Patents Issued in April 11, 2017
  • Patent number: 9619541
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system for multi-instance redo apply is provided for standby databases. A multi-instance primary database generates a plurality of redo records, which are received and applied by a physical standby running a multi-instance standby database. Each standby instance runs a set of processes that utilize non-blocking, single-task threads for high parallelism. At each standby instance for the multi-instance redo, the plurality of redo records are merged into a stream from one or more redo strands in logical time order, distributed to standby instances according to determined apply slave processes using an intelligent workload distribution function, reemerged after receiving updates from remote instances, and applied in logical time order by the apply slave processes. Redo apply progress is tracked at each instance locally and also globally, allowing a consistent query logical time to be maintained and published to service database read query requests concurrently with the redo apply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Amrish Srivastava, Yunrui Li, Mahesh Baburao Girkar
  • Patent number: 9619542
    Abstract: The present application is directed towards systems and methods of hunting for a hash table entry in a hash table distributed over a multi-node system. More specifically, when entries are created in an ASDR table, the owner node of the entry may replicate the entry onto a non-owner node. The replica can act as a backup of the ASDR table entry in the event the node leaves the multi-mode system. When the node returns to the multi-node system, the node may no longer have the most up to date ASDR table entries, and may hunt to find the existence of the value associated with the entry. Responsive to receiving a request for an entry that may be outdated on the node, the node sends a request down a replication chain for an updated copy of the ASDR table entry from one of the replicas. Responsive to receiving the replica copy of the entry, the node responds to the client's request for the entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: CITRIX SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Sandeep Kamath, Mahesh Arumugam, Jaidev Sridhar, Abhishek Chauhan, Sandhya Gopinath
  • Patent number: 9619543
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method includes determining whether a volume selected for replication is a linked clone, determining if a base file associated with the linked clone exists at a replication site and generating the base file associated with the linked clone at the replication site if a base file does not exist at the replication site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Assaf Natanzon, Saar Cohen
  • Patent number: 9619544
    Abstract: A sequence of configuration-delta messages from a configuration manager of a replication graph established for replicating state information of an application is received at a particular node of the graph. Representations of the messages are stored in a local configuration change repository. Using the repository, the node identifies neighbor source nodes and destination nodes of the graph. Subsequent to receiving a particular configuration-delta message indicating that a neighbor source node has been removed from the graph, a different source node is identified by the particular node, and a request is sent to the different source node to transmit a set of state transition messages pertaining to the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Allan Henry Vermeulen, Chi Hai Ho, Michael Benjamin Deardeuff
  • Patent number: 9619545
    Abstract: Multiple clients can be enabled to perform operations relative to data items in a shard system asynchronously to each other without the use by those clients of exclusive locks. A rebalancing event, in which data items are redistributed automatically among a set of shards due to a modification of the quantity of shards in the system, can be performed without the use of exclusive locks by clients. Clients can continue to perform operations relative to at least some of the data items in the shard system even while rebalancing processes are redistributing at least some of the data items asynchronously during a system-wide rebalancing event. All of these benefits can be obtained without sacrificing data consistency within the shard system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Alexandre Hardy, Omkar Tilak
  • Patent number: 9619546
    Abstract: A synchronization adapter is coupled to the application that does not support synchronization and generates the necessary synchronization metadata for all data in the application that is to be synchronized. The synchronization adapter then combines the metadata to the actual data to be synchronized to form a synchronization feed. The synchronization feed is stored in an internal cache (or data store) which is internal to the application, or an external cache (or data store), which is external to the application, or it can be stored in both caches. The synchronization adapter also intermittently determines whether the application data has changed, thus warranting a change in its metadata, or whether a synchronization operation is warranted to synchronization operation is warranted to synchronize the data with data in another application. In either case, the synchronization adapter makes the changes to the data, or performs a synchronization operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Paresh Suthar, Jack Ozzie, Steven Lees
  • Patent number: 9619548
    Abstract: A request for aggregate data stored in an aggregates database is received from a client device. A key-to-value dimension widening rule that applies to an aggregated data element of the requested data is identified. The key-to-value dimension widening rule includes a value dimension. A quantity of data elements that combined to form the aggregated data element is determined. A widened value dimension for the aggregated data element is calculated using the determined quantity and the value dimension. The widened value dimension is reported to the client device in response to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Niranjan Heddese Sitaram Shastry, Jieyan Fan, Yuan Zhuge, Sze Chit Ho, Richard Maher, Timothy John Wright
  • Patent number: 9619549
    Abstract: Storing and/or accessing data in a transactional database, with use of the following technique: (i) selecting a set of base tables in a transactional database; and (ii) creating a factless materialized query table, having maximum sparsity, for the set of base tables. The set of base tables includes at least two base tables. The set of base tables includes a set of keys including at least two distinct primary keys. The factless materialized query table includes one record associated with each record in the set of base tables. Each record in the materialized query table includes a value for every primary key in the set of base tables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Biswadeep Banerjee, Michael L. Lamb, Mack E. Phelps, Vishnukumar T Santharam
  • Patent number: 9619550
    Abstract: A first work package defining a data analytic plan associated with a given data problem is obtained. The first work package is generated in accordance with an automated data analytics lifecycle and is implemented in a provisioned system. A second work package defining a revised data analytic plan is obtained. A set of differences between the first work package and the second work package is determined. Cost and time parameters, associated with modifying the provisioned system to implement the set of differences between the first work package and the second work package, are computed. The set of differences and the computed cost and time parameters are presented. The provisioned system is automatically re-configured in accordance with at least a portion of the set of differences and based on the computed cost and time parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Todd, David Dietrich
  • Patent number: 9619551
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method for generating document groupings is provided. A lexicon of terms extracted from a set of documents is generated. The lexicon includes a frequency of each extracted term within each document in the set. Concepts each having two or more of the extracted terms are generated. A subset of the documents in the set is selected based on the term frequencies. The subset of documents is grouped into clusters based on the concepts. A similarity of each document cluster is calculated with one or more documents based on a distance by summing the frequency of each term in that document and a weight of the cluster for each of the terms. The weights are updated until a rate of change for each cluster becomes constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: FTI Technology LLC
    Inventors: Dan Gallivan, Kenji Kawai
  • Patent number: 9619552
    Abstract: Embodiments extend the relational model and query language to recognize features of tables and higher level entity-relationship models (ERMs). Extension language is implemented in the data design language (DDL) to incorporate tables, entities (and views) having custom-defined/semantic structure, rather than being limited to primitive types (e.g. flat tables as in standard SQL). The extension language includes an indication that a query is to include all active elements for each table extension or entity extension that is active. The extension language can be chained to extend a table or entity that has been extended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Timm Falter, Daniel Hutzel, Stefan Baeuerle
  • Patent number: 9619553
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and system for ranking meeting topics is described. A plurality of participants in an electronic meeting is identified. One or more interests associated with one or more individuals included in the plurality of participants are identified. One or more topics associated with the meeting are received. A ranking of the one or more topics is determined based upon, at least in part, the one or more identified interests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James Patrick Galvin, Jr., Amy D. Travis, Sara B. Weber
  • Patent number: 9619554
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for providing query-completion suggestions configured to be searched against vertical information domains in response to receiving a general web search query are provided. At least a portion of a general web search query is received. As the portion of the general web search query is received, query-completion suggestions are determined as is a likely primary intent associated with at least a portion of the determined query-completion suggestions. If the likely primary intent associated with a particular query-completion suggestion is for information associated with a particular vertical information domain other than the general web domain, the query-completion suggestion is provided such that selection thereof causes searching of the query-completion suggestion against the particular information domain for search results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Xin Liu, Nitin Agrawal, James Francis Gilsinan, IV, James B. Lawson, Brian Whalen MacDonald, Mairéad Áine O'Donovan, Kimberly M. Vlcek, Nipoon Malhotra
  • Patent number: 9619555
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a computerized system and process for natural language query and reporting comprising a processor, memory, and a query interface configured for receipt of a data source selection. The processor searches and retrieves over a network unstructured data based on the received data source selection, parses the unstructured data into data blocks and stores the data blocks in a local database. The processor semantically parses the data blocks and stores the resulting data in a structured database. A report module is configured to iteratively receive keyword input and instantiate a subject node, the node representing a subset of data blocks of the structured database having the input keywords. The report module creates a taxonomy based on the input keywords, with descendant levels representing a subset of data blocks of the subject node, the subset of data blocks having the input keywords combined with other words in the data blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Inventor: Shahbaz Anwar
  • Patent number: 9619556
    Abstract: Techniques for determining ownership of files and/or email messages are disclosed. In one embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method including determining a distribution of a plurality of email messages within a file; selecting a preset number of email messages based on the determined distribution of the plurality of email messages within the file; extracting metadata from each of the preset number of email messages; classifying each of the preset number of email messages based on the extracted metadata; determining an owner of each of the preset number of email messages based on the classification of each email message by analyzing the metadata of each of the preset number of email messages; calculating statistics for the preset number of email messages based on the determined owner of each of the preset number of email messages; and assigning ownership to the file based on the calculated statistics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Veritas Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Wasim Ilkal, Sachin Raut, Krishna Ghodke
  • Patent number: 9619557
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for key phrase characterization of documents. In accordance with one implementation, a method is provided for key phrase characterization of documents. The method includes obtaining a first plurality of documents based at least on a user input, obtaining a statistical model based at least on the user input, and obtaining, from content of the first plurality of documents, a plurality of segments. The method also includes determining statistical significance of the plurality of segments based at least on the statistical model and the content, and providing for display a representative segment from the plurality of segments, the representative segment being determined based at least on the statistical significance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Max Kesin, Hem Wadhar
  • Patent number: 9619558
    Abstract: Methods, systems and programming for entity recognition in a query. In one example, an index that associates an alias with one or more entities is obtained. Each of the one or more entities is associated with one or more features. A query associated with one or more features is received from a user. The alias is then identified in the query. At least one of the one or more entities is determined based, at least in part, on the features associated with each of the one or more entities and the features associated with the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: EXCALIBUR IP, LLC
    Inventors: Sudarshan Lamkhede, Peter Mika, Vinod Balakrishnan
  • Patent number: 9619559
    Abstract: Techniques for re-associating dynamic metadata with media data are provided. A media processing system creates, with a first media processing stage, binding information comprising dynamic metadata and a time relationship between the dynamic metadata and media data. The binding information may be derived from the media data. While the first media processing stage delivers the media data to a second media processing stage in a first data path, the first media processing stage passes the binding information to the second media processing stage in a second data path. The media processing system re-associates, with the second media processing stage, the dynamic metadata and the media data using the binding information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Wenyu Jiang, Regunthan Radhakrishnan, Claus Bauer
  • Patent number: 9619560
    Abstract: In one implementation, a method is described of retrying matching of an audio query against audio references. The method includes receiving a follow-up query that requests a retry at matching a previously submitted audio query. In some implementations, this follow-up query is received without any recognition hint that suggests how to retry matching. The follow-up query includes the audio query or a reference to the audio query to be used in the retry. The method further includes retrying matching the audio query using retry matching resources that include an expanded group of audio references, identifying at least one match and transmitting a report of the match. Optionally, the method includes storing data that correlates the follow-up query, the audio query or the reference to the audio query, and the match after retrying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Soundhound, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Master, Bernard Mont-Reynaud, Keyvan Mohajer
  • Patent number: 9619561
    Abstract: A technology can be provided for change invariant scene recognition of an environment by an agent that uses image sensors to capture images. An example method can include grouping the images into situation image sets to form an image database. A navigation image can be captured by the agent at the agent's current location. Another operation can be searching through images by separately loaded situation image set to identify images that are a probable match for the navigation image. Error values can be computed between the navigation image and situation image sets. A probability can be calculated that situation image sets are to be used as a relevant situation image set based on the error values. Then the relevant situation image set can be searched for matching purposes with the navigation image while the error value is below a defined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Georgios Chrysanthakopoulos
  • Patent number: 9619562
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and system for providing to a user rapid access to search resources while interacting with electronic documents by providing for recognition of user initiated search triggers that result in searches being performed with minimal user input or page navigation. The method and system includes generating, by a server computer, a web page, injecting code into the web page, and transmitting the web page to a client computer. The code, when executed on the client computer, detects a search interface trigger occurring during display of the web page, the search interface trigger not associated with an input focus of the web page or of a browser on the client computer, detects a search execution trigger after the detecting of the search interface trigger, and transmits, to a search entity, a request for search results related to content associated with the search interface trigger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: EXCALIBUR IP, LLC
    Inventor: Wai Hung Wong
  • Patent number: 9619563
    Abstract: A web content search request including a search term is received at a searching/indexing device. A web search is performed based upon the search term. A markup language (ML) document returned via the web search including the search term is parsed. A location of the search term within the ML document is identified. A hypertext link to the identified location of the search term within the ML document is configured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Theodore R. Carraher, Jake Palmer
  • Patent number: 9619564
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to a method, a system, and a computer program product for providing recommended terms. A method for providing recommended terms is provided. The method includes determining a search query input by a user and an input time point when the search query was input, determining whether the input time point falls within a time range preset within a current time period, if the input time point falls within the time range preset within the current time period, determining whether the search query is present in a word bank preset for the time range, and if the search query is present in the word bank, providing the user with a special event recommended term preset for the time range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventor: Yizhe Liu
  • Patent number: 9619565
    Abstract: A search engine server system receives from a client system a search query and identifies a set of documents in accordance with the search query. A content snippet corresponding to content in a respective document of the identified set of documents is generated, the content snippet associated with at least one query term of the one or more query terms in the search query. A response to the search query is returned to the client system, the response including information identifying at least the respective document and including the content snippet. Generating the content snippet includes performing a first decompression operation on first token identifiers, from a compressed document repository, to provide a set of second token identifiers, and performing a second decompression operation on the set of second token identifiers to recover uncompressed content comprising a portion of the respective document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Dean, Gautham K. Thambidorai, Sanjay Ghemawat, Benedict Anthony Gomes, Olcan Sercinoglu
  • Patent number: 9619566
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a selected information acquisition unit for acquiring, from a history management server managing, for each search string, one or more pieces of selected information selected from one or more pieces of page identification information obtained by using the search string, selected information matching a selected string, and a display control unit for performing control such that information regarding a page identified by the selected information acquired by the selected information acquisition unit is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Okayama, Yuya Aoki, Mitsuru Nishibe, Shunichi Kasahara
  • Patent number: 9619567
    Abstract: An input and processing system allows user input information such as user affinity to efficiently determine user characteristics from content as well as novel input of commands such as copy/paste on a small mobile device screen among other computing devices. A client/server is also made more efficient due to the enhanced gathering of information. Also disclosed is a system for rapid presentation of information such as barcodes at barcode scanners. A system can request multiple barcodes, coupons or the like by detecting a signal from a scanner that information presented has been read.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Nfluence Media, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Roundtree, Kevin Allan, William Munslow, David Pratt
  • Patent number: 9619568
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for accessing content in a travel management system. A request is received from an application to access a standard data element and a non-standard data element from an extended record data structure based at least in part upon access criteria. A plurality of attributes of a data container associated with the non-standard data element are filtered based at least in part upon a plurality of predefined filtering rules in order to generate filtered attributes. An abstract container is generated that includes the filtered attributes of the non-standard data element and that is assigned a unique abstract type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: AMADEUS S.A.S.
    Inventors: Vanessa Fontebride, Christel Charrat, Ludovic Le Sinq, Marion Francois, Pierre Gadeyne, Christian Ceelen
  • Patent number: 9619569
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method, system, and computer-readable storage medium with instructions for recommending locations to a user. Preferred criteria may be selected by the user, for example, or a third party, and provide objective or subjective information that the user is seeking in a location. Embodiments may include compiling objective information with the location and comparing the objective information to preferred criteria. A user's profile may be compared to another person's profile, where the other person's profile is associated to the location. A location may be recommended to the user if the objective information correlates to the preferred criteria and if the other person's profile correlates to the user's profile. Subjective information associated with the location may be provided to the user along with the recommended location. Furthermore, a location may be recommended to the user if the subjective information correlates to the preferred criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Associations (USAA)
    Inventors: Bradly J. Billman, Charles L. Oakes, III, Reynaldo Medina, III, Michael P. Bueche, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9619570
    Abstract: A search context is recorded during a search performed by a first user. The search context may include environmental variables associated with the computing equipment used by the first user such as at least one of regional settings, geographic location, social attributes, job role, browse history, and cookie files. The search context may be encrypted or be restricted for use by certain users and for a specific period of time. The search context may be sent to a second user or a group. The context is applied to environmental variables associated with the computing equipment used by the second user. The second user can thereby substantially duplicate the search performed by the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Al Chakra, Liam Harpur, John Rice
  • Patent number: 9619571
    Abstract: A method for searching for related entities using entity co-occurrence is disclosed. Embodiments of the method may be employed in any search system that may include at least one search engine, at least one entity co-occurrence knowledge base, an entity extraction module, and at least an entity indexed corpus. The method may extract and disambiguate entities from search queries by using an entity co-occurrence knowledge base, find extracted entities in an entity indexed corpus and finally present search results as related entities of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: QBase, LLC
    Inventors: Scott Lightner, Franz Weckesser, Sanjay Boddhu
  • Patent number: 9619572
    Abstract: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for multiple web-based content category searching for web content on a mobile communication facility comprising capturing speech presented by a user using a resident capture facility on the mobile communication facility; transmitting at least a portion of the captured speech as data through a wireless communication facility to a speech recognition facility; generating speech-to-text results for the captured speech utilizing the speech recognition facility; and transmitting the text results and a plurality of formatting rules specifying how search text may be used to form a query for a search capability on the mobile communications facility, wherein each formatting rule is associated with a category of content to be searched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael S. Phillips, John N. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 9619573
    Abstract: Method for calculating tolerance zones for utility assets includes: receiving data about a point, a line, or an area related to a location of an utility asset in a region; receiving information about said utility asset in the region from one or more databases, wherein the received information includes two or more of a type of the utility asset, a location of the utility asset, an accuracy of the location of the utility asset, accuracy requirements for the utility asset, accuracy requirements for the region, and a map tile accuracy; calculating a tolerance zone for said utility asset in the region based on the accuracy requirements for the utility asset and one or more of said accuracy of the location of the utility asset, accuracy requirements for the region, and the map tile accuracy; and transmitting the tolerance zone to a remote device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: PROSTAR GEOCORP, INC.
    Inventors: Nelson Page Tucker, Daniel Edward Colby, Peter James Lynch Forster, William Steven Slusarenko
  • Patent number: 9619574
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a search query from a user device and identifying function records using the search query. Each function record includes an application access mechanism (AAM) and application state information (ASI). The AAM includes a reference to a native application and indicates one or more operations for the application to perform. The ASI describes a state of the application after the application has performed the operations. Identifying the function records may be based on matches between terms of the search query and terms of the ASI included in the function records. The techniques further include selecting AAMs from the identified function records and identifying one or more AAMs of the selected AAMs that are compatible with the user device. The techniques also include transmitting the identified AAMs to the user device and refraining from transmitting any of the selected AAMs that are not compatible with the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Quixey, Inc.
    Inventors: Liron Shapira, Eric J. Glover
  • Patent number: 9619575
    Abstract: The invention provides a system and method for analyzing a collection of communication messages. The communication messages may be any one of a collection of electronic mail messages, voicemail messages, instant messaging dialogs and other forms of communications. The collections of communications, such as electronic mail messages, may be selected by a user and then subsequently processed to determine the identity of any of the user's contacts within the communications. The contacts may then be arranged in a relative priority arrangement whereby contacts which have been identified as engaging in prior reciprocal communications with the user are given higher priority. Higher priority may also be given to contacts which engage in more recent communications with the user. Specific contact relationships may be inferred from the communications depending on whether specific contacts are repeatedly mentioned within the communication messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventors: Ellen Isaacs, Bonnie A. Nardi, Stephen Whittaker
  • Patent number: 9619576
    Abstract: Embodiments discussed herein relate to a mobile terminal providing a user interface capable of more conveniently searching a user's visited web pages. To this end, a mobile terminal according to an embodiment discussed herein may include a storage unit configured to store link information between a first web page and a second web page when the second web page is approached from the first web page; a display unit configured to display a first indicator indicating the first web page and a second indicator indicating the second web page together with the link information; and a controller configured to control the display unit to display a web page corresponding to the selected indicator when either one of the first indicator and second indicator is selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Joonho Kwon, Chungha Yun, Eunyoung Moon
  • Patent number: 9619577
    Abstract: A computing system used for graphical user interface image reproduction includes a processor; and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor. The processor is configured to: extract data from network traffic being sent from a server to a first client device, the network traffic including cacheable files used to create a graphical user interface display on the first client device; store the cacheable file in a trace file associated with the first client device; and send the cacheable file to a second client device in response to a request from the second client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidenori Gohda, Masahiko Kosuda
  • Patent number: 9619578
    Abstract: A method comprises providing an interface permitting a first user to control activation of a mobile information channel through which the first user can share access to content with a plurality of additional users, activating the mobile information channel responsive to input received from the first user via the interface, inserting content provided by the first user into the mobile information channel, receiving additional content relating to the mobile information channel from one or more of said additional users via one or more respective mobile devices associated with at least one wireless network, inserting at least a portion of the additional content into the mobile information channel, and integrating into the mobile information channel information associated with at least one wireless networking functionality of said at least one wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Engagelogic Corporation
    Inventors: David Walker Harper, Jason James Sabella, William Henry Munch
  • Patent number: 9619579
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention assist in the development, management, and deployment of aggregated data attributes for multiple data sources. One embodiment provides a development interface that allows for elements of attributes, including filters, to be moved into a coding area in which an attribute or an attribute element is being edited. In another embodiment, the user interface presents data fields to assist in the development of filters for multiple data sources with divergent formats. The application further provides a validation interface through which users can validate attributes and trace the results returned by various elements referenced by the attributes under validation. Another embodiment provides a system for managing attributes and deploying them to various systems by creating a deployment file that is used by an attribute calculation system. In one embodiment, the attribute calculation system is a scalable system that dynamically calculates attributes for multiple data sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: EXPERIAN INFORMATION SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Magali Courbage, Richard Rodenbusch, Jean-Dominique Morani
  • Patent number: 9619580
    Abstract: A processor-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product generates and utilizes synthetic context-based objects. A non-contextual data object is associated with a context object to define a synthetic context-based object, where the non-contextual data object ambiguously relates to multiple subject-matters, and where the context object provides a context that identifies a specific subject-matter, from the multiple subject-matters, of the non-contextual data object. The synthetic context-based object is then associated with at least one specific data store, which includes data that is associated with data contained in the non-contextual data object and the context object. A request for a data store that is associated with the synthetic context-based object results in the return of at least one data store that is associated with the synthetic context-based object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Samuel S. Adams, Robert R. Friedlander, James R. Kraemer
  • Patent number: 9619581
    Abstract: Various technologies pertaining to construction of a query for execution over a cube are described. Tabular data is presented on a displayed on a display screen, where the tabular data represents at least a portion of a data cube. Input is received with respect to the tabular data, and responsive to the input being received, a query is constructed based upon the input. The query is executed over the data cube, resulting in provisioning of a new table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Hughes, Michael J. Coulson, Alexandre Tristan St-Cyr, Faisal Mohamood, Theresa Palmer-Boroski, Clemens Szyperski, Marius Dumitru
  • Patent number: 9619582
    Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a computer-implemented method including receiving a partial query term from a user. The method further includes providing the partial query term to multiple data provider modules. Additionally, the method includes receiving a set of search suggestion items responsive to the partial query term and receiving information identifying a category for each search suggestion item. The method further includes rendering a representation of each search suggestion item, and receiving a user selection identifying one of the search suggestion items from the user interface. And, the method includes rendering a status bar indicating the user selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Gueorgui N. Djabarov, Alex B. Harper, Stuart B. Morgan, David I. MacLachlan, Michael D. Pinkerton, John Nicholas Jitkoff, Ryan C. Tabone
  • Patent number: 9619583
    Abstract: An illustrative embodiment of a computer-implemented method for predictive analytic queries includes creating a user-defined predictive analytics query using a set of syntactic grammar that defines a correct syntax of the user-defined predictive analytics query including a created set of predictive analytics by-example vocabularies and a set of subject-specific by-example vocabularies forming a set of by-example vocabularies, wherein the set of syntactic grammar defines semantics of each syntactically correct predictive analytics query using the by-example vocabularies such that predictive analytics queries can be expressed with semantic precision using this constrained Natural Language Processing (cNLP) approach. The computer-implemented method further generates a predictive analytic model and runtime query, using the user-defined predictive analytics query, executes the runtime query using the predictive analytic model to create a result, and returns the result to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alex T. Lau, Diana Lau, Stephan F. Jou, Joanna W. Ng
  • Patent number: 9619584
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a circuit that includes a content addressable memory (CAM) array, a first mask circuit and a first encoder. The CAM array has CAM entry lines to be compared with a search key. The CAM array is configured to output a match result indicative entry lines that match the search key. The first mask circuit is configured to selectively mask first one or more portions of the match result to generate a first masked match result indicative first entry lines among the entry lines that match the search key. The first encoder is configured to encode the first masked match result to identify a matching entry line in the first entry lines as a first search result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Marvell Israel (M.I.S.L.) Ltd.
    Inventors: Amir Roitshtein, Gil Levy, Lior Valency
  • Patent number: 9619585
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of constructing and maintaining a record keeping dictionary data structure can include: generating a PATRICIA trie from a set of strings; generating multiple kth-level elevator-stairs data structures at exponentially reducing k-levels, wherein each of the kth-level elevator-stairs data structure includes a kth-level trie corresponding to the PATRICIA trie and wherein nodes of the kth-level trie at string depths of integer multiples of k are accessible through hash table links; and linking nodes in neighboring kth-level tries of the multiple kth-level elevator-stairs data structures where the nodes represent a same node in the PATRICIA trie.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: InfiniteBio
    Inventor: Natsuhiko Futamura
  • Patent number: 9619586
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for managing models. Elements in a model of an object are identified. Dependencies for the elements are identified. At least one of a matrix of the elements and a knowledge model of the object using the elements are generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventor: Sreeram Bhaskara
  • Patent number: 9619587
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide techniques for decomposing 3D geometry into developable surface patches and cut patterns. In one embodiment, a decomposition application receives a triangulated 3D surface as input and determines approximately developable surface patches from the 3D surface using a variant of k-means clustering. Such approximately developable surface patches may have undesirable jagged boundaries, which the decomposition application may eliminate by generating a data structure separate from the mesh that contains patch boundaries and optimizing the patch boundaries or, alternatively, remeshing the mesh such that patch boundaries fall on mesh edges. The decomposition application may then flatten the patches into truly developable surfaces by re-triangulating the patches as ruled surfaces. The decomposition application may further flatten the ruled surfaces into 2D shapes and lay those shapes out on virtual sheets of material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: AUTODESK, INC.
    Inventors: Saul Griffith, Martin Wicke, Keith Pasko, Geoffrey Irving, Sam Calisch, Tucker Gilman, Daniel Benoit, Jonathan Bachrach
  • Patent number: 9619588
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for representing data transformation loss in a system model that includes multiple nodes are disclosed. In an embodiment, an interface generator determines that a first node in a data path applies a data coding. In response, at least in part, to determining that a second node that is downstream from the first node applies a data transcoding, the interface generator determines a decoding stability factor that corresponds to a combined data transformation loss incurred by the data transcoding in combination with the data coding. The interface generator generates a display object having a display indicator that corresponds to the decoding stability factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: CA, Inc.
    Inventor: Mike Arnold Lyons
  • Patent number: 9619589
    Abstract: A method is provided of determining the coverage of at least one optical sensor in a three dimensional (3-D) area. The 3-D area is divided into cells. The field of view of the sensor in the 3-D area is determined and rays are projected from the sensor into the 3-D area within sensor's field of view. The intersections between the rays and the cells are determined and a visual display of the 3-D area is generated showing the coverage of the sensor, based on the intersections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Michelle Lynn Kristofik, Dennis Mack Williams
  • Patent number: 9619590
    Abstract: A method for uncertainty estimation for nonlinear inverse problems includes obtaining an inverse model of spatial distribution of a physical property of subsurface formations. A set of possible models of spatial distribution is obtained based on the measurements. A set of model parameters is obtained. The number of model parameters is reduced by covariance free compression transform. Upper and lower limits of a value of the physical property are mapped to orthogonal space. A model polytope including a geometric region of feasible models is defined. At least one of random and geometric sampling of the model polytope is performed in a reduced-dimensional space to generate an equi-feasible ensemble of models. The reduced-dimensional space includes an approximated hypercube. Probable model samples are evaluated based on data misfits from among an equi-feasible model ensemble determined by forward numerical simulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael J. Tompkins, Juan Luis Fernandez-Martinez
  • Patent number: 9619591
    Abstract: A response surface can be built with reduced analysis time and shortened time for objective value calculation using the response surface. To achieve this, a connection information generating unit divides data of a machine structure constituting an analysis target into a plurality of parts via an input unit, and parameterizes a distribution of a physical quantity at a connection boundary thereof so as to be given and received as a parameter of a physical quantity of adjacent divided shape data. A response surface generating unit parameterizes a response surface based on the parameterized distribution of the attribute value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Norihiko Nonaka, Koma Sato