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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Kansas (March 21)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 21 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Kansas. *** Sprint Spectrum Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 21 -- Sprint Spectrum, Overland Park, Kan., has been assigned a patent (8,400,971) developed by Rajveen Narendran, Olathe, Kan., and Andrew M. Wurtenberger, Olathe, Kan., for a "reclamation of EV-DO sessions based on latency-sensitivity." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems are provided for implementing reclamation of EV-DO sessions based on latency-sensitivity. In an embodiment, an EV-DO access node (e.g. an RNC) maintains a plurality of sessions respectively associated with a plurality of access terminals. The plurality of sessions consists of a first number of sessions, each having an associated degree of latency-sensitivity. The access node compares the first number with a session-reclamation threshold. If the access node determines that the first number exceeds the session-reclamation threshold, the access node responsively reclaims one or more of the sessions that have been inactive for at least a threshold amount of time in ascending order of latency-sensitivity, without notifying the one or more associated access terminals." The patent application was filed on Jan. 10, 2008 (11/972,558). 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=84,00,971.PN.&OS=PN/84,00,971&RS=PN/84,00,971 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Textron Innovations Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 21 -- Textron Innovations, Providence, R.I., has been assigned a patent (8,401,716) developed by Philippe A. Ciholas, Sedgwick, Kan., and Mark W. Palmer, Peru, Kan., for flight control systems. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for a controlling an aircraft with flight control surfaces that are controlled both manually and by a computing device is disclosed. The present invention improves overall flight control operation by reducing the mechanical flight control surface components while providing sufficient back-up control capability in the event of either a mechanical or power-related failure. Through the present invention, natural feedback is provided to the operator from the mechanical flight control surface which operates independent of computer-aided flight control surfaces." The patent application was filed on Jan. 31, 2007 (11/669,565). 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=8,401,716&OS=8,401,716&RS=8,401,716 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Honeywell International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 21 -- Honeywell International, Morristown, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,401,508) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for mitigation of unwanted signal components in complex sampling receiver." The co-inventors are Dave Havener, Olathe, Kan., Timothy Gibson, Overland Park, Kan., Manuel Franklin Richey, Paola, Kan., and Jyotsna Motukupally, Olathe, Kan. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed are methods and systems for mitigating unwanted signal components. A received carrier signal is downconverted using a local reference signal that imposes an frequency perturbation or dither. Later, when an intermediate digitized signal is filtered to remove the DC offset that is an artifact of the sampling process, the dither in the carrier signal serves to distinguish the carrier from the unwanted offset. The preferred offset filter is a low pass filter with a passband that is narrow relative to the frequency range of the dither." The patent application was filed on Feb. 19, 2009 (12/388,720). 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=8,401,508.PN.&OS=PN/8,401,508&RS=PN/8,401,508 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Sprint Communications Assigned Patent for Increased Wireless Communication Transmissions in Heterogeneous Networks ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 21 -- Sprint Communications, Overland Park, Kan., has been assigned a patent (8,401,481) developed by four co-inventors for an "increased wireless communication transmissions in heterogeneous networks." The co-inventors are Maulik K. Shah, Overland Park, Kan., Siddharth Oroskar, Overland Park, Kan., Manoj Shetty, Overland Park, Kan., and Sachin R. Vargantwar, Overland Park, Kan. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A wireless communication system comprises a macrocell base station and a communication control system, wherein picocell base stations inhibit wireless communications during a first set of time slots and transfer the wireless communications during a second set of the time slots. The macrocell base station is configured to transfer wireless communication signals at a first power level to a plurality of wireless communication devices during the first set of the time slots. The communication control system configured to determine a quantity of the wireless communication devices that are within a distance threshold of the macrocell base station. The macrocell base station is configured to transfer additional wireless communication signals at a second power level during the second set of the time slots to at least some of the wireless communication devices if the quantity exceeds a quantity threshold." The patent application was filed on March 30, 2011 (13/075,393). 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=8,401,481.PN.&OS=PN/8,401,481&RS=PN/8,401,481 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Sprint Communications Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 21 -- Sprint Communications, Overland Park, Kan., has been assigned a patent (8,401,538) developed by Robert E. Urbanek, Overland Park, Kan., for a "system and method for generic mobile phone configuration." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of providing wireless communication service to a mobile phone is provided. The method comprises identifying common mobile phone applications and selectively supported mobile phone applications, installing the common mobile phone applications and the selectively supported mobile phone applications in read only memory of the mobile phone, each of the selectively supported applications associated with a selection switch initially disabled. The method further comprises, when activating the mobile phone, enabling at least one of the selection switches and writing at least one reference to branded content to a random access memory of the mobile phone based on a service plan associated with the mobile phone." The patent application was filed on July 24, 2012 (13/556,202). 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=8,401,538.PN.&OS=PN/8,401,538&RS=PN/8,401,538 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Sprint Communications Assigned Patent for Sponsored Keyword Usage in Voice Communication ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 21 -- Sprint Communications, Overland Park, Kan., has been assigned a patent (8,401,529) developed by Jason R. Delker, Olathe, Kan., Robin D. Katzer, Olathe, Kan., and M. Jeffrey Stone, Overland Park, Kan., for a "sponsored keyword usage in voice communication." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A server computer is provided comprising a processor, a memory, and an application stored in the memory that, when executed by the processor, identifies at least one keyword based on one of a first communication device and a second communication device and transmits the at least one keyword to the first communication device. The server computer also analyzes a voice traffic between the first communication device and the second communication device to determine whether the at least one keyword occurs in the voice traffic. When the at least one keyword is determined to occur in the voice traffic, the server computer sends a confirmation message to the first communication device." The patent application was filed on July 13, 2012 (13/549,390). 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=8,401,529.PN.&OS=PN/8,401,529&RS=PN/8,401,529 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. -1118685 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |