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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in New York (May 2)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in New York. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Execution of a Process ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,171,226) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for execution of a process." The co-inventors are Yuan-Chi Chang, Bayside, N.Y., Christian A. Lang, New York, John R. Smith, New Hyde Park, N.Y., and Ioana R. Stanoi, White Plains, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques are provided for enabling execution of a process employing a cache Method steps can include obtaining a first probability of accessing a given artifact in a state S.sub.i, obtaining a second probability of using a predicate from a current state S.sub.c in the state S.sub.i, determining a benefit of prefetching the given artifact using the predicate based on at least the first probability and the second probability, and whether and/or when a cache replacement should be conducted, based at least on the benefit determined." The patent application was filed on May 27, 2008 (12/127,065). 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=8,171,226&OS=8,171,226&RS=8,171,226 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Methods and Apparatus for Dynamic User Authentication Using Customizable Context-dependent Interaction Across Multiple Verification Objects ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,171,298) developed by Ganesh N. Ramaswamy, Ossining, N.Y., Ran Zilca, Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., and Oleg Alecksandrovich, Elmsford, N.Y., for "methods and apparatus for dynamic user authentication using customizable context-dependent interaction across multiple verification objects." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An authentication framework is provided which enables dynamic user authentication that combines multiple authentication objects using a shared context and that permits customizable interaction design to suit varying user preferences and transaction/application requirements. Such a framework provides a high degree of flexibility, accuracy, convenience and robustness. In one illustrative aspect of the invention, an automated technique for user authentication comprises the following steps/operations. First, user input is obtained. At least a portion of the user input is associated with two or more verification objects. Then, the user is verified based on the two or more verification objects in accordance with at least one verification policy operating on a context shared across the two or more verification objects. The user authentication technique of the invention may preferably be implemented in a flexible, distributed architecture comprising at least one client device coupled to at least one verification server. The client device and the verification server may operate together to perform the user authentication techniques of the invention." The patent application was filed on Oct. 30, 2002 (10/283,729). 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=8,171,298&OS=8,171,298&RS=8,171,298 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for PCI Express Address Translation Services Invalidation Synchronization with TCE Invalidation ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,171,230) developed by Douglas M. Freimuth, New York, Renato J. Recio, Austin, Texas, and Steven M. Thurber, Austin, Texas, for a "PCI express address translation services invalidation synchronization with TCE invalidation." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A PCI Express (PCIe) computer system utilizes address translation services to translate virtual addresses from I/O device adaptors to physical addresses of system memory. A combined memory controller and host bridge uses a translation agent to convert the I/O addresses via translation control entries (TCEs) in a TCE table (also known as an address translation and protection table). Some of the I/O device adaptors have address translation caches for local storage of TCEs. The TCE definition includes a new non-cacheable control bit which is set active in the TCE table when the TCE is in the process of being invalidated. The memory controller prevents further caching of the TCE while the non-cacheable control bit is active. A further implementation utilizes a change-in-progress control bit of the TCE to indicate that the TCE is in the process of being changed to allow simultaneous invalidation of the previously TCE information." The patent application was filed on Dec. 3, 2007 (11/949,078). 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=8,171,230&OS=8,171,230&RS=8,171,230 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Cornell University-Cornell Center for Technology, Enterprise & Commercialization Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Cornell University-Cornell Center for Technology, Enterprise & Commercialization, Ithaca, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (PP22,701) developed by Mark P. Bridgen, Southhold, N.Y., for an "alstroemeria plant named 'Tangerine Tango'." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An Alstroemeria variety particularly distinguished by bright orange inflorescences with yellow highlights, good longevity as a cut flower, continuous flowering from summer through fall, and winter-hardy from USDA zone 5 or warmer, is disclosed." The patent application was filed on May 11, 2010 (12/800,202). 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=PP22,701&OS=PP22,701&RS=PP22,701 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Tracer Detection Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Tracer Detection Technology, San Antonio, has been assigned a patent (8,171,567) developed by Jay Fraser, Freeport, N.Y., and Larry Weber, Holbrook, N.Y., for an "authentication method and system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention provides a method and apparatus for the production and labeling of objects in a manner suitable for the prevention and detection of counterfeiting. Thus, the system incorporates a variety of features that make unauthorized reproduction difficult. In addition, the present invention provides a system and method for providing a dynamically reconfigurable watermark, and the use of the watermark to encode a stochastically variable property of the carrier medium for self-authentication purposes." The patent application was filed on Sept. 4, 2003 (10/655,625). 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=8,171,567&OS=8,171,567&RS=8,171,567 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,171,106) developed by Puneet Chaudhary, Highland, N.Y., Kalyan C. Gunda, Wappingers Falls, N.Y., and Gautam Haridas Shah, Shrewsbury, Mass., for a "per file system usage of networks." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, information processing system, and computer program product access data in a system. The system includes a plurality of Network Shared Disk servers and at least one set of Network Shared Disks. Each of the Network Shared Disks are served by at least one of the Network Shared Disk servers across a multiple networks. Configuration data that includes information indicating which of the networks is associated with each of the Network Shared Disks for the one node is analyzed. A first of the Network Shared Disks to be accessed is identified. One of the networks that is associated with the first Network Shared Disk is selected based on the configuration data. The first Network Shared Disk is accessed via the one network that was selected." The patent application was filed on Dec. 12, 2008 (12/333,380). 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=8,171,106.PN.&OS=PN/8,171,106&RS=PN/8,171,106 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** VMware Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- VMware, Palo Alto, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,171,548) developed by eight co-inventors for a "0-touch and 1-touch techniques for improving the availability of computer programs under protection without compromising security." The co-inventors are Srinivas Mantripragada, Cupertino, Calif., Timothy Garnett, Boston, Derek L. Bruening, Troy, N.Y., Vladimir Kiriansky, Mountain View, Calif., Bharath Chandramohan, Santa Clara, Calif., James Brink, Oakland, Calif., Saman P. Amarasinghe, Waltham, Mass., and Sandy Wilbourn, Palo Alto, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Protected software, such as an application and/or DLL, is monitored by protective software to guard against attacks, while distinguishing spurious, benign events from attacks. In a 1-touch approach, the protected software is monitored in a testing environment to detect spurious, benign events caused by, e.g., incompatibility or interoperability problems. The spurious events can be remediated in different ways, such as by applying a relaxed security policy. In a production mode, or 0-touch mode, when the protected software is subject to attacks, the corresponding remediation can be applied when the spurious events are again detected. Security events which occur in production mode can also be treated as benign when they occur within a specified time window. The applications and/or DLLs can further be classified according to whether they are known to have bad properties, known to be well-behaved, or unknown. Appropriate treatment is provided based on the classification." The patent application was filed on April 21, 2010 (12/764,622). 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=8,171,548&OS=8,171,548&RS=8,171,548 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Dynamic Workflow Documentation System ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,171,053) developed by four co-inventors for a "dynamic workflow documentation system." The co-inventors are David B. Kumhyr, Austin, Texas, Patrick J. Brooks, Toronto, Rhonda L. Childress, Austin, Texas, and Michael J. Spisak, East Northport, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The dynamic workflow documentation system is a computer implemented process comprising the following steps: The dynamic workflow documentation system starts a workflow manager program, a class loader program in a computer memory and creates an instance of a workflow program in the computer memory. The dynamic workflow documentation system extracts metadata properties from the workflow program and records the metadata properties in the memory. The dynamic workflow documentation system notifies the workflow manager that a new instance of the workflow program has been created and repeats the steps of creating an instance of a workflow component program, extracting metadata properties, recording the metadata properties and notifying the workflow manager for all workflow components associated with the workflow program. Security and auditing functions of the dynamic workflow documentation system ensure that workflow programs execute according to the workflow requirements." The patent application was filed on May 11, 2010 (12/777,799). 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=8,171,053.PN.&OS=PN/8,171,053&RS=PN/8,171,053 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Dynamic Location Generation Within a Virtual World ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,171,408) developed by four co-inventors for a "dynamic location generation within a virtual world." The co-inventors are Christopher J. Dawson, Arlington, Va., Rick A. Hamilton II, Charlottesville, Va., Clifford A. Pickover, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., and James W. Seaman, Falls Church, Va. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An approach is provided for dynamic loading and rendering of avatar's initial login environment. The approach consists of a method and a system for dynamically rendering locations from a preference list of locations most likely to be visited by an avatar. In one embodiment the method consists of creating a preference list of locations most likely to be visited by the avatar, rendering a dynamically built continuous environment populated from such preference list of locations most likely to be visited by the avatar, and caching and thereafter rendering at least one of the locations from the preference list of locations most likely to be visited by said avatar." The patent application was filed on Dec. 17, 2008 (12/336,802). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,171,408&OS=8,171,408&RS=8,171,408 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Automated Convergence of Ternary Simulation by Saturation of Deep Gates ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,171,437) developed by four co-inventors for "automated convergence of ternary simulation by saturation of deep gates." The co-inventors are Jason R. Baumgartner, Austin, Texas, Michael L. Case, Pflugerville, Texas, Geert Janssen, Putnam Valley, N.Y., and Hari Mony, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system and computer program product for X-Saturated ternary simulation based reduction. An X-Saturated ternary simulation (XSTS) utility, which executes on a computer system, receives design information, where the design information includes a netlist. The XSTS utility initializes one or more data structures and/or variables and simulates, in a ternary fashion, the netlist at a time value by applying logical X values to all RANDOM gates of the netlist and to registers marked X_SATURATED. For each register of the netlist XSTS utility: determines whether or not the register departs from its expected prefix behavior, and if the register departs from its expected prefix behavior, the register is marked as X_SATURATED and the current state is updated with an X value upon the register. XSTS utility can store the current state in a data structure and can use the information from the data structure to simplify the design." The patent application was filed on March 25, 2009 (12/410,968). 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=8,171,437&OS=8,171,437&RS=8,171,437 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method and System to at Least Partially Isolate Nets ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,171,442) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and system to at least partially isolate nets." The co-inventors are Alexandra Echegaray, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Heidi L. Lagares, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Douglas S. Search, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and Stephen Szulewski, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method to at least partially isolate a net of a circuit design is provided and includes testing a timing characteristic of a circuit design, identifying from a result of the testing a net of the circuit design to be at least partially isolated from an adjacent net and determining a percentage of the identified net to be partially isolated." The patent application was filed on Sept. 11, 2009 (12/557,872). 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=8,171,442&OS=8,171,442&RS=8,171,442 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,171,559) developed by four co-inventors for a "detecting a phishing entity in a virtual universe." The co-inventors are Rick A. Hamilton II, Charlottesville, Va., 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: "An invention for detecting a phishing virtual entity in a virtual universe is disclosed. A virtual entity may be registered as authentic and be identified with multiple physical characteristics thereof. Another virtual entity will be monitored to detect whether it includes a physical characteristic that is sufficiently similar to that of a registered virtual entity to cause confusion. A phishing virtual entity is detected based on the monitoring and phishing prevention processes may be implemented on the phishing virtual entity." The patent application was filed on March 13, 2008 (12/047,763). 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=8,171,559&OS=8,171,559&RS=8,171,559 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Facilitating Correction of Incorrect Identities in Propagated Electronic Communications ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,171,088) developed by Thomas E. Murphy Jr., Hopewell Junction, N.Y., and Francis A. Pflug, Cary, N.C., for a "facilitating correction of incorrect identities in propagated electronic communications." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An electronic communication is sent from a first tier sender to a first tier of one or more recipients. A first tier recipient propagates the communication to a second tier of one or more recipients. The first tier sender determines that the communication includes an incorrect identity. The first tier sender notifies the first tier recipients of the error and of the corrected identity. Responsive thereto, the first tier recipients send corrections to selected second tier recipients." The patent application was filed on June 6, 2008 (12/134,242). 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=8,171,088.PN.&OS=PN/8,171,088&RS=PN/8,171,088 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Telcordia Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Telcordia Technologies, Piscataway, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,171,410) developed by Benjamin W. Falchuk, Upper Nyack, N.Y., for a "method and system for generating and presenting mobile content summarization." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "This invention involves a system and method to construct a visual representation of multidimensional data that works especially well for video. The system comprises an application on a mobile device having a screen, an assignment module assigning the media segments to the screen, a rendering module rendering the assigned media segments on the screen, a playback module playing the assigned media segments, a catalog module representing media metadata about the mobile content, a summarization module stewarding the media metadata, and a remote server storing the mobile content and the media metadata. The application retrieves the mobile content from the remote server and accesses the assignment, the rendering, the playback, the catalog, and the summarization modules. The system also comprises a method to log and analyze the browsing interactions of one or more users, and present a view of the media that reflects what is interesting to the user." The patent application was filed on May 29, 2009 (12/474,760). 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=8,171,410&OS=8,171,410&RS=8,171,410 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Visible World Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Visible World, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,171,511) developed by five co-inventors for a "dynamic bandwidth allocation for addressable content." The co-inventors are Seth Haberman, New York, Gerrit Niemeijer, Maplewood, N.J., Alex Jansen, Jersey City, N.J., Erik Van De Pol, South Orange, N.J., and Andrew Fife, Hoboken, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for push-based dynamic bandwidth allocation deliver addressable, advertising content in a digital network. Bandwidth is allocated on a push basis in response to receiving a cue tone from a broadcast stream. The cue tone contains data indicating an addressable break. A portion of bandwidth is then allocated to an addressable content stream based on the data of the cue tone. The addressable content stream is then streamed to a receiver during the addressable break and the receiver is tuned from the broadcast stream to the addressable content stream for the duration of the addressable break. The additional bandwidth is de-allocated at the end of the addressable break." The patent application was filed on July 30, 2009 (12/512,769). 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=8,171,511&OS=8,171,511&RS=8,171,511 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Programming Software Components ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,171,454) developed by Vugranam C. Sreedhar, White Plains, N.Y., for a "method and apparatus for programming software components." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus are disclosed for programming software components that treats software components as the basic unit of abstraction and computation. A software component is encapsulated and classes and other program entities, such as data fields and methods, within a given component do not exist beyond a component boundary. A component interacts with other components only by means of a defined set of input and output ports. A component can inherit and implement ports declared in a template and can declare and implement new ports. A component can only access the external environment through its output ports. An output port of one component can only be connected to a conforming input port of another component. A connect statement is an explicit plumbing operation for connecting components together. Interactions between components are loosely coupled. A related set of templates can be grouped together to form a group. Groups are useful for implementing implicit invocation and multicasting." The patent application was filed on Aug. 9, 2001 (09/925,580). 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=8,171,454&OS=8,171,454&RS=8,171,454 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Efficient Code Generation Using Loop Peeling for SIMD Loop Code with Multile Misaligned Statements ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,171,464) developed by Alexandre E. Eichenberger, Chappaque, N.Y., Kai-Ting Amy Wang, Ontario, Canada, and Peng Wu, Mt. Kisco, N.Y., for an "efficient code generation using loop peeling for SIMD loop code with multile misaligned statements." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An approach is provided for vectorizing misaligned references in compiled code for SIMD architectures that support only aligned loads and stores. In this framework, a loop is first simdized as if the memory unit imposes no alignment constraints. The compiler then inserts data reorganization operations to satisfy the actual alignment requirements of the hardware. Finally, the code generation algorithm generates SIMD codes based on the data reorganization graph, addressing realistic issues such as runtime alignments, unknown loop bounds, residual iteration counts, and multiple statements with arbitrary alignment combinations. Loop peeling is used to reduce the computational overhead associated with misaligned data. A loop prologue and epilogue are peeled from individual iterations in the simdized loop, and vector-splicing instructions are applied to the peeled iterations, while the steady-state loop body incurs no additional computational overhead." The patent application was filed on May 16, 2008 (12/122,050). 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=8,171,464&OS=8,171,464&RS=8,171,464 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Rating Virtual World Merchandise by Avatar Visits ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,171,407) developed by four co-inventors for a "rating virtual world merchandise by avatar visits." The co-inventors are Yunwu Huang, Chappaqua, N.Y., Jalal Uddin Mahmud, Centereach, N.Y., Roger Alan Pollak, Pleasantville, N.Y., and John J. Ponzo, Hawthorne, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Generating popularity ratings for virtual world artifacts based on how often and in what manner avatars access the artifacts is provided. The popularity ratings for virtual world artifacts may be used to determine what virtual world artifacts are selected to have a prominent presence in a virtual world. When an event caused by an avatar accessing a virtual world artifact in a virtual world is detected, the illustrative embodiments receive information about the event, such as the event type, the avatar identifier (ID), and the time the event occurred. The illustrative embodiments generate a rating score for the virtual world artifact based on the information received about the event. The illustrative embodiments update a rendering of the virtual world artifact in the virtual world based on the rating score." The patent application was filed on Feb. 21, 2008 (12/035,255). 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=8,171,407&OS=8,171,407&RS=8,171,407 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method for Source-related Risk Detection and Alert Generation ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,171,458) developed by six co-inventors for a "method for source-related risk detection and alert generation." The co-inventors are Ping Cheng, Beijing, Ya Bin Dang, Beijing, Lin Luo, Beijing, Peter K. Malkin, Ardsley, N.Y., Vadakkedathu T. Rajan, Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., and Yuan Yuan, Beijing. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for detecting a source-related risk and generating an alert concerning the source-related risk are disclosed. Criteria of the source-related risk are defined. Thresholds associated with the source-related risk are defined. Every operation on an object is detected. If an operation on an object satisfies a criterion among the criteria or if the operation causes to exceed a threshold among the thresholds, an alert is generated for the operation." The patent application was filed on Oct. 10, 2008 (12/249,511). 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=8,171,458&OS=8,171,458&RS=8,171,458 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for System to Improve Memory Reliability and Associated Methods ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,171,377) developed by four co-inventors for a "system to improve memory reliability and associated methods." The co-inventors are Timothy J. Dell, Colchester, Vt., Luis A. Lastras-Montano, Cortlandt Manor, N.Y., Barry M. Trager, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., and Shmuel Winograd, Scarsdale, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system to improve memory reliability in computer systems that may include memory chips, and may rely on a error control encoder to send codeword symbols for storage in each of the memory chips. At least two symbols from a codeword are assigned to each memory chip and therefore failure of any of the memory chips could affect two symbols or more. The system may also include a table to record failures and partial failures of the codeword symbols for each of the memory chips so the error control encoder can correct subsequent partial failures based upon the previous partial failures. The error control coder is capable of correcting and/or detecting more errors if only a fraction of a chip is noted in the table as having a failure as opposed to a full chip noted as having a failure." The patent application was filed on Jan. 31, 2008 (12/023,374). 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=8,171,377&OS=8,171,377&RS=8,171,377 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** American Express Travel Related Services Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- American Express Travel Related Services, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,170,998) developed by four co-inventors for "methods, systems, and computer program products for estimating accuracy of linking of customer relationships." The co-inventors are Prashant Sharad Churi, Scottsdale, Ariz., Gary Stephen Fitzgerald, Phoenix, Sara Tresch, New York, and Mary Weissman, Mesa, Ariz. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The disclosed methods, systems, and computer-program products allow a business to estimate linking errors in customer relationships in a database and to identify metrics that improve the linking accuracy. In an embodiment, a plurality of sample customer relationships are selected from a database to form a sample data set that is statistically representative of the database. Potential linking errors are then identified within the sample data set. The identified potential linking errors are then validated to identify actual linking errors in the sample data set. Once validated, the actual linking errors within the sample data set are used to estimate linking errors within the database. Further, the estimated linking errors in the database may be analyzed to identify one or more factors that contribute to the linking errors." The patent application was filed on Sept. 12, 2007 (11/854,259). 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=8,170,998.PN.&OS=PN/8,170,998&RS=PN/8,170,998 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Apparatus, System, and Method for Executing a Distributed Spatial Data Query ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,171,014) developed by four co-inventors for an "apparatus, system, and method for executing a distributed spatial data query." The co-inventors are David W. Adler, Mount Tremper, N.Y., Fain Butt, Milpitas, Calif., Alvin K. Cho, San Jose, Calif., and Tian Zhang, San Jose, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for executing a distributed spatial data query. The present invention allows a client to perform spatial queries against spatial data stored in a various formats in various separate databases. A view of the data is created in the relevant databases, wherein the spatial data is converted to WKB and stored as a BLOB. A federated server contains nicknames for the various database views, and also contains views of the data where the BLOB is converted back to a spatial data type. The federated server presents to clients an application view of the distributed heterogeneous spatial data such that the clients can treat the data as if it were a homogenous data source. Also taught is incorporating distributed non-spatial data into the application view by creating a nickname and a view on top of the nickname which derives spatial information from the non-spatial location information." The patent application was filed on Aug. 29, 2007 (11/847,269). 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=8,171,014.PN.&OS=PN/8,171,014&RS=PN/8,171,014 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Data Consistency in Long-running Processes ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,171,348) developed by four co-inventors for a "data consistency in long-running processes." The co-inventors are Patrick J. O'Sullivan, Dublin, Ireland, Gregory Sechuga, Westfield, Ind., Edith H. Stern, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., and Barry E. Willner, Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Long running computer implemented processes are dynamically adapted to improve data consistency. A range of process steps in a long running computer implemented process is specified. Additionally, each of the computer-implemented process partners that are associated with the execution of the long running process are identified within the range of specified process steps. Monitoring information is also collected with regard to at least one identified process partner. An automatic determination is made as to whether each monitored process partner is available before initiating execution of the specified range of process steps in an instance of the long running computer implemented process and a flow of the long running computer implemented process is transformed based at least in part upon the determination as to whether each monitored process partner is available." The patent application was filed on May 22, 2009 (12/470,693). 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=8,171,348&OS=8,171,348&RS=8,171,348 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Google Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,171,048) developed by six co-inventors for "ranking documents based on a location sensitivity factor." The co-inventors are Xianping Ge, Sunnyvale, Calif., Abhishek Parmar, San Jose, Calif., Amit Singhal, Palo Alto, Calif., Adam Smith, Mountain View, Calif., Daniel Egnor, New York, and Elizabeth Hamon, Mamaroneck, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods improve search rankings for a search query by using location data associated with queries and documents related to the search query. In one aspect, a search query is received, a location score is determined, a topical score is determined, and an ordering of documents related to the search query is determined based, at least in part, on the location score and the topical score." The patent application was filed on Aug. 31, 2009 (12/551,319). 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=8,171,048.PN.&OS=PN/8,171,048&RS=PN/8,171,048 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Active Probing for Real-time Diagnosis ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,171,130) developed by five co-inventors for an "active probing for real-time diagnosis." The co-inventors are Mark A. Brodie, Briarcliff, N.Y., Genady Grabarnik, Scarsdale, N.Y., Sheng Ma, Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., Natalia V. Odintsova, Elmsford, N.Y., and Irina Rish, White Plains, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Improved problem diagnosis techniques for use in accordance with computing systems, e.g., distributed computing systems, are disclosed. In one aspect of the invention, a technique for diagnosing a problem associated with a computing system comprises the following steps/operations. One or more probes are executed in accordance with at least a portion of a previously selected probe schedule. When a result of one or more of the probes of the previously selected probe schedule indicates, at least, a potential problem associated with the computing system, one or more probes which optimize at least one criterion are selected in real-time. The one or more selected probes are executed so as to diagnose the potential problem." The patent application was filed on May 5, 2008 (12/115,167). 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=8,171,130&OS=8,171,130&RS=8,171,130 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Visualization of Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) Resources ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,171,122) developed by seven co-inventors for a "visualization of web services distributed management (WSDM) resources." The co-inventors are John Elliott Arwe, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Michael John Branson, Rochester, Minn., David Arlen Elko, Austin, Texas, Anthony Wayne Erwin, Rochester, Minn., Jeffrey Alan Frey, New Paltz, N.Y., Steven Gene Halverson, Rochester, Minn., and Georg Ochs, Motzingen, Germany. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus and method provides visualization of IT resources that are exposed as WSDM resources. A management system with a console provides visibility and functionality for WSDM resources by employing a visualization mechanism that processes standardized visualization metadata that is sent from a WSDM resource. The visualization mechanism uses standardized information to enable the management system console to display a robust presentation of the resource without needing to update the management system and console code when new types of resources are added." The patent application was filed on June 22, 2007 (11/766,962). 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=8,171,122&OS=8,171,122&RS=8,171,122 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. 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