Patents Examined by Alan S. Chou
  • Patent number: 12206721
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and computer readable storage medium for processing a media stream. The media stream may follow a DASH or CMAF standard. The method may include processing an Addressable Resource Index (ARI) event associated with the 5G media stream, wherein the ARI event comprises at least one of: an inband event transmitted along with a first media slice in a content set, the content set comprising one or more media slices; or a Media Presentation description (MPD) event; and the ARI event carries configuration information of the one or more media slices in the content set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventor: Iraj Sodagar
  • Patent number: 12204433
    Abstract: Systems and methods include identifying fields associated with a log event of telemetry data and, for each field, selecting a key from multiple keys and generating a field-key mapping that includes a mapping from the fields to the selected key. The systems and methods generate an event log parser extension that includes the field-key mappings and validate the parser extension by testing its performance on sample log events. The systems and methods then execute a base parser and the validated event log parser extension on event logs to convert the event logs into a standardized format and perform data analytics on the standardized event logs to identify trends in the event logs and identify possible threats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: James Paul Black, Adityashankar Kini, Dwaipayan Dutta, Adam Licata, Ashish Garg
  • Patent number: 12207126
    Abstract: The communication apparatus (2) comprises a setting unit (32) configured to set slice information for identifying a type of a network slice in a Flow Label field in a header of a packet compliant with the IPv6 protocol, and a transmitting unit (33) configured to transmit the packet with the header set by the setting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: RAKUTEN MOBILE, INC.
    Inventor: Yoshimi Okada
  • Patent number: 12200022
    Abstract: Described is a method to provide feedback and status updates during virtual collaborative sessions by monitoring, via a primary device associated with a user, a user status for the user participating in a collaborative session with one or more other users. In response to determining a user status change for the user is detected, the method can determine a response for the user to provide to the one or more other users based on a user profile and a context for the user status change, wherein the status change indicates an unavailability of the user. In response to determining the response is required for the user to provide the one or more other users, the method can send the response to a user device associated with each of the one or more other users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jacob Ryan Jepperson, Logan Bailey, Melanie Dauber, Zachary A. Silverstein, Jeremy R. Fox
  • Patent number: 12190398
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for administration of admission offers from educational institutions including receiving student information from students, generating a unique student identifier for each of the students, generating a universal student profile for each of the students on the database, the universal student profile including the unique student identifier, student identification information, and student qualification information for each of the students, identifying matching students from a plurality of universal student profiles stored on the database whose qualification information satisfies the entrance requirement information of any of the plurality of educational institution profiles stored on the database, generating on the database an anonymized version of the universal student profile of each of the matching students, and transmitting over the data network the anonymized version of the universal student profile of each of the matching students to educational institutions whose entrance req
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: EAB Global, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Derek Morrison, Richard Harvey Winslow, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12190072
    Abstract: In some embodiments, text for user consumption may be generated based on an intended user action category and a user profile. In some embodiments, an action category, a plurality of text seeds, and a profile comprising feature values may be obtained. Context values may be generated based on the feature values, and text generation models may be obtained based on the text seeds. In some embodiments, messages may be generated using the text generation models based on the action category and the context values. Weights associated with the messages may be determined, and a first text message of the messages may be sent to an address associated with the profile based on the weights. Based on a reaction value obtained in response to the first message, a first expected allocation value may be updated based on the reaction value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Huong Nguyen, Isha Chaturvedi, Kalanand Mishra
  • Patent number: 12177309
    Abstract: An image processing method includes displaying an object following page in a first session page in response to an object following operation performed on a first image, the object following page including a setting control corresponding to at least one display object in the first image. The first session page is a page corresponding to a local user account. The method also includes creating an object following relationship between a selected display object and the local user account in response to a trigger operation performed on the setting control in the object following page. The object following relationship provides an image update prompt to the local user account, the image update prompt prompting to view an image associated with the selected display object. Apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium counterpart embodiments are also contemplated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Wei Yan, Xuefen Yuan, Feng Lin
  • Patent number: 12166847
    Abstract: A method of cloud based messaging includes receiving a message and a message topic from a message sender, storing the message topic and the message on a message queue, retrieving the message from the message queue, translating the message from a message bus protocol to a recipient protocol and transmitting the translated message to a message recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Worldpay, LLC
    Inventors: Walter Banks, Christopher Guthrie
  • Patent number: 12167480
    Abstract: In some implementations, a computing device can be configured for users (e.g., user devices) that are detected nearby the computing device. For example, the computing device may be a communal device configured for a single user but generally used by multiple users. The communal device can discover when a known (e.g., authorized, trusted, etc.) user device is near the communal device and obtain personalization data from the nearby user device. The communal device can configure the communal device based on the personalization data to personalize an activity hosted by the communal device for the user of the nearby user device. To protect the user's personalization data, the communal device can delete the user's personalization data when the activity hosted by the communal device is terminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy Jie You Foo, Niharika M. Bedekar, Joel J. Angelone, David S. Clark, Parry Panesar
  • Patent number: 12160462
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate generally to the downloading of media items. The media items may include, for example, audio, video, image, or podcast data. In accordance with one embodiment, two or more media items may be concurrently downloaded. In accordance with another embodiment, a user may control the downloading of each of the media items, as desired. More particularly, the user may choose to download, pause, or resume downloading one or more media items identified in the list of media items. In other words, the user may alter the download status of any of the items in the list of media items. In addition, the user may re-prioritize the order in which the media items in the list or a subset thereof are to be downloaded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Anne Jones
  • Patent number: 12155707
    Abstract: A method performed by a UE, comprising: receiving a request to split a client media function; determining, after reception of the request to split of the client media function, one or more client media capabilities; transmitting, to a network edge device, a request to split the client media function; negotiating, with the network edge device, the split of the client media function based on the one or more client media capabilities and one or more capabilities of a 5GMS AS; receiving, from the network edge device, an acknowledgment that a split-rendering process for the client media function has started on the 5GMS AS; and transmitting an acknowledgement that the split-rendering process for the client media function has started on the 5GMS AS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventor: Iraj Sodagar
  • Patent number: 12149594
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a privacy preserving machine learning platform. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, from a client device and by a computing system of multiple multi-party computation (MPC) systems, a first request for user group identifiers that identify user groups to which to add a user. The first request includes a model identifier for a centroid model, first user profile data for a user profile of the user, and a threshold distance. For each user group in a set of user groups corresponding to the model identifier, a centroid for the user group that is determined using a centroid model corresponding to the model identifier is identified. The computing system determines a user group result based at least on the first user profile data, the centroids, and the threshold distance. The user group result is indicative of user group(s) to which to add the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Gang Wang, Marcel M. Moti Yung
  • Patent number: 12143448
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for leveraging Internet of things (IoT) devices that can communicate and interact with one another. In some implementations, at least one external device within proximity to an end-user device is determined. Context information of the end-user device is determined. Based on the context information of the end-user device, a connection with the at least one external device is established. Functionality corresponding to the at least one external device is identified. A virtual device associated with the at least one external device is identified. The identified virtual device is provided to the end-user device for performing the functionality of the at least one external device by the end-user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Li, Yiwei Zhao, Wenyou Sun
  • Patent number: 12132621
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, a computer-implemented method includes monitoring, over time, values for a service metric associated providing a computerized service over a communication network and evaluating, according to a statistical model, the values for the service metric to determine whether the values are anomalous values. The statistical model includes a predicted distribution of the values for the service metric and a normal value range within the predicted distribution of the values for the service metric. Anomalous values may be values for the service metric outside the normal value range. The method includes detecting a performance issue with the computerized service and determining, in response to detecting the performance issue, whether one or more of the values for the service metric are anomalous. The method includes automatically setting, in accordance with whether one or more of the values are anomalous, a value of a service level threshold for the service metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Gavin Brebner, Anne Moelle
  • Patent number: 12126581
    Abstract: Techniques for managing client profiles in a central communication platform providing communication between an organization and a plurality of clients using separate messaging applications are disclosed. An exemplary method comprises receiving a set of client information from a user of a second unit of the organization, wherein the set of client information comprises a second communication channel identifier; generating, based on the set of client information, a second client profile; comparing the second communication channel identifier with one or more existing communication channel identifiers of the communication platform; based on the comparison, either associating the second client profile to an existing client, or generating a new instance of a predefined data structure corresponding to a new client and associating the second client profile with the new instance of the predefined data structure corresponding to the new client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: LeapXpert Limited
    Inventor: Dmitry Gutzeit
  • Patent number: 12115415
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating playing soccer based on RFID are provided. Accordingly, the method may include selecting one or more game rules. The method may further include communicatively coupling at least one ball with at least one communication device via an RFID sensor disposed on the at least one ball, the communication device further associated with a user. The method may further include generating ball tracking data from the at least one ball and receiving target data from at least one target sensor disposed on at least one target. The method may further include processing the ball tracking data and the target data in order to determine at least a score based on the one or more game rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Inventor: Charles Cooper
  • Patent number: 12113690
    Abstract: A network path scoring system is disclosed herein that scores quality of network paths to facilitate identification of poorly performing network paths or circuits for investigation. The scoring system builds a profile of additional latencies of a network path binned by circuit load based on historical latency data for the network path. The additional latencies are determined with respect to a base latency of the network path. The network path scoring system determines a weighted average of the additional latencies of a subset of the load bins and a weighted average of expected latencies of the subset of load bins, and a score is calculated with these weighted averages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
    Inventor: Gopal Gadekal Reddy
  • Patent number: 12093335
    Abstract: A server transmits data for displaying a website including a color chart, to a terminal that captures an image of a symbol in which a URL is encrypted displayed on a color sample book provided with a plurality of cards for displaying color samples, wherein on the color chart, positions of colors more than all listed colors in the color sample book are defined, all the listed colors are visually listed, and colors other than all the listed colors are not displayed or are masked and displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: NAKAGAWA CHEMICAL INC.
    Inventor: Koichi Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 12093150
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system and method for online brand continuity. Online brand continuity can include a number of Internet or intranet access points via which one or more network addresses can be advertised. A client can be provided with availability of a business image application via at least one of the Internet or intranet access points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: David M. Niedzielski, Christopher S. Trost, Roger Pena, Tommy Lavelle, Donald E. Clemons, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12088651
    Abstract: A system and a method for media streaming from multiple sources are disclosed. A content requesting client device accesses a server to receive a list of available sources that may include multiple Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and independent servers. Based on a pre-set criteria, such as the source delivery performance and cost, the client device partitions the content into parts, allocates a source to each part, and simultaneously receives media streams of the content parts from the allocated sources. The server may be a Video-on-Demand (VOD) server, and the content may be a single file of a video data, such as a movie. The delivery performance of the used sources is measured during the streaming for updating the partition or the allocation. The updated measured performance may be stored locally at the client device, or at a server for use by other clients. The client actions may be implemented as a client-side script.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: BRIGHT DATA LTD.
    Inventors: Derry Shribman, Ofer Vilenski