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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Texas (Aug. 18)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Texas. *** ConocoPhillips Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 17 -- ConocoPhillips, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,000,168) developed by four co-inventors for a "dynamic source parameter selection for seismic vibrator data acquisition." The co-inventors are Peter M. Eick, Houston, Joel D. Brewer, Houston, Stephen K. Chiu, Katy, Texas, and Charles W. Emmons, Houston. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system of operating single vibrator source points for seismic data acquisition includes acquiring real-time field survey locations for a first plurality of seismic vibrators, determining at least one geometrical relationship between each of the first plurality of seismic vibrators as a function of the field survey locations, selecting a second plurality of seismic vibrators from the first plurality of vibrators as a function of the at least one geometrical relationship, selecting source parameter data for the second plurality of seismic vibrators as a function of the field survey locations and driving the second plurality of seismic vibrators to propagate seismic energy into the earth. A third plurality of vibrators is selected based on geometrical relationships and associated source parameters are determined based on vibrator locations. Multiple vibrator groups may acquire data continuously without interruption." The patent application was filed on Feb. 21, 2007 (11/677,438). 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=80,00,168.PN.&OS=PN/80,00,168&RS=PN/80,00,168 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Teledyne Instruments Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 17 -- Teledyne Instruments, City of Industry, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,000,167) developed by five co-inventors for a "streamer cable with enhanced properties." The co-inventors are Robert A.P. Fernihough, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom, William G. Kikendall, Katy, Texas, Phillip R. Goines, Katy, Texas, Stephen M. Gribble, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom, and Philip M. Manrique, LaPorte, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention relates to streamer cables. One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for preparing a streamer cable. The method may comprise retrofitting the streamer cable with a solid void-filler material, where the streamer cable was configured as a liquid-filled streamer cable. The retrofitting may comprise introducing a void-filler material into the streamer cable when the void-filler material is in a liquid state and curing or otherwise solidifying the void-filler material to a solid state. In another embodiment, the present invention relates to a streamer cable comprising an outer skin and-at least one sensor positioned within the outer skin. The streamer cable may also comprise a solid void-filler material positioned between the outer skin and the at least one sensor, wherein the solid void-filler material is coupled to the at least one sensor." The patent application was filed on March 15, 2010 (12/723,899). 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=80,00,167.PN.&OS=PN/80,00,167&RS=PN/80,00,167 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Texas Instruments Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 17 -- Texas Instruments, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (8,000,200) developed by Akihiko Doi, Tokyo, Shengyuan Li, Dallas, and Lundy Findlay Taylor, Plano, Texas, for an "HFM enable control system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A modulation control system for use with a high frequency modulator is described. This system comprises a latch for selectively receiving enable signals, wherein the latch transmits a latched signal in response to receiving at least two of the enable signals; a selection device coupled to the latch for receiving the latched signal, a voltage source, and a terminal for receiving at least one of the enable signals, wherein the selection device transmits a selected signal; and a logic device coupled to the selection device and a terminal for receiving a modulated enable signal, wherein the logic device transmits a synchronized signal for either enabling or disabling the high frequency modulator in response to receiving the selected signal associated with at least one of the enable signals." The patent application was filed on Dec. 16, 2009 (12/639,753). 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=80,00,200.PN.&OS=PN/80,00,200&RS=PN/80,00,200 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** S. Aqua Semiconductor Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 17 -- S. Aqua Semiconductor, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,000,140) developed by G.R. Mohan Rao, McKinney, Texas, for a "random access memory with CMOS-compatible nonvolatile storage element." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments provide systems, methods, and apparatuses with a plurality of row lines and column lines arranged in a matrix, and at least one memory cell having an access transistor and a CMOS-compatible non-volatile storage element coupled to the access transistor in series. The CMOS-compatible non-volatile storage element includes a node and is configured to hold a charge corresponding to a n-bit binary value where n is an integer greater than 1. The access transistor has a word line gate coupled to a row line, a first node coupled to a column line, a second node coupled to a storage node, with the storage node connected to said node of the CMOS-compatible non-volatile storage element. Access circuitry coupled to the memory cell is configured to activate the memory cell and sense a resulting current corresponding to the n-bit binary value." The patent application was filed on March 24, 2008 (12/053,976). 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=80,00,140.PN.&OS=PN/80,00,140&RS=PN/80,00,140 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Nantero Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 17 -- Nantero, Woburn, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,000,127) developed by Darlene Hamilton, Lacey, Wash., and Rinn Cleavelin, Dallas, for a "method for resetting a resistive change memory element." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of resetting a resistive change memory element is disclosed. The method comprises performing a series of programming operations--for example, a programming pulse of a predetermined voltage level and pulse width--on a resistive change memory element in order to incrementally increase the resistance of the memory element above some predefined threshold. Prior to each programming operation, the resistive state of the memory element is measured and used to determine the parameters used in that programming operation. If this measured resistance value is above a first threshold value, the memory element is determined to already be in a reset state and no further programming operation is performed. If this measured resistance value is below a second threshold value, this second threshold value being less than the first threshold value, a first set of programming parameters are used within the programming operation. If this initial value is above the second threshold value but below the first threshold value, a second set of programming parameters are used within the programming operation." The patent application was filed on Nov. 13, 2009 (12/618,448). 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=80,00,127.PN.&OS=PN/80,00,127&RS=PN/80,00,127 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Intersil Americas Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- Intersil Americas, Milpitas, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,000,117) developed by Shea Petricek, Dallas, for a "buck boost function based on a capacitor bootstrap input buck converter." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A buck boost voltage converter circuit has a capacitor pump circuit for boosting an input voltage in a first mode of operation when an input voltage is below a desired voltage level. A buck converter circuit provides the output voltage responsive to the boosted input voltage from the capacitor pump circuit in the first mode of operation and provides the output voltage responsive to the input voltage in a second mode of operation when the input voltage is above the desired voltage level." The patent application was filed on June 9, 2009 (12/480,823). 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=8000117.PN.&OS=PN/8000117&RS=PN/8000117 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Flextronics AP Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- Flextronics AP, Broomfield, Colo., has been assigned a patent (8,000,112) developed by Xiaoyang Zhang, Richardson, Texas, for an "active snubber for transition mode power converter." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A transition mode power converter having an active snubber the operation of which is controlled using an auxiliary winding on the transformer of the power converter. In one embodiment, the power converter includes a transformer having a primary winding connected to a voltage source, a primary switch, an auxiliary switch, a capacitor, and an auxiliary winding on the transformer. The primary switch includes a first terminal connected to the primary winding of the transformer and a second terminal connected to a common node. The auxiliary switch includes a first terminal connected to the voltage source and to the primary winding. The capacitor is connected between a second terminal of the auxiliary switch and the first terminal of the primary switch. The auxiliary winding of the transformer is connected to a third terminal of the auxiliary switch and controls operation of the auxiliary switch via the third terminal." The patent application was filed on April 11, 2008 (12/101,700). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8000112.PN.&OS=PN/8000112&RS=PN/8000112 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** ESPRE Solutions Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- ESPRE Solutions, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (8,000,261) developed by Robert E. Nimon, Dallas, and David E. Espenlaub, Dallas, for a "system and method for multicast transmission." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for multicast transmission are disclosed. In one embodiment, a virtual exchange network including interconnected nodes is embedded within a network. A sender is disposed in communication with a root node and receivers are disposed in communication with a set of edge nodes. The sender publishes a packetized data stream to which the receivers subscribe. The packetized data stream is promulgated by implicit signaling through optimum virtual exchange network connections from the sender through the virtual exchange network to the receivers. The interconnected nodes, responsive to receiving the published packetized data stream, are adapted to multicast N instances of the published packetized data stream to N recipients selected from the group consisting of receivers and other of the interconnected nodes." The patent application was filed on March 12, 2008 (12/047,281). 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=8,000,261.PN.&OS=PN/8,000,261&RS=PN/8,000,261 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,000,458) developed by Yen-Fu Chen, Austin, Texas, Fabian F. Morgan, Austin, Texas, and Keith Raymond Walker, Austin, Texas, for a "method and system for verifying incoming telephone numbers." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for automatically verifying an incoming telephone number. In response to detecting an incoming communication, a determination is made as to whether a telephone number associated with the incoming communication matches one of a plurality of telephone numbers in a storage unit. In response to determining that the telephone number associated with the incoming communication does not match one of the plurality of telephone numbers in the storage unit, telephone number verification rules are applied to determine whether to continue with the incoming communication. In response to a determination not to continue with the incoming communication based on the telephone number verification rules, an alert is provided." The patent application was filed on Nov. 10, 2006 (11/558,600). 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=80,00,458.PN.&OS=PN/80,00,458&RS=PN/80,00,458 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,000,418) developed by Hang Jin, Plano, Texas, for a "method and system for improving robustness of interference nulling for antenna arrays." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system are provided for improving the robustness of interference nulling for antenna arrays in a wireless communication network. The method is comprised of generating a first interference spatial signature from an interference signal matrix received by the antenna array, deriving a second interference spatial signature from the first interference spatial signature, calculating a covariance matrix from the second interference spatial signature, and generating a beamforming weighting vector from the covariance matrix." The patent application was filed on Jan. 18, 2007 (11/654,941). 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=80,00,418&OS=80,00,418&RS=80,00,418 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Texas Instruments Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- Texas Instruments, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (8,000,425) developed by Chung San Roger Chan, Coppell, Texas, Richard M. Prentice, Wylie, Texas, and Woo Jin Kim, Dallas, for "methods and apparatus to provide clock resynchronization in communication networks." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus to provide clock resynchronization in communication networks are disclosed. An example method of clock resynchronization disclosed herein comprises determining a vote based on adjacent samples occurring within a single bit interval in a sampled data stream, wherein the vote comprises an early vote when the adjacent samples indicate a sampling phase of a sampling clock is early relative to a center position in the bit interval and wherein the vote comprises a late vote when adjacent samples indicate the sampling phase is late relative to the center position, tracking a running difference between a number of early votes and a number of late votes in a plurality of votes corresponding to a plurality of adjacent samples, and adjusting the sampling phase when the running difference reaches a threshold." The patent application was filed on Jan. 16, 2007 (11/653,534). 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=80,00,425&OS=80,00,425&RS=80,00,425 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Advanced Micro Devices Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,000,404) developed by Gerald R. Talbot, Concord, Mass., and Paul C. Miranda, Austin, Texas, for a "method and apparatus to reduce the effect of crosstalk in a communications interface." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A technique for reducing crosstalk between communications paths includes scrambling data using scrambling functions that reduce or substantially minimize a probability that worst-case data patterns occur on communications paths adjacent to a potential victim communications path. In at least one embodiment of the invention, a method includes scrambling a plurality of data bits based at least in part on respective ones of a plurality of distinct combinations of one or more taps of a linear feedback shift register (LFSR). The plurality of data bits are scrambled for transmission during a first bit-time on corresponding ones of a plurality of adjacent communications paths." The patent application was filed on Jan. 26, 2007 (11/627,586). 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=80,00,404&OS=80,00,404&RS=80,00,404 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Oracle America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- Oracle America, Redwood City, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,000,426) developed by five co-inventors for a "mechanism for constructing an oversampled waveform for a set of signals received by a receiver." The co-inventors are Deqiang Song, San Diego, Dawei Huang, San Diego, Drew G. Doblar, San Jose, Calif., Michael Stephen Harwood, Rushden, United Kingdom, and Nirmal C. Warke, Irving, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A mechanism is provided for constructing an oversampled waveform for a set of incoming signals received by a receiver. In one implementation, the oversampled waveform is constructed by way of cooperation between the receiver and a waveform construction mechanism (WCM). The receiver receives the incoming signals, samples a subset of the incoming signals at a time, stores the subsets of sample values into a set of registers, and subsequently provides the subsets of sample values to the WCM. The WCM in turn sorts through the subsets of sample values, organizes them into proper orders, and "stitches"them together to construct the oversampled waveform for the set of incoming signals. With proper cooperation between the receiver and the WCM, and with proper processing logic on the WCM, it is possible to construct the oversampled waveform for the incoming signals without requiring large amounts of resources on the receiver." The patent application was filed on March 21, 2008 (12/053,121). 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=80,00,426&OS=80,00,426&RS=80,00,426 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Texas Instruments Assigned Patent for All-digital Frequency Synthesis with DCO Gain Calculation ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- Texas Instruments, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (8,000,428) developed by Robert B. Staszewski, Garland, Texas, Dirk Leipold, Plano, Texas, and John Wallberg, Richardson, Texas, for an "all-digital frequency synthesis with DCO gain calculation." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An all-digital frequency synthesizer architecture is built around a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) that is tuned in response to a digital tuning word (OTW). In exemplary embodiments: (1) a gain characteristic (K.sub.DCO) of the digitally controlled oscillator can be determined by observing a digital control word before and after a known change (.DELTA.f.sub.max) in the oscillating frequency; and (2) a portion (TUNE_TF) of the tuning word can be dithered (1202), and the resultant dithered portion (d.sub.k.sup.TF) can then be applied to a control input of switchable devices within the digitally controlled oscillator." The patent application was filed on Nov. 22, 2002 (10/302,029). 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=80,00,428&OS=80,00,428&RS=80,00,428 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Schlumberger Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- Schlumberger Technology, Sugar Land, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,000,572) developed by Joseph Varkey, Missouri City, Texas, for "methods of manufacturing composite slickline cables." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed are wellbore electric cables, and methods of manufacturing such cables, and in one aspect, methods of manufacturing wireline composite slickline cables. Some embodiments are methods which include preparing a slickline cable by providing an inner metallic tube containing at least one conductor (such as an optical fiber), disposing an epoxy/fiber composite strength layer substantially upon the outer periphery of the inner metallic tube, and exposing the combination of the inner metallic tube and composite strength layer to at least one technique for minimizing the variation in diameter and providing a substantially uniform circular cross-sectional shape of the combination. Further, an outer metallic tube is draw around the combination of the composite strength member and the inner metallic tube, to form a wellbore slickline. Cables prepared using such methods are also disclosed." The patent application was filed on March 20, 2006 (11/384,884). 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=8,000,572.PN.&OS=PN/8,000,572&RS=PN/8,000,572 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Dell Products Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- Dell Products, Round Rock, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,000,477) developed by Gary J. Verdun, Georgetown, Texas, for a "data security system and method for high bandwidth bus." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A data security system for a high bandwidth bus comprises a circular shift register operable to load a variable key value, and a scrambler coupled to the circular shift register operable to receive the variable key value from the circular shift register and serially scramble a serial data input in response to the variable key value." The patent application was filed on June 1, 2006 (11/445,414). 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=8,000,477&OS=8,000,477&RS=8,000,477 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,000,244) developed by Rodney S. Canion, West Lake Hills, Texas, and Alexander I. Tomlinson, Austin, Texas, for "shared rate limiters using floating buckets." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Traffic flow rate limits are enforced in an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) having a plurality of deep packet inspection (DPI) engines by using a floating token bucket scheme. The IPS includes a plurality of rate limiters which are associated with different classes (e.g., protocols) of traffic. A floating token bucket is associated with each rate limiter. The token bucket associated with a rate limiter is passed from DPI engine to DPI engine. Only the DPI engine currently in possession of the token bucket for a particular rate limiter is allowed to process traffic of the class associated with that rate limiter. A DPI engine is only allowed to process traffic associated with a token bucket in its possession if that token bucket is not empty. Use of such floating token buckets enforces rate limits for each traffic class across the multiple DPI engine." The patent application was filed on July 31, 2008 (12/183,458). 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=8,000,244.PN.&OS=PN/8,000,244&RS=PN/8,000,244 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Verizon Patent and Licensing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- Verizon Patent and Licensing, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,000,240) developed by five co-inventors for a "method and system for providing auto-bandwidth adjustment." The co-inventors are Christopher N. DelRegno, Rowlett, Texas, Scott R. Kotrla, Wylie, Texas, Matthew W. Turlington, Richardson, Texas, Michael U. Bencheck, Richardson, Texas, and Richard C. Schell, Allen, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An approach is provided for auto-bandwidth adjustment of allocated bandwidth for a traffic tunnel over a network. A determination is made regarding a traffic load over the tunnel, where the tunnel meters traffic in accordance with the bandwidth allocation. A determination is made regarding whether the traffic load triggers an adjustment threshold, where the adjustment threshold is set to provide a desired headroom below the bandwidth allocation. And the bandwidth allocation is adjusted when the adjustment threshold is triggered to provide the desired headroom between the adjusted bandwidth allocation and the traffic load." The patent application was filed on July 7, 2008 (12/168,708). 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=8,000,240.PN.&OS=PN/8,000,240&RS=PN/8,000,240 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent for Containment of Rogue Systems in Wireless Network Environments ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,000,308) developed by six co-inventors for a "containment of rogue systems in wireless network environments." The co-inventors are Paul F. Dietrich, Seattle, David Anthony Frascone, Terrell, Texas, Patrice R. Calhoun, Pleasanton, Calif., Robert J. Friday, Los Gatos, Calif., Robert B. O'Hara Jr., Santa Clara, Calif., and Mathew Douglas Howard, Sunnyvale, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, apparatuses and systems facilitating containment of the effects of rogue or unauthorized access points on wireless computer network environments. Embodiments of the present invention support one to a plurality of rogue containment methodologies. A first rogue containment type involves identification of the physical connection of the rogue access point to the wired network infrastructure and, thus, allows for disabling of that physical connection to contain the rogue access point. Other rogue containment methods involve wireless techniques for containing the effect of rogue access points. As discussed below, the rogue containment functionality described herein can be applied to a wide variety of wireless network system architectures." The patent application was filed on Oct. 20, 2008 (12/254,420). 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=8,000,308.PN.&OS=PN/8,000,308&RS=PN/8,000,308 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Motorola Mobility Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Performing Spatial-division Multiple Access ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- Motorola Mobility, Libertyville, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,000,293) developed by five co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for performing spatial-division multiple access." The co-inventors are Bishwarup Mondal, Austin, Texas, Xiangyang Zhuang, Hoffman Estates, Ill., Kevin L. Baum, Rolling Meadows, Ill., Timothy A. Thomas, Palatine, Ill., and Frederick W. Vook, Schaumburg, Ill. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for performing spatial-division multiple access within a communication system is provided herein. During operation, nodes will return null subspace information along with their channel subspace information. The null subspace is similar to the channel subspace except that the null subspace information directs a base station to the matrix in a predefined codebook that results in minimum power being received at the node. The null subspace for each node is taken into consideration when communicating with a particular node." The patent application was filed on Aug. 15, 2008 (12/192,164). 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=8,000,293.PN.&OS=PN/8,000,293&RS=PN/8,000,293 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Research In Motion Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- Research In Motion, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, has been assigned a patent (8,000,292) developed by Zhijun Cai, Euless, Texas, and James Earl Womack, Bedford, Texas, for a "multimedia broadcast multicast service channel mapping and multiplexing." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system is provided for mapping multimedia broadcast multicast services. The system includes one or more processors programmed to map a plurality of multicast transport channels (MCHs) to a plurality of multicast/broadcast single frequency networks (MBSFNs) such that any one of the MBSFNs has only one MCH and further where each one of the MCHs is different." The patent application was filed on Dec. 11, 2007 (11/954,162). 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=8,000,292.PN.&OS=PN/8,000,292&RS=PN/8,000,292 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Texas Instruments Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- Texas Instruments, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (8,000,670) developed by Robert B. Staszewski, Garland, Texas, Khurram Muhammad, Richardson, Texas, and Dirk Leipold, Plano, Texas, for a "removing close-in interferers through a feedback loop." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "System and method for elimination of close-in interferers through feedback. A preferred embodiment comprises an interferer predictor (for example, interferer predictor 840) coupled to a digital output of a direct RF radio receiver (for example, radio receiver 800). The interferer predictor predicts the presence of interferers and feeds the information back to a sampling unit (for example, sampling unit 805) through a feedback circuit (for example, feedback unit 845) through the use of charge sharing. The interferers are then eliminated in the sampling unit. Additionally, the number and placement of zeroes in a filter in the sampling unit is increased and changed through the implementation of arbitrary-coefficient finite impulse response filters." The patent application was filed on Jan. 25, 2006 (11/339,386). 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=8,000,670.PN.&OS=PN/8,000,670&RS=PN/8,000,670 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Samsung Electronics Assigned Patent for Versatile System for Transceiver Noise Reduction in a Time-division Duplexing Wireless Network ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- Samsung Electronics, Suwon-si, South Korea, has been assigned a patent (8,000,274) developed by Michael L. Brobston, Allen, Texas, Breck W. Lovinggood, Garland, Texas, and Robert W. Monroe, Melissa, Texas, for a "versatile system for transceiver noise reduction in a time-division duplexing wireless network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for suppressing transmission channel noise in a signal transmission/reception device--particularly a time division duplex (TDD) wireless communications device--is provided. The system provides one or more shunt elements, instantiated at some point along the device's signal transmission channel. One or more attenuation elements are also instantiated at some point along the signal transmission channel, as are one or more disabling elements. A trigger signal indicates when the device is shifting from signal transmission operation (or mode) to signal reception operation. Responsive to assertion of the trigger signal, the shunt, attenuation and disabling elements are activated." The patent application was filed on Nov. 22, 2005 (11/284,466). 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=8,000,274.PN.&OS=PN/8,000,274&RS=PN/8,000,274 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Samsung Electronics Assigned Patent for Apparatus and Method for Canceling Interference in a Single Antenna 1xEV-DV Base Station ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- Samsung Electronics, Suwon-si, South Korea, has been assigned a patent (8,000,654) developed by Cornelius van Rensburg, Dallas, and Purva R. Rajkotia, Plano, Texas, for an "apparatus and method for canceling interference in a single antenna 1xEV-DV base station." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A wireless network base station capable of canceling interference caused by a dominant interferer signal from a mobile station. The base station comprises down-converts an RF to a down-converted signal, r(n). K complex PN demodulators multiply the down-converted complex r(n) signal by PN code sequences associated with each of the K mobile stations to produce K chip streams. K Walsh code demodulators multiply each of the K chip streams by a Walsh code associated with a mobile stations to produce K raw user signals. K subtractors subtract a first estimated interference signal associated with the dominant interferer signal from the K raw user signals to produce K estimated user signals. A detector receives the K estimated user signals and produces a detected user signal for each of the mobile stations. An interference estimator then determines which detected user signal is the dominant interferer signal." The patent application was filed on Jan. 31, 2005 (11/047,309). 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=8,000,654.PN.&OS=PN/8,000,654&RS=PN/8,000,654 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Texas Inventor Develops Patent for System and Method for Disposal of Digital Media ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- Kelce S. Wilson, Murphy, Texas, has developed a patent (8,000,582) for a "system and method for disposal of digital media." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method are described for rendering Compact Discs (CDs) and Digital Video Discs (DVDs) unreadable. Embodiments comprise a frame, a guide for constraining motion of the frame with respect to a disc, and at least one scraping element. Scraping elements may be positioned to damage the disc volume descriptor while the frame moves in a constrained manner relative to the disc. The guide may comprise a spindle which engages the center hole of a disc to hold the frame in a radially-fixed position. A scraping element on the frame damages the disc as the disc rotates relative to the frame. The guide may be integrated, such that the frame comprises a slot through which the disc passes. A scraping element inside the slot damages a disc as it passes through. Embodiments are hand operated, not motorized, and some have no moving parts. Embodiments also function with non-optical media." The patent application was filed on June 9, 2006 (11/450,751). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8000582.PN.&OS=PN/8000582&RS=PN/8000582 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Finisar Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- Finisar, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,000,374) developed by Ralph H. Johnson, Murphy, Texas, and James K. Guenter, Garland, Texas, for a "surface gratings on VCSELs for polarization pinning." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A polarization pinned vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL). A VCSEL designed to be polarization pinned includes an upper mirror. An active region is connected on the upper mirror. A lower mirror is connected to the active region. A grating layer is deposited to the upper mirror. The grating layer includes a low index of refraction layer formed by deposition on the upper mirror. The grating layer further includes a high index of refraction layer formed by deposition on the low index of refraction layer. A grating is formed into the grating layer." The patent application was filed on Dec. 12, 2005 (11/299,638). 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=8,000,374.PN.&OS=PN/8,000,374&RS=PN/8,000,374 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Damaka Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- Damaka, Richardson, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,000,325) developed by Sivakumar Ravikumar, Allen, Texas, Satish Gundabathula, Irving, Texas, and Rameshkumar Ravikumar, Allen, Texas, for a "system and method for peer-to-peer hybrid communications." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An improved system and method are disclosed for peer-to-peer communications. In one example, the method includes retrieving a profile and a routing table from an access server by a first endpoint during an authentication process. The profile identifies at least a second endpoint as an endpoint with which the first endpoint has permission to communicate. The routing table contains address information needed for the first endpoint to communicate directly with the second endpoint. The first endpoint sends a notification message directly to the second endpoint using the address information to inform the second endpoint that the first endpoint is online." The patent application was filed on Aug. 10, 2009 (12/538,334). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,000,325.PN.&OS=PN/8,000,325&RS=PN/8,000,325 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Verizon Patent and Licensing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- Verizon Patent and Licensing, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,000,323) developed by Ning So, Plano, Texas, for a "method and system for announcing traffic engineering parameters of composite transport groups." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An approach is provided for announcing aggregate characteristics of a composite transport group (CTG) for traffic engineering. Information specifying characteristics of a plurality of component links of the CTG is received. An aggregate characteristic of the CTG is determined based the information. The aggregate characteristic is announced to a label switched network for provisioning label switched paths on the CTG." The patent application was filed on April 30, 2008 (12/112,341). 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=8,000,323.PN.&OS=PN/8,000,323&RS=PN/8,000,323 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,000,322) developed by six co-inventors for a crossbar switch debugging. The co-inventors are James R. Greener, Ft. Collins, Colo., Christopher P. Woody, Ft. Collins, Colo., Robert McFarland, Murphy, Texas, Tyler J. Johnson, Murphy, Texas, Gregg Bernard Lesartre, Ft. Collins, Colo., and John W. Bockhaus, Ft. Collins, Colo. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A crossbar switch having a plurality of ports that allows a debug process to be performed on the switch using one of the plurality of ports to output chip status information. The switch uses a debug block to store chip status information." The patent application was filed on March 14, 2005 (11/079,414). 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=8,000,322.PN.&OS=PN/8,000,322&RS=PN/8,000,322 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Textron Innovations Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- Textron Innovations, Providence, R.I., has been assigned a patent (8,000,847) developed by Shyhpyng Jack Shue, Grapevine, Texas, for a "control system for automatic flight in windshear conditions." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A flight control system is configured for controlling the flight of an aircraft through windshear conditions. The system has means for measuring values of selected flight performance states of the aircraft and a control system for operating flight control devices on the aircraft. A windshear detection system located on the aircraft uses at least some of the measured values of the selected flight performance states to calculate a gust average during flight for comparison to pre-determined values in a table for determining whether windshear conditions exist. The control system then operates at least some of the flight control devices in response to an output of the windshear detection system." The patent application was filed on Oct. 11, 2005 (11/663,906). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,000,847&OS=8,000,847&RS=8,000,847 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Siemens Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- Siemens, Munich, Germany, has been assigned a patent (8,000,345) developed by John Blackford, Dallas, Brian Peck, Flower Mound, Texas, and Duane Murphy, Vacaville, Calif., for a "proxy agent for providing remote management of equipment in a communication network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one aspect a method for remotely managing a non-compliant Internet Gateway Device (IGD) residing in a Local Area Network (LAN) is provided. The method includes providing a proxy agent that resides on a computer in the LAN. The proxy agent receives from a Wide Area Network (WAN) configuration device a Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) WAN Management Protocol (CWMP) request message, converts the request message to a protocol that is used by the IGD and communicates the converted request message upstream toward the IGD. The proxy agent receives a response from the IGD, converts the response from a first protocol to the CWMP, and sends the converted response upstream toward the WAN configuration device." The patent application was filed on Feb. 24, 2006 (11/361,401). 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=8,000,345.PN.&OS=PN/8,000,345&RS=PN/8,000,345 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Futurewei Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- Futurewei Technologies, Plano, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,000,346) developed by Lucy Yong, Plano, Texas, Dunbar Linda, Plano, Texas, and Young Lee, Plano, Texas, for an "ASON/GMPLS architecture extension for reservation based and time based automatic bandwidth service." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A telecommunications network comprising components configured to implement a method comprising: receiving a reservation from a customer, reserving a network resource specified in the reservation, initiating the establishment of a reserved connection through a network, the reserved connection parameters based on the reservation, subsequent to the establishment of the reserved connection, detecting a data stream transmitted from the customer, and allowing the data stream to be transported over the network using the reserved connection. Also disclosed is a method for reserving bandwidth on a network, the method comprising: submitting a reservation request specifying a bandwidth requirement and a start time, receiving a confirmation that the reservation has been accepted, and transmitting a data stream to a network at the start time, wherein the data stream is transported over the network using no more than the bandwidth specified in the reservation request." The patent application was filed on Sept. 15, 2006 (11/532,457). 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=8,000,346.PN.&OS=PN/8,000,346&RS=PN/8,000,346 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,000,347) developed by Subhasri Dhesikan, San Jose, Calif., and James M. Polk, Colleyville, Texas, for "executing and supporting a multiple bandwidth reservation request." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining a first message that includes at least a first bandwidth request that specifies a first bandwidth and a second bandwidth request that specifies a second bandwidth. The first bandwidth is a preferential bandwidth. The method also includes determining whether the first bandwidth may be allocated, and storing the first bandwidth and the second bandwidth in a stored reservation state if the first bandwidth may be allocated. If the first bandwidth may not be allocated, the method includes determining whether the second bandwidth may be allocated. The second bandwidth in the stored reservation state if it is determined that the second bandwidth may be allocated. In one embodiment, if the second bandwidth may be allocated, the first bandwidth is removed during process prior to sending the message to a subsequent node upstream." The patent application was filed on Oct. 31, 2008 (12/262,498). 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=8,000,347.PN.&OS=PN/8,000,347&RS=PN/8,000,347 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Fisher-Rosemount Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,000,814) developed by Robert B. Havekost, Austin, Texas, and Mark J. Nixon, Round Rock, Texas, for "user configurable alarms and alarm trending for process control system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various graphical displays for plant process operators are provided which combine aspects of alarm priority and alarm age to assist operators in making better choices in responding to alarms. The disclosed graphical displays provide improved contextual information about specific alarms and the relationships with other alarms in the same control module, equipment module, etc. Hierarchically organized presentations of active alarms and alarm age profiles are also provided to assist operators in evaluating causes of "alarm floods" in chain reactions within complex process environments. Various types of alarm or display alerts are also provided for improved monitoring of processed conditions and changes in process controls." The patent application was filed on May 4, 2005 (10/574,570). 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=8,000,814&OS=8,000,814&RS=8,000,814 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** KCI Licensing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- KCI Licensing, San Antonio, has been assigned a patent (8,000,777) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for tracking healing progress of tissue." The co-inventors are Jonathan Paul Jaeb, Boerne, Texas, Tianning Xu, Duluth, Ga., Christopher Brian Locke, Bournemouth, United Kingdom, and Mark Stephen James Beard, Ferndown, United Kingdom. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for analyzing tissue healing may include an image capture device and a reference color marker of a predetermined color. A processing unit may be in communication with the image capture device, and be configured to receive image data from the image capture device. The image data may include image of a tissue site and the reference color marker. At least one image parameter may be adjusted based on at least a portion of the image of the reference color marker to normalize the image data. The normalized image data may be presented to a clinician." The patent application was filed on Sept. 18, 2007 (11/901,663). 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=8,000,777&OS=8,000,777&RS=8,000,777 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** GlobalFoundries Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- GlobalFoundries, Grand Cayman, Ky., has been assigned a patent (8,000,735) developed by seven co-inventors for a "wireless modem architecture for reducing memory components." The co-inventors are Michael Barclay, Salisbury, United Kingdom, Terry Lynn Cole, Austin, Texas, Richard Powell, Maidenhead, United Kingdom, William M. Johnson, Austin, Texas, David W. Smith, Cedar Park, Texas, Ralf Findeisen, Dresden, Germany, and Derek Golightly, Steyning, United Kingdom. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A wireless communications device includes a host processing unit, a modem processing unit, and a memory transport interface. The wireless communications device typically runs a variety of software tasks, some of which require considerably more memory than others. By processing the memory intensive tasks with the host processing unit and assigning tasks requiring high computing power but relatively smaller memory to the modem processor unit, a smaller on-chip memory can be used for the modem processor unit tasks. In addition, by using a messaging transport interface to transfer data between tasks running on different processing units, smaller local memories can be used in place of a shared memory. For example, by allocating and storing L1 tasks at the modem processing unit and allocating/storing L2 and L3 tasks at the host processing unit, duplicate memory components may be reduced or removed, thereby lowering system costs and improving system efficiency." The patent application was filed on Dec. 1, 2004 (11/001,491). 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=8,000,735&OS=8,000,735&RS=8,000,735 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Lockheed Martin Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- Lockheed Martin, Bethesda, Md., has been assigned a patent (8,000,835) developed by Daniel C. Friz, Grand Prairie, Texas, and Mark R. Bates, Fort Worth, Texas, for a "center of gravity sensing and adjusting load bar, program product, and related methods." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus, program product, and related methods for gravity stabilizing a suspended load are provided. The apparatus includes an center of gravity stabilized automated adjusting load bar in communication with a mobile cart which allows an operator to enable automated stabilization of a load. The adjusting load bar includes redundant first and second control and drive systems. A third control system can both monitor sensed data and the movement commands of first and second control systems, and can monitor the resulting physical movements. If a movement command and the resulting movement does not match or if there is an out of tolerance mismatch between movement commands of the first and the second control systems, the third control system can automatically detect this condition and shift into an emergency stop condition." The patent application was filed on May 10, 2007 (11/801,510). 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=8,000,835&OS=8,000,835&RS=8,000,835 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,000,710) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for providing a handoff leg associated with a preexisting leg in a network environment." The co-inventors are Ramanathan T. Jagadeesan, San Jose, Calif., Bich T. Nguyen, Los Altos, Calif., Andrew C. Chung, Fremont, Calif., and Christopher E. Pearce, Dallas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for facilitating communications between wireless networks is provided that includes communicating with a mobile station and transferring a communication session from a first wireless link to a second wireless link. The mobile station is operable to negotiate a first wireless link with a first wireless network, to establish a communication session with a device using the first wireless link, and to facilitate a session handoff with a second wireless link with the second wireless network using the second wireless interface. The handoff is enabled by associating the first wireless link to the second wireless link." The patent application was filed on March 4, 2009 (12/397,493). 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=8,000,710.PN.&OS=PN/8,000,710&RS=PN/8,000,710 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method, Apparatus and Computer Program Product for Controlling Access by a User's Portable Device to a Facility Directory ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,000,693) developed by Dharmesh N. Bhakta, Austin, Texas, Marc-Arthur Pierre-Louis, Round Rock, Texas, and Radhakrishnan Sethuraman, Austin, Texas, for a "method, apparatus and computer program product for controlling access by a user's portable device to a facility directory." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Controlling access to a facility includes sending a program and profile for facility services to a user's portable device. The services have telephones connected via a local area network ("LAN"), so a call originating on the LAN to such a telephone may be completed on the LAN without accessing a wide area telephone network ("WAN"). The program is executed on the user's portable device so that the device operates in a facility mode. In this mode, the device displays services from the profile, so that the user can select a service and easily place telephone calls to it solely over the LAN. Responsive to the user's service selection, in a normal operating sub-mode the user's portable device places a call via the WAN using a longer telephone number and in a local operating sub-mode the user's portable device places the call via the LAN using a shortcut number." The patent application was filed on Aug. 3, 2007 (11/833,966). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,000,693&OS=8,000,693&RS=8,000,693 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. 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. -1058145 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |