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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in North Carolina (Aug. 31)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in North Carolina. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Techniques for Limiting Remote Control of a Computer System ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,010,998) developed by Christopher K. Karstens, Apex, N.C., for "techniques for limiting remote control of a computer system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A technique for limiting remote control of a computer system includes receiving user input via an input device associated with the computer system. The user input is encoded, at the input device, using a first coding procedure to provide an encoded signal, which is communicated to an input queue of the computer system. The encoded signal is then decoded, at the input queue, using the first coding procedure to provide the user input." The patent application was filed on Oct. 25, 2007 (11/924,039). 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=8,010,998&OS=8,010,998&RS=8,010,998 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Coordinated XML Data Parsing and Processing from Within Separate Computing Processes ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,010,891) developed by four co-inventors for a "coordinated XML data parsing and processing from within separate computing processes." The co-inventors are Eugene Kuznetsov, Cambridge, Mass., Alexandre Polozoff, Bloomington, Ill., Richard E. Salz, Reading, Mass., and Robert Woolf, Raleigh, N.C. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to extensible markup language (XML) data processing and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for inter-device transfer of parsed XML documents. In one embodiment of the invention, a markup serialization method can be provided. The method can include receiving a request in a second computing process for offloaded parsing of markup from an application in a first computing process, retrieving markup from the application, parsing the markup in the second computing process to produce a serialized data object for the markup, placing the serialized data object into shared memory for the application, and returning a reference to the serialized data to the application." The patent application was filed on Aug. 2, 2007 (11/832,915). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=563&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&s1=20110830.PD.&p=12&OS=ISD/08/30/2011&RS=ISD/08/30/2011 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Fault-tolerant Dynamic Editing of GUI Display and Source Code ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,010,951) developed by six co-inventors for a "fault-tolerant dynamic editing of GUI display and source code." The co-inventors are Richard J. Kulp, Cary, N.C., Gili Mendel, Cary, N.C., L. Scott Rich, Cary, N.C., Gunturi Srimanth, Morrisville, N.C., Peter A. Walker, Fuquay Varina, N.C., and Joseph R. Winchester, Otterbourne, United Kingdom. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A fault-tolerant method of bottom-up editing whereby simultaneous display of the GUI view and source code view are available, and wherein real-time bottom-up editing is provided. In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, changes to the source code are isolated, first by isolating and analyzing source code according to groupings associated with the structure of the language used for the source code and then isolating and analyzing individual lines of source code within these groupings. If there are no errors in a particular grouping of source code, the changes in the grouping are automatically applied to the GUI. If errors are found in a grouping, the grouping is further analyzed to determine which lines contain the error. Semantic and syntactic errors are thereby isolated and, where found, are ignored. However, correct lines of the source code are also identified and thereby applied to the GUI for interpretation and display. Thus, correct edits to the source code are displayed in real-time while errors are ignored." The patent application was filed on Jan. 15, 2008 (12/014,367). 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=8,010,951&OS=8,010,951&RS=8,010,951 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,010,396) developed by Gerald Alan Gura, Cary, N.C., for a "method and system for validating tasks." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer-implemented method and system for validating a task of a plurality of tasks of a project. A computing application executes routines to automatically identify errors associated with one or more tasks. The routines generate exception reports that facilitate correction of the errors via user-determined selections of actions or via corrective actions automatically displayed by the computing application. The error identification facilitates validation of project elements including milestones, dependencies and deliverables, key work products, tasks in a work breakdown structure (WBS), predecessors and successors in the WBS, resources, work and labor rates, links between project plans, and an update of a project. Further, the error identification facilitates an analysis of schedule conflicts between give and get tasks." The patent application was filed on Aug. 10, 2006 (11/502,721). 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=80,10,396.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,396&RS=PN/80,10,396 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent for Multi-threaded Processing Using Path Locks ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,010,966) developed by four co-inventors for "multi-threaded processing using path locks." The co-inventors are Robert Jeter, Holly Springs, N.C., Trevor Garner, Apex, N.C., John Marshall, Cary, N.C., and Aaron Kirk, Raleigh, N.C. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, a method includes receiving at a thread scheduler data that indicates a first thread is to execute next a particular instruction path in software to access a particular portion of a shared computational resource. The thread scheduler determines whether a different second thread is exclusively eligible to execute the particular instruction path on any processor of a set of one or more processors to access the particular portion of the shared computational resource. If so, then the thread scheduler prevents the first thread from executing any instruction from the particular instruction path on any processor of the set of one or more processors. This enables several threads of the same software to share a resource without obtaining locks on the resource or holding a lock on a resource while a thread is not running." The patent application was filed on Sept. 27, 2006 (11/535,956). 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=8,010,966&OS=8,010,966&RS=8,010,966 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Reducing the Run-time cost of Incorporating Custom Tags in a Server Page ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,010,955) developed by Martin J. Presler-Marshall, Chapel Hill, N.C., and Scott H. Snyder, Chapel Hill, N.C., for a "reducing the run-time cost of incorporating custom tags in a server page." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention is a method, system and apparatus for modifying a server page to reduce the cost of incorporating a custom tag in the server page. Specifically, the method can include the step of modifying program code translated from a server page to replace at least one method defined in the program code and corresponding to a custom tag with an optimized method defined for the custom tag. The modifying step further can include the step of modifying the program code prior to compiling the program code into a directly callable program object. Alternatively, the modifying step further can include the step of modifying the program code by modifying byte code produced by compiling the program code." The patent application was filed on March 5, 2004 (10/794,940). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,010,955.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,955&RS=PN/8,010,955 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Sony Ericsson Assigned Patent for System and Method for Updating Device Drivers ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Sony Ericsson, Lund, Sweden, has been assigned a patent (8,010,959) developed by Samuel L. Mullis II, Raleigh, N.C., and Philip Elcan, Hillsborough, N.C., for a "system and method for updating device drivers." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A host connects to a peripheral device having upgraded firmware. The host also includes a device driver to communicate with the peripheral device. If the device drivers currently installed on the host are not compatible with the upgraded firmware, upgraded device drivers are automatically downloaded to the host from the peripheral device. Once installed on the host, the peripheral device is reset and the upgraded device drivers are used to communicate with the peripheral device." The patent application was filed on Aug. 15, 2007 (11/838,930). 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=8,010,959.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,959&RS=PN/8,010,959 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** SAS Institute Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- SAS Institute, Cary, N.C., has been assigned a patent (8,010,324) developed by Keith E. Crowe, Cary, N.C., and Michael J. Leonard, Cary, N.C., for a "computer-implemented system and method for storing data analysis models." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Computer-implemented systems and methods for processing time series data that is indicative of a data generation activity occurring over a period of time. A model specification hierarchical data structure is used for storing characteristics that define a time series model. A fitted model hierarchical data structure stores characteristics that define a fitted time series model. The characteristics of the fitted time series model are defined through an application of the time series model to the time series data." The patent application was filed on May 9, 2006 (11/431,123). 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=80,10,324.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,324&RS=PN/80,10,324 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for System and Method for Describing Method Process Using Guided Architectural Decisions ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,010,936) developed by Alan William Brown, Raleigh, N.C., Simon K. Johnston, Siler City, N.C., and John Smith, Chatswood, Australia, for a "system and method for describing method process using guided architectural decisions." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method author uses a method generator to create a customized project-specific method that includes first class decision elements. The decision elements are included in a meta model for a process framework, and describe actual decisions for a user to resolve. Once created, a method advisor uses the project-specific method to guide a user through architectural decisions by refining the project-specific method's process flow based upon the user's decisions. The refining includes removing activity elements and decision elements from the process flow that are not reachable by a path corresponding to the user's choice selection. The method advisor also stores the user's choice selections, along with considerations, conditions, and consequences, for the use to view at a later date." The patent application was filed on June 14, 2007 (11/763,016). 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=8,010,936.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,936&RS=PN/8,010,936 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** North Carolina Inventors Develop Patent for CERCIS Plant Named 'Ruby Falls' ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Dennis James Werner, Raleigh, N.C., and Layne Karlton Snelling, Cary, N.C., have been issued a patent (PP22,097) for a "cercis plant named 'Ruby Falls'." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Cercis 'Ruby Falls' is a new and distinct variety of redbud that has the following unique combination of desirable features that are outstanding in a new variety. 1. Weeping growth habit. 2. Ease of asexual propagation using chip-budding. 3. Emerging foliage with deep purple color, transitioning to burgundy and eventually green during the growing season. 4. Bright purple flowers produced in abundance during the spring." The patent application was filed on Dec. 21, 2009 (12/653,832). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=PP22,097&OS=PP22,097&RS=PP22,097 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Waldeck Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Waldeck Technology, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,010,601) developed by Kenneth Jennings, Durham, N.C., and Steven L. Petersen, Los Gatos, Calif., for "contiguous location-based user networks." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method are provided for creating location-based user networks. In general, a proximity group including a number of users is identified. Each user in the proximity group is within a proximate area of at least one other user in the proximity group and has an area of interest. The areas of interest of the users in the proximity group are aggregated to provide an aggregate area of interest for the proximity group. Other users within the aggregate area of interest are identified as neighbors of each of the users in the proximity group. Once the neighbors are identified, each of the users in the proximity group may use the neighbors as members, or potential members, for a user network." The patent application was filed on Jan. 11, 2008 (12/013,186). 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=80,10,601.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,601&RS=PN/80,10,601 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Workflow Decision Management with Workflow Modification in Dependence upon User Reactions ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,010,700) developed by William A. Brown, Raleigh, N.C., Richard W. Muirhead, Tyler, Texas, and Francis X. Reddington, Richmond, Va., for a "workflow decision management with workflow modification in dependence upon user reactions." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for workflow decision management. Embodiments include maintaining a device state history; identifying a device usage pattern in dependence upon the device state history; identifying a workflow scenario in dependence upon the device usage pattern; identifying a workflow in dependence upon the workflow scenario; executing the workflow; identifying a user reaction to the execution of the workflow; identifying an unsuccessful device-controlling action in dependence upon the user reaction; and modifying the workflow in dependence upon the identified unsuccessful device-controlling action. Typical embodiment also include recording, as a representation of a negative user reaction, a determined change between the device attribute value set by executing the workflow and the current value of the device attribute in a user reaction log." The patent application was filed on Nov. 1, 2005 (11/264,716). 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=8,010,700.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,700&RS=PN/8,010,700 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Unobtrusive Port and Protocol Sharing Among Server Processes ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,010,683) developed by six co-inventors for an "unobtrusive port and protocol sharing among server processes." The co-inventors are Erik J. Burckart, Raleigh, N.C., Stephen M. Fontes, Morrisville, N.C., Robert H. High, Round Rock, Texas, Craig A. Lanzen, Lambertville, Mich., William T. Newport, Rochester, Minn., and James L. Van Oosten, Rochester, Minn. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for augmenting a hierarchy of layered applications and corresponding protocols can include applying a discrimination algorithm to a selection process in which a particular application/protocol layer in a listing of adjacent application/protocol layers is selected to receive traffic flowing through the hierarchy. A new application/protocol layer is inserted adjacent to the particular application/protocol layer in the hierarchy. Also, a new application/protocol layer is added to the listing, and the discrimination algorithm is replaced with another discrimination algorithm programmed to consider the new application/protocol layer during the selection process. Each of the steps of performing the inserting, adding and replacing steps are performed without decoupling or disabling other applications and protocols in the hierarchy." The patent application was filed on Nov. 12, 2008 (12/269,397). 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=8,010,683.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,683&RS=PN/8,010,683 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Koninklijke Philips Electronics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Koninklijke Philips Electronics, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, has been assigned a patent (8,010,728) developed by Jeff Grady, Charleston, S.C., and Vincent K. Gustafson, Chapel Hill, N.C., for a "multi-function docking assembly for portable digital media storage and playback device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A multi-function docking assembly electrically coupleable with a portable digital media storage and playback device is provided. The assembly includes a body adapted to receive and retain the media device, an electrical coupling adapted to engage the media device when the same is received by the body, a transmitter for wirelessly transmitting media content to an external receiving device, an electrical circuit element to conduct power, and an authentication element. Any of various authentication methods are use to ensure and/or regulate interoperability between the media device and the docking assembly. Multiple discrete tiers of functionality of the audio player and/or portable digital media storage and playback device may be enabled or disabled based on an authentication operation." The patent application was filed on Nov. 7, 2006 (11/557,473). 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=8,010,728.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,728&RS=PN/8,010,728 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Computational Device Power-savings ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,010,815) developed by four co-inventors for a computational device power-savings. The co-inventors are Rick A. Hamilton II, Charlottesville, Va., Brian M. O'Connell, Cary, N.C., Clifford A. Pickover, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., and Keith R. Walker, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A user may invoke energy savings in the operation of a computational device performing a processing task. The device performs the processing task in the invoked energy savings mode and determines an energy amount expended by the device in performing the processing task in the energy savings mode, creating a net energy savings value as a difference between the energy amount expended and a standard energy expenditure amount predicted as required for the computational device to perform the processing task in high-performance mode. The device displays the net energy savings value to the user, with the user continuing the invoking of the energy savings mode or engaging another performance mode for the computational device as a function of the displaying." The patent application was filed on May 1, 2008 (12/113,663). 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=8,010,815.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,815&RS=PN/8,010,815 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** North Carolina Inventors Develop Patent for Method and Apparatus for Actively Managing Consumption of Electric Power Supplied by One or More Electric Utilities ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Joseph W. Forbes Jr., Wake Forest, N.C., and Joel L. Webb, Raleigh, N.C., have developed a patent (8,010,812) for a "method and apparatus for actively managing consumption of electric power supplied by one or more electric utilities." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A server manages consumption of power supplied by at least one electric utility to multiple power consuming devices. Power flow to the consuming devices is enabled and disabled by controllable devices controlled by one or more client devices. The server includes a command processor, event manager, database, and client device manager. The command processor receives commands from the utility and issues event messages responsive thereto. The event manager maintains a power management status for each client device and issues event instructions responsive to event messages. The database stores information relating to power consumed by the consuming devices. The client device manager selects from the database, responsive to receipt of a power reduction event instruction, at least one client device to which to issue a message indicating a power reduction amount and/or identification of at least one controllable device to be instructed to disable power flow to associated consuming devices." The patent application was filed on March 1, 2010 (12/715,124). 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=8,010,812.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,812&RS=PN/8,010,812 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** NetApp Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- NetApp, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,010,848) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method of selection and communication of a disk for storage of a coredump." The co-inventors are Loellyn J. Cassell, Pleasanton, Calif., Brian Parkison, Santa Cruz, Calif., David Brittain Bolen, Durham, N.C., and Susan M. Coatney, Cupertino, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "This invention provides a system and method for selecting and communicating a single disk (a "coredump disk") for use in a coredump procedure by a failed file server (or filer). A selection method on the failed filer determines the "best candidate" coredump disk according to a predetermined set of criteria. For example, the available disks that can receive coredump data are located and ordered so as to prefer disks that best match the coredump data size requirement, are least likely to be needed for normal service by the server; and require the least preparation to receive coredump data. Appropriate attributes on the selected coredump disk are written to indicate that a coredump is in progress, and the location of the coredump data. Upon reboot of the failed filer (or takeover by a cluster partner), the coredump disk is identified and the coredump data recovered by reading back appropriate attributes." The patent application was filed on June 29, 2007 (11/770,962). 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=8,010,848.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,848&RS=PN/8,010,848 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method, System and Program Product for Monitoring Resources Servicing a Business Transaction ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,010,654) developed by four co-inventors for a "method, system and program product for monitoring resources servicing a business transaction." The co-inventors are Christian L. Hunt, Cary, N.C., Roger M. Meli, Raleigh, N.C., Denilson Nastacio, Apex, N.C., and Balan Subramanian, Cary, N.C. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system and program product for monitoring resources servicing a business transaction is provided. The method includes providing a transaction manager that monitors a business transaction serviced by one or more resources, with each of the resources and the transaction manager having a protocol stack configured to send and receive load-monitoring headers in protocol messages. The method further includes specifying, in a protocol request header in a protocol request message, collection of performance metrics for a resource, collecting, by the resources, the performance metrics specified in the protocol request message and sending the performance metrics collected to the transaction manager, in a protocol response header in a protocol response message. Further, the method includes pre-configuring with policies the protocol stack on a subset of the resources, such that the pre-configured resources can act as monitoring agents on behalf of peer resources and send alerts to a resource manager." The patent application was filed on Dec. 21, 2006 (11/614,220). 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=8,010,654.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,654&RS=PN/8,010,654 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,010,479) developed by eight co-inventors for a "simplifying the creation of user-defined custom elements for use in a graphical modeling application." The co-inventors are Daniel C. Berg, Holly Springs, N.C., Brad L. Blancett, Raleigh, N.C., Michael D. Elder, Durham, N.C., Chad M. Holliday, Holly Springs, N.C., Narinder Makin, Morrisville, N.C., Timothy A. Pouyer, Greenville, S.C., Edward C. Snible, Bronx, N.Y., and John E. Swanke, Terryville, Conn. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention can include a solution for capturing user-defined custom elements for use in a graphical modeling application. Such a system can include a graphical modeling application and a custom element definition tool. The graphical modeling application can be configured to create semantic models that contain a static graphical elements and semantic data elements. The custom element definition tool can be configured to create a user-defined custom element for the graphical modeling application. The user-defined custom element can consist of one or more static graphical element and/or one or more semantic data element." The patent application was filed on June 18, 2008 (12/141,495). 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=8,010,479.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,479&RS=PN/8,010,479 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Dynamically Granting or Denying Access to an Electronic Calendar ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,010,656) developed by five co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for dynamically granting or denying access to an electronic calendar. The co-inventors are Joseph G. Baron, Raleigh, N.C., Frank Battaglia, Raleigh, N.C., Jerrold Martin Heyman, Raleigh, N.C., Michael Leonard Nelson, Raleigh, N.C., and Andrew Geoffrey Tonkin, Morrisville, N.C. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A calendar system includes a calendar requester client and a calendar owner client that couple to a calendar server via one or more networks therebetween. In one embodiment, when the calendar server denies a particular calendar requester access to the calendar owner's calendar, the calendar server transmits a denial notice to the calendar owner and allows the calendar owner to dynamically add the particular calendar requester to a list of approved requesters on the calendar server." The patent application was filed on July 12, 2007 (11/776,985). 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=8,010,656.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,656&RS=PN/8,010,656 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Increasing Application Availability during Automated Enterprise Deployments ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,010,504) developed by five co-inventors for an "increasing application availability during automated enterprise deployments." The co-inventors are Rohith Kottamangalam Ashok, Apex, N.C., Charles James Redlin, Rochester, Minn., Barry Charles Searle, Mississauga, Canada, Christopher Paul Vignola, Port Jervis, N.Y., and Leigh Allen Williamson, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of deploying enterprise applications or updates to data processing systems in a complex data processing environment. The enterprise applications or updates are phase deployed to the target data processing systems. Phased deployment includes the steps of preparing one affected node, quiescing all affected servers in the node, stopping all affected servers in the node, synchronizing the node, delivering the applications or updates, starting all affected servers, reactivating all affected servers, restoring the affected node, and repeating these steps for each affected node one at a time until all targeted data processing systems have been affected." The patent application was filed on Oct. 27, 2008 (12/259,272). 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=8,010,504.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,504&RS=PN/8,010,504 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Problem Isolation through Weighted Search of Knowledge Bases ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,010,528) developed by Denilson Nastacio, Apex, N.C., Richard Trotter, Cary, N.C., and Michael L. Wamboldt, Garner, N.C., for a "problem isolation through weighted search of knowledge bases." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer program product for problem isolation through a weighted search of knowledge bases includes computer useable program code that generates an aggregate relevance index which ranks the search results. The aggregate relevance index is calculated using a measure of relevance of each of said pertinent documents across all keyword searches. A method for problem isolation through the weighted search of knowledge bases comprises searching knowledge bases using extracted keywords to identify pertinent documents contained within said knowledge databases; and generating a global rank associated with each of the pertinent documents, the global rank being calculated using a measure of the relevance of each of the pertinent documents across all keyword searches and a measure of the relevance of each of the keywords to the records as a whole." The patent application was filed on March 3, 2008 (12/041,520). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,010,528.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,528&RS=PN/8,010,528 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. 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