Patents Examined by Angela Widhalm De Rodri
  • Patent number: 9979671
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to management of hybrid workloads, including serial and parallel workload optimizations, in a shared pool of configurable computer resources. Resource utilization in the shared pool is dynamically tracked, and employed for assessing a set of servers a parallel access protocol should utilize for one or more I/O requests in conjunction with any serial workload optimizations. Accordingly, the load balancing embodies a diverse set of workloads to support dynamic and equitable allocation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sandip Agarwala, Dean Hildebrand
  • Patent number: 9946746
    Abstract: The subject technology provides configurations for propagating information from an initial analytics tracking data communication to subsequent analytics tracking data communications at an analytics server. In one example, the subject technology receives an analytics tracking data communication. The subject technology determines if the received analytics tracking data communication includes state changing information based on analytics tracking data included in the analytics tracking data communication. The subject technology then determines one or more attributes for propagating to subsequent analytics tracking data if the analytics tracking data communication includes state changing information. The state changing information are stored as one or more of the determined one or more attributes. The subject technology stores the analytics tracking data including the determined one or more attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jerry Hong, Paul Muret, Sagnik Nandy, Madhu Kallazhi Vasu, Evan S. Huang, James Lee Wogulis, Bradley David Townsend, Neil Rhodes, Naomi Ben-Ayoun, Stella Marie Laurenzo, Lucas Paul Hansen, Avi Mehta, Nick Mihailovski, Ashok Babu Amara
  • Patent number: 9904733
    Abstract: A resource set comprising a set of resources may be provided to the public. It may be desirable to associate with the resources a set of public names, such as friendly URLs that may be more memorable, may indicate to users the type of resource so named, and may promote indexing of the resources by search engines. A name hierarchy (such as a portion of a file system) may store at least one reference that associates a public name with a resource. A name hierarchy navigation logic may facilitate navigation through the name hierarchy, and may specify a particular location within the name hierarchy where a reference associated with the public name is to be stored. This manner of associating public names with resources may promote the scalability and efficiency in associating public names with resources and in retrieving a resource associated with a particular public name.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Vladilen V. Bessonov, Todd D. Ostermeier, Paul B. Lorah, Christopher O'Neil Sanders
  • Patent number: 9817963
    Abstract: A user participating in an e-commerce session can be authenticated based on user-touchscreen interaction analysis. That is, a user requested action can be determined that requires additional authentication. Such authentication can further include, requesting analysis of user-touchscreen interaction for the e-commerce session and receiving a pattern matching score for the session from a computer. The pattern matching score can provide an indication of a comparison between the user's interaction with a touchscreen during the session and a pre-established user-touchscreen interaction profile for the user. A computer can perform a verification action to verify an identity of the user based on the received pattern matching score. Responsive to a successful verification of the identity, the computer can perform the requested action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brian M. O'Connell, Keith R. Walker
  • Patent number: 9769100
    Abstract: A request to add at least a second user of a social network as a contact of a first user in the social network can be received. A social hierarchy indicating a hierarchical relationship between the first user and the second user can be accessed. Based on the hierarchical relationship between the first user and the second user, whether the second user must approve the request in order for the at least second user to be added as the contact of the first user in the social network can be determined. Responsive to determining that it is not required that the at least second user must approve the request in order for the at least second user to be added as the contact of the first user in the social network, the second user can be added as the contact of the first user in the social network without prompting the second user to approve the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: A. Julie Kadashevich, Jane B. Marcus, Jessica L. Piziak, Purvi K. Trivedi
  • Patent number: 9734466
    Abstract: According to one general aspect, in one embodiment, a method may include establishing a relationship with a plurality of external tenant systems configured to utilize an internal ERP service provider system. In one embodiment, the method may also include receiving an external tenant message from one of the external tenant systems. The method may further include, in various embodiments, converting the received external tenant message to an internal provider message. In some embodiments, the method may include transmitting the converted internal provider message to at least a portion of the internal ERP service provider system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Boban Cvetkovic, Robert Boban
  • Patent number: 9705963
    Abstract: A method for evaluating an online entity presence includes receiving a set of social media information for at least one entity and calculating a social media measurement where the social media measurement is associated with the set of social media information. The method further includes receiving a set of online profile information for the at least one entity, the set of online profile information being associated with one or more non-social media online profiles, and calculating an online profile measurement wherein the online profile measurement is associated with the set of online profile information. The method further includes calculating a reach value, the reach value being associated with the social media measurement and the online profile measurement and providing a reach score to a user where the reach score associated with the reach value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company
    Inventors: Jill Schornack, Eric Iverson, Brian Doyle, Aaron Hareid
  • Patent number: 9686214
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to unattended status and time-based messaging in an instant messaging (IM) environment and provide a method, system and computer program product for unattended status and time-based messaging in an instant messaging (IM) environment. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for unattended status and time-based messaging in an instant messaging (IM) environment can be provided. The method can include receiving a request from an IM user to queue an unattended status and time-based message, retrieving a recovery trigger for the unattended status and time-based message, and assigning the unattended status and time-based message to a message queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James G. McLean, William G. Pagan