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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Arizona (Jan. 9)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Arizona. *** Concept Hedging Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Concept Hedging, Miami, has been assigned a patent (8,352,351) developed by Wendy J. Engel, Norwalk, Conn., Wayne F. Perg, Sierra Vista, Ariz., and Matthew B. Schoen, Ojai, Calif., for "reducing accounting volatility and risk." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Memory storing terms of a contract for reducing accounting volatility and risk, the terms including specification of at least one measure of variation in a rate of return corresponding to a return on an investment portfolio, a variable speed of adjustment factor and a contract rate of return on an investment associated with the investment portfolio, wherein the amount of the measure of the variation changes over time; a computer computing an amount for the at least one measure of variation, calculating an amount for the adjustment speed factor and using the amounts in: determining at least one of a contract rate of return on the investment associated with the investment portfolio and a contract value for the investment associated with the investment portfolio to produce output." The patent application was filed on Jan. 9, 2012 (13/346,677). 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=8,352,351&OS=8,352,351&RS=8,352,351 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** American Express Travel Related Services Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- American Express Travel Related Services, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,352,343) developed by eight co-inventors for "using commercial share of wallet to compile marketing company lists." The co-inventors are Kathleen Haggerty, Staten Island, N.Y., Charles Christopher Lyon, Phoenix, Benedict O. Okoh, New York, Robert E. Phelan, Mendham, N.J., Jon Kevin Ruterman, Glendale, Ariz., Geraldine A. Turner, Sandy Hook, Va., Chao M. Yuan, Montclair, N.J., and Arnab Biswas, Calcutta, India. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Commercial size of spending wallet ("CSoSW") is the total business spend of a business including cash but excluding bartered items. Commercial share of wallet ("CSoW") is the portion of the spending wallet that is captured by a particular financial company. A modeling approach utilizes various data sources to provide outputs that describe a company's spend capacity. Marketing companies that sell lists compile those lists by searching one or more databases for names and/or businesses that match certain criteria. Those marketing companies can use the CSoW/CSoSW modeling approach to show predicted spend and/or revenues for each company on a list. This makes the list more valuable to list buyers." The patent application was filed on March 28, 2012 (13/432,941). 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=8,352,343&OS=8,352,343&RS=8,352,343 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Exelis Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Exelis, McLean, Va., has been assigned a patent (8,353,003) developed by Lee Paul Noehring, Glendale, Ariz., David Allan Schollmeyer, Chandler, Ariz., and Chad William Mercer, Gilbert, Ariz., for a "system and method for controlling a flow of data a network interface controller to a host processor." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for controlling a flow of data from a network interface controller (NIC) to a host processor coupled to the NIC. Data such as IP packets are received by the NIC and may be transmitted to the host processor for further processing such as firewall processing. The NIC is in communication with the host processor using, for example, a software driver running on the host processor. The NIC may monitor the processing load on the host processor as it handles packet data received from the NIC. As the processing load increases, the NIC may begin to throttle the quantity of packets being sent to the host processor in order to avoid overloading the host processor. The throttling may be governed by a heuristic throttling function." The patent application was filed on Sept. 27, 2005 (11/236,696). 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=8,353,003&OS=8,353,003&RS=8,353,003 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Limiting Receipt of Unsolicited Events by a Logical Partition in a Data Storage System ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,352,960) developed by Brian D. Clark, Tucson, Ariz., Juan A. Coronado, Tucson, Ariz., and Beth A. Peterson, Tucson, Ariz., for "limiting receipt of unsolicited events by a logical partition in a data storage system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A logical partition (LPAR) is managed in a data processing system by performing an initial program load (IPL), commencing execution of an application on the LPAR and selecting from a plurality of unsolicited events of which the application is to receive notice. A command is transmitted to a storage controller indicating the identity of the selected unsolicited events, wherein the storage controller will store the information in a data structure. Upon the later occurrence of an unsolicited event, the storage controller will transmit to the LPAR only notices of the selected unsolicited events." The patent application was filed on Aug. 13, 2007 (11/837,901). 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=8,352,960&OS=8,352,960&RS=8,352,960 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Securely Deleting Data in a Transactionally Consistent Manner ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,352,448) developed by Mark A. Haye, Tucson, Ariz., Matthew J. Anglin, Tucson, Ariz., and David M. Cannon, Tucson, Ariz., for a "securely deleting data in a transactionally consistent manner." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A process is disclosed by which data is securely deleted in a transactionally consistent manner. This may be accomplished by committing a preparation transaction for a data object within a system managing the data object in order to return the system to an initial condition if necessary, attempting to commit an execution transaction with the data object only after committing the preparation transaction, and securely deleting any portion of the data object necessary to return the system to the initial condition if committing the execution transaction fails and to change the system to a completed condition only if committing the execution transaction succeeds. In a delete or move transaction an existing backup object may be assigned a new logically deleted state such that if the delete or move transaction fails, the data will be made accessible again." The patent application was filed on Jan. 23, 2007 (11/626,126). 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=83,52,448.PN.&OS=PN/83,52,448&RS=PN/83,52,448 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Distinguishing Data Streams to Enhance Data Storage Efficiency ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,352,540) developed by four co-inventors for "distinguishing data streams to enhance data storage efficiency." The co-inventors are Matthew Joseph Anglin, Tucson, Ariz., Avishai Haim Hochberg, San Jose, Calif., James Patrick Smith, Redwood City, Calif., and Neil Gregory Rasmussen, Livermore, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems, methods, and computer products for communicating between a client and server by identifying and separating file data streams within a file are provided. The method comprises indicating the type of file data stream to be transmitted and transmitting the indicated file data stream. The transmitted file data stream is compared with a stored data stream. A non-redundant file data stream is stored based upon the outcome of the comparison. The transmitted file data stream and stored data stream may be compared according to a deduplication table based on data stream profiles." The patent application was filed on March 6, 2008 (12/043,797). 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=8,352,540&OS=8,352,540&RS=8,352,540 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Honeywell International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Honeywell International, Morristown, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,352,795) developed by Larry James Miller, Black Canyon City, Ariz., Paul Adrian Fisher, Sun City West, Ariz., and Robert J. Quirk, Peoria, Ariz., for a "high integrity processor monitor." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of ensuring high integrity of a processor is provided. The method includes executing sets of sequential instructions, each execution being based on a unique initial value, generating a computed final value responsive to each execution of a set of sequential instructions, and sending computed values to a monitoring portion of a high integrity processor monitor system responsive to the generating for each execution of the set of sequential instructions. The execution of the sets of sequential instructions tests pertinent addressing modes, operand sizes, and instruction side-effects for each instruction tested in a monitored central processing unit." The patent application was filed on Feb. 11, 2009 (12/369,101). 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=8,352,795.PN.&OS=PN/8,352,795&RS=PN/8,352,795 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Cleversafe Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Cleversafe, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (8,352,831) developed by six co-inventors for a "digital content distribution utilizing dispersed storage." The co-inventors are S. Christopher Gladwin, Chicago, Kumar Abhijeet, Chicago, Greg Dhuse, Chicago, Jason K. Resch, Chicago, Gary W. Grube, Barrington Hills, Ill., and Timothy W. Markison, Mesa, Ariz. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method begins by a processing module determining whether to error encode broadcast data. The method continues with the processing module encoding a portion of the broadcast data using an error coding storage dispersal function to produce a set of encoded broadcast data slices, determining whether to compress the set of encoded broadcast data slices for the set of encoded broadcast data slices, and when the set of encoded broadcast data slices is to be compressed, selecting a subset of encoded broadcast data slices of the set of encoded broadcast data slices, when the broadcast data is to be error encoded." The patent application was filed on Oct. 13, 2010 (12/903,781). 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=8,352,831.PN.&OS=PN/8,352,831&RS=PN/8,352,831 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Off-loading of Processing from a Processor Blade to Storage Blades ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,352,710) developed by six co-inventors for an "off-loading of processing from a processor blade to storage blades." The co-inventors are Robert H. Bell Jr., Austin, Texas, Jose Raul Escalera, Austin, Texas, Octavian Florin Herescu, Austin, Texas, Vernon Walter Miller, Tucson, Ariz., Sergio Reyes, Cedar Park, Texas, and Michael Declan Roll, Tucson, Ariz. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A processor blade determines whether a selected processing task is to be off-loaded to a storage blade for processing. The selected processing task is off-loaded to the storage blade via a planar bus communication path, in response to determining that the selected processing task is to be off-loaded to the storage blade. The off-loaded selected processing task is processed in the storage blade. The storage blade communicates the results of the processing of the off-loaded selected processing task to the processor blade." The patent application was filed on Jan. 19, 2009 (12/356,030). 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=8,352,710.PN.&OS=PN/8,352,710&RS=PN/8,352,710 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Cleversafe Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Cleversafe, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (8,352,719) developed by Gary W. Grube, Barrington Hills, Ill., and Timothy W. Markison, Mesa, Ariz., for a "computing device booting utilizing dispersed storage." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computing device boot-up method begins by a processing module detecting a boot-up of the computing device. The method continues with the processing module addressing a distributed basic input/output system (BIOS) memory to retrieve a plurality of error coded BIOS data slices. The method continues with the processing module reconstructing BIOS data from the plurality of error coded BIOS data slices using an error coding dispersal function. The method continues with the computing device booting up in accordance with the BIOS data." The patent application was filed on April 6, 2010 (12/755,200). 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=8,352,719.PN.&OS=PN/8,352,719&RS=PN/8,352,719 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Facilitation of Simultaneous Storage Initialization and Data Destage ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,352,691) developed by four co-inventors for a "facilitation of simultaneous storage initialization and data destage." The co-inventors are Ellen J. Grusy, Tucson, Ariz., Matthew J. Kalos, Tucson, Ariz., Kurt A. Lovrien, Tucson, Ariz., and Matthew Sanchez, Tucson, Ariz. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various embodiments for storage initialization and data destage in a computing storage environment are provided. At least a portion of data on a storage device is initialized using a background process, while one of simultaneously and subsequently destaging the at least the portion of the data to the storage device using a foreground process is performed. A persistent metadata bitmap, adapted to indicate whether the at least the portion of the data has been initialized, is staged to cache, the cache operable in the computing storage environment. The background process maintains a volatile bitmap indicating a status of the initialization of the at least the portion of the data in direct correspondence to the metadata bitmap. As the background process initializes the at least the portion of the data, an applicable bit on the persistent metadata bitmap is cleared and a corresponding bit is set on the volatile bitmap." The patent application was filed on Aug. 17, 2010 (12/857,735). 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=8,352,691.PN.&OS=PN/8,352,691&RS=PN/8,352,691 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Go Daddy Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Go Daddy, Scottsdale, Ariz., has been assigned a patent (8,352,742) developed by Wayne Thayer, Phoenix, and Brad Owen, Mesa, Ariz., for a "receiving encrypted emails via a web-based email system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention provides systems and methods for allowing an Email User to create a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Email Account and thereafter to digitally sign, send, verify and receive PKI encrypted emails over a computer network, such as the Internet. The systems and methods preferably include a Web-based Email System and a Certificate Authority that coordinate their actions to make the process of creating, maintaining and using the PKI Account as easy as possible for the Email User. In a preferred embodiment, a Keystore System may also be used to enhance the management and use of digital keypairs." The patent application was filed on July 19, 2005 (11/184,519). 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=8,352,742&OS=8,352,742&RS=8,352,742 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. -1110438 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |