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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in California (March 13)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in California. *** LSI Assigned Patent for Packet Sequence Number Tracking for an Anti-replay Window ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- LSI, Milpitas, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,396,985) developed by Ephrem Wu, San Mateo, Calif., for a "packet sequence number tracking for an anti-replay window." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Described embodiments provide a network processor that includes a security sub-processor to prevent replay attacks on the network processor. A memory stores an anti-replay window corresponding to a data stream of the network processor. The anti-replay window has N bits initialized to correspond to data packet sequence numbers in the range 1 to N. The anti-replay memory is stored in a plurality of data words. A plurality of flip-flops store word valid bits corresponding to each of the data words. A multiplexer selects the word valid bit corresponding to a data word requested by the security processor, and an AND gate performs a bitwise AND operation between the selected data word and word valid bit. When the network processor receives a data packet, the security sub-processor determines a value of the received sequence number with respect to minimum and maximum values of a sequence number range of the anti-replay window." The patent application was filed on Aug. 11, 2010 (12/854,315). 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=8,396,985&OS=8,396,985&RS=8,396,985 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Apple Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Apple, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,397,014) developed by Vadim Khmelnitsky, Foster City, Calif., and Nir Jacob Wakrat, San Jose, Calif., for a "memory mapping restore and garbage collection operations." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Memory mapping techniques for non-volatile memory are disclosed where logical sectors are mapped into physical pages using data structures in volatile and non-volatile memory. In some implementations, a first lookup table in non-volatile memory maps logical sectors directly into physical pages. A second lookup table in volatile memory holds the physical address of the first lookup table in non-volatile memory. In some implementations, a cache in volatile memory holds the physical addresses of the most recently written logical sectors. Also disclosed is a block TOC describing block content which can be used for garbage collection and restore operations." The patent application was filed on Aug. 18, 2008 (12/193,613). 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=8,397,014&OS=8,397,014&RS=8,397,014 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Sony Computer Entertainment America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Sony Computer Entertainment America, Foster City, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,396,984) developed by Glen Van Datta, San Diego, and Anthony Mai, San Marcos, Calif., for a "peer-to-peer relay network with decentralized control." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus for implementing peer-to-peer relay. In one implementation, a peer-to-peer relay network includes: a plurality of N peer systems; wherein each peer system is connected to a number of other peer systems that is less than or equal to a connection limit, said connection limit is greater than or equal to 2, said connection limit is less than or equal to N-2, and each peer system is configured to relay data to peer systems connected to that peer system according to a set of one or more relay rules." The patent application was filed on Aug. 28, 2007 (11/895,978). 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=8,396,984&OS=8,396,984&RS=8,396,984 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,396,956) developed by Allan Thomson, Pleasanton, Calif., David Stephenson, San Jose, Calif., and Rohit Suri, Fremont, Calif., for a "mobility service clustering using network service segments." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Described in an example embodiment herein is a Mobility Service Engine (MSE) cluster comprising an MSE Cluster Master and at least one MSE Cluster Slave. The MSE Master is configured to define Network Service Segments. The MSE Master of the cluster distributes the Network Service Segments to slaves within the cluster. The network is configured to forward data to the correct Network Service Segment." The patent application was filed on Sept. 29, 2010 (12/892,974). 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=8,396,956&OS=8,396,956&RS=8,396,956 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Silver Spring Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Silver Spring Networks, Redwood City, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,396,987) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and system for providing network and routing protocols for utility services." The co-inventors are George Flammer, Cupertino, Calif., Sterling Hughes, Oakland, Calif., Daniel McKernan, Cupertino, Calif., and Raj Vaswani, Portola Valley, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system of operating a utility node to communicate in a wireless utility network are provided. A utility node in the wireless utility network discovers at least two access points each respectively constituting an interface between a wide area network and the wireless utility network. The node discovers at least two access points constituting an interface between the two networks, registers with the discovered access points, and obtains at least two unique network addresses each respectively associated with a corresponding one of the access points with which the node has registered. The node provides the at least two addresses to a back office server which is communication with the wide area network to provide the back office server with at least two routes to reach the node. The at least two routes are respectively associated with a corresponding one of the access points with which the node registered." The patent application was filed on March 13, 2012 (13/419,288). 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=8,396,987&OS=8,396,987&RS=8,396,987 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Altera Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Altera, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,397,000) developed by 12 co-inventors for a "system core for transferring data between an external device and memory." The co-inventors are Gerald George Pechanek, Cary, N.C., David Strube, Raleigh, N.C., Edwin Franklin Barry, Vilas, N.C., Charles W. Kurak Jr., Durham, N.C., Carl Donald Busboom, Cary, N.C., Dale Edward Schneider, Durham, N.C., Nikos P. Pitsianis, Durham, N.C., Grayson Morris, Eindhoven, Nebraska, Edward A. Wolff, Stockton, Calif., Patrick R. Marchand, Apex, N.C., Ricardo E. Rodriguez, Raleigh, N.C., and Marco C. Jacobs, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Details of a highly cost effective and efficient implementation of a manifold array (ManArray) architecture and instruction syntax for use therewith are described herein. Various aspects of this approach include the regularity of the syntax, the relative ease with which the instruction set can be represented in database form, the ready ability with which tools can be created, the ready generation of self-checking codes and parameterized test cases. Parameterizations can be fairly easily mapped and system maintenance is significantly simplified." The patent application was filed on Sept. 12, 2012 (13/611,969). 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=8,397,000&OS=8,397,000&RS=8,397,000 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** SanDisk Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- SanDisk Technologies, Plano, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,397,018) developed by four co-inventors for "systems and methods for implementing a programming sequence to enhance die interleave." The co-inventors are Krishnamurthy Dhakshinamurthy, Bangalore, India, Damian Yurzola, Santa Clara, Calif., Rajeev Nagabhirava, Santa Clara, Calif., and Oren Shtrasberg, Ashodod, Israel. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for sequentially writing data to a memory device such as a universal serial bus (USB) memory device are disclosed. A system controller of a memory device including a first die and a second die, each of the first die and the second die including a plurality of pages, writes a first portion of a set of data to a lower page of a second die. The system controller then writes a second portion of the set of data to an upper page of the second die after writing the first portion of the set of data to the lower page of the second die." The patent application was filed on Dec. 28, 2010 (12/979,686). 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=8,397,018&OS=8,397,018&RS=8,397,018 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent for Method and an Apparatus for Creating Visual Representations of Farms that Enables Connecting Farms Securely ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,396,966) developed by David Andrew Graves, Monte Sereno, Calif., and Philip John Day, Inkpen, United Kingdom, for a "method and an apparatus for creating visual representations of farms that enables connecting farms securely." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for creating visual representations of farms that enables connecting farms securely. In one embodiment, a visual representation of a first farm and a visual representation of a second farm are created. A visual representation of a secure connection is created. The visual representation of the first farm is associated with a first end of the visual representation of the secure connection. The visual representation of the second farm is associated with the second end of the visual representation of the secure connection." The patent application was filed on Oct. 26, 2005 (11/260,514). 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=8,396,966&OS=8,396,966&RS=8,396,966 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Kingston Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Kingston Technology, Fountain Valley, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,396,998) developed by four co-inventors for a "memory-module extender card for visually decoding addresses from diagnostic programs and ignoring operating system accesses." The co-inventors are Jerry N. Le, Irvine, Calif., Ngoc V. Le, Irvine, Calif., Tat Leung Lai, Torrance, Calif., and Ramon S. Co, Trabuco Canyon, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A diagnostic extender card is plugged into a memory module socket on a personal computer (PC) motherboard. The extender card has a test socket that receives a memory module and an intercepting decoder chip that receives the chip-select (CS) from the motherboard that selects the memory module for access. When CS is activated, the intercepting decoder chip illuminates a visual indicator on the extender card, allowing a user to locate a memory module being accessed. The exact translation or mapping from logical addresses of test programs to physical addresses of the memory modules is not needed, since the visual indicator shows which memory module is really being accessed, regardless of proprietary address mapping by north bridge chips. Operating system memory accesses are filtered out by a counter that counts accesses during a period set by a timer. When the number of accesses exceeds a threshold, the visual indicator is lit." The patent application was filed on Dec. 10, 2010 (12/965,699). 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=8,396,998&OS=8,396,998&RS=8,396,998 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Apple Assigned Patent for Command Queue for Peripheral Component ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Apple, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,396,994) developed by Douglas C. Lee, Cupertino, Calif., Diarmuid P. Ross, Mountain View, Calif., and Tahoma M. Toelkes, Mountain View, Calif., for a "command queue for peripheral component." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In an embodiment, a peripheral component configured to control an external interface of an integrated circuit. For example, the peripheral component may be a memory interface unit such as a flash memory interface unit. The internal interface to the peripheral component may be shared between data transfers to/from the external interface and control communications to the peripheral component. The peripheral component may include a command queue configured to store a set of commands to perform a transfer on the interface. A control circuit may be coupled to the command queue and may read the commands and communicate with an interface controller to cause a transfer on the interface responsive to the commands. In an embodiment, a macro memory may store command sequences to be performed in response to a macro command in the command queue. In an embodiment, an operand queue may store operand data for use by the commands." The patent application was filed on Nov. 9, 2012 (13/672,989). 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=8,396,994&OS=8,396,994&RS=8,396,994 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent for Processing Packets Using a Virtualized Descriptor Queue ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,396,953) developed by Matteo Monchiero, Barcelona, Spain, Jen Cheng Huang, Atlanta, and Yoshio Turner, San Francisco, for "processing packets using a virtualized descriptor queue." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In a method for processing packets among at least a first computing device and a second computing device, in which the first computing device is configured to transmit and receive packets through a Network Interface Card (NIC), in the second computing device, descriptors of packets to be one of transmitted and received by the first computing device through a device descriptor queue are received and placed in a virtualized descriptor queue accessible by the second computing device. In addition, the packets associated with the descriptors placed in the virtualized descriptor queue are processed prior to one of transmission and receipt of the packets by the first computing device." The patent application was filed on March 12, 2010 (12/723,168). 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=8,396,953&OS=8,396,953&RS=8,396,953 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,397,020) developed by Lewis Stephen Kootstra, Roseville, Calif., for a "memory array and method with simultaneous read/write capability." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A memory device includes a plurality of memory arrays, each memory array being coupled to an input data bus and an output data bus, a clock generator that generates an internal clock signal to form at least one transfer cycle to control timing of data transfer to and from the plurality of memory arrays, and a controller that controls read and write operations from and to the plurality of memory arrays. In one embodiment, the controller receives a command word containing at least a first command and a second command and executes the first and second command on the same transfer cycle." The patent application was filed on April 11, 2005 (11/105,088). 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=8,397,020&OS=8,397,020&RS=8,397,020 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Google Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,397,013) developed by Daniel L. Rosenband, San Mateo, Calif., Frederick Daniel Weber, San Jose, Calif., and Michael John Sebastian Smith, Palo Alto, Calif., for a hybrid memory module. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a hybrid memory module that combines memory devices of different types while presenting a single technology interface. The hybrid memory module includes a number of super-stacks and a first interface configured to transmit data between the super-stacks and a memory controller. Each super-stack includes a number of sub-stacks, a super-controller configured to control the sub-stacks, and a second interface configured to transmit data between the sub-stacks and the first interface. Combining memory devices of different types allows utilizing the favorable properties of each type of the memory devices, while hiding their unfavorable properties from the memory controller." The patent application was filed on March 27, 2008 (12/057,306). 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=8,397,013&OS=8,397,013&RS=8,397,013 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Micron Technology Assigned Patent for Memory Controllers, Memory Systems, Solid State Drives and Methods for Processing a Number of Commands ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Micron Technology, Boise, Idaho, has been assigned a patent (8,396,995) developed by four co-inventors for a "memory controllers, memory systems, solid state drives and methods for processing a number of commands." The co-inventors are Mehdi Asnaashari, Danville, Calif., Yu-Song Liao, San Jose, Calif., Jui-Yao Yang, San Jose, Calif., and Siamack Nemazie, Los Altos Hills, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present disclosure includes methods and devices for a memory controller. In one or more embodiments, a memory controller includes a plurality of back end channels, and a command queue communicatively coupled to the plurality of back end channels. The command queue is configured to hold host commands received from a host. Circuitry is configured to generate a number of back end commands at least in response to a number of the host commands in the command queue, and distribute the number of back end commands to a number of the plurality of back end channels." The patent application was filed on Aug. 30, 2012 (13/599,594). 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=8,396,995&OS=8,396,995&RS=8,396,995 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Violin Memory Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Violin Memory, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,397,016) developed by five co-inventors for an "efficient use of hybrid media in cache architectures." The co-inventors are Nisha Talagala, Livermore, Calif., Berry Kercheval, Palo Alto, Calif., Martin Patterson, Menlo Park, Calif., Edward Pernicka, Palo Alto, Calif., and James Bowen, Santa Clara, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A multi-tiered cache manager and methods for managing multi-tiered cache are described. Multi-tiered cache manager causes cached data to be initially stored in the RAM elements and selects portions of the cached data stored in the RAM elements to be moved to the flash elements. Each flash element is organized as a plurality of write blocks having a block size and wherein a predefined maximum number of writes is permitted to each write block. The portions of the cached data may be selected based on a maximum write rate calculated from the maximum number of writes allowed for the flash device and a specified lifetime of the cache system." The patent application was filed on Dec. 31, 2009 (12/650,966). 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=8,397,016&OS=8,397,016&RS=8,397,016 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Oracle America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Oracle America, Redwood City, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,396,981) developed by five co-inventors for a "gateway for connecting storage clients and storage servers." The co-inventors are Whay Sing Lee, Milpitas, Calif., Richard W. Meyer, Redwood City, Calif., Charles D. Binford, Wichita, Kan., Rodney A. Dekoning, Wichita, Kan., and William Stronge, Westford, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The invention provides a networking system, network system gateway, and method for managing the transfer of data between networks interconnected through the gateway. The gateway manages the communication paths and commands used in transferring data, as well as the logins associated with each network. The gateway further provides the ability to buffer data in order to accommodate latencies within the networks. Additionally, the gateway provides the ability to pipeline data across the networks." The patent application was filed on June 7, 2005 (11/147,071). 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=8,396,981&OS=8,396,981&RS=8,396,981 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Micron Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Micron Technology, Boise, Idaho, has been assigned a patent (8,397,019) developed by Petro Estakhri, Pleasanton, Calif., and Berhanu Iman, Sunyvale, Calif., for a "memory for accessing multiple sectors of information substantially concurrently." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A memory storage system of an embodiment includes a non-volatile memory unit and memory control circuitry coupled to the memory unit. The memory control circuitry is configured to access multiple sectors of information substantially concurrently." The patent application was filed on Dec. 12, 2011 (13/323,144). 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=8,397,019&OS=8,397,019&RS=8,397,019 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Juniper Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Juniper Networks, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,397,010) developed by Anjan Venkatramani, Los Altos, Calif., Srinivas Perla, San Jose, Calif., and John Keen, Mountain View, Calif., for a "convenient, flexible, and efficient management of memory space and bandwidth." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A device may receive a request to read data from or write data to a memory that includes a number of memory banks. The request may include an address. The device may perform a mapping operation on the address to map the address from a first address space to a second address space, identify one of the memory banks based on the address in the second address space, and send the request to the identified memory bank." The patent application was filed on July 27, 2007 (11/829,630). 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=8,397,010&OS=8,397,010&RS=8,397,010 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** NVIDIA Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- NVIDIA, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,396,993) developed by four co-inventors for a "data packer for packing and aligning write data." The co-inventors are Raymond Hoi Man Wong, Santa Clara, Calif., Samuel Hammond Duncan, Arlington, Mass., Lukito Muliadi, San Jose, Calif., and Madhukiran V. Swarna, Portland, Ore.. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A data packer of an input/output hub of a computer system packs and formats write data that is supplied to it before the write data is written into a memory unit of the computer system. More particularly, the data packer accumulates write data received from lower bandwidth clients for delivery to a high bandwidth memory interface. Also, the data packer aligns the write data, so that when the write data is read out from the write data packer, no further alignment is needed." The patent application was filed on Feb. 15, 2012 (13/397,591). 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=8,396,993&OS=8,396,993&RS=8,396,993 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Aryaka Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Aryaka Networks, Newark, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,396,954) developed by Ashwath Nagaraj, Los Altos Hills, Calif., Rajeev Bharadhwaj, Saratoga, Calif., and Ajit Gupta, Fremont, Calif., for "routing and service performance management in an application acceleration environment." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed are a system, a method and an apparatus of reduction of routing and service performance management in an application acceleration environment. In one embodiment, a system includes a branch site that includes a branch client. In addition, the system includes a headquarters site that includes a headquarters server. The headquarters site including a headquarters server includes the branch site. The headquarters site is communicatively coupled over a link via transmission media. The link is identified through a link identifier. The headquarters site including a headquarters server also includes the branch client and the headquarters server being communicatively coupled over a network connection via the transmission media. The network connection is identified through a connection identifier. The system also includes a first point of presence (POP) communicatively coupled with the branch site over a first segment of the link." The patent application was filed on June 24, 2010 (12/822,366). 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=8,396,954&OS=8,396,954&RS=8,396,954 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Brocade Communications Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Brocade Communications Systems, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,397,007) developed by Somesh Gupta, San Jose, Calif., and Venkatesh Nagapudi, Milpitas, Calif., for an interrupt moderation. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A technique for interrupt moderation allows coalescing interrupts from a device into groups to be processed as a batch by a host processor. Receive and send completions may be processed differently. When the host is interrupted for receive completions, it may check for send completions, reducing the need for interrupts related to send completions. Timers and a counter allow coalescing interrupts into a single interrupt that can be used to signal the host to process multiple completions. The technique is suitable for both dedicated interrupt line and message-signaled interrupts." The patent application was filed on July 16, 2012 (13/549,863). 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=8,397,007&OS=8,397,007&RS=8,397,007 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Lookout Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Lookout, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,397,301) developed by John G. Hering, Newport Beach, Calif., Kevin Mahaffey, San Diego, and James Burgess, Los Angeles, for a "system and method for identifying and assessing vulnerabilities on a mobile communication device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The invention is a system and method for identifying, assessing, and responding to vulnerabilities on a mobile communication device. Information about the mobile communication device, such as its operating system, firmware version, or software configuration, is transmitted to a server for assessment. The server accesses a data storage storing information about vulnerabilities. Based on the received information, the server may identify those vulnerabilities affecting the mobile communication device, and may transmit a notification to remediate those vulnerabilities. The server may also transmit result information about the vulnerabilities affecting the mobile communication device. The server may also store the received information about the device, so that in the event the server learns of new vulnerabilities, it may continue to assess whether the device is affected, and may accordingly notify or remediate the device. The server may provide an interface for an administrator to manage the system and respond to security issues." The patent application was filed on Nov. 18, 2009 (12/621,431). 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=8,397,301&OS=8,397,301&RS=8,397,301 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Oracle International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Oracle International, Redwood City, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,397,283) developed by Don L. Hayler, Palo Alto, Calif., and Daniel Vu, Lafayette, Calif., for "user role mapping in web applications." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Roles and policies are used to provide display and access to data in a flexible manner. Users and/or web applications can be mapped to user roles that dictate which displays or other application resources are available to the user or application. Roles are assigned to web applications individually, allowing for user roles to be used without requiring an independent mapping of users to roles. In some cases, application roles can be centrally managed, so that presentation systems also avoid the need for an independent mapping of user or application roles." The patent application was filed on Feb. 1, 2012 (13/364,251). 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=8,397,283&OS=8,397,283&RS=8,397,283 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Symantec Assigned Patent for Service Assisted Secret Provisioning ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Symantec, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,397,281) developed by Mingliang Pei, Palo Alto, Calif., and Slawek Ligier, Cupertino, Calif., for a "service assisted secret provisioning." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for providing a secret that is provisioned to a first device to a second device includes generating a One-Time Password at the first device using the secret and obtaining an identifier of the secret. The method also includes providing the One-Time Password and the identifier to the second device and sending the One-Time Password and the identifier to a remote provisioning service. The method also includes verifying that the One-Time Password corresponds to the secret, and sending to the second device an encrypted secret and a decryption key for decrypting the encrypted secret. The encrypted secret and the decryption key may be sent using different communications methods. The method also includes decrypting the encrypted secret using the decryption key to provide the secret and storing the secret at the second device." The patent application was filed on Dec. 30, 2009 (12/650,158). 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=8,397,281&OS=8,397,281&RS=8,397,281 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Modular Merchants Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Modular Merchants, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (RE44,055) developed by Lisa R. Singer, Poway, Calif., and Steven A. Singer, Poway, Calif., for "garden bed assembly and extensions therefor." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A garden bed assembly and extensions therefor is disclosed. The garden bed assembly includes at least one raised garden starter module containing suitable planting soil or other growing media for plants and may be extended using one or more extender modules, such as straight extender modules and/or corner extender modules. The assembly as disclosed herein includes one or more modules defining the planter. The front section of the starter module and the straight extender module may include a rotatable upper portion to provide convenient access to the plants. Each module section may have a substantially imperforate lower portion and a perforate upper portion prohibiting unwanted creatures such as gophers, rabbits and other animals from gaining access to the growing plants in the garden bed assembly." The patent application was filed on Nov. 9, 2010 (12/942,867). 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=RE44,055&OS=RE44,055&RS=RE44,055 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Streaming Sales Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Streaming Sales, Las Vegas, has been assigned a patent (RE44,071) developed by Kouroche Kian, Arcadia, Calif., and Ramin Heydarpour, Beverly Hills, Calif., for a "method for patterning a multilayered conductor/substrate structure." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for patterning a multilayered conductor/substrate structure includes the steps of: providing a multilayered conductor/substrate structure which includes a plastic substrate and at least one conductive layer overlying the plastic substrate; and irradiating the multilayered conductor/substrate structure with ultraviolet radiation such that portions of the at least one conductive layer are ablated therefrom. In a preferred embodiment, a projection-type excimer laser system is employed to rapidly and precisely ablate a pattern from a mask into the at least one conductive layer. Preferably, the excimer laser is controlled in consideration of how well the at least one conductive layer absorbs radiation at particular wavelengths. Preferably, a fluence of the excimer laser is controlled in consideration of an ablation threshold level of at least one conductive layer. According to a preferred method, the excimer laser is employed and controlled to ablate portions of the at least one conductive layer without completely decomposing the at least one functional layer therebeneath." The patent application was filed on July 13, 2006 (11/487,577). 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=RE44,071&OS=RE44,071&RS=RE44,071 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Weeks Wholesale Rose Grower Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Weeks Wholesale Rose Grower, Pomona, Calif., has been assigned a patent (PP23,455) developed by Thomas F. Carruth, Altadena, Calif., and Christian Bedard, Brea, Calif., for a "grandiflora rose plant named 'WEKfunk'." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A new variety of Grandiflora rose suitable for garden decoration, having flowers of cream and cherry blushed burgundy coloration." The patent application was filed on Oct. 26, 2011 (13/317,706). 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=PP23,455&OS=PP23,455&RS=PP23,455 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Apple Assigned Patent for Remotely Configured Media Device ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Apple, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,396,948) developed by Greg Marriott, Honolulu, and Andrew Bert Hodge, Palo Alto, Calif., for a "remotely configured media device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Improved techniques for controlling operation of a portable electronic device are disclosed. Portable electronic devices which interact with a host electronic device can have their operational settings (e.g., configurations or preferences) remotely controlled. As a result, a host electronic device can offer a more sophisticated user interface and portable electronic devices need less local user interface features because these operational settings can be remotely controlled. The remotely-controlled (i.e., host controlled) operational settings are transferred to the portable electronic devices, whereby the portable electronic devices can thereafter operate in accordance with such settings." The patent application was filed on Nov. 14, 2011 (13/296,089). 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=8,396,948&OS=8,396,948&RS=8,396,948 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** EMC Assigned Patent for Providing Direct Access to Distributed Managed Content ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,396,938) developed by four co-inventors for "providing direct access to distributed managed content." The co-inventors are Alex Oscherov, Danville, Calif., Victor Spivak, San Mateo, Calif., Eric Lundblad, Oakland, Calif., and Alex Treyger, San Jose, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for providing direct access to distributed managed content is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a request to perform an operation with respect to content associated with a set of managed content and obtaining information required to respond to the request. The method further comprises providing in response to the request one or more content locators, each content locator being usable to perform the requested operation through direct communication with an associated one of a plurality of content systems used to store at a portion of the distributed managed content." The patent application was filed on Sept. 15, 2005 (11/229,036). 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=8,396,938&OS=8,396,938&RS=8,396,938 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** AccuBalance Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- AccuBalance, St. Helena, Calif., has been assigned a patent (RE44,059) developed by Glenn Steven Witherspoon, St. Helena, Calif., for a "method for reconciling a financial account from a portable account register." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for reconciling a financial account of a user on a user device. A user list of transactions that have been entered by the user are accessed. A list of transactions from a financial institution is downloaded. The financial institution list is stored on the user device, and then compared with the user list, item by item. A reconciliation function is provided for each item on both of the lists. In one embodiment, a separate display of the cleared balance is provided, a single link button is provided to enable the upload of the register contents to a computer for reconciliation or for archiving and a memory attachment, such as a USB memory key, is also provided for archiving and/or additional program capabilities." The patent application was filed on July 18, 2006 (11/489,734). 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=RE44,059&OS=RE44,059&RS=RE44,059 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Intel Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,397,285) developed by Santosh Balakrishnan, Gilbert, Ariz., and Venkatraman Ramakrishna, Los Angeles, for "multi-pattern packet content inspection mechanisms employing tagged values." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus for performing content inspection using multi-pattern packet content inspection mechanisms employing tagged values. Pattern data structures are employed to facilitate multi-pattern searches via corresponding string-search algorithm machines. The pattern data structures include tagged values defining search offsets and depths for corresponding search patterns. Incoming packets are classified to flows, and stored in corresponding flow queues. Flow table entries are used to identify the pattern data structure for a given flow. During content inspection, the algorithm machine employs the tagged values to effectively skip portions of a data stream up to the offset for each search pattern and to cease searching for a pattern upon reaching the depth for the pattern." The patent application was filed on Oct. 7, 2009 (12/575,306). 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=8,397,285&OS=8,397,285&RS=8,397,285 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Sony Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Sony, Tokyo, and Sony Electronics, Park Ridge, N.J., have been assigned a patent (8,396,941) developed by Ludovic Douillet, Escondido, Calif., Nobukazu Sugivama, San Diego, and David Tao, San Diego, for a "digital living network alliance (DLNA) server that serves contents from IVL services." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Audio and video (A/V) content information is acquired from each of a group of web-based servers located outside of a home network. The A/V content information identifies A/V content stored in association with each of the group of web-based servers. The A/V content information acquired from each of the group of web-based servers is aggregated. The aggregated A/V content information is provided to a DLNA client device within the home network. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract." The patent application was filed on Aug. 5, 2008 (12/221,588). 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=8,396,941&OS=8,396,941&RS=8,396,941 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Oracle America Assigned Patent for Efficient Hardware Scheme to Support Cross-cluster Transactional Memory ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Oracle America, Redwood City, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,396,937) developed by Brian W. O'Krafka, Austin, Texas, Darpan Dinker, Union City, Calif., and Michael J. Koster, Bridgeville, Calif., for an "efficient hardware scheme to support cross-cluster transactional memory." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for increasing programmability and scalability of a multi-processor network. A system includes two or more nodes coupled via a network with each node comprising a processor unit and memory. The processor unit includes one or more processors and a wiretap unit. The wiretap unit is configured to monitor memory accesses of the processors. A transaction may execute a number of read and/or write operations to memory. The nodes are configured to replicate one or more portions of memory; detect data conflicts to memory; and restore memory to pre-transaction state if needed." The patent application was filed on April 30, 2007 (11/742,106). 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=8,396,937&OS=8,396,937&RS=8,396,937 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Intel Assigned Patent for Language Level Support for Shared Virtual Memory ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,397,241) developed by eight co-inventors for a "language level support for shared virtual memory." The co-inventors are Zhou Xiaocheng, Beijing, Shoumeng Yan, Beijing, Ying Gao, Beijing, Hu Chen, Beijing, Peinan Zhang, Beijing, Mohan Rajagopalan, Mountain View, Calif., Avi Mendelson, Haifa, Israel, and Bratin Saha, Santa Clara, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the invention provide language support for CPU-GPU platforms. In one embodiment, code can be flexibly executed on both the CPU and GPU. CPU code can offload a kernel to the GPU. That kernel may in turn call preexisting libraries on the CPU, or make other calls into CPU functions. This allows an application to be built without requiring the entire call chain to be recompiled. Additionally, in one embodiment data may be shared seamlessly between CPU and GPU. This includes sharing objects that may have virtual functions. Embodiments thus ensure the right virtual function gets invoked on the CPU or the GPU if a virtual function is called by either the CPU or GPU." The patent application was filed on Dec. 30, 2008 (12/317,854). 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=8,397,241&OS=8,397,241&RS=8,397,241 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Yahoo! Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,397,212) developed by Ryo Chijiiwa, Cerritos, Calif., for a "module hosting and content generation platform." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A module hosting and content generation platform in a social network site. In particular embodiments, a method includes receiving, from a network application, one or more module requests for module output data, wherein each module request includes a module identifier, an instance identifier, and user identifier, a module identifier; retrieving configuration information from the user configuration data store based on each of the one or more module requests; retrieving a module view definition from the module data store; generating the module output data by merging user configuration data with the retrieved module view definition; and performing additional processing operations based on the view type associated with the module; and transmitting the module output data to the network application." The patent application was filed on Aug. 29, 2007 (11/846,843). 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=8,397,212&OS=8,397,212&RS=8,397,212 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Futurewei Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Futurewei Technologies, Plano, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,397,235) developed by four co-inventors for an "user tolerance based scheduling method for aperiodic real-time tasks." The co-inventors are Xuesong Dong, Pleasanton, Calif., Yang Yu, San Ramon, Calif., Renwei Li, Fremont, Calif., and Ming Li, Cupertino, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus comprising at least one processor configured to implement a method comprising analyzing a plurality of tasks, determining a privilege level for each of the task, determining a schedule for each of the tasks, and scheduling the tasks for execution based on the privilege level and the schedule of each task. Included is a memory comprising instructions for determining a privilege level for each of a plurality of tasks, wherein the privilege levels comprise periodic real-time, aperiodic real-time, and non-real time, determining an execution time for each of the tasks, and scheduling the tasks for execution on a processor based on the privilege level and the execution time of each task." The patent application was filed on Oct. 6, 2009 (12/573,994). 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=8,397,235&OS=8,397,235&RS=8,397,235 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** LSI Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- LSI, Milpitas, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,397,196) developed by Alexander Tetelbaum, Walnut Creek, Calif., for an "intelligent dummy metal fill process for integrated circuits." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer-executed method for designing dummy metal object locations in an integrated circuit design. The method comprises the steps of: a) receiving an integrated circuit design as input; b) finding areas of the integrated circuit design that do not meet a minimum metal density requirement; c) finding areas of the integrated circuit design having a critical timing path; d) blocking empty routing tracks that are adjacent to critical nets of the critical timing paths located in step (c), for prospective dummy metal object placement for the areas commonly located in both of steps (b) and (c); and e) placing a minimum number of dummy metal objects in empty tracks such that the minimum metal density requirement is met for the areas that were found in step (b), but were not blocked in step (d)." The patent application was filed on May 3, 2011 (13/099,948). 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=8,397,196&OS=8,397,196&RS=8,397,196 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Netspectrum Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Netspectrum, Fremont, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,397,229) developed by Jun Sun, Fremont, Calif., and Steve Koert Longerbeam, San Jose, Calif., for "system and methods for migrating independently executing program into and out of an operating system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "This invention generally relates to a methods and system in the field of independent programs operating within an operating system such as Linux and more particularly to computer software embodied in a computer readable medium including: an independent program for running autonomously in a native mode within an associated computer processor; an operating system program for running autonomously within an associated computer processor; a mode switcher process for switching operation from the independent program to the operating system program whereby the independent program functions as an embedded entity of the operating system; and wherein the mode switcher program switches the independent program from the operating system program whereby the independent program runs autonomously in the native mode." The patent application was filed on June 23, 2009 (12/489,582). 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=8,397,229&OS=8,397,229&RS=8,397,229 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Altera Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Altera, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,397,188) developed by Paul Norbert Scheidt, Santa Cruz, Calif., for "systems and methods for testing a component by using encapsulation." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for testing a component by using encapsulation are described. The systems and methods facilitate communication between two components that use two different languages in a test environment. Such communication is allowed by encapsulating an identifier of a function to create a call message, encapsulating an identifier of an event to create an event message, or encapsulating an identifier of the function to create a return message." The patent application was filed on Sept. 21, 2010 (12/886,835). 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=8,397,188&OS=8,397,188&RS=8,397,188 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Citrix Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Citrix Systems, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has been assigned a patent (8,397,287) developed by five co-inventors for a "method and system for authorizing a level of access of a client to a virtual private network connection, based on a client-side attribute." The co-inventors are Amarnath Mullick, Bangalore, India, Shashi Nanjundaswamy, Bangalore, India, Ajay Soni, San Jose, Calif., Charu Venkatraman, Bangalore, India, and Max He, Saratoga, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An appliance and method for authorizing a level of access of a client to a virtual private network connection, based on a client-side attribute includes the step of establishing, by an appliance, a control connection with a client upon receiving a client request to establish a virtual private network connection with a network. The appliance transmits, via the control connection, a request to the client to evaluate at least one clause of a security string, the at least one clause including an expression associated with a client-side attribute. The client transmits, via the control connection, a response to the appliance comprising a result of evaluating the at least one clause by the client. The appliance assigns the client to an authorization group based on the result of evaluation of the at least one clause." The patent application was filed on Aug. 21, 2006 (11/465,915). 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=8,397,287&OS=8,397,287&RS=8,397,287 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** VirtualMetrix Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- VirtualMetrix, Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,397,236) developed by Gary A. Gibson, San Diego, for "credit based performance managment of computer systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method to control the allocation of processor (or state machine) execution resources to individual tasks executing in computer systems is described. By controlling the allocation of execution resources, to all tasks, each task may be provided with throughput and response time guarantees. This control is accomplished through workload metering shaping which delays the execution of tasks that have used their workload allocation until sufficient time has passed to accumulate credit for execution (accumulate credit over time to perform their allocated work) and workload prioritization which gives preference to tasks based on configured priorities." The patent application was filed on Aug. 22, 2008 (12/197,165). 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=8,397,236&OS=8,397,236&RS=8,397,236 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Google Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,396,879) developed by Michal Cierniak, Palo Alto, Calif., and Na Tang, San Jose, Calif., for "ranking authors and their content in the same framework." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "One or more server devices may simultaneously calculate first ranking scores for a group of users and second ranking scores for a group of comments authored by the group of users. The calculating may occur during a same process. The one or more server devices may further provide one of a first ranked list that includes information identifying the group of users, the information identifying the group of users being ordered based on the first ranking scores, or a second group of comments of the group of comments, the comments in the second group of comments being ordered based on the second ranking scores." The patent application was filed on Feb. 28, 2012 (13/407,174). 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=83,96,879.PN.&OS=PN/83,96,879&RS=PN/83,96,879 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Limelight Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Limelight Networks, Tempe, Ariz., has been assigned a patent (8,396,878) developed by Soam Acharya, San Bruno, Calif., for "methods and systems for generating automated tags for video files." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques for generating automated tags for a video file are described. The method includes receiving one or more manually generated tags associated with a video file, based at least in part on the one or more manually entered tags, determining a preliminary category for the video file, and based on the preliminary category, generating a targeted transcript of the video file, wherein the targeted transcript includes a plurality of words. The method further includes generating an ontology of the plurality of words based on the targeted transcript, ranking the plurality of words in the ontology based on a plurality of scoring factors, and based on the ranking of the plurality of words, generating one or more automated tags associated with the video file." The patent application was filed on Sept. 26, 2011 (13/245,840). 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=83,96,878.PN.&OS=PN/83,96,878&RS=PN/83,96,878 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Synopsys Assigned Patent for Method and System for Packet Switch Based Logic Replication ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Synopsys, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,397,195) developed by Robert Erickson, Cupertino, Calif., for a "method and system for packet switch based logic replication." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for compiling a representation of a source circuit including one or more source subchannels associated with portions of source logic driven by a plurality of clock domains are described. Each source subchannel may generate packets carrying signal data from one of the portions of the source logic. A representation of a destination circuit may be compiled to include one or more destination subchannels associated with portions of destination logic replicating the source logic. Each destination subchannel may forward the signal data via the packets to one of the portions of the destination logic. A switching logic may be configured to map the source subchannels to the destination subchannels as virtual channels to forward the packets from the source subchannels to the destination subchannels. A single queue may be configured to couple with the switching logic to record packets from the source subchannels into a packet stream for a delay period to distribute to the destination subchannels. The destination logic may emulate the source logic synchronized with the plurality of clock domains delayed by the delay period." The patent application was filed on Jan. 22, 2010 (12/692,562). 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=8,397,195&OS=8,397,195&RS=8,397,195 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Driscoll Strawberry Associates Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Driscoll Strawberry Associates, Watsonville, Calif., has been assigned a patent (PP23,459) developed by four co-inventors for a "strawberry plant named 'DrisStrawTwentyEight'." The co-inventors are Philip J. Stewart, Watsonville, Calif., Joanne F. Coss, Pebble Beach, Calif., Martin P. Madesko, Aptos, Calif., and Bruce D. Mowrey, Watsonville, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A new and distinct variety of strawberry plant named `DrisStrawTwentyEight` characterized by having medium sized, conical fruit with medium sweetness and high yield is disclosed." The patent application was filed on Nov. 4, 2011 (13/373,119). 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& 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. -1117456 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |