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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Washington (May 24)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Washington. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Determining Computer System Usage from Logged Events ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,185,353) developed by David J. Armour, Bellevue, Wash., and Jagadeesh Kalki, Redmond, Wash., for "determining computer system usage from logged events." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Described is a technology by which logged events such as in a security event log (e.g., within a defined timeframe) are processed to determine logon times and logoff times, which are then used to determine system usage. Logoff times may correspond to an actual logoff event, a shutdown event, or another login. In one example, logon and logoff times determine the combined times that each user of the system was logged on, e.g., a total session time for each user. Multiple users' times may be combined into a total usage time of all users. Each user's combined session time may be evaluated against the total usage time to determine whether any user is a primary user, e.g., by being logged on more than a threshold percentage of the total usage time. A primary user may be identified, or the system determined to be a shared system without a primary user." The patent application was filed on April 8, 2008 (12/099,155). 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=8,185,353&OS=8,185,353&RS=8,185,353 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,185,355) developed by Suman K. Nath, Redmond, Wash., and Yanif Ahmad, Providence, R.I., for a "slot-cache for caching aggregates of data with different expiry times." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques for collecting and displaying sensor data captured by a spatially and temporally representative sample of sensors requested in a search query are described. The sensors are represented in an index structure (e.g., a data tree) having a plurality of leaf nodes and internal nodes. The leaf nodes are associated with sensors and the internal nodes are allotted with caches having cache slots for storing sensor data with various expiry times. In response to a query, the index structure is leveraged to identify a set of nodes associated with sensors of a user selected spatial region. Sensor data having an expiry time greater than a user specified expiry time is then collected from one or more cache slots of the set of nodes. In this manner, the number of sensors to be probed to collect the sensor data is reduced." The patent application was filed on April 3, 2007 (11/696,027). 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=8,185,355&OS=8,185,355&RS=8,185,355 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Boeing Assigned Patent for Corrosion Detection and Monitoring System ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Boeing, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (8,185,326) developed by Morteza Safai, Seattle, and Gary E. Georgeson, Federal Way, Wash., for a "corrosion detection and monitoring system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus comprises a number of sensors and a computer. The number of sensors is capable of being associated with a location of an object having quantum dots. The number of sensors is capable of sending energy into the location, and the energy is capable of causing a response from the quantum dots. The number of sensors is capable of detecting the response. The computer is coupled to the number of sensors and capable of determining whether corrosion is present in the location using the response detected by the number of sensors." The patent application was filed on Feb. 23, 2009 (12/390,983). 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=8,185,326&OS=8,185,326&RS=8,185,326 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Boeing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Boeing, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (8,185,327) developed by Michael D. Fogarty, Auburn, Wash., and Gary E. Georgeson, Federal Way, Wash., for "monitoring of composite materials." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In a particular system for monitoring of a composite workpiece, at least one ultrasonic testing transducer is mounted to a surface of the composite workpiece and configured to transmit and receive ultrasonic energy to and from the composite workpiece during mechanical loading of the composite workpiece. An ultrasonic pulser/receiver is operatively coupled to the at least one ultrasonic testing transducer. A computing system is operatively coupled to the ultrasonic pulser/receiver. The computing system includes a data acquisition component configured to acquire data from the ultrasonic puller/receiver and a data analysis component configured to analyze the acquired data. The data analysis component may be further configured to analyze the acquired data for initiation of failure of the composite workpiece and/or growth of failure of the composite workpiece. Further, failure of the composite workpiece may include cracking and/or delaminating and/or disbonding." The patent application was filed on Feb. 26, 2010 (12/713,676). 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=8,185,327&OS=8,185,327&RS=8,185,327 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Environment Customization with Extensible Environment-settings Data ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,185,274) developed by Parag Garg, Woodenville, Wash., for an "environment customization with extensible environment-settings data." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Environment customization includes downloading extensible environment-settings data from a data-storage device and adjusting one or more environmental parameters defined by the extensible environment-settings data. The extensible environment-settings data is amended to include previously undefined settings, and the amended extensible environment-settings data is uploaded to the data-storage device." The patent application was filed on March 18, 2008 (12/050,916). 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=8,185,274&OS=8,185,274&RS=8,185,274 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Cardiac Pacemakers Assigned Patent for Arrhythmia Classification and Therapy Selection ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Cardiac Pacemakers, St. Paul, Minn., has been assigned a patent (8,185,195) developed by Jaeho Kim, Redmond, Wash., Joseph Bocek, Redmond, Wash., and Eric G. Lovett, Mendota Heights, Minn., for a "arrhythmia classification and therapy selection." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Different types of cardiac arrhythmia are classified based on the morphology of the arrhythmic beats. Cardiac beats associated with an arrhythmic episode are compared to a plurality of representative beat morphologies, each representative beat morphology characterizing a type of arrhythmia of the heart. An arrhythmic episode may be classified as a particular type of arrhythmia if the morphology of the arrhythmic cardiac beats matches a representative beat morphology characterizing the particular type of arrhythmia. An appropriate therapy for the particular type of arrhythmia may be selected based on the arrhythmia classification. A particular type of arrhythmia may be associated with one or more therapies used to treat the arrhythmia. The therapy used to treat the arrhythmia may comprise a therapy identified as a previously successful therapy." The patent application was filed on Feb. 18, 2010 (12/708,106). 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=8,185,195&OS=8,185,195&RS=8,185,195 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Intensity-based Maps ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,185,137) developed by eight co-inventors for intensity-based maps. The co-inventors are Adam T. Berns, Bellevue, Wash., James E. Allard, Seattle, Nicholas C. Baker, Cupertino, Calif., Todd E. Holmdahl, Redmond, Wash., Oliver R. Roup, Seattle, David H. Sloo, Menlo Park, Calif., Curtis G. Wong, Medina, Wash., and Dawson Yee, Bellevue, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The claimed subject matter relates to a first architecture that can create an intensity map based upon intensity scores, and to a second architecture that can provide intensity scores and can request and receive the intensity map. Intensity scores can relate to an approval or a level of satisfaction of a current location of a user and can be conveniently provided, in some cases with a single keystroke (e.g., 0-9 from a conventional cell phone keypad) by, say, mobile device users. Numerous intensity scores can be received and aggregated to produce an intensity map of a given area or region. Portions of the intensity map can be provided to requesting devices, potentially filtered based upon a variety of criteria. As a result, the intensity map can provide in substantially real-time a visual indication of locations or entities that might be interesting to explore." The patent application was filed on June 25, 2007 (11/767,715). 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=8,185,137&OS=8,185,137&RS=8,185,137 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Smart Interface System for Mobile Communications Devices ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,185,155) developed by four co-inventors for a "smart interface system for mobile communications devices." The co-inventors are Eric Chang, Beijing, David Dehghan, Sammamish, Wash., Stanley Sun, Beijing, and Bin Liu, Beijing. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A universal smart interface and peripheral management system for portable devices such as mobile phones. The smart system includes a connector interface that connects peripherals to a phone and/or personal digital assistant (PDA), through the smart system. The smart system includes a cradle for receiving a cell phone and interfacing the phone to external systems such as peripherals, networks and other systems through a USB hub and other suitable connector interfaces. The peripheral devices to which the smart system can interface include, but are not limited to, large displays (e.g., television), external monitors, input devices such as mice and keyboards, external storage devices, and networks (wired and/or wireless). The smart system also facilitates connectivity to large display systems such as TVs, computer displays and monitors." The patent application was filed on Feb. 12, 2011 (13/026,234). 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=8,185,155&OS=8,185,155&RS=8,185,155 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Boeing Assigned Patent for Automatic Strategic Offset Function ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Boeing, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (8,185,258) developed by four co-inventors for an "automatic strategic offset function." The co-inventors are Michael E. Dey, Seattle, Bradley D. Cornell, Lake Stevens, Wash., Peter D. Gunn, Bellevue, Wash., and Robert J. Myers, Mukilteo, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system may generate a modified flight plan for an aircraft based on an original flight plan. The system may provide an automatic strategic offset function that includes an autoflight system; a sensor system including at least one of a global positioning system, an inertial reference unit, or an air data computer; and a flight management computer. The flight management computer may be operably coupled with the autoflight system and/or the sensor system. The flight management computer may process a flight plan of the vehicle and generate a non-uniform offset value in the vertical and/or lateral orientation between the flight plan and a boundary. The offset value may be used to create an offset flight plan for navigating an aircraft." The patent application was filed on Feb. 26, 2010 (12/713,629). 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=8,185,258&OS=8,185,258&RS=8,185,258 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Harmonic Quantizer Scale ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,184,694) developed by Sridhar Srinivasan, Redmond, Wash., for a harmonic quantizer scale. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A digital media encoder/decoder performs quantization/dequantization based on quantization parameters taken from a harmonic quantizer scale. The harmonic quantizer scale can include a normal portion consisting of quantization parameter values harmonically-related as simple fractions of each other, and a denormal portion of quantizers having a linear or other relation. The encoder/decoder further supports a scaled quantizer mode where quantization is performed based on the quantization parameter as scaled by a fractional value. A compressed domain contrast adjustment is effected by adjusting the quantization parameters in the compressed bitstream, without having to adjust and recode the digital media data in the compressed bitstream." The patent application was filed on Feb. 16, 2007 (11/676,263). 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=8,184,694&OS=8,184,694&RS=8,184,694 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,184,710) developed by Sridhar Srinivasan, Redmond, Wash., Chengjie Tu, Sammamish, Wash., and Shankar Regunathan, Bellevue, Wash., for an "adaptive truncation of transform coefficient data in a transform-based digital media codec." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A block transform-based digital media codec has a signaling scheme and bitstream syntax to flexibly signal that truncation of less significant information bits of transform coefficients coded as an optional layer of the bitstream has been performed adaptively per region or tile of the image." The patent application was filed on June 29, 2007 (11/772,077). 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=8,184,710&OS=8,184,710&RS=8,184,710 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** AT&T Mobility II Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- AT&T Mobility II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,184,560) developed by Venson Shaw, Kirkland, Wash., for "systems and methods for managing PDP contexts in a wireless data communications network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and method are for managing packet data protocol (PDP) contexts in a wireless data communications network. A plurality of real-time applications are prioritized within a single, shared PDP context or allocated a second PDP context based upon priority levels logically assigned to the plurality of applications such that high priority applications are delivered before lower priority applications. Lower priority applications are suspended and interrupted by higher priority applications and are set to resume after the higher priority applications are completed. Priority levels are established by a priority management engine (PME) that may reside in one or more network elements, such as a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Support Node or a network probe system. The priority management engine establishes the priority levels based upon one or more factors including, for example, PDP utilization characteristics at a given time and/or given network location, and/or user preferences." The patent application was filed on Feb. 18, 2010 (12/707,791). 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=8,184,560&OS=8,184,560&RS=8,184,560 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Control Channel Negotiated Intermittent Wireless Communication ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,184,656) developed by six co-inventors for a "control channel negotiated intermittent wireless communication." The co-inventors are Ranveer Chandra, Kirkland, Wash., Christos Gkantsidis, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Ratul Mahajan, Seattle, Antony Ian Taylor Rowstron, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Alastair Wolman, Seattle, and Yongqiang Xiong, Beijing. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A dual mode communication device utilizes a control channel to exploit diversity, history, and context in advance of establishing a broadband data exchange session on a broadband but shorter range wireless data channel, maximizing productive use of such a session. Appropriate diversity for the negotiated session further enhance data transfer, including path diversity, radio technology diversity (e.g., WiMax, Wi-Fi, ultra wideband, Bluetooth), antenna diversity (e.g., MIMO), modulation diversity (e.g., rate selection for 802.11, or symbol length selection to combat multi-path fading), and frequency diversity (e.g., 2.4 GHz versus 5 GHz). Historical information about channel characteristics optimize the selection of channel parameters with respect to the diversity choices. In addition, context information such as location and speed can be used to categorize the historical information that is collected to further optimize channel parameters." The patent application was filed on Oct. 2, 2007 (11/866,092). 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=8,184,656&OS=8,184,656&RS=8,184,656 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** New Jersey Institute of Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,184,627) developed by Nirwan Ansari, Montville, N.J., and Si Yin, Redmond, Wash., for a "point-to-multipoint (P2MP) network resource management." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques for managing resources in a point-to-multipoint (P2MP) network are disclosed. In some examples, a root station is adapted to transmit and receive network packets and leaf stations are adapted to transmit and receive the network packets from the root station. An electrical control system can be adapted to reduce an amount of time for the electrical control system to produce a steady state output and to define a maximum boundary for the output. The electrical control system may include feedback to control the root station based, at least in part, on the output of the electrical control system." The patent application was filed on March 2, 2009 (12/396,039). 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=8,184,627&OS=8,184,627&RS=8,184,627 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Cellular Service with Improved Service Availability ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,185,120) developed by Amer A. Hassan, Kirkland, Wash., Billy R. Anders Jr., Bothell, Wash., and Danny Allen Reed, Redmond, Wash., for a "cellular service with improved service availability." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A cellular communication system in which overload of a base station is averted by offering users the option to communicate using a spectrum outside of the spectrum allocated for cellular communication. Incentives are offered to connect to the base station using the alternative spectrum, which may not support communications at the same rate as could be supported using the spectrum allocated to the base station for cellular communications. Users may be selected to receive an offer to receive incentives based on range to the base station, with users closer to the base station being more likely to receive such an offer. The cellular communications system may be a 3G wireless system and the alternative spectrum may be white space in the digital TV spectrum." The patent application was filed on March 26, 2010 (12/732,705). 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=8,185,120&OS=8,185,120&RS=8,185,120 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (8,185,634) developed by Mark S. Baumback, Seattle, David William Bettis, Seattle, and Jonathan A. Jenkins, Seattle, for "managing resource consolidation configurations." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for monitoring the performance associated with fulfilling resource requests and determining optimizations for improving such performance are provided. A processing device obtains and processes performance information associated with processing a first and second resource request. The processing device uses the processed performance information to determine a consolidation configuration to be associated with a subsequent request for the content corresponding to the first request. In making such a determination, the processing device identifies common embedded resources corresponding to the first and second resource requests and dynamically identifies one or more sets of embedded resources corresponding to the first resource request, each identified set to be consolidated into a single embedded resource for use in responding to the subsequent request. Each of the identified one or more sets of embedded resources includes embedded resources identified in common between the first and second resource requests." The patent application was filed on June 22, 2011 (13/166,460). 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=8,185,634&OS=8,185,634&RS=8,185,634 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Patent Navigation Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Patent Navigation, Woodinville, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,185,133) developed by James A. Billmaier, Woodinville, Wash., David P. Billmaier, Woodinville, Wash., and John M. Kellum, Woodinville, Wash., for a "mobile location and map acquisition." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Providing a map and/or directions to a visitor to a facility may include and/or involve a wireless communication device signaling its presence at a location in a facility, and communicating to the wireless communication device a map of the facility indicating the location. This may include and/or involve communicating to the wireless device directions to and/or from the location to a destination within the facility." The patent application was filed on Aug. 17, 2007 (11/893,867). 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=8,185,133&OS=8,185,133&RS=8,185,133 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,185,635) developed by John S. Holmes, Seattle, David Michael Miller, Redmond, Wash., and Walter Von Koch, Seattle, for a "transport system for instant messaging." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An exemplary method involves creating a master session over a first connection through a server; and creating a virtual channel over the connection, the virtual channel operable to communicate a feature session. The method may involve establishing a direct connection that bypasses the server, and switching communication of the feature session to the direct connection. A system for network communication includes a plurality of transport bridges, each transport bridge corresponding to an active network device configuration, and a switching module operable to choose one of the transport bridges to form a connection between two computing devices based on the active network device configuration." The patent application was filed on April 21, 2008 (12/106,900). 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=8,185,635&OS=8,185,635&RS=8,185,635 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** TeleCommunication Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- TeleCommunication Systems, Annapolis, Md., has been assigned a patent (8,185,087) developed by four co-inventors for an "emergency 911 data messaging." The co-inventors are Donald L. Mitchell Jr., Bellevue, Wash., Yinjun Zhu, Sammamish, Wash., Myron D'Souza, Seattle, and Roger S. Marshall, Auburn, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A data request is generated (e.g., text, email, SMS, multimedia messaging system (MMS), etc.) from a source device. The data request is delivered to a PSAP or other emergency monitoring service location in a useable format. Exemplary useable formats include a canned voice message, delivery to a call center that translates data to voice, text to speech, and text to instant messaging (IM). Additional information and location are staged for use by the PSAP or other monitoring service location." The patent application was filed on Sept. 17, 2008 (12/232,417). 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=8,185,087&OS=8,185,087&RS=8,185,087 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for System and Method for Sharing Information Based on Proximity ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,185,627) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for sharing information based on proximity." The co-inventors are David W. Baumert, Sammamish, Wash., Aaron F. Woodman, Seattle, Flora P. Goldthwaite, Seattle, Jonathan Cluts, Sammamish, Wash., and Pamela J. Heath, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system are provided for facilitating interaction between a device and a device environment. The system may include a detection module for automatically detecting proximity of a participant within the device environment. The system may additionally include a user-configurable authorization module for authorizing the device to adjust a device user interface in a pre-determined manner in response to the detection of the participant. The system may also provide for sharing resources among multiple participating devices, wherein each of the multiple participating devices has a device specific set of application resources. The system may additionally include a configurable resource regulation mechanism for making the device specific application resources from the second participating device available to the first participating device." The patent application was filed on June 29, 2011 (13/172,454). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,185,627&OS=8,185,627&RS=8,185,627 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Clustering Videos by Location ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,184,913) developed by Simon J. Baker, Medina, Wash., Charles Lawrence Zitnick III, Seattle, and Gerhard Florian Schroff, Oxford, United Kingdom, for "clustering videos by location." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Described is a technology in which video shots are clustered based upon the location at which the shots were captured. A global energy function is optimized, including a first term that computes clusters so as to be reasonably dense and well connected, to match the possible shots that are captured at a location, e.g., based on similarity scores between pairs of shots. A second term is a temporal prior that encourages subsequent shots to be placed in the same cluster. The shots may be represented as nodes of a minimum spanning tree having edges with weights that are based on the similarity score between the shots represented by their respective nodes. Agglomerative clustering is performed by selecting pairs of available clusters, merging the pairs and keeping the pair with the lowest cost. Clusters are iteratively merged until a stopping criterion or criteria is met (e.g., only a single cluster remains)." The patent application was filed on April 1, 2009 (12/416,152). 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=8,184,913&OS=8,184,913&RS=8,184,913 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** AT&T Mobility II Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- AT&T Mobility II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,185,628) developed by five co-inventors for an "enhanced policy capabilities for mobile data services." The co-inventors are Q. James Hu, Sammamish, Wash., Douglas Eng, Sammamish, Wash., Terry Figurelle, Redmond, Wash., Michael Britt, Everett, Wash., and Jie McKnight, Redmond, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for a mobile data access network to make policy control and charging decisions based on domain name queries. A mobile device sends a query about a domain name associated with a service a user of the mobile device wishes to engage. The access network carries the domain name query from a mobile device to a domain name server. The access network detects the domain name query and copies the queried domain name. The access network uses the queried domain name to make an incomplete policy decision. The policy decision is incomplete because one or more service data flow filters in the decision lack addresses for providers of the service. The access network detects a response to the domain name query and copies a service provider address from the response. The access network uses the service provider address to complete the policy decision." The patent application was filed on May 7, 2008 (12/116,896). 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=8,185,628&OS=8,185,628&RS=8,185,628 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Flexible Matching with Combinational Similarity ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,184,911) developed by Eyal Ofek, Redmond, Wash., Yanatan Wexler, Redmond, Wash., and Pragyana Mishra, Kirkland, Wash., for a "flexible matching with combinational similarity." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Computer-readable media, systems, and methods for flexible matching with combinational similarity are described. In embodiments, an object image is received, a query image is received, and the query image is compared with the object image. In various embodiments matching information is determined based upon combinational similarity and the matching information is presented to a user. In various embodiments, comparing the query image with the object image includes dividing the object image into agents, creating a gradient histogram for the agents, determining map areas for the query image, creating a gradient histogram for the map areas, and creating a similarity array for each of the agents. Further, in various embodiments, determining matching information includes creating a combinational array by combining the similarity arrays for each agent and determining whether the combinational array includes a peak value." The patent application was filed on April 22, 2011 (13/092,416). 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=8,184,911&OS=8,184,911&RS=8,184,911 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Microphone Array Signal Enhancement ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,184,819) developed by Henrique S. Malvar, Sammamish, Wash., Dinei A. Florencio, Redmond, Wash., and Bradford W. Gillespie, Seattle, for a "microphone array signal enhancement." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method facilitating signal enhancement utilizing an adaptive filter is provided. The invention includes an adaptive filter that filters an input based upon a plurality of adaptive coefficients, the adaptive filter modifying at least one of the adaptive coefficients based on a feedback output. The invention further includes a feedback component that provides the feedback output based, at least in part, upon a non-linear function of the acoustic reverberation reduced output. The invention further provides a noise statistics component that stores noise statistics associated with a noise portion of an input signal and a signal+noise statistics component that stores signal+noise statistics associated with a signal and noise portion of the input signal. The invention further provides a spatial filter that provides an output signal based, at least in part, upon a filtered input signal, the filtering being based, at least in part, upon a weighted error calculation of the noise statistics and the signal+noise statistics." The patent application was filed on Dec. 29, 2005 (11/321,954). 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=8,184,819&OS=8,184,819&RS=8,184,819 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. -1088023 (c) 2012 Targeted News Service |