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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Washington (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 Washington. *** Amazon.com Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Amazon.com, Seattle, has been assigned a patent (8,027,884) developed by six co-inventors for a "contextual presentation on electronic catalog pages of information reflective of prior orders." The co-inventors are Jeffrey P. Bezos, Greater Seattle, Wash., Maryam S. Mohit, Seattle, Walker L. Lockhart, Seattle, Ericka N. Lock, Issaquah, Wash., William W. Allocca, Bellevue, Wash., and Suguna Subramaniam, Bellevue, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An electronic catalog system, which may be implemented as a web site or another type of interactive system, presents context-sensitive information to customers reflective of their prior orders. In one embodiment, when a customer requests an item detail page for a particular item, the system may supplement the item detail page with information reflective of one or more related orders previously placed by the customer. This information may include, for example, an indication that the customer previously ordered this item or a related item, and may include information, such as status information, regarding such previously placed order(s). If the customer previously ordered a related item, the information provided on the item detail page may include an indication of whether the previously ordered item is compatible or interoperable with the item being viewed." The patent application was filed on Feb. 4, 2010 (12/700,615). 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=80,27,884.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,884&RS=PN/80,27,884 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Washington Inventor Develops Patent for Method for Measuring Packet Advertising Effectiveness ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- William A. Harper, Redmond, Wash., has developed a patent (8,027,875) for a "method for measuring packet advertising effectiveness." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "This invention generally relates to a method for measuring the effectiveness of an advertising method that facilitates purchases involving or assisted by a website. More particularly the method discloses how to measure the advertising effectiveness of widely distributed resealable packets of liquid that bear website addresses to prompt or facilitate direct access to websites. Data derived from the packet's manufacturing, distribution and website access is used in measuring the advertising effectiveness disclosed in this method." The patent application was filed on July 10, 2008 (12/218,011). 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=80,27,875.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,875&RS=PN/80,27,875 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,027,832) developed by William D. Ramsey, Redmond, Wash., Patricia M. Schmid, Redmond, Wash., and Kevin R. Powell, Kirkland, Wash., for a efficient language identification. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and methods of language identification of natural language text are presented. The system includes stored expected character counts and variances for a list of characters found in a natural language. Expected character counts and variances are stored for multiple languages to be considered during language identification. At run-time, one or more languages are identified for a text sample based on comparing actual and expected character counts. The present methods can be combined with upstream analyzing of Unicode ranges for characters in the text sample to limit the number of languages considered. Further, n-gram methods can be used in downstream processing to select the most probable language from among the languages identified by the present system and methods." The patent application was filed on Feb. 11, 2005 (11/056,707). 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=80,27,832.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,832&RS=PN/80,27,832 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Lockheed Martin Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Lockheed Martin, Bethesda, Md., has been assigned a patent (8,027,818) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for unstable-resonator optically pumped semiconductor lasers." The co-inventors are Deborah A. Alterman, Seattle, Dawn M. Meekhof, Lake Forest Park, Wash., Dennis D. Lowenthal, Edmonds, Wash., and Ananda K. Cousins, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Apparatus and method for designing and operating a solid-state laser that compensates for thermal lensing such that lasing instability is maintained at high pumping power. In some embodiments, the laser is an optically pumped semiconductor laser (OPSL). In some embodiments, a concave end facet is formed on the OPSL that at least compensates for thermal lensing at high pump power. In some embodiments, an external mirror is used for at least one end of the OPSL, wherein the external mirror at least compensates for thermal lensing at high pump power." The patent application was filed on Dec. 21, 2007 (11/963,788). 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=80,27,818.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,818&RS=PN/80,27,818 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Honeywell International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Honeywell International, Morristown, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,027,799) developed by Robert J. Thomas, Brier, Wash., and Michael L. Underhill, Bothell, Wash., for a digital potentiometer system. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system or circuit for simulating a potentiometer, thermistor, or the like. A pulse stream, having a duty cycle which is varied as a changing pulse width or as a differing number of time slices per time period, may be input to the system. The pulse stream to a transistor or switch-like mechanism may allow a controlled connection of a fixed value resistor to a reference voltage or ground to provide various resultant values of impedance or resistance. A measuring circuit connected to the output of the system may determine a value which is of the fixed value resistor divided by the duty cycle of the pulse train effectively controlling the connection of the resistor to ground. One or more additional circuits may be connected in parallel to achieve greater accuracy." The patent application was filed on Nov. 28, 2007 (11/946,614). 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=80,27,799.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,799&RS=PN/80,27,799 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Physio-Control Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Physio-Control, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,027,721) developed by Joseph L. Sullivan, Kirkland, Wash., for a "balanced charge waveform for transcutaneous pacing." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "External pacemaker systems and methods deliver pacing waveforms that minimize hydrolysis of the electrode gel. Compensating pulses are interleaved with the pacing pulses, with a polarity and duration that balance the net charge at the electrode locations. The compensating pulses are preferably rectangular for continuous pacing, and decay individually for on-demand pacing." The patent application was filed on March 24, 2003 (10/396,023). 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=8027721.PN.&OS=PN/8027721&RS=PN/8027721 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cardiac Pacemakers Assigned Patent Capture Verification Using an Evoked Response Reference ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Cardiac Pacemakers, St. Paul, Minn., has been assigned a patent (8,027,725) developed by Jaeho Kim, Redmond, Wash., and Joseph Bocek, Seattle, for a "capture verification using an evoked response reference." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for verifying capture in the heart involves the use of pacing artifact templates. One or more pacing artifact templates characterizing a post pace artifact signal associated with a particular pace voltage or range of voltages are provided. A pacing artifact template is canceled from a cardiac signal sensed following a pacing pulse. Capture is detected by comparing the pacing artifact canceled cardiac signal to an evoked response reference. Fusion/pseudofusion detection involves determining a correlation between a captured response template and a sensed cardiac signal." The patent application was filed on March 8, 2010 (12/719,117). 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=8027725.PN.&OS=PN/8027725&RS=PN/8027725 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Intel Assigned Patent for System for Atomically Updating a Plurality of Files ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,028,282) developed by Kirk D. Brannock, Olympia, Wash., and William A. Stevens, Folsom, Calif., for a "system for atomically updating a plurality of files." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for updating platform firmware is disclosed. This capability is facilitated by a standard software abstraction for a firmware storage device, known as Firmware Volume (FV) that is managed through a Firmware File System (FFS). The FFS enables firmware files to be created, deleted, and updated individually. The FFS also enables a plurality of firmware files to be updated atomically by managing file state information via state bits stored in a file header of each firmware file, whereby an atomic change to a single state bit simultaneously causes the FFS to use an updated set of firmware files in place of an original set of firmware files." The patent application was filed on Aug. 14, 2007 (11/893,342). 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=8,028,282&OS=8,028,282&RS=8,028,282 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Sharp Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Sharp, Osaka, Japan, has been assigned a patent (RE42,745) developed by Louis J. Kerofsky, Camas, Wash., for "systems and methods for reduced bit-depth processing in video-related data with frequency weighting matrices." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for processing of data related to video wherein reduced bit depth intermediate calculations are enabled." The patent application was filed on Jan. 19, 2010 (12/689,897). 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=RE42,745&OS=RE42,745&RS=RE42,745 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** QST Holdings Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- QST Holdings, Palo Alto, Calif., has been assigned a patent (RE42,743) developed by Paul L. Master, Sunnyvale, Calif., and John Watson, Edgewood, Wash., for a "system for authorizing functionality in adaptable hardware devices." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for authorizing new or ongoing functional use of an adaptable device. The device generates usage information including the times that the device is used, types of functionality provided, indication of amount and type of resources used, and other information. The usage information is transmitted back to a controlling entity, such as an original manufacturer of the adaptable device. The controlling entity can act to enable or prevent use of the provided functionality, as desired. Part of the requirement for using functionality can be monetary, by predetermined agreement, or by other criteria." The patent application was filed on May 15, 2008 (12/152,620). 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=RE42,743&OS=RE42,743&RS=RE42,743 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Sharp Laboratories of America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Sharp Laboratories of America, Camas, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,028,314) developed by Muhammed Ibrahim Sezan, Camas, Wash., and Petrus Van Beek, Vancouver, Wash., for an "audiovisual information management system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system, may include, at least one of audio, image, and a video comprising a plurality of frames. A preferences description, describing preferences of a user with respect to the use of at least one of the audio, image, and video, where the description normally includes multiple preferences." The patent application was filed on May 26, 2000 (09/580,808). 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=8,028,314&OS=8,028,314&RS=8,028,314 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,028,335) developed by five co-inventors for "protected environments for protecting users against undesirable activities." The co-inventors are Ojiakonobi Udezue, Redmond, Wash., Bryan T. Starbuck, Redmond, Wash., Daniel S. Struthers, Federal Way, Wash., Geurt B. De Raad, Sammamish, Wash., and Anthony G. Thane, Redmond, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various embodiments protect against undesirable activities, in at least some embodiments, by combining the protection of a data or message filter with the user's own knowledge and judgment. In at least some embodiments, data or a message that is suspected of being associated with an undesirable activity is identified and indicia is provided to a user that the message is suspect. The data or message is presented to the user in a protected environment that allows the user to access the data or message in full fidelity, but prevents them from interacting with the data or message in a manner which would expose them to the undesirable activity. After reviewing the data or message in the protected environment, the user can decide how the message should thereafter be treated." The patent application was filed on June 19, 2006 (11/424,971). 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=8,028,335&OS=8,028,335&RS=8,028,335 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Perimeter Message Filtering with Extracted User-specific Preferences ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,028,026) developed by five co-inventors for "perimeter message filtering with extracted user-specific preferences." The co-inventors are Chandresh K. Jain, Sammamish, Wash., Malcolm E. Pearson, Kirkland, Wash., Nathan F. Waddoups, Redmond, Wash., Mihai Costea, Redmond, Wash., and Eric D. Tribble, Bellevue, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Propagating messaging preferences of one or more users from a recipient mailbox to a perimeter network administering e-mail content blocking and routing. A content filtering application located outside a trusted network receives messaging preferences information from within the trusted network regarding the mail recipients. This messaging preferences information may be utilized to allow certain pre-authorized messages from particular senders to bypass content filtering. Moreover, the messaging preferences information may be hashed to further protect the information on the perimeter network and to speed in review and comparison of the messaging preferences information. In addition, other types of user-specific information may be propagated to the perimeter network for use with other applications other than messaging." The patent application was filed on May 31, 2006 (11/421,367). 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=8,028,026.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,026&RS=PN/8,028,026 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Integrating Loosely Coupled Tools Using Contracts and References ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,028,274) developed by eight co-inventors for an "integrating loosely coupled tools using contracts and references." The co-inventors are Andrew Willis Bliven II, Bellevue, Wash., Ian Bavey, Sammamish, Wash., Jack Greenfield, Redmond, Wash., Frank Fan, Redmond, Wash., David Trowbridge, Enumclaw, Wash., David S. Noble, Redmond, Wash., Michael Hayton, Kirkland, Wash., and Vinay Bharadwaj, Redmond, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for providing an integration framework that enables tools to be integrated. The integration framework enables tools participating in the framework to be encapsulated in a manner that hides their implementations, thereby preventing them from taking deep dependencies on each other. The integration framework also enables the tools participating in the framework to carry formal type definitions called service and data contracts that describe the public behaviors they offer. The integration framework also provides support for migrating integration logic from tools into pluggable commands to further reduce coupling between the tools." The patent application was filed on June 27, 2007 (11/823,163). 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=8,028,274&OS=8,028,274&RS=8,028,274 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Quark Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Quark, Denver, has been assigned a patent (RE42,746) developed by Timothy Gill, Denver, Matthew Phillips, Mill Creek, Wash., and Parviz Banki, Issaquah, Wash., for a "process and system for defining and visually depicting colors from the components of arbitrary color models." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A process and system for depicting a combination of process colors and spot colors on a radiant light source such as a computer monitor screen. The invention provides a user-definable "meta-ink" color which is made up of the components of the process colors and the spot colors. Shade values are assigned to each of these components to create the meta-ink color. This meta-ink color then replaces the document color for visual depiction on the radiant light source. This process and system provides a more accurate depiction of the representation of the printed image." The patent application was filed on Oct. 14, 2005 (11/251,636). 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=RE42,746&OS=RE42,746&RS=RE42,746 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Research In Motion Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Research In Motion, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, has been assigned a patent (8,028,027) developed by Raymond Reddy, Kitchener, Canada, and Suryanarayana Murthy Gorty, Redmond, Wash., for an "email notification via auto-forwarding and negative response codes for email retrieval." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "There is provided a method and system for notifying of new email received at a user's mailbox on a mail storage system. Said method includes: receiving the new email at a user's mailbox stored by the mail storage system; auto-forwarding the new email to a mail notification sender system; transmitting at least a portion of the new email to a mail notification receiver system; interrupting the transmission of the new email to the mail notification system with a pre-determined negative completion code; transmitting a bounced-mail email with said negative completion code from the mail notification sender system to the mail storage system." The patent application was filed on Dec. 22, 2006 (11/615,091). 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=8,028,027.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,027&RS=PN/8,028,027 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Optimal Policies for Load Balancing for Distributed and Strategic Agents ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,028,293) developed by Yossi Azar, Redmond, Wash., Kamal Jain, Bellevue, Wash., and Seyed Vahab Mirrokni, Seattle, for "optimal policies for load balancing for distributed and strategic agents (more technically, optimal coordination mechanisms for machine scheduling)." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Providing for scheduling tasks in a distributed system based on an inefficiency of each task on a particular machine as compared with available networked machines is described herein. By way of example, a distribution component can receive a plurality of tasks at a machine assigned by at least one independent agent. In addition, an ordering component can schedule each task on a machine as a function of non-decreasing inefficiency. Such a policy can be implemented locally at the machine, minimizing inter-device communication, while only marginally increasing completion time for the set of tasks. In such a manner, the subject disclosure provides for load balancing of distributed systems in a manner that utilizes fewer resources than conventional approaches." The patent application was filed on June 28, 2007 (11/770,667). 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=8,028,293&OS=8,028,293&RS=8,028,293 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,028,031) developed by eight co-inventors for a "determining email filtering type based on sender classification." The co-inventors are Ryan Colvin, Bothell, Wash., Chad Mills, Redmond, Wash., Robert McCann, Fall City, Wash., Geoff Hulten, Lynnwood, Wash., Harry Katz, Bellevue, Wash., Eriola Kruja, Toronto, Xin Huang, Bothell, Wash., and Joshua Korb, Issaquah, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Determining email filtering type based on sender classification. Incoming email is accessed and a sender of the incoming email is identified. The reputation of the sender of the incoming email is determined. An email sender classification is made based on the reputation of the sender. A determination of the type of filtering operations to be performed by an email filter on the email is made based on the classification. The parameters of the type of filtering operations to be performed are determined. The parameters of the type of filtering operations to be performed are provided to the email filter." The patent application was filed on June 27, 2008 (12/147,490). 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=8,028,031.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,031&RS=PN/8,028,031 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** McAfee Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- McAfee, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,028,340) developed by E. John Sebes, Menlo Park, Calif., Rishi Bhargava, San Jose, Calif., and Dilip Naik, Redmond, Wash., for a "piracy prevention using unique module translation." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for providing solidified software in a computing environment includes creating a new reference for a function in a function table; copying an address of the function and associating the address with the new reference; replacing the address associated with an old reference of the function with a dummy address; and substituting each old reference in normal code with the new reference, where injected code is not able to execute in the computing environment. The function table entries can be further randomized by reordering the entries, introducing intermediate mappings, or providing non-operative entries. Alternatively, all or part of the code of the function can be copied and moved to a different storage location and associated with the new reference. The copied code can be further randomized by the insertion of dummy code, utilizing reverse peephole techniques, varying the size of the copied portion, or interleaving non-operative code." The patent application was filed on Sept. 1, 2009 (12/551,673). 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=8,028,340&OS=8,028,340&RS=8,028,340 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Scalable Storage and Processing of Hierarchical Documents ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,028,007) developed by 11 co-inventors for "scalable storage and processing of hierarchical documents." The co-inventors are Yossi Levanoni, Redmond, Wash., Wei-Lun Lo, Sammamish, Wash., Sanjib Saha, Bellevue, Wash., Paul Maybee, Seattle, Bimal Mehta, Sammamish, Wash., Lee Graber, Kirkland, Wash., Anandhi Somasekaran, Redmond, Wash., Akash Sagar, Redmond, Wash., Balinder Malhi, Redmond, Wash., Allen Zhang, Sammamish, Wash., and Siunie Sutjahjo, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Large messages in the form of hierarchically structured documents are processed in a streaming fashion using the ultimate consumer read requests as the driving force for the processing. The messages are partitioned into fixed length segments. The segments are processed in pipeline fashion. This processing chain includes simulating random access of hierarchical documents using stream transformations, mapping streams to a transport's native capabilities, composing streams into chains and using pipeline processing on the chains, staging fragments into a database and routing messages when complete messages have been formed, and providing tools to allow the end user to inspect partial messages." The patent application was filed on Feb. 6, 2006 (11/348,038). 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=8,028,007.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,007&RS=PN/8,028,007 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Data Storage Structure ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,028,000) developed by Denis X. Charles, Bellevue, Wash., and Kumar H. Chellapilla, Redmond, Wash., for a data storage structure. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Efficient data storage and retrieval (e.g., in terms of time and space requirements) is facilitated by implementing an indexing structure comprising an indexing array. That is, a functional relationship between elements of a source set and elements of a query result set can be stored in the indexing structure. This allows, for example, a query regarding whether an element is a member of a set (e.g., whether a particular website or Uniform Resource Locator (URL)) has been visited before) as well as a relationship between the member set and the query (e.g., the number of hyperlinks in the website the last time it was visited) to be resolved efficiently." The patent application was filed on Feb. 28, 2008 (12/038,813). 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=8,028,000.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,000&RS=PN/8,028,000 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Comtech EF Data Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Comtech EF Data, Tempe, Ariz., has been assigned a patent (8,028,125) developed by seven co-inventors for a "content-addressable memories and state machines for performing three-byte matches and for providing error protection." The co-inventors are Patrick A. Owsley, Moscow, Brian Banister, Moscow, Tom Hansen, Pullman, Wash., Jason Franklin, Moscow, Nathan Hungerford, Moscow, Seth Sjoholm, Moscow, and Ed Coulter, Moscow. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for detecting matching strings in a string of characters utilizing content addressable memory is disclosed." The patent application was filed on Aug. 20, 2008 (12/195,249). 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=8,028,125.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,125&RS=PN/8,028,125 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** EMC Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods of Reverse Lookup ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,027,984) developed by Aaron J. Passey, Seattle, and Nathan N. White, Seattle, for "systems and methods of reverse lookup." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, a system and method is provided for reverse lookups using a reverse lookup hint stored in metadata associated with a file or directory. The reverse lookup hint is used to retrieve an entry, comprising a name of the file or directory, which is stored in a map structure related to a parent directory of the file or directory. In an embodiment, the reverse lookup hint comprises a hash value generated from the name of the file or directory." The patent application was filed on Sept. 4, 2009 (12/554,752). 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=8,027,984.PN.&OS=PN/8,027,984&RS=PN/8,027,984 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Data I/O Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Data I/O, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,028,100) developed by Lev M. Bolotin, Kirkland, Wash., Bradley Morris Johnson, Edmonds, Wash., and Carl W. Olson, Renton, Wash., for an "automated processing system employing intelligent module automatic recognition." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An automated processing system that includes providing an intelligent module with a composite connection for transmitting information and configuring the intelligent module within the automated processing system for automatic recognition." The patent application was filed on Feb. 20, 2007 (11/676,733). 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=8,028,100.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,100&RS=PN/8,028,100 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (8,028,090) developed by four co-inventors for a "request routing utilizing client location information." The co-inventors are David R. Richardson, Seattle, John Cormie, Seattle, Imran S. Patel, Seattle, Benjamin W.S. Redman, Seattle, and Richard Sheehan, Dublin, Ireland. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system, method, and computer-readable medium for request routing based on client location information are provided. A content delivery network service provider receives a DNS query from a client computing device. The DNS query corresponds to a resource identifier for requested content from the client computing device. The content delivery network service provider transmits an alternative resource identifier in response to the client computing device DNS query. The alternative resource identifier is selected as a function of client location information. The client location information is obtained from information corresponding to a mapping of at least partial IP addresses to known locations. The client computing device then issues a second DNS query to the same content delivery network service provider. The content delivery network service provider can then either resolve the second DNS query with an IP address of a cache component or transmit another alternative resource identifier that will resolve to the content delivery network service provider. The process can repeat with the content delivery network service provider's network until a DNS server resolves a DNS query from the client computing device." The patent application was filed on Nov. 17, 2008 (12/272,687). 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=8,028,090.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,090&RS=PN/8,028,090 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Email Messages ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,028,032) developed by Tom Laird-McConnell, Kirkland, Wash., for an email messages. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The described implementations relate to email messages. One technique detects a link to a web-site in an email message. The technique causes content from the web-site to be visualized on a common display area with the email message for a recipient of the email message." The patent application was filed on Sept. 4, 2008 (12/203,926). 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=8,028,032&OS=8,028,032&RS=8,028,032 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Teamon Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Teamon Systems, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,028,078) developed by Shaibal Roy, Sammamish, Wash., and Darren L. Gardner, Issaquah, Wash., for "communications system including protocol interface device providing enhanced operating protocol selection features and related methods." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A communications system may include data storage devices each using at least one of a plurality of different operating protocols. Further, at least one of the data storage devices may operate using multiple operating protocols. The system may also include mobile wireless communications devices for accessing the at least one data storage device, and each may use at least one of the plurality of operating protocols. Moreover, the system may further include a protocol interface device. The protocol interface device may include a front-end proxy module for communicating with the plurality of mobile wireless communications devices using respective operating protocols. The protocol interface may also include a protocol engine module for communicating with the data storage devices using respective operating protocols. The protocol engine module may also select a desired operating protocol for communicating with the at least one data storage device from the multiple operating protocols." The patent application was filed on Feb. 12, 2004 (10/777,731). 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=8,028,078.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,078&RS=PN/8,028,078 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Teamon Systems Assigned Patent for System and Method for Automatically Learning Mailbox Configuration Conventions ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Teamon Systems, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,028,034) developed by Darren L. Gardner, Issaquah, Wash., and Shaibal Roy, Sammamish, Wash., for a "system and method for automatically learning mailbox configuration conventions." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method automatically learns mailbox configuration conventions. The validator module determines a valid set of configuration parameters used for accessing an electronic mailbox of a user within a mail domain after receiving configuration information from the user that is limited in the configuration parameters required for accessing the electronic mailbox. A learner module accepts from the validator module a set of configuration parameters determined to be valid and generates configuration conventions for a mail domain. A database store is the generated configuration conventions. The validator and learner modules can be operative as part of a web server." The patent application was filed on Aug. 31, 2009 (12/550,575). 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=8,028,034&OS=8,028,034&RS=8,028,034 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Edge Traversal Service Dormancy ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,028,076) developed by five co-inventors for an "edge traversal service dormancy." The co-inventors are David Abzarian, Kirkland, Wash., Michael R. Surkan, Bellevue, Wash., Salahuddin C.J. Khan, Redmond, Wash., Amit A. Sehgal, Kirkland, Wash., and Mohit Talwar, Redmond, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system maintains a dormant state in the host, in which no beacons (or "bubbles") are transmitted from the host when no application or service (collectively, "processes") of the host is accepting unsolicited traffic via the edge traversal service. When at least one application or service begins to accept unsolicited traffic via the edge traversal service, the host enters a qualified state and begins transmitting the beacons. As each additional application or service begins to accept such traffic, the number of accepting applications and services is maintained. As applications and services terminate acceptance of such traffic, the number of accepting applications and services is decremented. When the last application or service terminates acceptance of unsolicited traffic via the edge traversal service, the host re-enters the dormant state and ceases transmission of its beacons." The patent application was filed on Dec. 7, 2009 (12/632,110). 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=8,028,076.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,076&RS=PN/8,028,076 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Medio Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Medio Systems, Seattle, has been assigned a patent (8,027,964) developed by Konstantinos Boulis, Seattle, for a "personalized query completion suggestion." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Search query processing includes receiving a search query input string from a user of a mobile device and comparing the search query input to a personalized dictionary of the mobile device, determining a suggested completion for each match in the comparison, and providing the suggested completion to the user for selection. The user can select the suggested modification, if desired, and the completed query can be submitted to a search facility. Personalized dictionaries can be generated from analysis of previously submitted search queries. The analyzed search queries may have been submitted by the user, as well as by other users with similar interests. The analysis of search queries may categorize users into clusters or groups of persons having similar interests." The patent application was filed on July 13, 2007 (11/777,977). 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=8,027,964.PN.&OS=PN/8,027,964&RS=PN/8,027,964 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Efficient Transform from XML to Javascript Objects ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,028,079) developed by seven co-inventors for an "efficient transform from XML to javascript objects." The co-inventors are Adrien Felon, Seattle, Danny Lange, Sammamish, Wash., Joseph Futty, Sammamish, Wash., Ashley N. Feniello, Woodinville, Wash., Graham A. Wheeler, Redmond, Wash., Didier Coussemaeker, Seattle, and Nicolas Mai, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "This disclosure describes data conversion and techniques for sending and receiving data at a mobile device. In one implementation, a proxy server may receive data from a mobile device. The proxy server may convert the data and send the converted data to a network service. In another implementation, a mobile device may convert data and send that data to a network service. The network service may generate data in response and send that data to the mobile device directly." The patent application was filed on June 15, 2009 (12/484,964). 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=8,028,079.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,079&RS=PN/8,028,079 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Disney Enterprises Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Disney Enterprises, Burbank, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,028,089) developed by Ryan D. Christianson, Seattle, and John A. Kehle, Kirkland, Wash., for an "on-deck detection for a web site." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various embodiments of systems, methods, and computer programs for detecting an on-deck user of a web site are provided. One embodiment comprises a method for detecting on-deck users for a web site. One such method comprises: providing a web site having an associated primary URL and at least one secondary URL; associating the at least one secondary URL for use in association with a carrier deck; receiving a request for the web site from the carrier deck on a mobile communication device; and determining that the request is from the carrier deck." The patent application was filed on Aug. 12, 2008 (12/189,844). 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=8,028,089.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,089&RS=PN/8,028,089 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** InstantService.com Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- InstantService.com, Seattle, has been assigned a patent (8,028,043) developed by Damion L. Hankejh, New York, Hoa Ton-That, South Glastonbury, Conn., and Martin S. Rood, Lake Forest Park, Wash., for a "real time internet communications system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A novel real time internet communication system is disclosed. It is a novel way for users to collaborate on the fly, and without having to own or download any programs that then stay resident on the user's computer. It is marketed under a novel business system that makes highly productive software available to businesses and end users, but which is not purchased by customers or end users, has no conventional distribution system, and never requires update, installation or rollout by the customer or end user." The patent application was filed on Oct. 31, 2007 (11/981,737). 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=8,028,043&OS=8,028,043&RS=8,028,043 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Synchronizing Tasks Between Servers ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,028,070) developed by five co-inventors for a "synchronizing tasks between servers." The co-inventors are Christopher Andrew Boyd, Seattle, Boaz Lev, Redmond, Wash., Robert Murugan, Sammamish, Wash., Chythanya Vootkuri Krishna, Redmond, Wash., and Michael James Christensen, Redmond, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for synchronizing task data between a mailbox server of an email system and a project server of a project management system include a project that is published on the project management system, task data for the project is sent from the project server to the mailbox server. The task data includes the attributes of the project tasks and resources assigned to the project tasks. When the mailbox server receives the task data, the mailbox server creates a task on the mailbox server for each task for which the task doesn't already exist on the mailbox server. The mailbox server inserts each created task into the mailbox of the assignee for the task. The assignee can view the task attributes and update task status using a client that accesses the mailbox server." The patent application was filed on May 18, 2009 (12/467,534). 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=8,028,070.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,070&RS=PN/8,028,070 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,028,085) developed by Jean-Emile Elien, Bellevue, Wash., Lee B. Graber, Kirkland, Wash., and Sanjib Saha, Bothell, Wash., for an "optimizing message transmission and delivery in a publisher-subscriber model." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for reducing the latency incurred during the publication of a message in a message publication system are provided. In a message publication system wherein the publishing component and the receiving component are located within the same processing space, several of the latency components that are usually unavoidably incurred may be eliminated. In such a system, the messaging queue is not used as a medium between the two components but is instead used as a secondary back-up storage. This results in the elimination of one latency component as the message is directly published from the publishing component to the receiving component. Further time reductions or optimizations occur when the durability, or reliability, of the message publication is not a concern and the messaging queue can be completely disregarded. Yet another optimization occurs when the identity of the subscriber is known in advance by the publisher." The patent application was filed on June 3, 2005 (11/144,102). 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=8,028,085.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,085&RS=PN/8,028,085 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent for System and Method of Managing Media Content ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (8,028,042) developed by Samuel Heyworth, Seattle, Jon Phillips, Seattle, and Erich Ringewald, Seattle, for a "system and method of managing media content." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method of managing media content is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes sending a request for a media content item from a user computer to a server via an interface to an online site. The method also includes receiving the media content item at the user computer. Further, the method includes selecting a library associated with a media content player application and, upon receipt of the media content item, automatically adding the media content item to the selected library of the media content player application at the user computer." The patent application was filed on June 15, 2007 (11/818,774). 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=8,028,042&OS=8,028,042&RS=8,028,042 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Yahoo! Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,028,065) developed by eight co-inventors for an "accelerated and reproducible domain visitor targeting." The co-inventors are Yury A. Izrailevsky, Hayward, Calif., Anand Biligiri Subba Rao, Santa Clara, Calif., Ramkumar Rajendran, Redmond, Wash., Sunil Nagaraj, Sunnyvale, Calif., Nanda Kumar Jayakumar, Santa Clara, Calif., Georgiy Goldenberg, Palo Alto, Calif., Joonsuk Bae, Menlo Park, Calif., and Kian-Tat Lim, Palo Alto, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A device, system, and method are directed towards managing and tracking of cross-domain user activities through use of a beacon. As a user of a client device requests content from different domain services managed by a common entity, they may receive a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) to a beacon in at least one of the different domains. In one embodiment, the beacon is a single pixel image. The client device may also receive a Match-ID. A beacon server in one of the other domains may receive the request for the beacon, and store in a domain log the Match-ID, and other information about the client device, which domain service provided the URL, and/or other related user activities. The different domain logs may then be employed for use in searching for matching Match-IDs, joining common user or client device activities, and for tracking other cross-domain user activities." The patent application was filed on Aug. 20, 2009 (12/544,966). 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=8,028,065.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,065&RS=PN/8,028,065 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Invention Science Fund I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Invention Science Fund I, Bellevue, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,028,063) developed by twelve co-inventors for a "soliciting data indicating at least one objective occurrence in response to acquisition of data indicating at least one subjective user state." 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 at least one subjective user state associated with a user; soliciting, in response to the acquisition of the subjective user state data, objective occurrence data including data indicating occurrence of at least one objective occurrence; acquiring the objective occurrence 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. 9, 2009 (12/378,162). 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=8,028,063.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,063&RS=PN/8,028,063 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Washington Inventor Develops Patent for Computer-implemented Method for Facilitating Ancillary Use of a Wireless Service Device ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Scott L. David, Bainbridge Island, Wash., has developed a patent (8,028,057) for a "computer-implemented method for facilitating ancillary use of a wireless service device for excess transmission bandwidth." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer-implemented method for facilitating ancillary use of a wireless service device is provided. A multiplicity of wireless service devices interoperable on a service network are discovered. A primary function performable by a subscriber and an ancillary function performable by a non-subscriber through use of each device through arrangement with the service network and based on availability of capacity for excess transmission bandwidth are determined. The devices that includes an available capacity to perform the ancillary function over the service network are identified. The ancillary function is performed using independent processing at least one of the devices. The ancillary function is also performed using distributed processing in conjunction with at least one other of the devices through the combination, modification and integration of data from the two or more such devices. The subscribers are compensated with payment in exchange for the performance of the ancillary function on their respective device." The patent application was filed on March 29, 2010 (12/749,457). 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=8,028,057&OS=8,028,057&RS=8,028,057 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,028,148) developed by Richard Shupak, Kirkland, Wash., and Landy Wang, Redmond, Wash, for a "safe and efficient allocation of memory." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Aspects of the present invention are directed at centrally managing the allocation of memory to executable images in a way that inhibits malware from identifying the location of the executable image. Moreover, performance improvements are implemented over traditional systems that enable relative addressed instruction to be resolved at runtime. In this regard, a method is provided that identifies a randomized location to load the executable image into a memory address space. Then, data that may be used to resolve the relative addressed instruction is loaded and maintained in memory. At runtime when pages that store relative addressed instructions are accessed, an arithmetic operation is performed to resolve the relative addressed instruction. As a result, only those relative addressed instructions on pages accessed during program execution are resolved." The patent application was filed on Sept. 6, 2006 (11/517,864). 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=8028148.PN.&OS=PN/8028148&RS=PN/8028148 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** United Parcel Service of America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- United Parcel Service of America, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,027,932) developed by six co-inventors for "systems and methods for modification of service status of geographical delivery areas for common carriers." The co-inventors are Jerry M. Johnson, Carnation, Wash., Lynn Shaindell Goldhaber, Bellevue, Wash., John McNiel Dietz, Newcastle, Wash., William Ward Smith III, Medina, Wash., Jinyue Liu, Sammamish, Wash., and Hsiangwen S. Hu, Sammamish, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for modifying the status for one or more carrier services based on one or more geographical delivery areas. Such embodiments provide an interface module executed by a processor to modify data indicating the status for the one or more carrier services in response to obtaining data indicating the one or more carrier services to be modified, a beginning date for which the status of the one or more carrier services is to be modified, an ending date for which the status will return to its pre-existing state prior to being modified, one or more geographical delivery areas in which the status is to be modified, and a modification for the one or more carrier services." The patent application was filed on Dec. 12, 2008 (12/333,476). 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=8,027,932.PN.&OS=PN/8,027,932&RS=PN/8,027,932 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Grammar Compression ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,027,957) developed by six co-inventors for a grammar compression. The co-inventors are Stelios Paparizos, San Jose, Calif., Christopher Walter Anderson, Redmond, Wash., Wei Liu, Bellevue, Wash., Ajay Nair, Redmond, Wash., Alexandros Ntoulas, Mountain View, Calif., and Naga Srinivas Vemuri, Redmond, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Compression of extensive, rule-based grammars used to facilitate search queries is provided herein. Rule-based grammar includes a list of rules that each comprise a sequence of token classes. Each token class is a logical grouping of tokens, and each token is a string of characters. A grammar is parsed to identify rules and token classes. Unimportant token classes are identified and sets of unimportant token classes are merged to generated merged token classes. A compressed grammar is generated by substituting the merged token classes into the grammar for corresponding unimportant token classes used to generate the merged token classes." The patent application was filed on June 26, 2008 (12/147,211). 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=8,027,957.PN.&OS=PN/8,027,957&RS=PN/8,027,957 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Database Management Using a File to Accumulate Changes ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,027,955) developed by Gang He, Woodinville, Wash., and Srikumar Rangarajan, Sammamish, Wash., for a "database management using a file to accumulate changes." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Database management is described. A source data structure is copied to create a new data structure. Changes to the source data structure that occur during and after creation of the new data structure are accumulated in a file before they are added to the new data structure. Changes included in the file are subsequently applied to the second data structure." The patent application was filed on March 19, 2007 (11/725,364). 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=8,027,955.PN.&OS=PN/8,027,955&RS=PN/8,027,955 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for User Interface having a Carousel View for Representing Structured Data ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,028,250) developed by five co-inventors for a "user interface having a carousel view for representing structured data." The co-inventors are David Vronay, Beijing, Shuo Wang, Beijing, Ioannis Paniaras, Vienna, Va., Francisco L. Yu Jr., Beijing, and Martijn Eldert Van Tilburg, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A carousel view is described. In an implementation, a method includes determining a number of items that are included in data. A carousel is then generated for output in a user interface. The carousel has a plurality of bins, each of which representing a corresponding one of the items. The carousel has a radius for display of each of the bins based on the determined number of items." The patent application was filed on Aug. 31, 2004 (10/931,302). 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=8,028,250.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,250&RS=PN/8,028,250 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Document Merge ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,028,229) developed by four co-inventors for a document merge. The co-inventors are Jonathan Beckett Bailor, Bellevue, Wash., Ethan Joseph Bernstein, Mercer Island, Wash., Mark Rolland Knight, Bellevue, Wash., and Christopher James Antos, Bellevue, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems of merging a first document with at least a second document to generate a third document. Each of the first and second documents includes at least one data unit. Each data unit is associated with a unit identifier and an edit identifier. The unit identifiers of each of the documents are compared to the unit identifiers of the other document to determine whether each unit identifier is a matching or non-matching unit identifier. Edit identifiers of the data units associated with the matching unit identifiers are compared to each other. Data units associated with the non-matching unit identifiers are inserted directly into the t 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. -1062911 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |