Patents Examined by Ebrahim Golabbakhsh
  • Patent number: 8416299
    Abstract: A motion detector consisting of multiple motion detector elements each having a preset field of view. An alarm signal generated by a motion detector element when movement is detected is sent to a detector controller which converts the alarm signal to a control signal for an associated camera to direct the field of view of the camera to match the preset field of view of the motion detector element that generated the alarm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Lextar Pty Ltd.
    Inventor: Daniel John Moore
  • Patent number: 8411145
    Abstract: A vehicle periphery monitoring device includes an image processing target area setting portion (21) configured to set an image processing target area in the captured image based on a distance detected by a radar between object and a vehicle; a directivity extracting portion (22) configured to perform a differential filtering on each of pixels in the image processing target area in a predefined direction; an image processing target area correcting portion (23) configured to extract a feature region having a feature amount of a pedestrian's head and to correct a range of the image processing target area based on a position of the feature region; a contour extracting portion (24) configured to extract a contour of the image portion included in the corrected image processing target area; and an object type discriminating portion (25) configured to discriminate a type of the monitoring object based on the extracted contour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Basel Fardi
  • Patent number: 8402168
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes systems and methods relating to accelerating initialization of image viewers. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in a method that includes receiving a request to display an image, identifying a data component involved with displaying the image, modifying an existing electronic binary vector graphics file to include the data component, and transmitting the modified file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Oleksandr Volodymyrovych Ufimtsev, Herbert Wolfram
  • Patent number: 8400507
    Abstract: In V2V or other networks in which multiple video feeds are available to a participant, a participant can select a particular video feed for display. The participant has the option of selecting or locking onto a particular camera so that the display continues to show scenes captured by that camera without regard to what appears in those scenes. As an alternative, the participant may select or lock onto a particular scene. If a scene is selected, the current video feed is analyzed to identify key features. The video feed is monitored. If the key features disappear from the video feed, video feeds available from other cameras are analyzed for the presence of the key features. A new video feed (i.e., camera) is selected from the set of video feeds currently generating images including the key features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Travis M. Grigsby, Steven Michael Miller, Pamela Ann Nesbitt, Lisa Anne Seacat
  • Patent number: 8386560
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates rendering a portion of an image from a server on a client. A portion of an image can be hosted by a server. A client can utilize a device to interact with the portion of an image via a network. The client can established two or more TCP/IP connections with the server in order to interact with the portion of the image. A pipe component can enforce an isolated pipeline and a processing thread for each of a user manipulation of the portion of the image, a transmission of a user request to manipulate the portion of the image via the network, a rendering of the portion of the image on the server, a compression of the portion of the image on the server, a transmission of the compressed portion of the image via the network, a decompression of the portion of the image on the client, and a display of the portion of the image on the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ke Ma, Lijiang Fang, Chao Li
  • Patent number: 8380808
    Abstract: A streaming on demand system includes an on-demand requester object installed on a computing device. The on-demand requester object is configured to receive I/O requests for an application for which data is available in data packs for streaming delivery. The on-demand requester object includes a minifilter associated with a filter manager in an I/O stack. The minifilter receives each I/O request from the application, references a table that includes at least one address where each data pack required to fulfill each I/O request is located, and determines if the data pack has been streamed to the system. The table may also include a size indicator for each data pack. The minifilter loads before compression and filter minifilter drivers in the I/O stack. The minifilter attaches to the I/O stack by registering with a filter manager in the I/O stack for I/O requests for the application for which data is available in data packs for streaming delivery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Inventor: Royal O'Brien
  • Patent number: 8370466
    Abstract: An operator guidance system is provided for an administrator managing a computer network such as a distributed computer system. Fault events reported by a fault management system in the network are enhanced to include topology information about other nodes (such as neighbor nodes, path nodes and/or service nodes) that may have been responsible for the fault. The enhanced events are correlated with configuration commands used in the past to correct faults. A set of guidance rules are developed based on the actions that were taken by the operator in handling previous faults of a similar nature. The guidance rules can be displayed to the administrator to facilitate network fault resolution. Using a set of predefined policies, some of the corrective actions can be performed automatically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dinesh Verma, Graham Anthony Bent
  • Patent number: 8364776
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for employing user input to classify unknown websites whereby when a given unknown/unclassified website is accessed on a given computer system associated with a given user, the given user is asked to provide input regarding the legitimacy of the given unknown/unclassified website. The classification of the given unknown/unclassified website is then determined via one or more sources other than the given user's input. The accuracy of the given user's input regarding the legitimacy of the given unknown/unclassified website is then determined and used to calculate, and/or transform, a reliability score that is then associated with the given user. A given user's reliability score is then used to determine the given user's eligibility to provide further input regarding the legitimacy of other unknown/unclassified websites, and/or to determine a value to be place on, or otherwise filter, future input from the given user regarding the legitimacy of other unknown/unclassified websites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventor: Robert James Conrad
  • Patent number: 8359401
    Abstract: A system and method for electronically transferring data between servers in a Local Area Network (LAN) requires a Network switch. Essentially, the Network switch incorporates a PCI Express switch that is run by a Central Processing Unit (CPU). A plurality of connectors (i.e. one for each server in the system) is provided to directly connect the PCI Express capability of the respective server to the PCI Express switch. With these connections, the CPU is used to implement an Internet Protocol (IP) routing function in compliance with IP addresses provided by respective servers to route data through the system from one server to another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: RJ Intellectual Properties, Inc.
    Inventor: Jayanta Kumar Maitra
  • Patent number: 8358345
    Abstract: A system for monitoring a sporting event includes devices for monitoring characteristics of the event and collecting monitored data. Devices address different aspects of the event and monitor and collect real-time data. The devices process the data into digitized frames, and a digital storage device receives and stores the frames in a random access storage buffer as time-stamped digitized data frames with unique addresses. The storage device is capable of both time-shifting and relational association. The system includes a controller and devices for monitoring and extracting a digitized data frame according to a predetermined criterion. A viewer communicates with the storage device and controller and selects, manipulates, and extracts the digitized data frame. The system records and plays back the monitored data using a circular storage buffer with a memory mapped file and allows playback of stored data without interrupting simultaneous recording of new input data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Monitoring Technology Corporation
    Inventors: John T. Fiore, K. Stephen Book
  • Patent number: 8346944
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing Internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) registration service to a non-IMS subscriber terminal are disclosed. According to one method, activity involving a non-IMS subscriber terminal is identified. In response to identifying the activity involving the non-IMS subscriber terminal, an IMS network registration operation is performed on behalf of the non-IMS subscriber terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Tekelec, Inc.
    Inventors: Apirux Bantukul, Peter J. Marsico
  • Patent number: 8327012
    Abstract: Example systems and methods of content sharing via multiple content distribution servers are presented. In one example, a media content stream is received at a first distribution server from a source device via a communication network. The received media content is transmitted from the first distribution server to a plurality of destination devices via the communication network. A traffic condition regarding the transmitting of the received media content stream is detected. An indication of the traffic condition is transmitted to a traffic management device. An instruction to assign at least one other distribution server to additional destination devices is received from the traffic management device in response to the indication of the traffic condition. In response to the instruction, the received media content stream is transmitted from the first distribution server to the at least one other distribution server for distribution to the additional destination devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Color Labs, Inc
    Inventors: Bill Nguyen, Vincent Mallet, Nicholas Woods, Jessica Cheng, Sandip Chokshi, Ganesh Ramanarayanan, Megan Streich
  • Patent number: 8312165
    Abstract: A system and method for handling e-mail address mismatches between the address contained within a user's certificate or certificate chain, and the account address actually being used is disclosed. In order to resolve address mismatches a canonical or generic domain name or user name may, for example, be used as a lifelong address of a user that is contained in the user's certificate. Upon detection of an address mismatch, the system and method disclosed herein may automatically re-check the certificate or search for a certificate containing the canonical or generic domain name and/or user name to attempt to resolve the mismatch. This mismatch resolution is preferably transparent to the user and occurs automatically. The canonical or generic domain and/or user names that are available to the device may be typically controlled by IT policy that is in place on the system for the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Michael Kenneth Brown, Michael Stephen Brown, Timothy Lee Segato
  • Patent number: 8296385
    Abstract: Apparatus, methods and program products by which the user of a computer system may initiate an interval during which the user leaves the system idle to permit the system to become engaged in peer to peer software distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Howard J. Locker, Richard W. Cheston, Daryl C. Cromer, Robert S. Gamble
  • Patent number: 8255537
    Abstract: A vehicle communication device for using a plurality of applications in an inter-vehicle communication, and performing a control to avoid congestion of its own vehicle and the other vehicles. There is a vehicle communication device including a plurality of application units for performing the inter-vehicle communication, a lower protocol unit for transmitting and receiving data between vehicles, and a middleware unit intervening between said application units and the lower protocol unit. The middleware unit includes a transfer service processing unit, a communication control service unit, and a transmission/reception control processing unit. The communication control service unit controls a congestion avoiding process of its own vehicle and other vehicles based on application priority received for each of the application units, priority for each vehicle, and channel usage rate obtained from the lower protocol unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Hamada, Yoshitsugu Sawa, Masahiko Ikawa, Hiroshi Araki, Yukio Goto
  • Patent number: 8239562
    Abstract: A system for aggregating context information for messages includes a context container that associates names with context values and metadata for context entries. The system further includes a network protocol component configured to read messages from a network transport, an encoder component configured translate messages from a raw format into a canonical message format. The canonical message format is an enveloped message containing an application payload and message metadata. The context container is associated with a message in the canonical format. The system further includes an extraction component configured to retrieve context from a native network transport protocol and insert the context values and metadata into the context container, a plurality of additional protocol components configured to add, remove, or modify entries in the context container, and one or more higher level application components configured to operate on the canonical message using the context entries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Nicholas A. Allen, Justin David Brown, Stephen Jared Maine, Stephen J. Millet, Edmund Samuel Victor Pinto, Tirunelveli R. Vishwanath
  • Patent number: 8237791
    Abstract: Feeds from cameras are better visualized by superimposing images based on the feeds onto map based on a two- or three-dimensional virtual map. For example, a traffic camera feed can be aligned with a roadway included in the map. Multiple videos can be aligned with roadways in the map and can also be aligned in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Billy Chen, Eyal Ofek
  • Patent number: 8223204
    Abstract: When maneuvering a vehicle, due to the seated position of the driver, the problem arises that a large portion of the space to the rear of the vehicle to be observed is hidden by the vehicle body itself. Therefore, the vehicle driver is presented with a display of a camera image of the space to the rear of the vehicle with a perspective overlay of the driving path and/or the towing path of the vehicle (1). Said driver support system is configured such that it is also suitable for guiding a vehicle or vehicle combination (1) in which the trailer comprises a plurality of vehicle elements (2, 3) that are bendable relative to one another. In order to detect the steering angle (7) of at least one steerable axis (6) of the vehicle (1), and in order to determine the bending angle (5) between at least two vehicle elements (2, 3) bendable relative to one another, sensors are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Stefan Hahn
  • Patent number: 8209435
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method can include: (i) classifying a packet in a server load balancer (SLB) for determining if the packet is destined for a virtual Internet protocol (VIP) address hosted on the SLB; (ii) selecting a server from a group of servers representing the VIP address; (iii) changing a destination IP address of the packet from the VIP address to a real IP address of the selected server; and (iv) recirculating the packet for repeating the classifying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Zeeshan Naseh
  • Patent number: 8194131
    Abstract: A device for capturing a silhouette consisting of a transparent wall, a vision device to capture at least one image of the wall and a processing unit connected to the vision device which analyses the captured images and detects the silhouette of the individual passing between the transparent wall and the vision device. More than one pattern is positioned on the transparent wall and the patterns exhibit a contrast with the transparent wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Sagem Securite
    Inventors: Emmanuel Bernard, Joël-Yann Fourre, Laurent Lambert