Of Access To Content, E.g., By Caching, Etc. (epo) Patents (Class 707/E17.12)
  • Patent number: 9985793
    Abstract: A system for detecting and charging for internet connection provided to a computer device, the computer device configured to detect any internet connection available comprising an internet access adjustment facilitator arranged to receive requests for prepaid internet connection access from the computer device; and capable of facilitating the linking of the computer device to a designated prepaid internet account for purposes of charging; wherein upon detection by the software that the internet connection is a prepaid internet connection, access and caching of any Internet content will be chargeable to a designated prepaid internet account from the at least one prepaid internet account; and upon detecting that the internet connection is any other type of internet connection, the computer device caches any Internet content accessed by the user for synchronization with other computer devices in the system linked to the designated prepaid account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Chikka Pte Ltd
    Inventor: Dennis Mendiola
  • Patent number: 9965556
    Abstract: A system for building topical interest profiles for members of a situational awareness system using location tracking information. Members who participate in the system activate location tracking on their mobile communication devices and provide the system with real-time access to the location tracking data. The situational awareness system analyzes a member's location tracking data, detects potential topics of interest for the member based on the location tracking data, and then prompts the member to update their profile data to include the detects potential topics of interest. If the member adds a suggested topic to their profile, the situational awareness system includes the member in situational awareness information provided to requesters seeking information concerning members interested in the added topic. The situational awareness system may also direct online queries to the member relating to the added topic and increase the member's priority for participating in online queries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: 1Q, LLC
    Inventors: Keith Rinzler, Ryan Cino, Brian Scully
  • Patent number: 9959100
    Abstract: A system builds an application. The system receives, by a build server, from an application development server, metadata information of the application and a build request to build the application. The system generates binaries of the application by overlaying the metadata information on binaries of a pre-compiled application. The system then signs the binaries of the application to generate signed binaries of the application, and sends, to the application development server, a corresponding signature and one or more files modified by the signing of the binaries of the application. In one embodiment, the build server stores, on a storage appliance, the corresponding signature, the one or more files modified by the signing of the binaries of the application, and the metadata information of the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Christian David Straub
  • Patent number: 9953445
    Abstract: An interactive data object map system is disclosed in which large amounts of geographical, geospatial, and other types of data, geodata, objects, features, and/or metadata are efficiently presented to a user on a map interface. The interactive data object map system allows for rapid and deep analysis of various objects, features, and/or metadata by the user. A layer ontology may be displayed to the user. In various embodiments, when the user rolls a selection cursor over an object/feature an outline of the object/feature is displayed. Selection of an object/feature may cause display of metadata associated with that object/feature. The interactive data object map system may automatically generate feature/object lists and/or histograms based on selections made by the user. The user may perform geosearches, generate heatmaps, and/or perform keyword searches, among other actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Dan Cervelli, Cai GoGwilt, Bobby Prochnow
  • Patent number: 9942341
    Abstract: According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for signaling optimization in a wireless network utilizing proprietary and non-proprietary protocols. A first connection is established between an application on a mobile device and a local proxy on the mobile device, a second connection is established between the local proxy and a proxy server not located on the mobile device, and a third connection is established between the proxy server and a content server. A byte stream between client and server is communicated between the client and the server via the first, second, and third connections. The mobile device performs signaling optimization to optimize traffic over the second connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Seven Networks, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Fleming, Andrii Kokhanovskyi, Abhay Nirantar, Nariman D. Batlivala, Ari Backholm, Huajie Hu, Jie Wei
  • Patent number: 9942289
    Abstract: Techniques are described above for smoothing peak load in collaborative systems. One embodiment includes, prior to a predicted peak load period, pre-staging user-data associated with one or more users of the collaborative system. During the predicted peak load period, a request from a first one of the users for access to the pre-staged user-data associated with the first user is received. And in response to the request, the pre-staged user-data is provided to the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Russell L. Holden
  • Patent number: 9935921
    Abstract: Nameserver addresses are correlated in a multi-tier name server hierarchy comprising a first level authority for a domain, and one or more second level authorities to which the first level authority delegates with respect to a particular sub-domain associated with the domain. Preferably, the first level authority is IPv4-based and at least one second level authority is IPv6-based. The first level authority responds to a request issued by a client caching nameserver (a “CCNS”) and returns an answer that includes both IPv4 and IPv6 authorities for the domain. The CCNS is located at an IPv4 source address that is passed along to the first level authority with the CCNS request. The first level authority encodes the CCNS IPv4 source address in the IPv6 destination address of at least one IPv6 authority. Then, when the CCNS then makes a follow-on IPv6 request (with respect to the sub-domain) directed to the IPv6 authority, the IPv6 authority knows both the IPv6 address of the CCNS (as well as its IPv4 address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew S. Levine, James M. Kretchmar
  • Patent number: 9923977
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for transferring cookie data between different domains. A first network data request is obtained from a client through a first domain. The first network data request includes a first cookie set by the first domain. Data from the first cookie is received from a client device along with a unique identifier through a first domain. A second network data request, which presents the unique identifier, is received from the client through a second domain. A second cookie is set in the client through the second domain based at least in part on data from the first cookie.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Bobby D. Martin
  • Patent number: 9923882
    Abstract: In one example, a system for authenticating domains operates by authenticating a first domain and the extensions that make up the URI of an initial or primary Internet network call. Thereafter, the system can enable the owner of the first domain to make assertions or statements about additional domains and URIs that make up the rest of the web page, session or application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Inventors: Mark Kevin Shull, John Francis Mergen
  • Patent number: 9906447
    Abstract: In one implementation, a method includes receiving, via a first information centric networking (ICN) interface, a first interest message comprising a first name of a first data object. The method also includes determining whether the first data object is stored within a cache of a router based on the first interest message. The method further includes updating, when the first data object is stored within the cache of the router, the first interest message with a first indicator indicating that the first data object is stored within the cache of the router. The method further includes transmitting, via a second ICN interface, the updated first interest message when the first data object is stored within the cache of the router.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Dave Oran, Mark Stapp
  • Patent number: 9892417
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for enabling a network location to provide an ordering process for data relevant to connected network devices' activities. The method includes assembling the data, utilizing the activity data, and associating the data, such that information is derived to enable a desired expansion of at least one designated activity. Another method is disclosed for managing an object assignment broadcast operations for a network location based on a network device's previous activities. This second method includes tracing a network device's conduct to determine that a network device prefers a particular class of content. The method also includes tagging a network device's profile with the respective observation and deciding by a network location as to the classification factor for a network device to be targeted for an object assignment broadcast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: LivePerson, Inc.
    Inventors: Haggai Shachar, Shahar Nechmad
  • Patent number: 9888065
    Abstract: Defragmenting a cluster service to service additional capacity requests on the service. A method includes determining an amount of server resources needed for an additional deployment reservation request for a new deployment or increasing reservation of resources of an existing deployment. The method further includes determining a server that currently does not have capacity to service the additional deployment reservation request. The method further includes determining how resources on the server can be freed up by moving other replicas of other deployments on the server to other servers to allow the server to service the additional deployment reservation request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Willis Lang, Nikhil Teletia, Ajay Kalhan, Alan Dale Halverson, Prashant Varanasi
  • Patent number: 9870426
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and interfaces for the selective management of information collected by a browser are provided. The browser obtains a network resource, such as a Web page, from a content provider, and collects information associated with the display and interaction with the content by a user. The browser presents, among other controls, a graphical icon that is representative of an integrated command to remove information collected while accessing a first network resource and to cause the browser application to access a second accessed network resource. Upon receipt of an input corresponding to the selection of the graphical icon, the browser deletes information collected while accessing the first network resource and accesses the second network resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan A. Jenkins, Brett R. Taylor, Gregory M. Hart, Jeffrey P. Bezos
  • Patent number: 9866655
    Abstract: Described herein are—among other things—systems, methods, and apparatus for accelerating and increasing the reliability of content delivery by serving objects redundantly over multiple paths from multiple servers. In preferred embodiments, the decision to use such multipath delivery is made on the server side. A content server can modify or generate a given web page so as to invoke multipath, e.g., by injecting markup language directives and/or script instructions that will cause the client device to make multiple requests for a given object on the page. Preferably the multiple requests are made to separate content servers in separate points of presence. The teachings hereof may be advantageously implemented, without limitation, in intermediary servers such as caching proxy servers and/or in origin servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Moritz M. Steiner, Martin T. Flack, Stephen L. Ludin, Mark C. Holland
  • Patent number: 9846605
    Abstract: A server computing architecture is provided that uses minimal download features and includes error failover functionality. A server computer may receive an electronic page request and calculate a delta between a known static baseline electronic page and the requested electronic page. The static baseline electronic page may include an electronic page without content that utilizes a master electronic page. The master electronic page may include shared content for electronic pages associated with a website. The server computer may further determine whether one more errors are associated with rendering the calculated delta, render a payload comprising only the calculated delta upon determining an absence of the one or more errors and failover to one or more options upon determining that the one or more errors are associated with rendering the calculated delta.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Arye Gittelman, Petru Mihai Moldovanu, Sterling J. Crockett, Cindy Liao Hartwig, Erin Megan Riley, Xiaomei Wang
  • Patent number: 9838569
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processing part, a controlling part, and a providing part. The processing part executes a process. The controlling part controls the processing part to execute the process when the process corresponding to an operation on an operating image is requested from a display device that temporarily stores and displays an externally provided operating image. The providing part provides a first operating image to be displayed by the display device to the display device, and provides, to the display device in advance, a second operating image displayed when the first operating image is operated, within a range not exceeding a quantity predetermined as an upper limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Suzuki, Yukio Tajima, Masahiro Tose, Kazuko Kirihara
  • Patent number: 9832095
    Abstract: Systems and methods of operation modes for mobile traffic optimization and management of concurrent optimized and non-optimized traffic are disclosed. One embodiment includes classifying and handling traffic sent to and from mobile device applications running on a mobile device, the method includes, analyzing, on the mobile device, requests from the mobile device applications for recurrent patterns; traffic having a recurrent pattern is optimizable traffic and traffic with an unidentifiable pattern is non optimizable traffic, managing the optimizable traffic to reduce an amount of wireless data and signaling traffic sent to and from the mobile device and/or routing the non optimizable traffic from the mobile device applications to a service provider. In one embodiment, upon determining a problem communicating with the server, request are routed from the one or more mobile device applications directly to a service provider, the routed traffic bypassing a client-side proxy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Seven Networks, LLC
    Inventors: Ross Bott, Michael Luna
  • Patent number: 9832138
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing web service instances to support traffic demands for a particular web service in a large-scale distributed system are disclosed. An example method includes determining a peak historical service load for the web service. The service load capacity for each existing web service instance may then be determined. The example method may then calculate the remaining service load after subtracting the sum of the service load capacity of the existing web service instances from the peak historical service load for the web service. The number of web service instances necessary in the large-scale distributed system may be determined based on the remaining service load. The locations of the web service instances may be determined and changes may be applied to the large-scale system based on the number of web service instances necessary in the large-scale distributed system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Kamil Skalski, Elzbieta Czajka, Filip Grzadkowski, Krzysztof Grygiel
  • Patent number: 9825964
    Abstract: Enforcing access control to individual extensions of services in a multi-tenant cloud environment by initializing objects for the extension based on public and private configuration files with service access rules that are merged is described. This allows third party vendors to specify payment rules for their own extensions while securely keeping the core extension configuration files. Tenants of the multi-tenant cloud environment can pick and choose which services to purchase, and the cloud environment automates the process of accessing the service using the third-party developer's tenant access list rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: David R. Mellor, Andrew H. Jones, Charles Lattimer
  • Patent number: 9819558
    Abstract: Streaming query resource control is described, for example, to allocate streaming queries to servers in a data center providing a streaming query platform. In various embodiments streaming queries are allocated to servers in a manner seeking to balance load between the servers and also to reduce network traffic costs between data stream sources and the servers. In various examples, query types are taken into account, where a query type is the identity of one or more data stream sources used by the query, and optionally also traffic rates of the data stream sources. In some examples, processes for allocating incoming queries in an online fashion are described and in some examples, processes for allocating queries in an offline fashion are described. In examples, a network traffic cost metric is used which takes into account an incremental network traffic cost of adding a given query at a server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Milan Vojnovic, Christos Gkantsidis, Bo Zong
  • Patent number: 9817603
    Abstract: Migrating data in a storage array that includes a plurality of storage devices and a plurality of write buffer devices, including: detecting, by the storage array, an occurrence of a write buffer device evacuation event associated with one or more source write buffer devices; responsive to detecting the occurrence of the write buffer device evacuation event, determining, by the storage array, whether the storage array includes at least a predetermined amount of write buffer resources in addition to the one or more source write buffer devices; and responsive to determining that the storage array includes at least a predetermined amount of write buffer resources in addition to the one or more source write buffer devices, reducing, by the storage array, write access to the one or more source write buffer devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Pure Storage, Inc.
    Inventors: John Colgrove, Lydia Do, Ethan Miller
  • Patent number: 9819392
    Abstract: In a disclosed embodiment, a power line communication (PLC) transmitter includes a forward error correction (FEC) encoder that receives payload data and adds parity information to the data to create an encoded output, a fragmenter that receives the encoded output from the FEC encoder and segments the encoded output into a plurality of fragments, a fragment repetition encoder that receives the plurality of fragments from the fragmenter and copies each of the fragments a selected number of times, and an interleaver that receives the copies of the plurality of fragments from the fragment repetition encoder and interleaves the copies of the plurality of fragments for transmission on a power line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Badri N Varadarajan, Anand Dabak, Il Han Kim
  • Patent number: 9817800
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). Provided are a method and apparatus for reducing the page load time in a wireless communication system. The method for page loading in a mobile terminal may include: selecting, when a page is visited, a candidate page to be pre-inspected with respect to the page; performing pre-inspection of the candidate page and determining types of objects associated with the candidate page; generating tree information for the candidate page based on a result of the determination; and computing the loading time of the candidate page based on the tree information and determining download priorities of objects that are to be downloaded when the candidate page is visited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jicheol Lee, Jungshin Park, Beomsik Bae, Antony Franklin, Hanna Lim
  • Patent number: 9798827
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and a device for webpage preloading. The method includes: conducting webpage preloading according to a current preloading policy, in which the preloading policy includes: a preloading time range, a preloading region, a preloading page depth, and an available caching space for preloading; counting historical data within a pre-set time period, in which the historical data includes: information about an accessed webpage, information about a preloaded webpage, and state information of a local cache; and updating the preloading policy based on the historical data. In the present disclosure, by way of counting the preloading historical data within a pre-set time period, and based on the changes in the historical data, the preloading policy is automatically updated, so that the preloading policy can adapt to network and user access conditions in real time, thereby improving the hit accuracy of webpage preloading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: UC MOBILE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jie Liang
  • Patent number: 9798532
    Abstract: Systems and methods for accessing locally-stored content for a web application are disclosed. In some aspects, a user input for requesting a web application is received at a client computing device. A network request for the web application is provided via a network. That software code for the web application is stored in local storage of the client computing device is determined. The stored software code for the web application is placed into a random access memory (RAM) of the client computing device. At least a portion of the stored software code is precompiled prior to receiving a response to the network request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Hundt, Mark Heffernan
  • Patent number: 9794320
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system, a mobile terminal providing a web service receives information about a web page for a web service from a mobile terminal, receives at least one embedded object included in the web page from a web server, sets a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) interval for the mobile terminal based on a size of the at least one embedded object, transmits information about the set DRX interval to the mobile terminal, and transmits the at least one embedded object to the mobile terminal at a time the set DRX interval ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Sasmsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chul-Ki Lee, Sang-Jun Moon, Yong-Seok Park
  • Patent number: 9785664
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for enabling local storing of one or more portions of data file and recording changes to contents of the data file. In some embodiments, a first data file may be sent to a client system, along with a script to manage the first data file. Changes to the data file may be stored locally, and may then be sent to a remote server upon network reconnection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Dawei Qian, Xiangdong Liang, Chia-hao Chang, Jin Lai
  • Patent number: 9767465
    Abstract: Methods and Systems for facilitating caching of advertisements are described. The methods include receiving an ad request and generating a serving plan in response to said receiving the ad request. The serving plan includes multiple cache lines that identify corresponding advertisements. Each of the cache lines is associated with a corresponding expiration. Also, each cache line is readable by logic to display one of the advertisements corresponding to the cache line. The cache lines include a first cache line. The first cache line includes ad information, which is associated with a first one of the advertisements. Moreover, the ad information includes one or more parameters for expiration of the first cache line of a client device. The client device is configured to display the plurality of advertisements. The method includes sending the serving plan to the client device to store in the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Excalibur IP, LLC
    Inventors: Prabhakar Goyal, Sanjay Kumar Gupta, Rampradeep Dodda
  • Patent number: 9762355
    Abstract: A device includes a receiver, a buffer, a transmitter, and an analyzer. The receiver is configured to receive a plurality of packets that corresponds to at least a subset of a sequence of packets. Error correction data of a first packet of the plurality of packets includes a partial copy of a second packet of the plurality of packets. The analyzer is configured to determine whether a particular packet of the sequence is missing from the buffer, and to determine whether a partial copy of the particular packet is stored in the buffer. The analyzer is also configured to send, via the transmitter, a retransmit message to a second device based at least in part on determining that the buffer does not store the particular packet and that the buffer does not store the partial copy of the particular packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Venkatesh Krishnan, Vivek Rajendran, Sandip Sarkar, Subasingha Shaminda Subasingha, Venkatraman S. Atti
  • Patent number: 9749393
    Abstract: A virtual process manager for use with a client application. Both the process manager and the client application are installed on a client computing device. In response to a user command to execute a virtual application at least partially implemented by a virtualized application file stored on a remote computing device, the client application sends a high priority command to the process manager to execute the virtual application. Before receiving the user command, the client application sends a low priority command to the process manager to download at least a portion of the virtualized application file. In response to the high priority command, and without additional user input, the process manager downloads any portion of the file not downloaded in response to the low priority command, and executes the virtual application on the client computing device. The client application may comprise a conventional web browser or operating system shell process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: CODE SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mark Jeremy Zeller, Kenji C. Obata
  • Patent number: 9729605
    Abstract: Described herein are methods, apparatus and systems for selectively delivering content through one of two communication channels, one being origin to client and the other being from or through a CDN to client. Thus a client may choose to request content from a CDN and/or from an origin server. This disclosure sets forth techniques for, among other things, distinguishing between which channel to use for a given object, using the CDN-client channel to obtain the performance benefit of doing so, and reverting to the origin-client channel where content may be private, sensitive, corrupted, or otherwise considered to be unsuitable from delivery from and/or through the CDN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Akamai Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Charles E. Gero, Guy Podjarny
  • Patent number: 9727659
    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: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: James Roskind, Jake Brutlag
  • Patent number: 9729657
    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: March 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: CloudFlare, Inc.
    Inventor: John Graham-Cumming
  • Patent number: 9729650
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing data to a network terminal. A network node receives information relating to a first instance of a client running at the network terminal. Using the information, the network node concurrently runs a second instance of the client that emulates the first instance. Using the second instance, the network node generates a request for data required by the first instance. Before receiving a request for data generated by the first instance, the network node sends the request for data required by the first instance to a remote server and receives a response that includes the required data. The required data is then sent to the network terminal. The advantage of this is that the request for data required is generated before the network node receives a request from the network terminal. This allows the request to be handled more quickly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Lars Westberg, Attila Mihály, Gábor Molnár
  • Patent number: 9712598
    Abstract: A virtual process manager for use with a client application. Both the process manager and the client application are installed on a client computing device. In response to a user command to execute a virtual application at least partially implemented by a virtualized application file stored on a remote computing device, the client application sends a high priority command to the process manager to execute the virtual application. Before receiving the user command, the client application sends a low priority command to the process manager to download at least a portion of the virtualized application file. In response to the high priority command, and without additional user input, the process manager downloads any portion of the file not downloaded in response to the low priority command, and executes the virtual application on the client computing device. The client application may comprise a conventional web browser or operating system shell process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: CODE SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mark Jeremy Zeller, Kenji C. Obata
  • Patent number: 9697187
    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: November 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nicholas A. Baldwin, Mark C. Hampton, Stefan A. Hepper, Eric Martinez de Morentin
  • Patent number: 9680931
    Abstract: A method of communication between networked devices in a local storage area network includes forming a message for in-band communication within a local storage area network. The message includes at least one major task and one or more associated sub tasks for execution within the storage area network. The method further includes establishing a first communication link at least between a first networked device and a second networked device in response to the formation of the message; transmitting the message from the first networked device to at least the second networked device within the local storage area network; and in response to receiving the message, executing the sub tasks within the message with a processor to complete the major task and support local storage area network functionality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Mark J. Karnowski, Jon Infante
  • Patent number: 9680955
    Abstract: Systems and methods that utilize local storage associated with web browsers to store image data as an alphanumeric string. An expiration date may be associated with the image data such that it expires either after predetermined period of time or at a certain date. By storing image data in local storage, as a user navigates to a website, images are loaded from local storage and displayed in the web browser rather than fetching the image data from a remote source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: TWC Patent Trust LLT
    Inventor: Kyle Adam Kinnaman
  • Patent number: 9672233
    Abstract: A method of searching shared files stored on a shared storage includes providing a search functionality in the shared storage having a set of search indexes to perform a search based on a search term; providing an event stream of update events associated with the shared files in the shared storage; processing the event stream to generate a processed event stream; and responding to update events in the processed event stream by indexing files referenced in the update events in the processed event stream where the indexing is performed to maintain a predetermined level of quality of service at the shared storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Peter W. Madany, Allen B. Hubbe, Navaneeth Ranganna, Suvidya S. Daftardar, Oluwasoga T. Oni, Daniel S. Collins, Umer Toor, Edward C. Bueche, Sunita Casula, Christopher Stacey
  • Patent number: 9661055
    Abstract: A method and a system for redirecting a client are disclosed, the method including: sending by the client a request message to a redirect agent; returning by the redirect agent a first response message to the client, an identification of a second realm being carried in the first response message; sending by the client the request message to a second server in the second realm. The data are maintained and modified only on the redirect agent, so that the redirection service between different realms may be realized without upgrading or maintaining the client. In addition, because the number of redirect agents is much smaller than the number of clients, the operation and maintenance costs may be reduced greatly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tao Zhang
  • Patent number: 9659080
    Abstract: A location assignment daemon (LAD) manages placement of object replicas in a distributed storage system. The distributed storage system may include a plurality of instances, which may be at distinct geographic locations. The LAD determines placement categories for objects stored in the distributed storage system. A placement category for an object corresponds to the object's placement policy and current replica locations. There are substantially fewer placement categories than objects. The LAD determines an action plan for each placement category whose associated objects require either creation or removal of object replicas. Each action plan includes either creating or removing an object replica. The LAD prioritizes the action plans and implements at least a subset of the action plans in priority order in accordance with available resources in the distributed storage system. Each action plan is applied to objects in the placement category corresponding to the action plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Alexandre Drobychev, Michael O'Reilly, Mark Waldron
  • Patent number: 9654328
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods of enhancing prefetch operations. One potential method comprises fetching an object from a page on a web server. The method may further include storing, at a proxy server, caching instructions for the fetched object. The proxy server may be connected with the client and the object is cached at the client. Furthermore, the method may include identifying a prefetchable reference to the fetched object in a subsequent web page and using the caching instructions stored on the proxy server to determine if a fresh copy of the object will be requested by the client. Further, the method may include, based on the determination that the object will be requested, sending a prefetch request for the object using an If-Modified-Since directive, and transmitting a response to the If-Modified-Since directive prefetch request to a proxy client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: ViaSat, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Lepeska, William B. Sebastian
  • Patent number: 9648125
    Abstract: Described herein are systems, devices, and methods for content delivery on the Internet. In certain non-limiting embodiments, a caching model is provided that can support caching for indefinite time periods, potentially with infinite or relatively long time-to-live values, yet provide prompt updates when the underlying origin content changes. In one approach, an origin server can annotate its responses to content requests with tokens, e.g., placing them in an appended HTTP header or otherwise. The tokens can drive the process of caching, and can be used as handles for later invalidating the responses within caching proxy servers delivering the content. Tokens may be used to represent a variety of kinds of dependencies expressed in the response, including without limitation data, data ranges, or logic that was a basis for the construction of the response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Martin T. Flack, Moritz M. Steiner, Stephen L. Ludin, Jozef Hatala
  • Patent number: 9648079
    Abstract: A system and method, responsive to receiving a request for content from a terminal, to respond to the terminal with instructions configured to set up a bi-directional communication channel at the terminal for communication between a server and the terminal and to subsequently load the requested content. The requested content comprises at least one referencing object and a plurality of referenced objects belonging to the content. The method and system will generate a modified referencing object by replacing, in the referencing object, links to referenced objects that are external links with modified links that point to a locally stored version of the same object and then to send the referenced objects to the terminal over the bi-directional communication channel. The modified referencing object will be sent to the terminal such that the modified links in the modified referencing object point to referenced objects previously sent to the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: AALTO-KORKEAKOULAUSÄÄTIÖ
    Inventors: Jukka Manner, Le Wang
  • Patent number: 9648528
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for supporting a handover through the Internet. A source proxy performs receiving, through an eNB from a UE, a connection request to a server, establishing a first TCP session with an anchor proxy designated for the server, and transferring data received from the server through the first TCP session, receiving a handover preparation notification including an IP address of the UE from the eNB, as the UE is handed over to a target eNB; transferring session information associated with the first TCP session and information associated with a target proxy related with the target base station; transferring, to the target proxy, the session information associated with the first TCP session, and when a handover start notification is received from the eNB, freezing the first TCP session, and transferring, to the target proxy, state information associated with data being transmitted through the first TCP session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Chul-Ki Lee, Sang-Jun Moon, Yong-Seok Park
  • Patent number: 9641640
    Abstract: Described herein are systems, devices, and methods for content delivery on the Internet. In certain non-limiting embodiments, a caching model is provided that can support caching for indefinite time periods, potentially with infinite or relatively long time-to-live values, yet provide prompt updates when the underlying origin content changes. Origin-generated tokens can drive the process of caching, and can be used as handles for later invalidating origin responses within caching proxy servers delivering the content. Tokens can also be used to control object caching behavior at a server, and in particular to control how an object is indexed in cache and who it may be served to. Tokens may indicate, for example, that responses to certain requested URL paths are public, or may be used to map user-id in a client request to a group for purposes of locating valid cache entries in response to subsequent client requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Martin T. Flack, Stephen L. Ludin, Moritz M. Steiner
  • Patent number: 9633058
    Abstract: Methods and arrangements for predictively placing columns of a large database in a multi-tier storage system. Aspects include receiving a database to be stored in the multi-tier storage system, wherein the database comprises a plurality of columns and the multi-tier storage system comprises at least two storage devices and evaluating one or more attributes of each of the plurality of columns of the database. Aspects also include storing each of the plurality of columns of the database on one of the at least two storage devices, wherein a determination of which of the at least two storage devices to store each of the plurality of columns is based on the one or more attributes of each of the columns, a predictive model based on the weighted columnar relationship graph, and the characteristics of the storage devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Rini Kaushik
  • Patent number: 9634986
    Abstract: Nameserver addresses are correlated in a multi-tier name server hierarchy comprising a first level authority for a domain, and one or more second level authorities to which the first level authority delegates with respect to a particular sub-domain associated with the domain. Preferably, the first level authority is IPv4-based and at least one second level authority is IPv6-based. The first level authority responds to a request issued by a client caching nameserver (a “CCNS”) and returns an answer that includes both IPv4 and IPv6 authorities for the domain. The CCNS is located at an IPv4 source address that is passed along to the first level authority with the CCNS request. The first level authority encodes the CCNS IPv4 source address in the IPv6 destination address of at least one IPv6 authority. Then, when the CCNS then makes a follow-on IPv6 request (with respect to the sub-domain) directed to the IPv6 authority, the IPv6 authority knows both the IPv6 address of the CCNS (as well as its IPv4 address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew S. Levine, James M. Kretchmar
  • Patent number: 9635095
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software for operating a content delivery system are provided herein. In one example, a method includes, in a first content delivery node, receiving a purge instruction to purge first content stored in the first content delivery node and responsively purging the first content. Responsive to purging the first content, the method includes transferring a content request for delivery to a second content delivery node, where the content request comprises a request for second content to replace the first content and a revision indicator of the first content. Responsive to the content request, the method includes receiving the second content for storage in the first content delivery node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Fastly Inc.
    Inventors: Artur Bergman, Tyler McMullen
  • Patent number: 9619444
    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: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nicholas A. Baldwin, Mark C. Hampton, Stefan A. Hepper, Eric Martinez de Morentin