Patents Examined by John Q Chavis
  • Patent number: 10430316
    Abstract: Examples herein involve designating a first dimension of a thread visualization based on timing of a duration of a user action, the user action corresponding to a user interaction with an application; designating a second dimension of the thread visualization based on a number of threads of the application utilized for running tasks in response to the user action, the second dimension comprising a number of parallel timelines corresponding to the number of threads; determining locations for representations of the tasks within the appropriate parallel timelines of the thread visualization based on the timing of the tasks and the threads running the tasks; and rendering the thread visualization on a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: ENTIT SOFTWARE LLC
    Inventors: Hana Giat, Michael Seldin
  • Patent number: 10423407
    Abstract: A software workstation and method configured to employ appended metadata in an industrial automation software of an industrial automation environment are provided. The software workstation in one example includes an interface configured to interact with a user and communicate with an industrial automation system including the industrial automation software and a processing system coupled to the interface, with the processing system configured to obtain a metadata information, generate at least one metadata instance from the metadata information, associate the at least one metadata instance with one or more predetermined objects in the industrial automation software, and store the at least one metadata instance and the association as part of the industrial automation software.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Terrie E. Sauvain
  • Patent number: 10423571
    Abstract: A method for configuring a real or virtual electronic control unit, wherein a control unit software is executed on the control unit, and the control unit software comprises a basic software layer, the basic software layer is configured by a module configuration file by setting values of parameters, the scope of the configurable parameters being defined in a first module definition file which contains the identifiers of the configurable parameters. The first module definition file is replaced by a second module definition file, and a conversion of the first module configuration file into a second module configuration file takes place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: dSPACE digital signal processing and control engineering GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian Fischer, Markus Suevern, Thomas Gewering, Barbara Kempkes
  • Patent number: 10423445
    Abstract: A platform that provides a way to automatically compose and execute even complex workflows without writing code is described. A set of pre-built functional building blocks can be provided. The building blocks perform data transformation and machine learning functions. The functional blocks have well known plug types. The building blocks can be composed build complex compositions. Input and output files are converted to a standard data type so that modules are pluggable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Debi Mishra, Parry Husbands, Sudarshan Raghunathan, Andy Linfoot, Damon Hachmeister
  • Patent number: 10416973
    Abstract: A method comprises receiving a source code having a data set with a processor, opening the data set and identifying compile stage dependencies and run stage dependencies in the data set, determining whether a compile stage dependency has been identified, determining whether the identified compile stage dependency is accessible responsive to determining that the compile stage dependency has been identified, retrieving the compile stage dependency responsive to determining that the identified compile stage dependency is accessible, and compiling the source code and saving the compiled source code in a memory using the retrieved compile stage dependency responsive to determining that no run stage dependencies have been identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eli M. Dow, Thomas D. Fitzsimmons, Emily M. Metruck, Charles J. Stocker, IV
  • Patent number: 10402301
    Abstract: Described technologies facilitate cloud validation using validation as a service (VaaS). A cloud validation service provider acquires and securely stores certification tests developed by cloud component providers, integrated solution providers, and others. Each test's executable portion tests hardware or software of a candidate cloud. The candidate may be on the premises of an enterprise, or instead be a hosted cloud on the premises of a hoster off the premises of the entity that pays for the hosting. Monitored testing is done using an infrastructure in the candidate cloud or in a public cloud. Results are uploaded to the VaaS provider, which provides an analysis of test results for use in determining whether to validate the candidate cloud. Test execution agents may be VaaS-cloud-resident or candidate-cloud-resident, and may use a mutex to prevent simultaneous execution of tests. Testing may be accomplished even when the candidate cloud has no internet-exposed communication endpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Faraz Qadri, Aniket Malatpure, John Haskin, Tanmay Waghmare
  • Patent number: 10394553
    Abstract: A system for command handling for replicated repositories includes an input interface and a processor. The input interface is to receive a command. The processor is to determine a set of servers to receive the command, determine whether responses match for the command for each server of the set of server, and in the event the responses do not match, determine whether the responses are required to match for the command and in the event the responses are not required to match for the command, determine a unified response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: GitHub, Inc.
    Inventor: Patrick Reynolds
  • Patent number: 10394668
    Abstract: Examples maintain consistency of writes for a plurality of VMs during live migration of the plurality from a source host to a destination host. The disclosure intercepts I/O writes to a migrated VM at a destination host and mirrors the I/O writes back to the source host. This “reverse replication” ensures that the CG of the source host is up to date, and that the source host is safe to fail back to if the migration fails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Gabriel Tarasuk-Levin, Patrick William Penzias Dirks, Ilia Langouev, Curt Kolovson
  • Patent number: 10394656
    Abstract: Examples perform live migration of VMs from a source host to a destination host using destructive consistency breaking operations. The disclosure makes a record of a consistency group of VMs on storage at a source host as a fail-back in the event of failure. The source VMs are live migrated to the destination host, disregarding consistency during live migration, and potentially violating the recovery point objective. After live migration of all of the source VMs, consistency is automatically restored at the destination host and the live migration is declared a success.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: VMware, inc.
    Inventors: Gabriel Tarasuk-Levin, Patrick William Penzias Dirks, Ilia Langouev, Curt Kolovson
  • Patent number: 10387295
    Abstract: Technology is described for testing applications. Multiple testing threads that are to be used for testing an application may be identified. The multiple testing threads may be dispatched for execution using a unit testing framework. The multiple testing threads may be executed in parallel to test the application using testing context information that is related to each testing thread. Performance metrics may be collected for the application that is tested. The performance metrics may be transmitted from the multiple testing threads after parallel execution of the multiple testing threads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Nitin Kesarwani
  • Patent number: 10387229
    Abstract: Methods are provided for copying, from a local place to a remote place, only array variables from a set at the local place that are used at the remote place. A method includes identifying the array based on the array meeting a condition of being defined outside of a code block for a copy command and used inside of the code block. The copy command mandates a copying of all the array variables in the set from the local place to the remote place. The method includes generating a function having code that selectively serializes or deserializes only the array variables from the set that are used at the remote place. The method includes serializing, at the local place, and deserializing at the remote place, only the array variables from the set that are used at the remote place, by invoking the function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michihiro Horie, Kiyokuni Kawachiya, Mikio Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 10387169
    Abstract: A plug-in packaging method, device, terminal and storage media. The method includes: obtaining an executable file created by compiling a source code of a host project; obtaining a base library of the host project that includes at least one compiled public base method; compiling plug-ins required to be packaged respectively by multi-thread based on the base library of the host project; storing the compiled plug-ins required to be packaged into resources of the host project; and packaging the executable file and the resource of the host project together into an apk packet. The above method could improve the packaging speed of the entire apk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: PING AN TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ying Li
  • Patent number: 10379885
    Abstract: A method and system for enhanced local communing optimization of compilation of a program. Within a first pass of a two pass approach, a determination is made as to where in the program to evaluate volatile expressions that can be commoned. In a second pass of the two pass approach, all remaining expressions that are not volatile expressions are commoned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew J. Craik, Patrick R. Doyle, Vijay Sundaresan
  • Patent number: 10371744
    Abstract: A method of performing a test using automated test equipment (ATE) is disclosed. The method comprises configuring a proxy application programming interface (API) services module, wherein the proxy API services module provides an interface between a test framework and a test software environment, wherein the test framework communicates with the test software environment though the proxy API services module, wherein the test software environment is communicatively coupled with test hardware, and wherein the proxy API services module is configured to isolate the test framework from dependencies associated with the test software environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: ADVANTEST CORPORATION
    Inventor: Brian Buras
  • Patent number: 10372424
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and system includes a processor(s) of a host obtaining, from a client, via a communication connection over a network, a request to commit a modified version of program source code to a repository administered by the host. The processor(s) identify formatting in the modified version implemented by an editor executing on the client and remove the formatting. The processor(s) transform the modified version into a first storage structure that includes content of the modified version without the identified formatting. The processor(s) identify one or more differences between the first storage structure representing the modified version and a second storage structure (an unmodified version of the program source code stored in the repository). The processor(s) store the one or more differences in the repository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dominic Evans, Ledina Hido-Evans, Adrian J. Preston
  • Patent number: 10365641
    Abstract: Techniques for synchronizing configuration changes in a process plant allow for intelligent and efficient updates to objects and related dependent objects. Additionally, techniques for synchronizing minor configuration changes in a process plant enable real-time updates to objects during run-time. Such techniques reduce the amount of downtime for online operation of the process plant and reduce the amount of information transmitted over the process control network. Each object may correspond to a process entity and dependent objects may be referenced by or may reference the object. In some cases, when an engineer modifies an object, dependent objects with respect to the modified object that have pending modifications are identified and displayed to the engineer. The engineer then selects the dependent objects to sync with the modified object and the dependent objects and modified object are synced and executed by a corresponding device in the run-time system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Julian K Naidoo, Cristopher Ian Sarmiento Uy, Daniel R. Strinden, Prashant Joshi
  • Patent number: 10355988
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for preserving service continuity in a Network Function Virtualization based (NFV-based) communication network. In use, a first virtual network function (VNF) instance associated with a first VNF in a first hardware unit in a Network Function Virtualization based (NFV-based) communication network is identified. Additionally, a second VNF instance on a second hardware unit is instantiated, the second VNF instance being compatible with the first VNF instance. Further, communication directed to the first VNF instance is diverted to the second VNF instance on the second hardware unit, in response to initiating the second VNF instance on a second hardware unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: AMDOCS DEVELOPMENT LIMITED
    Inventors: Eyal Felstaine, Ofer Hermoni, Nimrod Sandlerman
  • Patent number: 10353874
    Abstract: The present invention belongs to the information processing field and discloses a method and apparatus for associating information. The method for associating information comprises: obtaining identification information of a first content; associating the identification information of the first content with a second content, wherein the second content is created for the first content; obtaining identification information of a third content, wherein the third content is an updated version of the first content, the third content containing revision made according to the second content; and associating the identification information of the third content with the second content. With the method and system for associating information as provided by the present invention, contents of a plurality of versions can be managed and traced efficiently without a need to modify the existing code review flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Si Bin Fan, Jun Hua Gao, Guo Qiang Li, Wen Li, Cheng Fang Wang, Xiao Lin Zhang
  • Patent number: 10353717
    Abstract: Methods for generating executable files for two or more independent programs to be run on separate processor cores of an embedded system wherein the programs share data/code via shared memory by symbolically referring to data/code generated by another program. The methods implement a two-stage link process. In the first link stage addresses in shared memory are allocated to the shared code and data of the independent programs, and the allocated memory addresses are stored in a library. In a second link stage executable code and initialized data is generated for the non-shared code and initialized data of each independent program which is linked to the shared data/code by the addresses in the library.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
    Inventor: Christopher Philip Smith
  • Patent number: 10346283
    Abstract: Dynamically identifying performance anti-patterns in a software system is based on a set of documented symptoms that are evaluated in real-time. The evaluation is based on the observed system behavior and its comparison against the documented symptoms of different types of performance issues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Erik R. Altman, Hitham Ahmed Assem Aly Salama, Nicholas M. Mitchell, Patrick Joseph O'Sullivan, Andres Omar Portillo Dominguez, Peter F. Sweeney