Patents Examined by Alicia Baturay
  • Patent number: 10511672
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for handling multi-pipe connections is provided. A primary pipe request for a connection between a client and a server is received. The connection includes a plurality of pipes between the client and the server. The primary pipe request includes a number corresponding to the amount of pipes required for the connection. A first response acknowledging the receipt of the primary pipe request is transmitted. The first response includes a token. A plurality of subsequent pipe requests are received for the connection between the client and the server. Each subsequent pipe request includes the token. A subsequent response to each subsequent pipe request is transmitted. A count of the number of pipe requests received is maintained. The established pipes are released after a period of time has elapsed when the number of pipe requests received doesn't reach the number of pipes required for the connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael D. Brooks, Alan Hollingshead, Julian C. Horn, Philip I. Wakelin
  • Patent number: 10511564
    Abstract: This disclosure provides various techniques that may allow for user availability aware communication. For example, a first user may desire to send an electronic message to a second user, but may not have a way to intelligently select a messaging service to use. This disclosure provides, in one example of user availability aware messaging, that a particular messaging service may be selected based on activity information regarding the second user's activity on one or more messaging services. The electronic message may be sent to the second user via the particular messaging service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: Shailesh Govande
  • Patent number: 10511533
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for controlling a congestion window (CWND) value of a communication session of a CDN. In particular, a content server may analyze a request to determine or receive an indication of the type of content being requested. The content server may then set the initial CWND based on the type of content being requested. For example, the content server may set a relatively high CWND value for requested content that is not particularly large, such as image files or text, so that the data of the content is received at the client device quickly. For larger files or files that a have a determined smaller urgency, the initial CWND may be set at a lower value to ensure that providing the data of the content does not congest the link between the devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Joelle T. Maslak
  • Patent number: 10511673
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for handling multi-pipe connections is provided. A primary pipe request for a connection between a client and a server is received. The connection includes a plurality of pipes between the client and the server. The primary pipe request includes a number corresponding to the amount of pipes required for the connection. A first response acknowledging the receipt of the primary pipe request is transmitted. The first response includes a token. A plurality of subsequent pipe requests are received for the connection between the client and the server. Each subsequent pipe request includes the token. A subsequent response to each subsequent pipe request is transmitted. A count of the number of pipe requests received is maintained. The established pipes are released after a period of time has elapsed when the number of pipe requests received doesn't reach the number of pipes required for the connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael D. Brooks, Alan Hollingshead, Julian C. Horn, Philip I. Wakelin
  • Patent number: 10498859
    Abstract: A system and method for self-deploying applications for a contact center. An executable unit is built for deploying an application for the contact center, and the application and logic for provisioning the application are aggregated into the executable unit. The executable unit is then provided for deployment. When the executable unit is run, logic within the executable unit is configured to automatically register the application on the computing environment, discover and resolve services used by the application, and start the application on the computing environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Inventors: Vincent Pirat, Clément Choel, Christian Jacolot
  • Patent number: 10484480
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes receiving, at a server device, characteristics of a plurality of historical events from a plurality of client devices, receiving, at the server device, historical data sharing behavior associated with the plurality of historical events from the plurality of client devices, saving, by the server device, the characteristics of the plurality of historical events in association with the historical data sharing behavior, and automatically implementing, by the server device, one or more data sharing actions in response to an initialization of an event, utilizing the characteristics of the plurality of historical events and the historical data sharing behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Calcaterra, Romelia H. Flores, Zhi Li Guan, Su Liu
  • Patent number: 10476989
    Abstract: Methods and systems for management of cinema devices are disclosed. The cinema devices can connect to a central node even through a firewall. Once the initial connection is established, updates and commands can be sent and received, both to and from the cinema devices. An operator can connect to the central node to manage the cinema devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Henry Barnor, Eric Christopher Crowe, Thomas Turner Persons
  • Patent number: 10462033
    Abstract: Techniques for implementing a virtual tap in a virtual topology are described. A request to tap a particular link between a set of virtual topology entities (VTEs) is received. The particular link between the set of VTEs is mapped to a link between a set of instantiated entities in a physical topology. One of the instantiated elements implements a tapping function. Additionally or alternatively, a tapping element is instantiated and the tapping element implements the tapping function. The tapping element is not one of the set of instantiated entities. The tapping function includes: applying a tap filter to a set of data; replicating the data that passes the tap filter; and transmitting the replicated data to a virtual endpoint. The replicated data may be referred to as “tapped data.” A user interface engine presents information regarding the particular link between the set of VTEs based on the tapped data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Cohn, Pradeep Vincent
  • Patent number: 10454872
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing an enhanced managed email service are provided. According to the disclosed subject matter, the enhanced managed email service maintains a group folder for each defined email group. Rather than delivering a received email to the email folder of each member of an email group, upon receiving an email for distribution to a defined email group, the enhanced managed email service stores the email in a group folder corresponding to the email group for the entire email group. Email specifically identifying one or more recipients (in addition to group membership) is delivered to the specifically identified recipient(s). The enhanced managed email service maintains user access status with regard to the email in the group folder for each of the members of the email group. Email group members may access the email via the group folder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Raj Kamal
  • Patent number: 10447552
    Abstract: A system and method for predictive maintenance of multifunction peripherals includes a data collection agent configured to receive and store simple network management protocol (SNMP) data including metered data from one or more multifunction peripherals, and a service prediction system configured to selectively perform linear regression analysis on one or more of the metered data to predict one or more service events for at least one multifunction peripheral based on the linear regression analysis. Notifications for each predicted service event are sent to service technicians associated with the associated multifunction peripheral. Service technicians can preemptively perform service and maintenance functions on the multifunctional peripherals before error or faults occur on the multifunction peripherals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba TEC Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Jonathan Channa
  • Patent number: 10440152
    Abstract: Systems and methods of initiating virtual machine configuration on a subordinate node from a privileged node. An exemplary embodiment can provide a host channel adapter (HCA) including a control circuit with a processor and a memory, and a physical port operative to connect the HCA to a network fabric. Additionally, the HCA can include a subnet management agent (SMA) that executes on the HCA. The SMA can forward a request to register a virtual HCA to a subnet manager. The subnet manager can read an exposed attribute of the HCA, where the exposed attribute specifies the physical port as a privileged node, and where the value of the exposed attribute equals an assigned globally unique identifier (GUID) of the physical port. Upon receiving the request, the subnet manger can evaluate the GUID of the sending port to determine that the GUID and the value of the exposed attribute are equal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Line Holen, Harald Høeg, Bjørn Dag Johnsen
  • Patent number: 10432563
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores therein a mail delivery program of a mail server. The mail server includes a processor. The mail delivery program to cause the processor to perform transmitting a mail with a transmission request being accepted after concealing, when the mail contains information indicating being already transmitted and information indicating concealment of a content of a description at a forwarding, the content of the description designated by the information indicating the concealment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Fujitsu Client Computing Limited
    Inventors: Yuri Morikubo, Masakazu Watari
  • Patent number: 10432427
    Abstract: A first network element comprising a memory comprising instructions executable by a processor and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to execute the instructions. Executing the instructions causes the processor to receive, from a second network element during a border gateway protocol communication session, a communications capabilities message indicating capabilities of the second network element, receive, from the second network element, an advertisement message indicating connections and accesses of a second domain controlled by the second network element, receive a request to route data between a source located in a first domain and a destination, transmit a first request message to the second network element to cause the second network element to compute a path segment through the second domain, and transmit a second request message to create a segment of an end-to-end tunnel between the source and the destination crossing the first domain and the second domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Huaimo Chen
  • Patent number: 10425458
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving content in a first format at a first interface at an adaptive bit rate client, playing the content received at the first interface at the adaptive bit rate client, monitoring network conditions at the first interface, receiving the content in a second format at a second interface at the adaptive bit rate client, and upon identifying a change in the network conditions at the first interface, switching from playing the content received on the first interface to playing the content received at the second interface at the adaptive bit rate client. An apparatus and logic are also disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Gonzalo Salgueiro, Kaustubh Inamdar, Ram Mohan Ravindranath
  • Patent number: 10419381
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a number of candidate notifications stored on the social-networking system. Each of the candidate notifications includes a prompt to perform an action on the social-networking system. The method also includes generating a user feature vector quantifying features of the user; and assessing, using a machine-learning model, one or more feature vectors in order to calculate an interaction score for each of the candidate notifications. The one or more feature vectors includes the user feature vector. The method also includes ranking each of the candidate notifications based at least in part on the respective calculated interaction score; and providing, based at least in part on the ranking, one or more of the candidate notifications to a client device of the user. Each of the provided candidate notifications satisfies a pre-determined threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniil Burdakov, Xiaocong Liang, Sunyu Duan, Volodymyr Giginiak, Pedro Veras Bezerra da Silva
  • Patent number: 10419332
    Abstract: A method of managing feedback messages in a multipath communication network, the method comprising selecting at least one communication path out of a set of communication paths between a first communication device and a second communication device in order to transmit at least one feedback message from the first communication device to the second communication device. The selecting is based on a correlation between at least one transmission condition on said at least one communication path and at least one transmission constraint for said at least one feedback message. Embodiments make it possible to provide optimal transmission of feedback messages in a multipath context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naël Ouedraogo, Frédéric Maze
  • Patent number: 10420006
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented in this disclosure that enable mobile devices without access to an active network connection (e.g. cellular, satellite or Internet network) to communicate between each other by sending and receiving data packets (e.g. text, location, or image) through a mesh of connected devices. A packet for forwarding is included into a mesh forwarding list at a mobile device, wherein the mesh forwarding list includes packets for forwarding to one or more mobile devices. The mobile device checks, in each packet within the mesh forwarding list, a list with at least one identifier of at least one wireless device that has already received the packet. The mobile device forwards the mesh forwarding list to the one or more wireless devices via at least one connection, based on the checked one or more identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Bridgefy, Inc.
    Inventors: Jorge Luis Rios Almanza, Diego Ivan Garcia Escobedo, Roberto Betancourt Sanchez, Daniel Felipe Heredia Saucedo
  • Patent number: 10404797
    Abstract: Multiple clipboard items are supported in a VDI environment. A client clipboard service can monitor the system clipboard to detect when a clipboard item is added to the system clipboard. The client clipboard service can copy any item added to the system clipboard to a client clipboard buffer. The client clipboard service can also interface with a client virtual channel endpoint to send items in the client clipboard buffer to a server virtual channel endpoint. A server clipboard service can then copy the received items to a server clipboard buffer to thereby synchronize the client and server clipboard buffers. The server clipboard service can function in a similar manner to copy items added to the server's system clipboard to the server clipboard buffer and then interface with the server virtual channel endpoint to cause such items to be synchronized back to the client clipboard buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Wyse Technology L.L.C.
    Inventor: Nihar Goli
  • Patent number: 10405020
    Abstract: In particular embodiments, a social networking system queries a social graph of the social-networking system for social content associated with video content provided to one or more users of the social-networking system and accesses privacy settings associated with each of the one or more users. The privacy settings indicate whether a particular user has authorized the social-networking system to share social content associated with the particular user with one or more third parties. The social networking system provides the social content associated with video content provided to the one or more users to a particular third party if the privacy settings of the one or more users indicate that the one or more users have authorized the social-networking system to share the social content with one or more third parties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Michael Bruich, Colin Cameron Brennan Campbell, Robert Daniel, David Harry Garcia, Brian Krausz, Erick Tseng, Yoon Kean Wong
  • Patent number: 10397060
    Abstract: A policy server correlates information from several messages associated with a client device to implement an identity-based network access policy. The policy server receives a first message from a network element connected to the client device. The first message requests an identity-based policy for the client device, and includes a first network address. The policy server receives a second message from an identity server. The second message includes information indicating an identity role and a second network address. The policy server receives a third message from a NAT device. The third message includes a NAT mapping that correlates the first network address with the second network address. After the policy server determines the identity-based policy based on a combination of the first message, the second message, and the third message, the policy server implements the identity-based policy in the network element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Sanjay Kumar Hooda, Syam Sundar V Appala, Kaushik Kumar Dam, Vimarsh Puneet