Computer Conferencing Patents (Class 709/204)
  • Patent number: 11467718
    Abstract: An information sharing system includes: a post reception unit configured to receive a post from a user; a display control unit configured to display a thumbnail indicating the post at a terminal device of the user for each received post; and a vote reception unit configured to receive a vote from the user to the post, and the display control unit changes a display aspect of the thumbnail according to a number of the votes received by the vote reception unit regarding the corresponding post, for each thumbnail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shintaro Masu, Shota Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11463573
    Abstract: A method and system are provided. The method includes automatically monitoring one or more voice communication sessions occurring on multiple communication devices to transcribe into text, by a processor-based voice-to-text transcriber, voices uttered by two or more respective participants other than a user in each of the voice communications sessions. The method further includes comparing, for each of the voice communication sessions, the topic of interest to conversation features derived from the text to detect a match there between. The method also includes providing the user with a summary of each of the voice communication sessions for which the match has been detected by said comparing step, the summary being based on the text. The method additionally includes automatically connecting the user to at least one of the voice communication sessions for which the summary thereof has been provided to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Susan F. Crowell, Jason A. Nikolai, Andrew T. Thorstensen
  • Patent number: 11461724
    Abstract: The present invention provides a computer system providing an advice on communication. The computer system (100) of the present invention is configured to receive characteristics of a plurality of users (S501), to mutually compare the characteristics of two users out of the plurality of users (S502), and output an advice on communication between the two users on the basis of the comparison of the characteristics of the two users (S503).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: KAKEAI, Inc.
    Inventors: Hidetaka Honda, Emi Minagawa, Akira Koyasu, Junya Kaneda, Yoshio Ando
  • Patent number: 11461009
    Abstract: Deploying client-specific applications in a storage system utilizing redundant system resources, including: identifying a redundant controller in the storage system, wherein the storage system includes at least a first controller and the redundant controller; and executing one or more applications on the redundant controller, wherein the one or more applications are executed in a container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Pure Storage, Inc.
    Inventors: John Colgrove, Lydia Do, Ethan Miller, Terence Noonan
  • Patent number: 11461436
    Abstract: A communication device. The communication device comprises a central processing unit (CPU), a graphics processing unit (GPU), and a non-transitory memory comprising executable instructions for a sharing application that when executed by at least one of the CPU or the GPU, causes the sharing application to transmit an executable of a trusted application to an endpoint communication device, begin execution of the sharing application in a trusted security execution zone (TSZ) execution mode for sharing media content, instantiate a trustlet application that begins execution by the CPU or the GPU in the TSZ execution mode, display a unit of media content on the communication device, determine whether the unit of media content comprises confidential information, and in response to a determination the unit of media content comprises confidential information, transmit commands to the trusted application to control one or more functions at the endpoint communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Marouane Balmakhtar, Thomas Golden, Galip Murat Karabulut, Lyle W. Paczkowski
  • Patent number: 11461491
    Abstract: Methods and systems that allow a user to see the people or groups who have access to files that are maintained by a plurality of cloud content sharing services. In particular, the user may see what specific party has access to each particular file or directory, regardless of multiple cloud content sharing services involved. Moreover, a user interface and exposed application program interface allows the user to manipulate the permissions, e.g., granting access, to another person or group, to a file or directory. The user interface may also allow the user to terminate access to the file or directory for a person or group. The user's action to change a permission may be effected independently of the particular cloud content sharing service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Steven J. Birkel, Rita H. Wouhaybi, Timothy Verrall, Mrigank Shekhar
  • Patent number: 11460882
    Abstract: Various examples of the present invention relate to an electronic device employing a flexible display, and an operating method therefor. The electronic device operating method comprises the steps of: detecting a form change of the electronic device; determining an account to be used in the changed form of the electronic device; and displaying a user interface (UI) on the electronic device on the basis of a setting corresponding to the determined account. Other examples are also possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Kyung-Wook Ro, Munhwi Kim, Jeong-Won Ko, Joonhwan Kim, Hye-Jin Kim, Myoung-Soo Park, Jungwoo Shin
  • Patent number: 11456082
    Abstract: Methods and systems for outputting an engagement communicative strategy are described. In an example, a processor may train a communicative model using a patient authored text corpus. The processor may generate at least one patient profile based on the patient authored text corpus and patient authored health data. The processor may construct a knowledge based system based on the communicative model and the at least one patient profile. The processor may input a patient profile of the entity, an engagement degree, and an engagement score to the knowledge based system. The processor may execute the knowledge based system to determine the engagement communicative strategy, and may output the engagement communicative strategy. The engagement communicative strategy may specify a communication scheme to communicate with the entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Marcia Ito, Livy Maria Real Coelho, Fabio Rezende de Souza
  • Patent number: 11455457
    Abstract: Provided is a group-based communication interface, on a computing device, configured to display a defined preview of a resource. The computing device receives a group-based message including a resource request that identifies a requested resource and a resource address. The computing device compares the resource address with a list of subscribed resource addresses and determines from the comparison of the resource address and the subscribed resource addresses that the resource address is associated with a resource provider and is thus a subscribed resource address. In response to determining that the resource address is the subscribed resource address, the computing device provides a defined preview request comprising authentication information to the resource provider, receives defined preview data from the resource provider, and renders the defined preview of the resource based on the defined preview data to the group-based communication interface associated with the group-based message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Slack Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Sean Rose, Christopher Sullivan, Allen James Ferrick, Timothy Lefler, Salman Suhail
  • Patent number: 11456978
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus related to determining reply content for a reply to an electronic communication. Some implementations are directed generally toward analyzing a corpus of electronic communications to determine relationships between one or more original message features of “original” messages of electronic communications and reply content that is included in “reply” messages of those electronic communications. Some implementations are directed generally toward providing reply text to include in a reply to a communication based on determined relationships between one or more message features of the communication and the reply text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Phillip Neal Sharp, Prabhakar Raghavan, Thompson Alexander Ivor Gawley, Balint Miklos, Karol Kurach, Tobias Kaufmann, Gregory Sean Corrado, László Lukács
  • Patent number: 11455689
    Abstract: A system for enabling real-time iterative collaborative decision support. The system includes one or more processors and memory storing instructions for receiving a connection request from a client device; establishing a first connection with the client device, including populating a first user interface of the client device, wherein the first user interface corresponds to the first workspace; broadcasting availability of the client device to two or more coach devices; in response to the broadcast, receiving a connection request from a first coach device; and in response to receiving the connection request from the first coach device, establishing a second connection with the first coach device, including populating a second user interface of the first coach device, wherein the second user interface corresponds to the first workspace and includes an element not included in the first user interface of the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company
    Inventors: Zachary M. Friedman, Sumeet P. Singh, Marcus Hitt, Richard W. Burchfield, Debra Rosen, Matthew Westlake, Calvin Goodman
  • Patent number: 11456886
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: supporting, using a meeting application of an information handling device, a mixed meeting, wherein the mixed meeting comprises participants originating from at least two connection mediums; attempting, using a processor, to determine the identities of each of the participants in the mixed meeting; and providing an indication of each of the determined identities to at least one of the participants. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Tobias Christensen, Matthew William Fardig, Philip L. Childs
  • Patent number: 11451504
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for operating an instant messaging server are disclosed. The method for operating an instant messaging server according to an example embodiment includes managing a message sent and received through a first chat room of a messenger application, managing a message sent and received through a second chat room of a 3rd party application receiving support a chat function through the instant messaging server, identifying a user account of an instant messaging service (IMS) linked with a user account of the 3rd party service participating in the second chat room, and providing, based on the identified user account of the IMS, the second chat room of the 3rd party application to the messenger application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: KAKAO CORP.
    Inventors: Myung Jun Kim, Myung O Ha, Jin Hwan Lee, Hun Jae Lee, Chun Ho Kim, Soo Bum Kim, Eung Ju Park, Yong Ha Yoo
  • Patent number: 11449764
    Abstract: An artificial intelligence (“AI”)-based system is disclosed for utilizing a schema to auto-generate an application for a specific context. An AI engine selects an activity schema associated with an activity. The schema identifies data sources for obtaining activity-specific content for the activity and can be selected based upon topics associated with the activity. The AI engine also selects a view definition that defines an arrangement of an activity-specific user interface (“UI”) for presenting relevant activity-specific content obtained from the data sources identified by the schema. An application is then generated using the schema and the view definition. The application can generate the activity-specific UI for presenting the relevant activity-specific content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Nathaniel M. Myhre, Aniruddha Prabhakar Kulkarni, Yogesh Madhukarrao Joshi, Vignesh Sachidanandam, William Henry Gates, III
  • Patent number: 11444942
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes circuitry to: in response to detection of information identifying a user, acquire schedule information on the user from an external service, using external service setting information associated with the information identifying the user; when the user is to set a schedule for using the information processing apparatus, suggest the user with a schedule for using the information processing apparatus based on a current time, to cause the user to set the schedule for using the information processing apparatus; obtain information on an expected attendee registered for the schedule for using the information processing apparatus set by the user, based on the schedule information on the user; and transmit image data of an image being displayed on a display to the expected attendee.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukinari Toyota, Shigeo Araki
  • Patent number: 11443215
    Abstract: Embodiments for implementing intelligent recommendations of convenient event opportunities by a processor. A group of entities may be identified for one or more event opportunities or the one or more event opportunities may be identified for the group of entities according to one or more entity selection criteria and one or more event criteria. The one or more event opportunities and the group of entities may be matched according to a level of convenience for attending the one or more event opportunities of the group of entities. The one or more matching event opportunities may be ranked and suggested to the group of entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joao H. Bettencourt-Silva, Theodora Brisimi, Marco Luca Sbodio, Natalia Mulligan
  • Patent number: 11442605
    Abstract: A system and method for facilitating user interactions with a virtual space through a graphical chat interface is disclosed. One or more potential inputs to the virtual space and/or virtual space status information may be determined dynamically for a user participating in a chat session through a graphical chat interface. An activity notification may be generated for the user based one the determined potential inputs and/or the virtual space status information. The generated activity notification may comprise graphical representation for the notification and as well as representation information for one or more controls facilitating the user to provide inputs requested by the activity notification through the graphical chat interface. User acceptance to the activity notification via the graphical chat interface may be received. One or more activity commands may be generated based on the received user acceptance and executed in the virtual space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Kabam, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael C. Caldarone, Kellen Christopher Smalley, Matthew Curtis, James Koh
  • Patent number: 11445018
    Abstract: Technologies for synchronizing content items across cloud systems are provided. An example method can include receiving, by a first content management system (CMS), authentication information associated with a second CMS; based on the authentication information, establishing a communication channel between the first CMS and second CMS; using the communication channel, providing a user interface identifying collections of content items stored on the second CMS; receiving, by the first CMS, a request to create a first collection of content items based on a second collection of content items selected by a user account from the user interface, the second collection being stored on the second CMS; creating, by the first CMS, the first collection in association with the user account; populating the first collection with placeholders corresponding to content items in the second collection; and upon detecting a change to the second collection, updating the first collection to reflect the change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua Zana, Tristan Pendergrass, Andrew Lawson
  • Patent number: 11445042
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for personalized content is provided. The present invention may include monitoring media content from one or more platforms based on user preferences. The present invention may include identifying related media content from the one or more platforms. The present invention may include determining one or more pairs of related media content based on a confidence score. The present invention may include assembling the one or more pairs of related media content based on rules of a media content engine. The present invention may include generating personalized media content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shikhar Kwatra, Indervir Singh Banipal, Jeremy R. Fox, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
  • Patent number: 11444905
    Abstract: A tool for predicting communication patterns and availability on one or more computer devices. The tool allocates an incoming mail identification to the incoming mail. The tool determines a location of origin for the incoming mail based, at least in part, on domain information and information from an address book. The tool determines one or more holidays, a day of a week, and a time of day utilizing a sending timestamp from the location of origin. The tool determines a sending tendency for the sender identification. The tool determines a response prediction rate for a per-determined timeframe based, at least in part, on the one or more holidays, the day of the week, the time of day and the sending tendency for the sender identification. The tool displays the response prediction rate and the sending tendency in one or more pop-up dialog windows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoko Murayama, Takuya Ishikawa, Yuji Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11445352
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention is directed to intelligently routing softphone emergency calls. The innovative system and method comprises: receiving, via an interface, an emergency interaction from the user, wherein the user is located at a remote region that is different from the registered home region and wherein the interface that communicates with a user via a device that executes a softphone application registered at a home region; validating, a computer processor, the emergency interaction against a network switch identifier; performing a database dip to identify caller information including current location data; communicating, via the interface, a confirmation message to the user; routing, via a cloud communication platform, a call to a regional session border controller based at least in part on the current location data; and executing, via the computer processor, an emergency call with a local calling number associated with the remote region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Jigar Ajay Kothari, Russell Austin, Suresh Thankappan, Hernán P. Seoane
  • Patent number: 11445034
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture for user identification via community detection are disclosed. Example instructions, when executed, cause at least one processor to at least access personally identifiable information to device links, build a device graph based on the personally identifiable information to device links, split components of the device graph into person clusters using community detection, create a snapshot including a device-to-person link lookup, and prepare a person-level impression measurement report from the snapshot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC
    Inventors: Jan Laurens Geffert, Lisa Marie Hamilton
  • Patent number: 11444982
    Abstract: Automated methods and systems provide a gallery view in an online meeting user interface that is changeable by gestures of meeting participants. The gallery view displays video feeds of the meeting participants on their respective participant computers, the video feeds being camera-captured views of each of the meeting participants. Software of a video conferencing system recognizes a specific gesture of a meeting participant, wherein the specific gesture is associated with a predefined directional movement of the meeting participant's video feed within the gallery view during the online meeting. The videoconferencing system electronically and automatically repositions the video feed of the meeting participant who made the specific gesture within the gallery view during the online meeting in accordance with the associated predefined directional movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Inventor: Benjamin Slotznick
  • Patent number: 11436357
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device, an indication to share content displayed by the information handling device with an individual; identifying, using a processor, a sensitivity level associated with an aspect of the content; identifying a permission level associated with the individual; determining, using a processor, whether the permission level enables the individual access to the aspect based on the sensitivity level; and censoring, responsive to determining that the permission level does not enable the individual access to the aspect, the aspect from the individual. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Mark Patrick Delaney, Nathan J. Peterson, John Carl Mese, Arnold S. Weksler
  • Patent number: 11438235
    Abstract: A method for arbitrarily grouping computer system resources includes receiving a resource policy to be applied to a group of resources associated with a user. The resource policy includes a unique user-defined label assigned to each resource of the group of resources. The method also includes identifying the group of resources among a plurality of resources using the user-defined label. Here, the plurality of resources is associated with the user and distributed across a plurality of different computing environments. For each identified resource of the group of resources, the method also includes applying the resource policy to a corresponding identified resource by accessing the respective computing environment where the corresponding identified resource resides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Cyrus Harvesf, Marco Cavalli
  • Patent number: 11438666
    Abstract: Examples involve a control device using a social networking service to facilitate registration of a streaming media service with a media playback system. An example implementation receives (i) data indicating login credentials for a given account of a social networking service, and (ii) input data to configure streaming media services with a media playback system. Based on receiving the input data to configure the media playback system, the implementation queries the social networking service for streaming media services associated with the given account, and in response to the query, receives data indicating a first streaming media service associated with the given account. The implementation configures the media playback system to playback audio content from the first streaming media service that is associated with the given account and causes the media playback system to playback audio content from the first streaming media service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrej Sarkic, Danielle Storlie, Diane Roberts, Ron Kuper, Dayn Wilberding, Carl Fristrom
  • Patent number: 11438282
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate generally to data science and data analysis, computer software and systems, and control systems to provide a platform to facilitate implementation of an interface, among other things, and, more specifically, to a computing and data platform that implements logic to facilitate transfer of an exchange of electronic messages to a secure messaging channel having configurable states of synchronicity based on one or more message-related attributes. In some examples, a method may include detecting an electronic message via a first data channel, transmitting an invitation message to transfer an exchange of electronic messages to a secure data channel, establishing a secure data channel, identifying an attribute to initiate routing of an electronic message to generate an automatic response or data representing an agent-assisted response, or both, transmitting an electronic response message as a function of availability of a first data channel, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Khoros, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Cotner, Justin Fellers
  • Patent number: 11436242
    Abstract: An edge gateway system securely delivers and exposes data generated by and/or related to a process plant for consumption by external systems, and includes an edge-facing component that receives process plant-related data from a process plant via a field-facing component of the system. The received data may comport with an exposable data type system utilizing a syntax known to the external systems. The edge-facing component stores the received data in a data lake, and mines the data lake to thereby discover relationships between stored data points. Indications of the received data and the discovered interrelationships are stored in a contextualized process plant knowledge repository, such as a graph database, that is accessible to the external systems and other systems and applications via one or more access mechanisms, which may include utilities, services, servers, and/or applications. Some of the access mechanisms allow external applications to be installed at the edge-facing component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Mark J. Nixon, Claudio Fayad, Robert G. Halgren, III, Gary K. Law, John M. Caldwell, Anthony Amaro, Jr., Peter Hartmann
  • Patent number: 11432357
    Abstract: A multipath establishment method and apparatus which relate to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: performing identity authentication on a terminal that accesses a first network via a first network access device, where the first network implements communication by using a base station; performing an admission check on the terminal that accesses a second network via a second network access device; and after both the identity authentication and the admission check of the terminal succeed, establishing a first path between the terminal and a service server via the first network, and establishing a second path between the terminal and the service server via the second network, where the first path and the second path are used to perform data transmission between the terminal and the service server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shujun Wang
  • Patent number: 11431956
    Abstract: A method, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and a computer system is provided for handling video streams. The method may include: receiving a 360° video stream, the 360° video stream including a multiple overlay parameter; when the multiple overlay parameter is a first value, determining that overlaying the 360° video stream with two or more overlays is permissible by the user terminal, and displaying, by the user terminal, the 360° video stream with the two or more overlays; and when the multiple overlay parameter is a second value, determining that overlaying the 360° video stream with two or more overlays is not permissible and displaying the 360° video stream with zero overlays or one overlay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Rohit Abhishek, Iraj Sodagar
  • Patent number: 11432110
    Abstract: The present specification relates generally to geopositioning and more specifically relates to a method, system and computer program product for calibrating absolute user location and bearing on a low geolocation accuracy computing device or a computing device without location capabilities by using a high geometric resolution map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: VGIS INC.
    Inventor: Alexandre Pestov
  • Patent number: 11431577
    Abstract: A system and method for endpoint selection in a global accelerator system. The global accelerator system includes client devices communicating with a global access point to access various endpoints that can host services. The access points may calculate ranked lists of the plurality of endpoints based on a selection algorithm for the access points and select, for each access point, one of the plurality of endpoints based on the ranked lists before routing the received packets to the selected endpoints by each respective access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nalin Goel, Jason Messer
  • Patent number: 11431659
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computing systems are provided for bot messaging. In an implementation, a method may include one or more of receiving, by a group messaging service coupled to the internet and a group including one or more user nodes, a message including a message address and a first group identifier, determining that the group includes a bot, the bot including a software application for performing one or more tasks over the internet. The method also includes determining whether the bot is a user bot responsive to one user node in the group or a group bot responsive to each of the one or more user nodes. In response to determining the bot is a group bot, the method also includes identifying that the message address corresponds to the group bot and sending, by the group messaging service, the message to the group bot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Orion Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Jesse Robbins, Greg Albrecht, Ellen Juhlin
  • Patent number: 11429278
    Abstract: To automate processing of agent software which operates in a storage apparatus. A storage system includes: a storage apparatus including a storage device which stores data and one or two or more pieces of agent software, and a controller for controlling the agent software; and a server that transmits and receives information to and from the storage apparatus via a network, wherein the controller: activates the agent software and monitors a status of the agent software; and causes the agent software to execute processing on condition that the status of the agent software is standby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Furo, Shinya Takeuchi, Hiroshi Hayakawa, Akira Shirasu
  • Patent number: 11429248
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an unread message prompt method and a mobile terminal. The method includes: if an unread message is received when the mobile terminal is in a screen-off state, identifying an application pushing the unread message; and highlighting an icon of the application on a screen of the mobile terminal, where a position where the icon is not displayed on the screen is in a screen-off state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kaitao Zheng
  • Patent number: 11432029
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method including initiating a creation of a personalized channel responsive to equipment of a user requesting to create the personalized channel, providing a search request to equipment of a content provider for content for the personalized channel according to the request, retrieving content from the content provider according to the search request as retrieved content, classifying the content for the personalized channel according to the content of the retrieved content to generate classified content according to a content type and a content source of the retrieved content, sequencing the classified content to generate sequenced content, assigning the sequenced content to a time slot in a schedule of the personalized channel as ready-for-broadcast content, and delivering the ready-for-broadcast content to the personalized channel according to the time slot in the schedule. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Millie Hwa
  • Patent number: 11431835
    Abstract: The invention enables digital music content to be downloaded to and used on a portable wireless computing device. An application running on the wireless device has been automatically adapted to parameters associated with the wireless device without end-user input (e.g. the application has been configured in dependence on the device OS and firmware, related bugs, screen size, pixel number, security models, connection handling, memory etc. This application enables an end-user to browse and search music content on a remote server using a wireless network; to download music content from that remote server using the wireless network and to playback and manage that downloaded music content. The application also includes a digital rights management system that enables unlimited legal downloads of different music tracks to the device and also enables any of those tracks stored on the device to be played so long as a subscription service has not terminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: TikTok Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Mark Stephen Knight, Michael Ian Lamb, Robert John Lewis, Stephen William Pocock, Philip Anthony Sant, Mark Peter Sullivan, Christopher John Evans
  • Patent number: 11429591
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for updating a molecular database. In one aspect, a method comprises: receiving a request to update a target molecule component stored in the molecular database; updating the data defining a target molecule represented by the target molecule component; identifying a set of target component links that reference the target molecule component; identifying, for each of the target component links, a respective validation criterion associated with the target component link; determining, for each of the target component links, a new validation status for the target component link by evaluating the validation criterion associated with the target component link; and updating the current validation status of each target component link to the new validation status for the target component link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Benchling, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Garrett Pierce, Vineet Gopal, Thomas Christiansen-Salameh, Karen Gu
  • Patent number: 11429622
    Abstract: Disclosed are a provenance information-based bigdata analysis supporting method, and an apparatus performing the bigdata analysis supporting method. The bigdata analysis supporting method includes receiving a request to provide a bigdata analysis method from a bigdata analysis apparatus, reconfiguring a workflow selected from a plurality of workflows corresponding to the bigdata analysis method to be supported by the bigdata analysis apparatus based on analysis resource information of the bigdata analysis apparatus, and transmitting the reconfigured workflow to the bigdata analysis apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Suwook Ha, Kangchan Lee, Min Kyo In
  • Patent number: 11429649
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a sharing request to share content generated during a current dialog session from a client system associated with a first user, identifying one or more content objects associated with the sharing request based on a natural-language understanding module, wherein the one or more content objects were previously generated during the current dialog session, determining one or more second users the sharing request is directed to based on a user profile associated with first user, and sending instructions for accessing one or more of the identified content objects to one or more client systems associated with the one or more second users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Jinsong Yu, Zhengping Zuo, Guowei Shieh, Fuchun Peng
  • Patent number: 11429659
    Abstract: A content publishing method includes: obtaining a multimedia material and geographical location information; uploading the multimedia material and the geographical location information to a server; presenting a first output result and a second output result transmitted by the server in a user interface; and generating user content that includes the first output result and the second output result. The first output result is obtained by inputting a multimedia material into an AI model, and the second output result is obtained by combining the first output result with geographical location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yixin Deng, Xin Hu
  • Patent number: 11429982
    Abstract: Methods and systems for identifying characteristics of a user (e.g., a seller) based on Natural Language Processing (NLP). Transaction data of buyers may be collected to generate a sequence paragraph of seller name information for each buyer. NLP techniques such as word2vec may be used to vectorize the seller name information to determine relationships between sellers. Industry information may be determined using the vectors. Reliability checks may be performed to determine whether the data is robust to label the determined data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Tomer Handelman, Iulian-Corneliu-Ran Locar
  • Patent number: 11423405
    Abstract: A method for peer validation for unauthorized transactions includes receiving a request to validate a user performing a transaction anomaly, wherein the transaction anomaly represents a potential fraudulent financial transaction. The method, responsive to identifying one or more boundaries to search for validation users, identifies a set of validation users in the identified one or more boundaries, where each validation user from the set of validation users has the ability to visually confirm the user performing the transaction as a valid user associated with an account for the transaction anomaly. The method displays information for the valid user associated with the account for the transaction anomaly. The method, responsive to determining the user is not validated for the transaction anomaly, declines the transaction anomaly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael J. Whitney, Colm Nolan, Mark Maresh, Juan F Vargas
  • Patent number: 11425256
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for automatically joining a user in a conference meeting via alternative communication devices when the user is detected to be unavailable at a particular client communication device. The client communication device of the user determines that the presence of the user is set to away, indicating that the user is unavailable at the client communication device. When the client communication device determines that a conference meeting including the user as an active participant is about to begin, the client communication device determines an alternative number, and different communication device, at which to reach the user. Using the alternative number, the client communication device calls the user at the different communication device and, when answered, automatically joins the user into the conference meeting through a communication channel provided by the client communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Avaya Management L.P.
    Inventors: Siddhesh Bhosle, Ankita Desai
  • Patent number: 11425183
    Abstract: Systems and method for data transfer using, e.g., the Wireless HART protocol. A method includes the following steps. Reading the packetized data file having a stream of packets. Using a first thread of execution to send the stream of packets to a first device of the multiple remote devices. Using a second thread of execution to send the stream of packets to a second device of the multiple remote devices concurrent to using the first thread of execution. A server includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are used for performing the following steps. Packetizing the data file into a stream of packets. Using a first thread of execution to send the stream of packets to a first device of the multiple remote devices. Using a second thread of execution to send the stream of packets to a second device of the multiple remote devices concurrent to using the first thread of execution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Akhil Aishwarya Dwivedi, Rohit Ramchandra Deshpande, Abhijit Gundawar
  • Patent number: 11425333
    Abstract: Embodiments include a system, method, and computer program product that enable video management of a plurality of video feeds with Push to Talk (PTT) communications. Some embodiments monitor a plurality of video feeds using a VMS graphics user interface (GUI) where a plurality of video feeds are video feed components of an interactive multimedia media object (IMMO) displayed in the VMS GUI. Some embodiments include receiving a selection of a first talk group that is associated with the IMMO, where members of the first talk group may view the video feed components and communicate via PTT. Subsequently, some embodiments include receiving a second selection of a second talk group, associating the second talk group with the IMMO, and enabling PTT communications among members of the second talk group and an operator of the VMS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Mutualink, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph R. Mazzarella, Michael S. Wengrovitz, Mark Hatten
  • Patent number: 11423090
    Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods of providing a people relevance platform. In aspects, an event may be generated by an application/service on a client device. The event may be transmitted to a people relevance platform. The people relevance platform may use the event to query one or more data sources for user contacts associated with the user. The people relevance platform may generate/modify a graph or model using the user contact data, and may provide the user contact data to the client device. The client device may update a local cache and provide the user contact data to the originating application. The client device may monitor the user selection of a contact, and transmit the selection information to the people relevance platform. The people relevance platform may modify the graph and/or model based on the selection information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Shane M. Chism, Brenda W. Bell, Bernabe Hostein, Hari Bharath Molabanti, Aravind Narayanan Manimandiram
  • Patent number: 11425467
    Abstract: A chat message management server is provided. The chat message management server may include a database for storing a chat message synchronized with a playback time of a specific video content played in at least one user terminal from among specific video contents provided from at least one video playback platform; and a chat message providing module that provides a chat message stored in the database such that the chat message is displayed in synchronization with the playback time of the specific video contents when the specific video contents are played back.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Inventor: Dae Sung Wee
  • Patent number: 11418661
    Abstract: A communication system includes an image forming apparatus and an information processing apparatus, and performs data communication using a chat tool. The information processing apparatus includes a first setup unit that causes a first display device to display a chat screen, and a first controller that transmits, when message information is inputted to the chat screen through an operation device, the message information to the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes a second display device, a communication device, a second setup unit, a storage device including a user note storage region, a storage controller that stores the message information from the information processing apparatus in the user note storage region of the storage device, and a second controller that causes the second display device to display the message information stored in the user note storage region of the storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshifumi Okabayashi
  • Patent number: 11418527
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method including scanning, by one or more processors, data that is maintained on one or more social networks, identifying, one or more social entities associated with the scanned data, determining a risk score for each of the one or more social entities, analyzing the scanned data using one or more machine learning techniques, assigning a rating to each of the one or more social entities based on the determined risk score and the analyzed data, and determining, based on the rating assigned to at least one of the one or more social entities that the at least one social entity is a security risk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: ZeroFOX, Inc
    Inventors: James Foster, Christopher B. Cullison, Michael Price, Zachary Michael Allen