Computer Supported Collaborative Work Between Plural Users Patents (Class 715/751)
  • Patent number: 11146646
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes launching, by a client system of a first user, a video-call session to enable a video stream for display in a small-overlay-window on a display of the client system of the first user; receiving, by the client system of the first user, a video stream comprising video from a client system of a second user; determining at least one property for the small-overlay-window based on information associated with the second user; and displaying the video stream in the small-overlay-window, wherein the small-overlay-window is customized based on the determined at least one property, and wherein the small-overlay-window is positioned directly over an interface of an active application running on the client system of the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephane Taine, Edward Young Zhang, Dwayne B. Mercredi, Michael Leggett, Brendan Benjamin Aronoff, Peter Henry Martinazzi, Evan Patrick Noon, Duckjin Kang, John Randall Ehrhardt
  • Patent number: 11144182
    Abstract: A social networking system identifies a user's relative preference for objects maintained by the social networking system, such as pages associated with movies, restaurants, businesses, or other content. To obtain the user's preferences, the system provides pairs, or groups, of objects to a user and prompts the user to indicate a preference between the objects in each pair. This obtained information about the user's relative preferences is stored in conjunction with the user's profile, which can then be used to select content subsequently presented to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Pike, Yuankai Ge, Chad E. Little
  • Patent number: 11138025
    Abstract: Various examples are directed to systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing an interactive developer interface of a group-based communication system. Various examples are directed to systems, methods, and apparatuses for consolidating application data associated with an application within a group-based communication interface. Various examples are directed to systems, methods, and apparatuses for indexing processing actions associated with a plurality of applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Slack Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Hahn
  • Patent number: 11140100
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can receive an indication that a first user is interested in participating in a topic-based messaging session pertaining to a first topic. A second user to match with the first user is identified based on user matching criteria. A topic-based messaging session within which the first user and the second user can exchange messages is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Mike M. Yaghmai, Alireza Bitaraf Haghighi
  • Patent number: 11113589
    Abstract: A printing system and method of printing are provided herein. The printing system may generate custom user designs for printing. The designs may be associated with a selected print medium. The print medium may have a particular layout. The printing system may convert the design for printing on other print media without requiring user alteration or input of the design. In another aspect, the printing system may facilitate printing the designs via local printers and/or via professional printers. Accordingly, printing of designs on different print-receptive media items can be accomplished.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: CCL LABEL, INC.
    Inventors: Wade Person, Alan Porter, Brad Nelson, Phillip McGee
  • Patent number: 11106862
    Abstract: A communication system and related methods are described. The communication system includes a communication server computer and multiple user computers. The communication server computer maintains synchronization of multiple copies of a graphical user interface (“GUI”) presented by the multiple user computers. The GUI implements a multi-user, digital communication environment and includes a chat area where communications are organized by time and a document editing area where communications are organized by subject. The GUI enables integration of the chat area and the document editing area and allows users to communicate across multiple communication modalities seamlessly and in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Stewart Curry, Andrew Henderson, Keith Griffin
  • Patent number: 11093870
    Abstract: The techniques describe a tool that finds people to help answer a question that arises while a user is consuming content of a file. As the user consumes the content, the techniques identify a signal that indicates an issue (e.g., a question). The signal can be added or somehow inserted into the underlying content of the file based on user input. The techniques determine a portion of the content associated with the signal. The portion of the content, along with any other information provided via the user input, is analyzed to determine a context of the issue. For example, natural language processing techniques can parse text or speech to understand the subject matter. The techniques then access a resolution resource (e.g., a professional network) to identify people that are likely capable of providing assistance, and the people are suggested to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Gustav Wilde, Patrick Michael Gan, Douglas Lane Milvaney
  • Patent number: 11087633
    Abstract: A simulation server capable of interacting with a plurality of simulators to perform a plurality of simulations. The simulation server comprises a communication interface for exchanging data with other entities. The processing server also comprises a processing unit for executing at least one simulation. The processing unit also generates simulator simulation data and transmits the simulator simulation data to at least one simulator via the communication interface. The simulator simulation data are representative of the execution of the at least one simulation. The processing unit also receives simulator interaction data from the at least one simulator via the communication interface. The processing unit further processes the simulator interaction data and controls the execution of the at least one simulation based on the processed simulator interaction data. The simulation server may also interact with one or more of portable computing devices to perform the plurality of simulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: CAE Inc.
    Inventor: Jean-François Delisle
  • Patent number: 11080769
    Abstract: A cognitive assisting method, system, and computer program product, includes building a first cognitive profile of a first user by determining content with identifiable attributes that may be incorporated into the cognitive profile and detecting a current activity of the first user and continually finding a match to a second cognitive profile of a second user in a repository of cognitive profiles belonging to others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ermyas Abebe, Mahathir Bin Ahmad Almashor, Adam Harley Eugene Eberbach, Jorge Andres Moros Ortiz, Hidemasa Muta
  • Patent number: 11080121
    Abstract: Generation, by machine logic, of runbooks for problem events. Generation of runbooks including the following operations: receiving operator commands in a command line interface for an event group relating to an issue, wherein the operator commands resolve the issue; and storing the operator commands as related artifacts of the event group with mapping to affected resources. The method may match arguments of the operator commands to event metadata fields of events in the event group to generalize the arguments to the event metadata and to generate a runbook of generalized operator commands for future instances of an event group of a similar type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew R. J. Thornhill, David Griffin, Luke Taher
  • Patent number: 11062580
    Abstract: The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for displaying event indicators on an event timeline. In one aspect, a method includes: displaying a video monitoring user interface including: video information corresponding to a video stream of remote camera's field of view in a first region, and the event timeline in a second region; obtaining identification of a new zone of interest corresponding to a portion of the camera's field of view; sending information indicative of the new zone of interest to a server system; obtaining identification of one or more past motion events detected by the remote camera involving the new zone of interest; and updating display of the event timeline to display an event indicator having a visual characteristic corresponding to the new zone of interest for each of the one or more past motion events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jason N. Laska, Greg R. Nelson, Greg Duffy, Cameron Hill, Martin Davidsson
  • Patent number: 11062403
    Abstract: A system and method improved communication system and method to permanently create and maintain private connections between entities such as two people, businesses, and/or other types of organizations and entities whereby to create an account with the example communication system, a user may complete an online personal contact application, such that once the information is verified, the user may be assigned a Unique Identification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Inventor: Arthur Ray Kerr
  • Patent number: 11048742
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for processing electronic content, such as text, videos, and images. According to certain embodiments, user interactions with electronic content may be tracked over a plurality of modalities, such as web pages, email, mobile applications, and social media. The tracked user interactions may include copy/paste events, explicit user highlighting, social sharing, and user voting. Key passages of electronic content may be identified based on the tracked user interactions and ranked against one another. Ranking of passages may be based, for example, on a raw or normalized score for the identified key passages. Alternatively, the ranking of a passage may be based on a ratio of user interactions with the passage to total views of the electronic text containing the passage. One or more of the identified key passages (e.g., the highest ranked passages) may be published to one or more applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Media Inc.
    Inventors: Conor F. White-Sullivan, Brandon T. Diamond, Michael J. DiScala, Matthew Conlen, Andrew P. Sass
  • Patent number: 11048768
    Abstract: A social networking system in which electronic business cards are traded as a format for social networking so as to provide for a better measure of social network relationships based on network significance and/or reputation score. Endorsement paths and/or card paths, resulting from trades, may be generated and visualized, and network significance and/or reputation score may be calculated at a given moment in time, or over a specific sub-network of users, such as by being calculated automatically at an interval of time or based on user action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Inventors: William Kolbert, Neil Ferraiuolo, Nathan Torda
  • Patent number: 11048531
    Abstract: A computer system includes a server and a computing device. The server include templates, with each template corresponding to an action that can be performed by an application service associated with the template. The computing device includes an editor to monitor user input for a template keyword that matches with one or more of the templates, display one or more application service options in response to the template keyword matching one or more of the templates, and display a user interface for the template associated with the application service option selected by a user. The editor is to receive template content data via the user interface to define the action corresponding to the template associated with the application service option selected by the user, and provide the template content data to the server. The server analyzes the template content data and the templates to determine the application service action to be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: CITRIX SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Zongpeng Qiao, Ze Chen, Ke Xu, Tao Zhan
  • Patent number: 11044267
    Abstract: A measure of influence of a sender entity is determined for a message receiving entity based at least in part on an analysis of previous electronic messages sent by the sender entity. An electronic message associated with the sender entity is received. The measure of influence of the sender entity is utilized to determine a security risk associated with the received electronic message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Agari Data, Inc.
    Inventors: Bjorn Markus Jakobsson, Siobhán McNamara, Patrick Richard Peterson, Jacob Rudee Rideout
  • Patent number: 11030163
    Abstract: This invention discloses a novel system and method for displaying a comparison of a group of related electronic documents in order that changes generated by a comparison of last versions of the group can be automatically displayed and manipulated on a single summary output screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Workshare, Ltd.
    Inventors: Robin Glover, Ben Ridgway, Owen Oliver, Barrie Hadfield
  • Patent number: 11030656
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a media information presentation method performed at a computer server that is communicatively connected to a plurality of terminals. The server receives at least one media information operation message; determines a first user and media information corresponding to each media information operation message, and an operation performed by the first user on the media information, to generate log data; obtains a social relationship chain of each first user included in the log data; collects statistics on operation statistical data of the second user according to the log data; and receives a media information obtaining request of a third user. The server then selects, when operation statistical data of the third user is found from the operation statistical data of the second user, at least one piece of media information from the operation statistical data of the third user, and returns it to the second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Mengting Jiang, Zhendong Tang, Qin Hu
  • Patent number: 11032227
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for automatic arrangement of communications for improved functionality. A client device presents a stacked set of conversation cells on a display of the client device. The stacked set of conversation cells is stacked such that a first conversation cell corresponding to a first chat conversation from the stacked set of conversation cells is a top conversation cell of the stacked set of conversation cells. While presenting the stacked set of conversation cells, the client device receives a first chat communication that is a part of a second chat conversation that is different than the first chat conversation. In response to the receiving of the first chat communication, the client device modifies the presentation of the stacked set of conversation cells such that a second conversation cell corresponding to the second chat conversation is presented as the top conversation cell of the stacked set of conversation cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: William Wu
  • Patent number: 11025686
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a network call method, terminal, and server. The method includes: displaying a scenario interface for a social application group; displaying a first list of user identifiers when an instruction for initiating a specified call is received; determining, according to a selection operation in the first list of user identifiers, identifiers of second users; sending a network call request to a social application server, the network call request comprising an identifier of the first user logging in at the first terminal locally and the identifiers of the second users, so that the social application server creates a virtual group, and adds, to the virtual group, the first terminal and second terminals corresponding to the identifiers of the second users accepting call invitations; and performing a network call in a call interface for the virtual group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jihao Wang, Jing Lv, Yongfang Shi, Yu Zhou, Jingchang Chen, Baojian Wang, Yongyu Lin, Jiakai Wang, Runjia Huang, Jiamin Chen, Jin Huang, Hongfa Qiu, Junshan Wang
  • Patent number: 11018883
    Abstract: A communication system includes: a control unit configured to: connect a system user with channel participant in an anonymous voice chat session; determine a participant distance for the channel participant relative to the system user; adjust a volume level for a verbal communication of the channel participant based on the participant distance; and a communication unit, coupled to the control unit, to transmit the verbal communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Telenav, Inc.
    Inventors: Rohan Koduvayur Krishnan Chandran, Ryan John Sullivan, Yogesh Agrawal
  • Patent number: 11010392
    Abstract: Searching data for a user includes searching a first set of data that is directly accessible to the user to provide a first set of search results, searching a second set of data that is not directly accessible to the user to provide a second set of search results, comparing the search results, and, if at least a portion of the second set of search results is better than the first set of search results, causing the portion to be provided to the user. Causing the portion to be provided to the user may include obtaining permission from an entity that controls permissions to the portion of the second set. The entity that controls permissions to the portion of the second set may be an owner of the portion. The first set of data may be determined based on credentials and sharing permissions of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Box, Inc.
    Inventors: Jack Hirsch, Danial Jaffry, Jordan Knox, Juan Carlos Perez, Brandon Volbright, Adam Walz, Wentao Lu, Akhil Verghese
  • Patent number: 11004123
    Abstract: A system for trading goods over a computer network based on image processing includes an image processor that analyzes a picture received from a user to build a description of entities in the picture and correlations among the entities, a description interpreter that analyzes the description to determine an underlying message in the picture and detect information regarding the user's interests, emotions and affinities to goods and services, wherein the information is stored with the user's profile, the user's list of items to trade, and the user's past transaction history, and a trade matching component that uses the user's profile and produces a ranked list of other users with items to trade, or intermediary trade steps, when another user initiates a new trading transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Silvia Cristina Sardela Bianchi, Victor Fernandes Cavalcante, Paulo Marques Caldeira Junior, Sergio Varga
  • Patent number: 10992631
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide quality analysis related to member service representatives and interactions communicating with users over social media networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: William Gerth, Patrick Freshwater
  • Patent number: 10986063
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing supplemental data are disclosed. An exemplary method can comprise determining content currently being consumed by a user, determining one or more user preferences for display of supplemental data, retrieving supplemental data according to the one or more user preferences, and providing the supplemental data to the user concurrently with the content currently being consumed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Christopher Lintz
  • Patent number: 10984178
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating a profile page. A computer system identifies a group of potential profiles images from an image. The computer system identifies a group of features in the image. The computer system generates the profile page based on a potential profile image selected from the group of potential profile images and the group of features in the image. The computer system displays the profile page on a display system, enabling generating the profile page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: ADP, LLC
    Inventors: Jordan Schiffer, Hadar Yocobovitz, Gregory Peter Kavanagh, Keith Wilson Fulton
  • Patent number: 10984384
    Abstract: A system and method for a situational solution for collaborative information technology governance. The system comprises a situational environment information technology governance (SEIG) tool configured to facilitate one or more processes including: an entry process; a selection process; an authentication process; and a communication process. The method comprises entering a situation using the SEIG tool and describing the situation. The method further comprises choosing one or more applicable teams or subject matter experts and communicating with the one or more applicable teams and the subject matter experts using a collaborative technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zbigniew J. Borowski, Robert A. Palo
  • Patent number: 10979237
    Abstract: A computer system tracks and analyzes activity data, notifications, and user interactions with activity data and notifications. By analyzing this information, the computer system can identify, for individual users and across a set of users, which activity data and notifications are most relevant. Such activity data and notifications are most relevant when they result in the end user having further user interaction through the electronic document. The information about the relevance of the activity data and notifications can be used for managing sending of notifications and presenting activity data in end user applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Douglas Milvaney, Hoi Mei Wong, Andrew Harris, Manish Shukla, Taili Feng
  • Patent number: 10963124
    Abstract: A method implemented on a plurality of client computers in communication with a server is disclosed. The plurality of client computers each display common content on an associated display area. The method includes generating messages representing user input received at one client computer of the plurality of client computers, the user input defining content to be shared with the plurality of client computers. The method includes causing the one client computer to transmit the generated messages to the server to elicit transmission of output messages from the server to each of the plurality of client computers, the output messages including information defining the content to be shared. The method includes, in response to receiving output messages from the server at each of the plurality of client computers, displaying the shared content over the common content on the respective display areas on each of the plurality of client computers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Inventor: Alexander Kropivny
  • Patent number: 10963575
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are described for enterprise access control governance in a computerized information technology (IT) architecture. A server generates a first vector space, each node in the first space representing a user of resources in the IT architecture and including attributes of the user. The server generates a second vector space, each node in the second space representing an entitlement to access resources in the IT architecture and including attributes of the entitlement. The server creates an entitlement utility matrix by mapping nodes in the first space to nodes in the second space. The server determines a set of recommended entitlements for a plurality of users based upon the utility matrix. The server determines a discrepancy between the set of recommended entitlements for a first user and a set of existing entitlements for the first user and adjusts the set of existing entitlements based upon the discrepancy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: FMR LLC
    Inventors: Sean Wang, Paulina Li, Han Zhou, Chad Renfro, Daniel Shnowske, Sean Catlett
  • Patent number: 10956874
    Abstract: A method for creating events for use by an electronic calendar application. A computer device running a calendar application displays a GUI having a representation of a calendar. A first widget on the GUI initiates a software routine for defining an event. The routine generates an interface window having a plurality of event detail widgets which allow the user to interactively define details of the event. Once the details are entered, the event is saved as a multimedia object, and the multimedia object is placed onto the calendar representation. Further, details of the event may include additional multimedia content. Also, the calendar representation itself may include multimedia content. The event may be defined with an approximate time frame rather than a specific time frame. For example, an event may be linked to another event rather than to a specific time frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Boaz Nathaniel Gurdin, Erez Kikin-Gil, Asta Roseway
  • Patent number: 10956868
    Abstract: A collaboration system may produce dynamic collaborative experiences with different tools at different times based on pending workflow tasks and users that are collaborating to complete those tasks. The system may obtain a workflow, and may provide, based on first metadata from the workflow, a first set of users with a first experience that includes a first set of tools for collaborative access to a first set of files. The system may change the first metadata to second metadata in response to output resulting from user interactions with the first set of tools or changes to the first set of files resulting from the first set of users using the first set of tools. The system may provide, based on the second, a second set of users with a second experience that includes a second set of tools for collaborative access to a second set of files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: 5th Kind LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Cronan
  • Patent number: 10951949
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided herein for providing recommendations to a user. A short-media viewing profile may be maintained for the user. The short-media viewing profile may be based on user's behavior while watching short-length media content. A long-media viewing profile may be maintained for the user. The long-media viewing profile may be based on user's behavior while watching long-length media content. In response to determining that the user is currently engaged in viewing short-length media content, a recommendation is provided to the user based on the short-media viewing profile. In response to determining that the user is currently engaged in viewing long-length media content, a recommendation is provided to the user based on the long-media viewing profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: ROVI GUIDES, INC.
    Inventors: Abubakkar Siddiq, Vineet Agarwal, Abhijit Satchidanand Savarkar
  • Patent number: 10949170
    Abstract: A particular organization may undertake a plurality of different privacy campaigns, processing activities, etc. that involve the collection and storage of personal data. The system may be configured to collect customer satisfaction data, for example: (1) as part of a data subject access request submission form; (2) when providing one or more results of a data subject access request to the data subject; or (3) at any other suitable time. The customer satisfaction data may be collected in the form of a suitable survey, free-form response questionnaire, etc. (e.g., thumbs up vs. thumbs down, etc.). Additionally, by integrating a feedback survey with the data subject access request process, the system may increase a number of consumers that provide responses to the feedback survey. In particular embodiments, the system is configured to require the requestor to respond to the feedback survey prior to submitting the data subject access request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: OneTrust, LLC
    Inventors: Kabir A. Barday, Jason L. Sabourin, Jonathan Blake Brannon, Mihir S. Karanjkar, Kevin Jones
  • Patent number: 10938927
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for processing tag-based event communications using machine learning. One or more event communications are received from a user device. The communication(s) include key-value pairs representing an ordered sequence of multiple interaction events of a set of predefined events. Each communication of the one or more event communications includes one generated via execution of tag code integrated with code of an app page or of a webpage. A representation of the ordered sequence is processed using a machine learning model to generate one or more profile estimation results that include an identification of a particular user profile from amongst a set of stored user profile. Profile data is transmitted to a client system that identifies the particular user profile or is from the particular user profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Crossley, Ethan Dereszynski
  • Patent number: 10915316
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method provides causing displaying in a first screen of a first GUI a first toolbar and a second toolbar. The first toolbar has options related to a branch of source code, including a first option to show a difference between a current version and a previous version of the source code, and the second toolbar has of options related to two branches of source code, including a second option to set up a pull request of merging changes from a source branch into a destination branch. The method further provides receiving a selection of the first option; and causing displaying in the first screen of the GUI a first panel and a second panel. The first panel has a current version of source code in a first branch and an indicator of any difference from a previous version, and the second panel has a current version of source code in a second branch and an indicator of any difference from a previous version.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: ATLASSIAN PTY LTD.
    Inventors: Bryan Paul Turner, Nicolas Ignacio Venegas Rubio, Patrick James Wholean Kaeding, Michael Gerardus Heemskerk
  • Patent number: 10915588
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product for presenting a user interface for a conversational system is described. A user input is received in a dialog between a user and the conversational system, the user input in a natural language. A domain trained semantic matcher is used to determine a set of entities and a user intent from the user input. One or more queries is generated to selected ones of a plurality of knowledge sources, the knowledge sources created from domain specific knowledge. The results from the one or more queries are ranked based on domain specific knowledge. A system response is presented in the dialog based on at least a highest ranked result from the plurality of knowledge sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Raimo Bakis, Song Feng, Jatin Ganhotra, Chulaka Gunasekara, David Nahamoo, Lazaros Polymenakos, Sunil D Shashidhara, Cheng Wu, Li Zhu
  • Patent number: 10911324
    Abstract: A wire web component graph that includes a plurality of nodes may be accessed to identify one or more application procedure interfaces (APIs) through which to update one or more data values included in a designated wire web component in a graphical user interface (GUI) being presented on a display device. Each of the data values may correspond to a respective data field represented in the wire web component graph, and each data field may be associated with a respective API in the wire web component graph. The graphical user interface may be updated based on one or more updated data values determined by communicating with the identified APIs over a network and via a communications interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Venkiteswaran, Diego Ferreiro Val, Caridy Patino, Trevor James Bliss
  • Patent number: 10911840
    Abstract: Embodiments herein disclose methods and systems for identifying consumption intent of a user in multimedia of an electronic device. A method disclosed herein includes generating contextual data elements for content of the multimedia, wherein the contextual data elements include direct and implied information of the multimedia that enable a user to match and validate intent of consuming the content of the multimedia. The contextual data elements include a text summary, a visual summary, keywords and/or keyphrases, paragraphs, chapters, index tables, questions, analytics, emotions and insights for the content of the multimedia. Further, the method includes displaying the contextual data elements to the user. The user uses the contextual data elements to navigate within the multimedia/across multiple multimedia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: STREAMINGO SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED
    Inventors: Vaibhav Goel, Sharath Manjunath, Vidhya T V, Vinay T S
  • Patent number: 10904245
    Abstract: A recipient communication device and method wherein a user authenticates a message that is being received. The method includes receiving, by a messaging utility of the recipient communication device, a message transmitted from a sender communication device. The messaging utility determines that one of (a) sender authentication of the message and (b) recipient authentication to open the message is required. In response to sender authentication being required, the recipient communication device transmits a request to the sender communication device for sender authentication of the message, and receives a certification of the message based on an authentication of a user input via the sender communication device. When recipient authentication is required, the recipient is prompted to enter biometric input at the recipient device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Jiri Slaby, Roger W. Ady
  • Patent number: 10897486
    Abstract: There is provided a display control apparatus including an acquisition section configured to acquire display information for displaying a state of collaborative editing in which a plurality of editors collaboratively edit a same editing target, and a display control section configured to cause an editing screen to display, based on the display information, the state of the collaborative editing performed on a not displayed part not included in a display range displayed when the editing target is displayed on the editing screen referenced to by a first editor among the plurality of editors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuya Hyodo, Shuichi Konami, Tomoya Narita, Akemi Tazaki
  • Patent number: 10891428
    Abstract: Embodiments presented herein include a method for altering a first annotation associated with a media file. This method may generally include the technique for receiving the media file wherein the media file contains the first annotation which is associated with a first playback speed of the media file. A second playback speed is received for the media file. A second annotation is generated based on the second playback speed of the media file based on the first annotation associated with the first playback speed of the media file. The second annotation is associated with the second playback speed of the media file and, at the second playback speed, the media file concurrently plays the second annotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: AUTODESK, INC.
    Inventors: George Frank Fitzmaurice, Tovi Grossman, Justin Frank Matejka
  • Patent number: 10885073
    Abstract: The present invention discloses methods, systems, and tools for evaluating a number of value significance measures of ontological subjects of compositions or networks. The method breaks a composition into its constituent ontological subjects of different orders and builds a participation matrix indicating the participation of ontological subjects of the composition in other ontological subjects, i.e. the partitions, of the composition. Using the participation information of the OSs into each other, an association strength matrix is built from which the value significance measures of the partitions of the composition are calculated. The methods systematically calculate the value significances of the ontological subjects of different orders of the composition. Various systems for implementing the methods and some exemplary applications and services are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Inventor: Hamid Hatami-Hanza
  • Patent number: 10887338
    Abstract: Creating a note on a lock screen may be provided. In some examples, an application, such as a communication application, may detect an input to generate a note on a lock screen. The communication application may provide a note interface to capture the note. Next, the note may be captured on the note interface. In response, the note may be saved at a first storage location. The first storage location may be isolated by an operating system of the computing device to prevent an execution of a malicious code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventor: Robert Miller
  • Patent number: 10884589
    Abstract: A social networking system identifies a user's relative preference for objects maintained by the social networking system, such as pages associated with movies, restaurants, businesses, or other content. To obtain the user's preferences, the system provides pairs, or groups, of objects to a user and prompts the user to indicate a preference between the objects in each pair. This obtained information about the user's relative preferences is stored in conjunction with the user's profile, which can then be used to select content subsequently presented to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Pike, Yuankai Ge, Chad Little
  • Patent number: 10877938
    Abstract: An approach is provided for synchronizing elements in files across a technical environment. In one embodiment, a processor obtains a first change to a first file. The processor also obtains data identifying a second file. The processor determines if the change is supported by a data library in a pre-defined list of data sources. The processor analyzes the data library to determine a type of the change. The processor applies the type of the change to the second file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Danny Y. Chen, Fabian F. Morgan, Sarah V. White Eagle, Zhe Yan, Chuan Yang, Dan Dan Zheng
  • Patent number: 10866931
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include systems and methods of a desktop application for accessing a cloud collaboration platform. The disclosed application utilizes a native desktop environment to provide a better cloud collaboration experience by making the cloud-based platform accessible for file editing, file opening/closing/previewing, moving files between the local desktop environment and a web application (e.g., native to the cloud-based platform), syncing folders or marking any folders or parents/children of any folders to sync and/or utilizing any of the collaborative features (e.g., emailing links or inviting collaborators to collaborate on a file directly via the desktop environment using native contacts or contacts in the web app environment).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Box, Inc.
    Inventors: Sang Lee, Matthew Self, Ryan Knotts
  • Patent number: 10866872
    Abstract: Disclosed are hardware and techniques for building runbooks for new computer-implemented processes by correlating break events from the new processes with break events extant in existing runbooks for existing computer-implemented processes. In addition, fix events associated with the correlated break events are evaluated to determine the likelihood that they will be able to fix the error condition which caused the break event from the new process. The fix events are presented to a human operator who may select and test each fix event to determine if the error condition is directed and, if so, the correlated break event associated with the fix event are merged together and added to a new runbook for the new computer-implement process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Bhavik Gudka, Milind Patel, Surya Avirneni, Umang Mistry
  • Patent number: 10860985
    Abstract: Artificial intelligence is introduced into an electronic meeting context to perform various tasks before, during, and/or after electronic meetings. The tasks may include a wide variety of tasks, such as agenda creation, participant selection, real-time meeting management, meeting content supplementation, and post-meeting processing. The artificial intelligence may analyze a wide variety of data such as data pertaining to other electronic meetings, data pertaining to organizations and users, and other general information pertaining to any topic. Capability is also provided to create, manage, and enforce meeting rules templates that specify requirements and constraints for various aspects of electronic meetings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Steven A. Nelson, Hiroshi Kitada, Lana Wong
  • Patent number: 10853231
    Abstract: Techniques and solutions are described for automatically analyzing code for code principle violations. A code analysis can be configured that includes one or more tests for one or more code principle violations. The code analysis can be applied statically, against previously generated code, or can be conducted in a dynamic manner as code is being written or edited. Code, such as automatically generated code, can be excluded from analysis, or reports of analysis results. When a code principle violation is detected, the violation can be displayed to a user. Information regarding correcting the violation can be displayed. In some cases, a code principle violation can be automatically corrected. Code violations can be classified, such as by severity, and can be associated with particular code, such as code packages or objects, or particular developers or development groups. Reports can be prepared summarizing changes in code principle violations over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Eugen Guenther, Estevao Schultz-Neto, Stefan Hauser, Guy Cases Langhoff