Cooperative Computer Processing Patents (Class 709/205)
  • Patent number: 11720708
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for preserving user privacy when collecting and analyzing user data. Methods include discarding user data after generating a privacy enhanced representation of user data and storing this privacy enhanced representation in a probabilistic data structure. Methods further preserve user privacy by inserting false negatives in the probabilistic data structure. Methods also include storing continuous value attributes in the data structure. Methods include storing date values associated with one or more user attributes. The date values may specify the date when one or more user attributes was last received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Sami Torbey
  • Patent number: 11720244
    Abstract: Presented herein are systems and methods that allow for capturing metadata associated with a drag-and-drop action. The metadata includes information about a participant of at least two participants connected, by a collaboration server, to a collaboration session via respective devices. The system and methods further introduce the concept of a meeting board. The collaboration server distributes to the respective devices media stream data representing a main display area and the meeting board section in a user interface screen associated with the collaboration session. Content items of the collaboration session are sequentially displayed in the main display area throughout the collaboration session and a portion of a content item that is drag-and-dropped from the main display area into the meeting board section remains on the meeting board section throughout the collaboration session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Pan Rongrong, Xi Yasi, Li Bin, Jian Wang
  • Patent number: 11720350
    Abstract: Building and deployment of multiple applications can be augmented using metadata. Source code of a service can be generated automatically in a programming language without human intervention based on metadata descriptive of a data store and desired interaction with the data store by the service. Furthermore, documentation can be created automatically based on the metadata, wherein the documentation comprises at least one of application programming interface (API) data, data definitions, or end-user help document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Joseph Albert Bogushefsky, III, Christopher Thomas Miller, Dennis Wayne Wilson
  • Patent number: 11714662
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is presented for reporting application programs linked to by an application running under an online transaction processor of a mainframe computing environment. An intercept program is implanted in an address space of the online transaction processor. A task executing outside of the address space of the online transaction processor identifies an address for a target domain gate program supported in a domain by the online transaction processor; identifies an address for an unused domain gate program supported in the domain by the online transaction processor; replaces the address for the unused domain gate program with the address for the target domain gate program; and replaces the address for the target domain gate program with an address for the intercept program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.
    Inventor: John Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11711419
    Abstract: A method and a system for arranging a user multi-session from a plurality of user sessions, where the sessions are received from a plurality of computerized client devices communicatively coupled via a communication network to at least one content server. At least some of the client devices may be operated by a same user, and the data content may include at least part of data communicated between any client device and any content server. The method including dividing the received data content into a plurality of sessions, where at least two sessions are associated with the same user, selecting at least two sessions received from at least two respective client devices associated with the same user, and associating the selected at least two sessions to form a multi-session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: BI SCIENCE (2009) LTD
    Inventors: Assaf Toval, Kfir Moyal, Nimrod Sandlerman
  • Patent number: 11709953
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for classifying organizational structure for implementing data protection policies. In one exemplary aspect, a method may comprise retrieving a plurality of data files of an organization, wherein the plurality of data files are stored in a data storage; retrieving structural information of the organization, the structural information comprising details of user accounts, organizational roles, and file metadata within the organization; classifying the structural information into an organization type of a plurality of organization types; classifying each respective data file of the plurality of data files into a respective topic of a plurality of topics, wherein the plurality of topics are associated with the organization type; generating a data protection policy for the organization based on each respective topic of the plurality of data files and the organization type; and executing the data protection policy on the data storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Acronis International GmbH
    Inventors: Andrey Kulaga, Stanislav Protasov, Serguei Beloussov, Nikolay Grebennikov
  • Patent number: 11703988
    Abstract: A server and method for social interaction-based display control is provided. The server acquires information associated with a first user of an electronic device. The server determines social connections of the first user based on the acquired information. The server analyzes an interaction of the first user with second users based on a communication between the second users and the first user. The second users may be associated with the social connections. The server determines, based on the analyzed interaction a connection score indicating a degree of interaction between the second users and the first user. The server transmits display information indicating the determined connection score to the electronic device. The electronic device may adjust display characteristics of a user interface (UI) element associated with the second users based on the display information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Christopher John Tarchala, Hanna Gee, Macarena Rojas Bustamante, Matthew B. Staal
  • Patent number: 11687495
    Abstract: An electronic device may include logic to provide a trust credential for linking to a permissioned network over a local network, comprising a plurality of user devices; retrieve a document in an initial status for editing, corresponding to a first state of a distributed ledger, maintained by the permissioned network; generate a first change in the document, wherein the document is in a second status; send, to the permissioned network via the local network, the first change for storage in the distributed ledger, in a second state; retrieve the document in a third status, including a second change, performed subsequently to the first change, the second change being generated by a user device, external to the electronic device, and coupled to the local network; and link to the distributed ledger to retrieve a third state of the distributed ledger, the third state comprising the first change and the second change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Wylie, Qiaochu Tang, Micah Price, Geoffrey Dagley, Jason Hoover, Habeeb Hooshmand
  • Patent number: 11689591
    Abstract: Various embodiments of an apparatus, method(s), system(s) and computer program product(s) described herein are directed to a Mesh Orchestrator. Prior to initiation of an upcoming online event, the Mesh Orchestrator identifies one or more user accounts scheduled to participate in the upcoming online event delivered via a video communication environment. The Mesh Orchestrator defines a mesh of respective client computer systems associated with the identified user accounts. The mesh is defined as including at least one mesh parent client computer system (“mesh parent”) and at least one mesh child client computer system (“mesh child”). Mesh Orchestrator sends one or more child designation messages to client computer systems assigned a role of mesh child.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Sieracki, Michael White
  • Patent number: 11688141
    Abstract: A configuration tool adapted to configure a quality control system to monitor and/or guide an operator in a working environment through recognition of objects, events or an operational process, comprises: a volumetric sensor adapted to capture volumetric image frames of the working environment while an object, event or operational process is demonstrated; a display, coupled to the volumetric sensor and configured to live display the volumetric image frames; and a processor configured to: generate a user interface in overlay of the volumetric image frames to enable a user to define a layout zone; and automatically generate a virtual box in the layout zone when an object, event or operational process is detected during demonstration of the object, event or operational process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: ARKITE NV
    Inventor: Ives De Saeger
  • Patent number: 11669291
    Abstract: A system and method of adaptively sharing at least one portion of a web page between computing devices by a processor may include: associating an identification of at least one first client computing device with an identification of one or more second client computing devices; receiving at least one client property of the one or more second client computing devices; receiving an indication of an event relating to presentation of the at least one web page portion on a screen of the first client computing device; adapting, in real time, at least one presentation property of the at least one web page portion, based on the event indication and on the at least one client property; and presenting the at least one web page portion on a screen of the one or more second client computing devices, based on the association of identification, and according to the adapted presentation property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Co-Commerce Shopping Platform Ltd.
    Inventors: Eyal Sinai, Adi Ronen Almagor
  • Patent number: 11671393
    Abstract: A device may receive transaction information that identifies a set of third parties. The device may process messages in an electronic messaging account using a set of processing techniques after receiving the transaction information. The device may identify, in the electronic messaging account, a first set of messages associated with the set of third parties. The device may determine a manner in which to configure a user interface of an application associated with a user device to display the first set of messages based on the transaction information. The device may provide a set of instructions to the user device to configure the user interface of the application to display the first set of messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Dan Givol, Benjamin Lindquist, Victor Mayaki, Zviad Aznaurashvili
  • Patent number: 11663240
    Abstract: Disclosed are various examples for categorization using an organizational hierarchy. In some examples, a client device receives an enterprise map comprising a plurality of user identifiers, each being associated with a hierarchy level of an enterprise hierarchy. Enterprise content is received. The enterprise content includes data associated with a user identifier from the enterprise map. The enterprise content is associated with a category based on a hierarchy level of the user identifier. A user interface is generated to include the enterprise content and a visual design element based on the category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: AIRWATCH LLC
    Inventor: Ramanandan Nk
  • Patent number: 11663362
    Abstract: A system continuously monitors, by at least one inspector, an inspection work queue for a class of inspection operation request, detects, by the at least one inspector, the class of inspection operation request in the inspection work queue, removes, by the at least one inspector, the class of inspection operation request from the inspection work queue, determines, by the at least one inspector, one of a class of inspection tool and a specific level of inspection to perform for the class of inspection operation request that references a data object, and executes, by the at least one inspector, the one of the class of inspection tool and the specific level of inspection for the class of inspection operation request that references the data object at one of a certain time and a certain event during a data lifecycle of the data object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Cobalt Iron, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Merrill Marett, Richard Raymond Spurlock, Gregory John Tevis
  • Patent number: 11659434
    Abstract: The described technology is generally directed towards a transport protocol for latency sensitive applications. The disclosed transport protocol is “semi-reliable” in that it allows for specification of an importance of data being transmitted, thereby allowing important data to be sent reliably, while other data can be dropped if necessary, e.g., under bad network conditions. A deadline can be specified for such other data, and if the other data cannot be sent prior to the deadline, it can be dropped. Furthermore, the disclosed transport protocol can allow for early discovery of network jitter. A client device can send regular acknowledgments which identify most recently received data packets as well as a number of “heartbeat transmissions” received at the client device. A server device can use the acknowledgments to discover and respond to jitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Shu Shi, Rittwik Jana, Bo Han, Bo Chen
  • Patent number: 11656866
    Abstract: An industrial integrated development environment (IDE) supports collaborative tools that allow multiple designers and programmers to remotely submit design input to the same automation system project in parallel while maintaining project consistency. The industrial IDE also permits localized development of system projects, and provides an infrastructure for intelligently brokering between conflicting edits submitted to common portions of the system project. Project edits submitted to the IDE system, both applied and unapplied, are stored as edit records, allowing edits to be selectively undone or applied either manually or as part of a rollback to a milestone version.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew R Stump, Anthony Carrara, Eashwer Srinivasan, Srdjan Josipovic, Adam J Gregory, Michael J Coan
  • Patent number: 11650921
    Abstract: A method for establishing a connection between two nodes in a communication network without use of a centralized directory or mapping identifiers includes: receiving a lookup message from another node in the communication network that includes a lookup term; determining if a target node in a local directory cache can be identified that satisfies the lookup term; and, if such a node is identified, establishing a connection to the target node and forwarding the lookup message, or, if no such node is identified, forwarding the lookup message to other nodes in the network with which the node has an active communication connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Stephen Higgins
  • Patent number: 11652930
    Abstract: Systems and methods of co-editing a design for a printed product is disclosed. According to certain aspects, a server may store tool state variable(s) corresponding to editing tool(s) included in a printed product editor in a database; receive, from a first electronic device executing a first instantiation of the printed product editor, a request for a collaborative communication session with a second electronic device executing a second instantiation of the printed product editor; generate the collaborative communication session between the two devices in response to the request, the collaborative communication session including a state of editing tool(s) of the first instantiation of the printed product editor; update the tool state variable(s) corresponding to the state of editing tool(s) of the first instantiation in the database; and synchronize a state of editing tool(s) of the second instantiation in response to the updating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: CIMPRESS SCHWEIZ GMBH
    Inventors: Edward James Hammond, Christina Kayastha, Gal Rakhsha-Shenar
  • Patent number: 11653036
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a live streaming method and system, a server, and a computer storage medium. The method includes: providing, by a first end for information interaction, a first audio/video live stream for a server, and providing, by a second end for information interaction, a second audio/video live stream for the server. The method further includes performing, by the server, coding and processing on the first audio/video live stream and the second audio/video live stream, to obtain a third audio/video live stream, and pushing the third audio/video stream to a third end for information interaction; and receiving, by the third end, audio/video content of the first end and the second end according to the third audio/video live stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Di Xue
  • Patent number: 11652772
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems. In response to receiving a message, embodiments of the present invention can determine a visibility metric associated with the received message. Embodiments of the present invention can then dynamically create a list of users able to interact with the message based on the determined visibility metric. Embodiments of the present invention can then perform an action based on the dynamically created list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: KYNDRYL, INC.
    Inventors: Satvinder Kaur, Seema Nagar, Kuntal Dey, Prince Ravindran
  • Patent number: 11651795
    Abstract: An audio signal processing device including: an input reception section that receives input from a user for selection of a channel of a mixing device; an audio signal input section that receives an audio signal corresponding to the channel of the mixing device selected according to the input from the user for the selection of the channel received at the input reception section; an audio source identification section that analyzes the audio signal received at the audio signal input section and identifies a kind of audio source of the audio signal; a setting data acquisition section that acquires setting data corresponding to the kind of audio source identified by the audio source identification section; and a setting data setting section that prompts the mixing device to set the setting data acquired by the setting data acquisition section for the channel received at the input reception section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaaki Okabayashi
  • Patent number: 11645667
    Abstract: An exemplary non-limiting embodiment of an economic development and collaboration system, which enables individuals within a community to efficiently identify and express their interests in one or more economic propositions, is disclosed herein. The economic development and collaboration system comprises a software application which is configured to allow users to uniquely interface with the one or more economic propositions. The system allows for its users to efficiently identify and express support or disapproval of one or more economic propositions. A variety of engagement mechanisms are provided by the economic development and collaboration system to assist users in democratizing their interests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Inventor: John C. Noel, Sr.
  • Patent number: 11646941
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for configuring software defined network (SDN) controllers within different cloud computing domains and, in particular, a multi-cluster controller that operates and presents, in some examples, a single interface for seamlessly controlling and configuring SDN controllers in different cloud computing domains. In one example, this disclosure describes a system that includes a plurality of clusters, each of the plurality of clusters including a plurality of configurable endpoints; a storage system; and processing circuitry having access to the storage system and capable of communicating with each of the plurality of configurable endpoints. In some examples, the processing circuitry is configured to receive a plurality of requests, each specifying a configuration operation, identify, for each of the requests, a configuration cluster and a configuration endpoint within the configuration cluster, and perform, for each of the requests, the specified configuration operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventor: Ignatious Johnson Christober
  • Patent number: 11637803
    Abstract: A switch device for relaying flow data in an in-vehicle network, being equipped with an acquiring section for acquiring correspondence information indicating at least a correspondence relationship among a transmission destination IP address, a transmission source IP address, transmission destination port information, transmission source port information and a transmission destination MAC address and a relay section for acquiring the transmission destination MAC address from the correspondence information on the basis of the transmission destination IP address, the transmission source IP address, the transmission destination port information and the transmission source port information included in a frame that is received by the switch device and constitutes the flow data and for performing transmission processing to transmit the frame including the acquired transmission destination MAC address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hayato Shikata, Hirofumi Urayama, Hideki Maeda, Yasuhiro Yabuuchi, Takeshi Hagihara
  • Patent number: 11637887
    Abstract: A method and apparatus generate and process transport packets. A method of processing a transport packet at receiving entity includes identifying, in response to receiving the transport packet, a payload type based on a field indicating the payload type in a packet header for the transport packet. The method also includes identifying, in response to identifying that the payload type is a streaming mode payload type, a delivery data unit type of DU data in the transport packet based on a field indicating the delivery data unit type in a streaming mode payload header for the DU data. Additionally, the method includes processing the DU data according to the identified delivery data unit type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Imed Bouazizi, Youngkwon Lim
  • Patent number: 11637897
    Abstract: A method for generating a hierarchical edit script comprises generating, using a first linear sequence of nodes of a first hierarchical dataset and a second linear sequence of nodes of a second hierarchical dataset, a linear edit script defining a linear sequence of operations that can be applied to the first linear sequence to generate the second linear sequence, generating a first delta by matching one or more operations of the linear sequence of operations to the first hierarchical dataset, generating a second delta by matching one or more operations of the linear sequence of operations to the second hierarchical dataset, and generating the hierarchical edit script by merging the first delta and the second delta.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: ATLASSIAN PTY LTD.
    Inventors: Haymo Meran, Tobias Steiner
  • Patent number: 11625629
    Abstract: Systems and computerized methods for determining patterns in user activity such that user contextual information can be provided based on the patterns. Historic data associated with a first user is received and entity information is determined based on the historic data. Current location data associated with the first user is received and prediction information is generated based on a combination of the entity information and the current location data for a current time period. Contextual insight information is determined based on a combination of the prediction information with at least one of the current location data, real time data, and contextual data, the contextual insight information including a recommendation of at least one of an activity, a purchase, and an accessory associated with the current location of the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: AXON VIBE AG
    Inventors: Simon Gelinas, Ryan Vilim, Katherine Yoshida, Jacopo Tagliabue, Michael Murphy, Roman Oberli, Thomas Annicq
  • Patent number: 11625529
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for receiving, managing, and displaying annotations on documents in real-time. A user (e.g., an author of a document) uploads a document into a real-time annotation system, which may then generate a composite presentation based on the uploaded document. The composite presentation includes all the content of the document presented in a specially configured graphical user interface to receive and manage annotations from a plurality of user devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Ayush Sood, Amrit Saxena, Parvathy Menon
  • Patent number: 11615581
    Abstract: In some aspects, the disclosure is directed to methods and systems for a dynamic, reconfigurable virtual reality environment with in-environment access to external data and resources. Implementations of these systems also provide an external mechanism for modifying other aspects of the virtual reality experience with no need to recode or compile the experience. This can alter the primary flow of the experience, change its behavior based on the specific user accessing it and add branded or customer-specific aspects to the application. The same level or environment can provide drastically different experiences for various users from beginners through experts, even allowing the option of random or ordered events, controllable by an instructor or administrator, through simple configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: OBERON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Scott Allen, Timothy Allen
  • Patent number: 11616814
    Abstract: Data privacy in screen sharing during Web conferencing includes selecting a third-party application executing in contemporaneously with a conferencing application. Screen sharing is activated during a Web conference in the conferencing application so as to share a display screen of the third-party application with different attendee computers over a computer communications network. An interface to the application is then queried with the attendees in order to receive access control data for the attendees. Then, a protected data field is identified in the display screen and determined whether one of the attendee computers is associated with one of several access control rules based upon the access control data that prohibits display of content in the protected data field. The data field is masked in the shared display screen for the one of the attendee computers while displaying remaining portions of the shared display screen in the one of the attendee computers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Thinkrite, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua P. Schrager, Brenda Horowitz
  • Patent number: 11609802
    Abstract: This disclosure involves using data science notebooks to customize and apply a visitor stitching framework. An event management system provides an initial visitor stitching framework via a data science notebook, wherein the data science notebook is an interactive environment for managing algorithms and data. The event management system receives, from a resource provider system via the data science notebook, a modification to the initial visitor stitching framework. The event management system applies the modification to the initial visitor stitching framework to generate a custom visitor stitching framework. The event management system processes a dataset associated with the resource provider system and a user using the custom visitor stitching framework to generate a stitched dataset associated with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor Paulsen, Joshua Butikofer, Adrian Tanase
  • Patent number: 11595480
    Abstract: A server system (100) for processing a virtual space, the virtual space comprising a plurality of entities (A-E), the server system (100) comprising: one or more back-end servers (108); and one or more front-end servers (114); wherein each back-end server (108) stores a respective subset of the plurality of entities (A-E); each front-end server (114) is communicatively coupled to each back-end server (108); each front-end server (114) is configured to be communicatively coupled to one or more client devices (106); each front-end server (114) stores one or more entity references (RefA-RefE); and each entity reference (RefA-RefE) comprises a first identifier for identifying a respective entity (A-E) and a second identifier for identifying the back-end server (108) on which the entity (A-E) identified by the first identifier is stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Constructive Labs
    Inventor: Michael Roberts
  • Patent number: 11593055
    Abstract: Disclosed are various examples for selective screen sharing. In one example, a computing device can generate a video stream based on a screen capture and transmit the video stream to a destination device. The computing device can also obtain a user-specified modification to an area of the screen capture within the video stream. The computing device can also update the video stream by application of a transformation to the screen capture based at least in part on the user-specified modification, after the video stream started transmission to the destination device. In some cases, a user-specified modification to the area is also obtained. The video stream can be updated by applying an updated transformation to the screen capture that obscures the updated area within the video stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventor: Sheetal Deenadayal
  • Patent number: 11593980
    Abstract: Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure improve the functionality of electronic messaging software and systems by providing a customized display of avatars corresponding to users exchanging electronic communications, such as short message service (SMS) or multimedia service (MMS) texts and emails. The appearance of the displayed avatars may be dynamically altered based on the actions taken by the users, as well as based on the content of the messages between the users or information from other sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob Edward Blackstock, Diego Muñoz Escalante, Matthew Colin Grantham, William Wu
  • Patent number: 11588779
    Abstract: A method includes displaying a plurality of group-based communication channels in an interface associated with a first user of a group-communication platform; receiving a request from the first user to share a selected set of the group-based communication channels with at least a second user of the group-based communication platform; displaying to at least the second user an indication of at least one group-based communication channel of the selected set of group-based communication channels and an affordance to add the at least one group-based communication channel of the selected set of group-based communication channels; in response to receiving an actuation of the affordance by the second user, adding the at least one group-based communication channel to an interface associated with the second user; and updating display of the interface associated with the second user to include the at least one group-based communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Slade Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sufian Rhazi, Pedro Carmo, Rachel Lum, Wei Tai Ting, Whitney Levine
  • Patent number: 11586818
    Abstract: An in-context cognitive information assistant is provided by: obtaining a context for a user, wherein the context comprises a calendar activity with one or more other users; supplementing the context by obtaining one or more conversations with the user related to the context; extracting cognitive data for the context and the conversations; and finding relevant materials in a corpus using the cognitive data. The relevant materials are used to prepare the user for interactions with other users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan F. Brunn, Patrick M. Commarford, Stephen J. Foley, John Girata, Jr., Kelley M. Gordon, Sarah B. Lips, Gayle C. Thiel
  • Patent number: 11582132
    Abstract: A device may receive a hash table that includes lists of protocol detectors, wherein the hash table is generated based on historical process data identifying potential process variables associated with an industrial control system. The device may receive a packet identifying potential process variables associated with the industrial control system, and may extract, from the packet, packet data identifying a source address, a destination address, a port, and a transport protocol. The device may compare the packet data with data in the hash table to identify a set of lists of protocol detectors, and may process the packet data, with the set of lists of protocol detectors, to determine a matching protocol, no matching protocol, or a potential matching protocol for the packet. The device may perform one or more actions based on determining the matching protocol, no matching protocol, or the potential matching protocol for the packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Richard L. Welch
  • Patent number: 11570034
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a computer cluster system comprises a plurality of nodes and a software package comprising a user interface and a kernel for interpreting program code instructions. In certain embodiments, a cluster node module is configured to communicate with the kernel and other cluster node modules. The cluster node module can accept instructions from the user interface and can interpret at least some of the instructions such that several cluster node modules in communication with one another and with a kernel can act as a computer cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Advanced Cluster Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Tannenbaum, Dean E. Dauger
  • Patent number: 11568472
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for facilitating, via an interactive display platform, a sales transaction conducted in real time between a consultant associated with a consultant device and a customer associated with a customer device. Independent user interaction control capabilities are assigned to the consultant device and the customer device for controlling the sharing of information, the identification of selections pertaining to the shared information and the population of a virtual shopping cart based on the selections, and/or for interacting with the shared information, selections and populated virtual shopping cart. The disclosed methods and apparatus can facilitate a sales transaction involving any type of product and/or service, including the sale of a report containing product data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Nielsen Consumer LLC
    Inventors: Lauren Lubeck, Vivek Sudarsan, Ron Fisher
  • Patent number: 11563723
    Abstract: A plug-in module, which, in combination with a host module, prevents unauthorized copying—like screen captures, screenshots, or screen recordings—of the streaming content provided to a participant in an online content-sharing session via an Instant Messenger (IM) service. The plug-in module may be a part of an IM application running on the participant's system or the host module may transmit a self-installing plug-in module to the participant's system upon receiving an indication that a user is hosting the online session. The plug-in module provides kernel-specific interface of the participant system's Operating System (OS) to the host module, which, then sends an OS-specific instruction to the plug-in module to trigger the OS to disable or control the copying of the streaming content as specified in a privacy preference received from the user hosting the online session. In this manner, sensitive and critical business data may be conveniently and securely shared online.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventor: K V Sai Prasad
  • Patent number: 11557006
    Abstract: A method for calculating a total transmission probability within a social network based on timing includes a path probability calculating step, a first binary-addition tree searching step, a second binary-addition tree searching step and a transmission probability calculating step. The path probability calculating step is performed to calculate a plurality of time-path probability matrices from the social network. The first binary-addition tree searching step is performed to enumerate a plurality of feasible spread vectors and a plurality of 1-lag temporal vectors. The second binary-addition tree searching step is performed to enumerate a plurality of time-slot vectors of each of the 1-lag temporal vectors. The transmission probability calculating step is performed to calculate the total transmission probability of the social network. The time-path probability matrices are corresponding to a plurality of time values, and the time values are in the specific time and different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Wei-Chang Yeh
  • Patent number: 11556663
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an access controller that performs control for enabling a content to be accessed on a second terminal in a case where an icon storing the content is presented and the content is opened in a first terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Yamazoe
  • Patent number: 11550715
    Abstract: A system includes a memory, including a plurality of memory locations having different respective addresses, and a processor. The processor is configured to compute one of the addresses from (i) a first sequence of bits derived from a tag of a data item, and (ii) a second sequence of bits representing a class of the data item. The processor is further configured to write the data item to the memory location having the computed address and/or read the data item from the memory location having the computed address. Other embodiments are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Gil Levy, Pedro Reviriego, Salvatore Pontarelli
  • Patent number: 11543953
    Abstract: Systems and methods for instantiating collaboration interfaces via object recognition are disclosed. An object recognition engine communicatively coupled to a database and an electronic device receives sensor data related to an object and identifies an object characteristic. A component is selected having criteria satisfied by the object characteristic and a collaboration interface is instantiated on the electronic device. This can allow a user to edit content related to an object. A substantially identical collaboration interface can be instantiated on a second electronic device to allow collaboration among user with respect to content related to the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Nant Holdings IP, LLC
    Inventor: Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Patent number: 11543937
    Abstract: A context sensitive slider content area provides a slide out mechanism that is automatically actuated when additional information is needed during a chat session between an agent and a visitor, e.g. where a pre-chat and/or exit form is to be completed. The context sensitive slide out content area also provides problem resolution information to the visitor to help in solving problems, e.g. the top five problems; and also provides a self-service step-by-step wizard. A history section is provided with which the visitor can track back all previous steps carried out within the smart client. A history bar provides an iconic representation of all previous activities. A technique is also disclosed for executing various actions, such as form filling or requests for additional services, in a chat session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: [24]7.ai, Inc.
    Inventors: Pallipuram V. Kannan, Mohit Jain
  • Patent number: 11539774
    Abstract: A method of creating an immutable digital record of a video conference conducted over the Internet and involving two or more parties is provided. The method comprises: routing conference data through one or more servers; identifying data streams of the conference data, including video and audio streams uploaded by respective parties; separately processing the audio streams to convert speech data to text data thereby providing a text record for each party; storing the data streams and the text records at said server or servers, or at a storage medium associated with server or servers; and generating a hash value across the data streams and the text records and saving the hash value to a Blockchain ledger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Issured Limited
    Inventors: David Beardsworth, Jeddiah Stone, Jonathan Empson
  • Patent number: 11537516
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for using a distributed cache architecture with different methods to load balance requests depending upon whether a requested data item is a freely-requested item (e.g., a “hot key”). The cache may be implemented as a consistent hash ring, and most keys may be assigned to particular node based on a consistent hash. For hot key requests, the requests may be distributed among a subset of nodes rather than being assigned to a specific node using consistent hashing. When a witness service is used to ensure that cached data is fresh, verification requests for data regarding hot keys may be batched to avoid overloading the witness service with hot key requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tyler Michael Jung, Slavcho Georgiev Slavchev, Nishant Jain, Vishwas Narendra, Nikhil Shah, James Zuber, Sameer Choudhary, Christopher A. Stephens, Suchindra Yogendra Agarwal, Phillip H. Pruett
  • Patent number: 11533367
    Abstract: Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for query-based interest in a simulation are presented. An entity comprising one or more components may be simulated. The entity may be modified to include an interest component indicating, for each component in the one or more components of the entity, a query subscription to an entity database. The query subscription may comprise one or more queries. Each query of the one or more queries may comprise a component value that qualifies another entity for inclusion in a query result, and a frequency for receiving, from the entity database, updates on the query result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Improbable Worlds Ltd
    Inventors: Jennifer Harkness, Rok Strnisa
  • Patent number: 11528315
    Abstract: There are provided a method and apparatus for delivering transport characteristics of multimedia data. According to an aspect of the present invention, transport characteristics of media data that can be divided in a unit of a Media Processing Unit (MPU) are created in a unit of a predetermined number of MPUs, the created transport characteristics and a flag indicating presence or absence of the created transport characteristics are inserted into the media data, and the resultant media data is delivered. Accordingly, by using transport characteristics in units of media data unit groups, each media data unit corresponding to a short time length, it is possible to effectively control Quality of Service (QoS) in a dynamically changing transport environment, like a mobile network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATION GROUP OF KYUNG HEE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kyung-Mo Park, Sung-Oh Hwang, Doug-Young Suh, Yong-Hun Lee
  • Patent number: 11522811
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods and computer-readable media for controlling and managing the identification and provisioning of resources within an on-demand center as well as the transfer of workload to the provisioned resources. One aspect involves creating a virtual private cluster within the on-demand center for the particular workload from a local environment. A method of managing resources between a local compute environment and an on-demand environment includes detecting an event associated with a local compute environment and based on the detected event, identifying information about the local environment, establishing communication with an on-demand compute environment and transmitting the information about the local environment to the on-demand compute environment, provisioning resources within the on-demand compute environment to substantially duplicate the local environment and transferring workload from the local-environment to the on-demand compute environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: III Holdings 12, LLC
    Inventor: David Brian Jackson