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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in New Jersey (April 3)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in New Jersey. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,412,693) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for providing a natural language interface to a database." The co-inventors are Richard Vandervoort Cox, New Providence, N.J., Hossein Eslambolchi, Los Altos Hills, Calif., Behzad Nadji, Los Gatos, Calif., and Mazin G. Rahim, Warren, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for providing a natural language interface to a database or the Internet. The method provides a response from a database to a natural language query. The method comprises receiving a user query, extracting key data from the user query, submitting the extracted key data to a data base search engine to retrieve a top n pages from the data base, processing of the top n pages through a natural language dialog engine and providing a response based on processing the top n pages." The patent application was filed on March 29, 2011 (13/074,419). 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=84,12,693.PN.&OS=PN/84,12,693&RS=PN/84,12,693 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** CommVault Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- CommVault Systems, Oceanport, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,412,680) developed by Parag Gokhale, Marlboro, N.J., and Amey Vijaykumar Karandikar, Long Branch, N.J., for a "system and method for performing backup operations and reporting the results thereof." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods are provided for performing a plurality of data operations as a batch process on a client computing device and then reporting on the results of the batch process. According to some embodiments, the batch process is a backup process, a backup server or backup client is provided that is configured to perform the backup process on the backup client; record a backup operation result for the backup operations performed as part of the backup process; and determine a backup process result based on the one or more backup operation results, wherein if no backup operation result indicates a failure, then the backup process result is determined to be a success, and wherein if a backup operation result indicates a failure, then the backup process result is determined to be a success if the plurality of backup operation results meets a predetermined level of success." The patent application was filed on Jan. 20, 2011 (13/010,734). 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=84,12,680.PN.&OS=PN/84,12,680&RS=PN/84,12,680 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Yahoo! Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,412,652) developed by four co-inventors for an "apparatus and methods for operator training in information extraction." The co-inventors are Cong Yu, Hoboken, N.J., Mridul Muralidharan, Bangalore, India, Arun Shankar Iyer, Bangalore, India, and Philip Lewis Bohannon, Cupertino, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "After receipt of a training and execution plan, a trainer operator is automatically trained based on specified training documents so as to generate a new trained operator for extracting information from documents. The new trained operator is a new version of the trainee operator. Both trainee operators are automatically retained for later use in extracting information from one or more unknown documents. After receipt of the training and execution plan, the new trained operator is automatically executed on one or more unknown documents so as to extract information from such one or more unknown documents." The patent application was filed on March 4, 2009 (12/398,126). 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=84,12,652.PN.&OS=PN/84,12,652&RS=PN/84,12,652 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** American Express Travel Related Services Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- American Express Travel Related Services, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,412,639) developed by five co-inventors for a "system and method for facilitating a secured financial transaction using an alternate shipping address." The co-inventors are Lee C. Chau, Livingston, N.J., Glade R. Erikson, Glendale, Ariz., Desmond Liang, New York, Nora Maude Hendrycks, New York, and Venkat Varadachary, New York. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The disclosed system enables merchants to ship products to a predefined address that may or may not be an account holder's billing address. The account holder may define one or more alias identifiers that correspond to a predefined shipping address. The predefined shipping address is stored with a corresponding alias identifier. A merchant order form includes a field to accept an alias identifier, such that when the order form is submitted to the merchant and the merchant prepares a purchase authorization request, the alias identifier is included in the request. The credit account issuer receives the payment authorization request and extracts the alias identifier, which is used to locate a matching stored alias identifier. A shipping address corresponding to the stored alias identifier is retrieved and returned to the merchant with an authorization message." The patent application was filed on Nov. 1, 2007 (11/933,602). 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=84,12,639.PN.&OS=PN/84,12,639&RS=PN/84,12,639 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,412,607) developed by four co-inventors for a "price earnings derivative financial product." The co-inventors are Rama Variankaval, Weehawken, N.J., Cassio Calil, New York, Santosh Nabar, Englewood, N.J., and Joseph Ghartey, New York. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for and method of using a financial instrument to take a view on a price-to-earnings ratio for a set of one or more equities. The system and method may be used to commodify the price-to-earnings ratio for one or more equities, such a as a stock or an index. The system and method may include a financial instrument that allows a user to take a view on an earnings, or ratio comprising price and earnings, for underlying equities." The patent application was filed on Aug. 14, 2012 (13/585,290). 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=84,12,607.PN.&OS=PN/84,12,607&RS=PN/84,12,607 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Quantitative Management Associates Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Quantitative Management Associates, Newark, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,412,609) developed by Theodore James Lockwood, Newark, N.J., and John A. Hudock, Newark, N.J., for a "regime-based asset allocation via adaptive risk premium." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for identifying a regime-based asset allocation via an adaptive risk premium (ARP) involves receiving a financial data; receiving financial parameters; generating an ARP; determining risk regimes; calculating an expected return and a covariance matrix of assets; calculating a number of calculated weights for each risk regime; determining a current risk regime; determining a number of asset weights of a current portfolio; adjusting the asset weights of the current portfolio to match the calculated weights for the current risk regime; calculating a momentum, volatility, and a correlation (MVC) for each of the asset classes of the current portfolio; ranking each asset class of the current portfolio; adjusting the first adjusted asset weights of the current portfolio; determining one of the second adjusted asset weights for the current portfolio; and generating an investment portfolio based on one of the second adjusted asset weights for the current portfolio." The patent application was filed on Sept. 24, 2010 (12/890,172). 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=84,12,609.PN.&OS=PN/84,12,609&RS=PN/84,12,609 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Google Assigned Patent for Rich Browser-based Word Processor ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,413,045) developed by four co-inventors for a "rich browser-based word processor." The co-inventors are Micah Lemonik, New York, Olga S. Belomestnykh, New York, Janani R. Ravi, Jersey City, N.J., and Luiz A.F. Pereira Filho, New York. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer-implemented method for presenting a document for interaction with a user in a web browser includes accessing an electronic model of the document; determining, with a computing device, positions for items in a visual rendering of the electronic model based on relative sizes and positions of other items in the electronic model; and generating, with the computing device, a document object model (DOM) that defines an editing surface, wherein the DOM (a) places placing the items at the determined positions on the editing surface, (b) places a graphic element that represents a cursor at a determined location on the editing surface, and (c) is arranged to receive user input on the editing surface and to correlate a location of the received user input to a location in the electronic model." The patent application was filed on April 12, 2011 (13/084,950). 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=8,413,045.PN.&OS=PN/8,413,045&RS=PN/8,413,045 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,413,042) developed by four co-inventors for a referrer-based website personalization. The co-inventors are Alexander Wolcott Holt, New Paltz, N.Y., Carlos A. Hoyos, New York, Carl Shawn Kessler, Austin, Texas, and Michael E. Moran, Ridgewood, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Personalization of content of a web site for a user based on a web site that a user arrives from is disclosed. For example, the content of the web site from which the user arrives (i.e., the originating page), as well as the content of the web page the user has arrived to (i.e., the target page), may be categorized as pertaining to particular subjects or topics. Any time a user comes from an originating page, the subject categories for the originating page and the target page may be compared to determine if like categories exist between the pages. In the event that like categories are found, the target page may be personalized based on those categories." The patent application was filed on June 30, 2008 (12/165,245). 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=8,413,042.PN.&OS=PN/8,413,042&RS=PN/8,413,042 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Cadence Design Systems Assigned Patent for Temporal Decomposition for Design and Verification ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Cadence Design Systems, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,413,090) developed by Andreas Kuehlmann, Berkeley, Calif., and Xiaoqun Du, New Providence, N.J., for a "temporal decomposition for design and verification." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Behavior of a finite state machine is represented by unfolding a transition relation that represents combinational logic behavior of the finite state machine into a sequence of transition relations representing combinational logic behavior of the finite state machine in a sequence of time frames. At least one state is determined in a transition relation in the sequence that cannot be reached in a subsequent transition relation in the sequence. A subsequent transition relation in the sequence in which the at least one state cannot be reached is simplified with respect to the at least one unreachable state." The patent application was filed on Feb. 3, 2011 (13/020,476). 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=8,413,090&OS=8,413,090&RS=8,413,090 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Cox Communications Assigned Patent for System and Method for Transmitting and Displaying Targeted Information ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Cox Communications, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,413,183) developed by Gerard K. Kunkel, Yardley, Pa., Scott A. Piette, New Hope, Pa., and Douglas A. Perham Jr., Cherry Hill, N.J., for a "system and method for transmitting and displaying targeted information." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for transmitting and displaying information in a television distribution system (10), or the like, transmits information that is targeted to a viewer matching particular demographic data." The patent application was filed on Aug. 23, 2006 (11/508,457). 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=8,413,183&OS=8,413,183&RS=8,413,183 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** American Express Travel Related Services Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- American Express Travel Related Services, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,413,160) developed by six co-inventors for "systems, methods, and computer program products for transaction based load balancing." The co-inventors are David Armes, Phoenix, Ian Brown, Lewes E. Sussex, United Kingdom, Eric James Eldridge, Scottsdale, Ariz., Conrad Orlando Menezes, Glendale, N.J., Claudio Valdes, Phoenix, and John Ryan, Centreville, Va. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In a packet-based transaction processing system, workload is balanced across multiple computer systems. A plurality of packets is received from a plurality of clients over a plurality of communications sessions. Each of the plurality of packets includes a portion of a transaction involving a financial transaction instrument that requires authorization. The plurality of packets are processed to assemble a plurality of transactions. Each of the plurality of transactions is then transmitted to an application server selected from a plurality of servers that provides authorization for the transactions. The server may be selected from the plurality of servers based on a round-robin distribution of the plurality of servers, and additionally, the round-robin distribution may be modified to account for a workload on each of the plurality of servers." The patent application was filed on June 22, 2007 (11/767,356). 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=8,413,160&OS=8,413,160&RS=8,413,160 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Avaya Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Efficient Memory Replication for High Availability (HA) Protection of a Virtual Machine (VM) ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Avaya, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,413,145) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for efficient memory replication for high availability (HA) protection of a virtual machine (VM)." The co-inventors are Wu Chou, Basking Ridge, N.J., Weiping Guo, Hillsborough, N.J., Feng Liu, Hillsborough, N.J., and Zhi Qiang Zhao, Bridgewater, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "High availability (HA) protection is provided for an executing virtual machine. At a checkpoint in the HA process, the active server suspends the virtual machine; and the active server copies dirty memory pages to a buffer. During the suspension of the virtual machine on the active host server, dirty memory pages are copied to a ring buffer. A copy process copies the dirty pages to a first location in the buffer. At a predetermined benchmark or threshold, a transmission process can begin. The transmission process can read data out of the buffer at a second location to send to the standby host. Both the copy and transmission processes can operate substantially simultaneously on the ring buffer. As such, the ring buffer cannot overflow because the transmission process continues to empty the ring buffer as the copy process continues. This arrangement allows for smaller buffers and prevents buffer overflows." The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2010 (12/895,230). 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=8,413,145&OS=8,413,145&RS=8,413,145 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Ikanos Communications Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Ikanos Communications, Fremont, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,413,000) developed by Massimo Sorbara, Freehold, N.J., Ravindra M. Lambi, Old Bridge, N.J., and Julien D. Pons, Metuchen, N.J., for a "retransmission above the gamma interface." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments disclosed herein are configured for retransmission above the gamma (.gamma.) interface. At least one embodiment of a method includes receiving data from an Ethernet layer, the data being identified as eligible for retransmission or not eligible for retransmission; in response to a determination that the data is eligible for retransmission, storing a copy of at least a portion of the data in a retransmission queue; and transmitting the data across a gamma (.gamma.) interface to a packet transfer mode transmission convergence layer." The patent application was filed on Nov. 18, 2009 (12/620,832). 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=8,413,000.PN.&OS=PN/8,413,000&RS=PN/8,413,000 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Mformation Software Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Mformation Software Technologies, Edison, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,413,138) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method to securely load a management client from a stub client to facilitate remote device management." The co-inventors are Badri Nath, Edison, N.J., Rakesh Kushwaha, Marlboro, N.J., Amit Shah, Piscataway, N.J., and Srinivas Devarakonda, Keasbey, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods are described for securely downloading management client software onto a device from an embedded stub in the device. In one embodiment, the stub client is activated by a message with credentials from a management server. The stub client, after verification of the credentials, downloads and activates a full management client. The management client then participates in any authorized management session with the device management server. The messages are preferably encrypted using a key that is based on the credentials. The credentials may be specific to the device and to the service provider associated with the device." The patent application was filed on Feb. 6, 2008 (12/026,807). 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=8,413,138&OS=8,413,138&RS=8,413,138 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** United Video Properties Assigned Patent for Interactive Television Application with Navigable Cells and Regions ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- United Video Properties, Tulsa, Okla., has been assigned a patent (8,413,185) developed by seven co-inventors for "interactive television application with navigable cells and regions." The co-inventors are Kenneth F. Carpenter Jr., Mount Laurel, N.J., Johnny B. Corvin, Jenks, Okla., Bryan M. Drummond, Broken Arrow, Okla., Michael D. Ellis, Boulder, Colo., Edward B. Knudson, Littleton, Colo., Jeffrey B. Rush, Owasso, Okla., and Toby DeWeese, Tulsa, Okla. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An interactive television application with mosaic browsing is provided. Selectable cells that may be associated with entities are used to display information corresponding to the entities. Information may include brand marks such as logos or any other suitable entity identifier. A cell may be in focus or it may not be in focus. When a cell is in focus the information displayed in the cell may be different than the information displayed when the cell is not in focus. Users may navigate among cells. The cells may be grouped into regions based on, for example, their association with similar entities." The patent application was filed on April 3, 2008 (12/080,595). 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=8,413,185&OS=8,413,185&RS=8,413,185 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Infragistics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Infragistics, East Windsor, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,413,062) developed by Joshua Ambrose Little, Trenton, N.J., for a "method and system for accessing interface design elements via a wireframe mock-up." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer implemented method and system for accessing interface design elements via a wireframe mock-up. The method comprises accessing element information describing one or more design elements, determining a location for one or more element links to be placed on a wireframe mock-up, populating the wireframe mock-up with the one or more element links, and providing the populated wireframe mock-up as an interface to access one or more design elements contained within the design element repository. The location is determined from the element information and the element link is placed in the determined location." The patent application was filed on Nov. 6, 2009 (12/590,418). 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=8,413,062.PN.&OS=PN/8,413,062&RS=PN/8,413,062 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Cellco Partnership Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Cellco Partnership, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,412,817) developed by Madhu Bharathula, Somerset, N.J., for a "load balancing voicemail server system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A load balancing server system balances the load imposed by requestor requests for services across a set of service-providing servers. A network interface receives the requestor requests from a network communication system and sends server requests for services to the service-providing servers. A data processing system creates and maintains server status information indicative of whether each service-providing server is operational, and server pointer information identifying the service-providing server to which the next server request should be sent. In response to each requestor request, the data processing system causes the network interface to send one or more server requests for one or more services related to the requestor request to the service-providing server identified by the server pointer information and increments in a round-robin manner the server pointer information to the next operational service-providing server." The patent application was filed on Feb. 28, 2011 (13/036,543). 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=8,412,817&OS=8,412,817&RS=8,412,817 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Yellowpages.com Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Yellowpages.com, Glendale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,412,770) developed by Justin Marcucci, Chester, N.J., and Coby P. Randquist, Glendale, Calif., for "providing an answer to a question from a social network site using a separate messaging site." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A question is received on a first social network site from a first user. The question is sent to a second user of a second social network site who receives the question from the second social network site. The first social network site receives an answer to the question from the second user via the second social network site and provides the answer to the first user." The patent application was filed on Feb. 8, 2010 (12/702,114). 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=8,412,770&OS=8,412,770&RS=8,412,770 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,412,822) developed by Joseph B. Weinman Jr., Basking Ridge, N.J., for an "optimized job scheduling and execution in a distributed computing grid." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An arrangement provides optimal job scheduling in a distributed computing grid having a network of nodes. As jobs enter the system, their requirements are matched against the capabilities at each node to determine (step 202) candidate nodes. From this set of candidate nodes, a subset of valid nodes is selected (step 204) that has sufficient bandwidth for the duration of the job on each link that will need to be used by the job if run at that candidate node. For each valid node, a total cost is computed (step 206) to run the job. The cost may include such factors as bandwidth cost, server cost, storage cost, delay costs, and the like. Finally, a lowest cost node is selected (step 207), and the job is scheduled for execution (step 208) and then run (step 209) on that lowest cost node. An arrangement combining job scheduling with bandwidth on demand (BoD) involves a system for scheduling at least one job for execution on a network of nodes joined by links having respective link capacities, each job associated with a transport capacity requirement. The system has a job scheduler (element 150) configured to schedule the at least one job to be executed on at least one selected node, and a link manager (element 140) configured to reserve at least some of the link capacity of at least one of the links connected to the at least one selected node, to match the job transport capacity requirement." The patent application was filed on Jan. 27, 2004 (10/765,674). 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=8,412,822&OS=8,412,822&RS=8,412,822 Written by Arpi Sharma; 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. -1120121 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |