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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in California (May 2)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in California. *** Juniper Networks Assigned Patent for Offloading Mobile Traffic from a Mobile Core Network ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Juniper Networks, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,432,871) developed by six co-inventors for an "offloading mobile traffic from a mobile core network." The co-inventors are Jagadishchandra Sarnaik, Gilroy, Calif., Sreenivasa Tellakula, San Jose, Calif., Ravi Nuguru, Cupertino, Calif., Ujjvala Nagineni, Mountain View, Calif., Jerome P. Moisand, Arlington, Mass., and Sanjay Wadhwa, Acton, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In general, the invention is directed to techniques for offloading mobile data traffic from a mobile core network to a broadband network. For example, as described herein, a breakout gateway forwards a service request from a mobile device and addressed to a service node. The service node designates an access point name (APN) for offload such that data traffic associated with service requests specifying the designated APN is to be offloaded to an offload network. The service node receives the service requests from the breakout gateway and, if the service request specifies the designated APN, the service node sends a request to the breakout gateway. The breakout gateway receives the request and assigns a routable PDP address to the mobile device. An offload module on the breakout gateway redirects mobile data traffic to the offload network when the source PDP address of the traffic is the previously assigned PDP address." The patent application was filed on March 26, 2010 (12/748,245). 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=84,32,871.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,871&RS=PN/84,32,871 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Selecting a Receiving Apparatus for Co-channel Operation ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,432,824) developed by Zhi-Zhong Yu, San Diego, for a "method and apparatus for selecting a receiving apparatus for co-channel operation." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of selecting a receiving apparatus for co-channel operation, the method comprising: transmitting a first and a second data at predetermined respective power levels on a single first channel comprising a single frequency and time slot; receiving the data; measuring a characteristic of the data; transmitting a signal indicating the measured characteristic; receiving the indicating signal; and responding to the received indicating signal by selecting the receiving apparatus for co-channel operation depending on the measured characteristic." The patent application was filed on April 29, 2010 (12/769,778). 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=84,32,824.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,824&RS=PN/84,32,824 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Invention Science Fund I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Invention Science Fund I, Bellevue, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,432,777) developed by Bran Ferren, Beverly Hills, Calif., Eleanor V. Goodall, Seattle, and Edward K. Y. Jung, Bellevue, Wash., for a "method and system for fluid mediated disk activation and deactivation." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of methods and systems for controlling access to information stored on memory or data storage devices are disclosed. In various embodiments, fluid-mediated modification of information or access to information is utilized. According to various embodiments, data storage devices designed for rotating access are described which include rotation-activated fluid control mechanisms." The patent application was filed on July 1, 2010 (12/803,677). 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=84,32,777.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,777&RS=PN/84,32,777 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Transmission of Multiplex Protocol Data Units in Physical Layer Packets ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,432,936) developed by Fan Ling, San Diego, for a "transmission of multiplex protocol data units in physical layer packets." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A transmitter generates MUX-PDUs for video, audio, data, and/or control streams based on a fixed PHY packet size such that all or a substantial percentage of the MUX-PDUs conform to the PHY packet size. The MUX-PDUs have variable sizes and are mapped to PHY packets such that (1) each MUX-PDU that is smaller than the PHY packet size is sent in one PHY packet and (2) each MUX-PDU that is larger than the PHY packet size is sent in a minimum number of PHY packets. Each MUX-PDU is padded with one or more null MUX-PDUs and/or one or more padding bytes, if needed, to obtain the PHY packet size. Each PHY packet is sent in one transmission time interval (TTI) to a receiver. The receiver performs the complementary processing on the received PHY packets to recover the MUX-PDUs. The receiver forwards each valid MUX-PDU and discards any padding." The patent application was filed on May 16, 2011 (13/108,635). 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=84,32,936.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,936&RS=PN/84,32,936 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Heuristic Algorithm for Calculating Target SINR for MMSE Beamforming ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,432,856) developed by Sameer Vermani, San Diego, and Alok Aggarwal, Foster City, Calif., for a "heuristic algorithm for calculating target SINR for MMSE beamforming." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a heuristic algorithm for calculating accurate target SINR values for the minimum mean square error (MMSE) beamforming algorithm to decrease the complexity of the MMSE algorithm. The heuristic algorithm for calculating target SINR values considers practical system constraints, such as frequency selective channels, power amplifier distortion, imperfect channel state information as well as limited computing power at the access point." The patent application was filed on Jan. 6, 2010 (12/683,068). 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=84,32,856.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,856&RS=PN/84,32,856 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Net Optics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Net Optics, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,432,827) developed by five co-inventors for an "arrangement for utilization rate display and methods thereof." The co-inventors are Eldad Matityahu, Palo Alto, Calif., Robert Shaw, Los Gatos, Calif., Dennis Angelo Ramirez Carpio, San Jose, Calif., Ky Hong Le, San Jose, Calif., and Dong Su Lee, Cupertino, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A network arrangement for automatically displaying statistical data is provided. The arrangement includes a port for receiving data traffic, a physical interface layer for copying data traffic, and a bus for directing a copy of the data traffic to monitoring devices. The arrangement also includes logic arrangement for analyzing the copy of data traffic, which includes at least a Receive Data Valid signal (including a rising edge and a falling edge) and a Receive Clock signal (including a rising edge and a falling edge). The arrangement further includes incrementing a first counter when the Receive Data Valid rising edge is received and incrementing a second counter when at least one of the Receive Clock rising edge and the Receive Clock falling edge is received. The arrangement moreover includes logic arrangement for displaying statistical data pertaining to the data traffic and a visual display arrangement for displaying statistical data." The patent application was filed on March 7, 2011 (13/042,135). 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=84,32,827.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,827&RS=PN/84,32,827 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Cooperation Strategy Selection in a Wireless Communication System ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,432,821) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for cooperation strategy selection in a wireless communication system." The co-inventors are Alexei Y. Gorokhov, San Diego, Siddhartha Mallik, San Diego, Alan Barbieri, San Diego, and Jilei Hou, Carlsbad, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate cooperation strategy selection for a network multiple-in-multiple-out (N-MIMO) communication system. As described herein, one or more nodes in a communication system capable of N-MIMO communication can calculate marginal utilities, projected per-user rates, and/or other parameters corresponding to respective associated users. Based on these calculations, respective network nodes can perform user scheduling and selection, cell scheduling and selection, selection of a cooperation strategy (e.g., coordinated silencing, joint transmission, coordinated beamforming, etc.), and/or other operations to provide cooperative communication for respective users. As further described herein, projected rate calculation for a given user can be adjusted based on processing or channel implementation loss associated with the user, interference nulling capability of the user, or other factors. As additionally described herein, these and/or other parameters can be fed back by respective users to a serving network node and/or mandated via system performance requirements." The patent application was filed on Sept. 28, 2009 (12/568,269). 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=84,32,821.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,821&RS=PN/84,32,821 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Flexible SDMA and Interference Suppression ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,432,785) developed by five co-inventors for a "flexible SDMA and interference suppression." The co-inventors are Didier Johannes Richard Van Nee, De Meem, The Netherlands, Sameer Vermani, San Diego, Vincent Knowles Jones IV, Redwood City, Calif., Hemanth Sampath, San Diego, and Albert Van Zelst, Woerden, The Netherlands. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for performing interference suppression in spatial division multiple access (SDMA) systems. When the number of receive antennas of a receiver is equal or larger than the number of spatial streams intended for the receiver, the receiver may perform interference suppression on the signals received on all of its antennas. In addition, certain aspects of the present disclosure present a flexible SDMA technique in which a plurality of channel estimates that may be received from an explicit feedback or estimated implicitly, are combined. The combined channel estimate may be used in calculating the SDMA weights." The patent application was filed on Aug. 20, 2010 (12/860,102). 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=84,32,785.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,785&RS=PN/84,32,785 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Force 10 Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Force 10 Networks, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,432,914) developed by Kalpesh Zinjuwadia, San Jose, Calif., and Srikanth Rao, Fremont, Calif., for a "method for optimizing a network prefix-list search." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A packet network device includes a route processor that operates to maintain one or more forwarding tables and it includes one or more line cards that operate to process information received by the packet network device from the network and to forward the information to its correct destination. The route processor also operates to identify which incoming prefixes can be used to update the forwarding tables or to identify prefixes stored in the packet network device that can be redistributed from one network protocol to another network protocol running on the route processor. A table management function running on the route processor operates to identify the best match between an incoming prefix and information included in policy statement associated with both an ordered prefix-list and a radix tree structure." The patent application was filed on Nov. 22, 2010 (12/951,276). 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=84,32,914.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,914&RS=PN/84,32,914 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Rambus Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Rambus, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,432,768) developed by Frederick A. Ware, Los Altos Hills, Calif., Robert E. Palmer, Carrboro, N.C., and John W. Poulton, Chapel Hill, N.C., for a "mesochronous signaling system with multiple power modes." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In a low-power signaling system, an integrated circuit device includes an open loop-clock distribution circuit and a transmit circuit that cooperate to enable high-speed transmission of information-bearing symbols unaccompanied by source-synchronous timing references. The open-loop clock distribution circuit generates a transmit clock signal in response to an externally-supplied clock signal, and the transmit circuit outputs a sequence of symbols onto an external signal line in response to transitions of the transmit clock signal. Each of the symbols is valid at the output of the transmit circuit for a symbol time and a phase offset between the transmit clock signal and the externally-supplied clock signal is permitted to drift by at least the symbol time." The patent application was filed on July 9, 2009 (13/132,104). 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=84,32,768.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,768&RS=PN/84,32,768 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Tandem-free Intersystem Voice Communication ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,432,935) developed by Khaled El-Maleh, San Diego, Ananthapadmanabhan A. Kandhadai, San Diego, and Sharath Manjunath, San Diego, for a "tandem-free intersystem voice communication." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques are presented herein to provide tandem-free operation between two wireless terminals through two otherwise incompatible wireless networks. Specifically, embodiments provide tandem-free operation between a wireless terminal communicating through a continuous transmission (CTX) wireless channel to a wireless terminal communicating through a discontinuous transmission (DTX) wireless channel. In a first aspect, inactive speech frames are translated between DTX and CTX formats. In a second aspect, each wireless terminal includes an active speech decoder that is compatible with the active speech encoder on the opposite end of the mobile-to-mobile connection." The patent application was filed on July 29, 2008 (12/181,972). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=84,32,935.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,935&RS=PN/84,32,935 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Rambus Assigned Patent for Multi-column Addressing Mode Memory System including an Integrated Circuit Memory Device ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Rambus, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,432,766) developed by four co-inventors for a "multi-column addressing mode memory system including an integrated circuit memory device." The co-inventors are Frederick A. Ware, Los Altos Hills, Calif., Lawrence Lai, San Jose, Calif., Chad A. Bellows, Burlingame, Calif., and Wayne S. Richardson, Saratoga, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A memory system includes a master device, such as a graphics controller or processor, and an integrated circuit memory device operable in a dual column addressing mode. The integrated circuit memory device includes an interface and column decoder to access a row of storage cells or a page in a memory bank. During a first mode, a first row of storage cells in a first memory bank is accessible in response to a first column address. During a second mode, a first plurality of storage cells in the first row of storage cells is accessible in response to a second column address during a column cycle time interval. A second plurality of storage cells in the first row of storage cells is accessible in response to a third column address during the column cycle time interval. The first and second pluralities of storage cells are concurrently accessible from the interface." The patent application was filed on March 1, 2012 (13/410,254). 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=84,32,766.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,766&RS=PN/84,32,766 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Sandia Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Sandia, Albuquerque, N.M., has been assigned a patent (8,432,835) developed by four co-inventors for a "secure videoconferencing equipment switching system and method." The co-inventors are David H. Dirks, Livermore, Calif., Diane Gomes, Manteca, Calif., Corbin J. Stewart, Pleasanton, Calif., and Robert A. Fischer, Pleasanton, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Examples of systems described herein include videoconferencing systems having audio/visual components coupled to a codec. The codec may be configured by a control system. Communication networks having different security levels may be alternately coupled to the codec following appropriate configuration by the control system. The control system may also be coupled to the communication networks." The patent application was filed on Feb. 3, 2010 (12/699,439). 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=84,32,835.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,835&RS=PN/84,32,835 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Palo Alto Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Palo Alto Networks, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,432,832) developed by Nir Zuk, Menlo Park, Calif., and Anupam Bharali, San Jose, Calif., for managing network devices. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for configuring network devices. A central management system stores shared configuration objects in a central configuration database. A network device stores shared configuration objects and device-specific configuration objects in a local configuration database. The local configuration database's shared configuration objects correspond to shared configuration objects in the central configuration database. The central management system determines the network device has received a request to update a shared configuration object, where the request did not originate from the central management system, and updates the central configuration database." The patent application was filed on Aug. 30, 2012 (13/599,790). 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=84,32,832.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,832&RS=PN/84,32,832 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** BCK Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- BCK Networks, Fremont, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,432,830) developed by Saibal Banerjee, Fremont, Calif., Raghava Kondepudy, San Jose, Calif., and Gano Broto Chatterji, Sunnyvale, Calif., for "multi-neighbor proportional forwarding in a network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A source-address independent, multi-path routing method for use in a communication network is disclosed. A network node uses an information packet's destination address to determine a plurality of neighbors it has a proportional likelihood to forward that packet to, such that packets can be sent over multiple paths to a destination node without undesirable looping. Multiple-neighbor proportional forwarding routing tables are determined by computing a directed graph of multiple optimal paths to each destination node. Optimal paths and forwarding proportions are based on link capacities. The multi-path routing method provides maximized throughput, reduced congestion and superior load balancing over single-path routing. Source-address independence also overcomes a major problem of more traditional source-address dependent multi-path routing methods. The source-address independent, multi-path routing method can be implemented in mixed networks where some nodes do not implement the method. Data structures and methods for determining the optimal paths and parameters are provided." The patent application was filed on Oct. 5, 2009 (12/587,366). 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=84,32,830.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,830&RS=PN/84,32,830 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Method for Transmission of Time Division Multiplexed Pilot Symbols to Aid Channel Estimation, Time Synchronization, and AGC Bootstrapping in a Multicast Wireless System ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,432,933) developed by five co-inventors for a "method for transmission of time division multiplexed pilot symbols to aid channel estimation, time synchronization, and AGC bootstrapping in a multicast wireless system." The co-inventors are Michael Mao Wang, San Diego, Bojan Vrcelj, San Diego, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, San Diego, Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi, San Diego, and Ashok Mantravadi, San Diego. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods are provided for the transmission of waveforms to aid channel estimation, timing synchronization, and AGC bootstrapping in a wireless network. The method includes inserting at least one TDM pilot symbol located at a transition between wide area and local area waveforms to facilitate decoding of the transmission block." The patent application was filed on Oct. 1, 2010 (12/896,780). 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=84,32,933.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,933&RS=PN/84,32,933 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Intel Assigned Patent for Wireless System Performance Modeling ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,432,849) developed by Dilip Krishnasawamy, San Diego, and Eugene P. Matter, Folsom, Calif., for "wireless system performance modeling." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An arrangement is provided for modeling the performance of a communication network. One or two sigmoid functions may be used to model the performance of a physical layer versus the SINR of a transmission channel across all of the available modulation and coding schemes. The sigmoid function(s) abstract(s) away all of the available modulation and coding choices to provide an estimate for the PHY throughput. This estimate can then be utilized by higher network layers to obtain the network throughput at the application level, which may then be used to produce a data stream by an application source. Based on the data stream thus produced, the quality of information to be transmitted via a channel, when received, may be estimated." The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2005 (11/240,021). 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=84,32,849.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,849&RS=PN/84,32,849 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Apple Assigned Patent for Wireless Circuitry with Simultaneous Voice and Data Capabilities and Reduced Intermodulation Distortion ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Apple, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,432,836) developed by Louie J. Sanguinetti, Los Gatos, Calif., for a "wireless circuitry with simultaneous voice and data capabilities and reduced intermodulation distortion." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An electronic device has wireless communications circuitry that includes transmitters and receivers. The transmitters and receivers may share an antenna. Transmitted signals from multiple transmitters may be merged using a combining circuit. Merged signals from the transmitter may be conveyed to the antenna through a circulator. The circulator may route incoming signals from the antenna to receivers. The receivers may be coupled to the circulator through a filter. An additional filter may be interposed between the circulator and the antenna. An additional transmitter may transmit signals through the antenna using the additional filter. An additional receiver may receive some of the incoming signals that are received by the antenna through the additional filter." The patent application was filed on Nov. 9, 2010 (12/942,937). 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=84,32,836.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,836&RS=PN/84,32,836 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Quantenna Communications Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Quantenna Communications, Fremont, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,432,826) developed by five co-inventors for "channel scanning and channel selection in a wireless communication network." The co-inventors are Sam Heidari, Los Altos Hills, Calif., Kapil Gulati, Cupertino, Calif., Ali Rouhi, Oakland, Calif., Ravi Narasimhan, Los Altos, Calif., and Rajkumar Samuel, San Jose, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus to select the best channel of a wireless network for data communication at any given time, during normal operation of the network, is described. The network may be an IEEE standard 802.11 compliant network. Channel scanning may be performed in any station on the wireless network, such as an access point (AP) or a mobile station, or both. Channel scanning may be performed during data communication idle time, or simultaneously with data communication on the network. The technique can be implemented in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system, where the antenna or antennas used for channel scanning can be selected dynamically during operation, to optimize one or more performance characteristics." The patent application was filed on Oct. 27, 2010 (12/913,200). 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=84,32,826.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,826&RS=PN/84,32,826 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Ciena Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Ciena, Hanover, Md., has been assigned a patent (8,432,909) developed by Lyndon Y. Ong, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Sandeep Bhat, Mountain View, Calif., for "methods and systems for using a link management interface to distribute information in a communications network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In various exemplary embodiments, the present invention provides a low-cost, low-processing overhead mechanism for distributing routing, topology, reachability, and recovery information across the interface between two nodes that may then be used by a network or client device to populate a topology database, route a connection, recover from a connection failure, etc. Specifically, the methods and systems of the present invention use a link management interface and the associated link management protocol(s) to distribute this routing, topology, reachability, and recovery information, adding it to the normal link management protocol(s)." The patent application was filed on April 3, 2007 (11/732,305). 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=84,32,909.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,909&RS=PN/84,32,909 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent for System for Disambiguating Voice Collisions ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,432,834) developed by Shmuel Shaffer, Palo Alto, Calif., and Steven Christenson, Campbell, Calif., for a "system for disambiguating voice collisions." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, techniques for processing voice collisions are provided. A voice collision of two or more voice streams associated with two or more speakers is determined. The voice collision of the two or more voice streams is dynamically disambiguated. The two or more voice streams are then rendered such that the voice collision is disambiguated. The voice collision may be disambiguated using spatial relocation, buffering, etc." The patent application was filed on Aug. 8, 2006 (11/500,649). 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=84,32,834.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,834&RS=PN/84,32,834 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Using Guard Carriers for Extra Channels ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,432,939) developed by Kapil Bhattad, San Diego, and Ravi Palanki, San Diego, for "using guard carriers for extra channels." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "To assist in minimizing interference, a bandwidth range can have guards on either side to reduce leakage into neighboring bandwidth ranges. However, in relatively low power situations the risk of leakage is reduced. Therefore, the guard bandwidths can be used to open new channels upon which information can be transmitted. Thus, there can be a larger amount of bandwidth used while still retaining protective aspects, such as low interference to neighboring bands. Using the guard bandwidth to transmit new channels facilitates backward compatibility since legacy devices do not commonly monitor the guard bandwidth. These techniques can also be used at high power base stations by advertising a larger guard than necessary to legacy devices and using the additionally created guard bandwidth to transmit new channels." The patent application was filed on Sept. 19, 2008 (12/233,970). 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=84,32,939.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,939&RS=PN/84,32,939 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Juniper Networks Assigned Patent for Auto MEP ID Assignment within CFM Maintenance Association ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Juniper Networks, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,432,833) developed by Sunesh Rustagi, Cupertino, Calif., and Roopa Bayar, San Jose, Calif., for an "auto MEP ID assignment within CFM maintenance association." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A device may include a maintenance association endpoint configured to select a maintenance association endpoint identifier, transmit the maintenance association endpoint identifier to one or more other maintenance association endpoints, and automatically assign the maintenance association endpoint identifier to the maintenance association endpoint if it is determined that the maintenance association endpoint identifier is available based on a conflict message received from one of the one more other maintenance association endpoints." The patent application was filed on April 4, 2012 (13/439,104). 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=84,32,833.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,833&RS=PN/84,32,833 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Micron Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Micron Technology, Boise, Idaho, has been assigned a patent (8,432,765) developed by Fariborz F. Roohparvar, Monte Sereno, Calif., for a "method and apparatus for managing behavior of memory devices." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of managing power consumption by a memory in a memory device includes determining whether the device is powered by a depletable power supply, and if it is determined that the device is powered by a depletable power supply, changing a behavior of the memory to regulate power consumed by the memory." The patent application was filed on Dec. 2, 2011 (13/309,796). 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=84,32,765.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,765&RS=PN/84,32,765 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent for Data Stream Classification ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,432,919) developed by five co-inventors for a data stream classification. The co-inventors are Cetin Seren, Pleasanton, Calif., Jisheng Wang, San Mateo, Calif., Sharad Ahlawat, San Jose, Calif., Yingqi Xu, San Jose, Calif., and Vijaya Sarathy Kasi, Milpitas, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with data stream classification are described. One example method includes identifying packets associated with the data stream. The example method may also include updating a set of characterization data associated with the data stream based on information associated with a packet. The example method may also include assigning a data stream classifier to the data stream by comparing characterization data to identification data upon determining that the set of characterization data indicates that the data stream is able to be classified. The example method may also include providing a signal associated with the data stream classifier." The patent application was filed on Feb. 25, 2009 (12/392,186). 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=84,32,919.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,919&RS=PN/84,32,919 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** STMicroelectronics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- STMicroelectronics, Coppell, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,432,847) developed by Liwen Chu, San Ramon, Calif., and George A. Vlantis, Sunnyvale, Calif., for a VTS frame format. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus for transmitting a video frame in wireless local area network communications are proposed. In one aspect, a method generates and transmits an IEEE 802.11 media access control (MAC) frame containing a video transport stream (VTS) frame. The VTS frame includes a video frame and a VTS control header that includes control information with respect to the video frame." The patent application was filed on June 26, 2009 (12/493,021). 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=84,32,847.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,847&RS=PN/84,32,847 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** FutureWei Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- FutureWei Technologies, Plano, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,432,885) developed by Young Hoon Kwon, San Diego, Yang Tang, San Diego, and Tao Wu, Carlsbad, Calif., for a "system and method for channel status information feedback in a wireless communications system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for channel status information feedback in a wireless communications system is provided. A method includes receiving a transmission containing feedback information from a mobile station (MS) having N total antennas, M receive/transmit antennas, N-M receive-only antennas, wherein N and M are integers and N>M, decoding the received transmission, computing estimates of CSI for channel elements of N-M receive-only antennas using the decoded transmission, computing estimates of CSI for channel elements of M receive/transmit antennas using channel reciprocity, and computing a precoding matrix from the channel elements for the N-M receive-only antennas and the M receive/transmit antennas." The patent application was filed on April 14, 2009 (12/423,485). 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=84,32,885.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,885&RS=PN/84,32,885 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent for Hierarchical Protection Switching Framework ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,432,790) developed by George Suwala, San Jose, Calif., and David Delano Ward, Somerset, Wis., for a "hierarchical protection switching framework." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A hierarchical protection switching framework uses detectors and protectors. A protector registers with a detector to receive notifications. A detector identifies a condition and the interested protector, and notifies the interested protector. The protector in response to the notification, typically either performs protection switching or notifies another protector of the condition. This protection switching is an extensible operation, and typically may include, but is not limited to switching traffic to a backup facility from a facility corresponding to the condition and switching traffic to a backup component from a component corresponding to the condition. The decision of a protector whether to notify another protector of the condition can be made based on different factors, such as, but not limited to a failure of the protection switching by the protector, a database lookup operation to identify whether notification of another particular condition has been received or not received, etc." The patent application was filed on Feb. 27, 2011 (13/035,999). 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=84,32,790.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,790&RS=PN/84,32,790 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Via Telecom Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Via Telecom, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,432,901) developed by Guotong Wang, Beijing, and Anthony Lee, San Diego, for "circuit service tunneling methods and user equipment thereof." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A user equipment is provided with connection to a first mobile service network providing circuit-switched services. A first protocol module communicates with the first mobile service network. A circuit-switch tunneling control protocol module establishes a circuit-service tunnel to a second mobile service network providing packet-switched services. A circuit-switch tunneling data protocol module transmits a circuit-service tunneling message from the first protocol module to the second mobile service network via the circuit-service tunnel." The patent application was filed on May 7, 2010 (12/775,535). 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=84,32,901.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,901&RS=PN/84,32,901 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Google Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,432,801) developed by Junlan Zhou, Sunnyvale, Calif., Zhengrong Ji, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Yuguang Wu, Santa Clara, Calif., for a "system and method for identifying multiple paths between network nodes." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Aspects of the invention pertain to transmitting packet data across a computer network. The packets may be sent via one or more distinct routes from a source to a destination. Each route may employ multiple routers disposed along the network. Non-colliding routes are determined by transmitting pairs of probe packets along the routes. A first probe packet has a maximal length, and a second probe packet has a minimal length. Depending on the order of arrival of the probe packets, the system determines whether two transport layer ports at the destination device collide. If there is a collision, then the system searches for a set of non-colliding ports. Once the non-colliding ports are determined, application data may be sent as packets along the different routes to those ports." The patent application was filed on July 31, 2009 (12/533,187). 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=84,32,801.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,801&RS=PN/84,32,801 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** F5 Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- F5 Networks, Seattle, has been assigned a patent (8,432,799) developed by Youssri Helmy, Los Altos, Calif., and Tarek Nabhan, Cairo, Egypt, for "obtaining high availability using TCP proxy devices." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention relates to increasing performance of Wide Area Network (WAN) communications and in particular to a redundant proxy device associated with one end of a transport layer connection that monitors packet traffic and selectively reroutes packets to a proxy application." The patent application was filed on May 18, 2012 (13/475,694). 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=84,32,799.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,799&RS=PN/84,32,799 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent for Method and System for WLAN Synchronization ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,432,892) developed by Niels Van Erven, Santa Clara, Calif., for a "method and system for WLAN synchronization." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A first access point for a multi-channel radio system includes a wireless transceiver to send and receive data; and a clock, with the first access point to: scan the multi-channel radio system to receive beacon signals transmitted from other access points operating in the multi-channel radio system; determine a Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI) level for each beacon signal received from another access point operating in the multi-channel radio system; identify a second access point from which a beacon signal was received having a lowest RSSI level of all beacon signals received from other access points in the multi-channel radio system; and synchronize the clock with the second access point such that a beacon signal transmitted by the first access point is transmitted at the same time as a beacon signal from the second access point." The patent application was filed on Aug. 23, 2011 (13/215,937). 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=84,32,892.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,892&RS=PN/84,32,892 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** ViaSat Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- ViaSat, Carlsbad, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,432,808) developed by Mark D. Dankberg, Encinitas, Calif., and Daniel M. Newman, Littleton, Mass., for an "opportunistically delayed delivery in a satellite network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods are described for using opportunistically delayed delivery of content to address sub-optimal bandwidth resource usage in network infrastructures that allow subscribers to share forward link resources. According to some embodiments, content is identified as delayable and assigned to a delaycast queue and/or service flow. For example, a server system of a satellite communications system identifies content that can be delayed to exploit future excess link capacity through multicasting and to exploit subscriber-side storage resources. Some implementations attempt to exploit any excess link resources at any time, while others exploit unused bandwidth only during certain times or when a certain threshold of resources is available. Various embodiments also provide content scoring and/or other prioritization techniques for optimizing exploitation of the delaycast queue." The patent application was filed on Aug. 8, 2012 (13/569,811). 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=84,32,808.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,808&RS=PN/84,32,808 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Konica Minolta Laboratory USA Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Konica Minolta Laboratory USA, San Mateo, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,432,907) developed by Maria Perez, Half Moon Bay, Calif., for a "method and system having an application for a run time IPv6 only network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system that facilitates a network environment, which includes a computer device, the computer device have a software module, which performs the steps of: (a) establishing an IP network criteria for incoming and outgoing packets for the computer device; (b) retrieving the incoming and outgoing packets to determine if an IP address for the incoming and outgoing packets meet the IP network criteria; (c) if the IP address for the incoming and outgoing packets meets the IP network criteria, forwarding the incoming packets having the IP address to the computer device and forwarding outgoing packets to a network connection; and (d) if the IP address for the incoming and outgoing packets does not meet the IP network criteria, dropping the incoming and outgoing packets such that the incoming packets are not forwarded to the computer device and the outgoing packets are not forwarded to the network connection." The patent application was filed on Dec. 29, 2010 (12/980,471). 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=84,32,907.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,907&RS=PN/84,32,907 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Computing and Reporting Channel Quality Indication ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,432,873) developed by five co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for computing and reporting channel quality indication (CQI)." The co-inventors are Tao Luo, San Diego, Taesang Yoo, San Diego, Wanshi Chen, San Diego, Peter Gaal, San Diego, and Yongbin Wei, San Diego. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques for computing and reporting channel quality indication (CQI) are described. In an aspect, a plurality of CQI computation methods may be supported, and each CQI computation method may indicate how CQI should be computed. One CQI computation method may be selected for use. CQI may then be computed and reported in accordance with the selected CQI computation method. In an exemplary design, a user equipment (UE) may obtain a selected method for computing CQI, which may be chosen based on the UE capability and/or other factors. The selected method may specify (i) CQI computation for a specific codeword among a plurality of codewords or (ii) CQI computation by averaging signal quality across a plurality of layers used for transmission. The UE may compute CQI in accordance with the selected method, send the CQI to a base station, and receive data sent by the base station based on the CQI." The patent application was filed on Jan. 5, 2010 (12/652,605). 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=84,32,873.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,873&RS=PN/84,32,873 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Juniper Networks Assigned Patent for Network Traffic Analysis Using a Flow Table ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Juniper Networks, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,432,807) developed by four co-inventors for a "network traffic analysis using a flow table." The co-inventors are Jack Kohn, Mountain View, Calif., David Rowell, Mountain View, Calif., Fuguang Shi, Saratoga, Calif., and Gunes Aybay, Los Altos, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A device may receive a data unit at a line interface of a network device, convey the data unit to a first component in the line interface, update a flow table in the first component based on the data unit, send a message to a second component in the network device, the message describing the update to the flow table, and forward the data unit from the first component to another line interface in the network device." The patent application was filed on April 20, 2012 (13/452,537). 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=84,32,807.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,807&RS=PN/84,32,807 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,432,904) developed by Hossein Eslambolchi, Los Altos Hills, Calif., and Mostafa Tofighbakhsh, Cupertino, Calif., for "ad-hoc IP closed user group networks." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An arrangement for providing, on an ad hoc basis, a closed user group (CUG) among a collection of pre-defined IP network users. A set of intelligent access devices, dispersed through the IP network, constantly transmit a set of pings associated with the defines CUGs to discover those devices within its communication range. The discovered IP addresses for each device is thus constantly updated, allowing group members to remain in constant contact (emulating an "always on" connection). The users feels they are always connected with group members and thus have instant access to voice/data/video sessions--much like hot lines or "always on" connections." The patent application was filed on March 9, 2009 (12/381,185). 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=84,32,904.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,904&RS=PN/84,32,904 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,432,809) developed by Brian Baird, Pleasanton, Calif., and Daniel Talayco, Mountain View, Calif., for a "method for communication between processors." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The invention provides a method and system for communication between processors. Rather than provide an external network connection solely for providing a communication link between CPUs, the present invention utilizes the network devices to transfer information between CPUs. A transmitting network device marks a control packet, which is intended as a communication between CPUs, as control traffic. The receiving network device will determine whether the received control packet is intended for its own CPU and provide the control packet to its CPU if that is the case." The patent application was filed on Aug. 10, 2005 (11/200,007). 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=84,32,809.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,809&RS=PN/84,32,809 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Citrix Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Citrix Systems, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has been assigned a patent (8,432,800) developed by Robert Plamondon, Blodgett, Ore., Michael Ovsiannikov, San Mateo, Calif., and Allen Samuels, San Jose, Calif., for "systems and methods for stochastic-based quality of service." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for utilizing transaction boundary detection methods in queuing and retransmission decisions relating to network traffic are described. By detecting transaction boundaries and sizes, a client, server, or intermediary device may prioritize based on transaction sizes in queuing decisions, giving precedence to smaller transactions which may represent interactive and/or latency-sensitive traffic. Further, after detecting a transaction boundary, a device may retransmit one or more additional packets prompting acknowledgements, in order to ensure timely notification if the last packet of the transaction has been dropped. Systems and methods for potentially improving network latency, including retransmitting a dropped packet twice or more in order to avoid incurring additional delays due to a retransmitted packet being lost are also described." The patent application was filed on March 12, 2007 (11/685,156). 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=84,32,800.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,800&RS=PN/84,32,800 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Method of Providing a Gap Indication during a Sticky Assignment ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,432,803) developed by Edward Harrison Teague, San Diego, Aamod Khandekar, San Diego, and Dhananjay Ashok Gore, San Diego, for a "method of providing a gap indication during a sticky assignment." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus are provided to manage the assignment transmission resource of forward and reserve link that is assigned to transmitting entity for a period of time. An indication of a gap is provided whenever the transmitting entity is not transmitting actual data packets (e.g. whole or part of intended data or content), yet the transmitting entity is to maintain the assignment of the allocated resource. For example, an erasure signature packet comprising a first data pattern is transmitted on the assigned resource when there is no actual data to transmit on the assigned resource." The patent application was filed on Jan. 17, 2006 (11/333,835). 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=84,32,803.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,803&RS=PN/84,32,803 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Nvidia Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Nvidia, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,432,788) developed by six co-inventors for an "intelligent failback in a load-balanced networking environment." The co-inventors are Ayaz Abdulla, Sunnyvale, Calif., Norman K. Chen, Sunnyvale, Calif., Anand Rajagopalan, Saratoga, Calif., Ashutosh K. Jha, Sunnyvale, Calif., Hemamalini Manickavasagam, San Jose, Calif., and Sameer Nanda, Cupertino, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method for failing back network connections to a network interface card (NIC) within a computing device. The method includes the steps of monitoring a failed or unreliable NIC within the computing device, determining that the failed or unreliable NIC has recovered, determining that a functional NIC within the computing device is overloaded, selecting a first connection set communicating through the overloaded NIC, and transferring the first connection set to the recovered NIC. With this approach, intelligent decisions can be advantageously made regarding whether to fail back a network connection set to a recovered NIC based on the traffic loads on the overloaded NIC and the recovered NIC. Such an approach to balancing network traffic across the functional NICs within a computing device may substantially improve overall performance relative to prior art techniques." The patent application was filed on May 18, 2007 (11/750,914). 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=84,32,788.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,788&RS=PN/84,32,788 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Creating PDN Context in EHRPD Network over a LTE Tunnel ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,432,872) developed by Arvind Swaminathan, San Diego, for "creating PDN context in EHRPD network over a LTE tunnel." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Pre-registration involves establishing and maintaining the same Packet Data Network (PDN)/Quality of Service (QoS) context that exists in a 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) network via a data tunnel in a 3GPP2 evolved High Rate Packet Data (eHRPD) network. To avoid undue increases in the traffic on a LTE Air Interface and core network, optimizations selectively complete the PDN context only for a subset of the PDN connections, only when close to performing a handover, or other trigger conditions." The patent application was filed on Aug. 31, 2010 (12/872,292). 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=84,32,872.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,872&RS=PN/84,32,872 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Verizon Patent and Licensing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Verizon Patent and Licensing, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,432,796) developed by five co-inventors for a "method, computer program product, and apparatus for providing automatic gain control via signal sampling and categorization." The co-inventors are Vijay Jayapalan, Irving, Texas, Mike Metaxas, Oakland Gardens, N.Y., Sundar Padmanabhan, Irving, Texas, Manvinder Chopra, Carrollton, Texas, and Jim Bartlett, Santa Barbara, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus for detecting and adjusting volumes levels may include a processor capable of receiving data from a carrier(s). The processor is also capable of receiving trigger control signals from a trigger control and arranging the data into frames that are stored in a buffer. The processor is also capable of determining whether the trigger control signals include data indicating whether a determination regarding adjustment of a volume level of the data is required. The apparatus also includes a packet analyzer capable of calculating an average volume level associated with the frames when a determination reveals that adjustment of the volume level is required and is capable of generating categories, corresponding to intensity levels and categorizing the frames according to the intensity levels based on the average. The packet analyzer is also capable of determining whether to adjust the volume level based on a category assigned to the frames." The patent application was filed on Sept. 18, 2007 (11/857,240). 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=84,32,796.PN.&OS=PN/84,32,796&RS=PN/84,32,796 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** University of Southern California Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- The University of Southern California, Los Angeles, has been assigned a patent (8,433,556) developed by Alexander Fraser, Santa Monica, Calif., and Daniel Marcu, Hermosa Beach, Calif., for a "semi-supervised training for statistical word alignment." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for aligning words in parallel segments is provided. A first probability distribution of word alignments within a first corpus comprising unaligned word-level parallel segments according to a model estimate is calculated. The model estimate is modified according to the first probability distribution. One or more sub-models associated with the modified model estimate are discriminatively re-ranked according to word-level annotated parallel segments. A second probability distribution of the word alignments within the first corpus is calculated according to the re-ranked sub-models associated with the modified model estimate." The patent application was filed on Nov. 2, 2006 (11/592,450). 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=8,433,556&OS=8,433,556&RS=8,433,556 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Silicon Storage Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 2 -- Silicon Storage Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,432,750) developed by Hieu Van Tran, San Jose, Calif., and Sakhawat M. 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