Patents Examined by Alex Gofman
  • Patent number: 11182256
    Abstract: In some examples, in response to an event at the deduplication system, a system accesses item metadata of a backup item that is backed up to a remote object storage system, the item metadata of the backup item including range information indicating a range of identifier values for portion objects of the backup item stored in the remote object storage system. The system issues, based on the range information, requests to obtain respective attribute information of the portion objects of the backup item stored in the remote object storage system. The system determines, based on the attribute information, a name of a given portion object of the backup item already used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Richard Phillip Mayo, David Malcolm Falkinder, Andrew Todd, Peter Thomas Camble
  • Patent number: 11176164
    Abstract: The present technology pertains to a organization directory hosted by a synchronized content management system. The corporate directory can provide access to user accounts for all members of the organization to all content items in the organization directory on the respective file systems of the members' client devices. Members can reach any content item at the same path as other members relative to the organization directory root on their respective client device. In some embodiments novel access permissions are granted to maintain path consistency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Kleinpeter, Tony Xu, Akos Albert, Nils Bunger, Sam Jau, Conor Woods, Aaron Staley
  • Patent number: 11175993
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for managing a data storage system includes: in response to receiving a data object, sorting data records in the data object on the basis of a first query so as to form a first backup; causing the first backup to be stored in the data storage system; and cause to be stored, in an index of the data storage system, the first query and a first address of the first backup in the data storage system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Liang Liu, Junmei Qu, Wen Jun Yin, Wei Zhuang
  • Patent number: 11163792
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, system, and non-transitory computer program product for work assignment for parallelized database synchronization. Data changes to a source database are identified from a change log for the source database. The data changes are batched into data change chunks of data changes. An estimated processing cost for processing of each of the data change chunks to apply the data changes in the data change chunks to a target database is determined. A priority queue in which the data change chunks are identified in order of estimated processing cost is generated. Each data change chunk identified in the priority queue is assigned to a processing thread in a plurality of processing threads for processing in order by estimated processing cost from higher estimated processing cost to lower estimated processing cost to apply the data changes in the data change chunks to the target database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jia Heng Zhong, Daniel Martin, Sowmya Kameswaran, Manogari Nogi Simanjuntak
  • Patent number: 11163765
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process including receiving a search query, obtaining a first document containing a word included in the received search query from a storage device that stores a plurality of documents, extracting a plurality of words included in the first document, selecting one or more words from the plurality of extracted words, the one or more words having lower similarity to the word included in the received search query being specified in the specifying, obtaining a second document containing the selected one or more words, and outputting information corresponding to the second document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kayoko Iwamoto, Ryuichi Takagi
  • Patent number: 11157575
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for determining a veridicality metric of a user profile stored in an electronic information system. The method, computer program product and computer system may include a computing device that inputs an identifier of a user profile and retrieves from an information system at least one element of the user profile based on the identifier. The computing device may submit a search request to at least one further information system. The search request may include a search criterion with at least a part of the element. The computing device may receive at least one search result related to the search request, and determine the veridicality metric based on the at least one element and the at least one search result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Viviana Tripodi, Alessandro Donatelli
  • Patent number: 11157503
    Abstract: A method comprising: during a first time period, obtaining one or more first content ratings of a particular content item from one or more first users, each first content rating defining a first user measure of a belief state of the particular content item; and generating a first content score for the particular content item, the first content score defining a crowd-sourced measure of the belief state of the particular content item; during a second time period, obtaining one or more second content ratings from one or more second users for the particular content item, each second content rating defining a second user measure of the belief state of the particular content item; and generating a second content score for the particular content item, the second content score defining a second crowd-sourced measure of the belief state of the particular content item; comparing the second crowd-sourced measure of the belief state of the particular content item against each of the one or more first content ratings of t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Stochastic Processes, LLC
    Inventors: Richard Kim, Travis Trammell
  • Patent number: 11151460
    Abstract: System and method amplifying the accuracy of forecasts generated by software systems that harness the collective intelligence of human populations by curating optimized sub-populations through an intelligent selection process. Participants predict event outcomes and/or provide evaluations of their confidence in their predictions. The system determines an outlier score for each participant based on the participant's responses and the relation of the participant's responses to the predictions of the population as a whole. Participants can then be selected from the population based on the participant outlier scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Unanimous A. I., Inc.
    Inventors: Louis B. Rosenberg, Gregg Willcox
  • Patent number: 11144606
    Abstract: Utilizing social media and articles to suggest item attribute importance to improve site level searching for a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Faheem Altaf, Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Raghuram Srinivas
  • Patent number: 11144710
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a device that is set up for device-internal handling of data in a text format, that has a communication interface set up to interchange binary data, particularly EXI data, and that provides a coder for reciprocally converting the binary data into text format data, wherein the coder is set up to associate resource descriptions with a respective identification number. This association is managed via a resource table, which is managed by the coder and in which a respective resource description in text form has an associated respective identification number. In addition, the device has at least one device-internal database for storing resources and the relationships between the resources. A database access control unit is provided that has access both to the database and to the resource table. Centralization of the resource table advantageously avoids redundant storage of resource descriptions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Sebastian Käbisch, Daniel Peintner
  • Patent number: 11126659
    Abstract: A system for providing a graph protocol for forming a decentralized and distributed graph database is disclosed. The system involves receiving, from a device, a bid request to generate a graph on a graph protocol network via the graph protocol. A plurality of masternodes in the system may transmit ask requests associated with providing storage and computation power to service the bid request. If the system determines that the requirements of the bid request match or correlate with the requirements of the ask request, the system may select any masternodes having matching or correlating ask requests to service the ask request. The system may then arrange the masternodes into a unique artificially-intelligent router of the graph protocol network. The system may then proceed to generate the graph on the graph protocol network by utilizing the masternodes of the router and may process any queries associated with the generated graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Graphen, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthieu L. Gavaudan, Peiqi Jin, Yang Yang, Ching-Yung Lin, Hal J. Cooper
  • Patent number: 11122009
    Abstract: A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to identify geographic locations of all social media content items retrieved form a social network in real time, wherein the geographic locations are physical locations from which the social media content items are originated or authored. If the latitude/longitude (geographic) coordinates of the content item are available, the geographic location of the social media content item can be identified using such geographic coordinates. For content items which geographic coordinates are not available, historical archive of content items with high-confidence of geographic locations are utilized to train a location classifier to predict geographic locations of such content items with high accuracy. Finally, the identified locations of the content items are confirmed to be accurate and are presented to a user together with the content items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Olga Gurevich, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
  • Patent number: 11115722
    Abstract: Methods and systems for sourcing supplemental content are disclosed. Secondary devices may be used to identify content streaming on first screen devices and to generate supplemental data for the content. In this manner, users may be leveraged to create various data for a variety of content. The data may be collected and organized so that users watching content at a later time may have access to the data. Methods and systems for using second screen devices to access metadata created by the crowd are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Derek Johnson
  • Patent number: 11100114
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing content items based on a location of a user's attention in a map interface. In one aspect, a method includes receiving data specifying one or more map attention spots in a viewport of a map interface presented at a user device. Each map attention spot is a location on a map of the map interface corresponding to a specified amount of user activity. Content items are identified for presentation with the map. For each content item and map attention spot, a distance between a presentation location for the content item on the map and a location of the identified map attention spot on the map is determined. A rank score for the content item based at least on a respective content item score for the content item and each determined distance for the content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Yifang Liu
  • Patent number: 11093529
    Abstract: A method for displaying landmark data from a search of a place name keyword, the method includes: inputting the place name keyword to a server to search for a plurality of landmark data, wherein each of the landmark data comprises fields of a landmark name, an objective level category, an address, and an address quoting frequency; sorting the landmark data by an electronic device to a display order, based on a characterized parameter for each of the landmark, wherein the characterized parameter is calculated based on at least a publicity, wherein the publicity is a calculation of the objective level category and the address quoting frequency with respectively weighting to the objective level category and the address quoting frequency; and displaying the landmark data by the electronic device according to the display order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: VIA Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Guo-Feng Zhang, Yi-Fei Zhu
  • Patent number: 11093504
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide execution of a query on a target data model which is filtered on a measure of a source data model, even if the source data model and the target data model are not logically linked. Some embodiments further support execution of a query on a target data model which is filtered on a measure of a source data model and on a dimension filter of another data model. Some embodiments provide for a substantial amount of query execution to occur on the backend, thereby freeing client resources in comparison to prior approaches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: BUSINESS OBJECTS SOFTWARE LTD
    Inventors: Ping Xiang, Semuel Kadarusman, Patrick Wang, Justin Wong, Veljko Jovanovic
  • Patent number: 11086916
    Abstract: A method of analyzing conversational messages may be provided. The method including receiving a query defining a timespan of messages, retrieving at least two conversational messages associated with the defined timespan from a plurality of interleaved messages, de-threading the at least two conversational messages to identify at least one conversational thread, and generating a visualization of conversational threads based on the defined timespan, the at least one conversational thread, the visualization organized into time intervals based on the defined timespan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventors: Jian Zhao, Siwei Fu
  • Patent number: 11086935
    Abstract: A memory management system which can effectively determine whether, when, and to what extent, to modify a graph database based on changes in a paired relational database storing various data like media assets, such as photos and videos. The media assets are associated with data objects, such as moments, events, and people. The memory management system also includes one or more knowledge graph metadata networks (or more simply “knowledge graphs”). The knowledge graph(s) store information which is related to the data stored by the relational databases. The memory management system detects changes in the data and data objects stored by the relational database(s). The memory management system can translate detected changes into modification instructions for the knowledge graph. The memory management system can also determine that it is unnecessary to modify the knowledge graph due to a detected change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Bessiere, Patrick H. Kelly, Guillaume Vergnaud, Eric Circlaeys
  • Patent number: 11080244
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software described herein to provide data to large-scale processing framework (LSPF) nodes in LSPF clusters. In one example, a method to provide data includes receiving an access request from a LSPF node to access data in accordance with a version of a distributed file system. The method further includes, responsive to the access request, accessing the data for the LSPF node in accordance with a different version of the distributed file system, and presenting the data to the LSPF node in accordance with the version of the distributed file system used by the LSPF node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Thomas A. Phelan, Gunaseelan Lakshminarayanan, Michael Moretti, Joel Baxter, Lakshman Chinnakotla
  • Patent number: 11080318
    Abstract: A method for ranking events in media collections includes designating a media collection, using a processor to cluster the media collection items into a hierarchical event structure, using the processor to identify and count visually similar sub-events within each event in the hierarchical event structure, using the processor to determine a ranking of events based on the count of sub-events within each event, and associating the determined ranking with each event in the media collection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: KODAK ALARIS INC.
    Inventors: Madirakshi Das, Alexander C. Loui