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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in New Jersey (May 8)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in New Jersey. *** Dun & Bradstreet Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Dun & Bradstreet, Short Hills, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,438,183) developed by Anthony J. Scriffignano, West Caldwell, N.J., and Michael Klein, Chatham, N.J., for "ascribing actionable attributes to data that describes a personal identity." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "There is provided a method that includes (a) receiving an inquiry to initiate a search for data for a specific individual, (b) determining, based on the inquiry, a strategy and flexible predictiveness equations to search a reference database, (c) searching the reference database, in accordance with the strategy, for a match to the inquiry; and (d) outputting the match. The method may also output flexible feedback related to the match that reflects inferred quality of the match experience which can be used by an end-user to determine the degree to which the matched entity meets that end-user's quality-based criteria. There is also provided a system that performs the method, and a storage medium that contains instructions that control a processor to perform the method." The patent application was filed on April 14, 2011 (13/087,067). 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=84,38,183.PN.&OS=PN/84,38,183&RS=PN/84,38,183 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Comcast Cable Communications Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Comcast Cable Communications, Philadelphia, has been assigned a patent (8,438,210) developed by Jim Poder, Cheltenham, Pa., and Michael J. Cook, Flemington, N.J., for "sharing media content based on a media server." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A media server is hosted in a service provider's network so that media content can be stored from or rendered to a private network such as a Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) network. Media content may be stored directly by accessing the media server or by downloading the media content to the media server. A server platform may support a set of media servers, where each media server is connected to a corresponding DLNA network. A multicast group may be established among the set of media servers so that media content may be shared with members of the multicast group. Media content may be aggregated for media content for the multicast group based on content characteristics, where the content characteristics are indicative of media content that can be shared with members of the multicast group." The patent application was filed on Oct. 31, 2011 (13/285,333). 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=84,38,210.PN.&OS=PN/84,38,210&RS=PN/84,38,210 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Veveo Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Veveo, Andover, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,438,160) developed by Murali Aravamudan, Windham, N.H., Ajit Rajasekharan, West Windsor, N.J., and Kajamalai G. Ramakrishnan, Nashua, N.H., for "methods and systems for selecting and presenting content based on dynamically identifying Microgenres Associated with the content." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of selecting and presenting content based on learned user preferences is provided. The method includes providing a content system including a set of content items organized by genre characterizing the content items, and wherein the set of content items contains microgenre metadata further characterizing the content items. The method also includes receiving search input from the user for identifying desired content items and, in response, presenting a subset of content items to the user. The method further includes receiving content item selection actions from the user and analyzing the microgenre metadata within the selected content items to learn the preferred microgenres of the user. The method includes, in response to receiving subsequent user search input, selecting and presenting content items in an order that portrays as relatively more relevant those content items containing microgenre metadata that more closely match the learned microgenre preferences of the user." The patent application was filed on April 9, 2012 (13/442,436). 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=84,38,160.PN.&OS=PN/84,38,160&RS=PN/84,38,160 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Bloomberg Finance Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Bloomberg Finance, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,438,158) developed by Richard Douglas Kemp, Atlantic City, N.J., for a "citation index including signals." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A document, which may be referred to as a "citing document," may include citations to one or more cited documents. An index of such documents may be referred to as a citation index or citator. A citation may be preceded in a citing document by introductory text, which may be called a signal, and one or more entries in a citation index may indicate which signal, if any, introduced a recorded citation. Computerized systems and methods for causing such display are also provided." The patent application was filed on Sept. 11, 2008 (12/208,408). 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=84,38,158.PN.&OS=PN/84,38,158&RS=PN/84,38,158 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** BGC Partners Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- BGC Partners, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,438,097) developed by four co-inventors for "systems and methods for maintaining the viability of a good-until-bettered order type in electronic trading systems." The co-inventors are Howard W. Lutnick, New York, Kevin M. Foley, New York, Joseph Noviello, Summit, N.J., and Michael Sweeting, Aldershot, United Kingdom. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods of trading items on an electronic trading system according to the invention are provided. The embodiments of the invention are based at least in part on a new order type. The new order type is a modification of a conventional good-until-bettered order type. A good-until-bettered bid/offer is received along with instructions that specify a good-until-bettered increment value and/or duration. The good-until-bettered order is maintained in the electronic trading system until a bid/offer that is better by the specified plurality of standard trading increments is received by the electronic trading system and/or remains in the system for the good-until-bettered duration." The patent application was filed on April 20, 2006 (11/407,509). 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=8,438,097&OS=8,438,097&RS=8,438,097 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Measuring the End-to-end Performance and Capacity of Complex Network Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,438,269) developed by Earle H. West III, Morganville, N.J., for a "method and apparatus for measuring the end-to-end performance and capacity of complex network service." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention includes a method of measuring performance and capacity of a network includes monitoring network activity using an application programming interfaces monitoring system with a web services definition language file and at least one probe. The web services definition language file provides instructions to a probe control system in the application programming interfaces monitoring system and the probe control system providing regular expressions to the at least one probe. Then, performance data is collected using the at least one probe. The performance data includes a date stamp and a collection of performance information. Next, using the at least one probe, performance data measurements are transmitted between the network and the application programming interfaces monitoring system. The application programming interfaces monitoring system stores the performance data measurements in a database of performance data monitored and analyzes the performance data measurements to determine performance and capacity of the network. After that, the application programming interfaces monitoring system reports information on performance and capacity of the network to a network operations center dashboard." The patent application was filed on Sept. 12, 2008 (12/209,267). 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=8,438,269&OS=8,438,269&RS=8,438,269 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Goldman Sachs Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Goldman Sachs, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,438,090) developed by four co-inventors for "index-linked notes with periodic coupons subject to a triggering event." The co-inventors are Amar Kuchinad, New York, Alexander Dubitsky, Larchmont, N.Y., Charles McGarraugh, Brooklyn, N.Y., and William J. Cassano, Berkeley Heights, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Index-linked notes with periodic coupons subject to a triggering event, and accompanying methods, are described herein. In some instances, exemplary notes allow a purchaser to purchase a note and receive periodic coupons returned on the note as long as a triggering event does not occur. Assuming that the triggering event does not occur, the purchaser may receive these coupons until the note reaches maturity. Payment of the periodic coupons may cease, however, when a triggering event (e.g., the purchaser's death) does occur. In addition, the amount of the periodic coupons are tied in some manner to a financial index, such as the Bloomberg index, the S&P 500, or the like." The patent application was filed on April 4, 2008 (12/098,075). 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=8,438,090&OS=8,438,090&RS=8,438,090 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method and System for Managing Service Levels Provided by Service Providers ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,438,117) developed by eight co-inventors for a "method and system for managing service levels provided by service providers." The co-inventors are Jean-Marc Berthaud, Villeneuve Loubet, France, Melissa Buco, New York, Rong N. Chang, Pleasantville, N.Y., Joel D. Dalsky, Streamwood, Ill., Shih-Chung Fang, Schaumburg, Ill., Laura Zaihua Luan, Putnam Valley, N.Y., Lee Tsiao, Hoffman Estates, Ill., and Christopher Ward, Glen Ridge, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for managing a service level of a service provided by a service provider to a customer under a service level agreement. The actual measurement data is adjudicated to correct the measurement data in accordance with at least one adjudication element that provides information relating to how to correct the measurement data. The adjudicated measurement data is transformed into operational data by being reorganized into one or more groups of data. The operational data is evaluated by applying a formula to the operational data, resulting in the operational data being configured for being subsequently qualified. The operational data is qualified by comparing the evaluated operational data with specified service level targets for at least one service level period and identifying operational data points meeting and/or not meeting the specified service level targets." The patent application was filed on Dec. 20, 2005 (11/314,373). 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=8,438,117&OS=8,438,117&RS=8,438,117 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,438,267) developed by Balachander Krishnamurthy, New York, Harsha Madhyastha, Seattle, and Oliver Spatscheck, Randolph, N.J., for an "internet-wide scheduling of transactions." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for distributing content on a network through network-wide transactions is disclosed. The method and system monitors the network using triggered measurement of the performance of an element of the network, dynamically computing, based on the monitoring, the regions of the network with available performance capacity for the transaction to proceed at a given time, determining, based on the computing, a scheduled time for the transaction to proceed, and distributing the content according to a schedule related to the scheduled time." The patent application was filed on Dec. 28, 2006 (11/646,853). 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=8,438,267&OS=8,438,267&RS=8,438,267 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Oracle International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Oracle International, Redwood Shores, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,438,251) developed by Jeffrey Trent, Medford, N.J., for "methods and systems for implementing a virtual storage network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for implementing a virtual Storage Area Network (SAN) in software. According to one embodiment, a method for implementing a virtual SAN can comprise defining an application for accessing a computing grid for storing information wherein defining the application for accessing the computing grid for storing the information comprises defining a resource and defining one or more state objects for the resource, wherein the one or more state objects are handled independent from the resource. For example, the computing grid can comprise an Oracle Coherence grid. Such a computing grid can maintain a primary copy and a backup copy of the information and provides the backup of the information if the primary copy is unavailable. The information stored on the computing grid can be accessed via the application." The patent application was filed on July 28, 2010 (12/845,009). 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=8,438,251&OS=8,438,251&RS=8,438,251 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** American Express Travel Related Services Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- American Express Travel Related Services, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,438,105) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for development and use of a credit score based on spend capacity." The co-inventors are Kathleen Haggerty, Staten Island, N.Y., Benedict O. Okoh, New York, Peter L. Williamson, Larchmont, N.Y., and Chao M. Yuan, Montclair, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Share of Wallet ("SOW") is a modeling approach that utilizes various data sources to provide outputs that describe a consumers spending capability, tradeline history including balance transfers, and balance information. These outputs can be appended to data profiles of customers and prospects and can be utilized to support decisions involving prospecting, new applicant evaluation, and customer management across the lifecycle. A SOW score focusing on a consumer's spending capability can be used in the same manner as a credit bureau score." The patent application was filed on May 25, 2012 (13/480,910). 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=8,438,105&OS=8,438,105&RS=8,438,105 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** American Express Travel Related Services Assigned Patent for Using a Transaction Card Account to Make Recurring Loan Payments ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- American Express Travel Related Services, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,438,104) developed by nine co-inventors for "using a transaction card account to make recurring loan payments." The co-inventors are Ruth L. Aloni, New York, Rebecca R. Deen, Hoboken, N.J., Richard A. Exelbert, New York, Elizabeth Langwith, New York, Tamara F. Odinec, New York, Joanne R. Pate, Middletown, N.J., Sheraz Shere, Brooklyn, N.Y., Natalie M. Sunderland, New York, and Ian Woolley, New York. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Recurring loan payments (e.g., mortgage payments) through a transaction card account is disclosed. Information is received at a transaction account system from a loan company system corresponding to an application received at the loan company system from a requester for a loan involving automatic debits to a transaction card account. A determination is made as to whether the requestor is eligible for the loan to be associated with a transaction card account. If not, the customer receives a communication of rejection. If eligible, a determination is made whether the transaction account system has stored therein a transaction card account of the requester. If no, a transaction card account is opened for the requestor and associated with the loan. If yes, the loan payment is associated with the transaction card account bill." The patent application was filed on Jan. 19, 2012 (13/354,135). 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=8,438,104&OS=8,438,104&RS=8,438,104 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,438,642) developed by Junlan Feng, Basking Ridge, N.J., Valerie Torres, Summit, N.J., and Daniel G. Sheleheda, Florham Park, N.J., for a "method of detecting potential phishing by analyzing universal resource locators." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for detecting potential phishing URLs includes extracting a URL from a document, analyzing the URL context, and comparing the URL to stored trusted URLs and stored known phishing URLs. The URL context includes anchor text and surrounding content associated with the URL. The method further includes generating a phishing alert based on the comparing and the analyzing." The patent application was filed on June 5, 2009 (12/479,162). 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=8,438,642&OS=8,438,642&RS=8,438,642 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Intel Assigned Patent for Provisioning Active Management Technology (AMT) in Computer Systems ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,438,618) developed by six co-inventors for a "provisioning active management technology (AMT) in computer systems." The co-inventors are Avigdor Eldar, Jerusalem, Ill., Howard C. Herbert, Phoenix, Purushottam Goel, Beaverton, Ore., Uri Blumenthal, Fair Lawn, N.J., David Hines, Phoenix, and Carey Smith, Hillsboro, Ore. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Active management technology (AMT) may be provisioned in a client device automatically, which may provide a secure connection between the provisioning server and the client device. The client device comprising the active management technology may support zero-touch provisioning and one-touch provisioning." The patent application was filed on Dec. 21, 2007 (11/963,062). 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=8,438,618&OS=8,438,618&RS=8,438,618 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,438,613) developed by Jonathan D. Rosenberg, Freehold, N.J., Flemming S. Andreasen, Marlboro, N.J., and Timothy P. Stammers, Raleigh, N.C., for "establishing facets of a policy for a communication session." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Establishing one or more facets of a policy includes facilitating a communication session for an access terminal at a visited network. The access terminal is associated with a home network having a home policy server. The policy is received at a visited policy server of the visited network. The policy comprises the facets. If the facets are unacceptable, the facets are negotiated until a stopping point is reached. The negotiation includes adjusting by the visited policy server at least one facet of the one or more facets, and notifying the home policy server of the adjustment. The facets are established in accordance with the negotiation." The patent application was filed on March 6, 2007 (11/715,065). 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=8,438,613&OS=8,438,613&RS=8,438,613 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent for Anonymization of Data Over Multiple Temporal Releases ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,438,650) developed by four co-inventors for "anonymization of data over multiple temporal releases." The co-inventors are Graham Cormode, Morristown, N.J., Smriti Bhagat, New York, Balachander Krishnamurthy, New York, and Divesh Srivastava, Summit, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present disclosure is directed to systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for anonymizing data over multiple temporal releases. Data is received, and nodes and connections in the data are identified. The data also is analyzed to identify predicted connections. The nodes, the connections, and the predicted connections are analyzed to determine how to group the nodes in the data. The data is published, and the grouping of the nodes is extended to subsequent temporal releases of the data, the nodes of which are grouped in accordance with the grouping used with the data." The patent application was filed on July 6, 2010 (12/830,685). 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=8,438,650&OS=8,438,650&RS=8,438,650 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent for Bot-network Detection Based on Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) Characteristics of E-mail Senders Within IP Address Aggregates ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,438,638) developed by five co-inventors for "bot-network detection based on simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP) characteristics of e-mail senders within IP address aggregates." The co-inventors are Willa Ehrlich, Highland Park, N.J., David Hoeflin, Middletown, N.J., Danielle Liu, Morganville, N.J., Chaim Spielman, Spring Valley, N.Y., and Stephen K. Wood, Whitehouse Station, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for determining whether an IP address is part of a bot-network are provided. The IP-address-aggregate associated with the IP address of an e-mail sender is determined. The IP-address-aggregate is associated with an IP-address-aggregate-category based on the current SMTP traffic characteristics of the IP-address-aggregate and the known SMTP traffic characteristics of an IP-address-aggregate-category. A bot-likelihood score of the IP-address-aggregate-category is then associated with IP-address-aggregate. IP-address-aggregate-categories can be established based on historical SMTP traffic characteristics of the IP-address-aggregates. The IP-address-aggregates are grouped based on SMTP characteristics, and the IP-address-aggregate-categories are defined based on a selection of IP-address-aggregates with similar SMTP traffic characteristics that are diagnostic of spam bots vs. non-botnet-controllers spammers. Bot likelihood scores are determined for the resulting IP-address-aggregate-categories based on historically known bot IP addresses." The patent application was filed on April 8, 2010 (12/756,428). 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=8,438,638&OS=8,438,638&RS=8,438,638 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Merck Sharp & Dohme Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Merck Sharp & Dohme, Rahway, N.J., has been assigned a patent (RE44,205) developed by eight co-inventors for an "adenosine A.sub.2a receptor antagonists." The co-inventors are Bernard R. Neustadt, West Orange, N.J., Neil Lindo, New Providence, N.J., William J. Greenlee, Teaneck, N.J., Deen Tulshian, Lebanon, N.J., Lisa S. Silverman, Maryville, Tenn., Yan Xia, Edison, N.J., Craig D. Boyle, Branchburg, N.J., and Samuel Chackalamannil, Califon, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Compounds having the structural formula I ##STR00001## or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R is optionally substituted phenyl, cycloalkenyl, or heteroaryl; X is alkylene or --C(O)CH.sub.2--; Y is --N(R.sup.2)CH.sub.2CH.sub.2N(R).sup.3)--, --OCH.sub.2CH.sub.2N(R.sup.2)--, --O--, --S--, --CH.sub.2S--, --(CH.sub.2).sub.2--NH--, or optionally substituted ##STR00002## m and n are 2-3, and Q is nitrogen or optionally substituted carbon; and Z is optionally substituted phenyl, phenylalkyl or heteroaryl, diphenylmethyl, R.sup.6--C(O)--, R.sup.6--SO.sub.2--, R.sup.6--OC(O)--, R.sup.7--N(R.sup.8)--C(O)--, R.sup.7--N(R.sup.8)--C(S)--, ##STR00003## phenyl-CH(OH)--, or phenyl-C(.dbd.NOR.sup.2)--; or when Q is CH, phenylamino or pyridylamino; or Z and Y together are substituted piperidinyl or substituted phenyl; and R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.6, R.sup.7, and R.sup.8 are as defined in the specification are disclosed, their use in the treatment of Parkinson's disease, alone or in combination with other agents for treating Parkinson's disease, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising them; also disclosed are a processes for preparing intermediates useful for preparing compounds of formula I." The patent application was filed on April 6, 2012 (13/441,140). 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=RE44,205&OS=RE44,205&RS=RE44,205 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** SRI International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- SRI International, Menlo Park, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,438,450) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and system for performing data integrity verification of a transport stream." The co-inventors are Michael Anthony Isnardi, Plainsboro, N.J., Arkady Kopansky, Havertown, Pa., Yanjun Xu, Princeton, N.J., and Ali Chaudhry, Robbinsville, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system, and computer-readable medium for facilitating integrity verification of a transport stream is provided. Integrity verification is performed without increasing the bit rate of the transport stream by generating a checksum corresponding to a portion of the transport stream and inserting the checksum into a null packet within the transport stream. Utilizing a null packet to carry the checksum allows the checksum to be transmitted without increasing the bit rate of the transport stream. In addition, by creating a checksum corresponding to a portion of the transport stream, integrity verification may be performed on a streaming data file." The patent application was filed on Jan. 28, 2010 (12/695,533). 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=8,438,450.PN.&OS=PN/8,438,450&RS=PN/8,438,450 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Veloxum Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Veloxum, Lafayette, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,438,378) developed by Michael Lazar, Lafayette, N.J., for "systems and methods for tuning an operating system, application, or network component." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system, apparatus, and media are directed to tuning a device. Values are stored for each of a plurality of device parameters based on device metrics. The device parameters are constraint-matched over changes to settings of the device parameters to identify at least one point within each range of the device parameters that optimizes a performance measure for the device. Tuning values are selected for each device parameter based on the identified point. The tuning values are provided for tuning the device. The device is tuned with roll-back based on the running values." The patent application was filed on June 19, 2009 (12/488,362). 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=8,438,378.PN.&OS=PN/8,438,378&RS=PN/8,438,378 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Mformation Software Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Mformation Software Technologies, Edison, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,438,391) developed by Vasilios Daskalopoulos, Edison, N.J., Badri Nath, Edison, N.J., and Rakesh Kushwaha, Marlboro, N.J., for a "credential generation management servers and method for communications devices and device management servers." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods are described for establishing credentials at a device and at a device management server for the purpose of exchanging secure credentials in order to mutually authenticate the device and the server. A credential generation algorithm is described which uses a plurality of seeds, including the hardware identity of the device, the server identity, and a shared private key, to generate two sets of credentials, one to be used by the device and the other to be used by the device management server. The credentials are exchanged between the device and the server during any session, thereby assuring mutual authentication." The patent application was filed on Aug. 15, 2011 (13/209,519). 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=8,438,391.PN.&OS=PN/8,438,391&RS=PN/8,438,391 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. For more information about Targeted News Service products and services, please contact: Myron Struck, editor, Targeted News Service LLC, Springfield, Va., 703/304-1897; [email protected]; http://targetednews.com. -1124118 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |