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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Washington (July 20)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Washington. *** Relief POD International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Relief POD International, Santa Ana, Calif., has been assigned a patent (D641,547) developed by Debbie L. Coleman, Seattle, for an ornamental design for a travel kit. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a travel kit, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on March 1, 2010 (D/356,698). 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=D641,547.PN.&OS=PN/D641,547&RS=PN/D641,547 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Blackhawk Industries Product Group Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Blackhawk Industries Product Group, Norfolk, Va., has been assigned a patent (D641,541) developed by Brian Abrams, Spokane, Wash., and Eric Sachs, Rossland, Canada, for an ornamental design for a mummy-style sleeping bag. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a sleeping bag, substantially as shown and described." The patent application was filed on Aug. 27, 2010 (D/370,729). 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=D641,541.PN.&OS=PN/D641,541&RS=PN/D641,541 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,984,512) developed by four co-inventors for an "integrating security by obscurity with access control lists." The co-inventors are Jason Scott Flaks, Redmond, Wash., Jordan L.K. Schwartz, Seattle, Michael I. Torres, Seattle, and Joseph Andrew Bono, 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 providing and restricting access to content. In aspects, information (e.g., a URL) that identifies content and a user is provided to a user. In conjunction with providing the information to a user, a data structure (e.g., an access control list) is updated to indicate that the user has access to the content. The user may use the information to access the content and/or may send this information to other users. The other users may use the information (e.g., by pasting it into a browser) to access the content and may be added to the data structure so that they may subsequently access the content without the use of the information. Access to the content via using the information may be subsequently revoked." The patent application was filed on June 14, 2007 (11/762,885). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,984,512.PN.&OS=PN/7,984,512&RS=PN/7,984,512 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Intel, Forsyth, Abrash Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., Tom Forsyth, Kirkland, Wash., and Michael Abrash, Kirkland, Wash., have been assigned a patent (7,984,273) developed by five co-inventors for a "system and method for using a mask register to track progress of gathering elements from memory." The co-inventors are Eric Sprangle, Austin, Texas, Anwar Rohillah, Austin, Texas, Robert Cavin, San Francisco, Tom Forsyth, Kirkland, Wash., and Michael Abrash, Kirkland, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for assigning values to elements in a first register, where each data field in a first register corresponds to a data element to be written into a second register, and where for each data field in the first register, a first value may indicate that the corresponding data element has not been written into the second register and a second value indicates that the corresponding data element has been written into the second register, reading the values of each of the data fields in the first register, and for each data field in the first register having the first value, gathering the corresponding data element and writing the corresponding data element into the second register, and changing the value of the data field in the first register from the first value to the second value. Other embodiments are described and claimed." The patent application was filed on Dec. 31, 2007 (11/967,482). 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=79,84,273.PN.&OS=PN/79,84,273&RS=PN/79,84,273 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Invention Science Fund I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Invention Science Fund I, Bellevue, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,984,278) developed by five co-inventors for a "hardware resource having an optimistic policy and a pessimistic policy." The co-inventors are Bran Ferren, Beverly Hills, Calif., W. Daniel Hillis, Encino, Calif., Nathan P. Myhrvold, Medina, Wash., Clarence T. Tegreene, Bellevue, Wash., and Lowell L. Wood Jr., Bellevue, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Processor resource management devices and methods are disclosed. In some implementations, a device includes a processor, a hardware resource, and a resource manager operable to compare a first execution of one or more instructions pursuant to an optimistic resource management policy and a second execution of one or more instructions pursuant to a pessimistic resource management policy, the optimistic resource management policy assuming that less than an optimistic level of at least one error will occur during the first execution, and the pessimistic resource management policy assuming that greater than a pessimistic level of the at least one error will occur during the second execution. Based at least partially on the comparison, the resource manager selects a resource management policy from between the optimistic and pessimistic resource management policies, and associates the selected resource management policy with the one or more instructions." The patent application was filed on May 19, 2009 (12/454,633). 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=79,84,278.PN.&OS=PN/79,84,278&RS=PN/79,84,278 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Intel Assigned Patent for Integrated Circuit Capable of Pre-fetching Data ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,984,237) developed by Michael A. Rothman, Puyallup, Wash., and Vincent Zimmer, Federal Way, Wash., for an "integrated circuit capable of pre-fetching data." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method according to one embodiment may include retrieving selected data from one or more mass storage devices, based at least in part on historical device access information of at least one requester of data. A method according to another embodiment may include retrieving, by an integrated circuit, device data layout information from one or more mass storage devices, and storing, by the integrated circuit, the device data layout information in cache memory. Of course, many alternatives, variations, and modifications are possible without departing from this embodiment." The patent application was filed on Aug. 28, 2007 (11/846,200). 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=79,84,237.PN.&OS=PN/79,84,237&RS=PN/79,84,237 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,984,228) developed by four co-inventors for a "device connection routing for controller." The co-inventors are Firdosh K. Bhesania, Kirkland, Wash., Glen T. Slick, Redmond, Wash., Randall E. Aull, Kenmore, Wash., and Mark E. Maszak, Sammamish, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Device connection routing for controllers is provided. A computing device is configured with multiple controllers that provide connections for peripheral devices. The controllers enable the peripheral devices to interact with the computing device through a bus. Each device connection is routed to one of the multiple controllers based on one or more pre-determined factors. These factors may include load-balancing, power saving, quality of service, data flow requirements, and the like. Device connection routing may be dynamically managed to respond to changing states of the peripheral devices and the controllers. The device connection routing may be performed for controllers associated with any type of wired or wireless buses, such as Universal Serial Bus (USB), IEEE 1394, Secure Digital Input/Output (SDIO), and the like." The patent application was filed on Feb. 28, 2006 (11/276,443). 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=79,84,228.PN.&OS=PN/79,84,228&RS=PN/79,84,228 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Citrix Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Citrix Systems, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,984,157) developed by five co-inventors for a "persistent and reliable session securely traversing network components using an encapsulating protocol." The co-inventors are Anatoliy Panasyuk, Bellevue, Wash., Andre Kramer, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Bradley Jay Pedersen, Parkland, Fla., David Sean Stone, Lauderdale-By-The-Sea, Fla., and Terry Treder, Highland Beach, Fla. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The invention relates to systems and methods for reestablishing client communications by securely traversing network components using an encapsulating communication protocol to provide session persistence and reliability. A first protocol that encapsulates a plurality of secondary protocols is used to communicate over a network to provide session persistence and a reliable connection between a client and a host service via a first protocol service. A ticket authority generates a first ticket and a second ticket associated with the client. The first ticket is provided to the client and the client uses the first ticket to establish a communication session with the first protocol service. The second ticket is provided to the first protocol service and the first protocol service uses the second ticket to establish a communication session with the host service." The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2004 (10/711,719). 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=7984157.PN.&OS=PN/7984157&RS=PN/7984157 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,984,156) developed by four co-inventors for a data center scheduler. The co-inventors are David Gauthier, Seattle, James R. Hamilton, Bellevue, Wash., Heather E. Warncke, Seattle, and Tina Stewart, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An exemplary data stream includes value information for use by consumers of global computing resources in making requests for global computing resources. An exemplary method includes receiving information about data center resources from one or more data centers, based at least in part on the information estimating value information for consumption of computing resources of the one or more data centers and streaming the value information via a network. An exemplary medium or media includes instructions to instruct a computing device to receive, from a data stream, value information for computing resources of one or more data centers, to format the value information for display and to issue requests for consumption of at least some of the computing resources. Other methods, devices and systems are also disclosed." The patent application was filed on Nov. 15, 2010 (12/946,593). 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=7984156.PN.&OS=PN/7984156&RS=PN/7984156 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,984,158) developed by Brian Meek, Redmond, Wash., and Hans Andersen, Redmond, Wash., for a "web service for coordinating actions of clients." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Architecture for providing communications resources of a network for client intercommunications. A client that desires to communicate makes a request to an arbitrary communications server node by the announcing of identifying information. The web service "parks" the request until the identifying information is ready. A second client can ultimately interact with the first client by sending identifying information and following the same lookup path to find the location at which the first client request is "parked". A continuous hash is employed that enables a client to negotiate services of a resource and via which resource multiple clients can rendezvous for communications. The continuous hash minimizes the disruption to clients already accessing network resources. A resource is brought online or taken offline without dramatically impacting ongoing use of currently operational resources. In the event a hosting resource fails, the clients repeat the lookup process and re-converge on a new server." The patent application was filed on March 20, 2007 (11/725,828). 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=7984158.PN.&OS=PN/7984158&RS=PN/7984158 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Intel Assigned Patent for Dynamic Updating of Thresholds in Accordance With Operating Conditions ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,984,250) developed by five co-inventors for a "dynamic updating of thresholds in accordance with operating conditions." The co-inventors are Robin Steinbrecher, Olympia, Wash., Christian Le, North Plains, Ore., Rahul Khanna, Portland, Ore., Fernando A. Lopez, Hillsboro, Ore., and Kai Cheng, Portland, Ore. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In some embodiments, a memory control device includes a sensor positioned remotely from a memory device, a register to store an offset value, the offset value corresponding to a difference between a temperature reading of the sensor and an estimated actual temperature of the memory device, and a controller to control an operation of the memory device, wherein the controller is configured to read the offset value from the register and control the operation of the memory device in accordance with the offset value. The controller may be configured to dynamically update the offset value during an operation of the memory device. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed." The patent application was filed on Dec. 31, 2008 (12/317,965). 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=79,84,250.PN.&OS=PN/79,84,250&RS=PN/79,84,250 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Consistent Cluster Operational Data in Server Cluster Using Quorum of Replicas ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,984,155) developed by ten co-inventors for a "consistent cluster operational data in a server cluster using a quorum of replicas." The co-inventors are Michael T. Massa, Seattle, David A. Dion, Bothell, Wash., Raj Das, Kirkland, Wash., Rushabh Doshi, Redmond, Wash., David B. Lomet, Redmond, Wash., Gor V. Nishanov, Redmond, Wash., Philip A. Bernstein, Bellevue, Wash., Rod N. Gamache, Sammamish, Wash., Rohit N. Jain, Sammamish, Wash., and Sunita V. Nishanov, Redmond, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for increasing server cluster availability by requiring at a minimum only one node and a quorum replica set of replica members to form and operate a cluster. Replica members maintain cluster operational data. A cluster operates when one node possesses a majority of replica members, which ensures that any new or surviving cluster includes consistent cluster operational data via at least one replica member from the immediately prior cluster. Arbitration provides exclusive ownership by one node of the replica members, including at cluster formation, and when the owning node fails. Arbitration uses a fast mutual exclusion algorithm and a reservation mechanism to challenge for and defend the exclusive reservation of each member. A quorum replica set algorithm brings members online and offline with data consistency, including updating unreconciled replica members, and ensures consistent read and update operations." The patent application was filed on June 14, 2010 (12/815,373). 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=7984155.PN.&OS=PN/7984155&RS=PN/7984155 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Isolating Declarative Code to Preserve Customizations ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,984,424) developed by six co-inventors for an "isolating declarative code to preserve customizations." The co-inventors are Patrick Michael Dengler, Redmond, Wash., Sripriya Prashanthi Vasudevan, Redmond, Wash., Goksel Genc, Bellevue, Wash., Rachna Vargiya, Redmond, Wash., Eray Aydin, Bellevue, Wash., and Lawrence M. Sanchez II, Kirkland, Wash.. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments provide a software model which allows a user to modify a software program in substantially the same manner as the original programmer or developer. In one embodiment, declarative code and user customizations are isolated from other code and structure of the software program. The isolated customizations can be quickly and efficiently examined to determine whether any changes or other modifications have been made to the software program. Additionally, the isolated changes can be efficiently located and applied when updating or upgrading the software program to persist any customized changes made to the software program." The patent application was filed on Aug. 29, 2006 (11/511,637). 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=79,84,424.PN.&OS=PN/79,84,424&RS=PN/79,84,424 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Tools and Techniques for Instrumenting Interfaces of Units of a Software Program ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,984,429) developed by Galen C. Hunt, Bellevue, Wash., for "tools and techniques for instrumenting interfaces of units of a software program." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of instrumenting one or more units of an application program is disclosed. Each unit can have one or more interfaces through which communications pass through the unit. Client units can request creation of a server unit. When they do so, the call is intercepted and sent to a unit creation function, which creates the server unit and returns a reference to an interface of the server unit. When a reference to an interface of the server unit is detected, an interface wrapper is created for the interface, the interface wrapper comprising a reference to instrumentation, the reference to the interface, and a reference to a type description of the interface. The client receives a reference to the interface wrapper in place of a reference to the interface, and thereafter is able to treat the reference to the interface wrapper as if it were a reference to the interface." The patent application was filed on April 1, 2005 (11/097,636). 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=79,84,429.PN.&OS=PN/79,84,429&RS=PN/79,84,429 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cray Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Cray, Seattle, has been assigned a patent (7,984,453) developed by nine co-inventors for "event notifications relating to system failures in scalable systems." The co-inventors are Gail A. Alverson, Seattle, Robert L. Alverson, Seattle, Daniel C. Duval, Lincoln City, Ore., Eric A. Hoffman, Seattle, Laurence S. Kaplan, Seattle, Matthew Kelly, Eau Claire, Wis., Kazuya Okubo, Seattle, Mark Swan, Prescott, Wis., and Asaph Zemach, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An availability system is provided that includes a hierarchy of controllers for providing event notifications relating to availability of components of a scalable MPP system. A controller receives a subscription from a child controller that identifies an event type and a generator. The controller stores in a subscription store an indication that the subscription has been received from the child controller. When a parent controller has not yet been notified of a subscription with a matching event type and generator as indicated by the subscription store, the controller sends the subscription to the parent controller. When the parent controller has already been notified of a subscription with a matching event type and generator as indicated by the subscription store, the controller suppresses the sending of the subscription to the parent controller." The patent application was filed on Sept. 18, 2007 (11/857,261). 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=79,84,453&OS=79,84,453&RS=79,84,453 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,984,438) developed by Benjamin A. Leis, Seattle, Jacob Oshins, Seattle, and Parag Chakraborty, Redmond, Wash., for a "virtual machine transitioning from emulating mode to enlightened mode." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computing device has a hardware device employed to provide a hardware service to the computing device and a plurality of virtual machines including a host virtual machine (VM-H) to which the hardware device is assigned, and a client virtual machine (VM-C) that can consume the hardware service by way of the VM-H. The VM-C includes an emulating stack and an enlightened stack. The emulating stack interfaces an application requesting the hardware service with a trap in a virtualization layer of the computing device which re-directs the request to the VM-H. The enlightened stack interfaces the application with the VM-H and bypasses the virtualization layer. The emulating stack includes a shunt driver that shunts to the enlightened stack each request from the application directed to the emulating stack." The patent application was filed on Feb. 8, 2006 (11/349,795). 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=79,84,438&OS=79,84,438&RS=79,84,438 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,984,379) developed by Justin Wald, Redmond, Wash., for a "standard schema and user interface for website maps." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various embodiments provide a standardized schema that can be used by site developers to define a site map and its associated hierarchy. In at least some embodiments, a corresponding user interface can be created within an application such as, for example, a Web browser, to allow the user to specify locations at which they wish to see the site map." The patent application was filed on April 4, 2008 (12/098,397). 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=7,984,379.PN.&OS=PN/7,984,379&RS=PN/7,984,379 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for EDI Instance Based Transaction Set Definition ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,984,373) developed by Surendra Machiraju, Redmond, Wash., and Suraj Gaurav, Issaquah, Wash., for an "EDI instance based transaction set definition." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Creating an electronic data interchange (EDI) transaction from a description of the EDI schema. The description defines the EDI schema in a non-EDI structure. The description of the EDI schema is received. A plurality of data units included in the received description of the EDI schema is identified. The plurality of data units describes the content of the EDI schema. The identified plurality of data units is analyzed to determine the content of the EDI schema. The document definition is generated for the EDI schema as a function of the analyzed plurality of data units. The document definition is used to create an EDI transaction according to the EDI schema." The patent application was filed on Feb. 24, 2006 (11/362,425). 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=7,984,373.PN.&OS=PN/7,984,373&RS=PN/7,984,373 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Test Amplification for Datacenter Applications via Model Checking ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,984,335) developed by four co-inventors for a "test amplification for datacenter applications via model checking." The co-inventors are Atul Adya, Redmond, Wash., Alastair Wolman, Seattle, John Dunagan, Bellevue, Wash., and David Andrew Schultz, Cambridge, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods are provided to determine execution errors in distributed computing environments. In an illustrative implementation, a computing environment comprises a test amplification engine and at least one instruction set to instruct the test amplification engine to process data representative of a request to perform a test for one or more execution errors in an distributed computing environment according to a selected execution error testing paradigm dependent on identifying critical sources of non-determinism for execution within the exemplary distributed computing environment. In an illustrative operation, a participating distributed computing environment operator (e.g., programmer) can cooperate with the test amplification engine to select an existing unit or integration test, instrument sources of non-determinism and to select one or more instrumentations for the unit or integration test for execution in the exemplary distributed computing environment to elicit the occurrence of one or more execution errors." The patent application was filed on March 20, 2008 (12/052,655). 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=7,984,335.PN.&OS=PN/7,984,335&RS=PN/7,984,335 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** EMC Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,984,324) developed by five co-inventors for "systems and methods for managing stalled storage devices." The co-inventors are Asif Daud, Issaquah, Wash., Tyler A. Akidau, Seattle, Ilya Maykov, Seattle, Aaron J. Passey, Seattle, and Brian Eng, Bellevue, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments relate to systems and methods for managing stalled storage devices of a storage system. In one embodiment, a method for managing access to storage devices includes determining that a first storage device, which stores a first resource, is stalled and transitioning the first storage device to a stalled state. The method also includes receiving an access request for at least a portion of the first resource while the first storage device is in the stalled state and attempting to provide access to a representation of the portion of the first resource from at least a second storage device that is not in a stalled state. In another embodiment, a method of managing access requests by a thread for a resource stored on a storage device includes initializing a thread access level for an access request by a thread for the resource. The method also includes determining whether the storage device, which has a device access level, is accessible based at least in part on the thread access level and the device access level and selecting a thread operation based at least in part on the determination of whether the storage device is accessible. The thread operation may be selected from attempting the thread access request if the device is accessible and determining whether to restart the thread access request if the device is not accessible." The patent application was filed on March 27, 2008 (12/057,298). 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=7,984,324.PN.&OS=PN/7,984,324&RS=PN/7,984,324 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Intel Assigned Patent for Apparatus and Method for Secure Boot Environment ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,984,286) developed by six co-inventors for an "apparatus and method for secure boot environment." The co-inventors are Vincent J. Zimmer, Federal Way, Wash., Mohan Kumar, Aloha, Ore., Mahesh Natu, Portland, Ore., Qin Long, Shanghai, China, Liang Cui, Shanghai, China, and Jiewen Yao, Shanghai, China. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In some embodiments, a processor-based system may include at least one processor, at least one memory coupled to the at least one processor, a boot block stored at a first memory location, a capsule update stored at a second memory location, a startup authenticated code module to ensure the integrity of the boot block upon a restart of the processor-based system, code which is executable by the processor-based system to cause the processor-based system to validate the boot block with the startup authenticated code module upon the restart of the processor-based system, and, if the boot block is successfully validated, to validate the capsule update for the processor-based system with the startup authenticated code module. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed." The patent application was filed on June 25, 2008 (12/215,071). 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=7,984,286.PN.&OS=PN/7,984,286&RS=PN/7,984,286 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Omereen Wireless Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Omereen Wireless, Dover, Del. has been assigned a patent (RE42,558) developed by Wonzoo Chung, Kent, Wash., Thomas J. Endres, Seattle, and Christopher D. Long, Maple Valley, Wash., for a "joint adaptive optimization of soft decision device and feedback equalizer." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention uses a novel adaptive soft decision device in order to jointly optimize decision device and DFE operation. The soft decision device receives the input and output samples of the slicer and generates a feedback sample by non-linearly combining them with respect to a single decision reference parameter. Moreover, the soft decision device provides novel error terms used to adapt equalizer coefficients in order to jointly optimize decision device and equalizer coefficients." The patent application was filed on Feb. 20, 2009 (12/390,368). 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=RE42,558&OS=RE42,558&RS=RE42,558 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** S.C. Johnson & Son Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- S.C. Johnson & Son, Racine, Wis., has been assigned a patent (No. D641,857) developed by Scott D. Walter, Twin Lakes, Wis., Christopher B. Hisey, Burlington, Wis., and David Bajorins, Bothell, Wash., for an ornamental design for a "base for a diffuser." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a base for a diffuser, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on Oct. 13, 2010 (D/376,881). 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=D641,857&OS=D641,857&RS=D641,857 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Anonymous and Secure Network-based Interaction ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,984,169) developed by nine co-inventors for an "anonymous and secure network-based interaction." The co-inventors are Bradly A. Brunell, Medina, Wash., Susan T. Dumais, Kirkland, Wash., Joshua T. Goodman, Redmond, Wash., Eric J. Horvitz, Kirkland, Wash., Gary Flake, Bellevue, Wash., Anoop Gupta, Woodinville, Wash., Christopher A. Meek, Kirkland, Wash., Ramez Naam, Seattle, and Kyle Peltonen, Issaquah, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The subject disclosure pertains to anonymous network interaction. More specifically, mechanisms are provided to ensure anonymity with respect network interaction such that third parties are unable to determine the source and/or intent of communications. Accordingly, entities can anonymize all outgoing and/or incoming data packets so as to mitigate outside entities from learning about information being sought and/or provided. For example, a user or corporation can employ an anonymizer with respect to web searching so that outside entities are not able to determine what information is attempted to be accessed and by whom." The patent application was filed on June 28, 2006 (11/427,313). 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=7,984,169.PN.&OS=PN/7,984,169&RS=PN/7,984,169 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,984,194) developed by four co-inventors for a "dynamically configurable switch for distributed test lab." The co-inventors are Kaili Xu, Kirkland, Wash., Kaushik Narayanan, Redmond, Wash., Robert Martin, Redmond, Wash., and Binay Pathak, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A switch is provided which is dynamically configurable via a network port thereon. One switch is employed to establish point-to-point electrical connections between devices under test (DUTs) and host devices coupled to upstream ports and downstream ports on the switch respectively. Two switches coupled to a network are employed to facilitate a distributed test lab. DUTs are coupled to upstream ports on a first switch which, based on communication with a test controller over the network, establishes a logical connection between the upstream port coupled to a particular DUT and the network. Host devices are coupled to downstream ports on a second switch which, based on communication with the test controller over the network, establishes a logical connection between the downstream port coupled to a particular host device and the network. A logical connection is also established across the network between the particular DUT and host device." The patent application was filed on Sept. 23, 2008 (12/236,482). 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=7,984,194.PN.&OS=PN/7,984,194&RS=PN/7,984,194 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Panasonic Avionics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Panasonic Avionics, Bothell, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,984,190) developed by Cedric Rhoads, Bothell, Wash., for a "system and method for managing content on mobile platforms." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A content management system for providing comprehensive content management for one or more vehicle information systems and methods for manufacturing and using same. The content management system includes a content control system for providing content storage and controlling the overall functionality of the content management system. Being configured to communicate with a selected vehicle information system in a wired and/or wireless manner, the content management system can upload content to update the vehicle information system for access during subsequent travel. The content management system likewise can download content, such as performance data compiled during prior travel, from the vehicle information system. The content management system thereby can provide ensured comprehensive content management under the control of the content control system." The patent application was filed on May 6, 2005 (11/123,327). 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=7,984,190.PN.&OS=PN/7,984,190&RS=PN/7,984,190 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Citrix Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Citrix Systems, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,984,192) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for assigning unique identifiers to each remote display protocol session established via an intermediary device." The co-inventors are Michael Burr, Redmond, Wash., Min-Chih Lu Earl, Redmond, Wash., Anatoliy Panasyuk, Bellevue, Wash., and Abolfazl Sirjani, Kirkland, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The invention relates to systems and methods for assigning a unique network identifier to one or more programs invoked on a computer. The computer obtains a plurality of network identifiers and associates a first network identifier to a first program invoked on the computer and associates a second network identifier, different from the first network identifier, to a second program invoked on the computer. The program may be a user session hosted by the computer, an application or an application isolation environment. The computer through a network communication interface transmits the first network identifier with the network communication of the first program and transmits the second network identifier with network communication of the second program." The patent application was filed on Sept. 27, 2004 (10/711,583). 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=7,984,192.PN.&OS=PN/7,984,192&RS=PN/7,984,192 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (7,984,170) developed by Zachary M. Shalla, Seattle, Ross V. Korsky, Auburn, Wash., and Nicholas J. Giordano Jr., Bothell, Wash., for a "cross-domain communication in domain-restricted communication environments." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A messaging frame can be used to allow different domains to communicate in an electronic environment that are otherwise prevented from directly communicating. A messaging frame or other communication element can be configured to receive messages or communications from any frame, object, or element in the same domain as the messaging frame. The messaging frame then can switch to a target domain in order to provide the message or communication to a frame, object, or element in the target domain. The messaging frame can include an interface definition that allows only approved messages to be passed between domains, such that the risk of malicious attack is minimized." The patent application was filed on Jan. 29, 2009 (12/362,377). 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=7,984,170.PN.&OS=PN/7,984,170&RS=PN/7,984,170 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** T-Mobile USA Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- T-Mobile USA, Bellevue, Wash., has been assigned a patent (D641,695) developed by Douglas Wegener, Seattle, Jason Pan, Temple City, Calif., and Neguse W. Gebremikael, Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., for an ornamental design for a "device charger with dual folding power plugs." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a device charger with dual folding power plugs, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on Dec. 9, 2010 (D/380,717). 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=D641,695.PN.&OS=PN/D641,695&RS=PN/D641,695 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. -1054886 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |