Patents Assigned to Open Invention Network, LLC
  • Patent number: 9588687
    Abstract: Methods, computer media encoding instructions, and systems that receive write requests directed to non-sequential logical block addresses and write the write requests to sequential disk block addresses in a storage system include an overprovision of a storage system to include an increment of additional storage space such that it is more likely a large enough sequential block of storage will be available to accommodate incoming write requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Alan Rowe, Chandrika Srinivasan, Sameer Narkhede, Wing Yee Au, Ismail Dalgic
  • Patent number: 9591457
    Abstract: In order to determine the location of wireless network devices without inherent location capabilities, a wireless network device such as an access point can receive geolocation information from transient data sources such as mobile devices requiring network access from the access point. The access point stores geolocation records including location coordinates received from the transient data sources. The geolocation records can be processed to determine the position and movement of the access point. The geolocation records and/or location information can be passed to other transient clients that do not have inherent location capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Robert W. Peterson, Mark Gerard
  • Patent number: 9591128
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable medium for establishing communication between two devices comprises connecting, by a first computer, to an open source Private Branch Exchange (PBX) platform via a port, receiving a phone number sent by a first one of the two devices at the open source PBX platform, invoking an interface module by the open source PBX platform, where the interface module resides on the open source PBX platform, and building a Calling Name request by the interface module related to the received phone number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventor: Kevin V. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 9582252
    Abstract: Methods, articles, signals, and systems are provided for adaptively shrinking software. The software includes one or more adaptive features. A tracking facility tracks use of the adaptive features, and when it is determined that a given feature is unwanted or unnecessary in the software configuration preferred by a given user, a separation facility separates the feature from the rest of the software. The feature is then archived or deleted. In this manner, resources such as disk space are conserved, program load time and memory requirements are reduced, and user interfaces and supporting code are tailored to meet the needs of particular users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventor: John W. L. Ogilvie
  • Patent number: 9577893
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable medium for providing optimized streaming of one or more applications from streaming servers onto one or more clients. The one or more applications are contained within one or move isolated environments, and the isolated environments are streamed from the servers onto clients. The streaming is optimized using update-caches which are maintained on the streaming server and compared against the client's most recent update-caches. The update-caches are updated when applications are installed, removed or patched inside particular isolated environment and when the operating system is patched or updated. The system may include authentication of the streaming servers and authentication of clients and credentialing of the isolated environments and applications the clients are configured to run. The system may further include encrypted communication between the streaming servers and the clients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventor: Allan Havemose
  • Patent number: 9576308
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable medium for usage billing of one or more hosted applications serving one or more clients. The hosted applications are contained within one or more isolated environments or run without isolated environments. The system may include usage billing based on one or more of resources open, amount of data flowing through resources, number of open files, number of transactions, number of concurrent users, number of processes, CPU utilization and memory usage, The system may further include a management interface where administrators may add, remove and configure isolated environments, configure client policies and credentials, and force upgrades. If using isolated environments, the isolated environments may be isolated from other applications and the host operating system on the clients and applications within the isolated environments may run without performing an application-installation on the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventor: Allan Havemose
  • Patent number: 9575694
    Abstract: The illustrative embodiments described herein provide systems and methods for managing the execution of print jobs. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a print job associated with a set of print job parameters. The print job is sent from a computing device associated with a user. The method includes accessing a set of user parameters associated with the user, and determining a print job priority for the print job using the set of print job parameters and the set of user parameters. The method includes identifying a destination printer capable of executing the print job using the set of print job parameters. The method also includes initiating execution of the print job at the destination printer in response to determining to execute the print job based on the print job priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventor: Margarita Khafizova
  • Patent number: 9578108
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique to configure a data source name (DSN) for use during a data source access. A driver is selected. An identifier is provided that identifies a class, and a library or an application that implements a driver interface for accessing the data source. A connection string is forwarded with the identifier from an implementation of the driver interface to the driver. The connection string is forwarded from the driver to a driver manager managing a client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventor: Marc Todd Yaeger
  • Patent number: 9575781
    Abstract: Disclosed are examples of observing and measuring virtual machine (VM) activity in a VM communication system environment. According to one example embodiment, an example operation may include transmitting a request from a physical host device to monitor at least one virtual machine among various virtual machines currently operating in a virtual communication system. Additional operations may include determining which of the virtual machines are actively accessing a predetermined virtual application, such as a virtual storage application. The operations may also include receiving present operating activity results regarding the virtual machines responsive to the transmitted request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventor: John Michael Suit
  • Patent number: 9571607
    Abstract: In a distributed object computing system, a server application may create multiple, uniquely identified, server contexts that each provide one or more services to a service consumer (client). Instead of creating a connection to a client for each server context, a single connection can be used. A service request handler may be configured to handle service requests for each server context. Service requests may be generated in the client with a service context identity. When a service request is received by the server application, the service request handler resolves the service context identity and forwards the service request to the appropriate server context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: Robert W. Peterson
  • Patent number: 9563883
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable medium for usage billing of one or more hosted applications serving one or more clients. The hosted applications are contained within one or more isolated environments or run without isolated environments. The system may include usage billing based on one or more of resources open, amount of data flowing through resources, number of open files, number of transactions, number of concurrent users, number of processes, CPU utilization and memory usage, The system may further include a management interface where administrators may add, remove and configure isolated environments, configure client policies and credentials, and force upgrades. If using isolated environments, the isolated environments may be isolated from other applications and the host operating system on the clients and applications within the isolated environments may run without performing an application-installation on the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventor: Allan Havemose
  • Patent number: 9565303
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable medium for abbreviated dialing in a femtocell network is provided. A user having authorized access to the femtocell network may dial another authorized user using an abbreviated code. On receipt of the call request, a femtocell system may evaluate the destination number to determine if it is an abbreviated code. If the dialed number is not an abbreviated code, the femtocell system may direct the call request to the telecommunication core network for processing thereby. If the dialed number is evaluated by the femtocell system as an abbreviated code, the femtocell system may direct the call request to an on-site PBX for call handling. If the abbreviated code is a valid code and the dialed user equipment is currently in the femtocell network service area, the PBX may then complete the call setup within the femtocell network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: Christopher Martin Edward Osborn
  • Patent number: 9565298
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relates to a computer implemented method for executing application code to connect with a voice based networking website, the method includes connecting at least a user in a conference through the voice based networking website. The information provided by at least the user is appended in a conversation after the conference is over. The appended information is displayed in the voice based networking website as per a timestamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventor: David Gerard Ledet
  • Patent number: 9563789
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system that processes data. During operation, the system uses a first key to protect a write operation on the data. Next, the system uses a second key to protect a read operation on the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Geoffrey G. Thomas, John Whaley, Thomas Joseph Purtell, II
  • Patent number: 9565219
    Abstract: A multimedia collaboration system that facilitates more efficient, free-flowing collaboration sessions. In order to make addition of new participants, media components, and or network access device to a collaboration session more efficient, client devices associated with each participant can store endpoint address information that can be automatically obtained by the multimedia collaboration system. The endpoint address information can then be used to add the new participants, media components, and or network access device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Todd Vernon, Dan Jones
  • Patent number: 9560098
    Abstract: A system, method and computer program product having instructions stored thereon for automatically data streaming a multiparty conference session comprises receiving an Internet-based interface at a session moderator, said Internet-based interface configured for said session moderator to enter a request for data streaming a multiparty conference session, automatically establishing a data stream of said conferencing session, without any human intervention, wherein establishing said automated data stream includes: recording the multiparty conference session, and data streaming the multiparty conference session to listen-only participants thereby enabling listen-only participants to connect to the multiparty conference session without using additional conference ports and/or conference resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Berberian, Todd Vernon
  • Patent number: 9558130
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of performing a data transmission from an electronic device or a peripheral device of an electronic device to a peripheral device of a remote electronic device is disclosed. One example method of performing the data transmission may include transmitting data designated for the remote peripheral device to a local virtual device object. The data that is received by the local virtual device object is transmitted via at least one communication interface or peripheral device of the electronic device to at least one remote communication interface or peripheral device of the remote electronic device. The data arriving at the least one remote communication interface or peripheral device of the remote electronic device is received by a remote virtual device object and transmitted to the designated remote peripheral device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventor: Martin Wieland
  • Patent number: 9560141
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of establishing a network connection for P2P communications is disclosed. According to one example, a method of establishing a network connection may include establishing an initial data connection between a first network device and a second network device via a third network device, the third network device providing an initial communication channel required to exchange setup messaging between the first network device and the second network device. Other operations may include establishing another data connection between the first network device and the second device after the setup messaging is exchanged, the another connection being independent of the third network device, and transferring data messages between the first network device and the second network device via the another connection. Once the P2P connection is established, the initial data connection may be removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: Anjini Shukla
  • Patent number: 9559924
    Abstract: A system and method for monitoring a plurality of servers by a monitoring server in a computer network. A list of servers and a plurality of services to monitor in the computer network is generated at the monitoring server. A status query is transmitted sequentially by the monitoring server to each of the plurality of servers, the status query including the plurality of services to monitor at each server. A status message report is received from each of the plurality of servers in response to each status query. An event is reported in an event log for each server that has an abnormal service status. The transmission of the status query to each server is performed by the monitoring server at a specified service time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Samuel Hendon, Colin Feeser
  • Patent number: 9549435
    Abstract: A method, system and non-transitory computer storage readable medium comprise operating a Wide Area Network (WAN) device according to a first Internet protocol (IP) translation mode of operation, changing an initial connectivity status between the WAN device and a WAN and transitioning from the first IP translation mode of operation to a second IP translation mode of operation that is different from the first IP translation mode of operation based on the change in the initial connectivity status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Wei-Lun Hsu, Pen Hsieh, Chia-Hung Fan, Chen-Hua Fan