Patents Examined by Brahim Bourzik
  • Patent number: 11416379
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for creation of software tests matching production personas are disclosed. A software testing system determines a plurality of observations regarding execution of a software product in a production environment comprising a plurality of software products. The software testing system determines one or more personas based at least in part on analysis of the plurality of observations. A particular persona represents one or more usage characteristics shared by a subset of clients of the software product. The software testing system generates one or more tests associated with the particular persona. The one or more tests comprise one or more input values of a plurality of calls. The one or more input values represent the usage characteristics shared by the subset of clients of the software product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mihaela Petrescu, James Beavis, Yan Peng, Adithya Venkatesh, Peter Ramensky
  • Patent number: 11409580
    Abstract: Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for modifying a series of lock acquire and release operations to use a single lock reservation. A representation of source code is scanned to determine a series of acquire lock program statement and release lock program statement pairs to acquire and release a lock by a thread. A first acquire lock program statement in the series is modified to be an acquire with reserve program statement that when executed by the thread causes the thread to acquire the lock and indicate the lock as reserved for use by the thread. A last release lock program statement in the series is modified to be a release with cancel program statement that when executed by the thread causes the thread to release the lock and indicate the lock as not reserved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Andrew James Craik
  • Patent number: 11397570
    Abstract: Examples of aborting installation of a firmware bundle are described. In an example, an abort installation command is received. The firmware bundle includes items, each item corresponding to one of a firmware for a hardware component and a system software component. A first set of items is identified from the items, where the first set of items includes one of an item installed successfully, an item for which installation is under progress, and a combination thereof. A second set of items is identified from the items, where the second set of items is pending installation. A first subset of items is identified from the second set, based on predefined dependency information, where operability of an item from the first set is dependent on an item from the first subset. The first subset of items is installed prior to aborting installation of the firmware bundle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Murali Mohan Chakravarthy Chintagunta, Suneeth Sathyanathan, Sirish Nimmakayala
  • Patent number: 11397601
    Abstract: The method includes identifying, by one or more computer processors, a program being utilized by a user. The method further includes identifying, by one or more computer processors, an environmental factor related to a user of the program. The method further includes determining, by one or more computer processes, a relationship between the program and the environmental factor. The method further includes generating, by one or more computer processors, one or more instructions for the program based at least in part on the determined relationship and the environmental factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jeremy R. Fox, Andrew R. Jones, Balasubramanian Sivasubramanian
  • Patent number: 11354114
    Abstract: An updating system includes a plurality of electronic control units and an updating management device. The updating management device is configured to request that the electronic control units respectively update programs and store update results of the programs transmitted from the electronic control units. The electronic control unit has a first storage region and a second storage region, and is configured to store an updated program in the second storage region and notify the updating management device of the update results according to a request from the updating management device, and is configured to start a predetermined control using the updated program stored in the second storage region when the update results stored in the updating management device indicate that the updating of the programs in the electronic control units is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Ishikawa, Sho Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11347557
    Abstract: Accordingly embodiments herein disclose a method for predicting optimal number of thread for an application in an electronic device. The method includes receiving, by an application thread controller, a request to predict a number of threads to be spawned from the application in real-time. Further, the method includes measuring, by the application thread controller, a current state of the electronic device based on the request received from the application. Further, the method includes predicting, by the application thread controller, the optimal number of threads to be spawned for the application based on a scheduler-behaviour model and the current state of the electronic device. Further, the method includes recommending, by the application thread controller, the number of threads to be spawned by the application based on the prediction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sriram Nagaswamy, Suhas Shantaraja Palasamudram, Karthikeyan Somanathan, Sandeep Palakkal
  • Patent number: 11343133
    Abstract: A virtualized trap receiver that virtualizes Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agents and trap receivers over a set of virtual machines is provided. The virtualized trap receiver receives trap messages regarding a particular application running on one or more application servers. The virtualized trap receiver processes the received trap messages at one or more virtual machines. The virtualized trap receiver responds to a query by a network manager regarding an operation of the particular application on the application servers based on the processed trap messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Amit Shantanu Deshmukh
  • Patent number: 11321223
    Abstract: An example method of testing a cluster network for an application management system having a cluster of virtual machines (VMs) is described. The VMs execute on a virtualization layer in a cluster of hosts connected to a physical network, and the application management system integrated with the virtualization layer. The method includes: receiving, at an edge node from an external network, a plurality of test applications; executing, at the edge node, the plurality of test applications, the edge node connected to the cluster network, the plurality of test applications communicating, through the cluster network, with a master server of the application management system, and with applications executing in the VMs managed by the master server; and returning, from the edge node, responses generated by the plurality of test applications to the external network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Ian Hunter Gann, Yahya Cahyadi, Yongzhe Fan, Nanda Kishore Krishna
  • Patent number: 11314497
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to customizing deployment of an application to a user interface of a client device. An exemplary method generally includes training a model based on historical context information of a plurality of users by identifying correlations between the historical context information and a plurality of widgets and storing the correlations in the model. The method further includes receiving context information from the client device. The method further includes determining a user intent based on the context information using the model. The method further includes selecting one or more widgets to include in a custom user interface definition based, at least in part, on the user intent. The method further includes transmitting, to the user interface of the client device, the custom user interface definition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Intuit, Inc.
    Inventors: Jay Yu, Amit Arya, Alexey Povkh, Jeffery Brewer, Elangovan Shanmugam, Gaurav V. Chaubal, Yamit P. Mody
  • Patent number: 11307962
    Abstract: A method for validating software transforms. A target program binary is mutated, producing a plurality of variants. It is determined whether each variant passes a test suite. Upon determining the variant does not pass the test suite, the variant is discarded. Upon determining the variant passes the test suite, the variant is compared to the target program binary. A candidate transform is extracted which meets scope criteria. The candidate transform is applied to each of a plurality of test programs. It is determined whether the candidate transform is safe. Upon determining that the candidate transform is not safe, the candidate transform is discarded. Upon determining that the candidate transform is safe, the candidate transform is collected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Jason A. Landsborough, Sunny J. Fugate, Stephen T. Harding
  • Patent number: 11307848
    Abstract: A system provides electronic integration and deployment of computer code in a code development network. The system may comprise a multilayered distributed ledger structure and may perform real-time source code conflict checks by combining the latest nonce from a primary distributed ledger with the genesis block of a working distributed ledger into a hash algorithm. Depending on whether the output of said hash algorithm satisfies the cryptographic challenge set by the distributed ledger system, the system may be able to detect mismatches between the source code found in a working distributed ledger and the source code found in the primary distributed ledger. Furthermore, the system may include production systems as nodes of the primary distributed ledger such that the production systems may maintain updated copies of the source code throughout the software development process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sibhi Arul Prian Poyhai Karunakaran, Maguluri Tanuja
  • Patent number: 11265202
    Abstract: The current document is directed to an integrated cloud-management facility, or subsystem, that incorporates an automated-application-deployment-facility integrator that incorporates one or more automated-application-deployment facilities into the cloud-management facility. The automated-application-deployment-facility integrator allows users of the cloud-management facility to access one or more automated-application-deployment facilities within the context of the cloud-management facility. The automated-application-deployment-facility integrator provides to system managers and administrators, through the cloud-management facility, a wider range of functionalities and capabilities than is provided by a cloud-management facility that includes only a single automated-application-deployment facility, or subsystem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajesh Khazanchi, Servesh Singh, Rishi Saraf, Agila Govindaraju, Rakesh Sinha, Vishal Jain, Shyam Sundar Rao Mankala
  • Patent number: 11262993
    Abstract: Unused instructions and no longer used instructions in a target application binary are determined. The target application binary is rewritten before and after runtime execution of the target application binary to remove the unused and no longer used instructions to reduce binary attack surface area for the runtime execution of the target application binary. Methods, computer systems, and computer program products are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Vu Le, Ian Michael Molloy, Jacob Tinkhauser
  • Patent number: 11263033
    Abstract: A system may include an application server and one or more tenants served by the application server. The application server may host a virtual machine with multiple isolated sub-environments. Each tenant of the application server may request to run a program in a tenant-specific sub-environment of the virtual machine. The sub-environments may be configured so the execution of one tenant's code does not affect execution of another tenant's code or the hosting virtual machine, for example, by considering the resources used to execute the code. The application server may implement techniques to securely execute “untrusted” code, programmed using one or more different programming languages, in the sub-environments by enforcing resource restrictions and restricting the sub-environments from accessing the host's local file system. In this way, one tenant's code does not negatively impact execution of another tenant's code by using too many resources of the virtual machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Michael Goldberg Boilen, James Bock Wunderlich, Nathan Edward Lipke
  • Patent number: 11249747
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of a device that performs a hitless update a boot image of a network element. In this embodiment, the device identifies the network element to update and determines if the network element has redundant paths. If this network element has redundant paths, the device configures the network element to drain data processing of the network element. In addition, the device updates the network element to a new boot image when the data processing of the network element is drained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Arista Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Raymond Sprygada, Mark Berly, Douglas Gourlay
  • Patent number: 11243754
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention concern a novel and interactive way to deliver telematics solutions by separating the delivery of the hardware and software component of a telematics device. The software telematics application is selected and delivered to the customer's telematics device by in-application purchases via the customer's mobile device. The mobile device contains a user interface that is adapted to control and configure the telematics device. The customers may upgrade their telematics applications using their mobile devices. A retailer may also request the upgrade of a customer's telematics application using the retailer's mobile device. The user interface also provide a customer profiler tool to provide individualized search results and recommend telematics applications based on the customer's profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Automotive Data Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Fazi
  • Patent number: 11237822
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a computer-implemented method for generating an API difference description file that describes the differences between multiple API versions to assist in migrating an application program from a first version to a second version. The method includes receiving a first API description file of a first version of a web API, receiving a second API description file of a second version of the web API, generating an API difference description file that describes differences between the first and second API description files, and then updating an application program using the API difference description file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Guo Qiang Li, Cheng Fang Wang, Ping Ping Cheng, Zhen Zhang, Chang Ning Song
  • Patent number: 11194911
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of transmitting a copy of the master ledger when a developer joins a network, receiving proposed changes to the master ledger, and updating the master ledger at the branch hash.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Xianjun Zhu, Jarett Stein, Hin Ting Chui, Bradley C. Herrin
  • Patent number: 11182190
    Abstract: A data transmission method and apparatus are disclosed, and applied to a daemon process on a host machine. The method includes: obtaining information required for performing an acceleration operation in a virtual input/output ring of a target virtual accelerator, where the information required for performing the acceleration operation uses a predefined data structure, and the data structure occupies one entry of the virtual input/output ring of the target virtual accelerator; determining, according to the information required for performing the acceleration operation, information that can be recognized by the hardware accelerator; and sending the information that can be recognized by the hardware accelerator to the hardware accelerator, where the hardware accelerator is configured to obtain to-be-accelerated data according to the information that can be recognized by the hardware accelerator and perform the acceleration operation on the to-be-accelerated data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Lei Gong
  • Patent number: 11157260
    Abstract: An extended ontology may be generated from an ontology such that one or more classes of the extended ontology is associated with a marker and input data may be received. Further, based on the extended ontology and the marker, a subgraph representation of the input data may be generated, where the subgraph representation omits a piece of information included in a first graph representation of the input data, and the subgraph representation includes a plurality of acyclic subgraphs. The acyclic subgraphs may be stored in one or more databases and an acyclic subgraph of the plurality of acyclic subgraphs may be provided as an input to an executable program, where the application of rules associated with the extended ontology by the executable program causes a cyclic graph to be generated from the acyclic subgraph such that the cyclic graph comprises a piece of information omitted from the acyclic subgraph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: ReactiveCore LLC
    Inventors: Michel Dufresne, Benjamin Schaff