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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Massachusetts (March 20)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 20 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Massachusetts. *** Transengine Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 20 -- Transengine Technologies, Newton, Mass., has assigned a patent (8,401,923) developed by Jay S. Lester, Newton, Mass., and Erik J. Sjogren, Decatur, Ga., for a "method for a ticket exchange across different systems of record." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to method for exchange of semi-fungible goods or services. In some embodiments, the method includes electronically receiving a plurality of offers from a plurality of participant devices, each offer comprising a plurality of parameters related to the offer, including an identification of a semi-fungible good or service to be offered, matching two of the offers from the plurality of participant devices based on the parameters of the offers, and executing an exchange of the semi-fungible goods or services identified in the offer, based on the parameters of the offers. In some embodiments, the semi-fungible goods or services can be tickets, reservations, services, order in line, educational services, or physical objects." The patent application was filed on May 4, 2012 (13/464,089). 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=8,401,923&OS=8,401,923&RS=8,401,923 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Morphotrust USA Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 20 -- Morphotrust USA, Bloomington, Minn., has been assigned a patent (8,402,040) developed by seven co-inventors for a "method and system to authenticate an object." The co-inventors are Mark R. Mallalieu, Nashua, N.H., James A. Kottas, Westford, Mass., Mohamed Lazzouni, Northborough, Mass., Leonid Y. Shteyman, Hudson, Mass., Jay F. Bortolussi, Andover, Mass., Thomas M. Kuzeja, Norfolk, Mass., and Gida R. Zikas-Bernard, Newton Upper Falls, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The system and methods disclosed herein validate the authenticity of a document and an individual's claimed identity. The system and method use a validation facility that is configurable to compare and match characteristics of biometric and non-biometric data presented by an individual with biometric and non-biometric data received from a request to a database or file system holding such information. The determination on the matching characteristics of the data can occur in completely automated fashion without intervention from the user, but user intervention is also possible allowing the user to review and override certain data discrepancies. The validation facility provides a user interface for use by a user to review a determination on the data analysis and instruct the validation facility to override that determination if the user determines the cause of the identity verification failure is within an acceptable criterion." The patent application was filed on Aug. 19, 2005 (11/208,356). 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=84,02,040.PN.&OS=PN/84,02,040&RS=PN/84,02,040 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** FMR Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 20 -- FMR, Boston, has been assigned a patent (8,402,038) developed by five co-inventors for a "method and system for data allocation." The co-inventors are Andrew T. Braun, Cherry Hill, N.J., James T. Sullivan, Braintree, Mass., Harsha B. Gurumurthy, Franklin, Mass., Charlene X. Liang, North Andover, Mass., and David D. Harter, Hingham, Mass The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer-implemented method is provided for allocating input data. The method includes receiving (1) the input data comprising source data and driver data, and (2) one or more user-specified parameters for allocating the input data. The method includes configuring a set of rule metadata based on the one or more user-specified parameters. The method also includes filtering at least one of the source data or the driver data based on the rule metadata to generate at least one of filtered source data or filtered driver data. The method further includes processing at least one of the filtered source data or the filtered driver data to generate target data and storing at least one of the filtered source data, the filtered driver data or the target data in separate operational tables in a database." The patent application was filed on Oct. 12, 2012 (13/650,262). 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=84,02,038.PN.&OS=PN/84,02,038&RS=PN/84,02,038 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 20 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,402,034) developed by Daniel John McCloskey, Dublin, Ireland, Marcello Trovati, Dublin, Ireland, and Carol Sue Zimmet, Boxborough, Mass., for "using a dynamically-generated content-level newsworthiness rating to provide content recommendations." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for providing content-level data artifact recommendations can begin with the creation of a semantic library from the textual content of data artifacts by a newsworthy content recommendation engine. A base newsworthiness rating can be calculated using global newsworthiness parameters and behavioral functions that model newsworthy influences for each relationship contained in the semantic library. A user-specific search network can be generated that represents user-entered criteria and/or user task-related criteria. Within the semantic library, potential newsworthy semantic networks can be identified. Newsworthy content from each identified potential newsworthy semantic network can be dynamically determined based upon the base newsworthiness rating and a predefined newsworthiness threshold. The newsworthy content from the identified potential newsworthy semantic network can be related to the user-specific search network at the common node, creating a newsworthy content recommendation graph. The newsworthy content recommendation graph can be presented within a user interface." The patent application was filed on March 2, 2012 (13/411,058). 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=84,02,034.PN.&OS=PN/84,02,034&RS=PN/84,02,034 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Oracle International Assigned Patent for Database-based Inference Engine for RDFS/OWL Constructs ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 20 -- Oracle International, Redwood Shores, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,401,991) developed by seven co-inventors for a "database-based inference engine for RDFS/OWL constructs." The co-inventors are Zhe Wu, Westford, Mass., George Eadon, Hollis, N.H., Souripriya Das, Nashua, N.H., Eugene Inseok Chong, Concord, Mass., Vladimir Kolovski, Nashua, N.H., Melliyal Annamalai, Nashua, N.H., and Jagannathan Srinivasan, Nashua, N.H. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An un-indexed, partitioned temporary table and an exchange table are used in the inferencing of semantic data in a relational database system. The exchange table has the same structure as a semantic data table storing the semantic data. In the inferencing process, a new partition is created in the semantic data table. Inference rules are executed on the semantic data table, and any newly inferred semantic data generated is added to the temporary table. Once no new data is generated, the inferred semantic data is copied from the temporary table into the exchange table. Indexes that are the same as indexes for the semantic data table are built for the exchange table. The indexed data in the exchange table is then exchanged into the new partition in the semantic data table. By use of the un-indexed, partitioned temporary table, incremental maintenance of indexes is avoided, thus allowing for greater efficiency." The patent application was filed on Aug. 8, 2008 (12/188,267). 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=84,01,991.PN.&OS=PN/84,01,991&RS=PN/84,01,991 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Google Assigned Patent for Registering an Event ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 20 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,402,476) developed by Matthew I. Lloyd, Cambridge, Mass., and Nicholas Lynn, Mountain View, Calif., for registering an event. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer-implemented method for registering an event includes detecting occurrence of at least one event to be registered in a sequence. The sequence is to have entries for occurred events, each of the entries being a number indicating at least one of the occurred events and being associated with an aggregation number reflecting a number of times the entry has been aggregated within the sequence. The method includes identifying a new entry for extending the sequence, the new entry comprising a first number corresponding to the detected at least one event. The method includes revising the sequence by adding the numbers of at least two entries whose respective aggregation numbers satisfy a criterion for aggregation. The method includes storing the revised sequence." The patent application was filed on Aug. 2, 2011 (13/196,607). 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=8,402,476&OS=8,402,476&RS=8,402,476 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Antenna Vaultus Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 20 -- Antenna Vaultus, Jersey City, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,402,552) developed by Arvind Goyal, Sudbury, Mass., and Joseph Muthian George, Boston, for a "system and method for securely accessing mobile data." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention provides a system and method for maintaining secure information on mobile devices and that balances security and convenience in the provision of mobile data access. Security is maintained by extending the use of industry-accepted two-factor authentication methods, and convenience is enhanced by utilizing a user's existing mobile device accessories as an authentication factor. As a result, the present invention provides a strong authentication system and method without the cost or burden of requiring the user to acquire additional hardware for security purposes." The patent application was filed on Jan. 7, 2009 (12/350,135). 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=8,402,552&OS=8,402,552&RS=8,402,552 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** MathWorks Assigned Patent for Reporting of Aspects and Partitioning of Automatically Generated Code According to a Partitioning Scheme ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 20 -- MathWorks, Natick, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,402,411) developed by David Koh, Boston, Donald Paul Orofino II, Sudbury, Mass., and Zijad Galijasevic, Shrewsbury, Mass., for "reporting of aspects and partitioning of automatically generated code according to a partitioning scheme." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system are described for generating a performance prediction report to assist finalizing a partitioning scheme of a block diagram model. Providing a user-defined partitioning scheme and information describing a target hardware platform used in that partitioning scheme, the present invention can generate a performance prediction report by analyzing the computational characteristics of the block diagram model." The patent application was filed on Feb. 28, 2008 (12/072,826). 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=8,402,411&OS=8,402,411&RS=8,402,411 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** State Street Global Markets Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 20 -- State Street Global Markets, Boston, has been assigned a patent (8,401,958) developed by six co-inventors for "systems and methods for facilitating electronic securities transactions." The co-inventors are Preston R. Ford, Marblehead, Mass., Paul D. Filipski, Natick, Mass., Christian A. Dubois, Hingham, Mass., John Mark Enriquez, Harvard, Mass., Robert J. Russel, Riverside, Conn., and Kevin K. Sorber, Exeter, N.H. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for facilitating securities transactions is shown. In one embodiment, the method provides for pricing shares of stock traded between anonymous parties without requiring pricing negotiations between parties. The method can include matching, via an electronic trading system, a first party and a second party in response to receiving contra binding orders for a security from the parties, transmitting, to each of the parties, an indication of the matching, receiving, via an electronic trading system, a first trade confirmation from the first party, determining, for the security, a midpoint of a price spread at the time the first trade confirmation was entered, receiving, via the electronic trading system, a second trade confirmation for the security from the second party, and executing, via the electronic trading system, a transaction for the security between the first and second parties, wherein the security price is determined in response to the determined midpoint." The patent application was filed on Jan. 10, 2012 (13/347,325). 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=84,01,958.PN.&OS=PN/84,01,958&RS=PN/84,01,958 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Secure Management of Authentication Information ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 20 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,402,518) developed by Elias D. Torres, Lowell, Mass., and Christopher R. Vincent, Arlington, Mass., for a "secure management of authentication information." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system, method and computer program product are provided for managing authentication information for a user. According to the method, a master digital key is received from the user, and authentication of the user is obtained based on the master digital key. There is received from the user a selection of one identity from among a plurality of identities that are stored for the user. Authentication information for the user is provided into an application or web page based on the one identity selected by the user. In one embodiment, the authentication information is provided by recognizing a web page for which authentication information is stored, and automatically filling the authentication information for the user into appropriate elements of the web page." The patent application was filed on Jan. 7, 2009 (12/349,587). 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=8,402,518&OS=8,402,518&RS=8,402,518 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** MathWorks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 20 -- MathWorks, Natick, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,402,449) developed by Partha Biswas, Framingham, Mass., Vijaya Raghavan, Framingham, Mass., and Zhihong Zhao, Newton, Mass., for a "technique for automatically assigning placement for pipeline registers within code generated from a program specification." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method automatically inserts pipelines into a high-level program specification. An Intermediate Representation (IR) builder creates one or more graphs or trees based on the high-level program specification. A scheduler iteratively applies a bounded scheduling algorithm to produce an execution schedule for the IR minimizing overall execution time for a given number of pipeline stages. A Hardware Description Language (HDL) code generator may utilize the pipelined, scheduled IR to generate optimized HDL code corresponding to the high-level program specification. An annotated version of the high-level program specification showing where the pipelines have been inserted may be displayed allowing additional design exploration." The patent application was filed on Jan. 10, 2008 (11/972,117). 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=8,402,449&OS=8,402,449&RS=8,402,449 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** CA Inc. Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 20 -- CA Inc., Islandia, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,401,990) developed by Joseph M. Silsby, Kittery Point, Mass., for a "system and method for aggregating raw data into a star schema." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for aggregating raw data into a star schema comprises receiving data from a data source. The data is aggregated into star schema objects, based on a user-defined metadata schema. The star schema objects are stored into a star schema database." The patent application was filed on July 25, 2008 (12/180,372). 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=84,01,990.PN.&OS=PN/84,01,990&RS=PN/84,01,990 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Avery Design Systems Assigned Patent for System and Method for Correcting Gate-level Simulation Accuracy When Unknowns Exist ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 20 -- Avery Design Systems, Andover, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,402,405) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for correcting gate-level simulation accuracy when unknowns exist." The co-inventors are Kai-Hui Chang, North Andover, Mass., Yen-Ting Liu, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Christopher S. Browy, Boston, and Chilai Huang, Andover, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "This invention provides a system and method for correcting gate-level simulation commences by identifying unknown values (Xs) that are falsely generated during the simulation of a given trace for a design netlist. Then, a sub-circuit of the design netlist is determined for each false X that has inputs of real Xs and an output of a false X. Finally, simulation correction code is generated based on the sub-circuit to eliminate false Xs in simulation of the design netlist. The original design netlist can then be resimulated with the simulation repair code to eliminate false Xs. This allows gate-level simulation to produce correct results." The patent application was filed on May 22, 2012 (13/477,743). 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=8,402,405&OS=8,402,405&RS=8,402,405 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Actifio Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 20 -- Actifio, Waltham, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,402,004) developed by Christopher A. Provenzano, Somerville, Mass., and Mark A. Roman, Arlington, Mass., for a "system and method for creating deduplicated copies of data by tracking temporal relationships among copies and by ingesting difference data." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods are disclosed for forming deduplicated images of a data object that changes over time using difference information between temporal states of the data object. The method includes organizing the content of the data object for a first temporal state as a plurality of content segments and storing the content segments in a data store; creating an organized arrangement of hash structures to represent the data object in its first temporal state; receiving difference information for the data object; forming at least one hash signature for the changed content; and storing the changed content that is unique in the data store as content segments, whereby a deduplicated image of the data object for a second temporal state is stored without requiring reception of a complete image of the data object for the second temporal state." The patent application was filed on Nov. 16, 2010 (12/947,418). 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=84,02,004.PN.&OS=PN/84,02,004&RS=PN/84,02,004 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Verisign Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 20 -- Verisign, Reston, Va., has been assigned a patent (8,402,519) developed by Phillip Martin Hallam-Baker, Medford, Mass., for a transparent client authentication. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for authenticating an application (client) to a server or service. During a registration phase, an application that requests access to a service can receive a service identifier, which it can authenticate. The application can generate and send to the server or service an application-service key that is based upon the authenticated service identifier and a secret application key; a service-application identifier that can be based upon the authenticated service identifier and an application identifier; and a registration nonce, all of which can be stored at the server. During the authentication phase, the client can send to the server the application-service identifier, which the server can use to lookup the stored registration data. The server can send the registration nonce to the client, which can compute a proof of possession of the service-application key and send to the server. The server can compute its own version of this key and compare it to the received key. If they correspond, then the client is authenticated." The patent application was filed on Sept. 17, 2009 (12/561,647). 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=8,402,519&OS=8,402,519&RS=8,402,519 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Elwha Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 20 -- Elwha, Bellevue, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,402,535) developed by six co-inventors for "providing greater access to one or more items in response to determining device transfer." The co-inventors are Royce A. Levien, Lexington, Mass., Richard T. Lord, Tacoma, Wash., Robert W. Lord, Seattle, Mark A. Malamud, Seattle, John D. Rinaldo Jr., Bellevue, Wash., and Clarence T. Tegreene, Bellevue, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: determining that a computing device associated with a first user and that was in possession of a second user has been transferred from the second user to the first user; and providing at least greater access via the computing device to one or more items in response to determining that the computing device has been transferred from the second user to the first user. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure." The patent application was filed on April 25, 2011 (13/066,848). 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=8,402,535&OS=8,402,535&RS=8,402,535 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Crossbeam Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 20 -- Crossbeam Systems, Boxborough, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,402,540) developed by 10 co-inventors for "systems and methods for processing data flows." The co-inventors are Harsh Kapoor, Boxborough, Mass., Moisey Akerman, Upton, Mass., Stephen D. Justus, Portland, Ore., JC Ferguson, Harvard, Mass., Yevgeny Korsunsky, Bedford, Mass., Paul S. Gallo, Newton, Mass., Charles Ching Lee, Ashland, Mass., Timothy M. Martin, Westford, Mass., Chunsheng Fu, Amesbury, Mass., and Weidong Xu, Westford, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A flow processing facility, which uses a set of artificial neurons for pattern recognition, such as a self-organizing map, in order to provide security and protection to a computer or computer system supports unified threat management based at least in part on patterns relevant to a variety of types of threats that relate to computer systems, including computer networks. Flow processing for switching, security, and other network applications, including a facility that processes a data flow to address patterns relevant to a variety of conditions are directed at internal network security, virtualization, and web connection security. A flow processing facility for inspecting payloads of network traffic packets detects security threats and intrusions across accessible layers of the IP-stack by applying content matching and behavioral anomaly detection techniques based on regular expression matching and self-organizing maps. Exposing threats and intrusions within packet payload at or near real-time rates enhances network security from both external and internal sources while ensuring security policy is rigorously applied to data and system resources. Intrusion Detection and Protection (IDP) is provided by a flow processing facility that processes a data flow to address patterns relevant to a variety of types of network and data integrity threats that relate to computer systems, including computer networks." The patent application was filed on Oct. 24, 2007 (11/877,819). 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=8,402,540&OS=8,402,540&RS=8,402,540 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Oracle America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 20 -- Oracle America, Redwood City, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,402,464) developed by David Dice, Foxboro, Mass., and Mark S. Moir, Windham, N.H., for a "system and method for managing contention in transactional memory using global execution data." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Transactional Lock Elision (TLE) may allow threads in a multi-threaded system to concurrently execute critical sections as speculative transactions. Such speculative transactions may abort due to contention among threads. Systems and methods for managing contention among threads may increase overall performance by considering both local and global execution data in reducing, resolving, and/or mitigating such contention. Global data may include aggregated and/or derived data representing thread-local data of remote thread(s), including transactional abort history, abort causal history, resource consumption history, performance history, synchronization history, and/or transactional delay history. Local and/or global data may be used in determining the mode by which critical sections are executed, including TLE and mutual exclusion, and/or to inform concurrency throttling mechanisms. Local and/or global data may also be used in determining concurrency throttling parameters (e.g., delay intervals) used in delaying a thread when attempting to execute a transaction and/or when retrying a previously aborted transaction." The patent application was filed on Dec. 1, 2008 (12/325,870). 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=8,402,464&OS=8,402,464&RS=8,402,464 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** MathWorks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 20 -- MathWorks, Natick, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,402,006) developed by Andrew C. Bartlett, Westborough, Mass., for a "portion generation, certification, and verification." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In an exemplary embodiment, a computer-implemented method for obtaining a persistent design portion of an executable model is provided. The model includes on or more design details, a design detail specifying one or more aspects or elements of the model. The method also includes obtaining a design description of the model and a user selection specifying a design detail to be included in the design portion. The method further includes generating a selection specification from the user selection, obtaining the design portion by processing the design description according to the selection specification, and making the design portion persistent." The patent application was filed on July 11, 2008 (12/218,112). 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=84,02,006.PN.&OS=PN/84,02,006&RS=PN/84,02,006 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Waters Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 20 -- Waters Technologies, Milford, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,401,346) developed by five co-inventors for "methods of making and using an apparatus and devices for placing light and sample in photo-emitting or absorbing device." The co-inventors are Anthony Jeannotte, Foxborough, Mass., Anthony C. Gilby, Foxborough, Mass., Theordore A. Dourdeville, Marion, Mass., Dennis DellaRovere, Mendon, Mass., and John Leason, Taunton, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention relates to a device having an optical fiber coupled to a high pressure containment vessel and a method for making the same. The high pressure containment vessel can be an optical fiber based flow cell for a chromatography system." The patent application was filed on Nov. 1, 2010 (12/917,007). 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=8,401,346&OS=8,401,346&RS=8,401,346 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** L-3 Communications Security and Detection Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 20 -- L-3 Communications Security and Detection Systems, Woburn, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,401,270) developed by four co-inventors for an "examination of a region using dual-energy radiation." The co-inventors are Richard F. Eilbert, Lincoln, Mass., David Perticone, Winchester, Mass., Shuanghe Shi, Southborough, Mass., and Jeff Stillson, Merrimack, N.H. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A first image including a projection of a portion is generated based on data representing attenuation of higher-energy radiation having a peak energy of at least 1 MeV that passes through a portion of an inspection volume. A second image including a projection of the portion is generated based on data representing attenuation of lower-energy radiation passing through the portion of the inspection volume. A dual-pixel image is created from the first image and the second image. A region of interest is selected from the dual-pixel image. A first basis function that is derived from an attenuation characteristic associated with the region of interest is selected. The region of interest is represented in terms of an amplitude associated with the first basis function and an amplitude associated with the second basis function." The patent application was filed on June 15, 2009 (12/484,709). 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=8,401,270&OS=8,401,270&RS=8,401,270 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Massachusetts Institute of Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 20 -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,401,398) developed by four co-inventors for a "modulator for frequency-shift keying of optical signals." The co-inventors are Bryan S. Robinson, Arlington, Mass., Don M. Boroson, Needham, Mass., Scott A. Hamilton, Lexington, Mass., and Shelby J. Savage, Lexington, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Described are an FSK modulator and a method for large-alphabet FSK modulation. The FSK modulator and the method are based on filtering of a multi-tone optical source such as a mode-locked laser which provides a comb distribution of tones. A frequency-selective component selects for transmission a subset of the tones. In various embodiments the frequency-selective component is a Mach-Zehnder interferometer filter or a microring resonator filter. A second frequency-selective component selects a subset of the tones from the comb distribution provided by the first frequency-selective component. Still more frequency-selective components can be used according to the number of tones supplied by the multi-tone optical source to the FSK modulator. The optical signal exiting the last frequency-selective component includes only a single tone which corresponds to the symbol to be transmitted." The patent application was filed on March 6, 2008 (12/530,660). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,401,398&OS=8,401,398&RS=8,401,398 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 20 -- Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,401,282) developed by Fatih Porikli, Watertown, Mass., and Ajay Joshi, Minneapolis, for a "method for training multi-class classifiers with active selection and binary feedback." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A multi-class classifier is trained by selecting a query image from a set of active images based on a membership probability determined by the classifier, wherein the active images are unlabeled. A sample image is selected from a set of training image based on the membership probability of the query image, wherein the training images are labeled. The query image and the sample images are displayed to a user on an output device. A response from the user is obtained with an input device, wherein the response is a yes-match or a no-match. The query image with the label of the sample image is added to the training set if the yes-match is obtained, and otherwise repeating the selecting, displaying, and obtaining steps until a predetermined number of no-match is reached to obtain the multi-class classifier." The patent application was filed on March 26, 2010 (12/732,225). 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=8,401,282&OS=8,401,282&RS=8,401,282 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Math Works Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 20 -- Math Works, Natick, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,402,317) developed by Christian Portal, Holliston, Mass., Michael J. Thomas, Park City, Utah, and James G. Owen, Bolton, Mass., for "viewing multi-dimensional metric data from multiple test cases." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A viewer is disclosed for viewing a multi-dimensional data set. The viewer may be coupled to or included in a test environment and receive data generated in the test environment. The test environment may generate metric data from the multiple test cases of a UUT. The viewer may display the cumulative metric data generated from multiple test cases. The viewer may display the cumulative metric data in a fashion that the user can gain insight into the UUT's characteristics." The patent application was filed on May 21, 2008 (12/124,854). 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=8,402,317.PN.&OS=PN/8,402,317&RS=PN/8,402,317 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** CA Inc. Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 20 -- CA Inc., Islandia, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,402,278) developed by Paul A. Gassoway, Norwood, Mass., for a "method and system for protecting data." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention is directed to a method and system for protecting data. In accordance with a particular embodiment of the present invention a new file is created. Key information is retrieved for the file from a keyserver. The key information includes, a key, a key identifier, and encryption algorithm information. The file is encrypted using the encryption algorithm. The key identifier is stored in a data repository. The data repository relates the key identifier to the encrypted file." The patent application was filed on April 13, 2007 (11/735,147). 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=8,402,278.PN.&OS=PN/8,402,278&RS=PN/8,402,278 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 20 -- Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,402,263) developed by Wei Sun, Cambridge, Mass., and Shantanu Rane, Cambridge, Mass., for a "privacy-preserving probabilistic inference based on hidden Markov models." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A most likely sequence of states corresponding to an observation sequence stored at a client is determined securely with respect to a HMM stored at a server. An encryption of a log-probability of the current element of the observation sequence is determined for each state of the HMM. A product of an encryption of the log-probability of the state for the current element, an encryption of a transition probability to the state, and the encryption of a log-probability of the current element of the observation sequence is determined iteratively, for each state of the HMM, to produce an encrypted matrix of indexes of the states; and the encrypted matrix is transmitted to the client." The patent application was filed on March 31, 2011 (13/076,424). 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=8,402,263.PN.&OS=PN/8,402,263&RS=PN/8,402,263 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Intel Assigned Patent for Power Management in Electronic Systems ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 20 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,402,293) developed by four co-inventors for a "power management in electronic systems." The co-inventors are Bryan C. Morgan, Leominster, Mass., Priya N. Vaidya, Shrewsbury, Mass., Premanand Sakarda, Acton, Mass., and Marlon A. Moncrieffe, Leominster, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, an electronic apparatus comprises at least one processor and a computer readable medium coupled to the processor and comprising logic instructions encoded in the computer readable medium, wherein the instructions, when executed in a processing system, cause the processing system to perform operations comprising initializing a direct memory access profiler in an electronic system, wherein the direct memory access is coupled to a policy manager in the electronic system, measuring at least one memory consumption characteristic of the electronic system, communicating the at least one memory consumption characteristic to a policy manager of the electronic system, and using the at least one memory consumption characteristic to adjust a power state of the electronic system." The patent application was filed on June 28, 2011 (13/171,157). 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=8,402,293.PN.&OS=PN/8,402,293&RS=PN/8,402,293 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** NetApp Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 20 -- NetApp, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,402,346) developed by Atul Goel, Foster City, Calif., and Peter F. Corbett, Lexington, Mass., for an "N-way parity technique for enabling recovery from up to N storage device failures." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An n-way parity protection technique enables recovery of up to n storage device (e.g., disk) failures in a parity group of a storage array encoded to protect against n-way disk failures. The storage array is created by first configuring the array with m data disks, where m=p-1 and p is a prime number and a row parity disk. n-1 diagonal parity disks are then added to the array. Each diagonal parity set (i.e., diagonal) is associated with a slope that defines the data and row parity blocks of the array that are included in the diagonal. All diagonals having a common slope within a parity group are organized as a diagonal parity class. For each diagonal parity class, a diagonal parity storage disk is provided to store the diagonal parity." The patent application was filed on Sept. 25, 2009 (12/536,063). 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=8,402,346.PN.&OS=PN/8,402,346&RS=PN/8,402,346 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Synaptics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 20 -- Synaptics, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,402,372) developed by four co-inventors for a "touch screen with user interface enhancement." The co-inventors are David W. Gillespie, Los Gatos, Calif., Raymond A. Trent, San Jose, Calif., and Andrew C. Hsu, Belmont, Calif., and Leslie R. Grate, Waltham, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention is a graphical user interface in a computing device having a processor running an operating system and a display. The graphical user interface comprises a touch screen and a driver coupling the touch screen to the operating system. The driver can display a plurality of icons on the touch screen, or a plurality of screen images having at least one icon, with each of the icons associated with operations on the display and/or the touch screen. Other embodiments include the touch screen having unactivated and activated states, as well as the presence of an application programming interface that enables an application to display at least one image on the touch screen." The patent application was filed on May 11, 2010 (12/777,895). 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=8,402,372.PN.&OS=PN/8,402,372&RS=PN/8,402,372 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Oracle International Assigned Patent for System and Method for Committing Results of a Software Transaction Using a Hardware Transaction ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 20 -- Oracle International, Redwood City, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,402,227) developed by Mark S. Moir, Windham, N.H., Yosef Lev, New York, and Daniel S. Nussbaum, Cambridge, Mass., for a "system and method for committing results of a software transaction using a hardware transaction." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The system and methods described herein may exploit hardware transactional memory to improve the performance of a software or hybrid transactional memory implementation, even when an entire user transaction cannot be executed within a hardware transaction. The user code of an atomic transaction may be executed within a software transaction, which may collect read and write sets and/or other information about the atomic transaction. A single hardware transaction may be used to commit the atomic transaction by validating the transaction's read set and applying the effects of the user code to memory, reducing the overhead associated with commitment of software transactions. Because the hardware transaction code is carefully controlled, it may be less likely to fail to commit. Various remedial actions may be taken before retrying hardware transactions following some failures. If a transaction exceeds the constraints of the hardware, it may be committed by the software transactional memory alone." The patent application was filed on March 31, 2010 (12/750,908). 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=8,402,227.PN.&OS=PN/8,402,227&RS=PN/8,402,227 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. For more information about Targeted News Service products and services, please contact: Myron Struck, editor, Targeted News Service LLC, Springfield, Va., 703/304-1897; [email protected]; http://targetednews.com. -1118492 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |