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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in New Jersey (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 New Jersey. *** GE Healthcare Bio-Sciences Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 8 -- GE Healthcare Bio-Sciences, Piscataway, N.J., has been assigned a patent (7,957,911) developed by five co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for screening chemical compounds." The co-inventors are Timothy D. Harris, Toms River, N.J., Richard L. Hansen, Pennington, N.J., William Karsh, Plainsboro, N.J., Neal A. Nicklaus, East Windsor, N.J., and Jay K. Trautman, Pennington, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus for screening large numbers of chemical compounds and performing a wide variety of fluorescent assays, including live cell assays. The methods utilize a laser linescan confocal microscope with high speed, high resolution and multi-wavelength capabilities and real time data-processing. Imaging may be done at video-rates and with use of ultraviolet illumination." The patent application was filed on Feb. 8, 2008 (12/028,345). 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=7,957,911.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,911&RS=PN/7,957,911 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** New Jersey Inventors Develops Patent for Tracking Vehicle Locations in a Parking Lot for Definitive Display on a Gui ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Gaurav Chowdhary, Edison, N.J., and Sachin Chaudhry, Edison, N.J. has developed a patent (7,957,900) for a "tracking vehicle locations in a parking lot for definitive display on a GUI." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer implemented method for displaying on a map a definitive image of precise locations of multiple mobile objects such as vehicles in a lot. The lot is mapped digitally to display precise locations of sub-areas of different types, such as parking and movement slots and their raw, approximate distances from vehicles are determined from approximate coordinates of vehicles obtained remotely. A data base of vehicle and sub-area types is established and a vehicle placement matrix is determined providing probabilities of respective sub-areas being occupiable by respective vehicles derived from business environment rules based on compatibilities of respective vehicle types with respect sub-area types. Raw, approximate distances of vehicles from sub-areas are divided by the probabilities to provided adjusted distances, sub-areas ranked by least adjusted distances and the respective vehicles placed in their top ranked sub-areas for more accurate display of location on a GUI." The patent application was filed on Feb. 8, 2008 (12/028,262). 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=7,957,900.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,900&RS=PN/7,957,900 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** MITRE Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- MITRE, McLean, Va., has been assigned a patent (7,957,853) developed by five co-inventors for a "flight restriction zone detection and avoidance." The co-inventors are Todd Michael Stock, Germantown, Md., James Daniel Nickum, Bristow, Va., Doyle Travis Peed, Roxboro, N.C., Frank J. Ruscil Jr., West Long Branch, N.J., and Jonathan L. Schwartz, Oak Hill, Va. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system and computer program product to detect and indicating TFR zone violations, potential TFR zone violations or TFR zones in vicinity of an aircraft and indicating measures to avoid or exit a TFR zone are provided. TFR zone information and an aircraft's position information are received. The aircraft's position information is processed to determine the aircraft's current heading. A TFR zone violation is determined based on the aircraft's current position. A potential TFR violation is determined based on whether the aircraft's current heading intersects a TFR zone. The presence of a TFR zone in the vicinity of the aircraft is determined based on the aircraft's current position and heading. Indicators of a TFR violation, potential TFR violation, no TFR violation or TFR zones in the vicinity are provided. If a TFR violation, or possible TFR violation or TFR zone in the vicinity are found, measures are indicated to exit the TFR zone or change the aircraft's current heading to avoid the TFR zone." The patent application was filed on June 13, 2006 (11/451,415). 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=7,957,853.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,853&RS=PN/7,957,853 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Lockheed Martin Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Lockheed Martin, Bethesda, Md., has been assigned a patent (7,957,854) developed by Neil E. Goodzeit, Princeton, N.J., and Harald J. Weigl, Doylestown, Pa., for an "active vibration damping (AVD) system for precision pointing spacecraft." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An active vibration damping (AVD) control system for spacecraft provides a simple-to-implement and robust formulation that provides a novel damping control method for reducing spacecraft structural vibrations and improving antenna and instrument pointing. The AVD control system comprises an excitation signal generator configured to generate excitation input signals, and a damping model identification unit configured to receive system identification data and configured to produce control model parameters, the system identification data comprising the excitation input signals and information associated with motion of the spacecraft. The AVD control system further comprises an AVD control unit configured to receive the control model parameters, the AVD control unit configured to produce AVD control signals to control one or more actuators of the spacecraft." The patent application was filed on Oct. 28, 2010 (12/914,885). 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=7,957,854.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,854&RS=PN/7,957,854 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** ARRIS Group Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- ARRIS Group, Suwanee, Ga., has been assigned a patent (7,957,600) developed by Kyeong Ho Yang, Freehold, N.J., for "methods and systems for rate-distortion optimized quantization of transform blocks in block transform video coding." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Provided are methods and systems for rate-distortion optimized quantization and for skipping transform blocks that can take into account the rate-distortion tradeoff as well as the perceptual quality of reconstructed video." The patent application was filed on May 8, 2007 (11/737,632). 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=79,57,600.PN.&OS=PN/79,57,600&RS=PN/79,57,600 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** OFS Fitel Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- OFS Fitel, Norcross, Ga., has been assigned a patent (7,957,619) developed by Jeffrey W. Nicholson, Morristown, N.J., and Andrew D. Yablon, Livingston, N.J., for an "all-fiber module for femtosecond pulse compression and supercontinuum generation." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An all-fiber optical pulse compression arrangement comprises a concatenated arrangement of a section of input fiber (e.g., a single mode fiber), a graded-index (GRIN) fiber lens and a section of pulse-compressing fiber (e.g., LMA fiber). The GRIN fiber lens is used to provide mode matching between the input fiber (supporting the propagation of chirped optical pulses) and the pulse-compressing fiber, with efficient pulse compression occurring along the length of the LMA fiber. The dispersion and length of the LMA fiber section are selected to provide the desired degree of pulse compression; for example, capable of reconstituting a femtosecond pulse as is used in supercontinuum generation systems." The patent application was filed on Oct. 26, 2010 (12/911,809). 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=79,57,619.PN.&OS=PN/79,57,619&RS=PN/79,57,619 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Siemens Medical Solutions USA Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Malvern, Pa., has been assigned a patent (7,957,591) developed by five co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for performing segmentation based on partial differential equations." The co-inventors are Gozde Unal, West Windsor, N.J., Bertrand Peny, Fechy, Switzerland, Gregory G. Slabaugh, Princeton, N.J., Christopher Alvino, Allenwood, N.J., and Tong Fang, Morganville, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed is a method and system for propagating information about an image to segment a target structure. An input to denote a region of interest of the image containing the target structure is received. A first seed is set outside of the target structure and a second seed is set inside the target structure. A first partial differential equation (PDE) associated with the first seed is solved and a second PDE associated with the second seed is solved to segment the image." The patent application was filed on Oct. 5, 2006 (11/538,849). 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=79,57,591.PN.&OS=PN/79,57,591&RS=PN/79,57,591 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** General Electric Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- General Electric, Schenectady, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,957,582) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and system for correction of fluoroscope image distortion." The co-inventors are Dun Alex Li, Salem, N.J., Joseph Casey Crager, Newton, Mass., Peter Kelley, Hampton Falls, N.H., and Andrey Litvin, Waltham, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Certain embodiments of the present invention provide for a system and method for modeling S-distortion in an image intensifier. In an embodiment, the method may include identifying a reference coordinate on an input screen of the image intensifier. The method also includes computing a set of charged particle velocity vectors. The method also includes computing a set of magnetic field vectors. The method also includes computing the force exerted on the charged particle in an image intensifier. Certain embodiments of the present invention include an iterative method for calibrating an image acquisition system with an analytic S-distortion model. In an embodiment, the method may include comparing the difference between the measured fiducial shadow positions and the model fiducial positions with a threshold value. If the difference is less than the threshold value, the optical distortion parameters are used for linearizing the set of acquired images." The patent application was filed on June 21, 2007 (11/766,455). 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=79,57,582.PN.&OS=PN/79,57,582&RS=PN/79,57,582 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** CommVault Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- CommVault Systems, Oceanport, N.J., has been assigned a patent (7,958,307) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and system for grouping storage system components." The co-inventors are Srinivas Kavuri, Hyderabad, India, Anand Prahlad, Bangalore, India, Anand Vibhor, Eatontown, N.J., and Parag Gokhale, Marlboro, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems are provided for associating a storage system component, e.g. a server, client, machine, sub-client, or other storage system component, with one or more other storage system components into a group. Storage preferences are defined for the group which is automatically associated with each component in the group. The storage preferences define how storage operations are to be performed on the storage system components." The patent application was filed on Dec. 3, 2010 (12/960,323). 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=7,958,307&OS=7,958,307&RS=7,958,307 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Siemens Assigned Patent for Fast Object Detection for Augmented Reality Systems ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Siemens, Iselin, N.J., has been assigned a patent (7,957,584) developed by Hesam Najafi, West Windsor, N.J., and Yakup Genc, Dayton, N.J., for a "fast object detection for augmented reality systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A detection method is based on a statistical analysis of the appearance of model patches from all possible viewpoints in the scene, and incorporates 3D geometry during both matching and pose estimation processes. By analyzing the computed probability distribution of the visibility of each patch from different viewpoints, a reliability measure for each patch is estimated. That reliability measure is useful for developing industrial augmented reality applications. Using the method, the pose of complex objects can be estimated efficiently given a single test image." The patent application was filed on March 4, 2010 (12/717,195). 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=79,57,584.PN.&OS=PN/79,57,584&RS=PN/79,57,584 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (7,958,231) developed by David Shur, Holmdel, N.J., and Aleksandr Zelezniak, Matawan, N.J., for a "method for redirection of web streaming clients using lightweight available bandwidth measurement." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a method for selecting a server to provide content to a client is presented. A media controller receives a request from a client for content. The media controller instructs a plurality of servers each storing the content required by the client to perform a bandwidth measurement referred to in the disclosure as a bandwidth probe. The result of the bandwidth probe is communicated to the media controller. The media controller selects a server (i.e., an identified server) for communication with the client based on the result and communicates the selection in the form of a redirect command to the client. The client then communicates directly with the identified server." The patent application was filed on Nov. 10, 2008 (12/268,431). 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=7,958,231&OS=7,958,231&RS=7,958,231 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Siemens Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Malvern, Pa., and Siemens, Munich, Germany, has been assigned a patent (7,957,601) developed by Qiang Cheng, Plainsboro, N.J., Michael Pisot, Erlangen, Germany, and Min Xie, Plainsboro, N.J., for "systems and methods of inter-frame compression." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for rendering images, and performing operations such as windowing and leveling, when the parameters of a client appliance are known and rendering images when the parameters of a client appliance are unknown. The invention also considers the rendering from the client appliance perspective and the server appliance perspective." The patent application was filed on April 18, 2007 (11/788,005). 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=79,57,601.PN.&OS=PN/79,57,601&RS=PN/79,57,601 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** McKesson Specialty Arizona Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- McKesson Specialty Arizona, Scottsdale, Ariz., has been assigned a patent (7,957,983) developed by Steve Hoffman, Scottsdale, Ariz., Steve Mink, Scottsdale, Ariz., and Philip Villavicencio, Sparta, N.J., for a "healthcare provider, administrator and method for effectuating a medication therapy management, adherence and pharmacosurveillance program." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method is provided that includes initiating adjudication of a primary claim in response to a purchase transaction at a primary payer for a client at a point of sale of a healthcare provider, and adjudicating one or more services of a program of the administrator to which the client is enrolled and/or one or more secondary benefits following the adjudication of the primary claim. The purchase transaction is applicable to the respective program and the respective secondary benefit, and the program includes one or more services. The method also includes providing the one or more services and/or secondary benefits to the client in response to adjudicating the one or more services and/or secondary benefits." The patent application was filed on March 29, 2007 (11/693,170). 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=7,957,983.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,983&RS=PN/7,957,983 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent for Method and System for Predicting Problematic Situations in Automated Dialog ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (7,957,970) developed by five co-inventors for a "method and system for predicting problematic situations in automated dialog." The co-inventors are Allen Louis Gorin, Berkeley Heights, N.J., Irene Langkilde Geary, Los Angeles, Diane Judith Litman, Maplewood, N.J., Marilyn Ann Walker, Morristown, N.J., and Jeremy H. Wright, Warren, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The invention concerns a system and method of predicting problematic dialogs in an automated dialog system based on the user's input communications. The method may include determining whether a probability of conducting a successful dialog with the user exceeds a first threshold. The successful dialog may be defined as a dialog exchange between an automated dialog system and the user that results in at least one of processing of the user's input communication and routing the user's input communication. The method may further operate such that if the first threshold is exceeded, further dialog is conducted with the user. Otherwise, the user may be directed to a human for assistance. In another possible embodiment, the method operates as above except that if the probability exceeds a second threshold, the second threshold being higher than the first, then further dialog is conducted with the user using the current dialog strategy. However, if the probability falls between a first threshold and a second threshold, the dialog strategy may be adapted in order to improve the chances of conducting a successful dialog with the user. This process may be cumulative. In particular, the first dialog exchange may be stored in a database. Then, a second dialog exchange is conducted with the user. As a result, a second determination is made as whether successful dialog can be conducted based on the stored first exchange and the current second exchanges. This cumulative process may continue using a third and fourth exchange, if necessary." The patent application was filed on Nov. 21, 2006 (11/562,080). 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=7,957,970.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,970&RS=PN/7,957,970 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (7,957,971) developed by five co-inventors for a "system and method of spoken language understanding using word confusion networks." The co-inventors are Allen Louis Gorin, Berkeley Heights, N.J., Dilek Z. Hakkani-Tur, Parsippany, N.J., Giuseppe Riccardi, Hoboken, N.J., Gokhan Tur, Parsippany, N.J., and Jeremy Huntley Wright, Berkeley Heights, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Word lattices that are generated by an automatic speech recognition system are used to generate a modified word lattice that is usable by a spoken language understanding module. In one embodiment, the spoken language understanding module determines a set of salient phrases by calculating an intersection of the modified word lattice, which is optionally preprocessed, and a finite state machine that includes a plurality of salient grammar fragments." The patent application was filed on June 12, 2009 (12/483,853). 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=7,957,971.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,971&RS=PN/7,957,971 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Accenture Global Services Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Accenture Global Services, Dublin, Ireland, has been assigned a patent (7,957,991) developed by Michael G. Mikurak, Hamilton, N.J., for a "technology sharing during demand and supply planning in a network-based supply chain environment." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system, method, and article of manufacture are provided for technology sharing during demand and supply planning in a network-based supply chain environment. Steps included are providing locator and mapping capabilities utilizing the network. Technology that includes streaming audio, stereo audio and video data is also shared utilizing the network. Encryption capabilities for the technology are also included. Further, searching capabilities are provided utilizing the network in addition to logging events and passive user profiling. The event logging includes logging network operations. User profile data is automatically received and stored. User profile data includes user identity, state, preferences and interests. User profile data is also automatically exported to an active profile manager which automatically adds additional user profile data. Additional user profile data includes information related to whether the user is a service provider or a manufacturer and the location of user." The patent application was filed on Feb. 27, 2006 (11/363,926). 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=7,957,991.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,991&RS=PN/7,957,991 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Google Assigned Patent for Query-independent Entity Importance in Books ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,958,128) developed by five co-inventors for "query-independent entity importance in books." The co-inventors are David Petrou, Brooklyn, N.Y., Chiu-Ki Chan, Sunnyvale, Calif., Daniel Loreto, New York, Jeffrey C. Reynar, New York, and Nikola Jevtic, Newark, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A corpus contains information including text from books and metadata about the books. The book texts mention entities of various types, such as location, date, event, and person entities. An entity importance engine analyzes the information in the corpus to identify the entities mentioned therein, and ranks the entities using query-independent importance scores. The importance scores can be based in part on the contexts in which the entities are mentioned by the books. A presentation engine enables searching of the corpus to identify books satisfying a search query. The presentation engine presents information about a designated book. Entities mentioned in the book are presented in a style selected to enhance comprehension and utility. For example, location entities can be presented on a map with markers showing the locations of the entities. The number of entities presented are limited and ordered based on the query-independent importance scores." The patent application was filed on July 15, 2010 (12/837,206). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,958,128&OS=7,958,128&RS=7,958,128 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Alcatel-Lucent USA Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Alcatel-Lucent USA, Murray Hill, N.J., has been assigned a patent (7,957,643) developed by five co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for automatically controlling optical signal power in optical transmission systems." The co-inventors are Robert D. Feldman, Middleton, N.J., Janet M. Greenberg, Freehold, N.J., Mile Radovanovic, Morganville, N.J., Singanallur R. Thangavelu, Dayton, N.J., and William A. Thompson, Red Bank, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for controlling the power level of an optical signal includes detecting the loss of a supervisory signal counter-propagating in an optical fiber." The patent application was filed on March 7, 2002 (10/092,746). 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=7,957,643.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,643&RS=PN/7,957,643 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Constad Transfer Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Constad Transfer, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (7,958,151) developed by Charles M. Basner, Lebanon, N.J., for a "voice operated, matrix-connected, artificially intelligent address book system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An online address book system having sufficient hardware and software to operate an address book user interface and to perform intelligent interpretations of voice and text inputs from users. The system includes at least one server software module that includes software to perform a plurality of functions. These include the ability to receive voice input data and separate user voice queries, wherein the software can arrange the data so as to create a data base that includes at least three access dimensions, including contact access, contact-relationship access and contact-time frame access, and so as to create a connectivity matrix based on a plurality of contact pair relationships applying connective recognition logic. The system provides a voice operated user interface that permits access to address book stored data based on user input selected from the group consisting of contact, a contact-relationship pair, a contact-time frame pair, and combinations thereof." The patent application was filed on Nov. 15, 2006 (11/599,870). 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=7,958,151&OS=7,958,151&RS=7,958,151 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Semandex Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Semandex Networks, Princeton, N.J., has been assigned a patent (7,958,155) developed by sevwn co-inventors for "systems and methods for the management of information to enable the rapid dissemination of actionable information." The co-inventors are Jeffrey David Mershon, Lambertville, N.J., Jef Russell Armstrong, Princeton, N.J., Daniel Reininger, Princeton, N.J., Andrew Jacob Cohen, Flemington, N.J., Raymond William Kulberda, Kendall Park, N.J., Dhananjay D. Makwana, North Brunswick, N.J., and Rajeev Mago, Jamesburg, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, systems and media are provided for turning large volumes of globally distributed data into actionable information by building a distributed semantic graph and maintaining such graph with up to date changes in data and client needs are provided. The semantic graph can be used to run subscriptions over interconnected semantic servers where each server can be capable of coupling to data sources, client applications and other semantic servers." The patent application was filed on April 17, 2008 (12/148,177). 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=7,958,155&OS=7,958,155&RS=7,958,155 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** SRI International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- SRI International, Menlo Park, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,957,562) developed by Peng Chang, Pittsburgh, David Hirvonen, Portland, Ore., and Theodore Armand Camus, Mount Laurel, N.J., for a "method and apparatus for ground detection and removal in vision systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A vision system that forms a map of a scene proximate a platform, e.g., a vehicle, that determines the actual ground plane form the map, and that corrects the map for differences between the actual ground plane and an assumed ground plane. The vision system may remove the actual ground plane from the map to prevent false positives. The vision system can further identify and classify objects and, if appropriate, take evasive action." The patent application was filed on May 8, 2006 (11/429,865). 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=7957562.PN.&OS=PN/7957562&RS=PN/7957562 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Qualcomm Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (7,957,757) developed by Samel Celebi, Basking Ridge, N.J., Charles Stanski, Belvidere, N.J., and Sundeep Rangan, Jersey City, N.J., for an "open loop power offset update." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Provided is an feedback mechanism to correct power control information in a broadcast signal that is determined to be incorrect by one or more devices that receive and rely on the broadcast information. A device that receives the incorrect broadcast information can determine a correction and to the information and provide a recommendation to the source of the broadcast information. The source can selectively determine whether to modify the broadcast information based on the recommendation from one or more devices. If the broadcast information is modified, subsequent devices that receive the broadcast information are provided with the modified information. If further changes are needed, the subsequent devices can provide further recommended changes." The patent application was filed on July 5, 2007 (11/773,939). 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=7,957,757.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,757&RS=PN/7,957,757 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (7,957,742) developed by Zoran Kostic, Holmdel, N.J., Kin K. Leung, Edison, N.J., and Hujun Yin, Whitehall, Pa., for a "WLAN having load balancing by access point admission/termination." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A network includes access points that admit/terminate mobile station associations based upon the loading level of the access point and/or whether a mobile station can associate with a further access point. Mobile stations transmit information indicative of the access points to which they can associate. The access points determine whether to admit/terminate a mobile station association based upon access point loading." The patent application was filed on June 20, 2008 (12/214,721). 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=7,957,742.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,742&RS=PN/7,957,742 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Jagtag Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Jagtag, Princeton, N.J., has been assigned a patent (7,958,081) developed by Dudley Fitzpatrick, Pennington, N.J., and Jason Alan Snyder, Philadelphia, for an "apparatuses, methods and systems for information querying and serving on mobile devices based on ambient conditions." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The disclosure details the implementation of apparatuses, methods, and systems for information querying and serving on mobile devices based on ambient conditions. Such conditions may include weather, traffic, market prices, news and events, and/or the like. Information and/or advertisement providers may use a code triggered information server to serve context, demographic, and behavior targeted information to users via mobile devices. Users, in turn, trigger the provision of information by scanning or observing codes or information. The scans, together with geographic, temporal, and user-specific information, are obtained by the server that receives, processes, and records the message. Based on these messages and a user profile--which may include continuously updated user-specific behavior information, situational and ambient information, an accumulated history of scanned code messages, and integration with outside database information--the server selects information to serve to the users' mobile devices from an information base. In one embodiment, information may also be served to users based solely on the user profiles and ambient conditions, and without any initiating code scan. This is based on the accumulated history of scanned codes, which yields behavioral information about a user, including user space-time trajectories." The patent application was filed on Sept. 28, 2007 (11/864,745). 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=7958081.PN.&OS=PN/7958081&RS=PN/7958081 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (7,958,075) developed by six co-inventors for "compressing rectilinear pictures and minimizing access control lists." The co-inventors are David L. Applegate, Maplewood, N.J., Gruia Calinescu, Wilmette, Ill., David S. Johnson, Madison, N.J., Howard Karloff, New York, Katrina Ligett, Pittsburgh, and Jia Wang, Randolph, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A geometric model is considered for the problem of minimizing access control lists (ACLs) in network routers. A colored rectilinear pattern is created within an initially white rectangular canvas, and the basic operation is to choose a subrectangle and paint it a single color, overwriting all previous colors in the rectangle. The method operates on rectangular rule lists (RRLs) and access control lists (ACLs) in which all rectangles are strips that extend either the full length or the full height of the canvas. A polynomial-time algorithm optimally constructs such patterns when, as in the ACL application, the only colors are black and white (permit or deny). That algorithm is complemented by a significantly faster approximation algorithm that is guaranteed to be no worse than 3/2 optimal." The patent application was filed on June 28, 2007 (11/824,073). 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=7958075.PN.&OS=PN/7958075&RS=PN/7958075 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** CommVault Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- CommVault Systems, Oceanport, N.J., has been assigned a patent (7,958,086) developed by Arun Prasad Amarendran, Bangalore, India, Rajiv Kottomtharayil, Ocean, N.J., and Zahid Ilkal, Ocean, N.J., for "systems and methods for managing location of media in a storage system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for operating a storage library. The system comprises a management server, a media agent connected to the management server, a library connected to the media agent and a database connected to the management server. The management server controls the media agent to monitor for the addition or removal of a piece of media in the library. When the media agent determines that the piece of media has been added to the library or removed from the library, the media agent causes the library to read a media label stored as data on the piece of media, the media label including an identifier identifying the piece of media. When a backup or restore is performed, the system checks the media label to ensure that the correct media is being used. Inventory procedures are disclosed. Media labels are stored in a database along with an indication of the corresponding slot where the media is stored, a time when the label was put on the medium, and a confidence parameter indicating how confident the system is that the particular medium is stored in the respective slot." The patent application was filed on Nov. 23, 2010 (12/952,456). 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=7958086.PN.&OS=PN/7958086&RS=PN/7958086 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** LeCroy Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- LeCroy, Chestnut Ridge, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,957,938) developed by Francois LaMarche, New Milford, N.J., Laxmikant Joshi, Palo Alto, Calif., and Anirudh Kailash Sureka, Mamaroneck, N.Y., for a "method and apparatus for a high bandwidth oscilloscope utilizing multiple channel digital bandwidth interleaving." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of digitizing an analog signal is provided, comprising the steps of separating the analog signal spanning a frequency range into a plurality of frequency bands, and then translating at least one of the signals to a lower frequency band in accordance with a local oscillator and digitizing the at least one translated signal with digitizing elements having a frequency range less than the analog signal frequency range. A fixed relationship of the phase of the local oscillator and a repetitive signal generated in accordance with a writing to a circular buffer of the digitized representation of the at least one of the plurality of frequency bands is then defined. Signals corresponding to the other of the plurality of frequency bands are digitized and written to corresponding circular buffers. Finally, a digital representation of the analog signal is formed from the digitized signals." The patent application was filed on April 30, 2008 (12/112,218). 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=7,957,938.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,938&RS=PN/7,957,938 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Optimizing a Storage System to Support Short Data Lifetimes ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,958,093) developed by nine co-inventors for an "optimizing a storage system to support short data lifetimes." The co-inventors are Kay Schwendimann Anderson, Washington, Frederick Douglis, Basking Ridge, N.J., Nagui Halim, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., John Davis Palmer, San Jose, Calif., Elizabeth Suzanne Richards, Columbia, Md., David Tao, Glen Burnie, Md., William Harold Tetzlaff, Emeryville, Calif., John Michael Tracey, Scarsdale, N.Y., and Joel Leonard Wolf, Katonah, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for optimizing a storage system to support short data object lifetimes and highly utilized storage space are provided. With the system and method, data objects are clustered based on when they are anticipated to be deleted. When an application stores data, the application provides an indicator of the expected lifetime of the data, which may be a retention value, a relative priority of the data object, or the like. Data objects having similar expected lifetimes are clustered together in common data structures so that clusters of objects may be deleted efficiently in a single operation. Expected lifetimes may be changed by applications automatically. The system automatically determines how to handle these changes in expected lifetime using one or more of copying the data object, reclassifying the container in which the data object is held, and ignoring the change in expected lifetime for a time to investigate further changes in expected lifetime of other data objects." The patent application was filed on Sept. 17, 2004 (10/944,597). 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=7958093.PN.&OS=PN/7958093&RS=PN/7958093 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Metavante Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Metavante, Jacksonville, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,958,049) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for obtaining customer bill information and facilitating bill payment at biller websites." The co-inventors are Eric W. Jamison, Metuchen, N.J., David S. Fortney, Lawrenceville, N.J., Dhaval A. Vasavada, Belle Mead, N.J., and Alexander Kosowski, Hamilton Square, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An integrated electronic bill presentment and payment (EBPP) system is disclosed which obtains bills for customers (which include individuals, businesses, and organizations) and allow payments including payments by credit card to be processed at the biller websites on behalf of customers. The integrated EBPP system obtains bills for customers from paper billers, electronic billers, and scrape-enabled biller websites, with customers providing access information for biller websites to the integrated EBPP system, which uses a software agent or bot to make scheduled scrapes of biller websites to obtain customer bills. The integrated EBPP system enables customers to automatically set up a user account at biller websites, with customers providing user access information and user financial account information, such as a credit card or debit card, for accessing biller websites and for initiating payments at biller websites." The patent application was filed on April 2, 2003 (10/405,570). 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=7958049.PN.&OS=PN/7958049&RS=PN/7958049 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Morgan Stanley Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Morgan Stanley, New York, has been assigned a patent (7,958,036) developed by James A. Caron, New Canaan, Conn., William J. McGraw, Hoboken, N.J., and Jason D. Stipanov, Montclair, N.J., for a "system and method for calculating a volatility carry metric." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods of generating metrics for volatility products are disclosed. According to various embodiments, the metric may use a carry of the volatility product and a volatility of the implied volatility to determine the metric. Through the metric, or carry quotient, global interest rate volatility may be searched to identify trades with attractive rolldown and carry characteristics." The patent application was filed on April 9, 2009 (12/420,988). 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=7958036.PN.&OS=PN/7958036&RS=PN/7958036 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** JPMorgan Chase Bank Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- JPMorgan Chase Bank, New York, has been assigned a patent (7,958,044) developed by six co-inventors for a "method and system for modeling volatility." The co-inventors are Martin R. Watts, Surrey, United Kingdom, Luke Halestrap, London, Lionnel Pradier, London, Julia Chislenko, New York, Pawel M. Lewicki, Summit, N.J., and Ronald Levin, Jerusalem, Israel. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for determining the implied volatility of a swap option employs intuitive factors to arrive at a close approximate of volatility. The volatility curve is a convex shaped curve which more closely follows real market volatility than previous methods. The slope of the curve is provided by employing a premium model which allows for a correlation between rates and volatility. The convex shaped curve is arrived by assuming a lognormal distribution for the underlying volatility." The patent application was filed on May 5, 2010 (12/774,208). 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=7958044.PN.&OS=PN/7958044&RS=PN/7958044 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** BGC Partners Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- BGC Partners, New York, has been assigned a patent (7,958,043) developed by James R. Driscoll, New York, and Matthew W. Claus, Summit, N.J., for test trading. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: " In various embodiments, real and test trading orders are processed and results are transmitted back to the entities originating the orders." The patent application was filed on Jan. 12, 2010 (12/686,368). 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=7958043.PN.&OS=PN/7958043&RS=PN/7958043 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Barclays Capital Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Barclays Capital, New York, has been assigned a patent (7,958,033) developed by Neil William Wardley, Chatham, N.J., and Brian Scott Upbin, New York, for "systems and methods for providing a liquidity-based commodities index." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods are provided for a liquidity-based commodity index in which historical liquidity-related data for a commodity is used to determine whether to include a commodity in an index and also used to weight commodities in the index. Liquidity of a commodity is calculated based on an average daily dollar value of contracts traded for the commodity. The commodity liquidity is compared to a liquidity threshold to determine that the commodity should be included in the index. A liquidity factor is calculated for each commodity included in the index and is also used to weight the commodity in the index." The patent application was filed on Aug. 30, 2007 (11/847,890). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7958033.PN.&OS=PN/7958033&RS=PN/7958033 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Cardiac Pacemakers Assigned Patent for Method, Apparatus, and System to Optimize Cardiac Preload Based on Measured Pulmonary Artery Pressure ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Cardiac Pacemakers, St. Paul, Minn., has been assigned a patent (7,957,802) developed by five co-inventors for a "method, apparatus, and system to optimize cardiac preload based on measured pulmonary artery pressure." The co-inventors are Abhilash Patangay, Inver Grove Heights, Minn., Jiang Ding, Shoreview, Minn., Jonathan T. Kwok, Denville, N.J., Barun Maskara, Blaine, Minn., and Yinghong Yu, Shoreview, Minn. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Optimizing cardiac preload based on measured pulmonary artery pressure involves varying, for each repetition of an acute burst protocol, a parameter of pacing applied to a patient's heart during the acute burst protocol. Pulmonary artery pressure is measured during the repetitions of the acute burst protocol. The length of the repetitions is chosen so that the patient's baroreflex system does not adjust to the varied parameter of pacing during the repetitions of the acute burst protocol. An optimum ventricular preload is determined based on the measured pulmonary artery pressure. Pacing therapy is provided using a value of the parameter that is selected based on the determination of optimum ventricular preload." The patent application was filed on Aug. 20, 2007 (11/894,082). 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=7,957,802.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,802&RS=PN/7,957,802 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. -1050502 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |