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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Illinois (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 Illinois. *** Rubinstein Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Walter M. Rubinstein, Bronx, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,010,408) developed by Walter M. Rubinstein, Bronx, N.Y., and Simeon Marc Balban, Skokie, Ill., for a "packetized advertising utilizing information indicia." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for packetized advertising carried out with machine readable and decodable information indicia, where the packetized advertisements are formed by associating any combination of a plurality of products and services with the information indicia. In response to a device capturing an image of the information indicia a universal resource locator (URL) is generated. The URL generates a webpage with a series of URL that correspond to the plurality of products and services that are associated with the captured information indicia." The patent application was filed on Oct. 9, 2009 (12/576,276). 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=80,10,408.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,408&RS=PN/80,10,408 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** 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. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Adding Prototype Information Into Probabilistic Models ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,010,341) developed by Kannan Achan, Mountain View, Calif., Moises Goldszmidt, Palo Alto, Calif., and Lev Ratinov, Champaign, Ill., for an "adding prototype information into probabilistic models." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Mechanisms are disclosed for incorporating prototype information into probabilistic models for automated information processing, mining, and knowledge discovery. Examples of these models include Hidden Markov Models (HMMs), Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) models, and the like. The prototype information injects prior knowledge to such models, thereby rendering them more accurate, effective, and efficient. For instance, in the context of automated word labeling, additional knowledge is encoded into the models by providing a small set of prototypical words for each possible label. The net result is that words in a given corpus are labeled and are therefore in condition to be summarized, identified, classified, clustered, and the like." The patent application was filed on Sept. 13, 2007 (11/855,099). 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=80,10,341.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,341&RS=PN/80,10,341 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** General Electric Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- General Electric, Schenectady, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,010,382) developed by four co-inventors for "systems and methods for self-updating intelligent procedure duration estimation for patient scheduling." The co-inventors are Wilkenson Chua, Lake Zurich, Ill., Venkata Mrudula Gullapalli, Mount Prospect, Ill., Vipul Patel, Bartlett, Ill., and Mariusz Kociubinski, Des Plaines, Ill. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Certain embodiments provide systems and methods for self-updating procedure duration estimation for patient scheduling. A scheduling system for scheduling procedures in a clinical environment includes historical procedure data including stored duration values for a procedure. The scheduling system also includes a user interface providing scheduling and procedure duration information to a user for scheduling the procedure for a patient. The scheduling system further includes a scheduling engine estimating one or more duration values for the procedure for scheduling the procedure for a patient. The scheduling engine establishes a default duration value for a procedure and updating the default duration value based on the historical procedure duration data. The scheduling engine provides a plurality of procedure durations including the updated default duration value to the user for selection via the user interface. The scheduling engine schedules a procedure using a user selected value for procedure duration." The patent application was filed on Sept. 16, 2008 (12/211,132). 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=80,10,382.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,382&RS=PN/80,10,382 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** 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. *** Tellabs Operations Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Tellabs Operations, Naperville, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,010,964) developed by Barry J. Glicklich, Warrenville, Ill., Scott R. Kurek, Cortland, Ill., and Kevin L. Stern, Woodridge, Ill., for "methods for monitoring and managing processes." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods are provided for managing process execution within an operating system. The systems and method store a process initialization file, preparing a process list of processes that can be controlled by an individual user, and monitoring execution of the processes based on the process list for each user. The process initialization file is managed by a user with a first level of access to the operating system, and indicates which processes may have process execution controlled by users of the system having a different second level of access to the operating system. A process list is prepared for each individual user having the second level of access." The patent application was filed on Dec. 1, 2005 (11/292,439). 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=8,010,964&OS=8,010,964&RS=8,010,964 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** General Electric Assigned Patent for System and Method for Disease Diagnosis From Patient Structural Deviation Data ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- General Electric, Schenectady, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,010,381) developed by six co-inventors for a "system and method for disease diagnosis from patient structural deviation data." The co-inventors are Saad Ahmed Sirohey, Pewaukee, Wis., Gopal B. Avinash, Menomonee Falls, Wis., Fausto J. Espinal, Waukesha, Wis., Zhongmin Lin, New Berlin, Wis., Ananth Mohan, Waukesha, Wis., and Tamanna Bembenek, Naperville, Ill. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A data processing technique is provided. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes accessing patient deviation data of a structural difference between a patient anatomical feature and a standardized anatomical feature. The method may also include comparing the patient deviation data to reference deviation data sets representative of multiple disease types. Each reference deviation data set may be representative of an expected deviation from the standardized anatomical feature for a particular disease type. The method may further include automatically identifying one or more potential patient disease types based at least in part on the comparison. Additional methods, systems, and manufactures are also disclosed." The patent application was filed on May 20, 2008 (12/123,947). 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=80,10,381.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,381&RS=PN/80,10,381 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Medical Central Online Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Medical Central Online, Lake Forest, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,010,386) developed by Phil Wyatt, Lake Forest, Ill., for a "method and a system for effecting transfer of a patient from a hospital via a computer network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and a system for provides bed availability information via a computer network. A healthcare facility may provide bed availability and/or service information to a database on a computer network. Users of the computer network may access the information within the database. The healthcare facility may create a transfer request form for discharge of a patient to an extended care facility. The transfer request form containing patient medical information and/or patient treatment information is reviewed by an agent. The agent decides whether to approve the transfer request. Notifications are sent to the parties involved with the discharge of the patient to the healthcare facility notifying the parties of the decision of the agent." The patent application was filed on Dec. 15, 2003 (10/736,373). 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=80,10,386.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,386&RS=PN/80,10,386 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Dolan Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Michael R. Dolan, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (8,010,622) developed by Mihael R. Dolan, for a "system and method of user definition of and participation in communities and management of individual and community information and communication." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A set of systems and methods that improve the means by which its users can define and participate in communities and by which users can manage their individual information and communication as well as that of their communities." The patent application was filed on June 1, 2007 (11/757,155). 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=80,10,622.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,622&RS=PN/80,10,622 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Intel Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,010,587) developed by Mohan J. Kumar, Aloha, Ore., and Shay Gueron, Haifa, Ill., for a random number generator. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with random number generators are described. One system embodiment includes a random number generator logic that may produce an initial random number from a first set of three inputs. The system embodiment may receive the three inputs from sources including an internal counter entropy source (ICES), an internal arbitrary entropy source (IAES), and an external entropy source (EES). The system embodiment may generate a first random number from a first set of three inputs (e.g., value from ICES, value from IAES, value from EES) but may then generate subsequent random numbers from a different set of three inputs (e.g., value from ICES, value from IAES, previous random number)." The patent application was filed on Sept. 6, 2007 (11/899,574). 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=80,10,587.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,587&RS=PN/80,10,587 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Accenture Global Services Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Accenture Global Services, Dublin, Irealand, has been assigned a patent (8,010,581) developed by Michael E. Bechtel, Plainfield, Ill., Sanjay Mathur, Redwood City, Calif., and Jordi Arago, Barcelona, Spain, for a "knowledge discovery tool navigation." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system including a knowledge model is provided. The system includes an interface for presenting a relationship between two entities of a knowledge model. The interface includes a method that accepts a first input representative of a selection of a first interface item, the first interface item associated with an entity of the knowledge model. The method also includes presenting, in response to the acceptance, a second interface item, the second interface item associated with a second entity of the knowledge model, wherein the second entity has a relationship with the selected entity and the relationship has a relationship type selected from the group consisting of a direct relationship type or a derived relationship type. Finally, the method also includes presenting a relationship indicia representative of the relationship between the first entity and the second entity." The patent application was filed on July 18, 2008 (12/175,989). 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=80,10,581&OS=80,10,581&RS=80,10,581 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Alcatel Lucent Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Alcatel Lucent, Paris, has been assigned a patent (8,010,672) developed by Cary Y. Yoshikawa, Aurora, Ill., for "methods and systems for controlling utilization of resources of contention." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for controlling utilization of resources(s) of contention by a plurality of devices of a single or multiple priority classes. A utilization scaling factor is determined for each class for the resource(s) and compared with a threshold value. An apersistence property pattern is then created for each class that includes apersistence property entries corresponding to apersistence update cycles of an apersistence pattern window. Where the scaling factor is in a first range corresponding to low resource loading, the class pattern includes unimpeded entries allowing the devices in a class to attempt to utilize the resource. Otherwise, the class pattern is created with at least one blocking entry that prevents all devices in a class from attempting utilization of the resource during the corresponding apersistence update cycle. An apersistence property pattern entry is then provided from the pattern to the devices in each apersistence update cycle of the apersistence pattern window." The patent application was filed on July 29, 2005 (July 29, 2005). 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=8,010,672.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,672&RS=PN/8,010,672 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** University of California Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- The University of California, Oakland, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,010,481) developed by Timothy Peter Sherwood, Santa Barbara, Calif., and Lin Tan, Urbana, Ill., for a "pattern matching technique for high throughput network processing." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A pattern matching technique for high throughput network processing includes a simple yet powerful special purpose architecture and a set of novel string matching algorithms that can work in unison. The novel set of algorithms allow for bit-level partitioning of rules such that may be more easily implemented in hardware or software. The result is a device that maintains tight worst case bounds on performance, can be updated with new rules without interrupting operation, compiles in seconds instead of hours, and is ten times more efficient than the existing best known solutions in this area." The patent application was filed on March 7, 2007 (11/715,186). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,010,481.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,481&RS=PN/8,010,481 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Caterpillar Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Caterpillar, Peoria, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,010,477) developed by Michael Roy Rogers, Brimfield, Ill., and Brian T. Lough, Peoria, Ill., for an "integrated problem solving system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for solving a problem is disclosed. The method may include receiving a problem description. The description of the problem may include a description of a host application module to be used for solving the problem. The method may further include training an embeddable logic library with baseline data and a known solution of the problem. The embeddable logic library may include a plurality of object components describing rules and procedures for processing data. The method may further include receiving input data associated with the problem, and processing the input data according to the problem description, using rules and procedures described by the object components in the embeddable logic library. The method may also include converting the processed data into a format required by the host application module, and providing the converted data to the host application module." The patent application was filed on March 14, 2008 (12/076,178). 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=8,010,477.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,477&RS=PN/8,010,477 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Sony Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Sony, Tokyo, and Sony Pictures Entertainment, Culver City, Calif., have been assigned a patent (8,010,486) developed by five co-inventors for network media channels. The co-inventors are Carsten Schwesig, Tokyo, Eduardo Sciammarella, Chicago, John Poisson, Hooksett, N.H., Ryoichi Imaizumi, Tokyo, and Norikazu Hiraki, Kawasaki, Japan. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Capturing, storing, and publishing media files, including: capturing media data using a media capture device, wherein the media capture device is connected to a first server in a local network and includes local storage and a media editing component; storing the captured media data in a media file in the local storage of the media capture device; modifying the media file using the media editing component of the media capture device including adding metadata to the media file; determining a network media channel corresponding to the media file using the metadata; and publishing the modified media file to the first server connected to the local network, wherein the published media file is accessible through the local network." The patent application was filed on Jan. 23, 2007 (11/626,167). 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=8,010,486.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,486&RS=PN/8,010,486 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. 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. -1059415 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |