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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Washington (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 Washington. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Using Antimalware Technologies to Perform Offline Scanning of Virtual Machine Images ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,011,010) developed by Michael L. Michael, Houston, William L. Scheidel, Seattle, and Robert M. Fries, Kirkland, Wash., for "using antimalware technologies to perform offline scanning of virtual machine images." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for scanning a virtual machine image. The virtual machine image may be stored as a collection of one or more virtual hard disk files. The virtual machine image may be stored by taking the virtual machine off-line or may be stored by taking a checkpoint of the virtual machine while the virtual machine is on-line. The virtual machine image is rendered to file-system data. Rendering the virtual machine image to file-system data may comprise mounting the virtual machine image's virtual hard disk drives. An anti-malware engine is invoked to scan the exposed file-system data, and data indicative of the scanning may be stored." The patent application was filed on April 17, 2007 (11/736,520). 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=8,011,010&OS=8,011,010&RS=8,011,010 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Application Security Model ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Microsoft, Remond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,011,008) developed by four co-inventors for an application security model. The co-inventors are Michael D. Downen, Sammamish, Wash., Raja Krishnaswamy, Redmond, Wash., Arun Moorthy, Newcastle, Wash., and Charles W. Kaufman, Sammamish, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Performing security sensitive operations with an application security model. Security agnostic code is executed. The security agnostic code is identified as not having authorization to perform a security sensitive operation. Executing the security agnostic code includes calling code identified as security safe critical code. In response to the security agnostic code calling the security safe critical code, the security safe critical code is executed. The security safe critical code includes functionality for performing validity checks. Executing the security safe critical code includes performing an validity check for the security agnostic code. When the security agnostic code passes the validity check, code identified as security critical code is called. In response to the security safe critical code calling the security critical code, the security critical code is executed. The security critical code is authorized to perform the security sensitive operation." The patent application was filed on Nov. 13, 2007 (11/939,383). 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=8,011,008.PN.&OS=PN/8,011,008&RS=PN/8,011,008 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Enforcing Device Settings for Mobile Devices ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,010,997) developed by seven co-inventors for "enforcing device settings for mobile devices." The co-inventors are David P. Limont, Seattle, John Allen Atwood, Duvall, Wash., Massimiliano Ciccotosto, Kirkland, Wash., Omar Aftab, Redmond, Wash., Patrick Tousignant, Bellevue, Wash., Selvaraj Nalliah, Redmond, Wash., and Zhidong Yang, Bellevue, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present embodiments extend to methods, systems, and computer program products for enforcing device settings for mobile devices. Generally, a computer system enforces appropriate mobile device settings (e.g., policy and/or configuration settings) prior to permitting a mobile device to access maintained data. The computer system receives a request from a mobile device. The computer system determines that current mobile device settings are not appropriate for accessing the maintained data. The computer system sends device settings, representing a new mobile device configuration that is appropriate for accessing the maintained data, to the mobile device. The computer system receives an indication that the mobile device is configured in accordance with the device settings. The computer system permits the mobile device to access the maintained data in response to receiving the indication that the mobile device is configured in accordance with the device settings." The patent application was filed on June 30, 2005 (11/171,850). 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=8,010,997&OS=8,010,997&RS=8,010,997 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Intermec Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Intermec, Everett, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,010,316) developed by Paul A. Maltseff, Woodinville, Wash., for a "system and method for laser range-finding." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method is described for determining a distance to a desired target via correlating a pulse modulated signal with its corresponding reflected signal, while compensating for noise error in the reflected signal to allow for a more precise distance determination. The system and method determine a phase shift of an echoed signal in response to a transmitted signal incident onto an object to thereby determine a distance, wherein the system analyzes an overlap region between a second signal that is a reflection of a first signal incident on the object. The first signal is modulated by one or more pulses having a defined modulation frequency. Further details and features are described herein." The patent application was filed on Dec. 11, 2008 (12/333,232). 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=8010316.PN.&OS=PN/8010316&RS=PN/8010316 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** IB Security Holders Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- IB Security Holders, Seattle, has been assigned a patent (8,010,295) developed by Charles L. Magness, Seattle, and Shawn P. Iadonato, Seattle, for a "system and method for selectively classifying a population." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A technique is disclosed for classifying a population of subjects into various sub-populations for a selected biological condition. Patients are categorized in accordance with numeric scores for a affected status for the selected biological condition and a risk status for the selected biological condition. The numeric scores for an overall population are determined in advance for the selected biological condition. Medical test results, including genetic tests, and risk factors are numerically scored and may further be weighted in accordance with their relevance in determining affected status and risk. Medical test results and medical histories for individual subjects within the population may then automatically be scored in accordance with the predefined characteristics. The numerical scores for affected status and risk status may be stored in a data structure, such as a database. The numeric scores are extracted from the data structure and used to classify individuals in the population into one of a group of selected sub-populations comprising at-risk affected (ARA) and at-risk unaffected (ARU). Additional sub-populations, such as unknown risk, unaffected (URU) may also be used." The patent application was filed on Nov. 6, 2000 (09/707,576). 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=8010295.PN.&OS=PN/8010295&RS=PN/8010295 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Memory Optimizing for Re-ordering User Edits ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,010,894) developed by John Wickens Lamb Merrill, Redmond, Wash., Mark Lino Nielson, Snohomish, Wash., and Rupali Jain, Bellevue, Wash., for a "memory optimizing for re-ordering user edits." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The subject invention can track and apply user edits to a source document as a sequence of changes. The changes can be applied in a document or spatial order irrespective of temporal factors. The invention can maintain intervals that represent user operations (e.g., insertions, deletions, zero-net-length changes). As well, the invention can infer a location in the original document that corresponds to a particular operation. In accordance therewith, the invention can arrange temporally sequenced user document modifications into an order consistent with the layout of the document file encoding. This functionality of mapping re-sequenced changes into the original document data representation is one novel feature of the invention. The invention can enable portions of the source document loaded into memory on an as-needed basis whereby changes relevant to the instant portion can be made." The patent application was filed on May 18, 2005 (11/131,960). 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=560&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. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Developing Controls for Outlook Add-ins ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,010,970) developed by seven co-inventors for "developing controls for outlook add-ins." The co-inventors are Dimitar Birov, Sofia, Bulgaria, Michael W. Morton, Snohomish, Wash., Daniel A. Molina, Redmond, Wash., John Durant, Duvall, Wash., Thomas E. Quinn, Seattle, Michael Shneerson, Redmond, Wash., and David A. Whitechapel, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The forms hosting system allows a developer to design custom Outlook form regions containing standard and custom managed controls using popular development tools. The forms hosting system provides a runtime wrapper that appears to Outlook as a normal ActiveX control. When Outlook invokes the runtime wrapper control, the runtime wrapper control loads the managed controls defined by the developer. The runtime wrapper control translates messages received from Outlook into messages understood by the managed controls." The patent application was filed on April 10, 2007 (11/733,524). 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=8,010,970&OS=8,010,970&RS=8,010,970 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Applied Predictive Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Applied Predictive Technologies, Arlington, Va., has been assigned a patent (8,010,399) developed by Anthony Bruce, Chevy Chase, Md., and Jim Manzi, Washington, for "methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for analyzing initiatives for a business network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system, method, and article of manufacture is disclosed for analyzing a business initiative for a business network including business locations separated into control group sites and test sites that have implemented the business initiative for a predetermined test period. Each of the sites have an associated set of attributes reflecting various characteristics corresponding to the respective site, such as geographical location, size of business location, number of employees, etc. In one aspect of the invention, a process is performed that collects a performance value for each of the test and control group sites reflecting a level of performance of each respective sites during the test period. The performance of the test sites is then measured relative to the performance of the control sites over the same time period. The process may segment the performance values for each test site attribute to identify those attributes that have a greater impact on the performance values of the test sites than other attributes. Further, the process configures a model for predicting the performance values of the test sites using the identified attributes and determines whether the model accurately predicts these performance values. If so, the process applies the model to the non-tested sites to predict the performance values of these sites. Based on the predicted performance values, a user may select one or more of the sites to implement the business initiative." The patent application was filed on Jan. 30, 2004 (10/767,191). 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=80,10,399.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,399&RS=PN/80,10,399 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Intelligently Representing Files in a View ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,010,886) developed by five co-inventors for "intelligently representing files in a view." The co-inventors are Paul A. Gusmorino, Seattle, David Dawson, Seattle, Michael J. Gilmore, Bothell, Wash., Fabrice A. Debry, Seattle, and Jason A. Christensen, Kirkland, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system, and media for intelligently presenting representations of files. The method can include determining a set of files for which information about them is to be rendered in a window of a graphical user interface even when not all of the files are the same type, conditioning a format of each representation based on a type of each file, selecting for each representation a set of file properties to be presented (the selection being based on the type of each file), and presenting the set of representations consistent with the formats and with appropriate file properties." The patent application was filed on Jan. 4, 2008 (11/969,654). 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=568&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. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Storage Device That Provides Efficient, Updatable National Language Support for a Mobile Device ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,010,339) developed by four co-inventors for a "storage device that provides efficient, updatable national language support for a mobile device." The co-inventors are Nathan Charu Arora, Kirkland, Wash., Chigusa Yasuda Sansen, Bellevue, Wash., Daryn Robbins, Issaquah, Wash., and Mark Tonkelowitz, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Efficient, updatable national language support for a mobile device is provided. NLS file segments are provided in a wrapper in the Virtual NLS file. Segments may be organized by language family. The number of segments that need to be searched is also minimized. At any point, any of the pointers for the dynamically updatable query table can be shifted around to improve performance. Existing APIs may be used for obtaining locale information by causing the APIs to iterate through all the known NLS segments in a specified search order." The patent application was filed on Feb. 14, 2008 (12/031,266). 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=80,10,339.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,339&RS=PN/80,10,339 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,010,356) developed by four co-inventors for a "parameter learning in a hidden trajectory model." The co-inventors are Li Deng, Sammamish, Wash., Dong Yu, Kirkland, Wash., Xiaolong Li, Sammamish, Wash., and Alejandro Acero, Bellevue, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Parameters for distributions of a hidden trajectory model including means and variances are estimated using an acoustic likelihood function for observation vectors as an objection function for optimization. The estimation includes only acoustic data and not any intermediate estimate on hidden dynamic variables. Gradient ascent methods can be developed for optimizing the acoustic likelihood function." The patent application was filed on Feb. 17, 2006 (11/356,898). 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=80,10,356.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,356&RS=PN/80,10,356 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,010,559) developed by Surendra Verma, Bellevue, Wash., Thomas J. Miller, Bellevue, Wash., and Robert G. Atkinson, Woodinville, Wash., for a transactional file system. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A transactional file system wherein multiple file system operations may be performed as a transaction. An application specifies that file system-related operations are to be handled as a transaction, and the application is given a file handle associated with a transaction context. For file system requests associated with a transaction context, a file system component manages operations consistent with transactional behavior. Transactions over a network are facilitated. Remote files may be accessed within a transaction via a redirector protocol. A redirector on a client computer system communicates with an agent on a server computer system to relay and maintain transactional information on both systems." The patent application was filed on Oct. 22, 2009 (12/604,209). 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=80,10,559&OS=80,10,559&RS=80,10,559 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Abducing Assertion to Support Access Query ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,010,560) developed by Moritz Y. Becker, Cambridge, United Kingdom, and Jason F. Mackay, Redmond, Wash., for an "abducing assertion to support access query." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Logical abduction is used to derive the premises that support an access query. In a logic-based access-control system, a query, as to one or more principals' right to access one or more resources, is a statement that can be either true or false. The statement evaluates to true if the principal is allowed to access the resource under the existing set of assertions. Assertions that, if made, would cause the statement to be true can be abduced from the query and from the policy against which the truth of the query is to be judged. The abduced assertions can be used to assist in making the appropriate assertions to cause the query to evaluate to true so that access to the resource can be granted." The patent application was filed on Dec. 21, 2007 (11/962,746). 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=80,10,560&OS=80,10,560&RS=80,10,560 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Breadcrumb List Supplementing for Hierarchical Data Sets ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,010,910) developed by four co-inventors for a "breadcrumb list supplementing for hierarchical data sets." The co-inventors are Dawn Wright, Seattle, Shama Joshi, Bellevue, Wash., Samuel Wan, Seattle, and Aaron Jasinski, Renton, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A breadcrumb path for use in navigating a hierarchical data set may be supplemented with one or more supplemental breadcrumbs representing preferred locations within the hierarchical data set. The supplemental breadcrumb may represent a previously visited location within the hierarchical data set, and may be further limited to the previously visited locations that are subordinate to the currently selected location. The supplemental breadcrumb may also represent a frequently visited location within the hierarchical data set. For scoped hierarchical data sets, the preferred location may represent a previously visited location within the scope of the selected location, or a frequently visited location within the scope of the selected location. Several embodiments of user interface components featuring such supplemented breadcrumb lists and having various advantages are presented, as well as a few contexts for applying such supplemental breadcrumbs in a breadcrumb list." The patent application was filed on Sept. 4, 2007 (11/899,020). 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=8,010,910&OS=8,010,910&RS=8,010,910 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (8,010,651) developed by six co-inventors for "executing programs based on user-specified constraints." The co-inventors are Peter N. DeSantis, Cape Town, South Africa, Quinton R. Hoole, Cape Town, South Africa, Roland Paterson-Jones, Cape Town, South Africa, Allan H. Vermeulen, Seattle, Luis Felipe Cabrera, Bellevue, Wash., and Marvin M. Theimer, Bellevue, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques are described for managing execution of programs on multiple computing systems, such as based at least in part of user-specified constraints. For example, constraints related to execution of a program may be based on a desired relative location of a host computing system to execute a copy of the program with respect to an indicated target (e.g., computing systems executing other copies of the program or copies of another indicated program), on particular geographic locations, and/or on factors not based on location (e.g., cost of use of a particular computing system, capabilities available from a particular computing system, etc.). Some or all of the multiple computing systems may be part of a program execution service for executing multiple programs on behalf of multiple users, and each may provide multiple virtual machines that are each capable of executing one or more programs for one or more users." The patent application was filed on Aug. 9, 2010 (12/853,087). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=80,10,651&OS=80,10,651&RS=80,10,651 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Selection and Configuration of Storage-area Network Storage Device and Computing Device ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,010,634) developed by Richard Bealkowski, Redmond, Wash., for a "selection and configuration of storage-area network storage device and computing device, including configuring DHCP settings." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A chassis is selected from one or more chassis. Each chassis has one or more computing devices installed therein. A computing device is selected from the computing devices installed in the selected chassis. Each computing device is connected to one or more switches within the chassis. A switch is selected from the switches to which the selected computing device is connected. Each switch is connected to a storage-area network (SAN) encompassing one or more SAN storage devices. A SAN storage device is selected from the SAN storage devices connected to the selected switch. Network settings for the SAN storage device and/or the computing device are configured, including dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) settings for the computing device. The SAN storage device is configured for use by the computing device. An operating system (OS) instance is selected and deployed onto the SAN storage device for use by the computing device." The patent application was filed on Oct. 15, 2006 (11/549,649). 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=80,10,634.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,634&RS=PN/80,10,634 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Sharp Laboratories of America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Sharp Laboratories of America, Camas, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,010,645) developed by Vishnu Kumar Shivaji Rao, Vancouver, Wash., for a "method and apparatus for providing feeds to users." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of providing feeds to connected devices includes sorting multiple feeds, receiving device information from a connected device, suggesting a feed from the sorted feeds in response to the device information, and delivering the suggested feed to the connected device." The patent application was filed on May 12, 2006 (11/383,183). 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=80,10,645&OS=80,10,645&RS=80,10,645 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Replica Placement in a Distributed Storage System ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,010,648) developed by Aaron William Ogus, Redmond, Wash., Samuel James McKelvie, Seattle, and Bradley Gene Calder, Bellevue, Wash., for a "replica placement in a distributed storage system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Replica placement in a network of nodes is provided. Nodes are selected for replica placement to satisfy location-based preferences. Additionally, nodes are selected for replica placement to spread replicas of the same data over different fault domains and upgrade domains. In some instances, nodes may be selected for replica placement based on load-based information for the nodes." The patent application was filed on Oct. 24, 2008 (12/258,045). 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=80,10,648&OS=80,10,648&RS=80,10,648 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Customizable Layout of Search Results ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,010,904) developed by Raghavendra Prabhu, Bellevue, Wash., for a "customizable layout of search results." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Customizable layout of search results techniques are described. In an implementation, a user interface to display search results is provided having one or more portions that are user selectable to customize a layout of search results from a search service. When one or more of the portions are selected, the layout is customized by corresponding rearrangement of obtained search results locally at a client. One or more preferences that describe the layout specified by the user may be stored based on the user's interaction with the user interface. When the user performs a search via the search service, the results of the search are presented in accordance with the layout specified by the user." The patent application was filed on March 20, 2007 (11/725,724). 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=8,010,904&OS=8,010,904&RS=8,010,904 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,010,649) developed by Eric H. Rudolph, Woodinville, Wash., for "methods and systems for processing multi-media editing projects." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, a network-bound request for a multi-media file is intercepted to determine whether the file is located locally on a user computer. If the file is located on the user computer, it is retrieved. If the file is unavailable locally, the file is retrieved from a network-accessible location. In another embodiment, a file locator is configured to intercept network-bound requests for multi-media files and determine whether the files are available locally using a list that includes local file directories where files may be stored. When a user retrieves a file from a network and saves it in a directory, if the list does not include the directory, the list is updated to include the directory. If the file locator cannot find the file locally, the user is prompted to select a directory where the file is stored, and the list updated to include the directory." The patent application was filed on Nov. 3, 2008 (12/264,107). 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=80,10,649&OS=80,10,649&RS=80,10,649 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Failure Simulation and Availability Report on Same ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,010,325) developed by four co-inventors for a "failure simulation and availability report on same." The co-inventors are Marcelo M. De Barros, Redmond, Wash., Hui Shi, Redmond, Wash., Joseph Forsmann, Redmond, Wash., and Manish Mittal, Sammamish, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A simulation may be performed to assess availability of a service in the event of various types of failures. A specification may describe a behavior to be induced on a machine, and a formula under which availability is to be measured. A controller processes the specification and dispatches a request to induce the behavior to a machine on which the behavior is to be induced. An agent on that machine may look up a routine in a simulation library and may use the routine to induce the behavior. Data, such as performance counter values, are collected before, during, and/or after occurrence of the behavior, and are transmitted back to the controller. A report generator applies the formula contained in the specification to the data received to calculate the availability metric, and produces a report containing that metric." The patent application was filed on April 25, 2008 (12/109,368). 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=80,10,325.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,325&RS=PN/80,10,325 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Secure Transactional Communication ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,010,612) developed by six co-inventors for a secure transactional communication. The co-inventors are Mihai Costea, Redmond, Wash., Jeffrey B. Kay, Bellevue, Wash., Jesse Dougherty, Bothell, Wash., Mayerber Carvalho Neto, Bellevue, Wash., Jain Chandresh, Sammamish, Wash., and Mayank Mehta, Redmond, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems for providing sign-up email addresses are disclosed herein. A user may set up a sign-up email address for receiving emails from a trusted, Internet-based enterprise. The user may set up a dedicated mailbox folder associated with the sign-up email address or enterprise. The email server may automatically direct emails coming from that enterprise into that folder. To "unsubscribe," the user needs only to delete the folder or the sign-up address. Emails from the enterprise to the sign-up address may be highlighted in the user's main inbox. Thus, the user may be assured that any such email is truly from the enterprise, and not a phishing expedition or spam. Such systems also provide the user with effective tools to recognize phish or spam emails that appear to be from the trusted enterprise and not to act on them." The patent application was filed on April 17, 2007 (11/736,487). 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=80,10,612.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,612&RS=PN/80,10,612 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (8,010,624) developed by Sean M. Scott, Sammamish, Wash., and Derek Gaw, Seattle, for a "dynamic composition for image transmission." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The number of connections and/or requests needed to obtain or provide image content in an electronic environment can be reduced by dynamically composing the content when needed to serve a request. In a case where a large number of images are to be transmitted across a network, the images can be determined at the time of the request for transmission and can be composed into a single, master image. Positional information for the images can be stored and sent with the master image to a device requesting the transmission. Using the positional information with dimensional information for the images, the device is able to use an application such as cascading style sheets (CSS) sprites to extract each of the plurality of images, thus obtaining all the images using a single request and single connection. Multiple master images can be used if appropriate." The patent application was filed on March 27, 2008 (12/057,013). 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=80,10,624.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,624&RS=PN/80,10,624 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Locked Receive Locations ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,010,608) developed by Kartik Paramasivam, Redmond, Wash., Sanjib Saha, Bothell, Wash., and Jean-Emile Elien, Bellevue, Wash., for locked receive locations. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The subject invention provides a system and/or a method that facilitates enhancing an adapter utilizing a locking mechanism between a receive location and a process. An interface component can receive a message related to a receive location that is an endpoint. A lock component binds the receive location to the process such that the process exclusively receives the messages from the endpoint at a single instance in real time. Moreover, the lock component can provide a replacement/switching technique, wherein a process that participates in a locking relationship can be switched with another process based at least in part upon the health of the process." The patent application was filed on June 7, 2005 (11/146,714). 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=80,10,608.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,608&RS=PN/80,10,608 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Componentized Site Engine Services ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,010,597) developed by Brian M. Perrin, Redmond, Wash., Jeffrey E. Steinbok, Redmond, Wash., and Karen G. Luk, Seattle, for a "componentized site engine services." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A plurality of modules which provide a user with tools for engaging in social networking are created. The plurality of modules are associated with a service. A server hosting the web space receives a selection from the user corresponding to a first module. In response to the selection, the server associates the service with the web space. The first module renders the web space on a client accessing the web space. The server enables a visitor to the web space to access a second module form the plurality of modules associated with the service. The accessed second module will display the web space in a second format on the client of the visitor." The patent application was filed on Sept. 19, 2007 (11/857,904). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=80,10,597.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,597&RS=PN/80,10,597 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Method of Refactoring a Running Database System ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,010,578) developed by six co-inventors for a "method of refactoring a running database system." The co-inventors are James D. Laflen, Bellevue, Wash., Jason D. Clark, Woodinville, Wash., Gerrit Erwin Randolph Drapers, Bellevue, Wash., Liangxiao Zhu, Issaquah, Wash., Amy L. Myhre, Redmond, Wash., and Duncan L. Davenport, Redmond, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A database development system is provided. The system includes a current-state source representation of a database that can be captured in a model of the database and a metadata component that preserves user intentions describing when a user interacts with the system to perform a refactoring operation (or other code enhancement) for use in subsequent operations by the system. A deployment component is provided that utilizes the preserved user intentions to optimize behavioral upgrades to the system, where simulations can be run against the model to facilitate efficient and automated deployments." The patent application was filed on June 27, 2008 (12/163,790). 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=80,10,578&OS=80,10,578&RS=80,10,578 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,010,681) developed by Todd R. Manion, Seattle, Robert D. Donner, Bellevue, Wash., and Grigori M. Somin, Mountain View, Calif., for a "communicating between an application process and a server process to manage peer-to-peer identities." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Peer-to-peer (P2P) application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow an application to create, import, export, manage, enumerate, and delete P2P identities are presented. Further, the management of group identity information is provided. APIs abstract away from low level credential and cryptographic functions required to create and manage P2P identities. This management includes retrieval and setting of a friendly name, generation of a cryptographic public/private key pair, retrieval of security information in the form of an XML fragment, and creation of a new name based on an existing identity. Since the P2P environment also allows for the existence of multiple separate groups of peers within the P2P cloud, a preferred embodiment of the present invention also allows for the enumeration of all groups associated with a given identity, for each identity existing for the user." The patent application was filed on Sept. 15, 2009 (12/559,841). 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=8,010,681.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,681&RS=PN/8,010,681 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,010,690) developed by four co-inventors for an "arrangement for connectivity within an advanced multimedia content framework." The co-inventors are James C. Finger, Kirkland, Wash., Peter J. Torr, Kirkland, Wash., Praful Pratap Chavda, Redmond, Wash., and Richard E. Doherty, Northridge, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Arrangements and methods are provided that allow integration of connected online services within a high-definition interactive framework, and in particular within an advanced content interactivity layer. In this way, the online services may enjoy enhanced features on an advanced content media device. For example, content running on an advanced content media device may be configured to detect an online service's feature and may thus present the user with additional features that interact with the online service. An advanced content media device may detect another user's advanced content media device through a network, and in particular a media service on the network, allowing chat and synchronized playback of content. Advanced content media devices may vary, but may include, e.g., a multimedia player, a media center, a game console, a personal computer, and so on." The patent application was filed on June 26, 2008 (12/146,917). 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=8,010,690.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,690&RS=PN/8,010,690 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Method and System for Shared Resource Providers ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,010,671) developed by Steven Charles Tullis, Redmond, Wash., and William David Taylor, Redmond, Wash., for a "method and system for shared resource providers." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention facilitates the sharing of resources among multiple applications hosted on a server using shared resource providers. A shared resource provider is a logical grouping of shared services and resources to support the shared services, and is associated with one or more applications hosted on a computing device. The server fulfills requests for the shared services from the shared resource provider with which the requesting application is associated. Shared resource providers may be associated with many different applications, but each application may be associated with only one shared resource provider. The shared services may be configured for consumption by the applications at the server level, at the level of the shared resource provider, and the level of the application." The patent application was filed on April 29, 2005 (11/117,841). 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=8,010,671.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,671&RS=PN/8,010,671 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Managing a Deployment of a Computing Architecture ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,010,777) developed by Durgesh Nandan, Redmond, Wash., and Shuyi Hu, Bothell, Wash., for a "managing a deployment of a computing architecture." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments are provided to deploy a number of computing devices based in part on a deployment file, but the embodiments are not so limited. In an embodiment, a dispatch application can be used to deploy a number of computing devices, wherein the deployment includes a number deployment parameters and functions associated with a configuration of the number of computing devices. The dispatch application can be used to deploy a number of computing devices, including virtual devices, logical devices, and other devices and systems. Other embodiments are available." The patent application was filed on July 2, 2007 (11/824,673). 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=8,010,777&OS=8,010,777&RS=8,010,777 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Hardware Constrained Software Execution ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,010,773) developed by six co-inventors for a "hardware constrained software execution." The co-inventors are Hakki Tunc Bostanci, Redmond, Wash., Nathan Jeffrey Ide, Bothell, Wash., Matthias Hermann Wollnik, Seattle, John Richard McDowell, Seattle, Karan Singh Dhillon, Renton, Wash., and Aaron Payne Goldsmid, New York. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Restricting execution by a computing device of instructions within an application program. The application program is modified such that execution of the selected instructions is dependent upon a corresponding expected state of one or more hardware components in the computing device. In an embodiment, the application program is modified to place the hardware components in the expected states prior to execution of the corresponding selected instructions. Creating the dependency on the hardware components prevents the unintended or malicious execution of the selected instructions." The patent application was filed on June 24, 2008 (12/144,699). 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=8010773.PN.&OS=PN/8010773&RS=PN/8010773 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Intel Assigned Patent for Pre-boot Firmware Based Virus Scanner ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,010,799) developed by Vincent J. Zimmer, Federal Way, Wash., and Michael A. Rothman, Gig Harbor, Wash., for a "pre-boot firmware based virus scanner." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present disclosure relates to allowing the utilization of a virus scanner and cleaner that operates primarily in the pre-boot phase of computer operation and, more particularly, to allowing the utilization of a virus scanner and cleaner that operates primarily during the loading of an operating system.." The patent application was filed on May 8, 2009 (12/463,181). 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=8,010,799.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,799&RS=PN/8,010,799 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** F5 Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- F5 Networks, Seattle, has been assigned a patent (8,010,668) developed by Jesse A. Rothstein, Seattle, and Arindum Mukerji, Seattle, for a "selective compression for network connections." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system, apparatus, and method selectively provides content compression to a client based, in part, on whether the network connection from the client is determined to be a high latency, low-bandwidth connection. The present invention gathers one or more network metrics associated with the connection from the client. In one embodiment, the metrics include estimated TCP metrics, including smoothed round trip time, maximum segment size (MSS), and bandwidth delay product (BWDP). These estimated network metrics are employed to make an application layer decision of whether the client connection is a high latency, low-bandwidth connection. If it is, then content may be selectively compressed virtually on the fly for transfer over the network connection. In one embodiment, the selective compression uses a content encoding compression feature of the HTTP protocol standard." The patent application was filed on Dec. 29, 2010 (12/981,338). 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=8,010,668.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,668&RS=PN/8,010,668 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,010,850) developed by six co-inventors for a "client extended error handling." The co-inventors are David Kruse, Kirkland, Wash., V. Kishore Chintalapati, Redmond, Wash., Sean Watson, Seattle, Jay Paulus, Seattle, Dustin Friesenhahn, Seattle, and Ahmed Mohamed, Sammamish, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques for clients and servers to use the web authoring extensions, and in particular, extended error handling to allow servers to provider richer web authoring error information to clients. One technique includes sending an authoring request to a server, receiving a response message with extended error information by a client, and sending the extended error information to an application program. Other embodiments are described and claimed." The patent application was filed on Nov. 13, 2006 (11/598,489). 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=8,010,850.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,850&RS=PN/8,010,850 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Sharp Laboratories of America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Sharp Laboratories of America, Camas, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,010,807) developed by Roy Chrisop, Camas, Wash., and Jack Van Oosterhout, Camas, Wash., for a "random bit mask generation for obscuring data on nonvolatile memory device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for preventing unauthorized access to information temporarily stored in memory, such as a hard disk drive, associated with a digital document processor, such as a digital copier, printer, or facsimile machine. This invention includes storing information to memory, conducting an operation on the information, and automatically overwriting the information one or more times with a bit mask. Bit masks may be non-random or random sequences of binary values." The patent application was filed on Sept. 14, 2005 (11/227,414). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,010,807.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,807&RS=PN/8,010,807 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Power-aware Thread Scheduling and Dynamic Use of Processors ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,010,822) developed by five co-inventors for a "power-aware thread scheduling and dynamic use of processors." The co-inventors are Allen Marshall, Woodinville, Wash., Yimin Deng, Sammamish, Wash., Nicholas S. Judge, Bellevue, Wash., Arun U. Kishan, Bellevue, Wash., and Andrew J. Ritz, Sammamish, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques and apparatuses for providing power-aware thread scheduling and dynamic use of processors are disclosed. In some aspects, a multi-core system is monitored to determine core activity. The core activity may be compared to a power policy that balances a power savings plan with a performance plan. One or more of the cores may be parked in response to the comparison to reduce power consumption by the multi-core system. In additional aspects, the power-aware scheduling may be performed during a predetermined interval to dynamically park or unpark cores. Further aspects include adjusting the power state of unparked cores in response to the comparison of the core activity and power policy." The patent application was filed on March 28, 2008 (12/057,716). 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=8,010,822.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,822&RS=PN/8,010,822 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Intel Assigned Patent for Memory Micro-tiling ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,010,754) developed by James Akiyama, Beaverton, Ore., Randy B. Osborne, Beaverton, Ore., and William H. Clifford, Gig Harbor, Wash., for a memory micro-tiling. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "According to one embodiment, a memory controller is disclosed. The memory controller includes assignment logic and a transaction assembler. The assignment logic receives a request to access a memory channel. The transaction assembler combines the request into one or more additional requests to access two or more independently addressable subchannels within the channel." The patent application was filed on Jan. 20, 2010 (12/690,551). 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=8010754.PN.&OS=PN/8010754&RS=PN/8010754 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. *** EMC Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,010,493) developed by six co-inventors for "systems and methods for a snapshot of data." The co-inventors are Robert J. Anderson, London, Neal T. Fachan, Seattle, Eric M. Lemar, Seattle, Aaron J. Passey, Seattle, David W. Richards, Seattle, and Darren P. Schack, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, a user or client device is connected to a distributed file system comprised of one or more physical nodes. The data on each of the physical nodes store metadata about files and directories within the file system. Some of the embodiments permit a user to take a snapshot of data stored on the file system. The snapshot may include a single file, a single directory, a plurality of files within a directory, a plurality of directories, a path on the file system that includes nested files and subdirectories, or more than one path on the file system that each includes nested files and directories. In one embodiment, the metadata comprises mini-snapshots for directories representing a path from the root of the file system to the root of the snapshot. The mini-snapshots serve as stand-ins for portions of the file system which are not included in the snapshot, but which permit access to the snapshot data in an intuitive way." The patent application was filed on March 4, 2010 (12/717,840). 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=8,010,493.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,493&RS=PN/8,010,493 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Predicting Candidates using Input Scopes ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,010,465) developed by four co-inventors for a "predicting candidates using input scopes." The co-inventors are Eric Badger, Issaquah, Wash., Drew Elliott Linerud, Duvall, Wash., Daryn Elliot Robbins, Issaquah, Wash., and Jason Michael Bower, Bothell, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments are configured to provide one or more candidates based in part on an input identifier associated with an input interface. In an embodiment, a system includes an input method editor (IME) that can be configured to provide one or more candidates based in part on a prediction model and one or more input scope values associated with an input interface. The IME can also operate to store an entered string including one or more associated input scope values to a storage component. The stored information can be used when suggesting candidates." The patent application was filed on Feb. 26, 2008 (12/037,637). 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=8,010,465.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,465&RS=PN/8,010,465 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Mi For more information about Targeted News Service products and services, please contact: Myron Struck, editor, Targeted News Service LLC, Springfield, Va., 703/304-1897; [email protected]; http://targetednews.com. -1059440 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |