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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Massachusetts (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 Massachusetts. *** Analog Devices Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Analog Devices, Norwood, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,010,304) developed by Xiuhong Lu, Beijing, and Gabriel Antonesei, Woburn, Mass., for an "apparatus and method for measuring active and reactive powers." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for measuring active power of alternating current (AC) using a digital phase-locked loop (DPLL) includes the steps of (1) generating via the DPLL a pair of substantially mutually orthogonal sinusoid signals in response to an input voltage data signal, (2) mixing a first sinusoid signal of the pair with a current data signal of the alternating current via a first low-pass filter, (3) mixing the first sinusoid signal of the pair with a voltage signal of the alternating current via a second low-pass filter, and (4) computing an active power of the alternating current based on an output from the first low-pass filter and an output from the second low-pass filter." The patent application was filed on Dec. 15, 2008 (12/335,030). 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=8010304.PN.&OS=PN/8010304&RS=PN/8010304 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Yeda Research And Development Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Yeda Research And Development, Rehovot, Israel, has been assigned a patent (8,010,298) developed by five co-inventors for an "identifying antigen clusters for monitoring a global state of an immune system." The co-inventors are Irun R. Cohen, Rechovot, Israel, Eytan Domany, Rechovot, Israel, Francisco Javier Quintana, Jamaica Plain, Mass., Guy Hed, Rechovot, Israel, and Gad Getz, Haifa, Israel. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Method, system and an article of manufacture for clustering and thereby identifying predefined antigens reactive with undetermined immunoglobulins of sera derived from patient subjects in need of diagnosis of disease or monitoring of treatment." The patent application was filed on Jan. 22, 2009 (12/357,449). 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=8010298.PN.&OS=PN/8010298&RS=PN/8010298 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Iona Technologies Assigned Patent for Method and System for Dynamic Configuration of Interceptors in a Client-server Environment ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Iona Technologies, Bermuda, has been assigned a patent (8,010,967) developed by Robert A. Kukura, Sudbury, Mass., Ryan Andrew Craig, Naas, Ireland, and Mathew A. Mihic, Cambridge, Mass., for a "method and system for dynamic configuration of interceptors in a client-server environment." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer implemented method/system of creating and managing one or more interceptors. The method comprises the steps of intrinsically chaining the interceptors, and storing state information, in at least one of the chained interceptors, directed to a reference to the next interceptor. A server computer in a client-sever environment that includes a processor configured to generate one or more interceptors and to intrinsically chain the interceptors, and a memory associated with at least one of the chained interceptors and configured to store state information directed to a reference to the next interceptor thereof. The method/system, in various embodiments, includes dissimilar interceptors, callbacks, and flyweight pattern weighting." The patent application was filed on May 7, 2008 (12/116,623). 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=8,010,967&OS=8,010,967&RS=8,010,967 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. *** MathWorks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- MathWorks, Natick, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,010,954) developed by 11 co-inventors for a "parallel programming interface to dynamically allocate program portions." The co-inventors are John N. Little, Sherborn, Mass., Joseph F. Hicklin, Upton, Mass., Jocelyn Luke Martin, Burwell, United Kingdom , Nausheen B. Moulana, Framingham, Mass., Halldor N. Stefansson, Natick, Mass., Loren Dean, Natick, Mass., Roy E. Lurie, Wayland, Mass., Stephen C. Johnson, Sudbury, Mass., Penelope L. Anderson, Newton, Mass., Michael E. Karr, Brookline, Mass., and Jason A. Kinchen, Winchester, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computing device-implemented method includes receiving a program created by a technical computing environment, analyzing the program, generating multiple program portions based on the analysis of the program, dynamically allocating the multiple program portions to multiple software units of execution for parallel programming, receiving multiple results associated with the multiple program portions from the multiple software units of execution, and providing the multiple results or a single result to the program." The patent application was filed on May 15, 2007 (11/748,938). 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=8,010,954&OS=8,010,954&RS=8,010,954 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** NetApp Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- NetApp, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,010,874) developed by Peter F. Corbett, Lexington, Mass., and Atul Goel, Foster City, Calif., for a "triple parity technique for enabling efficient recovery from triple failures in a storage array." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for recovering from three failed data storage devices is disclosed. A plurality of data storage devices hold data, and a row parity storage device holds row parity for them. The data storage devices and the row parity storage device form a set of storage devices. A diagonal parity storage device and an anti-diagonal parity storage device hold parity computed diagonally over the set of storage devices. In the event of a failure of three data storage devices of the set of storage devices, a first failed storage device is chosen for first restoration. A missing block of the first failed storage device is computed by using the remaining set of storage devices, and the diagonal parity storage device, and the anti-diagonal parity storage device. The remaining two failed storage devices are restored by a diagonal parity restoration technique." The patent application was filed on Nov. 6, 2009 (12/613,743). 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=580&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 System for Creating and Rendering Client-side User Interfaces Via Custom Tags ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,010,890) developed by Thomas R. Gumz, Cambridge, Mass., and Wolfgang Schramm, Duebendorf, Switzerland, for a "system for creating and rendering client-side user interfaces via custom tags." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for creating, rendering and controlling a user interface is provided. A server generates a mark-up language document containing custom tags and conventional tags. The custom tags are associated with machine-executable instructions operating on a client device. When the client device receives the markup language document containing custom tags, the client device processes the custom tags and inserts the machine-executable code into the document at the location of the custom tags. A browser operating on the client device then executes the code and renders the document on a display device." The patent application was filed on Sept. 16, 2008 (12/211,542). 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=564&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. *** General Instrument Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- General Instrument, Horsham, Pa., has been assigned a patent (8,010,985) developed by Brittain S. McKinley, Groton, Mass., and Mark J. Rutan, Northborough, Mass., for a "method and system for resource management in a video on-demand server." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An on-demand server configured to dynamically control and optimize memory utilization while minimizing access to disk storage by monitoring content addressable memory (CAM) usage so as to remove the content from resident CAM memory and page the same adaptively and to eliminate creating separate files for trick playback of content streamed to a customer. The method and system dynamically uses the current concurrency count of the contents to optimize memory utilization so as to swap content in and out of memory as the concurrency values change in conjunction with an on-demand memory based server to provided advantages of optimizing the usage of server resources." The patent application was filed on June 1, 2005 (11/143,428). 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=8,010,985&OS=8,010,985&RS=8,010,985 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Intuit Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Intuit, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,010,401) developed by Eloyse M. Ellerman, Lexington, Mass., George Mount, Palo Alto, Calif., and Sarah Z. Wiley, Provo, Utah, for a "method and system for market research." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of gathering research associated with a product that includes distributing the product in a market resulting in a distributed product, wherein the distributed product that includes a first test group identified based on a selection key, enabling a first test feature in the first test group, gathering usage data associated with the first test feature from the first test group, and evaluating the first test feature based on the usage data to obtain a test result." The patent application was filed on Jan. 30, 2007 (11/700,288). 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=80,10,401.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,401&RS=PN/80,10,401 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** FMR Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- FMR, Boston, has been assigned a patent (8,010,971) developed by Stephen Singh, Westford, Mass., and Fergal Glynn, Somerville, Mass., for a "voice over internet protocol remote upgrading." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An application destined for a client VoIP device is available at a service provider 20 and is loaded first to a client-side device over an unsecure public network, using a secure protocol. The VoIP device is not able to receive the application directly using the secure protocol and the client side device is instructed to load the application to the client VoIP device over a private network using an unsecure protocol." The patent application was filed on June 29, 2005 (11/170,119). 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=8,010,971&OS=8,010,971&RS=8,010,971 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Iona Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Iona Technologies, Bermuda, has been assigned a patent (8,010,968) developed by Robert A. Kukura, Sudbury, Mass., Ryan Andrew Craig, Naas, Ireland, and Mathew A. Mihic, Cambridge, Mass., for a "method and system for dynamic configuration of interceptors in a client-server environment." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer implemented method/system of creating and managing one or more interceptors. The method comprises the steps of intrinsically chaining the interceptors, and storing state information, in at least one of the chained interceptors, directed to a reference to the next interceptor. A server computer in a client-sever environment that includes a processor configured to generate one or more interceptors and to intrinsically chain the interceptors, and a memory associated with at least one of the chained interceptors and configured to store state information directed to a reference to the next interceptor thereof. The method/system, in various embodiments, includes dissimilar interceptors, callbacks, and flyweight pattern weighting." The patent application was filed on May 7, 2008 (12/116,641). 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=8,010,968&OS=8,010,968&RS=8,010,968 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Verizon Patent and Licensing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Verizon Patent and Licensing, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,010,380) developed by Muzaffer Kanaan, Watertown, Mass., for a "system and method for healthcare advisory system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system includes a Healthcare Advisory System (HAS) module and a server. The HAS module may send user location information to the server. Based on user information and environment information stored on the server, an alert may be generated and sent to a user via the HAS module." The patent application was filed on April 2, 2007 (11/695,357). 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=80,10,380.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,380&RS=PN/80,10,380 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Domanicom Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Domanicom, Newton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,010,993) developed by five co-inventors for "devices, systems, and methods for enabling reconfiguration of services supported by a network of devices." The co-inventors are William G. Bartholomay, Orange, Conn., Sin-Min Chang, Shelton, Conn., Santanu Das, Monroe, Conn., Arun Sengupta, Fairfield, Conn., and Suvhasis Mukhopadhyay, Shrewsbury, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for enabling the reconfiguration of services supported by a network of devices. Such reconfiguration can be realized dynamically and in real time without compromising the security of the overall system from external threats or internal malfunctions. These systems, devices and methods may provide a first functional stack supporting a previous version of a specific service and the provisioning of a second functional stack dynamically and in real-time that supports an updated version of the specific service. In addition, an administration function may be included in the embodiment such that the administration function manages and controls the functional stacks and network operations. Using these mechanisms, an existing service can be changed dynamically or a new service can be added dynamically in a secure manner without interruption of other existing services." The patent application was filed on Nov. 24, 2010 (12/953,602). 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=8,010,993&OS=8,010,993&RS=8,010,993 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Math Works Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Math Works, Natick, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,010,335) developed by Peter Szpak, Newton, Mass., and Matthew Englehart, Olmsted Township, Ohio, for a "simplified data signal support for diagramming environment languages." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In a graphical modeling environment, bus signals, which group a plurality of signals together for simplifying a model, include a partial or complete physical definition. Models are simplified by passing bus signals through graphical objects representing functional entities, without degrouping the bus signal. During simulation of the model, code can be generated for the bus signal having a complete definition independent of other components of the graphical model." The patent application was filed on May 18, 2009 (12/467,810). 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=80,10,335.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,335&RS=PN/80,10,335 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Ericsson Television Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Ericsson Television, Duluth, Ga., has been assigned a patent (8,010,986) developed by five co-inventors for a "synchronization and automation in an ITV environment." The co-inventors are Jon Dakss, Marina del Rey, Calif., Paul Milazzo, Avondale, Pa., Karen Sarachik, Los Angeles, Allan Kotmel, Los Angeles, and V. Michael Bove Jr., Wrentham, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A synchronization mechanism embeds synchronization triggers into a television signal or stream at regular intervals. The triggers include an accurate representation of the time in which the triggers were embedded. A receiving device decodes the triggers and synchronizes its internal timer based on the triggers. In this regard, the receiving device obtains a reference time from the internal timer and computes an offset between the reference time and the trigger time. The computed offset is then applied to the reference time. With the receipt of each new trigger, the application compares the trigger time to a new reference time with the most recently computed offset value applied. If there is any variance between these two values, the application creates a new smoothed offset." The patent application was filed on Feb. 4, 2005 (11/051,405). 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=8,010,986&OS=8,010,986&RS=8,010,986 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** ABL IP Holding Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- ABL IP Holding, Conyers, Ga., has been assigned a patent (8,010,319) developed by six co-inventors for a "light management system having networked intelligent luminaire managers." The co-inventors are Jeff D. Walters, Marshfield, Mass., Charles J. Darnell, Decatur, Ga., Zachary S. Gibler, Granville, Ohio, David A. Henderson, Granville, Ohio, Michael M. Minarczyk, Granville, Ohio, and William Eric Holland, Lynchburg, Va. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A network operation center for a light management system having networked intelligent luminaire managers. A plurality of networked luminaire managers, each collocated with a respective luminaire, monitor the status of their respective luminaires. The luminaire managers include transmitters for transmitting status information about their respective luminaires and third-party devices to a network server. The network server forwards the received status information from the networked luminaire managers to a computer of an owner/operator of the plurality of luminaires and/or a third-party user. The luminaire managers communicate with each other, whereby they form a network." The patent application was filed on July 19, 2010 (12/839,298). 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=80,10,319.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,319&RS=PN/80,10,319 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,010,328) developed by Sarah F. Frisken, Cambridge, Mass., Ronald N. Perry, Cambridge, Mass., and Alan Sullivan, Middleton, Mass., for a "method for simulating numerically controlled milling using adaptively sampled distance fields." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Provided is a method performed on a processor for simulating the milling of an object by moving a shape along a path intersecting the object. A composite adaptively sampled distance field (ADF) is generated to represent the object, where the composite ADF includes a set of cells. Each cell in the composite ADF includes a set of distance fields and a procedural reconstruction method for reconstructing the object within the cell. The shape is represented by a shape distance field. The path is represented by a parametric function. A swept volume distance field is defined in a continuous manner to represent a swept volume generated by moving the shape along the path according to a swept volume reconstruction method which reconstructs the swept volume distance field at a sample point. The composite ADF is edited to incorporate the swept volume distance field into the composite ADF to simulate the milling." The patent application was filed on May 19, 2009 (12/468,655). 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=80,10,328.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,328&RS=PN/80,10,328 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Automatic 3D Object Generation and Deformation for Representation of Data Files Based on Taxonomy Classification ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,010,907) developed by Andrew J. Sullivan, Wappingers Falls, N.Y., and Sharad C. Sundararajan, Chestnut Hill, Mass., for an "automatic 3D object generation and deformation for representation of data files based on taxonomy classification." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed are a system and method for generating three-dimensional objects to represent files in a three-dimensional environment. A primary classifier classifies stored files into groups based on a first set of properties and generates three-dimensional mesh objects to represent each file. The mesh objects are the same within each group and distinguish the files from group to group. A secondary classifier further classifies each group of files into sub-groups based on a second set of properties and deforms the mesh objects in each sub-group in a particular manner to distinguish files from sub-group to sub-group. Additional classifiers modify the deformed mesh objects to further distinguish files within each sub-group (e.g., by varying the shape, texture, animation, etc.). Each three-dimensional object can then be embedded into a three-dimensional graphical user interface as a selection tool that provides visual cues regarding the contents of a particular file." The patent application was filed on June 13, 2008 (12/138,484). 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=8,010,907&OS=8,010,907&RS=8,010,907 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** OPNET Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- OPNET Technologies, Bethesda, Md., has been assigned a patent (8,010,643) developed by Eric W. Gray, Lee, N.H., and Navneeth N. Kannan, Westford, Mass., for a "system and methods for simulating traffic generation." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods are disclosed for simulating network performance. In one exemplary embodiment, the method includes inferring one or more services on the network; collecting network information based on actual traffic on the network; determining a traffic generator, such that the traffic generator represents the actual traffic on the network from a perspective of at least one of the inferred services; and simulating performance of the network using the determined traffic generator and at least one of the inferred services." The patent application was filed on Aug. 2, 2004 (10/903,585). 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=80,10,643&OS=80,10,643&RS=80,10,643 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for System and Method for End-user Management of E-mail Threads using a Single Click ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,010,613) developed by Tolga Oral, Winchester, Mass., Sergei R. Landar, Cambridge, Mass., and Andrew L. Schirmer, Andover, Mass., for a "system and method for end-user management of E-mail threads using a single click." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention provides various simple and easy ways for each end user to manage the thread in a way that suits them. In some cases, the user experience requires only a single click. Additional embodiments allow user to manage inbox space, recover suppressed threads, be alerted on contextual changes of such threads, and so forth. The system allows the user to specifically configure his/her own email thread management scheme by selecting an email and choosing "Suppress Thread" on his/her user interface. The system then performs a number of steps such as examining the <message-id> and <references> headers of the selected email to configure the suppress filter. Once configured, the system will examine each email as it is received and examine its <message-id> and <references> headers per RFC 822. If the headers match the configured <messageid> and <responses> headers, the emails will be suppressed in the manner chosen by the user such as deletion or move to folder." The patent application was filed on May 24, 2007 (11/753,149). 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=80,10,613.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,613&RS=PN/80,10,613 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Imagitas Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Imagitas, Waltham, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,010,605) developed by Kae-por F. Chang, Newton Highlands, Mass., for a "system and method for sharing information among provider systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system is provided wherein information is provided once, and that information is provided to multiple provider systems. Information provided by a user is stored and implemented for each provider as needed. The information is provided by a user to a central server that distributes the information to one or more provider systems. In particular, the information is stored in a database and distributed to the provider system depending on the type of transaction. According to one aspect, the information is stored in an unstructured format in the database. In some embodiments the information contains metatags or indicators that can be parsed by a parser to extract the data content from the desired data fields." The patent application was filed on July 29, 2003 (10/470,641). 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=80,10,605.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,605&RS=PN/80,10,605 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** EMC Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,010,741) developed by Scott Ostapovicz, Holliston, Mass., and Stephen J. Todd, Shrewsbury, Mass., for "methods and apparatus for controlling migration of content." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Some embodiments relate to a migration policy that controls migration of content from a transactional storage system to a fixed content storage system. In some embodiments, content may be migrated from the transactional storage system to the fixed content storage system based on at least one criteria that relates to whether at least a portion of the content is binding." The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2008 (12/241,658). 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=8,010,741.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,741&RS=PN/8,010,741 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** EMC Assigned Patent for Methods and Apparatus for Accessing Content ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,010,733) developed by Stephen J. Todd, Shrewsbury, Mass., and Philippe Armangau, Acton, Mass., for "methods and apparatus for accessing content." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "One embodiment of the invention relates to the transfer of content between a host computer that issues OAS access requests and a block I/O storage system. Specifically, a host computer may issue an access request for a content unit that identifies the content unit is an object identifier. The request may be received by a second server, which may determine the block address(es) on the block I/O storage system at which the content unit is stored. A request may then be sent to the block I/O storage system to retrieve the content stored at the requested block address(es) and the block I/O storage system may return the content." The patent application was filed on Sept. 29, 2006 (11/540,158). 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=8,010,733.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,733&RS=PN/8,010,733 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Avaya Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Avaya, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,010,696) developed by Harish Sankaran, Billerica, Mass., Janet Doong, Chelmsford, Mass., and Arun Kudur, Arlington, Mass., for a "passing information from a forwarding plane to a control plane." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Safe and efficient passing of information from a forwarding-plane to a control-plane is provided. The information can be passed from a forwarding-plane process to a control-plane process without having to modify the control-plane process and without requiring the processes to pass information via shared memory. The information is encoded in the forwarding-plane process. The encoded information is passed to the operating system, wherein the operating system interprets the encoded information and reports the information to the control plane process. The present invention can be advantageously utilized in passing multicast events from a forwarding-plane process to a control-plane process. Multicast events can be passed from a forwarding-plane process to a control-plane process without having to modify the control-plane process and without requiring the processes to pass messages via shared memory." The patent application was filed on June 6, 2006 (11/422,440). 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=8,010,696.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,696&RS=PN/8,010,696 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AOL Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- AOL, Dulles, Va., has been assigned a patent (8,010,680) developed by James Crawford, Belmont, Mass., for a transferring files. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and techniques for transferring one or more files by connecting to a communications system host; sending, to a client connected to the communications system host, a request to transfer one or more files; when a client permits access to the one or more files, establishing a direct socket connection from the client and bypassing the communications system host; and initiating the transfer of the one or more files from the client over the direct socket connection." The patent application was filed on June 3, 2009 (12/477,368). 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=8,010,680.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,680&RS=PN/8,010,680 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Desktonc Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Desktonc, Chelmsford, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,010,676) developed by five co-inventors for a "virtual computing services deployment network." The co-inventors are Clinton B. Battersby, Norwood, Mass., Kenneth Ringdahl, Pelham, N.H., James Snow, Hanover, N.H., Paul J. Gaffney, Southborough, Mass., and Andrew W. Hobgood, Marlborough, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A virtual computing services deployment network provides a consistent user experience from a variety of locations via a connection fabric for accessing a virtual desktop. The connection fabric identifies a user profile defining the virtualized desktop resources required for a particular user. The connection fabric includes distributed data and processing in nodes distributed throughout a public access network accessible from a user access device. Each of the fabric nodes is operable to provide an identifier (such as an IP address) of a computing resource adapted to provide the user specific desktop. A user access device accesses a local fabric node in the connection fabric, and the fabric node determines a computing resource matching a user profile of expected computing resources. The fabric node associates the user access device with the computing resource and sends the user access device an identifier for directly accessing the computing resource. The determined computing resource may be determined by a centralized virtual computing approach, thus providing appropriate scaling without significantly impacting the existing fabric." The patent application was filed on Jan. 5, 2009 (12/348,517). 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=8,010,676.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,676&RS=PN/8,010,676 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,010,691) developed by four co-inventors for a "content tagging of media streams." The co-inventors are Kurt Kollmansberger, Spring Branch, Texas, Michael Keohane, Shrewsbury, Mass., William VerSteeg, Alpharetta, Ga., and James Clark, Cumming, Ga. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, a network device comprises a tag processor configured to process a media stream received at the network device. The media stream is sent through a network to a desired destination. The tag processor comprises at least one of a tag inserter module and a tag module. The tag inserter module inserts a tag into the media stream, the tag indicating content of the media stream and the network device providing the tag. The tag module identifies and reports a value of a tag received within the media stream, and forwards the media stream to a user and/or compares the identified value to an expected tag value, and forwards the media stream to a user in the event that the comparison indicates a match. The present invention embodiments further include a method and logic for content tagging of the media stream." The patent application was filed on Dec. 29, 2008 (12/344,719). 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=8,010,691.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,691&RS=PN/8,010,691 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Viasat Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Viasat, Carlsbad, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,010,705) developed by William B. Sebastian, Quincy, Mass., and Michael Maniscalco, Melrose, Mass., for "methods and systems for utilizing delta coding in acceleration proxy servers." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention relates to systems, apparatus, and methods of utilizing delta coding in acceleration proxy servers. The method including storing, at a proxy server, a plurality of dictionary pages within a page storage disk and indexing, at the proxy server, the plurality of dictionary pages with fingerprint identifiers. The fingerprint identifiers are configured to uniquely identify data strings within each of the plurality of dictionary pages. The method further includes receiving, at the proxy server, a data request. The request includes a plurality of fingerprints associated with the requested data." The patent application was filed on June 3, 2009 (12/477,814). 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=8,010,705.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,705&RS=PN/8,010,705 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** EMC Assigned Patent for Techniques for Obtaining a Specified Lifetime for a Data Storage Device ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,010,738) developed by Kendell A. Chilton, Southborough, Mass., and Sachin More, Northborough, Mass., for "techniques for obtaining a specified lifetime for a data storage device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Described are techniques for processing requests for a device. One embodiment is directed to a method including receiving a first value indicating an expected usage of said device prior to failure of said device, receiving a second value indicated a specified lifetime of said device, said second value being in units of time, determining a target rate of usage for the device in accordance with said first value and said second value, determining a current rate of usage for the device, determining whether the current rate of usage is greater than the target rate of usage; and, if said current rate of usage is greater than the target rate of usage, performing an action to reduce the current rate of usage for the device." The patent application was filed on June 27, 2008 (12/215,432). 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=8,010,738.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,738&RS=PN/8,010,738 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** EMC Assigned Patent for Ordered Writes for SRDF Assist ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,010,697) developed by Peter Kamvysselis, Boston, for a "ordered writes for SRDF assist." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Transmitting data from a source to a destination, includes receiving the data from the source and providing the data to the destination using a network, where the data is acknowledged to the source as being successfully received at the destination prior to all of the data being provided to the network. The source may be a primary storage device. The destination may be a secondary storage device. The data may be provided from the source in a first format and may be provided to the network in a second format that is different from the first format where the first format may be RDF and the second format may be TCP/IP or UDP. The destination may receive the data in a first format different from a second format used to transmit the data over the network. The first format may be RDF and the second format may be TCP/IP or UDP." The patent application was filed on May 14, 2007 (11/803,385). 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=8,010,697.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,697&RS=PN/8,010,697 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Juniper Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Juniper Networks, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,010,678) developed by Wladimir Araujo, Ottawa, Mohammad H. Sajedi, Acton, Mass., and Altaf H. Ali, Groton, Mass., for a "dynamic service activation using COPS-PR to support outsourcing and configuration models for policy control." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A device may include a service activation engine (SAE) including: a policy information base (PIB) file that defines a plurality of attachments that correspond to a plurality of network policies; and a server. The server may receive a request, using common open policy service for policy provisioning (COPS-PR), for a network service related to an interface handle associated with a subscriber device; determine which ones of the network policies correspond to the network service; and send, using COPS-PR, a provisioning instance (PRI) including a first of the attachments to implement the ones of the network policies to the interface handle based on the attachments." The patent application was filed on April 23, 2010 (12/765,907). 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=8,010,678.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,678&RS=PN/8,010,678 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Black Duck Software Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Black Duck Software, Waltham, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,010,803) developed by four co-inventors for "methods and apparatus for automated export compliance." The co-inventors are Palle Martin Pedersen, Brookline, Mass., David Golombek, Allston, Mass., Douglas A. Levin, Boston, and John J. Smith, Arlington, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for determining export requirements for a content file may include examining a content file to identify content used by or included in the content file that is subject to export control, determining, in response to the identified content, export requirements that are applicable to the content file, and providing an indication of the determined export requirements." The patent application was filed on Feb. 15, 2007 (11/707,672). 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=8,010,803.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,803&RS=PN/8,010,803 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** EMC Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,010,810) developed by John T. Fitzgerald, Mansfield, Mass., Jack S. Harwood, Paxton, Mass., and Thomas E. Linnell, Northborough, Mass., for "techniques for protecting data using an electronic encryption endpoint device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An electronic encryption endpoint device includes a management interface, a storage device interface and a controller. The management interface is capable of operating as a control interface (e.g., connecting to an array controller). The storage device interface is arranged to communicate with a set of storage devices. The controller is arranged to (i) receive a key encryption key through the management interface, (ii) decrypt a portion of a key table entry of a key table using the key encryption key to extract a data encryption key from the portion of the key table entry, the data encryption key being initially encrypted within the portion of the key table entry prior to decrypting the portion of the key table entry, and (iii) encrypt data using the data encryption key and store the encrypted data in the set of storage devices through the storage device interface." The patent application was filed on Dec. 27, 2007 (11/965,244). 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=8,010,810.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,810&RS=PN/8,010,810 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** VMware Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- VMware, Palo Alto, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,010,667) developed by five co-inventors for an "on-access anti-virus mechanism for virtual machine architecture." The co-inventors are Yufeng Zhang, Santa Clara, Calif., Xiaoxin Chen, Cupertino, Calif., Bich Cau Le, San Jose, Calif., Jagannath Gopal Krishnan, Harper Woods, Mich., and Derek Uluski, Boston. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A tangible medium embodying instructions usable by a computer system to protect a plurality of guest virtual machines (VMs), which execute via virtualization software on a common host platform, from malicious code is described. A scan engine is configured to scan data for malicious code and determine a result of the scanning, wherein the result indicates whether malicious code is present in the data. A driver portion is configured for installation in an operating system of a target VM, which is one of the guest VMs. The driver portion intercepts an access request to a file, that originates within the target VM. The driver portion communicates information identifying a location of the data to be scanned by the scan engine without sending a copy of the data to the scan engine. The scan engine executes within the virtualization layer outside a context of the target VM." The patent application was filed on Aug. 12, 2010 (12/855,498). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,010,667.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,667&RS=PN/8,010,667 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Hypervisor-enforced Isolation of Entities within a Single Logical Partition's Virtual Address Space ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,010,763) developed by five co-inventors for a "hypervisor-enforced isolation of entities within a single logical partition's virtual address space." The co-inventors are William J. Armstrong, Rochester, Minn., Orran Y. Krieger, Newton, Mass., Cathy May, Millwood, N.Y., Michal Ostrowski, Austin, Texas, and Randal C. Swanberg, Round Rock, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Access control to shared virtual address space within a single logical partition is provided. The access control includes: associating, by a hypervisor of the data processing system, a memory protection key with a portion of a single logical partition's virtual address space being shared by multiple entities, the key preventing access by one of the multiple entities to that portion of the virtual address space, and allowing access by another of the entities to that portion of the virtual address space; and locking by the hypervisor the memory protection key from modification by the one entity, wherein the locking prevents the one entity from modifying the key and thereby gaining access to the portion of the single logical partition's virtual address space with the associated memory protection key. In one embodiment, the one entity is the single logical partition itself, and the another entity is a partition adjunct." The patent application was filed on April 28, 2008 (12/111,041). 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=8010763.PN.&OS=PN/8010763&RS=PN/8010763 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Invention Science Fund I Assigned Patent for Correlating Data Indicating Subjective User States Associated with Multiple Users with Data Indicating Objective Occurrences ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Invention Science Fund I, Bellevue, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,010,663) developed by twelve co-inventors for a "correlating data indicating subjective user states associated with multiple users with data indicating objective occurrences." The co-inventors are Shawn P. Firminger, Redmond, Wash., Jason Garms, Redmond, Wash., Edward K.Y. Jung, Bellevue, Wash., Chris D. Karkanias, Sammamish, Wash., Eric C. Leuthardt, St. Louis, Royce A. Levien, Lexington, Mass., Robert W. Lord, Seattle, Mark A. Malamud, Seattle, John D. Rinaldo Jr., Bellevue, Wash., Clarence T. Tegreene, Bellevue, Wash., Kristin M. Tolle, Redmond, Wash., and Lowell L. Wood Jr., Bellevue, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to acquiring subjective user state data including data indicating incidence of at least a first subjective user state associated with a first user and data indicating incidence of at least a second subjective user state associated with a second user; acquiring objective occurrence data including data indicating incidence of at least a first objective occurrence and data indicating incidence of at least a second objective occurrence; and correlating the subjective user state data with the objective occurrence data. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure." The patent application was filed on March 25, 2009 (12/383,817). 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=8,010,663.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,663&RS=PN/8,010,663 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Invention Science Fund I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Invention Science Fund I, Bellevue, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,010,664) developed by twelve co-inventors for a "hypothesis development based on selective reported events." The co-inventors are Shawn P. Firminger, Redmond, Wash., Jason Garms, Redmond, Wash., Edward K.Y. Jung, Bellevue, Wash., Chris D. Karkanias, Sammamish, Wash., Eric C. Leuthardt, St. Louis, Royce A. Levien, Lexington, Mass., Robert W. Lord, Seattle, Mark A. Malamud, Seattle, John D. Rinaldo Jr., Bellevue, Wash., Clarence T. Tegreene, Bellevue, Wash., Kristin M. Tolle, Redmond, Wash., and Lowell L. Wood Jr., Bellevue, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: acquiring events data including data indicating incidence of a first one or more reported events and data indicating incidence of a second one or more reported events, at least one of the first one or more reported events and the second one or more reported events being associated with a user; determining an events pattern based selectively on the incidences of the first one or more reported events and the second one or more reported events; and developing a hypothesis associated with the user based, at least in part, on the determined events pattern. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure." The patent application was filed on May 28, 2009 (12/455,309). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,010,664.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,664&RS=PN/8,010,664 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Invention Science Fund I Assigned Patent for Soliciting Data Indicating at Least One Subjective User State in Response to Acquisition of Data Indicating at Least One Objective Occurrence ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Invention Science Fund I, Bellevue, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,010,662) developed by twelve co-inventors for a "soliciting data indicating at least one subjective user state in response to acquisition of data indicating at least one objective occurrence." The co-inventors are Shawn P. Firminger, Redmond, Wash., Jason Garms, Redmond, Wash., Edward K.Y. Jung, Bellevue, Wash., Chris D. Karkanias, Sammamish, Wash., Eric C. Leuthardt, St. Louis, Royce A. Levien, Lexington, Mass., Robert W. Lord, Seattle, Mark A. Malamud, Seattle, John D. Rinaldo Jr., Bellevue, Wash., Clarence T. Tegreene, Bellevue, Wash., Kristin M. Tolle, Redmond, Wash., and Lowell L. Wood Jr., Bellevue, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: acquiring objective occurrence data including data indicating occurrence of at least one objective occurrence; soliciting, in response to the acquisition of the objective occurrence data, subjective user state data including data indicating occurrence of at least one subjective user state associated with a user; acquiring the subjective user state data and correlating the subjective user state data with the objective occurrence data. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure." The patent application was filed on Feb. 25, 2009 (12/380,409). 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=8,010,662.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,662&RS=PN/8,010,662 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Black Duck Software Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Black Duck Software, Waltham, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,010,538) developed by Palle Martin Pedersen, Brookline, Mass., for "methods and systems for reporting regions of interest in content files." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A content file is examined and compared against one or more comparison files. An indication is provided that the content file is similar to the one comparison file that is the best match with the examined content file." The patent application was filed on May 8, 2006 (11/429,928). 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=8,010,538.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,538&RS=PN/8,010,538 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Crossbeam Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Crossbeam Systems, Boxborough, Mass., has assigned a patent (8,010,469) developed by 10 co-inventors for "systems and methods for processing data flows." The co-inventors are Harsh Kapoor, Boxborough, Mass., Moisey Akerman, Upton, Mass., Stephen D. Justus, Portland, Ore., J.C. Ferguson, Harvard, Mass., Yevgeny Korsunsky, Bedford, Mass., Paul S. Gallo, Newton, Mass., Charles Ching Lee, Ashland, Mass., Timothy M. Martin, Westford, Mass., Chunsheng Fu, Amesbury, Mass., and Weidong Xu, Westford, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for flow processing and switching, security, and other network applications, including a facility that processes a data flow to address patterns relevant to a variety of conditions are directed at internal network security, virtualization, and web connection security are described. Such flow processing facilities may be used for inspecting network traffic packet payloads to detect security threats and intrusions across accessible layers of the network IP stack by applying content matching and behavioral anomaly detection techniques based on regular expression matching and self-organizing maps. Exposing threats and intrusions within packet payload at or near real-time rates enhances network security from both external and internal sources while ensuring security policy is rigorously applied to data and system resources." The patent application was filed on Oct. 29, 2007 (11/926,292). 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=8,010,469.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,469&RS=PN/8,010,469 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** EMC Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,010,543) developed by Philippe Armangau, Acton, Mass., Michael Kilian, Harvard, Mass., and Stephen J. Todd, Shrewsbury, Mass., for "protecting a file system on an object addressable storage system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Aspects of the invention relate to creating a snapshot of a file system on an OAS system. A snapshot of a file system is an image of a file system at a particular point in time. A snapshot of a file system may be used to restore the file system to its state at the time of creation of the snapshot in, for example, situations where the file system has become corrupted." The patent application was filed on May 25, 2007 (11/807,049). 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=8,010,543.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,543&RS=PN/8,010,543 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Locally Computable Spam Detection Features and Robust Pagerank ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,010,482) developed by eight co-inventors for a "locally computable spam detection features and robust pagerank." The co-inventors are Reid Marlow Andersen, Seattle, Christian Herwarth Borgs, Seattle, Jennifer Tour Chayes, Seattle, John E. Hopcroft, Ithaca, N.Y., Kamal Jain, Bellevue, Wash., Seyed Vahab Mirrokni, Seattle, Amit Prakash, Munhall, Pa., and Shang-Hua Teng, Somerville, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates reducing spam in search results. An interface can obtain web graph information that represents a web of pages. A spam detection component can determines one or more features based at least in part on the web graph information. The one or more features can provide indications that a particular page of the web graph is spam. In addition, a robust rank component is provided that limits amount of contribution a single page can provide to the target page." The patent application was filed on March 3, 2008 (12/041,474). 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=8,010,482.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,482&RS=PN/8,010,482 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Synchronization and Collaboration within Peer-to-peer and Client/Server Environments ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,010,487) developed by seven co-inventors for a "synchronization and collaboration within peer-to-peer and client/server environments." The co-inventors are Ransom Lloyd Richardson, Beverly, Mass., Edward J. Fischer, Cambridge, Mass., Dana Zircher, Woburn, Mass., Christopher Norman, Princeton, Mass., Hugh Francis Pyle, Salem, Mass., Michael Andrew Jeffers, Boston, and Robert Sean Slapikoff, Chelmsford, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Tools and techniques are described for synchronization and collaboration within peer-to-peer and client/server environments. These tools may provide methods that include establishing peer-to-peer relationships between two or more client systems. These relationships enable the client systems to create respective local instances of workspaces, shared between the client systems to allow them to collaborate with one another. The client systems may participate in peer-to-peer synchronization flows with one another, with the synchronization flows representing updates made local to the shared workspaces of the client systems. The methods may also establish establishing a client/server relationship between one of the client systems and a server system. 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