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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in North Carolina (Sept. 28)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in North Carolina. *** Halliburton Energy Services Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Halliburton Energy Services, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,027,855) developed by four co-inventors for "methods of assessing and designing an application specific measurement system." The co-inventors are Robert P. Freese, Pittsboro, N.C., John C. Blackburn, Charleston, S.C., Ryan J. Priore, Columbia, S.C., and David L. Perkins, Irmo, S.C. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods of assessing feasibility of a project include receiving a datum from a customer; designing an application specific system based on the datum; analyzing the datum; evaluating a set of input parameters to determine an applicability of the application specific system to a customer process; and providing feedback for the customer process with the application specific system." The patent application was filed on May 30, 2006 (11/442,915). 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=80,27,855.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,855&RS=PN/80,27,855 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** North Carolina Inventor Develops Patent for System and Method for Decision of Publishing Literary Work Based on Reviewer's Satisfaction Demographic Factors ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Christopher W. Blenk, Charlotte, N.C., has developed a patent (8,027,867) for a "system and method for decision of publishing literary work based on reviewer's satisfaction demographic factors." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system, method, and business model by which literary works are posted for review on publicly accessible networks such as the internet where reader input is used to identify the works likely to succeed in the marketplace, Authors/writers submit works for electronic review. Reader demographics (where possible) and reader evaluations of works are recorded and used to rank submitted works. Top ranked works receive additional reviews until a "market significant" level is reached. All authors are provided feedback and ranking statistics on their works. Top ranked authors are allowed to market their works using the branding of the business or publicly accessible network (e.g., internet site branding). Publishers, agents, and other media representatives are provided access to top ranked authors/writers, their works, work-specific statistics and overall market statistics. This invention may be characterized as a reader-based, electronic, editorial marketplace for literary works, providing services across the publishing industry and other media industries." The patent application was filed on Oct. 14, 2008 (12/251,070). 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=80,27,867.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,867&RS=PN/80,27,867 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Multi-protocol Object Distribution ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,028,303) developed by Kyle G. Brown, Apex, N.C., Michael A. Perks, Austin, Texas, and Sean M. Sundberg, Waco, Texas, for a multi-protocol object distribution. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention is a multi-protocol object distribution system. The multi-protocol object distribution system can include one or more remote procedure call (RPC) transport protocol stubs; and, a meta-stub configured to select individual ones of the RPC transport protocol stubs through which distributed object services can be provided to requesting clients in the object distribution system. The RPC transport protocol stubs can include both a default RPC transport stub, and at least one other RPC transport stub which the meta-stub can select based upon changing conditions in the object distribution system. Importantly, the meta-stub can automatically select the default RPC transport stub by default." The patent application was filed on Aug. 17, 2007 (11/840,462). 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=8,028,303&OS=8,028,303&RS=8,028,303 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Compliance Management Method and System ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,028,269) developed by Ritu Bhatia, Cary, N.C., Derek M. Jennings, Wake Forest, N.C., and Lyle Smith Simons, Durham, N.C., for a "compliance management method and system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A compliance method and system. The method includes receiving by computing system compliance data comprising a plurality of compliance rules from a plurality of different compliance domains. The plurality of compliance rules are converted from said text format to a first plurality of program objects. Attributes for the first plurality of program objects are modified. A compliance report comprising an output of the plurality of program objects is generated. An automated compliance verification software tool compares the first plurality of program objects with compliance verification data in order to verify if the first plurality of program objects is in accordance with the compliance verification data." The patent application was filed on March 9, 2007 (11/684,043). 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=8,028,269&OS=8,028,269&RS=8,028,269 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Fast Processing Memory Array ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,028,124) developed by Oliver Keren Ban, Austin, Texas, Xiangang Cheng, Raleigh, N.C., and Eric James St. Amand, New Paltz, N.Y., for a "fast processing memory array." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The illustrative embodiments described herein provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for increasing efficiency associated with data access. In one illustrative embodiment a memory chip is presented comprising of a plurality of memory units for storing data; a plurality of processing units for processing the data; and a word line and a bit line external to the plurality of memory units, wherein the plurality of processing units directly access the word line and the bit line in accessing the data." The patent application was filed on Dec. 20, 2007 (11/961,206). 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=8,028,124.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,124&RS=PN/8,028,124 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Porto Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Porto Technology, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,028,081) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for adaptive segment prefetching of streaming media." The co-inventors are Kunal Kandekar, Raleigh, N.C., Richard J. Walsh, Raleigh, N.C., Alfredo C. Issa, Apex, N.C., and Ravi Reddy Katpelly, Durham, N.C. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods are provided for obtaining look-ahead segments for a streaming media item during playback such that the viewer can easily skip to the look-ahead segments without experiencing any substantial interruption or delay in playback. In general, a streaming media source begins streaming a media item to a streaming media client for playback. In one embodiment, the streaming media client selects one or more segments of the media item as one or more look-ahead segments to prefetch from the streaming media source. Then, while the media item is being streamed to the streaming media client for playback, the streaming media client prefetches the one or more look-ahead segments of the media item from the streaming media source. The look-ahead segments are thereafter utilized to enable the viewer to skip ahead in playback without experiencing a substantial interruption or delay in playback." The patent application was filed on May 23, 2008 (12/126,169). 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=8,028,081.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,081&RS=PN/8,028,081 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Shared Resource Support for Internet Protocols ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,028,035) developed by four co-inventors for a "shared resource support for internet protocols." The co-inventors are Frances C. Garofalo, Woodstock, N.Y., Jeffrey D. Haggar, Holly Springs, N.C., Bruce H. Ratcliff, Red Hook, N.Y., and Stephen R. Valley, Valatie, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Creating a unique identification for each stack in partitions of a host data computer such that a plurality of partitions may share a single adapter card during an Input/Output operation wherein the adapter card is exchanging data between the host and a Local Area Network. The adapter card includes a unique identifier pool for maintaining values of unique identifiers which are available for identifying the stacks. A deleted unique identifier for a stack may be reused by newly created stacks and may be reassigned to a recreated stack, if still available, when the stack had previously been deleted by the operating system, but is then recreated." The patent application was filed on Nov. 6, 2008 (12/265,895). 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=8,028,035&OS=8,028,035&RS=8,028,035 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Dynamic Discovery and Reporting of One or More Application Program Topologies ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,028,058) developed by Raymond Perry Ammerman III, Raleigh, N.C., Paul Fredric Klein, Newbury Park, Calif., and Dannis Taje Yang, West Hills, Calif., for a "dynamic discovery and reporting of one or more application program topologies in a single or networked distributed computing environment." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Dynamic discovery and reporting of one or more application program topologies in a single or networked distributed computing environment allows IT professionals to maintain processes running on the network. In one embodiment, the dynamic discovery is performed by identifying one or more computers in a computer network, identifying one or more processes on each identified computer that are communicating over the network, and displaying a graphical representation of the topology of the processes communicating over the network." The patent application was filed on March 18, 2005 (11/084,835). 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=8,028,058&OS=8,028,058&RS=8,028,058 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Structure for Securing Leased Resources on a Computer ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,028,069) developed by four co-inventors for a "structure for securing leased resources on a computer." The co-inventors are Justin P. Bandholz, Cary, N.C., Ralph M. Begun, Raleigh, N.C., Andrew S. Heinzmann, Apex, N.C., and Fernando A. Lopez, Cary, N.C. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A design structure embodied in a machine readable storage medium for designing, manufacturing, and/or testing a design is for securing of leased resources on a computer. The design structure includes a computer for securing resources may comprise at least one processor, a plurality of resources, wherein each resource is associated with configuration data and a programmable logic device connected to each of the plurality of resources. The programmable logic device may be configured for determining whether a resource is leased, reading un-encoded configuration data from a resource, and sending the configuration data to a first unit, if the resource is not leased. The programmable logic device may further be configured for reading encoded configuration data from a resource, decoding the configuration data, sending the configuration data that was decoded to a first unit, and logging use of the resource by the first unit, if the resource is leased." The patent application was filed on June 30, 2008 (12/165,313). 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=8,028,069.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,069&RS=PN/8,028,069 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** QUALCOMM Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- QUALCOMM, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,028,143) developed by Richard Gerard Hofmann, Cary, N.C., and Mark Michael Schaffer, Cary, N.C., for a "method and apparatus for transmitting memory pre-fetch commands on a bus." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A processing system and method is disclosed wherein a processor may be configured to predict an address of memory from which data will be needed, transmit to a memory controller a pre-fetch command for the data at the predicted address of the memory, and transmit to the memory controller a read request for the data at the predicted address of the memory if the data is needed." The patent application was filed on Aug. 27, 2004 (10/929,127). 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=8028143.PN.&OS=PN/8028143&RS=PN/8028143 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Power Cap Lower Bound Exploration in a Server Environment ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,028,183) developed by seven co-inventors for a "power cap lower bound exploration in a server environment." The co-inventors are Andreas Bieswanger, Ehningen, Germany, Thomas M. Brey, Cary, N.C., Ajay Dholakia, Cary, N.C., Andrew Geissler, Pflugerville, Texas, Hye-Young McCreary, Liberty Hill, Texas, Freeman L. Rawson III, Austin, Texas, and Malcolm S. Ware, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed is a computer implemented method, computer program product, and apparatus for determining a safe lower bound for a commonly powered data processing system. A power management module operates the data processing system using at least one nominal operating parameter during an exploration periodicity, with the at least one nominal operating parameter being clock speed. The power management module determines whether a calibration period is occurring. The power management module calibrates the data processing system up to a measurement interval duration expiration. The power management module may repeat operating the data processing system using the at least one nominal operating parameter." The patent application was filed on Sept. 18, 2008 (12/212,806). 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=8,028,183&OS=8,028,183&RS=8,028,183 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for System and Method for Window Navigation in GUI Environment ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,028,247) developed by Christopher M. Haynes, Cary, N.C., for a "system and method for window navigation in GUI environment." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In a GUI environment including a plurality of windows, a user may establish one or more groups of windows such that the windows comprising each group are related. The user may cycle focus successively between the windows in the group in response to a focus cycle command input by the user. The focus may cycle bidirectionally between the windows in the group in response to bi-directional focus cycle command inputs by the user. The user may shift focus to a window outside of the group by entering a focus shift command." The patent application was filed on March 5, 2004 (10/794,831). 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=8,028,247.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,247&RS=PN/8,028,247 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Structure for Data Bus Bandwidth Scheduling in an Fbdimm Memory System Operating in Variable Latency Mode ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,028,257) developed by James J. Allen Jr., Raleigh, N.C., Steven K. Jenkins, Raleigh, N.C., and Michael R. Trombley, Cary, N.C., for a "structure for data bus bandwidth scheduling in an FBDIMM memory system operating in variable latency mode." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A design structure embodied in a machine readable storage medium for designing, manufacturing, and/or testing a design for scheduling the servicing of data requests, using the variable latency mode, in an FBDIMM memory sub-system is provided. A scheduling algorithm pre-computes return time data for data connected to DRAM buffer chips and stores the return time data in a table. The return time data is expressed as data return time binary vectors with one bit equal to "1" in each vector. For each received data request, the memory controller retrieves the appropriate return time vector. Additionally, the scheduling algorithm utilizes an updated history vector to determine whether the received request presents a conflict to the executing requests. By computing and utilizing a score for each request, the scheduling algorithm re-orders and schedules the execution of selected requests to preserve as much data bus bandwidth as possible, while avoiding conflict." The patent application was filed on April 28, 2008 (12/110,765). 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=8,028,257.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,257&RS=PN/8,028,257 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Exception View with Context ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,028,203) developed by Sudhakar V. Chellam, Apex, N.C., Rosalind Radcliffe, Durham, N.C., and Robert T. Uthe, Morrisville, N.C., for an "exception view with context." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, apparatus and computer-usable medium for the graphical presentation of the contextual relationship between a reported exception and its related resources and/or contributing factors. An exception view is presented to display an abnormally operating resource and the operational state of its related resources and/or contributing factors. Contextually related processes and resources are graphically depicted in one or more hierarchy trees, topologically-oriented views, or other depictions, with the operational health or condition of each resource indicated. Fault determination and resolution of the reported exception and its related processes and resources can then be facilitated." The patent application was filed on June 19, 2006 (11/424,890). 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=8,028,203&OS=8,028,203&RS=8,028,203 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Document Content Analysis Technology for Reducing Cognitive Load ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,028,226) developed by five co-inventors for a "document content analysis technology for reducing cognitive load." The co-inventors are Branimir Konstantinov Boguraev, Bedford, N.Y., Jani Gabriel Byrne, Cary, N.C., Catherine Keefauver Laws, Austin, Texas, Robert Bruce Mahaffey, Austin, Texas, and Mary Susan Neff, Montrose, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention provides for analyzing document content for display with reduced cognitive load assists those who are blind, have low vision, or cognitive problems. This present invention also aids those who prefer to receive condensed information orally. Document content is analyzed, a set of salient words and phrases are generated from the document content and the set of salient words and phrases are read." The patent application was filed on April 7, 2008 (12/098,964). 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=8,028,226.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,226&RS=PN/8,028,226 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Failover of Blade Servers in a Data Center ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,028,193) developed by six co-inventors for a "failover of blade servers in a data center." The co-inventors are Gregory W. Dake, Durham, N.C., Eric R. Kern, Chapell Hill, N.C., Andrew B. McNeill Jr., Cary, N.C., Martin J. Tross, Haifa, Israel, Theodore B. Vojnovich, Cary, N.C., and Ben-Ami Yassour, Haifa, Isreal. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Failover of blade servers in a data center including powering off a failing blade server by a system management server through a blade server management module (`BSMM`) managing the failing blade server, the failing blade server characterized by a machine type, one or more network addresses, and one or more storage addresses, the addresses being virtual addresses; identifying, by the system management server from a pool of standby blade servers, a replacement blade server, the replacement blade server managed by a BSMM; assigning, by the system management server through the BSMM managing the replacement blade server, the one or more network addresses and the one or more storage addresses of the failing blade server to the replacement blade server, including enabling in the replacement blade server the assigned addresses; and powering on the replacement blade server by the system management server through the BSMM managing the replacement blade server." The patent application was filed on Dec. 13, 2007 (11/956,128). 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=8,028,193&OS=8,028,193&RS=8,028,193 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. For more information about Targeted News Service products and services, please contact: Myron Struck, editor, Targeted News Service LLC, Springfield, Va., 703/304-1897; [email protected]; http://targetednews.com. -1062894 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |