Patents by Inventor Cosmos Nicolaou
Cosmos Nicolaou has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 8131712Abstract: A corpus of documents is identified, such as a large corpus of web documents. A quality score is applied to each, and at least some of the documents in the corpus of documents are identified based on their respective quality scores. At least one query characteristic, for instance, the language of a query, associated with a plurality of search queries is identified. A subset of documents in the corpus of documents is identified that satisfy the at least one query characteristic. An index is built that includes the identified at least some documents and the identified subset of documents.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2007Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Gautham Thambidorai, Eisar A. Lipkovitz, Cosmos Nicolaou, Li Fan
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Publication number: 20110219108Abstract: A method for content storage on behalf of participating content providers begins by having a given content provider identify content for storage. The content provider then uploads the content to a given storage site selected from a set of storage sites. Following upload, the content is replicated from the given storage site to at least one other storage site in the set. Upon request from a given entity, a given storage site from which the given entity may retrieve the content is then identified. The content is then downloaded from the identified given storage site to the given entity. In an illustrative embodiment, the given entity is an edge server of a content delivery network (CDN).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2011Publication date: September 8, 2011Applicant: AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Philip A. Lisiecki, Cosmos Nicolaou, Kyle R. Rose
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Patent number: 7979552Abstract: A system is taught in which a module having processing elements can access network and storage interfaces that are external to the module of the processing elements as though those interfaces were located internal to the module of the processing elements. The system may be operated as one or more provisioned servers, each of the provisioned servers including capabilities as identified by a corresponding set of specifications and attributes, according to various embodiments. Typically the specifications (or constraints) and attributes are specified with a Server Configuration File. An Enterprise Server system may be provisioned into any combination and number of servers according to needed processing and I/O capabilities. Each of these servers may include distinct compute, storage, and networking performance. Provisioned servers may be managed similar to conventional servers, including operations such as boot and shutting down.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2010Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: Habanero Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Nakul Pratap Saraiya, Curtis M. Collins, Yuri Finkelstein, Thomas Dean Lovett, Shyam Mittur, Cosmos Nicolaou, Shreyas B. Shah, Fabio Onofrio Ingrao
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Patent number: 7953903Abstract: Real time provisioning and management of fabric-backplane enterprise servers includes monitoring system status and configuration, displaying monitoring results, accepting user commands, and providing hardware and software management and configuration commands to the system. In one embodiment, an event is generated when a pluggable module is inserted into the system. In response to the event, the availability of the pluggable module is displayed to a system operator, and the operator enters a command to provision a server that includes the pluggable module. The server provisioning command is processed, resulting in a hardware configuration command being issued to the system, and an event indicating a status associated with processing the command is returned. The recognition of the inserted module, the display to the operator, and the processing of the server provisioning command occur in real time.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2005Date of Patent: May 31, 2011Assignee: Habanero Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Yuri Finkelstein, Fabio Onofrio Ingrao, Cosmos Nicolaou, Nakul Pratap Saraiya, Geoffrey H. Hanson, Jeffrey Lloyd Griffen
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Patent number: 7945655Abstract: A method for content storage on behalf of participating content providers begins by having a given content provider identify content for storage. The content provider then uploads the content to a given storage site selected from a set of storage sites. Following upload, the content is replicated from the given storage site to at least one other storage site in the set. Upon request from a given entity, a given storage site from which the given entity may retrieve the content is then identified. The content is then downloaded from the identified given storage site to the given entity. In an illustrative embodiment, the given entity is an edge server of a content delivery network (CDN).Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2008Date of Patent: May 17, 2011Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Philip A. Lisiecki, Cosmos Nicolaou, Kyle R. Rose
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Patent number: 7873693Abstract: Multi-chassis fabric-backplane enterprise servers include a plurality of chassis managed collectively to form one or more provisioned servers. A central client coordinates gathering of provisioning and management information from the chassis, and arranges for distribution of control information to the chassis. One of the chassis may perform as a host or proxy with respect to information and control communication between the client and the chassis. Server provisioning and management information and commands move throughout the chassis via an Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) protocol. Alternatively, the client may establish individual communication with a subset of the chassis, and directly communicate with chassis in the subset. Server provisioning and management information includes events generated when module status changes, such as when a module is inserted and becomes available, and when a module fails and is no longer available.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2005Date of Patent: January 18, 2011Assignee: Habanero Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Sharad Mehrotra, Nakul Pratap Saraiya, Thomas Dean Lovett, Cosmos Nicolaou, Mangesh Shingane, Yuri Finkelstein, Curtis M. Collins, Geoffrey H. Hanson
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Patent number: 7860097Abstract: Virtual Network Interface Controllers (vNICs) provide for communication among modules of Enterprise Server (ES) embodiments via a switch fabric dataplane. Processes executing on compute complexes of the servers exchange data as packets or messages by interfaces made available through vNICs. The vNICs further provide for transparent communication with network and storage interfaces. vNIC provisioning capabilities include programmable bandwidth, priority scheme selection, and detailed priority control (such as round-robin weights). In some embodiments, vNICs are implemented in Virtual Input/Output Controllers (VIOCs). In another aspect, Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs) enable access to layer-2 and selected layer-3 network functions while exchanging the packets and messages. VLAN identification is provided in each vNIC, and VLAN processing is partially performed in VIOCs implementing vNICs.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2005Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignee: Habanero Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Dean Lovett, Sharad Mehrotra, Cosmos Nicolaou, Nakul Pratap Saraiya, Shreyas B. Shah, Myron H. White, Rajesh K. Jagannathan, Mangesh Shingane
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Patent number: 7860961Abstract: Real time provisioning and management of fabric-backplane enterprise servers includes monitoring system status and configuration, displaying monitoring results, accepting user commands, and providing hardware and software management and configuration commands to the system. In one embodiment, an event is generated when a pluggable module is inserted into the system. In response to the event, the availability of the pluggable module is displayed to a system operator, and the operator enters a command to provision a server that includes the pluggable module. The server provisioning command is processed, resulting in a hardware configuration command being issued to the system, and an event indicating a status associated with processing the command is returned. The recognition of the inserted module, the display to the operator, and the processing of the server provisioning command occur in real time.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2005Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignee: Habanero Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Yuri Finkelstein, Fabio Onofrio Ingrao, Cosmos Nicolaou, Nakul Pratap Saraiya, Geoffrey H. Hanson, Jeffrey Lloyd Griffen
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Patent number: 7757033Abstract: Pluggable modules communicate via a switch fabric dataplane accessible via a backplane. Various embodiments are comprised of varying numbers and arrangements of the pluggable modules in accordance with a system architecture that provides for provisioning virtual servers and clusters of servers from underlying hardware and software resources. The system architecture is a unifying solution for applications requiring a combination of computation and networking performance. Resources may be pooled, scaled, and reclaimed dynamically for new purposes as requirements change, using dynamic reconfiguration of virtual computing and communication hardware and software.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2004Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignee: Habanero Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Sharad Mehrotra, Thomas Dean Lovett, Cosmos Nicolaou, Nakul Pratap Saraiya, Shreyas B. Shah
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Patent number: 7747749Abstract: Documents are preloaded from a server to a client device before the client device submits a request for the preloaded documents. The server predicts which documents to preload based on past user browsing activities at the client device and document layouts. At the client device, specific graphical features may be applied to the links to the preloaded documents such that a user can easily tell which document link is associated with the preloaded documents.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2006Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Bjorn Marius Aamodt Erikson, Othman Laraki, Cosmos Nicolaou, Hanping Feng, Jeffrey Glen Rennie, Denis Lee Severson
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Patent number: 7685281Abstract: A system is taught in which a module having processing elements can access network and storage interfaces that are external to the module of the processing elements as though those interfaces were located internal to the module of the processing elements. The system may be operated as one or more provisioned servers, each of the provisioned servers including capabilities as identified by a corresponding set of specifications and attributes, according to various embodiments. Typically the specifications (or constraints) and attributes are specified with a Server Configuration File. An Enterprise Server system may be provisioned into any combination and number of servers according to needed processing and I/O capabilities. Each of these servers may include distinct compute, storage, and networking performance. Provisioned servers may be managed similar to conventional servers, including operations such as boot and shutting down.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2005Date of Patent: March 23, 2010Assignee: Habanero Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Nakul Pratap Saraiya, Curtis M. Collins, Yuri Finkelstein, Thomas Dean Lovett, Shyam Mittur, Cosmos Nicolaou, Shreyas B. Shah, Fabio Onofrio Ingrao
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Patent number: 7664110Abstract: A hybrid server and multi-layer switch system architecture, referred to hereinafter as the Enterprise Fabric (EF) architecture, forms the basis for a number of Enterprise Server (ES) chassis embodiments. Each ES embodiment generally includes one or more Processor Memory Modules (PMMs, each generally having one or more symmetric multiprocessor complexes), one or more Network Modules, and a System Control Module (SCM). The SCM includes a cellified switching-fabric core (SF) and a System Intelligence Module (SIM). Each PMM has one or more resident Virtual IO Controller (VIOC) adapters. Each VIOC is a specialized I/O controller that includes embedded layer-2 forwarding and filtering functions and tightly couples the PMM to the SF. Thus the layer-2 switch functionality within the ES chassis is distributed over all of the SCM, NM, and PMM modules.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2005Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: Habanero Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Dean Lovett, Sharad Mehrotra, Cosmos Nicolaou, Nakul Pratap Saraiya, Shreyas B. Shah, Myron H. White, Rajesh K. Jagannathan, Mangesh Shingane
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Patent number: 7624169Abstract: A method for content storage on behalf of participating content providers begins by having a given content provider identify content for storage. The content provider then uploads the content to a given storage site selected from a set of storage sites. Following upload, the content is replicated from the given storage site to at least one other storage site in the set. Upon request from a given entity, a given storage site from which the given entity may retrieve the content is then identified. The content is then downloaded from the identified given storage site to the given entity. In an illustrative embodiment, the given entity is an edge server of a content delivery network (CDN).Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2006Date of Patent: November 24, 2009Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Philip A. Lisiecki, Cosmos Nicolaou, Kyle R. Rose
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Patent number: 7561571Abstract: A hybrid server and multi-layer switch system architecture, referred to hereinafter as the Enterprise Fabric (EF) architecture, forms the basis for a number of Enterprise Server (ES) chassis embodiments. Each ES embodiment generally includes one or more Processor Memory Modules (PMMs, each generally having one or more symmetric multiprocessor complexes), one or more Network Modules, and a System Control Module (SCM). The SCM includes a cellified switching-fabric core (SF) and a System Intelligence Module (SIM). Each PMM has one or more resident Virtual IO Controller (VIOC) adapters. Each VIOC is a specialized I/O controller that includes embedded layer-2 forwarding and filtering functions and tightly couples the PMM to the SF. Thus the layer-2 switch functionality within the ES chassis is distributed over all of the SCM, NM, and PMM modules.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2005Date of Patent: July 14, 2009Assignee: Habanero Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Dean Lovett, Sharad Mehrotra, Cosmos Nicolaou, Nakul Pratap Saraiya, Shreyas B. Shah, Myron H. White, Rajesh K. Jagannathan, Mangesh Shingane
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Publication number: 20090106411Abstract: A method for content storage on behalf of participating content providers begins by having a given content provider identify content for storage. The content provider then uploads the content to a given storage site selected from a set of storage sites. Following upload, the content is replicated from the given storage site to at least one other storage site in the set. Upon request from a given entity, a given storage site from which the given entity may retrieve the content is then identified. The content is then downloaded from the identified given storage site to the given entity. In an illustrative embodiment, the given entity is an edge server of a content delivery network (CDN).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2008Publication date: April 23, 2009Applicant: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Philip A. Lisiecki, Cosmos Nicolaou, Kyle R. Rose
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Patent number: 7472178Abstract: A method for content storage on behalf of participating content providers begins by having a given content provider identify content for storage. The content provider then uploads the content to a given storage site selected from a set of storage sites. Following upload, the content is replicated from the given storage site to at least one other storage site in the set. Upon request from a given entity, a given storage site from which the given entity may retrieve the content is then identified. The content is then downloaded from the identified given storage site to the given entity. In an illustrative embodiment, the given entity is an edge server of a content delivery network (CDN).Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2002Date of Patent: December 30, 2008Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Philip A. Lisiecki, Cosmos Nicolaou, Kyle R. Rose
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Patent number: 7340505Abstract: A method for content storage on behalf of participating content providers begins by having a given content provider identify content for storage. The content provider then uploads the content to a given storage site selected from a set of storage sites. Following upload, the content is replicated from the given storage site to at least one other storage site in the set. Upon request from a given entity, a given storage site from which the given entity may retrieve the content is then identified. The content is then downloaded from the identified given storage site to the given entity. In an illustrative embodiment, the given entity is an edge server of a content delivery network (CDN).Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2002Date of Patent: March 4, 2008Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Philip A. Lisiecki, Cosmos Nicolaou, Kyle R. Rose
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Publication number: 20070055765Abstract: A method for content storage on behalf of participating content providers begins by having a given content provider identify content for storage. The content provider then uploads the content to a given storage site selected from a set of storage sites. Following upload, the content is replicated from the given storage site to at least one other storage site in the set. Upon request from a given entity, a given storage site from which the given entity may retrieve the content is then identified. The content is then downloaded from the identified given storage site to the given entity. In an illustrative embodiment, the given entity is an edge server of a content delivery network (CDN).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2006Publication date: March 8, 2007Inventors: Philip Lisiecki, Cosmos Nicolaou, Kyle Rose
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Publication number: 20020147774Abstract: A method for content storage on behalf of participating content providers begins by having a given content provider identify content for storage. The content provider then uploads the content to a given storage site selected from a set of storage sites. Following upload, the content is replicated from the given storage site to at least one other storage site in the set. Upon request from a given entity, a given storage site from which the given entity may retrieve the content is then identified. The content is then downloaded from the identified given storage site to the given entity. In an illustrative embodiment, the given entity is an edge server of a content delivery network (CDN).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2002Publication date: October 10, 2002Applicant: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Philip A. Lisiecki, Cosmos Nicolaou, Kyle R. Rose
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Publication number: 20020143798Abstract: A method for content storage on behalf of participating content providers begins by having a given content provider identify content for storage. The content provider then uploads the content to a given storage site selected from a set of storage sites. Following upload, the content is replicated from the given storage site to at least one other storage site in the set. Upon request from a given entity, a given storage site from which the given entity may retrieve the content is then identified. The content is then downloaded from the identified given storage site to the given entity. In an illustrative embodiment, the given entity is an edge server of a content delivery network (CDN).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2002Publication date: October 3, 2002Applicant: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Philip A. Lisiecki, Cosmos Nicolaou, Kyle R. Rose