Task Bar Or Desktop Control Panel Patents (Class 715/779)
  • Patent number: 10200379
    Abstract: Particular embodiments comprise a method, by one or more computer systems, for accessing a structured document from an external website, wherein the structured document includes markup language containing instructions identifying social network data elements of a social networking system, processing the markup language in the structured document to locate the social network data elements, rendering the structured document based on the markup language, wherein the displayable web page includes one or more of the located social network data elements of the social networking system, and displaying one or more of the located social network data elements of the social networking system proximal to the rendered web page on a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Judd Richter, Matthew William Kelly, Austin Haugen
  • Patent number: 10169554
    Abstract: A work support system of an embodiment of the present invention includes a list display control unit to display, on a display device, a first list including a plurality of unprocessed task indices and a second list including a plurality of processed task indices and a first moving display control unit to display, when attribution of one of the unprocessed task indices in the first list is changed to a processed task index, the task index, attribution of which is changed, in a moving manner from the first list to the second list, wherein the first moving display control unit displays such that the task index attribution of which is changed is visually recognized as passing behind the unprocessed task indices when displaying such that the task index, attribution of which is changed, passes a display location of at least the unprocessed task indices of other task indices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Ohsumi
  • Patent number: 10152190
    Abstract: A share display in a multimedia collaboration system includes a desktop region and a non-overlapping task bar region. A collaboration program is configured to allow the desktop region to be shared with remote multimedia collaboration devices for the purposes of collaboration, but allows control functionality so that whatever the sharer does not wish to share will reside in the task bar region. The task bar region is then prevented from being shared with the remote multimedia collaboration device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Dan Jones, Todd Vernon, Scott Chalfant
  • Patent number: 10152200
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein are directed to managing elements within a notification area of a graphical operating system. The elements may include any graphic, logo, or image associated with running software. A user indicates which elements can be displayed in the notification area, consequently creating a list of potentially displayable elements. For each listed element, an order of display, file location, and display status is designated. The user may freely change the order in which elements are displayed in the notification area by repositioning the displayed elements. Elements may be permanently removed from the notification area, resulting in their deletion from the list. Only elements entered into the order list, at the discretion of the user, are displayable within the notification area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Richard Duncan, Latika Kirtane, Jeff Miller
  • Patent number: 10140019
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire an input signal generated in response to user's input operation for specifying a predetermined position in an image displayed on a display unit, and a display control unit configured to allow display of a selection image for allowing a user to select display information that is newly displayed in a region according to the position, in a superimposed manner on the image. The display control unit controls display of the display unit in such a manner that the region and the selection image do not overlap each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriaki Sakamoto, Kentaro Ida
  • Patent number: 10102824
    Abstract: A computing device, and method thereof, may have a first display. A first user input is received from an input device of the computing device. In response, a task manager is displayed, the task manager having representations of respective objects on the computing device. When a second user input is received via the input device, a target representation is selected according to the second user input and an application window of an application corresponding to the target representation is displayed on the second display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Issa Khoury, William Scott Stauber, Petteri Mikkola, Holger Kuehnle, Ryan Pendlay, Keri Moran
  • Patent number: 10096022
    Abstract: The DYNAMIC WIDGET GENERATOR APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“DWG”) transforms developer credentials, codes and parameter inputs via DWG components into buy widgets, payment acceptance and purchase transaction outputs. In one embodiment, the DWG may facilitate obtaining a plurality of authentication parameters and widget customization parameters. The DWG may authenticate a user using a parameter derived from the plurality of authentication parameters and may dynamically generating a purchase widget for the authenticated user using the plurality of widget customization parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: VISA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION
    Inventor: Manav Gupta
  • Patent number: 10082931
    Abstract: Transitioning of a command user interface (UI) between a toolbar UI and a full menu UI based on a use context is provided. An application such as a messaging application detects a request to interact with a message. A presentation mode is identified based on the use context associated with the request. The use context includes a reading mode or an authoring mode. A command UI is generated based on the presentation mode. The command UI includes a toolbar UI for the reading mode or a full menu UI for the authoring mode. The command UI is displayed in proximity to the message within a messaging UI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Malia Douglas, Qixing Zheng, Rebecca Haruyama, Jason Blackheart, Ruediger Kinast
  • Patent number: 10033872
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for management of voicemail messages, performed at a portable electronic device with a touch screen display, includes: displaying a list of voicemail messages; detecting selection by a user of a respective voicemail message in the list; responding to the user selection of the respective voicemail message by initiating playback of the user-selected voicemail message; displaying a progress bar for the user-selected voicemail message, wherein the progress bar indicates the portion of the user-selected voicemail message that has been played; detecting movement of a finger of the user from a first position on the progress bar to a second position on the progress bar; and responding to the detection of the finger movement by restarting playback of the user-selected voicemail message at a position within the user-selected voicemail message corresponding substantially to the second position on the progress bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Freddy Allen Anzures, Greg Christie, Scott Forstall, Gregory Novick, Steven P. Jobs, Imran Chaudhri, Stephen O. Lemay, Patrick Lee Coffman, Elizabeth Caroline Furches
  • Patent number: 9953378
    Abstract: The SOCIAL CHECKOUT WIDGET GENERATION AND INTEGRATION APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“CWI”) transforms developer credentials, codes and parameter inputs via the CWI component into buy widgets, payment acceptance and purchase transaction outputs. In one embodiment, the CWI may facilitate obtaining a plurality of authentication parameters and widget customization parameters. The CWI may authenticate a user using a parameter derived from the plurality of authentication parameters and may dynamically generate a purchase widget for the authenticated user using the plurality of widget customization parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: VISA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION
    Inventors: Thomas Purves, Manav Gupta
  • Patent number: 9946431
    Abstract: Resizable and lockable user interfaces (UI) are provided. Systems and methods described herein allow a user to resize and/or lock a section of the user interface. Interference and distraction caused by secondary content when primary content is traversed may be minimized. In addition, UI controls are provided to allow traversing primary content and secondary content separately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Sylvia Park-Ekecs, Richard Cardran, Keith Tralins, Arnaud Robert
  • Patent number: 9916062
    Abstract: A method for presenting application list is disclosed, which is applied to an electronic device. The method includes activating a list arrangement program which reads several applications and generates categorized application list accordingly. Each application is associated with one of the categories, and includes objects representing the application. The categorized application list includes several groups, each of them includes a category name of one category and the objects associating with one or more applications under the category. The method further includes receiving the control command for displaying one of the groups at the index region of the user interface of the electronic device. The index region is arranged at the side of the user interface. Thus, an application list which is categorized may be provided for improving the convenience of accessing applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: WISTRON CORP.
    Inventors: Li-Hsuan Chen, Po-Hsu Chen, Fang-Wen Kuo
  • Patent number: 9910835
    Abstract: A system, computer-readable storage medium, and computer-implemented method for editing content works, such as publications using markup language, via a user interface having panel of patterns, are presented. The disclosure includes approaches for editing and creating patterns based on selected representations of markup elements and other content, and also features of the user interface that enable use of the patterns for modifying content works.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: INKLING SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Hunt, Chanpory Rith, Chatree Campiranon, Olof Alexander Mathé, Andy Perelson, Michael Chen
  • Patent number: 9880711
    Abstract: A computing device may output, for display at a display device, a graphical user interface. The computing device may receive a plurality of indications of user interaction with the computing device. The computing device may determine a set of one or more time intervals between receiving at least two of the plurality of indications of user interaction with the computing device. The computing device may determine, based at least in part on the determined set of one or more time intervals, a length of time to visually emphasize an alert in the graphical user interface. The computing device may visually emphasize, for the length of time, the alert in the graphical user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Austin Robison, Alexander Faaborg
  • Patent number: 9811216
    Abstract: A display device (1) includes a display panel (12), a touch panel (14) for detecting contact of a target object with a display region (P) of the display panel (12) or approach thereof to the display region (P), and a casing (17) containing the display panel (12) and the touch panel (14), a minimum distance (d) between the touch panel (14) and an outside surface (A) being not larger than a detectable distance, within which the touch panel (14) is capable of detecting the contact of the target object with the outside surface (A) or the approach thereof to the outside surface (A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Sugita, Tomohiro Kimura, Shinji Yamagishi, Hiroyuki Ogawa, Kohji Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 9791996
    Abstract: A method for displaying a background screen in a mobile terminal is provided. The method includes resizing at least one of a plurality of background screens according to a first input, displaying at least one of the at least one resized background screen, detecting a second input, and transitioning among the resized background screens based on the detected second input, wherein the background screens respectively include an icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Young-Jun Kim
  • Patent number: 9715337
    Abstract: A tele-presence system that includes a remote device coupled to a control station through a communication link. The remote device includes a remote monitor, a remote camera, a remote speaker and a remote microphone. Likewise, the control station includes a station monitor, a station camera, a station speaker and a station microphone. The control station displays a plurality of graphical icons that each represents a different type of communication link between the control station and the remote device. The graphical icons can be selected to allow a user of the control station to change the communication link between the remote device and its initial node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: INTOUCH TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: James Ballantyne, Kelton Temby, James Rosenthal, David Roe
  • Patent number: 9703465
    Abstract: An electronic device that increases both visibility and selectability of executable programs. The electronic device includes a touch panel display having an elongated shape, a memory storing programs, and a processor controlling program execution and the display. The touch panel includes a first display region and a second display region contiguous with and narrower than the first display region. The display displays an execution image of a first program in the first display region and an icon image of a second program in the second display region in a smaller display area than the execution image. When the processor detects contact at the icon image and detects that the contact moves towards the first display region, the processor causes the display to display an execution image of the second program in the first display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yu Otsuka, Hiroshi Fujita, Kazuhiro Aihara, Goro Hisatake, Takashi Isobe
  • Patent number: 9703468
    Abstract: Methods and devices for selectively presenting a user interface or “desktop” across two devices are provided. More particularly, a unified desktop is presented across a device and a computer system that comprise a unified system. The unified desktop acts as a single user interface that presents data and receives user interaction in a seamless environment that emulates a personal computing environment. To function within the personal computing environment, the unified desktop includes a process for docking and undocking the device with the computer system. The unified desktop presents a new user interface to allow access to functions of the unified desktop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Z124
    Inventors: Paul E. Reeves, Sanjiv Sirpal, Martin Gimpl
  • Patent number: 9690459
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes an input unit receiving a user command for configuring a main user interface (UI) screen for controlling content reproduction, and a controller configuring the main UI screen including at least one UI element selected by the user command and display the main UI screen configured according to the user command on a display, wherein the at least one UI element is a graphic element to which a function associated with the content reproduction is mapped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Han-chul Jung, Olivia Lee, Jin-mi Choi
  • Patent number: 9671948
    Abstract: An image-display control system including: a display having a display area; a touch panel; a processor; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to: display object images arranged in a first direction in the display area; determine a touch and a position of the touch; define, in the display area, first and second operation regions arranged in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, the first operation region being not defined in the identical position to the second operation region, at least a part of each object image being displayed in the two operation regions; when determined the touch in the first operation region, execute a unique process assigned for one of the object images displayed at a position of the touch; and when determined the touch in the second operation region and when determined that a position of the touch is moving in the first direction while keeping the touch, scroll the object images in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yutaka Urakawa
  • Patent number: 9665384
    Abstract: Aggregation of computing device settings is disclosed. In embodiments, at least one tile is generated for display. The tile represents a system setting and a status of the system setting. The tile also includes one or more user-selectable elements that are selectable to adjust an aspect of the system setting. In addition, the tile is displayed and is presentable in different user interfaces with one or more aspects of the tile differing between two or more of the different user interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Tobiasz A. Zielinski, Ravipal S. Soin, Kamesh C. Tumsi Dayakar, William Mak, Guy Barker, Jennifer R. Stallard, Ryan E. Cukierman, Christopher M. Hahn
  • Patent number: 9658865
    Abstract: A display device having a screen and a touch panel, and methods of enabling a user to edit content displayed on the screen using the touch panel, are described. In one aspect, a method of editing content in a display device having a touch panel installed in a screen includes displaying target content on the screen, displaying a guide on top of the target content in response to a trigger gesture by a touch input means on the target content, zooming the guide in response to a zooming gesture by the touch input means on the guide, and terminating the display of the zoomed guide and displaying the target content at the same magnification with the zoomed guide, in response to a release of contact of the touch input means on the guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Youngkyoo Kim, Dongho Jang
  • Patent number: 9612665
    Abstract: A distance measuring unit measures a distance from a picked-up image by an image pickup unit to a tip portion of a finger. When the measured distance is less than a reference distance, a CPU displays an identification mark at a position corresponding to the finger on a display image, and takes in a locus of the finger as a handwritten character/figure. When the measured distance is the reference distance or more, the CPU hides the identification mark, and does not take in the locus of the finger as the handwritten character/figure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Wataru Kaku, Takeshi Nakata
  • Patent number: 9588953
    Abstract: Inserting a formula at a location on a content surface in a user interface is provided. A user interface showing a status bar which includes one or more predetermined calculations may be displayed on a computer. The computer may receive a selection of a predetermined calculation from the status bar in the user interface. The selected predetermined calculation may then be dragged from the status bar and inserted at a drop location on the content surface in the user interface. The computer may then automatically generate a formula corresponding to the selected predetermined calculation in the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Eric W. Patterson, Karen X. Cheng, Benjamin Edward Rampson
  • Patent number: 9560185
    Abstract: A mobile device having capabilities to access connections to cellular and Wi-Fi portions of a hybrid telecommunications network is configured to display a variety of different icons that graphically indicate a current connection status for both data usage and voice calling on a graphical user interface (GUI). A user can put the GUI into an expanded state to show additional information about the connection status including textual descriptions of icons to instruct the user as to the specific meaning of a given icon. The textual descriptions enable an association between the iconography and the connection state to be established for the user. The icons can then quickly and effectively convey connection state to the user in a comprehensive manner while efficiently using the available display space on the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Nelson, Jeffrey C. Fong, Aaron Woodman, Christopher Raykovich, Jon Arnett, Eric Hull, Gregory Howard, John Skovron, Stephen Speicher
  • Patent number: 9529487
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing fast switching to web applications are disclosed. In one method embodiment, a browser application may be determined to be operating on a computing device, the browser application including one or more tabs wherein one of the tabs is associated with a web application. The method may further include the actions of determining that the computing device includes a fast-switch list including one or more applications operating on the computing device, and adding the web application to the fast-switch list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Keith Bottner, Michael Jan Lawther
  • Patent number: 9529494
    Abstract: Methods and devices for selectively presenting a user interface or “desktop” across two devices are provided. More particularly, a unified desktop is presented across a device and a computer system that comprise a unified system. The unified desktop acts as a single user interface that presents data and receives user interaction in a seamless environment that emulates a personal computing environment. To function within the personal computing environment, the unified desktop includes a process for docking and undocking the device with the computer system. The unified desktop presents a new user interface to allow access to functions of the unified desktop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Z124
    Inventors: Paul E. Reeves, Sanjiv Sirpal, Alexander de Paz, Martin Gimpl, Rodney W. Schrock
  • Patent number: 9513793
    Abstract: A computer implemented method performed by an electronic device connected to a plurality of other devices. The electronic device comprises a display and an input device for receiving user input. The method comprises receiving a predefined user input at the electronic device, causing the display of information at the plurality of connected devices in response to receiving the predefined user input, and preventing the plurality of connected devices from causing the information to not be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Karl-Anders Reinhold Johansson, Dan Zacharias Gärdenfors, Leif Fredrik Ademar
  • Patent number: 9454302
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus (10) includes an LCD (12) as a first display area and an LCD (14) as a second display area, and on the second display area, a touch panel (22) as an input means is set, for example. On the first display area, a plurality of windows are displayed in an overlapping manner or only the top window is displayed, and on the second display area, a plurality of tabs which are respectively corresponded to a plurality of windows are displayed. When it is determined that a predetermined input is present on a tab on the basis of the coordinates data detected according to an operation via the touch panel, a window corresponding to the tab which was displayed on the top on the first display area is displayed on the second display area. Or, an inactive window corresponding to the tab is displayed on the second display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi Toriyama
  • Patent number: 9453740
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus of displaying a plurality of items on a map includes operations of selecting the plurality of items, associating the plurality of items with a plurality of graphic attributes respectively in a manner that two items of the plurality of items are associated with different graphic attributes, and displaying the plurality of items using the plurality of graphic attributes. Thus, the method of displaying the plurality of items on the map allows a user to distinguish the plurality of items by graphic attributes while at least one of the plurality of items is specified by user's voice commands, even if the plurality of items belong to a same group attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Alpine Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Truc Nguyen
  • Patent number: 9448825
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the invention display alerts provided by applications of a guest environment in a notification bar controlled by a host operating system (OS) in a host environment of a mobile device, wherein the guest environment is running in a virtual machine supported by a hypervisor running within the host environment. A hypervisor-aware service in the virtual machine registers with a guest OS to be notified when applications request presentation of alerts in a notification bar controlled by the guest OS. Upon receipt of a notification by the guest OS of an application requesting presentation of an alert in the notification bar controlled by the guest OS, the hypervisor-aware service forwards the notification to the hypervisor and the hypervisor transmits a corresponding request to a notification management component of the host OS to present the alert on the notification bar controlled by the host OS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Craig Newell, Mark M. Burton, Hoofar Razavi, Paul Wisner
  • Patent number: 9451106
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic apparatus, when there is a request of modification of a message, or the like, which are shown on a display for indication from a user, it remakes the operation program that includes a message part at the site in which the MFP or the like are installed, and a check of the validity of the message part to be changed is possible. A display shows first information. A memory part writes the first information, second information and operation program for changing a part or all of the first information, and a source code for a basis of the operation program. By a control apparatus, the second information is determined to be appropriate. A control circuit is accepted in this case and generates an operation program based on the source code, the first information, and the second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Hironori Okamoto
  • Patent number: 9436346
    Abstract: A layer-based user interface for computing devices. In the layer-based user interface, the functionality of the device is distributed to layers and accessed via them. Each layer is composed of a number of components or features that are typically represented by icons. The components can present, for example, data or functions to the user. The components can be interactive or un-interactive. A subset of interactive components is navigational. Navigational components are a special case of the components because of their central role in the user interface concept.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: IDEAN ENTERPRISES OY
    Inventors: Markus Kallio, Risto Lähdesmäki, Marko Vänskä, Petri Heiskanen, Mika Käki
  • Patent number: 9413874
    Abstract: According to one of some aspects, an electronic device includes: a display configured to display an icon corresponding to an application that performs communication with external; and a controller configured to change a display mode of the icon corresponding to the application based on a condition of the communication with the external.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Talchi Kim
  • Patent number: 9400588
    Abstract: A computing system provided according to an aspect of the present invention contains a server system operable to send a same hierarchical menu to client systems which display the sub-menus of the hierarchical menu in a overlapping style or a cascading style. As a result, the implementation of server systems supporting such client systems may be simplified. According to another aspect, an event handler is also implemented on the server system, to process the events generated by client system displaying menus in both the overlapping style and the cascading style. According to yet another aspect, a server system stores a in-memory representation of a context menu, and thereafter serves requests from different clients for the same hierarchical menu based on such in-memory representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventor: Amogh Chakravarthy
  • Patent number: 9378297
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide a Web browser that includes an address bar and functionality that distributes one or more tabs along a line that is common to both the tabs and address bar. In at least some embodiments, one or more of the address bar or the tabs are dynamically resized based on a task context associated with a user's interaction with the Web browser. For example, when the task context is associated with a tab interaction, the address bar and/or tabs can be dynamically resized to enhance the user's tab experience. Likewise, when the task context is associated with an address bar interaction, the address bar and/or tabs can be dynamically resized to enhance a user's address bar experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Mirko Mandic, Jane T. Kim
  • Patent number: 9355186
    Abstract: This specification describes technologies relating to launching applications from content items in webpages. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include receiving a content item including a first data element that identifies an application and a second data element that identifies a product. The methods may further include displaying the content item, receiving a user selection of the content item, and, in response, automatically checking if the application is installed on a user device. The methods may further include transmitting a request, including the first data element, to a server and installing the application identified by the first data element on the user device. The methods may further include launching the application with the second data element as an input so that the first content displayed by the application relates to the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Amit Khanna, Linus Chou
  • Patent number: 9338745
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method and a system for network handover. The method includes: during a process that equipment hands over from a current network to another network, a driver receiving a network-disconnected message, and judging whether the network-disconnected message is sent from a Connection Manager (CM); if the network-disconnected message is sent from the CM, the driver reporting, to an operating system, a first signalling which identifies that the current network is disconnected; and if the network-disconnected message is not sent from the CM, the driver reporting, to the operating system, a second signalling which identifies that the current network is connected. By the adoption of the method and the system, power consumption of the equipment can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ke Zhang
  • Patent number: 9280263
    Abstract: A mobile terminal capable of sensing a touch input, and a control method thereof are provided. The mobile terminal includes: a display unit configured to display screen information; a sensing unit configured to sense a touch input applied to the display unit; and a controller configured to display an indicator bar including at least one icon together with the screen information, and select any one of icons displayed in the indicator bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Changmok Kim
  • Patent number: 9170705
    Abstract: Determining interest in promotional content to be displayed at a mobile communication device is described. The promotional content, including a first portion that is visible and a second portion that is hidden in a first state, may be received. The first and second portions are each selectable only when visible. A promotional display that includes the promotional content in the first state is generated. Upon receipt of a first input from the user in relation to the first portion, the promotional content may be transitioned from the first state to a second state such the first portion becomes hidden and the second portion becomes visible. Upon failing to receive a second input from the user in relation to the second portion, the promotional content may be transitioned from the second state to the first state. Upon receipt of the second input, an interest in the promotional content may be indicated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jim Kelm, Alex Gawley, Yelena Nakhimovsky, Jonathan Yu
  • Patent number: 9128605
    Abstract: This document describes techniques and apparatuses enabling thumbnail-image selection of applications. In some embodiments, these techniques and apparatuses enable a user interface having selectable thumbnail images for applications not currently exposed on a display. The techniques and apparatuses may enable selection of this user interface through a simple gesture that is both easy-to-use and remember. Further, selection of applications not currently exposed on the display may be selected through thumbnail images representing each application's application interface as it will appear on selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jennifer Nan, Jesse Clay Satterfield, Patrice L. Miner, Matthew I. Worley, Bret P. Anderson, Robert J. Jarrett, Nils A. Sundelin, Michael A. Seibert, Chaitanya Dev Sareen, Tsz Yan Wong, Brian S. LeVee
  • Patent number: 9104301
    Abstract: A user interface method and apparatus for a mobile terminal having a touchscreen are provided. The apparatus and method improve interactivity using a toolbar menu mode screen which allows a user to execute functions and commands with drag and drop behaviors on the touchscreen to graphical objects such as toolbar, icons, and other active objects. An interface apparatus includes a touchscreen unit that displays a screen including a second region for presenting a toolbar having at least one User Interface (UI) element representing a specific function and a first region for activating, when the UI element is dragged from the toolbar and dropped in the first region on the touchscreen, the function represented by the UI element. The interface apparatus also includes a control unit which detects a drag and drop action of the UI element and activates, when the drag and drop action is detected, the function associated with the UI element in the form of an active function object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soon Hwa Kim, Jung Yeob Oh
  • Patent number: 9083675
    Abstract: A system, method and computer-readable medium for request routing based on content popularity information are provided. A client computer transmits a request for content from a content provider. The content provider utilizes executable code, such as translation request code, for facilitating request routing utilizing popularity information. The translation request code, may direct a client computing device to request further translation request code and/or translation information. Thereafter, the client issues a DNS query with the translated information including popularity information. The content delivery network service provider can then either resolve the DNS query with an IP address of a cache component or transmit another alternative resource identifier that will resolve to the content delivery network service provider. The process can repeat until a DNS nameserver resolves a DNS query from the client computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David R. Richardson, Bradley Eugene Marshall, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian
  • Patent number: 9063934
    Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media content processor having a controller element to compare a first portion of metadata associated with media content under presentation with a second portion of metadata of each of one or more media content sources to present one or more alternative sources of related media content. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, LP
    Inventor: Scott White
  • Patent number: 9058588
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method for managing a context-sensitive sidebar window is provided. Contextual information relevant to an electronic document is determined. A portion of the determined contextual information is presented in a sidebar window. A display of the context-sensitive sidebar window is managed by automatically opening the context-sensitive sidebar window when the electronic document is opened and automatically closing the context-sensitive sidebar window when the document is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
    Inventor: Eric A. Bier
  • Patent number: 9037992
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for providing a graphical user interface via an operating system. The graphical user interface may be configured to permit a user to define a plurality of modes, one of the modes being a current mode. The method may also include permitting a user to select an updated mode of the plurality of modes, the updated mode being different from the current mode. The computer-implemented method may further include transmitting a message indicating that the updated mode has been selected to a configuration interface associated with at least one application running on the operating system. Numerous other variations and embodiments are also included within the scope of the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sean Callanan, Patrick Joseph O'Sullivan, Hema Srikanth, Carol Sue Zimmet
  • Patent number: 9032325
    Abstract: In a computing environment comprising multiple desktop windows displayed to a user of a client computer, a method to manage client application windows associated with applications configured to run on the client computer is provided. The method includes detecting user input regarding movement of a client application window from a client desktop window to a remote desktop window, removing a task bar icon associated with the client application window from a task bar displayed in the client desktop window, instructing the remote computer to generate a drone of the client application window in the remote desktop window and to display the task bar icon associated with the client application window in a task bar of the remote desktop window, and displaying the client application window always on top of all other windows. The method may further include applying appropriate clipping region to the client application window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Real Enterprise Solutions Development B.V.
    Inventors: Bob Janssen, Peter Gerardus Jansen
  • Patent number: 9026935
    Abstract: A client system displays a user interface with a display region and a minimized window region. A plurality of windows are displayed in the display region, including a first window and a second window. The client system detects a first input that corresponds to a request to change a state of one or more of the windows; and in response to detecting the first input, the client system ceases to display the first window in the display region, and displays a representation of the first window in the minimized window region. After ceasing to display the first window, the client system detects a second input that corresponds to a request to view content of the first window; and in response to detecting the second input, the client displays an interactive overlay that includes content of the first window and partially overlaps the display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen, Lars Eilstrup Ramsussen, Cameron Knox Adams
  • Patent number: 9021393
    Abstract: A mobile terminal is presented. The mobile terminal includes a memory unit, a touchscreen configured to display an icon, and a controller configured to control an operation associated with a function corresponding the icon displayed on the touchscreen, control the touchscreen to display a UI (user interface) for bookmarking icons, detect a bookmark command for the icon displayed on the touchscreen, temporarily store, in the memory unit, the icon in response to the bookmark command, and control the touchscreen to display the bookmarked icon within the UI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Minjoo Kim, Isu Byun, Jiwoon Kim, Sanghyuck Lee, Inyong Hwang