Patents Examined by Marie Georges Henry
  • HTTP-based synchronization method and apparatus
    Patent number: 8990429
    Abstract: An HTTP-based synchronization method includes obtaining a first response sent by a source server or a cache in response to an HTTP request for obtaining a file; determining time when the first response is sent in local time at server, according to a value of a Date field and a value of an Age field in the first response; determining time when the first response is sent in local time at client, according to the client time of an event related to the first response; and determining time offset between the server time and the client time according to the time when the first response is sent in local time at server and the time when the first response is sent in local time at client, and setting up a synchronization relationship between the client time and the server time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shaobo Zhang
  • Managed services platform
    Patent number: 8977762
    Abstract: A managed services platform. An applications management server is provided for managing relationships with application service providers and others over a wide area network such as the Internet. The applications management server interfaces with a master database server and the servers of one or more application service providers, or other entities, to facilitate selection and deselection of applications, services, and capabilities that may be available for use by the information technology network of a company.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: zvelo, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Charles Hartman, John Elton Dietrich, II, Jeffrey James Finn, Rodney Dean Holm
  • Computer architectures using shared storage
    Patent number: 8972515
    Abstract: Shared storage architectures are provided. A particular shared storage architecture includes an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) system. The ESB system includes shared storage including data and file system metadata separated from the data. The file system metadata includes location data specifying storage location information related to the data. An infrastructure function of the ESB system is provided to enable messaging between providers and consumers through the shared storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Dennis L. Kuehn, David D. Bettger, Kevin A. Stone, Marc A. Peters
  • Event-based communication in a clinical diagnostic analyzer
    Patent number: 8959200
    Abstract: A networked clinical diagnostic analyzer is disclosed with support for monitoring by a remote back office. The disclosed analyzer includes a module to detect in real-time events of interest while allowing the back office to modify the definitions of the events. The module may be networked using virtual private networking into the back office network, which is usually different from the network at the site of the clinical diagnostic analyzer's deployment. The real-time alerts allow both a quick response to actual or expected error conditions and the downloading of logged data that is likely of most interest and relevance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor Gyles, Keith Arnold Baker, Richard Peter Hemmenway, Christopher Thomas Doody
  • Apparatus, and associated method, for resubscribing communication device to a push notification service
    Patent number: 8943194
    Abstract: An apparatus, and an associated method, for a communication device having a SIM card, or other removable storage element, that permits hot-swapping of the storage element. Notification of hot-swapping of the removable storage element is detected. Responsive to the detection, provision is made to resubscribe to push service notifications that are disabled upon removal of the removable storage element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Blackberry Limited
    Inventors: Michael Scott Colbert, Rohit Anil Talwalkar, Swee Tuan Pang
  • Video retrieval system, method and computer program for surveillance of moving objects
    Patent number: 8941733
    Abstract: Video surveillance systems are used to monitor public places, streets, buildings, cities and other premises or surroundings and comprise a multitude of cameras which are monitoring relevant points in the surroundings. One of the problems of surveillance systems is, that the multitude of cameras produce a large amount of video data to be monitored, which requires a lot of human observers resulting in high personnel costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Rob Albers, Egbert Jaspers, Rob Wijnhoven
  • Virtual private meeting room
    Patent number: 8943139
    Abstract: A different unique identification is assigned to each of a plurality of users for establishing conference sessions. A different dedicated virtual private session room is allocated to each of the plurality of users for use in multiple conference sessions. The different unique identification is assigned to the different dedicated virtual private session room for each user. Conferencing resources of a network over which conference sessions are provided are dynamically allocated to the conference sessions to obtain expected levels of service for the conference sessions, based on the users logging in to the conference sessions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Interwise Ltd.
    Inventor: Haim Karniely
  • System and method for stream processing
    Patent number: 8935421
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and system for de-centralized stream processing is provided. The method may include providing a plurality of processing nodes each of said processing nodes configured to transmit and receive a stream of data. The method may further include adding one or more new processing nodes to the computing system. The method may also include determining a source node based upon, at least in part, an activation level being above or below a particular threshold. The method may additionally include, for each of the one or more added processing nodes, automatically determining an appropriate role, based upon, at least in part, a neighboring processing node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth Sabir, David Lowe
  • Social networking relevance index
    Patent number: 8930453
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for organizing a listing of activities on a social networking website, including present each user of the plurality of users an organized representation of activities, the representation of activities sorted by how relevant each activity is to the particular user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Myspace LLC
    Inventors: Sai Panyam, Fredrick Roby, Sam Mansukhani
  • Time-managed electronic mail messages
    Patent number: 8930474
    Abstract: Systems, method sand computer program products for facilitating the automatic deletion of received emails after a user-selectable time period has elapsed are disclosed. In various embodiments, email messages contain a header field referred to as an “Expiration Time” header field that dictates the length of time the email will reside in a designated Inbox prior to its automatic deletion by an email server. The server is able to automatically delete the received email as long as the email is residing in a folder that is synched to the server. A user receiving the email has access to the Expiration Time Header field and can modify its value if desired and allowed by the sender. The user can move the retrieved email to a folder that is not synched to the server, thus preventing the email from being automatically deleted by the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Dolly Sobhani
  • Connection distribution within a connectional parallelism architecture
    Patent number: 8904007
    Abstract: Example embodiments provide various techniques for distributing connections within a connectional parallelism architecture. In one embodiment, a method is provided where resource utilizations of connection groups are measured. Here, each connection group is assigned to one of multiple processors. A probability distribution is accessed that maps probabilities assigned to relative resource utilizations. A relative resource utilization of one of the connection groups is determined based on a resource utilization of the one connection group relative to other resource utilizations of other connection groups. A probability from the probability distribution is identified based on the determined relative resource utilization, and based on the identified probability, a connection is assigned to this connection group for execution by one of the processors assigned to this connection group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Gokul Nadathur, Anumita Biswas
  • Adaptive routing of content requests using multiple anycast addresses
    Patent number: 8886830
    Abstract: A system includes a plurality of cache servers and a domain name server. Each of the cache servers is configured to respond to a content request. The plurality of cache servers is divided into a plurality of subsets and configured to respond to an anycast address for each subset to which the cache server belongs. The domain name server is configured to receive a request from a requestor for a cache server address, identify an anycast address for a largest available subset, and provide the anycast address of the largest available subset to the requestor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Richard T. Kwapniewski, Han Q. Nguyen
  • Verifying domain ownership
    Patent number: 8886747
    Abstract: Systems and processes are provided for verifying ownership of a network identifier or domain name. A content provider can verify that a first entity owns the network identifier by instructing the first entity to modify data associated with the network identifier in a defined manner. The content provider can verify that the first entity owns the network identifier by confirming that the data associated with the network identifier has been modified in the defined manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Bryan Chen, Erik M. Kline, Marija Mikic-Rakic
  • Flexible token for use in content delivery
    Patent number: 8886761
    Abstract: An embodiment of a system for managing delivery of content to end users includes a semantics generator configured to generate name/value pair semantics for name/value pairs that can be included in flexible tokens, a semantics publisher configured to publish the name/value pair semantics in a menu, wherein the name/value pair semantics are selectable, a flexible token interpreter configured to interpret name/value pairs included in flexible tokens according to the name/value pair semantics, the flexible token interpreter further configured to determine responses to content requests based on the name/value pairs included in flexible tokens, and an edge server configured to generate token-dependent responses to content requests based on determined responses from the flexible token interpreter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Bill Hopkins, Jin-Gen Wang
  • Resource planning for computing
    Patent number: 8880676
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for the planning of resources used in computing. Usage statistics regarding one or more virtual machine instances executing in a networked plurality of computing devices are obtained. The usage statistics are grouped, for example, based on one or more customer usage classifications, thereby producing one or more usage groups. A corresponding demand forecast is generated for each of the usage groups. A projected demand for one or more physical components of the networked computing devices is calculated according to the demand forecasts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiao Yu Li, Diwakar Gupta, Akshay Kumar Reddy Katta, Sergey Krasnovsky, Kalyanaraman Prasad
  • Tamper-resistant video surveillance network
    Patent number: 8872917
    Abstract: A network of surveillance digital video cameras is provided. Each camera records video data and provides the video recordings to other networked cameras as well as to a central video storage. The instantly created plurality of copies of surveillance video recordings adds a great degree of difficulty for attempts to eliminate all of the individual camera's recordings during a security breach. Each networked camera is equipped with its own integrated storage device capable of holding several hours of recorded video footage. The networked cameras can exchange copies video data and store it locally on integrated storages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Inventor: Leonid Rozenboim
  • Method and system for fund visualization
    Patent number: 8874656
    Abstract: A finds comparison tool is provided that includes a presentation tier providing a plurality of interfaces for interacting with a plurality of client applications. The presentation tier allows the client applications to send requests for a plurality of analytics to be performed regarding comparing the performance of one or more funds or portfolios as well allowing mobile-based client applications and web-based client applications to communicate with the funds comparison tool. An application tier processes the requests sent by the client applications by providing the data used by the client applications, storing and retrieving of session data, and an interface for the analytics information captured during sessions so as to allow a visualization of the analytics used in the comparison of the one or more funds or portfolios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Putnam Investments, LLC
    Inventors: Paul O'Connell, David Nguyen, George White, Matt Crist, Michael Tuccinard, Matthew Stuehler, Michael Novak
  • System and method for establishing peer to peer connections between PCS and smart phones using networks with obstacles
    Patent number: 8874691
    Abstract: A method of circumventing network obstacles to provide a peer-to-peer communication channel between peers utilizing hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) includes communicating a HTTP request from a peer device to a relay through a network including an obstacle where the HTTP request is intended for another peer device. The method further includes communicating a HTTP response from the relay to the peer device and establishing a communication channel between the peer device and the another peer device via the relay. The communication channel permits the peer device and the another peer device to send and receive data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Core Wireless Licensing S.A.R.L.
    Inventor: Titos Saridakis
  • System and method for near-optimal media sharing
    Patent number: 8868635
    Abstract: A media content sharing system includes multiple broadcast operation centers that together are configured to automatically acquire and distribute media content among one another based upon the media content needs and inventories of each participating broadcast operation center. The media sharing system architecture eliminates any single-point of system failure such that an inventory of media content corresponding to a particular broadcast operation center remains available to broadcast operation centers remaining on the media content sharing system subsequent to failure of the particular broadcast operation center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: NBCUniversal Media, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Richard Gilder, Osman Rifki Oksoy, Michael Andrew Woellmer, Kevin Anthony Mercurio
  • Transactional messaging support in connected messaging networks
    Patent number: 8868744
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for transactional messaging support in connected messaging networks. A first messaging network is provided which does not support transactional processing and a second messaging network is provided which does support transactional processing. A proxy application is provided between the first and second messaging networks. The proxy application receives messages from a first application on the first messaging network, the messages including instructions regarding transactional processing of the messages, and forwards the messages to the second messaging network using a transactional processing supported by the second messaging network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan Levell, Matthew David Peel