Changing program behavior at runtime
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12271748
A computer system is configured to override an original behavior of a function at runtime. Overriding the original behavior of the function at runtime includes identifying an override behavior for overriding the original behavior of the function, and encoding replacement code based on the override behavior. Further, a size of the replacement code is identified, and a first memory address of the function where code of the function is stored is also identified. The computer system then…
Automated pairing of devices based on proximity detection
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12273720
Devices are automatically paired (e.g., without user involvement) for wireless communication based on proximity. A first device may authorize (e.g., wired or wireless) bridge device(s) to participate in (e.g., initiate) pairing first and second devices. The first or bridge devices engage in wireless proximity communication with second device(s), indicating the second device(s) is(are) physically co-located with the first or bridge devices. Co-location is used to initiate automated…
Low-cost, high-security solutions for digital signature algorithm
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12273462
Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for digital signature generation security. A method can include generating, by a first device, a first random number, in generating a signature for a communication, masking, using the first random number, only a private key, a hash of the communication, or a combination thereof, and providing the signature with the communication to a second device.
Simplified masking for signed cryptography operations
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12273446
Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for secure cryptographic masking. A method can include generating a first random number, determining a result of the first random number modulo a prime number resulting in a second random number, subtracting the second random number from the prime number resulting in a first subtraction result, adding a private key value to the first subtraction result resulting in a first split, and responsive to determining the private key…
Method and system of managing resources in a cloud computing environment
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12273409
A system and method for deploying virtual machines in a server farm based on capacity needs of the server farm includes receiving a request to deploy a new virtual machine (VM) in the server farm; determining that a cluster configuration property associated with the new VM specifies one or more parameters for the new VM; upon determining that the cluster configuration property associated with the new VM specifies one or more parameters for the new VM, retrieving at least one of a custom…
Techniques for managing projects and monitoring network-based assets
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12273361
Techniques are disclosed of enabling projects to be managed for grouping artifacts about related network activity. A graphical interface can be provided to enable users to create both public and private projects with information including names, descriptions, collaborators and monitoring profiles. A project can include context and history of the project so multiple users can collaborate within a project to view the analysis process as assets are identified in the project. Information is…
Firewall rule and data flow analysis and modification
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12273322
One embodiment includes retrieving firewall flow log data that indicates whether a flow was allowed or denied, an identifier of a rule that allowed or denied the flow, a source port, a protocol, a destination port, a source IP or FQDN, and a destination IP or FQDN. The method continues with processing the firewall flow log data, such as by identifying and counting occurrences of unique flows and counting flows allowed or denied by each rule. The method further includes generating a…
Audio event detection with window-based prediction
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12272377
A computing system for a plurality of classes of audio events is provided, including one or more processors configured to divide a run-time audio signal into a plurality of segments and process each segment of the run-time audio signal in a time domain to generate a normalized time domain representation of each segment. The processor is further configured to feed the normalized time domain representation of each segment to an input layer of a trained neural network. The processor is…
Wireless programmable media processing system
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12272336
Embodiments of the subject matter described herein relate to a wireless programmable media processing system. In the media processing system, a processing unit in a computing device generates a frame to be displayed based on a graphics content for an application running on the computing device. The frame to be displayed is then divided into a plurality of block groups which are compressed. The plurality of compressed block groups are sent to a graphics display device over a wireless…
Graphical ToF phase unwrapping
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12272084
One example provides a computing system comprising a depth sensor comprising a plurality of pixels, and a storage machine holding instructions executable by a logic machine to, for each pixel, make K phase measurements to form a set of noisy phase measurements, determine a location at which a projection line that passes through the set of noisy phase measurements in a K-dimensional phase space passes through a lower dimensional plane, the projection line being parallel to a noise free…
Computing system with reboot tracking
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12271738
A computing system is provided, including a processor and memory executing a reboot tracking module configured to read out a stored reboot request identifier assigned to a node in the computing system including a first value, and receive a first reboot request to reboot the node in the computing system including a first reboot request identifier. The reboot tracking module is further configured to, responsive to identifying a match between a value of the first reboot request identifier…
Text compression with predicted continuations
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12271680
A method for text compression comprises recognizing a prefix string of one or more text characters preceding a target string of a plurality of text characters to be compressed. The prefix string is provided to a natural language generation (NLG) model configured to output one or more predicted continuations each having an associated rank. If the one or more predicted continuations include a matching predicted continuation relative to the next one or more text characters of the target…
End-user created cropped application window
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12271567
Systems and methods for providing a cropped application window of an application window. The systems include a window cropping application that performs a method that allows a user to crop just the portion of an application window the user is interested in (e.g., play controls for a music app, chat window in a gaming app) and place it in an area of the display with enduring visibility or accessibility (e.g., widget dashboard, desktop). The present technology may also be used for web…
Controller with biometric sensor pattern
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12271543
In one example, a display unit comprises a display panel that is configured to display digital images. The display unit further comprises an at least partially transparent protective layer that is arranged above the display panel. The display unit further comprises a controller that is communicatively attached onto an upper surface of the display panel. A biometric sensor pattern is integrated in the controller, and the controller is configured to control the biometric sensor pattern.
Hybrid search for parent-child related documents
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12271406
Techniques for implementing a hybrid search for documents having a parent-child relationship are disclosed. In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises: building a base index using a first table of parent documents and a second table of child documents, the base index storing document identifiers of the parent and child documents in contiguous document blocks, where each document block stores the document identifier of a parent documents and the document identifier of…
Observation stream engine in a security management system
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12271385
Methods, systems, and computer storage media for providing observation stream data of security incidents using an observation stream engine in a security management system. An observation stream framework supports continuously generating and presenting observation stream data that facilitates developing a working hypothesis of an active security incident. The observation stream framework can also include observation stream query-types that can be selected for running queries against a…
Session border controller for message manipulation
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267371
A session border controller has a processor operable to receive a message from a connected peer node. The processor inputs the message to a Message Manipulation Function, MMF, which identifies the message as a SIP message, and in response obtains external state data associated with the message from a source independent from the message. The external state data is provided to the MMF. The SIP message is modified using the MMF according to one or more conditions or rules associated with…
Interactive and shared surfaces
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267620
The interactive and shared surface technique described herein employs hardware that can project on any surface, capture color video of that surface, and get depth information of and above the surface while preventing visual feedback (also known as video feedback, video echo, or visual echo). The technique provides N-way sharing of a surface using video compositing. It also provides for automatic calibration of hardware components, including calibration of any projector, RGB camera, depth…
Content adaptive deblocking during video encoding and decoding
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267519
Disclosed herein are exemplary embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems for performing content-adaptive deblocking to improve the visual quality of video images compressed using block-based motion-predictive video coding. For instance, in certain embodiments of the disclosed technology, edge information is obtained using global orientation energy edge detection (“OEED”) techniques on an initially deblocked image. OEED detection can provide a robust partition of local…
Abstracting geographic location to a square block of pre-defined size
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267399
A client-side system detects a current location of a client device and a cloud interaction metric. The geographic area around the location of the client device is divided into grid sections. The client-side system identifies a pre-defined reference location corresponding to the grid section that the client device location resides in. The pre-defined reference location, corresponding to that grid section, and the cloud interaction metric are provided to a remote server computing system.
