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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Colorado (April 24)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 24 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Colorado. *** Imation Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 24 -- Imation, Oakdale, Minn., has been assigned a patent (8,429,207) developed by Randy Kerns, Boulder, Colo., for "methods for implementation of information audit trail tracking and reporting in a storage system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of archival storage system are disclosed. The archival storage system includes one or more removable disk drives that provide random access and are readily expandable. One or more application servers can store archival data to the one or more removable disk drives. Further, the archival storage system provides an audit trail that stores information about actions taken on the archival data. The audit trail data providing a list of the actions and information about the actions that can be used to determine changes to the archival data." The patent application was filed on Dec. 20, 2011 (13/330,941). 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=84,29,207.PN.&OS=PN/84,29,207&RS=PN/84,29,207 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** eBay Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 24 -- eBay, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,429,055) developed by Robert C. Dorr, Franktown, Colo., for a "method for internet bidding." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of Internet bidding wherein a plurality of bidders bid on the item in a first episode of bidding until a deadline occurs. Within a time frame at the deadline, actual bidders from the plurality of bidders are identified and are displayed in a second continued episode of bidding. The time frame is such to identify serious bidders near the deadline and to compensate for Internet communication delays. The second episode of continued bidding is a bidding war among the identified bidders. In a first embodiment, bidding rounds, T.sub.BID, occur wherein the current high bidder's bid is displayed and the other identified bidders bid against it. In a second embodiment, bidding continues among the identified bidders with the current high bid being displayed. If a predetermined wait time elapses after the last bid, then an enticement multimedia announcement is made to entice further bidding such as: GOING, GOING, GONE!" The patent application was filed on Nov. 16, 1999 (09/442,169). 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=8,429,055&OS=8,429,055&RS=8,429,055 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Mocapay Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 24 -- Mocapay, Denver, has been assigned a patent (8,429,047) developed by Douglas J. Hurst, Boulder, Colo., for a "system and method for merging mobile gift cards." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for merging mobile gift cards is described. One embodiment transmits to a mobile device associated with a user a list of a plurality of mobile gift cards associated with a particular merchant that belong to the user, receives from the user via the mobile device a selection of a particular mobile gift card, receives from the user via the mobile device a selection of one or more other mobile gift cards associated with the particular merchant to be merged with the particular mobile gift card, and moves to the particular mobile gift card the remaining monetary balance of each of the other mobile gift cards selected by the user. In some embodiments, the merging operation is automated in the mobile-commerce platform." The patent application was filed on Dec. 2, 2009 (12/629,730). 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=8,429,047&OS=8,429,047&RS=8,429,047 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Adrea Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 24 -- Adrea, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,429,028) developed by John S. Hendricks, Potomac, Md., Michael L. Asmussen, Herndon, Va., and John S. McCoskey, Castle Rock, Colo., for "electronic book having electronic commerce features of recommending products and providing samples." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A viewer for displaying an electronic book and providing for electronic commerce. In conjunction with viewing an electronic book, a user can view information about products and services, view an on-line electronic catalog, and receive samples of products available for purchase. By entering a purchase request, the user can purchase products or services. In the case of a digital product, the user can download the purchased product directly into the viewer. The viewer also records statistics concerning purchase and information requests in order to recommend related products or services, or for directing particular types of advertisements to the user." The patent application was filed on Dec. 17, 2010 (12/971,470). 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=8,429,028&OS=8,429,028&RS=8,429,028 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** LSI Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 24 -- LSI, Milpitas, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,429,624) developed by Jason Unrein, Wichita, Kan., Louis Henry Odenwald Jr., Wichita, Kan., and Rose George, Colorado Springs, Colo., for an "application programming interface (API) router implementation and method." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An application programming interface (API) implementation that can interface between an application and a programming library. The implementation includes a Function Router Wrapper that receives a formatted string from the application. The formatted string includes a function name element filled with a function name, an input element filled with function input parameters, and an unfilled output element. The Function Router Wrapper converts the formatted string and passes it to a Function Router, which parses the converted formatted string to access the function name and the function input parameters. The Function Router calls a library function based on the accessed information. When the called library function is completed, the Function Router collects generated function outputs and embeds them into the formatted string output element. The Function Router passes the formatted string back up to the Function Router Wrapper, which converts the formatted string and passes it back up to the application." The patent application was filed on Aug. 17, 2010 (12/857,941). 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=8,429,624&OS=8,429,624&RS=8,429,624 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Secure Vector Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 24 -- Secure Vector, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (8,429,429) developed by James B. Kargman, Chicago, Peter Scott, Boulder, Colo., and Jeffrey Bromberger, Omaha, Neb., for a "computer security system and method." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method is provided for protecting a computer system, comprising: attaching a security descriptor to a process running on a processor of the computer system; associating with the security descriptor an isolation indicator that indicates the process runs in an isolation mode; calling a system routine by the isolated process that is also callable by a process that is not running in isolation mode; attempting to write to an object of a disk or a registry by the system routine called by the isolated process; determining whether the system routine is requesting the write on behalf of the isolated process or not; if the write is requested on behalf of the isolated process, then performing the write in a pseudo storage area; and if the write is requested on behalf of the non-isolated process, then performing the write in an actual storage area in which the disk or registry resides." The patent application was filed on Oct. 25, 2010 (12/911,184). 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=8,429,429.PN.&OS=PN/8,429,429&RS=PN/8,429,429 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Avaya Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 24 -- Avaya, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,429,371) developed by John H. Meiners, Boulder, Colo., for a "system and method for robust and efficient free chain management." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for managing free chains of compute resources. A system configured to practice the method divides a free chain of compute resources into a usable part (UP) which contains resources available for immediate allocation and an unusable part (UUP) which contains resources not available for immediate allocation but which become available after a certain minimum number of allocations. The system sorts resources in the UP by block number, and maintains a last used object (LUO) vector, indexed by block number, which records a last object in the UP for each block. Each time the system frees a resource, the system adds the freed resource to a tail of the UUP and promotes an oldest resource in the UUP to the UP. This approach can manage free chains in a manner that is both flaw tolerant and has relatively high performance." The patent application was filed on March 23, 2010 (12/729,324). 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=8,429,371.PN.&OS=PN/8,429,371&RS=PN/8,429,371 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent for Translation Look-aside Buffer ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 24 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,429,376) developed by Erin A. Handgen, Fort Collins, Colo., for a translation look-aside buffer. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A translation look-aside buffer (TLB) is described. The TLB may include a memory populated with pointers to collections (e.g., tables) of virtual-to-physical address translations. The memory may be populated by, for example, a page fault logic in response to resolving a page fault. The TLB may also include a signal logic to receive a virtual address and to selectively provide either a miss signal or a pointer to a collection of virtual-to-physical translations. The signal may provide the miss signal upon determining that the virtual address is not associated with a stored pointer and may provide a pointer upon determining that the virtual address is associated with the pointer." The patent application was filed on May 21, 2008 (12/989,350). 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=8,429,376.PN.&OS=PN/8,429,376&RS=PN/8,429,376 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** NetApp Assigned Patent for Providing an Administrative Path for Accessing a Writeable Master Storage Volume in a Mirrored Storage Environment ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 24 -- NetApp, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,429,368) developed by five co-inventors for "providing an administrative path for accessing a writeable master storage volume in a mirrored storage environment." The co-inventors are Michael Eisler, Colorado Springs, Colo., Peter F. Corbett, Lexington, Mass., Michael L. Kazar, Pittsburgh, Daniel S. Nydick, Wexford, Pa., and J. Christopher Wagner, San Francisco. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A technique provides an administrative path for accessing a writeable master storage volume in a mirrored storage environment. Illustratively, a writeable master storage volume stores a master set of data addressable by a corresponding pathname, and zero or more read-only (e.g., load-balancing) mirrored storage volumes are configured to store a mirrored set of the master set of data, the mirrored set also addressable by the corresponding pathname. Clients may read data from either the master storage volume or one of the mirrored storage volumes (e.g., according to a configured access location, such as a local mirrored volume if one exists) by issuing read requests having the corresponding pathnames. Also, each client may specifically access the master set of data from the master storage volume by issuing an access (e.g., read/write) request having a specified master storage volume pathname prefix prepended to the corresponding pathname." The patent application was filed on May 30, 2008 (12/129,904). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,429,368.PN.&OS=PN/8,429,368&RS=PN/8,429,368 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. -1122522 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |