Patents Examined by Giuseppi Giuliani
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Patent number: 11288228Abstract: Operations and maintenance design drawing maintenance, As-Built drawing conformance, and record drawing conformance processes for protecting the integrity of dynamically modified files.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2018Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Innovative Process Technologies, LLCInventors: Holly Marie Forden, Christopher Alan Bresciani, Laura Lee Allen
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Patent number: 11288280Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for implementing consumer data validation, matching, and merging across tenants with optional verification prompts utilizing blockchain technologies in conjunction with a cloud based computing environment are described herein.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.Inventors: Prithvi Krishnan Padmanabhan, Lik Mui
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Patent number: 11288286Abstract: An apparatus comprises at least one processing device configured to define a consistency group comprising a plurality of storage volumes subject to replication from a source storage system to a target storage system. In conjunction with a transition from asynchronous replication of the consistency group to synchronous replication of the consistency group, the at least one processing device completes a current asynchronous replication cycle, utilizes a current asynchronous snapshot set on the target storage system to establish an active snapshot set on the target storage system, transfers differential data of a subsequent asynchronous replication cycle to the active snapshot set on the target storage system, specifies the active snapshot set on the target storage system as a destination of the synchronous replication, and performs a data consistency check on the target storage system utilizing an additional snapshot set generated from the active snapshot set.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLCInventors: Yuval Harduf, Xiangping Chen, David Meiri
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Patent number: 11262712Abstract: A process and a system collect data from a data-source into a manufacturing operation management (MOM) data warehouse. The data in the MOM data-warehouse are exposed according to a basic data model in which a performance parameter is linked to a basic set of context identifiers for MOM analysis purposes. The data in the data source are exposed according to a source data model in which a source performance parameter is linked to a source set of context identifiers. A data extensor module is provided for processing the data received from the data source to add, upon need, a context identifier linked to the source performance parameter. Whereby the added context identifier is present in the basic set but it is not present in the source set. The data extensor module processing data is received from the data source to obtain augmented data stored in the MOM data warehouse.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Giorgio Corsini, Giuliano Trifoglio
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Patent number: 11256679Abstract: A method for storing object state on hash chains. A block of a hash chain is located with an accessor function. The block includes a field value of a field of an object. Version data is located using the block. The version data identifies a block version of the block. The block version is compared to a function version of the accessor function. The field value from the block is returned when the block version matches the function version. A version matched accessor function is called to return the field value when the block version does not match the function version.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2018Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: Intuit Inc.Inventors: Glenn Carter Scott, Michael Richard Gabriel
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Patent number: 11249979Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for performing network device configuration validation online. A second instance of the command process (a shadow interpreter) can be run within a isolated validation environment on a network device that is active on a network. A copy of the configuration database on the network device is associated with the isolated validation environment. The validation handler erases the currently running configuration commands within the validation copy of the configuration database, and enters each new configuration command through the shadow interpreter to validate the new configuration commands on the network device without impacting the current functioning of the network device. After all the new configuration commands are entered, the validation report generates a report identifying the validation status for each command.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2018Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LPInventors: Frank Wood, Scott A. Gulland
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Patent number: 11238068Abstract: A digital magazine server generates a model to associate topics with content items. To generate the model, the digital magazine server selects a set of content items that have been included in one or more digital magazines. For each content item of the set, the digital magazine server determines a distribution of concepts associated with a content item of the set based on characteristics of digital magazines including the content item of the set and a distribution of topics associated with the content item of the set based on words included in the content item. Additionally, the digital magazine server determines a parameter defining a relationship between the distributions of concepts and the distributions of topics associated with content items of the set. A model based on the distributions of concepts and of topics as well as the parameter is generated and stored for application to content items.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2018Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Flipboard, Inc.Inventors: Arnab Bhadury, Vlad Ionut Cora, Dusan Jovanovic, Martin Jack Rose
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Patent number: 11226979Abstract: A data processing manager receives a batch of data for real-time data processing. The batch of data is associated with a correlation identifier and includes a set of data objects. The data processing manager assigns, to each data object, a unique resource identifier. The data processing manager transmits a data processing request to a target data system, and the data processing request includes a set of callback functions corresponding to the set of data objects. The callback functions identify the unique resource identifier. As the target data system processes the data objects, the target data system executes the callback functions, which operate as dynamic return endpoints for the data processing results.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2018Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.Inventors: Richard Duane Perrin, Shawn Crosby, Suraj Shrestha, Anthony Sparks, Zhenge Li, Clarence Richard Farrell, Robert Hite, Scotty D. Gibson
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Patent number: 11227001Abstract: This disclosure relates to data association, attribution, annotation, and interpretation systems and related methods of efficiently organizing heterogeneous data at a massive scale. Incoming data is received and extracted for identifying information (“information”). Multiple dimensionality reducing functions are applied to the information, and based on the function results, the information are grouped into sets of similar information. Filtering rules are applied to the sets to exclude non-matching information in the sets. The sets are then merged into groups of information based on whether the sets contain at least one common information. A common link may be associated with information in a group. If the incoming data includes the identifying information associated with to the common link, the incoming data is assigned the common link. In some embodiments, incoming data are not altered but assigned into domains.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2018Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Anukool Rege, Prashant Kumar Sahay, Mervyn Lally, Shirish Kumar, Sanskar Sahay
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Patent number: 11170063Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for editable search. A computing device generates a network page that includes a title that is interactive or modifiable. In response to a user-selected attribute being selected from the title, an item catalog is searched to identify available items with different attribute values for the user-selected attribute. A menu with one or more different attribute value is rendered in relation to the user-selected attribute from the title. A different attribute value is selected from the menu and the network page is updated to include the different attribute value in place of the user-selected attribute in the title.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2020Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Nathan Ross Mueller, David Robert Cole, Anna Maria Godfrey, Whitney Gale Spathelf
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Patent number: 11157442Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a memory to store report policy information for determining filtering processing to be applied to log data to be transmitted to a server. The report policy information associates, for each report policy, information defining a condition for applying filtering processing to the log data and information indicating a type of filtering processing to be applied to the log data. The information processing apparatus further includes circuitry to: receive, from each of a plurality of devices through a second network, log data indicating a log of processes that have been executed by the device; specify, from among the received log data, log data that matches the condition for applying filtering processing; apply filtering processing to the specified log data; and transmit the log data to which the filtering processing is applied, to the server through the first network.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2018Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Tsutomu Ohishi
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Patent number: 11151110Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques are disclosed for identification of records for post-cloning tenant identifier translation. Records may be received from a database system executing a database executor at a computing device executing a database application. The database application may identify, from among the records, records that include a record header that includes a bit indicating that an encoded value of a tenant identifier is stored in the record in a column of the record that is not a tenant identifier column. The database application may generate an index based on the records identified by the database application. The database application may access the records using the index and replace the encoded value of the tenant identifier stored in columns of the records with an encoded new value of a tenant identifier.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2018Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.Inventors: Thomas Fanghaenel, Stephane Geneix
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Patent number: 11151103Abstract: A search system obtains a search result comprising an entry. The search result is based on a set of search constraints. The search system generates a hit index based on the search result and each constraint in the set of search constraints. The hit index includes identification information of an element associated with the entry that caused the entry to be included in the search result. The search system updates the search result to comprise an indication of the element associated with the entry based on the hit index.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2013Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: VERITAS TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventors: Rujuta Ranade, Michael J. Coyle
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Patent number: 11138208Abstract: Aspects of systems and methods for providing contextual and event driven insights are provided. The system monitors information about the users and their conversations. Upon receiving a natural language request for information for a topic, the system utilizes a model to extract one or more topics from the request. The system utilizes the topic to query a resource for candidate users with knowledge about the topic. The system then queries a resource to identify candidate content items associated with the topic and the candidate users. Thereafter, the system refines the candidate users and the candidate content items to identify relevant users and content items that are meaningful to the user.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2016Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Andreea Sandu, Mihai Gramada, Dorin Adrian Rusu, Gabriel Alexandru Badescu, Ion Morozan, Monica Cristiana Iacob
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Patent number: 11132343Abstract: In general, embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer readable media for automatic cleaning of entity resolution (ER) data persistently stored in a data repository.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2016Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: Groupon, Inc.Inventors: Taylor Raack, David Alan Johnston
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Patent number: 11086893Abstract: System, method, and computer product embodiments are described for querying a database using natural language queries (NLQ) to produce actionable results in an answer card. The method allows a user to take further action with the answer card by editing the card contents, manipulating the way data is displayed, or querying the answer results for more details of the data. By the method, the user may continue exploration of the data, use the results to collaborate with others, or build a story from the data in a presentation format, such as a dashboard, while maintaining access to the real-time data of the database through the answer card. System and computer product embodiments implement the method.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.Inventors: Raymon Sutedjo-The, James D. Vogt, Dylan Thom, Vlad Eroshin, Dai Duong Doan, Ryoji Osawa
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Patent number: 11062224Abstract: Methods and apparatus for predicting unknown values given a data set of known values. A prediction engine ingests a variety of data sets. Once the dataset has been ingested, requests for predictions may be presented to the prediction engine. The engine responds with a prediction as well as a confidence score based on the ingested information using a variety of techniques. Some of these techniques identify witness values in the ingested data that are similar to the requested prediction, other techniques compute witness values from ingested data, etc. These witness values are aggregated to yield an answer and a confidence level in a way that permits the user to review the underlying witness values.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2016Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: George Chen, Vishal Doshi, Ying-zong Huang, Vighnesh Sachidananda, Devavrat Shah, Vasudha Shivamoggi
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Patent number: 11061897Abstract: Techniques and solutions are described for facilitating the distribution of tables and table data between a shared container and one or more tenant containers. The tables can include a sharing indicator that can designate a table (or a view on a table) as having a materializable type. Materializable types can initially be deployed in the shared container, and a tenant container can have read access to the table via a view. If the tenant attempts to modify the materializable table, the table can be materialized in the tenant container. Metadata for a materializable table can include materialization instructions. Techniques and solutions are also provided for converting between sharing types, and for updating shared containers or table schemas.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2018Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: SAP SEInventors: Andreas Zimmermann, Volker Driesen, Markus Gebhard, Torsten Ziegler, Frank-Martin Haas
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Patent number: 11055365Abstract: A computer system identifies a platform that corresponds to a first resource, wherein the first resource includes one or more resource pages. The computer system determines one or more x-paths that corresponds to the identified platform. The computer system utilizes at least a first x-path of the one or more x-paths to add a product to a digital shopping cart associated with the first resource. In response to adding the product to the digital shopping cart associated with the first resource, the computer system utilizes at least a second x-path of the one or more x-paths to access a first resource page of the one or more resource pages, wherein the first resource page is a checkout page. The computer system determines whether one or more elements located within the first resource page are valid.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2018Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.Inventors: Olga Sharshevsky, Nadav Weissman, Ran Yuchtman, Smadar Gazit
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Patent number: 11055317Abstract: Certain embodiments involve determining and outputting correlations between metrics in large-scale web analytics datasets. For example, a processor identifies pairs of data metrics in a web analytics data set and determines a Maximal Information Coefficient (MIC) score for each pair of data metrics that indicates a strength of a correlation between the pair of data metrics. The processor generates an interactive user interface that graphically displays each pair of correlated data metrics having an MIC score above a threshold and the interactive user interface indicates the strength of the correlation between each displayed pair of correlated data metrics. The processor receives user input indicating an adjustment to the threshold and modifies the interactive user interface in response to receiving the user input by adding pairs of correlated data metrics to, or removing pairs of correlated metrics from, the interactive user interface based on the adjustment to the threshold.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2017Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: ADOBE INC.Inventors: Hamid Dadkhahi, Mohammad Ghavamzadeh, Hung Bui, Branislav Kveton