Patents Examined by LaShonda T Jacobs
  • Patent number: 11405765
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for providing assistance to a user of a mobile application are described. A request for assistance from the user is detected and a request is issued to a remote device for establishment of a remote assistance session. Information describing a state of the mobile device is periodically transmitted to the remote device and one or more commands may be received from the remote device. The commands may be executed on the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Scot Fraser Hamilton, Ladd Van Tol, Luke Shardlow, Jonathan David Chard, Matthew Olson
  • Patent number: 11398958
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a networking device reroutes traffic in a network from a first path to a second path, based on a prediction that the first path will not satisfy a service level agreement associated with the traffic. The networking device enters a fast monitoring state during which the networking device performs fast probing of the first path and of the second path onto which the traffic was rerouted. The networking device makes, based on the fast probing, a determination as to whether the first path would have violated the service level agreement and whether the second path violates the service level agreement. The networking device enacts a routing decision for the traffic by applying a routing policy to the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Vasseur, Grégory Mermoud, Vinay Kumar Kolar
  • Patent number: 11394799
    Abstract: Further disclosed herein is a system for facilitating generation of an interactive story based on non-interactive data, in accordance with some embodiments. Accordingly, the system may include a communication device, a processing device, and a storage device. Further, the communication device may be configured for receiving non-interactive data from a source device, transmitting interactive story data to a user device, receiving a request from the user device, and transmitting a response to the user device. Further, the processing device may be configured for analyzing the non-interactive data, generating the interactive story data based on the analyzing, analyzing the at least one request, and generating the response based on the analyzing of the interactive story data and the analyzing of the request. Further, the storage device may be configured for storing the non-interactive data, the interactive story data, the request, and the response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Inventor: Freeman Augustus Jackson
  • Patent number: 11368565
    Abstract: An example operation may include a system, comprising one or more of receiving a heartbeat message from a peer virtualization network function component interface (VFCNI) indicating a current operational state of active when a VNFCI is in an active state, sending a first heartbeat message to the peer VNFCI indicating a current operational state as active, sending a next state request with an active state and split-brain condition to a virtual network function manager (VNFM), starting a response timer, sending a second heartbeat message to the peer VNFCI indicating the current operational state as active and a desired operational state as active when one or more of: the VNFCI is not a preferred standby instance, the response timer expires, stopping the response timer when a next state response message is received, sending a third heartbeat message to the peer VNFCI indicating the current operational state as active and a desired operational state as active when and an active state is contained in the next stat
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: OPEN INVENTION NETWORK LLC
    Inventor: Keith William Melkild
  • Patent number: 11368538
    Abstract: A web conferencing system is hosted in a first computing environment and is Internet-connected with a content management system hosted in a second computing environment. Upon detection of an occurrence of a file or folder drag-and-drop event at the web conferencing system, the file or folder corresponding to the drag-and-drop event is made available to the content management system. A directory hierarchy of a file system of the content management system is generated on-the-fly. The content management system initiates operations to retrieve and store a copy of the file or folder into the director hierarchy. Access permissions corresponding to locations within the directory hierarchy where the copy of the file or folder is stored are established such that users of the web conferencing system who were not users of the content management system can access the copy of the file or folder that is stored in the content management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Box, Inc.
    Inventors: Michelle Sangeun Oh, Derrik Randal Lansing, Nathaniel Schlein, Aaron Levie, Prachi Subhash Jadhav, Andrew Edelman, Faizan N. Buzdar
  • Patent number: 11350250
    Abstract: A system having a server for receiving a message from a sending device executing a messaging application and for sending a message notification alert to a recipient, the server having a processor and memory, the memory having computer executable code, comprising receiving the message from the sending device executing the messaging application, the message containing recipient address information provided by the sending device, determining, based on recipient address information, that the recipient is not associated with a recipient device having the messaging application, and transmitting the message notification alert to the recipient via an alternate communications method, the message notification alert comprising a link to view the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: TigerConnect, Inc.
    Inventors: Brad Brooks, Sumeet Bhatia, Sean Whiteley
  • Patent number: 11329878
    Abstract: A system for discovering digital assets and determining an association between the assets and an entity analyzes publicly available information about entities of interest and dataset(s) generated via network observations from devices using the digital assets. Additional attributes included in the network observations dataset(s) and metadata from such observations may be used to enhance the correctness of the identified entity-asset associations. Network observations dataset(s) may be monitored on an on-going basis to provide current entity-asset associations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: BitSight Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Austin Allshouse, Daniel Dahlberg
  • Patent number: 11310314
    Abstract: A method and system for synchronization data across applications installed on mobile and desktop devices and remote server uses a mail server. The data to be sent to applications is included in electronic message body or attachment and sent to a predefined email account. The email account is processed via listener applications according to a processing rule such as sender's email address, sender's domain, header information, or metadata. When an email matches the rule, an action is triggered that acquires data from attachment of email or body and updates local storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Zero Cognitive Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Gevorg Karapetyan
  • Patent number: 11302451
    Abstract: A method for providing an authentication-less access to an internet of things, IoT, platform. The method includes the following acts, performed by a gateway device after receiving a first data packet of a data stream from a first device: determining if the first data packet includes a connection criterion related the IoT platform; enabling the routing of data packets belonging to the data stream between the first device and the IoT platform if the first data packet includes the predetermined connection criterion; and forwarding the first data packet to an authentication portal in order to trigger an authentication procedure between the authentication portal and the first device if the first data packet does not include the predetermined connection criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventor: Konrad Gawda
  • Patent number: 11301570
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a plurality of sets of extracted data from one or more devices under analysis. An evidence storage server generates a plurality of evidence packages based on a first copy of the plurality of sets of extracted data from the one or more devices under analysis. A virtual desktop server generates one or more virtual desktop sessions that interface with one or more analysis workstations and interface with the evidence storage server to access the first copy of the sets of extracted data in the evidence packages. One or more associated work products are stored in the evidence packages based on a forensic analysis of the first copy of the sets of extracted data in the evidence packages. The one or more associated work products are stored with a second copy of the sets of extracted data to an archive system including a plurality of storage arrays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: THE TRAVELERS INDEMNITY COMPANY
    Inventors: Patrick K. Griffin, Leroy D. Emmerthal, Krystopher Aurigemma, Eric W. Raabe, Luis Bedoya, Kurt E. Oestreicher, James H. Shanley
  • Patent number: 11297031
    Abstract: A service enables a command that refers to a file system object using a hierarchical namespace identifier to be executed against the file system object in a flat namespace. The service selectively distributes the command to one of a plurality of name resolution nodes based on a directory name included in the hierarchical namespace identifier. The identified node resolves the directory name to a flat namespace identifier that is used to execute the command against the flat namespace. After communicating with at least one storage node to resolve a directory name, each name resolution node stores a mapping of the directory name to the corresponding flat namespace identifier in a cache, so that subsequent resolutions of that directory name may be performed more efficiently. Cache entries may be invalidated when an operation occurs that impacts the relevant mapping and/or based on system considerations such as cache expiry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Georgi M. Chalakov, Shane Kumar Mainali, Thomas Leo Marquardt, Zichen Sun, Maneesh Sah, Esfandiar Manii, Saurabh Pant, Dana Yulian Kaban, Saher B. Ahwal, Jun Chen, Da Zhou, Amit Pratap Singh, Junhua Gu, Shaoyu Zhang, Wei Chen, Jingchao Zhang, Quan Zhang, Arild Einar Skjoldsvold
  • Patent number: 11297052
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for password protecting selected message content. The program and method provide for receiving selection of a content item shared between a first user and a second user, in association with a messaging application; receiving input indicating that access to the content item requires user authentication by the first user or the second user; and providing for access to the content item based on the user selection and the input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy Voss, Christie Marie Heikkinen, Daniel Rakhamimov, Laurent Desserrey, Edward Koai
  • Patent number: 11290401
    Abstract: A middleware messaging system is connected between user devices and content providers possibly through one or more networks. The middleware messaging system includes a coordination manager for coordinating partial messages transmitted between the user devices and the content providers. Partial messages received by the middleware messaging system from one or more sources through one or more channels. Partial messages that are associated with each other comprise a single context and as such are coordinated and transmitted to one or more destinations through one or more channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: III Holdings 2, LLC
    Inventors: Greg Gershman, Michael J. Miller, George Dardamanis
  • Patent number: 11290920
    Abstract: A framework of abstraction of new and existing 5G radios can enhance capabilities of new and existing micro radios and other short range radio technologies to enable intelligent service delivery, dynamic access learning capability, and network slicing over 5G access networks. Enhancing layer communication for both control and user plane can be tunneled through the hosting layer and exploit a common transport provided by the hosting layer. The tunneling through the hosting layer can also enable the enhance capabilities to access the same radio management functions and can be orchestrated by the same core function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignees: AT&T INIELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Zhi Cui, Sangar Dowlatkhah
  • Patent number: 11290407
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an aggregate server, messages from each of a plurality of entities, each of the plurality of entities formatting a message sent from a given entity in a message structure corresponding to the given entity; analyzing the received messages, wherein the analyzing comprises identifying the message structure of the message, identifying elements of the message based upon the message structure, and extracting at least one actionable portion of the message based upon the identified elements of the message, wherein the at least one actionable portion comprises a portion of the message corresponding to an interest of an entity associated with the aggregate server, wherein the analyzing comprises discarding portions of the message not related to the interest, wherein the analyzing comprises; and performing an action based upon the at least one actionable portion of the message. Other aspects are claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: TeleTracking Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Coen, Sunil Nagireddy, Raghu Ramesh
  • Patent number: 11290777
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for receiving a request to generate a video of a specified resolution based on a plurality of images, and generating, via a file engine, a plurality of transfer units comprising the plurality of images, wherein each of the plurality of transfer units has a size based on the specified resolution and at least one of: (i) a count of the plurality of images or (ii) a size of the plurality of images. The file engine then assigns the plurality of transfer units for parallel processing by a plurality of image processing applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Giovanni Colombo, Scott Erickson
  • Patent number: 11290296
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a collaboration work management platform that facilitates differentiation between users in an overarching group and one or more subsets of individual users within the overarching group to enable the users within the individual subsets to use the collaboration work management platform differently users within the other subsets, the method being implemented by a computer system including one or more physical processors configured by machine-readable instructions are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information for maintaining a collaboration environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Asana, Inc.
    Inventors: Srikrishna Raghavan, Lawrence Han
  • Patent number: 11283698
    Abstract: A unidirectional workflow execution engine is accessed. The unidirectional workflow includes at least a first node and a second node, where the first node is executed before the second node. A timeout setting of the first node is retrieved. An actual execution time of the first node is determined. A difference between the retrieved timeout setting and the actual execution time of the first node is calculated. A timeout setting of the second node is retrieved. The timeout setting of the second node is modified by adding, to the retrieved timeout setting of the second node, the calculated difference between the retrieved timeout setting and the execution time of the first node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Srinivasan Manoharan, Joydeep Hazra, Shivam Pandey
  • Patent number: 11283883
    Abstract: A method for providing optimized BSF PDU session binding discovery response includes maintain a PDU session binding database, subscribing with an NRF to receive notification of changes to NF profiles of PCF instances or NF sets identified in the PDU session binding records, and obtaining, from the NRF, lists of NF profiles for the PCF instances in the NF sets identified in the PDU session binding records. The method further includes receiving, from the NRF and in response to the subscription, at least one notification of changes in at least some of the NF profiles in the NF sets identified in the PDU session binding records. The method further includes receiving a PDU session binding discovery request from a consumer NF and responding to the PDU session binding discovery request using the PDU session binding records, the lists of NF profiles obtained from the NRF, and the notifications of changes in at least some of the NF profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rajiv Krishan, Raghuvamshi vasudev Singh Thakur
  • Patent number: 11275857
    Abstract: A cloud-based server and a port monitor on a device provide authentication of a user to access scanned documents on the server. A scanning device may capture a digital image of a document. The port monitor uploads data for a scanned document to the cloud-based server. Once the data for the document is uploaded, a claim code is generated by the cloud-based server. The port monitor receives the claim code. The port monitor initiates the launch of a browser having a uniform resource locator (URL) address for the server along with the claim code. The user is authenticated using a login page and the claim code associated to the user to allow access to the document on the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Arthur Alacar, Michael Martin