Computer-to-computer Session/connection Establishing Patents (Class 709/227)
  • Patent number: 11928228
    Abstract: Facilitating an object protocol based access of data within a multiprotocol environment is presented herein. In response to receiving a simple storage system (S3) protocol based request to access data via a storage device of a filesystem, the filesystem determines a type of S3 bucket that represents the data; and based on the type of S3 bucket, the filesystem facilitates an S3 protocol based access of the data via the storage device. For example, the S3 protocol based request comprises a file request to create, read, write, and/or delete a file within the storage device. In another example, the S3 protocol based request comprises an object request to create, modify, read, and/or delete an object within the storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventor: Miles Ohlrich
  • Patent number: 11928495
    Abstract: In some examples, a storage medium stores a plurality of information elements that relate to corresponding virtual trusted platform module (TPM) interfaces, where each respective information element of the plurality of information elements corresponds to a respective virtual machine (VM). A controller provides virtual TPMs for respective security operations. A processor resource executes the VMs to use the information elements to access the corresponding virtual TPM interfaces to invoke the security operations of the virtual TPMs, where a first VM is to access a first virtual TPM interface of the virtual TPM interfaces to request that a security operation of a respective virtual TPM be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventor: Robert C. Elliott
  • Patent number: 11929909
    Abstract: An assignment of demands to routes on a communication network can be improved by selecting and updating a subset of the routes. A network management system (or other communication network component) can obtain a representation of the communication network. The representation can include a network graph, sets of resources, and a set of paths for the network graph. The network management system can update the set of paths by selecting a path subset and updating the paths of the path subset. The updating can satisfy a total change condition and a network improvement condition. The updating can be limited to unused edge and resource combinations or edge and resource combinations used by paths in the path subset. The network management system can configure the communications network to satisfy the demand using routes corresponding to the updated set of paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: ECI Telecom Ltd.
    Inventors: Efraim Gelman, Inbal Hecht, Shirel Ezra
  • Patent number: 11924004
    Abstract: This application disclose a link configuration method, to configure a DSVPN tunnel interface parameter. A controller obtains a first link profile for a first site and a second link profile for a second site from a link profile library, where the link profile library includes a plurality of link profiles. The controller obtains preconfigured global configuration information, where the global configuration information includes an address pool. The controller generates a first link configuration parameter of the first site and a second link configuration parameter of the second site based on the address pool, the first link profile, and the second link profile and according to a preset link configuration rule. The controller sends the first link configuration parameter to the first site and sends the second link configuration parameter to the second site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiantao Chen, Changnian Xu, Weiquan Feng
  • Patent number: 11924288
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are directed to a method and system for transferring a user session between a source device and a target device. The method may include receiving a request to transfer a user session from a source device to the target device, the user session corresponds to a running session between the source device and a session end point device, receiving session data corresponding to the user session transfer request, determining, at the target device, a corresponding launch application for the user session using the session data, launching the corresponding launch application to initiate a transfer of the user session; and replacing the source device in the running session by establishing a communication channel with the session end point device upon the launch of the corresponding launch application using the session data and terminating the user session at the source device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Sadeesh Kumar Karuppiah, Anand Madhav Rao Hallur
  • Patent number: 11924251
    Abstract: A system and method for cybersecurity reconnaissance, analysis, and scoring that uses distributed, cloud-based computing services to provide sufficient scalability for analysis of enterprise IT networks using only publicly available characterizations. The system and method comprise an in-memory associative array which manages a queue of vulnerability search tasks through a public-facing proxy network. The public-facing proxy network has search nodes configurable to present the network to search tools in a desired manner to control certain aspects of the search to obtain the desired results. A distributed data processing engine and cloud-based storage are used to provide scalable computing power and storage. Each of the cloud-based computing services is containerized and orchestrated for management and efficient scaling purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: QOMPLX LLC
    Inventors: Jason Crabtree, Joe Gray, Michael James, Richard Kelley, Andrew Sellers, Farooq Shaikh
  • Patent number: 11924311
    Abstract: A hybrid HTTP/UDP delivery protocol provides significant improvements for delivery of video and other content over a network, such as an overlay. The approach is especially useful to address problems (e.g., slow startup times, rebuffering, and low bitrates) for HTTP-based streaming. In general, the protocol has two phases: an HTTP phase, and a UDP phase. In the HTTP phase, the client sends an HTTP GET request to a server. The GET request contains a transport header informing the server that the client would like to use UDP-based transfer over the protocol. The server may refuse this mode and continue in ordinary HTTP mode, or the server may respond by sending an empty response with header information informing the client how to make the connection to enter the UDP phase. In the UDP phase, the client initiates a connection and receives the originally-requested content over UDP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Miroslav Ponec, Andrew Alness
  • Patent number: 11924273
    Abstract: Systems and methods directing requests to a particular node in a multi-tiered middleware environment are provided. In one embodiment, traffic requests can be dynamically routed to a desired server, and not be load balanced, based on an identification of the client generating the traffic requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Clayton Krueger, Phillip Schwesinger
  • Patent number: 11921725
    Abstract: A processing system of a node is operable to determine at least one query for execution, and determine a set of segments that include a set of rows required to execute the at least one query. At least one virtual segment in the set of segments is identified, and at least two data portions in the at least one virtual segment are identified. A locally rebuilt set of rows for the at least two data portions is generated by utilizing a recovery scheme. Query resultant data is generated based on performing execution of the at least one query by utilizing the locally rebuilt set of rows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Ocient Holdings LLC
    Inventors: George Kondiles, Daniel Coombs
  • Patent number: 11921590
    Abstract: A three-phase full quorum commit method enabling backing up of network devices that do not offer direct hooks in order to have application consistent protection. Devices are verified to be ready to perform a backup, and a condition of reaching and maintaining a full quorum of devices within a maximum time period is required before the system can be backed up. The three phase backup process reduces the chance of changes to network devices from corrupting consistency among the saved states of the different and disparate network devices. Multiple devices of different makes and models participate together as a unified backup as a network partition and all devices are verified as being in a ready state. The device configuration data is moved from device memory to local disk, and can then be tiered to secondary storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Adam Brenner, Mark Malamut, Arun Murti
  • Patent number: 11924510
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices relating to determining viewership data are described herein. In a method, viewing data associated with a household is received. A first portion of the viewing data is indicative of video programming associated with a first video device and a second portion of the viewing data is indicative of video programming associated with a second video device. One or more characteristics associated with the first and second portions of the viewing data are determined. Based on the one or more characteristics and a comparison of the respective video programming associated with the first and second video devices, it is determined that the first portion of the viewing data is duplicative, at least in part, with the second portion of the viewing data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Paul Whitely, Zhao Xing
  • Patent number: 11924144
    Abstract: A system for configuring a UE-AMBR includes a MME to send the UE-AMBR to an eNB covering the serving cell of the UE, the eNB covering the serving cell of the UE establishes a radio access bearer of the UE on at least one secondary cell. The MME sends an AMBR of the UE in the primary eNB covering the serving cell of the UE and an AMBR of the UE in a secondary eNB to the primary eNB. The primary eNB sends the AMBR of the secondary eNB to the corresponding secondary eNB. The technical solutions of the present disclosure can make total rate of all non-GBR services of the UE be not larger than the UE-AMBR when the UE has multiple S1 bearers or one S1 bearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong Wang, Lixiang Xu, Huarui Liang
  • Patent number: 11924521
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for providing delivery of content to client devices of a network via both multicast and unicast mechanisms. In one embodiment, a system for use in a managed content delivery network is described to bridge multicast to unicast, so that the total network bandwidth consumption is significantly lower than a corresponding unicast-only delivery solution, yet which still provides improved quality of service and user viewing experience as compared to a multicast-only delivery solution. In addition, various exemplary aspects of the present disclosure are readily adapted for real-time multicast to unicast streaming of audio and data to, among other things, minimize network bandwidth usage, while maintaining the guaranteed delivery of unicast streams with little or no modification to the existing client device logic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: TIME WARNER CABLE ENTERPRISES LLC
    Inventors: Tom Gonder, William L. Helms, Kenneth Gould, David Chen, John Chen, Jian Yu, Niem Dang, Vipul Patel
  • Patent number: 11915063
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a presentation mode for application programming interface functions. In one implementation, a first selection pertaining to one or more API functions of a plurality of API functions is received, via a user interface, wherein the first selection indicates an order of execution of the one or more API functions for a task. A second selection is received indicating a relationship between at least two of the API functions of the plurality of API functions. The relationship between the at least two API functions is set according to the second selection. The one or more API functions are caused, by the processing device, to be arranged according to the first selection. The one or more API functions are presented, via the user interface, arranged according to the first selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventors: Paolo Antinori, Eric Wittmann, Carles Arnal Castello
  • Patent number: 11915201
    Abstract: A server determines, during a conference implemented using conferencing software and based on stored data associated with two or more users participating in the conference, that the two or more users are accessing the conferencing software from separate user devices located in separate areas of an office premises. The server determines, by accessing stored conference room scheduling data of the office premises, that a conference room within the office premises is available for use by the two or more users. The server transmits, to each of the separate user devices, a prompt recommending that the two or more users further participate in the conference using a shared device configured to access the conferencing software within the conference room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: John Carl Kennedy, Shane Paul Springer
  • Patent number: 11916980
    Abstract: Various embodiments include systems and methods for providing an immersive three-dimensional group session. Various embodiments include methods and devices for signaling a description of a scene with media components potentially coming from different parties. In various aspects, a scene graph may be signaled through a session description protocol (SDP) during a session initiation protocol (SIP) session setup. In various embodiments, the scene graph may include respective graphical output nodes assigned to be controlled by each of the plurality of participant computing devices in an immersive three-dimensional group session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Imed Bouazizi, Nikolai Konrad Leung, Thomas Stockhammer
  • Patent number: 11915588
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a terminal worn by a user riding on a vehicle or a terminal on the vehicle, and an information processing apparatus. The terminal acquires position information. The information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire the position information acquired by the terminal as position information of the vehicle, and identify a first parking slot in which the vehicle is parked from the position information of a plurality of parking slots included in a parking lot and the position information of the vehicle. The terminal worn by the user or the terminal on the vehicle acquires the position information by using a first signal from a first satellite and a second signal from a second satellite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsuya Tsubakimoto, Tomohiro Hikosaka
  • Patent number: 11916984
    Abstract: System and methods for running conference applications before, during, and after a network conference. In an embodiment, a method is provided for running a conference application before joining a network conference. The method includes activating a client application, selecting a conference application from a plurality of conference applications, running the conference application from the client application before joining a network conference, and joining the network conference using the client application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Ross Douglas Mayfield, Yoshifumi Takebuchi
  • Patent number: 11914624
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing cluster workloads. A system including one or more processors, and non-transitory memory including instructions. When executed by the one or more processors, the instructions perform method steps. The method steps may include receiving a query from a user device. The method steps may also include parsing a table property from the query, determining that the parsed table property is associated with a stored table, and identifying at least one cluster from the plurality of clusters that include the stored table. The method steps may further include identifying an optimal cluster from the at least one cluster and sending the query to the optimal cluster for execution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: COUPANG CORP.
    Inventor: Rajorshi Sen
  • Patent number: 11915033
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are described for virtual machine communication and migration. A described technique includes operating server systems that are configured to run virtual machines and providing a virtual network for Internet Protocol (IP) based communications to the virtual machines. The virtual machines can be assigned network addresses, such as IP addresses, on the virtual network. Providing the virtual network can include using separate IP tunnels to effect delivery of IP packets on the virtual network to the virtual machines, respectively. The technique includes migrating a virtual machine running on a first server system to a second server system. The migrated virtual machine can maintain its assigned IP address. The technique includes updating a tunnel endpoint destination associated with the assigned IP address of the migrated virtual machine. The updated tunnel endpoint destination can be based on a network address associated with the second server system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Evan K. Anderson, Cristian Petrescu-Prahova, Joseph S. Beda, III
  • Patent number: 11916742
    Abstract: A method for managing a service function chain (SFC) includes obtaining, by a SFC orchestrator of a first domain, a SFC creation request for a SFC, in response to the SFC creation request: generating a domain participation list of a set of potential domains that may service the SFC creation request, sending a bid request to each of the set of potential domains, receiving bid responses from the set of potential domains, ranking the set of potential domains, sending a SFC placement request to a second domain of the set of potential domains based on the ranking, and obtaining a SFC placement response from the second domain, wherein the SFC placement response specifies success of SFC placement in the second domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
    Inventors: Julia Drummond Noce, Ana Cristina Bernardo de Oliveira, Anselmo Luiz Éden Battisti, Débora Christina Muchaluat Saade, Evandro Luiz Cardoso Macedo, Flávia Coimbra Delicato, Juan Lucas Do Rosário Vieira, Paulo de Figueiredo Pires, Marina Ivanov
  • Patent number: 11916993
    Abstract: A system designed for increasing network communication speed for users, while lowering network congestion for content owners and ISPs. The system employs network elements including an acceleration server, clients, agents, and peers, where communication requests generated by applications are intercepted by the client on the same machine. The IP address of the server in the communication request is transmitted to the acceleration server, which provides a list of agents to use for this IP address. The communication request is sent to the agents. One or more of the agents respond with a list of peers that have previously seen some or all of the content which is the response to this request (after checking whether this data is still valid).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: BRIGHT DATA LTD.
    Inventors: Derry Shribman, Ofer Vilenski
  • Patent number: 11917262
    Abstract: A method is performed by a first provider edge (PE) of a redundancy group including provider edges configured with an Ethernet virtual private network (EVPN) segment identifier (EVI) and an Ethernet segment identifier (ESI) and that are multi-homed to a customer edge (CE). The method includes, upon receiving from the CE a join request including a group address for a multicast stream, electing a designated forwarder (DF) for the multicast stream. The electing includes: computing for each PE a respective affinity for the DF as a function of a respective address of the PE, the EVI, and the group address; and determining which PE has a largest affinity. The method further includes, if the first PE has the largest affinity or does not have the largest affinity, configuring the first PE as the designated forwarder or not configuring the first PE as the designated forwarder for the multicast stream, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Ali Sajassi, Samir Thoria, Tapraj Singh, Mankamana Prasad Mishra
  • Patent number: 11916777
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a device obtains a first set of measurements of a path metric for a path in a network that are measured using periodic probing of the path. The device obtains a second set of measurements of the path metric for the path that are measured using fine-grained probing of the path at a higher frequency than that of the periodic probing. The device generates a predictive model that predicts values of the path metric, based on the first set of measurements and on the second set of measurements. The device causes, based on a value of the path metric predicted by the predictive model, traffic to be rerouted from the path to another path in the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Vasseur, Grégory Mermoud, Vinay Kumar Kolar, David Tedaldi, Pierre-André Savalle
  • Patent number: 11910474
    Abstract: In a multi-HSS domain, in which some HSSs support a custom route advance (RA) logic and others do not, a P-CSCF may receive a request for service from a UE associated with one of the HSSs, and send the request to an assigned S-CSCF (S-CSCF1) associated with the UE. Upon failing to receive a response from the S-CSCF1 within a preset time period, the P-CSCF may send the request to the I-CSCF. Based on information included in the request, the I-CSCF may discover an address of a second S-CSCF (S-CSCF2) from the associated HSS and sending the request to the S-CSCF2 based on the discovered address of the S-CSCF2, or send a message indicative of the requested service being unavailable to the P-CSCF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Saqib Badar, Shujaur Mufti
  • Patent number: 11907302
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method performs a search operation. One or more servers coupled in communication with a network, and comprising a processor, a data store, and a controller comprising a matching unit that is configured to access the data store. The matching unit is configured to receive a partial query term inputted into a displayed search access point at a remote computer, and to match the partial query term to the data store to create a list of match keywords. The matching unit is further configured to perform a relevancy process on the matched keywords. The matching unit is yet further configured to determine top matched keywords based upon the relevancy and send a listing of the top matched keywords, to be displayed adjacent the displayed search access point at the remote computer. The listing is configured to be changed based on a change to the partial query term.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ADMARKETPLACE
    Inventors: Adam J. Epstein, Michael Yudin, James Hill
  • Patent number: 11909733
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques for facilitating a credential-less exchange over a network using a plurality of identifier mapping and member interfaces. The techniques may include initiating the presentation of an enrollment user interface via a client device of a user and receiving selection data indicative of a selection of a service provider instrument from the enrollment user interface. The techniques include generating a matching code for authenticating the user, providing the matching code to a service provider platform, and receiving the matching code from a partner platform. In response to an authentication of the user based on the matching code, the techniques may include generating an UUEK for the user that may be used to replace persistent credentials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: 1080 Network, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Petersen, Tim Kuchlein
  • Patent number: 11907506
    Abstract: An illustrative virtual meeting management system associates a user device of a participant of a virtual meeting with a physical location from which the participant and one or more additional participants participate in the virtual meeting. The virtual meeting management system determines that the participant provides a user input via the user device during the virtual meeting. The user input indicates that the participant will speak. Based on the user input and the associating, the virtual meeting management system provides an active speaker indicator for presentation in a virtual meeting interface provided to one or more participants of the virtual meeting. The active speaker indicator specifies a participant identifier representative of the participant and a place identifier representative of the physical location from which the participant participates in the virtual meeting. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Ashish Nagpal, Krish Ramakrishnan, Satya Prakash Pati, Mahabaleshwar Bhat, Jaimin N Pancholi
  • Patent number: 11909806
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing resilient persistent connections for communication are disclosed. Methods include identifying, at a first device, a second device registered with a client connection service; obtaining, from the client connection service, a first resource identifier for delivering request messages to the second device via the client connection service; identifying, based on the obtained first resource identifier, a first target resource for a first request message directed to the second device, wherein the first target resource specifies a first host included in the client connection service; sending, to the client connection service via the data communication network, the first request message to the first target resource for delivery to the second device by the client connection service; and receiving, from the client connection service via the data communication network, a first response message provided by the second device as a response to the first request message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Rajeev Ranjan Pathak
  • Patent number: 11905012
    Abstract: A transport system identifies an attribute of a ground on the basis of sensing data obtained by sensing the ground in a transport destination area, which is performed in flight by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle transporting an article, and determines a region in the ground as an arrangement place of the article on the basis of the identified attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Nakazawa, Hiroaki Iwase
  • Patent number: 11909639
    Abstract: A system and method for management and processing of resource requests is provided. A content delivery network service provider receives a DNS query from a client computing device. The DNS query corresponds to a requested resource from the client computing device. The content delivery network service provider associates the client computing device with a cluster of other client computing devices. Based on routing information for the cluster, the content delivery network service provider routes the DNS query. The process can further include monitoring performance data associated with the delivery of the requested resource and updating the routing information for the cluster based on the performance data for use in processing subsequent requests from client computing devices in the cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David R. Richardson, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Bradley Eugene Marshall, Christopher L. Scofield, Elmore Eugene Pope
  • Patent number: 11909789
    Abstract: To enable clients to self-manage service issues for conferences on a bridge operated by a conference provider, there is provided a web based interface. Companies are provisioned in a client database as receiving client managed conference services instead of provider managed conference services. Users of the company or client of the Provider may log in to a web interface through a company or client specific URL and be presented with an interface that enables the user to view and perform management functions for conferences on a bridge that relate to that user only.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: INTRADO CORPORATION
    Inventors: William F. Krasso, Marcus Hurst, Alan Naumann, Kannan Panathula
  • Patent number: 11909662
    Abstract: Reservations of resources within a dynamic workspace are made and facilitated including by pushing configurations specific to a worker for whom a reservation is made to the resource for a limited time period for the reservation. When the worker arrives for the reservation and checks in, configurations associated with the worker are obtained and pushed to the resource to configure the resource for use by the worker for a time period of the reservation. In some cases, an identity of the worker may be verified to complete the check in process for the reservation. In response to an end time of the reservation being determined, such as based on a scheduled end time for the reservation or based on a determination that the resource has gone unused for some amount of time, the configurations are removed from the resource to prepare the resource for use by a next worker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Cynthia Eshiuan Lee, Harold David Moseley, Jeffrey William Smith
  • Patent number: 11910245
    Abstract: Systems and methods for transitioning a call between two devices are disclosed herein. An origin device for the call is determined based on a first position of an ultra-wideband (UWB) device. A destination device for the call is then determined based on a second position of the UWB device. The UWB device sends transition commands to both the origin device and the destination device, each transition command including an identifier of the other device. Using the identifier of the origin device, the destination device connects to the call the origin device is currently participating in. When the origin device detects that the destination device has connected to the call, the origin device disconnects from the call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Peter Andrew Matsimanis, Igor Gurovski, Pascal Alexander Bentioulis, Tahir Turan Caliskan, Per Ingemar Kristiansson, Per-Erik Bergstrom
  • Patent number: 11907173
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for exposing disparate storage systems and technologies to compute instances through a unified file system interface that is agnostic to the underlying storage systems and technologies. A file system namespace service may provide the ability to compose a file system from different storage technologies and systems (e.g., block storage, object storage, etc.). The file system namespace service may also provide the ability to layer different storage services (e.g., by treating local block storage volume as a write back cache, by treating a file system as a read-through cache in front of an object storage service, etc.), and/or the ability to bind virtual files to other compute instances and/or storage systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Kent Warfield, Jacob Wires
  • Patent number: 11909796
    Abstract: An electronic device for processing real-time-streaming-protocol (RTSP) packets in a network to provide enhanced video-on-demand (VOD) services is provided. The electronic device includes a user interface, a non-transitory memory configured to store instructions including an application layer gateway (ALG) module and network service software, and a hardware processor. The hardware processor is configured to execute the instructions to store a list of mac-bridge clients that includes a MAC address and a MAC mask corresponding to each mac-bridge client, and determine whether at least one of the source and destination MAC address of a received RTSP packet is on the list. When at least one of the source and destination MAC address is on the list, the RTSP packet is processed using the network service software and a next RTSP packet is received; otherwise, the received RTSP packet is processed using the ALG module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
    Inventors: Jinji Guo, Xing Feng, Jianming Liang, Feng Li, Yuping Dong
  • Patent number: 11907978
    Abstract: Subscription-based electric vehicle charging management methods and systems are provided. A server receives charging request with at least a user identification code from an electric vehicle charging station or a mobile device through a network. The server searches a database according to the user identification code to obtain contract situation corresponding to the user identification code and determines whether the contract situation is in a contract expiration status or an arrears unpaid status. When the contract situation is not in the contract expiration status or the arrears unpaid status, the server instructs the electric vehicle charging station to perform a charging operation. When the contract situation is in the contract expiration status or the arrears unpaid status, the server transmits a charging rejection instruction to the electric vehicle charging station. In response to the charging rejection instruction, the electric vehicle charging station rejects the charging request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NOODOE GROUP INC.
    Inventors: En-Yu Shih, Yu-Ting Liou, Yi-An Hou
  • Patent number: 11910491
    Abstract: A first data plane is established between a user equipment device and a gateway device, wherein the user equipment device comprises a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) user equipment device, and wherein the first data plane comprises a 3GPP data plane. A second data plane is established between the gateway device and an anchor device, wherein the second data plane comprises a Proxy Mobile Internet Protocol version 6 (PMIPv6) data plane. Mobility management is performed for the user equipment device via communications between the gateway device and the anchor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Srinath Gundavelli, Sangram Kishore Lakkaraju, Vimal Srivastava, Oliver James Bull
  • Patent number: 11902254
    Abstract: A computer-implement method comprises: selecting a trusted computing node via smart contract on a blockchain; completing remote attestation of the selected trusted computing node; writing secret information to an enclave of the selected node; causing a thin device to establish a private connection with the selected node without revealing the secret information; and causing the selected node to act as a proxy on the blockchain for the device. Another method comprises: receiving a signed device access request from a device owner; validating, by the verification node, the received request; executing, by a verification node, a smart contract on a blockchain based on the received request; and producing, based on the executed smart contract, an output command to access the device for the device to validate, decrypt and execute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: EZBLOCK LTD.
    Inventor: Rundong Huang
  • Patent number: 11902235
    Abstract: A server includes a processor and a memory storing a multiple channel message thread module with instructions executed by the processor to identify when participants at client devices are viewing a common message thread. An alternate channel communication prompt is supplied to the client devices. An alternate channel communication is delivered to the client devices in response to activation of the alternate channel communication prompt by at least one participant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SNAP INC.
    Inventors: Evan Spiegel, Robert Cornelius Murphy
  • Patent number: 11900409
    Abstract: Disclosed is a conversation management system that manages conversations about a content using blockchain technology. The content management system can use the blockchain technology to validate the conversations, and provide a content provider of the content a secured access to the validated conversations. The validation of the conversations can ensure that the conversations are not fake, e.g., provided by real people and not generated using bots. A conversation about the content is added as a block to the blockchain upon validation, and once added may not be modified, and therefore, the content provider may be assured that the conversation is secure and genuine. The content provider can use the knowledge obtained from the validated conversations in making future content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.
    Inventors: Nicholas Brandon Newell, Swapnil Anil Tilaye
  • Patent number: 11900936
    Abstract: An electronic device may capture a voice command from a user. The electronic device may store contextual information about the state of the electronic device when the voice command is received. The electronic device may transmit the voice command and the contextual information to computing equipment such as a desktop computer or a remote server. The computing equipment may perform a speech recognition operation on the voice command and may process the contextual information. The computing equipment may respond to the voice command. The computing equipment may also transmit information to the electronic device that allows the electronic device to respond to the voice command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Aram M. Lindahl
  • Patent number: 11902369
    Abstract: An autoencoder includes memory configured to store data including an encode network and a decode network, and processing circuitry coupled to the memory. The processing circuitry is configured to cause the encode network to convert inputted data to a plurality of values and output the plurality of values, batch-normalize values indicated by at least two or more layers of the encode network, out of the output plurality of values, the batch-normalized values having a predetermined average value and a predetermined variance value, quantize each of the batch-normalized values, and cause the decode network to decode each of the quantized values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Preferred Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Ken Nakanishi, Shinichi Maeda
  • Patent number: 11902138
    Abstract: A connection maintenance method for an Internet of Things (IoT) device is disclosed in the present invention. The connection maintenance method includes establishing a virtual connection between the IoT device and a server, receiving a connection maintenance request from the IoT device, obtaining an identification code of the IoT device according to the connection maintenance request, transmitting a paging signal to the IoT device by using a first cycle according to the connection maintenance request to confirm whether the IoT device is alive, and when it is confirmed that the IoT device is alive, generating and transmitting a heartbeat packet carrying the identification code to the server by using a second cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: GETAC TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shih-Tsan Lin
  • Patent number: 11895146
    Abstract: Provided is an infection-spreading attack detection system and method, as well as a program enabling an occurrence of an infection-spreading attack to be detected with high accuracy. A first feature amount is calculated based on traffic information on a packet transferred by a transfer device, and M partial address space(s) are identified to be a monitoring target based on the first feature amount. A second feature amount is calculated for each of the M partial address space(s) based on the traffic information related to the M partial address space(s). Abnormality detection determination is performed on each of the M partial address space(s) based on the second feature amount. Whether the infection-spreading attack has occurred is determined by evaluating M determination results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Inventors: Yukihiro Togari, Hiroaki Maeda, Hisashi Kojima, Takeshi Kuwahara
  • Patent number: 11895194
    Abstract: Some embodiments establish for an entity a virtual network over several public clouds of several public cloud providers and/or in several regions. In some embodiments, the virtual network is an overlay network that spans across several public clouds to interconnect one or more private networks (e.g., networks within branches, divisions, departments of the entity or their associated datacenters), mobile users, and SaaS (Software as a Service) provider machines, and other web applications of the entity. The virtual network in some embodiments can be configured to optimize the routing of the entity's data messages to their destinations for best end-to-end performance, reliability and security, while trying to minimize the routing of this traffic through the Internet. Also, the virtual network in some embodiments can be configured to optimize the layer 4 processing of the data message flows passing through the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: VMware LLC
    Inventors: Alex Markuze, Chen Dar, Aran Bergman, Israel Cidon, Prashanth Venugopal, Eyal Zohar
  • Patent number: 11895019
    Abstract: What is disclosed is tagging a first flow of a multi-tenant virtual private network (VPN) with a first tag. Continuously tracking, based on the first tag, the first flow of the multi-tenant VPN. Capturing one or more characteristics of the first flow of the multi-tenant VPN. Categorizing the first flow of the multi-tenant VPN based on the one or more characteristics of the first flow. Providing the categorization of the first flow to a first tenant of the multi-tenant VPN. Receiving, based on input from the first tenant and the categorization of the first flow, a first policy. Enforcing the first policy on the first flow based on the first tag of the first flow and the continuous tracking of the first flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: ALKIRA, INC.
    Inventors: Shreyas Heranjal, Robin James
  • Patent number: 11895206
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for including information in an invitation from a first to connect with a second user that identifies a context regarding how the first user found the second user. A system can include a request component configured to receive, at a first network source, information identifying a second user that a first user has selected to send an invitation to connect with at the first network source, a context component configured to determine a context regarding selection of the second user by the first user, including where the first user found the information identifying the second user, and a generation component configured to generate an invitation that invites the second user to connect with the first user at the first network source. The invitation comprises first user identification information and context information identifying the context regarding the selection of the second user by the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Michael Patrick Schneider, Justin Lewis
  • Patent number: 11888830
    Abstract: The techniques herein are directed generally to a “zero-knowledge” data management network. Users are able to share verifiable proof of data and/or identity information, and businesses are able to request, consume, and act on the data—all without a data storage server or those businesses ever seeing or having access to the raw sensitive information (where server-stored data is viewable only by the intended recipients, which may even be selected after storage). In one embodiment, source data is encrypted with a source encryption key (e.g., source public key), with a rekeying key being an encrypting combination of a source decryption key (e.g., source private key) and a recipient's public key. Without being able to decrypt the data, the storage server can use the rekeying key to re-encrypt the source data with the recipient's public key, to then be decrypted only by the corresponding recipient using its private key, accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: JOURNEY.AI
    Inventors: Brett Shockley, Alexander John Shockley, Michael Joseph Frendo, Shmuel Shaffer, Kenneth Keiter, James M. Behmke
  • Patent number: 11887593
    Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a first network node (140) in a wireless communications network (100), for handling media channels during an ongoing media session. The ongoing media session is a session comprising a first UE (120), a second UE (121) and the first network node (140). The first network node (140) obtains, from the first UE (120), a voice instruction comprising a keyword for invoking a third party service within the media session. The first network node (140) further detects the keyword for invoking the third party service within the media session. The first network node (140) modifies, based on the detection of the keyword, a media channel between the first network node (140) and the second UE (121) to be silent. The first network node (140) further modifies, based on the detection of the keyword, a media channel between the first network node (140) and a third party network device (150) to be unsilent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Debashish Pattnaik, Erqun Sun, Charles Hegarty