Patents Examined by Kevin T Bates
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Patent number: 11972298Abstract: Technologies for migrating data between edge accelerators hosted on different edge locations include a device hosted on a present edge location. The device includes one or more processors to: receive a workload from a requesting device, determine one or more accelerator devices hosted on the present edge location to perform the workload, and transmit the workload to the one or more accelerator devices to process the workload. The one or more processor is further to determine whether to perform data migration from the one or more accelerator devices to one or more different edge accelerator devices hosted on a different edge location, and send, in response to a determination to perform the data migration, a request to the one or more accelerator devices on the present edge location for transformed workload data to be processed by the one or more different edge accelerator devices.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Evan Custodio, Francesc Guim Bernat, Suraj Prabhakaran, Trevor Cooper, Ned M. Smith, Kshitij Doshi, Petar Torre
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Patent number: 11973810Abstract: Illustrative embodiments disclose systems for sharing, among a group of consumers, data provided by a contributor. Some embodiments are well-suited for real-time distribution of data developing from ongoing incidents, and may be useful, for example, for emergency management. Illustrative embodiments provide a cloud-based system having tenants that are data contributors and data consumers. The system receives, from each contributor, both data and sharing rules that dictate whether and how that data may be shared, and with whom (which consumer or consumers), and then provide data to such consumer or consumers according to the sharing rules.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Intergraph CorporationInventors: Mark Bailey, Phillip Barrett, Joshua Beard, Jeremy Leshko, Jared Phillips, Lawrence C. Levert, IV
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Patent number: 11968608Abstract: A method, system and computer readable media for detecting entry of an IoT pack into a geofenced location. The method may begin by broadcasting a Bluetooth inquiry message from a Bluetooth radio that forms a part of an IoT pack. Upon receipt of one or more responses to the inquiry message a Bluetooth radio that forms a part of a given beacon used to demark a geofenced location, the IoT pack energizes an ultra wide band radio that forms a part of the IoT pack and begins sending and receiving ultra wide band signals to an ultra wide band radios that form a part of the given beacon. Ranging information is calculated from the IoT pack to the one or more beacons on the basis of the received ultra wide band signals, which is analyzed to determine the location of the IoT pack relative to the geofenced location.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: HELBIZ HOLDINGS, INC.Inventors: Jonathan Hannestad, Nemanja Stancic, Petar Milovanovic, Salvatore Palella
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Patent number: 11962459Abstract: Systems and methods for intelligent traffic control within a bridge that allows efficient and timely communication between Internet of Things (IoT) devices and a cloud-based server are disclosed. One method is for adding an IoT device to a cloud-based system for controlling IoT devices. The method includes in response to determining there is a request from a user to add an IoT device, obtaining information pertaining to the IoT device. The method further includes adding the IoT device to the cloud-based system via a bridge installed in the cloud-based system, where adding the IoT device to the cloud-based system includes sending required data to the IoT device via the bridge according to a communication protocol of the IoT device. The method further includes determining whether the IoT device was successfully added to the cloud-based system. The method further includes in response to determining the IoT device was successfully added, updating the bridge with the information pertaining to the IoT device.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: HELTUN, INC.Inventor: Ashot Mashuryan
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Patent number: 11962598Abstract: An approach for publishing posts on a social network through one or more user accounts with different levels of attribution is disclosed. A secure user account publishes a post through a programmatically linked buffer user account. The secure user account and the buffer user account are programmatically linked. Posts published via the buffer user account can be modified to add attribution image data or other visual indicators of the original post creator.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Nicholas R. Allen, Joseph Burfitt
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Patent number: 11960826Abstract: A method is disclosed for presenting media content on a first client computer of client computers that are participating in a collaboration session.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Kelvin Chan, Yiyang Joy Ding
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Patent number: 11962625Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for remotely accessing a computer system or network to identify storage devices and to retrieve metadata from the storage devices that are respectively unique to files stored in the storage devices. The metadata provides information regarding each file stored on the storage devices and each metadata is associated with a respective file. A scanning tool compares the metadata retrieved from the computer system or network to a database or list of known metadata of known restricted content. Metadata retrieved from the computer system or network that matches metadata from the database or list of known restricted content is flagged and the file associated with the matching metadata is flagged and reported as potentially storing restricted content. During the scanning, restricted content itself is not scanned, not copied, not transferred and not stored.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Inventor: Steve Hummel
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Patent number: 11949583Abstract: A process includes enforcing compliance of a compute appliance to a reference operating state for the compute appliance. The compute appliance is part of a cloud-based computing system. Enforcing compliance with the reference operating state includes, responsive to a startup of the compute appliance, the compute appliance determining an actual compute state of the compute appliance. The actual compute state includes an actual physical topology placement of a hardware component of the compute appliance. Determining the actual compute state includes determining the physical topology placement of the hardware component. Enforcing compliance with the reference operating state includes verifying whether the actual compute state complies with the reference compute state. The verification includes comparing the actual compute state to the reference compute state.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LPInventors: Dwight D. Riley, Robert W. Noller
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Patent number: 11950177Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which an blocking delivery service is provided. The service may use an identifier of a source end device, destination address information associated with a destination end device, and configurable criteria as a basis to block delivery of application service layer data. The service may be configured to apply to end devices based on an addressing scheme of the service. The service may be configured on a network device that provides an application service. The service may block delivery without the use of class of service or subscriber provisioning.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Kevin Lim, Craig Barth, Brian Olson, Ye Huang, Joseph Lee, Tony Ferreira
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Patent number: 11941506Abstract: A system and method for determining abnormal conditions based on signals received from smart devices. The method includes receiving, via a controller and transmitted via one or more devices, one or more first signals indicative of one or more first statuses of the one or more devices. The method includes determining, via the controller and based on the one or more first statuses, a base model. The method includes receiving, via the controller and transmitted via the one or more devices, one or more second signals indicative of one or more second statuses of the one or more devices. The method includes comparing, via the controller, the one or more statuses to the base model and determining, via the controller and based on the comparison, an occurrence of an abnormal condition.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Hubbell IncorporatedInventor: Paul Robert Langdon
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Patent number: 11943102Abstract: A method for configuring multiple electronic devices in a batch, is described. The method can include initializing, by a first computing device a communication network based on a pre-defined configuration parameter. The pre-defined configuration parameter is associated with a first instance of an application on the first computing device. Further, the method includes identifying, by the first computing device, an initialization of a second instance of an application at a second computing device. In response to identifying the initialization of the second instance of the application at the second computing device, the method includes, sending, by the first computing device configuration settings for the second computing device over a secured communication network. In this regard, the configuration settings can comprise at least the pre-defined configuration parameter for configuring the second computing device.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.Inventors: Chen Li, Leon Zhang
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Patent number: 11936542Abstract: A method of solving a problem of a network and an electronic device for performing the method are provided. The electronic device includes at least one processor. The processor may determine a representative cause representing a cause of each of anomaly samples of a quality indicator indicating a quality of the network. The processor may perform a time-series analysis on an indicator associated with the representative cause. The processor may propose a solution corresponding to the representative cause and a result of the time-series analysis.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sangkyu Park, Jonghwa Park, Youngsuk Sun, Yunju Lee, Panhyung Lee, Hakyung Jung
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Patent number: 11930083Abstract: A method for processing NF discovery requests using prioritized lists of preferred locations includes maintaining an NF profiles database including NF profiles of producer NFs registered to provide service to other NFs and a preferred locality attribute mappings database including mappings between preferred locality attributes and prioritized lists of preferred locations. The method includes receiving, from an NF, an NF discovery request including query parameters and a preferred locality attribute. The method further includes accessing the preferred locality attribute mappings database using the preferred locality attribute and obtaining a prioritized list of preferred locations corresponding to the preferred locality attribute, accessing the NF profiles database using the query parameters and identifying NF profiles of producer NFs capable of providing a service indicated by the query parameters, and prioritizing the NF profiles according to the prioritized list of preferred locations.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Yesh Goel, Sridhar Karuturi, Ahmed M. Akl, Doki Satish Kumar Patro, Amarnath Jayaramachar
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Patent number: 11930091Abstract: A method for redundancy control is disclosed. CIoT reader devices act as collaborative IoT gateways for connected objects and collect received data from the connected objects and transmit the data to a backend cloud infrastructure. The method includes assigning to each connected object an identifier ID and a freshness indicator, where the freshness indicator is a label having a value of “fresh” or “expired”, upon receiving data from at least one connected object, setting the freshness indicator to “fresh” for each respective connected object, wherein for each connected object the freshness indicator is configured to change to “expired” after a pre-determined period of time, and sending a message to coordinator device, the message containing a fresh list of ID's of connected objects for which the freshness indicator has “fresh”, wherein the coordinator device broadcasts the fresh list to CIoT reader devices within a broadcasting range of the coordinator device.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Inventors: Ayman Hassan, Apostolos Kountouris
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Patent number: 11924068Abstract: Examples of an apparatus and method for provisioning a service are described. Descriptors are described that represent the service. These are accessed and used to determine a reference required to implement the service. The reference indicates a type of entity and an entity to be passed to a function. The descriptor for the service is instantiated to obtain an instance of the service. This includes obtaining an instance of the type of entity indicated by the reference.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LPInventor: Peter Michael Bruun
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Patent number: 11916752Abstract: In one embodiment, a device obtains an indication of a network event predicted by a routing engine for a network. The device initiates monitoring of one or more network paths associated with the network event, to determine one or more states of the network. The device makes a comparison between the one or more states of the network and a set of one or more constraints. The device provides a prediction cancelation notification to the routing engine, based on the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Jean-Philippe Vasseur, Grégory Mermoud, Vinay Kumar Kolar, Pierre-André Savalle
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Patent number: 11916929Abstract: An information technology (IT) and security operations application enables the automatic assignment of incident events to analysts based on a variety of characteristics of the incident events to be assigned, the analysts and analyst teams, and other considerations. An IT and security operations application can perform the automatic assignment of incident events based at least in part on data indicating each analyst's knowledge of certain types of incidents, data indicating each analyst's efficiency at responding to certain types of incidents, and the like, where such data is automatically created and maintained by the application.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Splunk Inc.Inventors: Vadan Thimmegowda, Sourabh Satish
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Patent number: 11909833Abstract: The present disclosure describes an artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) based distributed, hybrid, and multi-cloud software fabric-based system that unifies the communication infrastructure across hybrid and multi clouds. This mobile connectivity software fabric allows operators to modernize their networks to bring significant operational savings while rolling out new mobile services. This fabric can enable small independent networks and allow them to seamlessly connect with public networks, and it can enable network of networks while keeping the underlying compute and heterogeneity unified.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: A5G Networks, Inc.Inventors: Rajesh Kumar Mishra, Kaitki Agarwal
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Patent number: 11902379Abstract: A method for determining a service and session continuity (SSC) mode and an apparatus, where the method includes: determining, by a terminal device, a requested SSC mode; and sending a first request message to a first core network element, where the first request message is used to request to establish a first protocol data unit (PDU) session, and the first request message includes a session type of the first PDU session, the requested SSC mode, and first indication information. The first request message sent by the terminal device to the first core network element may carry the first indication information, used to indicate that the SSC mode requested by the terminal device is not allowed to be modified, to prevent a network-side network element from subsequently making an erroneous decision, for example, modifying the requested SSC mode to another SSC mode that is not supported by the terminal device.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Qianghua Zhu, Fenqin Zhu, Wenfu Wu
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Patent number: 11902105Abstract: A computing device can receive flow data from one or more flow tables for a programmable network switch. The computing device can also generate, based on the flow data, a graphical user interface showing relationships between recirculation operations defined in the flow data. The graphical user interface can include a directed graph having nodes representing the recirculation operations. The graphical user interface can also include directed links specifying a sequential order in which the recirculation operations are to be applied to data packets by the programmable network switch. Each of the nodes can correspond to a respective recirculation operation among the recirculation operations.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: RED HAT, INC.Inventors: Adrian Moreno Zapata, Marcelo Leitner