[April 18, 2012] U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Texas (April 18) Tweet (Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Texas. *** ByStorm Software Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- ByStorm Software, Magnolia, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,161,014) developed by Eugene Bradley Allen, Magnolia, Texas, for a "system and method for user file access and tracking." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for managing user access to objects in a computer system when a request to access the object is received. The user, operation and object are identified and matched against one or more Venn relationship rules to determine if they match any of the rules." The patent application was filed on March 21, 2007 (11/689,417). 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=8,161,014.PN.&OS=PN/8,161,014&RS=PN/8,161,014 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Yahoo! Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,161,027) developed by Jay Brent DeShan, McKinney, Texas, Chad Ric Gray, Plano, Texas, and Huong Thi Do, Lewisville, Texas, for a "method and system for managing digital content including streaming media." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention describes a system and method of managing digital content received from content providers and for facilitating access to the digital content to many subscribers. The method includes receiving from the content providers incoming feed files where each feed file contains information describing the content. The method determines if the feed files are approved by applying a template to the feed files and also receives request files from the subscribers where each request file contains search criteria. The method provides one or more answer files in response to the request files where each answer file identifies feed files that meet the search criteria of a corresponding request file. The answer files are used to access or permit access to digital content on the web. In addition, a graphical user interface is described to manage, edit, promote and delete the feed files provided to the system." The patent application was filed on Aug. 29, 2008 (12/201,318). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft1.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=8,161,027.PN.&OS=PN/8,161,027&RS=PN/8,161,027 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Accudata Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Accudata Technologies, Allen, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,161,176) developed by Monica Rose Cleghorn, Plano, Texas, and Kevin V. Nguyen, Allen, Texas, for a "system and method for providing connectivity between using different networks using different protocols." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for providing message connectivity between a first network using a first protocol and a second network using a second protocol is described. If a message is received from the first network, the message is processed using one or more digital signal processors, a destination in the second network is determined, the processed message is logged and translated into the second protocol, and the translated message is sent to the destination in the second network. If the message is received from the second network, the message is translated into the first protocol, a destination in the first network is determined, the translated message is logged and processed using one or more digital signal processors, and the processed message is sent to the destination in the first network. One example method can be implemented as a computer program embodied on a computer readable medium." The patent application was filed on Nov. 2, 2009 (12/610,573). 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=8,161,176&OS=8,161,176&RS=8,161,176 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for System, Method, and Computer Readable Media for Replicating Virtual Universe Objects ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,161,002) developed by six co-inventors for a "system, method, and computer readable media for replicating virtual universe objects." The co-inventors are Vittorio Castelli, Croton on Hudson, N.Y., Rick A. Hamilton II, Charlottesville, Va., Steven M. Harrison, Bremerton, Wash., Brian M. O'Connell, Cary, N.C., Clifford A. Pickover, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., and Keith R. Walker, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system, a method and a computer readable media for replicating virtual universe objects are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, the method includes determining a first set of VU objects associated with a first user. The method further includes determining replication priority values for the first set of VU objects utilizing predetermined priority value rules. Each VU object of the first set of VU objects has a replication priority value. The method further includes determining a second set of VU objects from the first set of VU objects based on the replication priority values associated with the first set of VU objects. The method further includes replicating the second set of VU objects from a primary VU computer server to a first device." The patent application was filed on May 28, 2008 (12/128,056). 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=8,161,002.PN.&OS=PN/8,161,002&RS=PN/8,161,002 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** BMC Software Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- BMC Software, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,161,001) developed by Donna M. Di Carlo, Austin, Texas, Thomas G. Price, Austin, Texas, and Stanely J. Dee, Austin, Texas, for "relational database page-level schema transformations." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, devices and systems which facilitate the conversion of database objects from one schema version (e.g., an earlier version) to another schema version (e.g., a newer version) without requiring the objects be unloaded and reloaded are described. In general, data object conversion applies to both table space objects and index space objects. The described transformation techniques may be used to convert any object whose schema changes occur at the page-level." The patent application was filed on May 7, 2009 (12/437,471). 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=8,161,001.PN.&OS=PN/8,161,001&RS=PN/8,161,001 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Dell Products Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Dell Products, Round Rock, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,161,201) developed by four co-inventors for "methods and system for configuring a peripheral device with an information handling system." The co-inventors are Douglas M. Anson, Dripping Springs, Texas, Yuan-Chang Lo, Austin, Texas, William Dale Todd Nix, Austin, Texas, and Clint H. O'Connor, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for configuring a peripheral device in communication with an information handling system (IHS) is disclosed, wherein the method includes receiving visual data associated with the peripheral device and mapping configuration data to the peripheral device based on the visual data. The method further includes utilizing the configuration data to configure the peripheral device in communication with the IHS. An information handling system (IHS) in communication with an image capturing device is further disclosed including a storage device operable to store a database, the database configured to store a standard image of a peripheral device, wherein the standard image is associated with configuration data for the peripheral device. The system further includes a memory coupled to the storage device and a processor to receive visual data associated with the peripheral device from the image capturing device. The processor is operable to execute a software application configured to match the visual data with the standard image to configure the peripheral device based on the configuration data." The patent application was filed on June 2, 2009 (12/476,755). 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=8,161,201&OS=8,161,201&RS=8,161,201 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Texaco Development Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Texaco Development, San Ramon, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,153,311) developed by W. Spencer Wheat, Missouri City, Texas, Vesna R. Mirkovic, Pearland, Texas, and Ralph S. Worsley, Brentwood Bay, Calif., for a "method and apparatus for burst disk identification." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention provides a method and apparatus for identifying an activation of a burst disk. A pressure data or a temperature data relating to a flow is received. A determination is made whether the flow is interrupted based upon the at least one of the pressure data and the temperature data. A burst disk activation is identified in response to determining that the flow is interrupted." The patent application was filed on Nov. 3, 2005 (11/265,860). 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=8,153,311&OS=8,153,311&RS=8,153,311 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Rockstar Bidco Assigned Patent for Method and System for Service Denial and Termination on a Wireless Network ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Rockstar Bidco, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,161,098) developed by Jayshree Bharatia, Plano, Texas, and Marvin Bienn, Dallas, for a "method and system for service denial and termination on a wireless network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system are provided for denying an application service request, such as a Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) request, on wireless and wireline Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) networks or Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) networks. In one example, the method includes receiving a request for an application service from a user via a transport network, determining to deny the request, and providing a response corresponding to the denial of the request to the user via the transport network." The patent application was filed on Aug. 18, 2004 (10/920,850). 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=8,161,098&OS=8,161,098&RS=8,161,098 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** STARDFX Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- STARDFX Technologies, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,161,441) developed by five co-inventors for a "robust scan synthesis for protecting soft errors." The co-inventors are Laung-Terng Wang, Sunnyvale, Calif., Nur A. Touba, Austin, Texas, Zhigang Jiang, Burlingame, Calif., Shianling Wu, Princeton Junction, N.J., and Ravi Apte, San Jose, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for performing robust scan synthesis for soft-error protection on a design for generating a robust scan design in a system. The system is modeled selectively at a register-transfer level (RTL) or a gate level; the design includes at least a sequential element or a scan cell for mapping to a robust scan cell of a select robust scan cell type. The method comprises performing a scan replacement and a scan stitching on the design database based on a given control information file for synthesizing the robust scan cell on the design database; and generating the synthesized robust scan design at a pre-determined RTL or a pre-determined gate level." The patent application was filed on July 24, 2009 (12/508,977). 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=8,161,441&OS=8,161,441&RS=8,161,441 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Protecting Sensitive Information on a Publicly Accessed Data Processing System ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,161,526) developed by four co-inventors for a "protecting sensitive information on a publicly accessed data processing system." The co-inventors are Ann Mead Corrao, Raleigh, N.C., Brian Marshall O'Connell, Cary, N.C., Brian James Snitzer, Lancaster, Pa., and Keith Raymond Walker, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The illustrative embodiments described herein provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product protecting sensitive information on a data processing system. A determination is made as to whether a data processing system is publicly accessed. Responsive to determining that a data processing system is publicly accessed, the system identifies sensitive information. The data processing system monitors for the presence of sensitive information. Responsive to detecting the presence of the sensitive information, the system presents a warning to a user of the data processing system." The patent application was filed on Oct. 22, 2007 (11/876,248). 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=8,161,526&OS=8,161,526&RS=8,161,526 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Intermediate Viewer for Transferring Information Elements via a Transfer Buffer to a Plurality of Sets of Destinations ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,161,401) developed by five co-inventors for a "intermediate viewer for transferring information elements via a transfer buffer to a plurality of sets of destinations." The co-inventors are Yen-Fu Chen, Austin, Texas, John W. Dunsmoir, Round Rock, Texas, John H. Bosma, Cedar Park, Texas, Keith R. Walker, Austin, Texas, and Mei Yang Selvage, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for viewing and controlling data intermediately between source and destination by receiving from a graphical user interface a user designation of a plurality of sets of copy command destination positions within contents of a computer file, wherein each destination point is allowed to be included in more than one set of destination points; displaying to the user information elements contained in an operating system clipboard transfer buffer; receiving a user selection of information elements in the clipboard transfer buffer; receiving a user definition of a subset of the previously-designated copy command destination positions; and automatically copying the selected information elements to positions in the computer file according to the user defined subset of copy command destination positions." The patent application was filed on Oct. 15, 2008 (12/251,567). 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=8,161,401&OS=8,161,401&RS=8,161,401 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Time Warner Cable Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Time Warner Cable, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,161,517) developed by Todd P. Bowen, Austin, Texas, and William H. Berger, Austin, Texas, for a "system and method for assigning and verifying CPE service calls in a cable network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for determining a fault in a hybrid fiber coax (HFC) cable network segment. A two-way client uses a two-way query interface to acquire information indicative of the two-way operational status of subscriber CPE units associated with a subscriber number from a two-way validation server. Using the operational status of the subscriber CPE units, a fault may be associated with either the CPE units or with network facilities other than the two or more CPE units." The patent application was filed on July 24, 2009 (12/509,103). 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=8,161,517&OS=8,161,517&RS=8,161,517 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Knowledge Based Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Knowledge Based Systems, College Station, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,161,550) developed by Arthur Keen, Austin, Texas, and Richard J. Mayer, College Station, Texas, for a network intrusion detection. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Apparatus and systems, as well as methods and articles, may operate to monitor communications between network nodes coupled to each other via at least one network, and map the communications to one or more communications graphs which are physically distributed over a plurality of network hosts. Network intrusion is detected using distributed graph-based data mining with respect to a selected subgraph and the communications graphs. Other embodiments are described and claimed." The patent application was filed on Jan. 22, 2008 (12/017,759). 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=8,161,550&OS=8,161,550&RS=8,161,550 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for IPSec Network Adapter Verifier ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,161,539) developed by four co-inventors for an "IPSec network adapter verifier." The co-inventors are Michael Paul Cyr, Georgetown, Texas, Gerald Francis McBrearty, Austin, Texas, Shawn Patrick Mullen, Buda, Texas, and Johnny Meng-Han Shieh, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A data processing system that supports verifiable IPSec network communication. The data processing system comprises an IPSec network adapter that connects the data processing system to an external network and provides IPSec encryption and routing of IPSec packets. The data processing system also comprises a network adapter verifier, which is a secondary network card that is utilized to verify that IPSec packets being transmitted to the external network by the IPSec network adapter have been encrypted. The network adapter verifier comprises a device driver, which caches a copy of an IP address from a generated IPSec packet prior to the packet being received by the network adapter. The network adapter verifier is connected to the external network and monitors the transmission of packets out to the network connection by the network adapter. The IP identification (ID) of the packets are compared to the captured IP address of the generated IPSec packet. When the IP address of the transmitted packet is not the same as that of the generated/cached IP address, the network adapter has failed to correctly encode the packet according to IPSec, and the transmission is thus not secure. The transmission of the stream of packets is therefore terminated." The patent application was filed on April 19, 2002 (10/127,064). 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=8,161,539&OS=8,161,539&RS=8,161,539 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Weighted-region Cycle Accounting for Multi-threaded Processor Cores ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,161,493) developed by four co-inventors for a "weighted-region cycle accounting for multi-threaded processor cores." The co-inventors are Michael S. Floyd, Cedar Park, Texas, Steven R. Kunkel, Rochester, Minn., Aaron C. Sawdey, Cannon Falls, Minn., and Philip L. Vitale, Rochester, Minn. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An aspect of the present invention improves the accuracy of measuring processor utilization of multi-threaded cores by providing a calibration facility that derives utilization in the context of the overall dynamic operating state of the core by assigning weights to idle threads and assigning weights to run threads, depending on the status of the core. From previous chip designs it has been established in a Simultaneous Multi Thread (SMT) core that not all idle cycles in a hardware thread can be equally converted into useful work. Competition for core resources reduces the conversion efficiency of one thread's idle cycles when any other thread is running on the same core." The patent application was filed on July 15, 2008 (12/173,771). 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=8,161,493&OS=8,161,493&RS=8,161,493 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Accepting a User's Selection of Sort Options for Sorting a Table ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,161,405) developed by Michael N. Abernethy Jr., Pflugerville, Texas, and Travis M. Grigsby, Austin, Texas, for an "accepting a user's selection of sort options for sorting a table." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, systems, and computer program products are provide for accepting a user's selection of sort options for sorting a table according to embodiments of the present invention. Embodiments include selecting a representative shape for displaying sort options; identifying one or more columns in the table available for selection as a key for sorting; displaying, together in a GUI, identifications of the one or more columns and the representative shape; and receiving, as a user's selection of one of the columns as a key for sorting, an invocation of a GUI control associated with an identification of the selected columns." The patent application was filed on Nov. 13, 2008 (12/270,454). 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=8,161,405&OS=8,161,405&RS=8,161,405 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Multiple Sorting of Columns in a Displayed Table in a User Interactive Computer Display Interface ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,161,407) developed by Rhys D. Ulerich, Austin, Texas, and Ian A. Williamson, Round Rock, Texas, for "multiple sorting of columns in a displayed table in a user interactive computer display interface through sequential radial menus." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Multi-sorting of displayed columns representative of a tabular display is carried out by displaying a table of a plurality of columns, selectively displaying a first radial menu having a plurality of sectors, each sector representative of one of the plurality of columns, enabling a user to select one of the sectors, and responsive to a user selection of a sector for displaying a second radial menu of the plurality of sectors wherein the selected one sector is disabled, e.g. eliminated. This is continued through a sequence of subsequent radial menus until the user has selected the intended set of sequential columns for the multiple sorting." The patent application was filed on March 15, 2007 (11/686,447). 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=8,161,407&OS=8,161,407&RS=8,161,407 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Crossfield Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Crossfield Technology, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,161,090) developed by Earl Swartzlander Jr., Austin, Texas, and Jordan Hani Saleh, Austin, Texas, for a "floating-point fused add-subtract unit." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In a particular embodiment, a method is disclosed that includes receiving first and second operands at a floating-point fused add-subtract circuit. The method further includes simultaneously performing add and subtract operations on the first and second operands via the floating-point fused add-subtract circuit to produce a sum result output and a difference result output. The floating-point fused add-subtract circuit includes sign logic, exponent adjustment logic, and shift logic that are shared by an add/round and post-normalize circuit and a subtract/round and post-normalize circuit to produce the sum and difference result outputs." The patent application was filed on Dec. 5, 2008 (12/329,023). 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=8,161,090&OS=8,161,090&RS=8,161,090 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Pricelock Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Pricelock, Redwood City, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,160,952) developed by five co-inventors for a "method and system for providing price protection related to the purchase of a commodity." The co-inventors are Robert M. Fell, Summerland, Calif., Gary A. Magnuson, Corpus Christi, Texas, Hal Connor Elrod, Houston, Bradley Michael Weill, Austin, Texas, and Thomas D. Gros, Houston. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods described herein pertain to providing price protection programs related to the purchase of a commodity to a consumer. Embodiments of such a program may provide price protection related to the purchase of a commodity to the consumer so that when a consumer purchases the commodity, the price the consumer pays for the commodity may be determined under the provided program. Embodiments of these programs may be quite useful in incentivizing consumers in certain ways, including to seek or obtain employment from a particular employer." The patent application was filed on Feb. 12, 2009 (12/370,430). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft1.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=8,160,952.PN.&OS=PN/8,160,952&RS=PN/8,160,952 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Union Beach Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Union Beach, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (8,160,972) developed by Mary C. Tannenbaum, Dallas, for a "traveler's package pick-up and delivery service." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A traveler can subscribe to a pick-up service (consolidator) that will pick-up purchases made at any number of different locations while the traveler is visiting a location, or series of locations. The consolidator then bundles all of the purchases from the various locations into appropriate sized packages for delivery to the traveler's desired location. The consolidator gathers the various purchases over a period of time and coordinates ultimate delivery to the traveler according to a pre-arranged itinerary of the traveler." The patent application was filed on May 12, 2008 (12/119,058). 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=8,160,972.PN.&OS=PN/8,160,972&RS=PN/8,160,972 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods for Evaluating Code Usage ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,161,461) developed by Janis Delmonte, Farmers Branch, Texas, Joe Douglas Bolding, Allen, Texas, and Daniel G. Tormey, Rockwall, Texas, for "systems and methods for evaluating code usage." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, a method for evaluating code usage includes monitoring instructions executed by a processor, counting instances of execution of each instruction, correlating the executed instructions with source code instructions, and providing an indication of source code usage to a user." The patent application was filed on March 24, 2005 (11/089,109). 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=8,161,461&OS=8,161,461&RS=8,161,461 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Automated Learning System for Improving Graphical User Interfaces ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,161,399) developed by four co-inventors for an "automated learning system for improving graphical user interfaces." The co-inventors are Ramakrishnan Kannan, Tamil Nadu, India, Anbazhagan Mani, Austin, Texas, Karthik Subbian, Karnataka, India, and Vasu Vallabhaneni, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An automated learning system for improving graphical user interfaces. Information about a user transaction which caused an error is obtained from an input to an element in a graphical user interface. Associations are created between the error and one or more elements in the graphical user interface which generated the error to form association rules. The association rules are applied to a set of control rules to create user interface preference rules. A corrective action may then be performed on the one or more elements in the graphical user interface according to the user interface preference rules." The patent application was filed on Jan. 20, 2007 (11/625,293). 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=8,161,399&OS=8,161,399&RS=8,161,399 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** National Instruments Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- National Instruments, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,161,144) developed by Jason White, Austin, Texas, Srdan Zirojevic, Austin, Texas, and Scott Rust, Austin, Texas, for "defining a switch device route based on required signal characteristics and resource dependencies." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for defining a route through one or more switch devices based on signal requirements and/or resource dependencies. The user may interact with a graphical user interface to specify required signal characteristics for the route, such as signal bandwidth, voltage, carry current, etc. The required signal characteristics may then be used when selecting or determining channels to include the route. The required signal characteristics may affect both automatically selected channels and user-selected channels. For example, if the user specifies a portion of a route and the switch executive core automatically completes the route for the user, the switch executive core may choose a route including only valid channels, according to the required signal characteristics." The patent application was filed on March 29, 2002 (10/113,898). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,161,144&OS=8,161,144&RS=8,161,144 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Dynamic Media Content for Collaborators with Client Locations in Dynamic Client Contexts ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,161,131) developed by William K. Bodin, Austin, Texas, and Derral C. Thorson, Austin, Texas, for a "dynamic media content for collaborators with client locations in dynamic client contexts." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for delivering dynamic media content to collaborators. Embodiments include providing collaborative event media content, wherein the collaborative event media content includes a grammar and a structured document; providing data identifying a client's location; storing, in the context server in a data structure comprising a dynamic client context for the client, the data identifying the client's location; detecting an event in dependence upon the dynamic client context; identifying one or more collaborators in dependence upon the dynamic client context and the event; and selecting from the structured document a classified structural element in dependence upon an event type and a collaborator classification; and transmitting the selected structural element to the collaborator. In many embodiments, detecting an event in dependence upon the dynamic client context includes detecting a change in a value of a data element in the dynamic client context, and applying event detection rules base to the dynamic client context." The patent application was filed on March 29, 2008 (12/058,672). 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=8,161,131&OS=8,161,131&RS=8,161,131 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Dynamic Paging Model ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,161,054) developed by four co-inventors for a dynamic paging model. The co-inventors are Richard D. Dettinger, Rochester, Minn., Frederick A. Kulack, Rochester, Minn., Kevin G. Paterson, San Antonio, and Shannon E. Wenzel, Colby, Wis. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques are disclosed for determining a dynamic breaking point in a sequence of records generated in response to a user request. The sequence may include a first result and an ideal breaking point. In particular, a current, prior, and next record may be analyzed to determine a page-change factor indicating similarities between the records. The prior, current, and next records are sequential and the current record may be located within a pre-determined distance from the ideal breaking point. If the page-change factor indicates that the current record is more similar to the next record than to the prior result, the dynamic breaking point is inserted prior to the current record." The patent application was filed on April 3, 2009 (12/418,127). 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=8,161,054&OS=8,161,054&RS=8,161,054 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Cadence Design Systems Assigned Patent for Replicant Simulation ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Cadence Design Systems, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,161,448) developed by John F. Croix, Austin, Texas, and Aaron T. Patzer, Sunnyvale, Calif., for a replicant simulation. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, a method comprises partitioning a circuit description into a plurality of simulateable partitions. The partitioning is independent of a hierarchy specified in the circuit definition. The method also comprises sorting the plurality of simulateable partitions into one or more groups, wherein each simulateable partition included in a given group is equivalent to each other partition in the given group. Further, the method comprises simulating a first simulateable partition in the given group responsive to one or more input stimuli to the first simulateable partition. For each other simulateable partition in the given group that has approximately the same input stimuli as the first simulateable partition, the method still further comprises using a result of simulating the first simulateable partition as a result of the other simulateable partition." The patent application was filed on Oct. 24, 2005 (11/257,272). 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=8,161,448&OS=8,161,448&RS=8,161,448 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Virtual License Documents ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,160,964) developed by four co-inventors for virtual license documents. The co-inventors are Michael J. Burkhart, Round Rock, Texas, Daniel G. Eisenhauer, Austin, Texas, Daniel M. Schumacher, Pflugerville, Texas, and Thomas J. Watson, Pflugerville, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Exemplary methods, systems, and products are described for creating a virtual license document for material subject to an end-user license agreement (`EULA`). Embodiments include identifying a licensing clause for the virtual license document; creating metadata describing the licensing clause; and inserting in a markup document the licensing clause and the metadata describing the clause. Identifying a licensing clause for the virtual license document may be carried out by identifying a known licensing clause in an existing end-user license agreement (`EULA`) in dependence upon licensing clause identification rules. Identifying a known clause in an existing end-user license agreement (`EULA`) in dependence upon clause identification rules may be carried out by identifying keywords in the existing end-user license agreement (`EULA`) predetermined to be associated with a known clause in end-user license agreements; and identifying the known licensing clause in dependence upon the keywords." The patent application was filed on March 28, 2006 (11/277,640). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft1.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=8,160,964.PN.&OS=PN/8,160,964&RS=PN/8,160,964 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Freescale Semiconductor Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Freescale Semiconductor, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,161,449) developed by Amol V. Bhinge, Austin, Texas, George W. Wood, Austin, Texas, and Hillel Miller, Austin, Texas, for an "improving test pattern coverage through parallel discard, flow control, and quality metrics." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, computer program product, and data processing system that controls test packets that are sent to a coordinating computer system is provided. A node computer system runs a test case that results in one or more test result packets. Control data structures are received from one or more coordinating computer systems. The resulting test result packets are compared to the one or more received data structures. The comparison reveals whether one or more of the test result packets include results requested by the coordinating computer systems. Test result packets are selected when the comparison reveals that the selected test result packets include results requested by the coordinating computer systems. Selected test result packets are sent to one of the coordinating computer systems and unselected test result packets are discarded by the node." The patent application was filed on Oct. 21, 2009 (12/603,406). 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=8,161,449&OS=8,161,449&RS=8,161,449 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Dynamic Media Content for Collaborators with Client Environment Information in Dynamic Client Contexts ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,161,112) developed by William K. Bodin, Austin, Texas, and Derral C. Thorson, Austin, Texas, for a "dynamic media content for collaborators with client environment information in dynamic client contexts." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Delivering dynamic media content to collaborators, including providing collaborative event media content, where the collaborative event media content further comprises a grammar and a structured document; acquiring data representing a client's environmental condition; storing, in the context server in a data structure comprising a dynamic client context for the client, the data representing a client's environmental condition; detecting an event in dependence upon the dynamic client context; identifying one or more collaborators in dependence upon the dynamic client context and the event; selecting from the structured document a classified structural element in dependence upon an event type and a collaborator classification; and transmitting the selected structural element to the collaborator." The patent application was filed on March 29, 2008 (12/058,673). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,161,112&OS=8,161,112&RS=8,161,112 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Verizon Business Global Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Verizon Business Global, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,161,080) developed by John Kenneth Gallant, Plano, Texas, for an "XML based transaction detail records." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention is directed to a method for managing transactions in a telecommunications network. The method includes creating an XML transaction detail file. At least one transaction detail record is stored in the XML transaction detail file in response to a telecommunications transaction. The at least one transaction detail record includes transaction data corresponding to the telecommunications transaction." The patent application was filed on Dec. 31, 2008 (12/347,819). 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=8,161,080&OS=8,161,080&RS=8,161,080 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Round Rock Research Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Round Rock Research, Mount Kisco, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (RE43,313) developed by Benjamin G. Bates, Humble, Texas, and Scott Hahn, Meridian, Idaho, for "wireless communication systems and methods." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention includes wireless communication systems, interfacing devices, communication methods, methods of interfacing with an interrogator, and methods of operating an interrogator. According to one embodiment, a wireless communication system includes a remote communication device; an interrogator configured to output a forward link wireless communication and receive a reply link wireless communication from the remote communication device responsive to the forward link wireless communication; and an interface device configured to interface with the interrogator using a wireless medium.[., the interrogator being configured to be controlled by the interface device.]." The patent application was filed on Sept. 20, 2007 (11/858,309). 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=RE43,313&OS=RE43,313&RS=RE43,313 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Aware Software Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Aware Software, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,160,913) developed by Suzanne Barber Simons, Austin, Texas, and Thomas Jeffrey Graser, Austin, Texas, for "methods and tools to support strategic decision making by specifying, relating and analyzing requirements, solutions, and deployments." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention discloses methods and tools for managing requirements, solutions, and deployments of a project. The invention provides for the creation of a portfolio of data pertaining to requirements, solutions, and deployments for the project. The relationships and dependencies between the data are mapped, and the portfolio of data and the mapping of the data are displayed in a graphical format. The portfolio of data can be queried to determine the relationships and dependencies between the data." The patent application was filed on Aug. 9, 2007 (11/891,155). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft1.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=8,160,913.PN.&OS=PN/8,160,913&RS=PN/8,160,913 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Versata Development Group Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Versata Development Group, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,160,914) developed by Daniel Paul Karipides, Round Rock, Texas, for "identifying quality user sessions and determining product demand with high resolution capabilities." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A session quality system collects and evaluates data from multiple user world wide web ("web") product selection sessions and correlates the collected data with actual product purchases. The system assembles the data into a set of session profiles and assigns a score to each profile that represents a relative likelihood of purchasing the product. The system matches session data collected from future product selection sessions with a master profile. A weighted average of scores based on matched master profiles provides useful product demand information. Furthermore, the system can determine product demand with varying ranges of resolution. For example, the system can capture specific features of each product, such as color, audio system selections, and wheel types. Since these features can be common across multiple products, manufactures can expand their use of the high resolution product demand information." The patent application was filed on Oct. 31, 2003 (10/699,148). 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=8,160,914.PN.&OS=PN/8,160,914&RS=PN/8,160,914 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** UnWired Nation Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- UnWired Nation, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,160,919) developed by Charles Eric Smith, Austin, Texas, for a "system and method of distributing audio content." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A particular method of distributing content includes receiving data related to content to be distributed. The method also includes automatically estimating a financial return associated with an audio version of the content based at least partially on a particular text-to-speech conversion process used to generate the audio version. The method further includes selecting one of a plurality of available text-to-speech conversion processes based on the estimated financial return." The patent application was filed on March 21, 2008 (12/053,422). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft1.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=8,160,919.PN.&OS=PN/8,160,919&RS=PN/8,160,919 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,161,391) developed by four co-inventors for an "on-board input and management device for a computing system." The co-inventors are Belgie B. McClelland, Tomball, Texas, Troy A. Della Fiora, Spring, Texas, Montgomery C. McGraw, Spring, Texas, and John R. Grady, Cypress, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An on-board input and management device is disclosed. In an exemplary implementation, a method of managing a blade computing system may include monitoring current systems status in a blade computing system with an integrated management controller. The method may also include using the integrated management controller for user interaction to monitor and modify configuration of a plurality of modules in the blade computing system. In an exemplary embodiment, all of the modules in the blade computing system may be monitored and managed." The patent application was filed on May 16, 2008 (12/121,968). 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=8,161,391&OS=8,161,391&RS=8,161,391 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Perftech Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Perftech, San Antonio, has been assigned a patent (8,161,284) developed by six co-inventors for a "system, method and computer readable medium for message authentication to subscribers of an internet service provider." The co-inventors are Jonathan E. Schmidt, San Antonio, John A. Murphy, San Antonio, Henry M. Donzis, San Antonio, Lewis T. Donzis, San Antonio, Peter W. Baron, San Antonio, and Rodney D. Frey, San Antonio. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An internet service provider (ISP) is configured to provide notification messages such as service updates to subscribers via redirected web pages. In order for the web pages to be treated as originating from the ISP, the ISP provides a shared secret in the browser message. The shared secret may be a secret not derivable by viruses or trojans in the subscriber computer, such as a MAC address of the subscriber modem." The patent application was filed on Dec. 24, 2007 (12/004,645). 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=8,161,284&OS=8,161,284&RS=8,161,284 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Augmentix Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Augmentix, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,161,223) developed by Ahmad Chamseddine, Round Rock, Texas, and Brian Bruce, Austin, Texas, for a "method and system for a storage device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for storage devices are presented. More specifically, in one embodiment a storage device may comprise have an enclosure comprising an interface which may be coupled to an I/O bus of a computing system with which it is being utilized. Commands may be received through the interface and, invisibly to the computing system which issues the commands, translated into a set of commands configured to effectuate the received command in conjunction with one or more storage media coupled to the interface, where this set of commands may also be configured to implement additional functionality such as RAID or data encryption in conjunction with the storage media." The patent application was filed on March 14, 2008 (12/048,271). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8161223.PN.&OS=PN/8161223&RS=PN/8161223 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Techniques for Data Prefetching Using Indirect Addressing with Offset ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,161,264) developed by four co-inventors for "techniques for data prefetching using indirect addressing with offset." The co-inventors are Ravi K. Arimilli, Austin, Texas, Balaram Sinharoy, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., William E. Speight, Austin, Texas, and Lixin Zhang, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A technique for performing data prefetching using indirect addressing includes determining a first memory address of a pointer associated with a data prefetch instruction. Content, that is included in a first data block (e.g., a first cache line) of a memory, at the first memory address is then fetched. An offset is then added to the content of the memory at the first memory address to provide a first offset memory address. A second memory address is then determined based on the first offset memory address. A second data block (e.g., a second cache line) that includes data at the second memory address is then fetched (e.g., from the memory or another memory). A data prefetch instruction may be indicated by a unique operational code (opcode), a unique extended opcode, or a field (including one or more bits) in an instruction." The patent application was filed on Feb. 1, 2008 (12/024,246). 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=8,161,264.PN.&OS=PN/8,161,264&RS=PN/8,161,264 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Texas Instruments Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Texas Instruments, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (8,161,337) developed by Lee D. Whetsel, Parker, Texas, for a "serially connected circuit blocks with TAPs and wrapper enable lead." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In a first embodiment a TAP of IEEE standard 1149.1 is allowed to commandeer control from a WSP of IEEE standard P1500 such that the P1500 architecture, normally controlled by the WSP, is rendered controllable by the TAP. In a second embodiment (1) the TAP and WSP based architectures are merged together such that the sharing of the previously described architectural elements are possible, and (2) the TAP and WSP test interfaces are merged into a single optimized test interface that is operable to perform all operations of each separate test interface. One approach provides for the TAP to maintain access and control of the TAP instruction register, but provides for a selected data register to be accessed and controlled by either the TAP+ATC or by the discrete CaptureDR, UpdateDR, TransferDR, ShiftDR, and ClockDR WSP data register control signals." The patent application was filed on May 9, 2011 (13/103,520). 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=8,161,337&OS=8,161,337&RS=8,161,337 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Performing Data Prefetch in a Multiprocessor System ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,161,245) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for performing data prefetch in a multiprocessor system." The co-inventors are James S. Fields Jr., Austin, Texas, Benjiman L. Goodman, Cedar Park, Texas, Guy L. Guthrie, Austin, Texas, and Jeffrey A. Stuecheli, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for performing data prefetch in a multiprocessor system are disclosed. The multiprocessor system includes multiple processors, each having a cache memory. The cache memory is subdivided into multiple slices. A group of prefetch requests is initially issued by a requesting processor in the multiprocessor system. Each prefetch request is intended for one of the respective slices of the cache memory of the requesting processor. In response to the prefetch requests being missed in the cache memory of the requesting processor, the prefetch requests are merged into one combined prefetch request. The combined prefetch request is then sent to the cache memories of all the non-requesting processors within the multiprocessor system. In response to a combined clean response from the cache memories of all the non-requesting processors, data are then obtained for the combined prefetch request from a system memory." The patent application was filed on Feb. 9, 2005 (11/054,173). 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=8161245.PN.&OS=PN/8161245&RS=PN/8161245 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Techniques for Indirect Data Prefetching ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,161,263) developed by four co-inventors for "techniques for indirect data prefetching." The co-inventors are Ravi K. Arimilli, Austin, Texas, Balaram Sinharoy, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., William E. Speight, Austin, Texas, and Lixin Zhang, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A processor includes a first address translation engine, a second address translation engine, and a prefetch engine. The first address translation engine is configured to determine a first memory address of a pointer associated with a data prefetch instruction. The prefetch engine is coupled to the first translation engine and is configured to fetch content, included in a first data block (e.g., a first cache line) of a memory, at the first memory address. The second address translation engine is coupled to the prefetch engine and is configured to determine a second memory address based on the content of the memory at the first memory address. The prefetch engine is also configured to fetch (e.g., from the memory or another memory) a second data block (e.g., a second cache line) that includes data at the second memory address." The patent application was filed on Feb. 1, 2008 (12/024,239). 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=8,161,263&OS=8,161,263&RS=8,161,263 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Temperature-aware Buffered Caching for Solid State Storage ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,161,241) developed by five co-inventors for a "temperature-aware buffered caching for solid state storage." The co-inventors are Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee, Hawthorne, N.Y., Mustafa Canim, Dallas, Christian A. Lang, Hawthorne, N.Y., George A. Mihaila, Hawthorne, N.Y., and Kenneth A. Ross, Hawthorne, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for managing a cache includes monitoring a temperature of regions on a secondary storage based on a cumulative cost to access pages from each region of the secondary storage. Similar temperature pages are grouped in logical blocks. Data is written to a cache in a logical block granularity by overwriting cooler blocks with hotter blocks." The patent application was filed on Jan. 12, 2010 (12/686,022). 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=8161241.PN.&OS=PN/8161241&RS=PN/8161241 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Techniques for Multi-level Indirect Data Prefetching ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,161,265) developed by four co-inventors for "techniques for multi-level indirect data prefetching." The co-inventors are Ravi K. Arimilli, Austin, Texas, Balaram Sinharoy, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., William E. Speight, Austin, Texas, and Lixin Zhang, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A technique for performing data prefetching using multi-level indirect data prefetching includes determining a first memory address of a pointer associated with a data prefetch instruction. Content that is included in a first data block (e.g., a first cache line of a memory) at the first memory address is then fetched. A second memory address is then determined based on the content at the first memory address. Content that is included in a second data block (e.g., a second cache line) at the second memory address is then fetched (e.g., from the memory or another memory). A third memory address is then determined based on the content at the second memory address. Finally, a third data block (e.g., a third cache line) that includes another pointer or data at the third memory address is fetched (e.g., from the memory or the another memory)." The patent application was filed on Feb. 1, 2008 (12/024,260). 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=8,161,265&OS=8,161,265&RS=8,161,265 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Xilinx Assigned Patent for Data Operations Across Parallel Non-volatile Input/Output Devices ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Xilinx, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,161,212) developed by Ting Lu, Austin, Texas, Kam-Wing Li, Cupertino, Calif., and Bradley 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. -1082612 (c) 2012 Targeted News Service [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]