[June 23, 2011] U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in California (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 California. *** Sony Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Sony, Tokyo, and Sony Electronics, Parkridge, N.J., have been assigned a patent (7,965,984) developed by Scott Smyers, Los Gatos, Calif., for an "automatic information delivery using a plurality of networked devices." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Particular embodiments generally relate to providing information to a user. In one embodiment, a first information delivery device detects a headset associated with a user. The headset is detected when it is within a range of the first information delivery device. The first information delivery device contacts the headset using pairing information for the headset. After the pairing operation, information to deliver to the user is then determined. The information may be determined based on a user identifier associated with the user. For example, personalized information may be delivered to the headset. This personalized information may be information about the store or shopping center. In one example, the headset may be automatically contacted by information delivery device, which may cause the headset to ring. The user may decide to answer and can then hear the personalized information." The patent application was filed on Feb. 22, 2008 (12/036,166). 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=7,965,984.PN.&OS=PN/7,965,984&RS=PN/7,965,984 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Honda Motor Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Honda Motor, Tokyo, has been assigned a patent (7,965,992) developed by Masayuki Habaguchi, Rolling Hills Estates, Calif., and Tsuneo Ohno, Tochigi, Japan, for a "method and system for broadcasting data messages to a vehicle." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The invention provides systems and methods for targeting broadcast messages to particular vehicles or classes of vehicles. In one embodiment, the system comprises an information center for creating and sending a broadcast data message, and a relay section that receives the broadcast data message and relays the message to a plurality of vehicles. The information center typically comprises a one-to-many communication system for sending the message from one source to a plurality of receivers, such as a satellite radio network or the like. The message can be deleted or modified in response to commands received by the receiver." The patent application was filed on Nov. 18, 2009 (12/621,287). 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=7,965,992.PN.&OS=PN/7,965,992&RS=PN/7,965,992 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,965,994) developed by Hooman Darabi, Irvine, Calif., for a "method and system for an analog zero-IF interface for GSM receivers." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Certain embodiments for an analog zero-IF interface for GSM receivers, where a receiver may receive RF signals and downconvert the RF signal to a VLIF signal in the analog domain. The VLIF signal may be further downconverted to a baseband signal in the analog domain. The baseband signal may be an analog signal. Aspects of the invention may comprise amplifying the received RF signal, mixing the amplified RF signal down to a VLIF signal, filtering the VLIF signal, amplifying the VLIF signal, mixing the filtered VLIF signal to a baseband signal, and filtering the baseband signal. The local oscillator signal to the mixer that may downconvert the RF signal to a VLIF signal may be an output of a programmable local oscillator, and may be one of a plurality of frequencies. The mixer that generates the baseband signal may be a harmonic-reject mixer." The patent application was filed on Oct. 29, 2004 (10/976,666). 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=7,965,994.PN.&OS=PN/7,965,994&RS=PN/7,965,994 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Sierra Monolithics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Sierra Monolithics, Redondo Beach, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,965,988) developed by Jean-Pierre Joseph Cole, Tracy, Calif., David A. Rowe, Torrance, Calif., and Craig A. Hornbuckle, Torrance, Calif., for an "apparatus and method for calibration of gain and/or phase imbalance and/or DC offset in a communication system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An example of a method for off-line calibration of a radio frequency (RF) communication system may include one or more of the following: enabling an off-line calibration mode for an RF communication system; generating an off-line calibration signal; applying to a frequency converter a first off-line calibration signal corresponding to the generated off-line calibration signal; translating the first off-line calibration signal into a second off-line calibration signal; evaluating one or more calibration adjustment signals associated with the calibration signal to reduce error in the communication system, wherein the one or more calibration adjustment signals may include an offset parameter associated with DC offset and an imbalance parameter associated with at least one of gain and phase imbalances; storing one or more calibration adjustment signals; disabling the off-line calibration mode; applying a communication signal; and adjusting the communication signal based on the stored one or more calibration adjustment signals." The patent application was filed on Oct. 7, 2009 (12/575,458). 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=7,965,988.PN.&OS=PN/7,965,988&RS=PN/7,965,988 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property Assigned Patent for System and Method to Support Multiple Wireless Accounts for a Given Subscriber ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (7,965,997) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method to support multiple wireless accounts for a given subscriber." The co-inventors are Stephen A. Sposato, Lafayette, Calif., Wayne Robert Heinmiller, Elgin, Ill., Alicia Marie Russell, Eureka Springs, Ark., and Charles C. Hooper II, San Antonio. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method are disclosed to support multiple wireless account for a given subscriber. A method that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, linking various accounts to a wireless enabled device of a wireless service subscriber. In one embodiment, device addresses like telephone numbers and electronic mail addresses for devices that may call or be called by the subscriber may be associated one of the various accounts. In operation, a call may be completed between the subscriber's wireless enabled device and one of the other devices, and a call metric for the call may be tracked. A billing entry for the call may be generated from the call metric and the call may be charged to an appropriate account selected from the various accounts. The process of determining the appropriate account may include, for example, determining if the device address for the other device is associated with one of the accounts linked to the subscriber's wireless enabled device." The patent application was filed on July 26, 2004 (10/899,379). 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=7,965,997.PN.&OS=PN/7,965,997&RS=PN/7,965,997 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Symbol Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Symbol Technologies, Holtsville, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,966,010) developed by Aihua Edward Li, Cupertino, Calif., for a "method and system for tuning and self-monitoring of wireless networks." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method includes determining a first performance indicator for a wireless network, the first performance indicator including an unperturbed value of a parameter of an access point of the network; perturbing the parameter of the wireless network by a predetermined increment to obtain a perturbed value of the parameter; determining a second performance indicator for the wireless network, the second performance indicator including the perturbed value of the parameter; and selecting the one of the unperturbed value of the parameter and the perturbed value of the parameter corresponding to a higher of the first performance indicator and the second performance indicator." The patent application was filed on Sept. 25, 2008 (12/238,077). 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=7,966,010.PN.&OS=PN/7,966,010&RS=PN/7,966,010 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Qualcomm Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (7,966,011) developed by Hemanth Sampath, San Diego, Edward H. Teague, San Diego, and Dhananjay Ashok Gore, San Diego, for a "determining per sector received power level." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "At a mobile device, a total received power represents signals received from all access points. In order to calculate an appropriate transmit power for communication with a single access point, a mobile device determines a per sector received power level. The mobile device can ascertain a time-domain channel response from each access point pilot signal, ascertain a received digital power lever per sector from each access point pilot signal and, based in part on the digital power level, calculate a received power level from each access point. A per sector received power level can be utilized to conserve battery power and/or to reduce interference in a wireless communications network." The patent application was filed on March 24, 2008 (12/054,175). 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=7,966,011.PN.&OS=PN/7,966,011&RS=PN/7,966,011 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Intel Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,966,476) developed by eight co-inventors for a "determining length of instruction with escape and addressing form bytes without evaluating opcode." The co-inventors are James S. Coke, Shingle Springs, Calif., Peter J. Ruscito, Folsom, Calif., Masood Tahir, Orangevale, Calif., David B. Jackson, Foslom, Calif., Ves A. Naydenov, Foslom, Calif., Scott D. Rodgers, Hillsboro, Ore., Bret L. Toll, Hillsboro, Ore., and Frank Binns, Hillsboro, Ore. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, apparatus and system are disclosed for decoding an instruction in a variable-length instruction set. The instruction is one of a set of new types of instructions that uses a new escape code value, which is two bytes in length, to indicate that a third opcode byte includes the instruction-specific opcode for a new instruction. The new instructions are defined such the length of each instruction in the opcode map for one of the new escape opcode values may be determined using the same set of inputs, where each of the inputs is relevant to determining the length of each instruction in the new opcode map. For at least one embodiment, the length of one of the new instructions is determined without evaluating the instruction-specific opcode." The patent application was filed on Feb. 28, 2008 (12/039,719). 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=7,966,476&OS=7,966,476&RS=7,966,476 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** 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. *** General Electric Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- General Electric, Schenectady, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,965,807) developed by Nicholas Francesco di Bari, Fremont, Calif., and Drew R. Holifield, Flint, Mich., for an instrument removal system. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An instrument removal system for removing detector cables from a nuclear reactor includes a removal cart and a disposal cask. in an exemplary embodiment, the removal cart includes a base including a plurality of wheels coupled thereto, a motor mounted on the base, and a drive shaft operatively coupled to the motor. A disposal spool is removably mounted on the drive shaft, and the disposal spool includes a notch sized to receive the detector cable. A housing is mounted on the base, with the housing enclosing the disposal spool. Also, an entrance port is located in the housing to permit the detector cable to enter the housing." The patent application was filed on Oct. 15, 2010 (12/905,634). 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=7965807.PN.&OS=PN/7965807&RS=PN/7965807 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Juniper Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Juniper Networks, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,966,442) developed by Ramesh Panwar, Pleasanton, Calif., and Philip A. Thomas, San Jose, Calif., for a "cache using perfect hash function." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In general, this disclosure describes techniques of storing data in and retrieving data from a cache of a computing device. More specifically, techniques are described for utilizing a "perfect hash" function to implement an associative cache within a computing device. That is, the associative cache implements a fully associative map between a predetermined set of addresses and data values, employing only a single tag fetch comparison." The patent application was filed on May 17, 2010 (12/781,612). 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=7,966,442&OS=7,966,442&RS=7,966,442 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** NVIDIA Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- NVIDIA, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,965,898) developed by Franck R. Diard, Mountain View, Calif., and Hassane S. Azar, San Francisco, for "accelerating video decoding using multiple processors." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for decoding high definition video content using multiple processors reduces the likelihood of dropping video frames. Each of the multiple processors produces and stores a portion of a decoded video frame in its dedicated frame buffer. A region of a reference frame that is needed to produce a first portion of a decoded video frame, but that is not stored in the frame buffer coupled to the processor that will decode the first portion, is copied to the frame buffer. The size of the region needed may vary based on a maximum possible motion vector offset. The size of the region that is copied may be dynamic and based on a maximum motion vector offset for each particular reference frame." The patent application was filed on Oct. 28, 2005 (11/260,940). 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=79,65,898.PN.&OS=PN/79,65,898&RS=PN/79,65,898 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Nvidia Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Nvidia, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,966,468) developed by six co-inventors for an "apparatus, system, and method for fast read request transfer through clock domains." The co-inventors are Brad W. Simeral, San Francisco, Roman Surgutchik, Santa Clara, Calif., Joshua Titus, Sunnyvale, Calif., Anand Srinivasan, San Jose, Calif., Edward M. Veeser, Austin, Texas, and James P. Reilley, Sunnyvale, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A speculative transfer mechanism transfers a source synchronous read request from a first clock domain to a second clock domain. The address portion having address information is transferred to the second clock domain in response to detecting a source synchronous address strobe latching signal. A pointer is generated in response to detecting the address strobe latching signal and passed into the second clock domain. In one embodiment, a pointer is retimed to be stable for a timing window for which a crossover of the address portion may be performed in the second clock domain. Request logic in the second clock domain generates a read command based on the address portion and the pointer." The patent application was filed on Dec. 13, 2004 (11/012,034). 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=7,966,468&OS=7,966,468&RS=7,966,468 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Nvidia Assigned Patent for Fast Data Return Memory Controller ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Nvidia, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,966,439) developed by five co-inventors for an "apparatus, system, and method for a "fast data return memory controller." The co-inventors are Sean J. Treichler, Mountain View, Calif., Brad W. Simeral, San Francisco, Roman Surgutchick, Santa Clara, Calif., Anand Srinivasan, San Jose, Calif., and Dmitry Vyshetsky, Cupertino, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system controller includes a memory controller and a host interface residing in different clock domains. There is a time delay between the time when the memory controller issues a read command to a memory and the data becoming present and available at the host interface. The memory controller generates an alarm message at or near the time that it issues the read command. The alarm message indicates to the host interface the time that the data is available for transfer to a host." The patent application was filed on Nov. 24, 2004 (10/997,330). 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=7,966,439&OS=7,966,439&RS=7,966,439 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Siemens Enterprise Communications Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Siemens Enterprise Communications, Boca Raton, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,965,822) developed by Sarah Korah, San Jose, Calif., John Vuong, San Jose, Calif., and Jih-Ling Chiou, San Jose, Calif., for a "telephony dialing using speech recognition." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method of dialing a telephone number included in a voice mail or telephone conversation, including recognizing a telephone number present in the speech received by a telephone apparatus from a stored message, an automated voice response system, or a live conversation is described. The system interprets a user-spoken command to select a recently received telephone number and formulate a dialing sequence to connect the user to the selected telephone number. The associated voice mail, automated response or live conversation may be placed on hold, disconnected, or conferenced with the number selected." The patent application was filed on Sept. 28, 2005 (11/238,336). 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=7965822.PN.&OS=PN/7965822&RS=PN/7965822 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Super Talent Electronics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Super Talent Electronics, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,966,462) developed by five co-inventors for a "multi-channel flash module with plane-interleaved sequential ECC writes and background recycling to restricted-write flash chips." The co-inventors are Charles C. Lee, Cupertino, Calif., Frank Yu, Palo Alto, Calif., Ming-Shiang Shen, Taipei Hsien, Taiwan, Abraham C. Ma, Fremont, Calif., and David Q. Chow, San Jose, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A RAM mapping table is restored from flash memory using plane, block, and page addresses generated by a physical sequential address counter. The RAM mapping table is restored following a plane-interleaved sequence generated by the physical sequential address counter using interleaved bits extracted from the lowest bits of the logical block index. These plane-interleave bits are split into a LSB and a MSB, with middle physical block bits between the LSB and MSB. The physical sequential address counter generates a physical block number by incrementing the plane-interleave bits before the middle physical block bits, and then relocating the MSB to above the middle physical block bits. This causes blocks to be accessed in a low-high sequence of 0, 1, 4096, 4097, 2, 3, 4098, 4099, etc. in the four planes of flash memory. Background recycling and ECC writes are also performed." The patent application was filed on Oct. 12, 2007 (11/871,627). 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=7,966,462&OS=7,966,462&RS=7,966,462 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Google Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,965,902) developed by Stephen D. Zelinka, Mountain View, Calif., Emil C. Praun, Fremont, Calif., and Chikai J. Ohazama, Mountain View, Calif., for a "large-scale image processing using mass parallelization techniques." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Assets of raw geo-located imagery can be divided into tiles and coverage masks can be generated for each tile. For each tile, fragments of pixels from coverage masks of neighboring tiles can be extracted and tagged. The fragments can be sorted and stored in a data structure so that fragments having the same tag can be grouped together in the data structure. The fragments can be used to feather the coverage mask of the tile to produce a blend mask. Multi-resolution imagery and mask pyramids can be generated by extracting fragments from tiles and minified (e.g., down-sampled). The minified fragments can be tagged (e.g., by ancestor tile name), sorted and stored in a data structure, so that fragments having like tags can be stored together in the data structure. The fragments can be assembled into fully minified tiles for each level in the pyramid. Input tiles in a first projection are re-projected into a second projection using techniques that minimize distortion in the re-projected imagery." The patent application was filed on May 19, 2006 (11/437,553). 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=79,65,902.PN.&OS=PN/79,65,902&RS=PN/79,65,902 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,966,465) developed by Stephane Rodgers, San Diego, for a "method and system for secure code encryption for PC-slave devices." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A PC-slave device may securely load and decrypt an execution code and/or data, which may be stored, encrypted, in a PC hard-drive. The PC-slave device may utilize a dedicated memory, which may be partitioned into an accessible region and a restricted region that may only be accessible by the PC-slave device. The encrypted execution code and/or may be loaded into the accessible region of the dedicated memory; the PC-slave device may decrypt the execution code and/or data, internally, and store the decrypted execution code and/or data into the restricted region of the dedicated memory. The decrypted execution code and/or data may be validated, and may be utilized from the restricted region. The partitioning of the dedicated memory, into accessible and restricted regions, may be performed dynamically during secure code loading. The PC-slave device may comprise a dedicated secure processor that may perform and/or manage secure code loading." The patent application was filed on Jan. 17, 2008 (12/015,648). 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=7,966,465&OS=7,966,465&RS=7,966,465 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent for Hard Imaging Methods and Devices and Optical Scanning Systems ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (7,965,901) developed by William D. Holland, Mountain View, Calif., for a "hard imaging methods and devices and optical scanning systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Hard imaging methods, hard imaging device fabrication methods, hard imaging devices, hard imaging device optical scanning systems, and articles of manufacture are described. A hard imaging method includes providing image data corresponding to a hard image to be formed and generating light responsive to the image data. The method further includes scanning the light to form a latent image corresponding to the hard image to be formed and accessing correction data corresponding to scanning errors of a scan lens intermediate a rotating reflection device and a photoconductor. The method also includes modifying the image data using the correction data before the generating and the modifying including modifying to reduce the introduction of image errors resulting from the scanning using the scan lens." The patent application was filed on Oct. 31, 2003 (10/699,011). 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=79,65,901.PN.&OS=PN/79,65,901&RS=PN/79,65,901 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Super Talent Electronics Assigned Patent for Peripheral Devices Using Phase-change Memory ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Super Talent Electronics, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,966,429) developed by David Q. Chow, San Jose, Calif., Charles C. Lee, Cupertino, Calif., and Frank I-Kang Yu, Palo Alto, Calif., for "peripheral devices using phase-change memory." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Peripheral devices store data in non-volatile phase-change memory (PCM). PCM cells have alloy resistors with high-resistance amorphous states and low-resistance crystalline states. The peripheral device can be a Serial AT-Attachment (SATA) or integrated device electronics (IDE) PCM solid-state disk or a Multi-Media Card/Secure Digital (MMC/SD) card. A peripheral PCM controller accesses PCM mass storage devices containing PCM memory chips that form a mass-storage device that is block-addressable rather than randomly-addressable. SATA, IDE, or MMC/SD transactions from a host bus are read by a bus transceiver on the peripheral PCM controller. Various routines that execute on a CPU in the peripheral PCM controller are activated in response to commands in the host-bus transactions. A PCM controller in the peripheral controller transfers data from the bus transceiver to the PCM mass storage devices for storage." The patent application was filed on May 28, 2007 (11/754,332). 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=7,966,429&OS=7,966,429&RS=7,966,429 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** eBay Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- eBay, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,966,335) developed by Neelakantan Sundaresan, Mountain View, Calif., and Hendrick Lee, Santa Clara, Calif., for a collaborative content evaluation. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In an example embodiment, a system for determining respective reputation values for a users of a network-based community is provided. The respective reputation values may be based on a user attribute associated with the user. The system may comprise a processor-implemented reputation component configured to determine respective reputation values for one or more users of a network-based community. Additionally included is a processor-implemented reporting component configured to receive a communication from the user identifying content as objectionable within the network-based community. The system also includes a processor-implemented evaluation component configured to evaluate the identified content based on the respective reputation values of the user to determine an action to take with respect to the content. Additionally included is a processor-implemented validation component configured to remove identified content from publication based on the respective reputation values transgressing a threshold value." The patent application was filed on May 3, 2010 (12/772,938). 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=7,966,335&OS=7,966,335&RS=7,966,335 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** NVIDIA Assigned Patent for Screen Compression ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- NVIDIA, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,965,895) developed by four co-inventors for a screen compression. The co-inventors are John M. Danskin, Cranston, R.I., Ziyad S. Hakura, Palo Alto, Calif., Edward L. Riegelsberger, Fremont, Calif., Jason M. Musicer, Santa Clara, Calif., and Stephen D. Lew, Sunnyvale, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, circuits, and apparatus for reducing memory bandwidth used by a graphics processor. Uncompressed tiles are read from a display buffer portion of a graphics memory and received by an encoder. The uncompressed tiles are compressed and written back to the graphics memory. When a tile is needed again before it has been modified, the compressed version is read from memory, uncompressed, and displayed. To reduce the number of unnecessary writes of compressed tiles to memory, a tile is only written to memory if it has remained static for some number of refresh cycles. Also, to prevent a large number of compressed tiles being written to the display buffer in one refresh cycle, the encoder can be throttled after a number of tiles have been written. Validity information can be stored for use by a CRTC. If a tile is updated, the validity information is updated such that invalid compressed data is not read from memory and displayed." The patent application was filed on Aug. 10, 2007 (11/837,336). 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=79,65,895.PN.&OS=PN/79,65,895&RS=PN/79,65,895 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent for Fast and Efficient Method for Deleting Very Large Files from a Filesystem ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,966,351) developed by Yasantha Nirmal Rajakarunanayake, San Ramon, Calif., for a "fast and efficient method for deleting very large files from a filesystem." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: " In the current invention, a method and apparatus for efficiently deleting large files is described. This is done by having a special inode for pointing to data blocks to be freed, and subsequently freeing the data blocks from the special inode in a controlled manner." The patent application was filed on July 26, 2006 (12/843,389). 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=7,966,351&OS=7,966,351&RS=7,966,351 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** California Inventors Develop Patent for Secure Memory Access System and Method ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Christian Ludloff, San Jose, Calif., Kurt Daverman, San Jose, Calif., and Andrew Morgan, Los Gatos, Calif., have developed a patent (7,966,467) for a "secure memory access system and method." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A secure memory access system and method for providing secure access to Hyper Management Mode memory ranges is presented." The patent application was filed on Feb. 24, 2009 (12/391,998). 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=7,966,467&OS=7,966,467&RS=7,966,467 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Ericsson Assigned Patent for Enhance Fault Tracing in Multi-tiered Ethernet/MPLS Network ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden, has been assigned a patent (7,966,420) developed by Rishi Mehta, San Jose, Calif., Sriganesh Kini, San Jose, Calif., and Peter Arberg, Victoria, Canada, for an "enhance fault tracing in multi-tiered ethernet/MPLS network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques for providing connectivity fault management (CFM) for a multi-tiered network are described herein. In one embodiment, a link trace message (LTM) is received at a provider edge (PE) router and originated from a first Ethernet node and destined to a second Ethernet node, where the PE router interfaces an Ethernet and a multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) network. In response, the PE router initiates an MPLS trace session, including generating an MPLS trace message based on the LTM message to one or more MPLS nodes along a path between the first and second Ethernet nodes within the MPLS network. Subsequently, in response to one or more MPLS trace reply messages from the MPLS nodes of the MPLS network, the PE router generates a first link trace reply (LTR) message and sends the first LTR message to the first Ethernet node over the Ethernet. Other methods and apparatuses are also described." The patent application was filed on Dec. 13, 2007 (11/955,971). 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=7,966,420&OS=7,966,420&RS=7,966,420 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Yahoo! Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Yahoo! Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,966,341) developed by Farzin Maghoul, Hayward, Calif., Kostas Tsioutsiouliklis, San Jose, Calif., for an "estimating the date relevance of a query from query logs." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques are provided maintaining data that indicates for a plurality of query terms whether the plurality of query terms are date-qualified query terms. A query is received, and in response to receiving the query, the query is inspected to determine that the query contains a particular date-qualified query term. Then it is determined that the particular date-qualified query term has been associated with a plurality of dates, and it is determined which of the plurality of dates with which to associate the date-qualified query term for the query, based at least in part on the frequency with which each particular date of the plurality of dates has been associated with the particular date-qualified query term." The patent application was filed on Aug. 6, 2007 (11/834,616). 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=7,966,341&OS=7,966,341&RS=7,966,341 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Raytheon Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Raytheon, Waltham, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,965,890) developed by Eran Marcus, Culver City, Calif., and Nathaniel Wyckoff, Los Angeles, for a "target recognition system and method." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A target recognition system and method. The inventive method includes the steps of first receiving an image of a scene within which a target may be included and second using constrained image segmentation as a basis for target recognition. In the specific embodiment, the segmentation is variable and derived from target geometry models. The constrained image segmentation is adapted to use target geometry models to derive alternative image segmentation hypotheses. The hypotheses are verified using a novel hierarchical adaptive region model matcher. In the best mode, the hierarchical adaptive region model matcher is fully hierarchical and includes the steps of receiving an image and a hypothesis with respect to a target in the image. In the illustrative embodiment, the hypothesis contains the type, location, and/or orientation of a hypothesized target in the image. The hypothesis is received by a model tree generator. A target model library provides a plurality of computer generated target models. The model tree generator retrieves a model from the library based on a hypothesized target type and renders a model tree therefrom that represents the appearance of a hypothesized target at a hypothesized location and orientation. In the illustrative embodiment, the verification model further includes a search manager adapted to receive a model tree from the model tree generator. A feature extractor is included along with a segmentation evaluator. The segmentation evaluator is coupled to receive image features from the feature extractor. The segmentation evaluator is adapted to output a segmentation score to the search manager with respect to a specified set of segmentation labels based on a supplied set of image features for an active node." The patent application was filed on Jan. 5, 2007 (11/650,013). 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=79,65,890.PN.&OS=PN/79,65,890&RS=PN/79,65,890 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Apple Assigned Patent for Management of Podcasts ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Apple, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,966,362) developed by four co-inventors for management of podcasts. The co-inventors are David Lawrence Neumann, Portland, Ore., Anne Jones, Emerald Hills, Calif., Mike Wiese, Cupertino, Calif., and David Heller, San Jose, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Improved techniques that facilitate the use of podcasts are disclosed. The improved techniques can pertain to publishing, hosting, accessing, subscribing, managing, organizing, searching, browsing, transferring, and/or playing podcasts. According to one aspect, tags are embedded into syndication feeds (e.g., RSS feeds) that may be made available for distribution by an online media store to facilitate the management of podcasts. Such tags can include a block tag that may be embedded into a syndication feed to indicate whether the feed is to be blocked from being included in the online media store. According to another aspect, management of podcasts may be facilitated by other mechanisms. In accordance with one embodiment, a user may challenge the ownership of a podcast to block or remove a podcast from the online media store. In accordance with another embodiment, images may be stored to allow efficient retrieval of the corresponding episode(s) of a podcast." The patent application was filed on June 27, 2006 (11/477,156). 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=7,966,362&OS=7,966,362&RS=7,966,362 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Business Objects Software Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Business Objects Software, Ireland, has been assigned a patent (7,966,383) developed by four co-inventors for "client-server systems and methods for accessing metadata information across a network using proxies." The co-inventors are Wu Cao, Redwood City, Calif., Sridhar Ganti, Alameda, Calif., Vikram Kunniyur, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Duc Tran, San Jose, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the present invention include a computer-implemented systems and methods for accessing metadata across a network. A metadata server receives requests to access a data source from one or more clients. The metadata server is coupled between one or more backend servers and the clients. The backend servers may be coupled to the data sources of interest. The metadata server provides a metadata service proxy for establishing communications with the backend servers and for signaling the backend servers to establish connections to data sources. Data sources may be stateful or stateless. For stateless data sources, the metadata server may dynamically create reusable metadata service provider proxies that receive metadata from metadata service providers on the backend servers. For stateful data sources, unique metadata service provider proxies may be dynamically created and used to service client requests." The patent application was filed on March 27, 2009 (12/413,268). 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=7,966,383&OS=7,966,383&RS=7,966,383 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Intuit Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Intuit, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,966,329) developed by Marko Rukonic, San Jose, Calif., and Suresh R. Rao, Cupertino, Calif., for a "method and system for recognition and categorization of financial transactions." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for categorizing financial transactions, that includes identifying a vendor of the first financial transaction. An attempt is made to categorize the transaction on a first categorization level complying with a first categorization scheme, then a second categorization level that complies with a second categorization scheme, and then a third categorization level that complies with a third categorization scheme. The first categorization scheme differs from the second categorization scheme. When the transaction cannot be categorized on a previous categorization level, the attempt is made for the next level and the second categorization level. The transaction is categorized on the third level. The method further includes displaying the vendor category." The patent application was filed on July 30, 2008 (12/182,731). 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=7,966,329&OS=7,966,329&RS=7,966,329 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Scimed Life Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Scimed Life Systems, Maple Grove, Minn., has been assigned a patent (7,965,876) developed by Shashidhar Sathyanarayana, Pleasanton, Calif., for "systems and methods for image segmentation with a multi-stage classifier." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The systems and methods described herein provide for fast and accurate image segmentation through the application of a multi-stage classifier to an image data set. An image processing system is provided having a processor configured to apply a multi-stage classifier to the image data set to identify a distinctive region. The, multi-stage classifier can include two or more component classifiers. The first component classifier can have a sensitivity level configured to identify one or more target regions in the image data set and the second component classifier can have a specificity level configured to confirm the presence of the distinctive region in any identified target regions. Also provided is a classification array having multiple multi-stage classifiers for identification and confirmation of more than one distinctive region or for the application of different classification configurations to the image data set to identify a specific distinctive region." The patent application was filed on March 3, 2010 (12/716,818). 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=79,65,876.PN.&OS=PN/79,65,876&RS=PN/79,65,876 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** RHUB Communications Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- RHUB Communications, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,966,371) developed by Chengjiang Mao, San Jose, Calif., Yanlin Guan, Santa Clara, Calif., and Lawrence Dorie, Los Altos, Calif., for a "browser based web conferencing employing layering to display screen updates." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A browser based web conferencing method is disclosed, wherein a request to receive a screen update image of a first layer is transmitted over a network, and the screen update image of the first layer is displayed. A request to receive a screen update image of a second layer is transmitted over the network, and the screen update image of the second layer is displayed, wherein the screen update image of the second layer overlaps the screen update image of the first layer. An image-load script is executed in connection with receiving one of the screen update images, wherein the image-load script executes the request-update script after all of the screen update images of the first layer have been displayed." The patent application was filed on April 28, 2010 (12/768,935). 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=7,966,371&OS=7,966,371&RS=7,966,371 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Samsung Electronics Assigned Patent for Memory Systems Including Memory Devices Coupled Together in a Daisy-chained Arrangement ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Samsung Electronics, Gyeonngi-do, South Korea, has been assigned a patent (7,966,443) developed by Kevin P. Grundy, Fremont, Calif., and Para K. Segaram, Cupertino, Calif., for "memory systems including memory devices coupled together in a daisy-chained arrangement." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A memory system having a plurality of memory devices and a memory controller. The memory devices are coupled to one another in a chain. The memory controller is coupled to the chain and configured to output a memory access command that is received by each of the memory devices in the chain and that selects a set of two or more of the memory devices to be accessed." The patent application was filed on Nov. 1, 2007 (11/933,445). 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=7,966,443&OS=7,966,443&RS=7,966,443 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,966,409) developed by five co-inventors for a "routing protocol based redundancy design for shared-access networks." The co-inventors are Feisal Daruwalla, Santa Clara, Calif., James R. Forster, Los Altos, Calif., Guenter E. Roeck, San Jose, Calif., Richard M. Woundy, North Reading, Mass., and Michael A. Thomas, San Francisco. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A protection CMTS is available to immediately service a cable modem should that modem's service from a working CMTS fail for any reason. To speed the service transfer (cutover) from the working CMTS to the protection CMTS, the cable modem may preregister with the protection CMTS well before the cutover becomes necessary. The cable modem's registration with both the working CMTS and the protection CMTS preferably employs a single IP address, so that the cable modem need not obtain a new IP address during cutover. While the cable modem may register with both the working CMTS and the protection CMTS, the devices are designed or configured so that only the working CMTS injects a host route for the cable modem into the appropriate routing protocol. Only after cutover to the protection CMTS does the protection CMTS inject its host route." The patent application was filed on July 26, 2004 (10/899,668). 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=7,966,409&OS=7,966,409&RS=7,966,409 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Lawrence Livermore National Security Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Lawrence Livermore National Security, Livermore, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,965,868) developed by Randy S. Roberts, Livermore, Calif., and Eric F. Breitfeller, Dublin, Calif., for a "system and method for bullet tracking and shooter localization." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method of processing infrared imagery to determine projectile trajectories and the locations of shooters with a high degree of accuracy. The method includes image processing infrared image data to reduce noise and identify streak-shaped image features, using a Kalman filter to estimate optimal projectile trajectories, updating the Kalman filter with new image data, determining projectile source locations by solving a combinatorial least-squares solution for all optimal projectile trajectories, and displaying all of the projectile source locations. Such a shooter-localization system is of great interest for military and law enforcement applications to determine sniper locations, especially in urban combat scenarios." The patent application was filed on July 20, 2007 (11/880,180). 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=79,65,868.PN.&OS=PN/79,65,868&RS=PN/79,65,868 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for System and Method for Prioritizing Websites During a Webcrawling Process ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,966,337) developed by seven co-inventors for a "system and method for prioritizing websites during a webcrawling process." The co-inventors are David L. Blackman, Rego Park, N.Y., Michael Ching, San Jose, Calif., Stephen Dill, San Jose, Calif., Ivan Eduardo Gonzalez, Pittsburgh, Adam Marcus, Stamford, Conn., Daniel Norin Meredith, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Linda Anh Linh Nguyen, San Jose, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for prioritizing a fetch order of web pages. The method comprises extracting by a web crawler a set of candidate web pages to be crawled. Each web page in the set of candidate web pages is associated with a website in a computer network. A determination is made to determine if a first website score for the website is in a website score database. The first website score is associated with web pages in the set of candidate web pages if the first website score exists in the website score database. The set of candidate web pages is prioritized with respect to an associated website score for each web page in the candidate set of web pages. Content is retrieved from the set of candidate web. Hyperlinks are extracted from the content. The hyperlinks are stored in a memory unit." The patent application was filed on June 23, 2008 (12/143,885). 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=7,966,337&OS=7,966,337&RS=7,966,337 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** NVIDIA Assigned Patent for Single-cycle Modulus Operation ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- NVIDIA, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,966,361) developed by Shankar Moni, Indiranagar, India, and Pankaj Chaurasia, Sunnyvale, Calif., for a single-cycle modulus operation. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Several different approaches to performing the modulus operation are presented. In one, a method of performing the modulus operation upon a dividend and a divisor within a limited range is discussed. The method involves storing a reference value, receiving a dividend value, and calculating a number of derived inputs. Each of the derived inputs corresponds to the dividend value minus the reference value, and is then further modified by a multiple of the divisor. Using the divisor to select between these derived inputs provides the answer." The patent application was filed on June 24, 2007 (11/657,894). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,966,361&OS=7,966,361&RS=7,966,361 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent for System and Method for Communicating Between Servers Using a Multi-server Platform ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Broadcom, has been assigned a patent (7,966,422) developed by Martin Lund, Menlo Park, Calif., for a "system and method for communicating between servers using a multi-server platform." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Aspects of the invention may include receiving a packet from a first of a plurality of blade servers coupled via a common bus. An identifier associated with a second blade server may be determined based on at least a portion of the received packet and at least a portion of the received packet may be routed to at least the second blade server. At least a portion of the received packet may be transferred to at least the second blade server via the common bus. Routing of at least a portion of the received packet may be controlled by a switch blade which may also be coupled to the common bus. In order to route information in the server, an identifier of the first blade server, the second blade server and the switch blade may be determined. Exemplary identifiers may be a MAC address and/or an IP address." The patent application was filed on Aug. 26, 2003 (10/648,004). 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=7,966,422&OS=7,966,422&RS=7,966,422 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Johnson & Johnson Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, N.J., has been assigned a patent (7,966,338) developed by Glen A. Evans, San Marcos, Calif., for a "computer-directed assembly of a polynucleotide encoding a target polypeptide." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention outlines a novel approach to utilizing the results of genomic sequence information by computer-directed polynucleotide assembly based upon information available in databases such as the human genome database. Specifically, the present invention may be used to select, synthesize and assemble a novel, synthetic target polynucleotide sequence encoding a target polypeptide. The target polynucleotide may encode a target polypeptide that exhibits enhanced or altered biological activity as compared to a model polypeptide encoded by a natural (wild-type) or model polynucleotide sequence." The patent application was filed on Oct. 20, 2004 (10/969,694). 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=7,966,338&OS=7,966,338&RS=7,966,338 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Sharp Laboratories of America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Sharp Laboratories of America, Camas, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,966,396) developed by four co-inventors for "methods and systems for administrating imaging device event notification." The co-inventors are Lena Sojian, Fountain Valley, Calif., Joey P. Lum, Irvine, Calif., Uoc H. Nguyen, Long Beach, Calif., and Boguslaw Ludwik Plewnia, Mission Viejo, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Aspects of the present invention relate to systems, methods and devices for imaging device event notification administration and subscription. Some aspects relate to selective imaging device event notification based on user credentials and/or the occurrence of a specific event. Some aspects relate to the construction, maintenance and use of an event subscription record that is used to manage imaging device event notification." The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2005 (11/240,039). 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=7,966,396&OS=7,966,396&RS=7,966,396 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Callwave Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Callwave, Santa Barbara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,965,825) developed by seven co-inventors for a "methods and systems for transferring voice messages and faxes over a network." The co-inventors are Scott Herriman, Santa Barbara, Calif., Ivan Johannessen, Santa Barbara, Calif., Leland W. Kirchhoff, Santa Barbara, Calif., David Trandal, Santa Barbara, Calif., Donnie Tognazzini, Santa Barbara, Calif., Russell Williams, Santa Barbara, Calif., and Colin Kelley, Santa Barbara, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Processes and systems for transferring communication messages, such as fax and voice messages, between a computer and a terminal are disclosed. For example, a fax message intended for a user is received at a call processing system. A voice message intended for the user is received at the call processing system. An initial portion of the fax message and the voice message are transferred to a user terminal. The user can view the initial portion of the fax message and listed in the initial portion of the voice message using the user terminal. At least a second portion of the fax message is downloaded to the user terminal in a trickle mode, and at least a second portion of the voice message is downloaded to the user terminal in a trickle mode." The patent application was filed on Aug. 1, 2006 (11/497,403). 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=7965825.PN.&OS=PN/7965825&RS=PN/7965825 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Hayley Logistics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Hayley Logistics, Las Vegas, has been assigned a patent (7,966,342) developed by John N. Gross, San Francisco, for a "method for monitoring link & content changes in web pages." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for monitoring content/link behavior of web pages/web sites over time can be used for, among other things, compiling relevant information, implementing/influencing a search engine, etc. Certain web pages/web sites can be characterized as trendsetters by studying historical adoption behavior of a group within the universe of websites, or by reference to known indicia." The patent application was filed on May 6, 2005 (11/123,415). 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=7,966,342&OS=7,966,342&RS=7,966,342 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent for Method and System for Flexibly Providing Shared Access to Non-data Pool File Systems ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,966,353) developed by Christopher S. Wilson, Sunnyvale, Calif., for a "method and system for flexibly providing shared access to non-data pool file systems." 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