Patents Examined by Dustin Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12160340
    Abstract: The technology disclosed herein enables adding new host systems to existing clusters. An example method comprises receiving, by a processor, identification data associated with an existing cluster; generating a cluster entity data structure of the existing cluster using the identification data; generating a discovery image using the cluster configuration data structure, wherein the discover image comprises an executable code structured according to a file system; and causing a new host system to boot using the discovery image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Erez, Ronnie Lazar, Eran Cohen, Yevgeny Shnaidman, Avishay Traeger
  • Patent number: 12158895
    Abstract: Synchronous content sharing of media assets via an object data model propagated through a star network or a mesh network. Each user device updates a local object data model including information on the status of the media asset delivery, to achieve synchronization with the source data. Updates to the local object data model may be the result of direct connection between a user device and an application server via a network, or the result of indirect connections through peers in mesh networks, where the local object data model is shared through hops between peers in the mesh network if the direct connection is unavailable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: NoteAffect, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Jay Tokosch, Robert Allen, David Dekker, Christopher McCormack
  • Patent number: 12155706
    Abstract: An example method involves receiving, by a playback device in a media playback system, limited-access media, where the limited-access media corresponds to a limited-access playback device characteristic. The method may further involve determining, by the playback device, that a particular playback device having the limited-access playback device characteristic is active in the media playback system. Based on determining that the particular playback device having the limited-access playback device characteristic is active in the media playback system, the method may further involve causing the media playback system to play back the limited-access media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventors: Brad Wolf, Ben Smith
  • Patent number: 12155578
    Abstract: A packet forwarding method, an electronic device, and a storage medium are disclosed. The method may include: determining a flow identifier of the service flow; determining a basic time slot number of a first packet in the service flow according to the flow identifier; determining a time slot offset of the first node for the service flow according to the flow identifier; and determining an enqueue slot number of the first packet according to the basic time slot number and the time slot offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xiangyang Zhu, Jinghai Yu
  • Patent number: 12147467
    Abstract: A method for automated routing of pictures taken on mobile electronic devices to a digital picture frame including a camera integrated with the frame, and a network connection module allowing the frame for direct contact and upload of photos from electronic devices or from photo collections of community members. Clustering photos by content is used to improve display and to respond to photo viewer desires. Trends or patterns can be detected from the photo collections and that information used for various purposes beyond photo display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: AURA HOME, INC.
    Inventors: Ophir Frieder, Abdur Chowdhury, Eric Jensen
  • Patent number: 12149408
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for managing application deployment among edge devices is provided. The embodiment may include identifying respective computing characteristics of all edge devices of a network. The embodiment may include categorizing the edge devices into one or more categories based on identified respective computing characteristics. The embodiment may include classifying a type of a computing task to be deployed to one or more of the edge devices. The embodiment may include mapping the computing task to a category of the one or more categories. The embodiment may include calculating a respective computing score for each edge device of the category. The embodiment may include ranking edge devices of the category based on their respective computing scores. The embodiment may include deploying the computing task to a top-ranked edge device of the category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Su Liu, John A Walicki, Neil Delima, David Jason Hunt
  • Patent number: 12143272
    Abstract: A network capacity planning system for forecasting and scheduling of network capacity for electronic devices is provided. A server monitors usage of a network associated with the electronic devices. The server analyzes a frequency of a transmission of data packets between the electronic devices and the network, and a time duration of a network busy time based on predetermined thresholds. The server uses results of the analysis to drive a dynamic mechanism, which identifies when a bandwidth associated with the network needs to be upgraded to support the growing network bandwidth requirements. The server adjusts a network capacity value of a network routing device associated with the network to support the required bandwidth for an operation of the electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Bank of Montreal
    Inventor: Feliks Gagula
  • Patent number: 12143350
    Abstract: The technology involves messaging applications that support message threads that can involve grouped messages pertaining a conversation, post, or topic. A user interface can employ a communication pane or other message area to present all threads in a particular room, not just the threads that the user is currently following. Following can occur when a user elects to be notified of new replies by clicking a “follow” indicia, replying to or starting a thread, or when someone else specifically mentions the user. The UI may present different notifications about new replies or other details based on a type of display device the person is currently using. For threads that include specific references to the user or are not currently being followed, graphical indicia can be presented as a tailored alert. Different filter options in the user interface enable the user to see threads they are following or mentioned in.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Travis Andrew Gohr, Fabio Carnevale Maffe
  • Patent number: 12132799
    Abstract: Aspects disclosed are directed to a system and methods that device authentication. The system at least transmits a silent push notification to an application installed on a client device. The silent push notification includes a push token provided by a push service and an embedded secret. A response to the silent push notification can be received with a further embedded secret. The embedded secret and the further embedded secret can be compared to determine if they match. If the embedded secret and the further embedded secret match, the client device can be authenticated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Zearfoss, Daniel Alan Jarvis, Salman Haq
  • Patent number: 12132702
    Abstract: A method of Internet Protocol (IP) address control includes receiving a request from a computing device for a new IP address, the request including a Media Access Control (MAC) address of the computing device. A query can be sent to a storage resource for a whitelist of MAC numbers associated with IP addresses and an IP address not present on the whitelist can be selected for use in assigning the new IP address. A new IP/MAC pairing of the selected IP address and the MAC address of the computing device is sent to the storage resource for adding to the whitelist and optionally to a firewall for adding to a firewall whitelist. A confirmation can be sent to the computing device, providing the new IP address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Eric Gunn
  • Patent number: 12131092
    Abstract: A digital picture frame including a camera integrated with the frame, and a network connection module allowing the frame for direct contact and upload of photos from electronic devices or from a user's social media account or her or his community members' social media accounts. The integrated camera is used to automatically determine an identity of a frame viewer, and a viewer profile automatically determined from the identity of the viewer. The displayed photos are automatically shown and/or changed according to the detected viewers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: AURA HOME, INC.
    Inventors: Ophir Frieder, Abdur Chowdhury, Eric Jensen, Ben Cherry, Richard Sanford, Alek Kolcz
  • Patent number: 12120769
    Abstract: A network system for accessing situation related information is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes a network connection for receiving an indication of an occurrence of a situation; a situational network formed based on the occurrence of the situation, the situational network including a plurality of participant devices determined to be geographically proximate to the situation, each of the participant devices corresponding to a participant in the situational network; a second network connection for presenting a roll call query to each of the plurality of participant devices soliciting a reply related to a status of the participant; a plurality of network connections established for receiving a status response from the participant devices; and a database for aggregating the status responses from responsive participants into a roll call list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: SITNET LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Cona, Patrick T. Igoe, Leonid Kravets, Edward A. Ehrlacher
  • Patent number: 12088649
    Abstract: Adaptive content masking is provided. Content visibility customizations are applied to a view of shared information by respective participants during screen sharing in a web conferencing meeting using content visibility control settings. Content visibility is adjusted via adaptive learning based on frequency and type of screen sharing previously completed between a content presenter and respective participants of the web conferencing meeting. Content masking is applied adaptively based on monitoring the shared information and correlating the shared information with respective participants by retrieving meeting information prior to the web conferencing meeting and retrieving screen capture attributes from metadata of the web conferencing meeting that are mapped to the shared information being displayed on screens corresponding to respective participants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Avinash Asthana, Shikhar Kwatra, Diwesh Pandey, Tathagato Bose
  • Patent number: 12081405
    Abstract: A system described herein may receive a first request to establish, modify, or remove a plurality of communication sessions between a User Equipment (“UE”) and a network. The system may output, to a policy element of the network (e.g., a Policy Control Function (“PCF”) or a Policy Charging and Rules Function (“PCRF”)), a second request for policies associated with the UE and the plurality of communication sessions, where the second request includes a plurality of communication session identifiers that are each associated with a particular one of the plurality of communication sessions. The system may receive and enforce the requested policy information when establishing, modifying, or removing the requested plurality of communication sessions based on the received particular policy information. The system may communicate with the policy element via an enhanced interface, such as an enhanced N7 interface or an enhanced Npcf interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Violeta Cakulev, Lixia Yan, Shanthala Kuravangi-Thammaiah, Lalit R. Kotecha
  • Patent number: 12074896
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed herein that conduct security penetration testing. In accordance with embodiments, a security extension is run in a web browser in order to record a user interface workflow and to generate a test script of the user interface workflow. The test script is executed in an application in order to perform penetration testing of the user interface workflow, in some embodiments. Based on the outcomes of the penetration testing, a security report may be generated in order to identify one or more security vulnerabilities in the user interface workflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajiv Chhetri, Karthickprakash Selvaraj
  • Patent number: 12074831
    Abstract: A method for managing a messaging system for receiving at a messaging server a message addressed, storing the message, transmitting a notification of the presence of the message at the messaging server, receiving a request to retrieve the message, validating the first mobile messaging client device, transmitting the message and a message attribute from the messaging server to the first mobile messaging client device, and receiving at the messaging server from the first mobile messaging client device a message management notification generated by the first mobile messaging client device in connection with managing the message in accordance with the message attribute at the first mobile messaging client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: TigerConnect, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Brooks, Brad Brooks, Sumeet Bhatia, Jeffrey Evans
  • Patent number: 12068920
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for controlling operations of devices in an IoT environment based on a correlation between devices. The controlled operations include identifying a first device in response to a user pointing the electronic device toward the first device, determining at least one second device contextually related to the first device, and recommending at least one suggestion to control at least one operation of at least one of the first device or the at least one second device, based on a correlation between capabilities of the first device and a current operating context of the at least one second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Karthik Venkatesh Bhat
  • Patent number: 12068951
    Abstract: A method and network device for root selection, where the method includes: obtaining link costs of links connecting a plurality of nodes in the network; selecting a weighting parameter based at least partly on the link costs; calculating node costs corresponding to each of the plurality of the nodes based on the link costs and the weighting parameter; and selecting a node as the root node based on the node costs, wherein the root node is selected from the plurality of nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Donald Eggleston Eastlake, III
  • Patent number: 12058196
    Abstract: A data storage system having an intermediary server including an input interface, a memory and an output interface. The input interface configured to establish, via one or more programmatic interfaces, a connection with a client device to receive data for upload to a storage server and measure an input rate of the data received from the client device. The memory configured to store the data in a buffer as the data is received. The output interface configured to establish a connection with the storage server, determine an output rate for sending the data from the buffer to the storage server based at least in part on the input rate and a timeout value for the storage server, and send the data from the buffer to the storage server at the output rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan F. Watson, Bennett Barnes Lynch
  • Patent number: 12052216
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein that are capable of using entity name mapping for routing network traffic having encrypted SNI headers. A name resolution request that specifies an entity name is intercepted. Translation of the entity name to a representation of an IP address associated with the entity name is caused. A mapping that cross-references the representation of the IP address to the entity name is stored. A data transfer request that requests establishment of a connection to a destination corresponding to the representation of the IP address is intercepted. The data transfer request includes an encrypted SNI header and a payload. Establishment of the connection to the destination is initiated by providing the encrypted SNI header, the payload, and metadata toward the destination. The metadata includes the entity name based on the mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Murali Krishna Sangubhatla, Shyamshankar Dharmarajan, Guy Lewin