Patents Examined by Jonathan A Sparks
  • Patent number: 11329904
    Abstract: The technology disclosed automates aggregate network traffic monitoring using an aggregation index that maps URLs, domain names, and subdomain names to roll-up families. Network usage records for family members, i.e., URLs, domain names, and subdomain names mapped to the same roll-up family in the aggregation index, are rolled up and attributed to a family root name identifying the roll-up family.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Netskope, Inc.
    Inventors: Ravindra K. Balupari, Shankaran Gnanashanmugam
  • Patent number: 11328053
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include establishing a header policy that is to be applied at a metadata proxy. The header policy may indicate that specified header information is to be included in each metadata service request sent to a metadata service. The method may also include accessing the established header policy at the metadata proxy, where the metadata proxy is configured to intercept metadata service requests and check the intercepted requests for the specified header information. The method may further include determining, at the metadata proxy, that the metadata service request does not include the specified header information and, in response to the determination, preventing the metadata service request from being passed to the metadata service. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Netflix, Inc.
    Inventor: William Bengtson
  • Patent number: 11323528
    Abstract: Embodiments described include systems and methods for receiving push notifications for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. Push notifications may be received by an agent or notification listener provided by a client application of a client device. The listener may receive and display notifications for a large plurality of SaaS applications, regardless of whether the SaaS applications are currently active in a browser of the client device. The listener agent may be lightweight, consuming very little memory or processor resources, while being able to handle very large numbers of notifications. This may free up resources on the client device, consume less battery for mobile devices, and provide notification functionality for SaaS applications using native notification techniques without requiring the SaaS application developers to rewrite notification systems or switch to an operating system-provided notification system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Abhishek Chauhan
  • Patent number: 11290569
    Abstract: An information exchange platform receives a file from a client system and processes the file for delivery to a trading partner (TP) of the client system. The TP does not need to be a client of the information exchange platform. So long as the file has some identifying information such as an email address that uniquely identifies the TP within a custom solution for the client system, the information exchange platform can automatically and programmatically provision the TP. An auto-provisioning subsystem is operable to create and/or configure information needed to complete the processing of the file just in time, including creating a legal entity and a routing address for the TP. When completed, the file is processed into a deliverable, which is then provided for delivery to the TP just in time as the file is received from the client system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT GXS ULC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Wayne Barton, Waqas Ahmed, Ricardo Ceppi
  • Patent number: 11288334
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, a content agnostic approach to quality of assessment of social media posts or other items or content in an online network, such as a social networking service, is utilized. Specifically, information about members contained in member profiles may be used to derive meaningful insights about posts they interact with collectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Somya Gupta, Srinivasa Madhava Phaneendra Angara
  • Patent number: 11258681
    Abstract: A method for visualizing network flows of a network is provided. The method monitors network flows between a group of machines in a network. The method associates identifiers with the monitored network flows. The method aggregates the monitored network flows into a set of groups based on the associated identifiers. The method displays a set of flow records for the each group of the set of groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: NICIRA, INC.
    Inventors: Kaushal Bansal, Uday Masurekar, Srinivas Nimmagadda, Jingmin Zhou, Abhishek Goliya, Amit Chopra, Kausum Kumar
  • Patent number: 11252264
    Abstract: A source of a transmission control protocol (TCP) connection includes a processor to establish the TCP connection based on a TCP source port number and a TCP destination port number associated with a destination. The processor also generates a TCP shim header including the TCP source port number and the TCP destination port number. The processor further generates a plurality of TCP headers including a plurality of proxy port numbers and a shim port number that indicates the TCP shim header. The source also includes a transceiver to transmit a plurality of packets comprising the plurality of TCP headers and the TCP shim header. The destination of the TCP connection includes a processor configured to establish the TCP connection and a transceiver to receive the plurality of packets via the TCP connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventor: Pranjal Kumar Dutta
  • Patent number: 11245637
    Abstract: A non-transitory processor-readable medium storing code representing instructions to be executed by a processor can cause the processor to receive an indication to load balance a group of sessions associated with a network node and a switch across a group of links between a gateway device and the switch at a first time. The code causes the processor to calculate at a second time, a load based on the group of sessions and associated with a first set of links in an active configuration before the first time. The code causes the processor to send a signal to cause a set of sessions from the group of sessions to re-establish themselves at a third time based on a threshold value calculated based on the load such that the set of sessions are load balanced across a second set of links in the active configuration at the third time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeevan Madhu Kamisetty, Lakshmana Murthy Mantha, Joseph L. White, Simon Jonathan Gordon
  • Patent number: 11240133
    Abstract: A communication quality evaluation device includes: a storage unit configured to store permission relationship information indicating a relationship between a plurality of first objective indicators indicating communication quality, and use continuation possibility information indicating whether a user will continue use in the case of each of the first objective indicators; an indicator acquisition unit configured to acquire a second objective indicator at a point in time at which the communication quality evaluation device makes a determination; and a permission determination unit configured to determine, using the second objective indicator acquired by the indicator acquisition unit and with reference to the permission relationship information stored in the storage unit, whether the user will continue use on the basis of the result of the referencing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 11240334
    Abstract: Maintaining cache coherency in the presence of a network attached memory is disclosed. A computer system includes a plurality of physical nodes. An operating system is run collectively across the plurality of physical nodes. The physical nodes are configured to communicate with a network attached memory. Based at least in part on an operation to be performed with respect to page on a first physical node included in the plurality of physical nodes, the network attached memory is configured to receive a message. The network attached memory is configured to perform an action based at least in part on the received message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: TidalScale, Inc.
    Inventors: Isaac R. Nassi, David P. Reed
  • Patent number: 11234213
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed to propagate announcement and de-announcement of a resource across one or more networks. A first entity, which may be a hosting service capability layer (SCL), may receive a request from an issuer to announce a resource. The first entity may create a representation of the resource. The representation may be referred to as an announced resource. The first entity may send an announce resource request to a second entity (e.g., an announced-to SCL), which may be registered with the first entity. The announce resource request may be sent over an mId interface. The first entity may receive a first response from the second entity over the mId interface indicating that the second entity created the announced resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: IoT Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Guang Lu, Rocco Di Girolamo, Paul L. Russell, Jr., Ana Lucia A. Pinheiro, Jean-Louis Gauvreau, Dale N. Seed, Nicholas J. Podias, Michael F. Starsinic
  • Patent number: 11184439
    Abstract: A network node includes a bus switching element, and a network adapter, an accelerator and a host, all coupled to communicate via the bus switching element. The network adapter is configured to communicate with remote nodes over a communication network. The host is configured to establish a RDMA link between the accelerator and the RDMA endpoint by creating a Queue Pair (QP) to be used by the accelerator for communication with the RDMA endpoint via the RDMA link. The accelerator is configured to exchange data, via the network adapter, between a memory of the accelerator and a memory of the RDMA endpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Haggai Eran, Dotan David Levi, Maxim Fudim, Liran Liss
  • Patent number: 11159415
    Abstract: An information handling system monitors events of a first time period, forms sequences from the events (first sequences), and determines normal sequences of the events. In one embodiment, it may also form sequences based upon events of a second time period (second sequences), the second time period later than the first time period, match the first sequences against the second sequences, and remove events of the second sequences from the events of the second time period. The information handling systems may then search for anomalous events in the remaining events. In another embodiment, the normal sequences may represent purchases. The information handling systems may compare purchases of a customer to the normal sequences and determine products of possible interest to the customer based upon the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: SecureWorks Corp.
    Inventor: Lewis I. McLean
  • Patent number: 11159844
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and device for transmitting/receiving information efficiently between devices in a multimedia system. A method of communicating between devices in a multimedia system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of: searching a second device for a first device to use a broadcast service or content; acquiring second information on at least one service terminal point for the first device to receive first information related to the broadcast service or the content from the second device; requesting, by means of the first device, the transmission of the first information related to the broadcast service or the content by using the second information; and receiving, by means of the first device from the second device, the first information as a response to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Young-Sun Ryu
  • Patent number: 11140202
    Abstract: A method and communication system are disclosed for conducting a conference among conference participants connected by a communication system. This system has at least one conference server and at least one image reproduction unit at each conference environment. The method involves collecting context data concerning at least one of the conference participants at multiple timed intervals; calculating a relationship value from the context data at the timed intervals; determining a relationship status, wherein the relationship status is expressed using one of several categories defined by a threshold value, depending on the calculated relationship value; and displaying the relationship status on at least one image reproduction unit during the conference. The method may be performed at the beginning of the conference and/or when a new participant joins the conference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: RINGCENTRAL, INC.
    Inventors: Patrick Kleiner, Karl Klug
  • Patent number: 11134034
    Abstract: The systems and methods presented herein describe integrating artificial intelligence chatbots into a communication between real-world users. A context of a shared communication session between the real-world users may be determined. In response to a user selection, a contextually relevant communication may be presented in communication session. The contextually relevant communication may be responsive to the context of the communication session and/or may convey a persona of an entity, such as a movie character.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael P. Goslin, Eric C. Haseltine, Timothy M. Panec, Jason Yeung, Hunter Gibson
  • Patent number: 11102067
    Abstract: Techniques disclosed herein manage and resolve incidents in hybridity manager applications, without the back-and-forth manual steps of the traditional software support lifecycle. In one embodiment, a virtual network operations center (NOC) with a centralized view of distributed, cross-cloud hybridity manager installations is responsible for tracking incident reports relating to hybridity managers and associated bugs, and the virtual NOC automatically publishes notifications of upgrade builds that fix the tracked bugs to the appropriate hybridity managers. When the same bug is encountered again with another hybridity manager instance, the virtual NOC may also publish an upgrade notification to the other hybridity manager instance, without requiring a support ticket to be filed, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Hemanth Kumar Pannem, Aarti Kumar Gupta, Sachin Thakkar, Furkan Shaikh, Kim Tran, Lu Yu, Venu Gopala Rao Kotha
  • Patent number: 11102622
    Abstract: Technologies are disclosed for determining a best time to send a text message to a party over a plurality of contact periods of time to achieve having the party respond to the message with a desired outcome and/or result. Various embodiments of the invention involve determining, for each period of time, an amount of time the party is expected to take to respond to the text message, a cost of sending the message, and a probability of the party responding with the desired outcome and/or result as a result of sending the message during the period of time. A contact attempt value is determined for each period of time based on these variables along with a desirability of sending the message to the party during the period of time. Accordingly, the best time to send the message is identified as the period of time having the highest contact attempt value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Noble Systems Corporation
    Inventor: Christopher S. Haggerty
  • Patent number: 11082481
    Abstract: A System Solution of a Computing device and Computer hardware automatically generates a Data Model with a well-defined structure containing the Business Entity Data and a Service Representation with Services selected by a Business Entity. The System Solution applies the Data Model to an Automatic Application Generator that automatically generates an Application comprising a set of Native Application Clients for all desired platforms (mobile, non-mobile and Cloud), Application Servers, communication protocols, Dashboards, and other components. The output of the Automatic Application Generator provides a set of Application Clients for the particular platforms selected by the Business Entity and interacts with the Operating System of a Client Device. A Dashboard automatically generates Updated Applications based on the selected Services as desired by the Business Entity. The clients and servers communicate via an automatically generated Client-Server Protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: GADGET SOFTWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Fabio M. Chiussi, Parameshwar Hegde
  • Patent number: 11075985
    Abstract: A system is provided to support a serverless environment and quickly generate containers to handle requests. The system includes a first network node, a container orchestration system, and a serving node. The first network node receives an initial packet of a request from a host and sends a notification to a container orchestration system. The notification includes header information from the initial packet and signals the reception of the initial packet of the request. The container orchestration system creates one or more new containers in response to the notification based on the header information of the initial packet. The serving node instantiates the new containers, receives the request from the host, and processes the request from the host with the new containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Kyle Mestery, Ian Wells