Overlap Control Patents (Class 715/790)
  • Patent number: 9250780
    Abstract: An information processing method and an electronic device are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring a triggering instruction for starting a first application program of the M application programs; executing the triggering instruction, and obtaining a first parameter; generating a first window interface of the first application program based on the first parameter; and displaying the first window interface, where a display area of the first window interface is less than a full-screen display area of the first application program on the display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chao Wang, Jun Li
  • Patent number: 9235452
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed in which bitmap data transmission is improved by using some of the advantages of primitive remoting, thus allowing for the reduction of the bandwidth and processing needed to remote a virtual desktop experience. In an embodiment, rendering is performed and bitmaps are remoted, but metadata comprising shortcuts or hints are provided to assist in the rendering of the bitmap data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Nadim Y. Abdo, Asael Dror, Wilhelm R. Schmieder
  • Patent number: 9229606
    Abstract: A method and a system for rendering a widget are provided. The method is used in an electronic device and includes: receiving a display size of a display unit; comparing the display size of the display unit with a lookup table and obtaining the display size of the widget and a user interface; determining whether the display size of the display unit needs to be adjusted to the display size of the widget; re-adjusting the display size of the display to the display size of the widget according to the obtained display size of the widget when determining that the display size of the display unit needs to be adjusted to the display size of the widget; and rendering the widget.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: ACCTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wei-Hao Syu, Yi-Hsiu Cheng, En-Yu Wu, Yuan-Li Hsu
  • Patent number: 9223725
    Abstract: A method of reading data includes setting first addresses defining a full image and second addresses defining a blocking region included in the full image and not reading blocking region data corresponding to the blocking region among image data corresponding to the full image using the first addresses and the second addresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eun Ji Kang, Kyoung Man Kim
  • Patent number: 9195369
    Abstract: Systems and methods for virtual opening of packages such as boxes and packs of cards are provided herein. Exemplary systems may execute methods via one or more processors, which are programmed to generate a visual representation of a package, receive input from the user, the input indicating opening of the package, and provide feedback to the user corresponding to the opening of the package that at least partially mimics a physical opening of the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Hothead Games, Inc.
    Inventors: Art We, Trevor Lim, Gregan Dunn
  • Patent number: 9069374
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods, computer program products and computer systems that render display of a video on a first page, that has been occluded from view by the subsequent viewing of a second page, to viewing on such subsequently viewed second page. Source location of the video is identified from source code of the first page, the identified video source is retrieved, and then it is input into source code of the second page to transfer the video to the second page. The video may then me displayed on the second page. The computer program products and computer systems both include a number of program instructions for effecting the transfer of the video from the first page to the second page for the continuous unobstructed or non-occluded viewing thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Pramod K. Sudhakar Palla, Nitendra Rajput
  • Patent number: 9043723
    Abstract: Various embodiments present a combined visual entity that represents overlapping visual entities. The combined visual entity can include a primary visualization that represents one of the overlapping visual entities and annotations that represent others of the overlapping visual entities. For example, a map view can include multiple geographical entities that overlap. A primary visualization can be rendered that represents one of the multiple geographical entities. The primary visualization can be visually annotated (e.g., with symbols, letters, or other visual indicators) to indicate others of the multiple geographical entities. In some embodiments, a zoom operation can cause visual entities to be added and/or removed from the combined visual entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jeff J. Lin, Anne H. Loomis, Romualdo T. Impas, Alan Paulin
  • Publication number: 20150143284
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are generally directed to navigable layering of viewable areas corresponding to a hierarchical structure of computer-readable content. In exemplary embodiments, a stack of viewable areas including a first viewable area and a second viewable area can be rendered on a display within a footprint area. An order of the viewable areas in the stack can correspond to a hierarchical relationship of computer-readable content and the viewable areas can include information associated with the hierarchical relationship. The second viewable area in the stack can be adjusted, for example, by resizing and/or repositioning the second viewable area, based on a compression criteria to accommodate the viewable areas of the stack within the footprint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Daniel Bennett, John Scott Daup, Aaron Cooper, Jose Hernandez
  • Patent number: 9037997
    Abstract: A graphical user interface provides a display of multiple items of information in a manner such that the user can comprehend the relationship of various items to one another over a wide span. To achieve this result, at least some information containers are allocated a reduced amount of area in which to be viewed by the user. At least one container continues to be displayed in full view, however. In one embodiment, the containers are displayed in an overlapping arrangement. In a column view, for instance, the column containing the object that was last clicked upon, and the column showing the contents of the selected object, can be displayed in full view. The other columns may be only partially visible, due to the overlapping arrangement. However, the user is presented with enough information to comprehend the relationship of objects at different levels. When the user moves a cursor over a container with a reduced viewing area, the display changes to show that container in full view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Bas Ording
  • Patent number: 9032293
    Abstract: A media type currently associated with a multiple media player device is determined by the multiple media player device. A current setting status associated with each of a set of adjustable options associated with the determined media type is determined. A set of option icons that each represents one of the set of adjustable options is identified. Each identified option icon is paired with the associated current setting status of each adjustable option. A menuing input is detected. An overlay user interface menu, including only one option icon and the associated current setting status pair, is displayed over full-screen content on a display. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seth Hill, Steven Friedlander, Sabrina Yeh, Hyehoon Yi
  • Patent number: 9026937
    Abstract: Embodiments are described for handling the launching of applications in a multi-screen device. In embodiments, a first touch sensitive display of a first screen receives input to launch an application. In response, the application is launched. A determination is made as to whether the first touch sensitive display already has windows in its stack. If there are no windows in the stack of the first touch sensitive display, a new window of the first application is displayed on the first touch sensitive display. If there are windows in the stack, a determination is made whether a second display has windows in its stack. If not, the new window is displayed on the second display. If the second display also has windows in its stack, the new window will be displayed on the first touch sensitive display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Z124
    Inventors: Sanjiv Sirpal, Martin Gimpl, Rodney Wayne Schrock
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20150121301
    Abstract: An information processing method and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: initiating an application of the M applications in a non-full-screen window, obtaining a first parameter, and transforming a first window of the application into a second window of the application by using the first parameter, wherein the first window is a full-screen window, and a display region of the second window is smaller than a display region of the full-screen window of the application; presenting the second window of the application in the display region; detecting a first operation of a user to obtain a first event; and in response to the first event, determining a target window from the M windows according to a preset rule, distributing the first event to the target window, where an application corresponding to the target window responds to the first operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chao Wang
  • Publication number: 20150121300
    Abstract: An information processing method and an electronic device are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring a triggering instruction for starting a first application program of the M application programs; executing the triggering instruction, and obtaining a first parameter; generating a first window interface of the first application program based on the first parameter; and displaying the first window interface, where a display area of the first window interface is less than a full-screen display area of the first application program on the display region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chao Wang, Jun Li
  • Publication number: 20150121270
    Abstract: An information processing method and an electronic device are disclosed. The method includes: judging whether a display region of a second non-full-screen window is totally covered by a display region of a first non-full-screen window; and if the display region of the second non-full-screen window is totally covered by the display region of the first non-full-screen window, generating an adjustment instruction and adjusting the first non-full-screen window and/or the second non-full-screen window based on the adjustment instruction to make both the display region of the first non-full-screen window and the display region of the second non-full-screen window displayed partly or totally in the display region of the touch display unit, where the conversion parameter at least includes a parameter value, a matrix, a parameter group or a parameter set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chao Wang, Guizhen Wang
  • Patent number: 9015582
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method and apparatus for reordering thumbnails. The method includes displaying a visual representation of an electronic document including a first page and a second page in an original order on a user interface generated on a touchscreen display, receiving movement data indicating that the touch has moved in a horizontal direction relative to the user interface, toward the second page. The method also includes altering the visual representation in response to release data such that the first page and the second page are presented in an altered order in the electronic document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Marianne Kodimer, Reza Ghassemi
  • Patent number: 9015617
    Abstract: Disclosed are method and apparatus for displaying supplementary information on a graphical user interface. A request for supplementary information is received. The supplementary information is retrieved and displayed in a reserved display field in a graphical user interface. The reserved display field may be configured by a user to adapt to specific applications, but remains stationary throughout the user session. The reserved display field does not obstruct any other display fields in the graphical user interface. A request for supplementary information may be generated by using a mouse to first position a cursor over an active display element. A request for supplementary information associated with the active display element may be generated by clicking the mouse, or by holding the cursor stationary for a time interval greater than a threshold dwell time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: James Patrick Stapleton, James Anthony Gewecke, Justin Nicholas Marcucci, Lee Allan Culver, David Jason Krantz
  • Patent number: 9015618
    Abstract: An apparatus may include one or more memories and one or more processors. The one or more processors may be configured to execute instructions to facilitate providing a first window for display while hiding from display one or more additional windows. The instructions may facilitate receiving a switching input. The instructions may facilitate, in response to the switching input, providing a plurality of windows for display. The providing a plurality of windows may include changing a display view from the first window to the plurality of windows. The instructions may facilitate selecting one of the plurality of windows. The selecting one of the plurality of windows may include changing the display view from the plurality of windows to the selected one of the plurality of windows while hiding from display one or more other windows. Methods for displaying windows and machine-readable storage medium are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Roma Rajni Shah, John Nicholas Jitkoff, Glen Murphy, Arnaud Claude Weber, Michael Feldstein, Alex Neely Ainslie
  • Patent number: 9009621
    Abstract: Disclosed is a user interface providing method for controlling a game play in a portable device. A user interface providing technology determines whether a received first touch input is a touch input for setting a GUI, determines a GUI setting mode, and activating at least one GUI element for controlling the game play in response to the GUI setting mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Nexon Korea Corporation
    Inventors: Hyun Suk Ahn, Yu Kyoung Lim, Yoon Ji Park, Sung Hwan Yoon, Jae Sung Park, Young Jin Ahn
  • Publication number: 20150100884
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention proposes a novel approach that can reduce the total number of the overlays to be composited during the display of graphical output in a mobile computing device. As a result, the total number of memory bandwidth and the usage of a graphics processing unit by a pre-compositor can be decreased significantly. According to one embodiment, this new approach is implemented with a display panel with embedded memory which supports a partial update, or refresh feature. Which such a feature, the layer compositor (typically either the display controller or GPU) is able to keep track of actively updating regions of a display panel by checking if each layer has new content to be displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Applicant: Nvidia Corporation
    Inventors: Donghan RYU, Naoya YAMOTO
  • Patent number: 9003324
    Abstract: A control device which controls a device is disclosed. The control device can be connected to at least one external device, and includes a display unit which generates and displays a frame; and a control unit which controls the display unit to add at least one frame corresponding to each of the at least one external device or to pre-installed applications. The control unit further controls the display unit to display corresponding content in each frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yeon-hee Roh, Chang-seog Ko, Soung-min Yoo
  • Patent number: 9003325
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing stackable workspaces on an electronic device are provided. A system includes a navigation module configured to display a first workspace of workspaces stacked along a stacking axis, and to display a navigation menu when the first workspace is displayed. The navigation menu comprises access points, each of which is associated with an application. The system includes a workspace module configured to open at least one of the applications in a second workspace stacked on the first workspace. The system includes a detection module configured to detect a second workspace scrolling command. The navigation module is configured to display the second workspace in response to the second workspace scrolling command. Displaying the second workspace comprises traversing the stack from the first workspace to the second workspace along the stacking axis. The navigation module is configured to display the navigation menu when the second workspace is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: John Nicholas Jitkoff, Alexander Friedrich Kuscher, Scott Ronald Violet, Glen Murphy
  • Publication number: 20150095823
    Abstract: An instructional graphical overlay system is configured to overlay an instructional graphical overlay over an operating system, software application, or menu on a computing device to provide instructions or guidance to a user to complete a desired action using the computing device. In various embodiments, the system is configured to display a first graphical user interface and overlay a second instructional graphical user interface over at least a portion of the first graphical user interface. In some embodiments, the system is configured to enable the user to use the first graphical user interface to complete the desired action while the second instructional user interface is overlain over the first graphical user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Dustin Brewer, Stuart Saunders, Cameron Hurst
  • Publication number: 20150095845
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic device including an inputtable display that is divided into a first region and a second region in a first mode in which a layer for displaying data of the first region is displayed on the second region and a controller configured to identically apply an event occurring on the layer to the first region of the display, upon occurrence of the event on the layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bong-Su CHUN, Hee-Tae Kim, Kyung-Soo Seo, Jeong-Mo Ahn, Ji-Hwan Lim, Ku-Chul Jung
  • Patent number: 8997017
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the inventive subject matter are directed to affixing a first window to a top layer of a stack of overlaid windows in a user interface, and making one or more portions of the first window transparent. One or more portions of one or more additional windows below the first window in the stack of overlaid windows become visible through the one or more portions of the first window. Some embodiments are further directed to directing a focus for user input to the one or more additional windows below the first window while the first window remains affixed at the top layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: David M. Stecher
  • Patent number: 8990729
    Abstract: A method for manipulating display of multiple ordered and at least partially overlapping display objects on a display device includes: recording the current position in a stacking order of each of the multiple display objects in an object identifier table in association with a corresponding object identifier; changing the position in the stacking order of a first object in response to a first user action for selecting the first object; recording the position in the stacking order of the first object before the position is changed in the object identifier table as a previous position in the stacking order; and changing the position in the stacking order of the first object with the previous position in the stacking order of the first object in response to a second user action for restoring the changed position in the stacking order of the first object to the previous position in the stacking order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuo Nemoto
  • Patent number: 8990718
    Abstract: A display apparatus for a control unit in an environmental control system; the display apparatus including: a display area presenting a plurality of first loci, a plurality of second loci and at least one third locus; each respective first locus of the plurality of first loci being responsive to pressure for effecting a respective response; each respective second locus of the plurality of second loci presenting information using a fixed segment data format; at least one third locus of the at least one third locus presenting information using a dot matrix data format; the display apparatus configured to allow textual system status messages to be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Lennox Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy H. Thorson, Timothy E. Wallaert
  • Patent number: 8984438
    Abstract: A method of storing an image on a storage device in a tiled format is provided. The method includes formatting the storage device to include a block size such that a tile size is an integer multiple of the block size, and the tile size corresponds to a display output. The method further includes reading pixel data of a source image; and generating, from the read pixel data, a first tile and a second tile. The first tile and the second tile each have overlapping portions that overlap by an adjustable amount, and the overlapping portions include substantially identical pixel data. The method also includes storing the first tile and the second tile on the storage device; and repeating the reading, generating, and storing a plurality of times to store the image. The image is stored on the storage device as a contiguous string of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Pixia Corp.
    Inventor: Rudolf O. Ernst
  • Patent number: 8984439
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing a graphical user interface involve, for example, defining, using a processor coupled to memory, a threshold distance between windows on a display screen at which a mutual attraction between the windows is activated to draw the windows together as components of a picture of windows. Also using the processor, all windows of a same functional type that are components of the picture of windows are resized simultaneously without affecting the size of windows of other functional types that are also components of the picture of windows. Likewise using the processor, all windows on the display screen are maintained in an active state regardless of a focus of a user input device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Citibank, N.A.
    Inventors: David Niall O'Byrne, Alaa Abdulkhaleq Saeed, Ashvin Parkash, Wyatt Alexander Flores, Vanderlei Cardoso da Silva, Ori Anavim, Kumaravel Kannan Nagarajan, Andrew Robert Blackman, Naveenprasad Subbiyan, Krishnaraj Rajagopalan, Laura Krystyna Lingard Turner
  • Publication number: 20150067588
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for changing a screen in an electronic device that provides a plurality of windows are provided. The method includes providing, by an electronic device, a plurality of windows functionally connected to the electronic device, selecting at least one window displaying a first application among the plurality of windows, obtaining an input related to a second application being executed in the selected at least one window, and displaying the second application through the at least one window, based on the obtained input. The present disclosure is not limited to a specific embodiment, but various embodiments based on a technical spirit of the present disclosure may be implemented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Hyeongseop SHIM, Hyesoon JEONG, Daesik HWANG
  • Patent number: 8972884
    Abstract: Presenting information in an instant messaging (IM) application includes loading a tab configuration file comprising attribute information pertaining to a plurality of tabs in a main interface in the IM application, the attribute information comprising presented content information associated with the plurality of tabs; receiving a selection of one of a plurality of tabs in the main interface; retrieving attribute information that corresponds to the selected one of the plurality of tabs based at least on the tab configuration file information; and dynamically creating an extended window for the tab; and displaying the presented content information of the selected tab in the extended window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Jing Li, Hongbing Tang
  • Patent number: 8972526
    Abstract: According to one aspect, embodiments of the invention provide a method for providing product information to an individual, the method comprising receiving, at a router, a single request for information, the request associated with at least one product, transmitting, by the router, the single request for information to each one of a plurality of store servers, receiving, by the router from the plurality of store servers, a plurality of responses, each one of the plurality of responses including information associated with the at least one product, compiling the plurality of responses into a single request, and transmitting the single request to the individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
    Inventor: John Randy Frerking
  • Publication number: 20150052475
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate generally to adding or correcting orientation and/or location information for panoramic images. For example, some panoramic images may be associated with inaccurate orientation (or location) information or simply no orientation information at all. In this regard, a user may be provided with the ability to add or adjust the orientation of a panoramic image. The panoramic image can be projected onto a plane using stereographic projection and displayed relative to its location (and orientation, if available) on a map. This can allow a user to quickly identify inaccuracies and to make adjustments or corrections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2013
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Evan Rapoport, Aaron Michael Donsbach
  • Patent number: 8957918
    Abstract: Methods for activating multi-touch functionality by recognizing and processing multi-touch interactions on a touch surface of non-multi-touch computing devices. The computing device may detect a jump from the location of the first touch event to determine that a multiple touch gesture is being traced. Virtual touch events are detected and stored. Using mathematical formulae, parameters are calculated based on initial and subsequent virtual touch event locations. Based on these parameters the multi-touch functionality is determined, such as a zooming or rotating function. A transform factor may be determined and applied to the image display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Sri Venkatesh Godavari
  • Patent number: 8959446
    Abstract: When a plurality of overlapping windows are displayed on a display screen, each window is displayed in a convenient state for a user operation, thereby reducing the load of the user operation. Upon detecting an object drag operation, an information processing apparatus displays the window of a predetermined application, which is displayed behind another window, as the topmost window. At this time, the window of the predetermined application reduces its size or changes the display position so as not to interfere with the other window displayed in front of it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Satoshi Igeta
  • Publication number: 20150046859
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for running an application in a mobile terminal are provided. The apparatus includes a display for running a second application on a first screen according to a second touch event, and displaying a second screen smaller than the first screen, and a controller for hiding the second screen from a current screen to display an entire area of the first screen while a touch in an external area of the second screen is detected, and displaying again the second screen on the first screen if the touch in the external area of the second screen is released.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Hye-Won KOO, Han-Jun KU, Do-Yeon KIM, Eun-Joo LEE, Chung-Kyu LEE
  • Patent number: 8948250
    Abstract: An interactive video/multimedia application (IVM application) may specify one or more media assets for playback. The IVM application may define the rendering, composition, and interactivity of one or more the assets, such as video. Video multimedia application data (IVMA data may) be used to define the behavior of the IVM application. The IVMA data may be embodied as a standalone file in a text or binary, compressed format. Alternatively, the IVMA data may be embedded within other media content. A video asset used in the IVM application may include embedded, content-aware metadata that is tightly coupled to the asset. The IVM application may reference the content-aware metadata embedded within the asset to define the rendering and composition of application display elements and user-interactivity features. The interactive video/multimedia application (defined by the video and multimedia application data) may be presented to a viewer in a player application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Hari Kalva, Atul Puri
  • Patent number: 8949736
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention may provide a method for presenting a design model on a computing device. The method may comprise using a computer processor to identify relationships among a plurality of model entities of the design model, to present a model view area to display a selected view of the design model on a display area of the computing device; and to present a view switch containing a plurality of view options. The plurality of view options may include a shape flow view. In the shape flow view, the model view area may display a detailed view of a model entity currently in focus and symbol(s) representing neighboring model entities in horizontal and/or vertical directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Soeren Balko, Kathrin Julia Fleischmann, Alexander Dreiling
  • Patent number: 8949721
    Abstract: Personalization of web content is provided, comprising: accessing web content, selecting components of the web content in accordance with a user model, and structuring the components of the web content in accordance with the user model. The personalization further comprises presenting the components of the web content in accordance with the user model, and providing a graphical user interface for adapting the user model, wherein the graphical user interface is provided together with the web content of a portlet of a web portal, such that each adaptation of the user model is updated in real-time in the currently presented web content in the portlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Fedor Bakalov, Birgitta Koenig-Ries, Andreas Nauerz, Martin Welsch
  • Publication number: 20150020023
    Abstract: An information cross-reference inputting method based on a mobile terminal and the mobile terminal are disclosed. The method comprises the following steps of defining an information region for cross-reference input as a region to be topped, receiving an operation instruction from a user by the mobile terminal to select the region to be topped, and saving the selected region to be topped; topping the region to be topped in a current display interface, and saving data of a region overlaid by the topped region; and receiving an operation instruction from the user by the mobile terminal to drag the topped region so that displaying of the data of the originally overlaid region is recovered. Therefore, the method is very convenient for the user to achieve the information cross-reference inputting without having to remember the related content or frequently switch between two windows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: HUIZHOU TCL MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD
    Inventor: Qifeng Wu
  • Patent number: 8935619
    Abstract: A context sensitive slider content area provides a slide out mechanism that is automatically actuated when additional information is needed during a chat session between an agent and a visitor, e.g. where a pre-chat and/or exit form is to be completed. The context sensitive slide out content area also provides problem resolution information to the visitor to help in solving problems, e.g. the top five problems; and also provides a self-service step-by-step wizard. A history section is provided with which the visitor can track back all previous steps carried out within the smart client. A history bar provides an iconic representation of all previous activities. A technique is also disclosed for executing various actions, such as form filling or requests for additional services, in a chat session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: 24/7 Customer, Inc.
    Inventors: Pallipuram V. Kannan, Mohit Jain
  • Publication number: 20150012879
    Abstract: A method of moving a display window on a screen is provided. The method includes displaying a key input window on a part of a screen, and moving a first display window corresponding to the key input window as the key input window is displayed, wherein the first display window is moved as the key input window overlaps at least part of the first display window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Eun-young Kim, Kang-tae Kim, Duck-hyun Kim, Chul-joo Kim, Kwang-won Sun, Jae-yeol Lee
  • Patent number: 8930836
    Abstract: Locate information, marking information, and/or landmark information relating to a locate operation and/or a marking operation to detect and/or mark a presence or an absence of at least one underground facility is categorized into a plurality of display layers for electronic rendering. At least some of the display layers may be independently enabled or disabled for display such that only enabled display layers are displayed in a display field of a display device. Alternate enabling and disabling of one or more display layers facilitates comparative viewing of the layers. A layer directory or layer legend pane may be displayed to allow for selective enabling/disabling of one or more layers. One or more layers further may be categorized into sub-layers, and respective sub-layers of a given layer similarly may be independently enabled or disabled for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: CertusView Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Steven E. Nielsen, Curtis Chambers, Jeffrey Farr
  • Patent number: 8930847
    Abstract: A method for displaying a plurality of windows includes dividing a display screen into first and second display areas. The plurality of windows may be rearranged in the first and second display areas and new windows may be displayed in the first and second display areas based on prior windows displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Seong Hun Jeong
  • Patent number: 8930814
    Abstract: The digital comic editor edits a piece of master data of a digital comic suitably for efficiently viewing a digital comic which has an image size larger than a screen size of a predetermined mobile terminal. The digital comic editor enables the master data of the digital comic to be appropriately edited. The master data includes a piece of image file having high resolution image of the entire page of the comic and an information file having described therein a piece of frame information including a piece of frame region information of the frame within the page. Particularly, the digital comic editor displays a frame boundary while superimposing the frame boundary on the image based on the frame region information included in the information file and displays a border F corresponding to the screen size of the predetermined mobile terminal on the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shunichiro Nonaka
  • Patent number: 8930846
    Abstract: A dual-screen user device and methods for revealing a combination of desktops on single and multiple screens are disclosed. A number of desktops and/or running applications can be selectively displayed on dual screen displays conditioned upon inputs received and the state of the device Desktop displays and applications can be selectively shifted between the screens by user gestures or moved off of the screens by other user gestures and therefore hidden. The hidden desktops and screens however can be re-displayed by yet another gesture. The user gestures prevent the user from having to open and close the running desktops and applications, or to execute other user commands that otherwise result in a laborious effort by the user to manage the multiple desktops and applications. One user gesture or input enables a user to change an order of the window stack by simply re-launching a selected desktop or application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Z124
    Inventors: Sanjiv Sirpal, Martin Gimpl
  • Patent number: 8924888
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and system for inserting a new data object in a data visualization with one or more other data objects already present on a canvas. The insertion of the new data object involves receiving a position of a new data object for the canvas from a user, determining a position of a first one of the one or more data objects and a second one of the one or more data objects on the canvas, determining an overlap pixel count, if the new data object is overlapping with the position of the first one of the one or more data objects, determining an action type on the first one of the one or more data objects based on the overlap pixel count, generating a preview of the canvas with the new data object and inserting the new data object on the canvas based on user approval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: SAP France S.A.
    Inventor: Todd Hanna
  • Patent number: 8914726
    Abstract: A user interface of a device for displaying a representation of a network of objects wherein a plurality of selectable objects are rendered, and each of the plurality of selectable objects are rendered having a given positioning relative to each other of the plurality of selectable objects. One or more edges are rendered interconnecting the plurality of selectable objects within a first region of the user interface. A second region is rendered in response to one or more of the selectable objects of the first region being selected. Objects corresponding to the selected objects are depicted in the second region while maintaining the given relative positioning. A number of additional objects may be retrieved from a database that indicates objects that are adjoining the corresponding objects. The adjoining objects are positioned in the second region and are interconnected to the corresponding objects by one or more additional edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Riverbed Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert C. Mollitor, Yevgeny Gurevich, Vivek Narayanan, Patrick J. Malloy
  • Patent number: 8913014
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus for data input in which input and editing can be performed through a simple operation is disclosed. The apparatus includes first determination means for determining whether drawing has been completed following input of coordinate data in the drawing mode; second determination means which, if completion of drawing has been determined, is for adopting drawing data, which has been drawn from input of coordinate data until completion of drawing, as a drawing object to be edited, and determining whether this drawing object has a portion that overlaps another object; and control means which, if it has been determined that the drawing object to be edited has a portion that overlaps another object, is for applying control to the drawing object to be edited in such a manner that this drawing object will no longer have a portion that overlaps another object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Naganawa
  • Patent number: 8914719
    Abstract: An apparatus for editing a document containing a plurality of pages each of which includes one or more first objects is provided. The apparatus includes: an adding portion that adds a second object to each of the pages; an extraction portion that extracts, from the pages, a possible improper page that is a page to which the second object is probably not added properly, the possible improper page being extracted for each cause due to which the second object is not added properly; a quantity display portion that displays, for each cause, a quantity of the possible improper page thus extracted; an excluding portion that excludes, from the possible improper page, a selected page that is a page corresponding to the cause selected by a user; and an informing portion that informs the user of a to-be-confirmed page corresponding to the possible improper page remaining after excluding the selected page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Kunihiko Sugimoto