Patents Examined by George C. Neurauter, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10447768
    Abstract: One or both of a metadata associated with content to be integrated into a linear broadcast and a content data comprising content to be integrated into the linear broadcast is received via a network. A trigger to integrate content into said linear broadcast is received from a broadcast automation system associated with the linear broadcast. Based at least in part on said metadata a content item is determined to be integrated into the linear broadcast in response to the trigger. The determined content item is integrated into the linear broadcast, including by providing to a mixing node associated with the linear broadcast a broadcast-ready audio output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Jelli, Inc.
    Inventors: Jateen P. Parekh, Yuri Regelman, Bo-Lin Hsu, John Paul LeFlohic
  • Patent number: 10447793
    Abstract: A method and a device for detecting shared access are provided in the present disclosure. The method comprises: receiving an application layer packet from a user terminal; extracting a public network IP accessed by the user terminal and a data stream feature from the received application layer packet, where the data stream feature uniquely identifies the user terminal; determining a number of user terminals which access the public network IP according to the data stream feature; and determining that there is shared access for the public network IP if the number of user terminals accessing the public network IP is greater than a first threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Hangzhou DPtech Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fangzheng Wei, Xiaodong Zhang
  • Patent number: 10432732
    Abstract: At least one processor is configured to cause a communication unit to transmit log-in request including an account and designation of a security mode to a service server via a relay device when the security mode is set and to transmit a log-in request including an account and designation of a normal mode to the service server via the relay device when the normal mode is set. The at least one processor is configured to the communication unit to log in the service server when permission of the log-in request is received from the service server via the relay device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noritake Shiga
  • Patent number: 10412045
    Abstract: A technique for facilitating registration of an internet domain name with the domain name system (DNS) is presented. The technique can include receiving a request to register an encoding domain name with the DNS, where the encoding domain name includes an indication of a temporal event and of a pool of domain names. The technique can also include registering the encoding domain name to a registrant, thereby conferring to the registrant a right to register a target domain name of the registrant's selection from the pool of domain names upon specified conditions, where the specified conditions include an occurrence of the temporal event. The technique can also include receiving a request initiated by the registrant to register the target domain name. The technique can also include registering the target domain name to the registrant after satisfaction of the specified conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: VERISIGN, INC.
    Inventors: Burton S. Kaliski, Jr., Joseph Waldron
  • Patent number: 10404650
    Abstract: A technique for facilitating registration of an internet domain name with the domain name system (DNS) is presented. The technique can include receiving a request to register an encoding domain name with the DNS, the encoding domain name including an indication of a temporal event and of a target domain name. The technique can also include registering the encoding domain name to a registrant, where the registering the encoding domain name confers to the registrant a right to register the target domain name upon specified conditions, where the specified conditions include an occurrence of the temporal event. The technique can also include receiving a request initiated by the registrant to register the target domain name, and registering the target domain name to the registrant after satisfaction of the specified conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: VERISIGN, INC.
    Inventors: Burton S. Kaliski, Jr., Joseph Waldron
  • Patent number: 10395533
    Abstract: Data relating to at least the dynamic objects of the surrounding area is ascertained by sensors of at least one motor vehicle. The data is stored in a database provided by a motor vehicle, acting as a server for the surrounding area, which communicates with other motor vehicles. When a request message is received, the motor vehicle acting as a server transmits at least one part of environmental data in the database to the requesting motor vehicle and/or transmits a request message for transmitting environmental data, relating to the requested data about at least one object, to other motor vehicles to update the database and/or captures environmental data relating to the at least one object by other sensors. The database is updated to include the transmitted or captured environmental data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Harald Altinger, Christoph Sippl
  • Patent number: 10397125
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a cross-regional data transmission method and device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Yijun Lu, Yunfeng Tao, Zhiyang Tang, Yunfeng Zhu, Lin Cheng, Kaige An
  • Patent number: 10397075
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a computer server running a social networking application aggregates raw local area network (LAN) traffic data received from one or more listening nodes in one or more LANs. The aggregated LAN traffic data is comprised of multiple entries, each of which includes a MAC address for a networked device, as well as an association between each MAC address and a user of a social networking system. The computer server may then detect, identify, and qualify recurring patterns when a particular user is on the same LAN as other users of the social networking system. Based upon the qualified patterns, the social networking system may suggest friend connections or other interactions on the social networking system to the particular user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Mateusz Berezecki
  • Patent number: 10389598
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system has host machines forming a cluster. Each host machine runs containers, where each container includes a segment of hardware resources associated with the host machine, a segment of an operating system utilized by the host machine, and at least one application. Host agents operate on the host machines. Each host agent collects operational parameters associated with the containers on each host machine. A management platform is operative to divide the cluster into container pools, where each container pool includes a sub-set of computation resources in the cluster and has associated container pool metrics including a priority level and computation resource limits. Operational parameters are collected from the host agents. The operational parameters are evaluated in accordance with the container pool metrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Pradeep Padala, Selvi Kadirvel, Himanshu Raj, Kiran Kamity
  • Patent number: 10382325
    Abstract: A method is implemented by a network device functioning as a controller in a Software Defined Networking (SDN) network to configure a switch in the SDN network to process packets on behalf of a Service Function Chain (SFC) proxy so that the packets can bypass the SFC proxy. The method includes receiving a translation rule for an SFC encapsulation from the SFC proxy, transmitting SFC proxy bypass instructions to the switch that cause the switch to translate packets belonging to a flow associated with the SFC encapsulation according to the translation rule for the SFC encapsulation and to forward the packets belonging to the flow associated with the SFC encapsulation to a service function while bypassing the SFC proxy, and transmitting an indication to the SFC proxy that the packets belonging to the flow associated with the SFC encapsulation are to bypass the SFC proxy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Faseela K, Ashutosh Bisht
  • Patent number: 10348620
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a first multiple spanning tree (MST) region configuration for an MST process may be maintained at a switch in a computer network, where the first configuration has a virtual local area network (VLAN)-to-instance (VI) mapping that maps each of one or more VLANs to one of one or more MST instances in the MST region. The switch may subsequently receive a second MST region configuration that has a different VI mapping than the first configuration, and may determine one or more VLANs of the second configuration that have a different VI mapping from the first configuration (“affected VLANs”). Accordingly, in response to a trigger to apply the second configuration at the switch, the affected VLANs are blocked for a delay, and the second configuration may be applied at the switch without restarting the MST process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Shekher Bulusu, Francois Edouard Tallet
  • Patent number: 10348550
    Abstract: A method and a system for processing network media information are provided. The method includes: collecting historical distribution effect data of network media information; performing attribute improvement processing on the historical distribution effect data by using population attribute data and network media information management data to obtain characteristic attribute data; constructing an effect parameter estimation model corresponding to each attribute of the characteristic attribute data, and training the effect parameter estimation model; estimating an effect parameter value of each audience for target network media information according to the effect parameter estimation model; and selecting an audience whose estimated effect parameter value is greater than or equal to a specified threshold value to form an audience population package to be extracted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Dongbo Huang, Zhenxiao Li, Ge Chen, Hongyu Zhao, Chaojian Zhou
  • Patent number: 10333788
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure describe a system, method, and apparatus for acquiring global information. The method comprises receiving current version information from a global information server, the current version information associated with current global information and associated with a network service; retrieving the current global information associated with the current version information and associated with the network service from the global information server; and providing or suspending the network service associated with the current global information based on a presence of a stop-write identifier in the current global information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED
    Inventors: Yunfeng Zhu, Yijun Lu, Yanchao Li, Jibin Lei, Yunfeng Tao, Zhiyang Tang, Jun Yu, Jia Feng, DongBai Guo
  • Patent number: 10333771
    Abstract: A device, such as a baseboard management controller, monitors a physical-layer device in a server and at least one network connector/cable connected to the physical-layer device, determines a status of the physical-layer device or a status of the at least one network connector/cable indicates at least one of a warning or a failure, and transmits an alert corresponding to the at least one of the warning or the failure to a rack management controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Le-Sheng Chou, Sz-Chin Shih
  • Patent number: 10291553
    Abstract: A tool for partitioning a switch into one or more logical switches in a distributed system. The tool creates, by one or more computer processors, one or more logical switch routers, based, at least in part, on a user configuration. The tool assigns, by one or more computer processors, based, at least in part, on a user configuration, one or more ports to the one or more logical switch routers. The tool manages, by one or more computer processors, the one or more logical switch routers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: LENOVO ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Ashok N. Chippa, Vipin K. Garg, Dar-Ren Leu, Vijoy A. Pandey, Daljeet Singh, Ethan M. Spiegel, Robert E. Zagst, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10263910
    Abstract: Invoking a resource is provided, comprising: sending a page request message to a server; receiving page data sent back by the server in response to the page request message; analyzing the page data to obtain an address of the resource; generating a resource-calling request using the address of the resource; acquiring native version information of the application client; using the native version information of the application client to modify the resource-calling request; and acquiring the resource according to the modified resource-calling request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventor: Zishen Qu
  • Patent number: 10230799
    Abstract: Tokens and policy descriptors are used for dynamic on demand session management in a distributed and scalable architecture for on demand sessions and resource management. The architecture includes an on demand client, a purchase server, and a session manager. A purchase token is generated at the purchase server and assigned to the on demand client. The purchase token represents at least one requested asset. In response to an on demand session set-up request corresponding to the purchase token from the on demand client to the session manager, the purchase token is expanded to generate at least one dynamic policy management descriptor for the on demand session. This provides token-based purchase authorization and policy management for on demand services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Weidong Mao, Neville A. Black, Charles L. Compton
  • Patent number: 10133266
    Abstract: Provided is a conveyance robot replacement apparatus used for replacing a conveyance robot installed in an atmosphere conveyance chamber of a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus in order to convey a substrate. The conveyance robot replacement apparatus includes a positioning unit configured to determine a position of the conveyance robot replacement apparatus with respect to the atmospheric conveyance chamber, a holding unit configured to suspend the conveyance robot to be supported, a guide portion configured to guide advancing and retreating into and from the atmospheric conveyance chamber of the holding unit by being engaged with the positioning unit, a position adjustment unit configured move the holding unit in each of the longitudinal direction, the horizontal direction, and the vertical direction to adjust a position of the holding unit, and a connecting component connectable to the holding unit as well as the conveyance robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Masahiro Dogome, Hiroshi Ikari, Toshiaki Toyomaki, Genichi Nanasaki, Takehiro Shindo
  • Patent number: 8024486
    Abstract: A system including a first node configured to receive first data in a first format that specifies a network destination for the first data and convert the first data to second data in a second format that does not specify a network destination for the second data and a second node configured to receive the second data from the first node over a first connection and convert the second data to third data in a third format that specifies a network destination for the third data is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Ted W Beers, Mark E Gorzynski, William C Wickes, Jon A Brewster, Garrett Daniel Gargan, Jeffrey L Thielman, Scott Grasley
  • Patent number: 8015270
    Abstract: A configuration of a first storage resource is written to a first instance of a single file in a standard hierarchical format that is stored locally in nonvolatile memory and updatable by the first resource. A configuration of a second storage resource is written to a second instance of the single file in the standard hierarchical format stored locally in nonvolatile memory and updatable by the second resource. The first instance and second instance of the single file are updated so that all configurations are present and identical in all instances of the single file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: RELDATA, Inc.
    Inventors: Kirill Malkin, Mikhail Litvin