Patents Assigned to Open Invention Network, LLC
  • Publication number: 20140113602
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for sending video content to a mobile device is described. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprising embedding a widget in a website, the widget generating a form. The form is provided when a user visits the website so as to execute the widget. The form includes a first field to enter a recipient phone number, a send selector, and one or more non-visible fields, the non-visible fields containing a content service provider identifier, and a video URL. A data packet is generated with the widget when the user selects the send selector, the data packet including the recipient phone number, the video URL, and the content service provider identifier. An encoded version of the data packet is sent to the content service provider and a video link message is sent to the recipient phone number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Scirocco Michelle Six, Sterling Mace, Rajeev Raman, Stephen Mui, Jason Fisher
  • Publication number: 20140108173
    Abstract: A system and method for performing authentication are disclosed. The system may include a shared central processing server, a plurality of software components each residing in a corresponding point-of-sale (POS) workstation and an identity provider service. The server may reside at a merchant location and communicate with multiple POS workstations at the merchant location. The server may be configured to receive biometric information from each POS workstation. Each software component may communicate with a biometric sensor in communication with the corresponding POS workstation to receive biometric information. The identity provider service may be configured to communicate with the server, store registered biometric information and compare biometric information received from the server with one or more of the stored registered biometric information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Cooper, Ron Hilmes
  • Patent number: 8687878
    Abstract: A method and system for locating an object in three-dimensional space is provided. In some embodiments, a computerized method for extracting positional information in three dimensions for a point from a first image and a second image is provided. A first epipolar line and a first reference line projected in the first image are generated. The first epipolar line corresponds to the point. A second epipolar line and a second reference line projected in the second image are generated. The second epipolar line corresponds to the point. The positional information for the point is determined based on intersecting the first eipipolar line and the first reference line and based on intersecting the second epipolar line and the second reference line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: Paul M. Payton
  • Publication number: 20140082112
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for dynamically providing web-based multimedia to a mobile phone are described. According to one embodiment, an RSS feed is received that references multimedia files meeting one or more criteria. A playlist is generated dynamically from the multimedia files. The playlist is a single virtual multimedia file. An updated RSS feed is received that references one or more additional multimedia files meeting the one or more criteria. A second playlist is generated dynamically from the multimedia files and the one or more additional multimedia files.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventors: Scirocco Michelle Six, Sterling Mace, Rajeev Raman, Stephen Mui, Jason Fisher
  • Patent number: 8676988
    Abstract: A collaborative communication system that includes a plurality of endpoints and interconnecting nodes configured to communicate via messages over interconnecting channels. Each of the plurality of endpoints and/or interconnecting nodes can determine whether to apply protection to the messages on a per message basis and/or base on the interconnecting channel being used. Thus, a balance between adequate protection and use of system resources and bandwidth can be maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Wanek, Dan Jones, Todd Vernon
  • Patent number: 8676958
    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 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Samuel Hendon, Colin Feeser
  • Patent number: 8667066
    Abstract: A system and method for event-driven live migration of applications between two or more servers. Primary applications runs on primary hosts and one or more replicated instances of each primary application run on one or more backup hosts. Event driven live migration is provided through a combination of process replication, logging, barrier synchronization, reliable messaging and message playback. The event driven live migration is transparent to the application and requires no modification to the application, operating system, networking stack or libraries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: Allan Havemose
  • Patent number: 8655386
    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: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: James N. White, Monica Rose Martino, M. Gregory Smith
  • Patent number: 8656047
    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: January 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Leonard L. Lu, Deh-Phone K. Hsing, Bo-Chao Cheng, Tsong-Ho Wu
  • Patent number: 8656505
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for detecting and enforcing compliance with access requirements for a computer system in a restricted computer network. A compliance validation configuration file is created for the computer system. A maintenance service utility is configured to launch a compliance validation executable file at a specified time during operation of the computer system. A digital hash is generated for the compliance validation executable file and for the compliance validation configuration file. A determination is made if the computer system or a computer system user is a member of a configured restricted group. If the computer system or the computer system user is a member of a configured restricted group, a determination is made if a directory site code for a subnet of the restricted computer network to which the computer system is connected corresponds to a configured and allowed site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Colin Lee Feeser, Anthony William Ondrus, Mark Jackson Canup
  • Patent number: 8656226
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable medium for statistical application-agnostic fault detection of multi-process applications. The computer readable medium includes computer-executable instructions for execution by a processing system. A multi-process application runs on a host. Interceptors collect statistical events and sends said events to a statistical fault detector. The statistical fault detector creates one or more distributions and compares recent statistical event data to historical statistical event data and uses deviation from historical norm for fault detection. The present invention detects faults both within the application and within the environment wherein the application executes, if conditions within the environment cause impaired application performance. The invention also teaches consensus fault detection and elimination of cascading fault notifications based on a hierarchy of events and event groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: Allan Havemose
  • Patent number: 8655790
    Abstract: The present invention relates to devices and methods that coordinate an external conversation process between entities with an internal workflow of one of the entities. More particularly, it relates to devices and methods that are compliant with an inter-enterprise conversation process standard for routing electronic commerce documents between enterprises. Particular aspects of the present invention are described in the claims, specification and drawings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Qiming Chen, Meichun Hsu, Vinkesh Omprakash Mehta
  • Patent number: 8655745
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable medium for facilitating user interaction with numerous product suppliers to determine which supplier to utilize for ordering a product based on various parameters are provided. A user may interact with one or more suppliers using similar or different parameters for each supplier within the same application without having to switch to another external application. Results are provided in a visually appealing and logical manner and automate the ordering of an item if that item is found at a particular supplier within predefined thresholds specified by the user. In this manner, orders may be submitted at the moment order thresholds are met, and decisions may be made automatically by one or more of the system, the user, or on an interaction by the user and another individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: David Gerard Ledet
  • Patent number: 8645541
    Abstract: A network communication system and a source device thereof. The source device may include a cluster manager that groups a plurality of connections between the source device and the plurality of destination devices into clusters, such as performance clusters. The cluster manager may also remove one or more of the destination devices that do not respond within a timeout threshold from their clusters, and when the removed one or more destination devices respond to the timeout threshold, the cluster manager may provide one or more of the plurality of destination devices full-buffer updates until such point as a recent average latency performance of a responding destination device is at a level that merits insertion back into one of the clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Dan Jones, Todd Vernon, Jeffrey Kriese
  • Patent number: 8645240
    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: March 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: Allan Havemose
  • Patent number: 8645754
    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: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Keith Richard Backensto, Allan Havemose
  • Patent number: 8639599
    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: March 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: Allan Havemose
  • Patent number: 8635489
    Abstract: A method, system and program product for group policy backup management in a network having a plurality of domains including components and modules for steps of retrieving a list of group policy objects for a domain, generating a configuration initialization file including a domains section identifying a plurality of domains that are to be backed up and a setup section specifying a plurality of values that control the backup of each policy object in each domain, determining a digital signature for each policy object on a list of policies for the domain, comparing the digital signature for each policy object with a corresponding previous digital signature for each policy, determining if a current digital signature for each policy object matches the corresponding previous digital signature for a policy, and backing up a policy object having a current digital signature that does not match the corresponding previous digital signature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Colin Lee Feeser, Ryan Sean Marks
  • Patent number: 8635354
    Abstract: A system and method for providing message connectivity between a first network using a first protocol and a second network using a second protocol is described. If a message is received from the first network, the message is processed using one or more digital signal processors, a destination in the second network is determined, the processed message is logged and translated into the second protocol, and the translated message is sent to the destination in the second network. If the message is received from the second network, the message is translated into the first protocol, a destination in the first network is determined, the translated message is logged and processed using one or more digital signal processors, and the processed message is sent to the destination in the first network. One example method can be implemented as a computer program embodied on a computer readable medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Monica Rose Martino, Kevin V. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 8635590
    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: October 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: John W. L. Ogilvie