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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Massachusetts (June 17)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Massachusetts. *** Siemens Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Siemens, Iselin, N.J., has been assigned a patent (7,961,215) developed by Ser-Nam Lim, Hopkinton, Mass., Anurag Mittal, Plainsboro, N.J., and Larry Davis, Potomac, Md., for a "smart task-driven video collection." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A multi-camera system that collects images and videos of moving objects in dynamic and crowded scenes, subject to task constraints is disclosed. The system constructs "task visibility intervals" comprising information about what can be sensed in future time intervals. Methods for constructing these intervals applying prediction of future object motion and including consideration of factors such as object occlusion and camera control parameters are also disclosed. Using a plane-sweep algorithm, these atomic intervals can be combined in a method to form multi-task intervals, during which a single camera can collect videos suitable for multiple tasks simultaneously. Methods for fast camera scheduling that yield solutions within a small constant factor of an optimal solution are also disclosed." The patent application was filed on Jan. 3, 2007 (11/649,393). 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=79,61,215.PN.&OS=PN/79,61,215&RS=PN/79,61,215 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cognex Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Cognex, Natick, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,961,201) developed by Raymond A. Fix, Natick, Mass., and Aaron S. Wallack, Natick, Mass., for a "method and apparatus for producing graphical machine vision content for distribution via a network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system is provided for viewing machine vision information. The machine vision information includes machine vision data representing a sequence of machine vision processing steps. The machine vision information pertaining to a machine vision process on a given machine vision processor is produced. The machine vision information is displayed at a device remotely located from the given machine vision processor. A selection interface is provided on the device to allow a user to view the machine vision data corresponding to at least one stage of the machine vision processing." The patent application was filed on Dec. 21, 2000 (09/742,895). 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=79,61,201.PN.&OS=PN/79,61,201&RS=PN/79,61,201 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Vistaprint Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Vistaprint Technologies, Hamilton, Bermuda, has been assigned a patent (7,961,200) developed by Kenneth A. Walker Jr., Somerville, Mass., and Alexander K. Schowtka, Weston, Mass., for an "image cropping system and method." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Electronic document design systems and methods allowing a user engaged in customizing an electronic product to re-crop product images in a manner that is compatible with the product layout. Upon selection of an image area in the product design, the user can choose to re-crop the image currently displayed in the image area or to select and crop a different image to be used in the selected image area. A cropping indicator that can be resized and repositioned is provided to the user. The cropping indicator is automatically sized to have and retain the same height to width ratio as the selected image area. Upon completion of any resizing or repositioning operation, the selected image area of the electronic product is updated to reflect the cropping changes made by the user." The patent application was filed on March 8, 2010 (12/719,576). 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=79,61,200.PN.&OS=PN/79,61,200&RS=PN/79,61,200 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,961,952) developed by Fatih M. Porikli, Watertown, Mass., and Oncel C. Tuzel, Piscataway, N.J., for a "method and system for detecting and tracking objects in images." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Invention describes a method and system for detecting and tracking an object in a sequence of images. For each image the invention determines an object descriptor from a tracking region in a current image in a sequence of images, in which the tracking region corresponds to a location of an object in a previous image. A regression function is applied to the descriptor to determine a motion of the object from the previous image to the current image, in which the motion has a matrix Lie group structure. The location of the tracking region is updated using the motion of the object." The patent application was filed on Sept. 27, 2007 (11/862,554). 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=7961952.PN.&OS=PN/7961952&RS=PN/7961952 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Onaro Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Onaro, Boston, has been assigned a patent (7,961,594) developed by four co-inventors for "methods and systems for history analysis for access paths in networks." The co-inventors are Roee Alon, Boston, Assaf Levy, Boston, Shai Scharf, Boston, and Raphael Yahalom, Needham, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for constructing and analyzing an access path event history in a network is provided. Inconsistencies in the physical and logical access paths when making changes in the network are detected and analyzed. Component events associated with network appliances are recorded and an event sequence is constructed. Root causes for the inconsistencies are identified and the access paths are repaired in conformance with the network access path policy. The method and systems can be applied to networks in general, and more particularly to storage area networks (SAN)." The patent application was filed on April 22, 2005 (11/112,942). 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=7,961,594.PN.&OS=PN/7,961,594&RS=PN/7,961,594 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Intel Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,961,877) developed by five co-inventors for a "factoring based modular exponentiation." The co-inventors are Vinodh Gopal, Westboro, Mass., Erdinc Ozturk, Worcester, Mass., Matt Bace, North Andover, Mass., Wajdi Feghali, Boston, and Robert P. Ottavi, Brookline, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present disclosure provides a system and method for performing modular exponentiation. The method may include dividing a first polynomial into a plurality of segments and generating a first product by multiplying the plurality of segments of the first polynomial with a second polynomial. The method may also include generating a second product by shifting the contents of an accumulator with a factorization base. The method may further include adding the first product and the second product to yield a first intermediate result and reducing the first intermediate result to yield a second intermediate result. The method may also include generating a public key based on, at least in part, the second intermediate result. Of course, many alternatives, variations and modifications are possible without departing from this embodiment." The patent application was filed on Dec. 14, 2006 (11/610,886). 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=7,961,877&OS=7,961,877&RS=7,961,877 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Spirent Communications of Rockville Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Spirent Communications of Rockville, Rockville, Md., has been assigned a patent (7,961,847) developed by George Bailey, Rockville, Mass., for a "method and apparatus for gradual application of a hitless monitoring access to a communications circuit employing a guided transmission media." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A monitor access is gradually applied an removed from a communications circuit, including a digital subscriber line (DSL), by a gradual monitor access (GMA) technique, in which a variable impedance element is gradually applied to the communications circuit until the monitor can be introduced to the communications circuit without data disruption." The patent application was filed on Aug. 20, 2007 (11/892,170). 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=7,961,847&OS=7,961,847&RS=7,961,847 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** GN Netcom Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- GN Netcom, Denmark, has been assigned a patent (7,961,870) developed by Robert E. Lucey, Sudbury, Mass., Joseph L. Freni Jr., Hudson, N.H., and Stephen R. Lyman, Hudson, N.H., for a "wireless remote controlled handset lifter system using magnetically coupled ring detection." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An automatic handset lifter is used with a wireless communication system. The system attaches to a conventional telephone and creates a communication link between the telephone and a portable device such as a wireless headset. The system automatically detects the ringing of the telephone by sensing magnetic fields of the telephone speaker. Upon ring detection, the system creates a communications link with the remote device and deploys a mechanical lifting device to lift the handset. Lifting the handset activates the telephone cradle switch to answer the phone and thereby allows the remote device to communicate over the telephone." The patent application was filed on June 8, 2007 (11/760,191). 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=7,961,870&OS=7,961,870&RS=7,961,870 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Analog Devices Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Analog Devices, Norwood, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,961,897) developed by Jason W. Weigold, Somerville, Mass., for a "microphone with irregular diaphragm." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A microphone is formed to have a diaphragm that is configured to improve signal to noise ratio. To that end, the microphone has a backplate having a hole therethrough, and a diaphragm movably coupled with the backplate. The diaphragm has a bottom surface (facing the backplate) with a convex portion aligned with the hole in the backplate." The patent application was filed on June 28, 2006 (11/476,378). 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=7,961,897&OS=7,961,897&RS=7,961,897 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Texas Instruments Assigned Patent for Packet Circuitry Addressing Independent and Dependent Information to Different Proxies ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Texas Instruments, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (7,961,758) developed by five co-inventors for a "packet circuitry addressing independent and dependent information to different proxies." The co-inventors are Stephen J. Perkins, Dallas, Alan Gatherer, Richardson, Texas, Krishnasamy Anandakumar, San Diego, Alan V. McCree, Acton, Mass., and Vishu Viswanathan, Plano, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one form of the invention, a process of sending real-time information from a sender computer (103) to a receiver computer (105) coupled to the sender computer (103) by a packet network (100) wherein packets (111,113) sometimes become lost, includes steps of directing (441) packets (111) containing the real-time information from the sender computer (103) by at least one path (119) in the packet network (100) to the receiver computer (105), and directing packets (113) containing information dependent on the real-time information from the sender computer (103) by at least one path diversity path (117) in the packet network (100) to the same receiver computer (105). Other forms of the invention encompass other processes, improved packets and packet ensembles (111,113), integrated circuits (610), chipsets (DSP 1721, MCU), computer cards (1651), information storage articles (1511,1611), systems, computers (103,105), gateways (191,193), routers (131,133), cellular telephone handsets (181,189), wireless base stations (183,187), appliances (1721,1731,1741), and packet networks (100), and other forms as disclosed and claimed." The patent application was filed on Dec. 15, 2009 (12/638,578). 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=7,961,758&OS=7,961,758&RS=7,961,758 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Open Text Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Open Text, Bellevue, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,961,344) developed by six co-inventors for a "delivery expert system and method." The co-inventors are Douglas J. Ranalli, Cambridge, Mass., Robert Huebner, Topsfield, Mass., Valerie Louise Johns, Wellesley, Mass., Shelley J. Ranalli, Cambridge, Mass., Lori Baumgartner, Burlington, Mass., and Diana Li, Woburn, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An automated rule-based system for facilitating delivery of a fax document from a source to a destination over a network where an initial delivery attempt has been unsuccessful. Actions to be taken are based upon a time-variable set of input conditions which may be determined from one or more of the destination, the source, a database of past delivery attempts, and a human analyst. The actions may include one or more of resubmitting the fax document to the network for a next delivery attempt, cancelling the document, sending a request to the source or destination for additional delivery information, and identifying the destination as a technical problem. The input conditions may include an identification of non-business days and non-business hours." The patent application was filed on Aug. 4, 2009 (12/535,606). 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=79,61,344.PN.&OS=PN/79,61,344&RS=PN/79,61,344 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Massachusetts Inventor Develops Patent for High-gain Diode-Pumped Laser Amplifier ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Jeffrey G. Manni, Burlington, Mass., has developed a patent (7,961,771) for a "high-gain diode-pumped laser amplifier." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A laser amplifier includes a laser active slab with a source of pump power to amplify an input laser beam, the laser active slab including a block of laser active material having opposed lateral faces defining a wedge lateral dihedral angle specified to minimize parasitic amplified spontaneous emission. The laser amplifier may include one or more external mirrors highly reflecting at the lasing wavelength positioned and oriented to provide for zig-zag passes through the gain sheet for the input laser beam to yield a multi-pass-amplified laser beam. The source of pump power may be one or more laser diode bars and microlenses producing a gain sheet in the laser active slab." The patent application was filed on Sept. 1, 2009 (12/551,973). 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=7,961,771&OS=7,961,771&RS=7,961,771 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,961,716) developed by Richard Woundy, North Reading, Mass., for a "call signaling approach to user self-provisioning of VoIP using a touch-tone interface." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for providing self-provisioning of VoIP telephony to a subscriber of a VoIP telephony service is disclosed. An un-provisioned residential gateway that is associated with the subscriber is instructed to collect a subscriber numeric identity that uniquely identifies the subscriber and a Personal Identification Number (PIN) information that are associated with the subscriber. An example of a subscriber numeric identity that uniquely identifies the subscriber is the subscriber's E.164 address. The E.164 address and Personal Identification Number (PIN) information is verified. A source IP address that is associated with one or more Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP) messages that are sent by the residential gateway is used as a residential gateway IP address for the residential gateway. The residential gateway IP address is then used to provision the residential gateway that is associated with the subscriber. According to certain embodiments, the above steps are carried out by a call agent from a self-provisioning system of a provider of the VoIP telephony services. One or more VoIP connections are established between the residential gateway and an announcement server. The announcement server sends VoIP messages through the VoIP connections to the subscriber via the residential gateway. A protocol server offers the residential gateway, via a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server, a limited access IP address, a location of one or more Domain Name System (DNS) servers, and a Media Gateway Protocol (MGCP) endpoint name of the call agent from the self-provisioning system." The patent application was filed on March 22, 2006 (11/387,379). 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=7961716.PN.&OS=PN/7961716&RS=PN/7961716 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent for Technique for Reserving Resources for Authorized Entities in a Communication Network ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,961,715) developed by Subhasri Dhesikan, San Jose, Calif., and James M. Polk, Colleyville, Texas, for a "technique for reserving resources for authorized entities in a communication network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A technique for reserving resources in a communication network for an entity. Communication units in the network register with policy data points (PDPs) to attain authorization to establish and receive calls in a communication network. The PDPs supply the communication units with security tokens that the communication units use to assert that they are authorized to establish sessions and reserve resources in the communication network. Communication units associated with a call include their tokens in signaling messages that are used to establish the call. Nodes along the path between a communication unit associated with a calling party in the call and a communication unit associated with a called party in the call use the tokens to authenticate the source of the signaling messages and determine whether they have permission to reserve resources in the communication network." The patent application was filed on Dec. 29, 2005 (11/323,296). 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=7961715.PN.&OS=PN/7961715&RS=PN/7961715 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** X-Rite Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- X-Rite, Grand Rapids, Mich., has been assigned a patent (7,961,320) developed by Chris Halford, Andover, Mass., and Alex Cohen, Montreal, for a "color management system with system-level communications." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Color management systems and methods are provided wherein operations associated with an individual color measurement instrument are integrated into system-level operating software. Color measurement-related information associated with or derived from such color measurement instrument, e.g., color measurements, instrument-related messages (e.g., error messages), instrument status and the like, is automatically broadcast to other programs, instruments and/or applications that are adapted/registered to listen for and receive such broadcasts. An operating system program that includes, defines or interacts with an OS notification center facilitates communication with the ancillary programs, instruments or applications. Two way communications by way of the OS notification center are also facilitated." The patent application was filed on July 20, 2007 (11/880,174). 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=7,961,320.PN.&OS=PN/7,961,320&RS=PN/7,961,320 Written by Ankita Das; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Harvard College Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,961,318) developed by Peer Fischer, Belmont, Mass., and Ambarish Ghosh, Norwood, Mass., for a "circular birefringence refractometer: method and apparatus for measuring optical activity." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for detection and measurement of circular birefringences in materials that exhibit the Faraday effect. The method and apparatus permit detection of optical activities via the difference in the directions of propagation the left- and the right-circularly polarized light (components). A beam of light is directed at an interface formed by the optically active medium and another medium such that a difference in the angles of refraction and/or reflection and/or diffraction between the left- and the right-circularly polarized components of the light beam can be detected. The difference in the propagation directions between the two circularly polarized light components is measured on a position sensitive detector and/or is detected as an intensity difference." The patent application was filed on June 27, 2007 (12/305,840). 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=7,961,318.PN.&OS=PN/7,961,318&RS=PN/7,961,318 Written by Ankita Das; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,961,627) developed by Ghulam M. Bhatti, Mansfield, Mass., for a "method and system for generating antenna selection signals in OFDM transceivers with fewer RF chains than antennas in MIMO wireless networks." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system discovers a route in a wireless communications network including multiple nodes. A RREQ frame is broadcast by a first node. The RREQ frame is generated to discover a route. A second node receives the RREQ frame. The second node unicasts a PING frame to the first node to verify an integrity of a wireless communications channel between the first node and the second node. Then, the second node unicasts a RREP frame only if the integrity of the wireless channel is verified." The patent application was filed on June 24, 2005 (11/574,922). 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=7961627.PN.&OS=PN/7961627&RS=PN/7961627 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent for Vectorized Software Packet Forwarding ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,961,636) developed by David Richard Barach, Boxborough, Mass., and Eliot Dresselhaus, San Francisco, for a "vectorized software packet forwarding." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An intermediate network node is configured to forward a plurality of packets concurrently, e.g., as a vector, rather than one packet at a time. As such, the node can load a single sequence of forwarding instructions that may be repeatedly executed for packets in the vector. In addition, the intermediate network node adaptively controls the rate at which it processes data packets through a directed forwarding graph. To that end, the intermediate node is configured to dynamically select the number of packets per vector, i.e., vector size, processed at each node of the forwarding graph. Further, the intermediate node also may be configured to dynamically select timing intervals for one or more "node timers" used to control the rate at which packets traverse through the graph. Illustratively, the vector size and node-timer intervals are selected so that the average latency through the forwarding graph is less than a predetermined target latency, e.g., 50 microseconds (.mu.s)." The patent application was filed on May 27, 2004 (10/855,213). 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=7961636.PN.&OS=PN/7961636&RS=PN/7961636 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Camiant Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Camiant, Marlborough, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,961,623) developed by Yusun Kim Riley, Marlborough, Mass., for a "combophone with QoS on cable access." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of providing QoS to a session from a client to a first network includes providing data packets from the client to be conveyed in a session from the client to a first network, inserting each of the data packets into an encapsulating packet, and transmitting the encapsulating packets through the second network to the first network, forming a tunnel through the second network. The method includes receiving the encapsulating packets at a terminating device in the first network. The terminating device removes the encapsulating headers to recover the data packets. The method includes determining an association between the packet headers of the data packets and the encapsulating headers, identifying data packets requiring QoS, and using the association to identify encapsulating packets corresponding data packets requiring Quality of Service. The method includes applying QoS to the encapsulating packets, corresponding to the session of data packets requiring the QoS, being conveyed through the tunnel." The patent application was filed on July 16, 2007 (11/879,207). 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=7961623.PN.&OS=PN/7961623&RS=PN/7961623 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. 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. -1051418 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |