Patents by Inventor Thu Tran
Thu Tran 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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Publication number: 20170024455Abstract: An online system receives information from an entity identifying a set of users of the online system and groups users included in the set into clusters based on their similarities using a clustering model or algorithm (e.g., k-means clustering) and based on one or more parameters specified by the entity. The online system generates expanded clusters that include additional users in one or more clusters based on similarities between the additional users and users in various clusters. If an additional user is included in multiple expanded clusters, the online assigns the additional user exclusively to an expanded cluster that best fits the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2015Publication date: January 26, 2017Inventors: Spencer Powell, Boris Pierre Arnoux, Sue Ann Hong, Daniel K. Chapsky, Adam Scott Berger, Nikhil Girish Nawathe, Christopher William Jones, Justin Thomas Palumbo, Edward R. Gan, Rituraj Kirti, Mui Thu Tran, Yujie Yang
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Publication number: 20170017638Abstract: Some embodiments include a method of detecting memes, as “key terms,” in a chatter aggregation in a social networking system. The method can include aggregating user-generated content objects within the social networking system into the chatter aggregation according to a set of filters. A meme analysis engine can define a target group within the chatter aggregation to compare against a background group. The meme analysis engine can extract key terms from textual content of the target group. The meme analysis engine can determine a relevancy rank of a term in the key terms based on an accounting of the term in the textual content of the target group and a linguistic relevance score of the term according to a linguistic model.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2015Publication date: January 19, 2017Inventors: Satyavarta Satyavarta, Guven Burc Arpat, Mui Thu Tran
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Publication number: 20160358086Abstract: Some embodiments include a method of performing a content analysis study around a central theme utilizing a concept study system. The concept study system can generate a classifier machine corresponding to the content analysis study based on a super topic taxonomy including one or more concept identifiers. The concept study system can process a content object, associated with a user activity in a social networking system, through the classifier machine to determine whether to assign the user activity to the content analysis study. The concept study system can aggregate at least an attribute derived from the user activity in a study-specific data container associated with the content analysis study and compute a statistical or analytical insight based on aggregated attributes in the study-specific data container.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Jason Sundram, Neil A. Kodner, Mui Thu Tran, Guangdeng Liao, Justin Thomas Palumbo, Guven Burc Arpat, Amit Bahl
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Patent number: 9489695Abstract: Managing workflow on a plurality of installed application components that interact with a central hosted component is disclosed. A new rule is defined on the central hosted component. The new rule is applied, based on data provided by an installed application component and information that is managed by the central hosted component, to generate a new action item to be executed on the installed application component. The new action item to be executed by the installed application component is sent. The new action item modifies a workflow on the installed application component without modifying application code on the installed application component.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: Guidewire Software, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth William Branson, Mui Thu Tran, Raymond Timothy Kreisel
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Publication number: 20160188638Abstract: An apparatus is provided for managing usage of database system resources by concurrent database users of a database system. The apparatus comprises a processor and a storage device communicatively coupled with the processor. The processor is programmed to (i) determine a number of in-use Access Module Processor Worker Tasks (AWTs) based upon at least one system-defined or user-definable Resource Limit rule, (ii) take a difference between the number of in-use AWTs and an AWT limit, and (iii) set the difference equal to a number of available AWTs for a new database job or request.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2015Publication date: June 30, 2016Applicant: Teradata US, Inc.Inventor: Hoa Thu Tran
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Publication number: 20150154713Abstract: Automated assignment of insurance claim work includes: obtaining an insurance claim work unit; identifying among a plurality of users of the insurance claims processing platform a set of eligible users who are eligible to process the insurance claim work unit; and automatically selecting among the set of eligible users a selected user to process the insurance claim work unit, including determining a set of weighted workloads that corresponds to the set of eligible users and applying a set of one or more assignment rules based on the set of weighted workloads.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2014Publication date: June 4, 2015Applicant: Guidewire Software, Inc.Inventors: Luis Arturo Diaz, Scott Robert Plummer, Mui Thu Tran, Patrick Kwoon Yuet Young, Edward Anthony Wells
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Patent number: 8090943Abstract: A system, such as a database system, includes a shared library having plural routines. A linking procedure is used in which a routine (referred to as a “first routine”) is linked to a stub library containing stub programs corresponding to other routines that the first routine is authorized to invoke. If no linking error occurs, the first routine is then linked to the shared library. In some implementations, the first routine is one of a user-defined method (UDM), user-defined function (UDF), or stored procedure created in response to a database query language (e.g., Structured Query Language or SQL) statement.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2003Date of Patent: January 3, 2012Assignee: Teradata US, Inc.Inventor: Hoa Thu Tran
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Patent number: 8055672Abstract: A graphical query and data mining interface provides visual feedback to a user during the construction of a query that helps the user determine the quality of the query as the query is being built. The graphical query and data mining interface determines relationships in the database from a database relationship document, such as an XML document. These relationships may be between columns, including columns in different tables. The relationship of columns in the database is then graphically displayed to a user. When the user selects a column in the database, a filtered display mechanism displays only those columns or records that satisfy the portion of the query already constructed. In this manner dynamic information is provided to the user as the user builds the query that indicates to the user the quality of the query.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2004Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Judy Immaculate Tina Djugash, Hoa Thu Tran
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Patent number: 8000666Abstract: A wireless connection apparatus which scans radio frequency bands for local quiet unused, vacant, or unassigned frequencies which the apparatus can use, on a temporary basis, to establish a link for communicating between a portable multimedia device and a nearby RBDS/RDS configured receiver or source. The apparatus does not interfere with or utilize frequencies actively in use by an assigned user.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2007Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: Monster Cable Products, Inc.Inventor: Le Thu Tran
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Patent number: 7979424Abstract: A graphical query interface provides visual feedback to a user during the construction of a query. In a first embodiment, the visual feedback helps the user determine the quality of the query as the query is being built. The relationship of columns in the database is graphically displayed to a user. When the user selects a column in the database, a filtered display mechanism displays only those columns or records that satisfy the portion of the query already constructed. In a second embodiment, the visual feedback eliminates some possible selections in the query tree due to previously-made selections that eliminate the eliminated selections as possibilities. In the second embodiment, the visual feedback mechanism may function according to data values in columns, and may also function according to known relationships between columns themselves.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2008Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Richard Dean Dettinger, Judy Immaculate Tina Djugash, Jeffrey Wayne Tenner, Hao Thu Tran
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Patent number: 7958159Abstract: In a database system, a database request is received, and database software dispatches steps associated with the database request to plural access modules of a database system for execution. Statistics are collected regarding execution of each step by a respective access module in response to receiving an indication of completion by the respective access module. It is determined whether statistics relating to execution of the database request violate one or more predefined rules, and in response to determining that the statistics relating to execution of the database request violate one or more predefined thresholds, one or more actions are performed by the database software.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2005Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: Teradata US, Inc.Inventors: Hoa Thu Tran, Choung H. Kim
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Patent number: 7685602Abstract: A multi-node processing system includes a plurality of nodes in which various software components may be executed. To coordinate the control of the software components in the plural nodes, an instance of a manager module may be started in each of the nodes. In one example arrangement, the manager module may include a WINDOWS® NT or WINDOWS® 2000 service control manager. In the WINDOWS® NT or WINDOWS® 2000 environment, the software components that are controlled through the service control manager may be services. To perform control of the various software components, requests may be sent to the manager module instance in each of the nodes. The manager module then launches one or more server services in each node to perform the desired control task, which may be start the software component, monitor the software component, or terminate the software component.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2000Date of Patent: March 23, 2010Assignee: Teradata US, Inc.Inventors: Hoa Thu Tran, Matthew Dickey
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Publication number: 20090094217Abstract: A graphical query interface provides visual feedback to a user during the construction of a query. In a first embodiment, the visual feedback helps the user determine the quality of the query as the query is being built. The relationship of columns in the database is graphically displayed to a user. When the user selects a column in the database, a filtered display mechanism displays only those columns or records that satisfy the portion of the query already constructed. In a second embodiment, the visual feedback eliminates some possible selections in the query tree due to previously-made selections that eliminate the eliminated selections as possibilities. In the second embodiment, the visual feedback mechanism may function according to data values in columns, and may also function according to known relationships between columns themselves.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2008Publication date: April 9, 2009Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Richard Dean Dettinger, Judy Immaculate Tina Djugash, Jeffrey Wayne Tenner, Hoa Thu Tran
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Patent number: 7490100Abstract: A graphical query interface provides visual feedback to a user during the construction of a query. In a first embodiment, the visual feedback helps the user determine the quality of the query as the query is being built. The relationship of columns in the database is graphically displayed to a user. When the user selects a column in the database, a filtered display mechanism displays only those columns or records that satisfy the portion of the query already constructed. In a second embodiment, the visual feedback eliminates some possible selections in the query tree due to previously-made selections that eliminate the eliminated selections as possibilities. In the second embodiment, the visual feedback mechanism may function according to data values in columns, and may also function according to known relationships between columns themselves.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2005Date of Patent: February 10, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Richard Dean Dettinger, Judy Immaculate Tina Djugash, Jeffrey Wayne Tenner, Hoa Thu Tran
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Publication number: 20080201313Abstract: A graphical query interface provides visual feedback to a user during the construction of a query. In a first embodiment, the visual feedback helps the user determine the quality of the query as the query is being built. The relationship of columns in the database is graphically displayed to a user. When the user selects a column in the database, a filtered display mechanism displays only those columns or records that satisfy the portion of the query already constructed. In a second embodiment, the visual feedback eliminates some possible selections in the query tree due to previously-made selections that eliminate the eliminated selections as possibilities. In the second embodiment, the visual feedback mechanism may function according to data values in columns, and may also function according to known relationships between columns themselves.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2008Publication date: August 21, 2008Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Richard Dean Dettinger, Judy Immaculate Tina Djugash, Jeffrey Wayne Tenner, Hoa Thu Tran
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Publication number: 20080064348Abstract: A wireless connection apparatus which scans radio frequency bands for local quiet unused, vacant, or unassigned frequencies which the apparatus can use, on a temporary basis, to establish a link for communicating between a portable multimedia device and a nearby RBDS/RDS configured receiver or source. The apparatus does not interfere with or utilize frequencies actively in use by an assigned user.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2007Publication date: March 13, 2008Inventor: Le Thu Tran
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Publication number: 20080064347Abstract: A wireless connection apparatus which scans radio frequency bands for local quiet unused, vacant, or unassigned frequencies which the apparatus can use, on a temporary basis, to establish a link for communicating between a portable multimedia device and a nearby RBDS/RDS configured receiver or source. The apparatus does not interfere with or utilize frequencies actively in use by an assigned user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2006Publication date: March 13, 2008Applicant: Monster Cable Products, Inc.Inventor: Le Thu Tran