Patents Examined by Shew-Fen Lin
  • Patent number: 10824639
    Abstract: Technologies are provided for scaling applications via application scenarios. Portions of application resource content stored in a database are associated with application scenarios. The portions of the resource content associated with an application scenario are replicated to one or more computing nodes associated with the application scenario. Requests associated with the application scenario are transmitted to the one or more one or more computing nodes, where they are processed using the replicated portions of the resource content associated with the application scenario.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Achim Becker, Franz Faerber, Florian Foebel, Kesavaprakash Vasudevan, Martin Weidner, Jonathan Dees
  • Patent number: 10817467
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of providing a materialisation of a set of logical rules on a logical database comprising a set of logical facts. Each of a plurality of parallel processing threads performs the following steps. A logical fact that has not previously been received by any thread is received by the thread. By applying any of the logical rules to the received logical fact and/or any of the logical facts received by any thread prior to the received logical fact, the thread determines whether a new logical fact is implied, and if so the new logical fact is added to the set of logical facts. The thread then repeats the above steps on any further logical facts in the set of logical facts that have not previously been received by any thread. When all threads are waiting for a new logical fact, the method has completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Inventors: Boris Motik, Yavor Nenov, Ian Horrocks
  • Patent number: 10795881
    Abstract: Technologies are described for performing replication of data within a database environment having a source node and a replica node. The source node executes a database operation on at least one database table stored by the source node. The source node asynchronously sends the database operation to the replica node. A prepare commit request is synchronously sent from the source node to the replica node. The source node receives a synchronous precommit acknowledgement from the replica node. The precommit acknowledgement indicates that the database operation was executed at the replica node. The source node commits a transaction associated with the database operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Juchang Lee, Chang Gyoo Park, Kyu Hwan Kim, Hyoung Jun Na, Deok Koo Kim, Joo Yeon Lee
  • Patent number: 10789258
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can obtain at least one content item to be scored with respect to a user, wherein the score is used to determine whether the content item is included in a content feed of the user. A value for a first event is determined based at least in part on a likelihood of the user performing an action with respect to the content item, wherein the likelihood of the user performing the action is greater than an average user of the social networking system. The score for the content item is determined based at least in part on the value for the first event, wherein the first value is dampened to reduce its contribution to the score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Mahmud Sami Tas, Vibhi Kant, Gregory Matthew Marra, Dean Griffin Eckles, Yaroslav O. Dudin
  • Patent number: 10740288
    Abstract: Accessing objects in an erasure code supported object storage environment including receiving, from a requesting entity, a read request for an object stored in the object storage environment; identifying, using a placement data structure, an object fragment location of a first object fragment of the object; calculating, based on a filesystem root inode number and the object fragment location, a first inode address for the first object fragment of the object, wherein the first inode address identifies a location on a first storage node; reading, using the first inode address, the first object fragment and an inode structure, wherein the inode structure for the first inode address comprises a second inode address for a second object fragment of the object; reading the second object fragment using the second inode address, wherein the second inode address identifies a location on a second storage node; and providing, to the requesting entity, a reconstructed object comprising the first object fragment and the se
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sasikanth Eda, Rezaul S. Islam, John T. Olson, Sandeep R. Patil
  • Patent number: 10726018
    Abstract: Techniques and constructs to facilitate semantic matching and automated annotation (SMA) of attributes can take entity names and a keyword describing an attribute associated with the named entities as input and leverage a corpus of data such as data from tables, which can include HTML web tables, to automatically populate values associated with the named entities for the attribute. The constructs enable accurate SMA of attributes, such as attributes that relate to the entity and include numeric values in a different unit than the query, in a different scale than the query, and/or reflecting a time different from that of the query. An entity augmentation application programming interface (API) may be used to accept queries that include numeric criteria, parameters, or arguments, including query attributes represented by numeric values, which may be in different units or scales, and attributes represented by numeric values that can vary by time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Kaushik Chakrabarti, Meihui Zhang
  • Patent number: 10664488
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of executing a user query includes presenting a user interface to allow a user to enter a query, receiving a user-entered textual request through the interface, launching a search service to rewrite the textual request into a search query, sending the search query to a presentation server, receiving an answer to the query, and returning the answer to the user as a graphical representation. A computer-implemented method includes receiving a crawl request from a user, launching a crawl manager to monitor the crawl request and track statistics related to the crawl, starting a crawl task based upon the crawl request, indexing a business intelligence presentation server to create a data index, and storing the data index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Ananth Venkata, Jacques Vigeant, Satish Gopalakrishna
  • Patent number: 10657119
    Abstract: A fleet node management system may include a metadata store, a plurality of fleet nodes, and one or more metadata mutation devices. The metadata store may be configured to store dynamic metadata. The plurality of fleet nodes may be configured to determine, based on a gossip protocol, whether to continue performance of a function that uses a local version of the metadata. The one or more metadata mutation devices may be configured to determine, based on a global state of the fleet nodes, whether to modify the dynamic metadata for the fleet nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Alazel Acheson, David Carroll, Christopher Andrew Stephens, Seth William Markle, Jonathan Herman, Mihir Dharamshi, Rajesh Sampath, Shreeranga Puttur Ramakrishna, Rameez Sajwani
  • Patent number: 10657158
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein for automatically generating data extraction templates for structured documents (e.g., B2C emails, invoices, bills, invitations, etc.), and for assigning classifications to those data extraction templates to streamline data extraction from subsequent structured documents. In various implementations, a data extraction template generated from a cluster of structured documents that share fixed content may be identified. Features of the cluster of structured documents may be applied as input to extraction machine learning model(s) trained to provide location(s) of transient field(s) in structured documents, to determine location(s) of transient field(s) in the cluster of structured documents. An association between the data extraction template and the determined transient field location(s) may be stored. Based on the association, data point(s) may be extracted from a given structured document of a user that shares fixed content with the cluster of structured documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Ying Sheng, Yifeng Lu, Jing Xie, Jie Yang, Luis Garcia Pueyo, Jinan Lou, James Wendt
  • Patent number: 10650011
    Abstract: A method includes logically organizing, by an object hierarchy processor, data objects in a first hierarchy. A portion of the data objects in the first hierarchy logically includes groupings of other data objects. The object hierarchy processor physically organizes the data objects across two or more types of memory in a second hierarchy. Another portion of the data objects in the second hierarchy physically includes groupings of other data objects. Groupings of the data objects in the second hierarchy are dynamically moved across the two or more types of memory. Levels of access of the data objects are tracked using a data structure that maps groupings of the data objects in the first hierarchy onto metadata information including combined access frequencies of the data objects, and current number of accessors to the data objects, in each grouping of the data objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald J. Barber, Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee, Mohammad Sadoghi Hamedani, Guy M. Lohman, Chandrasekaran Mohan, Ippokratis Pandis, Vijayshankar Raman, Richard S. Sidle, Adam J. Storm
  • Patent number: 10621156
    Abstract: A client-side component of a journal-based multi-data-store database identifies an application schema corresponding to a first application whose data is stored at the database. The application schema includes a writes section indicating a data object to which writes are to be issued from the first application. A journal schema defining one or more data objects for which a concurrency-control protocol is implemented by a journal manager of the database is obtained. Before a transaction request of the application is submitted to the journal manager, the client-side component verifies that the application schema is compatible with the journal schema.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: John Michael Morkel, Yevgeniy Mikhaylyuta, Allan Henry Vermeulen, Tate Andrew Certain, Atreya Srivathsan, Andrew Wayne Ross, Timothy Daniel Cole, Christopher Richard Jacques De Kadt, Artem Danilov
  • Patent number: 10572550
    Abstract: A method for determining a crawling schedule is disclosed, the method being executable at a crawling server coupled to a first web resource server and a second web resource server. The method comprises: acquiring a first new web page associated with the first web resource server; acquiring a second new web page associated with the second web resource server; determining a first crawling benefit parameter for the first new web page, the first crawling benefit parameter being based on a predicted popularity parameter and a predicted popularity decay parameter thereof; determining a second crawling benefit parameter for the second new web page, the second crawling benefit parameter being based on a predicted popularity parameter and a predicted popularity decay parameter thereof; based on the first crawling benefit parameter and the second crawling benefit parameter, determining a crawling order for the first new web page and the second new web page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: YANDEX EUROPE AG
    Inventors: Damien Raymond Jean-François Lefortier, Liudmila Alexandrovna Ostroumova, Egor Aleksandrovich Samosvat, Pavel Viktorovich Serdyukov, Ivan Semeonovich Bogatyy, Arsenii Andreevich Chelnokov, Gleb Gennadievich Gusev
  • Patent number: 10534808
    Abstract: A visual query such as a photograph, a screen shot, a scanned image, a video frame, or an image created by a content authoring application is submitted to a visual query search system. The search system processes the visual query by sending it to a plurality of parallel search systems, each implementing a distinct visual query search process. These parallel search systems may include but are not limited to optical character recognition (OCR), facial recognition, product recognition, bar code recognition, object-or-object-category recognition, named entity recognition, and color recognition. Then at least one search result is sent to the client system. In some embodiments, when the visual query is an image containing a text element and a non-text element, at least one search result includes an optical character recognition result for the text element and at least one image-match result for the non-text element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: David Petrou
  • Patent number: 10496681
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to electronic activity classification. A plurality of node profiles corresponding to a plurality of unique entities is maintained. A plurality of electronic activities is accessed from electronic accounts of one or more data source providers. Features are extracted from the electronic activities to determine a classification of the first electronic activity. A confidence score is determined indicating a likelihood that the first electronic activity of a classification type. An association is stored between the first electronic activity and a tag corresponding to the first classification type. The confidence score is updated based on a second electronic activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: People.ai, Inc.
    Inventors: Oleg Rogynskyy, Stefan Hermanek, Yury Markovsky
  • Patent number: 10482425
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided techniques for managing functionality changes of an on-demand database system. The techniques facilitate implementing changes to the database system while minimizing work flow reductions to users of the database system. To that end, one embodiment of the present invention delays implementation of the changes to provide users of the system an opportunity to adjust behavioral interaction with the database. In accordance with another embodiment of the present invention, users may implement the functional changes to determine any adverse impact on work flow, before the functional changes become permanent. In another embodiment, the user may be afforded an opportunity to selectively enable and disable the functionality changes before the duration expires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Eric D. Bezar, Sonali Agrawal, Varadarajan Rajaram, Walter Macklem, Jill Blue Lin, Sriram Gopalan, Sandip Ghosh
  • Patent number: 10474539
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide for a system and associated logic to enable browsing of a federated backup having a plurality of portions, each portion separately generated and indexed by a plurality of nodes. In one embodiment, the system performs a federated backup by generating a unique identifier on a primary node and providing the unique identifier to each secondary node tasked with generating the plurality of portions. The secondary nodes associate the unique identifier with each of the plurality of portions. The unique identifier can then be used by a recovery UI to generate and display a consolidated view of the plurality of portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Sunil Yadav, Pradeep Anappa, Elango Chokalingam, Matthew D. Buchman, Suman Tokuri, Vladimir Mandic
  • Patent number: 10452640
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, a computer-readable medium and a system are provided. A transaction master for each of a plurality of transactions of a database is provided. Each transaction master is configured to communicate with at least one transaction slave to manage execution of a transaction in the plurality of transactions. Each transaction master configured to perform generating a transaction token to specify data to be visible for a transaction on the database, the transaction token including a transaction identifier for identifying whether the transaction is a committed transaction or an uncommitted transaction, receiving a request to commit the transaction, initiating, based on the request, a two-phase commit operation to commit the transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Juchang Lee, Michael Muehle
  • Patent number: 10452649
    Abstract: Described are methods, systems and computer readable media for computer data distribution architecture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Deephaven Data Labs LLC
    Inventors: David R. Kent, IV, Ryan Caudy, Charles Wright, Radu Teodorescu
  • Patent number: 10445186
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for performing a backup of data to a backup server for one or more applications on a virtual machine having a universally unique identifier (UUID). A backup application can be deployed within the virtual machine, residing on a guest operating system. The backup application can report a list of applications on the virtual machine to the backup server. The backup server can deploy any application-specific modules that may be needed to perform the backup, and a list of pre- and post-backup actions to take, per application. The backup server can trigger the pre- and/or post-backup actions. The virtual machine can inform the backup server that the pre- and/or post-backup actions have completed. Backups can be in accordance with one or more policies stored at the backup server and associated with the virtual machine UUID or associated with an account that the virtual machine, or its user, are associated with.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: David vonThenen, Patty Zack
  • Patent number: 10402371
    Abstract: Computing systems, apparatuses, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products are disclosed for creating a shared communication channel in a group-based communication platform having a plurality of database shards. An example computer-implemented method includes generating a shared communication channel shard that is assigned a shared communication channel identification, a first set of shared communication channel attributes associated with a first group identification, and a second set of shared communication channel attributes associated with a second group identification. The method further includes generating first and second externally shared group-based shared communication channel interfaces based on the first and second sets of shared communication channel attributes, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Slack Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Elizabeth Johnston, Andrew King, Myles Grant