Patents Examined by Eddy Cheung
  • Patent number: 11755421
    Abstract: A method for processing backup policy generation requests includes receiving, by a production agent manager, a backup policy generation request, in response to receiving the backup policy generation request: identifying a backup to transfer to a backup storage, wherein the backup comprises a plurality of data blocks, performing a data storage device evaluation on a set of data storage devices to obtain a set of health scores, wherein each health score of the set of health scores corresponds to a data storage device of the set of data storage devices, assigning, based on the set of health scores, a production agent to a data storage device of the set of data storage devices to generate a backup policy, and initiating, based on the backup policy, a deployment of the production agent to the data storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Shelesh Chopra, Sharath Talkad Srinivasan, Rahul Deo Vishwakarma
  • Patent number: 11748215
    Abstract: In a log management method performed by a server, the server receives a transaction and generates a command log of the transaction. When detecting the transaction is a multi-partition transaction or a non-deterministic transaction, the server generates a data log of the transaction. When the server is faulty, the server recovers data according to the command log or the data log.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaohao Liang, Huimin Zhang, Weisong Wang, Tieying Wang
  • Patent number: 11748434
    Abstract: A system for analyzing screenshots can include a computing device including a processor coupled to a memory and a display screen configured to display content. The system can include an application stored on the memory and executable by the processor. The application can include a screenshot receiver configured to access, from storage to which a screenshot of the content displayed on the display screen captured using a screenshot function of the computing device is stored, the screenshot including an image and a predetermined marker. The application can include a marker detector configured to detect the predetermined marker included in the screenshot. The application can include a link identifier configured to identify, using the predetermined marker, a link to a resource mapped to the image included in the screenshot, the resource accessible by the computing device via the link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: rewardStyle, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Ellis Pearlman, Elias Jason Mablekos, Andrew Cummins
  • Patent number: 11740980
    Abstract: Snapshots are created of a unit of storage such that the snapshot includes all segments allocated to the unit of storage until a subsequent snapshot is created. A backup of a first snapshot may be performed by copying segments of the snapshot to backup storage. If a preceding snapshot has been backed up, those segments of the first snapshot are copied to backup storage without copying the segments of the preceding snapshot, otherwise all segments of the snapshot are copied. Metadata describing the snapshot may be retained but storage may be freed to be overwritten. The metadata may reference identifiers of segments copied to backup storage. Data stored in backup storage may also be labeled as individual segments or be associated with snapshot metadata in backup storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Robin Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Jagadish Mukku, Nitin Singla, Kallur Vasudeva Rao Narasimha Subban
  • Patent number: 11734257
    Abstract: In some implementations a computer-accessible medium includes a multimedia-document integration module that includes a heterogeneous distinction identifier between a first multimedia-document and a second multimedia-document and includes an integrator of the first multimedia-document and the second multimedia-document into an integrated multimedia-document, a data capture module that includes a data-extractor of the integrated multimedia-document, a query module that includes a query-generator encapsulated in a corresponding number of enquiry/inquiry transmissions, the enquiry/inquiry transmissions being short-message-service text-messages, a communication-subsystem that includes a transmitter of the enquiry/inquiry transmissions to an external device and receiver of an acknowledgement transmission or a negative-acknowledgement transmission from the external device, the acknowledgement/negative-acknowledgement transmission being a short-message-service text-message, and, a variance analytic module that includ
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: eAffirm LLC
    Inventors: Brian Haddon, Ryan Owen
  • Patent number: 11734128
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving a selection of a portion of data from a backup storage appliance communicatively coupled to a storage system. A copy of the selected portion of the data may be generated on the backup storage appliance, thus defining a data backup copy. One or more hosts may be provided with direct access to the data backup copy using the storage system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company, LLC
    Inventors: William C. Whitney, Qi Jin, Nagasimha G. Haravu
  • Patent number: 11726881
    Abstract: A method for generating a reconstructed version of a filesystem entity, the method may include (i) generating fallback retrieval metadata for a reconstructed version segment, when the reconstructed version segment is (a) associated with a corresponding intermediate version segment, and (b) the corresponding intermediate version segment is preceded by a corresponding most updated segment that does not exceed a fallback version of the filesystem entity; wherein the reconstructed version segment, the corresponding intermediate version segment and the corresponding most updated segment that does not exceed a fallback version have a same address range; (ii) generating a non-existing indicator for the reconstructed version segment, when the reconstructed version segment is (a) associated with the corresponding intermediate version segment, and (b) the corresponding intermediate version segment is not preceded by any corresponding most updated segment that does not exceed the fallback version; and (iii) maintaining
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: VAST DATA LTD.
    Inventors: Oren Ashkenazi, Uri Weissbrem
  • Patent number: 11714830
    Abstract: Mechanisms for multidimensional data modeling and operations and related procedures are described. Resource structures for multidimensional data can be used. This can allow lumped operations such as RESTful operations and procedures on the multidimensional data. A new attribute “SamplingPeriodCovered” can be used to indicate the time interval when the related time series data (or any multi-dimension data streams) are stored. This can reduce the total size of the data stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Convida Wireless, LLC
    Inventors: Qing Li, Xu Li
  • Patent number: 11714873
    Abstract: A system for analyzing screenshots can include a computing device including a processor coupled to a memory and a display screen configured to display content. The system can include an application stored on the memory and executable by the processor. The application can include a screenshot receiver configured to access, from storage to which a screenshot of the content displayed on the display screen captured using a screenshot function of the computing device is stored, the screenshot including an image and a predetermined marker. The application can include a marker detector configured to detect the predetermined marker included in the screenshot. The application can include a link identifier configured to identify, using the predetermined marker, a link to a resource mapped to the image included in the screenshot, the resource accessible by the computing device via the link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: rewardStyle, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Ellis Pearlman, Elias Jason Mablekos, Andrew Cummins
  • Patent number: 11714784
    Abstract: Techniques described herein relate to systems and methods of data storage, and more particularly to providing layering of file system functionality on an object interface. In certain embodiments, file system functionality may be layered on cloud object interfaces to provide cloud-based storage while allowing for functionality expected from a legacy applications. For instance, POSIX interfaces and semantics may be layered on cloud-based storage, while providing access to data in a manner consistent with file-based access with data organization in name hierarchies. Various embodiments also may provide for memory mapping of data so that memory map changes are reflected in persistent storage while ensuring consistency between memory map changes and writes. For example, by transforming a ZFS file system disk-based storage into ZFS cloud-based storage, the ZFS file system gains the elastic nature of cloud storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Maybee, James Kremer, Ankit Gureja, Kimberly Morneau
  • Patent number: 11704381
    Abstract: A system for analyzing screenshots can include a computing device including a processor coupled to a memory and a display screen configured to display content. The system can include an application stored on the memory and executable by the processor. The application can include a screenshot receiver configured to access, from storage to which a screenshot of the content displayed on the display screen captured using a screenshot function of the computing device is stored, the screenshot including an image and a predetermined marker. The application can include a marker detector configured to detect the predetermined marker included in the screenshot. The application can include a link identifier configured to identify, using the predetermined marker, a link to a resource mapped to the image included in the screenshot, the resource accessible by the computing device via the link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: rewardStyle, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Ellis Pearlman, Elias Jason Mablekos, Andrew Cummins
  • Patent number: 11698939
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for displaying a customized news stream. One method includes an operation for identifying dwell times spent by users while accessing a first plurality of items, each item belonging to one media type from a plurality of media types (e.g., news articles, videos, slide shows, etc.). In addition, the method includes operations for determining statistical parameters for each media type based on the identified dwell times, and for detecting a news corpus having a second plurality of items. A priority for each item in the news corpus is determined based on the media type of the item, the corresponding statistical parameters for the media type of the item, and the profile of a user. The news stream is sent to the user for presentation on a display, the news stream being sorted based on the priority of the items in the news corpus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventors: Xing Yi, Scott Gaffney
  • Patent number: 11693844
    Abstract: The disclosure herein describes processing deletion requests using sequencing numbers with change feed updates. When a deletion occurs on the source data store, a deletion notification is created in a change feed on the source server. The deletion notification includes a set of deletion record IDs identifying a set of records to be deleted, a tombstone sequence number (TSN) identifying a sequence of the deletion notification within a set of deletion notifications and/or a deletion sequence number (DSN). The DSN is incremented by one each time a new deletion notification is created. A deletion notification can represent deletion of a single record or a set of records. Each deletion notification is assigned a time-to-live (TTL) value. The deletion notification is deleted at expiration of the TTL. The TSN and the DSN entries are used to determine whether any deletion updates have been missed to prevent silent failures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Kapil Agarwal, Vaibhav Sharma
  • Patent number: 11687518
    Abstract: In some implementations a computer-accessible medium includes a multimedia-document integration module that includes a heterogeneous distinction identifier between a first multimedia-document and a second multimedia-document and includes an integrator of the first multimedia-document and the second multimedia-document into an integrated multimedia-document, a data capture module that includes a data-extractor of the integrated multimedia-document, a query module that includes a query-generator encapsulated in a corresponding number of enquiry/inquiry transmissions, the enquiry/inquiry transmissions being short-message-service text-messages, a communication-subsystem that includes a transmitter of the enquiry/inquiry transmissions to an external device and receiver of an acknowledgement transmission or a negative-acknowledgement transmission from the external device, the acknowledgement/negative-acknowledgement transmission being a short-message-service text-message, and, a variance analytic module that includ
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: eAffirm LLC
    Inventors: Brian Haddon, Ryan Owen
  • Patent number: 11681654
    Abstract: A method that includes receiving a request to select one or more files for a user; in response to receiving the request, identifying file request context information associated with the request, wherein the file request context information is based at least in part on a current state of a user device; identifying one or more candidate files based on the file request context information; identifying a relevance measure for the one or more candidate files based on the file request context information; identifying one or more candidate user contacts based on the file request context information, each of the one or more candidate user contacts having sent communications to or received communications from the user, wherein the communications include at least one of the one or more candidate files; and providing, for display to the user, a display portion of a user interface for selection pertaining to the one or more files and the one or more candidate user contacts, the display portion including a representation
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Michael Sorvillo, Mandy Richau Sladden
  • Patent number: 11675865
    Abstract: A system for analyzing screenshots can include a computing device including a processor coupled to a memory and a display screen configured to display content. The system can include an application stored on the memory and executable by the processor. The application can include a screenshot receiver configured to access, from storage to which a screenshot of the content displayed on the display screen captured using a screenshot function of the computing device is stored, the screenshot including an image and a predetermined marker. The application can include a marker detector configured to detect the predetermined marker included in the screenshot. The application can include a link identifier configured to identify, using the predetermined marker, a link to a resource mapped to the image included in the screenshot, the resource accessible by the computing device via the link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: rewardStyle, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Ellis Pearlman, Elias Jason Mablekos, Andrew Cummins
  • Patent number: 11675776
    Abstract: Managing data in a computing device is disclosed, including generating reverse delta updates during an apply operation of a forward delta update. A method includes operations of applying forward update data to an original data object to generate an updated data object from the original data object and generating, during the applying, reverse update data, the reverse update data configured to reverse effects of the forward update data and restore the original data object from the updated data object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathon Tucker Ready, Cristian Gelu Petruta, Mark Zagorski, Timothy Patrick Conley, Imran Baig, Alexey Teterev, Asish George Varghese
  • Patent number: 11675674
    Abstract: An example method of restoring a database includes obtaining information about backup data of a database from a source storage separate from a compute infrastructure. The information includes a list of data blocks of a file, transferring the data blocks on the list from the source storage to a local storage on the compute infrastructure, and tracking which data blocks of the file have been transferred from the source storage to the local storage concurrently when transferring the data blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Rubrik, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua Duncan Hight, Jiangbin Luo, Christopher Wong
  • Patent number: 11669400
    Abstract: The disclosed enhancements optimize the use of the live browse cache and pseudo-disk storage areas, improving metadata handling so that it can be used more effectively to speed up live browse and file indexing of backup copies in a data storage management system. The enhancements operate granularly to identify within each extent being backed up smaller sectors that comprise metadata. The disclosed approach pre-fetches the metadata of the backup copy before allowing the file scan of the file indexing and/or the live browse operation to proceed. The backup operation, the file indexing operation, and the live browse operation are enhanced to handle the more granular metadata sectors without changing the granularity of the full extents generated and stored in the backup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Commvault Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Pratik S. Rana, Deepak Raghunath Attarde
  • Patent number: 11669521
    Abstract: A method for causing a processor to perform a query on a column-store table of encoded values is provided. The method includes configuring the processor to receive the query, comprising a filter to be applied to at least a first column vector of the encoded values. The processor processes the query for the encoded values in the first column vector, to generate a first vector indicative of respective encoded values passing or failing the filter. The processor determines, from the first vector, an indicator of encoded values passing the filter and encoded values failing the filter, relative to the encoded values in the first column vector. The processor determines a bit length of the encoded values. The processor selects an algorithm for processing the query based on the indicator and the determined bit length of the encoded values. A system and a non-transitory, computer-readable medium are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SINGLESTORE, INC.
    Inventors: Michal Nowakiewicz, Eric Boutin