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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in New Jersey (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 New Jersey. *** Multi-Format Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Multi-Format, Little Ferry, N.J., has been assigned a patent (RE42,657) developed by Kinya Washino, Little Ferry, N.J., and Barry H. Schwab, West Bloomfield, Mich., for a "dual compression format digital video production system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An audio/video production system is implemented on a PC-based platform, preferably utilizing various forms of removable magnetic, optical, or magneto-optical storage media. Specially modified cameras or other sources provide digitally data-compressed audio and video program materials in two formats, a first format having a higher data-compression ratio and intended for use in off-line systems to develop edit decision lists, and a second format having a lower data-compression ratio and intended for use in on-line editing and to produce the final representations of the programs. Off-line editing decisions may thus be developed on a PC using removable storage media, and final representations of the programs may be produced on-line in accordance with stationary-head or rotary-head digital-tape-based formats, such as DAT, 6-mm or 8-mm tapes. In an alternative embodiment, automatic and unattended editing, or extended program playback of more than 40 hours duration of digital video, is available." The patent application was filed on Dec. 3, 2004 (11/003,580). 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=RE42,657&OS=RE42,657&RS=RE42,657 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent for Combining Active and Semi-supervised Learning for Spoken Language Understanding ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,010,357) developed by Dilek Z. Hakkani-Tur, Denville, N.J., Robert Elias Schapire, Princeton, N.J., and Gokhan Tur, Denville, N.J., for "combining active and semi-supervised learning for spoken language understanding." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Combined active and semi-supervised learning to reduce an amount of manual labeling when training a spoken language understanding model classifier. The classifier may be trained with human-labeled utterance data. Ones of a group of unselected utterance data may be selected for manual labeling via active learning. The classifier may be changed, via semi-supervised learning, based on the selected ones of the unselected utterance data." The patent application was filed on Jan. 12, 2005 (11/033,902). 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=80,10,357.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,357&RS=PN/80,10,357 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- AT&T Intellectual Property, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,010,360) developed by Michiel Adriaan Unico Bacchiani, Summit, N.J., and Brian Scott Amento, Morris Plains, N.J., for a "system and method for latency reduction for automatic speech recognition using partial multi-pass results." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method is provided for reducing latency for automatic speech recognition. In one embodiment, intermediate results produced by multiple search passes are used to update a display of transcribed text." The patent application was filed on Dec. 15, 2009 (12/638,604). 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=80,10,360.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,360&RS=PN/80,10,360 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,010,369) developed by Joseph A. Alfred, Somerset, N.J., and Joseph M. Sommer, Rutherford, N.J., for a "system and method for controlling devices that are connected to a network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system, method and computer-readable medium for controlling devices connected to a network. The method includes receiving an utterance from a user for remotely controlling a device in a network; converting the received utterance to text using an automatic speech recognition module; accessing a user profile in the network that governs access to a plurality of devices on the network and identifiers which control a conversion of the text to a device specific control language; identifying based on the text a device to be controlled; converting at least a portion of the text to the device control language; and transmitting the device control language to the identified device, wherein the identified device implements a function based on the transmitted device control language." The patent application was filed on Oct. 30, 2007 (11/929,408). 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=80,10,369.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,369&RS=PN/80,10,369 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,010,361) developed by four co-inventors, for a "method and system for automatically detecting morphemes in a task classification system using lattices." The co-inventors are Allen Louis Gorin, Berkley Heights, N.J., Dijana Petrovska-Delacretaz, Fribourg, Switzerland, Giuseppe Riccardi, Hoboken, N.J., and Jeremy Huntley Wright, Berkley Heights, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In an embodiment, a lattice of phone strings in an input communication of a user may be recognized, wherein the lattice may represent a distribution over the phone strings. Morphemes in the input communication of the user may be detected using the recognized lattice. Task-type classification decisions may be made based on the detected morphemes in the input communication of the user." The patent application was filed on July 30, 2008 (12/182,618). 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=80,10,361.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,361&RS=PN/80,10,361 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Thomson Licensing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Thomson Licensing, Boulogne-Billancourt, France, has been assigned a patent (8,010,863) developed by Dekai Li, Yardley, Pa., Saurabh Mathur, Monmouth Junction, N.J., and Ashwin Kashyap, Plainsboro, N.J., for a "method and apparatus for synchronizing multiple multimedia streams." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "There are provided a method and apparatus for synchronizing a plurality of media streams that use Forward Error Correction. The apparatus includes a memory device (110), a FEC encoder (120), and a control device (140). The memory device (110) is for buffering the plurality of media streams. The FEC encoder (120) is for generating FEC packets for streams. The control device (140) is for determining, for each stream, a respective threshold amount of buffer to be filled in order to initiate generation of the corresponding FEC packets, and upon a fastest one of the streams filling the respective threshold amount of buffer, causing an initiation of the generation of the FEC packets for the fastest stream, as well as for the other streams, irrespective of a current fill amount of the other streams, wherein said control device causes the initiation of the generation of the FEC packets by the FEC encoder via signaling." The patent application was filed on July 24, 2007 (11/880,729). 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=591&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. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,010,639) developed by Simon D. Byers, Summit, N.J., for a "parallel random proxy usage for large scale web access." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method efficiently and anonymously retrieves large scale Web data through a restricted query interface. A number of proxy servers are utilized to permit parallel access to a target Web server for processing multiple queries simultaneously. Latency in the individual queries is absorbed by the proxy servers. Queries that would otherwise appear structured to the target server are assigned to the proxy server in a random fashion, obscuring the structured nature of the queries. The anonymous nature of the queries made by the proxy servers furthermore conceals the identity of the originating server." The patent application was filed on June 5, 2009 (12/479,374). 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=80,10,639.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,639&RS=PN/80,10,639 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Research In Motion Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Research In Motion, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, has been assigned a patent (8,010,610) developed by George Baldwin Bumiller, Ramsey, N.J., for a "handheld electronic device providing assisted entry of contact information, and associated method." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of facilitating the entry of information for a contact to be stored by an address book application of a handheld electronic device, wherein the information is entered into a plurality of fields. The method includes receiving first information in a first one of the fields, and determining whether the first information can be used to determine second information for entry in one of the fields. If it is determined that the first information can be used to determine the second information, the method includes entering the second information in either the first one of the fields or another one of the fields. Also, a handheld electronic device having one or more routines that are adapted to implement the method described above." The patent application was filed on Aug. 3, 2005 (11/196,363). 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=80,10,610.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,610&RS=PN/80,10,610 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent for Method and System for Reading Instructions from NAND flash Memory and Writing them into SRAM for Execution by a Processing Device ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,010,734) developed by Zhijun Gong, Iselin, N.J., for a "method and system for reading instructions from NAND flash memory and writing them into SRAM for execution by a processing device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system is provided for efficient execution of code in memory by a processing device and may comprise determining whether a first type of memory is present. If the first type of memory is present, at least a portion of code stored in the first type of memory may be copied to a second type of memory and executed in the latter. The first type of memory may be NAND flash memory and the second type of memory may be SDRAM. A loader image may be copied from the first type of memory to an instruction memory and a jump made to the entry of the copied loader image. Code for the loader image may then be executed. Vectors may also be copied from the first type of memory to the instruction memory and mapped to a startup address." The patent application was filed on June 22, 2004 (10/875,000). 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=8,010,734.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,734&RS=PN/8,010,734 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (8,010,694) developed by Robert Duncan Doverspike, Tinton Falls, N.J., Kostas Oikonomou, Colts Neck, N.J., and Rakesh K. Sinha, Edison, N.J., for a "network performance and reliability evaluation taking into account multiple traffic matrices." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Network performability characteristics with improved accuracy are derived by taking into account, in the various analyzed network failure states, attributes of elements at the logical level other than just the capacities of edges, as well as by taking into account one or more "abstract components," such as scheduled maintenance, and by using multiple traffic matrices." The patent application was filed on March 13, 2008 (12/075,719). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,010,694.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,694&RS=PN/8,010,694 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Citigroup Global Markets Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Citigroup Global Markets, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,010,786) developed by Hilary Ward, Princeton Junction, N.J., for "systems and methods for managing digital certificate based communications." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for providing interoperability between PKI networks is provided in which a identity management server converts PKI requests received in a client-specific format into a generic format, identifies an appropriate certificate authority for handling the request, converts the request into a format specific to the format used by the identified certificate authority, and forwards the request to the identified certificate authority for processing." The patent application was filed on Oct. 30, 2007 (11/981,177). 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=8,010,786.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,786&RS=PN/8,010,786 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** CommVault Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- CommVault Systems, Oceanport, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,010,769) developed by five co-inventors for "systems and methods for classifying and transferring information in a storage network." The co-inventors are Anand Prahlad, Bangalore, India, Jeremy A. Schwartz, Austin, Texas, David Ngo, Shrewsbury, N.J., Brian Brockway, Shrewsbury, N.J., and Marcus S. Muller, Cranbury, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for data classification to facilitate and improve data management within an enterprise are described. The disclosed systems and methods evaluate and define data management operations based on data characteristics rather than data location, among other things. Also provided are methods for generating a data structure of metadata that describes system data and storage operations. This data structure may be consulted to determine changes in system data rather than scanning the data files themselves." The patent application was filed on Nov. 4, 2010 (12/939,244). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8010769.PN.&OS=PN/8010769&RS=PN/8010769 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Siemens Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Siemens, Iselin, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,010,475) developed by Peng Zhao, Rockville, Md., and Yan Lu, West Windsor, N.J. for an "online fault detection and avoidance framework for distributed factory control systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An on-line fault detection and avoidance method is provided for industrial control systems that include multiple interacting process controllers. The method addresses the problem that not all faults can be determined and removed at the time of system design and testing. When a fault translates into a time-out condition in one or more controllers, symptoms are identified, persistence is measured, other involved controllers are identified, the fault condition is identified and control laws are reconfigured to avoid the fault condition in the future." The patent application was filed on April 11, 2008 (12/101,294). 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=8,010,475.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,475&RS=PN/8,010,475 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** University of California Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- The University of California, Oakland, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,010,655) developed by Sujit Dey, San Diego, Nishant Mittal, Egg Harbour Township, N.J., and Debashis Panigrahi, San Diego, for a "network monitoring system and method." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for monitoring a wireless channel or wireless network. Preferably, the method and system monitors a web-based network. Active data probing is used to estimate bandwidth availability when no a-priori knowledge of the current channel or network condition is available, and passive monitoring is used to track ongoing web traffic in estimating the current bandwidth available. Data probes are selected that are dynamically customized based on application requirements and the network variability observed in view of a balancing between accuracy of the bandwidth estimation and the potential overhead in terms of time consumed and additional traffic used. In this way, under specified limits of overhead, the active probing attempts to achieve best-effort network bandwidth estimation, and the passive monitoring tracks ongoing web traffic in estimating the current bandwidth available." The patent application was filed on Nov. 17, 2005 (11/667,404). 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=8,010,655.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,655&RS=PN/8,010,655 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Hydrophobic Moment of Multi-domain Proteins ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,010,332) developed by four co-inventors for a "hydrophobic moment of multi-domain proteins." The co-inventors are Prasanna Athma, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., Ajay Royyuru, Congers, N.Y., Benjamin David Silverman, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., and Ruhong Zhou, Fort Lee, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques for protein structure analysis are provided. In one aspect, an apparatus for characterizing a multi-domain protein structure comprises the following steps. For at least one domain, a hydrophobic dipole, e.g., defined as a first-order hydrophobic moment of the domain, is calculated. A score representing the orientation of the hydrophobic dipole of the at least one domain relative to a hydrophobic dipole of one or more other domains of the multi-domain protein structure is then calculated." The patent application was filed on Aug. 13, 2009 (12/540,540). 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=80,10,332.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,332&RS=PN/80,10,332 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. 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