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Capturing User Reaction, Michael O'Herlihy, Tuna Toksoz
Capturing User Reaction, Michael O'Herlihy, Tuna Toksoz
Defensive Publications Series
A reaction recording system records a recipient’s reaction to a message that is presented to the recipient. The system receives a message from a sender for display to a recipient. On receiving user input from the recipient to present the message, the system presents the message to the recipient and records the recipient’s reaction to the message. In certain cases, the system transmits media recording the recipient’s reaction to the sender of the message.
Receiving Watch Faces For Wearable Devices, Kirsten Koa
Receiving Watch Faces For Wearable Devices, Kirsten Koa
Defensive Publications Series
A watch face system transmits a watch face to a user, based on a current context of the user and one or more predetermined criteria associated with the watch face. The system receives the current context for the user (e.g., the user’s current location, events, and/or activities associated with the user). The system determines that the current context for the user satisfies the predetermined criteria associated with the watch face. The system then transmits the watch face for display by a wearable computing device associated with the user
Dynamically Switching Application Interactions Between Devices, Kenneth Mixter
Dynamically Switching Application Interactions Between Devices, Kenneth Mixter
Defensive Publications Series
A user interacts with different devices, for example, mobile device, smartphones, laptops, and tablets, for accessing various applications. The applications have different device requirements. The device requirements can include preferred device specifications to run the application, e.g., processor speed, display screen size/resolution, operating system, and internet connectivity. A device switching system is used for dynamically switching application interactions from a device to another based on application’s device requirements. The system detects that an application is running at a first device and determines the application's device requirements. The system compares the device requirements of the application with the device specifications of …
Adaptive User Interface Based On Eye Tracking, Max Sills, Robert Gordon
Adaptive User Interface Based On Eye Tracking, Max Sills, Robert Gordon
Defensive Publications Series
An adaptive user interface system can be used to dynamically adapt a graphical user interface (GUI) for a user. The system is based on the observed ability of the user to focus on various GUI elements presented on the interface. The system is comprised of two subsystems, an eye tracking module and an interface adapter. The eye tracking module captures successive images of user’s eye focus locations on the interface over a predefined time period. The module then determines a set of interface locations most focussed on by the user and transmits them to the interface adapter. The interface adapter …
Filtering Social Media Posts, Dean Jackson, Daniel Klein
Filtering Social Media Posts, Dean Jackson, Daniel Klein
Defensive Publications Series
A social media filtering system filters social media posts based on criteria specified by a user. The system receives a request from a user to hide social media posts associated with a specified criteria. The specified criteria can be location criteria, event criteria, person criteria, and/or time criteria. Further, the system identifies a set of social media posts on a social media website. Then, the system determines social media posts from the set of social media posts that meet the specified criteria. The system further modifies the set of social media posts by removing or otherwise hiding the social media …
Modified Alerts For Off Hour Calendar Events, Dean Jackson, Daniel Klein
Modified Alerts For Off Hour Calendar Events, Dean Jackson, Daniel Klein
Defensive Publications Series
A modified alert triggering system modifies alerts associated with calendar events. The system identifies a user’s normal calendar hours. Further, the system determines that a calendar event is scheduled outside of user’s normal calendar hours. Based on determining that the calendar event is scheduled outside of user’s normal calendar hours, the system modifies an alert for the calendar event. For example, the modified alert can be louder than a normal alert, the modified alert can be a different alert tone than the normal alert tone, etc. The system then triggers the modified alert for the calendar event.
Automatic Advertisement Investment Through InAd Transactions, Adam Ruxton
Automatic Advertisement Investment Through InAd Transactions, Adam Ruxton
Defensive Publications Series
An advertisement investment system can be used for receiving funds directly through an advertisement of an advertisement campaign with the help of a transaction portal within the advertisement. The system presents the user with an advertisement of the advertisement campaign that has an user interface button for initiating a transaction. The system receives a selection of the user interface button. The system opens the transaction portal in response to the selection of the user interface button. The system then receives funds once the transaction is completed by the user at the transaction portal. The system invests the received funds in …
Calendar Event Management, Mårten Jönsson
Calendar Event Management, Mårten Jönsson
Defensive Publications Series
A calendar event management system provides hassle free management of calendar events. The system receives a calendar invite for an event at a specified time slot for an invitee. On receiving the calendar invite, the system identifies an existing event scheduled at the specified time slot in a calendar for the invitee. Then, the system determines that the event has higher priority than the existing event. Further, on determining that the event has higher priority than the existing event, the system adds the event to the invitee’s calendar.
Buffering And Inserting Text Inputs, Winson Chung
Buffering And Inserting Text Inputs, Winson Chung
Defensive Publications Series
A text input buffering system stores text input in a buffer for a predetermined period of time. A user may input text in an application, for example, a browser, text editor, etc. If the system receives text input without an initial selection of a text field, the system stores the received text input in the buffer for a predetermined period of time. The system receives a selection of a text field. Further, the system displays a notification in the user interface for inserting the text input into the selected text field. The system inserts the text input into the text …
Browsing Activity Supervision, Rachel Simpson, Patrick Nepper, Pamela Greene, Wieland Holfelder, Martin Ortlieb, Avni Stocky
Browsing Activity Supervision, Rachel Simpson, Patrick Nepper, Pamela Greene, Wieland Holfelder, Martin Ortlieb, Avni Stocky
Defensive Publications Series
A supervision system generates a user interface that summarizes user’s browsing trends based on user’s browsing activity. The system monitors browsing activity of a user. The system further determines browsing trends of the user based on user’s browsing activity for a predetermined time period. On determination of the browsing trends, the system generates the user interface that provides a summary of user’s browsing trends for the predetermined time period.
Smart Date And Time Suggestions For Calendaring, Ibrahim Badr, Piotr Malinowski, Nicholas Chornay
Smart Date And Time Suggestions For Calendaring, Ibrahim Badr, Piotr Malinowski, Nicholas Chornay
Defensive Publications Series
A date and time suggestion system is described for autocompleting and suggesting dates and times in an application, for example, a calendar application. The system receives a text input for creating a calendar event from a user of the system. The text input can be an alphabet, a number, combination of letters etc, such as “t”, “to” or “9”, inputted by the user while setting up the calendar event. After receiving the text input, the system resolves the input to generate one or more candidate dates and time for the calendar event. Subsequently, the system scores the candidate dates and …