Patents Examined by Rezwanul Mahmood
  • Patent number: 11573995
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention disclose a method for detecting textual inputs of a user of a social media application and derives personality characteristic insights of a user. The method includes one or more processors identifying a textual data entry to an interactive internet-based application. The method further includes determining a tone of the textual data entry. The method further includes identifying a posting account corresponding to the textual data entry. The method further includes generating a personality profile corresponding to the posting account based on the textual data entry associated with the posting account. The method further includes determining a context of the textual data entry based on semantic features of the textual data entry. The method further includes classifying the personality profile corresponding to the posting account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jesus Gabriel Trillo Vargas, Adolfo Mendez Morales, Juan Manuel Avalos Vega, Alejandro Moreno Lopez
  • Patent number: 11562040
    Abstract: A method and system for generating a location identifier using a location code and a grid coordinate. The location code corresponds to a defined geographical area, such as a postal code or an area code. A grid coordinate can be determined based on destination location information, such as an address, a GPS-determined position, or other reference to a specific physical location. The location identifier is combined with the location code to generate a location identifier, which can be encoded in a computer readable format and placed on items for use in a distribution network. The location identifier can be used to facilitate domestic or international distribution of items using a common format or addressing scheme. The domestic and foreign distribution networks read and interpret location identifiers in order to deliver items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: United States Postal Service
    Inventors: Clayton C. Bonnell, Gary C. Reblin
  • Patent number: 11526670
    Abstract: Provided are systems and methods directed to identifying relationships between colloquial place names in a relational database. In some embodiments, a method of identifying relationships between colloquial place names in a relational database comprises receiving geographic location information; generating a vector corresponding to the geographic location; comparing the geographic location information vector to a plurality of colloquial place name vectors in a relational database that maps a plurality of colloquial place names to a plurality of corresponding colloquial place name vectors in a vector space, to generate a plurality of similarity scores that is calculated based on the geographic location information vector and each colloquial place name vector of the plurality of colloquial place name vectors; and identifying that one or more colloquial place names in the relational database are related to the geographic location information based on the plurality of similarity scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: The MITRE Corporation
    Inventor: Jeffrey Zarrella
  • Patent number: 11507540
    Abstract: In a multi-cloud computing environment comprising a plurality of cloud platforms, wherein one cloud platform is a source of a model and a data set and further wherein the model is to be executed against the data set on one or more of the other cloud platforms, the method maintains a decentralized architecture comprising a file system and a message bus, wherein the file system comprises a plurality of decentralized file system nodes corresponding to the plurality of cloud platforms, and the message bus comprises a plurality of decentralized message bus nodes corresponding to the plurality of cloud platforms. Further, the method manages sharing of the model and the data set via at least a portion of the decentralized file system nodes and manages messaging related to execution of the model against the data set via at least a portion of the decentralized message bus nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Stephen J. Todd, Kun Wang, Layne Lin Peng, Pengfei Wu
  • Patent number: 11487815
    Abstract: An electronic device includes circuitry, firmware, and software that determines identification information associated with a first performer-of-interest at a live event and retrieves a first set of audio tracks from a plurality of audio tracks based on the determined identification information. The circuitry receives a first audio segment associated with the first performer-of-interest from an audio capturing device. The circuitry compares a first audio characteristic of the first audio segment with a second audio characteristic of a first audio portion of each of the first set of audio tracks. The circuitry determines a first audio track based on the comparison between the first audio characteristic and the second audio characteristic. The circuitry identifies a start position of the first audio track based on the first audio segment associated with the first audio track. The circuitry controls a display of the first lyrics information of the first audio track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peter Shintani, Mahyar Nejat, Brant Candelore, Robert Blanchard
  • Patent number: 11461388
    Abstract: Generating a playlist may include designating a seed track in an audio library; identifying audio tracks in the audio library having constructs that are within a range of a corresponding construct of the seed track, where the constructs for the audio tracks are derived from frequency representations of the audio tracks, and the corresponding construct for the seed track is derived from a frequency representation of the seed track; and generating the playlist using at least some of the audio tracks that were identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Geremy A. Heitz, III, Adam Berenzweig, Jason E. Weston, Ron J. Weiss, Sally A. Goldman, Thomas Walters, Samy Bengio, Douglas Eck, Jay M. Ponte, Ryan M. Rifkin
  • Patent number: 11449491
    Abstract: An incorrect copy of a record of data can be prevented from being transmitted to a distributed ledger system. A first file can be received and can include information, in audio or video form, with a description of a subject matter of the record of data and with an authorization to transmit the copy to the distributed ledger system. The first file can be sent to a device. A second file can be received from the device and can include information that confirms that the description of the subject matter, included in the first file, is correct, and that confirms that an entity, which controlled production of the first file, has permission to authorize causing the copy to be transmitted to the distributed ledger system. The correct copy can be caused, based on a receipt of the first and the second files, to be transmitted to the distributed ledger system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: POLYSIGN, INC.
    Inventors: David Schwartz, Arthur Britto, Anna Tong, Kimon Papahadjopoulos, William Morris, Chiranjeeb Kataki, Eric Rodriguez, Conor Hanranhan
  • Patent number: 11449468
    Abstract: A technique for managing storage space includes establishing an MSR (minimum space reservation) of a thin file system built upon a storage pool. In response to a set of storage requests to the file system to store new data, the method further includes obtaining an additional space guarantee from the storage pool. After deleting data from the file system such that the size of the file system falls below the MSR, the technique further includes performing a space reclaim operation, the space reclaim operation (i) compacting the file system to a size less than the MSR, (ii) canceling the additional space guarantee such that the storage pool no longer guarantees the additional space for the file system, and (iii) continuing to reserve the full MSR of the file system, even though the size of the file system is smaller than the MSR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Changyong Yu, Xianlong Liu, Yuetao Jiang, Ruiling Dou, Banghui Luo, Walter C. Forrester
  • Patent number: 11449495
    Abstract: Data encoded in multiple languages, such as single byte languages and multi-byte languages, may be generated and stored in a single indexable information/data profile in a database. The information/data profile may comprise indexable information/data fields configured for storing information/data in a standardized language encoding and non-indexable information/data fields configured for storing information/data in a language different from the standardized language. The standardized language may be generated by translating the information/data stored in the non-indexable information/data fields to enable indexing of the entire information/data profile. The information/data profile may be utilized to generate various information/data outputs, such as shipping labels including at least one of the standardized language or the other language while enabling the information/data profile to be indexed based at least in part on the standardized language.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: UNITED PARCEL SERVICE OF AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Murali Krishna Utla, Cindy Chong, Randy Lee, Mohd Saiful Saniff, Kent Koh, Kyaw Thu Win, Jeffrey Cooper
  • Patent number: 11417074
    Abstract: Example systems disclosed herein are to process image frames with a reverse image search engine to generate corresponding search results pages, capture screenshots corresponding respectively to the search results pages, generate base query records corresponding to respective ones of the screenshots that have respective textual information that matches a base search term, the respective ones of the base query records including the base search term and at least portions of the respective textual information from the corresponding screenshots, determine an object search term based on a frequency analysis of the textual information included in the base query records, generate object query records corresponding respectively to ones of the base query records that have respective textual information matching the object search term, and identify a first object depicted in the video based on at least one criteria applied to the object query records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC
    Inventor: Jan Besehanic
  • Patent number: 11416817
    Abstract: Events that are described in either structured data (e.g. HTML web page or email) or text in a natural language description can be extracted and entered into one or more calendars on a user's device. In one embodiment, selecting an add event command in a calendar application can cause the calendar application to search, without having received any search input, in a database of extracted events, and events extracted within a predetermined period of time can be suggested as events to add to the calendar. In one embodiment, an extracted event can cause a notification to be displayed to a user. Other embodiments are also described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sofiane Toudji, Erik M. Berget, Craig Federighi, Patrick L. Coffman
  • Patent number: 11403300
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to method and system for improving relevancy and ranking of a search result for a search query. The method may include accessing documents of the search result. Each document may be associated with derived document features that may be derived based on an evaluation of document features with respect to query features. For each document, the method may further include determining a feature score for each of the derived document features based on one or more of the query features and initializing each element of an order array with the feature score for each ordered document feature. The ordered document features may be the derived document features that are ordered based on pre-defined rules. The method may further include ranking the documents by comparing and ranking the order array for each of the documents and presenting an updated search result based on the ranking of the documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Wipro Limited
    Inventors: Raghavendra Rao Venkoba, Suraj Vantigodi, Cyrus Andre Dsouza, Manu Kuchhal
  • Patent number: 11392896
    Abstract: Events that are described in either structured data (e.g. HTML web page or email) or text in a natural language description can be extracted and entered into one or more calendars on a user's device. In one embodiment, selecting an add event command in a calendar application can cause the calendar application to search, without having received any search input, in a database of extracted events, and events extracted within a predetermined period of time can be suggested as events to add to the calendar. In one embodiment, an extracted event can cause a notification to be displayed to a user. Other embodiments are also described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Sofiane Toudji, Salem Ben Yaala, Antoine Vinel, Erik M. Berget, Hafid J. Arras, Romain F. Butteaud
  • Patent number: 11386067
    Abstract: A processing device identifies an object that is assigned an object version indicating a modification operation has been performed on the object, and a signature version representing a version of data of the object for which a first signature has been created. The first signature is stored in a data store. The processing device determines whether the object is currently under modification by comparing a value of the object version to a value of the signature version, creates a second signature for the object using the data of the object, responsive to a determination that the object is not under modification, and performs a data integrity analysis on the data of the object by determining whether the first signature matches the second signature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventors: Raghavendra Manjunath, Venky Shankar
  • Patent number: 11354301
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for recording, in an audit log data store, log records that satisfy one or more audit log rules. Audit log rules may be associated with one or more context attributes. Specifically, based on the context attribute of a given rule, embodiments store, in the audit log data store, additional log records that are associated with the context attribute value from log records that satisfied the rule. Because a context attribute may span multiple systems that implement a multi-system operation, the information in the audit log data store may include cross-system contextual information for changes that are of interest to administrators. The audit log data store may be efficiently queried to provide information regarding multi-system operations because of the targeted nature of the audit log data gathering techniques. Automatically-generated indexes on audit log data provide additional efficiency gains for executing queries over the audit log data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: LendingClub Bank, National Association
    Inventors: Prateek Demla, Igor Petrunya, Dmitry Kondratenko
  • Patent number: 11341138
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, computerized apparatus and computer program product for query performance prediction, the method comprising: obtaining a result list comprising a listing of documents retrieved from a collection in response to a query; obtaining for each of the listed documents in the result list a score indicating a measure of the document's relevance to the query; sampling the result list to obtain a plurality of sub-lists each of which comprising a listing of documents subsumed by the result list; for each of the plurality of sub-lists, analyzing scores of the documents listed therein to obtain a sample performance estimator; and estimating performance of the result list based on the sample performance estimator of each of the plurality of sub-lists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Doron Cohen, Shai Erera, Haggai Roitman, Bar Weiner
  • Patent number: 11341101
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for data synchronization. For example, an in-flight log may be maintained to track storage operations that are received by a first storage node, but have not been committed to both first storage of the first storage node and second storage of a second storage node that has a replication relationship, such as a disaster recovery relationship, with the first storage node. A dirty region log may be maintained to track regions within the first storage that have been modified by storage operations that have not been replicated to the second storage. Accordingly, a catchup synchronization phase (e.g., asynchronous replication by a resync scanner) may be performed to replicate storage operations (e.g., replicate data within dirty regions of the first storage that were modified by such storage operations) to the second storage until the first storage and the second storage are synchronized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: NetApp Inc.
    Inventors: Ching-Yuk Paul Ngan, Kanwaldeep Singh, Yuedong Mu, Manoj Kumar V Sundararajan
  • Patent number: 11288303
    Abstract: This application discloses an information search method and apparatus. The method includes the steps of receiving a voice message from a first terminal, the voice message including a first request, and the first request requesting a search operation; parsing out a search keyword of the first request from the voice message; and performing the search operation by using the search keyword to obtain a search result. The method further includes sending the search result to a second terminal, the first terminal being associated with the second terminal, and the second terminal being configured to present the search result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Guangyu Yang, Kai Xie
  • Patent number: 11263275
    Abstract: This disclosure discloses systems, devices, and methods for parallelized data structure processing in context of machine learning and reverse proxy servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventor: Sears Merritt
  • Patent number: 11250081
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for a search query prediction service. User accounts are organized into various groupings. Candidate search queries are determined for the groups into which a user account is included. A predicted search query is selected from the candidate search queries and communicated to the client before an input of a portion of a search query by a user of the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Piers George Cowburn, Eric Michael Molitor