On-screen Workspace Or Object Patents (Class 715/764)
  • Patent number: 11966657
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive an input operation of a user; and a display controller configured to display, in a display area having a first area and a second area, an image. The display controller includes: an icon controller configured to display, in the second area, first icons associated one-to-one with different layouts in splitting the first area, and a first splitter configured to split the first area into split areas based on a layout corresponding to a selected first icon to when the receiver receives an input operation for selecting any of the first icons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kenichirou Matsumura, Kuniichiro Naruse, Keita Saito, Akira Kurosawa, Hiroki Takagaki, Kiwako Miura, Yuki Kobayashi, Takehisa Gokaichi
  • Patent number: 11960863
    Abstract: A mixed mode programming method permitting users to program with graphical coding blocks and textual code within the same programming tool. The mixed mode preserves the advantages of graphical block programming while introducing textual coding as needed for instructional reasons and/or for functional reasons. Converting a graphical code block or group of blocks to a textual block lets the user see a portion of the textual code in the context of a larger program. Within one programming tool the mixed mode method allows users to learn programming and build purely graphical blocks; then transition into mixed graphical and textual code and ultimately lead to their ability to program in purely textual code. The mixed mode further allows users to program using any combination of drag-and-drop graphical blocks and typed textual code in various forms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Innovation First, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert H. Mimlitch, III, Jason R. McKenna, Levi K. Pope, James B. Pearman, Timothy S. Friez, Paul D. Copioli
  • Patent number: 11960824
    Abstract: A document creation system includes keyword object management configured to create keyword objects by merging the expression labels and attributes of keywords and to manage the keyword objects, keyword object placement configured to place, in any position of text, a keyword object managed by the keyword object management, keyword object attribute value input configured to input attribute values to the keyword objects, and keyword object-placed document recording/reading configured to record and read the created keyword object-placed document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: IRYOU JYOUHOU GIJYUTU KENKYUSHO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinkichi Himeno
  • Patent number: 11960978
    Abstract: A system for improving a distributable model with distributed data is provided, comprising a network-connected distributable model source configured to serve instances of a distributable model; and a directed computation graph module configured to receive at least an instance of the distributable model from the network-connected computing system, create a cleansed dataset from data stored in the memory with at least biases within the data stored in memory corrected, train the instance of the distributable model with the cleansed dataset, and generate an update report based at least in part by updates to the instance of the distributable model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: QOMPLX LLC
    Inventors: Jason Crabtree, Andrew Sellers
  • Patent number: 11954171
    Abstract: Method of generating frustration score starts with processor receiving data associated with interactions by users with website including webpages displayed during sessions. Processor generates page view scores based on page view experience indicators and zone experience indicators associated with the webpages, generates session scores based on the page view scores and session experience indicators, and generates webpage scores based on page view scores. Processor identifies the webpage associated with highest level of frustration based on page view and webpage scores and identifies the session that is associated with highest level of frustration based on the session scores. Processor causes a user interface to be displayed on a display device that includes a visualization of interactions by a user with the website associated with the session with the highest level of frustration and an identification of the webpage associated with the highest level of frustration. Other embodiments are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Content Square SAS
    Inventors: Vincent Colombet, Victor Cojocaru, Hui Wang, Sihem Abdoun
  • Patent number: 11954325
    Abstract: Vehicle systems and methods are provided for associating text entry components with software applications in a decoupled software environment. One method involves a user input management service associating a user input from a user input device with an interactive application based on a location associated with the user input, providing the user input to the application based on the association, wherein the application responds to the user input, receiving indication of selection of a text input element by the user input from the application. In response to the indication of selection of the text input element, the user input management service associates a text entry component with the application and thereafter provides a text input received from the associated text entry component to the application based on the association between the text entry component and the application, wherein the application responds to the text input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Steven Boswell, Sonia Dodd, Sean Caufield
  • Patent number: 11953524
    Abstract: A tool is presented herein capable of performing several electrical measurements and generating several electrical outputs. The tool can be configured to perform measurements and provide outputs most commonly utilized when developing and diagnosing failures of a hardware platform based around a microcontroller. The tool can have a form factor and a header configuration compatible for mating with an external microcontroller or minicomputer developer board such as Arduino, UDOO, Raspberry Pi, TI LaunchPad, STM Nucleo, BeagleBone, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Gentiam LLC
    Inventors: Omar Laldin, Tarryn MacPherson
  • Patent number: 11950823
    Abstract: A surgical platform is disclosed. The surgical platform includes a component and a regional location tracking module configured to connect with an external device and receive geographic location data from the external device and implement geographic location specific functionality based on the geographic location data received from the external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: Ryan M. Asher, Joshua M. Henderson, Eitan T. Wiener, James M. Vachon
  • Patent number: 11954134
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method can create a node-link model from a hierarchy table, which includes a plurality of records associated with a plurality of objects organized in segments. A record includes a unique identifier, a parent reference, and a value distribution for the associated object. The parent reference is the unique identifier of a parent object directing the value distribution to the associated object. The node-link model includes a plurality of nodes representing the objects and links connecting the nodes and representing value distributions between the objects. The method can generate a visual representation of the node-link model in a user interface and receive an input from the user interface. Responsive to the input, the method can change the visual representation to depict a portion of the node-link model based on a viewable scope of the node-link model and one or more viewable fields specified in the input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Bjoern Christoph, Marco Valentin, Stefan Tex
  • Patent number: 11947778
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to navigating a collection of media items. In accordance with one embodiment, in response to receiving an input, a device displays a first view of a collection of media items, including concurrently displaying a representation of a first time period and a representation of a second time period. In accordance with a determination that a current time is associated with a first recurring temporal event: the representation of the first time period includes a first representative media item and the representation of the second time period includes a second representative media item. In accordance with a determination that the current time is associated with a second recurring temporal event, the representation of the first time period includes a third representative media item and the representation of the second time period includes a fourth representative media item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Graham R. Clarke, Simon Bovet, Eric M. G. Circlaeys, Richard R. Dellinger, Lynne Devine, Alan C. Dye, Daniel E. Gobera Rubalcava, Andreas Karlsson, Matthieu Lucas, Johnnie B. Manzari, Nicole R. Ryan, William A. Sorrentino, III, Andre Souza Dos Santos, Gregg Suzuki, Sergey Tatarchuk
  • Patent number: 11947611
    Abstract: The described technology relates to developing and/or maintaining dashboards in enterprise web applications. In some aspects, a portal web application is configured to provide a user interface on a client device to create or modify a dashboard which includes a first plurality of widgets. A second plurality of widgets includes widgets published to the portal web application from a plurality of subscriber web applications, where each of the second plurality of widgets is used in at least one of said subscriber web applications, and the first plurality of widgets includes one or more widgets from the second plurality of widgets. In some other aspects, a dashboard management service is provided by which respective enterprise web applications can create and host widgets while sharing the same with other enterprise web applications which use dashboards developed using the dashboard management service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NASDAQ, INC.
    Inventors: Sivakumaresan Thangeswaran, Binumohan Chandramohan, Rajkumar Vedha Siva
  • Patent number: 11949761
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for efficient generation and maintenance of interface components in an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) environment. A system may receive a request to display a dashboard of components. A declarative metadata set of components is generated and a multi-use agent to parse the declarative metadata set. The multi-use agent may be replicated according to the parsed declarative definition in order to create multiple instances of the multi-use agent corresponding to the one or more determined interface components. The multiple instances of the multi-use agent may then generate and maintain the interface components in real-time. Component generation may be distributed among systems to prevent excessive data transfers and wasteful communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Domenica Carolina Mata Rodriguez, Alaa Shaker
  • Patent number: 11947785
    Abstract: A building energy management includes building equipment, one or more data platform services, a timeseries database, and an energy management application. The building equipment operate to monitor and control a variable and provide raw data samples of a data point associated with the variable. The timeseries database stores a plurality of timeseries associated with the data point. The plurality of timeseries include a timeseries of the raw data samples and the one or more optimized data timeseries generated by the data platform services based on the raw data timeseries. The energy management application generates an ad hoc dashboard including a widget and associates the widget with the data point. The widget displays a graphical visualization of the plurality of timeseries associated with the data point and includes interactive user interface options for switching between the plurality of timeseries associated with the data point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TECHNOLOGY COMPANY
    Inventors: Youngchoon Park, Vijaya S. Chennupati, Sudhi Sinha, Justin Ploegert
  • Patent number: 11948380
    Abstract: In one implementation, a method of determining an estimate of a position of a camera is performed at a device including one or more processors and non-transitory memory. The method includes obtaining a point cloud of a physical environment including a plurality of points, wherein each of the plurality of points is associated with set of three-dimensional coordinates in a three-dimensional coordinate system of the physical environment, wherein the plurality of points includes a first cluster of points associated with a first semantic label. The method includes obtaining a two-dimensional image of the physical environment associated with a point-of-view set of three-dimensional coordinates in the three-dimensional coordinate system of the physical environment. The method includes detecting, in the two-dimensional image of the physical environment, a representation of a first object corresponding to the first semantic label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Payal Jotwani
  • Patent number: 11941015
    Abstract: An example computing system may operate on episodes stored in an episodic memory using a semantic query language. The semantic query language may associate contextual labels with the data ingested from the data sources. Systems described herein may determine probabilities of an event based on the episodes including previous observations, counts, similarities, anomalies, and causality among many other techniques and methodologies. In some examples, the systems described herein may provide result explanations by providing references to source data pertinent to a given result. The user may provide feedback to the query results and update the semantic query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Consilient Labs Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Golden, Bruce Horn, Scott Love, Reinhard R. Steffens, Holger Abel, Damian Roca
  • Patent number: 11941683
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for ingesting task-related data and providing task recommendations or generating tasks based on the ingested data. In certain embodiments, task-related data is obtained by a task facilitation service from third-party applications using a suitable interface, such as an application program interface (API), and the third-party applications may include plug-ins or extensions that facilitate communication between the applications and the task facilitation service. For example, task facilitation service may be configured to obtain and process data from websites and generate task recommendations based on the website data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Yohana LLC
    Inventors: Yoky Matsuoka, Nitin Viswanathan
  • Patent number: 11941094
    Abstract: A screen unlocking method and apparatus, and a computer device and a storage medium. The method comprises: obtaining interactive information generated when a user performs a predetermined operation; dynamically updating the generated interactive information to a pre-built interactive information database; upon receiving a screen unlocking request, invoking first interactive information in the database according to a first predetermined mode; generating an unlock tag according to said first interactive information; generating, according to the unlock tag, multiple interference tags that are different from the unlock tag; and sending the unlock tag and the multiple interference tags to a terminal device for display, receiving a user's operation for triggering the unlock tag, and unlocking a screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: Beijing Jingdong Shangke Information Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing Jingdong Century Trading Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11943321
    Abstract: Techniques described herein are used to support cross-platform data sharing, access, and management between a communication process flow management platform and a communication platform. Specifically, techniques described herein support a communication process flow management platform detecting an event associated with a communication process flow that control electronic communications between a tenant and a set of users. The platform may generate a data object corresponding to the event. The data object may include metadata associated with the event. The platform may transmit, to a communication platform, a request that includes the data object. The request may be configured to cause an entry associated with the event to be posted into the communication platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Popelka, William Robert Jennings, II, Andrew Short, Pranavkumar Janakbhai Parekh
  • Patent number: 11941567
    Abstract: A Software-as-a-Service infrastructure is provided to perform data analytics, wherein a given analytic is defined in a spreadsheet according to a formula, and wherein the formula is associated with an Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) impact. The infrastructure comprises program code configured to receive a request, determine whether the request is associated with data of a first type and, if so, to clone the spreadsheet. The code is further configured to receive results from execution of the spreadsheet with respect to given data, and to provide the results for display in response to the request. The spreadsheet executes independently of execution of the computer program code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Richmond Global Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Balazs Donat Bessenyei, Sotirios Kotsantonis, Niklas Oskar Marinus Pape, Sandor Palfy
  • Patent number: 11931657
    Abstract: An information handling system may receive a request from a user for expert assistance associated with a gaming application. The information handling system may determine a recommendation of one or more experts from a plurality of available experts based, at least in part, on the gaming application and one or more gaming characteristics of each of the plurality of available experts. The information handling system may initiate a gaming assistance session between the user and at least one of the determined experts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Erik Summa, Marc Randall Hammons, Tyler Ryan Cox
  • Patent number: 11934473
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for presenting past interactions. The program and method include generating a group profile for a plurality of users that includes a plurality of media items previously exchanged between the plurality of users and saved by at least one of the plurality of users; computing a prior time period as a function of a current date and a specified time interval; searching the plurality of media items to identify a collection of media items that were exchanged between the plurality of users during the prior time period; and generating for display in a graphical user interface a subset of the identified collection of media items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SNAP INC.
    Inventor: Jeremy Voss
  • Patent number: 11936603
    Abstract: A method and system for displaying an image in a communication thread accessible to a first and second user are disclosed, including receiving an indication of a selection of a first image by the first user for display in the communication thread, analyzing user attribute settings of the first user or the second user to determine if at least one of the first user or the second user has a user attribute setting corresponding to a customizable aspect of the selected first image, and causing, based on the analyzing, in different first and second modes, one of the selected first image or a modified image based on the selected first image to be displayed in the communication thread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Samuel Robert Cundall, Nicolas Gunnar Alexander Nuzzaci
  • Patent number: 11934460
    Abstract: Managing content is disclosed. An indication is received that a content item comprising a body of managed content is associated with a business object not included in the body of managed content. The content item is linked with the business object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Open Text Corporation
    Inventors: Michael H. Walther, Viktor Gavrysh, Sachin B. Chaudhari
  • Patent number: 11929881
    Abstract: Three-dimensional (3D) visualization of multi-layer networks include receiving data associated with a network, wherein the network includes interconnected network elements that operate at a plurality of levels that include any of network layers and encapsulations; displaying a plurality of three-dimensional icons each represent one of a plurality of network elements of the interconnected network elements; and displaying links between the plurality of three-dimensional icons each link representing one of a network layer connection and an encapsulation connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Stoll, Brett Sinclair, David Fortin, Blair E. P. Moxon, Christiane Louise Campbell, Sophy Pal, Brian Christopher Johnson, Hien Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11930476
    Abstract: The present invention is designed to make it possible to draw proper associations, when integrating pieces of information estimated in individual sensors, by associating between objects sensed by a plurality of sensors. A sensor information integration system 101 includes a radio frame analyzing section 33 configured to analyze a radio frame transmitted from a first object, to extract the first attribute information, an image analyzing section 40 configured to analyze an image, in which a second object is sensed, to extract second attribute information, and an association judging section 21 configured to judge an association between the first object and the second object, using the first attribute information and the second attribute information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshiki Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 11921742
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for intelligent visual analysis and display of cross-source heterogeneous data including: when a visual display command for the target heterogeneous data is detected, creating a connector in the distributed in-memory database corresponding to each target data source where the target heterogeneous data is located via a JDBC driver; in the visual data intelligence platform, the python driver of the distributed in-memory database and the SQLAlchemy framework create the connection between the visual data intelligence platform and the distributed in-memory database, and generating SQL table building statements in the visual data intelligence platform based on the association information corresponding to the target heterogeneous data; generating the target data table with plurality of table associations in the distributed in-memory database based on the SQL table building statements; the target heterogeneous data is visualized and displayed in the visual data intelligence platform based on th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING BORRUI DATA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ruimin Liu, Shuihan Yi
  • Patent number: 11921972
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of diagnosing a technology environment using augmented reality may include: receiving status information corresponding to the technology environment; generating, based on the status information, a 3D visualization of the technology environment; causing an augmented reality device to display the 3D visualization, the 3D visualization including one or more first level icons; receiving first selection information from the augmented reality device, the first selection information corresponding to a first selection gesture performed by a user of the augmented reality device; and in response to the first selection information, causing the augmented reality device to display one or more second level icons as part of the 3D visualization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Arunkumar Natarajan, Omari Felix, Colleen Frank, Venkata Mandali
  • Patent number: 11922083
    Abstract: A method for page management for use with an image forming apparatus includes receiving a request from a user for processing one or more pages of one or more documents. Further, the method includes displaying on a display (a) a thumbnail image generated for each page and (b) a plurality of options for processing the one or more pages. Furthermore, the method includes receiving a selection by the user of at least one option of the plurality of options. Thereafter, the method includes processing the one or more pages, according to the at least one option of the selection received from the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Anusha Mairpady Ananda
  • Patent number: 11922504
    Abstract: An asset management system is disclosed where a plurality of financial databases may connect with and be in communication with an asset management tool. The asset management tool is able to create an individual spending plan (scheduled distributions) and matching fixed income investment portfolio for a user based on inputted parameters with automatic distributions from the portfolio consistent with the individual spending plan occurring with a high degree of certainty. The asset management tool may communicate with the plurality of financial databases to put the individual spending plan and matching portfolio into action and is able to calculate and communicate an optimized surplus investment as a means of self-insuring so that the predefined schedule of distributions is met with the effective certainty one would expect from an insured/guaranteed income product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NISA Investment Advisors, LLC
    Inventors: William Patrick Marshall, Christopher Eric Goebel, Nicholas Frank Cangiani
  • Patent number: 11921983
    Abstract: A method for implementing visualization of public welfare activities includes: displaying to a target user a map of a geographic region for carrying out a public welfare activity in response to the target user's selection, wherein the map comprises a first geographic location associated with a first icon indicating that the public welfare activity has been carried out at the first geographic location and a second geographic location associated with a second icon indicating that the public welfare activity is able to be carried out at the second geographic location; when a relationship exists between the target user and a public welfare activity participant user that has carried out the public welfare activity on the map, displaying on the map user information of the public welfare activity participant user; updating the second icon to be a first icon in response to the target user's selection on the second icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: ADVANCED NEW TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fang Fang, Han Li
  • Patent number: 11922271
    Abstract: A virtual surface is used for a standby mode for a device scanning optical codes. A virtual surface is designating as a rendering target for a camera of a mobile device used to detect and decode optical codes. The camera is started, with the virtual surface designated as the rendering target for the camera. The camera is stopped, without terminating a program that uses the camera, wherein the camera is in a standby mode. The camera is restarted to render to the virtual surface, after stopping the camera. An optical code is detected in an image acquired by the camera, after restarting the camera from the standby mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Scandit AG
    Inventors: Marco Biasini, Moritz Hartmeier, Vitali Samurov, Iciar Martinez, Daniel Scherly
  • Patent number: 11921987
    Abstract: This application discloses a system navigation bar display method, a system navigation bar control method, a graphical user interface, and an electronic device. The method may include: when a foldable display screen of an electronic device changes from a folded state to an expanded state, changing a fixed system navigation bar on an interface displayed on the foldable display screen to a floating system navigation bar, where the floating system navigation bar can be dragged by a user to change a position of the floating system navigation bar relative to another interface element on the interface. When operating the electronic device with one hand, the user can drag the floating system navigation bar to an area in which an operation is conveniently performed with one hand, so that various functions of the system navigation bar can be conveniently used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jie Xu
  • Patent number: 11914581
    Abstract: In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods, and devices for a graphic search bar with responsive results is provided. A search bar may be generated. The search bar may include a text input area and a number of dropdown menus, each of which contain a selectable list of options. The search bar may be rendered in an application user interface that provides content options that are searchable using the search bar. A selection of an option from a first of the dropdown menus may be received. In response to receiving the selection, the content options may be filtered in real time based on the selected option to generate search results. The search results may be rendered for immediate display to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Laralyn McWilliams, Alberto Cerriteno Avendano, Jennifer Laurie Shetterly
  • Patent number: 11914849
    Abstract: A method for enhancing interaction between a customer and a customer service representative of a company is provided. A graphical user interface (GUI) of a windows control tool is displayed. A type of an interaction between the customer and the customer service representative at a computer operated by the company is determined. One or more applications associated with the type of interaction are launched based on a predetermined display layout associated with the type of interaction. One or more application windows corresponding to the launched applications are arranged on a screen based on the predetermined display layout associated with the type of interaction. The windows control tool is configured to control the one or more application windows based on customer service representative's input. The GUI of the windows control tool displays a plurality of window objects corresponding to the one or more launched applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association
    Inventors: David W. Roberts, Aaron Quade, Steven D. Sternitzke
  • Patent number: 11914944
    Abstract: A display control method includes: aligning a plurality of classification groups into which a plurality of display elements are grouped by classifications thereof; and displaying the plurality of display elements belonging to the plurality of aligned classification groups on a display device in a first display mode in which one association group among a plurality of association groups into which the plurality of display elements are grouped by association thereamong is prioritized over the other association groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Manato Ono
  • Patent number: 11914759
    Abstract: Examples of augmented reality (AR) environment control advantageously employ multi-factor intention determination and include: performing a multi-factor intention determination for summoning a control object (e.g., a menu, a keyboard, or an input panel) using a set of indications in an AR environment, the set of indications comprising a plurality of indications (e.g., two or more of a palm-facing gesture, an eye gaze, a head gaze, and a finger position simultaneously); and based on at least the set of indications indicating a summoning request by a user, displaying the control object in a position proximate to the user in the AR environment (e.g., docked to a hand of the user). Some examples continue displaying the control object while at least one indication remains, and continue displaying the control object during a timer period if one of the indications is lost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Andrew Jackson Klein, Cory Ryan Bramall, Kyle Mouritsen, Ethan Harris Arnowitz, Jeremy Bruce Kersey, Victor Jia, Justin Thomas Savino, Stephen Michael Lucas, Darren A. Bennett
  • Patent number: 11907183
    Abstract: In an approach to managing at least one compendium comprising association objects that collectively provide an information-domain schema for associating cue values with corresponding user-provided responses, at least one first association object is identified with an undefined response based on a responses collection of the first association object. A first user-editable placeholder is caused to be visualized on a display to a user based on identifying the at least one first association object with the undefined response. User input is received based on the first user-editable placeholder. At least a second association object is instantiated based on the user input. A representation of the second association object is caused to be visualized on the display to the user and a second user-editable placeholder to be visualized on the display adjacent the representation of the second association object based on a schema type value of the first association object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Inventors: Kyle N. Ryman, Jackson R. McGehee, III
  • Patent number: 11907912
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a scheduling system includes an interactive graphical user interface. Each cell has a position in a displayed first array of cells and has respective scheduling data associated with it. Each cell is visually translocatable out of the first array under a user navigation to another position within the interface. A second array of cells is displayed within the interface and some cells in the second array correspond to open time slots in a schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Mindbody, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph V. Saldana, Nicholas James VanMeter, Charlie Sibbach, Nicole Shipley, Yelizaveta Plotnikova
  • Patent number: 11908463
    Abstract: Techniques for storing and using multi-session context are described. A system may store context data corresponding to a first interaction, where the context data may include action data, entity data and a profile identifier for a user. Later the stored context data may be retrieved during a second interaction corresponding to the entity of the second interaction. The second interaction may take place at a system different than the first interaction. The system may generate a response during the second interaction using the stored context data of the prior interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Arjit Biswas, Shishir Bharathi, Anushree Venkatesh, Yun Lei, Ashish Kumar Agrawal, Siddhartha Reddy Jonnalagadda, Prakash Krishnan, Arindam Mandal, Raefer Christopher Gabriel, Abhay Kumar Jha, David Chi-Wai Tang, Savas Parastatidis
  • Patent number: 11900322
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is software technology that facilitates collaboration on a BIM file. In one aspect, disclosed herein is a method that involves (1) providing presence information to a first client station associated with a first individual that is viewing a first rendered 3D model of a construction project, wherein the presence information comprises (a) information identifying at least a second individual that is viewing a second rendered 3D model of the construction project via a second client station, and (b) an indication of a position and orientation at which the second rendered 3D model is being rendered, (2) receiving, from the second client station, an indication of a change in either the position or orientation at which the second rendered 3D model is being rendered, (3) updating the presence information based on the received indication, and (4) providing the updated presence information to at least the first client station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Procore Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin McKee, Ben Burlingham
  • Patent number: 11899903
    Abstract: A method for controlling a display device that includes a touch screen is provided. The method includes establishing a plurality of window display spaces in the touch screen, wherein each of the plurality of window display spaces displays a window for running an application, displaying a launcher application in one of the plurality of window display spaces, the launcher application presenting at least one icon to run at least one application, receiving in the launcher application a new application run command to run a new application, and displaying a new window for running the new application in one of the other window display spaces than the window display space where the launcher application is displayed, in response to the new application run command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-Jin Kim, Kang-Tae Kim, Dae-Wook Park, Seung-Woon Lee, Jung-Hwan Choi
  • Patent number: 11899915
    Abstract: A system and method for ensuring application content is displayed in a proper sized display is provided. An illustrative web-based application detects the display characteristics, e.g., size and/or aspect ratio, of its display window. If the display characteristics do not match a predefined requirement, the application ceases updating content and displays resizing notifications to alert the user to adjust the window. Once the window's display characteristics match the predefined criteria, the application resumes updating content in the window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Digits Financial, Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne Chang, Jeffrey Hall Seibert, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11892960
    Abstract: A display includes a keyboard, video mouse (KVM) switch that interfaces plural peripheral communication ports and plural information handling system ports. The KVM switch in a first configuration accepts video from one of the information handling system ports for presentation as visual images at a display panel and interfaces all of the plural peripheral communication ports with the one of the information handling system ports. When an end user commands a change to a different information handling system port and the KVM switch detects that a predetermined information transfer is taking place at the one of the information handling system ports, such as a bulk isochronous transfer or greater than a predetermined bandwidth utilization, the KVM switch changes the interface of peripheral devices and video to the second information handling system port while maintaining the transfer of the predetermined type of information with the first information handling system port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Vui Khen Thien, Tze Fung Chung
  • Patent number: 11893656
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a prediction system for determining a set of subregions to be used for rendering a virtual world of a computer graphics application, said subregions belonging to streamable objects to be used for rendering said virtual world, said streamable objects each comprising a plurality of subregions. The prediction system comprises a plurality of predictor units arranged for receiving from a computer graphics application information on the virtual world and each arranged for obtaining a predicted set of subregions for rendering a virtual world using streamable objects, each predicted set being obtained by applying a different prediction scheme, a streaming manager arranged for receiving the predicted sets of subregions, for deriving from the predicted sets a working set of subregions to be used for rendering and for outputting, based on the working set of subregions, steering instructions concerning the set of subregions to be actually used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Unity Technologies ApS
    Inventors: Bart Pieters, Charles-Frederik Hollemeersch, Aljosha Demeulemeester
  • Patent number: 11893231
    Abstract: A computer system displays a first user interface for configuring a wake user interface. The first user interface displays a first representation of a first version of the wake user interface illustrating a first plurality of editable user interface objects overlaying a first background. While displaying the first user interface, the system detects a first input. In response, when the first input meets first criteria, the system displays a second user interface for editing a first user interface object of the first plurality of editable user interface objects. The first user interface object is selected based on a location of the first input. When the first input meets second criteria, the system updates the first user interface to display a second representation of a second version of the wake user interface having a second plurality of editable user interface objects overlaying a second background.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Graham R. Clarke, Eric Lance Wilson, Andrew P. Clymer, Caelan G. Stack, Christopher P. Foss, William M. Tyler, William A. Sorrentino, III
  • Patent number: 11893003
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for generating waveforms for application in a quantum computing device. In one aspect, a system comprises a batch generator that receives experiment data sets defining respective experiments, each experiment data set comprising a set of waveforms defined by respective waveform data; determines unique waveforms; generates a corresponding set of respective waveform data that includes the respective waveform data for each unique waveform; generates, for each of the experiments, a waveform list that references the respective waveform data in the set of respective waveform data that corresponds to the waveforms in the set; and batch instructions that are executable by waveform generator hardware and that cause the waveform generator hardware to process each waveform list by selecting each referenced waveform data in the waveform list; and generate, in response to the selected waveform data, a waveform that is suitable for application in a quantum computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Julian Shaw Kelly, Matthew Neeley
  • Patent number: 11893790
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for performing operations including: receiving, via a messaging application, input that selects a collection of augmented reality items; obtaining an identifier of the collection of the augmented reality items; searching, based on the identifier, a plurality of augmented reality items to identify a subset of augmented reality items associated with the identifier; causing the messaging application to present the subset of augmented reality items; and causing the messaging application to modify an image based on a first augmented reality item in the subset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Kaveh Anvaripour, Travis Chen, Gabriel Lupin
  • Patent number: 11886531
    Abstract: A computing device can present, within a display, first network-associated content and a tab strip, the first network-associated content being associated with a first content locator, the tab strip including a first content indicator associated with the first content locator and a second content indicator associated with a second content locator, receive a directional input associated with the tab strip, in response to receiving the directional input, modify the presentation of the tab strip, the modification ending presentation of the first content indicator and initiating presentation of a third content indicator, the third content indicator being associated with a third content locator, receive a selection of the third content indicator, and in response to receiving the selection of the third content indicator, present second network-associated content at a location where the first network-associated content was previously presented, the second network-associated content being associated with the third con
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Samuel L. Birch, Yusuf Ozuysal, Christopher Lee, Mei Liang, Wei-Yin Chen, Yue Zhang, Ayman Almadhoun
  • Patent number: 11886872
    Abstract: An in-database application package and application instance for a data platform. The data platform creates an application instance of an application package having a versioned schema, creates one or more system roles for the application instance, creates a user role and an administrator role for the application instance, creates one or more objects of the application instance based on a versioned schema, and grants one or more use privileges to the one or more roles. Application instances of the application package are upgraded or patched on the data platform based on application package versions. To ensure a proper upgrade or patch, the data platform tracks versions of executing objects of application instances in a call context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Karol Pawel Bienkowski, Damien Carru, Jeremy Yujui Chen, Pui Kei Johnston Chu, Benoit Dageville, Scott C. Gray, Unmesh Jagtap, Subramanian Muralidhar
  • Patent number: 11887469
    Abstract: In response to a detected presence of an intended target appliance within a logical topography of controllable appliances identity information associated with the intended target appliance is used to automatically add to a graphical user interface of a controlling device an icon representative of the intended target appliance and to create at a Universal Control Engine a listing of communication methods for use in controlling corresponding functional operations of the intended target appliance. When the icon is later activated, the controlling device is placed into an operating state appropriate for controlling functional operations of the intended target appliance while the Universal Control Engine uses at least one of the communication methods to transmit at least one command to place the intended target appliance into a predetermined operating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Universal Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Paul D. Arling, Brian Barnett