Of Access To Content, E.g., By Caching, Etc. (epo) Patents (Class 707/E17.12)
  • Patent number: 10257249
    Abstract: A content delivery network and method for operating the same includes a content delivery network (CDN) origin server and a content delivery network edge server receiving a request for a first content from a first client device and communicating the request for the first content to the content delivery network origin server. The CDN origin server communicates a pull signal to a publisher origin server when the request for the first content is a first request, receives the first content from the publisher origin server and stores the first content. The CDN origin server communicates the first content to the first client through the CDN edge server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Thai Lam, Michael A. Makhijani, Michael S. Xie
  • Patent number: 10255255
    Abstract: In one embodiment, receiving, at a first computing device from a second computing device, a request for a view of a user interface of a native application executing on the second computing device, wherein the view includes one or more first user interface components; determining, by the first computing device, a user agent type of the second computing device; selecting, by the first computing device, one or more second user-interface components to be included in the view based on the user agent type of the second computing device; generating, by the first computing device, code implementing a structured document that represents the view, wherein the structured document comprises the one or more first user-interface components and the one or more second user-interface components; and transmitting, from the first computing device to the second computing device, the code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Erick Tseng, Philip Fung, Yariv Sadan
  • Patent number: 10250938
    Abstract: An example described herein may include sending a request to access a media stream from a content delivery network; receiving program content of the media stream from the content delivery network; sending a request, for supplemental content information, to a supplemental content server based on receiving the program content, where the supplemental content information is associated with an upcoming time period of the media stream, and where the request includes information identifying the upcoming time period; obtaining, prior to the upcoming time period, the supplemental content information associated with the media stream for the upcoming time period; and during streaming of the media stream, inserting the supplemental content associated with the supplemental content information in one or more breaks of the media stream during the upcoming time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Eduardo Jimenez, Rodrigo Meneses, Mahesh Kumar Vasanthusomashekar
  • Patent number: 10242038
    Abstract: Techniques for block-based indexing are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise a multicore processor element, an assignment component for execution by the multicore processor element to generate a plurality of block-attribute pairs, each block-attribute pair corresponding to an attribute value and one of a plurality of data blocks, and an indexing component for execution by the multicore processor element to generate an index block for the plurality of data blocks based on the plurality of block-attribute pairs, the indexing component to perform parallel indexing of the plurality of block-attribute pairs using multiple indexing instances. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gang Deng, Xi Tang, Zhongyan Lu, Ting Lou, Tao Zhong, Heyuan Liu
  • Patent number: 10235459
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus related to creating entries in a personal cache of a user and/or a personal index of a user. Entries may be created in a personal cache and/or a personal index of a user based on web-based documents visited by the user and one or more of the entries may include content specific to the user's experience with a web-based document. The personal cache and/or personal index may enable a user to view all or aspects of previously visited web-based documents and/or search previously visited web-based documents. An entry of a user's personal cache and/or personal index may optionally include information that may not be found in a public cache and/or public index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Alasdair John Mackintosh, Aayush Kumar
  • Patent number: 10228995
    Abstract: Examples discussed herein are directed to last writers of datasets in storage array errors. In some examples, a dataset integrity error detection is recorded. The dataset integrity error may be in a write path of a storage array and the write path may include a first controller node and a second controller node of the storage array. A detector of the dataset integrity error may be determined. A last writer of the dataset in the write path prior to the dataset integrity error detection may also be determined. A processing location in the write path associated with the dataset integrity error may be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Tim Silversides, Stuart McCool
  • Patent number: 10225351
    Abstract: A system and method for communication across browser-based applications, and from a crashed application to a web server are disclosed. The system can store structured data in local storage for each instance (e.g., tab, window, frame) of an browser-based application (e.g., website, web application). The data can be structured to group blocks of data according to instances of an application in different tabs. A first session can locate a block of data created by a second session to achieve synchronization between two sessions. In addition, if one session has crashed, data written by that session can be accessed by another session and sent to a web server. In some implementations, a session, when writing to a block of data, can include meta-data for another session or for the web server, such as a timestamp, valid-until time, data-item identifier, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven Harold Levithan
  • Patent number: 10218811
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed for utilizing unused network capacity for prefetch requests. One method includes: receiving, over a network, network traffic information from a network provider of the network; determining a threshold value for prefetch request fulfillment based on the received network traffic information; receiving, over the network, a plurality of prefetch requests from an application running on a mobile device connected to the network of the network provider; determining, for each prefetch request of the plurality of prefetch requests, a score for the prefetch request based on the received plurality of prefetch requests; and responding to, for each prefetch request of the plurality of prefetch requests, the prefetch request based on the determined threshold value and the determined score for the prefetch request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Oath (Ameericas) Inc.
    Inventor: Seth Mitchell Demsey
  • Patent number: 10212046
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses are directed to facilitating avatar representation of users within proximity using approved avatars. In one embodiment, logic may be configured to determine communication devices that are within a proximity threshold. The determined communication devices may include first and second communication devices that are associated with first and second users, respectively. The first user may be associated with a first avatar and the second user may be associated with a second avatar. The logic may also be configured to determine a request initiated at the first communication device for avatar information associated with one or more users of the determined communication devices. The logic may further be configured to provide the second avatar to the first user via the first communication device based on determining that the second avatar is included in an approved avatar set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Gene M Chang, Charlie D Lenahan, Marc A Funston
  • Patent number: 10200499
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method for reducing network traffic by using delta transfers may include (1) receiving, from a client device, an original request message that requests at least one action from a server, (2) storing the original request message to serve as a foundation for a delta transfer that includes the original request message and at least one subsequent request message that builds upon the original request message, (3) receiving, from the client device, a subsequent request message that excludes at least a portion of the original request message to reduce redundancy between the original request message and the subsequent request message, and (4) applying the subsequent request message to the original request message to achieve the delta transfer while reducing the redundancy between the original request message and the subsequent request message. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Shavell, Gregory Chagnon
  • Patent number: 10198367
    Abstract: To provide an information processing device that enables program development in program development for an information processing devices, in which a developer does not have to be aware of the types of input/output devices to be used. An information processing device includes a plurality of input/output devices used by a computer program for executing any processing and a main control section configured to operate, according to a request received from the computer program, the request designating functions required by the computer program, at least a part of the input/output devices associated with the functions among the plurality of input/output devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi Mori, Fusashi Kimura
  • Patent number: 10178192
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for obtaining web content are disclosed. The method may include storing a history of webpages requested via a browser of the communication device and generating a bookmark for a webpage in response to the at least one webpage being requested more than a threshold number of times at a particular time. The bookmark is then stored in association with the particular time, and when the particular time occurs, the webpage is requested and rendered on the communication device so the webpage is rendered in advance of a user launching the browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Innovation Center, Inc.
    Inventors: Veluppillai Arulesan, Shiu Wai Hui, Stewart Chao
  • Patent number: 10171571
    Abstract: Provided are a computer program, method, and system for determining and assigning a default value to a current server response if the current server response is not received from the server within a time-limit. An indication of a submission of a request is transmitted to the server for receiving a current server response. A default value is assigned to the current server response if the current server response is not received from the server within a time-limit with respect to the current submission of the request. A set of operations being performed from the assignment of the default value to the current server response is logged. An actual value of the current server response is received from the server and the logged operations are rolled-back and the current server response reset to the actual value if the actual value is different from the default value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Vinicio Bombacino, Paolo Cavazza, Leonardo Lanni, Andrea Tortosa
  • Patent number: 10169481
    Abstract: A preloading tool facilitates efficient loading for content associated with links in a web document. An index containing links for a current page is created. The index includes coordinates of the links and trigger area coordinates of a trigger area for each link. When a user interaction is detected in a trigger area indicating the user may wish to navigate to additional content (i.e., the predicted link), standard click behavior for the predicted link is disabled. Resources required to render the content (i.e., the new page) for the predicted link begin downloading and are cached. Once the user actually selects the link, the transition from the current page to the new page is accomplished without the new page appearing broken. In some instances, certain links are excluded from the index and/or target attributes point to one or more containers that will be updated by one or more of the links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Alexandre Capt, Damien Antipa
  • Patent number: 10171615
    Abstract: According to one general aspect, a method of preemptively caching data within a mobile device may include detecting that a triggering event has occurred. The method may also include, in response to the triggering event, automatically performing an action associated with the triggering event, wherein the action includes retrieving anticipated data from a remote device. The method may include caching at least part of the anticipated data within a memory of the mobile device. The method may include receiving a request, from a user, for requested data, wherein the requested data includes at least a portion of the anticipated data. The method may include fulfilling at least part of the request for the requested data by retrieving the anticipated data portion of the requested data from the memory of the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Bowers, Kevin Tom
  • Patent number: 10171550
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems, apparatus, and methods of scanning a response to a first HTTP request for a web page in order to identify a web object for prefetching, and using a static tracker to identify and improve results. In one potential alternative embodiment, after a response is scanned a web object may be prefetched to a proxy server prior to a browser requesting the web object. The proxy server may observe one or more HTTP requests that are associated with the response to the first HTTP request for the web page and measure the success of the prefetching. After success is measured for the specific instance of the web object and the web page, a success rate for prefetching or not prefetching the web object as associated with the web page may be updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: VIASAT, INC.
    Inventors: Peter Lepeska, William B. Sebastian
  • Patent number: 10152246
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a first message is received from a first application executed by a processor, the first message to be sent to a second application. A backup agent transmits the first message to a backup storage system that is associated with the first application. The backup agent forwards the first message to a first messaging application instance of a messaging sub-system associated with the first application. The messaging sub-system is to send the first message to a second messaging application instance of the messaging sub-system associated with the second application using a predetermined messaging protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Amit Lieberman, Assaf Natanzon, Jehuda Shemer, Ron Bigman
  • Patent number: 10146754
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving, by a computing device, a selection of one or more presentation templates of a plurality of presentation templates for at least a portion of a web page, wherein the one or more presentation templates define, at least in part, a display format for one or more display types. At least a portion of the one or more display types is mapped to one or more content elements within a content type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nicholas A. Baldwin, Mark C. Hampton, Stefan A. Hepper, Eric Martinez de Morentin
  • Patent number: 10140208
    Abstract: System and Methods for non-uniform memory (NUMA) garbage collection are provided. Multiple memories and processors are categorized into local groups. A heap space is divided into multiple pools and stored in each of the memories. Garbage collection threads are assigned to each of the local groups. Garbage collection is performed using the garbage collection threads for objects contained in the pools using the garbage collector threads, memory, and processor assigned to each local group, minimizing remote memory accesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Antonios Printezis, Igor Veresov, Paul Henry Hohensee, John Coomes
  • Patent number: 10142434
    Abstract: A network optimizer receives, from a client device, a request for a network resource including a first version identifier identifying a first version of the network resource. A request for the network resource is transmitted to a far end network optimizer with a second version identifier that identifies a second version of the network resource. The network optimizer receives, from the far end network optimizer, a response that includes a first differences file that specifies first difference(s) between the second version with a most current version of the network resource. The response does not include the entire network resource. The network optimizer transmits to the client device a second response including a second differences file that identifies differences between the most current version of the network resource and the first version of the network resource causing the generation of an updated version of the network resource at the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: CLOUDFLARE, INC.
    Inventor: John Graham-Cumming
  • Patent number: 10133454
    Abstract: Instead of displaying interface elements such as pagination indicators side-by-side on a display, a device can present such interface elements in other visible configurations relative to each other. For example, the device can display pagination indicators of different sizes stacked on top of each other. When such stacked pagination indicators are presented as viewed from directly overhead, the pagination indicators can be appear as concentric rings. Alternatively, the device can display such stacked pagination indicators from various different non-overhead angle perspectives. When shown at some of these angles, the stacked pagination indicators can appear as a three-dimensional stack of discs. The device can highlight a particular pagination indicator to distinguish that particular pagination indicator visibly from the other pagination indicators. The highlighted pagination indicator can serve to indicate which of several interface segments, such as pages, is currently being shown on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Wilson, Imran A. Chaudhri
  • Patent number: 10133872
    Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatus and computer programs for enabling access to data by a requesting party. A plurality of sets of data are generated. A one one-way function is then used to generate a plurality of keys each associated with a respective one of the plurality of sets. Information associated with the data in a given set is used as an input to the one-way function when generating the key for that set. The keys are distributed to requesting parties. Subsequently, a requesting party may make a data access request using the received key. Upon receipt of a key, access may be enabled to the data. The requesting party may then generate validation data from information associated with at least a part of the received data and validating the received data by comparing the validation data to data derived from the received key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Visa Europe Limited
    Inventors: Boris Taratine, Malcolm Lewis
  • Patent number: 10127132
    Abstract: Optimizing automated interactions with web pages by identifying, for each of multiple web pages, path information including an incoming hyperlink path having at least one hyperlink, where the incoming hyperlink path leads to the web page, and/or an outgoing hyperlink path having at least one hyperlink, where the outgoing hyperlink path emanates from the web page, determining whether the path information of each of the web pages meets a similarity condition, excluding from an interaction set of the web pages any of the web pages whose path information meets the similarity condition, and causing an automated interaction to be performed with any of the web pages in the interaction set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Igal Kreichman, Omer Tripp
  • Patent number: 10122804
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide for systems and methods to track and calculate user interactivity time with one or more specified websites or application programs. A list of websites and/or application programs for tracking may be created and maintained, and when a user accesses and interacts with one of the websites or application programs, the user interactivity time with that particular application program or website is tracked. Periods of user inactivity with the particular application program or website are not counted towards the user interactivity time. The resulting user interactivity time data with each specified website and specified application program can be utilized in various manners, such as for generating reports, displays, or may be analyzed in numerous ways depending upon the particular implementation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: STACKUP LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Edward Garvin, Stephen L. Maynard
  • Patent number: 10116999
    Abstract: A system and method that allows content to be broadcast without commercial interruption, yet lets the company or companies that sponsor the broadcast to offer advertisements and discounts and various special offers to the viewers at a later time. The amount of time a viewer spends watching a particular broadcast is recorded along with information about the sponsoring companies or organizations for the broadcast. The viewer later accesses a central database, which sends back to the viewer advertisements, coupons, discounts, contests, and other enticements to purchase products, based on the amount of time the viewer spent watching broadcasts or segments of broadcasts that were sponsored by the advertiser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Firtiva Corporation
    Inventor: Robert M Zeidman
  • Patent number: 10110695
    Abstract: Front-end optimization (FEO) configuration information is leveraged to identify “key” resources required to load other pages on a site, and to automatically cause key resources to be prefetched to a server, and to the browser. In this approach, an FEO analyzer uses knowledge of configured optimization templates to determine the key resources required to load pages for each template. The key resources for pages belonging to other optimization templates are then selectively prefetched by other pages. In a preferred approach, the FEO analyzer provides an edge server cache process a list of key resources and instructions to prefetch the key resources, as well as instructions to rewrite the HTML of the page to include instructions for the browser to prefetech the key resources. On the client, key resources are prefetched if missing from a cache on the browser. Key resources preferably are stored in the browser's HTML5 local storage cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Craig Conboy, Guy Podjarny, Christopher P. Daley
  • Patent number: 10110661
    Abstract: Techniques described herein may be used to expeditiously provide web content to user devices. A web server may provide a first webpage to a user device. Prior to the user device requesting another webpage (e.g., while the user of the user device is viewing the first webpage), the server device may identify a second webpage that the user device is likely to request next and obtain content corresponding to the second webpage. The web server may receive a request for the second webpage, and in response to the request, may provide the second webpage, along with the content, to the user device. The content may include information that is not typically cached by the web server. Additionally, the web server may verify that there are adequate system resources available (e.g., processing capacity, memory capacity, etc.) prior to obtaining the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Minbao Li, Amit Singh, Kaushal K Shah, Pugazh Thyagarasan, Bharadwaja Cheruvu
  • Patent number: 10101910
    Abstract: Computing devices and methods are provided for increasing the likelihood that one or more processes in a set of linked processes related to an application will not be terminated while operating in a background state. In some embodiments, a background memory threshold is estimated and used to adjust importance levels for processes in the set of linked processes. In some embodiments, a selection of a subset of processes may be made, wherein an amount of total memory utilized by the subset of processes does not exceed the estimated background memory threshold. In some embodiments, processes not included in the subset of processes may be assigned to an importance level that is lower relative to the importance level assigned to the subset of processes. In some embodiments, the estimated background memory is adjusted in response to a determination regarding whether the subset of processes was terminated while operating in the background.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Jari Juhani Karppanen
  • Patent number: 10095635
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for data security in a data storage environment. In some embodiments, input data from a host is received into a buffer memory. Data compression is applied to the input data to provide compressed data. Encryption is applied to the compressed data to generate encrypted data, and the encrypted data are stored in a main memory of a data storage device. A system parameter value associated with the storage of the encrypted data is generated and stored in a memory, such as the main memory of the storage device. The system parameter value may include information relating to the compression of the data. A trusted relationship is established to authenticate the host responsive to a request for the updated system parameter value. The system parameter value is transferred to the host responsive to the established trusted relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Syed Yasir Abbas, Jeetandra Kella, William Erik Anderson
  • Patent number: 10091322
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for communication are provided in which a communications device is operable to provide an improved user experience or to improve the performance and/or operation of the communications device through use of an enriched user profile. In one aspect, the communications device may predict an event occurrence by interpreting an enriched user profile including an attribute and an enhanced informational element. The communications device may modify a functionality of a component of the device based on the predicted event occurrence. In one aspect, component modification may include presenting the contextually relevant informational element on a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hugh O'Donoghue, Peter Charles Whale, Colm Healy, Andrew Pegum, Sean Corrigan, Scott Beith, Jason Hough, Anthony M. Sheehan
  • Patent number: 10067785
    Abstract: A system includes one or more computer systems that include one or more processors and memory. The memory includes instructions, that, upon being executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to determine a plurality of increased capacity configuration options for a first pool of servers, generate an assessment value for each of the plurality of increased capacity configuration options, and implement a first configuration option of the plurality of increase capacity configuration options having a greatest health increase assessment value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Paul Wei, James Stanford Gilmore
  • Patent number: 10057189
    Abstract: A virtual computing services deployment network provides a consistent user experience from a variety of locations via a connection fabric for accessing a virtual desktop. The connection fabric identifies a user profile defining the virtualized desktop resources required for a particular user. The connection fabric includes distributed data and processing in nodes distributed throughout a public access network accessible from a user access device. Each of the fabric nodes is operable to provide an identifier (such as an IP address) of a computing resource adapted to provide the user specific desktop. A user access device accesses a local fabric node in the connection fabric, and the fabric node determines a computing resource matching a user profile of expected computing resources. The fabric node associates the user access device with the computing resource and sends the user access device an identifier for directly accessing the computing resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Clinton B. Battersby, Kenneth Ringdahl, James Snow, Paul J. Gaffney, Andrew W. Hobgood
  • Patent number: 10055760
    Abstract: A system and method for identifying, managing, and synchronizing delivery and storage of promotional material to computing devices associated with a user. The system and method are configured to receive a request from one or more of the user's computing devices to synchronize the delivery of the promotional material to at least a portion of the user's device portfolio. Advantageously, the action triggering the sending of the synchronization request may include an interaction with the promotional material or an interaction with a web service application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: AD PERSISTENCE LLC
    Inventors: George M. Nemitz, Vincent James Spinella, Rajiv Konkimalla, Stephen Andrew Nowalk
  • Patent number: 10049019
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, backup method, and program product that enable efficient differential backup. In one embodiment, an information processing apparatus for files stored in a storage device includes: a metadata management unit for managing metadata of files stored in the storage device; a map generation unit for generating a map which indicates whether metadata associated with an identification value uniquely identifying a file in the storage device is present or absent; and a backup management unit for scanning the metadata to detect files that have been created, modified, or deleted since the last backup, and storing at least a data block and the metadata for a detected file in a backup storage device as backup information in association with the identification value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Norie Iwasaki, Sosuke Matsui, Tsuyoshi Miyamura, Terue Watanabe, Noriko Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10051300
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for an application that tracks the progress of presentation of network content. The application facilitates storing, in a memory accessible to at least one computing device, at least one universal resource locator for facilitating access to multimedia network content. The application also stores, in the memory, a time marker associated with a progress of a presentation of the multimedia network content. Furthermore, the application links, in the at least one computing device, the time marker to at least one universal resource locator for resuming the presentation of the multimedia network content at a last point of progress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Andrew Hayden
  • Patent number: 10049018
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, backup method, and program product that enable efficient differential backup. In one embodiment, an information processing apparatus for files stored in a storage device includes: a metadata management unit for managing metadata of files stored in the storage device; a map generation unit for generating a map which indicates whether metadata associated with an identification value uniquely identifying a file in the storage device is present or absent; and a backup management unit for scanning the metadata to detect files that have been created, modified, or deleted since the last backup, and storing at least a data block and the metadata for a detected file in a backup storage device as backup information in association with the identification value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Norie Iwasaki, Sosuke Matsui, Tsuyoshi Miyamura, Terue Watanabe, Noriko Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10043147
    Abstract: According to certain aspects, a method of assessing users of a data storage system can include receiving configuration information relating to a deployed configuration of a first data storage cell and including number of installed data storage hardware and/or software components, the first data storage cell comprising a plurality of client computing devices and being configured to create and store one or more secondary copies of primary data generated by the plurality of client computing devices. The method may also include receiving information relating to an incident opened by a user of the first data storage cell. The method may further include updating a performance metric associated with the user to a new value to reflect a negative impact on the performance metric resulting from the opening of the incident by the user, wherein the degree of the negative impact is based at least in part on the configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: COMMVAULT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Keith Brower, Jr., Peter John Messore
  • Patent number: 10044827
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for trigger-based cache population are disclosed. In the method and apparatus, a trigger for populating a session cache is detected and the session cache is populated with a plurality of aspects of data as a result of detecting the occurrence of the trigger. The plurality of aspects of the data are associated with a session established with a session service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Vincent Kaukl, Geoffrey Scott Pare, Mohanish Hemant Kulkarni
  • Patent number: 10042947
    Abstract: A read-only method and a read-only system for operating a portable device are disclosed. The system includes a portable device which has a memory unit and a processing unit, and a host which has a display unit and a processor. A browser requests an access to a portable device inserted to a host. After the storage units been accessed are traced, corresponding service will be performed by the portable device without being blocked by the security system of the host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Sunasic Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Chi-Chou Lin
  • Patent number: 10038749
    Abstract: Various technologies pertaining to modifying visualizations are described herein. A client computing device requests a visualization from a server computing device, and the server computing device constructs the visualization responsive to receipt of the request. The server computing device further identifies anticipated transformations for the visualization, and transmits the visualization and the transformations to the client computing device. The client computing device displays the visualization, and responsive to receipt of a request to modify the visualization, executes a transformation provided by the server computing device to update the visualization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Dmitry Datsenko, Vit Karas, Haroon Ahmed, Robert M. Bruckner, Andriy Garbuzov, Yury Berezansky, Yoav Yassour, Boaz Chen
  • Patent number: 10033807
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for managing data of a terminal peripheral, the method includes: a Machine to Machine/Man (M2M) gateway collects, stores, processes and forwards data of the terminal peripheral and/or a group of terminal peripherals according to a strategy; wherein the strategy is issued by an M2M application or an M2M service platform or is configured locally at the M2M gateway; the strategy includes at least a data collection strategy, a data storage strategy, a data processing strategy and a data forward strategy. Further disclosed is an M2M gateway for managing data of a terminal peripheral, configured to collect, store, process and forward data of the terminal peripheral and/or a group of terminal peripherals according to a strategy. By means of embodiments of the disclosure, managerial functions of the M2M gateway are perfected, thereby performing efficient management of data of the terminal peripheral.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kun Yang
  • Patent number: 10027689
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a malware detection and visualization system comprises one or more processors; and a storage module communicatively coupled to the one or more processors, the storage module comprises logic, upon execution by the one or more processors, that accesses a first set of information that comprises (i) information directed to a plurality of observed events and (ii) information directed to one or more relationships that identify an association between different observed events of the plurality of observed events; and generates a reference model based on the first set of information, the reference model comprises at least a first event of the plurality of observed events, a second event of the plurality of observed events, and a first relationship that identifies that the second event is based on the first event, wherein at least one of (i) the plurality of observed events or (ii) the one or more relationships constitutes an anomalous behavior is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: FireEye, Inc.
    Inventors: Hirendra Rathor, Kaushal Dalal, Anil Gupta
  • Patent number: 10021206
    Abstract: A near end network optimizer receives, from a client device, a request for a network resource. Responsive to determining that a version of the network resource is stored in the near end network optimizer, a request for the network resource is transmitted to a far end network optimizer along with a version identifier that identifies that version. The near end network optimizer receives, from the far end network optimizer, a response that includes a differences file that specifies the difference(s) between the version of the network resource stored in the near end network optimizer with a most current version of the network resource. The response does not include the entire network resource. The near end network optimizer applies the specified difference(s) to the version that it has stored to generate an updated version of the network resource, and transmits the updated version of the network resource to the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: CLOUDFLARE, INC.
    Inventor: John Graham-Cumming
  • Patent number: 10013497
    Abstract: Methods for loading a current version of a web page in the background of a previous version of the web page are provided. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a request to display a web page, and providing, for display, a previously visited version of the web page in response to the request. The method also includes determining whether an updated version of the web page is available. When the determination indicates an updated version of the web page is available, the method includes loading the updated version of the web page while the previously visited version of the web page is provided for display, and replacing the display of the previously visited version of the web page with a display of the updated version of the web page after the updated version of the web page has been loaded. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Aaron Boodman
  • Patent number: 10013501
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to caching web application data. In some embodiments, a computing system maintains a multi-tenant database and an in-memory cache for the database. In some embodiments, the computing system is configured to store data in an entry in response to a store request and retrieve data in response to a read request. In various embodiments, data cached by one tenant is not visible to other tenants. The cache may be partitioned and each partition may have an assigned capacity. The computing system may be configured to evict cached data based on capacity thresholds, least-recently-used information, time-to-live information, amount of data in an entry, etc. The cache may indicate misses when requested data is not present. Various disclosed techniques may improve web application performance while maintaining privacy between tenants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Barathkumar Sundaravaradan, Christopher James Wall, Lawrence Thomas Lopez, Paul Sydell, Sreeram Duvur, Vijayanth Devadhar
  • Patent number: 10002004
    Abstract: In a stream computing application shutdown, a shutdown message is received by a source operator of the stream computing application. In response, the source operator stops acquiring data from external sources, sends any cached data to an output queue of the source operator, sends the shutdown message to the output queue of the source operator, and sends the cached data and shutdown message to an input queue of another operator in the stream computing application. The source operator then terminates. In response to receiving the shutdown message, the other operator completes the processing of data in its input queue and sends any outputs from the processing of the data in its input queue to one or more output destinations. The other operator then terminates. In this manner, a stream computing application may be shut down while ensuring that any already inputted data is processed to completion, thus avoiding data loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Kevin F. Foster
  • Patent number: 9992296
    Abstract: A first server may receive, from a client device, an indication of a request for a content file via a network address; identify that the network address is a dynamic network address; establish a communication session with a second; receive a portion of the content file from the second server; determine an index parameter based on receiving the portion of the content file; determine whether the content file is being stored by the first server based on a cache index and based on the index parameter or based on information associated with the request for the content file; receive a remaining portion of the content file based on determining that the content file is not being stored by the first server; and provide the content file to the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Junxiao He, Navaneeth Krishnan Ramaswamy, Jaspal Kohli, Kumar Narayanan
  • Patent number: 9984174
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and techniques for reducing web page load time are provided. An exemplary method for reducing web page load time includes detecting, in a browser, a cursor in a region of a web page. The region surrounds a selectable item associated with a URL. The exemplary method includes determining whether the cursor is present in the region for a threshold period of time. The exemplary method further includes performing a speculative action when it is determined that the cursor has been present in the region for the threshold period of time, without modifying underlying code of a web page associated with the URL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: James Roskind, Jake Brutlag
  • Patent number: 9983798
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first memory including a first portion and a second portion, the first portion including a plurality of regions, and a processor configured to read first data stored in a first region of the plurality of regions, move the first data stored in the first region to a second region, generate management data indicating that the first data is moved to the second region, store the management data in the second portion of the first memory, obtain information indicating a relation between the first data and location of the management data in the first memory, in response to a request to read the first data stored in the second region, access the management data based on the information, and read the first data stored in the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Hiroki Konno
  • Patent number: 9986059
    Abstract: An exemplary content engine includes a content gateway configured to analyze and route content requests to a content server. The content server can be a cache server or a mobile content server. The cache server can be configured to receive and store cacheable web content from a controller that is configured to receive the cacheable web content from at least one cacheable web content provider, such as a web server, and route the content to the cache server. The mobile content server can be configured to receive, from the controller, and store the digital media content. The controller can be further configured to receive the digital media content from at least one external content server and route the content to the mobile content server. The content gateway can be further configured to receive non-cacheable web content from at least one non-cacheable web content provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Bo Lee, Qingmin Hu