Mark Up Language Interface (e.g., Html) Patents (Class 715/760)
  • Patent number: 8935604
    Abstract: Embodiments of methods and systems for incorporating user generated content into a web page are disclosed. In particular, embodiments of such systems and methods may incorporate user generated content into a web page such that the user generated content can be consumed by indexers associated with search engines in association with that web page. Additionally, embodiments may also provide a mechanism by which user generated content may be received and included in a web page when that web page is rendered. Using embodiments as disclosed herein user generated content may be exposed to a search engine indexer in a web page while still providing a mechanism for incorporating the freshest user generated content in such a web page. Embodiments may also improve the ability of search engines or search engine indexers to determine the site of origin for such user content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Bazaarvoice, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Lee DeHaven, David Alan Gee, Subbalakshmi Iyer
  • Publication number: 20150012849
    Abstract: A color selection and coordination system including a database of predetermined color relationships implementing a data-driven color model. A starting color is associated with a first color in the color database. One or more predefined color palettes associated with the first color may be retrieved, each palette including one or more coordinating colors, the coordinating colors being predetermined based on the first color and a color coordination algorithm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: BEHR PROCESS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mary Rose Rice, Damien Reynolds, Marc Webb
  • Patent number: 8930807
    Abstract: A server receives a hypertext request from a client. The server looks up a hypertext document, wherein looking up comprises obtaining a first HTML element and a second HTML element and combining the first HTML element and second HTML element into a hypertext document, in response receiving the hypertext request from the client. The server parses the hypertext document for timeliness tags. The server generates at least one header tag based on the timeliness tags. The server determines whether at least one expired tag is among the timeliness tags. Responsive to a determination that at least one expired tag is among the timeliness tags, the server can look up a timeliness tag rule corresponding to the at least one timeliness tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Manfred Haubrich, Simon Lorenz, Frank Marschollek, Rainer Wolafka, Alexander Wolf-Reber
  • Patent number: 8930824
    Abstract: A user interface architectural pattern for product/platform user experience is described. In an embodiment, a request associated with a first macro file is made. The first macro file refers to a second macro file, and includes one or more elements embedded in a wrapper associated with the second macro file. Based at least in part on the second macro file, a user interface component is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Apollo Education Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Kris Bennett
  • Publication number: 20150007064
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automatic generation and efficient exploration of a large number of webpage layouts to discover a layout with superior empirical performance. A set of variants can be automatically generated based on a baseline webpage layout by incremental modification. The set of variants are displayed to visitors in accordance with a display probability distribution. Data related to visitors' interactions to the variants are collected and processed to evaluate their respective performances. The display probability distribution may be dynamically adjusted based on the evaluation. Poorly performing variants can be discarded and promising variants may be added for exploration. Eventually, a layout variant with superior performance can be automatically determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventor: Inmar-Ella GIVONI
  • Publication number: 20150007027
    Abstract: A system and methods enable switching between a plurality of online media services from within an application, such as a media player application. A user can switch to any one of a number of online services made available in a services menu and thereby make that service the active service. The active service has customization opportunities that permit the service to customize parts of the media player or other application. Advantages include providing online media services with an ability to control the way in which customers discover and purchase media from within the feature rich environment of various user applications such as a PC-based media player application. From a user's perspective, the advantages include an uninterrupted media experience that can involve the entire process of discovering, purchasing and using of a wide variety of media content all from within the feature rich environment of a media player application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: W. Michael Anderson, Mark J. Radcliffe
  • Publication number: 20150007015
    Abstract: There is provided systems and method for an execution and display of events in a plurality of web browsers and devices. The methods include receiving an event within a first web browser, wherein the first web browser is connected to a plurality of web browsers, determining an element on the first web browser corresponding to the event, and transmitting, using a hardware processor of a browser display device, the element and the event to the plurality of web browsers for execution by each of the plurality of web browser. The method may further comprise receiving an execution of the event on the plurality of web browsers, and displaying the execution of the event on the plurality of web browsers on a plurality of displays corresponding to each of the plurality of web browsers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: EBAY INC.
    Inventor: Banu Durga Satish Nekkalapudi
  • Publication number: 20150007065
    Abstract: A computer implemented method and an apparatus for determining user browsing behavior are provided. The method comprises associating one or more web pages corresponding to a web domain with tags to configure one or more tagged web pages. The method further comprises facilitating downloading of a control file on a user device upon detecting a first web page access event corresponding to a tagged web page from among the one or more tagged web pages. The control file is configured to facilitate recording of user activity related to a web domain on one or more tabs of a web browser associated with the user device. Furthermore, the method comprises receiving recorded user activity corresponding to at least one web browsing session and determining a user browsing behavior based on the recorded user activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Prabhakaran KRISHNAMOORTHY, Sourabh CHAKI, Neha VERMA
  • Patent number: 8924878
    Abstract: This disclosure describes improved systems and methods for displaying, accessing, and changing respiratory settings in a ventilatory system. Specifically, the present disclosure provides for one or more settings access elements, each corresponding to an individual ventilatory setting, for efficiently adjusting displayed ventilatory settings. Access elements may be easily identified as buttons, tabs, icons, or other access displays. After settings have been accessed and changed, pending settings changes may be visually identified on the GUI, or other user interface. In addition, pending settings changes associated with one or more screens of a GUI may be easily identified. Acceptance elements may also be provided which indicate whether one, multiple, or no pending settings changes are available for acceptance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Marc E. Palmer, John P. Skidmore, Olen D. Porter
  • Patent number: 8924867
    Abstract: A system may include reception of a request from a Web browser identifying source code and a computing platform, creation of a build environment corresponding to the identified computing platform, executing a build based on the source code, using the second build environment, to create build output, and transmission, to the Web browser, of a Web page including the build output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventor: Gerald Arnold
  • Patent number: 8924862
    Abstract: Techniques for optimizing desktop sharing for wireless clients during web collaboration are presented. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises determining that a presenter of a collaborative online meeting is using a desktop sharing session, determining that one or more attendees participating in the collaborative online meeting are using devices with limited display capabilities, determining a particular window displayed on the desktop of the presenter of the desktop sharing session, and causing transmission of only data from the particular window displayed on the desktop of the presenter to the one or more devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Zhonghui Luo
  • Publication number: 20140380200
    Abstract: Methods are described to preload and display a plurality of webpages from a hyperlink list either previously saved or returned by one or more search engines, where said webpages are displayed in a web browser. The web browser has been augmented to display multiple webpages simultaneously and to allow changing the number of webpages displayed and their physical arrangement within the web browser display. Hyperlinks associated with any portion of this plurality of webpages can be saved as a list of hyperlinks (group bookmark) for later retrieval. Preloading may be dynamically altered to take advantage of network bandwidth availability and processor non-saturation. Descendant webpages of preloaded webpages may also be preloaded to further speed performance. The zoom factor for a displayed webpage may be altered by clicking on a zoom icon or alternately rotating a mouse wheel while the cursor is held over the zoom icon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventor: Alan Earl Swahn
  • Publication number: 20140380199
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing content on a webpage includes rendering a webpage having a plurality of page areas. Each of the plurality of page areas is associated with an entity having display content. Selection of one of the plurality of page areas is detected. The selection causes a landing page to be rendered in place of the webpage. A return to the webpage from the landing page is detected. In response to the return, the selected page area of the webpage is modified to include at least one additional entity having associated display content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Sudharsan Vasudevan, Supreeth Rao, Utkarsh Shrivastava
  • Patent number: 8918720
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for receiving one or more keywords at a web application that are used to search for documents of a first type. The documents are accessible by a user via an account of the user based upon user permissions. Search results are provided based upon the keywords and include links to one or more documents of the first type. A selection one or more of the links is received. Selecting the links logs data that includes an indication that the documents were selected. A request for a list of most or recently selected documents of the first type for the user is received. The list of most or recently selected documents of the first type is based upon an aggregation of the logged data, and the list of most selected documents of the first type is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Ping Wu, Jennifer W. Lin
  • Patent number: 8918384
    Abstract: Annotations relating to web sites may be based on blog posts relating to the web sites. A user viewing a web site may concurrently view related blog posts about the web site. More particularly, in one implementation, a method includes detecting when a user visits a web page and receiving, in response to the detection, a group of blog posts that link to the web page. The method further includes displaying an indication of the group of blog posts to the user while the user is visiting the web site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Rakowski, Aaron Boodman
  • Patent number: 8918729
    Abstract: A system and method enabling a designer to build electronic forms from hierarchical data is described. Displays of hierarchical data, facilitation of selection of a portion of the hierarchical data, and displays of one or more transformation-language components associated with a selected portion of hierarchical data are described. From the transformation-language components selected by a designer, generation of an electronic form is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Christian Fortini, Jean D. Paoli, Laurent Mollicone, Bulusu Krishna Mohan, Alessandro Catorcini
  • Publication number: 20140372914
    Abstract: An electronic device and method are provided for rotating an object displayed at or by the device. The object may be an entire displayed region of a display screen, such as a window, frame, or other region or subregion, or a block element or other type of content component such as an image or map. A first input defining a reference point for the object is detected at a first user interface mechanism. After commencement of the detected first input, a second input at a second user interface mechanism, such as a touchscreen display, is detected. In response to the second input, a rotation transformation is applied to the object, the rotation transformation center being defined by the reference point, and the rotation transformation angle being defined by the second input. The object may be displayed by the touchscreen display, or by a display device external to the electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Thomas Edward BYRD, Julien Camille PAUL-CAVALLIER
  • Publication number: 20140372913
    Abstract: A method of organizing and accessing information on a website, comprising providing a plurality of primary category links associated with a plurality of primary categories, providing a plurality of topic links each associated with one or more art topics, each topic link having a topic name and a topic image, and providing a content region for presenting content for an art topic and having a content type associated with a primary category, wherein navigation around the website may be harmonized by art topic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventor: Steven W. Roth
  • Patent number: 8914736
    Abstract: A request to render a control content is intercepted by a client application as it is being served from a content source. Based on predetermined criteria, the control content is replaced with replacement content. The replacement content may be an alternative version of the control content differing from the control content in one or more alternative elements. The replacement content may be created with a graphical interface that overlays the control content. The graphical interface allows a user to select elements of the control content, edit the selected elements of the control content, and save the edited elements as part of the replacement content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Matthew Cardasco
  • Publication number: 20140365925
    Abstract: A display controller includes display control means by which a partial display of a Web page is performed when the Web page is displayed on display means, display range detecting means for detecting a display range of the Web page displayed on the display means by the display control means, a key input pattern database in which information indicating an operation intended by a user is stored per key input pattern of the operating means, a home position database per URL for registering a home position used as the first display range when a Web page is displayed, together with URL information of each Web page, key input pattern detecting means for detecting a key input pattern of the operating means when the Web page is displayed by the display control means and home position registering means for registering a display range of the Web page detected by the display range detecting means as a home position corresponding to the Web page, together with URL information of the Web page, in the home position database
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventor: Etsuji YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20140365855
    Abstract: A content application includes one or more content list panels. The content application provides mechanisms that allow the user to easily manage article representations included in the content lists such as adding article representations a content list and editing the items directly in menus associated with the content lists.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Kevin W. Decker, Darin Benjamin Adler, Steven J. Falkenburg, Raymond Sepulveda, Craig Federighi, Steve O. Lemay, Patrick Coffman, Andreas Wendker, Brian Croll, Chan Karunamuni, Conrad Shultz
  • Patent number: 8909697
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising program code which when executed by an apparatus causes the apparatus to effect the method, for pre-fetching web content. Preferably, a proxy server performs the pre-fetching. Techniques such, for example, as executing Javascript in pre-fetched pages, modifying pre-fetched pages to address URL generation involving random numbers or dates, using cookie information or browser specifics when performing pre-fetching of pages, and injecting Javascript to measure response time may be performed, by way of example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Douglas M. Dillon, Daren C. Brantley
  • Patent number: 8910060
    Abstract: A method and system for enabling a user to selectively make one or more highlights on one or more objects in a currently displayed internet document in a web browser are disclosed. The highlighting functionality is enabled for the user without requiring the user to download and/or install custom software. Furthermore, it is not necessary for the user to register with the highlighting service providing the functionality. The user-generated highlights are persistent in the sense that they remain associated with, and are displayed on, the internet document during subsequent browsing sessions by the user or other users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Inventor: Rohit Chandra
  • Patent number: 8910080
    Abstract: An image-displaying device includes a storing unit and a displaying unit. The storing unit stores correlation data between a plurality of thumbnails and a sequence of the plurality of thumbnails. The displaying unit is capable of displaying a predetermined maximum number of thumbnails based on the correlation data. If a displayed thumbnail is selected by a user, the displaying unit displays identification data identifying the selected thumbnail together with the selected thumbnail. If identification data is selected by a user, the displaying unit displays a thumbnail corresponding to the selected identification data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koji Akagi, Tetsuro Matsuno, Tatsuya Sato
  • Patent number: 8909284
    Abstract: An outdoor broadband unit may be connected to an external portion of a customer premises. The outdoor broadband unit may include a radio frequency (RF) antenna to receive communications from a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network and a printed wiring board. The printed wiring board may include an integrated circuit (IC) chip to implement a subscriber identity module (SIM) to provide services for the LTE network. The IC chip may be soldered to the printed wiring board and have a rated temperature range corresponding to an industrial grade or military grade integrated circuit. The IC chip may provide authentication services for the SIM using a hypertext transfer protocol secure (HTTPS) connection. The printed wiring board may further include a control module to implement an air interface for the LTE network. A radome may contain the RF antenna and the printed wiring board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Sergio Aguirre, Raafat E. Kamel, Kamlesh S. Kamdar, Lalit R. Kotecha
  • Publication number: 20140359488
    Abstract: An operating system of a computer provides an interface, such as an application programming interface, through which applications on that computer can store link data in a consistent format across applications and resources. Thus, when an application stores link data, it sends a command to the operating system providing the link data, invoking a command to store the link data. When an application retrieves link data, it sends a command to the operating system to retrieve link data. Thus, an application can store link data for a history of resources accessed, favorite resources accessed, and other types of resources to be accessed. As a result, the operating system provides a single mechanism for a heterogeneous set of applications and a heterogeneous set of resources to store link data in a single repository.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Eric Bahna, Anshul Rawat, Aaron Butcher, Joshua Kaplan, Brett Waldbaum, Daniel Wood, Yuan-Chou Chung, Mary-Lynne Williams, Ana Lilia Otero Diaz
  • Publication number: 20140359490
    Abstract: An electronic device with one or more processors and memory receives a user input corresponding to a request to monitor a webpage. The electronic device obtains, in accordance with a predetermined monitoring frequency, current summary information corresponding to the webpage. The electronic device determines whether the webpage includes updated content based on the summary information corresponding to the webpage. In accordance with a determination that the webpage includes updated content, the electronic device presents an indication of the updated content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventor: Yongfei MA
  • Publication number: 20140359491
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for pre-fetching of resources referenced on a network page. A predicted next network page is retrieved by a computer system. The predicted next network page references at least one resource. At least one attribute of the resource is evaluated according to at least one retrieval criteria. At least one resource is retrieved if the attribute meets the retrieval criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Pongsakorn Teeraparpwong, Sikandar Saifullah
  • Publication number: 20140359489
    Abstract: A web browser that records and displays browsing history. For each web page, a thumbnail image of the web page and a group associated with the web page are recorded. A group is displayed along a first axis, the thumbnail image of each page associated with that group displayable along a second orthogonal axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Colin Shengcai Zhao, Itai Vonshak, Ian I. Tam, Benjamin Andrew Rottler
  • Publication number: 20140359424
    Abstract: A method for generating a web browser launch page is performed at a computer. The computer receives a user input to start a web browser application. In response to the user input, the computer identifies a set of favorite website addresses defined by the user and a set of website addresses visited by the user during a predefined time period and determines, among them, a set of favorite website addresses visited by the user during the predefined time period. For each favorite website address, the computer determines a timestamp of a most recent visit by the user, a number of visits by the user during the predefined time period, and a current score of the favorite website address and generates a new score for the favorite website address. Finally, the computer displays the set of favorite website addresses in a first window in an order consistent with their scores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Xiaodan LIN, Jing LlU
  • Patent number: 8902325
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing device incorporating a camera receives an instruction associated with the camera to display an image generated by the camera in an area within a graphical user interface of an application running on the computing device. The computing device determines a width and a height of the area. The computing device instructs the camera to configure the image, in connection with its generation, for display in the area. And the computing device displays in the area the image as generated and configured by the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Reed Weatherford, Robert Douglas Arnold, David Harry Garcia
  • Publication number: 20140351721
    Abstract: In a method for redrawing a two web page windows that are being moved from a first display screen to a second display screen, an indication is received that each respective web page window is being moved from a first display to a second display. A processor identifies different scaling factors corresponding to uniform resource locators (URLs) of each respective web page window for scaling the web page windows for display on the second display screen. The processor causes the first web page window to be scaled according to the first scaling factor and the second web page window to be scaled according to the second, different scaling factor, wherein each web page window is scaled differently relative to the other on the second display screen than on the first display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventors: Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Dana L. Price, Shelbee D. Smith-Eigenbrode
  • Patent number: 8898583
    Abstract: A method for providing contextual information regarding semantic entities included in a page of content, includes the steps of: displaying to a user a page of content including one or more semantic entities; identifying the included one or more semantic entities; and receiving input from the user indicating a desire to receive contextual information regarding a specific one of the identified semantic entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Kikin Inc.
    Inventors: Carlos Bhola, Ludovic Cabre, Gerald Kropitz, Brian Rogers
  • Publication number: 20140344727
    Abstract: A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for responsive web page delivery based on network bandwidth. Upon initiation of a network communication session, a bandwidth of a network connection of the client device involved in the network communication session is determined. At least one initial display element to provide as part of a webpage for display on the client device is selected based on the bandwidth of the network connection. Instructions are then provided to the client device which cause the client device to display the at least one display element. In some embodiments, an updated bandwidth is subsequently determined and updated display elements are selected based on the updated bandwidth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: eBay Inc.
    Inventor: Seema Chaudhry
  • Patent number: 8893027
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, a device provides a connection to an endpoint coupled with a first network to a virtual desktop client coupled with a second network. The device obtains data from the virtual desktop client which client which includes at least one link to data available from an external server, such as streaming media. The device obtains the data from the external server and provides the data with data obtained from the virtual desktop client to the endpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephan Edward Friedl, Thomas Martin Wesselman, Steven Chervets
  • Patent number: 8893043
    Abstract: In a method for automatically navigating potential websites for predictive browsing based on user activities along with efficiency of verifying content updates, a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of websites and its associated attributes that a user visits can be recorded and stored in a storage engine. The potential sites can be predicted by a predictive engine component based upon a past browsing history and various environmental factors that are recorded in the storage engine. A dynamic content detection engine component examines each potential websites and detects if the site has been updated. The predictive engine component enables the user to navigate to the potential websites thereby permitting faster website browsing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher N. Dodson, Keith R. Walker, Brian M. O'Connell, Richard A. Locke
  • Patent number: 8893028
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which a user selection is received with the selection being a number data elements with each of the selected data elements being displayed in a Web browser software application. A first set of functions that apply to the selected data elements is identified and the identified first set of functions is applied to the selected data elements. The result is a set of resulting values which are displayed a window that appears on the display screen. If the user has selected numeric data then numeric functions are applied to the data, however if the user has selected date-type data then date functions are applied to the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Barry Alan Kritt, Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit
  • Patent number: 8892999
    Abstract: An embodiment is an avatar or avatar environment to visualize data within an athletic performance system or service and/or a social network system or service, for example as part of the Internet. The avatar may further evolve or alter its appearance, animation, or other visual or audio characteristics in response to the data or other input. In particular, the avatar of an embodiment may respond to and provide visualization of athletic or sport performance data. According to one or more aspects, an avatar may be placed on other network sites and updated based on athletic performance data. The avatar may be awarded for goals achieved by a user. The awards or gifts may further include non-avatar related items such as apparel, gift cards and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Nims, Roberto Tagliabue, Danielle Quatrochi
  • Publication number: 20140337768
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods for allowing users to specify interactive graphical designs are provided. The graphical designs can comprise multiple dimension versions—such as a tablet dimension version or a phone dimension version. Some of the methods involve an inheritance structure that defines a first dimension version of the design as a child of a second dimension version of the design. Specifications for properties of widgets in the graphical design are applied to the design in accordance with the inheritance specification. Some of the methods involve an inheritance characterization that determines how properties of a widget are affected by the inheritance structure across different dimension versions. Some of the methods involve an existence property for the widgets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: AXURE SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Victor Hsu, Martin Smith, Ian Gardner, Ben Fraser
  • Publication number: 20140337767
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide tools and methods for the development and specification of a responsive graphical design. A graphical user interface allows a user to specify a design. The graphical user interface has a area for displaying a rendering of the design according to a first dimension specification. The system also has a dimension specification interface that allows the user to set a second dimension specification. The system also has a widget interface that allows the user to (i) add a widget to said design, (ii) specify a first state for the widget when the design is rendered according to the first dimension specification, and (iii) specify a second state for the widget when the design is rendered according to the second dimension specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventor: Axure Software Solutions, Inc.
  • Patent number: 8884971
    Abstract: Embodiments provide animations with an animation engine decoupled from an animation catalog storing animation definitions. A computing device accesses at least one of the animation definitions corresponding to at least one markup language (ML) element to be animated. Final attribute values associated with the ML element are identified (e.g., provided by the caller or defined in the animation definition). The computing device animates the ML element using the accessed animation definition and the identified final attribute values. In some embodiments, the animation engine uses a single timer to animate a plurality of hypertext markup language (HTML) elements displayed by a browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Aditi Mandal, Arye Gittelman, Lionel Robinson, Joy Seth
  • Patent number: 8887055
    Abstract: The disclosed technology reconstructs stimuli displayed to a user as they interact with online-content. The technology may provide for a record of selected technical parameters and relevant data that may impact the manner in which online content is displayed, taking into consideration the current browser context. The technology may record events as reported from a browser interface. The events may be recorded in a format and syntax to form a primary index of events and related outcomes which comprise the user's interface experience. Events may be detected at the browser interface and identified, categorized, and filtered as to their relevance to visual stimuli. A unique identifier may then be assigned in the form of an alphanumeric string to each relevant event. Selected events may be recorded into a log (along with their categorization), a unique identifier, and the time in which the event occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Schlucktronix LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth H. Crain, William K. Vanover
  • Patent number: 8881033
    Abstract: An application displaying primary content, such as a webpage, may include unused space. The unused space may exist within the application displaying the primary content (e.g., within the browser window) or on other portions of the display (e.g., outside of the browser window). The unused space is identified and leveraged to display secondary content on the client display along with the primary content. The secondary content may be adaptable to conform to different sizes and/or configurations of the unused space. The secondary content may be updated as the user interacts with elements on the client display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Leftsnrights, Inc.
    Inventors: Nikolai Mentchoukov, James Warren Rowan
  • Patent number: 8881055
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes setting minimum boundaries for a pop-up window based on content, displaying the content in the pop-up window, receiving an input to change a layout of the content, calculating new minimum boundaries for the pop-up window based on the layout change, resizing the pop-up window using the new minimum boundaries and displaying the content in the resized pop-up window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Erik Kay, Aaron Boodman
  • Patent number: 8881032
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods for grouping web page viewing windows in a web browser are provided. In one aspect, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a request to open a web page viewing window within a web browser that has multiple previously opened web page viewing windows. The method also includes automatically grouping each tab indicator associated with a subset of the web page viewing windows into a group based on an amount of viewable display space within the web browser to display each tab indicator associated with each of the web page viewing windows. Systems, graphical user interfaces, and machine-readable media are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Arnaud Claude Weber, Alex Neely Ainslie, Roma Rajni Shah, Glen Murphy, David Andrew Trainor
  • Publication number: 20140325398
    Abstract: Techniques for generating and providing personalized interactive tours of various features of a webpage are described. According to various embodiments, it may be determined that a device associated with a user is accessing a webpage including various webpage features. Personalized experience scores corresponding to the webpage features may be calculated. Each of the personalized experience scores may indicate a current experience level of the user with the corresponding webpage feature. Thereafter, a specific webpage feature may be identified, where the personalized experience scores indicate that the user has a relatively low current experience level with that specific webpage feature. A user-selectable tour entry user interface element may be displayed on the webpage, wherein the tour entry user interface element includes a link to an interactive tour describing the specific webpage feature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Linkedln Corporation
    Inventors: Hans van de Bruggen, Matthew David Shoup, Gordon Koo
  • Publication number: 20140325399
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to a system that displays diagnostic information to facilitate web page development. While a web page is being assembled at a front-end system using data gathered from one or more back-end systems, the system accumulates metadata associated with the assembly process. Next, the system renders the web page using the gathered data. Finally, the system sends the rendered web page along with the metadata to a browser to be displayed to a user, wherein the browser is configured to selectively display the metadata when the web page is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: LinkedIn Corporation
    Inventors: Georg Puchta, Veena Basavaraj, Johnathan Leppert
  • Publication number: 20140325401
    Abstract: The present invention enables methods and systems that identify viral videos. A viral video is a video which received a percentage of its views from one person sharing the video with another person. That is, a viral video received most of its views from person to person sharing. A video hosting server determines whether a video is a viral video based at least in part on views the video received through person to person sharing and the total number of views the video has received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Mirjam Wattenhofer, Tom Broxton, Anders Brodersen, Jonas Yngvesson, Jakub Petrykowski
  • Publication number: 20140325365
    Abstract: A portal summary controller stores detected usage of at least one instance of at least one portlet application within at least one portal page at each of a plurality of different times. Responsive to a trigger to generate a summary portal page, the portal summary controller dynamically creates a summary portal page displaying a separate instance of the at least one portlet application for at least one of each of the plurality of different times specified according to the separate usage stored at each of the plurality of different times, such that the summary portal page provides a summary of at least a selection of previous usage of the at least one portal page. The trigger to generate a summary portal page includes a user selecting which previous stored portal usage, including usage of individual portlet applications, to summarize in the summary portal page, such that the summary portal page renders a summary of only that content selected by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: CHRISTINA K. LAURIDSEN, MALCOLM C. ONG, Lauren G. WILCOX
  • Publication number: 20140325400
    Abstract: A method for operating a computing device is provided. One or more processors determines a plurality of web pages that are concurrently opened in a browser. At least a first group of web pages and a second group of web pages are determined. On the browser, a mufti-panel view interface is displayed having a plurality of panels. The mufti-panel view interface concurrently provides useable content of at least some web pages of a first set of web pages in the first group in each panel. The useable content corresponds to a portion of content displayed on an individual web page. The multi-panel view interface includes a selection interface to enable a user to select to view web pages in the first group or the second group. A web page is displayed on the multi-panel view interface by expanding the useable content of that web page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Colin Zhao, Itai Vonshak, Angela Tam, Robert Chen, Ben Rottler, Chad Wirtz