Patents Examined by Jay A Morrison
  • Patent number: 10541895
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus is deployed at a cloud network, and includes a plurality of data nodes, a receiver circuit, and an aggregation circuit. The receiver circuit is coupled to the plurality of data nodes and is configured to receive downtime records from a plurality of industrial machines, and to selectively route the downtime records to selected ones of the plurality of data nodes based upon a predetermined criteria. Each of the plurality of data nodes comprises a control circuit and a memory. Each control circuit is configured to, in parallel with the other control circuits, to further populate the downtime records with other data related to the operation of the machines, determine one or more time windows for each of the records, and divide the records according to the time windows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Peter Sage, Ashish Raisardar
  • Patent number: 10534806
    Abstract: A system and method for cognitive media association including a tracking unit configured to track an output of media over time for a particular user and create a list of the output media for the particular user, a link generation unit configured to generate a link between the media and at least one of a person, a place, an event, an era, an emotion, a theme, a photo, a video, or a social media post, an events recording unit configured to create a comprehensive experience of a specific event including at least one of music played at the specific event, photos displayed at the specific event, videos played at the specific event, social media posts about the event, people present at the specific event, or any combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Inventors: Frederick Rhode Stoddard, II, Elena del Busto
  • Patent number: 10534781
    Abstract: A system for generating web pages for improving organic search rankings, associated with a website, the system comprising: a keyword generating module adapted to: retrieve one or more candidate keyword sets associated with website content, analyze the candidate keyword sets, and generate one or more target keyword sets based on the analysis of the candidate keyword sets; a web page generating module adapted to: retrieve website content data associated with the website content, and generate web pages based on the generated target keyword sets and the retrieved website content data; wherein the web page generating module is further adapted to communicate with a publicly visible web page server to enable the publicly visible web page server to store and serve the generated web pages; and a link logic module adapted to: define one or more of i) a number of links and ii) a type of link relationship between the target keyword sets, keywords in the target keyword sets, the web pages generated and pages on the websit
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: LONGTAIL UX PTY LTD
    Inventors: Andreas Dzumla, Chanon Srithongsook, Will Santow
  • Patent number: 10529043
    Abstract: A method of organizing higher education data is provided. The method includes: (a) providing a plurality of higher education data sources, each of the plurality of higher education data sources including respective higher education data organized using corresponding higher education identifiers; and (b) generating a single higher education identifier organizational structure for accessing the respective higher education data from each of the plurality of higher education data sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Ellucian Company L.P.
    Inventors: James Brian Knotts, John Laird Kopcke
  • Patent number: 10529033
    Abstract: A method for networking provides a network service for a network. The network service can include the server system maintaining a database that can include information about connections between nodes. The network service can include the server system receiving a potential connection message from a first node to be delivered to a third node. The potential connection message can include a suggestion that the third node connect to a second node. The network service can include the server system delivering the potential connection message to the third node, only if the server system verifies in the database that the first node is connected with the third node and the second node. The network service can include the server system receiving feedback from the third node regarding the second node. The network service can include the server system connecting the second node to the third node, only if the feedback from the third node regarding the second node is positive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Clarifize, Inc
    Inventors: Diwakar Gupta, Michael Heldebrant, John Bergstrom
  • Patent number: 10521436
    Abstract: Presented are systems and methods that estimate the strength of a relationship between elements gathered from online and/or offline information sources by estimating the trustworthiness both of the gathered data and the information sources from which the data originates. In one exemplary application, the relatedness between co-occurring symptom and disease terms collected from information sources, such as health-related online databases, is iteratively evaluated based on the trustworthiness of symptom-disease pairings and the trustworthiness of the information sources themselves. In various embodiments of the present disclosure, an objective function is used to extract a knowledge base that aids in identifying a potential relationship between a set of given symptoms provided by a user of an online healthcare service and co-occurring disease terms, such that a likely disease may be inferred from the set of symptoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Baidu USA LLC
    Inventors: Yaliang Li, Nan Du, Yusheng Xie, Wei Fan
  • Patent number: 10515064
    Abstract: A key-value storage system is described herein for interacting with key-value entries in a content store using a resource-efficient index. The index provides a data structure that includes a plurality of hash buckets. Each hash bucket includes a linked list of hash bucket units. The key-value storage system stores hash entries in each linked list of hash bucket units in a distributed manner between an in-memory index store and a secondary index store, based on time of their creation. The key-value storage system is further configured to store hash entries in a particular collection of linked hash bucket units in a chronological order to reflect time of their creation. The index further includes various tunable parameters that affect the performance of the key-value storage system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: John G. Bennett, Chen Fu, Ashwini S. Khade
  • Patent number: 10509766
    Abstract: Provided are techniques for storing and retrieving restricted datasets to and from a cloud network with non-restricted datasets. A request to dump datasets from one or more storage devices to the cloud storage is received, wherein the datasets include restricted datasets and non-restricted datasets, and wherein the restricted datasets are in a format that is not supported by the cloud storage. The restricted datasets are identified. The restricted datasets are converted to a format that is supported by the cloud storage to generate converted datasets. The converted datasets and the non-restricted datasets are dumped to one container in the cloud storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dave Bach, Nicholas Fragiskatos, Andrew B. Trinh
  • Patent number: 10511653
    Abstract: A document collaboration apparatus and method allows users to create, edit, manage, collaborate, and communicate over sets of documents, such as word processor documents, spreadsheets, or other types of documents. A set of documents is obtained and split into a series of fragments that are stored in a secure way in a combination of a relational database and an unstructured content store. Access to individual fragments within the series of fragments is granted to users, and proposed changes and comments are obtained in a form of structured discussions that are associated with the fragments from the document set. A controlled workflow-driven mechanism for discussion-centered collaboration is provided. Any changes to the documents from the document set are restricted to the changes that are approved in associated discussions only, providing controlled collaboration between multiple parties or groups of users, such as in multi-party contract negotiations and large scale collaborations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Inventors: Roman Kisin, Lilian Caldeira
  • Patent number: 10503796
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a query identifying a first entity associated with the online social network. The method then includes accessing a deep-link index of the online social network including a plurality of records of indexed deep-links to a plurality of third-party applications. A deep link to the third-party application may include instructions for accessing a display state of the third-party application associated with the entity. The method further includes identifying one or more records of the deep-link index having an entity-identifier matching the identified first entity of the query, and sending one or more search results responsive to the query. The search results may include deep links corresponding to one or more of the identified records, and each deep link may be selectable by the first user to access a display state of a third-party application associated with the first entity of the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander P. Stein, Michael Yehuda Rothschild, Ravit Bennier, Tirunelveli R. Vishwanath, Ethan Charles Stock, Varun Vikram Bhartia
  • Patent number: 10503482
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a data integration system that may provide techniques for capturing definitions from business entities and how the business entities are implemented in a set of tables. This enables the data integration system to transform a data flow defined using business entities into code that may be used to transform the underlying tables and columns. Additionally to generate tables, classes and APIs to provide persistence of and manipulation for the definitions of these business entities. Additionally to dynamically generate a GUI editor for an object model of arbitrary complexity while maintaining GUI usability. This reduces development time and supports editing of an arbitrary object model. A dynamically generated GUI may be generated from an object model definition that is received from a user and/or is derived from the user's code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: John Westworth Leigh, Kwok Hung Lau, Daniel A. Gallagher
  • Patent number: 10496401
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, a system and method are provided to automatically rename database objects. The system receives a rename file comprising (i) a plurality of database object names representing a plurality of database objects associated with an application and (ii) an identity assignment associated with one or more of the plurality of database objects. One or more of the plurality of database objects are automatically renamed based on (i) a currently installed version of the application, (ii) a version of the application associated with the rename file and (iii) the identity assignment associated with the one or more of the plurality of database objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Peter Eberlein, Volker Driesen
  • Patent number: 10489402
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for receiving a database query and executing the query against a remote database. The database query is used to generate an execution sequence comprising HTTP requests and data processing operations based on the database query. The HTTP requests are sent to a RESTful API provided by a database system. The HTTP requests are executed by the database system against a database, and the responses from the database system are returned to be processed according to the data processing operations. Finally, a set of query results is returned to the sender of the original database query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shuo Li, Xin Peng Liu, Bei Bei Wang, Pu Zhu
  • Patent number: 10489456
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method that includes obtaining information including profile information and current event information. A processor generates a topic graph by converting the information to topic nodes in the topic graph. The processor determines a weight assignment for each topic node based on ratios of sums of weights of edges from topic nodes. Bridges are provided from a given topic node to a neighbor based on the weight assignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jeanette L. Blomberg, Eric K. Butler, Anca A. Chandra, Pawan R. Chowdhary, Susanne M. Glissmann-Hochstein, Thomas D. Griffin, Sunhwan Lee, Robert J. Moore, Hovey R. Strong, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10482113
    Abstract: Methods and systems to build and utilize a search infrastructure are described. The system generates index information components in real-time based on a database that is time-stamped. The system updates index information at a plurality of query node servers based on the index information components. A query engine receives a search query from a client machine and identifies search results based on the query and the index information. The system communicates the search results, over the network, to the client machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Swati Agarwal, Richard D. Henderson, Davide Libenzi, Jagadish Nallapaneni, Pradeep Sankaranthi, Nicholas Whyte, Thomas Pan, Carson Hoffacker, Amit Basu, Gang He, Mel Sun, Andrew John Melnick
  • Patent number: 10481826
    Abstract: An information management system according to certain aspects uses backup copies or other secondary copies of production data for the purposes of replicating production data to another client. The secondary copies can be deduplicated copies. By utilizing available secondary copies of the data for replication, the system can reduce the impact on the production machines associated with replication. Utilizing deduplicated copies not only reduces the amount of stored data, but also reduces the amount of data that is communicated between the source and the destination, increasing the speed of the replication process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Commvault Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Manoj Kumar Vijayan, Joe Sabu Thyvelikkakakth Job
  • Patent number: 10481825
    Abstract: An information management system according to certain aspects uses backup copies or other secondary copies of production data for the purposes of replicating production data to another client. The secondary copies can be deduplicated copies. By utilizing available secondary copies of the data for replication, the system can reduce the impact on the production machines associated with replication. Utilizing deduplicated copies not only reduces the amount of stored data, but also reduces the amount of data that is communicated between the source and the destination, increasing the speed of the replication process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Commvault Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Manoj Kumar Vijayan, Joe Sabu Thyvelikkakakth Job
  • Patent number: 10482140
    Abstract: A method of providing a retargeting search service includes storing a log about query information input from a user during a preset period of time, and providing a retargeting keyword and a retargeting search result to at least one of a user mobile terminal and a user computer terminal according to an information providing point in time based on the stored log.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: NAVER Corporation
    Inventor: Woongsub Kim
  • Patent number: 10481824
    Abstract: An information management system according to certain aspects uses backup copies or other secondary copies of production data for the purposes of replicating production data to another client. The secondary copies can be deduplicated copies. By utilizing available secondary copies of the data for replication, the system can reduce the impact on the production machines associated with replication. Utilizing deduplicated copies not only reduces the amount of stored data, but also reduces the amount of data that is communicated between the source and the destination, increasing the speed of the replication process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Commvault Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Manoj Kumar Vijayan, Joe Sabu Thyvelikkakakth Job
  • Patent number: 10475090
    Abstract: Examples relate to calculating user experience scores for applications. The examples disclosed herein collect, for each of at least two frames of each of at least two user sessions of an application, a set of user event data items representing user experiences from the perspective of a user device during a corresponding frame of the at least two frames of a user session. A frame score is calculated for each of the at least two frames in each of the at least two user sessions by analyzing the frame's set of user event data items. A user session score is calculated for each of the at least two user sessions by averaging the frame scores for the at least two frames in the user session of the at least two user sessions. A user experience score may then be calculated for the application by averaging the user session scores of each of the at least two user sessions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: MICRO FOCUS LLC
    Inventors: Haim Shuvali, Meir Ron, Amichai Nitsan