Patents Examined by Kidest Mendaye
  • Patent number: 10057187
    Abstract: A distributed system may implement dynamic resource creation for connecting resources. Resource creation requests may be received for resources which are accessed by other resources hosted in a distributed system. An intention for the creation request is stored to perform the creation request. At a subsequent time, a request to connect another resource to the resource of the creation request is received. An infrastructure locality for the other resource may then be identified and utilized to determine a placement location for the resource. The resource may then be created at the placement location according to the stored intention. The resource may then be connected with the other resource for access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Surya Prakash Dhoolam, Christopher Magee Greenwood, Gary Michael Herndon, Jr., Madhuvanesh Parthasarathy, Danny Wei, Marc John Brooker, Tarun Goyal, Marc Levy
  • Patent number: 10044830
    Abstract: An information system of the present invention includes a plurality of physical nodes each of which processes a packet received from external node(s) according to a processing rule (packet handling operation) that associates a matching rule for identifying a flow and processing content to be applied to a packet that matches the matching rule, and a control apparatus which sets the processing rule in each of the plurality of physical nodes, thereby causing the plurality of physical nodes to operate as virtual nodes on a virtual network(s) usable by the external node(s). The control apparatus includes a first storage unit defining a correspondence relationship between each of the plurality of physical nodes and virtual network(s), and a second storage unit defining a correspondence relationship between each of the external node(s) and virtual node(s) on virtual network(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Otake
  • Patent number: 10009312
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for one or more server computers communicatively coupled to a network, running a DNS server, and configured to: receive, from a client computer, an electronic message encoding a DNS request; access, within a database, at least one DNS record comprising: a designation of the DNS server as an authoritative DNS server for the DNS request; and a resource record designating a secondary authoritative server running on a second server computer; transmit, to the client computer, a DNS result according to the first resource record; transmit, to the secondary authoritative server, a second electronic message encoding a DNS query according to the second resource record; receive, from the secondary authoritative server, a DNS query result; store the DNS query result within a cache stored within the server computer; and transmit, to the client computer, the DNS query result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventor: Arnold Blinn
  • Patent number: 9980101
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Intrepid Networks, LLC
    Inventors: Brittin Kane, Joseph Daniel McCall, Joshua Witter, Jason Alan Stonebraker
  • Patent number: 9967340
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Ariel Hendel, Karagada Ramarao Kishore
  • Patent number: 9935863
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed and described to facilitate resolution of Internet Protocol address conflicts. An example method includes periodically broadcasting, by the playback device over the network, a probe message, detecting, by the playback device, a change in status associated with the connection, based on the detection, obtaining, by the playback device, a new Internet Protocol (IP) address; and based on the detection, including, by the playback device in at least one probe message broadcast subsequent to the detection, an indication for other playback devices on the network to obtain a new IP address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: SONOS, INC.
    Inventors: Hrishikesh Gossain, Jose Graziani, Jeffrey M. Peters, Michael Agerbak
  • Patent number: 9928081
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for generating customized program logic operable to control hardware devices of a target system and to boot said target system. The system is connected to one or more target systems via a network, the server system being adapted for: receiving a first list of device identifiers from one of the target systems; automatically selecting, for each of the device identifiers in the received first list, at least one driver operable to control the identified device from a set of drivers, thereby generating a sub-set of said set of drivers; providing a core program logic to the target system; and providing the sub-set of drivers to the target system, wherein a combination of the sub-set of drivers and the core program logic constitutes a customized program logic operable to control the devices of said target system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fabio Cerri, Gianluca Mariani, Claudio Marinelli, Bernardo Pastorelli, Antonio Secomandi
  • Patent number: 9916308
    Abstract: Provided is a document management service that accepts a request for sharing a document from a user of client terminal so as to determine whether or not the document to which the sharing request was made has been successfully registered in a document management server as a sharing target among users. If the document has failed to be registered, the document management service posts the document to a microblog service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koichi Tsujimoto
  • Patent number: 9894117
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, a virtual conference is established with a server and a plurality of endpoint devices. One endpoint device, acting as a sender, may transfer a file to N other endpoint devices, acting as receivers. The sender divides the file in at least N segments and delivers one segment to each receiver. Receivers then request the next desired segment from one or more devices containing that segment. If devices hold the segment, the segment may be divided into parts, and one part may be requested from each device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Haihua Huang, Jianping Shen, Yong Qian, Kejun Xia
  • Patent number: 9811072
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention provide isolating and applying a common protocol which may be used by multiple devices across multiple network levels to analyze an entire system of control networks. A generic message may be sent individually to targeted addresses across a network level. If a response is received from a device at a targeted address, such as within a timeout period, a specific message customized to the individual device may be sent to extract further detail about the device, including its connectivity to other devices and networks. The system may continue automatically until resource utilization of the entire system is determined to thereby provide diagnostic and reliability services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew A Hermans, Joseph Zaccaria, Raymond Spangler
  • Patent number: 9787533
    Abstract: A obstruction determination process by a program stored in a recording medium comprises (i) in cases in which a connection data has been received from a plurality of transfer devices connected to a non-transmitting transfer device which is not transmitting the connection data, identifying a non-transmitting transfer device transfer path on which the non-transmitting transfer device is positioned; and (ii) determining for each of the identified transfer paths whether or not an obstruction has occurred on the identified transfer path, and in cases in which the identified transfer path is the non-transmitting transfer device transfer path identified, employing the transfer volume data that has been received from another transfer device positioned on the non-transmitting transfer device transfer path as the transfer volume data of the non-transmitting transfer device to determine whether or not an obstruction has occurred on the identified transfer path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Tetsuya Nishi
  • Patent number: 9787572
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric A. Voit, Samer Salam, Ludwig Alexander Clemm, Yegnanarayanan Gargya Chandramouli
  • Patent number: 9722934
    Abstract: The present solution is directed to systems and methods for providing, by a device intermediary to a plurality of clients and one or more servers, analytics on a stream of network packets traversing the device. The systems and methods include the device identifying, while the device manages network traffic between the plurality of clients and the one or more servers, a stream of network packets, from a plurality of streams of network packets of the network traffic traversing the device, corresponding to a flow identifier, e.g., a selected one of an internet protocol address, a uniform resource locator or an application identifier. The systems and methods may include a collector of the analytics engine collecting, while the device manages network traffic, metrics on the identified stream of network packets and generating one or more stream objects that comprise the collected metrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: CITRIX SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventor: Muraliraja Muniraju
  • Patent number: 9722809
    Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and method of organizing a plurality of data recipients subscribed to receive information from a leader. An example method may include receiving a plurality of response messages from at least a portion of the plurality of data recipients, and determining a decrease in the plurality of response messages received from the at least a portion of the plurality of data recipients based on a previous number of response messages received. The method may also include removing at least one data recipient from the plurality of data recipients and adding the removed at least one data recipient to a new group of data recipients responsive to the decrease in the plurality of response messages received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventor: David Gerard Ledet
  • Patent number: 9712455
    Abstract: Presented herein are techniques for resolving VxAN (VSANs and VLANs) networking connectivity, prior to server or domain migration. When UCS domains receive a workload or service profile from a UCS Central Controller, required VLANs/VSANs are checked for deployment for that UCS domain in Fabric Interconnects, and once VLANs/VSANs are successfully confirmed, the workload is deployed into one of the compute servers in that domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Shailesh Mittal, Raghu Krishnamurthy, Nir Frenkel, Jay Weinstein
  • Patent number: 9674105
    Abstract: Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for applying a platform code level update to update a source partition in a computing system. Computational resources in the computing system are allocated to a destination partition. A code load is applied to the destination partition to implement an updated platform code level comprising an update to the platform code level on the source partition while the source partition is operational and processing computing requests. Submission of new transactions to the source partition is blocked in response to applying the code load to the destination partition. An operational environment and system state at the source partition are migrated to the destination partition in response to blocking submission of new transactions to the source partition. Transactions are directed to the destination partition intended for the source partition in response to migrating the operational environment and system state to the destination partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael P. Groover, Robin Han, Yan Su, Wei Tang, Ming Z. Zhao, Yi Zhou
  • Patent number: 9674266
    Abstract: A method includes monitoring a bandwidth currently available for streaming of a segment file pertaining to the selected content asset from a server to the client. A selected content asset is registered by receiving a user-originating request identifying the selected content asset. An adequate segment quality level to be requested is selected based on the currently available bandwidth. A segment to be requested is adaptively selected contingent upon the local availability or quality level of file segments. The segment is requested from the content providing server in the specified adaptively selected adequate segment quality level. The requested segment is received in a current segment quality level corresponding to the adaptively selected adequate quality level, stored locally associated with information regarding its quality level. Received file segments pertaining to the content file are rendered in a manner as specified by a received manifest file pertaining to the content file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Ola Andersson, Jan Erik Lindquist
  • Patent number: 9667525
    Abstract: A Path Computation Client (24) of a node in a network sends a request message (52) to a Path Computation Element (28) of the network for computation of a path, and the Path Computation Element sends a response message (54) comprising information identifying a calculated path. The Path Computation Element also sends a request for feedback on a result of the attempt to set up the connection. The Path Computation Element attempts to set up a connection based on the calculated path, and reports (64) to the Path Computation Element the result of the attempt to set up the connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Dávid Jocha, András Kern, András Császár
  • Patent number: 9665394
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and system for sharing application objects among multiple tenants, wherein the method comprises: identifying objects that can be shared by multiple tenants; merging the objects that can be shared by the multiple tenants; and updating references of the tenants to the shared objects prior to the merging so as to cause the references to point at a merged shared object. The method of the present invention enables the tenants to share application data more efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Snehal S. Antani, Junjie Cai, Jia Fei, Wei Wei Gao, Heng Wang, Yan R. Wu
  • Patent number: 9667712
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for facilitating spin mode-based dynamic updating of application servers in an on-demand services environment. In one embodiment and by way of example, a method includes upgrading a first set of application servers of a plurality of application servers at one or more computing devices, holding a first set of requests received at the first set of application servers from being processed while the first set of application servers is being upgraded, and upgrading a second set of application servers of the plurality of application servers upon completion of the first set of application servers. The method may further include holding a second set of requests received at the second set of application servers from being processed while the second set of application servers is being upgraded, and resuming processing of the first set of requests at the upgraded first set of application servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: salesforce.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Karthik Rajan, Pallav Kothari, Scott Hansma