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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in New Jersey (Nov. 22)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 22 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in New Jersey. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 22 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (8,316,106) developed by Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi, Florham Park, N.J., and Mohammad Hossein Bateni, Princeton, N.J., for a "system and method for assigning requests in a content distribution network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system includes a plurality of edge routers and a route controller. The edge routers are configured to direct requests from a client system to one of a plurality of cache servers. Each of the cache servers is configured to provide content to the client system in response to the requests. The route controller is configured to receive demand information from the edge routers, estimate an optimal request distribution based on the demand information using a bicriteria approximation algorithm, and provide each of the edge routers with route information." The patent application was filed on Dec. 5, 2008 (12/329,454). 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=8,316,106&OS=8,316,106&RS=8,316,106 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** TTN Holdings Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 22 -- TTN Holdings, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,315,914) developed by Barry Bryant, Denville, N.J., and Paul Staudt, Morristown, N.J., for "systems and methods for automated mass media commerce." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for implementing point of advertising purchasing include using mass media publications configured for or containing service, product or vendor transmittable signals, such as from radio frequency identification tags. In a preferred arrangement, a consumer perceiving an advertisement of the mass media publication may activate a reader in a portable communications device, such as a smart mobile or cellular phone, to receive information from the radio frequency signal associated with the advertisement to identify a vendor, product or service associated with the radio frequency identification. The smart mobile phone or communications device of the consumer may communicate with a system of a vendor across a network to order a product or product information from a system of the vendor over the network by using the information from the radio frequency identification." The patent application was filed on June 29, 2011 (13/172,122). 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=8,315,914&OS=8,315,914&RS=8,315,914 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent for Methods and Apparatus for Rapid Acoustic Unit Selection from a Large Speech Corpus ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 22 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,315,872) developed by Mark Charles Beutnagel, Mendham, N.J., Mehryar Mohri, New York, and Michael Dennis Riley, New York, for "methods and apparatus for rapid acoustic unit selection from a large speech corpus." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A speech synthesis system can select recorded speech fragments, or acoustic units, from a very large database of acoustic units to produce artificial speech. The selected acoustic units are chosen to minimize a combination of target and concatenation costs for a given sentence. However, as concatenation costs, which are measures of the mismatch between sequential pairs of acoustic units, are expensive to compute, processing can be greatly reduced by pre-computing and caching the concatenation costs. Unfortunately, the number of possible sequential pairs of acoustic units makes such caching prohibitive. However, statistical experiments reveal that while about 85% of the acoustic units are typically used in common speech, less than 1% of the possible sequential pairs of acoustic units occur in practice. A method for constructing an efficient concatenation cost database is provided by synthesizing a large body of speech, identifying the acoustic unit sequential pairs generated and their respective concatenation costs, and storing those concatenation costs likely to occur. By constructing a concatenation cost database in this faction, the processing power required at run-time is greatly reduced with negligible effect on speech quality." The patent application was filed on Nov. 29, 2011 (13/306,157). 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=8,315,872&OS=8,315,872&RS=8,315,872 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Cellco Partnership Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 22 -- Cellco Partnership, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,315,925) developed by four co-inventors for "shutting down primary charge collection function (CCF) without creating incomplete sets of charging data records (DR) in primary and secondary CCFs." The co-inventors are Carlos A. Cazanas, Bethlehem, Pa., Paul Siedelhofer, Robbinsville, N.J., Marc Chiaverini, Mine Hill, N.J., and James E. Haley, Aston, Pa. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A shutdown notice may indicate that a primary CCF system is expected to shutdown soon. This notice may be received by a CTF system after the CTF system delivers an ACR Start message to the primary CCF system, but before it delivers an ACR Stop message relating to the same chargeable session to the primary CCF system. In response to this shutdown notice, the CTF system may be configured to deliver an ACR Stop message relating to the same chargeable session to the primary CCF system before the primary CCF system shuts down. Also in response to this shutdown notice, the CTF system may be configured to deliver an additional ACR Start message and an ACR Stop message relating to the same chargeable session to a secondary CCF system." The patent application was filed on Dec. 2, 2010 (12/959,002). 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=8,315,925&OS=8,315,925&RS=8,315,925 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Celgene Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 22 -- Celgene, Warren, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,315,886) developed by Bruce A. Williams, Flemington, N.J., and Joseph K. Kaminski, Hampton, N.J., for "methods for delivering a drug to a patient while restricting access to the drug by patients for whom the drug may be contraindicated." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods for delivering a drug to a patients in need of the drug, while restricting access to the drug by patients for whom the drug may be contraindicated are disclosed. The methods are of the type in which prescriptions for the drug are filled by a pharmacy only after a computer readable storage medium has been consulted to retrieve a prescription approval code. Embodiments are provided wherein the patients are assigned to risk groups based upon the risk that taking the drug will lead to an adverse side effect, and certain additional information, such as periodic surveys and diagnostic tests probative of the ongoing risk of the side effect developing are obtained before prescriptions for the drug are approved." The patent application was filed on Dec. 13, 2010 (12/966,261). 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=8,315,886&OS=8,315,886&RS=8,315,886 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Automated Media Services Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 22 -- Automated Media Services, Allendale, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,315,913) developed by Robert I. Wolinsky, Fairfield, Conn., Peter Goldring, Edgewater, N.J., and Martin Amadio, Virginia Beach, Va., for a "system and method for determining physical location of electronic display devices in a retail establishment." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for determining physical location of an electronic display device located in a retail establishment of a retailer may include a support structure mechanically coupling the electronic display device to a fixture in the retail establishment. The fixture may be located at an identified location of the retail environment established by the retailer. An input device may be in communication with the electronic display device and configured to receive an entry of an identifier indicative of the identified location into the electronic display device. A transmitter may be coupled to the electronic display device and configured to transmit the identifier of the identified location to a remote location from the electronic display device for determining physical location of the electronic display device in the retail establishment." The patent application was filed on March 21, 2011 (13/052,640). 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=8,315,913&OS=8,315,913&RS=8,315,913 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Siemens Industry Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 22 -- Siemens Industry, Alpharetta, Ga., has been assigned a patent (8,315,839) developed by Justinian Rosca, West Windsor, N.J., Osman Ahmed, Hawthorn Woods, Ill., and Chellury R. Sastry, South Brunswick, N.J., for a "passive and active wireless building management system and method." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A building system includes a communication network, a plurality of wireless nodes, a plurality of passive wireless devices, and a processing circuit. The plurality of wireless nodes are disposed within a building operably and are coupled to the communication network. Each of the passive wireless devices is affixed to or within an object within the building. At least some of the objects constitute fixtures within the building. Each passive wireless device contains first information regarding at least one property of the object, and is configured to communicate wirelessly to at least one of the wireless nodes using power derived from communication signals detected in the passive wireless device. The processing circuit operably is coupled to receive the first information from the wireless devices, the processing circuit configured to update a model of at least a portion of a building based at least in part on the at least one property of the objects." The patent application was filed on Sept. 3, 2009 (12/553,753). 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=8,315,839&OS=8,315,839&RS=8,315,839 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Interdigital Patent Holdings Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 22 -- Interdigital Patent Holdings, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,315,320) developed by ten co-inventors for an "uplink power headroom reporting for carrier aggregation." The co-inventors are Guodong Zhang, Syosset, N.Y., Erdem Bala, Farmingdale, N.Y., Philip J. Pietraski, Huntington Station, N.Y., Sung-Hyuk Shin, Northvale, N.J., Kyle Jung-Lin Pan, Smithtown, N.Y., Joseph S. Levy, Merrick, N.Y., Jin Wang, Princeton, N.J., Peter S. Wang, East Setauket, N.Y., Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz, Little Neck, N.Y., and John W. Haim, Baldwin, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for reporting power headroom is disclosed. Power headroom may be reported across all carriers (wideband), for a specific carrier, or for a carrier group. The formula used to calculate the power headroom depends on whether the carrier (or a carrier in the carrier group) has a valid uplink grant. If the carrier or carrier group does not have a valid uplink grant, the power headroom may be calculated based on a reference grant. The power headroom is calculated by a wireless transmit/receive unit and is reported to an eNodeB." The patent application was filed on Dec. 3, 2009 (12/630,562). 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=83,15,320.PN.&OS=PN/83,15,320&RS=PN/83,15,320 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** QUALCOMM Assigned Patent for Enhanced Uplink Rate Indicator ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 22 -- QUALCOMM, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,315,240) developed by four co-inventors for an "enhanced uplink rate indicator." The co-inventors are Hui Jin, Clinton, N.J., Tom Richardson, South Orange, N.J., Rajiv Laroia, Far Hills, N.J., and Junyi Li, Bedminster, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The claimed subject matter relates to providing uplink data rate option information in an uplink traffic channel segment. A wireless terminal may indicate a data rate option being used for the segment via an energy pattern applied to the tone-symbols of the segment. To indicate a first data rate option, additional energy may be applied to a first set of tone-symbols of the segment. To indicate a second rate option, additional energy may be applied to a second set of tone-symbols of the segment, the second set being different from the first set. According to some aspects, each implemented energy pattern may be represented by a pattern, which has a slope (e.g., in a logical, pre-hopped representation of the channel segment), where some of the patterns have positive slope and some of the patterns have negative slope. The use of positive and negative slopes facilitates the representation of more data rate options than would be possible if only one type of slope (positive or negative) for the energy pattern were utilized." The patent application was filed on July 14, 2006 (11/486,822). 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=83,15,240.PN.&OS=PN/83,15,240&RS=PN/83,15,240 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Prom KS Mgmt Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 22 -- Prom KS Mgmt, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,315,275) developed by Siddhartha Nag, Holmdel, N.J., for an "end-to-end service quality for latency-intensive internet protocol (IP) applications in a heterogeneous, multi-vendor environment." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Apparatus and methods are provided for delivering end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) over Internet Protocol (IP) networks. According to one embodiment, a portion of available bandwidth between a first and second network device is reserved as a Quality of Service (QoS) resource pool for real-time communication sessions among users of a first and second user community. The first network device is communicatively coupled with a packet network and associated with the first user community. The second network device is communicatively coupled with the packet network and associated with the second user community. End-to-end application QoS is provided between the first and second user communities by selectively admitting real-time communication sessions between the first user community and the second user community based upon currently available resources associated with the QoS resource pool and multiplexing the real-time communication sessions over a reservation protocol session between the first and second network devices." The patent application was filed on Aug. 10, 2009 (12/538,677). 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=83,15,275.PN.&OS=PN/83,15,275&RS=PN/83,15,275 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Comcast Cable Communications Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 22 -- Comcast Cable Communications, Philadelphia, has been assigned a patent (8,315,249) developed by Franklyn Athias, Cherry Hill, N.J., for an "integration of voice chat services." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A communication system provides a user with the ability to redirect telephone calls to a voice chat account and vice versa. In one example, a voice chat gateway may receive communication requests and determine whether communications directed to a first party is to be redirected. If so, the voice chat gateway may reroute the communication request to an appropriate destination. For instance, a user may request that all communications such as telephone calls be rerouted as a voice chat to the user's voice chat account. Alternatively, a user may request that all communications including voice chats be redirected to a telephone number. Users may further be allowed to call a voice chat account through a telephone network and initiate a voice chat with a telephone number through a data network." The patent application was filed on May 22, 2009 (12/470,738). 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=83,15,249.PN.&OS=PN/83,15,249&RS=PN/83,15,249 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 22 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,315,247) developed by Jonathan D. Rosenberg, Freehold, N.J., for a "system and method for providing registration-coupled subscriptions in a session initiation protocol (SIP) environment." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for coupling a subscription to a registration in a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) environment includes creating a first registration-coupled subscription to initiate registration of a communication session and to initiate a subscription to an event package. The first registration-coupled subscription is transmitted, and a response is received to the first registration-coupled subscription, wherein the response confirms the subscription to the event package." The patent application was filed on July 10, 2006 (11/456,284). 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=83,15,247.PN.&OS=PN/83,15,247&RS=PN/83,15,247 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 22 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,315,181) developed by James G. Beattie Jr., Bergenfield, N.J., Stephen J. Griesmer, Westfield, N.J., and Arvind R. Mallya, Walnut Creek, Calif., for a "system and method for mapping potential internet protocol television interference." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method is disclosed for determining a mitigation strategy to limit a potential source of interference on an Internet Protocol television (IPTV) system. A new user installation request is received at a server in the IPTV system. A first geographical location of a customer premises associated with the new user installation request is received. A second geographical location of an amplitude modulation broadcasting facility is received. The first geographical location and the second geographical location are plotted. A first distance between the first geographical location and the second geographical location is determined. A first signal transmission power rating for the amplitude modulation broadcasting facility is retrieved. A first mitigation strategy to limit a first interference of the amplitude modulation broadcasting facility on an IPTV signal provided to the first geographical location when the first distance is less than the first threshold distance is determined." The patent application was filed on Aug. 28, 2009 (12/549,931). 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=8,315,181&OS=8,315,181&RS=8,315,181 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** TYRX Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 22 -- TYRX, Monmouth Junction, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,315,700) developed by Mark Citron, Montclair, N.J., and William McJames, Hillsborough, N.J., for "preventing biofilm formation on implantable medical devices." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Biodegradable polymer-coated surgical meshes formed into pouches are described for use with cardiac rhythm management devices (CRMs) and other implantable medical devices. Such meshes are formed into a receptacle, e.g., a pouch or other covering, capable of encasing, surrounding and/or holding the cardiac rhythm management device or other implantable medical device and preventing or retarding the formation of a biofilm." The patent application was filed on Dec. 28, 2009 (12/648,126). 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=8,315,700.PN.&OS=PN/8,315,700&RS=PN/8,315,700 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Telcordia Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 22 -- Telcordia Technologies, Piscataway, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,315,186) developed by five co-inventors for a "system for extracting and combining information from IP device configurations, inventory systems, and real-time network monitoring." The co-inventors are Rajesh R. Talpade, Madison, N.J., Lisa Bahler, Basking Ridge, N.J., Alice Cheng, Piscataway, N.J., Alexander Poylisher, Brooklyn, N.Y., and Shrirang Gadgil, Eatontown, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The inventive system and method for improving network security, availability, and regulatory compliance, and maximizing a network comprises a network configuration component, a network inventory component, a network monitoring component, and a network assessment component, wherein information is extracted from each of the configuration, inventory, and monitoring components, the extracted information is combined and assessed in the assessment component, and the maximized network is produced using the combined information. In one embodiment, the combined information is stored in a database. In one embodiment, an XML is produced from the extracted inventory information, and this XML is converted to a canonical form." The patent application was filed on Jan. 29, 2009 (12/362,273). 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=8,315,186&OS=8,315,186&RS=8,315,186 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Verizon Patent and Licensing Assigned Patent for Peer-to-peer Voice Over Internet Protocol ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 22 -- Verizon Patent and Licensing, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,315,521) developed by five co-inventors for a "peer-to-peer voice over internet protocol." The co-inventors are Stevan H. Leiden, Norwood, Mass., Ayaskant Rath, Brooklyn, N.Y., Yong Liu, Brooklyn, N.Y., Shivendra Panwar, Freehold, N.J., and Keith Ross, New York. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An optical network terminal receives, from a user device associated with the optical network terminal, a call to a called party, and checks a table, which may be locally cached in the optical network terminal, for a network location of another optical network terminal associated with the called party. The device also establishes a connection with another user device associated with the other optical network terminal, based on the network location, and exchanges voice data with the other user device associated with the other optical network terminal via the connection." The patent application was filed on Dec. 16, 2009 (12/639,572). 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=8,315,521.PN.&OS=PN/8,315,521&RS=PN/8,315,521 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** NEC Laboratories America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 22 -- NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,315,519) developed by Chonggang Wang, Plainsboro, N.J., and Ting Wang, West Windsor, N.J., for "systems and methods for transmitting signals in communication networks." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "For each path in a first plurality of paths in said communication network, a respective first weighted path length is determined based at least in part on a number of pure wireless links in the path. From among the first plurality of paths, a second plurality of paths having first weighted path lengths less than a threshold value is selected. For each path in the second plurality, a respective second weighted path length is determined based at least in part on a number of pure optical links in the path, and from among the second plurality of paths, a transmission path is selected having a highest second weighted path length. Information is transmitted via the transmission path." The patent application was filed on Feb. 5, 2010 (12/701,175). 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=8,315,519.PN.&OS=PN/8,315,519&RS=PN/8,315,519 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Research In Motion, Ascendent Telecommunications Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 22 -- Research In Motion, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and Ascendent Telecommunications, Redwood City, Calif., have been assigned a patent (8,315,606) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for intelligent call identification on a mobile communication device." The co-inventors are Douglas Gisby, Redwood City, Calif., Michael Gray, Montclair, N.J., Colin Werner, Kitchener, Canada, and Carsten Bergmann, San Jose, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A mobile device and a method of displaying information regarding an incoming communication to a user of a mobile device are provided. The mobile device receives the incoming information and associated information from, for example, an enterprise network. The communication type of the incoming communication is determined using the associated information and information relating to the communication type is displayed on a display of the mobile device." The patent application was filed on Feb. 27, 2009 (12/394,808). 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=8,315,606.PN.&OS=PN/8,315,606&RS=PN/8,315,606 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Lockheed Martin Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 22 -- Lockheed Martin, Bethesda, Md., has been assigned a patent (8,315,557) developed by Sudhakar Rao, Churchville, Pa., Jim Wang, Churchville, Pa., and Chih-Chien Hsu, Cherry Hill, N.J., for a "common aperture antenna for multiple contoured beams and multiple spot beams." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An antenna assembly includes a reflector having a focal plane, a first feed element located along the focal plane that illuminates the reflector to create a first contour beam at a first frequency and a second feed element located further from the reflector than the first feed element that illuminates the reflector to create a first spot beam at a second frequency, the second frequency being different than the first frequency." The patent application was filed on June 25, 2010 (12/823,841). 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=8,315,557.PN.&OS=PN/8,315,557&RS=PN/8,315,557 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Cellco Partnership Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 22 -- Cellco Partnership, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,315,661) developed by Pingping Zong, Randolph, N.J., for an "enhanced power headroom reporting." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Method and system for power headroom reporting in a mobile device capable of supporting multiple radio transmissions via different channels. The available maximum power variation of a second channel is estimated based on power usage in radio transmission of a first channel. A plurality of measures related to radio transmission via the second channel are them computed. Whether one or more conditions for power headroom reporting of the second channel are met is tested in accordance with a configuration with respect to power headroom reporting. The power headroom is computed based on the estimated power variation relating to the first channel and the radio transmission measures relating to the second channel. A power headroom report is then generated based on the computed power headroom and such a report is then transmitted, typically from the mobile device to a base station." The patent application was filed on Dec. 31, 2009 (12/650,962). 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=8,315,661.PN.&OS=PN/8,315,661&RS=PN/8,315,661 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** QUALCOMM Assigned Patent for User Specific Downlink Power Control Channel Q-bit ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 22 -- QUALCOMM, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,315,662) developed by Pablo Alejandro Anigstein, Gillette, N.J., Prashanth Hande, Jersey City, N.J., and Junyi Li, Chester, N.J., for a "user specific downlink power control channel Q-bit." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate controlling transmission power of a wireless terminal. A downlink power control channel segment may include an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) tone-symbol that may comprise a first component and a second component. The first component may be an in-phase (I) component and the second component may be a quadrature (Q) component, for example. A power command may be transmitted in the first component. Further, information associated with a wireless terminal may be transmitted in the second component. The information associated with the wireless terminal may be, for instance, a portion of a scrambling mask associated with the wireless terminal." The patent application was filed on Feb. 25, 2011 (13/034,940). 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=8,315,662.PN.&OS=PN/8,315,662&RS=PN/8,315,662 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. 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