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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Washington (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 Washington. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Capturing Long-range Correlations in Patch Models ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,978,906) developed by Nebojsa Jojic, Redmond, Wash., and Vincent Cheung, Toronto, for a "capturing long-range correlations in patch models." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methodologies for modeling data in accordance with one or more embodiments disclosed herein are operable to receive input data, create data patches from the input data, obtain long-range correlations between the data patches, and model the input data as a patch model based at least in part on the data patches and the long-range correlations. Various learning algorithms are additionally provided for refining the patch model created in accordance with one or more embodiments disclosed herein. Further, systems and methodologies for synthesizing a patch model created in accordance with various aspects of the present invention with a set of test data to perform a transformation represented by the patch model on the test data are provided." The patent application was filed on June 14, 2007 (11/763,136). 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=7,978,906.PN.&OS=PN/7,978,906&RS=PN/7,978,906 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** RealNetworks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- RealNetworks, Seattle, has been assigned a patent (7,978,765) developed by Gregory J. Conklin, Seattle, for a "context-adaptive macroblock type encoding/decoding methods and apparatuses." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Macroblock types of macroblocks of a video picture are encoded by adaptively employing codewords of codeword tables, based at least in part on one or more macroblock type related characteristics of one or more neighboring macroblocks of interest. The codewords may be variable in length. The one or more macroblock type characteristics may include a most common macroblock type characteristic of the neighboring macroblocks of interest. The adaptive employment of the codeword tables may be further based on a picture type of the picture of which the macroblocks are members. Decoding may be performed in an inverse manner." The patent application was filed on March 12, 2003 (10/508,597). 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=79,78,765.PN.&OS=PN/79,78,765&RS=PN/79,78,765 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Associating Security Trimmers with Documents in an Enterprise Search System ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,979,458) developed by Mark Jeremy Zeller, Bellevue, Wash., Arshish Cyrus Kapadia, Issaquah, Wash., and Shajan Dasan, Sammamish, Wash., for "associating security trimmers with documents in an enterprise search system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and computer-readable media are provided for associating security trimmers with documents in an enterprise search system. According to one method, a search index is maintained that includes one or more document identifiers corresponding to documents stored at back-end computing systems. Each document identifier in the search index is associated with one or more security trimmer implementations. When a query request is received from a user, the search index is queried to identify documents referenced by the search index that match search terms provided with the query request. For each document that matches the search terms, the associated security trimmer implementations are identified and executed to retrieve the access rights to view the document for the current user from the back-end computing system where the document is stored." The patent application was filed on Jan. 16, 2007 (11/653,518). 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=7,979,458&OS=7,979,458&RS=7,979,458 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Prescriptive Architecture Recommendations ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,979,520) developed by five co-inventors for a prescriptive architecture recommendations. The co-inventors are Jonathan C. Hardwick, Kirkland, Wash., Efstathios Papaefstathiou, Redmond, Wash., David E Guimbellot, Bellevue, Wash., John M Oslake, Seattle, Mass., and Pavel A Dournov, Redmond, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A prescribed system architecture is recommended to an entity that desires to implement a system supporting distributed applications. A performance scenario is created based on anticipated usage, devices employed by servers running the distributed applications, and topology of locations using the servers. An optimized scenario may be provided by determining device optimization, different use load, and if possible consolidation of distributed applications on servers." The patent application was filed on April 15, 2005 (11/107,657). 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=7,979,520&OS=7,979,520&RS=7,979,520 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Automated Acquisition and Configuration of Goods and Services Via a Network ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,979,320) developed by six co-inventors for an "automated acquisition and configuration of goods and services via a network." The co-inventors are Dean P. Paron, Bellevue, Wash., Huseyin Gok, Redmond, Wash., Kevin T. Damour, Bellevue, Wash., Leszek Mazur, Bellevue, Wash., Lingan Satkunanathan, Kirkland, Wash., and Neil Scott Fishman, Bothell, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer performs a method of communicating with a referral server to identify configurables available to the computer based on the computer's location and at least one other factor. The computer receives a list of provider servers selected by the referral server for referring to the computer because the provider servers on the list auto-configure configurables in the computer's location and according to the at least one other factor. The method communicates with a provider server selected from the list to purchase a selected configurable and to auto-configure the computer's computing environment to operate the selected configurable. The method communicates with the referral server to provide a metric about the provider server's performance during purchase and auto-configure." The patent application was filed on Aug. 15, 2006 (11/464,823). 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=7979320.PN.&OS=PN/7979320&RS=PN/7979320 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Medio Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- Medio Systems, Seattle, has been assigned a patent (7,979,461) developed by Michael Libes, Bainbridge, Wash., and Nicolas Pottier, Seattle, for an extended index searching. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Processing a query involves directing the query to an extended index database, the extended index database comprising a core database and one or more supplemental indexes, wherein the query seeks an item. Directing the query for processing includes determining if the sought item is located within the core database and, if the item is not determined to be located in the core database, then determining if the item is located in one or more of the supplemental indexes, and returns a query result. The returned result may comprise any one of three responses, including a response that indicates the item is located in the core database, or a response that indicates that the item was not located in the core database but was located in one or more of the supplemental indexes, or a response that indicates that the item was not located at all." The patent application was filed on Feb. 15, 2007 (11/675,514). 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=7,979,461&OS=7,979,461&RS=7,979,461 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,979,324) developed by Viswanath Vadlamani, Sammamish, Wash., for a virtual catalog. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Records, including data for a virtual catalog, may be received from a number of sources. Each of the received records may be validated and a determination may be made as to whether one or more previously-received records matches the received record. When two or more records are determined to be matching records, a composite object may be created and information from the two or more records may be included in the composite object. If the matching records include conflicting information, then previously-defined rules may be applied to determine which items of the conflicting information have precedence over other items of the conflicting information. A virtual catalog may be created from the received records and the created composite object based on customized attributes." The patent application was filed on Feb. 27, 2007 (11/711,372). 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=7979324.PN.&OS=PN/7979324&RS=PN/7979324 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,979,477) developed by Michael J. McCormack, Snohomish, Wash., Timothy E. Getsch, Redmond, Wash., and Paul Karimov, Redmond, Wash., for a "placeholder control for updating database object." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Updating a graphical database object in a database via a placeholder control is provided. After a database recordset schema or schema is updated, a determination is made as to whether anew field is to be added to the graphical database object in response to the recordset schema or schema change. If a new field is to be added, the new field is automatically added to the graphical database object. The new field may be positioned to a place in the graphical database object as directed by a user or editor of the database object. The graphical database object may be displayed with the new field as positioned based on the recordset schema or schema change." The patent application was filed on March 15, 2008 (12/049,306). 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=7,979,477&OS=7,979,477&RS=7,979,477 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,979,549) developed by four co-inventors for a "network supporting centralized management of QoS policies." The co-inventors are Dennis G. Frost, Kirkland, Wash., Eric K. Han, Seattle, Khawar M. Zuberi, Bellevue, Wash., and Shuangtong Feng, Redmond, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer system that implements a quality of service policy. Information defining the quality of service policy is stored in a central location, such as a server within an enterprise. Policy management software on clients in the network download quality of service policy information from the central location to the clients. Within a client, a portion of the policy information is selected based on its applicability to a particular connection. The selected information is cached with an association to the connection so that, as datagrams are generated for transmission over the network, relevant policy information is quickly accessed for use in controlling transmission characteristics of datagrams sent using that connection. Additionally, time information may be associated with information in the cache as well as policy information available from the server. Whenever a datagram is to be transmitted over a connection associated with out-of-date policy information in the cache, the cache information is updated. " The patent application was filed on Nov. 30, 2005 (11/289,978). 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=7,979,549&OS=7,979,549&RS=7,979,549 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Scalable Model-based Product Matching ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,979,459) developed by eight co-inventors for a "scalable model-based product matching." The co-inventors are Kai Wu, Beijing, Daniel Takacs, Redmond, Wash., Tong Yao, Beijing, Jiyu Zhang, Beijing, Hua Yang, Beijing, Ji-Rong Wen, Beijing, Jonathan R.M. Hart, Kirkland, Wash., and Eric Anthony Reel, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to matching product information to products. In aspects, a product matching component receives product information. The product matching component normalizes the product information and obtains keywords from the product information. By querying a database of recognized products, the keywords are used to obtain a list of products that potentially match the product information. A confidence level is assigned to each of the potential matches in the list. A match may be returned for the highest matched product or for a selectable number of products whose confidence level(s) exceed a selectable threshold." The patent application was filed on June 15, 2007 (11/763,539). 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=7,979,459&OS=7,979,459&RS=7,979,459 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Sharp Laboratories of America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- Sharp Laboratories of America, Camas, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,979,419) developed by Jeonghun Noh, Stanford, Calif., and Sachin G. Deshpande, Vancouver, Wash., for "distributed search methods for time-shifted and live peer-to-peer video streaming." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems, devices and methods for supporting live and time-shifted video streaming via distributed search methods for registering and locating cached portions of video streams shared in peer-to-peer systems." The patent application was filed on Nov. 1, 2007 (11/933,723). 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=7,979,419&OS=7,979,419&RS=7,979,419 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Allocation Locks and Their Use ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,979,408) developed by David J. Nettleton, Seattle, and Steven Bailey, Sammamish, Wash., for "allocation locks and their use." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methodologies are provided that employ an allocation lock, which permits only a single transaction to acquire space on a particular page at any one time. The allocation lock of the present invention facilitates operations of concurrent transactions at a subpage level (e.g., a row level), and in conjunction with a heap manager can enforce a set of conditions such that prior to a commit stage of a transaction, a space availability for a particular page can be typically assured (e.g., that transactions operating on various copies of the page do not consume all of storage space on that page), and reorganization of data around the page is mitigated (e.g., that a transaction need not move data around the page for purpose of merging various copies.)" The patent application was filed on April 1, 2010 (12/752,816). 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=7,979,408&OS=7,979,408&RS=7,979,408 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (7,979,439) developed by Paul G. Nordstrom, Seattle, and Aaron C. Thompson, Seattle, for a "method and system for collecting and analyzing time-series data." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer-implemented data processing method comprises receiving an index specification, storing data in a data repository, and indexing the data to create an index of the date stored in the data repository. The index specification comprises a user-specific index parameter. The data is indexed along a dimension of the data specified by the user-specified index parameter. The is received from data source computers and may be indexed as the data is received from the source computers." The patent application was filed on March 14, 2006 (11/375,636). 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=7,979,439&OS=7,979,439&RS=7,979,439 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Virtual Features of Physical Items ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,979,315) developed by Sabrina D. Boler, Seattle, Dane T. Storrusten, Seattle, and Nicole Alexandra Coddington, Kirkland, Wash., for a "virtual features of physical items." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Displaying information about a physical object. Input is received at an interactive surface. The input includes a first physical object being placed on the interactive surface. The first physical object is detected. This includes detecting identifying information about the first physical object. Information is displayed about the first physical object on the interactive surface." The patent application was filed on March 14, 2007 (11/686,286). 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=7979315.PN.&OS=PN/7979315&RS=PN/7979315 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Cardiac Pacemakers Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- Cardiac Pacemakers, St. Paul, Minn., has been assigned a patent (7,979,378) developed by four co-inventors for a "medical device user interface automatically resolving interaction between programmable parameters." The co-inventors are Jeff West, Bellevue, Wash., Jay A. Tzucker, Kirkland, Wash., Mahesh Maddali, Mahtomedi, and James Kalgren, Lino Lakes, Minn. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "This document discusses, among other things, a user interface capable of resolving interactions between programmable parameters for operation of a personal medical device. Programming these devices is a difficult task when many parameters are involved. The medical device interface attempts to reduce and minimize constraint violations between interdependent parameters using an initial set of parameter values supplied by user (typically a physician) input, and constraint violations describing invalid parameter values. A user is given the option to select one or more parameters to remain constant. If possible, a set of parameter values with less egregious constraint violations is displayed to the user. A user is prompted to accept the set of parameter values and program the medical device." The patent application was filed on Sept. 24, 2009 (12/566,212). 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=7,979,378&OS=7,979,378&RS=7,979,378 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Relating People Finding Results By Social Distance ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,979,411) developed by four co-inventors for a "relating people finding results by social distance." The co-inventors are Gregory Thomas Mattox Jr., Bellevue, Wash., Puneet Narula, Redmond, Wash., Venkatesh Veeraraghavan, Seattle, and Bryant Fong, Kirkland, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Search results are displayed according to relevance and grouped by the social distance between the person associated with the profile and the user performing the search. Metadata is defined of each of the profiles indicating groups affiliated the profile and a relevance value is determined as a function of the metadata for each of the profiles in the result set. The social distance is determined as a function of a colleague designation associated with the profile." The patent application was filed on May 22, 2006 (11/438,423). 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=7,979,411&OS=7,979,411&RS=7,979,411 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. *** Graphique de France Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- Graphique de France, Woburn, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,979,319) developed by Jean-Jacques Toulotte, Ipwich, Mass., for a "method and systems for facilitating a purchase corresponding to an event by determining a purchase recommendation based on a record of a given screensaver being used." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention is directed to facilitating purchases for events, and more particularly, displaying purchase recommendations and links in conjunction with events in a calendar displayed in a computer desktop application. In one aspect, the invention is a method comprising displaying a calendar in a computer desktop application; receiving information from a server corresponding to an event; displaying a reminder in the calendar corresponding to the given event, said reminder comprising information corresponding to said event and at least one link to an online store; and determining a purchase recommendation corresponding to the given event, wherein the purchase recommendation is determined with respect to a record of a given screensaver being used." The patent application was filed on March 17, 2006 (11/384,027). 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=7979319.PN.&OS=PN/7979319&RS=PN/7979319 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Deriving Hierarchical Organization from a Set of Tagged Digital Objects ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,979,388) developed by Sami Khoury, Seattle, for a "deriving hierarchical organization from a set of tagged digital objects." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of and system for deriving hierarchical structure from a set of digital objects is presented. The set of digital objects, such as digital images for example, may include a plurality of digital objects each associated with a data tag (such as a date, location, and/or text description, for example) that is part of a flat property set that does not encode the hierarchical relationships of the data objects. The set of digital objects may be filtered by a query and a query engine. Each data tag of each digital object may be compared on the basis of a relationship, such as mathematical equality, proximity in value, and/or similarity of text strings, for example. A hierarchical data structure may be established that includes a parent data segment and a child data segment, each labeled with a related data tag and populated with one or more related digital objects. The hierarchical data structure may be represented by a tree or by nested folders." The patent application was filed on Nov. 17, 2006 (11/601,178). 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=7,979,388&OS=7,979,388&RS=7,979,388 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Multiphase Topology-wide Code Modifications for Peer-to-peer Systems ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,979,393) developed by five co-inventors for "multiphase topology-wide code modifications for peer-to-peer systems." The co-inventors are Rui Wang, Redmond, Wash., Qun Guo, Redmond, Wash., Dennis Michael Tighe, Seattle, Gopal Ashok, Bellevue, Wash., and Peng Song, Issaquah, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods that supply changes on-the-fly and without breaking execution of codes for schema changes in a peer-to-peer environment. The modification component supplies changes to peers or nodes in a topology by initially identifying dependencies (e.g., multiple level) that can be affected by the schema change, followed by performing the schema change to the codes or stored procedures. Accordingly, dependencies in an entire system can be refreshed, wherein multiple levels of dependencies can exist." The patent application was filed on Feb. 22, 2008 (12/036,002). 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=7,979,393&OS=7,979,393&RS=7,979,393 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Predicting Future Queries from Log Data ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,979,415) developed by Dou Shen, Redmond, Wash., and Ying Li, Bellevue, Wash., for "predicting future queries from log data." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system, media, and method for selecting future queries are provided. The selected future queries are used to transmit appropriate online advertising to a user that issues queries to a search engine. The search engine is coupled to a prediction component that predicts what subject the user is going to be interested in and when the user will be interested in the subject. The prediction component returns a future query using statistical language models representing a query history of the user and aggregate query histories for a community of users." The patent application was filed on Sept. 4, 2008 (12/204,472). 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=7,979,415&OS=7,979,415&RS=7,979,415 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (7,979,445) developed by Zachary J. Mason, Seattle, for "processes for assessing user affinities for particular item categories of a hierarchical browse structure." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer-implemented system provides a browse tree in which items represented within a database are arranged within a hierarchy of item categories. Each time a user selects an item, an amount of credit is cumulatively assigned to the ancestor nodes (categories) of the selected item. The amount of credit assigned to a particular category of the browse tree over time for a given user represents the user's predicted affinity for that category. The user's relative preferences for some or all of the categories are predicted by calculating differences between the user's predicted affinities for such categories and the predicted affinities of a population of users for such categories. Scores reflective of these relative category preferences are used to provide personalized recommendations or other personalized content to the user." The patent application was filed on Oct. 7, 2010 (12/900,259). 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=7,979,445&OS=7,979,445&RS=7,979,445 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Service Delivery Online ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,979,512) developed by Arun Ramanathan Chandrasekhar, Bellevue, Wash., Purushottam Shridhar Amradkar, Bellevue, Wash., and Roy Peter D'Souza, Bellevue, Wash., for a service delivery online. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, a computer system configures an online service to function as a service delivery platform, where the online service includes a plurality of service delivery platform components configured to process inputs received from services that are to be hosted by the online service. The computer system receives an indication that a service is to be hosted using the online service, where the indication includes a service configured for hosting by the online service and a portion of use information indicating how the service delivery platform components are to be used to host the service for various computer clients. The computer system processes the portion of use information received with the indication to configure the service delivery platform components in an appropriate manner for hosting the service and provides the hosted service to computer clients in the appropriate manner as determined by the accessed use information." The patent application was filed on Nov. 7, 2008 (12/267,230). 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=7,979,512&OS=7,979,512&RS=7,979,512 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Atlas Reporting Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- Atlas Reporting, Seattle, has been assigned a patent (7,979,383) developed by Ken Steven Heilbrunn, Seattle, and George Andrew Miller, Seattle, for an atlas reporting. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and database for generating a report of findings of at least one abnormality evident in a medical image, the medical image including at least a portion of at least one structure of the body, the method includes retrieving a figure of the at least one structure. The retrieved figure is amended to reflect an abnormality. The abnormality is sized with respect to the figure of the at least one structure. The abnormality is placed at a location on the figure of the at least one structure according to an orientation of that abnormality in the medical image to generate an amended figure representative of the medical image for inclusion in the report." The patent application was filed on June 6, 2005 (11/146,500). 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=7,979,383&OS=7,979,383&RS=7,979,383 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Method for Automatically Associating Data with a Document Based on a Prescribed Type of the Document ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,979,405) developed by five co-inventors for a "method for automatically associating data with a document based on a prescribed type of the document." The co-inventors are Jason M. Cahill, Woodinville, Wash., Adrian Fanaru, Sammamish, Wash., Dustin G. Friesenhahn, Redmond, Wash., Ethan D. Gur-esh, Quebec, and Hai Liu, Sammamish, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method is provided to automatically associate type-specific information with a document of a prescribed type. The type information includes instance-specific type information that can be instantiated to each document of the prescribed type. The type information also includes generic type information that is automatically applied to all documents of the prescribed type. Such generic type information includes policies that govern, for example, the life span of the documents or who can access the documents. Instance-specific type information can be demoted to and promoted from a document of the prescribed type. Generic type information can only be demoted to a document of the prescribed type. Type information may be demoted into a document only when the document is requested." The patent application was filed on Jan. 14, 2005 (11/035,589). 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=7,979,405&OS=7,979,405&RS=7,979,405 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** QST Holding Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- QST Holding, Palo Alto, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,979,263) developed by five co-inventors for a "method, system and program for developing and scheduling adaptive integrated circuitry and corresponding control or configuration information." The co-inventors are Paul L. Master, Sunnyvale, Calif., Eugene Hogenauer, San Carlos, Calif., Bicheng William Wu, Union City, Calif., Dan MingLun Chuang, San Jose, Calif., and Bjorn Freeman Benson, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system and program are provided for development of an adaptive computing integrated circuit and corresponding configuration information, in which the configuration information provides an operating mode to the adaptive computing integrated circuit. The exemplary system includes a scheduler, a memory, and a compiler. The scheduler is capable of scheduling a selected algorithm with a plurality of adaptive computing descriptive objects to produce a scheduled algorithm and a selected adaptive computing circuit version. The memory is utilized to store the plurality of adaptive computing descriptive objects and a plurality of adaptive computing circuit versions generated during the scheduling process. The selected adaptive computing circuit version is converted into a hardware description language, for fabrication into the adaptive computing integrated circuit. The compiler generates the configuration information, from the scheduled algorithm and the selected adaptive computing circuit version, for the performance of the algorithm by the adaptive computing integrated circuit. In the exemplary embodiments, multiple versions of configuration information may be generated, for different circuit versions, different feature sets, different operating conditions, and different operating modes." The patent application was filed on Jan. 8, 2009 (12/350,618). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7979263.PN.&OS=PN/7979263&RS=PN/7979263 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Selective Sampling of User State Based on Expected Utility ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,979,252) developed by Eric J. Horvitz, Kirkland, Wash., and Ashish Kapoor, Seattle, for a "selective sampling of user state based on expected utility." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Model enhancement architecture that provides selective sampling of data to enhance model performance where model testing is deemed to be poor. Sampling can include direct interaction with the user while the user is logged-in to the computing system. The system can be used to infer a computer user's current interruptability based on computer activity and relevant contextual information. Personalized models can then be created that are utilized to determine a cost of interruption and an expected utility. A modeling component is provided that builds and runs models based on data. The data can be any type of data such as application data, user profile data, tracking data, user state data, user situation data, and so on. A sampling component samples the data based on failure analysis of the model. The architecture is a utility-centric approach to gathering data to maximally enhance the current model." The patent application was filed on June 21, 2007 (11/766,547). 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=7979252.PN.&OS=PN/7979252&RS=PN/7979252 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. -1054228 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |