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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Minnesota (May 23)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Minnesota. *** Unisys Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Unisys, Blue Bell, Pa., has been assigned a patent (8,185,542) developed by four co-inventors for a stored procedure interface. The co-inventors are Tadd E. Vanyo, New Brighton, Minn., Craig D. Hanson, St. Paul, Minn., Neil A. Lambert, Ham Lake, Minn., and Michael F. Parenteau, Roseville, Minn. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus for and method of utilizing an Internet terminal coupled to the world wide web to access a legacy data base management system having a dialog-based request format to prepare, modify, and execute stored procedures. The user request is passed to the legacy data base management system via the Internet. The command type is determined whereby list, parameter, column, and execute commands are defined. In response to the user request, the scripted procedure is accessed, prepared, modified, or executed, as appropriate. Invalid and/or undefined requests result in an error response. Valid and defined requests result in performance of the requested command and transfer of an appropriate response to the user terminal." The patent application was filed on May 19, 2004 (10/849,511). 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=8,185,542&OS=8,185,542&RS=8,185,542 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Ordering Query Results Based on Value Range Filtering ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,185,525) developed by Richard D. Dettinger, Rochester, Minn., Daniel P. Kolz, Rochester, Minn., and Frederick A. Kulack, Rochester, Minn., for "ordering query results based on value range filtering." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system, method and article of manufacture for managing query results and, more particularly, for sorting data records contained in a query result obtained in response to execution of a query against a database. In one embodiment, the data records in the query result are sorted on the basis of related information which is retrieved from a corresponding data source. In another embodiment, the sorting is performed on the basis of a value variance which is determined for each of the data records in the query result. In still another embodiment, the sorting is performed on the basis of a requested value range coverage. In yet another embodiment, the sorting is performed on the basis of suitability scores which are determined with respect to analysis routines which are configured for processing the query result." The patent application was filed on March 4, 2008 (12/041,768). 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=8,185,525&OS=8,185,525&RS=8,185,525 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Facebook Assigned Patent for System, Process and Software Arrangement for Providing Multidimensional Recommendations/Suggestions ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Facebook, Menlo Park, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,185,487) developed by Alexander Tuzhilin, New York, and Gediminas Adomavicius, Minneapolis, for a "system, process and software arrangement for providing multidimensional recommendations/suggestions." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A process, system and computer software are rovided to facilitate at least one recommendation to one or more users (420) and/or one or more applications (430) using multidimensional data (410). In particular, the multidimensional data (410) which define a multidimensional space (400) is accessed. The multidimensional space (400) can have more than two dimensions, each capable of providing variable information. Then, information from the multidimensional space is retrieved. Further, the recommendation is generated based on the retrieved information. In addition, it is possible to generate a recommendation-specific query (440). This can be performed by generating the recommendation-specific query (440) to access a multidimensional cube and retrieve data stored therein. Then, the recommendation can be issued based on the data retrieved from the multidimensional cube." The patent application was filed on Feb. 12, 2002 (10/468,509). 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=8,185,487&OS=8,185,487&RS=8,185,487 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Digital Rights Management System Protecting Consumer Privacy ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,185,476) developed by Bin Benjamin Zhu, Edina, Minn., and Min Feng, Beijing, for a "digital rights management system protecting consumer privacy." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Technologies for a Consumer Privacy Digital Rights Management system based on stable partially blind signatures that enable a license server to provide licenses for delivery to users without knowing the corresponding digital contents that users access with the license. Therefore consumer privacy is protected during license acquisition. Further, if the client DRM module in the DRM system does not disclose any information about a user's digital content access, and the messages that the client DRM module sends out are in plain text enabling verification that the client DRM module is not disclosing such information, then consumer privacy is fully protected by the DRM system." The patent application was filed on Jan. 7, 2008 (11/970,161). 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=8,185,476&OS=8,185,476&RS=8,185,476 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** DexCom Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- DexCom, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (RE43,399) developed by four co-inventors for "electrode systems for electrochemical sensors." The co-inventors are Peter C. Simpson, Encinitas, Calif., James R. Petisce, San Clemente, Calif., Victoria E. Carr-Brendel, Edina, Minn., and James H. Brauker, Addison, Mich. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention relates generally to systems and methods for improved electrochemical measurement of analytes. The preferred embodiments employ electrode systems including an analyte-measuring electrode for measuring the analyte or the product of an enzyme reaction with the analyte and an auxiliary electrode configured to generate oxygen and/or reduce electrochemical interferants. Oxygen generation by the auxiliary electrode advantageously improves oxygen availability to the enzyme and/or counter electrode; thereby enabling the electrochemical sensors of the preferred embodiments to function even during ischemic conditions. Interferant modification by the auxiliary electrode advantageously renders them substantially non-reactive at the analyte-measuring electrode, thereby reducing or eliminating inaccuracies in the analyte signal due to electrochemical interferants." The patent application was filed on June 13, 2008 (12/139,305). 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=RE43,399&OS=RE43,399&RS=RE43,399 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** McAfee Assigned Patent for Adjusting Filter or Classification Control Settings ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- McAfee, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,185,930) developed by four co-inventors for "adjusting filter or classification control settings." The co-inventors are Dmitri Alperovitch, Atlanta, Paula Greve, Lino Lakes, Minn., Sven Krasser, Atlanta, and Tomo Foote-Lennox, Maple Grove, Minn. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for adjusting control settings associated with filtering or classifying communications to a computer or a network. The adjustment of the control settings can include adjustment of policy and/or security settings associated with the computer or network. Ranges associated with the control settings can also be provided in some implementations." The patent application was filed on Nov. 6, 2007 (11/935,756). 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=8,185,930&OS=8,185,930&RS=8,185,930 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Performing Minimization of Input Count During Structural Netlist Overapproximation ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,185,852) developed by four co-inventors for a "performing minimization of input count during structural netlist overapproximation." The co-inventors are Jason R. Baumgartner, Austin, Texas, Robert L. Kanzelman, Rochester, Minn., Hari Mony, Austin, Texas, and Viresh Paruthi, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for performing verification is disclosed. The method includes selecting a set of gates to add to a first localization netlist and forming a refinement netlist. A min-cut is computed with sinks having one or more gates in the refinement netlist and sources comprising one or more inputs of an original netlist and one or more registers registers of the original netlist which are not part of the refinement netlist. A final localized netlist is obtained by adding one or more gates to the refinement netlist to grow the refinement netlist until reaching one or more cut-gates of the min-cut." The patent application was filed on March 13, 2008 (12/047,361). 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=8,185,852&OS=8,185,852&RS=8,185,852 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Parsing an Application to Find Serial and Parallel Data Segments to Minimize Migration Overhead Between Serial and Parallel Compute Nodes ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,185,901) developed by four co-inventors for a "parsing an application to find serial and parallel data segments to minimize migration overhead between serial and parallel compute nodes." The co-inventors are Eric L. Barsness, Pine Island, Minn., David L. Darrington, Rochester, Minn., Amanda Peters, Rochester, Minn., and John M. Santosuosso, Rochester, Minn. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for executing an application on a parallel computer having a plurality of nodes. Executing an application on a parallel computer includes: booting up a first subset of a plurality of nodes in a serial processing mode; booting up a second subset of the plurality of nodes in a parallel processing mode; profiling, prior to application execution, an application to identify serial segments of the application, parallel segments of the application, and application data utilized by each of the serial segments and the parallel segments; and executing the application on the plurality of nodes, including migrating, in dependence upon the profile for the application upon encountering the parallel segments during execution, only specific portions of the application and the application data from the nodes booted up in the serial processing mode to the nodes booted up in the parallel processing mode." The patent application was filed on April 24, 2008 (12/109,267). 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=8,185,901&OS=8,185,901&RS=8,185,901 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** BoundaryMedical Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- BoundaryMedical, Brentwood, Tenn., has been assigned a patent (8,185,409) developed by Matt D. Putnam, Edina, Minn., and Mark G. Smith, Edina, Minn., for a "method and apparatus for operative event documentation and related data management." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, method and apparatus are disclosed which provide that a plurality of physicians each enter operative event data into an operative event database, wherein the operative event data documents planned or completed operative events and the physicians enter the operative event data use a wide area network through a user interface assisting the physicians in coding operative events in a consistent manner. The physicians access the operative event database to obtain information concerning upcoming or previously performed operative events, with a service provider maintaining an on-line system including one or more servers to support the entering of operative event data into the database through the Internet and the user interface. Further, the physicians subscribe to the on-line system wherein the physicians are allowed access and use the on-line system, and wherein the physicians retain control over the use and disposition of the operative event data entered by the physician." The patent application was filed on Jan. 30, 2008 (12/022,719). 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=8,185,409.PN.&OS=PN/8,185,409&RS=PN/8,185,409 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Visually Marking Failed Components ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,185,780) developed by Michael G. Brinkman, Durham, N.C., and Nathan C. Skalsky, Rochester, Minn., for a "visually marking failed components." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, apparatus, and products for visually marking computing components within a computing system are disclosed that include: detecting that a particular computing component has failed, wherein the particular computing component has a physical surface that may be altered with the application of some physical stimulus; and applying a requisite physical stimulus to the physical surface such that the appearance of the physical service is altered, thereby visually identifying that the component has failed." The patent application was filed on May 4, 2010 (12/773,438). 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=8,185,780&OS=8,185,780&RS=8,185,780 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Using End-to-end Credit Flow Control to Reduce Number of Virtual Lanes Implemented at Link and Switch Layers ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,185,662) developed by Kenneth Michael Valk, Rochester, Minn., for "using end-to-end credit flow control to reduce number of virtual lanes implemented at link and switch layers." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and circuit for implementing enhanced transport layer flow control, and a design structure on which the subject circuit resides are provided. The transport layer provides multiple virtual lanes to application layers, and provides buffering and credit control for the multiple virtual lanes. A source transport layer sends a credit request message to a destination transport layer for an outstanding packets transmission. The packets are sent only responsive to the credit request being granted by the destination transport layer. Respective switch and link layer are constructed to support only a single virtual lane, regardless of how many virtual lanes are supported at the application and transport layers. As a result, the routing, buffering, and flow control at the respective switch and link layer are simplified." The patent application was filed on March 8, 2010 (12/719,214). 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=8,185,662&OS=8,185,662&RS=8,185,662 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. For more information about Targeted News Service products and services, please contact: Myron Struck, editor, Targeted News Service LLC, Springfield, Va., 703/304-1897; [email protected]; http://targetednews.com. -1087887 (c) 2012 Targeted News Service |