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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Texas (Aug. 25)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Texas. *** Electric Controller & Manufacturing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- Electric Controller & Manufacturing, St. Matthews, S.C., has been assigned a patent (8,004,814) developed by Jean Laurent Maraval, Houston, and Anthony Ray Thompson, Lugoff, S.C., for a "method and apparatus for controlling a lifting magnet supplied with an AC source." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A magnet controller supplied by an AC source controls a lifting magnet. Two bridges allow DC current to flow in both directions in the lifting magnet. During "Lift", relatively high voltage is applied to the lifting magnet until it reaches its cold current. Then voltage is lowered. After a desired interval, once the magnet has had time to build its electromagnetic field, voltage is further reduced to prevent the magnet from overheating. The magnet lifting forced is maintained due to the magnetic circuit hysteresis. During "Drop", reverse voltage is applied briefly to demagnetize the lifting magnet. At the end of the "Lift" and the "Drop", most of the lifting magnet energy is returned to the line source. A logic controller controls current and voltage of the magnet and calculates the magnet's temperature. In one embodiment, a "Sweep" switch is provided to allow reduction of the magnet power to prevent attraction to the bottom or walls of magnetic rail cars or containers." The patent application was filed on Dec. 18, 2008 (12/338,992). 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=8004814.PN.&OS=PN/8004814&RS=PN/8004814 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Freescale Semiconductor Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- Freescale Semiconductor, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,004,907) developed by four co-inventors for an "SRAM with read and write assist." The co-inventors are Andrew C. Russell, Austin, Texas, Troy L. Cooper, Austin, Texas, Prashant U. Kenkare, Austin, Texas, and Shayan Zhang, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A memory includes an SRAM bitcell including a pair of cross-coupled inverters, wherein a first inverter of the pair includes a first device having a body and a second inverter of the pair includes a second device having a body. A first selection circuit has a first input coupled to a first supply voltage terminal, a second input coupled to a second supply voltage terminal, and an output coupled to a first current electrode of the first device and to a first current electrode of the second device. A second selection circuit has a first input coupled to the first supply voltage terminal, a second input coupled to the second supply voltage terminal, and an output coupled to the body of each of the first and second devices. A word line coupled to the SRAM bitcell is driven by a word line driver coupled to the first supply voltage terminal." The patent application was filed on June 5, 2009 (12/479,088). 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=80,04,907.PN.&OS=PN/80,04,907&RS=PN/80,04,907 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Spansion Assigned Patent for Flash Mirror Bit Architecture Using Single Program and Erase Entity as Logical Cell ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- Spansion, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,004,888) developed by Allan Parker, Austin, Texas, for a "flash mirror bit architecture using single program and erase entity as logical cell." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Flash memory systems and methods for facilitating a single logical cell erasure in a flash memory device whereby logical cell mapping is changed from using a single physical cell to using pair physical cells, thereby creating a single program and erase entity as a single logical cell. By mapping two adjacent physical cells as a single logical cell, the flash memory device can be programmed and erased on a single bit or variable bit length basis with conventional technologies. Various operations can be performed on a flash device on a basis of the single program and erase entity." The patent application was filed on Sept. 22, 2008 (12/234,737). 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=80,04,888.PN.&OS=PN/80,04,888&RS=PN/80,04,888 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Texas Instruments Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- Texas Instruments, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (8,004,860) developed by James F. Salzman, Anna, Texas, for a "radiofrequency and electromagnetic interference shielding." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An electrical device comprising an electronic component mounted to a surface of a printed circuit board, a ground connection on said surface, and electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding. The EMI shielding includes an electrical insulator coating the electronic component, the insulator contacting the surface, and a conductive layer covering the electrical insulator, and contacting the electrical insulator and the ground connection." The patent application was filed on Aug. 29, 2006 (11/468,104). 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=80,04,860.PN.&OS=PN/80,04,860&RS=PN/80,04,860 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Silicon Laboratories Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- Silicon Laboratories, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,004,863) developed by Walter Stuart Schopfer, Austin, Texas, and Richard Bruce Webb, Austin, Texas, for a "circuit device and method of providing feedback across an isolation barrier." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In an embodiment, a circuit device includes a network interface responsive to a powered network to receive a power supply and data and includes an electrical isolation barrier adapted to define a non-isolated power domain and an isolated power domain. The circuit device further includes a first control circuit associated with the non-isolated power domain. The first control circuit is coupled to a primary winding of a transformer to control current flow via the primary winding. The circuit device also includes a second control circuit associated with the isolated power domain. The second control circuit is coupled to a secondary winding of the transformer and is adapted to detect a power error associated with the secondary winding. The second control circuit transfers a command across the electrical isolation barrier to the first control circuit to adjust a current at the primary winding in response to detecting the power error." The patent application was filed on Dec. 26, 2007 (11/964,361). 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=80,04,863.PN.&OS=PN/80,04,863&RS=PN/80,04,863 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Trace Step Holdings Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- Trace Step Holdings, Dover, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,004,868) developed by Alan Roth, Austin, Texas, for a "method and apparatus for performing variable word width searches in a content addressable memory." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A content Addressable memory (CAM) for performing search operations using variable width search data, said CAM comprising a plurality of arrays of CAM cells, each coupled to a respective sub-search data bus, the sub-search buses being confined to form a main search data bus, to which is applied the search data; selector circuits receiving match line signals from respective CAM arrays, the match line signals being indicative of the results of a search and comparison formed in the associated CAM array, the selector circuit being responsive to a mode selection signal for selecting one or more of said match line output signals to be switched to a priority encoder and multiple match resolver (PE-MMR), wherein in a first mode the match line output signals are switched to said PE-MMR and in a second mode groups of match line output signals from selected arrays are switched to said PE-MMR." The patent application was filed on Aug. 24, 2009 (12/546,554). 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=80,04,868.PN.&OS=PN/80,04,868&RS=PN/80,04,868 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** SolarBridge Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- SolarBridge Technologies, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,004,865) developed by Philip T. Krein, Champaign, Ill., and Robert S. Balog Jr., College Station, Texas, for "methods for minimizing double-frequency ripple power in single-phase power conditioners." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method is provided for minimizing a double-frequency ripple power exchanged between a load and an energy source, the energy source delivering electrical power to the load through a single-phase power conditioner, and the power conditioner being coupled to an energy storage device. The method senses a first AC signal at an output of the power conditioner and generates a second AC signal at the energy storage device. The second AC signal has a frequency substantially equal to a frequency of the first AC signal and a phase shift of about 45 degrees relative to a phase of the first AC signal." The patent application was filed on June 4, 2010 (12/794,034). 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=80,04,865.PN.&OS=PN/80,04,865&RS=PN/80,04,865 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Dolby Laboratories Licensing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Dolby Laboratories Licensing, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,005,252) developed by Michael Patrick Connors, Scotts Valley, Calif., and Thanh Quoc Nguyen, Irving, Texas, for a personal communications earpiece. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A personal communications earpiece (10, 10a, 10b) for use with a personal communications device such as a telephone (50). The personal communications earpiece (10, 10a, 10b) has an ear hook (12) for placing over an ear (60) of the user. An ear bud (14, 14a) containing a speaker (27) is both physically and electrically connected to the ear hook (12) by a flexible connector (16). A front portion (22) of the ear hook (12) extends generally downward in front of the ear (60). In one embodiment, the ear bud (14) has an in ear portion (28) with a plurality of grooves (30) therein for assisting in preventing the ear bud (14) from completely blocking or occluding the ear canal of the user." The patent application was filed on June 1, 2009 (12/455,372). 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=8,005,252.PN.&OS=PN/8,005,252&RS=PN/8,005,252 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Wayport Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Wayport, Irving, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,005,218) developed by James D. Keeler, Austin, Texas, and Matthew M. Krenzer, Cedar Park, Texas, for an "authorization and authentication of user access to a distributed network communication system with roaming feature." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for providing roaming access on a network are disclosed. The network includes a plurality of wireless and/or wired access points. A user may access the network by using client software on a client computer (e.g., a portable computing device) to initiate an access procedure. In response, a network management device operated by a network provider may return an activation response message to the client. The client may send the user's username and password to the network provider. The network provider may rely on a roaming partner, another network provider with whom the user subscribes for internet access, for authentication of the user. Industry-standard methods such as RADIUS, CHAP, or EAP may be used for authentication. The providers may exchange pricing and service information and account information for the authentication session. A customer may select a pricing and service option from a list of available options." The patent application was filed on Nov. 3, 2006 (11/556,624). 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=8,005,218.PN.&OS=PN/8,005,218&RS=PN/8,005,218 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,005,204) developed by Robert R. Bushey, Cedar Park, Texas, and Sarah Korth, Chicago, for a "call routing system and method of using the same." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A call service center can include a call routing system that can use one or more action object identifiers. In one embodiment, a future action object identifier is associated with a task that is desired or otherwise intended to be performed at the call service center. The call routing system may route the call to a module that is not associated with the future action object identifier or perform a portion of a task within the same module, wherein the portion of the task is not associated with the future action object identifier. In another embodiment, at least two action object identifiers can be passed with a call from one module to another module. In a particular embodiment, a past, current, or future action object identifier, other information related to the call, or any combination thereof may be passed from one module to another module with the call." The patent application was filed on June 3, 2005 (11/145,513). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,005,204.PN.&OS=PN/8,005,204&RS=PN/8,005,204 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Texas Instruments Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Texas Instruments, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (8,005,153) developed by Tarik Muharemovic, Dallas, Aris Papasakellariou, Dallas, and Eko N. Onggosanusi, Allen, Texas, for a "method and apparatus for increasing the number of orthogonal signals using block spreading." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the invention apply block spreading to transmitted signals to increase the number orthogonally multiplexed signals. The principle of the disclosed invention can be applied to reference signals, acknowledgement signals, and channel quality indication signals. In any given time interval, the set of transmitted signals is defined by two sequences: the baseline sequence, and the block spreading sequence. Different transmitters using the same baseline sequence can be identified by using different block spreading sequences." The patent application was filed on Jan. 25, 2007 (11/627,035). 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=80,05,153.PN.&OS=PN/80,05,153&RS=PN/80,05,153 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent for System and Method for Simple Unified Messaging ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,005,193) developed by Brian K. Hollowell, Austin, Texas, and David W. Rackley, Austin, Texas, for a "system and method for simple unified messaging." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method are disclosed for providing simple unified messaging. A method incorporating teachings of the present disclosure may include receiving an indication of a call from a calling party to a called party and answering the call at a premises of the called party. The calling party may be prompted to leave a message, and at least a portion of the message may be saved as an audio file. In response to recognizing that the calling party left the message, an outgoing message may be prepared. The audio file may be attached to the outgoing message, which may be addressed to a network node associated with a unified messaging mailbox of the called party. The message may then be sent from the premises to the network node. By employing teachings disclosed herein, a user may be able to make use of existing premises components and equipment to implement a network-based unified messaging system." The patent application was filed on Nov. 14, 2003 (10/714,585). 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=8,005,193.PN.&OS=PN/8,005,193&RS=PN/8,005,193 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** FutureWei Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- FutureWei Technologies, Plano, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,005,175) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for interference mitigation in an OFDMA-based communication system." The co-inventors are Yunsong Yang, San Diego, Anthony C.K. Soong, Plano, Texas, Jianmin Lu, San Diego, and Jung Woon Lee, Allen, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for mitigating inter-cell interference in an OFDMA-based wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes the steps of, providing at least a frame in a base station to a plurality of mobile stations; dividing the frame into a plurality of subcarriers; assigning a demarcation line within the frame to divide the plurality of subcarriers into a first zone and a second zone; defining a time reuse parameter for the plurality of subcarriers within the first zone; defining a frequency reuse parameter for the plurality of subcarriers within the first zone; and loading the plurality of subcarriers within the first zone according the time reuse parameter and the frequency parameter." The patent application was filed on March 12, 2007 (11/684,931). 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=8,005,175&OS=8,005,175&RS=8,005,175 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Nokia Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Transferring Video Frame in Telecommunication System ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Nokia, Espoo, Finland, has been assigned a patent (8,005,145) developed by Jani Lainema, Irving, Texas, for a "method and apparatus for transferring video frame in telecommunication system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of coding video frames in a telecommunication system, comprising: forming a video frame of consecutive stationary frames, storing the frame reconstruction data of at least one frame as a reference frame and the motion data of earlier coded neighboring blocks, defining by means of the motion data of one or more earlier coded neighboring blocks the motion data of the block to be coded, which neighboring block is formed by means of the stored reference frame, defining the frame reconstruction data of the frame to be coded, selecting for use the frame reconstruction data and motion data representing the block to be coded, which provide a pre-defined coding efficiency with a predefined picture quality." The patent application was filed on July 6, 2004 (10/885,256). 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=80,05,145.PN.&OS=PN/80,05,145&RS=PN/80,05,145 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,005,060) developed by Yanxin Na, Plano, Texas, Genyuan Wang, Plano, Texas, and Hang Jin, Plano, Texas, for a "beamforming techniques to improve ranging signal detection." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Ranging code detection techniques are provided. Energy is received at a plurality of antennas of a first wireless communication device and received signals are generated from the received energy. The received energy comprises a ranging transmission from one or more second wireless communication devices, wherein each ranging transmission comprises a ranging code selected from a set of possible ranging codes. A ranging code specific receive beamforming weight vector is generated for a ranging code in the set of possible ranging codes from the received signals. The ranging code specific receive beamforming weight vector is applied to corresponding ranging code specific signals derived from the received signals to produce ranging code specific beamformed signals. The ranging code specific beamformed signals are correlated to produce correlation results. A determination is made as to whether the ranging code is present in the received energy based on the correlation results." The patent application was filed on June 23, 2009 (12/489,848). 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=80,05,060&OS=80,05,060&RS=80,05,060 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Futurewei Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Futurewei Technologies, Plano, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,005,113) developed by Robert Sultan, Somers, N.Y., and Linda Dunbar, Plano, Texas, for "encapsulating large Ethernet frames." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method comprising receiving a data frame, encapsulating the received data frame into a reflected frame message (RFM) encapsulated frame, and if the received data frame causes the RFM encapsulated frame to exceed a maximum service data unit size, either the data frame is truncated or the data frame is split into two smaller frames and those two smaller frames are encapsulated by two separate RFM frames, wherein if a truncation flag is set to be true, the data frame is truncated to be encapsulated in one RFM." The patent application was filed on March 31, 2009 (12/415,735). 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=80,05,113.PN.&OS=PN/80,05,113&RS=PN/80,05,113 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Fisher-Rosemount Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,005,553) developed by six co-inventors for a "automatic configuration of synchronous block execution for control modules run in fieldbus networks." The co-inventors are Alper T. Enver, Austin, Texas, Kenneth D. Krivoshein, Austin, Texas, Daniel D. Christensen, Austin, Texas, Ram Ramachandran, Austin, Texas, John M. Lucas, Leicester, United Kingdom, and Ebtesam S. Tanyous, Cedar Park, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method or apparatus automatically configures a control module for synchronous execution on a Fieldbus segment of a process control network by determining if all of the critical function blocks of a particular control module can be assigned to FOUNDATION.RTM. Fieldbus field devices or to the I/O device associated with a particular Fieldbus segment. If so, the method or apparatus automatically assigns the function blocks of the control module, which would otherwise be scheduled to execute in a controller, to the I/O device for the Fieldbus segment. This technique enables all of the critical or necessary function blocks within the control module to execute in one macrocycle of the Fieldbus segment, thereby executing synchronously on a Fieldbus segment. This operation, in turn, increases the overall execution rate of the control module with respect to control modules that have function blocks split between a controller and field devices on a Fieldbus segment, which has been the traditional manner of configuring control modules implemented using devices on a Fieldbus segment." The patent application was filed on Dec. 31, 2007 (11/968,087). 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=8,005,553.PN.&OS=PN/8,005,553&RS=PN/8,005,553 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** ConocoPhillips Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- ConocoPhillips, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,004,931) 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 Oct. 5, 2009 (12/573,622). 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=8,004,931.PN.&OS=PN/8,004,931&RS=PN/8,004,931 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Baker Hughes Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Baker Hughes, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,004,932) developed by five co-inventors for an "identification of stress in formations using angles of fast and slow dipole waves in borehole acoustic logging." The co-inventors are Yibing Zheng, Houston, Daniel Moos, Palo Alto, Calif., Xiao Ming Tang, Sugar Land, Texas, Vladimir Dubinsky, Houston, and Douglas J. Patterson, Spring, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Cross-dipole measurements are obtained in a borehole. By estimating a direction of polarization of the fast shear mode at low and high frequencies and comparing the estimated distances, a cause of anisotropy is established. Formation stresses and directions may be estimated." The patent application was filed on Jan. 13, 2009 (12/353,159). 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=8,004,932.PN.&OS=PN/8,004,932&RS=PN/8,004,932 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** INOVA Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- INOVA, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, has been assigned a patent (8,004,933) developed by James Iseli, Allen, Texas, for a "single station wireless seismic data acquisition method and apparatus." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A seismic data acquisition apparatus having a recorder co-located with a sensor unit in a seismic spread and a communication device for direct communication with a central recorder. A memory located in the recorder and/or in the central controller holds location parameters associated with the sensor unit, and the parameters can be updated. Methods of seismic data acquisition including sensing seismic energy and recording the sensed energy at the sensor location. Delivering the recorded information to a central recorder by manually retrieving removable memory from each recorder, by wireless transmission of the information, or by removing the information from each recorder by inductive or cable connectors and a transfer device. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract which will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims." The patent application was filed on Nov. 15, 2007 (11/940,932). 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=8,004,933.PN.&OS=PN/8,004,933&RS=PN/8,004,933 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** JJCK Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- JJCK, Frisco, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,005,456) developed by four co-inventors for a "remotely activatable locator with voice/data relay." The co-inventors are Christopher D. Buehler, Dallas, James Elwood Nalley, Corinth, Texas, Matthew L. Ward, Collegeville, Pa., and Bruce A. Woodall, Plano, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for use in locating a mobile locator device in a wireless communications network (WCN) includes establishing a three-way call involving the locator device, a caretaker, and an emergency services answering point upon initiation of an emergency services call from the locator device, and providing a location record for the locator device from a database to the answering point while conducting the three-way call. Therefore, in cases of an emergency location where a locator is attached to a disabled subject or object, the locator device allows for extended emergency services calling where a third party such as a care giver, guardian, or custodial organization may be involved in real-time with the automatically located call to provide verbal or textual information to responders." The patent application was filed on Oct. 14, 2010 (12/904,904). 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=8,005,456.PN.&OS=PN/8,005,456&RS=PN/8,005,456 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Crane Merchandising Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Crane Merchandising Systems, Bridgeton, Mo., has been assigned a patent (8,005,425) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and system for interfacing a machine controller and a wireless network." The co-inventors are Erin M. Defosse, Austin, Texas, Bryan W. Godwin, Round Rock, Texas, William A. English, Austin, Texas, and Jizhi Wu, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A wireless interface module interfaces a machine control system, such as a vending machine controller, with one of plural wireless networks through one of plural removably coupled wireless transceivers. Communication between geographically distributed vending machines and a desired wireless network is supported by coupling a transceiver associated with the desired network to the wireless interface module. This advantageously provides flexibility in selecting from one of plural wireless networks for a distributed vending machine so that communication between the control system and a distal operating center is supported over a preferred wireless network through a standardized wireless interface module incorporated in the vending machine by changing the wireless transceiver removably coupled to the wireless interface module. " The patent application was filed on April 10, 2006 (11/279,174). 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=8,005,425.PN.&OS=PN/8,005,425&RS=PN/8,005,425 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent for Wireless Communication Noise Suppression System ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,005,429) developed by Patrick R. Conway, Houston, and Brian D. Ryder, Houston, for a "wireless communication noise suppression system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A wireless communications noise suppression system comprises an electronic device having wireless module communicatively coupled to an antenna via a cable, an intermediate portion of the cable conductively coupled to ground." The patent application was filed on Sept. 27, 2006 (11/527,783). 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=8,005,429&OS=8,005,429&RS=8,005,429 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Palo Alto Research Center Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,005,002) developed by Shashidhar R. Gandham, Richardson, Texas, Ying Zhang, Cupertino, Calif., and Qingfeng Huang, San Jose, Calif., for a "method and apparatus for performing a query-based convergecast scheduling in a wireless sensor network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that performs a query-based convergecast scheduling in a convergecast network, which includes a base-station and a plurality of nodes. During operation, the system receives a convergecast tree for the convergecast network. Each node in the convergecast tree is associated with a hop-count to the base-station through a specific branch and each node can generate zero or more packets to transmit. Next, the system initializes a query from the base-station, wherein the query is successively propagated to the nodes through the branches. In response to the query, the system computes distributed-timing-information indicating a packet transmission schedule for the nodes. The system next aggregates the distributed-timing-information associated with the nodes toward the base-station through the branches. The system then forwards the aggregated distributed-timing-information to the plurality of nodes. Finally, each node constructs an optimized-convergecast-schedule for the convergecast tree based on the aggregated distributed-timing-information." The patent application was filed on Nov. 2, 2007 (11/934,676). 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=8,005,002&OS=8,005,002&RS=8,005,002 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Nortel Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Nortel Networks, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, has been assigned a patent (8,005,029) developed by Michael Flynn Thomas, Plano, Texas, for an "error handling for named signal events in wireless communications." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention provides a technique for handling damaged named signal event (NSE) packets that are received in association with a voice over packet based telephony call. The received packets for a telephony call may include voice packets as well as NSE packets. Upon receipt of the packets at a physical layer, the packets are processed at a link layer to detect damaged packets having link layer errors. The incoming packets are sent to an audio application at an application layer for further processing. For damaged packets, link layer error indicia is generated at the link layer and sent to the audio processing application. The audio application will use the link layer error indicia to identify damaged packets or payloads associated with damaged packets, and determine whether the payloads corresponding to the damaged packets include NSE information defining an NSE. Damaged NSE packets are processed accordingly." The patent application was filed on Dec. 22, 2005 (11/316,428). 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=8,005,029.PN.&OS=PN/8,005,029&RS=PN/8,005,029 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent for Managing Connectivity in a Virtual Network ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,005,013) developed by Robert R. Teisberg, Georgetown, Texas, and Mike H. Chuang, Austin, Texas, for a "managing connectivity in a virtual network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems for managing connectivity in a virtual network. One embodiment determines if information received from a device in a virtual land area network (VLAN) matches a configuration of a virtual connect domain (VCD) in order to label links as being either internal or external." The patent application was filed on June 12, 2007 (11/761,378). 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=8,005,013.PN.&OS=PN/8,005,013&RS=PN/8,005,013 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Dynamic Media Content for Collaborators with VOIP Support for Client Communications ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,005,025) developed by William K. Bodin, Austin, Texas, and Derral C. Thorson, Austin, Texas, for a "dynamic media content for collaborators with VOIP support for client communications." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for delivering dynamic media content to collaborators. Embodiments include providing collaborative event media content, wherein the collaborative event media content includes a grammar and a structured document; selecting a VOIP protocol for communications between a client and a dynamic context generation server; generating a dynamic client context for a client by the dynamic context generation server in dependence upon communications from the client through the selected VOIP protocol; detecting an event in dependence upon the dynamic client context; identifying one or more collaborators in dependence upon the dynamic client context and the event; selecting from the structured document a classified structural element in dependence upon an event type and a collaborator classification; and transmitting the selected structural element to the collaborator." The patent application was filed on July 9, 2008 (12/169,823). 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=8,005,025.PN.&OS=PN/8,005,025&RS=PN/8,005,025 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Tektronix Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Tektronix, Beaverton, Ore., has been assigned a patent (8,004,969) developed by four co-inventors for a "cell level congestion policy management." The co-inventors are Robert W. Froehlich, McKinney, Texas, Rangaprasad Govindarajan, Plano, Texas, Jogen K. Pathak, Irving, Texas, and Vyankatesh Shanbhag, Plano, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for transmitting data packets to a wireless client is shown. The data packets are received by a wireless content switch in the wireless network. The wireless content switch determines a quality of service value for the wireless client. The wireless content switch assigns the priority of transmission for the data packet based on the assigned quality of service value. The data packet is transmitted according to the priority." The patent application was filed on Nov. 7, 2002 (10/289,638). 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=8,004,969.PN.&OS=PN/8,004,969&RS=PN/8,004,969 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,005,272) developed by four co-inventors for a "digital life recorder implementing enhanced facial recognition subsystem for acquiring face glossary data." The co-inventors are Clifton E. Grim III, Seabrook, Texas, Rex Edward Marzke, Houston, Mark B. Stevens, Austin, Texas, and John David Wilson, Houston. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Identifying individual facial images that are broadcast to enable optimized indexing and storage of facial information. Frames of data including faces are continually captured from a stream of incoming data. The facial frame data is extracted and processed into individual facial images. The individual facial images may be compared to existing facial image data in a database or cache to determine the identity of a facial image. The individual facial images may also be compared to facial images and metadata describing the facial images that are broadcast from external recording subsystems. The individual facial images stored to the glossary may be indexed based on the metadata received in the broadcast from an external recording subsystem or by metadata received from the continuous face frame capture." The patent application was filed on Dec. 31, 2008 (12/347,182). 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=8005272.PN.&OS=PN/8005272&RS=PN/8005272 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. For more information about Targeted News Service products and services, please contact: Myron Struck, editor, Targeted News Service LLC, Springfield, Va., 703/304-1897; [email protected]; http://targetednews.com. -1058843 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |