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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Texas (July 14)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Texas. *** Applied Optoelectronics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Applied Optoelectronics, Sugar Land, Texas, has been assigned a patent (7,978,985) developed by Jun Zheng, Houston, for a "clipping correction system and method for correcting clipped signals in a receiver." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for restoring a clipped signal may be used in an optical receiver that detects a clipped modulated optical signal. The clipped modulated optical signal is detected to produce a clipped electrical signal including a series of clipped negative peaks and corresponding positive peaks. The clipped signal may be corrected by detecting at least one trigger peak preceding one or more clipped negative peaks to be restored and generating a replacement tip signal segment for the clipped negative peak(s) to be restored. The replacement tip signal segment may be combined with the clipped electrical signal such that the replacement tip signal segment coincides with a clipped end of the clipped negative peak to be restored to produce a restored negative peak." The patent application was filed on May 8, 2008 (12/117,721). 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=79,78,985&OS=79,78,985&RS=79,78,985 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** D4D Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- D4D Technologies, Richardson, Texas, has been assigned a patent (7,978,892) developed by four co-inventors for a "3D photogrammetry using projected patterns." The co-inventors are Mark S. Quadling, Plano, Texas, Henley S. Quadling, Dallas, Ye Li, Plano, Texas, and Andrei Tchouprakov, Plano, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A structured light pattern digitizing method is combined with photogrammetry to determine a 3D model of an object. The structured light digitizing operation generates a 3D model of the object being scanned, and this model is then used to compute a higher accuracy model using photogrammetry." The patent application was filed on Oct. 24, 2007 (11/923,297). 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=7,978,892.PN.&OS=PN/7,978,892&RS=PN/7,978,892 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** First Data Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- First Data, Greenwood Village, Colo., has been assigned a patent (7,978,901) developed by Tamila Barron, League City, Texas, Bruce Dragt, Highlands Ranch, Colo., and Daniel Ahles, Houston, for a "centralized processing of checks for distributed merchant locations." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "According to one embodiment of the invention, a system can be provided to detect fraudulent activity occurring during check processing. Such fraudulent activity can be detected for example by monitoring the electronic check imaging process and performing checks on the data to determine anomalous occurrences that are indicative of fraudulent transactions." The patent application was filed on Dec. 17, 2007 (11/957,900). 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=7,978,901.PN.&OS=PN/7,978,901&RS=PN/7,978,901 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Freescale Semiconductor Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Freescale Semiconductor, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (7,978,796) developed by Brian T. Kelley, San Antonio, for "recovering symbols in a communication receiver." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods of recovering symbols and corresponding communication receivers including dual receivers configured to perform the method, where the method comprises: sampling a received signal that includes interference to provide received samples; determining a plurality of high power symbols and determining alternate symbols for a portion of the plurality of high power symbols based on the received samples and based on known training symbols; and deriving a sequence of recovered symbols corresponding to the received samples based on the received samples and augmented training symbols, the augmented training symbols comprising the known training symbols augmented by the plurality of high power symbols with one or more alternate symbols replacing a corresponding one or more high power symbols." The patent application was filed on July 31, 2008 (12/221,548). 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=79,78,796.PN.&OS=PN/79,78,796&RS=PN/79,78,796 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,978,795) developed by Bruce Currivan, Dove Canyon, Calif., Loke Tan, Newport Coast, Calif., and Thomas Kolze, Phoenix, for a "fast automatic gain control." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus comprising a slicer configured to produce a symbol decision value and a symbol error value utilizing, at least in part, a slicer input signal; and an automatic gain controller configured to facilitate the automatic control of a gain applied to the slicer input signal by producing a gain control signal, the automatic gain controller comprising a decision-directed amplitude error detector configured to utilize, at least in part, the symbol decision value and the symbol error value to produce an amplitude error signal, and a loop filter configured to utilize the amplitude error signal to produce the gain control signal." The patent application was filed on Nov. 27, 2007 (11/945,288). 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=79,78,795.PN.&OS=PN/79,78,795&RS=PN/79,78,795 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Schlumberger Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Schlumberger Technology, Sugar Land, Texas, has been assigned a patent (7,978,804) developed by Joel L. Groves, Leonia, N.J., and Harold Pfutzner, Richmond, Texas, for a "low power neutron generators." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A neutron generator and method of constructing the same. The generator includes a grid configured to produce an ionizable gas when heated by electrons impinging thereon. A cathode emits electrons to heat the grid and to collide with produced ionizable gas atoms to generate ions. Neutrons are generated from a collision of ions impinging on a target in the generator. A tool for subsurface use incorporating the neutron generator." The patent application was filed on Dec. 10, 2007 (11/953,333). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=79,78,804.PN.&OS=PN/79,78,804&RS=PN/79,78,804 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Notifying Users When Messaging Sessions Are Recorded ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,979,489) developed by Michael Wayne Brown, Austin, Texas, Rabindranath Dutta, Austin, Texas, and Michael A. Paolini, Austin, Texas, for "notifying users when messaging sessions are recorded." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system and program for notifying users when messaging sessions are recorded are provided. In response to receiving a request to record a messaging session, a requested selection of multiple message entries associated with the messaging session are recorded. Then, multiple users participating in the messaging session are notified of the recording of the requested selection of the multiple message entries from the messaging session. In particular, the output of the messaging session is adjusted for each of the multiple users to distinguish a selection from among the multiple message entries being recorded." The patent application was filed on April 28, 2007 (11/741,743). 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=7,979,489&OS=7,979,489&RS=7,979,489 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method and System for Splitting a Bandwidth Among a Plurality of Network Transactions ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,979,547) developed by Kulvir S. Bhogal, Fort Worth, Texas, Nizamudeen Ishmael Jr., Austin, Texas, and Javid Jameossanaie, Austin, Texas, for a "method and system for splitting a bandwidth among a plurality of network transactions." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The invention provides a method of splitting bandwidth among a plurality of network transactions. First, a communication requesting a priority for a network transaction is displayed. Second, an input indicating the priority of the bandwidth is received." The patent application was filed on Jan. 31, 2002 (10/062,328). 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=7,979,547&OS=7,979,547&RS=7,979,547 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Texas Inventor Develops Patent for Priori Probability and Probability of Error Estimation for Adaptive Bayes Pattern Recognition ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- Thomas Cecil Minter, Coldspring, Texas, has developed a patent (7,979,363) for a "priori probability and probability of error estimation for adaptive bayes pattern recognition." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for estimating the a priori probability of a class-of-interest in an input-data-set and a system and method for evaluating the performance of the adaptive Bayes classifier in classifying unlabeled samples from an input-put-data-set. The adaptive Bayes classifier provides a capability to classify data into two classes, a class-of-interest or a class-other, with minimum classification error in an environment where a priori knowledge, through training samples or otherwise, is only available for a single class, the class-of-interest. This invention provides a method and system for estimating the a priori probability of the class-of-interest in the data set to be classified and evaluating adaptive Bayes classifier performance in classifying data into two classes, a class-of-interest and a class-other, using only labeled training samples, or otherwise, from the class-of-interest and unlabeled samples from the data set to be classified." The patent application was filed on March 6, 2008/ (12/074,901). 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=7,979,363&OS=7,979,363&RS=7,979,363 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,979,548) developed by seven co-inventors for a "hardware enforcement of logical partitioning of a channel adapter's resources in a system area network." The co-inventors are Richard Louis Arndt, Austin, Texas, Bruce Leroy Beukema, Hayfield, Minn., David F. Craddock, New Paltz, N.Y., Ronald Edward Fuhs, Rochester, Minn., Thomas Anthony Gregg, Highland, N.Y., Donald William Schmidt, Stone Ridge, N.Y., and Bruce Marshall Walk, Rochester, Minn. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system are disclosed for logically partitioning resources of a single channel adapter for use in a system area network. Each resource includes a partition identifier register within which is stored a partition identifier. A first one of the resources is assigned to a first partition by storing a first partition identifier in the partition identifier register within the first one of the resources. A second one of the resources is assigned to a second partition by storing a second partition identifier in the partition identifier register within the second one of the resources. Partitioning of the resources is enforced by permitting access to the first resource by only the first partition and permitting access to the second resource by only the second partition by checking the partition identifiers of each resource." The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2003 (10/674,985). 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=7,979,548&OS=7,979,548&RS=7,979,548 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method, Apparatus and Program Product for Managing Composite Resource Models Used to Monitor Composite Resources ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,979,541) developed by Rhonda L. Childress, Austin, Texas, David Bruce Kumhyr, Austin, Texas, and Neil Raymond Pennell, Cedar Creek, Texas, for a "method, apparatus and program product for managing composite resource models used to monitor composite resources." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A mechanism and model are provided for representing and managing composite resource models. When a resource monitor is deployed for a resource, the resource monitor scans for information that indicates that the resource under monitoring is part of a cluster, grid, or other composite configuration. The resource monitor then determines whether monitoring information for the resource should be reported differently because of the composite configuration. If monitoring information for the resource is to be reported differently, the resource monitor alters the reporting format to reflect the composite resource model. The resource manager may then receive the monitoring information and apply this information to individual resources and aggregates the monitoring information for composite resources." The patent application was filed on Jan. 12, 2009 (12/352,248). 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=7,979,541&OS=7,979,541&RS=7,979,541 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines for Redirecting Web Downloads ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,979,538) developed by four co-inventors for Redirecting web downloads. The co-inventors are Travis M. Grigsby, Austin, Texas, Thomas J. Freund, Austin, Texas, Albert Andrus Lamb, Somerville, Mass., and Lee Michael Surprenant, Cary, N.C. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "One or more downloads of web content from one or more web content servers are monitored. A swarm is defined including one or more previous downloaders of the web content from the one or more web content servers. The one or more previous downloaders of the web content include one or more web content caches including at least a portion of the web content. Stored web content within the one or more web content caches of the swarm is tracked. A new downloader of the one or more web content servers is redirected to the one or more web content caches of the swarm.." The patent application was filed on June 23, 2008 (12/178,052). 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=7,979,538&OS=7,979,538&RS=7,979,538 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent for Deferred Invocation of Communication Services ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,979,523) developed by four co-inventors for "deferred invocation of communication services." The co-inventors are David Ladd, Lisle, Ill., Narasimha R. Rachumallu, Parsippany, N.J., Aeryung Moon, Warren, N.J., Leo Nieuwesteeg, Plano, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, a network device determines one or more conditions for invoking one or more real applications to the network device for a session. This determination may be made at the initiation of the session, such as when a SIP INVITE message is received. The one or more conditions allow real applications to be invoked when a future event satisfies the condition. When it is determined that a condition is satisfied, a real application associated with the condition is then invoked. Accordingly, conditions may be set for real applications that may be tested against future events that have not yet occurred. This allows deferred invocation of real applications. Accordingly, if real applications are not needed for a session, then they are not invoked. But, when a real application is needed, it can be invoked." The patent application was filed on May 8, 2007 (11/745,781). 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=7,979,523&OS=7,979,523&RS=7,979,523 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Compress Transaction Data Using Serial Micro-trends ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,979,406) developed by Byron C. Gehman, Round Rock, Texas, and Kirk M. Sexton, Austin, Texas, for a "compress transaction data using serial micro-trends." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Compressing transaction data is provided. A current transaction data point is received. A determination is made as to whether the current transaction data point is a first transaction data point or a subsequent transaction data point of a set of transaction data points for a current variable length aggregation record. A further determination is made as to whether the subsequent transaction data point is within a predetermined tolerance of a predicted transaction data point in response to the current transaction data point being the subsequent transaction data point. The subsequent transaction data point is compressed into the current variable length aggregation record in response to the subsequent transaction data point falling within the predetermined tolerance of the predicted transaction data point." The patent application was filed on June 16, 2008 (12/139,899). 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=7,979,406&OS=7,979,406&RS=7,979,406 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent for System and Method for Selectively Applying an Item Sortation Process ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (7,979,359) developed by Eric Young, Mercer Island, Wash., Arthur Valdez, Flower Mound, Texas, and Hong Tian, Seattle, for a "system and method for selectively applying an item sortation process." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various embodiments may include a shipping consolidation analyzer configured to determine whether a sortation process is to be applied to at least a subset of an item group at a facility. Such item group may include multiple items to be shipped to a common destination. Each item of the item group may be associated with a default non-sortable status. Such sortation process may include a process for indicating at least two items of the subset as consolidated for shipment. The shipping consolidation analyzer may, in response to determining that the sortation process is to be applied to the subset, generate an instruction such that the sortation process is applied at the materials handling facility to the subset of the item group." The patent application was filed on June 16, 2008 (12/139,839). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,979,359&OS=7,979,359&RS=7,979,359 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Southwest Research Institute Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, has been assigned a patent (7,979,288) developed by five co-inventors for an "automated interpretation of medical prescription text." The co-inventors are Jeff Wilkinson, San Antonio, William Arensman, San Antonio, Nathan Price, San Antonio, John Madrid, San Antonio, and Keith Pickens, San Antonio. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present disclosure relates to a device, system and method of automated interpretation of medical prescription text. Prescription text may be entered into a user interface that may be analogous to a paper prescription entry such as manually written text. The system may then provide parsing, prompts and/or hints along with validity feedback as the prescription information is entered by the user." The patent application was filed on Oct. 12, 2007 (11/871,909). 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=7979288.PN.&OS=PN/7979288&RS=PN/7979288 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Report Generation Method and System ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,979,302) developed by Kirsten S. Crysel, Kennesaw, Ga., and Lori Kay Simonson, Dallas, for a "report generation method and system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A report generation method and system. The system comprises a computing system comprising data. The computing system presents a first list comprising process categories for a plurality of processes. The computing system receives first selection of a process category from the first list. The computing system presents a second list comprising peer group options associated with the process categories. The computing system receives a second selection of at least one peer group option from the second list. The computing system retrieves a portion of from the data. The portion is associated with the first selection and the second selection. The computing system calculates a plurality of values for attributes associated with the first selection and the second selection. The computing system generates a report comprising the plurality of values." The patent application was filed on Oct. 17, 2006 (11/550,046). 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=7979302.PN.&OS=PN/7979302&RS=PN/7979302 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** MCI Communications Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- MCI Communications, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (7,979,518) developed by seven co-inventors for an "intelligent call platform for an intelligent distributed network." The co-inventors are Robert Barnhouse, Plano, Texas, Doug Cardy, Plano, Texas, Kelvin Porter, Dallas, Ken Rambo, Allen, Texas, Carol Waller, Allen, Texas, Wendy Wong, Dallas, and George Yao, Plano, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A network management system communicates with a plurality of intelligent distributed network nodes. The network management system dynamically distributes managed objects across the plurality of intelligent distributed network nodes. Examples of managed objects distributed by the network management system include a service control managed object, a call control managed object, a bearer control managed object, and a resource proxy managed object." The patent application was filed on Sept. 14, 2004 (10/939,430). 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=7,979,518&OS=7,979,518&RS=7,979,518 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Advanced Micro Devices Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,979,304) developed by Don Lambert, Livermore, Calif., Sachin Master, San Jose, Calif., and Douglas Reed, Buda, Texas, for a "method of mapping dynamic market conditions to global manufacturing site analysis." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for automatically simulating the affect of a plurality of factors on the cost of goods sold (COGS) resulting from changes in the allocation of goods to be sold in a plurality of predetermined markets. A predetermined plurality of markets are defined, each of which is allocated a default percentage of total goods to be sold. A plurality of production sites are then defined, their associated cost factors determined, their respective output assigned to predetermined markets, and the weighted, average unit COGS for each market is then calculated. A defined market is then selected for sensitivity simulation and its associated sales allocation is iteratively decremented by a predetermined percentage for reallocation to other markets. Each market's weighted, average unit cost is recalculated after each iteration, and once reallocation is completed, the global, average unit COGS is calculated. The process is then repeated for other predetermined markets and the average rate of unit cost change is calculated. Candidate production sites are then defined, with their associated cost factors, and the process is repeated until market sensitivity simulation is completed. Unit COGS results are then generated and presented as a graphical representation of the sensitivity of the COGS to changes in the allocation of goods to be sold to one or more predetermined markets." The patent application was filed on Jan. 4, 2007 (11/619,633). 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=7979304.PN.&OS=PN/7979304&RS=PN/7979304 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method and System for Checking Availability of Automounted File Systems ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,979,409) developed by Christopher Frank Kime, Austin, Texas, for a "method and system for checking availability of automounted file systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, an apparatus, a system, and a computer program product are presented for determining whether a file system, which contains a file system resource that is to be the target of a file system operation, is currently mounted by a data processing system. A first kernel-level process obtains unique identifying information for a file system that contains the target file system resource, and a second kernel-level process manages a data structure having an entry for each file system that the kernel of the data processing system recognizes as being currently mounted. The data structure is searched by the first kernel-level process for an entry having information that matches the unique identifying information such that the first kernel-level process determines that the file system is mounted in response to finding an entry having information that matches the unique identifying information." The patent application was filed on July 29, 2008 (12/181,932). 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=7,979,409&OS=7,979,409&RS=7,979,409 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Cadence Design Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- Cadence Design Systems, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,979,262) developed by Srinivasan Iyengar, Round Rock, Texas, Abhijeet Kolpekwar, New Berlin, Wis., and Chandrashekar L. Chetput, Santa Clara, Calif., for a "method for verifying connectivity of electrical circuit components." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Connections between digital blocks and other circuit components, such as power supplies and clocks, are verified using a discrete property or object, such as a discrete discipline. A discrete discipline is defined for each value of an operating parameter, such as voltage or clock speed, that is used in a circuit design. Each discrete discipline is propagated throughout respective nets using bottom-up and/or top-down propagation. As a result, each digital net is associated with a power supply value through its corresponding discrete discipline. A determination is made whether two digital nets are connected to each other within the same digital island. If so, a determination is made whether the digital nets are compatible. If they have conflicting discrete disciplines, then they are not compatible and an error report or signal can be generated to identify the incompatibility and its location. Compatibility checks can disregard grounded digital nets. Verifications can be performed for both digital and mixed signal digital/analog designs without running simulations." The patent application was filed on March 9, 2006 (11/372,292). 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=7979262.PN.&OS=PN/7979262&RS=PN/7979262 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Viewpointe Archive Services Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- Viewpointe Archive Services, Charlotte, N.C, has been assigned a patent (7,979,352) developed by Patrick S. McMonagle, Niwot, Colo., Douglas G. Smith, Greer, S.C., and Richard L. Norman, Dallas, for a "centralized check image storage system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Centralized check image storage system. The present invention provides for sharing check images stored in a substantially centralized storage system between and/or among banks in support of the check collection process. In some embodiments, check images are received from the capture bank via a landing zone at the centralized storage facility. These images and information supporting the check collection process can be in the form of load file. A cross-reference file including information supporting the check clearing process such as unique handles identifying the check images is received from a paying bank, possibly also via a landing zone. Check images can be identified based on these unique handles, so that the check images can be made accessible to both the capture bank and the paying bank from the substantially centralized storage system." The patent application was filed on Sept. 24, 2004 (10/711,550). 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=7,979,352&OS=7,979,352&RS=7,979,352 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Schlumberger Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- Schlumberger Technology, Sugar Land, Texas, has been assigned a patent (7,979,240) developed by Lance I. Fielder, Sugar Land, Texas, for a "system and method for real-time monitoring and failure prediction of electrical submersible pumps." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present application relates to a system and method for real-time monitoring and failure prediction of electrical submersible pumps. The design includes generating a failure prediction value with a management system by calculating a percentage change of the respective first measurement values and the corresponding user-supplied stable operating values, the failure prediction value representing likelihood of failure of the electrical submersible pump." The patent application was filed on March 23, 2006 (11/308,420). 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=7979240.PN.&OS=PN/7979240&RS=PN/7979240 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. -1054224 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |