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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in New Jersey (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 New Jersey. *** Google Assigned Patent for Messaging Application with Multiple Viewports for Presenting Messages in Different Orders ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,185,492) developed by Eric B. Mayers, Hayward, Calif., and Douglas T. Hudson, Toms River, N.J., for "messaging application with multiple viewports for presenting messages in different orders." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In a method for displaying messages, a system displays messages from a single user account in multiple viewports. Each viewport orders messages based on an importance score that is calculated based on the user's prior interactions with messages in his user account through that viewport. Each viewport associated with the user account orders messages using a distinct message importance model." The patent application was filed on Aug. 14, 2008 (12/192,055). 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=8,185,492&OS=8,185,492&RS=8,185,492 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Intertrust Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Intertrust Technologies, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,185,478) developed by Binyamin Pinkas, Jersey City, N.J., Tomas Sander, New York, and William G. Home, Lawrenceville, N.J., for "systems and methods for conducting transactions and communications using a trusted third party." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods are provided for managing the transfer of electronic files. In one embodiment, a sender transfers an encrypted version of a file (such as a digitally encoded audio track, movie, document, or the like) to someone who wishes to receive it. The receiver computes a hash of the encrypted file, and sends it to a trusted third party. The trusted third party compares the hash that was computed by the receiver with another hash computed by the sender. If the two hashes match, the third party sends the file decryption key to the receiver. In some embodiments, the receiver may also send the third party payment information so that the sender, the content owner, and/or the third party can be paid for their role in the transaction. In a preferred embodiment, the payment information is only sent to, and/or used by, the third party once the third party has confirmed to the satisfaction of the receiver that the encrypted file in the receiver's possession will decrypt correctly. In some embodiments, the sender computes a hash of the encrypted version of the file and sends it directly to the third party. In other embodiments, the sender encrypts this hash using a key associated with the third party and sends the encrypted hash to the receiver, who then forwards it to the third party." The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2010 (12/895,510). 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=8,185,478&OS=8,185,478&RS=8,185,478 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** MarketAxess Holdings Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- MarketAxess Holdings, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,185,465) developed by Richard J. Schiffman, Tenafly, N.J., Brijesh Agarwal, Glen Ridge, N.J., and Rachel Moseley, Scarsdale, N.Y., for a "method and system for computer-implemented trading of secondary market debt securities." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer-implemented method and system for trading of debt securities (bonds), where multiple dealers participate and compete on a single platform (100). Dealers and investors have respective interfaces (250, 230) for communicating. In one aspect, dealers announce new debt security issues (400), the investors communicate an indication of interest (IOI) (500) in purchasing the new debt security issues, and the issues are allocated to the investors. In another aspect, issues from multiple dealers are made available to investors on a secondary trading market in a searchable format (1000). In response to price inquires sent by the investors (1200), the dealers provide offers (1300) which are briefly held and released to the investor concurrently to allow the investor to consider all offers together. In another aspect, the dealers post bid and offer terms for actively traded issues (1700) that are updated in real-time to avoid the need for the inquiry procedure." The patent application was filed on Sept. 8, 2009 (12/555,110). 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=8,185,465&OS=8,185,465&RS=8,185,465 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Equilend Holdings Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Equilend Holdings, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,185,466) developed by twenty eight co-inventors for a "system and method for securities borrowing and lending." The co-inventors are John Martinez, Kensington, Calif., Judith Robertson, Toronto, Brian Lamb, New York, Jamie Solomon, Wilder, Ky., Jeff Mehlman, North Andover, Mass., Michael A. Vardas, Burr Ridge, Ill., Sandra Linn, LaGrange, Ill., Bill O'Meara, Chicago, Pat Cestaro, Muttontown, N.Y., Kurtis Kreider, Eldred, N.Y., Ramaz Ashurov, Brooklyn, N.Y., Gary Klahr, West Orange, N.J., Andrew Monkhouse, Orpington, United Kingdom, Igor Modlin, Jersey City, N.J., Keith Babitt, Scarsdale, N.Y., George Payne, Hoboken, N.J., Anthony Strazza, Staten Island, N.Y., Christine Doria, Rye Brook, N.Y., John McKenzie, Cranbury, N.J., Anthony Schiavo, Holmdel, N.J., Michael Robertson, Cortlandt Manor, N.Y., Brian McLoone, Marshfield, Mass., Graham Sida, Cohasset, Mass., Leigh A. Weston, Sharon, Mass., Marcus Butt, Zollikon, Switzerland, Ian Strafford-Taylor, London, Andy Kollegger, Melen, Switzerland, and Dirk Pruis, Grand Rapids, Mich. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed is a an electronic system for equities securities lending and financing. In particular, the disclosed system provides a hub for electronic financial transactions such as securities borrowing and lending and facilitates the ability of borrowers and lenders to locate suitable counterparties and engage in direct negotiations in a securities lending transaction." The patent application was filed on June 16, 2003 (10/461,866). 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=8,185,466&OS=8,185,466&RS=8,185,466 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** NEC Laboratories America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,185,875) developed by four co-inventors for a "fast and accurate static data-race detection for concurrent programs." The co-inventors are Vineet Kahlon, Princeton, N.J., Yu Yang, Salt Lake City, Sriram Sankaranarayanan, Plainsboro, N.J., and Aarti Gupta, Princeton, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for race warning generation for computer program verification includes determining shared variables and determining context-sensitive points-to sets for lock pointers by focusing on pointers that may affect aliases of lock pointers, and by leveraging function summarization. Locksets are determined at locations where shared variables are accessed using the points-to sets for lock pointers. Warnings are based on disjointness of locksets." The patent application was filed on Dec. 12, 2007 (11/954,869). 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=8,185,875&OS=8,185,875&RS=8,185,875 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent for System and Method for Isolating and Processing Common Dialog Cues ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,185,400) developed by Vincent J. Goffin, Summit, N.J., and Sarangarajan Parthasarathy, New Providence, N.J., for a "system and method for isolating and processing common dialog cues." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system and machine-readable medium are provided. Speech input is received at a speech recognition component and recognized output is produced. A common dialog cue from the received speech input or input from a second source is recognized. An action is performed corresponding to the recognized common dialog cue. The performed action includes sending a communication from the speech recognition component to the speech generation component while bypassing a dialog component." The patent application was filed on Oct. 7, 2005 (11/246,604). 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=8,185,400.PN.&OS=PN/8,185,400&RS=PN/8,185,400 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent for Automated Sentence Planning in a Task Classification System ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,185,401) developed by Marilyn A. Walker, Morristown, N.J., Owen Christopher Rambow, Hoboken, N.J., and Monica Rogati, Pittsburgh, for an "automated sentence planning in a task classification system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The invention relates to a system that interacts with a user in an automated dialog system (100). The system may include a communicative goal generator (210) that generates communicative goals based on a first communication received from the user. The generated communicative goals (210) may be related to information needed to be obtained from the user. The system may further include a sentence planning unit (220) that automatically plans one or more sentences based on the communicative goals generated by the communicative goal generator (210). At least one of the planned sentences may be then output to the user (230)." The patent application was filed on May 28, 2010 (12/789,883). 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=8,185,401.PN.&OS=PN/8,185,401&RS=PN/8,185,401 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent for System and Method of Providing an Automated Data-collection in Spoken Dialog Systems ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,185,399) developed by five co-inventors for a "system and method of providing an automated data-collection in spoken dialog systems." The co-inventors are Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Florham Park, N.J., Dilek Z. Hakkani-Tur, Denville, N.J., Mazin G. Rahim, Warren, N.J., Bernard S. Renger, New Providence, N.J., and Gokhan Tur, Denville, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The invention relates to a system and method for gathering data for use in a spoken dialog system. An aspect of the invention is generally referred to as an automated hidden human that performs data collection automatically at the beginning of a conversation with a user in a spoken dialog system. The method comprises presenting an initial prompt to a user, recognizing a received user utterance using an automatic speech recognition engine and classifying the recognized user utterance using a spoken language understanding module. If the recognized user utterance is not understood or classifiable to a predetermined acceptance threshold, then the method re-prompts the user. If the recognized user utterance is not classifiable to a predetermined rejection threshold, then the method transfers the user to a human as this may imply a task-specific utterance. The received and classified user utterance is then used for training the spoken dialog system." The patent application was filed on Jan. 5, 2005 (11/029,798). 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=8,185,399.PN.&OS=PN/8,185,399&RS=PN/8,185,399 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Performing Packet Loss or Frame Erasure Concealment ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,185,386) developed by David A. Kapilow, Berkeley Heights, N.J., for a "method and apparatus for performing packet loss or frame erasure concealment." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for performing packet loss or Frame Erasure Concealment (FEC) for a speech coder receives encoded frames of compressed speech information transmitted from an encoder. The method determines whether an encoded frame has been lost, corrupted in transmission, or erased, synthesizes properly received frames, and decides on an overlap-add window to use in combining a portion of the synthesized speech signal with a subsequent speech signal resulting from a received and decoded packet, where the size of the overlap-add window is based on the unavailability of packets. If it is determined that an encoded frame has been lost, corrupted in transmission, or erased, the method performed an overlap-add operation on the portion of the synthesized speech signal and the subsequent speech signal, using the decided-on overlap-add window." The patent application was filed on July 2, 2010 (12/829,586). 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=8,185,386.PN.&OS=PN/8,185,386&RS=PN/8,185,386 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Siemens Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Siemens, Iselin, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,185,362) developed by four co-inventors for an "integration of fast feedback into systems configuration." The co-inventors are Gilberto Augusto Matos, Plainsboro, N.J., Bradley Wehrwein, Princeton, N.J., Rajanikanth Tanikella, Princeton, N.J., and Franz Spanfelner, Moosburg, Germany. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A configuration operation set for configuring a system element is tested by simulating execution of the control operation set with simulation sample test data. The configuration operation set is received via a configuration user interface in a configuration view. Simulation sample test data is received via a simulation user interface in a simulation view. The configuration view and the simulation view may be simultaneously viewed on a display. In a single session, a control operation set may be received, simulation sample test data may be received, a simulation may be run, and the results of the simulation may be viewed. If the results of the simulation agree with expected results, the control operation set may be saved, and executed in the system element of interest. If the results of the simulation do not agree with the expected results, the control operation set may be cancelled." The patent application was filed on March 28, 2008 (12/079,693). 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=8,185,362.PN.&OS=PN/8,185,362&RS=PN/8,185,362 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Educational Testing Service Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Educational Testing Service, Princeton, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,185,378) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and system for determining text coherence." The co-inventors are Jill Burstein, Princeton, N.J., Derrick Higgins, Highland Park, N.J., Claudia Gentile, Ewing, N.J., and Daniel Marcu, Hermosa Beach, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for determining text coherence in an essay is disclosed. A method of evaluating the coherence of an essay includes receiving an essay having one or more discourse elements and text segments. The one or more discourse elements are annotated either manually or automatically. A text segment vector is generated for each text segment in a discourse element using sparse random indexing vectors. The method or system then identifies one or more essay dimensions and measures the semantic similarity of each text segment based on the essay dimensions. Finally, a coherence level is assigned to the essay based on the measured semantic similarities." The patent application was filed on May 10, 2010 (12/776,827). 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=8,185,378.PN.&OS=PN/8,185,378&RS=PN/8,185,378 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Household Life Insurance Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Household Life Insurance, Jersey City, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,185,743) developed by six co-inventors for "systems and methods for application locking using an internal and external checksum." The co-inventors are Paul A. Goott, Bridgewater, N.J., Alan Socolow, Toms River, N.J., Shree Verma, Dayton, N.J., Cheryl Neal, Pennington, N.J., Zeba Hyder, New York, and Michael J. Hemingway, South Bound Brook, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for locking an application are described. A method includes receiving, over a communication network from a remote applicant, a signature for an application. The signature includes a date and time, an indication of agreement to the terms of the application, and verification information personal to the applicant and capable of confirming the applicant's identity. Based on the application and signature an internal checksum can be generated. The internal checksum is sent to a third party for generation of a second, external checksum. The external checksum is based on the internal checksum and the date and time the external checksum was generated. The internal and external checksums are associated with the application and then stored along with the application and signature." The patent application was filed on Aug. 8, 2008 (12/188,877). 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=8,185,743.PN.&OS=PN/8,185,743&RS=PN/8,185,743 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** NEC Laboratories America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,185,796) developed by Ivan B. Djordjevic, Tucson, Ariz., Lei Xu, Princeton, N.J., and Ting Wang, West Windsor, N.J., for a "mitigation of fiber nonlinearities in multilevel coded-modulation schemes." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A receiver and method are provided for mitigation of finer non-linearities in multilevel coded-modulation schemes. The receiver includes a multilevel Bahl-Cocke-Jelinek-Raviv (BCJR) equalizer configured to receive channel samples of an input signal, partially mitigate fiber non-linearities, and provide symbol reliabilities. The receiver further includes a bit probabilities module coupled to the BCJR equalizer configured to calculate soft bit reliabilities from the symbol reliabilities. The receiver also includes one or more low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoders coupled to the bit probabilities module and the BCJR equalizer, configured to receive the soft bit reliabilities and output code words. The one or more LDPC decoders iteratively provide extrinsic soft information feedback to the BCJR equalizer to compensate for the fiber non-linearities." The patent application was filed on Feb. 25, 2009 (12/392,335). 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=8,185,796&OS=8,185,796&RS=8,185,796 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** NEC Laboratories America Assigned Patent for Invariants-based Learning Method and System for Failure Diagnosis in Large Scale Computing Systems ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,185,781) developed by four co-inventors for "invariants-based learning method and system for failure diagnosis in large scale computing systems." The co-inventors are Haifeng Chen, Old Bridge, N.J., Guofei Jiang, Princeton, N.J., Kenji Yoshihira, Princeton Junction, N.J., and Akhilesh Saxena, Morristown, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method system for diagnosing a detected failure in a computer system, compares a failure signature of the detected failure to an archived failure signature contained in a database to determine if the archived failure signature matches the failure signature of the detected failure. If the archived failure signature matches the failure signature of the detected failure, an archived solution is applied to the computer system that resolves the detected failure, the archived solution corresponding to a solution used to resolve a previously detected computer system failure corresponding to the archived failure signature in the database that matches the detected failure." The patent application was filed on April 5, 2010 (12/754,572). 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=8,185,781&OS=8,185,781&RS=8,185,781 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent for Maximizing Diversity in a Subset of Elements Utilizing GRASP with Path Relinking ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,185,655) developed by four co-inventors for "maximizing diversity in a subset of elements utilizing GRASP with path relinking." The co-inventors are Mauricio Guilherme de Carvalho Resende, Holmdel, N.J., Abraham Duarte, Madrid, Saudi Arabia, Micael Gallego, Torrijos, Spain, and Rafael Marti, Valencia, Spain. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for maximizing diversity in a subset of elements selected from a set of elements are provided. An algorithm that combines the GRASP and path relinking heuristics is utilized to find an approximate solution to a max-min diversity problem modeled from the set of elements. The GRASP heuristic is applied to the set of elements for a number of iterations to generate a set of feasible solutions, and a best solution is determined from the set. The path relinking heuristic is then applied between a pair of solutions in the set of feasible solutions to generate a candidate solution. If the candidate solution is better than the best solution, then the best solution is replaced with the candidate solution, and the process is repeated until the path relinking heuristic has been applied between each pair of solutions in the set of feasible solutions." The patent application was filed on Dec. 3, 2008 (12/327,566). 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=8,185,655&OS=8,185,655&RS=8,185,655 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. -1087893 (c) 2012 Targeted News Service |