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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Oregon (Aug. 10)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Oregon. *** Visualant Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 9 -- Visualant, Seattle, has been assigned a patent (7,996,173) developed by Brian T. Schowengerdt, Seattle, Thomas A. Furness III, Seattle, and Nicholas E. Walker, Springfield, Ore., for a "method, apparatus, and article to facilitate distributed evaluation of objects using electromagnetic energy." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Objects such as manufactured goods or articles, works of art, media such as identity documents, legal documents, financial instruments, transaction cards, other documents, and/or biological tissue are sampled via sequential illumination in various bands of the electromagnetic spectrum, a test response to the illumination is analyzed with respect to reference responses of reference objects. The sequence may be varied. The sequence may define an activation order, a drive level and/or temperature for operating one or more sources. Illumination may be in visible, infrared, ultraviolet, or other portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Elements of the evaluation system may be remote from one another, for example coupled by a network." The patent application was filed on July 31, 2007 (11/831,662). 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=79,96,173.PN.&OS=PN/79,96,173&RS=PN/79,96,173 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Intel Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,572) developed by five co-inventors for a "multi-node chipset lock flow with peer-to-peer non-posted I/O requests." The co-inventors are Robert G. Blankenship, Tacoma, Wash., Robert J. Greiner, Beaverton, Wash., Herbert H.J. Hum, Portland, Ore., Kenneth C. Creta, Gig Harbor, Wash., and Buderya S. Acharya, El Dorado Hills, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods of managing transactions provide for receiving a first flush command at a first I/O hub, wherein the first flush command is dedicated to non-posted transactions. One embodiment further provides for halting an inbound ordering queue of the first I/O hub with regard to non-posted transactions in response to the first flush command and flushing a non-posted transaction from an outgoing buffer of the first I/O hub to a second I/O hub while the inbound ordering queue is halted with regard to non-posted transactions." The patent application was filed on June 2, 2004 (10/859,891). 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=7,996,572.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,572&RS=PN/7,996,572 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,433) developed by Brad A. Davis, Lake Oswego, Ore., L. Christian McDermott, Beaverton, Ore., and Douglas Miller, DuPont, Wash., for a "NUMA system resource descriptors including performance characteristics." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and article for efficiently accessing resources in a multiprocessor computer system. Multiple resources are grouped into nodes and system resource descriptors are maintained as data structures. The method incorporates traversing one or more of the data structure to efficiently allocate resources within a grouping of nodes. Each node in the system is assigned a node identifying number. This number identifies a node location within a multiprocessor and is used to determine latency between nodes. Accordingly, storing the system architecture information in a data structure format provides for an efficient method of accessing system resources and determining latency for specific processes and access patterns." The patent application was filed on June 30, 2008 (12/164,279). 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=79,96,433&OS=79,96,433&RS=79,96,433 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for CIM Data Quarantine ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,377) developed by Aaron P. Amauba, Portland, Ore., and Kevin T. Hsieh, San Jose, Calif., for a CIM data quarantine. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "One aspect of the present invention includes performing a quarantine of inaccessible data within a CIM dataset that is managed by a storage service, and a recovery of this data within the CIM dataset once it becomes accessible. In one embodiment, after a first request is made through a CIM agent to the inaccessible data managed by a storage service, the storage service is quarantined within the CIM dataset. This includes terminating any active threads to the service and preventing new threads from accessing the service. Accordingly, the data is hidden from subsequent requests with the CIM agent and any requests to the inaccessible data are prevented. The storage service is then queried so that when the data becomes accessible, the device services for the storage service are restarted. Once restarted, new threads within the CIM agent are able to access the data within the storage service." The patent application was filed on Nov. 11, 2008 (12/268,606). 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=79,96,377&OS=79,96,377&RS=79,96,377 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Oregon Inventors Develop Patent for Methods and Systems for Accessing Information Related to an Order of a Commodity ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- James G. Farmer, Nyssa, Ore., Charles W. Farmer, Nyssa, Ore., and Joseph W. Farmer, Nyssa, Ore., have developed a patent (7,996,285) for "methods and systems for accessing information related to an order of a commodity." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods of allowing a customer to access information related to an order of a commodity include gathering inspection information from a commodity lot, collecting grower, field, and packing information associated with the commodity lot, recording purchase orders associated with the commodity lot, assigning a trace code to each of the purchase orders, entering the inspection information; the grower, field, and packing information; the purchase orders; and the trace codes into a central database. Once entered into the central database, the content of a web-based application may be updated with the inspection information, the grower, field, and packing information, the purchase orders, and the trace codes within the central database, thereby allowing the customer to access the inspection information, and the grower, field, and packing information, by entering one of the trace codes into the web-based application." The patent application was filed on Dec. 8, 2006 (11/636,128). 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=7,996,285.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,285&RS=PN/7,996,285 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Nike Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Nike, Beaverton, Ore., has been assigned a patent (7,996,278) developed by four co-inventors for a "method of customizing an article." The co-inventors are David P. Jones, Beaverton, Ore., Bruce J. Kilgore, Lake Oswego, Ore., Elizabeth Langvin, Tigard, Ore., and James C. Meschter, Portland, Ore. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of post customization for articles of footwear is disclosed. The method includes a step of receiving an order for a plurality of pairs of footwear, a step of manufacturing the articles, a step of receiving a set of post customization designs and a step of applying post customization designs to the articles of footwear." The patent application was filed on Sept. 16, 2010 (12/883,496). 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=7,996,278.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,278&RS=PN/7,996,278 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Collecting, Calculating, and Reporting Quantifiable Peer Feedback ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,257) developed by Kevin Robert Brooks, Bend, Ore., for "collecting, calculating, and reporting quantifiable peer feedback on relative contributions of team members." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Mechanisms for collecting, calculating, and reporting quantifiable peer feedback on relative contributions of team members are provided. Team members may quantifiably evaluate other team members or work group members relative to each other by allocating points from a point pool to each member according to the team member's subjective evaluation. Various types of processing on the quantitative valuations of the team members' relative contributions to a project may be performed to weight the quantitative valuations due to particular criteria, provide relative evaluation calculations between team members' quantitative valuations, report generation, providing action plan suggestions for aiding a team member in increasing his/her relative valuation on future projects, and the like." The patent application was filed on Feb. 9, 2007 (11/673,208). 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=7,996,257.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,257&RS=PN/7,996,257 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Yahoo! Assigned Patent for System and Method of Providing a User Interface for Client Applications to Store Data and Context Information on the Web ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,779) developed by six co-inventors for a "system and method of providing a user interface for client applications to store data and context information on the web." The co-inventors are Ronald Martinez, San Francisco, Karon A. Weber, San Francisco, Samantha Tripodi, San Francisco, Winton Davies, San Francisco, Chris Kalaboukis, Los Gatos, Calif., and Oliver Raskin, Portland, Ore. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An improved system and method for supporting web system services is provided for storing data and context of client applications on the web. A client application may include a web system services interface for invoking web system services to support web applications to operate over the web using different devices that may store data and context of web applications as a web application document onto a web server. A web application document may be represented by components that may include view information, content, and context information. The application may also include a web system services user interface for providing a graphical user interface for a user to invoke web system services that may include a new document system service, a store document system service, and a restore document system service. A schema for context scope may be implemented for collecting context information relevant to the web application document." The patent application was filed on March 16, 2007 (11/724,718). 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=7,996,779&OS=7,996,779&RS=7,996,779 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Intel Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,663) developed by Paul M. Stillwell Jr., Aloha, Ore., Sorin Iacobovici, San Jose, Calif., and Moenes Iskarous, San Jose, Calif., for a "saving and restoring architectural state for processor cores." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for saving and restoring architectural states utilizing hardware is described. A first portion of an architectural state of a processing element, such as a core, is concurrently saved upon being updated. A remaining portion of the architectural state is saved to memory in response to a save state triggering event, which may include a hardware event or a software event. Once saved, the state is potentially transferred to another processing element, such as a second core. As a result, hardware, software, or combination thereof may transfer architectural states between multiple processing elements, such as threads or cores, of a processor utilizing hardware support." The patent application was filed on Dec. 27, 2007 (11/965,167). 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=7996663.PN.&OS=PN/7996663&RS=PN/7996663 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Intel Assigned Patent for Attaching and Virtualizing Reconfigurable Logic Units to a Processor ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,656) developed by Andrew F. Glew, Hillsboro, Ore., for "attaching and virtualizing reconfigurable logic units to a processor." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, the present invention includes a pipeline to execute instructions out-of-order, where the pipeline has front-end stages, execution units, and back-end stages, and the execution units are coupled between dispatch ports of the front-end stages and writeback ports of the back-end stages. Further, a reconfigurable logic is coupled between one of the dispatch ports and one of the writeback ports to perform specialized operations or handle instructions that are not part of an instruction set architecture (ISA) used by the pipeline. Other embodiments are described and claimed." The patent application was filed on Sept. 25, 2007 (11/903,914). 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=7996656.PN.&OS=PN/7996656&RS=PN/7996656 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. For more information about Targeted News Service products and services, please contact: Myron Struck, editor, Targeted News Service LLC, Springfield, Va., 703/304-1897; [email protected]; http://targetednews.com. -1057218 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |