Patents Examined by Brian W Wathen
  • Patent number: 11474970
    Abstract: The disclosure describes techniques for interrupt and inter-processor communication (IPC) mechanisms that are shared among computer processors. For example, an artificial reality system includes a plurality of processors; an inter-processor communication (IPC) unit comprising a register, wherein the IPC unit is configured to: receive a memory access request from a first processor of the processors, wherein the memory access request includes information indicative of a hardware identifier (HWID) associated with the first processor; determine whether the HWID associated with the first processor matches an HWID for the register of the IPC unit; and permit, based on determining that the HWID associated with the first processor matches the HWID for the register of the IPC unit, the memory access request to indicate a communication from the first processor to at least one other processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jun Wang, Neeraj Upasani, Wojciech Stefan Powiertowski, Drew Eric Wingard, Gregory Edward Ehmann, Marco Brambilla, Minli Lin, Miguel Angel Guerrero
  • Patent number: 11444750
    Abstract: In a system and method for distribution of media content, a cable provider gateway cooperates with a broker API, one or more streaming provider gateways, and one or more streaming applications to locally cache and display media content from the streaming provider gateways even when the streaming applications do not have connectivity to their gateways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC
    Inventor: Karim Ghessassi
  • Patent number: 11416318
    Abstract: Approaches for data processing are described that include initializing a plurality of compute instances configured to support a design session for an integration flow, receiving, from a client, an application programming interface (API) request at an API, the API request including one or more design parameters associated with the integration flow, provisioning, for the design session and from the plurality of initialized compute instances, one or more compute instances based on the one or more design parameters, evaluating an integration flow configuration associated with the integration flow, the evaluating based on the one or more design parameters, and terminating the one or more compute instances upon completion of the design session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Pablo Gerardo Kraan Brun, Federico Ariel Piagentini
  • Patent number: 11416317
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to managing operations over a network. An event associated with network operations may be provided. A hash function may generate key values that correspond to words included in message information associated with the event. A message vector may be generated based on the key values such that each component in the message vector that corresponds to a key value is set to one. Group vectors may be determined such that each group vector is associated with an event group. Similarity scores may be generated for the group vectors based on the message vector and the group vectors such that each group vector corresponds to a separate similarity score. If the similarity scores exceed a threshold, the event may be associated with event groups associated with a group vector that correspond similarity score that exceeds the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: PagerDuty, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher Phillip Bonnell
  • Patent number: 11409583
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for discovery and chaining of virtual functions. An application request can be received from a requestor. The application request can include a request to create an application. Based upon the application request, an application topology associated with the application can be determined. The application topology can define virtual functions and a data flow among the virtual functions. Creation of the plurality of virtual functions in a computing environment can be triggered and an indication of capabilities of the virtual functions can be received. The virtual functions can be chained together to provide functionality associated with the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Jayanta Das, Rupam Choudhury
  • Patent number: 11409574
    Abstract: A system and method for efficiently creating and managing application instances in distributed computing systems is disclosed. Controls are presented for specifying an application for instantiation, a data file for use with the application, and a destination for results from the application. Application resources and topology may be recommended to the user based on prior application execution, and CPU, GPU, and interconnect parameters such as bandwidth and latency. The controls may enable to user to customize the recommendations prior to automated instantiation based on the user's needs, such as whether the application is to be run in batch mode or interactive mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Core Scientific Operating Company
    Inventors: Ian Ferreira, Max Alt
  • Patent number: 11403100
    Abstract: Using a common reference address when processing calls among a native ABI and a foreign ABI. Based on caller calling using a reference address, a lookup structure is used to determine whether the reference address is within a memory range storing native code (and that the callee is native) or a memory range not storing native code (and that the callee is foreign). Execution of the callee is initiated based on one of (i) when the caller is native and when the callee is foreign, calling the callee using the reference address within an emulator; (ii) when the caller is foreign and the callee is native, calling an entry thunk; (iii) when the caller is native and the callee is foreign, calling an exit thunk; or (iv) when the caller is native and the callee is native, directly calling the callee using the reference address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Darek Josip Mihocka, Clarence Siu Yeen Dang, Pedro Miguel Sequeira De Justo Teixeira, Pavlo Lebedynskiy, James David Cleary, Jon Robert Berry, YongKang Zhu, Tiansheng Tan
  • Patent number: 11397627
    Abstract: A data processing method and apparatus, where one or more applications run in an operating system of a first device, there is a plurality of paths between the first device and a second device, and the paths correspond to the one or more applications. In a data receiving process, the one or more applications obtain data on the paths through a system call, and further obtain data in a plurality of packets from at least one path. In a data sending process, the one or more applications distribute data to corresponding paths through a system call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rahul Arvind Jadhav, K Anmol Mani Tejeswar Sarma, Zhen Cao
  • Patent number: 11392433
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating asynchronous application programming interface (API) documents are generally described. In various examples, a metadata discovery request may be sent to a message broker. A list of topics may be received from the message broker. First metadata related to a first topic of the list of topics may be received from the message broker. A first message may be received from the message broker, where the first message pertains to the first topic. A first schema may be determined using the first message pertaining to the first topic. The first schema may include data describing content of the first message and organization of the content of the first message. An asynchronous API document may be generated based at least in part on the first schema and the first metadata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: RED HAT, INC.
    Inventors: Paolo Antinori, Eric Philip Wittmann
  • Patent number: 11392409
    Abstract: In an embodiment, an operating system for a computer system includes a kernel that assigns code sequences to execute on various processors. The kernel itself may execute on a processor as well. Specifically, in one embodiment, the kernel may execute on a processor with a relatively low instructions per clock (IPC) design. At least a portion of other processors in the system may have higher IPC designs, and processors with higher IPC designs may be used to execute some of the code sequences. A given code sequence executing on a processor may queue multiple messages to other code sequences, which the kernel may asynchronously read and schedule the targeted code sequences for execution in response to the messages. Rather than synchronously preparing a message and making a call to send the message, the executing code sequences may continue executing and queuing messages until the code has completed or is in need of a result from one of the messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shawn R. Woodtke, Peter H. van der Veen, Stephen J. McPolin
  • Patent number: 11372695
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing data. One of the systems include: a service platform comprising a plurality of service modules and an application programming interface layer comprising a plurality of application programming interfaces (APIs) to enable users to invoke the service modules to process information related to an order associated with importation of a merchandise, wherein the information is provided, or to be provided, to a service authority for requesting clearance for the order, wherein a first application programming interface of the plurality of application programming interfaces enables a user of the service platform to invoke a smart contract on a blockchain managed by a blockchain network, in which the smart contract performs at least one of processing of the information or processing of information related to another user of the service platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: ALIPAY LABS (SINGAPORE) PTE. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hui Fang, Shengjiao Cao, Weitao Yang
  • Patent number: 11366666
    Abstract: Using a common reference address when processing calls among a native ABI and a foreign ABI. Based on caller calling using a reference address, a lookup structure is used to determine whether the reference address is within a memory range storing native code (and that the callee is native) or a memory range not storing native code (and that the callee is foreign). Execution of the callee is initiated based on one of (i) when the caller is native and when the callee is foreign, calling the callee using the reference address within an emulator; (ii) when the caller is foreign and the callee is native, calling an entry thunk; (iii) when the caller is native and the callee is foreign, calling an exit thunk; or (iv) when the caller is native and the callee is native, directly calling the callee using the reference address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Darek Josip Mihocka, Clarence Siu Yeen Dang, Pedro Miguel Sequeira De Justo Teixeira, Pavlo Lebedynskiy, James David Cleary, Jon Robert Berry, YongKang Zhu, Tiansheng Tan
  • Patent number: 11340967
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for high availability events in a layered architecture. In an example two computing nodes coordinate to provide a computing service, where each node has a base operating system configured to fence the other base operating system, and an application configured to fence the other application. In some examples, fencing requests by an application are routed through its base operating system, which coordinates application-level fencing requests and operating system-level fencing requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Rohit Talukdar, Pankaj Singh
  • Patent number: 11340971
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to controlling communication between various applications or integrating various applications using interaction patterns. Interaction pattern data, which defines multiple roles for an interaction pattern is generated. Each role is associated with a transaction and is a source or target of a transaction. A transaction is performed using an application programming interface (API). A role can be a provider, or a consumer of the API based on whether the role is a source or target of the transaction. Application conformance data, which defines a set of roles implemented by the application is generated. An application is permitted to invoke an API of another application, if the application implements a first role and the other application implements a second role, and the first role and the second role are a source and target, respectively, of a transaction performed using the API.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventor: Johan Gerhard Herman Reuzel
  • Patent number: 11327815
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for distributing a set of parameters associated with policies for authorizing Application Programming Interface (API) calls to an application. For a previously stored hierarchical first document that comprises a first set of elements in a first hierarchical structure, the method receives a hierarchical update second document that comprises a second set of elements in a second hierarchical structure corresponding to the first hierarchical structure, wherein at least a subset of elements in the first and the second documents correspond to the set of parameters for evaluating API calls. The method receives a first set of hash values for elements of the first document that are not specified in the second document, and generates a second set of hash values for a set of elements specified in the second document. The method generates an overall hash for the second document by using the received first set of hash values and the generated second set of hash values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: STYRA, INC.
    Inventors: Teemu Koponen, Timothy L. Hinrichs
  • Patent number: 11307912
    Abstract: A set of consumers of a producer-consumer system includes a main consumer subset and a backstop consumer subset. A plurality of updates to message processing information are deployed to the set of consumers. Each update of the plurality of updates is first deployed to the backstop consumer sub-set and is subsequently deployed to the main consumer subset. The main consumer subset may obtain messages from producers and attempt to process the messages. By contrast, the backstop consumer subset may obtain messages only after a failed processing attempt by the main consumers. Upon obtaining a message, a main consumer may process the message successfully or may fail processing and provide the message for processing by a backstop consumer, which may be more up to date than the main consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank Gregory Williston, Marcel Andrew Levy, Andrew Ketcham, Blake P. Hess
  • Patent number: 11307910
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein provide for management of notifications. A computing device in communication with a client device receives a notification from at least one notification source. The notification may be for rendering on a screen at the client device. A policy engine of the computing device may identify a context of the notification. The policy engine may add a tag to the notification according to the identified context to control rendering of the notification at the client device. The computing device may transmit the notification with the tag to a notification service at the client device. The notification service may be configured to manage the notification at the client device in accordance with the tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaolu Chu, Dai Li
  • Patent number: 11275634
    Abstract: This application discloses an authorization revocation method and an apparatus, and relates to the communications field. The method includes: receiving, by a first entity, an authorization revocation request message from a second entity, where the authorization revocation request message carries an identifier of an application programming interface (API) invocation entity; and sending, by the first entity, an authorization revocation response message to the second entity based on the authorization revocation request message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cuili Ge, Yanmei Yang
  • Patent number: 11275593
    Abstract: A system can host APIs for a plurality of different tenants and receive requests from many different client devices. As requests are received, an associated tenant can be identified, and a router can determine if a container instance is available to service the request. A container instance may be an empty container instance including an internal endpoint, a Web server, and a runtime environment. An empty container instance can be unassociated with a particular tenant. To associate a container instance with a tenant, a data store, such as a key-value data store can retrieve configuration files that turn the agnostic container instance into a container instance that is associated with particular tenant and includes configuration code to perform the requisite API functions. The pool of empty and populated containers can be managed efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Greg Fichtenholtz, Shashi Prasad Suravarapu
  • Patent number: 11263364
    Abstract: A method for operating a building information modeling (BIM) system, is provided. The method includes at a BIM server, receiving a data alteration request from a client computing device for altering data in one of a building model, a hierarchical structure of building model data, and a Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie) spreadsheet, the building model, hierarchical structure of building model data, and COBie spreadsheet simultaneously displayed in a GUI generated by the BIM server, automatically determining validity of data in the data alteration request, and if it is determined that the data is valid, permitting the data alteration request based on predetermined permissions of the client computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Viewpoint, Inc.
    Inventors: Laurence Skoropinski, Lloyd Pickering, Richard Stokoe