Patents Examined by Kristie D. Shingles
  • Patent number: 11418552
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques described herein are directed to device service capability discovery. An initiating user equipment (UE) can transmit a request to establish a communication session (e.g., a voice call, a video call, etc.) with a destination UE. The initiating UE can also transmit a request for capability information associated with the destination UE. The destination UE can provide capability information associated with features beyond those required for the communication session. Thus, capability information for a plurality of features can be determined in parallel with establishing a communication between an initiating UE and a destination UE. In some cases, an initiating UE can receive an error message in response to signaling to establish the communication session, in which case the initiating UE can update capability information associated with the destination UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Hsin-Fu Henry Chiang, Yasmin Karimli
  • Patent number: 11409842
    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: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Third Iron, LLC
    Inventor: John L. Seguin
  • Patent number: 11412050
    Abstract: In general, the disclosure describes techniques for wireless communications between multiple devices of an artificial reality system using virtual channels. In one example, a first computing device of a multi-device system, comprising: one or more first processors coupled to one or more memory devices; and a supervisory processor configured to establish a plurality of virtual channels over a physical wireless channel between the first computing device and a second computing device, wherein each of the virtual channels is associated with a different pair of processors comprising a source processor selected from one of the first processors or second processors of the second computing device and a destination processor selected from one of the first processors or the second processors, wherein, for each virtual channel and associated pair of processors, the source processor is configured to communicate application data with the destination processor using the virtual channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Alok Kumar Mathur, Gang Lu
  • Patent number: 11375445
    Abstract: Technologies for detecting and analyzing user interaction tests for network-accessible content include a compute device. The compute device includes circuitry configured to obtain samples of network-accessible content. The circuitry is additionally configured to determine, based on the obtained samples, whether multiple variants of the network-accessible content are present. Further, the circuitry is configured to monitor, in response to a determination that multiple variants are present, a statistical user interaction test associated with the variants, including detecting a final variant and discontinuation of other variants in the statistical user interaction test. Additionally, the circuitry is configured to provide data indicative of the detected final variant of the network-accessible content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Do What Works, LLC
    Inventors: Emilio Andres Glusman, William Howard
  • Patent number: 11363106
    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 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Govinda Rajulu Nelluri
  • Patent number: 11356938
    Abstract: A control method for controlling a device that includes a plurality of communication modules including a long-distance communication module that is a communication module for long-distance wireless communication and a short-distance communication module that is a communication module for short-distance wireless communication, the device being capable of being connected through each of the plurality of communication modules to a server that manages the device, the control method includes: receiving information necessary to the short-distance wireless communication by the short-distance communication module, when the long-distance communication module and the short-distance communication module are not operating; determining whether the information satisfies a condition indicating that the information received in the receiving is sufficient for a first connection to the server using the short-distance communication module; and causing the long-distance communication module to start operating, when it is determi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Tomoki Ogawa, Mitsuki Yamada, Masayuki Kozuka, Kunio Gobara, Yoshishige Yoshikawa, Shinya Nakai, Junya Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11349921
    Abstract: Migrating data from a first storage system to a second storage system includes transferring the data from the first storage system to a cloud storage, transferring the data from the cloud storage to the second storage system, quiescing the first storage system prior to transferring remaining data from the first storage system to the cloud storage, and transferring remaining data from the cloud storage to the second storage system to complete migration of the data. The cloud storage may be accessible only through a private network or via the World Wide Web. Quiescing the first storage system may include the first storage system rejecting write operations or may include one or more external systems coupled to the first storage system foregoing write operations. Snapshots may be performed at the first storage system in response to commands provided by a host coupled to the first storage system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Douglas E. LeCrone, Brett A. Quinn
  • Patent number: 11349804
    Abstract: Determining a resolved DNS response based on one or more resolutions for a received APN DNS query is disclosed. A resolved DNS response can be based on real-time analysis of a first query and/or on historical resolution of a second query that is sufficiently similar to the first query. In an aspect, training queries can be employed to populate a data store with preferred DNS responses correlated to the training queries and associated network conditions. The data store can then be employed to evaluate a received query, and where sufficiently similar to a training query, corresponding resolution from the training query can be provided as a resolution for the received query. Moreover, as stored query information is determined to become stale, refreshment techniques are disclosed. Additionally, training queries can comprise anticipated queries and historical queries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Sean Simon, Shilpa Kamdar, David Storm
  • Patent number: 11343115
    Abstract: A domestic appliance, e.g. a refrigerator, has a switching element and a network interface for connecting the domestic appliance to a local network. The domestic appliance has precisely one switching element, in particular a pushbutton, and can be connected to a remote control via the local network by actuating the switching element. A method is used to operate a domestic appliance which has precisely one switching element and a network interface for connecting the domestic appliance to a local network. The domestic appliance is connected to a remote control via the local network by actuating the switching element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Florian Garschhammer, Hans Peter Werner, Jochen Grimminger, Christopher Rodney
  • Patent number: 11330511
    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: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Stephane Chaysinh, John A. Turato, Brian Peebles
  • Patent number: 11328331
    Abstract: A method and device for sending and receiving virtual goods are provided. A client device may communicate with a server. The client device may receive a receiving link from the server. The server may generate the receiving link in response to an invocation request received by the server from an invoker device that is different from the recipient client device after a total amount of the virtual goods in an invoker account corresponding to the invoker device is successfully transferred to a server account corresponding to the server. The receiving link may include instructions configured to cause the recipient client device to request a virtual goods package from the server. The client device may detect the link is triggered. The client device may request, from the server, in response to link being triggered, the virtual goods package. The client device may accept, by the recipient client device, the virtual goods package by interacting with the server via the receiving link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Xiaotong You, Li Huang, Chao Zhou, Chen Gong, Yaya Liu, Canhui Huang
  • Patent number: 11309674
    Abstract: Methods and systems for monitoring a brush holder assembly and/or detecting wear of a brush in a brush holder assembly are disclosed. One method includes sending data from a plurality of remote monitoring locations to a central control unit, where the data may be evaluated in order to monitor states of brushes at a plurality of remote electrical facilities. For example, multiple images of a marker tracking longitudinal movement of the brush may be acquired. A comparison of the images, for example, a comparative imaging technique, such as pixel-by-pixel comparison, may then be performed in order to evaluate a condition of the brush, such as the wear rate, wear state, or life expectancy of the brush.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: CUTSFORTH, INC.
    Inventor: Robert S. Cutsforth
  • Patent number: 11290345
    Abstract: A method for enhancing quality of media uses an AI enhancing model built-in the client device to enhance the quality of video streams. The AI enhance module is pre-trained by using a neural network in the server to analyze differences between the decoded images and the raw images that are generated by the server. Wherein, the AI enhance module enhances decoded images by using algorithms which are defined by analyzing differences between the decoded images and the raw images. Such that, the enhanced images are visually more similar to the raw images than the decoded images do.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Ubitus
    Inventors: Jung-Chang Kuo, Tzer-Jen Wei, An-Lun Teng, Yu-Ju Tseng, Rong Chiang
  • Patent number: 11281479
    Abstract: Embodiments disclose a method, apparatus and a computer readable storage medium for providing cloud platform virtual assets. The method includes: generating virtual asset configuration information and a virtual asset model, and sending the virtual asset configuration information and the virtual asset model to a cloud platform; obtaining asset measurement data of a real device and obtaining asset simulation data from a simulation side of the real device, and filtering the asset measurement data and the asset simulation data based on the virtual asset configuration information provided by the cloud platform and sending the filtered data to the cloud platform; providing the virtual asset model and the filtered data from the cloud platform. The embodiments relate virtual digital world to the real physical world and seamlessly integrate the simulation data with the measurement data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Qi Wang, Yong Yuan, He Yu
  • Patent number: 11277314
    Abstract: Example embodiments may relate to web interfaces for a balloon-network. For example, a computing device may display a graphical interface that that includes one or more interface features to receive a request for use of bandwidth of a balloon network. In particular, the computing device may receive, via the graphical interface, input data corresponding to a bandwidth request for a first location, where the bandwidth request includes: (i) an indication of the first location and (ii) an indication of time. Subsequently, the computing device may receive an indication corresponding to whether or not the bandwidth request is accepted, where acceptance of the bandwidth request is based at least in part on expected movement of one or more balloons from a plurality of balloons in the balloon network. As such, the computing device may display, on the graphical interface, the indication corresponding to whether or not the bandwidth request is accepted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: SoftBank Corp.
    Inventors: Eric Teller, Richard Wayne Devaul, Michael Cassidy
  • Patent number: 11265219
    Abstract: Deployment of arrangements of physical computing components coupled over a communication fabric are presented herein. In one example, a method includes detecting disaggregated computing components communicatively coupled to at least a first communication fabric, and detecting converged computing components communicatively coupled to a second communication fabric. The method includes forming a free pool of computing components comprising the disaggregated computing components and the converged computing components, and receiving user commands to form compute units from among computing components included in the free pool of computing components. Based at least on the user commands, the method includes forming the compute units for use by one or more users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Liqid Inc.
    Inventors: James Scott Cannata, Phillip Clark, Bryan Nagel, Henry Lee Harris, Bryan Schramm, Sumit Puri
  • Patent number: 11258737
    Abstract: An instant messaging method, apparatus and system based on an email system. Establishing a discussion group in response to a discussion initiating request sent by a client according to an email page, and taking an email subject, email contacts, and an email body of the email page as a discussion subject, members, and a discussion information flow of the discussion group; receiving the discussion subject, the members, and the discussion information flow that are added, deleted or changed on an editing page and sent by the client, and updating same to the editing page of a local database; and generating, in response to a confirmation request sent by the client, a discussion page and a discussion group link associated with each other, and sending the discussion group link to clients of all the members of the discussion group, so that the client enters the discussion group through the link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: LUNKR TECHNOLOGY (GUANGZHOU) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yingtang Chen, Dajian Xuan
  • Patent number: 11240872
    Abstract: Systems and techniques facilitating resource frequency management are provided. An apparatus comprises: a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operations comprise: receiving information indicative of an emergency condition in a defined area; and transmitting a command to a network device for the defined area to cause the base station device to send a communication for the emergency condition via a first wireless communication channel with a mobile device of mobile devices associated with a subscriber identity of respective subscriber identities assigned to provide a response to the emergency condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventor: Arturo Maria
  • Patent number: 11233846
    Abstract: An exemplary system includes a cloud server configured to provide a service to a client device by way of a network. The system further includes an edge computing device configured to provide, from an edge of the network to the client device, a latency-sensitive task associated with the service. The cloud server and the edge computing device are configured to operate on distinct and matching datasets to provide the service to the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Ines
    Inventor: Mohammad Raheel Khalid
  • Patent number: 11233710
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method that includes collecting first temporal statistics for a port element in a computing environment, collecting second temporal statistics for a switch element in the computing environment, collecting third temporal statistics for the computing environment generally, computing a spatial correlation between network features and network elements comprising the port element and the switch element and computing, via a machine learning technique, a port dynamic weight for the port element and a switch dynamic weight for the switch element. The method can also include scheduling workload to consume compute resources within the compute environment based at least in part on the port dynamic weight for the port element and the switch dynamic weight for the switch element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Chirag Tayal, Esha Desai, Paddu Krishnan