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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Colorado (Aug. 8)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 8 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Colorado. *** Aurora Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 8 -- Aurora Networks, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,239,907) developed by Oleh Sniezko, Highlands Ranch, Colo., Thomas Fong, Redwood Shores, Ga., and Vladimir Bronstein, Sunnyvale, Calif., for "methods and systems for delivering DOCSIS services over heterogeneous access networks." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Inserting protocol adaptation layers into access equipment to translate data over cable service interface specification services control messages to the corresponding messages in the other (multiple) heterogeneous access specification(s) includes AMTS DOCSIS-to-access protocol translation and AMTS access-to-DOCSIS protocol translation. A method of expanding DOCSIS into an alternative access network includes deploying a protocol adaptation layer in access equipment to translate DOCSIS control messages to corresponding messages for use in the alternative access network. Translating DOCSIS control messages to corresponding messages for use in the alternative access network includes AMTS DOCSIS-to-access protocol translation and AMTS access-to-DOCSIS protocol translation." The patent application was filed on April 14, 2008 (12/148,140). 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=8,239,907&OS=8,239,907&RS=8,239,907 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Echostar Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 8 -- Echostar Technologies, Englewood, Colo., has been assigned a patent (8,239,890) developed by Christopher Kooman, Englewood, Colo., for "systems and methods for authorizing access to content for a television receiver." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Described herein are techniques for transferring content authorization information between television receivers. Authorization information for content and features associated with a television receiver is securely stored on a portable storage device. The portable storage device may be moved and connected to a different television receiver in order to transfer the authorization information to the different television receiver. The other television receiver accesses information on the portable storage device and allows the user to access the content and features that are authorized on the home television receiver." The patent application was filed on Nov. 3, 2009 (12/611,699). 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=8,239,890&OS=8,239,890&RS=8,239,890 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Spansion Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 8 -- Spansion, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,239,875) developed by Walter Allen, Wellington, Colo., Sunil Atri, Austin, Texas, and Joseph Khatami, Austin, Texas, for a "command queuing for next operations of memory devices." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and/or methods that facilitate transferring data between a processor component and memory components are presented. A transfer controller component facilitates controlling data transfers in part by receiving respective subsets of data from respective memory components and arranging the respective subsets of data based in part on a desired predefined data order. The processor component generates a transfer map that includes information to facilitate arranging data in a predefined order. The processor component generates respective subsets of commands that are provided to queue components in respective memory components to retrieve desired data from the respective memory components. Each memory component services the commands in its queue component in an independent and parallel manner, and transfers the data retrieved from memory to the transfer controller component, which can arrange the received data in a predefined order for transfer to the processor component." The patent application was filed on Dec. 21, 2007 (11/962,918). 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=8,239,875&OS=8,239,875&RS=8,239,875 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Fusion-io Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 8 -- Fusion-io, Salt Lake City, has been assigned a patent (8,239,714) developed by seven co-inventors for an "apparatus, system, and method for bad block remapping." The co-inventors are David Flynn, Sandy, Utah, John Strasser, Syracuse, Utah, John Thatcher, Liberty Lake, Utah, David Atkisson, Draper, Utah, Michael Zappe, Arvada, Colo., Joshua Aune, South Jordan, Utah, and Kevin Vigor, Salt Lake City. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for bad block remapping. A bad block identifier module identifies one or more data blocks on a solid-state storage element as bad blocks. A log update module writes at least a location of each bad block identified by the bad block identifier module into each of two or more redundant bad block logs. A bad block mapping module accesses at least one bad block log during a start-up operation to create in memory a bad block map. The bad block map includes a mapping between the bad block locations in the bad block log and a corresponding location of a replacement block for each bad block location. Data is stored in each replacement block instead of the corresponding bad block. The bad block mapping module creates the bad block map using one of a replacement block location and a bad block mapping algorithm." The patent application was filed on Nov. 15, 2011 (13/297,076). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.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=82,39,714.PN.&OS=PN/82,39,714&RS=PN/82,39,714 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Zoot Enterprises Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 8 -- Zoot Enterprises, Bozeman, Mont., has been assigned a patent (8,239,757) developed by Thomas H. Johnson, Bozeman, Mont., Peter A. Quinlan, Colorado Springs, Colo., and Kevin R. Fletcher, Belgrade, Mont., for a "system and method for creating and modifying test data files." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for creating and modifying test data files. The system comprises a parse map editor and a test data file editor, wherein parse maps are created and edited in the parse map editor, wherein the system parses incoming data files based on the parse maps that are created in the parse map editor, wherein each incoming data file is matched to a parse map, wherein the parsed data files are sent to the test data file editor, and wherein the test data file editor allows a user to view and edit the parsed data files. The method comprises parsing an incoming data file with a parse map, creating and/or editing the parse map in a parse map editor, and viewing and/or editing the parsed data file in a test data file editor." The patent application was filed on June 14, 2006 (11/916,268). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.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=82,39,757.PN.&OS=PN/82,39,757&RS=PN/82,39,757 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** LSI Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods for Power Dissipation Control in a Semiconductor Device ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 8 -- LSI, Milpitas, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,239,700) developed by George Nation, Rochester, Minn., Jon W. Byrn, Fort Collins, Colo., and Gary Delp, Rochester, Minn., for "systems and methods for power dissipation control in a semiconductor device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for governing power dissipation in a semiconductor device. For example, various embodiments of the present invention provide semiconductor devices that include a first function circuit, a second function circuit, and a power state change control circuit. The power state change control circuit is operable to determine a combination of power states of the first function circuit and the second function circuit that provides an overall power dissipation within a power dissipation level." The patent application was filed on April 17, 2009 (12/425,532). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.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=82,39,700.PN.&OS=PN/82,39,700&RS=PN/82,39,700 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Intrusion Detection Using a Network Processor and a Parallel Pattern Detection Engine ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 8 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,239,945) developed by eight co-inventors for an "intrusion detection using a network processor and a parallel pattern detection engine." The co-inventors are Marc A. Boulanger, Colorado Springs, Colo., Clark D. Jeffries, Durham, N.C., C. Marcel Kinard, Cary, N.C., Kerry A. Kravec, Fishkill, N.Y., Ravinder K. Sabhikhi, Cary, N.C., Ali G. Saidi, Ann Arbor, Mich., Jan M. Slyfield, San Jose, Calif., and Pascal R. Tannhof, Fontainebleau, France. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An intrusion detection system (IDS) comprises a network processor (NP) coupled to a memory unit for storing programs and data. The NP is also coupled to one or more parallel pattern detection engines (PPDE) which provide high speed parallel detection of patterns in an input data stream. Each PPDE comprises many processing units (PUs) each designed to store intrusion signatures as a sequence of data with selected operation codes. The PUs have configuration registers for selecting modes of pattern recognition. Each PU compares a byte at each clock cycle. If a sequence of bytes from the input pattern match a stored pattern, the identification of the PU detecting the pattern is outputted with any applicable comparison data. By storing intrusion signatures in many parallel PUs, the IDS can process network data at the NP processing speed. PUs may be cascaded to increase intrusion coverage or to detect long intrusion signatures." The patent application was filed on Dec. 14, 2008 (12/334,481). 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=8,239,945&OS=8,239,945&RS=8,239,945 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** LSI Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 8 -- LSI, Milpitas, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,239,701) developed by Brian A. Day, Colorado Springs, Colo., and Brad D. Besmer, Colorado Springs, Colo., for "methods and apparatus for power allocation in a storage system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for improved management of power allocation among a plurality of devices coupled to a controller. The controller and devices exchange messages to request, grant, and release allocations of power from a common power supply. In some embodiments, the controller may be a SAS/SATA controller and the messages exchanged may be SAS/SATA frames and/or primitives. In exemplary embodiments, the messages may request/grant a particular amount of power for each of one or more voltage levels provided by the power supply. In other exemplary embodiments, the messages may designate the duration of time during which the requesting device may utilize the allocated power. A power status message from the device to the controller may indicate a change in the power consumption by the device. Responsive to the power status message the controller may re-allocate power previously allocated to a device that has completed use thereof." The patent application was filed on July 28, 2009 (12/510,699). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.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=82,39,701.PN.&OS=PN/82,39,701&RS=PN/82,39,701 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Enterprise Information Management Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 8 -- Enterprise Information Management, Colorado Springs, Colo., has been assigned a patent (8,239,917) developed by six co-inventors for "systems and methods for enterprise security with collaborative peer to peer architecture." The co-inventors are Frank J. Hammond II, Palmer Lake, Colo., Frank J. Ricotta Jr., Colorado Springs, Colo., Hans Michael Dykstra, Monument, Colo., Blake Andrew Williams, Colorado Springs, Colo., Steven James Carlander, Monument, Colo., and Sarah Williams Gerber, Colorado Springs, Colo. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods authenticate a device to operate within an enterprise system with an enterprise policy. An agent, installed on the device, analyzes the device to determine profile information of the device. The determined profile information is sent to a type 2 super peer that verifies whether the profile information conforms to the enterprise policy. If the profile information conforms to the enterprise policy, an agent trust credential is generated, within the type 2 super peer, for the agent, based upon the profile information, and issued to the agent. Authenticity of the device is verified based upon the agent trust credential. If the device is authenticated, communications with the device are permitted. If the device is not authenticated, communications with the device is prevented. In another embodiment, a method restores a device to conform to a system policy. A snapshot of critical components of the device is taken while the device is in compliance with the system policy. The critical components are monitored to identify critical components that differ from the critical components of the snapshot. If differing critical components are detected, the device is restored to conform with system policy by replacing differing critical components based upon the snapshot." The patent application was filed on Oct. 30, 2007 (11/928,256). 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=8,239,917&OS=8,239,917&RS=8,239,917 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Avaya Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 8 -- Avaya, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,239,903) developed by Theresa Campagna, Philadelphia, David L. Chavez, Broomfield, Colo., and Gregory D. Weber, Westminster, Colo., for an "open cable application platform (OCAP), set-top box (STB), next generation service application." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "One exemplary aspect is advanced multimedia communications via OCAP using customer specific profiles resident in the STB for service application management. Additional aspects relate to service application management including filtering, controlling the display of content associated with one or more service applications, performing an action based on the service application, scheduling a communication based on the service application and initiating a request for service based on, for example, a detected problem. Still further aspects relate to managing information associated with a service application received at a STB including initiating a communication to a support representative." The patent application was filed on Sept. 15, 2008 (12/210,628). 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=8,239,903&OS=8,239,903&RS=8,239,903 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Invensas Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 8 -- Invensas, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,239,740) developed by Oscar Frederick Jones Jr., Colorado Springs, Colo., for a "circuit and technique for reducing parity bit-widths for check bit and syndrome generation for data blocks through the use of additional check bits to increase the number of minimum weighted codes in the hamming code H-matrix." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A circuit and technique for reducing parity bit-widths for check bit and syndrome generation is implemented through the use of additional check bits to increase the number of minimum weighted codes in the Hamming Code H-Matrix. The circuit and technique of the present invention may be implemented while adding no additional correction/detection capability, in order to reduce the number of data bits that are used for each check bit/syndrome generation and to reduce the width of the parity generating circuitry." The patent application was filed on May 6, 2011 (13/102,522). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.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=82,39,740.PN.&OS=PN/82,39,740&RS=PN/82,39,740 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Starz Entertainment Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 8 -- Starz Entertainment, Englewood, Colo., has been assigned a patent (8,239,573) developed by Richard T. Brownrigg Jr., Castle Rock, Colo., for an off-peak background delivery. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, systems, and machine readable media are disclosed for managing bandwidth utilization including off-peak, background delivery of content. According to one embodiment, a method of managing bandwidth used for delivering content to a plurality of users can comprise determining one or more destinations for the content and determining available bandwidth for delivering the content to the one or more destinations. A set of criteria can be applied to the content, the one or more destinations for the content, and the available bandwidth. A schedule for delivery of the content can be generated based on applying the set of criteria. The content can be delivered to the one or more destinations based on the schedule." The patent application was filed on Dec. 14, 2007 (11/956,573). 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=8,239,573&OS=8,239,573&RS=8,239,573 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Avaya Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 8 -- Avaya, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,239,523) developed by Rodney Black, Louisville, Colo., and Larry J. Shaffer, Westminster, Colo., for a "secure remote access." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A remote maintenance board (RMB) that interfaces a monitored system with a communications network is either functionally connected to the monitored system or to the communications network, but never to both at the same time, thereby isolating the monitored system from unauthorized access via the communications network." The patent application was filed on Jan. 22, 2008 (12/017,660). 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=8,239,523&OS=8,239,523&RS=8,239,523 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Western Union Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 8 -- Western Union, Englewood, Colo., has been assigned a patent (8,239,319) developed by five co-inventors for an "equipment to facilitate money transfers into bank accounts." The co-inventors are Michael J. Michelsen, Arvada, Colo., Dan Canning, Pembroke Pines, Fla., Roberto Ochoa, Weston, Fla., Rodolfo Zavaleta, Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., and Rodrigo Sada, Miami. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, the invention provides a computerized system and method for transferring money to a bank account, typically when paid in cash or a cash equivalent at a point of sale device. According to one method, transactional information is transmitted to a host computer system from a point of sale device. The transactional information includes information on a bank account that is to receive the money. The transaction information is stored at the host computer system. Also, at least some of the transaction information is sent to an intermediary computer system that is configured to interact with a plurality of banking networks in different countries. The intermediary computer system may also determine which one of the banking networks is associated with the bank account that is to receive the money. A request is transmitted from the intermediary computer network to a local banking network and includes information on the bank account that is to receive the money and an amount of money to deposit. The bank account may then be credited with the money." The patent application was filed on March 22, 2004 (10/806,484). 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=8,239,319.PN.&OS=PN/8,239,319&RS=PN/8,239,319 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cypress Semiconductor Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 8 -- Cypress Semiconductor, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,239,658) developed by Stefan-Cristian Rezeanu, Colorado Springs, Colo., for an "internally derived address generation system and method for burst loading of a synchronous memory." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An address generation system and method is provided for internally storing and thereafter producing an address to be sent to a memory device. The address that is stored need not be sent from an external address bus at each clock cycle, but the processing can remain internal to the memory device. The burst-block starting address can be stored in the mirror register and output from a selector circuit, such as a multiplexer, when that address is chosen. Otherwise, the multiplexer can simply perform its normal operation of selecting between an address pointed to by a counter, the external address, or the incremented counter output, based on the state of the external counter control signals. The system includes a mirror register, a counter, and a multiplexer that selects either the mirror register stored address or the internally processed address." The patent application was filed on Feb. 21, 2006 (11/359,205). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.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=82,39,658.PN.&OS=PN/82,39,658&RS=PN/82,39,658 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. 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