Patents Examined by Taylor Elfervig
  • Patent number: 12095721
    Abstract: An application program spans a plurality of digital social networks. The application program includes an inferred digital social network. Consent is obtained from a plurality of users of the digital social networks to participation in the inferred. digital social network. Information is automatically obtained from the digital social networks for the users, through a plurality of respective communication channels, which can be application program interfaces or covert or subliminal channels, The information includes link information between each of the users and other individuals in the digital social networks. The information is aggregated for the users to form the inferred digital social network, corresponding to a graph having nodes representing the users and the other individuals and having links between the nodes representing social relationships.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: FRIENDSHIP LINK PROTOCOL, LLC
    Inventor: F. David Serena
  • Patent number: 11936738
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for managing a connection between a device and a network. In use, a first device coupled between a second device and a network is identified. Further, the first device is controlled based on predefined criteria utilizing the second device, for managing a connection between the second device and the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventor: Efrain Ortiz, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11838379
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are examples of systems and methods for tailoring the posting of notifications based on device activity status. A client device can collect activity data associated with the client device. The client device can provide the activity data to a management service. The client device can receive from the management service a command to disable a capability of an application installed on the client device to post notifications. The client device can cause the capability of the application to post notifications to be disabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: VMWare, Inc.
    Inventors: Rohit Pradeep Shetty, Ramanandan Nambannor Kunnath
  • Patent number: 11750597
    Abstract: In an approach to unattended authentication in HTTP using time-based one-time passwords, a request is received from a client for a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) authentication on a server. A challenge is sent to the client, where the challenge includes a header that indicates that a Time-based One-time Password (TOTP) is to be used for the HTTP authentication. A first response is received from the client based on a first TOTP value and a shared secret, wherein the first response is encoded based on an encoding mechanism included in the header. Responsive to validating the first TOTP value and the shared secret from the client, the client is authenticated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Kyndryl, Inc.
    Inventors: Mauro Marzorati, Seda Ozses, Barbara K. Smith, Cindy J Mullen
  • Patent number: 11743317
    Abstract: A block-request streaming system provides for improvements in the user experience and bandwidth efficiency of such systems, typically using an ingestion system that generates data in a form to be served by a conventional file server (HTTP, FTP, or the like), wherein the ingestion system intakes content and prepares it as files or data elements to be served by the file server. A client device can be adapted to take advantage of the ingestion process. The client device might be configured to optimize use of resources, given the information available to it from the ingestion system. This may include configurations to determine the sequence, timing and construction of block requests based on monitoring buffer size and rate of change of buffer size, use of variable sized requests, mapping of block requests to underlying transport connections, flexible pipelining of requests, and/or use of whole file requests based on statistical considerations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael George Luby, Mark Watson, Lorenzo Vicisano, Payam Pakzad, Bin Wang
  • Patent number: 11734374
    Abstract: Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform: determining one or more similarity scores between at least two of: a first item in a hierarchical categorization containing items; a category in the hierarchical categorization; or a topic; filtering out at least one potential match from one or more potential matches using the one or more similarity scores; ranking the one or more potential matches, as filtered, using the one or more similarity scores; re-ranking the one or more potential matches, as filtered, using additional data about at least one of: the first item in the hierarchical categorization containing the items; the category in the hierarchical categorization; or the topic; and inserting one or more hyperlinks into an anchor webpage, the one or more hyperlinks configured to navigate a user from an anchor webpage to one or more potential match webpages associ
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Xia Zhao, Wei Shen
  • Patent number: 11729284
    Abstract: A request for a page is received. In response to the request, content comprising the page is provided. The content includes an element which when executed by a browser with which the page request is associated causes the page as rendered by the browser to send a request initiated by the page to obtain an associated requested content. The request initiated by the page is received. A metric associated with the request initiated by the page is determined. Data reflecting the metric associated with the request initiated by the page is stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Nativo, Inc.
    Inventors: Russell Thomas Bradberry, Marcelo Muniz
  • Patent number: 11716382
    Abstract: An embodiment method creates, at a first data center, a first storage volume for an application that is started at the first data center, communicates with a second data center for creating a second storage volume for the application at the second data center to replicate the first storage volume, and sends information identifying the application to the second data center. The second data center creates the second storage volume, and establishes a mapping between the application and the second storage volume using the information identifying the application, where the second data center identifies the second storage volume for the application using the mapping when the application is migrated from the first data center to the second data center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Vadim Longinov, Serge Kornfeld, Ning Wu, Xiali He
  • Patent number: 11659058
    Abstract: A first service of a provider network obtains an identification of one or more substrate addressable devices included in an extension of the provider network. Based on the identification, a launch of one or more compute instances within the provider network is initiated. The one or more compute instances are to connect the provider network to the extension of the provider network across at least a third-party network by receiving a first control plane message directed to a first substrate addressable device of the one or more substrate addressable devices, by updating a message state data store based at least in part on the first control plane message, and by sending a second control plane message to the first substrate addressable device via a secure tunnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Nicholas Liguori, Eric Samuel Stone, Richard H. Galliher, David James Goodell, Patrick John Lawrence, Yang Lin, William Ashley, Steven Anthony Kady
  • Patent number: 11620323
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to a complex computing network for obtaining and using data from a transmitting system and a digital tracking and relaying system. An exemplary method comprises: receiving, from a transmitting system, a first input data associated with a registered user account; receiving, from a digital tracking and relaying system, a second input data associated with the registered user account and captured by a sensor comprised in the digital tracking and relaying system, wherein the second input data is transmitted via an application programming interface (API) comprised in or associated with the digital tracking and relaying system, the second input data comprising usage data associated with the digital tracking and relaying system; and associating at least one of the first input data or the second input data with the registered user account, thereby causing an update to the registered user account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: TIV INC.
    Inventors: Edward C. Strong, II, John P. Pillat, Edward C. Strong
  • Patent number: 11520683
    Abstract: Systems and methods for delta state tracking for event stream analysis. Events at a device are tracked and stored locally or forwarded to a server. The events collectively form an event stream. When an event of interest occurs, the precise configuration of a device at the time of the event of interest can be determined by applying the event stream in chronological or reverse chronological order to a snapshot of the device's configuration. Thus, the snapshot can be taken at any time. Tracking the deltas to the device's configuration enables the precise configuration at the time of the event of interest to be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T MOBILITY IP, LLC
    Inventor: Steve Roskowski
  • Patent number: 11477071
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method carried out at a network device for restarting one or more components of the network device, comprising the steps of monitoring whether at least one condition has been satisfied at any component of the network device. If at least one condition satisfied, one or more components are restarted of the network device, based, at least in part, on the at least one condition. When the network device has been restarted a management server is informed that one or more components of the network device have been restarted. According to the present invention, whether a configuration has been received for the network device is determined from a user or administrator at the management server. When a configuration has been received the configuration is retrieved from the management server. The network device is then configured with the configuration retrieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Pismo Labs Technology Limited
    Inventors: Ho Ming Chan, Nusrat Rahman
  • Patent number: 11469969
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a framework for dynamic management of analytic functions such as data processors and machine learned (“ML”) models for an Internet of Things intelligent edge that addresses management of the lifecycle of the analytic functions from creation to execution, in production. The end user will be seamlessly able to check in an analytic function, version it, deploy it, evaluate model performance and deploy refined versions into the data flows at the edge or core dynamically for existing and new end points. The framework comprises a hypergraph-based model as a foundation, and may use a microservices architecture with the ML infrastructure and models deployed as containerized microservices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Satish Kumar Mopur, Saikat Mukherjee, Gunalan Perumal Vijayan, Sridhar Balachandriah, Ashutosh Agrawal, Krishnaprasad Lingadahalli Shastry, Gregory S. Battas
  • Patent number: 11456983
    Abstract: An interactive operation method is provided. Firstly, an interactive operation request is delivered or received. Then, a first user and a second user perform an interactive operation according to the interactive operation request. The interactive operation request contains a uniform resource identifier with an instruction code. A projectable space instance for modeling a workspace is acquired through the uniform resource identifier. A projected workspace corresponding to the workspace is built after the projectable space instance is parsed. When the instruction code is executed in the projected workspace, the interactive operation is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Able World International Limited
    Inventors: Wai-Tung Cheung, Chun-Hsiao Lin, Ho-Cheung Cheung
  • Patent number: 11449637
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method for providing web tracking transparency to protect user data privacy may include (i) receiving a browser request for target websites during a browsing session, (ii) identifying a tracking type for website trackers utilized by the target websites, the tracking type including a direct tracking type or a tracking sharing type, (iii) extracting an information category for the target websites, (iv) detecting text patterns shared between the target websites in a common information category, (v) determining information collected about a user by the website trackers by combining the tracking type for the website trackers, the information category for the target websites, and the detected text patterns, and (v) performing a security action that protects against unsolicited website tracking in future browsing sessions by providing the information collected by the website trackers to the user. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: NortonLifeLock Inc.
    Inventors: Iskander Sanchez Rola, Leyla Bilge, Pierre-Antoine Vervier, David Luz Silva
  • Patent number: 11444970
    Abstract: A website vulnerability test is performed by automatically checking that a website has not been compromised by malicious third party scripts. A system can test a dynamic behavior of a website that indicates a functional user flow through the website. Instead of merely analyzing static code of a website, the system automatically tests the website in their runtime environments for the presence of malicious third party scripts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Melson, Chris Carlson, Eric Brandel, Caleb Walch, Richard Agostino
  • Patent number: 11431775
    Abstract: Systems and methods of synchronizing multiple media streams, including identifying a time stamp for a plurality of cuts in a master stream, identifying a corresponding time stamp for each of a plurality of cuts in at least one secondary stream, determining a first set of time differences between the identified time stamps of consecutive cuts in the master stream and at least a second set of time differences between the identified time stamps of consecutive cuts in the at least one secondary stream, calculating at least one time offset between the master stream and at least one secondary stream for each pair of consecutive cuts in the master stream, and synchronizing the master stream and the secondary stream based on the at least one time offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: W.S.C. SPORTS TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
    Inventor: Amos Bercovich
  • Patent number: 11411910
    Abstract: A video content sharing network functions as an inferred digital social network. Consent is obtained from a plurality of users of at least one digital social network to participation in the video content sharing network. Information is automatically obtained from the digital social network for the users, through a plurality of respective communication channels, which can be application program interfaces or covert or subliminal channels. The information includes link information between each of the users and other individuals in the digital social network. Each of the users is enabled to share content including video content, to send and receive message information with other users, to view profile information of other users, and to view social contact information of other users, through the video content sharing network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Inventor: Frank A. Serena
  • Patent number: 11405764
    Abstract: It is provided a method, comprising monitoring, for each of plural attempts of a web identity to register for an internet protocol multimedia service, if the respective attempt is received; generating, for each of the plural attempts if the respective attempt is received, a respective private user identification based on the web identity and a respective distinguishing identifier, wherein probability that two of the private user identifications have a same value is less than a predefined limit; providing the respective private user identification in response to the respective attempt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Suprabhat Chatterjee, Peter Leis, Jiadong Shen, Alexander Milinski, Martin Oettl
  • Patent number: 11398959
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a device makes a first determination as to whether a time series of a performance metric for a first network path exhibits seasonality. The device makes a second determination as to whether the time series exhibits a trend. The device predicts, based on the first determination and on the second determination, the performance metric for the first network path during a future time period. The device assesses, based on the performance metric predicted for the first network path, whether a measure of application experience will degrade for application traffic sent via the first network path. The device causes the application traffic to be proactively switched to a second network path, when the measure of application experience is expected to degrade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Mukund Yelahanka Raghuprasad, Vinay Kumar Kolar, Jean-Philippe Vasseur, Grégory Mermoud