Patents Examined by Andy Ho
  • Patent number: 10922156
    Abstract: Cached data is obtained from a device. The cached data includes data saved on the device in response to electronic searches or electronic messaging performed by a user using the device. A determination is made, at least in part via the cached data, regarding an intended use context associated with the electronic searches or the electronic messaging. Using the intended use context, a confidence level is determined. In response to the determined confidence level meeting or exceeding a predefined threshold, a transaction involving the user is automatically executed, or an electronic communication is automatically sent on behalf of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventor: Pankaj Sarin
  • Patent number: 10915379
    Abstract: Issues may arise when customers that are highly engaged with application services do not receive reliable feature updates on a predictable schedule. For instance, releasing and updating features may burden cloud infrastructure and/or may not perform properly. Not only are unpredictable feature updates associated with inconsistent customer messaging and potential service disruptions, such unpredictable updates may cause a random end user experience and customer dissatisfaction with the product. The methods and systems address these issues by dynamically ranking tenants and distributing updates and releases to tenants with lower feature usage before distributing to tenants with higher feature usage. The ranking of the tenants may dynamically change based on current usage. In this way, higher ranked tenants receive access to new and updated features after additional regression testing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Nidhi Verma, Ankur Jauhari, Min Shao, Zohar Raz, Shobana Krishnamoorthy, Divyachapan S. Padur
  • Patent number: 10915378
    Abstract: The disclosure generally describes methods, software, and systems for using open APIs. API and event information is received from plural API providers. The API and event information for each API provider is received in a format specific to the API provider. An open API format version of the API and event information is created for the API and event information of each API provider. The open API format version is stored in an open API format that provides a common ontology for expressing information about APIs and events available from the plural API providers. The open API format version of the API and event information is published.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Divya Mary, Harshavardhan Jegadeesan
  • Patent number: 10908978
    Abstract: The present invention is a system for performing communication among a plurality of applications running on a portable terminal device, wherein the portable terminal device includes a token generation unit that generates a token; a publishing unit that sends a publish message including the token and a payload to the server, the publish message being a message to be sent from one app running on the portable terminal device to another app; and a subscription unit that sends a subscribe message including the token to the server, the subscribe message indicating that the other app can receive data sent from the publishing unit, and wherein the server, when the publish message is received, compares the token included in the publish message with the token included in the subscribe message, and sends the payload to the other app in the case where the result of the comparison satisfies a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: CYGAMES, INC.
    Inventor: Shuichi Kurabayashi
  • Patent number: 10908973
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a first processing unit that processes data on a real-time operating system that executes processing within a specified time; a second processing unit that processes data on a non-real-time operating system; and a transmission unit that adjusts a data amount of transmission data to be transmitted at a time on the basis of an accumulation amount of transmission data transmitted between the first processing unit and the second processing unit, and transmits the transmission data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Osamu Nasu
  • Patent number: 10901819
    Abstract: A system and method for distributed queuing of event messages is described. A queue of several event messages is received. One or more sub-queues is generated from the received queue. Each of the set of sub-queues is hashed. Each of the one or more sub-queues is then partitioned to a location on a storage cluster based on the hash values. For each of the set of sub-queues, the location on the storage cluster to which the sub-queue is partitioned is saved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventor: Assaf Amir Dayan
  • Patent number: 10891177
    Abstract: A message management method is performed at a computing device, the method including: storing received messages into a plurality of cache queues according to priorities of the received messages; extracting messages from the plurality of cache queues, and storing the extracted messages into a uniform cache queue, wherein the uniform cache queue includes multiple entries, each entry corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of cache queues; scheduling the stored messages in the uniform cache queue to a plurality of outputting scheduling queues according to their respective priorities; and transmitting the stored messages from the scheduling queues to respective terminals by using a transmit channel corresponding to the scheduling queues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Xin Liu, Min Wang, Bo Pang, Dekai Li, Li Pan, Haojie Lin, Yudong Chen, Yikun Huang, Junliang Zeng, Peiyi Chen, Li Li, Jindong Zhang, Rongjian Huang, Bin Li
  • Patent number: 10892798
    Abstract: A communication device includes a first processing unit that detects a target and receives a first command for activating an interface upon a detection of the target. The communication device also includes a second processing unit that exchanges data with the target through the first processing unit. Further, the communication device includes an interface between the first processing unit and the second processing unit. The first processing unit selects a predetermined interface level from among a plurality of interface levels based on the first command and exchanges data with the second processing unit based on the predetermined interface level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Katsuyuki Teruyama
  • Patent number: 10884825
    Abstract: An application programming interface (API) service apparatus comprising a gateway device and a back-stage management device is provided, and the gateway device is configured to validate a request for invoking the API resources and to invoke the respective API resources in respective servers according to the request for invoking the API resources which has passed the validation; the back-stage management device is configured to receive publication information for the API resources, and to check the received publication information for the API resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hao Xu, Hong Wang, Suo Zhang
  • Patent number: 10884827
    Abstract: A system and method (referred to as a systems) builds alert packages that deliver messages to end-users analyzes inbound message data and identifies inbound event data objects. The systems store the inbound event data objects that are removed based on assigned priority values from a first multielement data structure. The systems process the inbound event data objects based on the assigned priority values through a cluster of event analyzer engines connected in parallel and identify the inbound event data objects associated with pre-designated notification alerts through a cluster of event analyzer engines connected in parallel. The systems store the inbound event data objects associated with the pre-designated notification alerts within a another instance of the multielement data structure. The system creates alert packages through a cluster of alert builder engines and enables and disable the processors that make up the event analyzer and alert builder engines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Juan Miranda, Robert Lehman, Jill Tubaugh, Scott Cady, Dale Kelley, Natalie Stauffer
  • Patent number: 10877823
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an in-memory communication infrastructure for an asymmetric multiprocessing system without an external hypervisor, and includes one or more processors and one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media comprising instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause one or more components to perform operations including identifying data for transmission from a first instance to a second instance, writing, by the first instance, the data into a first ring of a shared memory, the first ring configured as a first transmit ring for the first instance, sending an inter-processor interrupt to the second instance to alert the second instance of the data written into the first ring, reading, by the second instance, the data from the first ring, the first ring configured as a first receive ring for the second instance, and transmitting the data to an application of the second instance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Nivin Lawrence, Sandesh K. Rao, Manikandan Veerachamy, Amit Chandra, Tushar Sinha, Manoj Kumar, David W. Duffey
  • Patent number: 10877785
    Abstract: Abstraction programming models of enclave security platforms are described, including receiving a request from an enclave according to an enclave abstraction protocol, converting the request into a native enclave protocol, and sending the converted request to a native platform. The request may be, for example: to create an attestation report, to seal data to the enclave, a request to call a function in a client of the enclave, read a monotonic counter, to take a trusted time measurement, or to allocate memory that is shared with both the enclave and the enclave client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Manuel Costa
  • Patent number: 10866845
    Abstract: According to one set of embodiments, a computer system can expose, to a non-native software program running in a web browser of the computer system, one or more native OS APIs implemented by an OS of the computer system, where the exposing enables the non-native software program to invoke the one or more native OS APIs as part of its execution within a runtime environment provided by the web browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Kiril Nikolov Seksenov, Kirupa Chinnathambi, John-David Lewis Dalton, David Risney
  • Patent number: 10866817
    Abstract: A computing system is disclosed. The computing system according to one embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: a memory device for storing an application program; a processor for executing a loader for loading data of the application program into a memory space allocated for execution of the application program; a local memory having a width corresponding to the size of a register of the processor; and a constant memory having a width smaller than that of the local memory, wherein, according to the size of constant data included in the application program, the processor loads the constant data into one of the local memory and the constant memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO.. LTD.
    Inventors: Seung-won Lee, Chae-seok Im, Seok-hwan Jo, Suk-jin Kim
  • Patent number: 10860360
    Abstract: A mainframe computer is disclosed including a hardware platform (10) with hardware resources comprising processors and memory. The computer comprises a virtualization hypervisor software of the market (300). Thus, an instance (1) of a proprietary Mainframe software environment can run on the hardware architecture, in at least one first virtual machine that can run on the virtualization hypervisor. In order to guarantee the security/reliability and the performance of the mainframe computer, the virtualization hypervisor is configured so as to create a hardware resource pool (100) of the hardware platform that is dedicated to hosting, exclusively, the one (or more) virtual machine(s) in which an instance of the proprietary Mainframe software environment is running.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: BULL SAS
    Inventors: Florence Vallee, Patrice Bleuze, Thierry Bonnel, Jean-Luc Heitz
  • Patent number: 10860389
    Abstract: The existence of a relationship between an author of content available on a social network application and an enterprise is determined from social network content to mitigate enterprise safety and security concerns. Content available on a social network application is monitored. The existence of a relationship is determined from the content available on the social network application. A description of the relationship between an author and the enterprise that was determined is stored. When content available on the social network application meets a threat criteria, a database may be queried for a relationship between the enterprise and the author of the content that meets the threat criteria. If the relationship is found, the content meeting the threat criteria and the description of the relationship may be reported to the enterprise. Alternatively, when content available on the social network application meets the threat criteria, a process of identifying a relationship may be initiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Social Sentinel, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew J. Reischer, Natasha Conahan, John Orrange, Scott Brightwell
  • Patent number: 10860398
    Abstract: Example methods and systems are directed to adapting legacy endpoints to modern application protocol interfaces (APIs). A legacy endpoint may provide a powerful and complex API. A modern application may desire access to the legacy endpoint. One or more layers may be added between the modern application and the legacy endpoint. Each layer may provide a different API. These layers of APIs may transform the interface from a powerful and complex interface to a more limited but simpler and easier to use interface, in some example embodiments, a proxy layer, an adapter layer, a facade layer, and a service layer may be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Nikhil Vijay Thaker, Kamal Zamer
  • Patent number: 10846155
    Abstract: A host machine is disclosed. The host machine may include a host processor, a memory, an operating system running on the host processor, and an application running under the operating system on the host processor. The host machine may also include a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) tunnel to a Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) Solid State Drive (SSD) and an RPC capture module which may capture the RPC from the application and deliver a result of the RPC to the application as though from the host processor, where the NVMe SSD may execute the RPC to generate the result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ramdas P. Kachare, Zvi Guz, Son T. Pham, Anahita Shayesteh, Xuebin Yao, Oscar Prem Pinto
  • Patent number: 10831952
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing data representing the effect of tortuosity on the acoustic behavior of a fluid in a porous medium. One of the methods includes generating by a first data processing program of the data processing apparatus, a model of acoustic behavior of a fluid in a porous medium including an effect of tortuosity, with the model comprising a time variable indicative of a sound speed of the fluid. The method includes rescaling the time variable of the model based on the sound speed in a fluid in the porous medium. The method also includes simulating the acoustic behavior including the effect of tortuosity of the porous medium based on the rescaling of the time-related variables within the model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Dassault Systemes Simulia Corp.
    Inventors: Chenghai Sun, Franck Léon Pérot, Raoyang Zhang, Hudong Chen, David M. Freed, Ilya Staroselsky, Adrien Mann
  • Patent number: 10831572
    Abstract: Devices, computer-readable media, and methods for reducing the number of “hops” that internal messages must traverse in data center switching architectures are disclosed. In one example, a data center includes a first rack housing a first server, a first computational process associated to a first storage drive hosted on the first server and residing within a first level of the distributed storage system, a second rack housing a second server, a second computational process associated to a second storage drive hosted on the second server and residing within the first level of the distributed storage system, and a first switch communicatively coupled to the first level to receive messages directly from the first computational process and the second computational process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventor: Robert J. Hall