Patents Examined by Truong Vo
  • Patent number: 9460206
    Abstract: In the case of a web-based platform apparatus for collecting and editing information, which platform apparatus can be networked to a plurality of subscribers that can be identified by means of an identifier, wherein the information on the platform is formed by a plurality of dual units (DuUs), wherein a dual unit (DuU) respectively comprises a memory location, associated with a prescribeable content and provided with an identifier, and also a prescribeable criterion, associated with the memory location and in the form of an information filter, for input of a piece of information into the memory location, strategic interchange of the contents of dual units by a plurality of suitable subscribers is rendered possible in that the content of at least one dual unit (DuU) (104) from a plurality of dual units (101 to 109) of a subscriber A is transmitted to a subscriber B in automated fashion by means of an active feed (DuU-feed) (140), and at the same time the content of at least one dual unit (DuU) (112, 113) from
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Inventors: Björn Kersting, Ernst A. Bender
  • Patent number: 9454568
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for acquiring hot content are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring N search requests and N search responses corresponding to the N search requests; analyzing the N search requests and the N search responses to obtain N initial hot content datum; calculating a weight of each initial hot content data and selecting M middle hot content datum from the N initial hot content datum according to the weight of each initial hot content data, and M is a natural number and no greater than N; performing repetition elimination on the M middle hot content datum; and selecting hot content from the M middle hot content datum after the repetition elimination. The apparatus includes acquiring module, analyzing module, selecting module, repetition eliminating module and processing module. According to the disclosure, the hot content can be acquired automatically without extra editing, thereby improving the efficiency of acquiring hot content and saving the human cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Jiaqiang Wang
  • Patent number: 9449010
    Abstract: In order to manage stale data on a network of computer systems, a file harvester agent may be configured with a list of stale data files to be deleted. The file harvester agent may be deployed to the computer systems of a network. When executed in a computer system, the file harvester agent searches the file system of the computer system to locate any files or data indicated in the file list. Any located data files are deleted. Once the agent has finished processing the file list on a computer system, the agent can copy or replicate itself to other computer systems of the network in accordance with a pre-configured itinerary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas T. Wheeler, Paul Lipari
  • Patent number: 9449041
    Abstract: A database system lock operation method is provided that includes: acquiring, by a first processing node, a lock operand of a target lock; using, by the first processing node, the target lock to perform a lock acquiring operation on a target data object; when the lock operand meets a condition for a successful lock acquiring operation, determining, by the first processing node, that the lock acquiring operation is successful, and updating a value of a data bit that is in the lock operand and used to indicate a state of the target lock on the first processing node to a value that is used to indicate that the state of the target lock on the first processing node is lock held. Accordingly, the embodiments of the present invention further disclose a node device. The embodiments of the present invention can improve performance of a database system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuanyuan Nie, Huijun Liu, Chuanting Wang
  • Patent number: 9436688
    Abstract: In some example embodiments, a system and method are illustrated to link a plurality of scenes from at least one multimedia file. The system and method include loading a plurality of multimedia files including a first and second multimedia file. The first multimedia file includes a first scene, and the second multimedia file includes a second scene. The system and method include linking the first scene with the second scene. The linking includes connecting a first durational data for the first scene with a second durational data for the second scene. The first durational data identifies a first start location and a first end location for the first scene. The second durational data identifies a second start location and a second end location for the second scene. The system and method further include generating a linked durational data file as a result of the linking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Anant Gilra, Ashish Duggal
  • Patent number: 9436736
    Abstract: A plurality of streams of tuples is received by processing elements operating on computer processors, the processing element having one or more stream operators. A first stream of tuples is processed at a receiving stream operator. A streaming condition is then identified. The streaming condition is determined to be satisfied and an alternate stream of tuples is processed at the receiving stream operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael J. Branson, John M. Santosuosso
  • Patent number: 9436729
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an information retrieval system evaluation method, device and storage medium. A ratio between the sum of all the related object parameters of a keyword in keyword in an evaluation retrieval result set and the sum of all the related object parameters of the keyword in keyword in a retrieval result set is used to compute a recall rate of an information retrieval system. And the recall rate is introduced to evaluate the information retrieval system, thereby enhancing accuracy of quantitative evaluation of the information retrieval system, and improving the automation degree of evaluation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Yan Shen, Ruxuan Xue, Zhengping Zhu
  • Patent number: 9430549
    Abstract: A system for knowledge capture and discovery comprises a knowledge repository in which all input data is stored as objects and relationships between objects, and which input data may be stored according to more than one storage format. At least two hierarchical user interfaces provide input mechanisms to obtain the input data, object information concerning the input data and relationship information concerning the input data, thereby permitting end user applications to be developed. A controller receives the input data, object information and relationship information from the at least two hierarchical user interfaces and causes the input data to be stored in the knowledge repository as an object based on the object information and the relationship information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: BEULAHWORKS, LLC
    Inventors: Site Guo, Robert E. Johnson, III, Blaine Robert Hilton, David Alan Nevill
  • Patent number: 9430617
    Abstract: Systems and methods for content selection and processing in an information system are described herein. In one example, a content suggestion engine operates to select, suggest, or recommend content to human users. The selection of content may be suited to a goal or set of goals set by a human user (for example, content recommendations used to assist the human user with achieving a personal health goal). The content suggestion engine may evaluate information to help determine the appropriateness of the content suggestions, considering factors such as a psychological profile, medical conditions, lifestyle, demographics, and goals. The content may be further filtered and weighted to select a subset of content and suggested actions most relevant to the human user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Wellclub, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Edwin Brust, Phillip Kennedy, Jamal Khan, Jay W. Johnson, Tom Waddell
  • Patent number: 9424435
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a system that facilitates the execution of a web application. During operation, the system allocates a storage space on one or more storage devices for use by the web application. Next, the system creates, for the web application, a private filesystem comprising a private root directory within the storage space. Finally, the system enables access to the private filesystem for the web application through the private root directory in a manner that does not allow access to a host filesystem associated with the one or more storage devices from the web application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Uhrhane, Matthew Papakipos
  • Patent number: 9418123
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to a method for recommending target object information, a system for recommending target object information, a client for recommending target object information, a server for recommending target object information, and a computer program product for recommending target object information. A method for recommending target object information is provided. The method includes receiving a target object informational recommendation request including information pertaining to a plurality of short-listed objects selected, determining historical selection information on the plurality of short-listed objects, the historical selection information including a historical count, a selection count, or both, and sending the part or all of the short-listed object historical selection information to a client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventor: Jia Rong
  • Patent number: 9418096
    Abstract: A control method is used in an information processing system which has a plurality of computers. The control method includes receiving, by a first computer of the plurality of computers, an update request of data from a first client device, receiving, by a second computer of the plurality of computers, a read request of the data from a second client device. The control method also includes selecting, by the second computer, a computer as an query destination from the plurality of computers excluding the first computer and a third computer that is a terminal to receive the update request sent from the first computer, when the data is undergoing updating due to the update request; transmitting a verify request to inquire whether the data is undergoing updating, to the query destination; and transmitting the data to the second client device based on a reply from the query destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Jun Kato
  • Patent number: 9418142
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for detecting communities in a weighted graph. The community detection module includes a tagset data aggregator, a counts statistics engine, a weighted graph generator, a coherence engine, a community detector and a tag recommendation engine. The tagset data aggregator receives tagset data. The counts statistics engine determines counts statistics for the tagset data. The weighted graph generator generates and denoises weighted tag occurrence graph based on the counts statistics. The coherence engine determines importance score for all tags and coherence score for all tagsets in the tagset data. The community detector determines maximally coherent communities in the weighted tag co-occurrence graph. The tag recommendation engine recommends tags in real time using the maximally coherent communities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Shailesh Kumar
  • Patent number: 9411847
    Abstract: An application monitoring infrastructure that enables application configuration changes on multiple machines across multiple OS types to be tracked by identifying data containers that are to be monitored for changes, detecting a change to a monitored data container, and storing data representative of a changed version of the monitored data container responsive to detecting that the monitored container was changed. The data containers that are to be monitored for changes are identified from templates, and a unique template is provisioned for each of the applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Adar Margalit, Eran Dvir
  • Patent number: 9405757
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a file storage system, an apparatus, and a file access method. The system includes a storage management apparatus and an adapter, where the storage management apparatus is configured to receive an operation instruction sent by a user interface apparatus and send a invoking command to the adapter according to the operation instruction, and the adapter controls, according to the invoking command, a public cloud storage system to perform a file storage or read operation and return a operation result. The technical solutions of the present invention are implemented based on existing public cloud storage and cloud computing technologies and have advantages of low construction complexity and ease of implementation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kai Zhao
  • Patent number: 9405758
    Abstract: A method and a system for identifying a file type. A modification interface may be provided so that a user inputs a file feature parameter, and the file feature parameter input by the user is added to a file type configuration file, then the file type configuration file is loaded to a state machine to perform file type identification. Therefore, the user can modify a file feature parameter in the original file type configuration file, and when a file feature parameter of a file of a certain type is changed or a file of a new type appears, the user can update a file feature parameter in the state machine in time to identify the changed file or the file of the new type. In this way, the user does not need to search for an identification tool on the Internet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Linghong Ruan, Wu Jiang, Shiguang Li, Zhenhui Wang
  • Patent number: 9405849
    Abstract: A method identifies pairs of first and second command inputs from respective user device sessions for which the first and second operation data are indicative of a first operation failure and a second operation success. The first operation data indicate a first operation performed on data from a first resource property in response to the first command input, and the second operation data indicate a second operation performed on data from a second resource property in response to the second command input. They system determines, from the identified pairs of first and second command inputs, command inputs for which a parsing rule that is associated with the second operation is to be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jakob D. Uszkoreit, John Blitzer, Engin Cinar Sahin, Rahul Gupta, Dekang Lin, Fernando Pereira, Ciprian I. Chelba
  • Patent number: 9400820
    Abstract: The invention relates to a data-loading system and a corresponding method for loading software configurations into the electronic components of aircraft, said data-loading system comprising a databank system and a least one transportable data-loading device. Software configurations for at least one fleet of aircraft are stored in the databank system, and said data-loading device is configured to load, via a port, an allocated software configuration that has been obtained from said databank system into a data bus of an aircraft which corresponds to this software configuration. Said data-loading device is configured to load the latest individual software configurations of all of the aircraft of the fleet, from the databank system, and to store these on said data-loading device, this loading process taking place at a ground-based storing position by means of a data connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: LUFTHANSA TECHNIK AG
    Inventors: Joerg Schowalter, Matthias Fliegner
  • Patent number: 9398867
    Abstract: A device worn by a human performing a method using accelerometer data to classify human activities is disclosed. The method uses memory and computation efficiently. A stream of samples is divided into a sequence of sampling periods; each sample has an acceleration value for each axis (e.g., a 3-D accelerometer). Standard deviation of the values for each axis during each sampling period are calculated. A running sum of each axis' values can be maintained sample-by-sample. Each value is sorted into a bin of a histogram, by quantifying a deviance from a respective mean in standard deviations. A standard deviation produced from samples of a previous period can be used. The histogram is compared with histograms associated with particular activities and a classification output can be produced. Classification outputs from multiple sampling periods can be used for voting. A threshold amount of activity can be required to begin activity classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: ARCHINOETICS LLC
    Inventors: J. Hunter Downs, Nathan Ronald Kowahl, Fahrettin Olcay Cirit, William James Robinson, Richard Moffitt Cowan
  • Patent number: 9390159
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a system for ingesting, organizing, and storing data is disclosed. The system comprises a processor and a memory unit. A document database is stored by the memory unit. The document database is configured to store data without any foreknowledge of a structure of the data. The data comprises an ontology comprising a plurality of terms describing the data within the document database. A graph database is stored by the memory unit. The graph database comprises a materialized view of the document database. The graph database provides connections between the ontology. The document database and the graph database share common entity profile UUIDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: ZEPHYR HEALTH, INC.
    Inventors: Sven Christoffer Junkergard, Brian Thomas Roy