Patents Examined by Kidest Mendaye
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Patent number: 10769221Abstract: Information related to apparently successful matches between two entities is collected, and culled based on a later indication that the match failed. Matches between two entities may be generated based on comparative information with other entities who appear to share some characteristics or preferences. Matches may be based on actual actions, in contrast to expressed preferences. Actual actions may be taken into account in addition to expressed preferences. Generation of matches may take into account geographical and/or temporal proximity and/or likelihood of receiving a response, in addition to other attributes of an entity. Matching algorithms may be updated based on entity input. Potential matches may be presented to third party entities for evaluation.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2016Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: PLENTYOFFISH MEDIA ULCInventors: Markus Frind, Steve Oldridge
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Patent number: 10749743Abstract: According to examples, a method for upgrading a version of a service may include instructing a host device to pre-spawn a number of first host processes configured to provide a first version of the service in a computing node and to pre-spawn a number of second host processes configured to provide a second version of the service according to a first scaling constraint in the computing node. The method may also include, in response to receiving an indication that each of the second host processes is operating properly, instructing the host device to decrease the number of first host processes and to increase the number of second host processes as defined in a second scaling constraint.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Romit Chattopadhyay, Mariyan D. Fransazov
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Patent number: 10749990Abstract: Automatic discovery of API information is disclosed, including: receiving a transaction; obtaining a determined signature from the transaction; and determining that the determined signature comprises a candidate signature to potentially add to an application programming interface (API) model.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: A. Marsh Gardiner, Yegor Pomortsev
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Patent number: 10728166Abstract: Various methods and systems for implementing request scheduling and processing in a multi-tenant distributed computing environment are provided. Requests to utilize system resources in the distributed computing environment are stored in account queues corresponding to tenant accounts. If storing a request in an account queue would exceed a throttling threshold such as a limit on the number of requests stored per account, the request is dropped to a throttling queue. A scheduler prioritizes processing requests stored in the processing queue before processing requests stored in the account queues. The account queues can be drained using dominant resource scheduling. In some embodiments, a request is not picked up from an account queue if processing the request would exceed a predefined hard limit on system resource utilization for the corresponding tenant account. In some embodiments, the hard limit is defined as a percentage of threads the system has to process requests.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2017Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Venkates Paramasivam Balakrishnan, Krishnan Varadarajan
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Patent number: 10708357Abstract: A network-displaced direct storage architecture transports storage commands over a network interface. In one implementation, the architecture maps, at hosts, block storage commands to remote direct memory access operations (e.g., over converged Ethernet). The mapped operations are communicated across the network to a network storage appliance. At the network storage appliance, network termination receives the mapped commands, extracts the operation and data, and passes the operation and data to a storage device that implements the operation on a memory.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL SALES PTE. LIMITEDInventors: Ariel Hendel, Karagada Ramarao Kishore
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Patent number: 10701163Abstract: Described herein is a system and method for estimating wait times at various resource providers based on transaction information submitted to a processing network. In some embodiments, the system identifies a time distance between a target resource provider and a plurality of other resource providers in order to identify resource providers local to the target resource provider. Additionally, the system may identify segments for each of a plurality of users on the system. The processing network may identify recent transaction requests received from each of the resource providers local to the target resource provider. The processing network may then identify users associated with each of those transaction requests. Based on the segments assigned to each of those users, the system may estimate and arrival rate, and subsequently an estimated wait time, for the target resource provider.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2016Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Visa International Service AssociationInventors: Varun Sharma, Patrick Egbuchulam, Zian Huang, Nandakumar Kandaloo, Srijoy Aditya
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Patent number: 10691469Abstract: A system which comprises a series of native applications, suited to run on mobile devices, and a series of web-based applications for which functionality and processing are optimized. The native applications and the web-based applications are coordinated to optimize processes of acquiring, storing and disseminating data for speed, integrity and security.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2015Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Intrepid Networks, LLCInventors: Brittin Kane, Joseph Daniel McCall, Joshua Witter, Jason Alan Stonebraker
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Patent number: 10686682Abstract: A computer system for classifying one or more servers by server type in a networked computing system to institute server-type based monitoring and or maintenance of the networked computing system. The computer system includes a processor, a memory, a data receiver, a server signature generator, and a server-type tagging service. The data receiver collects server performance data for a first server over a time interval. The server signature generator determines a signature of the first server based on the collected server performance data. The server-type tagging service compares the signature of the first server to a signature of a second server of known server type, determines a similarity of the signature of the first server to the signature of the second server, and, based on the similarity, classifies the first server as being of the same server type as the second server.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2017Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.Inventors: Nitin Navare, Sridhar Sodem, Mark Rivington
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Patent number: 10678880Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for distributing digital keys. The method includes the steps of a first database storing a plurality of keys relating to a plurality of products; for each product, transferring keys from the first database to a corresponding cache in a second database; in response to a request for a key for a product, retrieving and distributing a key from the corresponding cache; and refreshing the corresponding cache by transferring further keys from the first database to the corresponding cache. A system for distributing digital keys is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2015Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: Greenman Gaming LimitedInventors: Lee Packham, Krzysztof Bandurski, James Phillips, Daniel Smedley
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Patent number: 10673812Abstract: A network translation (NT) computing device generates a routing table for a global network including a plurality of local networks. Each local network is associated with a local network identifier of the routing table and includes at least one network-addressable (NA) computing device. The NT computing device stores the routing table in a routing database and receives a data packet having a recipient address from a first local network. The recipient address includes a local network identifier associated with a second local network and an internet protocol (IP) address for a recipient NA computing device within the second local network. The NT computing device extracts the local network identifier from the recipient address, compares the local network identifier to the routing table, and transmits the data packet with the IP address to the second local network to be transmitted to the recipient NA computing device based on the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2017Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Mastercard International IncorporatedInventors: Brian Denning Wink, Vishwam Shekhar Singh, Michael James Shaon
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Patent number: 10666581Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for instantiating a dialog process at a particular child node state. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a request specifying a particular child node state of a dialog process, instantiating the dialog process at the root node state, providing input responses to the dialog process that cause the dialog process to traverse from the root node state to the particular child node state, where each input response is provided in response to an input request, and providing data that causes a user device to present the dialog process at the particular child node state.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2017Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventor: Alex Daniel Jacobson
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Patent number: 10652137Abstract: An example method for facilitating conflict avoidant traffic routing in a network environment is provided and includes detecting, at a network element, an intent conflict at a peer network element in a network, and changing a forwarding decision at the network element to steer traffic around the conflicted peer network element. The intent conflict refers to an incompatibility between an asserted intent associated with the traffic and an implemented intent associated with the traffic. In specific embodiments, the detecting includes mounting rules from the peer network element into the network element, and analyzing the mounted rules to determine intent conflict. In some embodiments, a central controller in the network deploys one or more intentlets on a plurality of network elements in the network according to corresponding intent deployment parameters.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Eric A. Voit, Samer Salam, Ludwig Alexander Clemm, Yegnanarayanan Gargya Chandramouli
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Patent number: 10652289Abstract: A customer support technique for an electronic system includes operating a computerized apparatus to conduct a video chat with a remote customer support device. During the course of the video chat, the computerized apparatus simultaneously exchanges information pertaining to the electronic system. The computerized apparatus collects diagnostic information from the electronic system, transmits the diagnostic information to the customer support device, and receives remedial information back from the customer support device, all while the video chat continues to proceed without interruption. The improved technique thus provides a near-hands-on support experience from a remote customer support agent regardless of the customer support agent's physical location.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2013Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLCInventors: Jonathan Fontanez, Todd Dolinsky, Nicholas Hansen, Matthew Molner
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Patent number: 10630781Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for clients and servers operating in a scaled cluster environment. Efficiencies are introduced to the process of connecting a client to a clustered environment by providing the client with the ability to attempt a connection with multiple servers in parallel. Servers operating the in the clustered environment are also capable of providing persistent storage of file handles and other state information. Ownership of the state information and persistent handles may be transferred between servers, thereby providing clients with the opportunity to move from one server to another while maintaining access to resources in the clustered environment.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2015Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: David M. Kruse, Daniel E. Lovinger, Thomas E. Jolly, James T. Pinkerton, Mathew George, Roopesh C. Battepati, Mingdong Shang
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Patent number: 10616049Abstract: A system and method of determining the configuration of a network switching unit includes a network switching unit having one or more hardware processors. The one or more hardware processors are configured to execute code to cause the network switching unit to perform operations. The operations include detecting an inter-domain link aggregation group (LAG) associated with a first domain ID and receiving an inter-domain LAG detection message from a peer network switching unit. The inter-domain LAG detection message includes a second domain ID. In response to determining that the first domain ID and the second domain ID match, the network switching unit performs further operations including assigning a virtual link trunking (VLT) identifier to the inter-domain LAG, transmitting a VLT configuration message to the peer network switching unit, and forwarding network traffic to a first domain associated with the first domain ID using a VLT associated with the VLT identifier.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2016Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS, L.P.Inventor: Pathangi Narasimhan Janardhanan
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Patent number: 10609175Abstract: An approach for opportunistic caching of streaming media data is provided to facilitate efficient use of forward transmission resources of a broadband communications system. The approach includes receiving, by a second communications terminal, a first content response transmitted by a first content server, via a broadcast/multicast communications medium, in response to a first content request of a first client device associated with a first communications terminal, wherein the first content response includes first data content requested by the first client device via the first communications terminal. The approach further comprises determining, by a cache controller of a cache storage device of the second communications terminal, to store at least the first data content of the first content response in the local cache storage device associated with the second communications terminal, wherein the determination to store is based on one or more criteria associated with the first content response.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2015Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Hughes Newtwork Systems, LLCInventors: Chi-Jiun Su, Lin-Nan Lee
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Patent number: 10586215Abstract: Social networking system users may create events where a group of other users invited to the event meet at a specified time and location. While an inviting user initially specifies the group of users to invite to the event, the social networking system suggests additional users to invite to the event. The social networking system suggests additional users based on a prediction that the users would attend the event if invited. Various factors may be used to make the prediction, such as an affinity between the inviting user and the other users, the availability of the other users at the time of the event and/or the proximity of the other users to the location of the event. Invitations to the suggested additional users may be automatically sent or sent to a set of the additional users selected by the inviting user.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2018Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Srinivas P. Narayanan, Justin Alexander Shaffer, Daniel Jeng-Ping Hui, Ross David Bayer
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Patent number: 10581987Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for monitoring network usage by client devices and enforcing compliance rules related thereto. A management component of a client application can be provided to identify a first function call made in the source code of the client application to invoke a media player function on the client device associated with a playback of media content received over a carrier network. The first function call can be replaced with a second function call that, when invoked during an execution of the client application, causes a device to identify a size of the media content received by the client device over the carrier network; communicate the size of the media content received by the client device to a remote computing service; and provide the media content for playback on the client device.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2016Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: AIRWATCH LLCInventors: Lucas Chen, Deep Singh, Iury Bessa, Rajiv Singh
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Patent number: 10574741Abstract: Various methods are provided for facilitating the assignment of a DNS name to load balancers in a dynamically partitioned cluster environment. One example method may comprise receiving cluster configuration information from a cluster configuration observer, the cluster configuration information comprising information indicative of each of a plurality of instances of running application and one or more servers and associated ports to which at least one of the plurality of instances is bound, receiving a request from a first level load balancer requiring a call to the first application, determining, based on the cluster configuration information, to which port the instance of the first application is bound, and transmitting the request to the port to which the instance of the first application is bound.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2016Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventor: Lukasz Jastrzebski
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Patent number: 10567546Abstract: Briefly, embodiments of systems and/or method of communicating digital content via a network, such as a computing and/or communications network, are described.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2015Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Oath Inc.Inventors: Omer Luzzatti, Lev Korostyshevsky, Michael Kravchenko, Elad Rainshmidt