Patents Examined by Suraj Joshi
  • Patent number: 10015272
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and storage media associated with compaction of data from one or more computing devices are disclosed. In various embodiments, one or more Internet of Things (IoT) devices may transmit information to a computing system. The computing system may group together raw data received from these one or more IoT devices based on a shared attribute. The computing system may select a compaction scheme to represent the knowledge conveyed by a group of the raw data. The computing system may apply this compaction scheme to the group of raw data to generate data that is representative of the group of raw data. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Tao Zhong, Kshitij A. Doshi, Gang Deng, Ting Lou, Zhongyan Lu
  • Patent number: 10015058
    Abstract: Disclosed are a reliability evaluation system for multi-state flow network and a method thereof. The system includes an element-gaining module and a reliability calculation module. The method includes using a GCF calculating means to calculate an initial reliability according a first and second system-state vector, comparing values of all elements in a set being composed of elements of a second grade of a third system-state vector, excluding an element with a greater value and other related thereof in all grades in the third system-state vector when only one element in the set except the element with greater values so as to obtain remaining elements, using the GCF calculating means to perform the calculation of the remaining element to obtain a calculation results, and summing the initial reliability and the calculation results so as to obtain a reliability of the multi-state flow network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Wei-Chang Yeh
  • Patent number: 10015318
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system provides for end-user control over the automatic recognition of communication situations by detection of unique telecommunication event characteristics and the consequential responses to those situations by invocation of related programmatic responses. The system allows an end user to specify various patterns of telecommunication event characteristics that describe various situational aspects of incoming communications, such as the timing and originator of voice calls, the content of, timing of, and author of chat messages, etc., as well as appropriate sets of programmatic response actions to be performed in response to those communications, such as initiating conference calls, sending chat messages, routing calls to other users, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Eolas Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Carl Landers, Michael D. Doyle
  • Patent number: 10009311
    Abstract: A chat-based communication capability is presented. In at least some embodiments, a chat-based communication capability utilizes a chat-based communication paradigm to support one or more communication interaction types not typically supported by chat-based communication paradigms. In at least some embodiments, a chat-based communication capability supports chat-based communication between a human entity and a non-human entity (e.g., a device, a program, a process, an organization, or the like). In at least some embodiments, a chat-based communication capability supports chat-based communication between multiple non-human entities (e.g., where the non-human entities may include devices, programs, processes, organizations, or the like).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Thomas Woo, Markus Hofmann, James R. Ensor
  • Patent number: 10007500
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating recipes having platform-independent, resource-agnostic commands for performing work in a cloud computing platform. One of the systems includes a plurality of executors, each executor being operable to receive a recipe comprising one or more platform independent, resource agnostic commands, each command corresponding to a requested service to be performed by an execution engine on an underlying computing platform, translate each platform independent, resource agnostic command of the recipe into one or more platform independent, resource specific requests that satisfy the requested service on the underlying computing platform and make each of the one or more platform independent, resource specific requests to one of the one or more execution engines using a platform independent execution engine application programming interface (API).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Pivotal Software, Inc.
    Inventor: Alex Paul Suraci
  • Patent number: 9998342
    Abstract: A method for generating a graph segment providing a gist or summary of an online social network conversation may include generating a graph of the online social network conversation. The graph of the online social network conversation may include a plurality of nodes and each node may be connected to at least one other node by an edge. Each node may represent a message of the online social network conversation and each edge may correspond to an action by a participant in the online social network conversation. The method may also include determining an edge weight for each edge and analyzing the graph of the online social network conversation using at least the edge weight of at least some edges. The method may additionally include generating a graph segment that provides a gist or summary of the online social network conversation based on the analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alaa Abou Mahmoud, Paul R. Bastide, Vijay Francis, Fang Lu
  • Patent number: 9985859
    Abstract: A method of managing servers includes at a central server having one or more processors and memory for storing one or more programs to be executed by the processors: obtaining configuration file for clustering servers; classifying each server into one layer of a hierarchical structure based on business logic associated with the server defined in the configuration file; receiving an operation command from an administrator; analyzing the operation command to identify a target server for executing the operation command; and forwarding the operation command to the target server through a path in the hierarchical structure defined in the operation command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Li Lin
  • Patent number: 9973549
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving from a web real-time communications gateway a first request for communication services from a network resource, where the network resource does not utilize a web real-time communications protocol and where the first request is compliant with a markup language that differs from the web real-time communications protocol, directing the network resource to provide the communication services identified in the first request, receiving a first message from the web real-time communications gateway, where the first message is compliant with the markup language, translating the first message to a first updated message conforming to a protocol used by the network resource, where protocol differs from the markup language used for communicating with the web real-time communications gateway, and transmitting the updated first message to the network resource facilitating the communication services identified in the first request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T MOBILITY II, LLC
    Inventors: Arturo Maria, Thomas J. Routt
  • Patent number: 9973446
    Abstract: Provided is a novel approach for connecting servers to peripherals, such as NICs, HBAs, and SAS/SATA controllers. Also provided are systems for arranging peripherals within one or more I/O directors, which are connected to the servers over an Ethernet network. Such arrangement allows sharing the same resource among multiple servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ariel Cohen, Ashok Krishnamurthi, Viswanath Krishnamurthy, Frank Salzmann, David S. Allison, Cheng Tang
  • Patent number: 9964982
    Abstract: A system includes one or more processors to receive from a client computing device a request to setup a zone and assign at least one circuit breaker selected from a plurality of circuit breakers to the zone, receive from the client computing device a selection of a control methodology for the zone, receive from the client computing device a control request for the at least one circuit breaker, and generate a message for controlling the at least one circuit breaker, the message formatted according to the control methodology and execute at least one operation to control the at least one circuit breaker in the zone based on the control request and the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: RDC, Inc.
    Inventors: Dan Trong Nguyen, Alan Milo Tschirner
  • Patent number: 9967169
    Abstract: Embodiments relate systems and methods for detecting network conditions based on a correlation between trend lines. In embodiments, a network management server can monitor the status and operation of network machines, such as servers or targets, as well as network transmission hardware (e.g. routers). Streams of network operation data from those sources can be captured and stored. The management server or other logic can examine the network operation data to identify trend lines for network conditions, such as application faults, attempted intrusions, or other events or conditions. Trend line data can be treated to generate second or other higher-order derivatives, such as third-order derivatives or others. A time correlation between two or more trend lines and/or their higher order derivatives, for instance, the occurrence of a peak value in the same time window, can be used to identify an event, state or condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Paul DeHaan, Adrian Karstan Likins, Seth Kelby Vidal
  • Patent number: 9961131
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for providing enhanced reliability for web services. In an implementation, a proxy service supports web services provided by a client application to at least an online service. While the client application is temporarily disconnected from the proxy service, the proxy service monitors for web services activity to occur in association with the web services provided by the client application to at least the online service. In response to the client application reconnecting to the proxy service after having been temporarily disconnected from the proxy service, the proxy service communicates activity information to the client application indicative at least of whether or not to query the online service with respect to the web services activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Bruce Bernard Lowekamp, Matthew Todd Kaufman
  • Patent number: 9961163
    Abstract: A system (111) and method for notifying subscriber devices (121) communicated with a subscriber local area network (120) and an ISP network operator (100) for receiving (101) notification requests comprises: a contact database (14) of subscriber devices (121) and notification mechanisms available for each subscriber device (121), a query manager (11) which consults the contact database (14) to verify the subscriber device (121) and its available notification mechanisms and sends a state of the notification request to the ISP network operator (100), a detector (13) for inventorying each subscriber device (121) in the contact database (14), analyzing (105) traffic from the subscriber local area network (120) and identifying notification mechanisms of each inventored subscriber device (121); a notifier (12) which selects (108) at least one notification mechanism from the available notification mechanisms for notifying the destination subscriber device (121) using the selected notification mechanism if any ava
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: TELEFONICA, S.A.
    Inventors: Antonio Agustin Pastor Perales, German Martin Gomez, M Mar Garcia Puerto
  • Patent number: 9954964
    Abstract: Technologies are presented for providing a suggestion list presenting options for posting information related to viewed content on a communication network. In some examples, a user may desire to contribute to posted content by adding comments and other relevant information. A system may identify one or more key terms included in the viewed content, and may compare the key terms with content, such as files, emails, websites, images and media content, on computing devices and web browser histories associated with the user to identify information that may be related to the viewed content. If the system identifies information related to the key terms of the viewed content, the system may present the identified information associated with key terms to the user, and may enable selection from a posting suggestion list for automatically posting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: EMPIRE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LLC
    Inventor: Ezekiel Kruglick
  • Patent number: 9953297
    Abstract: Sharing online with granularity is described, including providing content for presenting to a user; receiving input from the user indicating identification of a portion of the content; associating with another user a notice of availability of the content; receiving a request from the another user, the request identifies the content; and providing the content for presenting to the another user, such that at least a part of the portion of the content is positioned for presenting without navigation input from the another user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Xincheng Zhang, Jia Liu
  • Patent number: 9948739
    Abstract: A system to aggregate and broadcast live event data in real-time includes an aggregator host server having one or more processor circuits; and an aggregator component executing on a processor circuit to: receive a plurality of data payloads, from topic entries associated with a plurality of subscribed topics associated with a live event, from a message queue server; aggregate the plurality of data payloads into a new aggregated topic entry; and publish the new aggregated topic entry to an aggregated topic at the message queue server, when the aggregator component has a publisher role.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: CBS Interactive Inc.
    Inventor: Darin Spivey
  • Patent number: 9948594
    Abstract: To control publication of messages within a social networking server (SRS) from a communication terminal (TC), a server (SC) capable of communicating with the social networking server (SRS) intercepts a message (Mes) containing text data (DonT), the message being provided by a user registered on the social networking server (SRS) and intended to be published by the social networking server (SRS). The server (SC) extracts keywords associated with the text data (DonT) based on a semantic analysis of the text data, and blocks publication of the message (Mes) if at least one extracted keyword is included in a set of keywords (EnsMC) associated with another user registered on the social networking server (SRS), said user being included on a list (LC) initially defined by said other user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Johann Stan, Nicolas Marie
  • Patent number: 9948526
    Abstract: A server apparatus receives a device ID indicating one electrical home appliance among one or more electrical home appliances and a gateway ID indicating that the one electrical home appliance belongs to a same owner, a same group, or a same home as the one or more electrical home appliances, determines whether or not the one electrical home appliance is a newly connected electrical home appliance, using a management database that manages device IDs indicating the one or more electrical home appliances and the gateway ID, and when it is determined made that the one electrical home appliance is a newly connected electrical home appliance, provides an information device, which is associated with the gateway ID and which differs from the one electrical home appliance, with notification information for confirming whether or not it is to be permitted to collect the log information from the one electrical home appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Toshihisa Nakano, Motoji Ohmori, Tomoyuki Hirota
  • Patent number: 9942330
    Abstract: Session Manager anti-looping creates a model that is an effective barrier to looping, efficiently identifying a loop condition by maintaining temporary individual call counters for header sets within temporal parameters and terminating the loop condition upon detection. The system provides an administrator with adjustable parameters for loop detection count and loop detection interval, thereby allowing protection against loop conditions, both inadvertent and intentional.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Extreme Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Harsh V. Mendiratta, Stephen Andrew Baker, Alejandro Vaquero, Stephen R. Durney, Ryan Scott Wallach, William G. Bahr
  • Patent number: 9936033
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus to identify media presentation devices are disclosed. An example method includes associating respective ones of a first and a second network device with respective ones of at least two different pseudo domain name service (DNS) servers, wherein the pseudo DNS servers do not provide domain name-to-IP address translation. Crediting the first network device with accessing media in response to receiving a first domain name service query at a first pseudo DNS server from a first public Internet protocol address. Crediting the second network device with accessing media in response to receiving a second domain name service query at a second pseudo DNS server from the first public Internet protocol address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventor: Jan Besehanic