Patents Examined by Brian Whipple
  • Patent number: 11777806
    Abstract: Methods, a system for managing traffic transmitted by a User Equipment (UE), a UE for enabling differentiation of the traffic, a Packet Gate-Way User plane (PGW-U) for managing the traffic as well as a Mobility Management Entity (MME) for enabling differentiation of the traffic are disclosed. The PGW-U (120) receives (9) a marking type and a marking value, which originate from the SCS/AS (170) and which are associated with an application identifier for identifying application traffic to be handled according to the marking type and the marking value. The UE (110) receives (14), from the MME (130), the marking type and the marking value. The UE (110) transmits (17), towards the PGW-U (120), application traffic marked according to the marking type and marking value. The PGW-U (120) inspects (18) the traffic according to the marking type to obtain the marking value. The PGW-U (120) handles (18) the traffic based on the marking value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Miguel Angel Puente Pestaña, Rodrigo Alvarez Dominguez, Miguel Angel Muñoz De La Torre Alonso, Ruth Pallares Del Egido
  • Patent number: 11777847
    Abstract: A network node may receive a packet that originated from a root network node and may process the packet to determine segment identifier (SID) information associated with a point-to-multipoint transport chain. The network node may determine, based on the SID information, that the network node is a transit leaf node in the point-to-multipoint transport chain. The network node may generate, based on determining that the network node is a transit leaf node in the point-to-multipoint transport chain, a copy of the packet and may process the copy of the packet to perform one or more actions. The network node may update, based on determining that the network node is a transit leaf node in the point-to-multipoint transport chain, the SID information and may send, after updating the SID information, the packet, with the updated SID information, to another network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Yimin Shen, Zhaohui Zhang, Alexander Arseniev, Ronald Bonica
  • Patent number: 11765029
    Abstract: A tracking device can be reconfigured after an amount of operation to preserve the battery capacity of the tracking device and to ensure that the tracking device can be operated for a pre-determined threshold period of time. The tracking device can provide diagnostic information representative of a state of the tracking device, such as a current power capacity of the tracking device's battery, to a mobile device within a threshold proximity of the tracking device. The mobile device can then provide the diagnostic information to a tracking server, which in turn can provide reconfiguration instructions to the mobile device. The mobile device can then pass on the reconfiguration instructions to the tracking device, in response to which the tracking device can reconfigure itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Tile, Inc.
    Inventors: Guilherme de Barros Chapiewski, Michael George Farley, Josselin de la Broise, Mayank Kumar
  • Patent number: 11743312
    Abstract: A transmission method includes: generating a stream including a plurality of Internet Protocol (IP) data flows corresponding one-to-one with a plurality of services in broadcast, the IP data flows storing the corresponding services of the plurality of services; and transmitting the generated stream in a predetermined channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noritaka Iguchi, Tadamasa Toma
  • Patent number: 11743311
    Abstract: Devices, methods, and program products are provided enabling Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) optimization upon initialization of a streaming video session. In embodiments, the method includes launching a streaming media interface application in response to user input. Substantially concurrently with application launch, the client media receiver further transmits a request over a communications network to a streaming media server for a sample video stream. As the video stream is received, the client media receiver plays the sample video stream as, for example, a background process. When subsequently receiving user input selecting streaming content for end user viewing, the client media receiver determines an optimized ABR setting based upon a recent ABR value of the sample video stream. The client media receiver transmits a request to the streaming media server for user-selected content stream at the optimized ABR setting and then presents the content stream for end user viewing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Inventor: Sagar Sehgal
  • Patent number: 11729074
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to facilitating performing online data decomposition. In accordance with aspects of the present disclosure, an incoming data point of a time series data set is obtained. Thereafter, an iterative process of estimating trend and seasonality is performed to decompose the incoming data point to a set of data components based on a particular set of previous data points of the time series data set and corresponding data components. Generally, the set of data components for the incoming data point include a trend component, a seasonality component, and a residual component. The set of data components is provided for analysis of the incoming data point, such as, for example, to identify data anomalies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Abhinav Mishra, Ram Sriharsha
  • Patent number: 11729044
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to a management system that determines which services to redeploy on one or more platforms. A platform can receive a configuration to perform during a failure of connectivity with a management system. The platform can monitor activity of one or more services. The platform can, based on failure of connectivity with the management system and recovery of connectivity with the management system, provide the monitored activity of one or more services to the management system to influence services re-deployed by the management system. In some examples, based on failure to re-establish a connection with the management system within an amount of time, the platform can connect with the management system using a secondary management interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Maryam Tahhan, Shobhi Jain, John J. Browne, Emma L. Foley, John O'Loughlin, Sunku Ranganath, Krzysztof Kepka, Swati Sehgal
  • Patent number: 11722380
    Abstract: In some implementations, a device may receive, from a monitoring device, telecommunications data associated with a telecommunications network. The device may train a plurality of machine learning models with the telecommunications data to generate a plurality of trained machine learning models. The device may generate accuracy scores for the plurality of trained machine learning models based on training the plurality of machine learning models. The device may select an optimum machine learning model based on several indicators, such as the accuracy, precision, and/or the like. The device may provide the optimum machine learning model to the monitoring device associated with the telecommunications network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions Limited
    Inventors: Thomas Fiumara, Marta Castrigno, Luigi Tripputi, Marco Grigoletti, Jessica Gobetti
  • Patent number: 11711262
    Abstract: Network elements are managed with a server to support client data models from heterogeneous data sources. A server receives a first query for configuration data of a network element to be returned in a first model. The server determines a model type for the configuration data of the network element. When the model type is a second model that is not the first model, the server sends a second query to the network element for the configuration data to be returned in the second model and transforms the configuration data received from the network element into the first model. Additionally, the server returns the configuration data in the first model as a response to the first query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Chandrasekhar A, Jayanthi R, Cyril Margaria
  • Patent number: 11710176
    Abstract: System and method for interacting with at least one item, such as at least one artwork display, including at least one display device including a housing, a visual indictor element, a processor, a memory, and wireless communication capabilities, the at least one display device disposed beside or in a vicinity of the at least one item, and a user device configured to interact with the at least one display device by providing, on the at least one display device via the visual indictor element and/or the user device via a display screen of the user device, a visual popularity indicator and a visual sale status indicator for the at least one item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: MSRA LLC
    Inventors: Michael Rose, Keith Schweitzer
  • Patent number: 11706104
    Abstract: In one example, a location of a potential bottleneck of network traffic in a network is identified. Based on the location of the potential bottleneck, a first QoE inference model is selected from a plurality of respective QoE inference models. The respective QoE inference models are each trained to infer a respective QoE of the network traffic based on one or more respective network traffic metrics generated by monitoring the network traffic at a respective location in the network. One or more first network traffic metrics of the one or more respective network traffic metrics are generated by monitoring the network traffic at a first respective location. The one or more first network traffic metrics are provided to the first QoE inference model to infer a first respective QoE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Giulio Grassi, Giovanna Carofiglio, Michele Papalini, Enrico Loparco, Jacques Olivier Samain
  • Patent number: 11698846
    Abstract: An accessory communication control protocol can facilitate faster and more secure transmission of status updates from an accessory to a controller (or network base station). An accessory can register with a controller, where the controller can provide some subscription and key generation information to the accessory. The accessory can detect changes to characteristics of the accessory and generate a broadcast notification that includes updates to the state of the characteristic. The broadcast notification can also include a counter, a device identifier, and a key. According to timing or rules, the accessory can transmit the broadcast notification to the controller without the need to establish a secure session with the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Dennis Mathews
  • Patent number: 11693899
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are described for identifying images which may be of interest to a user based on their current geographic location. In some embodiments, a check is first performed to determine if the current geographic location is a location-of-interest. Images are searched that are in geographical proximity to the current geographic location of the user to identify images-of-interest. The images-of-interest may be designated in part based on actions taken by subjects having had interactions with the images. The user is notified based on the discovery of one or more images-of-interest. The one or more images-of-interest may be presented to the user through the use of map overlays and/or augmented reality techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Ikorongo Technology, LLC
    Inventor: Hugh Blake Svendsen
  • Patent number: 11689458
    Abstract: A control device is connected to a plurality of networks, dispatches a packet received from a user terminal to a network among the plurality of networks, and includes a memory and a processor configured to execute receiving a DNS query packet transmitted from the user terminal, and based on a query target of the DNS query packet, dispatching the DNS query packet to a network among the plurality of networks; and receiving a packet, determining a destination of the packet based on a destination address of the packet, and transmitting the packet to the determined destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: NTT Communications Corporation
    Inventors: Wenyu Shen, Kenji Arai, Ryu Kanishima, Takeo Saga
  • Patent number: 11687481
    Abstract: A method of processing payment transactions includes receiving a connection request from a client device, determining whether a gateway is available for the client device, creating a connection between the client device and a gateway, the gateway being a previously existing gateway or a newly generated gateway, creating a message filter for the client device on a message bus, listening for messages on the message bus and transmitting the message to the client device by way of the gateway upon finding a message on the message bus matching the message filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Worldpay, LLC
    Inventors: Walter Banks, Christopher Guthrie
  • Patent number: 11675207
    Abstract: The techniques described herein enable a head-mounted display device to use a fiducial marker to identify an Internet of Things (IoT) device. The head-mounted display device can use the identifier to establish a network connection with the IoT device. For example, the identifier can include an Internet Protocol (IP) address, a Bluetooth address, a cloud IoT identifier (e.g., AZURE hub IoT identifier), or another type of an identifier. By using an electronic paper display, the IoT device can dynamically generate and display a new fiducial marker when a new identifier is assigned to the IoT device or is generated by the IoT device. Consequently, the head-mounted display device can detect the fiducial marker and extract the identifier for the IoT device from the fiducial marker so that the identifier can be used to establish a network connection with the IoT device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventor: Louis Amadio
  • Patent number: 11677801
    Abstract: A method includes receiving user input indicating a selection of a subset of two or more of a plurality of audio layers for media content to be provided to a user, each of the subset of audio layers corresponding to one or more audio sources, receiving second user input indicating volume levels for the two or more audio layers of the plurality of audio layers, capturing, based on the first user input, the two or more audio layers of the plurality of audio layers for a media content item to be provided to the user, and creating an output audio layer for the media content item by mixing the two or more audio layers of the plurality of audio layers without including other audio layers of the plurality of audio layers, the output audio layer reflecting the volume levels indicated by the second user input. The method further includes causing the media content item to be provided to the user using the output audio layer reflecting the indicated volume levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Brian Schmidt, George Leiming Xing, Matt Snider, Sunbir Gill
  • Patent number: 11677789
    Abstract: Techniques for intent-based access control are described. A method of intent-based access control may include receiving, via a user interface of an intent-based governance service, one or more intent statements associated with user resources in a provider network, the one or more intent statements expressing at least one type of action allowed to be performed on the user resources, compiling the one or more intent statements into at least one access control policy, and associating the at least one access control policy with the user resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Neha Rungta, Daniel George Peebles, Andrew Jude Gacek, Marvin Theimer, Rebecca Claire Weiss, Brigid Ann Johnson
  • Patent number: 11677660
    Abstract: An example method includes receiving, from a customer system by a cloud exchange comprising processing circuitry, a request to communicatively couple a virtual gateway on network infrastructure of the cloud exchange to a network gateway communicatively coupled to a public network, the request including data indicating a public Internet Protocol (IP) address of the customer system, wherein the customer system is configured with a first connection communicatively coupling the customer system and the public network via a network service provider (NSP) that is separate from the cloud exchange; configuring, by the cloud exchange, a network route for a network gateway to the virtual gateway, the network gateway communicatively coupled to the public network; and providing, by the cloud exchange to the network gateway, routing information including the public IP address of the customer system to create a second connection communicatively coupling the customer system and the public network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: EQUINIX, INC.
    Inventors: Arifulla Baig Mohammad, Sudhanva Gnaneshwar, Rajah Kalipatnapu
  • Patent number: 11671510
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a system is disclosed for processing event data for an application and transmitting the event data via a computer network. The system can include a memory device and a hardware processor. The memory device can store an application. The hardware processor can execute the application, characterize a user engagement with the application as being a first level of engagement or a second level of engagement, generate event data responsive to user interactions with the application, and control the batch collection of the event data depending on whether the user engagement with the application is characterized as the first level of engagement or the second level of engagement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: TEALIUM INC.
    Inventors: Tyron G. Gavin, Christopher Kirk Finley, Craig P. Rouse