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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Washington (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 Washington. *** Boeing Assigned Patent for System and Method for Estimating Inertial Acceleration Bias Errors ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 15 -- Boeing, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (7,962,255) developed by Steven B. Krogh, Issaquah, Wash., and Tiffany R. Lapp, Snohomish, Wash., for a "system and method for estimating inertial acceleration bias errors." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for estimating inertial acceleration bias errors including obtaining uncorrected acceleration measurements on board a vehicle; obtaining independent position and independent velocity data of the vehicle; transforming the uncorrected acceleration measurements into a reference frame of the independent position and independent velocity data; blending the transformed acceleration measurements with the independent position and the independent velocity data to produce feedback errors; transforming the feedback errors into the reference frame of the acceleration measurements; multiplying the feedback errors by a gain and integrating to estimate the acceleration measurement bias errors." The patent application was filed on Dec. 12, 2006 (11/609,798). 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=7,962,255.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,255&RS=PN/7,962,255 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Boeing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 15 -- Boeing, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (7,962,259) developed by Roland L. Schafer Jr., Auburn, Wash., Phillip S. Mattson, Bothell, Wash., and Gerald D. Lui-Kwan, Kent, Wash., for a "cabin services system for a mobile platform." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An integrated cabin services system (CSS) for a mobile platform. The system may include a controller in communication with a plurality of remotely disposed cabin services subsystems for controlling each of the subsystems. A comprehensive database may be utilized by the CSS to employ combinational logic to control operation of the subsystems and to thus control the execution of at least one function of each of the subsystems. The comprehensive database may include a plurality of database portions, one database portion related to the controller and stored in the controller, and each one of the other database portions being related to a specific one of the subsystems, with each one of the other database portions being stored with its related said subsystem." The patent application was filed on Dec. 8, 2005 (11/297,560). 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=7,962,259.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,259&RS=PN/7,962,259 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,962,711) developed by Craig Anthony Osborne, Issaquah, Wash., and Brendan Clarke Fields, Woodinville, Wash., for a "pre-caching files from removable device to expedite perceived download performance." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and a processing device may be provided for detecting a device newly connected to the processing device. The processing device may copy files from the device to a cache of the processing device. In some embodiments, the files may include a digital image files and associated files, such as wav files, or other files. Acquisition processing of the files stored in the cache may be initiated at any time after the processing device begins to copy the files from the device to the cache. Via a user interface, a user may preview thumbnail images corresponding to digital image files stored in one or more virtual devices, corresponding to one or more respective caches. The user may be prompted to initiate acquisition processing of a cache, having unprocessed files, after a configurable amount of time has passed since a file was last copied to the cache." The patent application was filed on Feb. 20, 2008 (12/034,623). 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=7,962,711&OS=7,962,711&RS=7,962,711 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Advanced Neuromodulation Systems Assigned Patent for System and Method for Treating Parkinson's Disease and Other Movement Disorders ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, Plano, Texas, has been assigned a patent (7,962,218) developed by Jeffrey Balzer, Allison Park, Pa., and Allen Wyler, Seattle, for a "system and method for treating Parkinson's Disease and other movement disorders." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for treating movement disorders using cortical stimulation. In one embodiment, a method for treating movement disorders comprises determining a site at the cortex of the brain of a patient related to a movement disorder of an afflicted body part. The site can be determined by obtaining a representation of neural activity occurring in the cortex of the patient and correlating an area of neural activity with the afflicted body part. The method can also include applying neural stimulation, such as electrical or magnetic waveforms, directly to the site." The patent application was filed on Oct. 4, 2007 (11/867,654). 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=7,962,218.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,218&RS=PN/7,962,218 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cardiac Pacemakers Assigned Patent for Method and System for Characterizing Supraventricular Rhythm During Cardiac Pacing ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Cardiac Pacemakers, St. Paul, Minn., has been assigned a patent (7,962,209) developed by six co-inventors for a "method and system for characterizing supraventricular rhythm during cardiac pacing." The co-inventors are Joseph Bocek, Seattle, Jaeho Kim, Redmond, Wash., Anthony Harrington, Woodinville, Wash., Harley White, Carnation, Wash., Dave Perschbacher, Coon Rapids, Minn., and Rebecca Davis, Portland, Ore. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for generating a characterization of one beat of a patient's supraventricular rhythm (SVR) involves performing such characterization while the heart is being paced. During SVR characterization, various pacing parameters are modified and the patient's supraventricular rhythm is characterized while the pacing parameters are modified. The SVR characterization process is effective in single and multiple chamber pacing modes." The patent application was filed on Sept. 10, 2008 (12/283,220). 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=7,962,209.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,209&RS=PN/7,962,209 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,962,347) developed by four co-inventors for an advisor referral. The co-inventors are Trudy K. Anthony-Hoppe, Woodinville, Wash., Louis S. Harvey, Cohasset, Mass., Denis Lavoie, Seattle, and John D. Skovron, Bellevue, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus and method for an advisor referral tool for objectively matching professional services between users and advisors in an on-line or computer based environment. The advisor referral tool matches users with professional advisors by executing an advisor matching algorithm to select a subset of advisors from an advisor database based on user selected search criteria. A server computer calculates a percent match value for each advisor in the subset of advisors that corresponds to consumer responses to predetermined psychographic/profile questions. The server computer then creates a best fit advisor list of advisors from the subset of advisors that is based on the calculated percent match value. The best fit advisor list is then transmitted to and displayed on the user's computer." The patent application was filed on June 11, 2010 (12/814,063). 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=7,962,347.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,347&RS=PN/7,962,347 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Depicting a Speech User Interface Via Graphical Elements ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,962,344) developed by Timothy D. Sharpe, Redmond, Wash., and Cameron A. Etezadi, Bellevue, Wash., for a "depicting a speech user interface via graphical elements." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Depiction of a speech user interface via graphical elements is provided. One or more bits of a graphical user interface bitmask are re-designated as speech bits. When a software application processes the re-designated speech bits, a window manager responsible for generating and rendering a graphical user interface for the application passes information to a secondary window manager responsible for generating and rendering a speech user interface. The secondary speech window manager may load a text-to-speech engine, a speech recognizer engine, a lexicon or library of recognizable words or phrases and a set of "grammars" (recognizable words and phrasing) for building a speech user interface that will receive, recognize and act on spoken input to the associated software application." The patent application was filed on June 29, 2007 (11/824,495). 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=7,962,344.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,344&RS=PN/7,962,344 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Converting Dependency Grammars to Efficiently Parsable Context-free Grammars ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,962,323) developed by Mark Johnson, Redmond, Wash., and Robert C. Moore, Mercer Island, Wash., for a "converting dependency grammars to efficiently parsable context-free grammars." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Dependency grammars are transformed to context-free grammars. The context-free grammars can be used in a parser to parse input sentences and identify relationships among words in the sentence." The patent application was filed on March 7, 2007 (11/683,165). 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=7,962,323.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,323&RS=PN/7,962,323 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Sharp Laboratories of America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Sharp Laboratories of America, Camas, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,961,963) developed by Shijun Sun, Vancouver, Wash., for "methods and systems for extended spatial scalability with picture-level adaptation." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for modification of motion vectors in spatial scalable video coding. Some embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems designed for use with the Scalable Video Coding extension of H.264/MPEG-4 AVC." The patent application was filed on Feb. 7, 2006 (11/350,000). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=79,61,963.PN.&OS=PN/79,61,963&RS=PN/79,61,963 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Robust Decoder ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Ore., has been assigned a patent (7,962,335) developed by five co-inventors for a robust decoder. The co-inventors are Hosam A. Khalil, Redmond, Wash., Tian Wang, Redmond, Wash., Kazuhito Koishida, Redmond, Wash., Xiaoqin Sun, Redmond, Wash., and Wei-Ge Chen, Sammamish, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques and tools related to delayed or lost coded audio information are described. For example, a concealment technique for one or more missing frames is selected based on one or more factors that include a classification of each of one or more available frames near the one or more missing frames. As another example, information from a concealment signal is used to produce substitute information that is relied on in decoding a subsequent frame. As yet another example, a data structure having nodes corresponding to received packet delays is used to determine a desired decoder packet delay value." The patent application was filed on July 14, 2009 (12/502,984). 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=7,962,335.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,335&RS=PN/7,962,335 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Boeing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Boeing, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (7,961,988) developed by seven co-inventors for "rapidly tunable wavelength selective ring resonator." The co-inventors are William P. Krug, Bellevue, Wash., Jocelyn Y. Takayesu, Tacoma, Wash., Michael Hochberg, Pasadena, Calif., Thomas W. Baehr-Jones, Pasadena, Calif., Eric Y. Chan, Mercer Island, Wash., Larry Dalton, Silverdale, Wash., and Axel Scherer, Laguna Beach, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method are disclosed for a rapidly tunable wavelength selective ring resonator. An embodiment of a voltage-tunable wavelength selective ring resonator includes a ring-shaped waveguide formed on a semiconductor substrate, an electro-optic cladding layer formed over the ring-shaped waveguide, and voltage applying means for applying a voltage across the electro-optic cladding layer. The ring-shaped waveguide is configured to propagate optical signals having predetermined resonant wavelengths, the electro-optic cladding layer has a voltage-controlled variable refractive index, and the means for applying is configured to apply a wavelength-specific control voltage to the electro-optic cladding layer. The wavelength-specific control voltage will shift or tune the predetermined resonant wavelengths for the ring-shaped waveguide." The patent application was filed on Sept. 4, 2007 (11/849,981). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=79,61,988.PN.&OS=PN/79,61,988&RS=PN/79,61,988 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,961,983) developed by Matthew Uyttendaele, Seattle, and Michael Cohen, Seattle, for generating gigapixel images. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A gigapixel image is generated from a set of images in raw format depicting different portions of a panoramic scene that has up to a full spherical field of view. Radiometric alignment of the images creates a set of images in radiance format. Geometric alignment of the radiance format images creates a set of true poses for the images in radiance format. A gigapixel image depicting the entire scene is assembled from the set of radiance format images and radiance format true poses for the images. The set of images in raw format is captured using a conventional digital camera, equipped with a telephoto lens, attached to a motorized head. The head is programmed to pan and tilt the camera in prescribed increments to individually capture the images at a plurality of exposures and with a prescribed overlap between images depicting adjacent portions of the scene." The patent application was filed on July 18, 2007 (11/779,871). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=79,61,983.PN.&OS=PN/79,61,983&RS=PN/79,61,983 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (7,961,987) developed by five co-inventors for an "efficient processing of non-reflow content in a digital image." The co-inventors are Robert L. Goodwin, Mercer Island, Wash., Troy N. Terry, Bellevue, Wash., Adam Brian Coath, Seattle, Frederick Ziya Ramos Akalin, Seattle, and Joshua Shagam, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer system and method for efficiently processing a digital image into reflow content is presented. The method comprises each of the following as executed on a computer. A digital image is obtained for processing. The digital image includes at least some content suitable for conversion into reflow content. The digital image is processed into a digital content file. The digital content file includes both reflow content and non-reflow blocks of content. For each non-reflow block of content in the digital content file, the following are performed. A confidence rating is determined for the non-reflow block of content. If the confidence rating for the non-reflow block of content falls below a predetermined threshold, an evaluation of the non-reflow block is triggered." The patent application was filed on July 3, 2008 (12/168,024). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=79,61,987.PN.&OS=PN/79,61,987&RS=PN/79,61,987 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Research In Motion Assigned Patent for Wireless Email Communications System Providing Resource Updating Features and Related Methods ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Research In Motion, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, has been assigned a patent (7,962,125) developed by Nathan Provo, Ravensdale, Wash., for a "wireless email communications system providing resource updating features and related methods." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A wireless communications system may include a plurality of wireless communications networks and a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices for sending and receiving wireless electronic mail (email) messages over the wireless communications networks. The system may further include a resource deployment server for storing a plurality of resource deployment packages (RDPs), where each RDP includes deployment content and deployment instructions therefor relating to sending and receiving email messages. The resource deployment server may also be for dynamically deploying RDPs to the wireless communications networks to update deployment content thereof based upon the respective deployment instructions." The patent application was filed on March 27, 2006 (11/389,894). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=79,62,125.PN.&OS=PN/79,62,125&RS=PN/79,62,125 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** WI-GUI Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- WI-GUI, Washington, has been assigned a patent (7,962,149) developed by Thomas R. McCann, North Bend, Wash., for a "local phone number lookup and cache." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for wirelessly connecting a computer device to a server. The system includes a computer device and a phone number look-up device. The computer device generates location data, retrieves a server phone number from memory based on the generated location data, and generates a request that includes the generated location data if no server phone number corresponds to the generated location data. The computer device wirelessly sends the generated request to a default phone number. The phone number look-up device is associated with the default phone number. The phone number look-up device receives the request from the computer device, retrieves a server phone number from a local memory based on the received request, and sends the retrieved server phone number to the computer device. The computer device wirelessly connects to a server based on the sent server phone number." The patent application was filed on Sept. 28, 2006 (11/536,542). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=79,62,149.PN.&OS=PN/79,62,149&RS=PN/79,62,149 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Digimarc Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Digimarc, Beaverton, Ore., has been assigned a patent (7,961,949) developed by four co-inventors for an "extracting multiple identifiers from audio and video content." The co-inventors are Kenneth L. Levy, Stevenson, Wash., Brett T. Hannigan, Philadelphia, Brett A. Bradley, Portland, Ore., and Geoffrey B. Rhoads, West Linn, Ore. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The disclosure concerns content identification, such as extracting identifying information from content itself. One combination described in the disclosure is a method including: extracting first identifying information from data representing audio elements of an audio signal, the act of extracting first identifying information from data representing audio elements of the audio signal utilizes a programmed electronic processor; extracting second identifying information from data representing picture elements of a video signal that is associated with the audio signal, the act of extracting second identifying information from data representing picture elements of the video signal utilizes a programmed electronic processor; and utilizing the first identifying information or the second identifying information in a synchronization process, the synchronization process controls content synchronization during rendering of the audio signal or the video signal. Of course, other combinations are provided as well." The patent application was filed on Oct. 12, 2009 (12/577,487). 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=7961949.PN.&OS=PN/7961949&RS=PN/7961949 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Merck Sharp & Dohme Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Merck Sharp & Dohme, Rahway, N.J., has been assigned a patent (7,962,316) developed by six co-inventors for a "method of designing siRNAs for gene silencing." The co-inventors are Aimee L. Jackson, Seattle, Steven R. Bartz, Seattle, Julja Burchard, Mount Vernon, Wash., Peter S. Linsley, Seattle, Wei Ge, Redmond, Wash., and Guy L. Cavet, Burlingame, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention provides a method for identifying siRNA target motifs in a transcript using a position-specific score matrix approach. The invention also provides a method for identifying off-target genes of an siRNA using a position-specific score matrix approach. The invention further provides a method for designing siRNAs with higher silencing efficacy and specificity. The invention also provides a library of siRNAs comprising siRNAs with high silencing efficacy and specificity." The patent application was filed on Oct. 27, 2004 (10/577,696). 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=7,962,316.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,316&RS=PN/7,962,316 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Yahoo! Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,962,502) developed by six co-inventors for an "efficient caching for dynamic webservice queries using cachable fragments." The co-inventors are Rajiv Puranik, Cupertino, Calif., Jay Ramamurthi, San Jose, Calif., ChyrSong Ting, San Marcos, Calif., Scott Haynie, Santa Monica, Calif., Timothy R. McCune, Santa Monica, Calif., and Sandeep Kumar, Issaquah, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for intelligent caching is provided. A thin layer of business logic on a web server receives URL requests sent to the web server from clients and resolves the URLs into URLs corresponding to component parts of the requested document according to the rules of a rule set. Thus only the component resources of a composite document are cached in the web server's caching layer. The rule set defines a format for the requests sent to the web server, the manner in which properly formatted requests should be resolved, and the manner in which the component resources should be assembled into the composite document." The patent application was filed on Nov. 18, 2008 (12/273,504). 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=7962502.PN.&OS=PN/7962502&RS=PN/7962502 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Parallel Nested Transactions in Transactional Memory ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,962,456) developed by five co-inventors for a "parallel nested transactions in transactional memory." The co-inventors are Michael M. Magruder, Sammamish, Wash., David Detlefs, Issaquah, Wash., John Joseph Duffy, Renton, Wash., Goetz Graefe, Madison, Wis., and Vinod K. Grover, Mercer Island, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for supporting parallel nested transactions in a transactional memory system. For example, pessimistic reads are supported. A pessimistic duplication detection data structure is created for a parallel nested transaction. An entry is made into the data structure for each pessimistic read in the parallel nested transaction. When committing the parallel nested transaction, new pessimistic read locks are passed to an immediate parent, and an entry is made into a separate pessimistic duplication detection data structure of the immediate parent with synchronization between sibling transactions. The pessimistic duplication detection data structures can also be used for upgrades from pessimistic reads to write locks. Retry operations are supported with parallel nested transactions. Write abort compensation maps can be used with parallel nested transactions to detect and handle falsely doomed parent transactions." The patent application was filed on Sept. 18, 2007 (11/901,483). 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=7962456.PN.&OS=PN/7962456&RS=PN/7962456 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Experian Information Solutions Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Experian Information Solutions, Costa Mesa, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,962,404) developed by Frank X. Metzger II, Noblesville, Ind., and Sherri Joyann Densmore, Pullman, Wash., for "systems and methods for determining loan opportunities." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A loan opportunity system is configured to analyze loan data and/or population data in order to determine loan opportunities for a lender, such as a credit union. In one embodiment a lender is initially provided with one or more estimated loan opportunity indicators, such as indicators of quantities of loans in a specific geographic region for which the lender can likely offer lower rates. Subsequently, upon completion of a payment agreement with a loan opportunity provider, for example, and establishment of loan parameters associated with borrowers (and their existing loans) to which the lender would like to make firm offers of credit, the lender is provided with a loan opportunity list indicating details of borrowers and their respective loans for which the particular lender can likely offer lower rates." The patent application was filed on Nov. 7, 2007 (11/936,720). 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=7962404.PN.&OS=PN/7962404&RS=PN/7962404 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Relationship Modeling ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,962,497) developed by Benjamin Albahari, Seattle, Michael E. Deem, Redmond, Wash., and Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, Mercer Island, Wash., for a relationship modeling. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The subject disclosure pertains to relationships between items. Relationships between items can be defined external to the items themselves thereby providing a modular, flexible and extensible system. For instance, relationships between items can be defined in a class that includes methods for returning particular elements or values in accordance with a specified relationship. Moreover, a compiler or like system can be extended to accept relationship expressions in a simple property format and direct such calls to specific methods." The patent application was filed on Sept. 20, 2005 (11/230,983). 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=7962497.PN.&OS=PN/7962497&RS=PN/7962497 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent for Performing Automatically Authorized Programmatic Transactions ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Amazon Technologies, Incline Village, Nev., has been assigned a patent (7,962,419) developed by seven co-inventors for "performing automatically authorized programmatic transactions." The co-inventors are Vikas Gupta, Bangalore, India, Allan H. Vermeulen, Seattle, Eugene Wei, New York, Andrew R. Jassy, Seattle, Jeffrey P. Bezos, Greater Seattle, Duane J. Krause, Seattle, and David A. Schappell, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques are described for facilitating interactions between computing systems, such as by performing transactions between parties that are automatically authorized via a third-party transaction authorization system. In some situations, the transactions are programmatic transactions involving the use of fee-based Web services by executing application programs, with the transaction authorization system authorizing and/or providing payments in accordance with private authorization instructions previously specified by the parties. The authorization instructions may include predefined instruction rule sets that regulate conditions under which a potential transaction can be authorized, with the instruction rule sets each referenced by an associated reference token. After one or more of the parties to a potential transaction supply reference tokens for the parties, the transaction authorization system can determine whether to authorize the transaction based on whether the instruction rule sets associated with the reference tokens are compatible or otherwise satisfied." The patent application was filed on Aug. 18, 2009 (12/543,372). 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=7962419.PN.&OS=PN/7962419&RS=PN/7962419 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (7,962,422) developed by Valeria Melechko, Redmond, Wash., Michael W. Nail, Seattle, and Jeremy Brian Hanni, Seattle, for a redirection of deliveries. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed are various embodiments for redirecting orders based on delivery site unavailability. A first delivery site that will be unavailable during an unavailability period is identified, and a coincidence between the unavailability period and a pick-up period of a shipment at the first delivery site is determined, the shipment being currently scheduled to be picked up by a customer at the first delivery site during the pick-up period. A second delivery site is then determined. A notification is sent to the customer of the second delivery site, and a rerouting of the shipment to the second delivery site is initiated." The patent application was filed on Dec. 8, 2008 (12/329,940). 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=7962422.PN.&OS=PN/7962422&RS=PN/7962422 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent for Performing Automatically Authorized Programmatic Transactions ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Amazon Technologies, Incline Village, Nev., has been assigned a patent (7,962,415) developed by seven co-inventors for "performing automatically authorized programmatic transactions." The co-inventors are Vikas Gupta, Bangalore, India, Allan H. Vermeulen, Seattle, Eugene Wei, New York, Andrew R. Jassy, Seattle, Jeffrey P. Bezos, Greater Seattle, Duane J. Krause, Seattle, and David A. Schappell, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques are described for facilitating interactions between computing systems, such as by performing transactions between parties that are automatically authorized via a third-party transaction authorization system. In some situations, the transactions are programmatic transactions involving the use of fee-based Web services by executing application programs, with the transaction authorization system authorizing and/or providing payments in accordance with private authorization instructions previously specified by the parties. The authorization instructions may include predefined instruction rule sets that regulate conditions under which a potential transaction can be authorized, with the instruction rule sets each referenced by an associated reference token. After one or more of the parties to a potential transaction supply reference tokens for the parties, the transaction authorization system can determine whether to authorize the transaction based on whether the instruction rule sets associated with the reference tokens are compatible or otherwise satisfied." The patent application was filed on Aug. 18, 2009 (12/543,374). 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=7962415.PN.&OS=PN/7962415&RS=PN/7962415 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Dynamic Computation of Identity-based Attributes ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,962,493) developed by four co-inventors for a "dynamic computation of identity-based attributes." The co-inventors are Cezar Ungureanasu, Sammamish, Wash., John H. Zybura, Seattle, Matthias Leibmann, Woodinville, Wash., and Pallavi Gajula, Bellevue, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Enterprise Identity Management systems control access to information derived from identity-related data stored in various data repositories. An identity-based management system can automatically and dynamically compute derived data when the source data changes. Rule-base tools can be used to compute derived data from arbitrary attribute-based datasets. Dynamic computation of identity-based attributes within information system servers allows data to be aggregated and normalized from multiple data sources deployed across an organization so that updated related information can be persisted and pushed to various servers in the organization." The patent application was filed on March 5, 2007 (11/682,093). 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=7962493.PN.&OS=PN/7962493&RS=PN/7962493 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent for System and Method of Fulfilling a Transaction ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (7,962,418) developed by five co-inventors for a "system and method of fulfilling a transaction." The co-inventors are Danny Wei, Seattle, Craig W. Howard, Seattle, Robert H. Sawers, Seattle, David I. Gellman, Seattle, and Charles L. Ward, Sammamish, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method is disclosed that includes receiving a request for a transaction from a customer at a seller server system via an electronic-commerce website and identifying a customer account stored at the seller server system based on an identity of the customer. A plurality of financial instruments is associated with the customer account. The plurality of financial instruments has a customer-specific sequence including at least a first financial instrument pre-selected by the customer and a second financial instrument. The method includes automatically attempting to collect a particular payment associated with the transaction from a first financial service provider corresponding to the first financial instrument and automatically attempting to collect the particular payment from a second financial service provider corresponding to the second financial instrument in response to data received at the seller server system indicating a denial of the payment." The patent application was filed on March 30, 2007 (11/731,812). 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=7962418.PN.&OS=PN/7962418&RS=PN/7962418 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Role/Persona Based Applications ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,962,426) developed by four co-inventors for a "role/persona based applications." The co-inventors are Gurdeep S. Pall, Medina, Wash., Jeffrey S. Raikes, Seattle, Wash., Alexander G. Gounares, Kirkland, Wash., and Ajitesh Kishore, Kirkland, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates managing data within an environment. An interface component can receive a role-based model reflective of at least one position within an environment, wherein the environment includes two or more entities within an organized hierarchy. The role-based model can include at least one role assigned to an entity in which the assignment is indicative of the position of the entity within the environment. A role component can provide data access to the entity within the environment in accordance with the role assigned to such entity." The patent application was filed on Dec. 18, 2007 (11/958,739). 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=7962426.PN.&OS=PN/7962426&RS=PN/7962426 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Using a Variable Identity Pipe for Constrained Delegation and Connection Pooling ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,962,636) developed by Iulian Catalin Stafie, Redmond, Wash., and Narasimhan Sundararajan, Redmond, Wash., for an "using a variable identity pipe for constrained delegation and connection pooling." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Example embodiments provide for a system configured to provide constrained delegation and connection pooling for a back-end server by providing a variable identity pipe between it and a front-end server. A client will authenticate to the front-end process using credentials that are typically non-delegable by default, e.g., a token, certificate, or the like. The front-end is configured to extract client identity information and use this information to request changing an identity associated with the variable identity pipe. In addition, requests for actions on resources received from the client can be transformed into remote procedural calls and used by the back-end server to process the requests. A response is then sent back over the variable identity pipe to the client via the front-end server. The variable identity pipe is left open to allow other requests from other clients to be sent over the variable identity pipe in a similar manner." The patent application was filed on Aug. 24, 2010 (12/862,061). 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=7,962,636&OS=7,962,636&RS=7,962,636 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Policy Service System Architecture for Sessions Created Using STUN ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,962,621) developed by Neil A. Deason, Seattle, for a "policy service system architecture for sessions created using STUN." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Described herein are embodiments for setting, managing, and monitoring connection policies for a plurality of network paths from a first endpoint to a second endpoint. In embodiments, a set of candidate addresses from a first endpoint and a set of candidate addresses from a second endpoint are received. Each candidate address of the first endpoint is paired with each candidate address of the second endpoint to create a plurality of candidate address pairs. Each candidate address pair has an associated network path. The network path is the route by which data flows to and from the various endpoints. Once all network paths between each candidate address pair have been determined, a connection policy is set for each network address pair and the associated network path." The patent application was filed on Jan. 13, 2009 (12/353,014). 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=7,962,621&OS=7,962,621&RS=7,962,621 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Media Processing Technologies ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,962,639) developed by Geoffrey T. Dunbar, Kirkland, Wash., Eric Rudolph, Woodinville, Wash., and Sohail Baig Mohammed, Redmond, Wash., for media processing technologies. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for a media processor separates the functions of topology creation and maintenance from the functions of processing data through a topology. The system includes a control layer including a topology generating element to generate a topology describing a set of input multimedia streams, one or more sources for the input multimedia streams, a sequence of operations to perform on the multimedia data, and a set of output multimedia streams, and a media processor to govern the passing of the multimedia data as described in the topology and govern the performance of the sequence of multimedia operations on the multimedia data to create the set of output multimedia streams. The core layer includes the input media streams, the sources for the input multimedia streams, one or more transforms to operate on the multimedia data, stream sinks, and media sinks to provide the set of output multimedia streams." The patent application was filed on Feb. 4, 2008 (12/025,729). 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=7,962,639&OS=7,962,639&RS=7,962,639 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Sustaining Session Connections ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,962,623) developed by James Evan Undery, Seattle, and Mark Markaryan, Seattle, for sustaining session connections. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In an embodiment, techniques for sustaining session connections are provided. The techniques send heartbeat messages when not sending a message may cause the session connection to close because of a timeout condition. Heartbeat messages are valid transport layer messages that will be ignored by protocols at higher levels of a data communications stack. As an example, the techniques may send a TCP message containing only a carriage return and line feed ("CRLF") in its payload. Because the TCP layer considers a message containing only a CRLF to be a valid TCP message, intermediary computing devices such as proxy servers may not interpret heartbeat messages as "keep alive" messages, and may sustain session connections." The patent application was filed on June 30, 2004 (10/881,251). 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=7,962,623&OS=7,962,623&RS=7,962,623 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Peer-to-peer Name Resolution Protocol (PNRP) and Multilevel Cache for Use Therewith ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,962,651) developed by Christina Huitema, Clyde Hill, Wash., and John L. Miller, Bellevue, Wash., for a "peer-to-peer name resolution protocol (PNRP) and multilevel cache for use therewith." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A serverless name resolution protocol ensures convergence despite the size of the network, without requiring an ever-increasing cache and with a reasonable numbers of hops. This convergence is ensured through a multi-level cache and a proactive cache initialization strategy. The multi-level cache is built based on a circular number space. Each level contains information from different levels of slivers of the circular space. A mechanism is included to add a level to the multi-level cache when the node determines that the last level is full. A peer-to-peer name resolution protocol (PNRP) includes a mechanism to allow resolution of names which are mapped onto the circular number space through a hash function. Further, the PNRP may also operate with the domain name system by providing each node with an identification consisting of a domain name service (DNS) component and a unique number." The patent application was filed on June 13, 2005 (11/152,587). 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=7,962,651&OS=7,962,651&RS=7,962,651 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Distributed Device Discovery Framework for a Network ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,962,605) developed by Weihai Chen, Sammamish, Wash., for a "distributed device discovery framework for a network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for discovering resources connected to a distributed network having a plurality of subnets is provided. Resource discovery over a distributed network is facilitated by active simple discover agents (ASDAs), that are selected from candidate simple discovery agents (SDAs) on the subnets. The ASDA discovers ASDAs on neighboring subnets. After determining neighboring ASDAs, an ASDA issues discovery search requests to the neighboring ASDAs. The neighboring ASDAs forward such requests onto their neighboring ASDAs to propagate a device discovery search request throughout a network comprising multiple subnets." The patent application was filed on Nov. 20, 2001 (09/989,474). 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=7,962,605&OS=7,962,605&RS=7,962,605 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Automated Capture of Information Generated at Meetings ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,962,525) developed by Aman Kansal, Issaquah, Wash., for an "automated capture of information generated at meetings." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Meeting information is collected in an automatic or automated manner utilizing user devices among other devices likely to be present at meetings. Devices can detect the occurrence of a meeting and initiate data capture. Subsequently, aggregated data can be processed to facilitate access and/or dissemination of the data. For instance, data can be contextualized and/or indexed. Further, data can be generated in or converted to forms more suitable for information distribution (e.g., summary, points of interest . . . )" The patent application was filed on Nov. 5, 2007 (11/935,016). 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=7,962,525&OS=7,962,525&RS=7,962,525 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Method and System for Collecting Information from Computer Systems Based on a Trusted Relationship ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash. has been assigned a patent (7,962,571) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and system for collecting information from computer systems based on a trusted relationship." The co-inventors are Chun Yuan, Beijing, Jiahe Helen Wang, Issaquah, Wash., Yi-Min Wang, Bellevue, Wash., and Zheng Zhang, Beijing. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for retrieving data from devices in a way that seeks to preserve privacy and ensure the integrity of the retrieved data is provided. A retrieval system is implemented on a network of devices that communicate with each other via a secure communications link. Each device is directly connected to one or more "friend" devices that it trusts. The retrieval system operates by forwarding a request for data from one friend device to another friend device. Each friend device may optionally add data to the request until all the requested data is added. The request with the retrieved data is returned to the device that initiated the request." The patent application was filed on March 7, 2008 (12/044,760). 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=7,962,571&OS=7,962,571&RS=7,962,571 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (7,962,597) developed by five co-inventors for a "request routing based on class." The co-inventors are David R. Richardson, Seattle, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Seattle, Bradley E. Marshall, Bainbridge Island, Wash., Christopher L. Scofield, Seattle, and Elmore Eugene Pope, Sammamish, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for management and processing of resource requests is provided. A content delivery network service provider receives a DNS query from a client computing device. The DNS query corresponds to a requested resource from the client computing device. The content delivery network service provider associates the client computing device with a cluster of other client computing devices. Based on routing information for the cluster, the content delivery network service provider routes the DNS query. The process can further include monitoring performance data associated with the delivery of the requested resource and updating the routing information for the cluster based on the performance data for use in processing subsequent requests from client computing devices in the cluster." The patent application was filed on March 31, 2008 (12/060,173). 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=7,962,597&OS=7,962,597&RS=7,962,597 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Partial Item Change Tracking and Synchronization ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash. has been assigned a patent (7,962,585) developed by Alec C. Dun, Redmond, Wash., Joseph R. Warren, Renton, Wash., and Robert R. Novitskey, Redmond, Wash., for a "partial item change tracking and synchronization." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments herein change the way item syncing is handled and tracked between two devices. Changes to items are tracked in accordance with well defined property groups and each group is tracked independently of the other. For example, one group could contain large data items, e.g., attachments, while another group could include highly volatile properties like a follow-up flag. The present invention increases the sync rates between a client and a server by syncing only select portions of an item that have changed, without monitoring the change of each individual property within the item. Accordingly, if a change is made to a small data property (e.g., follow-up flag) on a relatively large email message, such change will not trigger a large download to a client running under a cached mode, nor will there be a requirement for high storage and processing for tracking each individual property." The patent application was filed on Aug. 15, 2005 (11/204,067). 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=7,962,585&OS=7,962,585&RS=7,962,585 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** EMC Assigned Patent for Cluster Storage Using Delta Compression ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,962,520) developed by six co-inventors for a "cluster storage using delta compression." The co-inventors are R. Hugo Patterson, Mountain View, Calif., Kai Li, Seattle, Ming Benjamin Zhu, Cedar Park, Texas, Sazzala Venkata Reddy, Sunnyvale, Calif., Umesh Maheshwari, San Jose, Calif., and Edward K. Lee, Mountain View, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Cluster storage is disclosed. A data stream or a data block is received. The data stream or the data block is broken into segments. For each segment, a cluster node is selected, and in the event that a similar segment to the segment is identified that is already managed by the selected cluster node, a reference to the similar segment and a delta between the similar segment and the segment is caused to be stored on the selected cluster node." The patent application was filed on April 9, 2008 (12/082,244). 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=7,962,520&OS=7,962,520&RS=7,962,520 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Media Content Catalog Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,962,937) developed by four co-inventors for a "media content catalog service." The co-inventors are Wei Wei Ada Cho, Issaquah, Wash., Stephen R. Husak, Snoqualmie, Wash., Liang Ge, Duvall, Wash., and Aamer Hydrie, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Aggregating media content catalog data from a plurality of content providers. The catalog data is merged according to rules and provided to a user on a scheduled basis or on demand. In an embodiment, the merged catalog data represents an incremental update to previously delivered catalog data." The patent application was filed on Aug. 1, 2006 (11/461,589). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=79,62,937.PN.&OS=PN/79,62,937&RS=PN/79,62,937 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. 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