Patents Examined by Joshua Bullock
  • Patent number: 11520766
    Abstract: A database structure and a system that uses the structure to facilitate efficient context enrichment of low-level events occurring in a distributed computing system. In one aspect, the database structure comprises a table accessible to a distributed storage system. The table comprises a plurality of rows. Each row represents a corresponding process creation event of a particular process at a particular host at a particular time and assigned a particular event identifier. Each row comprises a row key identifying the particular host, the particular process, the particular time, and the particular event identifier of the process creation event corresponding to the row. The particular time and the particular event identifier are stored as part of the row key in a bitwise one's complement format. The row key structure facilitates efficient identification of a process creation event where only hostname and the process identifier of the process creation event are known.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.
    Inventor: Santosh Ananthakrishnan
  • Patent number: 11500893
    Abstract: Methods, computer readable media, and devices for dynamically finding database nodes and replication state within a database cluster deployed within a cloud environment are provided. A method may include receiving a database cluster request from a client, retrieving a set of database cluster metadata, establishing a connection with at least one database node of a database cluster via which a status of the database node may be requested and received, and sending the set of database cluster metadata and the status of the database node to the client. In various implementations, the database cluster request may include an identifier for the database cluster, the database cluster may include a plurality of database nodes, and the database cluster may be deployed within a cloud environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Kamlakar Patil, Brett Procek, Shivakarthik Subramanyam
  • Patent number: 11500866
    Abstract: A method includes causing display of events that correspond to search results of a search query in a table. The table includes rows representing events comprising data items of event attributes, columns forming cells with the row, the columns representing respective event attributes, and interactive regions corresponding to one or more data items of the displayed data items. The method also includes in response to the user selecting a designated interactive region, causing display of a list of options, each displayed option corresponding to an interface template for composing query commands, and based on the user selecting an option in the displayed list of options, causing one or more commands to be added to the search query, the one or more commands composed based on the one or more data items that corresponds to the designated interactive region according to instructions of the interface template of the selected option.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Marc V. Robichaud, Jesse Miller, Cory Burke, Alexander James, Jeffrey Thomas Lloyd
  • Patent number: 11494394
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to data versioning in a multi-datacenter topology. In various embodiments, a computer system at a first datacenter may execute a query at a first point in time against a particular dataset that is maintained at the first datacenter. The particular dataset includes a first data record with a corresponding version number, where the version number is associated with a value of the first data record at the first point in time. In response to the first query, the computer system may receive a first results dataset that includes the first data record with its corresponding version number. The computer system may then store information indicative of the results dataset that is usable to retrieve, at a subsequent time from a historical version of the particular dataset at a second datacenter, the first data record with the same value as at the first point in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Kim Dung Bui, Chun Kiat Ho, Lin Song, Kai Xie
  • Patent number: 11494376
    Abstract: A data query method supporting a natural language, an open platform, and a user terminal are provided, where the method includes: receiving, by the open platform, a natural language query statement sent by the user terminal, and transforming the natural language query statement into a query statement that is recognizable by a third-party content provider; sending, by the open platform, the query statement that is recognizable to one or more third-party content providers; receiving, by the open platform, one or more query response messages returned by the one or more third-party content providers according to the query statement that is recognizable; and sending, by the open platform, the one or more query response messages to the user terminal. A difficulty in accessing the open platform by the third-party content provider can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shan He
  • Patent number: 11494372
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs stored on computer-readable media, for generating context data for an information card are disclosed. Upon receiving a selection of a data element to include in an information card, a plurality of dimensional view types available for the data element are determined and provided to a user. Upon receiving a selection of a dimensional view type from the plurality of dimensional view types, a set of attributes associated with the dimensional view type are determined and provided to the user. A selection of an attribute from the set of attributes is received, and a dimensional view is generated based on the selection of the dimensional view type and attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: MicroStrategy Incorporated
    Inventors: Scott Rigney, Michael-Andrew Keays, Malik Abu-Kalokoh, Utkarsha Bhave
  • Patent number: 11481476
    Abstract: The present invention proposes a rapid, reliable data extraction method for extracting data from a database of data (3) that is watermarked according to a reversible watermarking method. The method according to the invention consists of obtaining, from a first extraction request received from a client terminal (1), a second extraction request (R2) for extracting watermarked data and a third request (R3) applied to the extracted data after it has been de-watermarked. In the presence in the first extraction request of initial selection conditions relating to watermarked properties, these are included in the second request after having been transformed. In the presence in the first extraction request (R1), of aggregation functions relating to a watermarked extraction property, these are included without modification in the third request (R3) so as to supply a result to the client terminal (1) in response to the first extraction request (R1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: INSTITUT MINES TELECOM
    Inventors: Gouenou Coatrieux, Javier Franco Contreras
  • Patent number: 11481403
    Abstract: Aspects extend to methods, systems, and computer program products for ranking contextual metadata to generate relevant data insights. Aspects of the invention can be used to enhance data analytics by automatically deriving relevance signals used to generate insights closely related to the context in which a user is exploring or analyzing data. User experiences can include embedded data visualizations, search engines, and natural language querying systems to help users understand their data more effectively. By utilizing metrics on the relevance information, insights related and/or relevant to the context in which the user is analyzing data can be created. Thus, relevance information can define a scope for a variety of automatically generated insights of data. Insight generation can be based on computed relevance signals that target areas interesting to users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Saliha Azzam, Steven Paul Breyer, Eeshan Manish Shah, Youssef El Fassy Fihry, Ankur Satyendrakumar Sharma, Manal Hussein Alassaf, Xiang He, Vikram Rajasekaran
  • Patent number: 11475020
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, from a user, a dataset for encryption before its storage at a data storage location, wherein the dataset comprises a plurality of portions; identifying (i) attributes of the dataset and (ii) dataset dependencies; generating a recommendation for an encryption scheme to be used for the dataset, wherein the generating comprises (i) generating, based upon the attributes and the dataset dependencies, a recommendation of an encryption scheme for each portion of the dataset and (ii) identifying, based upon the dataset dependencies, a key label for each portion of the dataset, wherein the key label identified for a portion of the dataset that is dependent on another portion of the dataset is the same as the key label identified for said another portion of the dataset; and providing, to the user, (i) the generated recommendation and (ii) a description identifying reasons for the generated recommendation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manish Kesarwani, Akshar Kaul, Gagandeep Singh, Sameep Mehta, Hong Min, James Willis Pickel
  • Patent number: 11468065
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present application includes an acquiring unit and a selecting unit. The acquiring unit acquires a plurality of pieces of second triple information hierarchized based on a conceptual system in a plurality of pieces of first triple information indicating a relationship about three types of elements and statistical information indicating the number of pieces of the first triple information associated with each of the plurality of pieces of the second triple information. The selecting unit selects, based on the statistical information acquired by the acquiring unit and based on a predetermined standard related to the statistical information, from among the plurality of pieces of the second triple information, a plurality of pieces of target triple information to be used for a clustering process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Nitta, Iztok Savnik
  • Patent number: 11468058
    Abstract: In general, the subject matter described in this disclosure can be embodied in methods and systems for using a composite schema to answer a query. A computing system receives a data query, and combines a first schema provided by a first querying system with a second schema provided by a second querying system to form a composite schema. The computing system executes the data query using the composite schema in order to determine which selected one or more querying systems from a set of querying systems to query in response to receiving the data query. The computing system sends, to the requesting computing device responsive to receiving the data query from the requesting computing device, a response to the query, the response to the query being based on information received from the selected one or more data querying systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Siteimprove A/S
    Inventors: Asbjørn Clemmensen, Morten Eskesen, Morten Fjord-Larsen
  • Patent number: 11461341
    Abstract: This disclosure generally covers systems and methods that identify relevant information for a user based on an object graph for documents and other files hosted by a document hosting system. In particular, certain embodiments of the disclosed systems and methods generate an object graph comprising interconnected nodes representing relationships among documents and other files on the document hosting system. Using the object graph, the disclosed systems and methods can identify relevant information and provide results or recommendations corresponding to that information based on a query or on user input, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Ho Chi Andrew Chin, Matthew Spitz, Andrew Werner
  • Patent number: 11455327
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for enabling users to subscribe to people and other tagged entities is provided herein. Such a method includes maintaining subscription data specifying a plurality of entities subscribed to by a plurality of users, with each of the plurality of entities being a tagged entity associated with a tag. The method further includes identifying a media item associated with one or more tagged entities of the plurality of entities, determining, based on the subscription data, a user of the plurality of users that is subscribed to the tagged entities of the media item, and providing the media item to the user. Other associated systems and methods are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Justin Lewis, Kevin Greene
  • Patent number: 11442924
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method may include display of a data summary view of a set of events that correspond to query results of a query. Each event of the set of events may include data items of a plurality of event attributes. In embodiments, the data summary view can include various summary reports. Each summary report can include summary entries and a summary graph that each present a summary of data items of a selected event attribute, of the plurality of event attributes. At least one summary report can include summary entries that are selectable by a user. The method may further include filtering the set of event, in response to, and based on, selection of one or more of the selectable summary entries by the user and updating of at least the first and second summary graphs to correspond to the filtered set of events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Jesse Miller, Marc V. Robichaud, Cory Burke, Jeffrey Thomas Lloyd, Alexander James, Andrew Robbins
  • Patent number: 11442931
    Abstract: Techniques are described for an interactive query service that enables users to query data stored at a federated collection of data sources. An interactive query service provides interfaces that enable users to configure the interactive query service to query any number of heterogeneous data sources pertinent to a user. In general, the configuration of a data source can include identification of: a data source type, access configurations related to accessing the data source, and in some cases metadata describing a structure of the data stored by the data source (for example, a data catalog describing schemas, tables, columns, partitions, datatypes, or other metadata associated with the stored data). Once configured, an interactive query service can receive and execute queries that involve data stored at any combination of a user's data sources, where the queries may be expressed using a standard query language such as the Structured Query Language (SQL).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony A. Virtuoso, Rahul Pathak, Mehul Shah, Akila Tennakoon, Jian Fang, Seth Thomas Denney, Jason Denton
  • Patent number: 11442951
    Abstract: Optimal information in consideration with time series environmental factors is provided to users. The information processing apparatus includes a retrieve module configured to retrieve environmental information indicating an ultraviolet ray exposure amount indicating an amount of ultraviolet rays exposed to a user, a temperature of an environment where the user stays, and a humidity of the environment where the user stays, a present module configured to present first information relating to the skin condition of the user based on the environmental information, and a present module configured to present second information relating to the skin condition of the user based on environmental log information including a plurality of environmental information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Shiseido Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Mori, Naoki Saito
  • Patent number: 11442428
    Abstract: A quality review management system may be used to analyze the operation of manufacturing processes within a plant based on data collected by various data sources in the plant, such as batch executive applications, to automatically detect, store, and display exceptions within those processes for use by a quality review engineer to determine if the process operation meets certain quality standards. The quality review management system includes a configuration application that enables a user to create one or more exception rules, an exception engine that analyses process data using the rules to detect one or more exceptions within the process, and a review application that enables quality review personnel to review each determined exception for resolution purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Joshua B. Kidd, Marcus Shane Strangeway Orchard, Todd A. Cook
  • Patent number: 11436269
    Abstract: Text input data for an electronic record may be aggregated and mapped to create composite text input data. A semantic event in the composite text input data may be automatically detected, and a text mining result database may be updated by adding an entry identifying the detected semantic event and a triggering semantic rule. An indication of the electronic record may then be transmitted to a back-end application computer server that also determines at least one parameter corresponding to a characteristic of the electronic record. The computer server may then execute a computerized predictive model to predict a future performance characteristic indicator for the electronic record based on the at least one parameter and the indication received from the text mining platform, wherein the future performance characteristic indicator is indicative of a likelihood of an actual value of the electronic record differing from a predicted value of the electronic record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Kathleen H. Galia, David Gamble, Bixia Li, Kelly J. McLaughlin, Tracey Ellen Steger
  • Patent number: 11436252
    Abstract: A data processing method, apparatus, and device is provided. The method includes receiving, by a blockchain node, a data processing request sent by a first device associated with a first user, invoking a first smart contract deployed in a blockchain network, and extracting a feature value of first original data to be processed included in the data processing request based on the first smart contract; matching historical data saved in the blockchain network based on the extracted feature value so as to determine whether there is target historical data whose similarity with the first original data satisfies a predetermined condition in the historical data; and performing corresponding processing based on matching result information of the matching processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhe Han
  • Patent number: 11436254
    Abstract: A folder one-key mounting method includes: determining a size of a target folder when a one-key mounting instruction for the target folder is obtained; determining a size of a mirror image file based on the size of the target folder; determining a storage path of the mirror image file based on the size of the mirror image file; generating a target mirror image file corresponding to the target folder and the size of the mirror image file, and storing the target mirror image file in a position corresponding to the storage path; and mounting the target mirror image file to a server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: ZHENGZHOU YUNHAI INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xuelong Wang