Patents Examined by Tu Nguyen
  • Patent number: 9712646
    Abstract: An operation (such as a relational query) may be processed on a processing engine (such as a relational database server) on behalf of a client. A conventional processing involves the delivery of the operation to the processing engine, which executes the entire operation to completion and returns a result data set. It may be more efficient to allocate part of the operation to be performed on the client, but a developer may be unable or unavailable to rewrite the operation in a distributed manner. Instead, the operation may be automatically partitioned into a pre-engine client portion, a processing engine portion, and a client portion, and the instructions of each portion may be automatically allocated respectively to the client, the server, and the client. The partitioning may be adjusted to conserve computing resources, such as bandwidth and storage, and the instructions may be reordered to improve the processing of the operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Erik Meijer, Dinesh Chandrakant Kulkami, Matthew J. Warren, Anders Hejlsberg
  • Patent number: 9712639
    Abstract: In various embodiments, the systems, methods and computer-readable mediums (collectively “system”) discussed herein may be configured to enable a single mobile application to receive dynamically customized content. The criteria and/or preferences that influence the dynamically customized content may be defined by a user and/or may be automatically detected by a user device. The criteria and/or preferences may be associated with the mobile application and/or a mobile device operating the mobile application. The criteria and/or preferences may be provided as part of a request for content to a content distribution system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Hans-Jurgen Greiner, Mallikarj U Hiremath, Owais Mohaideen, Edward Louis Morabito, Vasif Mehmood Pasha, Kevin H. Ringger, Sathyakumar Rajaraman, Mukund Shankar Simha Raghu, Subir Sud
  • Patent number: 9703585
    Abstract: A method and system for an assisted live migration of virtual machines are provided. The method monitoring, by an advisory server, at least a workload of physical machines in a datacenter; determining if at least one physical machine is overloaded based on the monitored workload; for each of the at least one physical machine determined to be overloaded, selecting at least one virtual machine resides in the respective physical machine, wherein the selection is based at least on a current load of the virtual machine; and initiating a live migration of the selected virtual machine when the current load is lower than a comfort load level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Radware, Ltd.
    Inventors: Samuel Bercovici, Gilad Zlotkin
  • Patent number: 9699252
    Abstract: Techniques for deployment of virtual machine disks (VMDKs) in a virtualized computing environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a request to deploy a VMDK to a virtual machine (VM) is received. The VMDK includes a master virtual disk file and at least one data virtual disk file. Further, the master virtual disk file is copied from a shared network file system to a storage device associated with a host computing system. Furthermore, a redo virtual disk file is created in the storage device upon copying the master virtual disk file. Also, changes made to content associated with the VMDK are stored in the redo virtual disk file until the at least one data virtual disk file is copied to the storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventor: Jinto Antony
  • Patent number: 9690871
    Abstract: Online systems, for example, social networking systems store features describing relations between entities represented in the online system. The information describing the features is represented as a graph. The online system maintains a cumulative feature graph and an incremental feature graph. Feature values based on recent user actions are stored in the incremental graph and feature values based on previous actions are stored in the cumulative graph. Periodically, the information stored in the incremental feature graph is merged with the information stored in the cumulative feature graph. The incremental graph is marked as inactive during the merge and information based on new user actions is stored in an active incremental feature graph. If a request for feature information is received, the feature information obtained from the cumulative feature graph, inactive incremental feature graph and the active incremental feature graph are combined to determine the feature information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Ming Hua, Hong Yan
  • Patent number: 9684787
    Abstract: Methods, systems and devices compute and use the actual execution states of software applications to implement power saving schemes and to perform behavioral monitoring and analysis operations. A mobile device may be configured to monitor an activity of a software application, generate a shadow feature value that identifies actual execution state of the software application during that activity, generate a behavior vector that associates the monitored activity with the shadow feature value, and determine whether the activity is malicious or benign based on the generated behavior vector, shadow feature value and/or operating system execution states. The mobile device processor may also be configured to intelligently determine whether the execution state of a software application is relevant to determining whether any of the monitored mobile device behaviors are malicious or suspicious, and monitor only the execution states of the software applications for which such determinations are relevant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vinay Sridhara, Rajarshi Gupta, Bohuslav Rychlik
  • Patent number: 9686079
    Abstract: A server receives a package of data including: a document designated for notarization, identification information including a photograph, photograph of a user, and a signature of the user. The server compares the photograph of the user to the photograph included with the identification information. Next, the server verifies an identity of the user based on the identification information and the photograph by comparing the photograph of the signer to the photograph included with the identification information. The server then applies the signature and an indication of notarization to the document designated for notarization to create a notarized version of the document. The server stores the notarized version of the document, the photograph, and the identification document in a secure data package, and provides the notarized version of the document to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: eIngot LLC
    Inventor: William J. Raduchel
  • Patent number: 9686362
    Abstract: An access point and a method for controlling an IoT (Internet of Things) device, using the access point. The method includes receiving a request for a service list from a user terminal through a smart access point communication with one or more IoT devices provided in one space; providing a list of virtual objects which are able to be provided out of virtual objects corresponding to the one or more IoT devices to the user terminal as the service list; receiving a control service request generated from the service list of the user terminal; identifying an IoT device corresponding to the control service request and requesting the identified IoT device for IoT control; and renewing a state of a virtual object corresponding to the identified IoT device based on a response of the identified IoT device and transmitting information on the state renewal to the user terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Jun Kyun Choi, Jin Hong Yang, Hyo Jin Park, Yong Rok Kim
  • Patent number: 9667611
    Abstract: Improved techniques involve selecting a set of authentication factors from among multiple factors based on a current situation and information about how well the multiple authentication factors have worked in similar situations in the past. Along these lines, when an authentication system performs an authentication operation on a requesting party, the authentication system first assesses a situational environment. Based on the assessment of the situational environment, the authentication system decides that it is necessary to re-authenticate the requesting party. In some arrangements, the authentication system may determine which set of factors has the highest likelihood of successfully verifying the user's identity when compared with other authentication factors. The authentication system then carries out an authentication operation on the selected set of factors and bases a successful authentication result on whether the selected set of factors can be verified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Lawrence N. Friedman, Yedidya Dotan, Gareth Richards, Daniel V. Bailey, William M. Duane, John G. Brainard
  • Patent number: 9648086
    Abstract: Methods and systems for the remote certification testing of user video devices. In an embodiment, test logic and any related test input data is sent from a remote source such as an application server to a user video device. The test logic is executed at the user video device, and test results are output. The test results are sent back to the application server. The operation of the application server may be facilitated by a database. In embodiments, such a database stores test logic and test input data, and/or stores tests results for subsequent analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Sonic IP, Inc.
    Inventors: William Amidei, Jason Braness, Eric Grab, Michael Kiefer, Abhishek Shivadas
  • Patent number: 9648111
    Abstract: A relay server generates a search condition in accordance with a connection request from the first terminal, and requests so that a management server searches for a state of the first terminal; when device information of the first terminal which is transmitted from the management server in response to the request is obtained, generates relay information and transmits the relay information to the first terminal; and controls communication between the first terminal and the second terminal in accordance with the relay information. The management server searches for state information of the first terminal in accordance with the requested search condition, and communicates the state information to the relay server as the device information; and in accordance with receiving the relay information from the first terminal, transmits the relay information to the second terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Jin Sunata
  • Patent number: 9648160
    Abstract: A communication system comprising a server capable of establishing telephone communications between at least two users of a communication network and transcribe audio and/or voice communication signals of either or both users of a telephone call established by the server and the transcription is done in accordance with user selectable feature information entered by the users during a registration procedure to the communication system at a website residing in a registration server in communication with the communication system. The communication system may be part of the PSTN or the Internet or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: C21 Patents, LLC
    Inventor: Kent S. Charugundla
  • Patent number: 9626196
    Abstract: Technologies for broadcasting management information include a management server and a number of client devices. The management server encodes management data such as a certificate revocation list into a number of message fragments using a fountain code encoding algorithm and broadcasts the message fragments continually over a network. Each client device analyzes the network during a boot process to receive the broadcast message fragments. Each client device decodes the message fragments using a fountain code decoding algorithm and determines whether the message is complete. If the message is complete, the client device parses the message to retrieve the management data and may install the management data on the client device. If the message is incomplete, the client device may store the message fragments in nonvolatile storage for processing during future boot events. The client device may perform those operations in a pre-boot firmware environment. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Vincent J. Zimmer, Michael A. Rothman
  • Patent number: 9621682
    Abstract: A system for distributing audio or video data across a network, wherein an input data rate controller at a server controls the transmission rate to a client such that it matches the intended rendering rate of the data, and time stamps the data using a clock that is synchronized with the clock of the client. The client monitors the rate at which data is received, compares the rate against the rate at which the data is actually rendered, and adjusts the rate at which the data is actually rendered depending on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Qualcomm Technologies International, Ltd.
    Inventors: Richard Turner, Laurent Wojcieszak
  • Patent number: 9614920
    Abstract: A system and method for providing a suggestion to a first user about adding a second user to a social group of the first user based at least in part on the context of an interaction between the first user and the second user. A connection application receives first user and second user activity on the third-party website responsive to authenticating the first user and the second user on the third-party website. The connection application identifies an interaction between the first user and the second user on the third-party website and determines the context for the interaction between the first user and the second user on the third-party website. The connection application identifies a group that the first user created on the social network based on the identified context and provides a suggestion to the first user that the first user add the second user to the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Ayush Agarwal, Francis Ma, Seth Sternberg
  • Patent number: 9578144
    Abstract: Maintaining layer 7 state as a client device roams between network devices during a session. Data packets used in executing a layer 7 application are received at a first network device that a client device is coupled to during a session. Data packets received by the first network device are stored in a layer 7 application buffer that is sent to a second network device that a client device roams to during a session. A layer 7 application buffer is used to classify a layer 7 application that is the subject of a session in order to maintain layer 7 state as a client device roams to a second network device during a session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Aerohive Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Yufeng Wu, Yunlei Yang
  • Patent number: 9575629
    Abstract: A computer implemented method includes providing an operating system for controlling electronic desktops displayed on multiple monitors. The methods include providing a plurality of electronic desktops for a first monitor and a different plurality of electronic desktops for a second monitor and allowing independent switching of desktops on the first and second monitors. The methods also include moving electronic desktops between monitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Inventors: Andrew S. Hansen, Scott B. Hansen
  • Patent number: 9571562
    Abstract: A system and a method for data collection and analysis that uses a multi-level network are provided. The system comprises a first client device and a central network. The first client device and the central network form the multi-level network. The first client device is configured to receive a first data and perform a first data fusing process based on the first data. The first data fusing process generates a second data. The central network is in communication with the first client device. The central network receives the second data from the first client device. The central network is configured to perform a second data fusing process based on the second data to generate a third data. The third data is communicated to the first client device so that the first client device can perform a third data fusing process based on the third data to generate a fourth data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Dana Limited
    Inventors: Mark R. J. Versteyhe, Matthias W. J. Byltiauw
  • Patent number: 9571186
    Abstract: An OTDR device and method for characterizing one or more events in an optical fiber link are provided. A plurality of light acquisitions is performed. For each light acquisition, test light pulses are propagated in the optical fiber link and the corresponding return light signals from the optical fiber link are detected. The light acquisitions are performed under different acquisition conditions, for example using different pulsewidths or wavelengths. Parameters characterizing the event are derived using the detected return signal from at least two of the plurality of light acquisitions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: EXFO INC.
    Inventors: Stéphane Perron, Michel Leblanc
  • Patent number: 9571998
    Abstract: Systems and methods for event reporting are provided. In a method for event reporting in a system that includes an event source and a plurality of event consumers, notifications from the event source are received at an event reporter. The notifications are received at a first rate. The event reporter receives a plurality of desired sampling rates from the plurality of event consumers, where each of the desired the sampling rates indicates a rate at which an event consumer desires reporting of notifications from the event reporter. The notifications are filtered based on the first rate and the plurality of desired sampling rates. The filtering selects one or more of the notifications to be reported to one or more event consumers of the plurality of event consumers. The selected one or more of the notifications are reported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: MARVELL WORLD TRADE LTD.
    Inventor: Liming Xie