Patents Examined by A. Pulliam
  • Patent number: 11955241
    Abstract: The disclosure provides for pathogenic biomarkers and serum extracellular vesicular biomarkers that are associated with vascular anomalies and malformation of endothelial cells, and uses thereof, including for diagnosis, prognosis and therapy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Wenbin Tan, John Stuart Nelson, Dongbao Chen
  • Patent number: 11854669
    Abstract: The present invention relates to method for storing and transmitting information by employing a nucleic acid construct. The nucleic acid construct can include a lock region; a translation key region that corresponds to the identity of a key; and a message region including a nucleic sequence that corresponds to an encrypted message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
    Inventors: George Bachand, Marlene Bachand, Andrew Gomez
  • Patent number: 11781174
    Abstract: Method and system for quantifying target nucleic acids using real-time amplification and internal calibration adjustment. The approach employs a single fixed data point in combination with a single adjustment calibrator amplified on the instrument that is to be calibrated for approximating a complete calibration curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: GEN-PROBE INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Sangeetha Vijaysri Nair, Xianqun Wang, Susan K. Yamagata
  • Patent number: 10534802
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of providing text entry assistance data includes receiving at a system location information associated with a user, receiving at the system information indicative of predictive textual outcomes, generating dictionary data using the location information, and providing the dictionary data to a remote device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Shumeet Baluja, Maryam Kamvar, Elad Gil
  • Patent number: 10075510
    Abstract: Content on a client device is updated. Analytics data describing how a user uses the client device to consume digital content are received. The analytics data are generated by the client device responsive to observations of how the user uses the client device to consume digital content. A prediction model is generated based on the analytics data and used to predict when the user will consume digital content on the client device. Prediction data describing the prediction are provided to the client device. The client device uses the prediction data to request updated digital content prior to when the user is predicted to consume digital content on the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: James Reilly, Sami Mohammed Shalabi, Mehul Agarwal, Michael Scott Depinet
  • Patent number: 10007883
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure set forth methods for selecting a preferred data set. The methods include generating a joined relation based on a first relation having a first join attribute and a first existence probability attribute, and a second relation having a second join attribute compatible with the first join attribute and a second existence probability attribute, wherein the joined relation comprises a skyline probability attribute based at least in part on the product of a second value of the first existence probability attribute and a third value of the second existence probability attribute; and selecting, by one or more processors, the preferred data set from the joined relation based on a comparison of the first value of the skyline probability attribute and a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR
    Inventors: Arnab Bhattacharya, Avani Nandini
  • Patent number: 9984324
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a system comprising a memory device for maintaining deterministic neural data relating to a digital neuron and a logic circuit for deterministic neural computation and stochastic neural computation. Deterministic neural computation comprises processing a neuronal state of the neuron based on the deterministic neural data maintained. Stochastic neural computation comprises generating stochastic neural data relating to the neuron and processing the neuronal state of the neuron based on the stochastic neural data generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rodrigo Alvarez-Icaza, John V. Arthur, Andrew S. Cassidy, Bryan L. Jackson, Paul A. Merolla, Dharmendra S. Modha, Jun Sawada
  • Patent number: 9904891
    Abstract: To simplify assisting a user in their day-to-day activities, a communication for performing an action may be sent to a user in the form of a query, where the query includes the most likely set of choices for the action arranged in a group of dichotomous (e.g., yes/no) or multiple choice answers. In this manner, a user may respond to the query by simply selecting one of the dichotomous or multiple choice answers. Historical logs of past actions, responses, queries, and so forth, may be used to predict future user actions or needs, and to formulate future queries for sending to the user. These techniques may be implemented, for example, through a remote coordination server or directly through a user's personal electronics device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Telepathy Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Damien Phelan Stolarz, David Joseph Diaz, James Rossfeld, Scott Raven, Christopher O'Malley, Christopher Kurpinski
  • Patent number: 9904892
    Abstract: To simplify assisting a user in their day-to-day activities, a communication for performing an action may be sent to a user in the form of a query, where the query includes the most likely set of choices for the action arranged in a group of dichotomous (e.g., yes/no) or multiple choice answers. In this manner, a user may respond to the query by simply selecting one of the dichotomous or multiple choice answers. Historical logs of past actions, responses, queries, and so forth, may be used to predict future user actions or needs, and to formulate future queries for sending to the user. These techniques may be implemented, for example, through a remote coordination server or directly through a user's personal electronics device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Telepathy Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Damien Phelan Stolarz, David Joseph Diaz, James Rossfeld, Scott Raven, Christopher O'Malley, Christopher Kurpinski
  • Patent number: 9892364
    Abstract: The invention discloses the technology of brain-like computing virtualization. Brain-like computing means the computing technology to mimic human brain and generate human intelligence automatically with computer software. Here the unconscious engine and conscious engine are used to define human left and right brain, while the virtualization technology is used for software to run on future hardware, such as quantum computer and molecular computer. The applied domain areas include quantum gate and adiabatic quantum simulation, brain-like autonomic computing, traditional multi-core-cluster performance service, software development/service delivery systems, and mission-critical business continuity/disaster recovery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Transoft (Shanghai), Inc.
    Inventors: Changbin Tang, Li Xiong
  • Patent number: 9734455
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus may be configured to implement automatic semantic classification of a detected object(s) disposed in a region of an environment external to an autonomous vehicle. The automatic semantic classification may include analyzing over a time period, patterns in a predicted behavior of the detected object(s) to infer a semantic classification of the detected object(s). Analysis may include processing of sensor data from the autonomous vehicle to generate heat maps indicative of a location of the detected object(s) in the region during the time period. Probabilistic statistical analysis may be applied to the sensor data to determine a confidence level in the inferred semantic classification. The inferred semantic classification may be applied to the detected object(s) when the confidence level exceeds a predetermined threshold value (e.g., greater than 50%).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Zoox, Inc.
    Inventors: Jesse Sol Levinson, Gabriel Thurston Sibley, Ashutosh Gajanan Rege
  • Patent number: 9602444
    Abstract: A server system hosts a plurality of conversations, each having an identified set of participants. For a respective conversation, the server accesses the conversation in which a user is a participant. The server obtains a conversation profile for the conversation, the conversation profile based on information including content of the conversation and user-specific term weights for at least a plurality of terms in the content of the conversation. The server accesses a plurality of entity profiles that are based on content and/or structure in other conversations in which the user is a participant. The server compares at least a subset of the entity profiles to the conversation profile to identify a set of entities having entity profiles that best match the conversation profile, generates a suggestion for the user including a suggested entity from the identified set of entities; and sends the suggestion to the client system for display to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Tobias Alexander Hawker, Casey Stuart Whitelaw
  • Patent number: 9594783
    Abstract: A method, computer-implemented system, and computer program product for creating indexes over XML data managed by a database system are provided. The method, computer-implemented system, and computer program product provide for receiving a workload for the XML data, the workload including one or more database statements, utilizing an optimizer of the database system to enumerate a set of one or more path expressions by creating a virtual universal index based on the workload received and matching a path expression to the virtual universal index, and recommending one or more path expressions from the set of one or more candidate path expressions to create the indexes over the XML data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ashraf Aboulnaga, Andrey Balmin, Kevin S. Beyer, Iman Elghandour, Fei Yen Chiang, Daniele Costante Zilio, Calisto Paul Zuzarte
  • Patent number: 9588991
    Abstract: An image search device includes a common memory and a plurality of parallel processors for executing a same instruction. The image search device transfers, from storage, a plurality of representative feature vectors, which respectively represent a plurality of clusters including a plurality of image feature vectors, stores, in the common memory, one or more query feature vectors extracted from an image serving as a query, calculates a distance between the plurality of transferred representative feature vectors and the query feature vector using the plurality of parallel processors, and selects one or more of a plurality of images based on a distance between the plurality of image feature vectors, which belong to the cluster selected by the calculated distance, and the query feature vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: RAKUTEN, INC.
    Inventors: Ali Cevahir, Junji Torii
  • Patent number: 9575842
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for multiplex backup using next relative addresses may be provided. The method may include receiving a first chunk and a second chunk that are each associated with a first file. A next relative address may be appended to the first chunk. The next relative address may indicate a position in a storage device. The first chunk with the next relative address may be written to the storage device at a first address. The method may further include writing the second chunk to the storage device at the position indicated by the next relative address of the first chunk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: CA, Inc.
    Inventor: Ai Huang
  • Patent number: 9569460
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a mechanism for converting an existing mirror relationship between an original dataset at a source storage system and a copy of the original dataset at a destination system to a new mirror without discarding the existing copy of the original dataset and without transferring data to create a new dataset to replace the copy of the original dataset at the destination storage system. Rather, a directory structure (including file attributes) of the source storage system is transferred to the destination storage system and a comparison is made to identify file attributes at the destination system that match the transferred file attributes. If a match is found, a mapping between the matched file attributes is created. Subsequent updates to the destination storage system can be done using a technique other than the one that was used to create a copy of the source dataset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Vikas Yadav, Raghu R. Arur, Amol Chitre
  • Patent number: 9519636
    Abstract: A system includes reception of text, extraction of a plurality of linguistic entities and associated linguistic entity categories based on the text; determination of one or more semantic objects of a semantic layer based on the linguistic entity categories, and generation of a query of the semantic layer based on the plurality of linguistic entities, the associated linguistic entity categories, and the one or more semantic objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: BUSINESS OBJECTS S.A.
    Inventor: Jean-Yves Cras
  • Patent number: 9471615
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, a content server enhances content mediated engagements, by first enabling a user to specify a content collection containing a set of contents according to a specific/desired sequence, and then storing a data indicating the collection. The set of contents are selected from contents (or portions thereof) maintained in a repository. In response to receiving during a content mediated engagement, a request of the stored content collection, the content server then provides the set of contents according to the specific sequence. The content server also facilitates the same content (maintained in repository) to be included and accordingly provided as part of different content collections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: BRANDIFICANT INC.
    Inventors: Manish Garg, Avinash Birnale, Vikram Chadaga, Ajay Gabale, Dwarakanathan L N
  • Patent number: 9418052
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for web service schema management. The apparatus includes a processor; a memory including computer program code configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform: controlling the storing of schema information of a binary web service system, the schemas describing the encoding/decoding of binary XML messages; and providing an interface for maintaining the schema information up-to-date in each component of the binary web service system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: ARM FINLAND OY
    Inventor: Zachary Shelby
  • Patent number: 9405799
    Abstract: The APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AN EMPLOYEE REFERRAL FACILITATOR (hereinafter “ERF”) implement efficient and scalable monitoring, regulation, and allocation of computational processing, data, labor, and/or the like resources within an enterprise. The ERF may track and administer the provision of referral bonuses and/or other rewards associated with employee referrals. The ERF may receive and store candidate referrals from an existing employee; monitor, receive, and/or store a candidate hiring indicator; evaluate a referral rule based to determine a referral bonus eligibility, amount, timing, and/or the like; and instruct provision of an appropriate referral bonus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignees: Iqor Holdings, Inc., Iqor US Inc.
    Inventors: Vikas Kapoor, Abhilash Madhavarapu