For Plural Users Or Sites (e.g., Network) Patents (Class 715/733)
  • Patent number: 11579903
    Abstract: Systems and methods for interacting with a web-based document using a desktop-based application, wherein the application includes a web content renderer and is configured to appear as an application native to the operating system using the native graphical user interface for selecting a web-based document for the application to open, retrieving the contents of the document from the URL associated with the document, displaying, using the application, the contents of the retrieved document using the graphical user interface, and enabling, using the application, a user to edit the contents of the retrieved document using the graphical user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Zive, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Shashoua, Pall Ivarsson, Anton Zmieiev, Ryan Shetley
  • Patent number: 11580504
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method comprises, obtaining a digital calendar item for an event, determining, that the event has begun, and in response to determining that the event has begun, accessing a location and determining which of the participants are present for the event, determining, during the event, that one participant shared a digital data item with the other participants or as part of the event, and in response to determining that the participant shared the digital data item, at least transiently storing a reference or link to the digital data item, determining that the event has ended, and in response to determining that the event has ended, updating the digital calendar item by adding the reference or link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: ATLASSIAN PTY LTD.
    Inventors: Oji Udezue, Michael Cannon-Brookes, Steen Andersson
  • Patent number: 11574119
    Abstract: Methods and systems for navigating to an initial position in a document include weighting historical user actions within a document. Initial display positions within the document are determined based on the weighted historical user actions. A selected initial display positions is navigated to in accordance with a user selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Sean Callanan, Mark Gargan, Fred Raguillat
  • Patent number: 11544343
    Abstract: A client device that includes a camera and an extended reality client application program is employed by a user in a physical space, such as an industrial or campus environment. The user aims the camera within the mobile device at a real-world asset, such as a computer system, classroom, or vehicle. The client device acquires a digital image via the camera and detects textual and/or pictorial content included in the acquired image that corresponds to one or more anchors. The client device queries a data intake and query system for asset content associated with the detected anchors. Upon receiving the asset content from the data intake and query system, the client device generates visualizations of the asset content and presents the visualizations via a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: SPLUNK INC.
    Inventors: Devin Bhushan, Seunghee Han, Caelin Thomas Jackson-King, Jamie Kuppel, Stanislav Yazhenskikh, Jim Jiaming Zhu
  • Patent number: 11531730
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system that enables manipulation of a persistent display of shared content. Content can be shared with a host device from a guest device. A rendering of the content is configured to be manipulated by a user at the host device. For instance, a rendering of the content can be resized, scaled, rotated and moved within a graphical user interface. Annotations can also be added to the rendering of the content. The rendering of the content can also be persistently and automatically displayed in response to a device operating in a predetermined state. The predetermined state can include, for example, a lock screen mode, a bulletin board mode, or a mode when application user interfaces are minimized. The rendering may be removed from a display when the device exits the predetermined state or when the device receives a specific command to remove the rendering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Travis Jay Popkave, Jessica Bourgade, Mark Derek Raymond, Jr., Bryan Kim Mamaril, Regina Hajin Son, Corey Joseph Loman, Cassandra Lynn Hoef
  • Patent number: 11518036
    Abstract: A service providing system including: a mobile robot configured to act in response to an instruction from a user through wireless communication and including a sensor having a capability corresponding to a human sensing capability to perceive an external world; a target identifying unit configured to identify whether an action target of the robot is a human being or another robot; an user apparatus control portion configured to output the signal detected by the sensor in a first manner when the action target is identified to be a human being and output the signal detected by the sensor in a second manner when the action target is identified to be the other robot; and a user apparatus configured to act in a manner perceivable by the user based on a output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigenori Hiruta, Shiro Kitamura, Daisuke Muramatsu, Shuji Nakayama
  • Patent number: 11514550
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for managing pipes and planes within a virtual graphics processing engine. For example, one embodiment of a graphics processing apparatus comprises: a graphics processor comprising one or more display pipes to render one or more display planes, each of the one or more display pipes comprising a set of graphics processing hardware resources for executing graphics commands and rendering graphics images in the one or more display planes; and pipe and plane management hardware logic to manage pipe and plane assignment, the pipe and plane management hardware logic to associate a first virtual machine (VM) with one or more virtual display planes and to maintain a mapping between the one or more virtual display planes and at least one physical display plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yunbiao Lin, Changliang Wang, Satyanantha Ramagopal Musunuri, David Puffer, David J. Cowperthwaite, Bryan R. White, Balaji Vembu
  • Patent number: 11500605
    Abstract: A remote screenshot method adapted to a sender and a receiver having a communicable connection with the sender, wherein the sender electrically connects to an electronic device to receive an image signal outputted by the electronic device, the receiver electrically connects to a display device to show the image signal, and the remote screenshot method comprises: sending a capturing instruction through a first communication circuit by the sender; receiving the capturing instruction through a second communication circuit by the receiver; obtaining a captured image according to the capturing instruction by the sender, wherein the captured image is associated with the image signal shown by the display device; sending the captured image to the first communication circuit through the second communication circuit by the receiver; and storing the captured image in a storage circuit by the sender.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: AVER INFORMATION INC.
    Inventors: Han-Yen Chang, Ming Kang Chuang
  • Patent number: 11502979
    Abstract: A computer system analyzes an input in a chat window of a first device, wherein the chat window corresponds to a first chat session with a user of a second device and a second chat session with a user of a third device. The computer system determines, based on the analyzing the input, whether the input corresponds to an information associated with the first chat session and an information associated with the second chat session. Based on determining that the input corresponds to the information associated with the first chat session and the information associated with the second chat session, the computer system transmits the input to the second device and the third device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventor: Rahul Nair
  • Patent number: 11500525
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for receiving a request to generate a media overlay corresponding to a home of a first user, and for generating the media overlay corresponding to the home of the first user using media content received in the request. The systems and methods further provide for associating, with the media overlay, a location of the home of the first user and a selection of users to grant permission to access the media overlay corresponding to the home of the first user. The systems and methods further provide for determining whether a second user and a location corresponding to the second computing device trigger access to the media overlay and providing the media overlay to the second computing device, based on determining that the second user and location corresponding to the second computing device trigger access to the media overlay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Brent Michael Barkman, Michael Cumberbatch, Zachary Lupei, Ashley Michelle Wayne, Eric Wood
  • Patent number: 11494209
    Abstract: An improved browser application that provides a view with the option of displaying simultaneously content of a plurality of “tabs” of the browser application on one or more displays, regardless of whether the tabs are active or inactive, is described herein. For example, the browser application can display simultaneously the content of multiple tabs and allow a user to resize and reposition the content of any one tab independent of the size, position, or number of other displayed tab content. Thus, in some circumstances, the content of one tab can partially or fully overlap (and therefore partially or fully hide) the content of another tab after a user manipulation of the size or position of tab content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Hiperwall, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen F. Jenks, Duy Lai, Sung-Jin Kim
  • Patent number: 11494046
    Abstract: An electronic device with a display and a fingerprint sensor displays a fingerprint enrollment interface and detects, on the fingerprint sensor, a plurality of finger gestures performed with a finger. The device collects fingerprint information from the plurality of finger gestures performed with the finger. After collecting the fingerprint information, the device determines whether the collected fingerprint information is sufficient to enroll a fingerprint of the finger. When the collected fingerprint information for the finger is sufficient to enroll the fingerprint of the finger, the device enrolls the fingerprint of the finger with the device. When the collected fingerprint information for the finger is not sufficient to enroll the fingerprint of the finger, the device displays a message in the fingerprint enrollment interface prompting a user to perform one or more additional finger gestures on the fingerprint sensor with the finger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Byron Han, Matthew E. Shepherd, Imran Chaudhri, Gregory N. Christie, Patrick L. Coffman, Craig M. Federighi, Matthew H. Gamble, Brittany D. Paine, Brendan J. Langoulant, Craig A. Marciniak, Donald W. Pitschel, Daniel O. Schimpf, Andrew R. Whalley, Christopher R. Whitney, Jonathan R. Dascola, Lawrence Y. Yang
  • Patent number: 11487406
    Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for a windowing container that enables two or more windows associated with application(s) to be grouped within the container such that the windows may behave or function uniformly as a single window. For example, responsive to a request to group two windows, a container may be generated to include the windows arranged based on one or more rules and features enabling group functions associated with the container to be performed. When a group function is performed on the container, the function may be performed to each of the windows arranged therein as if they were a single window. As new windows are grouped within or existing windows are released from the container, the container and/or windows may be rearranged based on the rules. A state of the container may be stored to enable subsequent invocation of the container after closing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Samantha Madeline Song, Anna Marion Pfoertsch, Roberth Karman, Nihar Niranjan Shah
  • Patent number: 11481730
    Abstract: A spatial event map system including server-side data processor that maintains a spatial event map which locates events in a workspace. The spatial event map includes a log of events, entries in the log having a location of a graphical target of the event in the workspace and a time. The system includes logic to send messages including an event, a location of a graphical target of the event in the workspace and a time, to client-side network nodes; and to receive messages identifying events that create or modify a graphical target, and to add corresponding entries to the log of events. The events can include history events that are sent to the other client-side network nodes, and added to the log for the corresponding history events, and ephemeral events that are sent to other client-side network nodes without adding corresponding entries in the log.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: HAWORTH, INC.
    Inventors: David M. Foley, Adam Pearson, Demian Entrekin
  • Patent number: 11481164
    Abstract: A system and method for improved predictive maintenance for multifunction peripherals includes machine learning trained with more accurate problem and resolution coding and categorization. A training set is made from past maintenance records that include accurate problem codes, thorough natural language problem descriptions, accurate resolution codes, thorough problem resolution descriptions and problem/solution categorization. When a service call is received, an operator provides record with a natural language problem description and to which they assign a problem code for categorization. Natural language in the record is compared with records in the training set. When there is a sufficient language match, the problem code and categorization from the training set record is used instead of that which was operator assigned. The corrected record can then be fed to improve predictive maintenance machine learning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Methee Phoboonme
  • Patent number: 11475690
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a recognizer configured to recognize first content displayed on a terminal device, and an identifier configured to identify a person carrying the terminal device with the first content displayed thereon outside the vehicle as a user scheduled to use the vehicle or a person relevant to the user on the basis of a comparison between the first content recognized by the recognizer and one or more pieces of content associated with the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamanaka, Katsuyasu Yamane, Yoshitaka Mimura, Chie Sugihara, Yuki Motegi, Tsubasa Shibauchi
  • Patent number: 11468916
    Abstract: In order to provide a recording and reproducing device that allows a user to select and manage arbitrary play lists, a unit of management for managing all registered play list information and an upper management hierarchical level are added. The unit of management is adapted to be handled on the same level with unified information that indicates a reproduction range of all AV data. User-defined unified information is adapted to be handled on the added management hierarchical level. The user-defined unified information is formed to allow arbitrary reproduction ranges contained on a lower hierarchical level to be registered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Yoshida, Junji Shiokawa, Hiroo Okamoto
  • Patent number: 11451639
    Abstract: Techniques for providing an enhanced user profile to provide relevant information to a user requesting to view a user profile associated with another user. In an example, a first user submits a request to view a user profile associated with a second user. In response to receiving the request, the communication platform identifies one or more communication objects (e.g., communication channels, direct messaging instances, messages, threads, etc.) and/or one or more applications (third-party applications, first party applications, etc.) associated with the second user and/or the first user. The communication platform causes a display of indicator(s) associated with the communication object(s) and/or application(s) in association with the user profile, such as to enable efficient access to the associated communication object(s) and/or application(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Slack Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Edward Zagat, Neville Bowers, Maxwell Hayman, Michael Brevoort
  • Patent number: 11422672
    Abstract: Managing updates can include receiving data items corresponding to available content for different applications, determining, using a processor, priorities associated with the data items, and creating updates for the data items using the priorities. The updates can be displayed in different ones of a plurality of views. Each view of the plurality of views is configured to display updates of a same priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jeffrey S. Pierce, Mike Digman, Ranhee Chung
  • Patent number: 11423487
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes, in one implementation, an assignment for an insurance claim of a loss is identified, the assignment specifying a loss location. A first set of candidate user profiles are searched for from a plurality of profiles, where each profile in the plurality of user profiles corresponds to a particular insurance adjuster and at least one associated device. Searching can include determining that a location associated with a particular device is within a first search range of the loss location, and identifying the profile corresponding to the device as one of the first set of candidate user profiles. An assignment notification is transmitted to each of the devices associated with the first set of candidate user profiles. Upon receiving a response to the assignment notification from a device associated with a profile, the assignment is assigned to the first insurance adjuster associated with the profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Inventor: Debra Beard
  • Patent number: 11394714
    Abstract: Techniques are described for providing users with access to perform commands on network-accessible computing resources. In some situations, permissions are established for user(s) to execute command(s) on computing node(s) provided by an online service, such as by maintaining various permission information externally to those provided computing nodes for use in controlling users' ability to access, use, and/or modify the provided computing nodes. An interface component may use such external permissions information to determine if a particular user is authorized to execute one or more particular commands on one or more particular computing nodes, and to initiate simultaneous and independent execution of the command(s) on the computing node(s) when authorized. The interface component may further aggregate results from each computing node that executed the command(s), prior to providing the results to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Omer Hashmi, Katherine Yichen Chung
  • Patent number: 11360746
    Abstract: A method for constructing an interactive digital catalog, a computer-readable storage medium and an interactive digital catalog using the method are provided. The method includes the following steps. Firstly, the interactive digital catalog including at least one page is provided. Then, the at least one operable unified matter is presented and/or managed by laying out the at least one operable unified matter on the at least one page according to a predefined rule. The computer-readable storage medium has a computing program for executing the above method. The interactive digital catalog is constructed by the above method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: ABLE WORLD INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Wai-Tung Cheung, Chun-Hsiao Lin, Ho-Cheung Cheung
  • Patent number: 11362906
    Abstract: A device may obtain configuration data for a server-side model. The device may generate synthetic usage data based on the configuration data. The device may train the server-side model based on the synthetic usage data. The device may determine update data based on the trained server-side model. The device may provide, to a client device, a message that includes the update data. The message may be configured to cause the client device to train a client-side model based on the update data and historical user data associated with the client device. The device may receive, from the client device, the client-side model data and may select content data based on the client-side model data and the trained server-side model. The device may provide the content data to the client device to permit the client device to provide content that is associated with the content data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions Limited
    Inventors: Md. Faisal Zaman, Hasan Samin Syed
  • Patent number: 11328121
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for collecting web data in order to create diverse language models. A system configured to practice the method first crawls, such as via a crawler operating on a computing device, a set of documents in a network of interconnected devices according to a visitation policy, wherein the visitation policy is configured to focus on novelty regions for a current language model built from previous crawling cycles by crawling documents whose vocabulary considered likely to fill gaps in the current language model. A language model from a previous cycle can be used to guide the creation of a language model in the following cycle. The novelty regions can include documents with high perplexity values over the current language model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Luciano De Andrade Barbosa, Srinivas Bangalore
  • Patent number: 11330007
    Abstract: An interactive display system enables a user to compose a graph pattern for a temporal graph on a display screen. The system comprises a canvas that provides an interactive editing surface. The editor receives an input a set of user interactions, such as the drawing of lines and boxes, the specifying of attributes, and the like, that together compose a graph pattern. During the graph pattern composition, the user may retrieve other graph patterns (e.g., from a data store) and integrate them into the pattern being composed. Once the graph pattern is composed (or as it is being composed), the system converts the graphical pattern into a text-based representation, such as a computer program in a particular graph programming language, which is then used for subsequent processing and matching in a cybersecurity threat discovery workflow. The pattern (program code) also is stored to disk, from which it may be retrieved and converted back into its graphical view on the screen, e.g., for further editing and revision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Fong, Xiaokui Shu, Marc Philippe Stoecklin
  • Patent number: 11310300
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for streaming a video. One method includes an operation for initializing, at a client device, a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) server for processing streaming video requests from a streaming video application. Further; the method includes an operation for receiving a bundle that includes bundle files, which include manifest files of a manifest for streaming a video and video files having video data. The method further includes operations for caching the bundle files in memory, and for intercepting, at the HTTP server, a request for a file from the streaming video application. When the file is cached in the memory, the file is returned from the memory; otherwise, the HTTP server acts as a proxy by forwarding the request to a video server and then returning the file to the streaming video application after the file is received from the remote server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Darryl Hudgin, Michael Eisel
  • Patent number: 11310304
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for managing an Information Handling System (IHS) using a workspace orchestration system are described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an IHS may include computer-executable instructions to, for each of a plurality of workspaces instantiated on the IHS, upon receiving a request to launch a web application from an online server; determine one or more native APIs that the web application is restricted from using. When the web application request access to one of the restricted native APIs, the instructions reject the request, and when the web application request access to one of a web API, the instructions accept the request. The web API and the native API are associated with the same peripheral device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Vivek Viswanathan Iyer, Gokul Thiruchengode Vajravel
  • Patent number: 11301498
    Abstract: The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for accessing an object store. One example method includes providing a persistency factory object configured to provide access to multiple types of persistency adapters. Each type of persistency adapter is configured to interface with a particular object store. A persistency adapter request is received from a consumer. A type of adapter to provide is determined. A determination is made that the consumer is configured to interface with a first object store and that a first persistency adapter class is associated with the first object store. A run-time reference to an instance of the first persistency adapter class is provided to the consumer. A first object store operation request to perform a first object store operation is received. The instance of the first persistency adapter class interfaces with the first object store to fulfill the first object store operation request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: SAP Portals Israel Ltd.
    Inventors: Sergio Rozenszajn, Liad Barel, Anita Demayo
  • Patent number: 11266913
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method for synchronously displaying game content at a terminal device. The method includes: detecting a first operation instruction on a first client of a game application when a round of the game application is run on the first client, accounts participating in the round of game including a first account and a second account, and determining, a first operation that corresponds to the first operation instruction and is performed by a first operation object corresponding to the first account in the round of game; determining first content that needs to be displayed on the first client when the first operation object performs the first operation, and obtaining second content to be simultaneously displayed with the first content, the second content being content that needs to be displayed on the second client; and simultaneously displaying the first content and the second content on the first client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Ronghua Kong, Changsong Liu
  • Patent number: 11269944
    Abstract: A system and method for targeted gaming news and media feeds is provided. Information about an interaction by a user with an interactive content title and a plurality of interactive content titles may be stored in memory. A processor executes instructions stored in memory, wherein execution of the instructions by the processor analyzes the information stored in memory regarding interaction by a user with an interactive content title and identifies one or more keywords that characterize the user interaction with the interactive content title. Media stored in a database may be filtered based on the identified keywords and displayed within a targeted media feed on a user device of the user. The displayed targeted media may be updated based on new information regarding user interaction with the interactive content title.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC
    Inventors: Mischa Stephens, David Lutz
  • Patent number: 11241216
    Abstract: A method of controlling a portable information terminal comprises causing the portable information terminal to display first operation screen data which is obtained by wireless communication with a medical diagnostic imaging apparatus and includes graphic data for reception of an operation from an operator and second operation screen data which is read to the portable information terminal and includes graphic data for reception of an operation from the operator, and causing the portable information terminal to generate, in accordance with the operations for the displayed first operation screen data and the displayed second operation screen data, a command signal for causing the medical diagnostic imaging apparatus to execute functions corresponding to the operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventor: Koichiro Kurita
  • Patent number: 11243083
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product are provided for implementing route generation with augmented reality. A crowd or event is analyzed and escape routes are intelligently distributed by attendee profile type or ability. Augmented Reality (AR) projections are used representing different subsets of an event population to convey the profile-specific escape routes for people to follow. The AR behavior is changed as an event situation changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jim C. Chen, Brittany A. Duffy, Elizabeth Held, Bryant G. Ly
  • Patent number: 11237692
    Abstract: Method, apparatus and computer program product for generating a member calendar in a group-based communication system are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Slack Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Lydia Han, Roland Schemers
  • Patent number: 11233706
    Abstract: A system provides multichannel aggregation of electronic data via a centralized integration hub. In particular, the system may aggregate data associated with a user and provide various processes and/or functions via an integration hub that is accessible by the user via a user device. In this way, the system may allow the client to efficiently navigate the various features offered by the entity for account optimization purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christopher Nicholas King, Poppy Marie Kimball, Christopher Thomas Kopechessi, Rebecca Lynn Pietro, Todd E. Ratts, Robert Marshall Voyles, III
  • Patent number: 11227329
    Abstract: Example embodiments are directed to providing a portable and interactive user interface. A search request for content regarding a product or service is received from a client device of a user. In response to receiving the search request, an interactive user interface that includes a region for displaying the content regarding the product or service and an option to create a new interactive user interface is displayed. A selection of the option to create the new interactive user interface is received. In response to receiving the selection of the option, the client device of the user is redirected to a web page of a server to create the new interactive user interface. In some embodiments, the interactive user interface comprises an interactive storefront.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Su-I Lu, Deborah Yee-Ky Liu
  • Patent number: 11216162
    Abstract: In the present invention, a user selects a transfer process with respect to transfer target data being displayed in a first display area (window), which is the transfer source. At this point, a display processor of the information processing device, for example, changes the display mode so that the first display area is hidden except for the transfer target data. When the user specifies a second display area (window) as the transfer destination, a data processor executes the transfer process of the data to the second display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoya Usui, Tohru Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 11216253
    Abstract: Systems and processes for prototyping and designing natively rendered multi-channel applications across diverse platforms are disclosed. The method of prototyping an application with a computing device includes providing a library of native design elements which are reproducible in different design layouts on an interface associated with different, predefined platforms. The method further includes converting a first design layout comprising one or more native design elements which fits within an interface associated with a first platform of the different, predefined platforms to a second design layout comprising the one or more native design elements which fits within an interface associated with a second platform of the different, predefined platforms, and which is in proportion to the first design layout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: KONY, INC.
    Inventors: Edward Gross, Destry Gustin, Komandur Rajendra Kumar, Pattabhi Rama Rao Dasari, Matthew B. Trevathan, Prajakt Deshpande, Raj K. Koneru, Sathyanarayana Vennapusala
  • Patent number: 11212737
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method for managing system information (SI) window in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes determining a plurality of SI messages to be transmitted at a time point, identifying a SI window number at the time point, and determining at least one of SI message among the plurality of SI messages, the at least one of SI message being included in a SI window corresponding to the SI window number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Anil Agiwal, Gert-Jan Van Lieshout, Himke Van Der Velde, Mangesh Abhimanyu Ingale, Youngbin Chang
  • Patent number: 11204732
    Abstract: A historian interface system provides a graphical representation of tags that represent attributes of a continuous process. A historian system stores the tags and metadata values describing the tags. A display device coupled to the historian system via a communication network displays graphical representations of the tags via display panels and receives selections of the tags. The historian system contextualizes selected tags based on the metadata values describing the selected tag and determines an optimal visualization scheme for the selected tags. The display device displays graphical representations of values of the tags and dynamically determines optimal grouping of the tags based on properties of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: AVEVA SOFTWARE, LLC
    Inventors: Ravi Kumar Herunde Prakash, Sudhir Gonugunta, Brian Erickson
  • Patent number: 11197105
    Abstract: A method and system visually communicates hearing aid information between a patient's smartphone and an audiologist's computer system by using a QR code captured by a camera. When the audiologist's computer system takes a picture of the QR code on the display of the patient's smartphone, the QR code contains at least one piece of audiological data representing historical or current patient-specific usage of the hearing aid. When the patient's smartphone takes a picture of the QR code on the display of the audiologist's computer system, the QR code contains audiological data, which the patient's smartphone extracts to transmit instructions or information to adjust at least one audiological parameter setting on the patient's hearing aid. The patient may transmit or receive an image file of either QR code over a network, thereby communicating the same information with the audiologist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Intricon Corporation
    Inventor: Andreas Perscheid
  • Patent number: 11176521
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to instant messaging and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for managing e-mail user confidentiality. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for managing e-mail user confidentiality can be provided. The method can include transmitting an e-mail message for delivery to multiple e-mail users and corresponding e-mail addresses, identifying a privacy preference for a particular one of the e-mail users; and, concealing a display within the e-mail message of an e-mail address associated with the particular one of the e-mail users responsive to the privacy preference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Angela Richards Jones, Ruthie D. Lyle
  • Patent number: 11176210
    Abstract: Techniques for improving dynamic content retrieval are described. In an example, a system may receive a request for content. The request may be associated with an access by a computing device to a network document. The system may determine a context associated with the network document based on the request. The content may be pre-computed based on historical accesses to a network resource. The system may determine a match between the context and a pre-computed context that is associated with content and may select the content from a set of candidate content based on an intent description of a content provider and historical behavior data of visitors to the network resource. The intent description may be associated with a presentation of the content at the network resource. The system may provide an identifier of the content. The identifier may be usable to present the content at the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: John Martin Miller, Anuj Chadha, Anthony Crider
  • Patent number: 11164602
    Abstract: A method, a mobile device, and a computer program product for detecting loss of attention during play of media content in a mobile device. The method includes, during playback of first media content, receiving first data indicative of whether a consumer of the first media content is actively consuming the first media content. The method further includes evaluating, based on a comparison of the first data with comparative data, whether the first data indicates that the consumer is likely not currently paying attention to playback of the first media content. The method further includes identifying, based on a time of receipt of the first data that indicates that the consumer is not paying attention, a first time within the first media content at which the consumer stopped paying attention during the playback and resetting a playback location of the first media content to continue playback from the first time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Nikhil Ambha Madhusudhana, Vivek K. Tyagi, Joseph V. Nasti
  • Patent number: 11132175
    Abstract: Approaches provide for controlling, managing, and/or otherwise interacting with mixed (e.g., virtual and/or augmented) reality content in response to input from a user, including voice input, device input, among other such inputs, in a mixed reality environment. For example, a mixed reality device, such as a headset or other such device can perform various operations in response to a voice command or other such input. In one such example, the device can receive a voice command and an application executing on the device or otherwise in communication with the device can analyze audio input data of the voice command to control the view of content in the environment, as may include controlling a user's “position” in the environment. The position can include, for example, a specific location in time, space, etc., as well as directionality and field of view of the user in the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Inventor: Keara Elizabeth Fallon
  • Patent number: 11126339
    Abstract: A system (100) comprising a mobile communication terminal (1) and a buildings engineering system GT is disclosed. The mobile communication terminal has a display unit (4) and an input unit (3), preferably a combined input and display unit (4), a near-field communication interface (5) and a control unit SE. The control unit SE is set up to use the near-field communication interface (5) to read at least one parameter P of the buildings engineering system GT and to provide said parameter for software application 6 executed by the mobile communication terminal (1), wherein the software application is designed to take the at least open parameter P as a basis for depicting a user interface (9) on the display unit (2) and to evaluate a user input on the user interface (9) via the input unit (3) and to send actuation data based on the user input to the buildings engineering system GT. The mobile communication terminal (1) is preferably a smartphone or a tablet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: TRIDONIC GMBH & CO KG
    Inventor: Dieter Severin
  • Patent number: 11113757
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for filtering information delivered via a social media service. The method includes receiving social media data from the social media service at a social media computing system and analyzing the received social media data. Analyzing the received social media data comprises categorizing content within the received social media data as one or more of restricted content elements and unrestricted content elements. The restricted content elements and the unrestricted content elements are determined based on one or more predetermined parameters associated with a user profile. The method further including transmitting the unrestricted content elements to a user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Machu Latorre, Evelyn Ujanen, Chris Kalaboukis, Marria Wairnola Rhodriquez, Tleytmas Stephenson
  • Patent number: 11112929
    Abstract: A first example embodiment may involve obtaining, by a mobile device associated with a particular user, representations of: (i) a first set of custom enterprise-related actions that are specific to the particular user, and (ii) a second set of general enterprise-related actions that are applicable to multiple users. The first example embodiment may further involve generating and displaying, on a screen of the mobile device, a scrollable graphical user interface including an ordering of actuatable user interface elements including: actuatable user interface elements for a search text box, followed by actuatable user interface elements for the first set of custom enterprise-related actions, followed by actuatable user interface elements for the second set of general enterprise-related actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Eugene Aaron Shtilkind, Omid Borjian, Sancho Savio Pinto, Ofer Vaisler, Samuil Tomushev, Alap Kaushik Patel, Daniel Glazer, Inbal Litvin, Boaz Zvi Hecht
  • Patent number: 11107103
    Abstract: A method includes identifying data encoding coupons, each coupon associated with a sponsoring manufacturer and associated with an event organized by the manufacturer; grouping the coupons into arrays of matching coupons for each sponsoring manufacturer and each associated event; and dynamically displaying, on the user interface, an array of matching coupons associated with a particular event organized by a particular sponsoring manufacturer, wherein dynamically displaying comprises: arranging the coupons of the array from a first end to a second end on the user interface such that each pair of neighboring coupons form an overlap and each coupon, other than a currently active coupon, is partially visible; and in response to a user input on the user interface, changing the currently active coupon such that a new coupon becomes the currently active coupon while other coupons are partially visible by virtue of the overlap formed by each pair of neighboring coupons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhiyuan Feng, Yanpeng Li, Long Cheng
  • Patent number: 11106348
    Abstract: The present invention intends to improve the operability when a user performs a drag & drop operation to shift an icon from the present page to another page. A user interface apparatus detects whether an end portion of an icon has been brought into contact with a display frame of the page, irrespective of the position of a finger or a pen that operates the icon. If the contact state continues for a predetermined time, the user interface apparatus causes the page to transit. Therefore, smoothly and intuitively shifting the icon to the next page is feasible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshiteru Horiike
  • Patent number: 11102469
    Abstract: A 3D play system which includes a head-mounted/headset device. The head-mounted device includes a supporting structure, a first lens, and a second lens. The supporting structure is configured to support two display devices. The first lens is configured to zoom an image displayed by a first display device and project the zoomed image onto a left eye. The second lens is configured to zoom an image displayed by a second display device and project the zoomed image onto a right eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhiguo Zhang, Qingjiang Wang