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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Maryland (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 Maryland. *** VideoMining Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- VideoMining, State College, Pa., has been assigned a patent (8,412,656) developed by five co-inventors for a "method and system for building a consumer decision tree in a hierarchical decision tree structure based on in-store behavior analysis." The co-inventors are Priya Baboo, State College, Pa., Satish Mummareddy, Bethesda, Md., Rajeev Sharma, State College, Pa., Varij Saurabh, State College, Pa., and Namsoon Jung, State College, Pa. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention is a system and method for determining the hierarchical purchase decision process of consumers in front of a product category. The decision path of consumers is obtained by combining behavior data with the category layout and transaction data based on observed actual in-store purchase behavior using a set of video cameras and software for extracting sequence and timing of each consumer's decision process. A hierarchical decision tree structure comprises nodes and edges, wherein a node represents the state-of-mind of the consumer, the number of nodes is predefined, and an edge represents the transition of the decision. The decisions for each product group are captured down to the product attribute level and analyzed by demographic group. The outcome provides relative importance of each product attribute in the purchase decision process, and helps retailers and manufacturers to evaluate the layout of the category and customize it for key segment." The patent application was filed on Aug. 13, 2009 (12/583,080). 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=84,12,656.PN.&OS=PN/84,12,656&RS=PN/84,12,656 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** ITG Software Solutions Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- ITG Software Solutions, Culver City, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,412,619) developed by Alfred R. Berkeley III, Baltimore, Marcus Hooper, Purley, United Kingdom, and Henri Waelbroeck, Scarsdale, N.Y., for "systems and methods regarding targeted dissemination." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "One exemplary aspect comprises a computer-implemented method comprising: (a) electronically receiving, from a first securities market participant, data including information related to a first order and to one or more group rankings for dissemination; (b) electronically determining with one or more processors, based on data regarding a second securities market participant and the order information and group rankings, whether the second securities market participant has a second order, on the contra side of the first order, and whether, in accordance with the group rankings, the second securities market participant is qualified to receive information about the first order; and (c) after, and only if, the second participant is determined to be qualified, transmitting information sufficient to display to the second securities market participant the information about the first order." The patent application was filed on Dec. 20, 2011 (13/330,904). 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=84,12,619.PN.&OS=PN/84,12,619&RS=PN/84,12,619 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** ContentGuard Holdings Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- ContentGuard Holdings, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,412,644) developed by seven co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for establishing usage rights for digital content to be created in the future." The co-inventors are Michael C. Raley, Downey, Calif., Edgardo Valenzuela, South Gate, Calif., Bijan Tadayon, Potomac, Md., Aram Nahidipour, Laguna Niguel, Calif., Xin Wang, Torrance, Calif., Guillermo Lao, Torrance, Calif., and Thanh Ta, Huntington Beach, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Usage rights for a digital work are established prior to creation of the corresponding content. The rights can be associated with the content after the content is created. A content creation, such as a video recorder or a still camera, device can store labels of the rights and can associate usage rights with content in real time as the content is created." The patent application was filed on April 27, 2010 (12/768,238). 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=84,12,644.PN.&OS=PN/84,12,644&RS=PN/84,12,644 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Prometric Assigned Patent for Method and System for Computer Based Testing Using an Amalgamated Resource File ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Prometric, Baltimore, has been assigned a patent (8,413,131) developed by Clarke D. Bowers, Baltimore, for a "method and system for computer based testing using an amalgamated resource file." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for computer-based testing for producing a test and delivering the test to an examinee includes a storage device that has a first storage location, which stores a first segment of a test definition language, and a second storage location, which stores a second segment of the test definition language, a validation expansion module that validates the first segment and the second segment of the test definition language, a test packager that amalgamates the first storage location and the second storage location and transmits the amalgamated segment to the validation expansion module such that the validation expansion module can determine whether the amalgamated segment forms a complete and valid set, and a test driver that has an executable code that controls functionality that enables the test driver to deliver the test to an examinee." The patent application was filed on July 15, 2010 (12/837,125). 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=8,413,131&OS=8,413,131&RS=8,413,131 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Heavy Hammer Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Heavy Hammer, Annapolis, Md., has been assigned a patent (8,412,576) developed by Michael William Urbanski, Annapolis, Md., and Charles David Dent, Annapolis, Md., for a "method, system, and software for geographically focused network advertising." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A software based system and method of displaying location based information from an information site on a network by determining location data of a user of the location based information on the network. The location based information is generated based on the determined location data of the user; and generated location based information is provided to the user over the network." The patent application was filed on Sept. 10, 2012 (13/608,573). 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=8,412,576&OS=8,412,576&RS=8,412,576 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** West Lane Data Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- West Lane Data, Las Vegas, has been assigned a patent (RE44,119) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for packet transmission with configurable adaptive output scheduling." The co-inventors are Xiaolin Wang, Concord, Mass., Ajay C. Mahagaokar, Westboro, Mass., Ray Rajib, Weymouth, Mass., and Michael T. Wright, Ellicott City, Md. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A configurable adaptive variable length data packet transmission output scheduler for enabling substantially simultaneous transmission on a common transmission link, as of fiber optics, of differentiated services for various different traffic types, executing different QOS algorithms while co-existing in a converged network environment, with simultaneous preserving of the different service characteristics for real-time or high-priority traffic and providing differentiated bandwidth allocation while achieving maximal link utilization--all through a fine and balanced control as to which type of traffic is transmitted on the link for a given duration, and how much of that traffic is transmitted on the link." The patent application was filed on Sept. 28, 2011 (13/247,990). 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=RE44,119&OS=RE44,119&RS=RE44,119 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Raytheon BBN Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Raytheon BBN Technologies, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,413,154) developed by John-Francis Mergen, Baltimore, and Joshua N. Edmison, Ellicott City, Md., for an "energy-aware computing environment scheduler." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method includes receiving a process request, identifying a current state of a device in which the process request is to be executed, calculating a power consumption associated with an execution of the process request, and assigning an urgency for the process request, where the urgency corresponds to a time-variant parameter to indicate a measure of necessity for the execution of the process request. The method further includes determining whether the execution of the process request can be delayed to a future time or not based on the current state, the power consumption, and the urgency, and causing the execution of the process request, or causing a delay of the execution of the process request to the future time, based on a result of the determining." The patent application was filed on Sept. 14, 2012 (13/616,576). 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=8,413,154&OS=8,413,154&RS=8,413,154 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Cadence Design Systems Assigned Patent for Verification Plans to Merging Design Verification Metrics ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Cadence Design Systems, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,413,088) developed by seven co-inventors for "verification plans to merging design verification metrics." The co-inventors are Frank Armbruster, Erfurt, Germany, Sandeep Pagey, Noida, India, F. Erich Marschner, Ellicott City, Md., Dan Leibovich, Modiin, Israel, Alok Jain, New Delhi, India, Axel Scherer, Beverly, Mass., and Yaron Peri-Glass, Raanana, Israel. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for producing a verification of digital circuits are provided. In an exemplary embodiment on the invention, a plurality of verification scopes of an integrated circuit design as defined as part of a verification plan. A plurality of verification runs are executed within two or more verification scopes defined by the verification plan. At least two verification runs are selected to merge verification results together. Like named scenarios are merged together for each verification scope to generate merged verification results that are then stored into a merge database. A verification report is generated for the integrated circuit design from the merged verification results. A merge point may be specified so like named subtrees and subgroups may be merged across different verification scopes of selected verification runs. The merge point may combine check and coverage results obtained during simulation with check and coverage results obtained during formal verification." The patent application was filed on April 17, 2009 (12/426,188). 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=8,413,088&OS=8,413,088&RS=8,413,088 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Infoblox Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Infoblox, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,412,925) developed by James D. Ennis Jr., Queenstown, Md., Fiore Louis Nardo II, Mount Airy, Md., and John Dominic Belamaric, Bethesda, Md., for "methods and apparatus for identifying the impact of changes in computer networks." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The impact of device configuration changes on operational issues and policy compliance in a computer network can be discerned from a visual data presentation that jointly shows representations of changes, issues, and policy compliance in a common view for a group of network devices. Configuration information is collected from devices in the computer network and processed to determine whether a change has occurred in a configuration of any of the devices, whether any operational issues exist for each of the devices, and whether any of the devices are not in compliance with any applicable operational policies. A display device displays the visual data presentation to allow an operator to see trends and relationships between device configuration changes and operational issues and incidents of policy non-compliance. The visual data presentation can be depicted as a graphical timeline view, a network topology view, or a table view of the information." The patent application was filed on Feb. 2, 2012 (13/365,016). 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=8,412,925.PN.&OS=PN/8,412,925&RS=PN/8,412,925 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** CloudPassage Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- CloudPassage, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,412,945) developed by Carson Sweet, San Francisco, and Vitaliy Geraymovych, Baltimore, for "systems and methods for implementing security in a cloud computing environment." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Computer systems and methods are provided in which an agent executive, when initially executed in a virtual machine, obtains an agent API key from a user. This key is communicated to a grid computer system. An agent identity token, generated by a cryptographic token generation protocol when the key is valid, is received from the grid and stored in a secure data store associated with the agent executive. Information that evaluates the integrity of the agent executive is collected using agent self-verification factors. The information, encrypted and signed with a cryptographic signature, is communicated to the grid. Commands are sent from the grid to the agent executive to check the security, compliance, and integrity of the virtual machine processes and data structures. Based on these check results, additional commands are sent by the grid to the agent executive to correct security, compliance or integrity problems and/or to prevent security compromises." The patent application was filed on Aug. 9, 2011 (13/205,948). 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=8,412,945.PN.&OS=PN/8,412,945&RS=PN/8,412,945 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Ziva Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Ziva, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,411,765) developed by David F. Smith, Ellicott City, Md., and Anis Husain, San Diego, for "techniques and systems for wireless communications." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques, apparatus and systems for providing radio frequency wireless communications based on time reversal of the channel impulse response of an RF pulse in a transmission channel between an RF transmitter and an RF receiver to enhance reception and detection of an RF pulse at the RF receiver against various effects that can adversely affect and complicate the reception and detection of the RF pulse at the RF receiver." The patent application was filed on Sept. 23, 2009 (12/565,639). 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=8,411,765&OS=8,411,765&RS=8,411,765 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. 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