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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in New Jersey (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 New Jersey. *** Par Pharmaceutical Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 9 -- Par Pharmaceutical, Woodcliff Lake, N.J., has been assigned a patent (7,996,170) developed by Robert Ruemer, Nanuet, N.Y., Narayan Ragunathan, West Nyack, N.Y., and Robert A. Femia, Kinnelon, N.J., for a "system and method for sorting data." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus that enables a user to sort data from one or more sample lots, which may be obtained via a network, such as the Internet, into a composite parameter structure. The composite parameter structure is a function of one or more parameters corresponding to one or more characteristics associated with one or more sample lots. The composite parameter structure representation may be printed, stored, or transmitted to another location. A server device that is coupled and working in conjunction with a client device may implement the present invention." The patent application was filed on May 14, 2009 (12/466,135). 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=79,96,170.PN.&OS=PN/79,96,170&RS=PN/79,96,170 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Akikaze Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Akikaze Technologies, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (7,996,234) developed by Charles Benjamin Dieterich, Kingston, N.J., Edmond Chalom, Newton, Mass., and Tao Chen, Diamond Bar, Calif., for a "method and apparatus for adaptive variable bit rate audio encoding." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for producing a variable bit rate audio signal is disclosed. An audio signal is encoded into a plurality of encoded audio signals at different bit rates. A variable bit rate audio signal is produced by selecting between the plurality of encoded audio frames of different bit rates in accordance with a selection criterion." The patent application was filed on Aug. 26, 2004 (10/926,572). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,996,234.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,234&RS=PN/7,996,234 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellecutal Property II Assigned Patent for System and Method for Providing a Compensated Speech Recognition Model for Speech Recognition ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- AT&T Intellecutal Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (7,996,220) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for providing a compensated speech recognition model for speech recognition." The co-inventors are Richard C. Rose, Watchung, N.J., Sarangarajan Pathasarathy, New Providence, N.J., Aaron Edward Rosenberg, Berkeley Heights, N.J., and Shrikanth Sambasivan Narayanan, Los Angeles. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An automatic speech recognition (ASR) system and method is provided for controlling the recognition of speech utterances generated by an end user operating a communications device. The ASR system and method can be used with a communications device that is used in a communications network. The ASR system can be used for ASR of speech utterances input into a mobile device, to perform compensating techniques using at least one characteristic and for updating an ASR speech recognizer associated with the ASR system by determined and using a background noise value and a distortion value that is based on the features of the mobile device. The ASR system can be used to augment a limited data input capability of a mobile device, for example, caused by limited input devices physically located on the mobile device." The patent application was filed on Nov. 4, 2008 (12/264,700). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,996,220.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,220&RS=PN/7,996,220 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellecutal Property II Assigned Patent for System and Method for Automatic Verification of the Understandability of Speech ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- AT&T Intellecutal Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (7,996,221) developed by Harvey S. Cohen, Middletown, N.J., Randy G. Goldberg, Holmdel, N.J., and Kenneth H. Rosen, Middletown, N.J., for a "system and method for automatic verification of the understandability of speech." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for processing a message received from a user to determine whether an estimate of intelligibility is below an intelligibility threshold. The method includes recognizing a portion of a user's message that contains the one or more expected utterances from a critical information list, calculating an estimate of intelligibility for the recognized portion of the user's message that contains the one or more expected utterances, and prompting the user to repeat at least the recognized portion of the user's message if the calculated estimate of intelligibility for the recognized portion of the user's message is below an intelligibility threshold. In one aspect, the method further includes prompting the user to repeat at least a portion of the message if any of a measured speech level and a measured signal-to-noise ratio of the user's message are determined to be below their respective thresholds." The patent application was filed on Dec. 22, 2009 (12/644,802). 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=7,996,221.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,221&RS=PN/7,996,221 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellecutal Property II Assigned Patent for System and Method of Using Meta-data in Speech Processing ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- AT&T Intellecutal Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (7,996,224) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method of using meta-data in speech processing." The co-inventors are Michiel A.U. Bacchiani, Summit, N.J., Sameer Raj Maskey, New York, Brian E. Roark, Morristown, N.J., and Richard William Sproat, Urbana, Ill. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods relate to generating a language model for use in, for example, a spoken dialog system or some other application. The method comprises building a class-based language model, generating at least one sequence network and replacing class labels in the class-based language model with the at least one sequence network. In this manner, placeholders or tokens associated with classes can be inserted into the models at training time and word/phone networks can be built based on meta-data information at test time. Finally, the placeholder token can be replaced with the word/phone networks at run time to improve recognition of difficult words such as proper names." The patent application was filed on Oct. 29, 2004 (10/977,030). 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=7,996,224.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,224&RS=PN/7,996,224 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (7,996,423) developed by seven co-inventors for a "method for web-based exploration of network infrastructure." The co-inventors are David Lee Applegate, Maplewood, N.J., Maksym Badrak, Alpharetta, Ga., Hossein Eslambolchi, Los Altos Hills, Calif., John R. Perkins, Edison, N.J., Nicholas F. Reingold, Madison, N.J., Vitaly Smirnoff, Alpharetta, Ga., and Harold Jeffrey Stewart, Alpharetta, Ga. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a method of data drilling is presented. A network database is deployed in a network, such as the Internet, for broad-based user access. Network information is stored in the network database and is organized in layers. A graphical user interface with data objects is presented to an end user. Selecting a data object generates a query performed by a server. Each query produces more details on an initially selected data object." The patent application was filed on Nov. 23, 2009 (12/624,219). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=79,96,423&OS=79,96,423&RS=79,96,423 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property Assigned Patent for System and Method for Adaptive Media Playback Based on Destination ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- AT&T Intellectual Property, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (7,996,422) developed by six co-inventors for a "system and method for adaptive media playback based on destination." The co-inventors are Behzad Shahraray, Holmdel, N.J., Andrea Basso, Marlboro, N.J., Lee Begeja, Gillette, N.J., David C. Gibbon, Lincroft, N.J., Zhu Liu, Marlboro, N.J., and Bernard S. Renger, New Providence, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer readable-media for adaptive media playback based on destination. The method for adaptive media playback comprises determining one or more destinations, collecting media content that is relevant to or describes the one or more destinations, assembling the media content into a program, and outputting the program. In various embodiments, media content may be advertising, consumer-generated, based on real-time events, based on a schedule, or assembled to fit within an estimated available time. Media content may be assembled using an adaptation engine that selects a plurality of media segments that fit in the estimated available time, orders the plurality of media segments, alters at least one of the plurality of media segments to fit the estimated available time, if necessary, and creates a playlist of selected media content containing the plurality of media segments." The patent application was filed on July 22, 2008 (12/177,582). 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=79,96,422&OS=79,96,422&RS=79,96,422 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Google Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods for Providing Search Results ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,391) developed by Luis Castro, Piscataway, N.J., Walt Lin, New York, and Benedict Gomes, Mountain View, Calif., for "systems and methods for providing search results." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method includes generating search results in response to a user query, where at least one of the search results includes a group of links. The group of links may represent links to web pages within a same web site and may be identified based on at least one factor associated with the links. The method may also include providing the search results to the user." The patent application was filed on June 20, 2005 (11/155,882). 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=79,96,391&OS=79,96,391&RS=79,96,391 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Policy-based Management System with Automatic Policy Selection and Creation Capabilities ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,353) developed by four co-inventors for a "policy-based management system with automatic policy selection and creation capabilities by using singular value decomposition technique." The co-inventors are Hoi Y. Chan, New Canaan, Conn., David M. Chess, Mohegan Lake, N.Y., Thomas Y. Kwok, Washington Township, N.J., and Steve R. White, New York. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A statistical approach implementing Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) to a policy-based management system for autonomic and on-demand computing applications. The statistical approach empowers a class of applications that require policies to handle ambiguous conditions and allow the system to "evolve"in response to changing operation and environment conditions. In the system and method providing the statistical approach, observed event-policy associated data, which is represented by an event-policy matrix, is treated as a statistical problem with the assumption that there are some underlying or implicit higher order correlations among events and policies. The SVD approach enables such correlations to be modeled, extracted and modified. From these correlations, recommended policies can be selected or created without exact match of policy conditions. With a feedback mechanism, new knowledge can be acquired as new situations occur and the corresponding policies to manage them are recorded and used to generate new event and policy correlations. Consequently, based on these new correlations, new recommended policies can be derived." The patent application was filed on June 2, 2008 (12/131,424). 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=79,96,353&OS=79,96,353&RS=79,96,353 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** United States Postal Service Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- United States Postal Service, Washington, has been assigned a patent (7,996,333) developed by Peter Furka, Secaucus, N.J., for a "manifest delivery system and method." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "There is provided a method and system of determining efficient routing of a mail piece in a delivery system for delivering mail pieces. The system determines whether or not the mail piece requires urgent delivery. The system determines a weight of the mail piece. Also, the system determines, based on the urgency determination and the weight determination, a most cost-effective place in which to introduce the mail piece into the delivery system." The patent application was filed on April 16, 2008 (12/104,237). 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=7,996,333.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,333&RS=PN/7,996,333 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** American Express Travel Related Services Assigned Patent for System and Method for Securing Data through a PDA Portal ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- American Express Travel Related Services, New York, has been assigned a patent (7,996,320) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for securing data through a PDA portal." The co-inventors are Fred Bishop, Glendale, Ariz., Trey Neemann, Glendale, Ariz., Theodore S. Voltmer, Caldwell, N.J., and Fauziah B. Ariff, London. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Consumers may utilize computing devices to assist in the purchase and/or loyalty process, and in particular, the consumer may utilize a PDA to facilitate the purchase and/or loyalty process. During the purchase and/or loyalty process, the consumer may need to insure that any content downloaded or used in association with the PDA is secure in how it is collected, assembled, and delivered to the PDA device. This system and method secures the data from its source to when it is actually viewed or used by the authorized user. The PDA may have direct access to an Internet web site portal that offers secure personal content from a content provider, such as, for example, an on-line banking or financial institution. Using the web site portal, the content provider may offer personal or confidential data, such as financial information, to PDA users in a secure (e.g., encrypted) environment. The exemplary system and method may establish a PDA portal link to the web site for collecting specified information for a user and transmitting the information to the remote device. To receive the information, the PDA contacts the portal and establishes a connection, authenticates itself to the network and allows the user to complete secured transactions or transmissions over the network." The patent application was filed on Dec. 10, 2008 (12/332,248). 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=7,996,320.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,320&RS=PN/7,996,320 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** iPrivacy Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- iPrivacy, New York, has been assigned a patent (7,996,288) developed by Salvatore J. Stolfo, Ridgewood, N.J., for a "method and system for processing recurrent consumer transactions." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In a communications network-based system, a method for securely processing recurrent consumer transactions. Merchant-specific proxy financial account information is provided to a user and maintained in a database, the proxy financial account information valid for transactions at a single merchant only. A request for transaction approval is received from a merchant, the request including a merchant identifier and a user's proxy financial account information. The database is queried to determine if the proxy financial account is valid for the merchant seeking transaction approval. The proxy financial account information may include a credit card account number and/or a proxy billing address linked to a financial account. A merchant identifier string, identifying the authorized merchant, may be encoded in the credit card number and/or proxy billing address. A communications network-based system and software program for implementing the present invention are also disclosed." The patent application was filed on Nov. 15, 2000 (09/713,506). 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=7,996,288.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,288&RS=PN/7,996,288 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. *** American Express Travel Related Services Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- American Express Travel Related Services, New York, has been assigned a patent (7,996,307) developed by Fred Bishop, Glendale, Ariz., Bansi L. Sharma, New York, and Tracey R. Thomas, Boonton, N.J., for "systems and methods for facilitating transactions between different financial accounts." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A financial account issuer facilitating transactions between accounts is disclosed. The invention provides sellers with an irrevocable method of receiving funds from a purchaser and for improving purchaser willingness to transact with an unknown party. The invention also includes the options of interest payments, the use of different account issuers, different financial accounts, budget transfers, spend compartmentalization, cost-splitting, adjusting credit limits, loans, gifting, intermediary facilitating the transaction, transaction tracking, rapid funds availability, confidential transfer of funds, immediate initiation of shipment by a seller, releasing funds to a seller only after approval of the goods, services, or other value, demonstrating proof of payment, and recourse against a remote seller." The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2008 (12/242,803). 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=7,996,307.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,307&RS=PN/7,996,307 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent for System and Method of Exploiting Prosodic Features for Dialog Act Tagging in a Discriminative Modeling Framework ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (7,996,214) developed by Srinivas Bangalore, Morristown, N.J., and Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Goleta, Calif., for a "system and method of exploiting prosodic features for dialog act tagging in a discriminative modeling framework." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed are a system and method for exploiting information in an utterance for dialog act tagging. An exemplary method includes receiving a user utterance, computing at periodic intervals at least one parameter in the user utterance, quantizing the at least one parameter at each periodic interval, approximating conditional probabilities using an n-gram over a sliding window over the periodic intervals and tagging the utterance as a dialog act based on the approximated conditional probabilities." The patent application was filed on Nov. 1, 2007 (11/933,739). 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=7,996,214.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,214&RS=PN/7,996,214 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent for Apparatus and Method for Model Adaptation for Spoken Language Understanding ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (7,996,219) developed by Gokhan Tur, Denville, N.J., for an "apparatus and method for model adaptation for spoken language understanding." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus and a method are provided for building a spoken language understanding model. Labeled data may be obtained for a target application. A new classification model may be formed for use with the target application by using the labeled data for adaptation of an existing classification model. In some implementations, the existing classification model may be used to determine the most informative examples to label." The patent application was filed on March 21, 2005 (11/085,587). 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=7,996,219.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,219&RS=PN/7,996,219 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Oracle International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Oracle International, Redwood Shores, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,855) developed by five co-inventors for a "personal messaging application programming interface for integrating an application with groupware systems." The co-inventors are Pete Heist, Yardley, Pa., Nathan Cole, Lansdale, Pa., Jonathan Michael Hurley, East Windsor, N.J., Kevin John Agatone, West Chester, Pa., and Jeffrey Thomas Sposetti, Superior, Colo. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A personal messaging application programming interface can be utilized by a developer in order to add groupware functionality to an application. The interface can include various schemas and providers that allow the schemas to connect to a collaboration server which provides the groupware functionality. The schemas can further include item and container classes and can extend other schemas so as to provide functionality that is more specific to the collaboration server. The items and containers can represent various entities on the collaboration server. The providers can use stubs in order to create connections to the collaboration server and can implement the schema hierarchy so as to map the functionality defined by the schema into various core calls on the collaboration server." The patent application was filed on Sept. 15, 2006 (11/522,240). 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=7,996,855&OS=7,996,855&RS=7,996,855 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Mformation Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Mformation Technologies, Edison, N.J., has been assigned a patent (7,996,906) developed by Badri Nath, Edison, N.J., Rakesh Kushwaha, Marlboro, N.J., and Mark Edwards, Westfield, N.J., for a "system and method for automatically altering device functionality." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for automatically altering device functionality based on the occurrence of certain predetermined conditions. A link may be established between a device and a trusted server to provide an association between various conditions that may be detected at the device and actions that are to be taken on the device. In particular, software traps can be set up and linked to device functionality such that execution of the trap may automatically disable or enable certain device capabilities. Some aspects of the invention are directed to a system and method for remotely setting software traps for detecting software viruses and, upon execution of the traps, several methods for establishing a quarantine on infected devices." The patent application was filed on Nov. 6, 2009 (12/613,641). 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=7,996,906&OS=7,996,906&RS=7,996,906 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (7,996,878) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for generating coded video sequences from still media." The co-inventors are Andrea Basso, Monmouth, N.J., Eric Cosatto, Highlands, N.J., Steven Lloyd Greenspan, Scotch Plains, N.J., and David M. Weimer, Aberdeen, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The invention provides a system and method that transforms a set of still/motion media (i.e., a series of related or unrelated still frames, web-pages rendered as images, or video clips) or other multimedia, into a video stream that is suitable for delivery over a display medium, such as TV, cable TV, computer displays, wireless display devices, etc. The video data stream may be presented and displayed in real time or stored and later presented through a set-top box, for example. Because these media are transformed into coded video streams (e.g. MPEG-2, MPEG-4, etc.), a user can watch them on a display screen without the need to connect to the Internet through a service provider. The user may request and interact with the desired media through a simple telephone interface, for example. Moreover, several wireless and cable-based services can be developed on the top of this system. In one possible embodiment, the system for generating a coded video sequence may include an input unit that receives the multimedia input and extracts image data, and derives the virtual camera scripts and coding hints from the image data, a video sequence generator that generates a video sequence based on the extracted image data and the derived virtual camera scripts and coding hints, and a video encoder that encodes the generated video sequence using the coding hints and outputs the coded video sequence to an output device. The system may also provide customized video sequence generation services to subscribers." The patent application was filed on Aug. 29, 2000 (09/650,355). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,996,878&OS=7,996,878&RS=7,996,878 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Oracle America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Oracle America, Redwood City, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,842) developed by Jeffrey B. Savit, River Edge, N.J., for a "computer resource management for workloads or applications based on service level objectives." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A resource allocation method and system for efficiently allocating compute resources. The method includes providing a workload manager and installing a workload in the computer system. During the installing, a service level goal for the workload is provided to the workload manager, and the workload manager assigns a first resource allocation for the compute resources to the workload. Then, a service level being achieved for the workload is determined in the compute resources. Based on results of the comparing, the workload manager reallocates the compute resource with the workload manager including assigning a second resource allocation for the compute resources to the workload. The workload may be made up of one or more applications running on the compute resources over multiple OS instances. The installing of the workload includes the application interfacing with the workload manager to provide the service level goal during installation." The patent application was filed on March 30, 2006 (11/393,045). 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=7,996,842&OS=7,996,842&RS=7,996,842 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Avaya Assigned Patent for Automatic Validation of Test Results Using Componentized Software Object Reflection ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Avaya, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (7,996,817) developed by Bin Wen, Ocean, N.J., for "automatic validation of test results using componentized software object reflection." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing automatic validation of test results using componentized software object reflection, is presented. An application is run and at least one resultant data structure is generated from the running of the application. The at least one resultant data structure is converted in to at least one componentized software object. Results are obtained from the at least one componentized software object and the results from the at least one componentized software object are verified." The patent application was filed on Oct. 27, 2006 (11/588,751). 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=7,996,817&OS=7,996,817&RS=7,996,817 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Syntest Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Syntest Technologies, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,741) developed by five co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for low-pin-count scan compression." The co-inventors are Nur A. Touba, Austin, Texas, Laung-Terng Wang, Sunnyvale, Calif., Zhigang Jiang, Burlingame, Calif., Shianling Wu, Princeton Junction, N.J., and Jianping Yan, Milpitas, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A low-pin-count scan compression method and apparatus for reducing test data volume and test application time in a scan-based integrated circuit. The scan-based integrated circuit contains one or more scan chains, each scan chain comprising one or more scan cells coupled in series. The method and apparatus includes a programmable pipelined decompressor comprising one or more shift registers, a combinational logic network, and an optional scan connector. The programmable pipelined decompressor decompresses a compressed scan pattern on its compressed scan inputs and drives the generated decompressed scan pattern at the output of the programmable pipelined decompressor to the scan data inputs of the scan-based integrated circuit. Any input constraints imposed by said combinational logic network are incorporated into an automatic test pattern generation (ATPG) program for generating the compressed scan pattern for one or more selected faults in one-step." The patent application was filed on Aug. 24, 2009 (12/546,060). 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=7,996,741&OS=7,996,741&RS=7,996,741 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Distributed System and Computer Program Product for Establishing Security in a Publish/Subscribe Data Processing Broker Network ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,668) developed by Catherine C. Diep, Cupertino, Calif., John W. Huang, Warren, N.J., and Paul J. Wanish, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., for a "distributed system and computer program product for establishing security in a publish/subscribe data processing broker network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A technique for establishing security in a publish/subscribe data processing broker network is presented. The technique includes providing a security extension module from a publisher to a broker of the network, wherein the security extension module is for a topic asset of the publisher. The broker employs the security extension module, responsive to receipt of a request from a subscriber for the topic asset, to authenticate the request at the broker before pushing the topic asset of the publisher to the subscriber. In addition to authenticating the request, the security mode extension can be employed to authorize the request, and to automatically forward messages to the publisher providing information on when topic asset access by a subscriber begins and ends." The patent application was filed on April 7, 2008 (12/098,571). 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=7996668.PN.&OS=PN/7996668&RS=PN/7996668 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. -1057213 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |