Patents Examined by Ruolei Zong
  • Patent number: 11146491
    Abstract: Examples described herein provide a computer-implemented method that includes registering at least one of a plurality of virtual internet protocol addresses (VIPAs) to each of a plurality of network adapters. The method further includes distributing, by each of the plurality of network adapters, inbound data among each of the plurality of network adapters using an address resolution protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Grant Mericle, Michael Jon Fox, Benjamin Thomas Rau
  • Patent number: 11146636
    Abstract: In a method of operating network-based storage devices, a first storage device having a first local key among a plurality of storage devices is set as a first main storage device. The storage devices are connected to each other through a network. A volume of at least a part of the plurality of storage devices is set and managed by the first storage device based on a first control signal received from an external host device. A second local key is received by the first storage device from a second storage device having the second local key among the plurality of storage devices. The first local key and the second local key are transmitted by the first storage device to the external host device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sukkyu Lee, Hanmin Cho, Youngjin Cho
  • Patent number: 11133959
    Abstract: An apparatus including a storage medium and a controller is provided. The storage medium stores a mapping of stream Identifiers (IDs) to Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) tags. The controller is coupled to the storage medium and configured to route a packet for a Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) network according to the mapping. The routing of the packet includes replacing a VLAN tag in the packet according to the stream ID of the packet and the mapping, so as to maintain the real-time deterministic behavior of delivering data streams in the TSN network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: MOXA INC.
    Inventors: Chi-Chuan Liu, Chun-Yu Lin, Chien-Yu Lai, Wen-Lu Liao
  • Patent number: 11128484
    Abstract: Systems and methods for advising meeting participants are disclosed. An example method of advising meeting participants includes establishing a desired engagement level for a participant of a meeting. The example method further includes evaluating a contribution to the meeting of the participant based on the desired engagement level and including at least one of detecting a communication duration of the participant or determining a quantity of content shared. The example method also includes generating a graphical representation of the contribution to the meeting. Additionally, the example method includes providing the graphical representation of the contribution to the meeting, including transmitting a signal to at least one of the participant or a meeting host. The signal communicates the graphical representation to a device of the participant or the meeting host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Mitel Networks (International) Limited
    Inventors: Anders Fahrendorff, Darren Mombourquette, Mona Abou-Sayed, Logendra Naidoo
  • Patent number: 11120407
    Abstract: An apparatus for a real-time collaboration in calendar is described herein. The apparatus includes a state change module to receive a change notification at a second calendar client rendering a shared calendar. The apparatus also includes an identification module to retrieve an identification (ID) of calendar content, a change in a user interface state, and an extent of a calendar view from a first data structure. Finally, the apparatus includes a replica module of the second client to retrieve calendar content from a second data structure using the ID as an index value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Peter L. Engrav, Aaron E. Erlandson, Trevor J. Harris, Malia M. Douglas, Rachel Sirkin, Caitlin E. Ashley-Rollman, Steven E. Lucco
  • Patent number: 11122138
    Abstract: Methods and systems for enhanced domain name system (DNS) response caching are described. An enhanced DNS response caching method includes receiving a connection request for a fully qualified domain name (FQDN). A DNS client checks a local cache for a cached resolved domain name corresponding to the FQDN and sends 3300 a query to obtain or refresh the cached resolved domain name if a Time to Live parameter is expired or about to expire. In response to receiving a negative response or no response for the query, the DNS client determines whether an enhanced DNS response caching parameter is enabled. If the enhanced DNS response caching parameter is enabled, the DNS client sends an expired cached resolved domain name to process the connection request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventors: Ashutosh Kumar Sinha, Robert Dianda
  • Patent number: 11115497
    Abstract: Technologies for providing advanced resource management in a disaggregated environment include a compute device. The compute device includes circuitry to obtain a workload to be executed by a set of resources in a disaggregated system, query a sled in the disaggregated system to identify an estimated time to complete execution of a portion of the workload to be accelerated using a kernel, and assign, in response to a determination that the estimated time to complete execution of the portion of the workload satisfies a target quality of service associated with the workload, the portion of the workload to the sled for acceleration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Francesc Guim Bernat, Slawomir Putyrski, Susanne M. Balle, Thomas Willhalm, Karthik Kumar
  • Patent number: 11108728
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for implementing a logical network with one or more logical forwarding elements (LFEs), each with multiple logical ports. Each LFE in some embodiments is implemented by several physical forwarding elements (PFEs) operating on several devices. On a host computer executing a particular machine connected to a PFE implementing a particular LFE, the method identifies an address discovery message associating a particular network address (e.g., a layer 2 (L2) address or media access control (MAC) address) of the particular machine with a another network address (e.g., a layer 3 (L3) or an Internet Protocol (IP) address) of the particular machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Sami Boutros, W. Andrew Lambeth, Jayant Jain, Mani Kancherla
  • Patent number: 11102056
    Abstract: A method for requesting connection in a blue-green deployment which is switched over from a first server (blue) to which at least two clients are connected to a second server (green). The method can include determining, upon receipt of the maintenance notification or detection of a connection failure, an activity score at each one of the at least two clients; and, upon switchover to the second server or detection of the connection failure, transmitting, together with a respective reconnection request, the respective activity score from each one of the at least two clients to the second server for the second server to evaluate a prioritization of the reconnection request based on the activity score. Embodiments of a communication system, server system, and clients (e.g. user devices) can utilize embodiments of the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Unify Patente GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Geert Robert Marc Fieremans, Ralph Schneider, Johannes Ruetschi
  • Patent number: 11102155
    Abstract: The disclosed systems and methods join a user to a primary communication channel that is associated with an automated human interface module. The automated human interface module includes a plurality of nodes. A message including a text communication is posted by the user and sent to a decision module associated with a plurality of classifiers. The decision module is configured to identify a node that best matches the text communication in accordance with the plurality of classifiers. Each respective classifier produces a respective classifier result thereby producing a plurality of classifier results. Each respective classifier result identifies a respective node of the plurality of nodes best matching the text communication. The plurality of classifier results is collectively considered, and the node best matching the text communication is identified and the text communication is sent to the identified node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Pypestream Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Smullen, Rahul A. Garg, Minjun Kim, Matin Kamali, Jatin Patel
  • Patent number: 11102216
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a network gateway device (“gateway”) that provides various network management features, including a device zoning feature in which client computing devices (“client devices”) connected to the gateway are assigned to different device zones. The client devices connected to the gateway form a local area network (LAN) of the gateway, and can access an external network, e.g., Internet, using the gateway. Each of the device zones has a specific set of network access privileges. Different device zones can have different network access privileges and can provide device isolation in the LAN at different degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.
    Inventor: William Michael Beals
  • Patent number: 11095606
    Abstract: A domain name access method and a device are described. As described herein, a domain name server (DNS) server performs resolution on a domain name requested by the terminal device. The DNS server may then send an internet protocol (IP) address of an application server obtained through the resolution and use condition information to the terminal device. With this, communication efficiency of the terminal device can be improved, and waste of transmission resources in a communications system is also avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiao Yang, Yan Li
  • Patent number: 11082376
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for generating contextually relevant messages are provided. In some embodiments, a method for generating contextually relevant messages is provided, the method comprising: requesting content from a content source; receiving a content item; causing the content item to be presented using a display device; causing an endorsement indication corresponding to an endorsing user to be concurrently presented with the content item, wherein a user associated with the request for content and the endorsing user are social connections; receiving user input selecting the endorsement indication; causing a temporary messaging interface including a temporary message from the user to the endorsing user to be presented; causing a permanent message to be created based on the temporary message and received user input; and causing the permanent message to be presented to the endorsing user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Justin Lewis, Gavin James
  • Patent number: 11082381
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating tasks based on chat sessions between users of a collaboration environment are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: obtain content information characterizing content of the chat sessions between the users of the collaboration environment; generate tasks for the users based on the content from the chat sessions, a first task being generated based on the first content information for the first chat session; and/or store information defining the tasks generated as part of the state information such that the first task is defined by a first task record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Asana, Inc.
    Inventors: Justin Rosenstein, Adam Butler
  • Patent number: 11075923
    Abstract: Systems and methods for limiting calls to access a cloud-based system are disclosed. The systems and methods obtain a rate limiting policy including at least one attribute and a counting interval, the at least one attribute including at least one of a username associated with a client, an instance, an organization associated with the client, a resource being requested, a service being requested, a geographical access region, and an Application Programming Interface (API) being requested. The systems and methods also mark an entry, based on the rate limiting policy, in a database for each call the client makes. The systems and methods further enforce the rate liming policy by not processing calls from the client associated with the at least one attribute that are made for a count of calls marked that is beyond the counting interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Zscaler, Inc.
    Inventors: Subramanian Srinivasan, Arvind Nadendla
  • Patent number: 11076007
    Abstract: The techniques discussed herein allow an agent that provides dialog-based services to converse with a user via any mode. A central service programmed to be able to communicate via any mode collects information from agents necessary to act on the agents' behalf. In order to ensure that an agent has a maximal presence across modes, the central service provides auxiliary services such as language translation, fidelity upgrading and/or downgrading, modal constraint conformation, etc. Moreover, the central service provides session tracking via user profiles stored at the intercom so that if a user changes a mode by which the user is conversing with an agent, the central service can keep the context of the conversation across the new mode. Furthermore, agents can communicate with other agents via the central service, allowing other agents to provide services to agents or to add their services to an ongoing dialog with a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Matthew Laird-McConnell, Lili Cheng, James H. Lewallen, Justin Cranshaw, Craig Jensen, Steve Ickman, William L. Portnoy, Qi Lu, Daniel J. Driscoll
  • Patent number: 11075852
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to techniques for dynamically adjusting a maximum rate of throughput for accessing data stored within a volume of storage space of a storage cluster system based on the amount of that data that is stored within that volume. An apparatus includes an access component to monitor an amount of client data stored within a volume defined within a storage device coupled to a first node, and to perform a data access command received from a client device via a network to alter the client data stored within the volume; and a policy component to limit a rate of throughput at which at least the client data within the volume is exchanged as part of performance of the data access command to a maximum rate of throughput, and to calculate the maximum rate of throughput based on the stored amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventor: Evan Miller
  • Patent number: 11070507
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and computer program product for cognitively adjusting a notification alert delivery time are provided. The embodiment may include receiving a message notification from a sender. The embodiment may also include determining an importance of the received message notification based on a plurality of notification attributes and a plurality of person attributes that are each associated with the received message notification. The embodiment may further include, in response to determining to alert a user of the received message notification based on the determined importance, identifying a current user sleep stage. The embodiment may also include, in response to determining the current user sleep stage will minimally impact the user, transmitting the received message notification to a user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bharath Ganesh, Dhandapani Shanmugam, Tuhin Sharma, Jothi Subramani
  • Patent number: 11070496
    Abstract: Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for vulnerability feedback mechanism are provided. An application receives data from a build automation tool. This data includes links to source code in a version control system (VCS) and security scans. A processor creates a task and adds the task to an application processing queue. The application retrieves security scan data from security tools. The application retrieves production scan data from the VCS, The processor compares the security scan data with the production scan data; determines, based on comparing, whether the security scan data includes new vulnerability data that is not currently included in the production scan data; and automatically transmits an electronic notification to a code developer device when it is determined that the security scan data includes new vulnerability data and that the task needs resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Alasdair Rae, Connor Esplin, German Malsagov
  • Patent number: 11063902
    Abstract: The technologies described herein identify multiple electronic devices belonging to the same group. A computer system receives, from network accessing applications of a plurality of electronic devices, internet protocol (IP) trajectory information about the network accessing applications via a network. The IP trajectory information includes a user identifier, a list of IP addresses associated with each of the network accessing applications, and timestamps specifying times each of the network accessing applications accesses the network. The computer system identifies and removes commercial IP addresses from the list of IP addresses, analyzes IP trajectory information to retrieve a most commonly used IP address for each of the network accessing applications during a certain period, and determines that different network accessing applications belong to the same group if the most commonly used IP addresses for the different network accessing applications are the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Media Inc.
    Inventors: Hao Cheng, Rohit Chandra, Jimmy Yang