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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in New Jersey (Aug. 24)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in New Jersey. *** New York University Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- New York University, Brooklyn, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,005,975) developed by Yong Liu, Secaucus, N.J., for a "reducing or minimizing delays in peer-to-peer communications such as peer-to-peer video streaming." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A new P2P streaming method and apparatus disseminates video chunks to all peers with the minimum (or at least reduced) delay. After obtaining a new video chunk, a peer keeps transmitting (uploading) that video chunk to other peers until all peers receive it. The approach quickly increases the aggregate bandwidth that can be utilized to transmit a video chunk. For example, the aggregate peer bandwidth used to transmit a video chunk can double every time slot. For a homogeneous P2P streaming system with N peers, a time slot is defined as a unit of the single chunk transmission delay between two peers. Using the P2P streaming method, a video chunk can be disseminated to all peers within 1+log.sub.2 N time slots." The patent application was filed on Oct. 6, 2010 (12/898,762). 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=8,005,975.PN.&OS=PN/8,005,975&RS=PN/8,005,975 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,005,949) developed by five co-inventors for a "variance-optimal sampling-based estimation of subset sums." The co-inventors are Nicholas Duffield, Summit, N.J., Carsten Lund, Berkeley Heights, N.J., Mikkel Thorup, Florence, Mass., Edith Cohen, Berkeley Heights, N.J., and Haim Kaplan, Hod Hasharon, Israel. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention relates to a method of obtaining a generic sample of an input stream. The method is designated as VAROPT.sub.k. The method comprises receiving an input stream of items arriving one at a time, and maintaining a sample S of items i. The sample S has a capacity for at most k items i. The sample S is filled with k items i. An n.sup.th item i is received. It is determined whether the n.sup.th item i should be included in sample S. If the n.sup.th item i is included in sample S, then a previously included item i is dropped from sample S. The determination is made based on weights of items without distinguishing between previously included items i and the n.sup.th item i. The determination is implemented thereby updating weights of items i in sample S. The method is repeated until no more items are received." The patent application was filed on Dec. 1, 2008 (12/325,340). 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=8,005,949.PN.&OS=PN/8,005,949&RS=PN/8,005,949 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Innovation Interactive Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- Innovation Interactive, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,005,715) developed by four co-inventors for a "domains template management system." The co-inventors are Tony Smith, Waterville, Ohio, Michael Romoff, New York, William A. Margiloff, New York, and Craig Pohan, Hoboken, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "According to some embodiments, systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are provided for a domains template management system. In some cases, a domain landing page may be presented to a plurality of users, and historical user action data associated with the landing page may be collected. A subsequent presentation of the landing page may then be dynamically adjusting based on the historical user action data." The patent application was filed on April 17, 2006 (11/405,100). 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=8,005,715.PN.&OS=PN/8,005,715&RS=PN/8,005,715 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Educational Testing Service Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- Educational Testing Service, Princeton, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,005,712) developed by Matthias Von Davier, Lawrenceville, N.J., Xueli Xu, Chicago, and Kentaro Yamamoto, Lawrenceville, N.J., for a "system and method for large scale survey analysis." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed herein is a method of analyzing large scale survey results comprising obtaining a sparse data set representing a subset of an original data set comprising a plurality of individuals' responses to a plurality of questions, wherein the sparse data set comprises less than ninety percent of the responses in the original data set; analyzing the sparse data set using a general diagnostic model; and obtaining estimated person parameters using the general diagnostic model." The patent application was filed on April 6, 2007 (11/697,650). 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=8,005,712.PN.&OS=PN/8,005,712&RS=PN/8,005,712 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Siemens Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- Siemens, Iselin, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,005,652) developed by Gozde Unal, West Windsor, N.J., Gregory G. Slabaugh, Princeton, N.J., and Tong Fang, Morganville, N.J., for a "method and apparatus for surface partitioning using geodesic distance." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An improved method of designing hearing aid molds is disclosed whereby regions of an ear impression model are identified as a function of a geodesic distance measure. According to a first embodiment, a canal point of an ear impression model is identified as that point having a maximum normalized geodesic distance as compared to all other points on the surface of the ear impression model. According to a second embodiment, a helix point of the ear impression model is identified as that point having a maximum normalized geodesic distance as compared to all points except those points in the canal region of the ear impression model. Finally, in accordance with another embodiment, a geodesic distance between a canal point and a helix point of an ear impression model is identified and a percentage threshold, illustratively 65%, is applied to that geodesic distance to identify a crus region." The patent application was filed on Aug. 22, 2006 (11/466,149). 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=80,05,652.PN.&OS=PN/80,05,652&RS=PN/80,05,652 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** NEC Laboratories America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,005,661) developed by Malay Ganai, Plainsboro, N.J., and Aarti Gupta, Princeton, N.J., for a "modeling and verification of concurrent systems using SMT-based BMC." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer implemented method for modeling and verifying concurrent systems which uses Satisfiability-Modulo Theory (SMT)-based Bounded Model Checking (BMC) to detect violations of safety properties such as data races. A particularly distinguishing aspect of our inventive method is that we do not introduce wait-cycles in our symbolic models for the individual threads, which are typically required for considering an interleaved execution of the threads. These wait-cycles are detrimental to the performance of BMC. Instead, we first create independent models for the different threads, and add inter-model constraints lazily, incrementally, and on-the-fly during BMC unrolling to capture the sequential consistency and synchronization semantics. We show that our constraints provide a sound and complete modeling with respect to the considered semantics. One benefit of our lazy modeling method is the reduction in the size of the BMC problem instances, thereby, improving the verification performance in both runtime and memory." The patent application was filed on May 7, 2008 (12/116,668). 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=80,05,661.PN.&OS=PN/80,05,661&RS=PN/80,05,661 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** New Jersey Inventor Develops Patent for Bioinformatic Approach to Disease Diagnosis ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- Richard Porwancher, Princeton, N.J., has developed a patent (8,005,627) for a "bioinformatic approach to disease diagnosis." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A multivariate diagnostic method based on optimizing diagnostic likelihood ratios through the effective use of multiple diagnostic tests is disclosed. The Neyman-Pearson Lemma provides a mathematical basis to produce optimal diagnostic results. The method can comprise identifying those tests optimal for inclusion in a diagnostic panel, weighting the result of each component test based on a multivariate algorithm described below, adjusting the algorithm's performance to satisfy predetermined specificity criteria, generating a likelihood ratio for a given patient's test results through said algorithm, providing a clinical algorithm that estimates the pretest probability of disease based on individual clinical signs and symptoms, combining the likelihood ratio and pretest probability of disease through Bayes' Theorem to generate a posttest probability of disease, interpreting that result as either positive or negative for disease based on a cutoff value, and treating a patient for disease if the posttest probability exceeds the cutoff value." The patent application was filed on Sept. 8, 2007 (11/852,283). 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=80,05,627.PN.&OS=PN/80,05,627&RS=PN/80,05,627 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Alcatel Lucent Assigned Patent for First and Second Manager Components that Perform One or More First and Second Management Operations on a Software and/or Hardware Entity ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- Alcatel Lucent, Paris, has been assigned a patent (8,006,228) developed by five co-inventors for "first and second manager components that perform one or more first and second management operations on a software and/or hardware entity." The co-inventors are Richard Wayne Buskens, Robbinsville, N.J., Oscar J. Gonzalez, Bridgewater, N.J., Tim Thengsen Liim, Holmdel, N.J., Sunil K. Mishra, Aurora, Ill., and Muhammad A. Siddiqui, Monmouth Junction, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus in one example comprises a first manager component that performs one or more first management operations on a software and/or hardware entity and a second manager component that performs one or more second management operations on the software and/or hardware entity." The patent application was filed on Jan. 30, 2004 (10/768,308). 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=8,006,228&OS=8,006,228&RS=8,006,228 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** NEC Laboratories America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,006,239) developed by four co-inventors for a "program analysis using symbolic ranges." The co-inventors are Sriram Sankaranarayanan, Plainsboro, N.J., Aarti Gupta, Princeton, N.J., Franjo Ivancic, Jersey City, N.J., and Ilya Shlyakhter, Franklin Park, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer implemented method for generating a representation of relationships between variables in a program employing Symbolic Range Constraints (SRCs) wherein the SRCs are of the form .phi.:^.sub.i=1.sup.nl.sub.i.ltoreq.x.sub.i.ltoreq.u.sub.i where for each i .epsilon.[l,n], the linear expressions l.sub.i,u.sub.i are made up of variables in the set{x.sub.i+1, . . . ,x.sub.n} and wherein the SRCs comprise linear, convex, and triangulated constraints for a given variable order." The patent application was filed on Jan. 16, 2008 (12/015,126). 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=8,006,239&OS=8,006,239&RS=8,006,239 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** NEC Laboratories America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,006,163) developed by four co-inventors for a "polarization mode dispersion compensation using BCJR equalizer and iterative LDPC decoding." The co-inventors are Ivan B. Djordjevic, Tucson, Ariz., Milorad Cvjetic, Herndon, Va., Lei Xu, Princeton, N.J., and Ting Wang, Princeton, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A turbo equalizer includes a Bahl-Cocke-Jelinek-Raviv (BCJR) equalizer configured to receive a transmitted signal and partially cancel inter-symbol interference (ISI) due to polarization-mode dispersion (PMD). A low-density parity check (LDPC) decoder is coupled to the BCJR equalizer to receive channel bit reliabilities therefrom. The LDPC decoder iteratively provides extrinsic soft information feedback to the BCJR equalizer to compensate for PMD." The patent application was filed on Dec. 5, 2007 (11/950,720). 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=8,006,163&OS=8,006,163&RS=8,006,163 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method and System for Estimating Project Plans for Packaged Software Applications ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,006,223) developed by 11 co-inventors for a "method and system for estimating project plans for packaged software applications." The co-inventors are Paul R. Boulineau, Houston, John D. Cann, New York, Rajat Dugar, Jersey City, N.J., Jed Kreamer, Santa Monica, Calif., Juhnyoung Lee, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., Rakesh Mohan, Courtlandt Manor, N.Y., Andrew Raymond, Monroe, Mich., Thomas D. Rosinski, Frisco, Texas, Vikas J. Shivpuriya, Elmsford, N.Y., Gerhard Sigl, Hudson, N.H., and Annette Simonato, Port Melbourne, Australia. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for estimating and generating project plans for implementing packaged software applications, the system includes: a view layer configured to act as a user interface for user inputs and system outputs; a model and control layer configured to implement rules based on a series of estimation and implementation models, and to perform calculations of project plan details and project plan schedules; an estimation knowledge base layer configured to hold and derive the series of estimation and implementation models; and wherein the system for estimating and generating multi-dimensional project plans for implementing packaged software applications is carried out over networks comprising: the Internet, intranets, local area networks (LAN), and wireless local area networks (WLAN)." The patent application was filed on June 13, 2007 (11/762,113). 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=8,006,223.PN.&OS=PN/8,006,223&RS=PN/8,006,223 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,005,817) developed by five co-inventors for a "system and method for providing structure and content scoring for XML." The co-inventors are Sihem Amer-Yahia, New York, Nikolas Koudas, Toronto, Amelie Marian, New York, Divesh Srivastava, Summit, N.J., and David Toman, Waterloo, Canada. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system, method and computer readable medium are disclosed. The method embodiment relates to a method of computing score of candidate answers to a database query. The method comprises receiving a database query, assigning a first score to a match to the query, the first score being associated with a relative importance of an individual keyword in a collection of documents based on all structural and content predicates in the query, assigning a second score to the match, the second score being associated with a relative importance of a keyword in an individual document and using the assigned first score and second score to compute an answer score for the query." The patent application was filed on Nov. 30, 2005 (11/290,858). 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=80,05,817&OS=80,05,817&RS=80,05,817 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Agere Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- Agere Systems, Allentown, Pa., has been assigned a patent (8,005,682) developed by James L. Archibald, Schnecksville, Pa., Robert C. Malkemes, Bethlehem, Pa., and Jinguo Yu, Flemington, N.J., for a "control of a non-active channel in a multi-channel receiver." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, a satellite radio receiver is capable of simultaneously processing (i) a first radio channel that is playing on a first speaker and (ii) a second radio channel, different from the first radio channel, that is not playing on the first speaker. The second radio channel can simultaneously be playing on a second speaker, be recorded onto a non-volatile memory, and/or have its processing modified. A user can control the satellite radio receiver using vocal commands, while the first channel is playing on the first speaker. The radio receiver has a microphone connected to a voice-recognition command interpreter that includes an interfering-sound canceller, which reduces sounds interfering with the vocal commands, and a command-recognition module, which recognizes vocal commands and provides a control signal to a multi-channel control processor, which processes and controls the first and second radio channels, received from corresponding decoders connected to a satellite radio receiver antenna." The patent application was filed on Oct. 31, 2007 (11/930,886). 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=8,005,682.PN.&OS=PN/8,005,682&RS=PN/8,005,682 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Siemens Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- Siemens, Iselin, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,005,771) developed by four co-inventors for a "segment-based change detection method in multivariate data stream." The co-inventors are Terrence Chen, Princeton, N.J., Chao Yuan, Secaucus, N.J., Abdul Saboor Sheikh, Pittsburgh, and Claus Neubauer, Monmouth Junction, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and framework are described for detecting changes in a multivariate data stream. A training set is formed by sampling time windows in a data stream containing data reflecting normal conditions. A histogram is created to summarize each window of data, and data within the histograms are clustered to form test distribution representatives to minimize the bulk of training data. Test data is then summarized using histograms representing time windows of data and data within the test histograms are clustered. The test histograms are compared to the training histograms using nearest neighbor techniques on the clustered data. Distances from the test histograms to the test distribution representatives are compared to a threshold to identify anomalies." The patent application was filed on Sept. 24, 2008 (12/236,587). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,005,771.PN.&OS=PN/8,005,771&RS=PN/8,005,771 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** EMC Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,005,795) developed by Kenneth J. Galipeau, Rockaway, N.J., Robert K. Kast, Succasunna, N.J., and Eran Orgad, Lexington, Mass., for "techniques for recording file operations and consistency points for producing a consistent copy." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Described are a method and computer program product for capturing file operations applied to a data set. One or more file operations having a corresponding time sequence which modify said data set are recorded. A request for a copy of the data set in a consistent state is received. It is determined at which point in said corresponding time sequence said data set is in a consistent state as a result of applying a portion of said file operations. The point in said corresponding time sequence at which said data set is in a consistent state is marked. A system is also described for capturing file operations as applied to a data set. The system includes a mirroring driver and a replication service. Also described is a data structure stored in a memory including a plurality of records corresponding to a time sequence of recorded file operations, and one or more consistency point markers inserted into said plurality of records." The patent application was filed on March 4, 2005 (11/072,141). 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=8,005,795.PN.&OS=PN/8,005,795&RS=PN/8,005,795 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Goldman Sachs Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- Goldman Sachs, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,005,750) developed by six co-inventors for a "method and system for providing principal protection exposure to equity markets." The co-inventors are Yi Tso, Jersey City, N.J., John Vitha, North Woodmere, N.Y., Timothy Bridges, Summit, N.J., Michael Millette, Larchmont, N.Y., Radcliffe J. Smith, North Caldwell, N.J., and Richard Andrade, Holmdel, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and systems for providing principal protection exposure to equity markets. More particularly, one embodiment of the present invention relates to a computer implementable method for performing data processing operations associated with providing principal protection exposure to an equity market, comprising the steps of: carrying out a sale of a trust certificate to generate proceeds, which sale is from a trust to a first entity; allocating a portion of the proceeds of the sale of the trust certificate to a purchase of an equity security, which purchase is by the trust from the equity market; and allocating a portion of the proceeds of the sale of the trust certificate to a purchase of a put option on the equity security, which purchase is by the trust from a second entity; wherein the sale of the trust certificate to the first entity, combined with the purchase of the equity security by the trust and the purchase of the put option by the trust, provides the first entity principal protection exposure to the equity market without causing substantial income statement volatility." The patent application was filed on March 22, 2010 (12/728,855). 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=8,005,750.PN.&OS=PN/8,005,750&RS=PN/8,005,750 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Bank of America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- Bank of America, Charlotte, N.C., has been assigned a patent (8,005,742) developed by Andrew R. Heiges, Doylestown, Pa., Robert Kron, Franklin Park, N.J., and Steve Monical, Monmouth Junction, N.J., for "techniques for illustrating and analyzing college savings plans." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Analyzing educational saving plans by considering the tax implications of these plans is provided by storing a plurality of educational institution identifiers and a plurality of educational savings plan parameter sets. Each of the educational institution identifiers is associated with a corresponding set of cost parameters specifying room, board, and tuition costs for the respective educational institution. Each of the educational savings plan parameter sets specifies a characteristic of a corresponding educational savings plan. A comparative analysis of educational savings plans is generated by applying a retrieved set of cost parameters for each educational plan parameter sets. This comparative analysis takes into consideration tax implications of an educational savings plan. The results of the comparative analysis are outputted on a display and/or printout so that an investor can determine which of the plurality of educational savings plans best meets their needs." The patent application was filed on Jan. 25, 2010 (12/693,027). 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=8,005,742.PN.&OS=PN/8,005,742&RS=PN/8,005,742 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Goldman Sachs Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- Goldman Sachs, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,005,738) developed by Varkki Chacko, Short Hills, N.J., and Fernando Cunha, New York City, for a "credit index, a system and method for structuring a credit index, and a system and method for operating a credit index." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention relates to a credit index, a system and method for structuring a credit index, a system and method for operating a credit index, and a system and method for determining the liquidity of a credit." The patent application was filed on June 24, 2010 (12/823,105). 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=8,005,738.PN.&OS=PN/8,005,738&RS=PN/8,005,738 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** New Jersey Inventor Develops Patent for Methods and Systems for Facilitating Bids on Products and Services ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- Alan Hamor, Pennington, N.J., has developed a patent (patent No.) for "methods and systems for facilitating bids on products and services." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for bidding on items include a predetermined price or range associated with an item, the price not disclosed to bidders. Successful bids conform to a predetermined success rule(s) determined independently of the amounts of other bids. Successful bids can be immediately communicated to the successful bidders. Price adjustments, typically discounts, can be determined and communicated prior to fulfillment." The patent application was filed on Sept. 23, 2005 (11/234,359). 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=8,005,744.PN.&OS=PN/8,005,744&RS=PN/8,005,744 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** ICAP Services North America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- ICAP Services North America, Jersey City, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,005,745) developed by Daniel Cleaves, Summit, N.J., and Arthur Robert D'Arcy, Basking Ridge, N.J., for a "system and method for providing workup trading without exclusive trading privileges." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method are provided that preserve many of the advantages of traditional workups, including the ability to create a single deal extended in time, while avoiding aspects of prior art workup protocols that can be disadvantageous in particular trading environments and, particularly, avoiding the trading delays sometimes created by providing certain traders with exclusive trading privileges in highly-liquid, fast-moving trading environments. In a preferred embodiment, the present system comprises a distributed computer processing system programmed to provide a structured trading protocol that enhances trading efficiency and fairly distributes market opportunity to system users. More specifically, in a preferred embodiment, the present system is adapted to provide a plurality of workup phases each of which is designated a "public" phase and during which all trading is conducted on a first-come-first-served basis." The patent application was filed on June 28, 2006 (11/475,975). 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=8,005,745.PN.&OS=PN/8,005,745&RS=PN/8,005,745 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Toshiba America Research, Telcordia Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- Toshiba America Research, Piscataway, N.J., and Telcordia Technologies, Piscataway, N.J., have been assigned a patent (8,006,089) developed by Yoshihiro Ohba, Fort Lee, N.J., for a multiple PANA sessions. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The preferred embodiments provide a novel system and method for reducing authentication delay of a mobile node with a network that includes: employing two EAP runs concurrently to reduce an overall authentication delay. In some embodiments, the two EAP runs are employed for authenticating a particular device identifier of a PaC. In some illustrative embodiments, the two EAP runs are employed for authenticating a particular device identifier of a PaC in relation to connecting to multiple ISPs at the same time." The patent application was filed on Nov. 12, 2006 (11/558,921). 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=8,006,089.PN.&OS=PN/8,006,089&RS=PN/8,006,089 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. 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