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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Georgia (June 10)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Georgia. *** Georgia Inventors Develop Patent for System and Method for Adapting Video Decoding Rate ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- Arturo A. Rodriguez, Norcross, Ga., Peter Chan, Lawrenceville, Ga., Ajith Nair, Lawrenceville, Ga., Ramesh Nallur, Duluth, Ga., and Shashi Goel, Duluth, Ga., have developed a patent (7,957,470) for a "system and method for adapting video decoding rate." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An embodiment of the present invention provides systems and methods for adaptive video decoding. An example method includes determining that a video decoding rate of received video input is to be reduced, and receiving video input comprising a first and a second plurality of pictures. The method also includes reducing the video decoding rate while maintaining synchronization with an unmodified audio decoding rate, responsive to the determining that the video decoding rate of the received video input is to be reduced. The reducing includes foregoing decoding the first plurality of pictures and decoding the second plurality of pictures." The patent application was filed on June 23, 2008 (12/143,956). 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=7,957,470&OS=7,957,470&RS=7,957,470 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (7,957,513) developed by Michael Bishop, Atlanta, and Hong Nguyen, Atlanta, for a "method, system and computer program product for providing a no-ring telephone call service." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method provides a no-ring telephone call service. The method includes receiving notification that a telephone call from a calling party device requesting to use the no-ring telephone call service has arrived at a switch. The notification includes a called party telephone number. The method also includes determining if the called party telephone number corresponds to a voice mail platform telephone number in a region wide messaging database. When the called party telephone number corresponds to a voice mail platform telephone number, instructions to route the telephone call to the voice mail platform telephone number are communicated to the switch. When the called party telephone number does not correspond to a voice mail platform telephone number, instructions to play a pre-recorded no voice mailbox message are communicated to the switch." The patent application was filed on Nov. 21, 2003 (10/719,476). 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=7,957,513&OS=7,957,513&RS=7,957,513 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Georgia Inventors Develop Patent for Methods of Allocating Access across a Shared Communications Medium ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- Martin W. McKinnon III, Atlanta, Ga., Mani M. Subramanian, Atlanta, Timothy Sean Sotack, Atlanta, Ga., and John Joseph Ehrley, Atlanta, has developed a patent (7,957,417) for a "methods of allocating access across a shared communications medium." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of providing network access across a shared communications medium between competing users includes the steps of monitoring network access usage by each user for a past time interval and, based on the monitored network access usage, allocating network access for each user during a future time interval. Features include forecasting network access that will be utilized or requested by users in a future time interval, and prioritizing the users for allocating network access to the users." The patent application was filed on Feb. 14, 2006 (11/275,208). 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=7,957,417&OS=7,957,417&RS=7,957,417 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Teradyne Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- Teradyne, North Reading, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,957,461) developed by five co-inventors for a "calibrating automatic test equipment." The co-inventors are Li Huang, Westlake Village, Calif., Timothy Derksen, Tucker, Ga., Xiaoxi Zhang, Tarzana, Calif., Charles Evans Crapuchettes, Santa Clara, Calif., and Stephen Hauptman, Camarillo, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Calibrating automatic test equipment (ATE) includes determining an offset between a reference timing event and a channel event, where the channel event is associated with a communication channel of the ATE, and adjusting signal transmission over the communication channel based on the offset. Determining the offset may include obtaining a first time at which a reference timing signal is received at a device associated with a reference timing source, obtaining a second time at which the reference timing signal is received at a device associated with the communication channel, obtaining a third time at which a channel signal is received at the device associated with the communication channel, obtaining a fourth time at which the channel signal is received at the device associated with the reference timing source, and calculating the offset using the first time, the second time, the third time, and the fourth time." The patent application was filed on March 31, 2005 (11/095,755). 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=7,957,461&OS=7,957,461&RS=7,957,461 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent for Methods and Devices for Transmitting Data Between Storage Area Networks ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,957,409) developed by six co-inventors for "methods and devices for transmitting data between storage area networks." The co-inventors are Ali Golshan, Palo Alto, Calif., Neelima Mehta, Atlanta, Pags Krishnamoorthy, San Jose, Calif., Madhuri Kolli, San Jose, Calif., Devi Prasad Ivaturi, San Jose, Calif., and Venkatesh Janakiraman, Sunnyvale, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and devices are provided for efficient transmission of data between storage area networks. According to some aspects of the invention, novel methods are provided for processing data packets sent by, or received from, a storage area network. Some such aspects of the invention involve storing a packet (or a portion of a packet) in a single memory location during an encapsulation or de-encapsulation process. Instead of repeatedly copying the packet during processing, pointer information is passed along that indicates the single memory location. In some aspects of the invention, the segment boundaries of a packet are retained after data transmission. If data in the packet need to be re-transmitted, the packet is re-transmitted with the same segment boundaries." The patent application was filed on Jan. 23, 2003 (10/351,167). 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=7,957,409&OS=7,957,409&RS=7,957,409 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Georgia Tech Research Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- Georgia Tech Research, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (7,957,117) developed by Deepakraj M. Divan, Marietta, Ga., for a "voltage surge and overvoltage protection." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed are various embodiments of voltage protectors that include a first voltage clamping device configured to clamp a voltage of an input power applied to an electrical load, and a second voltage clamping device configured to clamp the voltage applied to the electrical load. A series inductance separates the first and second voltage clamping devices. Also, a switching element is employed to selectively establish a direct coupling of the input power to the electrical load, where a circuit is employed to control the operation of the switching element." The patent application was filed on April 4, 2008 (12/062,953). 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=7,957,117.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,117&RS=PN/7,957,117 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for High-performance Bonding Resequencing ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,957,392) developed by David Pullen, Buford, Ga., Niki Pantelias, Duluth, Ga., and Dannie Gay, Lawrenceville, Ga., for a "method and apparatus for high-performance bonding resequencing." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system, and computer program product for receiving and resequencing a plurality of data segments received on a plurality of channels of a bonding channel set, comprising deter mining if a sequence number of a received segment matches an expected sequence number. If so, the process includes forwarding the segment for further processing, incrementing the expected sequence number; and forwarding any queued packets corresponding to the expected sequence number and immediately succeeding sequence numbers less than a sequence number of annexed missing segment. If the sequence number of the received segment does not match the expected sequence number, the received segment is queued at a memory location. The address of this location is converted to a segment index. The segment index is stored in a sparse array." The patent application was filed on March 2, 2010 (12/829,545). 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=7,957,392&OS=7,957,392&RS=7,957,392 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** American Megatrends Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- American Megatrends, Norcross, Ga., has been assigned a patent (7,957,402) developed by Eswar Konduru, Norcross, Ga., and Jerry Petree, Dacula, Ga., for an "UDP to TCP bridge." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A bridge module bridges communications between computing systems using the UDP (user datagram protocol) communication protocol and computing systems using the TCP (transmission control protocol) communication protocol. Communications between the bridge and the computing system having UDP communication drivers are handled with the UDP protocol. Communications between the bridge and the computing system having TCP communication drivers are handled with TCP protocol. The UDP computing system sends data packets to the bridge module. The bridge module converts these packets from UDP protocol to packets in TCP protocol and sends them to the TCP computing system. The TCP computing system can send data back to the UDP computing system by sending packets to the bridge module using the TCP protocol. The bridge module will convert the TCP data packets from the TCP computing system to data packets in UDP protocol and forward them on to the UDP computing system." The patent application was filed on Aug. 8, 2005 (11/199,308). 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=7,957,402&OS=7,957,402&RS=7,957,402 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent for Monitoring and Entry System Presence Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (7,956,739) developed by Nguyen Thi Hong, Atlanta, and Denny Sean Michael, Sharpsburg, Ga., for a "monitoring and entry system presence service." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A monitoring and entry system presence service provides notification about a trigger event to a user and performs actions based on user input. Interface devices equipped with client applications capable of performing actions such as VoIP calls, video calls, and the like, register with a control and session layer, which facilitates interaction with a specific presence application and an integrated presence service, such as a doorbell application and a generic presence service. Upon determining the location of a user, notification and a list of actions are provided through a watcher client application. In response to the user selection, actions are facilitated through the same network session(s)." The patent application was filed on June 12, 2009 (12/483,306). 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=7,956,739&OS=7,956,739&RS=7,956,739 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Nivis Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- Nivis, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (7,956,767) developed by Ovidiu Ratiu, Marietta, Ga., and Marius Ovidiu Chilom, Mableton, Ga., for an "automatic meter reading communication." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An automatic consumption meter reading system utilizing a radio frequency network and a power line carrier network is provided. The radio frequency (RF) network and the power line carrier (PLC) network are communicatively linked with a radio frequency to power line communication bridge device. The radio frequency to power line communication bridge device is communicatively linked to a consumption meter. An automatic meter reading device includes an RF modem and a PLC modem and transmits and receives data to and from a consumption meter using the RF and PLC modems." The patent application was filed on June 20, 2007 (11/765,804). 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=7956767.PN.&OS=PN/7956767&RS=PN/7956767 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,957,301) developed by Ghulam M. Bhatti, Mansfield, Mass., and Gaofeng Yue, Atlanta, for a "method, apparatus and system for multicast communication in a wireless multi-hop network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for multicast communication in a network having plural nodes according to the ZigBee network specification includes creating a multicast group including a subset of the plural nodes and excluding at least one non-member node in the plural nodes. The multicast group has a multicast address. The method also includes transmitting multicast message including the multicast address and receiving the multicast message at each node in the multicast group." The patent application was filed on Aug. 15, 2005 (12/063,707). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7957301.PN.&OS=PN/7957301&RS=PN/7957301 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. 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