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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in New Hampshire (June 16)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in New Hampshire. *** Finisar Assigned Patent for Temperature Stabilizing Packaging for Optoelectronic Components in a Transmitter Module ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 15 -- Finisar, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,962,044) developed by four co-inventors for a "temperature stabilizing packaging for optoelectronic components in a transmitter module." The co-inventors are Kevin McCallion, Charlestown, Mass., Michael Deutsch, Derry, N.H., Parviz Tayebati, Boston, and Saeid Azemati, Auburndale, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An optical transmitter is disclosed having a temperature stabilization system for an optical filter for maintaining constant the frequency response of the filter. The filter is mounted within a housing having a substantially higher thermal conductivity. The housing may include a copper-tungsten alloy and extend along the optical axis of the filter. The housing is in thermal contact with a thermo-electric cooler (TEC) and a temperature sensor. The TEC and temperature sensor are electrically coupled to a controller which adjusts the temperature of the TEC according to the output of the temperature sensor." The patent application was filed on Feb. 4, 2008 (12/025,573). 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=7,962,044.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,044&RS=PN/7,962,044 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Dartmouth College Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., has been assigned a patent (7,962,198) developed by Brian William Pogue, Hanover, N.H., and Daqing Piao, Hanover, N.H., for a "system and method for spectral-encoded high-rate hemodynamic tomography." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An optical tomography system has a group of lasers for generating light of multiple distinct wavelengths within a first wavelength band. Light from these lasers is directed into mammalian tissue at laser-specific locations on the tissue, and light from the mammalian tissue is collected at a plurality of reception points. Collected light from each reception point is separated according to its wavelength, and received by a photodetector to produce path attenuation signals representing attenuation along paths between the laser-specific locations on the tissue and the reception points. Image construction apparatus generates a tomographic image of heme concentrations in the mammalian tissue from the path attenuation signals. In an alternative embodiment, there is a second group of lasers operating in a second wavelength band, and the image construction apparatus can generate an image of heme oxygenation In the mammalian tissue." The patent application was filed on April 27, 2005 (11/115,865). 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=7,962,198.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,198&RS=PN/7,962,198 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Oracle International Assigned Patent for Association Rule Module for Data Mining ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Oracle International, Redwood Shores, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,962,483) developed by Shiby Thomas, Nashua, N.H., for an "association rule module for data mining." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system, software module, and computer program product for performing association rule based data mining that improved performance in model building, good integration with the various databases throughout the enterprise, flexible specification and adjustment of the models being built, and flexible model arrangement and export capability. The software module performs association rule based data mining in an electronic data processing system. A model setup block operable to receive client input including information specifying a setup of a association rule data mining models, generate the model setup, generate parameters for the model setup based on the received information. A modeling algorithms block operable to select and initialize a association rule modeling algorithm based on the generated model setup, and a model building block operable to receive training data and build a association rule model using the training data and the selected association rule modeling algorithm." The patent application was filed on Dec. 20, 2002 (10/323,997). 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=7962483.PN.&OS=PN/7962483&RS=PN/7962483 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Lycos Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Lycos, Waltham, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,962,463) developed by William Cava, New Boston, N.H., for an "automated generation, performance monitoring, and evolution of keywords in a paid listing campaign." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Keyword candidates are identified by in response to receiving an identification of a web page. Content of the web page is analyzed to identify terms from the web page. An automated keyword expansion is performed using the identified terms to produce a set of candidate keywords. Keyword suggestions are generated for the web page using the set of candidate keywords, and one or more of the keyword suggestions are used in a paid listing campaign. A performance of a paid listing campaign is compared with a performance threshold. An automated keyword expansion is performed using one or more keywords from the set of keywords to produce a set of alternative keywords in response to the comparison. One or more alternative keywords are selected from the set of alternative keywords for use in the paid listing campaign." The patent application was filed on March 8, 2006 (11/371,209). 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=7962463.PN.&OS=PN/7962463&RS=PN/7962463 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent for System and Method for Updating Owner Predictors ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (7,962,696) developed by Simon C. Steely Jr., Hudson, N.H., and Gregory Edward Tierney, Chelmsford, Mass., for a "system and method for updating owner predictors." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods are disclosed for updating owner predictor structures. In one embodiment, a multi-processor system includes an owner predictor control that provides an ownership update message corresponding to a block of data to at least one of a plurality of owner predictors in response to a change in an ownership state of the block of data. The update message comprises an address tag associated with the block of data and an identification associated with an owner node of the block of data." The patent application was filed on Jan. 15, 2004 (10/758,368). 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=7,962,696&OS=7,962,696&RS=7,962,696 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Cypress Semiconductor Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Cypress Semiconductor, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,962,698) developed by Rishi Yadav, Hudson, N.H., and Alan Refalo, Gloucester, Mass., for a deterministic collision detection. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An embodiment of the present invention is directed to a method of deterministic collision detection involving at least two ports. The method includes receiving a read/write operation at a first data rate at a first port of a multi-port device, receiving a read/write operation at a second data rate at a second port of the multi-port device, detecting a collision between the first port and the second port if a same address space is accessed by the first port and the second port coincidentally, asserting a busy signal at least one of said first port and said second port a number of clock cycles after detecting said collision, storing an address location of said address space in a memory register, and deterministically report the collision using the address location and the number of clock cycles." The patent application was filed on Sept. 18, 2006 (11/523,503). 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=7,962,698&OS=7,962,698&RS=7,962,698 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Dell Products Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Dell Products, Round Rock, Texas, has been assigned a patent (7,962,609) developed by G. Paul Koning, Brookline, N.H., Peter C. Hayden, Mount Vernon, N.H., and Paula Long, Hollis, N.H., for an "adaptive storage block data distribution." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for providing an efficient partitioned resource server. In one embodiment, the partitioned resource server comprises a plurality of individual servers, and the individual servers appear to be equivalent to a client. Each of the individual servers may include a routing table that includes a reference for each resource that is maintained on the partitioned resource server. Requests from a client are processed as a function of the routing table to route the request to the individual server that maintains or has control over the resource of interest." The patent application was filed on Jan. 10, 2008 (12/008,707). 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=7,962,609&OS=7,962,609&RS=7,962,609 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Oracle International Assigned Patent for Custom Management System for Distributed Application Servers ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Oracle International, Redwood Shores, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,962,527) developed by Franklin Fulton Simpson, New Ipswich, N.H., for a "custom management system for distributed application servers." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Custom management capability is provided through MBeans over a distributed management domain. The management domain is a collection of distributed servers that are managed as a unit, wherein the management system of the present invention presents an API for providing management services across a network. The common management system allows application designers to accomplish a broad range of management goals. The management network is also simple, abstract in that it separates an application author from the implementation, and is scalable. The system of the present invention supports both configuration and monitoring and is Java standards based. The management system is extensible in that a user can add additional types of management objects, schema attributes and extended persistence features." The patent application was filed on Feb. 5, 2008 (12/026,430). 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=7,962,527&OS=7,962,527&RS=7,962,527 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Computer Associates Think Assigned Patent for Methods and Apparatus for Information Processing and Display for Network Management ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Computer Associates Think, Islandia, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,962,599) developed by seven co-inventors for "methods and apparatus for information processing and display for network management." The co-inventors are Gordon Andrew Booman, Berlin, John Oliver Boutotte, Sterling, Mass., Robert Alan Lindberg, Stow, Mass., Florent Mali, Framingham, Mass., Patricia Anne Mulligan, Boylston, Mass., Jaimin D. Patel, Sudbury, Mass., and Mark W. Sylor, Nashua, N.H. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Apparatus and methods for automatically processing and displaying information for managing equipment or services in a network. The information is automatically inserted into a hierarchical data structure, which can then presented in a ticker display for viewing by a user. The information concerning the network equipment or services may also be used to determine the users affected by particular network failures." The patent application was filed on April 27, 2009 (12/430,370). 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=7,962,599&OS=7,962,599&RS=7,962,599 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Managing External Data Sources in a Discussion Forum Resource ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,962,550) developed by Mustansir Banatwala, Hudson, N.H., Stephen J. Foley, Quincy, Mass., and Alexander Kordun, Arlington, Mass., for "managing external data sources in a discussion forum resource." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention is a method, system and apparatus for managing external data sources in a discussion forum resource. A discussion forum resource can include at least one topic thread disposed in the discussion resource forum and created for externally sourced content in the discussion forum resource. The discussion forum resource further can include a data aggregator coupled to the topic thread and configured to manage the externally sourced content in the topic thread. Notably, the externally sourced content can include text, audio, imagery or video." The patent application was filed on Dec. 16, 2003 (10/736,293). 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=7,962,550&OS=7,962,550&RS=7,962,550 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. 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