Patents Examined by Anna Deng
  • Patent number: 9645801
    Abstract: The compilation of a transformation chain of a recalculation user interface that displays an electronic canvas that contains one or more displayed result of a transformation chain. The transformation chain includes transforms between a respective data source and data sink. User editing of the recalculation user interface could cause one or more of the transforms to be re-executed, thereby causing recalculation. The compilation involves analyzing the transformation chain of the recalculation user interface for dependencies to create a dependency graph of dependencies between entities. For instance, some dependencies might be between entities so as to indicate that if one entity is evaluated, then the other should be also. The dependency graph is then used to create a lower level of execution steps. The dependency graph is further provided to a runtime for the program, so that the dependency graph may be available during operation of the recalculation user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Douglas Reddish, Olivier Colle, Radu B. Gruian, Nizam Anuar, Jaideep Sarkar, Vijay Mital
  • Patent number: 9645858
    Abstract: A deployment system enables a developer to define a logical, multi-tier application blueprint that can be used to create and manage (e.g., redeploy, upgrade, backup, patch) multiple applications in a cloud infrastructure. In the application blueprint, the developer models an overall application architecture, or topology, that includes individual and clustered nodes (e.g., VMs), logical templates, cloud providers, deployment environments, software services, application-specific code, properties, and dependencies between top-tier and second-tier components. The application can be deployed according to the application blueprint, which means any needed VMs are provisioned from the cloud infrastructure, and application components and software services are installed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: David Winterfeldt, Komal Mangtani, Sesh Jalagam, Vishwas Nagaraja
  • Patent number: 9635084
    Abstract: Tuple communication and decision determination is provided in a streaming environment. A processor: generates mission tuples, places the mission tuples in a computing stream of a stream application, accesses computing time upon, obtains the computing time of the mission tuples, determines: a current position in the computing stream for the mission tuples and a class and one or more sub-classes that each of the mission tuples belongs to, and communicates data: between the mission tuples and between the mission tuples and one or more runtime processes associated with the computing stream or one or more external processes associated with the computing stream. The mission tuples are configured to modify operations of the computing operators in the computing stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bin Cao, Jessica R. Eidem, Brian R. Muras, Jingdong Sun
  • Patent number: 9626210
    Abstract: A provider network may implement resource credit pools to replenish resource credit balances for virtual compute instances. A resource credit pool may be maintained that makes resource credits available to virtual compute instances authorized to obtain resource credits from the resource credit pool. Resource credits from the resource credit pool may be applicable to increase utilization of physical computer resource for a virtual compute instance. In response to a resource credit request for an authorized virtual compute instance, a number of resource credits to add to an individual resource credit balance for the authorized virtual compute instance may be determined. A response may be sent indicating the number of resource credits to add to the individual resource credit balance and the resource credit pool may be updated to remove the number of resource credits from the resource credit pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: John Merrill Phillips, William John Earl, Deepak Singh
  • Patent number: 9626158
    Abstract: A system includes a user interface allowing a developer to select a function to supplement functionality of an application under development. A data store holds identifiers for functions representing external functionality available from third party applications. A code generation module provides a software object to the developer for incorporation into a state of the application. The state includes a user interface element associated with an entity. When the state is instantiated, an action query is transmitted to a search system with the unique identifier of the selected function and information about the entity. The user interface element is selectively visually adapted in response to the search system response. In response to user selection of the user interface element, a search result, the search system is displayed, including (i) an identifier of a target application and (ii) an access mechanism for a specified state of the target application, is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Quixey, Inc.
    Inventor: Jonathan Ben-Tzur
  • Patent number: 9626225
    Abstract: A host system reallocates resources in a virtual computing environment by first receiving a request to reallocate a first quantity of a first resource type. Next, potential trade-off groups are evaluated and a trade-off group is selected based on the evaluation. The selected trade-off group includes a set of applications running in the virtual computing environment that can use one or more alternate resource types as a substitute for the first quantity of the first resource type. After the selection, the host system reallocates the first quantity of the first resource type from the trade-off group. This reallocation may be made from the trade-off group to either a first application running in the virtual computing environment or the host system itself. If the reallocation is to the host system, then the total quantity of the first resource type allocated to applications running in the virtual computing environment is thereby reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory J. Boss, Seyyed Vahid Hashemian, Ton A. Ngo, Thomas K. Truong
  • Patent number: 9619219
    Abstract: A system and method of deploying applications to networked computing environments is disclosed. Application packages and installation instructions are received by a deployment manager. The installation instructions include test instructions. Application packages are distributed in response to requests by developers and installation instructions executed on a target computing environment. Failure of an installation test provides an indication of issues with the application in the target environment. Records of failures received are stored for use by application developers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: William J. Alford, Kenneth L. Hamer
  • Patent number: 9612820
    Abstract: A solution for updating at least one software product installed on a virtual machine, including providing a software image of at least one new virtual disk storing a new level of the software product together with new metadata including an indication of at least one new activation procedure of the new level of the software product, and replacing a current level of the software product with the new level of the software product, the current level of the software product being stored in at least one current virtual disk of the virtual machine together with current metadata including current activation information of the current level of the software product, where the replacing includes removing at least one current virtual disk from the virtual machine; adding at least one new virtual disk to the virtual machine; and running at least one new activation procedure according to the current activation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mauro Arcese, Giuseppe Ciano, Marco De Santis, Gianluca Perreca, Luigi Pichetti
  • Patent number: 9600252
    Abstract: A compilation system for at least one instruction flow to be executed on a target circuit comprises a hardware acceleration circuit performing the functions of loading a set of at least one portion of said flow to a memory internal to the circuit and of decoding the set; the instructions resulting from the loading and from the decoding being transmitted to a programmable core operating in parallel to the hardware acceleration circuit, the programmable core producing the transcription of the decoded instructions into a machine code suitable for execution on the target circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Alexandre Carbon, Yves Lhuiller
  • Patent number: 9595027
    Abstract: In one aspect, this application describes a method for determining a version of a software application targeted for a computing device. The method includes receiving, at an application marketplace system and from a user associated with a computing device that operates remotely from the application marketplace system, a request that corresponds to a software application distributed by the application marketplace system, the software application having multiple versions on the application marketplace system. The method also includes determining one or more device attributes that are associated with the computing device, and identifying a particular version of the software application, from among the multiple versions on the application marketplace system, that is targeted for the computing device based on the device attributes. The method also includes providing, for display to the user and in response to the request, information related to the particular version of the software application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Ilya Firman, Jasper S. Lin, Mark D. Womack, Yu-Kuan Lin, Sheng-chi Hsieh, Juliana Tsang
  • Patent number: 9582252
    Abstract: Methods, articles, signals, and systems are provided for adaptively shrinking software. The software includes one or more adaptive features. A tracking facility tracks use of the adaptive features, and when it is determined that a given feature is unwanted or unnecessary in the software configuration preferred by a given user, a separation facility separates the feature from the rest of the software. The feature is then archived or deleted. In this manner, resources such as disk space are conserved, program load time and memory requirements are reduced, and user interfaces and supporting code are tailored to meet the needs of particular users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
    Inventor: John W. L. Ogilvie
  • Patent number: 9575803
    Abstract: Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for determining an ordering to use to open and close programs that call other programs. A dependency file indicates for each calling program at least one called program called by the calling program, wherein a called program that calls another program also comprises a calling program. The dependency file is processed to determine an order in which the called programs are called by the calling programs. A determination is made from the order the called programs called by an invoked calling program. The determined called programs are invoked according to the order. The calling program is invoked in response to invoking the determined called programs. The order indicates the order in which the calling programs and the called programs are invoked so the called programs are invoked before invoking the calling programs that invoke the called programs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Philip R. Chauvet, Joseph V. Malinowski, David C. Reed, Max D. Smith
  • Patent number: 9575737
    Abstract: An application executing on a computing device may invoke a function call of a first function. The computing device may support a bundled application library of functions and a native library of functions. It may be determined that code for executing the first function exists in both the bundled application library and the native library, and the application may execute the first function using the code in the native library. While the application continues execution on the computing device, the application may invoke a function call of a second function. It may be determined that, of the bundled application library and the native library, the code for executing the second function exists in the bundled application library. The application may execute the second function using the code in the bundled application library.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Murray, Stephen Roderick Hines, Rudy Jason Sams
  • Patent number: 9569479
    Abstract: Examples of techniques for processing model changes are described herein. A method includes generating, via a processor, a change log in a model. The method also includes detecting, via the processor, a change to a model element of a model package in the model. The method further includes storing, via the processor, the detected change as a change item in a topic of the change log.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ilya Azrieli, Eldad Palachi, Yura Zharkovsky
  • Patent number: 9569414
    Abstract: The present invention provides an approach and corresponding framework that separates data from its formatting/view by generating the dynamic JavaScript (data) as a set (e.g., at least one) of JavaScript (data) objects, without any HTML formatting. Then, a set of JavaScript functions can be created that takes the set of JavaScript objects as a parameter, and outputs all or a subset of this data object in a format determined by this JavaScript function. In general, these formatting functions can be static, rather than dynamic, JavaScript. This approach has the advantage of providing a much greater degree of formatting flexibility, without the need for each new format to establish a connection with the back-end system providing the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jennifer Lai, Zhiqiang Liu, Brian J. McDonald, Laurie Miller, Yael Ravin, Karen A. Ughetta
  • Patent number: 9563417
    Abstract: The present invention provides a common framework to determine if machines are patched and automatically applies patches as required. It provides an automated tool to assess patch levels and apply patches on several different UNIX machine types. Further, it provides a centralized, consistent method of providing patches to multiple roles within an organization while automatically managing large quantities of machines. It can manage multiple security standards, machine classifications, and patch security levels and be customized to interface with existing asset management tools. It evaluates the most suitable patch to satisfy the minimal patch requirements and is an early warning system that will tell a user when the user's machine will go out of compliance. The tool is composed of two parts: a server component and client component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sanjeev Jha, Matthew P. Jarvis, Donny R. Rota
  • Patent number: 9563540
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method and a system for software defect positioning. The system collects at least one type of information with respect to the defect and analyzes the collected input to select a suitable mode of defect positioning procedure. The defect positioning procedures used by the system identify defect location/position based on history data. After identifying the location of the defect, the system communicates the identified defect location/position to a user using a suitable output interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: HCL TECHNOLOGIES LTD
    Inventors: Dhanyamraju S U M Prasad, Simy Chacko, Satya Sai Prakash K, Sekhar Ramaraju, Suresh Naidu P
  • Patent number: 9560120
    Abstract: A deploy service is provided to determine a set of software artifacts that needs to be transmitted to a target machine upon receiving an application deployment request from a user of a client device. For instance, the deploy service may compare versions of software artifacts on the target machine with the software artifacts of the application that the user desires to deploy to determine the set of software artifacts that needs to be transmitted. Instead of having to transmit the entire application, some embodiments transmit only a small portion that is reflective of what has been changed between the old version of the application and the new version of the application. This enables the transfer of large files across the Internet to be more efficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas A. Allen, Elena Dykhno
  • Patent number: 9557980
    Abstract: A seamless application integration apparatus and method are provided. The seamless application integration apparatus includes a seamless integration server that is installed in a host virtual machine so as to provide a seamless application integration (SAI) environment in a virtualization system that comprises the host virtual machine and at least one guest virtual machine. The apparatus also includes a dynamic reconfiguration unit determines whether a seamless integration client that corresponds to the seamless integration server has been installed in the guest virtual machine, and that may install the seamless integration client in the guest virtual machine according to the determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bok-Deuk Jeong, Chan-Ju Park, Sung-Min Lee
  • Patent number: 9557982
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to a method, apparatus, and system for processing an app. The method includes obtaining a plugin identifier, obtaining an app plugin installation package from a server, wherein the app plugin installation package is associated with the plugin identifier, installing the app plugin installation package, obtaining an app plugin lookup instruction associated with an app plugin, and determining the app plugin according to the app plugin lookup instruction, wherein the app plugin implements a specific function of a corresponding app in response to the app plugin being invoked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Chao Xi, Yue Zhang, Huan Zeng