Patents Assigned to Open Invention Network, LLC
  • Patent number: 9983944
    Abstract: A method and system of checkpointing single process application groups and multi-process application groups. In an exemplary embodiment, the method may include creating at least one full checkpoint for each application in an application group, and creating at least one incremental application checkpoint for each application in the application group. Further, each of the at least one incremental application checkpoint may be automatically merged against a corresponding full application checkpoint. Further, checkpointing may be synchronized across all applications in the application group. In the exemplary embodiment, each application may use both fork( ) and exec( ) in any combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventors: Keith Richard Backensto, Allan Havemose
  • Patent number: 9983950
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable medium for hybrid kernel-mode and user-mode checkpointing of multi-process applications using a character device. The computer readable medium includes computer-executable instructions for execution by a processing system. A multi-process application runs on primary hosts and is checkpointed by a checkpointer comprised of a kernel-mode checkpointer module and one or more user-space interceptors providing barrier synchronization, checkpointing thread, resource flushing, and an application virtualization space. Checkpoints may be written to storage and the application restored from said stored checkpoint at a later time. Checkpointing is transparent to the application and requires no modification to the application, operating system, networking stack or libraries. In an alternate embodiment the kernel-mode checkpointer is built into the kernel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventor: Allan Havemose
  • Patent number: 9984229
    Abstract: Disclosed are examples of authorizing an application access attempt. One example method may include connecting via a computing device to at least one remote computing device at a remote site and attempting to download an application from the remote site. The method may also include determining via a processor a trust level of the application based on trust metrics and comparing the trust level to a predetermined threshold. The method may also include determining whether to allow the application to be downloaded to the computing device based on results of the comparing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventor: William Charles Easttom, II
  • Patent number: 9986384
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable medium for providing information to a mobile device based on an event comprising detecting an occurrence of the event, determining if the event is a specific event and if the event occurred at or near a geographical location and sending an alert of the event to at least one mobile device if the event is the specific event, if the event occurs at or near the geographical location, and if the at least one mobile device is located at or near the geographical location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventors: James N. White, Monica Rose Martino, M. Gregory Smith
  • Patent number: 9980170
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable medium for determining a data call rate comprises determining if a supplemental channel (SCH) should be allocated, if the SCH should be allocated, potentially altering the data rate, requesting an SCH allocation at a current data rate or the altered data rate, and receiving a response to the request with the current data rate, the altered data rate, or a further altered data rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: Hyeon Bong Park
  • Patent number: 9980153
    Abstract: A method of operating a femtocell network cluster is disclosed. One example method of operating the femtocell network cluster may include certain operations, such as, selecting a master femtocell access point among various femtocell access points operating on the femtocell network cluster and updating a master table to include the master femtocell access point in the master table neighbor list. Other operations may include transmitting the master table to each of the femtocell access points informing them of the identity of the master femtocell access point. The tables may be maintained by all of the femtocell access points operating on the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Martin Edward Osborn, Seong Ju Seo, Kyungsik Choi
  • Patent number: 9977633
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed that provide processing data associated with a job request. In one example, the job request may be a printer job to print a particular document based on predefined settings. The data processing operation may include determining at least one job specific resource available to fulfill the job request, and performing at least one of a prioritization computation, a job specific requirement computation, and a geographical determination computation. Additional operations may include selecting at least one appropriate device to fulfill the job request based on the at least one computation operation and the at least one available job specific resource, and processing and completing the job using the at least one appropriate device based on the at least one computation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventor: Margarita Khafizova
  • Patent number: 9971607
    Abstract: In a method for accessing files in an electronic device, a Random Access Memory (RAM) disk is set-up to store the file system root of the electronic device. At least one file system to be mounted is discovered in the electronic device. Mount points are established on the RAM disk for each file system. Drive identifiers are assigned for each file system. A file access request comprising a first file name path comprising a drive identifier is detected. The drive identifier is mapped to a mount point and a second file name path based on the mount point and the first file name path is formed. Thereupon, a file is accessed using the second file name path in the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventor: Pirkka Puustinen
  • Patent number: 9973629
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method, apparatus, system and non-transitory computer program product configured to process user call responses and assign caller specific preferences to the user based on the caller's feedback. One example method of processing spoken words from a user of a calling platform may include operations, such as calling a user via a call processing device, and sending a call prompt message to the user after the user has answered the call, the call prompt message soliciting a user response. The user may respond and the response is received as a spoken call greeting from the user in response to the call prompt message. Other operations may include recording the spoken call greeting, and determining whether the spoken call greeting is indicative of a language preference. The system may process the user's word or utterances and assign language preferences to the user based on the user provided information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: James K. Boutcher, David Scheet, Jeffrey William Cordell, Daniel E. Smith
  • Patent number: 9972303
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program for inserting information into a conversation between two or more devices is provided. In one embodiment, speech data is received at a device. The speech data is analyzed and converted into text utilizing one or more speech-to-text algorithms. The text is examined to locate information that may be related to the text on the data network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventor: David Gerard Ledet
  • Patent number: 9967795
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable medium for provisioning communication services by an IP-based femtocell network is provided. Service of a user equipment may be transferred from one femtocell to another femtocell via a femtocell handoff procedure. Femtocell systems of the femtocell network perform link quality measurements and may distribute the link quality measurements to neighbor femtocells. A femtocell system may periodically evaluate the link quality with the user equipment. If an evaluation is made that the user equipment needs to be transferred to another site, the servicing femtocell site may evaluate the most recent link quality measurements received from neighboring femtocell sites and select a femtocell site for handoff. In the event that the femtocell network is deployed in an area serviced by a macrocellular network, handoff routines may provide preference for transferring the user equipment to a target femtocell system rather than a macrocell site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: Christopher Martin Edward Osborn
  • Patent number: 9965287
    Abstract: A system on a chip may include a plurality of data plane processor cores sharing a common instruction set architecture. At least one of the data plane processor cores is specialized to perform a particular function via extensions to the otherwise common instruction set architecture. Such systems on a chip may have reduced physical complexity, cost, and time-to-market, and may provide improvements in core utilization and reductions in system power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventor: Russell C. McKown
  • Patent number: 9965555
    Abstract: The present application describes performing a user initiated search query comprising receiving user input comprising description details of at least one desired object, retrieving a plurality of objects from a database sharing one or more of the description details of the user input, retrieving an image of the at least one desired object based on one or more of the plurality of objects, generating a contour of the image and comparing the generated contour with other related contours of other images stored in the database, displaying all of the available contours of all of the images that match the generated contour, receiving a selection of one of the available contours from the user and performing the search query based on the user selected contour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventors: Farid Khafizov, Margarita Khafizova
  • Patent number: 9965212
    Abstract: During conversion and transfer of data from a physical machine to a virtual hard disk, a transmuter generates a catalog of contents of the physical machine. Catalog entries are compared to a set of alterations templates which alter matching data. The altered data is then stored in the virtual hard disk. Alterations templates may include filters that exclude unwanted or duplicated catalog entries, mapping filters that transfer source catalog entries to target locations on the virtual hard disk, and add-on filters that add additional data or location references to catalog entries. The disclosed process allows modifications to be made in a systematic way during data transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: George Runcie, Derek Rodrigues
  • Patent number: 9960971
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and a computer program are provided. In one embodiment, a request is transmitted to a selector module for an available web service and a response is received from the selector module for a web service server. The response includes an endpoint uniform resource indicator to allow a client module to transmit a web service request to an appropriate web service server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventor: Chad Eric Powell
  • Patent number: 9959219
    Abstract: A peripheral device connected to a local electronic device which is connected to at least one communication network can communicate with a peripheral device attached to a remote electronic device as if the remote peripheral device was locally attached. Data designated for the remote peripheral device is received by a local virtual device object and transmitted to the remote electronic device via at least one of the electronic devices communication interfaces or peripheral devices. Data received by the remote electronic device's communication interface or peripheral device is written to the peripheral device at the remote electronic device by a virtual device object. For compensation of different transfer speeds or outages between the peripheral device and the communication interface or another peripheral device the virtual device provides the ability to utilize the virtual devices emulation driver that is attached to the virtual device object as an I/O buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventor: Martin Wieland
  • Patent number: 9954785
    Abstract: The content-aware application switch and methods thereof intelligently switch client packets to one server among a group of servers in a server farm. The switch uses Layer 7 or application content parsed from a packet to help select the server and to schedule the transmitting of the packet to the server. This enables refined load-balancing and Quality of-Service control tailored to the application being switched. In an exemplary embodiment of the invention, a method includes maintaining a server load metric for each server in a group of servers; parsing application content from a packet; selecting a destination server from the group of servers, wherein selecting the destination server is dependent on the server load metric for each server, assigning a priority to the packet, the priority being dependent on the application content; and dropping the packet if the priority comprises at least one of a predetermined type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventors: Leonard L. Lu, Deh-Phone K. Hsing, Bo-Chao Cheng, Tsong-Ho Wu
  • Patent number: 9948324
    Abstract: Information reduction in data processing environments includes at least one of: one or more Error Correcting Codes that decode n-vectors into k-vectors and utilize said decoding to information-reduce data from a higher dimensional space into a lower dimensional space. The information reduction further provides for a hierarchy of information reduction allowing a variety of information reductions. Transformations are provided to utilize available data space, and data may be transformed using several techniques including windowing functions, filters in the time and frequency domains, or any numeric processing on the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: Allan Havemose
  • Patent number: 9945683
    Abstract: Transport communication comprising, associating a wireless device and a user, associating a transport and the wireless device, determining a characteristic of the user based on at least one of a user search history and a user preference selection, determining a probable route the transport based on at least one of a route history and an input destination and ranking at least one suggestion of a route deviation based at least one of the determined probable route and determined characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventor: David Gerard Ledet
  • Patent number: 9946838
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique for analyzing data records using a touch screen interface. A touch event is received from the touch screen interface. In response to receiving the touch event, at least one data record is selected from a plurality of data records in a time chart, the time chart including at least one time line relating to at least one data object, the plurality of data records being plotted on the at least one time line based on a time parameter of each of the plurality of data records. Information relating to the selected at least one data record is processed based on the time parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventor: Margarita Khafizova