Patents Examined by Nicholas R. Taylor
  • Patent number: 11494993
    Abstract: System integrating content in real-time into dynamic 3D scene includes external server including CMS, a device including content integrating engine to process in real-time 3D scenes, and display device to display combined 3D scene output. CMS searches for social media posts on social media servers. Social media posts includes message and URL to media content. Content integrating engine includes content retriever, content queue, 3D scene component processors to process each 3D scene's visual components, scene manager and combiner. Content retriever establishes direct connection to external server, and retrieves URLs from server storage and stores URLs in content queue. Scene manager, at time of low intensity during 3D scene, signals to content retriever to retrieve media content corresponding to URLs in content queue, one scene component processor to process display setting change, or another scene component processor to process media content. Combiner to generate combined 3D scene output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Famous Group Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Gregory Lawrence Harvey
  • Patent number: 11496374
    Abstract: A method samples a stream of data items. Each data item has an associated timestamp. The method assigns a priority value to each data item. Each data item is represented as a point on a two-dimensional graph whose axes are time and priority. A sliding window covers a predetermined length of time tspan and uses a backward probability decay curve to specify what priority values are included in the sliding window. This defines, for a current time tc, a current data sample consisting of data items whose timestamps t fall within the time span tc?tspan?t?tc and have priority values below the decay curve. The data sample is stored in a buffer. The process iteratively moves the sliding window forward by a time increment, creating a provisional data sample. When the size of the provisional data sample is too large or too small, the process scales the decay curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: TABLEAU SOFTWARE, INC.
    Inventor: Daniel Ting
  • Patent number: 11483396
    Abstract: Examples described herein may include a playback device receiving, from a control device, a validation-key that includes an application identifier corresponding to a controller application. The playback device may create a session identifier and transmit the session identifier to the control device. The playback device may receive, from the control device, a playback request comprising the session identifier and a playback command. The playback device may determine that the session identifier is valid and then execute the playback command. A computing system may receive identification information related to a controller application and generate the validation-key based on the controller application meeting at least one quality-control metric. The controller application may receive the validation-key from the computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew Schulert
  • Patent number: 11483207
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a device classification service obtains traffic telemetry data for a plurality of devices in a network. The service applies clustering to the traffic telemetry data, to form device clusters. The service generates a device classification rule based on a particular one of the device clusters. The service receives feedback from a user interface regarding the device classification rule. The service adjusts the device classification rule based on the received feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: David Tedaldi, Grégory Mermoud, Pierre-André Savalle, Jean-Philippe Vasseur
  • Patent number: 11477512
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an indication that a user of the social-networking system watched at least a portion of a program, determining that the user intended to watch the program, and generating a story in response to the determination. The story is published to the social-networking system a predetermined amount of time after receiving the indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS, INC.
    Inventor: Erick Tseng
  • Patent number: 11477209
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory. The processing device is configured to receive from a requester a request to modify a parameter of an access-controlled account associated with a set of sensor devices. Responsive to receipt of the request, the processing device initiates at least one instance of a proof of physical presence protocol, the proof of physical presence protocol requiring performance by the requester of at least one action involving at least one sensor device of the set of sensor devices associated with the access-controlled account. Responsive to successful completion of at least one instance of the proof of physical presence protocol, the processing device sends at least one notification to each of one or more registered users of the access-controlled account. The processing device approves or rejects the request based at least in part on at least one of a number and a type of responses to the one or more notifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Amber Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventor: Bjorn Markus Jakobsson
  • Patent number: 11474804
    Abstract: A method including receiving, from a device management element or function of at least one transport and/or access device or function installed at a predefined location for which a local control is to be conducted, and storing device or function related data, forwarding the stored device or function related data to a centralized control element or function, receiving, from the centralized control element or function, and processing instruction data for the at least one transport and/or access device or function, and conducting a local device or function management control procedure for the at least one transport and/or access device or function according to a result of the processing of the instruction data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Kone Corporation
    Inventor: Ari Koivisto
  • Patent number: 11470184
    Abstract: Constraint based command invocations are dynamically queued in a cloud queue such that aspects of remote user devices may be remotely controlled with reduced exposure to inconvenient remotely issued commands. By monitoring conditions that may trigger command invocations, verifying rules of associated constraints prior to queuing command invocations, evaluating parameters to prioritize command invocations in a dynamic issuing order within cloud queue, examining factors and reverifying previously verified rules when determining whether to transmit a command from an command invocation located at a transmission position of the cloud queue, systems and methods herein provide a constrained environment within which user devices may be remotely controlled relatively free from unexpected cloud caused encumbrances during inopportune moments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Arun R. Mannengal, Madhavan Kesavan, Tanmay D. Bhagwat
  • Patent number: 11469978
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of a network monitoring device for a supercomputer system having a plurality of supercomputer nodes. The network monitoring device may utilize plug-in software modules to provide network monitoring capabilities related to discovering the network topologies of the supercomputer system, determining network and computing resources that are available for new applications in the supercomputer system, collecting network and computing resources that are being used by running software applications in the supercomputer system, and monitoring running software applications on the supercomputer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: ARCHITECTURE TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Maher Kaddoura
  • Patent number: 11463327
    Abstract: Provided are a commerce characteristic data reporting method and device, network slice arrangement method and device, storage medium, the method comprising: receiving software commerce characteristic data of a virtual network function (VNF) sent by a virtual net-work function manager (VNFM), and receiving resource commerce characteristic data of the VNF sent by a virtual infrastructure manager (VIM); obtaining commerce characteristic data of the VNF according to the software commerce characteristic data and resource commerce characteristic data; and reporting the commerce characteristic data of the VNF to a slice arrangement system, wherein the commerce characteristic data of the VNF is used in the slice arrangement system to arrange network slices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qihua Chen, Liyang Zhao, Changcheng Zhong
  • Patent number: 11457099
    Abstract: Architectures and techniques for hybrid network communications. Data is received from a remote end device via a first wireless interface and according to a first communications protocol. Data is received from a remote client device via a second wireless interface and according to a second communications protocol. At least a portion of the data from the remote end device is translated to a data format according to a first network protocol. Transmitting the translated data to a network coordinator entity via a wired interface and according to the second communications protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Berend Dunsbergen, Peter Charles Mytton Thornycroft, Jian Dong
  • Patent number: 11445002
    Abstract: A computing system may include a server, and a client computing device in communication with the server. The server may be configured to provide a corresponding virtual desktop instance for the client computing device. The computing system may include a local device to be coupled to a given client computing device and to be operable in a given virtual desktop instance associated with the given client computing device, thereby generating client initialization packets. The server may be configured to generate a server mapping table. The given client computing device may be configured to generate a client mapping table, replace a client packet with a client mapping ID number to define compressed client initialization packets, and send the compressed client initialization packets to the server. The server may be configured to replace the client mapping ID number with the client packet in the compressed client initialization packets based upon the server mapping table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: CITRIX SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Shashidhar Ramareddy, Georgy Momchilov, Ankur Mittal
  • Patent number: 11436611
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses may be used to create a property archivist that can enable automated customer service, in which an electronic inventory may be automatically generated and used to assist in resolving customer service needs. In an example, an apparatus may include a processor and a memory coupled with the processor that effectuates operations. The operations may include detecting a product; based on the detection, adding the product to a property archive, wherein the property archive comprises a profile for plurality of products at a location; obtaining an indication of a problem with the product; based on the detected problem, initiating a service request for the product; automatically diagnosing the problem to determine a resolution; and based on the determined resolution, automatically purchasing a part of the product and shipping the part for the product to a location of the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert Koch, Nikhil Marathe, James Pratt, Ari Craine, Eric Zavesky, Timothy Innes, Nigel Bradley
  • Patent number: 11431603
    Abstract: Techniques for dynamically cloning application infrastructures are provided. In one embodiment, a computer system can monitor one or more metrics pertaining to an infrastructure for an application at a first site. If the one or more metrics exceed or fall below one or more corresponding thresholds, the computer system can clone the infrastructure at a second site distinct from the first site, thereby enabling the application to be hosted at the second site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited
    Inventors: Jeffrey P. Hartley, Atul Gosain
  • Patent number: 11431770
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a multi-user instant messaging method performed by a server. The method includes: obtaining a first quantity of first multimedia data streams; merging the first quantity of first multimedia data streams into a second quantity of second multimedia data streams, the second quantity being less than the first quantity; and transmitting the second quantity of second multimedia data streams to a recipient terminal, wherein the recipient terminal presents the corresponding second multimedia data streams. Embodiments of the present disclosure can improve the compatibility with recipient terminals in a multi-user instant messaging process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Liuwen Huang
  • Patent number: 11431659
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computing systems are provided for bot messaging. In an implementation, a method may include one or more of receiving, by a group messaging service coupled to the internet and a group including one or more user nodes, a message including a message address and a first group identifier, determining that the group includes a bot, the bot including a software application for performing one or more tasks over the internet. The method also includes determining whether the bot is a user bot responsive to one user node in the group or a group bot responsive to each of the one or more user nodes. In response to determining the bot is a group bot, the method also includes identifying that the message address corresponds to the group bot and sending, by the group messaging service, the message to the group bot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Orion Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Jesse Robbins, Greg Albrecht, Ellen Juhlin
  • Patent number: 11431606
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for generating a test traffic configuration for testing a first network. From a second network, the method receives a set of data streams representing data traffic observed in the second network. The method uses a machine learning engine to analyze the set of data streams in order to determine traffic patterns in the second network. The method generates the test traffic configuration for testing the first network by replicating the traffic patterns of the second network in the first network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Sudarshana Kandachar Sridhara Rao, Aravindhan K, Srinivasa Srikanth Podila, Tathagat Priyadarshi, Raghav Kempanna, Rajagopal Sreenivasan, Vipin Padmam Ramesh
  • Patent number: 11425082
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes sending, to a client system of a first user, a notification for presentation to the first user. The notification may include a reference to a media-content item and an activatable element for accessing the media-content item. A user input selecting the activatable element may be received. Responsive to the user input, a list of proximate media-player devices to the client system may be determined. The list of proximate media-player devices may be sent to the client system for presentation to the first user. Each of the proximate media-player devices may correspond to a deep link being selectable by the first user. Each deep link may include instructions for presenting the media-content item on a display device coupled to the respective media-player device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Francislav Penov, Mateusz Marek Niewczas
  • Patent number: 11425135
    Abstract: Provided is a platform user management method using a badge system performed by a computing device. The method comprises granting a badge generation permission to a first user account, generating a first badge according to a request for using the badge generation permission of the first user account, granting the first badge to the second user account and activating a first permission to a second user account when the first badge is equipped to the second user account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Inventor: Sang Hyun Shin
  • Patent number: 11425024
    Abstract: Provided is a machine-implemented method for operating a device in a network, comprising entering the device into a non-router membership relation with a self-organizing subnet of the network; receiving at least one message making known parameters of the subnet, the at least one message comprising a centrally-generated and propagated sequence number; detecting, based on the received at least one message comprising a sequence number, a deterioration in propagation of said at least one message; and responsive to the detecting, entering the device into a router membership relation with the self-organizing subnet of the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventors: Deepak Venugopal, Arto Juhani Kinnunen, Mika Antero Tervonen