Patents Examined by Farzana Huq
  • Patent number: 9456028
    Abstract: A method of controlling a first device and a second device, and which includes transmitting first data from the first device to the second device, receiving the first data by the second device, reproducing first screen information based on the first data on a screen of the second device, receiving, in the second device, an input signal for selecting content information in the first screen information reproduced on the screen of the second device, transmitting location information corresponding to the selected content information from the second device to the first device, receiving the location information and executing a function based on the location information in the first device, transmitting second data from the first device to the second device, in which the second data is based on the executed function; and reproducing second screen information based on the second data on the screen of the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jae Young Chang, Min Jung Kim, Jin Ho Son
  • Patent number: 9456044
    Abstract: Various embodiments described or referenced herein are directed to different devices, methods, systems, and computer products for providing information external to an organization in an information feed. A message may be received from an information service provider in accordance with a previously defined request. The defined request may include one or more parameters specifying requested data. The message may include data provided in accordance with the one or more parameters. The data in the message may be processed to create a data object. The data object may include at least a portion of the data provided in accordance with the one or more parameters. The data object may be stored in a database. The data object may then be provided for display on a display device in an information feed associated with the record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: Bradley Herman
  • Patent number: 9451319
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are representative embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems for facilitating the streaming of digital media content to a remote device. In one exemplary embodiment, a translation layer translates markup language code and/or scripting language code (e.g., code that complies with the HTML5/W3C standard) to comply with a streaming protocol (e.g., a streaming protocol specified by the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA)) to facilitate streaming of digital content (e.g., digital video, digital audio, or digital images) to remote devices (e.g., a digital television, digital audio player, game console, etc.). In some embodiments, a translation layer translates streaming protocol events at a remote device into other events (e.g., events specified in the HTML5 standard) at a local computing device. Local/remote playback switching logic can also facilitate switching between local playback and remote playback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Matthieu Maitre, Zane Salim, Catalin C. Cazangiu, Ramees Khan Rahumathulla, Anders Edgar Klemets, Shafiq Rahman, Gabriel Frost, Ivan Mladenov, Jose Contreras
  • Patent number: 9448958
    Abstract: The disclosed network resource management system employs a hardware configuration management (HCM) information handling system (IHS) that may couple to a single administered IHS or to multiple administered IHSs via an administrative network. An HCM tool in the HCM IHS may generate, modify and store hardware configuration information, including physical network identifications (PNet IDs), in an HCM database and share the HCM database with the administered IHSs. The administered IHS may be a bridging IHS. A bridging tool may extract hardware configuration information, including PNet IDs, from the HCM database. The bridging tool may utilize the hardware configuration information, including PNet IDs, to enable the bridging IHS to bridge networks internal to the bridging IHS with networks external to the bridging IHS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jerry W Stevens, Patricia G Driever, Constantinos Kassimis, Gary O McAfee, Alexandra Winter
  • Patent number: 9451051
    Abstract: A system for improving performance of an interactive augmented reality application over a wireless network. The system comprises at least one client side gateway configured to establish and adjust timing and synchronization with a client application based on measurements and predicted performance of a network between the client application and the client side gateway before a predefined period of time expires, transmit timing and synchronization decision to the controller, execute server side application programming interfaces determined by the controller based on the network quality measurements and the predicted network performance, and transmit execution results of the server side application programming interfaces to the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Amar N. Ray, James P. Sisul
  • Patent number: 9438544
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a processing method for a mobile device to display an email, a server, and a mobile device. The method for processing an email includes: after receiving an email downloading request from a client, checking, by a server, a processing capability of the client, where the processing capability is reported to the server by the client when the client is connected to the server, and where the processing capability includes a supported coding/decoding manner and character set; in the case that the client does not have a capability for processing an email that is requested to be downloaded, converting, by the server and according to the processing capability of the client, a body of the email into a format that is processable for the client; and sending, by the server, a converted email to the client, so that the client displays an attachment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Device Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jun Peng
  • Patent number: 9430803
    Abstract: A system for performing information exchange by using a Smart Grid (SG) is provided. The system includes a first device and a second device having SG service types; and an SG Control Point (CP) for transmitting an SG capability request message to the first device and the second device, receiving SG capability response messages from the first device and the second device, matching function sets of the same type to one another if the function sets of the same type are included in the received SG capability response messages from the first device and the second device, and connecting the first device and the second device to one another for the information exchange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Ho-Yeon Park, Se-Hee Han
  • Patent number: 9419978
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide personal channels from a network-capable user terminal. A first user terminal may receive a request from a second user terminal for access to a personal channel created by a user and stored on the first user terminal in association with media content. In response to the request, the first user terminal may access the media content associated with the requested personal channel and provide the media content to the first user terminal over the network. A data center accessible by both the first and second user terminals may facilitate the access to the personal channel by storing information associated with the personal channel, including terminal identifiers and metadata, and providing a searchable catalog interface to identify personal channels to view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Shadman Zafar, Ruchir Rodrigues, Shafiq Kassam, Enrique Ruiz-Velasco
  • Patent number: 9413820
    Abstract: A method of controlling an external terminal from a terminal including receiving screen information from the external terminal; displaying the screen information as is displayed in the external terminal; selecting content information from the screen information, wherein the content information exists at recognized location; transmitting the location information of the selected content information to the external terminal; and receiving the selected content information corresponding to the transmitted location information from the external terminal. The location information includes coordinates information, which is relative coordinates of the selected content information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jae Young Chang, Min Jung Kim, Jin Ho Son
  • Patent number: 9413707
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving tracked locations from a plurality of the client devices and monitoring the tracked locations over time in order to determine a respective task progress for each of a plurality of first users based on monitoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: ACR Development, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony C. Roman, Michael P. Hammond, Jr., Douglas J. Rose
  • Patent number: 9398265
    Abstract: A network of controllers for controlling and monitoring associated assay testing systems coupled to a remote monitoring unit for monitoring and controlling the controllers and/or the assay testing systems is disclosed. Each controller transmits a display image representing the status of the respective assay testing system. The remote monitoring unit automatically detects if the number of display images from the controllers is greater than a threshold number of displayable, static thumbnail images and, when the threshold is exceeded, displays thumbnail images dynamically in a scrolling or streaming motion. The thumbnail images, whether static or dynamic, are updated in real-time or pseudo-real-time to reflect updated status of the assay testing systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc.
    Inventor: Michael W. Heydlauf
  • Patent number: 9392072
    Abstract: An improved industrial automation system and communication system for implementation therein, and related methods of operation, are described herein. In at least some embodiments, the improved communication system allows communication in the form of messages between modules in different control or enterprise domains. Further, in at least some embodiments, such communications are achieved by providing a communication system including a manufacturing service bus having two internal service busses with a bridge between the internal busses. Also, in at least some embodiments, a methodology of synchronous messaging is employed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jan Bezdicek, Ladislav Bumbalek, Kenwood H. Hall, Jakub Slajs
  • Patent number: 9390019
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of providing high performance and highly scalable storage acceleration includes a cluster node-spanning RAM disk (CRD) interposed in the data path between a storage server and a computer server. The CRD addresses performance problems with applications that need to access large amounts of data and are negatively impacted by the latency of classic disk-based storage systems. It solves this problem by placing the data the application needs into a large (with respect to the server's main memory) RAM-based cache where it can be accessed with extremely low latency, hence improving the performance of the application significantly. The CRD is implemented using a novel architecture which has very significant cost and performance advantages over existing or alternative solutions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: VIOLIN MEMORY INC.
    Inventors: Martin Patterson, Matthias Oberdorfer
  • Patent number: 9372820
    Abstract: The disclosed network resource management system employs a hardware configuration management (HCM) information handling system (IHS) that may couple to a single administered IHS or to multiple administered IHSs via an administrative network. An HCM tool in the HCM IHS may generate, modify and store hardware configuration information, including physical network identifications (PNet IDs), in an HCM database and share the HCM database with the administered IHSs. The administered IHS may be a bridging IHS. A bridging tool may extract hardware configuration information, including PNet IDs, from the HCM database. The bridging tool may utilize the hardware configuration information, including PNet IDs, to enable the bridging IHS to bridge networks internal to the bridging IHS with networks external to the bridging IHS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jerry W Stevens, Patricia G Driever, Constantinos Kassimis, Gary O. McAfee, Alexandra Winter
  • Patent number: 9369613
    Abstract: A camera unit includes an image sensor, a circuit board in which a signal processor circuit to process an output signal of the image sensor is formed, a cable including a signal conductor element and a ground conductor element and connected at one end to the circuit board, and a shielding component formed to enclose the circuit board therewith. The ground conductor element is connected to both a ground terminal of the circuit board and the shielding component in a vicinity of the end of the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Maekawa, Norihiko Sasaki
  • Patent number: 9350689
    Abstract: Embodiments of the systems and methods described herein facilitate the transmitting, receiving, and processing of encoded messages wherein the header fields in the message header are protected. In one embodiment, the contents of the header fields to be protected are inserted into the message body as one or more additional lines of text, for example, prior to encoding and transmitting the message to a message recipient. Upon receipt of the message, the message recipient processes the encoded message such that the contents of the protected header fields can be extracted from the message body. Accordingly, by inserting the contents of the header fields to be protected into the message body, the header fields may be protected using existing standards and protocols for facilitating secure message communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Herbert Anthony Little, Neil Patrick Adams, Michael Stephen Brown
  • Patent number: 9348649
    Abstract: The disclosed network resource management system employs a hardware configuration management (HCM) information handling system (IHS) that may couple to a single administered IHS or to multiple administered IHSs via an administrative network. An HCM tool in the HCM IHS may generate, modify and store hardware configuration information, including physical network identifications (PNet IDs), in an HCM database and share the HCM database with the administered IHSs. The administered IHS may be a remote direct memory access (RDMA) enabled network interface controller (RNIC) converging IHS. An RNIC converging tool may extract hardware configuration information, including PNet IDs, from the HCM database. The RNIC converging tool may utilize the hardware configuration information, including PNet IDs, to enable the RNIC converging IHS to communicate over a network with RDMA protocols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jerry W Stevens, Patricia G Driever, Constantinos Kassimis, Gary O. McAfee, Alexandra Winter
  • Patent number: 9342985
    Abstract: A traffic condition data providing method using a wireless communication device and a navigation device performing the method are disclosed. The navigation device includes a travelling path displaying unit that searches a travelling path to a destination set by a user and displays the travelling path on map data, a traffic condition data receiving unit that receives traffic condition data from a content managing server through a wireless communication device in response to a request of providing the traffic condition data over the travelling path, and a traffic condition data providing unit that provides the user with the received traffic condition data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: INTELLECTUAL DISCOVERY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jongwon Kim
  • Patent number: 9342381
    Abstract: The present disclosure enables remote device management. A programmatic interface is associated with each application plug-in. A web server included with the on-device agent provides access to the programmatic interfaces according to open standards such as HTML or XML. The present disclosure enables access to remote devices through existing infrastructure without the need for proprietary systems. An IT administrator or other administrator may remotely access and update software and hardware, track device data plan usage statistics, provide live support, and track current and historical device locations. Further, through the use of the present disclosure developers may provide customizable applications employing plug-ins on the remote device targeted for their own system. This disclosure also enables management of remote devices and the data thereon via a data loss prevention component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventors: Onno Kluyt, Mark Gentile
  • Patent number: 9344682
    Abstract: A multimedia provider multicasts a main multimedia stream comprising a mixture of intra and inter frames and multicasts an associated auxiliary stream comprising intra frames. At least a portion of the intra frames in the auxiliary stream are generated based on same multimedia data as at least a portion of the inter frames of the main stream. The provider also transmits a stream information channel comprising information descriptive of time instances of intra frames in the main and auxiliary streams. This information allows a set top box to selectively connect, in connection with session set-up and channel switch, to the main or auxiliary stream to receive an intra frame with as a low delay as possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON
    Inventors: Mats Cedervall, Henric Axelsson, Hans Byström