Patents Examined by Syed H Hasan
  • Patent number: 10726024
    Abstract: A computer-perceptible search input, whether typed, spoken, based upon machine vision, detection and/or interpretation of gestures, for example, may be received by a computing device from a single user. The received input by the single user may be matched with one or more stored digital items based upon prior inputs by the single user that previously led the single user to access the digital item(s). That is, it may be determined whether the received input is the same or similar to a previous input or inputs that led the computing device to search for, select and present digital items that were subsequently accessed (e.g., opened) by the user, which action signifies a successful search.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Rajesh Batra
  • Patent number: 10719495
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for stream selection from multi-stream storage devices. Notification of a KVS tree write request for a multi-stream storage device is received. The notification includes a KVS tree scope corresponding to data in the write request. A stream identifier (ID) is assigned to the write request based on the KVS tree scope and a stability value of the write request. The stream ID is returned to govern stream assignment to the write request, the stream assignment modifying a write operation of the multi-stream storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: David Boles, John M. Groves, Steven Moyer, Alexander Tomlinson
  • Patent number: 10706071
    Abstract: A computerized, bandwidth-reduced system that will reconcile two ordered sets of values such that a series of changes made to the one are reflected in the other by creating defined REMOVE SERIES, SWAP SERIES, INSERT SERIES and CHANGE SERIES for one set of ordered values, transferring the REMOVE SERIES, SWAP SERIES, INSERT SERIES and CHANGE SERIES and using the REMOVE SERIES, SWAP SERIES, INSERT SERIES and CHANGE SERIES to reconcile another ordered set of values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Amit P. Joglekar
  • Patent number: 10706106
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for merge tree modifications for maintenance operations are described herein. A request for a KVS tree is received. Here, the KVS tree is a data structure including nodes and the nodes include a temporally ordered sequence of kvsets that store keys in sorted order. A parameter set for the KVS tree is received. The request is executed on the KVS tree by modifying operation of the KVS tree in accordance with the parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: David Boles, John M. Groves, Steven Moyer, Alexander Tomlinson
  • Patent number: 10706029
    Abstract: A content-name-resolution (CNR) system can resolve IP addresses for named data objects (NDOs) based on their name. During operation, a CNR server can receive a query from a client device for a source to a named data object. The query can include at least a name prefix for the named data object. The CNR server can identify a cache server that corresponds to the named data object's name prefix, and determines one or more sources associated with the named data object's name prefix. The CNR server then returns, to the client device, a query response that includes a network address for the cache server, and includes a content record specifying the one or more sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Spencer Sevilla, Priya Mahadevan, Jose J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves
  • Patent number: 10706115
    Abstract: Methods and systems for improving user search experience with a search engine by providing a way for associated users to personalize search queries and/or search results based on users' information gathered from a social network. Search personalization can be achieved through the tailoring of search methodologies or the ranking or ordering of search results in accordance with information gathered for each user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ellen Spertus, Stephen R. Lawrence
  • Patent number: 10706105
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for collecting and using merge tree garbage metrics are described herein. A kvset is created for a node in a KVS tree. Here, a set of kvset metrics for the kvset are computed as part of the node creation. The kvset is added to the node. The node is selected for a compaction operation based on a metric in the set of kvset metrics. The compaction operation is performed on the node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: David Boles, John M. Groves, Steven Moyer, Alexander Tomlinson
  • Patent number: 10698879
    Abstract: In an extended cloud computing environment comprising a plurality of computing resources associated with an enterprise, a method maintains a distributed ledger integrated with a data sharing system, wherein a given node associated with the distributed ledger and a given node associated with the data sharing system are associated with a given one of the plurality of computing resources in the extended cloud computing environment. The method manages one or more data sets processed by the plurality of computing resources in association with the distributed ledger and the data sharing system, wherein managing comprises storing transactions associated with the one or more data sets on the distributed ledger to enable one or more of the plurality of computing resources to access the stored transactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Todd, Mark A. O'Connell
  • Patent number: 10691484
    Abstract: In a distributed system where a client's call to commit a transaction occurs outside the transaction's lock-hold interval, computation of timestamp information for the transaction is moved to a client library, while ensuring that no conflicting reads or writes are performed between a time of the computation and acquiring all locks for the transaction. The transaction is committed in phases, with each phase being initiated by the client library. Timestamp information is added to the locks to ensure that timestamps are generated during lock-hold intervals. An increased number of network messages is thereby overlapped with a commit wait period in which a write in a distributed database is delayed in time to ensure concurrency in the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Brian Frank Cooper, Alexander Lloyd, Sebastian Kanthak, Andrew Fikes, Christopher Taylor
  • Patent number: 10691664
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for clustering user interface event data for analysis and retrieval are disclosed. In one aspect, a system includes a data store and computer(s) that interact with the data store and execute instructions that cause the computer(s) to receive, for a user interface event, event data specifying a structure of a user interface presented during the user session. The event is assigned to a respective cluster based on a comparison of the structure of the user interface specified by the event data to a user interface structure that represents the respective cluster. For each cluster, a user interface attribute indicative of a user interface state of user interfaces specified by the event data in the cluster is determined. User interface state groups are generated based on the user interface attribute for each cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: FullStory, Inc.
    Inventors: Jaime Michael Yap, Joel Grayson Webber, Hollis Bruce Johnson, Jr., Andrew Scott Blum
  • Patent number: 10685057
    Abstract: Methods for style modification of images in search results are provided. In one aspect, a method includes receiving user input identifying a search query from a client device, in which the search query indicates one or more predetermined search terms. The subject system determines a first collection of images that correspond to the one or more predetermined search terms and a second collection of images that exclude images that correspond to the one or more predetermined search terms. The subject system modifies images of the second collection to apply a keyword style that corresponds to the one or more predetermined search terms, and provides a listing of images to the client device. The listing of images includes both the first collection of images and the images of the second collection that are modified with the applied keyword style. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Shutterstock, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Kikuta Chavez, Grace Mulan Li
  • Patent number: 10685073
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for selecting textual representations for entity attribute values. One of the methods includes receiving, for presentation to a user, data identifying a relevant entity and a respective presentation attribute value for each of a plurality of presentation attributes associated with the relevant entity; obtaining user profile data for the user; selecting a respective textual representation for each of the presentation attribute values, wherein selecting the textual representations comprises selecting a first alternative textual representation for a first presentation attribute value based on the user profile data; and providing data identifying the entity and the textual representations for presentation to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Inventors: Eyal Segalis, Yaniv Leviathan, Yossi Matias, Gal Chechik, Yoav Tzur, Ran El Manor
  • Patent number: 10685328
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing organizational structures are provided. The method of managing organizational structures includes visually representing an organizational structure with movable and definable nodes provided in a hierarchical format, which is generated in a user interface of a computing system. The method further includes mapping, within a database, relationships of the movable and definable nodes and information therein based on visual connections within the hierarchical format. The method further includes updating the database with newly mapped relationships between the movable and definable nodes as the movable and definable nodes are moved into different locations with respect to each other within the hierarchical format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: ADP, LLC
    Inventors: Phillip A. Harris, Daniel D. Kim
  • Patent number: 10685279
    Abstract: Systems and methods include obtaining a set of events, each event in the set of events comprising a time-stamped portion of raw machine data, the raw machine data produced by one or more components within an information technology or security environment and reflects activity within the information technology or security environment. Thereafter, a first neural network is used to automatically identify variable text to extract as a field from the set of events. An indication of the variable text is provided as a field extraction recommendation, for example, to a user device for presentation to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: SPLUNK Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Jamison Oliner, Nghi Huu Nguyen, Jacob Leverich, Zidong Yang
  • Patent number: 10685066
    Abstract: Briefly, embodiments disclosed herein relate generally to on-line content sampling, and more particularly to utilization of machine learning techniques to sample on-line content in a search engine environment, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Oath Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin J. Lang, Edo Liberty, Konstantin Shmakov
  • Patent number: 10678785
    Abstract: A computer-implemented automated review method for structured query language (SQL) source code files seeking to access a data store comprises the steps of calculating an SQL complexity score; setting an issue flag if the SQL complexity score is greater than a threshold; checking the SQL source code for SQL-92 compliance; setting the issue flag if any of the SQL source code files is not SQL-92 compliant; comparing a type of data in the SQL source code files to be input to the data store with a type of a field in the data store set to receive the input data; setting the issue flag if the type of any input data does not match the type of a corresponding data store field; checking the SQL source code for SQL triggers set to activate when selected SQL commands are executed; and setting the issue flag if there are any SQL triggers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
    Inventors: Matthew Anderson, Richard T. Snyder, Daniel George Galvin
  • Patent number: 10681169
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request from an application installed on a client system for one or more interactive elements associated with a respective platform for sharing content to a website associated with the platform, wherein the request includes a user identifier and a content identifier; calculating a ranking score for each of a plurality of interactive elements based on profile information associated with the user identifier; and sending to the application a personalized set of the interactive elements, each of the interactive elements in the personalized set having a ranking score above a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Varun Vikram Bhartia, Todd Michael Hamilton, Raman Kaur Hansi, Yugal Jindle
  • Patent number: 10678803
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for performing search queries in a manner that avoids overloading an indexer cluster or indexers with an unwanted or unauthorized high levels of concurrent searches. The method comprises transmitting a slot request from a search head to a cluster master in response to a query, wherein the cluster master is communicatively coupled with an indexer cluster comprising a plurality of indexers. The method further comprises receiving addresses of active indexers in the indexer cluster and a response to the slot request from the cluster master. Responsive to a grant of a slot by the cluster master, the method comprises using the addresses to transmit the query to the active indexers and receiving results of the query from the active indexers. Subsequently, the method comprises releasing the slot to the cluster master.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: SPLUNK INC.
    Inventor: Ashish Mathew
  • Patent number: 10671567
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for optimizing lock detection in a change block tracker (CBT). A method comprises detecting changes on a disk volume and saving them to current changes, creating a volume changes and a snapshot changes collection, on a snapshot creation request, moving current changes to frozen changes, on a lock request, moving changes to the volume changes collection of the current snapshot, on another lock request, moving volume changes of current snapshot to frozen changes and deleting snapshot changes of current snapshot, when snapshot name is not the same as current snapshot, otherwise: moving the volume changes collection to the frozen changes, copying the frozen changes to the current changes, moving the snapshot changes collection to the frozen changes, and copying the snapshot changes collection to the current changes, moving all volume changes for other snapshots to current changes and allowing the client to read the frozen changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Acronis International GmbH
    Inventors: Andrey Redko, Stanislav Protasov, Serguei Beloussov, Anatoly Stupak
  • Patent number: 10671595
    Abstract: A method may include maintaining first data structure with records organized in a first hierarchy, and maintaining a second data structure with records organized in a second hierarchy. The method may also include receiving a first change request for a value stored in a first record. The first change request may be received from a parent in the first data structure of the first record. The method may additionally include changing the first value according to the first change request, and receiving a second change request for the value stored in the first record. The second change request may be received from a parent in the second data structure of the first record. The method may further include sending a notification to the parent in the first data structure that the parent in the second data structure is attempting to change the first record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Anadi Upadhyaya, Ty Hayden