Non-array Icons Patents (Class 715/846)
  • Patent number: 11977725
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed, including a non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable code that when executed by a processor cause the processor to project a mixed reality environment to a headset, the mixed reality environment having one or more objects, each being created by object computer code having properties that define how the objects interact within the mixed reality environment; in response to a first input from at least one user interface device, display an action menu on the visual feedback screen having a list of pre-defined action modules, the action modules including a module of computer executable code having one or more functions, the one or more functions configured to affect one or more properties of a first object of the one or more objects within the mixed reality environment; and update the object computer code of the first object to include a selected action module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Human Mode, LLC
    Inventors: William Xavier Kerber, III, Yoon Joon So, Jae Rim Choi
  • Patent number: 11978022
    Abstract: A meeting management apparatus manages a plurality of group meeting that a plurality of attendees can attend using an attendee terminal. The meeting management apparatus includes: a data acquiring part that acquires state data indicating a state of each of the plurality of group meetings; and a terminal control part that transmits, to the attendee terminal, state data corresponding to each of the plurality of group meetings in association with meeting identification information for identifying each of the plurality of group meetings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: V-CUBE, INC.
    Inventors: Yosuke Kamezaki, Hironori Nurishi, Ei Sou, Ken Koseki
  • Patent number: 11941058
    Abstract: A search engine optimizer which works independently and in parallel with a browser and search engine supercomputer to gather, analyze, and distill input information interactively. The optimizer reorganizes the input, and providing an optimized version as an output. The optimized version of the input (e.g. output) is sent to the search engine which responds to the end user with search results. The optimizer recognizes each request as a pattern and stores the pattern in an advanced Glyph format. This permits the optimizer to identify a left and ride side check mate combination required to achieve certitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Inventor: Richard Paiz
  • Patent number: 11914994
    Abstract: An industrial integrated development environment (IDE) supports collaborative development of industrial projects, such as human-machine interface applications, industrial controller programs, device configurations, or other such projects. Rather than merging edits by comparing text representations of the edited projects on a line-by-line basis, the system expresses the edited and base versions of the system project as unified information models that represent the project versions as hierarchical organizations of nodes representing elements of the project, and compares corresponding nodes of the information models to obtain differential statuses for the nodes. The various versions of the nodes are then merged into a single consistent model based on the differential statuses of the nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Valerio Guarnieri, Alessandro Menon, Nicola Orlandi, Alberto Riccio, Giulio Botturi
  • Patent number: 11775246
    Abstract: A collaboration system is provided and includes memory storing collaboration data including a spatial event map locating events in a virtual workspace and a local display including a screen space. The collaboration system further includes logic to identify a local client viewport in the virtual workspace, logic to render, in the screen space on the local display, graphical objects identified by events in the spatial event map that have locations within the local client viewport, logic to change a location and a dimension of the local client viewport in the virtual workspace in response to input signals, logic to render, in the screen space on the local display, graphical objects identified by events in the spatial event map that have locations within the changed local client viewport, and logic to generate a viewport change event in response to the change of the local client viewport in response to input signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Haworth, Inc.
    Inventors: Satish Santhakumar, Demian Entrekin
  • Patent number: 11614980
    Abstract: The present invention is a system and user interface for a persistent notification that sits within a notification or control center of an operating system (OS) and looks native to the device. The persistent notification provides access to frequently used applications, utility applications, a news feed as well as a search function by sending requests and receiving data from a platform that provides the persistent notification with data related to the device being used by the user to allow the persistent notification to appear native to the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Plus44 Holdings Limited
    Inventors: Corbyn Munnik, Frankie Kearney, Samuel Barker
  • Patent number: 11554230
    Abstract: Systems and methods for clinician decision support during mechanical ventilation of a patient comprise evaluating a shape and/or characteristics of a waveform to detect an anomaly. While mechanical ventilators are equipped with a number of alarms and alerts when monitored patient data breaches various alarm thresholds, some anomalies in patient data may go unnoticed by clinicians. These anomalies, however, may provide relevant information regarding patient condition. Accordingly, in response to detecting an anomaly, the ventilator captures at least a portion of the waveform. The waveform capture, which may be annotated with various labels and educational information, may be reviewed by a clinician to obtain additional information regarding the anomaly. In this way, clinicians may be trained to recognize and address anomalies associated with waveform data and thereby be armed with information to optimize patient-ventilator interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventor: Phyllis Rae Angelico
  • Patent number: 11543860
    Abstract: In aspects of adaptive grip suppression, a wireless device has a display screen with curved display edges to display a selectable element in a region of a curved display edge. The wireless device implements an adaptive control module to adaptively tune grip suppression in the curved display edges of the display screen, which limits a device application action from being initiated based on inadvertent touch inputs on the selectable element. The adaptive control module can adaptively tune the grip suppression by decreasing the grip suppression in the region of the curved display edge proximate the selectable element responsive to false rejects indicating that the device application action is not initiating responsive to intended touch inputs, or by increasing the grip suppression in the region of the curved display edge proximate the selectable element responsive to false accepts indicating that the device application action is initiating responsive to inadvertent touch inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Amit Kumar Agrawal, Olivier David Meirhaeghe, Fred Allison Bower, III
  • Patent number: 11491911
    Abstract: Information processing systems, computer readable storage mediums, and methods for communicating driver validation messages between a driver operated vehicle and a pedestrian client. One method, with a driver operated vehicle wireless device in the driver operated vehicle (DOV), includes wirelessly receiving, by the DOV wireless device, a pedestrian only message including a driver validation code, the driver validation code being anonymous to the driver of the DOV. The DOV wireless device displaying, through a window and visible outside the DOV, the driver validation code during a time interval synchronized to be cotemporaneous with displaying the driver validation code via a pedestrian client mobile device outside of the DOV. A contemporaneous display of the driver validation code on both devices visually validates the driver being authorized to meet a pedestrian client using the pedestrian client mobile device outside of the DOV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Fowler Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Dale Fowler
  • Patent number: 11463507
    Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for generating captions for audio content items. For instance, a system may store a user profile that is associated with audio content items. When a user associated with the user profile requests captions, the system may determine which audio content items have available captions and which audio content items do not have available captions. For the audio content items that do not have available captions, the system may determine priorities for the audio content items. The system may then cause the captions to be generated based on the priorities. When the captions are generated, the system may update statuses of the audio content items to indicate that the captions are available. The system may further store the captions in a database that is accessible to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Audible, Inc.
    Inventors: Svetlana Levit, Shailesh Vyas, Robert Lyons, Igor Belakovskiy, Jordan Apgar, Chandana Kanchanagari, Richard Stern, Ryan Gadsby, Sanjay Tiwary
  • Patent number: 11455176
    Abstract: Techniques are described related to selecting content to display using a standalone multi-modal assistant device. In various implementations, an unidentified user may be detected as co-present with a standalone multi-modal assistant device equipped with a display. Based on the detecting, in various implementations, a plurality of data items targeted at one or more registered users may be obtained. The one or more registered users may have accounts accessible to an automated assistant that operates at least in part on the standalone multi-modal assistant device. The plurality of data items may be obtained based on the accounts of the registered users. The plurality of data items may be ranked based on various signals, such as registered user-related and non-registered user-related priorities. Graphical information may be rendered on the display indicative of the ranked plurality of data items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Andrea Terwisscha van Scheltinga, Rajat Paharia
  • Patent number: 11250208
    Abstract: Dynamic templates include regions that provide behavior based upon a purpose or desired outcome. Templates and regions can modify the logical representations associated with objects to create semantic context for the objects. Templates and regions can also generate visual representations of objects based upon their logical representations. The visual representation utilized by a template or region can be selected manually or based upon the capabilities of a computing device. Objects contained within regions can be sorted, filtered, arranged, and projected based on their associated logical representations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Francois M. Rouaix, Itai Almog, Ron Mondri, March Rogers, Palmer H. Batt, Christian James Colando
  • Patent number: 11205040
    Abstract: Dynamic templates include regions that provide behavior based upon a purpose or desired outcome. Templates and regions can modify the logical representations associated with objects to create semantic context for the objects. Templates and regions can also generate visual representations of objects based upon their logical representations. The visual representation utilized by a template or region can be selected manually or based upon the capabilities of a computing device. Objects contained within regions can be sorted, filtered, arranged, and projected based on their associated logical representations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Francois M. Rouaix, Itai Almog, Ron Mondri, March Rogers, Palmer H. Batt, Christian James Colando
  • Patent number: 11188195
    Abstract: A method for playing music in a vehicle audio system includes: playing, by a controller, a music file of a user device that is received via communication; determining, by the controller, whether metadata of the music file to be played matches metadata of a music file that is stored in a first storage device and has sound quality that is better than sound quality of the music file of the user device; and stopping, by the controller, playback of the music file of the user device and playing the music file of the first storage device when the metadata of the music file to be played matches the metadata of the music file of the first storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Venkata Avinash Karuturi, Raja Kullayappa Chintalapalli
  • Patent number: 11171896
    Abstract: An apparatus for integrating and executing a plurality of messengers may include a communication unit configured to communicate with messenger servers and other electronic devices, a display unit configured to integrate and display a plurality of messengers on one screen, a storage unit configured to store an integrated messenger application which is a program for integrating and displaying the plurality of messengers and a plurality of messenger applications, and a controller configured to register at least two or more messenger applications selected by a user in the integrated messenger application and provide a messenger list to the plurality of registered messenger applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Inventors: Si On Kim, Insuk Kim
  • Patent number: 11157136
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for enabling an activity using a computer system. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for invoking an activity associated with an application are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for customizing displayed content based on circumstances under which the content was invoked are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for managing applications that were used to enable activities are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for managing settings for applications used to enable activities are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yongjun Zhang, Reza Abbasian, Darin Adler, Ada Chan, Steven Falkenburg, Charles B. Etzel, Craig M. Federighi, Christopher Patrick Foss, Nahir A. Khan, Heena Ko, Rishab Mehra, Grant Paul, Pallavika Ramaswamy, Caelan G. Stack, Mark M. Xue, Luming Yin, Charles H. Ying, Patrick L. Coffman
  • Patent number: 11062095
    Abstract: A method for receiving a first text in a source language is provided. The method includes associating the first text in the source language with a first vector, selected from a plurality of vectors associated with the source language in an embedded set, and identifying a second vector that is closer to the first vector than a pre-selected threshold. The second vector is associated with a second text in a target language. The method includes associating the first text in the source language with the second text in the target language, wherein the embedded set includes a first image vector for a first image and a second image vector for a second image, and returning the second text in the target language, the second text being a translation of the first text from the source language to the target language. A system configured to perform the above method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Shutterstock, Inc.
    Inventors: Manor Lev-Tov, Nicholas Alexander Lineback, Michael Ranzinger
  • Patent number: 11042344
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a display screen for displaying an image, and a terminal detection unit. When the terminal detection unit detects that a portable information terminal is arranged on the display screen, the display device transmits a data area generation instruction to secure a data area to a storage device to cause the storage device to secure the data area. The display device receives information indicating a location of the data area from the storage device. The display device causes the display screen to display a storage location image including the information indicating the location of the data area on a part of the display screen on which the portable information terminal is arranged, and notifies the portable information terminal of the location of the data area through the storage location image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Sakuma
  • Patent number: 11010397
    Abstract: A method for displaying applications which includes: obtaining the applications installed in a master device and the applications installed in a slave device when the master device is connected with the slave device; if the master device and the slave device have a same application, using the same application as the application to be recommended; obtaining the usage information of the application to be recommended, and determining the priority of the application to be recommended according to the usage information; and displaying the application to be recommended on the master device or the slave device according to a level of the priority. The present disclosure further discloses a system for displaying applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN TCL DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY LTD.
    Inventors: Sunming Huang, Yunhua Wang
  • Patent number: 11005710
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, computer media, and apparatuses for providing resource tracking, such as in a data center environment. A control and monitoring node receives updates indicating instantiation of resources in the computing system network. The control and monitoring node determines that there are duplicate resources in the network, and then determines which of the duplicate resources to provide connectivity to. The control and monitoring node provides network configuration updates to various networking resources in the network to provide network connectivity to the one of the duplicate resources in the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Mohit Garg, Benjamin M. Schultz, Poornananda R. Gaddehosur
  • Patent number: 10943055
    Abstract: System and methods for displaying one or more assets on a client device based on device characteristics are provided. Code is transmitted to a client device. The code, when executed by the client device, causes a processor of the client device to determine a first device characteristic of the client device. A first layout may be selected based on the first device characteristic. The layout may include one or more cards. Each card may correspond to one or more assets. Each card may be modified based on a corresponding card characteristic. One or more assets may be requested. The assets may be displayed on the first client device. The code may be transmitted to another client device, which may select a different layout based on a different device characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Cameron Henry Behar, Mariam Rahila Shaikh, Brian James Mulford, Jonathan Wolfe, Robert Neale, Wade Davenport Norris, Robert Gordon Kogan
  • Patent number: 10931622
    Abstract: A social networking system user may associate a graphical element representing the user's emotional reaction with a content item presented by the social networking system. The user is presented with one or more graphical elements maintained by the social networking system and selects a graphical element for associating with the content item. If certain graphical elements are selected, the social networking system prompts the user for compensation or requests compensation from an entity associated with the selected graphical element. The selected graphical element is associated with the content item and a connection, or other information, between the user and the object identifying the selected graphical element is stored by the social networking system. The selected graphical element may be displayed with the content item to the user and to other users connected to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Yigal Dan Rubinstein, Abhishek Doshi, Reshma Khilnani Ebberson, Cole Gleason
  • Patent number: 10915228
    Abstract: A character input device includes a character input unit that receives an input character, a suggestion list management unit that converts the input character, a suggestion list generator that generates a conversion suggestion list through conversion of the input character, a suggestion display including a standard-suggestion display area for displaying the conversion suggestion list, an operation detector that detects movement of a divisional suggestion included in the conversion suggestion list, and a suggestion division management unit that generates a divisional-suggestion display area different from the standard-suggestion display area in the suggestion display in response to the movement of the divisional suggestion. The suggestion division management unit associates the divisional suggestion with the divisional-suggestion display area, and outputs the divisional suggestion to the divisional-suggestion display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Yamada, Yasumasa Sasano
  • Patent number: 10852874
    Abstract: An object may rest on top of a sensor structure. Multiple 3-axis load sensors may be embedded in the sensor structure, and may take measurements of a force created by a human user touching the object. The direction of the force may fluctuate slightly, due to tiny shaking movements of the user's hand or finger while the hand or finger touches the object. These tiny shaking movements may occur even in a normal, healthy person. Based on these measurements of fluctuating force that are taken by the load sensors, a computer may calculate three-dimensional spatial coordinates of a point at which the user is touching the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Takatoshi Yoshida, Hiroshi Ishii
  • Patent number: 10764542
    Abstract: A portable camera may be activated in response to the activity of a firearm. Furthermore, a communications channel may be established between a firearm telematics sensor and a video camera, optionally by means of intermediary devices. When the telematics sensor detects that its associated firearm has been removed from a holster of the firearm, is in motion, or is being discharged, the telematics sensor may signal the video camera to initiate recording.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Yardarm Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert J. Stewart, David Glowacki, James Schaff, Kyle Howell
  • Patent number: 10747554
    Abstract: In one example, a device includes one or more processors, a presence-sensitive display, and a storage device that stores one or more modules. The modules are executable to, responsive to receiving an indication of a first user input: output, for display, a graphical element including at least one task shortcut from a plurality of task shortcuts for an application, receive an indication of a second user input that selects a particular task shortcut included in the graphical element, and, responsive to receiving the indication of the second user input, output, for display, a shortcut icon for the particular task shortcut within the graphical user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Eunkyung Chung, Thomas Weedon Hume, Michael Andrew Cleron, Michael Adam Cohen, Makoto Onuki
  • Patent number: 10743085
    Abstract: In some examples, a facility augments an audio-video sequence playback display with respect to a current playback position of the audio-video sequence within a time index range of the sequence. For a first portion of the time index range of the sequence containing the current playback position (“CPP”), the facility performs automatic voice transcription against the audio component to obtain speech text for at least one speaker. For a second portion of the time index range of the sequence containing the CPP, the facility performs automatic image recognition against the video component to obtain identifying information identifying at least one person, object, or location. Simultaneously with the sequence playback display and proximate to the sequence playback display, the facility displays one or more annotations each based upon (a) at least a portion of the obtained speech text, (b) at least a portion of the obtained identifying information, or (c) both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Akshay Prabhu, Vasanth Raja Chittampally
  • Patent number: 10685550
    Abstract: An audio device includes a sensor communicatively coupled to a processor and configured to generate a presence signal in response to detecting an object within an interaction region, a loudspeaker communicatively coupled to the processor, at least one light-emitting device that is communicatively coupled to the processor, and the processor. The processor is configured to vary light output of the at least one light-emitting device based on the presence signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Joseph Verbeke, Davide Di Censo, Daniel Pye, Stefan Marti, Carsten Schwesig, Hakim Raja
  • Patent number: 10635375
    Abstract: A data transfer system includes a display device and a portable information terminal. The display device includes a first display panel having a first display screen for displaying an image, a terminal detection unit configured to detect that the portable information terminal has approached the first display screen, and a first display processing unit configured to cause the first display screen to display a storage location image which is an image indicating information about a storage location of data in another device when the terminal detection unit detects that the portable information terminal has approached the first display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Sakuma
  • Patent number: 10509551
    Abstract: An icon management method, apparatus, and terminal, which relate to the field of electronic devices are provided. The method includes displaying a home screen, where the home screen includes at least one target icon with at least two non-overlapping function regions. The function regions correspond to different functions, and the functions are icon adjustment functions. The method also includes receiving a first user instruction, determining a target icon selected by the first user instruction and a target function selected by the first user instruction. The target function is a function corresponding to a function region of the target icon that is selected by the first user instruction. The method also includes executing the target function on the target icon selected by the first user instruction. The method may be implemented on a terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xi Huang, Zhu Liu, Zhenwei Shan, Wenmei Gao
  • Patent number: 10489010
    Abstract: A method involves presenting an interface which provides the ability to associate photographic images with an anatomical image for use in clinical documentation. A method involves presenting an interface which displays an anatomical image and lists both common conditions for selection by a user and common treatments for the presented or selected conditions. A method involves presenting an interface which displays an anatomical image providing drill down functionality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: ALLSCRIPTS SOFTWARE, LLC
    Inventors: William Paul Minton, Jerry Lynn Goodman, Michael C. Rapa, Rufus Brandon Harvey, Alvin Lee Ashcraft, Georgian Vicentiu Grigore, Kasumo Morris, Diane Carolyn Woodall, Murphy Mathews
  • Patent number: 10466871
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for customizing tabs in a browser window by facilitating visual modifications to the tabs. An indication of a user interaction with a tab, such as a hover or selection input, is received. Based on receiving this indication of a user interaction, one or more options from which a user may select to modify or add content to the tab are provided for display. These options may include, for instance, colors, icons, text modifications, objects, etc. A user selection is received from the one or more options. Based on the user selection, the tab is visually altered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Edward Barrus, Danielle Lauren Ellbogen, Marcus P. Ghaly, Christopher Obeso, Andrew M. Pickard
  • Patent number: 10445431
    Abstract: A method for receiving a first text in a source language is provided. The method includes associating the first text in the source language with a first vector, selected from a plurality of vectors associated with the source language in an embedded set, and identifying a second vector that is closer to the first vector than a pre-selected threshold. The second vector is associated with a second text in a target language. The method includes associating the first text in the source language with the second text in the target language, wherein the embedded set includes a first image vector for a first image and a second image vector for a second image, and returning the second text in the target language, the second text being a translation of the first text from the source language to the target language. A system configured to perform the above method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: SHUTTERSTOCK, INC.
    Inventors: Manor Lev-Tov, Nicholas Alexander Lineback, Michael Ranzinger
  • Patent number: 10403017
    Abstract: A request is received for an image to be presented on a client computing device, where the image is synthesized by shared images and dedicated images dedicated to the client computing device. A first one or more source files are identified for generating the shared images that are used by the client computing device and one or more other client computing devices. The shared images are generated based on the first one or more source files. A second one or more source files are identified for generating the dedicated images. A configuration file is generated that includes instructions for the client computing device to synthesize the shared images and the second one or more source files to the requested image. The shared images, the second one or more source files, and the configuration file are sent to the client computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Zhijun Du, Sanping Li, Nan Wang, Qiang He, Yanjun Zhao, Zhenqiang Lao, Jie Shi, Weixing Wang
  • Patent number: 10278197
    Abstract: Techniques and systems for prioritizing beacon messages are disclosed. Such a technique can include receiving, at a mobile device, beacon messages from multiple beacon devices over short-range communication links, the beacon devices being within a vicinity of an establishment, the beacon messages being configured to provide content associated with the establishment; determining, at the mobile device, priorities of the beacon messages based on one or more criteria; selecting, at the mobile device, a beacon message of the beacon messages based on the priorities to produce a selected beacon message; and presenting the selected beacon message through the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Vigier, Corey G. Fugman, Filip Krsmanovic, Mathieu Roig, Yingfeng Su
  • Patent number: 10116695
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method for verifying that operators are human based on operator gaze may include (1) presenting an image to a user of the computing device via a display element of the computing device, (2) tracking the user's gaze as the image is presented to the user, (3) determining, based on an analysis of the user's gaze, that one or more patterns of the user's gaze are consistent with one or more human gaze patterns, and (4) classifying the user as a human in response to determining that the one or more patterns of the user's gaze are consistent with one or more human gaze patterns. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventors: Ilya Sokolov, Keith Newstadt
  • Patent number: 9921669
    Abstract: Operation display device includes a display, an operation part, and an arithmetic and control part. The arithmetic and control part includes: an analysis processing part analyzing an operation content of an operation object; and a display processing part determining a shape and a position of a figure for operation displayed on the display according to the operation content analyzed by the analysis processing part. The analysis processing part has a function of classifying the operation content of the operation object into a moving operation for changing the position of the figure for operation and an adjustment operation for adjusting a control amount. When a contact position to the operation part is out of a tracking range set in accordance with the position of the figure for operation, the display processing part displaces the figure for operation so that the contact position of the operation object is within the tracking range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomikazu Imai
  • Patent number: 9910560
    Abstract: An operation button carries out an operation of an electronic apparatus through a key input. A touch panel is a display area of the electronic apparatus and carries out an operation of the electronic apparatus through a touch operation. A display controlling unit displays, in response to the operation of at least one of the operation button and the touch panel, a menu including at least one choice relating to the operation of the electronic apparatus on a display device. Here, the display controlling unit displays a menu to be displayed in response to the operation of the operation button and a menu to be displayed in response to the operation of the touch panel such that the menus include at least one common choice and besides the common choice is disposed in layouts different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Masakazu Hayashi, Kensaku Ishizuka, Eiji Yamada, Yuki Kobayashi, Manabu Nishizawa
  • Patent number: 9846680
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable medium comprises displaying a panel associated with at least one script, presenting a branching logic associated with the panel and creating a graphical map of the panel and the branching logic where the graphical map allows zooming in to show panel logic associated with the panel, and the graphical map allows zooming out to show the branching logic associated with the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: ALORICA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey William Cordell, Anthony Mathew Stach, Jereomy K. Frum
  • Patent number: 9792798
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, biometric data and environmental data are obtained from sensors. Corporate information system (CIS) information is retrieved for a worker, with the CIS information including a schedule of tasks assigned to the worker. A task currently being performed by the worker is determined based on the schedule of tasks. Weights are assigned to the biometric data and the environmental data. The weights vary between data from different sensors, with the weights assigned based on the task currently being performed by the worker. A current safety score is assigned for the worker based on the calculation of a formula, with the formula using the assigned weights as coefficients to variables, with the variables being values obtained from the biometric data and the environmental data. The current safety score is compared to a safety threshold, and if the threshold is violated, an alert is generated to the worker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: James Jobin, Roberto Silveira Silva Filho, Bo Yu
  • Patent number: 9721010
    Abstract: Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for annotating content based upon user reaction data and/or for maintaining a searchable content repository. That is, a user may request and/or opt-in for user reaction data to be detected while a user is experiencing content (e.g., watching a movie, walking through a park, interacting with a website, participating on a phone conversation, etc.). Metadata associated with the content may be used to determine when and/or what sensors to use to detect the user reaction data (e.g., metadata specifying an emotional part of a movie). The content may be annotated with a reaction annotation corresponding to the user reaction data, which may be used to organize, search, and/or interact with the content. A search interface may allow users to search for content based upon annotation data and/or aggregated annotation data of one or more users who experienced the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Brian Beckman, Nicholas Donald Atkins Lane, Arjmand Micheal Samuel
  • Patent number: 9720955
    Abstract: A computing device is described that includes at least one processor and a memory including instructions that when executed cause the at least one processor to output, for display, a graphical keyboard comprising a plurality of keys, and determine, based on an indication of a selection of one or more keys from the plurality of keys, text of an electronic communication. The instructions, when executed, further cause the at least one processor to identify, based at least in part on the text, a searchable entity or trigger phrase, generate, based on the searchable entity or trigger phrase, a search query, and output, for display, within the graphical keyboard, a graphical indication to indicate that the computing device generated the search query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jing Cao, Alexa Greenberg, Abhanshu Sharma, Yanchao Su, Nicholas Kong, Muhammad Mohsin, Jacek Jurewicz, Wei Huang, Matthew Sharifi, Benjamin Sidhom
  • Patent number: 9626077
    Abstract: A dynamic map-type graphic interface includes a number of user interface (UI) components. Each UI component is associated with one corresponding application program of the electronic device. The dynamic map-type graphic interface is a single-layer graphic interface made up of the UI components spliced together and around the center of the dynamic map-type graphic interface. The arrangement of the UI components is dynamically alterable according to operating times of the application program operated under a predetermined state parameter value within a predetermined time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignees: Fu Tai Hua Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tzu-Hsiang Lan, Quan-Quan Liu
  • Patent number: 9619107
    Abstract: A method and system for displaying icons on a user interface of a smart device are disclosed. The method includes obtaining a webpage address and checking security of the webpage linked to the webpage address. Further, the method includes displaying a first icon at a pre-determined position, the first icon indicating that the security check is in progress; obtaining a speed for loading the webpage and a speed for the security check; and adjusting icons displayed at the pre-determined position based on the speed for loading the webpage and the speed for the security check. The method and system consistent with the present disclosure may improve the user experience of smartphone users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jianchun Wang, Ningju Dou, Yi Zhao, Ximin Yu, Ye Zhang, Jun Xue
  • Patent number: 9329840
    Abstract: The present invention provides a set of blocks for creating device drivers. Since, for most computational devices, device driver code to configure and control an I/O interface may be decomposed into a small finite number of common software functions, by providing a block set comprising blocks representing the finite number of common software functions, custom device drivers can be created for any number of devices. Thus, by providing a set of generalized device driver blocks that can be parameterized by the user, specific instances of custom device drivers can be created as needed. Processor and device specific driver code can then be generated from the custom device driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: The MathWorks, Inc.
    Inventors: David Koh, Zijad Galijasevic
  • Patent number: 9288385
    Abstract: A computer program product includes: a receiving module for utilizing a communication circuit to receive a photographing positions distribution information; an option object generating module for utilizing a control circuit to generate multiple option objects; an arranging module for utilizing the control circuit to generate a graphic user interface including the multiple option objects and one or more reference indicators according to the photographing positions distribution information; and a displaying control module for utilizing a display device to display the graphic user interface. When the display device displays the graphic user interface, if an input device receives a shift command inputted by a user, the display controlling module controls the display device to move at least a portion of the option objects on the graphic user interface toward a same side and to change position or content of at least one reference indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Siu-Leong Yu, Sun Chien Chiu, Shih-Chun Wei, Chen Ma
  • Patent number: 9253407
    Abstract: A user interface (UI) is provided which displays a process in which photographing setting values change correspondingly, so that a user can easily recognize the changes of the photographing setting values. A UI is also provided through which a user can adjust all photographing setting values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung-ah Heo, Se-hyun Park
  • Patent number: 9223423
    Abstract: In one embodiment, logic embodied in a computer-readable non-transitory storage medium of a device determines a location of a touch gesture by a user within a touch-sensitive area of the device. The logic selects for the touch gesture based on its location within the touch-sensitive area one of a plurality of pre-determined offsets, the pre-determined offsets being specific to the device, the pre-determined offsets being derived from device-specific empirical data on usage of the device by a plurality of users, and the pre-determined offsets being pre-loaded onto the device. The logic applies the pre-determined offset to the location of the touch gesture to determine a touch input intended by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Majd Taby, Henry Bridge, Jasper Reid Hauser
  • Patent number: 9170987
    Abstract: Style extensibility is provided to shapes in a diagram by editing text files. A structured data model is used to render the diagram representing items provided by the user in a text-based format such as a bulleted list. A style engine determines style properties for style labels assigned to key shapes of the diagram. Style properties include features associated with the shapes and their content that preserve an overall look-and-feel of the diagram. Color scheme(s) are also provided through the style labels. A layout engine uses layout definitions based on user input and default parameters along with style label assignments to render a presentation model. Style properties may be modified and new styles added after the diagram is rendered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Lutz Gerhard, Janet L. Schorr, Thomas C. Underhill
  • Patent number: 9118614
    Abstract: A method to provide notifications to a user. The method includes using a software notification manager in the background to listens, according to user subscriptions, for notification messages sent through one or more messaging networks from multiple network applications. Accordingly, the notification manager gathers notifications and displays them in one place. As a result, the user is no longer required to sift through lots of notifications from his/her email folders or other message windows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Lisa Herrup Rogers, Donald H. Hatch