Patents Examined by Phyllis A Book
  • Patent number: 11881941
    Abstract: An electronic device is configured with a notification throttling system. The notification throttling system obtains a set of priorities for multiple applications that are installed on the electronic device and are enabled for alerting the user via notifications. The set of priorities specifies a relative importance of each particular application among the multiple applications. The notification throttling system throttles application alerts presented by the user device for notifications generated by the applications based on the relative importance of each particular application as specified by the set of priorities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: John Nicholas Dukellis
  • Patent number: 11882191
    Abstract: A system and method for initiating a personalized virtual reality session via a virtual reality communication system in a controlled environment is disclosed. The system includes a profile subsystem configured to store an inmate profile of the inmate of the controlled environment. The system also includes a virtual reality subsystem that retrieves the inmate profile associated with the inmate from the profile subsystem, initiates the virtual reality session involving a first communication device used by the inmate of the controlled environment, and personalizes the virtual reality session based on the inmate profile. The system also includes a communication subsystem configured to transmit information related to the virtual reality session to a monitoring system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Global Tel*Link Corporation
    Inventor: Stephen L. Hodge
  • Patent number: 11880610
    Abstract: A cluster compute server stores different types of data at different storage volumes in order to reduce data duplication at the storage volumes. The storage volumes are categorized into two classes: common storage volumes and dedicated storage volumes, wherein the common storage volumes store data to be accessed and used by multiple compute nodes (or multiple virtual servers) of the cluster compute server. The dedicated storage volumes, in contrast, store data to be accessed only by a corresponding compute node (or virtual server).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Mauricio Breternitz, Jr., Leonardo Piga
  • Patent number: 11870598
    Abstract: One example method includes hosting, by a video conference provider, a virtual expo; receiving, from a first client device associated with a first participant in the virtual expo, a request to enter a meeting with a second participant in the virtual expo; providing, to a second client device associated with the second participant, a notification of the request to enter the meeting; receiving, from the second client device, an approval of the request; and in response to receiving the approval, joining the first client device to a second virtual meeting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Pankaj Kumar Prasad
  • Patent number: 11863653
    Abstract: A protocol processing method and apparatus, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: carrying a leaf-transfer capability identifier in an RIFT protocol, the leaf-transfer capability identifier being configured to indicate that a first node that carries the leaf-transfer capability identifier supports other leaf nodes within a network to access the network through the first node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Benchong Xu, Fang Hu, Huilai Wang
  • Patent number: 11863514
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method of load balancing data message flows across multiple secure connections. The method receives a data message having source and destination addresses formatted according to a first protocol. Based on the source and destination addresses, the method selects one of the multiple secure connections for the data message. Each of the secure connections handles a first set of connections formatted according to the first protocol and a second set of connections formatted according to a second protocol that is an alternative to the first protocol. The method securely encapsulates the data message and forwards the encapsulated data message onto a network. The encapsulation includes an identifier for the selected secure connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventor: Sudesh Pawar
  • Patent number: 11861154
    Abstract: Systems and methods for instantiating collaboration interfaces via object recognition are disclosed. An object recognition engine communicatively coupled to a database and an electronic device receives sensor data related to an object and identifies an object characteristic. A component is selected having criteria satisfied by the object characteristic and a collaboration interface is instantiated on the electronic device. This can allow a user to edit content related to an object. A substantially identical collaboration interface can be instantiated on a second electronic device to allow collaboration among user with respect to content related to the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Nant Holdings IP, LLC
    Inventor: Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Patent number: 11856243
    Abstract: Provided in the example embodiments are a method, electronic device, and computer storage medium for managing virtual streaming. The method for managing virtual streaming includes: providing a configuration interface for configuring a virtual streaming room with configuration settings, the configuration settings including at least an audience group setting, and a host setting related to a virtual host; receiving, via the configuration interface, configuration input corresponding to the audience group setting, and/or the host setting; and based on the configuration input, generating a host assignment rule, the host assignment rule for assigning at least one virtual host to at least one audience group. The example embodiments solve the problems in which the form of an existing virtual host is fixed, audience adhesion is poor, and use thereof is inflexible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: ALIBABA (CHINA) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Xu, Ding Jiandong
  • Patent number: 11838334
    Abstract: Updating user-specific instances of a second application for individual users of a group based on a data file for the second application being shared via a collaboration object that corresponds to the group within a first application. The instances of the second application present each individual user with their own custom user experience that is configured to provide access to specific content based on object permissions data. An application extension is executable, by the first application, to extend content editing functionalities of the second application into the collaboration object. Responsive to specific content being associated with the collaboration object via the application extension, each of the instances of the second application may be automatically updated to provide direct access to the specific content. Thus, each user within the group defined for collaboration object can access the data file via the collaboration object and their own instance of the second application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Rajesh Rangarajan, Aaron William Linne, Rajiv Ramaiah, Archana Saseetharan, Mansoor Malik, Shiraz Cupala, Beste Nazilli, Kevin Daniel Morrison, Sagar Nagaraja Shastry, Eric Jonathan Hull, Alexander Tobias Powell, Lei Yang, Manasi Sharma, Siddharth Uppal, Yuri Dogandjiev
  • Patent number: 11831454
    Abstract: A method for an immersive spatial visual telecommunication is provided that includes audio and video capturing devices and a spherical visual display (physical or virtual) surrounding the local user or multiple users, who can now interact (standing or seated) inside one common virtual space—which is generated by virtually interconnecting the spaces within the spherical visual displays in different locations—with multiple other remote users, who are using the same software and hardware setup. The scale of the setup can vary: the smallest setup allows for 2-8 users (max. 2 users in each location) to interact in 2-4 different locations whereby the bigger the setup is, the more users in more locations can participate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Inventor: Christopher Max Schwitalla
  • Patent number: 11816356
    Abstract: An illustrative method includes a storage management system ingesting a data item into a unified storage system via a storage system interface among a plurality of storage system interfaces associated with the unified storage system, determining, in response to the ingesting of the data item into the unified storage system, an operation based on the data item, and providing a notification of the operation to an orchestration system configured to manage an execution of the operation by a computing system associated with the unified storage system. In certain embodiments, the unified storage system may be implemented as compute-aware storage system such as a container orchestrator-aware storage system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Pure Storage, Inc.
    Inventors: Luis Pablo Pabón, Naveen Neelakantam, Taher Vohra
  • Patent number: 11815871
    Abstract: I/O network modules connect field devices to a process control network. Each I/O network module includes a set of electrical connectors for connecting a field device to the module and an I/O channel extending from the set of electrical connectors to a network port. The I/O channel includes a conversion circuit that converts between an I/O signal and network-compatible signals. Each I/O channel connected to the process control network through an I/O network module is associated with its own unique network address. This enables controllers and field devices on the process control network to communicate essentially directly with one another through the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Phoenix Contact Development and Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Davis Mathews, David Nathan Katz
  • Patent number: 11811728
    Abstract: In some implementations, a broadband network gateway (BNG) may receive, from a customer premises equipment, a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) discover request, wherein the BNG is connected to the customer premises equipment and a fixed mobile interworking function (FMIF). The BNG may communicate with, based on the DHCP discover request, the FMIF. The BNG may provide to the customer premises equipment, and based on communicating with the FMIF, a DHCP offer that offers utilization of the BNG as a DHCP server. The BNG may receive from the customer premises equipment, and based on providing the DHCP offer, a DHCP request to request utilization of the BNG as the DHCP server. The BNG may provide to the customer premises equipment, and based on the DHCP request, a DHCP acknowledgment that acknowledges utilization of the BNG as the DHCP server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Kiran Kumar K, Venkatesh Padebettu
  • Patent number: 11811729
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and a method for configuring an IP device to be discoverable to a client device over a local network having a DHCP server for assigning dynamic IP addresses. The method includes obtaining a dynamic IP address assigned to the IP device upon completion of boot process for the IP device; checking if a static IP address has been set for the IP device; determining if the dynamic IP address and the static IP address are in a same subnet of the local network; implementing the static IP address set for the IP device, if the dynamic IP address and the static IP address are in the same subnet of the local network; and implementing the dynamic IP address assigned to the IP device, if the dynamic IP address and the static IP address are not in the same subnet of the local network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Abhishek Sharma, Arun Innanje, Ziyan Wu, Terrence Chen
  • Patent number: 11804974
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, a meeting system, and a method. The information processing apparatus registers material to be distributed to a participant of a meeting, controls an output device to output the material, acquires meeting progress information indicating progress of the meeting and additional information added by the participant to the material, and generates meeting result information that indicates meeting result based on the material, the meeting progress information, and the additional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Takehiro Fujita
  • Patent number: 11799679
    Abstract: A method comprises receiving a set of data from at least one interaction, calculating, an audio score for any audio data received in the set of data, and calculating a video score for any video data received in the set of data. The audio score is joined with the video score to create an audiovisual score, and some subset of measurement, alert or recommendation is sent to a user, the set being based on the audiovisual score and configured to be displayed on a user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Read AI, Inc.
    Inventors: David Shim, Elliott Waldron, Robert Williams
  • Patent number: 11789910
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing data beacons are disclosed. In some embodiments the system can include a first node and a second node. Each node includes a read queue, a write queue and a parallel file system. Data is written from the write queue on the first node to the parallel file system on the second node and from the write queue on the second node to the parallel file system on the first node. The read queue on each node receives data from the parallel file system on the node itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: UMBRA TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
    Inventor: Joseph E. Rubenstein
  • Patent number: 11785064
    Abstract: A system and method for providing electronic content to a user in a multi user content delivery system. A set of preferences are received from a first user at a preference component. This set of preferences indicates a portion of electronic content the first user desires to receive. Electronic content is received from a plurality of users by a content aggregator. This content is then aggregated. The electronic content is then modified for the user based on the received set of preferences. The modified content is then distributed or sent to the user by the content distributor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William Newshutz, Jared D. Hudson, Ishraq Khan, Adrian Abundez-Arce
  • Patent number: 11784841
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for presenting participant reactions to a virtual conference. The program and method provide for a virtual conference between plural participants; provide, for each of the plural participants, display of a reaction button which is selectable by the participant to indicate a reaction to the virtual conference; receive indication of selections of the reaction button by one or more of the plural participants; and in response to receiving the indication, provide, for each of the plural participants, display of reaction icons and audio output based on the selections, determine that a rate at which the selections were received meets a threshold rate, and provide, in response to the determining, for modified audio output associated with the selections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Maxwell Gale, Andrew Cheng-min Lin, Walton Lin
  • Patent number: 11770422
    Abstract: Methods and systems provide for presenting real-time engagement analytics for communication sessions. In one embodiment, a method maintains a communication session with a number of participants, wherein session content is presented during the communication session to the participants, and wherein participants can request real-time notes to be generated for the session content to be captured. The method determines one or more engagement metrics for participants based on the participants requesting real-time notes to be generated during the communication session. Finally, the method presents, to one or more participants of the communication session, information corresponding to at least a subset of the determined engagement metrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Thanh Le Nguyen, Shane Paul Springer