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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in California (April 11)
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in California.
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Stryker Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Stryker, Kalamazoo, Mich., and Stryker NV Operations, Dublin, Ireland, have been assigned a patent (RE43,311) developed by Michael P. Wallace, Pleasanton, Calif., Mehran Bashiri, San Carlos, Calif., and Chad C. Roue, San Jose, Calif., for a "fast-detaching electrically insulated implant."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "This is an implant for placement in the human body and an assembly for so placing that implant. Most desirably, it is an implant for use in the vasculature of the human body and is used to occlude some space in that vasculature as a portion of a treatment regimen. The implant itself is preferably a component of a deployment device using an electrolytically severable joint. The implant component is at least partially covered with a highly resistive or insulative covering. The highly resistive or insulative layer or covering appears to enhance the susceptibility of the electrolytic joint to quick erosion and thus detachment of the implant. Although the implant itself is preferably a vaso-occlusive device, it may instead be a stent, a vena cava filter, or other implant which may be installed in this manner. The implant may be independently coated with insulative or resistive material or may be formed using a material with such as tantalum, which forms such an insulator or resistor in situ."
The patent application was filed on Feb. 14, 2007 (11/707,233). 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=RE43,311&OS=RE43,311&RS=RE43,311
Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.
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Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent for Data Processing System and Method
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,156,496) developed by Padmanabhan Selvakumarapalayam Nagarajan, Cupertino, Calif., and Ganesh Handige Shankar, Bangalore, India, for a "data processing system and method."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of optimizing a thread in a system comprising a plurality of processors, the method comprising: determining performance of the thread on each of the processors; comparing the determined performances; and selecting a processor for executing the thread based on the comparison."
The patent application was filed on Jan. 29, 2008 (12/021,945). 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=8,156,496&OS=8,156,496&RS=8,156,496
Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.
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Cisco Technology Assigned Patent for Method and System for Verifying Identification of an Electronic Mail Message
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,156,554) developed by James L. Fenton, Los Altos, Calif., Michael A. Thomas, San Francisco, and Frederick J. Baker, Santa Barbara, Calif., for a "method and system for verifying identification of an electronic mail message."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for verifying identification of an electronic mail message. An electronic mail message including a signature and a key is received, the signature identifying a domain from which the electronic mail message originated and the key for verifying the signature. A key registration server of the domain is accessed to verify the key. The key registration server provides for verifying that a key used to sign an electronic mail message is valid and that the sender is authorized by the domain to send the electronic mail message from the return address."
The patent application was filed on Sept. 3, 2008 (12/203,853). 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=8,156,554&OS=8,156,554&RS=8,156,554
Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.
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Visa U.S.A Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Visa U.S.A, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,156,543) developed by five co-inventors for a "method and system for authenticating a party to a transaction." The co-inventors are David Wentker, San Francisco, Michael Lindelsee, Menlo Park, Calif., Olivier Brand, Walnut Creek, Calif., James Dimmick, Berkshire, United Kingdom, and Tribhuwan A. Singh Grewal, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "One embodiment of the invention is directed to a method including receiving an alias identifier associated with an account associated with a presenter, determining an associated trusted party using the alias identifier, sending a verification request message to the trusted party after determining the associated trusted party, and receiving a verification response message."
The patent application was filed on April 16, 2008 (12/104,186). 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=8,156,543&OS=8,156,543&RS=8,156,543
Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.
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Inventigo Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Inventigo, Walnut Creek, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,156,506) developed by Michael N. Gurevich, Walnut Creek, Calif., for "methods and apparatus for message oriented invocation."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The invention relates to data processing apparatus and methods for method oriented invocation (MOI) of data processing service modules. MOI Adapters and methods interface compound messages with service modules that process them, advantageously reducing memory and processing time utilization. Compound messages may be progressively parsed and processed, identifying the constituent information items needed by a service module and invoking the service module when all needed information items are available, without using resources to maintain and process superfluous message data. Multiple service modules may be addressed by a single MOI Adapter."
The patent application was filed on Feb. 28, 2011 (13/037,004). 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=8,156,506&OS=8,156,506&RS=8,156,506
Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.
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Cisco Technology Assigned Patent for Conditional Data Delivery to Remote Devices
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,156,542) developed by Allen J. Huotari, Garden Grove, Calif., and Kendra S. Harrington, Irvine, Calif., for "conditional data delivery to remote devices."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment a method comprises enrolling a mobile device in a local area network by setting a variable to a mobile device identifier and authenticating the mobile device using a network gateway and the mobile device identifier. A request for data is received from the mobile device and the data is delivered from a service provider to the mobile device."
The patent application was filed on April 4, 2008 (12/062,889). 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=8,156,542&OS=8,156,542&RS=8,156,542
Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.
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SanDisk Technologies Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- SanDisk Technologies, Plano, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,156,563) developed by five co-inventors for a "method for managing keys and/or rights objects." The co-inventors are Oktay Rasizade, Castro Valley, Calif., Bahman Qawami, San Jose, Calif., Fabrice Jogand-Coulomb, San Carlos, Calif., Robert C. Chang, Danville, Calif., and Farshid Sabet-Sharghi, Los Altos Hills, Calif.
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "One or more rights objects (RO) files may be used for storing RO's preferably in the protected area available only to authenticated users. A RO navigation file is stored preferably in an unprotected public area containing status bits, where each status bit identifies whether a location in a RO file contains a valid RO or not. Preferably, there is a one-to-one correspondence between the location for a RO in a RO file and a location in the RO navigation file for the status bit which identifies whether its corresponding location in the RO file contains a valid RO or not. Whether a particular location in a RO file contains a valid RO or not can be found by checking its corresponding status bit in the RO navigation file. By finding out whether a particular location in a RO file contains a valid RO or not in this manner, it is possible to delete ROs without having to go through an authentication process. The process of finding an empty slot in the RO file for storing a new RO is also simplified. This greatly increases the efficiency of RO management. A similar system may be used for management of content encryption/encryption keys for protecting content files."
The patent application was filed on Nov. 18, 2005 (11/283,221). 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=8,156,563&OS=8,156,563&RS=8,156,563
Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.
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Intel Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,156,010) developed by Kumar C. Gopalakrishnan, Mountain View, Calif., for a multimodal context marketplace.
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for trading of rights to associate information services with multimodal contexts is described. Also described are methods for associating financial transactions with trading of rights in the marketplace and determining the value of the financial transactions. Also described are user interfaces for trading on the marketplace."
The patent application was filed on June 9, 2006 (11/423,264). 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=8,156,010.PN.&OS=PN/8,156,010&RS=PN/8,156,010
Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand.
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Microsoft Assigned Patent for Seamless Digital Channel Changing
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,156,534) developed by Peter T. Barrett, San Francisco, and James A. Baldwin, Redwood City, Calif., for a "seamless digital channel changing."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Seamless channel changing in a digital-television-based entertainment network can be implemented, for example, by providing an intra frame to a client device upon a change to a new channel even when the broadcast video data is previously compressed. In an exemplary implementation, a method includes: receiving a stream of broadcast video data that is encoded; continuously decoding the stream of broadcast video data into successive decoded images; and transmitting, responsive to a channel change message received from a client device, an intra frame that has been encoded from a decoded image of the successive decoded images. Other exemplary implementations are described herein."
The patent application was filed on Feb. 24, 2009 (12/391,268). 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=8,156,534&OS=8,156,534&RS=8,156,534
Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.
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Google Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,156,001) developed by Yushi Jing, Mountain View, Calif., and Shumeet Baluja, Leesburg, Va., for a "facilitating bidding on images."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques are described for facilitating bidding on images. The techniques may include receiving bids includes presenting a first image and a bid associated with the first image. The first image is similar to a second image for which a bid is to be submitted for presenting sponsored content based on the second image. A bid is received for presenting a sponsored-content item based on the second image. The received bid is stored in association with second image and a sponsored-content item based to be presented based on the bid and the second image."
The patent application was filed on Dec. 28, 2007 (11/966,518). 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=8,156,001.PN.&OS=PN/8,156,001&RS=PN/8,156,001
Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand.
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NextLabs Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- NextLabs, San Mateo, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,156,566) developed by Keng Lim, Atherton, Calif., for an "associating code to a target through code inspection."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Code is associated to a target based on an inspection of the code. A target may be a device or a user. A number of code components may be inspected at one time and then transferred or otherwise associated to a target based on the target's profile. A code component may be a policy of an information management system."
The patent application was filed on Dec. 22, 2006 (11/615,757). 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=8,156,566&OS=8,156,566&RS=8,156,566
Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.
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Finsar Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Finsar, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,156,535) developed by Gerald F. Sage, Chico, Calif., for a "data rate compression device for cable television return path using bandpass puncturing."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus for and a method of transmitting analog return signals in a digital return path of a cable television system (CATV) is disclosed. In one embodiment, at a node of the CATV system, an analog CATV return signal is converted to a stream of digital samples at approximately 100 MHz. Signals outside of a desired frequency band are removed with a digital filter having predetermined filter coefficients. The resulting stream of digital samples is up-sampled to generate another stream of digital samples at a rate that is four times the center frequency of a predetermined frequency band. The resulting stream is then punctured to generate yet another stream with a data rate that is lower than 100 MHz. Zero samples are removed, and the remaining digital samples are serialized and converted to optical signals for transmission via an optical medium of the CATV return path. A reverse process at a hub or head end of the CATV return system restores the signals of the desired frequency band."
The patent application was filed on March 19, 2002 (10/102,619). 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=8,156,535&OS=8,156,535&RS=8,156,535
Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.
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Yahoo! Assigned Patent for Statistical Credibility Metric for Online Question Answerers
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,155,998) developed by Byron Dom, Los Gatos, Calif., and Deepa Paranjpe, Fremont, Calif., for a "statistical credibility metric for online question answerers."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques for statistically estimating a rating or other "figure of merit" for a user are disclosed. According to one such technique, a first quantity of submissions that were submitted by a user is determined. A second quantity of submissions that (a) were submitted by the user and (b) obtained a particular rating from a rating mechanism also is determined. A user rating for the user is determined based at least in part on the first quantity, the second quantity, and a factor that is independent of both the first quantity and the second quantity--such as the probability that an answer submitted by any answerer in a population will obtain the particular rating from the rating mechanism. The influence that the second quantity has on the user rating relative to the influence that the factor has on the user rating may depend at least in part on the first quantity."
The patent application was filed on Oct. 18, 2006 (11/583,413). 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=8,155,998.PN.&OS=PN/8,155,998&RS=PN/8,155,998
Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand.
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International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Exchanging Data Using Data Transformation
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,156,509) developed by five co-inventors for an "exchanging data using data transformation." The co-inventors are Jason Nathaniel Lacombe, San Francisco, Adriana M. Loghin, Boca Raton, Fla., Travis Eli Nelson, Campbell, Calif., Venkat Arun Reddy, Hyderabad, India, and Suraksha Vidyarthi, Fremont, Calif.
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer-usable program product for exchanging data using data transformation are provided. A first data binding component receives data from a function selector. A set of data bindings capable of invocation by the first data binding component is available. The function selector determines a content type associated with the data. The first data binding component receives the data and the content type from the function selector. The first data binding component invokes a data binding corresponding to the content type from the set of data bindings to transform the data into a data object. The data object has an object name. A target application is determined based on the object name, and the data object is then routed to a target application."
The patent application was filed on Jan. 5, 2007 (11/758,240). 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=8,156,509&OS=8,156,509&RS=8,156,509
Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.
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General Instrument Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- General Instrument, Horsham, Pa., has been assigned a patent (8,156,560) developed by seven co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for providing a border guard between security domains." The co-inventors are John I. Okimoto, San Diego, Bridget D. Kimball, Encinitas, Calif., Annie O. Chen, Del Mar, Calif., Michael T. Habrat, San Diego, Douglas M. Petty, San Diego, Eric Sprunk, Carlsbad, Calif., and Lawrence W. Tang, San Diego.
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention discloses an apparatus and method for defining and enforcing rules of transition between two security domains, e.g., a transport domain and a persistent security domain. In turn, a border guard, e.g., a security device, is provided between these two domains that enforce rules for transition between the two security domains. This novel approach of defining a transport domain and a persistent security domain simplifies the classification of the digital content and its movement through the system. Namely, the border guard once established between the two systems can enforce DRM rules associated with how contents are moved between the two domains."
The patent application was filed on Dec. 30, 2004 (11/027,206). 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=8,156,560&OS=8,156,560&RS=8,156,560
Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.
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Cisco Technology Assigned Patent for Protection Against Reflection Distributed Denial of Service Attacks
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,156,557) developed by four co-inventors for a "protection against reflection distributed denial of service attacks." The co-inventors are Dan Touitou, Ramat Gan, Israel, Darrel Lewis, San Francisco, Rafi Tzadikario, Kfar Saba, Israel, and Karen Horowitz, Hod Hasharon, Israel.
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method includes monitoring outgoing request packets transmitted by a node in a protected network over a link connecting the protected network to an external network. Incoming response packets that originate in the external network and are destined for transmission to the node are also monitored. One or more of the incoming response packets that were not solicited by any of the outgoing request packets are identified responsively to monitoring the outgoing request packets and the incoming response packets. A characteristic that differentiates between the identified incoming response packets and the incoming response packets that were solicited by the outgoing request packets is determined. A guard device in the external network is instructed to inhibit the transmission over the link of subsequent unsolicited response packets based on the characteristic."
The patent application was filed on Jan. 4, 2007 (11/650,058). 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=8,156,557&OS=8,156,557&RS=8,156,557
Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.
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Yahoo! Assigned Patent for Collapsible Itineraries
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,155,986) developed by five co-inventors for collapsible itineraries. The co-inventors are Shai Deljo, Palo Alto, Calif., Anat Amibar, Sunnyvale, Calif., Ofer Shaked, Saratoga, Calif., James Yang, Mountain View, Calif., and Lior Delgo, Palo Alto, Calif.
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Method and system for grouping and displaying travel itineraries are disclosed. The method for grouping travel itineraries includes receiving a list of travel itineraries, grouping the list of travel itineraries to one or more clusters according to a set of grouping parameters, selecting a lead itinerary to represent each of the one or more clusters, determining additional itineraries in each cluster, and displaying the lead itinerary and a link referencing to further details about the additional itineraries in each cluster."
The patent application was filed on Oct. 6, 2006 (11/544,176). 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=8,155,986.PN.&OS=PN/8,155,986&RS=PN/8,155,986
Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand.
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Sony Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Sony, Tokyo, and Sony Electronics, Park Ridge, N.J., have been assigned a patent (8,156,545) developed by Peter R. Shintani, San Diego, and David C. Boyden, Escondido, Calif., for a "method and apparatus for authorizing a communication interface."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for authorizing a communication interface between a first and second module comprises detecting a coupling between a first module and a second module, certifying a first pairing certificate is valid between the first module and the second module, and issuing a first operating certificate and storing the first operating certificate on at least one of the first module and the second module."
The patent application was filed on Feb. 9, 2007 (11/673,522). 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=8,156,545&OS=8,156,545&RS=8,156,545
Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.
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ICP Acquisition Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- ICP Acquisition, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,156,499) developed by Michael G. Foulger, Novato, Calif., Thomas R. Chipperfield, Petaluma, Calif., and Jeremy S. Cooper, Petaluma, Calif., for "methods, systems and articles of manufacture for scheduling execution of programs on computers having different operating systems."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A distributed computing system includes at least first and second distinct computers each having a different operating system. First processes are compatible with the first operating system and second processes are compatible with the second operating system. A third scheduling computer, coupled to the first and second computer via a communication network, includes a scheduler for scheduling the first processes and the second processes to execute respectively on the first and second computers. The scheduler accesses a master schedule that defines an executing sequence of the first processes and the second processes. The master schedule can define conditional inter-relationships between the first processes and the second processes."
The patent application was filed on Dec. 10, 2008 (12/331,980). 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=8,156,499&OS=8,156,499&RS=8,156,499
Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.
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Microsoft Assigned Patent for Global Metadata Embedding and Decoding
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,156,153) developed by seven co-inventors for a "global metadata embedding and decoding." The co-inventors are Jian Wang, Beijing, Zhouchen Lin, Beijing, Yue Li, Beijing, Chunhui Zhang, Beijing, Yingnong Dang, Beijing, Jiang Wu, San Jose, Calif., and Qiang Wang, Beijing.
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Global metadata, such as a document identifier, which may be a globally unique identifier, is embedded into an embedded interactive code document by combining a first m-array and a plurality of copies of the first m-array to generate a combined m-array with encoded global metadata such that respective start positions (x.sub.d, y.sub.d).sup.i of the plurality of copies of the first m-array in the combined m-array are each shifted, by respective amounts that are based on respective portions of the global metadata, relative to a start position of the first m-array in the combined m-array. Global metadata may be decoded from the combined m-array by determining the respective amounts by which the plurality of copies of the first m-array are shifted, relative to the first m-array, in the combined m-array and by combining the respective amounts to produce a decoded value of the global metadata."
The patent application was filed on July 25, 2008 (12/180,484). 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=8,156,153&OS=8,156,153&RS=8,156,153
Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.
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QUALCOMM Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- QUALCOMM, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,155,965) developed by Rohit Kapoor, San Diego, and Serafin Diaz Spindola, San Diego, for "time warping frames inside the vocoder by modifying the residual."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, the present invention comprises a vocoder having at least one input and at least one output, an encoder comprising a filter having at least one input operably connected to the input of the vocoder and at least one output, a decoder comprising a synthesizer having at least one input operably connected to the at least one output of the encoder, and at least one output operably connected to the at least one output of the vocoder, wherein the encoder comprises a memory and the encoder is adapted to execute instructions stored in the memory comprising classifying speech segments and encoding speech segments, and the decoder comprises a memory and the decoder is adapted to execute instructions stored in the memory comprising time-warping a residual speech signal to an expanded or compressed version of the residual speech signal."
The patent application was filed on May 5, 2005 (11/123,467). 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=8,155,965.PN.&OS=PN/8,155,965&RS=PN/8,155,965
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Apple Assigned Patent for Real-time or Near Real-time Streaming with Compressed Playlists
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Apple, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,156,089) developed by Roger Pantos, Cupertino, Calif., and James David Batson, Sunnyvale, Calif., for a "real-time or near real-time streaming with compressed playlists."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatuses provide real-time or near real-time streaming of content using transfer protocols such as an HTTP compliant protocol. In one embodiment, a method includes providing a request for a playlist file (e.g. an updated playlist) and specifying a compression protocol with or for the request; the request can come from a client device which is requesting the playlist from a web server. The web server can provide the playlist in a compressed format."
The patent application was filed on Dec. 14, 2010 (12/968,202). 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=8,156,089&OS=8,156,089&RS=8,156,089
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Microsoft Assigned Patent for Metadata Search Interface
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,156,144) developed by John Begley, Seattle, Sean Squires, Edmonds, Wash., and Max Kryatov, Santa Clara, Calif., for a metadata search interface.
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for implementing a metadata search interface is disclosed. The technology creates a configuration file for the metadata search interface comprising a predicate describing a search parameter of the metadata search interface. The configuration file further comprises a control attribute which associates the predicate with a control describing how a display element displayed on the metadata search interface is displayed and a correlation between the display element and the predicate. The technology further comprises generating the metadata search interface in runtime based upon the control."
The patent application was filed on Jan. 23, 2008 (12/018,197). 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=8,156,144&OS=8,156,144&RS=8,156,144
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Apple Assigned Patent for Methods and Systems for Managing Data
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Apple, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,156,106) developed by Yan Arrouye, Mountain View, Calif., Dominic Giampaolo, Mountain View, Calif., and Andrew Carol, Half Moon Bay, Calif., for "methods and systems for managing data."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata or indexes of content of files. In one exemplary method, notifications to update a metadata database or an index database are combined into a combined notification. According to other aspects, an order among logical locations on a storage device is determined in order to specify a sequence for scanning for files to be indexed. According to another aspect, a method includes determining whether to index a file based on a path name of the file relative to a plurality of predetermined path names."
The patent application was filed on March 26, 2010 (12/748,325). 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=8,156,106&OS=8,156,106&RS=8,156,106
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Intuit Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Intuit, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,156,166) developed by Terry LeClair, Fremont, Calif., and Steven A. Sholtis, El Dorado Hills, Calif., for a "method and apparatus for selecting a doctor based on an observed experience level."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that facilitates the selection of a doctor for a user. The system provides a list of doctors to the user based on an observed experience level of the listed doctors with a condition or a procedure. During operation, the system receives from a user a selection criteria for selecting of a doctor. The system also receives from the user a medical profile for the user. Next, the system receives from a third-party a plurality of doctors' profiles. Then, the system ranks the plurality of doctors' profiles into a ranked list based on the selection criteria and conditions within the medical profile. Finally, the system sends the ranked list to the user."
The patent application was filed on Aug. 6, 2007 (11/834,464). 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=8,156,166&OS=8,156,166&RS=8,156,166
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International Business Machines Assigned Patent for transfer of Data from Positional Data Sources to Partitioned Databases in Restartable Environments
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,156,084) developed by Jing-Song Jang, Cupertino, Calif., James Michael McArdle, Austin, Texas, and Michael John Elvery Spicer, Lafayette, Calif., for a "transfer of data from positional data sources to partitioned databases in restartable environments."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Method, computer program product, and system for transferring data from positional data sources to partitioned databases are provided. A record is read from a positional data source. The record is to be written to one of a plurality of partitions of a database. A position of the record in the positional data source is obtained. A transaction is initiated to write the record to the one partition and to store the position of the record in the database. The transaction is committed after the record is successfully written to the one partition and the position of the record is successfully stored in the database."
The patent application was filed on Jan. 17, 2008 (12/016,039). 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=8,156,084&OS=8,156,084&RS=8,156,084
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U.S. Navy Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- The U.S. Navy has been assigned a patent (8,155,949) developed by Stuart H. Rubin, San Diego, for a "geodesic search and retrieval system and method of semi-structured databases."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A knowledge-based decision support system that allows for communication and learning to occur using natural language is presented. The system has a capability to automatically extract features from the natural language using symmetric reductions and random search. The iterative generalization of the rule base and checking of the resultant base against a case base from which the generalizations are induced is also provided. The decision support system can be used to search semi-structured databases and automatically learns new knowledge and search control knowledge where it is most needed based on the pattern of previous rule firings."
The patent application was filed on Oct. 1, 2008 (12/243,049). 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=8,155,949.PN.&OS=PN/8,155,949&RS=PN/8,155,949
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Oracle International Assigned Patent for Analytic Enhancements to Model Clause in Structured Query Language (SQL)
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Oracle International, Redwood Shores, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,156,145) developed by Tolga Bozkaya, Belmont, Calif., and Andrew Witkowski, Foster City, Calif., for an "analytic enhancements to model clause in structured query language (SQL)."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for processing queries is provided. A database server receives and executes a query to generate a relation. The query comprises first one or more clauses and a model clause. The model clause comprises a rule that has a left-side expression and a right-side expression. In one embodiment, the right-side expression of the rule includes a window function, which specifies one or more partition columns. In an embodiment, the left-side expression comprises a for-loop predicate. The for-loop predicate is unfolded after the database server compiles the query. In one embodiment, the left-side expression of the rule comprises one or more existential predicates, where each existential predicate evaluates to a Boolean value."
The patent application was filed on March 17, 2011 (13/050,881). 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=8,156,145&OS=8,156,145&RS=8,156,145
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Dolby Laboratories Licensing Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Accommodating Device and/or Signal Mismatch in a Sensor Array
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Dolby Laboratories Licensing, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,155,926) developed by Jon C. Taenzer, Los Altos, Calif., and Bruce G. Spicer, San Jose, Calif., for a "method and apparatus for accommodating device and/or signal mismatch in a sensor array."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Noise discrimination in signals from a plurality of sensors is conducted by enhancing the phase difference in the signals such that off-axis pick-up is suppressed while on-axis pick-up is enhanced. Alternatively, attenuation/expansion are applied to the signals in a phase difference dependent manner, consistent with suppression of off-axis pick-up and on-axis enhancement. Nulls between sensitivity lobes are widened, effectively narrowing the sensitivity lobes and improving directionality and noise discrimination."
The patent application was filed on Dec. 29, 2008 (12/345,432). 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=8,155,926.PN.&OS=PN/8,155,926&RS=PN/8,155,926
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Intuit Assigned Patent for Method and System for Providing a Personalized Electronic Dictionary and Vocabulary Builder
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Intuit, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,155,950) developed by Ryan M. Bickerstaff, Palo Alto, Calif., for a "method and system for providing a personalized electronic dictionary and vocabulary builder."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for providing a personalized dictionary and vocabulary building tool whereby data representing an electronic media based version of a document is obtained and at least a portion of the electronic media based version of a document is displayed on a display screen associated with a computing system. A user selects any word in the portion of the document displayed on the display screen and electronic data representing the definition of the user selected word is then obtained from one or more of several electronic media sources. The definition of the user selected word is then displayed in an electronic media format on the same display screen displaying the portion of the electronic media based version of a document. In one example, the electronic data representing the definition of the user selected word, and any other data associated with the user selected word, such as the sentence employing the user selected word from the at least a portion of the electronic media based version of a document, is stored in a data storage device and associated with the user for further reference."
The patent application was filed on November 20, 2008 (12/274,571). 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=8,155,950.PN.&OS=PN/8,155,950&RS=PN/8,155,950
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EMC Assigned Patent for Incorporated Web Page Content
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,156,141) developed by Igor Shmulevich, San Ramon, Calif., and Ling Chen, San Jose, Calif., for an "incorporated web page content."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Keeping incorporated web page content up to date is disclosed. A web page is associated with a stored object that has been incorporated into the web page, for example an object stored in a repository. The web page is updated automatically based at least in part on an indication that the stored object has been changed."
The patent application was filed on Dec. 13, 2006 (11/639,038). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,156,141&OS=8,156,141&RS=8,156,141
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Teradata US Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Teradata US, Dayton, Ohio, has been assigned a patent (8,156,107) developed by Mayank Bawa, Sunnyvale, Calif., Anastasios Argyros, San Carlos, Calif., and George Candea, Los Altos, Calif., for a "system and method for join-partitioning for local computability of query over shared-nothing clusters."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention addresses the problem of partitioning database relations across a plurality of hosts in a shared-nothing cluster while minimizing communication costs. A new partitioning approach for database relations--join-partitioning--is introduced that focuses on relations and their dependencies to a priori partition the plurality of relations to the plurality of hosts such that each host can locally compute a large class of queries over its partitioned data in isolation at query time, independent of other hosts in the cluster. Such an approach thus overcomes the primary bottleneck, i.e., the network, in deploying database systems over shared-nothing clusters by allowing them to seamlessly scale linearly to tens of thousands of hosts and manage tens or hundreds of terabytes of data."
The patent application was filed on Feb. 2, 2007 (11/670,936). 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=8,156,107&OS=8,156,107&RS=8,156,107
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Yahoo! Assigned Patent for Identifying and Expanding Implicitly Temporally Qualified Queries
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,156,111) developed by Rosie Jones, Cambridge, Mass., Donald Metzler, Santa Clara, Calif., and Fuchun Peng, Sunnyvale, Calif, for "identifying and expanding implicitly temporally qualified queries."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus are described for identifying implicitly temporally qualified queries, i.e., queries for which a time period is implied but not explicitly stated, and for expanding such queries to include one or more temporal references."
The patent application was filed on Nov. 24, 2008 (12/277,059). 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=8,156,111&OS=8,156,111&RS=8,156,111
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Synchronoss Technologies Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Synchronoss Technologies, Bridgewater, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,156,074) developed by six co-inventors for a "data transfer and synchronization system." The co-inventors are David L. Multer, Santa Cruz, Calif., Robert E. Garner, Lawrenceville, Ga., Leighton A. Ridgard, Ellenwood, Ga., Liam J. Stannard, Lawrenceville, Ga., Donald W. Cash, Dunwoody, Ga., and Richard M. Onyon, San Jose, Calif.
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A data transmission system and method which optimizes transfer and updates of information between systems by providing difference information between the systems is disclosed. A system includes a differencing transmitter transmitting at least one set of difference transactions and a differencing receiver receiving said at least one set of difference transactions A method for synchronizing at least a first file and a second file resident on a first and a second systems, respectively, is provided. The method comprises the steps of: determining difference data resulting from changes to a first file on the first system; transmitting the difference information to a second system; applying the difference information to generate change data for the second file; and updating the second file on the second system with the difference data."
The patent application was filed on Jan. 26, 2000 (09/491,675). 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=8,156,074&OS=8,156,074&RS=8,156,074
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Yahoo! Assigned Patent for Method and System for Progressive Disclosure of Search Results
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,156,135) developed by Liang-Yu Chi, San Francisco, Karon A. Weber, San Francisco, and Samantha M. Tripodi, San Francisco, for a "method and system for progressive disclosure of search results."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Method and system for progressive disclosure of search results are disclosed. The method includes receiving a first search query from a user, and presenting a first search result page to the user in response to the first search query, where the first search result page includes a first set of search results categorized into a first set of search result topics related to the first search query. The method further includes receiving a second search query from the user, where the second search query includes the first search query, and presenting a second search result page to the user, where the second search result page includes a second set of search results derived from the first set of search result topics and from the second search query."
The patent application was filed on Dec. 22, 2006 (11/644,734). 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=8,156,135&OS=8,156,135&RS=8,156,135
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Dolby Laboratories Licensing Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Dolby Laboratories Licensing, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,155,927) developed by Jon C. Taenzer, Los Altos, Calif., and Bruce G. Spicer, San Jose, Calif., for a "method and apparatus for improving noise discrimination in multiple sensor pairs."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Noise discrimination in signals from a plurality of sensors is conducted by enhancing the phase difference in the signals such that off-axis pick-up is suppressed while on-axis pick-up is enhanced. Alternatively, attenuation/expansion are applied to the signals in a phase difference dependent manner, consistent with suppression of off-axis pick-up and on-axis enhancement. Nulls between sensitivity lobes are widened, effectively narrowing the sensitivity lobes and improving directionality and noise discrimination."
The patent application was filed on Aug. 2, 2010 (12/848,434). 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=8,155,927.PN.&OS=PN/8,155,927&RS=PN/8,155,927
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OEwaves Assigned Patent for Photonic-based Cross-correlation Homodyne Detection with Low Phase Noise
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- OEwaves, Pasadena, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,155,913) developed by Danny Eliyahu, Pasadena, Calif., Nikolai Morozov, Orinda, Calif., and Lute Maleki, Pasadena, Calif., for a "photonic-based cross-correlation homodyne detection with low phase noise."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one aspect, this document provides an implementation of a system for characterizing an oscillator. This system includes an input port that receives an oscillation signal from an oscillator under test; an input port signal splitter that splits the received oscillation signal into a first oscillation signal and a second oscillation signal; a first photonic signal processing branch circuit that processes the first oscillation signal to produce a first branch output signal; a second photonic signal processing branch circuit that processes the second oscillation signal to produce a second branch output signal; a dual channel signal analyzer that receives the first and second branch output signals to measure noise in the received oscillation signal; and a computer controller that controls the first and second photonic signal processing branch circuits and the dual channel signal analyzer to control measurements of the noise in the received oscillation signal."
The patent application was filed on Nov. 13, 2008 (12/270,845). 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=8,155,913.PN.&OS=PN/8,155,913&RS=PN/8,155,913
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Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Erlanger, Ky., has been assigned a patent (8,155,924) developed by Timothy D. Tracey, Lakewood, Calif., for a "method and apparatus for three dimensional calibration of an on-board diagnostics system."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for three dimensional calibration of an on-board diagnostics system. In one embodiment, the present invention is a method for calibrating an on-board diagnostic system for an automobile including the steps of generating a three dimensional surface corresponding to an engine operating under a first condition, generating a three dimensional surface corresponding to the engine operating under a second condition, and generating a three dimensional threshold surface using the three dimensional surface corresponding to the engine operating under the first condition and the three dimensional surface corresponding to the engine operating under the second condition."
The patent application was filed on June 22, 2011 (13/166,553). 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=8,155,924.PN.&OS=PN/8,155,924&RS=PN/8,155,924
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Sybase Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Sybase, Dublin, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,156,082) developed by Ajay Kumar Srivastava, Fremont, Calif., Raj K. Rathee, San Ramon, Calif., and Yanhong Wang, Dublin, Calif., for a "system and methods for temporary data management in shared disk cluster."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "System and methods for temporary data management in shared disk cluster configurations is described. In one embodiment, a method for managing temporary data storage comprises: creating a global temporary database accessible to all nodes of the cluster on shared storage; creating a local temporary database accessible to only a single node (owner node) of the cluster; providing failure recovery for the global temporary database without providing failure recovery for the local temporary database, so that changes to the global temporary database are transactionally recovered upon failure of a node; binding an application or database login to the local temporary database on the owner node for providing the application with local temporary storage when connected to the owner node; and storing temporary data used by the application or database login in the local temporary database without requiring use of write ahead logging for transactional recovery of the temporary data."
The patent application was filed on June 1, 2007 (11/756,925). 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=8,156,082&OS=8,156,082&RS=8,156,082
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RichRelevance Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- RichRelevance, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,156,138) developed by Tyler Kohn, New York, David Selinger, Castro Valley, Calif., and Michael DeCourcey, Belmont, Calif., for a "system and method for providing targeted content."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An arrangement for providing targeted content includes data repositories storing information from which targeted content may be selected. The data repositories store at least one contextual relationship graph. The arrangement also includes an input/output interface through which a request for targeted content is made. The arrangement further includes a controller that receives the request for targeted content and selects targeted content using the contextual relationship graph. The controller further provides the selected targeted content through the input/output interface. An arrangement for determining the relative strength of a classification for a group of words includes memory for storing a contextual relationship graph for a given classification and a processor that receives the contextual relationship graph and a plurality of words to be analyzed by the processor, identifies occurrences of the relationships identified in the contextual relationship graph and determines the relative strength of classification based on the identified occurrences."
The patent application was filed on June 26, 2007 (11/823,453). 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=8,156,138&OS=8,156,138&RS=8,156,138
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Silicon Graphics International Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Silicon Graphics International, Fremont, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,156,080) developed by Kenneth Beck, Morgan Hill, Calif., for a "clustered filesystem with data volume snapshot maintenance."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer system with read/write access to storage devices creates a snapshot of a data volume at a point in time while continuing to accept access requests to the mirrored data volume by copying before making changes to the base data volume. Multiple snapshots may be made of the same data volume at different points in time. Only data that is not stored in a previous snapshot volume or in the base data volume are stored in the most recent snapshot volume."
The patent application was filed on Oct. 12, 2010 (12/903,096). 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=8,156,080&OS=8,156,080&RS=8,156,080
Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.
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Power Analytics Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Power Analytics, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,155,943) developed by Adib Nasle, Poway, Calif., for "systems and methods for automatically converting CAD drawing files into intelligent objects with database connectivity for the design, analysis, and simulation of electrical power systems."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer system for converting a computer aided design drawing file of an electrical power system into one or more component objects for power analytic analysis and simulation, is disclosed. The computer system can include a processor, a memory, a display device, and an input device. The memory device can be coupled to the processor and configured to maintain a component classification database, an import engine, computer aided design drawing parser, and a symbol classification engine. The display device can be coupled to the processor and configured for displaying the computer aided design drawing file of the electrical power system. The processor can be operative to execute instructions within the import engine to control the import of the computer aided design drawing file to the computer, execute instructions within the computer aided design drawing parser to control the parsing of the computer aided design drawing file into at least one component object containing a component symbol and execute instructions within the symbol classification engine to control the assigning of a component classification to the component symbol."
The patent application was filed on Oct. 8, 2008 (12/247,873). 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=8,155,943.PN.&OS=PN/8,155,943&RS=PN/8,155,943
Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand.
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Intuit Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Intuit, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,156,155) developed by Jay J. Yu, Carlsbad, Calif., Jesse M. Rodriguez, Hillsborough, Calif., and Evan M. Worley, San Diego, for a "method and apparatus for displaying data models and data-model instances."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and techniques for displaying data models and data-model instances. During operation, the system can use a model graph to represent the data model and an instance graph to represent the data-model instance. In the graph representation, a vertex can represent an entity or an entity instance, and an edge can represent a relationship or a relationship instance. The system can display the model graph and the instance graph, either separately or concurrently, thereby enabling the user to visually explore the data model and the data-model instance by exploring the associated graphs. The system can display paths in the graphs to the user, thereby enabling the user to visually explore how entities and entity instances are related to one another. The system can also enable a user to search for entities and relationships using various criteria."
The patent application was filed on Dec. 23, 2010 (12/977,276). 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=8,156,155&OS=8,156,155&RS=8,156,155
Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.
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salesforce.com Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- salesforce.com, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,156,085) developed by Frank Dominguez Jr., Redwood City, Calif., Dave Moellenhoff, Orinda, Calif., and Eric Chan, Oakland, Calif., for a "java object cache server for databases."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A cache server is provided in a network for storing Java objects for retrieval by one or multiple application servers. Application server(s) are configured to request an object from the cache server, rather than requesting the Java object directly from a database, so as to reduce processing load on the database and free up database resources. Responsive to a request for a Java object from an application server, e.g., in an HTTP request, the cache server determines if the object is stored in memory and if so, serializes the requested object and sends the serialized object to the requesting server, e.g., in an HTTP response. The requesting server then deserializes the Java object. If the object is not stored in memory, the cache server instantiates the object (typically by requesting the object from the database), serializes the instantiated object and sends it to the requesting server. Cache coherency methods are also provided."
The patent application was filed on March 30, 2007 (11/694,850). 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=8,156,085&OS=8,156,085&RS=8,156,085
Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.
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Ubiquity Broadcasting Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Ubiquity Broadcasting, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,155,947) developed by Kenneth S. Bailey, Newport Beach, Calif., and Christopher Carmichael, Laguna Niguel, Calif., for a "multilingual translation system using character set."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.
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