Patents Examined by Greta L. Robinson
  • Patent number: 11899688
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for distribution of applications amongst a number of servers, ensuring that changes to application data on a master for that application are asynchronously replicated to a number of slaves for that application. Servers may be located in geographically diverse locations; the invention permits data replication over high-latency and lossy network connections and failure-tolerance under hardware and network failure conditions. Access to applications is mediated by a distributed protocol handler which allows any request for any application to be addressed to any server, and which, when working in tandem with the replication system, pauses connections momentarily to allow seamless, consistent live-migration of applications and their state between servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Luke Marsden
  • Patent number: 11886430
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present application set forth a computer-implemented method that includes receiving, from a device, a natural-language (NL) request. The method further includes selecting, using the NL request, an intent from a set of intents, wherein the intent is associated with a pre-defined intent template, the pre-defined intent template including a set of property fields that are associated with one or more portions of the NL request. The method also includes determining, based on the NL request, a set of property field values for the set of property fields. The method further includes generating a query to be executed on a field-searchable data source, wherein the query is based on one or more property field values included in the set of property field values. The method also includes receiving, in response to the query, a result that includes a set of event field values. In addition, the method includes causing the device to display at least a portion of the result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SPLUNK INC.
    Inventors: Yow Han Moo, Dayanand Pochugari, Aungon Nag Radon, Xin Li, Venkat Mamdi, Anand Srinivasabagavathar
  • Patent number: 11874852
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods related to generating instructive actions based on categorization of input data are described. In an example, a method can include receiving, from an edge device and at a processing resource of a device, a plurality of input data associated with a plurality of sources communicatively coupled to the edge device and categorizing each piece of the plurality of input data as private or public based on an associated one of the plurality of sources. The categorizing can include writing each piece of data with metadata that indicates that it is private or public and/or selecting a first data path indicated as private or a second data path indicated as public. The method can include writing each piece of the plurality of input data categorized as private to a dedicated buffer or a dedicated address space of a memory resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Carla L. Christensen, Lavanya Sriram, Swetha Barkam, Anshika Sharma, Libo Wang
  • Patent number: 11860878
    Abstract: An inquiry system is provided in which an inquiry unit of a user of a machine and/or a device makes inquiries related to the machine and/or the device to inquiry a plurality of center systems of suppliers, and includes: a relay device which connects the inquiry unit and the inquiry center systems; and a storage unit which stores first and second identification information related to the machine and/or the device, the inquiry unit includes: an acquisition unit which acquires the first identification information; and a first communication unit which transmits the first identification information acquired to the relay device, the relay device includes: a second communication unit which communicates between the inquiry unit and the inquiry center systems; and a selection unit which selects, based on the first and second identification information, the inquiry center system and the second communication unit connects the inquiry unit and the inquiry center system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masato Yamamura, Hitoshi Hirota
  • Patent number: 11860963
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enhancing the functionality of client communication devices that may execute supported applications and are communicatively tied to the Internet are described. An automated procedure for generating new skills first finds forms on the Internet that require user interaction, then generates skills to support those interactions, and then uploads the new skills into a skills database. The skills acquired can make it easier for users to engage with associated web resources in the future, making it possible to support interactions that are partially or entirely speech-based.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Zoho Corporation Private Limited
    Inventors: Jeri John Prabhu Devageorge, Manikandan Vembu, Vijayakrishna Poisolla Meiyan
  • Patent number: 11860949
    Abstract: Automatic keyphrase labeling and machine learning training may include a processor extracting a plurality of keywords from at least one search query that resulted in a selection of a document appearing in a search result. For each of the plurality of keywords, the processor may determine a probability that the keyword describes the document. The processor may generate one or more keyphrases by performing processing including selecting each of the plurality of keywords having a probability greater than a predetermined threshold value for insertion into at least one of the one or more keyphrases and assembling the one or more keyphrases from the selected plurality of keywords. The processor may label the document with the keyphrase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: INTUIT INC.
    Inventors: Yair Horesh, Yehezkel Shraga Resheff, Oren Sar Shalom, Alexander Zhicharevich
  • Patent number: 11860886
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for using bots. One method includes receiving, from a user device, an input indicative of a selection of a bot, and retrieving data associated with a user of the user device. Further, the method includes identifying a selection of bot options based on analyzing the user data, and presenting, via the user device, the selection of bot options. Further, the method includes receiving, from the user device, a selection of an option from the selection of bot options, and retrieving user payment information and shipping information based on the user data and populate one or more fields associated with the selection of the option. Further, the method includes presenting, via the user device, a confirmation page to confirm the populated one or more fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: GF-17, Inc.
    Inventors: Cameron Sadler, Cynthia Jenkins
  • Patent number: 11842574
    Abstract: The application discloses a main-machine interaction method and system, a computer device, and a storage medium. The method includes: an interaction end collects user information including biological sample information and preprocesses and filters the user information, and sends the preprocessed information to a central server; the central server assigns a biological recognition task and distributes the biological recognition task to a computing server; the computing server extracts biological characteristics from the biological sample information according to the biological recognition task, and returns obtained extraction results to the central server; the central server combines the extraction results to get a processing result; the processing result is returned to the interaction end; the interaction end responds to the processing result to complete a man-machine interaction with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Ping An Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Lin Chen
  • Patent number: 11841911
    Abstract: A data processing system implements receiving query text for a search query for textual content recommendation. The query text includes one or more words indicating a type of textual content items being sought. The system implements analyzing the query text using a first machine learning (ML) model to obtain encoded query text, where the first ML model is trained to identify features within the query text and to generate the encoded query text by mapping the features to a hyper-dimensional latent space (HDLS). The system implements identifying one or more content items in a database of encoded content items mapped to the HDLS that satisfy the search query by comparing attributes of the encoded query text with attributes of the encoded content items to identify content items that are closest to the encoded query text within the HDLS, and causing the one or more content items to be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ji Li, Amit Srivastava, Adit Krishnan, Aman Malik
  • Patent number: 11836182
    Abstract: A system and method compares an image of an object of interest captured by an image capturing device from a first positional view relative to the object of interest against each of a plurality of images of each of a plurality of reference objects wherein each of the plurality of images of each of the plurality of reference objects is reflective of a unique positional view of the corresponding one of the plurality of reference objects to determine a second positional view relative to the object of interest at which the image capturing device is to be positioned to capture a further image of the product of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: W.W. Grainger, Inc.
    Inventor: Geoffry A. Westphal
  • Patent number: 11829415
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for improving data availability and/or resiliency of indexers of a data intake and query system. Due to a lag between the time at which data is received and the time at which the data is available for searching, the data intake and query system may receive a query indicating that received (but unavailable for search) data is to be included as part of the query. A cluster master can dynamically track what data is available for searching by different indexers and map the data to filter criteria using a bucket map identifier. When a search head receives a query, it can request a bucket map identifier from the cluster master and send the bucket map identifier to the indexers that will be executing the query. The indexers can use the bucket map identifier to request the individual buckets that they are assigned to search.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Alexandros Batsakis, Mehul Goyal, Ashish Mathew, Douglas Rapp, Igor Stojanovski, Eric Woo
  • Patent number: 11830627
    Abstract: Provided is a system for predicting disease based on biosignal data and medical knowledge base convergence. The system includes a first system unit configured to receive, from a user terminal, biosignal data collected from at least one sensor for sensing a biosignal, and calculate a disease score from the biosignal data based on a pre-trained prediction model, a second system unit configured to provide medical knowledge data for the first system unit, analyze a query input from the user terminal to provide a corresponding response, and augment the medical knowledge data based on the query and response; and a unified distributed repository that includes a database for enqueuing the biosignal data, a manager database for storing additional information of a user, and a medical knowledge base for storing predetermined medical knowledge data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Soon Hyun Kwon, Se Jin Park, Jae Hak Yoo, Jong Arm Jun, Cheol Sig Pyo
  • Patent number: 11814931
    Abstract: Using machine learning for sedimentary facies prediction by using one or more logs acquired in a borehole. This includes performing a petrophysical clustering of borehole depths wherein the depths of the borehole are gathered into clusters based on similarities in the one or more logs. Also performed is a log inclusion optimization, including a selection of one or more parameters of the petrophysical clustering, wherein the one or more parameters include a number and/or type of considered logs among the one or more logs and/or a clustering method. Also performed is a classification of the clusters into core depositional facies using one or more predetermined rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nadege Bize-Forest, Laura Lima Angelo dos Santos, Lucas Lima de Carvalho, Victoria Baines, Austin Boyd, Peter Schlicht, Josselin Kherroubi
  • Patent number: 11809477
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to extracting entities from unstructured text. The unstructured text is segmented into structured segments with one or more instances, that belong to different topics, with a topic segmentation model. Each instances of the structured segment is operated on by an entity extraction model to extract entities, and the extracted entities associated with each topic is produced in a computer-readable format. The relations between extracted entities associated with each topic may be identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Pallabi Ghosh, Sparsh Gupta
  • Patent number: 11809373
    Abstract: One or more computer processors determine a storage strategy for each chunked data block in a training dataset based on a respective computed usefulness score and a series of usefulness thresholds, wherein the storage strategy comprises RAID strategies that include striping, mirroring, parity, and double parity. The one or more computer processors distribute each data block in the training dataset according to the respective determined storage strategy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Manish Anand Bhide, Seema Nagar, Prateek Goyal, Kuntal Dey
  • Patent number: 11803574
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, devices, and methods for annotating or classifying regional sports into new sports categories and generating webpages for the regional sports. The methods and systems may create new tabs or icons on the browser sports webpages with the regional sports allowing the user to select the regional sports and access a dedicated webpage for the regional sport with information for the regional sport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Aman Singhal, Shrestha Mohanty, Marcelo Medeiros De Barros
  • Patent number: 11803600
    Abstract: A source content processor receives content from a crawler and calls a text mining engine. The text mining engine mines the content and provides metadata about the content. The source content processor applies a source content filtering rule to the content utilizing the metadata from the text mining engine. The source content filtering rule is previously built based on at least one of a named entity, a category, or a sentiment. The source content processor determines whether to persist the content according to a result from applying the source content filtering rule to the content and either stores the content in a data store or deletes the contents from the data ingestion pipeline such that the content is not persisted anywhere. Embodiments disclosed herein can significantly reduce the amount of irrelevant content through the data ingestion pipeline, prior to data persistence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Open Text SA ULC
    Inventors: Martin Brousseau, Steve Pettigrew
  • Patent number: 11798012
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for identifying users, records, and/or devices using anonymous source data records associated with consumer activity are described. In general, the consumer activity may relate to consumer interactions with devices and/or content or data through devices. The source data records may be structured, such as associating the source data records with a sequential timeline. Behavioral markers may be generated by the matching system and associated with the source data records. Each behavioral marker may be analyzed across all of the source data records to determine the effectiveness of the behavioral marker to identify unique source data records. One or more of the behavioral markers may be used to generate a behavioral fingerprint. A behavioral fingerprint may be used to identify unique records, devices, and/or users, including identification based on different sets of source data records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: FreeWheel Media, Inc.
    Inventors: Seth Haberman, Claudio Marcus
  • Patent number: 11797616
    Abstract: Examples relate to systems and methods for dynamically generating web pages for displaying database items based on metadata included in network URL requests. Some examples disclosed herein may enable receiving a URL comprising a plurality of segments, comparing each segment of the plurality of segments to known segment values, identifying, based on the comparison, searchable segments and one or more searchable categories for the searchable segments, independent of the order of the searchable segments within the URL, determining a search pattern based on the searchable segments and searchable segment categories, performing an inventory search based on the search pattern to return a list one or more inventory items, building web page metadata items based on the search pattern, and generating a web page comprising the web page metadata items and the list of inventory items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: CARMAX ENTERPRISE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventor: Chris Ferguson
  • Patent number: 11789989
    Abstract: An emote management system receives a request to make an emote available for users of an application for inclusion in a real-time content stream provided by the application, wherein the emote includes a proposed content pair comprising an image and a text string. The emote management system determines, based on application of a machine learning model to the content pair, whether the proposed content pair satisfies a content pair acceptability threshold. Based a determination that the proposed content pair satisfies the content pair acceptability threshold, return a response to the client indicating that the proposed content pair is an accepted content pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tianyi Liu, Lena Evans