Patents Examined by Javier O Guzman
  • Patent number: 11973673
    Abstract: Various embodiments herein each include at least one of systems, methods, software, and devices for edge system health monitoring and auditing. One embodiment, in the form of a method includes performing a system audit over a first network of devices deployed within the facility to determine a status of each respective device. This embodiment further includes determining an overall system status for the facility based on results of the system audit including consideration of a status of each of the devices deployed within the facility and storing data representative of the overall system status of the facility. This embodiment also transmits at least a portion of the data representative of the overall system status of the facility over a second network to a facility system status monitoring application which may then present a single indicator of the overall system status or health.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: NCR Voyix Corporation
    Inventor: John William Kerry
  • Patent number: 11973831
    Abstract: Techniques determine if an appliance having a fixed-rate of gas-consumption is degrading over time. In one example, a flowrate of gas at a service site is obtained. The flowrate of gas is disaggregated to obtain a flowrate of gas corresponding to an appliance having a generally fixed-rate of gas-consumption. The flowrate of gas of the appliance is compared to historical gas consumption by the appliance. Based at least in part on the comparing, it may be determined that performance of the appliance has changed over time. For example, the gas consumption of a hot water tank may increase due to mineral build-up in the bottom of the tank. Responsive to the determined degradation of the appliance, warnings may be sent, repairs may be made, and/or appliance(s) may be replaced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: ITRON, INC.
    Inventors: Mark K. Cornwall, James Lee Kann, Peter Clevenger
  • Patent number: 11973816
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, storage media, etc., to perform media monitoring for mobile platforms using messaging associated with adaptive bitrate streaming are disclosed. An example media platform disclosed herein is to detect an outgoing message to be sent by the mobile platform to stream media in accordance with an online streaming protocol, and associate resource identifier information included in the outgoing message with a time value. The disclosed example media platform is also to transmit the outgoing message to a first server to cause the media to be streamed to the mobile platform, and transmit the resource identifier information and the time value to a second server different from the first server to cause a media impression associated with the mobile platform to be monitored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventor: Jan Besehanic
  • Patent number: 11968246
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for determining a playback mode. The method includes: obtaining a streaming media data packet; where the streaming media data packet includes at least an encoding format and a streaming media type of streaming media data; the streaming media type includes at least one of a video media type or an audio video media type; and determining, according to the encoding format and the streaming media type of the streaming media data, a plugin-free playback mode for playing back the streaming media data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhongjian Feng
  • Patent number: 11968258
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods to provide a way to share metrics regarding shared data access and accesses associated with data providers for different data listings of the data exchange. For example, the method may comprise detecting one or more client interactions with a set of data listings of a data exchange, the set of data listings associated with one or data providers. The method may further comprise collecting metrics corresponding to the one or more client interactions. In addition, the method may share metrics relevant to the one or more data providers with the one or more data providers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SNOWFLAKE INC.
    Inventors: Edmond T. Chan, Pui Kei Johnston Chu, Chao Ren, Stephanie Stillman, Dangfu Wang
  • Patent number: 11960486
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems and methods for aggregation and management of cloud storage among a plurality of providers via file fragmenting to provide increased reliability and security. In one implementation, fragments or blocks may be distributed among a plurality of cloud storage providers, such that no provider retains a complete copy of a file. Accordingly, even if an individual service is compromised, a malicious actor cannot access the data. In another implementation, fragments may be duplicated and distributed to multiple providers, such that loss of communications to any one provider does not result in inability to access the data. This implementation may be combined with error correction techniques to allow recovery, even with loss of multiple providers. File synchronization may also be faster in these implementations by dividing reading and writing operations among multiple providers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Open Text Inc.
    Inventors: Teo Winton Crofton, David Raissipour
  • Patent number: 11956333
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for sharing an App, an electronic device and a storage medium are provided. The method includes in response to detecting a preset trigger operation for an App, displaying associated regions for associated devices; in response to a selecting operation for any of the associated regions, determining an associated device corresponding to the any of the associated regions as a target device; and sending interface display data of the App to the target device, so that the target device displays a program interface of the App based on the received interface display data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huiying Yang, Zetan Pei, Zhenzhou Lu, Jiayan Li, Panpan Zhang, Linger Zhao, Wentao Zhang
  • Patent number: 11943289
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for providing content. An example method can comprise receiving, at a content provider, a request for a content transmission from a first device and determining a parameter related to the first content transmission and comparing the parameter to a threshold. An example method can comprise determining, by the content provider, a second content transmission based on the comparison to the threshold and providing the second content transmission to the first in response to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Ross Gilson
  • Patent number: 11936701
    Abstract: A distribution control apparatus assigns one of the one or more media distribution servers that is selected based on a reserved bandwidth of the media distribution server for distributing the media information and a maximum reserved bandwidth available to the media distribution server, as a media distribution server that distributes the media information to one or more communication apparatuses at a collective site, the collective site including one or more sites that share the same media information, and transmits, in response to a connection request to connect to the assigned distribution media distribution server, transmitted from a particular communication apparatus of the one or more communication apparatuses at a particular site of the collective site, a connection response to the particular communication apparatus at the particular site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Naoki Fukasawa
  • Patent number: 11936702
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for presenting media streams based on changes in geolocation. A MapView system may receive a first positioning signal indicating a first geographical location of a user device. The MapView system may determine a first media stream to be presented by the user device based on the first geographical location and a location of a source of the first media stream. The MapView system may then facilitate a presentation of the first media stream by the user device. When the MapView system receives a second positioning signal indicating a second geographical location of the user device, the MapView may identify, a second media stream to be presented by the user device based on the second geographical location being in broadcast range of the second media stream. The MapView system may then facilitate a presentation of the second media stream by the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Tuneln, Inc.
    Inventors: Moksha Adyanthaya, Paul Brody, Scott Collins, Jack Kim, Sarah Kate Emerson, Yuri Ono, Eric Wilcox, Richard Stern, Nicole Erthein, Devki Kalra, Joseph King, Joseph Gomez
  • Patent number: 11928209
    Abstract: A resource conservation system, including a determination processor may be provided. The determination processor may identify a characterization output that characterizes a plurality of data structures. The characterization output may be based on plurality of inputs. The inputs may be processed through a plurality, or cascade, of artificial intelligence models both in sequence and in parallel. A numerical value may be identified for each data structure. The value may identify a degree of certainty that the determination processor accurately characterized each data structure. When the degree is above a threshold, the determination processor may identify a subset of inputs that most contributed to the characterization output. The determination processor may execute an equation to identify a subset of inputs that most contributed to the output. The equation may involve inputs and/or outputs of each of the cascade of models. Identified inputs may be ranked based on contribution to the outcome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Justin Horowitz, Melissa Podrazka, Sameer Sharma
  • Patent number: 11929895
    Abstract: A communication log aggregation device includes: a communicator that obtains flow information including one or more flow records and first statistical information for each flow from each of collection devices, the one or more flow records each including flow identification information included in a message received by at least one observer that is disposed in a control network system, the flow being classified based on the flow identification information, the collection devices each collecting the one or more flow records and the first statistical information for each flow from the message received by the observer; and a flow aggregator that generates aggregated flow information by performing at least one of the following: (i) selecting at least one of the one or more flow records, (ii) adding second statistical information, and (iii) deleting at least one of the one or more flow records, and outputs the aggregated flow information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takeshi Kishikawa, Ryo Hirano, Yoshihiro Ujiie
  • Patent number: 11930462
    Abstract: Precision digital chronography based on detected changes in state of a processor is described. The changes in state may be detected by another processor and an averaged time interval generated. A signal corresponding to the averaged time interval may be communicated to a distributed database and propagated to remote systems. Devices associated with the remote systems may adjust or set a device clock in accordance with the averaged time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Lyle W. Paczkowski, Peter P. Dawson, Ronald Richard Marquardt, Walter F. Rausch
  • Patent number: 11928608
    Abstract: A disclosed system for transport asset monitoring, for example monitoring truck trailer unloading progress at large retail locations, includes an artificial intelligence (AI) solution for managing operations at a facility. The AI solution analyzes current load percentage and other data to predict availability for moving the transport asset and ability to accept a new incoming transport asset. Predictions of availability can reduce response times, resulting in higher utilization rates for assets, thereby improving efficiency. An exemplary system includes a sensor configured to sense operation progress parameter data for a transport asset; and logic to receive the operation progress parameter data from the sensor; determine, using the AI solution and based at least on the operation progress parameter data, a predicted milestone parameter; and report the predicted milestone parameter to a remote node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Bellar, William Mark Propes, Chris Ford, Matthew D. Alexander, Amy Savaiinaea
  • Patent number: 11930061
    Abstract: An edge device operates in an online mode of operation during a first period of time, wherein during the online mode of operation, the edge device obtains broadcast-related information originating from media automation applications. The edge device operates in a local mode of operation during a second period of time, wherein during the local mode of operation the edge device obtains locally stored broadcast-related information, and emulates services provided by the media automation applications. The edge device operates in a disaster recovery mode of operation during recovery from the local mode of operation, wherein during the disaster recovery mode of operation the edge device obtains stored broadcast-related information from a content recovery database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: IHEARTMEDIA MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Steve Mills, Jeffrey Lee Littlejohn, David C. Jellison, Jr., Vijay Jayakumar, Riad Edelbi, Adam Zastawski, José Antonio Carbajal Orozco
  • Patent number: 11917002
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for providing content. An example method can comprise receiving a first multicast content transmission at a first bit rate and recording at least a portion of a content item from the first multicast content transmission. An example method can comprise receiving a first request for the content item and requesting at least one differential content transmission configured to be combined with the recording of the portion of the content item to form a copy of the content item at a second bit rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Ross Gilson
  • Patent number: 11909591
    Abstract: In one embodiment, dynamic user private networks are virtually segmented within a shared virtual network. A network control system maintains the dynamic logical segmentation of the shared virtual network. User entities (e.g., user devices and/or services) are communicatively coupled to respective personal virtual networks via endpoints of access devices. Each of these endpoints is associated with a corresponding user private network. Responsive in real-time to automated processing of a received electronic particular user request, the network control system automatically modifies the dynamic logical segmentation of the shared virtual network to move a particular user entity on the shared virtual network to newly being on the first dynamic user private network without being disconnected from the shared virtual network. One embodiment uses different user private network identifiers (UPN-IDs) associated with endpoints and received packets to identify their respective user private network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Shyamsundar N. Maniyar, Sanjay Kumar Hooda, Shree N. Murthy, Sonal Prem Kumar Chhabria, Akshay Dorwat
  • Patent number: 11902397
    Abstract: A system, device, and method for implementing secure control over audio-visual (AV) equipment connected to an AV gateway is disclosed. The solution includes utilizing a user device to remotely control the AV gateway by connecting both the user device and the AV gateway to an Internet of Things (IoT) network, and facilitating communication between the user device and the AV gateway via messages using an MQTT broker or IoT cloud services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Panduit Corp.
    Inventors: Joseph P. Bologna, Justin A. Kennedy, Daniel M. Renne
  • Patent number: 11886426
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for a node of a blockchain network comprising receiving or generating data for distribution in the blockchain network, said node having a plurality of interfaces, said data corresponding to an object such as a transaction or a block. The transaction can be a Bitcoin transaction for recordal in a blockchain. The method determines a correlation matrix having correlation coefficients representing the correlation between data processed at each interface of said node. From the correlation matrix a correlation index for each interface is determined. A threshold or indicator is calculated and data or objects such as Bitcoin transactions are relayed from nodes via interfaces according to a set of correlation coefficients of interface receiving the data. An indicator or threshold can derived from the correlation matrix and data is relayed if the correlation between the receiving interface and the other interface is lower than the indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: nChain Licensing AG
    Inventors: Simone Madeo, Patrick Motylinski, Giuseppe Destefanis, Stephane Vincent
  • Patent number: 11870669
    Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate at-scale telemetry using interactive matrix for deterministic microservices performance is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more processors to: receive user input comprising an objective or task corresponding to scheduling a microservice for a service, wherein the objective or task may include QoS, SLO, ML feedback; identify interaction matrix components in an interaction matrix that match the objective or tasks for the microservice; identify knowledgebase components in knowledgebase that match the objective or tasks for the microservice; and determine a scheduling operation for the microservice, the scheduling operation to deploy the microservice in a configuration that is in accordance with the objective or task, wherein the configuration comprises a set of hardware devices and microservice interaction points determined based on the interaction matrix components and the knowledgebase components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rajesh Poornachandran, Vincent Zimmer, Subrata Banik, Marcos Carranza, Kshitij Arun Doshi, Francesc Guim Bernat, Karthik Kumar