Patents Examined by Alina N. Boutah
  • Patent number: 9819640
    Abstract: A method for keeping remote connection, an electronic device, and a server are provided. After establishing a first network connection, the electronic device enters a power-saving state from an operation state. While operating in the power-saving state, a communication module of the electronic device continuously detects a keep-alive packet transmitted by the server via the first network connection. If an error of reception of the keep-alive packet occurs, the electronic device returns to the operation state from the power-saving state in response to a wake-up signal, so as to re-establish a second network connection between the electronic device and the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Shih-Hsien Yu, Yu-Ren Yang
  • Patent number: 9813459
    Abstract: Methods, systems and devices are provided for placeshifting data. An exemplary method of placeshifting a media program from a first device to a second device involves receiving, by a server on a network, from the second device, a request for a placeshifting session over the network with the first device, identifying, by the server, recommended communications configuration information for the placeshifting session, and providing, by the server, the recommended communications configuration information to one of the second device and the first device in response to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Sling Media Inc.
    Inventors: Andrey L. Abramov, Yohann Georges, Sachin D. Mule
  • Patent number: 9800626
    Abstract: A registration server in an IP network is provided. The server is configured to act, after receiving a request for an initial registration or for refreshing a registration with the IP network, or for an initial subscription or for refreshing a subscription to a given service made available on the IP network, to select for the client device sending the request a value for the corresponding refresh period. The server is also configured to select the value as a function, at least, of the type of authentication used by the client device for authenticating itself with the IP network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventors: Jean-Claude Le Rouzic, Guy Loaec
  • Patent number: 9800621
    Abstract: Service layer and application triggering may be used in a machine-to-machine environment. In an embodiment, an existing service layer procedure, such as registration, may allow a device or gateway service layer or application to indicate to a machine-to-machine server what port is listened to for triggers. In another embodiment, triggering may be used to provide bootstrapping instructions, including temporary bootstrapping identifiers, in trigger requests. In another embodiment, triggering may be used to assist with event notification. Service layer or application instructions may be embedded inside of trigger payloads. A trigger payload format is defined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Convida Wireless, LLC
    Inventors: Michael F. Starsinic, Dale N. Seed
  • Patent number: 9792623
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an AD processing method and apparatus. The method includes: acquiring, by a terminal, system information and/or current access network information of the terminal; sending, by the terminal to a plugin server, an AD plugin request message that includes the system information and/or the current access network information of the terminal, so that the plugin server acquires, according to the system information and/or the current access network information, AD plugin information that matches the terminal; and receiving, by the terminal, the AD plugin information that is sent by the plugin server and matches the terminal, and choosing to download an AD plugin according to the AD plugin information. In the embodiments, it is implemented that traffic and time are saved for a user, and expenses may further be reduced for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Minghui Wu
  • Patent number: 9787781
    Abstract: Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems store an identifier for a user device when the user device is determined to be accessing a network service and store a time at which the user device is determined to be accessing the network service for each instance of the user device being determined to be accessing the network service. Periods of time during each day of the week in which the user device is likely to accessing to the network service are determined based upon the stored identifier and times. Whether the user is likely to access the network service while at work or at home is determined based upon the determined periods of time in which user devices are likely to be accessing the network service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventors: Aude Hofleitner, Zoe Abrams Bayen
  • Patent number: 9787755
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a device for browsing network data, and a storage medium, and the method is operable on a device for browsing network data and includes: requesting for acquisition of network data, which includes thumbnail media data used for the thumbnail display of original media data; acquiring the thumbnail media data and data amount information of the original media data corresponding to the thumbnail media data; and displaying the thumbnail media data and the data amount information. By the disclosure, a user of an Internet terminal may obtain the relevant information of the original media data, so that unnecessary data acquiring operations by the user may be reduced, the waste of network traffic is reduced and the standby time of the Internet terminal is prolonged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventor: Lei Zhang
  • Patent number: 9781066
    Abstract: A terminal device is provided. The terminal device includes an input unit configured to receive an input of a user command inviting a non-subscriber of a messaging service to join a messaging group, and a communication unit configured to transmit a request for invitation information to a server, when the invitation information is received from the server, to transmit an invitation message including the invitation information and an application installation Uniform Resource Locator (URL) to a non-subscriber terminal, and when a join result of the non-subscriber joining the messaging service is received, to transmit a request for an invitation of the non-subscriber to the messaging group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Seok Park, Hyo Jin Jung, Jae Young Lee
  • Patent number: 9774703
    Abstract: The disclosure details the implementation of an apparatus, method, and system comprising a portable device configured to communicate with a terminal and a network server, and execute stored program code in response to user interaction with an interactive user interface. The portable device contains stored program code configured to render an interactive user interface on a terminal output component to enable the user the control processing activity on the portable device and access data and programs from the portable device and a network server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: IOENGINE, LLC
    Inventor: Scott McNulty
  • Patent number: 9755978
    Abstract: The present application describes a system and method for rate limiting traffic of a virtual machine (VM). In this regard, a VM bypasses a hypervisor and enqueues a packet on an assigned transmission queue. Based on information contained in the packet, the NIC determines whether the packet is to be delayed or transmitted immediately. If the NIC determines that the packet is to be transmitted immediately, the packet is moved to one of a plurality of primary output queues to be transmitted to the external network. If the packet is to be delayed, the packet is moved to one of a plurality of rate limited secondary output queues. In this regard, the NIC classifies the packets, thereby improving performance by allowing high-rate flows to bypass the hypervisor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Clifford Mogul, Jakov Seizovic, Benjamin Charles Serebrin
  • Patent number: 9749444
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided for controlling a distributed application. An indication of a computational capability of a client computing machine and of a server computing machine is detected. At least part of a page is built in response to a request received by the server computing machine from the client computing machine. The at least part of the page comprising a set of commands each one for submitting a next request on the client computing machine. Processing logic for serving each next request being split between a client processing component and a server processing component. The page with the client processing component for each command is returned to the client computing machine for causing the client computing machine to load the page and execute each client processing component in response to the corresponding next request. Each server processing component is executed in response to the corresponding next request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Leonardo Lanni, Luca Lazzaro, Alessandro Scotti, Antonio M. Sgro, Andrea Tortosa
  • Patent number: 9742726
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing networking activities of a multi-tenant cloud computing environment. An example method may include distributing, by a controller node executed by a processing device, a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) agent to each of a plurality of compute nodes of a computing environment; identifying, by the controller node, a first virtual machine hosted on a first compute node of the plurality of compute nodes; determining a first DHCP agent associated with the first virtual machine and the first compute node; and transmitting, by the controller node, networking information relating to the first virtual machine to the first DHCP agent hosted by the first compute node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Red Hat Israel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Michael Kolesnik, Assaf Muller
  • Patent number: 9727367
    Abstract: A method for network communications from a first device to a second device includes communicating data from the first device to the second device by spawning a first virtual machine for a first network connection that virtualizes network capabilities of the electronic device, and using the virtualized network capabilities of the first virtual machine, transmitting a plurality of packets for communication to a first network address and port combination associated with the second device. The method further includes repeatedly changing to a respective another network address and port combination by repeatedly spawning a respective another virtual machine for a respective another network connection that virtualizes network capabilities of the electronic device, and using the virtualized network capabilities of the spawned respective another virtual machine, transmitting a plurality of packets for communication to the respective another network address and port combination associated with the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: DISPERSIVE NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventor: Robert W. Twitchell, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9729901
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and software for using a network to efficiently distributing media content assets from a virtually unlimited content library and/or other storage to a plurality of client devices, as well as bi-directional local content sharing between head ends, and dynamic distribution and generation of media content assets within the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Weidong Mao
  • Patent number: 9706375
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus and method of communicating with a user of a wireless device and processing message delivery. One example method of operation may include identifying a group of participants to receive a broadcast message transmitted from a wireless device, transmitting at least one broadcast message from the wireless device to a plurality of computing devices corresponding to the group of participants, receiving a plurality of response messages responsive to the at least one transmitted broadcast message, examining the plurality of response messages and extracting content of the plurality of response messages, generating a summary message based on the extracted content of the plurality of response messages, the summary message comprising portions from all of the plurality of response messages and also comprising information unique to each of the plurality of response messages, and displaying the summary message on a display interface of the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventor: David Gerard Ledet
  • Patent number: 9705978
    Abstract: A mechanism for employing dependency graph in build projects is disclosed. A method of implementation of the disclosure includes receiving a request to change a first network entity attribute of a first network entity in a network system from a first value to a second value, the network system including the first network entity having the first network entity attribute and a second network entity having a second network entity attribute. The method can include retrieving a dependency graph of the network system, the dependency graph indicating a mapping of the first network entity and the second network entity and a dependency link between the first network entity attribute and the second network entity attribute. The method can include changing a first value of the first network entity attribute to a second value and change a third value of the second network entity attribute to the second value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Red Hat Israel, LTD.
    Inventors: Dan Kenigsberg, Edward Haas
  • Patent number: 9699060
    Abstract: A method of high packet rate network processing in a system that includes a physical host and a set of physical network interface controllers (PNICs). The physical host is hosting a set of data compute nodes (DCNs). Each DCN includes a virtual network interface controller (VNIC) for communicating with one or more PNICs to exchange packets. The method determines that a rate of packets received from a particular DCN at the VNIC of the particular DCN exceeds a predetermined threshold. The method performs polling to determine the availability of packets received at the VNIC from the particular DCN while the rate of packets received from the DCN at the VNIC is exceeding the threshold. The method utilizes interrupts to determine the availability of packets received at the VNIC from the particular DCN while the rate of packets received from the DCN at the VNIC does not exceed the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Lenin Singaravelu, Jin Heo, Jui-Ting Weng, Ayyappan Veeraiyan, Yong Wang
  • Patent number: 9693207
    Abstract: A unified notification system in which notifications for all of a user's devices and services appear in windows of all of the user's devices. Notifications related to the user's social network friends and public users that the user subscribes to may also appear in the windows of all devices. Events from the user's devices and accounts are sent to a server for aggregation and provisioning back to the user's devices. To this end, a HTTP API may query the server to receive the user's notifications. Notifications that include content can also include metadata. The user can respond to any notification from any device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Jeff Moguillansky
  • Patent number: 9690746
    Abstract: A computing device configured for sending configuration information is described. The computing device includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The computing device obtains access information. The computing device further generates a graphic based on the access information. The computing device also receives a configuration information request associated with the graphic. Additionally, the computing device sends the configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Crimson Corporation
    Inventors: Frank W. Hosea, Daniel T. Alger
  • Patent number: 9686333
    Abstract: An Internet content delivery system provides information to a number of different users. The system attempts to provide the same information to many different users while also providing the illusion to each of the users that they were receiving the content individually. The system attempts to minimize individualized bandwidth allocation by sending the same information to multiple different users while taking into account individualization requests of the multiple different users. An Internet or a playlist creator is also defined which allows a number of different items to be presented at different times depending on the playlist setting of the playlist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Inventor: Scott C Harris