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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Massachusetts (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 Massachusetts. *** ITA Software Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- ITA Software, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,027,854) developed by David M. Baggett, Hermosa Beach, Calif., and Gregory R. Galperin, Cambridge, Mass., for a "method, system, and computer program product for interfacing with information sources." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system and computer program product for interfacing between information requesters and information sources. In an embodiment, information is obtained from one or more information sources in response to client requests. In an embodiment, information received from information sources is cached for future use, such as for future client requests. In a caching embodiment, information can also be received by monitoring traffic between an information source and a third party, and/or by proactively querying the information sources. Proactive queries can be generated to populate a cache and/or to update presently cached information. In a caching embodiment, the invention includes methods for determining whether to respond to a request for information out-of-cache and/or with real-time information from an information source. In an embodiment, the invention interfaces with airline availability information sources. The invention also includes, without limitation, methods for interfacing with information sources through proxies, methods for ordering and prioritizing queries, methods for processing queries in a distributed architecture, and time-out features." The patent application was filed on Nov. 13, 2006 (11/598,009). 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=80,27,854.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,854&RS=PN/80,27,854 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** JumpTap Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- JumpTap, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,027,879) developed by four co-inventors for an "exclusivity bidding for mobile sponsored content." The co-inventors are Jorey Ramer, Brighton, Mass., Adam Soroca, Cambridge, Mass., Dennis Doughty, Brookline, Mass., and Neal J. Karasic, Brighton, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for receiving a bid for an exclusive sponsored content item to be presented on a mobile communication facility, the bid including an amount and at least one exclusivity characteristic relating to a mobile subscriber characteristic and matching the at least one exclusivity characteristic with the exclusive sponsored content item based at least in part on a relevancy for presentation to a mobile communication facility." The patent application was filed on Oct. 30, 2007 (11/928,937). 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=80,27,879.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,879&RS=PN/80,27,879 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Patient Keeper Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Patient Keeper, Waltham, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,027,848) developed by five co-inventors for a "context managing mobile computing framework for enterprise application." The co-inventors are Glenn M. Bernston, Beverly, Mass., Chao Young Lee, Weston, Mass., George A. Madrid, Arlington, Mass., Maulin P. Shah, Houston, and Sanjay S. Vakil, Arlington, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A framework for handheld computing devices comprises a user interface controlling the display, selection and launching of program modules, controls patient context within the program modules, and provides for messaging and sharing of databases between and among program modules. Databases are shared between the program modules by the publishing of XML and metadata identifying the structure of the databases." The patent application was filed on Dec. 31, 2002 (10/335,545). 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=80,27,848.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,848&RS=PN/80,27,848 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Virgin HealthMiles Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Virgin HealthMiles, Framingham, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,027,822) developed by Jennifer Lucille Turgiss, Burlington, Mass., Richard Meer Boylan, Medfield, Mass., and Grant Robert Harrison, Dover, Mass., for an "interactive, internet supported health and fitness management system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A wellness system monitors the controlled progress of patients under surveillance and includes a server base station which is generally off-site, a web-site interface and a local station at the point-of-use, which is generally a health or fitness center. A unique data base is created for each user and goals and objectives may be set with progress monitored. Typically, the user will respond to a survey or questionnaire to populate his specific database. This is combined with a professional assessment and an automated measurement of vital statistics such as weight, blood pressure and body composition as measured at the local station. Other data may be entered manually such as height, age and the like. In a more comprehensive system the invention is designed to monitor other data such as cholesterol and blood glucose, as well. The locally input data may be updated at will by the user or on behalf of the user by professional personnel." The patent application was filed on June 20, 2005 (11/156,938). 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=80,27,822.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,822&RS=PN/80,27,822 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cognex Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Cognex, Natick, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,027,802) developed by Sateesha Nadabar, Framingham, Mass., Venkat Gopalakrishnan, Arlington, Mass., and Carl W. Gerst, Boston, for a "method and apparatus for verifying two dimensional mark quality." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for applying a two dimensional mark on a first surface of a component and assessing mark quality, the method comprising the steps of positioning a component with a first surface at a first station, applying a two dimensional mark to the first surface at the first station wherein the applied mark is intended to codify a first information subset, obtaining an image of the applied two dimensional mark at the first station, performing a mark quality assessment on the obtained image and performing a secondary function as a result of the mark quality assessment." The patent application was filed on May 2, 2007 (11/743,193). 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=80,27,802.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,802&RS=PN/80,27,802 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Methods and Apparatus for Determining a Switching History Time Constant in an Integrated Circuit Device ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,027,797) developed by Manjul Bhushan, Hopewell Junction, N.Y., Mark B. Ketchen, Hadley, Mass., and Dale J. Pearson, Bedford Hills, N.Y., for "methods and apparatus for determining a switching history time constant in an integrated circuit device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques for inline measurement of a switching history time constant in an integrated circuit device are provided. A series of pulses is launched into a first stage of a delay chain comprising a plurality of delay stages connected in series and having a length greater than a decay length of at least an initial one of the series of pulses, such that the at least initial one of the series of pulses does not appear at a second stage of the delay chain. An amount of time between the launching of the initial one of the series of pulses and the appearance of at least one of the series of pulses at the second stage of the delay chain is determined. The switching history time constant is calculated as a function of a number of stages traversed by the at least one pulse, the determined amount of time, and the decay length of the at least initial one of the series of pulses based at least in part on a switching history of the integrated circuit device." The patent application was filed on April 28, 2008 (12/110,639). 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=80,27,797.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,797&RS=PN/80,27,797 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Invensys Systems Assigned Patent for Control System Configurator and Methods with Edit Selection ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Invensys Systems, Foxboro, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,028,272) developed by eight co-inventors for "control system configurator and methods with edit selection." The co-inventors are Keith Eldridge, North Easton, Mass., Brian Mackay, Coppell, Texas, Mark Johnson, North Attleboro, Mass., Scott Volk, North Easton, Mass., Kenneth A. Burke, South Easton, Mass., Paul Meskonis, Norwood, Mass., Robert Hall, South Easton, Mass., and Steven Dardinski, Westford, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus for configuring process, environmental, industrial and other control systems generate and/or utilize models representing configurations of control systems and/or the systems controlled by them. Records of changes to the models or the configurations represented by them are maintained, thereby, for example, providing bases for determining current states, prior states and histories of changes. Objects in the model have characteristics, such as an object type characteristic and an area characteristic. Users can have corresponding permissions. A security mechanism apparatus controls access by users to the objects. Composite objects are defined by definition objects and are displayed in encapsulated or expanded formats. Objects can include an edit control type identifier that determines how they are presented for editing. Functionality responds to user commands by transferring characteristics of a first object depicted by the graphical user interface to a second object. Configuration-time formulas contained objects are evaluated to constants prior to downloading to the control system." The patent application was filed on Nov. 5, 2008 (12/265,527). 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=8,028,272&OS=8,028,272&RS=8,028,272 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Oracle America Assigned Patent for Methods and Apparatus For Scheduling Threads on Multicore Processors Under Fair Distribution of Cache and Other Shared Resources of the Processors ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Oracle America, Redwood City, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,028,286) developed by Alexandra Fedorova, Lincoln, Mass., for "methods and apparatus for scheduling threads on multicore processors under fair distribution of cache and other shared resources of the processors." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A thread scheduler identifies a thread operable to be scheduled by a scheduling policy for execution on the chip multiprocessor. The thread scheduler estimates, for the thread, a performance value that is based on runtime statistics of the thread for a shared resource on the chip multiprocessor. Additionally, the thread scheduler applies the performance value to the scheduling policy in order to reallocate processor time of the thread commensurate with the performance value under fair distribution of the shared resource on the chip multiprocessor. The thread scheduler also applies the performance value to the scheduling policy in order to reallocate processor time of at least one co-executing thread to compensate for the reallocation of processor time to the thread." The patent application was filed on Nov. 31, 2006 (11/606,751). 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=8,028,286&OS=8,028,286&RS=8,028,286 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Generating Content Recommendations from an Online Game ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,028,022) developed by six co-inventors for "generating content recommendations from an online game." The co-inventors are Elizabeth A. Brownholtz, Andover, Mass., Casey Dugan, Medford, Mass., Werner Geyer, Boston, David R. Millen, Boxford, Mass., Martin T. Moore, Somerville, Mass., and Michael Muller, Medford, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A content recommendation method can include retrieving contacts for a player of a content recommendation game and listing content associated with the retrieved contacts and prompting the player in response to a selection of a particular one of the listed content to identify a specific one of the retrieved contacts as a source associated with the particular one of the listed content. The particular one of the listed content can be recommended to the identified specific one of the retrieved contacts when the player has incorrectly identified the specific one of the retrieved contacts as a source associated with the particular one of the listed content. Otherwise, the player can be awarded points in the game to a game score for the player for having correctly identified the specific one of the retrieved contacts as a source associated with the particular one of the listed content." The patent application was filed on Oct. 31, 2008 (12/262,931). 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=8,028,022.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,022&RS=PN/8,028,022 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Nokia Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Nokia, Espoo, Finland, has been assigned a patent (RE42,744) developed by four co-inventors for a "method of sending feedback information in a fast automatic repeat request forming part of an overall wireless communication system." The co-inventors are Esa Malkamaki, Espoo, Finland, Deepak Mathew, Billerica, Mass., Kari Pehkonen, Espoo, Finland, and Jussi Kahtava, Fleet, United Kingdom. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of sending feedback information in a fast physical layer hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) for frequency division duplex communications that form an overall wireless communication system is described in which the received packets are acknowledged by transmitting feedback data to the sender, wherein the acknowledgement comprises the reservation of obtaining a plurality of slots in the uplink/downlink dedicated channel radio frame for the feedback data alone. It is also directed to the transmission of feedback data used in specified slots within each radio frame, wherein the first slot used is based upon the time offset between uplink and downlink channels, as well as based upon the time required for de-interleaving, de-ratematching, decoding and error checking. In an alternative embodiment, the method uses dedicated physical control channel (DPCCH) bits in at least some of the slots for transmitting such feedback data to the sender." The patent application was filed on Nov. 4, 2005 (11/267,890). 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=RE42,744&OS=RE42,744&RS=RE42,744 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Broadcast Pix Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Broadcast Pix, Billerica, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,028,317) developed by John B. Swanton, Westport Island, Maine, Kenneth Swanton, Bolton, Mass., and Russell Whittaker, Brookline, Mass., for an "integrated live video production system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Described is a system used in defining and producing a live television broadcast. The system includes one or more control panels, a workstation, a router, and devices. The control panels may be hard control panels or soft control panels. The control panel includes programmable buttons having a display determined in accordance with a show definition. Display and control of a portion of the control panel buttons may vary in response to another control or button selection. Primary and backup communication connections are used to control the live show production." The patent application was filed on March 12, 2009 (12/381,495). 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=8,028,317&OS=8,028,317&RS=8,028,317 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Invensys Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Invensys Systems, Foxboro, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,028,275) developed by eight co-inventors for "control systems and methods with smart blocks." The co-inventors are Keith Eldridge, North Easton, Mass., Brian Mackay, Coppell, Texas, Mark Johnson, North Attleboro, Mass., Scott Volk, North Easton, Mass., Kenneth A. Burke, South Easton, Mass., Paul Meskonis, Norwood, Mass., Robert Hall, South Easton, Mass., and Steven Dardinski, Westford, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus for configuring process, environmental, industrial and other control systems generate and/or utilize models representing configurations of control systems and/or the systems controlled by them. Records of changes to the models or the configurations represented by them are maintained, thereby, for example, providing bases for determining current states, prior states and histories of changes. Objects in the model have characteristics, such as an object type characteristic and an area characteristic. Users can have corresponding permissions. A security mechanism apparatus controls access by users to the objects. Composite objects are defined by definition objects and are displayed in encapsulated or expanded formats. Objects can include an edit control type identifier that determines how they are presented for editing. Functionality responds to user commands by transferring characteristics of a first object depicted by the graphical user interface to a second object. Configuration-time formulas contained objects are evaluated to constants prior to downloading to the control system." The patent application was filed on Nov. 5, 2008 (12/265,560). 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=8,028,275&OS=8,028,275&RS=8,028,275 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** EMC Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,028,011) developed by Sitaram Pawar, Shrewsbury, Mass., and Jean-Pierre Bono, Westboro, Mass., for a "global UNIX file system cylinder group cache." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A global cylinder group (CG) cache is stored in file server memory and shared by a plurality of file systems supported by the file server. The global CG cache comprises a number CG entries which are pre-allocated in memory. As different file systems are accessed, global CG entries in the CG cache are used to store CG block information for the accesses. With such an arrangement, a file server may support multiple file systems using a single global CG cache without starvation and other the adverse performance impacts of the prior art. According to one aspect of the invention, the global CG cache is periodically scanned to reclaim memory. In contrast to the prior art, where multiple scans were periodically performed of multiple CG caches for memory reclamation, the use of a single CG cache minimizes the impact of CG cache maintenance on file server performance." The patent application was filed on July 13, 2006 (11/457,177). 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=8,028,011.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,011&RS=PN/8,028,011 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Quality Data Management Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Quality Data Management, Cleveland, has been assigned a patent (8,028,003) developed by William H. Rogers, Newton, Mass., for a "system and method for presenting survey data over a network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer system and method for generating web pages for displaying formatted customer satisfaction display information and/or presentations on a user computer which may be located remotely and connected to the system by a computer network. The formatted customer satisfaction survey information enables a product or service provider to evaluate the quality of goods and/or services received based on database data obtained by performing surveys of customers, employees, and/or staff. This information can then be compared to normative information, national standards, or other available data. The system utilizes HTML templates, applets, and web servers to generate the web pages. i The HTML template process also allows for generation of the HTML templates by programmers. The system and method can be utilized in a quality improvement program." The patent application was filed on April 27, 2005 (11/115,785). 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=8,028,003.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,003&RS=PN/8,028,003 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** EMC Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,028,110) developed by Ian Wigmore, Westborough, Mass., for a "non-disruptive data migration among storage devices using integrated virtualization engine of a storage device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Transferring I/O from a first storage device coupled to a storage area network to a second storage device coupled to the storage area network includes blocking I/O operations for a first port of the first storage device coupled to the storage area network, where the first port is associated with an identifier, coupling the second storage device to the storage area network via a port associated with the identifier and reestablishing a connection between the host and the first port to cause I/O operations by the host to be routed to the second storage device. Transferring may also include, following blocking I/O operations for the first port of the first storage device, coupling a second port of the first storage device to the storage area network and migrating data from the first storage device to the second storage device through the second port of the first storage device without host/application disruption." The patent application was filed on June 28, 2007 (11/823,619). 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=8,028,110.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,110&RS=PN/8,028,110 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. *** EMC Assigned Patent for Non-disruptive Data Mobility Using Virtual Storage Area Networks with Split-path Virtualization ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,028,062) developed by four co-inventors for a "non-disruptive data mobility using virtual storage area networks with split-path virtualization." The co-inventors are Ian Wigmore, Westborough, Mass., Ofer Michael, Irvine, Calif., Arieh Don, Newton, Mass., and Patrick Brian Riordan, Watertown, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system creates a storage area network (SAN) centric storage virtualization layer in front of storage devices. The system allows data mobility and migration without disruption to the one or more host servers attached to the SAN. Specifically, the host servers are not disrupted when switching I/Os between physical and virtual storage, for example, by taking advantage of WWPN spoofing and Fibre Channel VSAN technology. The use of VSANs effectively allow multiple virtual directors and/or switches to be created within a physical director and/or switches, each with their own separate name server, thereby providing complete isolation from one another. The host-storage pathing information is unchanged as the original physical storage port's WWPNs are spoofed by the virtual storage port. The result is two identical WWPNs within the SAN which is normally disallowed; however, by separating the physical port WWPN into one VSAN and the virtual port WWPN into another, the restriction may be circumvented." The patent application was filed on Dec. 26, 2007 (12/005,663). 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=8,028,062.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,062&RS=PN/8,028,062 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. *** Red Hat Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Red Hat, Raleigh, N.C., has been assigned a patent (8,027,954) developed by David H. Malcolm, Somerville, Mass., for a "portable media player recommendation system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for providing a portable device recommendation system. The method may include storing, on a portable device, preferences of a user of the portable device with respect to media content, and facilitating sharing of desirable media content between this user and a user of another portable device based on the user preferences." The patent application was filed on May 31, 2007 (11/809,637). 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=8,027,954.PN.&OS=PN/8,027,954&RS=PN/8,027,954 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Siemens Medical Solutions USA Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Malvern, Pa., has been assigned a patent (8,027,939) developed by four co-inventors for an "automatic labeler assignment using a model built from multi-labeler data." The co-inventors are Glenn Fung, Madison, Wis., Romer E. Rosales, Downingtown, Pa., Jennifer G. Dy, Framingham, Mass., and Yan Yan, Jamaica Plain, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, including receiving multi-labeler data that includes data points labeled by a plurality of labelers; building a model from the multi-labeler data, wherein the model includes an input variable that corresponds to the data points, a label variable that corresponds to true labels for the data points, and variables for the labels given by the labelers; and executing the model, in response to receiving new data points, to determine a level of expertise of the labelers for the new data points." The patent application was filed on Sept. 29, 2010 (12/893,008). 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=8,027,939.PN.&OS=PN/8,027,939&RS=PN/8,027,939 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Kalano Meui HI Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Kalano Meui HI, Dover, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,027,945) developed by seven co-inventors for an intelligent portal engine. The co-inventors are Joseph B. Elad, Claymont, Del., Apperson H. Johnson, Wilmington, Del., David S. Cleaver, Newark, Del., Daniel L. Chester, Newark, Del., Keith S. Decker, Hockessin, Del., Thomas A. Roper, Quincy, Mass., and Irene H. Philips, Newark, Del. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A human-computer interface system and methods for providing intelligent, adaptive, multimodal interaction with users while accomplishing tasks on their behalf in some particular domain or combination of domains. Specifically, this system accepts user input via natural language text, mouse actions, human speech, whistles, gestures, pedal movements, facial or postural changes, and conveys results via natural language text, automatically-generated speech, and displays of graphs, tables, animation, video, and mechanical and chemical effectors that convey heat, tactile sensation, taste and smell." The patent application was filed on Aug. 14, 2006 (11/503,826). 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=8,027,945.PN.&OS=PN/8,027,945&RS=PN/8,027,945 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** GLOBALFOUNDRIES Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, has been assigned a patent (8,028,185) developed by Alexander Branover, Brookline, Mass., and Rajen S. Ramchandani, Arlington, Mass., for a "protocol for transitioning in and out of zero-power state." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A processor may comprise one or more cores, where each respective core may comprise one or more state registers, and non-volatile memory configured to store microcode instructions executed by the respective processor core. The processor may further comprise a power management controller (PMC) interfacing with each respective core, and a state monitor (SM) interfacing with the PMC. The PMC may be configured to communicate with each respective core, such that microcode executed by the respective processor core may recognize when a request is made to transition the respective core to a low-power state. The microcode may communicate the request to the PMC, which may in turn determine if the request is for the respective core to transition to a zero-power state. If it is, the PMC may communicate with the SM to determine whether to transition the respective processor core to the zero-power state, and initiate transition to the zero-power state if a determination to transition to the zero-power state is made." The patent application was filed on March 11, 2008 (12/045,764). 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=8,028,185&OS=8,028,185&RS=8,028,185 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Oracle America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Oracle America, Redwood City, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,028,133) developed by four co-inventors for "globally incremented variable or clock based methods and apparatus to implement parallel transactions." The co-inventors are David Dice, Foxboro, Mass., Nir N. Shavit, Cambridge, Mass., Ori Shalev, Givat Shmuel, Israel, and Mark Moir, Hampton, N.H. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present disclosure describes a unique way for each of multiple processes to operate in parallel and use the same shared data without causing corruption to the shared data. For example, during a commit phase, a corresponding transaction can attempt to increment a globally accessible version information variable and store a current value of the globally accessible version information variable for updating version information associated with modified data regardless of whether an associated attempt by the corresponding transaction to modify the globally accessible version information variable was successful. As an alternative mode, a corresponding transaction can merely read and store a current value of the globally accessible version information variable without attempting to update the globally accessible version information variable before such use. In yet another application, a parallel processing environment implements a combination of both aforementioned modes depending on a self-abort rate of the transaction." The patent application was filed on Jan. 30, 2007 (11/699,802). 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=8028133.PN.&OS=PN/8028133&RS=PN/8028133 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Escription Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Escription, Needham, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,028,248) developed by Roger S. Zimmerman, Wellesley, Mass., for a transcription editing. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer program product for use with text transcribed from audio information, the computer program product residing on a computer-readable medium, includes computer-readable instructions for causing a computer to: enable defined keystroke combinations for use in editing the text transcribed from audio, the defined keystroke combinations corresponding to formatting functions identified as frequently-used functions during editing of a transcribed text; and respond to an activated keystroke combination by replacing a first format in the text document with a second format corresponding to the chosen keystroke combination." The patent application was filed on Sept. 12, 2008 (12/209,472). 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=8,028,248.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,248&RS=PN/8,028,248 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Violin Memory Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Violin Memory, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,028,186) developed by Jon C.R. Bennett, Sudbury, Mass., for a "skew management in an interconnection system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An interconnection system is described where data lanes may be exchanged between lines at intervals along a transmission path so that the differential time delay between bits on a plurality of the lines is reduced when determined at a receiving location. The data lanes may be bound to the lines through the operation of a configurable switch, or by a configurable switch in conjunction with predetermined manufactured connections, or a combination of the techniques. The wiring of a connectorized node module, which may include a memory device, may be configured so that the differential time delay between pairs of input lines of a node, as measured at the output of a node, is reduced." The patent application was filed on Oct. 17, 2007 (11/975,269). 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=8,028,186.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,186&RS=PN/8,028,186 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** GeoTrust Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- GeoTrust, Wellesley Hills, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,028,162) developed by five co-inventors for "methods and systems for automated authentication, processing and issuance of digital certificates." The co-inventors are Douglas D. Beattie, Sudbury, Mass., Neal Lewis Creighton Jr., Wellesley Hills, Mass., Christopher T.M. Bailey, Atlanta, David L. Remy, Mercer Island, Wash., and Hani Hamandi, Beirut, Lebanon. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer system and process for issuing digital certificates use domain-control vetting to issue certificates. A requestor requests a certificate from a certificate authority, which identifies at least one approver to approve issuance of the digital certificate. If approved, the certificate authority accepts the request, creates and signs the certificate, and the signed certificate is sent to the requester." The patent application was filed on Nov. 14, 2008 (12/271,649). 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=8,028,162&OS=8,028,162&RS=8,028,162 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. -1062887 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |