Patents Examined by Abdullahi E. Salad
  • Patent number: 11968058
    Abstract: A system for adding a smart home device includes a first mobile phone configured to set, using contact information of a second user, a second mobile phone allowed to make a call to the smart home device, the second mobile phone is configured to automatically add contact information of the smart home device and make a voice call or a video call with the smart home device using the contact information of the smart home device, such that a user is configured to enable, in a setting manner of the smart home device, a friend to automatically discover the smart home device, and then make an audio call or a video call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiao Han, Feng Ge
  • Patent number: 11962510
    Abstract: Resource watermarking and management actions on electronic resources are described. In one example, a process for resource watermarking and management actions includes receiving, from a client device, a request to perform an action on an electronic resource and a device profile for the client device. The device profile can include at least one attribute of the client device. The process also includes identifying a watermark template for the electronic resource, determining descriptive data of the watermark template based on the request to perform the action and whether the device profile complies with a compliance rule, overlaying the watermark template and the descriptive data onto the electronic resource, and determining that the client device is authorized to perform the action on the electronic resource in response to the electronic resource being united with the watermark template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: John Marshall, William DeWeese
  • Patent number: 11956678
    Abstract: An access point advertises a management frame quality of service (MFQ) policy that defines an access category used for transmitting a first type of management frame. Each mobile station associated with the access point is to prioritize transmission of management frames according to the MFQ policy advertised by the access point, unless a policy configuration request for the mobile station to prioritize transmission of management frames according to a different MFQ policy has been accepted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro
  • Patent number: 11956202
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus related to determining and/or utilizing one or more attributes for an Internet Protocol (IP) address and/or other source identifier(s). In some implementations, the attributes may include a physical address and/or email address associated with the source identifier(s). Some implementations are directed to determining physical addresses for inclusion in a postal campaign and/or determining email addresses for inclusion in an email campaign. In some of those implementations, the physical addresses and/or email addresses are determined based on computing devices having source identifiers associated with those addresses having submitted searches with search content assigned to the campaign.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: EL TORO.COM, LLC
    Inventors: Stacy B. Griggs, David T. Stadler, III, Benjamin Charles Woolley
  • Patent number: 11949529
    Abstract: The subject technology receives, at a local device, a requested camera format based on specifications of a display associated with a remote device. The remote device and the local device are devices participating in a video conference. The requested camera format includes a first resolution. Camera formats supported by a camera associated with the local device are determined. If a second resolution of a first camera format matches among the supported camera formats matches with the first resolution, the first camera format is selected for capturing the video stream by the camera. Otherwise, a second camera format among the supported camera formats is determined for capturing the video stream so as to maximize a field of view of the video stream relative to other camera formats supported by the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Karthick Santhanam, Eric L. Chien, Christopher M. Garrido, Kyle W. Horn, Ian J. Baird, Qian Sun, David L. Biderman
  • Patent number: 11943274
    Abstract: Portion- or tile-based video streaming concepts are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Robert Philipp Skupin, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Schierl, Yago Sánchez De La Fuente, Dimitri Podborski
  • Patent number: 11936499
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods of managing a virtual area based on communicant capabilities are described. The communicant capabilities are updated based on rules in response to events in the virtual area. An action by one communicant can affect the capabilities of another communicant. Communicant capabilities can be stored in respective server-side proxies and the virtual area can be managed without transmitting any of the capabilities to the communicants' client network nodes. Capability-based permissions checks can be performed against communicant capabilities with wildcarded attribute fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Sococo, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert J. Butler, Matthew Leacock, David Van Wie, Paul J. Brody, F. Randall Farmer
  • Patent number: 11929892
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for a service activation system in a telecommunications network that utilizes one or more generic container files for building the configuration file to instantiate the service on the network. A request for service from a network may be received from an order entry system that includes specific information about the requested service. A collection of generic configuration files may be selected based on the information included in the service order and arranged to build a configuration file to be executed on the network. The service activation system may also include a component or group of components to verify a received service order and alter the service order with default information or data where applicable. The configuration file may also be executed on the network through one or more drivers communicating with the affected devices to configure the one or more network devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: James C. Dwyer, Michael L. Nyhus
  • Patent number: 11928386
    Abstract: An example computing device includes a plurality of interfaces to connect to a plurality of audio peripheral devices, a communications interface to establish a network connection, and a processor interconnected with the plurality of interfaces and the communications interface. The processor is to determine a location of the computing device based on the network connection. The processor sets an audio peripheral device from the plurality of the audio peripheral devices as a default audio peripheral device based on the location. The processor communicates an audio signal through the default audio peripheral device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Srinath Balaraman, Ling Wei Chung, Pradosh Tulsidas Verlekar, Charles J. Stancil
  • Patent number: 11929937
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for controlling a distribution of resources on a network. In one example, among others, a system is configured to receive the plurality of resources and a plurality of rules. The system is also configured to determine an authorized location and an authorized area based on the plurality of rules. The authorized location and the authorized area are determined to have different access rights to the plurality of resources. The system is further configured to determine a location of the computing device and grant access to a resource based on the location of the computing device with respect to the authorization location or the authorized area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: AirWatch LLC
    Inventors: John Marshall, Erich Stuntebeck, Gopinath Jayaprakash, John Joseph Manton, Jonathon Blake Brannon
  • Patent number: 11924067
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for a service activation system in a telecommunications network that utilizes one or more generic container files for building the configuration file to instantiate the service on the network. A request for service from a network may be received from an order entry system that includes specific information about the requested service. A collection of generic configuration files may be selected based on the information included in the service order and arranged to build a configuration file to be executed on the network. The service activation system may also include a component or group of components to verify a received service order and alter the service order with default information or data where applicable. The configuration file may also be executed on the network through one or more drivers communicating with the affected devices to configure the one or more network devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: James C. Dwyer, Michael L. Nyhus
  • Patent number: 11915158
    Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for cross-domain action prediction are provided. Action sequence embeddings are generated based upon a textual embedding and a graph embedding utilizing past user action sequences corresponding to sequences of past actions performed by users across a plurality of domains. An autoencoder is trained to utilize the action sequence embeddings to project the action sequence embeddings to obtain intent space vectors. A service switch classifier is trained using the intent space vectors. In response to the service switch classifier predicting that a current user will switch from a current domain to a next domain, the current user is provided with a recommendation of an action corresponding to the next domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLC
    Inventors: Su-Chen Lin, Zhungxun Liao, Jian-Chih Ou, Tzu-Chiang Liou
  • Patent number: 11917045
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a communication system includes network devices, each comprising a network interface to receive at least one data stream, a given network device being configured to recover a remote clock from the at least one data stream received by the given network device, a frequency synthesizer to generate a clock signal and output the clock signal to each of the network devices, wherein the given network device is configured to find a clock frequency differential between the clock signal and the recovered remote clock, and provide a control signal to the frequency synthesizer responsively to the clock frequency differential, the control signal causes the frequency synthesizer to adjust the clock signal so as to iteratively reduce an absolute value of the clock frequency differential between the clock signal and the recovered remote clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Dotan David Levi, Arnon Sattinger, Natan Manevich, Wojciech Wasko, Ariel Almog, Bar Or Shapira
  • Patent number: 11916734
    Abstract: The invention relates to a communication network which is configured to enable instantiation of network slices which represent virtual networks. The invention further relates to a content application server (CAS) for providing an application service via a network slice to at least one user equipment (UE). A network function (SREF) is provided which on the one hand may have access to one or more slice management network functions (CSMF, NSMF, NSSMF) and on the other hand may be accessible to the CAS. The network function (SREF) may abstract the properties of the network slice using a data structure representing a slice object and expose these abstracted properties to the CAS by providing access to the slice object. The slice object may comprise modifiable properties which represent modifiable properties of the corresponding network slice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: KONINKLIJKE KPN N.V., NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST-NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO
    Inventors: Lucia D'Acunto, Toni Dimitrovski, Wieger IJntema, Wiltfried Pathuis
  • Patent number: 11909546
    Abstract: This application provides a method and device for sending and obtaining an assert message, to increase packet processing efficiency and reduce overheads of the network device. The method includes: determining, by a network node, a plurality of assert records based on one multicast source address, where each of the plurality of assert records includes the multicast source address and one multicast group address, the plurality of assert records have the same multicast source address, and multicast group addresses included in different assert records in the plurality of assert records are different from each other; generating, by the network node, one assert message based on the plurality of assert records, where the assert message includes the multicast source address and the multicast group addresses in the plurality of assert records; and sending, by the network node, the assert message in a multicast mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yisong Liu
  • Patent number: 11909581
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to cross-domain fault analysis methods and systems. According to the methods and the systems, whether a first single-domain network fault and a second single-domain network fault are caused by a same fault is determined based on correlation analysis on the first single-domain network fault and the second single-domain network fault in time dimension and service dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qing Xie, Jiandong Ye
  • Patent number: 11902082
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing cross-domain assurance for networks in different network domains. In some embodiments, a method can include collecting first fabric data for a first network in a first network domain and second fabric data for a second network in a second network domain. The second fabric data for the second network can be normalized based on the first network domain to create normalized second fabric data. The first fabric data can then be correlated with the normalized second fabric data to create correlated fabric data. Subsequently, assurance can be provided across the first network in the first network domain and the second network in the second network domain using the correlated fabric data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Navneet Yadav, Kannan Ponnuswamy, Arvind Chari, Chengguo Zhu, Tarique Shakil
  • Patent number: 11902091
    Abstract: A change in the emotional state of a user of a device is detected, and in response to this change a reason for the change in user emotional state is determined. This determination is made based on both the current user emotional state and context data for the device or user. The device then adapts to the user based on the current emotional state and the reason for the change in user emotional state. This adaptation of the computing device refers to an alteration of the operation of the computing device with a goal of increasing the likelihood of the user being in a good emotional state (e.g., happy, relaxed) and reducing the likelihood of the user being in a bad emotional state (e.g., sad, angry).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Rachid M. Alameh, Zhengping Ji, Alvin Von Ruff
  • Patent number: 11895072
    Abstract: Systems for intelligent sorting of time series data for improved contextual messaging are included herein. An intelligent sorting server may receive time series data comprising a plurality of chat messages. The intelligent sorting server may determine a first order of the plurality of chat messages based on a chronologic order. The intelligent sorting server may use one or more machine learning classifiers to identify candidates for reordering the chat messages. The intelligent sorting server may generate a second order of the chat messages based on the identified candidates for reordering. Accordingly, the intelligent sorting server may present, to a client device, a transcript of the chat messages associated with the second order and an indication that at least one chat message has been repositioned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventor: Jonathan Shek Wing Lee
  • Patent number: 11888720
    Abstract: A lateral movement identification tool analyzes communications sent and received from a local host to identify potential instances of lateral movement. When the host-based lateral movement identification tool identifies a host to host connection, the tool processes one or more artificial intelligence algorithms to analyze information from local network resources including a directory service, a local network system such as a network basic input/output system, a domain name system, and event logs. The lateral movement identification tool correlates the aggregated information with identified host to host messaging and sends alerts when lateral movement is suspected. Alerts may be either presented locally or provided to a central console based on configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Steven E. Sinks, Jonathan Sheedy