Motorola Mobility LLC

Google Inc.

Google Technology Holdings LLC

Amit Kumar Agrawal

Rahul Bharat Desai

Olivier David Meirhaeghe

Bill Ryan

Daniel M Vacura

Jeffrey S Vanhoof

Alexandre Neves Creto

Satyabrata Rout

Caio Luiz Leal Chagas Do Nascimento

Rachid M Alameh

Boby Iyer

Mahadevan Ayalur

Jeffrey T Snow

Himanshu Chug

Mauricio Dias Moises

Mayank Gupta

Rohit Sisodia

Alexandre Novaes Olivieri

Jyothsna Bandameedipalli

Zhengping Ji

Gautham Prabhakar Natakala

Krishnan Raghavan

Renuka Prasad Herur Rajashekaraiah

Gautham Natakala Prabhakar

Fred Allison Bower, Iii

Xiaofeng Zhu

Olivier David Rene Meirhaeghe

Srikanth Raju

Rachit Mittal

Panduranga Reddy Pailla

Vijayprakash Bheemsainrao Idlur

Michael E Russell

Shuang Wu

Vignesh Mohan

Vishal S Patil

Yonghua Hu

Cai Zhiyi

Hariprasad Shanbhogue Alampady

Thomas Y Merrell

Alberto R Cavallaro

Igor Kovalenko

Wendel Malta De Assis

Fabio Felipe Mira Machuca

Sanjay Dhar

Vishnu Kumar Shivaji Rao

Priya Krishnamurthy

Lucie Corinne Evelyne Papelier

Luciano Bevilacqua Pereira Da Silva

Santhosh Kumar M S

Aman Jain

Ranjeet Gupta

Giles T Davis

Marcello Zuffo

Daniel Philip Groebe

Amal Chandran

Xin Zhao

Jonathan E Eklund

Soumya Ranjan Mund

Peng Yueh Hsueh

Shaung Wu

Somina Lakshmana Hanuman Mahath

Jayashree M Yabannavar

Wang Xuejin

Pankaj Kushwaha

Toni Pereira

Liang Zhang

Scott DeBates

Robert A Zurek

Thomas E Gitzinger

Patrick J Cauwels

Mark Rose

Lawrence Alan Willis

Robert S Witte

Raymond Brooke Essick, Iv

David A Winkler

Kathryn Ellen Thomas

Joel D Voss

Craig J Detter

Nigil George Valikodath

Nidhi Agarwal

Daniel Spiewak Rempel Finimundi

Thiago Francisco Martins

Ioannis A Zigras

Rakshit Khosla

Prashanth Chakravarthy

Andre Luiz Silva Bazante

John Hamilton O'Leary

William Ryan

Sukumar K Bhashyam

Nadeen Nazarali Panjwani

Zhiyi Cai

Lúcia Satiko Nomiso

Meng-Ru Yu

Chekit R Mehta

Mayank Rajesh Gupta

Sanjeev Kumar P V

Nadeem Nazarali Panjwani

Benicio Pereira Goulart

A method in an electronic device includes detecting, with a flexible display carried by a blade assembly that is slidably coupled to a device housing and movable between at least an extended position where an edge of the blade assembly extends beyond and end of the device housing and a retracted position where the edge of the blade assembly situates at the end of the device housing, user input translating a user interface interaction element beyond a border of the flexible display situated at the edge of the blade assembly. The method then includes translating, by a translation mechanism operable with the blade assembly, the blade assembly toward the extended position in response to the user input.

Methods and systems for controlling a translating flexible display of an electronic device in response to user input

In aspects of application-initiated input device activation, a media server receives a request to stream an application to a display device. The media server activates an input device connected to the display device in response to the request. The media server restricts use of the display device to the input device while the application remains active on the display device.

Application-initiated input device activation

A deformable electronic device includes a flexible display supported by a deformable housing and one or more sensors to detect a wrapped geometric form factor while in a flashlight mode of operation. The device presents flashlight output on the flexible display in a first location and detects gesture input translating the device in three-dimensional space. The device moves the flashlight output to a second location as a function of a change in orientation resulting from the translating. The device includes processors operable with sensors to dynamically adjust the flashlight output based on the device's orientation, ensuring effective illumination without causing glare to the user.

Deformable electronic devices and corresponding methods for moving flashlight output as a function of a change in orientation

In aspects of methods and systems for surfacing unconsumed communications, an example device includes at least one memory and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to cause the device to detect that an ongoing communication pertaining to a first topic includes one or more first communications in a first communication channel being accessed by a user of the device, detect one or more second communications in a second communication channel associated with the user based on the one or more second communications including an unconsumed communication, determine whether the first topic and a second topic of the one or more second communications are similar, generate, based on the first topic and the second topic being similar, a reference link to the one or more second communications of the second communication channel, and display the reference link in the first communication channel.

Methods and systems for surfacing unconsumed communications

An electronic device, a method and a computer program product for surfacing notifications based on optimal network and device conditions at a consumer device. The method includes receiving from a network connected device, a notification associated with local consumption of content available for presentation by a communication device, the notification including metadata associated with the content, the metadata encoding content consumption criteria related to preferences for when and how to present the content, in part based on network conditions at the communication device. The method includes detecting one or more current network conditions and comparing the current network conditions with network constraints within the content consumption criteria encoded in the metadata. The method includes selectively presenting the content for consumption at one or more of a time or in a format determined, at least in part, by the detected one or more network conditions.

Surfacing notifications based on optimal network conditions and device characteristics at a consumer device

When the two electronic devices are connected (e.g., wired or wireless connection), a determination is made as to whether a contextual state of at least one of the electronic devices (e.g., a smartphone or tablet) indicates that a virtual view of the electronic device is to be displayed by the other electronic device. The contextual state may include, for example, whether the displays of the two electronic devices are spatially aligned, whether the one electronic device is upside down, whether a display of the one electronic device is turned off, and so forth. The virtual view of the electronic device is a display of the user interface of the electronic device, allowing a user to interact with the electronic device via the virtual view of the electronic device.

Virtual view of a device based on device contextual state

An electronic device (e.g., a smartphone or tablet) can be connected to another electronic device that is typically a computing device (e.g., a mobile device such as a laptop or a non-mobile device such as a desktop computer or workstation), allowing the electronic devices to be used together. This connection can be a wired connection or a wireless connection. When the electronic device and the computing device are connected, and optionally also when a universal control mode is activated, the electronic device automatically operates in a non-gesture-based input style, allowing a single input control device (e.g., a trackpad on a laptop) to control user input for both devices.

Automatic input style selection for a connected device

An electronic device and method are disclosed for managing content on a foldable device with a flexible display. The method includes detecting, with sensors, a partially deformed geometric form factor defined by a first device housing pivoted about a hinge relative to a second device housing between an open and closed position. The method further includes presenting, with processors, first content on a display portion of the first device housing and second content on another display portion of the second device housing. Additionally, the method involves detecting, with other sensors, movement of a person viewing the content within the environment of the electronic device. When the movement meets a predefined criterion, the method includes moving the first content to the second display portion and the second content to the first display portion. This approach enhances the user experience by dynamically adjusting content presentation based on user movement.

Methods and electronic device enabling movement of content on a flexible display in response to user movement

A method provides techniques for electronic device display screen customization based on image information. The method includes detecting, by at least one processor of an electronic device that comprises an electronic display and an image capturing device, a self-photo within received image content from the image capturing device. The method includes determining a user context from information within the received image content, and loading a customization display theme for the electronic device, based on the user context, wherein the customization display theme includes one or more theme elements.

Electronic device display screen customization based on image information

An electronic device, a method, and a computer program product provides freeze frame videos in place of a live video feed or a low-quality video feed to a video communication session. The electronic device hosts the video communication session between a first participant device and second participant devices. The electronic device receives, from the first participant device, a first video feed of a first participant to the video communication session. The electronic device determines a video segment of the received first video feed to identify as the first freeze frame video, generates the first freeze frame video from the video segment, and stores the first freeze frame video within a server repository. In response to a trigger condition, the electronic device temporarily presents to the video communication session the first freeze frame video in place of the first video feed as video content from the first participant device.

Freeze frame video presentation for select participants during a video communication session

Techniques for personalized product recommendations based on an itinerary are described and are implementable to generate a recommendation for a good and/or service based on product data associated with a destination. The described implementations, for instance, enable generation of a recommendation for a user to acquire the good and/or service prior to visiting the destination based on digital content associated with the destination. The described implementations further enable generation of synthetic digital content that depicts the user at the destination with the good and/or service. Additionally, the techniques described herein include a monitoring system that is operable to detect a development related to the destination, and generate an updated recommendation based on the development.

Personalized product recommendations based on an itinerary

An electronic device included a first energy storage device coupled to a second energy storage device by a conductor. A thermal mitigation circuit, or alternatively, one or more processors, determine whether to draw more current from the first energy storage device or the second energy storage device as a function of a geometric configuration of the electronic device and a support condition of the electronic device. Current can be drawn from the second energy storage device situated in the second device housing, for example, when the electronic device is hand supported by the first device housing unless secondary factors exist. When charging states of the first energy storage device and/or second energy storage device are too low to do this, the one or more processors can present a prompt on the user interface instructing the user to turn the device over.

Electronic devices with multiple energy storage devices, thermal mitigation circuits, user interface prompts, and corresponding methods

In aspects of input device-initiated application activation, a media server detects initiation of an input device based on a monitoring of a set of one or more input devices that include the input device. In response to the initiation of the input device, the media server activates a streaming of an application to a display device connected to the media server. The media server restricts use of the display device to the input device while the application remains active on the display device.

Input device-initiated application activation

An electronic device, method, and computer program product imitate a typewriter. A top horizontal row of a virtual typing sheet is presented on an upper portion of an extendable display. Keystrokes received by a text input device are monitored and corresponding characters are presented across the top horizontal row of virtual typing sheet. In response to a next line transitioning condition (e.g., reaching an end of a current row or detection of a return keystroke received via the text input device), the extendable display is triggered to upwardly extend by an increment corresponding to vertical dimensions of a line spacing and font size of the characters associated with the top horizontal row. Presentation of the virtual typing sheet and the top horizontal row at the corresponding line spacing are upwardly adjusted to insert a new lateral row for presenting keystrokes.

Electronic system with a rollable display and a keyboard that are utilized to imitate a typewriter

A method provides techniques for detecting, by a controller of an electronic device, where the electronic device comprises a device housing, a blade assembly carrying a blade and a flexible display and slidably coupled to the device housing, a translation mechanism operable to slide the blade assembly relative to the device housing to a plurality of positions between an extended position and a retracted position, and the controller communicatively coupled to the blade assembly and the translation mechanism, a force event acting on the translation mechanism. The method further includes detecting a force direction associated with the force event, and performing at least one action on the electronic device in response to detecting the force event and the associated force direction.

Triggering gesture events for user-applied forces on a flexible display unit

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