Patents Examined by Leslie Wong
  • Patent number: 11194833
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for electronic exchange of data is provided. The method includes the following operations performed by at least one computer processor. These operations include creating source data, identifying data structure from the source data, generating a header file based on the data structure, localizing identical data structure, and storing groups of data that have identical structure in a single data tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Inventors: Charbel Gerges El Gemayel, Adib Khalil Haddad, Edgard Joseph Elian
  • Patent number: 11185096
    Abstract: A consumable composition may include naringenin at concentrations suitable to improve certain characteristics of the composition. Naringenin may, for example, be added to a composition or included in a sweetening composition that may be added therein to adjust sweetness attributes. For example, beverages that include one or more steviol glycosides may typically be deficient in upfront sweetness, and naringenin may be added therein to improve the temporal profile of sweetness delivery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: DR PEPPER/SEVEN UP, INC.
    Inventors: Stacey K. Walton, Gino E. Olcese
  • Patent number: 11188574
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for processing a request regarding relationships among instances of entities. A graphical representation of instances of entities is generated and includes one or more source nodes, each representing an instance of an input entity of a request, and one or more related nodes, each representing an instance of a second entity related to one or more corresponding instances of the input entity and associated with a corresponding confidence score for the relationship. Each of the one or more related nodes associated with a confidence score satisfying a threshold is identified. One or more supplemental nodes are added to the graphical representation, each of which represents a corresponding instance of a third entity with a relationship to a corresponding instance of the second entity. The graphical representation is traversed to identify relationships between instances of entities and produce results for the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yanyan Han, Xiaoyang Gao, William S. Spangler, Sheng Hua Bao, Brian S. Dreher
  • Patent number: 11185502
    Abstract: Non-psychoactive packaged frozen cubes of cannabis juice purée are provided. First, raw cannabis material is collected. Next, the cannabis material is blended with water, fruit juice, or vegetable juice and thickening agent to form cannabis juice purée. Next, the purée is poured into molds having an identical size and shape. Non-decarboxylated high concentrate cannabis extract is optionally added to increase potency. Next, the tray is frozen to obtain frozen cubes of cannabis juice purée. Next, the cubes are removed from the tray and packaged in a vacuum sealed bag. A dispensary can store the package in a freezer until distribution. The package includes a label describing amounts and types of cannabinoids present in each cube. The cubes are non-psychoactive and do not include decarboxylated cannabinoids. A consumer opens the package and deposits a desired amount of cubes into a blender with other ingredients to form a beverage with non-decarboxylated cannabinoids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Inventor: Jeff Nordahl
  • Patent number: 11179332
    Abstract: Packaged frozen cubes of Cannabis juice purée having decarboxylated cannabinoids are provided. First, raw Cannabis material is collected. Next, the Cannabis material is blended with water, fruit juice, or vegetable juice and thickening agent to form Cannabis juice purée. Next, the purée is poured into molds having an identical size and shape. Decarboxylated/non-decarboxylated high concentrate Cannabis extract or decarboxylated Cannabis infusion is added to the molds. Next, the tray is frozen to obtain frozen cubes of Cannabis juice purée. Next, the cubes are removed from the tray and are packaged in a vacuum sealed bag. A dispensary can store the package in a freezer until distribution. The package includes a label describing amounts and types of cannabinoids present in each cube. A consumer opens the package and deposits a desired amount of cubes into a blender along with other ingredients to form a beverage with non-decarboxylated cannabinoids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Inventor: Jeff Nordahl
  • Patent number: 11178893
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing and packaging frozen ice pops of cannabis juice purée involves collecting raw cannabis material. Next, raw cannabis material is blended with water, fruit juice, or vegetable juice and a sweetening or flavoring agent to form cannabis juice purée. Decarboxylated or non-decarboxylated high concentrate cannabis extract or decarboxylated cannabis infusion is optionally added to the purée. Next, the purée is poured into a tube shaped plastic container. Next, the container is frozen to obtain a packaged frozen ice pop of cannabis juice purée. The cannabis ice pop is provided singularly or in a package having additional cannabis ice pops. A dispensary can store the ice pops until distribution. The package includes labeling describing amounts and types of cannabinoids in the cannabis ice pops. In one example, the cannabis ice pop is non-psychoactive and includes no decarboxylated cannabinoids. In another example, the cannabis ice pop includes decarboxylated cannabinoids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Inventor: Jeff Nordahl
  • Patent number: 11176158
    Abstract: A set of documents is received for processing and extraction. A set of processing engines is received, and each processing engine has an expected benefit when processing a document with associated document metadata. The set of documents is analyzed to determine document metadata to be associated with the document. An expected benefit is determined for each of the documents of the set of document when the respective document is processed by a respective processing engine in the set processing engines. An expected cost for processing is determined for each of the documents in each of the set of processing engines. A processing plan for the set of documents is determined wherein the processing plan identifies a selection of documents to be run in respective processing engines of the set of processing engines based on a cost versus benefit analysis. The processing plan is executed extracting information from the identified selection of documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew R Freed, Jason H Cornpropst, Aaron T Smith, Barton W Emanuel
  • Patent number: 11176122
    Abstract: Systems, architecture and methods for updating parameters in relational database management software of a mainframe computing system is provided. Methods and apparatus are provided for streamlining the updating of the parameters. Methods and apparatus for reducing errors in the updating of the parameters are also provided, as well as for reducing risk of malicious corruption of data stored in an enterprise database. Also provided are methods and apparatus for detecting and/or tracking database parameter updates and/or errors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventor: Tyler H. Crane
  • Patent number: 11175816
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enabling automatic time zone updates in tablature are disclosed. A system may include at least one processor configured to maintain a data structure containing information related to a plurality of tasks assigned to a plurality of geographically disbursed individuals, indications of tasks, identities, and geographical locations. The processor may retrieve and display at least one task assigned to a particular individual, together with a display of a subgroup of the plurality of tasks assigned to others. For each task of the plurality of tasks, the processor may retrieve and display an indication identifying an assigned individual, an indication identifying an assigned current geographical location, and receive, via a computing device of the particular individual, an indication that the assigned current geographical location of the particular individual has changed to a new location and update the new location associated with the tasks of the particular individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: MONDAY.COM
    Inventors: Tal Haramati, Sergei Safrigin
  • Patent number: 11172698
    Abstract: Pasteurized juice products formed from raw cannabis are provided. First, a cannabis juice purée having a particular cannabinoid profile is formed. Next, the cannabis juice purée is pasteurized without decarboxylating any cannabinoids in the cannabis juice purée thereby obtaining a pasteurized cannabis juice purée. In one example, the pasteurizing is performed using flash pasteurization, such as a High Temperature Short Time (HTST) pasteurization process. The flash pasteurization process neutralizes pathogens such as bacteria and parasites. Next, the pasteurized cannabis juice purée is packaged into a container thereby obtaining a packaged pasteurized cannabis juice purée. The container is a food-grade bottled juice container, an ice pop container, or a juice cube container. The packaged pasteurized cannabis juice purée contains only non-decarboxylated cannabinoids. In other embodiments, additional cannabinoids are added before or after the HTST pasteurization process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Inventor: Jeff Nordahl
  • Patent number: 11160290
    Abstract: The present invention relates to low calorie and low carbohydrate nutritional milk compositions and milk products which are designed to include specific components of milk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: fairlife, LLC
    Inventors: Shakeel Ur-Rehman, Timothy Peter Doelman, Sachin Harendrabhai Adhvaryu, Michael J. McCloskey
  • Patent number: 11163781
    Abstract: A database system includes a data server, a disk-based storage system in communication with the data server, a source table including a plurality of columns, where data of the source table is stored in the disk-based storage system in columnar format, a full-text index associated with one of the plurality of columns, and a text analysis result table associated with the one of the plurality of columns, where the data of the text analysis result table is stored in the disk-based storage system in columnar format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Naveen K, Nidhi Prashant Augustine
  • Patent number: 11163769
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for joining two data tables on a join attribute, where the data tables have at least a first and a second attribute and the second attribute is the join attribute. The method provides a function for associating a computing node to a given record. The function may be used to determine the associated computing node. The records of the two data tables may be distributed to the respective determined computing nodes. The relationship between the values of the first and second attributes may be modelled using a predefined dataset. For each record of the two data tables the values of the first attribute may be re-determined using the corresponding values of the second attribute. The function may be used to re-determine the associated computing node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michal Bodziony, Konrad K. Skibski, Tomasz Kazalski, Artur M. Gruszecki, Lukasz Gaza
  • Patent number: 11163724
    Abstract: A system and method for pruning data based on metadata. The method may include receiving a query comprising a plurality of predicates and identifying one or more applicable files comprising 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: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Thierry Cruanes, Benoit Dageville, Ashish Motivala, Marcin Zukowski
  • Patent number: 11154071
    Abstract: Provided is the novel sweetener and sweetness enhancer iso-mogroside V, compositions comprising the sweetener/sweetness enhancer for use in consumables (food products and products place in the oral cavity including mouth wash and other dental hygiene products), and sweetened or sweetness enhanced food products comprising the novel sweetener/sweetness enhancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Givaudan SA
    Inventors: Zhonghua Jia, Xiaogen Yang
  • Patent number: 11151180
    Abstract: A method and system. A first interest value is determined. The first interest value is associated with a first combination of one or more concepts derived from one or more word objects extracted from a message on which an action is to be performed. The first interest value is determined to be at least a specified first threshold value and in response, a concept interest dataset is updated. The concept interest dataset prior to being updated includes combinations of at least one concept. Each concept of the at least one concept has been derived from a previous processing of messages. The updated concept interest dataset includes the first combination and a cumulative interest value that encompasses the first interest value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Frederic Bauchot, Jean-Yves Clement, Isabelle Murard
  • Patent number: 11140910
    Abstract: Butter spreads include at least butter, canola oil, palm oil, cream, and buttermilk powder. The spreads are squeezable from a package and maintain their consistency over repeated package handling and repeated cycling between refrigeration and ambient temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Land O'Lakes, Inc.
    Inventors: Jill K. H. Paddock, Allison Hohn
  • Patent number: 11134697
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a preparation method of instant bone milk, including: washing edible animal bones and then crushing, adding a certain amount composite effect enhancer, performing two high pressure hydrolysis-instantaneous pressure relief in high pressure hydrolysis chamber, collecting liquid-phase materials, performing centrifugation for degreasing, wet sieving, homogenizing, spray drying to obtain powdered instant bone milk. A device for preparation method of instant bone milk comprises a high-pressure hydrolysis tank, a grading conveying pipe and a gas-liquid separator. The instant bone milk prepared by the present invention has stable chemical structure, uniform particle size distribution and regular normal distribution, high protein solubility and good solution stability. And the preparation method has simple process, low cost equipment and good versatility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Institute of Food Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
    Inventors: Chunhui Zhang, Wei Jia, Xiaojie Qin, Qingshan Shen, Hongru Zhang
  • Patent number: 11137987
    Abstract: In accordance with various embodiments, described herein is a system (Data Artificial Intelligence system, Data AI system), for use with a data integration or other computing environment, that leverages machine learning (ML, DataFlow Machine Learning, DFML), for use in managing a flow of data (dataflow, DF), and building complex dataflow software applications (dataflow applications, pipelines). In accordance with an embodiment, the system can provide support for auto-mapping of complex data structures, datasets or entities, between one or more sources or targets of data, referred to herein in some embodiments as HUBs. The auto-mapping can be driven by a metadata, schema, and statistical profiling of a dataset; and used to map a source dataset or entity associated with an input HUB, to a target dataset or entity or vice versa, to produce an output data prepared in a format or organization (projection) for use with one or more output HUBs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hassan Heidari Namarvar, Alexander Sasha Stojanovic, David Allan, Ganesh Seetharaman
  • Patent number: 11138157
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention is directed to implementing machine learning to define business logic and lineage. The system analyzes data patterns of SORs as well as consumption attributes to define the business logic. An embodiment of the present invention may achieve over 95% match rate for complex attributes. When provided with thousands of SOR attributes, the innovative system may identify a handful of relevant SOR attributes required as well as the business logic to derive the consumption attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Jagmohan Singh, Suneetha Vakalapudi, Soren Tannehill