Patents Examined by Debbie Le
  • Patent number: 9921731
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided to detect similarities in clinical documents that might be inaccurate or inappropriate. A first clinical document and a second clinical document that are to be compared are identified. This identification of the documents is based on times associated with the first and second clinical documents, an identity of clinicians who authored the first and second clinical documents, an identity of patients associated with the first and second clinical documents, a type of the first and second clinical documents, or contents of the first and second clinical documents. The first clinical document is compared to a portion of the second clinical document. A report is automatically generated, where the report indicates the similarities between the portion of the first clinical document and the portion of the second clinical document that are potentially inaccurate or inappropriate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher S. Finn, Margaret C. Kolm, David J. O'Larte, Steven S. Crooks
  • Patent number: 9917904
    Abstract: In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for invoking a non-search action based on a search query. A server system receives a search query from a remote computing device. The server system determines whether the search query includes reserved text that indicates an intent by a user that provided the search query to the remote computing device to perform a non-search messaging action instead of or in addition to obtaining search results. The server system provides to the computing device, in response to determining that the search query includes the reserved text, code for causing the remote computing device to display a draft communication that includes at least the search query without the reserved text, and for allowing the user to edit the draft communication before transmitting the draft communication for receipt by recipient users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Tak Keung Cheng, Robert Stacey, Othar Hansson, Brett R. Lider, Tomer Kol, Iftach Hyams
  • Patent number: 9916333
    Abstract: An approach for enabling collaborative development of a database application is provided. Specifically, this approach provides a database development and collaboration tool (DDCT), which can be utilized by multiple developers involved in a particular software project, to enable automated synchronization and database version control by allowing a database development language and data changes to be stored in a metadata form that is general to more than one database management system (DBMS). Each developer is united and able to collaborate through the system, thus ensuring that a change to a database structure and/or data in a static data table created in a particular database language by one developer is automatically incorporated in the overall development process. Furthermore, the DDCT provides the opportunity to maintain a single repository entry for more than one DBMS, which simplifies synchronization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Marina A. Greenstein, Galina Grunin, Maria N. Schwenger, Pandikumar Swamikrishnan
  • Patent number: 9916206
    Abstract: In connection with a data distribution architecture, client-side “deduplication” techniques may be utilized for data transfers occurring among various file system nodes. In some examples, these deduplication techniques involve fingerprinting file system elements that are being shared and transferred, and dividing each file into separate units referred to as “blocks” or “chunks.” These separate units may be used for independently rebuilding a file from local and remote collections, storage locations, or sources. The deduplication techniques may be applied to data transfers to prevent unnecessary data transfers, and to reduce the amount of bandwidth, processing power, and memory used to synchronize and transfer data among the file system nodes. The described deduplication concepts may also be applied for purposes of efficient file replication, data transfers, and file system events occurring within and among networks and file system nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Code 42 Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Dornquast, Brian Bispala, Damon Allison, Brad Armstrong, Marshall Scorcio, Rory Lonergan, Peter Lindquist, Christopher Parker
  • Patent number: 9904604
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for a distributed file system element collection are described herein. A node may identify a state of a file system element, which is identified in a file system element definition, from a local data store. The state corresponds to a distribution action. The file system element definition is one of a plurality of file system element definitions in a collection schema of a collection to which the node is a member. The node may, in response to identifying the state of the file system element, issue a communication to some members of the collection in furtherance of completion of the distribution action. A response may be received by the node from a participant node in the list of participant nodes. The node may complete the distribution action using content from the response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Code 42 Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Dornquast, Brian Bispala, Marshall Scorcio, Brad Armstrong, Peter Lindquist, Christopher Parker
  • Patent number: 9898508
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention provide a method for processing information, comprising: obtaining attribute information about a target field; obtaining, according to the attribute information about the target field, attribute information about the target field described in a first language; and sending the attribute information about the target field described in the first language to a query engine using the first language, so that the query engine obtains, according to the attribute information about the target field described in the first language, data corresponding to the target field; and the embodiments of the present invention also provide an apparatus for processing information. According to the technical solutions provided in the embodiments of the present invention, attribute information about a target field being automatically described in a language can be realized, so as to improve the query efficiency of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bian Liang, Xie Guo, Yongyi Sun, Sheng Liu, Daoquan Zhang, Yuxian Wang, Xiaofeng Shi, Yong Wang, Yujian Chen, Chengqi Li, Xiaolin Liu, Xujia Zhu, Feng Ren
  • Patent number: 9886513
    Abstract: A publish-subscribe data messaging system in which wildcard subscriptions are represented in an approximate membership set or filter, such as a Bloom filter, for distribution to brokers together with formatting rules associated with the wildcard subscriptions, where a broker receiving a publication topic of a data publication for distribution to other brokers uses the formatting rules provided by any given broker to create wildcard versions of the publication topic for matching with the wildcard subscriptions that are represented in the approximate membership sets or filters provided by the given brokers, where, if a match exists, the data publication is forwarded to the given broker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Chen Chen, Benjamin Mandler, Nir Naaman, Yoav Tock
  • Patent number: 9886452
    Abstract: An electronic device and a method for providing related information regarding a retrieval place are provided. The method includes determining a retrieval place using at least one contents information, extracting information related to the determined retrieval place, and providing the information related to the determined retrieval place by determining a validity of the extracted information related to the determined retrieval place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keum-Ju Jang, Young-Keun Choi
  • Patent number: 9870408
    Abstract: A search method is disclosed. The method obtains a plurality of search results for a query based on first relevance scores, and classifies the plurality of search results into a plurality of classifications. Based on respective rankings of the plurality of search results in corresponding classifications of the plurality of classifications, second relevance scores for the plurality of search results are generated, and the plurality of search results are ranked based on the first relevance scores and the second relevance scores. The technique achieves lower consumption of system resources, faster computation speed and more flexibility in diversification of search results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Li Zhang, Jinhui Li, Ruijie Guo
  • Patent number: 9858330
    Abstract: Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide a system for categorizing electronically stored information without the need for user input, direction, or guidance. In an implementation, the system determines meanings of input textual data items and groups of textual data items, identifies equivalent meanings between textual data items and between groups of textual data items, and outputs user-selected information that is categorized, indexed, and searchable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Inventor: Joel E Henry
  • Patent number: 9858281
    Abstract: An information processing system including: a plurality of second information processing apparatuses connected to a first information processing apparatus via a network; and a management apparatus. The plurality of second information processing apparatuses dispersedly manage indexes established for searches using data and metadata of the data. The management apparatus includes a processor configured to monitor a search request transmitted from the first information processing apparatus, and to specify, on the basis of a monitoring result by the processor, a combination of types of the metadata, for which the processor should cause a same second information processing apparatus to manage the indexes, and the same second information processing apparatus and cause the specified same second information processing apparatus to manage the indexes of the type of the metadata of the specified combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Tatsuo Kumano
  • Patent number: 9842147
    Abstract: Implementations and techniques for determining a relative importance among ordered lists are generally discussed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Indian Statistical Institute
    Inventors: Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Debarka Sengupta, Ujjwal Maulik
  • Patent number: 9836531
    Abstract: A systems and methods for determining crowd sentiment based on unstructured data are presented. The system includes scrapers that continuously scour a computer network to obtain one or more published documents and stores the documents in a document repository. The system further processes each of the documents through a filter (or percolator) to extract one or more system keywords, links and statistical information such as number of occurrences of the system keyword, rate of change and direction of change for each system keyword and crowd sentiment for the system keyword. The system further includes a keyword cache system for maintaining the system keywords so that up to date crowd sentiment is available upon demand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: BCO HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventor: Steven Batiste
  • Patent number: 9830352
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a storage unit configured to store identification data and attribute data of each of a plurality of pieces of content, the attribute data being associated with the identification data, and a retrieval unit configured to specify attribute data corresponding to a retrieval key and perform retrieval of identification data related to another attribute data associated with identification data related to the specified attribute data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Spranger, Kazumi Aoyama, Mario Tokoro, Tetsu Natsume, Katsuki Minamino
  • Patent number: 9811564
    Abstract: Provided is a technology that allows use of a trend rating acquired more objectively. A POI information providing device includes: a storage unit which stores POI data including a POI name; a posted data acquisition unit which acquires posted data through a network; a trend rating acquisition unit which obtains a matching degree between a word included in the posted data and the POI name for each piece of the posted data, and uses a predetermined calculation expression for the matching degree to calculate and acquire a trend rating indicating an attention degree of a POI; a trend rating identification unit which identifies, when a request for the trend rating is received from another device connected through the network, the trend rating corresponding to the request; and a transmission unit which transmits the trend rating identified by the trend rating identification unit to the another device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masao Ishiguro, Haruhiko Sawajiri, Kazushige Hiroi, Akio Hayashi, Yasuki Horibe
  • Patent number: 9805079
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein for performing database operations against location and access transparent metadata units called fat pointers organized into globally distributed data structures. The fat pointers are created by extracting values corresponding to a particular key and paring each value with a reference to the local location and server that has the native format record containing the value. The fat pointers may be transferred to any server in the cluster, even if the server is different from the server that has the native format record. In general, most operations are performed against fat pointers rather than the native format records. This allows the cluster to perform work against arbitrary types of data efficiently and in a constant amount of time despite the variable sizes and structures of records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Xcalar, Inc.
    Inventors: Vikram Joshi, Jerene Yang, Brent Lim Tze Hao, Michael Brown
  • Patent number: 9805080
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein for creating an algorithm for batch mode processing against big data. The techniques involve receiving one or more user commands from a set number of commands that correspond one-to-one with a set number of low-level database operations. In a preferred embodiment, the set of database operations includes only FILTERS, SORTS, AGREGGATES, and JOINS. In the algorithm formation process, database operations are performed on a sample population of records. The user drills down to a set of useful records by performing database operations against the results of the previous database operations. While the database cluster is receiving operations, the system is tracking the operations in a dependency graph. The chains selected within the dependency graph indicate which operations are used to create the algorithm. To generate the algorithm, the database cluster reverse engineers the logic for performing those operations against big data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Xcalar, Inc.
    Inventors: Vikram Joshi, Jerene Yang, Brent Lim Tze Hao, Michael Brown
  • Patent number: 9792373
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media configured to determine a degree of separation between a user and a connection within a social network of the user, the connection associated with an interaction from which at least topic is determined. A value of affinity between the user and the connection is determined. A weight reflecting a value of interest similarity between the user and the connection is determined. A term based on the degree of separation, the value of affinity, and the weight reflecting a value of interest similarity is calculated. Terms associated with the at least one topic are combined to generate a composite score associated with the at least one topic to determine whether to present the at least one topic to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Guy Dassa, Louis Paul Kruger
  • Patent number: 9792323
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems may be used for semantics publishing and discovery. In an embodiment, a method for publishing semantics related resource identifiers may include adding a key word to an identifier of a semantics related resource and publishing the identifier to at least one of a sibling node and a child node. In another embodiment, a method may include using a Bloom filter to publish a semantics related resource. In another embodiment, a method may include publishing, by a semantics node, an identifier of a semantics related resource to a sibling node, while publishing a digest of the semantics node to a child node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Convida Wireless, LLC
    Inventors: Lijun Dong, Catalina M. Mladin, Dale N. Seed, Guang Lu
  • Patent number: 9785513
    Abstract: A data center for data backup and replication, including a pool of multiple storage units for storing a journal of I/O write commands issued at respective times, wherein the journal spans a history window of a pre-specified time length, and a journal manager for dynamically allocating more storage units for storing the journal as the journal size increases, and for dynamically releasing storage units as the journal size decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: ZERTO LTD.
    Inventors: Tomer Ben-Or, Gil Barash, Chen Burshan, Yair Kuszpet