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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in California (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 California. *** Splunk Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Splunk, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,412,696) developed by Steve Y. Zhang, San Francisco, Stephen P. Sorkin, San Francisco, and Vishal Patel, San Francisco, for "real time searching and reporting." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system arranged to search machine data to generate reports in real time. A search query is provided that includes a plurality of search commands. The search query is parsed to form a main search query and a remote search query. Machine data is collected from remote data sources and evaluated against one of the main and remote search queries to generate a set of search results. The main search query is then evaluated against at least a partial set of the search result to generate at least one report regarding the collected machine data. Each report can be provided for display to a user." The patent application was filed on Jan. 31, 2011 (13/018,236). 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=84,12,696.PN.&OS=PN/84,12,696&RS=PN/84,12,696 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** 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. *** A9.com Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- A9.com, Palo Alto, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,412,687) developed by six co-inventors for a "system and method for delivering content to a communication device in a content delivery system." The co-inventors are Mark A. Ruzon, Mountain View, Calif., Keshav Menon, Sunnyvale, Calif., Gurumurthy D. Ramkumar, Palo Alto, Calif., Donald Tanguay, Sunnyvale, Calif., Supratik Bhattacharyya, Mountain View, Calif., and Gautam Bhargava, Palo Alto, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention relates to a method, system, and a computer program product for delivering content to a communication device, in response to an image sent by the communication device. The received image is matched with a plurality of images, and, when a match is found for the received image, content corresponding to the image is delivered to the communication device. The plurality of images is stored in an image database, and the corresponding content is stored in a content repository. The present invention enables a content provider to automatically update the image database and the content repository without any human intervention." The patent application was filed on Feb. 27, 2012 (13/406,308). 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=84,12,687.PN.&OS=PN/84,12,687&RS=PN/84,12,687 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Intuit Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Intuit, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,412,679) developed by Arun Venkatesan, SunnyVale, Calif., for a "method and system for identifying obsolete discussion threads in a forum." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The invention relates to a method for identifying obsolete discussion threads. The method includes extracting keywords from a discussion thread and assigning a keyword score to each keyword. The method further includes identifying a change event that is a change affecting a topic of the forum, extracting a keyword from a recorded medium recording the change event, comparing the keyword from the recorded medium with the keywords from the discussion thread to identify a matching keyword, and reducing the keyword score of the matching keyword to a reduced score based on the matching keyword matching the keyword from the recorded medium. The method further includes aggregating the keyword score assigned to each keyword to obtain a total score for the discussion thread, and displaying a warning on a user interface that includes the discussion thread when the total score is below a pre-specified threshold." The patent application was filed on March 31, 2009 (12/415,925). 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=84,12,679.PN.&OS=PN/84,12,679&RS=PN/84,12,679 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** NetApp Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- NetApp, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,412,682) developed by Ling Zheng, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Yinfung Fong, Fremont, Calif., for a "system and method for retrieving and using block fingerprints for data deduplication." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for calculating and storing block fingerprints for data deduplication. A fingerprint extraction layer generates a fingerprint of a predefined size, e.g., 64 bits, for each data block stored by a storage system. Each fingerprint is stored in a fingerprint record, and the fingerprint records are, in turn, stored in a fingerprint database for access by the data deduplication module. The data deduplication module may periodically compare the fingerprints to identify duplicate fingerprints, which, in turn, indicate duplicate data blocks." The patent application was filed on June 29, 2006 (11/477,886). 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=84,12,682.PN.&OS=PN/84,12,682&RS=PN/84,12,682 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Medical Care Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Medical Care, Newport Beach, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,412,664) developed by William Rodman Shankle, Corona del Mar, Calif., for a "non-natural pattern identification for cognitive assessment." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for detection of cheating on a cognitive test. In one aspect, a method includes receiving first information concerning a person, the first information specifying the person's responses, and lack thereof, for items of a cognitive test administered to the person, wherein the cognitive test includes multiple item-recall trials used to assess cognitive impairment; analyzing the first information using a classification algorithm trained on second information concerning a group of people to whom the cognitive test has been administered, the classification algorithm generated in accordance with a first part and a second part, the first part distinguishing between cheaters and non-cheaters, and the second part distinguishing between impaired cheaters and non-impaired cheaters; and identifying, based on the analyzing, the person as a cheater requiring a verification test to confirm an initial result of the cognitive test." The patent application was filed on March 13, 2009 (12/922,451). 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=84,12,664.PN.&OS=PN/84,12,664&RS=PN/84,12,664 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. *** Boku Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Boku, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,412,626) developed by Ron Hirson, San Francisco, and Martine Niejadlik, Los Altos, Calif., for "systems and methods to secure transactions via mobile devices." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods are provided to improve security of payment transactions via mobile communications. In one aspect, a system includes an interchange having a common format processor and a plurality of converters to interface with a plurality of different controllers of mobile communications. The converters are configured to communicate with the controllers in different formats and to communicate with the common format processor in a common format for the confirmation of payment requests, made via mobile phones. The common format processor is to determine a risk of a payment request being fraudulent based on the personal identification information associated with a mobile phone and, after the payment request is confirmed and when the risk is below a threshold, to communicate one or more premium messages to the mobile phone to collect funds to fulfill the payment request." The patent application was filed on Dec. 7, 2010 (12/962,048). 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=84,12,626.PN.&OS=PN/84,12,626&RS=PN/84,12,626 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Yahoo! Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,412,608) developed by Rica Gonen, Sunnyvale, Calif., for a "currency system to reward constructive behavior." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system is described for teaching users financial management using an online currency management system, including enabling an administrator to set up a financial account through a network. This step further includes assigning specific tasks for completion by one or more users, setting rules related to the management of play currency, and designating rewards that are earned by the one or more users through completion of the specific tasks. The system further includes providing a web-based interface for the one or more users to access and manage their own user account containing the play currency, and enabling the administrator to fund, with real currency, the purchase of the rewards by the one or more users with play currency." The patent application was filed on March 19, 2007 (11/687,775). 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=84,12,608.PN.&OS=PN/84,12,608&RS=PN/84,12,608 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Drumright Group Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Drumright Group, Healdsburg, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,412,663) developed by Alexander X. Jiang, Irvine, Calif., Timothy J. Schroeder, Aliso Viejo, Calif., and Michael Allen Latta, Loveland, Calif., for a "system and method for temporal correlation of observables based on timing ranges associated with observations." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "According to one embodiment, an electronic device may be configured to perform temporal correlation operations to determine if a plurality of observables correspond to a selected event of interest. The electronic device comprises a memory and a processor. The memory is adapted to store information representing a process template for a selected event, where the process template including a plurality of observation states. The processor is coupled to the memory. The processor is adapted to receive a plurality of observables and to automatically conduct a recursive comparison of time values associated with each of the plurality of observables to timing ranges associated with each observation state to produce a listing that is subsequently used to determine if the plurality of observables are associated with the selected event." The patent application was filed on June 3, 2010 (12/793,528). 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=84,12,663.PN.&OS=PN/84,12,663&RS=PN/84,12,663 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Visa USA Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Visa USA, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,412,640) developed by four co-inventors for a "signature based negative list for off line payment device validation." The co-inventors are Phil Dixon, San Diego, Ayman Hammad, Pleasanton, Calif., William Alexander Thaw, South San Francisco, Calif., and Christian Aabye, Foster City, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "At each of a plurality of transit readers of a transit system, for each of a plurality of riders, where each rider seeks to conduct an access transaction with the transit system for access into the transit facility by using a payment device issued by an issuer in a payment system, data is read from the payment device. The data includes an encryption code that uniquely corresponds to the payment device and was created by the issuer using one or more encryption keys and a predetermined algorithm. A check will be performed, remotely and/or locally, of one or more lists of other encryption codes to determine if the encryption code is on the list. On the basis of whether the encryption code is on the list, the rider is permitted access to the facility of the transit system. The payment device need not be changed for the rider's fare. Decryption of the encryption code read from the payment device is not required to complete the access transaction." The patent application was filed on Sept. 16, 2010 (12/883,919). 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=84,12,640.PN.&OS=PN/84,12,640&RS=PN/84,12,640 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Evolveware Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Evolveware, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,412,653) developed by Miten Marfatia, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Ajay M. Rambhia, Santa Clara, Calif., for a "knowledge extraction and transformation." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present disclosure includes a system and method for learning (or discovering and extracting) business knowledge from a collection of source code. The collection of source code is abstracted to generate an abstracted data stream, which is then transformed to an Extensible Markup Language (XML) format. The transformed data in XML format can be further converted to target formats or processed to satisfy different needs such as software system documentation, migration, impact analysis and security analysis. The disclosure also includes an implementation and operation for a pattern abstraction engine configured to receive an input data stream and format it for abstraction into a standard format using a pattern matching mechanism. The disclosure also includes an implementation and operation for a contextual pattern decoder engine configured to extract knowledge attributes and contextual taxonomy from classified blocks of an input data stream." The patent application was filed on July 1, 2010 (12/829,278). 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=84,12,653.PN.&OS=PN/84,12,653&RS=PN/84,12,653 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** WaveMarket Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- WaveMarket, Emeryville, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,412,647) developed by Scott Hotes, Berkeley, Calif., Tasos Roumeliotis, Orinda, Calif., and Andrew Talbot, Oakland, Calif., for a "behavior monitoring system and method." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer-implemented behavior monitoring method is provided. The method includes receiving from a plurality of contributors a plurality of personal value preference indications. Either or both of location information corresponding to a determined location of a user device and communication information corresponding to a determined communication activity of the user device are received. Either or both of the location information and the communication information of the user device are compared with the plurality of personal value preference indications from the plurality of contributors. A behavior rating is determined based on the comparison of the location information and the communication information of the user device with the plurality of personal value preference indications, and the behavior rating is transmitted to a user." The patent application was filed on Nov. 2, 2009 (12/611,109). 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=84,12,647.PN.&OS=PN/84,12,647&RS=PN/84,12,647 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Bank of America Assigned Patent for Comprehensive Suspicious Activity Monitoring and Alert System ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Bank of America, Charlotte, N.C., has been assigned a patent (8,412,605) developed by six co-inventors for a "comprehensive suspicious activity monitoring and alert system." The co-inventors are Maura Louise Griffin, Atlanta, Mary Palmer Harman, Darien, Conn., Robert George Shiflet Jr., Kennett Square, Pa., Teresa Hegdahl Stigler, San Francisco, David G. Turner, Wilmington, Del., and Donna Dee Turner, Huntersville, N.C. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for integrated risk management. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention provide for monitoring financial institution data from a plurality of financial institutions, including transactional data associated with multiple products and channels, to identify suspicious activity potentially associated with identity theft incidents and, in specific embodiments, communicate suspicious activity and/or identity theft alerts and/or reports in response to identifying the suspicious activities and/or confirming an identity theft incident associated with the suspicious activity. In further embodiments, the monitored financial institution may include one or more, and in some embodiments all of, account data, asset data, liability data, negative file data, customer data, device data, credit data, or biometric data. In addition, in certain embodiments, the monitored data may include non-financial institution data." The patent application was filed on Oct. 29, 2010 (12/916,234). 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=84,12,605.PN.&OS=PN/84,12,605&RS=PN/84,12,605 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,412,671) developed by Mehmet Sayal, Mountain View, Calif., Fabio Casati, Palo Alto, Calif., and Ming-Chien Shan, Saratoga, Calif., for a "system and method for developing a star schema." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed embodiments of the present invention relate to a system and method for automatic generation of a star schema. The system and method may comprise categorizing a data field into one of a plurality of data field types, one of the data field types being an enumeration type data field. The system and method may further comprise developing dimensions for a table that represents an initial star schema design using the categorization of the data, detecting functional dependencies between the data field and other data fields, and refining the initial star schema design by modifying the table based on detected functional dependencies." The patent application was filed on Aug. 13, 2004 (10/918,587). 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=84,12,671.PN.&OS=PN/84,12,671&RS=PN/84,12,671 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Comparing and Identifying Similar Tracks ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,412,667) developed by Li Zhang, Sunnyvale, Calif., Maya Haridasan, San Jose, Calif., and Chandramohan A. Thekkath, Palo Alto, Calif., for "comparing and identifying similar tracks." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The location of a user over time is monitored by a mobile device. The monitored locations are organized into tracks that describe a path or route that the user took over a period of time. Segments that correspond to each of the tracks are determined. The segments may correspond to road on a map, or some other standardization. The segments are associated with their corresponding tracks, and used to identify similar tracks or to generate similarity scores for pairs of tracks." The patent application was filed on May 13, 2010 (12/779,053). 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=84,12,667.PN.&OS=PN/84,12,667&RS=PN/84,12,667 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Lithium Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Lithium Technologies, Everyville, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,412,657) developed by Pierre Grenier, San Francisco, Eddie Lo, Daly City, Calif., and Satinderpal Sandhu, Fremont, Calif., for a "classification of digital content by using aggregate scoring." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Aggregate scoring is used to help classify digital content such as content uploaded to multi-user websites (e.g., social networking websites). In one embodiment, specific categories are used that relate to a social implication of content. For example, text, images, audio or other data formats can provide communication perceived to fall into categories such as violent, abusive, rights management, pornographic or other types of communication. The categories are used to provide a raw score to items in various groupings of a site's content. Where items are related to other items such as by organizational, social, legal, data-driven, design methods, or by other principles or definitions, the related items' raw scores are aggregated to achieve a score for a particular grouping of items that reflects, at least in part, scores from two or more of the related items." The patent application was filed on June 23, 2011 (13/167,482). 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=84,12,657.PN.&OS=PN/84,12,657&RS=PN/84,12,657 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** TaxNet Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- TaxNet, Oceanside, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,412,606) developed by David K. Murray, Carlsbad, Calif., for a "user interface for tax-return preparation." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method is implementable in an electronic system coupled to an electronic device, which is, in turn, coupled to a display device. A web page displayable on the display device is served to the electronic device. The displayed web page includes a user interface, which, in turn, includes a frame and at least one stile defining a plurality of panes within the frame. In a first one of the panes, at least one field into which a tax-data provider can input tax data is displayed. In a second one of the panes, information of a first type of a plurality of information types operable to assist the provider in performing a first operation of a set of operations using the user interface is displayed. Input tax data is received from the electronic device." The patent application was filed on July 16, 2012 (13/550,143). 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=84,12,606.PN.&OS=PN/84,12,606&RS=PN/84,12,606 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Visa International Service Association Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Visa International Service Association, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,412,604) developed by Jessica Graham, Aptos, Calif., and Steven McConnell, San Francisco, for a "financial account segmentation system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed is a method and system for optimizing an existing customer financial product account database for a financial institution. A customized product segmentation strategy based at least on the financial product account database identifies opportunities to cross-sell new credit and debit products, and increase the usage of credit and debit products among existing customers." The patent application was filed on Sept. 3, 2010 (12/875,972). 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=84,12,604.PN.&OS=PN/84,12,604&RS=PN/84,12,604 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Seven Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Seven Networks, Redwood City, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,412,675) developed by Billy Alvarado, Redwood City, Calif., Ido Ariel, Redwood City, Calif., and Robert Paul Van Gent, Redwood City, Calif., for a "context aware data presentation." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A context aware data application presents information about a first user's contact means and methodologies. The application organizes, filters and present the information taking into account multiple inputs regarding the specific context and the relationship and preferred communication means between the first user and other users seeking to contact the first user. The information allows the users seeking to make contact to quickly take an action that is expected given the context of the first user as presenting the most relevant data allows the contacting users to take actions quickly and effectively." The patent application was filed on Feb. 24, 2006 (11/362,488). 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=84,12,675.PN.&OS=PN/84,12,675&RS=PN/84,12,675 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Life Modeler Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Life Modeler, San Clemente, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,412,669) developed by Milton Scott Bergeon, Irvine, Calif., David Brian Jackson, Mission Viejo, Calif., and Shawn Patrick McGuan, San Clemente, Calif., for "systems and methods for determining muscle force through dynamic gain optimization of a muscle PID controller." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for determining muscle force are presented. Proportional, integral, and derivative control is used to simulate muscle forces for multiple muscles contributing to a kinematic profile. The simulated muscle forces arc modified by dynamic gains that are calculated in order to achieve a muscle recruitment objective such as minimizing collective muscle effort while still achieving the kinematic motion." The patent application was filed on Aug. 20, 2010 (12/860,326). 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=84,12,669.PN.&OS=PN/84,12,669&RS=PN/84,12,669 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. *** Western Union Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Western Union, Englewood, Colo., has been assigned a patent (8,412,627) developed by Terry Allen-Rouman, South San Francisco, Calif., John Joseph Mascavage III, San Mateo, Calif., and Margaret Morgan Weichert, San Carlos, Calif., for an "online funds transfer method." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "According to the invention, a process for transferring funds in an online transaction between a first party and a second party is disclosed. In one step, a first account associated with the first party and a second account associated with the second party are determined. At least one of the first account and the second account is a bank account. A first transfer is initiated between the first account and a third account. The third account is not associated with either the first party or the second party. Notification is received that the first transfer has cleared. A second transfer between the third account and the second account is initiated before notification that the first transfer has cleared is received." The patent application was filed on Nov. 15, 2001 (09/991,497). 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=84,12,627.PN.&OS=PN/84,12,627&RS=PN/84,12,627 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** LSI Assigned Patent for Design-for-test Technique to Reduce Test Volume Including a Clock Gate Controller ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- LSI, Milpitas, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,412,994) developed by Narendra B. Devta-Prasanna, San Jose, Calif., for a "design-for-test technique to reduce test volume including a clock gate controller." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Clock control circuitry for an integrated circuit, a method of testing an integrated circuit having a clock gate, an integrated circuit and a library of cells including the clock control circuitry are provided. In one embodiment, the integrated circuit includes: (1) a clock gate configured to apply a clock signal to at least a first scan chain of the integrated circuit, (2) combinational logic coupled to an input of the clock gate and (3) Design-for-Test logic located external to the combinational logic and coupled to the clock gate and a first cell of a second scan chain of the integrated circuit, the Design-for-Test logic configured to control operation of the clock gate based on a logic value of the first cell." The patent application was filed on Sept. 17, 2010 (12/885,153). 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=8,412,994.PN.&OS=PN/8,412,994&RS=PN/8,412,994 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** QUALCOMM Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- QUALCOMM, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,413,217) developed by Ashok Bhatia, San Diego, for "systems and methods for controlling operation of a mobile station." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods disclosed herein allow a requesting party to control use of another user's mobile station. In some aspects, a server is configured to communicate with a plurality of remote computer systems and target mobile stations. The server includes a memory device and a processor configured to access data and logic instructions embedded on the memory device. The server authenticates a requesting party accessing the computer server from one of the remote communication systems. The requesting party is not a user of a selected one of the target mobile stations. The server receives selective availability attributes for the selected one of the target mobile stations from the requesting party. The selective availability attributes indicate conditions under which the target mobile station is enabled or disabled to operate, and features that are available on the target mobile station under a plurality of conditions when the target mobile station is enabled. The server further determines when the target mobile station is operational and downloads the selective availability attributes to the target mobile station when the target mobile station is operational." The patent application was filed on March 4, 2009 (12/398,047). 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=8,413,217&OS=8,413,217&RS=8,413,217 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Friendgiftr Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Friendgiftr, Los Angeles, has been assigned a patent (8,412,585) developed by Robert Carpenter, Los Angeles, for "methods and systems for identifying, providing notice of and purchasing a gift in an online or electronic environment." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "System and Methods are disclosed relating to the online purchase of a gift or other item. A gift recipient may purchase one or more gifts or items and receive such one or more gifts or items immediately. Thereafter, others who would seek to purchase a gift or item for the gift recipient from an online retailer or web service provider may choose to contribute to the cost of the already received gift or item and the gift recipient is reimbursed his cost for purchasing of such immediately received gift or item as the purchasers make such contributions towards the received gift or item." The patent application was filed on July 3, 2012 (13/541,546). 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=8,412,585&OS=8,412,585&RS=8,412,585 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Intuit Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Intuit, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,413,220) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for user authentication." The co-inventors are Chris Quinn, San Diego, Anthony Creed, San Diego, Kenichi Mori, Carlsbad, Calif., and Bennett R. Blank, San Diego. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for user authentication involves initiating an authentication process, receiving images associated with the authentication process, selecting an image from the images to generate a selection; and obtaining authentication based on the selection, where the image is associated with the authentication process and sent prior to initiating the authentication process." The patent application was filed on July 30, 2007 (11/830,811). 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=8,413,220&OS=8,413,220&RS=8,413,220 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** eBay Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- eBay, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,412,594) developed by Rini Kundu, San Jose, Calif., for "multilevel silhouettes in an online shopping environment." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Selecting a first silhouette image of an item at a client machine displays a plurality of silhouette images representing aspects of the item such as style, length type and sleeve type. Selecting any of those aspects allows a server to search a database for listings of similar items that have those aspects. Concurrently selecting one or more of the images representing those aspects and one or more sizes, allows a server to search a database for listings of similar items that have those aspects and those sizes." The patent application was filed on Jan. 21, 2011 (13/011,510). 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=8,412,594&OS=8,412,594&RS=8,412,594 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Intel Assigned Patent for Determining Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) Timing ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,413,001) developed by Jing Zhu, Portland, Ore., Yujian Zhang, Beijing, and Hujun Yin, Saratoga, Calif., for "determining hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) timing." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A communication apparatus (Calif. such as a mobile node/station (Minn., a base station (BS), or a radio station (RS) may support determination of HARQ timing. The CA may generate at least in part one or more generalized frames such as a frequency division duplex (FDD) frame or a time division duplex (TDD) frame. The generalized FDD and TDD frames may include support to determine the HARQ timing considering various factors, which may affect the HARQ timing. The FDD and TDD frames may include information corresponding to various factors to determine the HARQ timing considering factors such as DL/UL ratio, number of sub-frames per frame, variable transmission time interval (TTI), relay zones, legacy IEEE.RTM. 802.16e zones, and availability of ACKCH." The patent application was filed on Dec. 3, 2009 (12/630,666). 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=8,413,001.PN.&OS=PN/8,413,001&RS=PN/8,413,001 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Citrix Systems Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods for Management of Common Application Firewall Session Data in a Multiple Core System ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Citrix Systems, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has been assigned a patent (8,413,225) developed by four co-inventors for "systems and methods for management of common application firewall session data in a multiple core system." The co-inventors are Craig Anderson, Sunnyvale, Calif., Anoop Reddy, San Jose, Calif., Rajiv Mirani, Los Gatos, Calif., and Abhishek Chauhan, Saratoga, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for efficiently an intermediary device processing strings in web pages across a plurality of user sessions. A device intermediary to a plurality of clients and a server identifies a plurality of strings in forms and uniform resource locators (URLs) of web pages traversing the device across a plurality of user sessions. The device stores each string of the plurality of strings to one or more allocation arenas shared among a plurality of user session. Each string is indexed using a hash key generated from the string. The device recognizes that a received string transmitted from a webpage of a session of a user is eligible to be shared among the plurality of user sessions. The device determines that a copy of the received string is stored in an allocation arena using a hash generated from the received string. The device uses the copy of the received string stored in the allocation arena in place of the string in the web page of the session of the user to process the web page." The patent application was filed on Dec. 22, 2010 (12/976,678). 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=8,413,225&OS=8,413,225&RS=8,413,225 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** eBay Assigned Patent for Collecting Media Data Descriptive of a Product ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- eBay, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,412,568) developed by Guilherme Bastos, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Narasimhan Rampalli, Los Altos, Calif., for "collecting media data descriptive of a product." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A crowd-sourcing system performs a method that includes generating a request that a user provide candidate media data to the crowd-sourcing system. The candidate media is descriptive of a product, and the request includes information about the product. The crowd-sourcing system transmits the request to a user system and receives the candidate media data from the user system. The crowd-sourcing system selects the candidate media data as stock media data for the product. The selection of the candidate media data may be based on a selection criterion, such as a grade of the candidate media data determined by the crowd-sourcing system. The crowd-sourcing system provides a reward to the user based on the selecting of the candidate media data as the stock media data for the product." The patent application was filed on May 28, 2010 (12/790,377). 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=8,412,568&OS=8,412,568&RS=8,412,568 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Intel Assigned Patent for Apparatus, System and Method for Context and Language Specific Data Entry ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,413,072) developed by Kevin Corbett, Rescue, Calif., Brian David Johnson, Portland, Ore., and Dave Koste, Tacoma, Wash., for an "apparatus, system and method for context and language specific data entry." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus, system and method that allow for context and language specific data entry via a user interface. A user interface is displayed on a display device, where the user interface includes a data entry menu having one or more menu selections. A menu selection is activated. A data entry method is displayed, where the data entry method is context and language specific to the activated menu selection. Other embodiments are described and claimed." The patent application was filed on Dec. 29, 2009 (12/648,534). 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=8,413,072&OS=8,413,072&RS=8,413,072 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Adobe Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Adobe Systems, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,413,233) developed by Jian Zheng, San Francisco, Rishit Shah, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Rupen Chanda, San Francisco, for an "authorizing local application activity using remotely defined security data." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods, including computer software adapted to perform certain operations, can be implemented for preventing content received from non-trusted sources from accessing protected data. A sequence of instructions and multiple permission indicators associated with the sequence of instructions are received. One or more of permission indicators are associated with a protected activity. An instruction within the sequence of instructions associated with the protected activity is identified. A determination is made whether execution of the identified instruction is permitted based, at least in part, on the one or more permission indicators, and the protected activity is performed if execution of the identified instruction is permitted." The patent application was filed on Nov. 26, 2007 (11/945,235). 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=8,413,233&OS=8,413,233&RS=8,413,233 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** SK hynix memory solutions Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- SK hynix memory solutions, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,413,009) developed by Kwok W. Yeung, Milpitas, Calif., Kin Ming Chan, Milpitas, Calif., and Meng-Kun Lee, Cupertino, Calif., for an "ECC with out of order completion." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Processing a sequence of data frames in an error correction code (ECC) decoder is disclosed. Processing includes receiving a first data frame in the sequence of data frames, storing the first data frame, initiating processing of the first data frame through the ECC decoder, receiving a second data frame from the input sequence of data frames, storing the second data frame, and initiating processing of the second data frame through the ECC decoder before the first data frame is finished being processed through the ECC decoder." The patent application was filed on April 14, 2011 (13/087,290). 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=8,413,009.PN.&OS=PN/8,413,009&RS=PN/8,413,009 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Actiance Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Actiance, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,413,111) developed by Steven B. Paster, San Carlos, Calif., for "techniques for dynamic updating and loading of custom application detectors." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In various embodiments, a data-driven model is provided for an application detection engine for the detection and identification of network-based applications. In one embodiment, information can be input into an application detection database. The information may include a hostname, ports, transport protocol (TCP/UDP), higher layer protocol (SOCKS, HTTP, SMTP, FTP, etc), or the like. The information may be associated with a given application. The information may be used to create rule sets or custom program logic used by one or more various application detection engines for determining whether network traffic has been initiated by a given application. The information may be dynamically loaded and updated at the application detection engine." The patent application was filed on Sept. 28, 2009 (12/568,080). 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=8,413,111&OS=8,413,111&RS=8,413,111 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Apple Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Apple, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,413,184) developed by Nils Angquist, San Francisco, and David Black, Sunnyvale, Calif., for a "media map for capture of content from random access devices." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for storing and displaying information about the capture and/or transfer of digital media is provided, wherein data is stored such that a visual representation indicating characteristics of video data, such as whether portions of the video data have been transferred to another device or captured to a storage device, may be generated and displayed." The patent application was filed on Aug. 9, 2006 (11/502,271). 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=8,413,184&OS=8,413,184&RS=8,413,184 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,413,180) developed by Jeyhan Karaoguz, Irvine, Calif., and James D. Bennett, Laguna Beach, Calif., for "media processing system communicating activity information to support user interaction during media broadcasts." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In an embodiment of the present invention, a first user may associate a second user with particular media characteristics. The second user may be notified when the first user consumes media having pre-defined characteristics matching those associated with the second user. The second user may keep records of the consumption of media with particular media characteristics, and may provide services or incentives to the first user. A system in accordance with various aspects of the present invention may comprise a first and a second set top box, each having storage with an associated network address. A user of the second set top box may have at least one associated media characteristic, and the second user may be sent a notification when the first user requests media with pre-defined characteristics matching the media characteristic associated with the second user." The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2003 (10/675,358). 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=8,413,180&OS=8,413,180&RS=8,413,180 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Coverity Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Coverity, San Francisco, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,413,249) developed by Andy C. Chou, San Francisco, for a "threat assessment of software-configured system based upon architecture model and as-built code." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method comprising: providing in a non-transitory machine readable storage device a first information structure that includes respective elements that each respectively represent one or more components or communication channels or a combination thereof of a system that includes one or more machines configured with computer software; wherein the first information structure associates at least one element with at least one of an attribute indicative of a mitigation of one at least one known vulnerability of the at least one component or communication channel or combination thereof represented by the at least one element; using a computer system to produce and to store within a non-transitory machine readable storage device an analysis of as-built code used to configure one or more machines to implement the system; wherein the produced analysis includes an output log with respective entries that include respective code references and respective indicia of attributes corresponding to respective observation points within the as-built code that correspond respective elements of the first information structure; mapping at least one respective entry to at least the at least one element of the first information structure; and associating an attribute included within the at least one entry with an attribute associated within the first information structure with the at least one element." The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2010 (12/895,847). 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=8,413,249&OS=8,413,249&RS=8,413,249 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Symantec Assigned Patent for Hypervisor Assisted Single Instance Data Access by Multiple Virtual Machines ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Symantec, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,413,146) developed by Bruce McCorkendale, Manhattan Beach, Calif., David Buches, Westlake Village, Calif., and William E. Sobel, Jamul, Calif., for "hypervisor assisted single instance data access by multiple virtual machines." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A data instance to be shared by multiple virtual machines is stored at a hypervisor level. A file system driver is provided to each virtual machine. Each virtual machine mounts a file system backed by the data instance, and thus has read access to the data through its mounted file system. A virtual machine is suspended. A copy of the data instance is saved as part of the stored image of the suspended virtual machine. The suspended virtual machine is subsequently restored from the stored image, and the copy of the data instance is present in the restored virtual machine. The copy of the data instance is detected at a hypervisor level, and the restored virtual machine is provided with read access to the data instance through its mounted filed system." The patent application was filed on Nov. 5, 2010 (12/940,835). 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=8,413,146&OS=8,413,146&RS=8,413,146 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Google Assigned Patent for Fault Tolerant Routing in a Non-hot-standby Configuration of a Network Routing System ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,412,982) developed by four co-inventors for a "fault tolerant routing in a non-hot-standby configuration of a network routing system." The co-inventors are Wilson Talaugon, Union City, Calif., Sridhar Subramaniam, Cupertino, Calif., Bill Chin, Belmont, Calif., and Itai Aaronson, Belmont, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for facilitating fault tolerance in a non-hot-standby configuration of a network routing system are provided. According to one embodiment, a failover method is provided. One or more processing engines of a network routing system are configured to function as active processing engines, each of which having one or more software contexts. A control blade is configured to monitor the active processing engines. One or more of the processing engines are identified to function as non-hot-standby processing engines, each of which having no pre-created software contexts corresponding to the software contexts of the active processing engines. The control blade monitors the active processing engines. Responsive to detecting a fault associated with an active processing engine the active processing engine is dynamically replaced with a non-hot-standby processing engine by creating one or more replacement software contexts within the non-hot-standby processing engine corresponding to those of the active processing engine." The patent application was filed on April 8, 2011 (13/083,291). 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=8,412,982.PN.&OS=PN/8,412,982&RS=PN/8,412,982 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Yahoo! Assigned Patent for Bidded Marketplace for Applications ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,413,052) developed by four co-inventors for a "bidded marketplace for applications." The co-inventors are Scott Roy, Palo Alto, Calif., Burke Culligan, Menlo Park, Calif., David Chaiken, Menlo Park, Calif., and Darshan Kantak, Pasadena, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for presenting application modules on a graphical display page are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, content to be displayed on a graphical display page is determined. Then, content features which describe the content that is to be displayed on the graphical display page, and user features which describe characteristics of users are determined. For each application in the plurality of application modules, the probability that specific users will select the application module when displayed on the graphical display page with the determined content is determined based on the content features and the user features. For each application module in the plurality of application modules, an overall score is determined based on the determined probability that the user will select the application module and a commercial value to be paid by a publisher of the application module when it is selected. The recommended application modules are determined to be those application modules in the plurality of application modules which have the highest overall score and which satisfy a set of constraints. Representations of the recommended application modules are displayed on the graphical display page." The patent application was filed on Feb. 17, 2010 (12/707,622). 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=8,413,052.PN.&OS=PN/8,413,052&RS=PN/8,413,052 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Synopsys Assigned Patent for Performing Scenario Reduction ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Synopsys, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,413,099) developed by Amir H. Mottaez, Los Altos, Calif., and Rajinish K. Prasad, Millpitas, Calif., for a performing scenario reduction. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Some embodiments of the present invention provide techniques and systems for reducing the number of scenarios over which a circuit design is optimized. Each scenario in the set of scenarios can be associated with a process corner, an operating condition, and/or an operating mode. During operation, the system can receive a set of scenarios over which the circuit design is to be optimized. Next, the system can compute values of constrained objects in the circuit design over the set of scenarios. The system can then determine a subset of scenarios based at least on the values of the constrained objects, so that if the circuit design meets design constraints in each scenario in the subset of scenarios, the circuit design is expected to meet the design constraints in each scenario in the set of scenarios." The patent application was filed on June 7, 2010 (12/795,592). 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=8,413,099&OS=8,413,099&RS=8,413,099 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Adobe Systems Assigned Patent for Visual Interface Element Transition Effect ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- Adobe Systems, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,413,068) developed by Nigel Pegg, Berkeley, Calif., for a "visual interface element transition effect." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In an electronic interaction space, transitioning between a first and second screen layout includes determining a difference between the first and second screen layouts, wherein the first and second screen layouts include at least one pod each, and rendering the difference as a dynamic and intermediate screen layout that uses a representation of physical motion to present a gradual change." The patent application was filed on Jan. 6, 2010 (12/652,927). 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=8,413,068&OS=8,413,068&RS=8,413,068 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** TVWorks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- TVWorks, Philadelphia, has been assigned a patent (8,413,205) developed by 12 co-inventors for a "system and method for construction, delivery and display of iTV content." The co-inventors are John Carney, Corte Madera, Calif., David de Andrade, San Alselmo, Calif., Sithampara Babu Niranjan, Larkspur, Calif., David Brandyberry, San Rafael, Calif., Leon Franzen, Novato, Calif., Lena Chane, San Francisco, Matt Marenghi, San Francisco, Prakash Hegde, Mill Valley, Calif., Alex Chung, San Francisco, Viva Chu, San Leandro, Calif., Greg Thomson, Mill Valley, Calif., and Ruth Dawson, Nicasio, Calif. 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