Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that facilitate selecting videos to share in a messaging session. A system is provided that includes an accessible data mining component configured to generate a first set of data associated with a messaging session between a user and one or more other user, the first set of data excluding data that is inaccessible to the user and comprising data that is accessible to the user, and an identification component configured to identify a set of media items based on the first set of data. An inaccessible data mining component is further configured to generate a second set of data comprising data that is inaccessible to the user but accessible to at least one of the one or more other users, and a recommendation component configured to recommend a subset of the set of media items to the user based on the second set of data.
Abstract: Embodiments are directed to provisioning private virtual machines in a public cloud and to managing private virtual machines hosted on a public cloud. In one scenario, a computer system receives authentication information for a private domain from an entity. The entity indicates that their private virtual machines are to be provisioned on a public cloud, where the entity's private domain is accessible using the authentication information. The computer system establishes a virtual network on the public cloud which is configured to host the entity's private virtual machines, where each virtual machine hosts remote applications. The computer system establishes an authenticated connection from the virtual network to the entity's private domain using the received authentication information and provides the entity's private virtual machines on the public cloud.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 17, 2018
Date of Patent:
February 4, 2020
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Inventors:
Amjad Hussain, Jonathan Austin Hoover, Tristan William Scott, Ido Miles Ben-Shachar, Kevin Scott London
Abstract: Computer systems, methods, and storage media for tailoring a user interface to a user according to a determined user state and a determined interface context corresponding to the determined user state. The user interface is tailored by modifying the format of at least a portion of the interface, including modifying the content, layout of the content, presentation sequence, or visual display of the interface. A user interface includes a selectable formatting object for controlling the formatting of the user interface and for generating feedback data for training an ensemble learning component to enable more effective predictive formatting changes.
Abstract: Pooling computing resources based on inferences about a plurality of hardware devices. The method includes identifying inference information about the plurality of devices. The method further includes based on the inference information optimizing resource usage of the plurality of hardware devices.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 19, 2016
Date of Patent:
February 4, 2020
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Inventors:
Arun U. Kishan, Emily Nicole Wilson, Mohammed Nashaat Soliman, Paresh Maisuria, Shira Weinberg, Gurpreet Virdi, Jared Brown
Abstract: In one aspect, the invention relates to a compound of the structure: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a crystalline form of this compound, having neprilysin inhibition activity. In another aspect, the invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising this compound; methods of using this compound; and processes for preparing this compound.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 3, 2018
Date of Patent:
February 4, 2020
Assignee:
Theravance Biopharma R&D IP, LLC
Inventors:
Melissa Fleury, Adam D. Hughes, Anne-Marie Beausoleil, Erik Fenster, Venkat R. Thalladi, Miroslav Rapta
Abstract: The invention provides two crystalline freebase forms of biphenyl-2-ylcarbamic acid 1-(2-{[4-(4-carbamoylpiperidin-1-ylmethyl)benzoyl]methylamino}ethyl)piperidin-4-yl ester. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the crystalline freebase or prepared using the crystalline freebases; processes and intermediates for preparing the crystalline freebases; and methods of using the crystalline freebases to treat a pulmonary disorder.
Abstract: A method for managing payment submissions includes receiving, at an acquirer computing system, an authorization request submitted by a merchant computing system for a transaction of a predefined amount, the merchant computing system being associated with a merchant, and the authorization request identifying account information for an account that is associated with a payment card network and an issuer processor; and re-transmitting the authorization request for less than the predefined amount and greater than a configurable threshold value, until the authorization request is approved by the issuer processor or until the authorization request falls below the configurable threshold value.
Abstract: A label having a silicone-free (water-based) release coating and compatible adhesive patch is provided. The label includes a thermally coated substrate having a silicone-free substrate overlaid thereon of a first surface. A second surface includes a microsphere adhesive layer.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 16, 2014
Date of Patent:
February 4, 2020
Assignee:
Iconex LLC
Inventors:
Martha Patricia Wild, Marcus Eugene Wilker, Tuan Anh Nguyen Le, Jessica Darlene Watkins
Abstract: A sensor arrangement for measuring liquid height in a tank can include a housing, a transducer, and a couplant. The housing can have an interior and an aperture, the aperture placing the interior of the housing in communication with the environment external to the housing. The transducer can be seated within the aperture. The couplant can be mechanically connected to the transducer and can have a compressible couplant body. The couplant body can extend between the transducer and the external environment for transmitting an acoustic pulse from the transducer to a tank bottom for measuring height of a liquid overlaying the transducer.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 29, 2016
Date of Patent:
February 4, 2020
Assignee:
Mopeka Products LLC
Inventors:
Joel Reese Moore, Jonathan Louis Kaufman, Jason Duane Peck
Abstract: Polypeptides having phytase activity and polynucleotide sequences encoding the phytases are provided. The gene expresses the phytase at a level of at least 7 g/L to 40 g/L. The phytase have higher specific activity, retain activity at low pH, and retain activity at high temperature. The phytase can be used in a variety of compositions including food, feed, pharmaceuticals, and cleaning.
Abstract: A collagen-bone composition may include bone collagen and bone particles. The collagen may be in the form of a collagen suspension and the bone particles may be demineralized bone particles retained in collagen suspension. The composition may be prepared from pressure and thermal treatment of dry demineralized bone particles contacted with an aqueous medium to produce a viscous gel-like fluid. The fluid may include the collagen extracted from the demineralized bone particles. Addition of particulate bone may be used to increase the consistency of the composition, which may convert it into a paste or putty. The paste or putty may be suitable for ejection from a syringe. The collagen-bone composition may be preserved by freeze-drying or preferably by hypothermic dehydration. On reconstitution with aqueous medium, the preserved material may resume its original shape and properties.
Abstract: A data profiling server extracts data from multiple data sources and stores the extracted data in a target data store. Validation functions are performed on the extracted to determine whether the data conforms to validation rules associated with the target data store and/or business logic definitions. For data that does not conform to the validation rules, the data profiling server identifies recommended transformations to be applied to the data to correct any errors that cause the data to not conform with the validation rules. A data profiling application presents to a user the data extracted from the multiple data sources in a grid structure. The grid structure also includes error indicators identifying the data that does not conform to the validation rules and specifies the recommended transformations identified by the data profiling server.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 7, 2015
Date of Patent:
February 4, 2020
Assignee:
Informatica LLC
Inventors:
Lin Jiang, Ratheesh Narayanan, Liam Friedland
Abstract: An exemplary brake booster device includes, among other things, a brake booster mounted on a vehicle component, and an actuator that, in response to a force applied to the actuator by a gearbox housing, pivots to move the brake booster upward. The actuator includes at least two pivot elements spaced from each other, and a displacement mounted in a jointed manner between the at least two pivot elements.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 23, 2018
Date of Patent:
February 4, 2020
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC
Inventors:
Daniel Meckenstock, Marius Sawatzki, Istvan Somogyvari, Michael Spurling
Abstract: A slow response time tool including a biasing arrangement, a piston in operable communication with the biasing arrangement, a chamber receptive to the piston, a retardation arrangement defining a helical pathway in fluid communication with the chamber.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 20, 2017
Date of Patent:
February 4, 2020
Assignee:
BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
Inventors:
Britain A. Fisher, Timothy Cragin, Jason Allen, Rick Patterson, Douglas J. Lehr, Emily Hanson
Abstract: A driver monitoring system for a vehicle and method of operating the driver operating system. The method, in one implementation, involves receiving a plurality of glance aim points for a driver of the vehicle; inputting the plurality of glance aim points into a predictive probability of distraction model to obtain a predictive distraction distribution; determining whether one or more informative glance locations are present in the plurality of glance aim points; comparing the predictive distraction distribution to a predictive distraction distribution threshold when one or more informative glance locations are present in the plurality of glance aim points; and alerting the driver when the predictive distraction distribution satisfies or exceeds the predictive distraction distribution threshold.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 19, 2018
Date of Patent:
February 4, 2020
Assignee:
GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
Inventors:
Lawrence A. Bush, Shihchye A. Lin, Prabhjot Kaur
Abstract: A method of predicting the health of and controlling a hydraulic pressure actuated torque converter lock-up clutch includes determining rotational input and output speeds of the torque converter. The method also includes determining a magnitude of the hydraulic pressure. The method additionally includes determining a level of performance of the clutch across multiple torque converter operating modes using the determined input and output torque converter speeds and the determined magnitude of the hydraulic pressure. The method also includes calculating a numeric state of health (SOH) coefficient of the clutch that quantifies a relative severity of degradation of a plurality of clutch characteristics across the multiple torque converter operating modes. Furthermore, the method includes executing a control action relative to the clutch when the calculated numeric SOH coefficient for specified torque converter operating mode(s) is less than a calibrated SOH threshold.
Abstract: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01067703. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01067703. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01067703 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01067703 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
Abstract: Pulling eyes are provided with integrated wiring systems suitable for installing conductors or cables. The pulling eyes may include body portions that define interior cavities that are sized to snugly engage outside portions of the conductors or cables. The body portions are sized to be deformably crimped onto the outside portions of the conductors or cables. The pulling eyes may also include head portions joined to the body portions, with the head portions defining apertures for receiving a strength member for installing the conductors or cables. These apertures place the interior cavities in communication with the exteriors of the pulling eyes.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 18, 2018
Date of Patent:
February 4, 2020
Assignee:
Southwire Company, LLC
Inventors:
John R. Carlson, David Brian McCardel, David A. Cooper, David Mercier, Philip Sasse, Allan W. Daniel, Timothy M. Andrea, Juan Alberto Galindo Gonzalez, Timmothy R. Bardin
Inventors:
Evan Malahy, Liron Damir, Christopher Morabito, Paul Truong, Pei-Ling Feng, Jonathan Gaiser, Lucas Hirata, Megan Knight, Andrew Schoneweis, Felix Mejia, Nayon Kim