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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in New York (June 30)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in New York. *** New York Inventor Develops Patent for Pedometer Method and Apparatus ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- John V. Schabowski, Ithaca, N.Y., has developed a patent (7,970,568) for a "pedometer method and apparatus." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for detecting steps taken by a person in locomotion on foot having a step-detection apparatus carried on the person. The step-detection apparatus generates a signal in response to locomotion of the person. The signal is compared to the timing characteristics of human gait to identify steps taken. The step-detection apparatus can be carried in a front pants pocket of the person." The patent application was filed on April 4, 2006 (11/397,277). 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=7,970,568.PN.&OS=PN/7,970,568&RS=PN/7,970,568 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Lockheed Martin Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Lockheed Martin, Bethesda, Md., has been assigned a patent (7,970,506) developed by Stephen J. DeMarco, Binghamton, N.Y., Nader Mehravari, Ithaca, N.Y., and Robert J. Szczerba, Endicott, N.Y., for a "system for maintaining communication between teams of vehicles." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system maintains communication between a plurality of unmanned vehicles within an environment. The system includes a sensor component and an evaluator. The sensor component senses objects within the environment. The sensor component is located on a first unmanned vehicle. The evaluator evaluates data from the sensor component. The evaluator is located on the first unmanned vehicle. The evaluator compares data for the first unmanned vehicle and a second unmanned vehicle and determines whether a trajectory of one of the first and second unmanned vehicles may be modified to maintain communication between the first unmanned vehicle and the second unmanned vehicle." The patent application was filed on Jan. 19, 2006 (11/334,871). 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=7,970,506.PN.&OS=PN/7,970,506&RS=PN/7,970,506 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** University of New York Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- The University of New York, Albany, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,970,476) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for guiding movement of a freely roaming animal through brain stimulation." The co-inventors are John K. Chapin, Atlantic Beach, N.Y., Sanjiv K. Talwar, Brooklyn, N.Y., Shaohua Xu, Brooklyn, N.Y., and Emerson S. Hawley, Brooklyn, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Movement of a freely roaming animal (190), such as a rat, is guided using electric stimulation of the animal's brain. Cues are provided to the animal to move forward by stimulating a reward center of the brain. Cues are provided to the animal to change its direction by stimulating portions of the animal's brain that control right and left movements, such as a cortical representation of whiskers of the animal. Multi-channel, remotely controlled equipment (140, 145, 150, 350) may be carried by the animal to enable independent energizing of electrodes attached to different regions of the animal's brain. A transmitter carried by the animal may report back data to allow monitoring. A component may be carried by the animal for carrying out a mission, such as for search and rescue or surveillance. Groups of animals may be controlled in real-time by coordinating their movements and tracking their locations." The patent application was filed on Feb. 10, 2003 (10/361,441). 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=7,970,476.PN.&OS=PN/7,970,476&RS=PN/7,970,476 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Pacesetter Assigned Patent for Closed Loop Programming for Individual Adjustment of Electro-mechanical Synchrony ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Pacesetter, Sylmar, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,970,469) developed by Stuart O. Schecter, Great Neck, N.Y., for a "closed loop programming for individual adjustment of electro-mechanical synchrony." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An implantable therapy system including implantable stimulation and control components. The implantable components operate under a set of variable parameters that can be adjusted for improved performance for an individual patient. The implantable components are adapted to self-evaluate the patients physiologic performance and autonomously adjust an existing set of parameters to improve performance throughout an implantation period without requiring intervention of a clinician, for example with a physicians programmer. The implantable components can compare a patient's exhibited activity to a desired template of that activity to determine when adjustments are indicated. The template can be based on observations of one or more third parties exhibiting normal activity. The implantable components can adjust the operating parameters to improve synchrony of multiple heart chambers and/or to increase a peak contractility." The patent application was filed on May 26, 2010 (12/788,003). 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=7,970,469.PN.&OS=PN/7,970,469&RS=PN/7,970,469 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Reduced Overhead Address Mode Change Management in a Pipelined, Recycling Microprocessor ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,971,034) developed by seven co-inventors for a "reduced overhead address mode change management in a pipelined, recycling microprocessor." The co-inventors are David S. Hutton, Tallahassee, Fla., Michael Billeci, Tivoli, N.Y., Fadi Y. Busaba, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Brian R. Prasky, Wappingers Falls, N.Y., John G. Rell Jr., Saugerties, N.Y., Chung-Lung Kevin Shum, Wappingers Falls, N.Y., and Charles F. Webb, Wappingers Falls, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system, and computer program product for reduced overhead address mode change management in a pipelined, recycling microprocessor are provided. The recycling microprocessor includes logic executing thereon. The microprocessor also includes an instruction fetch unit (IFU) supporting computation of address adds in selected address modes and reporting non-equal comparison of the computation to the logic. The microprocessor further includes a fixed point unit determining whether the mode has changed and reporting changes to the logic. Upon determining the comparison yields an equal result but the mode has changed, a recycle event is triggered to ensure subsequent ofetches are relaunched in the correct mode and that no execution writebacks occur from work performed in an incorrect mode. For comparisons yielding a non-equal result and a changed mode, the logic clears bits set in response to the determinations, and a serialization event is taken to reset a corresponding pipeline for operation in the correct mode." The patent application was filed on March 19, 2008 (12/051,415). 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=7,971,034.PN.&OS=PN/7,971,034&RS=PN/7,971,034 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Verizon Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Verizon Business Global, Basking Ridge, N.J., Verizon Business Network Services, Basking Ridge, N.J., and Verizon, Berkshire, United Kingdom, have been assigned a patent (7,970,260) developed by Maxime G.G. Haot, New York, Richard G. Moore, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Sreenivas Rachamadugu, Leesburg, Va., for a "digital media asset management system and method for supporting multiple users." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An approach provides editing of digital media. A platform, as maintained by a service provider, provides a remote proxy editing capability of a plurality of media streams. A first one of the media streams is transmitted to a player of a first customer of the service provider. Further, the method comprises transmitting a second one of the media streams to a player of a second customer of the service provider." The patent application was filed on Sept. 7, 2006 (11/517,016). 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=7,970,260.PN.&OS=PN/7,970,260&RS=PN/7,970,260 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Limiting Entries in Load Issued Premature Part of Load Reorder Queue ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,971,033) developed by Erik R. Altman, Danbury, Conn., and Vijayalakshmi Srinivasan, New York, for "limiting entries in load issued premature part of load reorder queue searched to detect invalid retrieved values to between store safe and snoop safe pointers for the congruence class." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for reducing the number of load instructions in the load reorder queue (LRQ) that are searched when a load instruction is executed by a processor, including dispatching the load instructions; inserting the load instructions in the LRQ in program order; clearing a load received data field; executing the load instructions; checking load reorder queue (LRQ) entries; re-executing the load instruction of the matching LRQ entry; continuing execution; getting the load data; setting the load received data field; comparing a load sequence number (LSQN) of each load instruction to a snoop_safe register contents; ANDing all the load received data bits if the LSQN is greater in magnitude to the snoop_safe; setting the snoop_safe register to the LSQN of the load instruction; searching the LRQ entry; and setting a load_peril_snoop register to the LRQ index value where the first load instruction younger to the snoop_safe was found." The patent application was filed on July 14, 2008 (12/172,521). 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=7,971,033.PN.&OS=PN/7,971,033&RS=PN/7,971,033 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** InterDigital Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- InterDigital Technology, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (7,970,127) developed by Stephen G. Dick, Nesconset, N.Y., Nader Bolourchi, Larchmont, N.Y., and Sung-Hyuk Shin, Northvale, N.J., for an "user equipment identification specific scrambling." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A base station for use in a code division multiple access communication system comprises circuitry configured to process a user equipment identification (UE ID) by 1/2 rate convolutionally encoding the UE ID to produce a code. The code is used by the base station for scrambling a high speed shared control channel (HS-SCCH). The base station is configured to transmit a wireless signal. The wireless signal provides the user equipment with payload data carried on a high speed physical downlink shared channel (HS-PDSCH). The HS-PDSCH is associated with the HS-SCCH." The patent application was filed on May 18, 2009 (12/467,694). 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=79,70,127.PN.&OS=PN/79,70,127&RS=PN/79,70,127 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Xerox Assigned Patent for Methods, Apparatus and Systems to Compensate for Distortions Caused by Fusing ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Xerox, Norwalk, Conn., has been assigned a patent (7,970,301) developed by Paul J. DeGruchy, Hilton, N.Y., for "methods, apparatus and systems to compensate for distortions caused by fusing." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed are printing methods, apparatus and systems to compensate for distortion caused by fusing toner to a media substrate. According to one exemplary embodiment, the method includes processing image data according to media characterization data for a measured fuser temperature. The media characterization data provides a basis to compensate for media substrate shrinkage due to fusing the printed image on the media substrate." The patent application was filed on Nov. 21, 2008 (12/275,648). 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=79,70,301&OS=79,70,301&RS=79,70,301 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Eastman Kodak Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Eastman Kodak, Rochester, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,970,304) developed by Kenneth J. Brown, Penfield, N.Y., for a "method of improving developed flat field uniformity." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Flat field uniformity can be improved in images produced by an image development system having a development roller interposed between a supply of developer and an imaging element. A raw feed of developer is supplied from the developer supply to the development roller to produce both a metered feed of developer and an overfeed of developer, which is returned to the supply, from the raw feed. A plurality of mass densities of developer used in the system and a plurality of developer velocities through the system are determined, and respective product values of those developer mass densities and those developer velocities are thereafter calculated or otherwise determined. A maximum value of the respective product values is identified, and the image development system is then operated so that the maximum product value is produced." The patent application was filed on Dec. 12, 2008 (12/333,355). 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=79,70,304&OS=79,70,304&RS=79,70,304 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** State University of New York Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- State University of New York, Binghamton, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,970,168) developed by Jian Yao, Binghamton, N.Y., and Zhong Fei Zhang, Vestal, N.Y., for a "hierarchical static shadow detection method." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "There is provided a hierarchical shadow detection system for color aerial images. The system performs well with highly complex images as well as images having different brightness and illumination conditions. The system consists of two hierarchical levels of processing. The first level involves, pixel level classification, through modeling the image as a reliable lattice and then maximizing the lattice reliability using the EM algorithm. Next, region level verification, through further exploiting the domain knowledge is performed. Further analyses show that the MRF model based segmentation is a special case of the pixel level classification model. A quantitative comparison of the system and a state-of-the-art shadow detection algorithm clearly indicates that the new system is highly effective in detecting shadow regions in an image under different illumination and brightness conditions." The patent application was filed on Oct. 25, 2010 (12/911,485). 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=79,70,168.PN.&OS=PN/79,70,168&RS=PN/79,70,168 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Xerox Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Xerox, Norwalk, Conn., has been assigned a patent (7,970,295) developed by Keith L. Willis, Rochester, N.Y., for a "document processing system and method for adjustable print consumable refill level." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Document processing systems and methods are presented in which a graphical user interface is used to set a user-selectable refill level for a print engine consumable, such as toner, replenisher, paper, etc. Once the user-selectable level has been reached, the user is notified and is prompted to either refill the print consumable or to continue use of the document processing system without refilling." The patent application was filed on Jan. 28, 2008 (12/020,733). 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=79,70,295&OS=79,70,295&RS=79,70,295 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Xerox Assigned Patent for Oil less Fusing Using Nano/Micro Textured Fusing Surfaces ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Xerox, Norwalk, Conn., has been assigned a patent (7,970,332) developed by Kock-Yee Law, Penfield, N.Y., and Hong Zhao, Webster, N.Y., for an "oil less fusing using nano/micro textured fusing surfaces." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Exemplary embodiments provide a fixing member having a textured surface, and methods for making and using the textured fixing member. The fixing member can include a substrate having one or more functional layers formed thereon. The one or more functional layers can include an outermost or top surface having a surface wettability that is hydrophobic and/or oleophobic; ultrahydrophobic and/or ultraoleophobic; or superhydrophobic and/or superoleophobic by forming textured features. Such fixing member can be used as an oil-less fusing member for high speed, high quality electrophotographic printing to ensure and maintain a good toner release from the fused toner image on an image supporting material(e.g., a paper sheet), and further assist paper stripping. In addition, the textured surface can provide an oil-free, such as wax-free, toner design for the oil-less fixing process." The patent application was filed on June 30, 2008 (12/164,500). 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=79,70,332&OS=79,70,332&RS=79,70,332 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Xerox Assigned Patent for Fusers, Printing Apparatuses and Methods of Fusing Toner on Media ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Xerox, Norwalk, Conn., has been assigned a patent (7,970,330) developed by Anthony S. Condello, Webster, N.Y., and Augusto E. Barton, Webster, N.Y., for "fusers, printing apparatuses and methods of fusing toner on media." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Fusers, printing apparatuses and methods of fusing toner on media are disclosed. An exemplary embodiment of the fusers includes a pressure roll; a fuser belt; a nip formed by the fuser belt contacting the pressure roll, the nip including an inlet end where the medium enters the nip, an outlet end where the medium exits the nip, and a nip width defined between the inlet end and the outlet end; a mechanism for moving the pressure roll toward or away from the fuser belt to adjust the nip width; and a stripping member for stripping the medium from the fuser belt after the medium exits from the outlet end of the nip." The patent application was filed on Oct. 30, 2008 (12/261,680). 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=79,70,330&OS=79,70,330&RS=79,70,330 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Visual Background Subtraction with One or More Preprocessing Modules ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,970,229) developed by Jonathan H. Connell, Cortlandt Manor, N.Y., for a "method and apparatus for visual background subtraction with one or more preprocessing modules." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus are provided for visual background subtraction using one or more preprocessing modules. One or more effects are detected in a received image signal and one or more blocks are selectively enabled to preprocess the image signal to compensate for the detected one or more effects. Visual analysis is then performed on the preprocessed signal using background subtraction. A spatially-variant temporal smoothing of the image signal is also disclosed. The spatially-variant temporal smoothing can be achieved by the mixing of a new intensity value with a previous intensity time-average as determined by a weighting matrix. The mixing can be influenced by a dynamic bias term that is a real-time estimate of a variance at the pixel, such as a degree of change, and the weighting can be determined by a relative stability of an observed value compared to a stability of the time-average." The patent application was filed on May 28, 2008 (12/127,952). 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=7,970,229.PN.&OS=PN/7,970,229&RS=PN/7,970,229 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Harris Assigned Patent for a Electronic Device with a Distortion Correction Circuit for a Power Amplifier, and Associated Methods ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Harris, Melbourne, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,970,360) developed by Alexander X. Pei, Fairport, N.Y., for an "electronic device with a distortion correction circuit for a power amplifier, and associated methods." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An electronic device includes a radio frequency (RF) modulator, a power amplifier, and a distortion correction circuit coupled between the RF modulator and the power amplifier. The distortion correction circuit includes a variable gain amplifier coupled between the RF modulator and the power amplifier, and an amplitude correction control loop. The amplitude correction control loop includes a first logarithmic converter having an input coupled to the RF modulator, a second logarithmic converter having an input coupled to an output of the power amplifier, and a difference circuit coupled to outputs of the first and second logarithmic converters for controlling the gain of the variable gain amplifier for correcting distortion in an output signal from the power amplifier." The patent application was filed on Oct. 24, 2008 (12/257,490). 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=7,970,360.PN.&OS=PN/7,970,360&RS=PN/7,970,360 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Canon Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Canon, Tokyo, has been assigned a patent (7,970,100) developed by four co-inventors for a mammography apparatus. The co-inventors are Osamu Tsujii, Kawasaki, Japan, Masakazu Morishita, Hiratsuka, Japan, Masahiko Okunuki, Akiruno, Japan, and Satoshi Shimizu, Great Neck, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A mammography apparatus includes a detector that detects X-rays transmitted through a breast, and an optically transparent or semitransparent pressing panel for pressing the breast. The apparatus further includes a near infrared ray source that provided between the X-ray source and the pressing panel and arranged in a two-dimensional shape in alignment with the pressing panel, and that is movable between a first position in close contact with the pressing panel and a second position outside an X-ray image capture region. Near infrared image capture is carried out using the near infrared ray source by causing the near infrared ray source to be in the first position, and the near infrared ray source is caused to retract to the second position when carrying out X-ray image capture using the X-ray source." The patent application was filed on Oct. 9, 2009 (12/576,368). 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=7970100.PN.&OS=PN/7970100&RS=PN/7970100 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method and Computer Program Product for Selecting Among Multiple Provisioning Mechanisms in a Self-managing Computer System ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y, has been assigned a patent (7,970,904) developed by five co-inventors for a "method and computer program product for selecting among multiple provisioning mechanisms in a self-managing computer system." The co-inventors are Michael M. Behrendt, Boeblingen, Germany, Tamar Eilam, New York, Michael H. Kalantar, Chapel Hill, N.C., Alexander V. Konstantinou, New York, and John A. Pershing Jr., Cortlandt Manor, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer implemented method and a computer program product provide a provisioning system for automated provisioning of a computing infrastructure by providing relationship factories with resources of the computing infrastructure. The relationship factories include information necessary for establishing relationships within the computing infrastructure. The provisioning system ranks relationship factories according to suitability to provide for appropriate provisioning of new resources added to the computing infrastructure." The patent application was filed on May 12, 2008 (12/118,787). 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=7,970,904&OS=7,970,904&RS=7,970,904 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Xerox Assigned Patent for Peer-to-peer File Sharing System and Method Using Downloadable Data Segments ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Xerox, Norwalk, Conn., has been assigned a patent (7,970,835) developed by Robert St. Jacques, Fairport, N.Y., for a "peer-to-peer file sharing system and method using downloadable data segments." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A peer-to-peer filing sharing system and method are provided which allow peers in a P2P network system to download segments of a large file in indeterminate order, storing them in a database and making those segments available to other peers in the P2P network system. Given the possibility that only a few peers in the P2P network system may have a complete copy of the file at any given time, the potentially many peers each having a different subset of segments from the total file, can immediately make the segments available to other peers. Given a sufficient number of peers, and a reasonable amount of time, it is highly likely that a complete copy of the file will exist and be distributed throughout the P2P network system, even if the original provider disconnects from the P2P network system or by some other reason becomes unavailable." The patent application was filed on April 4, 2006 (11/397,163). 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=7,970,835&OS=7,970,835&RS=7,970,835 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Distribution of Intermediate Data in a Multistage Computer Application ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,970,884) developed by five co-inventors for a "distribution of intermediate data in a multistage computer application." The co-inventors are Claris Castillo, White Plains, N.Y., Mike Spreitzer, Croton On Hudson, N.Y., Malgorzata Steinder, Leonia, N.J., Asser N. Tantawi, Somers, N.Y., and Ian N. Whalley, Yorktown Heights, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system and computer program product for distributing intermediate data of a multistage computer application to a plurality of computers. In one embodiment, a data manager calculates data usage demand of generated intermediate data. A computer manager calculates a computer usage, which is the sum of all data usage demand of each stored intermediate data at the computer. A scheduler selects a target computer from the plurality of computers for storage of the generated intermediate data at such that a variance of the computer usage demand across the plurality of computers is minimized." The patent application was filed on Jan. 8, 2010 (12/684,273). 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=7,970,884&OS=7,970,884&RS=7,970,884 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** NewYork Inventor Develops Patent for Metasearching a Client's Request by Sending a Plurality of Queries to a Plurality of Social Networks for Displaying Different Lists on the Client ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Harvey Lunenfeld, East Northport, N.Y., has developed a patent (7,970,825) for a "metasearching a client's request by sending a plurality of queries to a plurality of social networks for displaying different lists on the client." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A process and system for metasearching on a distributed network activated by a request executed on a client device to request a metasearch engine to send a plurality of search queries to a plurality of social network server devices, each of the plurality of search queries comprising a keyword phrase, each of the keyword phrases comprising at least one keyword, at least two of the keyword phrases of the plurality of search queries being different from each other, comprising incorporating, by the metasearch engine, received search results into at least two different display lists corresponding to the at least two different keyword phrases, communicating a response comprising the at least two different display lists to the client device, optionally incorporating at least one advertisement associated with at least one of the at least two keyword phrases into the response and/or means for inputting and ordering at least one item." The patent application was filed on April 26, 2010 (12/767,751). 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=7,970,825&OS=7,970,825&RS=7,970,825 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Xerox Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Xerox, Norwalk, Conn., has been assigned a patent (7,970,838) developed by Kirk Pothos, Webster, N.Y., and Shawn Kammerdiener, Rochester, N.Y., for a "mobile remote device management." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A mail relay server decodes a received command electronic message to produce and issue a command to a service manager server which is directed to a device manager server for a target printing device. The device manager server produces and issues instructions to the target printing device. If the command includes a request for the reply, the process of executing the instruction in the target printing device includes the target printing device producing and issuing, the reply to the device manager server. The device manager server collects any multi packet reply and transmits the reply to the service manager server which directs the reply to the mail relay server. The mail relay server encodes the received reply to produce and issue a reply electronic message to the requestor." The patent application was filed on May 19, 2008 (12/122,992). 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=7,970,838&OS=7,970,838&RS=7,970,838 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Broadway Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Broadway Technology, New York, has been assigned a patent (7,970,823) developed by Tyler Moeller, New York, and Joshua Walsky, Brooklyn, N.Y., for a "system for sharing data objects among applications." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "System and method for sharing data objects among applications. A portion of the data messages includes data objects. A client library is coupled to a requesting application. A client library requests data objects of a data-object set. Requests from the client library are received and parsed by a set of code (SOC) that performs tasks so as to retrieve any matching data objects and cause the return of such matching data objects to the client library. A registration module registers subscriptions from or on behalf of the applications and an event notification module compares a data object in an event message with the subscriptions and notifies the subscribed applications in response. The system can respond to requests in either a query or a procedure call format." The patent application was filed on June 8, 2009 (12/479,998). 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=7,970,823&OS=7,970,823&RS=7,970,823 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Accenture Global Services Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Accenture Global Services, Dublin, Ireland, has been assigned a patent (7,970,767) developed by five co-inventors for "extraction of attributes and values from natural language documents." The co-inventors are Katharina Probst, Dyer, Ind., Rayid Ghani, Chicago, Andrew E. Fano, Lincolnshire, Ill., Marko Krema, Evanston, Ill., and Yan Liu, New York City, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "One or more classification algorithms are applied to at least one natural language document in order to extract both attributes and values of a given product. Supervised classification algorithms, semi-supervised classification algorithms, unsupervised classification algorithms or combinations of such classification algorithms may be employed for this purpose. The at least one natural language document may be obtained via a public communication network. Two or more attributes (or two or more values) thus identified may be merged to form one or more attribute phrases or value phrases. Once attributes and values have been extracted in this manner, association or linking operations may be performed to establish attribute-value pairs that are descriptive of the product. In a presently preferred embodiment, an (unsupervised) algorithm is used to generate seed attributes and values which can then support a supervised or semi-supervised classification algorithm." The patent application was filed on April 30, 2007 (11/742,244). 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=7,970,767&OS=7,970,767&RS=7,970,767 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method, System, and Storage Medium for Providing Web-based Electronic Research and Presentation Functions Via a Document Creation Application ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,970,774) developed by Edward E. Kelley, Wappingers Falls, N.Y., Tijs Y. Wilbrink, Voorburg, The Netherlands, and Ellis Zijlstra, Haarlem, The Netherlands, for a "method, system, and storage medium for providing web-based electronic research and presentation functions via a document creation application." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to a method, system, and storage medium for providing web-based electronic research and presentation functions via a document creation application. The method includes scanning an active document on a computer to identify relevant keywords, searching a database for reference materials relating to the relevant keywords, and displaying relevant reference materials on the computer. The method further includes deploying process software for providing the web-based electronic research and presentation functions via a document creation application. The deployment includes installing the process software on a server, identifying server addresses for users accessing the process software on the server, sending the process software to the server and copying the process software to a file system of the server. The deployment also includes sending the process software to a client computer and executing the process software on the client computer." The patent application was filed on April 18, 2008 (12/105,429). 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=7,970,774&OS=7,970,774&RS=7,970,774 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Computer Program Product for Database Query Optimization ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,970,757) developed by four co-inventors for a "computer program product for database query optimization." The co-inventors are Snehal S. Antani, Hyde Park, N.Y., Chon N. Lei, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Adarsh R. Pannu, San Jose, Calif., and Rajesh P. Ramachandran, Santa Clara, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer program product for database query optimization including a computer usable medium having a computer readable program, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a computer, causes the computer to receive a database query, search the database query for a literal term, replace the literal term in the database query with a placeholder term to put the database query in a template form, search a directory for a replacement query that corresponds to the database query in the template form, replace the database query with the replacement query and include the placeholder term in the replacement query, and replace the placeholder term in the replacement query with the corresponding literal term to put the replacement query in an executable format, wherein the replacement query is an optimized substitute for the database query." The patent application was filed on March 17, 2008 (12/049,644). 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=7,970,757&OS=7,970,757&RS=7,970,757 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Health Discovery Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Health Discovery, Savannah, Ga., has been assigned a patent (7,970,718) developed by five co-inventors for a "method for feature selection and for evaluating features identified as significant for classifying data." The co-inventors are Isabelle Guyon, Berkeley, Calif., Andre Elisseeff, Thalwil, Switzerland, Bernhard Schoelkopf, Tuebingen, Germany, Jason Aaron Edward Weston, New York, and Fernando Perez-Cruz, Madrid, Spain. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A group of features that has been identified as "significant" in being able to separate data into classes is evaluated using a support vector machine which separates the dataset into classes one feature at a time. After separation, an extremal margin value is assigned to each feature based on the distance between the lowest feature value in the first class and the highest feature value in the second class. Separately, extremal margin values are calculated for a normal distribution within a large number of randomly drawn example sets for the two classes to determine the number of examples within the normal distribution that would have a specified extremal margin value. Using p-values calculated for the normal distribution, a desired p-value is selected. The specified extremal margin value corresponding to the selected p-value is compared to the calculated extremal margin values for the group of features. The features in the group that have a calculated extremal margin value less than the specified margin value are labeled as falsely significant." The patent application was filed on Sept. 26, 2010 (12/890,705). 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=7,970,718&OS=7,970,718&RS=7,970,718 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II, Columbia University Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Atlanta, and Columbia University, New York, have been assigned a patent (7,970,822) developed by five co-inventors for a "multimedia integration description scheme, method and system for MPEG-7." The co-inventors are Ana Belen Benitez, New York, Shih-Fu Chang, New York, Qian Huang, Ocean, N.J., Seungyup Paek, New York, and Atul Puri, Riverdale, N.Y.. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The invention provides a system and method for integrating multimedia descriptions in a way that allows humans, software components or devices to easily identify, represent, manage, retrieve, and categorize the multimedia content. In this manner, a user who may be interested in locating a specific piece of multimedia content from a database, Internet, or broadcast media, for example, may search for and find the multimedia content. In this regard, the invention provides a system and method that receives multimedia content and separates the multimedia content into separate components which are assigned to multimedia categories, such as image, video, audio, synthetic and text. Within each of the multimedia categories, the multimedia content is classified and descriptions of the multimedia content are generated. The descriptions are then formatted, integrated, using a multimedia integration description scheme, and the multimedia integration description is generated for the multimedia content. The multimedia description is then stored into a database. As a result, a user may query a search engine which then retrieves the multimedia content from the database whose integration description matches the query criteria specified by the user. The search engine can then provide the user a useful search result based on the multimedia integration description." The patent application was filed on Feb. 17, 2009 (12/372,052). 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=7,970,822&OS=7,970,822&RS=7,970,822 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Methods and Apparatus for Data Stream Clustering for Abnormality Monitoring ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,970,772) developed by Charu C. Aggarwal, Ossining, N.Y., and Philip Shi-Lung Yu, Chappaqua, N.Y., for "methods and apparatus for data stream clustering for abnormality monitoring." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques for monitoring abnormalities in a data stream are provided. A plurality of objects are received from the data stream and one or more clusters are created from these objects. At least a portion of the one or more clusters have statistical data of the respective cluster. It is determined from the statistical data whether one or more abnormalities exist in the data stream." The patent application was filed on May 24, 2007 (11/753,232). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,970,772&OS=7,970,772&RS=7,970,772 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Google Assigned Patent for Entity Type Assignment ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,970,766) developed by four co-inventors for an entity type assignment. The co-inventors are Farhan Shamsi, Rego Park, N.Y., Alex Kehlenbeck, New York, David Vespe, New York, and Nemanja Petrovic, Plainsboro, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A repository contains objects including facts about entities. Objects may be of known or unknown entity type. An entity type assignment engine assigns entity types to objects of unknown entity type. A feature generation module generates a set of features describing the facts included with each object in the repository. An entity type model module generates an entity type model based on the sets of features generated for a subset of objects. An entity type model module generates entity type models, such as a classifier or generative models, based on the sets of features associated with objects of known entity type. An entity type assignment module generates a value based on the sets of features associated with an object of unknown entity type and the entity type model. This value indicates whether the object of unknown entity type is of a known entity type. An object update module stores the object to which the known entity type was assigned in the repository in association with the assigned entity type." The patent application was filed on July 23, 2007 (11/781,891). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,970,766&OS=7,970,766&RS=7,970,766 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method, System, and Storage Medium for Providing Web-based Electronic Research and Presentation Functions Via a Document Creation Application ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,970,775) developed by Edward E. Kelley, Wappingers Falls, N.Y., Tijs Y. Wilbrink, Voorburg, The Netherlands, and Ellis Zijlstra, Haarlem, The Netherlands, for a "method, system, and storage medium for providing web-based electronic research and presentation functions via a document creation application." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to a method and storage medium for providing web-based electronic research and presentation functions via a document creation application. The method includes scanning an active document on a computer to identify relevant keywords, searching a database for reference materials relating to the relevant keywords, and displaying relevant reference materials on the computer. The method further includes on-demand sharing of process software for providing the electronic research and presentation functions via the document creation application. The on-demand sharing includes creating a transaction containing unique customer identification, requested service type, and service parameters; sending the transaction to a server; querying the server about processing capacity associated with the server to help ensure availability of adequate resources for processing the transaction; and allocating additional processing capacity when needed to process the transaction." The patent application was filed on April 18, 2008 (12/105,446). 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=7,970,775&OS=7,970,775&RS=7,970,775 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Creditex Group Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Creditex Group, New York, has been assigned a patent (7,970,693) developed by Sunil G. Hirani, Bedford Corners, N.Y., and Mark A. Rowell, London, for "systems and methods for market order volume clearing in online trading of credit derivatives." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for market order volume clearing in online trading of credit derivatives are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for market order volume clearing may comprise: selecting, from a plurality of credit derivatives, at least one most liquid credit derivative; determining a volume clearing price level for the selected credit derivative; inviting trading clients of the electronic trading system to submit, within a time limit, buy orders and sell orders for the selected credit derivative at the volume clearing price level, each buy order or sell order specifying a desired volume; matching the buy orders and the sell orders submitted within the time limit to maximize a total notional amount of the selected credit derivative that can be traded at the volume clearing price level; and completing trades at the volume clearing price level according to the matching of orders." The patent application was filed on Aug. 25, 2008 (12/197,395). 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=7970693.PN.&OS=PN/7970693&RS=PN/7970693 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Goldman Sachs Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Goldman Sachs, New York, has been assigned a patent (7,970,681) developed by Tim Bridges, Summit, N.J., Mark Evans, New York, and Oliver Frankel, New York, for a "reduction of financial instrument volatility." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An earnings volatility reduction procedure includes determining a first sensitivity value of a portfolio to underlying market conditions, trading in an immunizing instrument having a second sensitivity value substantially equal in magnitude and opposite in value of the first sensitivity value, and trading in a qualifying instrument having a third sensitivity value substantially equal to the first sensitivity value. A derivative portfolio (in particular, one that includes a financial instrument for which changes in value are characterized as earnings pursuant to FAS 133) is structured by determining a sensitivity of the derivative portfolio with respect to financial conditions in a trading market, executing an immunizing purchase of a second trading instrument in an amount equal to the magnitude of the current sensitivity and opposite in value, and executing a qualifying sale of a third trading instrument in an amount equal to amount of the current sensitivity." The patent application was filed on Nov. 28, 2000 (09/723,694). 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=7970681.PN.&OS=PN/7970681&RS=PN/7970681 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Barclays Capital Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Barclays Capital, New York, has been assigned a patent (7,970,682) developed by Stephen Roti, Hewlett Neck, N.Y., Dmitry Noraev, New Providence, N.J., and Craig Sabal, New York, for "methods and systems for variable annuity risk management." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one aspect the invention comprises systems and methods for providing hedging against loss of value of a block of variable annuity policies to be sold, between the signing and closing dates of the transaction. In one embodiment, a purchase price adjustment grid (or formula) is used to adjust the purchase price for the sale of variable annuities between signing and closing dates as a result of changes in market parameters over that time period. One aspect comprising the steps of: (a) storing data representing at least one equity amount table having a horizontal axis corresponding to a first variable and a vertical axis corresponding to a second variable; (b) receiving a first value of the first variable and a second value of the second variable; and (c) calculating a table amount based on a bilinear interpolation of quantities in the equity amount table." The patent application was filed on May 30, 2006 (11/443,875). 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=7970682.PN.&OS=PN/7970682&RS=PN/7970682 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** BGC Partners Assigned Patent for System and Method for Managing Trading Orders with Decaying Reserves ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- BGC Partners, New York, has been assigned a patent (7,970,680) developed by Joseph C. Noviello, New York, for a "system and method for managing trading orders with decaying reserves." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system comprises a memory operable to store a trading order for a particular quantity of a trading product, wherein a first portion of the particular quantity is a displayed quantity and a second portion of the particular quantity is a reserved quantity. The system further comprises a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and operable to disclose the displayed quantity to one or more market centers. The processor is further operable to identify a decay rate associated with the trading order. The processor is further operable to cause the reserved quantity to decay based at least in part on the identified decay rate." The patent application was filed on Nov. 19, 2010 (12/950,111). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7970680.PN.&OS=PN/7970680&RS=PN/7970680 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Bank of America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Bank of America, Charlotte, N.C., has been assigned a patent (7,970,675) developed by four co-inventors for a "security receipts management system." The co-inventors are Stephen G. Bodurtha, Stamford, Conn., Satyanarayan Chada, New York, Mitchell M. Cox, Towaco, N.J., and Thomas W. Lee, Levittown, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer system for managing, creating, and support of a novel investment instrument, known as a Security Receipt. This receipt provides translation of ownership of plural underlying securities to the holder of the receipt in a seamless and efficient way. The system permits enhanced security creation, and orderly support to facilitate liquidity and market trading of the Security Receipt." The patent application was filed on Feb. 27, 2007 (11/712,859). 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=7970675.PN.&OS=PN/7970675&RS=PN/7970675 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** BGC Partners Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- BGC Partners, New York, has been assigned a patent (7,970,695) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for providing latency protection for trading orders." The co-inventors are Peter Bartko, Warwick, N.Y., John Robert Capuano, Chatham, N.J., Joseph C. Noviello, Summit, N.J., and Brian Alexander Weston, Katonah, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for managing trading orders comprises a memory operable to store an order associated with a first price. The system further comprises a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and operable to identify a latency value. The processor is further operable to receive a counterorder and to identify a potential trade associated with the order and the counterorder, the potential trade based at least in part on the first price. If the latency value satisfies a configurable condition, the processor is further operable to initiate a configurable period of time. If the potential trade is not valid upon expiration of the configurable period, the processor is further operable to prevent the execution of the potential trade." The patent application was filed on Jan. 15, 2010 (12/687,938). 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=7970695.PN.&OS=PN/7970695&RS=PN/7970695 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Ganz Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Ganz, Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada, has been assigned a patent (7,970,663) developed by Howard Ganz, North York, Canada, and Karl Joseph Borst, Toronto, for a "method of calculating an estimated market value of a character." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "There is provided a character training and development system for a virtual environment and related method. A character can be purchased by a user and then registered on a communication network via a unique code. Once registered, a set of attributes can be assigned to the character based on the type and class of the character. Attribute values can be assigned to the attributes by default or by user preferences. The characters can be manipulated within the virtual environment. In particular, the characters can be trained in order to improve their skills, to add new skills, and to increase their overall value and worth in the virtual environment. In addition, the characters can be traded among users for a price based on their skills. Fees can be charged for each trade. Traded characters are given a new code to transfer all control of the character to the new owner." The patent application was filed on Aug. 14, 2007 (11/838,641). 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=7970663.PN.&OS=PN/7970663&RS=PN/7970663 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** American Express Travel Related Services Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- American Express Travel Related Services, New York, has been assigned a patent (7,970,673) developed by eight co-inventors for a "method, apparatus, and computer program product for repository data maximization." The co-inventors are Renee Epple, Chester, N.Y., Will C. Frampton, Scottsdale, Ariz., Liz A. Fuller, Phoenix, Andrew M. Grogger, Scottsdale, Ariz., Marcel Leyva, Chandler, Ariz., Joya A. Mukherjee, New York, Sally L. Niblock, Phoenix, and Martin J. Preciado, Warwick, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A financial institution may use the bank routing and account number information (ABA/DDA) of a checking account or the like, obtained from paper checks previously submitted by a customer, in an electronic payment program. When a customer who has previously paid a credit balance by check, for example, wants to enroll in the electronic payment program, an abbreviated enrollment process is provided in which the consumer only enters a portion of bank routing information, instead of having to enter the full ABA/DDA as in the standard enrollment procedure. In some cases, the customer may leave such information blank and needs only to confirm that the stored bank account information corresponds to the account being used for the electronic payment." The patent application was filed on Oct. 31, 2005 (11/261,437). 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=7970673.PN.&OS=PN/7970673&RS=PN/7970673 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Oltine Acquistitions NY Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Oltine Acquistitions NY, Dover, Del., has been assigned a patent (7,970,626) developed by seven co-inventors for "facilitating payments to health care providers." The co-inventors are Christopher P. Cracchiolo, Manalapan, N.J., Jason S. Jagatic, Hoboken, N.J., Ahana M. Kalappa, New York, Mark C. Keck, New York, Shari Pincock, West Jordan, Utah, Todd H. Reynders, Westfield, N.J., and Sunil Sachdev, Forest Hills, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer-implemented method to facilitate a purchase comprising: receiving, at a first host computer, a request from a provider for payment authorization for a charge to a purchaser; examining a database coupled to the first host computer for information concerning the purchaser; providing the information concerning the purchaser to a second host computer associated with the provider; receiving at the first host computer information from a third host computer concerning a negotiated amount of the charge to the purchaser; tendering payment of the negotiated charge to the provider; and withdrawing an amount no greater than the negotiated amount of the charge from an account of the purchaser." The patent application was filed on Dec. 29, 2005 (11/275,403). 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=7970626.PN.&OS=PN/7970626&RS=PN/7970626 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** New York Inventor Develops Patent for Apparatus and Method for Providing and/or for Fulfilling Subscription Services ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Raymond Anthony Joao, Yonkers, N.Y., has developed a patent (7,970,646) for an "apparatus and method for providing and/or for fulfilling subscription services." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer-implemented method, including receiving a request to receive or pick-up a good, a service, or a printed issue of at least one of a periodical, a newspaper, and a magazine, at a retail facility or a store pursuant to a subscription, processing information regarding the request with a processing device, wherein the processing device determines whether the subscription is active or not active or determines whether any good, any service, or any issue or any 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. -1052769 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |