[June 23, 2011] U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Washington (June 23) Tweet (Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Washington. *** Tegic Communications Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Tegic Communications, Seattle, has been assigned a patent (7,966,003) developed by four co-inventors for disambiguating ambiguous characters. The co-inventors are Michael R. Longe, Seattle, Ethan R. Bradford, Seattle, David J. Kay, Seattle, and Pim Van Meurs, Kenmore, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one general sense, information may be presented to a user by receiving one or more ambiguous characters that may be resolved to one of at least two disambiguated characters, exchanging at least one of the ambiguous characters with a host, receiving, from the host, results that reflect disambiguated terms related to the ambiguous characters exchanged with the host, rendering the results in a manner enabling the user to perceive which of the disambiguated terms will be used upon user selection of an aspect of the results, and enabling the user to select an aspect of the results to effect use of a corresponding one of the disambiguated terms." The patent application was filed on July 11, 2005 (11/177,477). 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=7,966,003.PN.&OS=PN/7,966,003&RS=PN/7,966,003 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Open Text Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Open Text, Bellevue, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,966,002) developed by four co-inventors for a "providing access to information of multiple types via coordination of distinct information services." The co-inventors are Paul Evert Harris, Seattle, David Grant Deckert, Redmond, Wash., Douglas G. Murray, Kirkland, Wash., and Thomas W. Denny, Beaverton, Ore. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques are described for providing users of client devices with coordinated access to information and/or functionality of multiple types, such as by using multiple types of connections to multiple information services of distinct types that exchange context information related to activities of the users and/or clients. The client devices can be, for example, wireless devices with multiple distinct modes (e.g., voice and data modes) for different types of connections with different types of servers (e.g., voice servers and data servers). In some situations, coordination between different servers allows multiple distinct interaction sessions of different types with different servers to remain synchronized or otherwise coordinated over time as the user performs interactions via the different sessions. This abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an abstract, and is not intended to be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims." The patent application was filed on Dec. 22, 2008 (12/342,055). 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=7,966,002.PN.&OS=PN/7,966,002&RS=PN/7,966,002 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** TeleCommunication Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- TeleCommunication Systems, Annapolis, has been assigned a patent (7,966,013) developed by five co-inventors for a "roaming gateway enabling location based services (LBS) roaming for user plane in CDMA networks without requiring use of a mobile positioning center (MPC)." The co-inventors are Myron D'Souza, Seattle, Gordon John Hines, Kirkland, Wash., David Bartnik, Bothell, Wash., Joseph Hannan, Snoqualmie, Wash., Joel Groen, Seattle, and William Wells, Federal Way, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "LBS support to CDMA mobiles while roaming on another network. IS-801 session data is routed by a routing gateway to a correct visited network PDE that contains correct BSA data, which is used to return assistance data to an interrogating mobile device. A standalone exemplary roaming LBS routing gateway (XRG) provides network connectivity between PDE equipment in multiple carrier networks. Conventional LBS roaming support is defined via the use of Mobile Position Centers (MPCs). The invention implements a roaming LBS gateway to enable roaming between CDMA carriers that are only using a PDE (Positioning Determining Entity) for this purpose, since a mobile position center (MPC) is typically an optional network node according to location based services (LBS) specifications." The patent application was filed on Nov. 5, 2007 (11/979,493). 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=7,966,013.PN.&OS=PN/7,966,013&RS=PN/7,966,013 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (7,965,914) developed by Qianfan Xu, Houston, David A. Fattal, Mountain View, Calif., and Raymond G. Beausoleil, Redmond, Wash., for a "critically coupled microring resonator and method." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A microring resonator and methods critically couple a microring waveguide to an adjacent bus waveguide. A method of determining parameters of a critically coupled microring resonator includes modeling a coupled portion of the microring resonator as a U-shaped waveguide spaced apart from a straight waveguide by a gap and selecting a straight waveguide width and a gap size to optimize an output coupling ratio between the U-shaped waveguide and the straight waveguide. A method of producing the microring resonator includes using the determined parameters to produce, and a critically coupled microring resonator includes, a ring-shaped or microring waveguide spaced from the bus waveguide by a gap." The patent application was filed on Oct. 30, 2008 (12/262,160). 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=79,65,914.PN.&OS=PN/79,65,914&RS=PN/79,65,914 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Honeywell International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Honeywell International, Morristown, N.J., has been assigned a patent (7,966,438) developed by Arthur J. Punyko, St. Paul, Minn., and John T. Adams, Redmond, Wash. for "two-wire communications bus system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A low-cost, two-wire, half-duplex high speed powered communications bus having a master/controller and one or more slave/sensor/interface units. The master/controller may have a current-limited power supply, and receive/transmit circuitry. Each slave/sensor/interface may have polarity protection and also have receive/transmit circuitry. The power supply may provide high/low voltage levels on the bus and over-current protection, and have one or more diodes for mis-wire protection. Each transmit circuit may have a tunable R-C network for limiting RF emissions. Each slave/sensor/interface may receive data and power over the two-wire bus." The patent application was filed on Sept. 27, 2007 (11/862,618). 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=7,966,438&OS=7,966,438&RS=7,966,438 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Boeing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Boeing, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (7,965,913) developed by Eric Y. Chan, Mercer Island, Wash., and Dennis G. Koshinz, Bellevue, Wash., for an optical star coupler. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A plastic optical fiber (POF) based reflective star coupler is provided. The POF based reflective star coupler comprises a hollow cylindrical holding tube for receiving a plurality of plastic optical fibers (POF) at a front end of the holding tube and a mixing rod at a rear end of the holding tube; wherein a rear end of each POF is affixed to a front surface of the mixing rod; a rear convex surface of the mixing rod is coated with a highly reflective coating; and where the POFs, the mixing rod, and the holding tube are made from similar material, having similar refractive index and material properties." The patent application was filed on April 11, 2008 (12/101,827). 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=79,65,913.PN.&OS=PN/79,65,913&RS=PN/79,65,913 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Context Harvesting from Selected Content ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,966,352) developed by five co-inventors for a "context harvesting from selected content." The co-inventors are Vikram Madan, Bellevue, Wash., Issa Khoury, Bellevue, Wash., Gerhard Schobbe, Bellevue, Wash., Guy Barker, Kirkland, Wash., and Judy Tandog, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and process for harvesting context information from selected content is described. One may use a stylus to indicate what content is to be captured. The context information that may be associated with selected content may include URLs, file names, folder names, text from the content, and ink." The patent application was filed on Jan. 26, 2004 (10/766,319). 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=7,966,352&OS=7,966,352&RS=7,966,352 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (7,966,395) developed by Elmore Eugene Pope, Sammamish, Wash., and Brad E. Marshall, Bainbridge Island, Wash., for a "system and method for indicating interest of online content." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for displaying interest levels of online content. In one embodiment, a system may include a web browser. A badge code module may execute within an execution environment provided by the web browser and may display an indication of content interest associated with a content source, where the indication is dependent upon a time rate of change of content request traffic directed to the content source. In another embodiment, a system may include a web browser configured to generate a web browser window. A plugin module may be integrated with the web browser for execution, may generate a display interface integrated within the browser window, and may display an indication of content interest associated with a content source via the display interface, where the indication is dependent upon a time rate of change of content request traffic directed to the content source." The patent application was filed on Sept. 28, 2005 (11/238,079). 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=7,966,395&OS=7,966,395&RS=7,966,395 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Dynamic Postback for Location Code Execution ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,966,366) developed by four co-inventors for a "dynamic postback for location code execution." The co-inventors are Rafiq El Alami, Kirkland, Wash., Brian O'Connor, Kenmore, Wash., Donald Reamey, Snoqualmie, Wash., and Bryan Short, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Architecture that introduces evaluation and decisionmaking (e.g., at the server) and allows a runtime decision to be made, on a per-request basis, as to where the data calculations will occur, on the server, on the client, or as a shared execution on both the server and the client. The decision can be made based on environment variables (e.g., permissions, network bandwidth, server load, etc.) of the user, for example. This approach provides performance tuning of a form by dynamically optimizing the location of execution of the code based on environment factors." The patent application was filed on May 12, 2008 (12/118,761). 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=7,966,366&OS=7,966,366&RS=7,966,366 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (7,966,334) developed by six co-inventors for "information retrieval systems and methods that use user-defined lists to identify related offerings." The co-inventors are Jeffrey P. Bezos, Greater Seattle, Wash., Matthew J. Round, Mercer Island, Wash., Ryan J. Snodgrass, Kirkland, Wash., Jeremy C. York, Bothell, Wash., Russell A. Dicker, Seattle, and Joanna L. Power, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Information retrieval systems and methods are disclosed for presenting items of interest to a user of a computer-based data repository, where the items are presented in the form of lists generated by other users. Users of a data repository may generate lists of items from the repository that are accessible by other users. In various embodiments, users generating lists may add supplemental commentary about the items and other personalizing information. The information retrieval systems and methods store the user-generated lists for future presentation to other users. The online activities of a user of the data repository are monitored, and, in response to the user indicating an interest in an item, one or more lists determined to be similar to the indicated item are presented to the user." The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2002 (10/262,587). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,966,334&OS=7,966,334&RS=7,966,334 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Communicating Messages Over Transient Connections in a Peer-to-peer Network ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,966,368) developed by Philip Ti-Fei Su, Redmond, Wash., and Robert J. Jarrett, Snohomish, Wash., for "communicating messages over transient connections in a peer-to-peer network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods useful in communicating messages over a peer-to-peer network, optionally over transient connections to participants in a collaborative session (e.g., an "electronic whiteboard" session), are described. Examples include establishing a session for data transfer, wherein participants easily enter and leave the session without losing data or connections between the participants. Participants in a session may gain access to and catch up with data previously transmitted. Various data structures are useful for communicating messages. Such data structures may be used for transmitting message data or identification data to participants." The patent application was filed on May 2, 2003 (10/427,941). 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=7,966,368&OS=7,966,368&RS=7,966,368 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Cypress Semiconductor Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Cypress Semiconductor, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,966,345) developed by David Paul Funston, Edmonds, Wash., for a "method, system, and graphical user interface for generating firmware code for a programmable integrated circuit." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, computer system, and graphical user interface for generating firmware code for a programmable integrated circuit are disclosed. Embodiments are directed to a configurable menu hierarchy which is displayed as part of a graphical user interface, and therefore may be configured on-screen by a user interacting with elements or regions of the graphical user interface. Once the hierarchy of the menu is configured, a data structure for implementing menu functionality associated with the displayed menu hierarchy may be automatically generated. Firmware may be generated based upon the data structure and stored within a programmable integrated circuit. The firmware may enable the programmable integrated circuit to implement the menu functionality external to the programmable integrated circuit using at least one component of the programmable integrated circuit. The menu functionality may operate in conjunction with at least one user interface device of the electronic device." The patent application was filed on March 28, 2008 (12/058,591). 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=7,966,345&OS=7,966,345&RS=7,966,345 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** AudienceScience Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- AudienceScience, Bellevue, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,966,333) developed by five co-inventors for user segment population techniques. The co-inventors are Krishna Uppala, Redmond, Wash., Umachandar Jayachandaran, Bellevue, Wash., Roman Basko, New Castle, Wash., Stella Chan, Bellevue, Wash., and Piali Choudary, Bellevue, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A facility for populating a segment from a population of individuals is described. The facility accesses two or more fact tables, each containing data about attributes of a number of users who are members of a number of arbitrary user groups. The facility generates a number of column chunks from each fact table. Each column chunk contains data about a single attribute of users that are members of a single arbitrary user group. The facility applies a segment membership test that tests particular user attributes to each arbitrary user groups in turn. In doing so, the facility collects the generated column chunks that contain data about attributes of users that are members of the current arbitrary user group tested by the segment membership test. The facility applies the segment membership test to the collected column chunks to identify individuals within the arbitrary user group that satisfy the segment membership test." The patent application was filed on Sept. 4, 2008 (12/204,709). 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=7,966,333&OS=7,966,333&RS=7,966,333 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Data Compression ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,966,424) developed by Nadim Y. Abdo, Redmond, Wash., Andrew Kadatch, Redmond, Wash., and Michael V. Sliger, Sammamish, Wash., for a data compression. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Compression of streaming data is described. In an implementation, a method includes compressing data for communication in a terminal services environment by finding an index in a lookup table that matches an initial sequence in data. The lookup table includes a plurality of entries. Each of the entries is discoverable utilizing a particular one of a plurality of the indices. Each entry references whether a corresponding index is located in a history buffer, and if so, further references one or more locations of the corresponding index in the history buffer. If the corresponding entry of the matching index references a plurality of locations, for each location, a sequence having the matching index is compared with a sequence in the data that includes the initial sequence. A matching sequence is derived from the comparison based on a length and the location of the sequence at each of the locations. The matching sequence is represented using a representation that includes the length and the location of the matching sequence in the history buffer." The patent application was filed on March 15, 2004 (10/801,329). 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=7,966,424&OS=7,966,424&RS=7,966,424 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Session Multiplex Protocol ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,966,405) developed by Sharad Sundaresan, Sammamish, Wash., and Tahsin Erdogan, Redmond, Wash., for a session multiplex protocol. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Session multiplex protocol ("SMUX") is a protocol layered above existing reliable transport mechanisms that can be used to create multiple sessions over a single connection. Data from several different SMUX sessions can be interleaved and message boundaries preserved. Because it sits on top of reliable transport mechanisms, it takes advantage of the underlying protocols to ensure byte-alignment, loss detection/recovery, and reliable delivery. It provides a window based flow control mechanism to ensure suitable fairness among streams of different sessions and prevent deadlocks." The patent application was filed on June 29, 2004 (10/879,428). 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=7,966,405&OS=7,966,405&RS=7,966,405 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,966,426) developed by Eric Smith, Redmond, Wash., Cameron Stillion, Redmond, Wash., and Andrew Ash, Seattle, for an "offline synchronization capability for client application." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and UI modifications for existing applications are used to implement efficient methods for taking content offline with full synchronization, incremental synchronization, in the case of document libraries per-folder synchronization, and the like. The APIs provide support for synchronizing changes to attachments, the ability to download a document library's complete contents or only a list of the available documents, and read-only folder hierarchy replication in the case of document libraries. These abilities coupled with corresponding user interface features enable easier browsing and searching of large document library structures, making edits to those documents offline, being able to see an up-to-date version of those documents in a preview mode, and receiving reminders when offline edits remain on the local computer and need to be updated to a server." The patent application was filed on Nov. 14, 2006 (11/599,206). 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=7,966,426&OS=7,966,426&RS=7,966,426 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Coordinating Data Delivery Using Time Suggestions ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,966,410) developed by five co-inventors for "coordinating data delivery using time suggestions." The co-inventors are Anh P. Tran, Seattle, Kevin Daniel Resnick, Redmond, Wash., Susan Annette Loh, Atlanta, Mark Sievert Larsen, Redmond, Wash., and Albert Liu, Redmond, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Coordinating delivery of data to a first computing device from a plurality of second computing devices based on known power times for a resource associated with the first computing device. One of the second computing devices requests a time interval for data delivery. The first computing device compares the requested time interval to the known power times to determine a delivery time. For example, the requested time interval is compared against activation times for recurrent schedules that use the resource, and against previously determined delivery times. The second computing device delivers data at the determined delivery time to preserve the resource. In some embodiments, the delivery time is adjusted for processing delays and network latency." The patent application was filed on Sept. 25, 2008 (12/237,797). 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=7,966,410&OS=7,966,410&RS=7,966,410 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Wavelink Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Wavelink, Midvale, Utah, has been assigned a patent (7,965,842) developed by Robert Whelan, Kirkland, Wash., Lamar Van Wagenen, Sandy, Utah, and Roy Morris, Bothell, Wash., for a "system and method for detecting unauthorized wireless access points." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Unauthorized wireless access points are detected by configuring authorized access points and mobile units to listen to all wireless traffic in its cell and report all detected wireless devices to a monitor. The monitor checks the reported devices against a list of authorized network devices. If the reported wireless device is not an authorized device, the monitor determines if the reported device is connected to the network. If the reported device is connected to the network and is not an authorized device, the monitor alerts the network operator or network manager of a rogue device connected to the network and attempts to locate and isolate the rogue device." The patent application was filed on June 28, 2002 (10/184,750). 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=7,965,842&OS=7,965,842&RS=7,965,842 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Washington Inventor Develops Patent for Method for Packet Facilitated E-commerce ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- William Harper, Redmond, Wash., has developed a patent (7,966,217) for a "method for packet facilitated e-commerce." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "This invention generally relates to a method for facilitating the purchase of goods and services through access to online websites that populate the World Wide Web. More particularly the method discloses the use of widely distributed resealable packets of liquid that bear website addresses to prompt or facilitate explicit access to websites without use of search engine interfaces. Further, website hosting by the manufacture of the packets coordinates website form and content with packet incentives and database supported website customization." The patent application was filed on June 23, 2008 (12/215,015). 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=7,966,217.PN.&OS=PN/7,966,217&RS=PN/7,966,217 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,966,169) developed by Rene Antonio Vega, Kirkland, Wash., for an "allocation of processor resources in an emulated computing environment." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In an emulated computing environment, a method is provided for allocating resources of the host computer system among multiple virtual machines resident on the host computer system. On the basis of the proportional weight of each virtual machine, a proportional share of resources is allocated for each virtual machine. If, for a particular virtual machine, the calculated share is less than a reserved minimum share, the virtual machine is allocated its reserved minimum share as its share of processor resources. An emulation program modulates the access of each virtual machine to the resources of the host computer system." The patent application was filed on June 20, 2006 (11/471,337). 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=7,966,169.PN.&OS=PN/7,966,169&RS=PN/7,966,169 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Crisis Simulations International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Crisis Simulations International, Portland, Ore., has been assigned a patent (7,966,163) developed by five co-inventors for a "system and method of interactive situation simulation." The co-inventors are Mark Chussil, Portland, Ore., Christopher Hatzi, Tualatin, Ore., Noam Ben-Ami, Portland, Ore., Adrian Cruz, Coral Gables, Fla., and Dennis Damore, Vancouver, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An authoring, execution, and participation software system and corresponding method for the capture and execution of real-world events (e.g., crises) involving individuals such as senior private and/or public sector leaders is presented. The authoring system and method are used to model a scenario, incorporating knowledge from domain experts, relevant media, and external computation/simulation engines. The execution system and method execute scenarios created by the authoring system and method and provide a communication hub for the participation system and method. The participation system and method provide individuals, such as senior leaders and their staff, with appropriate views into the unfolding scenario and appropriate decisions to be made. The system and method also include features that allow for research and analysis with respect to, for example, efficient crisis response tactics." The patent application was filed on May 5, 2009 (12/435,512). 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=7,966,163.PN.&OS=PN/7,966,163&RS=PN/7,966,163 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cardiac Pacemakers Assigned Patent for Medical Device Interface System with Automatic Rate Threshold Adjustment ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Cardiac Pacemakers, St. Paul, Minn., has been assigned a patent (7,966,069) developed by eight co-inventors for a "medical device interface system with automatic rate threshold adjustment." The co-inventors are Les Norman Peterson, Woodbury, Minn., Paula Dieterle, Champlin, Minn., Par Lindh, Maple Grove, Minn., James Kalgren, Lino Lakes, Minn., James O. Gilkerson, Stillwater, Minn., Allan T. Koshiol, Lino Lakes, Minn., Tala L. Bynum, Rogers, Minn., and David Callahan, Bainbridge Island, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An external programming system and method for implantable medical devices (IMDs) is disclosed. The external programming system includes a communication circuit, a display device, an input device, and a processor. The communication circuit is configured to link to an IMD to transmit or monitor IMD timing parameter settings. The display device is configured to display a textual representation of an IMD timing parameter setting and a specified IMD timing parameter limit, a graphical slide control comprising a movable feature indicating the IMD timing parameter setting, a graphical slide-control limit corresponding to the specified IMD timing parameter limit, and a graphical representation of physiologic information including a portion of said graphical representation aligned with the slide control movable feature. The input device is configured to adjust the movable feature in response to user input. The processor is configured to monitor or store an IMD timing parameter setting." The patent application was filed on Sept. 17, 2007 (11/856,558). 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=7,966,069.PN.&OS=PN/7,966,069&RS=PN/7,966,069 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,966,324) developed by Saleel Sathe, Sammamish, Wash., for "personalizing a search results page based on search history." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for personalizing a search results mix based on a user's search history. A system monitors the types of search results that the user frequently accesses. A default search results page can then be modified according to the frequency in which the user accesses certain search results. The modified search results page can then be presented to the user upon the submission of a search request." The patent application was filed on May 30, 2006 (11/442,551). 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=7966324.PN.&OS=PN/7966324&RS=PN/7966324 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Virtual Skywriting ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,966,024) developed by Michael Cohen, Redmond, Wash., for a virtual skywriting. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Users with mobile computing devices author skywriting and submit them to a virtual skywriting service. A mobile computing device having wireless network access is configured to capture a digital image of a real world scene including sky. The image is captured while the mobile computing device is in a geographical location or area. While the mobile computing device is still in the geographical location or area, it transmits via the wireless network a request for virtual skywriting. The request is received by a skywriting service that obtains or determines the geographical location/area that the computing device is in or near. The skywriting service selects a skywriting from among the previously submitted skywritings; the skywriting may be selected based on its having been entered at or associated with the geographical location. The mobile device receives the virtual skywriting from the service and displays a version of the digital image with the virtual skywriting added to the sky in the version of the digital image. Either the service or the mobile device may render the skywriting onto the image. Various effects may be applied in rendering the skywriting to give it realistic or vapor-like appearance." The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2008 (12/242,560). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=79,66,024.PN.&OS=PN/79,66,024&RS=PN/79,66,024 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,966,039) developed by Vladimir Sadovsky, Redmond, Wash., and Robin A. Alexander, Redmond, Wash., for a "bidirectional dynamic offloading of tasks between a host and a mobile device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "One or more functions are exposed by a mobile device to a host connected to the mobile device. A function of the one or more functions is executed at the mobile device in response to a request from the host, wherein the function is associated with a host task. The result of the function is returned to the host. ." The patent application was filed on Feb. 2, 2007 (11/670,891). 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=7,966,039.PN.&OS=PN/7,966,039&RS=PN/7,966,039 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** SRI International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- SRI International, Menlo Park, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,965,886) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for detection of multi-view/multi-pose objects." The co-inventors are Feng Han, Trenton, N.J., Ying Shan, Sammamish, Wash., Harpreet Singh Sawhney, West Windsor, N.J., and Rakesh Kumar, Monmouth Junction, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention provides a computer implemented process for detecting multi-view multi-pose objects. The process comprises training of a classifier for each intra-class exemplar, training of a strong classifier and combining the individual exemplar-based classifiers with a single objective function. This function is optimized using the two nested AdaBoost loops. The first loop is the outer loop that selects discriminative candidate exemplars. The second loop, the inner loop selects the discriminative candidate features on the selected exemplars to compute all weak classifiers for a specific position such as a view/pose. Then all the computed weak classifiers are automatically combined into a final classifier (strong classifier) which is the object to be detected." The patent application was filed on June 13, 2007 (11/762,400). 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=79,65,886.PN.&OS=PN/79,65,886&RS=PN/79,65,886 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cisco Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Cisco Systems, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,966,021) developed by Paul F. Dietrich, Seattle, and Gregg Scott Davi, Milpitas, Calif., for an "enhanced wireless node location using differential signal strength metric." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A wireless node location mechanism that employs a differential signal strength metric to reduce the errors caused by variations in wireless node transmit power, errors in signal strength detection, and/or direction-dependent path loss. As opposed to using the absolute signal strength or power of an RF signal transmitted by a wireless node, implementations of the location mechanism compare the differences between signal strength values detected at various pairs of radio receivers to corresponding differences characterized in a model of the RF environment. One implementation searches for the locations in the model between each pair of radio receivers where their signal strength is different by an observed amount." The patent application was filed on Sept. 12, 2007 (11/854,499). 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=79,66,021.PN.&OS=PN/79,66,021&RS=PN/79,66,021 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** EMC Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods for Reading Objects in a File System ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,966,289) developed by Qichu Lu, Bellevue, Wash., Aaron J. Passey, Seattle, and Nicholas Montgomery Kirsch, Seattle, for "systems and methods for reading objects in a file system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the disclosure relate generally to file systems. Specifically, certain embodiments include systems and methods for reading objects in a file system. In some embodiments, a first processing thread traverses a portion of a file system and represents file system objects in a data structure. A portion of the data and/or metadata associated with the represented objects may be prefetched to a memory. In some embodiments, a second processing thread consumes the objects represented in the queue. For example, in a file system backup embodiment, the second processing thread may transfer data and/or metadata associated with the objects to an archive target." The patent application was filed on Aug. 21, 2007 (11/894,697). 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=7966289.PN.&OS=PN/7966289&RS=PN/7966289 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Data Validation Using Signatures and Sampling ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,966,279) developed by five co-inventors for a "data validation using signatures and sampling." The co-inventors are Neeraj Garg, Redmond, Wash., Cale D. Carter, Redmond, Wash., Kulothungan Rajasekaran, Sammamish, Wash., Deuane J. Martin, Seattle, and Pankaj K. Singh, Redmond, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Architecture that facilitates validation of a data mapping of data from a data source to a data target. There is included a signature generation component that generates a source signature of all or a portion of the data source and a target signature of all or a corresponding portion of the data target, and a sampling component that obtains a sample of the source data a corresponding sample of the target data. The data signatures and data samples are compared respectively and processed with a processing component to determine the status of the validation process." The patent application was filed on Jan. 23, 2009 (12/358,666). 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=7966279.PN.&OS=PN/7966279&RS=PN/7966279 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Amazon.com Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Amazon.com, Seattle, has been assigned a patent (7,966,259) developed by Hong Q. Bui, Seattle, for a "system and methods for facilitating transactions on, and personalizing web pages of, third party web sites." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Customers make purchases from online merchants using personal information, such as payment and shipping information, stored with an online information service. The merchants may optionally report information about each customer's purchases back to the information service, which may incorporate the information into a history page that is accessible to the customer. The information service may also use the aggregated purchase history data to generate an "interests" profile for the customer, which may be disseminated to the merchants and used to customize their web sites. The web pages of the merchants may include a reference to an object, such as a graphic, that is served by the information service. For customers that are registered with the information service, this object may be customized with the name of the customer, and may be selectable by the customer to make single-action purchases." The patent application was filed on Dec. 9, 1999 (09/457,839). 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=7966259.PN.&OS=PN/7966259&RS=PN/7966259 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Corelogic Information Solutions Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Corelogic Information Solutions, Santa Ana, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,966,256) developed by Yuansong Liao, Bellevue, Wash., and Rui Yan, San Marcos, Calif., for "methods and systems of predicting mortgage payment risk." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for detecting a risk of payment default comprises receiving mortgage data associated with a mortgage application, the mortgage application associated with an applicant, determining a first score for the mortgage data based at least partly on one or more models that are based on data from a plurality of historical mortgage transactions and based on historical credit information related to the applicant, and generating data indicative of a risk of payment default based at least partly on the first score." The patent application was filed on Oct. 6, 2008 (12/246,407). 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=7966256.PN.&OS=PN/7966256&RS=PN/7966256 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Planeteye Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Planeteye, Toronto, has been assigned a patent (7,966,301) developed by Kentaro Toyama, Redmond, Wash., and Ron Logan, Everett, Wash., for a "system and method for employing a grid index for location and precision encoding." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for combining the precision estimate of a database entry's coordinate value such that the precision information is included as part of the one-dimensional index. This is done by constructing a hierarchical index in which the size of the grid is related to the precision of the coordinate value. A grid index is a gridding of an n-dimensional space into a regular partition of the grid space into grid units, for which for a point in space, x, there is a function index (x), which retrieves a unique integer value for the grid that contains Point x, and a function coordinate (y, s), which returns a point associated with the index y at scale s. A hierarchical grid index is effectively a number of grid indices overlaid on the same space, with grid units of different sizes. In this case, each of the functions employs an additional argument that specifies the size of the grid unit to use. Thus, assuming that the grid size, s, is drawn from a set of grid sizes, S, Index (x,s) returns a unique integer value for the grid of size s that contains Point x. Hierarchical indexes may be used to enhance the performance of database queries. A query that seeks results from a small grid size, s.sub.small, does not seek matches at a large grid size, s.sub.large. Similar calculations can be performed for a finite area A." The patent application was filed on Sept. 26, 2003 (10/673,111). 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=7966301.PN.&OS=PN/7966301&RS=PN/7966301 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (7,966,225) developed by James D. Chan, Bellevue, Wash., Kushal Chakrabarti, Kirkland, Wash., and George M. Ionkov, Seattle, for a "method, system, and medium for cluster-based categorization and presentation of item recommendations." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Computer-implemented processes are disclosed for clustering items and improving the utility of item recommendations. One process involves applying a clustering algorithm to a user's collection of items. Information about the resulting clusters is then used to select items to use as recommendation sources. Another process involves displaying the clusters of items to the user via a collection management interface that enables the user to attach cluster-level metadata, such as by rating or tagging entire clusters of items. The resulting metadata may be used to improve the recommendations generated by a recommendation engine. Another process involves forming clusters of items in which a user has indicated a lack of interest, and using these clusters to filter the output of a recommendation engine. Yet another process involves applying a clustering algorithm to the output of a recommendation engine to arrange the recommended items into cluster-based categories for presentation to the user." The patent application was filed on March 30, 2007 (11/694,821). 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=7966225.PN.&OS=PN/7966225&RS=PN/7966225 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Use of a Set Based Approach to Constructing Complex Queries for Managing Resources Built from a Set of Simple Underlying Operations ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,966,308) developed by Geoffrey Outhred, Seattle, Yan David Erlich, Seattle, and William G. Burton, Bothell, Wash., for a "use of a set based approach to constructing complex queries for managing resources built from a set of simple underlying operations." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention relates to a system and methodology for resource query management. The system includes a resource manager, a query engine and a filter component. The system facilitates construction and management of a resource query across resource type(s) that may be similar, different, incongruent and/or distinct. Accordingly, an SQL environment is leveraged to perform efficient, complex and intensive queries and/or operations using resource query constraint(s) from a resource constraint(s) store and the filter component over large set(s) of resources from the resource pool." The patent application was filed on July 25, 2005 (11/188,333). 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=7966308.PN.&OS=PN/7966308&RS=PN/7966308 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Configuration-parametric Query Optimization ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,966,313) developed by Nicolas Bruno, Redmond, Wash., and Rimma Nehme, Indianapolis, for configuration-parametric query optimization. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Described herein are techniques for Configuration-Parametric Query Optimization (C-PQO) that can improve performance of database tuning tools. When first optimizing a query, a compact representation of the optimization space is generated. The representation can then be used to efficiently produce other execution plans for the query under arbitrary hypothetical configurations." The patent application was filed on June 26, 2008 (12/146,470). 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=7966313.PN.&OS=PN/7966313&RS=PN/7966313 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Hierarchical Management of Object Schema and Behavior ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,966,286) developed by Jason Morrill, Redmond, Wash., and Hai Liu, Sammamish, Wash., for a "hierarchical management of object schema and behavior." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of reusing an object type in a computing environment, the method comprising accepting modifications made to an object type at a source data site in a first computing environment storing the object type, the object type comprising schema and behaviors, wherein the modifications are made to at least one of the schema or behaviors of the object type at the source data site; applying the modifications made to the at least one of the schema or behaviors of the object type at the source data site to an object type schema and behavior at a destination data site in a second computing environment, the object type at the destination data site corresponding to the object type at the source data site; and applying the modifications to an existing object created based on the object type at the destination data site in the second computing environment." The patent application was filed on Dec. 16, 2005 (11/305,050). 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=7966286.PN.&OS=PN/7966286&RS=PN/7966286 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. -1052055 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]