponding to at least one feature among the reference profiles; and causing an indication of the feature(s) to be displayed on a computing device of the user of the target profile based on the identifying of the trend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Charu Jangid, Wei Wang, Aayush Gopal Dawra, Mahesh Vishwanath, Qiang Wu, Kirill Talanine, Robert Gibson, Monica Cai, Warren Bartolome, James Michael Fell
  • Patent number: 10726461
    Abstract: A system and method of completing an activity via an agent. The agent is embodied as agent software, which facilitates and/or performs activities on behalf of a user. The agent software may have a characteristic persona that it presents to the user in the form of an avatar on a display. The agent software may be part of a computer program stored in a memory and executed by a processor of a smartphone or other computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Thomas Borucki, John Bruno
  • Patent number: 10712921
    Abstract: Techniques and systems for a graphical user interface based multimedia authoring tools to create gallery components are disclosed. A multimedia authoring tool as described herein can provide functionality for creating, editing, and displaying interactive image galleries. The multimedia authoring tool, for example, can enable authors to drag and drop image files into a multimedia editing area of the tool's graphical user interface to create an image gallery that includes the corresponding images without having to create a gallery beforehand. The image gallery can provide a control for navigating the gallery's images which can be arranged in a strip such as a vertical or horizontal strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: George R. König, Pepijn Zoon, Andre Abelmann, Suchita C. Doshi
  • Patent number: 10706033
    Abstract: A content management system is provided that allows users to create collections of content for management or delivery purposes by assigning content items to labels. Labels can be persisted in the system as managed objects separate from content objects. Because the labels may be separate managed objects from the content, the labels can be implemented in a manner that does not change the content items or disrupt the lifecycle of the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Open Text SA ULC
    Inventors: Michael Gerard Jaskiewicz, Claiborne Holt Johnson, III, David Alan Stiles
  • Patent number: 10691990
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system (1) for capturing spatial and temporal relationships between physical content items (2) and user actions related to the physical content items (2), comprising a sensor unit (3) for detecting the physical content items (2) and for outputting sensor data, a monitoring device (4) for user identification and monitoring of user action related to the physical content items (2) and for outputting monitoring data, and a processor (5) for processing said sensor data and said monitoring data by prioritizing and interrelating said sensor data and said monitoring data in correspondence to the frequency and/or duration of the at least one user action in connection with the at least one physical content items (2) and for generating a data set including said prioritized and interrelated sensor data and monitoring data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Victor Barend Hendrik Donker, Jori Marcellinus Nicole Verbeek, Johan Partomo Djajadiningrat, Lucas Jacobus Franciscus Geurts
  • Patent number: 10681324
    Abstract: Techniques for processing content for communication sessions are described. Implementations, for example, enable various ways of detecting and storing events that occur during communication sessions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Fredrik Furesjö, Mattias Dan Nilsson, Daniel Nitsche, Henrik Valdemar Turbell, Jonas Nils Rune Lindblom
  • Patent number: 10674140
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method, a processing device, and a computer system for video preview. An exemplary method is applicable to a processing device and includes the following steps. A video file is received and decoded to obtain video frames. Each of the video frames is converted into texture data. Shading computations are performed on the texture data to respectively generate render video outputs for video preview, where each of the shading computations corresponds to a different designated video viewing mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Drew Bamford, Yu-Hsien Chang, Jo-Wei Hsu, Yihsiu Chen, Andrew Charles Hunt
  • Patent number: 10664478
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for stress management in a searchable data service. The searchable data service may provide a searchable index to a backend data store, and an interface to build and query the searchable index, that enables client applications to search for and retrieve locators for stored entities in the backend data store. Embodiments of the searchable data service may implement a distributed stress management mechanism that may provide functionality including, but not limited to, the automated monitoring of critical resources, analysis of resource usage, and decisions on and performance of actions to keep resource usage within comfort zones. In one embodiment, in response to usage of a particular resource being detected as out of the comfort zone on a node, an action may be performed to transfer at least part of the resource usage for the local resource to another node that provides a similar resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick W. Ransil, Aleksey V. Martynov, James S. Larson, James R. Collette, Robert Wai-Chi Chu, Partha Saha
  • Patent number: 10622021
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for video editing. The method comprises selecting at least one video, using a user interface, displaying one of the selected at least one video, on a video preview area on the user interface, providing at least one effect button on the user interface, to be activated by applying a pointing device at the at least one effect button, wherein each of the at least one effect button is associated with one video editing effect, selecting a time point in a timeline of the displayed one video, activating an effect button selected from the at least one effect button provided, and applying a video editing effect corresponding to the activated effect button from the selected time point forward until detecting de-activation of the activated effect button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: AVCR BILGI TEKNOLOJILERI A.S
    Inventors: Ugur Buyuklu, Kemal Ugur, Oguz Bici
  • Patent number: 10621279
    Abstract: The conversion quality evaluation system may evaluate the conversion quality of digital forms digitized from paper forms. The system may attribute multiple labels and respective confidence scores to form objects in a form, and aggregate information of form objects to form a conversion index, which is a measurement of conversion quality of the form. The conversion index may comprise various characteristics of the form, including cost of correction, accessibility, content reusability, or device readiness. As such, the conversion quality evaluation system can sort digital forms based on their conversion quality and provide guidance for post-digitization activities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Varun Dua, Vikas Patidar, Saswata Dutta, Deepak Kumar
  • Patent number: 10614050
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and related technologies for application-centric object storage and managing object requests via multiple indexes are described. In certain aspects, a processing device can receive a first data object, generate, with respect to the first data object, a first index, generate, with respect to the first data object, a second index through which the first data object can be accessed, receive a request with respect to the first data object, process the request to determine which of the first index or the second index to utilize in completing the request, and complete the request via at least one of the first index or the second index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Iguazio Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yaron Haviv, Ori Modai, Orit Nissan-Messing
  • Patent number: 10606552
    Abstract: A system is described for maintaining synchrony of operations among a plurality of devices that have independent clocking arrangements. The system includes a task distribution device that distributes tasks to a synchrony group comprising a plurality of devices that are to perform the tasks distributed by the task distribution device in synchrony. The task distribution device distributes each task to the members of the synchrony group over a network. Each task is associated with a time stamp that indicates a time, relative to a clock maintained by the task distribution device, at which the members of the synchrony group are to execute the task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas A. J. Millington
  • Patent number: 10609097
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems for instantly posting images or video clips to social media websites during recording of video content are provided. A video capture device is provided for recording video content. A social media integration application is associated with the video capture device. The selection of a still image or video clip during recording of video content is enabled via a one-touch process. The selected still image or video clip is then processed by the social media integration application such that the still image or video clip is at least one of directly forwarded to and posted on one or more pre-selected social media websites via a network or forwarded to and posted on the one or more pre-selected social media websites via a web browser interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: TVU Networks Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Shen, Matthew Richard McEwen, Shiwen Yao
  • Patent number: 10599753
    Abstract: Organizations maintain and generate large amounts of documentation and entities of these organizations often need to collaborate on generating and reviewing this information. There is a need to maintain and store this documentation remotely in such a way that the entities of these organizations may collaborate with each other. To ensure that information is handled effectively, new versions are created for documents uploaded to a service provider by entities of the organization. The documents are processed in such a way that the documents are displayed uniformly across a variety of devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Noah Anthony Eisner, Kevin Gillett, Himanshu Khurana, Arun Ponniah Sethuramalingam, Liangliang Wang, Sharad Kala, Frank Chen
  • Patent number: 10586379
    Abstract: In various example embodiments, a system and method for integration of a three-dimensional model is disclosed. In one example embodiment, a method includes receiving a plurality of images, selecting points on the images and triangulating the points to generate a plurality of depth maps, generate a three-dimensional mesh by combining the plurality of depth maps, generating a three-dimensional model of the item by projecting the plurality of images onto the mesh using the points, calibrating colors used in the model using colors diffuse properties of the colors in the images, and providing a user interface allowing a user to select one or more user points on the three-dimensional model and provide additional information associated with the selected user points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Qiaosong Wang, James Thomas Dowdell, Jinrong Xie, Robinson Piramuthu
  • Patent number: 10580319
    Abstract: A software application for teaching literacy through customized stories with gamification elements. Existing or new stories are created and customized for particular audiences and include text, animations, images, and sounds to produce an interactive multimedia story for presentation on a computing device with a display and audio output. Reading comprehension questions and games are provided to accompany the stories and the reader of the stories can earn rewards based on performance. The reader's performance is analyzed and reported to track progress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Creative Styles LLC
    Inventor: Nicholas Colin Styles
  • Patent number: 10573348
    Abstract: The disclosure is generally directed to methods, systems and apparatuses for multi-directional still pictures and/or multi-directional motion pictures and their applications on mobile, embedded, and other computing devices and applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Inventor: Jasmin Cosic
  • Patent number: 10564817
    Abstract: Different types of media experiences can be developed based on characteristics of the consumer. “Linear” experiences may require execution of a pre-built script, although the script could be dynamically modified by a media production platform. Linear experiences can include guided audio tours that are modified or updated based on the location of the consumer. “Enhanced” experiences include conventional media content that is supplemented with intelligent media content. For example, turn-by-turn directions could be supplemented with audio descriptions about the surrounding area. “Freeform” experiences, meanwhile, are those that can continually morph based on information gleaned from a consumer. For example, a radio station may modify what content is being presented based on the geographical metadata uploaded by a computing device associated with the consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: DESCRIPT, INC.
    Inventors: Ryan Terrill Holmes, Steven Surmacz Rubin, Ulf Schwekendiek, David John Williams
  • Patent number: 10554414
    Abstract: A Material eXchange Format (MXF) digital file generated by a digital electronic processor is disclosed that includes a generic container for a media file. The MXF file also includes a SDTI-CP (Serial Data Transport Interface-Content Package) compatible system item. The SDTI-CP compatible system item has a media file metadata and a blockchain hash digest information formed from the media file. The blockchain hash digest information of the media file may be a blockchain hash digest used to error check the media file. Alternatively, the blockchain hash digest information of the media file may be a link to a cloud-based blockchain hash digest used to error check the media file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Inventor: Tyson York Winarski
  • Patent number: 10540432
    Abstract: Reading time indicators for display within a content authoring application are provided herein. Estimates of reading times for the content item as a whole, and of sections thereof, are created as the author manipulates content within a document. These estimates are displayed as indicators within the content authoring application and the document, to inform the author of how long a reader is expected to take when consuming the document. The functionality of the computing device running the content authoring application is thus improved by providing content limit indicators related to consumption time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventor: Brian Scott Stucker
  • Patent number: 10540188
    Abstract: A virtual-computing environment definition language automates the deployment of a virtualized computing environment. A set of basic requirements of a planned virtual computing environment is described in the definition language to provide a concise, textual representation of the planned environment's architecture. This representation also predicts the planned environment's performance characteristics as a function of expected workloads, such as expected numbers of concurrent users or expected numbers of concurrent transactions. The definition-language representation is then translated into an orchestration template from which virtual resources are provisioned and the virtual-computing environment deployed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Tinniam Venkataraman Ganesh