Using Distributed Data Base Systems, E.g., Networks, Etc. (epo) Patents (Class 707/E17.032)
  • Patent number: 11935313
    Abstract: Computer servers configured to perform digital image processing are discloses herein. In one embodiment, upon receiving a transcription command, a computer server performs text recognition based on patterns in a digital image to generate digital text data corresponding to the digital image. The computer server can then determine a content format of the digital text data based on the imported digital image and automatically apply the determined content format to the generated digital text data. The digital data can then be inserted into an electronic document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Tiancong Zhou, Yong Xie, Honghao Qiu
  • Patent number: 11937017
    Abstract: A surveillance apparatus continuously records imaged data from a camera into a circular buffer in a local memory. When a record signal is received, the system records the video stream that was recorded before the record signal was received, and the video stream that is recorded after the record signal was received. The recorded segment is then write-protected, so that the surveillance apparatus does not overwrite the recorded segment. The recorded segment could then be sent to a remote memory via a wireless connection to free up local memory for future recording sessions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Inventor: Paul DeKeyser
  • Patent number: 11861421
    Abstract: Techniques for a service provider network to communicatively couple services and/or applications in a serverless computing environment. A pipe component can configure a pipe to integrate two services by transmitting data between services and/or applications using the pipe. The pipe may also be configured to transform how a service processes an event, control timing of event transmissions using the pipe, define an event structure for an event, and/or batch events. Pipes enable an application or service to exchange data with a variety of services provided by the service provider network while controlling what type of data is generated, stored, or transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Inventors: Nikita Pinski, Mohamed Marzouk Adedoyin Mounirou, Nicholas Smit, Jakub Mateusz Narloch, Kunal Chopra
  • Patent number: 11860906
    Abstract: A method for executing a query may include generating a partition value identifier for a partitioned table. The partitioned table may include a main fragment including a main dictionary storing a first value and a main value identifier corresponding to the first value and a delta fragment including a delta dictionary storing a second value and a delta value identifier corresponding to the second value. The partition value identifier may be set based at least in part on the first value and the second value. The generated partition value identifier and a corresponding one of the main value identifier and the delta value identified may be maintained as part of a mapping. A query to group data stored in the partitioned table may be received. The query may be executed by at least using the mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Andreas Amler, Jonathan Dees, Till Merker
  • Patent number: 11836545
    Abstract: Techniques for a service provider network to communicatively couple services and/or applications in a serverless computing environment. A pipe component can configure a pipe to integrate two services by transmitting data between services and/or applications using the pipe. The pipe may also be configured to transform how a service processes an event, control timing of event transmissions using the pipe, define an event structure for an event, and/or batch events. Pipes enable an application or service to exchange data with a variety of services provided by the service provider network while controlling what type of data is generated, stored, or transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmed Usman Khalid, Jesse Dougherty, Nikita Pinski, Jamie Christopher Dool, Nicholas Smit, Mohamed Marzouk Adedoyin Mounirou, Jakub Mateusz Narloch, Tim Bray, Kunal Chopra
  • Patent number: 11765123
    Abstract: A technology is provided for delivering a data object to a device. Data delivery instructions to distribute a data object to a device may be received at a delivery service and indicate a storage location of the data object, a messaging topic, and a size of data receivable by the device. The data object is then divided into blocks corresponding to the size of data receivable by the device. A messaging topic is identified to which the device is subscribed via a messaging service. The blocks are sent to the device using the messaging topic and a network protocol available to the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard David Young, Rameez Loladia, Shyam Krishnamoorthy, Nihal Chand Jain
  • Patent number: 11687266
    Abstract: Deduplication operations can be managed based on a likelihood of duplicability. For example, a computing device can generate, by a container of a storage system, an indication of duplicability corresponding to a likelihood of duplicability for the data unit in the storage system. The computing device can transmit the indication of duplicability to a storage node of the storage system for performing an operation based on the indication of duplicability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: RED HAT, INC.
    Inventors: Gabriel Zvi BenHanokh, Orit Wasserman
  • Patent number: 11681445
    Abstract: An illustrative method includes a storage-aware serverless function management system monitoring one or more serverless function instances of one or more serverless functions implemented in a serverless system, the one or more serverless function instances associated with one or more components of a storage system, determining a portion of a component among the one or more components of the storage system based on the monitoring, and requesting the storage system to adjust storage of data associated with the portion of the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Pure Storage, Inc.
    Inventors: Taher Vohra, Luis Pablo Pabón
  • Patent number: 11622163
    Abstract: An example method comprises receiving, at a first digital device, video data, scanning video content of the video data for visual transitions within the video content between consecutive frames of the video data, each transition indicating significant visual transitions relative to other frames of the video data, timestamping each visual transition and create a first set of temporal video fingerprints, identifying items of metadata to be associated with the video data, identifying a location within the video data using the temporal video fingerprints for the identified items of metadata, generating a metadata index identifying each item of metadata and a location for each item of metadata relative to the video data using at least one of the temporal video fingerprints, and transmitting, at the first digital device, the video data, the first set of temporal video fingerprints, and the metadata index to a different digital device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: LTN Global Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Alan David Young, Dimitri Felixovich Tarassenko, Roger James Franklin, Malik Khan
  • Patent number: 11595299
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for suppressing inbound payload to an integration flow of an orchestration based application integration. The systems and methods described herein can, based upon a scan of an integration, identify and exclude from memory certain portions of one or more payloads that are received at the integration flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Prakash Kumar Devta, Sandeep Deshpande, Srimant Misra
  • Patent number: 11556510
    Abstract: An integrated platform system that employ a series of machine learning techniques and prediction and detection units that can process input data and extract and generate meaningful insights and predictions therefrom. The system integrates together multiple different data storage types and applications that generates data of different types, and an associated processing system for processing the different data types, store the data in a common data model to normalize the data, determine the data lineage of the data, and then process the data using different types of techniques. The data can also be processed by a prediction unit for generating meaningful insights and predictions or by an anomaly detection unit for detecting one or more anomalies in the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: KPMG LLP
    Inventors: Niels Hanson, James Johnson Gardner, Punit S. Orpe, Wendy Du, Laurence Anthony Brown, Ranjan Vivek Mannige, David Green, Michael Ahn, Yang Zhou, Andrew Yuan, Adam Helio Rosa, Kyle B. Chen, Alex Perusse, Christian Alexander Manaog, Yeshwanth Somu, Xin Cheng, Torey C. Bearly, Raghav Saboo, Sphoorthy Pamaraju, Erik Ernst, Can Ozuretmen, Yuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11537619
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for replica group modification in a distributed database are disclosed. One or more stream processors write elements of a data stream to a plurality of replicas in a replica group. A control plane adds an identifier of a new replica to membership metadata for the replica group. The control plane also generates a new version number for the membership metadata that now includes the new replica. The stream processor(s) write new elements of the data stream to the replica group including the new replica. Write requests to the replica group comprise the new version number, and successful writes of the new elements are acknowledged by the replicas based at least in part on the new version number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Dumanshu Goyal
  • Patent number: 11397818
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to determine a semantic privacy index that quantifies the risk associated with re-identification of a trajectory following anonymization of the trajectory. In the context of a method, information regarding a trajectory is received. After the trajectory has been map matched to a portion of a road network, the method associates contextual information comprising one or more map features with the trajectory. The method also provides the information regarding the trajectory and the contextual information comprising the one or more map features to a risk estimation model in order to generate the semantic privacy index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: HERE GLOBAL B.V.
    Inventors: Raghavendran Balu, Stefano Bennati, Aleksandra Kovacevic, Arash Ostadzadeh, Kai Pöthkow, Elena Mumford, Elena Vidyakina, Zack Zhu
  • Patent number: 11301446
    Abstract: System and method for interacting with a plurality of data sources are provided. A request may be parsed and an identification parameter identifying a data set may be determined. A field included in the request may be designated as a distribution key. At least one data source may be selected based on a value associated with the distribution key. At least a portion of the request may be sent to a selected data source. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Ignite ScalArc Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Doron Levari, Liran Zelkha
  • Patent number: 11226940
    Abstract: A method for adapting data for changes in attributes associated with the data (e.g., data related to an enterprise) may include techniques for modifying attributes associated with data corresponding to a change in those attributes based on a change in a product (e.g., an application, a computer system, a computer program product, or a service). The data adaptation techniques may include determine attributes that have changed based on adaptation information that indicates changes in attributes associated with data accessed by the product. The adaptation may indicate conditions for those changes, such as a condition that indicates a change to an attribute corresponding to a change from one version of a product to another version of the product. Upon determining that a condition for a change to an attribute has occurred, the attribute may be modified based on the change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Srikanth Ande, Eakta Aggarwal, Richard Yungning Liu
  • Patent number: 11223578
    Abstract: A system includes a plurality of client terminals, and a reception service system receiving data from the plurality of client terminals. The reception service system includes a first queue configured to receive data to be a target of predetermined processing, and a second queue configured to receive data not to be a target of the predetermined processing. Each of the plurality of client terminals transmits data relating to an event that occurred in the client terminal, to the second queue based on a second transmission rule for transmission of data to the second queue in a case where it is determined that an amount of data transmitted from the client terminal to the first queue per unit time exceeds a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shunsuke Ota
  • Patent number: 11216457
    Abstract: Join operations may be selectively assigned from local data processing to remote data processing. Aggregation queries directed to distributed data sets may have query plans generated that include join operations. Some join operations may be executed locally while others may be assigned for remote execution at a remote data processing engine. Join operations may be identified and evaluated for remote execution according to a processing constraint for the remote data processing engine. For those join operations that satisfy the remote data processing engine, the query plan may be modified to assign the join operation for remote execution. A result for the aggregation query may be generated according to the modified query plan and the result sent in response to the aggregation query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ippokratis Pandis, Yannis Papakonstantinou
  • Patent number: 11159402
    Abstract: In a provider network, a risk score for transferring computing resources between a source computing network and a provider network is determined based on an analysis of the computing resources. The analysis includes identifying configuration data associated with the computing resources and mapping the configuration data to scoring criteria to determine the risk score. A user interface is provided that is indicative of the risk score. The risk score is indicative of a predicted likelihood of success of the transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Hariharan Subramanian
  • Patent number: 11151094
    Abstract: A system for a cluster gateway to multiple filesystems comprises a cluster interface, a target filesystem, a command tailor, and a filesystem interface. The cluster interface is for receiving a filesystem command from a cluster. The target filesystem determiner is for determining a target filesystem of a set of filesystems based at least in part on the filesystem command. The command tailor is for determining a tailored command of the filesystem command for the target filesystem. The filesystem interface is for providing the tailored command to the target filesystem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company, LLC
    Inventors: Yunfeng Yang, Vijayaraghavan Srinivasaraghavan, David Reuteler, Lei Chen
  • Patent number: 11036542
    Abstract: A process or thread is implemented to issue a command which executes without use of a processor that issues the command, retain control of the processor to check whether the issued command has completed, and when the issued command has not completed repeat the checking without relinquishing the processor, until a limiting condition is satisfied. The limiting condition may be determined specifically for a current execution of the command, based on one or more factors, such as durations of executions of the command after start of the process or thread and/or an indicator of delay in a current execution of the command. When the limiting condition is satisfied, the processor is relinquished by the process or thread issuing a sleep command, after setting an interrupt. After the command completes, the limiting condition is determined anew based on the duration of the current execution, for use in a next execution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Bhaskar Mathur, Feroz Alam Khan, Kant C. Patel
  • Patent number: 11038827
    Abstract: A data processing system is configured to perform a computer implemented method for facilitation of efficient processing of electronic messages via a network from message sources. The method includes receiving an electronic message including actionable object data and textual object data from a message source device. The actionable object data includes parameters actionable by at least one data processing transaction device to perform data processing transactions external to the network device and the textual object data including descriptors of the parameters actionable by the at least one data processing transaction device. The textual object data is operable by devices incompatible with the actionable object data. The method includes calculating an execution command for the data processing transaction in response to the actionable object data and based on at least the parameters of the actionable object data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.
    Inventors: Carrick John Pierce, Baris Mestanogullari, Ajay Kumar Jain, Agnes Casenave, David Bernard Barton, Nicholas Bandy
  • Patent number: 11038862
    Abstract: A computing system includes a network circuit enabling the computing system to exchange information over a network, a customer database storing information pertaining to various user accounts pertaining to a plurality of users, and a risk assessment circuit. The risk assessment circuit is configured search at least one data source to identify a user attribute, determine that the user attribute bears a relationship to a first security credential that is either associated with or potentially associated with a user account, generate a security prompt responsive to the determination, and transmit the security prompt to a user computing device associated with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Chemere Davis, Andrew J. Garner, IV, Bryan D. Hall, H. Brock Kolls, Nicola A. Maiorana, Ximing Zhao
  • Patent number: 10956172
    Abstract: Techniques for memory management of a data processing system are described herein. According to one embodiment, a memory usage monitor executed by a processor of a data processing system monitors memory usages of groups of programs running within a memory of the data processing system. In response to determining that a first memory usage of a first group of the programs exceeds a first predetermined threshold, a user level reboot is performed in which one or more applications running within a user space of an operating system of the data processing system are terminated and relaunched. In response to determining that a second memory usage of a second group of the programs exceeds a second predetermined threshold, a system level reboot is performed in which one or more system components running within a kernel space of the operating system are terminated and relaunched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew D. Myrick, David M. Chan, Jonathan R. Reeves, Jeffrey D. Curless, Lionel D. Desai, James C. McIlree, Karen A. Crippes, Rasha Eqbal
  • Patent number: 10938800
    Abstract: A system and method for providing a user with secure access to devices operatively connected to a network comprising at least one processing device that has access to a database. The database maintains information for each user of the system, such as the user's login credentials and access level or permissions, along with information corresponding to each network device, such as, for example, the device's login credentials, IP address, and port settings. The processing device authenticates each user and then provides each user with access to the network devices as defined by the data maintained in the database corresponding to the respective user and the network devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: BohicketSC, LLC
    Inventor: John Russell Pritchard, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10915270
    Abstract: A method for writing a plurality of byte arrays to a file arranged in one or more existing data pages, comprising the steps of: identifying a data page corresponding to a first offset; reserving an array of reserved bytes at the first offset, identifying a data page corresponding to the second offset; writing the second byte array at the second offset; writing the first byte array in the array of reserved bytes; determining whether the data pages corresponding to the first offset is ready for uploading to a remote memory source; and uploading the data pages corresponding to the first offset to the remote memory source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Clipchamp IP Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Soeren Balko
  • Patent number: 10877773
    Abstract: A method for improved distribution of a software client application includes: in a first step, an initializing software application is transmitted to a client computing device, wherein the initializing software application is related to the software client application and corresponds to a preliminary part of the software client application; and in a second step subsequent to the first step and upon being requested by the initializing software application, software code of the software client application is transmitted to the client computing device in view of the software client application being installed and/or activated on the client computing device in order to provide the cloud-based communication service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG
    Inventors: Hao Wang, Stefan Burkert, Marcus Mueller-Jung, Sebastian Weik
  • Patent number: 10812343
    Abstract: An increasing number of bots become available each day that perform automated tasks over the Internet to help facilitate a variety of service requests for a user. Thus, embodiments are directed to an orchestration service configured to perform bot network orchestration in order to provide enriched responses to service requests and/or in order to find one accurate answer among large numbers of bot responses to a specific query. For example, a service request for a user that involves at least one service provider may be received. A plurality of bots to orchestrate a processing of the service request may be determined. Instructions may be provided to the bots associated with aspects of the service request, where each bot is selected based on an aspect of the service request. Responses received from the bots may be integrated into a service response and provided to a requestor of the service request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Andreas Balzer, Alan Mulhall, Stephen O'Driscoll, Muiris Woulfe
  • Patent number: 10664452
    Abstract: Parallel processing files on a distributed file system, responds to a request to process the file, by partitioning the file into a set of predetermined sized blocks by a single coordinator and assigns blocks to a reader in a set of readers. Block assignments are recorded to a control table accessible to all readers. The set of readers search the control table for a row assigned to a respective reader. Responsive to locating the row, the respective reader changes a state of the row to in progress updating an associated timestamp. The respective reader scans the control table for an available set of the blocks, when all blocks currently assigned are exhausted and dynamically re-assigns an available block from another owning reader to itself and changes ownership to itself. When no rows are available, the respective reader completes processing and returns an end of file indication to the single coordinator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alexander Abrashkevich, Toni Kunic, Steven Raspudic
  • Patent number: 10652189
    Abstract: A data processing system is configured to perform a computer implemented method for facilitation of efficient processing of electronic messages via a network from message sources. The method includes receiving an electronic message including actionable object data and textual object data from a message source device. The actionable object data includes parameters actionable by at least one data processing transaction device to perform data processing transactions external to the network device and the textual object data including descriptors of the parameters actionable by the at least one data processing transaction device. The textual object data is operable by devices incompatible with the actionable object data. The method includes calculating an execution command for the data processing transaction in response to the actionable object data and based on at least the parameters of the actionable object data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.
    Inventors: Carrick John Pierce, Baris Mestanogullari, Ajay Kumar Jain, Agnes Casenave, David Bernard Barton, Nicholas Bandy
  • Patent number: 10630557
    Abstract: A network management system manages a virtual network includes an interface system communicatively coupled to one or more servers, a director engine, and a configuration engine. The one or more servers implement a virtual network including one or more virtual machines and one or more containers organized into one or more virtual domains. The interface system generates a graphical user interface displaying graphical representations of the one or more virtual machines and the one or more containers and of the one or more servers; and information associated with the virtual network. The director engine receives a user selection of at least one server, virtual machine, container, or virtual domain, accesses information associated with the user selection, and identifies one or more of servers, virtual machines, containers, and virtual domains associated with the user selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Nicira, Inc.
    Inventors: Max Bielenberg, Pere Monclus, Sushil Singh, Jorge Jaramillo, Carolina Pena, Arslan Waqar, Dragos Rusu, Duyen Riggs, Syed Khayam
  • Patent number: 10491673
    Abstract: Systems and methods for synchronizing conversation data between a client and a server in a networked computing environment. A data structure associated with an e-mail conversation is encoded and shuttled between the client and the server. When received at the server, the data structure is analyzed to determine changes within the e-mail conversation. The data structure is subsequently modified to reflect or include only those changes to minimize the amount of information transferred between the server and client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Gautam Bhakar, Manish Garg
  • Patent number: 10459917
    Abstract: A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for managing data. In some embodiments, this includes an initial instruction for a file stored in a first storage system, determining that the initial instruction is not supported by the first storage system, identifying a combination of instructions to the first storage system after determining that the initial instruction is not supported by the first storage system, wherein the combination of instructions is based on the initial instruction, performing the identified combination of instructions on the file stored in the first storage system, and storing results of the performed identified combination of instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Lei Chang, Tao Ma, Zhanwei Wang, Lirong Jian, Lili Ma, Gavin Sherry
  • Patent number: 10387465
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods, devices, systems, and computer program products for displaying relevant information related to user roles from multiple data sources and in multiple application environments. Also provided are methods, devices, systems, and computer programs for collecting and compiling information, data, and content from one or more sources according to a user's domains, roles, and/or sub-roles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventor: Dan Watters
  • Patent number: 10360278
    Abstract: An example method of accessing a web page includes receiving audio output from speakers of electronic equipment; detecting a cue in the received audio output; determining a web address based on the detected cue; and connecting to a web page using the web address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Nintendo of America Inc.
    Inventor: Darren C. Smith
  • Patent number: 10346238
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, a computer program product and an apparatus for determining a failure location in a storage system by obtaining performance information of a disk; in response to the performance information indicating that at least one or more performance indices exceed a corresponding predetermined threshold, determining whether a health condition of the disk is normal based on at least one or more performance indices; and in response to determining that the health condition of the disk is normal, determining a failure location based on the health condition information of at least one or more elements in a communication path of the disk, and it may be diagnosed whether a failure occurs to the disk per se or in its communication path, and before a potential failure occurs to the disk, it may also predict the failure thereby preventing data loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Man Lv, Chris Zirui Liu, Colin Yong Zou
  • Patent number: 10318716
    Abstract: This is generally directed to identifying unauthorized users of an electronic device. In some embodiments, an unauthorized user of the electronic device can be detected by identifying particular activities that may indicate suspicious behavior. In some embodiments, an unauthorized user can be detected by comparing the identity of the current user to the identity of the owner of the electronic device. When an unauthorized user is detected, various safety measures can be taken. For example, information related to the identity of the unauthorized user, the unauthorized user's operation of the electronic device, or the current location of the electronic device can be gathered. As another example, functions of the electronic device can be restricted. In some embodiments, the owner of the electronic device can be notified of the unauthorized user by sending an alert notification through any suitable medium, such as, for example, a voice mail, e-mail, or text message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Taido Nakajima, Pareet Rahul, Gloria Lin
  • Patent number: 10277483
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to apparatuses, systems, and methods for transmitting/receiving data. In some embodiments, a system includes a server operative to collect data from remote apparatuses and transmit the collected data to a client group, and at least one client group including at least one client, the client group checking data received from the server and acquiring data requested by the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: LSIS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-Hong Cha, Pil-Suk Kim, Ho-Young Kang, Jae-Hyung Lee, Seok-Chan Lee
  • Patent number: 10264071
    Abstract: A request for a session identifier for a particular client is transmitted from an access subsystem of a storage service to a metadata subsystem of the service. A session identifier based on a persistent session storage location at which metadata of the client session are stored is received at the access subsystem. The session identifier is cached at the access subsystem prior to its transmission to the client. A lock state indicator generated by the metadata subsystem in response to a particular request from the client during the client session may also be cached at the access subsystem. Subsequent storage requests from the client during the session may be handled by the access subsystem using the cached session identifier and lock state indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Pradeep Vincent
  • Patent number: 10255373
    Abstract: A method and/or an apparatus normalizes a page flow into a portlet. The method comprises: generating at least one portlet based on one or more pages in the page flow; building at least one of an intra-portlet action and an inter-portlet action for the least one portlet; and modifying a Uniform Resource Locator URL in the at least one portlet. With the method and the apparatus, the page flow developed by a developer can be automatically normalized into the portlet which is easier to be shared between difference applications and integrated with an existing portal application, so that the developer can focus on development of page flow while achieving user experience and advantages specific to the portlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David L. Kaminsky, Ying Liu, Shuangtao Lv, Xi Ning Wang, Rui Yin
  • Patent number: 10244035
    Abstract: An electronic device comprising: a communication module; and at least one processor configured to: receive, via the communication module, a respective file list of each of a plurality of external electronic devices; designate a target file based on the file list, a first external electronic device from the plurality as a source electronic device and a second external electronic device from the plurality as a target electronic device; and transmit, via the communication module, a file transfer message to the target electronic device, wherein the file transfer message comprises an instruction to retrieve a target file from the source electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Jin Choi, Hyun Gyoo Yook
  • Patent number: 10212256
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to pushing data updates to client computing devices (“clients”) in real-time. Clients can obtain data from a data storage layer by sending queries to the data storage layer that will return data compatible with the client's local data model. These queries are stored in a database and the identifier for the query (“query ID”) is used instead of the query itself. In the query stored in the database, a marker is used as a proxy for a content ID of the content to be retrieved. When querying, both the query ID and the content ID are passed to the data storage layer. The query stored with the query id is loaded, the marker is substituted with the content ID, and then executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Bradley Quinlan, Harrison C. Wong, Jeremy David Fein
  • Patent number: 10152556
    Abstract: A semantic modeling platform is disclosed for creating and modifying data objects to better accommodate data in databases and/or web services. The platform creates an ontology based on the data and compares it to the ontology of the data object, such as a database table or web services instance. Based on the comparison the platform modifies the ontology, which is used to create or modify the data object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventor: Edgardo S. Carlos
  • Patent number: 10134079
    Abstract: There is provided systems and method for offline ecommerce purchases using an item catalog for a user. A user may receive a catalog of items from a server, such as a merchant server and/or payment provider server, at a user device while the user device is connected to a network. The catalog of items may be transmitted to the user prior to the user entering an offline mode with the user device, where the user device is no longer connected to the network. While the user device operates in the offline mode, the user may browse the catalog and select items to purchase. On a future connection to the network, the user device may transmit a purchase request for the selected items to the merchant server and/or payment provider server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventor: Maxim Fainshtein
  • Patent number: 10114696
    Abstract: A method for execution by a dispersed storage and task (DST) processing unit that includes a processor includes receiving an access request from a requesting entity via a network indicating an original data object. At least one read request is generated for transmission to at least one storage unit indicating a plurality of encoded original data slices associated with the original data object. A regenerated original data object is generated by utilizing a decoding scheme on the plurality of encoded original data slice. A transformed data object is generated for transmission to the requesting entity via the network by utilizing a transformation function on the first regenerated original data object based on an entity identifier associated with the requesting entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Trent William Johnson
  • Patent number: 10097422
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus configuring a control apparatus controlling a network includes: a display unit displaying a first icon corresponding to a database storing control information for controlling the network and a plurality of second icons, each of which corresponds to one of a plurality of modules, each of which operates the control information based on a predetermined algorithm, on a display; and a management unit configuring the control apparatus having a function of connecting, upon connecting the first icon with any one of the second icons, a module corresponding to the second icon to the database and operating the control information responsive to a database operation command issued by the module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshio Koide
  • Patent number: 10089333
    Abstract: A system and method enable the selection of database records for editing and writing. A database record is queried for the size of the data fields contained therein. The size of the data field is compared to the field width limitation of a storage database. When it is determined that the data field displays a size greater than the size of the field width limitation of the storage database, a computing device extends the size of the limitation to accommodate the new database record data field. When the size of the limitation is expanded, the new database record is written to the storage database. The system and method may optionally include the input of a user at the final steps, wherein the user may optionally approve or disapprove the extension of the size of the field width limitation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Inventors: Richard Banister, William Dubberley
  • Patent number: 10091158
    Abstract: In one aspect, a computer-implemented method for managing Domain Name System (DNS) information is provided. The method uses a computing device having a processor and a memory. The method includes receiving, in the memory, source DNS data from a plurality of DNS systems including at least first source data from a first source system and second source data from a second source system. The method also includes identifying, by the processor, an inconsistency between the first source data and the second source data. The inconsistency includes an inconsistency type. The method further includes determining a solution to the inconsistency by applying one or more rules from a plurality of inconsistency rules based at least in part on the inconsistency type associated with the inconsistency. The method also includes resolving the inconsistency using the determined solution including generating resultant DNS data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Daniel A. Ruggeri
  • Patent number: 10078676
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, primary data is received from a first tenant in a computer network, the primary data formatted based on a first version of a schema. Then a schema definition for the first version of the schema is obtained. The primary data is then parsed, the parsing including storing a schema version number for the first version of the schema. The primary data is indexed, by obtaining, using the schema version number for the first version of the schema, a schema definition for a most recent version of the schema; applying schema evolution to the primary data by applying one or more transforms to the primary data, the one or more transforms created using the schema definition for the first and most recent versions of the schema, causing the primary data to be converted to the most recent version of the schema; and indexing the converted primary data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Prashant Bhagat, Ketan Bengali, Sushant Prasad, Dennis Lee, Harshad Chavan, Kiran Gangadharappa, Dinesh Shahane
  • Patent number: 10067755
    Abstract: A computing system comprises, in one example, an upgrade system configured to detect a user upgrade input indicating that a base version of a computing system is to be upgraded, by applying a set of upgrade changes to the base version, to obtain an upgraded version of the computing system, a difference generation system configured to retrieve a customized version of the base version of the computing system and identify that the customized version corresponds to the base version with customizations applied, a combining engine configured to obtain the customizations applied to the base version and the upgrade changes, and combine the customizations with the upgrade changes to obtain a full set of changes, and a difference application engine configured to apply the full set of changes to the base version of the computing system to obtain a customized, upgraded version of the computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Tomasz Kaminski, Suriya Narayanan, Jakob Steen Hansen, Robert Badawy, Andrew William Jewsbury, Nitinkumar Shah, Ian Beck, Liang Yu
  • Patent number: 10063556
    Abstract: A method is provided and may include receiving a request for a network content delivery service from an access device; directing the access device to a network service provider for authentication for the network content delivery service; receiving a network authorization token from the access device, where the network authorization token is associated with the access device; obtaining a network access token from the network service provider; and binding the network access token to a content access token.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kent K. Leung, Jayaraman R. Iyer, Bruce A. Thompson, Flemming S. Andreasen