Patents Examined by Bruce Moser
  • Patent number: 9747163
    Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed for pre-seeding data to backup servers and determining servers for additional backups. Backup data is received from a client device through a first backup request and sent to a primary server for storage. Additional backup data from a second backup request is received. After the initial backup data is stored on the primary server and pre-seeded by the primary server on a secondary server, a status of backup servers associated with the client device is received. The backup servers include the primary server and can include the secondary server. Responsive to the status indicating availability of a server in the backup servers, a recipient server is identified from the backup servers and the additional backup data is sent to the identified recipient server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: DRUVA TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Anand Apte, Somesh Jain, Milind Borate, Shekhar S. Deshkar
  • Patent number: 9740779
    Abstract: Systems, methods and program instructions are described for calling a database function with a URL. Many databases have functions, also referred to as logical elements, built into the database that can be called to retrieve data. A web URL can be used to call such a programming function by formatting the URL in a specific manner. A URL and dynamic values from the client are received. The URL can be parsed to determine the resource path and parameters, if any exist. The database function specified in the URL is called using the specified parameters, if any exist, and using the dynamic values from the client. The results can be streamed to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: AsterionDB, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven Guilford
  • Patent number: 9734181
    Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for understanding tables for search. Aspects of the invention include identifying a subject column for a table, detecting a column header using other tables, and detecting a column header using a knowledge base. Implementations can be utilized in a structured data search system (SDSS) that indexes structured information, such as, tables in a relational database or html tables extracted from web pages. The SDSS allows users to search over the structured information (tables) using different mechanisms including keyword search and data finding data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Zhongyuan Wang, Kanstantsyn Zoryn, Zhimin Chen, Kaushik Chakrabarti, James P. Finnigan, Vivek R. Narasayya, Surajit Chaudhuri, Kris Ganjam
  • Patent number: 9727925
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method, system, and computer program product for semantically analyzing the content within an internal social network. Using the results of the analysis, the executives can gain a better understanding of, and insight into, the organization and its employees. A dashboard tool may be used in some embodiments of the invention to visualize the results of the semantic analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Srividhya Subramanian, Mary E. G. Bear, Mehrshad Setayesh, Noah Horton
  • Patent number: 9715533
    Abstract: Example methods and systems are directed to providing multi-dimensional search results. A source (e.g., a closed captioning stream) may provide a series of keywords. The series of keywords may be used to generate a series of searches. The results from the searches may be presented as part of a user interface in a grid. For example, one row may be presented for each keyword, with the row for the keyword containing the results from searching using that keyword. Alternatively, one column may be presented for each keyword, with the column for the keyword containing the results from searching using that keyword. The series of keywords may be generated once. Alternatively, new keywords may be periodically added to the series of keywords, causing the grid to be updated. Old keywords and their corresponding search results may periodically be removed from the grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Selina Lam, Marc Peter Hosein
  • Patent number: 9710470
    Abstract: At least one computer processor obtains access to a relationship network and a network of a different kind than the relationship network. The at least one computer processor also obtains a user query and carries out a multiple heterogeneous networks search on the relationship network and the network of the different kind than the relationship network, by executing on the at least one computer processor a multiple heterogeneous network search module, to obtain a ranked output list responsive to the user query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ana Paula Appel, Maira Athanazio De Cerqueira Gatti, Rogerio Abreu De Paula
  • Patent number: 9703882
    Abstract: A mobile computing device includes a touchscreen, a transceiver, a non-transitory memory, and a computing processor. The memory stores an installed, native first application associated with an operator of a search engine. Upon executing the computer-readable instructions, the processor displays a first graphical user interface (GUI) on the touchscreen via the first application. The processor receives a search query via the first GUI, including one or more search terms. The processor transmits the search query to the search engine via the transceiver. The processor receives search results from the search engine in response to transmitting the search query to the search engine. At least one of the search results includes a post-execution view of a second native application. The processor displays the post-execution view on the touchscreen. The post-execution view includes a second GUI that provides access to a function associated with the second native application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Quixey, Inc.
    Inventors: Liron Shapira, Tomer Kagan, Matthew T. Elder, Michael Harris, Jonathan K. Lerner, Jonathan Ben-Tzur
  • Patent number: 9699246
    Abstract: File management machines, computer readable media, and methods of file management, are provided. An exemplary file management machine includes a file management server configured to receive or retrieve user files through an electronic communication/computer network to provide categorical organization and establishment of albums. The file management server can also function to create member user and visitor accounts. The visitor accounts can be provided individual custom access by the member user to provide individualized tailored access to a subset of the files uploaded by the member user. The visitor accounts can be used as to gather information about the file unknown to the member user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Inventor: Randall Reese
  • Patent number: 9659075
    Abstract: A method executes a preempt by a standby database appliance in a high-availability active/active appliance cluster. The appliance cluster includes a transaction processing standby group and a persistent storing standby group. The transaction processing standby group includes a primary active appliance and a standby appliance. One or more processors receive a Hello message from the primary DB appliance. The processor(s) examine a priority field in the Hello message, in order to determine a priority of the standby database appliance according to the persistent state to thereby determine whether the standby database appliance requests a preempt, where the persistent state includes a state of an application and a database of the primary DB appliance. The processor(s) implement a failover in response to the preempt request to thereby take over a duty of the primary DB appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Neal J. Alewine, Johnson Y S Chiang, Jeffrey C H Liu, Hao-Ting Shih, Ying-Kai Wang, David Ward
  • Patent number: 9659098
    Abstract: The present invention provides at least a method includes: extracting a plurality of partial communities from a plurality of users, based on the relationships of companion messages; computing a first degree of similarity for showing the similarity of the companion partial communities, based on the relationship of a user belonging to one partial community with a user belonging to the other partial community, from among the plurality of communities; computing a second degree of similarity for showing the similarity of companion partial communities, based on words within the messages sent by users belonging to both partial communities and under the condition that the first similarity be higher than a predetermined first threshold value; and creating an integrated community by integrating the companion partial communities under the condition that the second similarity be higher than a predetermined second threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Miki Enoki, Yohei Ikawa, Raymond Harry Rudy
  • Patent number: 9639551
    Abstract: A computerized system and method provides for sharing digital assets among multiple different organizations in a multi-organization system, and further providing that one or more of localized digital assets can be assembled using digital assets, templates and rules specified by different organizations. Further, the various organizations can contribute and share digital assets with organizations, while controlling the localization of the asset with brand or other information both as specified by the provider organization and as specified by the user organization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Fision Holdings, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Brown
  • Patent number: 9633085
    Abstract: A method including the steps of: receiving, using one or more processors, a search query containing search terms from a user device; executing, using one or more processors, a query on a database based in response to the received search query; generating, using or more processors, search results based on the executed query; calculating, using one or more processors, a relevancy score for each of the generated search results, wherein the relevancy score is determined based on match properties of the search terms and field terms of a matching field; assigning, using one or more processors, a calculated relevancy score to each of the generated search results; and transmitting, using or more processors, the scored search results for display as a ranked list on the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Macy's West Stores, Inc.
    Inventor: Denis Kamotsky
  • Patent number: 9633087
    Abstract: In a system including processing resources and a capability repository, a first processing resource: receives event streams from operating contexts; identifies, based upon the received event streams, a dynamically changing condition in a first one of the operating contexts; automatically decomposes, using the repository, a complex event processing query to effect a change responsive to the identified dynamically changing condition in the first one of the operating contexts; causes the first one of the operating contexts to effect the change based upon the decomposed query; and effects a related change to operation of the first processing resource that corresponds to the change caused to the first one of the operating contexts. The repository stores information regarding event sources that transmit events to the processing resources, and the operating contexts. Each operating context is associated with a respective group of event sources and with at least one of the processing resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: SOFTWARE AG
    Inventor: Harald Schoening
  • Patent number: 9626411
    Abstract: A query is executed in a massively parallel processing data storage system comprising a master node communicating with a cluster of multiple segments that access data in distributed storage by producing a self-described query plan at the master node that incorporates changeable metadata and information needed to execute the self-described query plan on the segments, and that incorporates references to obtain static metadata and information for functions and operators of the query plan from metadata stores on the segments. The distributed storage may be the Hadoop distributed file system, and the query plan may be a full function SQL query plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Lei Chang, Zhanwei Wang, Tao Ma, Luke Lonergan, Lirong Jian, Lili Ma
  • Patent number: 9619555
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a computerized system and process for natural language query and reporting comprising a processor, memory, and a query interface configured for receipt of a data source selection. The processor searches and retrieves over a network unstructured data based on the received data source selection, parses the unstructured data into data blocks and stores the data blocks in a local database. The processor semantically parses the data blocks and stores the resulting data in a structured database. A report module is configured to iteratively receive keyword input and instantiate a subject node, the node representing a subset of data blocks of the structured database having the input keywords. The report module creates a taxonomy based on the input keywords, with descendant levels representing a subset of data blocks of the subject node, the subset of data blocks having the input keywords combined with other words in the data blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Inventor: Shahbaz Anwar
  • Patent number: 9607077
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided that may be utilized to recommend content to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Li, Xianyu Zhao, Peng Liu
  • Patent number: 9607076
    Abstract: A device for determining interest includes a storage portion configured to store, on a user-by-user basis, a co-occurrence frequency in correlation with a user, the co-occurrence frequency indicating how many times a pair of words is used in a same cluster of a first document, on a pair-by-pair basis, to which the user gained access previously; a designating portion configured to allow a person who is to conduct a search to designate a second document and any one of the users; and a determination portion configured to determine that, among the pairs, a pair which is used in a same cluster of the designated second document and which also satisfies a predetermined condition of the co-occurrence frequency corresponding to the designated user is a particular pair in the second document which is probably of high interest to the designated user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yoichi Kawabuchi, Satoshi Deishi, Kagumi Moriwaki
  • Patent number: 9606994
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing electronic data are disclosed. Various data management operations can be performed based on a metabase formed from metadata. Such metadata can be identified from an index of data interactions generated by a journaling module, and obtained from their associated data objects stored in one or more storage devices. In various embodiments, such processing of the index and storing of the metadata can facilitate, for example, enhanced data management operations, enhanced data identification operations, enhanced storage operations, data classification for organizing and storing the metadata, cataloging of metadata for the stored metadata, and/or user interfaces for managing data. In various embodiments, the metabase can be configured in different ways. For example, the metabase can be stored separately from the data objects so as to allow obtaining of information about the data objects without accessing the data objects or a data structure used by a file system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Commvault Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Anand Prahlad, Jeremy Alan Schwartz, David Ngo, Brian Brockway, Marcus S. Muller
  • Patent number: 9607068
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for replicating data in a distributed database system. Data containing a replicated truncation point associated with a replicating system is received via a data path. It can then be determined that the truncation point represents the point at which all data in a transaction log has been replicated (e.g., successfully or safely) and the transaction log can then be truncated at the truncation point (i.e., the data up to the truncation point deflected). Data containing an additional replicated truncation point associated with an additional replicating system via an additional data path may be received. It can then be determined that the additional replicated truncation point represents the point at which all data in the transaction log has been replicated and the transaction log can be then truncated at the additional replicated truncation point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: SYBASE, INC.
    Inventors: Rene Quakkelaar, Martin Pieczonka, Elena Lora
  • Patent number: 9600600
    Abstract: Methods, systems and programming for evaluating query suggestions quality. In one example, a plurality of query suggestions are provided in a ranking to a user. A user activity with respect to one of the plurality of query suggestions is detected. A position of the one of the plurality of query suggestions in the ranking is determined. A quality measure of the plurality of query suggestions is calculated based, at least in part, on the user activity and the position of the one of the plurality of query suggestions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: EXCALIBUR IP, LLC
    Inventors: Alyssa Glass, Anlei Dong, Ted Eiche