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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Kansas (April 4)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 4 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Kansas. *** Sprint Communications Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 4 -- Sprint Communications, Overland Park, Kan., has been assigned a patent (8,411,685) developed by four co-inventors for "managing the allocation of internet protocol addresses in a wireless network." The co-inventors are John H. Bennett III, Lawrence, Kan., Frederick C. Rogers, Olathe, Kan., Serge M. Manning, Overland Park, Kan., and C. Brent Hirschman, Overland Park, Kan. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods are described for managing the allocation of IPv6 addresses to mobile devices. More specifically, the network portions of IPv6 addresses are dynamically allocated to mobile devices by a home agent. In one embodiment, a request is received to allocate a network portion of an IPv6 address. It is determined whether a network portion is stored in a database in association with the mobile device. If so, that network portion is allocated to the mobile device so that the mobile device can establish a communication session. If not, the home agent is asked to allocate a network portion that is currently available." The patent application was filed on Sept. 16, 2010 (12/883,988). 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=84,11,685.PN.&OS=PN/84,11,685&RS=PN/84,11,685 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Sprint Communications Assigned Patent for Loss Adjustment Control in a Tandem Media Communication Network ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 4 -- Sprint Communications, Overland Park, Kan., has been assigned a patent (8,411,671) developed by five co-inventors for a "loss adjustment control in a tandem media communication network." The co-inventors are Eric Michael Bloomcamp, Olathe, Kan., Russell E. Huntsman, Overland Park, Kan., Pierce Andrew Gorman, Lee's Summit, Mo., Robert E. Geis, Lenexa, Kan., and Eric C. English, Lee's Summit, Mo. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An originating device coupled to an originating network requests a media call to a terminating device coupled to a terminating network. In between the originating and terminating networks, a tandem network receives a signaling message for the media call transferred by the originating network. The tandem network retrieves and processes numbers for the originating device and the terminating device from the signaling message to determine a loss adjustment for the media call and to select the originating device or the terminating device to make the loss adjustment. The tandem network transfers a loss instruction indicating the loss adjustment to the originating network or the terminating network for delivery to the selected device. The selected device receives the loss instruction and responsively makes the loss adjustment." The patent application was filed on March 24, 2009 (12/409,686). 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=84,11,671.PN.&OS=PN/84,11,671&RS=PN/84,11,671 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Sprint Communications Assigned Patent for Controlling Mobile-device Roaming ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 4 -- Sprint Communications, Overland Park, Kan., has been assigned a patent (8,411,643) developed by Jason Peter Sigg, Olathe, Kan., and Anoop Kumar Goyal, Overland Park, Kan., for controlling mobile-device roaming. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Media and systems for controlling roaming of a mobile device on a wireless-communications network are described. Wireless-communications systems along a coverage area border are designated as roaming border systems. A parameter value is communicated from wireless-communications systems of a home network to a mobile device. The parameter takes on a value indicating whether a mobile device is permitted to initiate a connection to a roaming network. A mobile device is restricted to use of home-network systems when a first parameter value is received. The mobile device is permitted to use home-network and roaming-network systems when a second parameter value is received. Thus, the mobile device can only roam when the second parameter value has been communicated thereto." The patent application was filed on May 4, 2012 (13/464,054). 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=84,11,643.PN.&OS=PN/84,11,643&RS=PN/84,11,643 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Sprint Communications Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 4 -- Sprint Communications, Overland Park, Kan., has been assigned a patent (8,411,666) developed by five co-inventors for location-based geographical routing. The co-inventors are Frederick C. Rogers, Olathe, Kan., Jeremy R. Breau, Leawood, Kan., Khalid M. Medhat, Overland Park, Kan., Terry D. Nebergall, Gardner, Kan., and Joseph C. Shojayi, Overland Park, Kan. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods are disclosed for routing data, such as a packet, from a source router to a destination router based on geographical information associated with a destination mobile device. A table is accessed to determine whether there is a destination router located in the list of routers that is located within the same geographical area as the destination mobile device. If there is a destination router that meets this criteria, the data is sent to the destination router. But if there is not a destination router that meets this criteria, the data is routed based on network topology." The patent application was filed on Nov. 13, 2009 (12/617,925). 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=84,11,666.PN.&OS=PN/84,11,666&RS=PN/84,11,666 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cerner Innovation Assigned Patent for Medication Dispensing Apparatus ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 4 -- Cerner Innovation, Overland Park, Kan., has been assigned a patent (8,412,375) developed by Edward J. Schifman, Leawood, Kan., and Matthew J. Beck, Overland Park, Kan., for a medication dispensing apparatus. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A medication dispenser provides automation to the steps of locating and acquiring medications or supplies to be administered to a patient. The medication dispenser includes one or more modules housing one or more compartmentalized drawers. Access to each drawer is controlled by a lockable door, and each the drawer may only be slid from the module housing the drawer in response to a signal. A series of lights direct the user to the appropriate drawer and the appropriate compartment of the relevant drawer to remove the appropriate medication or supply." The patent application was filed on Feb. 25, 2008 (12/036,876). 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=8,412,375&OS=8,412,375&RS=8,412,375 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Sprint Spectrum Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 4 -- Sprint Spectrum, Overland Park, Kan., has been assigned a patent (8,412,258) developed by five co-inventors for a "method and system for forward link and/or reverse link power control." The co-inventors are Manoj Shetty, Overland Park, Kan., Sachin R. Vargantwar, Macon, Ga., Siddharth S. Oroskar, Overland Park, Kan., Kamal Doshi, Overland Park, Kan., and Anoop K. Goyal, Overland Park, Kan. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for adjusting a transmit power of a forward link or reverse link signal make use of variable adjustment parameters. The wireless signal is received to obtain a received signal. An observed signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and an observed frame error rate (FER) for the received signal are determined. In an outer loop process, an adjustment increment is selected based on how much the observed FER differs from the target FER, and the target SNR is adjusted by the adjustment increment. In an inner loop process, a power adjustment command is selected based on a comparison between the observed SNR and a target SNR. The power adjustment command instructs the transmitter of the wireless signal to either increase or decrease the transmit power of the wireless signal. The power adjustment increment may also depend on the observed FER." The patent application was filed on May 23, 2012 (13/478,315). 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=8,412,258.PN.&OS=PN/8,412,258&RS=PN/8,412,258 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** AirHop Communications Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 4 -- Sprint Communications, Overland Park, Kan., has been assigned a patent (8,412,204) developed by four co-inventors for an "elevation-based control of a wireless communication device." The co-inventors are Siddharth S. Oroskar, Overland Park, Kan., Sachin R. Vargantwar, Overland Park, Kan., Anoop Kumar Goyal, Overland Park, Kan., and Manoj Shetty, Overland Park, Kan. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A wireless communication device determines a latitude indicator, longitude indicator, and received signal strength for its current location. The devices processes the latitude indicator, longitude indicator, and received signal strength to estimate its elevation at the location. The device also processes its handover history to determine a handover probability factor. The device then processes the estimated elevation and handover probability factor to estimate if the device is located in a building above an elevation level. If the estimate indicates that the device is located within the building above the elevation level, then the device modifies a handover parameter to inhibit handover attempts." The patent application was filed Feb. 11, 2011 (13/025,263). 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=8,412,204.PN.&OS=PN/8,412,204&RS=PN/8,412,204 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Sprint Communications Assigned Patent for Wireless Communication System that Selects and Broadcasts FM Media Streams on a Per-base Station Basis ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 4 -- Sprint Communications, Overland Park, Kan., has been assigned a patent (8,412,167) developed by four co-inventors for a "wireless communication system that selects and broadcasts FM media streams on a per-base station basis." The co-inventors are Gary Duane Koller, Overland Park, Kan., Mark Douglas Peden, Olathe, Kan., Simon Youngs, Overland Park, Kan., and Raymond Emilio Reeves, Olathe, Kan. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A wireless communication system broadcasts using Frequency Modulation (FM) in a Very High Frequency (VHF) band. In the system, base stations exchange wireless communications with user devices including user media requests and the requested media. A control system processes the user media requests to identify media streams for individual base stations. The individual base stations wirelessly broadcast the media streams identified by the control system using FM in the VHF band. The base stations wirelessly notify the user devices of the media stream FM broadcasts." The patent application was filed on Dec. 8, 2011 (13/314,956). 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=8,412,167.PN.&OS=PN/8,412,167&RS=PN/8,412,167 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Sprint Communications Assigned Patent for Position Determining Entity Request Filter ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 4 -- Sprint Communications, Overland Park, Kan., has been assigned a patent (8,412,229) developed by Mark J. Bonn, Granite Bay, Calif., Victor M. Gress, Leavenworth, Kan., and Raghava V. Nidraghatta Karanam, Olathe, Kan., for a "position determining entity request filter." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of operating a position determining entity filter comprises receiving a request for location assistance data transmitted from a wireless communication device, wherein the request is associated with a source packet address and includes a user identifier, and processing the request to determine if the user identifier is associated with the source packet address. The method further comprises, if the user identifier is not associated with the source packet address, initiating a count to track a number of requests for the location assistance data transmitted from the wireless communication device, and removing data previously associated with the user identifier and the source packet address. The method further comprises, if the user identifier is associated with the source packet address, incrementing the count and determining if a flag is assigned to the user identifier, inhibiting future requests if the flag is assigned to the user identifier, and if the flag is not assigned to the user identifier, determining if the count exceeds a threshold, and if the count exceeds the threshold, assigning the flag to the user identifier." The patent application was filed on Oct. 20, 2010 (12/908,544). 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=8,412,229.PN.&OS=PN/8,412,229&RS=PN/8,412,229 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** CenturyLink Intellectual Property Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 4 -- CenturyLink Intellectual Property, Denver, has been assigned a patent (8,412,149) developed by Amar N. Ray, Shawnee, Kan., and Cadathur V. Chakravarthy, Overland Park, Kan., for a "system and method for providing contact information of an out of area mobile device to a reverse 911 database." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for registering the contact information of mobile devices with a service 911 service is presented. In one embodiment, a mobile switching center receives the contact information of a mobile device. If the mobile switching center determines that the mobile device is not located within a particular wireless sub-network, such as, but not limited to, a wireless sub-network associated with an area code registered to the mobile device, the mobile switching center generates a reverse 911 registration text message and transmits the reverse 911 registration text message to the mobile device. A user of the mobile device may then transmit the reverse 911 registration text message to a local reverse 911 database to have the contact information associated with the mobile device added to the local reverse 911 database." The patent application was filed on Oct. 21, 2008 (12/255,428). 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=8,412,149.PN.&OS=PN/8,412,149&RS=PN/8,412,149 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. For more information about Targeted News Service products and services, please contact: Myron Struck, editor, Targeted News Service LLC, Springfield, Va., 703/304-1897; [email protected]; http://targetednews.com. -1120251 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |