Patents Examined by Michael Chambers
  • Patent number: 8898294
    Abstract: The state of an apparatus is reported to a remote computer using an embedded device in the apparatus. The embedded device detects the state, generates a message that reports the state using a self-describing computer language, and sends the message to the remote computer. The remote computer receives the message and extracts the state of the embedded device from the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Axeda Corporation
    Inventor: James R. Hansen
  • Patent number: 8886718
    Abstract: A social networking website maintains a profile for each user of the website. The profile includes data associated with a user, such as a connection to one or more plurality of other users of the social networking website or user preferences. The social networking website communicates with one or more third-party application servers to provide one or more applications to social networking website users. When a social networking website user requests an application provided by a third-party application server, the social networking website communicates a subset of the user's profile to the third-party application server, allowing the third-party application server to use this profile data to personalize the application performed for the user. A privacy setting associated with a user profile allows the social networking website to limit the profile data communicated to the third-party application server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam D'Angelo, Charles Duplain Cheever, Arieh Steinberg, James H. Wang, Mark Slee
  • Patent number: 8874657
    Abstract: Distributing meeting data from an interactive whiteboard projector to at least one computer of a meeting member, comprises: in the interactive whiteboard projector, using a processor to save meeting data, generate a password, display a screen with a URL of the projector and the password and use a web server to transfer the meeting data from the interactive whiteboard projector to the at least one computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Steve Nelson, Victor Ivashin
  • Patent number: 8868775
    Abstract: Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, computer-readable media, mechanisms, and means for load balancing manipulation of packet flows within a transport conduit (e.g., a tunnel, pseudo wire, etc.), typically using a load balancing value which is independent of standard routing-based parameters (e.g., source address, destination address, source port, destination port, protocol type, etc.). A load balancing value is included in encapsulated packets transported across a network using a transport conduit. This load balancing value can be used to load balance the individual flows/microflows within the transport conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Clarence Filsfils, Stewart Frederick Bryant, William Mark Townsley, David Delano Ward
  • Patent number: 8819180
    Abstract: A mobile computing device with a mobile operating system and desktop operating system running concurrently and independently on a shared kernel without virtualization. The mobile operating system provides a user experience for the mobile computing device that suits the mobile environment. The desktop operating system provides a full desktop user experience when the mobile computing device is docked to a second user environment. A seamless cross-environment workflow is provided in a multi-operating system computing environment. Two or more application programs, running in independent operating systems, share user interaction state information including user data, user settings, and/or application context information. Interaction state information may be shared for applications that are used primarily to access and edit local user content as well as applications that communicate to a remote server or access and navigate other remote content (i.e., Internet-based application, browser).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Z124
    Inventors: Brian Reeves, Paul Reeves, Richard Teltz, David Reeves, Sanjiv Sirpal, Chris Tyghe
  • Patent number: 8812620
    Abstract: A novel electronic information transport component can be incorporated in a wide range of electronic information products, for example magazine collections, to automate the mass distribution of updates, such as current issues, from a remote server to a wide user base having a diversity of computer stations. Advantages of economy, immediacy and ease of use are provided. Extensions of the invention permit automated electronic catalog shopping with order placement and, optionally, order confirmation. A server-based update distribution service is also provided. In addition, an offline web browser system, with hyperlink redirection capabilities, a novel recorded music product with automated update capabilities and an Internet charging mechanism are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Intellectual Property I LLC
    Inventor: Richard R. Reisman
  • Patent number: 8793347
    Abstract: A client-based computer system adapted to communicate with a remote server through a network and to provide access to content or services provided by the server. The system includes a storage device and a cache. The cache is adapted to communicate with the server over the network, to intercept a request from the client to the server, and to store responses from the server on the storage device. The cache is further adapted to automatically determine when to send the request to the server over the network. The cache is still further adapted to provide a response, including from the responses stored on the storage device based upon the request, to appear as through the server provided the response. The system may also include a crawler. The crawler is adapted to operate in conjunction with the cache to cause requests to be sent to the server over the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Mobophiles, Inc.
    Inventors: William Weiyeh Chow, Mark Lea Tsuie, Craig Leonard Ogg
  • Patent number: 8788664
    Abstract: A network address mapping system is described. The network address mapping system can identify a set of Web pages, collects information from the Web pages indicating geographical locations (“geolocations”), and correlate the geolocations with the network addresses from which the identified Web pages are served. The collected information can be weighted based on various factors, such as its relative position in a Web page. The collected information can then be used to identify a geolocation. The network mapping system can deduce geolocations for portions of ranges of network addresses based on the score, and can infer geolocations for other portions based on the deduced geolocations. This mapping can then be stored in a database and provided as a geomapping service. The network address mapping system is able to map network addresses to geographical locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Chuanxiong Guo, Jiahe Helen Wang, Qing Yu, Yongguang Zhang, Youjun Liu
  • Patent number: 8775516
    Abstract: A projector system includes: a plurality of computers connected to a network; and a plurality of projectors connected to the network, wherein each of the computers includes a connection request unit which gives a connection request to an arbitrary projector connected to the network, and each of the projectors includes a group information acquisition unit which acquires group information including apparatus IDs of the respective projectors of a group to which the own apparatus belongs, and a connection request unit which requests the projectors excluding the own apparatus among the projectors of the group to connection with an arbitrary computer, referring to the group information, when receiving the connection request from the arbitrary computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Natori, Yoshiharu Konishi
  • Patent number: 8751691
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for remapping IP addresses of a network to endpoints within a different network. A provider network may allocate IP addresses and resources to a customer. The provider network may allow the customer to map an IP address to remap an IP address to an endpoint on the customer's network. When a packet is received from a client addressed to the IP address, the provider network may determine that the IP address has been remapped to the endpoint. The provider network may translate the source and destination addresses of the packet and modify the source address of the packet to indicate the endpoint as the destination, and send the modified packet to the endpoint via the Internetan intermediate network. Response traffic may be routed to the client through the provider network, or may be directly routed to the client by the customer network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric J. Brandwine, Andrew B. Dickinson
  • Patent number: 8745249
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to intelligence virtualization system and method to support social media cloud service and more particularly to multi agent structure automatically performing intelligent virtualization method for service resource for a user's access and allocation of virtualized resources and more particularly to a intelligence virtualization system and method to support social media cloud service that automates learning process of multi agents for distribution of new social media service resources and service resource management of additional component of social media cloud computing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Konkuk University Industrial Cooperation Corp.
    Inventors: Han-ku Lee, Hyo-Gun Yoon, Yun Cui
  • Patent number: 8725869
    Abstract: An information processing system comprises a system management tool, a managed system and a classifier. The system management tool receives a result of a situation classification operation from the classifier, and automatically takes a management action relating to the managed system based at least in part on the result of the situation classification operation. The situation classification result may be determined by monitoring operation of the managed system in a situational state space having dimensions that characterize operating conditions of the system, and identifying a current state of the system in the situational state space. The management action automatically taken by the system management tool may comprise, for example, setting at least one policy for the managed system by selecting and deploying a particular one of a plurality of policy sets responsive to the result of the situation classification operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: David Stephen Reiner, Stephen G. Graham, Stephen Todd
  • Patent number: 8719339
    Abstract: A novel electronic information transport component can be incorporated in a wide range of electronic information products, for example magazine collections, to automate the mass distribution of updates, such as current issues, from a remote server to a wide user base having a diversity of computer stations. Advantages of economy, immediacy and ease of use are provided. Extensions of the invention permit automated electronic catalog shopping with order placement and, optionally, order confirmation. A server-based update distribution service is also provided. In addition, an offline web browser system, with hyperlink redirection capabilities, a novel recorded music product with automated update capabilities and an Internet charging mechanism are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Intellectual Ventures I LLC
    Inventor: Richard R. Reisman
  • Patent number: 8719342
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method, system, client device, conference server device and computer program product of controlling media composition in a multi-party conversation involving a central control point (50). At a participant (10) of said multi-party conversation, a scope information (SoM) which specifies members of said multi-party conversation is selected and added to a session modifying request. The session modifying request is transmitted to the central control point (50) which initiates a media modification at the specified members in response to the scope information (SoM). Thereby, a client can control whether media modification is applied to the whole conference, selected participants or only between the client itself and the conference server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Core Wireless Licensing, S.a.r.l.
    Inventors: Jari Mutikainen, Arto Leppisaari
  • Patent number: 8713094
    Abstract: The Event-Associating Software Application for Accessing Digital Media (the “Software Application”) consists of a Software Application designed to receive messages and digital media files from external sources, then to read and categorize each file's metadata based on events of which the person submitting the file has taken a photograph or a video, or recorded audio. The Software Application parses each file's metadata, looks up events in the System database to match with the digital media file, and associates those events with the message. The Application's parsing function generally comprises reading the metadata, splitting it up into component parts, and categorizing it in databases together with the message data, which consists of EXIF data (Exchangeable Image File Format data, such as time, location, and other related tags) encoded in photograph and audio files and user-generated text and tags that accompany the files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Inventor: Michael-Anthony W. Lisboa
  • Patent number: 8706881
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, system, and medium are disclosed for implementing a hybrid application server. The server comprises an application server container, a dynamic module system, and a resources-exporter module deployed on the dynamic module system. The resources-exporter module is configured to detect that a system-level resource of the application server container has been deployed. In response to detecting that the container resource has been deployed, the resources-exporter is configured to register a proxy object for the system-level resource as a service in the dynamic module system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Jagadish P. Ramu, Sanjeeb K. Sahoo
  • Patent number: 8700771
    Abstract: Systems and methods for caching information related to access rights are provided. The access rights may be rules stored in an access control list. The cache may include packet parameters against which packets in a data flow are matched to determine if a match is possible from the cache. If a match is possible, a corresponding rule is applied to the packet. If a match is not found in the cache, the access control list may be searched for a corresponding rule. The rule from the access control list may be populated into the cache when a match is found in the access control list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajesh Ramankutty, Sanil Kumar Puthiyandyil, Matthew H. Harper
  • Patent number: 8694577
    Abstract: A social networking website maintains a profile for each user of the website. The profile includes data associated with a user, such as a connection to one or more plurality of other users of the social networking website or user preferences. The social networking website communicates with one or more third-party application servers to provide one or more applications to social networking website users. When a social networking website user requests an application provided by a third-party application server, the social networking website communicates a subset of the user's profile to the third-party application server, allowing the third-party application server to use this profile data to personalize the application performed for the user. A privacy settings associated with a user profile allows the social networking website to limit the profile data communicated to the third-party application server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc
    Inventors: Adam D'Angelo, Charlie Cheever, Ari Steinberg, James Wang, Mark Slee
  • Patent number: 8665733
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for Round Trip Delay KPI Monitoring in a live network using a user plane probe session is disclosed for measuring round trip delays in a manner that allows latency to be apportioned to network elements. The method and apparatus for Round Trip Delay KPI Monitoring in a live network using a user plane probe session includes transmitting a loopback packet containing a probe session indicator and capturing timestamps of arrival and departure times at each network element traversed by the loopback packet, and then transmitting the timestamps to a Network Management System.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Suat R. Eskicioglu, Nausheen Naz
  • Patent number: 8650295
    Abstract: Technology for network security is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of managing network security includes receiving sampled packets. The sampled packets represent packets being sampled from network packet traffic in at least one location in a network. The sampled packets are converted into an appropriate format for analysis to form converted packets. Moreover, the converted packets are sent to a first group including at least one security device for analysis. If an event message is generated by the at least one security device as a result of analysis of the converted packets, the event message is received from the at least one security device. Network security is evaluated based on the event message and security policies and is adjusted based on that evaluation. The method may be implemented with a network manager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Foundry Networks, LLC
    Inventors: Animesh Chaturvedi, Marc Lavine, Manan Shah, Ron Lau