Patents Examined by Moustafa M. Meky
  • Patent number: 11356339
    Abstract: Various systems and methods for implementing a service-level agreement (SLA) apparatus receive a request from a requester via a network interface of the gateway, the request comprising an inference model identifier that identifies a handler of the request, and a response time indicator. The response time indicator relates to a time within which the request is to be handled indicates an undefined time within which the request is to be handled. The apparatus determines a network location of a handler that is a platform or an inference model to handle the request consistent with the response time indicator, and routes the request to the handler at the network location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Francesc Guim Bernat, Kshitij Arun Doshi, Suraj Prabhakaran, Raghu Kondapalli, Alexander Bachmutsky
  • Patent number: 11349776
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for an electronic device. The method stores user data associated with a web-based third party service based on user interaction with a web domain for the third party service through a web browser. The method receives a request from a service-specific application to utilize the user data stored for the third party service. The method provides the user data to the application only when the application is verified by the web domain for receiving user data associated with the third party service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew R. Whalley, Bob Bradley, Kenneth C. McLeod
  • Patent number: 11349939
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein provide unified policy management framework network functions in enterprise networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Sivanaga Ravi Kumar Chunduru Venkata, Raju Sharma, Manish Srivastava, Susmitha Hymasree Pulakhandam, Kumara B. Tamada, Anuj Dutia, Ramesh Nadella
  • Patent number: 11349943
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for adjusting model threshold levels are disclosed. An example apparatus includes memory; and processor circuitry to execute machine readable instructions to: generate an adjusted count of users by applying an adjustment factor based on volume estimates and an updated total volume target to an absolute count of users; and adjust the model threshold based on the adjusted count of users by: determining a decreased model threshold, the decreased model threshold being less than the model threshold; determining a decreased model total based on lookback model score data, the decreased model total corresponding to a number of users that studies the decreased model threshold; and when a first difference between (A) the decreased model total and (B) adjusted absolute count of users is smaller than a second difference, replacing the model threshold with the decreased model threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventor: Sonya Gierada
  • Patent number: 11349760
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for effectively managing and maintaining a communication network by monitoring communications to detect a loop condition, and effectively route the communication to one or more destinations known to reduce or eliminate the occurrence of a looping condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Chia-Chang Li, Mohamed Barache, Robert Lambardia
  • Patent number: 11343244
    Abstract: A location multi-factor verification method may comprise initiating a boot process of a client device via firmware of the client device, receiving, via a network interface device, an access point (AP) beacon frame identifying a nearby AP, transmitting the AP beacon frame to a location determination service via the network interface device, receiving a geographic location estimation from the location determination service, based on the AP beacon frame, transmitting the geographic location estimation to the nearby AP, and granting a user of the client device access to an operating system of the client device if a boot process authorization instruction is received at the client device via the network interface device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Kamal J. Koshy, Adolfo S. Montero
  • Patent number: 11343158
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture for custom interface specification in a cloud management system are disclosed. An example cloud management system includes: a first interface to communicate with a second interface external to the cloud management system; and a host to manage requests from the second interface and allocate resources to the second interface as a reverse proxy for the second interface with respect to a backend. The example host is to at least: add, at the request of the second interface, an endpoint with respect to the second interface; fetch, at the request of the second interface, data for the endpoint from the backend, the backend identified for the endpoint based on metadata in a component registry; and provide the data from the backend to the second interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Boris Savov, George P. Dimitrov, Ventsyslav Raikov, Rosen Spasov
  • Patent number: 11336531
    Abstract: An embodiment includes a computational instance managing a managed network of computing devices, some communicating by proprietary protocol, and comprising a database storing representations of the computing devices and one or more sets of program logic configured to support the proprietary protocol, as well as one or more server devices configured to: receive, from an edge gateway software application, a request identifying a particular computing device on the managed network that communicates by the proprietary protocol; based on this request, select a set of the program logic configured to support the proprietary protocol; transmit a representation of the program logic, receipt of which is configured to cause the edge gateway software application to execute the set of program logic and obtain thereby configuration and state information from the particular computing device; receive, from the edge gateway software application, the configuration and state information; and store the configuration and state inf
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Bryan Mather Barnard, Silas Andrew Smith, William Michael Lisac, Jerrold Henry Jones, Jonathan Sparks
  • Patent number: 11336573
    Abstract: Techniques for routing data packets through service chains within and between public cloud networks of multi-cloud fabrics. A router in a network, e.g., a public cloud network, receives data packets from nodes in the network through segments of the network. Based at least in part on (i) a source address of the data packet, (ii) a destination address of the data packet, and (iii) an identity of the segments of the network from which the data packets are received, the router determines a next node in the network to which the data packet is to be forwarded. The router may then forward the data packet through another segment of the network to the next node and then receive the data packet from the next node through the another segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajagopalan Janakiraman, Sivakumar Ganapathy, Javed Asghar, Azeem Muhammad Suleman
  • Patent number: 11336586
    Abstract: A method for communicating in real-time to users of a provider of Internet access service, without requiring any installation or set-up by the user, that utilizes the unique identification information automatically provided by the user during communications for identifying the user to provide a fixed identifier which is then communicated to a redirecting device. Messages may then be selectively transmitted to the user. The system is normally transparent to the user, with no modification of its content along the path. Content then may be modified or replaced along the path to the user. For the purposes of establishing a reliable delivery of bulletin messages from providers to their users, the system forces the delivery of specially-composed World Wide Web browser pages to the user, although it is not limited to that type of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: PERFTECH, INC.
    Inventors: Henry M. Donzis, Lewis T. Donzis, Rodney D. Frey, John A. Murphy, Jonathan E. Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11329875
    Abstract: A method of switching from a first gateway within a plurality of first gateways to a second gateway in a network includes precaching configuration information on the second gateway, that is within the first gateways, prior to switch-over to the second gateway. The first gateway from which the second gateway is being switched is identified. The second gateway is configured in accordance with the configuration of the first gateway based on the precached configuration information prior to the switch-over to the second gateway. Data traffic from data applications using the network is replicated and sent to the first gateway and the second gateway. Bandwidths allocated to terminals in the network are frozen in association with the switch-over to the second gateway. The bandwidths allocated to the terminals in the network are unfrozen based at least in part on an indication of completion of the switch-over to the second gateway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventors: David Whitefield, Robert James Torres, John Leonard Border, David Alan Roos, Stanley Edward Kay
  • Patent number: 11328221
    Abstract: A method of text classification includes generating a text embedding vector representing a text sample and applying weights of a regression layer to the text embedding vector to generate a first data model output vector. The method also includes generating a plurality of prototype embedding vectors associated with a respective classification labels and comparing the plurality of prototype embedding vectors to the text embedding vector to generate a second data model output vector. The method further includes assigning a particular classification label to the text sample based on the first data model output vector, the second data model output vector, and one or more weighting values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yang Yu, Ming Tan, Ravi Nair, Haoyu Wang, Saloni Potdar
  • Patent number: 11310140
    Abstract: A network computer system operates to mitigate failures for a network service. The network computer system can generate a data path model for the network service, where the data path model identifies a probabilistic set of expectations with respect to the programs and program sequences which handle service requests for the network service. The data path models can be used to detect, analyze or mitigate service request failures of the network service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: William Andrew Westlin, Edward Joseph Farro
  • Patent number: 11303517
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes: creating a virtualized copy of a mesh network including devices; measuring an unpatched performance metric value for the virtualized copy of each of the devices; applying a first software patch to the virtualized copy of each of the devices; measuring a patched first performance metric value for the virtualized copy of each of the devices; comparing, for each of the devices, the patched performance metric value to the unpatched performance metric value; and preventing the application of the first software patch to a first device of the devices as a result of the comparing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert Huntington Grant, Jacob Covell, Thomas Jefferson Sandridge, Kevin Huang
  • Patent number: 11303648
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for parental controls based on the location of a wireless computing device. Wireless access points may be located in different locations, e.g., in different rooms of a home. The location of the wireless computing device may be determined based on comparing measured signal strengths to baseline signal strengths associated with the location. Information related to an access level associated with the location may be determined. The access level may, for example, permit access to content in a first location, but prevent access to the content in a second location. Content may be provided to the wireless computing device based on the access level associated with the location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Brian James, Bridget Brennan, Steven Leardi
  • Patent number: 11296933
    Abstract: A system may be configured to perform enhanced detection of occluded objects in a multiple object detection system. In some aspects, the system may transmit, by an application to an internet of things (IoT) device, an actual representational state transfer (REST) request including a parameter and an application authentication credential for authenticating to the IoT device, determine, based on an expected REST response to the actual REST request, one or more conditional parameters for configuring the IoT device, transmit, without waiting for the expected REST response, a predictive REST request including the one or more conditional parameters, and receive an actual response indicating success of the configuring the IoT device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics, LLC
    Inventor: Rolando Herrero
  • Patent number: 11296908
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for an Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) Virtual Private Wire Service (VPWS) network with service interface-aware forwarding. In one example, a first network device signals to a second network device, using EVPN route advertisements, a multi-service service tunnel to transport network packets for a plurality of services. The services are identifiable by virtual local area network (VLAN) identifiers in the packets. The first network device is configured with a single transport interface for the service tunnel and the single transport interface is configured with respective service interfaces for the services. The first network device detects failure of a failed service interface of the service interfaces and outputs, in response to the failure, an EVPN route withdrawal message for the service tunnel that identifies the service corresponding to the failed service interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Wen Lin, Pankaj Kumar Gupta, Babu Singarayan, Sharmila Koppula, Manish Gupta, Kapil Arora
  • Patent number: 11290390
    Abstract: An example method for lockless communications network resource quota sharing occurs at a first charging node of a distributed charging system comprising multiple charging nodes. The example method comprises: receiving, from a requesting entity, a first communications network resource quota request for requesting a first resource amount from the shared resources plan; without confirming that the shared resources plan has enough available resources to allot the first resource amount, providing, to the requesting entity, a first communications network resource quota for the first member, wherein the first communications network resource quota indicates a second resource amount less than the first resource amount and/or wherein the first communications network resource quota is associated with a validity time indicating when the first communications network resource quota expires; and sending, to a second charging node, a first resource reservation request for reserving resources of the shared resources plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Debdulal Dey
  • Patent number: 11290562
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of performing group management in a machine-to-machine (M2M) system. Herein, the group management method may include controlling a group member included in a group based on a group resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joon Young Kim, Young Jin Na, Min Byeong Lee, Jae Seung Song
  • Patent number: 11290500
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a method S100 and a device for correlating in a Lawful Intercept Mediation system, LIMS, received Intercept Related Information, IRI, and, Communications Content, CC, data packets of a 5 targets lawfully intercepted session for deliverance over HI2 and HI3 interfaces, respectively, by means of a session-specific Correlation Identification Number, CIN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Francesca Marfia, Francesco Toro, Vincenzo Cuniato, Dario De Vito