Patents Examined by Leslie Wong
  • Patent number: 10750757
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of milk derived, denatured retentate in the preparation of milk-based compositions, which may be aerated or non-aerated, comprise a skimmed mild source, and/or have less than 0.5% w/w fat. The milk derived, denatured retentate allows the formation of microbubbles in an aerated skimmed milk composition, and thus retains certain desirable sensory perception characteristics such as a good mouthfeel and perceived thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Goodman Fielder PTE. LTD
    Inventors: Shantanu Das, Namrata Taneja, Sonya Dianne Olney, Ashling Ellis, Christopher Edward Hall, Harjinder Singh, Aiqian Ye
  • Patent number: 10740193
    Abstract: Hypervisor-independent reference copies of virtual machine payload data based on block-level pseudo-mount infrastructure and techniques are generated and stored in an illustrative data storage management system. An illustrative hypervisor-independent reference copy comprises one or more virtual-machine payload data files that originated from a first virtual machine. The hypervisor-independent virtual-machine-payload reference copy is governed by a distinct reference copy policy that controls retention, storage, tiering, scheduling, etc. for the reference copy, independently of how the illustrative system treats other virtual machine payload data files originating from the same virtual machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Commvault Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Vinit Dilip Dhatrak
  • Patent number: 10736338
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for formulating an ice cream wherein a high percentage of the added sugars (from 0% to 20%) is substituted for complex sugar substances known as prebiotics which, after pasteurization, can be partly or totally fermented by probiotic bacteria of the genera Bifidobacterium, Lactobacillus and Streptococcus, or hydrolyzed by enzymes to obtain a partly fermented ice cream with a low sugar content and containing a high number (>106/ml) of live probiotic bacteria. The different prebiotics are used as individual ingredients or in mixtures and in diverse concentrations. The invention also relates to an ice cream comprising a reduced content of added sugars such as sucrose, dextrose, glucose syrup, partly or totally substituted for prebiotics, optionally fermented by probiotics and/or hydrolyzed by enzymes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: ALI GROUP S.r.l.—CARPIGIANI
    Inventors: Andrea Cocchi, Roberto Lazzarini
  • Patent number: 10736333
    Abstract: A low sugar, low cariogenic, low-laxation gelled confection having acceptable texture, stability, clarity, and flavor delivery, that contains a doctoring agent comprising sucromalt, inulin, brown rice syrup, or combinations thereof; erythritol as the bulking sweetener agent; and a gelling agent comprising gelatin, pectin, starch, dextrin, hydrocolloid, milk proteins, or combinations thereof; wherein the doctoring agent to erythritol ratio is 90:10 to 70:30 wt % solids and the gelled confection has consumer acceptable texture, stability, clarity, and flavor delivery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: WM. WRIGLEY JR. COMPANY
    Inventors: Barbara Z. Stawski, Chia-Hua Hsu, David G. Barkalow
  • Patent number: 10733193
    Abstract: Implementations generally relate to processing similar documents. In some implementations, a method includes receiving a plurality of documents related to e-discovery. The method further includes determining a seed document from the plurality of documents. The method further includes receiving a search request to search at least one selection of text in the seed document. The method further includes identifying other documents from the plurality of documents based on a similarity between text in the other documents and the at least one selection of text in the seed document. The method further includes generating a graphical user interface that includes a similarity panel that provides similarity data between text in the other documents and the at least one selection of text in the seed document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Casepoint, LLC
    Inventor: Vishalkumar Rajpara
  • Patent number: 10721941
    Abstract: Creamers for whitening food products are provided. The creamers can havelong-term stability, high whitening capacity and a pleasant mouthfeel. In a general embodiment, the present disclosure provides aspray-dried creamer composition comprising added sugar comprising sucrose and/or lactose ranging from 5-30% by weight; milk ranging from 30-60% by weight; fat ranging from 15-40% by weight; wherein said composition is devoid of added emulsifiers and/or buffer-and stabilizing salts. The invention also provides a coffee creamer mix comprising the above creamer composition and coated or compacted coffee, wherein coffee dissolves after the creamer dissolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Societe des Produits Nestle S.A.
    Inventors: Rafael Berrocal, Maria Magdalena Dotzauer, Jurg Schlaginhaufen, Christophe Joseph Etienne Schmitt, Lucile Waksman, Alexandra Weingand-Ziade, Peter Zeltner
  • Patent number: 10726025
    Abstract: In an example, a plurality of user profiles in a social networking service are accessed. A heterogeneous graph structure having a plurality of nodes connected by edges is generated, each node corresponding to a different entity in the social networking service, each edge representing a co-occurrence of entities represented by nodes on each side of the edge in at least one of the user profiles. Weights are calculated for each edge of the heterogeneous graph structure, the weights being based on co-occurrence counts reflecting a number of user profiles in the plurality of user profiles in which corresponding nodes co-occurred. The heterogeneous graph structure is embedded into a d-dimensional space. A machine-learned model is then used to calculate a similarity score between a first node and second node by computing distance between the first node and the second node in the d¬-dimensional space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Qi Guo, Xianren Wu, Bo Hu, Shan Zhou, Lei Ni, Erik Eugene Buchanan
  • Patent number: 10713269
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a natural language (NL) application implements functionality that enables users to more effectively access various data storage systems based on NL requests. As described, the operations of the NL application are guided by, at least in part, on one or more templates and/or machine-learning models. Advantageously, the templates and/or machine-learning models provide a flexible framework that may be readily tailored to reduce the amount of time and user effort associated with processing NL requests and to increase the overall accuracy of NL application implementations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: SPLUNK INC.
    Inventors: Dipock Das, Dayanand Pochugari, Neeraj Verma, Nikesh Padakanti, Aungon Nag Radon, Anand Srinivasabagavathar, Adam Oliner
  • Patent number: 10711230
    Abstract: A flavour composition comprising a compound of formula (I) corresponding to the formula and edible salts thereof, wherein R1 is an alkyl residue containing 6 to 20 carbon atoms, or an alkene residue containing from 9 to 25 carbon atoms with 1 to 6 double bonds, R1 together with the carbonyl group to which it is attached is a residue of a carboxylic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Givaudan SA
    Inventors: Feng Shi, Harry Renes, Esther Van Ommeren, Susanna Magdalena Vorster, Yili Wang, Adri De Klerk
  • Patent number: 10706070
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems, methods, and computer readable media for generating a consistent deduplicated snapshot of a distributed database using optimistic deduplication. In a particular embodiment, a method provides, for each node of a plurality of nodes in the distributed database, deduplicating data items stored on the node that are owned by the node and generating a summary that describes a file in which the data items are located. The method further provides identifying from the summaries for each of the nodes whether mistakes occurred during deduplication and, upon identifying one or more mistakes, determining one or more corrections for the one or more mistakes. Also, the method provides generating a consistent deduplicated snapshot for the distributed database comprising the deduplicated data items from each node and the one or more corrections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: RUBRIK, INC.
    Inventors: Hyo Jun Kim, Maohua Lu, Prasenjit Sarkar, Pin Zhou, Ajaykrishna Raghavan
  • Patent number: 10698971
    Abstract: A method of storing an access log and an access log storing apparatus are provided. The method includes obtaining a keyword based on an input, determining a website related to the keyword based on access log information associated with a selected link, generating summary information on the determined website, and storing, in a database the summary information on the determined website and address information of the determined website.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sojeong Ha, Kyoung Gu Woo
  • Patent number: 10691755
    Abstract: Many users make use of search engines to locate desired internet content by submitting search queries. For example, a user may search for photos, applications, websites, videos, documents, and/or information regarding people, places, and things. Unfortunately, search engines may provide a plethora of information that a user may be left to sift through to find relevant content. Accordingly, one or more systems and/or techniques for organizing search results are disclosed herein. In particular, user generated content, such as photos, may be retrieved based upon a search query. The user generated content may be grouped into clusters of user generated content having similar features. Search results of the search query may be obtained and organized based upon comparing the search results with the clusters. The organized search results and/or a table of content including the clusters may be presented to provide an enhanced user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Xin-Jing Wang, Lei Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma
  • Patent number: 10683323
    Abstract: Novel mogrosides and methods for heir purification are provided herein. In addition, compositions comprising said novel mogrosides and methods for preparing the same are provided. The present invention relates generally to novel mogrosides, as well as compositions comprising such novel mogrosides, including consumables. The present invention further extends to methods of purifying such novel mogrosides, methods for preparing compositions (e.g., consumables) comprising such novel mogrosides and methods of enhancing the flavor or sweetness of consumables using these novel mogrosides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: The Coca-Cola Company
    Inventors: Indra Prakash, Venkata Sai Prakash Chaturvedula
  • Patent number: 10674755
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to flavour modification and to compounds of formula (I) wherein R1 is selected from C6-C20 alkyl, and C9-C25 alkenyl, and i) R3 and R4 are hydrogen and R2 the residue of a proteinogenic amino acid; ii) R2 and R3 are methyl and R4 is hydrogen; or R4 is hydrogen and R2 and R3 form together with the carbon atom to which they are attached cyclopropyl; iii) R2 is hydrogen, and R3 and R4 together are —CH2—CH2—CH2—, useful in modifying flavours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: GIVAUDAN S.A.
    Inventors: Adri De Klerk, Jacob Elings, Eric Houben, Feng Shi
  • Patent number: 10678753
    Abstract: A system and method for pruning data based on metadata. The method may include receiving a query that includes a plurality of predicates and identifying one or more applicable files including database data satisfying at least one of the plurality of predicates. The identifying the one or more applicable files including reading metadata stored in a metadata store that is separate from the database data. The method further includes pruning inapplicable files comprising database data that does not satisfy at least one of the plurality of predicates to create a reduced set of files and reading the reduced set of files to execute the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Marcin Zukowski, Benoit Dageville, Thierry Cruanes, Ashish Motivala
  • Patent number: 10678858
    Abstract: Embodiments for presenting search content is provided herein. An embodiment includes, receiving an input string in a browser input receiver, presenting a list of identifiers and search queries, wherein at least a portion of each of the identifiers and search queries match the input string, and presenting one or more search results associated with a selected search query on a display or providing a HTTP request to retrieve content associated with a selected identifier, and presenting the content on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Brian Rakowski, Glen Murphy, Ben Goodger, Peter Andrew Kasting, Arnaud Claude Weber
  • Patent number: 10660355
    Abstract: A compound according to the formula (I) or edible salts thereof, Wherein R together with the carbonyl group to which it is attached is a residue of a carboxylic acid. Said compounds may be used in edible compositions such as foods and beverages to impart or modify flavour and mouth feel to said compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: GIVAUDAN SA
    Inventor: Yili Wang
  • Patent number: 10657163
    Abstract: Systems and methods for tracking and searching the usage, flow or communication of assets are disclosed. Embodiments as disclosed herein may create and update a graph representing the assets in an enterprise, where the objects and relationships in the graph represent the assets, communications, users or relationship. The graph may be queried to discover a wide variety of information regarding these assets, communications, users or relationships.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Open Text SA ULC
    Inventors: Byron Steven Pruitt, Jeffrey Alan Cole, James Matthew Downs
  • Patent number: 10645954
    Abstract: A method of producing a beverage base or a component for a beverage or a food, providing Greek yogurt acid whey which has been obtained by separating the whey from Greek yogurt during a manufacturing process for the Greek yogurt; removing from the acid whey particulate material having a particle size of greater than 10 ?m; filtering the whey, directly or indirectly thus obtained to remove from the whey any bacteria and germinated bacterial spores therein having a molecular mass of at least 10,000 Daltons, the filtering being through a filter having a pore size of no greater than 1 ?m; and filtering the whey, directly or indirectly thus obtained to remove from the whey any enzymes therein having a molecular mass of at least 1,000 Daltons, the filtering being through a filter having a pore size of no greater than 0.1 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.
    Inventors: Damian Browne, Yvonne Collins, Margaret Dohnalek, Dave McDonagh, Heidi Kleinbach-Sauter, Kyle Shadix, Siow Ying Tan
  • Patent number: 10645955
    Abstract: A flavour composition comprising a compound according to the formula (I) and edible salts thereof, wherein R1 is an alkyl residue containing 6 to 20 carbon atoms, or an alkene residue containing from 9 to 25 carbon atoms with 1 to 6 double bonds, R1 together with the carbonyl group to which it is attached is a residue of a carboxylic acid, and m is 0 or 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Givaudan SA
    Inventors: Feng Shi, Harry Renes, Esther Van Ommeren, Susanna Magdalena Vorster, Yili Wang, Adri De Klerk, Chris Winkel