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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in New Jersey (Jan. 9)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in New Jersey. *** Island Intellectual Property Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Island Intellectual Property, Manhasset, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,352,342) developed by Bruce Bent II, Manhasset, N.Y., and David Gareis, Maplewood, N.J., for a "method and system for determining fees for deposits allocated over a plurality of deposit institutions." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system and program product, the method accessing, one or more electronic databases, comprising: aggregated account information for one or more FDIC-insured and interest-bearing aggregated deposit accounts held in one or more deposit institutions, in a program; and client account information; determining or having determined or accessing a fee tier from among a plurality of fee tiers for the respective client account; allocating, funds of the client accounts to one or more of the aggregated deposit accounts based on one or more criteria, wherein some of the client accounts in a plurality of different fee tiers are allocated to the same aggregated deposit account; determining or having determined a total interest amount for the respective client account for a period, based, at least in part, on interest earned by the one or more amounts, A.sub.ni, of the respective client account held in each of the one or more aggregated deposit accounts holding funds of the respective client account; calculating or having calculated or obtaining a fee amount for the respective client account, based at least in part, on the fee tier for the respective client account; determining or having determined a client account interest so that the fee amount for the respective client account and the client account interest substantially equal the total interest amount for the respective client account; and updating the one or more databases." The patent application was filed on June 15, 2010 (12/816,092). The full-text of the patent can be found at 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=8,352,342&OS=8,352,342&RS=8,352,342 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent for System and Method to Locate a Prefix Hijacker Within a One-hop Neighborhood ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,353,034) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method to locate a prefix hijacker within a one-hop neighborhood." The co-inventors are Lusheng Ji, Randolph, N.J., Dan Pei, Jersey City, N.J., Tongqing Qiu, Atlanta, and Jia Wang, Randolph, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Method, system and computer-readable medium to locate a prefix hijacker of a destination prefix within a one-hop neighborhood on a network. The method includes generating one-hop neighborhoods from autonomous system (AS)-level paths of plural monitors to a destination prefix. The method also includes determining a suspect set of AS identifiers resulting from a union of the one-hop neighborhoods. The method further includes calculating a count and a distance associated with each AS identifier of the suspect set. The count indicates how often the AS identifier appeared in the one-hop neighborhoods. The distance indicates a total distance from the AS identifier to AS identifiers associated with the plural monitors. Yet further, the method includes generating a one-hop suspect set of AS identifiers from the suspect set that have highest counts and highest distances." The patent application was filed on Nov. 25, 2008 (12/277,782). The full-text of the patent can be found at 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=8,353,034&OS=8,353,034&RS=8,353,034 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** American Express Travel Related Services Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- American Express Travel Related Services, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,352,343) developed by eight co-inventors for "using commercial share of wallet to compile marketing company lists." The co-inventors are Kathleen Haggerty, Staten Island, N.Y., Charles Christopher Lyon, Phoenix, Benedict O. Okoh, New York, Robert E. Phelan, Mendham, N.J., Jon Kevin Ruterman, Glendale, Ariz., Geraldine A. Turner, Sandy Hook, Va., Chao M. Yuan, Montclair, N.J., and Arnab Biswas, Calcutta, India. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Commercial size of spending wallet ("CSoSW") is the total business spend of a business including cash but excluding bartered items. Commercial share of wallet ("CSoW") is the portion of the spending wallet that is captured by a particular financial company. A modeling approach utilizes various data sources to provide outputs that describe a company's spend capacity. Marketing companies that sell lists compile those lists by searching one or more databases for names and/or businesses that match certain criteria. Those marketing companies can use the CSoW/CSoSW modeling approach to show predicted spend and/or revenues for each company on a list. This makes the list more valuable to list buyers." The patent application was filed on March 28, 2012 (13/432,941). The full-text of the patent can be found at 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=8,352,343&OS=8,352,343&RS=8,352,343 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** OFS Fitel Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- OFS Fitel, Norcross, Ga., has been assigned a patent (8,353,061) developed by Mikhail Sumetsky, Bridgewater, N.J., for a "near-field scanning optical microscopy with nanoscale resolution from microscale probes." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "To date, the probes of scanning near-field optical microscopes were aimed at creating electromagnetic field characteristics that are maximally localized near a nano-sized point (miniature apertures and tips, fluorescent nano-particles and molecules, dielectric and metal corners). Alternatively, the probe field, which is distributed within a larger area, can ensure the super-resolution as well. For this purpose, the field spectrum should be enriched with high spatial frequencies corresponding to small sample dimensions. As examples of such near-field probes, we propose and theoretically study the models of optical fibers with end-faces containing sharp linear edges and randomly distributed nanoparticles. These probes are more robust than the conventional probes and their fabrication is not concerned with nanoscale precision. The probes enable waveguiding of light to and from the sample with marginal losses distributing and utilizing the incident light more completely. Numerical modeling shows that, even with substantial measurement noise, the suggested probes can resolve objects that are significantly smaller than the probe size and, in certain cases, can perform better than miniature nanoprobes." The patent application was filed on May 4, 2009 (12/387,642). The full-text of the patent can be found at 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=8,353,061&OS=8,353,061&RS=8,353,061 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Avaya Assigned Patent for Maintaining Communication Between Network Nodes that Are Subjected to a Packet Attack ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Avaya, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,353,030) developed by four co-inventors for a "maintaining communication between network nodes that are subjected to a packet attack." The co-inventors are Akshay Adhikari, Basking Ridge, N.J., Sachin Garg, Green Brook, N.J., Anjur Sundaresan Krishnakumar, Rocky Hill, N.J., and Navjot Singh, Denville, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method is disclosed that enables mitigating at least some of the problems caused by a packet attack. When a first Internet Protocol (IP)-capable device is subjected to a packet attack, it indicates periodically to a second IP-capable device that certain communications with the first device are to be suspended. The periodic transmitting of the indication is performed at a slower rate than the keep-alive mechanism that is normally used to detect loss of connectivity. When the second device receives the transmitted indication, it refrains from transmitting keep-alive messages to the first device for a predetermined interval. Meanwhile, the first device also refrains from transmitting keep-alive messages to the second device for a similar interval. In transmitting the suspend indication, the illustrative embodiment seeks to prevent pairs of communicating devices that are experiencing packet attacks from continuing their operation under the erroneous assumption that each device is unavailable." The patent application was filed on Dec. 13, 2006 (11/610,489). The full-text of the patent can be found at 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=8,353,030&OS=8,353,030&RS=8,353,030 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Peer Belt Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Peer Belt, Harrison, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,352,464) developed by Krassimir Fotev, Harrison, N.J., for a "system and method for ranking documents through human assistance." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of system and method are provided for ranking contents of one or more documents through human assistance. The system includes one or more search engines configured to provide one or more documents based on a search query sent by a user. Further, the system includes a client application configured to capture the query sent by the user and the document tags provided by the document author or inbound links. The client application monitors one or more interactions of the user with the one or more documents for one or more events and provides a relevance measure to the one or more documents based on the captured query or tags, and the one or more events." The patent application was filed on June 9, 2010 (12/797,376). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.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=83,52,464.PN.&OS=PN/83,52,464&RS=PN/83,52,464 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** CommVault Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- CommVault Systems, Oceanport, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,352,954) developed by four co-inventors for a "data storage resource allocation by employing dynamic methods and blacklisting resource request pools." The co-inventors are Parag Gokhale, Ocean, N.J., Rajiv Kottomtharayil, Marlboro, N.J., Amey Karandikar, Long Branch, N.J., and Yu Wang, Edison, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A resource allocation system begins with an ordered plan for matching requests to resources that is sorted by priority. The resource allocation system optimizes the plan by determining those requests in the plan that will fail if performed. The resource allocation system removes or defers the determined requests. In addition, when a request that is performed fails, the resource allocation system may remove requests that require similar resources from the plan. Moreover, when resources are released by a request, the resource allocation system may place the resources in a temporary holding area until the resource allocation returns to the top of the ordered plan so that lower priority requests that are lower in the plan do not take resources that are needed by waiting higher priority requests higher in the plan." The patent application was filed on June 19, 2008 (12/142,445). The full-text of the patent can be found at 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=8,352,954&OS=8,352,954&RS=8,352,954 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** CommVault Systems Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods for Normalizing Data of Heterogeneous Data Sources ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- CommVault Systems, Oceanport, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,352,432) developed by five co-inventors for "systems and methods for normalizing data of heterogeneous data sources." The co-inventors are Anand Prahlad, Bangalore, India, Parag Gokhale, Marlboro, N.J., Rajiv Kottomtharayil, Marlboro, N.J., Jun Lu, Tinton Falls, N.J., and Rahul S. Pawar, Marlboro, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods integrate disparate backup devices with a unified interface. In certain examples, a management console manages data from various backup devices, while retaining such data in its native format. The management console can display a hierarchical view the client devices and/or their data and can further provide utilities for processing the various data formats. A data structure including fields for storing both metadata common to the client device data and value-added metadata can be used to mine or process the data of the disparate client devices. The unified single platform and interface reduces the need for multiple data management products and/or customized data utilities for each individual client device and provides a single pane of glass view into data management operations. Integrating the various types of storage formats and media allows a user to retain existing storage infrastructures and further facilitates scaling to meet long-term management needs." The patent application was filed on March 30, 2010 (12/749,897). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.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=83,52,432.PN.&OS=PN/83,52,432&RS=PN/83,52,432 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** CommVault Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- CommVault Systems, Oceanport, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,352,433) developed by four co-inventors for a "modular backup and retrieval system used in conjunction with a storage area network." The co-inventors are John Crescenti, Freehold, N.J., Srinivas Kavuri, Highland Park, N.J., David Alan Oshinsky, East Brunswick, N.J., and Anand Prahlad, Ocean, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A modular computer storage system and method is provided for managing and directing data archiving functions, which is scalable and comprehends various storage media as well as diverse operating systems on a plurality of client devices. A client component is associated with one or more client devices for generating archival request. A file processor directs one or more storage devices, through one or more media components, which control the actual physical level backup on various storage devices. Each media component creates a library indexing system for locating stored data. A management component coordinates the archival functions between the various client components and the file processor, including setting scheduling policies, aging policies, index pruning policies, drive cleaning policies, configuration information, and keeping track of running and waiting jobs." The patent application was filed on Feb. 9, 2010 (12/702,716). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.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=83,52,433.PN.&OS=PN/83,52,433&RS=PN/83,52,433 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** CommVault Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- CommVault Systems, Oceanport, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,352,472) developed by five co-inventors for "systems and methods for using metadata to enhance data identification operations." The co-inventors are Anand Prahlad, East Brunswick, N.J., Jeremy Alan Schwartz, Red Band, N.J., David Ngo, Shrewsbury, N.J., Brian Brockway, Shrewsbury, N.J., and Marcus S. Muller, Tinton Falls, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for managing electronic data are disclosed. Various data management operations can be performed based on a metabase formed from metadata. Such metadata can be identified from an index of data interactions generated by a journaling module, and obtained from their associated data objects stored in one or more storage devices. In various embodiments, such processing of the index and storing of the metadata can facilitate, for example, enhanced data management operations, enhanced data identification operations, enhanced storage operations, data classification for organizing and storing the metadata, cataloging of metadata for the stored metadata, and/or user interfaces for managing data. In various embodiments, the metabase can be configured in different ways. For example, the metabase can be stored separately from the data objects so as to allow obtaining of information about the data objects without accessing the data objects or a data structure used by a file system." The patent application was filed on March 2, 2012 (13/411,350). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.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=83,52,472.PN.&OS=PN/83,52,472&RS=PN/83,52,472 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Identifying Training Documents for a Content Classifier ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,352,386) developed by four co-inventors for "identifying training documents for a content classifier." The co-inventors are Srinivas Varma Chitiveli, Germantown, Md., Barton Wayne Emanuel, Manassas, Va., Alexander Wolcott Holt, New Paltz, N.Y., and Michael E. Moran, Ridgewood, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for identifying a training document for a content classifier. One or more thresholds may be defined for designating a document as a training document for a content classifier. A plurality of documents may be evaluated to compute a score for each respective document. The score may represent suitability of a document for training the content classifier with respect to a category. The score may be computed based on content of the plurality of documents, metadata of the plurality of documents, link structure of the plurality of documents, user feedback (e.g., user supplied document tags) received for the plurality of documents, and document metrics received for the plurality of documents. Based on the computed scores, a training document may be selected. The content classifier may be trained using the selected training document." The patent application was filed on July 2, 2009 (12/497,467). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.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=83,52,386.PN.&OS=PN/83,52,386&RS=PN/83,52,386 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Sony Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Sony, Tokyo, and Sony Electronics, Park Ridge, N.J., have been assigned a patent (8,352,545) developed by four co-inventors for a "client device and associated methodology of accessing networked services." The co-inventors are Hiroki Takakura, Tokyo, Anna Gershnik, Park Ridge, N.J., Brian Beaver, Park Ridge, N.J., and Charles McCoy, Park Ridge, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system makes it possible to use services offered by a plurality of servers different from one another is realized with the use of a common API. The system includes a plurality of service-offering servers, a client that uses services offered by the plurality of service-offering servers, and an interchange server that performs intermediary processing when the client uses a service. The client performs communication with the interchange server while using a common API when using any service among a plurality of services offered by the plurality of service-offering servers. The interchange server uses a unique API, which is unique to the service-offering server that offers the service selected by the client, to execute a processing sequence that is unique to the service-offering server. The client may use any service among services offered by the plurality of service-offering servers with the use of a common API without any need to use a unique API, which is unique to each of the plurality of service-offering servers." The patent application was filed on July 27, 2009 (12/995,628). The full-text of the patent can be found at 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=8,352,545&OS=8,352,545&RS=8,352,545 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,352,801) developed by Jacobus Van Der Merwe, New Providence, N.J., Matthew Chapman Caesar, Urbana, Ill., and Chia-Chi Lin, Urbana, Ill., for "systems, methods, and apparatus to debug a network application by utilizing a cloned network and an interactive debugging technique." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method includes instantiating a cloned network that includes a second set of virtual service nodes. The second set of virtual service nodes includes at least one cloned virtual service node that is a clone of a corresponding virtual service node in a first set of virtual service nodes. The at least one cloned virtual service node has access to a history of events that occurred at the corresponding virtual service node in the first set of virtual service nodes. The method includes initiating an interactive debugging session that includes step by step processing of the events of the history of events." The patent application was filed on July 5, 2012 (13/542,329). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.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=8,352,801.PN.&OS=PN/8,352,801&RS=PN/8,352,801 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,352,845) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for data transmission using multiple transmit antennas." The co-inventors are Arthur Robert Calderbank, Princeton, N.J., Ayman F. Naguib, New Providence, N.J., Nambirajan Seshadri, Chatham, N.J., and Vahid Tarokh, Madison, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for increasing the data rate and providing antenna diversity using multiple transmit antennas is disclosed. A set of bits of a digital signal are used to generate a codeword. Codewords are provided according to a channel code. Delay elements may be provided in antenna output channels, or with suitable code construction delay may be omitted. n signals represent n symbols of a codeword are transmitted with n different transmit antennas. At the receiver MSLE or other decoding is used to decode the noisy received sequence. The parallel transmission and channel coding enables an increase the data rate over previous techniques, and recovery even under fading conditions. The channel coding may be concatenated with error correction codes under appropriate conditions." The patent application was filed on Dec. 8, 2011 (13/315,125). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.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=8,352,845.PN.&OS=PN/8,352,845&RS=PN/8,352,845 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent for Selective Logging Based on Set Parameter ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,352,796) developed by Chesla C. Wechsler, Shrewsbury, N.J., and John Sutton Robertson, Freehold, N.J., for a "selective logging based on set parameter." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Providing asset-based logging by setting a flag for an identified asset and a transaction includes generating a first detailed log for logging activity related to the identified asset and the transaction by a first application implemented on a first node. A transaction identifier, the flag, and any of the identified asset, information generated by the first application implemented on the first node, information provided to the first application implemented on the first node and a representation of the identified asset is passed to at least one downstream application implemented on at least one second node. Detailed logs generated by the at least one downstream application are correlated with the first detailed log." The patent application was filed on Sept. 17, 2009 (12/561,697). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.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=8,352,796.PN.&OS=PN/8,352,796&RS=PN/8,352,796 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** NEC Laboratories America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,352,827) developed by Chen Gong, New York, Guosen Yue, Plainsboro, N.J., and Xiadong Wang, New York, for an "LDPC hard decision decoder for high-speed wireless data communications." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for low-density parity-check hard decision decoding includes computing, for every decoding iteration, a discrepancy of extrinsic messages responsive to channel inputs of a receiver, performing a flipping of the channel inputs responsive to a comparison of the discrepancy of extrinsic messages to a flipping threshold, the flipping threshold for each decoding iteration being determined based on a threshold computation responsive to a channel error probability estimation in a first iteration of a decoding of the channel inputs, and check node decoding responsive to the flipping of channel inputs." The patent application was filed on June 25, 2010 (12/823,400). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.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=8,352,827.PN.&OS=PN/8,352,827&RS=PN/8,352,827 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** InterDigital Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- InterDigital Technology, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,352,824) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and system for supporting multiple hybrid automatic repeat request processes per transmission time interval." The co-inventors are Stephen E. Terry, Northport, N.Y., Robert Lind Olesen, Huntington, N.Y., Jin Wang, Princeton, N.J., and Arty Chandra, Manhasset Hills, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus may be used for supporting multiple hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) processes per transmission time interval (TTI). A transmitter and a receiver may include a plurality of H-ARQ processes. Each H-ARQ process may transmit and receive one TB per TTI. The transmitter may generate a plurality of TBs and assign each TB to a H-ARQ process. The transmitter may send control information for each TB, which may include H-ARQ information associated TBs with the TBs. The transmitter may send the TBs using the associated H-ARQ processes simultaneously per TTI. After receiving the TBs, the receiver may send feedback for each of the H-ARQ processes and associated TBs indicating successful or unsuccessful receipt of each of the TBs to the transmitter. The feedback for multiple TBs may be combined for the simultaneously transmitted H-ARQ processes, (i.e., TBs)." The patent application was filed on Dec. 2, 2011 (13/309,713). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.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=8,352,824.PN.&OS=PN/8,352,824&RS=PN/8,352,824 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Teleputers Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Teleputers, Princeton, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,352,708) developed by Ruby B. Lee, Princeton, N.J., Yu-Yuan Chen, Princeton, N.J., for a "parallel read functional unit for microprocessors." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A functional unit for a microprocessor is provided, which allows for fast, parallel data read, write, and manipulation operations in the microprocessor that are useful for a number of software applications, such as cryptography. The functional unit includes first and second source registers for receiving first and second data items to be processed by the functional unit, first and second banks of memory tables, a combinational logic circuit, and a decoder. The first and second banks of memory tables are in communication with the first source register, and each of the tables is indexed by an index comprising a portion of the first data item received by the first source register. Each index points to a lookup result in a respective one of the memory tables. The combinational logic circuit is in communication with the first and second banks of memory tables and the second source register, receives the lookup results, and processes the lookup results and the second data item in the second source register to produce a result data item. The decoder circuit is in communication with the combinational logic circuit, and extracts an operational code from an instruction supplied to the functional unit, decodes the operational code, and controls the combinational logic circuit in accordance with the operational code." The patent application was filed on Jan. 19, 2010 (12/690,040). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.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=8,352,708.PN.&OS=PN/8,352,708&RS=PN/8,352,708 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Intertrust Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Intertrust Technologies, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,352,747) developed by four co-inventors for a "software self-checking systems and methods." The co-inventors are William G. Horne, Lawrenceville, N.J., Lesley R. Matheson, Discovery Bay, Calif., Casey Sheehan, Hollister, Calif., and Robert E. Tarjan, Princeton, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Software self-checking mechanisms are described for improving software tamper resistance and/or reliability. Redundant tests are performed to detect modifications to a program while it is running. Modifications are recorded or reported. Embodiments of the software self-checking mechanisms can be implemented such that they are relatively stealthy and robust, and so that they are compatible with copy-specific static watermarking and other tamper-resistance techniques." The patent application was filed on Aug. 12, 2011 (13/208,768). The full-text of the patent can be found at 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=8,352,747&OS=8,352,747&RS=8,352,747 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. 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