Patents Examined by Brendan Higa
  • Systems and methods for discovery of network topology using service OAM
    Patent number: 8396955
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method may include instantiating a first maintenance end point on a first port of a first network element. The first maintenance end point may determine whether a heartbeat message has been received from a second maintenance end point instantiated on a second port of a second network element. In response to determining that the heartbeat message has been received, the maintenance end point may analyze the heartbeat message to determine an identifier for the second network element and an identifier for the second port. Based on the determination of the identifier of the second network element and the identifier of the second port, the network element may store information to an adjacency list, the information indicating at least one of an adjacency of the first port to the second port and an adjacency of the first network element to the second network element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Kumaravel Senthivel, Calvin Wan, Chandrasekaran Ganesh
  • Information processing device and method to expand content reception network
    Patent number: 8396925
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a first receiving unit to receive, from a first other information processing device, equipment information of a second other information processing device that differs from the first other information processing device, via a first communication and first connecting information useful for connecting with the second other information processing device by a second communication that differs from the first communication; a first transmitting unit to transmit second connection information that is useful for connecting with the device itself by the second communication to the first other information processing device, via the first communication; and a second receiving unit to receive content data transmitted from the second other information processing device by the second communication, based on the first connection information and the second connection information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Yoneda, Naoki Miyabayashi, Isao Soma, Seiji Kuroda, Yasuharu Ishikawa, Kazuo Takada
  • Collaborative playlist management
    Patent number: 8392505
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for collaboratively managing a playlist of media items including a communications interface. The communications interface may be configured to receive a user feedback from each of a plurality of portable media devices and may include a processor configured to generate an updated playlist based on the user feedback. The user feedback may be related to a queued media item in a playlist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Allen P. Haughay, Jr., Michael Ingazio Ingrassia, Jr., Jeffrey T. Lee, Ryan Perry
  • Synchronizing data transmission between a wireless network and a wired network
    Patent number: 8380881
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products to synchronize timing of data transmissions between wireless and wired networks using a combined wireless gateway and cable modem are provided herein. The method includes the step of generating an indicator prior to a look-ahead time period and transmitting a poll to a wireless device upon sending the indicator. The look-ahead time period is a time period from transmitting the indicator to transmitting the DOCSIS frame. The method further includes the step of receiving data from the wireless device and encapsulating the data in a DOCSIS format to generate a DOCSIS frame. The method also includes transmitting the DOCSIS frame at a start of a next transmit opportunity to a cable modem termination system (CMTS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Gordon Yong Li, Victor T. Hou, Xuemin Chen
  • Mechanism for handling persistent requests from stateless clients
    Patent number: 8375125
    Abstract: In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in a method that includes receiving at a first device a first request for a physical address of a second device different from the first device, wherein the first request specifies a network address of the second device, and determining that a set of pending requests has a maximum number of requests, wherein the set of pending requests is ordered based on when the requests were received by the first device. The method can further include removing an oldest request from the pending requests and adding the first request to the pending requests, and processing a newest request in the pending requests by sending a message to the second device and receiving the physical address responsive to the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Yuguang Wu, Junlan Zhou
  • Method and apparatus for HBA migration
    Patent number: 8375111
    Abstract: In one implementation, a system includes multiple SCSI nodes configured to perform a SCSI target function. Each of the multiple SCSI nodes includes a host bus adaptor configured to connect the SCSI node with a Fiber Channel fabric. The host bus adaptor being assigned a world wide name and a network address. The system further includes a host configured to perform a SCSI initiator function. The world wide name assigned to a source host bus adaptor associated with one SCSI node is relocated to a target host bus adaptor associated with another SCSI node. After that, the network address associated with the source host bus adaptor is relocated to the target host bus adaptor. In one implementation, the system determines whether or not a network address assigned to a source host bus adaptor associated with one of the multiple SCSI nodes is shared with at least one other service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshio Otani
  • Network accelerator for controlled long delay links
    Patent number: 8359387
    Abstract: A communication system for providing network access over a shared communication link is disclosed. The communication system includes a user access point, a network access point and a communications link. The user access point is coupled to one or more user terminals that access a remote network. The network access point is coupled to the remote network. The communications link couples the user access point and the network access point. The communications link is at last partially controlled by the network access point, which monitors information passed between the remote network and the user access point to create an estimate of future usage of the communications link by the user access point based on the information. The network access point allocates communications link resources for the user access point based on the estimate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: ViaSat, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas Eidenschink
  • Enterprise device policy management
    Patent number: 8356105
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing policies of portable data storage devices in conjunction with a third-party service are disclosed. One or more candidates of a plurality of members in an enterprise may be identifying via the third-party service. Each of the plurality of members may be associated with a respective portable data storage device. An indication provided by the third-party service of one or more candidate devices may be obtained. The one or more candidate devices may each be a portable data storage device associated with a respective candidate. Policies of the one or more candidate devices may be modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: MarbleCloud, Inc.
    Inventors: David Jevans, Gil Spencer
  • Interface between a production management system and an automation system
    Patent number: 8352536
    Abstract: An interface makes it possible not only to link an automation system component in uniform fashion to a production management system but also to relieve the production management system. For this purpose a generic data server has a long-term data store integrated with the server, an integrated data analysis unit, and an integrated configuration means which is also usable for configuring the data analysis unit with respect to the analysis to be performed. The server relieves the production management system by performing preprocessing of data, and it simultaneously serves as a uniform interface between the production management system and the automation system component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Guenther Landgraf, Mathias Muenzberg
  • Distributed propagation of data in a wireless communication network
    Patent number: 8352604
    Abstract: A technique for distributed propagation of data in a wireless communication network includes providing 600 a unique host identifier for each peer network entity in the wireless communication network, each host identifier having a length of B bits. A next step includes requesting 602 data from peer network entities using a request having a host identifier of the requesting network entity. A next step includes, if a peer network entity is hosting the requested data, comparing 608 the host identifiers of the requesting network entity and the peer network entity receiving the request to determine a match. A next step includes responding 610 to the request if a match is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor Miranda, Puneet Batta
  • Method and apparatus for generating files for stereographic image display and method and apparatus for controlling stereographic image display
    Patent number: 8345085
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating a file comprises a file obtaining means, image composing means and a file generating means. The file obtaining means obtains a main image file in which a main stereographic image is recorded and a sub-image file in which a sub-image is recorded. The image composing means generates a first synthetic stereographic image by synthesizing a sub-stereographic image reconstructed to conform to a main stereographic image with the main stereographic image and generates a second synthetic stereographic image by synthesizing a main stereographic image reconstructed to conform to a sub-stereographic image with the sub-stereographic image. The file generating means generates a file of a predetermined format including the synthetic first and second stereographic images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Youichi Sawachi
  • System and method for communication in a wireless mobile ad-hoc network
    Patent number: 8341289
    Abstract: A system and method for improving digital communication in a wireless mobile ad-hoc network. More specifically, the system includes one or more portable network devices operable to support the seamless operation of a self-initializing, self-healing, adaptive portable network. The portable network devices implement protocols that provide bandwidth management capabilities for use with radios, routers and other wireless network devices. Each portable network device includes at least one wireless transceiver, a processor and control software. The processor and control software are logically coupled to the wireless transceiver to facilitate digital communication via a plurality of communication channels with other network devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Rajant Corporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Hellhake, Martin A. Lamb, Joseph E. Parks, Rajashekhar Mansanpally
  • Local control network processor (LCNP) emulator for multi-generation control systems
    Patent number: 8341256
    Abstract: A multi-generation distributed control system includes a first generation (FG) DCS connected to a local control network (LCN) including FG client nodes. A second generation (SG) DCS connected to a non-LCN data highway includes a server node connected between the LCN and the non-LCN data highway and SG client nodes. The server node includes a LCN processor (LCNP) board. LCNP emulator software including a server LCNP emulator software component is at the server node and a client LCNP emulator software component at the SG client nodes. The server LCNP emulator software component translates between LCN data and data highway protocol data and adds one of a plurality of LCN address slots to communications received from the LCN for delivery to the SG DCS that each correspond to a SG client node. Each client LCNP emulator software component provides one of the LCN address slots at its SG client node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Rahul De, Anand Sunit, Nagore Hanifa Sikkandar Basha, Sakthivel Renganathan, Sarayu Subramanyam, Neha Parasharami, Ravi Gupta, Steven Roby, Piotr Golenko, Avinash Rajan, Vilas Ingle
  • Optimizing scheduling of client applications in diskless environments
    Patent number: 8335835
    Abstract: Methods and arrangements where clients, in a diskless environment involving a storage area network, communicate to more optimally distribute the amount of disk input/output the individual clients are creating for the shared disk array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Nathan J. Peterson, Rod D. Waltermann, Arnold S. Weksler
  • Fast electrostatic shutter and method of achieving offset compensation in infrared video imagers using fast shutters
    Patent number: 8330820
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to methods and apparatus for infrared imagers including fast electrostatic shutters and offset compensation. Fast electrostatic shutters are used for video image correction including image offset compensation where temporal noise and scene nonuniformity are corrected. This method provides a shutterless experience for the user because the image will be blocked for only one frame at a time. A method of manufacturing an electrostatic infrared shutter includes a conductive infrared-transparent substrate, covering it with an insulating layer, depositing adhesive and a thin film stack, delineating a working area, providing contacts, heat-treating the assembly, and making the polymer non-reflective in the infrared.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Sergey Liberman, Michael Joswick
  • Endpoint device and article of manufacture for application to application communication over a network
    Patent number: 8327006
    Abstract: An endpoint device is provided that includes a processor and non-transitory media encoded with a communication protocol stack; an application that is configured to run on the endpoint device and to send a method call that includes a unique application identifier (AppID) associated with the application and that requests a media connection with another application running on a different endpoint device; an interface configured to, convert the method call to a network message that includes a media request that includes the AppID and that requests the media connection with the different endpoint device and that includes an authorization request that includes the AppID and that requests authorization from an application management server; and use the AppID information associated with the accessed information to route the accessed information to the application associated with the AppID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Jibe Mobile
    Inventors: Brian S. Schroeder, Jr., Elmar G. Weber
  • Methods and systems for launching applications into existing isolation environments
    Patent number: 8326943
    Abstract: Methods and systems that can launch applications into existing isolation environments do so by executing a run module on a computing machine to intercept requests to execute an application. A client communicating with the computing machine generates requests to execute an application on the computing machine. A run module identifies a profile associated with the requested application and queries an application delivery service to identify at least one isolation environment that corresponds to the profile. The run module receives from the application delivery service a response that identifies a first isolation environment associated with the application, and issues a command to a launch module to launch the application into the first isolation environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Madhav Chinta, Sam Arun Raj
  • Intelligent offload of work to handle peak activity in an enterprise email system
    Patent number: 8321520
    Abstract: A method and system for sending a message are disclosed. The method involves receiving a message at a mail server and determining that a load of the mail server exceeds a threshold. If it is determined that the load of the mail server exceeds a threshold, then the method involves determining whether the message needs to be sent immediately. If it is determined that the message does not need to be sent immediately, then the method involves delaying sending the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Eric L. Barsness, Daniel R. Hill, John M. Santosuosso
  • System and method for panoramic image stitching
    Patent number: 8319823
    Abstract: A system for capturing images of a target, such as a test tube, that is presented in front of an optical imager and rotated 360 degrees. The imager of the system captures a series of images which are then stitched together to form a panoramic image of the target. The panoramic image may then be processed to decode any barcode code information placed on the target, capture other information placed on the target, or obtain information about the target or the contents thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: JADAK, LLC
    Inventors: Mo Chen, Daniel Francis Godici
  • Communications network service deployment simulator
    Patent number: 8316112
    Abstract: A decision management system simulates a communications network service deployment using business and technology changeable parameters, a base case model, a network cost model and a bandwidth model. The simulations may be performed for different sets of changeable parameters to generate multiple candidate solutions. These solutions are analyzed to identify a solution for deploying the communications network service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Shahid Ahmed, Asheesh Saksena, Ragnar-Miguel Myhrer, Vaibhav Parmar, Gustavo Talavera