Patents Examined by Debbie M. Le
  • Patent number: 11461016
    Abstract: A data storage system allows a user to search a secondary copy such as a back up, archive, or snapshot and receive an abbreviated version of the secondary copy of the file system as a result of the search. The abbreviated version of the secondary copy of the file system may include metadata such as a listing of secondary copy data that correspond with a search term or other filtering criteria provided by the user. An operating system of the user's computing device may mount the abbreviated version so that it can be displayed within a view of the file system of the computing device. Once a user selects one or more desired data objects listed in the abbreviated version, the selected actual one or more data objects are retrieved from secondary storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Commvault Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Paramasivam Kumarasamy
  • Patent number: 11461392
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed towards methods and systems for providing relevant video scenes in response to a video search query. The systems and methods identify a plurality of key frames of a media object and detect one or more content features represented in the plurality of key frames. Based on the one or more detect content features, the systems and methods associate tags indicating the detected content features with the plurality of key frames of the media object. The systems and methods, in response to receiving a search query including search terms, compare the search terms with the tags of the selected key frames, identify a selected key frame that depicts at least one content feature related to the search terms, and provide a preview image of the media item depicting the at least one content feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Sachin Soni, Ashish Duggal, Anmol Dhawan
  • Patent number: 11463778
    Abstract: Media content search results ranked by popularity is described. In embodiment(s), a search request for television media content can be initiated by a viewer, and television media content that is relevant to the search request can be identified. The relevant television media content can then be ranked based on a popularity rating and the relevant television media content can be displayed in an ordered list that is ordered by popularity rankings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Rovi Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Pradhan S. Rao, David H. Sloo
  • Patent number: 11461369
    Abstract: A system includes reception of a set of time-series data from each of a plurality of sensors, each of the plurality of sensors associated with one of a plurality of hardware devices, determination of a plurality of clusters based on the sets of time-series data, assignment of each set of time-series data to one of the plurality of clusters, and determination of associations between the plurality of hardware devices based on the assignments of time-series data to clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Ashish Bhan, Shailesh Jannu
  • Patent number: 11455353
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for conversion of information provided on public and/or private networks and managing that information by categories and offering services relating to that information; and particularly to a system and method for offering services related to maintaining an easy to use consumer site which searches golf courses and provides accurate tee time and other information related to golfing services and collects revenue based on those services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Inventors: Lawrence F. Jindra, Joseph F. Dolezal
  • Patent number: 11449538
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for integrating an enterprise's structured and unstructured data to provide users and enterprise applications with efficient and intelligent access to that data. In accordance with exemplary embodiments, the generation of feature vectors about unstructured data can be hardware-accelerated by processing streaming unstructured data through a reconfigurable logic device, a graphics processor unit (GPU), or chip multi-processor (CMP) to determine features that can aid clustering of similar data objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: IP Reservoir, LLC
    Inventors: Ronald S. Indeck, David Mark Indeck, Naveen Singla, David E. Taylor
  • Patent number: 11449529
    Abstract: Techniques and solutions are described for determining, evaluating, and selecting data retrieval pathways. A plurality of database objects, such as tables, can be retrieved, and relationships between them determined. The relationships are between various attributes of the database objects. A plurality of pathways are determined between at least two target database objects, where the path determination does not consider attribute-level relationship information. After a path is determined, the relationship-level information can be added. A summary of the path, and relationship information, can be displayed to a user. A user can select paths to remove from the display, and can indicate one or more database objects that are required for a valid path, one or more database objects that are prohibited from valid paths, or combinations thereof. A user can select a path, and a query language statement to implement the path can be generated and displayed to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Sandra Bracholdt, Volker Saggau, Jan Portisch
  • Patent number: 11449373
    Abstract: Various embodiments are generally directed an apparatus and method for receiving information to write on a clustered system comprising at least a first cluster and a second cluster, determining that a failure event has occurred on the clustered system creating unsynchronized information, the unsynchronized information comprising at least one of inflight information and dirty region information, and performing a resynchronization operation to synchronize the unsynchronized information on the first cluster and the second cluster based on log information in at least one of an inflight tracker log for the inflight information and a dirty region log for the dirty region information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: NetApp Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Yuedong Mu, Paul Ngan, Manoj Sundararajan
  • Patent number: 11443214
    Abstract: A system and method for updating and correcting facts that receives proposed values for facts from users and determines a correctness score which is used to automatically accept or reject the proposed values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Ashutosh Kulshreshtha, Luca de Alfaro, Mitchell Slep, Nicu Daniel Cornea, Sowmya Subramanian, Ethan G. Russell
  • Patent number: 11442627
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and system for saving data received from a host computing device to a storage system. The storage system includes at least one processor and at least one storage. An embodiment may include storing the received data to the storage on a record basis. A record includes a record header including information indicative of an implemented compression method of the record. An embodiment may include monitoring a processing load of the at least one processor. In response to the processing load being less than a predetermined level, an embodiment may include further compressing the record utilizing a high-ratio compression method based on the record requiring further compression. An embodiment may include updating the record header information to reflect details of the utilized a high-ratio compression method. An embodiment may include storing the further compressed record to the storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ryohta Kawase, Eiji Tosaka, Kousei Kawamura, Koichi Masuda, Shinsuke Mitsuma
  • Patent number: 11442972
    Abstract: Methods and systems for modifying a search result are described. A computing device may receive a query. A search result based on the query may be determined. The computing device may modify the search result based on a term of the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Kalila Sharafi
  • Patent number: 11436214
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for preventing search fraud in a content management system. For an update of a content item of a search index of a search service provided by the content management system ranking metrics are calculated using a set of one or more search queries from a collection of search queries previously received by the search service. At least one statistic is computed using the calculated ranking metrics and compared with at least one statistic provided by a statistics history database. Depending on the result of the comparing, the update of the content item is flagged as fraudulent or as non-fraudulent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Timo Kussmaul, Daniel Blum, Kai Brennenstuhl, Thomas Steinheber
  • Patent number: 11436088
    Abstract: Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and devices that more effectively manage snapshots by creating a namespace including files described by stored file recipe objects and each comprising fragments, directories described by metadata in the file recipe objects and each comprising one or more of the files, and snapshots described by stored snapshot request objects. Content of one of the directories are identified based on an identification of corresponding ones of the file recipe objects that existed within the namespace at a specified time. At least one of the files, included in the identified content and existing within the namespace at the specified time, is accessed in response to one or more received requests. A garbage collection operation is periodically performed to delete the recipe objects that are marked for deletion by tombstone objects and are unreferenced by any of the snapshots as determined based on the snapshot request objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: NETAPP, INC.
    Inventor: David Slik
  • Patent number: 11416470
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide multi-version concurrency control of database records with uncommitted transactions. The system and methods may include receiving a query regarding a transaction counter number. When a transaction header identifying data is updated with the assigned transaction counter number, the updated transaction header may be used in identifying data as an instance of multiversion concurrency control information by the received query. A key lookup may be performed, and when the key lookup encounters an uncommitted row for a transaction number, a corresponding transaction header identifying data to identify a data array element to determine whether the transaction number is committed, and determining the transaction counter number when the transaction number is committed. The transaction counter number may be stamped on the row version record when it is determined that the row is committed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Subho Sanjay Chatterjee, Patrick James Helland, Nathaniel Wyatt, James E. Mace, Punit B. Shah
  • Patent number: 11411578
    Abstract: A data store system may include a storage device configured to store a plurality of data store tables. The data store system a further include a processor in communication with the storage device. The processor may receive a request to encode a column of a data store table from the plurality of data store tables. The processor may further generate a bit value representation of each value in the column of the data store table. The processor may further generate an index. The index may include an index value representative of each bit position of the bit value representations. The processor may further reorder bits of each bit value representation according to a predetermined pattern. The processor may further encode each reordered bit value representation according to an encoding technique. The processor may further store each encoded reordered bit value representations and the index. A method and computer-readable medium are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Teradata US, Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas E. Hundley
  • Patent number: 11409748
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for context scoring adjustments for candidate answer passages. In one aspect, a method includes scoring candidate answer passages. For each candidate answer passage, the system determines a heading vector that describes a path in the heading hierarchy from the root heading to the respective heading to which the candidate answer passage is subordinate; determines a context score based, at least in part, on the heading vector; and adjusts answer score of the candidate answer passage at least in part by the context score to form an adjusted answer score. The system then selects an answer passage from the candidate answer passages based on the adjusted answer scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Nitin Gupta, Srinivasan Venkatachary, Lingkun Chu, Steven D. Baker
  • Patent number: 11409809
    Abstract: A system can provide a visual representation of an inventory of data entities for a distributed computing system. Inventory data including cost and operational data for data entities such as data centers, servers, and virtual machines, can be converted into a format file. The format file can be used to create a tree of nodes and node summaries corresponding to the data entities. A user interface can display hierarchical and isolated views of the tree revealing parent child relationships between data entities within a computing system infrastructure. Node summaries including cost and utilization data can be displayed to reveal how specific sub-costs such as labor and licensing, are driven by data entities in one level of the infrastructure and pushed to respective parent or child data entities in other levels. Views of the tree can be used to determine areas of inefficiency or reduced value within the computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Chandrashekhar Jha, Kumar Gaurav, Sushil Verma, Vishal Gupta, Aditya Gopisetti
  • Patent number: 11409782
    Abstract: One embodiment involves a method and apparatus for mapping lexical keywords into entity description semantics in order to create unambiguous buyer-confirmed descriptions of entities. The method described herein relies on a computer program and some mechanism for computer data storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Internet Search Protocols, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Bridgeman, Bruce Matesso
  • Patent number: 11403534
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a chatbot with a stance taking. Opinions may be extracted from candidate replies during a processing of conversation, and the extracted opinions may be compared with the stance taken by the chatbot so as to perform selection on the candidate replies and remove the candidate replies which have conflicts with the stance taken by the chatbot. With such technical solutions, the stance taken by the chatbot may be exhibited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Bai Su, Chao Ma, Changhai Zhou, Shujun Hua, Yuan Lu, Ning Wen
  • Patent number: 11403356
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for personalizing a search of a search service. The search service comprises a search index with content items of a search type being used as first search results for first search queries issued by the client application and providing second search queries to be executed for retrieving second search results to be returned in reply to the first search queries. The method comprises using information specifying external content items imported by the client application to amend a set of content items for extracting one or more keywords comprised by the imported external content items. A second search query suitable for retrieving the set of content items being amended with the imported external content items is determined. The determined second search query is modified by adding the extracted keywords as additional search parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Timo Kussmaul, Uwe K. Hansmann, Kai Brennenstuhl, Andreas Prokoph, Thomas Steinheber