Patents Examined by Philip Chea
  • Patent number: 9588874
    Abstract: Pairing information is used by the target application to determine how to connect to the correct controller. A network pipe is established between the target application and the controller. The network pipe is used to pass information, such as to deliver/receive test information, between the controller and target application. A bridge may also be established between the controller and an analysis tool for the device hosting the target application. The bridge creates a communication path for the controller to send/receive information (e.g. commands, queries) to the analysis tool s to perform tests of the target application. Code may also be injected into the target application such that dynamic linked libraries may be simulated. Crash data may also be obtained by the controller (or some other device) that may not be typically available by a particular device platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Jered Aasheim, Aaron Clarke, Ryan Pangrle, David Owens, Jesse Wesson, Robert Daly, Nicolas Trescases, Jay Daniels, Joe LeBlanc, Colin Arenz
  • Patent number: 9584619
    Abstract: Technical solutions for managing business application life cycle with multi-tasking ability are provided. In some implementations, a method includes: at an enterprise data processing application: (A) activating a first application page, which includes: loading a first data set from a first data source, and causing the first data set to be displayed on the first application page; (B) switching from the first application page to a second application page, by: deactivating, without closing, the first application page, including: causing the first data set to be stored in a temporary storage; and activating a second application page; and (C) switching from the second application page back to the first application page, by: deactivating, without closing, the second application page; and re-activating the first application page, including: loading the first data set from the temporary storage, and causing the first data set to be displayed on the first application page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Simon Tang, Xiao Xu, William Cui, Jianrong Yu, Luis Lu, Jonny Chen, Jay Wang, Ming-hui Cao
  • Patent number: 9584522
    Abstract: A solution is provided for associating network traffic traversing a networked environment according to a selected category item, such as a user name or other network entity identity-related information. The solution includes a collector and a monitor. The collector extracts a user name and a network address from an event log maintained on the networked environment. The monitor receives the network traffic and identifies at least one packet having a network address that matches the extracted network address. After at least one of the packets is identified, the collector associates the identified packet(s) with the extracted user name.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Pramod John, Yingxian Wang, Ramachandran V. Marti, Maxine R. Erlund
  • Patent number: 9582319
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for migrating virtual machines across network (e.g., WAN) separated data centers (e.g., storage clouds). Specifically, under embodiments of the present invention, a first storage system associated with a first data center is synchronized with a second storage system associated with a second data center via a storage system link. Then, a minimal state of a virtual machine is migrated from a first computer in the first data center to a second computer in the second data center via a WAN link. Using the minimal state, the virtual machine is stored in the second computer. Thereafter, the storage system link is terminated. In addition, as updated pages are received in memory of the first computer, they are migrated to the second computer via the WAN link. Once this migration is complete, the WAN link can be terminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Richard J. Ayala, Jr., Eric K. Butler, Kavita Chavda, Mihail C. Constantinescu, Reshu Jain, Prasenjit Sarkar, Aameek Singh
  • Patent number: 9578120
    Abstract: Techniques are described for providing a messaging service that employs a distributed key-value store for message persistence. On receiving a message to be enqueued for subsequent delivery, a message identifier is generated and employed as a key to store the message in the key-value store. The message identifier may be generated based on an available location in a message tracking data structure. In some cases, the message tracking data structure may be an append tree data structure that is substantially self-balancing as an increasing number of messages are tracked using the append tree data structure. The message tracking data structure may be further employed to determine a message identifier for a message to be vended from the key-value store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew Ross Evenson
  • Patent number: 9571574
    Abstract: The communications method may include opening a communication channel, e.g. a HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) connection, between a service event source and an event management platform, and at the event management platform, generating a request to the service event source, the request including information associated with the communication channel and requested event information related to a plurality of services offered by the service event source for a mobile wireless device associated with a given service user; sending the request to the service event source. The communication channel is maintained open to receive notifications transmitted from the service event source including requested event information related to the plurality of services offered by the service event source and related to the single service user. The notifications are provided to the mobile wireless device associated with the given service user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Chris Michael Griffin, David Jaray Hanson, Philip Von Hatten, Michael Rao
  • Patent number: 9569801
    Abstract: Individual users may log into the same online game from multiple different social networking platforms. The disclosed technology provides a way to unite users' accounts such that users that have logged into the online game from different social networking platforms can have their progress in the online game preserved regardless of which social networking platforms the user logged in from. Business intelligence about differences in the user's value when logging in from the different social networking platforms can be determined and incentivizing actions can be performed on the social networking platforms based on the business intelligence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: KABAM, INC.
    Inventor: Ziqiang Xu
  • Patent number: 9571561
    Abstract: Provided are a system and method for dynamically expanding a virtual cluster having one or more virtual machines (VMs), based on the resource availability of the virtual cluster and the type of the virtual cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG SDS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sung Ho Jang
  • Patent number: 9569205
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for remotely configuring applications may include (1) identifying a centrally administered application that includes a configuration specification that defines at least one setting available for the centrally administered application and that is prepared to provide the configuration specification, (2) identifying, by extracting the configuration specification for the centrally administered application, a settings field of the configuration specification, (3) creating a settings configuration policy that specifies a value for the settings field, (4) detecting an instance of the centrally administered application that includes the configuration specification, and (5) pushing the value for the settings field to the instance of the centrally administered application in accordance with the settings configuration policy. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventors: Bruce McCorkendale, Thomas Enderwick
  • Patent number: 9572025
    Abstract: A method is presented for sending a message to a secure element connected to a mobile equipment, wherein the secure element is coupled to a user of the mobile equipment. The method comprises the steps, performed in an application manager server of: receiving, from an application server, an application message and an identifier of a destination secure element; generating a secure element message from the application message; from a plurality of connectivity providers, selecting a connectivity provider capable of communicating with the destination secure element; and sending the secure element message to the selected connectivity provider for forwarding to the destination secure element. A corresponding application manager server, computer program and computer program product are also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Petter Arvidsson, Mattias Eld, Sébastien Pierrel
  • Patent number: 9565207
    Abstract: When providing a user with native access to at least a portion of device hardware, the user can be prevented from modifying firmware and other configuration information by controlling the mechanisms used to update that information. In some embodiments, an asymmetric keying approach can be used to encrypt or sign the firmware. In other cases access can be controlled by enabling firmware updates only through a channel or port that is not exposed to the customer, or by mapping only those portions of the hardware that are to be accessible to the user. In other embodiments, the user can be prevented from modifying firmware by only provisioning the user on a machine after an initial mutability period wherein firmware can be modified, such that the user never has access to a device when firmware can be updated. Combinations and variations of the above also can be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael David Marr, Matthew T. Corddry, James R. Hamilton
  • Patent number: 9559922
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus has login information acquisition means for acquiring a plurality of pieces of login information with user IDs for identifying users related with terminal IDs for identifying terminals for use by the users; terminal ID registration means for registering the acquired login information by relating each of the user IDs with the plurality of terminal IDs; delivery information generation means for generating different pieces of delivery information to be delivered to each terminal that are identified by the plurality of terminal IDs for each of the user IDs; and delivery means for delivering the generated different pieces of delivery information to the each terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Shinichi Honda, Yoshikatsu Kanemaru, Norio Nagatsuka, Shinichi Kariya, Kouichi Matsuda
  • Patent number: 9558195
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to systems and methods for depopulation of user data from a network. A network management platform can communicate with a set of managed machines in a network, and generally manage user accounts including user IDs, associated network processes, services, application files, data files, and/or other user data. In embodiments, a user may have a change in status, such as departing from the organization operating the network, changing their name or user name, or other updates. In such cases, a systems administrator may need to update or delete files, processes, services, and/or other user data associated with the user from the network. The network management platform can interrogate the network for files, processes, or other resources associated with the user ID of interest. The search can exhaustively interrogate every available node in the network, to update or purge all files associated with the subject user ID(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Paul DeHaan, Adrian Karstan Likins, Seth Kelby Vidal
  • Patent number: 9554327
    Abstract: The invention proposes a scan control device, wherein in the scan operation a network detection is performed, the device comprising a request receiving means for receiving at least one request for providing scan information, and a scan control means for performing a scan operation independently from receiving the scan information requests. The invention also proposes a corresponding method and a computer program product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventor: Mikko Jaakkola
  • Patent number: 9544388
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for client-side predictive caching of content to facilitate instantaneous use of the content. If a user is likely to commence use of a content item through a client, the client is configured to predictively cache the content item before the user commences use. In doing so, the client may obtain metadata for the content item and an initial portion of the content item from another computing device. The client may then initialize various resources to facilitate instantaneous use of the content item by the client based at least in part on the metadata and the initial portion. The client-side cache may be divided into multiple segments with different content selection criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Lei Li, Andrew Jason Ma, Gurpreet Singh Ahluwalia, Abhishek Dubey, Sachin Shah, Vijay Sen, Gregory Scott Benjamin, Prateek RameshChandra Shah, Cody Wayne Maxwell Powell, Meltem Celikel, Darryl Hudgin, James Marvin Freeman, Aaron M. Bromberg, Bryant F. Herron-Patmon, Nush Karmacharya, Joshua B. Barnard, Peter Wei-Chih Chen, Stephen A. Slotnick, Andrew J. Watts, Richard J. Winograd
  • Patent number: 9531787
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for managing and monitoring information using endpoint pairs. The system includes a computer having an application server, said application server having a user interface. The user interface provides input selections used for tying two endpoints together as a single entity. One endpoint is used for sending messages and another endpoint is used for receiving messages. Tying the endpoints together as a single entity provides for a higher level of message management in the application server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hintat Henrick Yau
  • Patent number: 9516586
    Abstract: The invention proposes a scan control device, wherein in the scan operation a network detection is performed, the device comprising a request receiving means for receiving at least one request for providing scan information, and a scan control means for performing a scan operation independently from receiving the scan information requests. The invention also proposes a corresponding method and a computer program product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventor: Mikko Jaakkola
  • Patent number: 9515847
    Abstract: A method includes receiving an electronic message by a communication entity; determining if an indicator in the electronic message identifies the communication entity as an entity to retrieve a content referenced in the electronic message; and retrieving the content from a storage unit if the indicator identifies the communication entity as an entity to retrieve the content. An address of the content is identified in the electronic message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: NOKIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Adamu Haruna
  • Patent number: 9509734
    Abstract: A method for setting-up a data connection during a group voice service between several group members as a user of a mobile communication network. In a first method, functions of an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) are used and a session initiation protocol (SIP) and a controlled data connection between an emitter, a terminal and one or several receivers is produced. Each user is allocated to a group voice service identity (VGCS-ID) an IMS group identity (IMS group ID) and is routed to an application server in the IMS with the aid of the user. A data group voice service is developed between the users. In a second method, each user is routed to the service nodes via GPRS using a group voice service identity (VGCS-ID) and an IP address of a service node, which acts as a relay and a data group voice service is carried out between the users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: T-MOBILE INTERNATIONAL AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Johannes Achter, Kurt Bischinger
  • Patent number: 9503460
    Abstract: A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes identifying a network location of an endpoint, which is attempting to initiate an application; identifying whether the endpoint is operating in an enterprise environment; determining whether the application is trusted based on metadata associated with the application; and provisioning a tunnel for data traffic associated with the application. In more detailed implementations, the tunnel can be provisioned if the application is trusted and the endpoint is outside of an enterprise environment. In addition, the tunnel can be provisioned if the application is untrusted and the endpoint is within an enterprise environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Philip J. S. Gladstone, Morris J. Katz