Patents Examined by John A. Follansbee
  • Patent number: 11750409
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of performing a Web Real-Time Communication-based (WebRTC-based) communication and collaboration session with a plurality of predefined participants can include detecting that a participant from a plurality of predefined participants is addressed by another participant for answering a question or for submitting a comment during the communication and collaboration session; and verifying whether a presence status of the participant to answer the question or to submit a comment is required to be presented to the predefined participants. If it is verified that the presence status of the participant to answer the question or to submit a comment needs to be presented, a feature activation step of activating a feature for presenting presence information to the predefined participants can be utilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Unify Patente GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Antonios Tsoutsaios
  • Patent number: 11750465
    Abstract: In some implementations, a system may receive a status associated with a service of a user account. The system may schedule, based on the status, a transmission of a message at an expiration of a time period, wherein the message is generated to indicate the status. The system may monitor, during the time period, the status to detect an event associated with the service. The system may detect, based on an occurrence of the event, an update to the status. The system may perform, prior to the expiration of the time period, an action associated with the message to account for the update to the status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventor: Sunil Kaitha
  • Patent number: 11743131
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for performing radio access network (RAN) functions in a cloud at a user-level tracing application that executes on a machine deployed on a host computer in the cloud. The method receives data, via a RAN intelligent controller (RIC), from a RAN component. The method uses the received data to generate information related to traffic performance for at least one user. The method provides the generated information to the RIC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Yang Yang, Rakesh Misra
  • Patent number: 11743152
    Abstract: A displaying method and apparatus for application performance management are disclosed. The method includes obtaining data from a target application; mapping the data into a plurality of dimensions; displaying a plurality of layers corresponding to the plurality of dimensions; and displaying, based on a dimension associated with an object supported by the target application, a visualized node corresponding to the object at a corresponding layer of the plurality of layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED
    Inventors: Yao Cheng, Jun Feng, Xiaofan Zhou, Yi Yang
  • Patent number: 11736308
    Abstract: A device for providing a location-based automatic participation chat room, the device, when a request to open a chat room is received along with service location information from at least one host terminal, creates at least one chat room, and sets a chat room identifier and a recognition code corresponding to each of the at least one chat room, and when at least one guest terminal accesses a location corresponding to the service location information using a pre-set participation means or the recognition code included in the participation means is received, makes the guest terminal participate in the chat room corresponding to the recognition code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Eui-Young Chung, Seong-Lyun Kim, Dae Hyung Cho, Sang Hyup Lee, Gi Lee, Tae Yang Jeong
  • Patent number: 11736309
    Abstract: A meeting application server and a method for real-time content of interest detection and notification for a meeting are described herein. The meeting application server includes a processor and a computer-readable storage medium operatively coupled to the processor. The computer-readable storage medium includes computer-executable instructions that cause the processor to receive, via a remote computing system, content of interest data for a meeting. The computer-executable instructions also cause the processor to analyze the content of interest data to determine a theme of interest for the meeting, train a classification model for the theme of interest, and generate real-time meeting data for the meeting. The computer-executable instructions further cause the processor to determine the probability that the real-time meeting data relate to the theme of interest using the classification model and, if the probability exceeds a threshold value, transmit a content of interest alert to the remote computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Romain Gabriel Pa Rey, Alexander Wilson, Tom Neckermann
  • Patent number: 11729043
    Abstract: Techniques for performing traffic outage detection in the Internet are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system, process, and/or computer program product for traffic outage detection in the Internet includes deploying a plurality of agents and a plurality of tests to be executed by the deployed agents; collecting path trace data from the plurality of agents to identify one or more terminal events; and detecting a network outage based on the one or more terminal events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Ricardo V. Oliveira, Matias Fontanini
  • Patent number: 11722408
    Abstract: An example data center system includes server devices hosting data of a first tenant and a second tenant of the data center, network devices of an interconnected topology coupling the server devices including respective service virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) tables, and one or more service devices that communicatively couple the network devices, wherein the service devices include respective service VRF tables for the first set of server devices and the second set of server devices, and wherein the service devices apply services to network traffic flowing between the first set of server devices and the second set of server devices using the first service VRF table and the second service VRF table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Jacopo Pianigiani, Vivekananda Shenoy, Ankur Tandon, Atul S Moghe, Suresh K Balineni, Tong Jiang, Kiran N. Kasim, Sridevi JeevaRaj
  • Patent number: 11722752
    Abstract: A flexible approach to segmenting a resource (e.g., a media resource, such as a media segment, or other resource, such as a resource normally fetched or pushed using general file transfer protocols like HTTP) into a plurality of fragments. By employing such an approach, the delay until the resource can be utilized at the client side is reduced. Certain embodiments are provided which apply the flexible segmentation approach to ISOBMFF media segments for video streaming, such as would be used with Live DASH streaming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Magnus Westerlund, Beatriz Grafulla-González, Göran Eriksson
  • Patent number: 11716303
    Abstract: A different combination of multiple portions of a content item is selected for display to each of multiple sets of users of an online messaging application. The different combination of portions of the content item is sent for display to the corresponding set of users within a user interface of the online messaging application in association with information identifying a set of message threads in which each user is participating. A request to view the entire content of the content item is then received from a subset of each of the sets of users and a performance metric associated with each combination of portions of the content item is tracked based on the received request. Based on the performance metric, a performance of each portion of the content item is evaluated and used to select an optimal combination of the portions of the content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventor: Dheeraj Kumar Singh
  • Patent number: 11716214
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide for the dynamic adjustment of traffic associated with audiovisual conferences or other types of communication sessions in situations where a network connection of one or more conference participants exhibits issues that may affect audio and/or video quality. The adjustment may include the determination at a particular conference participant (e.g., a particular User Equipment (“UE”)) of degraded network conditions, the generation of condensed conference information at the UE, and the outputting of the condensed conference information via the network. The condensed conference information may be included in control signaling. The condensed conference information may be used to generate reconstructed conference information, which may be distributed to other conference participants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: John Aceron, Rohit Shirish Saraf, Andrew Philip Genualdi
  • Patent number: 11711310
    Abstract: Systems and methods of determining a network performance property in at least one computer network, including: sampling traffic in active communication with the at least one computer network, analyzing the sampled traffic to group communication packets to flows, and predicting at least one network property of the at least one network based on the grouped communication packets and based on at least one traffic parameter in the at least one network, where the at least one traffic parameter is selected from the group consisting of: union of packet streams, intersection of packet streams, and differences of packet streams, and where the predicted at least one network property is selected from the group consisting of: total number of flows, number of flows with a predefined characteristic, number of packets, and volume of packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: TWEENZNET LTD.
    Inventors: Eyal Elyashiv, Eliezer Upfal, Aviv Yehezkel
  • Patent number: 11706131
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is communicable with an electronic apparatus according to a plurality of protocols. The information processing apparatus includes circuitry. The circuitry identifies a particular protocol supported by the electronic apparatus among the plurality of protocols. The circuitry determines a management type based on the identified particular protocol. The circuitry sets a communication path through which the electronic apparatus communicates with a management apparatus based on the determined management type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Iha Oh
  • Patent number: 11706314
    Abstract: A coordinated network service that facilitates the design and implementation of a coordinated device network of IoT devices. The coordinated network service defines modules for individual IoT devices or coordinated devices that specify the necessary inputs to the device, the outputs from the device and communication protocols. Via an interface, user devices can select a set of IoT devices and specify how they are connected and the decision making logic associated with communication flow. The coordinated network service can then automatically generate mapping information that implements the decision making logic and provides necessary transformations for communications between the specified devices. The selected modules and mappings form a workflow for the coordinated device network. The coordinated network service can then generate executable code to implement the formed workflow in a coordinated device network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kawarjit Bedi, Sravan Kumar Nandamuri, Piyush Gupta, Atulya Beheray, James Gosling
  • Patent number: 11700221
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for subscribing to messages generated from a plurality of edge devices. One method comprises receiving, at a cloud platform from a plurality of edge devices, a plurality of messages that comply with a common schema and receiving, at the cloud platform from a custom application, an annotation stream request to generate at least one annotation stream and an annotation filter request to generate one or more annotation filters. The at least one annotation stream and the one or more annotation filters are then generated by the cloud platform. Based on the one or more filters, one or more of the plurality of messages are published, by the cloud platform, to the at least one annotation stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Denny Song, Adam Gibson, Ashley Noble
  • Patent number: 11700176
    Abstract: A method of configuring network devices. The method may include, with a network orchestrator, measuring at least one characteristic of a quality of a link between a network device and the network orchestrator during a first measurement window, categorizing the link into a connection type based on the at least one characteristic, and tuning a configuration of the network device based at least in part on the connection type identified by the network orchestrator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Viktoria Fordos, Santosh Ramrao Patil, Viktor Mats Emanuel Leijon
  • Patent number: 11695875
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for providing a virtual conference using personal devices of the participants. In one embodiment, a proximity value is generated and encoded in audio streams from each device. A server can compare proximity values and enable a suitable microphone, while disabling the remaining microphones. Systems and techniques for improving capturing and synchronization of source audio and improved audio playback at destination are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Teamport Inc.
    Inventors: Pavel Serbajlo, Marián Zákutný, Dominik Zane, Jakub Fiala
  • Patent number: 11695647
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes training a machine-learning model, using a training dataset that distinguishes between critical systems and non-critical systems, to classify a particular computer system as critical or non-critical, wherein a label is applied to the particular computer system during the training that identifies the particular computer system as critical or non-critical, and wherein parameters that describe the critical systems or non-critical systems are used as features during the training. The method further includes receiving an input dataset that describes a plurality of computer systems in the enterprise environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Sophos Limited
    Inventor: Karl Ackerman
  • Patent number: 11695631
    Abstract: A device receives network data associated with a network that includes network devices interconnected by links, and receives parameters associated with determining a network plan for the network. The device generates candidate links for each potential network plan of multiple potential network plans for the network, based on the parameters and based on a criterion associated with generating the candidate links. The device generates candidate paths for each potential network plan based on the parameters, and selects a portion of the candidate links and a portion of the candidate paths. The device generates each potential network plan based on the portion of the candidate links and the portion of the candidate paths, and identifies a potential network plan, of the multiple potential network plans, that reduces resource usage associated with operating the network. The device causes the potential network plan to be implemented in the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventor: Greg Sidebottom
  • Patent number: 11689430
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for generating a graphical user interface (GUI) for network management automation. The GUI is a data view that provides functionality for monitoring and controlling devices in a network using a drilldown menu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: NetBrain Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Lingping Gao, Guangdong Liao, Yong Zhao, Meng Yang, Xinfeng Xia, Junjie Yuan, Guicai Cui, Long Zeng