Patents Examined by Greta Robinson
  • Patent number: 9047324
    Abstract: A universal data management interface (UDMI) system includes a processing system generates a visual interface through which a user can access, manage, and manipulate data on plural different types of remote databases. The UDMI connects to multiple standard database management systems and to allow multiple users to access, manage, and manipulate data within each of the multiple standard database management systems. The UDMI also allows multiple virtual databases that reside in a single database to be available as a network service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: CRUCIAL APEX COMMUNICATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Jasmin Cosic
  • Patent number: 9031900
    Abstract: In accordance with aspects of the disclosure, a system and methods may be provided for integrating software layers in OLAP including receiving, at an OLAP engine, a dynamic result set structure passed from an application layer via one or more other software layers. The dynamic result set structure may include a description of entities for a target layer. The system and methods may include enhancing raw data, at the OLAP engine, acquired from a database associated with a source layer based on the description of entities for the dynamic result set structure and passing one or more references to one or more memory locations for data elements in the dynamic result set structure from the OLAP engine to the application layer via the one or more other software layers for acquiring each data element associated with each corresponding reference in the dynamic result set structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Zoltan Albrecht, Sebastian Schroetel
  • Patent number: 9020989
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata. In one exemplary method, metadata from files created by several different software applications are captured, and the captured metadata is searched. The type of information in metadata for one type of file differs from the type of information in metadata for another type of file. Other methods are described and data processing systems and machine readable media are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yan Arrouye, Dominic Giampaolo, Bas Ording, Gregory Christie, Stephen Olivier Lemay, Marcel van Os, Imran Chaudhri, Kevin Tiene, Pavel Cisler
  • Patent number: 9020934
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is a computer executable method for characterizing, e.g. for diagnostic purposes, utilizing a reference database, a query sample tissue based on the gene expression data of the tissue. The method is characterized in that it comprises the steps of calculating an expression match score (EM-score) indicating the likelihood of having the gene expression level observed in the query sample in each of the tissue categories of the reference database, calculating for the genes of the sample tissue, using e.g. the EM-score, tissue specificity score (TS-score), that expresses how uniquely a gene identifies the query sample as belonging to a certain tissue category, calculating, utilizing e.g. the TS-score, overall similarity of the sample tissue in relation to a tissue category of the reference database, and storing at least some resulting characterization data to a memory device or outputting the data to an output device of a computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Medisapiens Oy
    Inventors: Sami Kilpinen, Kalle Ojala, Timo Ahopelto, Tommi Pisto
  • Patent number: 9015207
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing sales and marketing information. A mobile device is configured to display a screen that includes a plurality of icons. In response to activating the icons, the mobile device retrieves and transmits data associated with sales and marketing data obtained by canvassing a neighborhood and displays this data to the mobile device user. The data is maintained in system database so that all system users have access to updated data on sales associate availability for appointments, job status, and sales leads obtained from canvassing. The mobile device is further configured to display a map with symbols that indicate the location of addresses associated with sales and marketing data in the database. The mobile device user may retrieve data associated with an address by selecting one of the symbols. The symbols displayed are adjusted based on the map scale and mobile device location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Touchstone Media Group, LLC
    Inventor: Michael Foit
  • Patent number: 9015206
    Abstract: The present invention provides a general solution to presenting media interface and navigation tools for content provided from a plurality of sources. The invention maintains a user at a single site regardless of the source of the media content. This permits a consistent interface to be presented to the user. Because the user remains at the same site, differences in tiered membership may be tracked so that the user is only presented with content that the user is permitted to view. The invention uses a metadata language to characterize content so that viewer type, membership level, and other information can be maintained and used for an enjoyable viewing experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew R. Volk, Ronald Jacoby
  • Patent number: 9009160
    Abstract: An information classification system 100 includes: a classified information storing part 101 for storing classified information having already been classified into a certain group and group specification information for specifying the group, in association with each other; and a confidence calculating part 102 for calculating confidence having a value depending on a probability that a group which is specified based on unclassified information as a target to be classified and classified information selected as reference information from among the stored classified information and into which the unclassified information should be classified is a true group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: NEC Communication Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Stefan Aust, Akira Matsumoto, Tetsuya Ito, Koichi Yoshimura, Soshi Kuroshima
  • Patent number: 8996587
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for automatically structuring free form heterogeneous data. In one aspect of the invention, the techniques include obtaining free form heterogeneous data, segmenting the free form heterogeneous data into one or more units, automatically labeling the one or more units based on one or more machine learning techniques, wherein each unit is associated with a label indicating an information type, and structuring the one or more labeled units in a format to facilitate one or more operations that use at least a portion of the labeled units, e.g., information technology (IT) operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gautam Kar, Ruchi Mahindru, Anca Sailer, Xing Wei
  • Patent number: 8996451
    Abstract: An apparatus, comprising a processor, memory including computer program code, the memory and the computer program code configured to, working with the processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following: receiving a first set of information associated with a first information source, performing a first analysis of, at least part of, the first set of information based, at least in part, on an analysis criteria, determining that the first set of information complies with the analysis criteria, determining an analysis chronicle based, at least in part, on the first analysis, determining that the analysis chronicle has changed, and performing at least one operation in response to determining that the analysis chronicle has changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Vidya Raghavan Setlur
  • Patent number: 8990158
    Abstract: For synchronizing replication status, a copy module continuously replicates data from a first device designated with a device status of primary to a second device designated with a device status of secondary. A first peer-to-peer remote copy (PPRC) relationship is established between the first and second devices. The first and second devices store replication information comprising a bitmap with a replication status for each data block of the first device. The copy module further copies an instant point-in-time copy of the data from the second device to a copy device. In addition, the copy module copies the replication information from the second device to the copy device and links the replication information of the second device and copy devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Nicolas M. Clayton
  • Patent number: 8983998
    Abstract: Various aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and machine-readable media for prioritizing points of interest. A system is configured to receive a plurality of points of interest (POIs) selected for a user, identify at least one point of interest in the plurality of POIs that has been assigned a rating by a linker entity that is associated with a first geographic region that is associated with the user and a second geographic region that is not associated with the user, prioritize the at least one identified point of interest, and select, based on the prioritizing, a subset of the plurality of POIs to be presented to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Timothy Spence
  • Patent number: 8984006
    Abstract: Embodiments include a computer-implemented method that includes identifying a candidate parent entity having one or more characteristics indicative of the entity having a parent hierarchical relationship to another entity of an entity set, identifying a candidate child entity set including entities of the entity set that each have one or more characteristics indicative of the entity having a child hierarchical relationship to the candidate parent entity, comparing characteristics of the candidate parent entity to characteristics of an entity of the candidate child entity set to determine whether a hierarchical relationship exists between the candidate parent entity and the entity of the candidate child entity set, determining that a hierarchical relationship exists between the candidate parent entity and the entity of the candidate child entity set, and updating a hierarchical index to reflect the hierarchical relationship between the candidate parent entity and the entity of the candidate child entity set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Wang, Yixin Chai, Fang Chu, Ting Fu, Sean Wonjoon Choi, Guangda Lai, Liu Fang, Li Liu, Ruohao Li
  • Patent number: 8983929
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing an index database. In one exemplary method, an index database is stored on a machine readable volume with an operating system and the files which have been indexed, and then the volume is, after the storing, made available for distribution to licensees or customers. In this manner, the volume will include a previously created index database, allowing a user to begin use of the index database without having to perform an indexing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Carol, Yan Arrouye, Dominic Giampaolo
  • Patent number: 8977587
    Abstract: A log file contains operation records, each operation record is of a certain type, and each operation record is associated with a transaction. A plurality of operation records is read from the log file into a record store. Records of the plurality of operation records of each operation record type are sampled at a predefined sampling rate. Operation records in the plurality of operations records are identified that are associated with completed transactions of which the sampled operation records are associated. The identified operation records are then extracted from the record store into a data store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Manoj K. Agarwal, Curt L. Cotner, Amitava Kundu
  • Patent number: 8972338
    Abstract: A log file contains operation records, each operation record is of a certain type, and each operation record is associated with a transaction. A plurality of operation records is read from the log file into a record store. Records of the plurality of operation records of each operation record type are sampled at a predefined sampling rate. Operation records in the plurality of operations records are identified that are associated with completed transactions of which the sampled operation records are associated. The identified operation records are then extracted from the record store into a data store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Manoj K. Agarwal, Curt L. Cotner, Amitava Kundu
  • Patent number: 8972344
    Abstract: According to one aspect, embodiments of the invention provide a data replicator comprising a system exit configured to capture data received at a source, a configuration control system configured to receive captured data from the system exit and modify the captured data to include sequence information, a message broker configured to receive the modified data from the configuration control system and to convert the modified data to a format of a destination, and a sequence engine configured to receive the converted and modified data from the message broker in a first sequence, to re-sequence, based on the sequence information, the converted and modified data in the first sequence into a second sequence, where the second sequence corresponds to the chronological order in which the data was captured by the system exit, and to forward the converted and modified data to the destination database in the second sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
    Inventor: John Randy Frerking
  • Patent number: 8965689
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software for a map display configuration system are provided herein. In one example, a method of operating a map display configuration system is provided. The method includes receiving a search request transferred by a wireless communication device, where the search request indicates at least one search term and a wireless access node identifier for a wireless access node presently serving the wireless communication device. The method also includes processing at least the search request to identify a map display configuration based on the search term and the wireless access node identifier, and transferring the map display configuration for delivery to the wireless communication device, where the wireless communication device generates a geographic map display based on the map display configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Michael P. McMullen, Rodney Dewaine Nelson
  • Patent number: 8965876
    Abstract: Techniques for generating and publishing searchable feeds for websites are provided. An indication is received of content of interest of a selected website. The selected website is crawled to retrieve a plurality of pages. The retrieved pages are processed according to the indicated content of interest to generate structured content. The structured content is indexed to generate an index. A query interface is provided that receives queries directed to the index, applies the received queries to the index, and transmits responses to the received queries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Rahul Hampole, Nageswara R. Pobbathi
  • Patent number: 8959121
    Abstract: A first record of a first component of a service is provided from a memory to a requester of the first component of the service. The first record of the first component of the service is edited using a processor of a computer in accordance with a request from the requester of the first component of the service. A second component of the service is provided in accordance with the edited first record of the first component of the service in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignees: AT&T Mobility II LLC, AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ted Stine, Joseph Anthony Speeney
  • Patent number: 8959122
    Abstract: There is disclosed an interface enabling easy implementation of processing on hierarchical data, and a method facilitating comprehension of the structure, meaning, and format of hierarchical data. There is also disclosed a data processing device including a user interface portion receiving data with tuples each a combination of data of different types, and lists each a series of data of a same type, display data obtained by converting the data, and an instruction requesting processing from a user, and presenting the display data, data managing portion managing the hierarchical data, display-data generating portion generating the display data from the hierarchical data, and analyzing portion implementing the processing. Data is presented in a table format having rows displaying level names and attribute names, respectively. The generating portion samples data of each level of hierarchical data to extract an amount possible to present, and converts the data format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kosuke Yanai, Yasutsugu Morimoto