Patents Examined by Sean Concannon
  • Patent number: 9954904
    Abstract: A communication device may include a message generator configured to generate a message in accordance with a command set to use a communication service provided by a communication session setup protocol; and a modem circuit coupled to the message generator and configured to operate in accordance with the message generated by the message generator; wherein the message generator is configured to generate the message comprising a command to at least one of control or establish an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: INTEL DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventor: Frank Kowalewski
  • Patent number: 9798696
    Abstract: Traffic data while the system is in operation is collected for a certain time as a preprocess. Typical patterns are extracted from the collected traffic data. Next, stream programs are created for the individual typical patterns and stored for the future reference. Next, the IDs of alternative tasks for transition among different stream programs are stored. In actual system operation, the system measures traffic data regularly or at any time, compares the resultant patterns with the typical patterns, and selects a stream program corresponding to the closest typical pattern as the next phase. Program shutdown time when shifting from the stream program in the present phase to the next phase can be reduced by gradually shifting empty tasks in the present phase to the next stream program as alternative tasks in consideration of the cost of switching between tasks, the cost of transferring data among resources, and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Munehiro Doi, Hideaki Komatsu, Kumiko Maeda, Masana Murase, Takeo Yoshizawa
  • Patent number: 9794138
    Abstract: Traffic data while the system is in operation is collected for a certain time as a preprocess. Typical patterns are extracted from the collected traffic data. Next, stream programs are created for the individual typical patterns and stored for the future reference. Next, the IDs of alternative tasks for transition among different stream programs are stored. In actual system operation, the system measures traffic data regularly or at any time, compares the resultant patterns with the typical patterns, and selects a stream program corresponding to the closest typical pattern as the next phase. Program shutdown time when shifting from the stream program in the present phase to the next phase can be reduced by gradually shifting empty tasks in the present phase to the next stream program as alternative tasks in consideration of the cost of switching between tasks, the cost of transferring data among resources, and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Munehiro Doi, Hideaki Komatsu, Kumiko Maeda, Masana Murase, Takeo Yoshizawa
  • Patent number: 9692631
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to link user requirements of data sessions to the network conditions provides an application making an advance request corresponding to a data session, which a communication device may immediately acknowledge but will attend to the request at its convenience. The data session setup is based on the actual network conditions which are either sensed by the device or provided by an agent in the network. The method may be overlaid on top of existing wireless handsets using existing technologies. Hence, all the flexibility and configurability associated with data sessions offered by the existing solutions may remain intact with added features for the customer and the operator. In various exemplary embodiments, the method may use a network load measurement capability in the device and/or a network agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Venkata Ratnakar Rao Rayavarapu, David Steer
  • Patent number: 9621407
    Abstract: A secure communication mechanism is disclosed. The secure communication mechanism may utilize one or more secure communication capabilities to secure communications of various types of users in various types of networks. The secure communication capabilities may include one or more of a user pattern hiding capability (e.g., a user behavior pattern hiding capability, a user communication pattern hiding capability, a user browsing pattern hiding capability, or the like), a gateway hopping capability, or the like, as well as various combinations thereof. The users may include corporate users (e.g., for communications related to corporate matters or for communications related to personal matters), user associated with non-corporate entities, individuals not associated with a corporation or other type of entity (e.g., individual users, groups of users, or the like), or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Madhav Moganti, Mayuresh Pandit, Anish Sankalia
  • Patent number: 9602574
    Abstract: Provided are methods and systems for rendering and displaying an initial layout of a web application (e.g., calendar application), where the layout includes data specific to a time zone determined to be applicable to a user. Server-side rendering of the initial layout is utilized without compromising the correctness of the initial layout if the server-side heuristics fail. The methods and systems are designed such that it is not necessary to “know,” “fingerprint,” or “reverse engineer” the browser's local time zone in order to validate the time data to be displayed with the user's time-bound information (e.g., calendar data) in the web application. Furthermore, meaningful time data can be displayed to the user without the full web application having to execute in the browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Sorin Alexandru Mocanu, Patrick Mowat Coleman
  • Patent number: 9596320
    Abstract: Systems and method for providing for uncoupled application extensions to a remote access application. The application extensions are provided as part the remote access application to provide features and functionalities that otherwise are not provided by underlying the application programs that are made available by the remote access program. These features and functionalities may be provided without a need to modify the underlying application program, as they are integral with the remote access application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Calgary Scientific Inc.
    Inventors: Monroe Milas Thomas, David Bruce McFadzean, Matthew James Stephure
  • Patent number: 9591100
    Abstract: Method and systems of providing remote access to an application in a tiered remote access framework that includes a server tier and a client tier. In the server tier, an application that is remotely accessed and a server remote access application execute on a server. In the client tier, a client remote access application executes on a client device. A server SDK may be associated with the application in the server tier, where the server SDK being adapted to communicate display information to the client tier. A client SDK may be associated with a client application executing on the client device, where the client SDK receives the display information from the server tier. The client device connects to the server at an enumerated Uniform Resource Locator (URL) to initiate the reception of the display information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Calgary Scientific Inc.
    Inventors: Monroe Milas Thomas, David Bruce McFadzean, Matthew James Stephure
  • Patent number: 9590900
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, an apparatus with a first interface coupled to a local domain with routers that employ a redundant router protocol, such as Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) and/or Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP), and a second interface coupled with a shared domain, such as Virtual Private LAN (Local Area Network) Service (VPLS), and virtual bridging logic coupled with the first and second interfaces. The virtual bridging logic performs packet snooping, filtering and/or provides a proxy service so that the routers employing the redundant router protocol are localized in the local domain, and avoids the routers employing the redundant router protocol from associating with other routers employing the redundant routing protocol that are in another local domain coupled with the shared domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajesh Amaresh Rajah, Amit Surendra Singh
  • Patent number: 9591059
    Abstract: An apparatus for file change notifications includes a notification creation module that creates, on a first local node, a file change notification message in response to a client creating, deleting, and/or modifying a file system item addressed through a file path. The first local node notifies associated local client processes representing clients connected to the first local node and flagged to receive file change information. The apparatus includes a node identification module that checks a global node for second local nodes flagged to receive file change information for the file path and a notification distribution module that sends a file change notification message from the first local node to the second local nodes in response to receiving identification of the second local nodes. A second local node notifies associated local client processes representing clients connected to a second local node and flagged to receive change information for the file path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christian Markus Michael Ambach, Ronnie Leif Sahlberg
  • Patent number: 9544368
    Abstract: Methods and systems for finding a migration target include building a constrained, layered graph from a catalog of possible configuration combinations and a distance function for each layer in the graph; and determining an available path through the graph, said path having a minimum overall distance from a source instance, by performing an optimized search that selectively evaluates available paths through the graph based on cumulative distances of paths through the graph from the source instance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John K. Baker, Moises I. Galvan, Yunwu Huang, Matthew A. Markley, Amitkumar M. Paradkar, Venkata Vinay Kumar Parisa, Birgit M. Pfitzmann
  • Patent number: 9485134
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for managing system management agent configurations which include agent system management programs and program parameters in a distributed environment. A configuration management server sends upon request from the agents installed on the distributed system a description of their configuration. To this effect, the configuration management server maintains a database storing the agent configuration information, this database being usually updated by a system management administrator. The agents get from the server the list of peer distributed systems having the same agent configuration and their configuration from one distributed system of the list or obtain an agent configuration directly from the configuration management server if the peer distributed systems have modified their configuration. The agents advise the system management server when a new configuration has been installed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Luisa Attanasio, Gianluca Gigliarelli, Francesco Lecciso, Gianluca Mariani, Antonio Secomandi
  • Patent number: 9485786
    Abstract: A solution is proposed for managing a plurality of data processing mobile devices. A corresponding method comprises the step of downloading management data onto each one of the mobile devices for application thereof on the mobile device, wherein for at least a first one of the mobile devices the management data is downloaded from a data processing central system, each mobile device wherein the management data has already been downloaded defining an inclusive mobile device; in the solution according to an embodiment of the invention, the step of downloading management data comprises electing a set of inclusive mobile devices temporarily as service mobile devices according to characteristic information of the inclusive mobile devices being based at least on a current position thereof, and causing at least a second one of the mobile devices to download the management data from a selected one of the service mobile devices in proximity thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Giovanni Lanfranchi, Scot Maclellan, Claudio Marinelli, Luigi Pichetti
  • Patent number: 9480086
    Abstract: A solution is proposed for managing a plurality of data processing mobile devices. A corresponding system is configured for downloading management data onto each one of the mobile devices for application thereof on the mobile device, wherein for at least a first one of the mobile devices the management data is downloaded from a data processing central system, each mobile device wherein the management data has already been downloaded defining an inclusive mobile device; in the solution according to an embodiment of the invention, the step of downloading management data comprises electing a set of inclusive mobile devices temporarily as service mobile devices according to characteristic information of the inclusive mobile devices being based at least on a current position thereof, and causing at least a second one of the mobile devices to download the management data from a selected one of the service mobile devices in proximity thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Giovanni Lanfranchi, Scot Maclellan, Claudio Marinelli, Luigi Pichetti
  • Patent number: 9456026
    Abstract: A method for file change notifications includes creating, on a first local node, a file change notification message in response to a client creating, deleting, and/or modifying a file system item addressed through a file path. The first local node notifies associated local client processes representing clients connected to the first local node and flagged to receive file change information. The notification message includes information regarding a file change for the file path. The method includes checking a global node for second local nodes flagged to receive file change information for the file path and sending a file change notification message from the first local node to the second local nodes in response to receiving identification of the second local nodes. A second local node notifies associated local client processes representing clients connected to a second local node and flagged to receive file change information for the file path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christian Markus Michael Ambach, Ronnie Leif Sahlberg
  • Patent number: 9451044
    Abstract: Just in time delivery of a consistent user profile to overlapping user sessions, where a first user session issues a request for a first file of a user profile to a server agent. Upon receiving the request, the server agent retrieves the first file from a base user profile, and just in time delivers the retrieved first file to the first user session. The user, via a second user session executing simultaneously with the first user session, issues a request to the server agent for the first file and a second file of the user profile. Upon receiving the request, the server agent identifies a modified version of the first file in a provisional user profile, retrieves the modified first file from the provisional user profile and the second file from the base user profile, and just in time delivers both files to the second user session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Nord, Richard Hayton
  • Patent number: 9432877
    Abstract: An information sharing system is provided with multiple communication devices that wirelessly connect with other communication devices in order to communicate with them without going through an access point. Each communication device has: an internal deduction portion that, using a reception history of notification messages received from the other communication devices, deduces which information is currently being held by each of the other communication devices; a duplication determination portion that determines whether or not the information that is currently being held by another communication device and that was deduced by the internal deduction portion matches information held by its own host device; and an information exchange portion that, when the duplication determination portion determines that the information does not match, transmits a notification message that contains the information held by its own host communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi Ueda, Norihito Fujita
  • Patent number: 9417891
    Abstract: Methods, computer-readable storage medium, and systems described herein facilitate provisioning a virtual desktop infrastructure having virtual shared storage. A provisioning manager receives a desktop pool type and provisions virtual shared storage among a cluster of hosts. The provisioning manager configures the virtual shared storage based on the desktop pool type and provisions at least one virtual machine to each host in the cluster of hosts. The provisioning manager optimizes the virtual shared storage by receiving a storage performance benchmark from each host and performing an optimization on the cluster of hosts if the storage performance benchmark results do not meet a threshold within a pre-defined tolerance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel James Beveridge
  • Patent number: 9400852
    Abstract: Communication method of a content requester, an intermediate node of one or more intermediate nodes, and a content owner in a content centric network are provided. A communication method of a content requester in a content centric network (CCN) includes, where the CCN includes the content requester, one or more intermediate nodes, and a content owner, generating a content request packet including a cache token, the cache token being used to determine one or more of the intermediate nodes in which to store content requested from the content owner, and transmitting the generated content request packet to the intermediate nodes and the content owner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Hoon Kim, Myeong Wuk Jang, Ji Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 9385988
    Abstract: A system for surveying Internet access quality includes a nameserver, registered to be authoritative for a domain name and configured to receive a DNS query to resolve a pseudo-hostname and to extract from the pseudo-hostname an access quality indicator, and a web portal configured to transmit a data survey code to a web browser, the data survey code being configured to access a resource, to determine the access quality indicator responsively to the resource access, to generate the pseudo-hostname including the access quality indicator and the domain name, and to initiate the DNS query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Cedexis, Inc.
    Inventor: Martin Kagan