From 4b6241f1a67ec05f3b9bce66ba9e8398df971a63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ioannis Papapanagiotou <iduckhd@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 08:40:51 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Update patents and fix broken image link

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diff --git a/patents.html b/patents.html
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@@ -31,9 +31,6 @@ <h1> Patents </h1>
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     <p>   A. Andreakis, I. Papapanagiotou, "Watermark-based techniques for Change Data Capture (CDC)" US-20220276993-A1 (Granted Sep 01, 2022) </p>
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-    <p>I. Papapanagiotou, S. Birari, J. Cacciatore, M. Do, C. Kalantzis, "Techniques for Performing Data Reconciliation in Distributed Data Stores Systems", Granted, Aug 18, 2020</p>
   </li>
     <li>
     <p>     D. Jarayaman, S. Madappa, S. Enugula, I. Papapanagiotou, "Cache Warming: Agility for Stateful Services", US-11347651-B2 (Granted May 31, 2022)</p>
@@ -42,29 +39,29 @@ <h1> Patents </h1>
     <p>V. Chella, I. Papapanagiotou, ``Techniques For Dynamically Benchmarking Cloud Data Store Systems", US patent application, Application Number: 15/394,448 (Granted, April 5, 2022)</p>
   </li>
   <li>
-    <p> K. Kasi, S Birari, P. Karumanchi, V. Krishnamurthy, I. Papapanagiotou, "File Interface to Dynamically Manage Access to Remote Files", filed Sep 4, 2020 </p>
+    <p>I. Papapanagiotou, S. Birari, J. Cacciatore, M. Do, C. Kalantzis, "<a href="http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=Papapanagiotou&OS=Papapanagiotou&RS=Papapanagiotou">Techniques for Warming up a Distributed Data Stores Systems</a>", US patent 10,749,921 (Granted, Aug 18, 2020)</p>
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   <li>
-    <p> K. Kasi, I. Papapanagiotou, S. Madappa, S. Enugula, D. Jarayaman, V. Yelevich, S. Chen, C. Ginter, O. Johansson, S. Birari, "Distributed Global Object Storage", filed Mar 16, 2020</p>
+    <p>I. Papapanagiotou, S. Birari, J. Cacciatore, M. Do, C. Kalantzis, "Techniques for Performing Data Reconciliation in Distributed Data Stores Systems", Granted, Aug 18, 2020</p>
   </li>
   <li>
-    <p>I. Papapanagiotou, S. Birari, J. Cacciatore, M. Do, C. Kalantzis, "Techniques for Data Reconciliation in Distributed Data Stores Systems", International application (Jul 19, 2018)</p>
+    <p> K. Kasi, S Birari, P. Karumanchi, V. Krishnamurthy, I. Papapanagiotou, "File Interface to Dynamically Manage Access to Remote Files", filed Sep 4, 2020 </p>
   </li>
   <li>
-    <p>I. Papapanagiotou, S. Birari, J. Cacciatore, M. Do, C. Kalantzis, "<a href="http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=Papapanagiotou&OS=Papapanagiotou&RS=Papapanagiotou">Techniques for Warming up a Distributed Data Stores Systems</a>", US patent 10,749,921 (Granted, Aug 18, 2020)</p>
+    <p> K. Kasi, I. Papapanagiotou, S. Madappa, S. Enugula, D. Jarayaman, V. Yelevich, S. Chen, C. Ginter, O. Johansson, S. Birari, "Distributed Global Object Storage", filed Mar 16, 2020</p>
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      <p>R.D. Callaway, I. Papapanagiotou "<a href="http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=6&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=Papapanagiotou&OS=Papapanagiotou&RS=Papapanagiotou">Dynamic caching module selection for optimized data deduplication</a>", US Patent 10,241,682 (Granted, Mar 26, 2019 </p>
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+  <li>
+    <p>I. Papapanagiotou, R.D. Callaway, "<a href="http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=9,733,843.PN.&OS=PN/9,733,843&RS=PN/9,733,843">Dynamic Caching Module Selection for Optimized Data Deduplication</a>", US Patent 9,733,843 (Granted, Aug 15, 2017)</p>
+  </li>
   <li>
     <p>I. Papapanagiotou, R.D. Callaway, "<a href="http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=Papapanagiotou&OS=Papapanagiotou&RS=Papapanagiotou">Scheduler Training For Multi-Module Byte Caching</a>" US Patent 9,690,711 (Granted, June 27, 2017)</p>
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    <li>
     <p> I. Papapanagiotou, E. Nahum, V. Pappas, "Method and system for setting lease times values in a network protocol for a device”, CN103795817B, Chinese Patent Office (Granted, June, 16 2017)</p>
   </li>
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-    <p>I. Papapanagiotou, R.D. Callaway, "<a href="http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=9,733,843.PN.&OS=PN/9,733,843&RS=PN/9,733,843">Dynamic Caching Module Selection for Optimized Data Deduplication</a>", US Patent 9,733,843 (Granted, Aug 15, 2017)</p>
-  </li>
   <li>
    <p>I. Papapanagiotou, R.D. Callaway, A. Rodriguez, "<a href="http://www.google.com/patents/US20160162218">Distributed data deduplication in enterprise networks</a>", US 20160162218 A1 (Publication date: Jun 9, 2016)</p>
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diff --git a/teach/IoTCourse.html b/teach/IoTCourse.html
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@@ -71,12 +71,7 @@ <h2>Overview</h2>
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           <h2>Topics Covered</h2>
           <ul>