Patents Examined by Joseph Avellino
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Patent number: 8332463Abstract: A distributed storage system that includes: a plurality of node apparatuses connected to a plurality of different networks through a high order apparatus group or a low order apparatus group, the distributed storage system comprising: a first node apparatus that includes: a first storage unit which stores connection relationship information on the high order apparatus group and the low order apparatus group connected through the network; and a second node apparatus that includes: an acquisition unit which acquires first connection information, which indicates the high order apparatus group or the low order apparatus group that is a connection destination of the node apparatus, from the first node apparatus based on location information indicating locations of the plurality of node apparatuses; and a transmission unit which transmits the first connection information acquired by the acquisition unit to any of the plurality of node apparatuses included in the distributed storage system.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2010Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hideki Matsuo
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Patent number: 8326913Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to techniques for automatically processing services in a service-oriented architecture. More specifically, services that are not already stored in a database are processed and then stored in a database using a service contract discovery process. The service contract discovery process can be performed when (1) a server provides service to a client computer; or (2) a server performs a scanning process to locate services that are not already stored in the database.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2009Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Oracle International CorporationInventors: Wei Chen, Sheng Zhu
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Patent number: 8326985Abstract: Systems and methods for distributed management of keep-alive message signaling for mobile network resource conservation and optimization are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, of monitoring rates of data communications with a mobile device, sending a periodic message to indicate operational state to the mobile device in response to a decrease in the rates of data communications with the mobile device, sending subsequent periodic messages to indicate operational state to the mobile device at increasing intervals between the subsequent periodic messages to decrease a number of periodic messages sent over the wireless network, and acknowledging to the mobile device that the subsequent periodic messages will be sent at increased intervals, or in a manner that conserves use of the mobile network.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2011Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Seven Networks, Inc.Inventors: Michael Luna, Mikko Tervahauta
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Patent number: 8321573Abstract: A communication terminal includes a CPU (28). The CPU (28) issues to a router (16) a send request for requesting the router (16) to send an ask signal for repetitive responses to a server (14). Then, the ask signal is sent to the server (14) by the router (16), and a receive port is temporarily opened. From the server (14), a response signal is repeatedly sent in response to the ask signal. To the response signal, time information representative of a waiting time from receiving an ask signal to its reply is attached. A response signal sent back while the receive port is opened arrives at the communication terminal through the router (16), but a response signal sent back after the receive port is closed is discarded in the router (16). The CPU (28) repeatedly issues a send request to the router (16) regarding a time indicated by time information attached to the response signal lastly received as an issuance cycle (T).Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2005Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keiji Hirao, Motoe Sakanaka, Tomohiro Yamada
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Patent number: 8319822Abstract: A high-resolution image device that is used to receive images in a variable depth of field environment may include a color image sensor, a panchromatic image sensor, and a measuring device. The color image sensor may be configured to receive a color image of an object. Similarly, a synchronous panchromatic image may be received by the panchromatic image sensor. To generate a fine spatial color image with higher resolution than the image received by the color image sensor, the image device may be configured to replace a luminance component from the original color image with a luminance component from the panchromatic image. However, due to a spatial difference between apertures of the color and panchromatic image sensors, parallax error may occur due to a perceived shift of the imaged object against a reference background in the color and panchromatic images.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2008Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Google Inc.Inventor: Iain Richard Tyrone McClatchie
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Patent number: 8316096Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for generating, sending, and delivering a message addressed using an image of an intended message recipient of the message. In one embodiment, a central server receives a message including an image of an intended message recipient from a first user device of a first user. The central server then identifies a second user as the intended message recipient based on the image of the intended message recipient. Then, before delivering the message, the central server obtains an image of a user at a second user device associated with the second user and sends the image to the first user device where the image is presented to the first user. Upon receiving authentication from the first user device that the user at the second user device is the intended message recipient, the central server delivers the message to the second user device of the second user.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2010Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Kota Enterprises, LLCInventors: Hugh Svendsen, Scott Curtis
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Patent number: 8312097Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for fine level access control over message content in an electronic messaging system. Access criteria associated with the message content define requirements that a user must satisfy in order to perform specified actions on message content. The user's complete profile is examined at run time and compared to access criteria to make a real time decision about the level of access that a user should have to message content. Depending on the access criteria associated with content, stronger authentication or weaker authentication of the user profile information may be performed on the user profile to determine the level of access that should be granted to the user.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2012Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: IMDb.com, Inc.Inventors: Hilliard Bruce Siegel, Pratik S. Dave
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System and method for communicating with an electronic exchange in an electronic trading environment
Patent number: 8312149Abstract: System and methods for a connection proxy server are described. According to an example method described herein, a connection proxy server stores subscription, product tables as well as other downloads that are provided to a client terminal during initialization stage as well as later during a trading session. Upon detecting that a connection between the client terminal and a gateway is lost, the connection proxy maintains a communication session created for the client terminal at the gateway and receives data intended for the client terminal. If the connection is re-established between the client terminal and the gateway during a predetermined period of time, the connection proxy provides the stored data to the client terminal thus avoiding a surge in processing resources at the gateway due to the necessary downloads.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2012Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Trading Technologies International, Inc.Inventor: Neil P. Crouch -
Patent number: 8312091Abstract: A conference organizer uses conference software to define a conference and to store conference information on the organizer's computer system. The stored conference information includes a list of attendees, and a personal proxy mailbox for each attendee. Each attendee has a wireless device, such as a personal digital assistant (PDA). The organizer's computer system includes a wireless communication station that can communicate in wireless fashion with the wireless devices of the attendees at the conference. During the conference, an attendee uses his/her wireless device to access the conference information, select another attendee or a group of attendee from the list of attendees, and send the selected attendee or attendees a message. The message can be conveyed to and stored in the personal proxy mailbox or mailboxes of the selected attendee or attendees.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2011Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Inventors: Jens Horstmann, Matti Katajamaki, Saeed Zarea, Susan Potter, Miroslav Charles Wiesner
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Patent number: 8307048Abstract: A network system supports multiple network communication protocols. An Ethernet component gateway in a Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) initiator system converts FCoE data packets from host devices to Fiber Channel over Internet Protocol (FCIP) data packets for transmission to a Storage Area Network (SAN) target system. The SAN target system may include a target Fiber Channel (FC) storage device and a SAN component gateway. The SAN component gateway converts FCIP data packets to SAN data packets for use by the target FC storage device. The SAN data packets may be either FC protocol data packets or FCoE protocol data packets. The SAN target system may provide for discovery of target FC storage device adapter information.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2008Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Aaron C Brown, Scott M Carlson, Daniel G Eisenhauer, Roger G Hathorn, Jeffrey W Palm, Renato J Recio, Gregory J Tevis
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Patent number: 8307047Abstract: A virtual network resource infrastructure for hosting and managing a plurality of e-malls and each e-mall uses the virtual network resource infrastructure for offering e-commerce solution and the hosting of: e-shops, e-distributors and web sites. Also, on-line foreign language interface translation and interface exchange. Further having satellite e-malls with e-services and e-mall using satellite e-malls' e-services; user surfing tracking means and multiple sales channel where e-shops, e-malls, satellite e-malls and e-distributors sell their products directly or cross-sell each others products.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2007Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: UnoWeb, Inc.Inventor: John Almeida
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Patent number: 8307118Abstract: An architecture, system and method for an RTP streaming system is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes developing multiple standalone modules, developing application programming interfaces associated with the standalone modules, and tying together the standalone modules to form a subsystem associated with a streaming application and with a network. The method further includes integrating standalone modules including an RTP module, an RTCP module and a payload interface, associated with any one of a server mode and a client mode. The method also includes managing a streaming session associated with media streams via an RTPSS manager, adding the media streams to a stream manager. For each media stream of the streaming session: the method includes performing packetization services in the server mode and de-packetization services in the client mode, and performing server-mode related services in the server mode and client-mode related services in the client mode.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2008Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Ittiam Systems (P) Ltd.Inventors: Vikas K. Prasad, Karthikeyan Natesan, Sudheer Kumar Vootla, Srikanth Nori
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Patent number: 8301683Abstract: A method of enhancing multimedia data contained on an information carrier includes reading the carrier and communicating with a remote unit via a network. The information carrier contains additional data. The method includes reading from the information carrier a user file containing user data defining user's previous actions in a storage unit of a recording and/or reproducing device, providing the additional data as a function of the user data, and updating the user data to reflect the user's latest actions.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2003Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventors: Declan Patrick Kelly, Yang Peng
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Patent number: 8301750Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for assuring delivery of an Enterprise Information System (EIS) event to a client. An adapter apparatus polls at least one EIS for an event. The event is staged to a staging table, consisting of an XA-compliant database, in preparation for delivery to the client. The status of the event is marked and the event is delivered to the client. Events delivered to clients that are unresponsive or otherwise unavailable are held until the clients become responsive and then the events are delivered. Delivery of events is confirmed using a transaction service.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2005Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jason Nathaniel Lacombe, Travis Eli Nelson, Suraksha Vidyarthi
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Patent number: 8296464Abstract: A split deployment model is enabled for a telecommunication service access gateway. The services of the gateway are segregated into a set of core services that provide container-based functionality and a set of exposure services that enable network integration and translation of protocols. The core services are executed as part of the application server, while the exposure services are deployed in separate archive files. This isolation of services allows single or groups of services to be independently upgraded, patched or removed and reduces the impact of one service on others. Furthermore, the services can scale independently, allowing additional hardware resources to be added to a particular service. Multiple versions of a single service can also be deployed in a single cluster or server.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2009Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Oracle International CorporationInventors: Boris Selitser, Andreas Jansson
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Patent number: 8294768Abstract: A detection system detects moving objects in a scene by processing two consecutive images of the scene. The two consecutive images are captured by a pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) camera and fed back to the system. The system obtains position information of the moving object in the scene, and adjusts parameters, such as a shoot angle, and a focal length of the PTZ camera, according to the position information of the moving object. Therefore, the PTZ camera can be aimed to follow the motion area and adjusted to optimum focal length.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2009Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hou-Hsien Lee, Chang-Jung Lee, Chih-Ping Lo
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Patent number: 8291069Abstract: A method for managing sample selection bias is disclosed. Embodiments of the method can include automatically determining an unbiased estimate of a distribution from occurrence data via a special purpose processor. The occurrence data that is utilized in determining the estimate may have an occurrence data sample selection bias that is substantially equivalent to a background data sample selection bias associated with background data. Additionally, the occurrence data may be related to the background data, and the background data may be chosen with the background data sample selection bias. Furthermore, the occurrence data may represent a physically-measurable variable associated with one or more physical and tangible objects or substances.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2008Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventor: Steven Phillips
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Patent number: 8289394Abstract: A system for providing image information using mobile communication BS antennas is provided, in which each of a plurality of mobile communication BS antennas has a camera module for capturing a full area where the camera module is installed and transmits BS image information captured by the camera module to a remote control system, the remote control system has a BS image DB server and stores the BS image information received from the plurality of mobile communication BS antennas on a BS basis and on an antenna basis in the BS image DB server, and a service server receives the BS image information from the BS image DB server and provides the BS image information to a user terminal.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2008Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: KMW Inc.Inventor: Duk-Yong Kim
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Patent number: 8291108Abstract: The present invention provides improvements to load balancing by providing a load balancing solution that allows a user to select metrics, weights and thresholds from metrics collected or determined by a load balancing appliance as well as metrics obtained from another device, such as a server running the service. The systems and methods described providing a load balancing technique in which load balancing decisions can be made based on metrics known by another device monitoring such metrics. The load balancing appliance uses a network management protocol and communication model, such as a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), to identify and collect metrics from a server, service or other device. These metrics are available on the load balancing appliance with appliance determined metrics. Via a configuration interface of the appliance, a user can select one or more appliance determined metrics and/or the metrics obtained via the network management protocol to determine the load of a service.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2007Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.Inventors: Murali Raja, Manikam Muthiah, Ranveer Kunal, Somanahalli Narayana Raghav
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Patent number: 8285778Abstract: A method, system and an article of manufacture tangibly embodying a computer readable program for protecting Web application data between a server and a client. A response created by the Web application for the client is backed up and modified by adding capturing code for capturing a user action, user data of the client, or combination thereof. The modified response is sent to the client and a request submitted by the client and the user action and/or user data captured by the capturing code is received. A verifying request is generated according to the received user action and/user data captured by the capturing code and the backup of the response. The request submitted by the client is verified according to the verifying request and the verified request is sent to the Web application of the server.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2009Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ya Bin Dang, Da Ming Hao, Peng Ji, Lin Luo, Yu Zhang