Structured Document (e.g., Html, Sgml, Oda, Cda, Etc.) Patents (Class 715/234)
  • Patent number: 9965451
    Abstract: In one embodiment, there is provided a method for rendering a web page. The method comprises parsing a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) document for a web page to generate a Document Object Model (DOM) tree. The method further comprises rendering elements in the DOM tree in a higher-to-lower sequence based on their z-index attributes from a style sheet corresponding to the HTML document. The method further comprises skipping rendering for an element with a lower z-index attribute than an element with a higher z-index attribute if the element with the lower z-index attribute is below the element with the higher z-index attribute and would not be seen by a user viewing the web page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Xiang Zhou
  • Patent number: 9965492
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for using location aliases. In some implementations, a query is received, and a user that submitted the query is identified. It can be determined that one or more terms of the query represent an alias for a user-specific geographical location that has not been designated for the identified user. In response, a prompt can be provided to the user to specify a geographical location corresponding to the one or more query terms, data indicating a geographical location is received, and data is stored that indicates that, for the identified user, the one or more terms are an alias for the geographical location. One or more search results responsive to the query are provided, where the alias corresponds to the geographical location input in response to the prompt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Bo Wang, Omer Bar-or, Pravir K. Gupta, Yang Gao, Nitin Mangesh Shetti
  • Patent number: 9965545
    Abstract: An illustrative embodiment includes processing parse tree data. A parse tree data structure that is representative of a document object model (DOM) tree data structure is received. Concomitant to receiving the parse tree data structure, an assignment of index values for the DOM nodes consisting of distinct index values for each existing DOM node is received by the processor. Requests to manipulate the parse tree data structure that include node inserts and document order comparisons are also performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: John M. Boyer
  • Patent number: 9959338
    Abstract: An illustrative embodiment includes processing parse tree data. A parse tree data structure that is representative of a document object model (DOM) tree data structure is received. Concomitant to receiving the parse tree data structure, an assignment of index values for the DOM nodes consisting of distinct index values for each existing DOM node is received by the processor. Requests to manipulate the parse tree data structure that include node inserts and document order comparisons are also performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: John M. Boyer
  • Patent number: 9961537
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication device, an information processing method, and a recording medium for the same. The wireless communication device according to the invention a checking section for checking ID information, set to a communication network by automatic setting or user's selection setting, of communication network IDs of one or more communication network devices accessible by the wireless communication device at current place, and checking a web address for a place corresponding to the checked network ID; and a processing section for changing a web address, for an output object, pre-set on a web browser program into the web address for the place corresponding to the checked network ID while interlocking with the web browser program equipped in the wireless communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: INFOBANK CORP.
    Inventors: Jun ho Jang, Tae hyung Park
  • Patent number: 9959577
    Abstract: A document capture system may automatically capture documents and/or financial information for a user. The document capture system may capture and save documents a user views in a web browser. A user may visit various web sites to view financial data and a document capture plug-in module installed in the web browser may capture or save the viewed document. The document capture system may capture financial data while the user is visiting web sites normally—that is, not just when the user if visiting them particularly to collect financial data. The document capture system may be configured to automatically detect when the user views certain documents and may be configured to continually monitor the user's web activity in order to capture financial documents whenever the user visits certain sites. The document capture system may include a list of URLs representing web sites or documents that should be automatically captured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventor: Kenichi Mori
  • Patent number: 9959176
    Abstract: Systems and methods for failure recovery in shared storage operations. An example method comprises: acquiring a lock with respect to a storage domain comprising a specified disk image; creating a transaction marker associated with the disk image; creating a component of a new volume associated with the disk image; destroying the transaction marker; and releasing the lock with respect to the storage domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Red Hat Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Litke, Nir Soffer, Liron Aravot
  • Patent number: 9959099
    Abstract: Methods and system are disclosed that instantiate an on demand functionality for a layer in a multilayered system. In one aspect, a framework integrated with the multilayered system may receive a request to create a root function. The root function may be associated with common functionalities or specific functionalities. Based on parameters associated with the layers and attributes associated with data flow paths between the layers, a layer to deploy the root function may be determined. Upon deploying the root function, sub functions may be created in the determined layer by the framework. The sub functions may be configured common functionalities or specific functionalities by the framework. A function model including the root function and the sub functions may be generated. The function model may be instantiated to provide an on demand functionality or an on demand application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Wenli Zhang, Anil Samudrala
  • Patent number: 9954860
    Abstract: In one example, a proxy server acts as a gateway to a website and modifies the traffic between a web browser on a user device and the website server, as necessary to request protection by providing step-up authentication and/or transaction verification. The proxy server blocks transactions when protection is required but has not occurred (either because the authentication was not proper or due to the detection of another problem). Associated methods and systems are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Entrust, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher D. Wood, Michael Holtstrom, Roland Thomas Lockhart, Murray McCulligh, Serge Jean Maurice Mister, Greg Wetmore
  • Patent number: 9953007
    Abstract: Methods, systems and program products for generating content from a user-created template. Embodiments of the invention may provide an interface configured to allow users to create templates, where the templates further include a user-specified formatting. Embodiments may receive a template created by a user using the provided interface, and responsive to receiving the template, may retrieve data associated with the variable fields in the received template. Embodiments may generate new content based on the received template and the retrieved data, where the generated new content is formatted according to the user-specified formatting in the received template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Randy E. Oyarzabal, Jeffery A. Turner
  • Patent number: 9946439
    Abstract: A display device includes a storage storing a plurality of rules including first and second rules, a designator that designates one rule of the plurality of rules, and a controller that causes a screen to transition from one screen to another screen in accordance with the one rule. The first rule includes a rule that causes a screen to transition from a first screen to a second screen in response to a user's first action, and a rule that causes a screen to transition from the first screen to a third screen in response to a user's second action. The second rule includes a rule that causes a screen to transition from the first screen to the second screen in response to a user's third action, and a rule that causes a screen to transition from the second screen to the third screen in response to the user's third action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yuta Yamanoi, Akira Kubo, Kouta Wada, Masahiro Muraoka
  • Patent number: 9948744
    Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: generating a first mobile device fingerprint of a mobile device and associating the first mobile device fingerprint to an identifier, and generating a second mobile device fingerprint of the mobile device and associating the second mobile device fingerprint to a MAC address of a mobile device. The methods, computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: receiving a first mobile device fingerprint of a mobile device and an identifier associated to the first mobile device fingerprint; receiving a second mobile device fingerprint of the mobile device and a MAC address associated to the second mobile device fingerprint; and associating received data received from the mobile device to the identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael R. Billau, John K. Gerken, III, Jeremy A. Greenberger, Ciaran E. Hannigan
  • Patent number: 9946768
    Abstract: Optimizing data rendering includes, in one embodiment, using templates to express a data request as a set of queries where each query in the set is prioritized based on, among other things, context factors such as capabilities of the requesting device, network factors, and user context. After generating the set of queries, each query in the set of queries is then executed to progressively populate the template with the requested data. As the queries are executing, the templates are progressively rendered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Giambalvo, Leonard M. Kawell, Timothy R. Sullivan, Benjamin Vanik, Brett D. Brewer
  • Patent number: 9942218
    Abstract: A compliance application automatically produces certification controls by translating framework controls. The framework controls are common certification controls used in production of the certification. The application retrieves framework controls including metadata from a compliance framework data store. Metadata of the framework controls map the framework controls to the certification. In addition, the application retrieves certification parity data associated with the metadata. Certification controls are produced based on the framework controls and the certification parity data. A view of the certification including the certification controls is provided to a customer requesting the certification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: David Nunez Tejerina, Shawn Veney, Melissa Rodriguez, Gregory Roberts, Arthur J. Schwab
  • Patent number: 9940580
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium for performing cognitive computing operations comprising receiving streams of data from a plurality of data sources; processing the streams of data from the plurality of data sources, the processing the streams of data from the plurality of data sources performing data enriching for incorporation into a cognitive graph; defining a cognitive persona within the cognitive graph, the cognitive persona corresponding to an archetype user model, the cognitive persona comprising a set of nodes in the cognitive graph, links among the set of nodes being weighted to provide a weighted cognitive graph; associating a user with the cognitive persona; and, performing a cognitive computing operation based upon the cognitive persona associated with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: COGNITIVE SCALE, INC.
    Inventors: John N. Faith, Kyle W. Kothe
  • Patent number: 9940316
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus to further improve convenience for a user, the information processing apparatus including: an update detection unit configured to detect update of presented information presented to a user during execution of an application; an interest data extraction unit configured to extract interest data that includes at least information accompanying the presented information whose update has been detected and is information on a target in which the user is interested during execution of the application; an input context detection unit configured to detect input context indicating a processing status of input information using the application, the input information being attempted to be inputted during execution of the application; and an input information candidate presentation unit configured to perform, on the basis of the input context, control to present input information candidates that are candidates of the input information among the interest data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ken Miyashita, Tomohisa Tanaka, Jun Kimura, Osamu Ooba
  • Patent number: 9940315
    Abstract: In a method for managing modifications to elements of a website, receiving one or more modifications to an element of a first webpage, wherein the first webpage is a member of a website. The method further includes determining one or more webpages that include one or more instances of the modified element of the first webpage, wherein the determined one or more webpages are members of the website. The method further includes mapping a location for each of the one or more instances of the modified element within a respective webpage of the determined one or more webpages. The method further includes rendering at least a portion of the determined one or more webpages, wherein the rendered portion of the determined one or more webpages includes the location of the corresponding instance of the modified element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nicholas A. Baldwin, Mark C. Hampton, Stefan A. Hepper, Eric Martinez de Morentin
  • Patent number: 9942198
    Abstract: A host computer supports a virtual guest system running thereon. The host system has a firewall that prevents it from communicating directly with the Internet, except with predetermined trusted sites. The virtual guest runs on a hypervisor, and the virtual guest comprises primarily a browser program that is allowed to contact the Internet freely via an Internet access connection that is completely separate from the host computer connection, such as a dedicated network termination point with its specific Internet IP address, or by tunneling through the host machine architecture to reach the Internet without exposing the host system. The virtual guest system is separated and completely isolated by an internal firewall from the host, and the guest cannot access any of the resources of the host computer, except that the guest can initiate cut, copy and paste operations that reach the host, and the guest can also request print of documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: L3 TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Robert B. Hoy, Mark Fenkner, Sean W. Farren
  • Patent number: 9942600
    Abstract: Displaying art work or thumbnail images representative of movies, television (TV) programs/episodes and other media content is an appealing and often intuitive way of displaying available media content in a media content browser. However, computer displayable cover art is not necessarily available for all titles. For example, an older movie may not have computer displayable cover art because at the time the movie title was made available it was not anticipated that the movie title might be selectable through a media browser. After considering this description one will understand how the features of various implementations are configured to enable various systems, methods and devices to create computer displayable cover art or thumbnail images for media titles to be displayed by a media browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Vincent Dureau, Nathan Leslie Sandland
  • Patent number: 9934328
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium for performing cognitive computing operations comprising receiving streams of data from a plurality of data sources; processing the streams of data from the plurality of data sources, the processing the streams of data from the plurality of data sources performing data enriching for incorporation into a cognitive graph; defining a cognitive persona within the cognitive graph, the cognitive persona corresponding to an archetype user model, the cognitive persona comprising a set of nodes in the cognitive graph; associating a user with the cognitive persona; defining a cognitive profile within the cognitive graph, the cognitive profile comprising an instance of the cognitive persona that references personal data associated with the user; associating the user with the cognitive profile; and, performing a cognitive computing operation based upon the cognitive profile associated with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: COGNITIVE SCALE, INC.
    Inventors: John N. Faith, Kyle W. Kothe
  • Patent number: 9928309
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for managing content on at least two devices. An interface provides a listing of content, such as multimedia files, stored on devices such as a personal computer and/or mobile device. Indicators associated with a content item indicate whether or not associated content is stored on the respective devices. Selection of an indicator may result in copying of files from one device to another, deletion of a media file from a respective device, and/or downloading a file from a location remote from either or both devices to a respective device. Indicators may be updated to reflect the completion of copying, deletion, and/or downloading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Craig Pugsley, Jonathan Davies
  • Patent number: 9928244
    Abstract: An electronic document classification system disclosed herein classifies electronic documents. The classification of the documents may involve analyzing the document and the information attached to the document to generate a set of classification data and comparing the classification data with one or more classification rules to generate a set of classifying data. The system attaches the set of classifying data to the electronic document and displays the electronic document based on the set of classifying data. The classification data may also be used to prioritize the electronic documents and to assign a retention period to the electronic documents. The system is further adapted to receive user feedback regarding the classification of the electronic document and to update the classification rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: INTEGRO, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher A. McHenry, Scott W. Burt
  • Patent number: 9928289
    Abstract: A method for storing XML data into a relational database, including the following steps: splitting an XML Schema into one or more mapping configuration files, each mapping configuration file corresponding to a relational database table; parsing an XML text, and according to the associative relationship in the mapping configuration files, inserting the data in the XML text into the multiple relational database tables; and accessing the database to read the data in the XML text. The method stores XML file data into a relational database, and accelerates data reading and access speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: BORQS WIRELESS LTD.
    Inventor: Song Bi
  • Patent number: 9922070
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to maintaining consistency in a content management system. A content management system generally includes a transactional database for storing content metadata and a non-transactional data repository for storing content. According to one embodiment, a content management system generates a set of content identifiers. The content management system receives a request to upload content to the content management system. Upon receiving the request, the content management system associates the content with a content identifier from the set of content identifiers and generates a name for the content from the content identifier. The content management system stores the content, with the generated name, in a non-transactional data repository and persists metadata related to the content in a transactional data store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Roger G. Bacalzo, Robert M. Kreuch, Michael R. C. Seaman
  • Patent number: 9922013
    Abstract: Systems and methods for in-context editing of web pages in which the production format of a web page is visible while the web page is being edited, and the editable image is not distorted by the editing tools. In one embodiment, a system includes a server computer, a client computer and a transmission channel coupled between them. The server computer receives a request for a web page from the client computer and responsively transmits a web page containing in-context editing tools to the client computer. The client computer operate alternately in a first mode in which the in-context editing tools are superimposed on a web page image, or a second mode in which the web page image is displayed, but the in-context editing tools are hidden. The tools overlay in the first mode does not alter the production format of the web page image as displayed in the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Open Text SA ULC
    Inventors: Bertrand G. Le Bescond de Coatpont, Ruhul Alam, Mario L. Garcia
  • Patent number: 9922006
    Abstract: Techniques are described for promoting content items in a page to load in a different order than the order in which they were initially designated to load in the page source. A page may include critical content items designated to load earlier than non-critical content items. In instances where there is a delay due to latency in generating or retrieving the critical content items, one or more non-critical content items may be promoted to load earlier than initially designated. Promotion may include incorporating metadata based priority indicators, such as attributes, into the tags for content items to suggest an order in which the content items may be requested by a user device. By promoting non-critical content items to load during the period in which the loading of the page may otherwise be stalled, overall page load times may be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Jeremy Boynes
  • Patent number: 9922012
    Abstract: A first nonextensible schema is obtained, based on the first nonextensible schema, a compact syntax regular language for XML next generation (RNC) file. A regular language for XML next generation (RNG) file can be generated based on the RNC file. Based on the RNG file, a second (core) nonextensible schema and a first (core) extensible schema can be generated. An extensible (extension) schema and a nonextensible (extension) schema can also be generated. The extensible (extension) schema and the nonextensible (extension) schema can be plugged into the RNG file. The RNG file can be regenerated with the plugins, and a third nonextensible schema and a second extensible schema can be generated based on the regenerated RNG file. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Genneva Wang, John Mitchell, Kaushik Macherla, Yvonne Wang
  • Patent number: 9923945
    Abstract: A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes generating a key associated with a virtual asset associated with content to be provided to a client device, where the key indicates at least one parameter for accessing the content; generating the virtual asset; receiving a request for the content; identifying a format being requested for the content; using the virtual asset to identify common format content to be retrieved and to identify the key; using the key to retrieve the common format content; and transforming the common format content such that it can be delivered to the client device in the format that was requested.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Mahesh Vittal Viveganandhan, Eric Colin Friedrich, Matthew Francis Caulfield, Carol Etta Iturralde, Scott C. Labrozzi
  • Patent number: 9922131
    Abstract: Within a graphical user interface, a window may be spawned at one point in time and then populated with content at a later point in time. By execution of browser-executable code by a user's device and corresponding server-side code by a machine, a pop-under window may be spawned by the user's device. The spawned pop-under window may be initially hidden by the user's browser window and may be initially loaded with no content or default content. The device may monitor the graphical user interface for search criteria submitted by the user and update the spawned pop-under window based on such search criteria. If the user exits the webpage, and if rules allow presentation of a pop-under window, the pop-under window may be updated by the device for presentation to the user. Based on interest or lack of interest in the updated content, the user may revisit the website.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Hipmunk, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Julian Goldstein, Steven Ladd Huffman, Seth Satoshi Sakamoto, Ryan James Schwers, Christopher Brian Slowe, Niranjan Ramadas
  • Patent number: 9921892
    Abstract: A document having one or more content items is presented in a web browser to a user. A user input to select a content item in the displayed document and a transfer request to transfer the selected content item to the system clipboard are received. In response to the received transfer request, the content item is transformed in an editing surface embedded in the document from a source format of the content item into a target format compatible with the system clipboard. The content item transformed into the target format can then be transferred to the system clipboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Paul McDonald, Eric Bailey
  • Patent number: 9916218
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for intercepting implanted information in an application. The method comprises: determining an Application Programming interface API invoked by an implanted information code as a key API in accordance with information collected in advance, wherein the key API is the API provided by an implanted information provider; after starting a target application, monitoring an act of the target application invoking the key API by hooking the key API; and if the target application initiates a request to invoke the key API, determining that the implanted information code is contained in the target application and intercepting the request to invoke the key API so as to stop the implanted information code from running and to realize the interception of the implanted information in the target application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Beijing Qihoo Technology Company Limited
    Inventor: Jie Chen
  • Patent number: 9910576
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for editing multimedia content, the multimedia content comprising a demonstration of actions performed in utilizing a computer application, the computer application having an “undo” history, the method comprising the steps of: receiving an “undo” history from the computer application; detecting an indication of an action being removed from the “undo” history; adding an end marker to a timeline associated with the multimedia content at a time corresponding to such detection; adding a start marker to said timeline at a time corresponding to the action which was removed from the “undo” history; and removing a portion of the multimedia content corresponding to that located between the start marker and the end marker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Edwin P. J. Moffatt, Richard W. Pilot, Luke P. Staddon
  • Patent number: 9910847
    Abstract: A plurality of documents in each of a plurality of languages can be received. A Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) index can be created from the plurality of documents. A language classification model can be trained from the LSI index. A document to be identified by language can be received. A vector in the LSI index can be generated for the document to be identified by language. The vector can be evaluated against the language classification model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: ACCENTURE GLOBAL SERVICES LIMITED
    Inventor: Mark Bittmann
  • Patent number: 9910928
    Abstract: A system and method for enhancing a lazy loading operation is disclosed. The system and method, in general, retrieves a plurality of subsets of a dataset via the lazy loading operation and increments a counter for each of the plurality of subsets retrieved by the processor. Then, the system and method detects a first event that navigates away from the retrieving of the plurality of subsets and also detects a second event that navigates back to the retrieving of the plurality of subsets. Next, the system and method returns to the retrieving of the plurality of subsets in accordance with the counter in response to the detecting of the second event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Denise A. Bell, Lisa Seacat Deluca, David J. Levinson, Randa Salem
  • Patent number: 9906423
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards employing a plurality of tag states to control tag suspension based on an asynchronous process that proactively monitors tag performance, response times, and latency. Tags may be in one of multiple states. Tags in a NORMAL state or a FLAGGED state may be enabled for deployment, and tags in a SUSPENSION A state or a SUSPENSION B state may be blocked from deployment. A tag's state may change based on monitoring the tag's latency to determine if latent events occur. Tag latency may be asynchronously monitored independent of web page requests. If latent events occur, then the tag's state may change from NORMAL to FLAGGED, from FLAGGED to SUSPENSION A, or from SUSPENSION B to SUSPENSION_A. If non-latent events occur, then the tag's state may change from SUSPENSION B to FLAGGED or from FLAGGED to NORMAL, while a tag's state may change from SUSPENSION_A to SUSPENSION_B after a predetermined time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: BLUE KAI, INC.
    Inventors: David Abraham Wiener, Dossel Obrian Reid, Jr., David Scott Gardner
  • Patent number: 9904711
    Abstract: An information provision device according to one embodiment includes an acquisition unit, a counting unit, and a presentation unit. The acquisition unit refers to data containing a location of a facility, a comment posted by a user of the facility, and a date of use of the facility by the user in association with one another, and acquires a set of an area where the facility is located, a keyword extracted from the comment, and a period corresponding to the date of use. The counting unit counts the number of sets in each time during a specified period for each pair of the area and the keyword and thereby obtains a distribution of the number. The presentation unit outputs information about the pair having a burst time where the number is larger than in other times by a specified criterion or more, in association with the burst time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventor: Soh Masuko
  • Patent number: 9898543
    Abstract: A system and method for enhancing a lazy loading operation is disclosed. The system and method, in general, retrieves a plurality of subsets of a dataset via the lazy loading operation and increments a counter for each of the plurality of subsets retrieved by the processor. Then, the system and method detects a first event that navigates away from the retrieving of the plurality of subsets and also detects a second event that navigates back to the retrieving of the plurality of subsets. Next, the system and method returns to the retrieving of the plurality of subsets in accordance with the counter in response to the detecting of the second event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Denise A. Bell, Lisa Seacat Deluca, David J. Levinson, Randa Salem
  • Patent number: 9898524
    Abstract: Generating a wizard includes receiving a scheme as an input source to form a received scheme, wherein the received scheme is a taxonomy, receiving a defined set of content files to form received content files, and loading the received content files and the received scheme. The received content files can be tagged using the received scheme. A wizard can be generated using the received scheme. The generated wizard is capable of use with an application utilizing the scheme, wherein a change in the received scheme is directly represented in the generated wizard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Deirdre S. Longo, Jenifer Schlotfeldt, Michael F. Priestley, Wen Ke Xue, Yi Yan Zhou
  • Patent number: 9898446
    Abstract: Browser systems and methods of loading/rendering a webpage include preprocessing the web document (HTML page) using speculation/prediction techniques to identify the resources that are likely to be required from an incomplete set of information, and requesting/pre-fetching the resources that are determined to have a high probability of being required for proper rending of the web document. The speculation/prediction techniques may include the use of heuristics to improve the efficiency and speed of document loads and network communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael Weber, Pablo Montesinos Ortego, Mark S. Fowler
  • Patent number: 9892103
    Abstract: Techniques and systems for assisting an author in creating content for social media (e.g., blog posts, microblogs, tweets, etc.) are disclosed, wherein hints are provided to the author as a function of social media stored in a social media knowledge store. Social media is collected and stored in a social media knowledge store according to some criteria. Upon the happening of some predetermined event, for example, relevant information is retrieved from the social media knowledge store. The relevancy of information may be a function of editing context (provided by the author) and/or social media behavior, for example. The relevant information may be translated into hints that provide an author with suggestions and/or corrections, for example. This information is provided to the author through a social media environment (e.g., an authoring tool) that may be also be capable of receiving input from the author and outputting editing context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Dragos Manolescu, Matthew F. Hurst
  • Patent number: 9892205
    Abstract: An arrangement for enabling declarative show and hide animations in web-based applications is provided in which expando attributes associated with HTML elements are utilized to define CSS level 3 (“C553”) animations that are executed when an element is shown or hidden. A set of utility functions, which wrap standard DOM (Document Object Model) element methods supported in JavaScript, are employed to show, hide, add, and remove elements from the DOM tree and invoke an algorithm when used. The algorithm traverses the DOM tree for HTML elements that have the show and hide expando attributes and automatically executes the associated animations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventor: Mark Leece
  • Patent number: 9892528
    Abstract: Systems and processes are described below relating to evaluating a dependency graph having one or more temporally dependent variables. The temporally dependent variables may include variables that may be used to evaluate the dependency graph at a frame other than that at which the temporally dependent variable was evaluated. One example process may include tracking the temporal dirty state for each temporally dependent variable using a temporal dependency list. This list may be used to determine which frames, if any, should be reevaluated when a request to evaluate a dependency graph for a particular frame is received. This advantageously reduces the amount of time and computing resources needed to reevaluate a dependency graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: DreamWorks Animation L.L.C.
    Inventors: Alexander P. Powell, Alex M. Wells
  • Patent number: 9886518
    Abstract: Disclosed is a programming paradigm that integrates programming language constructs with markup language constructs in a document. Processing of the body of a tag in the markup language constructs produces output. A function or method associated with the tag may be invoked, including providing as input to the function or method the output from tag processing the body of the first tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: MyEzApp Inc.
    Inventor: Sichun Xu
  • Patent number: 9886431
    Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for interleaving XForms with JSF request processing can be provided. The system can include an XForms definition generated for a form configured for rendering in a Web application. Specifically, the XForms definition can specify a data model for data to be processed within the form. The system further can include a JSF code generation module programmed to process the forms model to produce a form bean, a faces configuration, and a JSF page for each navigable view defined in the XForms definition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Derek W. Carr, Carol A. Jones, Ajamu A. Wesley, Cesar A. Wong
  • Patent number: 9888056
    Abstract: A cloud service stores and aggregates content that is obtained from different content sources using different protocols. For example, the content may include electronic messages, calendar information, contacts, social network content, feed data, search results, and the like. The cloud service aggregates content for each user based on the user's configuration settings. The cloud service may perform processing on the aggregated content before it is delivered and displayed to the user on the client device. For example, one or more views may be generated and stored by the cloud service before the view is requested from the client. Changes made to the aggregated content on the client may be synchronized with the content source. Searches may be made across all or a portion of the different content sources that are aggregated for a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan LeCroy, Gurashish Brar, Joe Yap, Victor Wang, Umut Alev, Vamsi Kanamaluru, Dmitri Gavrilov, Tali Roth, Aditi Desai, Mike Borysenko, Ethan Bernstein, Patrick Tousignant, Fernando Garcia
  • Patent number: 9882928
    Abstract: A system for providing secure browsing via a transparent network proxy is disclosed. The system may receive, from a client, a request to access a resource. The request may include an identifier that may be utilized to locate the resource. Once the request is received, the system may determine if the resource is not trusted, such as if the identifier is determined to be unknown or suspicious. If the resource is determined to not be trusted by the system, the system may forward the request to a virtual machine manager that may select a browser virtual machine from a pool of browser virtual machines. After the browser virtual machine is selected, the browser virtual machine may stream a rendering of the resource to the client based on the request. The rendering of the resource may be provided in lieu of the actual resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Paul Giura, Jeffrey E. Bickford, Donald E. Hendrix, Howard F. Shirokmann, Thomas A. Anschutz, Ching C. Shih
  • Patent number: 9880981
    Abstract: In an embodiment of the invention, a method for error handling during document processing is provided. The method includes receiving a well-defined document as input to a computer program executing in memory of a computer, parsing the well-defined document and validating the well-defined document as conforming with a defined plan for the well-defined document, and responsive to detecting an error during parsing and validating, permitting use of the well-defined document to proceed notwithstanding the detected error if enough of the well-defined document conforms to the defined plan to satisfy programmatic input needs of the computer program, but otherwise terminating use of the well-defined document in the computer program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tim Dunn, Oliver Wynn
  • Patent number: 9880726
    Abstract: A method is provided for displaying an electronic document having a first portion visible on a graphical user interface (GUI) rendered on a touch panel of an electronic device, and a second hidden portion accessible through a scrolling input received on said touch panel. The method includes receiving a scrolling input on the touch panel from a user to access the second hidden portion, retrieving from the second hidden portion of the electronic document a subportion smaller than the touch panel in the scrolling direction, based on the received scrolling input, and scrolling the electronic document to display the subportion in response to the scrolling input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventor: Hyacinthe Briand
  • Patent number: 9871796
    Abstract: A system for collaborating on a component a first multi-user CAx environment including a data module. The first multi-user CAx environment corresponds to a first profile. The data module is configured to access data relating to a component design in a database. The database relates to a group of function-based commands. A synchronization module is configured to cause the data module to access at least one work area relating to the component design according to one of at least three access levels when at least one predetermined criterion is met, and another one of the at least three access levels when the at least one predetermined criterion is not met. A method for designing a component is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: William A. Sowa, Charles Gregory Jensen
  • Patent number: 9870184
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a first filter configured to merge first print setting information of a first hierarchical level and second print setting information of a second hierarchical level to generate and store third print setting information, wherein the second hierarchical level is lower than the first hierarchical level; and a second filter subsequent to the first filter configured to acquire the third print setting information stored in the first filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Keiji Kawasaki