Associating voting sessions with tabulation machines in electronic voting
Granted: November 21, 2023
Patent Number:
11823501
An electronic voting machine obtains session information in an encrypted state for conducting a voting session. The voting machine decrypts the session information using a decryption key that is specific to the voting machine. A ballot provided in the session information may then be presented in a user interface through which votes are received. The session information also includes an encryption key for a specific tabulation machine associated a priori with the voting session, as well…
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing for network function (NF) fallback to recovered NF repository function (NRF)
Granted: November 21, 2023
Patent Number:
11825370
A method for providing for network function (NF) fallback to a recovered network function NF repository function (NRF) includes, at an NF including at least one processor, generating an NF register message including an indication to notify the NF of recovery of a first NRF after a failure of the first NRF. The method further includes transmitting the NF register message to the first NRF. The method further includes communicating with the first NRF and detecting failure of the first NRF.…
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for dynamic network function discovery responses
Granted: November 21, 2023
Patent Number:
11825349
A method for updating network function profiles in a telecommunications network includes registering, by a producer network function, a network function profile with a network function repository function (NRF), the network function profile specifying at least one serving scope or discoverable parameters by consumer NFs. The method includes determining that a load level of the producer network function has exceeded a first threshold. The method includes, in response to determining that…
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for mitigating 5G roaming spoofing attacks
Granted: November 21, 2023
Patent Number:
11825310
Roaming spoofing attacks can be initiated during N32-c handshake procedure used for inter-PLMN communication in 5G network. One example solution described herein uses the SEPP to mitigate the N32-c roaming spoofing attacks by cross validating the sender attribute present in N32-c handshake security capability exchange messages against the endpoint identity in the X.509v3 certificate shared during TLS handshake and the remote SEPP identity configured in the SEPP's local database.
Enhanced processing of user profiles using data structures specialized for graphical processing units (GPUs)
Granted: November 21, 2023
Patent Number:
11824948
Disclosed are techniques for processing user profiles using data structures that are specialized for processing by a GPU. More particularly, the disclosed techniques relate to systems and methods for evaluating characteristics of user profiles to determine whether to offload certain user profiles to the GPU for processing or to process the user profiles locally by one or more central processing units (CPUs). Processing user profiles may include comparing the interest tags included in the…
Accessing representational state transfer application programming interfaces using simple mail transfer protocol
Granted: November 21, 2023
Patent Number:
11824941
A Representational State Transfer (REST)-Simple Message Transfer Protocol (SMTP) protocol gateway (RSPG) is disclosed that includes capabilities for accessing and processing REST Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) using SMTP. The RSPG receives a first email message, extracts information from the received first email message and constructs a REST API call based on the extracted information. The RSPG invokes the REST API call against a REST endpoint and receives a response generated…
On demand operations access to cloud customer resources
Granted: November 21, 2023
Patent Number:
11824848
Disclosed is an approach to implement an on-demand secure communications channel to a cloud-related resource that is located in a customer's on-premises data center, where the on-demand channel provides access to the resource to a cloud provider's operator employees. This creates on a temporary basis all of the infrastructure that is needed to allow the operational access to the customer system, which can then be destroyed once it is no longer needed.
System and method for allowing multiple global identifier (GID) subnet prefix values concurrently for incoming packet processing in a high performance computing environment
Granted: November 21, 2023
Patent Number:
11824749
System and method for using multiple global identification subnet prefix values in a network switch environment in a high performance computing environment. A packet is received from a network fabric by a first Host Channel Adapter (HCA). The packet has a header portion including a destination subnet prefix identifying a destination subnet of the network fabric. The network HCA is allowed to receive the first packet from a port of the network HCA by selectively determining a logical…
Network operation based on domain specific language
Granted: November 21, 2023
Patent Number:
11823701
A network validation system is described which may perform operations such as generating, analyzing, verifying, correcting, recommending, and deploying language, symbols, etc., such as domain specific language, configured to allow users to express their intent on the configuration and operation of a network, such as a cloud-based network. The network validation system may provide domain specific language that includes rules, statements, symbols, data, etc., configured to convey the…
Contextually-adaptive conversational interface
Granted: November 21, 2023
Patent Number:
11823667
Techniques for modifying rules for completing requests using a conversational interface are disclosed. A conversational interface receives a user request to perform a particular function. A system extracts semantic content from the request and obtains contextual metadata associated with the request. Using the semantic content and contextual metadata, the system generates a data set of attribute values. The system determines whether the data set matches a data set of required data…
Pseudo labelling for key-value extraction from documents
Granted: November 21, 2023
Patent Number:
11823478
A computing device may access visually rich documents comprising an image and metadata. A graph, based on the image or metadata, can be generated for a visually rich document. The graph's nodes can correspond to words from the visually rich document. Features for nodes can be determined by the device. The device may generate model labeled graphs by assigning a pseudo-label to nodes using a pretrained model. The device may generate a plurality of graph labeled graphs by assigning a…
Smart physical payment cards
Granted: November 21, 2023
Patent Number:
11823200
One or more embodiments include obtaining information from a physical payment card. Based on the information from the physical payment card, an output is obtained that includes a valid account number corresponding to the physical payment card. The valid account number is displayed to the cardholder. The physical payment card does not contain a visual indication of the valid account number and thus cannot be used by a malicious entity. One or more embodiments may include a physical…
Techniques for execution orchestration with topological dependency relationships
Granted: November 21, 2023
Patent Number:
11822962
A method for managing cloud resource dependencies is described. The method may include receiving a resource configuration of a first resource. The method may include identifying a dependency of a first stage of a first resource on a second resource and performing a topological sort of a plurality of resources, based at least in part on the dependency of the first stage of the first resource. The method may include constructing a dependency graph including the plurality of resources,…
Collaborative analysis system for analyzing logs
Granted: November 21, 2023
Patent Number:
11822939
Plugins that are independently written are executed in a collaborative manner to analysis a log. A plugin executing with respect to a particular node of a hierarchical data structure determines values for a set of keys based on information of the particular node and/or any ancestor nodes, and information stored in a shared repository. The plugin stores the values for the keys as additional information of the particular hierarchical node and/or into the shared repository. The plugin does…
Optimized recompilation using hardware tracing
Granted: November 14, 2023
Patent Number:
11816014
A tracing controller may utilize a binary execution trace mechanism to trace execution of compiled application machine code. The tracing controller may initiate hardware tracing to gather control-flow hardware traces of a method executing on a processor configured to generate hardware tracing information. The controller may generate a profile based on the hardware tracing information and initiate re-compiling or re-optimizing of the method in response to determining that the new profile…
Techniques for simultaneously accessing multiple isolated systems while maintaining security boundaries
Granted: November 14, 2023
Patent Number:
11818113
Techniques are described for using a single application to interact with multiple separate realms simultaneously while maintaining data security boundaries. For example, a web browser may be used to access and interact with the multiple separate secure realms while maintaining data security boundaries between the systems. Multiple concurrent sessions may be established for a user between the web browser and multiple realms. Separate sets of security credentials (e.g., credentials used…
Systems and methods for a VLAN switching and routing service
Granted: November 14, 2023
Patent Number:
11818040
Systems and methods for a VLAN switching and routing service (VSRS) are disclosed herein. A method can include generating a table for an instance of a VSRS, which VSRS couples a first virtual layer 2 network (VLAN) with a second network. The table can contain information identifying IP addresses, MAC addresses, and virtual interface identifiers for instances within the virtual layer 2 network. The method can include receiving with the VSRS a packet from a first instance designated for…
Techniques for managing drift in a deployment orchestrator
Granted: November 14, 2023
Patent Number:
11816507
Techniques for implementing an infrastructure orchestration service are described. A configuration file for a deployment to a first execution target and a second execution target can be received. A first safety plan can be generated for the first execution target that comprises a first list of resources and operations associated with deployment at the first execution target. Approval of the first safety plan can be received. A second safety plan can be generated for the second execution…
Impact driven continuous deployment system
Granted: November 14, 2023
Patent Number:
11816470
A deployment orchestrator system is disclosed that determines an impact of deploying a new version of a component of an application deployed in a computing environment. The impact of deploying the new version of the component may be determined by generating a deployment factor for deploying the new version of a component based on analyzing information that identifies both a technical and a non-technical impact of an update made to the component. In certain embodiments, the deployment…
Natural language query translation based on query graphs
Granted: November 14, 2023
Patent Number:
11816102
Techniques described herein allow for accurate translation of natural language (NL) queries to declarative language. A syntactic dependency parsing tree is generated for an NL query, which is used to map tokens in the query to logical data model concepts. Relationship-type mappings are completed based on relationship constraints. Final mappings are identified for any relationship tokens that are associated with multiple candidate mappings by identifying which candidate mappings have the…
