Patents Examined by Ruth Solomon
  • Patent number: 11297120
    Abstract: Network equipment for establishing a manifest to be provided to a requesting terminal configured to receive a multimedia content divided into segments from a network equipment, each segment being available in one or more representations, said manifest listing available representations for the multimedia content and specifying a plurality of adaptation sets, each adaptation set defining a spatial object of the multimedia content, the spatial objects of the adaptation sets defining a whole spatial object is described. The network equipment includes at least one memory and at least one processing circuitry configured to define, in the manifest, a type of mapping of the multimedia content to the whole spatial object and a point of reference in one adaptation set of reference amongst the adaptation sets, and associate depth information with each adaptation set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGS, SAS
    Inventors: Mary-Luc Champel, Sebastien Lasserre, Franck Galpin
  • Patent number: 11258840
    Abstract: A network device is configured to distribute audio streams and video streams among participant devices connected to the network device over a communication network. The network device collects respective audio streams from the participant devices, and ranks the participant devices based on the respective audio streams collected from the participant devices. Based on the ranking, the network device elects top-N participant devices among the participant devices as being associated with respective users who are active speakers, where N is one or more, and retrieves respective video streams only from the top-N participant devices. The network device receives from the participant devices respective requests for video streams from the top-N participant devices, and sends to the participant devices the video streams retrieved only from the top-N participant devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC
    Inventors: Michele Papalini, Giovanna Carofiglio, Luca Muscariello, Alberto Compagno
  • Patent number: 11240344
    Abstract: A system includes persistent storage configured to store definitions of interfaces of remote software applications, and a software application configured to define the interfaces. The software application identifies a remote software application system by which the remote software applications are exposed for execution, and obtains therefrom a specification of a particular remote software application. The software application determines, based on the specification, (i) objects accessible by way of the particular remote software application and (ii) functions invokable to interact with the objects. The software application generates actions that define an interface for the particular remote software application. Each action is configured to invoke execution of one or more of the functions by transmitting a request to the remote software application system and, in response, receive, by way of the remote software application system, an output of the one or more of the functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Stuart Dean Swope, David Tamjidi, Azfar Syed Kazmi, Christopher Maloy, Rebecca Anita Dias
  • Patent number: 11228653
    Abstract: A terminal, a cloud apparatus, a method of analyzing, by a terminal, activities of a user, and a method of analyzing, by a cloud apparatus, activities of a user. The terminal includes a communication interface that communicates with an external apparatus over a network; a controller that obtains data used to predict activities of a user and anonymize a portion of the obtained data, and transmit the anonymized data and a remaining portion of the data, which is not anonymized, to the external apparatus through the communication interface; and a display that displays notification information related to the activities of the user based on activity prediction data received from the external apparatus, the activity prediction data being generated based on an analysis of the transmitted data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Yoon, Dae-hyun Ban, Sung-won Han, Hong-uk Woo, Eun-ho Heo, Sang-ho Shin, Jung-kyuen Lee, Dong-hyeok An
  • Patent number: 11223936
    Abstract: The present description relates to an IoT management device for carrying out a condition modification mode and a method for controlling same, the IoT management device which can modify a preset condition by means of a reference to data related to the IoT device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sihwa Park, Juhwan Lee
  • Patent number: 11223549
    Abstract: Embodiments manage use of different network connections for data transfer in view of priority information and a data usage plan identifying threshold limits associated with the different network connections. A computing device receives data transfer requests from applications executing on the computing device. The data transfer requests have priority information associated therewith. The computing device compares the priority information with available network connections. One or more of the data transfer requests are selected for initiation based on the comparison and on the threshold limits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gil Zalmanovitch, Gregory James Scott, Shai Guday, Alec Garvin Kwok, Yue Jiang, Kenneth Vincent Ma
  • Patent number: 11196797
    Abstract: Transferring files between computer nodes located on different networks is provided. A path for transferring a file to a target node located on a different network is determined. The path includes an address of the target node and a set of one or more addresses of intermediate network bridge nodes connecting the different networks. At least one command to be executed to transfer the file to a specific node present in the path is determined. A file transfer command record is generated. The file transfer command record includes the path and the at least one command to be executed to transfer the file to the specific node present in the path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Fabio De Angelis, Stefano Sidoti, Andrea Napoleoni, Luca Balestrazzi
  • Patent number: 11165846
    Abstract: A streams manager includes a connection converter that allows converting at run-time a static connection to a dynamic connection, and converting at run-time a dynamic connection to a static connection. One or more conversion criteria are defined that determine when a conversion of one or more connections is needed at run-time. When conversion criteria for converting a static connection from a first processing element to a second processing element to a dynamic connection is satisfied, the first processing element interacts with the streams manager and with the second processing element to dynamically change the static connection to a dynamic connection. When conversion criteria for converting a dynamic connection from a first processing element to a second processing element to a static connection is satisfied, the first processing element interacts with the streams manager and with the second processing element to dynamically change the dynamic connection to a static connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jingdong Sun, Roger Mittelstadt, Rafal Konik, Jessica R. Eidem
  • Patent number: 11163685
    Abstract: Systems and methods that substantially or fully remove a commanding server from a data path (e.g., as part of a data migration, disaster recovery, and/or the like) to improve data movement performance and make additional bandwidth available for other system processes and the like. Broadly, a network interface card (e.g., host bus adapter (HBA)) of a tape drive may be configured in both a target mode to allow the tape drive to be a recipient of control commands from a server to request and/or otherwise obtain data from one or more source tape drives, and in an initiator mode to allow the tape drive to send commands to the one or more tape drives specified in the commands received from the server to request/read data from and/or write data to such one or more tape drives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: David G. Hostetter, Steven Sanders
  • Patent number: 11165723
    Abstract: Systems and methods of automatically generating a proposed response to user input are provided. A method includes receiving, via a text-based messaging system, a plurality of messages from a user, determining a respective confidence level for each message of the plurality of messages that the respective message has a respective intent corresponding to a respective defined intent, generating, responsive to the defined intent of a first message of the plurality of messages being a structured intent, a first proposed communication from the structured intent, and generating, responsive to the defined intent of a second message of the plurality of messages being a predictive intent and the confidence level of the second message meeting a defined threshold, a second proposed communication from the predictive intent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: SENIORLINK INC.
    Inventor: George Kassabgi
  • Patent number: 11153376
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques for an IoT shell are provided. A system includes a plurality of IoT resources including one or more sensors, a data lake comprising a collection of data streams from the one or more sensors, and an IoT device in communication with the plurality of IoT resources and coupled to the one or more sensors. The IoT device may configured to provide an IoT shell interfacing with a system kernel, the IoT shell configured to accept a set of one or more shell commands. The IoT device may further be configured to receive one or more shell commands, and determine at least one of an argument of the shell command, and an attribute of the argument. The IoT device may then perform a shell command of the one or more shell commands on one or more of the plurality of IoT resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventor: Tom Funk
  • Patent number: 11095702
    Abstract: A consumer sends to a producer Interests to request data packets of a data stream that are generated at a production rate. Each data packet includes a name of the data stream, a segment of data, and a current segment number that identifies the data packet in the data stream and that increments as the data packets are generated. The Interests include the name and segment numbers of segments requested by the Interests. The consumer synchronizes the segment numbers with the current segment numbers and a rate for sending the Interests to the production rate. The consumer sends to the producer the Interests at the rate and with the segment numbers as synchronized, in order to minimize a delay time between when the data packets are generated and when the data packets are received at the consumer. The consumer receives from the producer data packets satisfying the Interests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Michele Papalini, Giovanna Carofiglio, Luca Muscariello, Alberto Compagno
  • Patent number: 11088893
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method performed in a first device for negotiating session descriptor parameters with a second device over an application layer protocol. The method comprises converting a value of a text based session descriptor parameter of a session description protocol, SDP, message into a binary format; encapsulating the converted SDP message into an application layer protocol message; and sending the application layer protocol message to the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Oscar Novo Diaz, Sarantorn Bisalbutra
  • Patent number: 11050685
    Abstract: A method for determining a candidate input is provided. Text that precedes and/or follows a current text input location in an input interface is acquired. A candidate sentence is acquired based on the text which is contained in a current sentence that corresponds to the current text input location. A preset number of possible conjunctions for the candidate sentence are determined based on occurrence probabilities of the possible conjunctions that are determined for the candidate sentence. The preset number of possible conjunctions are connected to the candidate sentence to obtain predicted candidate sentences. Occurrence probabilities of the predicted candidate sentences are calculated according to the text that precedes and/or follows the current text input location. Further, a preset number of the predicted candidate sentences are provided based on the calculated occurrence probabilities of the predicted candidate sentences as candidate inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Ping Luo, Ganbin Zhou, Fen Lin, Yanxiong Lu, Rongyu Cao
  • Patent number: 11025498
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium, to define and represent real world physical devices and physical things and corresponding virtual representations thereof and to define relationships between the virtual representations of the physical devices and physical things. The defined relationships can be saved to a memory, retrieved from the memory, and used by one or more applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Thilo Sieth, Christian Holzwarth
  • Patent number: 10999405
    Abstract: A method for processing access requests and a web browser are disclosed. In one embodiment, the processing method may be applied by a gateway maintaining a database containing, for each from among a plurality of computer virtualization platforms, at least one service provided by this platform and connection information to this platform. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an access request to a computer virtualization service provided by a platform transmitted by a web browser of a terminal and, if the requested service is in the database, generating from associated connection information in the database with this service, a system application adapted to the service. The system application may be configured to connect to the platform to allow the terminal to negotiate the establishment and maintenance of a communication session with the latter. The method may also comprise sending the system application to the web browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventors: Ruan He, Jamil Chawki
  • Patent number: 10834203
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for establishing an end-to-end communication between two networks, wherein: a message is received from one first network, this message having a first header and an application-data part; data of said first header is coded into a second header within the application data part, with the aid of a first coding scheme, so as to produce a modified application data part; said modified application data part is coded with the aid of a second coding scheme so as to produce a coded message; and this coded message is transmitted to a second network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Andreas Heinrich, Jörg Heuer, Sebastian Käbisch
  • Patent number: 10819656
    Abstract: Methods and systems for throttling per-node network bandwidths over time to maximize the aggregate bandwidth of a distributed cluster of nodes without exceeding a global bandwidth allowance for the entire cluster are described. The throttling of the individual node network bandwidths may include periodically adjusting individual node bandwidth settings for each node of a plurality of nodes within the cluster using node network interfaces. The adjusting of the individual node bandwidth settings for each node of the plurality of nodes may take into account the number and type of jobs running within the cluster at a particular point in time. The updates to the individual node bandwidth settings may be transmitted such that a first subset of the plurality of nodes with decreasing individual node bandwidth allocations are updated prior to updating a second subset of the plurality of nodes with increasing individual node bandwidth allocations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Rubrik, Inc.
    Inventors: Noel Moldvai, Mudit Malpani
  • Patent number: 10728352
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the present disclosure facilitate effective management of digital forums between networking groups including co-users of a networking system. In particular, systems and methods involve providing a list of digital forums for sharing digital including digital icons indicating corresponding digital forums associated with respective networking groups. Systems and methods further involve determining subsets of active co-users from the networking groups by detecting interactions between client devices of the subsets of active co-users and the networking system. Systems and methods further include generating a group activity indicator and providing the group activity indicator in connection with the graphical icons for corresponding networking groups. Systems and methods described herein further include features and functionality that enable a user of the networking system to view which networking groups are active and comprehend a level of activity for respective networking groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew Yaoshu Song, Vinodh Jayaram
  • Patent number: 10581961
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and device for detecting an abnormal load. The method includes: collecting data of each load item in all hosts; pre-processing to obtain a second sequence corresponding to each load item; obtaining a coefficient matrix and a detail vector; computing a weighted mean of abnormal load probabilities of all the coefficient vectors, to obtain an abnormal load probability of each second sequence; comparing the abnormal load probability with a confidence interval, and judging whether there is an abnormal load, and judging that there is no abnormity in the corresponding second sequence if the abnormal load probability of each second sequence is in the confidence interval; judging whether there is an abnormal load according to data of all load items and the abnormal load probability of each second sequence; and finding a bearing host that has the abnormal load from the current online service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yuezhi Zhou, Jinzhao Liu, Di Zhang, Yaoxue Zhang