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Patrick L. Coffman
Researcher at Apple Inc.
Publications - 141
Citations - 6496
Patrick L. Coffman is an academic researcher from Apple Inc.. The author has contributed to research in topics: User interface & Graphical user interface. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 141 publications receiving 6496 citations.
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Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for determining commands by applying heuristics
Steven P. Jobs,Scott Forstall,Greg Christie,Stephen O. Lemay,Scott Herz,Os Marcel Van,Bas Ording,Gregory Novick,Wayne Carl Westerman,Imran Chaudhri,Patrick L. Coffman,Kenneth Kocienda,Nitin Ganatra,Jeremy Wyld,Jeffrey Bush,Freddy Allen Anzures,Michael Matas,Paul D. Marcos,Charles J. Pisula,Virgil Scott King,Chris Blumenberg,Francisco Ryan Tolmasky,Richard Williamson,Andre M.J. Boule,Henri C. Lamiraux +24 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a computer-implemented method for use in conjunction with a computing device with a touch screen display comprises: detecting one or more finger contacts with the touch screen, applying one or several heuristics to the finger contacts to determine a command for the device, and processing the command.
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Device, method, and graphical user interface for manipulating user interfaces based on fingerprint sensor inputs
Byron B. Han,Matthew E. Shepherd,Imran Chaudhri,Gregory N. Christie,Patrick L. Coffman,Craig M. Federighi,Gamble Matthew H,Brittany D. Hughes,Brendan J. Langoulant,Craig A. Marciniak,Donald W. Pitschel,Daniel O. Schimpf,Andrew R. Whalley,Christopher R. Whitney,Jonathan R. Dascola,Lawrence Y. Yang +15 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an electronic device with a display and a fingerprint sensor displays a fingerprint enrollment interface and detects, on the fingerprint sensor, a plurality of finger gestures performed with a finger.
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Voicemail manager for portable multifunction device
Freddy Allen Anzures,Greg San Jose Christie,Scott Mountain View Forstall,Gregory Novick,Steven P. Jobs,Imran San Francisco Chaudhri,Stephen O. Lemay,Patrick L. Coffman,Elizabeth Caroline Furches +8 more
TL;DR: A computer-implemented method for management of voicemail messages, performed at a portable electronic device with a touch screen display, includes: displaying a list of messages, detecting selection by a user of a respective voicemail message in the list, responding to the user selection by initiating playback of the user-selected message, displaying a progress bar for the user selected message, where the progress bar indicates the portion of the message that has been played as mentioned in this paper.
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Systems and methods for proactively identifying and surfacing relevant content on a touch-sensitive device
Daniel C. Gross,Patrick L. Coffman,Richard R. Dellinger,Christopher Patrick Foss,Jason J. Gauci,Aria D. Haghighi,Cyrus Daniel Irani,Bronwyn A. Jones,Gaurav Kapoor,Stephen O. Lemay,Colin C. Morris,Michael R. Siracusa,Lawrence Y. Yang,Brent D. Ramerth,Jerome R. Bellegarda,Jannes G. Dolfing,Giulia Pagallo,Xin Wang,Jun Hatori,Alexandre Moha,Sofiane Toudji,Kevin D. Clark,Karl Christian Kohlschuetter,Jesper S. Andersen,Hafid Arras,Alexandre Carlhian,Thomas Deniau,Mathieu J. Martel +27 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a method for proactively identifying and surfacing relevant content on an electronic device with a touch-sensitive display is presented. But the method requires the user to provide an indication to the user that the particular action associated with the trigger condition is available.
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Data-Driven Media Management Within An Electronic Device
James D. Batson,Meriko Borogove,Gregory R. Chapman,Patrick L. Coffman,Anthony J. Guetta,Aram Lindahl,Andrew Rostaing +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, a method and apparatus for intelligently routing and managing audio signals within an electronic device is described, which is responsive to a set of logical and physical policies which are stored in data tables which can be updated as needed.