Patents Examined by Miranda Le
  • Patent number: 11966376
    Abstract: As described herein, a system, method, and computer program are provided for presenting tree data structures in tables. In use, a forest data structure storing data is identified. Additionally, the forest data structure is converted to a plurality of matrices. Further, the plurality of matrices are used to present the data in a table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: AMDOCS DEVELOPMENT LIMITED
    Inventor: Yoav Kadosh
  • Patent number: 11960516
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided herein for playing back indexed conversations based on the presence of other people. When a user asks a query, the system monitors the area, determines the other users in the area, and searches its database for a conversation that addresses the query in consideration of the other users present in the area. The system filters the indexed conversations to find conversations that included all the users present and determines the best matching conversation based on the words of the query as well as the keywords from the conversation. Once the system has determined the best match conversation, the system plays back the conversation to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael McCarty, Glen E. Roe
  • Patent number: 11954134
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method can create a node-link model from a hierarchy table, which includes a plurality of records associated with a plurality of objects organized in segments. A record includes a unique identifier, a parent reference, and a value distribution for the associated object. The parent reference is the unique identifier of a parent object directing the value distribution to the associated object. The node-link model includes a plurality of nodes representing the objects and links connecting the nodes and representing value distributions between the objects. The method can generate a visual representation of the node-link model in a user interface and receive an input from the user interface. Responsive to the input, the method can change the visual representation to depict a portion of the node-link model based on a viewable scope of the node-link model and one or more viewable fields specified in the input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Bjoern Christoph, Marco Valentin, Stefan Tex
  • Patent number: 11940980
    Abstract: One example method for predictive clinical planning and design includes instantiating a plurality of data objects, each data object of the plurality of data objects comprising clinical trial information; displaying a graphical user interface on one or more display screens, the graphical user interface providing a graphical representation of at least a portion of a clinical trial and comprising a plurality of graphical nodes; receiving a selection of the second graphical node; receiving, via an editor associated with the second graphical node, a modification of the second data object; propagating an indication of the modification to the first data object, the propagation modifying a clinical trial data item of the first data object; and displaying, within the first graphical node, the modified clinical trial data item of the first data object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: IQVIA Inc.
    Inventors: Donald R. Harder, Daniel D. Siders, Leslie Thomas, Sara L. Zembrodt
  • Patent number: 11914612
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques are disclosed selective synchronization of linked records. A criteria may be received for a primary database that includes records. Records of the primary database may be linked to records of a first instance database. The criteria may include an inclusion of an expression or value in a specified field of a record. Records of the primary database may be determined to meet the criteria by determining that the records of the primary database include the expression or value of the criteria in the specified field. Records of the primary database that meet the criteria may be synchronized with the first instance database. The synchronization of records of the primary database that do not meet the criteria may be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua Siegel, Michael M. Frank, Robert Phillips, Michael Diffenderfer
  • Patent number: 11907191
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing data processing systems are disclosed. A data processing system may include hardware and/or software components. The operation of the data processing system may depend on the operation of these components. To manage the operation of the data processing system, a system may include a data processing system manager. The data processing system manager may obtain logs for components of the data processing system reflecting the historical operation of these components and use the log to predict the future operation of the data processing system, identify similar operation of other data processing systems, and/or for other purposes. Based on the predictions, the data processing system manager may take action to reduce the likelihood of the data processing system becoming impaired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Dale Wang, Min Gong, Ashok Narayanan Potti
  • Patent number: 11880345
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to generating annotations and field-names for a relational schema. Typically, most domains have relational database (RDB) system built for them instead of domain ontologies and usually linguistic information of the schema is not used to recover the domain terms. The disclosed method and system facilitate generating annotations and field-names for a relational schema, while considering the linguistic information of a schema by using a trained model, trained through a proposed training technique. The trained model comprises of at least one knowledge graph and a set of associated parameters. The trained model is further used to perform a plurality of tasks, wherein the plurality of tasks include generating a plurality of new fieldnames for a relational schema through a stochastic generative process and for generating a new annotation for a fieldname of a relational schema through a probabilistic inference technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Atreya Bandyopadhyay, Indrajit Bhattacharya, Rajdip Chowdhury, Debayan Mukherjee
  • Patent number: 11860674
    Abstract: A system and method for efficient query processing using a real index of a queried table are described. In one embodiment, the real index is used in an offset query type in order to reduce the number of rows that are sorted and thereby increases efficiency for processing offset query types. In another embodiment, the real index is used in a set operation query type where existing systems utilize a table scan and thereby increases efficiency of set operation query types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: PROGRESS SOFTWARE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Raja Sekhar Chunduru
  • Patent number: 11860947
    Abstract: Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for deleted data restoration in accordance with one embodiment of the present description, in which in response to a search request having specified search parameters, data of a deleted data unit is located as a function of specified search parameters. In addition, metadata erased as a result of the deletion operation, is restored as a function of the located data. Accordingly, the previously deleted data unit is undeleted and access to the previously deleted data unit is restored via the restored metadata. Other aspects of deleted data restoration in accordance with the present description are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael J. Koester, Kevin L Miner, Raymond E. Garcia, Richard A. Schaeffer
  • Patent number: 11841912
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, processes and interfaces provide for refining a list of search results output by a search tool. In accordance with some embodiments, Natural Language Processing models are utilized to process an initial list of search results and the system is operable to identify additional search results that may be considered unwanted by the user based on input from the user for a sub-set of the search results and a word feature characteristic that the search results reviewed by the user have in common with search results not yet reviewed by the user. In one embodiment, a group search feature provides for facilitating a search involving a plurality of users that resorts a list of search results based on inputs from the plurality of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: TWITTLE SEARCH LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
    Inventor: Alan Mark Reznik
  • Patent number: 11822588
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a computer implemented method for ranking supporting passages in a question answering (QA) system. The method includes the following steps: receiving an input question and a plurality of passages, wherein the plurality of passages are extracted from the document corpus by the QA system; identifying a plurality of candidate answer occurrences from the plurality of passages; assigning a plurality of first local features to each candidate answer occurrence; merging the plurality of candidate answer occurrences to generate a group of candidate answers; assigning a plurality of second local features and a plurality of nonlocal features to each candidate answer; ranking the group of candidate answers using a linear answer scoring model; and ranking the plurality of candidate answer occurrences using the linear answer scoring model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Stephen A. Boxwell, Keith G. Frost, Stanley J. Vernier, Kyle M. Brake
  • Patent number: 11816085
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for programmatic methodologies for determining and providing prior authorization requirements in a way that facilitates inputting information/data, updating information/data, searching information/data, viewing information/data, reporting information/data, and analyzing information/data while being broadly accessible to disparate systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: UnitedHealth Group Incorporated
    Inventors: Frank W. Lilja, Aaron Christopher Wacker, Carl J. Boudreau, Danh Q. Lam
  • Patent number: 11797482
    Abstract: To provide a system having a mechanism for viewing a plurality of electronic documents and adding notes at high speed and for preventing a plurality of users from accessing database files at the same time. The system for organizing document data includes a database program for managing one set of database files provided for each of users, a display program for generating data to visualize a part or all of a table where the one set of database files is described, and a viewer program for displaying the data generated by the display program on a screen of each user terminal. The database program has a function for loading a part or all of the one set of database files into a memory of the user terminal and for having a virtual database in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Inventor: Ryosen Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11789921
    Abstract: A method includes generating, by an asset modification module, a core algorithm for modification of assets. The core algorithm modifies the assets based on time-sensitive and time varying evaluation data and in accordance with user preferences. For an asset of the assets, the method further comprises generating a set of augmented algorithms based on the core algorithm, where the set of augmented algorithms modifies the asset based on asset specific time-sensitive and time varying evaluation data and in accordance with asset specific user preferences. When the asset is selected for modification, the method further includes obtaining current asset specific time-sensitive and time varying evaluation data and selecting an augmented algorithm to process indicators of the current asset specific time-sensitive and time varying evaluation data in light of the asset specific user preferences to determine a modification operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: ImageWorks Interactive
    Inventors: Thomas W. Becker, John Moran, Mike Barrett, Gary W. Grube, Timothy W. Markison
  • Patent number: 11782903
    Abstract: Database writeback using an intermediary statement generator including receiving, by a statement generator, a table update request to update a table within a database on a cloud-based data warehouse, wherein the table update request comprises an update value and a selection of a row and a column from the table; verifying, by the statement generator, that the selection is updatable; generating, by the statement generator based on the selection and in response to the verification, an update database statement comprising a table identifier, a column identifier, a row identifier, and the update value; and sending, by the statement generator, the update database statement to the database on the cloud-based data warehouse, wherein the table of the database is updated in response to receiving the update database statement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: SIGMA COMPUTING, INC.
    Inventors: Robert C. Woollen, Jason D. Frantz, Max H. Seiden
  • Patent number: 11782981
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure disclose a method, apparatus, server, and storage medium for incorporating a structured entity, wherein the method for incorporating a structured entity can comprise: selecting a candidate entity associated with a to-be-incorporated structured entity from a knowledge graph, determining the to-be-incorporated structured entity being an associated entity based on prior attribute information of a category of the candidate entity and a preset model, merging the associated entity and the candidate entity, and incorporating the associated entity into the knowledge graph. The embodiments can select a candidate entity, and then integrate a preset model using prior knowledge, which can effectively improve the efficiency and accuracy in associating entities, and reduce the amount of calculation, to enable the structured entity to be simply and efficiently incorporated into the knowledge graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ye Xu, Zhifan Feng, Chao Lu, Yang Zhang, Zhou Fang, Shu Wang, Yong Zhu, Ying Li
  • Patent number: 11775575
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, apparatuses, and methods for performing searches and displaying results within a messaging application. A computing apparatus, which may include a touch-sensitive display, displays a user interface which includes a messaging application interface and a compact search applet interface encompassing a portion of a messaging application interface. A search applet is executed within the memory allocated to the messaging application or parent application. The search applet accepts user input and displays a set of media elements based on a search query run on the user input. The search results are then displayed by the search applet interface, allowing the user to quickly review the search results and, if desired, integrate media content into a message of the messaging application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Inventor: William McMichael
  • Patent number: 11762884
    Abstract: A relational database system may receive, from a client, a query for a data object of a first type. The system may be configured to store a plurality of data objects of a second type such that each data object of the second type is associated with a respective data table and a respective value of a key prefix of an object identifier field. The key prefix may result in an upper limit of data objects supportable by the system. The system may determine that the query is indicative of the data object of the first type of a plurality of data objects of the first type that share a key prefix value such that the upper limit is exceeded. The system may identify a result based on determining that the query indicates data object of the first type and return a query response that indicates the result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeanine Sirah Walters, Naveen Singh Jaunk, Sahil Bhutani, Chandrakant Yemparala, Raveendrnathan Loganathan
  • Patent number: 11734333
    Abstract: Methods and systems for organizing medical data. For example, a computer-implemented method includes receiving first data of a first data category, the first data having a first data format; extracting a first plurality of attributes from the first data using a first extractor; mapping the first plurality of attributes to an unified data format using a first mapper; receiving second data of a second data category, the second data having a second data format; extracting a second plurality of attributes from the second data using a second extractor; mapping the second plurality of attributes to the unified data format using a second mapper; and building an ontology for a use case by at least linking the first plurality of attributes and the second plurality of attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Arun Innanje, Abhishek Sharma, Terrence Chen
  • Patent number: 11709889
    Abstract: In general, in one aspect, a method includes compiling user interaction statistics for a set of content items displayed in association with a first target media document having a non-textual portion, at least some of the content items associated with one or more keywords, based on the interaction statistics, associating the first target media document with at least some of the keywords associated with the content items, and based on a common attribute of the first target media document and a second target media document having a non-textual portion, associating the second target media document with at least some of the keywords assigned to the first target media document. Other aspects include corresponding systems, apparatus, and computer programs stored on computer storage devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Kai Chen, Steven G. Dropsho, Charles Johan Larsson Tibell, Diego Federici