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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Washington (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 Washington. *** 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. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,996,155) developed by Lee Weng, Bellevue, Wash., for an "ANOVA method for data analysis." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention provides improved ANOVA methods for analyzing measured data and transformed data. The improved ANOVA method takes two data types as its input, one is the measurements, the other is a predetermined error associated with the measurements. The latter can come from a technology/platform-specific error model. Because of the additional input information, the statistical power is increased. The methods of the invention is particularly useful for analyzing gene or protein expression data." The patent application was filed on Jan. 22, 2003 (10/349,364). 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=79,96,155.PN.&OS=PN/79,96,155&RS=PN/79,96,155 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,996,228) developed by Quentin Miller, Sammamish, Wash., John J. Ostlund, Redmond, Wash., and Anand Ramakrishna, Redmond, Wash., for "voice initiated network operations." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of voice initiated network operations are presented herein. Voice initiation of operations is described which may be utilized to assist a user in performing operations, such as when other input mechanisms are undesirable, inconvenient, or impossible. A user provides speech to a client device. The speech is converted to text. The text is used to perform operations and obtain results." The patent application was filed on Dec. 22, 2005 (11/275,324). 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=7,996,228.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,228&RS=PN/7,996,228 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Intellisist Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Intellisist, Bellevue, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,996,230) developed by G. Kevin Doren, Mercer Island, Wash., for a "selective security masking within recorded speech." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A marker is derived from an interaction between a person and an agent of a business and the agent's user interface. A part of a speech signal that corresponds to a portion of the person's special information is located with the marker. The speech signal results from the interaction between the person and the agent. The part of the speech signal that corresponds to the portion of the person's special information is rendered unintelligible." The patent application was filed on Aug. 6, 2009 (12/462,626). 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=7,996,230.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,230&RS=PN/7,996,230 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; 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. *** 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. *** 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. *** Google Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,420) developed by Kenneth P. Fishkin., Seattle, for "searching for user interface objects." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer-implemented method includes searching resources related to an application in response to receiving a query, identifying an operation in the application that satisfies the query, and exposing an object that provides access to the identified operation, within the application." The patent application was filed on June 11, 2010 (12/813,751). 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=79,96,420&OS=79,96,420&RS=79,96,420 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for identification and Use of Web Searcher Expertise ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,996,400) developed by Daniel Scott Morris, Bellevue, Wash., and Ryen William White, Kirkland, Wash., for an "identification and use of web searcher expertise." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A search expertise level system and method for determining a search expertise level of a search engine user and then using that information to improve the searcher's experience. The search expertise level system and method identifies the search expertise level of the searcher based on query behavior, post-query browsing behavior, and other behaviors of the searcher. One simple and important behavior that indicates a skilled searcher is the use of advanced query syntax and operators in the query. Once the search expertise level of a searcher is known, the search engine user interface can be modified and tailored to the needs of both skilled and novice searchers. The search expertise level also can be used to rank search results, such that search results for a novice searcher are ranked differently than those for a skilled searcher. The search expertise level also can be used in advertising and marketing." The patent application was filed on June 23, 2007 (11/767,489). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=79,96,400&OS=79,96,400&RS=79,96,400 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** A9.com Assigned Patent for Identifying the Items Most Relevant to a Current Query Based on User Activity with Respect to the Results of Similar Queries ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- A9.com, Palo Alto, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,396) developed by Jonathan Leblang, Menlo Park, Calif., Ruben Ortega, Seattle, and Colin Saunders, Menlo Park, Calif., for "identifying the items most relevant to a current query based on user activity with respect to the results of similar queries." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A facility for ranking in a result set is described. The facility establishes a system of ratings for combinations of a web page with the query term that reflect the level of relevance of the web page to the query term. In response to each of a number of content interactions performed by users, each with respect to a result corresponding to a web page included in a result set that was generated in response to a query comprising a set of one or more query terms, the facility adjusts a rating score for each combination of the web page and a query term among the set of query terms. For each of a number of web pages included as results in a distinguished result set produced in response to a distinguished query comprising a set of distinguished query terms, the facility (1) selects established and adjusted reading scores for each combination of the web page and a query term among the distinguished set of query terms, and (2) determines a ranking score for the result in the distinguished result set by combining the selected reading scores." The patent application was filed on March 28, 2006 (11/392,993). 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=79,96,396&OS=79,96,396&RS=79,96,396 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** A9.com Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- A9.com, Palo Alto, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,398) developed by four co-inventors for "identifying related search terms based on search behaviors of users." The co-inventors are Ruben E. Ortega, Seattle, Dwayne E. Bowman, Woodinville, Wash., Michael L. Hamrick, Seattle, Joel R. Spiegel, Woodinville, Wash., and Timothy R. Kohn, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system is disclosed that identifies related search terms by performing a term co-occurrence analysis of search query submissions of users. The system may give different amounts of weight to different search query submissions based, for example, on whether subsequent user actions reveal that particular searches were successful. The system may use the identified related search terms to correct spelling errors in search queries received from users." The patent application was filed on Oct. 19, 2010 (12/907,405). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=79,96,398&OS=79,96,398&RS=79,96,398 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** United Video Properties Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- United Video Properties, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,399) developed by David Billmaier, Woodinville, Wash., and Michael Ross Starkenburg, Costa Mesa, Calif., for a "presenting media guidance search results based on relevancy." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for presenting search results based on relevancy in an interactive media guidance application are disclosed. After performing a user-initiated or automatic search for media content, the interactive media guidance application determines which of the hits are most relevant to the user. The guidance application then displays, or visually identifies, the relevant items. Some embodiments employ using different display arrangements based on the number of relevant items. Some embodiments display the relevant items in recommendation lists or hot lists." The patent application was filed on Nov. 1, 2006 (11/591,929). 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=79,96,399&OS=79,96,399&RS=79,96,399 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,996,418) developed by Alex David Weinstein, Seattle, and Dmitry Yevgenyevich Ryabkov, Seattle, for suggesting long-tail tags. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Technologies are described herein for suggesting long-tail tags. A first group of tags and a second group of tags are identified from a plurality of tags. The first group of tags includes frequently-assigned tags having a higher frequency of being assigned to an asset. The second group of tags includes long-tail tags having a lower frequency of being assigned to the asset than the frequently-assigned tags. The frequently-assigned tags and a sample of the long-tail tags are suggested to a user upon receiving a request from the user to tag the asset." The patent application was filed on April 30, 2008 (12/113,187). 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=79,96,418&OS=79,96,418&RS=79,96,418 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Mircrosoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Mircrosoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,996,338) developed by Semiha Ece Kamar, Cambridge, Mass., and Eric J. Horvitz, Kirkland, Wash., for a "combining predictive models of forgetting, relevance, and cost of interruption to guide automated reminding." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The claimed matter provides systems and/or techniques that develop or use predictive models of human forgetting to effectuate automated reminding. The system includes the use of predictive models that infer the probability that aspects of items will be forgotten, models that evaluate the relevance of recalling aspects of items in different settings, based on contextual information related to user attributes associated with the items, and models of the context-sensitive cost of interrupting users with reminders. The system can combine the probability of users forgetting aspects of an item with an assessed cost of forgetting those aspects to ascertain expected costs for not being reminded about events, compare expected costs for not being reminded with expected costs for interrupting users, and based on comparisons between expected costs for being reminded and expected costs for interrupting users regarding events, generate and deliver reminder notifications to users about items." The patent application was filed on June 27, 2008 (12/163,045). 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=7,996,338.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,338&RS=PN/7,996,338 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Method and System for a Service Provider to Control Exposure to Non-payment by a Service Consumer ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,996,323) developed by Michael D. Smith, Kirkland, Wash., and Miller T. Abel, Mercer Island, Wash., for a "method and system for a service provider to control exposure to non-payment by a service consumer." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A dispute resolution system for requesting a service provider to provide services so that the service provider can demonstrate to a service intermediary that a service consumer requested services. A service consumer that wants to start requesting services of the service provider registers with the service intermediary an end code of a sequence of code generated using a one-way function. The service intermediary provides the end code to the service provider. The service consumer can then using codes of the sequence requests the service provider to provide services. When the service provider receives a request, it verifies that the code of the request can be used to derive the end code. If the verification is successful, then the service provider can provide the verified code to the service intermediary as non-repudiatable evidence of the services requested by the service consumer." The patent application was filed on Feb. 27, 2004 (10/789,392). 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=7,996,323.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,323&RS=PN/7,996,323 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Globys Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Globys, Seattle, has been assigned a patent (7,996,310) developed by Duane S. Edwards, Seattle, Michael G. Chalcraft, Seattle, and Derek J. Edwards, Edmonds, Wash., for an "electronic financial management and analysis system and related methods." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computing system facilitating electronic bill presentment and payment features for authorized users via a user interface is introduced including an analysis engine. The analysis engine, in response to user interaction with the user interface, selectively performs user-defined analysis on at least a subset of retrieved billing information associated with one or more billers. The analysis engine further generates one or more user-defined report(s) based, at least in part, on the user-defined analysis." The patent application was filed on July 19, 2000 (09/619,248). 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=7,996,310.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,310&RS=PN/7,996,310 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Wells Fargo Bank Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (7,996,299) developed by Jack McCue, Abington, Pa., Steve Anderson, Kirkland, Wash., and Tom Maccariella, Lumberton, N.J., for "trade services management system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system (and corresponding methodology) that supports trade services back office processing to enhance efficiency and productivity is provided. The system employs a unique consolidated screen layout that significantly improves the productivity of the users. Essentially, the system and page layout is composed of the following components: Queue Well, Activity Center, Message Center, Viewing Center and Action Tab. These components facilitate organization of panels that creates an intuitive user interface experience. The system employs a navigational hierarchy of Queue Well to Activity Center and then to the Message and Viewing Centers as appropriate." The patent application was filed on March 31, 2008 (12/059,571). 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=7,996,299.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,299&RS=PN/7,996,299 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Amazon Technologies, Incline Village, Nev., has been assigned a patent (7,996,282) developed by 13 co-inventors for a "method and system for selecting and displaying items." The co-inventors are Sean M. Scott, Sammamish, Wash., Douglas J. Gradt, Seattle, Doug Irvine, Seattle, Nimrod Hoofien, Seattle, Eva Manolis, Bellevue, Wash., Amy Bates, Seattle, Max L. Kanter, Seattle, Todd A. Heimes, Seattle, J. Nathaniel Sloan, Seattle, Michael Paul Touloumtzis, Seattle, Michael L. Weiss, Maple Valley, Wash., Maren Marie Costa, Seattle, and Gianna Lise Puerini, Bellevue, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for causing the display of items for the review and selection thereof by a potential purchaser has a plurality of search tools whereby a customer can select certain search criteria for displaying items corresponding to the search criteria for review and selection thereof and comparison therebetween. In one embodiment, the system provides a brand menu whereby a customer can select one or more brands of products for displaying the same in a common display window." The patent application was filed on March 30, 2007 (11/694,675). 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=7,996,282.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,282&RS=PN/7,996,282 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Simulation Using Resource Models ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,996,204) developed by four co-inventors for a "simulation using resource models." The co-inventors are John M. Oslake, Seattle, Pavel A. Dournov, Redmond, Wash., Jonathan C. Hardwick, Kirkland, Wash., and Kevin J. Savage, Sammamish, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Operational resource modeling is usable to analyze application and computer system performance over a wide range of hypothetical scenarios. Operational resource modeling involves creating and training one or more resource models, and/or simulating hypothetical scenarios using resource models." The patent application was filed on April 23, 2007 (11/739,067). 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=7,996,204.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,204&RS=PN/7,996,204 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Building Alternative Views of Name Spaces ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,996,841) developed by four co-inventors for "building alternative views of name spaces." The co-inventors are Frederick J. Smith, Redmond, Wash., Jeff L. Havens, Issaquah, Wash., Madhusudhan Talluri, Bellevue, Wash., and Yousef A. Khalidi, Bellevue, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A containment mechanism provides for the grouping and isolation of multiple processes running on a single computer using a single instance of the operating system. A system is divided into one or more side-by-side and/or nested spaces enabling the partitioning and controlled sharing of resources by creating different views of hierarchical name spaces by creating a new branch of an existing global system name space or by linking the sub-root level nodes of a new hierarchy to a subset of nodes in an existing global system name space." The patent application was filed on Dec. 12, 2005 (11/301,065). 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=7,996,841&OS=7,996,841&RS=7,996,841 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** F5 Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- F5 Networks, Seattle, has been assigned a patent (7,996,886) developed by John R. Hughes, Seattle, Richard Roderick Masters, Seattle, and Robert G. Gilde, Issaquah, Wash., for a "method and system for providing persistence in a secure network access." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for providing persistence in a secure network access by using a client certificate sent by a client device to maintain the identity of a target. A security handshake is performed with a client device to establish a secure session. A target is determined. A client certificate is associated with the target. During subsequent secure sessions, the client certificate is used to maintain persistent communications between the client and a target. A session ID can be used in combination with the client certificate, by identifying the target based on the session ID or the client certificate, depending on which one is available in a client message." The patent application was filed on Sept. 19, 2008 (12/234,592). 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=7,996,886&OS=7,996,886&RS=7,996,886 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Expressing Fault Correlation Constraints ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,996,719) developed by Jose Bernabeu-Auban, Sammamish, Wash., and Yousef A. Khalidi, Bellevue, Wash., for "expressing fault correlation constraints." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for expressing fault correlation constrains to a developer of a service application are provided. Initially, the fault correlation constraints are identified by inspecting an architecture of resources comprising a data center. Based on the resources, sets of nodes that become concurrently unavailable due to a failure mode or update scheme are aggregated. These fault correlation constraints, upon being communicated to the developer, then may be incorporated into a service model produced thereby. Accordingly, the service model is tailored to the specific characteristics of the data center and is provided with instructions as to how to partition instances of the service application throughout the distributed resources of the data center. Thus, the fault correlation constraints provide a developer with insight into rules and structures on which the data center is constructed and assurances of a certain level of fault tolerance upon deploying the service application." The patent application was filed on Oct. 24, 2008 (12/258,158). 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=7,996,719&OS=7,996,719&RS=7,996,719 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods for Integrating Application Windows in a Virtual Machine Environment ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,996,785) developed by Mike Neil, Issaquah, Wash., for "systems and methods for integrating application windows in a virtual machine environment." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention includes systems for and methods of visually integrating application windows in a virtual machine environment. Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a system for and method of visually integrating application windows of host and guest operating system in a virtual machine environment in order to reduce difficulties that the users of computers experience in navigating between applications in a virtual machine environment. The present invention accomplishes this by using a composite window list in the virtual machine monitor (VMM) to manage the configuration, the focus, the geometry, the Z-order of the windows across guest and host operating systems, and the arrangement of doppelgangers (virtual application windows, in this case) in a way that allows host and guest application windows to appear integrated in a single display window." The patent application was filed on June 30, 2004 (10/882,829). 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=7,996,785&OS=7,996,785&RS=7,996,785 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Shared Telepointer ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,996,776) developed by four co-inventors for a shared telepointer. The co-inventors are Cameron J. Parker, Sammamish, Wash., Joseph T. Fletcher, Seattle, Mehal H. Shah, Bellevue, Wash., and Solomon M. Bisker, Cambridge, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A facility is described for providing shared telepointers and for enabling hosts and participants to highlight portions of documents or applications using the shared telepointers. In various embodiments, the facility establishes a sharing session wherein an application executing on a host computing device is shared with a participant computing device, receives at the host computing device an indication from a participant computing device to identify a region to users in the sharing session, draws the identified region on a display device associated with the host computing device, and causes the identified region to be drawn on a display device associated with the participant computing device. In various embodiments, the region is a spot region or a highlighted region that is drawn in a color associated with a user of the participant computing device." The patent application was filed on Feb. 27, 2006 (11/364,575). 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=7,996,776&OS=7,996,776&RS=7,996,776 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Virtual Machine Self-service Restrictions ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,996,834) developed by eight co-inventors for "virtual machine self-service restrictions." The co-inventors are Nelson S. Araujo Jr., Redmond, Wash., Abhishek Dhasmana, Redmond, Wash., Lloyd Gene Giberson, Kirkland, Wash., Angel Monterrubio, Redmond, Wash., John Chad Parry, Newcastle, Wash., Eugene Polonsky, Redmond, Wash., Brian Michael Wahlert, Bellevue, Wash., and Kendra Anne Yourtee, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The embodiments contemplate a system and method for a restriction of virtual machines for a group of one or more users. A predefined policy may include a restriction related to the group, as well as a measure of enforcement to initiate in the event of a violation of the restriction. The measure of enforcement may include a warning message or denial of resources. The restriction may be resource-based, time-based, machine-based, or a combination. The restriction may be a group-level restriction, in which the entire group actions are monitored, or a user-level restriction, in which the user's actions are monitored. In the event a user is assigned to more than one group, the policies of each group are assigned a priority level. The priority level dictates the restriction as well as the measure of enforcement." The patent application was filed on April 14, 2006 (11/404,334). 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=7,996,834&OS=7,996,834&RS=7,996,834 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Correlative Multi-label Image Annotation ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,996,762) developed by five co-inventors for a "correlative multi-label image annotation." The co-inventors are Guo-Jun Qi, Beijing, Xian-Sheng Hua, Beijing, Yong Rui, Sammamish, Wash., Hong-Jiang Zhang, Beijing, and Shipeng Li, Beijing. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Correlative multi-label image annotation may entail annotating an image by indicating respective labels for respective concepts. In an example embodiment, a classifier is to annotate an image by implementing a labeling function that maps an input feature space and a label space to a combination feature vector. The combination feature vector models both features of individual ones of the concepts and correlations among the concepts." The patent application was filed on Feb. 13, 2008 (12/030,616). 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=7,996,762&OS=7,996,762&RS=7,996,762 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Gesture Recognizer System Architecture ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,996,793) developed by four co-inventors for a "gesture recognizer system architecture." The co-inventors are Stephen G. Latta, Seattle, Relja Markovic, Seattle, Arthur Charles Tomlin, Redmond, Wash., and Gregory N. Snook, Sammamish, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems, methods and computer readable media are disclosed for a gesture recognizer system architecture. A recognizer engine is provided, which receives user motion data and provides that data to a plurality of filters. A filter corresponds to a gesture, that may then be tuned by an application receiving information from the gesture recognizer so that the specific parameters of the gesture--such as an arm acceleration for a throwing gesture--may be set on a per-application level, or multiple times within a single application. Each filter may output to an application using it a confidence level that the corresponding gesture occurred, as well as further details about the user motion data." The patent application was filed on April 13, 2009 (12/422,661). 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=7,996,793&OS=7,996,793&RS=7,996,793 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Dynamically Rendering Visualizations of Data Sets ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,996,786) developed by Matthew MacLaurin, Woodinville, Wash., Michael Miller, Sammamish, Wash., and Andrzej Turski, Redmond, Wash., for a "dynamically rendering visualizations of data sets." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Computerized methods and systems for dynamically rendering visual representations of data sets are provided. Upon receiving a request for a particular data set (for instance, in response to receiving a search request), a data set is identified and a minimum portion thereof is retrieved that is necessary to render a visual representation of the data set. In this regard, items sharing a common characteristic may be grouped with one another so that only a single visual identifier of a group of data items may be displayed. In this way, a larger portion of the entire data set may be represented in a single view." The patent application was filed on March 5, 2007 (11/682,157). 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=7,996,786&OS=7,996,786&RS=7,996,786 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent for Method and System for Replacing Instructions and Instruction Blocks in Computer Code ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (7,996,833) developed by Christophe de Dinechin, Roquebrune sur Argens, France, Todd Kjos, Los Altos, Calif., and Jonathan Ross, Woodinville, Wash., for a "method and system for replacing instructions and instruction blocks in computer code." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to efficient methods by which virtual-machine monitors can introduce instructions into guest-operating-system code. In one embodiment of the present invention, the virtual-machine monitor builds instructions dynamically, at insertion time, using specified values for fields within the instruction. In one embodiment of the present invention, the instructions and instruction field values are stored in an instruction-block-representing data structure." The patent application was filed on July 31, 2004 (10/909,966). 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=7,996,833&OS=7,996,833&RS=7,996,833 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Widget Searching Utilizing Task Framework ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,996,783) developed by William D. Ramsey, Redmond, Wash., and Sanjeev Katariya, Bellevue, Wash., for a "widget searching utilizing task framework." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A task framework and a semantic reasoning engine are combined to provide a scalable mechanism for dealing with extremely large numbers of widgets, allowing users to both find a widget and automatically fill-in whatever functionality is available on the widget. Calling applications are employed to obtain task information from each widget. The calling application also receives user queries that can be resolved by a widget. A task reasoning process based on an adaptive semantic reasoning engine utilizes the task information to select a widget best suited to respond to a user's query. The task reasoning process can also be employed to determine "best-guess" slot filling of the selected widget. The calling application can then invoke the selected widget and, if available, fill appropriate slots with information to facilitate user interaction with the selected widget. Instances can be client- and/or server-side based." The patent application was filed on March 2, 2006 (11/367,292). 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=7,996,783&OS=7,996,783&RS=7,996,783 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Florida, Washington Inventors Develop Patent for System and Method for Facilitating Fast-forwarding of First-run Programs ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Richard T. Oesterreicher, Naples, Fla., and Craig Murphy, Kirkland, Wash., have developed a patent (7,996,877) for a "system and method for facilitating fast-forwarding of first-run programs." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method are disclosed for facilitating fast-forwarding by viewers through a first-run program beyond the current broadcast point. In one embodiment, the first-run program is distributed before its scheduled publication time, and may be viewed at any time after the publication time. In a second embodiment, content is distributed on or after the publication time, but at a rate greater than the normal viewing rate. In a third embodiment, content is distributed on demand after the publication time by a media distribution server. In a fourth embodiment, a viewer participating in a multicast session of the content requests content beyond the current broadcast point. The viewer is switched to a unicast session, and the requested content is transmitted to the viewer. In alternative embodiments, a release code may be provided to control the time after which the viewer will be permitted to view program segments beyond the current broadcast point." The patent application was filed on April 10, 2006 (11/401,605). 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=7,996,877&OS=7,996,877&RS=7,996,877 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,996,682) developed by Klaus U. Schutz, Kirkland, Wash., Matthew W. Thomlinson, Seattle, and Scott A. Field, Redmond, Wash., for a secure prompting. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques are described herein for securely prompting a user to confirm sensitive operations, input sensitive information or the like. The techniques include receiving or intercepting calls from applications to prompting routines. When a call to a prompting routine is received or intercepted a hint may be provided to the user to switch to a secure desktop. When the user switches from the user desktop to the secure desktop the particular prompt is displayed. The input to the prompt is received on the secure desktop and verified to have been provided by the user. The user input or a representation of the input is then returned to the application running on the user desktop. Using these techniques, interception of prompting messages by malware does not result in sensitive information being revealed. Furthermore, spoofing of new messages by malware does not lead to the dismissal of critical prompting." The patent application was filed on Oct. 17, 2005 (11/251,946). 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=7996682.PN.&OS=PN/7996682&RS=PN/7996682 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Auto-suggest Lists and Handwritten Input ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,996,589) developed by ten co-inventors for an "auto-suggest lists and handwritten input." The co-inventors are Tracy D. Schultz, Bellevue, Wash., Adrian Garside, Sammamish, Wash., Takanobu Murayama, Seattle, Leroy B. Keely, Portola Valley, Calif., Judy C. Tandog, Seattle, Tobiasz A. Zielinski, Redmond, Wash., Jeffrey W. Pettiross, Seattle, Joshua A. Clow, Bellevue, Wash., Shawna J. Davis, Seattle, and F. David Jones, Redmond, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An interface is provided between a handwriting receiving panel and an auto complete process. A user writes onto the handwriting receiving panel which recognizes the handwritten text. The handwritten text is forwarded to the auto complete process which provides suggested content to the user based on the handwritten text. The user can select the suggested content for use with another application. Alternatively, the user may add additional information to the handwriting receiving panel to enable the auto complete process to provide more or different suggested content." The patent application was filed on Oct. 14, 2005 (11/249,739). 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=7996589.PN.&OS=PN/7996589&RS=PN/7996589 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** SonoSite Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- SonoSite, Bothell, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,996,688) developed by Blake W. Little, Bothell, Wash., for an "ultrasound system power management." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed are systems and methods which power-down (reduce power to or deactivate) circuits in an ultrasound system during periods in which an acoustic signal is not being acquired, although image processing and other system functions are continued normally. Such circuits may be powered-down between each of a series of acoustic signal acquire operations, such as between acoustic signal scan lines and/or between acoustic signal scan frames. The circuitry which is powered-down between scan lines and scan frames may not the same, although some circuitry may be common to both. Embodiments may further operate to adjust the acoustic signal dead time circuitry power-down cycle, such as by adjusting acoustic signal frame rates. Power-down techniques may be utilized in addressing power issues and/or in controlling thermal aspects of the operation of an ultrasound diagnostic system." The patent application was filed on Aug. 24, 2004 (10/924,390). 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=7996688.PN.&OS=PN/7996688&RS=PN/7996688 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Coupled Symbiotic Operating Systems ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,996,648) developed by Paul England, Bellevue, Wash., Jork Loeser, Woodinville, Wash., and Luis Irun-Briz, Bellevue, Wash., for a "coupled symbiotic operating systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A single application can be executed across multiple execution environments in an efficient manner if at least a relevant portion of the virtual memory assigned to the application was equally accessible by each of the multiple execution environments. A request by a process in one execution environment can, thereby, be directed to an operating system, or other core software, in another execution environment and can be made by a shadow of the requesting process in the same manner as the original request was made by the requesting process itself. Because of the memory invariance between the execution environments, the results of the request will be equally accessible to the original requesting process even though the underlying software that responded to the request may be executing in a different execution environment. A similar thread invariance can be maintained to provide for accurate translation of requests between execution environments." The patent application was filed on Dec. 19, 2007 (11/959,467). 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=7996648.PN.&OS=PN/7996648&RS=PN/7996648 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Digitally Certified Stationery ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,996,677) developed by Denis X. Charles, Bellevue, Wash., Kamal Jain, Bellevue, Wash., and Kristin E. Lauter, La Jolla, Calif., for a digitally certified stationery. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for digitally certified stationery are described. In one aspect, a stationery granting authority (SGA) receives a request from a user to generate a document. If the user is authorized for the requested document, the SGA generates a certificate with credentialing information from data in the request. The SGA generates a first digital signature from some of the credentialing information. The SGA communicates the certificate to the user for editing and distribution as the document. A recipient of the document determines whether the document is "official" by contacting a specified service to provide certain information from the document. The verification service computes a second digital signature from the provided information for comparison to the first digital signature. If there is a match, the service notifies the recipient that the document is valid/official. Otherwise, the recipient is notified that the document is not valid." The patent application was filed on Dec. 6, 2006 (11/567,707). 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=7996677.PN.&OS=PN/7996677&RS=PN/7996677 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Unity Semiconductor Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Unity Semiconductor, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,600) developed by Robert Norman, Blaine, Wash., for a "memory emulation in an electronic organizer." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An electronic organizer using a memory array that is directly addressed and non-volatile is disclosed. The memory array can be used to replace and emulate multiple memory types such as DRAM, SRAM, non-volatile RAM, FLASH memory, and a non-volatile memory card, for example. The memory array may be randomly accessed. Data stored in the memory array is retained in the absence of electrical power. One or more memory arrays may be used in the electronic organizer. At least one of the memory arrays may be in the form of a removable memory card." The patent application was filed on Aug. 30, 2007 (11/897,909). 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=7996600.PN.&OS=PN/7996600&RS=PN/7996600 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. -1057226 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |