Patents Assigned to Open Invention Networks
  • System and method for managing an object cache
    Patent number: 8954677
    Abstract: In order to optimize efficiency of deserialization, a serialization cache is maintained at an object server. The serialization cache is maintained in conjunction with an object cache and stores serialized forms of objects cached within the object cache. When an inbound request is received, a serialized object received in the request is compared to the serialization cache. If the serialized byte stream is present in the serialization cache, then the equivalent object is retrieved from the object cache, thereby avoiding deserialization of the received serialized object. If the serialized byte stream is not present in the serialization cache, then the serialized byte stream is deserialized, the deserialized object is cached in the object cache, and the serialized object is cached in the serialization cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Deren George Ebdon, Robert W. Peterson
  • System and method for application isolation
    Patent number: 8943500
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable medium for providing application isolation to one or more applications and their associated resources. The system may include one or more isolated environments including application files and executables, and one or more interception layers intercepting access to system resources and interfaces. Further, the system may include an interception database maintaining mapping between the system resources inside the one or more isolated environments and outside, and a host operating system. The one or more applications may be isolated from other applications and the host operating system while running within the one or more isolated environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: Allan Havemose
  • System and method for processing database queries
    Patent number: 8943088
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for processing a database query between one or more clients and one or more databases. The database query, which is formatted using a first protocol, is received from one of the clients. One of the databases is selected to process the database query and the database query is translated from the first protocol to a second protocol. The translated database query is then sent to the selected database for processing. A response to the database query, which is formatted using the second protocol, is received from the selected database and the response is translated from the second protocol to the first protocol. The present invention determines which of the clients sent the database query and sends the translated response to the client that sent the database query. This method can be implemented as a computer program embodied on a computer readable medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Monica Rose Cleghorn, Kevin V. Nguyen
  • System and method for hierarchical interception with isolated environments
    Patent number: 8943501
    Abstract: A system, method, computer program, and/or computer readable medium for providing hierarchical interception for applications within isolated environments The computer readable medium includes computer-executable instructions for execution by a processing system. The computer-executable instructions may be for installing interceptors, configuring interceptors, preloading shared libraries, using trampoline functions, removal of interceptors, mapping between resources inside and outside the isolated environment, providing an interception database, loading the interception database, redirection of resources, and providing the hierarchy of interceptors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: Allan Havemose
  • XML STREAMING TRANSFORMER (XST)
    Publication number: 20150026565
    Abstract: The present invention includes devices and methods to specify a document transformation. A template specifies a transformation that is applied to a document in a streaming mode, without building a full object tree in memory representing the document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: Open Invention Networks, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew FUCHS, Changyi Zhu
  • Apparatus, method, and computer readable medium for providing a presentation on a network having a plurality of synchronized media types
    Patent number: 8935423
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and computer readable medium is disclosed for receiving in a client node a timing command indicating a time at which to display a presentation portion comprising a first stream content and a second stream content and synchronizing display of the first stream content with the second stream content to the client node using a stream delay parameter, wherein the delay parameter accounts for the propagation time difference between the first stream content and the second stream content, wherein the first stream content and the second stream content are synchronously rendered at the client node at a time derived from the time indicated by the timing command and the stream delay parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Frank E. Johnson, Robert H. Ogdon, Rocco L. Adornato
  • Interconnection of peripheral devices on different electronic devices
    Patent number: 8935434
    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: February 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: Martin Wieland
  • System and method for analysing data records utilizing a touch screen interface
    Patent number: 8928606
    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: April 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: Margarita Khafizova
  • Simultaneous zoom in windows on a touch sensitive device
    Patent number: 8928700
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique for generating simultaneous zoom in windows on a touch sensitive device. A first portion of the user content is zooming into by touching the display screen in a proximity of the first portion using the touch input device while retaining an original zoom size of a first remaining portion of the user content. A second portion of the user content from the first remaining portion is zoomed into by touching the display screen in a proximity of the second portion using the touch input device while retaining a zoomed in first portion and an original zoom size of a second remaining portion of the of the first remaining portion, the original zoom size of the first and the second remaining portions being the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: Margarita Khafizova
  • Providing information to a mobile device based on an event at a geographical location
    Patent number: 8923890
    Abstract: A system, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions for receiving information about an event from at least one mobile device, the information comprising location information and event type information and identifying the event based on the information, the event being identified by associating the event type information with a specific event and associating the location information with a particular location associated with the specific event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: James N. White, Monica Rose Martino, M. Gregory Smith
  • Method and system for communicating with internet resources to identify and supply content for webpage construction
    Patent number: 8909683
    Abstract: A process and system are directed to generating a medium without user involvement in supplying the content. A user makes a series of increasingly granular selections to specify the type of medium to be built, such as a webpage. A query-reply communications protocol is used to identify relevant content for building the webpage from network resources. A resource is queried to determine whether the resource contains any relevant content. The response from the resource, if affirmative, includes the requested content. The query communications are formulated to conduct a keyword type search of the resource. The resource response includes the search results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: David Gerard Ledet
  • System and method for maintaining mappings between application resources inside and outside isolated environments
    Patent number: 8904004
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable medium for maintaining mappings between resources inside an isolated environment and outside the isolated environment for one or more applications. The system may include a plurality of lists of resources requested by the one or more applications during installation and while executing, and a corresponding lists of resources inside the isolated environment. The system may also include a list of resource exceptions, wherein the mappings between resources as requested by the applications and their corresponding values in the isolated environment are maintained subject to the list of exceptions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: Allan Havemose
  • Method of accessing files in electronic devices
    Patent number: 8898167
    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 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: Pirkka Puustinen
  • System and method for enrolling in a biometric system
    Patent number: 8892899
    Abstract: The present invention is a system and method of enrolling potential system users for a biometric system for identity verification. Potential system user information is entered into the system, either by the user or a system operator, and is stored as a partially-enabled user record. The user of a partially-enabled user record fully enables the record by presenting information previously stored in the user record and presenting the remainder of user information necessary to complete record activation. Enrollment data is used to authenticate the system user's identity and authorize related transaction accesses in a biometric system for identity verification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy L. Robinson, Bradford R. Schildt, Tennille V. Gott, Mark B. Robinson
  • Simultaneous operation of a networked device using multiptle disparate networks
    Patent number: 8893113
    Abstract: In a typical network setup, a networked capable device interfaces to either one wired network hub or to a wireless network hub. The networked capable device will send and receive data packets to and from the wired or wireless hub it is connected to. The invention provides a system, method and a computer program to send and receive data packets to and from multiple wired and/or wireless network hubs in order to, for example, increase the number of data packets the networked capable device can receive to multiple applications run on the networked capable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: Kevin V. Nguyen
  • System and method for application isolation with live migration
    Patent number: 8893129
    Abstract: A system, method, computer program, and/or computer readable medium for providing application isolation and live migration to one or more applications and their associated resources. The computer readable medium includes computer-executable instructions for execution by a processing system. The computer-executable instructions may be for creating a new isolated environment, for creating a copy of an isolated environment, live migrating applications within and between isolated environments, and for deploying an isolated environment Further, the instructions may be for launching one or more applications within one or more isolated environment, for terminating one or more applications within one or more isolated environments, for configuring resource mappings, exceptions and policies, for triggering a live migrate, and for delivery of one or more applications within isolated environments over the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: Allan Havemose
  • Method and apparatus of providing location based device modifications
    Patent number: 8892129
    Abstract: Disclosed are examples of performing mobile station modifications. According to one example a method may include transmitting a notification from a mobile station to an advertisement server and receiving at least one advertisement parameter at the mobile station responsive to the transmitted notification. The method may also include performing a modification to a current state of the mobile device based on the at least one advertisement parameter and a distance between the mobile station and at least one establishment registered with the advertisement server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: David Gerard Ledet
  • System and method for search with the aid of images associated with product categories
    Patent number: 8892594
    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: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Farid Khafizov, Margarita Khafizova
  • Method and system for providing biometric authentication at a point-of-sale via a mobile device
    Patent number: 8880434
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for authorizing a payment for a point of sale transaction by authenticating the user of a mobile device, such as a mobile phone. The present invention authenticates the consumer and verifies that he is authorized to conduct a transaction at the point of sale by means of the consumer's mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Vincent Bemmel, Shaoib Mian
  • Method and system for providing storage checkpointing to a group of independent computer applications
    Patent number: 8880473
    Abstract: A system and method for storage checkpointing to a group of independent computer applications. The system has a storage disk that stores files; a storage access interface to access the storage disk; and a computer. The computer runs the group of independent computer applications and utilizes the files stored on the storage disk. A file system on the server accesses the files stored on the storage disk. An operating system and at least one device driver can be called by the file system, and at least one buffer buffers first data written to the storage disk and second data read from the storage disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Allan Havemose, Keith Richard Backensto