Hierarchy Or Network Structure Patents (Class 715/853)
  • Patent number: 11243682
    Abstract: Provided herein are method, apparatus, and computer program products for facilitating capture and play back of interface event data. One exemplary method may comprise providing, as a function of at least profile data, environmental data, transaction data, relevance data, and implicit data derived therefrom, a dynamic application environment, displaying the dynamic application environment on an dynamic application interface, capturing interface event data, the interface event data being based on user interaction with the dynamic application interface, and comprising of one or more interface events and a particular time at which each of the one or more interface events occurred, providing data to the play back device configured for initializing a play back environment, such that the play back environment receives the interface event data and performs play back, and outputting the one or more interface events in a relative time to the particular time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
    Inventor: Martin Eric Hyche
  • Patent number: 11244023
    Abstract: A method includes storing a plurality of content items and storing one or more associations. Each of the associations includes an association between exactly two of the content items. The method may also include causing a graphical user interface (GUI) to be presented on an electronic device. The GUI may include a first representation of a first content item, a list of representations comprising a second representation of a second content item and a third representation of a third content item, a first visual indicator indicating a first association between the first content item and the second content item, and a second visual indicator indicating a second association between the first content item and the third content item. The method may also include receiving a user input comprising an instruction to create an additional association between the first content item and the second content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Beverly Marie Rasmussen, Leonard Stewart, James L. Babin, Tazio Stephan Grivetti, Charles Todd Farwell, Willibald Gustav Berlinger
  • Patent number: 11237704
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and client terminals for displaying user specified information of a data item. The method includes determining a user operation associated with a target data item on a data item display page; obtaining item information of the target data item from at least one data source when an instruction satisfying a preset trigger condition; determining user specified information of the target data item based on the item information; generating an information interface based on the user specified information; and displaying the information interface on the data item display page. The methods, apparatus, and client terminals, provided in example embodiments of the present application can lower the cost of decision making based on information noise reduction, optimize user data item information interactive experience, and improve user data item purchasing experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Inventor: Xiaoyan Hu
  • Patent number: 11231909
    Abstract: A selected location of a design view of a graphical user interface (GUI) generated using a design application may be received and used to identify a corresponding location for the selected location within an implementation view of the GUI. By mapping code of the GUI for the corresponding location to the selected location, using a validation language that relates the code to the design language, a difference between the selected location and the corresponding location may be identified. In this way, design validation may occur in a fast, automated, and reliable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventors: Vickramaditya Dhawal, Swagatam Mitra, Rajnish Bharti
  • Patent number: 11232502
    Abstract: An augmented reality-based lighting design method includes displaying, by an augmented reality device, a real-time image of a target physical area on a display screen. The method further includes displaying, by the augmented reality device, a lighting fixture 3-D model on the display screen in response to a user input, where the lighting fixture 3-D model is overlaid on the real-time image of the target physical area. The method also includes generating, by the augmented reality device, a bill of materials (BOM) that includes a lighting fixture corresponding to the lighting fixture 3-D model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Nam Chin Cho, Parth Joshi, William Thomas Cook, Christopher Lee Bohler
  • Patent number: 11226604
    Abstract: A building system for implementing building applications includes one or more memory devices storing instructions, the instructions causing one or more processors to receive a static semantic building application, wherein the static semantic building application comprises one or more operations and a first semantic description of the static semantic building application and determine, based on building information describing a building and the first semantic description of the static semantic building application, one or more implementation details of a particular implementation of the static semantic building application. The instructions cause the one or more processors to generate, based on the one or more implementation details, a dynamic semantic building application comprising the one or more operations and a second semantic description of the dynamic semantic building application and operate the dynamic semantic building application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventor: Siddharth Goyal
  • Patent number: 11210458
    Abstract: An electronic device: displays a first portion of content within an application interface; detects a screenshot capture input; and, in response to detecting the screenshot capture input: captures a screenshot image of the first portion of the content; and displays a screenshot editing interface that includes the screenshot image of the first portion of the content within an image area and expansion affordances provided to expand the screenshot image. The electronic device also: while displaying the screenshot editing interface, detects an expansion input that corresponds to expanding the screenshot image in one or more dimensions; and, in response to detecting the expansion input, modifies the screenshot image by displaying a second portion of the content within the image area in addition to the first portion of the content, where the second portion of the content was not displayed before detecting the screenshot capture input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Inventors: Tiffany S. Jon, Chanaka G. Karunamuni
  • Patent number: 11195136
    Abstract: A performance bookmark of a dashboard view is created, e.g., in response to a triggering event. The performance bookmark includes a name, a timestamp, a reference to the visual properties of the dashboard view at the time that the performance bookmark is created and a reference to relationships of information displayed by the dashboard view at the time the performance bookmark is created. When a performance bookmark is recalled, the dashboard view is configured to correspond with the visual properties and relationships of information recorded at the time the select performance bookmark was created. Performance bookmarks are instances and relationships, and are not limited to snap shots captured of a static visual image of a dashboard screen from a corresponding dashboard user interface. As such, a retrieved dashboard view of a performance bookmark that is recalled from the bookmark system is live and supports user interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David M. Enyeart, Kevin P. McAuliffe, Billy R. Rowe, Jr., Eric D. Wayne
  • Patent number: 11182546
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method can include creating an adhoc grid responsive to a user request, adding an extra row to the adhoc grid responsive to another user request, entering into the extra row a cell formula specified by the user, and saving the adhoc grid as a smart form, wherein the smart form is a form that is configured to have adhoc grids that contain grid labels as well as business calculations that are based on cell formulas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Prasad Kulkarni, Deepak Sharma
  • Patent number: 11182048
    Abstract: A computing device including a user input device. The computing device may further include memory storing a file tree that includes a plurality of files arranged in a hierarchical structure having a plurality of nodes. The computing device may further include at least one processor configured to receive, via the user input device, a scoping selection of one or more nodes of the plurality of nodes. The scoping selection may indicate a respective display status for each of the one or more nodes. The processor may generate a scoped view of the file tree in which for each selected node, whether that selected node is displayed or hidden in the scoped view is determined based at least on the respective display status indicated for that selected node by the scoping selection. The processor may output the scoped view to a display for display in a graphical user interface (GUI).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew C. Ng, Mark Wade Heninger, Smitha Bhat Bharadwaj, Alan Jinsoo Yu, Arijit Chatterjee
  • Patent number: 11175813
    Abstract: A screen control method, an apparatus, a device and a computer readable storage medium are provided. A display interface of a display screen includes a main display interface and a secondary display interface. The method includes: receiving a component call request sent by a user; switching the main display interface to the secondary display interface according to the component call request; and displaying preset component content on the secondary display interface according to a preset component display mode. Thus, the component content preset by the user can be uniformly displayed on the secondary display interface, which thus improves the user stickiness, makes the presented content more personalized and more compatible with the user's needs, thereby improving the user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignees: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., Shanghai Xiaodu Technology Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Lu Qian, Zhen Li, Xiangnan Yuan
  • Patent number: 11178296
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides for multifunction system (MFS) control via associating a user with a MFS; outputting an initial audio cue based on an initial status of the MFS via an assistive computing device; receiving command inputs; transmitting the command inputs to the MFS; receiving an updated status from the MFS based on the command inputs; and outputting updated audio cues via the assistive computing device based on the updated status and/or via in response to receiving an association request, identifying a user profile; interfacing with an assistive computing device (having a microphone and a speaker) associated with the user profile; receiving an utterance captured by the microphone; locally processing the utterance according to a natural language processor to identify an action intent; performing the action intent via an MFS; and transmitting, for output via the speaker, a status of the MFS performing the action intent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Guillermo J. Hernandez, Luis Fernando F. Perez Almodovar, Sergio Toscano Lomeli, Julio C. Sanchez Reynaga, Jorge Aragon
  • Patent number: 11157463
    Abstract: Among other things, there are two or more data sets. Each of the data sets contains data that can be interpreted as records each having data values for data fields. Each of the data sets contains at least some data that is related to data in at least one of the other data sets. The data in different data sets is organized or expressed possibly differently. Each of the data sets is susceptible to a definition of a key for the records of the data set. The data sets are characterized by repetitions of at least one of (a) records, (b) portions of keys, or (c) instances of values for data fields. Information about at least one of the repetitions is provided to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Miosoft Corporation
    Inventors: Albert B. Barabas, Mark D. A. van Gulik, Terry Raymond, Ernst M. Siepmann
  • Patent number: 11157083
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to techniques for identifying elements in a user interface (UI), and more particularly, techniques for determining UI elements selected on a contact-sensitive user interface and using those techniques to provide one or more haptic responses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Atmel Corporation
    Inventors: William Liddell, Paul Clements, Thomas Souche
  • Patent number: 11144705
    Abstract: A computer identifies entity-containing content. The computer analyzes the entity-containing content for entities. The computer identifies a plurality of hierarchy levels for the entities. The computer receives selections of highlights for the entities, wherein the highlights for the entities within each hierarchy level share one or more characteristics. The computer applies entity contrasting. The computer outputs the entity-containing content with applied entity contrasting to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hau Co, Joseph Lam
  • Patent number: 11138162
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for creating and managing a database system comprising data structures for storing, in a memory, data and relations between the data, the method comprising the steps of creating a mind map structure wherein each node of the mind map represents a set in the first data structure and each branch represents a relation in the fifth data structure of the database in which there are defined five data structures that hold all information relating to tables, records and relations, namely: a first data structure comprising a definition of at least one data set, a second data structure comprising definitions of properties of objects, a third data structure comprising definitions of objects, a fourth data structure comprising definitions of properties of each object, a fifth data structure comprising definitions of relations and a sixth data structure for storing definitions of relations between objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: DATAWALK SPÓLKA AKCYJNA
    Inventor: Krystian Piecko
  • Patent number: 11120590
    Abstract: Methods and systems for hierarchy detection for block diagrams. One system includes an electronic processor configured to access a block diagram. The electronic processor is also configured to identify a set of connected components in the block diagram. The electronic processor is also configured to convert a first connected component included in the set of connected components into a directed acyclic graph (DAG). The electronic processor is also configured to determine a set of candidate hierarchies included in the DAG. The electronic processor is also configured to verify the set of candidate hierarchies. The electronic processor is also configured to generate a displayable hierarchical block diagram based on the verified set of candidate hierarchies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Fabio Cecchi, Naveen Ramakrishnan, Jochen Quante, Thomas Bleile, Jeffrey L. Irion
  • Patent number: 11061906
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a non-transitory machine-readable medium that stores a program. The program receives from a client device a request for data stored in a database categorized based on a hierarchical dimension. The hierarchical dimension is configured to store values from a plurality of values organized in a hierarchy comprising a plurality of levels. The program further generates an intermediary data structure by combining a first set of the data stored in the database and a second set of data based on a level in the hierarchy. The program also generates results for the request by aggregating the data in the intermediary data structure based on the level in the hierarchy. The program further provides the results for the request to the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Justin Wong, Clarence Chuahuico, Veljko Jovanovic
  • Patent number: 11055042
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a first hardware processor that outputs guidance information for setting a predetermined function to a user; a second hardware processor that receives voice input from the user according to the guidance information; a third hardware processor that executes a process of setting the predetermined function according to the voice input received by the second hardware processor; and a fourth hardware processor that outputs a masking signal for masking voice from the user based on the guidance information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Kawabata
  • Patent number: 11036821
    Abstract: A browser is disclosed that provides for browsing a hierarchical dataset including potentially millions of nodes. The hierarchical dataset may be located on a machine that is remote to the machine hosting the browser. Through selective, intelligent fetching and local cache management of sparse portions of the hierarchical dataset, the browser provides consistent and predictable response times for displaying a randomly-selected node in the context of proximate nodes in the hierarchy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Anurag Garg, Jeffrey Leon Woodard
  • Patent number: 11036352
    Abstract: The present invention has an objective to display information more suitable for searching for medical information. An information processing apparatus includes a display control unit configured to display, when a first medical information item included in a plurality of medical information items is associated with a second medical information item, an icon indicating that a medical information item related to the first medical information item is present, on a display unit in conjunction with a thumbnail of the first medical information item, wherein the display control unit performs, when the icon is selected, such control as to display a display information item indicating a relationship between the first medical information item and the second medical information item, on the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshimizu Yamane, Yoshio Iizuka, Gakuto Aoyama, Kazuhito Oka
  • Patent number: 11029806
    Abstract: A graphical user interface generates a control pane and a diagram pane. The control pane graphically depicts control objects that are each associated with a different viewpoint of digital products. The diagram pane displays graphical representations based upon a user-selected control object in the control pane. In use, a hierarchical view of digital products is presented in the diagram pane. A user can select a digital product from the hierarchical view, and then graphically navigate the digital product, whereby the graphical user interface presents aspects of the digital product, represented as nodes and interconnecting lines in different views defined by the viewpoint associated with user-selected control objects available in the control pane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: NATIONWIDE MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventor: Mahesh Wijegunawardana
  • Patent number: 11029836
    Abstract: Maintaining an application for deployment across platforms requires significant engineering effort and an expanded code base, especially when dealing with different input types from the host platforms. To reduce the computational expenses and improve the standardization of the user interface, systems and methods are provided to recognize gestures in a platform agnostic code architecture, which may be deployed on multiple platforms with different input and output methodologies to provide a consistent user experience with a smaller code base to install on those platforms and to maintain. Individual platforms may tailor the size of the architecture to meet their deployment needs and the architecture may be updated independently of the client logic of various applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Barry Christopher Allyn
  • Patent number: 11023668
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to enriching a compound object with data provided by a third party service, database, or local database. In some embodiments, this is performed by receiving an entry of a value in a cell of a spreadsheet; determining whether the value is related to information provided by a service; based on a determination that the value is related to information provided by the service, selecting the service; displaying a field selection user interface; receiving a selection of one or more fields from the field selection user interface; receiving one or more values associated with the selected one or more fields; and enriching a compound object based on the selected one or more fields and associated one or more values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: John Campbell, Benjamin Edward Rampson, Christian Canton, Carlos Augusto Otero
  • Patent number: 11010032
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for providing navigation in a hierarchical data set are presented. In some embodiments, a computing device may generate a user interface including a first node as a focused node at a fixed focal point along with a subset of a first plurality of related nodes having a relationship with the first node. In some instances discussed herein, user input may be received selecting a second node as the focused node, such as a scrolling action dragging the second node to the fixed focal point. The user interface may be updated to display a subset of a second plurality of related nodes having a relationship with the second node. In some arrangements, the hierarchical data set may correspond to an organizational chart, a workflow, a directory structure, a categorized list, a taxonomy, or any other type of hierarchical data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Priscila K Penha, Kelly May Nash, Daisuke Sakurai, Shih-Hao Yeh
  • Patent number: 11003698
    Abstract: Methods and system for item matching are described. In one embodiment, compatibility-based text for an item may be accessed. A compatibility identifier may be identified based on the compatibility-based text. The compatibility identifier may be associated with an item duster. The compatibility identifier may be used to identify a plurality of matching items. A result may be provided based on identification of the plurality of matching items. Additional methods and systems are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Aditya Arora, Gurudatta Horantur Shivaswamy, Brian M. Johnson, Richard D. Henderson, Swati Agarwal, Jennifer M. Dante
  • Patent number: 10990075
    Abstract: A system is provided for programming workpiece feature inspection operations for a coordinate measuring machine. The system includes a computer-aided design (CAD) file processing portion, a geometric relationship analyzer, an inspection motion path generation portion, and a user interface including an editable plan representation of a current workpiece feature inspection plan, a workpiece inspection program simulation portion configured to display a 3D view including geometric features and inspection operation representations, and a context sensitive menu portion. The context sensitive menu portion displays a context sensitive relational command menu that indicates a valid set of relational commands including relational feature or relational measurement commands operable to define a corresponding constructed feature or corresponding relational measurement operation to be included in the current workpiece feature inspection plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignees: Mitutoyo Corporation, Mitutoyo Europe GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Uwe Madsen, Samuel Wu, Eric Yeh-Wei Tseo, Tobias Friedrich
  • Patent number: 10984283
    Abstract: A method of training a predictive model to predict a likely field value for one or more user selected fields within an application. The method comprises providing a user interface for user selection of the one or more user selected fields within the application; analyzing a pre-existing, user provided data set of objects; training, based on the analysis, the predictive model; determining, for each user selected field based on the analysis, a confidence function for the predictive model that identifies the percentage of cases predicted correctly at different applied confidence levels, the percentage of cases predicted incorrectly at different applied confidence levels, and the percentage of cases in which the prediction model could not provide a prediction at different applied confidence levels; and providing a user interface for user review of the confidence functions for user selection of confidence threshold levels to be used with the predictive model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Sarah Aerni, Natalie Casey, Shubha Nabar, Melissa Runfeldt, Sara Beth Asher
  • Patent number: 10983695
    Abstract: A method for managing focus in a graphical user interface using a directional controller that allows a directional or selection input. The method comprising: determining whether the input is directional or selection; determining whether there is a sibling object of a currently focused object in a given direction of the input if the input is directional; transferring the focus to the sibling object if there is a sibling object in the given direction; transferring the focus to an ancestor object of the currently focused object if there is no sibling object in the given direction; determining whether the currently focused object is a group; transferring the focus to a descendant object of the currently focused object if the currently focused object is a group and the input is selection; and selecting the currently focused object if the currently focused object is not a group and the input is selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignees: Kinoma, Inc., Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Sean D. Allen, J. Peter Hoddie
  • Patent number: 10965789
    Abstract: A method and a system for updating a first whitelist at a network node. The network node receives data packets from an Internet of Things (IoT) device and determines a predetermined identifier for the IoT device. The network node then determines whether the predetermined identifier is in the first whitelist. When the predetermined identifier is not in the first whitelist, the network node starts a first time period. When the predetermined identified is on the first whitelist, the network node determines whether the data packets are received within the first time period. When the data packets are received within the first time period, the network node identifies destination addresses of the data packets and updates the first whitelist based on the destination addresses and the predetermined identifier. The updated first whitelist is stored in non-transitory computer readable storage medium in the network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Pismo Labs Technology Limited
    Inventors: Wan Chun Leung, Kit Wai Chau, Patrick Ho Wai Sung
  • Patent number: 10949381
    Abstract: In one implementation, a data transformation tool is configured to allow a user to specify how types of data should be mapped to another type of data in a reusable fashion. In one implementation, the data transformation tool analyzes data selected for input, the desired data output, and determines a list of potential mappings that may be used between the compliant and non-compliant systems. The mappings may be generated through transformational expressions and defined as a data wrapper. Once the definition of the one or more mappings are defined, data transformation tool generates one or more files allowing the execution of the transformation of the input data to the output data during an execution phase, such as runtime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Rodolfo José Cruz, Patricio Barletta, Nicolas Damonte, Juan Allo Ron
  • Patent number: 10909133
    Abstract: An arbitrary number of custom catalogs for an arbitrary number of customers can be published from a single database of seller catalog data. Custom browse hierarchies can be generated for each of the custom catalogs. The custom catalogs are subsets of the catalog database, and are generated in accordance with a set of rules that defines the scope of the content of the custom catalog. The rule sets define a series of sequential searches by which a subset of the product SKUs contained in the database are returned. A primary hierarchy is maintained that can have a scope coextensive with the primary database. Custom browse hierarchies can be pruned to render their scope approximately coextensive with each subset. The custom catalog subsets and the custom browse hierarchies are generated periodically through a virtual publication process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Versata Development Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Bonneau, Michael Nonemacher, Jeremy Weinrib
  • Patent number: 10909160
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is new approach for structuring an organization's data, involving at a high level establishing a digital context and populating the digital context with digital content to thereby form what is referred to herein as a digital duplicate. In one aspect, the disclosed approach may be embodied in a computer-implemented method that involves: establishing a data structure comprising (i) a structural context that has at least one data component, where each component of the structural context has associated therewith one or more respective data properties (ii) a semantic context that has at least two data types that further describe individual data properties and; and populating underlying data into an instance of the data structure such that underlying data populated into each respective property of the at least one data component has each of the at least two data types of the semantic context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: TADA Cognitive Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Seshadri Guha, Vinay Sikka, Subbarao Turlapati
  • Patent number: 10908807
    Abstract: Provided herein are method, apparatus, and computer program products for facilitating capture and play back of interface event data. One exemplary method may comprise providing, as a function of at least profile data, environmental data, transaction data, relevance data, and implicit data derived therefrom, a dynamic application environment, displaying the dynamic application environment on an dynamic application interface, capturing interface event data, the interface event data being based on user interaction with the dynamic application interface, and comprising of one or more interface events and a particular time at which each of the one or more interface events occurred, providing data to the play back device configured for initializing a play back environment, such that the play back environment receives the interface event data and performs play back, and outputting the one or more interface events in a relative time to the particular time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Groupon, Inc.
    Inventor: Martin Eric Hyche
  • Patent number: 10897401
    Abstract: Determining the importance of network devices based on a discovered topology, managed endpoints, and activity may be provided. First, topology data may be received corresponding to a network comprising a plurality of devices. Then, a topology matrix may be created representing the topology data. Next, a stationary matrix may be determined from the topology matrix. The stationary matrix may indicate a relative importance of each of the plurality of devices within the network. A health score may then be determined for at least one of the plurality of devices based on the relative importance of the at least one of the plurality of devices. The health score may be determined using the stationary matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Sajjit Thampy, Zachariah Cherian
  • Patent number: 10884980
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes filtering a plurality of files stored to a central cluster of a distributed file system to place independent portions of the plurality of files into a plurality of groups using filters prior to receiving a query on the plurality of files. Files within each of the plurality of groups share a common searchable characteristic. The method also includes receiving, at the central cluster, an indication of the query. Moreover, the method includes responding to the query by duplicating files of one or more of the plurality of groups that correspond to the query to a local cluster of the distributed file system that provided the indication of the query and is geographically diverse from the central cluster. Other methods, systems, and computer program products for cognitive data management are described in accordance with more embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Subashini Balachandran, Rui Zhang
  • Patent number: 10878603
    Abstract: A system and method for providing a graphical representation of copies of a data object stored across a plurality of storage arrays are provided. A primary data object stored in a first file store and one or more secondary data objects stored on one or more secondary file stores are identified. The one or more secondary data objects represent one or more copies of the primary data object. A graphic representing the primary data object and its relationship to the one or more secondary data objects is provided for display on a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Skip Hanson, Jase Smith, Peter Imming
  • Patent number: 10877650
    Abstract: An information terminal includes: a display section; a display control section; a touch panel; a gesture detecting section that detects, when the display control section allows the display section to display images in three or more split regions of a display screen, a pinch-out gesture of spreading two fingers touching respective adjacent two of the three or more split regions; and a region setting section that makes, upon detection of the pinch-out gesture, a setting that the adjacent two split regions are aligned along directions of the pinch-out gesture and that the display screen is split into two split regions to be exclusively placed therewithin. The display control section allows an enlarged display of the images of the split regions subjected to the pinch-out gesture in the split regions set by the region setting section and avoids a display of the images of the other one or more split regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Fumiya Sakashita, Yoichi Hiranuma, Shoichi Sakaguchi, Shohei Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 10866871
    Abstract: Example implementations described herein are directed to a storage descriptor data structure that can represent characteristics of the dataset stored in an underlying volume without requiring the dataset in the volume to be migrated for processing. Such data structures are more compressed than the original data structure and can therefore facilitate storage allocation before the migration is conducted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Darrell L. Niemann, Bryan Ribaya, Jovi Gacusan
  • Patent number: 10860649
    Abstract: A method for making a zoomable user interface for a television (TV) comprises the steps of: assigning a plurality of tags to a video title; collecting tags of a plurality of video titles of a video group; building a tag-relationship map based on a relationship of the tags, wherein the tag-relationship map represents a hierarchical structure of the tags in the video group; building a plurality of tag trees based on the hierarchical structure of the tags; calculating each total distance of each of the plurality of tag trees, wherein the total distance of the tag tree is a sum of distances from a root node to all nodes in the tag tree; and displaying the zoomable user interface having a minimum value of the total distance of the tag tree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: TCL RESEARCH AMERICA INC.
    Inventor: Haohong Wang
  • Patent number: 10817815
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for creating a calendar event in a calendar application to provide at least some attendees with access to supplemental information related to the calendar event. The calendar application is configurable to allow sharing of supplemental information between users who are affiliated with a first organization that utilizes the calendar application in a cloud computing system, and other users who are affiliated with a second organization. When a user affiliated with the first organization creates create a calendar event that includes a list of attendees that includes second user-attendee(s) affiliated with a second organization that utilizes the calendar application, the user can enable sharing of the supplemental information with any of the second user-attendees included in the list of attendees so that they are allowed to view the supplemental information when viewing the calendar event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Eric Alexander Hurlimann Perret, Anthony Desportes, Kapildev Reddy Gowru, Tigran Abovyan, Ravi L. Honakere, Kayvaan Ghassemieh, Vatsal Shah
  • Patent number: 10803406
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for adaptive search refinement is provided. The method may include obtaining an indication of user engagement with an online marketplace and in response to obtaining the indication, providing visually guided search refinement to construct a search query for searching the online marketplace. Providing the visually guided search refinement may include providing search refinement options, obtaining an indication of the approval or disapproval of one or more of the search refinement options, and repeating providing the search refinement options and receiving the indication. For each iteration of providing the plurality of search refinement options, at least some of the search refinement options may be different and determined based on previously received indications of both approval and disapproval. The method for adaptive search refinement may further include providing search results based on the search query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Gabbai, James Tenniswood, Nandita Chakravarti
  • Patent number: 10798437
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods are provided for automatically scheduling and carrying-out the transfer of media content to user-carried storage components in anticipation of predicted user needs. In various embodiments, the method includes the step or function of determining when an offline viewing event is forecast to occur due to an anticipated desire on behalf of the end user to view media content in a future timeframe without reliance on a network connection. When determining that an offline viewing event is forecast to occur, media transfer start conditions are established for initiating transfer of selected media content to a user-carried memory component prior to the forecast occurrence of the offline viewing event. When the media transfer start conditions are subsequently satisfied, transfer of the selected media content is initiated from a media content server, over a network, and to the user-carried memory component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: SLING MEDIA LLC
    Inventor: Oleksandr Yegorov
  • Patent number: 10795907
    Abstract: A data exploring application is defined for communicating with different types of data sources comprising data sets. The data exploring application includes an interface and a back-end module. The interface receives requests for connecting with a data source of a defined type. The type of the data source is associated with specific requirements for establishing the connection. The interface receives requests for exploring a hierarchy of data sets of a selected data source from the connected data sources. The interface communicates with a back-end module of the application to provide data associated with requested hierarchy levels from the hierarchy of the data sets. Based on received responses from the back-end module of the application, browsing and editing options are generated at the interface for receiving a selection of a data set from the hierarchy of data sets of the selected data source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Vei Ming Seah, Johan Raffin, Marius Obert
  • Patent number: 10761700
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display; a touch panel disposed on the display; a memory that stores screen configuration information essentially including information of a base area of a fixed size and an extra area of an unfixed size; a retrieving portion that retrieves the screen configuration information therefrom; a display processor that allocates the base area in an image displayable area of the display on the basis of a reference point of the screen of the display and displays a first screen in the allocated base area, and that further allocates the extra area in an area other than the base area and displays a second screen in the allocated extra area when the image displayable area of the display is larger than the base area; and a judgment portion that judges whether or not a user stretches the extra area toward the base area on the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Masao Hosono, Shigeyuki Ueda, Tadashi Suzue, Satoshi Osako
  • Patent number: 10754677
    Abstract: A hierarchical tree of nodes for layered images may be maintained. The hierarchical tree may include paths that each includes nodes representing layered images for a virtual machine. A request indicating a child component may be received. A subset of the paths of the hierarchical tree may be identified where each of the subset of the paths includes a child node representing the child component, one or more intermediary nodes representing layered images of intermediary components, and a root node. A path, from the subset of paths, with fewer nodes representing layered images that are not present in a storage of a machine may be selected. Furthermore, the layered images that are not present in the storage of the machine may be provided to the machine to instantiate a virtual machine to execute the child component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventor: David Caro Estevez
  • Patent number: 10735522
    Abstract: A framework and a method are provided for monitoring and managing software bots that collectively automate business processes. The method includes interfacing with the bots executing on a bot infrastructure. The method also includes obtaining the bot-specific performance data and the infrastructure-level performance data recorded by the bots and the bot infrastructure. The method further includes generating or modifying a bot dependency chain based on the bot-specific performance data and the infrastructure-level performance data. The bot dependency chain represents at least one of dependencies amongst the bots and dependencies amongst the related business processes. The method also includes generating an outcome for the business processes according to the bot dependency chain and the bot-specific performance data and the infrastructure-level performance data recorded by the bots and the bot infrastructure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: PROKARMA INC.
    Inventors: Ramanathan Sathianarayanan, Krishna Bharath Kashyap
  • Patent number: 10728110
    Abstract: A user-defined virtual private cloud computing network is provided that includes a user interface for selecting a plurality of network connectivity features for designing the user-defined virtual private cloud computing network. The virtual private cloud computing network includes tangible storage elements and tangible computing elements selected from a cloud computing network service provider using the user interface, using the user interface each network. The tangible storage elements and tangible computing elements are connected in accordance with network element configuration statements that instantiate actions particular to defined network connectivity features in accordance with defined usage rules. The virtual provide cloud computing network is configured and implemented in accordance with the selected network connectivity features using the tangible storage elements and tangible computing elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Ashley Flavel, Carsten Lund, Han Nguyen
  • Patent number: 10713176
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for data processing are provided. One of the methods includes: obtaining a bytecode compiled from source code comprising one or more input parameters, the source code including an encoding function to encode the one or more input parameters, save the encoded one or more input parameters in a memory segment, and provide a memory location of the memory segment; executing, according to the bytecode, the encoding function to encode the one or more input parameters to obtain the memory location of the memory segment storing the encoded one or more input parameters; and providing the memory location to a function for retrieving and decoding the encoded one or more input parameters to obtain the one or more input parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventor: Dongwei Li
  • Patent number: 10713481
    Abstract: A system for giving meaning to data in a non-standardized digital document. In some embodiments, the system includes a web portal, a recognition server and an extraction system. The web portal is accessible via a network for receiving a non-standardized digital source document. The recognition server is configured to perform optical character recognition analysis on the non-standardized digital source document and generates document recognition data including positional locations of a plurality of characters in the non-standardized digital source document. The extraction system is configured to identify labels and corresponding values represented in the non-standardized digital source document and automatically maps the labels to a plurality of predetermined variables in an external software system to which the values from the non-standardized digital source document are to be imported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: CROWE HORWATH LLP
    Inventor: Jeffrey R. Schmidt