Patents Examined by Meng Vang
  • Patent number: 11102054
    Abstract: Systems and methods for evaluating a customer premise equipment (CPE) device. A network element management system may send an alteration request to a configurable coaxial tap that cause the configurable coaxial tap to alter the characteristics of the configurable coaxial tap and/or to manipulate the radio frequency (RF) characteristics of a customer premise device (CPE) coupled to the configurable coaxial tap. The network element management system may then receive impaired operation reports from a cable modem termination system, sending an un-alteration request to the configurable coaxial tap to undo the alterations, and receive restored operation reports from the cable modem termination system. The network element management system may use any or all of the received information to generate and use modem-tap-port correlations to determine the physical location of the CPE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventors: David Claussen, Matthew Petersen
  • Patent number: 11102139
    Abstract: Techniques for performing shared queue management utilizing shuffle sharding are described. For an event, one shared queue can be selected by first identifying a shard of a pool of queues, selecting two or more queues from the shard, and selecting the one queue that has a minimum queue load from those queues in the selected two or more queues. The selection significantly reduces or eliminates negative impacts upon a user or user function from activity of other users that utilize the shared queues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Cecilia Deng, Bharatkumar Chatla, Marc John Brooker, David J. Carroll
  • Patent number: 11102168
    Abstract: A content provider has a plurality of content provider domain names, and a content delivery network (CDN) allocates a plurality of CDN domain names to the particular content provider. The content provider domain names are mapped to the CDN domain names. CDN domain names are bound to corresponding CDN clusters. The binding of the of CDN domain names to corresponding CDN clusters is modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Christopher Newton
  • Patent number: 11095749
    Abstract: A system and method of automated downtime scheduling and control is disclosed. A failure of at least one component of at least one bare-metal server associated with a client is detected and a first notification is transmitted to a client system associated with the client. The notification includes a request to schedule downtime. A response including a selected downtime is received from the client system and the at least one bare-metal server is transitioned to an offline state at the selected downtime. A ticket is generated in a ticketing system for repair of the bare-metal server. The ticket identifies the at least one component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Gerald Bothello, Surajit Roy, Shriniwas Phalke, Sumeet Singh, Biswal Kumar
  • Patent number: 11089091
    Abstract: Described embodiments provide systems and methods for zone selection for distributed services. A device records latency data measured for interactions between each of a plurality of clients and a service hosted by servers in two or more zones. The device directs network communications from each of the plurality of clients to respective servers hosting the service based on zones assigned to each of the plurality of clients. The device assigns clients to zones based on the recorded latency data. For example, the device identifies a grouping for a client, determines whether the recorded latency data indicates that latency for clients in the grouping is increasing faster than a threshold rate, and selects, responsive to the determination, a zone indicated by a selected set of recorded latency data as lowest in latency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Kiran Kumar
  • Patent number: 11070618
    Abstract: The application is directed to techniques, devices, and systems for updating files. For example, a remote system may store first data representing a first version of a file and second data representing a second version of the file. The remote system may then determine that a first portion of the first data corresponds to a first portion of the second data. Based at least in part on the determination, the remote system may identify a second portion of the first data using the first portion of the first data and identify a second portion of the second data using the first portion of the second data. The remote system may then generate third data representing a difference between the second portion of the second data and the second portion of the first data. Additionally, the remote system may store the third data in association with the file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Valve Corporation
    Inventors: Martin Otten, Taylor Sherman, Henry Goffin
  • Patent number: 11057479
    Abstract: A method may include obtaining a first dependency of a first calling service on a called service and a second dependency of a second calling service on the called service. The method may further include generating a first routing configuration for the first calling service that maps a name of the called service to an ingress point of a first cluster, generating a second routing configuration for the second calling service that maps the name of the called service to the ingress point of the first cluster, detecting a relocation of the called service to a second cluster, modifying the first routing configuration to map the name of the called service to an ingress point of the second cluster, and modifying the second routing configuration to map the name of the called service to a local name of the called service within a namespace of the second cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Michael Webb, Anil Kumar Attuluri, Laurent R. Benchimol, Joseph Seng Peacock, Viraj Raghunath Kulkarni
  • Patent number: 11057496
    Abstract: A device executing an application in a distributed system may transmit a query for capabilities of one or more components in the distributed system to a capability service and receive a response. Based on the response, the device may determine whether a first capability criteria that is based on a first version of the application is met. If the first capability criteria is met, the device may execute the first version of the application. If the first capability is not met: the device may transmit a subscription request to subscribe to one or more particular capabilities; and optionally may determine a second version of the application for which a second capability criteria is met and execute the second version until receiving a notification to the subscription. The capability service may have a capability store that is updated upon a capability change in the one or more components in the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Nutanix, Inc.
    Inventors: Amit Jambure, Raja Prathyush Kumar Thota, Shubham Agrawal
  • Patent number: 11050669
    Abstract: A method and system for optimizing internet traffic from a Local Area Network (LAN) to an internet based server utilizes a specific gamer private network (GPN) for the classified latency sensitive internet data. The method includes the steps of creating a gateway computer or a master-slaver computer (device) system within a local area network (LAN), and making this gateway computer control the internet data from any device within the LAN to an outside internet based server. The gateway computer sorts the internet data into various categories, including latency sensitive, bandwidth sensitive and exclusion that is neither latency sensitive nor bandwidth sensitive. Based on these classification results, the internet data within various categories are sent out via the respective routes, so as to achieve a smooth and efficient internet data transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: AAA INTERNET PUBLISHING INC.
    Inventor: Robert Michael Norman Bartlett
  • Patent number: 11044206
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include computer-implemented methods, computer program products and systems for live video anomaly detection. The embodiments include detecting live stream data, determining an activity from the live stream data, and receiving contextual data associated with the live stream data. The embodiments also include prompting a user to redirect the live stream data from a first channel based on the activity and the contextual data, and redirecting, responsive to the prompt, the live stream data to a different channel and simultaneously maintaining the live stream data on the first channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brett Ward, Mark Delaney, Al Chakra, Robert H. Grant
  • Patent number: 11025503
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for displaying a multi-layer network map for a network configured in at least one datacenter. The method displays a visualization of a first layer of the multi-layer network map. The visualization includes a first set of selectable items corresponding to components of the network and connections between the components. At least a subset of the first set of selectable items link to other layers of the network map. The method receives input selecting one of the selectable items. In response to the input, the method displays a visualization of a second layer of the network map. The second layer provides information about the network configuration at a different level of detail than the first layer. The visualization of the second layer includes a second set of selectable items corresponding to components of the network and connections between the components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: NICIRA, INC.
    Inventors: Amardeep Nagarkar, Shivraj Shahajirao Sonawane, Shantanu Kulkarni, Sarat Chandra Annadata, Sachin Mohan Vaidya
  • Patent number: 11025582
    Abstract: Systems and methods for creating multiple renditions of a social media composition may include (1) determining, on a user device including at least one processor, that a user has opened a social media application that allows user compositions to be viewed using multiple different consumption channels, (2) providing, on a display element of the user device, a composition screen configured to be used to create user compositions for use with any of the different consumption channels, (3) collecting, via the composition screen, user-selected content including (i) a media item submitted via the composition screen, (ii) text submitted via the composition screen and/or (iii) a metadata item submitted via the composition screen, and (4) in response to collecting the user-selected content, creating a first user composition to be viewed from a first consumption channel and/or a second user composition to be viewed from a second consumption channel, each of which is based on the user-selected content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Debashish Paul
  • Patent number: 11003505
    Abstract: A method and system for improving shared hardware and software resource system is provided. The method includes detecting and registering an Internet of things (IOT) device connected to a network. Hardware/software resources and sensors associated with hardware and software operations executed by the IOT device are identified and all available data and associated metadata associated with the hardware/software resources and the sensors are stored in a database. Additional available hardware/software resources and sensors associated with a plurality of IOT devices connected to the network are displayed and a command signal for assigning a specified hardware/software resource or sensor to the IOT device is executed. A network identification code associated with a location of the specified hardware/software resource or sensor is retrieved and enabled with respect to said IOT device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Cesar Augusto Rodriguez Bravo, Jose Cano Zapata, Edgar Adolfo Zamora Duran
  • Patent number: 11005957
    Abstract: Each user from the users of the social networking system accesses the social networking system through a client device coupled with one of the servers on which the social networking system is implemented. In response to an occurrence of an information update, a first server from the multiple servers, transmits a representation of the information update to each one of other servers from the multiple servers; a second server from the other servers determines a set of active feeds associated with one or more active users that are connected to the social networking service through the second server; and for each active feed from the set of active feeds, the social networking system updates a view of the active feed to include the information update.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: Gary Horen
  • Patent number: 10999244
    Abstract: The techniques described herein enable a private connectivity solution between a virtual network of a service consumer and a virtual network of a service provider in a cloud-based platform. The techniques map a service (e.g., one or more workloads or containers) executing in the virtual network of the service provider into the virtual network of the service consumer. The mapping uses network address translation (NAT) that is performed by the cloud-based infrastructure. As a result of the techniques described herein, a public Internet Protocol (IP) address does not need to be used to establish a connection thereby alleviating privacy and/or security concerns for the virtual networks of the service provider and/or the service consumer that are hosted by the cloud-based platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Sumeet Mittal, Abhishek Shukla, Rishabh Tewari, Qiming Chen, Harish Kumar Chandrappa, Pranjal Shrivastava, Anitha Adusumilli, Parag Sharma, Abhishek Ellore Sreenath
  • Patent number: 10992785
    Abstract: One or more embodiments provide features for managing and editing content items. In particular, one or more embodiments enable one or more users to access and modify content items from one of multiple client devices without requiring storage of the content item locally on the client device. Additionally, one or more embodiments enable storing reduced resolution content items on multiple client devices in a way that saves storage space on the client devices while providing access to a content item without requiring constant network access to a central system. Further, one or more embodiments enable globally applying local edits to a content item and corresponding reduced resolution content items on multiple client devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.
    Inventors: Jan Senderek, Daniel Tobias Wagner, Leonard Fink
  • Patent number: 10992604
    Abstract: Generally, this disclosure enables a chatbot to host a chat session with a user. In some implementations, when the chatbot is not able to or does not know an answer to a query from the user, then the chatbot can import another chatbot into the chat session such that the user is aware of such importation and such that the other chatbot can output the answer to the query into the chat session. In other implementations, when the chatbot is not able to or does not know the answer to the query from the user, then the chatbot can query another chatbot, in background, without notifying the user, and when the response is received from the other chatbot, the chatbot can output that response to the user seamlessly such that the user is not aware of such querying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
    Inventors: Michal Knas, Jiby John, Payton A. Shubrick, Damon Ryan Depaolo
  • Patent number: 10979312
    Abstract: A deployment orchestrator for managing deployment of a solution architecture includes persistent storage that stores a deployment plan and a deployment manager that orchestrates display, to a user of a user device of the solution architecture, of a graphical user interface (GUI) based on the deployment plan; obtains a task completion indicator for a task specified by the deployment plan via the graphical user interface; updates, based on the task completion indicator, at least one of a task GUI element of the GUI that is associated with the task and a relationship indicator of the GUI that is associated with the task to obtain an updated GUI; after updating the GUI: performs an automated validation task associated with the task; and makes a determination, based on the automated validation task, that the task is completed; and updates the updated GUI, based on the determination, to obtain a second updated GUI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Ravikanth Chaganti, Dharmesh M. Patel, Rizwan Ali
  • Patent number: 10965761
    Abstract: A communications handler receiving incoming communications determines an appropriate contact center agent to receive the communication and modifies a graphical user interface (“GUI”) to notify the agent of the incoming communication. A plurality of communication session indicators provide status information for various communication sessions, and allow the agent to select one of several simultaneous communication sessions, which in turn alters the GUI to present information about that selected communication session. By selecting the corresponding communication session indicator, the agent can replace information for one communication session with another. The communication session indicators are updated to reflect the corresponding status of the communication session. The communication sessions include voice and non-voice channel types, wherein the non-voice channel types may include chat sessions, text sessions, and email sessions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Noble Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Jason P. Ouimette, Jason S. Conner, Deborah L. Nilsen
  • Patent number: 10965609
    Abstract: Certain embodiments relate to a method for assigning, by a resource orchestration entity, resources for a service carried out on a data packet flow in a multilayer network, the method comprising determining software requirements and network requirements necessary for the service wherein the software requirements and network requirements are received by the network resource orchestration entity from an upper layer through a northbound interface; determining a virtual network topology of the network with at least one virtual network entity, the virtual network entity comprising entity computing resources and entity network resources; and assigning the software requirements and the network requirements at least partially to the entity computing resources and the entity network resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Róbert Szabó, András Császár, Dávid Jocha