Patents Examined by Christopher Biagini
  • Patent number: 10855639
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a selecting unit that selects a second user to be a target of notification of information on the basis of a result of behavior recognition with respect to a first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Mochizuki, Norihiko Sato, Shosuke Momotani, Kunihiko Miyake, Yuya Hirano, Kanahiro Shirota, Futoshi Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 10833965
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for repercussion-free capture of data from at least one device is provided, which is arranged in a first network having a high security requirement, in a second network having a low security requirement, containing a requesting unit, which is arranged within the first network and is designed to request data from the at least one device in accordance with a request profile, a monitoring unit, which is arranged within the first network and is designed to monitor data that have been sent by the at least one device in response to the request and to transmit said data to an evaluation unit, an evaluation unit, which is arranged in the second network and is designed to compare the monitored data with the data expected on the basis of the request profile, and an alarm unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Uwe Blöcher, Rainer Falk, Martin Wimmer
  • Patent number: 10798172
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a data processing system and a method to process maritime software application as well as software updates on a ship comprising a main hardware-sever and a subordinate hardware-server with multiple maritime applications wherein the subordinate server and the main sever may change their respective role and function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Inventor: Mads Friis Sørensen
  • Patent number: 10762787
    Abstract: Provided is a communication apparatus installed in a vehicle, the communication apparatus including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire, via a network installed in the vehicle, a plurality of types of status information each indicating a status of the vehicle; an information creation unit configured to create, on the basis of each piece of the status information acquired by the acquisition unit, feature information having a data amount smaller than a total of data amounts of the respective pieces of the status information, the feature information including a feature amount of a traveling status of the vehicle; and a transmission unit configured to transmit vehicle information based on the feature information created by the information creation unit, to another communication apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Hayakawa, Akira Suwa, Susumu Takeshima
  • Patent number: 10757024
    Abstract: A load distribution apparatus connected, via a network, to a plurality of relay apparatuses that relay communication performed by a terminal, and to the terminal, including: storage means configured to store relay apparatus identifiers that identify each of the plurality of relay apparatuses, installation site information that indicates installation sites of each of the plurality of relay apparatuses, and load information that indicates loads of each of the plurality of relay apparatuses; load management means configured to collect the load information from each of the plurality of relay apparatuses to store the load information in the storage means; selection means configured, when receiving a request from the terminal, to select a relay apparatus for relaying communication performed by the terminal from among the plurality of relay apparatuses based on the installation site information or the load information; and transmission means configured to transmit, to the terminal that transmits the request, a relay
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: NTT Communications Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiya Nakakura, Sho Yamamura
  • Patent number: 10750339
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a plurality of controllers configured to communicate over a network and programmed to perform a service by operation of a plurality of routines stored and executed in at least one of the controllers. The vehicle includes a gateway controller in communication with the controllers and programmed to transfer at least one of the routines from a first controller to a second controller responsive to performance data indicating reduced performance of the first controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Raghu Prabhudeva, Aishwarya Vasu
  • Patent number: 10666697
    Abstract: Examples of the present invention provide a method of converting a multicast stream into unicast segments. In particular, sequence identifiers are generated based on a clock reference field in the transport stream packets that make up the multicast stream. Every time a new sequence identifier is calculated, a new unicast segment is generated and assigned with the new sequence identifier. Transport stream packets are placed into the new segment until a packet is processed that causes a new sequence identifier to be generated, at which point another new segment is generated and packets placed into that segment. In an improved method, random access indicators in the transports stream packets are used to further constrain when a new segment is generated, to ensure that new segments are coincident with a packet having a random access indicator. This improvement makes random access easier back and forth between and within a stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company
    Inventors: Stephen Appleby, Ian Crabtree, Timothy Stevens, Rory Turnbull, Ivan Roper, Michael Nilsson
  • Patent number: 10637950
    Abstract: A computing device configured to forward a request is described. The computing device includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The computing device receives a request. The computing device also identifies an agent module based on the request to obtain an identified agent module. The computing device further determines an administrative service based on the identified agent module. The computing device additionally forwards the request to the administrative service. The computing device also sends a reply to the identified agent module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Ivanti, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory P. Olsen, Paul Byron Hillyard
  • Patent number: 10623269
    Abstract: Disclosed aspects relate to operator fusion management in a stream computing environment. A topology model which indicates a set of stream operators, a set of connections between the set of stream operators, and a set of stream operator attributes for the set of stream operators may be established. Based on the topology model, a set of operator fusion management operations to combine the set of stream operators into a set of processing elements may be determined. The set of processing elements may be constructed by performing the set of operator fusion management operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Bradley W. Fawcett
  • Patent number: 10608981
    Abstract: A name identification device includes a generation unit configured to generate graph information in which each node represents one of names and IP addresses included in A records and CNAME records included in a DNS response observed in a network, and each edge represents a correspondence relationship between one and another of the names and the IP addresses in the A records and the CNAME records, and to associate the generated graph information with a client corresponding to the DNS response; and an identifying unit configured to identify a name related to a leaf node that is reachable from a node corresponding to the IP address of a server by tracing the edges in the graph information having been associated with the client, for a packet between the client and the server that is observed in the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeru Inoue, Keisuke Ishibashi, Akihiro Shimoda, Kazumichi Sato, Tatsuya Mori, Shigeki Goto
  • Patent number: 10609010
    Abstract: Systems and methods of sending secured messages on decentralized networks are provided. A software application distributed and installed on a computer terminal that willing is able to participate in the system, where the computer terminal is interactively and dynamically connected to one or two decentralized peer-to-peer communication networks, using the Internet. One of the networks is used to advise about the presence of a message and the other is used to securely store the content of the messages. An alternative embodiment is to use only the decentralized storage system, if it can also acts as a Public Ledger network, with its native crypto-currency. The cryptographic keys of the first network are used to protect the content of the file and to derive where the messages will be stored on the decentralized storage network. In such networks, the transactions are handled by cryptographic mathematical algorithms, which are known to be identical across all users or participants of the same network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: RAISTONE, INC.
    Inventors: Denis Letourneau, Adam A. Martin, Greta Geankoplis
  • Patent number: 10608949
    Abstract: Disclosed are a system and method of integrating an on-demand compute environment into a local compute environment. The method includes receiving a request from an administrator to integrate an on-demand compute environment into a local compute environment and, in response to the request, automatically integrating local compute environment information with on-demand compute environment information to make available resources from the on-demand compute environment to requestors of resources in the local compute environment such that policies of the local environment are maintained for workload that consumes on-demand compute resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: III Holdings 12, LLC
    Inventor: David Brian Jackson
  • Patent number: 10594772
    Abstract: A method for distributed file transfers with high performance and reliability includes creating, on a first Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) server, a global cache, where the global cache is used to store up to a first portion of a data file. The method further includes storing, on the first TFTP server, in the global cache, one or more continuous data blocks that have exceeded a defined first request rate threshold, where the one or more continuous data blocks make up a subset of the data blocks of the first portion of the data file. The method further includes predicting, on the first TFTP server, a next data block in the data file to be stored in the global cache and in response to predicting the next data block, storing, on the first TFTP server, the next data block in the global cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Feng Gao, Peng Hui Jiang, Jing Li, Qin Li, Guang H. Sui, Bin Xu, Jian Hua Zhang
  • Patent number: 10594771
    Abstract: A method for distributed file transfers with high performance and reliability includes creating, on a first Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) server, a global cache, where the global cache is used to store up to a first portion of a data file. The method further includes storing, on the first TFTP server, in the global cache, one or more continuous data blocks that have exceeded a defined first request rate threshold, where the one or more continuous data blocks make up a subset of the data blocks of the first portion of the data file. The method further includes predicting, on the first TFTP server, a next data block in the data file to be stored in the global cache and in response to predicting the next data block, storing, on the first TFTP server, the next data block in the global cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Feng Gao, Peng Hui Jiang, Jing Li, Qin Li, Guang H. Sui, Bin Xu, Jian Hua Zhang
  • Patent number: 10587552
    Abstract: A server includes a message thread module with instructions executed by a processor to maintain a message thread between a first user and a second user. Each entry of the message thread is deleted after a display period unless an indication regarding the entry is received during the display period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Evan Spiegel
  • Patent number: 10536487
    Abstract: A communication network allows an end user to dynamically select a user device among user devices associated with the user's subscription as the primary user device by defining a primary capability tag or attribute. Selection of a user device sets the primary capability tag of the selected user device, which is published towards an application server. The application server notifies all other user devices in the group of devices. If a previous user device in the group of user devices was set as the primary user device, then, in response to the notification, the previous user device performs a re-registration with the network removing the previous user device as the primary user device for the services associated with the user subscription. The selected user device also performs a re-registration/registration with the network so all incoming requests for services associated with the user subscription are sent to the selected user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Ester Gonzalez De Langarica, Afshin Abtin, Mattias Dahlqvist, Cormac Hegarty
  • Patent number: 10530829
    Abstract: A method and system ensures recording quality of a web conference in a computer networked environment. A web conference is monitored including a client computer initiating the web conference and a network connection for a server computer used to share the client computer screen with other client computers in a networked computer environment communicating with the server. A quality of service (QoS) level is determined for a server network connection of the server computer and a client network connection of the client computer. The QoS level is determined using one or more factors. The web conference is recorded using the server network connection at the server computer or at the client network connection at the client computer based on the QoS threshold being met using the server network connection for recording the web conference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan Dunne, James P. Galvin, Jr., Liam Harpur, Amy D. Travis
  • Patent number: 10482528
    Abstract: A philatelic online search system and method is disclosed, comprising a unified catalog and a search system that quickly filters out irrelevant search results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Inventor: Boris Sheykhetov
  • Patent number: 10484442
    Abstract: A video optimizer receives a request to optimize a source file and stream the optimized file. The request may be accompanied by a key uniquely identifying the original source file to be optimized and an optimized version of the source file to stream to the client. The key uniquely identifies the source video file as it exists on an origin server to prevent transmission of modified source video and the optimized version of the source file by optimization parameters to ensure compatibility with the user device. The video optimizer queries a cache database in response to the received request, which contains references keys and locations of optimized source files among local caches in a cluster of video optimizers. The cache database responds indicates whether a matching optimized version of the source file exists in a local cache of a given video optimizer in the cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Performance and Privacy Ireland Limited
    Inventors: Erik R. Swenson, Jaime Heilpern, Sandeep Pombra, Ron Earley, Vadim Arshanskiy
  • Patent number: 10476690
    Abstract: In a communication network, a client has a plurality of network interfaces connecting it to a server able to deliver data streams on multicast groups. The client obtains a first request for subscription to a multicast group allowing to obtain a data stream. The client replaces the first subscription request with a plurality of second requests for subscription to a plurality of multicast subgroups able to supply data sub-streams which, once combined, allow to reconstruct the data stream. Each second subscription request is transmitted over a network interface with which the request was associated, so as to favour use of each available network interface. The client receives, over each network interface, a data sub-stream corresponding to the second subscription request transmitted over said network interface and reconstructs the data stream from the data sub-streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: SAGEMCOM BROADBAND SAS
    Inventors: Antonie Rocquelay, Laurent Alarcon