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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in New York (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 York. *** 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. *** Electro Industries/Gauge Tech Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 9 -- Electro Industries/Gauge Tech, Westbury, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,171) developed by Tibor Banhegyesi, Baldwin, N.Y., for an "intelligent electronic device with broad-range high accuracy." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus provides high-accuracy measurements of an electrical parameter across a broad range of parameter input values. In one embodiment, an intelligent electronic device (IED), e.g., a digital electrical power and energy meter, with a plurality of independently-adjustable gain factors measures a parameter, and calculates and stores calibration factors associated with known values of the measured parameter. The IED or meter applies the stored calibration factors when measuring unknown values of the measured parameter, to improve the accuracy of the measurement." The patent application was filed on March 26, 2008 (12/055,448). 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=79,96,171.PN.&OS=PN/79,96,171&RS=PN/79,96,171 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 9 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,164) developed by four co-inventors for "managing energy usage by devices associated with a virtual universe resource conservation region." The co-inventors are Rick A. Hamilton II, Charlottesville, Va., Brian M. O'Connell, Cary, N.C., Clifford A. Pickover, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., and Keith R. Walker, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A virtual universe can include regions that conserve natural resource usage. A virtual universe natural resource conservation system can determine a measure of comprehensive energy usage of a plurality of devices associated with a controlled energy use region in a virtual universe. The system can determine that the measure of comprehensive energy usage approaches a usage threshold for the controlled energy use region. The system can also impose one or more conservation limitations on at least one of the plurality of devices to maintain the comprehensive energy usage within the usage threshold." The patent application was filed on May 6, 2008 (12/115,958). 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=79,96,164.PN.&OS=PN/79,96,164&RS=PN/79,96,164 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method for Designating Internet Protocol Addresses ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,563) developed by Edward B. Boden, Vestal, N.Y., for a "method for designating internet protocol addresses." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for selecting one or more real IP6 addresses from a pool of real IP6 addresses in a system. Each of the real IP6 addresses is associated with a physical interface or a virtual physical interface. A human or an application program provides into the system a symbolic IP6 address specifying a physical interface name for the one or more real IP6 address. The system stores the symbolic IP6 address in a configuration file and then passes the symbolic IP6 address to a socket API function. The socket API function checks validity of the symbolic IP6 address. If valid, an operating system function reads a control block or data file for the named physical interface. The control block or data file contains a list of one or more real IP6 addresses for the named physical interface. These real IP6 address(es) are returned to the human or application program." The patent application was filed on April 3, 2008 (12/061,785). 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=7,996,563.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,563&RS=PN/7,996,563 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,564) developed by seven co-inventors for a "remote asynchronous data mover." The co-inventors are Lakshminarayana B. Arimilli, Austin, Texas, Ravi K. Arimilli, Austin, Texas, Ronald N. Kalla, Round Rock, Texas, Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Austin, Texas, Balaram Sinharoy, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., William E. Speight, Austin, Texas, and William J. Starke, Round Rock, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A distributed data processing system executes multiple tasks within a parallel job, including a first local task on a local node and at least one task executing on a remote node, with a remote memory having real address (RA) locations mapped to one or more of the source effective addresses (EA) and destination EA of a data move operation initiated by a task executing on the local node. On initiation of the data move operation, remote asynchronous data move (RADM) logic identifies that the operation moves data to/from a first EA that is memory mapped to an RA of the remote memory. The local processor/RADM logic initiates a RADM operation that moves a copy of the data directly from/to the first remote memory by completing the RADM operation using the network interface cards (NICs) of the source and destination processing nodes, determined by accessing a data center for the node IDs of remote memory." The patent application was filed on April 16, 2009 (12/425,093). 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=7,996,564.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,564&RS=PN/7,996,564 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** University of New York, Samsung Electronics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- The University of New York, New York, and Samsung Electronics, Suwon-Si, South Korea, have been assigned a patent (7,996,561) developed by Myung-jong Lee, New York, Yong Liu, New York, and Xu-hui Hu, New York, for a "zigBee network device for separately determining network parameter and assigning addresses, and address assignment method thereof." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A ZigBee network device assigns addresses to its child devices. The ZigBee network device includes a communication section that connects the ZigBee network device to other devices and which communicates with the other devices; a parameter determination section that determines at least one network parameter; a calculation section that calculates addresses for child devices of the ZigBee network device based on a determined network parameter, where each of the child devices is connected to the ZigBee network device via the communication section; and a controller that assigns addresses to the child devices of the ZigBee network device. At least one determined network parameter is at least one of Cm, which indicates a maximum number of the child devices of the ZigBee network device, and Rm, which indicates a maximum number of the child devices of the ZigBee network device which have routing capabilities." The patent application was filed on June 14, 2005 (11/151,651). 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=7,996,561.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,561&RS=PN/7,996,561 Written by Arpi Sharma; 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. *** Medicasafe Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Medicasafe, New York, has been assigned a patent (7,996,106) developed by Matthew J. Ervin, Mount Vernon, N.Y., for a "method, system and apparatus for controlling patient access to medicaments." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system and apparatus for controlling patient access to medicaments are disclosed. A method, system and apparatus can include an interfacing system such as an IVR system that can receive identifying data from a user of a medicament dispensing device. The interfacing system can also communicate limited-use access authorization data to the user via a communicative intermediary. The limited-use access authorization data enables the dispensing device to dispense a medicament up to a certain limit in response to entering the access authorization data into the dispensing device. The dispensing device may not be connected to a network, but is capable of computing and storing a limited-use access authorization data as well as validating an inputted access authorization data." The patent application was filed on Aug. 24, 2007 (11/892,612). 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=79,96,106.PN.&OS=PN/79,96,106&RS=PN/79,96,106 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for System and Method for Scheduling Digital Information Transmission and Retransmission on a Network During Time Slots ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,545) developed by five co-inventors for a "system and method for scheduling digital information transmission and retransmission on a network during time slots." The co-inventors are Norbert George Vogl, Mahopac, N.Y., Geoffrey Hale Purdy, Roxbury, Conn., Robert Alan Flavin, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., Yuan Feng, White Plains, N.Y., and Edward Payson Clarke Jr., Ossining, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention is a computer system for delivering digital information over a network. A request receiving process receives a request for transmitting digital information after a start time and before an end time. The digital information has a number of packets. A transmit time process determines the time required to transmit the digital information based on the number of packets and a network speed. A scheduler schedules a transmit time for the digital information and an acceptance process accepts the digital information for transmission only if the time required to transmit is less than or equal to the difference between the transmit time and the end time." The patent application was filed on June 25, 2008 (12/145,880). 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=7,996,545.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,545&RS=PN/7,996,545 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Accenture Global Services Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Accenture Global Services, Dublin, Ireland, has been assigned a patent (7,996,440) developed by five co-inventors for an "extraction of attributes and values from natural language documents." The co-inventors are Katharina Probst, Chicago, Rayid Ghani, Chicago, Andrew E. Fano, Lincolnshire, Ill., Marko Krema, Evanston, Ill., and Yan Liu, New York. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "One or more classification algorithms are applied to at least one natural language document in order to extract both attributes and values of a given product. Supervised classification algorithms, semi-supervised classification algorithms, unsupervised classification algorithms or combinations of such classification algorithms may be employed for this purpose. The at least one natural language document may be obtained via a public communication network. Two or more attributes (or two or more values) thus identified may be merged to form one or more attribute phrases or value phrases. Once attributes and values have been extracted in this manner, association or linking operations may be performed to establish attribute-value pairs that are descriptive of the product. In a presently preferred embodiment, an (unsupervised) algorithm is used to generate seed attributes and values which can then support a supervised or semi-supervised classification algorithm." The patent application was filed on April 30, 2007 (11/742,215). 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=79,96,440&OS=79,96,440&RS=79,96,440 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Google Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods for using Anchor Text as Parallel Corpora for Cross-language Information Retrieval ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,402) developed by Luis Gravano, New York, and Monika H. Henzinger, Menlo Park, Calif., for "systems and methods for using anchor text as parallel corpora for cross-language information retrieval." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system performs cross-language query translations. The system receives a search query that includes terms in a first language and determines possible translations of the terms of the search query into a second language. The system also locates documents for use as parallel corpora to aid in the translation by: (1) locating documents in the first language that contain references that match the terms of the search query and identify documents in the second language; (2) locating documents in the first language that contain references that match the terms of the query and refer to other documents in the first language and identify documents in the second language that contain references to the other documents; or (3) locating documents in the first language that match the terms of the query and identify documents in the second language that contain references to the documents in the first language. The system may use the second language documents as parallel corpora to disambiguate among the possible translations of the terms of the search query and identify one of the possible translations as a likely translation of the search query into the second language." The patent application was filed on Aug. 31, 2010 (12/872,755). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=79,96,402&OS=79,96,402&RS=79,96,402 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Systems, Methods and Computer Program Products for Generating Metadata and Visualizing Media Content ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,431) developed by four co-inventors for "systems, methods and computer program products for generating metadata and visualizing media content." The co-inventors are Daniel M. Coffman, Bethel, Conn., Barry Leiba, Cortlandt Manor, N.Y., Chandrasekhar Narayanaswami, Wilton, Conn., and Marcel C. Rosu, Ossining, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a method for generating metadata for media content that includes a digital media file and includes retrieving a media content subset from a media content source, saving the received media content subset at a computing system, and generating metadata by processing the media content using the computing system. The method further includes associating generated metadata with media content to facilitate the visualization and navigation of the media content, and adding the metadata to at least one metadata repository designed for efficient retrieval of metadata elements." The patent application was filed on Feb. 25, 2008 (12/037,002). 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=79,96,431&OS=79,96,431&RS=79,96,431 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method, Computer Program Product, and System for Coordinating Access to Locally and Remotely Exported File Systems ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,421) developed by five co-inventors for a "method, computer program product, and system for coordinating access to locally and remotely exported file systems." The co-inventors are John L. Brooks, Ulster Park, N.Y., Renata Rand McFadden, Clinton Corners, N.Y., William J. Schoen, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., James M. Showalter, Endwell, N.Y., and David A. Wise, New Paltz, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Application access to locally and remotely exported file systems is coordinated to allow caching data for exported file systems accessed by remote clients. In response to a request or file system access, it is determined whether the request relates to a locally exported file system or a remotely exported file system. If the request relates to a locally exported file system, a local access routine is invoked to obtain access permissions to the locally exported file system. If the request relates to remotely exported file system, a remote access routine is invoked to communicate with a local access routine in a file server responsible for coordinating access to the remotely exported file system to obtain access permissions to the remotely exported file system." The patent application was filed on Jan. 3, 2007 (11/619,409). 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=79,96,421&OS=79,96,421&RS=79,96,421 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Google Assigned Patent for Keywords Associated with Document Categories ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,393) developed by Tomoyuki Nanno, Tokyo, Michael Riley, New York, and Gaku Ueda, Mountain View, Calif., for "keywords associated with document categories." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system extracts a pair that includes a keyword candidate and information associated with a document from multiple documents, and calculates a frequency that the keyword candidate appears in search queries and a frequency that the pair appears in the multiple documents. The system also determines whether the keyword candidate is a keyword for a category based on the calculated frequencies, and associates the keyword with the document if the keyword candidate is the keyword for the category." The patent application was filed on Sept. 28, 2007 (11/864,325). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=79,96,393&OS=79,96,393&RS=79,96,393 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Google Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods for Providing Search Results ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,391) 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 Method for Autonomic Workload Distribution on a Multicore Processor ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,346) developed by eight co-inventors for a "method for autonomic workload distribution on a multicore processor." The co-inventors are Robert H. Bell Jr., Austin, Texas, Louis Bennie Capps Jr., Georgetown, Texas, Thomas Edward Cook, Essex Junction, Vt., Thomas J. Dewkett, Staatsburg, N.Y., Naresh Nayar, Rochester, Minn., Ronald Edward Newhart, Essex Junction, Vt., Bernadette Ann Pierson, South Hero, Vt., and Michael Jay Shapiro, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A multiprocessor system which includes automatic workload distribution. As threads execute in the multiprocessor system, an operating system or hypervisor continuously learns the execution characteristics of the threads and saves the information in thread-specific control blocks. The execution characteristics are used to generate thread performance data. As the thread executes, the operating system continuously uses the performance data to steer the thread to a core that will execute the workload most efficiently." The patent application was filed on Dec. 19, 2007 (11/959,520). 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=79,96,346&OS=79,96,346&RS=79,96,346 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Corporation Assigned Patent for Systems, Methods and Computer Program Products ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,342) developed by Genady Grabarnik, Scarsdale, N.Y., and Irina Rish, Rye Brook, N.Y., for "systems, methods and computer program products for supervised dimensionality reduction with mixed-type features and labels." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems, methods and computer program products for supervised dimensionality reduction. Exemplary embodiments include a method including receiving an input in the form of a data matrix X of size N.times.D, wherein N is a number of samples, D is a dimensionality, a vector Y of size N.times.1, hidden variables U of a number K, a data type of the matrix X and the vector Y, and a trade-off constant alpha; selecting loss functions in the form of Lx(X,UV) and Ly(Y,UW) appropriate for the type of data in the matrix X and the vector Y, where U, V and W are matrices, selecting corresponding sets of update rules RU, RV and RW for updating the matrices U,V and W, learning U, V and W that provide a minimum total loss L(U,V,W)=Lx(X,UV)+alpha*Ly(Y,UW), and returning matrices U, V and W." The patent application was filed on Feb. 15, 2008 (12/031,775). 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=79,96,342&OS=79,96,342&RS=79,96,342 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method and System for Separating File System Metadata from Other Metadata ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,414) developed by six co-inventors for a "method and system for separating file system metadata from other metadata in virtual machine image format." The co-inventors are Bowen L. Alpern, Peekskill, N.Y., Glenn Ammons, West Chester, Pa., Vasanth Bala, Rye, N.Y., Todd W. Mummert, Danbury, Conn., Darrell C. Reimer, Tarrytown, N.Y, and Arun Thomas, Charlottesville, Va. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for performing software operations on virtual machine images, includes: receiving a virtual machine image that includes data; reclassifying the data into a plurality of parts; and performing a software operation on one of the parts, wherein the software operation is performed without running a virtual machine." The patent application was filed on Feb. 29, 2008 (12/040,587). 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=79,96,414&OS=79,96,414&RS=79,96,414 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Systems, Methods and Computer Program Products for the Creation of Annotations ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,432) developed by four co-inventors for "systems, methods and computer program products for the creation of annotations for media content to enable the selective management and playback of media content." The co-inventors are Daniel M. Coffman, Bethel, Conn., Barry Leiba, Cortlandt Manor, N.Y., Chandrasekhar Narayanaswami, Wilton, Conn., and Marcel C. Rosu, Ossining, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a method for generating an annotation for media content, that includes retrieving a media content subset from a media content source, saving the received media content subset at a computing system, and generating an annotation for association with the media content subset using the computing system. The method further includes associating the annotation with media content to facilitate the visualization and navigation of the media content and adding the annotation to at least one annotation repository designed for efficient retrieval of annotation elements." The patent application was filed on Feb. 25, 2008 (12/037,023). 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=79,96,432&OS=79,96,432&RS=79,96,432 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines, Institute for Information Technology Advancement Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., and Institute for Information Technology Advancement, Daejeon, China, have been assigned a patent (7,996,352) developed by six co-inventors for a "distributed rule processing for ubiquitous computing environments." The co-inventors are WooChul Jung, Seoul, South Korea, DaeRyung Lee, Seoul, South Korea, Stella J. Mitchell, Pleasantville, N.Y., Jonathan Munson, Putnam Valley, N.Y., Moonju Park, Seoul, South Korea, and David A. Wood, Scarsdale, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus are provided for distributed rule processing in a sense and respond system. A method for identifying a candidate set of rules is disclosed, comprising the steps of: identifying one or more rules that receive information from one or more sensors to create a first candidate set of rules; evaluating each of the identified rules to identify an initial candidate set of rules, wherein a rule is added to the initial candidate set if a selected device is associated with sensors that are enabled to produce information for the rule being evaluated, if the selected device is enabled to locally provide input information required by the rule being evaluated, and if the rule being evaluated is associated with a group of devices and there are no correlation operators that consume events generated from other devices in the group of devices; and evaluating each rule in the initial candidate set to identify a final candidate set of rules, wherein any rule that receives information from the rule being evaluated is added to the initial candidate set to create the final candidate set if the selected device is enabled to locally satisfy input information required by the rule that receives information and if the rule that receives information is associated with a group of devices and there are no correlation operators that consume events generated from other devices in the group of devices." The patent application was filed on May 30, 2008 (12/130,416). 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=79,96,352&OS=79,96,352&RS=79,96,352 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Xerox Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Xerox, Norwalk, Conn., has been assigned a patent (7,996,356) developed by Nathaniel G. Martin, Rochester, N.Y., for a "text searching and categorization tools." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A disclosed process accesses text data that is to be mined. The text data includes text snippets. Rules are encoded in a rule base. A search request is submitted to a search request handler. A search request handler applies the rules from the rule base to the text and associates different labels to respective text snippets in the text data in accordance with the rule base." The patent application was filed on March 24, 2005 (11/088,513). 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=79,96,356&OS=79,96,356&RS=79,96,356 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Coordinating Updates to Replicated Data ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,360) developed by Arun Kwangil Iyengar, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., and Thomas Repantis, Riverside, Calif., for "coordinating updates to replicated data." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques for coordinating updates to replicated data are disclosed. For example, in a system comprised of a plurality of nodes, a method for maintaining consistent copies of data across the nodes comprises the following steps. A copy of an object o1 is maintained by a plurality of nodes. In response to a request r1 to update a copy of object o1, a message is sent to at least some of the plurality of nodes instructing a node receiving the message to invalidate its copy of object o1. In response to a node n1 receiving an invalidation message arising from r1 wherein n1 is processing another request r2 to update object o1, requests r1 and r2 are coordinated to prevent the requests from causing conflicting updates or invalidations." The patent application was filed on June 27, 2008 (12/147,763). 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=79,96,360&OS=79,96,360&RS=79,96,360 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. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for System and Program Storage Device of Object Classification ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,336) developed by Laxmi P. Parida, Mohegan Lake, N.Y., and Ajay K. Royyuru, Congers, N.Y., for a "system and program storage device of object classification utilizing optimized boolean expressions." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Classification of objects using the best boolean expression that represents the most optimal combination of the underlying features is disclosed." The patent application was filed on June 16, 2008 (12/139,894). 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=7,996,336.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,336&RS=PN/7,996,336 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Sony Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Sony, Japan, and Sony Music Entertainment, New York, have been assigned a patent (7,996,334) developed by Christopher M. Tobin, Central Valley, N.Y., and Adrienne Lalla, College Point, N.Y., for "methods and apparatus for recognizing compact discs and issuing corresponding credits." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "For possible use in an electronic content distribution system, automatic recognition of compact discs or other storage media containing particular content, and corresponding account crediting is described. In an electronic content distribution system, such as those providing music available by digital downloading or streaming technologies, a user may ordinarily pay a full price to receive the music. A user who possesses and apparently owns a compact disc containing particular content can be conveniently offered a discount or credit usable towards the purchase of the analogous particular content in a form provided by the electronic content distribution system. Preferably, compact discs are uniquely identified by determining whether their digital fingerprint matches a known reference fingerprint for a compact disc containing the particular content." The patent application was filed on Dec. 6, 2007 (11/999,628). 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=7,996,334.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,334&RS=PN/7,996,334 Written by Anjali Jha; 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 (7,996,325) developed by Matthew A. Blaze, New York, John Ioannidis, New York, and Angelos Keromytis, Philadelphia, for a "microbilling using a trust management system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention provides a microbilling system that integrates with existing billing systems and existing devices. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the devices store digital certificates with short-lived expiration dates and specifying transaction limits, preferably using a trust management system. A provisioning agent periodically (e.g., once a day) issues the certificates over a secure channel to the devices. When conducting a purchase transaction, the devices exchange certificates via a communication channel (that need not be secure) and the purchasing device issues a digitally signed electronic check which is periodically deposited over an advantageously secure channel with a clearing service. The present invention enables microbilling transactions by embedding liability in the certificates." The patent application was filed on Dec. 7, 2009 (12/653,019). 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=7,996,325.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,325&RS=PN/7,996,325 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Longitude Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Longitude, New York, has been assigned a patent (7,996,296) developed by Jeffrey Lange, New York, for a "digital options having demand-based, adjustable returns, and trading exchange therefor." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for conducting demand-based trading are described. In one embodiment, states are established, each state corresponding to at least one possible outcome of an event of economic significance. An investment amount may be determined as a function of a selected outcome, a desired payout, and a total amount invested in the states. In another embodiment, an investment amount may be determined as a function of parameters of a financial product. In another embodiment, a payout may be determined as a function of an investment amount, a selected outcome, a total amount invested in the states, and an identification of a state corresponding to an observed outcome of the event." The patent application was filed on Sept. 10, 2001 (09/950,498). 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=7,996,296.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,296&RS=PN/7,996,296 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** CFPH Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- CFPH, New York, has been assigned a patent (7,996,275) developed by Howard W. Lutnick, New York, for a "method for selecting a merchant for a trial mode of a service." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosure includes selecting a merchant from a plurality of merchants, enabling a trial mode for the merchant, during the trial mode, receiving an indication of a first order for the merchant, forwarding the indication of the first order to the merchant, allocating a first payment for the first order to the merchant, requesting an acceptance of a membership status from the merchant, and receiving an indication of the payment for the first order." The patent application was filed on Feb. 1, 2010 (12/697,866). 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=7,996,275.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,275&RS=PN/7,996,275 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Goldman Sachs Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Goldman Sachs, New York, has been assigned a patent (7,996,290) developed by Jay S. Dweck, Armonk, N.Y., and Pantelis G. Tsoucas, Mount Kisco, N.Y., for a "financial transaction modeling system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods are provided to model financial transactions. According to some embodiments, simple events, branch events, composite events, and/or contingent events associated with a financial transaction are defined. The events may then be used to automatically manage the transaction during the transaction's lifecycle. In one embodiment, at least one simple event associated with an asset transfer is defined, including a transfer amount and a transfer date. At least one branch event associated with a set of simple events is also defined, including a branch date and a branch selector. In addition, at least one composite event associated with a plurality of the simple events or branch events is defined. The transaction may then be automatically managed during the transaction's lifecycle based at least in part on the simple events, the branch events, and the composite events." The patent application was filed on March 8, 2005 (11/075,229). 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=7,996,290.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,290&RS=PN/7,996,290 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Island Intellectual Property Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Island Intellectual Property, New York, has been assigned a patent (7,996,308) developed by Bruce Bent, Manhasset, N.Y., and Bruce Bent II, Manhasset, N.Y., for a "system and method for managing aggregated accounts." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for minimizing fund transfers to and/or from a plurality of government-backed, interest-bearing aggregated deposit accounts." The patent application was filed on July 2, 2010 (12/829,961). 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=7,996,308.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,308&RS=PN/7,996,308 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Allocating Carbon Offsets for Printing Tasks ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,287) developed by four co-inventors for "allocating carbon offsets for printing tasks." The co-inventors are Rick A. Hamilton II, Charlottesville, Va., Brian M. O'Connell, Cary, N.C., Clifford A. Pickover, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., and Keith R. Walker, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, services, program products and devices are provided for correlating carbon offsetting and printing. Methods comprise a requester initiating a print job on a printing device; analyzing the print job; identifying at least one print job metric relevant to the print job as a function of the analyzing, the metric associated with a carbon offset value; calculating a total amount of carbon offset from the identified at least one metric; printing the print job; and transferring the carbon offset total amount to a carbon offsetting entity for debiting or crediting against a printing entity as a function of the printing. Systems and devices and articles of manufacture comprising a computer usable medium having a computer readable program in said medium are provided. Service methods comprise deploying applications for correlating carbon offsetting and printing." The patent application was filed on June 13, 2008 (12/138,761). 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=7,996,287.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,287&RS=PN/7,996,287 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** New York Inventor Develops Patent for Apparatus and Method for an Electronic Telephone Wallet ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Alexander I. Poltorak, Monsey, N.Y., has developed a patent (7,996,268) for an "apparatus and method for an electronic telephone wallet." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus and method for providing an electronic wallet device, including a memory device for storing payment identifier information associated with an account holder, a processing device for processing a payment command, wherein the processing device retrieves the payment identifier information from the memory device, and a transmitter for transmitting the payment identifier information to a merchant computer, wherein the merchant computer is associated with a merchant, and further wherein the payment identifier information is utilized in a transaction with the merchant." The patent application was filed on March 3, 2003 (10/378,409). 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=7,996,268.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,268&RS=PN/7,996,268 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** CGI Technologies and Solutions Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- CGI Technologies and Solutions, Fairfax, Va., has been assigned a patent (7,996,289) developed by James G. Francis, Northport, N.Y., and Ronald W. Carden, Herndon, Va., for a "distributed, object oriented global trade finance system with imbedded imaging and work flow and reference data." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An object oriented trade finance system designed to support a large-scale transactional work flow on a global basis. The system supports all facets of the trade finance business including but not limited to letters of credit, collections, bankers acceptances and reimbursements. A trade finance system organized into a central and distributed location hardware architecture having a user interface of a user work station which communicates with an application server including business objects. The business objects communicate with a database to obtain the data needed for the business logic and include all the business logic needed for the system. Work flow distribution rules are used to distribute the work items to a work item list for work group that can be distributed geographically in different time zones and to allow processing to continue when the originally assigned workgroup has reached an end of its business day." The patent application was filed on March 17, 2004 (10/801,832). 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=7,996,289.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,289&RS=PN/7,996,289 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. *** Pipeline Financial Group Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Pipeline Financial Group, New York, has been assigned a patent (7,996,261) developed by Henri Waelbroeck, Scarsdale, N.Y., Brent Gamse, Glencoe, Ill., and Fred J. Federspiel, Larchmont, N.Y., for "systems and methods for increasing participation of liquidity providers on crossing system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one aspect, the invention comprises a system for enabling a crossing system operator to calculate a rebate payment to a second participant for executing the block order of a first participant based on at least one of: (a) a difference between a benchmark price and an execution price of the block order; (b) total volume of block execution; and (c) an amount that decays exponentially with the time between the first participant's order and the order's execution by a liquidity provider." The patent application was filed on May 17, 2007 (11/804,525). 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=7,996,261.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,261&RS=PN/7,996,261 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** HSBC Bank USA Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- HSBC Bank USA, Buffalo, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,317) developed by Cheryl Gurz, North Tonawanda, N.Y., for "methods and systems for processing stranded payments and lockbox payments at the same designated payment location." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the invention describe an electronic method for processing stranded payments and lockbox payments at the same designated payment location. The method includes receiving a stranded payment at a non-designated payment location, and electronically scanning the stranded payment at the non-designated payment location. The scanned information is transmitted, in a secure manner, to a designated payment location remote from the non-designated payment location. The stranded payment and a lockbox payment are cleared, in the same electronic workflow, the transmitted information is used in the clearing process. Embodiments of the invention also include updating, for each stranded and lockbox payment, the accounts receivable system of the customer receiving the stranded or lockbox payment, and transmitting a response indicating the final status of the clearing of the stranded payment to the non-designated payment location." The patent application was filed on May 30, 2008 (12/130,586). 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=7,996,317.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,317&RS=PN/7,996,317 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** New York Inventor Develops Patent for Method for Benchmarking of Information Technology Spending ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Howard A. Rubin, Pound Ridge, N.Y., has developed a patent (7,996,249) for a "method for benchmarking of information technology spending." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Information technology (IT) spending by a subject entity is assessed against an industry-wide optimal value of an IT benchmark and a result of that assessment displayed. Importantly, the IT benchmark developed by the present inventor accounts for the subject entity's IT spending as a percentage of the entity's revenue and the entity's IT spending as a percentage of the entity's operating expenses. For the industry as a whole, the optimal value of the IT benchmark is determined on the basis of profitability measures for individual companies within the industry. This process may be performed as part of a larger analysis concerning the subject entity's operations to provide an overall assessment of the entity's financial performance, health, etc." The patent application was filed on June 3, 2008 (12/132,546). 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=7,996,249.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,249&RS=PN/7,996,249 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Nuance Communications Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Nuance Communications, Burlington, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,996,211) developed by Yuqing Gao, Mount Kisco, N.Y., Michael Alan Picheny, White Plains, N.Y., and Ruhi Sarikaya, Shrub Oak, N.Y., for a "method and apparatus for fast semi-automatic semantic annotation." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, apparatus and computer instructions is provided for fast semi-automatic semantic annotation. Given a limited annotated corpus, the present invention assigns a tag and a label to each word of the next limited annotated corpus using a parser engine, a similarity engine, and a SVM engine. A rover then combines the parse trees from the three engines and annotates the next chunk of limited annotated corpus with confidence, such that the efforts required for human annotation is reduced." The patent application was filed on May 20, 2008 (12/123,778). 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=7,996,211.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,211&RS=PN/7,996,211 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method, System, and Computer Program Product ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,203) developed by four co-inventors for a "method, system, and computer program product for out of order instruction address stride prefetch performance verification." The co-inventors are Wei-Yi Xiao, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Dean G. Bair, Bloomington, N.Y., Christopher A. Krygowski, LaGrangeville, N.Y., and Chung-Lung K. Shum, Wappingers Falls, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system, and computer program product are provided for verifying out of order instruction address (IA) stride prefetch performance in a processor design having more than one level of cache hierarchies. Multiple instruction streams are generated and the instructions loop back to corresponding instruction addresses. The multiple instruction streams are dispatched to a processor and simulation application to process. When a particular instruction is being dispatched, the particular instruction's instruction address and operand address are recorded in the queue. The processor is monitored to determine if the processor executes fetch and prefetch commands in accordance with the simulation application. It is checked to determine if prefetch commands are issued for instructions having three or more strides." The patent application was filed on Jan. 31, 2008 (12/023,457). 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=7,996,203.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,203&RS=PN/7,996,203 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** State University of New York Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- State University of New York, Stony Brook, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,210) developed by Namrata Godbole, New York, Steven Skiena, Setauket, N.Y., and Manjunath Srinivasaiah, New York, for a large-scale sentiment analysis. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for determining a sentiment associated with an entity includes inputting a plurality of texts associated with the entity, labeling seed words in the plurality of texts as positive or negative, determining a score estimate for the plurality of words based on the labeling, re-enumerating paths of the plurality of words and determining a number of sentiment alternations, determining a final score for the plurality of words using only paths whose number of alternations is within a threshold, converting the final scores to corresponding z-scores for each of the plurality of words, and outputting the sentiment associated with the entity." The patent application was filed on April 24, 2007 (11/739,187). 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=7,996,210.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,210&RS=PN/7,996,210 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Xerox Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Xerox, Norwalk, Conn., has been assigned a patent (7,996,181) developed by Vladimir Kozitsky, Rochester, N.Y., Aaron Michael Burry, Ontario, N.Y., and Alex Scott Brougham, Webster, N.Y., for a "system and method for sensor phasing using a substrate edge signal." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for measuring a substrate edge signal for image sensor phasing. An intermediate transfer substrate edge signal can be effectively mapped by a substrate edge sensor and recorded for at least one complete revolution. A substrate edge signal from an inter-document zone sampled from any region of a substrate in runtime by a process sensor can also be recorded. A comparison or cross-correlation can be applied between the bare intermediate transfer substrate edge signal and the substrate edge signal sensed in the inter-document zone. A cross-correlation algorithm returns a maximum peak value when the two signals are registered in-phase with one another. This information can then be used to register the bare belt process sensor signal and the process sensor signal over the region of interest in-phase with one another. A flat-fielding algorithm can also be applied to the phase-aligned process sensor data to remove artifacts and compensate for substrate (e.g., belt) induced non-uniformities." The patent application was filed on June 25, 2008 (12/145,847). 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=7,996,181.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,181&RS=PN/7,996,181 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Trend Micro Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Trend Micro, Tokyo, has been assigned a patent (7,996,905) developed by six co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for the automatic determination of potentially worm-like behavior of a program." The co-inventors are William C. Arnold, Mahopac, N.Y., David M. Chess, Mohegan Lake, N.Y., John F. Morar, Mahopac, N.Y., Alla Segal, Mount Kisco, N.Y., Ian N. Whalley, Pawling, N.Y., and Steve R. White, New York. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for the automatic determination of the behavioral profile of a program suspected of having worm-like characteristics includes analyzing data processing system resources required by the program and, if the required resources are not indicative of the program having worm-like characteristics, running the program in a controlled non-network environment while monitoring and logging accesses to system resources to determine the behavior of the program in the non-network environment. A logged record of the observed behavior is analyzed to determine if the behavior is indicative of the program having worm-like characteristics. The non-network environment may simulate the appearance of a network to the program, without emulating the operation of the network." The patent application was filed on April 3, 2008 (12/062,152). 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=7,996,905&OS=7,996,905&RS=7,996,905 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Processing Application Data ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a p 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. -1057216 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |