Patents by Inventor Robert Loce
Robert Loce 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: 11182257Abstract: The disclosure provides methods and systems to perform data backups of protected data. According to an embodiment, a nominal backup schedule is received, and a time differential between the nominal backup schedule and a current time metric is determined. If the time differential is greater than a threshold, the backup schedule is modified so that times indicated in the modified backup schedule are at a higher frequency than a frequency of the indicated times of the nominal backup schedule. In another embodiment, if a reliability metric is greater than a corresponding threshold, the backup schedule is modified so that times indicated in the modified backup schedule are at a higher frequency than a frequency of the indicated times of the nominal backup schedule.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Datto, Inc.Inventors: Robert J. Gibbons, Jr., William Robert Speirs, II, Neale Campbell Hutcheson, Jr., Robert Loce
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Patent number: 11093344Abstract: The Source Volume Backup with Predictive and Lookahead Optimizations Apparatuses, Methods and Systems (“SVBAF”) transforms backup request inputs via SVBAF components into backup response outputs. A set of blocks to be copied from a source volume to a target volume is designated based on predictive optimization settings and copied based on lookahead optimization settings while an operating system is configured to write to the source volume. Blocks of the source volume that were written to by the operating system are identified. A determination is made whether to enter a CoW mode. If the CoW mode should not be entered, the designated set of blocks is changed to include at least one of the identified blocks and a pass is repeated. Otherwise, the operating system is instructed to enter the CoW mode and bring the target volume into a state consistent with a state of the source volume.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Datto, Inc.Inventors: Stuart Mark, William Robert Speirs, II, Robert Loce, Robert J. Gibbons, Jr.
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Patent number: 11010088Abstract: The Dynamically Determined Difference Regions Apparatuses, Methods and Systems (“DDDR”) transforms backup configuration request, backup data read response inputs via DDDR components into backup configuration response, changed blocks update request outputs. A write command for a data block to write to a data volume is detected. A data volume address of the data block is determined. A superset range associated with the data volume address is determined. Upon determining that the written-to flag of the superset range is set: extend a previously established written-to subset range within the superset range to include the data volume address when it is determined that the data volume address is not within the previously established written-to subset range. Upon determining that the written-to flag is not set: set the written-to flag and establish a new written-to subset range within the superset range that includes the data volume address. Execute the write command.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Datto, IncInventors: Robert Loce, Stuart Mark
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Publication number: 20210141694Abstract: The disclosure provides methods and systems for direct-to-cloud backup with local volume failover. According to an exemplary embodiment, first and second logical volumes are designated on a protected computing device. The first and second logical volumes may be paired to a cloud storage facility. In response to a received signal, it may be determined if the protected computing device has a communication connection to the cloud storage facility. If the protected computing device does have a communication connection to the cloud storage facility, a first computing device backup of the first logical volume may be sent to the cloud storage facility. If the protected computing device does not have a communication connection to the cloud storage facility, a second computing device backup of the first logical volume may be performed and stored on the second logical volume of the protected computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2019Publication date: May 13, 2021Applicant: DATTO, INC.Inventors: Andrew Cope, Robert Loce
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Patent number: 10984355Abstract: When monitoring a workspace to determine whether scheduled tasks or chores are completed according to a predetermined schedule, a video monitoring system monitors a region of interest (ROI) to identify employee-generated signals representing completion of a scheduled task. An employee makes a mark or gesture in the ROI monitored by the video monitoring system and the system analyzes pixels in each captured frame of the ROI to identify an employee signal, map the signal to a corresponding scheduled task, update the task as having been completed upon receipt of the employee signal, and alert a manager of the facility as to whether the task has been completed or not.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2015Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: XEROX CORPORATIONInventors: Michael C. Mongeon, Robert Loce, Matthew Shreve
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Patent number: 10956282Abstract: The disclosure provides methods and systems for adaptive data retention. According to an embodiment, data backups are acquired from a protected computing device, and stored on a backup computing device. A retention policy is applied to selectively prune the data backups stored on the backup computing device. At least one reliability metric is used to decide to continue pruning according to a nominal schedule or prune according to a less aggressive schedule.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2019Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: DATTO, INC.Inventors: Robert J. Gibbons, Jr., William Robert Speirs, II, Neale Campbell Hutcheson, Jr., Robert Loce
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Publication number: 20210064243Abstract: The Dynamically Determined Difference Regions Apparatuses, Methods and Systems (“DDDR”) transforms backup configuration request, backup data read response inputs via DDDR components into backup configuration response, changed blocks update request outputs. A write command for a data block to write to a data volume is detected. A data volume address of the data block is determined. A superset range associated with the data volume address is determined. Upon determining that the written-to flag of the superset range is set: extend a previously established written-to subset range within the superset range to include the data volume address when it is determined that the data volume address is not within the previously established written-to subset range. Upon determining that the written-to flag is not set: set the written-to flag and establish a new written-to subset range within the superset range that includes the data volume address. Execute the write command.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2019Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventors: Robert Loce, Stuart Mark
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Publication number: 20210049077Abstract: The disclosure provides methods and systems for adaptive data retention. According to an embodiment, data backups are acquired from a protected computing device, and stored on a backup computing device. A retention policy is applied to selectively prune the data backups stored on the backup computing device. At least one reliability metric is used to decide to continue pruning according to a nominal schedule or prune according to a less aggressive schedule.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2019Publication date: February 18, 2021Applicant: Datto, Inc.Inventors: Robert J. Gibbons, JR., William Robert Speirs, II, Neale Campbell Hutcheson, JR., Robert Loce
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Publication number: 20210049075Abstract: The disclosure provides methods and systems to perform data backups of protected data. According to an embodiment, a nominal backup schedule is received, and a time differential between the nominal backup schedule and a current time metric is determined. If the time differential is greater than a threshold, the backup schedule is modified so that times indicated in the modified backup schedule are at a higher frequency than a frequency of the indicated times of the nominal backup schedule. In another embodiment, if a reliability metric is greater than a corresponding threshold, the backup schedule is modified so that times indicated in the modified backup schedule are at a higher frequency than a frequency of the indicated times of the nominal backup schedule.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2019Publication date: February 18, 2021Applicant: Datto, Inc.Inventors: Robert J. Gibbons, JR., William Robert Speirs, II, Neale Campbell Hutcheson, JR., Robert Loce
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Publication number: 20190250995Abstract: The Source Volume Backup with Predictive and Lookahead Optimizations Apparatuses, Methods and Systems (“SVBAF”) transforms backup request inputs via SVBAF components into backup response outputs. A set of blocks to be copied from a source volume to a target volume is designated based on predictive optimization settings and copied based on lookahead optimization settings while an operating system is configured to write to the source volume. Blocks of the source volume that were written to by the operating system are identified. A determination is made whether to enter a CoW mode. If the CoW mode should not be entered, the designated set of blocks is changed to include at least one of the identified blocks and a pass is repeated. Otherwise, the operating system is instructed to enter the CoW mode and bring the target volume into a state consistent with a state of the source volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2019Publication date: August 15, 2019Inventors: Stuart Mark, William Robert Speirs, II, Robert Loce, Robert J. Gibbons, JR.
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Publication number: 20160307143Abstract: When monitoring a workspace to determine whether scheduled tasks or chores are completed according to a predetermined schedule, a video monitoring system monitors a region of interest (ROI) to identify employee-generated signals representing completion of a scheduled task. An employee makes a mark or gesture in the ROI monitored by the video monitoring system and the system analyzes pixels in each captured frame of the ROI to identify an employee signal, map the signal to a corresponding scheduled task, update the task as having been completed upon receipt of the employee signal, and alert a manager of the facility as to whether the task has been completed or not.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2015Publication date: October 20, 2016Inventors: Michael C. Mongeon, Robert Loce, Matthew Shreve
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Patent number: 9363483Abstract: A computer-implemented method, system, and computer-readable medium is disclosed for determining an estimated available parking distance for a vehicle via vehicle side detection in one or more image frames from an operational video. The operational video can be acquired from a fixed parking occupancy video camera and can include a field of view associated with a parking region. The method can include obtaining operational video from a fixed parking occupancy video camera; detecting, within a region of interest (ROI) of the one or more image frames from the operational video, a side of one or more vehicles parked in a parking region facing a traffic lane using a trained classifier that is trained to detect the side of the one or more vehicles; and determining an estimated available parking distance based on the side of the one or more vehicles that are detected.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2013Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: XEROX CORPORATIONInventors: Orhan Bulan, Yao Rong Wang, Wencheng Wu, Robert Loce
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Publication number: 20140375804Abstract: A computer-implemented method, system, and computer-readable medium is disclosed for determining an estimated available parking distance for a vehicle via vehicle side detection in one or more image frames from an operational video. The operational video can be acquired from a fixed parking occupancy video camera and can include a field of view associated with a parking region. The method can include obtaining operational video from a fixed parking occupancy video camera; detecting, within a region of interest (ROI) of the one or more image frames from the operational video, a side of one or more vehicles parked in a parking region facing a traffic lane using a trained classifier that is trained to detect the side of the one or more vehicles; and determining an estimated available parking distance based on the side of the one or more vehicles that are detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2013Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Orhan Bulan, Yao Rong Wang, Wencheng Wu, Robert Loce
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Publication number: 20130101171Abstract: A method of, and system for, selective video frame compression and decompression is presented. The disclosed technique is particularly suited for efficient event-driven searching in large databases. The technique involves designating certain frames in a video sequence as reference frames, to be compressed using a first compression technique, where the remaining frames are compressed using a second compression technique. The first compression technique may be implemented without requiring data from any neighboring frames.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2011Publication date: April 25, 2013Applicant: Xerox CorporationInventors: Orhan Bulan, Edgar A. Bernal, Robert Loce, Wencheng Wu
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Publication number: 20070147684Abstract: The teachings provided herein disclose a method for the identification of edge pixels within a digital image. The method operates by generating edge-state codes for a plurality of pairs of neighboring vectors of pixels within a given observation window, and generating an edge-identification code from the plurality of edge-state codes using a look-up table. The edge identification provides information that can be used for subsequent treatments such as rendering anti-aliased pixels, selecting preferred halftoning and tone reproduction for edge pixels, corner sharpening, and object recognition and segmentation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2005Publication date: June 28, 2007Inventors: Robert Loce, Beilei Xu, Stuart Schweid, Son Nguyen, Michael Branciforte
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Publication number: 20070146796Abstract: The teachings provided herein disclose a method for producing digital image objects with enhanced halftone edges. The method operates by selecting a target pixel location within the digital image; observing a set of pixels within a pixel observation window superimposed on the digital image relative to the target pixel location; generating edge-state codes for a plurality of pairs of neighboring vectors of pixels within the pixel observation window; generating edge-identification codes from the plurality of edge-state codes using at least one look-up table; and, utilizing the edge-identification code to select and apply to the digital image at the target pixel either a first halftone screen having a first fundamental frequency and a first angle or a second halftone screen having a second fundamental frequency and a second angle, wherein the second frequency and second angle are harmonically matched to the first frequency and first angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2005Publication date: June 28, 2007Inventors: Robert Loce, Beilei Xu, Stuart Schweid, Son Nguyen, Michael Branciforte
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Publication number: 20070146386Abstract: The teachings provided herein disclose an image processing method for rendering a digital image possessing anti-aliased pixels by selecting a target pixel location within the digital image; observing a set of pixels within a pixel observation window superimposed on the digital image relative to the target pixel location; generating edge-state codes for a plurality of pairs of neighboring vectors of pixels within the pixel observation window; generating edge-identification codes from the plurality of edge-state codes using at least one look-up table; and, utilizing the edge-identification codes to select and apply to the digital image at the target pixel either anti-aliased rendering or conventional halftoning. The anti-aliasing may employ pixel signals that are high addressable and directionally biased to a particular orientation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2005Publication date: June 28, 2007Inventors: Robert Loce, Beilei Xu, Stuart Schweid, Son Nguyen, Michael Branciforte
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Publication number: 20070147699Abstract: The teachings provided herein disclose a method for corner sharpening in the display of a bitmapped digital image. The method includes the steps of selecting a target pixel location within the digital image; observing a set of pixels within a pixel observation window superimposed on the digital image relative to the target pixel location; generating edge-state codes for a plurality of pairs of neighboring vectors of pixels within the pixel observation window; generating corner-identification codes from the plurality of edge-state codes using at least one look-up table so as to thereby identify corner pixels; and, assigning a pixel value in an output image plane in a location corresponding to the target pixel in the input image, such that assigned value extends a corner where indicated by a corner identification code, thereby producing a sharpening effect. The method may be used for improving the print quality of line-art corners and other fine details as found in both font and image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2005Publication date: June 28, 2007Inventors: Robert Loce, Beilei Xu, Stuart Schweid, Son Nguyen, Michael Branciforte
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Publication number: 20070140552Abstract: A method and system for selecting an optimal set of S number of calibration patches for an image producing system. The method of selecting the S number of calibration patches includes acquiring a set of K number of basis eigen vectors and model parameters which represent the image producing system having G number of colors and computing the optimal set of S number of colors selected from the set of G number of colors. Each one of the computed set of S number of colors is used for one of the S number of calibration patches.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2005Publication date: June 21, 2007Inventors: Zhigang Fan, Lalit Mestha, Yao Wang, Robert Loce, Yeqing Zhang
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Publication number: 20070139520Abstract: A system for enabling depth perception of image content in a rendered composite image, wherein illuminant/colorant depth discrimination encoding provides encoding of first and second source images in a composite image, for the purposes of subsequent illuminant/colorant depth discrimination decoding. Composite image rendering allows for rendering the composite image in a physical form. Illuminant/colorant depth discrimination decoding allows recovery of the first and second source images, thus offering to an observer the perception of spatial disparity between at least one of the recovered source images and some or all of the remaining image content perceived in the rendered composite image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2005Publication date: June 21, 2007Inventors: Robert Loce, Yeqing Zhang, Gaurav Sharma, Steven Harrington, Peter Crean