Patents by Inventor Luis A. Wills

Luis A. Wills has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11983221
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and computer program product for generating tiered search index fields based on a divided group-based communication data corpus in a group-based communication platform are described herein. In some embodiments, the system provides for receiving a group-based communication data corpus, generating a retrieval score, and assigning each group-based communication data object associated with a retrieval score. Each group-based communication data object may meet or exceed a retrieval score threshold of a high retrieval probability corpus. Each group-based communication data object associated with a retrieval score below the retrieval score threshold may be assigned to a low retrieval probability corpus. High and a low retrieval probability search index fields may be generated and associated with the high and low retrieval probability corpus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua Wills, Luis Tandalla, Japinder Singh
  • Patent number: 7356077
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for testing the integrity of high speed optical fiber transmission networks are presented. Data from an optical network, for example, NRZ formatted data at forty gigabits per second and higher may be reliably recovered using embodiments of the invention. The invention employs hybrid microwave and high speed processing technology to reliably measure the phase shift of the data transmitted over a high speed optical transmission network by comparing the incoming data to a super-stable clock/frequency reference. The clock/frequency reference is intentionally offset by fractional frequency resulting in a beat frequency when compared to the incoming data. The beat frequency provides the ability for automatic calibration of the phase measurements because the period of the full 360 degrees phase is known. Also, the invention provides reliable means for measuring jitter and for generating Eye-pattern diagrams by eliminating issues associated with oscilloscope loop bandwidth limitations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: Spirent Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph M. Fala, Luis A. Wills
  • Publication number: 20030056157
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for testing the integrity of high speed optical fiber transmission networks are presented. Data from an optical network, for example, NRZ formatted data at forty gigabits per second and higher may be reliably recovered using embodiments of the invention. However, recovering data from high-speed networks first requires recovering the clock in NRZ transmitted data. Since, in NRZ data, there could be several samples of missing data transition edges needed for clock recovery, embodiments of the invention use hybrid microwave and high speed processing technology to reliably measure the phase shift of the data transmitted over a high speed optical transmission network and then use the phase error to provide an adjustment voltage for appropriately adjusting the recovered clock from very reliable clock generation devices such as Dielectric Resonator Oscillators (DROs).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2002
    Publication date: March 20, 2003
    Inventors: Joseph M. Fala, Luis A. Wills
  • Publication number: 20030048500
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for testing the integrity of high speed optical fiber transmission networks are presented. Data from an optical network, for example, NRZ formatted data at forty gigabits per second and higher may be reliably recovered using embodiments of the invention. The invention employs hybrid microwave and high speed processing technology to reliably measure the phase shift of the data transmitted over a high speed optical transmission network by comparing the incoming data to a super-stable clock/frequency reference. The clock/frequency reference is intentionally offset by fractional frequency resulting in a beat frequency when compared to the incoming data. The beat frequency provides the ability for automatic calibration of the phase measurements because the period of the full 360 degrees phase is known. Also, the invention provides reliable means for measuring jitter and for generating Eye-pattern diagrams by eliminating issues associated with oscilloscope loop bandwidth limitations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2002
    Publication date: March 13, 2003
    Inventors: Joseph M. Fala, Luis A. Wills