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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Massachusetts (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 Massachusetts. *** Schlumberger Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 9 -- Schlumberger Technology, Sugar Land, Texas, has been assigned a patent (7,996,154) developed by nine co-inventors for "methods and apparatus for analysis of downhole asphaltene gradients and applications thereof." The co-inventors are Youxiang Zuo (Julian), Edmonton, Canada, Oliver C. Mullins, Ridgefield, Conn., Jinglin Gao, Edmonton, Canada, Abdel M. Kharrat, Edmonton, Canada, Kentaro Indo, Edmonton, Canada, Michael O'Keefe, Blackmans Bay, Australia, Soraya S. Betancourt, Cambridge, Mass., Chengli Dong, Sugar Land, Texas, and Francois Dubost, Idron, France. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for characterizing asphaltene gradients of a reservoir of interest and analyzing properties of the reservoir of interest based upon such asphaltene gradients. The analysis employs a correlation that relates insoluble asphaltene concentration to spectrophotometry measurement data measured at depth." The patent application was filed on Jan. 12, 2009 (12/352,369). 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=79,96,154.PN.&OS=PN/79,96,154&RS=PN/79,96,154 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Teradyne Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 9 -- Teradyne, North Reading, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,996,174) developed by five co-inventors for a disk drive testing. The co-inventors are Edward Garcia, Holbrook, Mass., Brian S. Merrow, Harvard, Mass., Evgeny Polyakov, Brookline, Mass., Walter Vahey, Winchester, Mass., and Eric L. Truebenbach, Sudbury, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A disk drive testing system includes at least one robotic arm defining a first axis substantially normal to a floor surface. The robotic arm is operable to rotate through a predetermined arc about and extend radially from the first axis. Multiple racks are arranged around the robotic arm for servicing by the robotic arm. Each rack houses multiple test slots that are each configured to receive a disk drive transporter configured to carry a disk drive for testing." The patent application was filed on Dec. 18, 2007 (11/958,788). 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=79,96,174.PN.&OS=PN/79,96,174&RS=PN/79,96,174 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Massachusetts Inventor Develops Patent for Method and System for Modeling a Batch Manufacturing Facility ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Peter G. Brown, Brighton, Mass., has developed a patent (7,996,100) for a "method and system for modeling a batch manufacturing facility." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for the modeling of biopharmaceutical batch process manufacturing facilities uses process time lines. The system employs an eleven-field delimited string code which specifies the unit identifier code and the iteration value for each of the ten levels of nested scheduling cycles of the biopharmaceutical drug production process being modeled. The method includes generating a process time line using operational parameters, a block flow diagram, and a set of scheduling cycles for each of a sequence of unit operations. The process time line is used as a tool for batch processing and facility design." The patent application was filed on Dec. 16, 2008 (12/336,517). 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=79,96,100.PN.&OS=PN/79,96,100&RS=PN/79,96,100 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** EMC Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,996,574) developed by Reema Gupta, Framingham, Mass., Yao Wang, Shrewsbury, Mass., and Alesia Tringale, Worcester, Mass., for a "messaging mechanism for inter processor communication." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus and method are provided for connecting a host Enterprise System Connection Architecture (ESCON) Input/Output (I/O) interface to a cache of a data storage system. The apparatus includes (a) a set of at least 4 pipelines, each pipeline being coupled on a first end to the host ESCON I/O interface and being coupled on a second end to the cache, (b) a plurality of line processors, each line processor controlling one or more of the pipelines of the set of pipelines, and (c) in each pipeline, a protocol engine, the protocol engine configured to distinguish user data from frame header data and separate the user data from the frame header data for transport over the pipeline." The patent application was filed on May 3, 2007 (11/800,091). 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=7,996,574.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,574&RS=PN/7,996,574 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Dictaphone Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Dictaphone, Stratford, Conn., has been assigned a patent (7,996,223) developed by Alan Frankel, Framingham, Mass., and Ana Santisteban, Somerville, Mass., for a "system and method for post processing speech recognition output." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method may be disclosed for facilitating the conversion of dictation into usable and formatted documents by providing a method of post processing speech recognition output. In particular, the post processing system may be configured to implement rewrite rules and process raw speech recognition output or other raw data according to those rewrite rules. The application of the rewrite rules may format and/or normalize the raw speech recognition output into formatted or finalized documents and reports. The system may thereby reduce or eliminate the need for post processing by transcriptionists or dictation authors." The patent application was filed on Sept. 29, 2004 (10/953,474). 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=7,996,223.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,223&RS=PN/7,996,223 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; 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. *** Nortel Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Nortel Networks, St. Laurent, Canada, has been assigned a patent (7,996,559) developed by Dinesh Mohan, Kanata, Canada, Paul Unbehagen, Apex, N.C., and Srikanth Keesara, Tewksbury, Mass., for an "automatic MEP provisioning in a link state controlled Ethernet network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Ethernet OAM MEPs are automatically configured in a link state protocol controlled Ethernet network. A node operating in the link state protocol controlled Ethernet network receives a Link State PDU (LSP) containing a TLV having a MEP associated with the Ethernet MAC node ID of a second node in the link state protocol controlled Ethernet network, where the path between the first and second node includes a plurality of links. The node updates a forwarding table to indicate an association between the MEP ID and a Ethernet MAC node ID of the second node. An Ethernet OAM maintenance endpoint is produced in a link state protocol controlled Ethernet network by hashing a Sys-ID to produce a MEP; storing the MEP in a TLV; and forwarding the TLV over the link state protocol controlled Ethernet network in an LSP." The patent application was filed on Oct. 12, 2008 (12/249,944). 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=7,996,559.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,559&RS=PN/7,996,559 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Red Hat Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Red Hat, Raleigh, N.C., has been assigned a patent (7,996,550) developed by Donald Fischer, Westford, Mass., and Havoc Pennington, Westford, Mass., for a "peer-to-peer download with quality of service fallback." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An embodiment relates generally to a method for playing for a file. The method includes initiating a playback for a selected file on a reserved server, where the selected file is also distributed in segments across a peer-to-peer network. The method also includes initiating a retrieval of the selected file from the peer-to-peer network or reserved server and ordering the retrieved segments of the selected file for playback. The method further includes switching playback of the selected file between the peer-to-peer network and reserved server according to the real-time performance and availability of the peer-to-peer network and reserved server." The patent application was filed on Nov. 30, 2006 (11/565,144). 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=7,996,550.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,550&RS=PN/7,996,550 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Akamai Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Akamai Technologies, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,996,533) developed by F. Thomson Leighton, Newtonville, Mass., Daniel M. Lewin, Charlestown, Mass., and Anne E. Lewin, Charlestown, Mass., for a "HTML delivery from edge-of-network servers in a content delivery network (CDN)." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A content delivery network is enhanced to provide for delivery of cacheable markup language content files such as HTML. To support HTML delivery, the content provider provides the CDNSP with an association of the content provider's domain name (e.g., www.customer.com) to an origin server domain name (e.g., html.customer.com) at which one or more default HTML files are published and hosted. The CDNSP provides its customer with a CDNSP-specific domain name. The content provider, or an entity on its behalf, then implements DNS entry aliasing (e.g., a CNAME of the host to the CDNSP-specific domain) so that domain name requests for the host cue the CDN DNS request routing mechanism. This mechanism then identifies a best content server to respond to a request directed to the customer's domain. The CDN content server returns a default HTML file if such file is cached; otherwise, the CDN content server directs a request for the file to the origin server to retrieve the file, after which the file is cached on the CDN content server for subsequent use in servicing other requests. The content provider is also provided with log files of CDNSP-delivered HTML." The patent application was filed on Sept.. 26, 2009 (12/567,747). 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=7,996,533.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,533&RS=PN/7,996,533 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Comcast Cable Communications Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Comcast Cable Communications, Philadelphia, has been assigned a patent (7,996,526) developed by Richard Woundy, North Reading, Mass., and Chris Bastian, Glenmore, Pa., for a "management of shared access network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Information from multiple sources can be communicated to a policy server. Based on that information, the policy server can determine allocation of bandwidth, transmission priority and/or other network resources based on preferences and/or service selections provided by a subscriber and communicate information about those determinations to other network elements for policy implementation. The information provided to a policy server for determining network resource allocation can include information about one or more applications executing at a customer equipment device, information about access network bandwidth usage, information about services for which one or more devices is authorized, and/or information about network conditions." The patent application was filed on June 8, 2009 (12/480,009). 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=7,996,526.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,526&RS=PN/7,996,526 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Novell Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Novell, Provo, Utah, has been assigned a patent (7,996,429) developed by eight co-inventors for "mechanisms to persist hierarchical object relations." The co-inventors are Lee Edward Lowry, Orem, Utah, Rajesh Vasudevan, Sandy, Utah, Brent Thurgood, Spanish Fork, Utah, Ryan Cox, Provo, Utah, Zack Grossbart, Cambridge, Mass., William Street, Orem, Utah, Volker Gunnar Scheuber-Heinz, Pleasant Grove, Utah, and Stephen R. Carter, Spanish Fork, Utah. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Mechanisms to persist object relations are provided. A project is defined as a series of interrelated objects having dependencies and relationships with one another. The dependencies and relationships are maintained via a storage organization for files that define the objects within a project storage environment for the project. Thus, the dependencies and relationships are not maintained via hardcoded instructions or references that are included within the files." The patent application was filed on June 12, 2008 (12/137,629). 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=79,96,429&OS=79,96,429&RS=79,96,429 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** InfraReDx Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- InfraReDx, Burlington, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,996,069) developed by Andres Zuluaga, Boston, and Stephen DeJesus, Newton, Mass., for a "spectroscopy of deeply-scattered light." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A spectroscope includes first and second beam redirectors in optical communication with first and second fibers respectively. The first and second beam redirectors are oriented to illuminate respective first and second areas. The second area is separated from the first area by a separation distance that exceeds the separation distance between the first and second beam redirectors." The patent application was filed on Sept. 15, 2008 (12/210,669). 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=7996069.PN.&OS=PN/7996069&RS=PN/7996069 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; 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. *** Yahoo! Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,306) developed by Rica Gonen, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Elan Y. Pavlov, Cambridge, Mass., for a "system and method for payment over a series of time periods in an online market with budget and time constraints." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An improved system and method is provided for using sampling for scheduling advertisements in an online auction with budget and time constraints. A multi-armed bandit engine may be provided for sampling new advertisements by allocating advertisements for web page placements of equal quality and optimizing payments to maximize the welfare of the advertisers while remaining within advertiser's budget and time constraints. Advertisers may report their private information including arrival time, departure time, value per click, and budget. And the multi-armed bandit mechanism may approximate the maximal welfare that may be achieved under budget and time constraints by bounding the possible gain from any possible lie an advertiser might submit in reporting private information. Advertisers departing from the online auction may be charged using a payment method that may provide truthful guarantees on budget, arrivals, departures, and valuations for a budget-constrained online auction." The patent application was filed on Sept. 10, 2007 (11/900,523). 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=7,996,306.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,306&RS=PN/7,996,306 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Teradata US Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Teradata US, Dayton, Ohio, has been assigned a patent (7,996,254) developed by four co-inventors for "methods and systems for forecasting product demand during promotional events using a causal methodology." The co-inventors are Arash Bateni, Toronto, Edward Kim, Toronto, Harminter Atwal, Framingham, Mass., and Jean-Philippe Vorsanger, Toronto. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An improved method for forecasting and modeling product demand for a product during promotional periods. The forecasting methodology employs a multivariable regression model to model the causal relationship between product demand and the attributes of past promotional activities. The model is utilized to calculate the promotional uplift from the coefficients of the regression equation. The methodology utilizes a mathematical formulation that transforms regression coefficients, a combination of additive and multiplicative coefficients, into a single promotional uplift coefficient that can be used directly in promotional demand forecasting calculations." The patent application was filed on Nov. 13, 2007 (11/938,812). 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=7,996,254.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,254&RS=PN/7,996,254 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** MathWorks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- MathWorks, Natick, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,996,255) developed by five co-inventors for a "system and method for providing sales leads based on-demand software trial usage." The co-inventors are Rohit Shenoy, Stoughton, Mass., Pieter J. Mosterman, Framingham, Mass., Bella G. Teverovsky, Brookline, Mass., John Fluet, Sudbury, Mass., and Craig Dowley, Franklin, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Business management methods for on-demand trial based marketing and sales are introduced. Using on-demand trial technology, usage metrics can be automatically generated by tracking the usage of specific products and corresponding duration. Usage metrics and other data are automatically processed to qualify and channel leads to pertinent categories in sales and marketing. The present invention facilitates a more directed effort to investigate leads and makes the information of customers available for follow-up that has higher prospective sales potential. The present invention may also be used to dispatch pre-release reports automatically to a vendor." The patent application was filed on Sept. 29, 2005 (11/238,721). 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=7,996,255.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,255&RS=PN/7,996,255 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** MathWorks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- MathWorks, Natick, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,996,194) developed by Mojdeh Shakeri, Southborough, Mass., Marc Ullman, Framingham, Mass., and Ramamurthy Mani, Newton, Mass., for a block diagram modeling. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A modeling process includes providing blocks, each of the blocks representing functional entities that operate on input signal values, output signal values from the blocks, grouping the output signal values as an ordered set in a multiplexer as a first composite signal and outputting the first composite signal." The patent application was filed on Sept. 8, 2008 (12/231,998). 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=7,996,194.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,194&RS=PN/7,996,194 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Minnesota, Massachusetts Inventors Develop Patent for Process, Knowledge, and Intelligence Management through Integrated Medical Management System ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Solomon Zak, St Louis Park, Minn., Rudra Duddala, Westboro, Mass., Craig Johnson, Cambrige, Minn., Poladas James, Worcester, Mass., Madusudhana Narahari, Whitinsville, Mass., Bala Ankarfa, Westboro, Mass., Streesha Parvatham, Westboro, Mass., and Sashidhar Kokku, Westboro, Mass., have developed a patent (7,996,241) for a "process, knowledge, and intelligence management through integrated medical management system for better health outcomes, utilization cost reduction and provider reward programs." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed herein is a computer implemented method and system for rewarding health care providers using an integrated medical management system. A web application analyzes performance of the health care providers. The web application acquires information from integrated medical management system. The acquired information includes information of health care quality improvement analysis, disease and case based management, utilization analytics, physician profiling, authorizations management, lab and imaging information, and health risk assessment information. The web application determines performance indices for the health care providers based on the acquired information. The performance indices include a quality index, an economic index, and a relative value unit index of the health care providers. The web application analyzes the performance of the health care providers based on the performance indices. The analysis includes identifying health care providers eligible for a reward. The health care providers are then rewarded based on the analyzed performance." The patent application was filed on May 12, 2008 (12/118,768). 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=7,996,241.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,241&RS=PN/7,996,241 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Automatically Developing Neuropsychiatric Treatment Plans Based on Neuroimage Data ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,242) developed by four co-inventors for an "automatically developing neuropsychiatric treatment plans based on neuroimage data." The co-inventors are Joanna Lynn Fueyo, Brighton, Mass., Robert Lee Angell, Salt Lake City, Robert R. Friedlander, Southbury, Conn., and James R. Kraemer, Santa Fe, N.M. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for developing neuropsychiatric treatment plans. A treatment plan generator receives a set of diagnoses for a patient. The treatment plan generator automatically analyzes medical information in a set of electronic medical literature sources for potential therapies associated with treatment of each identified condition in the set of diagnoses. The treatment plan generator identifies the potential therapies associated with the treatment of each diagnosed condition. The treatment plan generator selects a set of recommended therapies from the potential therapies based on portions of the medical literature describing each therapy in the potential therapies and a medical history for the patient. The treatment plan generator generates a treatment plan. The treatment plan comprises the set of recommended therapies to treat each diagnosed condition in the set of diagnoses." The patent application was filed on July 8, 2008 (12/169,402). 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=7,996,242.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,242&RS=PN/7,996,242 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** EMC Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,996,848) developed by Steven T. McClure, Northboro, Mass., Steven R. Chalmer, Auburndale, Mass., and Brett D. Niver, Grafton, Mass., for "systems and methods for suspending and resuming threads." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In a methods and systems of controlling a process's access to a device driver, a lock may be used to establish a process wait state or to wake up one or more processes. A spinlock may be used to acquire a lock associated with a device driver. The lock includes a lock value representing the availability of the lock. If the lock value is a first value, the process acquires the lock and sets the lock value to a second value. Otherwise, the process returns to the step of using the spinlock to acquire the lock associated with the device driver. If the lock is acquired, the process accesses the device driver. If the device is not ready, the process is set to wait for the lock. Waiting for the lock comprises setting a field of the process to a pointer to the lock and setting a state of the process to waiting. After the device has been successfully accessed or the process has been set to wait for the lock, the lock is released typically by setting the lock value to the first value." The patent application was filed on Jan. 3, 2006 (11/324,989). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,996,848&OS=7,996,848&RS=7,996,848 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** CPTN Holdings Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- CPTN Holdings, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,996,787) developed by David Reveman, Boston, for a "plug-in architecture for window management and desktop compositing effects." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method that relates to a plug-in architecture that enables accelerated rendering and compositing of one or more graphical effects instantiated by one or more separate visual effect plug-ins. The plug-in architecture enables setting up visual effects, accepting graphical output requests, customizing visual effects, and/or allowing enhanced graphics rendering for desktop usage, among other things. The invention provides a modular approach to customizing and rendering visual effects. The plug-in architecture enables plug-ins to be exchanged, modified, removed, and added, among other things." The patent application was filed on Feb. 6, 2007 (11/702,646). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,996,787&OS=7,996,787&RS=7,996,787 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Oracle International Assigned Patent for Recovery Mechanism for Transactions ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Oracle International, Redwood Shores, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,837) developed by Brian Christopher Chesebro, Londonderry, N.H., James William Gish, Sudbury, Mass., and Chinnappa Ganapathy Codanda, Boston, for a "recovery mechanism for transactions." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for recovering from an incomplete transaction. These mechanisms and methods can enable embodiments to detect incomplete transactions when recovering from a server crash or other catastrophic event. Some embodiments can automatically re-establish interrupted connections when incomplete transactions have been detected. The ability of embodiments to detect incomplete transaction can allow recovery to initiate substantially immediately upon server restart and adapter redeployment." The patent application was filed on May 3, 2006 (11/416,906). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,996,837&OS=7,996,837&RS=7,996,837 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** VistaPrint Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- VistaPrint Technologies, Hamilton, Bermuda, has been assigned a patent (7,996,756) developed by Laban Eilers, Framingham, Mass., and Jay T. Moody, Wayland, Mass., for "system and methods for displaying user modifiable server-rendered images." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method renders an image on a server and displays it on a client. A server sends to a client a web page that includes a design document encoding graphic elements that characterize a design image. The client receives edits to the graphic elements, and sends the design document back to the server. The server then uses the design document to render an image, and sends to the client the rendered image for display in the web page. The web page may contain an IFRAME markup tag to define an area in which to display the rendered image. The server may use a database to store the rendered image and use it in completing a customer order." The patent application was filed on Sept. 12, 2007 (11/854,480). 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=7,996,756&OS=7,996,756&RS=7,996,756 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,996,714) developed by Brendan O'Connell, Huntsville, Ala., and Joseph Kochocki, Lynnfield, Mass., for "systems and methods for redundancy management in fault tolerant computing." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for redundancy management in fault tolerant computing are provided. The systems and methods generally relate to enabling the use of non-custom, off-the-shelf components and tools to provide redundant fault tolerant computing. The various embodiments described herein, generally speaking, use a decrementer register in a general purpose processor for synchronizing identical operations across redundant general purpose processors, execute redundancy management services in the kernels of commercial off-the-shelf real-time operating systems (RTOS) running on the general purpose processors, and use soft coded tables to schedule operations and assign redundancy management parameters across the general purpose processors." The patent application was filed on April 14, 2008 (12/082,974). 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=7996714.PN.&OS=PN/7996714&RS=PN/7996714 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Juniper Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Juniper Networks, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,713) developed by Stephen R. Hanna, Bedford, Mass., for a server-to-server integrity checking. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method performed by a primary server includes receiving integrity criteria and sending a health check request to a secondary server based on the received integrity criteria. The method also includes receiving integrity information from the secondary server and checking the integrity information against the integrity criteria. The method further includes initiating a non-compliance action if the integrity information does not comply with the integrity criteria." The patent application was filed on Dec. 15, 2008 (12/334,611). 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=7996713.PN.&OS=PN/7996713&RS=PN/7996713 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** BlueRISC Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- BlueRISC, Amherst, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,996,671) developed by Saurabh Chheda, Santa Clara, Calif., Kristopher Carver, Chicopee, Mass., and Raksit Ashok, Sunnyvale, Calif., for a "security of program executables and microprocessors based on compiler-architecture interaction." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, for use in a processor context, wherein instructions in a program executable are encoded with plural instruction set encodings. A method wherein a control instruction encoded with an instruction set encoding contains information about decoding of an instruction that is encoded with another instruction set encoding scheme. A method wherein instruction set encodings are randomly generated at compile time. A processor framework wherein an instruction is decoded during execution with the help of information provided by a previously decoded control instruction." The patent application was filed on Nov. 12, 2004 (10/987,374). 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=7996671.PN.&OS=PN/7996671&RS=PN/7996671 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. 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