Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson
Patents Issued (15)
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Electronic device and digital content managing method
Elizabeth Ann Dykstra Erickson, Yi-Jen Huang, Chih-Yu Chueh
Friendly description:
Capture any individual element on your mobile screen and save and arrange them in a variety of dynamic templates.
Patent description: A method of managing digital content includes displaying a user interface on a display screen of the electronic device. A search instruction is generated according to a search condition. Each of a plurality of cloud servers is controlled to search for digital content meeting the search condition. Related information of the digital content meeting the search condition is received from each of the plurality of cloud servers. A user interface object is generated according to the related information received from each of the plurality of cloud servers, such that a plurality of user interface objects are obtained. Once an object list is generated by aggregating the plurality of the user interface objects, the object list is displayed on a display screen.
Patent issuer and number: us 10970332
Patent date issued April 6, 2021
Chiun Mai Communication Systems, Inc.
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Task assistant having multiple visual displays
Elizabeth Ann Dykstra-Erickson, David Andrew Mauro, Paweena Attayadmawittaya, Aimee Piercy, Susan Dawnstarr Daniel
A method of providing a task assistant to provide an interface to an application, the method comprising activating the task assistant, the activation having an associated visual display. The method in one embodiment includes receiving input from a user through multimodal input including a plurality of speech input, typing input, and touch input, interpreting the input, and providing a formatted query to the application, receiving data from the application in response to the query, and providing a response to the user through multimodal output including a plurality of: speech output, text output, non-speech audio output, haptic output, and visual non-text output, wherein the task assistant has a plurality of active states, each of the active states having an associated visual display.
Patent issuer and number: us 10795528
Patent date issued October 6, 2020
Nuance Communications, Inc.
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Andy Mauro, Henri Bouvier, Stephen Douglas Peters, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson, Susan Daniel, Aimee Piercy, Paweena Attiyadmawittaya, Andrew Watson
Patent description: A method of providing a task assistant to provide an interface to an application is described. The method comprises receiving input from a user through multimodal input including a plurality of speech input, typing input, and touch input, interpreting the input, and providing a formatted query to the application, receiving data from the application in response to the query, and providing a response to the user through multimodal output including a plurality of speech output, text output, non-speech audio output, haptic output, and visual non-text output.
Patent issuer and number: us 10783139
Patent date issued Sep 22, 2020​
Nuance Communications, Inc.
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Method for managing multiple types of data
Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson, Hiroyuki Toki, Hsin-Chieh Lin, Hui-Hsuan Lien, Erik Paul Anderson, Chih-Yu Chueh, Yu-Hua Hung
Patent description: A method of managing data of an electronic device includes capturing contents from user interfaces of programs displayed on a display of the electronic device. An application layer is displayed on the display when each content is captured. Each content is moved to the application layer in response to a predetermined input. Contents in the application layer are arranged in a first layout, and can be arranged in a second layout when the second layout is selected.
Patent issuer and number: us 201662329193P
Patent date issued May 20, 2020
Chiun Mai Communication Systems, Inc.
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Search interface with search query history-based functionality
Brian Krueger, Katherine Kyle Feeney, Andrew E. Robbins, Jesse Brandau Miller, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson, Jeffrey Thomas Lloyd, Cory Eugene Burke, Marc V. Robichaud
Patent description: A method for searching that replaces code-based queries with a direct manipulation interface. A search query comprises one or more commands that are displayed on the search interface using a placement style. A placement style, such as an indent style, provides a structure for separating and arranging commands. The search interface further provides for receiving a selection of at least a portion of a search query to initiate actions or execute actions based on the selection. The search interface includes a search input interface, such as a search bar, where the selection of the portion of the search query is displayed based on a selected action.
Patent issuer and number: US 10387840882
Patent date issued Oct 8, 2019; extended expiration to 2037 on July 17, 2023
Splunk, Inc.
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Task assistant utilizing context for improved interaction
Andy Mauro, Henri Bouvier, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson, Simona Gandrabur, Susan Daniel, Aimee Piercy, Doug Sharp
Friendly description:
Listen for context and allow the user to respond through touch or speech.
Patent description:
A method of providing a task assistant is described. The task assistant is designed to receive input from a user through multimodal input including a plurality of speech input, typing input, and touch input, determine the meaning of the input, and determining whether there is a context based on prior interactions with the user. The method further to generate an interpreted input based on a combination of the input and the context, and providing a formatted query to an application. The method further to receive data from the application in response to the formatted query, and provide a response to the user through multimodal output including a plurality of: speech output, text output, non-speech audio output, haptic output, and visual non-text output. The method further to update the context based on the interpreted input.
Patent issuer and number: us 10223411
Patent date issued Mar 5, 2019
Nuance Communications, Inc.
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Task assistant including navigation control
Andy Mauro, Richard Lajoie, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson, Aaron Kneiss, Aimee Piercy
Patent description: A method of providing a task assistant to provide an interface to an application is described. The method includes, in one embodiment, identifying a user and determining whether there is a push notification to be shown to the user. When there is a push notification to be shown to the user, the task assistant displaying the push notification to the user, such that when the user acknowledges the push notification, the user is directed to a push destination. When there is no push notification, receiving input from a user through multimodal input including a plurality of speech input, typing input, and touch input, interpreting the input, and providing a formatted query to the application, receiving data from the application in response to the query, and providing a response to the user through multimodal output including a plurality of: speech output, text output, non-speech audio output, haptic output, and visual non-text output.
Patent issuer and number: us 9939980
Patent date issued Apr 10, 2018
Nuance Communications, Inc.
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Reducing speech session resource use in a speech assistant
Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson, Jared Strawderman
Friendly description:
Save traffic, time, and money on speech interaction by pre-recording some responses. The NINA system is extremely stateful and requires a 'round trip' for each user utterance; interaction can feel 'draggy.' This invention makes the experience smoother and reduces costs.
Patent description:
A method of utilizing a speech assistant, the speech assistant designed to provide a voice input and speech output capability, the method comprising, enabling the use of the speech assistant for communication with a user, and terminating the speech assistant when the communication is complete. The method further comprises receiving a notification from a native application associated with the communication, and activating a sub-portion of the speech assistant, to enable outputting of the notification using speech output, thereby enabling the use of speech output for periodic announcements without enabling the speech assistant.
Patent issuer and number: us 20140207469
Patent date issued Sep 13, 2016
Nuance Communications, Inc.
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Biometric authorization for real time access control
Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson, Susan Daniel, Andy Mauro
Friendly description:
Use voice identification to unblock financial applications without needing a customer support call.
Patent description:
A method of providing biometric authorization comprising enabling a user to log into an account, and determining whether there is a hold on the account. When there is a hold on the account, informing the user of the hold, and enabling the user to respond to a transaction that caused the hold. The method, in one embodiment further comprising prompting the user to enter a biometric authentication, in conjunction with the response, and processing the unblock request in real-time upon receiving and validating the biometric authentication.
Patent issuer and number: us 9,348,988
Patent date issued May 24, 2016
Nuance Communications, Inc.
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Speech recognition and interpretation system
Andy Mauro, Doug Sharp, Richard Lajoie, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson
Friendly description:
NINA is a stateful speech agent that can be embedded in existing mobile applications. This patent describes the system.
Patent description:
A method of providing a task assistant comprising starting to receive speech input from a user, and identifying a format associated with a destination for speech input based on a flag associated with the destination field. When the format comprises dictation, converting the speech to text, and inserting it into the destination location, and when the format comprises an intent, determining a meaning of the input, and sending a formatted query to an application. The method further comprising receiving data from the application in response to the intent and providing a response to the user through multimodal output.
Patent issuer and number: us 9111546
Patent date issued Aug 18, 2015
Nuance Communications, Inc.
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User-interface and architecture for portable processing device
Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson, George Hoffman, Erik Perotti
Friendly description:
Task switching is difficult and tap-intensive to accomplish on Palm devices. This invention creates a 'jump list' of recently/frequently used applications, making task switching smoother and faster.
Patent description:
This patent enables fast switching between applications and tasks on a multi-threaded mobile phone OS.
Patent issuer and number: us 8,082,008
Patent date issued Dec 20, 2011
Access Co. Ltd.
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Flexible interface using scalable vector graphics with metalevel palette
Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson, Jim Kent, Daniel Zucker, Jeff Anderson
Friendly description:
PalmOS customers (mobile carriers) want a brand-customized appearance. This invention allows us to alter the color palette of interface elements (particularly icons) with only 5 lines of script. The icons are exported to XML and differentiating features are tagged and controlled by an external CSS script defining the new appearance properties.
Patent description:
The present invention provides a method and system of storing information for drawing an object on a computer system that includes providing a palette file that includes a set of first labels matched with numerical values, tagging a vector graphics file for drawing the object with second labels, translating the second labels into one or more of the first labels, and plugging in values stored in the palette file associated with the translated second labels into the tagged vector graphics file.
Patent issuer and number: us 8,037,015 B2
Patent date issued Oct 11, 2011
Access Co. Ltd.
User interface for presenting media information
Daniel N. Crow, Cary Dean, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson, J. Peter Hoddie, Steven P. Jobs, Timothy E. Wasko
Friendly description:
Streaming media setup has up to 13 messages to exchange before media is ready to be viewed by the user; we reduced the number and meaning of the messages and invented a way to place those messages inside a customized playbar for the Quicktime Player. Working on the new appearance for over a year directly with Steve Jobs, I invited him to be a participant in the resulting patent.
Patent description: A user interface and methods for using a user interface for controlling processing of time-based media files. In one exemplary method, a graphical representation of a timeline for a time-based media is displayed along with a graphical representation of a current time along the graphical representation of the timeline.
Patent issuer and number: us 7,458,025
Patent date issued Nov 25, 2008
Apple, Inc.
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System and method for generating and arranging status gadgets in a small display area
Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson, Michel Bonansea, Bob Murphy, Sara Berg
Friendly description:
You know that status bar at the top of your mobile phone? Did you know that is hotly contested screen real estate? This invention allows for more information to be displayed there in a way that is relevant to users and their use of the device.
Patent description:
A system and method for persistently providing at least one status notification regarding a device component or application on an electronic system or device is provided. A selectable status notification icon (status gadget) is assigned for each of a number of applications and/or components for which status is monitored, each status notification icon reflecting changes in the monitored status. The status gadgets are persistently displayed in a user interface on the display screen of the electronic system or device. A contextual dialog is also displayed when a status gadget is selected.
Patent issuer and number: us 20,080,276,170
Patent date issued Nov 6, 2008
Access Co. Ltd.
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Method of Exposing Fully Editable Text Fields on a Mobile Device
Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson, Hiroyuki Toki, Alison Mettler
Friendly description:
Typing on a mobile phone - even with a hard keyboard - is not as easy as typing on a laptop with a full-sized keyboard. After exploring multiple input styles, this invention proposes several distinctive user interface patterns for showing all of the content within a single mobile input field.
Patent description:
A method for fully exposing fully editable text fields on a mobile device is disclosed. The text fields are configured for flags where the flags indicate the type of content stored in the text fields. The method includes assigning a third flag to a disclose property where the disclose property configures the display of editable text in the text field and exposing the text fields according to the third flag.
Patent issuer and number: us 20080276194
Patent date issued Nov 6, 2008
Access Co. Ltd.
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Other filings
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Task assistant providing contextual suggestions
Andy Mauro, Henri Bouvier, Susan Daniel, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson, Aimee Piercy, Simona Gandrabur
Patent description: A method of providing a task assistant to provide an interface to an application is described. The method comprises, in one embodiment, providing a task assistant to provide an interface to an application, to receive input from a user through multimodal input including a plurality of speech input, typing input, and touch input. The method further comprises receiving a request from a user for a suggestion, determining a current transaction state, based on interactions with the user during a current session, and selecting suggestions relevant to a transaction type associated with the current transaction state.
Patent issuer and number: us 20140253455 A1
Patent date filed Mar 6, 2013, abandoned by Nuance
Nuance Communications, Inc.
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Flexible animation framework for contextual animation display
Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson, Eric A. Wilson, Matthieu Hebert
Patent description: A method of providing a custom response in conjunction with an application providing speech interaction is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises determining a context of a current interaction with the user, and identifying an associated custom animation, when the associated custom animation exists. The method further comprises displaying the custom animation by overlaying it over a native response of the application. In one embodiment, when no custom animation exists, the method determines whether there is a default animation, and displays the default animation as part of a state change of the application.
Patent issuer and number: us 20140257806 A1
Patent date filed Mar 5, 2013, abandoned by Nuance
Nuance Communications, Inc.
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Task assistant including improved navigation
Andy Mauro, Henri Bouvier, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson, Susan Daniel, Simona Gandrabur, Stephen Douglas Peters, Vijay R. Raman
Patent description: A method of providing a task assistant to provide an interface to an application is described. The method includes, in one embodiment, receiving input from a user through multimodal input including a plurality of each input, typing input, and touch input, interpreting the input, and providing a formatted query to the application, and receiving data from the application in response to the query. The method further includes identifying a destination providing a response to the query, identifying an anchor pointing to a specific location in the application associated with the response to the query, and directing the user to the specific location, using the anchor, the specific location providing a response to the user.
Patent issuer and number: us 20140258855 A1
Patent date filed Mar 6, 2013, abandoned by Nuance
Nuance Communications, Inc.
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Method and apparatus for integrating applications and related communications
Courtney Aquilina, Alan Westbrook, Jana Kovacevic, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson
Patent description: An approach is provided for presenting communications between users. A request to initiate a communication session between a first device and a second device is received. The communication session is associated with content presented by an application. Presentation of a user interface of the application to depict the content is caused, at least in part. Representation of the communication session as an element of the user interface is caused, at least in part. Manipulation of the element controls the communication session.
Patent issuer and number: US 13582304
Patent date filed Mar 4, 2010, abandoned by WSOU TERRIER HOLDINGS, LLC
Nokia Corporation
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Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson, Eric Bergman, Tom Lloyd, Jesse Donaldson, Gabe Dalbec
Patent description: A system and method of providing a user interface jump list application is disclosed, which reduces multiple functions into a single user interface function for electronic devices such as portable or mobile devices having computing and communication capabilities.
Patent issuer and number: us 20,090,158,212 A1
Patent date filed Jun 18, 2009, abandoned by ACCESS CO. LTD 10/8/2019
Access Co. Ltd.
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Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson, Hiroyuki Toki, Tom Chavez
Friendly description:
At a point in time when different runtimes presented different user interfaces on the same device, this invention permits Java and native applications to co-exist within the same framework, reducing user confusion.
Patent description:
A unified launcher user interface system and method for integrating a plurality of applications in different runtime environments on an electronic device, for example a mobile device is disclosed. The unified launcher user interface system includes a user interface presenting icons representing the plurality of applications configured to run in separate runtime environments, wherein the applications are launched from the unified launcher user interface system within a normalized environment.
Patent issuer and number: us 20080282205
Patent date filed Nov 13, 2008, abandoned by ACCESS CO. LTD 10/8/2019
Access Co. Ltd.
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Method and Apparatus for Displaying Notifications
George Hoffman, Erik Perotti, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson
Patent description: A method of presenting telephone functions as interactive elements on a mobile device is disclosed. The method includes the steps of focusing on a call, where the call is selected by user activation from one or more calls occurring on the mobile device. And displaying contextual buttons related to the call, where the contextual buttons are configured for operating on the call.
Patent issuer and number: us 20080040688 A1
Patent date filed Feb 14, 2008, abandoned by Access Co. Ltd.
Access Co. Ltd.
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System and method for displaying and navigating content on an electronic device
Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson, Jeff Anderson, Jim Miller, Alan Westbrook, Jon Shemitz, Gabe Dalbec
Patent description: A system and method for displaying and navigating content on an electronic device is disclosed. The system and method provides information describing files stored in one or more memory units in an electronic device by first cataloging file metadata residing at a plurality of memory units into a corresponding plurality of databases. The system and method then aggregates the file metadata cataloged in the plurality of databases into a single list, and delivers the aggregated file metadata list to an application running on the electronic device.
Patent issuer and number: us 20,080,281,836 A1
Patent date filed Feb 6, 2007
Access Co. Ltd.
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Method of Exposing Fully Editable Text Fields on a Mobile Device
Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson, Hiroyuki Toki, Alison Mettler
Patent description: A method for fully exposing fully editable text fields on a mobile device is disclosed. The text fields are configured for flags where the flags indicate the type of content stored in the text fields. The method includes assigning a third flag to a disclose property where the disclose property configures the display of editable text in the text field and exposing the text fields according to the third flag.
Patent issuer and number: US 20080276194
Patent date filed Feb 6, 2007, abandoned by ACCESS CO. LTD 10/8/2019