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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Texas (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 Texas. *** Selman and Associates Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 8 -- Selman and Associates, Midland, Texas, has been assigned a patent (7,957,903) developed by six co-inventors for a "gas trap for sampling fluid from a well." The co-inventors are Thomas H. Selman, Midland, Texas, Juanita C. Selman, Midland, Texas, Matthew J. Jennings, Midland, Texas, Richard James Gonzales, Midland, Texas, Brian A. Jennings, Midland, Texas, and Stephen M. Bergman, Casper, Wyo. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A low maintenance adjustable gas trap with a plurality of couplings, each coupling securing to a flow line of a drilling rig; a plurality of hammer unions each engaging a coupling; a plurality of base manifold pipes, each engaging a hammer union; a base manifold flow line engaging the base manifold pipes, a chimney pipe connected to the base manifold flow line with a controllable valve, a reducer connected to the chimney opposite the base manifold flow line; an expansion chamber component connected to the reducer; a restrictor mounted to the expansion chamber component opposite the reducer, wherein the restrictor has a diameter no more than 1/3.sup.rd a diameter of the expansion chamber component; and a conduit connection connected to the restrictor for engaging a conduit to flow a gas sample from the gas trap to a gas analyzer." The patent application was filed on Nov. 10, 2009 (12/615,654). 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=7,957,903.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,903&RS=PN/7,957,903 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Apache Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 8 -- Apache, Houston, has been assigned a patent (7,957,905) developed by Werner M. Heigl, Katy, Texas, for a "data processing method for determining acoustic velocities from acoustic well logging instruments." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for estimating interval travel time of an Earth formation using an acoustic well logging instrument having a plurality of spaced apart acoustic transmitters and acoustic receivers includes measuring travel time between a transmitter and a receiver for substantially all possible combinations of each of the plurality of transmitters and each of the plurality of receivers. Each of the possible combinations includes a common depth interval of the Earth formations. The method then include determining at least one statistical measure of center of the measured travel times." The patent application was filed on March 18, 2008 (12/050,331). 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=7,957,905.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,905&RS=PN/7,957,905 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Snap-on Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Snap-on, Kenosha, Wis., has been assigned a patent (7,957,860) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and system for optimizing vehicle diagnostic trees using similar templates." The co-inventors are Jeff Grier, Royal Oak, Mich., Sunil Reddy, Corpus Christi, Texas, Carl Krzystofczyk, Mount Prospect, Ill., and Bradley Lewis, Gilroy, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for optimizing vehicle diagnostic trees using similar templates is provided. Diagnostic trees may be modified to include diagnostic code tips or further suggestions or instructions indicating what tool to use or how to use the tool. The diagnostic tree cab be modified or customized by comparing the diagnostic tree to previously modified diagnostic trees corresponding to similar vehicles, and suggestions within the previously modified tree that are referenced within a library can be linked to the diagnostic trees." The patent application was filed on April 1, 2008 (12/060,759). 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=7,957,860.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,860&RS=PN/7,957,860 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** WMDM Family Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- WMDM Family, Plano, Texas, has been assigned a patent (7,957,861) developed by Willard G. McAndrew III, Plano, Texas, for a tracking emissions data. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for use in transport vehicles includes an auxiliary power unit (APU) for a transport vehicle, the APU having a locator unit for use in a tracking and monitoring system 5 for communicating over a communication network. The locator unit can be attached to or installed within the APU or any other form of auxiliary provided power. Furthermore, the locator unit can have multiple sensor inputs that can read and store sensor data, including location information and emissions output. Then, the locator unit can transmit that information to a remote monitoring station or can use that information to calculate emission reduction data information for conversion to one or more emission reduction credits." The patent application was filed on Dec. 3, 2009 (12/630,343). 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=7,957,861.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,861&RS=PN/7,957,861 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Support of Deep Power Savings Mode and Partial Good in a Thermal Management System ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,957,848) developed by Charles Ray Johns, Austin, Texas, and Michael Fan Wang, Austin, Texas, for a "support of deep power savings mode and partial good in a thermal management system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer implemented method, data processing system, and processor are provided for managing a thermal management system. A determination is made as to whether a plurality of digital thermal sensors is faulty or functional. A power savings mode of at least one unit within the integrated circuit associated with the functional digital thermal sensor is monitored in response to at least one of the plurality of digital thermal sensors being functional. A functional digital thermal sensor is disabled in response to the at least one unit being in a power savings mode." The patent application was filed on Nov. 4, 2008 (12/264,660). 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=7,957,848.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,848&RS=PN/7,957,848 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** American Airlines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- American Airlines, Fort Worth, Texas, has been assigned a patent (7,957,851) developed by James L. Braswell, Saginaw, Texas, and Daniel Craycraft, Fort Worth, Texas, for a "system and method for utilization of transmitted digital flight data acquisition information to accomplish vibration balance solutions." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method is provided for monitoring, collecting, storing, transmitting, calculating and uploading to a secure web server real-time balancing solutions for at least the N1 Low Pressure Compressor portion of a jet engine. The method comprises collecting a series of engine vibration data strings and transmitting a data string set to a ground stations for conditioning, formatting and forwarding to a source for calculating and providing fan balance solutions to a secure server wherein the data strings comprise at least phase angle of imbalance data, N1 RPM and the magnitude of the N1 vibration. The balance solution determined comprises the required weight (mass) and location of weight (mass) installation necessary to correct a fan imbalance in a turbine engine." The patent application was filed on May 9, 2005 (11/124,759). 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=7,957,851.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,851&RS=PN/7,957,851 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Dell Products Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Dell Products, Round Rock, Texas, has been assigned a patent (7,958,302) developed by Jacob Cherian, Austin, Texas, and Gaurav Chawla, Austin, Texas, for a "system and method for communicating data in a storage network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for communicating data in a storage network are disclosed. A method may include communicating, from a host to a storage array, a request for data having different portions stored in different storage nodes of the storage array. In response to the request, a first storage node of the storage array may communicate to the host a first portion of the requested data stored on the first storage node. The first storage node may communicate a message to the host indicating that a second portion of the requested data is stored on a second storage node of the storage array. The host may communicate a message to the second storage node indicating that the host is ready to receive the second portion of the requested data. The second storage node may communicate to the host a second portion of the requested data stored on the second storage node." The patent application was filed on Oct. 30, 2007 (11/929,239). 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=7,958,302&OS=7,958,302&RS=7,958,302 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Dynamic Adjustment of Prefetch Stream Priority ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,958,316) developed by William E. Speight, Austin, Texas, and Lixin Zhang, Austin, Texas, for a "dynamic adjustment of prefetch stream priority." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, processor, and data processing system for dynamically adjusting a prefetch stream priority based on the consumption rate of the data by the processor. The method includes a prefetch engine issuing a prefetch request of a first prefetch stream to fetch one or more data from the memory subsystem. The first prefetch stream has a first assigned priority that determines a relative order for scheduling prefetch requests of the first prefetch stream relative to other prefetch requests of other prefetch streams. Based on the receipt of a processor demand for the data before the data returns to the cache or return of the data along time before the receiving the processor demand, logic of the prefetch engine dynamically changes the first assigned priority to a second higher or lower priority, which priority is subsequently utilized to schedule and issue a next prefetch request of the first prefetch stream." The patent application was filed on Feb. 1, 2008 (12/024,411). 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=7,958,316&OS=7,958,316&RS=7,958,316 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Wayport Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Wayport, Irving, Texas, has been assigned a patent (7,958,256) developed by James D. Keeler, Austin, Texas, for a "system and method for providing application categorization and quality of service in a network with multiple users." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Internet protocol (IP) data service providers may provide several services over a single communications channel and/or circuit. For example, the provider may deliver public services such as Wi-Fi, content, gaming, etc. as well as business-critical "back-office" services such as credit card processing, VoIP, streaming video, video conferencing, etc. Some applications can very demanding from a quality of service standpoint, whereas other applications are unwanted or unauthorized on the network such as worms, viruses, denial of service attacks and/or certain types of peer-to-peer file sharing applications. Applications sharing the communication channel may be classified into one or more application classifications. The available bandwidth over the communications channel and/or circuit may then be managed via a prioritization system that can be parameterized based on the available bandwidth and/or the desired application behavior for given characterized applications. Many of the above unwanted applications can be suppressed, after being classified." The patent application was filed on May 9, 2008 (12/118,160). 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=7,958,256&OS=7,958,256&RS=7,958,256 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Cache Directed Sequential Prefetch ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,958,317) developed by William E. Speight, Austin, Texas, and Lixin Zhang, Austin, Texas, for a "cache directed sequential prefetch." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A technique for performing stream detection and prefetching within a cache memory simplifies stream detection and prefetching. A bit in a cache directory or cache entry indicates that a cache line has not been accessed since being prefetched and another bit indicates the direction of a stream associated with the cache line. A next cache line is prefetched when a previously prefetched cache line is accessed, so that the cache always attempts to prefetch one cache line ahead of accesses, in the direction of a detected stream. Stream detection is performed in response to load misses tracked in the load miss queue (LMQ). The LMQ stores an offset indicating a first miss at the offset within a cache line. A next miss to the line sets a direction bit based on the difference between the first and second offsets and causes prefetch of the next line for the stream." The patent application was filed on Aug. 4, 2008 (12/185,219). 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=7,958,317&OS=7,958,317&RS=7,958,317 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Building Commercial Distributed Computing Networks Via Computer Cost Subsidization ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,958,014) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for building commercial distributed computing networks via computer cost subsidization." The co-inventors are Craig Henry Becker, Austin, Texas, Robert Simon Goodman, Austin, Texas, Stewart Earle Nickolas, Austin, Texas, and Wayne Elmo Vicknair, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for distributed computing in a network data processing system. A task is accepted for distributed computing. Work units are sent to a plurality of data processing systems on a network, wherein each data processing system within the plurality of data processing systems includes a software for accepting a work unit, processing the work unit to generate a result, and returning the result, wherein the software is monitored for compliance with an operation policy requiring a connection to the network and allocating a period of time for processing work units. Results are received from the plurality of data processing systems. These data processing systems may be individually owned by consumers in which the systems are provided at no cost or some lower cost in return for making available processing resources for processing work units." The patent application was filed on June 14, 2004 (10/867,252). 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=7,958,014.PN.&OS=PN/7,958,014&RS=PN/7,958,014 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,958,327) developed by five co-inventors for "performing an asynchronous memory move (AMM) via execution of AMM store instruction within the instruction set architecture." The co-inventors are Ravi K. Arimilli, Austin, Texas, Robert S. Blackmore, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Chulho Kim, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Balaram Sinharoy, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and Hanhong Xue, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A data processing system with a processor and memory includes an instruction set architecture (ISA) that provides an asynchronous memory move (AMM) store (ST) instruction. When the processor executes the AMM ST instruction, the processor performs a series of functions, which initiates an asynchronous memory move (AMM) operation. The AMM ST instruction moves data from a first memory location having a first real address to a second memory location having a second real address by: (a) performing a move of the data in virtual address space utilizing a source effective address that is memory mapped to the first memory location and a destination effective address that is memory mapped to the second memory location. When the move is completed in the virtual address space, the AMM operation performs the physical move of the data to the second memory location outside the processor core, without processor involvement." The patent application was filed on Feb. 1, 2008 (12/024,494). 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=7,958,327&OS=7,958,327&RS=7,958,327 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Cache Line Replacement Techniques Allowing Choice of LFU or MFU Cache Line Replacement ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,958,311) developed by Richard Edward Matick, Cortlandt Manor, N.Y., Jaime H. Moreno, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., and Malcolm Scott Ware, Austin, Texas, for "cache line replacement techniques allowing choice of LFU or MFU cache line replacement." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus allowing a choice of Least Frequently Used (LFU) or Most Frequently Used (MFU) cache line replacement are disclosed. The methods and apparatus determine new state information for at least two given cache lines of a number of cache lines in a cache, the new state information based at least in part on prior state information for the at least two given cache lines. Additionally, when an access miss occurs in one of the at least two given lines, the methods and apparatus (1) select either LFU or MFU replacement criteria, and (2) replace one of the at least two given cache lines based on the new state information and the selected replacement criteria. Additionally, a cache for replacing MFU cache lines is disclosed. The cache additionally comprises MFU circuitry (1) adapted to produce new state information for the at least two given cache lines in response to an access to one of the at least two given cache lines, and (2) when a cache miss occurs in one of the at least two given cache lines, adapted to determine, based on the new state information, which of the at least two given cache lines is the most frequently used cache line." The patent application was filed on May 30, 2008 (12/130,278). 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=7,958,311&OS=7,958,311&RS=7,958,311 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Texas Inventor Develops Patent for Multiple URL Identity Syntaxes and Identities ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Chen Sun, Houston, has developed a patent (7,958,266) for "multiple URL identity syntaxes and identities." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Any arrangement of URLv identity syntax can now be used in a repository, once its second.top domain is known to have an identity syntax. The repository can extract, select, store, organize, prioritize, and consolidate URLvs of differing identity syntaxes. The correlation and association among different contact entities' containing the same individual's identities can yield accurate same individual's identity and URLvs. These increase the competition of the Internet by enabling users to transport their data easily to websites allowing for individuals' data-transport." The patent application was filed on May 4, 2009 (12/387,545). 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=7,958,266&OS=7,958,266&RS=7,958,266 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Prefetching in a Virtual Memory System Based Upon Repeated Accesses Across Page Boundaries ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,958,315) developed by Vaijayanthimala K. Anand, Austin, Texas, and Sandra K. Johnson, Austin, Texas, for "prefetching in a virtual memory system based upon repeated accesses across page boundaries." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method of improved handling of large pages in a virtual memory system. A data memory management unit (DMMU) detects sequential access of a first sub-page and a second sub-page out of a set of sub-pages that comprise a same large page. Then, the DMMU receives a request for the first sub-page and in response to such a request, the DMMU instructs a pre-fetch engine to pre-fetch at least the second sub-page if the number of detected sequential accesses equals or exceeds a predetermined value." The patent application was filed on Jan. 17, 2008 (12/015,656). 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=7,958,315&OS=7,958,315&RS=7,958,315 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Silicon Laboratories Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Silicon Laboratories, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (7,958,286) developed by David P. Bresemann, Austin, Texas, Alan F. Hendrickson, Austin, Texas, and Robert C. Wagner, Austin, Texas, for a "resistor identification configuration circuitry and associated method." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Programmable on-chip identification circuitry and associated method are disclosed that provide integrated circuits with the ability to select and report from multiple different vendor and system identification configurations. The integrated circuit device includes programmable circuitry that utilizes vendor identification, system identification, configuration or other device information provided or selected at least in part based upon selection information from a source external to the integrated circuit. The selection information may be provided through one or more externally generated digital and/or analog control signals that are then processed within the integrated circuit device to select, access and utilize desired identification information stored in an on-chip database. For example, one or more analog control signals can be generated using resistor circuits for which specific selectable resistor configurations map to particular information stored in a look-up table or other database structure within the integrated circuit. The analog control signals are converted to digital values within the integrated circuit, and these digital values are used to select device information from the on-chip database. Furthermore, the selected device information can be stored in on-chip device information registers. And the digital values themselves can be stored and used as identification, configuration or other device information." The patent application was filed on Jan. 19, 2006 (11/334,862). 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=7,958,286&OS=7,958,286&RS=7,958,286 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Handling Temporary Files in a File System with Snapshots ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,958,325) developed by Janet Elizabeth Adkins, Austin, Texas, and Joon Chang, Austin, Texas, for "handling temporary files in a file system with snapshots." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A temporary file is identified. The temporary file includes a data block containing a first file image. A determination is made whether the temporary block has been included in a previous snapshot. Responsive to receiving a modification of the temporary block that has been included in the previous snapshot, a modified first image is created. The modified image is stored in the original file block, and the original image is copied to a newly allocated block. The original first block is updated to include a reference to the second block." The patent application was filed on Sept. 11, 2007 (11/853,442). 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=7,958,325&OS=7,958,325&RS=7,958,325 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Dynamic Selection of a Memory Access Size ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y, has been assigned a patent (7,958,309) developed by four co-inventors for a "dynamic selection of a memory access size." The co-inventors are Lakshminarayana B. Arimilli, Austin, Texas, Ravi K. Arimilli, Austin, Texas, Jerry D. Lewis, Round Rock, Texas, and Warren E. Maule, Cedar Park, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of data processing in a processing unit supported by a memory hierarchy includes the processing unit performing a plurality of memory accesses to the memory hierarchy. The plurality of memory accesses includes one or more memory accesses targeting a full cache line of data. The processing unit monitors utilization of data accessed by the plurality of memory accesses, and based upon the utilization of the data, dynamically alters a memory access mode of operation so that a subsequent storage-modifying memory access targets less than a full cache line of data." The patent application was filed on Feb. 1, 2008 (12/024,476). 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=7,958,309&OS=7,958,309&RS=7,958,309 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Advanced Micro Devices Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,958,255) developed by Kishore Karighattam, Austin, Texas, Prasad P. Padiyar, Austin, Texas, Harish Vasudeva, Austin, Texas for "partial coalescing of transmit buffers." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention facilitates overall system performance by balancing system resource utilization and network throughput. The invention analyzes packets received from host software selects one or more of buffers to coalesce into a single, coalesced buffer. The selection is based upon an initial fragment size selected to facilitate overall system performance. The coalesced buffer and non-coalesced buffers, are passed to a network device for transmission." The patent application was filed on Nov. 4, 2003 (10/701,238). 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=7,958,255&OS=7,958,255&RS=7,958,255 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** QUALCOMM Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- QUALCOMM, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (7,958,252) developed by four co-inventors for a "system for scalable transmission of content in a data network." The co-inventors are Ravinder Chandhok, Poway, Calif., An Mei Chen, San Diego, Thadi Nagaraj, San Diego, and Yixin Zhu, Plano, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "System for scalable transmission of content in a data network. A method is provided for transmitting a plurality of content clips. The method includes determining QoS factors for the content clips, and grouping the content clips into groups based on the determined QoS factors. The method also includes coding the content clips in the groups to form coded content clips, interleaving the coded content clips to create a clip stream, and transmitting the clip stream." The patent application was filed on May 2, 2005 (11/120,580). 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=7,958,252&OS=7,958,252&RS=7,958,252 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Sterling Commerce Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Sterling Commerce, Dublin, Ohio, has been assigned a patent (7,958,250) developed by 10 co-inventors for a "system and method for multi-level guided node and topology discovery." The co-inventors are Suresh Sridhar, Irving, Texas, Shamika Naik, Irving, Texas, Thurman O. Pylant, Priddy, Texas, Michael Rieser, Allen, Texas, Steven Darrel Woodcock, Highland Village, Texas, S. Dale Ander, Dallas, Palanisamy Grounder, Irving, Texas, Guy Briggs, Coppell, Texas, Ashish Rajput, Euless, Texas, and John Lyon, Marshfield, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for user-guided iterative node discovery and topology discovery in a network of nodes involved in secure and reliable data transfer." The patent application was filed on Nov. 9, 2004 (10/984,538). 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=7,958,250&OS=7,958,250&RS=7,958,250 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Freescale Semiconductor Assigned Patent for Population Count Approximation Circuit and Method ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Freescale Semiconductor, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (7,958,173) developed by William C. Moyer, Dripping Springs, Texas, and Kelly K. Taylor, Austin, Texas, for a "population count approximation circuit and method thereof." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A circuit and method provides an estimate of a population count (popcount) of a plurality of input bit values. In one form the input bit values represent respective nodes of an integrated circuit. An approximation circuit uses an approximation input stage which receives a plurality of data inputs and has a plurality of logic circuits. Each logic circuit provides a single bit output. The approximation circuit provides monotonic accuracy. A reduction tree receives the single bit outputs of the plurality of logic circuits and provides an approximate count of how many of the plurality of data inputs are asserted. Size and speed are improved by providing the estimate as opposed to an exact value." The patent application was filed on July 13, 2007 (11/777,664). 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=7,958,173&OS=7,958,173&RS=7,958,173 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** American Power Conversion Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- American Power Conversion, West Kingston, R.I., has been assigned a patent (7,958,170) developed by Gary Faulkner, Austin, Texas, and Joshua Thomas Martinek, Austin, Texas, for a "method and apparatus for collecting and displaying data associated with network devices." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one particular embodiment, the disclosure is directed to a network management system. The network monitoring system includes at least one device definition file, a simple network management protocol enabled communications interface, and a data access interface. The definition file includes query instructions associated with portions of MIBs associated with a network device. The simple network management protocol enabled communications interface may access the network device using the query instructions and may receive response data from the network device. The data access interface may be configured to provide external access to the response data and configure thresholds." The patent application was filed on Nov. 16, 2006 (11/560,684). 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=7,958,170&OS=7,958,170&RS=7,958,170 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Travelocity.com Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Travelocity.com, Fort Worth, Texas, has been assigned a patent (7,957,988) developed by four co-inventors for "systems, methods, and computer program products for storing and retrieving product availability information from a storage cache." The co-inventors are Joshua Hartmann, New York, DeWitt Clinton, New York, Kishore Pallamreddy, Flower Mound, Texas, and Daniel Shtarkman, Dallas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention provides methods for efficiently handling product availability queries. The present invention provides a local availability cache that is prepopulated with product availability listings from various product sources. Customer product availability queries are processed using the prepopulated availability cache, as opposed to independently querying each product source. The present invention also uses methods to manage the cache, such as by limiting the length of use data records stored for each start of use day to a maximum length of use and updating of data in the query using a function that updates data for start dates of use that occur sooner in time than for start dates of use that occur later in time. The present invention also uses functions to determine availability for length of use requests that exceed the maximum length of use stored in the cache by piecing together availability information for smaller lengths of use." The patent application was filed on Jan. 8, 2008 (11/970,711). 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=7,957,988.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,988&RS=PN/7,957,988 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Providing Full Hardware Support of Collective Operations in a Multi-tiered Full-graph Interconnect Architecture ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,958,182) developed by four co-inventors for a "providing full hardware support of collective operations in a multi-tiered full-graph interconnect architecture." The co-inventors are Lakshminarayana B. Arimilli, Austin, Texas, Ravi K. Arimilli, Austin, Texas, Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Austin, Texas, and William E. Speight, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A mechanism is provided for performing collective operations. In hardware of a parent processor in a first processor book, a number of other processors are determined in a same or different processor book of the data processing system that is needed to execute the collective operation, thereby establishing a plurality of processors comprising the parent processor and the other processors. In hardware of the parent processor, the plurality of processors are logically arranged as a plurality of nodes in a hierarchical structure. The collective operation is transmitted to the plurality of processors based on the hierarchical structure. In hardware of the parent processor, results are received from the execution of the collective operation from the other processors, a final result is generated of the collective operation based on the received results, and the final result is output." The patent application was filed on Aug. 27, 2007 (11/845,223). 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=7,958,182&OS=7,958,182&RS=7,958,182 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Multiplier Engine ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,958,180) developed by Douglas H. Bradley, Austin, Texas, Owen Chiang, Austin, Texas, and Sherman M. Dance, Rochester, Minn., for a multiplier engine. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A multiplier engine that reduces the size of the circuitry used to provide the multiplier engine, as well as increases the speed at which the multiplication algorithm is performed, are provided. The illustrative embodiments may comprise a M*8 multiplication engine having one or more 4:2 compressors that comprise only two full adders, as opposed to the three full adders in the known 5:2 compressor based architecture. The 4:2 compressors are able to achieve the same operation as the known 5:2 compressor based architecture by virtue of using the unused bits in a least significant portion of the partial product inputs to store the negate bit values. Moreover, a negate bit value that is not fused with the partial product inputs may be input to the 4:2 compressors for a bit 0 position." The patent application was filed on July 5, 2007 (11/773,558). 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=7,958,180&OS=7,958,180&RS=7,958,180 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Dell Products Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Dell Products, Round Rock, Texas, has been assigned a patent (7,958,219) developed by Mark Collins, Dripping Springs, Texas, John C. Pflueger III, Austin, Texas, and Edgar R. Hernandez, Pflugerville, Texas, for a "system and method for the process management of a data center." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An architecture for a data center is disclosed that manages the computational, power, and cooling elements of the data center according to a feedback process control function in which the operation of the data center is continuously monitored and adjusted according to monitoring data collected from the data center and a set of business rules concerning the operation of the data center." The patent application was filed on June 19, 2008 (12/142,461). 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=7,958,219&OS=7,958,219&RS=7,958,219 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Appcelerator Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Appcelerator, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,958,232) developed by Paul Colton, Hillsborough, Calif., Uri Sarid, Menlo Park, Calif., and Kevin Edward Lindsey, Benbrook, Texas, for a "dashboard for on-the-fly AJAX monitoring." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for monitoring a web-page utilizing a dashboard application is disclosed herein. On the server-side, the present invention modifies each of the plurality of objects of a web-page by adding additional instrumentation code and attributes to create a modified web-page with reporting functions to the dashboard application. The modified web-page is served to the client-side and real-time information for the modified web-page is reported to the dashboard application." The patent application was filed on Dec. 3, 2008 (12/327,807). 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=7,958,232&OS=7,958,232&RS=7,958,232 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method and System for Optimally Allocating a Network Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,958,241) developed by Franck Barillaud, Austin, Texas, Xiaoping Chen, Austin, Texas, and Christopher M. Morrissey, Round Rock, Texas, for a "method and system for optimally allocating a network service." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A network service allocation device is disclosed. The device comprises a probe, a module, and an engine. The device collects performance data relating to the physical characteristics of a distributed data processing system. The module utilizes the performance data to identify two or more node clusters on the distributed data processing system. The engine correlates the node clusters and one or more performance rules as related to the network service to provide a map of node cluster(s) for supporting the network service, or a list of one or more servers within a node cluster for supporting the network service." The patent application was filed on Feb. 16, 2009 (12/371,762). 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=7,958,241&OS=7,958,241&RS=7,958,241 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Performing Collective Operations Using Software Setup and Partial Software Execution ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,958,183) developed by four co-inventors for a "performing collective operations using software setup and partial software execution at leaf nodes in a multi-tiered full-graph interconnect architecture." The co-inventors are Lakshminarayana B. Arimilli, Austin, Texas, Ravi K. Arimilli, Austin, Texas, Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Austin, Texas, and William E. Speight, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A mechanism for performing collective operations. In software executing on a parent processor in a first processor book, a number of other processors are determined in a same or different processor book of the data processing system that is needed to execute the collective operation, thereby establishing a plurality of processors comprising the parent processor and the other processors. In software executing on the parent processor, the plurality of processors are logically arranged as a plurality of nodes in a hierarchical structure. The collective operation is transmitted to the plurality of processors based on the hierarchical structure. In hardware of the parent processor, results are received from the execution of the collective operation from the other processors, a final result is generated of the collective operation based on the received results, and the final result is output." The patent application was filed on Aug. 27, 2007 (11/845,224). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,958,183&OS=7,958,183&RS=7,958,183 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Apparatus for Implementing Container Managed Uses, Ownerships, and References in an Enterprise Javabean Environment ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,958,172) developed by four co-inventors for an "apparatus for implementing container managed uses, ownerships, and references in an enterprise javabean environment." The co-inventors are Geoffrey Martin Hambrick, Round Rock, Texas, Robert Howard High Jr., Round Rock, Texas, Rodney Alan Little, Wappingers Falls, N.Y., and Sridhar Sudarsan, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for implementing container managed uses, ownerships, and references in an enterprise JavaBean.TM. environment. A user may specify a uses, ownership, reference relationships between entity beans and sessions in a deployment descriptor file. When the file is processed, the present embodiment generates methods on the entity beans and allows the container to recognize the relationships, such that the user may access the session beans based on the specified relationships." The patent application was filed on Jan. 24, 2008 (12/019,444). 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=7,958,172&OS=7,958,172&RS=7,958,172 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Nuance Communications Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Nuance Communications, Burlington, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,957,976) developed by Charles W. Cross Jr., Wellington, Fla., and Hilary A. Pike, College Station, Texas, for an "establishing a multimodal advertising personality for a sponsor of a multimodal application." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Establishing a multimodal advertising personality for a sponsor of a multimodal application, including associating one or more vocal demeanors with a sponsor of a multimodal application and presenting a speech portion of the multimodal application for the sponsor using at least one of the vocal demeanors associated with the sponsor." The patent application was filed on Sept. 12, 2006 (11/530,921). 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=7,957,976.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,976&RS=PN/7,957,976 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** 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. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method for Data Management and Data Rendering for Disparate Data Types ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,958,131) developed by four co-inventors for a "method for data management and data rendering for disparate data types." The co-inventors are William K. Bodin, Austin, Texas, David Jaramillo, Lake Worth, Fla., Jerry W. Redman, Cedar Park, Texas, and Derral C. Thorson, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for data management and data rendering for disparate data types that include aggregating data of disparate data types from disparate data sources, synthesizing the aggregated data of disparate data types into data of a uniform data type, identifying an action in dependence upon the synthesized data, and executing the identified action. Data management and data rendering for disparate data types may also include channelizing the synthesized data and presenting the synthesized data to a user through one or more channels." The patent application was filed on Aug. 19, 2005 (11/207,912). 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=7,958,131&OS=7,958,131&RS=7,958,131 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Creating Multiple MBeans from a Factory MBean ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,958,145) developed by James M. McArdle, Austin, Texas, for "creating multiple MBeans from a factory MBean." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Provided is a method for creating a unique class of Mbean in which a "parent" Mbean generates and manages multiple "child" Mbeans. When a user requests the functionality of a particular Mbean, a specific type of Mbean, or parent Mbean, is called. The parent Mbean is a factory method that, rather than executing the request, generates a child Mbean to execute the request. The child Mbean is assigned a name that distinguishes the child from other children of the same parent and the process that called the parent is provided with the name. In this manner, the calling process may use the assigned name to access the specific child Mbean for future requests and the child Mbean is employed to store client state information." The patent application was filed on Nov. 20, 2007 (11/943,220). 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=7,958,145&OS=7,958,145&RS=7,958,145 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Fujitsu Assigned Patent for Flexible Open Ring Optical Network and Method ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Fujitsu, Kawasaki, Japan, has been assigned a patent (7,957,644) developed by four co-inventors for a "flexible open ring optical network and method." The co-inventors are Susumu Kinoshita, Plano, Texas, Koji Takeguchi, Richardson, Texas, Satoru Odate, Richardson, Texas, and Cechan Tian, Plano, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A flexible open ring optical network includes a plurality of nodes connected by twin or other suitable optical rings. Each node is operable to passively add and passively drop traffic from the rings. The nodes may include a transport element for each ring. The transport elements include an optical splitter element and an optical combiner element. The optical splitter element is operable to passively combine an add signal including local add traffic and a first transport signal including ingress traffic from a coupled optical ring to generate a second transport signal including egress traffic for transmission on the coupled optical ring. The optical combiner element is coupled to the optical splitter element and is operable to passively split a third transport signal including the ingress traffic to generate a drop signal including local drop traffic and a fourth transport signal including the ingress traffic. Protection switching may be provided by selectively openable switches disposed in and distributed around the rings." The patent application was filed on May 8, 2007 (11/745,974). 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=7,957,644.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,644&RS=PN/7,957,644 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Verizon Patent and Licensing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Verizon Patent and Licensing, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (7,958,139) developed by Kristopher T. Frazier, Frisco, Texas, Brian F. Roberts, Dallas, and Donald H. Relyea, Dallas, for "related content storage and retrieval systems and methods." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In an exemplary method, content instances and metadata associated with the content instances are maintained, a request for content is received, one of the content instances is identified based on the request, at least one other of the content instances is identified as being related to the one content instance based on a predefined relationship heuristic and the metadata associated with the content instances, and data representative of the one content instance and the other content instance is provided in response to the request. In certain embodiments, the related content instance is identified by identifying a metadata value associated with the one content instance and a common metadata value associated with the other content instance. In certain embodiments, the common metadata value includes at least one of a common location data value, a common time data value, a common user identifier, and a common content type." The patent application was filed on March 31, 2008 (12/059,585). 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=7,958,139&OS=7,958,139&RS=7,958,139 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Adidas International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Adidas International, Herzogenaurach, Germany, has been assigned a patent (7,957,752) developed by Jon H. Werner, Austin, Texas, and Scot Doyle, Austin, Texas, for a "location-aware fitness training device, methods, and program products that support real-time interactive communication and automated route generation." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In at least one embodiment, a server receives user input describing a route of an activity. A graphical representation of the route is served to a user device in association with a toolset including at least one of a set including an annotation tool, a rating tool, and a review tool. The server receives route-related information including at least one of a set including a user annotation, a user rating and a user review of the route entered utilizing the toolset. The route and the route-related information is stored on the server, and the server permits access to the route and the route-related information by a plurality of users." The patent application was filed on Oct. 31, 2007 (11/932,202). 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=7,957,752.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,752&RS=PN/7,957,752 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Texas Instruments Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Texas Instruments, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (7,957,760) developed by Anuj Batra, Dallas, and Srinivas Lingam, Richardson, Texas, for a "method and apparatus for transmit power control in wireless data communications systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The distance between a first Multi Band Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (MB-OFDM) data transceiver and a second or more such transceiver is determined using known techniques. The radio frequency path loss between transceivers is estimated given said distance, using a known relationship between distance and path loss, and further accounting for line-of-sight or non-line-of-sight conditions if desired. This path loss value is added to the typically minimum transmit power level, absent path loss, needed for reliable data communication. This modified initial transmit power level is then used by the first transceiver to begin the known iterative feedback process of transmit power control (TPC). Because this modified initial transmit power level, based on distance, is closer to the final optimum level, convergence in the TPC process occurs in fewer steps and less time than had the initial transmit power been maximum power as is typical in known TPC systems." The patent application was filed on July 23, 2009 (12/508,078). 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=7,957,760.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,760&RS=PN/7,957,760 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Texas Inventor Develops Patent for Methods for Providing Enhanced Telecommunication Services ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Julian Van Erlach, Fort Worth, Texas, has developed a patent (7,957,725) for "methods for providing enhanced telecommunication services." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A first method for facilitating personal contacts among a plurality of subscribers to a location-based person contact service provided by a service provider; a second method for communicating information to a user of a wireless device by a server; and a third method for real-time monitoring of vital signs of a living being. In the first method, personal profiles are transmitted to subscribers. In the second method, a message specific to both an establishment and the user is transmitted to a wireless device or smart display proximal to the user in the establishment. In the third method, information relating to a violated vital sign parameter determined from the monitoring is communicated to a local communication node." The patent application was filed on June 8, 2010 (12/795,831). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,957,725.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,725&RS=PN/7,957,725 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Silicon Laboratories Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Silicon Laboratories, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (7,957,696) developed by Lawrence Der, Austin, Texas, for a "system and method for selecting channels for short range transmissions to broadcast receivers." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for determining transmission channels for short range transmissions are disclosed. A transmitter provides short range transmission to a broadcast receiver configured to receive and tune channels within a signal spectrum. Channels within the broadcast signal spectrum are scanned, and an indication of received signal strength is obtained for each channel. The received signal strength indication (RSSI) can then be compared to a threshold power level that correlates to a signal level that the transmitter will be capable of overpowering based upon the transmission power of the transmitter. The scan results in an indication of one or more channels that have received signal strengths below the threshold power level of the transmitter." The patent application was filed on Sept. 25, 2006 (11/526,433). 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=7,957,696.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,696&RS=PN/7,957,696 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Zoran Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Zoran, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,957,714) developed by Michael D. Womac, McKinney, Texas, for a "radio-frequency tuner with differential converter." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for tuning a radio-frequency signal includes a first input path, a second input path, a common reference generator, a selector, a mixer, and a filter. The first input path and the second input path propagate a first single-ended input signal and a second single-ended input signal, respectively, to the selector. The selector converts the first single-ended input signal and the second single-ended input signal into a first differential input signal and a second differential input signal, respectively, using a reference signal generated by the common reference generator. The selector selectively couples one of the first and the second input path to an input of the mixer. The mixer downconverts a selected on of the differential input signals received from the selector. The filter attenuates a portion of the downconverted input signal outside a passband associated with the filter." The patent application was filed on Jan. 15, 2008 (12/014,337). 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=7,957,714.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,714&RS=PN/7,957,714 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Motorola Mobility Assigned Patent for Adaptive Bearer Configuration for Broadcast/Multicast Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Motorola Mobility, Libertyville, Ill., has been assigned a patent (7,957,745) developed by Zhijun Cai, Euless, Texas, Mansoor Ahmed, Fort Worth, Texas, and Robert M. Harrison, Grapevine, Texas, for an "adaptive bearer configuration for broadcast/multicast service." 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