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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in New York (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 York. *** Xerox Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 15 -- Xerox, Norwalk, Conn., has been assigned a patent (7,962,050) developed by Yevgeniy Shustef, Macedon, N.Y., Steven C. Carey, Tigard, Ore., and Alan J. Aufderheide, Fairport, N.Y., for a "system and method for controlling ordering of printing supplies based on a service contract." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for managing customer orders associated with at least one printer device for consumable supplies under a contract. The method includes receiving printer usage data from at least one printer indicative of consumption of at least one consumable supply and calculating for each printer device based on the received print usage data associated with the printer device an allowed amount of at least one consumable supply that can be ordered for the printer device by a customer based on a contract. The method further includes receiving a customer order request for ordering an amount of a consumable supply for a printer device under the contract; determining whether the requested amount exceeds the allowed amount calculated for the consumable supply for the printer device, and limiting the amount of the requested consumable supply which can be ordered when the determination is positive." The patent application was filed on April 11, 2008 (12/101,393). 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=7,962,050.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,050&RS=PN/7,962,050 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Audiovox Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 15 -- Audiovox, Hauppauge, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,962,260) developed by John DiCroce, Oceanside, N.Y., Shane Wilson, Clinton Township, Mich., and Peter Stouffer, Holly, Mich., for a "remote programmer for a vehicle control system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A remote programmer for remotely programming a vehicle control system is provided. The remote programmer includes a display, an input for receiving user input data, a first interface for interfacing with a computer, wherein the first interface receives data associated with programming the vehicle control system from the computer; a transmitter for wirelessly transmitting the data associated with programming the vehicle control system to the vehicle control system; and a controller for controlling operations of the remote programmer, wherein the controller stores the data associated with programming the vehicle control system and controls operations of the first interface and the transmitter in accordance with the user input data." The patent application was filed on June 12, 2007 (11/761,575). 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=7,962,260.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,260&RS=PN/7,962,260 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,962,234) developed by Yunsheng Song, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Xu Ouyang, Hopewell Junction, N.Y., and James P. Rice, Danbury, Conn., for a "multidimensional process window optimization in semiconductor manufacturing." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for optimizing multiple process windows in a semiconductor manufacturing process is disclosed. The method comprises performing dependent variable composition on a plurality of dependent variables. Metrology data is joined with the dependent variables, and then a partial least squares regression is performed on the joined data set to obtain a prediction equation, and a variable importance prediction for each process window in a process window set. A set of product limited yield are derived, and the process window, set is adjusted, and the yields recalculated, until an optimal process window set is derived." The patent application was filed on June 9, 2008 (12/135,522). 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=7,962,234.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,234&RS=PN/7,962,234 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** JPMorgan Chase Bank Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- JPMorgan Chase Bank, New York, has been assigned a patent (7,962,396) developed by Cassio Calil, New York, Guy Coughlan, Surrey, United Kingdom, and David Epstein, London, for a "system and method for managing risk." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems and methods for managing financial market risk. The method can include defining an exposure map for the treasury budget, calculating and categorizing the financial market risk to the budget, and producing a financial market risk analysis report. The method can also include defining and implementing a hedge to mitigate financial market risks and costs. The hedge can be a basket hedge. The method can also include identifying the financial market risk factors impacting on each element of the budget, generating scenarios for market rates, and producing a report after hedging. Evaluating the financial market risk to the budget under stress scenarios can also be included. Defining the exposure map for the treasury budget can include defining exposures related to revenues and costs (gross profit), interest income, interest expense, hedge cash flow, inter-company cash flow, foreign exchange translation gain or loss, foreign exchange transaction gain/loss, earnings translation gain or loss, and/or commodity inventory gain/loss." The patent application was filed on Feb. 3, 2006 (11/347,760). 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=7,962,396.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,396&RS=PN/7,962,396 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for System and Method for Calculating Potential Maximal Price and Share Rate ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,962,357) developed by six co-inventors for a "system and method for calculating potential maximal price and share rate." The co-inventors are Rong Z. Cao, Beijing, Wei Ding, Beijing, Shun Jiang, Beijing, Juhnyoung Lee, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., Gregory C. Morris, Beacon Hill, Australia, and Chunhua Tian, Beijing. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "System and method for determining maximal price for projects are provided. A project scope of a project based on a plurality of selected criteria is defined, and total cost of the project is estimated. A value model of the project is generated and estimated value of the project is determined using the value model. A composite object function that includes cumulative distributive functions of the total cost and of the estimated value is computed to determine potential maximal price or share rate or combinations thereof." The patent application was filed on Feb. 29, 2008 (12/040,481). 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=7,962,357.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,357&RS=PN/7,962,357 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Speech-to-speech Generation System and Method ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,962,345) developed by four co-inventors for a "speech-to-speech generation system and method." The co-inventors are Shen Liqin, Beijing, Shi Qin, Beijing, Donald Tang, Mount Kisco, N.Y., and Zhang Wei, Beijing. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An expressive speech-to-speech generation system which can generate expressive speech output by using expressive parameters extracted from the original speech signal to drive the standard TTS system. The system comprises: speech recognition means, machine translation means, text-to-speech generation means, expressive parameter detection means for extracting expressive parameters from the speech of language A, and expressive parameter mapping means for mapping the expressive parameters extracted by the expressive parameter detection means from language A to language B, and driving the text-to-speech generation means by the mapping results to synthesize expressive speech." The patent application was filed on Aug. 23, 2008 (12/197,243). 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=7,962,345.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,345&RS=PN/7,962,345 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Using Detailed Process Information at a Point of Sale ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,962,365) developed by seven co-inventors for a "using detailed process information at a point of sale." The co-inventors are Russell Patrick Bobbitt, Pleasantville, N.Y., Quanfu Fan, Somerville, Mass., Arun Hampapur, Norwalk, Conn., Frederik Kjeldsen, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Sharathchandra Umapathirao Pankanti, Darien, Conn., Akira Yanagawa, New York, and Yun Zhai, White Plains, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques for using transactional and visual event information to facilitate loss prevention are provided. The techniques include obtaining video of one or more visual events at a point of sale environment and one or more transaction log entries that correspond to the video, wherein the one or more transaction log entries comprise one or more transactional events, categorizing each event as one of one or more model events, using each categorized event to create a revised transaction log, wherein the revised transaction log comprises a sequence of categorized events, wherein each categorized event is a combination of the one or more transactional events and the one or more visual events, examining the revised transaction log to correct one or more mis-categorizations, if any, and revise one or more model event categories with the one or more corrected mis-categorizations, if any, and using the revised transaction log to facilitate loss prevention." The patent application was filed on Oct. 31, 2008 (12/262,458). 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=7,962,365.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,365&RS=PN/7,962,365 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Infinera Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Infinera, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,961,994) developed by Wei Chen, Ellicott City, Md., and Brent E. Little, Glen Head, N.Y., for an optical interface assembly. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An optical device includes a first waveguide having an end portion configured to receive an optical signal, the optical signal having a fundamental mode; a second waveguide having an end portion spaced from the end portion of the first waveguide; and a cladding layer surrounding the first and second waveguides. The first waveguide is configured such that the optical signal undergoes multimode interference to focus the fundamental mode at the end portion of the second waveguide." The patent application was filed on Sept. 29, 2008 (12/239,940). 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=79,61,994.PN.&OS=PN/79,61,994&RS=PN/79,61,994 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** CFPH Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- CFPH, New York, has been assigned a patent (7,962,400) developed by Lee M. Amaitis, London, and Joseph M. Asher, New York, for a "system and method for wagering based on the movement of financial markets." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for wagering comprises a memory and a processor. The memory stores a bet regarding a plurality of outcomes associated with financial market indicators. The bet comprises a first bet component indicating whether a value of a first financial market indicator will go up or go down in a first predetermined period of time, and a second bet component indicating whether a value of a second financial market indicator will go up or go down in a second predetermined period of time. The processor is coupled to the memory and is operable to determine an outcome of the first bet component, the second bet component, and the overall bet." The patent application was filed on Apr. 29, 2004 (10/836,999). 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=7,962,400.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,400&RS=PN/7,962,400 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method for Globalizing Support Operations ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,962,324) developed by four co-inventors for a "method for globalizing support operations." The co-inventors are Alexander Faisman, Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., Genady Grabarnik, Scarsdale, N.Y., Jonathan Lenchner, North Salem, N.Y., and Larisa Shwartz, Scarsdale, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques are provided for globalizing handling of service management items. The techniques include obtaining a service management item in a language convenient to a first of two or more actors, translating the service management item into a language-neutral format to obtain a language-neutral service management item, applying one or more annotators to the service management item, translating the language-neutral service management item into a language convenient to a second of two or more actors acting on the service management item, and routing the translated service management item to the second of two or more actors. Techniques are also provided for generating a database of service management items in a language-neutral format." The patent application was filed on Aug. 28, 2007 (11/845,907). 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=7,962,324.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,324&RS=PN/7,962,324 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Nuance Communications Assigned Patent for Methods and Apparatus for Buffering Data for Use in Accordance with a Speech Recognition System ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Nuance Communications, Burlington, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,962,340) developed by five co-inventors for "methods and apparatus for buffering data for use in accordance with a speech recognition system." The co-inventors are Liam D. Comerford, Carmel, N.Y., David Carl Frank, Ossining, N.Y., Burn L. Lewis, Ossining, N.Y., Leonid Rachevksy, Ossining, N.Y., and Mahesh Viswanathan, Yorktown Heights, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques are disclosed for overcoming errors in speech recognition systems. For example, a technique for processing acoustic data in accordance with a speech recognition system comprises the following steps/operations. Acoustic data is obtained in association with the speech recognition system. The acoustic data is recorded using a combination of a first buffer area and a second buffer area, such that the recording of the acoustic data using the combination of the two buffer areas at least substantially minimizes one or more truncation errors associated with operation of the speech recognition system." The patent application was filed on Aug. 22, 2005 (11/209,004). 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=7,962,340.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,340&RS=PN/7,962,340 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** SpeechCycle Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- SpeechCycle, New York, has been assigned a patent (7,962,339) developed by Roberto Pieraccini, New York, and Krishna Dayanidhi, Jersey City, N.J., for a "method for variable resolution and error control in spoken language understanding." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for variable resolution and error control in spoken language understanding (SLU) allows arranging the categories of the SLU into a hierarchy of different levels of specificity. The pre-determined hierarchy is used to identify different types of errors such as high-cost errors and low-cost errors and trade, if necessary, high cost errors for low cost errors." The patent application was filed on March 12, 2008 (12/075,566). 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=7,962,339.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,339&RS=PN/7,962,339 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Sony Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Sony, Tokyo, and Sony Electronics, Park Ridge, N.J., have been assigned a patent (7,961,978) developed by five co-inventors for masking tool. The co-inventors are Eric Edwards, Captain Cook, Hawaii, Clay Harvey Fisher, San Diego, Kurt Jonach, San Jose, Calif., Neal Jacob Manowitz, Montebello, N.Y., and John Tree, London. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for controlling effects performed on an image includes a digital camera having a display that displays the image. A masking tool positions a graphical representation on the display, the graphical representation defining a portion of the image that is altered when the effects are applied to the image. The masking tool is positioned over a masked portion of an image and an effect is applied. The effect is applied on the image inside the masked portion." The patent application was filed on Aug. 25, 2009 (12/547,393). 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=79,61,978.PN.&OS=PN/79,61,978&RS=PN/79,61,978 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Design Structure for Compensating for Variances of a Buried Resistor in an Integrated Circuit ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,962,322) developed by Elie Awad, Essex Junction, Vt., Mariette Awad, Essex Junction, Vt., and Kai Di Feng, Hopewell Junction, N.Y., for a "design structure for compensating for variances of a buried resistor in an integrated circuit." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A design structure comprising elements that when processed in a computer-aided design system generates a machine-executable representation of a circuit that compensates for variances in the resistance of the buried resistor during operation of the integrated circuit using a waveform that is representative of the thermal characteristics of the buried resistor." The patent application was filed on June 9, 2008 (12/135,232). 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=7,962,322.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,322&RS=PN/7,962,322 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Xerox Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Xerox, Norwalk, Conn., has been assigned a patent (7,962,364) developed by Mark S. Penke, West Henrietta, N.Y., and Donald A. Brown, Honeoye Falls, N.Y., for a "multimedia communications/collaboration hub." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A chassis houses a marking engine, a scanner, and various input and output ports allowing devices to connect to the hub for data transfer, sharing, and collaboration. The preferred configuration includes two towers with a display and a work surface supported therebeteween. The display can have another display on its rear face, and both can have cameras and microphones mounted thereon, as well as speakers. The scanner is preferably embedded in the work surface. The towers house various components of the hub. A base can be included that supports both towers and any users using the hub. Preferably, the base includes pressure sensors to let the hub know when users are present." The patent application was filed on Oct. 30, 2003 (10/696,903). 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=7,962,364.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,364&RS=PN/7,962,364 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,962,114) developed by Alberto Valdes Garcia, White Plains, N.Y., Chinmaya Mishra, College Station, Texas, and Scott Kevin Reynolds, Amawalk, N.Y., for a "drain-pumped sub-harmonic mixer for millimeter wave applications." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A sub-harmonic mixer includes a first transistor having a source and a drain and a second transistor having a source connected to the source of the first transistor and a drain connected to the drain of the first transistor. A mixing transistor is configured to be biased in a linear operating region. The mixing transistor includes a drain coupled to the sources of the first transistor and the second transistor. The mixing transistor has its drain driven by a signal at twice a local oscillator (LO) frequency and its gate driven by a radio frequency (RF) signal while the mixing transistor is biased in the linear region such that a process of frequency doubling and mixing are performed simultaneously." The patent application was filed on Jan. 12, 2007 (11/622,812). 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=79,62,114.PN.&OS=PN/79,62,114&RS=PN/79,62,114 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Eastman Kodak Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Eastman Kodak, Rochester, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,961,939) developed by Thomas O. Maier, Rochester, N.Y., for a color transforming method. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for modifying original display device pixel values for a display device to maintain colorfulness, the method comprises the steps of obtaining original display device pixel values of an image; measuring white luminance from a viewing surface; and maintaining the colorfulness by calculating new pixel values based on the original display device pixel values, the measured luminance and a standard white luminance." The patent application was filed on Sept. 11, 2007 (11/853,214). 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=7961939.PN.&OS=PN/7961939&RS=PN/7961939 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for System for Creating and Modifying Lists for Electronic Distribution ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,962,506) developed by five co-inventors for a "system for creating and modifying lists for electronic distribution." The co-inventors are Rick Allen Hamilton, Charlottesville, Va., Jenny S. Li, Danbury, Conn., Brian Marshall O'Connell, Cary, N.C., Keith Raymond Walker, Austin, Texas, and Susan Marie Williams, Hopewell Junction, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system in which an initial distribution list is dynamically modified using criteria determined from the current entries in the list. After an originator generates a distribution list and prior to submission of the message to entries on the generated list, the entries in the created distribution list are examined. From this list, features of the entries are identified. From these features, criteria are generated that can be used to generate additional entries that may be included in the list. In one approach, the generated criteria are presented to the user for review and approval. If the originator approves the criteria, the generated list is modified to add additional entries to the distribution based on the generated criteria. If the originator rejects the criteria, the initially generated list is submitted and the message is sent to the entries on the initial list." The patent application was filed on Nov. 11, 2010 (12/944,216). 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=7962506.PN.&OS=PN/7962506&RS=PN/7962506 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Google Assigned Patent for Blending Mobile Search Results ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,962,477) developed by Ning Hu, Pittsburgh, and Vida U. Ha, New York, for a "blending mobile search results." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for blending mobile search results. A method includes receiving a search query and multiple search results. The search results each satisfy the search query and have a respective search result quality score. The search results include generic and mobile search results. The generic and mobile search results each identify a generic and mobile resource, respectively. The search result quality scores include mobile and generic search result quality scores for the mobile and generic search results, respectively. The mobile search result quality scores and the generic search result quality scores were generated according to different scoring formulas. Based on one or more terms in the search query, the search query is classified as a mobile query. As a consequence, one or more search result quality scores are modified to improve the sorting of search results that include both mobile and generic search results." The patent application was filed on Jan. 24, 2008 (12/019,486). 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=7962477.PN.&OS=PN/7962477&RS=PN/7962477 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Data Gather Scatter--redistribution Machine ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,962,451) developed by Bin Jia, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and Richard R. Treumann, Highland, N.Y., for a "data gather scatter--redistribution machine." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system, and computer program product to transfer data between two application data structures by copying a data gather scatter program (DGSP) from an exporting process address space where a first data structure is located, to a location in shared memory visible to an importing process address space; assembling a parameter set identifying the data structure; starting a data gather scatter-redistribution machine (DGS-RM) in an importing process space where a second application data structure is located; passing the first parameter set, the DGSP copy, and a second parameter set identifying a second application data structure and a second DGSP to the DGS-RM; and creating master and worker stack machines. The master stack machine identifies a contiguous chunk of the first data structure. The worker stack machine identifies contiguous chunks of the second data structure representing the same number of bytes as the contiguous chunk of the first data structure and transferring to (from) one or more identified chunks of the second data structure from (to) the single chunk of the first application data structure." The patent application was filed on May 28, 2008 (12/128,303). 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=7962451.PN.&OS=PN/7962451&RS=PN/7962451 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** FalconStor Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- FalconStor, Melville, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,962,499) developed by Wai Lam, Jericho, N.Y., for a "system and method for identifying and mitigating redundancies in stored data." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In an example of an embodiment of the invention, a repeating pattern is identified within stored data comprising a plurality of data files, each data file comprising at least a header section and a data section stored in an unknown format. At least one occurrence of the repeating pattern is identified as a header section of a respective data file, and a data section of the respective data file is identified based, at least in part, on a location of the at least one occurrence of the repeating pattern. The identified data section of the respective data file is backed up. Systems are also disclosed." The patent application was filed on Aug. 16, 2007 (11/894,007). 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=7962499.PN.&OS=PN/7962499&RS=PN/7962499 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** American Express Travel Related Services Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods for Allocating an Amount between Transaction Accounts ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- American Express Travel Related Services, New York, has been assigned a patent (7,962,407) developed by Fred A. Bishop, Glendale, Ariz., Bansi L. Sharma, New York, and Tracey R. Thomas, Boonton, N.J., for "systems and methods for allocating an amount between transaction accounts." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A financial account issuer facilitating transactions between accounts is disclosed. The invention provides sellers with an irrevocable method of receiving funds from a purchaser and for improving purchaser willingness to transact with an unknown party. The invention also enables the allocation of a portion or all of a charge or loyalty points to different transaction accounts issued by different issuers, or to sub-accounts." The patent application was filed on Dec. 1, 2008 (12/325,495). 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=7962407.PN.&OS=PN/7962407&RS=PN/7962407 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Accessing a Hierarchical Database Using Service Data Objects via a Data Access Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,962,447) developed by five co-inventors for "accessing a hierarchical database using service data objects (SDO) via a data access service (DAS)." The co-inventors are Shawfu Chen, New Milford, Conn., Adris E. Hoyos, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Kevin T. Jones, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Bernard Klos, Victor, N.Y., and Aleksandr Krymer, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques for replicating modified data to a hierarchical database. A first list comprises records included in a set of records before at least one modification thereto. A second list comprises records included in the set of records after the at least one modification thereto. For each pre-modification record included in the first list and each post-modification record included in the second list having equal identifying values, a target record at the database and having a matching identifying value is modified. Specifically, if both records include corresponding indexes, information about a structure pointed to by the pre-modification record is removed from an index included in the target record, and information about a structure pointed to by the post-modification record is added to the index. If neither record includes an index, the target record is modified to contain at least one changed value included in the post-modification record." The patent application was filed on Dec. 30, 2008 (12/346,687). 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=7962447.PN.&OS=PN/7962447&RS=PN/7962447 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** First Data Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- First Data, Greenwood Village, Colo., has been assigned a patent (7,962,405) developed by Michael L. Sgaraglio, Massapequa Park, N.Y., Karin A. Erikson, Holbrook, N.Y., and Edward J. Long Jr., Port Jefferson Station, N.Y., for a "merchant activation tracking systems and methods." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for analyzing merchant account information comprises receiving at a server computer application information on merchants applying for credit service accounts. The application information is electronically stored at a storage location. At the server computer information is received from a user computer on how at least some of the accounts are being serviced. The servicing information is stored at the storage location." The patent application was filed on March 27, 2002 (10/108,934). 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=7962405.PN.&OS=PN/7962405&RS=PN/7962405 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for End-user System of Preventing Unauthorized Rerecording of Multimedia Content ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,962,413) developed by four co-inventors for an "end-user system of preventing unauthorized rerecording of multimedia content." The co-inventors are Michael G. Lisanke, Boynton Beach, Fla., Kenneth L. Milsted, Boynton Beach, Fla., Stefan Nusser, Mountain View, Calif., Bruce A. Tantlinger, Boynton Beach, Fla., and George W. Wilhelm Jr., Endwell, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An end-user system for the blocking of recording digital content at during the rendering of encrypted digital multimedia files. Before the process of rendering of encrypted digital multimedia can be started all rendered media stream during playback are opened to ensure that this multimedia content is not recorded. This blocks the usage of the multimedia interfaces including devices and/or ports that can be used to store un-encrypted content that has been decrypted for the purposes of playing or rendering. The method also includes an exception, which allows recording with permission from the present invention." The patent application was filed on April 7, 2008 (12/098,776). 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=7962413.PN.&OS=PN/7962413&RS=PN/7962413 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** American Express Travel Related Services Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods for Facilitating Transactions ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- American Express Travel Related Services, New York, has been assigned a patent (7,962,406) developed by Fred Bishop, Glendale, Ariz., Bansi L. Sharma, New York, and Tracey R. Thomas, Boonton, N.J., for a "systems and methods for facilitating transactions." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A financial account issuer facilitating transactions between accounts is disclosed. The invention provides sellers with an irrevocable method of receiving funds from a purchaser and for improving purchaser willingness to transact with an unknown party. The invention also includes the options of interest payments, the use of different account issuers, different financial accounts, budget transfers, spend compartmentalization, cost-splitting, adjusting credit limits, loans, gifting, intermediary facilitating the transaction, transaction tracking, rapid funds availability, confidential transfer of funds, immediate initiation of shipment by a seller, releasing funds to a seller only after approval of the goods, services, or other value, demonstrating proof of payment, and recourse against a remote seller." The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2008 (12/242,759). 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=7962406.PN.&OS=PN/7962406&RS=PN/7962406 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** JPMorgan Chase Bank Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- JPMorgan Chase Bank, New York, has been assigned a patent (7,962,409) developed by five co-inventors for a "method and system for processing internet payments using the electronic funds transfer network." The co-inventors are Denis O'Leary, New York, Vincent D'Agostino, New York, S. Richard Re, Westfield, N.J., Jessica Burney, New York, and Adam Hoffman, New York. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for effectuating Electronic Funds Transfer credit messages. The main structural components of the system include a Payment Portal Processor (PPP), an Internet Pay Anyone (IPA) Account, a Virtual Private Lockbox (VPL) and an associated Account. Reporter, the existing EFT networks, and a cash card for accessing a VPL or IP account. The PPP is a software application that provides a secure portal for accessing (linking to) either the user's Demand Deposit Account (DDA) or an IPA account and can be combined with the functionality of a traditional digital Wallet. Consumers use a PPP enhanced Wallet to fund their account, shop on the web, pay bills, pay anyone, store electronic receipts and transaction history, and check their recent PPP enhanced Wallet activity. The IPA account is a special purpose account with limited functionality for making electronic payments in the form of EFT credit messages. The VPL is a limited function receive only account for receiving electronic payments through the EFT. The Account Reporter is a portal to view transaction history and balance of IPA and VPL accounts, provide online, real-time transaction reports, and to reconciles accounts receivable/purchase records against incoming EFT payment records. A physical card can be associated with either an IPA or VPL account in order to provide PIN debit capability." The patent application was filed on Oct. 9, 2009 (12/576,463). 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=7962409.PN.&OS=PN/7962409&RS=PN/7962409 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. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Methods and Apparatus for Performing Structural Joins for Answering Containment Queries ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,962,473) developed by Shyh-Kwei Chen, Chappaqua, N.Y., Kun-Lung Wu, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., and Philip Shi-Lung Yu, Chappaqua, N.Y., for "methods and apparatus for performing structural joins for answering containment queries." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques are provided for performing structural joins for answering containment queries. Such inventive techniques may be used to perform efficient structural joins of two interval lists which are neither sorted nor pre-indexed. For example, in an illustrative aspect of the invention, a technique for performing structural joins of two element sets of a tree-structured document, wherein one of the two element sets is an ancestor element set and the other of the two element sets is a descendant element set, and further wherein each element is represented as an interval representing a start position and an end position of the element in the document, comprises the following steps/operations. An index is dynamically built for the ancestor element set. Then, one or more structural joins are performed by searching the index with the interval start position of each element in the descendant element set." The patent application was filed on Dec. 28, 2007 (APPLICATION). 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=7962473.PN.&OS=PN/7962473&RS=PN/7962473 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** New York Inventors Develop Patent for Neuromorphic Device for Proofreading Connection Adjustments in Hardware Artificial Neural Networks ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Paul Adams, Stony Brook, N.Y., and Kingsley J.A. Cox, Stony Brook, N.Y., have developed a patent (7,962,429) for a "neuromorphic device for proofreading connection adjustments in hardware artificial neural networks." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A hardware-implemented method for proofreading updates of connections in a hardware artificial neural network (hANN) includes computing a draft weight change independently at a connection between neuroids and at a corresponding dedicated special purpose nousoid, determining whether the draft weight changes agree, and executing a weight change at the connection equal to the draft weight change upon determining that the draft weight changes agree." The patent application was filed on May 27, 2008 (12/127,565). 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=7962429.PN.&OS=PN/7962429&RS=PN/7962429 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. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method for the Detection of Atypical Sequences via Generalized Compositional Methods ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,962,427) developed by Aristotelis Tsirigos, Astoria, N.Y., and Isidore Rigoutsos, Astoria, N.Y., for a "method for the detection of atypical sequences via generalized compositional methods." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for determining whether a sequence fragment g is atypical with respect to a reference sequence G using compositional methods and including constructing a template from G and g respectively containing a sequence of characters for a comparison with one another, wherein a number of characters contained in the template exceeds two. For the case where the sequences at hand are genetic, the atypicality detection can be used to determine whether a given sequence fragment g is the result of a horizontal transfer event." The patent application was filed on Aug. 21, 2009 (12/545,707). 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=7962427.PN.&OS=PN/7962427&RS=PN/7962427 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** InterDigital Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- InterDigital Technology, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (7,962,170) developed by Timothy A. Axness, Collegeville, Pa., and Leonid Kazakevich, Plainview, N.Y., for a "multi-mode radio with interference cancellation circuit." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A multi-mode wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) includes at least one antenna, first and second communication mode receivers and a first communication mode transmitter. The first and second receivers simultaneously receive signals from the antenna. The first transmitter generates and sends a first type of signal to the antenna while, at the same time, the second receiver receives a second type of signal from the antenna. In a preferred embodiment, the WTRU further includes a vector multiplier configured to reduce or eliminate interference of signals received by the second receiver, the interference being caused by the first transmitter. The vector multiplier adjusts the phase and amplitude of noise (i.e., spurious in-band noise) measured by the second receiver. The WTRU may further include a second communication mode transmitter configured to generate and send a second type of signal to the antenna." The patent application was filed on Oct. 22, 2008 (12/255,746). 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=7,962,170.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,170&RS=PN/7,962,170 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** American Express Travel Related Services Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- American Express Travel Related Services, New York, has been assigned a patent (7,962,408) developed by Fred A. Bishop, Glendale, Ariz., Bansi L. Sharma, New York, and Tracey R. Thomas, Boonton, N.J., for "systems and methods for establishing an allocation of an amount between transaction accounts." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A financial account issuer facilitating transactions between accounts is disclosed. The invention provides sellers with an irrevocable method of receiving funds from a purchaser and for improving purchaser willingness to transact with an unknown party. The invention also enables the allocation of a portion or all of a charge or loyalty points to different transaction accounts issued by different issuers, or to sub-accounts." The patent application was filed on Dec. 1, 2008 (12/325,536). 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=7962408.PN.&OS=PN/7962408&RS=PN/7962408 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Automatically Controlling In-process Software Distributions through Time Prediction of a Disturbance ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,962,431) developed by Mickey Iqbal, Tucker, Ga., Syed Babar Irfan, Austin, Texas, and Frances Fang Wand, Corning, N.Y., for "automatically controlling in-process software distributions through time prediction of a disturbance." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for controlling an in-process software distribution to computing devices. A time of a disturbance in an environment of a computing device is predicted based on a change in a pressure exerted on the computing device. A checkpoint in a time interval of a distribution of a set of software upgrade increments to the computing device is automatically determined. The checkpoint is prior to the time of the disturbance. The determination of the checkpoint utilizes length(s) of increment(s) of the set of increments. Prior to the checkpoint, the computing device receives the increment(s). The computing device requests an interruption of the distribution beginning at the checkpoint. In one embodiment, the computing device is a buoy-like energy capture and generation device." The patent application was filed on Sept. 18, 2007 (11/856,781). 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=7962431.PN.&OS=PN/7962431&RS=PN/7962431 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** SunGard AvantGard Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- SunGard AvantGard, Wayne, Pa., has been assigned a patent (7,962,403) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for a model assessing debtor behavior." The co-inventors are Michael J. Banasiak, Brielle, N.J., Daniel T. Tantum, Manalapan, N.J., Albert Fensterstock, Glen Cove, N.Y., and Theodore R. Shalack, New Brunswick, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer implemented method for assessing different expected payment behavior of a debtor with respect to different creditors." The patent application was filed on March 16, 2007 (11/687,626). 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=7962403.PN.&OS=PN/7962403&RS=PN/7962403 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method and System for Integrating SRAM and DRAM Architecture in Set Associative Cache ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,962,695) developed by six co-inventors for a "method and system for integrating SRAM and DRAM architecture in set associative cache." The co-inventors are Marc R. Faucher, South Burlington, Vt., Hillery C. Hunter, Somers, N.Y., William R. Reohr, Ridgefield, Conn., Peter A. Sandon, Essex Junction, Vt., Vijayalakshmi Srinivasan, New York, and Arnold S. Tran, South Burlington, Vt. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of integrating a hybrid architecture in a set associative cache having a first type of memory structure for one or more ways in each congruence class, and a second type of memory structure for the remaining ways of the congruence class, includes determining whether a memory access request results in a cache hit or a cache miss; in the event of a cache miss, determining whether LRU way of the first type memory structure is also the LRU way of the entire congruence class, and if not, then copying the contents of the LRU way of the first type memory structure into the LRU way of the entire congruence class, and filling the LRU way of the first type memory structure with a new cache line in the event of a cache miss; and updating LRU bits, depending upon the results of the memory access request." The patent application was filed on Dec. 4, 2007 (11/949,935). 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=7,962,695&OS=7,962,695&RS=7,962,695 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Predicting Wafer Failure Using Learned Probability ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,962,302) developed by five co-inventors for a "predicting wafer failure using learned probability." The co-inventors are Robert Jeffrey Baseman, Brewster, N.Y., Susan G. Conti, Hopewell Junction, N.Y., William A. Muth, Lagrangeville, N.Y., Michal Rosen-Zvi, Jerusalem, and Frederick A. Scholl, Hopewell Junction, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques for estimating a quality of one or more wafers are presented. One or more first wafers comprising one or more first dies are tested. A probability of wafer failure is determined in accordance with one or more first test measurements of the one or more first dies. A pass status and/or a fail status of one or more second wafers is inferred by testing a select one or more second dies of the one or more second wafers and evaluating one or more second test measurements of the select one or more second dies in accordance with the determined probability of wafer failure." The patent application was filed on Dec. 8, 2008 (12/329,868). 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=7,962,302.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,302&RS=PN/7,962,302 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Detecting Network Topology When Negotiating IPsec Security Associations that Involve Network Address Translation ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,962,652) developed by four co-inventors for a "detecting network topology when negotiating IPsec security associations that involve network address translation." The co-inventors are Wuchieh James Jong, Raleigh, N.C., Linwood Hugh Overby Jr., Raleigh, N.C., Joyce Anne Porter, Apex, N.C., and David John Wierbowski, Owego, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The invention determines if a security association (SA) extends end-to-end between a source node originating a connection and a destination node. In such a case, there will be no ambiguities in routing due to network address translation, and the SA is allowed. In the preferred embodiment, both end nodes of a security connection test themselves and the remote node for gateway status to determine if any ambiguities might exist in network routing due to the presence of a network address translator." The patent application was filed on Feb. 14, 2006 (11/307,598). 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=7,962,652&OS=7,962,652&RS=7,962,652 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Continuous Feedback-controlled Deployment of Message Transforms in a Distributed Messaging System ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,962,646) developed by Roman Ginis, Elmsford, N.Y., and Robert Evan Strom, Ridgefield, Conn., for a "continuous feedback-controlled deployment of message transforms in a distributed messaging system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention solves the disadvantages of the prior art and provides a distributed messaging system supporting stateful subscriptions. A stateful publish-subscribe system extends the functionality of the content-based approach to include more general state-valued expressions. A plurality of broker machines is provided to deliver messages sent by publishing clients toward subscribing clients based upon the contents of the messages and stateful transformations requested by the subscribing clients. Subscription specifications are analyzed by a compiler and converted into a collection of message transforms and views. A deployment service component deploys tasks to optimize system performance. A monitoring services component detects a possible need to reconfigure. A performance optimization service component computes new assignment of transforms. A continuous deployment service implements a redeployment protocol that installs changes to transform placement while the existing publish-subscribe system continues to operate." The patent application was filed on May 6, 2008 (12/115,798). 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=7,962,646&OS=7,962,646&RS=7,962,646 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Kubisys Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Kubisys, New York, has been assigned a patent (7,962,620) developed by Tigran Safari, Fort Lee, N.J., Soubir Acharya, Pleasantville, N.Y., and Shinichi Urano, River Edge, N.J., for "processing requests in virtual computing environments." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for processing read and write requests received from a cloned instance of a server application, the cloned instance of the server application having a corresponding instance that is hosted in a production portion of a computing environment." The patent application was filed on June 13, 2008 (12/138,589). 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=7,962,620&OS=7,962,620&RS=7,962,620 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Apparatus and Method for Supporting Connection Establishment in an Offload of Network Protocol Processing ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,962,628) developed by seven co-inventors for an "apparatus and method for supporting connection establishment in an offload of network protocol processing." The co-inventors are Douglas Morgan Freimuth, New York, Elbert C. Hu, Elmhurst, N.Y., Ronald Mraz, South Salem, N.Y., Erich M. Nahum, New York, Prashant Pradhan, New Rochelle, Sambit Sahu, Mahopac, N.Y., and John Michael Tracey, Scarsdale, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A number of improvements in network adapters that offload protocol processing from the host processor are provided. Specifically, a mechanism for improving connection establishment in a system utilizing an offload network adapter is provided. The connection establishment mechanism provides the ability to offload connection establishment and maintenance of connection state information to the offload network adapter. As a result of this offloading of connection establishment and state information maintenance, the number of communications needed between the host system and the offload network adapter may be reduced. In addition, offloading of these functions to the offload network adapter permits bulk notification of established connections and state information to the host system rather than piecemeal notifications as is present in known computing systems." The patent application was filed on May 12, 2009 (12/464,741). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u For more information about Targeted News Service products and services, please contact: Myron Struck, editor, Targeted News Service LLC, Springfield, Va., 703/304-1897; [email protected]; http://targetednews.com. -1051327 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |