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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Washington (June 9)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Washington. *** Boeing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 8 -- Boeing, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (7,957,825) developed by Bobby J. Marsh, Lake Stevens, Wash., Kinson D. VanScotter, Stanwood, Wash., and Karen Malen-Hogle, Shoreline, Wash., for "splicing fuselage sections without shims." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Fuselage sections of an aircraft are joined using splice elements that compensate for gaps caused by mismatches between mating surfaces on the fuselage sections. The fuselage sections are virtually assembled using computer models that are based on non-contact measurements of as-built fuselage sections. The virtually assembled fuselage sections are used to map the gaps between the mating surfaces. The mapped gaps are used to produce tool inserts having profiles that reflect the dimensions of the gaps. The tool inserts are used to manufacture splice elements having profiles that fill the gaps when the fuselage sections are assembled and joined, thereby eliminating the need for shims and spaces to fill the gaps." The patent application was filed on July 14, 2010 (12/835,941). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=79,57,825&OS=79,57,825&RS=79,57,825 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Ford Global Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 8 -- Ford Global Technologies, Dearborn, Mich., has been assigned a patent (7,957,888) developed by Thomas G. Leone, Ypsilanti, Mich., Donald J. Lewis, Vancouver, Wash., and Robert A. Stein, Saline, Mich., for an "approach for enhancing emissions control device warmup in a direct injection engine system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of controlling fuel supplied to an engine of a vehicle is provided. The method may improve engine starting during cold operating conditions. In one example, the type of fuel injected to the engine is changed in response to operating conditions." The patent application was filed on May 10, 2010 (12/776,552). 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=7,957,888&OS=7,957,888&RS=7,957,888 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Invention Science Fund I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 8 -- Invention Science Fund I, Bellevue, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,957,892) developed by six co-inventors for a condition-sensitive exhaust control. The co-inventors are Roderick A. Hyde, Redmond, Wash., Muriel Y. Ishikawa, Livermore, Calif., Jordin T. Kare, Seattle, Thomas J. Nugent Jr., Issaquah, Wash., Lowell L. Wood Jr., Bellevue, Wash., and Victoria Y.H. Wood, Livermore, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and exhaust control system for controlling a vehicle, including adjusting a vehicle parameter in response to a determined ambient condition or to local time." The patent application was filed on Dec. 31, 2007 (12/006,274). 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=7,957,892&OS=7,957,892&RS=7,957,892 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,957,596) developed by Eyal Ofek, Redmond, Wash., Yonatan Wexler, Redmond, Wash., and Pragyana Mishra, Kirkland, Wash., for a "flexible matching with combinational similarity." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Computer-readable media, systems, and methods for flexible matching with combinational similarity are described. In embodiments, an object image is received, a query image is received, and the query image is compared with the object image. In various embodiments matching information is determined based upon combinational similarity and the matching information is presented to a user. In various embodiments, comparing the query image with the object image includes dividing the object image into agents, creating a gradient histogram for the agents, determining map areas for the query image, creating a gradient histogram for the map areas, and creating a similarity array for each of the agents. Further, in various embodiments, determining matching information includes creating a combinational array by combining the similarity arrays for each agent and determining whether the combinational array includes a peak value." The patent application was filed on May 2, 2007 (11/743,352). 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=79,57,596.PN.&OS=PN/79,57,596&RS=PN/79,57,596 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,958,005) developed by Tchavdar Dangaltchev, Bellevue, Wash., for a "bidding for advertisement positions other than one." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, systems, and computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, perform methods for determining bid amounts necessary to ensure advertisements or other content items will be presented in designated positions other than the most prominent (or first) position when bid information associated with a lesser included match type is not requested, are provided. Bids are received that are associated with a given keyword, a content item and a desired placement position. Based thereupon, a placement position in which the bid will cause associated content item is determined and compared to the desired placement position. If the determined placement position is not within a given error threshold of the desired placement position, the bid is iteratively adjusted in such a way that an adjusted bid amount is determined which will ensure placement in the desired position." The patent application was filed on Oct. 31, 2007 (11/930,973). 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=7,958,005.PN.&OS=PN/7,958,005&RS=PN/7,958,005 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Method and System for Work Scheduling on Calendars to Establish Day State Information ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,958,003) developed by Peter De Vries, Bellevue, Wash., and Jonathan S. Kaufthal, Seattle, for a "method and system for work scheduling on calendars to establish day state information." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of and system for handling allocation of task work to resources with flexibly configured availability contours (work calendars) is disclosed. The method includes defining one or more base calendars, a resource calendar associated with each resource, wherein the resource calendar inherits from a base calendar. A calendar reader, a set of recurring exception records, and a set of effective weeks for each calendar are also defined. For a specific date, the method determines whether an exception exists in one of the base calendar and resource calendar, and if an exception exists, computes a cached effective week honoring the exception data from an associated recurring exception record. If an exception does not exist, a cached effective week for the resource is computed from a combination of the calendar's standard week and associated effective week records." The patent application was filed on Dec. 20, 2004 (11/018,207). 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=7,958,003.PN.&OS=PN/7,958,003&RS=PN/7,958,003 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Eqapez Foundation Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Eqapez Foundation, Dover, Del., has been assigned a patent (7,957,587) developed by Scott E. Lipsky, Seattle, and Paul Brownlow, Seattle, for a "method and system for specifying color of a fill area." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for generating an image display plan is provided. In one embodiment, a planning system allows a user to create a display plan that specifies a sequence of images that are to be displayed and how the images are to be displayed. The planning system allows a user to specify different versions of the plan for different aspect ratios. When displaying the image, the planning system may display multiple viewports simultaneously on the image, one for each of the different aspect ratios. The planning system may allow the multiple viewports to be moved around and resized as a unit maintaining a common center point for the viewports." The patent application was filed on March 30, 2009 (12/414,599). 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=79,57,587.PN.&OS=PN/79,57,587&RS=PN/79,57,587 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,958,262) developed by four co-inventors for an "allocating and reclaiming resources within a rendezvous federation." The co-inventors are Richard L. Hasha, Seattle, Lu Xun, Kirkland, Wash., Gopala Krishna R. Kakivaya, Sammamish, Wash., and Dahlia Malkhi, Palo Alto, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for allocating and reclaiming resources within a rendezvous federation. Embodiments of the invention include formulating and routing messages in accordance with cached two-way agreements between adjacent nodes on a ring of nodes. Cached two-way agreements divide responsibility for at least unoccupied identifiers between the adjacent nodes on a ring. When a message is received at a node, the node can refer to a cached two-way agreement to determine if it or an adjacent node is responsible for the message. The node then sends the message to the next appropriate component in accordance with the cached two-way agreement." The patent application was filed on May 22, 2007 (11/752,198). 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=7,958,262&OS=7,958,262&RS=7,958,262 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Domain Name Cache Control System Generating Series of Varying Nonce-bearing Domain Names Based on a Function of Time ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,958,261) developed by Jonathan Ryan Howell, Seattle, John R. Douceur, Bellevue, Wash., and Jeremy Eric Elson, Kirkland, Wash., for a "domain name cache control system generating series of varying nonce-bearing domain names based on a function of time." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Domain name caching is controlled by adding a nonce to a domain name to force propagation of lookup to an authoritative server or service. Desired caching behavior is dictated by controlling when a new and unique nonce-bearing name is created. For example, caching can be completely eliminated by generating a new nonce-bearing name for every request. While a nonce can simply correspond to a random or pseudo random value, it can also be time based. Furthermore, nonces can be phase or time shifted to limit authoritative server load as well as improve response time." The patent application was filed on Feb. 14, 2008 (12/031,105). 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=7,958,261&OS=7,958,261&RS=7,958,261 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Amazon.com Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Amazon.com, Seattle, has been assigned a patent (7,958,009) developed by Suresh Kumar, Bellevue, Wash., for a "method and system for bidding on multiple auctions." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for bidding on multiple auctions. The multiple auction bidding system allows a user to define various models for bidding at multiple auctions. The bidding system then automatically places bids on behalf of the user. The bidding rules may specify to win at most one of multiple auctions at the lowest price or to bid at an auction only if successful at bidding at another auction." The patent application was filed on March 20, 2000 (09/531,703). 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=7,958,009.PN.&OS=PN/7,958,009&RS=PN/7,958,009 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Intel Assigned Patent for Serial Bit Ordering of Non-synchronous Bus Signals ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,958,290) developed by Jaishankar Thayyoor, Kent, Wash., and Peter Martin, Olympia, Wash., for a "serial bit ordering of non-synchronous bus signals." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The quantity of input and output signal lines that must be directly supported by a bus logic to transmit signals to and receive signals from bus devices is minimized by serializing the states to be driven onto the output signal lines and serially transmitting those states to one or more external shift registers having parallel outputs to drive output signal lines, by receiving states of input signal lines at parallel inputs to one or more other external shift registers to be serialized and serially transmitted to the bus logic, wherein the order in which the states to be driven onto the output signal lines is such that those states corresponding to actual output signal lines are the last states to be serially transmitted, and wherein the order in which the states received from the input signal lines are transmitted to the bus logic is such that those states corresponding to actual input signal lines are transmitted first to the bus logic, thereby also minimizing the quantity of shift registers required externally of the bus logic." The patent application was filed on Nov. 19, 2004 (10/993,702). 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=7,958,290&OS=7,958,290&RS=7,958,290 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Updating Presence Information ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,958,212) developed by Leon Wong, Redmond, Wash., and Peter L. Beebee, Acton, Mass., for an updating presence information. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for updating the presence information of a user associated with one or more clients. The presence information often indicates the status of a user in an instant messaging environment. A client view is associated with each separate client and the master view or status reflected to other subscribers or clients in the instant messaging environment is determined by evaluating each of the separate client views. In this manner the current status of a user may be accurately reflected to a user's subscribers." The patent application was filed on Aug. 31, 2000 (09/652,502). 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=7,958,212&OS=7,958,212&RS=7,958,212 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Identifying Filter Coefficients ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,958,176) developed by John R. Douceur, Bellevue, Wash., Robert P. Fitzgerald, Redmond, Wash., and John W. Miller, Kirkland, Wash., for identifying filter coefficients. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques for identifying coefficients are described. A technique collects sample input values to the filter and identifies desired output values from the filter for the collected sample input values. The technique then generates a power spectrum of the collected sample input values and a power spectrum of the identified desired output values. The technique then calculates the difference between the generated power spectra. Finally, the technique identifies coefficients that yield a filter transfer function that closely approximates the calculated differences. A technique identifies coefficients for a finite impulse response filter. The technique collects sample input values for a function and identifies desired output values for the filter for the collected sample input values. The technique then approximates the output values from the input values using a linear fitting technique. Finally, the technique sets the coefficients to values obtained from the linear-fitting technique." The patent application was filed on April 20, 2006 (11/407,639). 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=7,958,176&OS=7,958,176&RS=7,958,176 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Visual Design of Annotated Regular Expression ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,958,164) developed by Sergei Ivanov, Issaquah, Wash., and J. Kirk Haselden, Sammamish, Wash., for a "visual design of annotated regular expression." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system that provides a visual mechanism (e.g., user interface (UI)) by which a user can design a regular expression is provided. The graphical interactive mechanism enables a user to develop regular expressions without an understanding of the intricacies of the regular expression syntax. The UI can provide an interactive mechanism by which a user can graphically annotate (e.g., color, highlight) a regular expression thus, mapping the expression to a particular tabulated output. The novel UI can provide a particular kind of dialog layout with several controls and dynamically linked views, e.g., a data view, a regular expression view and a column view which can facilitate definition of the regular expression as well as creation of mappings to output columns (e.g., annotations)." The patent application was filed on Feb. 16, 2006 (11/356,383). 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=7,958,164&OS=7,958,164&RS=7,958,164 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method and System for Generating Analogous Fictional Data from Non-fictional Data ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,958,162) developed by Ryan M. Basile, Shoreline, Wash., for a "method and system for generating analogous fictional data from non-fictional data." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for generating analogous fictional data from non-fictional data, is provided. One implementation involves recording non-fictional data, scoring the non-fictional data in terms of occurrence percentile, obtaining a set of user-configurations that represents a likeness range between non-fictional data and corresponding fictional data, based on the scores and the user-configurations, generating analogous fictional data from the non-fictional data, and comparing hash values for the fictional data with hash values for the non-fictional data to determine matches, and in case of matches, generating analogous fictional data from the non-fictional data based on the scores and incrementally lowered likeness range, whereby entire records of fictional data are generated based on entire records of non-fictional data, wherein the fictional data is consistent with the non-fictional data." The patent application was filed on Aug. 28, 2009 (12/549,470). 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=7,958,162&OS=7,958,162&RS=7,958,162 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** F5 Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- F5 Networks, Seattle, has been assigned a patent (7,958,222) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and system for accessing network services." The co-inventors are Joseph A. Pruitt, Duvall, Wash., Bryan D. Skene, Seattle, Patrick D. Jenny, Issaquah, Wash., and Gary N. Mager, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for accessing network services includes a plurality of resolvers including a root resolver and a secondary resolver, each resolver arranged to perform actions comprising determining a set of service locations based at least in part on the service and an address associated with a client. the system includes an intermediate device that manipulates scores returned by a set of resolvers of the plurality of resolvers, wherein the root resolver is further arranged to combine sets of the determined service locations and return a combined set of service locations to the client, and wherein at least one resolver of the plurality of resolvers employs an algorithm that is different from an algorithm employed by another resolver of the plurality of resolvers, wherein each algorithm is employed to determine scores of service locations, wherein the combined set of services locations comprises the scores of service locations." The patent application was filed on Sept. 13, 2010 (12/880,659). 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=7,958,222&OS=7,958,222&RS=7,958,222 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Integration of Unstructed Data into a Database ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,958,167) developed by five co-inventors for an "integration of unstructed data into a database." The co-inventors are Cristian Diaconu, Kirkland, Wash., Michael J. Purtell, Maple Valley, Wash., Arkadi Brjazovski, Redmond, Wash., Vaibhav Kamra, Seattle, and Rohan Kumar, Redmond, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that extends transactional guarantees to unstructured data in a file system. A database engine, configured to retain structured data, can reserve a portion of the file system to store unstructured data to be managed by the database engine. A kernel component can associate a transaction with at least one stream that corresponds to the reserved portion of the file system. The association enables transaction based access to the reserved portion of the file system managed by the database engine." The patent application was filed on March 5, 2008 (12/042,571). 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=7,958,167&OS=7,958,167&RS=7,958,167 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Oracle International Assigned Patent for Identifying a Computer Device ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Oracle International, Redwood Shores, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,958,226) developed by five co-inventors for an "identifying a computer device." The co-inventors are Linda Bernardi, Mercer Island, Wash., Chet Birger, Lexington, Mass., David C. Douglas, Concord, Mass., Steven Rosenthal, Lexington, Mass., and Kenneth R. Traub, Lexington, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer architecture for enterprise device applications that provides a real-time, bi-directional communication layer for device communication. An identity-based communications layer provides for secure, end-to-end telemetry and control communications by enabling mutual authentication and encryption between the devices and the enterprise. A unique identity is assigned to each device, user and application to provide security services. The unique identity is independent of a network-address. Security information and a network address may be associated with the unique identity." The patent application was filed on Feb. 15, 2006 (11/354,819). 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=7,958,226&OS=7,958,226&RS=7,958,226 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Intel Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Performing Logical Compare Operations ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,958,181) developed by five co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for performing logical compare operations." The co-inventors are Rajiv Kapoor, University Place, Wash., Ronen Zohar, Sunnyvale, Calif., Mark Buxton, Chandler, Ariz., Zeev Sperber, Zichron Yaakov, Israel, and Koby Gottlieb, Kiryat Tivon, Israel. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for including in a processor instructions for performing logical-comparison and branch support operations on packed or unpacked data. In one embodiment, a processor is coupled to a memory. The memory has stored therein a first data and a second data. The processor performs logical comparisons on the first and second data. The logical comparisons may be performed on each bit of the first and second data, or may be performed only on certain bits. For at least one embodiment, at least the first data includes packed data elements, and the logical comparisons are performed on the most significant bits of the packed data elements. The logical comparisons may include comparison of the same respective bits of the first and second data, and also includes logical comparisons of bits of the first data with the complement of the corresponding bits of the second data. Based on these comparisons, branch support actions are taken. Such branch support actions may include setting one or more flags, which in turn may be utilized by a branching unit. Alternatively, the branch support actions may include branching to an indicated target code location." The patent application was filed on Sept. 21, 2006 (11/525,706). 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=7,958,181&OS=7,958,181&RS=7,958,181 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Social Network Notifications for External Updates ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,958,193) developed by eight co-inventors for "social network notifications for external updates." The co-inventors are Matt Augustine, Seattle, Jason Blankman, Kirkland, Wash., Vanesa Polo Dominguez, Redmond, Wash., Jay Fluegel, Falls Church, Va., Andrew Ginda, Seattle, Jacob DongJu Kim, Issaquah, Wash., Steve Rosato, Woodinville, Wash., and Sandeepan Sanyal, Sammamish, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various technologies for notifying users of a social network service of updates to services external to the social network service by members of the social network. The external service may be a typical web service, such as blogging, and video and photo sharing services. In one implementation, a member of a social network may register the external service with the social network service. Thereinafter, updates that the user makes on the external service may trigger notifications to members of the user's social network." The patent application was filed on June 27, 2008 (12/147,581). 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=7,958,193&OS=7,958,193&RS=7,958,193 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for User Profile Aggregation ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,958,142) developed by eight co-inventors for an user profile aggregation. The co-inventors are Karvell Li, Bellevue, Wash., Jamie Marconi, Seattle, Rahul Kumar, Kirkland, Wash., Miriam Borkenhagen, Bothell, Wash., David Law, Seattle, Gilbert McQuillan, Austin, Texas, Munir Mahmood, Bellevue, Wash., and Gupta Garuda, Redmond, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "User profile data that may be spread across different service providers and that may vary across different service providers can be aggregated to provide an aggregate user profile. An aggregate user profile can be generated regardless of, among other things, varying user profile semantics, differing data formats, data item conflicts, evolving server protocols and interfaces, and updates to the number, identity, location, and type of servers upon which the service providers are maintained." The patent application was filed on Sept. 20, 2007 (11/901,990). 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=7,958,142&OS=7,958,142&RS=7,958,142 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Voting Based Scheme for Electronic Document Node Reuse ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,958,132) developed by seven co-inventors for a "voting based scheme for electronic document node reuse." The co-inventors are Herry Sutanto, Kirkland, Wash., Jamie Wakeam, Redmond, Wash., Jerome Turner, Redmond, Wash., Richard Duncan, Kirkland, Wash., Sashi Raghupathy, Redmond, Wash., Timothy H. Kannapel, Bellevue, Wash., and Zoltan Szilagyi, Bellevue, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for processing data transform a first data structure (e.g., a hierarchical data structure) into a second data structure (e.g., using a parsing system), wherein the second data structure includes a first set of leaf nodes under a first ancestor node (additional sets of leaf nodes and/or ancestor nodes also may be defined in the second data structure). One or more potential candidate nodes for the ancestor nodes may be identified based, at least in part, on the ancestor nodes from the first data structure associated with the leaf nodes grouped under the new ancestor nodes. In at least some examples, the leaf nodes grouped under a new ancestor node will "vote" for their original ancestor node, and the node receiving the most "votes," in at least some instances, will be reused as the corresponding ancestor node in the second data structure." The patent application was filed on Feb. 10, 2004 (10/774,575). 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=7,958,132&OS=7,958,132&RS=7,958,132 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Invention Science Fund I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Invention Science Fund I, Bellevue, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,957,648) developed by four co-inventors for an "electromagnetic device with integral non-linear component." The co-inventors are W. Daniel Hillis, Encino, Calif., Nathan P. Myhrvold, Medina, Wash., Clarence T. Tegreene, Bellevue, Wash., and Lowell L. Wood Jr., Livermore, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An optical antenna assembly including multiple optical antenna elements, each of the optical antenna elements are arranged in a regular pattern and carried by a supporting body. The regular pattern of the plurality of optical antenna elements is nonuniform. Certain ones of the optical antenna elements are configured to respond to the one or more waves of light." The patent application was filed on Oct. 31, 2005 (11/263,539). 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=7,957,648.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,648&RS=PN/7,957,648 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Similarity-based Content Sampling and Relevance Feedback ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,958,130) developed by Dragos A. Manolescu, Kirkland, Wash., for a "similarity-based content sampling and relevance feedback." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and a system may be provided to sample media content similar to media content enjoyed by a user. Feature vectors, which describe a number of characteristics, with respect to media content enjoyed by the user, may be employed to find similar media content from a media library, or a media service. The similar media content may be played, interleaved with requested media content. Relevance feedback, with respect to played media content, may be transparently or explicitly provided. The feature vectors may be updated based on the provided relevance feedback. Additional similar media content may be found from the media library, or the media service, based on the updated feature vectors, and may be played. An interface may be provided such that the user may purchase sampled, media content via a media device for playing the content." The patent application was filed on May 26, 2008 (12/127,002). 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=7,958,130&OS=7,958,130&RS=7,958,130 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** AT&T Mobility II Assigned Patent for Terminal-based Server for Location Tracking ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- AT&T Mobility II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (7,957,753) developed by Shailender Timiri, Bellevue, Wash., and Marc Sather, Kingston, Wash., for a "terminal-based server for location tracking." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A mobile terminal device that facilitates location services (LCS) in a cellular network. The system, as embodied in a mobile terminal device, comprises a mobile communications component that communicates wireless signals, and a location services component embodied in the mobile communication component to provide positioning information. A location request is received by the mobile terminal device and processed using the LCS server to activate trigger events. A location-tracking report is autonomously generated for each event and transmitted to the requesting client via MLP or the wireless network signaling protocol." The patent application was filed on Dec. 21, 2009 (12/642,966). 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=7,957,753.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,753&RS=PN/7,957,753 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Mobility II Assigned Patent for General Purpose Automated Activation and Provisioning Technologies ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- AT&T Mobility II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (7,957,728) developed by Catherine Kalke, Seattle, for a "general purpose automated activation and provisioning technologies." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Automated activation and provisioning technologies can be applied in a variety of scenarios. For example, an automated activation and provisioning server can translate user desired features into associated provisioning directives. The directives can then be sent to elements of a wireless communications network support system. Activation and provisioning for a rich set of features can thus be achieved without manual intervention or reaction to the user's choices. Receipt of the user's choices can be accomplished in real time via a user interface of a mobile wireless device or a web-based user interface." The patent application was filed on May 14, 2009 (12/466,287). 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=7,957,728.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,728&RS=PN/7,957,728 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Mobility II Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Indicating to a Wireless Network the Operational Mode of a Wireless Communicator ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- AT&T Mobility II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (7,957,724) developed by Ileana A. Leuca, Bellevue, Wash., and Michael Allen Raffel, Redmond, Wash., for a "method and apparatus for indicating to a wireless network the operational mode of a wireless communicator." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for communicating on a wireless network includes receiving a mode signal from a network node. The mode signal represents an operational mode of the network node. The operational mode is defined by selecting from among a plurality of services at least one service whose reception over the wireless network is to be suspended or reinstated. Communication between the network node and the wireless network is subsequently conducted by taking into account the received mode signal. The network node may be a wireless communicator such as a cellular telephone or a fixed station device. Alternatively, the network node may be a wireless switch or a cellular base station." The patent application was filed on April 21, 2008 (12/106,938). 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=7,957,724.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,724&RS=PN/7,957,724 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Boeing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Boeing, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (7,957,735) developed by Donald B. Lee, Shoreline, Wash., and Bradley J. Mitchell, Snohomish, Wash., for a "system and method for associating a wireless mobile communications device with a specific vehicle." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A communications system may include a first transceiver and a second transceiver both mountable to a vehicle. The first transceiver may include a range substantially limited to a close proximity of the vehicle. The communications system may also include a mobile communications device. The mobile communications device may be adapted to receive a signal from the first transceiver when within the range of the first transceiver. The signal may include information useable by the mobile communications device for configuration of the mobile communications device for two-way communications with the second transceiver." The patent application was filed on Sept. 15, 2010 (12/882,740). 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=7,957,735.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,735&RS=PN/7,957,735 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Weighted Linear Bilingual Word Alignment Model ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,957,953) developed by Robert C. Moore, Mercer Island, Wash., for a "weighted linear bilingual word alignment model." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A weighted linear word alignment model linearly combines weighted features to score a word alignment for a bilingual, aligned pair of text fragments. The features are each weighted by a feature weight. One of the features is a word association metric, which may be generated from surface statistics." The patent application was filed on Oct. 3, 2005 (11/242,290). 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=7,957,953.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,953&RS=PN/7,957,953 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Data Domains in Multidimensional Databases ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,958,122) developed by five co-inventors for a "data domains in multidimensional databases." The co-inventors are Mosha Pasumansky, Redmond, Wash., Alexander Berger, Sammamish, Wash., Dmitry Berger, Redmond, Wash., Irina Gorbach, Bellevue, Wash., and Marius Dumitru, Issaquah, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and method for creating multidimensional data cubes containing data domains for analyzing large amounts of data are provided. Data domains may be included in the major object of a multidimensional data cube. Further embodiments of the present invention provide methods for querying multidimensional data cubes having data domains. Embodiments of the present invention provide for defining data domains by any object in the major object model and for defining parent and child data domains." The patent application was filed on March 5, 2008 (12/042,707). 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=7958122.PN.&OS=PN/7958122&RS=PN/7958122 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Detecting Estimation Errors in Dictinct Page Counts ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,958,114) developed by Surajit Chaudhuri, Redmond, Wash., Vivek Narasayya, Redmond, Wash., and Ravishankar Ramamurthy, Redmond, Wash., for "detecting estimation errors in dictinct page counts." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A database server may be configured to compute distinct page counts of pages accessed to execute operands of respective queries. The queries may be executed against a table comprised of the pages and having an index managed by the database server. The distinct page counts may be obtained by counting, as a part of the executing of the queries, distinct pages accessed during the execution of the queries." The patent application was filed on April 4, 2008 (12/098,178). 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=7958114.PN.&OS=PN/7958114&RS=PN/7958114 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Oracle International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Oracle International, Redwood Shores, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,958,112) developed by four co-inventors for an "interleaving query transformations for XML indexes." The co-inventors are Sivasankaran Chandrasekar, Menlo Park, Calif., Asha Tarachandani, Newark, Calif., Thomas Baby, Maple Valley, Wash., and Nipun Agarwal, Santa Clara, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "During query optimization, XML index and view merge transformations may be interleaved." The patent application was filed on Aug. 8, 2008 (12/189,007). 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=7958112.PN.&OS=PN/7958112&RS=PN/7958112 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Columbia University Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Columbia University, New York, has been assigned a patent (7,958,063) developed by Xi Long, Seattle, W. Louis Cleveland, New York, and Y. Lawrence Yao, New York, for "methods and systems for identifying and localizing objects based on features of the objects that are mapped to a vector." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of identifying and localizing objects belonging to one of three or more classes, includes deriving vectors, each being mapped to one of the objects, where each of the vectors is an element of an N-dimensional space. The method includes training an ensemble of binary classifiers with a CISS technique, using an ECOC technique. For each object corresponding to a class, the method includes calculating a probability that the associated vector belongs to a particular class, using an ECOC probability estimation technique. In another embodiment, increased detection accuracy is achieved by using images obtained with different contrast methods. A nonlinear dimensional reduction technique, Kernel PCA, was employed to extract features from the multi-contrast composite image. The Kernel PCA preprocessing shows improvements over traditional linear PCA preprocessing possibly due to its ability to capture high-order, nonlinear correlations in the high dimensional image space." The patent application was filed on April 25, 2007 (11/789,571). 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=7958063.PN.&OS=PN/7958063&RS=PN/7958063 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Kerika Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Kerika, Issaquah, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,958,080) developed by Arun Kumar, Issaquah, Wash., and Michael Mowery, Seattle, for an "idea page system and method." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Ideas, groups of ideas, projects, documents, and related materials may be depicted, organized, modified, and shared according to Idea Page systems, methods, and user interfaces. Published workflow templates may additionally be copied into a user context, modified, and depicted in a multi-level visual space, including first-level ideas organized and visually arranged in a first-level idea page, and second-level ideas organized and visually arranged in a second-level idea page." The patent application was filed on April 16, 2009 (12/425,337). 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=7958080.PN.&OS=PN/7958080&RS=PN/7958080 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Amazon Technologies, Incline Village, Nev., has been assigned a patent (7,958,061) developed by four co-inventors for a "dynamic determination of item returns during transit." The co-inventors are Felix F. Antony, Issaquah, Wash., Donald Kaufman, Kirkland, Wash., Weiling Yang, Sammamish, Wash., and Jeffrey D. Evarts, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques are described for automatically and dynamically determining how to handle items being returned from customers while the items are in transit. Various factors may be considered to determine appropriate item return handling, including by assessing current conditions at the time of the determination. In addition, the dynamic item return handling may include selecting one of various potential return destinations for each item being returned and one of various types of return routing for the return. In some situations, the item return handling is performed for an item being returned from a customer while the item is at an intermediate shipping location, such as a selected location to which the customer was directed to send the item. This abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an abstract, and with the intention that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims." The patent application was filed on Oct. 5, 2009 (12/573,790). 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=7958061.PN.&OS=PN/7958061&RS=PN/7958061 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Washington Inventor Develops Patent for Business Method for Giving and Tracking Gifts ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Michael Andrew Miner, White Salmon, Wash., has developed a patent (7,958,060) for a "business method for giving and tracking gifts." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A business method for distributing gifts. The method employs a gift wrap which is marked with a specific code number. The wrap is sold by an originator to a customer who places a gift within the wrap and mails or delivers the package to a first recipient. The customer inputs to the originator's website information comprising the wrap's code number, his name and address and the name and address of the first recipient. Then the first recipient inputs to the website information comprising the code number, his name and address and the name and address of any other recipient to whom the same wrap is sent with another gift. The information is sorted and stored in a database. The customer and first and any subsequent recipient of a wrap access the website over the internet to view the track history of the wrap." The patent application was filed on Oct. 2, 2003 (10/677,677). 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=7958060.PN.&OS=PN/7958060&RS=PN/7958060 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Online Computation of Market Equilibrium Price ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,958,040) developed by Kamal Jain, Bellevue, Wash., and Kunal Talwar, Seattle, for an "online computation of market equilibrium price." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Auction prices for a quantity of items, the quantity of which is not determined prior to auction, are equilibrated among bidders to reflect supply and demand for the items. For example, in auctioning Internet advertising opportunities, the first available opportunities are auctioned to a high bidder. Later in the course of the auction period, once the high bidder's budget has been exhausted, the price for advertising opportunities is reduced. The difference in price paid by the high bidder and the reduced price for the quantity of advertising opportunities purchased is credited to the high bidder's account. Once the high bidder's account regains a level sufficient to acquire additional advertising opportunities, the high bidder may continue to acquire advertising opportunities. Other bidders similarly are credited the difference between prices previously paid and the current price. An equilibrium price is reached based on the recursive adjustment of prices paid by the bidders." The patent application was filed on June 3, 2005 (11/145,051). 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=7958040.PN.&OS=PN/7958040&RS=PN/7958040 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Invention Science Fund I Assigned Patent for Virtual Credit in Simulated Environments ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Invention Science Fund I, Bellevue, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,958,047) developed by four co-inventors for a "virtual credit in simulated environments." The co-inventors are Edward K.Y. Jung, Bellevue, Wash., Royce A. Levien, Lexington, Mass., Mark A. Malamud, Seattle, and John D. Rinaldo Jr., Bellevue, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system provides for the use of credit arrangements in simulated environments. A user can participate in credit transactions involving purchases of virtual products, virtual services, and virtual items of value. Feedback is provided to the user regarding results of the credit transactions. In some embodiments multiple users can make simulated purchases or incur simulated credit obligations that are posted to virtual accounts, and the multiple users can also make simulated compensation against balances due or obligations owed for said virtual accounts. The user is also provided with an opportunity of engaging in real-world financial transactions related to the virtual credit arrangement. In some implementations of the system and method, multiple players at different locations can use virtual charge accounts and/or real world financial accounts in connection with arranging or resolving a virtual credit transaction." The patent application was filed on Feb. 4, 2005 (11/051,514). 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=7958047.PN.&OS=PN/7958047&RS=PN/7958047 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Invention Science Fund I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Invention Science Fund I, Bellevue, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,958,051) developed by six co-inventors for "using payment mode rankings responsive to item attributes." The co-inventors are Edward K.Y. Jung, Bellevue, Wash., Royce A. Levien, Lexington, Mass., Robert W. Lord, Seattle, Mark A. Malamud, Seattle, John D. Rinaldo Jr., Bellevue, Wash., and Lowell L. Wood Jr., Livermore, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for obtaining at least some mode rankings responsive to one or more categorical attributes of a first item and to one or more payment mode use constraints, and transmitting at least an indication of a payment mode." The patent application was filed on Feb. 28, 2006 (11/364,502). 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=7958051.PN.&OS=PN/7958051&RS=PN/7958051 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Medtronic Assigned Patent for Non-invasive Cardiac Potentiation Therapy ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Medtronic, Minneapolis, has been assigned a patent (7,957,799) developed by five co-inventors for a "non-invasive cardiac potentiation therapy." The co-inventors are Joseph L. Sullivan, Kirkland, Wash., Fred W. Chapman, Renton, Wash., Robert G. Walker, Bothell, Wash., William J. Havel, Maple Grove, Minn., and D. Curtis Deno, Andover, Minn. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An external cardiac medical device for delivering Cardiac Potentiation Therapy (CPT). Techniques used with the device include initial diagnosis of the patient, delivery of the CPT, and configuration of the external device, so that CPT can be effectively and efficiently provided. In particular, these techniques include initially determining whether a patient should receive CPT, how to set the coupling interval for delivering CPT, how to configure the external medical device to deliver CPT stimulation pulses while not adversely affecting the device's ability to sense a patient's cardiac parameters and/or signals." The patent application was filed on April 30, 2007 (11/742,063). 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=7,957,799.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,799&RS=PN/7,957,799 Written by Ankita Das; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Physio-Control Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Physio-Control, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,957,798) developed by eleven co-inventors for a "defibrillator/monitor system having a pod with leads capable of wirelessly communicating." The co-inventors are Christopher Pearce, Monroe, Wash., Thomas J. McGrath, Everett, Wash., Randy L. Merry, Woodinville, Wash., John C. Daynes, Redmond, Wash., Kenneth J. Peterson, Bellevue, Wash., Peter Wung, Redmond, Wash., Michael D. McMahon, Lake Forest Park, Wash., D. Craig Edwards, Fall City, Wash., Eric T. Hoierman, Bothell, Wash., Rockland W. Nordness, Kirkland, Wash., and James S. Neumiller, Redmond, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A modular external defibrillator system in embodiments of the teachings may include one or more of the following features: a base containing a defibrillator to deliver a defibrillation shock to a patient, (b) one or more pods each connectable to a patient via patient lead cables to collect at least one patient vital sign, the pods operable at a distance from the base, (c) a wireless communications link between the base and a selected one of the two or more pods to carry the at least one vital sign from the selected pod to the base, the selection being based on which pod is associated with the base." The patent application was filed on Dec. 17, 2004 (10/583,209). 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=7,957,798.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,798&RS=PN/7,957,798 Written by Ankita Das; edited by Jaya Anand. 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. -1050516 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |