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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in New Jersey (Sept. 28)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in New Jersey. *** Educational Testing Service Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Educational Testing Service, Princeton, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,027,806) developed by Len Swanson, Hopewell, N.J., for a "method and system for computer-assisted test construction performing specification matching during test item selection." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for constructing a test using a computer system that performs specification matching during the test creation process is disclosed. A test developer determines one or more test item databases from which to select test items. The test item databases are organized based on psychometric and/or content specifications. The developer can examine the textual passages, artwork or statistical information pertaining to a test item before selecting it by clicking on a designation of the test item in a database. The developer can then add the test item to a list of test items for the test. The test development system updates pre-designated psychometric and content specification information as the developer adds each test item to the test. The test developer can use the specification information to determine whether to add to, subtract from, or modify the list of test items selected for the test." The patent application was filed on May 18, 2009 (12/453,651). 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=80,27,806.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,806&RS=PN/80,27,806 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Medco Health Solutions Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Medco Health Solutions, Franklin Lakes, N.J., has been assigned a patent (RE42,730) developed by seven co-inventors for an "automatic prescription filling, sorting and packaging system." The co-inventors are Christopher J. Lasher, Ridgewood, N.J., Dennis W. Rice, Flanders, N.J., Michael J. Szesko, Freehold, N.J., Frank Modrowsky, Branchburg, N.J., James G. McErlean, Union Dale, Pa., Michael Kennedy, Doylestown, Pa., and Paul Thomas Shupert, Parkton, Md. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In an automated prescription dispensing and packing system, empty prescription bottles are labeled and loaded in assigned locations in carriers. Pills are automatically dispensed into the prescription bottles in the carriers. Ranks of carriers containing filled prescription bottles are assembled at stations where the bottles are unloaded and packed into shipping containers with literature printed by the system. Multiple bottles of an order are automatically packed in the same shipping container." The patent application was filed on May 20, 2009 (12/469,482). 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=RE42,730&OS=RE42,730&RS=RE42,730 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Oracle America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Oracle America, Redwood City, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,028,336) developed by Christoph L. Schuba, Menlo Park, Calif., Dwight Hare, Encinitas, Calif., and Hal Stern, Livingston, N.J., for an "intrusion detection using dynamic tracing." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques have been developed whereby dynamic kernel/user-level tracing may be employed to efficiently characterize runtime behavior of production code. Using dynamic tracing techniques, user space or kernel instruction sequences between system calls may be instrumented without access to source code. In some realizations, instrumentation may be interactively specified on a host system. In some realizations, instrumentation specifications may be supplied as functional definitions (e.g., as scripts and/or probe definitions) for installation on a host system. Using the developed techniques, data states, parameters passed and/or timing information may be sampled to provide more detailed insight into actual program behavior. In signature-oriented exploitations, more powerful intrusion signatures are possible. In anomaly-oriented exploitations, a more detailed "sense of self" may be developed to discriminate between normal and anomalous program behavior." The patent application was filed on Nov. 8, 2005 (11/269,775). 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=8,028,336&OS=8,028,336&RS=8,028,336 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Siemens Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Siemens, Munich, Germany, has been assigned a patent (8,027,986) developed by four co-inventors for indication-dependent control elements. The co-inventors are Susanne Bay, Erlangen, Germany, Christoph Braun, Rosenheim, Germany, Hanna Kohler, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany, and Marcela De Castro Esteves, Princeton, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method is disclosed for controlling the display of activation elements for tools for editing medical data on a user interface in a computer-based, medico-technical system. In at least one embodiment, the activation elements are displayed in an activation element area, divided into various segments, of the user interface on the basis of the medical context. The doctor is thus able to select the tools clearly on a task- or indication-specific basis without an image data area of the user interface being concealed by the activation elements." The patent application was filed on July 11, 2008 (12/216,822 ). 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=8,027,986.PN.&OS=PN/8,027,986&RS=PN/8,027,986 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Goldman Sachs Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Goldman Sachs, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,028,087) developed by five co-inventors for a "system and method for message processing and routing." The co-inventors are Carl J. Reed, Hoboken, N.J., Michael R. Marzo, Millington, N.J., Tomozumi Kanayama, New York, Konstantin A. Krasheninnikov, Union City, N.J., and Julien George Beguin, New York. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A message routing system that allows applications at either end of the system to run as-is without modification. The system functions in a multithreaded environment and is capable of handling complex routing rules and message transformation. It is also capable of learning and executing new routing rules and message transformations in formats previously unrecognized by the system. The system enables precise and reliable logging of messages throughout processing and supports publication of enterprise-wide broadcast messages. The system further preferably employs cooperating inbound and outbound transport processes for consuming, routing, processing, safely storing and publishing messages in batches of logical units of work to ensure that the logical units of work are not lost in system transactions. The system also preferably utilizes a replay server for preserving and replaying messages that might otherwise fail to reach their intended destinations." The patent application was filed on April 4, 2008 (12/080,764). 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=8,028,087.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,087&RS=PN/8,028,087 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,028,055) developed by Nicholas G. Duffield, Summit, N.J., Carsten Lund, Berkeley Heights, N.J., and Mikkel Thorup, Florence, Mass., for an "optimal combination of sampled measurements." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Two regularized estimators that avoid the pathologies associated with variance estimation are disclosed. The regularized variance estimator adds a contribution to estimated variance representing the likely error, and hence ameliorates the pathologies of estimating small variances while at the same time allowing more reliable estimates to be balanced in the convex combination estimator. The bounded variance estimator employs an upper bound to the variance which avoids estimation pathologies when sampling probabilities are very small." The patent application was filed on Nov. 17, 2008 (12/272,712). 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=8,028,055&OS=8,028,055&RS=8,028,055 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Thomson Reuters (Markets) Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Thomson Reuters (Markets), New York, has been assigned a patent (8,028,068) developed by Armughan Rafat, Franklin Park, N.J., and Karl J. Meissner, Windham, N.H., for a "system using a lockbox device for releasing financial information from an information embargo setting." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Information is electronically transmitted from an information embargo setting. The latency and/or lag in releasing information from the information embargo setting is reduced to facilitate dissemination of the embargoed information faster than other entities. The entity controlling the release of information in the information embargo setting may include one or more of a governmental agency (e.g., associated with the United States government, associated with the Canadian government, associated with the European Union and/or one or more states included therein, and/or other agencies associated with other governments), and/or other entities." The patent application was filed on Dec. 9, 2009 (12/634,087). 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=8,028,068.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,068&RS=PN/8,028,068 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Alcatel-Lucent USA Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Alcatel-Lucent USA, Murray Hill, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,028,050) developed by Giuseppe F. Italiano, Rome, Rajeev Rastogi, New Providence, N.J., and Bulent Yener, Chatham, N.Y., for a "restoration for virtual private networks." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Restoration is provided in a communication system having two or more VPN endpoints coupled together through a network comprising a number of nodes interconnected through edges. VPN endpoints coupled through the network are adapted to communicate through a single connection with multiple other VPN endpoints. The single connection may be a VPN hose connection. A restoration topology, comprising backup edges corresponding to primary edges in the network, is determined for the network. A given primary edge is replaced with one or more backup edges if the given primary edge fails. A graph may represent the network and a tree may represent the connections in the network for VPNs connecting the VPN endpoints. The graph can be reduced to a second graph by determining shortest paths between each node in the tree and creating the backup edges from the shortest paths. The second graph can be reduced to a third graph by adding additional backup edges from tree nodes having non-tree edges to least common ancestor nodes. The third graph can be used to create a two-edge connected tree." The patent application was filed on June 13, 2003 (10/462,215). 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=8,028,050&OS=8,028,050&RS=8,028,050 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Nyse Amex Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Nyse Amex, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,027,911) developed by six co-inventors for a "hedging exchange traded mutual fund or other portfolio basket products." The co-inventors are Clifford J. Weber, Basking Ridge, N.J., Carol Alexander, Purley Surrey, United Kingdom, Charles A. Baker, Wayne, N.J., Jason MacQueen, New York, Gary L. Gastineau, Short Hills, N.J., and Terry Norman, Barling Magna, United Kingdom. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for pricing and/or determining a basket of financial instruments for hedging investment risk in actively managed traded funds is described. The system uses a trusted computer system and includes a computer storage medium storing a computer program product. The product determines a basket of hedging instruments by applying statistical or economic based factor analysis to estimate the NAV or provide a hedging basket to rack actual NAV of an actively managed traded fund." The patent application was filed on Feb. 16, 2011 (13/028,861). 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=8,027,911.PN.&OS=PN/8,027,911&RS=PN/8,027,911 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Codestreet Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Codestreet, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,027,907) developed by six co-inventors for a "fixed-income system for managing pre-trade activity." The co-inventors are Edward Guttman, New York, Mark Pollack, New York, Jim Perrello, Madison, N.J., Jawaid Hakim, Brooklyn, N.Y., Robert Hector, New Brunswick, N.J., and Howard Pein, Harrison, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for managing pre-trade activity. In general, a distribution of information about what traders and customers want to do may be known. Users may be made aware of trade ideas that can be proposed to a trading desk's buy-side clients. Relevant information on the trading desk may be brought together, and the information may be processed through a set of rules that extract trading opportunities. On the buy side, trade ideas may be extracted without having to have the intervention of a sell-side salesforce." The patent application was filed on Nov. 20, 2007 (11/943,543). 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=8,027,907.PN.&OS=PN/8,027,907&RS=PN/8,027,907 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** EBS Group Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- EBS Group, London, has been assigned a patent (8,027,895) developed by five co-inventors for an "architecture for anonymous trading system." The co-inventors are Edward Howorka, Morris Plains, N.J., Vladimir Neyman, West Orange, N.J., Steven Iaccheo, Lincoln Park, N.J., Neena Jain, South Plainfield, N.J., and James Shu, East Hanover, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An anonymous trading system comprises a network of broker nodes, each of which have an equal status and can match orders, initiate deals and distribute prices. Trading agents are connected to some or all of the broker nodes. The network is arranged to conform to a series of rules and in a preferred embodiment the brokers are arranged as a clique tree." The patent application was filed on Jan. 28, 2008 (12/020,834). 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=8,027,895.PN.&OS=PN/8,027,895&RS=PN/8,027,895 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** InterDigital Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- InterDigital Technology, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,028,217) developed by Philip J. Pietraski, Huntington Station, N.Y., and Yongwen Yang, Hillsborough, N.J., for a "method and apparatus for encoding and decoding high speed shared control channel." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for encoding and decoding high speed shared control channel (HS-SCCH) data are disclosed. For part 1 data encoding, a mask may be generated using a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) identity (ID) and a generator matrix with a maximum minimum Hamming distance. For part 2 data encoding, cyclic redundancy check (CRC) bits are generated based on part 1 data and part 2 data. The number of CRC bits is less than the WTRU ID. The CRC bits and/or the part 2 data are masked with a mask. The mask may be a WTRU ID or a punctured WTRU ID of length equal to the CRC bits. The mask may be generated using the WTRU ID and a generator matrix with a maximum minimum Hamming distance. The masking may be performed after encoding or rate matching." The patent application was filed on Oct. 30, 2007 (11/928,390). 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=8,028,217&OS=8,028,217&RS=8,028,217 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** TractManager Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- TractManager, Chattanooga, Tenn., has been assigned a patent (8,028,231) developed by Scott R. Jeffery, Westfield, N.J., and Thomas A. Rizk, Franklin Lakes, N.J., for a "document management system for searching scanned documents." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for storing, organizing and providing remote electronic access to documents. A cover sheet including a standard set of identification data characterizing each document is developed and stored. A digital version of each document is created and stored by scanning each contract. Each digital version includes a scanned image and a searchable text file, wherein the text is overlaid with the image. An index of bookmarks identifying sections of the digital version of each document is generated. Selected fields of information are captured from the digital version of the document. The documents are organized and cross-referenced in a database that includes the captured information and additional information related to each document. Designated parties are alerted of critical dates associated with each document. Remote electronic access to the documents is provided over the internet." The patent application was filed on March 20, 2007 (11/688,765). 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=8,028,231.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,231&RS=PN/8,028,231 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. -1062896 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |