Patents Examined by Cheryl M Shechtman
  • Patent number: 11204950
    Abstract: Document retrieval from a large document storage database may be facilitated through the use of a search system configured for identifying concepts related to a specific search query provided by a user. Prior to retrieving documents for inclusion in a listing of search results, the terms included within a user-provided search query may be expanded based on relationships between terms represented within a Resource Description Framework (RDF) triplestore to generate a semantic search query. Documents linked with one or more of the terms included within the semantic search query are identified and included within the search results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Optum, Inc.
    Inventors: Abigail DaBoll-Lavoie, Deana Jagielo, Daniel George McCreary
  • Patent number: 11200239
    Abstract: A computer system merges location-based data sets. Each of a plurality of data sets are transformed into a standardized schema, including at least two data sets including information indicating a geographic location. The schemas of the plurality of data sets are combined by data set type to produce a resulting data set for each data set type. The schemas of a first and second data sets are joined to produce a merged data set using a machine learning model to identify corresponding rows of the schemas. The schema of the merged data set is joined with the schemas of the resulting data sets for the data set types to produce a new data set. A resulting merged data set in the standardized schema is produced. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and program product for merging location-based data sets in substantially the same manner described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Otis Smart, Charles Lynn, Karthik Jayaraman, Linsong Chu, Ronald Bruce Baker, Suresh Kumar Jasrasaria
  • Patent number: 11196543
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of generating evidence for a set of transactions, wherein the generating of the evidence comprises identifying one or more blocks containing one or more of the transactions in the set of transactions, and generating a branch of a hash tree of the set of transactions for each of the one or more blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Jeronimo Irazabal
  • Patent number: 11157579
    Abstract: A delivery coordination system selects restaurant listings for presentation to a user by filtering out restaurants that are unlikely to be of interest to the user, while ensuring that restaurant listings are selected to encourage the success of all restaurants using the delivery coordination system. In response to receiving the listings request from a client device, the delivery coordination system selects a filtered set of restaurant listings from the plurality of restaurant listings stored by the delivery coordination system by applying filtering criteria to the plurality of stored restaurant listings. The delivery coordination system generates conversion scores for the restaurant in the filtered set of restaurant listings and selects restaurant listings to present to the user from the filtered set of restaurant listings based on selection factors, which can include the generated conversion scores. The delivery coordination system transmits the selected restaurant listings to the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Xian Xing Zhang, Sidney Zhang, Yuyan Wang, Mihir Gogate, Yuanchi Ning, Chen Peng, Isaac Liu, Calvin Lee
  • Patent number: 11157466
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a computer system implements a service that stores a plurality of database templates that define data types supported for a non-relational database accessible to a plurality of applications. The service receives, from a developer of an application, a selection of one of the plurality of database templates to be used by the application. In response to the selection, the service issues a set of data definition language (DDL) instructions to provision the non-relational database with a schema that implements a particular data type defined by the selected template. Requests from the application to manipulate a value of the particular data type stored in the non-relational database system are serviced. In some embodiments, the servicing includes identifying a set of data manipulation language (DML) instructions to be executed and issuing the set of DML, instructions to the non-relational database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Busjaeger, Michael Sgroi, Scott D. Hansma
  • Patent number: 11157492
    Abstract: A system and method for customized scheduling of sources, including breaking down a source of content into at least two categories, including posts and engagements, and gathering content related to a specific source. A scheduler handles scheduling of posts and engagement for a single source and entities that are due to be crawled are sent to a scheduling queue, in which each content type for a source can have its own queue. A process points to the correct scheduler queue in order to request content to be crawled, attaches to the proper queue, processes requests, queries the social network for content, parses the response and sends any new data to be saved to the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Stuart Douglas McClune, Michael Gordon Luff
  • Patent number: 11151118
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes analyzing client instance performance trends to predict future client instance performance and adjusting thresholds used to send resource utilization alerts based on analyzing the client instance performance trends. In particular, a data center providing a platform as a service includes a database that stores performance data associated with client instances. The data center also includes alignment logic that temporally aligns the performance data, and a frequency based filter that compresses the aligned performance data based on frequency of values. The data center further includes dynamic threshold adjustment logic that adjusts thresholds associated with sending performance trend alerts based on analyzing the compressed set of performance data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventor: Tao Hong
  • Patent number: 11113278
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for generating and updating cross-account materialized views in multiple tenant database systems. A method includes defining a share object in a first account wherein the share object includes data associated with the first account. The method includes granting cross-account access rights to the share object to a second account such that the second account has access to the share object without copying the share object. The method includes generating a materialized view over the share object. The method includes updating the data associated with the first account. The method includes identifying whether the materialized view is stale with respect to the share object by merging the materialized view and the share object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Prasanna Rajaperumal, Thierry Cruanes, Allison Waingold Lee, Igor Demura, Jiaqi Yan, Benoit Dageville
  • Patent number: 11113279
    Abstract: The subject technology defines a materialized view over a source table that is associated with a first account of a database. The subject technology defines cross-account access rights to the materialized view for a second account. The subject technology modifies the source table for the materialized view. The subject technology identifies that the materialized view is stale with respect to the source table by merging the materialized view and the source table. The subject technology causes the materialized view to be refreshed with respect to the source table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Prasanna Rajaperumal, Thierry Cruanes, Allison Waingold Lee, Igor Demura, Jiaqi Yan, Benoit Dageville
  • Patent number: 11113289
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of a device that generates a re-ranking model used to re-rank a plurality of search results on a client device is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the device receives a crowd-sourced intra-domain model from a server, where the intra-domain model is a search result re-ranking model generated based on at least device interactions of a plurality of users interacting with a plurality of other devices. The device further generates a re-ranking model from the crowd-sourced intra-domain model and a local model, where the local model includes private data representing a device user's interaction with that device and the re-ranking model is used to re-rank a plurality of search results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hon Yuk Chan, John M. Hörnkvist, Lun Cui, Vipul Ved Prakash, Anubhav Malhotra, Stanley N. Hung, Julien Freudiger
  • Patent number: 11100100
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, cognitive intelligence server and computer program product adapt a relational database containing numeric data types. At least one numeric token in the relational database is converted to a textual form. Text is produced based on relations of tokens in the relational database. A set of word vectors is produced based on the text. A cognitive intelligence query, expressed as a structured query language (SQL) query, may be applied to the relational database using the set of word vectors. At least one numeric token in the relational database may be converted to a typed string comprising a heading for a column in the relational database for which the token appears and the numeric value. Converting at least one numeric token in the relational database may comprise clustering tokens in a column of the relational database using a clustering algorithm and replacing each token in the column by a cluster identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bortik Bandyopadhyay, Rajesh Bordawekar, Tin Kam Ho
  • Patent number: 11100103
    Abstract: The subject technology generates a materialized view over a share object, the share object including data associated with a first account. The subject technology merges the materialized view and the share object. The subject technology determines that the materialized view is stale with respect to the share object based at least in part on the merging. The subject technology generates a refreshed materialized view with respect to the share object in response to the determining. The subject technology shares the refreshed materialized view to a second account in response to a request from the second account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Prasanna Rajaperumal, Thierry Cruanes, Allison Waingold Lee, Igor Demura, Jiaqi Yan, Benoit Dageville
  • Patent number: 11093490
    Abstract: In accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure, a request to provide recommendations of data enrichments for a database is received at a recommendation engine. The recommendation engine may perform static and dynamic analysis of data associated with the database and may further refine recommendations based on policies. The recommendation engine may then provide the recommendations, if any, of data enrichments to allow a software developer, for example, to indicate whether the data enrichments are to be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Anthony Nino Bice, David Michael Robinson, Hariharan Sivaramakrishnan
  • Patent number: 11086949
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating proposed search queries based on sequence semantics. The method includes receiving clickstream data from a database. The method also includes generating for each user a digital timeline based on the clickstream data. The method further includes determining for each user event pairs based on the digital timeline. The method also includes generating a vector matrix including the event pairs for each user. The method further includes receiving an initial search query from a user. The method also includes determining an intended user activity based on the initial search query. The method further includes generating proposed search queries based on the vector matrix, the intended user activity, and the initial search query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: FMR LLC
    Inventors: Abhishek Desai, Bibhash Chakrabarty, Sateesh Panda
  • Patent number: 11080329
    Abstract: Example techniques involve a dynamic display of filter criteria on a control device. In one aspect, the control device retrieves first search results from a plurality of streaming media services and displays an interface including a first region that includes selectable controls corresponding to respective first filter criteria of a first set of filter criteria for filtering the retrieved first search results according to respective streaming media services and a second region that includes a graphical representation of (i) the first search results corresponding to a given first filter criteria and (ii) metadata identifiers that separate the retrieved first search results into sets corresponding to respective types of metadata. When a given selectable control corresponding to a particular streaming media service is selected, the interface is updated to display, in place of the first search results, a graphical representation of second search results from the particular streaming media service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventors: Abhishek Kumar, Robert A. Lambourne, Paul Bates
  • Patent number: 11080273
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, a cognitive intelligence system and computer program product adapt a relational database containing image data types. At least one image token in the relational database is converted to a textual form. Text is produced based on relations of tokens in the relational database. A set of word vectors is produced based on the text. A cognitive intelligence query expressed as a structured query language (SQL) query may be applied to the relational database using the set of word vectors. An image token may be converted to textual form by converting the image to a tag, by using a neural network classification model and replacing the image token with a corresponding cluster identifier, by binary comparison or by a user-specified similarity function. An image token may be converted to a plurality of textual forms using more than one conversion method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bortik Bandyopadhyay, Rajesh Bordawekar, Tin Kam Ho
  • Patent number: 11080147
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes identifying abnormal data modification characteristics at a first system, determining time data associated with the abnormal data modification characteristics, and adjusting an instance of backup log data stored at a second system, utilizing an identification of the abnormal data modification characteristics and the time data associated with the abnormal data modification characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nils Haustein, Dominic Mueller-Wicke
  • Patent number: 11061949
    Abstract: A system may include a database and server device(s), where the database contains incident record(s) that include information about reported issues, as well as information resource(s) related to the issue(s) and organized into categories, and where the server device(s): provide a graphical user interface (GUI) that comprises (i) a first pane including information from a particular incident record and (ii) a second pane including a search field and a menu enabling selection from the categories; receive a keyword entered in the search field and a selection of categories from the menu; provide an updated representation of the GUI in which the second pane shows search results based on the keyword and including information resource(s) from selected categories, where the information resource(s) are respectively associated with controls; and, responsive to activation of a control, store a link between the particular incident record and the information resource associated with this control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew David Lloyd, Antin Brucelee Selvaraj, Lifen Yan, Keying Li, Sravani Boggarapu
  • Patent number: 11061923
    Abstract: A method implements a virtual machine for interactive visual analysis. The method receives a data visualization data flow graph, which is a directed graph including data nodes and transform nodes. Each transform node specifies a set of inputs for retrieval, where each input corresponds to a data node. Each transform node also specifies a transform operator, which identifies an operation to be performed on the inputs. Some transform nodes specify (a) a set of outputs corresponding to respective data nodes and (b) a function for use in performing the operation of the transform node. The method traverses the data flow graph according to directions of arcs between nodes in the data flow graph, thereby retrieving data corresponding to each data node and executing the respective transformation operator specified for each of the transform nodes. This generates a data visualization according to transform nodes that specify graphical rendering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Tableau Software, Inc.
    Inventor: Scott Sherman
  • Patent number: 11055272
    Abstract: A system time window corresponding to data to be processed is determined based on a data time of the data to be processed when the data to be processed is received in a current system time window. If the data time is within a range of the current system time window, data to be processed having a system receiving time earlier than the synchronization time point is stored, and data to be processed having a system receiving time later than the synchronization time point is immediately processed. If the data time is within a range of a previous system time window, data to be processed having a system receiving time earlier than the closing time point is immediately processed, and data to be processed having a system receiving time later than the closing time point is discarded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Inventors: Zhuoling Li, Qi Xiong, Sen Han, Julei Li