Patents Examined by Abderrahmen Chouat
  • Patent number: 11516033
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein are related to a non-transitory computer readable storage medium. In some embodiments, the medium includes instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to receive, at a server, from a cluster of nodes on an edge network in communication with the server, a resource consumption data of a service hosted on the edge network, determine, based on a metering policy, a unit of measurement, and calculate a resource consumption quantity according to the unit of measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Nutanix, Inc.
    Inventors: Venkata Vamsi Krishna Kothuri, Sangeeta Relan, Haresh Kripalani, Manoj Badola, Pawan Ghildiyal
  • Patent number: 11509560
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes circuitry; and a memory storing computer-executable instructions that cause the circuitry to generate a password for connecting to a communication relay apparatus based on an operation to use the communication relay apparatus; transmit, to the communication relay apparatus, an addition request signal representing a request to add an identifier for identifying the communication relay apparatus, the addition request signal including the identifier and the generated password for connecting to a network that is set in association with the identifier on a per-identifier basis; and transmit, to the communication relay apparatus, a deletion request signal, which includes the identifier, representing a request to delete the identifier upon determining that an elapsed time from when the communication relay apparatus has added the identifier has exceeded a possible usage time of using the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazumasa Takemura
  • Patent number: 11501622
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system (102) for determining a location of an explosive device. The system (102) detects an explosive device using one or more devices (204) based on one or more nano-explosive detection sensors (206) associated with the one or more devices (204). The system (102) further identifies a type, a quantity and a signal strength associated with the explosive device. The system (102) computes a distance between the explosive device and the one or more devices (204). The system (102) determines explosive device co-ordinates based on the computed distance and device co-ordinates associated with each device (204). The system (102) receives a data packet comprising data associated with the explosive device from the one or more devices (204). The system (102) determines a location of the explosive device based on an analysis of the data packet received from the one or more devices (204).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: HCL Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Hanumanthappa S H, Jayaramakrishnan Sundararaj
  • Patent number: 11489892
    Abstract: As part of virtual meetings, information that has been visually presented to the participants may be distributed to all or some of the participants. Embodiments provide capabilities for identifying such shared information to be distributed to virtual meeting participants based on the context in which the information was shared. A user joining a collaborative session via a first IHS (Information Handling System) is detected and affiliations of the user are determined. The display of information to the user via a collaboration tool is detected. Activity by the user is monitored while the shared information is displayed to the user via the collaboration tool. An event is detected that triggers distribution of the displayed information. Whether to distribute the displayed information to the user's IHS is determined based on the user's affiliations, attributes of the information and the monitored activity of the user during the display of the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Jake Mitchell Leland, Tyler Ryan Cox, Spencer G. Bull
  • Patent number: 11488474
    Abstract: Generating parking area statistics for identifying parking areas within a geographic region. Navigation support for reaching a top-ranked parking area according to collected parking area data, user preferences, parking feedback, and real-time traffic conditions. Selection of a top-ranked parking area and monitoring progress during a parking event improve future identification and ranking of parking areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Claudio Gambella, Anton Dekusar, Rodrigo Hernan Ordonez-Hurtado, Yassine Lassoued, Julien Monteil, Sergio Cabrero Barros
  • Patent number: 11477603
    Abstract: In an approach for recommending locations to visit at an optimal experience time and optimal spot to take a photo and/or a video of a location, a processor determines a geographic location where a user is located. A processor identifies a plurality of targeted locations within a pre-defined distance of the geographic location of the user. A processor determines an optimal time to visit the plurality of targeted locations. A processor determines an optimal weather condition to experience the plurality of targeted locations. A processor determines an optimal spot to capture at least one of a photo and a video of the plurality of targeted locations. A processor assigns a ranking to the plurality of targeted locations based on a set of factors in a user profile of the user. A processor outputs a recommendation with at least one of the plurality of targeted locations as an alert notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Angelo Danducci, II, Brittany L Barnes, Anindita Das
  • Patent number: 11477220
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a process for adaptive threshold estimation for streaming data includes determining initial positions for a set of percentile bins, receiving a new data item in a stream of data, and identifying one of the set of percentile bins corresponding to the new data item. The process includes incrementing a count of items in the identified percentile bin, adjusting one or more counts of data items in one or more of the percentile bins including by applying a suppression factor based on a relative ordering of items, and redistributing positions for the set of percentile bins to equalize respective count numbers of items for each percentile bin of the set of percentile bins. The process includes utilizing the redistributed positions of the set of percentile bins to determine a percentile distribution of the data stream, and calculating a threshold based at least in part on the percentiles distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Inventors: Marco Oliveira Pena Sampaio, Fábio Hernâni dos Santos Costa Pinto, Pedro Gustavo Santos Rodrigues Bizarro, Pedro Cardoso Lessa e Silva, Ana Margarida Caetano Ruela, Miguel Ramos de Araújo, Nuno Miguel Lourenço Diegues
  • Patent number: 11470155
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a subscription server, a subscription terminal and an information subscription method and system. The method includes establishing content information of a request from a first entity as first information of an event after determining that request information of the request satisfies an event notification rule in a subscription resource, obtaining second information of the event according to an associated object of the subscription resource, and sending a notification message containing the first information and the second information to a notified party of the subscription resource. The present disclosure may be applied to avoid increasing the network load of a requester and a notifying party, and ensure that an event will be handled in time after the notification message of the event is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junjie Zhao, Jing Su, Qian Zhang
  • Patent number: 11463395
    Abstract: A method is provided comprising a notification platform computer transmitting a first message to a first end user device requesting selection by the device of a first notification time at which to receive at least one notification. The method also comprises the computer transmitting a second message to a second end user device requesting selection by the second device of a second notification time at which to receive at least one notification. The method comprises the computer receiving a first response to the first message from the first device, the first response advising of a first selection of the first time. The computer receives a second response to the second message from the second device advising of a second selection of a second notification time, the second time differing from the first time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Intrado Corporation
    Inventors: Sony Maharjan, Brandon M. Essler, Prashanth Katakam, Samira Kharel, Kaushik Chittam, Gregory A. Weigner
  • Patent number: 11443848
    Abstract: This application provides a computer-implemented method for providing notifications. The method includes creating and storing a geofenced area associated with a mobile device and a location that has a healthcare facility in a data store and outputting a notification to the mobile device when the mobile device is within the geofenced area. The notification may include that the location offers at least one healthcare service that can be received on an unscheduled basis, where in the facility that the at least one healthcare service is offered, whether or not the healthcare service is covered by a patient's insurance, the cost of the healthcare service, the out-of-pocket cost by the patient of the healthcare service, wait time at the facility for the healthcare service, and when the patient should not receive the healthcare service for other medical reasons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Amaze PBC
    Inventors: David Mark Silverstein, Felix Weitzman
  • Patent number: 11444989
    Abstract: One disclosed example method includes a video conference provider establishing a main meeting of a video conference and multiple associated sub-meetings at the request of a host client device associated with a host of the meeting. The method further includes the video conference provider determining that a self-selection mode for the sub-meetings is enabled and transmitting notifications to participant client devices associated with the participants of the meeting. Each notification identifies a list of sub-meetings from which a participant can select a sub-meeting to join. The method further includes the video conference provider receiving and forwarding a request from a participant client device to connect to a selected sub-meeting, and receiving an automatic approval from the host client device. The video conference provider further connects the participant client device to the selected sub-meeting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Lin Han, Nitasha Walia
  • Patent number: 11436433
    Abstract: An apparatus for training artificial intelligence (AI) models is presented. In embodiments, the apparatus may include an input interface to receive in real time model training data from one or more sources to train one or more artificial neural networks (ANNs) associated with the one or more sources, each of the one or more sources associated with at least one of the ANNs; a load distributor coupled to the input interface to distribute in real time the model training data for the one or more ANNs to one or more AI appliances; and a resource manager coupled to the load distributor to dynamically assign one or more computing resources on ones of the AI appliances to each of the ANNs in view of amounts of the training data received in real time from the one or more sources for their associated ANNs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Bachmutsky, Kshitij A. Doshi, Francesc Guim Bernat, Raghu Kondapalli, Suraj Prabhakaran
  • Patent number: 11425069
    Abstract: Systems and methods herein provide for improved handling of oversized email attachments. An example system can identify an oversized email attachment before an email is sent, by comparing the size of the attachment to a maximum file size at an email server. The user can then be notified that the attachment is over the allowable file size before sending the email. The system can also un-attach the oversized file, compress it using a suitable compression method, and reattach a compressed file. The compression can be done at the sender's request or automatically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: AirWatch, LLC
    Inventor: James Murray
  • Patent number: 11425527
    Abstract: A method of generating respective adaptions of digital content for display by multiple computing devices is recited. In one embodiment, a first computing device sends an invitation to congregate to one or more second computing devices. If the first computing device determines that the one or more second computing devices are in physical proximity to the first computing device, the first computing device may invoke play of the digital content. A plurality of generated content adaptions may be generated, wherein a first content adaption is configured for synchronous display by the first computing device with one or more second content adaptions displayed on the one or more second computing devices, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Addie Louise Marino, Lorena M Ospina, Keenan Christopher Pridmore
  • Patent number: 11394810
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to causing delivery of Segmentation as a Service™ (SegAAS) instrumentation code and segment processing code to run on a user's machine and generate data that tracks a user session on a website, receiving and processing data from the user session and invoking callback function code, configured to run on the user's machine, that performs actions specified by the website's operator, as triggered by delivery of segment codes. Also included is receiving readings from the user session, analyzing the data to track progress of the session, and generating segment codes that characterize results of the analysis in an actionable way specified by rules provided by the website operator. Further included are repeatedly causing delivery of updated lists of the segment codes based on the analyzing of the progress and timing delivery of unsolicited actions directed to retaining the visitor and extending the user session with the website.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Fanplayr Inc.
    Inventors: Rajiv Sunkara, Simon Yencken, Derek Adelman
  • Patent number: 11388256
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for implementing reciprocal data sharing in a data exchange system. Limitations may be placed on the amount of data an exchange member may access based on the amount of data that exchange member has contributed. The system may include determining a data contribution associated with a first member of the data exchange, determining a data access limit for the first member based on the data contribution, and providing data to the first member when the first member has not exceeded the data access limit. In some embodiments, there may be separate data access limits for each member of the data exchange, so that a first member may have different access limits when accessing data from a second member, data from a third member, and data from a fourth member. Further, the system may limit a requester to a type of data that corresponds to the type of data contributed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Early Warning Services, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Cook, Gregor R. Bonin, Aaron Antonio Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 11381531
    Abstract: Systems and methods for an interactive communications system capable of generating a response to conversational input are provided. The interactive communications system analyzes the conversational input to determine relevant topics of discussion. The interactive communications system further determines which of the relevant topics of discussion can potentially lead to an unwanted end to a conversation. The interactive communications system redirects the conversation by providing responses to the conversational input that are intended simply to avoid the unwanted end to the conversation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond Scanlon, Douglas Fidaleo
  • Patent number: 11374876
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to deployment of additional workload in the NFV-MANO to efficiently utilize resources during a lean workload period of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) associated with an intelligent cloud platform. The method comprises measuring, over a time period, a current resource utilization level of one or more rendered VNFs. Thereafter, forecasting future resource utilization for the time period based on predictive analysis criteria and the current resource utilization level of the one or more VNFs. The method further comprises a machine learning based inference for determining whether the forecast future resource utilization for said time period is less than a determined optimal resource utilization threshold value of the one or more VNFs. Thereafter, resources of the one or more VNFs to one or more additional workloads are allocated based on the determination of the future resource utilization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Vimal Bastin Edwin Joseph, Karthikeyan Subramaniam, Parvathi Mahesh Hedathri, Peeyus Pal, Karthikeyan Narayanan
  • Patent number: 11343209
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for performing operations including: retrieving, by one or more processors, a plurality of content items; identifying a list of friends of a user on a messaging application; obtaining reaction data for each friend in the list of friends, the reaction data identifying a set of content items to which respective ones of the friends in the list of friends reacted; selecting, based on the reaction data, a first content item in the plurality of content items that is included in the set of content items to which respective ones of the friends in the list of friends reacted; and presenting the first content item to the user in a presentation arrangement of a graphical user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Newar Husam Al Majid, Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Laurent Desserrey, Matthew Thompson, Jeremy Voss
  • Patent number: 11265281
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for deleting messages. The systems and methods include operations for: establishing, by a computing device, a communication session between a plurality of users, the communication session being associated with a first feature of a plurality of features of a messaging application; automatically deleting a first set of messages exchanged in the communication session based on a default deletion policy of the first feature; changing the default deletion policy of the first feature to a second deletion policy; and automatically deleting a second set of messages exchanged in the communication session based on the second deletion policy instead of the default deletion policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley Baron, Benjamin Ralph Hollis, Samuel Young