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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Texas (April 18)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Texas. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,422,390) developed by John Siwko, Austin, Texas, and Andrew Jeffrey Hall, Round Rock, Texas, for a "method and apparatus for transporting deterministic traffic in a gigabit passive optical network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method are disclosed for transporting deterministic traffic in a gigabit passive optical network. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an Optical Line Termination (OLT) for exchanging data traffic in a Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) having a controller programmed to generate a timeslot schedule for transport of a desired bandwidth of constant bit rate (CBR) data traffic by selecting one or more timeslots from periodic frame clusters operating according to a GPON Transmission Convergence (GTC) protocol. Additional embodiments are disclosed." The patent application was filed on July 30, 2010 (12/847,889). 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=84,22,390.PN.&OS=PN/84,22,390&RS=PN/84,22,390 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Reduced Power Consumption Memory Circuitry ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,422,313) developed by five co-inventors for a "reduced power consumption memory circuitry." The co-inventors are Stefan Buettner, Sindelfingen, Germany, David A. Hrusecky, Cedar Park, Texas, Werner Juchmes, Boeblingen, Germany, Wolfgang Penth, Holzgerlingen, Germany, and Rolf Sautter, Bondorf, Germany. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In a circuit that reduces power consumption in an array system of memory cells accessible in parallel, a local evaluation circuit is connected to a memory cell and a global bit line of the array system of memory cells. A selection circuitry splits the global bit line into an upper part and a lower part of the global bit line. The selection circuitry is adapted to receive an early set prediction signal and to connect the upper part of the global bit line to the lower part of the global bit line based on the early set prediction signal. The early set prediction signal indicates whether a set of memory cells, which include the memory cell, is being read. The circuit also includes a N:1 multiplexer connected to the lower part of the global bit line to receive the lower part of the global bit line as input." The patent application was filed on Oct. 28, 2011 (13/284,480). 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=84,22,313.PN.&OS=PN/84,22,313&RS=PN/84,22,313 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,422,501) developed by four co-inventors for an "efficient path maximum transmission unit information discovery and storage." The co-inventors are Ranadip Das, West Bengal, India, Vinit Jain, Austin, Texas, Uma Krishnan, Austin, Texas, and Venkat Venkatsubra, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, computer program product, and data processing system for efficiently discovering and storing path MTU information in a sending host are disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, two path MTU tables are maintained. One path MTU table contains MTU values corresponding to the first-hop routers associated with the sending host. The other path MTU table contains MTU values corresponding to individual destination hosts. When the sending host needs to send information to a destination, it first consults the MTU table associated with individual destination hosts. If an entry for that destination host is found in the table, the sending host uses that MTU value. If not, the sending host consults the MTU table for the first-hop router on the path to the destination host and uses that MTU value. If that MTU value is too high, a new entry is made in the host-specific MTU table for the destination host." The patent application was filed on Jan. 4, 2007 (11/619,676). 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=84,22,501.PN.&OS=PN/84,22,501&RS=PN/84,22,501 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** CUREN Software Enterprises Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- CUREN Software Enterprises, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,423,496) developed by Robert R. Hauser, Frisco, Texas, for a "dynamic determination of needed agent rules." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for updating rule statistics in an execution environment by an agent that utilizes a rule engine, comprising collecting an activation statistic when a rule is activated, collecting a firing statistic when a rule is fired; and storing the activation statistic and the firing statistic in a rule history once processing by the rule engine is complete." The patent application was filed on Dec. 22, 2006 (11/645,191). 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=84,23,496.PN.&OS=PN/84,23,496&RS=PN/84,23,496 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Prodea Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Prodea Systems, Plano, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,422,397) developed by seven co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for rapid session routing." The co-inventors are Amir Ansari, Plano, Texas, George A. Cowgill, Farmersville, Texas, Leon E. Nicholls, Plano, Texas, Jude P. Ramayya, Wylie, Texas, Ramprakash Masina, Wylie, Texas, Atousa Raissyan, Potomac, Md., and Wu Guan, Allen, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A gateway device at a user premises edge of a wide area network implements a method for rapidly routing a media session. for an application layer service. The gateway device receivers a request from a first endpoint device to create the media session with a second device. The request includes an application layer identifier for the second device. The method involves accessing a routing table within the gateway device using the application layer identifier and obtaining, from the internal routing table a network layer address for communication with the second device. The gateway device then creates a route for the media session for the application layer service via bi-directional network layer communications through at least one of its interfaces using the network layer address." The patent application was filed on Dec. 28, 2007 (11/966,844). 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=84,22,397.PN.&OS=PN/84,22,397&RS=PN/84,22,397 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Reducing Retransmission of Out of Order Packets ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,422,370) developed by Jos M. Accapadi, Austin, Texas, Andrew Dunshea, Austin, Texas, and Gary L. Nevling, Rochester, Minn., for "reducing retransmission of out of order packets." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A mechanism is provided to determine an average rate of duplicate packets per connection for packets received by a node over an interface. The mechanism selects a connection from the connections established over the interface, determines that a rate of duplicate packets for the selected connection exceeds the average rate of duplicate packets by a threshold percentage, and sends a message to a transmitter of the duplicate packets over the connection to increase a timeout interval to retransmit packets." The patent application was filed on June 27, 2008 (12/163,064). 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=84,22,370.PN.&OS=PN/84,22,370&RS=PN/84,22,370 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Apple Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Apple, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,422,405) developed by Pui Sze Stephanie Ho, Euless, Texas, for a "mobile switching center platform having interfaces with functionalities defined by an architecture that provides packet-switched multimedia subscriber services." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A mobile switching center platform includes a circuit-switched switch to establish circuit-switched communications sessions on behalf of at least one wireless terminal. The mobile switching platform further includes interfaces having functionalities defined by an architecture that provides packet-switched multimedia subscriber services, wherein at least one of the interfaces is to enable the mobile switching center platform to communicate with a packet-switched subscriber access network through which the mobile switching center platform establishes packet-switched communications sessions with at least one terminal device." The patent application was filed on March 17, 2009 (12/920,355). 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=84,22,405.PN.&OS=PN/84,22,405&RS=PN/84,22,405 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,422,402) developed by Charles J. Archer, Rochester, Minn., and Ahmad A. Faraj, Rochester, Texas, for "broadcasting a message in a parallel computer." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for broadcasting a message in a parallel computer that includes: transmitting, by the logical root to all of the nodes directly connected to the logical root, a message; and for each node except the logical root: receiving the message; if that node is the physical root, then transmitting the message to all of the child nodes except the child node from which the message was received; if that node received the message from a parent node and if that node is not a leaf node, then transmitting the message to all of the child nodes; and if that node received the message from a child node and if that node is not the physical root, then transmitting the message to all of the child nodes except the child node from which the message was received and transmitting the message to the parent node." The patent application was filed on April 1, 2008 (12/060,492). 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=84,22,402.PN.&OS=PN/84,22,402&RS=PN/84,22,402 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,423,414) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and system for pausing, migrating, and restarting retail point-of-sale transactions." The co-inventors are Daniel Fernando De Araujo, Round Rock, Texas, Kumar Ravi, Cedar Park, Texas, Radhakrishnan Sethuraman, Austin, Texas, and Manuel Silveyra, Round Rock, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for managing transactions on point-of-sale terminals comprising a peer-to-peer network in a retail data processing system. A purchase transaction for a customer is initiated on a point-of-sale terminal in the system. Responsive to receiving a first input from a user of the point-of-sale terminal, the purchase transaction is suspended to form a suspended purchase transaction. Information about the customer is added to the suspended purchase transaction. The suspended purchase transaction is stored as a file on the point-of-sale terminal. Responsive to receiving a second input from the user of the point-of-sale terminal, a locally-stored list of suspended purchase transactions on the point-of-sale terminal is searched using the information about the customer. Responsive to locating the suspended transaction matching the information about the customer, the suspended transaction is selected to restart the suspended purchase transaction on the point-of-sale terminal." The patent application was filed on Feb. 12, 2008 (12/029,653). 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=8,423,414&OS=8,423,414&RS=8,423,414 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Auctnyc 13 Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Auctnyc 13, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,423,403) developed by Guy McClung, Spring, Texas, for "price guarantee methods and systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method is provided. The method includes recording transaction information for a consummated transaction related to a purchase of an item or service at a computer, the transaction information including information identifying a consumer; monitoring, by the computer, an incentive to purchase the item or service for a predetermined time period after purchase of the item or service by the consumer; comparing, by the computer, the incentive to the transaction information during the predetermined time period to determine if the incentive was offered as part of the consummated transaction; and if the incentive was not offered as part of the consummated transaction, duplicating, by the computer, the incentive for the consumer after the consummated transaction." The patent application was filed on Oct. 19, 2009 (12/581,598). 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=8,423,403&OS=8,423,403&RS=8,423,403 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Power Consumption Projection ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,423,195) developed by Ogechi O. Anunobi, Dallas, Rick A. Hamilton, Charlottesville, Va., and James W. Seaman, Falls Church, Va., for a power consumption projection. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention provides a way to more effectively estimate energy usage by devices such as servers, including traditional mainframes as well as other enterprise systems. One core idea surrounds the fact that when detailed power consumption information is unavailable for a specific configuration, power consumption is computed/projected/estimated by de-rating the maximum power rating by a power adjustment factor that would more closely project the true power consumption. Under this approach, the power consumption is then provided as a range specifying probable expected lower and upper limits for a given device. This range is more meaningful for planning and decision-making and shows the client a more likely best and worst case energy consumption scenario for their specific device(s), and hence is helpful for planning or server comparison decisions. Cooling, energy costs, energy efficiency, and energy expanded per MIPS are also projected and given as a range instead of a single number. This gives the IT decision maker more accurate information upon which to base IT decision-making." The patent application was filed on Oct. 29, 2009 (12/608,085). 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=8,423,195&OS=8,423,195&RS=8,423,195 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Enhancing Language Detection in Short Communications ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,423,352) developed by QingZhang Lai, Austin, Texas, and Ann Marie Grizzaffi Maynard, Austin, Texas, for "enhancing language detection in short communications." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system, and computer usable program product for enhancing language detection in short communications are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A short communication is stored in an element of a line cache. The line cache is accessible to an application executing in a data processing system. The element is an element in a set of elements in the line cache. A compound text is assembled from contents of a subset of the elements of the line cache. A language identifier (language ID) is received for the compound text from a language detection algorithm. The language ID is stored in a language cache element of a language ID cache. The language ID cache is accessible to the application and includes a set of language cache elements. A language of the short communication is determined using the contents of a subset of language cache elements." The patent application was filed on April 6, 2010 (12/754,759). 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=8,423,352&OS=8,423,352&RS=8,423,352 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** ExxonMobil Upstream Research Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- ExxonMobil Upstream Research, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,423,337) developed by four co-inventors for a "method for multi-scale geomechanical model analysis by computer simulation." The co-inventors are Sheng-Yuan Hsu, Sugar Land, Texas, Rahul Pakal, Pearland, Texas, Kevin H. Searles, Kingwood, Texas, and Brian W. Duffy, Houston. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of predicting earth stresses in response to changes in a hydrocarbon-bearing reservoir within a geomechanical system includes establishing physical boundaries for the geomechanical system, acquiring logging data from wells drilled, and acquiring seismic data for one or more rock layers. The well and seismic data are automatically converted into a three-dimensional digital representation of one or more rock layers within the geomechanical system, thereby creating data points defining a three-dimensional geological structure. The method also includes (a) applying the data points from the geological structure to derive a finite element-based geomechanical model, and (b) initializing a geostatic condition in the geomechanical model, and then running a geomechanics simulation in order to determine changes in earth stresses associated with changes in pore pressure or other reservoir characteristics within the one or more rock layers." The patent application was filed on June 10, 2008 (12/665,597). 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=8,423,337&OS=8,423,337&RS=8,423,337 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** PinnacleAIS Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- PinnacleAIS, Pasadena, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,423,397) developed by Ryan Sitton, Pearland, Texas, for "asset management systems and methods." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems, methods, and software for reliability, hazard, and integrity optimization are disclosed. In at least some embodiments, the software includes an input module, a failure model module, a simulation module, and an optimization module. The input module accepts a list of assets to be managed and determines design data and process data for each asset. The failure model module determines probability of failure curve parameters for each asset degradation mode. The simulation module simulates an asset management plan to determine a total management cost that includes costs for predicted failures as well as risk-weighted costs for each degradation mode of each asset generates alternative management plans for evaluation by the simulation module and provides a selected management plan for display to a user. In each embodiment, the total management costs may account not only for direct costs, but also for safety costs, environmental costs, and business costs." The patent application was filed on Aug. 8, 2008 (12/188,255). 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=8,423,397&OS=8,423,397&RS=8,423,397 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Making Automated Use of Data Volume Copy Service Targets ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,423,734) developed by Brian Hart, Austin, Texas, and Anil Kalavakolanu, Austin, Texas, for "making automated use of data volume copy service targets." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and computer program product for automatically managing copies of source data volumes are provided. A copy management agent receives a message that target volume copies of source volumes are available. The copy management agent accesses the target volume copies of the source volumes. The copy management agent analyzes metadata for the target volume copies. The copy management agent determines whether any of the target volume copies is a boot volume copy based on the analyzed metadata. In response to a determination that one of the target volume copies is a boot volume copy, the copy management agent directs a provisioning agent to provision a new host for the target volume copies. The copy management agent directs the storage subsystem to present the target volume copies to a storage area network port associated with the new host. Then, the new host is booted using the boot volume copy." The patent application was filed on April 23, 2010 (12/766,147). 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=8,423,734&OS=8,423,734&RS=8,423,734 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Freescale Semiconductor Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Freescale Semiconductor, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,423,721) developed by William C. Moyer, Dripping Springs, Texas, for a "cache coherency protocol in a data processing system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method includes detecting a bus transaction on a system interconnect of a data processing system having at least two masters; determining whether the bus transaction is one of a first type of bus transaction or a second type of bus transaction, where the determining is based upon a burst attribute of the bus transaction; performing a cache coherency operation for the bus transaction in response to the determining that the bus transaction is of the first type, where the performing the cache coherency operation includes searching at least one cache of the data processing system to determine whether the at least one cache contains data associated with a memory address the bus transaction; and not performing cache coherency operations for the bus transaction in response to the determining that the bus transaction is of the second type." The patent application was filed on April 30, 2008 (12/112,508). 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=8,423,721&OS=8,423,721&RS=8,423,721 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Enhanced Adaptive Optimization and Presentation of On-line Map Data ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,423,285) developed by Kevin G. Paterson, San Antonio, and James W. Seaman, Falls Church, Va., for an "enhanced adaptive optimization and presentation of on-line map data." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for presenting map data on a computing device. The map may be dynamically adapted based on a physical characteristic, such as display resolution, of the computing device. The map may be further adapted based on a user activity, such as shopping, that is taking place. Input from a user in response to a rendered map may be used to create a manual override or a learned override to further adapt the map for the computing device. The input may be from the user of the computing device or from users of other computing devices." The patent application was filed on March 5, 2009 (12/398,511). 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=8,423,285&OS=8,423,285&RS=8,423,285 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** JDA Software Group Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- JDA Software Group, Scottsdale, Ariz., has been assigned a patent (8,423,395) developed by Brian M. Kennedy, Coppell, Texas, for a "system and method for managing data associated with available to-promise (ATP) products." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A software system for managing available to promise and making promises to fulfill customer requests is provided. The software system includes a supply chain model representing a chain of supply. The supply chain model includes site models that represent sites having capacity and that manage material flow. The supply chain model also includes seller models that represent sellers and that manage forecasting and purchasing. Commitments between sites is modeled by requests and promises, and the sellers can post requests on behalf of sites in anticipation of future requests from the sites." The patent application was filed on Feb. 22, 2000 (09/510,607). 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=8,423,395&OS=8,423,395&RS=8,423,395 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** National Instruments Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- National Instruments, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,423,314) developed by Kunal H. Patel, Austin, Texas, and David E. Klipec, Austin, Texas, for a "deterministic reconfiguration of measurement modules using double buffered DMA." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Configuring at least one radio frequency (RF) instrument according to a plurality of RF measurement configurations for performing a plurality of tests on a device under test (DUT). A list of RF measurement configurations may be stored in a computer memory. The list of RF measurement configurations comprises a plurality of parameters for configuring operation of the at least one instrument. Information regarding the list of RF measurement configurations (e.g., a data stream) may be provided to the at least one RF instrument. The at least one RF instrument may perform the plurality of tests on the DUT, including the at least one RF instrument configuring itself according to the RF measurement configurations based on processing of the information. Configuring enables the at least one RF instrument to perform the plurality of tests on the DUT in a deterministic manner." The patent application was filed on Feb. 25, 2010 (12/712,995). 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=8,423,314&OS=8,423,314&RS=8,423,314 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent for Conversion of Resets Sent to a Shared Device ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,423,698) developed by David L. Matthews, Cypress, Texas, Hubert E. Brinkmann, Spring, Texas, and Paul V. Brownell, Houston, for a "conversion of resets sent to a shared device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems for converting resets in a shared I/O system. One embodiment includes a method that propagates a first type of reset from a host computer to a multi-function device that shares I/O operations with other hosts. The first type of reset is converted to a second type of reset to prevent the host from resetting functions bound to the other hosts at the multi-function device." The patent application was filed on April 2, 2008 (12/935,541). 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=8,423,698&OS=8,423,698&RS=8,423,698 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Dynamic Optimization of Memory Use in a Digital Recording Device ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,423,704) developed by Margaret B. Morgan, Austin, Texas, and David W. Zysk, Austin, Texas, for a "dynamic optimization of memory use in a digital recording device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for dynamically optimizing the memory use in a digital recording device. The disclosed method includes recording a plurality of digital files collected by said digital recording device on a recording medium and assigning each file of said plurality of recorded digital files a priority ranking of high, medium or low based on at least one predetermined criteria. The method also includes recording additional digital files on the recording medium and compressing the files assigned a low priority ranking when the recording medium reaches a first predetermined threshold of the recording medium's total storage capacity. The method further includes compressing the files assigned a medium priority ranking when the recording medium reaches a predetermined threshold in the recording medium's total storage capacity and deleting files designated as low priority files when the recording medium reaches a predetermined threshold in the recording medium's total storage capacity." The patent application was filed on March 14, 2008 (12/049,071). 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=8,423,704&OS=8,423,704&RS=8,423,704 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** General Hospital Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- General Hospital, Boston, has been assigned a patent (8,423,127) developed by four co-inventors for "systems and methods for generating fluorescent light images." The co-inventors are Umar Mahmood, Winchester, Mass., Ralph Weissleder, Peabody, Mass., Rahul A. Sheth, Houston, and Rabi Upadhyay, Boston. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An imaging system divides image pixels intensities by exposure time to generate image data in units of intensity per time. The imaging system divides a fluorescent light image in intensity per time units by an excitation light image in intensity per time units to provide a quantitative corrected fluorescent light image that is generally invariant to position of an imaging instrument relative to a biological tissue being imaged." The patent application was filed on Oct. 17, 2011 (13/274,781). 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=8,423,127.PN.&OS=PN/8,423,127&RS=PN/8,423,127 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Airwalk Communications Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Airwalk Communications, Richardson, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,423,027) developed by four co-inventors for a "combined base transceiver station and base station controller handoff." The co-inventors are Myoung Chul Choi, Plano, Texas, Hyunyung Cha, Plano, Texas, Hyeon Bong Park, Plano, Texas, and Jae Kyu Yoo, Richardson, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system, method, and computer readable medium for a softer handoff comprises receiving a Pilot Strength Measurement Message (PSMM) to request a handoff by a selector distribution unit (SDU), receiving a softer handoff request message by a channel element control (CEC), receiving a softer handoff request message by a radio call control (RCC), receiving a traffic channel assignment message by the CEC, and receiving an indication of an addition of a new sector for the softer handoff by the SDU." The patent application was filed on July 25, 2011 (13/189,828). 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=8,423,027.PN.&OS=PN/8,423,027&RS=PN/8,423,027 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Avaya Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Avaya, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,423,045) developed by Sriram Parameswar, Allen, Texas, for a location-based presence automation. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention provides for an improved presence system, which can automatically and unobtrusively factor in the location of a person being monitored when creating presence information for dissemination to subscribers. Presence tags can be distributed at different locations, which may bear on the relative availability of the monitored person for communications. A mobile terminal associated with the monitored person is configured to automatically obtain tag information from the presence tags and deliver location-based state information to the presence server without human interaction. The presence server will process the location-based state information and any other applicable state information to create presence information for the person being monitored, and then deliver the presence information to subscribers." The patent application was filed on Sept. 23, 2005 (11/233,875). 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=8,423,045.PN.&OS=PN/8,423,045&RS=PN/8,423,045 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Clearwire IP Holdings Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Clearwire IP Holdings, Bellevue, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,423,068) developed by five co-inventors for a "quality of service based multi-antenna mode switching." The co-inventors are Swati Tiwari, Austin, Texas, Krishna D. Sitaram, Chantilly, Va., Hemanth Balaji Pawar, Herndon, Va., Jong-hak Jung, Herndon, Va., and Esmail Hejazi Dinan, Herndon, Va. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of operating a communication system is disclosed. A first wireless device associated with a first profile is communicated with using a first multi-antenna mode. A second wireless device associated with a second profile is communicated with using the first multi-antenna mode. A network resource utilization is determined. It is determined that the network resource utilization satisfies a criteria. Based on the network resource utilization satisfying the criteria, at least one control message is sent that instructs the second wireless device to use a second multi-antenna mode." The patent application was filed on Feb. 12, 2009 (12/369,880). 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=8,423,068.PN.&OS=PN/8,423,068&RS=PN/8,423,068 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Silicon Laboratories Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Silicon Laboratories, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,422,964) developed by four co-inventors for a "partitioned radio-frequency apparatus and associated methods." The co-inventors are Donald A. Kerth, Austin, Texas, Richard T. Behrens, Lafayette, Colo., Jeffrey W. Scott, Austin, Texas, G. Diwakar Vishakhadatta, Austin, Texas, G. Tyson Tuttle, Austin, Texas, and Vishnu Shankar Srinivasan, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Radio-frequency (RF) apparatus includes receiver analog circuitry that receives an RF signal and provides at least one digital signal to receiver digital circuitry that functions in cooperation with the receiver analog circuitry. The receiver analog circuitry and the receiver digital circuitry are partitioned so that interference effects between the receiver analog circuitry and the receiver digital circuitry tend to be reduced." The patent application was filed on May 10, 2011 (13/104,822). 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=8,422,964.PN.&OS=PN/8,422,964&RS=PN/8,422,964 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** THL Holding Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- THL Holding, Round Rock, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,422,954) developed by John W. Howard, Cedar Park, Texas, Richard Cutler, Leander, Texas, and Robert M. Kennard, Dallas, for "methods for use in conjunction with a handheld wireless communication device having an adjunct device coupled thereto." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method includes executing a homing application of the handheld wireless communication device for finding at least one personal object coupled to at least one remote wireless device. The homing application includes generating data to present for display on the handheld wireless communication device a graphical user interface that receives an indication of a user to locate the at least one personal object and that generates a location signal in response thereto. The location signal is communicated to an adjunct device via the communication port of the handheld wireless communication device to cause the adjunct device to transmit an RF paging signal to at least one remote wireless device via a short-range wireless transceiver of the adjunct device." The patent application was filed on July 12, 2012 (13/548,064). 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=8,422,954.PN.&OS=PN/8,422,954&RS=PN/8,422,954 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Brightpoint Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Brightpoint, Plainfield, Ind., has been assigned a patent (8,423,007) developed by Terry A. Overby, Garland, Texas, for a "multi-phone programming application." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Automated provisioning of radiotelephone handsets 20 at a fulfillment center and automated quality assurance uses a computer database of specifications 16 for authentication and activation from multiple handset manufacturing vendors, radiotelephone service providers, and distributors. A universal interface system 10 is provided to efficiently access diverse makes and models of handsets. The handsets are attached to the interface system in accordance with a build request, checked to see if the attached handset matches the build request, and automatically provisioned via the interface in accordance with the build request." The patent application was filed on Aug. 11, 2006 (11/464,126). 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=8,423,007.PN.&OS=PN/8,423,007&RS=PN/8,423,007 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** QUALCOMM Assigned Patent for Harmonic Suppression and/or Rejection ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- QUALCOMM, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,422,975) developed by Manas Behera, Austin, Texas, and Junxiong Deng, San Diego, for a "harmonic suppression and/or rejection." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed are circuits, techniques and methods for removing one or more harmonics from a waveform that has been mixed with a local oscillator. In one particular example, such a waveform may also be mixed with a second local oscillator at a different frequency and combined with the first mixed waveform to suppress and/or substantially remove the one or more harmonics." The patent application was filed on June 9, 2010 (12/797,454). 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=8,422,975.PN.&OS=PN/8,422,975&RS=PN/8,422,975 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** CSR Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- CSR Technology, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,422,978) developed by Carey Ritchey, Murphy, Texas, Kim E. Beumer, Richardson, Texas, and Marius Pop, Richardson, Texas, for a "broadband tuner for very wide signal conversion." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An agile RF tuner circuit capable of converting a wide portion of RF signal into an IF signal suitable for analog-to-digital conversion. The circuit up converts a received RF signal to a high IF signal and then down converts the high IF signal to a low IF signal. Embodiments of the RF circuit incorporate harmonic reject mixers to suppress harmonics and intermodulations typically associated with the frequency conversion process." The patent application was filed on Dec. 29, 2011 (13/339,560). 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=8,422,978.PN.&OS=PN/8,422,978&RS=PN/8,422,978 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. 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