Patents Examined by Linh Nguyen
  • Computer implemented methods and apparatus for feed-based case management
    Patent number: 9600510
    Abstract: Techniques for providing feed-based case management on an online social network. A user interface that includes a publisher and an information feed is provided. Information associated with a record is received and the record is updated in a database system. A feed item associated with the database system update is generated and provided in the information feed. The feed item includes one or more actionable selections providing a reference to the publisher. Selection of one of the one or more actionable selections causes the publisher to be operable to receive further information associated with the record. The record is capable of being updated based on the further information. In some implementations, the record is a case and the user interface serves as a single interface for all interactions required in solving the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Scott D. Beechuk, Orjan N. Kjellberg, Larry P. G. Robinson, Michael Ramsey, Arvind Krishnan, Jyoti M. Khubchandani, Jill Blue Lin, Mustafa O. Al-Alami, Jason Aaron Ellis, Christopher A. Myers, Vahn K. Phan, Chitra Gulabrani
  • Analog to digital converter with digital reference voltage signal
    Patent number: 9602120
    Abstract: An analog to digital converter contain a plurality of comparators, each having a plurality of positive input voltage transistors and a plurality of negative input voltage transistors. Each positive input transistor is in communication with a positive input voltage, and each negative input transistor is in communication with a negative input voltage. Each comparator is configured to adjust a positive reference voltage and a negative reference voltage used to generate a binary comparator output for each comparator indicating a result of a comparison between a voltage differential defined by the positive input voltage and the negative input voltage and a unique voltage range indicated by a unique digital reference signal communicated to each comparator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jean-Olivier Plouchart, Vanessa H-C Chen
  • Reconfigurable wideband sub-ranging analog-to-digital converter
    Patent number: 9595974
    Abstract: A reconfigurable wideband analog-to-digital converter (ADC) system comprising a first converter stage including a first sample and hold circuit for sampling an input signal, a first ADC configured to generate a digital representation of the sampled input signal from the first sample and hold circuit, and a first digital-to-analog converter (DAC) responsive to the output of the first ADC and configured to generate an analog representation of the digital representation of the sampled input signal. A control processor is provided and configured to generate a digital control signal. A current control circuit is responsive to the digital control signal for generating an analog current control signal for selectively altering a characteristic of at least one of the first ADC and the first DAC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Victoria T. Pereira, Lloyd F. Linder, Douglas A. Robl, Brandon R. Davis, Toshi Omori
  • System and method for a modular user controlled search engine
    Patent number: 9589055
    Abstract: Method and system for delivery of personal search services and advertising. The method includes collecting information from the user about the user's personal search engine, including, but not limited to digital content data sources, link crawl depth of those digital content data sources, and time interval to refresh the index of the digital content data sources created. In one embodiment of the present invention users do not pay a fee in return for allowing the provider to present advertising to the user as the user uses the invention. In another embodiment, advertisers purchase advertising display services from the provider to be displayed to specific users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Inventor: Nancy Kramer
  • Successive comparison type analog/digital converter, physical quantity sensor, electronic device, moving object, and successive comparison type analog/digital conversion method
    Patent number: 9590651
    Abstract: A successive approximation type AD converter includes a charge redistribution type DA conversion circuit, a comparator, and a control circuit. The charge redistribution type DA conversion circuit is configured such that each of k unit elements connects a switch and a unit capacitance in series and includes a unit capacitor array that is connected to a common output line in parallel and a selector that selects one voltage supplied to one input terminal, through m voltage supply lines, among at least three input terminals of switches included in j unit elements which are the targets for dynamic element matching (DEM) in k unit elements based on the DEM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Tanaka, Hideo Haneda
  • Common copy compression
    Patent number: 9591334
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media directed to hosting a plurality of copies of a digital content. A common component and one or more individual components from one or more copies of the digital content are generated. As such, the common component and the one or more individual components are stored, such that each individual component in conjunction with the common component represents a separate copy of the digital content. In some implementations, a compression ratio may be customized for determining the sizing of the common component and individual component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Viswanathan Swaminathan, Asa Whillock
  • Method and device for use in analog-to-digital conversion
    Patent number: 9590653
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of a precharge sample-and-hold circuit. The circuit has an input terminal, a reference voltage terminal and an output terminal. Further, the circuit has a sampling capacitance coupled between the input terminal and the reference voltage terminal and configured to provide the sample voltage when said sample-and-hold circuit is in a holding mode and a cancellation capacitance. Implementations of a precharge sample-and-hold circuit and of methods to operate a precharge sample-and-hold circuit in an analog/digital converter are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Peter Bogner, Clifford Fyvie, Niranjan Reddy Suravarapu, Herwig Wappis
  • Automatic gain compression detection and gain control for analog front-end with nonlinear distortion
    Patent number: 9582018
    Abstract: An analog front-end (AFE) circuit has at least one AFE stage to generate a conditioned analog signal, and a gain control block to set a gain of the AFE stages. A finite state machine (FSM) block sets the gain to a baseline set gain without gain compression, or a current set gain with gain compression. An amplitude block determines amplitudes of the inner and outer eyes of a signal eye of the conditioned analog signal at the baseline set gain and the current set gain. A compression calculation block determines a gain compression of the conditioned analog signal at the current signal gain based on the relative changes in the respective amplitudes of the inner and outer signal eyes between the baseline and current set gains. The FSM block increases the current set gain until the gain compression ratio reaches a predefined limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: MAXLINEAR ASIA SINGAPORE PTE LTD.
    Inventors: Nanyan Wang, Timothy Lupick
  • Randomized quad switching
    Patent number: 9584151
    Abstract: Reducing distortions in a digital-to-analog converter is a challenge for circuit designers. For current steering digital-to-analog converters (DACs), a quad switching scheme has been used to remove code-dependent glitching which is otherwise present in dual switching schemes. However, due to various impairments in the circuit, e.g., mismatches in the transistors, some code-dependent distortions remain even when a quad switching scheme is implemented. To address this issue, the quad switching scheme can be randomized to improve dynamic linearity while relaxing driving circuitry design and power constraints. Advantageously, randomization reduces the code dependency of the distortions and makes the distortions appear more noise-like at the output of the DAC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: ANALOG DEVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Gabriele Manganaro, Gil Engel
  • Gain calibration for ADC with external reference
    Patent number: 9584150
    Abstract: Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide gain calibration for analog to digital conversion of time-discrete analog inputs. An adjustable capacitance arrangement is used to reduce or eliminate gain error caused by capacitor mismatch within the ADC. For example, the capacitance arrangement may include an array of multiple switched capacitances arranged to track gain error during search algorithm operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Peter Bogner
  • Transistors with uniform density of poly silicon
    Patent number: 9583631
    Abstract: A transistor with uniform density of poly silicon includes a gate terminal, a drain terminal, and a source terminal. The gate terminal is constructed by a plurality of separated poly silicon, such that the density of the poly silicon is uniform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: VIA ALLIANCE SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jade Deng, Keith Ma
  • Look-ahead hash chain matching for data compression
    Patent number: 9584155
    Abstract: Example data compression methods disclosed herein include determining a hash chain index corresponding to a first position in an input data buffer based on a group of bytes beginning at a look-ahead offset from the first position. Such disclosed example methods also include, when a hash chain, which is indexed by the hash chain index, satisfies a quality condition, searching the input data buffer at respective adjusted buffer positions corresponding to a set of buffer positions stored in the hash chain being offset by the look-ahead offset to find a second data string matching a first data string beginning at the first position in the input data buffer. Such disclosed example methods further include, when the second data string satisfies a length condition, providing a relative position and a length of the second data string to an encoder to output compressed data corresponding to the input data buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Vinodh Gopal, James D. Guilford, Gilbert M. Wolrich, Daniel F. Cutter
  • Method and system
    Patent number: 9577666
    Abstract: A method includes: setting a first and a second storage regions; first creating a first compression code of a compression target data in a file using a identifier indicating the data in the first storage region when a predetermined first consistency between the compression target data and the data in the first storage region is detected; comparing the compression target data with data in the second storage region when the predetermined first consistency between the compression target data and the data in the first storage region is not detected, the compression target data being moved to the second storage region after the comparing; and storing the compression target data into the first storage region associated with a identifier indicating the data in the first storage region when a predetermined second consistency between the compression target data and the data in the second storage region is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Masahiro Kataoka, Ryo Matsumura, Takafumi Ohta
  • Electronic device and multi-band antenna
    Patent number: 9577332
    Abstract: An electronic device has a multi-band antenna which includes an antenna frame and multiple feed points and multiple ground points located on the antenna frame. The multiple feed points include a first feed point located at one end portion of the antenna frame and a second feed point located between two end portions of the antenna frame. The multiple ground points include a first ground point located between the two end portions of the antenna frame and a second ground point located at the other end portion of the antenna frame. The multiple feed points and the multiple ground points are alternately located on the antenna frame, and multiple radiating elements are formed on the antenna frame and are configured to radiate signals having different frequency bands. Each radiating element is formed between a feed point and a ground point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei-Yu Chen, Yueh-Chu Lin
  • Increasing distributed database capacity
    Patent number: 9576019
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for increasing distributed database capacity by adding new nodes while minimizing downtime. A database is partitioned among multiple nodes in a cluster. Each node stores a respective portion of the database. The portions of the database are replicated to corresponding physical standbys. For each portion, a first portion is mapped to an existing node, while a remaining portion is mapped to a physical standby. The cluster is updated to include the physical standbys as additional nodes among which the database is partitioned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Weinan Wang, Bruce K. Ferry, Aravanan Sivaloganathan, Zhiyu Zhang, Min Zhu, Jason Curtis Jenks, Aaron Drew Alexander Kujat, Maxym Kharchenko
  • Industrial automation service templates for provisioning of cloud services
    Patent number: 9568909
    Abstract: A library of cloud templates for configuring cloud-based industrial solutions is provided. A cloud template provisioning system provides a platform for location and retrieval of a variety of cloud templates that facilitate configuration of cloud-based industrial applications, including control panel templates, dashboard templates, data historian templates, virtual machine management templates, and other such templates. The cloud templates can be installed and executed on a client device to provide an intuitive interface for configuring various aspects of the cloud-based solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas C. Lawson, Douglas J. Reichard, Joseph A. Harkulich, Rainer Hessmer, Sujeet Chand, David W. Farchmin
  • Enhanced data compression for sparse multidimensional ordered series data
    Patent number: 9571122
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for significantly compressing sparse multidimensional ordered series data comprised of indexed data sets, wherein each data set comprises an index, a first variable and a second variable. The methods and systems are particularly suited for compression of data recorded in double precision floating point format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Protein Metrics Inc.
    Inventor: Doron Kletter
  • Device for reducing interference among antennas of multiple base stations
    Patent number: 9570801
    Abstract: A device for reducing interference among antennas of multiple base stations is provided, which includes an antenna module placed on a base station and configured to transmit and receive radio waves, a holding pole placed on the base station and configured to support the antenna module, a mounting bracket coupled to the antenna module and the holding pole, and a shielding apparatus placed on the holding pole or the antenna module and capable of being adjusted in directions. The device has a simple structure; it is easy to manufacture and install the device; it can be applied to the base station's antennas in network use. In addition, the device can efficiently increase isolation and reduce interferences among the antennas of the multiple base stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Lijuan Zhao, Nan Shen, Zhanfu Li, Xianming Zhao
  • Data compression systems and methods
    Patent number: 9571123
    Abstract: Data compression using a combination of content independent data compression and content dependent data compression. In one aspect, a system for compressing data comprises: a processor, and a plurality of data compression encoders wherein at least one data encoder utilizes asymmetric data compression. The processor is configured to determine one or more parameters, attributes, or values of the data within at least a portion of a data block containing either video or audio data, to select one or more data compression encoders from the plurality of data compression encoders based upon the determined one or more parameters, attributes, or values of the data and a throughput of a communications channel, and to perform data compression with the selected one or more data compression encoders on at least the portion of the data block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Realtime Data, LLC
    Inventor: James J. Fallon
  • Adaptive warehouse data validation tool
    Patent number: 9563679
    Abstract: Techniques for data validation may include dynamically generating one or more database queries to be performed on a target data warehouse and a baseline data warehouse based on warehouse model metadata for the target data warehouse and the baseline data warehouse. The techniques may further include executing the one or more database queries against the target data warehouse and the baseline data warehouse to receive one or more data sets from the baseline data warehouse and one or more data sets from the target data warehouse. The techniques may further include comparing the one or more data sets from the baseline data warehouse and the one or more data sets from the target data warehouse to validate target data in the target data warehouse against baseline data in the baseline data warehouse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Harold Seto