Patents Examined by Leslie Wong
  • Patent number: 10546215
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting a potential match between a candidate facial image and a dataset of facial images is described. Some implementations of the invention determine whether a candidate facial image (or multiple facial images) of a person taken, for example, at point of entry corresponds to one or more facial images stored in a dataset of persons of interest (e.g., suspects, criminals, terrorists, employees, VIPs, “whales,” etc.). Some implementations of the invention detect potential fraud in a dataset of facial images. In a first form of potential fraud, a same facial image is associated with multiple identities. In a second form of potential fraud, different facial images are associated with a single identity, as in the case, for example, of identity theft. According to various implementations of the invention, spectral clustering techniques are used to determine a likelihood that pairs of facial images (or pairs of facial image sets) correspond to the person or different persons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: StereoVision Imaging, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher D. Roller
  • Patent number: 10542763
    Abstract: Disclosed are processes for preparing dry or powder dairy compositions having low lactose contents and containing polyphenol compounds. The resultant dry or powder dairy compositions can be used to form reconstituted fluid dairy products, which can have improved organoleptic properties, such as less cooked flavor, sulfur odor, and brown color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: fairlife, LLC
    Inventors: Shakeel Ur Rehman, Brandon Kopesky, Calvin White, Scott Backinoff, Timothy Peter Doelman
  • Patent number: 10537127
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to flavour modification and to compounds of formula (I) wherein X is —(CH2)m— wherein m is an integer from 7 to 10, or X is C7-C10 alkenyl, and i) n is 1, R1 and R3 are hydrogen, and R2 is the residue of a proteinogenic amino acid; ii) n is 1, R2 is hydrogen, and R1 and R3 together are —CH2—CH2—CH2—; or iii) n is 2 or 3 and R1, R2 and R3 are hydrogen, useful in modifying flavours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: GIVAUDAN S.A.
    Inventors: Feng Shi, Stephan Haiber, An Minh Lam, Esther Van Ommeren, Yili Wang
  • Patent number: 10531683
    Abstract: Highly purified Stevioside, Rebaudioside A and a purified sweet steviol glycoside mixture were prepared from sweet glycoside extracts obtained from Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni leaves. The resulting sweeteners are suitable as non-calorie, non-cariogenic, non-bitter, non-lingering sweeteners, which may be advantageously applied in foods, beverages, and milk products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: PureCircle Sdn Bhd
    Inventors: Siddhartha Purkayastha, Avetik Markosyan, Magomet Malsogov
  • Patent number: 10534818
    Abstract: A system and method for a website including a detector to detect and analyze at least the source of at least one incoming request and a uniform resource locator (URL) handler to parse the incoming request. The system and method also include a coordinator with access to at least one third party application to coordinate between the URL handler and at least one third party application and at least one renderer to receive the output of the coordinator and the detector and to generate at least one of a regular website page, an indexing adapted page and a sitemap according at least to the source of the incoming request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Wix.com Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoav Abrahami, Uri Tagger
  • Patent number: 10528634
    Abstract: Provided herein is a variable social network service method and apparatus. The variable social network service method includes receiving, by a variable social network service apparatus, information on whether or not a user serves as a bridge from a user apparatus of the user, and determining, by the variable social network service apparatus, whether or not to expand a social network based on the user based on the information on whether or not the user serves as the bridge, wherein the variable social network service apparatus determines whether or not social networking is possible between a first network subject of the user and a second network subject of the user depending on whether or not the user serves as the bridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignees: FORC & C CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Hyuk Lee, Young Cheon Lee, Yoon Hee Koo
  • Patent number: 10528564
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a series of queries provided from a user device, the series of queries including two or more queries, obtaining a query pattern of the series of queries based on one or more entities and one or more aspects associated with the two or more queries, and determining, at least partially based on the query pattern, that a teachable moment interface is to be displayed with search results, and in response, transmitting content to be displayed in the teachable moment interface on a computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Behshad Behzadi
  • Patent number: 10517312
    Abstract: Food products and systems and methods for their production involve microfiltration (“MF”) of fluid skim to form a MF retentate, combining the MF retentate with cream and subjecting the combination to ultrafiltration (“UF”) to form a UF retentate. Prior to UF, the composition is formed of non-acidified components. Following UF, the UF retentate is acidified and forms a food product including a high solids content. The solids content may be further increased using evaporation. The resulting cheese or cheese base contains a lower whey protein ratio in a fat:casein:whey protein ratio compared to systems and methods that do not employ MF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: LAND O'LAKES, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Alexander Glenn, III, Clint Garoutte, Kang Hu, Jason Thompson, Orlando Maldonado
  • Patent number: 10509730
    Abstract: A method and a processing device are provided for sequentially aggregating data to a write log included in a volume of a random-access medium. When data of a received write request is determined to be suitable for sequentially aggregating to a write log, the data may be written to the write log and a remapping tree, for mapping originally intended destinations on the random-access medium to one or more corresponding entries in the write log, may be maintained and updated. At time periods, a checkpoint may be written to the write log. The checkpoint may include information describing entries of the write log. One or more of the checkpoints may be used to recover the write log, at least partially, after a dirty shutdown. Entries of the write log may be drained to respective originally intended destinations upon an occurrence of one of a number of conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Shi Cong, Scott Brender, Karan Mehra, Darren G. Moss, William R. Tipton, Surendra Verma
  • Patent number: 10499661
    Abstract: A method for making a granulated Stevia sweetener is described. The resulting sweetener has a desirably high solubility level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: PureCircle Sdn Bhd
    Inventors: Siddhartha Purkayastha, Avetik Markosyan
  • Patent number: 10496635
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for assigning tags to values of node profiles based on detected electronic activity. Exemplary implementations may: maintain node profiles; access a response to an electronic activity transmitted or received via an electronic account; detect responsive to parsing the response, that the response is one of a bounce-back electronic activity indicating that the recipient of the electronic activity is invalid or an automatic responder electronic activity generated by an autoresponder of the recipient; compare a communication identifier of the response to the node profile(s) to identify a node profile having a matching communication identifier; assign a respective tag to the identified at least one node profile responsive to detecting that the electronic activity is the bounce-back electronic activity or the automatic responder electronic activity; and update a node field-value pair of the identified at least one node profile based on the assigned tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: PEOPLE.AI, INC.
    Inventors: Yurii Brunets, Devin Rice, Oleg Rogynskyy, Jose Alberto Muniz Navarro
  • Patent number: 10480019
    Abstract: The invention provides a process of producing Rubusoside from steviol glycosides of Stevia rebaudiana plant. The process is useful for producing high purity Rubusoside with purity greater than 95% (dry basis). High purity rubusoside is useful as in combination with other caloric and non-caloric sweeteners as well as non-caloric sweetener in various food and beverage compositions. The high purity rubusoside is useful as non-caloric sweetener in edible and chewable compositions such as any beverages, confectionaries, bakeries, cookies, chewing gums, and alike.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: PureCircle Sdn Bhd
    Inventor: Avetik Markosyan
  • Patent number: 10482107
    Abstract: A cloud based storage system and methods for uploading and accessing 3-D data partitioned across distributed storage nodes of the system. The data cube is processed to identify discrete partitions thereof, which partitions may be organized according to the x (e.g., inline), y (e.g., crossline) and/or z (e.g., time) aspects of the cube. The partitions are stored in unique storage nodes associated with unique keys. Sub-keys may also be used as indexes to specific data values or collections of values (e.g., traces) within a partition. Upon receiving a request, the proper partitions and values within the partitions are accessed, and the response may be passed to a renderer that converts the values into an image displayable at a client device. The request may also facilitate data or image access at a local cache, a remote cache, or the storage partitions using location, data, retrieval, and/or rendering parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Ubiterra Corporation
    Inventor: Peter W. Flanagan
  • Patent number: 10467307
    Abstract: Features are provided for the analysis of collections of data and automatic grouping of data having certain similarities. A collection of data regarding user interactions with item-specific content can be analyzed. The analysis can be used to identify groups of items that are of interest to groups of similar users and/or to identify groups of users with demonstrated interests in groups of similar items. Data may be analyzed in a “bottom-up” manner in which correlations within the data are discovered in an iterative manner, or in a “top-down” manner in which desired top-level groups are specified at the beginning of the process. A bottom-up process may also be distributed among multiple devices or processors to more efficiently discover groups when using large collections of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gaurav Chanda, Srinivas Vasu Chappidi, Saurabh Wadwekar
  • Patent number: 10455845
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of separating components from milk and utilizing the separated components to form blended dairy compositions. The present invention relates to nutritional milk compositions and products which are designed to include per serving size a specified percentage range of one or more components separated from milk. The compositions of the present invention can optionally include non-essential but nutritionally functional components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: fairlife, LLC
    Inventors: Shakeel Ur-Rehman, John M. Dunker, Michael J. McCloskey, Timothy J. Gomez, Richard J. Seguin
  • Patent number: 10455846
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of separating components from milk and utilizing the separated components to form blended dairy compositions. The present invention relates to nutritional milk compositions and products which are designed to include per serving size a specified percentage range of one or more components separated from milk. The compositions of the present invention can optionally include non-essential but nutritionally functional components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: fairlife, LLC
    Inventors: Shakeel Ur-Rehman, John M. Dunker, Michael J. McCloskey, Timothy J. Gomez, Richard J. Seguin
  • Patent number: 10452733
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods that determine a semantic location of a map and/or determine a proximity between maps. One example computer system is configured to: obtain information descriptive of a plurality of content locations respectively associated with a plurality of items of content included in a map; identify a set of content cells based at least in part on the plurality of content locations respectively associated with the plurality of items of content included in the map; determine a plurality of sets of feature cells respectively for a plurality of semantic entities; compare the set of content cells to the respective sets of feature cells for at least a portion of the plurality of semantic entities; and select at least one of the plurality of semantic entities as a semantic location for the map based at least in part on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Andreas Behm
  • Patent number: 10440971
    Abstract: A process comprises concentrating a whey composition to at least about 75 weight % solids in one or more evaporators connected in series to form a concentrated whey composition, wherein at least one of the evaporators comprises an evaporator configured to agitate the whey composition within the at least one evaporator, crystallizing at least a portion of the lactose in the concentrated whey composition in a crystallization cascade comprising one or more crystallizing stages to form an at least partially-crystallized whey composition and drying the at least partially-crystallized whey composition to form a dried whey product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Keller Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: A. Kent Keller
  • Patent number: 10445343
    Abstract: Systems and methods for data conversion and distribution. A data collection system receives data from plural data sources; extracts data values for each data source from the data; classifies each extracted value among categories; and stores each extracted value in a database according to a data mapping based on a category index, such that the extracted value is stored according to the associated category index. A data performance system retrieves, for each category, data values associated with the category and a predetermined period, by querying the database based on the category index; and runs, for each category, the retrieved data through statistical algorithms, to generate data performance metrics representative of the data from all of the data sources. A data distribution system generates a predictive performance metric for further data based on a comparison between the further data and the data performance metrics for at least one category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data LLC
    Inventors: William J. Gartland, Timothy Monahan
  • Patent number: 10445377
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for one or more server computers communicatively coupled to a network and configured to: store data records associated with an industry, with tags defining the content, layout or style of a website; aggregate industry related data records via data entry or extraction; receive a request to automatically generate a website in a specific industry; query a database for the most frequently occurring website features; and automatically generate the website according to the most frequently occurring website features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Josh Berk, Justin Tsai, Daniel K. Hardy