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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Massachusetts (April 11)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Massachusetts. *** Whaleback Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Whaleback Systems, Portsmouth, N.H., has been assigned a patent (8,156,564) developed by Julian Wray West, North Hampton, N.H., Eric J. Martin, Chester, N.H., and Rajesh K. Mishra, Westford, Mass., for discovering network services. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method includes sending a request for network services to plural devices, where the request identifies the network services using a self-describing data structure, and receiving a response to the request from at least one device, where the response identifies which of the network services are supported by the at least one device." The patent application was filed on Oct. 13, 2006 (11/580,701). 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=8,156,564&OS=8,156,564&RS=8,156,564 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for System and Method for User Skill Determination ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,155,948) developed by five co-inventors for a "system and method for user skill determination." The co-inventors are Julio E. Ruano, Round Rock, Texas, Seth M. Holloway, Austin, Texas, Christopher Laffoon, Durham, N.C., Abraao Lourenco, South Yamouth, Mass., and Carl A. Timm IV, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system comprises a user interface configured to receive natural language input from a user. An input module couples to the user interface and is configured to process the received natural language input for selected words and phrases. A user skill determination module couples to the input module and is configured to determine a skill level of the user based on the selected words and phrases." The patent application was filed on July 14, 2008 (12/172,674). 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=8,155,948.PN.&OS=PN/8,155,948&RS=PN/8,155,948 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Landmark Technology Partners Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Landmark Technology Partners, Sea Bright, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,156,078) developed by Igor Tsinman, Sharon, Mass., Jamie Mazur, South Glastonbury, Conn., and Robert E. McGill, Rumson, N.J., for an "intelligent client architecture computer system and method." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A collision detection and data synchronization mechanism operates to expand the speed and capability of distributed applications. The execution environment employs collision detection and data synchronization to distribute data objects to appropriate network nodes to support local processing. The collision detection and data synchronization mechanism defines the set of processes and algorithms used to track distributed data objects and to manage changes to the distributed objects throughout a network of intelligent computing devices. Data and code are distributed to local computing devices necessitating tracking and synchronizing updates. The system and method ensures that data updates received during the course of a local transaction do not unwillingly affect the results of other transactions by notifying the local computing devices of changes to the data that are subject of the transaction. These conflicts are then resolved in the applications, and notification of the resolution is sent to the remaining intelligent computing devices." The patent application was filed on April 10, 2009 (12/421,800). 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=8,156,078&OS=8,156,078&RS=8,156,078 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** MathWorks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- MathWorks, Natick, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,156,147) developed by Michael David Tocci, Medway, Mass., John Ciolfi, Wellesley, Mass., and Pieter J. Mosterman, Framingham, Mass., for "sharing of instructions across model boundaries." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An exemplary embodiment may provide a repository for containing representations that represent a model or a portion of the model. A user may store the representations in the repository, for example, as functions. The functions stored in the repository may be shared and used for processing another model that includes a pattern performing the same or similar function as the representations stored in the repository. A checksum may be compared to determine an equivalent function in the repository. In a different embodiment, the intermediate representation of the pattern may be compared to determine an equivalent function in the repository." The patent application was filed on July 25, 2008 (12/180,067). 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=8,156,147&OS=8,156,147&RS=8,156,147 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** 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 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** NetApp Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- NetApp, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,156,163) developed by Eric C. Hamilton, Durham, N.C., and Peter Corbett, Lexington, Mass., for a "storage server cluster implemented in and operating concurrently with a set of non-clustered storage servers." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A storage controller is operable concurrently as an independent storage server and as at least a portion of a node of a storage server cluster. A network storage system comprises multiple storage controllers and multiple independent storage servers, each storage server implemented in a separate storage controller, each of the storage server configured to present to users a separate system image of stored data. The storage servers are independently operable and manageable. The system further includes a storage server cluster that includes cooperating storage server nodes, distributed among the storage controllers. The storage server cluster presents to users a single system image of data stored in the server cluster independently of the node or nodes in which said data resides. The storage server cluster is operable independently of the independent storage servers and is operable concurrently with operation of at least one of the independent storage servers." The patent application was filed on June 23, 2009 (12/490,202). 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=8,156,163&OS=8,156,163&RS=8,156,163 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** TriZetto Group Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- TriZetto Group, Greenwood Village, Colo., has been assigned a patent (8,155,977) developed by Roy Schoenberg, Boston, for a "rule management method and system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A rule processing method includes defining a target group of patients chosen from a group of existing patients. An action to be taken concerning one or more patients within the target group of patients is defined, and an execution time for the action is scheduled." The patent application was filed on April 15, 2004 (10/825,352). 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=8,155,977.PN.&OS=PN/8,155,977&RS=PN/8,155,977 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Kurzweil Cyber Art Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Kurzweil Cyber Art Technologies, Wellesley Hills, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,156,160) developed by Raymond Kurzweil, Newton, Mass., and John A. Keklak, Sudbury, Mass., for poet personalities. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of generating a poet personality including reading poems, each of the poems containing text, generating analysis models, each of the analysis models representing one of poems and storing the analysis models in a personality data structure. The personality data structure further includes weights, each of the weights associated with each of the analysis models. The weights include integer values." The patent application was filed on Nov. 22, 2010 (12/951,230). 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=8,156,160&OS=8,156,160&RS=8,156,160 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Jumptap Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Jumptap, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,156,128) developed by Jorey Ramer, Brighton, Mass., Dennis Doughty, Brookline, Mass., and Adam Soroca, Cambridge, Mass., for a "contextual mobile content placement on a mobile communication facility." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for displaying mobile content in association with a website on a mobile communication facility based at least in part on receiving a website request from a mobile carrier gateway, receiving contextual information relating to the requested website, associating the received contextual information with a mobile content, and, finally, displaying the mobile content with the website on a mobile communication facility." The patent application was filed on June 12, 2009 (12/483,790). 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=8,156,128&OS=8,156,128&RS=8,156,128 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,156,325) developed by six co-inventors for a "role aware network security enforcement." The co-inventors are Sean Convery, Mountain View, Calif., David R. Oran, Acton, Mass., James Rivers, Saratoga, Calif., John Schnizlein, Fort Washington, Md., Ralph Droms, Westford, Mass., and Mark Stapp, Belmont, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Generating a binding between a source address and one or more roles of a user accessing the network and distributing the binding to a filter node. The source address is currently assigned to the device. The binding may be generated by one or more nodes on an ingress path used during authentication of the user. The binding may be distributed to the filter node on demand or without any request from the filter node. Responsive to a determination that the user is associated with a new source address, a new binding is generated to associate a new source address with the one or more roles for the user. The new binding is distributed to the filter node. Another aspect is a method of enforcing a role based security policy at a filter node, using bindings of source addresses to roles." The patent application was filed on Aug. 25, 2010 (12/868,696). 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=8,156,325.PN.&OS=PN/8,156,325&RS=PN/8,156,325 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Level 3 Communications Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Level 3 Communications, Broomfield, Colo., has been assigned a patent (8,156,066) developed by four co-inventors for a "rule-based content request handling." The co-inventors are Jin-Gen Wang, Lafayette, Colo., Bill Hopkins, Brighton, Colo., David Reisfeld, Wellesley, Mass., and Steven P. Higgins, Mead, Colo. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An embodiment of a method includes receiving a content request including a first set of attribute values, using at least one of the attribute values from the first set of attribute values to determine a second set of attribute values, traversing a hierarchy of decision nodes, wherein each decision node implements business logic based on one of the attribute values from the first set of attribute values or the second set of attribute values, and generating a decision from a last node in the hierarchy, wherein the decision dictates how to respond to the content request." The patent application was filed on April 9, 2009 (12/421,084). 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=8,156,066&OS=8,156,066&RS=8,156,066 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Entegris Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Entegris, Billerica, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,155,896) developed by five co-inventors for a "fluid flow measuring and proportional fluid flow control device." The co-inventors are Christopher Wargo, Wellesley, Mass., J. Karl Niermeyer, Tyngsboro, Mass., Jieh-Hwa Shyu, Andover, Mass., Craig L. Brodeur, Marlborough, Mass., and William Basser, North Adams, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments disclosed herein provide restrictive-flow flow measurement devices, valve improvements and signal control devices and processes that control the flow of liquids, including control processes for single-liquid calibration. In some embodiments, a fluid flow device can be calibrated using a single standard calibration fluid. The fluid flow of a first fluid through a flow meter is measured by calculating a first pressure difference between pressures sensed by two pressure sensors of the flow meter. The fluid flow of a second fluid through the flow meter is measured by calculating a second pressure difference between pressures sensed by the same two pressure sensors. A calibration coefficient is determined based upon the relationship between the flow rate, the fluid density and the calculated pressure difference for the first and second fluids. A relationship between the calibration coefficient and the kinematic viscosity of each fluid is then determined and stored." The patent application was filed on Jan. 28, 2011 (13/016,255). 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=8,155,896.PN.&OS=PN/8,155,896&RS=PN/8,155,896 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** EMC Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,156,306) developed by six co-inventors for "systems and methods for using thin provisioning to reclaim space identified by data reduction processes." The co-inventors are Helen S. Raizen, Jamaica Plain, Mass., Michael E. Bappe, Loveland, Colo., Agarkov Vadim Nikolaevich, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation, William Carl Biester, Danville, Calif., Richard Ruef, Livermore, Calif., and Karl M. Owen, Chapel Hill, N.C. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The invention provides a system to reclaim space identified as no longer in use and comprises a vLUN, a thinly provisioned mapped LUN, a mapping layer, and a data reduction engine. Chunks of data are stored at logical chunk addresses (LCAs) in the vLUN and are mapped to corresponding physical chunk addresses (PCAs) in the thinly provisioned mapped LUN. The data reduction engine performs a data reduction process on a first logical chunk of data stored at a first LCA in the vLUN, where the first logical chunk has a size that is a nonzero integer multiple of the size of the storage extent of the thinly provisioned mapped LUN. After the data reduction process, the PCA associated with the first logical chunk is no longer needed, and the thinly provisioned mapped LUN is instructed to deallocate the PCA associated with the first logical chunk that is no longer needed." The patent application was filed on Dec. 18, 2009 (12/642,109). 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=8,156,306&OS=8,156,306&RS=8,156,306 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** SMART Modular Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- SMART Modular Technologies, Newark, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,156,252) developed by Ryan McDaniel, Hudson, Mass., for an "apparatus and method for block-based data striping to solid-state memory modules with optional data format protocol translation." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In various embodiments, options for data striping to FLASH memory are provided. In one embodiment, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes an SATA to ATA bridge, an ATA to USB bridge coupled to the SATA to ATA bridge, and a USB interface coupled to the ATA to USB bridge. The apparatus also includes a first FLASH memory controller coupled to the USB interface. The apparatus further includes a first FLASH memory module coupled to the first FLASH memory controller. The apparatus also includes a second FLASH memory controller coupled to the USB interface and a second FLASH memory module coupled to the second FLASH memory controller. A method for block striping data to or from a plurality of read or write channels." The patent application was filed on Feb. 9, 2010 (12/702,998). 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=8,156,252&OS=8,156,252&RS=8,156,252 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Verizon Business Financial Management Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Verizon Business Financial Management, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,156,224) developed by six co-inventors for an integrated application access. The co-inventors are Marcial Montes De Oca, Marlborough, Mass., Chi-Hwei Julie Lin, Somerville, Mass., Manuel Ledesma, Waltham, Mass., Yunyan Wang, Framingham, Mass., Fang Xie, Burlington, Mass., and Tsehsin Jason Liu, Wellesley, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An integration portal provides a user with access to application entities of a plurality of remote applications. An authorization layer included in the integration portal includes a permission map indicating an association between the user and at least one of the application entities of the plurality of remote applications that the user is permitted to access. The authorization layer in the integration portal is synchronized with an authorization layer included in an application portal that provides the user with access to a subset of the remote applications, whereby the permission map is updated with information about at least one of the application entities that the user is permitted to access through the integration portal. Corresponding systems and methods are also disclosed." The patent application was filed on Nov. 30, 2010 (12/956,617). 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=8,156,224&OS=8,156,224&RS=8,156,224 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** EMC Assigned Patent for Data Storage System ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,156,220) developed by four co-inventors for a data storage system. The co-inventors are John O'Shea, Newton, Mass., Jeffrey Kinne, Needham, Mass., Michael Sgrosso, Franklin, Mass., and William F. Baxter III, Holliston, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method is provided for transmitting user data from a selected one of a plurality of data pipes. The method includes having a ring manager select one of the data pipes from a pool of the data pipes for transmission of the user data. The data is transmitted from the selected one of the data pipes at least one packet switching network. The data pipe detects whether there was an error in the transmission. If there an error detected, the data pipe generates an error interrupt for the ring manager. The ring manager detects the error interrupt and generates an error interrupt for a CPU. The ring manager removes the selected one of the data pipes from the pool of data pipes for a predetermined period of time while the ring manager continues to work on other tasks until the time has expired. During pipe retirement, the physical pipe removed from the pool of pipes is disabled and the router will then direct orphan packets to the error ring. When the time has expired, the ring manager returns the selected data pipe to the pool of available data pipes." The patent application was filed on Sept. 28, 2007 (11/863,530). 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=8,156,220&OS=8,156,220&RS=8,156,220 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Analog Devices Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Analog Devices, Norwood, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,156,264) developed by James M. Lee, Northborough, Mass., for a "digital output sensor FIFO buffer with single port memory." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A digital output sensor includes a sensor module for providing digital data representative of a sensed parameter, a First-In-First-Out (FIFO) memory having a single port memory, and an output port for transmitting the digital data. The digital data from the sensor module is pushed into the FIFO memory buffer via the single memory port, and the digital data is popped out of the FIFO memory buffer via the single memory port for receipt by the output port." The patent application was filed on April 3, 2009 (12/418,098). 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=8,156,264&OS=8,156,264&RS=8,156,264 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Intel Assigned Patent for Heterogeneous Processors Sharing a Common Cache ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,156,285) developed by four co-inventors for a "heterogeneous processors sharing a common cache." The co-inventors are Frank T. Hady, Portland, Ore., Mason B. Cabot, San Francisco, John Beck, Northboro, Mass., and Mark B. Rosenbluth, Uxbridge, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A multi-core processor providing heterogeneous processor cores and a shared cache is presented." The patent application was filed on July 6, 2009 (12/459,683). 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=8,156,285&OS=8,156,285&RS=8,156,285 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. For more information about Targeted News Service products and services, please contact: Myron Struck, editor, Targeted News Service LLC, Springfield, Va., 703/304-1897; [email protected]; http://targetednews.com. -1081912 (c) 2012 Targeted News Service |