Zynga Inc.

The Gillette Company

Daniel Paul O'Brien

Seth John Sivak

Craig Anderson Lancaster

Jesse David Kurlancheek

William Daniel Ogles

Fareed Behmaram-Mosavat

Steven Michael Bourque

Kelly Daniel Bridges

Regan Marie Fiascone

William Dan Ogles

Nabeel Hyatt

Masha Danilova

Fareed Bhemaram-Mosavat

The present invention describes a novel spring mechanism for a razor. In the razor, the spring member may be disposed in a movable member assembly, portions of which may be used for ejection or pivoting. The spring may be fully encompassed within the assembly and be placed within supporting structures therein. The spring is a loop-shaped element having overlapping end portions with free distal ends. Alternately, the spring member is tear drop shaped loop shape with distal ends that are spaced apart. The spring may be disposed within a first and/or second movable member such as an eject button or a pivot member. A retarding structure on the spring provides a retarding force which is based on the interaction of the retarding structure with a protrusion on an assembly portion to keep the spring orientation intact. The spring is desirably comprised of stainless steel and is a flat wire.

Razor mechanisms

Individual participants in a multi-participant collaborative computing application may be sent intermittent updates of actions taken by other participants. These updates need not be sent to a participant's device until the participant has interacted with a specified object in the application. The participant's device may then be sent an update including object interactions of the other participants occurring since the participant's previous object interaction. The update may be used to periodically inform the participant of the actions taken by the other participants during the period between the participant's interactions.

Semi-synchronous multi-participant application updates

In one embodiment, a three-dimensional object is rendered on a two-dimensional display screen by associating a three-dimensional mesh with an image of the object, generating a vector-based texture map that defines a surface area of the object, and rendering the vector-based texture map on the display screen.

Systems and methods for rendering three-dimensional objects

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Daniel Paul O'Brien