Patents Examined by Mark A. Williams
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Patent number: 11973827Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for migrating mailbox identities. In aspects, a system may receive one or more requests to perform tasks for migrating identities of a plurality of mailboxes included in a security group created at a source tenant to a plurality of mail users created at a target tenant that correspond to the plurality of mailboxes. Based on the one or more requests, the system may copy the identities to a data store associated with the target tenant, upload mapping data to the data store, and use that mapping data to map the identities copied to the data store to the corresponding plurality of mail users in the target tenant. For each of the identities mapped, the system may copy at least one or more attributes of the respective identity from the data store to the respective corresponding mail user in the target tenant.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.Inventors: Md Mainul Mizan, Kamil Krzywicki, Anshul Dube, Brian Alan Day, Robert Allen Lowe, Shankaranand Arunachalam
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Patent number: 11972653Abstract: A lock, a vehicle parking system, and a vehicle parking method are provided. The lock includes a main body, a lock switch, a lock controller, a lock communication circuit, and a battery. The battery is connected to the lock switch, the lock controller, and the lock communication circuit, and configured to supply electrical energy to the lock switch, the lock controller, and the lock communication circuit. The lock communication circuit is connected to the lock controller, and transmits a locking instruction or an unlocking instruction to the lock controller when receiving the locking instruction or the unlocking instruction from a second device located outside the lock. The lock controller is connected to the lock switch connected to the main body, and the lock controller controls, when receiving the locking instruction or the unlocking instruction, the main body to perform a locking operation or an unlocking operation through the lock switch.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Shengwei Yang, Qi Zhang, Dong Wang, Jinlong Zheng, Lihong Yang, Sa Li, Xingjun Shu, Yajun Guo, Yafeng Wang, Jianye Tang, Gaowei Chen, Yanchao Zhang, Desheng Xiang, Xi Chen
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Patent number: 11971941Abstract: The present invention relates to an online search method and device that accounts for relevance and difference, wherein the method comprises: determining an initial search result set according to a query request input by a user, and selecting a plurality of search results with the greatest degrees of difference from the initial search result set, as a final search result set. The specific process comprises: initially obtaining a plurality of candidate results according to the query request submitted by the user; using a semantic matrix to describe the attribute characteristics of documents corresponding to the candidate results; calculating similarities among the documents according to the attribute characteristics of the documents, and then clustering the candidate results into a plurality of cluster blocks; selecting a representative from each cluster block; and constructing the final search result set according to the selected representatives.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: TONGJI UNIVERSITYInventors: Guosun Zeng, Chunling Ding, Youli Fang
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Patent number: 11959310Abstract: The electric strike can have a housing having an internal face receivable against a receiving face of a door frame, an external strike face, a socket recessed into the strike face along a socket axis normal to the receiving face of the door frame, for receiving a male locking member retractably mounted to a door, the male locking member also being moveable transversally to the socket axis, along a horizontal escape path, by opening the door, the electric strike further having a keeper pivotally mounted around a pivot axis between a closed configuration and an open configuration, the pivot axis parallel to the socket axis and offset from the escape path on a first side of the socket, inside the housing, the keeper having a gate member forming a restraining wall of the socket blocking the escape path when in the closed configuration, and a distal end.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: DORMAKABA CANADA INC.Inventor: Mandeep Singh
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Patent number: 11954107Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to receive, from a client terminal, a first query to request a result of a join operation process on first and second tables, create a second query to a first database management device based on the first query, receive the first table from the first database management device by performing a process on the second query, create a third query to a second database management device based on the first query and the first table, receive a part of a second table from the second database management device by performing a process on the third query, and transmit, to the client terminal, a response to the first query based on the part of the second table.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Shigeo Hirose, Mototaka Kanematsu
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Patent number: 11940965Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a data migration method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving a migration task of migrating data in a first system to a second system; and calling upper-layer interfaces corresponding to the migration task, and calling underlying operation interfaces of the first system and the second system by the upper-layer interfaces through an abstract interface class to migrate the data of the first system to the second system. Bidirectional data transmission and migration can be implemented between any two data ends. Bidirectional data transmission and migration between any data terminals.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding LimitedInventor: Yizhe Chen
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Patent number: 11939793Abstract: A safe including a lock actuator and a control system communicatively connected with the lock actuator, and a method for controlling a lock actuator of a safe are provided. The lock actuator is configured to lock or unlock a mechanical or electronic lock of the safe. The control system includes a transmitter, a receiver, and a processor. The transmitter is configured to emit light (ex. infrared light) into the safe. The receiver is configured to receive light, for example, the same infrared wave, emitted from the transmitter and generate an output signal. The processor is configured to receive the output signal from the receiver and determine whether item is inside the safe. The control system disables the lock actuator from locking the safe when the output signal indicates no item is inside the safe.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Inventors: Santhosh Amuduri, Srinivasa Rao Veeravalli, Subhash Reddy Gopavaram, Vikas Kumar
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Patent number: 11941031Abstract: Systems, methods, and storage media for generating an online analytical processing cube (MAP) are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive a cube definition file; access a data-source; generate a data-source property configuration for the data-source using the cube definition file to; determine each of respective parsed data from the data-source is a key, attribute, or measure; and generate the OLAP cube by combining the cube definition file and the data-source property configuration for the determined parsed data from the data-source.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Stephan Gudmundson, Nikhil Teletia, Andrew Leeds, John Sismanis
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Patent number: 11933076Abstract: An interchangeable electro-mechanical lock core for use with a lock device having a locked state and an unlocked state is disclosed. The interchangeable electromechanical lock core may include a moveable plug having a first position relative to a lock core body which corresponds to the lock device being in the locked state and a second position relative to a lock core body which corresponds to the lock device being in the unlocked state.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2017Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: dormakaba USA Inc.Inventors: Brendon Allen, Street Anthony Barnett, III, Matthew J. Velderman, Andrew E. Seman, Jr., Ryan H. Peloquin, Gary Hill, Paul Becke, Christopher W. Lemieux, Anthony Romano, Matthew Stanton, Daniel J. White
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Patent number: 11934397Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to database query optimizers. In some embodiments, a query parser of a database system receives a query requesting data from a multi-tenant database. The query includes a first constraint that restricts a query optimizer's selection of a set of execution plans available to implement the query. The database system determines whether an override has been specified for a particular tenant associated with the received query, the override indicating that the first constraint is to be replaced with a second constraint for the particular tenant. In response to determining that the override has been specified for the particular tenant, the database system replaces the first constraint in the query with the second constraint and provides the query with the second constraint to the query optimizer for selection of an execution plan in accordance with the second constraint.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.Inventors: Rama Krishna Korlapati, William J. McKenna, John Francis O'Brien
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Patent number: 11933074Abstract: The disclosure provides a lock with a radially extending cam that can be pivoted electrically or manually by a key. The lock resides in a housing for ease of manufacture and reduction of space, for use, as an example, as a replacement or retrofit for an existing manual cam lock. The cam extends transversely to a first axis and is manually rotatable by a key about the first axis. The cam is also rotatable about a second axis parallel to the first axis by an electrical signal to a motor or a linear actuator connected to a cam mechanism body.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: The Eastern CompanyInventor: Matthew Schroll
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Patent number: 11933081Abstract: An embodiment vehicular door-opening-and-closing device includes a latch, a striker configured to be lockably fitted into the latch, and a magnet configured to maintain the striker in a state of being fitted into the latch. In an embodiment, the magnet has a magnetic force exceeding a repulsive force of a weather strip generated by compression of the weather strip, and the magnetic force exceeds the repulsive force in an initial operation of opening a vehicle door.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventor: Kuk Hyun Cho
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Patent number: 11927031Abstract: A portable electronic lock has a lock body having a locking device and a closing hoop that is movable relative to the lock body between a closed position and an open position, wherein the closing hoop can be locked to the lock body by means of the locking device in the closed position. The lock at least has an electrical unit, an electrical energy source, a signal generator, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to monitor a charge level of the electrical energy source and to control the signal generator to output a charge level warning signal sequence in the form of the letter sequence “S-O-S” in accordance with Morse code if the charge level of the electrical energy source falls below a predetermined limit value.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: ABUS August Bremicker Söhne KGInventors: Manuel Cornelius Neveling, Tobias Weiss
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Patent number: 11922278Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for using a distributed ledger to track the evolution or deployment of feature sets for machine-learning. A registration request is received from a first node of a distributed ledger, the registration request comprising a code hash representing a feature set generator and a data hash representing a data set. The registration request is then relayed to a second node of the distributed ledger for approval by the second node. Next, an approval for the registration request is received from the second node. Subsequently, an entry in the distributed ledger comprising the code hash and the data hash is created.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Rares Ioan Almasan, Andras L. Ferenczi, Mohammad N. Nauman, Swatee Singh, Man Chon U
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Patent number: 11914576Abstract: A computationally-efficient object conversion system maintains multiple objects. Each object includes an array of characters and a hash value. Instructions include maintaining strings in a one-to-one relationship with the objects. The instructions include, for each object, calculating the hash value in response to values being written to the array of the object. The instructions include defining an equals method that, for first and second objects, returns a true value in response to values of the array of the first object matching values of the array of the second object. The instructions include defining a hash method that, for a selected object, returns the hash value. The instructions include, in response to a request including a request string, determining whether one of the strings is equal to the request string and, if so, returning the object related to the one of the strings.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: CHARLES SCHWAB & CO., INC.Inventor: Eric Tesse
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Patent number: 11898372Abstract: An operating device includes a lock mechanism unit that regulates relative movement of an operating unit with respect to a supporting member, and a controller that releases locking of the lock mechanism unit when input of an operator is detected by an operation detector. When contact of a finger with a surface panel is detected by a first detection member, locking of the operating unit by the lock mechanism unit is released. In addition, when a pressing operation to the operating unit is detected by a second detection member, control is performed so that a response force providing mechanism operates.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Alpine Electronics, Inc.Inventor: Tomoki Otsuka
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Patent number: 11898373Abstract: A motorized latch retraction system for transitioning a latch of an exit device from a latched position to an unlatched position is provided. The motorized latch retraction system includes a lock indicator indicating the latched or unlatched position of the latch and a floating motor.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: dormakaba USA Inc.Inventors: Jamison D. Woodley, Jason C. Clifford, Xiaohui Yan, Can Zhang
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Patent number: 11897320Abstract: A vehicle door includes a belt structure and a rigid handle having a rigid base and a rigid outer grip portion. The rigid outer grip portion includes a portion that is spaced apart from the base to form a gap. The base of the handle is rigidly connected to the belt structure whereby the outer grip portion of the handle does not move relative to the belt structure. The vehicle door may include a powered door opening mechanism that moves a portion of the door away from a vehicle body when actuated.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Chester Stanislaus Walawender, Francis Raymond Gillis, Rajesh K. Patel, Thomas Michael Herline
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Patent number: 11885153Abstract: A door lock with an energy-saving device, comprising: an electromagnet assembly secured on the door frame, which has an electromagnet and a control circuit board, and an adsorption assembly secured on the door board, which has a positioning unit and an iron plate, a set of linkage sensing mechanism set on the electromagnet, and a set of clutch mechanism set on the adsorption assembly; Thereby, when close the door board into the door frame, the control circuit board supplies power to the electromagnet with the high current in the normal locking mode to attract iron plate, and then, the clutch mechanism drives the linkage sensing mechanism to act, triggering the control circuit board to supply power with low current in the power-saving lock mode to maintain the closed state of the door panel.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Inventor: Li-Shih Liao
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Patent number: 11879270Abstract: The present invention relates to an anti-barricade door handle assembly which comprises an integrated auxiliary door handle for use in an emergency. The auxiliary door handle can be configured between a stowed configuration and an activated configuration. The auxiliary door handle is operable to operate a lock when in the activated configuration and inoperable when in the stowed configuration. The auxiliary door handle can only be configured to the activated configuration by an authorized user. The auxiliary door handle is configured to override a primary door handle which operates the lock in normal, non-emergency use.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2019Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: SAFEHINGE PRIMERA LIMITEDInventors: Max Szczerkowski, Martin Izod, Shaun Ridley