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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Oregon (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 Oregon. *** 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. *** Terra Nova Nurseries Assigned Patent for Rudbeckia Plant Named 'Little Henry' ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Terra Nova Nurseries, Canby, Ore., has been assigned a patent (PP23,590) developed by Harini Korlipara, Canby, Ore., for a "rudbeckia plant named 'Little Henry'." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A new and distinct Rudbeckia subtomentosa plant named `Little Henry` characterized by inflorescences with quilled, yellow ray florets, a medium, upright habit, and excellent vigor." The patent application was filed on Oct. 17, 2011 (13/317,422). 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=PP23,590&OS=PP23,590&RS=PP23,590 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Intel Assigned Patent for Error Correction in a Solid State Disk ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,438,455) developed by Andrew Wayne Vogan, Aloha, Ore., and Richard Coulson, Portland, Ore., for an "error correction in a solid state disk." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In some embodiments, a solid state disk includes a non-volatile memory and a controller. The controller performs ECC on data stored on the non-volatile memory, and performs a parity operation on the data if the ECC cannot correct the data. Other embodiments are described and claimed." The patent application was filed on Dec. 31, 2008 (12/319,208). 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=8,438,455.PN.&OS=PN/8,438,455&RS=PN/8,438,455 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Intel Assigned Patent for Poison Bit Error Checking Code Scheme ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,438,452) developed by Rajat Agarwal, Beaverton, Ore., Scott Huddleston, Beaverton, Ore., and Dennis Brzezinski, Sunnyvale, Calif., for a "poison bit error checking code scheme." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, a method provides determining one of an occurrence and a non-occurrence of an event, the one of the occurrence and the non-occurrence resulting in an event determination; and processing a code having an event bit, said processing in accordance with the determination and the code, by determining if the event bit corresponds to the event determination, and if the event bit does not correspond to the event determination, encoding the code to generate a poison bit that corresponds to the event determination." The patent application was filed on Dec. 29, 2008 (12/317,849). 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=8,438,452.PN.&OS=PN/8,438,452&RS=PN/8,438,452 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Terra Nova Nurseries Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Terra Nova Nurseries, Canby, Ore., has been assigned a patent (PP23,591) developed by Janet N. Egger, Wilsonville, Ore., for a "tiarella plant named 'Pacific Crest'." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A new and distinct cultivar of Tiarella plant characterized by glossy leaves, large, palmately-lobed leaves with the terminal lobe the longest, an excellent trailing habit, dark brown markings following the veins filling up to 3/4 of the leaf, and excellent vigor." The patent application was filed on Sept. 22, 2011 (13/200,485). 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=PP23,591&OS=PP23,591&RS=PP23,591 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Celartem Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Celartem, Portland, Ore., has been assigned a patent (8,438,648) developed by Mike Bacus, Tigard, Ore., and Bruce Quincy Hammond, Beaverton, Ore., for "preventing unauthorized font linking." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, computer readable media, and apparatuses for preventing unauthorized font linking are presented. A request for a font file may be received. It may be determined whether the request is valid, and this determination may be based on a security token and/or a referrer string. If the request is determined to be valid, a first watermark may be embedded in the font file, and the first watermark may be based on the security token. The first watermark may include at least one point in at least one glyph contained in the font file. A second watermark may be embedded in the font file, and the second watermark may include at least one table that identifies a customer. The font file then may be served to the requestor." The patent application was filed on Feb. 16, 2010 (12/706,222). 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=8,438,648&OS=8,438,648&RS=8,438,648 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. *** Mentor Graphics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Mentor Graphics, Wilsonville, Ore., has been assigned a patent (8,438,438) developed by five co-inventors for an "enhanced diagnosis with limited failure cycles." The co-inventors are Yu Huang, Marlborough, Mass., Wu-Tung Cheng, Lake Oswego, Ore., Nagesh Tamarapalli, Wilsonville, Ore., Randy Klingenberg, Wilsonville, Ore., and Janusz Rajski, West Linn, Ore. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Chain or logic diagnosis resolution can be enhanced in the presence of limited failure cycles using embodiments of the various methods, systems, and apparatus described herein. For example, pattern sets can be ordered according to a diagnosis coverage figure, which can be used to measure chain or logic diagnosability of the pattern set. Per-pin based diagnosis techniques can also be used to analyze limited failure data." The patent application was filed on Nov. 17, 2010 (12/948,460). 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=8,438,438.PN.&OS=PN/8,438,438&RS=PN/8,438,438 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** CBS Interactive Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- CBS Interactive, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,438,424) developed by Scott Clementson Elliott, Hillsboro, Ore., and Kenneth A. Gengler, Portland, Ore., for an "assessing computer programs using stack frame signatures." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of assessing a computer program under actual working conditions according to one embodiment comprises executing the computer program multiple times under actual working conditions, in response to each unhandled exception encountered during execution of the computer program, creating a corresponding stack frame signature to characterize the state of the program, and comparing the stack frame signatures to determine which unhandled exceptions are likely to have resulted from similar features." The patent application was filed on Feb. 24, 2012 (13/404,316). 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=8,438,424.PN.&OS=PN/8,438,424&RS=PN/8,438,424 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** McAfee Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- McAfee, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,438,637) developed by Dmitry O. Gryaznov, Portland, Ore., for a "system, method, and computer program product for performing an analysis on a plurality of portions of potentially unwanted data each requested from a different device." 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 performing an analysis on a plurality of portions of potentially unwanted data each requested from a different device. In use, a detection of potentially unwanted data (e.g., potentially malicious data) is identified based on a first analysis. Additionally, receipt of a plurality of portions of the potentially unwanted data is requested, where each of the plurality of portions is requested from a different device. Further, a second analysis is performed on the plurality of portions of the potentially unwanted data for determining whether the potentially unwanted data is unwanted (e.g., malicious)." The patent application was filed on June 19, 2008 (12/142,490). 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=8,438,637&OS=8,438,637&RS=8,438,637 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. *** Intel Assigned Patent for Method and System for Dynamic Service Negotiation with a Uniform Security Control Plane in a Wireless Network ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,438,389) developed by Zongming Sinbada Yao, Shanghai, China, and Kapil Sood, Beaverton, Ore., for a "method and system for dynamic service negotiation with a uniform security control plane in a wireless network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system to facilitate dynamic service negotiation with a uniform and persistent security control plane in a wireless network. In one embodiment of the invention, a node in the wireless network determines each capability provided by each of one or more virtual nodes that it supports and transmits a frame that has information of each capability provided by each of the one or more virtual nodes. By combining all the information of each capability provided by each of the one or more virtual nodes into one frame, the node reduces the volume of management traffic required and increases the available usable channel bandwidth in one embodiment of the invention." The patent application was filed on Aug. 17, 2009 (12/542,244). 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=8,438,389.PN.&OS=PN/8,438,389&RS=PN/8,438,389 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Intel Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,438,369) developed by six co-inventors for "providing thread fairness by biasing selection away from a stalling thread using a stall-cycle counter in a hyper-threaded microprocessor." The co-inventors are Morris Marden, Hillsboro, Ore., Matthew Merten, Hillsboro, Ore., Alexandre Farcy, Hillsboro, Ore., Avinash Sodani, Portland, Ore., James Hadley, Portland, Ore., and Ilhyun Kim, Beaverton, Ore. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for providing fairness in a multi-processing element environment is herein described. Mask elements are utilized to associated portions of a reservation station with each processing element, while still allowing common access to another portion of reservation station entries. Additionally, bias logic biases selection of processing elements in a pipeline away from a processing element associated with a blocking stall to provide fair utilization of the pipeline." The patent application was filed on Nov. 8, 2010 (12/941,615). 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=8,438,369&OS=8,438,369&RS=8,438,369 Written by Arpi Sharma; 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. -1124122 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |