Patents Examined by Shiow-Jy Fan
  • Patent number: 10896170
    Abstract: Techniques for integrating data from multiple data sources with a transaction-related workflow are provided. The disclosed techniques include, in response to determining that a contact record was retrieved from a second data source, concurrently with the assigning of a role to the contact record, instantiating a version of the contact record in a first data source using data obtained from the second data source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Luke Braud, Derek E. Lyons, Christian Marenbach, Baran Salih Nohutcuoglu, Vikram H. Patil
  • Patent number: 10885119
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is method and system for processing multimodal user queries. The method comprises determining availability of one or more responses to each of one or more sub-queries, wherein the one or more sub-queries are formed by splitting the multimodal user queries. The method detects requirement of an expert to provide the one or more responses upon determining at least one of unavailability of the one or more responses by the response generation system or based predefined conditions. Thereafter, a summarized content is generated by summarizing context of the one or more sub-queries and historical conversation data associated with the one or more sub-queries. Based on the summarized content, the one or more sub-queries are reformulated. Finally, the one or more responses received, from the expert, for the reformulated one or more sub-queries are collated provided as the one or more responses for the multimodal user queries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Wipro Limited
    Inventor: Manjunath Ramachandra Iyer
  • Patent number: 10878036
    Abstract: Database systems handle queries represented in different character sets. A database system allows data stored in the same database column to be represented in different character sets. In response to a query, the database system returns query results in the same character set as the received query even though the data stored in the database column is in a different character set. The database system creates and maintains a metadata table that stores attributes of database columns. The attributes of database columns include, among others, a data type, and a collation attribute. By tracking the collation attributes for data stored in database columns, the database system determines whether to convert data stored in a database column when processing database queries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Actian Corporation
    Inventor: Ian Philip Kirkham
  • Patent number: 10877947
    Abstract: The technology disclosed uses machine learning-based models to compare and merge metadata profiles from various metadata sources to create a library of metadata profiles with the most accurate attributes. The technology disclosed adjusts the geospatial coordinates of places located inside a building structure for accuracy and defines a block for each place within the perimeter of the building structure. The building structure may host a single place or multiple places. The non-overlapping blocks, the adjusted geospatial coordinates of places and more accurate metadata profiles enable the gathering of accurate location-specific data from visitors inside the building structures through their personal devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: SafeGraph, Inc.
    Inventors: Kaushik Iska, Noah Yonack, Tenzing Shaw, Andrew Israel, Takashi Yonebayashi, Piotr W. Kozikowski Kruczkowska, Aaron Goebel
  • Patent number: 10860609
    Abstract: A global and local row count limit associated with a limit query are received by a stop operator of a first execution node among a set of execution nodes that are assigned to process the limit query. Local distributed row count data is generated based on a local row count corresponding to a number of rows output by the first execution node in processing the query. Based on determining the local row count satisfies the local limit, the first execution node buffers rows produced in processing the query. The local distributed row count data is updated based on remote distributed row count data received from a second execution node. A stopping condition is detected based on determining the global limit is satisfied based on updated local distributed row count data and query processing by the first execution node based on detecting the stopping condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Sebastian Breβ, Moritz Eyssen, Max Heimel
  • Patent number: 10860650
    Abstract: Implementations disclose determining which videos are newsworthy events. A method includes identifying, based on data extracted from online content, a knowledge base (KB) entity corresponding to the online content, identifying an embedded video in the online content, recording an online content identifier (ID) of the online content and a video ID of the embedded video as an entry for the identified KB entity in a KB reference data store, determining at least one video ID that occurs more than a threshold number of times in the entry for the identified KB entity in the KB reference data store, and identifying a resulting video corresponding to one of the at least one video IDs as a candidate for a notification to one or more users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Philo Juang, Justin Lewis
  • Patent number: 10853348
    Abstract: A multi-user search system with methodology for personalized search query autocomplete. In one embodiment, for example, a computer-implemented method includes: receiving a search query having an incomplete token; generating an index key that is composed of both (a) an identifier of a document namespace that a user account associated with the search query is authorized to access, and (b) the incomplete token; accessing an index dictionary with the index key to identify a plurality of index tokens, each index token of the plurality of index tokens having the identifier of the document namespace as part of the index token and having the incomplete token as a token portion of the index token or as a prefix of the token portion of the index token; iterating over the plurality of index tokens until a stop condition is reached; and returning an answer to the search query based on the iterating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Samir Goel, Franck Chastagnol, Abhishek Agrawal
  • Patent number: 10838932
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, a computer-implemented method of cleansing data is provided that comprises determining a criticality score and a complexity score for identified attributes of an enterprise, wherein the criticality score represents a relevance of an attribute to one or more enterprise dimensions and the complexity score represents complexity of cleansing data for an attribute. The identified attributes for data cleansing based on the criticality and complexity scores are prioritized, and data of the identified attributes is cleansed in accordance with priority of the identified attributes. Embodiments further include a system, apparatus and computer readable media to cleanse data in substantially the same manner as described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Carl M. Marrelli, Ram S. Narayanan, Martin Oberhofer, Solmaz Rashidi
  • Patent number: 10831561
    Abstract: A technique of operating a system is provided that processes data with one or more data processing modules provided in parallel. A synchronization token is input into at least one data processing module that is in an operational state from the one or more data processing modules provided in parallel, in response to a request to change allocation of the data. The allocation of the data is changed to the one or more data processing modules provided in parallel, after the synchronization token is input. In response to the synchronization token having arrived at a data processing module at a later stage, the at least one data processing module, that stopped the processing, starts processing data after the synchronization token is input to the at least one data processing module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Hagiwara, Junichi Kato, Kumiko Maeda, Yuriko Nishikawa, Chiaki Oishi, Yutaka Oishi, Yoshinori Tahara
  • Patent number: 10824681
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing enterprise resource textual analysis. An embodiment operates by receiving a request to search a document management system for a keyword. One or more relevant documents of the document management system associated with the keyword are identified. The keyword is compared to a data dictionary corresponding to an enterprise system associated with the document management system. Contextual search results including the one or more relevant documents and a relationship between the keyword and data of the enterprise system are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Udo Klein, Susan Marie Thomas
  • Patent number: 10817554
    Abstract: The modifying of a natural language interpretation model for interpreting natural language queries. The system discovers modifications that one or more queriers made to one or more original query results of one or more natural language queries to generate one or more modified query results. The system then uses the discoveries to identify one or more changes to a natural language interpretation model that would result (given the same natural language queries) in one or more query results that more accurately reflect the one or more modified query results. The system the causes the natural language interpretation model to be modified with at least one of the one or more identified changes. Accordingly, over time, the natural language interpretation model may learn from observations of its own performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Pedram Faghihi Rezaei, Christopher A. Hays, Amir M. Netz, Patrick J. Baumgartner
  • Patent number: 10817499
    Abstract: A multi-user search system with methodology for personal searching. In one embodiment, for example, a computer-implemented method includes: receiving a search query; routing the search query to a particular index server based on an identifier of a document namespace; using the identifier of the document namespace at the particular index server to identify a set of matching and authorized indexed documents; and providing an answer to the search query identifying the set of matching and authorized indexed documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Samir Goel, Franck Chastagnol, Abhishek Agrawal
  • Patent number: 10802922
    Abstract: Embodiments for, in a shared storage environment, managing data replication between first and second sites of a distributed computing environment by one or more processors. Based on an identified data block-set for replication, a unique metadata map is generated as a computed snapshot of the identified data block-set, the metadata map accounting for a predetermined block-size for transfer. The unique metadata map is transferred to the second site. The second site adds the unique metadata map to a global metadata repository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Emmanuel Barajas Gonzalez, Shaun E. Harrington, Harry McGregor, Christopher B. Moore
  • Patent number: 10796247
    Abstract: A system for managing risk in employee travel may track a location of users of the travel risk management system during travel. Travel itinerary information for a user may be input into the travel risk management system, including user identification information, travel date information and geographic location information for travel destinations. During the travel period, the system may communicate with a portable computing device to determine the user's actual location, and update the stored travel itinerary information if the user's actual location is different than the user's expected location. The system may transmit a location request message to the user's portable computing device, or a mobile application may cause the portable computing device to transmit the user's location without prompting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: WorldAware Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas R. Turk, Christopher Holt, Justin Priestley, Ian Nunn
  • Patent number: 10776700
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and system for automatic resolution of user queries by a query resolution system. The query resolution system receives user queries from a plurality of input sources, where the user queries are in a natural language. Further, the query resolution system determines user intent by analysing the user queries. Upon determination of user intent, the query resolution system resolves the user queries dynamically by performing one of providing a response for the user queries by retrieving information from one of a database and external data sources based on the user intent and routing the user queries to a query domain resource for resolving the user queries, where the query domain resources is determined based on the user intent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Senseforth, Inc.
    Inventors: Krishna Kadiri, Shridhar Marri, Ritesh Radhakrishnan, Suryaprakash CV, Tousif Khazi
  • Patent number: 10769029
    Abstract: Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for accessing records of a backup file in a network storage. A backup file comprises a sequential file of metadata records and data set records is processed. The metadata records include metadata on data of data sets in the data set records. Backup objects store the metadata and the data set records in the backup file. A determination is made of at least one container in the network storage to store the backup objects. Backup object information indicates for each of the backup objects, an order of the metadata or data set record, stored in the backup object, in the backup file, and a container of the at least one container in which the backup object is stored. Multiple of the backup objects are concurrently transmitted to the network storage to concurrently write to the at least one container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ernesto E. Figueroa, Robert S. Gensler, Jr., Jeffrey R. Suarez
  • Patent number: 10740360
    Abstract: Techniques that facilitate identification and/or analysis of sequences associated with computing devices are provided. In one example, a system includes a transaction component, a clustering component and a model component. The transaction component identifies at least one sequence in a stream of sequences generated by a computing device in communication with the system. The clustering component assigns the at least one sequence to a transaction sequence group. The model component generates a transaction model based on the transaction sequence group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Pengfei Chen, Fan Jing Meng, Jing Min Xu, Lin Yang, Xiao Zhang
  • Patent number: 10726022
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a search query inputted by a first user, wherein the search query comprises one or more n-grams; calculating a needle-confidence score for the search query that is calculated by a needle-intent classifier based on at least the n-grams of the search query and a language model analysis of the n-grams, and wherein the needle-confidence score represents a probability that the search query was intended as a needle search; classifying the search query as a needle search if the calculated needle-confidence score is above a threshold confidence score; and generating a plurality of search-result modules, each search-result module comprising one or more search results matching the search query, wherein one of the search-result modules is a social module, and wherein the number of search results in the social module is based on the classification of the search query as a needle search.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Shiun-Zu Kuo, Veselin S. Stoyanov, Rose Marie Philip, Melissa Rose Winstanley
  • Patent number: 10664362
    Abstract: The recovery of one or more transactions in a computing system in which one or more persistent systems are coupled via a bus to one or more processors. As an example, the persistent system may serve as at least part of the main memory of the computing system. The transaction might implement multi-versioning in which a record is not updated in place. Rather, each record is represented as a sequence of one or more record versions, each version having a valid interval during which the record version is considered to properly represent the record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Per-Ake Larson, Robert Patrick Fitzgerald, Cristian Diaconu, Michael James Zwilling
  • Patent number: 10664454
    Abstract: A word completion system based on a partial but exact template that entails a finite number of matches. The key component is a closed ended template made up of cues representing one or more characters, constrained by the exact number of characters in the desired word. It can be edited with pinpoint accuracy to regenerate a new result set in real time to reflect the change. The exact number of characters in the template can be indicated by a discrete signal with a designated gesture or keying in a number. The system is substantially interactive without requiring command line input or a scripting language. A delimiter or a designated signal is used to select an entry from the result set to complete the target word. The proposed method is inherently deterministic and extensible to different writing systems and portable to a wide range of hardware platforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Inventor: Wai-Lin Maw