Patents Examined by Wen-Tai Lin
  • Patent number: 8648895
    Abstract: A control processing unit simultaneously drives cameras to produce images of a measuring object, the control processing unit searches corresponding point on a comparative image produced by one of the cameras for a representative point in a reference image produced by the other camera, and the control processing unit computes a three-dimensional coordinate corresponding to a coordinate using the coordinate of each point correlated by the search. The control processing unit also obtains a shift amount at the corresponding point specified by the search to an epipolar line specified based on a coordinate of a representative point on the reference image side or a parameter indicating a relationship between the cameras, and the control processing unit supplies the shift amount as an evaluation value indicating accuracy of three-dimensional measurement along with three-dimensional measurement result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Ikeda, Shiro Fujieda, Hiroshi Yano
  • Patent number: 8645546
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus comprising: a cloud service control gateway (CSCG) positioned in an application stratum, wherein the CSCG is configured to couple to a network control gateway (NCG) positioned in a network stratum, and wherein the CSCG is configured to transmit a destination address list and a first network resource requirement to the NCG. Also disclosed is an apparatus comprising: a network control gateway (NCG) positioned in a network stratum, wherein the NCG is configured to couple to a cloud service control gateway (CSCG) positioned in an application stratum, and wherein the NCG is configured to receive a communication from the CSCG comprising a destination address list comprising a plurality of destination addresses and a network resource requirement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Young Lee
  • Patent number: 8638363
    Abstract: A system and method for automatically changing the operation of a mobile device in response to a presence of information is described. In some examples, the system determines an information capture device is proximate to text, automatically changes operation of the capture device to a certain mode, captures the text, and performs an action associated with the captured text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Martin T. King, Redwood Stephens, Claes-Fredrik Mannby, Jesse Peterson, Mark Sanvitale, Michael J. Smith
  • Patent number: 8615581
    Abstract: A managed services platform and method of operation of same are described herein. The platform can include a device management service (DMS) server in which the DMS server can act as a gateway for communications with one or more computing devices, and the computing devices are associated with a first entity. The platform can also include an application service (AS) server in which the AS server is communicatively coupled with the DMS server. When a first computing device contacts the DMS server, the DMS server is operable to provide a bundle to the first computing device. As an example, the bundle contains content that at least includes one or more configuration messages and an application set that contains one or more predefined applications. The content of the bundle can be determined at least in part by the first entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: OpenPeak Inc.
    Inventors: Robert M. Dare, Vadim Kacherov, Paul Krzyzanowski, Daniel Gittleman
  • Patent number: 8612588
    Abstract: A system and method for accelerating web page delivery is disclosed in one embodiment. Web requests are made to an edge server of a first point of presence (POP) of a content delivery network (CDN). The web content can be cached at the edge server in the first POP. Where the cache is missing the web content, it is queried from a second POP determined to be closer to the origin server for the web content. The second POP can have its own cache or request the web content from the origin server. Only missing components from the web content are passed to the first POP. Additionally, the missing components can be compressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Limelight Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Ofir Ehrlich, Dima Potekhin, Tomer Altman, Leonid Fainberg, Gil Shai, Ofer Gadish, Amitay Dobo
  • Patent number: 8612582
    Abstract: A managed services platform and method of operation of same are described herein. The platform can include a device management service (DMS) server in which the DMS server can act as a gateway for communications with one or more computing devices, and the computing devices are associated with a first entity. The platform can also include an application service (AS) server in which the AS server is communicatively coupled with the DMS server. When a first computing device contacts the DMS server, the DMS server is operable to provide a bundle to the first computing device. As an example, the bundle contains content that at least includes one or more configuration messages and an application set that contains one or more predefined applications. The content of the bundle can be determined at least in part by the first entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: OpenPeak Inc.
    Inventors: Robert M. Dare, Vadim Kacherov, Paul Krzyzanowski, Daniel Gittleman
  • Patent number: 8606908
    Abstract: Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node including one or more of the following: receiving, at a wake-up server, an indication that an agent device will be suspended, including at least one criterion for reestablishing the agent device; determining that the at least one criterion has been met; and, in response, reestablishing the agent device. Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node including one or more of the following: transmitting, by an agent device to a support server, a request message; transmitting, to a wake-up server, an indication that resources associated with the agent device will be released, including at least one criterion for reestablishing the agent device; transmitting, to the support server, an instruction to transmit a result message associated with the request message to the wake-up device; and releasing the system resources associated with the agent device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventor: Thomas P. Chu
  • Patent number: 8606897
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to systems and methods for exporting usage history data as input to a management platform of a target cloud-based network. A usage export service can be abstracted and provided external to a host cloud-based network, which can capture the usage history of software or resources by one or more users in the host cloud-based network. Those user(s) or others may wish to export some or all of the usage history to a target cloud or clouds, to perform management or configuration actions in the target cloud(s). The selective subset of the usage history can be transmitted to the cloud management system of the target cloud-based network. The selective subset can be used for management actions in the target cloud(s), such as for instance, to instantiate or configure a set of virtual machines for failover or re-clouding purposes, or to aggregate usage history from the host and target cloud(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventors: James Michael Ferris, Gerry Edward Riveros
  • Patent number: 8601119
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing navigation statistics for a web page. Systems and methods can include a statistics engine operable to receive communications from a plurality of distributed agents and to communicate navigation statistics to the agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Theodore Vassilakis
  • Patent number: 8601114
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein may intercept, quarantine, and moderate communications internal to an uncontrolled system. An example of an uncontrolled system may be a Web application associated with a social networking site. In accessing the social networking site, a user may type in a message. An instance of the uncontrolled system running on the user's device may prepare a request containing the message. Some embodiment disclosed herein may determine that the message is subject to moderation, intercept the request, and place the message in a queue. This determination may be based on the destination of the request as well the type of the message. Some embodiments may reconstruct the original request for resubmission. If the session is expired, some embodiments may log in for the user and resubmit the reconstructed request. Some embodiments may simply wait for the next time the user logs in to resubmit the reconstructed request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Socialware, Inc.
    Inventor: Cameron Blair Cooper
  • Patent number: 8601164
    Abstract: Techniques for HTTP header compression are described herein. In an implementation, an electronic device may be configured to enable compression/decompression of HTTP messages, including compression/decompression of information in the headers of the messages. A HTTP message is generated that contains at least a header and a body. The HTTP message is reformatted to place at least some of the header information into the body. Then, the body of the reformatted message having the header information is compressed to form a compressed HTTP message. Decompression may be applied by a recipient of the compressed HTTP message to reconstruct the original HTTP message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Garmin Switzerland GmbH
    Inventors: Nicholas S. Grimsley, Kyle J. Hill, Robert L. Marshall, Sean A. Pfeifer
  • Patent number: 8590051
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an identifier generation module, an identifier write module, an identifier storage, and a removable media control module. The identifier generation module generates a media identifier for a removable medium connected to the information processing apparatus. The identifier write module writes the generated media identifier in a predetermined area in the removable medium. The identifier storage stores the generated media identifier in an identifier list. The removable media control module permits use of a removable medium which is newly connected to the information processing apparatus if a media identifier included in the identifier list is written in a predetermined area in the newly connected removable medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takeshi Watakabe, Yuji Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 8566428
    Abstract: A novel eco-system is provided which first supplies a standardized template of one or more virtual machine images for software module providers/vendors. A plurality of modules executing on the virtual machine images is selected by a user to comprise a plurality of configurations. A suitable configuration may be determined according to a metric and the determined suitable configuration of software modules is subsequently used to build an end-to-end solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventor: Sewook Wee
  • Patent number: 8560704
    Abstract: A method of establishing a charged connection using a screen sharing application between multi-platforms is disclosed. A transmitting end application is installed in a transmitting end apparatus of a sharing source. A receiving end application is installed in a receiving end apparatus of a sharing target. If the transmitting end application is a charged version, an unlimited connection is established for performing screen sharing between the transmitting end apparatus and any receiving end apparatus. If the transmitting end application is a free version, the method further confirms if the receiving end application is a charged version for deciding whether a limited connection or an unlimited connection should be established. Thus, it is assured that either the transmitting end application or the receiving end application is a charged version, the interests of application developers are protected and users are free from paying twice for establishing one connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Awind Inc.
    Inventors: Kuo-Lung Chang, Hsing-Yung Wang, Meng-Chung Hung, Kuan-Yu Chou, Shih-Pin Liu, Chin-Jung Fan, Li-Ger Chen
  • Patent number: 8554912
    Abstract: When a failure notification is received that was transmitted from a service node indicating a failure of a wireless communication device to pass an authentication when attempting to register with a communication network, device information, network data, and a user profile associated with the wireless communication device is retrieved and processed to generate a network access score for the wireless communication device. If the network access score exceeds a priority threshold, a priority notification is transferred instructing the service node to bypass the authentication for the wireless communication device. If the network access score exceeds a legitimate user threshold but does not exceed the priority threshold, an access notification is transferred instructing the service node to bypass the authentication for the wireless communication device, and subsequent usage of the wireless communication device is monitored for fraudulent activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Raymond Emilio Reeves, Simon Youngs, Mark Douglas Peden, Gary Duane Koller, Piyush Jethwa
  • Patent number: 8554862
    Abstract: A low-cost display bank that displays travel-related information in a public travel-related area and includes one or more slave low-cost display units, and a master low-cost display unit that includes a communication interface that receives travel-related information, a display bank control unit that sends identification information to a display bank data management unit through the communication interface, receives a display bank unit profile containing display parameters based on the identification information through the communication interface, receives travel-related information from the display bank data management unit in accordance with the received display parameters through the communication interface, sends the received travel-related information intended to be displayed on the one or more slave low-cost display units to the one or more slave low-cost display units, and displays the received travel-related information on the master low-cost display unit and the one or more slave low-cost display un
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Arinc Incorporated
    Inventor: Rolf R. Stefani
  • Patent number: 8554903
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are directed towards enabling auditing of network vulnerabilities from multiple network vantage points virtually simultaneously. Multiple network vantage points may include, but are not limited to, remote/branch enterprise sites, devices on an enterprise perimeter, on either side of a security perimeter, and even through the security perimeter. In one embodiment, an auditor performs reflected audits thereby extending auditing of network vulnerabilities to provide a comprehensive 360 degree audit of internal, external, and remote enterprise network sites. In one embodiment, the present invention may be implemented employing a single auditing device, and one or more audit extension devices that are configured to extend the auditing device's audit reach. The auditing device and one or more audit extension devices may communicate using an encrypted network channel through a security perimeter and/or across multiple networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Vadarro Services Limited Liability Company
    Inventors: Evan M. Webb, Christopher Daniel Boscolo, Robert G. Gilde
  • Patent number: 8547431
    Abstract: A method of generating an event log of game events associated with elements in a sporting event. The method includes tracking, within a sequence of video images, image features which correspond to respective elements in the sporting event and selecting, from the tracked image features, a first image feature which corresponds to one of the elements so as to designate that element as a selected element. The method further includes selecting a game event from an event list of possible game events for association with the selected element, and associating the selected game event with the selected element so as to generate the event log.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Michael John Williams, Christopher Leonard Robinson
  • Patent number: 8533320
    Abstract: A method and system for managing network notifications when a guest migrates in a virtual machine system. A guest hosted by a computer system migrates from a source hypervisor to a target hypervisor in the computer system. The computer system packetizes multiple network addresses of the guest into a network packet. The target hypervisor then transmits the network packet to network devices coupled to the computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Red Hat Israel, Ltd.
    Inventor: Michael Tsirkin
  • Patent number: RE44686
    Abstract: A system and a method dynamically adjusts the quality of service guarantees for virtual servers based upon the resource demands experienced by the virtual servers. Virtual server resource denials are monitored to determine if a virtual server is overloaded based upon the resource denials. Virtual server resources are modified dynamically to respond to the changing resource requirements of each virtual server. Occasionally, a physical host housing a virtual server may not have additional resources to allocate to a virtual server requiring increased resources. In this instance, a virtual server hosted by the overloaded physical host is transferred to another physical host with sufficient resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Digital Asset Enterprises, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Srinivasan Keshav, Rosen Sharma, Shaw Chuang