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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in New York (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 New York. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,396,988) developed by James Uttaro, Staten Island, N.Y., for a "method and system for survival of data plane through a total control plane failure." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for retaining routes in a control plane learned by an inter-domain routing protocol in the event of a connectivity failure between routers. Routers are classified as either route reflectors or originators. A connectivity failure between two routers is determined. A determination is then made whether to propagate a withdrawal of learned routes based on whether the connectivity failure occurred between a route reflector and an originator, two originators, or two route reflectors. A withdrawal of learned routes is propagated to neighboring routers if the connectivity failure occurred between two originators, or between a route reflector and an originator that is inaccessible via an intra-domain routing protocol. No withdrawal of learned routes is propagated if the connectivity failure occurred between two route reflectors, or between a route reflector and an originator that is accessible via an intra-domain routing protocol." The patent application was filed on Dec. 19, 2007 (12/002,873). 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=8,396,988&OS=8,396,988&RS=8,396,988 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Provisioning and Commissioning a Communications Network with a Virtual Network Operations Center and Interface ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,396,952) developed by Casimer M. DeCusatis, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and Michael J. Osias, Somers, N.Y., for "provisioning and commissioning a communications network with a virtual network operations center and interface." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An interface coupled to a virtual network operations center and coupled to a data communications network having at least one optical channel. Equipment on the data communications network is identified by the interface wherein the interface coordinates and correlates communications between the I/O interfaces of a server coupled to the network so that data rates and data protocols are managed properly. The interface receives commands from and transmits commands to the data communications network and translates the commands to be further transmitted and used in the virtual network operations center coupled to the server. The data communications network is represented in a three dimensions virtual world in the virtual network operations center so that events on the network can be represented in real-time in the virtual network operations center." The patent application was filed on Aug. 12, 2009 (12/539,908). 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=8,396,952&OS=8,396,952&RS=8,396,952 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** InterDigital Technology Assigned Patent for Method and System for Enhancing Flow of Behavior Metrics and Evaluation of Security of a Node ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- InterDigital Technology, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,397,299) developed by Richard D. Herschaft, Whitestone, N.Y., for a "method and system for enhancing flow of behavior metrics and evaluation of security of a node." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for enhancing flow of behavior metrics and evaluating security of a node are described. Instead of sending behavior metrics from a trustee node to a trustor node, the trustor node sends an evaluation function to the trustee node. The trustee node performs security evaluation and sends a result to the trustor node. Alternatively, the trustee node and the trustor node may send behavior metrics and an evaluation function to a trusted broker, respectively. The trusted broker evaluates the security of the trustee node using the evaluation function and the behavior metrics, and sends a security evaluation result to the trustor node and the trustee node. There may be multiple trusted brokers. The behavior metrics may be accumulated by each node as the behavior metrics flow downstream. The nodes may submit behavior metrics to an intermediary periodically and may be accumulated by intermediaries." The patent application was filed on July 11, 2007 (11/775,953). 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=8,397,299&OS=8,397,299&RS=8,397,299 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** University of New York Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- The University of New York, Amherst, N.Y., have been assigned a patent (8,397,311) developed by Harsh Deep Chopra, Williamsville, N.Y., Jason N. Armstrong, Groton, N.Y., and Zonglu Hua, Williamsville, N.Y., for a "metrology probe and method of configuring a metrology probe." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A metrology probe capable of measurements of a broad range of physical properties of individual samples of nano- or sub-nanometer dimensions is provided. The probe comprises a probe body, a substrate connected to the probe body, and a tip proximate the substrate. The probe further comprises a coarse piezoelectric actuator having an electrical input. The coarse piezo is configured to cause the tip and/or the substrate to move relative to each other when a first electrical signal is provided to the electrical input. The probe further comprises a low-pass filter in electrical communication with the electrical input of the coarse piezo. The probe further comprises a fine piezoelectric actuator having an electrical input configured to cause the tip and/or the substrate to move relative to each other when a second electrical signal is provided to the electrical input." The patent application was filed on May 28, 2010 (13/322,568). 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=8,397,311&OS=8,397,311&RS=8,397,311 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** CSC Holdings Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- CSC Holdings, Bethpage, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,397,252) developed by Eric Joseph Godas, Smithtown, N.Y., for an "automatic detection of a cable trap." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Firmware is installed in a cable modem, enabling detection of the presence or absence of a cable trap in the feed of a customer location. Such a cable modem includes a trap-detection module and a trap-detection object. The trap-detection module is configured to determine whether a video signal is present at a cable-television frequency. The trap-detection object is configured to store data as to whether the video signal is present. For example, a first piece of data is stored if the video signal is present, indicating absence of a properly functioning cable trap between a cable head-end and the cable modem. A second piece of data is stored if the video signal is absent, indicating presence of a properly functioning cable trap between the cable head-end and the cable modem." The patent application was filed on July 10, 2009 (12/501,223). 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=8,397,252&OS=8,397,252&RS=8,397,252 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Google Assigned Patent for Time-varying Sequenced Image Overlays for CAPTCHA ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,397,275) developed by Karl Magdsick, New York, for a "time-varying sequenced image overlays for CAPTCHA." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Time-varying CAPTCHA tests are provided to distinguish a human user from a computer software agent in an online application. A test generator generates an original image and a set of (X,Y) positions. The (X,Y) positions can be a random or repeating sequence. The test generator then separates the original image to form a plurality of secondary images. The secondary images are configured to the (X,Y) positions and the original image so that when the secondary images are displaced over time responsive to the (X,Y) positions at least one of the (X,Y) position reveals the original image, or a portion thereof. A test program generator generates an executable program adapted for execution on a client device. The executable program is encoded with the (X,Y) positions and the secondary images, and configured to displace the secondary images over time responsive to the set of positions." The patent application was filed on Feb. 5, 2009 (12/366,592). 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=8,397,275&OS=8,397,275&RS=8,397,275 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Gutenberg Printing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Gutenberg Printing, Los Altos, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,397,223) developed by Hiang-Swee Chiang, Elmhurst, N.Y., for a web application generator. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system and apparatus for providing a web application generator to generate the basis for a complete web application source code. Based on graphical user interface input files provided by graphic designers, the web application generator generates application framework code, an event handler skeleton and business logic foundation code. Web developers then prepare additional source code using an object-oriented programming language based on the event handler skeleton and business logic foundation code to create web application business logic objects and event handler methods. Ultimately the graphical user interface input files prepared by the graphic designers and web application source code prepared by the web developers are dynamically bound at runtime." The patent application was filed on March 16, 2001 (09/810,716). 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=8,397,223&OS=8,397,223&RS=8,397,223 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,396,869) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and system for analyzing capabilities of an entity." The co-inventors are Matthew J. Callery, Shrub Oak, N.Y., Robert D. Dill, Raleigh, N.C., Lauretta Jones, Purdys, N.Y., and Daniel Oppenheim, Croton on Hudson, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for analyzing capabilities of an entity includes inputting data regarding an entity's capabilities, and using a capability model to detect a capability pattern among the capabilities and generate an action plan based on the capability pattern." The patent application was filed on Jan. 4, 2008 (11/969,347). 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=83,96,869.PN.&OS=PN/83,96,869&RS=PN/83,96,869 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Shaw Parsing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Shaw Parsing, Los Altos, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,397,237) developed by six co-inventors for "dynamically allocating threads from a thread pool to thread boundaries configured to perform a service for an event." The co-inventors are Karl E. Rumelhart, Palo Alto, Calif., Timothy Tuttle, San Francisco, Jeremy S. Lueck, Cambridge, Mass., J. Joseph Benevidez, Denver, Calif., Charles E. Cano, New York City, N.Y., and Alex Huang, Creve Coeur, Mo. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Each of a plurality of thread boundaries comprises functionality to be performed for a given event by a single thread. A plurality of queues through which events may be routed may be coupled to the thread boundaries. A plurality of tasks may be configured in a defined relationship, each task being associated with a thread boundary and comprising a unit of code for performing a specific function. Resources may be allocated to thread boundaries based on queue depth." The patent application was filed on Aug. 15, 2005 (11/205,263). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,397,237&OS=8,397,237&RS=8,397,237 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Identifying Communities in an Information Network ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,396,855) developed by Charu C. Aggarwal, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., and Rajesh R. Bordawekar, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., for "identifying communities in an information network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques for identifying one or more communities in an information network are provided. The techniques include collecting one or more nodes and one or more edges from an information network, performing a random walk on the one or more nodes to produce a sequence of one or more nodes, creating a sequence database from one or more sequences produced via random walk, and mining the sequence database to determine one or more patterns in the network, wherein the one or more patterns identify one or more communities in the information network." The patent application was filed on May 28, 2010 (12/790,128). 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=83,96,855.PN.&OS=PN/83,96,855&RS=PN/83,96,855 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** CommVault Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- CommVault Systems, Oceanport, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,396,838) developed by eight co-inventors for a "legal compliance, electronic discovery and electronic document handling of online and offline copies of data." The co-inventors are Brian Brockway, Shrewsbury, N.J., Alan Bunte, Monmouth Beach, N.J., Christie J. Van Wagoner, Colts Neck, N.J., Simon Taylor, Colts Neck, N.J., Marcus S. Muller, Cranbury, N.J., Anand Prahlad, Bangalore, India, Randy DeMeno, Staten Island, N.Y., and Rammohan G. Reddy, Thornton, Colo. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods of electronic document handling permit organizations to comply with legal or regulatory requirements, electronic discovery and legal hold requirements, and/or other business requirements. The systems described provide a unified approach to data management that enables compliance, legal and IT personnel to focus efforts on, e.g., a single data repository. The systems permit users to define and utilize information governance policies that help automate and systematize different compliance tasks. In some examples, organizations may push data in any third-party data format to the systems described herein. The systems may permit compliance or IT personnel to detect when a legally sensitive production file has been changed or deleted. The systems may also provide a unified dashboard user interface. From a dashboard interface, users may perform searches, participate in collaborative data management workflows, obtain data management reports, and adjust policies. Other elements and features are disclosed herein." The patent application was filed on Sept. 7, 2010 (12/876,916). 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=83,96,838.PN.&OS=PN/83,96,838&RS=PN/83,96,838 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Inode Management in Redirect-on-write File System ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,396,833) developed by four co-inventors for an "inode management in redirect-on-write file system." The co-inventors are Joon Chang, Austin, Texas, David J. Craft, Wimberly, Texas, Gokul B. Kandiraju, Tarrytown, N.Y., and Manoj N. Kumar, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Some embodiments of the inventive subject matter allow a redirect-on-write file system to continue processing file transactions while writing a snapshot to persistent storage. Thus, embodiments do not block file transactions while flushing snapshots to persistent storage. To avoid blocking, some embodiments the file system can maintain two snapshot generations. The first snapshot generation is the snapshot being written to persistent storage. The second snapshot generation may reside in main memory, and store data for file transactions occurring after the file system began writing the first snapshot generation." The patent application was filed on Sept. 10, 2010 (12/879,855). 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=83,96,833.PN.&OS=PN/83,96,833&RS=PN/83,96,833 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** VMTurbo Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- VMTurbo, Valhalla, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,396,807) developed by five co-inventors for "managing resources in virtualization systems." The co-inventors are Yechiam Yemini, Alpine, N.J., Shmuel Kliger, Chappaqua, N.Y., Danilo Florissi, Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., Shai Benjamin, Zion, Israel, and Yuri Rabover, San Carlos, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for managing resources in virtualization systems, including multi-cloud systems. The use of supply chain economics alone and in combination with other techniques offers a unified platform to integrate, optimize or improve, and automate resource management in a virtualization system. These techniques may be used to monitor and control the delivery of service level agreements and software licenses. They may also be used to monitor and control contention of computing resources in a virtualization system, and to suspend or terminate computing resources." The patent application was filed on Aug. 12, 2009 (12/540,293). 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=83,96,807.PN.&OS=PN/83,96,807&RS=PN/83,96,807 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Yahoo! Assigned Patent for Clustering Cookies for Identifying Unique Mobile Devices ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,396,822) developed by five co-inventors for "clustering cookies for identifying unique mobile devices ." The co-inventors are Anirban Dasgupta, Berkeley, Calif., Liang Zhang, Fremont, Calif., Maxim Gurevich, Cupertino, Calif., Achint Oommen Thomas, Buffalo, N.Y., and Belle Tseng, Cupertino, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments are directed towards clustering cookies for identifying unique mobile devices for associating activities over a network with a given mobile device. The cookies are clustered based on a Bayes Factor similarity model that is trained from cookie features of known mobile devices. The clusters may be used to determine the number of unique mobile devices that access a website. The clusters may also be used to provide targeted content to each unique mobile device." The patent application was filed on Dec. 23, 2010 (12/978,186). 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=83,96,822.PN.&OS=PN/83,96,822&RS=PN/83,96,822 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Xerox Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Xerox, Norwalk, Conn., has been assigned a patent (8,396,813) developed by Dale Ellen Gaucas, Penfield, N.Y., and Michael D. Shepherd, Ontario, N.Y., for a "knowledge-based method for using social networking site content in variable data applications ." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system automatically obtain user page data from at least one social networking site, using at least one computerized device and automatically monitor the social networking site using the computerized device to detect an event. Upon the detection of an event, the method and system automatically identify a variable information document from a repository based on the topical content of the event using the computerized device. The method and system automatically select data from the user page data that matches the topical content of the event using the computerized device; automatically generate a variable data print instance by combining the images and text from the user page with the variable information document using the computerized device; and automatically output the variable data print instance to a user of the social networking site using the computerized device." The patent application was filed on Sept. 22, 2009 (12/564,164). 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=83,96,813.PN.&OS=PN/83,96,813&RS=PN/83,96,813 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Google Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods for Rich Presentation Overlays ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,397,153) developed by Li-Wei Lee, New York, and Matthew Albright, Bloomfield, N.J., for "systems and methods for rich presentation overlays." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods are disclosed for rendering a presentation document on a plurality of client computing devices by a server. A method includes creating a base layer for a page in the presentation document, wherein the base layer comprises a plurality of placeholder elements wherein each placeholder element has an absolute position and size. The method further includes creating an interactive layer for the page in the presentation document, wherein the interactive layer comprises a plurality of interactive element overlays representing a plurality of interactive elements and each interactive element overlay has an absolute position and size that corresponds to the absolute position and size of a placeholder element in the base layer. The method further includes sending the base layer and interactive layer of the page to each client computing device for rendering, wherein each interactive element overlay is rendered on top of its corresponding placeholder element." The patent application was filed on Oct. 17, 2011 (13/275,101). 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=8,397,153.PN.&OS=PN/8,397,153&RS=PN/8,397,153 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Cadence Design Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Cadence Design Systems, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,397,113) developed by Thomas W. Bartenstein, Owego, N.Y., and Patrick Wayne Gallagher, Apalachin, N.Y., for a "method and system for identifying power defects using test pattern switching activity." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for identifying power defects using test pattern switching activity is disclosed. In one embodiment, a plurality of test patterns is applied to a circuit under test, and failure test patterns are identified from the plurality of test patterns by comparing the test result with the predicted test result. A switching activity count is obtained for each of the plurality of test patterns. Based on the switching activity count, ranks for each of the plurality of test patterns are provided. A correlation analysis is performed between the failure test patterns and the ranks of the switching activities. When there is a high correlation between the failure test pattern and the ranks of the switching activities, it is determined that the circuit likely contains a power defect. A power defect analysis is performed under the presence of the high correlation." The patent application was filed on Oct. 12, 2010 (12/903,044). 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=8,397,113.PN.&OS=PN/8,397,113&RS=PN/8,397,113 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Securities Exchange Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- International Securities Exchange, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,396,787) developed by William Ciabattoni, Valley Stream, N.Y., for a "simplified quote sharing calculation." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Presented is a method for calculating and distributing quoting share revenue to exchange members that contribute quote data to market data feeds. First, the method reads in trading data chronologically for a particular day. Using an object oriented framework, the method divides the symbols and orders into groups of objects to facilitate the tracking of the total price, quantity, and seconds displayed for each symbol. The timestamp of each message is read and the seconds field is parsed ignoring fractional seconds. Credits are awarded for each second the quote is displayed at the National Best Bid/Offer ("NBBO") by multiplying the price, quantity, and elapsed whole seconds. These quote credits are stored by the system for each member and symbol. Members are eligible to earn quote credits on either the bid or the offer or both at the same time." The patent application was filed on Feb. 16, 2012 (13/398,395). 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=8,396,787&OS=8,396,787&RS=8,396,787 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Generation of Asymmetric Circuit Devices ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,397,183) developed by Leland Chang, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., and Jeffrey W. Sleight, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., for a "generation of asymmetric circuit devices." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system and computer program product are disclosed for creating the appropriate block level shapes to manufacture asymmetric field effect transistors (FETs). In one embodiment, the method comprises obtaining an integrated circuit design having an active region level (RX) and a gate region level (PC), each of the RX and PC levels having a multitude of shapes representing semiconductor regions; and defining a new level SD having a multitude of SD level shapes from the RX and the PC level shapes. This method further comprises identifying which ones of the new shapes are source regions and which ones are drain regions; determining which ones of the source regions are pointing up and which ones are pointing down; and copying the shapes of source regions that are pointing up and the shapes of the source regions that are pointing down onto additional, defined levels." The patent application was filed on Feb. 3, 2010 (12/699,621). 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=8,397,183.PN.&OS=PN/8,397,183&RS=PN/8,397,183 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Goldman Sachs Assigned Patent for Method for Structuring an Obligation ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Goldman Sachs, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,396,773) developed by Ivan Ross, Scarsdale, N.Y., and Emerson P. Jones, Greenwich, Conn., for a "method for structuring an obligation." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for structuring an obligation. More particularly, a method for structuring an interest-bearing obligation which is convertible into stock." The patent application was filed on Nov. 5, 2002 (10/288,050). 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=8,396,773&OS=8,396,773&RS=8,396,773 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Bank of America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Bank of America, Charlotte, N.C., has been assigned a patent (8,396,789) developed by five co-inventors for credit-approval decision models. The co-inventors are Agus Sudjianto, Matthews, N.C., Peter B. Vechnak, Charlotte, N.C., Michelle Warholic, Cherry Hill, N.J., Meghan Alita Steach, Charlotte, N.C., and Jie Chen, Chappaqua, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the present invention evaluate consumer spending and borrowing patterns and, based thereon, forecast changes in consumer failure to repay rates. Embodiments of the present invention then develop macroeconomic variables that reflect the forecasted changes in consumer failure to repay rates and implement those macroeconomic variables into credit-approval decision models. The implemented macroeconomic variables adjust the decision models' credit-approval thresholds to account for the forecasted changes in consumer failure to repay rates. For example, if forecasts indicate decreasing credit failure to repay rates, then macroeconomic variables are developed and implemented in decision models to reduce credit-approval thresholds, thereby reducing qualifying creditworthiness scores and making it easier to get credit. On the other hand, for example, if forecasts indicate increasing credit failure to repay rates, then macroeconomic variables are developed and implemented in decision models to increase credit-approval thresholds, thereby restricting access to credit and reducing future losses from consumer failures to repay." The patent application was filed on Jan. 4, 2010 (12/651,666). 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=8,396,789&OS=8,396,789&RS=8,396,789 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Goldman Sachs Assigned Patent for Apparatuses, Methods and Systems for a Fund Engine ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Goldman Sachs, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,396,769) developed by Stacy Danielle Selig, Summit, N.J., and Gregory Bernard Kuppenheimer, New York, for "apparatuses, methods and systems for a fund engine." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The disclosure details the implementation of apparatuses, methods and systems for a Fund Engine which, in various embodiments, may provide dynamic management, analysis and/or control of investments utilizing multiple asset classes and strategies. In particular, this disclosure discusses the application of the Fund Engine to investments including structured notes utilizing constant proportion portfolio protection. In one embodiment, the Fund Engine may construct, facilitate, assist and/or manage one or more multi-strategy master funds by investing assets of the funds in principal protected notes, the value of which may be determined by reference to the performance of a multi-strategy reference portfolio fund. In one implementation, Notes may include senior unsecured debt obligations. In one implementation, the Fund Engine may achieve the reference portfolio fund's objectives by employing a constant proportion portfolio protection tool that allocates the reference portfolio fund's assets, net of any fees and expenses, between investments that are actively managed and exposed to market risks and fixed income investments." The patent application was filed on March 24, 2009 (12/410,293). 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=8,396,769&OS=8,396,769&RS=8,396,769 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Goldman Sachs Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Goldman Sachs, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,396,778) developed by Varkki Chacko, Short Hills, N.J., and Fernando Cunha, New York, for a "system and method for determining the liquidity of a credit." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention relates to a credit index, a system and method for structuring a credit index, a system and method for operating a credit index, and a system and method for determining the liquidity of a credit." The patent application was filed on Dec. 27, 2011 (13/337,503). 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=8,396,778&OS=8,396,778&RS=8,396,778 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. 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. -1117477 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |