Patents Examined by Kristie D. Shingles
  • Patent number: 11842223
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is the integration into edge nodes of a telecommunications network system of client computer system and server computer system where the server computer system includes a pool of shareable accelerators and the client computer runs an application program that is assisted by the pool of accelerators. The edge nodes connect to user equipment, and some of the user equipment can themselves act as one of the client computer systems. In some embodiments, the accelerators are GPUs, and in other embodiments, the accelerators are artificial intelligence accelerators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Tiejun Chen, Chris Wolf, Mazhar Memon, Peter Buckingham, Shreekanta Das
  • Patent number: 11843571
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for generating for display a notification to a plurality of users at a position within a display screen to which each user of the plurality of users is paying attention. Specifically, the media guidance application captures lines of sight of users who are paying attention to a display screen, based on which the media guidance application determines line-of-sight regions on the display screen that the users are paying attention to. The media guidance application then determines a display area that is noticeable to the users based on the respective line-of-sight regions on the display screen to display an electronic message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Dawes, Takeaki Obara
  • Patent number: 11843570
    Abstract: Securing information within a user interface can include mapping, using a processor, an electronic mail address to an avatar, wherein the mapped electronic mail address and the avatar are stored within a data storage device, and generating, using the processor, a user interface including a message correlated with the electronic mail address. The user interface displays the avatar of the electronic mail address in place of at least one of a name for the electronic mail address or the electronic mail address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Itzhack Goldberg, Bruce A. Kahn
  • Patent number: 11838140
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to verifying media stream quality for multiparty video conferences. A verification video may be generated based on verification goals for a video provided by a video service. A marker may be embedded in the verification video. A video conference may be established using video stations such that the video conference may be provided by a video service. The verification video may be streamed to a video input of each video station. The video may be streamed to a video output buffer of each video station such that the video provides a view of the video conference and such that the marker that corresponds to each video station may be included in the video. Video information may be captured from the video output buffer of the video stations. The video service may be classified based on the video information from each video station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: DexCare, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Albert Wlodarczyk, Chandler Boone Ferry, Derek Alan Streat
  • Patent number: 11830299
    Abstract: Management of data and software for autonomous vehicles. In an embodiment, sensor data is received. The sensor data is collected by one or more sensor systems of one or more vehicles, and submitted by a first user via at least one network. The sensor data is automatically analyzed to detect any problems with the sensor data and to enhance the sensor data, prior to publishing a description of the sensor data in an online marketplace. A graphical user interface is generated that comprises one or more screens of the online marketplace, via which a second user may view the description of the sensor data and purchase the sensor data for download via the at least one network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: APEX.AL, INC.
    Inventor: Jan Becker
  • Patent number: 11823253
    Abstract: Systems and methods may be provided for purchasing items or merchandise in one or more streaming media platforms, whether through interaction between a marketplace application and a streaming platform or through a built-in marketplace and streaming platform. A user or subscriber also may pause content being accessed through a streaming media platform to search for and/or purchase items. A user or subscriber may search for and make purchases of goods, merchandise, and/or exclusive items associated with content on the streaming media platform through a bar menu, selection of a content title, presentation of categories from which to search for and select items, and/or through a home or main screen within the streaming media platform working with a marketplace application and/or a built-in marketplace and streaming platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: AVEC LLC
    Inventors: Nachume Cojab Amkie, Gabriel Cojab Amkie, Rina Sefchovich Sheinberg
  • Patent number: 11824674
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for participating in a meeting through an application provider using application-specific network slices. A method includes transmitting a request to a mobile network operator (MNO) for setup of a data connection with a device for a meeting provided by an application provider; receiving allowed network slices for the data connection that are generated by the MNO for the meeting; identifying a network slice from the allowed network slices for the meeting based on one or more characteristics specific to the meeting; and establishing the data connection with the mobile network operator based on the network slice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajesh Indira Viswambharan, Ram Mohan Ravindranath, Faisal Siyavudeen, Vinay Saini
  • Patent number: 11811673
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods concerning routing of data in a network disclosed. In an example embodiment, an apparatus includes a network interface circuit connected to a network via a plurality of network paths. A circuit arrangement is connected to the network interface circuit and is configured to provide the one or more services for endpoints in the network by 1) communicating data with the endpoints via the network interface, 2) estimating respective qualities of service provided to the endpoints by each of the plurality of network paths, 3) selecting a subset of the plurality of network paths for routing data from the endpoints to the apparatus, and 4) prompting one or more nodes in the network to route data to the apparatus using the selected subset of the plurality of network paths. Paths may be selected for example, to address one or more quality metrics, security/compliance, and/or balance server load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: 8x8, Inc.
    Inventors: Mehdi Salour, Raghu Rengarajan
  • Patent number: 11799823
    Abstract: Disclosed is a domain engineering analysis solution that determines relevance of a domain name to a brand name in which a domain name, brand name, and identification of a substring of the domain name may be provided to or obtained by a computer embodying a domain engineering analyzer. A list of features may be determined. The list of features may include a lexicon, or a set of key-value pairs that encode information about terms included as substrings in the domain name. Determining the features may include obtaining a language model for each term, analyzing a cluster of language models closest to the obtained language model, and determining and scoring a relevance of each term to the brand name. The determined relevance and score of each term may be provided to a client. This relevance analysis can be dynamically applied in an online process or proactively applied in an offline process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: PROOFPOINT, INC.
    Inventors: Sharon Huffner, Ali Mesdaq
  • Patent number: 11790052
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a digital content item to an authorized user are described. A system for providing access to a digital content item comprises a network interface, a memory, and one or more processors, the one or more processors to process a user request to obtain a digital resource identifier corresponding to a user-requested digital content item; select a digital resource provisioning platform to provide the user-requested digital content item, the selection based on holdings availability data; generate a link to the user-requested digital content item on the selected digital resource provisioning platform based on one or more rules specific to the selected digital resource provisioning platform; and provide to the user's computing device the link to the user-requested digital content item on the selected digital resource provisioning platform, the link to navigate a user interface directly to a view of the digital content item responsive to a selection of the link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Third Iron, LLC
    Inventor: John L. Seguin
  • Patent number: 11792143
    Abstract: When a media program hosted by a creator is played, text-based chat sessions are conducted in parallel with the playing of the media program. As a media program is played via devices, listeners provide chat messages to a creator of the media program, or to other listeners, through widgets or other applications on user interfaces. Chat messages are filtered for objectionable content and ranked or scored for listeners, objectively or subjectively, and presented on the user interface, and listeners are able to interact with or provide feedback in response to each of such chat messages. When a previously recorded media program is played to a listener, chat messages or interactions with such chat messages recorded as the media program was previously played are also displayed to the listener at times, with respect to the media program, at which the chat messages or interactions were received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Aamir Shah
  • Patent number: 11790244
    Abstract: A system and method for generating a predictive model include accessing data from a dynamic dataset and a static dataset, generating a unique individual profile for each of a plurality of subjects within a population, assigning a class attribute to each subject, and based on the unique individual profile and the class attribute for each subject, developing a classification model based on the unique individual profile and the class attribute for each of the plurality of subject, and generating an individual score for each of the plurality of subjects using the classification model. The unique individual profile is generated from the data in the dynamic and the static datasets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
    Inventor: David Sathiaraj
  • Patent number: 11775572
    Abstract: Techniques for chatbots, and more particularly, to techniques for using a directed acyclic graph (DAG) based framework to build and train models. In one particular aspect, a computer implemented method is provided that includes generating, by a DAG based framework, a first model and a second model, executing the first model for a chatbot in run-time and second model for the chatbot in design-time, collecting attributes for intent classification associated with a set of utterances with the chatbot running the first model and the second model, evaluating, using one or more metrics, performance of the first model and the second model based on an analysis of the attributes for the intent classification, determining whether the performance of the second model is improved as compared to the performance of the first model, and executing the first model or the second model for the chatbot in run-time based on the performance determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gautam Singaraju, Crystal Pan
  • Patent number: 11770442
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a memory, a communication circuit, and a processor. The memory is configured to store an application and an edge enabler client. The communication circuit is configured to communicate with at least one of a first server, a second server, or a third server. The application is configured to perform one or more functions corresponding to the third server. The processor is configured to receive access information for accessing the second server from the first server. The processor is configured to receive access information of the third server from each of a plurality of second servers. The processor is configured to check at least one or more third servers capable of providing a service The processor is configured to select the third server to request access among a plurality of third servers. The processor is configured to perform the service using the selected third server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wonbo Lee, Jinhyoung Kim, Sangcheol Lee, Youngwook Kim, Taewan Kim, Hongshik Kim, Ansik Shin
  • Patent number: 11765645
    Abstract: A device, method, and system provide for collecting service parameters associated with application sessions associated with a plurality of MEC clusters; obtaining capability information associated with each of the plurality of MEC clusters; generating service profiles for a set of transport networks based on the service parameters and the capability information, wherein each transport network includes at least one of the plurality of MEC clusters; receiving, from a user equipment (UE) device, a request for a MEC service having a minimum service requirement; and selecting, based on the service profiles, a MEC cluster from the plurality of MEC clusters to provide the MEC service, wherein the selected MEC cluster is included in a first transport network that meets the minimum service requirement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Stephane Chaysinh, John A. Turato, Brian Peebles
  • Patent number: 11757986
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for implementing an intelligent network of distributed compute nodes are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes processing information pertaining to multiple compute nodes within a network of distributed compute nodes; mapping available compute nodes, within the network, having compute capabilities and bandwidth capabilities for executing compute tasks onto dedicated portions of the network; processing information pertaining to at least one compute task requested within the network, including determining at least bandwidth requirements for the compute task and latency requirements for the compute task; and performing, based on the mapping and the processed information pertaining to the compute task, at least one automated action pertaining to allocating at least a portion of the compute task to at least one of the available compute nodes within the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Sathish K. Bikumala, Jace W. Files
  • Patent number: 11758009
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to, in general, combination of temporal resource activity data and resource transmission. Typically, a system configured to concatenate time dependent sequential activity data structures such that resource transmission for an impending resource activity may be performed at an antecedent resource activity associated with the sequential activity data structures, is provided. In some embodiments, based on analyzing a trigger signal, the system is configured to identify a first resource activity initiated by the user. The system may then modify the first resource activity at the first networked device, in order to link a second resource activity with the first resource activity such that the second resource activity is initiated concurrently with the first resource activity prior to the second time interval associated with the second resource activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Govinda Rajulu Nelluri
  • Patent number: 11750672
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for a digital collaborative workspace system. The system includes a server network node having a processor and a database accessible thereto. The server network node can include logic to register a first display identification code (DIC) with a first network node, a second DIC with a second network node and a third DIC with a third network node. The server network node can detect an input from a second user identifying the shared workspace and the registered phone number or other identifier of the first user. The server network node can transmit this data to the third network node and in dependence upon receiving a selection of one or more of the first DIC, the second DIC, and the third DIC from the third network node, start a collaboration by sending the shared digital workspace to the network nodes registered with the selected DICs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Haworth, Inc.
    Inventor: Rupen Chanda
  • Patent number: 11736372
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for collecting metric values relating to operations of a set of one or more resources executing on host computers in a datacenter. In some embodiments, the method hierarchically collects and analyzes samples, with a first set of samples collected and analyzed in the data plane, and a second set of samples collected and analyzed in the control plane by aggregating the samples collected in the data plane. In some embodiments, the data plane includes host computers on which sample collecting engines (e.g., service engines) execute, while the control plane includes a set of one or more servers that obtains sample data collected by the host computers, and aggregates and analyzes this data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Gaurav Rastogi, Ashutosh Gupta
  • Patent number: 11736592
    Abstract: In some aspects, the disclosure is directed to methods and systems for synchronized multi-client content delivery, and a content selection system based on individual and aggregated scores for the content items, to generate bundles or sets of content items having approximately corresponding scores. Server timers and local timers on client devices may be synchronized via notifications, and timer durations dynamically adjusted when client requests and responses are sent prior to client-side timer expiration, but received after server-side timer expiration, indicating communication latency has caused desynchronization. Timers may be adjusted on a global basis or per-client device basis. Through scoring and bundling, sets of content items that may be relevant to approximately an equal share of the recipient client devices may be selected and transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: DraftKings, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Giacalone, Ryan McCullough, Sumanth Reddy, Brandon Ward, Andrew Busch