Patents Examined by LeChi Truong
  • Patent number: 10318361
    Abstract: Methods for providing simultaneous access to a hardware data stream to multiple applications are disclosed. The first application to access a hardware device is responsible for providing and publishing an application programming interface (API) that provides access to the hardware device's data stream, which other applications can then call to gain access to the data stream. In some examples, the first application may be a server process or daemon dedicated to managing the hardware device data stream and publishing the API. In some further examples, the first application may instead may carry out user functionality unrelated to managing the hardware device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Atheer, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Fink, Ryan Phelps, Gary Peck, Bryan Ransil
  • Patent number: 10310919
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, program products, and systems to increase efficiency in message oriented middleware. Embodiments of the present invention can, responsive to receiving from an application an open request for a queue alias of a queue manager, provide to the application target cache information which includes a target name and a change flag count associated with the queue alias. Embodiments of the present invention can, responsive to receiving a message from the application that includes respective target cache information including a target name and a change flag count, determine a target location, wherein if the change flag count of the received message matches a current change flag count of the queue alias, the determined target location is a target location associated with the received target name.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Qian Li Jin, Yan Shi, Fan Yang, Shan Yu, Yang Zhang
  • Patent number: 10296239
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for object-based commands with quality of service identifiers. In an embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a memory device having a processor configured to store data as objects, each object including an object identifier field to track the object, and a user data field for user data of the object. The processor may be further configured to receive a command including an operation directed to an object, and a quality of service identifier that specifies a level of service associated with the operation. Commands may be directed toward put, get, and delete operations, among others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Timothy R Feldman, James Prescott Hughes, Martin R Furuhjelm
  • Patent number: 10284592
    Abstract: An example method includes providing, by a computing system, first randomized configuration information, generating, by the computing system and based on the first randomized configuration information, a first unique instance of a software component, providing second randomized configuration information, wherein the second randomized configuration information is different from the first randomized configuration information, and generating, based on the second randomized configuration information, a second unique instance of the software component that is executable on the runtime computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Architecture Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Judson Powers, Robert A. Joyce, Daniel McArdle
  • Patent number: 10282277
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for identifying a minimal operator subsets in a distributed streams application for debugging purposes. A debugging tool receives a selection of operators from a plurality of operators included in a distributed application. The distributed application executes the plurality of operators in a runtime environment. The debugging tool identifies, based on the selected operators, a subset of the plurality of operators to execute in a debugging environment. The subset includes at least the selected operators. The debugging tool executes the subset of the plurality of operators in the debugging environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bin Cao, Jessica R. Eidem, Brian R. Muras, Jingdong Sun
  • Patent number: 10282492
    Abstract: The structure earthquake-resistance design method may include an earthquake-resistance calculation using the structure design data; a required ground acceleration calculation wherein at the required ground acceleration, the earthquake-resistance matches the external vibration-force; and an earthquake magnitude calculation wherein the earthquake magnitude is calculated at a predetermined distance at which the required ground acceleration is available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: BUILDING MAGNITUDE TECHNOLOGY ANALYSIS AND RESEARCH SERVICE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dong Youl Shin
  • Patent number: 10275550
    Abstract: In an embodiment, agricultural intelligence computer system stores a digital model of nutrient content in soil which includes a plurality of values and expressions that define transformations of or relationships between the values and produce estimates of nutrient content values in soil. The agricultural intelligence computer receives nutrient content measurement values for a particular field at a particular time. The agricultural intelligence computer system uses the digital model of nutrient content to compute a nutrient content value for the particular field at the particular time. The agricultural intelligence computer system identifies a modeling uncertainty corresponding to the computed nutrient content value and a measurement uncertainty corresponding to the received measurement values. Based on the identified uncertainties, the modeled nutrient content value, and the received measurement values, the agricultural intelligence computer system computes an assimilated nutrient content value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: The Climate Corporation
    Inventor: Wayne Tai Lee
  • Patent number: 10255386
    Abstract: A system is provided that facilitates design space exploration with quantitative pruning and ranking. The system may determine a collection of component model solutions corresponding to a functional model with functional model ports for a system to be produced. The component model solutions are comprised of simulated components selected from a component library based at least in part on correspondence between component ports of the simulated components and the functional model ports of the functional model. The system may select a subset of the component model solutions from the collection, which have behaviors determined for each component model solution that are consistent with behaviors determined for the functional model. The system may determine rankings for the component model solutions of the subset relative to each other based on a comparison of behaviors for each component model solution to each other and/or to the behaviors determined for the functional model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc.
    Inventors: Arquimedes Martinez Canedo, Jan Richter, Lars Jordan
  • Patent number: 10248863
    Abstract: An approach is provided for testing an Internet of Things device. First data captured on video and indicating visual device output and second data indicating non-visual device output are received during testing of the device. An event log of the device is received. Human interactions with the device are received. The first and second data, the event log entries, and indications of the human interactions are overlaid onto frames of the video that include the device, so that timings of the frames are correlated with timestamps of the overlaid items. Based on the overlaid items, performance, functionality, and usability issues are detected and markers of the issues are generated and overlaid onto a timeline of the video. Responsive to a user selection of one of the markers, the computer locating and displaying a frame of the video that depicts the issue that corresponds to the selected marker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Vijay Ekambaram, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
  • Patent number: 10248472
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to recursive modularization of service provider components to reduce service delivery time and cost. In accordance with one aspect disclosed herein, a module is executable by a hardware compute resource of a virtualization platform. The module can include a module controller and a module instance. The module controller can expose a set of application programming interfaces (“APIs”). The set of APIs can include a configuration API that collects a configuration to be utilized to instantiate the module instance. The set of APIs also can include an instance provisioning API that instantiates the module instance based upon the configuration. The set of APIs also can include one or more other APIs to manage the module instance. The module instance can be a service module instance. The service module instance can encapsulate additional service module instances that have been instantiated by another module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Richard R. Erickson, Basundhara Prasad, Dean Bragg, Richard D. Schlichting, Pamela Lilly DeFazio, Adrian Vulpas, John Oetting
  • Patent number: 10248743
    Abstract: Four-dimensional fluid flow data is received that is associated with a time dimension and I, J, and K dimensions. The four-dimensional fluid flow data includes, for each of plural time steps, a fluid flow amount for the respective time step and for a respective I, J, K cell. Using the four-dimensional fluid flow data and for each of plural time steps, a four-dimensional geocellular model is determined having I, J, K and t dimensions and indicating, for each I, J, K, t cell, an amount of a fluid flowing through the I, J, K cell for a respective time step t. A three-dimensional time-independent model is determined for the I, J, K cell. A two-dimensional time-independent model is determined that includes a cumulative fluid flow amount for each I, J cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Mohamed Bouaouaja, Ahmed Alhuthali
  • Patent number: 10216601
    Abstract: A dynamic service module is embedded in an agent and able to add functionality to the agent. The service module may manage .jar files for execution by the agent. The service module may receive the .jar files, provide them to an agent for execution, and may perform other functions. The agent may perform obfuscation in order to translate the .jar files into a modified version which may be more compatible with a particular agent. Once execution of the .jar file is complete, the agent may remove the .jar file as well as all trace of the .jar file. For example, the agent may remove byte code instrumentation that was installed as a result of the .jar file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Brad Winslow, Anthony Kilman
  • Patent number: 10216911
    Abstract: Methods of calculating a free energy of solubility for a compound in a solvent by computer operations include the following steps: (i) establishing, using a computer model, an initial state for a system including an aggregate of multiple molecules of the compound in a solvent; (ii) establishing, using the computer model, a final state of the system including a single molecule from the aggregate fully solvated in the solvent and separate from a transformed aggregate; (iii) transforming, using the computer model, the system from the initial state to the final state, via removing a first molecule of the compound from the aggregate to form the transformed aggregate and replacing the first molecule with solvent at the site of the first molecule; and (iv) calculating the free energy of the transformation between the initial and the final states, which determines the free energy of solubility for the compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Schrödinger, LLC
    Inventors: Sayan Mondal, Robert Abel
  • Patent number: 10210029
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for supporting REST services natively in a service bus runtime. The service bus runtime can include one or more native REST proxy services, one or more native REST pipelines, and one or more native REST reference services. A native REST proxy service can deliver a message payload of a REST native format into a native REST pipeline, which can process the payload without converting the payload to or from an XML-based Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) format. JavaScript code can be supported in the pipeline to manipulate the message payload. A REST branch node can be used in the service bus runtime to route a message based on an HTTP verb or a relative URL path in a header of the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiran Prabhakar, Greg Fichtenholtz, Dimitri Laloue
  • Patent number: 10212230
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable medium for providing application isolation to one or more applications. The system may include an isolated environment including application files and executables, and an interception layer intercepting access to system resources and interfaces. The system may further include an interception database maintaining mapping between the system resources inside the isolated environment and outside, and a host operating system, wherein the isolated environments are saved on at least one of a local and remote storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: OPEN INVENTION NETWORK LLC
    Inventor: Allan Havemose
  • Patent number: 10210015
    Abstract: An aspect of the present disclosure provides for migration of a virtual machine (VM) on a switched-fabric based computing system to another (external) switched-fabric based computing system or non-switched-fabric based (external) computing system. Both of such external computing systems are communicatively coupled to the switched-fabric based computing system by Internet such that the data transfer after the migration is based on IP packets on the Internet. According to another aspect of the present disclosure, an appliance contains multiple nodes for hosting virtual machines. A switched fabric switches packets between the nodes based on point-to-point connections between each pair of ports, wherein each port is coupled directly to a corresponding node. A bridge supports migration of a first VM to a first external system coupled to the first appliance by Internet Protocol (IP) based network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Giridhar Narasimhamurthy, Kailasa Malehithlu Marathe, Pramod Yellupur Venkatesh
  • Patent number: 10198279
    Abstract: A system performs thread synchronization across layers of code that implement an application, including native code, system code, and code in a virtual machine (“VM”). The system makes a call by the native code to the system code; and sends a message by the system code to the code in the VM. The system then sends a first response by the code in the VM to the system code; and sends a second response by the system code to the native code, where each one of the native code, the system code, and the code in the VM implements wait and notify functionality for communication with other codes that implement the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Anki Nelaturu, William Bruce Kilgore, Joshua Miers, Mark Vakoc, Michael Elges, Michael William McGrath, Venkata Guddanti, David Allen Schneider, Robert Vandette, Gary Adams
  • Patent number: 10200406
    Abstract: An example method includes providing, by a computing system, first randomized configuration information, generating, by the computing system and based on the first randomized configuration information, a first unique instance of a software component, providing second randomized configuration information, wherein the second randomized configuration information is different from the first randomized configuration information, and generating, based on the second randomized configuration information, a second unique instance of the software component that is executable on the runtime computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Architecture Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Judson Powers, Robert A. Joyce, Daniel McArdle
  • Patent number: 10200401
    Abstract: An example method includes providing, by a computing system, first randomized configuration information, generating, by the computing system and based on the first randomized configuration information, a first unique instance of a software component, providing second randomized configuration information, wherein the second randomized configuration information is different from the first randomized configuration information, and generating, based on the second randomized configuration information, a second unique instance of the software component that is executable on the runtime computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Architecture Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Judson Powers, Robert A. Joyce, Daniel McArdle
  • Patent number: 10191787
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided herein for interfacing between a solver and one or more models. Data comprising at least one solver function is received from a solver interface. Data comprising at least one modeling function corresponding to the solver function is provided to a model interface. The presence of an event occurrence is detected based on interface functions. The interface functions are mapped to the at least one solver function and the at least one modeling function. The interface functions are provided to the solver interface to determine a solution. The solution is initiated for rendering on a graphical user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Ansys, Inc.
    Inventors: Sameer Kher, Velnamby Ambalavanar