Imitating Real Life Object Patents (Class 715/839)
  • Patent number: 11829580
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a multi-piece text copy method and a mobile terminal. The multi-piece text copy method includes: receiving N inputs from a user; displaying N text editing controls in response to the N inputs respectively; acquiring N pieces of target text selected by the N text editing controls respectively; receiving a first input from the user at a target position in first text information; and copying the N pieces of target text to the target position in response to the first input. Each text editing control includes a text selection identifier and a control addition identifier, N is an integer greater than 1, and any two of the N pieces of target text are not adjacent to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaodong Cui
  • Patent number: 11544231
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing data. Person and position data can be copied from a database and it can be determined whether a person is aligned to any positions. Information can be displayed representing the person and indicating any positions to which the person is aligned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: The Boston Consulting Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Kelley, Stephen Brown, Benjamin Stevenson, Kurt Hendle, Sarah Baxter
  • Patent number: 11539581
    Abstract: The autonomous cloud design system may determine a design that may appropriately mix emerging technologies and operations to provide a versatile and cost-effective or efficient solution for a given cloud site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: George Dome, John Oetting, Chuxin Chen
  • Patent number: 11507216
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention allow the customization binary application user interfaces without modification of the underlying source code. Embodiments described herein can provide, for instance, accessibility services such as touchless operation of compiled applications with minimal intervention. Described embodiments can automatically interface with the touch-based operating system to generate hands-free commands that, when detected (e.g., voice detection), can cause corresponding touch-based commands to be executed. Embodiments may utilize audio inputs, by way of example, to facilitate hands-free interaction with the touch-based operating system and applications executing thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: RealWear, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher Iain Parkinson
  • Patent number: 11500516
    Abstract: A multifunction device displays a plurality of selectable user interface objects on the display. In response to detecting the first input, the device moves a first object in the plurality of selectable user interface objects across the display to a location on the display that is proximate to a second object in the plurality of selectable user interface objects. In response to detecting that the first input meets predefined folder-creation criteria while the first object is proximate to the second object, the device creates a folder that contains the first object and the second object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Imran Chaudhri, Marcel Van Os
  • Patent number: 11469950
    Abstract: Infrastructure management device(s) may discover IT device(s) communicatively connected over a network. IT device information may be determined for at least one of the IT device(s). Configuration rule(s) compatible with IT device information may be matched to IT device(s). Action(s) may be performed on one or more device inventories, determined at least in part, by the configuration rule(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: ZPE Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Arnaldo Zimmermann, Livio Ceci
  • Patent number: 11468517
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for facilitating handling of a call from an insurance customer regarding a loss event includes presenting to a user, by a workbench application executing on a computing device, one or more notes fields in which free-form text may be entered by the user on a user interface display presented on one or more display screens, receiving, via an input device and the user interface display, free-form text that the user entered in at least one of the one or more notes fields, analyzing the received free-form text to identify one or more keywords having relevance to the loss event, communicating loss report information to a loss reporting tool via an API, the loss report information including the one or more identified keywords, and automatically populating, by the loss reporting tool, one or more loss reporting fields using the loss report information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: John H. Jenkins, Andrew J. Feit, Christina M. Boring, Chadd Eugene Grove, Brent D. Hellewell, Beth Craig, Kevin Stuepfert, Robert S. Loy, Scott M. Wirtjes, Scott E. Lackey, Manuela Holt, David Kuriyan Schuster, Jeremy M. Miller
  • Patent number: 11350910
    Abstract: In an ultrasound diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment, processing circuitry obtains volume data corresponding to at least one cardiac cycle and being taken of a region including the right ventricle of a patient. The processing circuitry estimates motion information of a tissue in the region by using the volume data. The processing circuitry calculates information including at least one selected from between wall motion information and volume information related to the right ventricle, on the basis of the motion information of the tissue. The processing circuitry outputs the calculated information. The processing circuitry corrects first motion information of the right ventricular outflow tract, which is an outflow tract of the right ventricle, by using second motion information of a site that is positioned in the vicinity of the right ventricular outflow tract and exhibits motion similar to that of the right ventricular outflow tract.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuhiko Abe
  • Patent number: 11321367
    Abstract: An indication of a physical location specified as a name of a geoshortcut is received. The name is identified as corresponds to the geoshortcut according to a format of the name matching a format of geoshortcut name identifiers. The name is sent, to a cloud server maintaining a geoshortcut service, in a request for geoshortcut information regarding the geoshortcut. The geoshortcut information regarding the geoshortcut is received from the cloud server responsive to the request, the geoshortcut information including data identifying the physical location in a native format as received, data identifying the physical location in a predefined location format available across geoshortcuts, and expiration data indicative of for how long the data identifying the physical location is deemed valid. The geoshortcut information is utilized to determine the physical location referenced by the name of the geoshortcut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Johannes Geir Kristinsson, John Michael Galan Ferrer, Nithya Somanath
  • Patent number: 11314478
    Abstract: An electronic device for controlling output of audio data, and an operation method thereof are provided. The electronic device includes a display, a communication interface, at least one processor, and a memory electrically connected to the processor, wherein the memory is configured to store instructions, and when executed, the instructions enable the at least one processor to perform setting the electronic device and at least one other electronic device as audio output devices of different applications, based on a user input, detecting a connection to the at least one other electronic device via the communication interface, and controlling the display to display information indicating that the electronic device and the at least one other electronic device are set as the audio output devices of different applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyunkyoung Kim, Hyewon Seo, Dasom Kim, Ukhyun Kim, Kyunghui Oh, Sangmin Lee, Hoyeon Kim, Jung-Uk Lim, Hyunyoung Yang
  • Patent number: 11263489
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatus for generating dense natural language descriptions for video content are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may include at least one memory and logic, at least a portion of the logic comprised in hardware coupled to the at least one memory, the logic to receive a source video comprising a plurality of frames, determine a plurality of regions for each of the plurality of frames, generate at least one region-sequence connecting the determined plurality of regions, apply a language model to the at least one region-sequence to generate description information comprising a description of at least a portion of content of the source video. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yurong Chen, Jianguo Li, Zhou Su, Zhiqiang Shen
  • Patent number: 11182998
    Abstract: A system in accordance with present embodiments includes a plurality of wearable devices and a virtual queue control system configured to maintain respective virtual queues for respective attractions and in communication with the plurality of virtual queuing attraction stations. The virtual queue control system is configured to receive communications from the plurality of virtual queuing stations and add guests to the respective virtual queues based on the communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Universal City Studios LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Geraghty, Justin Michael Schwartz
  • Patent number: 11157234
    Abstract: While an electronic device is connected to a first external device, display a first user interface including a first affordance. Detect an input selecting the first affordance. In response to detecting the input corresponding to selection of the first affordance, initiate a process to provide audio data concurrently with the first external device and a second external device different from the first external device. After initiating the process to provide audio data concurrently to the first external device and a second external device, detect an indication that a physical proximity between the electronic device and the second external device satisfies a proximity condition. In response to detecting the indication that the physical proximity between the electronic device and the second external device satisfies the proximity condition, display a second user interface indicating that the physical proximity between the electronic device and the second external device satisfies the proximity condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Taylor G. Carrigan, Nathan De Vries, Patrick L. Coffman
  • Patent number: 11126323
    Abstract: Method and user interface for controlling an apparatus are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, the method comprises: displaying a dynamic bar on a display of a mobile electronic device, the dynamic bar having an appearance that updates dynamically to reflect a change to information managed by an executable running on the mobile electronic device, wherein the dynamic bar includes a label portion and an icon menu comprising a plurality of icons, each icon in the plurality of icons being associated with a respective application or function; and displaying a dialog for configuring options associated with a particular application or function, the dialog displayed in response to selection of a respective icon of the plurality of icons in the icon menu associated with the particular application or function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Sherryl Lee Lorraine Scott
  • Patent number: 11112931
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing an improved graphical user interface. In one embodiment, the method generally comprises: displaying a first item in a first portion of a virtual space, where the first portion is initially visible on a screen, allowing a user to move to a second portion of the virtual space where a second item is displayed, and displaying a map (e.g., on the screen) that includes icons that identify the first and second items (i.e., both displayed and non-displayed items). In one embodiment, the user is allowed to move seamlessly from the first portion of the virtual space (where the first item is displayed) to the second portion (where the second item is displayed). For example, as the first item moves off the screen, the second item may move onto the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Inventor: Ezra Eddie Bakhash
  • Patent number: 11106338
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a control section that controls a change of a display of a first image linked to a first reservation target such that the display of the first image is changed by a second image linked to a second reservation target on a reservation screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Kengo Tokuchi
  • Patent number: 11100742
    Abstract: An amusement park access control system includes an amusement park area having an entrance. A unified access control device is positioned at the entrance and is configured to control guest access into the amusement park area. The unified access control device includes sensor modules and an access control module physically connected to one another to form a unified structure. The sensor modules scan the entrance to determine guest identification data. An access control computer system is communicatively coupled to the unified access control device and includes databases storing guest enrollment data and entitlement data associated with the guest enrollment data. The unified access control device identifies entitlements associated with the guest identification data based on a comparison between the guest identification data, the guest enrollment data, and the entitlement data, and controls guest access through the entrance based on the identified entitlements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Universal City Studios LLC
    Inventors: Brett J. Conroy, Kyle P. Hanley, Bonnie J. Spivey, Mark J. Traynor
  • Patent number: 11062135
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for determining and marking on a document what may be of interest to a user. In operation, a system identifies at least one document of potential interest to at least one user. The system identifies interest points associated with the at least one document for the at least one user based on one or more of: previously identified interest points in the at least one document, previously identified interest points in other similar documents, and characteristics of the at least one document. Further, the system marks in the at least one document the identified interest points associated with the at least one document for easy viewing by the at least one user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: AMDOCS DEVELOPMENT LIMITED
    Inventors: Sarit Chehanowitz, Liat Taub Bahar, Shmuel Ur
  • Patent number: 11017020
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of associating digital tags with digital files comprises storing a plurality of digital files having embedded therein content data and metadata including tags; receiving, via a user interface device of a client device, a first tag label containing alphanumeric text created and inputted by a user of the client device; modifying, using a controller device, a selected first one of the tags of the metadata in a first of the digital files to include the first tag label; receiving, via the user interface device or another user interface device, an instruction to search for all of the digital files having at least the first tag label; responsive to receiving the instruction, automatically searching for all of the digital files having at least the first tag label; and displaying, on a video display device associated with the client device, a first indication of the first tag label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: MEMORYWEB, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher J. Desmond, Nancy L. Desmond, L. Michael Taylor
  • Patent number: 10915242
    Abstract: An interface system enables a user to navigate a graphical user interface by touching output regions on a touch surface or by interacting with other types of displays that present regions whose locations can be sensed by the user. The arrangement of the output regions on the output device is defined statically or dynamically to correspond to display items that are displayed by a target device, such as a computer or game. The output regions may be automatically and dynamically extracted from the software that creates the visual display on the target device. Features are included to consolidate complex displays into manageable groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Inventor: Philip R. Schaefer
  • Patent number: 10872454
    Abstract: Panning animation techniques are described. In one or more implementations, an input is recognized by a computing device as corresponding to a panning animation. A distance is calculated that is to be traveled by the panning animation in a user interface output by computing device, the distance limited by a predefined maximum distance. The panning animation is output by the computing device to travel the calculated distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Megan A. Bates, Song Zou, Shaojie Zhang, Ross N. Luengen
  • Patent number: 10739950
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus comprises a registration unit which registers a menu item in a menu having a hierarchical structure, and a display control unit which (i) displays a first-type item and a second-type item as options in a specific layer of the menu, (ii) performs control to display a first menu item in a menu in a lower layer below a layer of the first-type item, the first menu item being used to register a menu item in the same menu and to delete a registered menu item, and (iii) displays a second menu item in a menu in a lower layer below a layer of the second-type item, the second menu item being for deleting a registered menu item that is in the menu in the lower layer below the layer of the first-type item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Watanabe, Emi Kondo, Tomoaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10708648
    Abstract: Disclosed are a system for providing hybrid user interfaces (UIs) which determines status information according to a subscriber terminal device and a service environment, and a suitable interaction mode corresponding to various content resources and UI resources through analysis of a user profile and provides a service suitable for a user and a situation through a combinative UI resource blended according to the interaction mode, and a method thereof. More particularly, by the system for providing hybrid UIs of the present disclosure and a method thereof, interaction modes corresponding to various content resources and UI resources may be organically combined in each of various set-top boxes and media devices, thereby providing stable and sustainable UIs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: ALTICAST CORPORATION
    Inventors: Moon Kyu Song, Woo Hyuck Kim, Hyun Il Jung
  • Patent number: 10678831
    Abstract: Large amounts of data from user interactions with web resources is available as data logs. Analysis may be performed to process the data log in order to determine the characteristics of the user interactions. Data log analysis may include identifying page states, which may be sets of frequent attributes and values that occur together in a session. The data log analysis may also include generating semantic labels of page states, which may describe the function of pages corresponding to different page states. Text mining models may be used to determine the semantic labels. Analysis may also include aggregating sets of page paths to create page journeys. These page journeys may be aggregated over all users, all user sessions, or other subsets of the clickstream. In some embodiments, comparing page journeys may provide recommendations for potential methods to improve the site and enhance user experiences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: CA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Cui Lin, Erhan Giral, Corey Cohen
  • Patent number: 10452223
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for browsing objects organized in a hierarchy using a three-dimensional user interface. Some embodiments of the present technology involve a platform that renders an interface that represents objects that are hierarchically connected in three-dimensional space and that allows navigation through the hierarchy by moving through the three-dimensional space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: InSpace Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Servan Keondjian, Saman Gerami, David Virapen, David Holme
  • Patent number: 10331303
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for maintaining and updating a common message user interface (UI) shared among a plurality of group-based communication interfaces in a group-based communication system. The common message UI is rendered based on an updated version or a most up-to-date state of the common message UI when accessed by a client device associated with one of the plurality of group-based communication interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: SLACK TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Liza Gurtin, Michael Hahn
  • Patent number: 10205795
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for dynamic network link acceleration provides a managed communication link for accelerated and reliable network communication between a client and other network devices. In one or more embodiments, a client computing device which generates communication packets of a first type is enhanced with a front end mechanism which selectively encodes the data packets into packets of a second type. The data packets which are encoded into a second type are transmitted over a managed communication link which may provide error correction, security, quality of service, and other services including acceleration of communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Circadence Corporation
    Inventors: Gary D. Morton, Paul R. Thornton, Ryan Pressley, Robert John Shaughnessy, Mark Vange, Mark Plumb, Michael Kouts, Glenn Sydney Wilson
  • Patent number: 10194016
    Abstract: A system and method dynamically generates structured graphical user interfaces based on the type of device accessing a user interface. The system and method dynamically trigger the pre-population of content within a native application or internet-based application on user agent information and user-entered information and initiates SMS communications between users of disparate device types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Zipwhip, Inc.
    Inventors: James Lapic, Alan Capps, Michael Bradley
  • Patent number: 10165135
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided that includes a memory storing a program, and a processor configured to execute the program to implement a process of determining whether a prohibited setting item is included among a plurality of setting items corresponding to a plurality of display components that are arranged in an image for displaying a setting screen on a display device. The prohibited setting item corresponds to a setting item that is prohibited from being set up in combination with a selected setting item for which a value has been set up in response to an operation made with respect to a selected display component corresponding to the selected setting item. If the prohibited setting item is included among the plurality of setting items, the processor further implements a process of changing the position of a non-configurable display component corresponding to the prohibited setting item within the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Akiko Kitayama
  • Patent number: 10116508
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media with executable instructions stored thereon are provided for applying server profile templates. A method includes providing a user interface (UI) to define a template. The template includes a template identifier, a common configuration, and a list of server profiles which share the common configuration. The method further includes using the UI to create a number of server profiles. The template is applied to server profiles such that changes to the common configuration are replicated across all associated server profiles, including associated server profiles with different physical connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development, LP
    Inventors: Caren Moraes Nichele, Luis Otavio Da Silva Martins, Michelle C. Huang, Julio Cesar Fernandes Correa
  • Patent number: 10096084
    Abstract: A program causing hardware to act as a unit is simplified without increasing a processing load on the hardware, the unit receiving operation to update display of information and instructing to update the display of the information, the display of the information being displayed on a display unit. In case that a key processor instructs to update display information, an information access processor instructs an information storage to update the display information, and instructs the display processor to update the display of the information. The information storage updates the display information stored therein on a basis of the instruction to update the display information by the information access processor. The display processor causes the display unit to display the information based on the display information updated by the information storage, in case that the information access processor instructs to update the display of the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Onkyo Corporation
    Inventor: Kazunari Ito
  • Patent number: 10062234
    Abstract: A system for regulating access to a resource by a plurality of users is provided. The system comprises: a plurality of portable access keys, each being provided to one of the users and having an associated variable access parameter; an access barrier, having an open state allowing passage through and a closed state denying access to the resource, and defining an access queue; a sensor that determines an access queue characteristic related to a number of users in the access queue; a controller, which sets an access criterion based on the determined access queue characteristic; and a detector, located at the access barrier and which determines the variable access parameter of a portable access key when it is brought into the vicinity of the detector. The controller sets the access barrier in its open state if the variable access parameter determined by the detector meets the access criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: LO-Q, PLC
    Inventors: Christopher Bayne, Christopher Butler, Leonard Sim
  • Patent number: 9948679
    Abstract: In a computer implemented method, selectable device icons that represent respective network security devices are generated for display. Responsive to a selection of one of the device icons, selectable interface icons that represent respective network interfaces used by the network security device represented by the selected device icon are generated for display. Responsive to a selection of one of the interface icons, selectable policy icons that represent respective security polices applied to the network interface represented by the selected interface icon are generated for display. Responsive to a selection of one of the policy icons, selectable object group icons that represent respective groups of security rule objects used in the network security policy represented by the selected policy icon are generated for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Zachary D Siswick, Umesh Kumar Miglani, Daniel Hollingshead, Karyll Catubig, Yedidya Dotan, Denis Knjazihhin
  • Patent number: 9923990
    Abstract: User information is provided to web applications by embedding a widget in a web page served to a user's client from a web application server. The widget is a software component that is configured to retrieve user information from a user information web server repository in response to a request by a web application for user information. The widget is also configured to request user permission to retrieve user information from the repository and to request user verification of retrieved information prior to providing the retrieved information to the requesting web application. The user information widget is configured to authenticate a user prior to retrieving user information from the repository. The user information widget authenticates a user by requesting credentials from the user and verifying that the received credentials are valid for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Gregory Leitheiser
  • Patent number: 9860524
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes a display unit, a detecting unit, and a control unit. The display unit displays a publication. The detecting unit detects a plurality of objects that perform an operation of turning one or more pages of the publication. The control unit for determines a range of pages to be turned, based on a distance between the objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Ueno, Shigeki Tanabe
  • Patent number: 9772861
    Abstract: Providing access to an element in an operating system executed by a processor includes: with the processor, tracking behavior of a user with respect to multiple elements managed by the operating system; displaying a tag cloud to the user with a display device, the tag cloud having multiple objects, each of the objects representing one of the elements managed by the operating system and having a size based on the tracked behavior of the user with respect to the element managed by the operating system; and allowing, with the processor, the user to access at least one of the elements using the tag cloud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Lisa Seacat DeLuca
  • Patent number: 9766782
    Abstract: A graphical user interface (GUI) is presented that allows a user to view and interact with content embedded in a digital book, such as text, image galleries, multimedia presentations, video, HTML, animated and static diagrams, charts, tables, visual dictionaries, review questions, three-dimensional (3D) animation and any other known media content, and various touch gestures can be used by the user to move through images and multimedia presentations, play video, answer review questions, manipulate three-dimensional objects, and interact with HTML.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Charles J. Migos, Diego Bauducco, Markus Hagele, Jay Christopher Capela, Gary W. Gehiere, Jacob G. Refstrup, Christopher Erich Rudolph, Peter W. Rapp, David M. Hall, Peter G. Berger, Simon Antony Ward, Mark Ambachtsheer, Paul Elseth, Steven J. Israelson, Roger Rock Rosner, Yaniv Gur, Alexander C. MacLean, M. Frank Emanuel, Mac Murrett
  • Patent number: 9721612
    Abstract: An approach is provided for providing content lists using connecting user interface elements. The content-based patching platform causes, at least in part, a rendering of a user interface depicting at least one location-based content list and at least one other location-based content list. Next, the content-based patching platform determines one or more interactions with at least one connecting user interface element to cause, at least in part, an association of the at least one location-based content list with the at least one other location-based content list. Then, the content-based patching platform determines to create at least one mixed content list from the at least one location-based content list, the at least one other location-based content list, or a combination thereof based, at least in part, on the association.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Arto Juhani Lehtiniemi, Juha Henrik Arrasvuori, Antti Johannes Eronen
  • Patent number: 9626071
    Abstract: A method for moving or copying displayed items in response to at least one touch event on a touch screen is provided. The method comprises: detecting a user selection of one or more items; displaying an object corresponding to the one or more selected items at a predetermined location; moving the object to a point selected by the user; and moving the selected one or more items in association with the object. The object can be a convergence of a first object depicting a number representing a numerical count of the selected items, and a object visually representing the items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co, Ltd.
    Inventor: Jae Myoung Lee
  • Patent number: 9619110
    Abstract: In general, techniques are described for providing a user interface to create report specifications and included source definitions for business reporting and analysis. For example, a computing device includes a user interface (UI) module for displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) and receiving a selection of a data element at a start location of the GUI. The UI module may display an overlay element having a boundary forming a plurality of paths from the start location to a plurality of end locations, the paths corresponding to a plurality of report options associated with the data element. The UI module may receive a second input indicative of a traversal of the overlay element along a chosen path. The computing device may include a definition module operable to create a definition for a report specification based at least in part on the report option corresponding to the chosen path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Ilse M. Breedvelt-Schouten
  • Patent number: 9610498
    Abstract: Various application-centric user interface techniques are described. A user can easily launch, add, or update applications. An application-centric activity center can be presented as part of a user interface for an operating system shell. A file defining metadata for an application can be defined. The techniques can be applied to game-related software.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: C. Shane Evans, Roderick M. Toll, G. Andrew Johnston, II
  • Patent number: 9571678
    Abstract: A method for creating digital documents from hardcopy documents by means of a reproduction system including a display and a scanner includes detecting an event of an intended scanning of a hardcopy document; upon detection of the event, opening an image adjustment screen at the display, the screen including an image area, a scan settings area and a process button; displaying at the image area of the screen a digital image; displaying, at the scan settings area of the screen, image parameter values; activating the image parameter values by activating the process button; closing the screen at the display; scanning the hardcopy document according to the image parameter values corresponding with the displayed digital image resulting in a digital document; and selecting the digital image to be displayed to be either equal to a digital image that has been previously stored, or equal to a predetermined other digital image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: OCE-TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventors: Bastiaan J. Hermus, Eduardus J. W. Van Vliembergen
  • Patent number: 9563326
    Abstract: Information may be presented to a user in a way that reflects an awareness of the user's current situation. The relationship between user's situation, and various people and things, may be analyzed to determine the user's proximity to those people and things. (Proximity may refer not only to geographic proximity, but also temporal proximity, relevance proximity, etc.) A user interface may show people and things at different levels of proximity to the user's current situation, with the level of proximity being represented visually. The user may reposition the center of focus to one of the people or things depicted. When the center is repositioned, the level of proximity of people and things may be shown relative to the new center of focus, filtered based on existing relationships of those people and things to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Avi Bar-Zeev, Gonzalo A. Ramos, Michael Chowning Byron
  • Patent number: 9537674
    Abstract: A method for notifying a user of a computer having a display about incoming messages stored in an inbox. The method includes the steps of receiving attribute information describing attributes of a plurality of messages in the inbox and generating message visualization structures associated with the respective messages and determining at least one non-textual visual feature of each message visualization structure on the basis of an attribute of a respective message. The method also includes rendering on the display the visualization structures within a graphical environment in which the message visualization structures convey information about the messages and their respective attributes in a non-textual list manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: BCE INC.
    Inventors: Karen Freeman, David Robert Macphie, Nasahn Adam Sheppard, Jason Edward Short, Timothy Foster Wallack
  • Patent number: 9520061
    Abstract: A steering wheel system for a vehicle includes a display and a controller. The controller receives vehicle parameters from one or more vehicle sensors as well as geometric or navigability characteristics of the road. The controller generates a prediction of an effect of the vehicle parameters on the vehicle with respect to the geometric or navigability characteristics of the road. The controller sends a signal to the display based on the prediction. The display is configured to display a representation of the prediction based on the signal received from the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: TK Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Leonard Cech, Stephen Vachon
  • Patent number: 9454304
    Abstract: Embodiments of a multi-screen dual tap gesture are described. In various embodiments, a first tap input to a displayed object is recognized at a first screen of a multi-screen system. A second tap input to the displayed object is recognized at a second screen of the multi-screen system, and the second tap input is recognized approximately when the first tap input is recognized. A dual tap gesture can then be determined from the recognized first and second tap inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth P. Hinckley, Koji Yatani
  • Patent number: 9454260
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a system and method for enabling multi-display input. According to one embodiment, the presence of an object is detected within a display area of a first display panel or a second display panel via at least one optical sensor coupled to a processor. Positional data of the object is received from the optical sensor, and a control operation associated with either the first display or second display panel is determined based on the positional data received from the optical sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert Campbell, John P. McCarthy, Bradley Neal Suggs
  • Patent number: 9449112
    Abstract: Extension activation may be provided. Upon receiving a new document associated with a plurality of related documents, extension trigger conditions may be evaluated. In response to determining that an extension trigger is satisfied, a user interface element associated with the extension trigger may be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: David Claux, Jason Todd Henderson, Andrew Salamatov, Oleg Ouliankine, Warren Randall Byrne, Michael Anthony Faoro
  • Patent number: 9430043
    Abstract: Bioacoustic sensors and wireless technologies are used for the control of electronic devices, such as wireless telephones, pagers, music/media players or personal laptops and personal digital assistant (PDA) devices. Such control is implemented with certain systems, methods and apparatus which include bioacoustic sensors, a processor coupled to the bioacoustic sensors, and a transmitter coupled to the processor. The present invention is operative to detect particular hand and/or finger gestures, and to transmit control signals corresponding to the gestures for operative control of an electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: Brian Amento, William Colyer Hill, Loren Gilbert Terveen
  • Patent number: RE49039
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to techniques to automatically focus a digital camera. In one or more embodiments, a mobile electronics device may comprise a digital camera having a lens component and lens position component. A display may be coupled to the digital camera to reproduce an image with a first focal point. The digital camera may also include a focal point selection module coupled to the display to select a second focal point for the image and a focus control module coupled to the focal point selection module and the lens position component to provide focus control signals to the lens position component to focus the lens component on the second focal point. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Matthew Crowley, Jeff Finkelstein, Richard Dellinger