[May 09, 2013] U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in California (May 9) Tweet (Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in California. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,437,337) developed by Marian Croak, Fair Haven, N.J., and Hossein Eslambolchi, Los Altos Hills, Calif., for a "method and apparatus for enabling peer-to-peer communication between endpoints on a per call basis." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for enabling a user to signal to the network that a call to be initiated or a call that is in progress needs to occur in a peer-to-peer relationship with the terminating endpoint. The network will then remove itself from the call signaling and media path and direct the signaling and media communication to occur directly between the two endpoints." The patent application was filed on Aug. 28, 2009 (12/550,038). 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=8,437,337&OS=8,437,337&RS=8,437,337 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Qualcomm Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,437,332) developed by Renqiu Wang, San Diego, and Hao Xu, San Diego, for "low complexity unified control channel processing." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate unified, low-complexity processing (e.g., user separation and noise estimation) of a control channel. One or more UEs can respectively transmit one or more control signals, which are multiplexed on a control channel and a base station can receive a control channel signal that includes the one or more control signals. The base station, in a single pass, can separate the control signals by matching the control channel signal with a base sequence and translating the matched signal to a time-domain representation. In the time-domain representation, each control signal resides at a different tap. Further, the base station can identify taps of the time-domain representation corresponding to an unused cyclic shift or orthogonal cover sequence. Such taps can be employed to generate a noise and/or interference estimate." The patent application was filed on June 14, 2010 (12/815,205). 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=8,437,332&OS=8,437,332&RS=8,437,332 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** STMicroelectronics Assigned Patent for Radio Frequency Architecture for Spectrum Access Networks ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 - STMicroelectronics, Coppell, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,437,314) developed by George A. Vlantis, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Wendong Hu, San Jose, Calif., for "radio frequency architecture for spectrum access networks." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Radio frequency (RF) architectures for spectrum access networks are provided. Embodiments of the invention generally provide a radio frequency (RF) architecture for customer premise equipment (CPE) for use in, for example, IEEE 802.22 wireless regional area networks (WRANs). In some embodiments, the CPE RF architecture includes two receive chains with a directional antenna and an omni-directional antenna, respectively. The CPE RF architecture facilitates opportunistic out-of-band spectrum sensing and WRAN signal receiving that are performed in parallel with data transmission." The patent application was filed on Feb. 21, 2008 (12/035,353). 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=8,437,314&OS=8,437,314&RS=8,437,314 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Foundry Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Foundry Networks, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,437,340) developed by Anthony W. James, San Jose, Calif., for a "system, method and apparatus for supporting E911 emergency services in a data communications network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system, method and apparatus for supporting enhanced 911 (E911) emergency services, in a data communications network that includes Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephones. A network system includes a host network communicatively coupled to an E911 database management system, a network access device, and a VoIP telephone communicatively coupled to an input port of the network access device. The network access device is adapted to assign a physical location identifier to an input port, to authenticate the VoIP telephone, wherein the authentication includes receiving a unique device identifier from the VoIP telephone, and to transmit the location identifier and the unique device identifier to the E911 database management system. The E911 database management system is permitted to store the physical location identifier in association with the unique device identifier." The patent application was filed on March 29, 2011 (13/075,105). 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=8,437,340&OS=8,437,340&RS=8,437,340 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Qualcomm Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,437,312) developed by Arnaud Meylan, San Diego, Nathan Edward Tenny, Poway, Calif., and Peter Anthony Barany, San Diego, for "methods for intra base station handover optimizations." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The method and apparatus as described are directed toward techniques and mechanisms to improve efficiency in wireless communication networks through optimization of handover scenarios. Determining whether an intra-base station or inter-node-B handover is to be performed, and determining the protocol layers to reset during the handover based at least in part on the type of handover to be performed increases the overall efficiency of the wireless network." The patent application was filed on May 18, 2012 (13/475,784). 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=8,437,312&OS=8,437,312&RS=8,437,312 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Radio Channel Aggregation and Segmentation ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,437,299) developed by Chengzhi Pan, San Diego, and Joseph P. Burke, San Diego, for "radio channel aggregation and segmentation." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Multiple streams from multiple circuit paths are Block-TDM (Block-Time-Division-Multiplexing) aggregated into a single stream that passes via a single path through processing circuitry capable of handling the aggregated signal. The cost of providing redundant processing circuitry is avoided. After processing in the single path, the resulting signal is Block-TDM de-aggregated to generate multiple streams. Each output stream is substantially the same as if its corresponding input stream had been processed in a separate path using separate processing circuitry. The path-sharing technique is usable to pass multiple streams from multiple radio receivers through one superior Delta-Sigma ADC (DSADC) as opposed to using multiple flat ADCs to process information from the multiple receivers. In one example, the DSADC can be used because the aggregation is Block-TDM-based and the de-aggregator involves a digital low pass filter. In another example, the de-aggregator involves a decoder and the aggregator involves a precoder." The patent application was filed on Aug. 17, 2010 (12/857,729). 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=8,437,299&OS=8,437,299&RS=8,437,299 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Methods and Apparatus for Blind Interference Decrease/cancellation Techniques ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,437,298) developed by Zhifei Fan, San Diego, and Hao Xu, San Diego, for "methods and apparatus for blind interference decrease/cancellation techniques." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in which one or more semi-static parameters associated with at least one neighboring eNode B (eNB) and an interfering user equipment (UE) are detected, at an eNB, and a blind interference reduction scheme based on the one or more detected semi-static parameters to reduce a signal from the interfering UE is applied." The patent application was filed on July 27, 2010 (12/844,682). 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=8,437,298&OS=8,437,298&RS=8,437,298 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Network Selection by Wireless Terminals ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,437,288) developed by Stephen W. Edge, Escondido, Calif., David Williams, Malaga, Spain, and Niels Peter Skov Andersen, Roskilde, Denmark, for "network selection by wireless terminals." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques for efficiently performing network selection using information stored at a terminal are described herein. The terminal may store coverage information for previously detected wireless networks, cell information for previously detected cells in wireless networks, usage information for previously accessed wireless networks, availability information for previously detected wireless networks, almanac information for cells in wireless networks (e.g., information on cells available at different locations and information for acquiring the cells), and/or other information that may be useful for network selection. The terminal may select a wireless network to attempt acquisition based on the stored coverage information and its current location, the stored cell information and information for the current location (e.g., an identity of a cell detected at the current location), the stored usage information, the stored availability information, and/or the stored almanac information." The patent application was filed on March 6, 2007 (11/682,858). 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=8,437,288&OS=8,437,288&RS=8,437,288 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,437,339) developed by 12 co-inventors for "techniques to provide integrated voice service management." The co-inventors are Tim Wilkinson, Berkely, Calif., Simon Rabe-Hesketh, Berkeley, Calif., Matias Duarte, Sunnyvale, Calif., Matthew Hornyak, San Francisco, Justin Kodama, Mountain View, Calif., Junius Ho, Shoreview, Minn., Ed Ballot, Mountain View, Calif., Michael Rizkalla, Los Altos, Calif., Jess Gibson, Santa Clara, Calif., Ezekiel Sanborn, Santa Clara, Calif., Alan Levi, Mountain View, Calif., and Brad Vogel, San Francisco. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques to provide integrated voice service management are described. An apparatus may comprise a mobile computing device having a voice service manager operative to receive control directives from one or more application programs, and manage one or more service features provided by multiple voice service platforms based on the received control directives, with at least one of the multiple voice service platforms comprising a voice over packet voice service platform. Other embodiments are described and claimed." The patent application was filed on April 28, 2010 (12/769,318). 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=8,437,339&OS=8,437,339&RS=8,437,339 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Layer 2 Tunneling of Data during Handover in a Wireless Communication System ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,437,306) developed by six co-inventors for "layer 2 tunneling of data during handover in a wireless communication system." The co-inventors are Rashid Ahmed Akbar Attar, San Diego, Arnaud Meylan, San Diego, Sai Yiu Duncan Ho, San Diego, Francesco Grilli, La Jolla, Calif., Nathan Edward Tenny, Poway, Calif., and Peter Anthony Barany, San Diego. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques for sending data during handover with Layer 2 tunneling are described. In one design, a user equipment (UE) sends first Layer 2 packets to a source base station prior to handover to a target base station. The UE sends at least one second Layer 2 packet to the target base station, which identifies the second Layer 2 packet(s) as being intended for the source base station and thus forwards the second Layer 2 packet(s) to the source base station via a Layer 2 tunnel. The UE sends third Layer 2 packets to the target base station after the handover. The target base station processes the third Layer 2 packets to obtain IP packets and sends the IP packets to a serving gateway after a trigger condition, which may be defined to achieve in-order delivery of IP packets from the source and target base stations to the serving gateway." The patent application was filed on Aug. 7, 2008 (12/187,539). 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=8,437,306&OS=8,437,306&RS=8,437,306 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** ZTE Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- ZTE, Morristown, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,437,286) developed by Sean Cai, San Diego, and Hongyun Qu, Guangdong, China, for "signaling for multi-hop relay in wireless communication systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and techniques for signaling between a subordinate base station and a superordinate base station in a wireless network with wireless relay stations to inform the superordinate base station of a failure in establishing an uplink related to the subordinate base station and scheduling wireless resource allocation between a base station and one or more relay stations." The patent application was filed on Feb. 22, 2008 (12/036,199). 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=8,437,286&OS=8,437,286&RS=8,437,286 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Citrix Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Citrix Systems, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has been assigned a patent (8,437,284) developed by Robert Plamondon, Blodgett, Ore., Michael Ovsiannikov, San Mateo, Calif., and Allen Samuels, San Jose, Calif., for "systems and methods for additional retransmissions of dropped packets." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for utilizing transaction boundary detection methods in queuing and retransmission decisions relating to network traffic are described. By detecting transaction boundaries and sizes, a client, server, or intermediary device may prioritize based on transaction sizes in queuing decisions, giving precedence to smaller transactions which may represent interactive and/or latency-sensitive traffic. Further, after detecting a transaction boundary, a device may retransmit one or more additional packets prompting acknowledgements, in order to ensure timely notification if the last packet of the transaction has been dropped. Systems and methods for potentially improving network latency, including retransmitting a dropped packet twice or more in order to avoid incurring additional delays due to a retransmitted packet being lost are also described." The patent application was filed on March 12, 2007 (11/685,181). 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=8,437,284&OS=8,437,284&RS=8,437,284 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Headwater Partners I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Headwater Partners I, Redwood Shores, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,437,271) developed by Gregory G. Raleigh, Woodside, Calif., for "verifiable and accurate service usage monitoring for intermediate networking devices." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various embodiments are disclosed for a services policy communication system and method. In some embodiments, an intermediary networking device provides a service intermediary or intermediate connection between a network and one or more communications devices; implements a service policy set for assisting control of the intermediate networking device use of a service on the network, in which the service policy set includes one or more service policies, each policy being associated with either the intermediate networking device or a communications device; and monitors use of the service based on the service policy set; and in which the one or more of the communication devices include a service usage notification capability, and the implementation of the first service policy set is verified." The patent application was filed on April 9, 2012 (13/442,214). 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=8,437,271&OS=8,437,271&RS=8,437,271 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,437,305) developed by five co-inventors for a "method for providing home agent geographic redundancy." The co-inventors are Greg Cheever, Hampstead, N.H., Sanil Kumar Puthiyandyil, Nashua, N.H., Rajesh Ramankutty, Nashua, N.H., Satya (Satish) Vasamsetti, Danville, Calif., and Clarence Drumheller, Easton, Pa. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for providing redundancy in servicing packet data communications within wireless mobile data networks are disclosed. More particularly, the method and system for provide a redundant Home Agent with the ability to assume the role of the primary Home Agent in the event of a primary Home Agent network, software, or other failure. The redundancy allows Home Agent services to remain functional in the case of a failure of one of the Home Agents in the redundant group, which may be composed of one or more Home Agents. The Home Agents can be located in geographically separate areas to ensure that a network outage event in one geographic area does not cause subscriber services to be impacted." The patent application was filed on Nov. 23, 2005 (11/286,049). 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=8,437,305&OS=8,437,305&RS=8,437,305 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Westinghouse Electric Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Westinghouse Electric, Cranberry Township, Pa., has been assigned a patent (8,437,974) developed by Richard W. Bishop, Verona, Pa., Steven J. Nathenson, Playa Del Rey, Calif., and Ryan J. Hoover, Monroeville, Pa., for a "calibration detection system and method." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An improved calibration detection system for use in calibrating an electronic apparatus includes a processor apparatus, an evaluation apparatus, and a connection apparatus. The connection apparatus includes a plurality of leads and is operated by the processor apparatus to internally switch and connect the various leads with various elements of the evaluation apparatus. By enabling all of the leads to be connected at the outset with the electronic apparatus and by internally switching the connections between the leads and the various elements of the evaluation apparatus, the calibration detection system saves time and avoids error in performing a testing protocol." The patent application was filed on Oct. 8, 2010 (12/900,555). 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=8,437,974&OS=8,437,974&RS=8,437,974 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Apple Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Apple, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,437,970) developed by Robert Mayor, Half Moon Bay, Calif., Ronald Keryuan Huang, Milpitas, Calif., and Patrick Piemonte, San Francisco, for a "restoring and storing magnetometer calibration data." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Responsive to a recalibration trigger event, magnetometer data output by a magnetometer can be compared to historical magnetometer data previously output by the magnetometer. If a match is determined, a confidence of the match can be determined using theoretically constant data related to Earth's magnetic field. The constant data can be calculated from the historical magnetometer data. If the confidence of the match exceeds a confidence threshold level, historical calibration data can be used to calibrate the magnetometer. If the confidence of the match does not exceed the confidence threshold level, a calibration procedure can be performed to generate new calibration data, and the new calibration data can be used to calibrate the magnetometer." The patent application was filed on June 5, 2009 (12/479,483). 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=8,437,970&OS=8,437,970&RS=8,437,970 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Vizio Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Vizio, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,438,318) developed by Matthew Blake McRae, Laguna Beach, Calif., and John Schindler, Ladera Ranch, Calif., for a "system, method and apparatus for responding to device attachment." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A television with at least one connection, either wired or wireless. Detection of an active device connected to the connection results in proper software and hardware configuration of the television to properly communicate with the device and provide, for example, proper user interface support and access to the device." The patent application was filed on July 30, 2009 (12/512,300). 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=8,438,318&OS=8,438,318&RS=8,438,318 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Opnext Subsystems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Opnext Subsystems, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,437,632) developed by Edem Ibragimov, Santa Clara, Calif., and Theodore J. Schmidt, Gilroy, Calif., for a "polarization monitoring in polarization division multiplexing in optical communications." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and techniques for optical communications based on polarization division multiplexing are described." The patent application was filed on Oct. 3, 2011 (13/251,970). 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=8,437,632&OS=8,437,632&RS=8,437,632 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Raytheon Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Raytheon, Waltham, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,437,972) developed by Nicholas J. Ploplys, Redondo Beach, Calif., Brian A. Cronin, Hermosa Beach, Calif., and Samuel S. Blackman, Los Angeles, for a "sensor bias estimation for multiple hypothesis tracker." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for measuring sensor bias and a method for estimating sensor bias is provided. Road location data is obtained. Sensor observation data is obtained. A sensor observation is identified that corresponds to an on-road target moving on a known road. A measurement of one-dimensional sensor bias is formed. As one-dimensional sensor bias measurements accumulate, multi-dimensional sensor bias is estimated. Sensor bias estimates may then be incorporated into a multiple hypothesis tracker system." The patent application was filed on July 7, 2010 (12/831,978). 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=8,437,972&OS=8,437,972&RS=8,437,972 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,438,322) developed by Ahmadreza (Reza) Rofougaran, Newport Coast, Calif., and Timothy W. Markison, Lahaina, Hawaii, for "processing module with millimeter wave transceiver interconnection." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A processing module includes a fetch and decode module, an instruction register, a data register, an execution module, and a millimeter wave (MMW) transceiver section. The fetch and decode module is operable to fetch and decode an instruction of a program and to identify data associated with the instruction. The execution module is operable to execute the instruction upon the data associated with the instruction. The MMW transceiver section is operable to wirelessly receive at least one of the instruction and the data associated with the instruction from memory." The patent application was filed on Aug. 30, 2008 (12/202,256). 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=8,438,322&OS=8,438,322&RS=8,438,322 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** HRL Laboratories Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- HRL Laboratories, Malibu, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,437,558) developed by Swarup Medasani, Thousand Oaks, Calif., and Yuri Owechko, Newbury Park, Calif., for a "vision-based method for rapid directed area search." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Described is a system for rapid directed area search utilizing particle swarm optimization. The system first extracts salient regions from an input image. The system then detects regions of interest from the salient regions utilizing particle swarm optimization, wherein a swarm of software agents, or particles, cooperate to locate an objective function optima, or region of interest, in an image. A set of local feature descriptors are then extracted from the image, wherein a local feature descriptor corresponds to a neighborhood surrounding a point of interest in a region of interest in the image. Additionally, the set of local feature descriptors are clustered hierarchically into a database so that a closest match between a new input image and a stored image can be determined. Finally, the matching regions of the two images are registered to align matching regions to allow detection of changes between the images." The patent application was filed on Oct. 8, 2009 (12/587,642). 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=8,437,558&OS=8,437,558&RS=8,437,558 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Adobe Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Adobe Systems, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,438,007) developed by Masayuki Hokari, San Jose, Calif., Claudia Galvan, San Jose, Calif., and Herve Amblard, Santa Cruz, Calif., for a "software user interface human language translation." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems, methods and computer program products for use in creating a glossary database including user interface string sets extracted from at least one product and their corresponding set identifiers, wherein a set identifier contains context information about a previous use of a user interface string, and for generating a second human language user interface for a product having a first human language user interface, using the glossary database. Creating a glossary database includes extracting a plurality of user interface strings from at least one product, creating a set identifier for each user interface string, and grouping user interface strings having the same set identifier into string sets." The patent application was filed on March 30, 2001 (09/823,911). 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=8,438,007&OS=8,438,007&RS=8,438,007 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,437,719) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and system for multiple tuner application using a low noise broadband distribution amplifier." The co-inventors are Adel Fanous, Irvine, Calif., Leonard Dauphinee, Irvine, Calif., Lawrence M. Burns, Laguna Hills, Calif., and Donald McMullin, Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An active splitter circuit arrangement includes a first amplification module having a number of first input ports and first output ports. The first amplification module is configured to provide first stage amplification to a received input signal and produce from the amplified input signal a number of output signals, each substantially matching the input signal. Also included is a first gain control device configured to control a gain of the first amplification module. Next, a number of second amplification modules corresponding to the number of output signals has a number of second input ports respectively coupled to the first output ports. Each second amplification module is configured to receive a control signal from the second gain control device, provide second stage amplification to a corresponding one of the number of output signals based upon the control signal and produce an amplified output signal." The patent application was filed on Sept. 13, 2012 (13/614,811). 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=8,437,719&OS=8,437,719&RS=8,437,719 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Cates Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Thomas M. Cates, has been assigned a patent (8,438,037) developed by Thomas M. Cates, Acton, Mass., and Eli M. Blatt, San Francisco, for an "emotivity and vocality measurement." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "One embodiment of the present invention is directed to a computer-implemented system that analyzes free-form text comments provided by a user (such as a customer of a company) and draws conclusions about the tone of the user's feedback, such as whether the user's feedback is positive, negative, angry, critical, or congratulatory. Such conclusions may be reflected in a single numerical value referred to herein as "emotivity." A customer's emotivity score may be used for various purposes, such as determining whether the customer is likely to provide a positive testimonial for the company, or whether a follow-up phone call should be made to the customer to improve the company's relationship with the customer. Furthermore, a measurement of the customer's loyalty to the company may be modified based on the user's measured emotivity." The patent application was filed on April 12, 2010 (12/758,349). 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=8,438,037&OS=8,438,037&RS=8,438,037 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (8,438,071) developed by Edwin Hathaway, Santa Monica, Calif., Ronald J. Spellich, Rolling Meadows, Ill., and Mateo Neri, Malibou Lake, Calif., for "methods for selecting, ordering and purchasing glass products." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention relates to a system, apparatus and method for facilitating the selection, purchasing and ordering glass products. The apparatus includes a processor which is controlled by software to facilitate a selection process which integrates the comparison of glass products and their properties, as well as, including particular properties of particular components of a glass product. The apparatus can work with a user input device and is programmed to display graphics associated with selections and potential selections for glass products. The system and method providing selection menus for display on a display device and an animation graphic associated with a selection presented to the user. The system, apparatus, and method integrates the glass product selection information, and makes selections for the user, based on the user's previous choices and specified target performances to present to the user potential glass products." The patent application was filed on July 13, 2012 (13/548,399). 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=8,438,071&OS=8,438,071&RS=8,438,071 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Sonics Assigned Patent for Apparatus and Methods for on Layer Concurrency in an Integrated Circuit ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Sonics, Milpitas, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,438,306) developed by Benoit De Lescure, La Colle-sur-Loup, France, and Krishnan Srinivasan, San Jose, Calif., for an "apparatus and methods for on layer concurrency in an integrated circuit." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, apparatus, and system for providing layer concurrency connecting two or more master Intellectual Property cores to a Network on a Chip (NoC) for an integrated circuit is provided. An embodiment includes two masters connected using a common tightly coupled protocol to a first interface of an NoC. A protocol conversion unit can be coupled between the two or more masters and the NoC to convert a request in the tightly coupled protocol to a decoupled protocol that decouples request phasing from response phasing and then passes the request in the decoupled protocol format onto the NoC. The system also provides for arbitration amongst the two or more masters. Requests from the masters are still in the common tightly coupled protocol and are translated by the protocol conversion unit into a request in a decoupled protocol to enable out of order return of responses." The patent application was filed on Nov. 2, 2010 (12/938,120). 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=8,438,306&OS=8,438,306&RS=8,438,306 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent for Processing of Multi-carrier Signals Before Power Amplifier Amplification ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,437,697) developed by four co-inventors for "processing of multi-carrier signals before power amplifier amplification." The co-inventors are Sriraman Dakshinamurthy, San Jose, Calif., Robert G. Lorenz, Menlo Park, Calif., Ming Hu, Santa Clara, Calif., and Derek K. Shaeffer, Santa Clara, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments for methods and apparatuses for processing a multi-carrier signal are disclosed. One method includes shaping a frequency spectrum of a multi-carrier transmit signal wherein an amplitude of a plurality of subcarriers of the multi-carrier transmit signal is increased relative to at least one other subcarrier of the multi-carrier transmit signal. The shaped frequency spectrum multi-carrier transmit signal is amplified with a power amplifier, wherein a power level of an output of the power amplifier is greater than a rated power level of the power amplifier." The patent application was filed on Aug. 23, 2012 (13/592,813). 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=8,437,697&OS=8,437,697&RS=8,437,697 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** HRL Laboratories Assigned Patent for Shape-based Object Detection and Localization System ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- HRL Laboratories, Malibu, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,437,556) developed by Payam Saisan, San Diego, for a "shape-based object detection and localization system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Described is a system for identifying a concealed object of interest. The system is initialized by receiving an image in grayscale. The image is processed image to identify feature rich regions, which are identified as a binary mask describing edge pixels and non-edge pixels. A set of edge pixels are then randomly sampled. An object detector function is then used on the set of edge pixels to determine if an object of interest is present in the set of edge pixels." The patent application was filed on Oct. 21, 2009 (12/589,483). 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=8,437,556&OS=8,437,556&RS=8,437,556 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Fitbit Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Fitbit, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,437,980) developed by Shelten Gee Jao Yuen, Berkeley, Calif., James Park, Berkeley, Calif., and Eric Nathan Friedman, San Francisco, for "portable monitoring devices and methods of operating same." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present inventions, in one aspect, are directed to a portable activity monitoring device to calculate a number of stairs or flights of stairs traversed by a user, the monitoring device comprising (i) a housing having a physical size and shape that is adapted to couple to the body of the user, (ii) an altitude sensor, disposed in the housing, to detect a change in altitude of the user and, in response thereto, to generate data which is representative of the change in altitude of the user, and (iii) processing circuitry, disposed in the housing and coupled to the motion sensor and the altitude sensor, to calculate a number of stairs or flights of stairs traversed by the user using the data which is representative of a change in altitude of the user." The patent application was filed on Nov. 2, 2012 (13/667,229). 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=8,437,980&OS=8,437,980&RS=8,437,980 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Clean Power Research Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Clean Power Research, Napa, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,437,959) developed by Thomas E. Hoff, Napa, Calif., for a "computer-implemented system and method for generating a probabilistic forecast of photovoltaic fleet power generation." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer-implemented system and method for generating a probabilistic forecast of photovoltaic fleet power generation is provided. A temporal distance between two locations is determined in proportion to cloud speed within a geographic region. Input clearness indexes are generated as a ratio of irradiance observations for one location, and clear sky irradiance. The clearness indexes are ordered into a time series. A clearness index correlation coefficient is determined as a function of temporal distance. The input clearness indexes are weighted by the clearness index correlation coefficient to form a time series of output clearness indexes. Means and standard deviations of both time series are respectively determined and combined into fleet irradiance statistics. Deterministic fleet power statistics are forecast as a function of the fleet irradiance statistics and photovoltaic fleet power rating. A time series of the forecast power statistics is generated by applying a time lag correlation coefficient." The patent application was filed on May 2, 2012 (13/462,505). 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=8,437,959&OS=8,437,959&RS=8,437,959 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Juniper Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Juniper Networks, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,438,308) developed by Der-Hwa Gan, Fremont, Calif., for a "method and apparatus for computing a backup path using fate-sharing information." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "To address shortcomings in the prior art, the invention uses fate sharing information to compute backup paths. Fate sharing information relates groups of nodes or links according to common characteristics, attributes, or shared resources (e.g., a shared power supply, close proximity, same physical link). In one embodiment, fate-sharing information includes costs associated with groups of nodes or links. When a primary path contains a link or node that is in a fate-sharing group, the other links or nodes in the fate-sharing group are assigned the cost associated with that fate-sharing group. The node computing the backup path takes into account the assigned cost together with other node and link costs. Discovering the existence of the relationships and assigning costs to the groups may be done manually or automatically." The patent application was filed on Dec. 27, 2011 (13/337,773). 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=8,438,308&OS=8,438,308&RS=8,438,308 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Intuitive Surgical Operation Assigned Patent for Operator Input Device for a Robotic Surgical System ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Intuitive Surgical Operation, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,437,639) developed by four co-inventors for an "operator input device for a robotic surgical system." The co-inventors are Gerard J. Labonville, San Jose, Calif., Alan E. Loh, Los Altos, Calif., David W. Bailey, Redwood City, Calif., and Brett J. Lockyer, San Jose, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A device for receiving data from a rotatable source includes a primary winding of a rotary transformer fixed to a support structure and connected to an electric power source. A secondary winding is rotatably supported by the support structure. An axial passage extends through the primary and secondary windings. An optical data transmitter is connected to the secondary winding. The optical data transmitter is rotatably supported by the support structure and aligned to transmit data through the axial passage in the rotary transformer. The secondary transformer winding provides power to the optical data transmitter without physical contact. An optical data receiver fixed to the support structure receives data from the optical data transmitter transmitted through the axial passage in the rotary transformer without physical contact. The transmission of power and data without physical contact allows the data source to rotate continuously." The patent application was filed on Nov. 9, 2011 (13/292,734). 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=8,437,639&OS=8,437,639&RS=8,437,639 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent for Method and System for Transmission or Reception of FM Signals Utilizing a DDFS Clocked by an RFID PLL ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,437,706) developed by Ahmadreza Rofougaran, Newport Coast, Calif., and Maryam Rofougaran, Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., for a "method and system for transmission or reception of FM signals utilizing a DDFS clocked by an RFID PLL." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Aspects of a method and system for transmission or reception of signals utilizing a DDFS clocked are provided. A first oscillator signal utilized for transmission and/or reception of signals of a first wireless communication protocol may be generated, and a direct digital frequency synthesizer (DDFS) may be clocked by the first oscillator signal to generate one or more second oscillator signals. The one or more second oscillator signals may be modulated to generate a signal adhering to a second wireless communication protocol. The one or more second oscillator signals may be utilized to demodulate signals of the second wireless communication protocol. A control word input to the DDFS may control a frequency of the one or more second oscillator signals generated by the DDFS. Simultaneous transmission and reception of signals of the second wireless communication protocol may be simulated by switching the control word input to the DDFS between two values." The patent application was filed on April 5, 2011 (13/080,036). 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=8,437,706&OS=8,437,706&RS=8,437,706 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Bay Microsystems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Bay Microsystems, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,437,641) developed by Barry Tsai Lung Lee, Union City, Calif., Chu-Jyh Chang, San Jose, Calif., and Goichoro Ono, San Jose, Calif., for a "clock regeneration for optical communications." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for regenerating a client clock signal for use in optical communications is disclosed. The system and method involves using a carrier clock signal and a client clock signal to calculate quantities of data that are received and transmitted at an edge node and then adjusting a clock source in response to the difference between the calculated quantities of received and transmitted data." The patent application was filed on Oct. 21, 2009 (12/603,501). 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=8,437,641&OS=8,437,641&RS=8,437,641 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Moov Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Moov, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,438,312) developed by Ajay Kapur, San Francisco, Andrew Henry Farmer, San Francisco, and Ishan Anand, San Francisco, for a "dynamically rehosting web content." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Dynamically rehosting at least one or more elements of a first resource originally hosted at an origin server. A dynamic web content transformation server receives a first HTTP request from an Internet client for the first resource that includes a value in a host header field that refers to the dynamic web content transformation server. The content transformation server transforms the first HTTP request including changing the value in the host header field to refer to the origin server, and transmits the transformed HTTP request to the origin server. The content transformation server receives an HTTP response from the origin server that includes the first resource that includes a client-side script that, when executed by the Internet client, makes a second HTTP request for a second resource hosted at the origin server. The content transformation server automatically transforms the HTTP response such that the client-side script, when executed by the Internet client, makes the second HTTP request for the second resource at the dynamic web content transformation server, and the content transformation server transmits the transformed HTTP response to the Internet client." The patent application was filed on Oct. 25, 2010 (12/911,687). 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=8,438,312&OS=8,438,312&RS=8,438,312 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** SRI International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- SRI International, Menlo Park, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,438,054) developed by John D. Lowrance, Foster City, Calif., Ian W. Harrison, Brooklyn, N.Y., and Andres C. Rodriguez, Palo Alto, Calif., for "apparatus and methods for generating and accessing arguments." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, an analytical system for generating and accessing arguments is disclosed. Each argument is associated with a conclusion indicating whether a particular situation will likely have a negative or positive result. One embodiment of the analytical system includes a database for storing a plurality of templates, each template including a plurality of questions which may be answered to generate a particular argument having an associated conclusion that is based on those answers. The analytical system also includes an argument server that includes means for a user to select a template that is most relevant to a particular situation, means for receiving answers to one or more of the selected template's questions such that a new argument is generated having a conclusion based on those answers, and means for associating supporting evidence provided by the user with each answer." The patent application was filed on April 20, 2001 (09/839,697). 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=8,438,054&OS=8,438,054&RS=8,438,054 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Google Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,438,328) developed by Michael J.S. Smith, Palo Alto, Calif., Suresh Natarajan Rajan, San Jose, Calif., and David T. Wang, San Jose, Calif., for an "emulation of abstracted DIMMs using abstracted DRAMs." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "One embodiment of the present invention sets forth an abstracted memory subsystem comprising abstracted memories, which each may be configured to present memory-related characteristics onto a memory system interface. The characteristics can be presented on the memory system interface via logic signals or protocol exchanges, and the characteristics may include any one or more of, an address space, a protocol, a memory type, a power management rule, a number of pipeline stages, a number of banks, a mapping to physical banks, a number of ranks, a timing characteristic, an address decoding option, a bus turnaround time parameter, an additional signal assertion, a sub-rank, a number of planes, or other memory-related characteristics. Some embodiments include an intelligent register device and/or, an intelligent buffer device. One advantage of the disclosed subsystem is that memory performance may be optimized regardless of the specific protocols used by the underlying memory hardware devices." The patent application was filed on Feb. 14, 2009 (12/378,328). 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=8,438,328&OS=8,438,328&RS=8,438,328 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** xG Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- xG Technology, Sarasota, Fla., has been assigned a patent (8,438,309) developed by four co-inventors for a "method to support rapid inter base station handoffs in IP based wireless networks." The co-inventors are Hai Vu, Fremont, Calif., Shih-Chun Chang, Santa Clara, Calif., Sreekant Nair, Sunrise, Fla., and Shashidhar R. Gandham, Fremont, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method that allows for rapid inter base station handoffs in IP based wireless networks is disclosed. More specifically a technique to address the problem of accurate location management during rapid handoff across multiple base stations is described in this invention disclosure. The idea proposed uses a combination of Timestamp and Sequence number along with a message exchange protocol over the network to maintain the registration with only a single base station at any point of time." The patent application was filed on Oct. 12, 2011 (13/271,345). 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=8,438,309&OS=8,438,309&RS=8,438,309 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va., has been assigned a patent (8,437,969) developed by Guorui Zhang, San Jose, Calif., Yilu Liu, Knoxville, Tenn., and Yingchen Zhang, Blacksburg, Va., for an "accurate magnetic field sensor and method for wireless phasor measurement unit." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A phasor measurement unit and method including a transducer for transduction measurement of an electrical characteristic of a current carrying element in electrical power generation or distribution systems, the transducer generating a transducer output signal representative of the electrical characteristic; an amplifier receiving the transducer output signal and generating an amplifier output signal; a filter receiving the amplifier output signal, low pass filtering the amplifier output signal, and generating a filter output signal; an analog to digital converter receiving the filter output signal and generating a digital output signal; and a processor receiving the digital output signal, calculating phasor data from the digital output signal and generating a data output signal, wherein the calculated phasor data is at least as accurate as phasor data from a phasor measurement unit or a frequency data recorder having a transducer for nontransduction measurement of the same electrical characteristic." The patent application was filed on March 15, 2010 (12/723,763). 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=8,437,969&OS=8,437,969&RS=8,437,969 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent for Method and System for Supporting Hardware Acceleration for iSCSI Read and Write Operations and iSCSI Chimney ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,438,321) developed by Uri Elzur, Irvine, Calif., Kan Frankie Fan, Diamond Bar, Calif., and Scott Sterling McDaniel, Villa Park, Calif., for a "method and system for supporting hardware acceleration for iSCSI read and write operations and iSCSI chimney." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Certain aspects of a method and system for supporting hardware acceleration for iSCSI read and write operations via a TCP offload engine may comprise pre-registering at least one buffer with hardware. An iSCSI command may be received from an initiator. An initiator test tag value, a data sequence value and/or a buffer offset value of an iSCSI buffer may be compared with the pre-registered buffer. Data may be fetched from the pre-registered buffer based on comparing the initiator test tag value, the data sequence value and/or the buffer offset value of the iSCSI buffer with the pre-registered buffer. The fetched data may be zero copied from the pre-registered buffer to the initiator." The patent application was filed on April 5, 2011 (13/080,285). 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=8,438,321&OS=8,438,321&RS=8,438,321 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** S-Matrix Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- S-Matrix, Eureka, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,437,987) developed by Richard P. Verseput, McKinleyville, Calif., and George A. Cooney Jr., Eureka, Calif., for a "method and system that optimizes mean process performance and process robustness." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system and computer readable medium are disclosed. The method, system and computer readable medium comprises providing a mathematically linked multi-step process for simultaneously determining operating conditions of a system or process that will result in optimum performance in both mean performance requirements and system robustness requirements. In a method and system in accordance with the present embodiment, the steps can be applied to any data array that contains the two coordinated data elements defined previously (independent variables and response variables), and for which a response prediction model can be derived that relates the two elements. The steps are applied to each row of the data array, and result in a predicted C.sub.p response data set. In the preferred embodiment the array is a statistically rigorous designed experiment from which mean performance prediction models can be derived for each response evaluated. The data are applied to each row of the data array." The patent application was filed on May 8, 2009 (12/463,297). 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=8,437,987&OS=8,437,987&RS=8,437,987 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Sonics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Sonics, Milpitas, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,438,320) developed by Krishnan Srinivasan, Cupertino, Calif., Drew E. Wingard, Palo Alto, Calif., and Chien-Chun Chou, Saratoga, Calif., for a "various methods and apparatus for address tiling and channel interleaving throughout the integrated system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various methods and apparatus are described for a target with multiple channels. Address decoding logic is configured to implement a distribution of requests from individual burst requests to two or more memory channels making up an aggregate target. The address decoding logic implements a channel-selection hash function to allow requests from each individual burst request to be distributed amongst the two or more channels in a non-linear sequential pattern in channel round order that make up the aggregate target." The patent application was filed on Oct. 5, 2009 (12/573,669). 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=8,438,320&OS=8,438,320&RS=8,438,320 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Endeavors Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 9 -- Endeavors Technologies, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,438,298) developed by five co-inventors for an "intelligent network streaming and execution system for conventionally coded applications." The co-inventors are Daniel T. Arai, Sunnyvale, Calif., Sameer Panwar, San Jose, Calif., Manuel E. Benitez, Cupertino, Calif., Anne M. Holler, Los Altos, Calif., and Lacky Shah, San Jose, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An intelligent network streaming and execution system for conventionally coded applications provides a system that partitions an application program into page segments by observing the manner in which the application program is conventionally installed. A minimal portion of the application program is installed on a client system and the user launches the application in the same ways that applications on other client file systems are started. An application program server streams the page segments to the client as the application program executes on the client and the client stores the page segments in a cache. Page segments are requested by the client from the application server whenever a page fault occurs from the cache for the application program. The client prefetches page segments from the application server or the application server pushes additional page segments to the client based on the pattern of page segment requests for that particular application. The user subscribes and unsubscribes to application programs, whenever the user accesses an application program a securely encrypted access token is obtained from a license server if the user has a valid subscription to the application program. The application server begins streaming the requested page segments to the client when it receives a valid access token from the client. The client performs server load balancing across a plurality of application servers. 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