Patents Examined by Bharat Barot
  • Activity cards
    Patent number: 10686900
    Abstract: The description relates to activity graphs. One example can obtain details from multiple activity cards. The example can identify relationships between at least some of the details of the multiple activity cards. The example can also generate an activity graph that reflects at least some of the relationships between individual activity cards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gail Giacobbe, Imran Aziz, Javier Porras Luraschi, March Rogers, Benjamin B. Gitenstein
  • Systems and methods for setup, control, and test of virtual mobile access point operation in a network of moving things
    Patent number: 10673950
    Abstract: Communication network architectures, systems and methods for supporting a network of mobile nodes. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide communication network architectures, systems, and methods for supporting a dynamically configurable communication network comprising a complex array of both static and moving communication nodes (e.g., the Internet of moving things).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Veniam, Inc.
    Inventor: Henrique Manuel Pereira Cabral
  • Content providing system, receiving apparatus and method, storage medium, and program
    Patent number: 10673933
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a content providing system, a receiving apparatus and method, a storage medium, and a program, which enable to perform a variety of contents provisions. An operational terminal 21 can obtain, from a storage terminal 1, contents corresponding to utilization information sent from an operational terminal 11 that is receiving provision of predetermined contents from a storage terminal 1. That is, if a user 23 is interested in contents that a user 13 is watching and listening to on the operational terminal 11, and desires to watch and listen to it, the user 23 can watch and listen to on the operational terminal 21, the contents that the user 13 is watching and listening to, by holding the operational terminal 21 very close to the operational terminal 11, or holding the operational terminal 11 very close to the operational terminal 21.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoriko Komatsuzaki, Makoto Sato, Takuro Noda
  • User data sharing method and device
    Patent number: 10673979
    Abstract: A user data sharing method comprises: acquiring information of a query medium; obtaining, according to the information of the query medium, at least one user account related to the query medium and relationship information of the at least one user account from a medium network, the relationship information of the user account comprising: a strength of a relationship between the user account and the query medium and a strength of a relationship between the user account and other user accounts; constructing a local medium network by using the obtained at least one user account and relationship information of the at least one user account; determining a trusted account from the at least one user account by using the local medium network; and acquiring user data of the trusted account and outputting the user data of the trusted account as the user data corresponding to the information of the query medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Fengwei Wang, Huimei He, Dongxing Wu, Dijun He, Ruihua Lin
  • Efficient live-migration of remotely accessed data
    Patent number: 10645160
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for migrating data from a first storage system to a second storage system. That data is for a process (e.g., a virtual machine, application, or some other process) operating on a computer system that is separate from the first storage system and the second storage system. That data is stored according to data subsets that are each exclusive of each other. As each data set is migrated, access to the data set by the process is precluded, but access for the remaining data sets is not affected. Once the data migration is complete, access to the data set by the process is restored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Tyler Sanderson
  • Redirection of client requests to multiple endpoints
    Patent number: 10645183
    Abstract: According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor and a memory on which is stored machine readable instructions that are to cause the processor to access a request from a client device, and send the request to a first endpoint, in which the first endpoint is configured to generate a first response to the request. The instructions are further to cause the processor to receive the first response from the first endpoint, in which the first response includes redirect information for the request, select, based upon the redirect information, a second endpoint that is configured to generate a second response to the request, send the request to the selected second endpoint, receive the second response from the second endpoint, and send a final response to the client device, the final response including information included in both the first response and the second response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Marc A. Walker, Ananda Sinha, Zhifeng Wang
  • Autonomous resource governor in distributed systems for protecting shared resources
    Patent number: 10637919
    Abstract: Variety of approaches to provide an autonomous governor in a distributed system for preserving a shared resource are described. A hosted service initiates operations to provide the autonomous governor upon determining the shared resource to be managed. An initial lease count is designated to the shared resource. The initial lease count corresponds to an estimated capacity of the shared resource. Next, an assigned lease count is determined by incrementing or decrementing the initial lease count based on a detected actual capacity of the shared resource. Upon detecting a steady state of the assigned lease count, the assigned lease count is incremented to determine whether the actual capacity of the shared resource is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Bradley J. Barrows, YanWen Qiao, Kevin Chan, Stephane Cavin
  • Systems and methods for enabling a persistent stream for use in a communications session
    Patent number: 10631021
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for providing a video stream to one or more communication sessions. In one implementation, the system may include a video recording device, a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions. The instructions may comprise instructions to activate the video recording device and receive a video stream therefrom, buffer the video stream in an allocated portion of the memory, allow access to the buffered video stream for use in a first communications session, continue buffering the video stream after the buffered video stream has been accessed for use in the first communications session, and allow access to the buffered video stream for use in a second communications session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: RingCentral, Inc.
    Inventor: Vlad Vendrow
  • Peer-to-peer data sharing between internet-of-things networks
    Patent number: 10630770
    Abstract: Techniques are described for sharing data among Internet of Things (IoT) networks. An IoT network may include a platform that collects data generated by IoT devices. The platform may execute an agent that sends a communication to indicate the network presence of the sending platform to broker module(s) that support a data sharing service. The communication may also indicate the type and/or quantity of data generated by the sending platform and available to be shared with other receiving platforms in other IoT networks. The data broker module(s) may generate and send security tokens to the agents executing on the sending platform and receiving platform(s). Using the security tokens, the respective agents may establish a peer-to-peer (P2P) connection over a network over which the data is streamed in real time as it is received and/or processed by the sending platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: SAP Portals Israel Ltd.
    Inventors: Ido Fishler, Barak Kinarti, Daniel Turin, Adi Swissa, Eran Lahav, Gilad Keinan, Eliel Schurman, Ohad Granica, Eyal Nathan, David Kviti
  • Streaming content modification through remote and local user entanglement
    Patent number: 10616355
    Abstract: Focus data of a remote user is analyzed to determine a focus shift from a first area to a second area at an event arena. A beacon density is computed at the second area, where the beacon density includes a number of physical beacons corresponding to a number of local users at the second area, a number of virtual beacons corresponding to a number of remote users focused on the second area, or a combination of thereof. When the beacon density at the second area exceeds a threshold density, an instruction to a streaming source is generated. The streaming source is caused to change a streaming content, to form changed streaming content that is related to the second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Aaron K. Baughman, Stephen C. Hammer, Christopher E. Holladay, Mauro Marzorati
  • Method and apparatus for bluetooth-based identity recognition
    Patent number: 10608988
    Abstract: A method for a smart device to perform Bluetooth (BT)-based identity recognition, includes: establishing a BT connection with a first terminal; acquiring a first user account of the first terminal through the BT connection; searching a first preset mapping table for a first identifier (ID) corresponding to the first user account, the first mapping table including a first mapping relationship between at least one user account and at least one ID, each ID corresponding to a respective user account, and the first mapping relationship being determined and sent to the smart device by a server; and determining a user identity corresponding to the first terminal according to the first ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongli Sun, Weiguang Jia, Enxing Hou
  • Message transmission device and message transmission method
    Patent number: 10601741
    Abstract: Conventionally, high-level communication using the message cannot be achieved. The high-level communication using the message can be achieved by a message transmission device including a component candidate group storage unit capable of storing one or more component candidate groups including two or more groups of component candidates forming a content, an input reception unit configured to receive an input for constituting a content including one or more components determined by the selection of one component candidate from two or more component candidates included in one component candidate group, a content constitution unit configured to constitute the content by using the selected one or more components according to the input, and a message transmission unit configured to transmit a message including the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignees: THEONE UNICOM PTE. LTD., Koji Hosaka
    Inventors: Koji Hosaka, Tetsuji Otsuka, Chiyo Morisawa, Manabu Shimizu, Yosuke Magaki
  • Cloud streaming service system and cloud streaming service method for utilizing an optimal GPU for video decoding based on resource conditions, and apparatus for the same
    Patent number: 10601891
    Abstract: A cloud streaming service system, a cloud streaming service method using an optimal GPU, and an apparatus for the same are disclosed. A cloud streaming service can be provided by determining whether a video is played on a browser, when a playback of the video is sensed, decoding the video by using a video decoding entity determined on the basis of system resource conditions, and performing a streaming procedure corresponding to capturing, encoding and sending the decoded video. When a video is provided through the cloud streaming service, it is possible to effectively use the resources of a cloud streaming system by efficiently distributing a plurality of GPUs equipped in the cloud streaming system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: SK PLANET CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong-Su Lee, Hong-Seo Yun
  • Method for remote support of electric drive apparatus
    Patent number: 10601924
    Abstract: The invention relates to electric drive apparatuses used in different industries for different applications more particularly to a method for remote support of an electric drive apparatus. The method comprises: establishing a live support session with virtual drive assistance between a first apparatus and a third apparatus in the remote support site, said first apparatus having a connection with a local electric drive apparatus in a local site, and said third apparatus having a connection to a virtual drive tool for virtual drive assistance; downloading by said third apparatus from said first apparatus parameter settings and other relevant process information of the local electric drive apparatus to said third apparatus; and controlling and/or operating said virtual drive tool by said third apparatus to provide assistance to a user of said first apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Zhongliang Hu, Jarkko Lalu
  • Dialing test method, dialing test system, and computing node
    Patent number: 10594586
    Abstract: A dialing test method, a dialing test system, and a computing node relate to the network field. In this method, a dialing test system respectively creates a two dialing test ports on two computing nodes, where both Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of the two dialing test ports are IP addresses of a dialing test network, and the dialing test network does not overlap a service network of a virtual machine (VM). The dialing test system separately deploys respective dialing test resources for the two dialing test ports, and the dialing test resources does not overlap a resource of the VM on the two computing nodes, and the dialing test system triggers a dialing test procedure such that a dialing test task is executed between the two dialing test ports using the dialing test resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhengxian Zhang, Yingjun Tian, Yu Zhang
  • Establishing a conversation between intelligent assistants
    Patent number: 10594748
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of establishing a conversation between intelligent assistants includes subdividing content of a user's conversation monitored over a predetermined period of time into a plurality of segments, and associating a time stamp with each segment; hashing each of the plurality of segments wherein a hash value is associated with each segment; matching pairs of the hash values and their time stamps with hash values and time stamps received from one or more intelligent assistants associated with the one or more other persons; and establishing a connection between the user's intelligent assistant and an intelligent assistant of at least one of the one or more other persons, when the user's hash value and time stamp for one or more segments of the conversation match hash values and time stamps of one or more conversation segments of the at least one of the one or more other persons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kun Shang, Ting Yin, Yin Xia
  • Symmetric coherent request/response policy enforcement
    Patent number: 10574543
    Abstract: A set of service level agreement (SLA) policies and service level definition (SLD) policies that are applied to a request message of a correlated request/response message pair are tracked. A response message of the correlated request/response message pair is detected. A corresponding set of platform-specific policy enforcement processing rules that are used to enforce the set of SLA policies and SLD policies on the response message are identified using the tracked set of SLA policies and SLD policies applied to the request message. The set of SLA policies and SLD policies are enforced on the response message using the identified corresponding set of platform-specific policy enforcement processing rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas C. Burke, Mario E. De Armas, Oswaldo Gago, Ramon M. Spence
  • Services versioning
    Patent number: 10560551
    Abstract: Downloadable pluggable services and methods of distributing the same are described. The downloadable pluggable services may correspond to communication services that can be downloaded to upgrade a communication system. The downloadable pluggable services may include a number of component parts that can be distributed among various servers in the communication system being upgraded along with instructions that enable the component parts to instruct each server in the communication system to operate in a coordinated fashion so as to provide the downloaded service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventors: Kurt Haserodt, William T. Walker, John Meiners, Renee Krahn, Donald E. Gillespie
  • Analysis of content sharing in a messaging platform
    Patent number: 10554593
    Abstract: A system and method for message analysis, including: receiving, from a client device, a reporting request identifying a first broadcasted message authored by a context account of a messaging platform; identifying, by a computer processor, engagement data corresponding to engagement with the first broadcasted message by a set of engaging accounts of the messaging platform that engaged with the first broadcasted message; generating, using the engagement data and by the computer processor, propagation data representing propagation of the first broadcasted message in a connection graph of the messaging platform; and providing the propagation data for the client device in response to the reporting request, where the client device is operable to display a visual representation of the propagation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Twitter, Inc.
    Inventors: Aditya Krishna Naganath, Erik Steven Froese
  • Document distribution from a processing system utilizing pushed references
    Patent number: 10547700
    Abstract: Distributing access to a document from a processing system includes sending or pushing a reference for a document within a repository to a storage area of a recipient system of a recipient to enable retrieval of the document from the repository. The reference is removed from the storage area of the recipient system of the recipient in response to an expiration of the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Edward L. Bader, Nehemiah E. Clark, David S. Gaskins, Adrian Hermosillo, Bryan V. Pham