Patents Examined by Mariela Reyes
  • Patent number: 10878002
    Abstract: An approach for filtering data is presented. A relationship between first and second entity-metadata elements specifying a person and a vehicle, respectively, and between the person and the vehicle is determined. Representations of the first and second entity-metadata elements are displayed within a regular polygon that includes locations indicated by a geospatial tag that includes location information about the person extracted from profile information describing the person and by other geospatial tags included in metadata obtained from data extracted from streaming data and data at rest. The metadata includes contextual information that specifies an activity included in a domain of knowledge associated with law enforcement. Based on hidden Markov and support vector machine models, a frequent pattern growth algorithm, and a Kohonen map, another activity of the person is predicted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory A. Porpora, Janet L. Spann
  • Patent number: 10867287
    Abstract: A processor may determine that a particular computer-readable vehicle repair order (RO) (e.g., including first and second RO portions) corresponds to an existing cluster of ROs due to the particular RO including RO data that refers to a particular vehicle symptom. The processor may determine that the first RO portion includes first data representative of a non-specific vehicle component and may then responsively also determine that the second RO portion includes second data that the at least one processor can use to determine a specific vehicle component associated with the particular RO. Responsively, the processor may determine the specific vehicle component based on the first and second data and may then add the particular RO to a different cluster of ROs that is arranged to contain ROs that correspond to the particular vehicle symptom and to the specific vehicle component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Snap-on Incorporated
    Inventors: Patrick S. Merg, Jacob G. Foreman, Bradley R. Lewis, Brett A. Kelley
  • Patent number: 10866940
    Abstract: An apparatus, computer-readable medium, and computer-implemented method for ingesting semi-structured data in a columnar format, including parsing a data record, the data record comprising semi-structured data including one or more data fields and one or more data values corresponding to the one or more data fields, generating a schema corresponding to the data record, the schema comprising the one or more data fields and one or more data types corresponding to the one or more data fields, determining whether the schema corresponding to the data record is homogenous with a schema corresponding to a current row group, wherein the current row group comprises one or more current column names and one or more current column types, and storing the data record as a new record in the current row group based at least in part on a determination that the schema is homogenous.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: FireEye, Inc.
    Inventors: Sattam Alsubaiee, Vinayak Borkar
  • Patent number: 10866931
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include systems and methods of a desktop application for accessing a cloud collaboration platform. The disclosed application utilizes a native desktop environment to provide a better cloud collaboration experience by making the cloud-based platform accessible for file editing, file opening/closing/previewing, moving files between the local desktop environment and a web application (e.g., native to the cloud-based platform), syncing folders or marking any folders or parents/children of any folders to sync and/or utilizing any of the collaborative features (e.g., emailing links or inviting collaborators to collaborate on a file directly via the desktop environment using native contacts or contacts in the web app environment).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Box, Inc.
    Inventors: Sang Lee, Matthew Self, Ryan Knotts
  • Patent number: 10860540
    Abstract: Synchronizing backup and cloning schedules is described. A determination is made whether any session is running disk backup. A determination is made whether a backup file is stored in a file recovery area if no session is running disk backup. A determination is made whether a successful clone copy was created of the backup file if the backup file is stored in the file recovery area. A clone copy of the backup file is created if the successful clone copy was created of the backup file. The clone copy is stored on an external destination node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventor: Yasemin Ugur-Ozekinci
  • Patent number: 10853130
    Abstract: Embodiments in the disclosure are directed to the use of distributed computing to align reads against multiple portions of a reference dataset. Aligned portions of the reference dataset that correspond with an above-threshold alignment score can be assessed for the presence of sparse indicators that can be categorized and used to influence a determination of a state transition likelihood. Various tasks associated with the processing of reads (e.g., alignment, sparse indicator detection, and/or determination of a state transition likelihood) may be able to take advantage of parallel processing and can be distributed among the machines while considering the resource utilization of those machines. Different load-balancing mechanisms can be employed in order to achieve even resource utilization across the machines, and in some cases may involve assessing various processing characteristics that reflect a predicted resource expenditure and/or time profile for each task to be processed by a machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Color Genomics, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Barrett, Taylor Sittler, Krishna Pant, Zhenghua Li, Katsuya Noguchi, Nishant Bhat, Othman Laraki, Jeroen Van den Akker, Kurt Smith
  • Patent number: 10831811
    Abstract: A system and method for facilitating machine interpretation of potentially ambiguous input, such as natural language. An example method includes constructing an ontology based on a database schema, wherein the ontology includes one or more indications of relationship strengths characterizing two or more entities of the ontology; collecting context information pertaining to a relevant domain; receiving the potentially ambiguous input; employing the input and the ontology to estimate a meaning of the input using the context information, the one or more indications of relationship strength, and an estimation of a probability that one or more portions of the natural language input refer to a particular entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: William Kraus, Jeremy Ashley, Jatin Thaker
  • Patent number: 10831846
    Abstract: Techniques for ranking search results generated by a search engine are described. A search query initiated by a searcher is processed to identify a set of member profiles satisfying the search query. A ranking score is assigned to each member profile of the set of member profiles. A subset of the set of member profiles is identified based on a determination of an overlap between a work history specified in each of the subset of member profiles and a work history specified in a profile of the searcher. The ranking score assigned to a member profile of the subset of the set of member profiles is adjusted based on the determination. A portion of each of the set of member profiles satisfying the search query is communicated for presentation as search results in a search results interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Rahul Agarwal
  • Patent number: 10803081
    Abstract: A method, a processing device and a computer program product are provided. Based on parameters pertaining to a data source, a first processing device may determine whether a data source is a known data source. If the data source is determined to be the known data source, then the first processing device sends respective configuration information to multiple processing devices. The respective configuration information being based on configuration information from a previous integration and configuring the multiple processing devices as an operational data pipeline to extract data from the known data source, transform the extracted data to a first data model employed by a data system, and load the transformed data into the data system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher L. Crabtree, Anyi Li, Scott J. McCallen, Kaveh Noorbakhsh, Patrick J. Sullivan, Matthew J. Wollerman, II
  • Patent number: 10805427
    Abstract: A method of consolidating user actions across a plurality of electronic devices. The method comprises receiving information from each of a plurality of electronic devices associated with a common user, where the receiving is performed by a consolidation application executing on a server computer, and analyzing the information by the consolidation application. The method further comprises identifying by the consolidation application a first application installed on a first one of the electronic devices, based on a plurality of mappings of related applications to different compatible electronic devices, determining that a second application related to the first application is compatible with a second one of the electronic devices, and sending a message to the second one of the electronic devices that suggests that the second application be installed on the second one of the electronic devices, whereby a user installs the second application on the second one of the electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Justin Eddings, Alice M. Kingsolver, John D. Sumler
  • Patent number: 10789323
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that employ a client side browser application and server side website applications that use optimization, prefetching, and caching of user interactions. These are used in combination with mouseover callouts to provide browsable search result refinements and additional product information. The systems and methods can be applied to site search applications and site-wide navigation and can be integrated with web analytics solutions to optimize the user interface and information provided based on real time end user browsing trends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Marshall Bessieres, David Brinegar, Mark O'Brien, Brian Sullivan, Steven Kusmer
  • Patent number: 10789264
    Abstract: A method, a processing device and a computer program product are provided. Based on parameters pertaining to a data source, a first processing device may determine whether a data source is a known data source. If the data source is determined to be the known data source, then the first processing device sends respective configuration information to multiple processing devices. The respective configuration information being based on configuration information from a previous integration and configuring the multiple processing devices as an operational data pipeline to extract data from the known data source, transform the extracted data to a first data model employed by a data system, and load the transformed data into the data system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher L. Crabtree, Anyi Li, Scott J. McCallen, Kaveh Noorbakhsh, Patrick J. Sullivan, Matthew J. Wollerman, II
  • Patent number: 10776376
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method for displaying search results may include (1) receiving a search query to search a document database that stores a document family containing a parent document and a child document that depends from the parent document, (2) determining that both the parent document and the child document satisfy a degree of relevance to content of the search query, and (3) in response to determining that both the parent document and the child document satisfy the degree of relevance to content of the search query, automatically depicting both the parent document and the child document in a hierarchical structure that shows the relationship between the parent document and the child document within original search results that a user interface of a computing device presents in response to the search query. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Veritas Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Michael Coyle, Rujuta Ranade, Terence Chang
  • Patent number: 10776313
    Abstract: Source objects according to a source data model are converted to target objects according to a target data model. A plurality of target data collections are generated, each including uniquely identifiable target objects. A first generated target data collection is merged with a subsequently generated target data collection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Tekla Corporation
    Inventors: Teemu Rantanen, Pekka Hämäläinen, Harri Salmivaara
  • Patent number: 10769027
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for scheduling maintenance jobs for computing assets implementing configuration items within a CMDB are described. The maintenance jobs include database backups. Two queues operate together to schedule a large number of jobs in a technique that is scalable while staying within resource constraints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Sam Hauer, Scott Stone, Ivan Batanov
  • Patent number: 10754853
    Abstract: At least a portion of a graph database having a plurality of vertex-centric indices is stored. A virtual edge to be generated is identified based on a plurality of edges of the graph database. The virtual edge connecting at least a pair of vertices that were not previously directly connected is generated. The plurality of vertex-centric indices is updated to include information about the virtual edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: DataStax, Inc.
    Inventor: Matthias Broecheler
  • Patent number: 10742753
    Abstract: System for obtaining and analyzing data on online user behavior and other activity having regard to Internet connectable user devices, optionally mobile devices, the system being configured to collect data from a plurality of data sources, wherein the collected data includes at least individual user-level data acquired from user devices and census-level data indicating behavior and demographic characteristics across the entire population of users, active or measured services, with the user-level data being preferably collected using at least one user research panel of controlled constitution, preferably from multiple devices of each participant in the panel, the collected data being indicative of Internet, content, media, application, and/or device usage, organize the obtained user-level and census-level data into a multivalent categorized data set utilizing an ontological metadata schema, determine an electronic deliverable based on an integration of the user-level data and census-level data wherein census-l
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Verto Analytics Oy
    Inventors: Hannu Verkasalo, Chris Modzelewski, Eric Malmi
  • Patent number: 10740129
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a receiving unit operable to receive a plurality of outputs from a plurality of hosts, a comparing unit operable to compare the plurality of outputs, and a display processing unit operable to generate a display in which portions of the plurality of outputs are distinguished based on a comparison result of the comparing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoji Kurosawa, Xiangning Liu, Koichi Nishitani, Fumihiko Terui
  • Patent number: 10740412
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a search query inputted at a client device. The method includes searching a local cache of the client device to identify one or more objects stored in the local cache that match the search query, each object being associated with the online social network. The method includes generated, at the client device, a local search-results page including one or more local search results corresponding to one or more of the identified objects, respectively, and one or more search pivot elements corresponding to one or more object-types, respectively. Each local search result may be retrieved from the cache of the client device for display responsive to receiving the search query. Each search pivot element may be activatable to send the search query to the online social network and retrieve from the online social network one or more remote search results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Ashwin Bhat, Rousseau Newaz Kazi, Taylor Dancy Rogalski, Christine Morck Rode
  • Patent number: 10733001
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a receiving unit operable to receive a plurality of outputs from a plurality of hosts, a comparing unit operable to compare the plurality of outputs, and a display processing unit operable to generate a display in which portions of the plurality of outputs are distinguished based on a comparison result of the comparing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoji Kurosawa, Xiangning Liu, Koichi Nishitani, Fumihiko Terui