[June 29, 2011] U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Washington (June 29) Tweet (Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Washington. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,970,948) developed by nine co-inventors for a "packet processing using encapsulation and decapsulation chains." The co-inventors are Kenneth A. Moberg, Boulder Creek, Calif., Claude A. Cartee, Los Altos, Calif., Gregory D. Stovall, San Mateo, Calif., David R. Hampton, Mill Valley, Calif., Kirk Stewart Lougheed, Atherton, Calif., Pedro Marques, San Jose, Calif., Timothy D. Kolar, Campbell, Calif., Andrew J. Valencia, Vashon, Wash., and William B. May Jr., Sunnyvale, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In an embodiment, a network router includes plural interfaces and a chain walker which, upon receipt of a first protocol packet in a first interface, processes the packet by walking the packet through a decapsulation chain associated with the interface and the first protocol and an encapsulation chain associated with an identified second interface and identified second protocol. The walker passes the packet to elements of the decapsulation chain to produce a decapsulated packet. The walker passes the decapsulated packet to elements of an encapsulation chain to produce an encapsulated packet. Each chain includes at least one packet-processing element. An element receives the packet from the walker as processed by a previous element, the packet being further processed as appropriate. The walker, upon receipt of the first protocol packet, passes the packet to elements of a demultiplexer chain associated with the first interface to produce a demultiplexed packet." The patent application was filed on April 27, 2005 (11/115,758). 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=79,70,948.PN.&OS=PN/79,70,948&RS=PN/79,70,948 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Correlation, Association, or Correspondence of Electronic Forms ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,971,139) developed by four co-inventors for a "correlation, association, or correspondence of electronic forms." The co-inventors are Constantin Stanciu, Redmond, Wash., Patrick Halstead, Kirkland, Wash., Andrey Shur, Redmond, Wash., and Edward G. Essey, Redmond, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Determining correspondence, association, and/or correlation between nodes of electronic forms based on schemas of those forms is described. Importing, merging, and/or annotating data from one electronic form into another electronic form based on correspondence, association, and/or correlation between nodes is also described." The patent application was filed on Oct. 31, 2007 (11/931,730). 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=79,71,139&OS=79,71,139&RS=79,71,139 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,971,157) developed by Relja Markovic, Seattle, Gregory N. Snook, Sammamish, Wash., and Justin McBride, Renton, Wash., for a predictive determination. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems, methods and computer readable media are disclosed for a gesture recognizer system architecture. A recognizer engine is provided, which receives user motion data and provides that data to a plurality of filters. A filter corresponds to a gesture, that may then be tuned by an application receiving information from the gesture recognizer so that the specific parameters of the gesture--such as an arm acceleration for a throwing gesture--may be set on a per-application level, or multiple times within a single application. Each filter may output to an application using it a confidence level that the corresponding gesture occurred, as well as further details about the user motion data." The patent application was filed on June 30, 2010 (12/828,108). 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=79,71,157&OS=79,71,157&RS=79,71,157 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,970,931) developed by Narasimhan Agrahara Ventakaramaiah, Redmond, Wash., Murari Sridharan, Sammamish, Wash., and Biao Wang, Bellevue, Wash., for a "policy-based routing in a multi-homed computer." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Policy-based routing system and method for a multi-homed computer. Policy-based routing permits or blocks usage of system level route(s) based on user credentials and/or network application(s) associated with a data transfer. The credentials can include information associated with an application, a user, and the like. Optionally, one or more filter(s) can be configured over classifiable field(s), such as credential(s), information associated with a determined proposed route, to statically permit/block route usage and/or to invoke an inspection module (e.g., custom inspection routine) when the filter condition(s) are met." The patent application was filed on June 26, 2008 (12/146,478). 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=79,70,931.PN.&OS=PN/79,70,931&RS=PN/79,70,931 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Text Box Numbering and Linking Visual Aids ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,971,154) developed by Han-Yi Shaw, Redmond, Wash., and Brent M. Lang, Seattle, for a "text box numbering and linking visual aids." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A graphical user interface is disclosed for tracking and managing the use of text boxes by providing visual aids that make it easy for a user to see which text boxes are linked to which, as well as the order of text boxes in a linked chain. The present system also makes it easy to track the creation and breaking of linked text box chains." The patent application was filed on Feb. 16, 2006 (11/356,328). 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=79,71,154&OS=79,71,154&RS=79,71,154 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Oracle International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Oracle International, Redwood Shores, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,971,138) developed by Mark S. Igra, Seattle, for a "common design for web pages through employment of master specifications." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A master specification is provided to specify a common design for a number of resultant web pages to be generated. The common design includes common content placement, and at least one of a common style and a common navigation arrangement. The content of a first resultant web page is defined employing a first subordinate web page specification, including reference to the master specification for content placement, and at least one of style and navigation. The content of a second resultant web page is similarly defined. In turn, the first and second resultant web pages are generated with first and second contents being placed, styled and/or having the common navigation arrangement in accordance with the master specification." The patent application was filed on March 23, 2001 (09/816,552). 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=79,71,138&OS=79,71,138&RS=79,71,138 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Transparent Auto-discovery of Network Devices Logically Located Between a Client and Server ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,970,928) developed by six co-inventors for a "transparent auto-discovery of network devices logically located between a client and server." The co-inventors are Murari Sridharan, Sammamish, Wash., Deepak Bansal, Redmond, Wash., Eran Yariv, Zichron, Israel, Ronen Barenboim, Haifa, Israel, Maxim Stepin, Redmond, Wash., and Alexander Malysh, Bothell, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Discovery of intermediate network devices is performed using a technique that piggybacks upon the existing standard TCP (Transport Control Protocol) "SACK" (Selective Acknowledgment) option in a SYN/ACK packet so that discovery information may be shared between pair-wise-deployed peer intermediate devices when a TCP/IP connection (Transport Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) is first established between network endpoints using a conventional three-way handshake. Use of the SACK option is combined with another technique which comprises modifying the original 16-bit value of the TCP receive window size to a special arbitrary value to mark a SYN packet as being generated by a first peer device. The marked SYN when received by the second peer device triggers that device's discovery information to be piggybacked in the SACK option of the SYN/ACK packet. The first device then piggybacks its discovery information in the SACK option of the ACK packet which completes the three-way handshake." The patent application was filed on Dec. 17, 2007 (11/958,374). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=79,70,928.PN.&OS=PN/79,70,928&RS=PN/79,70,928 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Direction-based Data Entry System ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,971,152) developed by Christian Bogh Jensen, Seattle, Erik Dibbern, Hillerod, Denmark, and Ricky Kaare Engelharth, Frederiksberg, Denmark, for a "direction-based data entry system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A direction-based data entry system displays a field having an initial value and a field location. When the user selects the field, the direction-based data entry system enters a data entry mode in which an auxiliary data entry tool is not displayed. To enter a new value for the field, the user indicates movement across the display relative to the field. As the user indicates movement, the direction-based data entry system may display an indication of a new value for the field represented by the movement. When the new value is the value that the user wants entered into the field, the user terminates the movement, which causes the new value to be the current value for the field." The patent application was filed on Dec. 14, 2007 (11/956,772). 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=79,71,152&OS=79,71,152&RS=79,71,152 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Senseweb ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,971,143) developed by five co-inventors for a senseweb. The co-inventors are Andre Santanche, Pituba Salvador, Brazil, Jie Liu, Sammamish, Wash., Suman K. Nath, Redmond, Wash., Nissanka B. Priyantha, Redmond, Wash., and Feng Zhao, Issaquah, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Senseweb is described. In an embodiment, a first selection identifying a region of interest is recognized. Additionally, a second selection indicating at least one selected condition potentially monitored within the region of interest is recognized. Then, at least one sensor in the region of interest monitoring the selected condition is identified, and data communicating the selected condition from the sensor is automatically associated with a representation of the region of interest." The patent application was filed on Oct. 31, 2006 (11/555,177). 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=79,71,143&OS=79,71,143&RS=79,71,143 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,971,248) developed by Rahul Nagpal, Faridabad, India, Darko Kirovski, Kirkland, Wash., and Benjamin G. Zorn, Woodinville, Wash., for a "tolerating and detecting asymmetric races." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Detecting and/or tolerating races. Races occur due to malicious threads not respecting software locks. A method of detecting and/or correcting races includes making local copie(s) and reference copie(s) of shared data. Any read and write operations performed by a safe thread are caused to be performed on the local copie(s) during a critical section. The critical section defines a time frame which a variable lock is placed on shared data. Any read and write operations performed by malicious threads are allowed to be performed on the shared data during the critical section. The shared data, the local copie(s), and the reference copie(s) are compared to determine that a race has been detected. An indication can be output that a race has occurred or the race can be corrected." The patent application was filed on Aug. 15, 2007 (11/839,017). 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=7,971,248.PN.&OS=PN/7,971,248&RS=PN/7,971,248 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Failure Location Detection using Types in Assembly Files ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,971,100) developed by Rafael Goodman Dowling, Kirkland, Wash., Ryan Randal Elliott, Bothell, Wash., and Israel Hilerio, Kendall, Wash., for a "failure location detection using types in assembly files." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A failure identification routine uses a two pass stack trace analysis in conjunction with a list of called types. As each method is called, a call list is generated with the called type, method, and various metadata. During the first pass stack trace analysis, each stack frame is analyzed to determine if the failed type is included in the stack frame. If so, the method associated with the frame is flagged as suspect. If the failed type is not found in the first stack trace, a second pass stack trace analysis is performed and an assembly associated with the method associated with the stack frame is analyzed to determine a set of types. The set of types are analyzed to find at least one match with the called types. If a match exists, the methods associated with the matched types are flagged as suspect." The patent application was filed on Jan. 22, 2008 (12/018,177). 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=79,71,100&OS=79,71,100&RS=79,71,100 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** EMC Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,971,091) developed by five co-inventors for a "network configuration backup and restore operations using continuous data protection." The co-inventors are Scott Forrest Bingham, Sammamish, Wash., Matthew D. Buchman, Seattle, Upanshu Singhal, Redmond, Wash., John C. Rokicki, Rutland, Mass., and Venkatesha Murthy, Milford, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for performing replication operations on a continuous data protection system. Exemplary systems include a continuous data protection system configured to save a series of transactions of a production application, the continuous data protection system configured to allow a point in time view of the series of transactions, a replication application communicating with the continuous data protection system, the replication application configured to initiate generation of at least one pseudosnapshot of the series of transactions saved on the continuous data protection system and initiate surfacing of a copy of at least a portion of the series of transactions that were saved before the generation of the at least one pseudosnapshot, and a remote server communicating with the replication application, the remote server configured to send replication instructions to the replication application." The patent application was filed on May 2, 2006 (11/381,343). 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=79,71,091&OS=79,71,091&RS=79,71,091 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Configurable Software Stack ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,971,187) developed by Ashvinkumar J. Sanghvi, Sammamish, Wash., Giedrius Zizys, Redmond, Wash., and Vij Rajarajan, Issaquah, Wash., for a configurable software stack. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Described are software stacks for accepting and implementing portable packages containing encodings of processes. The packages are portable and distinct from the technology stacks. The packages may be in the form of declarative code for configuring the technology stacks and can be plugged into the technology stacks to allow the technology stack to play the packages, thereby automating the processes encoded by the packages. The technology stacks have components that are declaratively configurable such that they can provide their functionality autonomously and yet can also, as a unit, in performing their respective functions, cooperatively perform the processes encoded by the packages." The patent application was filed on April 24, 2006 (11/379,974). 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=7,971,187.PN.&OS=PN/7,971,187&RS=PN/7,971,187 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Session Key Security Protocol ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,971,240) developed by Wei-Quiang Michael Guo, Bellevue, Wash., John Hal Howard, Sammamish, Wash., and Kok Wai Chan, Bellevue, Wash., for a "session key security protocol." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Exchanging information in a multi-site authentication system. A network server receives, from an authentication server, a request by a client computing device for a service provided by the network server along with an authentication ticket. The authentication ticket includes: a session key encrypted by a public key associated with the network server, message content encrypted by the session key, and a signature for the encrypted session key and the encrypted message content. The signature includes address information of the network server. The network server identifies its own address information in the signature to validate the signature included in the authentication ticket and verifies the authentication ticket content based on the signature included in the authentication ticket. The network server decrypts the encrypted session key via a private key associated with the second network server and decrypts the encrypted message content via the decrypted session key." The patent application was filed on April 20, 2009 (12/426,726). 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=7,971,240.PN.&OS=PN/7,971,240&RS=PN/7,971,240 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Method and System for Remotely Controlling the Reporting of Events Occurring within a Computer System ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,971,188) developed by Steven M. Greenberg, Seattle, Jeffrey E. Larsson, Kirkland, Wash., and Kevin J. Fischer, Sammamish, Wash., for a "method and system for remotely controlling the reporting of events occurring within a computer system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system are provided for remotely controlling the reporting of events occurring within a computer. A remote control file identifying the events and conditions under which the events should be reported is periodically retrieved at a client computer. When an event occurs within a client computer, the remote control file is searched for data indicating that the event should be recorded. If data is located within the remote control file indicating that the event should be reported, data describing the event is collected. The collected data then may be subsequently reported. The remote control file may also include data identifying the type of data to be collected and a date and time after which data for a particular event should not be collected or reported." The patent application was filed on Jan. 23, 2007 (11/656,601). 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=7,971,188.PN.&OS=PN/7,971,188&RS=PN/7,971,188 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Transformation of an Asynchronous Transactional Messaging Language into a Web Services Compatible Language ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,971,195) developed by Paul F. Ringseth, Redmond, Wash., and Donald James McCrady, Redmond, Wash., for a "transformation of an asynchronous transactional messaging language into a web services compatible language." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Instructions in an asynchronous transactional messaging language are transformed into instructions that are compatible with the web services. In one embodiment, the asynchronous transactional messaging language is XLANG/s, and the web service languages are the web services description language (WSDL) and the simple object access protocol (SOAP). A programmer simply writes high level declarative statements that pertain to the specific type of business transaction. During compilation, selected instructions are transformed into instructions that are compatible with web services. This transformation is transparent to the designer of the business application. The asynchronous transactional messaging language source files are compiled in an iterative compilation process. During each pass of this compilation process, different variables are parsed. The parsed results are logically organized in a tree structure. The tree structure is traversed in depth first traversal order. During this traversal, instructions are transformed into instructions compatible with web services." The patent application was filed on Feb. 2, 2007 (11/670,440). 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=7,971,195.PN.&OS=PN/7,971,195&RS=PN/7,971,195 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Providing Artifact Lifespan and Relationship Representation ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,971,179) developed by Gina D. Venolia, Bellevue, Wash., for a "providing artifact lifespan and relationship representation." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for providing artifact lifespan and relationship representation is disclosed. A timeline portion of a lifespan of at least two artifacts is provided. In addition, a relationship representation portion between the at least two artifacts is also provided. The timeline portion of the lifespan of the at least two artifacts and the relationship representation portion between the at least two artifacts is then combined at a ligature. A browser is then provided for displaying the ligature, wherein the browser is capable of adding, removing or editing the timeline portion and the representation portion of the ligature." The patent application was filed on May 23, 2006 (11/439,561). 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=7,971,179.PN.&OS=PN/7,971,179&RS=PN/7,971,179 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Setting Group Policy by Device Ownership ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,971,232) developed by Robert N. Hasbun, Fall City, Wash., for a "setting group policy by device ownership." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system is disclosed for centralized management of access permissions to specific devices on client terminals using a group policy framework. The system identifies a unique device identifier for a specific device, and allows policy to be set for the specific device based on identifying the specific device by its unique device identifier." The patent application was filed on Oct. 30, 2006 (11/554,330). 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=7,971,232.PN.&OS=PN/7,971,232&RS=PN/7,971,232 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Method, System, and Computer Program Product for Representing and Connection-oriented Device in a Known Format ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,971,207) developed by Richard C. Machin, Bellevue, Wash., and Jameel Hyder, Redmond, Wash., for a "method, system, and computer program product for representing and connection-oriented device in a known format." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An integrating component exposes a connection interface for creating and maintaining connections. A proxy client component is disclosed that interacts with a known application-level interface and converts known application-level interface commands into appropriate commands for the connection interface of the integrating component. The proxy client component interacts with the integrating component to represent underlying connection-oriented devices and attendant device characteristics to the known application-level interface. This allows an application programmer to take advantage of a connection-oriented I/O subsystem and underlying connection-oriented devices without requiring the programmer to learn another interface. Benefits include the ability to dynamically redirect a data stream received over a created connection from one data transport to another under application control. This is useful in multimedia applications where different types of data may come over the same connection." The patent application was filed on April 5, 2005 (11/099,262). 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=7,971,207.PN.&OS=PN/7,971,207&RS=PN/7,971,207 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Boeing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Boeing, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (7,971,221) developed by Donald B. Lee, Shoreline, Wash., Trevor M. Laib, Woodinville, Wash., Kevin S. Callahan, Shoreline, Wash., and Bradley J. Mitchell, Snohomish, Wash., for an "overhead video system for an aircraft." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An overhead video system for an aircraft is disclosed. The overhead video system comprises a wireless overhead video unit; and at least one mounting rail detachably coupled to the wireless overhead video unit. The mounting rail provides structural support and electrical power to the wireless overhead video unit. A system in one embodiment may use mounting rails that double as power rails supplying power to the wireless overhead video unit. Video control and content streaming is accomplished over a wireless link. The power rail control may be accomplished remotely via a standard or solid state relay. Normal rail power for the rail mounted video system may come from the utility bus." The patent application was filed on Dec. 16, 2005 (11/303,652). 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=7,971,221.PN.&OS=PN/7,971,221&RS=PN/7,971,221 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for System and Methods Providing Enhanced Security Model ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,971,230) developed by five co-inventors for a "system and methods providing enhanced security model." The co-inventors are Sameet H. Agarwal, Redmond, Wash., Balan Sethu Raman, Redmond, Wash., Sanjay Anand, Sammamish, Wash., Paul J. Leach, Seattle, and Richard B. Ward, Redmond, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention relates to a system and methodology to facilitate security for data items residing within (or associated with) a hierarchical database or storage structure. A database security system is provided having a hierarchical data structure associated with one or more data items. The system includes a security component that applies a security policy to the data items from a global location or region associated with a database. Various components and processes are employed to enable explicit and/or inherited security properties to be received by and propagated to the data items depending on the type of data structure encountered or processed." The patent application was filed on July 30, 2007 (11/830,680). 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=7,971,230.PN.&OS=PN/7,971,230&RS=PN/7,971,230 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Pacific Market International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Pacific Market International, Seattle, has been assigned a patent (D640,505) developed by Sarah Danger George, Seattle, for an ornamental design for a beverage container. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a beverage container, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on Feb. 19, 2010 (D/356,164). 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=D640,505.PN.&OS=PN/D640,505&RS=PN/D640,505 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Washington Inventors Develop Patent for Adjustable Blade Weed Remover ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Valerie Tanis, Marysville, Wash., and Leroy Tanis, Marysville, Wash., have been issued a patent (D640,515) for an ornamental design for an "adjustable blade weed remover." The patent application was filed on June 14, 2010 (D/363,707). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=D640,515.PN.&OS=PN/D640,515&RS=PN/D640,515 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Mobility Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- AT&T Mobility, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (7,971,264) developed by Bryan Sullivan, Sammamish, Wash., for an "authentication of HTTP applications." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus such as an HTTP proxy server compares information of a request by HTTP client logic with a known pattern of information for the client logic. When the information of the request matches the known pattern, the HTTP proxy server causes content and/or software to be communicated to the client in response to the request. Depending upon the results of the comparison, the HTTP proxy may also validate or invalidate the request before communicating it to the server." The patent application was filed on Dec. 30, 2009 (12/650,460). 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=7,971,264.PN.&OS=PN/7,971,264&RS=PN/7,971,264 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** SRC Innovations Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- SRC Innovations, Chinook, Wash., has been assigned a patent (No. D640,853) developed by Steven R. Cullen, Chinook, Wash., for an ornamental design for a material conveyor. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a material conveyor, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on June 21, 2009 (D/338,930). 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=D640,853&OS=D640,853&RS=D640,853 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Contour Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Contour, Seattle, has been assigned a patent (No. D640,722) developed by eight co-inventors for an ornamental design for a digital video camera. The co-inventors are Jason Green, Seattle, Marc Barros, Bellevue, Wash., David Thorpe, Portland, Ore., Chunshik Kim, Portland, Ore., Felix Ballerstedt, Portland, Ore., David Randall Knaub, Portland, Ore., Oved Valadez, Portland, Ore., and Peter Kettering, Reinheim, Germany. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a digital video camera, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on Aug. 5, 2010 (D/367,294). 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=D640,722&OS=D640,722&RS=D640,722 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Symantec Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Symantec, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,971,060) developed by Milan Shah, Issaquah, Wash., and Khaled W. Hassounah, Boston, for a "system and method for add-on services, secondary authentication, authorization and/or secure communication for dialog based protocols and systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention relates generally to a system and method that provides add-on services and/or facilitates authentication, authorization and/or secure communications of a user using a dialog based interactive protocol and accessing a first computer system, separately from the authentication and security mechanism(s) provided by a second computer system using a dialog based interactive protocol system." The patent application was filed on Sept. 26, 2007 (11/861,283). 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=7,971,060.PN.&OS=PN/7,971,060&RS=PN/7,971,060 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Mikron Industries Assigned Patent for Window Component Extrusion ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Mikron Industries, Kent, Wash., has been assigned a patent (No. D640,801) developed by Timothy Todd Wickland, Auburn, Wash., for an ornamental design for a window component extrusion. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a window component extrusion, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on May 29, 2010 (D/370,060). 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=D640,801&OS=D640,801&RS=D640,801 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,971,056) developed by William J. Westerinen, Sammamish, Wash., and Todd L. Carpenter, Monroe, Wash., for a "direct memory access for compliance checking." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer is configured for either full operation with metering or limited mode operation. When in limited mode operation, the system memory may be partitioned into active and restricted memory. The active memory may be limited to an amount needed to execute a limited mode operation application. The remaining restricted memory may be made inaccessible to the computer's processor. To verify the restricted memory remains unused, it may be filled with a pattern and the pattern periodically verified to determine that unauthorized programs are not using the restricted memory." The patent application was filed on Dec. 18, 2006 (11/612,433). 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=7,971,056.PN.&OS=PN/7,971,056&RS=PN/7,971,056 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Clingo.com Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Clingo.com, Ferndale, Wash., has been assigned a patent (D640,681) developed by Scott Baumann, Anacortes, Wash., and Brian Wheeler, Bellingham, Wash., for an ornamental design for a mount. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a mount, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on Dec. 8, 2009 (D/348,211). 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=D640,681.PN.&OS=PN/D640,681&RS=PN/D640,681 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** NVIDIA Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- NVIDIA, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,971,045) developed by Andrew Currid, Alameda, Calif., and Mark A. Overby, Bothell, Wash., for a "system and method for selecting a network boot device using a hardware class identifier." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the invention provide a method for selecting a network boot device using a hardware class identifier. Generally, embodiments of the invention enable a diskless client to communicate a hardware class identifier in a network connection request. The hardware class identifier is used to determine the proper boot server to provide a boot image to the diskless client." The patent application was filed on Dec. 15, 2006 (11/611,820). 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=7,971,045.PN.&OS=PN/7,971,045&RS=PN/7,971,045 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** California, Washington Inventors Develop Patent for Maintaining Instruction Coherency in a Translation-based Computer System Architecture ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Guillermo Rozas, Los Gatos, Calif., and David Dunn, Sammamish, Wash., have developed a patent (7,971,002) for a "maintaining instruction coherency in a translation-based computer system architecture." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for maintaining instruction coherency in a translation-based computer system architecture are described. A translation coherence cache memory can be used to store a memory page reference that identifies a memory page. The cache memory also stores a permission bit corresponding to the memory page reference. The permission bit indicates whether the memory page comprises code that has been translated into another form." The patent application was filed on April 7, 2005 (11/102,538). 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=7,971,002.PN.&OS=PN/7,971,002&RS=PN/7,971,002 Written by Ankita Das; edited by Jaya Anand. *** EMC Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,971,021) developed by four co-inventors for "systems and methods for managing stalled storage devices." The co-inventors are Asif Daud, Issaquah, Wash., Tyler A. Akidau, Seattle, Ilya Maykov, Seattle, and Aaron J. Passey, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments relate to systems and methods for managing stalled storage devices of a storage system. In one embodiment, a method for managing access to storage devices includes determining that a first storage device, which stores a first resource, is stalled and transitioning the first storage device to a stalled state. The method also includes receiving an access request for at least a portion of the first resource while the first storage device is in the stalled state and attempting to provide access to a representation of the portion of the first resource from at least a second storage device that is not in a stalled state. In another embodiment, a method of managing access requests by a thread for a resource stored on a storage device includes initializing a thread access level for an access request by a thread for the resource. The method also includes determining whether the storage device, which has a device access level, is accessible based at least in part on the thread access level and the device access level and selecting a thread operation based at least in part on the determination of whether the storage device is accessible. The thread operation may be selected from attempting the thread access request if the device is accessible and determining whether to restart the thread access request if the device is not accessible." The patent application was filed on Dec. 16, 2010 (12/970,795). 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=7,971,021.PN.&OS=PN/7,971,021&RS=PN/7,971,021 Written by Ankita Das; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (D640,682) developed by five co-inventors for an ornamental design for a "face plate for an electronic housing." The co-inventors are Carl J. Ledbetter, Mercer Island, Wash., Dustin R. Brown, Chicago, John Ikeda, Seattle, Scott Harold Wilson, Chicago, and Claire M. Gerhardt, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a face plate for an electronic housing, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on June 1, 2010 (D/362,862). 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=D640,682.PN.&OS=PN/D640,682&RS=PN/D640,682 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Honeywell International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Honeywell International, Morristown, N.J., has been assigned a patent (D640,579) developed by Richard A. Olzak, Kirkland, Wash., and Gary Kersten, Duval, Wash., for an ornamental design for an "enclosure for information recorder and locator beacon." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for an enclosure for information recorder and locator beacon, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on June 5, 1998 (D/089,037). 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=D640,579.PN.&OS=PN/D640,579&RS=PN/D640,579 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. -1052669 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]