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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Texas (April 18)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Texas. *** Raytheon Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Raytheon, Waltham, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,924,564) developed by James S. Wilson, Hurst, Texas, for an "integrated antenna structure with an embedded cooling channel." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "According to one embodiment of the disclosure, an integrated antenna structure comprises a plurality of radiating elements, cooling channels embedded directly within each of the plurality of radiating elements, a fluid inlet, and a fluid outlet. Each of the plurality of radiating elements receive or transmit electromagnetic energy. The cooling channels are formed by an internal surface of the radiating elements. The fluid inlet and the fluid outlet are in communication with each of the cooling channels. Each of the cooling channels provides a heat exchanging function by receiving at least a portion of a fluid coolant from the fluid inlet, transferring a least a portion of the thermal energy from the respective radiating element to the received portion of the fluid coolant, and dispensing of at least a portion of the received fluid coolant out of the cooling channel to the fluid outlet." The patent application was filed on Oct. 30, 2009 (12/609,949). 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=7,924,564.PN.&OS=PN/7,924,564&RS=PN/7,924,564 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for System and Method for Providing Sticky Applications ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,925,988) developed by Michael N. Abernethy Jr., Pflugerville, Texas, and Travis M. Grigsby, Austin, Texas, for a "system and method for providing sticky applications." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for providing sticky applications are provided. A "sticky application" is an operating system (OS) level application that has the ability to "stick" to web applications and become a part of the web page on which the web application is running. While the sticky application is stuck to the web application, it behaves as if it were a web application with respect to the user. When the user chooses to "unstick" the application, it will return to behaving as an OS level application. The sticky application imitates being a web-based application instead of an operating system level application while stuck. This imitation involves the sticky application being placed on pixel coordinates within a web page of the web application and the sticky application remaining in the pixel coordinates within the web page where it is placed even when a user modifies the representation of the web page." The patent application was filed on Nov. 13, 2007 (11/938,907). 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=36&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20110412.PD.&s2=(NY.ASST.)&OS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY&RS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for System and Method for Power Reduction Through Power Aware Latch Weighting ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,925,948) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for power reduction through power aware latch weighting." The co-inventors are Samuel I. Ward, Round Rock, Texas, Benjiman L. Goodman, Cedar Park, Texas, Joshua P. Hernandez, Paige, Texas, and Linton B. Ward Jr., Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system comprises a circuit analysis module configured to analyze a device under test (DUT), the DUT comprising a plurality of latches coupled together in a scan chain. A don't-care analysis module identifies absolute don't-care latches within the DUT, assigns a weighted value to the bit positions of identified don't-care latches, and identifies absolute don't-care bits within a general test pattern. The circuit analysis module replaces identified absolute don't-care bits in the general test pattern according to the weighted value of the associated bit position, generating a weighted test pattern. A test vector module generates a test vector based on the weighted test pattern and an input module applies the test vector to the DUT." The patent application was filed on Sept. 9, 2008 (12/206,789). 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=40&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20110412.PD.&s2=(NY.ASST.)&OS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY&RS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Allocating a Global Shared Memory ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,925,842) developed by four co-inventors for "allocating a global shared memory." The co-inventors are Ravi K. Arimilli, Austin, Texas, Robert S. Blackmore, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Austin, Texas, and William J. Starke, Round Rock, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of operating a data processing system includes each of multiple tasks within a parallel job executing on multiple nodes of the data processing system issuing a system call to request allocation of backing storage in physical memory for global shared memory accessible to all of the multiple tasks within the parallel job, where the global shared memory is in a global address space defined by a range of effective addresses. Each task among the multiple tasks receives an indication that the allocation requested by the system call was successful only if the global address space for that task was previously reserved and backing storage for the global shared memory has not already been allocated." The patent application was filed on Dec. 18, 2007 (11/958,956). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=51&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&s1=20110412.PD.&s2=(NY.ASST.)&co1=AND&p=2&OS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY&RS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method and System for Estimating Processor Utilization from Power Measurements ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,925,901) developed by Wesley M. Felter, Austin, Texas, Charles R. Lefurgy, San Marcos, Texas, and Tyler Bletsch, Raleigh, N.C., for a "method and system for estimating processor utilization from power measurements." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for estimating processor utilization from power measurements provides an estimate of processor utilization that can be computed outside of the processor and operating system. Measurements of the processor power consumption are gathered over short intervals in a histogram. The idle power consumption of the processor is determined, and a threshold value higher than the idle power consumption level is computed from the idle power consumption. The number of histogram counts for bins greater than the threshold is normalized to the total number of measurements, providing a fractional value that corresponds to the processor utilization over the measurement interval. The fractional value can then be used in a power management algorithm that adjusts the frequency and optionally the voltage of the processor or group of processors based on their utilization." The patent application was filed on March 15, 2007 (11/686,418). 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=45&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20110412.PD.&s2=(NY.ASST.)&OS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY&RS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Preventing Rogue Implementations of a Security-Sensitive Class Interface ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,925,881) developed by Peter Daniel Birk, Austin, Texas, Ching-Yun Chao, Austin, Texas, and Hyen Vui Chung, Round Rock, Texas, for a "method and apparatus for preventing rogue implementations of a security-sensitive class interface." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for preventing rogue implementations of a security-sensitive class interface are provided. With the method and apparatus, a unique identifier (UID) is created by a server process when the server process is started. Anytime the server process, i.e. a server runtime environment, instantiates a new credential object following start-up of the server process, the encrypted UID is placed into a private field within the new credential object. In addition, the UID is encrypted and stored in a private class of the server runtime environment. A verification class is provided within the server runtime environment which includes one or more methods that receive the credential object as a parameter and return true or false as to the validity of the credential object. These one or more methods determine the validity of the credential object by retrieving the encrypted UID from the private class stored in the server runtime environment, decrypting the UID and comparing it to the decrypted UID stored in the private field of the credential object. If the two UIDs match, a determination is made that the credential object was created by the server runtime environment rather than a rogue application. If the two UIDs do not match, or if there is no UID in the credential object, then a false result will be returned by the verification class." The patent application was filed on Oct. 4, 2007 (11/867,015). 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=48&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20110412.PD.&s2=(NY.ASST.)&OS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY&RS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Fraud Detection in Seals ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,925,884) developed by Ori Pomerantz, Austin, Texas, and Louis Thomas Fuka, Austin, Texas, for a "fraud detection in seals." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of verifying a carved seal includes detecting a pressure on a carved seal stamp is detected through pins extending from a face of the carved stamp steal. It is determined if the pressure indicates that the seal is being pressed. A fingerprint of a user of the seal is read when it is determined that the seal is being pressed. An image of an object being stamped by the seal is photographed if the pressure indicates that the seal is being pressed. A time that the seal is being pressed is determined if the pressure indicates that the seal is being pressed. A location of the seal is determined if the pressure indicates that the seal is being pressed. An audio note is recorded if the pressure indicates that the seal is being pressed. The fingerprint, time, and location is associated with the photograph of the image of the object being stamped by the seal. The information is encoded into a face of the seal to indicate that the fingerprint was determined to belong to an authorized user." The patent application was filed on June 30, 2008 (12/165,348). 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=47&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20110412.PD.&s2=(NY.ASST.)&OS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY&RS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Controlling Memory Array Gating ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,925,853) developed by Michael Karl Gschwind, Chappaqua, N.Y., Robert Alan Philhower, Valley Cottage, N.Y., and Raymond Cheung Yeung, Round Rock, Texas, for a "method and apparatus for controlling memory array gating when a processor executes a low confidence branch instruction in an information handling system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An information handling system includes a processor with an array power management controller. The array power management controller gates off a memory array, such as a cache, to conserve power whenever a group of instructions in a branch instruction queue together as a group exhibits a confidence in the accuracy of branch predictions of branch instructions therein that is less than a first predetermined threshold confidence threshold. In one embodiment of the information handling system, the array power management controller speculatively inhibits the gating off of the memory array when confidence in the accuracy of a branch prediction for a particular currently issued branch instruction exhibits less than a second predetermined threshold confidence threshold. In this manner, the array power management controller again allows access to the memory array in the event a branch redirect is likely." The patent application was filed on Jan. 4, 2008 (11/969,344). 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=50&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20110412.PD.&s2=(NY.ASST.)&OS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY&RS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Confidential Content Search Engine Method ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,926,102) developed by four co-inventors for a "confidential content search engine method." The co-inventors are Scott J. Broussard, Cedar Park, Texas, Tony C. Kwong Jr., Cary, N.C., Eduardo N. Spring, Round Rock, Texas, and Anthony W. Wrobel Jr., Raleigh, N.C. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A confidential content search engine method is provided. With the method, a security compliance search engine is provided for searching one or more client computing devices for items of information that meet a security criteria identifying items of information containing confidential content. Results of the search are provided to an analysis engine for determining if the items of information identified by the search are being maintained in accordance with a security policy for ensuring the confidentiality of the confidential content. Results of the analysis may be used to generate a report or log and to generate a notification to the client computing device identifying any violations of the security policy and possible solutions for bringing the item of information into compliance with the security policy. In addition, an administrator may be notified of any violations so that corrective action may be taken." The patent application was filed on Jan. 20, 2006 (11/336,224). 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=17&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20110412.PD.&s2=%28NY.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY&RS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** PepsiCo Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- PepsiCo, Purchase, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (D635,796) developed by six co-inventors for an ornamental design for a cooler. The co-inventors are John Buckles, Chicago, Daniel Noe, Frisco, Texas, Gregory Butz, Glenview, Ill., Shereen Besselle, Bronx, N.Y., Adam Harter, Danbury, Conn., and Emad Jafa, Brewster, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a cooler, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on Feb. 13, 2009 (D/332,408). 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=13&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20110412.PD.&s2=%28NY.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY&RS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** PepsiCo Assigned Patent for Cooler ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- PepsiCo, Purchase, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (D635,795) developed by six co-inventors for an ornamental design for a cooler. The co-inventors are John Buckles, Chicago, Daniel Noe, Frisco, Texas, Gregory Butz, Glenview, Ill., Shereen Besselle, Bronx, N.Y., Adam Harter, Danbury, Conn., and Emad Jafa, Brewster, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a cooler, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on Feb. 13, 2009 (D/332,407). 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=14&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20110412.PD.&s2=%28NY.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY&RS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Intellectual Ventures Holding 40 Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Intellectual Ventures Holding 40, Las Vegas, has been assigned a patent (7,922,812) developed by James R. Ciulik, Austin, Texas, and Eric M. Taleff, Austin, Texas, for a "method for growing single crystals of metals ." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for growing large single crystals of metals is disclosed. A polycrystalline form of a metal specimen is initially heated in a non-oxidizing environment. A minimum plastic strain is then applied to the heated metal specimen to initiate the growth of a selected grain within the heated metal specimen. Additional plastic strain is subsequently applied to the heated metal specimen to propagate the growth of the selected grain to become a large single crystal." The patent application was filed on Nov. 8, 2007 (11/936,954). 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=13&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20110412.PD.&s2=(NV.ASST.)&OS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NV&RS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NV Written by Ankita Das; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent Method and System for Information Processing Using Meta-Archives ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,925,661) developed by Scott J. Broussard, Cedar Park, Texas, Ying Liu, Austin, Texas, and Eduardo N. Spring, Round Rock, Texas, for a "method and system for information processing using meta-archives." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system, apparatus, and computer program product are presented for a meta-archive information server that provides a set of operations or services for obtaining information from a meta-archive; these operations may include dynamic indexing, searching, comparing, or other operations. A meta-archive is a set of one or more archive files that are logically grouped in (or otherwise associated with) a container object, e.g., a file system folder, a directory, or another archive file. By allowing a user to derive sets of information from an entire meta-archive, a user can maintain more files within archives, thereby reducing file system disorganization. The meta-archive information server can be easily run over a specific meta-archive when necessary, thereby generating information dynamically, even if the archive files within a meta-archive change over time." The patent application was filed on June 27, 2002 (10/185,684). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=81&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&s1=20110412.PD.&s2=%28NY.ASST.%29&co1=AND&p=2&OS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY&RS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for System to Support a Full Asynchronous Interface within a Memory Hub Device ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,925,825) developed by Mark A. Brittain, Pflugerville, Texas, Kevin C. Gower, LaGrangeville, N.Y., and Warren E. Maule, Cedar Park, Texas, for a "system to support a full asynchronous interface within a memory hub device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A memory system is provided that implements an asynchronous boundary in a memory module. The memory system comprises a memory hub device integrated in a memory module. The memory system also comprises a set of memory devices coupled to the memory hub device. The memory hub device comprises a command queue that receives a memory access command from an external memory controller via a memory channel at a first operating frequency. The memory system further comprises a memory hub controller integrated in the memory hub device. The memory hub controller reads the memory access command from the command queue at a second operating frequency. By receiving the memory access command at the first operating frequency and reading the memory access command at the second operating frequency an asynchronous boundary is implemented within the memory hub device of the memory module." The patent application was filed on Jan. 24, 2008 (12/019,071). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=55&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&s1=20110412.PD.&s2=%28NY.ASST.%29&co1=AND&p=2&OS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY&RS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,925,826) developed by Mark A. Brittain, Pflugerville, Texas, Kevin C. Gower, LaGrangeville, N.Y., and Warren E. Maule, Cedar Park, Texas, for a "system to increase the overall bandwidth of a memory channel by allowing the memory channel to operate at a frequency independent from a memory device frequency." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A memory system is provided that increases the overall bandwidth of a memory channel by operating the memory channel at a independent frequency. The memory system comprises a memory hub device integrated in a memory module. The memory hub device comprises a command queue that receives a memory access command from an external memory controller via a memory channel at a first operating frequency. The memory system also comprises a memory hub controller integrated in the memory hub device. The memory hub controller reads the memory access command from the command queue at a second operating frequency. By receiving the memory access command at the first operating frequency and reading the memory access command at the second operating frequency an asynchronous boundary is implemented. Using the asynchronous boundary, the memory channel operates at a maximum designed operating bandwidth, which is independent of the second operating frequency." The patent application was filed on Jan. 24, 2008 (12/019,095). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=54&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&s1=20110412.PD.&s2=%28NY.ASST.%29&co1=AND&p=2&OS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY&RS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Analyzing Idle States in a Data Processing System ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,925,473) developed by six co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for analyzing idle states in a data processing system." The co-inventors are Jimmie Earl DeWitt Jr., Georgetown, Texas, Jesse M. Gordon, Austin, Texas, Frank Eliot Levine, Austin, Texas, Kean G. Kuiper, Round Rock, Texas, Enio Manuel Pineda, Austin, Texas, and Robert John Urquhart, Austin, Texas The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code to collect information for a system or processor having a transition between an idle state and a non-idle state to form collected system or processor information. The collected system or processor information is provided for analysis by an application. Idle counts occurring during execution of code are collected. The idle counts are provided to an application for analyzing why a processor becomes idle." The patent application was filed on Dec. 4, 2008 (12/328,649). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=110&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&s1=20110412.PD.&s2=%28NY.ASST.%29&co1=AND&p=3&OS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY&RS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Defining and Recording Threshold-Qualified Count Events of a Simulation by Testcases ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,925,489) developed by Michael L. Behm, Cedar Park, Texas, Carol I. Gabele, Austin, Texas, and Derek E. Williams, Austin, Texas, for a "defining and recording threshold-qualified count events of a simulation by testcases." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A design is simulated utilizing a hardware description language (HDL) simulation model by stimulating the HDL simulation model with a testcase. The HDL simulation model includes instrumentation not forming a portion of the design that includes a count event counter for a count event in the design, and the simulation includes counting occurrences of the count event in the count event counter to obtain a count event value. A threshold is also established for an aggregate count event value for the count event counter. After completion of the testcase, a determination is made whether addition of the count event value to the aggregate count event value for the count event counter would cause the aggregate count event value to exceed the threshold. If not, the count event value is recorded in a testcase data storage area, and the count event value is accumulated in the aggregate count event value. If so, the count event value is discarded without recording the count event value in the testcase data storage area." The patent application was filed on Oct. 31, 2007 (11/930,808). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=108&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&s1=20110412.PD.&s2=%28NY.ASST.%29&co1=AND&p=3&OS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY&RS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for System to Reduce Latency by Running a Memory Channel Frequency Fully Asynchronous ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,925,824) developed by Mark A. Brittain, Pflugerville, Texas, Kevin C. Gower, LaGrangeville, N.Y., and Warren E. Maule, Cedar Park, Texas, for a "system to reduce latency by running a memory channel frequency fully asynchronous from a memory device frequency." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A memory system is provided that reduces latency by running a memory channel fully asynchronous from a memory device frequency. The memory system comprises a memory hub device integrated in a memory module. The memory hub device comprises a command queue that receives a memory access command from an external memory controller via a memory channel at a first operating frequency. The memory system also comprises a memory hub controller integrated in the memory hub device. The memory hub controller reads the memory access command from the command queue at a second operating frequency. By receiving the memory access command at the first operating frequency and reading the memory access command at the second operating frequency an asynchronous boundary is implemented. The first operating frequency is a maximum designed operating frequency of the memory channel and the first operating frequency is independent of the second operating frequency." The patent application was filed on Jan. 24, 2008 (12/019,043). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=56&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&s1=20110412.PD.&s2=%28NY.ASST.%29&co1=AND&p=2&OS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY&RS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for System and Method for Preparing Near-Surface Heavy Oil for Extraction Using Microbial Degradation ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,922,893) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for preparing near-surface heavy oil for extraction using microbial degradation." The co-inventors are Frederick D. Busche, Highland Village, Texas, John B. Rollins, Southlake, Texas, Harold J. Noyes, Golden, Colo., and James G. Bush, West Richland, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for enhancing the recovery of heavy oil in an oil extraction environment by feeding nutrients to a preferred microbial species (bacteria and/or fungi). A method is described that includes the steps of: sampling and identifying microbial species that reside in the oil extraction environment; collecting fluid property data from the oil extraction environment; collecting nutrient data from the oil extraction environment; identifying a preferred microbial species from the oil extraction environment that can transform the heavy oil into a lighter oil; identifying a nutrient from the oil extraction environment that promotes a proliferation of the preferred microbial species; and introducing the nutrient into the oil extraction environment." The patent application was filed on Feb. 8, 2006 (11/350,206). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=200&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&s1=20110412.PD.&s2=%28NY.ASST.%29&co1=AND&p=4&OS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY&RS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Receive Flow in a Network Acceleration Architecture ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,924,848) developed by seven co-inventors for a "receive flow in a network acceleration architecture." The co-inventors are Giora Biran, Zichron Yaakov, Israel, Zorik Machulsky, Gesher HaZiv, Israel, Vadim Makhervaks, Austin, Texas, Renato John Recio, Austin, Texas, Julian Satran, Atlit, Israel, Leah Shalev, Zichron Yaakov, Isarel, and Ilan Shimony, Haifa, Israel. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for receiving data in a network acceleration architecture for use with TCP (transport control protocol), iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface) and RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) over TCP, including providing a hardware acceleration engine, called a streamer, adapted for communication with and processing data from a consumer application in a system that supports TCP, iSCSI and RDMA over TCP, providing a software protocol processor adapted for carrying out TCP implementation, the software control processor being called a TCE (TCP Control Engine), wherein the streamer and the TCE are adapted to operate asynchronously and independently of one another, and receiving an inbound TCP segment with the streamer." The patent application was filed on May 18, 2005 (11/132,101). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=132&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&s1=20110412.PD.&s2=%28NY.ASST.%29&co1=AND&p=3&OS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY&RS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Technique for Enabling Network Statistics on Software Partitions ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,924,829) developed by Kevin Lynn Fought, Round Rock, Texas, Vinit Jain, Austin, Texas, and Lance Warren Russell, Rosanky, Texas, for a "technique for enabling network statistics on software partitions." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for enabling network statistics to be collected per software partition. When an incoming data packet is received at the Internet Protocol (IP) layer of an operating system, the IP address in the incoming data packet is identified. The IP address in the incoming data packet is then compared against IP addresses stored in a hash table, wherein the hash table maps each IP address in the hash table to a software partition of the operating system. If an IP address in the hash table matches the IP address in the data packet, the software partition mapped to the located IP address in the hash table is identified. Network statistics collected for the incoming data packet are then associated with the software partition." The patent application was filed on April 30, 2007 (11/742,073). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=134&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&s1=20110412.PD.&s2=%28NY.ASST.%29&co1=AND&p=3&OS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY&RS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method for Improved Administering of Tests Using Customized User Alerts ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,922,494) developed by Dwip N. Banerjee, Austin, Texas, and Rabindranath Dutta, Austin, Texas, for a "method for improved administering of tests using customized user alerts." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus, system, and method for monitoring test question response time from a remote location are provided. More specifically, the present invention provides a mechanism by which tests may be proctored to users from a remote location as a test administration service and providing alert notifications to the users based on the amount of time that has elapsed during the test taking process as well as the amount of time remaining to take the test. With the present invention, test progress data is obtained from the user and forwarded to a proctor workstation. A proctor device may monitor the user's test progress to determine if expected progress on the test is being attained. The testing progress data may be recorded along with test input data from the user's client device for later use. Moreover, the administering of the test may be done by a third party as a test administration service to which a test developer may subscribe. Alternatively, the users of the test administration service may be billed for their individual use of the test administration service. Other features of the present invention will be described or will become apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art in view of the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments." The patent application was filed on Aug. 28, 2001 (09/941,251). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=208&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&s1=20110412.PD.&s2=%28NY.ASST.%29&co1=AND&p=5&OS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY&RS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/NY Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. 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. -1045133 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |