[March 28, 2013] U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in California (March 28) Tweet (Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in California. *** QUALCOMM Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Controlling Data Transmission in a Wireless Communication System ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- QUALCOMM, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,406,255) developed by Ozcan Ozturk, San Diego, and Mehmet Yavuz, San Diego, for a "method and apparatus for controlling data transmission in a wireless communication system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques for controlling data transmission are described. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) determines whether to send a packet based on available transmit power. The UE determines a first packet size based on the available transmit power and sends a packet of the first packet size if it is equal to or larger than a minimum packet size. The UE sends a packet of a second packet size (e.g., the minimum packet size) if the first packet size is smaller than the minimum packet size and if at least one condition is met, e.g., the available transmit power is greater than a power threshold and the delay of a packet to send is larger than a delay threshold. In another aspect, the UE operates in a discontinuous transmission (DTX) mode and cancels the DTX mode if the delay of a packet to send exceeds a threshold." The patent application was filed on April 18, 2008 (12/105,640). 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=84,06,255.PN.&OS=PN/84,06,255&RS=PN/84,06,255 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** QUALCOMM Assigned Patent for Multi Input Multi Output Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access Communication System ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- QUALCOMM, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,406,335) developed by Jong Hyeon Park, San Jose, Calif., Ju Won Park, San Ramon, Calif., and Je Woo Kim, San Jose, Calif., for a "multi input multi output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) communication system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present disclosure includes techniques to process signals in a communication system, in which multiple signal processing units process signals received from multiple antennae. The signal processor units are controlled by operational-mode control signals, which are generated using an estimated Carrier-to-Interference-Noise-Ratio (CINR). The estimated CINR is generated using an equalized and combined signal, which is generated from the received signals and the estimated channel responses using the processed signals according to an operational mode. In another embodiment, a controller generates sub-carrier allocation signals using an allocation base. A channel status information (CSI) and multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) controller generates sub-carrier CSI signals and operational-mode control signals using the sub-carrier allocation signals, estimated channel responses, and estimated CINR. The operational-mode control signals select one of multiple antenna paths. A transmitter-diversity processor generates transmitter-diversity signals as a function of at least a mapped signal, sub-carrier CSI signals, and operational mode control signals." The patent application was filed on June 29, 2011 (13/172,369). 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=84,06,335.PN.&OS=PN/84,06,335&RS=PN/84,06,335 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** MobiTV Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- MobiTV, Emeryville, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,406,254) developed by four co-inventors for a network optimized distribution. The co-inventors are Kent Karlsson, San Francisco, Ola Hallmarker, Hagersten, Sweden, Martin Linderoth, .ANG.rsta, Sweden, and Dag Henriksson, Spanga, Sweden. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A content server is configured to buffer and transmit numerous live media streams to individual devices. The content server analyzes characteristics associated with the live media streams to determine timing and sequence number information. Other characteristics such as network congestion metrics, device buffer usage metrics, etc., can also be evaluated. Combined peak transmission times are determined to allow packets designated for transmission at a bandwidth usage peak to be transmitted earlier in time. Earlier packets are shifted even earlier as sequence numbers allow. This evens out bandwidth usage rates and allows improved live media stream transmission." The patent application was filed on April 11, 2008 (12/101,905). 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=84,06,254.PN.&OS=PN/84,06,254&RS=PN/84,06,254 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent for Narrowband Interference Rejection for Ultra-wideband Systems ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,406,278) developed by Saeed S. Ghassemzadeh, Andover, N.J., Jason Vincent Bellorado, Santa Clara, Calif., and Ashley B. Tarokh, Brookline, Mass., for a "narrowband interference rejection for ultra-wideband systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A technique for reducing interference between a direct-sequence ultra-wideband communications system and a narrowband communications system uses interference-rejecting spreading codes to reduce signal power in a frequency band associated with the narrowband communications system. A method of operating an ultra-wideband communications system includes applying an interference-rejecting spreading code to a signal for transmission. The interference-rejecting spreading code is configured to reduce power in a particular frequency band of a transmit or receive power spectral density associated with the ultra-wideband signal without substantially reducing power outside that particular frequency band of the transmit or receive power spectral density associated with the ultra-wideband signal." The patent application was filed on Nov. 20, 2009 (12/622,493). 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=84,06,278.PN.&OS=PN/84,06,278&RS=PN/84,06,278 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Yahoo! Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,406,424) developed by Athellina R. Ahmad Athsani, San Jose, Calif., and Chris T. Kalaboukis, Los Gatos, Calif., for a "visual universal decryption apparatus and methods." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed is a virtual universal decryption (VUD) service that provides a mechanism for allowing users of camera enabled mobile devices to use their camera to decrypt messages. The VUD service can provide a mechanism for a user of a VUD enabled device to authorize one or more other users of VUD enabled and camera enabled devices to use their cameras to decrypt messages sent by the authorizing user. The VUD service may then provide mechanisms for the authorized users to decrypt messages, which have been encrypted by the authorizing users, by simply capturing an image/video of the encrypted text with a camera of their VUD enabled devices." The patent application was filed on Oct. 25, 2007 (11/924,009). 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=84,06,424.PN.&OS=PN/84,06,424&RS=PN/84,06,424 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,406,412) developed by six co-inventors for a "system and method for call flow generation via real-time tracking of guided problem resolution." The co-inventors are Timothy J. Bethea, Sunnyvale, Calif., Neil H. Boyette, Oregon City, Ore., Isaac Kam-Chak Cheng, San Jose, Calif., Vikas Krishna, San Jose, Calif., Yolanda A. Rankin, San Jose, Calif., and Yongshin Yu, San Jose, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for adapting an existing call flow wherein the call flow further comprises an associated data set, comprising: activating the existing call flow, the existing call flow generating a series of questions designed to obtain information from a caller; determining if an exception condition has occurred; allowing a user to activate an exception call flow in response to the exception condition; retaining the data set associated with the call flow when the exception condition occurred; adapting the data set such that the call flow addresses the exception condition; analyzing the adapted data set to determine if it is unique; and, modifying the existing call flow to incorporate the adapted data set if the adapted data set is unique." The patent application was filed on Feb. 26, 2010 (12/714,368). 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=84,06,412.PN.&OS=PN/84,06,412&RS=PN/84,06,412 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Applied Micro Circuits Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- Applied Micro Circuits, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,406,365) developed by Viet Linh Do, Carlsbad, Calif., and Mehmet Mustafa Eker, San Marcos, Calif., for a "frequency reacquisition in a clock and data recovery device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method are provided for reacquiring a non-synchronous communication signal in a clock and data recovery (CDR) device frequency synthesizer. The method initially acquires the phase of a non-synchronous communication signal having an input data frequency. In response to acquiring the phase of the input data frequency, a synthesized signal is generated having an output frequency. Also as a result of acquiring the input data frequency, a frequency ratio value is selected. The output frequency is divided by the selected frequency ratio value, creating a divisor signal having a divisor frequency, which is compared to a reference signal frequency. In response to the comparison, the frequency ratio value is saved in a tangible memory medium. In response to losing phase-lock with the communication signal, the frequency ratio value is retrieved from memory. After acquiring the input data frequency, the phase of the communication signal is reacquired." The patent application was filed on Aug. 20, 2008 (12/194,744). 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=84,06,365.PN.&OS=PN/84,06,365&RS=PN/84,06,365 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Qualcomm Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,406,359) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for filtering noisy estimates to reduce estimation errors." The co-inventors are Gokhan Mergen, Campbell, Calif., Parvathanathan Subrahmanya, Sunnyvale, Calif., Vijayaraj Alilaghatta-Kantharaj, Boulder, Colo., and Nitin Kasturi, Los Gatos, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques for filtering noisy estimates to reduce estimation errors are described. A sequence of input values (e.g., for an initial channel impulse response estimate (CIRE)) is filtered with an infinite impulse response (IIR) filter having at least one coefficient to obtain a sequence of output values (e.g., for a filtered CIRE). The coefficient(s) are updated based on the sequence of input values with an adaptive filter, a bank of prediction filters, or a normalized variation technique. To update the coefficient(s) with the adaptive filter, a sequence of predicted values is derived based on the sequence of input values. Prediction errors between the sequence of predicted values and the sequence of input values are determined and filtered to obtain filtered prediction errors. The coefficient(s) of the IIR filter are then updated based on the prediction errors and the filtered prediction errors." The patent application was filed on Feb. 25, 2010 (12/712,907). 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=84,06,359.PN.&OS=PN/84,06,359&RS=PN/84,06,359 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** QUALCOMM Assigned Patent for Scheduled Gain Control in Collocated Wireless Receivers Using Forward Timed Signal Strength Predictions ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- QUALCOMM, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,406,274) developed by Olaf Josef Hirsch, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Paul Husted, San Jose, Calif., for a "scheduled gain control in collocated wireless receivers using forward timed signal strength predictions." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus is disclosed comprising collocated primary receiver (PR) and a time synchronized receiver (TSR), with a Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) configured by a LNA gain control signal to create a shared amplified signal sent to the PR and the TSR for them to concurrently receive packets. The TSR is configured to generate a timed signal strength prediction signal based on the shared amplified signal and the LNA gain control signal. The primary receiver is configured to generate the LNA gain control signal based, at least in part, on the timed signal strength prediction signal. The PR may include a spread spectrum receiver, and the TSR may include a frequency hopping receiver." The patent application was filed on Sept. 18, 2009 (12/563,048). 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=84,06,274.PN.&OS=PN/84,06,274&RS=PN/84,06,274 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Google Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,406,397) developed by Steve Lemke, Sunnyvale, Calif., for a "method and system for providing information for identifying callers." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the present invention include a caller identification system and method for identifying a caller with a partial phone number look-up table. The caller identification system comprises a database that stores received calls and can be personalized to include information specific to partial phone numbers. In one embodiment, the caller identification system disclosed can be integrated into a cellular phone. In this embodiment, an incoming call initiates a search in a database to retrieve information about the caller. If a match is found, the identity of the caller is displayed. When an exact match is not found, a search for a partial match is executed with wild card values and information about the partial match is displayed. Information for a partial match can be personalized or pre-programmed into the caller ID system such as the city associated with a particular area code or prefix." The patent application was filed on Dec. 6, 2010 (12/961,013). 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=84,06,397.PN.&OS=PN/84,06,397&RS=PN/84,06,397 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** QUALCOMM Assigned Patent for Methods and Systems for Improving Frame Decoding Performance Using Known Information ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- QUALCOMM, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,406,342) developed by Chun Woo Lee, San Ramon, Calif., and Jong Hyeon Park, San Jose, Calif., for "methods and systems for improving frame decoding performance using known information." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for decoding encoded data bits of a wireless communication transmission are provided. A set of a-priori bit values corresponding to known bit values of a response message expected to be transmitted in response to a previously transmitted message. Example expected response messages include clear to send (CTS) messages transmitted in response to request to send (RTS) messages and positive acknowledgement (ACK) messages transmitted in response to messages with data payloads." The patent application was filed on June 19, 2008 (12/142,770). 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=84,06,342.PN.&OS=PN/84,06,342&RS=PN/84,06,342 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** QUALCOMM Assigned Patent for Video Rate Adaptation to Reverse Link Conditions ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- QUALCOMM, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,406,309) developed by four co-inventors for a "video rate adaptation to reverse link conditions." The co-inventors are Yen-Chi Lee, San Diego, Christopher Gerard Lott, San Diego, Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap, San Diego, and Vikram Gupta, San Diego. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The disclosure relates to video rate adaptation techniques that may use information from a medium access control (MAC) layer and radio link protocol (RLP) layer. The techniques may greatly reduce video delay by adjusting video encoding rate. For real-time video telephony (VT) applications, these techniques may provide graceful quality degradation and improve user experience, especially when the channel conditions degrade." The patent application was filed on May 31, 2006 (11/445,099). 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=84,06,309.PN.&OS=PN/84,06,309&RS=PN/84,06,309 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,406,340) developed by Thomas J. Kolze, Phoenix, Bruce J. Currivan, Dove Canyon, Calif., and Ramon A. Gomez, San Juan Capistrano, Calif., for a "distortion and aliasing reduction for digital to analog conversion." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Distortion and aliasing reduction for digital to analog conversion. Synthesis of one or more distortion terms made based on a digital signal (e.g., one or more digital codewords) is performed in accordance with digital to analog conversion. The one or more distortion terms may correspond to aliased higher-order harmonics, distortion, nonlinearities, clipping, etc. Such distortion terms may be known a priori, such as based upon particular characteristics of a given device, operational history, etc. Alternatively, such distortion terms may be determined based upon operation of a device and/or based upon an analog signal generated from the analog to conversion process. For example, frequency selective measurements made based on an analog signal generated from the digital to analog conversion may be used for determination of and/or adaptation of the one or more distortion terms. One or more DACs may be employed within various architectures operative to perform digital to analog conversion." The patent application was filed on Aug. 31, 2011 (13/223,156). 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=84,06,340.PN.&OS=PN/84,06,340&RS=PN/84,06,340 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Passban Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- Passban, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,406,421) developed by Vladimir Kamen, San Francisco, Farzad Naimi, Atherton, Calif., and Kayvan Alikhani, Oakland, Calif., for a "method and system for multi-level secure personal profile management and access control to the enterprise multi-modal communication environment in heterogeneous convergent communication networks." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, is presented for securely accessing a voice-enabled communication terminal using Internet Protocol by performing physical authentication, performing biometric authentication, performing logical authentication, performing confirmation of a user and upon successful confirmation of the user, allowing access to the communication terminal." The patent application was filed on May 31, 2006 (11/444,566). 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=84,06,421.PN.&OS=PN/84,06,421&RS=PN/84,06,421 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Agilent Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,406,337) developed by Bernd Wuppermann, Pacifica, Calif., for a "method and apparatus for sending DC-balanced signals over a transmission line." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A DC-balanced signal is imposed on the input of a transmission line. Prior to imposing the DC-balanced signal, the input of the transmission line is held at an intermediate DC level that intermediate between the maximum and minimum DC levels of the DC-balanced signal. Alternatively, a compensating pulse is additionally imposed on the input of the transmission line. The compensating pulse compensates for a change in the DC level at the output of the transmission line caused by the imposing of the DC-balanced signal on the input of the transmission line." The patent application was filed on July 31, 2007 (11/831,593). 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=84,06,337.PN.&OS=PN/84,06,337&RS=PN/84,06,337 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Apple Assigned Patent for Multi-pass Video Encoding Based on Different Quantization Parameters ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- Apple, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,406,293) developed by six co-inventors for "multi-pass video encoding based on different quantization parameters." The co-inventors are Xin Tong, Mountain View, Calif., Hsi Jung Wu, Sunnyvale, Calif., Thomas Pun, San Jose, Calif., Adriana Dumitras, Sunnyvale, Calif., Barin Geoffry Haskell, Mountain View, Calif., and Jim Normile, Los Altos, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A novel multi-pass encoding method that encodes several images (e.g., several frames of a video sequence) is described. The method iteratively performs an encoding operation that encodes these images. The encoding operation is based on a nominal quantization parameter, which the method uses to compute quantization parameter for the images. During several different iterations of the encoding operation, the method uses several different nominal quantization parameters. The method stops its iterations when it reaches a terminating criterion (e.g., it identifies an acceptable encoding of the images)." The patent application was filed on April 28, 2005 (11/118,616). 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=84,06,293.PN.&OS=PN/84,06,293&RS=PN/84,06,293 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** QUALCOMM Assigned Patent for Directional Transforms for Intra-coding ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- QUALCOMM, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,406,299) developed by Marta Karczewicz, San Diego, for "directional transforms for intra-coding." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques for transforming the prediction error of intra-coded blocks using mode-dependent transform functions. In an embodiment, an encoder selects a set of transform functions to represent prediction error based on the spatial mode used for prediction. In an alternative embodiment, a decoder reconstructs an image block by using the signaled spatial mode to derive the corresponding set of transform functions. No additional signaling between encoder and decoder is required as compared to prior art implementations." The patent application was filed on Feb. 29, 2008 (12/040,633). 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=84,06,299.PN.&OS=PN/84,06,299&RS=PN/84,06,299 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Altera Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- Altera, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,406,258) developed by five co-inventors for an "apparatus and methods for low-jitter transceiver clocking." The co-inventors are Wilson Wong, San Francisco, Tim Tri Hoang, San Jose, Calif., Thungoc M. Tran, San Jose, Calif., Sergey Shumarayev, Los Altos Hills, Calif., and Allen Chan, San Jose, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "One embodiment relates to an integrated circuit which includes multiple communication channels, a clock multiplexer in each channel, two low-jitter clock generator circuits, and clock distribution circuitry. Each channel includes circuitry arranged to communicate a serial data stream using a reference clock signal, and the clock multiplexer in each channel is configured to select the reference clock signal from a plurality of input clock signals. The first low-jitter clock generator circuit is arranged to generate a first clock signal using a first inductor-capacitor-based oscillator circuit, and the second low-jitter clock generator circuit is arranged to generate a second clock signal using a second inductor-capacitor-based oscillator circuit The first and second inductor-capacitor-based oscillator circuits have different tuning ranges. The clock distribution circuitry is arranged to input the first and second low-jitter clock signals to each said clock multiplexer. Other embodiments and features are also disclosed." The patent application was filed on April 1, 2010 (12/752,984). 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=84,06,258.PN.&OS=PN/84,06,258&RS=PN/84,06,258 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Xilinx Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- Xilinx, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,406,334) developed by Raghavendar M. Rao, Austin, Texas, Raied N. Mazahreh, Cottonwood Heights, Utah, and Hai-Jo Tarn, San Jose, Calif., for an "overflow resistant, fixed precision, bit optimized systolic array for QR decomposition and MIMO decoding." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, a circuit for matrix decomposition is provided. The circuit includes an input circuit for receiving a first matrix. A permutation circuit is coupled to the input circuit and configured to interchange columns of the first matrix according to a selected permutation to produce a second matrix. A systolic array is coupled to the permutation circuit and configured to perform QR decomposition of the second matrix to produce a third matrix and a fourth matrix. A reverse permutation circuit is coupled to the systolic array and configured to interchange rows of the third matrix according to an inverse of the selected permutation to produce a first factor matrix and interchange rows of the fourth matrix according to the inverse of the selected permutation to produce a second factor matrix." The patent application was filed on June 11, 2010 (12/814,319). 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=84,06,334.PN.&OS=PN/84,06,334&RS=PN/84,06,334 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent for Video Processing System with Layered Video Coding for Fast Channel Change and Methods for Use ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,406,313) developed by six co-inventors for a "video processing system with layered video coding for fast channel change and methods for use therewith." The co-inventors are Stephen E. Gordon, Lexington, Mass., Jeyhan Karaoguz, Irvine, Calif., Sherman (Xuemin) Chen, Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., Michael Dove, Los Gatos, Calif., David Rosmann, Irvine, Calif., and Thomas J. Quigley, Franklin, N.C. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A video processing system includes a video encoder that encodes a video stream into an independent video layer stream and a first dependent video layer stream based on a motion vector data or grayscale and color data." The patent application was filed on April 2, 2012 (13/437,327). 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=84,06,313.PN.&OS=PN/84,06,313&RS=PN/84,06,313 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** QST Holdings Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- QST Holdings, Palo Alto, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,406,281) developed by five co-inventors for an "apparatus, module, and method for implementing communications functions." The co-inventors are Ghobad Heidari, San Diego, Kuor-Hsin Chang, Sunnyvale, Calif., Paul L. Master, Sunnyvale, Calif., Eugene B. Hogenauer, San Carlos, Calif., and Walter James Scheuermann, Saratoga, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system acquisition module and corresponding method for facilitating PN code searching which has a PN sequence generator configurable to generate a plurality of PN sequences. The module and method also includes computational units configurable to correlate each received signal sample of a plurality of received signal samples with a corresponding PN sequence of the plurality of PN sequences, and further configurable to provide other hardware resources. A number of computational units from the plurality of computational units are selectively configured to correlate the received signal samples with the PN sequences--the number depending upon availability of the plurality of computational units from providing the other hardware resources. In another embodiment, a communication device having a system acquisition function is provided which includes the system acquisition module and a receiver configured to receive signals, where a plurality of configurable computational units are selectively configurable to implement the PN sequence generator." The patent application was filed on Oct. 28, 2009 (12/607,916). 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=84,06,281.PN.&OS=PN/84,06,281&RS=PN/84,06,281 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Visa USA Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- Visa USA, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,407,148) developed by five co-inventors for "systems and methods to provide messages in real-time with transaction processing." The co-inventors are Jeanette Yoder, San Mateo, Calif., Leigh Amaro, Redwood City, Calif., Ryan Hagey, Alameda, Calif., Derek A. Vroom, San Mateo, Calif., and Michael Steven Bankston, Pacifica, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one aspect, a computing apparatus is configured to generate trigger records for a transaction handler to identify authorization requests that satisfy the conditions specified in the trigger records, identify communication preferences of the users associated with the identified authorization requests, and use the communication preferences to target real-time messages at the users in parallel with the transaction handler providing responses to the respective authorization requests." The patent application was filed on Oct. 19, 2011 (13/277,164). 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=8,407,148&OS=8,407,148&RS=8,407,148 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Google Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,407,466) developed by four co-inventors for "controlling download and playback of media content." The co-inventors are Wai Fun (Aaron) Lee, Mountain View, Calif., Marius P. Schilder, Sunnyvale, Calif., Jason D. Waddle, Oakland, Calif., and J. Alex Halderman, Princeton, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods provide for controlling download and playback of media content. A system includes a client, which can play content, and a server. The server includes a permission system that can determine whether a client request to download or play content should be granted. All purchase, download, and playback requests require permission from the permission system. The server also includes a DD module system that transfers a DD module to the client. The DD module includes a content key decryption module, a content decryption module, and a content decompression module. The content key decryption module decrypts an encrypted content key that was received from the server. The decryption uses a unique DD module key that has been hard-coded into the content key decryption module. The content decryption module uses the content key to decrypt encrypted content. The content decompression module decompresses compressed content so that it can be played." The patent application was filed on Oct. 24, 2011 (13/280,050). 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=8,407,466&OS=8,407,466&RS=8,407,466 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,407,447) developed by five co-inventors for a "dynamically reallocating computing components between partitions." The co-inventors are Kenneth C. Duisenberg, Roseville, Calif., Loren M. Koehler, Fair Oaks, Calif., Ivan Farkas, Roseville, Calif., Stephen B. Lyle, Granite Bay, Calif., and Rajeev Grover, Rocklin, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems, methods and computing components are provided for dynamically reallocating a plurality of computing components among one or more logical partitions. A first computing component that is allocated to a first partition may have a management processor. A second computing component may be allocated to a second partition. The management processor of the first computing component may be configured to reallocate the first computing component to a third partition without affecting the second computing component." The patent application was filed on Dec. 16, 2009 (12/639,335). 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=8,407,447&OS=8,407,447&RS=8,407,447 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Tegile Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- Tegile Systems, Newark, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,407,437) developed by Wen-Chen Cheng, Los Altos, Calif., and Rajesh Nair, Bangalore, India, for a "scalable metadata acceleration with datapath metadata backup." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system, method and computer program product for scalable metadata acceleration with datapath metadata backup as disclosed includes providing a plurality of metadata comprising variable block pointers for the physical location of system data. The method also includes storing at least a first and a second metadata in two or more solid state memories accelerated with respect to a read and a write of a memory in a datapath, each solid state memory configured as a logical copy of the other. The method additionally includes interleaving a backup metadata in a datapath memory at a variable interval based on a table of block pointers. The method further includes querying the accelerated metadata for an accelerated datapath operation of the system and querying the interleaved metadata and/or a logical mirror of the accelerated metadata for a rebuild operation of the accelerated metadata, each query determinable by the table of block pointers." The patent application was filed on March 14, 2012 (13/419,641). 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=8,407,437&OS=8,407,437&RS=8,407,437 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Ceresis Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- Ceresis, Honolulu, has been assigned a patent (8,407,165) developed by Terrence Monroe, Honolulu, and James Kennedy, Murrieta, Calif., for a "method for parsing, searching and formatting of text input for visual mapping of knowledge information." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for performing relational analysis of parsed input is employed to create a visual map of knowledge information. A title, header or subject line for an input item of information is parsed into syntactical components of at least a subject component and any predicate component(s) relationally linked as topic and subtopics. A search of indices for the knowledge map and its topics and subtopics is carried out for the subject component. If a match is found, then the subject component is taken as the existing topic. If no match is found, then the subject component is formatted as a new entry in the knowledge map. Topic-related information content is stored in the repository referenced to the formatted topic. A similar process can be carried out for formatting predicate component(s). In this manner, input items of information can be quickly and conveniently added to the knowledge information map." The patent application was filed on Oct. 13, 2011 (13/272,656). 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=8,407,165&OS=8,407,165&RS=8,407,165 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Silicon Image Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- Silicon Image, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,407,427) developed by seven co-inventors for a "method and system for improving serial port memory communication latency and reliability." The co-inventors are Alan Ruberg, Menlo Park, Calif., Seoung Jeong Lee, Santa Clara, Calif., Hyung Rok Lee, Sunnyvale, Calif., Daeyun Shim, Saratoga, Calif., Dongyun Lee, San Jose, Calif., Sungjoon Kim, Cupertino, Calif., and Anu Murthy, Sunnyvale, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, apparatus and system for reducing memory latency is disclosed. In one embodiment, data between a host computer system and a memory is communicated via a port or a group of ports at the memory over multiple time intervals, wherein the host computer is coupled to the memory. Further, a command associated with the data is communicated between the host computer system and the memory via the port or the group of ports over a single time interval." The patent application was filed on Oct. 23, 2009 (12/605,134). 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=8,407,427&OS=8,407,427&RS=8,407,427 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** NVIDIA Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- NVIDIA, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,407,443) developed by Bryon S. Nordquist, Santa Clara, Calif., for an "off-chip out of order memory allocation for a unified shader." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for dynamically allocating memory for thread processing may reduce memory requirements while maintaining thread processing parallelism. A memory pool is allocated to store data for processing multiple threads that does not need to be large enough to dedicate a fixed size portion of the memory pool to each thread that may be processed in parallel. Fixed size portions of the memory pool are dynamically allocated and deallocated to each processing thread. Different fixed size portions may be used for different types of threads to allow greater thread parallelism compared with a system that requires allocating a single fixed portion of the memory pool to each thread. The memory pool may be shared between all of the thread types or divided to provide separate memory pools dedicated to each particular thread type." The patent application was filed on May 1, 2009 (12/434,422). 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=8,407,443&OS=8,407,443&RS=8,407,443 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Element CXI Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- Element CXI, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,407,429) developed by four co-inventors for a "multi-context configurable memory controller." The co-inventors are John M. Rudosky, Hampton, N.H., Stephen L. Wasson, Marina, Calif., Brian A. Box, Seabrook, N.H., and Steven Hennick Kelem, Los Altos Hills, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The exemplary embodiments provide a multi-context configurable memory controller comprising: an input-output data port array comprising a plurality of input queues and a plurality of output queues; at least one configuration and control register to store, for each context of a plurality of contexts, a plurality of configuration bits; a configurable circuit element configurable for a plurality of data operations, each data operation corresponding to a context of a plurality of contexts, the plurality of data operations comprising memory address generation, memory write operations, and memory read operations, the configurable circuit element comprising a plurality of configurable address generators; and an element controller, the element controller comprising a port arbitration circuit to arbitrate among a plurality of contexts having a ready-to-run status, and the element controller to allow concurrent execution of multiple data operations for multiple contexts having the ready-to-run status." The patent application was filed on Aug. 23, 2011 (13/216,203). 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=8,407,429&OS=8,407,429&RS=8,407,429 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** CMS Products Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- CMS Products, Costa Mesa, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,407,460) developed by Gary W. Streuter, San Clemente, Calif., Randall Deetz, Costa Mesa, Calif., and Jim Sedin, Ketchum, Idaho, for a "system and method for a software application to determine if the storage device and the operating system is an internal drive or an external drive." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Software program or application can determine if the storage device it was launched from is connected to the host computer system on an internal bus or an external bus. The ability of a software application to determine from where it and the operating system was launched allows it to perform a plurality of actions based on the launch location such as limiting the functionality of an application depending on its launch location. If a software company does not want its software to be installed or executed from an external drive or executed on multiple computers then it can limit the users ability to moved the software from one computer to another on a portable drive connected through a USB or IEEE-1394 port." The patent application was filed on May 21, 2012 (13/476,363). 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=8,407,460&OS=8,407,460&RS=8,407,460 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Rambus Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- Rambus, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,407,441) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for calibrating write timing in a memory system." The co-inventors are Thomas J. Giovannini, San Jose, Calif., Alok Gupta, Fremont, Calif., Ian Shaeffer, Los Gatos, Calif., and Steven C. Woo, Saratoga, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system that calibrates timing relationships between signals involved in performing write operations is described. This system includes a memory controller which is coupled to a set of memory chips, wherein each memory chip includes a phase detector configured to calibrate a phase relationship between a data-strobe signal and a clock signal received at the memory chip from the memory controller during a write operation. Furthermore, the memory controller is configured to perform one or more write-read-validate operations to calibrate a clock-cycle relationship between the data-strobe signal and the clock signal, wherein the write-read-validate operations involve varying a delay on the data-strobe signal relative to the clock signal by a multiple of a clock period." The patent application was filed on May 19, 2011 (13/111,446). 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=8,407,441&OS=8,407,441&RS=8,407,441 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Juniper Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- Juniper Networks, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,407,416) developed by An-Cheng Huang, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Vanco Buca, Campbell, Calif., for a "dynamic disk throttling in a wide area network optimization device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A network device may operate to increase application performance over a wide area network. In one particular implementation, the network device may monitor accesses to a disk drive from entities and determine whether an entity is accessing the disk drive in a manner that causes a disproportionate amount of performance degradation. If so, the network device may throttle access to the disk drive for the entity." The patent application was filed on April 5, 2012 (13/440,127). 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=8,407,416&OS=8,407,416&RS=8,407,416 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Yahoo! Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,407,465) developed by Mor Naaman, San Francisco, and Simon P. King, Berkeley, Calif., for a mobile authentication framework. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed are apparatus and methods for associating a mobile device with a web service or a user account. A unique code is displayed on the mobile device. The unique code is associated with a user account or web service to be utilized with the mobile device. Instructions for a user to enter the unique code in an authentication process via an authentication portal of a management device are also displayed. After it is determined that a user has performed the authentication process, any user identification, which has been associated with the unique code, is then obtained from the management device. The obtained user identification is then stored for use by the mobile device. After user identification has been obtained and stored, the stored user identification is used for the mobile device to participate in an authentication process for authorizing the mobile device to utilize a web service or user account associated with the user identification. The authentication process is participated in by the mobile device without requiring input from the user during such authentication process." The patent application was filed on July 5, 2011 (13/176,588). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,407,465&OS=8,407,465&RS=8,407,465 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Western Digital Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- Western Digital Technologies, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,407,449) developed by Kevin M. Colon, Mission Viejo, Calif., and Charles P. Rainey III, Laguna Niguel, Calif., for a "non-volatile semiconductor memory storing an inverse map for rebuilding a translation table." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A non-volatile semiconductor memory is disclosed comprising a non-volatile memory array including a plurality of blocks, each block comprising a plurality of memory segments each assigned a physical address. A logical address is read from a first block, wherein the logical address corresponds to a physical address of one of the memory segments. When the memory segment corresponding to the logical address is valid, a translation table is updated using the logical address, wherein the translation table for mapping logical addresses to physical addresses. When the memory segment corresponding to the logical address is invalid, a dirty table is updated using the logical address. The dirty table is used to perform a garbage collection operation, wherein invalid memory segments are erased without being relocated." The patent application was filed on Feb. 26, 2010 (12/714,350). 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=8,407,449&OS=8,407,449&RS=8,407,449 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Numenta Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- Numenta, Redwood City, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,407,166) developed by six co-inventors for "hierarchical temporal memory system with higher-order temporal pooling capability." The co-inventors are Jeffrey C. Hawkins, Atherton, Calif., Dileep George, Menlo Park, Calif., Charles Curry, Fremont, Calif., Frank E. Astier, Mountain View, Calif., Anosh Raj, Palo Alto, Calif., and Robert G. Jaros, San Francisco. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A temporal pooler for a Hierarchical Temporal Memory network is provided. The temporal pooler is capable of storing information about sequences of co-occurrences in a higher-order Markov chain by splitting a co-occurrence into a plurality of sub-occurrences. Each split sub-occurrence may be part of a distinct sequence of co-occurrences. The temporal pooler receives the probability of spatial co-occurrences in training patterns and tallies counts or frequency of transitions from one sub-occurrence to another sub-occurrence in a connectivity matrix. The connectivity matrix is then processed to generate temporal statistics data. The temporal statistics data is provided to an inference engine to perform inference or prediction on input patterns. By storing information related to a higher-order Markov model, the temporal statistics data more accurately reflects long temporal sequences of co-occurrences in the training patterns." The patent application was filed on June 12, 2009 (12/483,642). 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=8,407,166&OS=8,407,166&RS=8,407,166 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Lockheed Martin Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- Lockheed Martin, Orlando, Fla., has been assigned a patent (8,407,170) developed by four co-inventors for "root-cause analysis system and associated methods." The co-inventors are Gregory A. Harrison, Oviedo, Fla., Harold W. Nelson, San Diego, Ross Hall, Orlando, Fla., and Lorie R. Ingraham, Orlando, Fla. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for determining a root cause of a problem in a multiple-element system includes correlating an incoming alarm signal with an element x in a multiple-element system and accessing an implication list comprising a list of all elements upstream of element x. At least one element on the implication list is weighted with data relating to the at least one element. Taking into account the weighting step, a probability is calculated that an element on the implication list comprises a most-probable root cause of the subsequent alarm signal. The identified most-probable root cause of the incoming alarm signal is output." The patent application was filed on Nov. 25, 2009 (12/625,944). 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=8,407,170&OS=8,407,170&RS=8,407,170 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** VMware Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- VMware, Palo Alto, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,407,475) developed by four co-inventors for an "augmented single factor split key asymmetric cryptography-key generation and distributor." The co-inventors are Ravi Ganesan, Half Moon Bay, Calif., Ravinderpal Singh Sandhu, Oak Hill, Va., Andrew Paul Cottrell, San Jose, Calif., and Kyle Austin, Saratoga, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for authenticating communication network users includes a user-associated user station communicatively coupled to an authenticating station via the communication network. The authenticating station is configured to authenticate the user and receive a first value, representing a first user credential, from the user station. A first key portion is generated based on the first value and a second value that is unknown to the user. The first key portion, along with a second key portion, is used for authenticating credentials of the user for a predefined period of time or for authenticating user credentials for a predefined number of times. The second key portion is generated based on the first key portion. A cookie that includes the second value or a value derived from the second value is generated and transmitted to the user station and then the second value is destroyed." The patent application was filed on Dec. 2, 2010 (12/958,496). 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=8,407,475&OS=8,407,475&RS=8,407,475 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Symantec Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- Symantec, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,407,471) developed by William E. Sobel, Stevenson Ranch, Calif., for "selecting a network service for communicating with a server." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The Domain Name System (DNS) can be used to query for security information in real time. A security module on a client detects a network connection and sends a test probe as a DNS resolution request to a DNS server associated with a security server via the network connection. The test probe requests resolution of a domain name for which the DNS server is authoritative. The security module analyzes a response to the test probe to determine whether the response is valid based on testing information included in the DNS response. Responsive to whether a valid response to the test probe is received, the security module selects a network service for subsequent communications via the network connection." The patent application was filed on Aug. 24, 2010 (12/862,092). 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=8,407,471&OS=8,407,471&RS=8,407,471 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Google Assigned Patent for Power Management of Memory Circuits by Virtual Memory Simulation ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,407,412) developed by Suresh Natarajan Rajan, San Jose, Calif., Michael John Smith, Palo Alto, Calif., and David T. Wang, San Jose, Calif., for a "power management of memory circuits by virtual memory simulation." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus and method are provided for communicating with a plurality of physical memory circuits. In use, at least one virtual memory circuit is simulated where at least one aspect (e.g. power-related aspect, etc.) of such virtual memory circuit(s) is different from at least one aspect of at least one of the physical memory circuits. Further, in various embodiments, such simulation may be carried out by a system (or component thereof), an interface circuit, etc." The patent application was filed on Jan. 4, 2012 (13/343,612). 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=8,407,412&OS=8,407,412&RS=8,407,412 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Google Assigned Patent for Predicting Shipment Origin Points ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,407,154) developed by Thomas Mackenzie Fallows, San Francisco, for "predicting shipment origin points." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A shipment origin location for a product purchased by a customer is predicted. A merchant evaluator receives information from a user about a purchase transaction completed by the user with a merchant for a product, including the user's location. When the product is shipped, the merchant evaluator receives tracking information about the shipment. The merchant evaluator determines from the tracking information a point of origin for the shipment and updates its records to reflect the shipment origin point for that merchant and product, given the user's location. As the merchant evaluator compiles similar data for many products shipped by many merchants to many destinations, the merchant evaluator develops a searchable index, enabling a prediction to be made about a shipment origin point for a particular product from a particular merchant, given the location of the user ordering the product. A time-in-transit prediction can also be made." The patent application was filed on April 27, 2012 (13/458,470). 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=8,407,154&OS=8,407,154&RS=8,407,154 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Salesforce.com Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- Salesforce.com, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,407,184) developed by 11 co-inventors for "maintaining applications that are occasionally connected to an online services system." The co-inventors are Didier Prophete, San Francisco, Ronald Fischer, San Francisco, Mark Movida, Berkeley, Calif., Artur Kesel, Daly City, Calif., Amol Hardikar, San Francisco, Madhav Pathak, Union City, Calif., Sonke Rohde, San Francisco, Markus Spohn, Foster City, Calif., Marni Gasn, San Mateo, Calif., Anshu Agarwal, San Francisco, and Krzysztof Oblucki, Oakland, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In a method for maintaining applications that are occasionally connected to an online services system, metadata describing at least a portion of an online services database is retrieved and the portion of the online services database is authorized for replication at a software application, information for an entity for an application database in accordance with metadata is determined, information is sent for the entity to an application data management service, data for the software application is retrieved from the online services database in accordance with metadata, at least a portion of the data for the software application is sent to the application data management service and the portion of the data for the software application should be synchronized with the online services database, a request for information is received for rendering a component of a user interface, and information is provided for rendering the component of the user interface for the software application." The patent application was filed on July 16, 2010 (12/838,388). 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=8,407,184&OS=8,407,184&RS=8,407,184 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Oracle International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- Oracle International, Redwood Shores, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,407,461) developed by Weng Cheong, San Francisco, Eswar Vandanapu, Fremont, Calif., and Sreedhar Katti, Bangalore, India, for a "plug-in system for software applications." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A plug-in framework is invoked within a plug-in, where the plug-in framework includes a software library configured to define, register, and configure plug-ins, where the plug-in includes a software module that extends or customizes functionality of a software application that is external to the plug-in, and where the plug-in includes a mapping name. A plug-in instance declaration is searched, by the plug-in framework, for a mapping that includes the mapping name, where the plug-in instance declaration is located within a plug-in file, and where the plug-in declaration comprises one or more mappings. When a mapping of the mapping name to the value is found, the value is returned, by the plug-in framework, to the plug-in based on the mapping. 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