Patents by Inventor Viral Shah

Viral Shah 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).

  • Patent number: 10270666
    Abstract: A network map of an individual's implicit and explicit people relationships across multiple workloads is provided. Relationships between people may be leveraged and ranking for people relationships may be performed based on activities across multiple workloads. People relationships may be displayed in the network map to provide a visual understanding of relationships and connections. Navigation to any person represented in the network map may be enabled, and commonalities in relationships between a navigating user and a given person navigated to in the network map may be exposed. Trending items and activity streams for a person or group of persons may be shown in the network map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Viral Shah, Berit Herstad, Vikramjeet Singh Jassal, Alexander Kempton, Ståle Sørensen, Sveinar Rasmussen, Alexander Distel, Zoran Dovedan, Ivan Dijan
  • Patent number: 10261873
    Abstract: A failure resistant distributed computing system includes primary and secondary datacenters each comprising a plurality of computerized servers. A control center selects orchestrations from a predefined list and transmits the orchestrations to the datacenters. Transmitted orchestrations include less than all machine-readable actions necessary to execute the orchestrations. The datacenters execute each received orchestration by referencing a full set of actions corresponding to the received orchestration as previously stored or programmed into the computerized server and executing the referenced full set of actions. At least one of the orchestrations comprises a failover operation from the primary datacenter to the secondary datacenter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: SERVICENOW, INC.
    Inventors: Sridhar Chandrashekar, Swapnesh Patel, Viral Shah, Anurag Garg, Anjali Chablani
  • Publication number: 20190104020
    Abstract: A system may include a database disposed within a remote network management platform, a server device disposed in the platform, and a client device. The database may contain representations of configuration items, such as computing devices and software applications associated with the managed network. The server device may provide a graphical user interface including a sequence of panes to the client device. The sequence of panes may include an identifier pane, an identification rules pane, and a reconciliation pane. Each pane may include data entry fields that are operable to define a new class of configuration item. The server device may receive, by way of the graphical user interface, a definition of the new class that uniquely identifies configuration items of a particular type using at least the attributes. The server may store, in the database, the definition of the new class.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Vivian Tero, Chinna Polinati, Madhavi Puvvada, Purushottam Amradkar, Manish Gupta, Brandon Trudel, Guarav Yakhmi, Jesus Antonio CASTRO Cisneros, Viral Shah
  • Patent number: 10225160
    Abstract: A remote network management platform may include a database containing representations of configuration items associated with a managed network that is managed by the remote network management platform. The remote network management platform may further include a server device. The server device may be configured to obtain a plurality of preferred relationships for a particular configuration item class. The server device may be further configured to store, in the database, the plurality of preferred relationships.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: SERVICENOW, INC.
    Inventors: Chinna Babu Polinati, Madhavi Puvvada, Viral Shah, M Kurukulasuriya P Rukshan Felix Perera
  • Patent number: 10169457
    Abstract: A personalized view of insights into social activity surrounding a content item is provided that may indicate to a user why a given piece of content may be interesting to him/her. A user's activities, as well as the activities of others (e.g., colleagues of the user) may be shown, including such items as a total number of views, comments, followers, and likes associated with the content item. The insights view may be personalized based on the user's relationships with other users in association with the content item. The user may learn through the personalized view who among his/her relationships have commented, edited, shared, or liked the content item, as well as, how many of the user's colleagues have viewed the content item. In addition, through a search function that may be applied to the view content, a user may learn about related content items based on the social insights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Robin Miller, Stefan Debald, Viral Shah, Joshua Stickler, Fredrik Holm, Ashok Kuppusamy, Øyvind Linna Eikeland, Mathuranthagaa Selvarathnam, Marcin Łukasz Roman, Colamba Patabedige Janaka Chathuranga Perera, Bjørnstein Lilleby, Rune Devik, Sangram Jyoti Bal
  • Publication number: 20180349452
    Abstract: Generating and providing a content feed to a user that surfaces information items that are determined to be interesting or relevant to the user including content that is determined to be “distant” to the user is provided. Explicit user actions are used to discover peers who are not colleagues of the user (e.g., peers with whom the user does not share a close organizational relationship, peers with whom the user does not regularly communicate, etc.), but who the user indicates an interest in via his/her actions. These peers are categorized as elevated peers of the user, and information items associated with and trending around the elevated peers are surfaced to the user in a content feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Torbjørn Helvik, Michael James Taylor, Vishwa Vinay, Vidar Vikjord, Viral Shah, Ashok Kuppusamy, Bjørnstein Lilleby
  • Publication number: 20180295388
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure include sending, to a hospitality set-top box, subscription information of a user; receiving from the hospitality set-top box, via a personalized graphical user interface, a request to view a media content item; determining whether access to the media content item is available free of charge as part of a service subscription; selecting, one of a first account or a second account to which a fee for access to the media content item is to be charged; responsive to the first account being selected, charging the fee to the first account; responsive to the second account being selected, charging the fee to the second account; and transmitting the media content item to the hospitality set-top box. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Applicant: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Premal Shah, Apurva Mapara, Patrick Zarrabi, Carlos A. Moz, Viral Shah
  • Patent number: 10061826
    Abstract: Generating and providing a content feed to a user that surfaces information items that are determined to be interesting or relevant to the user including content that is determined to be “distant” to the user is provided. Explicit user actions are used to discover peers who are not colleagues of the user (e.g., peers with whom the user does not share a close organizational relationship, peers with whom the user does not regularly communicate, etc.), but who the user indicates an interest in via his/her actions. These peers are categorized as elevated peers of the user, and information items associated with and trending around the elevated peers are surfaced to the user in a content feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC.
    Inventors: Torbjørn Helvik, Michael James Taylor, Vishwa Vinay, Vidar Vikjord, Viral Shah, Ashok Kuppusamy, Bjørnstein Lilleby, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10048673
    Abstract: A BOP system for use in a high pressure subsea environment, including a BOP stack including a lower marine riser package and a lower stack portion, the lower stack portion having a plurality of BOP rams attached to a subsea wellhead. The system also includes a riser subsystem extending from a drilling vessel to the BOP stack and providing fluid communication therebetween, a ship board subsystem electronically, mechanically, and hydraulically connected to the BOP stack and the riser subsystem to control the functions of the BOP stack and the riser subsystem, and a safety instrumented system having a surface logic solver and at least one subsea logic solver, the safety instrumented system in communication with at least a portion of the BOP rams to act as a redundant control system in case of failure of the ship board subsystem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: HYDRIL USA DISTRIBUTION, LLC
    Inventors: John Steven Holmes, Douglas Milliman, Luis E. Huerta, Eric Dale Larson, Gregory Ronald Gillette, Robert Arnold Judge, Viral Shah
  • Patent number: 10015526
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure include sending, to a hospitality set-top box, subscription information of a user; receiving from the hospitality set-top box, via a personalized graphical user interface, a request to view a media content item; determining whether access to the media content item is available free of charge as part of a service subscription; selecting, one of a first account or a second account to which a fee for access to the media content item is to be charged; responsive to the first account being selected, charging the fee to the first account; responsive to the second account being selected, charging the fee to the second account; and transmitting the media content item to the hospitality set-top box. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Premal Shah, Apurva Mapara, Patrick Zarrabi, Carlos A. Moz, Viral Shah
  • Publication number: 20180080301
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for a configurable blowout preventer (BOP) system for use in oil and gas operations. According to an embodiment, a BOP system can include two or more modular BOP ram cavity sets, each of the BOP ram cavity sets having at least one BOP ram cavity; one or more frame levels, each of the frame levels separating each of the BOP ram cavity sets and coupling each of the BOP ram cavity sets together; and a plurality of hydraulic piping fluidly connected to each of the BOP ram cavity sets, the plurality of hydraulic piping configured to drive operation of the BOP ram cavity sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Applicant: Hydril USA Distribution LLC
    Inventors: David Joseph Drobniak, Viral Shah, Wanda Roark
  • Publication number: 20180073320
    Abstract: A blowout preventer system including a lower blowout preventer stack comprising a number of hydraulic components, and a lower marine riser package comprising a first control pod and a second control pod adapted to provide, during use, redundant control of hydraulic components of the lower blowout preventer stack where the first and the second control pods are adapted to being connected, during use, to a surface control system and to be controlled, during use, by the surface control system. The blowout preventer system further including at least one additional control pod connected to at least one additional surface control system and to be controlled, during use, by the additional surface control system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Applicant: Hydril USA Distribution LLC
    Inventors: John Steven Holmes, Douglas Milliman, Luis E. Huerta, Eric Dale Larson, Gregory Ronald Gillette, Robert Arnold Judge, Viral Shah
  • Publication number: 20170116269
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for storing in in-memory unit (IMU) in a lower-storage tier and copying the IMU to DRAM when needed for query processing. Techniques are also provided for copying IMUs to lower tiers of storage when evicted from the cache of higher tiers of storage. Techniques are provided for implementing functionality of IMUs within a storage system, to enable database servers to push tasks, such as filtering, to the storage system where the storage system may access IMUs within its own memory to perform the tasks. Metadata associated with a set of data may be used to indicate whether an IMU for the data should be created by the database server machine or within the storage system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Roger D. Macnicol, Viral Shah, Xia Hua, Jesse Kamp, Shasank K. Chavan, Maria Colgan, Tirthankar Lahiri, Adrian Tsz Him Ng, Krishnan Meiyyappan, Amit Ganesh, Juan R. Loaiza, Kothanda Umamageswaran, Yiran Qin
  • Publication number: 20170111237
    Abstract: A network map of an individual's implicit and explicit people relationships across multiple workloads is provided. Relationships between people may be leveraged and ranking for people relationships may be performed based on activities across multiple workloads. People relationships may be displayed in the network map to provide a visual understanding of relationships and connections. Navigation to any person represented in the network map may be enabled, and commonalities in relationships between a navigating user and a given person navigated to in the network map may be exposed. Trending items and activity streams for a person or group of persons may be shown in the network map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Viral Shah, Berit Herstad, Vikramjeet Singh Jassal, Alexander Kempton, Ståle Sørensen, Sveinar Rasmussen, Alexander Distel, Zoran Dovedan, Ivan Dijan
  • Publication number: 20170093615
    Abstract: A failure resistant distributed computing system includes primary and secondary datacenters each comprising a plurality of computerized servers. A control center selects orchestrations from a predefined list and transmits the orchestrations to the datacenters. Transmitted orchestrations include less than all machine-readable actions necessary to execute the orchestrations. The datacenters execute each received orchestration by referencing a full set of actions corresponding to the received orchestration as previously stored or programmed into the computerized server and executing the referenced full set of actions. At least one of the orchestrations comprises a failover operation from the primary datacenter to the secondary datacenter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Shridar Chandrashekar, Swapnesh Patell, Viral Shah, Anurag Garg, Anjali Chablani
  • Patent number: 9531793
    Abstract: A network map of an individual's implicit and explicit people relationships across multiple workloads is provided. Relationships between people may be leveraged and ranking for people relationships may be performed based on activities across multiple workloads. People relationships may be displayed in the network map to provide a visual understanding of relationships and connections. Navigation to any person represented in the network map may be enabled, and commonalities in relationships between a navigating user and a given person navigated to in the network map may be exposed. Trending items and activity streams for a person or group of persons may be shown in the network map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Viral Shah, Berit Herstad, Vikramjeet Singh Jassal, Alexander Kempton, Ståle Sørensen, Sveinar Rasmussen, Alexander Distel, Zoran Dovedan, Ivan Dijan
  • Patent number: 9519553
    Abstract: A failure resistant distributed computing system includes primary and secondary datacenters each comprising a plurality of computerized servers. A control center selects orchestrations from a predefined list and transmits the orchestrations to the datacenters. Transmitted orchestrations include less than all machine-readable actions necessary to execute the orchestrations. The datacenters execute each received orchestration by referencing a full set of actions corresponding to the received orchestration as previously stored or programmed into the computerized server and executing the referenced full set of actions. At least one of the orchestrations comprises a failover operation from the primary datacenter to the secondary datacenter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Sridhar Chandrashekar, Swapnesh Patel, Viral Shah, Anurag Garg, Anjali Chablani
  • Publication number: 20160188427
    Abstract: A failure resistant distributed computing system includes primary and secondary datacenters each comprising a plurality of computerized servers. A control center selects orchestrations from a predefined list and transmits the orchestrations to the datacenters. Transmitted orchestrations include less than all machine-readable actions necessary to execute the orchestrations. The datacenters execute each received orchestration by referencing a full set of actions corresponding to the received orchestration as previously stored or programmed into the computerized server and executing the referenced full set of actions. At least one of the orchestrations comprises a failover operation from the primary datacenter to the secondary datacenter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Sridhar Chandrashekar, Swapnesh Patel, Viral Shah, Anurag Garg, Anjali Chablani
  • Publication number: 20160109874
    Abstract: A BOP system for use in a high pressure subsea environment, including a BOP stack including a lower marine riser package and a lower stack portion, the lower stack portion having a plurality of BOP rams attached to a subsea wellhead. The system also includes a riser subsystem extending from a drilling vessel to the BOP stack and providing fluid communication therebetween, a ship board subsystem electronically, mechanically, and hydraulically connected to the BOP stack and the riser subsystem to control the functions of the BOP stack and the riser subsystem, and a safety instrumented system having a surface logic solver and at least one subsea logic solver, the safety instrumented system in communication with at least a portion of the BOP rams to act as a redundant control system in case of failure of the ship board subsystem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: HYDRIL USA DISTRIBUTION, LLC
    Inventors: John Steven Holmes, Douglas Milliman, Luis E. Huerta, Eric Dale Larson, Gregory Ronald Gillette, Robert Arnold Judge, Viral Shah
  • Publication number: 20160070764
    Abstract: Generating and providing a content feed to a user that surfaces information items that are determined to be interesting or relevant to the user including content that is determined to be “distant” to the user is provided. Explicit user actions are used to discover peers who are not colleagues of the user (e.g., peers with whom the user does not share a close organizational relationship, peers with whom the user does not regularly communicate, etc.), but who the user indicates an interest in via his/her actions. These peers are categorized as elevated peers of the user, and information items associated with and trending around the elevated peers are surfaced to the user in a content feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC.
    Inventors: Torbjørn Helvik, Michael James Taylor, Vishwa Vinay, Vidar Vikjord, Viral Shah, Ashok Kuppusamy, Bjørnstein Lilleby, JR.