Patents Examined by Ranjan Pant
  • Patent number: 11411797
    Abstract: A first control device obtains status indications of managed devices by using a first management protocol; the first control device stores the status indications and original device identifiers, of the managed devices, corresponding to the status indications; the first control device receives a request message sent by a second control device by using a second management protocol; the first control device extracts a status indication, where the extracted status indication is a status indication of a managed device identified by a virtual device identifier in the request message; and the first control device sends the extracted status indication to the second control device by using the second management protocol. The second control device manages the managed devices via the first control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pinping Liu, Yanfei Ye
  • Patent number: 11411894
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus related to identifying one or more messages sent by a user, identifying two or more contacts that are associated with one or more of the messages, determining a strength of relationship score between identified contacts, and utilizing the strength of relationship scores to provide additional information related to the contacts. A strength of relationship score between a contact and one or more other contacts may be determined based on one or more properties of one or more of the messages. In some implementations, contacts groups may be determined based on the strength of relationship scores. In some implementations, contacts groups may be utilized to disambiguate references to contacts in messages. In some implementations, contacts group may be utilized to provide suggestions to the user of additional contacts of a contacts group that includes the indicated recipient contact of a message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Tomkins, Shanmugasundaram Ravikumar, Shalini Agarwal, MyLinh Yang, Bo Pang, Mark Yinan Li
  • Patent number: 11374809
    Abstract: The present invention provides a removable device, adapted to connect to a head unit of a vehicle and comprising: a first communication module configured for bi-directional communication of data with the head unit; a second communication module configured for bi-directional communication of data with a wireless network, in particular a mobile telecommunication network; a memory unit storing an application programming interface (API) implementing at least a first protocol for the communication with the head unit via the first communication module; and a control unit comprising at least one processing unit adapted to execute the API; wherein the control unit is configured to provide at least one service to the head unit via the first communication module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: HARMAN BECKER AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GMBH
    Inventors: Christian Hort, Andreas Huber, Herbert Vogt, Vishnu Sundaram, David Slump, Stephen L. Surhigh
  • Patent number: 11356340
    Abstract: Examples of an apparatus and method for provisioning a service are described. Descriptors are described that represent the service. These are accessed and used to determine a reference required to implement the service. The reference indicates a type of entity and an entity to be passed to a function. The descriptor for the service is instantiated to obtain an instance of the service. This includes obtaining an instance of the type of entity indicated by the reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventor: Peter Michael Bruun
  • Patent number: 11349960
    Abstract: A method performed by a computing system comprises accessing group subscription data that is associated with a user and identifies a plurality of different groups, each group being hosted by a corresponding client system. The group subscription data indicates that the user is subscribed to receive resource updates from the plurality of different groups. An aggregated set of resource updates is generated by aggregating resource updates associated with resources in the plurality of different groups. An integrated view renders the aggregated set of resource updates and includes an action user input mechanism representing a computing action to be performed in a corresponding one of the groups associated with at least one resource update. Based on user actuation of the action user input mechanism, a machine instruction instructs the client system, that hosts the corresponding group, to perform the computing action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Alfons A. Staerk, Shashi R. Singaravel, Sarat Chandra Subramaniam, Ladislau Conceicao, James C. Kleewein, Amit Gupta
  • Patent number: 11334382
    Abstract: Technologies for batching requests in an edge infrastructure include a compute device including circuitry configured to obtain a request for an operation to be performed at an edge location. The circuitry is also configured to determine, as a function of a parameter of the obtained request, a batch that the obtained request is to be assigned to. The batch includes a one or more requests for operations to be performed at an edge location. The circuitry is also configured to assign the batch to a cloudlet at an edge location. The cloudlet includes a set of resources usable to execute the operations requested in the batch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Francesc Guim Bernat, Kshitij Doshi, Suraj Prabhakaran, Ned M. Smith
  • Patent number: 11323338
    Abstract: A first device verification model is sent to a first agent on a first device providing at least a portion of the service. The first agent is able to monitor based on the first device verification model a parameter of the first device related to the service. A second device verification model is sent to a second agent on a second device providing at least a portion of the service, wherein the second agent is able to monitor based on the second device verification model a parameter of the second device related to the service. A report is received from the first agent of at least the parameter of the first device. A report is received from the second agent of at least the parameter of the second device. At least the parameter of the first device and at least the parameter of the second device are analyzed to determine whether the service is functioning as intended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Apstra, Inc.
    Inventors: Mansour Jad Karam, Aleksandar Luka Ratkovic, Chi Fung Michael Chan
  • Patent number: 11323517
    Abstract: An internet of things aggregator system includes a management system. The management system being configured to connect to and exchange data with at least one wireless network, at least one Internet of things device, a functional system, and a third party enterprise. The management system is configured to implement a certification system, a connectivity system, a coding system, a billing system, and a unified policy control system. The disclosure is also directed to an internet of things aggregator process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: TRACFONE WIRELESS, INC.
    Inventor: Zhong Yang
  • Patent number: 11310125
    Abstract: Systems and methods for adaptive TCA threshold management are described. A technique can include receiving threshold crossing alert (TCA) data including operational TCA data, determining a TCA prediction trigger based on a current threshold, matching, in response to determining the TCA prediction trigger, the operational TCA data to a pattern from a TCA pattern bank, and calculating a predicted TCA threshold based on the pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Wen-Jui Li, Tsong-Ho Wu, Jun-Min Liu
  • Patent number: 11310127
    Abstract: Examples of an apparatus and method for provisioning a service are described. Descriptors are described that represent the service. These are accessed and used to determine a reference required to implement the service. The reference indicates a type of entity and an entity to be passed to a function. The descriptor for the service is instantiated to obtain an instance of the service. This includes obtaining an instance of the type of entity indicated by the reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventor: Peter Michael Bruun
  • Patent number: 11290341
    Abstract: An example framework and method facilitate enhancing resiliency of a computing environment. The example method includes dynamically discovering or accessing first status information related to a first metric associated with a first resource of the computing environment; selectively sharing the first status information among one or more computing environment resources, including the first resource, resulting in shared status information; and using the shared status information to selectively initiate one or more responses by the one or more resources in accordance with the shared status information. In a specific implementation, metrics managers may manage metrics and initiate remediation actions when certain criteria are met; the resources can selectively quiesce or unquiesce when the certain criteria are met or when their status changes accordingly; and a resiliency manager may coordinate communications between metrics managers and computing resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventor: Philippe Le Mouel
  • Patent number: 11282032
    Abstract: A user having multiple electronic devices may receive notifications at each of the devices. When it is determined that a first device is in an active state and that a notification has been viewed on that device, an indication that the notification has been viewed may be communicated by the first device to a synchronization server. It may then be determined whether the viewed notification is also present on one or more of the user's other devices. Based on the determination, an indication that the notification has been viewed may be sent from the synchronization server to each of the user's devices on which the notification is present. Upon receipt of the indication from the synchronization server, the viewed notification may be removed from each of the devices, thereby avoiding a redundant display of the notification on multiple devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Imran Chaudhri, Stephen Lemay, Elizabeth Caroline Furches Cranfill, Ron Huang
  • Patent number: 11233867
    Abstract: A method, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and a proxy device. The method includes receiving, by a proxy device, a request to access a first web resource of a plurality of web resources; modifying a received response to include at least a messaging handler, wherein the response corresponds to the received request; returning the modified response with the messaging handler to a client device, wherein the messaging handler causes establishment of a communication channel between the client device and a notification server; and providing the notification server with at least one notification, wherein the notification server immediately pushes the at least one notification to the client device over the communication channel, wherein the at least one notification is related to at least the first web resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Avihai Berkovitz, Vitaly Khait
  • Patent number: 11228494
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to sharing policy and configuration information related to a configuration item (CI). In an example, a configuration item coupled to a network fabric that is managed via a first management platform may be identified. The configuration item may be managed via a second management platform. A policy associated with the CI may be determined from the second management platform. Configuration information related to the policy may be determined from the second management platform. The policy and the configuration information related to the policy may be stored. The policy and the configuration information related to the policy may be shared with first management platform, wherein the policy and the configuration information related to the policy may be useable to define configuration information for a configuration item managed via first management platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Harish B Kamath, Sudhir Senguttuvan, Supreeth Shadakshara Deva, Gaurav Kumar
  • Patent number: 11216829
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing online content include evaluating a custom selection rule specified by a content provider. The custom selection rule may be used to control whether content from the provider is eligible for selection by a content selection service. The content selection rule may include one or more logical operators, a selected interest category and/or a selected list of one or more client identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ting Liu, Zhengzhu Feng, Zhongyi Lin
  • Patent number: 11178193
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for determining feature unavailability are disclosed. In the method and apparatus a user device attempts to communicate with a second server over a second network path whereby the communication may be blocked. The user device receives data from a first server over a first network path whereby the data indicates that communication using the second network path may be blocked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Jonathan Brian Word
  • Patent number: 11178204
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide video content having enhanced color spaces and/or bit-depths, but are not so limited. A system includes a video processor and video processing instructions to transform portions of a video content item from a first color space and/or bit-depth to a second color space and/or bit-depth. A method transforms portions of a video content item from a first color space and/or bit-depth to a second color space and/or bit-depth when delivering the video content item to a display device. A computer-readable storage medium or device stores executable instructions that transform portions of a video content item from a first color space and/or bit-depth to a second color space and/or bit-depth after receiving a request to display the video content item on a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: COX COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Yousef Wasef Nijim, James Alan Strothmann, Jay Paul Langa
  • Patent number: 11159475
    Abstract: Processing electronic mail includes receiving an electronic mail having a read receipt request and determining, using a processor, that the electronic mail includes a read receipt distribution list. The read receipt distribution list specifies at least one sender-defined user including a subset of at least one recipient of the electronic mail. Using the processor, a read receipt is sent to the sender of the electronic mail and to each user specified on the read receipt distribution list responsive to detecting an opening of the electronic mail by at least one recipient of the electronic mail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Itzhack Goldberg, Bruce A. Kahn, Boaz Mizrachi
  • Patent number: 11146413
    Abstract: A method and computing system for receiving, using one or more computing devices, a discrete video stream from each of a plurality of users of a social network, resulting in a plurality of discrete video streams. A synchronous communication session is provided for the plurality of users based, at least in part, upon the plurality of discrete video streams. The plurality of discrete video streams are broadcast to one or more broadcast recipients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Matthew J. Leske, Loren Groves
  • Patent number: 11146648
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for managing notifications directed to multiple applications installed on a user device are provided. In some embodiments, a method for managing notifications is provided, the method comprising: receiving, using a hardware processor, a first notification for a first application; determining a first user device associated with the first application; receiving a second notification for a second application; determining a second user device associated with the second application; determining that the first user device and the second user device are the same device; determining that the first notification and the second notification are corresponding notifications; determining that the first notification has priority over the second notification; sending the first notification to the first user device upon determining that the first notification has priority over the second notification; and inhibiting the second notification from being sent to the first user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Justin Lewis, Joseph Daverin