Patents Examined by Vitali Korobov
  • Patent number: 8872916
    Abstract: A media collection system (102) uses media collection devices (107) to record media in the vicinity of a mobile device (104). A method (300) for collecting media associated with a user of a mobile device (104) includes the mobile device detecting (304) a broadcast signal from a communication node of the media collection system (102) at a radio interface of the mobile device. Then the mobile device requests (308) a media collection service of the media collection system. In response, the mobile device receives (314) an access identifier from the media collection system. The access identifier can be used to access media collected by the media collection system. The mobile device can then cease a self-collection activity while in the vicinity of the media collection system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Motorolla Mobility LLC
    Inventor: William P. Alberth, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8854459
    Abstract: A method and a system are provided for delivering a supplemented CCTV message to subscribers, such as residents of a MDU. A processor combines the signal from a local CCTV camera system with a supplementary message to be provided to subscribers. The supplemented CCTV signal resulting from this combining is inserted into a dedicated channel of an incoming broadcast television feed. For a digital television feed, the supplemented CCTV signal may be forwarded to a central office managing television feeds for this particular location, so that the inserting may take place thereat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: BCE Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Hingyee Yip
  • Patent number: 8843642
    Abstract: Described is a technology by which a gesture made with a source device (e.g., a cellular telephone), such as a throwing or pointing motion, is used to automatically set up a connection with another device to which the gesture is directed. Audio signals output during the gesture, e.g., such as at the start and end of the gesture, are detected by candidate (listening) devices. The device having the least time difference between detection of the start and end signals is the device that is generally best aligned with the throwing or pointing motion, and thus may be selected as the target device. Once selected, a connection such as a network connection may be set up between the source device and the target device for further communication, such as for application data exchange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Guobin Shen, Chunyi Peng, Yongguang Zhang
  • Patent number: 8838755
    Abstract: The described unified service management system provides a unified console to perform functions of individual management specialists. A unified console facilitates an administrator to perform the complex tasks that were performed by the individual management specialists. The unified console provides a “wizard” based approach to the administrator to design all aspects of the complex tasks including placement of components or computing devices, deciding on policies of the components or computing devices, deciding on health policies of components or computing devices, fixing data protection policies of components or computing devices, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ashvinkumar J. Sanghvi, Shawn Bice, Casey McKinnon, Vij Rajarajan, Jens K Jacobsen, Kristoffer S Schultz
  • Patent number: 8825740
    Abstract: Embodiments of our technology provide a method, system, and media for presenting relevant information incident to attempting to present information that is unavailable by way of a website. One embodiment of the method includes receiving a request to present a desired web page, determining that the desired web page is unavailable for presentation, determining search criteria associated with the request, dynamically generating a second web page that includes search results that were obtained based on the search criteria, and presenting the second web page on a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Alessandro P. Catorcini, Amy J. Michaels, Fabrice Canel, Mark Hahn
  • Patent number: 8812709
    Abstract: A method for sending a notification message using a modified form of User Datagram Protocol (UDP) multicast notification system in a client-server architecture that otherwise allows only client initiated messages. The method includes: identifying information at a server that has potential for inclusion in a notification message, wherein the server is a Download and Configuration Management (DCM) engine; querying a database for a list of clients that have registered for one or more types of notification by a UDP broadcast processor; receiving a reply with the list of clients that have registered for the one or more types of notification; and sending notification to the clients on the list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Bally Gaming, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Ruppert, Farshid Atashband
  • Patent number: 8812698
    Abstract: In a method of and system for enforcing authentication strength for remote portlets, a portlet is provided by a producer portal and consumed as remote portlet by a consumer portal. The producer portal defines an authentication strength level requirement for the portlet. A user requests the remote portlet from the consumer portal. The consumer portal authenticates the user with a particular authentication method that implies a particular authentication strength level. The producer portal authenticates the consumer portal with a particular authentication method that implies a particular authentication strength assertion level. The consumer portal requests the portlet from the producer portal with an assertion of the authentication strength level of the user. The producer portal rejects the request from the consumer portal if the authentication strength level of the user is less than the authentication strength level requirement for the portlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Blum, Jan Paul Buchwald, Richard Jacob, Timo Kussmaul, Oliver Then
  • Patent number: 8812721
    Abstract: A system and method for conveying data include the capability to determine whether a transaction request credit has been received at a computer module, the transaction request credit indicating that at least a portion of a transaction request message may be sent. The system and method also include the capability to determine, of a transaction request message is to be sent, whether at least a portion of the transaction request message may be sent and to send the at least a portion of the transaction request message if it may be sent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Silicon Graphics International Corp.
    Inventors: Steven C. Miller, Thomas Edward McGee, Bruce Alan Strangfeld
  • Patent number: 8799438
    Abstract: This application describes a system and method for auto configuring data center networks. The networks include a plurality of electronic devices that may include switches, servers, routers, or any other device that may be used in a data center network. Graph theory is applied to the arrangement of the network devices to determine if the intended design of the data network matches the actual implementation of the network. This may be achieved by resolving the blueprint graph with the physical graph to determine if they are isomorphic. Also, the isomorphic techniques may be used to detect miswirings in the network that do not cause a node degree change for any of the network components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kai Chen, Chuanxiong Guo, Haitao Wu
  • Patent number: 8799371
    Abstract: The disclosure describes systems and methods delivering communications associated with deliver conditions in which the occurrence of the delivery condition is determined by monitoring information received from a plurality of sources via multiple communication channels. The message delivery systems allow messages to be delivered to any “Who, What, When, Where” from any “Who, What, When, Where” upon the detection of an occurrence of one or more “Who, What, When, Where” delivery conditions. A message (which may be any data object including text-based messages, audio-based message such as voicemail or other audio such as music or video-based prerecorded messages) is delivered in accordance with delivery conditions based on any available data, including topical, spatial, temporal, and/or social data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Marc Eliot Davis, Marco Boerries, Christopher William Higgins, Joseph James O'Sullivan, Ronald Martinez, Robert Carter Trout
  • Patent number: 8788620
    Abstract: Web service support for a multimodal client processing a multimodal application, the multimodal client providing an execution environment for the application and operating on a multimodal device supporting multiple modes of user interaction including a voice mode and one or more non-voice modes, the application stored on an application server, includes: receiving, by the server, an application request from the client that specifies the application and device characteristics; determining, by a multimodal adapter of the server, modality requirements for the application; selecting, by the adapter, a modality web service in dependence upon the modality requirements and the characteristics for the device; determining, by the adapter, whether the device supports VoIP in dependence upon the characteristics; providing, by the server, the application to the client; and providing, by the adapter to the client in dependence upon whether the device supports VoIP, access to the modality web service for processing the appl
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Soonthorn Ativanichayaphong, Charles W. Cross, Jr., Gerald M. McCobb
  • Patent number: 8661117
    Abstract: A system (130) improves network management. The system (130) associates an event in the network with a network device and provides a geographical map (710). The geographical map (710) displays locations of network devices and indicates which network devices are associated with at least one event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Verizon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventors: Weiya Luo, Anthony Worgrin Confrey, Michael L. Turok, Bruce Wilson
  • Patent number: 8635308
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for optimizing applications, such as applications included in a business process. In one aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method. The method may include receiving information representative of one or more interfaces and aspects of each of the interfaces. The interfaces may be adjustable by a business process supervisor. The business process supervisor may adjust one or more aspects of the one or more interfaces. The results of the adjustment may be received and used to determine optimum settings to the one or more interfaces. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Alexander Gebhart, Erol Bozak
  • Patent number: 8612568
    Abstract: The present invention discloses method, system and network server for recording use of network service capability by applications (APPs), and the key points of the methods comprise: a network server acquires an identity of the APP and type information of the network service capability providing services for the APP, conducts service logic processing, and writes a message of use of network service capability, which comprises at least the identity of the APP and the type information of the network service capability providing services for the APP. With the methods of this invention, the purpose of making effective records of use of network service capability by APPs provided by service providers is implemented. Furthermore, management of APPs, such as charging, may be conducted by utilizing the records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Linyi Tian
  • Patent number: 8610776
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system for target designation and/or illumination in a scene, that is designed to be attached to an aircraft comprising one optical path fitted with a matrix sensor forming an image of the scene, each image corresponding to an instantaneous field centered around a line of sight LV, and fitted with a device for deflecting the LV at a determined speed Vd making it possible to carry out a scan in order to perform the target designation and illumination function. The system comprises an additional device for deflecting the LV at a speed Vr making it possible to carry out a counter-scan in order also to perform an air reconnaissance function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Serge Larroque, Patrick Unterreiner, Olivier Verdy
  • Patent number: 8606849
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a mobile station (MS) operable to communicate with an application service provider (ASP) in a wireless network, the wireless network including a USI proxy in the line of a data path from the MS to the ASP and performs stateful content inspection of all packets passing through the US proxy; and wherein when the USI proxy intercepts an ASP request message, it appends the USI context to the ASP request message if not already present in the message and in order to fetch the USI context of the MS, a USI proxy sends the USI context request to a USI server and the USI server sends a USI context response back to the USI proxy which contains the USI context for the MS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Muthaiah Venkatachalam, Pouya Taaghol
  • Patent number: 8554916
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for delivering telecommunications services to customers. The systems and methods allow for the rapid creation and deployment of new telecommunications services, and the bundling of multiple services into service packages that can be sold together as a single product. Based on the systems and methods, targeted service packages may be developed and marketed toward business customers in specific industries. The systems and method provide opportunities for new business arrangements between telecommunications service providers and smaller third party providers. The new business arrangements provide access to a much wider customer pool for the third party providers, and create new sources of revenue for telecoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services GmbH
    Inventor: Hans Hwang
  • Patent number: 8554948
    Abstract: Methods for identifying wanted traffic on the Internet are provided. The methods include determining a traffic history for a user of the Internet; identifying wanted traffic in a stream of Internet traffic based on the determined traffic history; and prioritizing the identified wanted traffic such that unwanted traffic is assigned a lower priority than the wanted traffic. Related systems and computer program products are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Jacobus Van Der Merwe, Minaxi Gupta, Andrew Kalafut
  • Patent number: 8527624
    Abstract: Adaptive profiling for performance analysis of a computer system controls one or more agents to monitor a plurality of events occurring in a target computer system based on an adaptive logic. Collected data may be filtered and analyzed to determine one or more contributor events that attribute to performance of the target computer system. One or more patterns are observed or detected in said collected data, behavior of said one or more agents are adjusted based on said detected one or more patterns. The adaptive logic may be further reconfigured based on said detected one or more patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ying Chen, Evelyn Duesterwald, Ying Li, Qi Ming Teng
  • Patent number: 8499025
    Abstract: Parallel Processing Communication Accelerator (PPCA) systems and methods for enhancing performance of a Parallel Processing Environment (PPE). In an embodiment, a Message Passing Interface (MPI) devolver enabled PPCA is in communication with the PPE and a host node. The host node executes at least a parallel processing application and an MPI process. The MPI devolver communicates with the MPI process and the PPE to improve the performance of the PPE by offloading MPI process functionality to the PPCA. Offloading MPI processing to the PPCA frees the host node for other processing tasks, for example, executing the parallel processing application, thereby improving the performance of the PPE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Massively Parallel Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin D. Howard