Patents Examined by Vincent F. Boccio
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Patent number: 8935237Abstract: In one embodiment, identify a set of search results in response to a search query; display the set of search results; receive a user interaction in connection with a first search result from the set of search results; and in response to the user interaction, if the first search result is associated with one or more first information items, then expand the first search result, comprising display the one or more first information items associated with the first search result.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2011Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Rasmus Mathias Andersson, Rose Yao, Erick Tseng
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Patent number: 8935215Abstract: Various systems and methods for restoring data using indexes. For example, one method involves receiving a request that includes a restore criterion. The method involves identifying a storage object in a backup storage device that meets the restore criterion, in response to the request. Detecting the identity of the storage object involves sending a query with the restore criterion to a client computing device that includes an index. The method also involves responding to the request with information identifying the storage object.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2011Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Symantec CorporationInventor: Mukesh Kumar Sharma
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Patent number: 8930335Abstract: One embodiment provides an information processing apparatus, including: a search module configured to perform a search on a plurality of pages with a designated search condition, the pages being managed by an application program capable of managing information by arranging at least one object in any desired layout on each page; and a display controller configured to display at least one object extracted through the search on a screen of a display module as a search result, with a layout of each object on the page kept unchanged.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2011Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Satoru Ishigaki
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Patent number: 8924430Abstract: An image processing apparatus having a processing function of an image includes a communication unit for communicating image data using certificate data; a certificate data storage unit for storing the certificate data; a corresponding status output unit for outputting a correlation between the certificate data and the processing function; and an updating unit for updating the correlation between the certificate data and the processing function.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2009Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Oki Data CorporationInventor: Masato Sato
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Patent number: 8892519Abstract: A system includes a first computer configured to store and run a computer program. The computer program includes an internal interface with tangible machine-readable instructions stored on the first computer, to provide communications between the computer program and external computers and our computer processes. The system also includes a command interpreter configured to interface with the computer program through the internal interface. The command interpreter includes tangible machine-readable instructions to detect a script file; generate one or more command objects, interpretable by the internal interface, representative of a functionality defined in the script file; generate a command script comprising the generated command objects; and execute the command script by executing at least a portion of the machine-readable instructions in the internal interface.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2011Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Ramon Juan San Andres, Blaine Madison Mucklow
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Patent number: 8891937Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating an encoded data stream representing a number of pictures or frames and having a number of layers including a picture layer in which time code information attached to the original data is described or inserted therein for each picture. Such time code information may be inserted into a user data area of the picture layer of the encoded data stream.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2006Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kazuyasu Imahashi, Toshihiko Kitazawa
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Patent number: 8868510Abstract: System, method, computer program product embodiments and combinations and sub-combinations thereof for managing data storage as an in-memory database in a database management system (DBMS) are provided. In an embodiment, a specialized database type is provided as a parameter of a native DBMS command. A database hosted entirely in-memory of the DBMS is formed when the specialized database type is specified.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2010Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Sybase, Inc.Inventors: Aditya P. Gurajada, Amarnadh Sai Eluri, Vaibhav A. Nalawade, Jian Wu, Daniel Alan Wood, Yanhong Wang
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Patent number: 8862538Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a method and technique is disclosed for maintaining a network connection during transfer of the workload from a global environment of a logical partition to a workload partition of the logical partition and during any subsequent transfer(s).Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2008Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sandeep Ramesh Patil, Ranadip Das, Rajeev Mishra
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Patent number: 8862631Abstract: A modeling system has a database that stores information of resources of a computer network service. A server f has a graphical user interface application for creating and editing service models. The application receives user-entered search criteria and searches information in the database based on the criteria. The search criteria can include a name, type, attribute, and other information of the resources. In addition, the search criteria can be a user-entered search query entered that has one or more logical or Boolean conditions relating resource attributes to attribute values. Using information obtained through searching, the application is used to create at least a portion of a service model of the computer network service. Once created, the application is used to initiate publishing of at least a portion of the service model to one or more impact managers of the computer network service.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2005Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.Inventors: Jean-Marc Trinon, Troy Cline, Walt Giroir, Shane Crawford
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Patent number: 8843465Abstract: Contextually relevant pieces of alternative content, including advertisements, are selected for display with requested content based on documents or other second content sources that are referenced by or in the requested content.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2010Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: Google Inc.Inventor: Jeremy Hylton
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Patent number: 8842964Abstract: An audio and/or video generation apparatus which is arranged in operation to generate audio and/or video signals representative of an audio and/or video source, the audio and/or video generation apparatus including a recording unit which is arranged in operation to record the audio and/or video signals on a recording medium, wherein the audio and/or video generation apparatus is arranged to receive metadata associated with the audio and/or video signals generated by a data processor, the recording unit being arranged in operation to record the metadata on the recording medium with the audio and/or video signals. The data processor may be arranged to receive signals representative of the time codes of the recorded audio/video signals, and the metadata may include time code data representative of the in and out points of a take of the audio/video signals generated by the data processor.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2012Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: Sony United Kingdom LimitedInventors: Mark John McGrath, Andrew Collins, Martin Rex Dorricott
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Patent number: 8843472Abstract: A mechanism is provided for efficiently searching a database for data associated with a key value that is unidentifiable in a set of nodes of the database. A request is received to retrieve data from the database, where the request specifies a searched-for key value that is unidentifiable in the set of nodes of the database. The data associated with the searched-for key value is identified in a lowest level node of the database between a current leftmost node and a current rightmost node. A key index is updated in at least one node of the database with the key index value associated with the data and identified from the lowest level node thereby making the searched-for key value identifiable within the at least one node. The data associated with the searched-for key value is then returned to a user.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2011Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Daniel Katz, Eran Raichstein, Amihay Schwarz, Raul D. Segal
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Patent number: 8838533Abstract: A data representation that represents source data at a data source can be maintained. A request to perform an edit can be received from a client, and a request to make the edit to the source data can be sent to the data source. The edit can be optimistically applied to the data representation. Additionally, a change notification can be sent to the client. The change notification can indicate one or more changes to the data representation, where the change(s) resulted from the application of the edit to the data representation. A notification can be received from the data source after applying the edit to the data representation and after sending the change notification. The notification from the data source can indicate whether the edit to the source data succeeded.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2011Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Paul J. Kwiatkowski, Shawn A. Van Ness, Nicolas Brun, Michael A. Nelte, Arpit S. Shah, Paul A. Gusmorino
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Patent number: 8825605Abstract: Systems and methods for scheduling requests to access data may adjust the priority of such requests based on the presence of de-duplicated data blocks within the requested set of data blocks. A data de-duplication process operating on a storage device may build a de-duplication data map that stores information about the presence and location of de-duplicated data blocks on the storage drive. An I/O scheduler that manages the access requests can employ the de-duplicated data map to identify and quantify any de-duplicated data blocks within an access request. The I/O scheduler can then adjust the priority of the access request, based at least in part, on whether de-duplicated data blocks provide a large enough sequence of data blocks to reduce the likelihood that servicing the request, even if causing a head seek operation, will not reduce the overall global throughput of the storage system.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2011Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: NetApp, Inc.Inventor: Manoj Nayak
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Patent number: 8825680Abstract: Provided is a method of converting a medical image used in a network at a patient care facility, the network including an enterprise network storage solution optionally dedicated for storing medical images in a standardized medical imaging format that are to be retrieved over the network. The method includes us a computer system to search a portable computer-readable medium for an indication that the medical image is stored in a proprietary format on the portable computer-readable medium. The proprietary format of the medical image is identified, using the computer system, based on the indication. The medical image is converted into a format that is compliant with a standardized medical-imaging format, transmitted in the standardized medical-imaging format to be: (i) subsequently displayed by a display device without requiring prior storage of the medical image in an enterprise storage solution for medical images, and/or (ii) stored in the enterprise storage solution.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2011Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Codonics, Inc.Inventors: Glenn Burke, Gary Keefe, Lawrence Srnka, Peter Botten
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Patent number: 8824873Abstract: A high resolution video signal is divided by video division means into a main signal and a sub signal, and the main signal and the sub signal are MPEG-encoded. The stream of the main signal and the stream of the sub signal are divided into 1 GPO or more of frames. First interleave blocks each including 1 GOP or more of the stream of the main signal and second interleave blocks each including 1 GOP or more of the stream of the sub signal are recorded on an optical disk. A high resolution reproduction apparatus reproduces both the first and second interleave blocks to obtain a high resolution video output. A non-high quality picture reproduction apparatus reproduces only the first or second interleave blocks to obtain a standard resolution video output.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2013Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Mitsuaki Oshima, Hiromu Kitaura, Hideki Fukuda, Hideshi Ishihara
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Patent number: 8818985Abstract: A method of prioritizing feed items based on rules is provided. User input establishes one or more rules to prioritize a feed item, wherein at least one of the one or more rules incorporates the input data. Such user input may include user-created data or feed metrics. The one or more rules may be weighted. Additional user input configures one or more message cues. A plurality of feed items are prioritized based on the one or more rules. The plurality of feed items are associated with a plurality of feeds, wherein each feed is associated with an object stored in a database system. The plurality of feed items are then displayed in combination with the one or more message cues to a plurality of users of the database system.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2011Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.Inventors: Ronald F. Fischer, Steve Slater
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Patent number: 8799316Abstract: A method for context-based query formulation and information retrieval and aggregation is described. The method includes modeling one or more workflow activities utilized to perform work tasks, preparing at least one meta-querying template, to generate queries that utilize the modeled workflow activities, retrieving information relevant to the work task as determined utilizing the at least one meta-querying template, and aggregating the retrieved information for presentation to the user.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2011Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Ali Bahrami, Jun Yuan
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Patent number: 8775480Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for editing a composite presentation in a media-editing application. The method receives a media file to import into the media-editing application from an external device. The method creates a set of media clip data structures to represent the media file. At least one of the data structures references the media file on the external device. Before the media file is imported from the external device, the method uses the media clip data structure to edit a composite presentation with the media file. After the media file is imported from the external device, automatically modifying the data structure to refer to a copy of the media file on a local device.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2011Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Kenneth M. Carson, Nils Angquist, Sean C. Perkins, Satoshi Yamamoto, Andrew S. Demkin, Simon J. D. Gornall, Colleen Pendergast
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Patent number: 8768935Abstract: A method for generating a bigram database may include receiving domain names, tokenizing the domain names, generating token bigrams from the tokenized domain names, filtering the token bigrams, ranking the token bigrams, and storing the filtered and ranked token bigrams in a bigram database. A method for suggesting alternative domain names may include receiving a requested domain name, tokenizing the requested domain name to divide the requested domain name into a series of tokens, retrieving token bigrams for tokens of the requested domain name, generating alternative domain name suggestions based on the token bigrams and the requested domain name, ranking the alternative domain name suggestions, and outputting at least one of the alternative domain name suggestions.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2011Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Verisign, Inc.Inventors: Vincent Raemy, Vincenzo Russo