Patents Examined by Phuong-Thao Cao
  • Patent number: 10929392
    Abstract: Generally described, one or more aspects of the present application correspond to machine learning techniques for generating realistic question-answer (QA) pairs for populating an initial community ask feature of electronic store item detail pages. The machine learning model can use a shared encoder to generate an embedding of a seed sentence from existing description of an item, and then pass that embedding to a question decoder to generate a question. The embedding of the seed sentence can be combined with a state representation of the question and provided to an answer decoder, which can generate an answer to the generated question. This can help overcome the cold start problem, where customers are less likely to ask questions about items that have no existing QA set. This can also help surface relevant information about items in a concise QA format that is easy for customers to find and read.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Weiwei Cheng
  • Patent number: 10922366
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for crawling and extracting main content from a web page is provided. The present invention may include retrieving a HTML document associated with a web page. The present invention may then include identifying at least one entry point located in the retrieved HTML document by utilizing a self-adaptive entry point locator. The present invention may also include extracting a main content article associated with the retrieved HTML document based on the identified at least one entry point. The present invention may further include presenting the extracted main content associated with the retrieved HTML document to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Chen-Yu Huang, Sheng-Wei Lee, June-Ray Lin, Ci-Hao Wu, Hsieh-Lung Yang, Ying-Chen Yu
  • Patent number: 10902398
    Abstract: Technologies and implementations for collecting feedback related to the occurrence of transactions are generally disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Inventors: Andrey Kechik, Vitaliy Kechik, Charles Wert, Christopher Wayt
  • Patent number: 10901957
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of retrieving, into a corrupted node in a blockchain network that is at least one corrupted or forked, a state database checkpoint of a state database created at a block number of a blockchain of the blockchain network, wherein the retrieved state database checkpoint comprises a last known non-corrupted or non-forked checkpoint state, retrieving, into the corrupted node, blocks of the blockchain from the checkpoint block number to a current block number, constructing an initial state database from the retrieved state database checkpoint, and executing, at the corrupted node, the transactions of the retrieved blocks on the initial state database to generate a current state database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Senthilnathan Natarajan, Chander Govindarajan, Manish Sethi, Adarsh Saraf
  • Patent number: 10896212
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure provide for extraction data from one or more repositories in response to an electronic search order including a text-based input string, a list of jurisdictions, and a list of international classes. Conditional logic of one or more rules is executed to process the search order, and the search order is transformed into one or more queries based on execution of the conditional logic of the one or more rules. A set of data is retrieved from the one or more repositories using the one or more queries to generate search results, where the set of trademarks retrieved can be limited to the list of jurisdictions and the list of international classes identified in the search order. At least a portion of the search results are transmitted to a user computing device to be rendered in a graphical user interface of a display device associated with the user computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Camelot UK Bidco Limited
    Inventors: Peter Keyngnaert, Jan Waerniers, Ann Smet, Christoph Liekens, Jan Schietse
  • Patent number: 10891338
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for providing information. A given document that includes structured information (e.g., properties, attribute-value pairs, etc.) and/or unstructured information (e.g., narratives, blobs of text, etc.) may be accessed. Connections between the document and other documents may be determined based on the structured information. Connections between the document and other objects may be determined based on the structured information. The unstructured information may be formatted into formatted information. Formatting of the unstructured information may facilitate users' comprehension/utilization of the information. An interface (e.g., user interface, API) enabling presentation of (1) the formatted information and (2) the connections of the document may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Mark, Ashley Einspahr, Andrew Elder, Daniel Cervelli, Ryan Beiermeister, Sharon Hao
  • Patent number: 10891262
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for compressing shipping data are provided. Origin/destination location code pairs are arranged, compressed, and de-duplicated to provide data files that can be processed and updated efficiently regardless of the number of location codes used or updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: QUADIENT TECHNOLOGIES FRANCE
    Inventor: Jeff Goeters
  • Patent number: 10885049
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for generating a user interface to enable identification of one or more pivot identifiers and one or more step identifiers. The system executes a query on events having raw machine data associated with a timestamp and obtains fields associated with the events. The system further populates a graphical user interface with field identifiers associated with the obtained fields and enables identification of one or more fields as one or more pivot identifiers and one or more step identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Joerg Beringer, Isabelle Park, Joshua Walters, Eric Tschetter, Simon Fishel
  • Patent number: 10877881
    Abstract: A log unit provides a shared log for recording updates on data objects. Garbage collection is performed locally and in-place by the log unit. In a marking portion of the garbage collection process, the log unit identifies and marks log entries that record mergeable updates. In a deallocation portion of the process, the log unit merges one or more mergeable log entries and deallocates at least portions of the merged log entries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Wei, Maithem Munshed, Anny Martinez Manzanilla, Zeeshan Altaf Lokhandwala, Saeed A Behnam, Medhavi Dhawan, Dahlia Malkhi
  • Patent number: 10878019
    Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to a system configured to receive, from a first client device, application data generated from the execution, by the first client device, of third-party application code embedded within a content item managed by a content management system, wherein the first client device is associated with a first user account of the content management system. The system is further configured to store, at the content management system, the application data as metadata associated with the content item and transmit, based on the received application data, a notification to a second client device associated with a second user account of the content management system with access to the content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Embiricos, Matt Broussard, Willy Wu, Jennifer Lee, Igor Kofman, AJ Palkovic
  • Patent number: 10866928
    Abstract: Methods, non-transitory machine readable media, and computing devices that compare a hash value to a predefined value for sliding windows in parallel for segments partitioned from an input data stream. A bit array is parsed according to minimum and maximum chunk sizes to identify chunk boundaries for the input data stream. The bit array is populated based on a result of the comparison and portions of the bit array are parsed in parallel. Unique chunks of the input data stream defined by the chunk boundaries are stored in a storage device. Accordingly, this technology utilizes parallel processing in two stages. In a first stage, rolling window based hashing is performed concurrently to identify potential chunk boundaries. In a second stage, actual chunk boundaries are selected based on minimum and maximum chunk size constraints. This technology advantageously facilitates significant deduplication ratio improvement as well as improved parallel chunking performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: NETAPP, INC.
    Inventors: Xing Lin, Fan Ni
  • Patent number: 10853243
    Abstract: A method for extending data lifetime for reference in deduplication is provided. The method includes determining that a quantity of user data has at least a threshold amount of data that is re-created in a storage system. The method includes protecting at least portions of the quantity of user data from erasure by garbage collection in the storage system during a predetermined time interval, wherein the protected at least portions are available for data deduplication of further user data in the storage system during the predetermined time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Pure Storage, Inc.
    Inventor: John D. Davis
  • Patent number: 10839009
    Abstract: A method for analyzing time series data to identify an event of interest is provided. The method includes receiving, at a computing device, time series data that includes the event of interest, identifying, using the computing device, a start time of the event of interest and an end time of the event of interest by modeling at least one transitional pattern in the time series data, and categorizing, using the computing device, the event of interest based on the at least one transitional pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: SMITHS DETECTION INC.
    Inventors: Jixu Chen, Peter Henry Tu, Ming-Ching Chang, Yelin Kim, Siwei Lyu
  • Patent number: 10838915
    Abstract: A method, system and computer readable program are disclosed for managing data in a computing network. In an embodiment, the invention provides a method comprising obtaining specified data from a database in the computing network, aggregating the specified data in a defined data structure stored in the computing network, and specifying in the data structure properties over the data aggregated in the data structure. In an embodiment, a plurality of services in the computing network use the data in the data structure in accordance with the properties specified in the data structure. In an embodiment, one or more of the services modifies one or more of the properties specified in the data structure based on a transformation by the one or more of the services of the data aggregated in the data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Omer Tripp, Pietro Ferrara, David Lubensky, Marco Pistoia
  • Patent number: 10831170
    Abstract: An item for designating a time stamp accuracy is added to an inquiry syntax of a query. At the time of table coupling, a query designating the desired accuracy in the item is transmitted. This query is analyzed by a query parser, and individual queries are created for each database targeted for inquiry and transmitted. At the time of coupling acquired tables, the number of digits of the time stamps is adjusted to be the same in accordance with the designated accuracy, and the tables are coupled in chronological order of the time stamps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Shinsuke Kawanoue
  • Patent number: 10824343
    Abstract: Techniques are described for managing access of executing programs to non-local block data storage. In some situations, a block data storage service uses multiple server storage systems to reliably store network-accessible block data storage volumes that may be used by programs executing on other physical computing systems. A group of multiple server block data storage systems that store block data volumes may in some situations be co-located at a data center, and programs that use volumes stored there may execute on other physical computing systems at that data center. If a program using a volume becomes unavailable, another program (e.g., another copy of the same program) may in some situations obtain access to and continue to use the same volume, such as in an automatic manner in some such situations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Roland Paterson-Jones, Peter N. DeSantis, Atle Normann Jorgensen, Matthew S. Garman, Tate Andrew Certain
  • Patent number: 10803087
    Abstract: Adaptive data collections may include various type of data arrays, sets, bags, maps, and other data structures. A simple interface for each adaptive collection may provide access via a unified API to adaptive implementations of the collection. A single adaptive data collection may include multiple, different adaptive implementations. A system configured to implement adaptive data collections may include the ability to adaptively select between various implementations, either manually or automatically, and to map a given workload to differing hardware configurations. Additionally, hardware resource needs of different configurations may be predicted from a small number of workload measurements. Adaptive data collections may provide language interoperability, such as by leveraging runtime compilation to build adaptive data collections and to compile and optimize implementation code and user code together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Iraklis Psaroudakis, Stefan Kaestle, Daniel J. Goodman, Jean-Pierre Lozi, Matthias Grimmer, Timothy L. Harris
  • Patent number: 10789244
    Abstract: This specification describes techniques for managing assets in a blockchain. One example method includes receiving, from a target user recorded in a distributed database of a blockchain network, a user input including a request to perform a contract operation on asset objects including digital assets corresponding to physical assets associated with the target user, in response to receiving the request, generating an asset container as an operation target of the contract operation, the asset container recording field information of the asset objects, generating an asset container group by dividing the asset container into the asset container group based on an association relationship between the asset objects, wherein the association relationship defines correspondences between each asset container in the asset container group and at least one other asset container in the asset container group, and performing the contract operation on the asset container group using a contract object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventor: Xuebing Yan
  • Patent number: 10789255
    Abstract: For presenting data chunks for a working memory event, a processor detects a trigger policy for a working memory event being satisfied by raw data from a sensor. The trigger policy is based on user attention. The processor further categorizes a data chunk for the working memory event from the raw data. The processor detects a query policy being satisfied by a query from subsequent raw data. In response to the query policy being satisfied, the processor identifies the data chunk based on the query. The processor further presents the data chunk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Ming Qian, John Weldon Nicholson, David Alexander Schwarz, Song Wang
  • Patent number: 10789288
    Abstract: Various aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and machine-readable media for relational image querying. A system may receive a search query for content from a client device, where the query specifies one or more objects and one or more spatial relationships between the one or more objects. The system may generate a query vector for the query using a computer-operated neural language model. The system may compare the query vector to an indexed vector for each of the one or more spatial relationships between the one or more objects of an image. The system may determine a listing of relational images from a collection of images based on the comparison. The system may determine a ranking for each image in the listing of relational images, and provide search results responsive to the search query to the client device, which may include a prioritized listing of the relational images based on the determined ranking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Shutterstock, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Steven Ranzinger