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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in California (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 California. *** Richman Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- Richman Technology, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (7,990,268) developed by Lawrence Richman, La Mesa, Calif., for a "method and protocol for real time security system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A security system comprises one or more sensor devices configured to detect conditions at one or more sites; one or more checkpoints at each of said one or more sites configured to receive signals from the one or more sensor devices; and a central headquarters processor configured to receive signals indicative of the conditions detected at said one or more sites from the one or more checkpoints. The central headquarters processor is configured to process the signals to determine if an event has occurred." The patent application was filed on Oct. 17, 2008 (12/253,826). 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=79,90,268.PN.&OS=PN/79,90,268&RS=PN/79,90,268 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Integrated Device Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- Integrated Device Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,990,226) developed by Stephen E. Aycock, Fremont, Calif., for a "non-linear crystal oscillator capacitive load circuits." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A load circuit for a crystal oscillator includes a plurality of capacitors and a load control circuit configured to selectively add the capacitors to a load at a terminal of the crystal oscillator responsive to a command signal to provide a non-linear capacitive load at the terminal of the crystal oscillator that compensates for a non-linearity of a frequency versus load capacitance characteristic of the crystal oscillator. The load circuit may include a plurality of switches, respective ones of which are configured to load a terminal of the crystal oscillator with respective ones of the capacitors, and control circuit configured to control the plurality of switches to load the terminal of the crystal oscillator responsive to a binary command signal such that respective single ones of the switches operates in response to respective quantum changes a binary command signal over an operating range of the binary command signal." The patent application was filed on May 11, 2009 (12/463,749). 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=79,90,226.PN.&OS=PN/79,90,226&RS=PN/79,90,226 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,991,007) developed by Puneet Agarwal, Cupertino, Calif., and Yook Khai Cheok, Palo Alto, Calif., for a "method and apparatus for hardware packets reassembly in constrained networks." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A hardware packets reassembly apparatus and method includes an ingress unit receiving and parsing a data packet, recognizing fragments corresponding to the data packet, and outputting control information of the fragments. An en-queue unit stores the control information of each fragment, links each related fragment based on the control information, and enqueues the data packet when all fragments are available corresponding to the data packet, wherein the data packet is enqueued only when all of the fragments corresponding to the data packet are available in a sequential order. A dequeue unit dequeues the data packet from a packet descriptor, and scheduling the data packet based on a corresponding class of service. An egress unit assembles all fragments corresponding to the data packet into a full packet and outputting the assembled data packet from an output port." The patent application was filed on July 5, 2005 (11/172,799). 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=7,991,007&OS=7,991,007&RS=7,991,007 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Nortel Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- Nortel Networks, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, has been assigned a patent (7,986,684) developed by four co-inventors for a "multi-mode endpoint in a communication network system and methods thereof." The co-inventors are Ravi Anant Ravindranath, Milpitas, Calif., Eddie Tan-atichat, Fremont, Calif., Sreedhara Baithadka, Sunnyvale, Calif., and William P. Korbe, Milpitas, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, apparatus, and communication network system that allows an endpoint to be simultaneously registered with more than one communications server is described. In one embodiment, the communication network system includes a network, a plurality of communications servers that are coupled to the network, and a plurality of endpoints coupled to the network. Each endpoint is capable of being simultaneously registered with more than one communications server. A communication method for an endpoint involves registering a first logical line of the endpoint with a first communications server, and registering a second logical line of the endpoint with a second communications server. Consequently, flexibility is obtained by allowing an endpoint to choose the registering communications server for each logical line of the endpoint." The patent application was filed on Dec. 13, 2005 (11/301,746). 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=79,86,684.PN.&OS=PN/79,86,684&RS=PN/79,86,684 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Hon Hai Precision Industry Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- Hon Hai Precision Industry, Tu-Cheng, New Taipei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (7,990,256) developed by Ga-Lane Chen, Santa Clara, Calif., for an "automatic warning and breaking system for vehicle." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An automatic warning and breaking system for a vehicle, includes a plurality of cameras, a motion sensor, a data process unit, an alarm unit, a control unit and an adjustor unit. The cameras are for capturing images of objects inside and outside of the vehicle. The motion sensor unit includes at least an acceleration sensor and a gyro sensor, configured for sensing motion of the vehicle. The data process unit is electrically connected to the cameras and the motion sensor unit, configured for processing data from the respective cameras and the motion sensor unit. The alarm unit is connected to the data process unit, configured for giving a warning signal if a data processing result is unsafe. The control unit is configured for generating a control signal based on the warning signal. The adjustor unit is configured for adjusting a break unit of the vehicle based on the control signal." The patent application was filed on Oct. 30, 2008 (12/261,300). 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=79,90,256.PN.&OS=PN/79,90,256&RS=PN/79,90,256 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,990,216) developed by Yuyu Chang, Irvine, Calif., and Hooman Darabi, Irvine, Calif., for a "cross-coupled low noise amplifier for cellular applications." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Cross-coupled low noise amplifier for cellular applications. A circuitry implementation that includes two pairs of metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) (either N-type of P-type) operates as an LNA, which can be used within any of a wide variety of communication devices. In one embodiment, this design is particularly adaptable to cellular telephone applications. A majority of the elements are integrated within the design and need not be implemented off-chip, and this can provide for a reduction in area required by the circuitry. A very high output impedance is provided by using two transistors (implemented in a triple well configuration) with resistive source degeneration. A higher than typical power supply voltage can be employed (if desired) to accommodate the voltage drops of the resistors and transistors." The patent application was filed on May 28, 2009 (12/474,021). 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=79,90,216.PN.&OS=PN/79,90,216&RS=PN/79,90,216 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** California Inventors Develop Patent for Inventory Alarm and Ink Tag Combination ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- Graham Handyside, San Jose, Calif., and Xiao Hui Yang, Cupertino, Calif., have developed a patent (7,990,273) for an "inventory alarm and ink tag combination." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An inventory control tag comprises a first component, a second component, and a fastening mechanism for fastening together the first component and the second component. The fastening mechanism is configured such that the first component and the second component can be easily locked together and can only be unlocked from each other in normal usage by an external tool. At least one chamber defined by at least one of the first and second components is provided. Further, an electronic device is located in one of the chambers for triggering a compatible sensor and alarm system external to the control tag. A dye container located in one of the chambers designed to fracture and spill dye when the first and second components are forced apart." The patent application was filed on June 13, 2008 (12/157,758). 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=79,90,273.PN.&OS=PN/79,90,273&RS=PN/79,90,273 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Tyco Electronics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- Tyco Electronics, Middletown, Pa., has been assigned a patent (7,990,240) developed by Bernard Victor Bush, Santa Barbara, Calif., and Jeremiah Garcia Reyes, Santa Barbara, Calif., for an epoxy sealed relay. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A relay assembly is provided that includes an intermediate member to aid in coupling a wire to a housing." The patent application was filed on Oct. 18, 2007 (11/874,739). 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=79,90,240.PN.&OS=PN/79,90,240&RS=PN/79,90,240 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Kirsen Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- Kirsen Technologies, Berkeley, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,990,270) developed by Kirill Mostov, Berkeley, Calif., for "transportation security system and associated methods." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A security system for monitoring at least one shipping container being transported by at least one cargo transport vehicle has a Container Security Device (CSD) configured to be removably coupled to the at least one freight shipping container wall thereby utilizing for monitoring a cargo inside the container and detection of intrusion violations accompanied with partial destruction of the container wall when in a coupled condition. The CSD including at least one anti-tamper sensor, a microcontroller and a communication device; where the microcontroller generates an alarm signal based on a signal from at least one anti-tamper sensor is subjected to an individual sensor processing procedure and then to an integrated sensor processing procedure, the integrated sensor processing procedure make determination of the overall container alert status based on the alarm signal from at least one sensor. The system also has a Network Operations Center (NOC), the NOC including a NOC communications facility configured to communicate with at least one telecommunication network, the NOC being configured to receive data from each of the plurality of the CSDs and including a data storage medium configured to store sensor data and contained an archive of the container events." The patent application was filed on Jan. 30, 2006 (11/343,560). 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=79,90,270.PN.&OS=PN/79,90,270&RS=PN/79,90,270 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent for ICMP With IP Routing Instance Information ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,986,689) developed by Naiming Shen, Santa Clara, Calif., and Enke Chen, San Jose, Calif., for an "ICMP with IP routing instance information." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for providing routing instance information are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a trace packet at a network device, generating an Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packet in response to the trace packet, and transmitting the ICMP packet. The ICMP packet includes routing instance information contained within the network device." The patent application was filed on Feb. 13, 2007 (11/706,113). 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=79,86,689.PN.&OS=PN/79,86,689&RS=PN/79,86,689 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Qualcomm Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (7,986,680) developed by Byoung-Hoon Kim, San Diego, Durga Prasad Malladi, San Diego, and Sandip Sarkar, San Diego, for a "transmit format selection with consideration for resource reuse." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques for selecting transmit formats in a manner to account for the degrees of resource reuse for multiple data streams sent simultaneously from multiple antennas are described. The degree of resource reuse for each data stream indicates the amount of reuse of resources (e.g., orthogonal codes or subcarriers) observed by that stream. Interference estimates for the multiple data streams are derived based on an initial resource assignment. The degrees of resource reuse are determined based on the interference estimates and are used to derive at least one correction factor. At least one transmit format is then selected for the data streams using the at least one correction factor. Each data stream is associated with a transmit format that indicates the amount of resources to use for the data stream and other parameters. Resources are assigned to each data stream in accordance with its transmit format." The patent application was filed on April 21, 2006 (11/408,477). 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=79,86,680.PN.&OS=PN/79,86,680&RS=PN/79,86,680 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Thermo Fisher Scientific Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,990,241) developed by Marcos Hernandez, San Jose, Calif., and Carl Rosenblatt, Wayland, Mass., for an "encapsulated switches employing mercury substitute and methods of manufacture thereof." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Encapsulated switches are disclosed which substitute non-toxic gallium alloy for mercury. In one embodiment, wetting of the interior surfaces of the housing is prevented by coating the surfaces with an electrically insulative inorganic non-metallic material, such as alumina or boron nitrate. According to another embodiment, a perfluorocarbon liquid is employed as the anti-wetting agent." The patent application was filed on Oct. 7, 2008 (12/247,136). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=79,90,241.PN.&OS=PN/79,90,241&RS=PN/79,90,241 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Marvell International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- Marvell International, Hamilton, Bermuda, has been assigned a patent (7,990,225) developed by six co-inventors for a low-jitter phase-locked loop. The co-inventors are Jianmin Guo, Pudong District of Shanghai, China, Yihui Li, Pudong District of Shanghai, China, Hong Xue, Pudong District of Shanghai, China, Yonghua Song, Cupertino, Calif., Tao Shui, San Jose, Calif., and Hao Zhou, Pudong District of Shanghai, China. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A phase-locked loop (PLL) with a decreased frequency tuning gain K.sub.VCO and a loop filter using capacitor multiplication technique to get high chip area efficiency. To get decreased frequency tuning gain, K.sub.VCO, a voltage to current converter in a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) in the PLL may comprise a first voltage to current converter and a second voltage to current converter. The trans-conductance of the first voltage to current converter is 1/.beta. of that of the second voltage to current converter, wherein .beta.>1. The first voltage to current converter is controlled by an output voltage of a loop filter in the PLL, and the second voltage to current converter is controlled by a relative DC voltage, which may be the junction node between R1 and C1 in a loop filer of the PLL. Capacitor multiplication technique may use an auxiliary charge pump to charge or discharge the junction node between R1 and C1 inversely to the main charge pump. When the charge or discharge current unit of the auxiliary charge pump is .alpha. times of the main charge pump, the capacitance of C1 may be reduced to just (1-.alpha.) times of what it needed in a conventional loop stability compensation method, wherein .alpha.<1." The patent application was filed on July 7, 2009 (12/498,989). 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=79,90,225.PN.&OS=PN/79,90,225&RS=PN/79,90,225 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent for Signaling Format for WLANs ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,986,679) developed by Jason A. Trachewsky, Menlo Park, Calif., George Kondylis, Palo Alto, Calif., and Amit G. Bagchi, Mountain View, Calif., for "signaling format for WLANs." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for wireless communication begins by determining whether legacy devices are within a proximal region of the wireless communication. The method continues, when at least one legacy device is within the proximal region, formatting a frame to include: a legacy preamble; a signal field; an extended preamble; at least one additional signal field; at least one service field; an inter frame gap; and a data field." The patent application was filed on May 24, 2010 (12/785,745). 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=79,86,679.PN.&OS=PN/79,86,679&RS=PN/79,86,679 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,986,690) developed by Alan Ford, New South Wales, Australia, and Steve Lee, San Jose, Calif., for an "inter-gateway cloned device detector using provisioning request analysis." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, a cloned cable modem detector is configured to assemble a table associating cable modem physical addresses to Cable Modem Termination Systems (CMTSs) according to provisioning requests forwarded from the CMTSs. When one of the provisioning requests associates a cable modem physical address with a different CMTS than an existing association in the table, the detector outputs an indication of cable modem cloning." The patent application was filed on Aug. 12, 2008 (12/190,527). 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=79,86,690.PN.&OS=PN/79,86,690&RS=PN/79,86,690 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Altera Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- Altera, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,990,235) developed by Yee Huan Yew, Bayan Lepas, Malaysia, and Hong Shi, Santa Rosa, Calif., for a "simultaneous switching noise filter architecture and method." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention is directed to a transmission line assembly and method of propagating signals therethrough that features forming transmission lines of the assembly to provide desired filtering properties. To that end, the assembly includes a plurality of spaced-apart transmission lines placing first and second sets of active circuits in electrical communication, with a subset of the plurality of spaced apart transmission lines having dimensions to filter unwanted characteristics of signals, propagating between the first and second sets and inductively coupled between one or more of the plurality of spaced-apart transmission lines. The method performs the function of the assembly." The patent application was filed on May 28, 2008 (12/128,581). 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=79,90,235.PN.&OS=PN/79,90,235&RS=PN/79,90,235 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Avaya Assigned Patent for Real-time XML Messaging Protocol ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- Avaya, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (7,986,685) developed by Phil Wang, Nepean, Canada, and Abdulkader Omar Barbir, Chelsea, Canada, for a "real-time XML messaging protocol." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Described are a method and a system for using XML in a real-time message for transmission of data from a source to a destination over a network. The real-time XML message includes a header element and a body element. The header element includes one or more destination elements and one source element, each having a unique identifier and a set of pre-defined and user-defined real-time properties. The body element of the message includes the data to be carried to the destination in plain or encoded XML content. XML addresses are proposed as the identifier of the source and destination, and an XML naming service can look up an XML address from the canonical name of the source and destination. Advantageously, the real-time message can be transported through the network using XML addresses included in the destination and source elements of the message." The patent application was filed on Nov. 8, 2005 (11/268,909). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=79,86,685.PN.&OS=PN/79,86,685&RS=PN/79,86,685 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** QUALCOMM Assigned Patent for Efficient Utilization of Transmission Gaps for Cell Measurements ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- QUALCOMM, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (7,986,661) developed by four co-inventors for an "efficient utilization of transmission gaps for cell measurements." The co-inventors are Supratik Bhattacharjee, San Diego, Messay Amerga, San Diego, Brian Dong, San Diego, and Gurdeep Singh, San Diego. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A terminal communicates with a first wireless network and obtains a list of cells in a second wireless network to measure. The terminal operates in a compressed mode and receives multiple transmission gap pattern sequences for different measurement purposes, e.g., RSSI measurements, BSIC identification, and BSIC re-confirmation. The terminal utilizes each transmission gap for its designated purpose or an alternate purpose. For each transmission gap, the designated purpose for the transmission gap is ascertained, and whether the transmission gap is usable for an alternate purpose is also determined based on at least one criterion. The transmission gap is used for the alternate purpose if the at least one criterion is satisfied and is used for the designated purpose otherwise. For example, a transmission gap designated for RSSI measurement may be used for BSIC identification, a transmission gap designed for BSIC identification or BSIC re-confirmation may be used for RSSI measurement, and so on." The patent application was filed on March 2, 2006 (11/367,498). 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=79,86,661.PN.&OS=PN/79,86,661&RS=PN/79,86,661 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Intel Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,990,999) developed by Khee Wooi Lee, Penang, Malaysia, Mikal C. Hunsaker, El Dorado Hills, Calif., and Darren L. Abramson, Folsom, Calif., for a "starvation prevention scheme for a fixed priority PCE-express arbiter with grant counters using arbitration pools." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Method and apparatus for arbitrating prioritized cycle streams in a manner that prevents starvation. High priority and low priority arbitration pools are employed for arbitrating multiple input cycle streams. Each cycle stream contains a stream of requests of a given type and associated priority. Under normal circumstances in which resource buffer availability for a destination device is not an issue, higher priority streams are provided grants over lower priority streams, with all streams receiving grants. However, when a resource buffer is not available for a lower priority stream, arbitration of high priority streams with available buffer resources are redirected to the low priority arbitration pool, resulting in generation of grant counts for both the higher and lower priority streams. When the resource buffer for the low priority stream becomes available and a corresponding request is arbitrated in the high priority arbitration pool, a grant for the request can be immediately made since grant counts for the stream already exist." The patent application was filed on Jan. 14, 2009 (12/353,906). 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=7,990,999&OS=7,990,999&RS=7,990,999 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** University of Florida Research Foundation Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- The University of Florida Research Foundation, Gainesville, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,990,979) developed by Wencheng Lu, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Sartaj Kumar Sahni, Gainesville, Fla., for a "recursively partitioned static IP router tables." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A recursively partitioned static router-table, the data structure incorporating a first-level partition including subtries and an auxiliary trie. A node of the subtrie includes a path Q(N) from the root R of a trie T to a root N of the subtrie, a stride s for a next-level partition, a mask that characterizes a next-level perfect hash function, and a pointer to the hash table for the next-level partition. At least one of the trie T, the first-level partition, the auxiliary trie, and the next-level partition is represented by a base structure selected from the group consisting of MBT and HSST." The patent application was filed on Aug. 24, 2007 (12/377,032). 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=7,990,979&OS=7,990,979&RS=7,990,979 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Habanero Holdings Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- Habanero Holdings, Saratoga, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,990,994) developed by seven co-inventors for a "storage gateway provisioning and configuring." The co-inventors are Jia-Jen Yeh, Cupertino, Calif., Akram A. Abou-Emara, Mountain View, Calif., Harinder Singh Bhasin, Danville, Calif., Sriram Chidambaram, Santa Clara, Calif., Shreyas P. Gandhi, Sunnyvale, Calif., Nakul Pratap Saraiya, Palo Alto, Calif., and Christopher Dean Youngworth, San Jose, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Storage gateway provisioning, configuration, and management functions provide mechanisms to specify and manage parameters and operations associated with storage gateways. The parameters may include any combination of VLAN topology, zoning behavior, LUN masking, bandwidth, and priority. The parameters may also include path information describing initiator to target associations, enabling load-balancing aggregations and multipathing redundancy. Parameters may be specified at relatively low-levels, describing specific HW elements, or may be specified at relatively high-levels, describing desired bandwidth and redundancy requirements, with SW determining low-level HW assignments. Configuration and management functions enable dynamic modification of storage gateway parameters (such as bandwidth between selected initiator and target pairs). Management functions also enable dynamic switchover from a primary path to a secondary path with respect to a storage device." The patent application was filed on Oct. 22, 2005 (11/256,646). 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=7,990,994&OS=7,990,994&RS=7,990,994 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Skype Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- Skype, Dublin, Ireland, has been assigned a patent (7,991,001) developed by John A. Nix, Chicago, Brian C. Wiles, Cameron Park, Calif., and Jeffrey S. Mumma, Chicago, for a "packet-switched telephony call server." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for providing packet-switched telephony service. The system provides call control, signaling, and/or delivery of voice, video, and other media in substantially real time. One embodiment of the system includes a call client application on a user device, and a call server located at a packet-switched telephony service provider. The call server is preferably operable to communicate with the call client in a non-native protocol and with the gateway in a native protocol." The patent application was filed on Nov. 7, 2006 (11/593,779). 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=7,991,001&OS=7,991,001&RS=7,991,001 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** QUALCOMM Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Channel Quality Feedback in a Wireless Communication ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- QUALCOMM, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (7,986,672) developed by Edward G. Tiedemann Jr., Concord, Mass., and Stein A. Lundby, Solana Beach, Calif., for a "method and apparatus for channel quality feedback in a wireless communication." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Method and apparatus for providing link quality feedback to a transmitter. In one embodiment, a periodic link quality message is transmitted on a gated channel, while continuous differential indicators are transmitted. Between quality messages, the differential indicators track the quality of the link. In one embodiment, a parity check is provided with the quality message. In another embodiment, the frequency of transmission for the quality messages is determined by the channel quality. When the receiver anticipates reception of a transmission, the quality messages are generated; else the quality messages are halted." The patent application was filed on Feb. 25, 2002 (10/084,019). 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=79,86,672.PN.&OS=PN/79,86,672&RS=PN/79,86,672 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Topside Research Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- Topside Research, Williamsburg, Va., has been assigned a patent (7,990,987) developed by seven co-inventors for a "network processor having bypass capability." The co-inventors are Thomas C. Reiner, Agoura Hills, Calif., Kirk Jong, Agoura Hills, Calif., Phil Terry, Simi Valley, Calif., Neely Walls, Agoura Hills, Calif., Chris Haywood, Agoura Hills, Calif., Michael de la Garrigue, Agoura Hills, Calif., and Adam Rappoport, San Diego. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A network processor having bypass capability in which some data units are diverted from being processed by the processor core of the network processor. In one embodiment, a network processor may include a receiver to receive data units, configuration information used to evaluate whether the data units require processing, a processor core to process data units that require processing, a bypass store to hold those data units which do not require processing by the processor core, and a transmitter to transmit the data units. In one embodiment, a method may include receiving a plurality of data units, receiving configuration information, evaluating whether each of the data units requires processing based on the configuration information, bypassing processing those of the data units that do not require processing based on the evaluating, processing those of the data units that require processing based on the evaluating, and transmitting the data units." The patent application was filed on Feb. 25, 2003 (10/374,214). 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=7,990,987&OS=7,990,987&RS=7,990,987 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Juniper Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- Juniper Networks, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,990,993) developed by four co-inventors for a "platform-independent control plane and lower-level derivation of forwarding structures." The co-inventors are Kaushik Ghosh, Sunnyvale, Calif., Kireeti Kompella, Los Altos, Calif., Junan Chen, San Jose, Calif., and Raj Tuplar, Cupertino, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A network device includes a processor that executes a software module above an operating system of a network device, wherein the software module is configured to create a set of forwarding structures for use in forwarding network traffic with the network device without regard to limitations of an underlying architecture of the forwarding plane. The network device also includes a forwarding structure control module operative within or below the operating system of the network device, wherein the forwarding structure control module is configured to create a set of derived forwarding structures based on the set of forwarding structures provided by the software module for installation in the forwarding information of the forwarding plane. The derived set of forwarding structures is created in accordance with the limitations of the underlying architecture of the forwarding plane." The patent application was filed on Nov. 6, 2008 (12/266,298). 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=7,990,993&OS=7,990,993&RS=7,990,993 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** QUALCOMM Assigned Patent for Dynamic Configuration of IP for a Terminal Equipment Attached to a Wireless Device ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- QUALCOMM, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (7,986,670) developed by Uppinder S. Babbar, San Diego, Phil J. Bostley, Boulder, Colo., and Christopher L. Platt, Ongmont, Colo., for a "dynamic configuration of IP for a terminal equipment attached to a wireless device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques for dynamically configuring IP and providing IP connectivity for a terminal equipment attached to a wireless device are described. The wireless device obtains from a wireless network a dynamically assigned IP address, an IP gateway's IP address, a subnet mask, or none or any combination thereof. Wireless device determines a host IP address (which may be the dynamically assigned IP address), a router IP address (which may be the gateway IP address or a spoofed IP address), a server IP address (which may be the router IP address), and a subnet mask (which may be obtained from the wireless network or spoofed by the wireless device). Wireless device, acting as a DHCP server, provides IP configuration for the terminal equipment, acting as a DHCP client. Wireless device thereafter forwards IP packets exchanged between the terminal equipment and wireless network and processes DHCP packets from the terminal equipment." The patent application was filed on May 14, 2009 (12/466,314). 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=79,86,670.PN.&OS=PN/79,86,670&RS=PN/79,86,670 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** QUALCOMM Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Call Setup Latency Reduction ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- QUALCOMM, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (7,986,674) developed by five co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for call setup latency reduction." The co-inventors are Ragulan Sinnarajah, Markham, Canada, Edward G. Tiedemann Jr., Cocnord, Mass., Ramin Rezaiifar, San Diego, Jun Wang, La Jolla, Calif., and Duncan Ho, San Diego. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques for minimizing call setup latency are disclosed. In one aspect, a channel assignment message is sent with a flag to direct the use of previously negotiated service parameters. This aspect eliminates the need for service negotiation messages. In another aspect, a channel assignment message is sent with an active set identifier instead of an active set and its parameters. This aspect reduces the transmission time of the channel assignment message. In yet another aspect, call setup without paging is facilitated by a mobile station (106) sending a pilot strength measurement message between active communication sessions, such that a channel assignment message can be used for mobile station terminated call setup without the need for mobile station paging and related messages." The patent application was filed on Nov. 30, 2006 (11/565,601). 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=79,86,674.PN.&OS=PN/79,86,674&RS=PN/79,86,674 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** QUALCOMM Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- QUALCOMM, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (7,990,998) developed by four co-inventors for a "connection setup using flexible protocol configuration." The co-inventors are Rajat Prakash, San Diego, Gavin Bernard Horn, La Jolla, Calif., Nikhil Jain, San Diego, and Ramin Rezaiifar, San Diego. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A user terminal establishes a session with a first access point (AP0) and obtains a token associated with modem configuration information used for radio communication. The user terminal thereafter establishes a connection with a second access point (AP1) by sending the token. AP1 receives the token, obtains the modem configuration information associated with the token, and initializes an air interface protocol stack with the modem configuration information to obtain a modem-specific protocol stack for the user terminal. AP1 sends a response indicating successful connection setup. The user terminal and AP1 thereafter communicate in accordance with the modem-specific protocol stack. AP1 may attempt to fetch the session for the user terminal from AP0. If this is successful, then AP1 updates the protocol stack with the session information to obtain a complete protocol stack for the user terminal. The user terminal and AP1 thereafter communicate with the complete protocol stack." The patent application was filed on March 22, 2005 (11/087,187). 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=7,990,998&OS=7,990,998&RS=7,990,998 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Sonicwall Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- Sonicwall, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,990,974) developed by four co-inventors for a "packet processing on a multi-core processor." The co-inventors are John E. Gmuender, Sunnyvale, Calif., Iosif Harutyunov, Cupertino, Calif., Manish Marthur, Sunnyvale, Calif., Ilya Minkin, Los Altos, Calif., and Huy Minh Nguyen, Fountain Valley, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for packet processing on a multi-core processor. According to one embodiment of the invention, a first set of one or more processing cores are configured to include the capability to process packets belonging to a first set of one or more packet types, and a second set of one or more processing cores are configured to include the capability to process packets belonging to a second set of one or more packet types, where the second set of packet types is a subset of the first set of packet types. Packets belonging to the first set of packet types are processed at a processing core of either the first or second set of processing cores. Packets belonging to the second set of packet types are processed at a processing core of the first set of processing cores." The patent application was filed on Sept. 29, 2008 (12/240,892). 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=7,990,974&OS=7,990,974&RS=7,990,974 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Ericsson Assigned Patent for Negotiated Secure Fast Table Lookups for Protocols with Bidirectional Identifiers ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden, has been assigned a patent (7,990,976) developed by Jonathan A. Lynam, San Jose, Calif., and Srikrishnan Subramanian, Fremont, Calif., for a "negotiated secure fast table lookups for protocols with bidirectional identifiers." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "During connection establishments for a protocol with bidirectional identifiers, connection data is allocated, the locally selected identifier is a pointer to the allocated connection data, and a mathematical transformation is applied to the pointer. The pointer and a result of the mathematical transformation are included in a first and second portion of the connection establishment packets respectively. Upon receipt of a data packet for that protocol, a first and second portion of the data packet (which correspond to the first and second portion of the connection establishment packets) are extracted. The same mathematical transformation used during connection establishment is applied to the data extracted from the first portion of the data packet. The result of that mathematical transformation is compared with the data extracted from the second portion of the data packet. If the values match, then the data extracted from the first portion is trusted and dereferenced to access the allocated connection data associated with that data packet." The patent application was filed on May 13, 2009 (12/465,569). 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=7,990,976&OS=7,990,976&RS=7,990,976 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Ericsson Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden, has been assigned a patent (7,986,667) developed by Ramanathan Lakshmikathan, Milpitas, Calif., and Pritam Baruah, San Jose, Calif., for "forwarding data path optimization in a distributed environment for achieving micro-mobility." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus of updating a forwarding plane of a network element in response to receiving a mobility event is described. The network element receives a mobility message indicating a mobile node has coupled to a new access port associated with the network element. The message further indicates that the mobile node moved from an old access port to a new access port. The network element adds an entry in a forwarding table of the old egress engine to redirect a set of packets destined to the mobile node to a new egress engine, where the new egress engine is associated with the new access port. Furthermore, the network element redirects the set of packet from the old egress engine to the new egress engine." The patent application was filed on Oct. 19, 2007 (11/975,486). 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=79,86,667.PN.&OS=PN/79,86,667&RS=PN/79,86,667 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Yodlee.com Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Yodlee.com, Redwood City, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,990,895) developed by Hill Ferguson, San Francisco, Blake Hayward, San Francisco, and Ramakrishna Satyavolu, Fremont, Calif., for a "method and apparatus for configuring and establishing a secure credential-based network link between a client and a service over a data-packet-network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for establishing a direct network connection between a first and a second node over a data-packet-network includes a third network node having connection to the data-packet-network for providing an electronic interface accessible to the first node; a navigation agent directed by the third network node for navigating over the network to the second node to gather information; and at least one machine-readable instruction containing the instruction for directing and implementing the direct network connection. The electronic interface may be a Web page providing bill consolidation and payment services to a client operating the first node and wherein the connection established via the instruction enables transparent login payment of a bill at the second node, which may be a direct billing party interface of the client registered and listed on the Web page." The patent application was filed on April 21, 2010 (12/764,435). 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=7,990,895&OS=7,990,895&RS=7,990,895 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Nextel Communications Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Nextel Communications, Reston, Va., has been assigned a patent (7,990,917) developed by John K. Demers, Encinitas, Calif., and Mark Alan Schmitt, Charles Town, W.Va., for a "wireless communications system including an originator base station capable of notifying of channel resource reservation status." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A wireless communications system including a network application server; and a base station to receive an expedited request packet from a subscriber unit by way of a radio frequency interface, attempt to reserve channel resources for a traffic channel to communicate with the subscriber unit, and notify the network application server of whether the channel resources have been reserved. The base station may notify the network application server by marking the expedited request packet received from the subscriber unit, and sending the marked expedited request packet to the network application server." The patent application was filed on July 16, 2004 (10/893,451). 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=7,990,917&OS=7,990,917&RS=7,990,917 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** SAtech Group Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- SAtech Group, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (7,990,958) developed by David A. Brown, Carp, Calif., for a "method and apparatus for a four-way hash table." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A number of hash tables are accessed concurrently with a different computed index based on a single search key for each hash table. Each index identifies a location in one of the hash tables capable of storing at least one entry. If all indexed locations are used, the entries stored in the lookup table can be reordered so that the new entry can be inserted in one of the locations identified by the computed indexes." The patent application was filed on Feb. 28, 2005 (11/069,635). 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=7,990,958&OS=7,990,958&RS=7,990,958 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Converged Data Solutions Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Converged Data Solutions, Marshall, Texas, has been assigned a patent (7,990,954) developed by Mark L. Kamenetsky, Truckee, Calif., and Lois M. Okino, Sunnyvale, Calif., for a "method and apparatus for controlling telephone calls using a computer assistant." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for monitoring, making, managing and controlling telephone communications with a computer call assistant with an integrated voice/data communications system are disclosed. A call assistant computer application preferably runs on a personal computer ("PC") coupled to the integrated system over a packet bus. The call assistant exchanges control and/or status packets with the integrated system preferably over a packet bus. The call assistant enables the user to make, receive and control telephone calls, monitor the status of the user's extension, voice mail, etc., and preferably operates with integrated systems capable of transmitting and receiving voice and data in multiple modes. In preferred embodiments, the computer call assistant operates with systems that are capable of multiple native mode voice and data transmissions and receptions with a communications system having a multi-bus structure, including, for example, a time division multiplexed ("TDM") bus, a packet bus, and a control bus, and multi-protocol framing engines, preferably including subsystem functions such as PBX, voice mail, file server, web server, communications server, telephony server, LAN hub and data router." The patent application was filed on Nov. 1, 2008 (12/290,637). 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=7,990,954&OS=7,990,954&RS=7,990,954 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Research In Motion Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Research In Motion, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, has been assigned a patent (7,990,960) developed by John-Luc Bakker, Keller, Texas, and Adrian Buckley, Tracy, Calif., for a "globally routable user agent uniform resource identifier system and method." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for concealing an identity by receiving a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) message, the SIP message containing a field, the field containing a Globally Routable User Agent Uniform Resource Identifier (GRUU) identifying a node, the GRUU containing a public user identity (PUID), a `gr` parameter, and a `gr` parameter value; evaluating a subscription option; and in response to evaluating the subscription option, concealing an identity of the node by removing the `gr` parameter and the `gr` parameter value from the field." The patent application was filed on Aug. 11, 2008 (12/189,683). 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=7,990,960&OS=7,990,960&RS=7,990,960 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Marvell International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Marvell International, Hamilton, Bermuda, has been assigned a patent (7,990,938) developed by five co-inventors for an access point configuration. The co-inventors are Chuong Vu, San Jose, Calif., James Chieh-Tsung Chen, Santa Clara, Calif., Chor-Teck Law, Milpitas, Calif., Brian Bosso, San Jose, Calif., and Eric B. Janofsky, Sunnyvale, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods are provided for automatically setting up an initial configuration of a wireless client (i.e., for a first wireless client and subsequent wireless clients added to a network), including keyboard-less and (graphical user interface) GUI-less clients, and an access point without using confusing manual configuration utilities." The patent application was filed on Nov. 5, 2009 (12/613,211). 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=7,990,938&OS=7,990,938&RS=7,990,938 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** 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. *** Wi-LAN Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Wi-LAN, Ottawa, has been assigned a patent (7,990,944) developed by six co-inventors for a contention-based communication. The co-inventors are Kenneth L. Stanwood, Vista, Calif., Paul W. Piggin, Wiltshire, United Kingdom, Lei Wang, San Diego, Brian D. Petry, San Diego, Roger Marks, San Diego, and Yair Bourlas, San Diego. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "For an example embodiment, a method for a communication device operating in a synchronous communication system is described. The method includes performing a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure prior to the start of a downlink subframe of a synchronous frame and determining if a transmission from another communication device of another communication system is detected during the LBT procedure. In the case that a transmission is detected during the LBT procedure, the communication device refrains from transmitting during the downlink subframe. In the case that a transmission is not detected during the LBT procedure, the communication device transmits during the downlink subframe." The patent application was filed on Sept. 6, 2007 (11/851,362). 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=7,990,944&OS=7,990,944&RS=7,990,944 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent for System and Method for Adjusting Power Used in Transmission in a Wireless Packet Network ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,986,652) developed by Jonathan W. Hui, Foster City, Calif., and David E. Culler, Berkeley, Calif., for a "system and method for adjusting power used in transmission in a wireless packet network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method allows devices to send and receive packets while using power to do so in a manner that responds to events, such as receipt or other identification of different parameters that control how packets are sent and received." The patent application was filed on Dec. 19, 2007 (12/004,321). 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=79,86,652.PN.&OS=PN/79,86,652&RS=PN/79,86,652 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** LSI Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- LSI, Milpitas, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,986,630) developed by four co-inventors for a "high performance architecture for fiber channel targets and target bridges." The co-inventors are Siamack Nemazie, Los Altos Hills, Calif., Shiang-Jyh Chang, San Jose, Calif., Young-Ta Wu, Fremont, Calif., and Andrew Hyonil Chong, San Jose, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An embodiment of the present invention is disclosed to include a fiber channel target device for receiving information in the form of frames and including a controller device coupled to a microprocessor for processing the frames received from the host, at least one receive buffer for storing the frames and having a buffer size, the controller device issuing credit to the host for receipt of further frames in a manner wherein only one microprocessor is needed to process the frames while maintaining a buffer size that is as small as the number of first type of frames that can be received by the fiber channel target device from the host." The patent application was filed on June 24, 2005 (11/165,713). 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=79,86,630.PN.&OS=PN/79,86,630&RS=PN/79,86,630 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent for System and Method for Maintaining a Layer 2 Modification Buffer ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,986,616) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for maintaining a layer 2 modification buffer." The co-inventors are Michael J. Bowes, Mammoth Lakes, Calif., Eric A. Baden, Saratoga, Calif., John J. Dull, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Curt McDowell, Mountain View, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A network device for processing packets. The network devices includes a ingress module for performing lookups for layer 2 switching and performing operations for maintaining a layer 2 table. When the ingress module updates the layer 2 table, the ingress module records the operation performed on the layer 2 table in a modification buffer. Entries are added to the modification buffer when the layer 2 table is modified and in the order in which the layer 2 table was modified. The network device thus enables reconstruction of the layer 2 table by performing the operations in the modification buffer." The patent application was filed on Aug. 5, 2009 (12/535,739). 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=79,86,616.PN.&OS=PN/79,86,616&RS=PN/79,86,616 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Juniper Networks Assigned Patent for Transmission of Layer Two (L2) Multicast Traffic Over Multi-protocol Label Switching Networks ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Juniper Networks, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,990,965) developed by Rahul Aggarwal, San Francisco, and Sheth Nischal, Sunnyvale, Calif., for a "transmission of layer two (L2) multicast traffic over multi-protocol label switching networks." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Principles of the invention relate to techniques for transmission of Layer 2 (L2) multicast traffic over a point to multi-point (P2MP) label switched path (LSP) within a multi-protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network. The principles of the invention include configuring circuit cross-connect (CCC) switches that transparently cross-connect L2 interfaces to a P2MP LSP within an MPLS network. The transparent cross-connections allow L2 multicast traffic to be encapsulated as MPLS packets regardless of the type of payload the L2 multicast traffic is carrying. A CCC switch may be configured within an ingress router of a P2MP LSP to cross connect an L2 interface to the P2MP LSP. CCC switches may also be configured within each egress router of the P2MP LSP to cross-connect each leaf of the P2MP LSP to one or more L2 interfaces." 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