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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Arizona (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 Arizona. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method, Apparatus and Program Storage Device for Providing Light Weight System Calls to Improve User Mode Performance ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,010,963) developed by Daniel Heffley, Tucson, Ariz., Wenjeng Ko, Tucson, Ariz., and Cheng-Chung Song, Tucson, Ariz., for a "method, apparatus and program storage device for providing light weight system calls to improve user mode performance." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, apparatus and program storage device for providing light weight system calls to improve user mode performance is disclosed. A range of system call code for the light weight system calls is provided in a system call table. The light weight system calls skip the code for saving and restore processor context." The patent application was filed on Dec. 1, 2005 (11/291,613). 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=8,010,963&OS=8,010,963&RS=8,010,963 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** OCE-Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- OCE-Technologies, Venlo, The Netherlands, has been assigned a patent (8,010,898) developed by seven co-inventors for a "process of specifying print time fold method, location, and orientation." The co-inventors are Timothy G. Moore, Phoenix, Randall F. Watterson, Glendale, Ariz., Wim Van Grimbergen, Belfeld, The Netherlands, Paul Sluzek, Grubbenvorst, The Netherlands, Jason G. Stasiak, Gilbert, Ariz., William Marvin Grasser II, Mesa, Ariz., and Scot A. Bryant, Tempe, Ariz. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for specifying a folding option for a print job includes displaying a file from the print job, after selection by a user for printing, the file comprising a legend, opening the file in a preview window, displaying markers in corners of the preview window, reading out a user selected marker, after selection of a displayed marker by a user, reading out a number of user set preprogrammed fold variables from a list of preprogrammed fold variables, and folding based on the user selected marker and the number of user set preprogrammed fold variables." The patent application was filed on Nov. 29, 2007 (11/987,416). 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=556&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. *** Intel Assigned Patent for Mechanism for Monitoring Instruction Set Based Thread Execution on a Plurality of Instruction Sequencers ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,010,969) developed by 13 co-inventors for a "mechanism for monitoring instruction set based thread execution on a plurality of instruction sequencers." The co-inventors are Richard A. Hankins, San Jose, Calif., Gautham N. Chinya, Hillsboro, Ore., Hong Wang, Fremont, Calif., Shivnandan D. Kaushik, Portland, Ore., Bryant E. Bigbee, Scottsdale, Ariz., John P. Shen, San Jose, Calif., Trung A. Diep, San Jose, Calif., Xiang Zou, Beaverton, Ore., Baiju V. Patel, Portland, Ore., Paul M. Petersen, Champaign, Ill., Sanjiv M. Shah, Champaign, Ill., Ryan N. Rakvic, Palo Alto, Calif., and Prashant Sethi, Folsom, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A technique to monitor software thread performance and update software that issues or uses the thread(s) to reduce performance-inhibiting events. At least one embodiment of the invention uses hardware and/or software timers or counters to monitor various events associated with executing user-level threads and report these events back to a user-level software program, which can use the information to avoid or at least reduce performance-inhibiting events associated with the user-level threads." The patent application was filed on June 13, 2005 (11/151,809). 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=8,010,969&OS=8,010,969&RS=8,010,969 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** American Express Travel Related Services Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- American Express Travel Related Services, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,010,562) developed by seven co-inventors for a "method and system for implementing and managing an enterprise identity management for distributed security in a computer system." The co-inventors are Michael Richard Barrett, San Francisco, David Armes, Phoenix, Fred Bishop, Glendale, Ariz., James Shelby, Phoenix, Elliott Glazer, Chesterfield, Va., Philip W. Steitz, Scottsdale, Ariz., and Stephen P. Gibbons, Tucson, Ariz. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for facilitating the management of user identities includes an ownership component, a registration component, and a servicing component. When a user first desires to access a system using the present invention, the registration component verifies the user's ownership of the underlying account by asking a variety of questions. Thereafter, when a user desires to service his account, the user may be re-queried to determine if he is attempting to access the correct information. An authentication and access component provides the functionality to access a system of the present invention. An audit component can be configured to periodically monitor the various accounts to ensure a continued linking between users and accounts." The patent application was filed on Jan. 25, 2010 (12/692,817). 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=80,10,562&OS=80,10,562&RS=80,10,562 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Intel Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,010,731) developed by six co-inventors for an "integrating non-peripheral component interconnect (PCI) resource into a personal computer system." The co-inventors are Arvind Mandhani, San Francisco, Woojong Han, Phoenix, Ken Shoemaker, Los Altos Hills, Calif., Madhu Athreya, Saratoga, Calif., Mahesh Wagh, Portland, Ore., and Shreekant S. Thakkar, Portland, Ore. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, the present invention includes an apparatus having an adapter to communicate according to a personal computer (PC) protocol and a second protocol. A first interface coupled to the adapter is to perform address translation and ordering of transactions received from upstream of the adapter. The first interface is coupled in turn to heterogeneous resources, each of which includes an intellectual property (IP) core and a shim, where the shim is to implement a header of the PC protocol for the IP core to enable its incorporation into the apparatus without modification. Other embodiments are described and claimed." The patent application was filed on July 22, 2010 (12/841,889). 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=8,010,731.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,731&RS=PN/8,010,731 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Transitional Replacement of Operations Performed by a Central Hub ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,010,832) developed by four co-inventors for a "transitional replacement of operations performed by a central hub." The co-inventors are Douglas Lee Lehr, Tucson, Ariz., Franklin Emmert McCune, Tucson, Ariz., David Charles Reed, Tucson, Ariz., and Max Douglas Smith, Tucson, Ariz. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A central hub is coupled to a plurality of computational devices. The central hub stores a data structure that grants locks for accessing common data stored at the central hub, wherein the common data is shared by the plurality of computational devices. Each computational device maintains locally those locks that are held by the computational device in the data structure stored at the central hub. In response to a failure of the data structure stored at the central hub, a selected computational device of the plurality of computational devices is determined to be a manager system. Other computational devices besides the manager system communicate to the manager system all locks held by the other computational devices in the data structure stored at the central hub. The data structure and the common data are generated and stored at the manager system. Transactions are performed with respect to the data structure stored at the manager system, until the data structure stored at the central hub is operational." The patent application was filed on July 25, 2008 (12/180,363). 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=8,010,832.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,832&RS=PN/8,010,832 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Generation of Problem Tickets for a Computer System ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,010,840) developed by four co-inventors for a "generation of problem tickets for a computer system." The co-inventors are Jose R. Chavez Jr., Tucson, Ariz., James D. McKalko, Loveland, Colo., John R. Rexroth, Loveland, Colo., and Todd D. Robinson, Boulder, Colo. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer system and program product for managing events. Program instructions, respond to notification of an event, by determining if a problem ticket can be automatically generated for the event. If so, the program instructions make a request to generate the problem ticket. The program instructions determine if the problem ticket can be automatically generated based in whole or in part on (a) a type of the event and a customer who owns or uses a computer system in which the event occurred, (b) a type of the event, a customer who owns or uses a computer system in which the event occurred, and a severity of the event, (c) a type of the event, a customer who owns or uses a computer system in which the event occurred, and a magnitude of the event, or (d) a type of the event and whether other events of a same type occur at approximately a same time. If a determination is made that a problem ticket cannot be automatically generated, other program instructions notify or initiate notification of an operator and supply event information for the operator so that the operator can determine whether to generate a problem ticket." The patent application was filed on April 13, 2007 (11/735,053). 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=8,010,840.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,840&RS=PN/8,010,840 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Honeywell International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Honeywell International, Morristown, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,010,846) developed by five co-inventors for a "scalable self-checking processing platform including processors executing both coupled and uncoupled applications within a frame." The co-inventors are Byron Birkedahl, Glendale, Ariz., Nicholas Wilt, Glendale, Ariz., Art McCready, Glendale, Ariz., Brendan Hall, Eden Prairie, Minn., and Aaron Larson, Shoreview, Minn. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for a scalable self-checking processing platform are described herein. According to one embodiment, during an execution frame, a first processing element executes both a high-criticality application and a first low-criticality application. During that same execution frame, a second processing element executes both the high-criticality application and a second low-criticality application. The high-criticality application output from the first processing element is compared with that from the second processing element before the next execution frame, and a fault occurs when the output does not match. The low-criticality application is not duplicated or compared. This and other embodiments allow high-criticality applications to be appropriated checked while avoiding the over-dedication of resources to low-criticality applications that do not warrant self-checking." The patent application was filed on April 6, 2009 (12/419,153). 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=8,010,846.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,846&RS=PN/8,010,846 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. For more information about Targeted News Service products and services, please contact: Myron Struck, editor, Targeted News Service LLC, Springfield, Va., 703/304-1897; [email protected]; http://targetednews.com. -1059406 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |