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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Texas (May 1)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Texas. *** Texas Instruments Assigned Patent for Master Reset and Synchronizer Circuit with Data and Clock Inputs ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Texas Instruments, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (8,433,962) developed by Lee D. Whetsel, Parker, Texas, for a "master reset and synchronizer circuit with data and clock inputs." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An optimized JTAG interface is used to access JTAG Tap Domains within an integrated circuit. The interface requires fewer pins than the conventional JTAG interface and is thus more applicable than conventional JTAG interfaces on an integrated circuit where the availability of pins is limited. The interface may be used for a variety of serial communication operations such as, but not limited to, serial communication related integrated circuit test, emulation, debug, and/or trace operations." The patent application was filed on July 17, 2012 (13/551,167). 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=8,433,962.PN.&OS=PN/8,433,962&RS=PN/8,433,962 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Cryptographically-enabled Privileged Mode Execution ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,433,927) developed by Wilfred E. Plouffe Jr., San Jose, Calif., and Kanna Shimizu, Austin, Texas, for a "cryptographically-enabled privileged mode execution." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, computer program product, and data processing system are disclosed for protecting sensitive program code (and also data) from unauthorized access in a memory space not subject to protection fault detection. In a preferred embodiment, secure initialization hardware loads the sensitive code from a storage location accessible only to the secure initialization hardware itself and decrypts the sensitive code into a portion of the processor-accessible memory space, from which the code is executed. Once execution of the sensitive code has completed, all or at least a portion of the code is deleted before passing control to application software. If the application software needs to cause the sensitive code to be executed, the secure initialization hardware is activated to reload/decrypt a fresh copy of the sensitive code into the memory space and cause the code to be executed. Before control is returned to the application software, the sensitive code is again deleted to prevent unauthorized access." The patent application was filed on May 29, 2007 (11/754,678). 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=8,433,927.PN.&OS=PN/8,433,927&RS=PN/8,433,927 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,433,606) developed by Jeffrey Brandt, Cedar Park, Texas, and Angela Sandoval, Austin, Texas, for "methods and apparatus to determine when to deflect callers to websites." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus to determine when to deflect callers to websites are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein to deflect a caller to a webpage comprises receiving a call from the caller, determining a performance metric associated with processing the call, and determining whether to offer the caller an option to terminate the call and access the webpage based on the at least one performance metric." The patent application was filed on Jan. 30, 2007 (11/668,789). 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=8,433,606&OS=8,433,606&RS=8,433,606 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** E-Scan Data Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- E-Scan Data Systems, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,433,586) developed by John Wester, Austin, Texas, for "health care patient benefits eligibility research system and methods." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The software of the present invention provides a means for creating a file of unpaid claims for a service provider. The software is used to create one or more queries to compare information in the file of claims against records in a benefit provider's database to determine the eligibility status of the claim. A file is created containing each claim for which a matching record in the benefit provider's database is found, and the information from that matching record. A report can be generated from the file of matching claims and benefit provider records, so the claims can be submitted for payment by the service provider." The patent application was filed on June 12, 2012 (13/494,139). 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=8,433,586&OS=8,433,586&RS=8,433,586 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Texas Instruments Assigned Patent for Methods and Systems for Improving the Security of Password-based Authentication Protocols for IEEE 802.11 Networks ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Texas Instruments, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (8,433,918) developed by Jin-Meng Ho, Plano, Texas, for "methods and systems for improving the security of password-based authentication protocols for IEEE 802.11 networks." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A password element is generated for a station running an Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) or a Finite Field Cryptography (FFC) group based password authenticated protocol. A password element is multiplied by a cofactor to generate a modified password element for the ECC group. The station verifies that the modified password element is not equal to a point at infinity for the ECC group. A password element is generated by exponentiating a password value to a power t, where t=(p-1)/r, p and r are primes, and r has a bit length of at least 160 bits for the FFC group. A commit-element parameter is generated using a temporary secret value and the ECC modified password element or the FFC password element, and is then transmitted to another station in a commit message. The receiving station checks if the received commit-element parameter has desired properties before continuing with the protocol." The patent application was filed on Oct. 1, 2010 (12/896,243). 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=8,433,918.PN.&OS=PN/8,433,918&RS=PN/8,433,918 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Texas Instruments Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Texas Instruments, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (8,433,963) developed by Lee D. Whetsel, Parker, Texas, for an "address and command port connecting trace circuitry and TAP domain." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An address and command port interface selectively enables JTAG TAP domain operations and Trace domain operations within an IC. The port carries TMS and TDI input and TDO output on a single pin and receives a clock signal on a separate pin. The addressable two pin interface loads and updates instructions and data to the TAP domain within the IC. The instruction or data update operations in multiple ICs occur simultaneously. A process transmits data from an addressed target device to a controller using data frames, each data frame comprising a header bit and data bits. The logic level of the header bit is used to start, continue, and stop the data transmission to the controller. A data and clock signal interface between a controller and multiple target devices provides for each target device to be individually addressed and commanded to perform a JTAG or Trace operation." The patent application was filed on Sept. 26, 2012 (13/627,553). 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=8,433,963.PN.&OS=PN/8,433,963&RS=PN/8,433,963 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,434,000) developed by Brad A. Cantwell, League City, Texas, and Aaron R. McDowell, Dickinson, Texas, for a "system and method for archiving portions of an output of a web application." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method is provided for archiving only pertinent portions of a web application. In implementation, the system and method of the invention allows web applications to easily save important areas of a web page that are displayed to the user. The important areas may include, for example, confirmation of a transaction or other sales information. The important areas, also referred to as pertinent portions, are saved as a file on a server, database or other computing device for future reference. The method comprises placing a first scripting tag at a first location in an HTTP document and placing a second scripting tag in a second location in the HTTP document. The text between the first scripting tag and the second scripting tag is rendered and saved into a file upon execution of the HTTP document." The patent application was filed on Jan. 2, 2008 (11/968,378). 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=8,434,000.PN.&OS=PN/8,434,000&RS=PN/8,434,000 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Microblogging Based Dynamic Transaction Tracking for Composite Application Flow ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,434,095) developed by Jean X. Yu, Austin, Texas, for a "microblogging based dynamic transaction tracking for composite application flow." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Using microblogging to dynamically track event flow of a composite enterprise application by reporting an enterprise application event. A client server detects an event of the complex enterprise application, and encodes the event data in a microblog compatible format. The client computer creates an event post message containing the event data and uploads the event post to a microblog server via the Internet. The microblog server then displays the post message in a user readable format." The patent application was filed on Dec. 22, 2009 (12/644,042). 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=8,434,095&OS=8,434,095&RS=8,434,095 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Reducing Wiring Congestion in a Cache Subsystem Utilizing Sectored Caches with Discontiguous Addressing ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,433,851) developed by six co-inventors for "reducing wiring congestion in a cache subsystem utilizing sectored caches with discontiguous addressing." The co-inventors are Leo James Clark, Kerrville, Texas, James Stephen Fields Jr., Austin, Texas, Guy Lynn Guthrie, Austin, Texas, William John Starke, Round Rock, Texas, Derek Edward Williams, Austin, Texas, and Phillip G. Williams, Leander, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and computer system for reducing the wiring congestion, required real estate, and access latency in a cache subsystem with a sectored and sliced lower cache by re-configuring sector-to-slice allocation and the lower cache addressing scheme. With this allocation, sectors having discontiguous addresses are placed within the same slice, and a reduced-wiring scheme is possible between two levels of lower caches based on this re-assignment of the addressable sectors within the cache slices. Additionally, the lower cache effective address tag is re-configured such that the address fields previously allocated to identifying the sector and the slice are switched relative to each other's location within the address tag. This re-allocation of the address bits enables direct slice addressing based on the indicated sector." The patent application was filed on Aug. 16, 2007 (11/839,663). 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=8,433,851.PN.&OS=PN/8,433,851&RS=PN/8,433,851 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Apple Assigned Patent for Method for Implementing Power Gating in an Integrated Circuit Design Logic Block Including N-nary Dynamic Logic (NDL) Gates ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Apple, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,434,048) developed by Ben A. Marrou, Austin, Texas, for a "method for implementing power gating in an integrated circuit design logic block including N-nary dynamic logic (NDL) gates." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for adding power gating to an integrated circuit design logic block that includes N-Nary dynamic logic (NDL) gates includes determining an initial number of power gating rows to add to the logic block. The logic block includes a number of rows of logic gates in which some of the rows include gates implemented as one of n NDL circuits, where n may be any positive integer. The method also includes determining a total power gating device width for all of the power gating rows, and determining a distribution of the power gating device width among a final number of power gating rows based upon a number of different clock phases used to clock the gates implemented as one of n NDL circuits. The method further includes placing the power gating rows within the logic block." The patent application was filed on July 8, 2011 (13/178,892). 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=8,434,048&OS=8,434,048&RS=8,434,048 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Apple Assigned Patent for User Equipment Buffer Management in Multiple-input Multiple-output Communication Systems ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Apple, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,433,878) developed by Jayesh H. Kotecha, Austin, Texas, Ning Chen, Austin, Texas, and Ian C. Wong, Austin, Texas, for a "user equipment buffer management in multiple-input multiple-output communication systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the disclosure provide a system and method for dynamically allocating storage capacity in a user equipment buffer. In various embodiments of the invention, a plurality of transport blocks associated with a process are stored in a plurality of subpartitions of a partition of a buffer in a user equipment device." The patent application was filed on March 26, 2008 (12/056,258). 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=8,433,878.PN.&OS=PN/8,433,878&RS=PN/8,433,878 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Mask Assignment for Multiple Patterning Lithography ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,434,033) developed by four co-inventors for a "mask assignment for multiple patterning lithography." The co-inventors are Rani S. Abou Ghaida, Mount Kisco, N.Y., Kanak B. Agarwal, Austin, Texas, Lars W. Liebmann, Poughquag, N.Y., and Sani R. Nassif, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A mechanism is provided for mask assignment for triple patterning lithography. The mechanism identifies tip-to-tip (TT), tip-to-side (TS), and side-to-side (SS) conflicting parts by design rule dependent projection. The mechanism finds stitch location for TT, TS, and SS conflicts separately. The mechanism colors TT, TS, and SS conflicting parts with mask0/mask1, mask0/mask2, mask1/mask2 coloring cycle with each type colored separately. The mechanism uses existing infrastructure of two-way coloring. As a first objective, the mechanism attempts to minimize conflicts. As a second objective, the mechanism attempts to minimize the number of stitches by assigning the two sides of stitches to the same mask. Once coloring of all conflicting parts is done, the mechanism colors non-conflicting parts to maximize minimum overlap of exposures and to use both colors if two sides are different colors and one color if both sides are the same color." The patent application was filed on Sept. 1, 2011 (13/223,706). 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=8,434,033&OS=8,434,033&RS=8,434,033 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent for Device, System, and Method for Managing Television Tuners ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,434,116) developed by Philip Ted Kortum, Austin, Texas, Marc Andrew Sullivan, Austin, Texas, and Jeffrey Lewis Brandt, Cedar Park, Texas, for a "device, system, and method for managing television tuners." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A device for detecting when a television is in a standby mode is provided. The device includes a housing and a plug receptacle is formed within a surface of the housing. Also, a plug extends from the housing. The device further includes a power detection circuit that detects when a television coupled to the device is in a standby mode. In a particular embodiment, the standby mode is a low power mode in which the television is not fully operational. Further, the device includes a cable that extends from the housing. A signal can be sent from the power detection circuit to a set top box via the cable. The signal indicates that the television is in the standby mode. An electrical cord from a television can be plugged into the plug receptacle and the plug that extends from the housing can be plugged into to a wall outlet." The patent application was filed on Dec. 1, 2004 (11/001,676). 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=8,434,116&OS=8,434,116&RS=8,434,116 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Storage Manager for Virtual Machines with Virtual Storage ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,434,081) developed by five co-inventors for "storage manager for virtual machines with virtual storage." The co-inventors are Ezequiel Cervantes, Tucson, Ariz., David Joseph Gimpl, Rochester, Minn., Elfred Pagan, Austin, Texas, Sudhir Gurunandan Rao, Portland, Ore., and Murali Krishna Somarouthu, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A storage manager connects containers of virtual machine (VM) images and virtual storage device data within hosts. The storage management provides a set of northbound application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow configuration of images associated with VM images and virtual storage devices provided to the operating systems and applications within virtual machine images. The northbound APIs, include methods for creating a virtual storage container that contains storage for the VM instance and also at least one virtual storage device to be provided to an operating system executed by the VM, a method for causing an attach of the virtual storage container to the host and a method for causing a deployment of the virtual storage device within the host. A set of southbound APIs are provided by the host, including at least a method that creates virtual storage devices and a method that attaches virtual storage devices to the host." The patent application was filed on July 2, 2010 (12/829,714). 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=8,434,081&OS=8,434,081&RS=8,434,081 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** University of Texas System Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- The University of Texas System, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,433,885) developed by Doug Burger, Austin, Texas, Stephen W. Keckler, Austin, Texas, and Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Austin, Texas, for a "method, system and computer-accessible medium for providing a distributed predicate prediction." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Examples of a system, method and computer accessible medium are provided to generate a predicate prediction for a distributed multi-core architecture. Using such system, method and computer accessible medium, it is possible to intelligently encode approximate predicate path information on branch instructions. Using this statically generated information, distributed predicate predictors can generate dynamic predicate histories that can facilitate an accurate prediction of high-confidence predicates, while minimizing the communication between the cores." The patent application was filed on Sept. 9, 2009 (12/556,440). 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=8,433,885.PN.&OS=PN/8,433,885&RS=PN/8,433,885 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Serializing Translation Lookaside Buffer Access Around Address Translation Parameter Modification ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,433,855) developed by Gregory W. Alexander, Pflugerville, Texas, Lisa C. Heller, Rhinebeck, N.Y., Chung-Lung Kevin Shum, Wappingers Falls, N.Y., for a "serializing translation lookaside buffer access around address translation parameter modification." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the invention include a method of synchronizing translation changes in a processor including a translation lookaside buffer, the method including setting a control bit to enable blocking of all fetch requests that miss the translation lookaside buffer without changing a translation state of the current process; if there is at least one pending translation, then waiting for completion of the at least one pending translation; and resetting the control bit. A processor and a computer program product are provided." The patent application was filed on Feb. 15, 2008 (12/032,178). 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=8,433,855.PN.&OS=PN/8,433,855&RS=PN/8,433,855 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Maxim Integrated Products Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Maxim Integrated Products, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,434,158) developed by Jianxin Ma, Plano, Texas, Sung Ung Kwak, Frisco, Texas, and Irfan Azam Chaudhry, Plano, Texas, for "systems and methods for detecting and thwarting unauthorized access and hostile attacks on secured systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various embodiments of the present invention relates to systems, devices and methods of detecting tampering and preventing unauthorized access by incorporating programmability and randomness into a process of coupling, driving and sensing conductive wires that are arranged above sensitive areas in a secured system. Such a tampering detection system comprises a security mesh network, a random number generator, a security controller and a security monitor. The security mesh network includes a plurality of security elements made from the conductive wires. The security controller selects a subset of security elements, forms a security array, and generates a driving stimulus. The security monitor selects a SENSE node, monitors an output at the SENSE node, and generates a flag signal indicating the presence of a tampering attempt. Programmability and randomness are introduced to at least one of the system parameters including array configuration, driving stimulus, SENSE node, and detection mode via random numbers." The patent application was filed on Aug. 29, 2011 (13/220,012). 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=8,434,158&OS=8,434,158&RS=8,434,158 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Texas Instruments Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Texas Instruments, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (RE44,190) developed by Karl M. Guttag, Plano, Texas, Christopher Read, San Diego, and Keith Balmer, Bedford, United Kingdom, for "long instruction word controlling plural independent processor operations." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A data processing apparatus including a multiplier unit forming a product from L bits of each two data buses of N bits each N is greater than L. The multiplier forms a N bit output having a first portion which is the L most significant bits of the of product and a second portion which is M other bits not including the L least significant bits of the product, where N is the sum of M and L. In the preferred embodiment the M other bits are derived from other bits of the two input data busses, such as the M other bits of the first input data bus. An arithmetic logic unit performs parallel operations (addition, subtraction, Boolean functions) controlled by the same instructions. This arithmetic logic unit is divisible into a selected number of sections for performing identical operations on independent sections of its inputs. The multiplier unit may form dual products from separate parts of the input data. A single instruction controlling both the multiplier unit and the arithmetic logic unit permits addition of dual products. The dual products are temporarily stored in a data register permitting the multiply and add operations to be pipelined. The dual products are formed in one data word and added by a rotate/mask and add operation in a three input arithmetic unit." The patent application was filed on Oct. 16, 2009 (12/580,466). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=RE44,190&OS=RE44,190&RS=RE44,190 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Kang Jo Mgmt. Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Kang Jo Mgmt., Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,433,711) developed by Paul S. Odom, Charlotte, N.C., and Robert D. Way, Tiki Island, Texas, for a "system and method for networked decision making support." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention provides systems and methods for decision making support. The decision making support can be used, for example, for help desk troubleshooting, medical diagnosis, financial planning, and expert device. The decision support system of the invention includes a processor and a memory having a decision support program module, a phase dictionary, one or more solution nodes and optionally a topic identification information module. The decision support module is configured to enable the processor to receive a problem constraint and one or more user-specified phrases, which are then used to search nodes in a solution domain to identify a set of nodes potentially related to the user's problem or question. The set of nodes potentially related to the user's problem or question are ranked and displayed. Methods to determine potential solution nodes and to update solution nodes within the decision support system are provided." The patent application was filed on Sept. 9, 2005 (11/222,046). 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=84,33,711.PN.&OS=PN/84,33,711&RS=PN/84,33,711 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Oracle International Assigned Patent for System and Method for Supporting Data Warehouse Metadata Extension Using an Extender ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Oracle International, Redwood Shores, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,433,673) developed by eight co-inventors for a "system and method for supporting data warehouse metadata extension using an extender." The co-inventors are Raghuram Venkatasubramanian, Cupertino, Calif., Roger Bolsius, Round Rock, Texas, Harvard Pan, Boston, Alextair Mascarenhas, Foster City, Calif., Saugata Chowdhury, Sunnyvale, Calif., Venugopal Surendran, Santa Clara, Calif., Ananth Venkata, San Ramon, Calif., and Jacques Vigeant, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An extender associated with a data warehouse can support metadata extension for the data warehouse. The extender can create an ETL extension plan for extending the data warehouse. The ETL extension plan includes one or more ETL plan elements that indicate extensions on ETL metadata objects. The one or more ETL plan elements within the ETL extension plan can be ordered, and ETL metadata extension can be performed based on the ETL extension plan." The patent application was filed on May 3, 2011 (13/100,249). 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=84,33,673.PN.&OS=PN/84,33,673&RS=PN/84,33,673 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** University of Texas System Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- The University of Texas System, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,433,715) developed by Parsa Mirhaji, Pearland, Texas, for a "method and system for text understanding in an ontology driven platform." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of methods and systems for informatics systems are disclosed. Such informatics systems may utilize a unifying format to represent text to facilitate linking between data from the text and one or more ontologies, and the commensurate ability to mine such data." The patent application was filed on Dec. 13, 2010 (12/928,489). 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=84,33,715.PN.&OS=PN/84,33,715&RS=PN/84,33,715 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** 21CT Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- 21CT, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,433,701) developed by Daniel Sargeant, Austin, Texas, and Morgan Hollinger, Cedar Park, Texas, for a "system and method for optimizing pattern query searches on a graph database." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An embodiment of the system and method for optimizing pattern query searches on a graph database uses a pattern query optimizer to optimize execution of the search plan for any sequence of SQL expressions by separating or breaking a pattern query into multiple subpattern queries before converting the subpattern queries into SQL expressions. An embodiment of the pattern query optimizer algorithmically, without intervention by an analyst, decomposes any pattern query into a set of subpattern queries by first identifying branches and cycles within a pattern query and then decomposing each identified branch and cycle into equivalent straight line paths, i.e., straight line nodes joined by edges. Cardinality may be used to improve the performance of pattern searches." The patent application was filed on Nov. 19, 2010 (12/950,582). 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=84,33,701.PN.&OS=PN/84,33,701&RS=PN/84,33,701 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** BBS Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- BBS Technologies, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,433,688) developed by Chandrashekhar Madhukar Vaidya, Sugar Land, Texas, Russel Bruce McDonald, Pflugerville, Texas, and Brett Derek Hawton, Alamo, Calif., for a "method and apparatus for performing a near-instantaneous restore of a database." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Some embodiments provide methods and apparatuses for performing a near-instantaneous restore of a database. During operation, the system intercepts a database management system restore request to restore a database from a backup file to a data file, wherein the backup file comprises a first number (e.g., N1) of data pages. Next, in response to intercepting the database management system restore request, the system sends information to the database management system indicating that the backup file comprises a second number (e.g., N2) of data pages, wherein the second number of data pages is less than the first number of data pages (e.g., N2<N1). Once the database management system has copied the fewer number of data pages from the backup file to the data file, the database management system may indicate that the restore is complete, and continue processing database requests as if the database management system was back online." The patent application was filed on Dec. 21, 2010 (12/975,035). 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=84,33,688.PN.&OS=PN/84,33,688&RS=PN/84,33,688 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** VECTORsgi Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- VECTORsgi, Addison, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,433,647) developed by Phillip C. Yarbrough, Dallas, for a "method and system for processing electronic checks." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, software is operable to identify checking account information from a repository, with the checking account information associated with a transaction. The software automatically generates an electronic check image based, at least in part, on the transaction and the identified checking account information. The software is then operable to communicate the electronic check image to a bank of first deposit for deposit." The patent application was filed on Aug. 25, 2004 (10/925,713). 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=84,33,647.PN.&OS=PN/84,33,647&RS=PN/84,33,647 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Dell Products Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Dell Products, Round Rock, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,433,681) developed by Dharmesh Patel, Round Rock, Texas, and Farzad Khosrowpour, Pflugerville, Texas, for a "system and method for managing replication in an object storage system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An object storage system, such as a content addressed storage system, manages replication of objects across network locations to balance storage space and data security. Network locations set a policy of replicating each object at the object's primary network location and a secondary network location. The secondary network location creates a first replica of the object and a virtual unique identifier representing a second replica of the object at the secondary network location. Creation of the second replica is suppressed unless the first replica becomes invalid so that storage space is conserved without substantially increasing the risk of loss of information represented by the object." The patent application was filed on May 12, 2011 (13/106,320). 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=84,33,681.PN.&OS=PN/84,33,681&RS=PN/84,33,681 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Tangoe Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Tangoe, Orange, Conn., has been assigned a patent (8,433,618) developed by William Marsh, Austin, Texas, and Charles Gamble, Woodbridge, Conn., for "systems and methods for streamlining the provisioning of wireless applications in an organization." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for streamlining the procurement and provisioning of devices, services, and applications are described. At least one embodiment includes a method comprising receiving a request from a member associated with an organization, the request operable to select at least one application to be executed on at least one device, the at least one device configured to operate at least one service; receiving a device selection based on the at least one requested application; receiving a service selection based on the device selection; generating orders to one or more entities, the one or more entities operable to fulfill the device request, service selection, and the application selection; and procuring the at least one device, the at least one device being provisioned with the selected service and the selected application." The patent application was filed on July 31, 2007 (11/831,133). 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=84,33,618.PN.&OS=PN/84,33,618&RS=PN/84,33,618 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Inter-node Communication Scheme for Node Status Sharing ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,433,760) developed by four co-inventors for an "inter-node communication scheme for node status sharing." The co-inventors are Arunachalam Ganapathy, Bangalore, India, Rajeev Mishra, Bangalore, India, Lance W. Russell, Austin, Texas, and Murali Vaddagiri, Bangalore, India. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A gossiping scheme for sharing node status in a cluster of nodes provides a robust mechanism for determining node status within the cluster. Nodes transmit gossip messages to each other nodes, the gossip messages listing other nodes in the cluster that are operational. When a node does not receive a gossip message from a particular node within a predetermined time period, then the node transmits messages to the other nodes indicating that the particular node is down. However, if another node has received a packet from the particular node within the predetermined time period and receives the node down message, then the other node responds with a node alive message." The patent application was filed on Dec. 3, 2010 (12/959,581). 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=8,433,760&OS=8,433,760&RS=8,433,760 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** L-3 Communications Integrated Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- L-3 Communications Integrated Systems, Greenville, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,433,739) developed by Stephen T. Ha, Greenville, Texas, for "methods and systems for detecting repetitive synchronized signal events." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Repetitive synchronized signal events may be detected in received raw signal data that contains a signal. The type of signal, element length (or minimum interval) and/or other characteristics of such repetitive synchronized signal events may also be optionally determined. The disclosed methods and systems may be implemented for processing signals in real time as part of a receiver or transceiver system, or may be implemented by one or more computer processing components that are configured to process stored raw signal data or signal data received from another source, such as across a computer network." The patent application was filed on June 27, 2007 (11/823,472). 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=8,433,739&OS=8,433,739&RS=8,433,739 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Maxim Intergrated Products Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Maxim Intergrated Products, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,433,743) developed by Sung Ung Kwak, Frisco, Texas, Levi Victor, Farmers Branch, Texas, and Kenneth Tang, Frisco, Texas, for a "root mean square (RMS) metering devices and methods for generating RMS current level to both high or low frequency within signal." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, devices and methods for efficiently calculating a true RMS values (either voltage or current) of an AC signal. The RMS value is generated from both high and low frequency components of the AC signal without a high speed ADC being integrated within the system. The high frequency component is processed by calculating an average current waveform of the high frequency component and approximating a corresponding RMS value using a waveform factor. The waveform factor is effectively a scalar that relates the average current waveform of the high frequency component to an appropriate RMS value." The patent application was filed on Oct. 26, 2009 (12/605,663). 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=8,433,743&OS=8,433,743&RS=8,433,743 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. 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