Patents Examined by Scott B. Christensen
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Patent number: 11252033Abstract: An example operation may include a method comprising one or more of receiving a VNFC module status request from a NFVO where the status request specifies a VNFC instance (VNFCI), determining a target OS installation of the VNFCI, retrieving a list of one or more VNFC modules of the VNFCI, determining the status of the one or more VNFC modules wherein the status determination includes at least one or more of constructing a default status command, adapting the command to the target OS, executing the adapted status command, and recording a normalized status result, sending a VNFC module status notification.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2020Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: OPEN INVENTION NETWORK LLCInventor: Keith William Melkild
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Patent number: 11249937Abstract: Provided are systems and methods for a storage adapter device for communicating with network storage. In some implementations, the storage adapter device comprises a host interface. In these implementations, the host interface may be configured to communicate with a host device using a local bus protocol. In some implementations, the storage adapter device also includes a network interface. In these implementations, the network interface may communicate with a network using a network protocol. In some implementations, the storage adapter device may be configured to communicate with a remote storage device. In some implementations, the storage adapter device may also be configured to translate a request from the host interface from the local bus protocol to the network protocol. The storage adapter device may further be configured to transmit the translated request to the remote storage device.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2018Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Nafea Bshara, Alexander Matushevsky, Georgy Machulsky, Leah Shalev, Saar Gross
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Patent number: 11245726Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method for customizing security alert reports may include (i) identifying a local machine learning model that predicts how a client responds to security alerts generated for the client, (ii) identifying a set of peer machine learning models that predict how a set of peers of the client each responds to security alerts generated for each respective peer, (iii) measuring a level of similarity between the client and each respective peer of the set of peers according to a similarity metric to create a similarity model, (iv) aggregating the local machine learning model and at least one of the set of peer machine learning models based on the similarity model to create an aggregated machine learning model, and (v) protecting the client by applying the aggregated machine learning model to customize an electronically displayed security alert report. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2018Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: NortonLifeLock Inc.Inventors: Daniel Kats, Kevin Roundy
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Patent number: 11240101Abstract: An automatic fabric provisioning system includes first uplink switch device(s) associated with a first fabric, and second uplink switch device(s) associated with a second fabric. A gateway device is coupled to each of the first and second uplink switch device(s), and transmits a respective fabric login communication to each of the first uplink switch device(s) via at least one first uplink, and to each of the second uplink switch device(s) via at least one second uplink. When the gateway device receives respective first fabric login accept communication(s) from each of the uplink switch device(s) via the at least one uplink to that uplink switch device that identifies the fabric associated with that uplink switch device, it automatically associates each at least one first uplink with the first fabric, and each at least one second uplink with the second fabric.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Ramesh Kumar Subbiah, Vibin Varghese
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Patent number: 11232676Abstract: In one embodiment, a peripheral management device may have a controller configured to communicate with a gaming machine and a portable electronic device. The controller may be configured to: (i) receive a peripheral data packet from a gaming machine processor, the peripheral data packet including at least one command; (ii) determine whether to process the peripheral data packet on at least one peripheral device of the gaming machine or at least one virtual peripheral device of the portable electronic device; (iii) generate an instructional data packet for the at least one virtual peripheral device if the peripheral data packet is determined to be processed on the at least one virtual peripheral device; and (iv) transmit the instructional data packet to the portable electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2020Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc. (ATI)Inventor: Binh T. Nguyen
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Patent number: 11233668Abstract: A meeting insight computing system includes a meeting evaluation machine configured to collect quality parameters from meeting quality monitoring devices. The quality parameters each quantify meeting conditions during one or more previously-elapsed meetings and are usable to determine an overall quality score for each of the one or more previously-elapsed meetings. A graphical scheduling interface is configured to facilitate scheduling of an upcoming meeting at a designated meeting time, in a meeting location, and with one or more meeting participants. An insight generation machine is configured to report a meeting insight via the graphical scheduling interface. The meeting insight is based on the meeting time, the meeting location, the one or more meeting participants, and the quality parameters, and includes a recommendation to change one or more of the meeting time, meeting location, and meeting participants to improve a quality score of the upcoming meeting.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2020Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Matthew Evan Vogel, Julie Christa Seto, Daniel Escapa, Hubert Van Hoof, Dheepak Ramaswamy, Brett Daniel Mills, Joseph Anthony Beernink
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Patent number: 11196785Abstract: A fault-tolerant, cloud-based system can comprise a redundancy control unit capable of switching between transcoded video streams output by two or more transcoders. The redundancy control unit outputs a manifest from one of the transcoded streams and, upon detecting a fault in the stream, can modify the manifest to switch to another of the transcoded video streams. The redundancy control unit can further modify the manifest to flag the discontinuity in the video stream, which allows the player to switch to the new transcoding video stream without error. Other embodiments can include additional redundancies to help provide additional fault tolerance.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2020Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: Brightcove Inc.Inventors: Jorge Cenzano Ferret, Ted Krofssik, Matthew Neil, Michael Harty, Yuriy Reznik
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Patent number: 11196824Abstract: A method for controlling functions of an electronic device by a server includes establishing a communication connection between the server and the electronic device when a distance between the electronic device and the server is less than or equal to a preset value. Positioning information of the electronic device is acquired at every preset time when the electronic device enters a preset control area. A control mode of the electronic device is determined according to positioning information of the electronic device. Once a control signal is generated according to the control mode of the electronic device, status of an image-capturing device, and/or status of a microphone of the electronic device are controlled according to the control signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2020Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignees: Fu Tai Hua Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Shuang-Feng Tao, Chao-Yi Ke, Jun Zhang
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Patent number: 11184235Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for “direct mode” (in-band) performance loss measurement in computer networks where packet loss is measured directly in the data plane using techniques based on ECMP paths. Counters on each of an ingress node and an egress node are configured by a network controller to count traffic for indicators associated with different equal-cost multi-path (ECMP) paths through a network between ingress and egress nodes. Each indicator is toggled on or off during a measurement interval during which traffic is measured by the traffic counters on the ingress and egress nodes for each ECMP path. The traffic counters (measured in bytes/packets) from the ingress and egress nodes are sent via event driven telemetry to the network controller for performance loss measurement determination.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2018Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Clarence Filsfils, Rakesh Gandhi, Zafar Ali
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Patent number: 11165791Abstract: Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for computer or other network device security. A method can include identifying a profile associated with event data regarding an operation performed on a cloud resource, determining whether the event data is associated with anomalous customer interaction with the cloud resource, in response to determining the event data is associated with anomalous customer interaction, identifying whether another cloud resource of the cloud resources with a lower granularity profile that is associated with the profile of the cloud resource has previously been determined to be a target of an anomalous operation, and providing a single alert to a client device indicating the anomalous behavior on the cloud resource in response to determining both the event data is associated with anomalous customer interaction and the another cloud resource is determined to be the target of the anomalous operation.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2019Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Andrey Karpovsky, Ron Matchoro, Haim Saadia Ben Danan, Yotam Livny, Naama Kraus, Roy Levin, Tamer Salman
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Patent number: 11165690Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed to implement a request routing layer of a service provider system, where the request routers are aware of different versions of a service implemented by the servers of the system. In embodiments, the request routers may discover the different versions of the service via periodic health messages or request responses from the servers. Requests are routed to the servers according to a routing policy that specifies the relative proportions of requests that are to be routed to each version. Version metrics generated from the requests may be captured and provided to a version change manager, which may update the routing policy based on the metrics, either increasing or decreasing the proportion of requests for the different versions. In embodiments, the request router may implement additional rules that control their routing behavior in response to detected error conditions.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2020Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Tai Geoffrey Lucas, Marcin Piotr Kowalski
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Patent number: 11153157Abstract: A system for configuration management using OVSDB protocol. The system includes a configuration manager on a server computer and a plurality of devices on a plurality of computing devices. The configuration manager comprises an OVSDB server maintaining an OVSDB database. Each of the plurality of devices includes an OVSDB client. The OVSDB database on the configuration manager comprises a database schema containing configuration data for the plurality of devices. The OVSDB server on the configuration manager communicates with the OVSDB client on each of the plurality of devices via OVSDB protocol in managing configurations of the plurality of devices.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Stellar Cyber, Inc.Inventors: Yufeng Zhu, Xin Wang
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Patent number: 11146471Abstract: A process trace updating method, system, and computer program product include retrieving, by a computing device, one or more historical executions of a process, receiving, by the computing device, a proposed incremental change, with regard to the process, for a proposed process, updating, by the computing device, the historical execution to build a machine learning model, and generating, by the computing device, a decision and a prediction about execution of the proposed process based upon the machine-learning model.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2020Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Evelyn Duesterwald, Vatche Isahagian, Vinod Muthusamy
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Patent number: 11146484Abstract: A method, a device, and a system for deferring a switchback. A first network device sends a query packet to a second network device, detects, according to the query packet, whether a route from the second network device to a destination device is available after receiving the query packet, and when it is available, the second network device sends a query response packet to the first network device in order to trigger the first network device to switch back from a secondary route to a primary route. The technical solution provided reduces a wait-to-restore time of the switchback, ensures that service data transmitted from the first network device to the second network device can be transmitted to the destination device, and facilitates smooth transmission of the service data.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2017Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Yaokun Zhang, Chunxia Sun
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Patent number: 11121983Abstract: Systems and methods provide a reactive throttle architecture for managing traffic to shared resources. A system comprises an interface subsystem configured to communicate with a client operatively coupled with a resource, an implementation subsystem configured to throttle traffic from the client to the resource based on a throttling policy, a monitor subsystem configured to monitor resource performance, and a policy subsystem configured to define the throttling policy based on a performance of the resource and a lane of the client.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)Inventors: Jason Edwards, Jami Renee Delgadillo, Valeria Rodriguez Garza, Vamshi Mohan Gobburu, Annat Rosenthal, Britton Mims Ware, IV
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Patent number: 11121922Abstract: Some examples provide a method for automatic network assembly. The following instructions may be used to implement automatic network assembly in a modular infrastructure. Instructions to automatically connect a management port to a management network. Instructions to automatically connect link ports to form a scalable ring. Instructions to automatically connect each modular infrastructure management device to a bay management network port.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2017Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LPInventor: Montgomery C. McGraw
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Patent number: 11121939Abstract: A method for generating a content delivery network (CDN) coverage scheme includes determining that a target area meets a node quality re-evaluation condition, calculating node quality evaluation data in the target area, calculating an area coverage list according to the node quality evaluation data and one or more node coverage parameters, and generating a coverage scheme of the target area according to the area coverage list and one or more area coverage parameters.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2018Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: GUIZHOU BAISHANCLOUD TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Lijia Fu, Hui Miao
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Patent number: 11115282Abstract: An apparatus for identifying network devices comprises a data acquisition unit that receives data from a multiplicity of network devices. It also comprises an interpretation unit that extracts identification data from the data and determines which of the multiplicity of network devices has sent the received data. A similarity of measured data of a physical clock to a predefined pattern and/or to previously measured data of the physical clock is analysed as a first criterion of an association of received data. In addition, at least one further criterion of an association of received data can be analysed among the identification data.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2018Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Jörg Weide, Jens Geier, Daniel Schmidt, Sebastian Spieß, Bernd Buschinski
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Patent number: 11108652Abstract: Systems or methods that may be used to assist in distributed flow whereby each network element obtains information from a server so a first network element has information to determine what network element to connect with to create virtual private network tunnels associated with a virtual private network service.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Ali Nikain, Mohammad Nikain, Shahriar Ziari, Daniel Connolly
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Patent number: 11108832Abstract: Systems and methods for selectively routing a connect to a network through a control function associated with the network. The system can distinguish between control functions based on functionalities associated with the control function itself or capabilities associated with a user device. The system can select between the control functions based at least in part on an identifier associated with the user device, a subscriber account associated with the user device, or another trait of the connection. The system can select the control function based on a determination made by a control node associated with the network and may be further based on a Network Resource Function, a Domain Name System server, internal static listings of the control functions, or other resource that associates one or more identifiers with the control function. The system can obtain the identifier once the user device requests a connection with the network and provide the identifier to the control node.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.Inventors: Saqib Badar, Christopher H. Joul, Shujaur Rehman Mufti