Selecting From A Resource List (e.g., Address Book) Patents (Class 715/739)
  • Patent number: 11928427
    Abstract: Systems may perform analyses of claims included in a patent document. The systems may generate one or more search strings from the patent document and provide the one or more search strings to a third-party searching authority. The third-party searching authority may return a collection of documents responsive to the one or more search strings. In particular situations, the systems may re-rank the documents of the collection to provide a patent centric ranking. The systems may also analyze the documents of the collection with respect to the elements of the claims to generate various types of patent infringement and/or invalidity reports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: AON RISK SERVICES, INC. OF MARYLAND
    Inventor: Lewis C. Lee
  • Patent number: 11853372
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for improving the discoverability of messages on a social network. The creation of a proposed message that requests a response from a target audience is detected. The social network is then searched to identify search terms and posts related to the proposed message. Upon identifying the search terms, the search terms are ranked in order of usage among the identified posts. A list of identified search terms in order of rank is then presented to the user to modify the proposed message. The proposed message is modified using a search term selected by the user from the list of search terms. The modified message is then posted on the social network. In this manner, the message created by the user has been modified to improve the discoverability of the message on the social network and to increase responses from an appropriate target audience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Matthew E. Broomhall, Thomas J. Evans, IV, Robert E. Loredo
  • Patent number: 11831590
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to apparatus, methods, and computer readable media for composing communications for computing devices across multiple formats and multiple protocols. More particularly, but not by way of limitation, this disclosure relates to apparatus, methods, and computer readable media to permit computing devices, e.g., smartphones, tablets, laptops, and the like, to send communications in a number of pre-determined and/or ‘determined-on-the-fly’ optimal communications formats and/or protocols. Determinations of optimal delivery methods may be intelligently based on the sender individually or the relationship with the sender in the context of a group of recipients—including the format of the incoming communication, the preferred format of the recipient and/or sender, and an optimal format for a given communication message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Entefy Inc.
    Inventors: Alston Ghafourifar, Mehdi Ghafourifar
  • Patent number: 11829579
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a uni-card interface can provide for an interactive dynamic interface for providing information to a user. The uni-card interface may include a multi-state interface that can provide increasingly more detailed information upon each interaction. For example, the uni-card interface can provide a first state with condensed information, a second state with expanded information, and a third state with immersive information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Maurio Meika Leon Guerrero, Wanfang Diao, Christopher Daniel Ramirez
  • Patent number: 11799823
    Abstract: Disclosed is a domain engineering analysis solution that determines relevance of a domain name to a brand name in which a domain name, brand name, and identification of a substring of the domain name may be provided to or obtained by a computer embodying a domain engineering analyzer. A list of features may be determined. The list of features may include a lexicon, or a set of key-value pairs that encode information about terms included as substrings in the domain name. Determining the features may include obtaining a language model for each term, analyzing a cluster of language models closest to the obtained language model, and determining and scoring a relevance of each term to the brand name. The determined relevance and score of each term may be provided to a client. This relevance analysis can be dynamically applied in an online process or proactively applied in an offline process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: PROOFPOINT, INC.
    Inventors: Sharon Huffner, Ali Mesdaq
  • Patent number: 11738469
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The processor is configured to control a distal end portion of a robot to rotate around first and second distal end axes, perform a first control mode in which the distal end portion rotates around the first and second distal end axes, perform a second control mode in which the distal end portion rotates around the first distal end axis and does not rotate around the second distal end axis, switch the first control mode to the second control mode when the first distal end axis is perpendicular to a working surface, and control the distal end portion to work while performing the second control mode and maintaining a state in which the first distal end axis is perpendicular to the working surface after the first control mode is switched to the second control mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Inventor: Tsutomu Hagihara
  • Patent number: 11722449
    Abstract: A notification message preview method includes displaying, by an electronic device, a notification message in the message group on a first card, where the message group includes N notification messages, and other notification messages in the message group are hidden, receiving, by the electronic device, a preset operation from a user on the first card, and displaying, in response to the preset operation; by the electronic device, M notification messages in the message group on a second card, where the M notification messages are M of the N notification messages, and where the M notification messages include the notification message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shanru Zhou, Kai Qian
  • Patent number: 11694690
    Abstract: A method for providing a service based on a user's voice includes steps of extracting a voice of a first user, generating text information or voice waveform information based on the voice of the first user, analyzing a disposition of the first user based on the text information and the voice waveform information, and then selecting a second user corresponding to the disposition of the first user based on the analysis result, providing the first user with a conversation connection service with the second user and acquiring information on a change in an emotional state of the first user based on conversation information between the first user and the second user, and re-selecting the second user corresponding to the disposition of the first user based on the acquired information on the change in the emotional state of the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: YP LABS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoon Ho Yang, Jun Sung Hong
  • Patent number: 11651408
    Abstract: A content provider can provide content, such as advertisements or other promotional material, to a recipient. A distribution system of the content provider can receive a query and select one or more advertisements and a user interface for presenting the advertisements based on the query, information associated with the user, a set of queries received from the user, and/or other information. A model for selecting the user interface can be generated by serving available user interfaces randomly or pseudo-randomly and monitoring user interaction with the served user interfaces. The model can be updated during regular use based on the performance of the user interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Clarence Christopher Mysen, Jennifer Liu
  • Patent number: 11636104
    Abstract: An analytics server is disclosed that enables natural language queries (NLQs) to be used to access key performance indicator (KPI) data. The analytics server includes a graphical user interface (GUI) that presents a set of KPIs associated with a user. The GUI includes suitable user interface elements to enable the user to provide natural language queries regarding these KPIs. The user interface elements provide the user with suggested NLQs based on, for example, KPIs to which the user has access and/or previous NLQs of the user. In response to the analytics server receiving a suitable NLQ from the user, the analytics server generates an appropriate database query to retrieve the KPI data requested by the NLQ. The GUI is then updated to present a visual representation (e.g., a bar graph, a pie chart, a trend line, a single value) of the retrieved KPI data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Marta Penzo, Aida Rikovic Tabak, Dimosthenis Mouzouris, Size Ma, Olga Redkina
  • Patent number: 11620362
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming mechanism, a panel serving as a user interface of the image forming mechanism, a receiver that receives an image forming instruction for the image forming mechanism from a user of an information processing apparatus, and a display controller that controls the panel to display, in response to the receiver receiving the image forming instruction, a message about management of a license related to software installed in the information processing apparatus by referring to management information of the software.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Rie Kabasawa
  • Patent number: 11568002
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: download, on a basis of service linkage information in which a download source address that corresponds to a storage source of an electronic document in a first document management service and an upload destination address that corresponds to a storage destination of an electronic document in a second document management service, which is different from the first document management service, are associated with each other, a target electronic document that is stored in the storage source corresponding to the download source address associated with the upload destination address to the information processing apparatus when a browser accesses the upload destination address; and upload the downloaded target electronic document to the storage destination corresponding to the upload destination address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Kensuke Kiyozuka
  • Patent number: 11556594
    Abstract: A method is provided of communication between a user and a database of Patents and also of the display and the interactive exploration of data on information of interest relating to Patents/Patent applications. The method comprises: the generation, by means of an access interface, of a request allowing the database to be interrogated based on at least one selection criterion entered into the access interface; the interrogation of the database by means of the request and the loading of bibliographical data for the Patents/Patent applications found, the downloaded bibliographical data comprising data on the technological category; the processing of the bibliographical data, the processing comprising an analysis of co-occurrences comprising the determination of a number of co-occurrences of data on the technological category for all of the Patents/Patent applications found; the displaying, in interactive graphical and/or textual form, of a result and/or of an interpretation of the analysis of co-occurrences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse
    Inventor: Augustin Cerveaux
  • Patent number: 11547940
    Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamically generating event cards from message streams is provided. A system receives a message of a sequence of messages from a content source, determine, from the message, the game condition of the game, compare the game condition with a previous game condition and determines events that occurred in the game based on the message and the comparison. The system can determine, for each event of the one or more events, an event type and individual player contributions of one or more players and assign, for each event of the one or more events, to each player that contributed in the event, a points allocation corresponding to the player's contribution in the event based on the points assignment policy and the event type. The system can generate event cards and transmit the event cards to emote devices according to a content filtering policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: DraftKings, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Kesack, William Hester, Jessie Haffey, Jonathan Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11543261
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a computer system, configured to receive two or more instances of a first route object comprising a geotemporal attribute comprising geospatial and temporal data to define an instance of the first route object; map the two or more instances of the first route object on to digital map data to define respective first route vertices in the digital map; and receive user input defining an interval and applying the defined interval intermediate chronologically adjacent respective first route vertices to define first waypoints between the respective first route vertices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Aistis Simaitis
  • Patent number: 11539839
    Abstract: A gateway device includes a call handling equipment (CHE) listener interface, an Internet Protocol (IP) interface, a provisioning engine, and a message parsing engine. The CPE listener interface forms a communication channel with a CHE and receives call event data from the CHE. The IP interface communicates with a cloud-based processing system. The provisioning engine receives, from the cloud-based processing system via the IP interface, instructions for parsing data from a data output format of the CHE into a consistent data format of the cloud-based processing system. The message parsing engine parses the call event data received from the CHE via the CHE listener interface, and formats the call event data according to the consistent data format. The gateway device transmits the formatted call event data to the cloud-based processing system via the IP interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: RapidDeploy, Inc.
    Inventor: Justin Jensen
  • Patent number: 11449900
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an information processing method, a server, a terminal, and a computer storage medium. The method includes: obtaining first information from a terminal, the first information comprising at least a media object on which an operation is performed and a user identifier; obtaining second information associated with the media object on which the operation is performed, the second information comprising more than one piece of media information; obtaining third information according to the user identifier, the third information comprising at least basic user information, user behavior information, and user relationship chain information; obtaining fourth information associated with the third information, the fourth information comprising more than one piece of media information; and sending the second information and the fourth information to the terminal, so that the terminal aggregates and displays the media information in the second information and the fourth information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Qian Wang, Bingfeng Dong, Lingling Yao, Junliang Chen, Xinming Luo, Yuan Wang, Lieqiang Li, Jianxun Zhou, Bing Wang
  • Patent number: 11347824
    Abstract: A tag management system can include features to assist in developing a cross-vendor profile for individual visitors to content pages of a content site. The visitors to the content site can obtain universal identifiers usable by the content site to identify the visitors. The universal identifiers can be included in the content pages by the visitor end user systems so that browser tags that may not have native access to the universal identifier can access the universal identifiers. The universal identifiers may then be provided to tag vendor systems with associated visitor data, thereby enabling the tag vendor systems to provide processed or raw data that can be compared by individual universal identifiers. Using this processed data, the content site can prepare the cross-vendor profile of individual visitors and realize insights that may be unavailable using conventional systems and methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: TEALIUM INC.
    Inventor: Michael Anderson
  • Patent number: 11309963
    Abstract: A terminal (1050) includes a light receiver (151) that receives a light signal emitted by an apparatus (1000), the light signal including an identifier (SSID) of at least one base station (470); a receiver (153) that performs a reception process on the received light signal to output reception data; a data analyzer (155) that selects one base station based on the identifier of the at least one base station that is included in the reception data; and a radio device (453) that establishes a wireless connection with the selected base station (470) by using the identifier of the base station (470) and wirelessly communicates with the base station (470).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventor: Yutaka Murakami
  • Patent number: 11231836
    Abstract: A multi-window displaying apparatus and method and mobile electronic equipment. The method includes: mobile electronic equipment determines a second application from one or more applications and operates the second application in association with an operation by a user on a content of a first application after receiving the operation; wherein the second application makes a response to the operation on the first application, and the first application and the second application are displayed in a multi-window manner. Hence, the second application may associatedly be opened and multi-window display may be performed, with no need of frequent switching between multiple applications. Also, redundant operations on the second application may be reduced, thereby improving experiences of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Guangyu Wang
  • Patent number: 11205320
    Abstract: A system to provide the user of an in play wagering system with access to third party data analytics services and integrates the user's selection of available data analytics with the display of a live sporting event and the wagers available on a given play in the sporting event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: AdrenalineIP
    Inventors: Casey Alexander Huke, Joseph W. Beyers, Michael D'Andrea
  • Patent number: 11170018
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for identifying an appropriate contact across collaborative applications. Contact information is collected from monitored messages, communication lists and contact lists in each collaborative application. Contact records are generated based on the collected contact information, where such records are inserted into a contact list. After receiving a query from a user containing a keyword(s) that include a nickname (or portion thereof) of a second user whom the user desires to interact via the current collaborative application, a search is performed in the contact list for any record containing a nickname that is similar to the provided keyword(s). Record(s) in the contact list containing a nickname that exceeds a threshold degree of similarity as the keyword(s) are identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lei Gao, Xiao Ming Ma, Wu Yan, Xu Qin Zhao, Shuang Li
  • Patent number: 11079920
    Abstract: A system and method providing a user integrated player-client management service to pre-defined mobile devices each of a different system user including enabling enhanced and automated enabled point-to-point communications between each system user and one or more predefined player-clients, receiving player client reporting parameters from content servers and providing to the mobile devices a user resource manager (URM) having player-client profiles with player-client parameters and player-client action triggers and enabling the mobile devices for displaying player-client profile page displays, receiving from the server the player-client reporting parameters, and updating the player-client profile with the instant player-client data, comparing the received instant player-client data with a player-client action trigger detecting in near real time an occurrence of an resource action event, and generating to the mobile devices an alert action to the computing device providing an indication on the computing device
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: DStephens & Associates Partnership
    Inventors: Derek Stephens, Allain R. Roy
  • Patent number: 11080658
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for integrating rich media into a scalable, multi-user, web-based calendar system having multiple interconnected web-based interfaces. Rich media refers to digital media that exhibit either, or a combination, of dynamic or interactive properties, including video content, audio content, graphical content, hyperlinks, or browser-based applications to such content, that are associated with a particular calendar event. Rich media events are created and stored in a central repository, and are accessible for adding to users' own calendar events. Rich media calendar events include display templates that define display characteristics for the rich media calendar event. Display templates also provide rich media applications for rendering and displaying the rich media content in the event. Delivery schedules are employed to automatically control the display of rich media calendar events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Media Inc.
    Inventors: Arup Kanjilal, Chinhao David Lee
  • Patent number: 11061908
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, apparatus, methods, and computer readable media for performing actions in response to information updates provided in an information feed. In one implementation, an information update is selected for comparison with a data record creation rule. The data record creation rule may specify a data record creation operation for creating a data record based the selected information update. The selected information update may be capable of being displayed in an information feed. A determination may be made as to whether the selected information update includes information satisfying a trigger condition associated with the data record creation rule. When the information in the selected information update satisfies the trigger condition, the data record creation operation may be performed to create the data record. The data record creation operation may identify information to include in the data record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Christopher A. Kemp, Carter Thaxton, Christopher De Gour, Kevin Schraith, Andrew Sopko, Nathan Wisman
  • Patent number: 10986048
    Abstract: A system and method are provided that incorporate subjects or subject lines into instant messaging sessions or conversations on a mobile device. During an instant messaging session, the user is provided with an option to specify a subject for at least the current portion of the session or for the entire session. The subject is proposed to the other users in the session, who can accept, ignore or modify the subject at their end. Multiple subjects can be specified for a single conversation if desired, and the subjects can be displayed with the contact in a message list. The instant messaging sessions may then be searched using search tools that are typically used for search email and other data messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Piotr Konrad Tysowski
  • Patent number: 10976830
    Abstract: Techniques for providing a unified computational platform for implementing virtual reality systems. In an aspect, a virtual reality (VR) client includes input and output modules for generating a VR user experience. The client may also incorporate an assistant interface that couples the input and output modules to an assistant server using a semantic information interchange language (SIIL). The assistant server may include a command inference block for converting user-input SIIL messages to command-input SIIL messages, thereby encoding user VR inputs into a general command set that may be recognized and processed by both VR and non-VR modules. Further aspects disclose techniques for seamless integration between virtual environments and joint VR sessions supporting multiple users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Inventors: Vishal Sharma, Elhum Amjadi
  • Patent number: 10972562
    Abstract: An information processing system that generates commentary, the commentary including first commentary generated based on behavior information corresponding to a behavior of a user and second commentary associated with the first commentary; and outputs the commentary to be available to other users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki Ono, Masanori Katsu, Masatomo Kurata, Takashi Ogata, Sota Matsuzawa
  • Patent number: 10949186
    Abstract: A computing system may include a database and server device(s) disposed within a remote network management platform. The database may contain (i) discovery information for installations of software applications on computing devices of a managed network, and (ii) software configurations for a subset of the software applications, the software configurations respectively indicating rights allocations and consumption for each of the subset of the software applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Ning Wang, Gyanesh Hari Dwivedi, Nirali A. Vora
  • Patent number: 10929489
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for improving the discoverability of messages on a social network. The creation of a proposed message that requests a response from a target audience is detected. The social network is then searched to identify search terms and posts related to the proposed message. Upon identifying the search terms, the search terms are ranked in order of usage among the identified posts. A list of identified search terms in order of rank is then presented to the user to modify the proposed message. The proposed message is modified using a search term selected by the user from the list of search terms. The modified message is then posted on the social network. In this manner, the message created by the user has been modified to improve the discoverability of the message on the social network and to increase responses from an appropriate target audience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Matthew E. Broomhall, Thomas J. Evans, IV, Robert E. Loredo
  • Patent number: 10931675
    Abstract: A computing device, including one or more output devices and a processor. The processor may be configured to download a web application. The web application may include an authorization certificate and a metadata file that includes an identifier of at least one local application program interface (API) of the computing device that is not included in an API whitelist of a web host application program. The processor may determine, based on the authorization certificate and the metadata file, that the web application is authorized to access the at least one local API. The processor may execute the web application at the web host application program. Executing the web application may include utilizing the at least one local API. The processor may convey at least one output of the web application for output at the one or more output devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Kirupa Chinnathambi, Kiril Nikolov Seksenov, John-David Lewis Dalton, David L. Risney
  • Patent number: 10838593
    Abstract: While a first display unit is caused to display a first user interface created with a first layout pattern for a first application, when a display operation of moving the user interface for the first application to a second display unit is performed, a CPU determines, based on attributes of the first display unit and the second display unit, a first movement amount used to move and display the first user interface on the first display unit, and a second movement amount used to move and display a second user interface on the second display unit. The CPU causes the first user interface to move and appear at a first movement amount on the first display unit, and causes the second user interface to move and appear at the second movement amount on the second display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Tsubone
  • Patent number: 10838513
    Abstract: A method comprises causing a character string to be displayed on a display, receiving a signal indicative of user input for selecting the displayed character string, and responding to the signal by using a language engine to predict a location within the selected character string for modification of the selected character string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Ashley Colley
  • Patent number: 10831852
    Abstract: A tag management system can include features to assist in developing a cross-vendor profile for individual visitors to content pages of a content site. The visitors to the content site can obtain universal identifiers usable by the content site to identify the visitors. The universal identifiers can be included in the content pages by the visitor end user systems so that browser tags that may not have native access to the universal identifier can access the universal identifiers. The universal identifiers may then be provided to tag vendor systems with associated visitor data, thereby enabling the tag vendor systems to provide processed or raw data that can be compared by individual universal identifiers. Using this processed data, the content site can prepare the cross-vendor profile of individual visitors and realize insights that may be unavailable using conventional systems and methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: TEALIUM INC.
    Inventor: Michael Anderson
  • Patent number: 10824305
    Abstract: A computational instance of a remote network management platform may be associated with a managed network and include a database containing: (i) indications of software applications installed on computing devices of the managed network, and (ii) indications of software models that respectively define publisher, product, and licensing information related to the software applications. The computational instance may include a server device configured to (i) generate a representation of a first graphical user interface, (ii) transmit, to a client device associated with the managed network, the representation of the first graphical user interface, (iii) receive, from the client device, a selection, (iv) based on the particular set of the software applications and the particular set of the software models, generate a representation of a second graphical user interface, and (v) transmit, to the client device, the representation of the second graphical user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Nirali Vora, Yiwen Wang
  • Patent number: 10817571
    Abstract: Techniques for retrieving electronic patent documents are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method comprising receiving, by at least one computer processor communicatively coupled to a mobile device, an image containing an encoding of a patent number; decoding, by the at least one computer processor, the patent number; transmitting, by the at least one computer processor, the patent number to a patent database; and receiving, by the at least one computer processor, patent information based on the patent number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Accio Patent LLC
    Inventor: Corey Stanley Gordon McCaffrey
  • Patent number: 10681029
    Abstract: A method of selecting websites for displaying in a quick-access field in a web browser is provided. The method includes receiving an indication of user's geographical data and selecting websites from two sub-sets of websites. The first subset of websites is based on popularity amongst other users associated with the user's geographical data. The second subset of websites is based on user's browsing history. Each of the web sites gets ranked based on: a first rank based on a popularity of the given website among some of users associated with the geographical data and a second rank for the given website based on the browser history data associated with the user. The method further includes generating a combined rank based on the first and second rank for each website from the first and second set of websites and using the combined rank for selecting web sites for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: YANDEX EUROPE AG
    Inventors: Dmitry Valeryevich Krasnoperov, Ilya Aleksandrovich Gubarev
  • Patent number: 10664482
    Abstract: Relevance based dynamic navigation is provided. A communication application searches communications to identify hashtags associated with the communications. A relevance score is computed for each hashtag based on a relevance criteria associated with the hashtags. The hashtags are ranked based on the relevance score. Next, the ranked hashtags are presented in a navigation user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Selva Nalliah, Scott Stiles, Tali Roth, Nithya Ramkumar, Bernt Ivar Olsen, Amund Kronen Johansen
  • Patent number: 10657928
    Abstract: There is provided a display device including a display unit, and a projection unit provided in a direction intersecting with a direction perpendicular to a display surface of the display unit, with a rear side of the display surface as a projection direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Heesoon Kim, Tatsushi Nashida
  • Patent number: 10656795
    Abstract: Techniques for presenting, at a graphical user interface (GUI), a constellation view of communications associated with node groups of a network disclosed. A GUI presents icons arranged on concentric rings. Icons on one ring represent device groups. Icons on another ring represent address groups. Icons on another ring represent intranet groups. Each icon is selectable to request information about the communications of the corresponding node group. Connections are drawn between the selected icon and other icons to represent the communications. Each connection is selectable to request additional information regarding the communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Ordr Inc.
    Inventors: Gnanaprakasam Pandian, Vivekanandan Vinayagam, Sheausong Yang, Vijayaraghavan Doraiswami, Krishna Kumar Vavilala
  • Patent number: 10642477
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display including a touch panel; a processor electrically connected to the display; and a memory electrically connected with the processor, wherein the memory stores instructions executed to enable the processor to: receive, from the touch panel, first data regarding a time or an area contacted by an external object through a first region on the display, receive, from the touch panel, second data regarding a contact or an approach of the external object to a second region of the display after the external object is spaced apart from the display, and display an image or an image variation on the display based on the first data or the second data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-Gyun Lee, Doo-Yong Park, Young-Dae Lee, Jae-Hak Lee, Min-Ho Kim, Cheong-Jae Lee
  • Patent number: 10606848
    Abstract: Techniques for device configuration using messaging history information are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a contact list component operative to determine a promotion contact list for the user account; a predicted interest component operative to determine a predicted communication interest for each contact on a promotion contact list; a predicted activity component operative to determine a user predicted likelihood of future activeness on the communication system; determine a contact predicted likelihood of future activeness on the communication system for each contact; and a contact ranking component operative to determine the ranking weight for each contact based on the predicted communication interest for each contact on the promotion contact list, the user predicted likelihood of future activeness on the communication system, and the contact predicted likelihood of future activeness on the communication system for each contact on the promotion contact list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventors: Brian Kimball, Kunal Nikhil Modi, Jonathan David Perlow, Peter Henry Martinazzi, Ariel Benjamin Evnine
  • Patent number: 10572602
    Abstract: Tools are provided to allow developers to enable applications for Conversational Understanding (CU) using assets from a CU service. The tools may be used to select functionality from existing domains, extend the coverage of one or more domains, as well as to create new domains in the CU service. A developer may provide example Natural Language (NL) sentences that are analyzed by the tools to assist the developer in labeling data that is used to update the models in the CU service. For example, the tools may assist a developer in identifying domains, determining intent actions, determining intent objects and determining slots from example NL sentences. After the developer tags all or a portion of the example NL sentences, the models in the CU service are automatically updated and validated. For example, validation tools may be used to determine an accuracy of the model against test data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ruhi Sarikaya, Daniel Boies, Larry Heck, Tasos Anastasakos
  • Patent number: 10565275
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for improving the discoverability of messages on a social network. The creation of a proposed message that requests a response from a target audience is detected. The social network is then searched to identify search terms and posts related to the proposed message. Upon identifying the search terms, the search terms are ranked in order of usage among the identified posts. A list of identified search terms in order of rank is then presented to the user to modify the proposed message. The proposed message is modified using a search term selected by the user from the list of search terms. The modified message is then posted on the social network. In this manner, the message created by the user has been modified to improve the discoverability of the message on the social network and to increase responses from an appropriate target audience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Matthew E. Broomhall, Thomas J. Evans, IV, Robert E. Loredo
  • Patent number: 10542060
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a method for rendering interactive visualizations of high volume streaming data. Streaming data that describes a plurality of events is loaded in memory. The streaming data includes geospatial data that specifies a source location and a destination location for each event. Visual metaphors representing the events are rendered using a visualization mathematical model that defines, for each visual metaphor, a spatial position and opacity for each point along the visual metaphor throughout a sliding time window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Jinrong Xie, Patrick Nelson, Binbin Shao, Zeqian Shen, Zoher Karu
  • Patent number: 10459519
    Abstract: A method includes: associating, in a computer system, a virtual controller with a physical controller; allocating a first function to the virtual controller, the allocation providing for performance of the first function using the physical controller; detecting a gesture performed using the physical controller; and in response to detecting the gesture, de-allocating the first function from, or allocating a second function to, the virtual controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Tony Kobayashi, Paul Du Bois, Lauren Winston
  • Patent number: 10452247
    Abstract: A system providing a system user integrated player-client management services and functions with enhanced communications between a system user and a player-client defined by the system user having a user resource manager (URM) resident on a computing device of a system user. The URM having player-client profiles with player-client parameters that player-client reporting parameters and player-client action triggers. The URM providing player-client profile page displays, transmitting to a remote device a player-client reporting parameter and in response receiving instant player-client data/updates and updating the player-client profile with the instant player-client data. The URM comparing the received instant player-client data with a player-client action trigger detecting in near real time an occurrence of an resource action event and generating an alert action to the computing device providing the system user an indication on the computing device that the resource action event was detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: DStephens & Associates Partnership
    Inventors: Derek Stephens, Allain R. Roy
  • Patent number: 10452260
    Abstract: A method, comprising: displaying a list of tasks on a touch-sensitive display of a mobile device; detecting a gesture on one of the tasks in the list that satisfies a predetermined condition corresponding to an action relating to the one task; and in response to the gesture satisfying the predetermined condition, executing the action in relation to the one task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: NINTEX PTY LTD
    Inventor: Vahid Taslimi
  • Patent number: 10439979
    Abstract: A dialog for a chat session spans multiple messaging platforms. Bots participate in each messaging platform for maintaining an aggregated and integrated view of the session across the multiple messaging platforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Brent Vance Zucker, Robert Andrew Kingslyn, Yehoshua Zvi Licht
  • Patent number: 10430595
    Abstract: Embodiments for rendering content by a processor are provided. A request to render content is received. A rendering browser to render the content on a computing device is selected from a plurality of rendering browsers. The selecting of the rendering browser is based on security information associated with at least one of the content and the plurality of rendering browsers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ramamohan Chennamsetty, Charles K. Davis, III, Christopher R. Dotson, Charles S. Lingafelt