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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in New Jersey (Aug. 5)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in New Jersey. *** Virginia, Maryland Inventors Develop Patent for Method and System for Tracking a Vehicle ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- Trevor A. Fischbach, Martinsville, N.J., P. Sean Sawyer, Virginia Beach, Va., and Amanda D. McCall, Virginia Beach, Va., have developed a patent (7,990,265) for a "method and system for tracking a vehicle." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for tracking a fleeing vehicle, using optional remote sensing to identify a payload contained in the vehicle or asset, and an optional device disabling the fleeing vehicle via disrupting the vehicle's onboard computer or electrical system. The system includes a tracking device or carrier containing tracking components, sensing equipment, and the vehicle disabling device. A launcher of the tracking device may be handheld or vehicle mounted, and may use high pressure gas or another propellant to launch the projectile at a fleeing vehicle. The electronics package may include tracking hardware, sensing hardware, and the vehicle disabling hardware. Once launched and affixed to the suspect vehicle or stationary target, the vehicle's location can be tracked while sensors detecting any trace elements of explosives, IED (Improvised Explosive Device) materials, WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction), biochemical materials, drugs, or any form of contraband can be monitored from a safe distance. In the case of a vehicle or moving target, the vehicle may then be disabled from a safe distance if sensors detect any abnormality in the targeted vehicle's payload." The patent application was filed on Oct. 6, 2008 (12/287,124). 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=79,90,265.PN.&OS=PN/79,90,265&RS=PN/79,90,265 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Polytechnic University Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,986,691) developed by Jinsoo Park, Leonia, N.J., and Hung-Hsiang Jonathan Chao, Holmdel, N.J., for "maintaining packet sequence using cell flow control." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Packets out-of-sequence problem can be solved by using a window flow control scheme that can dispatch traffic at the cell level, in a round robin fashion, as evenly as possible. Each VOQ at the input port has a sequence head pointer that is used to assign sequence numbers (SN) to the cells. Also a sequence tail pointer is available at each VOQ that is used to acknowledge and limit the amount of cells that can be sent to the output ports based on the window size of the scheme. Each VIQ at the output port has a sequence pointer or sequence number (SN) pointer that indicates to the VIQ which cell to wait for. Once the VIQ receives the cell that the SN pointer indicated, the output port sends an ACK packet back to the input port. By using sequence numbers and the relevant pointers, the packet out-of-sequence problem is solved." The patent application was filed on March 12, 2010 (12/723,354). 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=79,86,691.PN.&OS=PN/79,86,691&RS=PN/79,86,691 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Sand9 Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- Sand9, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,990,229) developed by Alexei Gaidarzhy, Boston, Klaus Juergen Schoepf, Ringwood, N.J., and Pritiraj Mohanty, Boston, for "methods and devices for compensating a signal using resonators." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Compensation of a signal using resonators as well as related methods and devices are described. Some embodiments include methods and devices for performing frequency compensation on a signal." The patent application was filed on June 19, 2008 (12/142,254). 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=79,90,229.PN.&OS=PN/79,90,229&RS=PN/79,90,229 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent for Method, System, and Device for Sending Data in a Cable Data Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (7,990,977) developed by seven co-inventors for a "method, system, and device for sending data in a cable data service." The co-inventors are Bhavesh N. Desai, Livingston, N.J., Nemmara K. Shankaranarayanan, Bridgewater, N.J., David Hilton Shur, Holmdel, N.J., Aleksandra Smiljanic, Atlantic Highlands, N.J., Todd J. Totland, Lincroft, N.J., Jacobus E. van der Merwe, New Providence, N.J., and Sheryl Leigh Woodward, Holmdel, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of sending data from a transmit site to a receive device includes dividing a first transmit data stream having a first bit rate into multiple data streams with each of the multiple data streams having a bit rate that is lower than the first bit rate. Each of the multiple data streams is transmitted over a cable network having multiple radio frequency channels. The multiple data streams are recombined at the receive device to provide a receive data stream having a bit rate equal to the first bit rate. A second transmit data stream is transmitted over one of the radio frequency channels to a legacy user connected to the one radio frequency channel between the transmit site and the receive device." The patent application was filed on April 23, 2010 (12/766,089). 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=7,990,977&OS=7,990,977&RS=7,990,977 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Alcatel-Lucent USA Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- Alcatel-Lucent USA, Murray Hill, N.J., has been assigned a patent (7,990,973) developed by Fang Hao, Morganville, N.J., Muralidharan S. Kodialam, Marlboro, N.J., and Haoyu Song, Edison, N.J., for "hash functions for applications such as network address lookup." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, IP lookup into a routing table having prefixes of different prefix lengths is performed by hashing a candidate prefix value to generate a plurality of hash values, where m seed hash values are generated by applying m seed hash functions and one or more additional hash values are generated by combining two or more of the seed hash values in different ways, e.g., using a bit-wise XOR function. The hash values are used to perform membership probes into a Bloom filter programmed with the prefixes corresponding to all of the different prefix lengths in the routing table without having to expand any of the prefixes programmed into the Bloom filter." The patent application was filed on Aug. 13, 2008 (12/190,684). 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=7,990,973&OS=7,990,973&RS=7,990,973 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (7,990,982) developed by four co-inventors for "methods and apparatus to bound network traffic estimation error for multistage measurement sampling and aggregation." The co-inventors are Nicholas Duffield, Summit, N.J., Carsten Lund, Berkeley Heights, N.J., Mikkel Thorup, Florence, Mass., Edith Cohen, Berkeley Heights, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus to bound network traffic estimation error for multistage measurement sampling and aggregation are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein comprises determining a hierarchical sampling topology representative of multiple data sampling and aggregation stages, the hierarchical sampling topology comprising a plurality of nodes connected by a plurality of edges, each node corresponding to at least one of a data source and a data aggregation operation, and each edge corresponding to a data sampling operation characterized by a generalized sampling threshold, selecting a first generalized sampling threshold from a set of generalized sampling thresholds associated with a respective set of edges originating at a respective set of descendent nodes of a target node undergoing network traffic estimation, and transforming a measured sample of network traffic into a confidence interval for a network traffic estimate associated with the target node using the first generalized sampling threshold and an error parameter." The patent application was filed on Dec. 15, 2008 (12/335,074). 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=7,990,982&OS=7,990,982&RS=7,990,982 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Polytechnic Institute of New York University Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Brooklyn, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,986,636) developed by Baris Coskun, Brooklyn, N.Y., and Nasir Memon, Holmdel, N.J., for an "efficient detection of relay node." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Whether or not a node is a relay node may be determined by, for each of a plurality of active flows, assigning a random number to the flow, wherein each of the random numbers is drawn from a distribution. Then, for each of a plurality of time slots, any incoming flows to the node and any outgoing flows from the node may be determined, random numbers assigned to any active flow of the incoming flows may be summed to generate a first sum, random numbers assigned to any active outgoing flows may be summed to generating a second sum, and the first sum may be multiplied with the second sum to generate a product associated with the time slot. The products over the plurality of time slots may then be summed to obtain a summed product. This may be repeated, reassigning random values to each of the plurality of flows, thereby obtaining a plurality of summed products. A variance of the plurality of summed products may be determined and compared with a threshold to obtain a comparison result. Whether or not the node is a relay node may then be determined using the comparison result. Execution of a relay node protection policy may be controlled using the determination of whether or not the node is a relay node." The patent application was filed on Nov. 10, 2008 (12/268,395). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=79,86,636.PN.&OS=PN/79,86,636&RS=PN/79,86,636 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Alcatel-Lucent USA Assigned Patent for Methods and Devices for Selecting Sets of Available Sub-channels ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Alcatel-Lucent USA, Murray Hill, N.J., has been assigned a patent (7,990,931) developed by five co-inventors for "methods and devices for selecting sets of available sub-channels." The co-inventors are Krishna Balachandran, Morganville, N.J., Tingfang Ji, San Diego, Joseph H. Kang, Belle Mead, N.J., Wei Luo, Piscataway, N.J., and Hsuan-Jung Su, Taoyuan, Taiwan. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Information is transmitted over selected, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) sub-channels to avoid frequencies with unacceptable congestion, noise or interference levels. Using frequency hopping, selected non-contiguous OFDM sub-channels used for transmission may vary with time. Once a group of OFDM sub-channels is selected, a power level and modulation technique may also be selected based on channel quality." The patent application was filed on Jan. 19, 2010 (12/689,454). 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=7,990,931&OS=7,990,931&RS=7,990,931 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Alcatel-Lucent USA Assigned Patent for Methods and Devices for Computing Paths to Assure the Inter-domain Transport of QoS Sensitive Information ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Alcatel-Lucent USA, Murray Hill, N.J., has been assigned a patent (7,990,881) developed by Richard Wayne Buskens, Robbinsville, N.J., Sandra Ramos Thuel, Middletown, N.J., and Ramesh Viswanathan, Manalapan, N.J., for "methods and devices for computing paths to assure the inter-domain transport of QoS sensitive information." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Information can be transported over domains operated by different service providers at required Quality-of-Service (QoS) levels without disclosing inter- and/or intra-domain information to ensure that the topology of a given service provider's domain (e.g., network) is not disclosed." The patent application was filed on March 31, 2006 (11/393,822). 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=7,990,881&OS=7,990,881&RS=7,990,881 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Provisioning a Label Switched Path Across Two or More Networks ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (7,990,945) developed by Pravin K. Johri, Aberdeen, N.J., Sanja Durinovic-Johri, Aberdeen, N.J., for a "method and apparatus for provisioning a label switched path across two or more networks." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed is a method and apparatus for provisioning a label switched path (LSP) between two endpoints executing a first set of MPLS functions. The method and apparatus associates a first node with the first endpoint and a second node with the second endpoint. The first node is designated as the source. Both the first and second nodes execute a second set of MPLS functions, wherein the second set of MPLS functions include the first set of MPLS functions and additional MPLS functions. As the source, the first node provisions a first MPLS path (i.e., LSP) between itself and the first endpoint. The first node then provisions a second MPLS path (i.e., LSP) between the first node and the second node. The first node then transmits a message to the second node instructing the second node to provision a third MPLS path between the second node and the second endpoint. The three MPLS paths are bridged at the first and second nodes to complete the LSP between the two endpoints." The patent application was filed on Sept. 14, 2005 (11/225,906). 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=7,990,945&OS=7,990,945&RS=7,990,945 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** QUALCOMM Assigned Patent for Methods and Apparatus for Communicating Information Using Different Types of Symbols ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- QUALCOMM, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (7,986,648) developed by five co-inventors for "methods and apparatus for communicating information using different types of symbols." The co-inventors are Thomas Richardson, South Orange, N.J., Junyi Li, Bedminster, N.J., Rajiv Laroia, Far Hills, N.J., Xinzhou Wu, Monmouth Junction, N.J., and Saurabh Tavildar, Jersey City, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus implementing communications using different types of symbols, e.g. different characteristic OFDM symbols, at different times for different purposes are described. A first type of symbol is used for control signaling including conveying transmission request signals and/or transmission request response signals. A second type of symbol is used for conveying user data, e.g., traffic signals. The symbol period for a first type symbol is larger than the symbol period for a second type symbol. The tone spacing for a first type symbol is larger than the tone spacing for a second type symbol. The methods and apparatus are well suited for peer to peer communications systems in which a peer to peer communications device operates in a half-duplex mode of operation." The patent application was filed on Oct. 31, 2007 (11/933,403). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=79,86,648.PN.&OS=PN/79,86,648&RS=PN/79,86,648 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Twitchel Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Robert W. Twitchel Jr., Cumming, Ga., has been assigned a patent (7,990,947) developed by Robert W. Twitchel Jr., and Delia J. Smith, Morris Township, N.J. for a network watermark. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A network communications method utilizing a network watermark for providing security in the communications includes creating a verifiable network communications path of nodes through a network for the transfer of information from a first end node to a second end node; verifying the network communications path of nodes, by the first end node, before communicating by the first end node information intended for receipt by the second end node; and once the network communications path of nodes is verified by the first end node, communicating by the first end node, via the verified communications path of nodes, the information intended for receipt by the second end node; wherein the network watermark represents the verifiable network communications path of nodes." The patent application was filed on May 27, 2009 (12/473,266). 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=7,990,947&OS=7,990,947&RS=7,990,947 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Verizon Patent and Licensing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Verizon Patent and Licensing, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (7,990,969) developed by Douglas M. Pasko, Bedminster, N.J., and Oleg Berzin, Frazer, Pa., for a "multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) interface with virtual private network (VPN) application." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method comprising receiving, from a first node, a first packet at a network application server via a first local area network (LAN); receiving, from a second node, a second packet at the network application server via a second LAN; associating the first packet with a first VPN based on receiving the first packet via the first LAN; and associating the second packet with a second VPN based on reception of the second packet via the second LAN, wherein the first VPN and the second VPN include overlapping network address spaces." The patent application was filed on June 22, 2007 (11/767,029). 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=7,990,969&OS=7,990,969&RS=7,990,969 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Polytechnic University Assigned Patent for on Demand Peer-to-peer Video Streaming With Multiple Description Coding ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,986,637) developed by Shivendra S. Panwar, Freehold, N.J., Keith W. Ross, New York, and Yao Wang, Matawan, N.J., for an "on demand peer-to-peer video streaming with multiple description coding." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A peer-to-peer novel video streaming scheme is described in which each peer stores and streams videos to the requesting client peers. Each video is encoded into multiple descriptions and each description is placed on a different node. If a serving peer disconnects in the middle of a streaming session, the system searches for a replacement peer that stores the same video description and has sufficient uplink bandwidth. Employing multiple description coding in a peer-to-peer based network improves the robustness of the distributed streaming content in the event a serving peer is lost. Video quality can be maintained in the presence of server peers being lost. The video codec design and network policies have a significant effect on the streamed video quality. The system performance generally improves as the number of descriptions M for the video increases, which implies that a higher video quality can be obtained with the same network loading." The patent application was filed on Nov. 5, 2009 (12/613,388). 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=79,86,637.PN.&OS=PN/79,86,637&RS=PN/79,86,637 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (7,986,631) developed by five co-inventors for a "scheme for randomized selection of equal cost links during restoration." The co-inventors are Bruce Gilbert Cortez, Marlboro, N.J., Sanja Durinovic-Johri, Aberdeen, N.J., Pravin Kumar Johri, Aberdeen, N.J., John Paggi, Bayville, N.J., and Simon S. Zelingher, Morganville, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention relates generally to restoration of services in a network. More particularly, the invention encompasses a scheme for randomized selection of equal cost links during restoration in a communication network. The invention further includes multiple schemes for restoring services. The network could consist of optical, ATM, FR, or IP/MPLS switches and cross-connects." The patent application was filed on May 19, 2008 (12/152,962). 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=79,86,631.PN.&OS=PN/79,86,631&RS=PN/79,86,631 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Alcatel-Lucent Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Alcatel-Lucent, Murray Hill, N.J., has been assigned a patent (7,986,627) developed by four co-inventors for a "method for transmitting control information on the forward link of a wireless network." The co-inventors are Suman Das, Colonia, N.J., Shirish Nagaraj, Cedar Knolls, N.J., Subramanian Vasudevan, Morristown, N.J, and Harish Viswanathan, Morristown, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A signaling method is provided that can improve the efficiency of forward-link control signaling in OFDM systems. The method involves using a set of forward-link subcarriers that are dedicated for control information, and are shared by a set of two or more users. The control information destined for each user is spread using a respective spreading code, thereby to provide a spread control message. The spread control messages destined for the various users are summed together prior to transmission." The patent application was filed on Jan. 13, 2006 (11/332,023). 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=79,86,627.PN.&OS=PN/79,86,627&RS=PN/79,86,627 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** API Cryptek Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- API Cryptek, Sterling, Va., has been assigned a patent (7,990,884) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for traversing metadata across multiple network domains at various layers of the protocol stack." The co-inventors are David Gross, Saddle River, N.J., Timothy C. Williams, Sterling, Va., Robert Babiskin, Rockville, Md., and Randall E. Breeden, Gaithersburg, Md. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An inter-networking system and method that provides for access control identifier (ACI) metadata utilization for the life of a session even on unknown networks being traversed, allowing for ACI metadata utilization, reutilization, and modification in both the send and receive paths (bi-directional), and allowing for metadata transport over network segments requiring that ACIs be embedded at different layers of the communications stack." The patent application was filed on July 13, 2009 (12/458,465). 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=7,990,884&OS=7,990,884&RS=7,990,884 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** QUALCOMM Assigned Patent for Methods and Apparatus for Efficient Digital Broadcast Signaling in a Wireless Communications System ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- QUALCOMM, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (7,990,840) developed by Rajiv Laroia, Basking Ridge, N.J., Arnab Das, Summit, N.J., and Junyi Li, Bedminster, N.J., for "methods and apparatus for efficient digital broadcast signaling in a wireless communications system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "First and second transmitters transmit signals communicating the same information, e.g., program segment, but at different times. Different carriers may, but need not be, used by the different transmitters. If a wireless terminal can not recover broadcast segment information from one carrier, the wireless terminal can switch to another transmitter and recover the information, e.g., on another carrier, since the broadcasts are intentionally offset in time. In some embodiments, the timing is offset such that a single channel receiver is able to recover signals corresponding to the same program segment from two sources, and perform a decoding and information recovery using input from both sources, where recovery using input from a single source is not possible. Symbol level timing synchronization of base stations is not required thereby allowing for simpler implementations and/or lower overhead, as compared to systems which require base stations to be synchronized to the symbol timing level." The patent application was filed on March 7, 2006 (11/369,899). 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=7,990,840&OS=7,990,840&RS=7,990,840 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Fujitsu Assigned Patent for Traffic Shaping Via Internal Loopback ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Fujitsu, Kawasaki, Japan, has been assigned a patent (7,990,873) developed by Stephen J. Brolin, Livingston, N.J., for a "traffic shaping via internal loopback." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for traffic shaping includes receiving traffic from one or more clients at one or more ingress ports of forwarding engine of a network node. The method also includes transmitting at least a portion of the traffic through the forwarding engine to one or more first egress ports of the forwarding engine and shaping the traffic transmitted to the egress ports. Furthermore, the method includes looping the shaped traffic internally within the network node back to one or more ingress ports of the forwarding engine. The method further includes transmitting the looped traffic through the forwarding engine to one or more second egress ports (the second egress ports different than the first egress ports) and outputting the shaped traffic from the network node." The patent application was filed on May 19, 2009 (12/468,150). 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=7,990,873&OS=7,990,873&RS=7,990,873 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** QUALCOMM Assigned Patent for Signaling Method in an OFDM Multiple Access System ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- QUALCOMM, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (7,990,843) developed by Rajiv Laroia, Far Hills, N.J., Junyi Li, Bedminster, N.J., and Sathyadev Venkata Uppala, Whitehouse Station, N.J., for a "signaling method in an OFDM multiple access system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for reducing the peak-to-average ratio in an OFDM communication signal is provided. The method includes defining a constellation having a plurality of symbols, defining a symbol duration for the OFDM communication signal, and defining a plurality of time instants in the symbol duration. A plurality of tones are allocated to a particular communication device, and a discrete signal is constructed in the time domain by mapping symbols from the constellation to the time instants. A continuous signal is generated by applying an interpolation function to the discrete signal such that the continuous signal only includes sinusoids having frequencies which are equal to the allocated tones." The patent application was filed on April 13, 2010 (12/759,626). 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=7,990,843&OS=7,990,843&RS=7,990,843 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Alcatel-Lucent USA Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Provisioning a Hop Limited Protection Pathway in a Network ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Alcatel-Lucent USA, Murray Hill, N.J., has been assigned a patent (7,990,846) developed by Mansoor Ali Khan Alicherry, Scotch Plains, N.J., and Randeep S. Bhatia, Somerset, N.J., for a "method and apparatus for provisioning a hop limited protection pathway in a network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Method and apparatus for provisioning a protection pathway of a link joining a first point in a network and a second point in the network. The method includes the step of determining a shortest path between the first point and the second point in a protection graph, computing a length of said shortest path, determining if said link should be added to the protection graph according to said computed length and setting the shortest path in the protection graph as protection path for said link. The second step of determining includes evaluating the protection graph to determine if there no existing path or an existing path that is longer than a hop limit. Based on this evaluation, the method either adds the link or makes no change to the protection graph." The patent application was filed on Dec. 30, 2004 (11/027,905). 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=7,990,846&OS=7,990,846&RS=7,990,846 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent for System and Method for Long Haul Optical Protection for Storage Area Network (SAN) Transport ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (7,990,848) developed by James A. Gardner, Holmdel, N.J., for a "system and method for long haul optical protection for storage area network (SAN) transport." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed is a method and system by which a high level of network availability is provided to a storage area network. The method and system transmit data over a storage area network from a source to a destination. A first and second path are configured from the source to the destination. Additional paths between the source and destination are created by connecting a first mid-span switch on the first path to a second mid-span switch on the second path. Additionally, the same data is multicasted over two (or more) of the paths (e.g., on different wavelength channels)." The patent application was filed on Nov. 30, 2005 (11/290,705). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,990,848&OS=7,990,848&RS=7,990,848 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent for Method for Estimating Time and Frequency Offset in an OFDM System ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, has been assigned a patent (7,990,839) developed by Leonard Joseph Cimini Jr., Howell, N.J., and Bruce Edwin McNair, Holmdel, N.J., for a "method for estimating time and frequency offset in an OFDM system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A receiver that employs inherent characteristics of frequency domain representation of the data symbols. By computing a differential-in-frequency function across a large number of OFDM tones, robust estimates of time and frequency offset are obtained. The obtained time and frequency estimates provide control to sampling and frequency offset elements that are interposed between the reliever input and subsequent receiver stages." The patent application was filed on Oct. 31, 2007 (11/982,121). 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=7,990,839&OS=7,990,839&RS=7,990,839 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** QUALCOMM Assigned Patent for Signaling Method in an OFDM Multiple Access System ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- QUALCOMM, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (7,990,844) developed by Rajiv Laroia, Far Hills, N.J., Junyi Li, Bedminster, N.J., and Sathyadev Venkata Uppala, Whitehouse Station, N.J., for a "signaling method in an OFDM multiple access system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for reducing the peak-to-average ratio in an OFDM communication signal is provided. The method includes defining a constellation having a plurality of symbols, defining a symbol duration for the OFDM communication signal, and defining a plurality of time instants in the symbol duration. A plurality of tones are allocated to a particular communication device, and a discrete signal is constructed in the time domain by mapping symbols from the constellation to the time instants. A continuous signal is generated by applying an interpolation function to the discrete signal such that the continuous signal only includes sinusoids having frequencies which are equal to the allocated tones." The patent application was filed on April 13, 2010 (12/759,639). 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=7,990,844&OS=7,990,844&RS=7,990,844 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** DexCom Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- DexCom, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (7,986,986) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and methods for processing analyte sensor data." The co-inventors are Paul V. Goode, Cherry Hill, N.J., James Brauker, Addison, Mich., Apurv U. Kamath, San Diego, and Victoria E. Carr-Brendel, San Diego. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for processing sensor analyte data, including initiating calibration, updating calibration, evaluating clinical acceptability of reference and sensor analyte data, and evaluating the quality of sensor calibration. During initial calibration, the analyte sensor data is evaluated over a period of time to determine stability of the sensor. The sensor may be calibrated using a calibration set of one or more matched sensor and reference analyte data pairs. The calibration may be updated after evaluating the calibration set for best calibration based on inclusion criteria with newly received reference analyte data. Fail-safe mechanisms are provided based on clinical acceptability of reference and analyte data and quality of sensor calibration. Algorithms provide for optimized prospective and retrospective analysis of estimated blood analyte data from an analyte sensor." The patent application was filed on March 23, 2010 (12/730,108). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,986,986&OS=7,986,986&RS=7,986,986 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Alcatel-Lucent USA Assigned Patent for Method and System for Joint Reverse Link Access and Traffic Channel Radio Frequency Overload Control ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Alcatel-Lucent USA, Murray Hill, N.J., has been assigned a patent (7,990,855) developed by Qi Bi, Morris Plains, N.J., Yang Yang, Morris Plains, N.J., and Sigen Ye, Randolph, N.J., for a "method and system for joint reverse link access and traffic channel radio frequency overload control." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for joint reverse link access and traffic channel overload control in a cellular network includes relieving the reverse link total loading to optimize resource utilization and distribution among different types of mobile device users. The cellular network includes a plurality of mobile stations that wirelessly communicate with a base station over a reverse link, using a CDMA or similar communications protocol. A joint access and traffic overload control module creates an access channel load relief plan, a traffic channel load relief plan and then relieves the total loading of the reverse link based upon both the access channel load relief plan and the traffic channel load relief plan." The patent application was filed on July 11, 2008 (12/218,155). 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=7,990,855&OS=7,990,855&RS=7,990,855 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Fujitsu Assigned Patent for Link Aggregation with Internal Load Balancing ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Fujitsu, Kawasaki, Japan, has been assigned a patent (7,990,853) developed by Stephen J. Brolin, Livingston, N.J., for a "link aggregation with internal load balancing." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method provides Link Aggregation that internalizes the link aggregation to improve internal traffic capacity, in addition to sharing traffic across external links to connecting packet systems. A system for handling data traffic comprises a plurality of network switches, each network switch having an interface to a packet network, the interface arranged so as to provide at least one link aggregation group, an interface to at least one other network switch, and an interface to each of a plurality of optical network service units, a plurality of optical network service units, each optical network service units having an interface to each of the plurality of network switches and an interface to at least one optical network, wherein each network switch is operable to receive data over a link aggregation group from the packet network and transmit the data to at least one optical network service unit either directly or via another network switch based on an optical network to which the data is destined (or other criteria) Also, each optical network service unit can send upstream data to any port of either network switch- via selected internal paths." The patent application was filed on Dec. 12, 2006 (11/637,041). 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=7,990,853&OS=7,990,853&RS=7,990,853 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Mintera Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Mintera, Acton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,986,885) developed by Pavel Mamyshev, Morganville, N.J., for a "method and apparatus for control of DPSK and DQPSK receivers and transmitters." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An optical communication device such as a transmitter or receiver has a control loop for controlling relative phase of two related optical signals based on signal peak intensity. An optical transmitter measures the signal peak intensity of a combined optical signal representing two data channels to adjust relative phase as desired. An optical receiver measures the signal peak intensity of combined electrical signals, single electrical signals or single optical signals to adjust relative phase as desired. Signal peak intensity is minimized or maximized by adjusting the relative phase, depending upon the modulation configuration used. The feedback control provides a consistent and robust control to stabilize the optical communication device in the presence of variables such as temperature changes, aging and manufacturing tolerances." The patent application was filed on Aug. 24, 2006 (11/509,489). 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=7,986,885.PN.&OS=PN/7,986,885&RS=PN/7,986,885 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Music Choice Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Music Choice, Horsham, Pa., has been assigned a patent (7,986,977) developed by four co-inventors for "systems and methods for facilitating the acquisition of content." The co-inventors are Jeremy C. Rosenberg, Havre de Grace, Md., Robert A. Ellis, Wyndmoor, Pa., Ronald M. Yurman, Short Hills, N.J., and Siamak Behta, Conshohocken, Pa. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention provides systems and methods for acquiring content (e.g., a ring tone or a ring view) for a communication device." The patent application was filed on Feb. 9, 2010 (12/702,472). 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=7,986,977&OS=7,986,977&RS=7,986,977 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Siemens Medical Solutions Assigned Patent for System and Method for X-ray Based Assessment of Aneurysm Pulsation ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Siemens Medical Solutions, Malvern, Pa., has been assigned a patent (7,986,822) developed by five co-inventors for a "system and method for X-ray based assessment of aneurysm pulsation." The co-inventors are Andrew F Hall, St. Charles, Mo., Ashraf Mohamed, Houston, Teri Moore, Palo Alto, Calif., Esther Rohm, Houston, and Frank Sauer, Princeton, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of assessing rupture risk of an aneurysm from time-resolved images includes injecting a contrast enhancing agent into a patient with an aneurysm, using an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal to trigger an image acquisition run, wherein a sequence of 2D X-ray fluoroscopic images is acquired along with a corresponding ECG signal value, rotating a C-arm attaching the X-ray fluoroscopic imaging apparatus during said image acquisition run, wherein the images in said X-ray fluoroscopic image sequence are acquired from a rotating viewpoint, sorting the images in said X-ray fluoroscopic image sequence into time windows of the cardiac cycle based on the ECG signal, and constructing one or more 3-dimensional (3D) angiography image volumes of said aneurysm from said 2D fluoroscopic image sequence." The patent application was filed on April 12, 2007 (11/734,395). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,986,822&OS=7,986,822&RS=7,986,822 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Siemens Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Siemens, Munich, Germany, has been assigned a patent (7,986,823) developed by Yiwen Wang, Gainesville, Fla., and Li Zhangm Skillman, N.J., for a "system and method for consistent detection of mid-sagittal planes for magnetic resonance brain scans." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for finding consistent mid-sagittal planes (MSPs) in a pair of 3D image head scans of a same patient includes, for each image, selecting a 2D transverse localizer image from a middle slice along a transverse view of the 3D image, fitting an ellipse to the transverse localizer image to locate a head position (x, y), where the y-coordinate is indicative of a position of a 2D coronal localizer image in the 3D image, fitting an ellipse to the coronal localizer image to locate a head position (x, y) in the coronal localizer image, calculating a middle line in the transverse localizer image and a middle line in the coronal localizer image, calculating an MSP from the middle lines, and determining a new set of slope and intercept parameters for one MSP that maximizes a similarity measure between the one MSP and the other MSP." The patent application was filed on May 7, 2008 (12/116,461). 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=7,986,823&OS=7,986,823&RS=7,986,823 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Avaya Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Avaya, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (7,986,777) developed by six co-inventors for a "stand for desktop telephone." The co-inventors are Martin Daly, South Orange, N.J., Brian Dinicola, Monroe Township, N.J., James Farber, Rumson, N.J., Antoinette Mazza, Somerset, N.J., Wolfgang Schneider, Frankfurt, Germany, and Claus-Christian Eckhardt, Hannover, Germany. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A stand allows a user to quickly and easily set the angular orientation of a telephone or other piece of equipment relative to a support surface (e.g. a desktop). The stand is fastened to, and removed from, the equipment without the use of tools by a magnetic attraction. The stand allows a user to tilt the equipment at one of two user-selected angles, to improve access to keys of the equipment and/or to reduce glare on the equipment's display. The display may also be tiltable. The stand provides for at least two course angle adjustments of the tilt of the equipment by the selected orientation of the stand and/or the selected attachment position of the stand relative to the equipment." The patent application was filed on Nov. 2, 2006 (11/556,133). 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=7,986,777.PN.&OS=PN/7,986,777&RS=PN/7,986,777 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent for Automated Call Router for Business Directory using the World Wide Web ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (7,986,771) developed by Junlan Feng, Basking Ridge, N.J., Mazin Gilbert, Warren, N.J., and Narendra Gupta, Dayton, N.J., for an "automated call router for business directory using the world wide web." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The embodiments include a system, a computer readable medium, and a method for establishing a communication connection after searching the World Wide Web for relevant phone information. The system can include a first communication device for forming at least one communication connection between the first communication device and a second communication device, search means adapted to accept a query, access means adapted to (i) search and identify relevant phone number information using the query (ii) create at least one icon to link the first communication device to a relevant phone number included in the relevant phone number information identified by the query, and (iii) reformulate the query if no relevant phone numbers are identified during the search. The system also includes click-to-dial means adapted to establish at least one communication connection from the first communication device to the second communication device." The patent application was filed on Aug. 1, 2005 (11/194,853). 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=7,986,771.PN.&OS=PN/7,986,771&RS=PN/7,986,771 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Rhomson Licensing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Rhomson Licensing, Boulogne-Billancourt, France, has been assigned a patent (7,986,724) developed by Jeffrey Allen Cooper, Rocky Hill, N.J., and Kumar Ramaswamy, Plainsboro, N.J., for "digital audio/video broadcast on cellular systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for providing information to a plurality of wireless mobile communication devices. The method includes dedicating at least one channel of a plurality of spread spectrum data channels as a broadcast channel. The frequency and phase of a carrier signal and of a chip rate clock of the at least one channel are synchronized for each of a plurality of cell transmitters of a respective plurality of base stations. The Information is then broadcast over the at least one dedicated channel from each base station." The patent application was filed on July 12, 2002 (10/483,688). 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=7,986,724.PN.&OS=PN/7,986,724&RS=PN/7,986,724 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,986,941) developed by Hui Luo, Marlboro, N.J., for a "mobile communication device with silent conversation capability." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for providing silent conversation capability in a mobile communication device. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise establishing a wireless communication link between the mobile communication device and a second communication device. A user input may be received at the mobile communication device. A voice message may be determined from a plurality of voice messages based, at least in part, on the user input. Such determination may, for example, comprise selecting a voice message from a plurality of prerecorded voice messages and/or determining a voice message to be synthesized. The determined voice message may then be communicated to the second communication device. For example, the determined voice message may be communicated to the second communication device in such a way that people in the proximity of the mobile communication device might not hear the determined voice message." The patent application was filed on June 7, 2005 (11/146,603). 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=7986941.PN.&OS=PN/7986941&RS=PN/7986941 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Research In Motion Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Research In Motion, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, has been assigned a patent (7,986,943) developed by George Baldwin Bumiller, Ramsey, N.J., for an "electronic file transfer for a communications device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods are provided for identifying an electronic file that is accessible by a communications node to be transmitted to a recipient. A communications device sends an identification of the electronic file. The communications node receives the identification of the electronic file, identifies the electronic file based on the identification, and accesses the electronic file for transmission to the recipient. The electronic file is not transmitted from the communications device to the communications node." The patent application was filed on Sept. 3, 2010 (12/875,405). 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=7986943.PN.&OS=PN/7986943&RS=PN/7986943 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** QUALCOMM Assigned Patent for Methods and Apparatus for Using Connection Identifiers Having Different Priorities at Different Times ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- QUALCOMM, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (7,986,698) developed by four co-inventors for "methods and apparatus for using connection identifiers having different priorities at different times." The co-inventors are Junyi Li, Bedminster, N.J., Rajiv Laroia, Far Hills, N.J., Saurabh Tavildar, Jersey City, N.J., and Xinzhou Wu, Monmouth Junction, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus related to scheduling and/or utilization of air link traffic resources are described. A connection identifier is associated with priority with regard to use of an air link resource, e.g., a peer to peer traffic segment which is in contention. A particular connection may acquire and hold one or multiple connection identifiers. In some embodiments, the priority associated with a particular connection identifier is intentionally varied in a set of traffic slots. In some such embodiments, there is priority randomization from slot to slot. In one such implementation there is a statistically uniform average priority between the different connection identifiers over the recurring structure. Such an implementation facilitates access to traffic segments to a wide range of users, yet allows for differentiation with regard to the amount of access as a function of the number of connection identifiers being held by a particular connection." The patent application was filed on March 13, 2008 (12/047,761). 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=7,986,698.PN.&OS=PN/7,986,698&RS=PN/7,986,698 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (7,990,384) developed by four co-inventors for an "audio-visual selection process for the synthesis of photo-realistic talking-head animations." The co-inventors are Eric Cosatto, Highlands, N.J., Hans Peter Graf, Lincroft, N.J., Gerasimos Potamianos, White Plains, N.J., and Juergen Schroeter, New Providence, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for generating photo-realistic talking-head animation from a text input utilizes an audio-visual unit selection process. The lip-synchronization is obtained by optimally selecting and concatenating variable-length video units of the mouth area. The unit selection process utilizes the acoustic data to determine the target costs for the candidate images and utilizes the visual data to determine the concatenation costs. The image database is prepared in a hierarchical fashion, including high-level features (such as a full 3D modeling of the head, geometric size and position of elements) and pixel-based, low-level features (such as a PCA-based metric for labeling the various feature bitmaps)." The patent application was filed on Sept. 15, 2003 (10/662,550). 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=7,990,384.PN.&OS=PN/7,990,384&RS=PN/7,990,384 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Siemens Assigned Patent for System and Method for Coronary Segmentation and Visualization ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Siemens, Munchen, Germany, has been assigned a patent (7,990,379) developed by Shmuel Aharon, West Windsor, N.J., Mehmet Akif Gulsun, Lawrenceville, N.J., and Huseyin Tek, Princeton, N.J., for a "system and method for coronary segmentation and visualization." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of coronary vessel segmentation and visualization includes providing a digitized coronary image, placing a plurality of seed points along an estimated centerline of a coronary vessel, selecting a seed point and constructing a cyclic graph around the seed point in a plane perpendicular to the centerline at the seed point, performing a multi-scale-mean shift filtering in the perpendicular plane to estimate image gradient values, detecting a vessel boundary using a minimum-mean-cycle optimization that minimizes a ratio of a cost of a cycle to a length of a cycle, constructing a sub-voxel accurate vessel boundary about a point on the centerline, and refining the location of the centerline point from the sub-voxel accurate boundary, where the steps of constructing a sub-voxel accurate vessel boundary and refining the centerline point location are repeated until convergence." The patent application was filed on Oct. 11, 2007 (11/870,546). 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=7,990,379.PN.&OS=PN/7,990,379&RS=PN/7,990,379 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Visionsense Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Visionsense, Petah Tikva, Israel, has been assigned a patent (7,990,371) developed by Meir Bar-Zohar, Haifa, Israel, and Avi Yaron, Tenafly, N.J., for a "method for reconstructing a three-dimensional surface of an object." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Method for determining a disparity value of a disparity of each of a plurality of points on an object, the method including the procedures of detecting by a single image detector, a first image of the object through a first aperture, and a second image of the object through a second aperture, correcting the distortion of the first image, and the distortion of the second image, by applying an image distortion correction model to the first image and to the second image, respectively, thereby producing a first distortion-corrected image and a second distortion-corrected image, respectively, for each of a plurality of pixels in at least a portion of the first distortion-corrected image representing a selected one of the points, identifying a matching pixel in the second distortion-corrected image, and determining the disparity value according to the coordinates of each of the pixels and of the respective matching pixel." The patent application was filed on Dec. 10, 2007 (11/953,686). 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=7,990,371.PN.&OS=PN/7,990,371&RS=PN/7,990,371 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. 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. -1056681 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |