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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in California (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 California. *** Agere Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 9 -- Agere Systems, Allentown, Pa., has been assigned a patent (7,996,166) developed by Luis de la Torre Vega, Madrid, Spain, and Fadi Saibi, Mountain View, Calif., for an "isolated capacitive signature detection for powered devices." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, a method for determining capacitive signature validity of a powered device (PD) attached to power sourcing equipment (PSE) having (i) an isolated side with a primary coil and (ii) a line side with a secondary coil connected to the PD. The method includes determining, on the isolated side, a first time T.sub.1 and a corresponding first voltage V.sub.1 across the PD. Then generating, on the isolated side, a switching signal used to generate an electrical current through the primary coil. Then determining, on the isolated side, a second time T.sub.2 and a corresponding second voltage V.sub.2 across the PD, wherein a difference between V.sub.2 and V.sub.1 is related to the electrical current provided to the primary coil. Then determining the capacitive-signature validity of the PD based on T.sub.1, T.sub.2, V.sub.1, V.sub.2, and a resistive signature of the PD." The patent application was filed on March 26, 2007 (11/691,112). 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=79,96,166.PN.&OS=PN/79,96,166&RS=PN/79,96,166 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Honeywell International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 9 -- Honeywell International, Morristown, N.J., has been assigned a patent (7,996,140) developed by Greg Stewart, North Vancouver, Canada, Francesco Borrelli, Berkeley, Calif., and Jaroslav Pekar, Pacov, Czech Republic, for a configurable automotive controller. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An engine control unit having a one-time integration of a model predictive control template via a potentially long software process. Changes to the control structure may subsequently be made via a calibration dataset connected to the engine control unit without incurring the potentially long and laborious software process of implementing the template of other approaches in the related art." The patent application was filed on Sept. 20, 2010 (12/886,486). 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=79,96,140.PN.&OS=PN/79,96,140&RS=PN/79,96,140 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Revera Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 9 -- Revera, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,178) developed by Alger C. Pike, San Francisco, for a "semiconductor substrate processing method and apparatus." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A semiconductor substrate processing apparatus and a method for processing semiconductor substrates are provided. The method may include providing a semiconductor substrate having a surface and a plurality of features on the surface, each feature being positioned on the surface at a first respective point in a first coordinate system, plotting the position of each feature at a second respective point in a second coordinate system; and generating a translation between the first and the second coordinate systems. The generating of the translation may include calculating an offset between the first and the second coordinate systems. The calculating of the offset may include calculating an offset distance between a reference point of the first coordinate system and a reference point of the second coordinate system and calculating an offset angle between an axis of the first coordinate system and an axis of the second coordinate system." The patent application was filed on May 17, 2010 (12/781,714). 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=79,96,178.PN.&OS=PN/79,96,178&RS=PN/79,96,178 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Advantest Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 9 -- Advantest, Tokyo, has been assigned a patent (7,996,168) developed by Eric Barr Kushnick, Santa Clara, Calif., for a "method and apparatus for time vernier calibration." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed is a method and apparatus for calibrating a time vernier in an automatic test equipment (ATE) system, the method including generating a data signal and a reference signal whose periods differ by a small amount (dt), using precession of the data signal and reference signal to create accurate delay increments, and creating a trigger signal for Bit Error Rate Test (BERT) counting, the trigger signal having a select frequency such than an integer number (N) of triggers are generated with a precession period (T.sub.PREC). Upon occurrence of each trigger, a BERT is initiated for measuring data to determine strobe positions with respect to the data signal." The patent application was filed on March 6, 2009 (12/399,875). 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=79,96,168.PN.&OS=PN/79,96,168&RS=PN/79,96,168 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Abbott Diabetes Care Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 9 -- Abbott Diabetes Care, Alameda, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,158) developed by six co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for providing data processing and control in a medical communication system." The co-inventors are Gary Hayter, Oakland, Calif., Geoffrey V. McGarraugh, Oakland, Calif., Andrew H. Naegeli, Walnut Creek, Calif., John C. Mazza, Pleasanton, Calif., Benjamin J. Feldman, Oakland, Calif., and Wesley Scott Harper, Milpitas, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus for providing data processing and control for use in a medical communication system are provided." The patent application was filed on May 14, 2008 (12/152,670). 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=79,96,158.PN.&OS=PN/79,96,158&RS=PN/79,96,158 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** California Inventor Develops Patent for Enhanced Information Security System ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 9 -- Alaa Polad, Costa Mesa, Calif., has developed a patent (7,996,152) for an "enhanced information security system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An improved security system for monitoring passengers aboard vehicles in real time uses existing off-the-shelf computer technology and an associated GPS system and wireless Internet to enable peripheral devices capable of obtaining a variety of data aboard a vehicle and transmitting that data to a remote location, including a stationary location where the data can be monitored. The method connects power derived from the vehicle, with a wireless Internet and GPS enabled laptop to enable tracking of the vehicle. Additionally, peripheral devices including cameras, audio/visual displays and identification means are associated with the mobile laptop, enabling the system to track individual passengers aboard the vehicle." The patent application was filed on July 15, 2008 (12/173,743). 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=79,96,152.PN.&OS=PN/79,96,152&RS=PN/79,96,152 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Hon Hai Precision Industry Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 9 -- Hon Hai Precision Industry, Tu-Cheng, New Taipei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (7,996,169) developed by Yu-Hsu Lin, San Jose, Calif., Jeng-Da Wu, Taipei Hsien, Taiwan, and Chih-Hang Chao, Taipei Hsien, Taiwan, for a "method and apparatus for compensating S-parameters of passive circuits." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The invention related to a method and circuit that is used to compensate for S-parameters of a passive circuit which do not satisfy passivity. The method includes the following steps: (1) getting S-parameters which do not satisfy passivity, these S-parameters being composed of an S-parameter matrix S; (2) computing matrix [S.times.S'], wherein matrix S' is a complex conjugate transposed matrix of the S-parameter matrix S; (3) computing the eigenvalues of the matrix [S.times.S'], and choosing an eigenvalue .PSI. whose real part real(.PSI.) is the biggest; (4) computing a compensating value .xi., the compensating value .xi. being equal to real(.PSI.).sup.1/2.times.(1+.epsilon.), wherein the .epsilon. is a very small positive number; and (5) dividing each of the S-parameters by the compensating value .xi. to get the compensated S-parameters." The patent application was filed on May 21, 2008 (12/124,782). 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=79,96,169.PN.&OS=PN/79,96,169&RS=PN/79,96,169 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Bergman, Rogitz Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 9 -- Avi Bergman, Carlsbad, Calif., and John L. Rogitz, San Diego, have been assigned a patent (7,996,148) developed by Avi Bergman, for a "system and method for obtaining map coordinates to fixed location." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for obtaining directions to fixed location such as a restaurant includes using a telephone to call the restaurant, and providing a prompt to the caller during the call to push a button on the telephone to download GPS location of the restaurant. The GPS information is transferred from the telephone to a navigation module in a vehicle which displays a map showing the route to the restaurant." The patent application was filed on May 10, 2007 (11/801,654). 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=79,96,148.PN.&OS=PN/79,96,148&RS=PN/79,96,148 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Rain Bird Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 9 -- Rain Bird, Asuza, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,115) developed by eight co-inventors for a "modular and expandable irrigation controller." The co-inventors are Harvey J. Nickerson, San Diego, Russel D. Leatherman, Albion, Ind., Andrew M. Nguyen, San Diego, Susan E. Basch, San Diego, Perez Sergio R. Araujo, San Diego, Jose Macias Galarza, Tijuana, Mexico, Bill Merkt, San Diego, and Adam A. Dunford, Chula Vista, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Described herein are several embodiments relating to modular irrigation controllers. In many implementations, the irrigation controllers are modular in that various functional components of the irrigation controller are implemented in removable modules that when inserted into position within the controller, expand the capabilities of the controller. Also described are various different types of expansion modules that may be coupled to the modular controller, having as variety of functions and features, as well as related methods of use and configuration of these modules in the controller. In one implementation, an expansion module is provided that includes a microcontroller capable of sending and receiving data communications to and from a main microcontroller of the controller that executed irrigation programs, the data communications relating to an irrigation program." The patent application was filed on Sept. 4, 2008 (12/204,747). 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=79,96,115.PN.&OS=PN/79,96,115&RS=PN/79,96,115 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** NASA Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 9 -- NASA has been assigned a patent (7,996,112) developed by four co-inventors for a "robot and robot system." The co-inventors are Alberto E. Behar, Hermosa Beach, Calif., Neville I. Marzwell, Claremont, Calif., Jonathan N. Wall, Pasadena, Calif., and Michael D. Poole, Los Angeles. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A robot and robot system that are capable of functioning in a zero-gravity environment are provided. The robot can include a body having a longitudinal axis and having a control unit and a power source. The robot can include a first leg pair including a first leg and a second leg. Each leg of the first leg pair can be pivotally attached to the body and constrained to pivot in a first leg pair plane that is substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the body." The patent application was filed on June 1, 2007 (11/756,793). 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=79,96,112.PN.&OS=PN/79,96,112&RS=PN/79,96,112 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Evolution Robotics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Evolution Robotics, Pasadena, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,097) developed by Enrico DiBernardo, Glendora, Calif., and Paolo Pirjanian, Glendale, Calif., for "methods and apparatus for position estimation using reflected light sources." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The invention is generally related to the estimation of position and orientation of an object with respect to a local or a global coordinate system using reflected light sources. A typical application of the method and apparatus includes estimation and tracking of the position of a mobile autonomous robot. Other applications include estimation and tracking of an object for position-aware, ubiquitous devices. Additional applications include tracking of the positions of people or pets in an indoor environment. The methods and apparatus comprise one or more optical emitters, one or more optical sensors, signal processing circuitry, and signal processing methods to determine the position and orientation of at least one of the optical sensors based at least in part on the detection of the signal of one or more emitted light sources reflected from a surface." The patent application was filed on May 14, 2010 (12/780,746). 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=79,96,097.PN.&OS=PN/79,96,097&RS=PN/79,96,097 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** MKS Instruments Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- MKS Instruments, Andover, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,996,102) developed by Lawrence Hendler, Cupertino, Calif., Kuo-Chin Lin, Sacramento, Calif., and Svante Bjarne Wold, Campton, N.H., for a "process control using process data and yield data." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for monitoring a manufacturing process features acquiring metrology data for semiconductor wafers at the conclusion of a final process step for the manufacturing process ("Step a"). Data is acquired for a plurality of process variables for a first process step for manufacturing semiconductor wafers ("Step b"). A first mathematical model of the first process step is created based on the metrology data and the acquired data for the plurality of process variables for the first process step ("Step c"). Steps b and c are repeated for at least a second process step for manufacturing the semiconductor wafers ("Step d"). An nth mathematical model is created based on the metrology data and the data for the plurality of process variables for each of the n process steps ('Step e"). A top level mathematical model is created based on the metrology data and the models created by steps c, d and e ("Step f'). The top level mathematical model of Step f is based on those process variables that have a substantial effect on the metrology data." The patent application was filed on Oct. 22, 2009 (12/603,976). 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=79,96,102.PN.&OS=PN/79,96,102&RS=PN/79,96,102 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. *** Thomson Licensing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Thomson Licensing, Boulogne-Billancourt, France, has been assigned a patent (7,996,565) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and system for controlling and auditing content/service systems." The co-inventors are Nizar Allibhoy, Northridge, Calif., L. Dane Elliott, Hermosa Beach, Calif., Joaquin Fernandez-Silva, Manhattan Beach, Calif., and Stephen M. Johnson, Burbank, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An improved interactive network system is provided that allows the Network Operator to control the transfer of information to and from the network end users, the system preferably using triggers or markers embedded within the programming broadcast to users via the network. As a consequence of this system, the Network Operator is able to efficiently garner revenues from third parties transacting business over the network and to control the look and feel of programming offered to network users. Additionally the system can be used as a means of limiting network access, filtering programming, providing on-screen graphics or audible signals for particular programming types or providers, bookmarking programming, profiling network users, targeting advertising, and simplifying network transactions." The patent application was filed on Oct. 9, 2009 (12/587,685). 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=7,996,565.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,565&RS=PN/7,996,565 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** NVIDIA Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- NVIDIA, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,568) developed by Michael Ward Johnson, Pataloma, Calif., John Shigeto Minami, San Jose, Calif., and Ryo Koyama, Palo Alto, Calif., for a "system, method, and computer program product for an offload engine with DMA capabilities." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An offload system, method, and computer program product are provided. Included is a host with a processor and memory for receiving data from a network. In addition, a network interface is utilized for transferring the data to the memory via direct memory access (DMA)." The patent application was filed on Oct. 10, 2006 (11/546,178). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,996,568.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,568&RS=PN/7,996,568 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Akikaze Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Akikaze Technologies, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (7,996,234) developed by Charles Benjamin Dieterich, Kingston, N.J., Edmond Chalom, Newton, Mass., and Tao Chen, Diamond Bar, Calif., for a "method and apparatus for adaptive variable bit rate audio encoding." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for producing a variable bit rate audio signal is disclosed. An audio signal is encoded into a plurality of encoded audio signals at different bit rates. A variable bit rate audio signal is produced by selecting between the plurality of encoded audio frames of different bit rates in accordance with a selection criterion." The patent application was filed on Aug. 26, 2004 (10/926,572). 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=7,996,234.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,234&RS=PN/7,996,234 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellecutal Property II Assigned Patent for System and Method for Providing a Compensated Speech Recognition Model for Speech Recognition ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- AT&T Intellecutal Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (7,996,220) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for providing a compensated speech recognition model for speech recognition." The co-inventors are Richard C. Rose, Watchung, N.J., Sarangarajan Pathasarathy, New Providence, N.J., Aaron Edward Rosenberg, Berkeley Heights, N.J., and Shrikanth Sambasivan Narayanan, Los Angeles. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An automatic speech recognition (ASR) system and method is provided for controlling the recognition of speech utterances generated by an end user operating a communications device. The ASR system and method can be used with a communications device that is used in a communications network. The ASR system can be used for ASR of speech utterances input into a mobile device, to perform compensating techniques using at least one characteristic and for updating an ASR speech recognizer associated with the ASR system by determined and using a background noise value and a distortion value that is based on the features of the mobile device. The ASR system can be used to augment a limited data input capability of a mobile device, for example, caused by limited input devices physically located on the mobile device." The patent application was filed on Nov. 4, 2008 (12/264,700). 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=7,996,220.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,220&RS=PN/7,996,220 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,573) developed by Uri Elzur, Irvine, Calif., Kan Frankie Fan, Diamond Bar, Calif., and Scott McDaniel, Villa Park, Calif., for a "method and system for supporting read operations with CRC for iSCSI and iSCSI chimney." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Certain embodiments of the invention may be found in a method and system for performing SCSI read operations with a CRC via a TCP offload engine. Aspects of the method may comprise receiving an iSCSI read command from an initiator. Data may be fetched from a buffer based on the received iSCSI read command. The fetched data may be zero copied from the buffer to the initiator and a TCP sequence may be retransmitted to the initiator. A digest value may be calculated, which may be communicated to the initiator. An accumulated digest value stored in a temporary buffer may be utilized to calculate a final digest value, if the buffer is posted. The retransmitted TCP sequence may be processed and the fetched data may be zero copied into an iSCSI buffer, if the buffer is posted. The calculated final digest value may be communicated to the initiator." The patent application was filed on June 17, 2005 (11/156,206). 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=7,996,573.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,573&RS=PN/7,996,573 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Emulex Design & Manufacturing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Emulex Design & Manufacturing, Costa Mesa, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,575) developed by four co-inventors for a "detection and configuration of SAS/SATA connection." The co-inventors are Calvin Springer Hall IV, Costa Mesa, Calif., David Alexander Neufeld, Costa Mesa, Calif., Hugh Le, Costa Mesa, Calif., and Brett Talmadge White, Costa Mesa, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Given the different configurations for SAS and SATA Host and Target Ports, embodiments of the present invention automatically detect the configuration of SATA and SAS Phys when any device is inserted into a port enclosure and properly configure the connection regardless of the Phy configuration of the connected device. When a device is connected to the system, the port listens for either a SATA or SAS OOB signal to determine if the receive pin of the port is properly connected to the transmit signal of the attached device. By switching the configuration periodically and listening for the OOB signal, the port can determine which configuration is proper. Once a signal is detected, the port can properly configure the connection and continue with the SATA or SAS insertion algorithm. A user may alternatively choose which configuration to use and bypass the automatic detection and configuration." The patent application was filed on Dec. 28, 2007 (11/966,915). 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=7,996,575.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,575&RS=PN/7,996,575 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Broadcom Israel Research Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Broadcom Israel Research, Ramat Gan, Israel, has been assigned a patent (7,996,569) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and system for zero copy in a virtualized network environment." The co-inventors are Eliezer Aloni, Zur Yigal, Israel, Uri El Zur, Irvine, Calif., Rafi Shalom, Givat Shmuel, Israel, and Caitlin Bestler, Laguna Hilla, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for zero copy in a virtualized network environment are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include a plurality of GOSs that share a single NIC. The NIC may switch communication to a GOS to allow that GOS access to a network via the NIC. The NIC may offload, for example, OSI layer 3, 4, and/or 5 protocol operations from a host system and/or the GOSs. The data received from, or to be transmitted to, the network by the NIC may be copied directly between the NIC's buffer and a corresponding application buffer for one of the GOSs without copying the data to a TGOS. The NIC may access the GOS buffer via a virtual address, a buffer offset, or a physical address. The virtual address and the buffer offset may be translated to a physical address." The patent application was filed on Jan. 12, 2007 (11/623,018). 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=7,996,569.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,569&RS=PN/7,996,569 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Intuit Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Intuit, Mountain View, Conn., has been assigned a patent (7,996,239) developed by Suzanne Pellican, Menlo Park, Calif., and Robert Pellican, Menlo Park, Calif., for a "system and method for generating a display to graphically indicate state for a series of events." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various embodiments of a system and method for generating a display configured to graphically indicate a state of a series of events are described. The system and method may include a display generator configured to generate display data that defines a display configured to indicate the state of a series of events. The display generator may create display data that defines a display configured to graphically indicate such events in a chronological manner such that the user may easily view the current state of the particular process. The display data may define a display that graphically indicates multiple events from multiple entities, such as events associated with a same episode. The displays defined by the display data may include one or more visual elements that graphically indicate an event that includes the transfer of an asset between a source entity and a destination entity." The patent application was filed on July 27, 2007 (11/829,652). 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=7,996,239.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,239&RS=PN/7,996,239 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Aerovironment Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Aerovironment, Monrovia, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,098) developed by Blake Dickinson, Monrovia, Calif., Lisa Lei Horiuchi, Los Angeles, and Nathaniel Jordan Ramer, Los Angeles, for a "reactive replenishable device management." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Reactive replenishable device management comprises receiving device measurement data from at least one device, updating one or more device usage profiles associated with the at least one device, and if an analysis of the one or more device usage profiles indicates usage of the at least one device is sub-optimal, performing one or more of: controlling at least one of an attribute or an operation of the at least one device, issuing one or more device management recommendations to a user of the at least one device, and issuing one or more user alerts to the user. The at least one device comprises at least one of one or more replenishable devices, one or more replenishers associated with the one or more replenishable devices, and one or more other devices associated with the one or more replenishable devices." The patent application was filed on Sept. 19, 2008 (12/234,441). 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=79,96,098.PN.&OS=PN/79,96,098&RS=PN/79,96,098 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,996,225) developed by four co-inventors for a "utilizing speech grammar rules written in a markup language." The co-inventors are Philipp H. Schmid, Seattle, Ralph Lipe, Clyde Hill, Wash., Erik C. Ellerman, Palo Alto, Calif., and Robert L. Chambers, Issaquah, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention provides a method and apparatus that utilize a context-free grammar written in a markup language format. The markup language format provides a hierarchical format in which grammar structures are delimited within and defined by a set of tags. The markup language format also provides grammar switch tags that indicate a transitions from the context-free grammar to a dictation grammar or a text buffer grammar. In addition, the markup language format provides for the designation of code to be executed when particular grammar structures are recognized from a speech signal." The patent application was filed on May 21, 2008 (12/124,792). 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=7,996,225.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,225&RS=PN/7,996,225 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Bank of America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Bank of America, Charlotte, N.C., has been assigned a patent (7,996,530) developed by six co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for enabling authentication of on-line communications." The co-inventors are David A. Hogeboom, Huntersville, N.C., William Koenig, Lafayette, Calif., David Wright, Livermore, Calif., Richard Wade Phillips, Harrisburg, N.C., Rhonda MacLean, Sherrills Ford, N.C., and William A. Parra, Fort Mill, S.C. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Method and apparatus for enabling authentication of on-line communications. In some embodiments, a message code is embedded in an e-mail, where the message code can be used by the recipient to verify the authenticity of the e-mail or of a Web site. In some embodiments, this code can be created for a particular e-mail message; in other embodiments, the code is created as a watermark for use by a customer or other a specific user or recipient. The message code is associated with both the e-mail message and the recipient. In the case of a message-specific code, a recipient can verify the e-mail message by inputting the code via a Web server to be looked up in the database. Provision is also made for including steganographic information in graphical or other codes as further authentication when accessing a Web site." The patent application was filed on Jan. 27, 2005 (10/905,942). 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=7,996,530.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,530&RS=PN/7,996,530 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Livebinders Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Livebinders, Los Altos, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,436) developed by Tina Schneider, San Francisco, and David Hoogstrate, San Francisco, for a media management system. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Media management systems and methods are provided for authoring, managing, navigating, and collaborating electronic media. The media management systems and methods, collectively referred to herein as a Binder Presentation System (BPS), provide an application for presenting digital content that allows users to quickly create, manage, share and view rich media presentations under one unified interface to address the inadequacies of current slideshow presentation software. The BPS provides tools to users like teachers and business professionals for managing and presenting rich media content." The patent application was filed on Sept. 25, 2006 (11/526,495). 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=79,96,436&OS=79,96,436&RS=79,96,436 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (7,996,527) developed by Ellen Isaacs, Belmont, Calif., Dipti Ranganathan, Dallas, and Alan Walendowski, Belmont, Calif., for a "system, method and apparatus for playing a sound identifier based on connection status." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system, method and apparatus for facilitating communication among a number of distributed clients in a distributed network is disclosed. A user, such as through a personal digital assistant device, may select one or more instant messages for transmission to one or more other users in the network. The instant messages may be sound instant message and/or text instant messages. During messaging, message status indicators provide users with the status of their respective messages. In one embodiment, the messages may be deemed to be either pending or received as distinguished by a pending status indicator and a received status indicator." The patent application was filed on July 15, 2009 (12/503,355). 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=7,996,527.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,527&RS=PN/7,996,527 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Echosign Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Echosign, Palo Alto, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,439) developed by Dan A.Foygel, Oakland, Calif., Jason M. Lemkin, Los Altos, Calif., and Jeffrey M. Zwelling, Hillsborough, Calif., for an "automatic document exchange and execution management." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The exchange of documents for signature can be performed efficiently using an automatic routing system that associates a document with appropriate identifying metadata. The routing can be facilitated through facsimile in which the metadata is encoded on a return facsimile cover sheet that is routed with the document. Appropriate central exchange servers have appropriate input and out subsystems to perform the document routing. The executed documents can be conveniently archived for efficient document storage and access, such as network access to one or more of the parties." The patent application was filed on Jan. 11, 2007 (11/652,371). 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=79,96,439&OS=79,96,439&RS=79,96,439 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,556) developed by six co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for generating a network topology representation based on inspection of application messages at a network device." The co-inventors are Kollivakkam Raghavan, San Jose, Calif., Tefcros Anthias, Los Altos, Calif., Parley Van Oleson, Santa Clara, Calif., Sunil Potti, Castro Valley, Calif., Raj De Datta, Palo Alto, Calif., and Stephen Cho, Palo Alto, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method is disclosed for generating a network topology representation based on inspection of application messages at a network device. According to one aspect, a network device receives a request packet, routes the packet to the destination, and extracts and stores correlation information from a copy of the request packet. When the network device receives a response packet, it examines the contents of a copy of the response packet using context-based correlation rules and matches the response packet with the appropriate stored request packet correlation information. It analyzes recorded correlation information to determine application-to-application mapping and calculate application response times. Another embodiment inserts custom headers that contain information used to match a response packet with a request packet into request packets." The patent application was filed on March 24, 2005 (11/090,920). 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=7,996,556.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,556&RS=PN/7,996,556 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Oracle International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Oracle International, Redwood Shores, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,434) developed by Muthukumar S. Palanisamy, Sunnyvale, Calif., Catherine Betz Lippert, Solon, Ohio, and David S. Keyes, Clinton, Ohio, for a "system and method for creating and managing universally unique identifiers for services." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method is provided for creating a Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) for a web service. The UUID is stored in service metadata associated with the web service. The UUID can then be used to track services and correlate service information between multiple systems. In accordance with an embodiment, a method is provided for publishing Universal Description Discovery and Integration (UDDI) service information from a metadata repository to a service registry. In accordance with an embodiment, a method is provided for receiving Universal Description Discovery and Integration (UDDI) service information from a service registry into a metadata repository." The patent application was filed on Feb. 12, 2009 (12/370,030). 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=79,96,434&OS=79,96,434&RS=79,96,434 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Ticketmaster Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Ticketmaster, West Hollywood, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,536) developed by Dennis Denker, Scottsdale, Ariz., Kip Levin, Los Angeles, and David Scarborough, Asburn, Va., for "systems and methods for providing resource allocation in a networked environment." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for allocating resources, such as computer controlled resources, in a networked system are described. In an example embodiment, a plurality of requests to select one or more resources are received from distributed computer systems over a network at a receiving computer system. The receiving computer system allocates resource selection time windows to at least a portion of the requests based on one or more allocation criteria, and transmits information regarding the allocated resource selection time windows to corresponding requesting computer systems. A load balancer balances request loads among a plurality of servers. A web proxy processor is configured to selectively block or route an inbound user browser request. A cache cluster system is configured to cache data and states for access by other system components." The patent application was filed on Nov. 29, 2010 (12/955,783). 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=7,996,536.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,536&RS=PN/7,996,536 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Marvell International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Marvell International, Hamilton, Bermuda, has been assigned a patent (7,996,554) developed by Mahesh Venkatraman, Menlo Park, Calif., for a "system for improving quality of service for wireless LANs." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An access point (AP) including a control module and a scheduling module. The control module defines a plurality of basic service sets (BSSs) for the AP. Each of the BSSs has an identifier, corresponds to a class of service, and predetermined service parameters based on the class of service. The scheduling module schedules communications between the BSSs and a plurality of client stations based on (i) the identifiers and (ii) the predetermined service parameters and determines quality of service for the communications based on (i) the identifiers and (ii) the predetermined service parameters. A first scheduler schedules first transmit times for the BSSs to transmit data from the AP to the client stations within time slots determined according to the predetermined service parameters. A second scheduler schedules second transmit times for the client stations, to transmit data from the client stations to the AP, based on the predetermined service parameters." The patent application was filed on March 28, 2006 (11/390,704). 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=7,996,554.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,554&RS=PN/7,996,554 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,535) developed by Karl G. Auerbach, Santa Cruz, Calif., for a "proximity as an aid to caching and secondary serving of data." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A proximity-based content control method "propagates" or positions content based upon "proximity" between various nodes on a network. The nodes between which the content is propagated include content libraries, servers, and clients. In one case, the relative proximities of two content servers to a particular client or group of clients determines which of these servers serves client requests. In another case, the method employs anticipatory loading of content from a library to a server based upon the server's proximity to a given client-base. Yet another application involves adding or removing server capacity to a network based upon proximity to clients. Another application applies proximity affects to cache release algorithms. A "content control system" calculates proximity dynamically and automatically decides whether to move content based upon the proximity calculation." The patent application was filed on July 12, 2010 (12/834,800). 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=7,996,535.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,535&RS=PN/7,996,535 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (7,996,423) developed by seven co-inventors for a "method for web-based exploration of network infrastructure." The co-inventors are David Lee Applegate, Maplewood, N.J., Maksym Badrak, Alpharetta, Ga., Hossein Eslambolchi, Los Altos Hills, Calif., John R. Perkins, Edison, N.J., Nicholas F. Reingold, Madison, N.J., Vitaly Smirnoff, Alpharetta, Ga., and Harold Jeffrey Stewart, Alpharetta, Ga. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a method of data drilling is presented. A network database is deployed in a network, such as the Internet, for broad-based user access. Network information is stored in the network database and is organized in layers. A graphical user interface with data objects is presented to an end user. Selecting a data object generates a query performed by a server. Each query produces more details on an initially selected data object." The patent application was filed on Nov. 23, 2009 (12/624,219). 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=79,96,423&OS=79,96,423&RS=79,96,423 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Google Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods for using Anchor Text as Parallel Corpora for Cross-language Information Retrieval ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,402) developed by Luis Gravano, New York, and Monika H. Henzinger, Menlo Park, Calif., for "systems and methods for using anchor text as parallel corpora for cross-language information retrieval." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system performs cross-language query translations. The system receives a search query that includes terms in a first language and determines possible translations of the terms of the search query into a second language. The system also locates documents for use as parallel corpora to aid in the translation by: (1) locating documents in the first language that contain references that match the terms of the search query and identify documents in the second language; (2) locating documents in the first language that contain references that match the terms of the query and refer to other documents in the first language and identify documents in the second language that contain references to the other documents; or (3) locating documents in the first language that match the terms of the query and identify documents in the second language that contain references to the documents in the first language. The system may use the second language documents as parallel corpora to disambiguate among the possible translations of the terms of the search query and identify one of the possible translations as a likely translation of the search query into the second language." The patent application was filed on Aug. 31, 2010 (12/872,755). 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=79,96,402&OS=79,96,402&RS=79,96,402 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. *** Google Assigned Patent for Query Rewriting with Entity Detection ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,419) developed by Karl Pfleger, Mountain View, Calif., for a "query rewriting with entity detection." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system determines whether a received search query includes an entity name, determines whether to rewrite the received search query based on information relating to prior searches involving the entity name, and rewrites the received search query when it is determined that the received search query should be rewritten. The system further determines whether to provide a suggestion of rewriting the received search query, as a rewriting suggestion, based on information relating to prior searches involving the entity name when it is determined that the received search query should not be rewritten. The system also generates the rewriting suggestion when it is determined that the rewriting suggestion should be provided. The system performs a search based on one of the received search query and the rewritten search query to obtain search results, presents the search results, and presents the rewriting suggestion when it is determined that the rewriting suggestion should be provided." The patent application was filed on March 31, 2004 (10/813,359). 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=79,96,419&OS=79,96,419&RS=79,96,419 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method, Apparatus, and System for Translating Selected Characters in a Record Processing System ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,411) developed by Frank L. Yaeger, Morgan Hill, Calif., for a "method, apparatus, and system for translating selected characters in a record processing system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Control statements related to inputting, sorting, filtering, formatting, and outputting data records in a data processing system are scanned to find one or more formatting options related to character translation. Files comprising a plurality of data records are input, processed, and output as directed by the control statements. As specified by the formatting options, character translation operations are conducted on selected characters. The character translation operations are conducted in conjunction with inputting and outputting the data records. In one embodiment, the supported character translation operations include lowercase to uppercase conversion, uppercase to lowercase conversion, EBCDIC-to-ASCII conversion, ASCII-to-EBCDIC conversion, and user-definable character translation. The present invention increases the utility of a data processing system while minimizing the programming burden associated with translating selected characters while processing data records." The patent application was filed on March 28, 2003 (10/402,643). 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=79,96,411&OS=79,96,411&RS=79,96,411 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for System and Method for Content-based Object Ranking to Facilitate Information Lifecycle Management ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,409) developed by Windsor Wee Sun Hsu, San Jose, Calif, and Shauchi Ong, San Jose, Calif., for a "system and method for content-based object ranking to facilitate information lifecycle management." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method to manage objects in an information lifecycle management system is provided. The method includes determining a score for each of the objects based on a score of at least one feature within respective ones of each of the objects where the score of the at least one feature being associated with a valuation of the at least one feature. The method also includes managing each of the objects based on the score for each of the objects wherein higher scored objects are managed preferentially." The patent application was filed on Dec. 28, 2006 (11/617,585). 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=79,96,409&OS=79,96,409&RS=79,96,409 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Symantec Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Detecting Policy Violations in a Data Repository having an Arbitrary Data Schema ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Symantec, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,373) developed by five co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for detecting policy violations in a data repository having an arbitrary data schema." The co-inventors are Michel Zoppas, San Francisco, Jeremy Hermann, San Francisco, Conal O'Raghallaigh, San Francisco, Eric Bothwell, San Francisco, and Alexander Fontana, San Francisco. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for scanning structured data from a data repository having an arbitrary data schema and for applying a policy to the data of the data repository are described. In one embodiment, the structured data is converted to unstructured text data to allow a schema-independent policy to be applied to the text data in order to detect a policy violation in the data repository regardless of the data schema used by the data repository." The patent application was filed on March 28, 2008 (12/079,630). 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=79,96,373&OS=79,96,373&RS=79,96,373 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Apple Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Apple, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,427) developed by Christopher Lance Flick, San Jose, Calif., and Thai Wey Then, Santa Clara, Calif., for an "unified system for accessing metadata in disparate formats." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for accessing media metadata from metadata stored in different native formats is disclosed. A repository contains a plurality of containers for storing media metadata, wherein a first container in the repository stores metadata in the first native format, and a second container in the repository stores metadata in the second native format. A set of routines is used to access all media metadata stored in the repository without regard to the native format in which the media metadata is stored. Each routine in the set of routines identifies a metadata item stored in a container through information passed in a set of parameters. The set of parameters comprises a reference to the repository, an identifier of a container in the repository, an identifier of a structure for a key for the identified native format, and a key." The patent application was filed on June 23, 2005 (11/166,684). 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=79,96,427&OS=79,96,427&RS=79,96,427 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Oracle International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Oracle International, Redwood Shores, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,392) developed by four co-inventors for "changing ranking algorithms based on customer settings." The co-inventors are Ciya Liao, Fremont, Calif., Thomas Chang, Redwood Shores, Calif., Muralidhar Krishnaprasad, Redmond, Wash., and Meeten Bhavsar, Emerald Hills, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Search term ranking algorithms can be generated and updated based on customer settings, such as where a ranking algorithm is modeled as a combination function of different ranking factors. An end user of a search system provides personalized preferences for weighted attributes, generally or for a single instance of the query. The user also can indicate the relative importance of one or more ranking factors by specifying different weights to the factors. Ranking factors can specify document attributes, such as document title, document body, document page rank, etc. Based on the attribute weights and the received user query, a ranking algorithm function will produce the relevant value for each document corresponding to the user preferences and personalization configurations." The patent application was filed on June 27, 2007 (11/769,245). 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=79,96,392&OS=79,96,392&RS=79,96,392 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** NetApp Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- NetApp, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,371) developed by Vijay Deshmukh, Mountain View, Calif., for a "combining context-aware and context-independent data deduplication for optimal space savings." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A storage system includes a storage operating system configured to provide two-step data deduplication in which, during a data storage operation and prior to committing data to a storage medium of the storage system, context-aware data deduplication is performed on the data to obtain context-aware deduplicated data, and, subsequent to committing the context-aware deduplicated data to the storage medium, a context-independent data deduplication operation is performed on the context-aware deduplicated data to obtain context-independent deduplicated context-aware deduplicated data, for commitment to the storage medium." The patent application was filed on June 10, 2008 (12/136,549). 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=79,96,371&OS=79,96,371&RS=79,96,371 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Google Assigned Patent for Keywords Associated with Document Categories ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,393) developed by Tomoyuki Nanno, Tokyo, Michael Riley, New York, and Gaku Ueda, Mountain View, Calif., for "keywords associated with document categories." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system extracts a pair that includes a keyword candidate and information associated with a document from multiple documents, and calculates a frequency that the keyword candidate appears in search queries and a frequency that the pair appears in the multiple documents. The system also determines whether the keyword candidate is a keyword for a category based on the calculated frequencies, and associates the keyword with the document if the keyword candidate is the keyword for the category." The patent application was filed on Sept. 28, 2007 (11/864,325). 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=79,96,393&OS=79,96,393&RS=79,96,393 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Google Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods for Providing Search Results ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7 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. -1057191 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |