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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Texas (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 Texas. *** Schlumberger Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 9 -- Schlumberger Technology, Sugar Land, Texas, has been assigned a patent (7,996,154) developed by nine co-inventors for "methods and apparatus for analysis of downhole asphaltene gradients and applications thereof." The co-inventors are Youxiang Zuo (Julian), Edmonton, Canada, Oliver C. Mullins, Ridgefield, Conn., Jinglin Gao, Edmonton, Canada, Abdel M. Kharrat, Edmonton, Canada, Kentaro Indo, Edmonton, Canada, Michael O'Keefe, Blackmans Bay, Australia, Soraya S. Betancourt, Cambridge, Mass., Chengli Dong, Sugar Land, Texas, and Francois Dubost, Idron, France. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for characterizing asphaltene gradients of a reservoir of interest and analyzing properties of the reservoir of interest based upon such asphaltene gradients. The analysis employs a correlation that relates insoluble asphaltene concentration to spectrophotometry measurement data measured at depth." The patent application was filed on Jan. 12, 2009 (12/352,369). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=79,96,154.PN.&OS=PN/79,96,154&RS=PN/79,96,154 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** 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 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. *** Overhead Door Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Overhead Door, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (7,996,231) developed by Wesley M. Mays, Coppell, Texas, for a "speech activated door operator system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A barrier operator system, such as a garage door operator system, includes one or more remote control units, such as an inside remote control unit, an external wall mounted remote control unit and portable vehicle disposed remote control units which include speech recognition modules for recognizing spoken command signals to open or close a garage door or energize or de-energize lighting associated with the garage. The speech recognition modules are operably connected to interface or microcontroller circuits for operating a radio frequency transmitter for sending signals to operate lighting, and/or the barrier operator to move a barrier between open and closed positions, and possibly perform other functions." The patent application was filed on Jan. 31, 2007 (11/700,629). 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=7,996,231.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,231&RS=PN/7,996,231 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 (7,996,527) developed by Ellen Isaacs, Belmont, Calif., Dipti Ranganathan, Dallas, and Alan Walendowski, Belmont, Calif., for a "system, method and apparatus for playing a sound identifier based on connection status." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system, method and apparatus for facilitating communication among a number of distributed clients in a distributed network is disclosed. A user, such as through a personal digital assistant device, may select one or more instant messages for transmission to one or more other users in the network. The instant messages may be sound instant message and/or text instant messages. During messaging, message status indicators provide users with the status of their respective messages. In one embodiment, the messages may be deemed to be either pending or received as distinguished by a pending status indicator and a received status indicator." The patent application was filed on July 15, 2009 (12/503,355). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,996,527.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,527&RS=PN/7,996,527 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** RPX LV-Acquisition Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- RPX LV-Acquisition, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (7,996,552) developed by Jeffry Jovan Philyaw, Dallas, and David Kent Mathews, Carrollton, Texas, for a "software downloading using a television broadcast channel." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A software distribution architecture having a television broadcast system as its infrastructure. Software from a software repository (1600) is mixed into a television broadcast system and transmitted into one or more selected channels at prescribed dates and times. An at-home subscriber, capable of receiving with a receiver (1608) the one or more select channels, switches to the one or more channels carrying the software distribution with a channel selector (1611). The subscriber, having programmed a controller (1616) with a programmer (1620) for the date, time, software ID, and channel of the software broadcast, then downloads the software package to a storage device (1622) for ultimate transfer to a PC (1624). A validation and accounting system (1628) then records the software download transaction and transmits this information over a PSTN (1632) to a provider accounting system (1630) such that the subscriber is billed for the software package which was downloaded." The patent application was filed on June 16, 2009 (12/485,644). 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=7,996,552.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,552&RS=PN/7,996,552 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Zarlink Semiconductor Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Zarlink Semiconductor, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (7,996,557) developed by William R. Finch, Austin, Texas, for a "method and apparatus for multi-PHY communication without an ATM bus master." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A communication system includes a bus, first and second devices coupled to the bus, and a handshaking unit. The bus includes at least one data line and control lines. The data line is coupled between the first and second devices. The handshaking unit is coupled to the control lines of the bus and is adapted to determine if the first and second devices are capable of completing a data transfer and enable the first and second devices to facilitate the data transfer. A method for interfacing first and second devices coupled to a bus is provided. The bus has at least one data line coupled to the first and second devices and control lines. The method includes determining if the first and second devices are capable of completing a data transfer based on the control lines; providing handshaking signals on the control lines to enable the first and second devices; and transferring the data over the data line in response to the handshaking signals." The patent application was filed on Aug. 24, 2009 (August 24, 2009). 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=7,996,557.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,557&RS=PN/7,996,557 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Smyros Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Athena A. Smyros, Gunter, Texas, and Constantine Smyros, Gunter, Texas, have been assigned a patent (7,996,383) developed by Athena A. Smyros and Constantine Smyros, for "systems and methods for a search engine having runtime components." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the invention form an information set from the current set of index information available by the operations of the pre-search and runtime Search components of the search engine. A search request that contains search terms and/or other search criteria (e.g. date or file type) is entered by a user through an input interface. The search terms and the information set are worked through the search engine modules to provide the actual results sought by the user. These results are provided to the user via an output interface. Embodiments of a search engine involve runtime aspects that remove duplicate documents from the index, provide topical searching, and provide caching for the search engine." The patent application was filed on Aug. 15, 2008 (12/192,875). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=79,96,383&OS=79,96,383&RS=79,96,383 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. *** Red Hat Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Red Hat, Raleigh, N.C., has been assigned a patent (7,996,416) developed by Steven Ebersole, Austin, Texas, for a "parameter type prediction in object relational mapping." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques for object relational mapping in database technologies are described herein. According to one embodiment, in response to a query statement for accessing a relational database, a syntax tree is generated to represent semantic information of the query statement, where the query statement includes a wildcard parameter and is implemented as an object of a SQL. A data type of the wildcard parameter is predicted based on the semantic information obtained from the syntax tree in view of a structure representing the syntax tree. The predicted data type of the wildcard parameter is used to access the corresponding entry of the relational database. Other methods and apparatuses are also described." The patent application was filed on Aug. 31, 2007 (11/849,066). 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=79,96,416&OS=79,96,416&RS=79,96,416 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Verizon Patent and Licensing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Verizon Patent and Licensing, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (7,996,376) developed by six co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for managing session data across multiple applications." The co-inventors are Sumit Singh, Irving, Texas, Jithesh Parambath, Chennai, India, Darshan Gupta, Irving, Texas, Hemachandran Babu, Chennai, India, Javier Martinez, Coppell, Texas, and Kishore Bomma, Irving, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An approach is provided for managing session information across application boundaries. Session information is obtained of a first application. The session information is stored. The session information is provided to a second application, wherein the session information is particular to a user session and includes data to be persisted across boundaries of the first application and the second application." The patent application was filed on Oct. 27, 2006 (11/553,957). 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=79,96,376&OS=79,96,376&RS=79,96,376 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,073) developed by Frederick D. Busche, Denton, Texas, and Bhooshan P. Kelkar, Flower Mound, Texas, for a "system and method for interpreting electrocardiograms." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for interpreting electrocardiogram data. A system is provided that clusters raw electrocardiogram (EKG) data into clusters of EKG data; generates a predictive model for each cluster of EKG data; compares inputted patient EKG data with the clusters of EKG data to identify a matching cluster of EKG data; applies the predictive model associated with the matching cluster of EKG data to the inputted patient EKG data; and outputs diagnostic data." The patent application was filed on Oct. 13, 2004 (10/963,968). 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=7996073.PN.&OS=PN/7996073&RS=PN/7996073 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Managing Multi-node Multi-version Systems ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,359) developed by four co-inventors for "managing multi-node multi-version systems." The co-inventors are Nicholas Anthony Pietraniec, Austin, Texas, Ajay Kumar Mahajan, Austin, Texas, Anis M. Abdul, Austin, Texas, and Brent William Jacobs, Rochester, Minn. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system, and computer usable program product for managing multi-node multi-version systems are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A process associates a version identifier with a first version of data available at a first node in the multi-node multi-version system. The version identifier corresponds to the first version of the data. The data includes an update. The process sends the data and the associated version identifier to a second node without learning a second version of data available at the second node. In one embodiment, the first version of data may be a subset of the second version of data. In another embodiment the second version of data may be a subset of the first version of data. The process repeats the sending for each update at the first node." The patent application was filed on June 16, 2008 (12/139,537). 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=79,96,359&OS=79,96,359&RS=79,96,359 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cyberonics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Cyberonics, Houston, has been assigned a patent (7,996,079) developed by Randolph K. Armstrong, Houston, for an "input response override for an implantable medical device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for providing an override of an operational mode of an implantable medical device. An override input to enter an override mode is received. A determination as to whether a magnetic input has been received is made. A predetermined response to the magnetic input is blocked in response to receiving the override input." The patent application was filed on Jan. 24, 2006 (11/338,548). 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=7996079.PN.&OS=PN/7996079&RS=PN/7996079 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Blockbuster Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Blockbuster, Englewood, Colo., has been assigned a patent (7,996,265) developed by five co-inventors for a "system and method for fulfilling a media request." The co-inventors are Shane N. Evangelist, Irving, Texas, Joseph W. Craft IV, Frisco, Texas, Leslie D. Crook, Dallas, John D. Taylor, Plano, Texas, and John F. Butler, Plano, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for fulfilling a media request includes receiving a media request associated with a subscriber account. One inventory location is selected from a plurality of inventory locations to fulfill the media request, and at least one of the inventory locations accommodates in-store media rental requests." The patent application was filed on May 19, 2005 (11/133,874). 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=7,996,265.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,265&RS=PN/7,996,265 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. *** United Services Automobile Association Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- United Services Automobile Association, San Antonio, has been assigned a patent (7,996,316) developed by four co-inventors for "systems and methods to modify a negotiable instrument." The co-inventors are Arthur Quentin Smith, Fredericksburg, Texas, John Chandler Hopkins III, San Antonio, Reynaldo Medina III, San Antonio, and Bradly Jay Billman, San Antonio. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "When the deposit of a negotiable instrument, such as a check, is done electronically by using a digital image of the negotiable instrument rather than the negotiable instrument itself, during the process, at least two negotiable instruments may exist: the physical negotiable instrument and the digital image of the negotiable instrument. To change the physical negotiable instrument to a non-negotiable instrument, a bank or other financial institution may send a transmission to modify the appearance of the negotiable instrument, thus effectively "voiding" the physical negotiable instrument. The negotiable instrument may have various inks or mechanisms that facilitate the modification of the appearance through the application of a stimulus, such as heat or light. The financial institution may cause the application of the stimulus to modify the appearance of the negotiable instrument." The patent application was filed on Oct. 30, 2007 (11/928,017). 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=7,996,316.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,316&RS=PN/7,996,316 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** United Services Automobile Association Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- United Services Automobile Association, San Antonio, has been assigned a patent (7,996,294) developed by Thomas Alfred Thurmond, Helotes, Texas, Baldemar Benavidez II, San Antonio, and Robert Anthony Pacheco, San Antonio, for a "system and method for financial planning." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed are systems and methods for financial planning. The systems and methods communicate with a customer and provide a financial planning service for use with at least one financial planning product by collecting data from a customer using a structured data collection form which is dynamically modified based on the financial product selected, the data provided by the customer, and data relating to the customer that is retrieved from a database." The patent application was filed on Aug. 23, 2010 (12/861,723). 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=7,996,294.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,294&RS=PN/7,996,294 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** United Services Automobile Association Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods to Modify a Negotiable Instrument ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- United Services Automobile Association, San Antonio, has been assigned a patent (7,996,315) developed by four co-inventors for "systems and methods to modify a negotiable instrument." The co-inventors are Arthur Quentin Smith, Fredericksburg, Texas, John Chandler Hopkins III, San Antonio, Reynaldo Medina III, San Antonio, and Bradly Jay Billman, San Antonio. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "When the deposit of a negotiable instrument, such as a check, is done electronically by using a digital image of the negotiable instrument rather than the negotiable instrument itself, during the process, at least two negotiable instruments may exist: the physical negotiable instrument and the digital image of the negotiable instrument. To change the physical negotiable instrument to a non-negotiable instrument, a bank or other financial institution may send a transmission to modify the appearance of the negotiable instrument, thus effectively "voiding" the physical negotiable instrument. The negotiable instrument may have various inks or mechanisms that facilitate the modification of the appearance through the application of a stimulus, such as heat or light. The financial institution may cause the application of the stimulus to modify the appearance of the negotiable instrument." The patent application was filed on Oct. 30, 2007 (11/927,940). 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=7,996,315.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,315&RS=PN/7,996,315 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** United Services Automobile Association Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- United Services Automobile Association, San Antonio, has been assigned a patent (7,996,303) developed by Steven Dale Zettner, San Antonio, and Ron DiGiacomo, San Antonio, for a "comprehensive online loan transaction." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Method and system for conducting a commercial transaction requiring a monetary loan online to allow a consumer or borrower to access a lending institution over a network connection and apply for a monetary loan online. The loan application is processed in real time and the borrower is notified of the type of loan, loan amount, interest rate, etc., that he/she is qualified for. Upon acceptance of the loan terms, the borrower is provided with a personal identification number (PIN) and a unique lender transaction ID that serves as confirmation of the loan. The lender transaction ID may then be taken to a suitable seller and used to conduct the transaction. The seller simply accesses the lending institution over a network connection, enters the lender transaction ID, the borrower's PIN, and other transaction-related information, and the lending institution automatically sends the appropriate payment to the seller." The patent application was filed on Dec. 30, 2005 (11/323,202). 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=7,996,303.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,303&RS=PN/7,996,303 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** eBay Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- eBay, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,996,280) developed by L. William Wittsche, Allen, Texas, for a "method to provide a gift registry in an online mall." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for providing a gift registry in an on-line mall. Multiple communities within an on-line mall environment are provided, as well as multiple stores within each community. Each store is occupied by a merchant, with merchandise being directed to this community. The method further includes providing customer access to the multiple stores. The embodiment further provides for a gift registry, where the gift registry is associated with any of the multiple stores within one or more of the multiple communities, and access is provided to the gift registry to a registrant customer, so that the registrant customer can select merchandise for entry into the gift registry. Access to the gift registry is also provided to a purchase customer so that the purchase customer can select, for purchase, merchandise selected by the registrant customer. The purchase customer is provided with an electronic shopping cart to store the selected merchandise, for purchase, from any of the multiple stores within one or more of the multiple communities. A single check out is provided to process purchase of the selected merchandise, stored by the electronic shopping cart, from any of the multiple stores within the one or more of the multiple communities." The patent application was filed on Dec. 31, 2004 (11/027,640). 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=7,996,280.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,280&RS=PN/7,996,280 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Dell Products Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Dell Products, Round Rock, Texas, has been assigned a patent (7,996,295) developed by Theresa M. Gosko, Austin, Texas, for a "data structure for use in an automated order entry system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Data structures for transferring catalog and system order information between a manufacturer and a customer are shown. The data structures are configured to allow custom systems to be automatically ordered. These data structures advantageously allow a manufacturer and customer to electronically order systems, and specifically, non-commodity systems, quickly and easily." The patent application was filed on June 13, 2000 (09/592,741). 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=7,996,295.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,295&RS=PN/7,996,295 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** United Services Automobile Association Assigned Patent from Texas Inventors ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- United Services Automobile Association, San Antonio, has been assigned a patent (7,996,314) developed by four co-inventors for "systems and methods to modify a negotiable instrument." The co-inventors are Arthur Quentin Smith, Fredericksburg, Texas, John Chandler Hopkins III, San Antonio, Reynaldo Medina III, San Antonio, and Bradly Jay Billman, San Antonio. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "When the deposit of a negotiable instrument, such as a check, is done electronically by using a digital image of the negotiable instrument rather than the negotiable instrument itself, during the process, at least two negotiable instruments may exist: the physical negotiable instrument and the digital image of the negotiable instrument. To change the physical negotiable instrument to a non-negotiable instrument, a bank or other financial institution may send a transmission to modify the appearance of the negotiable instrument, thus effectively "voiding" the physical negotiable instrument. The negotiable instrument may have various inks or mechanisms that facilitate the modification of the appearance through the application of a stimulus, such as heat or light. The financial institution may cause the application of the stimulus to modify the appearance of the negotiable instrument." The patent application was filed on Oct. 30, 2007 (11/927,859). 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=7,996,314.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,314&RS=PN/7,996,314 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** DBLive Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- DBLive, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (7,996,192) developed by Carlos Repelli, Austin, Texas, and Rodrigo Zerlotti, Austin, Texas, for a "method and apparatus for generating an environmental element prediction for a point of interest." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus for generating environmental element predictions at a point location includes a receiver for collecting broadcast environmental element prediction data. A processor generates at least one environmental element prediction for the point location." The patent application was filed on May 28, 2005 (11/140,485). 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=7,996,192.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,192&RS=PN/7,996,192 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Swanson Consulting Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Swanson Consulting, Houston, has been assigned a patent (7,996,198) developed by Donald C. Swanson, Houston, Jeffrey S. Swanson, Houston, and Gregory A. Stevens, Sugar Land, Texas, for modeling clastic reservoirs. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, computer programs, and information handling systems for modeling one or more reservoirs are disclosed. The method uses one or more well logs, each for a well at a location and each including one or more Relative amount of Small Size Range of the Size Spectrum of Clastic Particles (RSSRSS) values versus depth. The method includes for one or more well logs: identifying one or more facies units based on RSSRSS values, determining a thickness of one or more facies units. The method includes determining a facies type of one or more facies units, categorizing one or more facies units, and connecting one or more facies units to create a reservoir model." The patent application was filed on April 14, 2006 (11/279,839). 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=7,996,198.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,198&RS=PN/7,996,198 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Schlumberger Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Schlumberger Technology, Houston, has been assigned a patent (7,996,199) developed by Colin Michael Sayers, Katy, Texas, and Lennert David Den Boer, Calgary, Canada, for a "method and system for pore pressure prediction." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for performing an oilfield operation at a wellsite having a drilling rig configured to advance a drilling tool into a subsurface formation. The method includes generating a borehole temperature model for an area of interest using water depth information and a vertical stress model, generating a formation temperature model using the borehole temperature model, generating a mud-weight pressure model using the formation temperature model and pressure coefficients, generating a formation pore pressure model using the mud-weight pressure model, and adjusting the oilfield operation based on the formation pore pressure model." The patent application was filed on Aug. 6, 2007 (11/834,554). 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=7,996,199.PN.&OS=PN/7,996,199&RS=PN/7,996,199 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Password Application ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,885) developed by Peeyush Jaiswal, Boca Raton, Fla., and Naveen Narayan, Flower Mound, Texas, for a password application. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, systems, and program products for a client application provide child passwords mapped to a parent password authorized for login to a secure network resource server. A child user logs in to the client application by entering the child password. When a child user properly requests a secure resource from the secure network resource server, the client application uses the authorized parent password to login to the secure server and retrieve a secure resource without communicating the child password to the secure server. The child user login session is administered by the local application pursuant to access rules or limitation parameters associated with the child password. Child passwords may be set to expire. The client application may also monitor secure server access by a child user; monitored use may also be reported, and an access rule or password limitation parameter may be revised in response to monitoring and use reporting." The patent application was filed on April 19, 2007 (11/737,262). 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=7,996,885&OS=7,996,885&RS=7,996,885 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Dell Products Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Dell Products, Round Rock, Texas, has been assigned a patent (7,996,868) developed by five co-inventors for a "system and method of accessing digital video broadcasts within an information handling system." The co-inventors are Alan E. Sicher, Austin, Texas, Shree Dandekar, Round Rock, Texas, Subramanian Jayaram, Austin, Texas, James Clardy, Austin, Texas, and Sowmya Swaminathan, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method of accessing digital video broadcasts within an information handling system is disclosed. In one form, a digital video broadcast processing system can include a digital video broadcast receiver module operable to process a first digital video broadcast data received within a multiple channel digital video broadcast signal and to output the first digital video broadcast data to an interconnect bus of a computer system. The digital video broadcast processing system can also include a communication interface operable to be removably coupled to an interconnect bus interface of the computer system. The communication interface can be operable to communicate the first digital video broadcast data, including an interconnect dependent data format, from the digital video broadcast receiver module to a digital video processing application of the computer system." The patent application was filed on June 6, 2007 (11/759,026). 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=7,996,868&OS=7,996,868&RS=7,996,868 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method for Correlating Processor Usage to Customer Billing in an on-demand Server with Real-time Allocation/Deallocation of Processing Resources ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,847) developed by Kit H. Wong, Round Rock, Texas, Fernando A. Lopez, Cary, N.C., and Jacques M. Ragan, Cary, N.C., for a "method for correlating processor usage to customer billing in an on-demand server with real-time allocation/deallocation of processing resources." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The invention is directed to a method for correlating processor usage to customer billing in an on-demand server with real-time allocation/deallocation of processing resources. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: providing a plurality of processors, each processor having thermal control circuit (TCC) logic; determining a processing requirement for the plurality of processors; and dynamically controlling a processing capability of the plurality of processors to provide the determined processing requirement by selectively enabling or disabling the TCC logic of each processor." The patent application was filed on Dec. 13, 2006 (11/609,936). 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=7,996,847&OS=7,996,847&RS=7,996,847 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Systems, Methods and Computer Program Products for Generating Anonymous Assertions ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,891) developed by four co-inventors for "systems, methods and computer program products for generating anonymous assertions." The co-inventors are Richard J. Cardone, Austin, Texas, Michael A. Halcrow, Pflugerville, Texas, Benjamin M. Landman, Cedar Park, Texas, and Kent E. Yoder, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems, methods and computer program products for generating anonymous assertions. Exemplary embodiments include a method for generating anonymous assertions, the method comprising engaging anonymous role authentication via one or more authenticator services, generating an assertion token on a trusted assertion device that is booted into a trusted configuration, and processing the assertion and validating a right of the user to make the assertion for the event." The patent application was filed on Jan. 30, 2008 (12/022,218). 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=7,996,891&OS=7,996,891&RS=7,996,891 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Determining Roles for Automated Tasks in a Role-based Access Control Environment ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,893) developed by Shiva Persaud-Deolall, Austin, Texas, and Xinya Wang, Austin, Texas, for "determining roles for automated tasks in a role-based access control environment." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for performing an automated task in a role-based access control environment. A set of roles is assigned to a user to form assigned roles, wherein the role-based access control environment allows the user to assume a subset of the assigned roles at a given time. Responsive to receiving a request to execute an automated task, an identity of the user creating the automated task is identified. Responsive to determining that the user creating the automated task is not logged in, a set of session roles are identified based on the identity of the user. A session is created for the automated task. The automated task is performed in the session using the set of session roles." The patent application was filed on June 11, 2007 (11/760,903). 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=7,996,893&OS=7,996,893&RS=7,996,893 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent for Allocation of System Resources Among Applications Using Predefined Entitlement Values and Weight Associated with Each of the Applications ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (7,996,846) developed by Clifford A. McCarthy, Richardson, Texas, and Canming Jin, Plano, Texas, for an "allocation of system resources among applications using predefined entitlement values and weight associated with each of the applications." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method is disclosed for allocating computer system resources, such as memory, among applications. Input parameters are received for applications. The parameters include a minimum entitlement value, a maximum entitlement value, and a weight. The minimum entitlement is the minimum amount of resources that the application should receive. The maximum entitlement is the maximum amount of resources that the application should receive. The weight specifies the priority of the application relative to other applications, for purposes of distributing system resources. Computer system resources are then allocated among applications based on the parameters." The patent application was filed on Nov. 27, 2006 (11/604,248). 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=7,996,846&OS=7,996,846&RS=7,996,846 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Using a Proxy to Manage Confidential Information ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,892) developed by Ori Pomerantz, Austin, Texas, for a "method and apparatus for using a proxy to manage confidential information." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, apparatus, and computer usable code for managing confidential data. A request is received to access an application from a user, wherein the application includes logic to process the confidential data. One of a first interface or a second interface is selected based on an identification whether the user is permitted to see the confidential data to form a selected interface in response to receiving the request. A selected interface is presented to the user. The first interface presents the confidential information and second interface presents non-confidential information without presenting the confidential information. The second interface allows access to the logic in the application without accessing the confidential data." The patent application was filed on May 29, 2008 (12/129,006). 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=7,996,892&OS=7,996,892&RS=7,996,892 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Programming Model Generic Application Deployment ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,830) developed by four co-inventors for a "programming model generic application deployment." The co-inventors are Ajay A. Apte, Austin, Texas, Fong-Meng L.L. Chan, Austin, Texas, Truong-An H. Thai, Pflugerville, Texas, and Brian Tsai, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for deploying an application. Embodiments include receiving a packaged application for deployment and an instruction to perform a deployment management operation; selecting in dependence upon plug-in selection rules one of a plurality of configuration plug-ins for creating a deployable object from the packaged application; receiving from the selected configuration plug-in a deployable object; querying one or more of the plurality of configuration plug-ins with the deployable object for identifications of configuration attributes needed to perform the deployment management operation; receiving from each of the queried configuration plug-ins identifications of configuration attributes needed to deploy the deployable object; presenting the identifications of configuration attributes needed to deploy the deployable object to a user; receiving from the user the configuration attributes needed to deploy the deployable object; and storing the deployable object and the configuration attributes." The patent application was filed on June 5, 2006 (11/422,253). 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=7,996,830&OS=7,996,830&RS=7,996,830 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Computer Program Product for design Verification Using Sequential and Combinational Transformations ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,800) developed by four co-inventors for a "computer program product for design verification using sequential and combinational transformations." The co-inventors are Jason Raymond Baumgarter, Austin, Texas, Robert Lowell Kanzelman, Rochester, Minn., Hari Mony, Austin, Texas, and Viresh Paruthi, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "System and software for verifying that a model of an integrated circuit satisfies its specification includes performing a sequence of at least one sequential transformation on a sequential model of the integrated circuit to produce a simplified sequential model of the integrated circuit. Thereafter, the simplified sequential model is unfolded for N time steps to create a combinational representation of the design. A sequence of at least one combinational transformation algorithms is then performed on the unfolded design to produce a simplified unfolded model. Finally, an exhaustive search algorithm is performed on the simplified unfolded model. The sequence of sequential transformations may include a sequential redundancy removal (SRR) algorithm and/or another sequential algorithm such as a retiming transformation. The combinational transformations may include a combinational redundancy removal algorithm or a logic re-encoding algorithm. The exhaustive search includes performing an exhaustive satisfiability search by propagating a binary decision diagram (BDD) through the netlist." The patent application was filed on March 26, 2008 (12/055,692). 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=7,996,800&OS=7,996,800&RS=7,996,800 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method of Minimizing Early-mode Violations Causing Minimum Impact to a Chip Design ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,812) developed by five co-inventors for a "method of minimizing early-mode violations causing minimum impact to a chip design." The co-inventors are Pooja M. Kotecha, Beacon, N.Y., Frank J. Musante, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Veena S. Pureswaran, Raleigh, N.C., Louise H. Trevillyan, Katonah, N.Y., and Paul G. Villarrubia, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and a method for correcting early-mode timing violations that operate across the process space of a circuit design. Optimizations are performed to replace padding that increase path delays on fast paths. At the stage in the design process where early-mode violations are addressed, placement, late-mode timing closure, routing, and detailed electrical and timing analysis are assumed to have been completed. The optimizations are designed to be effective in delaying fast paths while minimizing the impact on already-completed work on the chip, in contrast to relying only on adding pads that can have a negative impact on all of these quantities. The optimizations are classified according to their invasiveness and are followed by their deployment. The deployment is designed to minimize using delay pads, reduce design disruptions, and minimize effects on other aspects of the design." The patent application was filed on Aug. 14, 2008 (12/191,435). 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=7,996,812&OS=7,996,812&RS=7,996,812 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. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent for Managing Software Revisions for Servers in an Infrastructure ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (7,996,829) developed by Kevin G. Depew, Spring, Texas, and Scott P. Faasse, Tomball, Texas for a "managing software revisions for servers in an infrastructure." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system manages revisions of software code for one or more servers in an infrastructure. An indication of the version of the code currently residing with one of the servers is transmitted to the infrastructure. An indication of the version of the code currently residing with the infrastructure for the server's type is also transmitted to the one of the servers. A determination is made as to whether the server's version should be updated to the infrastructure's, whether the infrastructure's version should be updated to the server's, or neither based on the transmitted indications in view of a set of preconfigured update rules. If the infrastructure's version should be updated to the server's, the image of the code currently residing with the infrastructure is replaced with an image of the code currently residing with the server. If the server's version should be updated to the infrastructure's, the image of the code currently residing with the server is replaced with an image of the code currently residing with the infrastructure for the server's type." The patent application was filed on July 31, 2006 (11/497,487). 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=7,996,829&OS=7,996,829&RS=7,996,829 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for dynamically Binding Service Component Implementations for Specific Unit Test Cases ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,816) developed by Timothy Marc Francis, Keswick, Calif., Geoffrey Martin Hambrick, Round Rock, Texas, and Stephen Joseph Kinder, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. for a "method and apparatus for dynamically binding service component implementations for specific unit test cases." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention enables a component under test to bind to a single component, that is capable of simulating most depended upon services, including the details of their interface, whether or not they return explicit results or cause side effects, and regardless of the state of their implementation. This invention includes features that allow for dynamic reconfiguration to meet the needs of both manual and automated testing, including the ability to control normal and exceptional results, as well as features to support both unit and integration testing." The patent application was filed on Nov. 15, 2006 (11/560,200). 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=7,996,816&OS=7,996,816&RS=7,996,816 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** National Instruments Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- National Instruments, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (7,996,782) developed by Timothy J. Hayles, Austin, Texas, David W. Fuller III, Austin, Texas, Jeffrey N. Correll, Cedar Park, Texas, and John R. Breyer, Austin, Texas, for a "data transfer indicator icon in a diagram." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Configuring wires/icons in a diagram. The diagram may be an executable diagram such as a graphical program or a system diagram. The diagram may include a plurality of icons that are connected by wires, and the icons may visually represent functionality of the diagram. The diagram may be executable to perform the functionality. Displaying the diagram may include displaying a first wire in the diagram, where the first wire connects a first icon and a second icon. Data transfer functionality may be specified for the first wire and/or the first or second icon in the diagram. The data transfer functionality may be visually indicated in the diagram, e.g., by appearances of the first icon, the second icon, the first wire, and/or icons displayed proximate to these components of the diagram." The patent application was filed on June 8, 2007 (11/759,995). 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=7,996,782&OS=7,996,782&RS=7,996,782 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method for Debugging a Hang Condition in a Process Without Affecting the Process State ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,722) developed by Dean Joseph Burdick, Austin, Texas, Basu Vaidyanathan, Austin, Texas, for a "method for debugging a hang condition in a process without affecting the process state." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the invention are associated with an application process that comprises multiple threads, wherein threads of the process are disposes to run on a data processing system, and each thread can have a user mode or a kernel mode machine state, or both, selectively, when it is running. An embodiment directed to a method comprises the steps of allocating a specified memory location for each of the threads, and responsive to a given thread entering a sleep state, selectively saving the kernel mode machine state of the given thread in the specified memory location for the given thread. The saved machine state comprises the state of the given thread immediately prior to the given thread entering the sleep state. In response to detecting a hang condition in the operation of the process, a debugger is attached to the process to access at least one of the saved user mode machine states. The method further includes analyzing information provided by the at least one accessed machine state to determine the cause of the hang condition, and restoring the original state upon detachment, so the debugger attachment is completely transparent to the target process." The patent application was filed on Jan. 2, 2009 (12/348,079). 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=7,996,722&OS=7,996,722&RS=7,996,722 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Automated Use of Uninterpreted Functions in Sequential Equivalence ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,996,803) developed by four co-inventors for an "automated use of uninterpreted functions in sequential equivalence." The co-inventors are Jason R. Baumgartner, Austin, Texas, Robert L. Kanzelman, Rochester, Minn., Hari Mony, Austin, Texas, and Viresh Paruthi, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system and computer program product for automated use of uninterpreted functions in sequential equivalence checking. A first netlist and a second netlist may be received and be included in an 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. -1057222 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |