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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Texas (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 Texas. *** United Services Automobile Association Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- United Services Automobile Association, San Antonio, has been assigned a patent (8,027,889) developed by Judd Hoyt Maroney, San Antonio, and Charles Lee Oakes III, Boerne, Texas, for "systems and methods for price searching via a mobile device reading display screen graphics." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Price searching via a mobile device reading display screen graphics is provided. A system for obtaining pricing information comprises at least one subsystem that electronically reads a price of a product using a mobile device scanning a display screen, at least one subsystem that searches for other available products and price data to compare to the electronically read price and product data, at least one subsystem that compares the price data of the other products to the electronically read price data, and at least one subsystem that presents purchase options based upon results of the comparison of the price and product data." The patent application was filed on March 5, 2008 (12/042,408). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=80,27,889.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,889&RS=PN/80,27,889 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Experian Interactive Innovation Center Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Experian Interactive Innovation Center, San Mateo, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,027,888) developed by Rohan K.K. Chandran, Sunnyvale, Calif., Richard Rodenbusch, Allen, Texas, and Shawn Mendelovich, San Francisco, for an "online credit card prescreen systems and methods." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, prescreened credit card offers, which are associated with credit cards that a particular borrower would be accepted upon application with the respective issuer, are provided to a borrower via a prescreen provider website and/or a referrer website. In one embodiment, a referrer provides borrower information to a prescreen provider. The prescreen provider initiates and/or performs a prescreening process, which includes accessing credit related information regarding the borrower. The prescreen provider matches the borrower with one or more credit cards that the borrower would like be accepted for, and provides a prescreened offer document to the referrer, or an Internet address of the prescreened offer document. The referrer may then provide the borrower with the prescreened credit card offers by presenting the prescreened offer document to the borrower. The prescreened credit card offers may additionally be filtered according to issuer criteria, referrer criteria, and/or borrower preferences." The patent application was filed on Sept. 29, 2006 (11/537,330). 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=80,27,888.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,888&RS=PN/80,27,888 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Vetco Gray Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Vetco Gray, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,027,856) developed by Paul J. Krueger, Houston, William R. Bratcher, Houston, and Wayne Thomas Wooton, Cypress, Texas, for an "automated notification of part revisions for outside suppliers." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Revision of a part specification document, such as a drawing, a part specification, or a bill of materials, prompts execution of an automated notification process. A unique part number associated with the revised part specification document is employed in searching open purchasing documents for purchase orders or request for quotes containing the part number. Electronic mail addresses for outside supplier contacts are kept in the database and linked to the supplier master of the open purchasing documents containing the part number. An electronic mail notification of the part specification document revision is generated and transmitted to each electronic mail address identified as being associated with an open purchasing document containing the subject part number." The patent application was filed on Nov. 23, 2004 (10/996,200). 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=80,27,856.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,856&RS=PN/80,27,856 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** United States Automobile Associates Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- United States Automobile Associates, San Antonio, has been assigned a patent (8,027,853) developed by Joseph Alfred Kazenas, Boerne, Texas, for "systems and methods for self-service vehicle risk adjustment." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A user may be identified and authenticated to an institution system and may adjust the annual miles driven estimate for their vehicle. The annual miles driven estimate is used in the determination of the premium for the vehicle insurance for the vehicle. The premium for the vehicle insurance may be revised based on the adjustment by the user to the annual miles driven estimate. In an implementation, the user may reduce the annual miles driven estimate to zero to indicate that they are not driving the vehicle. The user may keep some elements of the vehicle insurance coverage and the vehicle insurance policy may remain active although the annual miles driven estimate is zero." The patent application was filed on Oct. 23, 2008 (12/256,600). 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=80,27,853.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,853&RS=PN/80,27,853 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Personalizing Eligibility and Benefits Responses Based on User Profiles ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,027,851) developed by Gopal Krishnan, Austin, Texas, Russell Scott, Austin, Texas, and Amrish Chaubal, Bangalore, India, for a "personalizing eligibility and benefits responses based on user profiles." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An eligibility and benefits (EB) personalization engine, metadata storage and a portal Web page are set up on a server. EB personalization profiles are set up and stored in metadata storage that specify, according to useful descriptors, personalized information that identifies the EB data of insurance companies that is relevant to particular health care providers. An EB filtering rules database is created to store the filtering rules of multiple insurance companies, where the rules are categorized by the same descriptors used in the EB personalization profiles. After receiving a provider's specific request for an insurance company's EB data for a patient's treatment, the EB personalization engine receives the full collection of EB data from the insurance company, uses the provider's EB profile and the EB filtering rules to select the correct EB data for the provider, and sends the provider that selected data." The patent application was filed on Jan. 20, 2006 (11/336,455). 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=80,27,851.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,851&RS=PN/80,27,851 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Texas Inventors Develop Patent for Centralized Server Obtaining Security Intelligence Knowledge by Analyzing VoIP Bit-stream ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- J. Michael Holloway, Austin, Texas, and Samuel R. Shiffman, Austin, Texas, have developed a patent (8,027,841) for a "centralized server obtaining security intelligence knowledge by analyzing VoIP bit-stream." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods provide security intelligence knowledge of network communications. Particularly, VoIP packetized data being communicated over the network, together with other types of data communications over the network, is monitored and detected. From the VoIP packetized data, select portions or streams of the VoIP packetized data are identified. The select packetized data is then matched to a fingerprint or other indicia that indicates that the data is suspect for security intelligence knowledge purposes. The matched data is translated for purposes of taking security precautions based on the content of the security intelligence knowledge so gleaned." The patent application was filed on April 7, 2004 (10/819,387). 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=80,27,841.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,841&RS=PN/80,27,841 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Structure for Testing an Operation of Integrated Circuitry ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,027,825) developed by five co-inventors for a "structure for testing an operation of integrated circuitry." The co-inventors are Matthew E. Fernsler, Round Rock, Texas, Tilman Gloekler, Gaertringen, Germany, Sanjay Gupta, Austin, Texas, Christopher J. Spandikow, Austin, Texas, and Todd Swanson, Round Rock, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A design structure is embodied in a machine readable medium for designing, manufacturing, or testing integrated circuitry. The design structure includes a general purpose computational resource for performing general purpose operations of a system. A special purpose computational resource is coupled to the general purpose computational resource. The special purpose computational resource is for: storing test patterns, a description of the integrated circuitry, and a description of hardware for testing the integrated circuitry; and executing software for simulating an operation of the described hardware's testing of the described integrated circuitry in response to the test patterns." The patent application was filed on May 30, 2008 (12/130,675). 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=80,27,825.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,825&RS=PN/80,27,825 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Spirent Communications Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Spirent Communications, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,027,807) developed by May Vernon, Kerens, Texas, and Alberto Leyva, Coral Springs, Fla., for "DSL diagnosis expert system and method." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention relates to diagnostic analysis of DSL circuits. In particular, it relates to methods and devices that use a rule base and automated test initiation, with excellent reduction in test technician involvement in trouble shooting, reduced truck rolls and more accurate identification of probably causes of customer complaints." The patent application was filed on Nov. 4, 2008 (12/264,866). 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=80,27,807.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,807&RS=PN/80,27,807 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** United Services Automobile Association Assigned Patent for Methods and Systems for Estimating Throughput of a Simultaneous Multi-threading Processor ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- United Services Automobile Association, San Antonio, has been assigned a patent (8,027,808) developed by Glen A. Becker, San Antonio, for "methods and systems for estimating throughput of a simultaneous multi-threading processor." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems are disclosed for determining a CPU usage adjustment factor and for automatically applying the CPU usage adjustment factor to provide a CPU usage estimate for an SMT processor. In one implementation, the methods and systems obtain samples of CPU usage reported by the operating system at a predefined sampling rate over a predefined sampling interval. Thread states for the threads substantially corresponding to the reported CPU usage are so obtained at the predefined sampling rate and over the predefined sampling interval. This sampling may be performed for servers running different applications and having diverse processing loads. An estimate of the distribution of the number of threads running for the CPU usages reported may then be determined from the sampled data. A CPU usage adjustment factor may then be derived, based on the distribution, and used to provide a CPU usage estimate." The patent application was filed on May 25, 2010 (12/787,232). 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=80,27,808.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,808&RS=PN/80,27,808 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. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for On-demand Supplemental Diagnostic and Service Resource Planning for Mobile Systems ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,027,843) developed by Willam Kress Bodin, Austin, Texas, and Derral C. Thorson, Austin, Texas, for an "on-demand supplemental diagnostic and service resource planning for mobile systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Enhanced diagnostic service is provided by determining availability of and downloading a supplemental diagnostic function to isolate a failure according to a service signal from a mobile system; coalescing offers for a repair service according to results of the execution of the downloaded diagnostic function; presenting the offers to an operator of the mobile system; executing the diagnostic function by an on-demand computing system wherein transactions provided by the diagnostic function are automatically shared by simultaneously serving multiple customers; differentiating and recording each customer's usage of the diagnostic functions according to one or more parameters included in the transactions, the parameters uniquely identifying each customer and a type of transaction conducted for that customer; and, responsive to a number of simultaneous transactions to any one server exceeding a performance limit of a given server, automatically accessing one or more additional servers to increase capacity and to share workload." The patent application was filed on Nov. 1, 2005 (11/263,713). 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=80,27,843.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,843&RS=PN/80,27,843 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Advanced Bionics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Advanced Bionics, Valencia, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,027,735) developed by George Tziviskos, Encino, Calif., Michael D. Brownen, Keller, Texas, and William G. Orinski, Stevenson Ranch, Calif., for an "atraumatic high-retention headpiece." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A headpiece for a cochlear implant system includes a transcutaneous transmission coil that transfers power and/or data to an implantable device implanted under a user's skin. The headpiece includes a magnet for holding the transmission coil in close proximity to the receiver coil in the implanted device, which also contains a magnet, and provides the desired alignment between the coils so that inductive coupling may efficiently occur. The headpiece has a bottom surface for skin contact that includes a plurality of flexible bumps configured to distribute pressure over a large surface area while allowing blood flow throughout the area. This also provides friction contact with the skin to help secure the headpiece, reducing movement due to lateral loading, while reducing skin irritation and erosion." The patent application was filed on March 31, 2009 (12/415,977). 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=8027735.PN.&OS=PN/8027735&RS=PN/8027735 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Digital Thermal Sensor Test Implementation Without Using Main Core Voltage Supply ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,027,798) developed by four co-inventors for a "digital thermal sensor test implementation without using main core voltage supply." The co-inventors are Charles R. Johns, Austin, Texas, Mack W. Riley, Austin, Texas, David W. Shan, Austin, Texas, and Michael F. Wang, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus are provided for calibrating digital thermal sensors. A processor chip with a plurality of digital thermal sensors receives an analog voltage. A test circuit coupled to the processor chip receives a clock signal and a register coupled to the test circuit outputs a value on each clock cycle to a digital thermal sensor in the plurality of digital thermal sensors. The digital thermal sensor transitions an output state in response to the value of the register received in the digital thermal sensor equaling a temperature threshold of the digital thermal sensor. The value of the register at the point of transition is used to calibrate the digital thermal sensor. An incrementer increments the value of the register on each clock cycle in response to the value of the register received in the digital thermal sensor failing to equal the temperature threshold of the digital thermal sensor." The patent application was filed on Nov. 8, 2007 (11/937,134). 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=80,27,798.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,798&RS=PN/80,27,798 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Daniel Measurement and Control Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Daniel Measurement and Control, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,027,793) developed by Damon J. Ellender, Loftus, Australia, and Duane B. Toavs, Taylor, Texas, for a "method and system of validating data regarding measured hydrocarbon flow." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system of validating data regarding measured hydrocarbon flow. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are systems including a flow computer coupled to a metering tube and configured to measure fluid flow through the metering tube, and a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system coupled to the flow computer. The SCADA system is configured to perform a validation on data provided by the flow computer regarding fluid flow. The flow computer is configured to perform the validation on the data regarding fluid flow, and the if the validation is successfully completed by the flow computer, the SCADA system refrains from performing the validation." The patent application was filed on July 9, 2007 (11/774,714). 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=80,27,793.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,793&RS=PN/80,27,793 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Halliburton Energy Services Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Halliburton Energy Services, Houston, has been assigned a patent (RE42,733) developed by five co-inventors for a "wear-resistant, variable diameter expansion tool and expansion methods." The co-inventors are John C. Gano, Carrollton, Texas, Kenneth L. Schwendemann, Flower Mound, Texas, Darrin N. Towers, Carrollton, Texas, Ralph Harvey Echols, Plano, Texas, and Perry Carter Shy, Southlake, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The inventions provide apparatus and methods for radially expanding a tubular deployed in a subterranean well by moving an expansion tool axially through the well. An expansion tool apparatus may have wear faces attached to at least a portion of the outer periphery of a mandrel for contacting the interior surface of the pipe, tube, or screen during expansion. According to another aspect of the invention, an expansion tool has a controlled egress seal between the outer surface of the tool and the inside surface of the expandable tubular. According to another aspect of the invention, an automatically variable diameter expansion tool is provided having a variable diameter cone, which expands, and contracts based on input from one or more sensors. According to another aspect of the invention, an apparatus and method for expanding a length of screen assembly in a subterranean wellbore is provided." The patent application was filed on April 20, 2006 (11/408,271). 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=RE42,733&OS=RE42,733&RS=RE42,733 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** 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. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Virtual Controllers with a Large Data Center ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,028,017) developed by Ravi Kumar Arimilli, Austin, Texas, and Piyush Chaudhary, Highland, N.Y., for a "virtual controllers with a large data center." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed are a method, a system and a computer program product for dynamically allocating and/or de-allocating resources and/or partitions that provide I/O and/or active storage access services in a supercomputing system. The supercomputing system can include multiple compute nodes, high performance computing (HPC) switches coupled to the compute nodes, and active non-volatile storage devices coupled to the compute nodes. Each of the compute nodes can be configured to communicate with another compute node through at least one of the HPC switches. In one or more embodiments, each of at least two compute nodes includes a storage controller and is configured to dynamically allocate and de-allocate a storage controller partition to provide storage services to the supercomputing system, and each of at least two compute nodes includes an I/O controller and is configured to dynamically allocate and de-allocate an I/O controller partition to provide I/O services to the supercomputing system." The patent application was filed on April 16, 2009 (12/424,852). 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=8,028,017.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,017&RS=PN/8,028,017 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Verizon Patent and Licensing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Verizon Patent and Licensing, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,028,313) developed by Heath Stallings, Grapevine, Texas, Brian Roberts, Frisco, Texas, and Don Relyea, Dallas, for a "linear program guide for media content access systems and methods." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one of many possible embodiments, a system includes a media content processing subsystem configured to provide at least a portion of a linear program guide to a display for presentation to a user. The linear program guide includes a list of media content carriers and associated media content instances, and an endpoint located at one end of the list. The media content carriers and the endpoint are navigable by the user, and the endpoint is associated with at least one selectable navigation tool for navigating within the linear program guide. In certain embodiments, the selectable navigation tool includes a selectable shortcut to a predefined location within the linear program guide." The patent application was filed on Dec. 21, 2006 (11/614,604). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,028,313.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,313&RS=PN/8,028,313 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Multiple-core Processor Supporting Multiple Instruction Set Architectures ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,028,290) developed by James Walter Rymarczyk, Austin, Texas, Michael Ignatowski, Red Hook, N.Y., and Thomas J. Heller Jr., Rhinebeck, N.Y., for a "multiple-core processor supporting multiple instruction set architectures." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Multiple instruction set architectures are supported in a system that provides a power-efficient and flexible platform for virtual machine environments requiring multiple support for multiple instruction set architectures (ISAs). A processor includes multiple cores having disparate native ISAs and that may be selectively enabled for operation, so that power is conserved when support for a particular ISA is not required of the processor. A hypervisor controls operation of the cores, locates a core and enables it if necessary when a request to instantiate a virtual machine having a specified ISA is received. The ISA may be specified by a particular operating system and/or application program requirements." The patent application was filed on Aug. 30, 2006 (11/468,547). 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=8,028,290&OS=8,028,290&RS=8,028,290 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for System and Method for Improved Placement in Custom VLSI Circuit Design with Schematic-driven Placement ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,028,265) developed by William D. Ramsour, Pflugerville, Texas, Samuel I. Ward, Austin, Texas, and Jun Zhou, Austin, Texas, for a "system and method for improved placement in custom VLSI circuit design with schematic-driven placement." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for generating an electronic circuit layout with placed circuit elements receives a user provided schematic, the user provided schematic comprising a plurality of circuit elements, each circuit element comprising general parameters. The method associates a plurality of first placement parameters with each of the plurality of circuit elements, wherein the first placement parameters comprise a cell horizontal position, a cell vertical stacking position, and a cell vertical adjacent spacing. The method retrieves, from a design library, design parameters associated with at least one of the plurality of circuit elements. The method assigns first absolute placement coordinates for each of the plurality of circuit elements based on the first placement parameters and the design parameters. The method defines and performs an adjustment operation on the placement parameters of a selected subset of circuit elements, generating adjusted placement parameters. The method assigns second absolute placement coordinates based on the first placement parameters, the design parameters, and the adjusted placement parameters and generates an electronic circuit layout with placed circuit elements based on the second absolute placement coordinates." The patent application was filed on July 31, 2008 (12/183,898). 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=8,028,265&OS=8,028,265&RS=8,028,265 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Multi-protocol Object Distribution ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,028,303) developed by Kyle G. Brown, Apex, N.C., Michael A. Perks, Austin, Texas, and Sean M. Sundberg, Waco, Texas, for a multi-protocol object distribution. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention is a multi-protocol object distribution system. The multi-protocol object distribution system can include one or more remote procedure call (RPC) transport protocol stubs; and, a meta-stub configured to select individual ones of the RPC transport protocol stubs through which distributed object services can be provided to requesting clients in the object distribution system. The RPC transport protocol stubs can include both a default RPC transport stub, and at least one other RPC transport stub which the meta-stub can select based upon changing conditions in the object distribution system. Importantly, the meta-stub can automatically select the default RPC transport stub by default." The patent application was filed on Aug. 17, 2007 (11/840,462). 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=8,028,303&OS=8,028,303&RS=8,028,303 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for System and Method for Automated Placement in Custom VLSI Circuit Design with Schematic-driven Placement ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,028,266) developed by William D. Ramsour, Pflugerville, Texas, and Samuel I. Ward, Austin, Texas, for a "system and method for automated placement in custom VLSI circuit design with schematic-driven placement." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for automatically generating an electronic circuit layout with placed circuit elements includes receiving a user provided schematic, the user provided schematic comprising a plurality of circuit elements, each circuit element comprising general parameters. The method associates a plurality of first placement parameters with each of the plurality of circuit elements. The method retrieves, from a design library, design parameters associated with at least one of the plurality of circuit elements. The method selects a subset of circuit elements and receives placement inputs. The method generates a first placed layout configuration comprising adjusted placement parameters, based on the received placement inputs, the first placement parameters, and the design parameters. The method assigns absolute placement coordinates for each of the plurality of circuit elements based on the first placed layout configuration. The method generates an electronic circuit layout with placed circuit elements based on the absolute placement coordinates." The patent application was filed on July 31, 2008 (12/183,958). 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=8,028,266&OS=8,028,266&RS=8,028,266 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Crossroads Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Crossroads Systems, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (RE42,761) developed by Geoffrey B. Hoese, Austin, Texas, and Jeffry T. Russell, Austin, Texas, for a "storage router and method for providing virtual local storage." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A storage router (56) and storage network (50) provide virtual local storage on remote SCSI storage devices (60, 62, 64) to Fiber Channel devices. A plurality of Fiber Channel devices, such as workstations (58), are connected to a Fiber Channel transport medium (52), and a plurality of SCSI storage devices (60, 62, 64) are connected to a SCSI bus transport medium (54). The storage router (56) interfaces between the Fiber Channel transport medium (52) and the SCSI bus transport medium (54). The storage router (56) maps between the workstations (58) and the SCSI storage devices (60, 62, 64) and implements access controls for storage space on the SCSI storage devices (60, 62, 64). The storage router (56) then allows access from the workstations (58) to the SCSI storage devices (60, 62, 64) using native low level, block protocol in accordance with the mapping and the access controls." The patent application was filed on July 24, 2008 (12/220,431). 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=RE42,761&OS=RE42,761&RS=RE42,761 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Program Product Providing a Configuration Specification Language Having Clone Latch Support ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,028,273) developed by Wolfgang Roesner, Austin, Texas, and Derek Edward Williams, Austin, Texas, for a "program product providing a configuration specification language having clone latch support." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, data processing systems, and program products supporting the insertion of clone latches within a digital design are disclosed. According to one method, a parent latch within the digital design is specified in an HDL statement in one of the HDL files representing a digital design. In addition, a clone latch is specified within the digital design utilizing an HDL clone latch declaration. An HDL attribute-value pair is associated with the HDL clone latch declaration to indicate a relationship between the clone latch and the parent latch according to which the clone latch is automatically set to a same value as the parent latch when the parent latch is set. Thereafter, when a configuration compiler receives one or more design intermediate files containing the clone latch declaration, the configuration compiler creates at least one data structure in a configuration database representing the clone latch and the relationship between the clone latch and the parent latch." The patent application was filed on April 18, 2008 (12/106,053). 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=8,028,273&OS=8,028,273&RS=8,028,273 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Intel Assigned Patent for Apparatus, System, and Method for Persistent User-level Thread ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,028,295) developed by 12 co-inventors for an "apparatus, system, and method for persistent user-level thread." The co-inventors are Gautham Chinya, Hillsboro, Ore., Hong Wang, Santa Clara, Calif., Prashant Sethi, Folsom, Calif., Shivnandan Kaushik, Portland, Ore., Bryant Bigbee, Scottsdale, Ariz., John Shen, San Jose, Calif., Richard Hankins, San Jose, Calif., Xiang Zou, Portland, Ore., Baiju V. Patel, Portland, Ore., Jason W. Brandt, Austin, Texas, Anil Aggarwal, Portland, Ore., and John L. Reid, Portland, Ore. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the invention provide a method of creating, based on an operating-system-scheduled thread running on an operating-system-visible sequencer and using an instruction set extension, a persistent user-level thread to run on an operating-system-sequestered sequencer independently of context switch activities on the operating-system-scheduled thread. The operating-system-scheduled thread and the persistent user-level thread may share a common virtual address space. Embodiments of the invention may also provide a method of causing a service thread running on an additional operating-system-visible sequencer to provide operating system services to the persistent user-level thread. Embodiments of the invention may further provide apparatus, system, and machine-readable medium thereof." The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2005 (11/239,475). 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=8,028,295&OS=8,028,295&RS=8,028,295 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. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Fast Processing Memory Array ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,028,124) developed by Oliver Keren Ban, Austin, Texas, Xiangang Cheng, Raleigh, N.C., and Eric James St. Amand, New Paltz, N.Y., for a "fast processing memory array." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The illustrative embodiments described herein provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for increasing efficiency associated with data access. In one illustrative embodiment a memory chip is presented comprising of a plurality of memory units for storing data; a plurality of processing units for processing the data; and a word line and a bit line external to the plurality of memory units, wherein the plurality of processing units directly access the word line and the bit line in accessing the data." The patent application was filed on Dec. 20, 2007 (11/961,206). 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=8,028,124.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,124&RS=PN/8,028,124 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Adjusting Log Size in a Static Logical Volume ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,028,010) developed by Mark Allen Grubbs, Round Rock, Texas, Gerald Francis McBrearty, Austin, Texas, and Duyen M. Tong, Austin, Texas, for an "adjusting log size in a static logical volume." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system, and program for adjusting the size of a file system and an inline file system log housed in a static logical volume. A computer system includes a logical volume allocated between an file system and its inline file system log. A request is received to adjust the inline log from a current size to a new size while maintaining the size of the logical volume. Storage space is then allocated from within the logical volume to the inline log according to the storage requirement for the new size. Allocating storage space may require decreasing or increasing the amount of storage formerly allocated to the inline log. Then, the inline log is reformatted to the allocated storage space, such that the storage allocated to the inline log for a file system is adjusted while the size of the logical volume housing the inline log and file system remains static." The patent application was filed on Dec. 20, 2007 (11/961,694). 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=8,028,010.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,010&RS=PN/8,028,010 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Dell Products Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Dell Products, Round Rock, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,027,992) developed by David Blake, Austin, Texas, and Michelle Eddie, Austin, Texas, for "build automation and verification for modular servers." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for managing and verifying the installation of software on a modular information handling system includes a bar file database and an installation management module. The bar file database stores bar files. The bar files each are related to a component of a modular information handling system. The installation management module is able to receive a bar file and communicate with the bar file database to identify and access each bar file associated with the modular information handling system." The patent application was filed on March 26, 2008 (12/055,545). 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=8,027,992.PN.&OS=PN/8,027,992&RS=PN/8,027,992 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** RPX-LV Acquisition Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- RPX-LV Acquisition, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,028,036) developed by Jeffry Jovan Philyaw, Dallas, for a "launching a web site using a passive transponder." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of displaying a web page to a user. A triggering device (2502) having a unique code stored therein is provided to the user. The unique code is extracted from the triggering device (2502) with an activation system (302), the activation system (302) disposed on a network (306). Location information associated with the unique code is retrieved from a database (1614 or 310), the location information corresponding to a location of the web page on a remote location (312) disposed on the network (306). In response to retrieving the location information, the activation system (302) is connected to the remote location (312). The web page corresponding to the location information of the remote location (312) is then presented to the user via the activation system (302)." The patent application was filed on July 11, 2000 (09/614,937). 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=8,028,036&OS=8,028,036&RS=8,028,036 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for System and Method for Virtual Adapter Resource Allocation Matrix ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,028,105) developed by seven co-inventors for a "system and method for virtual adapter resource allocation matrix that defines the amount of resources of a physical I/O adapter." The co-inventors are Richard Louis Arndt, Austin, Texas, Giora Biran, Zichron-Yaakov, Israel, Harvey Gene Kiel, Rochester, Minn., Vadim Makhervaks, Austin, Texas, Renato John Recio, Austin, Texas, Leah Shalev, Zichron-Yaakov, Israel, and Jaya Srikrishnan, Wappingers Falls, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, computer program product, and distributed data processing system that enables host software or firmware to allocate virtual resources to one or more system images from a single physical I/O adapter, such as a PCI, PCI-X, or PCI-E adapter, is provided. Adapter resource groups are assigned to respective system images. An adapter resource group is exclusively available to the system image to which the adapter resource group assignment was made. Assignment of adapter resource groups may be made per a relative resource assignment or an absolute resource assignment. In another embodiment, adapter resource groups are assigned to system images on a first come, first served basis." The patent application was filed on May 16, 2008 (12/122,507). 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=8,028,105.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,105&RS=PN/8,028,105 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Netsocket Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Netsocket, Plano, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,028,088) developed by Lance Arnold Visser, Dallas, for a "system and method for service assurance in IP networks." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for providing service assurance in a data network is provided. Resource control points are positioned throughout a data network, such as an IP data network. The resource control points obtain network topology information and correlates that information with information associated with a particular service session. The resource control points utilize the correlated information to generate quality service records and to provide status information regarding the network topology and particular sessions. The information collected by the resource control points may also be utilized to provide reports regarding resource management for services within the data network, the path used by the session across the data network, fault information for the session in the context of the network topology and congestion information as concerns the resources in the data network used by the session." The patent application was filed on May 9, 2008 (12/118,270). 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=8,028,088.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,088&RS=PN/8,028,088 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Crossroads Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Crossroads Systems, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,028,117) developed by Geoffrey B. Hoese, Austin, Texas, and Jeffry T. Russell, Cibolo, Texas, for a "storage router and method for providing virtual local storage." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A data storage gateway and method for providing virtual local storage on remote storage devices to devices. A plurality of devices, such as workstations, are connected to a first transport medium, and a plurality of storage devices are connected to a second transport medium. The storage router maps the virtual storage to one or more storage devices connected to the second transport medium such that the one or more storage devices contain at least a portion of the virtual storage and wherein the storage router allows access from the devices connected to the first transport medium to the virtual storage using native low level block protocol." The patent application was filed on Oct. 22, 2010 (12/910,375). 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=8,028,117.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,117&RS=PN/8,028,117 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** D2Audio Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- D2Audio, Milpitas, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,028,101) developed by four co-inventors for "systems and methods for controlling HDA system capabilities." The co-inventors are Wilson E. Taylor, Austin, Texas, Douglas D. Gephardt, Dripping Springs, Texas, Larry E. Hand, Meridian, Miss., and Richard Spina, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for controlling the capabilities of an High Definition Audio (HDA) system, wherein the system determines whether an optional component such as a plug-in card is connected to the system and then configures itself in a baseline configuration if the optional component is not connected or configures itself in a different, alternative configuration if the optional component is connected. In one embodiment, a codec of the system includes a programmable processor configured to read configuration authorization information and also read configuration information from the optional component if it is connected to the system. The processor also controls the configuration of the HDA system and the operation of the codec based on the authorization and configuration information. The system can thereby provide different features and functionality using the same hardware." The patent application was filed on Sept. 1, 2008 (12/202,361). 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=8,028,101.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,101&RS=PN/8,028,101 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,028,086) developed by Zeeshan Naseh, Richardson, Texas, for a virtual server recirculation. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, a method can include: (i) classifying a packet in a server load balancer (SLB) for determining if the packet is destined for a virtual Internet protocol (VIP) address hosted on the SLB; (ii) selecting a server from a group of servers representing the VIP address; (iii) changing a destination IP address of the packet from the VIP address to a real IP address of the selected server; and (iv) recirculating the packet for repeating the classifying." The patent application was filed on April 19, 2007 (11/788,725). 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=8,028,086.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,086&RS=PN/8,028,086 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- AT&T Intellectual Property, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,028,046) developed by five co-inventors for a "system and method of configuring a network device." The co-inventors are Shane Michael Elliott, Haslet, Texas, Kenneth Winburn, Weatherford, Texas, Scott Mote, Dupo, Ill., Blaine Thomas, Allen, Texas, and Ty Robertson, Boerne, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In a particular illustrative embodiment, a method of configuring a network device is disclosed that includes determining network device information at a network device using a boot strapping protocol during an initial set-up process of the network device. The method further includes automatically modifying a configuration profile of the network device to connect to a network in a first device mode using the network device information. The method also includes receiving configuration information transmitted from a configuration server without requesting the configuration information. The configuration information includes routing information and configuration parameters particular to the network device. The method further includes automatically modifying the configuration profile of the network device to operate in a second device mode based on the configuration information. The first device mode is a non-operational mode and the second device mode is an operational mode." The patent application was filed on July 23, 2007 (11/880,892). 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=8,028,046&OS=8,028,046&RS=8,028,046 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** PEER Intellectual Property Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- PEER Intellectual Property, Kitchener, Canada, has been assigned a patent (8,028,049) developed by Raymond Walter Ellis, Austin, Texas, Mark Theodore Pendleton, San Diego, and Charles Merritt Baylis, Cincinnati, for an "apparatus and method for web-based tool management." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for web-based tool management are implemented. A tool object model provides a logical representation of the physical tool. The tool object model defines a hierarchical set of tool objects that characterize the tool, and additionally a set of method for performing actions on the tool objects. These actions also correspond to operations, which may include reporting as well as processing tasks, performed by the tool. A user may remotely control and monitor a tool using a conventional web browser. For example, a user may execute methods of the tool object model, or obtain detailed information about a tool object. User actions are passed to a server by embedding them in hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) requests. The server receives the HTTP request, and passes the request to a corresponding page server in accordance with the action requested. Depending on the action requested, the page server may generate a web page in response, or may invoke a method of the tool object model." The patent application was filed on Feb. 1, 2000 (09/496,009). 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=8,028,049&OS=8,028,049&RS=8,028,049 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Zix Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Zix, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (8,027,923) developed by Gary G. Liu, Plano, Texas, for a certified transmission system. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The invention provides a method and apparatus for transmitting a message from a sender to an intended recipient. The method includes encrypting a message using a symmetric key, sending the encrypted message to an intended recipient without the symmetric key and providing the symmetric key to a third party. If the intended recipient signs and returns to the third party a receipt for the message, the method includes transferring, by the third party, the receipt to the sender and providing the symmetric key to the intended recipient." The patent application was filed on Dec. 3, 2007 (11/949,690). 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=8,027,923.PN.&OS=PN/8,027,923&RS=PN/8,027,923 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Sprint Communications Assigned Patent for Method and Software for Migrating Protected Authentication Data ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Sprint Communications, Overland Park, Kan., has been assigned a patent (8,027,921) developed by Kenneth Charles Boydstun, Carrollton, Texas, and Bharath Kuruvalli, Irving, Texas, for a "method and software for migrating protected authentication data." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present disclosure attempts to migrate from a first authenticator to a second authenticator. In the most preferred embodiment, the first step is to migrate the data that is not stored encrypted by a traditional replication or transformation between the datastores of the authenticators. The new authenticator is placed in position, while the old authenticator is maintained. When a user attempts to login, servlets check to see if the user's password exists within the datastore for the new authenticator. If not, then the user is sent to the old authenticator's sign-on page. When the user enters their authentication credentials into the old authenticator, a code snippet or second servlet will capture this information and, on confirmation from the old authenticator that the user is properly authenticated, use the captured information to populate the new datastore." The patent application was filed on Feb. 13, 2002 (10/075,336). 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=8,027,921.PN.&OS=PN/8,027,921&RS=PN/8,027,921 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** TROUX Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- TROUX Technologies, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,027,956) developed by James E. Van Riper, Austin, Texas, Clint Miller, Austin, Texas, and David K. Williams, Austin, Texas, for a "system and method for planning or monitoring system transformations." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments provide systems and methods for planning or monitoring system transformations. One embodiment of a method for planning or monitoring the transformation of a system includes developing one or more states, each state representing a system and associated with data structures representing entities comprising the system, wherein the states are ordered in a succession of states to form a scenario modeling the transformation of the system. States can be populated by reflecting one or more data structures or properties of data structures across one or more states. The method can further include collecting data associated with the system at intervals and reflecting the collected data across states. Data structures may be contained in a repository and collected data may be used to update the repository and data structures contained in the repository. A modeling tool may be utilized to display data structures in the repository according to different representations." The patent application was filed on Oct. 30, 2007 (11/929,157). 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