Patents Examined by James Ross Hollister
  • Patent number: 10904203
    Abstract: A method for encoding domain name information into flow records includes receiving a flow record. The flow record includes initial network flow information in a standard flow record format including at least a source address and a destination address. Domain name information associated with each of the source address and destination address is retrieved from a database. The domain name information is encoded into the received flow record while maintaining the initial network flow information to yield an enhanced flow record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Arbor Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence B. Huston, III, James E. Winquist, Alex Levine, Ronald G. Hay, Brett Higgins, Andrew D. Mortensen, William M. Northway, Jr., Eric Jackson
  • Patent number: 10904343
    Abstract: User devices configured to select subsets of network identities and network devices configured to deliver messages based on those subsets are described herein. The user devices each receive multiple network identities for a service account, select a subset of the network identities based on preferences, and provide the selected subset to the telecommunication network in message headers. The preferences indicate network identities for which a user wishes the user device to receive communications. A network device receives and caches the subsets. The network device further utilizes the subsets in determining which user device to deliver messages to.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Shelby Seward
  • Patent number: 10872056
    Abstract: An example method for facilitating remote memory access with memory mapped addressing among multiple compute nodes is executed at an input/output (IO) adapter in communication with the compute nodes over a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIE) bus, the method including: receiving a memory request from a first compute node to permit access by a second compute node to a local memory region of the first compute node; generating a remap window region in a memory element of the IO adapter, the remap window region corresponding to a base address register (BAR) of the second compute node; and configuring the remap window region to point to the local memory region of the first compute node, wherein access by the second compute node to the BAR corresponding with the remap window region results in direct access of the local memory region of the first compute node by the second compute node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventor: Sagar Borikar
  • Patent number: 10868879
    Abstract: The present application is directed to systems and methods for associating cookies of a linking system to a device identifier of the computing device. A server of a linking system can receive, from a browser of a computing device, a first request to access content via an encoded uniform resource locator (URL) link generated by the server and linked to a web page of the linking system. The server can redirect the browser of the computing device to the web page of the linking system. The server can receive a request to associate a cookie passed to a mobile application installed on the computing device with a device identifier of the computing device. The server can then associate the cookie with the device identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: BITLY, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Comstock, Robert Platzer
  • Patent number: 10855608
    Abstract: A reconnect restriction evaluator is described. After detecting that a certain number of the reconnect requests submitted by a member of an on-line social network have failed, the reconnect restriction evaluator performs additional evaluation of the history of reconnect requests stored as associated with a profile of the member and determines whether the high count of failed requests recorded against the member are offset by one or more offsetting factors. Based on the result of the additional evaluation, the reconnect restriction evaluator generates an exemption indicator and stores it as associated with the profile of the member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Xiaosu Huang, Ziliang Lin, Jonathan Wei Chen, Hao Tang
  • Patent number: 10846434
    Abstract: Disclosed method comprises generating a fraud detection model comprising an algorithm to determine a likelihood of fraud for a client response based on data from similar customers responding to similar questions and data generated from tracking the client computing device. In response to the likelihood of fraud satisfying a threshold, the method comprises querying and displaying an electronic profile of the client, and inquiring the client as to whether the client is willing to modify any of the responses while monitoring the client device. The method comprises transmitting a fraud value to the customer database, in response to receiving the same input, form the client computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
    Inventors: Yaron Ben-Zvi, Sears Merritt
  • Patent number: 10826859
    Abstract: Techniques for ephemeral message are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a delayed-action worker module operative to wake according to a wake timer; determine a current update object for a delayed-action cursor for a recipient update queue for a messaging system, the delayed-action cursor associated with an action delay for the recipient update queue; determine a delayed-action activity for the current update object; perform the delay-action activity for the current update object; determine a next update object for the delayed-action cursor for the recipient update queue; and determine a next wake timer for the delayed-action worker module based on the action delay and a creation time for the next update object. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Steiner, Jeremy Fein, Erik Murphy-Chutorian, Ting Yang, Pierre-Luc Bertrand, Neil John Fulwiler
  • Patent number: 10812408
    Abstract: A distributed system may implement preventing concentrated selection of resource hosts for placing resources within the distributed system. When a request to place a resource at a resource host is received, an evaluation of load metrics for the resource host is made with respect to rejection criteria. If the rejection criteria is satisfied, then the resource host may reject the request to place the resource. If the rejection criteria is not satisfied, then the resource host may not reject the placement of the resource. Rejection criteria may be provided to resource hosts along with the placement request, in some embodiments. Rejection criteria may be changed, weakened, or removed entirely if initial attempts to place a resource are unsuccessful.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Surya Prakash Dhoolam, Christopher Magee Greenwood, Mitchell Gannon Flaherty, Danny Wei, Nachiappan Arumugam
  • Patent number: 10812549
    Abstract: A method of sharing content rendered on a device, including executing an application which generates audiovisual content, retrieving the application's audiovisual content from a graphics memory, and transmitting the retrieved content to a destination device via a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Edwin Iskandar, Johnny Trenh, Norman Wang, Megan Gardner
  • Patent number: 10785291
    Abstract: The present invention provides for indirect access to public cloud-based computing environments for the purpose of running ad-hoc commands, on-demand, on any public cloud-based computing resource. Messages including the ad-hoc commands are communicated to a cloud-based command queue, which acts as the intermediary between the user (i.e., command requester) and the public cloud-based computing resources. A command executor agent installed on the cloud-based computing resources, polls the command queue for commands designated for the application(s) currently being executed on the cloud-based computing resources. Results of the command are communicated from the cloud-based computing resource to the command queue, which is periodically polled by a monitoring queue in order for the user/command requester to obtain the results of the execution of the command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rajashekar A. Reddy, Dhananjay Bhat, Abdul Rafman Azeez
  • Patent number: 10771416
    Abstract: Control of messages in a publish/subscribe system is described. A publishing system creates a message for publishing to multiple subscribers via a broker system. The message and associated metadata are provided. The metadata defines control of the message and relates to control of publishing of the message, by the broker system, and/or control of use of the message, by a subscribing system. The message is published with the metadata. A broker system receives the message and analyses the metadata with respect to a subscriber. Based on the analysis, restrictions are applied to delivery of the message to the subscriber. A subscribing system receives the message and analyses the metadata with respect to the subscriber. Based on this second analysis, restrictions are applied to use of the message by the subscriber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Hanson Lieu
  • Patent number: 10771417
    Abstract: Control of messages in a publish/subscribe system is described. A publishing system creates a message for publishing to multiple subscribers via a broker system. The message and associated metadata are provided. The metadata defines control of the message and relates to control of publishing of the message, by the broker system, and/or control of use of the message, by a subscribing system. The message is published with the metadata. A broker system receives the message and analyses the metadata with respect to a subscriber. Based on the analysis, restrictions are applied to delivery of the message to the subscriber. A subscribing system receives the message and analyses the metadata with respect to the subscriber. Based on this second analysis, restrictions are applied to use of the message by the subscriber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Hanson Lieu
  • Patent number: 10756917
    Abstract: A method for establishing a network connection between a mobile device and a network device includes determining whether the mobile device has previously established a network connection with the network device, and determining whether the mobile device and the network device can connect using information corresponding to a previously established network connection. If the mobile device has not previously established a network connection with the network device or if the mobile device and the network device cannot connect using above information, the method includes determining whether one or more records of network connections corresponding to the network device exist, and determining if the mobile device and the network device can connect using information included in those records. If the mobile device and the network device can connect using the above information or records, the transmitter component of the mobile device establishes a new network connection with the network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Peter J. Zehler, Matthew J. Quirk, Lawrence W. Meyer
  • Patent number: 10756911
    Abstract: A cloud-management system intercepts API calls from a client application. Based on the expected amount of cloud resources required to service the API call, and given the terms of the client's billing plan, the system estimates the cost to service the call. The system embeds this cost into its response to the API call and the client application, or an IDE hosting the application, keeps a running total of API-related costs incurred by the application. The system can also run in an emulation mode, estimating the application's API resource-consumption costs without actually consuming cloud resources. In this mode, the system replaces each GET and PUT call in the intercepted API call with an equivalent HEAD call that does not consume resources. The system still, however, predicts the actual cost of the original API call by returning the cost of each original GET and PUT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sachin M. Nayak, John Kurian, Badekila Ganesh Prashanth Bhat
  • Patent number: 10735352
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a reception unit that receives messages from terminals of a plurality of users constituting a group, a storage unit that stores reception times of the messages, a transmission unit that transmits the message, to a terminal of at least one user, a specification unit that specifies an unread message for which a reception time difference for a predetermined number of continuous messages, among a plurality of the unread messages, satisfies a predetermined condition, as a trigger message, based on the reception time of an unread message for which read information is not received from the terminal of the user, the read information indicating that the message has been viewed, and a generation unit that generates display information for displaying information regarding the trigger message on a display unit of the terminal of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: LINE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuo Saito
  • Patent number: 10735514
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for remote configuration of applications on a network-attached storage device (NAS). In certain embodiments, a NAS includes a non-volatile memory module, a network interface, and control circuitry configured to store a mapping of an application identifier and a port for each of the plurality of applications stored in the non-volatile memory. The control circuitry receives, from a client over the network interface, a request to configure a first application of the plurality of applications, the request comprising a first port corresponding to the first application. The control circuitry determines a first embedded web server of the first application based on the mapping and the first port received in the request and transmits the request to the first embedded web server on the first application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sapna Murari Todwal, Sailesh Rachabathuni, Cipson Jose Chiriyankandath, Ruslan Azibovich Sharifullin
  • Patent number: 10637940
    Abstract: Streaming content based on skip histories is discussed herein. An embodiment operates by receiving a plurality of skip commands associated with a content from receivers while the receivers are displaying the content to users; generating a crowd source skip history for the content using at least the received skip commands; receiving a request for the content from a receiver; and transmitting a stream of the content to the receiver using the crowd source skip history for the content, such that a portion of the content identified by the crowd source skip history is excluded from the stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: ROKU, INC.
    Inventor: Joseph Hollinger
  • Patent number: 10616284
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes a computer server machine receiving information about a first media player event with the information about the first media player event including a viewing session identifier. Using a state machine, the computer server machine identifies a current state of the viewing session using the information about the first media player event. The computer server machine receives information about a second media player event. Using a state machine, the computer server machine identifies a subsequent state of the viewing session using the information about the second media player event. The computer server machine calculates metrics for the viewing session based on the current state and subsequent state, and stores the metrics. The computer server machine generates a session summary with the session summary including information about the metrics for the viewing session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Mao Xue, Jing Fang, Harish Srinivas, Hong Yan
  • Patent number: 10594601
    Abstract: A method is provided for packet broadcasting in a mesh-interconnected multi-computer network having a plurality of routers and a plurality of arbiters. The method includes interconnecting each of the plurality of routers to each of the plurality of arbiters. The method further includes receiving, by each of the plurality of arbiters, two or more packet broadcast requests. The method also includes live-lock free arbitering, by each of the plurality of arbiters, between the two or more packet broadcast requests using a shared priority matrix that selects one of the two or more packet broadcast requests. The shared priority matrix is shared amongst the plurality of arbiters and stores priority information relating to a correspondence between a plurality of packet broadcast requests, including the two or more packet broadcast requests, with respect to priorities assigned to each of the plurality of packet broadcast requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuteru Kohda, Nobuyuki Ohba
  • Patent number: 10587504
    Abstract: A method is provided for packet broadcasting in a mesh-interconnected multi-computer network having a plurality of routers and a plurality of arbiters. The method includes interconnecting each of the plurality of routers to each of the plurality of arbiters. The method further includes receiving, by each of the plurality of arbiters, two or more packet broadcast requests. The method also includes live-lock free arbitering, by each of the plurality of arbiters, between the two or more packet broadcast requests using a shared priority matrix that selects one of the two or more packet broadcast requests. The shared priority matrix is shared amongst the plurality of arbiters and stores priority information relating to a correspondence between a plurality of packet broadcast requests, including the two or more packet broadcast requests, with respect to priorities assigned to each of the plurality of packet broadcast requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuteru Kohda, Nobuyuki Ohba