Patents Examined by William B Partridge
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Patent number: 11436278Abstract: To provide a database creation apparatus and the like capable of creating a database with its usefulness increased. A data processing server 2 acquires Japanese language data and foreign language data from external servers 6, creates machine-translated data by translating the foreign language data into data written in the Japanese language using machine translation, creates mixed data by combining the machine-translated data as an additional part of the Japanese language data, and creates retained data using the mixed data.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Daisuke Sakamoto
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Patent number: 11429611Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for processing data of a database system, the database system being configured to connect to a centralized cache shared with other database systems. The method includes determining a unique identifier of the content of a table of the database system using a common identification method of the database systems. A database command may be generated for processing data of the table. The command references the identifier. It may be determined if the cache comprises results of a same command with the same identifier. The command may be processed at the database system or the results of the command may be retrieved from the cache depending on whether the cache comprises the results.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: John G. Rooney, Luis Garcés Erice, Peter Urbanetz, Daniel Nikolaus Bauer, Florian Hermann Froese
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Patent number: 11429594Abstract: A method including acquiring, by a primary database, in response to a transaction commit request, a log difference between a transaction log of the primary database and a transaction log that has been synchronized to a secondary database; suspending a transaction commit operation if the log difference is greater than a first threshold; and executing the transaction commit operations if the log difference is less than or equal to the first threshold.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2020Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding LimitedInventors: Xiaojian Fan, Guangzhou Zhang, Wenjie Zhang
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Patent number: 11429583Abstract: A system, that when operated, creates a database arrangement in a structured manner, wherein the database arrangement stores documents from at least one source, the system including a server arrangement and the database arrangement wherein the server arrangement: retrieves the documents from the at least one source; pre-processes the documents from the at least one source, wherein a given document is pre-processed based on source of the given document; associates a document identifier with each of the documents; extract keywords from the documents; store the documents in the database arrangement corresponding to the document identifiers associated therewith; and create an index for the database arrangement, wherein the index includes document identifier listed corresponding to the extracted keywords.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2019Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Innoplexus AGInventor: Abhijit Keskar
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Patent number: 11422730Abstract: Recovery for storage systems synchronously replicating a dataset, including: receiving, by at least one storage system among the plurality of storage systems synchronously replicating the dataset, a request to modify the dataset; generating recovery information indicating whether the request to modify the dataset has been applied on all storage systems in the plurality of storage systems synchronously replicating the dataset; and responsive to a system fault, applying a recovery action in dependence upon the recovery information indicating whether the request to modify the dataset has been applied on all storage systems in the plurality of storage systems synchronously replicating the dataset.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2017Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.Inventors: Deepak Chawla, David Grunwald, Ronald Karr, Arun Rokade
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Patent number: 11423017Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for utilizing look-ahead-staging (LAS) to accelerate data extraction from a source system to a target system. An embodiment operates receiving a data change for a data extraction from a producer job at the source system. The embodiment stores the data change in a staging area of a persistent storage together with a respective sequence identifier. The embodiment receives a request for a next package of data changes in the staging area from a consumer job at the target system. The embodiment generates the next package from the staging area. The embodiment transmits the next package to the consumer job. The embodiment receives a commit notification for the next package from the consumer job. The embodiment then removes the data changes in the next package from the staging area in response to receiving the commit notification.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: SAP SEInventors: Daniel Bos, Nico Gaertner, Tobias Karpstein
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Patent number: 11423054Abstract: An information processing device includes: a feature quantity obtaining unit which obtains a feature quantity of an object to be extracted, which is extracted from a retrieval target, and specific information to be specified an appearing location of it; a feature quantity holding unit which, when storing the feature quantity in a feature quantity table, adds new identification information to the feature quantity and holds the feature quantity in the feature quantity table when a similar feature quantity in which a similarity with the feature quantity is no less than a threshold is not included in the feature quantity table, and outputs identification information of the similar feature quantity as identification information of the feature quantity when the similar feature quantity is included in the feature quantity table; and a retrieval table holding unit which holds the specific information associated with the added identification information or the outputted identification information.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2018Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Takuya Araki
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Patent number: 11423080Abstract: In some embodiments, a method receives a set of objects for creating clusters based on a similarity measure between the objects and selects an object in the set of objects. A plurality of structures is constructed around the object where a size of each structure is a multiple of the similarity measure. The method selects a cluster of objects by analyzing objects within a first structure and a second structure in the plurality of structures around the object. Objects outside of the first structure and the second structure are not analyzed. The cluster of objects are removed from the set of objects. Then, the method performs the selecting of a cluster of objects for another object in the remaining objects in the set of objects and the removing the cluster of objects for the another object until all objects have been added to a cluster.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2018Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: SAP SEInventors: Konstantin Skodinis, Matthias Schmitt
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Patent number: 11423065Abstract: A data indexing system may use dynamic tags to increase findability and relativity of located datasets. The dynamic tags may be generated based on captured search log data. The system may calculate various parameters used to determine the findability and relativity of a given dataset. The system may calculate a dynamic tag score based on the calculated parameters. The system may store the dynamic tags and the associated dynamic tag score with the given dataset.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2019Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.Inventors: Ashish Kumar, Yousef Mofidi, Ruchika Panesar, Dhruv Navinchandra Shah, Jaskirat Singh
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Patent number: 11416463Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for incremental feature development and workload capture in database systems are disclosed. The method includes determining a workload based on one or more client queries to be rerun for testing the feature release. The method further includes repeatedly executing a test run of the workload to identify whether there is a performance difference in the test run. The method further includes re-execute, in response to identifying the performance difference, the test run using resources with a different concurrency to identify whether the performance difference still exists. The method further includes flagging the performance difference as a false positive in response to identifying that the performance difference no longer exists when the test run is re-executed using the resources with different concurrency.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2022Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Snowflake Inc.Inventors: Jiaqi Yan, Qiuye Jin, Shrainik Jain, Stratis Viglas, Allison Lee
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Patent number: 11416443Abstract: A method for generating preview information related to data migrated to archival storage media. In an embodiment, the method includes one or more computer processors identifying data designated for archival. The method further includes identifying a set of preferences associated with generating a set of preview data corresponding to the data designated for archival. The method further includes determining metadata related to the data designated for archival based on the identified set of preferences. The method further includes archiving the data designated for archival. The method further includes responding to archiving the data designated for archival by determining information associated with archiving the designated data. The method further includes generating a set of preview data corresponding to the archived designated data based, at least in part, on the determined metadata and the information associated with archiving the designated data.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jeffrey Richard Suarez, Evelyn Brazelton, Samantha Jean Wareing, Carly Joanne Fife
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Patent number: 11416557Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for identifying network appliances on a network which includes a processor configured to intercept network communications from one or more devices on a first network in communication with a second network. The processor may store information about each communication in a database, the information including a Client Id and a destination address. The processor may query the database for a list of all destination addresses which were attempted to be contacted for each Client Id and generate metadata for each Client Id. The processor may analyze each Client Id, the associated metadata for each Client Id, and the destination addresses associated with each Client Id using one or more rules in a device identification tree and assign a device label to each Client Id of the one or more devices.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: ACTION STREAMER, LLCInventor: Richard Stokes
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Patent number: 11409790Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for improved image search and retrieval. In various embodiments, a multi-image information retrieval system is implemented to perform image searching and provide image search results based on user intent. Returned image results include correlated images and associated information regarding objects such as product lines. Images can include metatags and are updated with correlated information.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Mainak Roy, Chitrak Gupta, Rathi Babu, Lavy T. Moncy, Thomas Mathew, Upendran Boovaraha
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Patent number: 11403106Abstract: A method for parallel processing of a data stream is provided. In the method, a processing task is received. The processing task is configured to process a data stream that includes a plurality of segments. A split operation is subsequently performed on the data stream to split the plurality of segments into N sub-streams, where each of the N sub-streams includes one or more segments of the plurality of segments, and the N is a positive integer. Further, N sub-processing tasks are performed on the N sub-streams to generate N processed sub-streams. A merge operation is performed on the N processed sub-streams to generate a merged output data stream. The merged output data stream is identical to an output data steam that is generated when the processing task is applied directly to the data stream without the split operation.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2020Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLCInventor: Iraj Sodagar
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Patent number: 11397705Abstract: A method includes designating one or more particular portions of a storage volume of a storage system for inclusion in a sub-volume snapshot. The method further includes generating the sub-volume snapshot as a point-in-time copy that includes the one or more designated portions of the storage volume and excludes one or more non-designated portions of the storage volume. The method is performed by at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory. The storage volume illustratively comprises a logical unit of a virtual machine file system, with the one or more designated portions of the logical unit of the virtual machine file system illustratively comprising at least one virtual machine storage drive file of the virtual machine file system. In some embodiments, a bitmap or other data structure is maintained for the storage volume with particular entries in the data structure corresponding to respective ones of the portions.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2019Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLCInventors: Assaf Natanzon, Arieh Don
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Patent number: 11397784Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving user-specific content, the user-specific content being associated with a user of one or more computer-implemented services, processing the user-specific content using one or more parsers to identify one or more entities and one or more relationships between entities, a parser being specific to a schema, and the one or more entities and the one or more relationships between entities being identified based on the schema, providing one or more user-specific knowledge graphs, a user-specific knowledge graph being specific to the user and including nodes and edges between nodes to define relationships between entities based on the schema, and storing the one or more user-specific knowledge graphs.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2019Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Pranav Khaitan, Shobha Diwakar
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Patent number: 11397778Abstract: A method, device, apparatus and computer-readable storage medium for mining an enterprise relationship. The method can include acquiring Internet data of multiple types, identifying enterprise names from the Internet data by an enterprise name identification model, performing data mining to the Internet data in a frequent item mining algorithm to obtain relational degrees among the enterprise names, and according to the relational degrees among the enterprise names, extracting the enterprise relationship from the Internet data by an extractor. A deeper and more comprehensive enterprise relationship can be obtained by performing data mining to Internet data of multiple types by using an enterprise name recognition model. By using the frequent items mining algorithm, enterprises among which there are higher relational degrees can further be obtained, so as to obtain a more accurate enterprise relationship.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2019Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Service and Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Haishou Ma, Kai Wang, Faen Zhang, Jin Tang, Shiming Yin
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Patent number: 11397776Abstract: An automated information retrieval system includes a processor coupled to a communications interface and a non-transitory memory. The processor is configured to read instructions from the non-transitory memory to cause the system to perform operations comprising receiving a term including a plurality of words and generating a plurality of word vectors corresponding to the plurality of words respectively. A plurality of term vectors associated with the term is generated using the plurality of word vectors based on a plurality of term vector rules respectively. A combination term vector associated with the term is generated by combining the plurality of term vectors. One or more search results from a database for the term are provided using the combination term vector.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Chih Chien Huang, Jianxiong Dong
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Patent number: 11393057Abstract: Term negotiation can utilize centralized systems accessed via web interfaces for purposes such as mediation of communications between buyers and sellers, maintenance of a history of negotiations, and notification of parties regarding changes suggested during negotiation. Changes to terms proposed by parties using centralized systems can be stored in a data warehouse, potentially along with timestamp and identification information.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2016Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Zillow, Inc.Inventors: Gregory Austin Allison, Matthew Allan Vorst
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Patent number: 11392559Abstract: In one embodiment, techniques are provided for aligning source infrastructure data to be compatible with a conceptual schema (e.g., BIS) implemented through an underlying database schema (e.g., DgnDb). Data aligned according to the conceptual schema may serve as a “digital twin” of real-world infrastructure usable throughout various phases of an infrastructure project, with physical information serving as a “backbone”, and non-physical information maintained relative thereto, forming a cohesive whole, while avoiding unwanted data redundancies. Source-format-specific bridge software processes may be provided that that know how to read and interpret source data of a respective source format, and express it in terms of the conceptual schema.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2018Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Bentley Systems, IncorporatedInventors: Keith A. Bentley, Casey Mullen, Samuel W. Wilson