Patents Examined by Albert M Phillips, III
  • Patent number: 11875122
    Abstract: A system and method for using semantic understanding in storing and searching data and other information. A linearized tuple-based version of a conceptual graph can be created from a user input. A plurality of conceptual graphs, or portions thereof, can be compared to determine matches. An associative database can be created and/or searched using a hierarchy of conceptual graphs in tuple format, so that the data storage and searching of such database is optimized. The associative database can be used to integrate data from multiple different sources; form part of an Internet or other search engine; or used in other implementations. Also disclosed herein is a system and method for use of semantic understanding in searching and providing of content is described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Inventor: Gil Emanuel Fuchs
  • Patent number: 11868417
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, that identify and issue search queries expected to be issued in the future. A set of search queries that have been issued by multiple user devices can be obtained. For each query instance, contextual data can be obtained. A first query and its contextual data can be input to a model that outputs the query's likelihood of being issued in the future. The model can be trained using contextual data for training queries and a corresponding labels for the training queries. The learning model outputs the first query's likelihood of being issued in future, and this query is stored as a repeatable query if the likelihood satisfying a repeatability threshold. Subsequently, a stored repeatable query is issued upon a selection of a user selectable interface component and the search engine provides search results for the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Yew Jin Lim, David Adam Faden, Mario Tanev, Lauren Ashley Koepnick, Sagar Gandhi, William Ming Zhang
  • Patent number: 11868368
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system having an input arrangement and an output arrangement. The system includes a plurality of data processing nodes to processes input data and generates output data, depending on operation of a distributed ledger arrangement to which an entry is added. A directed acyclic graph (DAG) is utilized to agree upon a set of data transactions required for adding the entry to the distributed ledger arrangement. The system employs decentralized beacon arrangement that randomly elects data processing nodes that operate to form consensus of entry to be added to the distributed ledger arrangement, pseudo-random number generator engine to rank the data processing nodes within the group; and control arrangement that enables the leading node to provide final proposal to be included in the DAG, wherein a remainder of the data processing nodes operate to notarize the final proposal to add the entry to the distributed ledger arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventors: David Galindo, Jonathan Ward
  • Patent number: 11868373
    Abstract: An in-memory computing system for conducting on-line transaction processing and on-line analytical processing includes system tables in main memory to store runtime information. A statistics service can access the runtime information using script procedures stored in the main memory to collect monitoring data, generate historical data, and other system performance metrics while maintaining the runtime data and generated data in the main memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Marc-Philip Werner, Wolfgang Auer
  • Patent number: 11860673
    Abstract: A distributed database encrypts tables using table encryption keys protected by a client master encryption key. The client may revoke and subsequently restore authorization to access the client master encryption key. A sweeper process of the distributed database examines encrypted tables and identifies changes to the status of a corresponding client master encryption key. A response to an identified change in status is initiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Avinash Kodakandla, Akshat Vig, Ravi Math, Sroaj Sosothikul, Nicholas Gordon, Somasundaram Perianayagam, Mazen Moez Ali, Sharan Rajesh Munyal
  • Patent number: 11861688
    Abstract: Bid values submitted for various keywords can take into account the recovery propensity between paid search and organic search. When submitting a bid to a search engine provider for a keyword, an entity may get a certain level of performance in return. If not submitting a bid, however, the entity will likely still get some level of performance, although likely less than for paid search. In order to optimize for a parameter such as impressions, purchases, or profit, the recovery propensity can be taken into account in order to adjust the bid price, taking into account the relative performance of paid and organic search and then optimizing for the determined goal. Organic search data in some embodiments can be obtained through testing or modeling, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Rohit Gupta, Ayman Omar Farahat, Han Wu, Pragyana K. Mishra, Rohan Gurappagouda Patil, Douglas Wong
  • Patent number: 11861515
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for determining a propensity of an entity to take a specified action. In accordance with one implementation, a method is provided for determining the propensity. The method includes, for example, accessing one or more data sources, the one or more data sources including information associated with the entity, forming a record associated with the entity by integrating the information from the one or more data sources, generating, based on the record, one or more features associated with the entity, processing the one or more features to determine the propensity of the entity to take the specified action, and outputting the propensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Erenrich, Anirvan Mukherjee
  • Patent number: 11860847
    Abstract: A seed value assigned to a database table is determined. Numerically ordered invocation numbers are determined. Unordered pseudorandom numbers are generated based on the seed value and the invocation numbers to index temporally ordered data changes to the database table. It is determined whether the total number of yet-to-be-saved pseudorandom numbers reaches a maximum total number threshold. If so, the yet-to-be-saved pseudorandom numbers and a sequence of corresponding invocation numbers are saved in a sync table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Rohitashva Mathur
  • Patent number: 11860829
    Abstract: Methods for page split detection and affinity in query processing pushdowns are performed by systems and devices. Page servers perform pushdown operations based on specific, and specifically formatted or generated, information, instructions, and data provided thereto from a compute node. Page servers also determine that page splits have occurred during reading of data pages maintained by page servers during pushdown operations, and also during fulfillment of compute node data requests. To detect a data page has split, page servers utilize information from a compute node of an expected next data page which is compared to a next data page in the page server page index. A mismatch in the comparison by page servers indicates data page was split. Compute nodes and page servers store and maintain off-row data generated during data operations via page affinity considerations where the off-row data is stored at the same page server as the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Craig S. Freedman, Adrian-Leonard Radu, Daniel G. Schall, Hanumantha R. Kodavalla, Panagiotis Antonopoulos, Raghavendra Thallam Kodandaramaih, Alejandro Hernandez Saenz, Naveen Prakash
  • Patent number: 11860951
    Abstract: A request to send a file is received. A file type for the file is identified. For example, the file type may a Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) file or a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. In response to receiving the request to send the file and identifying the file type for the file, a format of the file is reordered. Reordering the format of the file is based on an application and/or an application type that will be receiving the file. For example, the application may be an Adobe Acrobat® reader that is receiving a PDF file that has been reordered for more efficient reading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Micro Focus LLC
    Inventors: Sean Blanchflower, Brian Cowe, Joel Peter Dockray
  • Patent number: 11861476
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving a query from a user; providing the query to data owners, wherein each of the data owners has a local machine learning model and wherein the plurality of data owners train a meta-model; secret sharing model output from the data owners between the other data owners, wherein the model output comprises an output responsive to the query computed using the local machine learning model; receiving, from each of the plurality of data owners, a set of meta-features corresponding to the query; and generating a response to the query, wherein the generating comprises determining, by evaluating the meta-model using the set of meta-features received from each of the plurality of data owners, weights for outputs from the local machine learning models and aggregating the outputs in view of the weights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dhinakaran Vinayagamurthy, Sandeep Nishad, Harsh Chaudhari, Pankaj Satyanarayan Dayama, Saneem Ahmed Chemmengath
  • Patent number: 11860891
    Abstract: A centralized database management system performs data synchronization with lower bandwidth consumption and higher efficiency. The system manages data synchronization and data reconciliation across multiple databases managed by multiple DBMS across different client servers. The system generates and sends instructions that encode each data table into an invertible bloom filter and identifies differences between the two databases by performing a subtraction operation on the two invertible bloom filters. The system may generate a third invertible bloom filter comprising information associated with differences between the two data tables. The system may send instructions to the source and the destination databases, where a first and a second invertible bloom filters are encoded for the source and the destination databases, respectively. The system may decode the third invertible bloom filter, identify the different elements, and generate instructions to the source and/or the destination database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: FIVETRAN INC.
    Inventor: Jason Nochlin
  • Patent number: 11853293
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for multiple smart glasses to enter in a distributed ledger network such as a blockchain to concurrently modify documents. These networked smart glasses may store the document and any changes made to the document in a distributed ledger, communicate the changes to the other smart glasses and request approval or disapproval of the changes. Each smart glass or user may approve or disapprove the changes suggested by other users. The document may only be finalized when all suggested changes are approved or disapproved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventor: Saurabh Gupta
  • Patent number: 11853337
    Abstract: Text input data may be aggregated and mapped to create composite text input data for electronic records. A semantic event may be automatically detected, triggered by a semantic rule and associated semantic tag. The detected semantic event may be flagged, and a text mining result database may be updated by adding an entry to the database. An indication associated with the event may be transmitted, and a back-end application computer server may establish a hierarchy for multiple elements of the electronic records. The computer server may determine a weight variable and response variable for each element in the hierarchy and apply a hierarchical credibility weighting methodology to the elements from level 1, representing the least granular level in the hierarchy, to level n, representing the most granular level in the hierarchy, calculated recursively from level n, to determine a final estimated credibility for the electronic records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Reuben Emory Houser, Qiao Wang, Arthur Paul Drennan, III, Nicole Rose Sims, Tracey Ellen Steger
  • Patent number: 11847143
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing automated data governance are disclosed. The system may include a plurality of data environments, a metadata repository storing data attributes and classification requirements, a policy repository, one or more processors, and a memory in communication with the one or more processors storing instructions to execute steps of a method. The system may receive a first dataset from a first data environment having a first dataset ID. The system may transmit the dataset ID to the metadata repository and the metadata repository may return an indication that the first dataset includes at least one data attribute and at least one associated classification requirement. The system may transmit the classification requirement to the policy repository and receive classification code associated with the classification requirement. The system may modify the first dataset by transmitting instructions to the first data environment to execute the classification code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Aniket Sinkar, Manisha Purkar, Sindhu Myla, Sovon Nath, Richard Shi, Bindiya Goppenahalli Mahadeva, Cameron Utsman, Ajay Shinde, Mark Mabry, Daniel Hanson, Arindam Chakraborty
  • Patent number: 11847130
    Abstract: In some implementations, a monitoring device may receive configuration information associated with an extract, transform, load (ETL) pipeline that includes one or more data sources and one or more data sinks. The monitoring device may generate, based on the configuration information, lineage data related to a data flow from the one or more data sources to the one or more data sinks in the ETL pipeline. The monitoring device may generate one or more predicted quality metrics associated with the ETL pipeline using a machine learning model. The monitoring device may generate a visualization in which multiple nodes are arranged to indicate the data flow from the one or more data sources to the one or more data sinks and further in which the one or more predicted quality metrics are encoded within the visualization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Chanakya Kaspa, Divya Mehrotra, Gregory Muzyn
  • Patent number: 11847177
    Abstract: An experience rating and skill discovery system (ERSDS) and a method for determining credibility of experience ratings provided by one or more reviewers and discovering skills of opportunity seekers based on a relationship between the reviewers and the opportunity seekers are provided. A skill profile module of the ERSDS reads profile data from a user profile list and generates a skills profile list. An invitation module transmits invitations to reviewer devices for providing the experience ratings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: METABYTE, INC.
    Inventors: Lynn Randolph Slater, Jr., Manu Mehta, Anjali Dayal, Saiba Singh, Nitin Mehta
  • Patent number: 11841830
    Abstract: A method to dynamically switch between catalog sharing protocols includes monitoring, over a period of time, access to a catalog used to index data sets. Using information gathered during this monitoring period, the method divides the period of time into intervals based on which of a plurality of sharing protocols, used to access the catalog, would provide the best performance during the respective interval. The method schedules the sharing protocols to operate during their respective intervals going forward, and switches between the sharing protocols in accordance with the schedule. In certain embodiments, switching between the sharing protocols includes temporarily operating in a hybrid mode in which multiple sharing protocols operate simultaneously. When using this hybrid mode, the switch may occur when one sharing protocol begins to perform better than the other. A corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Neal E. Bohling, Franklin E. McCune, David C Reed, Max D. Smith
  • Patent number: 11836199
    Abstract: The present system and method relate to an automated crawler for crawling a primary online content object and storing a set of results, a parser for parsing the stored set of results to generate a plurality of key phrases and a content corpus, a plurality of models for processing at least one of the plurality of key phrases or the content corpus, wherein the processing results in a plurality of topic clusters which arrange topics within the primary online content object around a core topic based on semantic similarity, a suggestion generator for generating a suggested topic that is similar to at least one topic among the plurality of topic clusters and for storing the suggested topic, and an application for developing a strategy for development of online presence content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: HUBSPOT, INC.
    Inventors: Tim Hennekey, Asher Krim, Angela DeFranco, Theodore Cleveland, Jonathan Meharry, Matthew Barby
  • Patent number: 11836204
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein that address the shortcomings in conventional systems via a novel technique for utilizing a social interactions and knowledge about social connections to facilitate the exchange of information from a source of the information to a consumer of the information. For example, a consumer of information may be any individual or entity seeking information. A provider of information may be any entity or individual that may provide the information sought by the consumer. As provided herein, the systems identify providers that may most efficiently provide accurate information to the consumer without requiring the consumer to waste time reviewing irrelevant information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: FLAIRE LLC
    Inventors: Julia Carter, Hillary Degenkolb, Anne Louise Portwood, Jordan Harris, Eddie Atkinson