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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Colorado (May 16)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Colorado. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,180,723) developed by Bob Bethke, Fort Collins, Colo., and Srikanth Natarajan, Fort Collins, Colo., for a "root cause analysis in a system having a plurality of inter-related elements." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of performing root cause analysis for use in a system comprising a plurality of inter-related elements, wherein at least some of the elements experience one or more abnormal conditions, comprising defining one or more conditions for more than one element symptomatic of abnormal operation of the element; defining one or more causal relationships between the conditions and results on one or more related elements; compiling the conditions and causal relationships of each element for which conditions and relationships have been defined, as at least one continuation in a continuation passing style (CPS); receiving one or more observed events symptomatic of abnormal operation of at least one element of the system; processing the received events using the conditions and the continuations; concluding at least one root cause of the received events consistent with the received events; and outputting the root cause." The patent application was filed on Sept. 27, 2008 (12/239,747). 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=8,180,723.PN.&OS=PN/8,180,723&RS=PN/8,180,723 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Harvard College Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,180,717) developed by Gary King, Brookline, Mass., Daniel Hopkins, Cambridge, Mass., and Ying Lu, Loveland, Colo., for a "system for estimating a distribution of message content categories in source data." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of computerized content analysis that gives "approximately unbiased and statistically consistent estimates" of a distribution of elements of structured, unstructured, and partially structured source data among a set of categories. In one embodiment, this is done by analyzing a distribution of small set of individually-classified elements in a plurality of categories and then using the information determined from the analysis to extrapolate a distribution in a larger population set. This extrapolation is performed without constraining the distribution of the unlabeled elements to be equal to the distribution of labeled elements, nor constraining a content distribution of content of elements in the labeled set (e.g., a distribution of words used by elements in the labeled set) to be equal to a content distribution of elements in the unlabeled set. Not being constrained in these ways allows the estimation techniques described herein to provide distinct advantages over conventional aggregation techniques." The patent application was filed on March 19, 2008 (12/077,534). 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=8,180,717.PN.&OS=PN/8,180,717&RS=PN/8,180,717 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent for Engine for Performing Root Cause and Effect Analysis ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,180,718) developed by Bob Bethke, Fort Collins, Colo., and Srikanth Natarajan, Fort Collins, Colo., for an "engine for performing root cause and effect analysis." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An engine for performing root cause analysis on a system comprising a plurality of elements in a modeled domain, the engine comprising a module loader and parser for loading modules of computer code containing computer language statements modeling elements of the system, including one or more of model type definitions, conditions, causal rules, and continuations; and for parsing the computer language statements; a storage for storing the parsed computer language statements; a receiver for receiving conditions representing state changes of system elements, accessing the storage, and determining one or more parsed computer language statements to apply to the received conditions; a hypothesis generator for instantiating one or more hypotheses of potential causes of each received condition consistent with the received conditions and the parsed computer language statements; a blackboard for receiving the instantiated hypotheses, and determining a root cause of the received conditions based on the hypotheses consistent with the received conditions and the parsed computer language statements; and an output for outputting the determined root cause." The patent application was filed on Sept. 27, 2008 (12/239,751). 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=8,180,718.PN.&OS=PN/8,180,718&RS=PN/8,180,718 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Webroot Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Webroot, Broomfield, Colo., has been assigned a patent (8,181,244) developed by Matthew L. Boney, Longmont, Colo., for a "backward researching time stamped events to find an origin of pestware." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for identifying an origin of suspected pestware activity on a computer is described. One embodiment includes establishing a time of interest relating to a suspicion of pestware on the computer, identifying, based upon the time of interest, indicia of pestware and accessing at least a portion of a recorded history of sources that the computer received files from so as to identify, based at least in part upon the identified indicia of pestware, a reference to an identity of a source that is suspected of originating pestware." The patent application was filed on April 20, 2006 (11/408,145). 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=8,181,244&OS=8,181,244&RS=8,181,244 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** UAT Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- UAT, Englewood, Colo., has been assigned a patent (8,180,699) developed by Allan T. Chiulli, Highlands Ranch, Colo., and Tom H. Warren, Greenwood Village, Colo., for a "system and method for facilitating unified trading and control for a sponsoring organization's money management process." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An embodiment of the present invention provides a system, method, process, software and standards that enable a unified trading and control process utilized by sponsoring organizations and asset managers (money managers) for sub advised or externally managed investment portfolios as to increase control over the trading process by a sponsoring organization, enhance regulatory compliance, substantially lower trading costs and improve investment performance on a recurring basis for the shareholders and beneficiaries investing in registered and non registered mutual funds and institutional investment portfolios." The patent application was filed on Feb. 3, 2011 (13/020,121). 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=8,180,699.PN.&OS=PN/8,180,699&RS=PN/8,180,699 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Wireless Device Configuration Management ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,180,860) developed by five co-inventors for a "wireless device configuration management." The co-inventors are Matthew C. Bovell, Middlebury, Conn., Thomas P. Devlin, Boynton Beach, Fla., Amy S. Goodner, Longmont, Colo., Tedrick N. Northway, Wood River, Ill., and Paul H. Usery, Atlanta. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for providing wireless device management. The method comprises receiving a first request for wireless devices comprising specified software. The specified software is loaded on each of the wireless devices in response to the first request. The wireless devices comprising the specified software are delivered. The wireless devices are connected to a wireless network. Wireless configuration management is provided the wireless network for each of the delivered wireless devices for a specified amount of time." The patent application was filed on Aug. 24, 2004 (10/925,338). 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=8,180,860&OS=8,180,860&RS=8,180,860 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent for Accounting for Resource Usage Time by a Virtual Machine ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,181,175) developed by Bret A. McKee, Fort Collins, Colo., Robert D. Gardner, Fort Collins, Colo., and Chris D. Hyser, Victor, N.Y., for an "accounting for resource usage time by a virtual machine." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A technique for accounting for resource usage time by virtual machines is provided according to which a virtual machine observes a non-virtual timer to determine an elapsed non-virtual time interval during which the virtual machine performed a computation while using a shared processing resource. The virtual machine infers the amount of time it used the shared processing resource based on the observation." The patent application was filed on Sept. 23, 2008 (12/236,196). 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=8,181,175&OS=8,181,175&RS=8,181,175 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Oracle International Assigned Patent for Independent Portlet Rendering ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Oracle International, Redwood Shores, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,181,112) developed by Christopher Jolley, Lone Tree, Colo., Subrahmanyam Allamaraju, San Ramon, Calif., and Timmothy Pesce, Arvada, Colo., for an independent portlet rendering. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The rendering of portal pages on can be sped up by allowing individual portlets to be displayed while other portlets of the page are still waiting to finish rendering. Temporary messages can be displayed for the portlets that are still rendering. This temporary content can be replaced by the finished portal rendering for the slow rendering portlets. Additionally, a timeout feature for the portlets can be used. The timeout feature allows the rendering of the portlet to be stopped after a certain period of time." The patent application was filed on May 18, 2005 (11/131,620). 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=8,181,112&OS=8,181,112&RS=8,181,112 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent for System and Method for Providing Compliant Mapping Between Chip Bond Locations and Package Bond Locations for an Integrated Circuit ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,181,125) developed by Jason Harold Culler, Livermore, Colo., and Shad R. Shepston, Thornton, Colo., for a "system and method for providing compliant mapping between chip bond locations and package bond locations for an integrated circuit." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for providing compliant mapping between chip bond locations of an IC and corresponding package bond locations is disclosed. Package design information including package bond location information relating to the IC package and IC mask data including chip bond location information relating to the IC chip are integrated such that an internal physical design verification tool is operable to verify compliance between package bond locations and chip bond locations." The patent application was filed on Aug. 5, 2002 (10/212,360). 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=8,181,125&OS=8,181,125&RS=8,181,125 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Synopsys Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Synopsys, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,181,145) developed by Kester B. Rice, Monument, Colo., and David L. Peart, Round Rock, Texas, for a "method and apparatus for generating a floorplan using a reduced netlist." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "One embodiment provides a system comprising methods and apparatuses that generate a floorplan for a hierarchical circuit design. More specifically, the system can receive a non-reduced netlist description for the hierarchical circuit design, and generate a reduced netlist which includes the interface logic elements of the netlist. The system can then generate the floorplan by using the reduced netlist as input. Note that the amount of computational resources and time required to generate a floorplan is substantially reduced because the system generates the floorplan using the reduced netlist instead of using the non-reduced netlist." The patent application was filed on March 11, 2009 (12/402,246). 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=8,181,145&OS=8,181,145&RS=8,181,145 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Time Warner Cable Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Time Warner Cable, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,181,206) developed by Charles A. Hasek, Broomfield, Colo., for a "personal content server apparatus and methods." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Personal content server apparatus and associated methods that allow a user (e.g., cable or satellite network subscriber) to access content, such as a video program, from a location outside the subscriber's network. In one embodiment, a personal content server streams the content to the subscriber over a network connection from the local e.g., (subscription) network to a remote network upon authorization by a content manager process. Various access, business or operational rules are applied depending on the content and delivery mode; e.g., to live video broadcast, video-on-demand (VOD), or archived content from the subscriber's digital video recorder (DVR) or networked PVR. In another variant, reservation information (for example program or asset ID information) is cached at a headend or hub server, thereby obviating the subscriber (or the network) having to access the subscriber's premises device. In yet another variant, a "virtual" CPE experience is provided for the remote user." The patent application was filed on Feb. 28, 2007 (11/712,800). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,181,206&OS=8,181,206&RS=8,181,206 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Xilinx Assigned Patent for Interface for Managing Multiple Implementations of a Functional Block of a Circuit Design ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Xilinx, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,181,149) developed by Sean A. Kelly, Boulder, Colo., and Gabor Szedo, Longmont, Colo., for an "interface for managing multiple implementations of a functional block of a circuit design." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Approaches for assembling an electronic circuit design. A processor performs operations including instantiating and coupling a plurality of instances of functional blocks in the design, including at least one meta block instance. The plurality of instances of functional blocks are displayed as respective graphical objects and identifiers of two or more implementations for the meta block instance from a meta block library are displayed. In response to designer selection of one implementation from the meta block library, a specification of the selected one implementation for the meta block instance is stored in association with the design. In response to designer selection of a graphical object corresponding to the at least one meta block instance, a designer-editable version of the one implementation is displayed. An updated specification of the one implementation associated with design is stored in response to designer modification of the designer-editable version of the one implementation." The patent application was filed on Sept. 3, 2009 (12/553,726). 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=8,181,149&OS=8,181,149&RS=8,181,149 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Comcast Cable Holdings Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Comcast Cable Holdings, Philadelphia, has been assigned a patent (8,181,215) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for providing video program information or video program content to a user." The co-inventors are Scott Brenner, Superior, Colo., Michael E. Cain, Arvada, Colo., Kenneth L. Hamel, Louisville, Colo., and Joshua D. Staller, Littleton, Colo. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In a system for broadcasting video programs to a user including a display, a system and method for providing program information or a copy of at least a portion of a program to the user. In one embodiment, a controller receives an input signal representing a request for summary information concerning a program, the program having a beginning and the input signal generated at a time during the broadcast. The controller provides via the display a summary of the program from the program beginning to the input signal time in response to the input signal. A controller may alternatively monitor a period of time during which the display is tuned to a broadcast of a program, the period starting during the broadcast. The controller is used to provide via the display a copy of at least a portion of the program when the period exceeds a predetermined threshold time." The patent application was filed on Feb. 12, 2002 (10/074,743). 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=8,181,215&OS=8,181,215&RS=8,181,215 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Time Warner Cable Assigned Patent for Methods and Apparatus for Providing Video on Demand and Network PVR Functions Using IP Streaming ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Time Warner Cable, Stamford, Conn., has been assigned a patent (8,181,209) developed by Charles Hasek, Broomfiled, Colo., and Kenneth Gould, Oakton, Va., for "methods and apparatus for providing video on demand and network PVR functions using IP streaming." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus for supporting on-demand content services, using conventional non-IP based VOD servers are described. The methods and apparatus of the present invention, through the use of a protocol converter and/or a content redirector, can be used to enable a conventional VOD server to supply content to a customer premise equipment (CPE) device which supports IP based content delivery and/or RSTP control of content delivery. The protocol converter of the invention can be implemented as an RTSP-ISA PROXY. The RTSP Proxy converts messages between RTSP (Real-Time Streaming Protocol) to the appropriate ISA protocol signal or another protocol format. The proxy module handles the conversion between these formats and converts a received signal, e.g. message, into the format required by the device which responds by implementing the operation requested by the signal." The patent application was filed on Nov. 21, 2005 (11/284,427). 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=8,181,209&OS=8,181,209&RS=8,181,209 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** zvelo Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- zvelo, Greenwood Village, Colo., has been assigned a patent (8,180,909) developed by four co-inventors for a managed services platform. The co-inventors are Robert Charles Hartman, Aurora, Colo., John Elton Dietrich II, Cary, N.C., Jeffrey James Finn, Englewood, Colo., and Rodney Dean Holm, Evergreen, Colo. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A managed services platform. An applications management server is provided for managing relationships with application service providers and others over a wide area network such as the Internet. The applications management server interfaces with a master database server and the servers of one or more application service providers, or other entities, to facilitate selection and deselection of applications, services, and capabilities that may be available for use by the information technology network of a company." The patent application was filed on Oct. 9, 2007 (11/869,552). 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=8,180,909&OS=8,180,909&RS=8,180,909 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** LSI Assigned Patent for Methods and Apparatus for Interconnecting SAS Devices Using Either Electrical or Optical Transceivers ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- LSI, Milpitas, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,180,935) developed by William K. Petty, Colorado Springs, Colo., Brian A. Day, Colorado Springs, Colo., and Timothy E. Hoglund, Colorado Springs, Colo., for "methods and apparatus for interconnecting SAS devices using either electrical or optical transceivers." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for encoding and/or decoding digital signals representing serial attached SCSI (SAS) out of band (OOB) signals exchanged over an optical communication between two SAS devices. A SAS OOB signal to be transmitted from a first SAS device to a second SAS device is first encoded as a digitally encoded signal representing the analog SAS OOB signal and then transmitted over an optical communication medium to another SAS device. A receiving SAS device coupled to an optical communication medium decodes a received digitally encoded signal to detect a received, encoded SAS OOB signal and processes the received SAS OOB signal when receipt is detected. The digitally encoded signal may comprise an idle word portion and a burst word portion to represent various SAS OOB signals. Further, the digitally encoded signal may be precomputed in a variety of disparity forms and stored in a memory for lookup and retrieval." The patent application was filed on May 22, 2009 (12/470,704). 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=8,180,935&OS=8,180,935&RS=8,180,935 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Raytheon Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Raytheon, Waltham, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,180,982) developed by Lance C. Stack, Aurora, Colo., Gerald E. Kaas, Castle Rock, Colo., and Kevin E. Payne, Aurora, Colo., for an "archival and retrieval of data using linked pages and value compression." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for archiving data comprises storing static information in a header compartment, the static information including one or more pointers. The method further comprises writing updated time stamps to a page compartment for one or more measurand updates, and writing, to a page compartment, a pointer to a data compartment entry. The method further comprises writing measurand data to a data compartment entry." The patent application was filed on Oct. 26, 2007 (11/924,970). 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=8,180,982&OS=8,180,982&RS=8,180,982 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. 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