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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Washington (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 Washington. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Interest Tracking Using Shared Search Queries and Interactions ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,438,165) developed by seven co-inventors for "interest tracking using shared search queries and interactions." The co-inventors are Steven Ickman, Snoqualmie, Wash., Thomas Matthew Laird-McConnell, Kirkland, Wash., William Lawrence Portnoy, Woodinville, Wash., Christopher McConnell, Redmond, Wash., Lili Cheng, Bellevue, Wash., David Arthur Raskino, Kirkland, Wash., and Gregory Scott Melander, Renton, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "When a user enters an information retrieval query, topic feed is generated for publication or distribution to a set of followers or recipients who have elected to receive the topic feed from the user or based on the subject matter content of the query. The topic feed is distributed and includes the query. The user's interests are tracked based on text in the user's queries and other text in the topic feed that the user interacts with." The patent application was filed on May 12, 2011 (13/105,920). 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=84,38,165.PN.&OS=PN/84,38,165&RS=PN/84,38,165 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,438,234) developed by four co-inventors for "content channels for electronic messaging." The co-inventors are Michael C. Kunz, Seattle, Michael D. Schackwitz, Pleasanton, Calif., Ari D. Galen, Redmond, Wash., and Colin R. Anthony, Bothell, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques are described to provide content channels for electronic messaging. In an implementation, a content channel may be configured to contain multiple content portions having various types of content for delivery to one or more clients. The content channel may be associated with an electronic message such as an email or instant message. The content channel and updates to the content channel may be pushed to the clients as electronic messages in an electronic messaging environment. The clients may expose a user interface having one or more portions that are arranged to present and provide interaction with the content channel. The content channel may be pinned within a designated portion of the user interface to enable repeated access to the content channel via the designated portion." The patent application was filed on March 9, 2012 (13/416,957). 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=84,38,234.PN.&OS=PN/84,38,234&RS=PN/84,38,234 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Patient Identification ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,438,182) developed by four co-inventors for a patient identification. The co-inventors are Michael T. Gillam, Washington, Jonathan A. Handler, Chicago, Craig Feied, Kirkland, Wash., and John C. Gillotte, Washington. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The described implementations relate to patient identification. One implementation can acquire binary biometric data and structured data from a patient. This implementation can compare the acquired patient binary biometric data and structured data to binary biometric data and structured data associated with patient files in an electronic master patient index." The patent application was filed on Dec. 30, 2010 (12/981,549). 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=84,38,182.PN.&OS=PN/84,38,182&RS=PN/84,38,182 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Indexing and Querying Data Stores Using Concatenated Terms ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,438,173) developed by Willard Bruce Jones, Redmond, Wash., Simon Skaria, Sammamish, Wash., and Naresh Kannan, Seattle, for "indexing and querying data stores using concatenated terms." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Tools and techniques for indexing and querying data stores using concatenated terms are provided. These tools may receive input queries that include at least two query terms. The query terms are correlated respectively with fields contained within records within a data store, with these fields being populated with respective field values. The query terms are arranged according to an indexing priority according to which the fields are ranked within an indexing table, which is associated with the data store. The tools then concatenate the query terms as arranged according to the indexing priority. In turn, the tools search the index table for any entries that are responsive to the concatenated query terms." The patent application was filed on Jan. 9, 2009 (12/350,977). 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=84,38,173.PN.&OS=PN/84,38,173&RS=PN/84,38,173 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Adobe Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Adobe Systems, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,438,224) developed by eight co-inventors for "methods and systems for community-based content aggregation." The co-inventors are Paul-Alexandru Chirita, Bucharest, Romania, Marius Georgian Zaharia, Bucharest, Romania, Robert Joseph Regan Jr., San Francisco, Todd Michael Groner Kopriva, Seattle, Mark Eric Nichoson, Palo Alto, Calif., Kirsti-Marie Aho, San Francisco, Alexandru Bogdan Serban, Bucharest, Romania, and Tanya Ingrid Wendling, Santa Cruz, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Certain embodiments provide systems and methods for managing elements and users of a community-based content aggregation system. An element is received that includes content associated with a community topic. The element is provided to a moderator and an approval of the element is received. The element is stored with elements attributes that can include a comment, a rating, and a label identifying a sub-topic of the community topic. A search request is received and the element is outputted in response to the request. A rating and a comment on the element is received and stored in the element attributes. Approval of the comment is received. In some embodiments, points may be awarded to a user for participating in the community and the user's user level may be modified based on the points of the user." The patent application was filed on April 24, 2008 (12/109,119). 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=84,38,224.PN.&OS=PN/84,38,224&RS=PN/84,38,224 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (8,438,166) developed by Douglas M. Treder, Shoreline, Wash., for pre-computed search results. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed are various embodiments for pre-computing search results. A series of characters is captured as the characters are entered by a user into a search query form. The series forms a successive plurality of input strings. As each character in the series is entered into the search query form, a successive plurality of search query strings is generated. Each search query string corresponds to one of the input strings. As each search query string is generated, a request is sent to retrieve a search results document corresponding to the search query string. As a response to each request is received, at least a portion of the search results document is displayed if the response indicates success." The patent application was filed on March 31, 2011 (13/076,484). 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=84,38,166.PN.&OS=PN/84,38,166&RS=PN/84,38,166 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (8,438,149) developed by Russell A. Dicker, Seattle, and Logan Luyet Dillard, Seattle, for "generating network pages for search engines." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed are various embodiments generating network pages for search engines from data protected from search engines. A portion of data from a corpus of data that is protected from indexing by a search engine is extracted. A first network page is generated based at least in part on the portion of data. The first network page is configured for the search engine to index the portion of data. The first network page omits a context for the portion of data from the corpus of data. The first network page includes one or more links to a second network page that is protected from indexing by the search engine. The second network page provides access to the corpus of data." The patent application was filed on Sept. 21, 2010 (12/887,290). 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=84,38,149.PN.&OS=PN/84,38,149&RS=PN/84,38,149 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Traversing between Electronic Mail and Real Time Communications ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,438,225) developed by five co-inventors for "traversing between electronic mail and real time communications." The co-inventors are Robert W. Serr, Kirkland, Wash., Amit Gupta, Redmond, Wash., Mark McClelland, Seattle, Scott Huddleston, Redmond, Wash., and Santhosh Misro, Chicago. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Users are enabled to traverse seamlessly between electronic mail and real time communications such as text messaging, group chats, and similar forms. A context of communications such as a history of the email exchange, attached or related documents, links, trail of exchanged text messages, and comparable information is used to automatically determine addressees for the communication form after the traverse and to provide context information." The patent application was filed on June 3, 2009 (12/477,593). 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=84,38,225.PN.&OS=PN/84,38,225&RS=PN/84,38,225 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Local Computation of Rank Contributions ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,438,189) developed by seven co-inventors for a "local computation of rank contributions." The co-inventors are Reid Marlow Andersen, Seattle, Christian Herwarth Borgs, Seattle, Jennifer Tour Chayes, Seattle, Krishna C. Gade, Redmond, Wash., John E. Hopcroft, Ithaca, N.Y., Vahab Mirrokni, Seattle, and Shang-Hua Teng, Somerville, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can identify, store, and/or output local contributions to a rank of a vertex in a directed graph. The architecture can receive a directed graph and a parameter, and examine a local subset of vertices (e.g., local to a given vertex) in order to determine a local supporting set. The local supporting set can include a local set of vertices that each contributes a minimum fraction of the parameter to a rank of the vertex. The local supporting set can be the basis for an estimate of the supporting set and/or rank of the vertex for the entire graph and can be employed as a means for detecting link or web spam as well as other influence-based social network applications." The patent application was filed on May 21, 2008 (12/124,239). 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=84,38,189.PN.&OS=PN/84,38,189&RS=PN/84,38,189 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,438,153) developed by four co-inventors for performing database joins. The co-inventors are Murali Krishna, Vancouver, Wash., Harumi Kuno, Cupertino, Calif., Vijay M. Sarathy, Portland, Ore., and Subrata Naskar, West Bengal, India. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of performing a database join includes receiving a query. The query may specify a join of a first table and a second table. The method further includes determining a new predicate based on a mapping between a first column of the first table and a second column of the second table for a plurality of tuples of the join. Further, the method includes modifying the query such that the query comprises the new predicate." The patent application was filed on Oct. 11, 2010 (12/901,934). 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=84,38,153.PN.&OS=PN/84,38,153&RS=PN/84,38,153 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** University of Washington Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- The University of Washington, Seattle, has been assigned a patent (8,438,207) developed by Josephine Ammer Bolotski, Seattle, Jenny Bui, Seattle, and Qi Lu, Seattle, for an "adaptive precision arithmetic unit for error tolerant applications." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Two process-tolerant arithmetic circuit architectures are implemented to develop functional blocks for error-tolerant applications such as FIR filters and FFT blocks. The resulting blocks may achieve computational performance of up to 42 times higher than conventional architectures. Embodiments adaptively change the precision of the computation to achieve a high precision computation given the underlying speed of the circuit. The resulting improvement can be allocated to increasing yield or dynamically trading off between reduced power consumption, faster computation, or higher-fidelity computation." The patent application was filed on Sept. 28, 2007 (11/864,580). 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=84,38,207.PN.&OS=PN/84,38,207&RS=PN/84,38,207 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (8,438,279) developed by Michael L. Brundage, Kirkland, Wash., and Sarah E. Williams, Seattle, for "identifying content that is responsive to a request for an invalid URL." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A server system provides responsive content to a user when a request for an invalid URL is received. The server system may implement multiple rescue strategies for attempting to rescue the invalid URL. One such rescue strategy involves repairing the URL by correcting for encoding errors. Another rescue strategy involves determining that the URL contains an obsolete or outdated item identifier (e.g., product identifier) that renders the URL invalid, and returning information regarding one or more related items to the user. Another rescue strategy involves mining the invalid URL for one or more text strings reflective of the type of content desired, and then using the one or more text strings to execute a keyword search to identify content to provide to the user. The various rescue strategies may be attempted in sequence according to a hierarchy." The patent application was filed on Sept. 15, 2012 (13/621,126). 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=8,438,279&OS=8,438,279&RS=8,438,279 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Bandwidth-proportioned Datacenters ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,438,244) developed by five co-inventors for a bandwidth-proportioned datacenters. The co-inventors are Edmund B. Nightingale, Redmond, Wash., Jeremy E. Elson, Seattle, Jonathan R. Howell, Seattle, Galen C. Hunt, Bellevue, Wash., and David A. Maltz, Bellevue, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system including at least one storage node and at least one computation node connected by a switch is described herein. Each storage node has one or more storage units and one or more network interface components, the collective bandwidths of the storage units and the network interface components being proportioned to one another to enable communication to and from other nodes at the collective bandwidth of the storage units. Each computation node has logic configured to make requests of storage nodes, an input/output bus, and one or more network interface components, the bandwidth of the bus and the collective bandwidths of the network interface components being proportioned to one another to enable communication to and from other nodes at the bandwidth of the input/output bus." The patent application was filed on April 23, 2010 (12/766,726). 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=8,438,244&OS=8,438,244&RS=8,438,244 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** MSKYNET Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- MSKYNET, Seattle, has been assigned a patent (8,438,245) developed by Jesse Chor, Bellevue, Wash., for a "remote application invocation system and method." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A server generates a unique URL corresponding to a data payload, provides that unique URL for exposure (via a machine-scannable code) to mobile devices of different types, and when the server receives a request for the unique URL from a mobile device, the server uses a payload-type to mobile-device-type mapping to generate a device-type-specific URI that includes the data payload, formatted for the device type. The server delivers the device-type-specific URI to the mobile device to invoke a non-web-browser application for handling the data payload." The patent application was filed on Aug. 9, 2010 (12/852,730). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,438,245&OS=8,438,245&RS=8,438,245 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (8,438,263) developed by Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Seattle, David R. Richardson, Seattle, and Bradley E. Marshall, Bainbridge Island, Wash., for a "locality based content distribution." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for content distribution are provided. A content provider generates a network topology having one or more subnetworks made up of content sources. The content provider segments content, such as applications, into segments for distribution. The content provider then distributes the content such that for each identified subnetwork, each content segment is distributed to a content source. Subsequent, client computing device requests for content can be serviced by selecting a content source in a particular subnetwork selected for delivering the requested content to the client computing device to minimize traffic flow of the requested content through the nodes of the distribution network." The patent application was filed on Sept. 13, 2012 (13/614,714). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,438,263&OS=8,438,263&RS=8,438,263 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Sharing a Port with Multiple Processes ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,438,260) developed by Robert Wilhelm Schmieder, Snoqualmie, Wash., and Joy Chik, Sammamish, Wash., for "sharing a port with multiple processes." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A port listening service operating in at system level is assigned to listen on a static port. The static port can index a plurality of unique IDs associated with a plurality of applications operating in a session level. The server application can then provide to a client the unique connection ID, the IP address of the server, and the static port number for a connection. If the client connects by referencing the unique connection ID, the port listening service can forward a corresponding socket for the connection to the appropriate application instance, such that the application still operates in a session level. As such, the port listening service can dispatch connection services for a single static port to multiple different application instances running in a session level." The patent application was filed on Jan. 20, 2012 (13/354,611). 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=8,438,260&OS=8,438,260&RS=8,438,260 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Quantcast Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Quantcast, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,438,280) developed by Paul G. Sutter, Seattle, and Konrad S. Feldman, San Francisco, for "detecting and reporting on consumption rate changes." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system and computer readable storage medium for reporting on a measured change in a consumption rate. Media consumption histories for a plurality of entities are received. A monitored audience is selected from the plurality of entities by selecting entities which have completed an online purchase. A category value for each of two or more categories of media content is determined. One category of media content includes one or more items of media content. One category value represents the measured change in consumption rate for one category of media content for the monitored audience between at least two time intervals. One consumption rate is determined based on the number of times each item of media content in the one category has been delivered over a network during one time interval. A report including a reference to two or more categories and their associated category values is generated." The patent application was filed on Dec. 3, 2012 (13/692,042). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,438,280&OS=8,438,280&RS=8,438,280 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** 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. *** F5 Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- F5 Networks, Seattle, has been assigned a patent (8,438,253) developed by Paul I. Szabo, Seattle, Bryan D. Skene, Seattle, and Saxon Amdahl, San Jose, Calif., for "upgrading network traffic management devices while maintaining availability." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system, machine-readable storage medium, and apparatus are directed towards upgrading a cluster by bifurcating the cluster into two virtual clusters, an "old" virtual cluster (old active cluster) and a "new" virtual cluster (new standby cluster), and iteratively upgrading members of the old cluster while moving them into the new cluster. While members are added to the new cluster, existing connections and new connections are seamlessly processed by the old cluster. Optionally, state mirroring occurs between the old cluster and the new cluster once the number of members of the old and new clusters are approximately equal. Once a threshold number of members have been transferred to the new cluster, control and processing may be taken over by the new cluster. Transfer of control from the old cluster to the new cluster may be performed by failing over connectivity from the old cluster to the new cluster." The patent application was filed on May 25, 2012 (13/480,943). 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=8,438,253&OS=8,438,253&RS=8,438,253 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Evri Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Evri, Seattle, has been assigned a patent (8,438,124) developed by eight co-inventors for a "system and method of a knowledge management and networking environment." The co-inventors are Nova Spivack, Tarrytown, N.Y., Boris Aleksandrovksy, San Francisco, Jonathan Qiang Li, San Francisco, Chris Jones, Mill Valley, Calif., Peter Royal, San Francisco, Lew Tucker, San Francisco, Scott White, Seattle, and Jim Wissner, San Francisco. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods of a knowledge management networking are disclosed here. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, of hosting a web-space having a plurality of objects, the plurality of objects to include one or more of, representations of a set of users, a set of web-items, and a set of nets; wherein a net of the set of nets is a subset of the web-space comprising a sub-plurality of the plurality of objects. One embodiment can include, tracking an explicit relationship between a first set of at least two objects of the set of objects; the explicit relationship to be pre-determined by a user of the set of users, identifying an implicit relationship between a second set of at least two objects of the set of objects; the implicit relationship to be identified based on a semantic relationship between the at least two objects, and determining a default set of privacy rules governing access between the at least two objects based on one or more of the identified explicit relationship and the implicit relationship." The patent application was filed on Oct. 18, 2007 (11/874,882). 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=8,438,124&OS=8,438,124&RS=8,438,124 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (8,438,084) developed by five co-inventors for a "method and system for inventory verification." The co-inventors are Lawrence Tesler, Seattle, Udi Manber, Palo Alto, Calif., Hilliard B. Siegel, Seattle, Charles Gordon, Seattle, and Varun Narang, Issaquah, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Verification of an inventory of stored products may be achieved by obtaining an image of the stored products and using text, optical character, and other feature recognition techniques to determine product identification and storage location. A comparison between earlier and current images of the same storage location is used to identify which locations have changed, i.e., from which locations have products been moved, removed, or added. The earlier and current images of the changed locations may be displayed to a user to visually inspect the differences between the images and verify the changes in inventory represented by those differences." The patent application was filed on June 9, 2004 (10/864,291). 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=8,438,084&OS=8,438,084&RS=8,438,084 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for File Sharing Administration ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,438,266) developed by Robert L. Beck, Seattle, for a file sharing administration. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A file sharing service facilitates file sharing between a client and a host over a network. An extensible architecture provides an interface by which the file sharing service can be expanded to include additional functionality. This additional functionality may include resource management, security management, management of user experience, and the like. For example, users or administrators of the host or another computing device on the network may wish to oversee the file sharing service as a whole and/or individual file sharing transactions. The extensible file sharing described herein allows users, administrators, or other third party developers to expand or enhance a file sharing service or application to provide virtually any desired functionality." The patent application was filed on Oct. 11, 2006 (11/548,610). 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=8,438,266&OS=8,438,266&RS=8,438,266 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,438,288) developed by four co-inventors for a "device-pairing by reading an address provided in device-readable form." The co-inventors are Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez, Redmond, Wash., Curtis N. von Veh, Redmond, Wash., Darko Kirovski, Kirkland, Wash., and Christopher A. Meek, Kirkland, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system is described for allowing a user, operating a trusted device, to remotely log into a server via a potentially untrustworthy client. The system operates by establishing a first secure connection between the client and the server. The system then establishes a second secure connection between the device and the server through the client. The user then remotely logs into the server over the second secure connection using the device. The second secure connection is tunneled within the first secure connection, preventing the untrustworthy client from discovering personal information associated with the user. According to one feature, prior to forming the second secure connection, the user can establish a pairing relationship with the client by reading an address of the client using any kind of reading mechanism. According to another feature, the device can receive marketing information in the course of a transaction." The patent application was filed on Feb. 17, 2010 (12/706,718). 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=8,438,288&OS=8,438,288&RS=8,438,288 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,438,114) developed by four co-inventors for "trusted license removal in a content protection system or the like." The co-inventors are Benjamin Brooks Cutter, Kirkland, Wash., Brian P. Evans, Redmond, Wash., Clifford P. Strom, Sammamish, Wash., and Vikas Khandelwal, Redmond, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A digital license includes an identification of a removal service that can authorize removing such license. A client selects the license to be removed and the service, constructs a challenge including therein a challenge license identification block (LIB) identifying the license to be removed, and sends the challenge to the service. The service receives the challenge, stores at least a portion of the challenge in a database, constructs a response corresponding to the challenge and including therein a response LIB identifying the license to be removed and an identification of the service, and sends the response to the client. The client receives the response, employs the response LIB from the response to identify the license to be removed, and removes the identified license upon confirming that the identification of the service in the identified license matches the identification of the service in the response." The patent application was filed on Oct. 14, 2011 (13/274,217). 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=8,438,114&OS=8,438,114&RS=8,438,114 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Aventail Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Aventail, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,438,254) developed by six co-inventors for "providing distributed cache services." The co-inventors are Chris A. Hopen, Shoreline, Wash., Gary B. Tomlinson, Woodinville, Wash., John Brooke, Gig Harbor, Wash., Derek W. Brown, Sunnyvale, Calif., Jonathan Burdge, Renton, Wash., and Rodger D. Erickson, Lawrence, Kan. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A network appliance is described that can provide a variety of software services, including both platform services, such as access method services, and a load balancing service. A network may include a network appliance that both provides one or more platform services and acts as a load balancer. When two or more such appliances are used together, they can replace a substantial portion of a conventional network. For example, when a network appliance receives a client communication, its load balancer service can determine whether one of its own platform services will process the communication or forward the communication to another network appliance for processing. Moreover, if the load balancing service of a network appliance fails, another network appliance can provide load balancing. Similarly, if another service of a network appliance fails, then the network appliance may continue to provide load balancing but forward communications requiring the failed service to another network appliance for processing." The patent application was filed on Oct. 29, 2007 (11/927,321). 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=8,438,254&OS=8,438,254&RS=8,438,254 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (8,438,247) developed by six co-inventors for "techniques for capturing data sets." The co-inventors are Tate Andrew Certain, Seattle, Sachin Jain, Sammamish, Wash., James R. Hamilton, Seattle, Fiorenzo Cattaneo, Snoqualmie, Wash., Danny Wei, Seattle, and David N. Sunderland, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques, including systems and methods, for capturing data sets include performing a client-side two-phase commit to ensure one or more data consistency conditions. A logical volume may represent a data set that is distributed among a plurality of physical storage devices. One or more client devices are instructed to block at least acknowledgment of write operations. When the one or more client devices have blocked at least acknowledgment of write operations, one or more servers in communication with the physical storage devices are instructed to capture corresponding portions of the data set. When the servers have been instructed to capture corresponding portions of the data set, the client devices are instructed to resume at least acknowledgment of write operations." The patent application was filed on Dec. 21, 2010 (12/975,269). 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=8,438,247&OS=8,438,247&RS=8,438,247 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** IdentityMine Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- IdentityMine, Tacoma, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,438,538) developed by Jonathan B. Russ, Seattle, for a simplebinding extension. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A SimpleBinding extension in Window Presentation Foundation (WPF) is established using a compact binding syntax in which all binding components are specified in a string. The simple binding string is parsed to derive a native WPF binding class. A typecast may be used to determine how the binding result will be translated from one Common Language Runtime (CLR) type to another. The typecast may be provided with the binding components or derived from properties of the target WPF dependency property." The patent application was filed on April 25, 2007 (11/740,095). 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=8,438,538&OS=8,438,538&RS=8,438,538 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,438,653) developed by Sunava Dutta, Seattle, and Zhenbin Xu, Sammamish, Wash., for "strategies for controlling use of a resource that is shared between trusted and untrusted environments." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A strategy is described for controlling access to a resource which is shared between a trusted environment and an untrusted environment. The resource can represent a clipboard module. The trusted environment can include trusted client functionality, while the untrusted environment can include potentially untrusted network-accessible entities (e.g., websites) which seek to access the clipboard module. The strategy provides a security presentation which notifies a user when a network-accessible entity is attempting to access the clipboard module, identifying the entity which is making the attempt, together with the nature of the information being read or added to the clipboard module. The security presentation invites the user to approve or deny the particular attempt (or all such attempts from the network-accessible entity), and/or clear the clipboard module. The security presentation does not block the user's interaction with other parts of a user interface presentation." The patent application was filed on April 10, 2007 (11/733,317). 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=8,438,653&OS=8,438,653&RS=8,438,653 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Generating a Management Pack at Program Build Time ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,438,542) developed by Durgesh Nandan, Redmond, Wash., Shuyi Hu, Bothell, Wash., and Cheng-Chang Chang, Sammamish, Wash., for a "generating a management pack at program build time." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Technologies are described herein for generating a management pack at program build time. Data is received that defines one or more events generated by the application program. Data is also received that defines one or more management classes for the application program. When a request to build the program is received, the data defining the events generated by the program and the data defining the management classes is utilized to generate a management pack for the program in an automated fashion. Once the management pack has been generated, it may be provided to an operations manager application program for use in monitoring the operation of the application program." The patent application was filed on Dec. 17, 2007 (11/957,586). 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=8,438,542&OS=8,438,542&RS=8,438,542 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Nvidia Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Nvidia, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,438,554) developed by Vinod Kumar Grover, Mercer Island, Wash., and John Stratton, Champaign, Ill., for a "system, method, and computer program product for removing a synchronization statement." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system, method, and computer program product are provided for removing a synchronization statement. In use, synchronization statements are identified. Additionally, the synchronization statements are analyzed. Furthermore, the synchronization statements are removed based on the analysis." The patent application was filed on Dec. 11, 2008 (12/333,241). 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=8,438,554&OS=8,438,554&RS=8,438,554 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Google Assigned Patent for System and Method of Updating Programs and Data ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,438,558) developed by Stephen Robert Adams, Seattle, for a "system and method of updating programs and data." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method are provided to (a) convert an older or base version of software into an alternate representation of the base version; (b) convert a newer or updated version of software into an alternate representation of the updated version; (c) compare the alternate updated version with the alternate base version (d) modify portions of the alternate updated version based on the comparison and (e) create a patch, where the patch represents the differences between the alternate updated version and the alternate base version." The patent application was filed on March 27, 2009 (12/383,616). 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=8,438,558&OS=8,438,558&RS=8,438,558 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Secure and Extensible Policy-driven Application Platform ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,438,636) developed by Scott Isaacs, Bellvue, Wash., Stephen Mark Yolleck, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Ronald Keith Logan, Everett, Wash., for a "secure and extensible policy-driven application platform." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "System of evaluating security of script content. A processor executes computer-executable instructions for defining a policy for the script content in a web page. The script content provides interactions between a user and other content within the web page. The defined policy indicates an execution boundary of the script content. The processor further evaluates the script content against the execution boundary in the defined policy. At run time, the processor transforms at least a portion of the web page in response to the evaluating. An interface transmits the web page with the transformed portion of the script content to be rendered in an application on a host device." The patent application was filed on May 9, 2008 (12/118,321). 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=8,438,636&OS=8,438,636&RS=8,438,636 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** NetMotion Wireless Holdings Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- NetMotion Wireless Holdings, Seattle, has been assigned a patent (8,438,619) developed by Erik Olson, Seattle, for a network access control. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An system for controlling access to a network by a user device. The system includes a criteria engine that generates a plurality of criteria to be monitored on the user device and a checker that generates at least one check for each of the plurality of criteria. The system further includes a profiler that retrieves a profile for the user device, the profile including the plurality of criteria and the at least one check for each of the plurality of criteria, a comparator that compares a summary of the retrieved profile to a summary of a profile received from the user device and a communicator that communicates a message to the user device based on the comparison." The patent application was filed on Sept. 21, 2007 (11/859,336). 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=8,438,619&OS=8,438,619&RS=8,438,619 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Secure Clock with Grace Periods ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,438,645) developed by four co-inventors for "secure clock with grace periods." The co-inventors are Amit Jain, Sammamish, Wash., Brian P. Evans, Redmond, Wash., Clifford P. Strom, Sammamish, Wash., and Benjamin B. Cutter Jr., Kirkland, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system of controlling playback of digital media. A system of controlling playback of digital media comprising a CE device having a secure clock and a license having a specified grace period disposed upon the CE device in which a digital media file governed by the license may be played for the grace period upon failure of the secure clock." The patent application was filed on April 27, 2005 (11/116,884). 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=8,438,645&OS=8,438,645&RS=8,438,645 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Automatically Converting Text to Business Graphics ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,438,486) developed by six co-inventors for an "automatically converting text to business graphics." The co-inventors are Lawrence Fubini Waldman, Redmond, Wash., Dawn M. Wright, Seattle, Gary A. Pritting, Issaquah, Wash., Lutz Gerhard, Seattle, Matthew J. Kotler, Kenmore, Wash., and Cynthia C. Shelly, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A facility for generating a graphic image is described. The facility receives from a user a body of text whose creation is not subject to any rules or prototypes. The facility discerns from the body of text a textual organization. The facility then generates a graphic image conveying the discerned textual organization." The patent application was filed on Feb. 9, 2006 (11/351,341). 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=8,438,486.PN.&OS=PN/8,438,486&RS=PN/8,438,486 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Invention Science Fund I Assigned Patent for Resource Authorizations Dependent on Emulation Environment Isolation Policies ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Invention Science Fund I, Bellevue, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,438,609) developed by seven co-inventors for "resource authorizations dependent on emulation environment isolation policies." The co-inventors are Alexander J. Cohen, Mill Valley, Calif., Edward K.Y. Jung, Bellevue, Wash., Royce A. Levien, Lexington, Mass., Robert W. Lord, Seattle, Mark A. Malamud, Seattle, John D. Rinaldo Jr., Bellevue, Wash., and Lowell L. Wood Jr., Bellevue, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system, method, computer program product, and carrier are described for obtaining a resource authorization dependent upon apparent compliance with a policy of causing an emulation environment to isolate a first software object type from a second software object type; and signaling a decision whether to comply with the policy of causing the emulation environment to isolate the first software object type from the second software object type." The patent application was filed on June 28, 2007 (11/824,581). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,438,609&OS=8,438,609&RS=8,438,609 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Intel Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,438,515) developed by Michael W. Leddige, Beaverton, Ore., Kuljit Singh Bains, Olympia, Wash., and John Thomas Sprietsma, Portland, Ore., for an "interchangeable connection arrays for double-sided DIMM placement." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A memory module has an array of connections. The array of connections is arranged in rows and columns such that there are first and second outer columns. Connections in the first and second outer columns can be interchanged to optimize double-side module placement on a substrate. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed." The patent application was filed on Dec. 29, 2011 (13/339,525). 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=8,438,515.PN.&OS=PN/8,438,515&RS=PN/8,438,515 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Intel Assigned Patent for Memory Power Management via Dynamic Memory Operation States ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,438,410) developed by five co-inventors for a "memory power management via dynamic memory operation states." The co-inventors are Howard S. David, Portland, Ore., Ulf R. Hanebutte, Gig Harbor, Wash., Eugene Gorbatov, Hillsboro, Ore., James W. Alexander, Hillsboro, Ore., and Suneeta Sah, Portland, Ore. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Described herein are techniques for dynamic memory frequency/voltage scaling to augment existing memory power management techniques and further improve memory power efficiency. Each operating point is defined as an operational state for the memory." The patent application was filed on June 23, 2010 (12/821,867). 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=8,438,410.PN.&OS=PN/8,438,410&RS=PN/8,438,410 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Digimarc Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Digimarc, Beaverton, Ore., has been assigned a patent (8,438,395) developed by Victor L. Andelin, Kendallville, Ind., and Kenneth L. Levy, Stevenson, Wash., for a "digitally watermarking documents associated with vehicles." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention provides steganographically embedded auxiliary data in motor vehicle documentation. The auxiliary data is used to authenticate the documentation or provide additional or redundant information pertaining to the documentation. Examples of such documentation are license plates, vehicle titles, insurance cards, registration cards and emissions documentation. In one implementation of the invention, a title document is digitally watermarked for authentication. The digital watermark may include a digital signature related to a buyer and a digital signature related to a seller. In another implementation, the transfer of motor vehicles is facilitated via digital watermarking. In still another implementation, a document includes two or more digital watermarks. The digital watermarks are intertwined with each other and at least one of the watermarks is intertwined with the document." The patent application was filed on Sept. 18, 2003 (10/666,929). 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=8,438,395.PN.&OS=PN/8,438,395&RS=PN/8,438,395 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. -1124130 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |