Patents Examined by Lynn Feild
  • Patent number: 9292915
    Abstract: A digital optical comparator has a holder for a part under study. A light source illuminates the part and casts an Image of the part onto a camera, which is provided with a lens. The Image captured by the camera is displayed on a screen, and a drawing of the part is overlaid on the image of the part. Thus, defects in manufacturing can be easily and readily identified. In addition, a determination of whether the part is manufactured within tolerances can also be visually determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: VISIONX INC.
    Inventor: Patrick Beauchemin
  • Patent number: 9137305
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor to execute a process including: blocking, owing to remote control through a network, at least one of communication of a request transmitted by a first device and addressed to a second device, the communication being performed from a network device, disposed on a communication path between the first device and the second device, to the second device, and communication of a response transmitted by the second device and addressed to the first device; acquiring, from the network device, the request transmitted by the first device and addressed to the second device; and transmitting to the first device, an instruction for switching a transmission destination of the request to a third device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Tetsuya Nishi
  • Patent number: 9130955
    Abstract: Method for registering a terminal with an application server being a member of a pool of available application servers in an IP Multimedia Subsystem, IMS, interconnected through a network, for providing services to the terminal, the method comprising: receiving a registration request from the terminal, selecting in accordance with a predefined set of rules comprising at least two rules, an application server for servicing a requested service to the terminal; and registering the terminal with the selected application server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Hugo Verbandt, Luc T'syen
  • Patent number: 9104512
    Abstract: Fencing data transfers in a parallel active messaging interface (‘PAMI’) of a parallel computer, the PAMI including data communications endpoints, each endpoint comprising a specification of data communications parameters for a thread of execution on a compute node, including specifications of a client, a context, and a task, the compute nodes coupled for data communications through the PAMI and through data communications resources including a deterministic data communications network, including initiating execution through the PAMI of an ordered sequence of active SEND instructions for SEND data transfers between two endpoints, effecting deterministic SEND data transfers; and executing through the PAMI, with no FENCE accounting for SEND data transfers, an active FENCE instruction, the FENCE instruction completing execution only after completion of all SEND instructions initiated prior to execution of the FENCE instruction for SEND data transfers between the two endpoints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael A. Blocksome, Amith R. Mamidala
  • Patent number: 9071561
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that facilitate interpreting Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) data. An interface can obtain MIME data. For instance, a stream of MIME data can be obtained, MIME data can be loaded from a static file, etc. Moreover, any disparate type of RFC 822 data can additionally or alternatively be received by the interface. Also, a MIME reader can analyze the MIME data (and/or normalized RFC 822 data) to interpret encoded structural information and generate at least one primitive based on the encoded structural information. Further, a hierarchical model can be built utilizing the at least one primitive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Roy Williams, Yuri Inglikov, Oleg V. Ouliankine, Nelly Porter, Loren Curtis
  • Patent number: 9064217
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the method includes identifying an incident associated with a scene. The incident is identified through a reporter object associated with the scene. Based upon the identified incident, one or more observer objects related to the scene is determined. The incident is communicated to the one or more observer objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventor: Matthias Kienzle
  • Patent number: 9049079
    Abstract: A method, device, system, and program able to automatically optimize configuration values in software constituting an integrated system. The integrated system introduction support device collects from a configuration management database (CMDB) software configuration values related to other integrated systems sharing interactive aspects with the software constituting the target integrated system, and generates a regression model of configuration values having a high correlation among the collected software configuration values. When configuration values in a predetermined software program constituting the integrated system have been specified by the user, the integrated system introduction support device applies the specified configuration values to the regression model, and calculates an optimum value for the other software programs constituting the integrated system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Yohkichi Sasatani
  • Patent number: 9037669
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system for operating memory includes a first node coupled to a second node by a network, the system configured to perform a method including receiving the remote transaction message from the second node in a processing element in the first node via the network, wherein the remote transaction message bypasses a main processor in the first node as it is transmitted to the processing element. In addition, the method includes accessing, by the processing element, data from a location in a memory in the first node based on the remote transaction message, and performing, by the processing element, computations based on the data and the remote transaction message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dong Chen, Noel A. Eisley, Philip Heidelberger, James A. Kahle, Fabrizio Petrini, Robert M. Senger, Burkhard Steinmacher-Burow, Yutaka Sugawara
  • Patent number: 9032073
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for network monitoring. A processor circuit having a processor and a memory is employed. A listing of components of a network is stored in the memory, the listing including a plurality of endpoints and a plurality of nodes. One of the endpoints includes the processor circuit. A monitoring application is stored in the memory and executable by the processor. The monitoring application is configured to maintain in the memory an indication of an operational status of each of the nodes derived from a plurality of status requests transmitted between respective pairs of the endpoints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Cuthbert, Sergei V. Shinkarev, Jeffrey J. Fielding, Ting-You Wang
  • Patent number: 9026603
    Abstract: A master communications device/slave device configuration is disclosed where a master communications device discovers a slave device when the master communications device does not have the necessary features and resources to perform a service requested by an operator. The master communications device utilizes the slave device to provide additional features and resources to the master communications device in performing the service requested by the operator. The master communications device and the slave device interact as a single device provided by the master communications device/slave device configuration. The slave device serves as an extension to the master communications device providing a larger interface to the operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Aram Nahidipour
  • Patent number: 9026669
    Abstract: A number of channels of data, including audio, image, text, and support data are collected at one or more centralized servers. The individual channels are edited and processed for content and format, including the deletion and insertion of advertising content and markers to indicate locations for additional content. These channels are then sent to a plurality of transmission servers for processing one or more of the channels including the insertion of content at designated markers and the combination of the channels of data into a single, packetized data transfer stream. The transmission servers broadcast the data transfer stream to a plurality of receiving units which de-packetize the original data channels and present any selected channel to the user of the receiving unit. The receiving units send status information back to the centralized servers where the data is processed and analyzed to evaluate the present and future use of advertisements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Inventors: Bohdan Stryzak, Thomas E. Terwilliger
  • Patent number: 9026593
    Abstract: Present invention provides a method and system for providing an extended social network service (SNS), the method and system enabling a user logged in an SNS to receive information in the form of newsfeed not only from users who have a friend relationship with the logged-in user in the SNS but also from users who have an acquaintance relationship with the logged-in user through the friend relationship. Present invention also provide a method and system for providing an extended SNS, the method and system adding information about a friend relationship-based connection path between a user logged in an SNS and each user who has an acquaintance relationship with the logged-in user to content shared between them, so that the reliability of the shared content can be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Kyungpook National University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Kyu-In Park, Jong-Tae Park
  • Patent number: 9021092
    Abstract: A shadow network, which can be a virtual reproduction of a real, physical, base computer network, is described. Shadow networks duplicate the topology, services, host, and network traffic of the base network using shadow hosts, which are low interaction, minimal-resource-using host emulators. The shadow networks are connected to the base network through virtual switches, etc. in order to form a large obfuscated network. When a hacker probes into a host emulator, a more resource-intensive virtual machine can be swapped in to take its place. When a connection is attempted from a host emulator to a physical computer, the a host emulator can step in to take the place of the physical computer, and software defined networking (SDN) can prevent collisions between the duplicated IP addresses. Replicating the shadow networks within the network introduces problems for hackers and allows a system administrator easier ways to identify intrusions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Shadow Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven M. Silva, Yadong Zhang, Eric Winsborrow, Johnson L. Wu, Craig A. Schultz
  • Patent number: 9021014
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing a home subscriber server (HSS) proxy are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for providing a home subscriber server proxy. The method includes, at a node separate from a home subscriber server in a telecommunications network, receiving, from a requesting network entity, a request for information maintained at a home subscriber server, the information being associated with a subscriber, and, in response to receiving the request for information maintained at a home subscriber server, providing the information associated with the subscriber to the requesting network entity on behalf of the home subscriber server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Tekelec, Inc.
    Inventors: Devesh Agarwal, Apirux Bantukul
  • Patent number: 9015340
    Abstract: Systems and methods for splitting a network traffic flow in a data network are described. A flow of traffic between a source node and a destination node in the data network is split into a set of data paths. A data path includes one or more data links between nodes in the data network. A submap of the data network that excludes at least one data link is used to determine the set of flow paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Avinatan Hassidim, Michal Segalov, Tzvika Hartman, Dan Raz
  • Patent number: 9003010
    Abstract: A scaleable network monitoring system is discussed. The network monitoring system identifies network monitoring information for the network elements being monitored. By storing only a non-redundant subset of the identified network information in memory, the network monitoring system is able to monitor a much larger group of network elements than is possible with conventional monitoring systems which are burdened by memory constraints. The scaleable network monitoring system also employs a multi-threaded architecture that dynamically spawns an array of multi-technology monitoring sub-systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Expo Service Assurance Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas W. Saparoff
  • Patent number: 8996684
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and articles for receiving, by a monitor server, change data associated with a change captured on a target host, are described herein. In various embodiments, the target host may have provided the change data in response to detecting the change, and the change data may include one or more rules, settings, and/or parameters. Further, in some embodiments, the monitor server may then group the change data into clusters and may correlate the clusters with a change catalog in order to provide a possible reason or cause for the cluster of changes. Once the change data have been classified as clusters, a report may be generated providing classification or categorization and cluster information for the various changes. In various embodiments, the generating may comprise generating a report to the target host and/or to an administrative user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Tripwire, Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Good, Gene Kim, David Whitlock
  • Patent number: 8996666
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a distributed intelligence agent (DIA) in a computer network performs deep packet inspection on received packets to determine packet flows, and calculates per-flow service level agreement (SLA) metrics for the packets based on timestamp values placed in the packets by respective origin devices in the computer network. By comparing the SLA metrics to respective SLAs to determine whether the respective SLAs are met, then in response to a particular SLA not being met for a particular flow, the DIA may download determined quality of service (QoS) configuration parameters to one or more visited devices along n calculated paths from a corresponding origin device for the particular flow to the DIA. In addition, in one or more embodiments, the QoS configuration parameters may be adjusted or de-configured based on whether they were successful.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Jean-Philippe Vasseur
  • Patent number: 8988527
    Abstract: A spatial area is monitored by means of at least a first and a second image recording unit that have a common viewing area. At least one virtual protection zone is defined within the common viewing area. A first and a second image of the spatial area are recorded by means of the first and a second image recording unit. The images are compared with one another in order to identify mutually disjoint image regions in the images. An alarm signal is generated when a disjoint image region covers the virtual protection zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Pilz GmbH & Co KG.
    Inventors: Joerg Haussmann, Soeren Hader
  • Patent number: 8990321
    Abstract: In one general aspect, a tangible computer-readable storage medium can be configured to store instructions that when executed cause a processor to perform a process. The instructions can include instructions to receive an indicator that at least a portion of a source message has been produced using a source module, and instructions to send to the source module, in response to the indicator, an extraction module configured to assign an attribute value to content of the source message. The attribute value can represent a contextual function of the content within the source message. The instructions can include instructions to receive a content package including the content and the attribute value assigned to the content, and produce a plurality of endpoint-specific messages associated with a plurality of endpoints based on a plurality of message templates and the attribute value assigned to the content within the content package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Korn, Kurt Alfred Kluever, Stephen Concannon, Jonathan Kennell