[May 15, 2013] U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Texas (May 15) Tweet (Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Texas. *** EMC Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,442,957) developed by Mark Saake, Dublin, Calif., Richard Ruef, Livermore, Calif., and Kurt Everson, Missouri City, Texas, for an "efficient management of large files." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An object management system comprises a computer system configured to store an object (72), which may be a file. The computer system is configured to divide the object (72) into partitions (70), select partitions, and provide the selected partitions to a storage device (14) for storage. The partitions are selected by determining which partitions need to be migrated device, based on whether the partitions have been modified. The system determines this by examining a data object associated with the object. The computer system may be configured to retrieve a selected partition from the storage device." The patent application was filed on Sept. 20, 2002 (10/468,181). 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=8,442,957&OS=8,442,957&RS=8,442,957 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Activision Publishing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Activision Publishing, Santa Monica, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,442,946) developed by six co-inventors for "controlling and using virtual universe wish lists." The co-inventors are Rick A. Hamilton II, Charlottesville, Va., James R. Kozloski, New Fairfield, Conn., Brian M. O'Connell, Cary, N.C., Clifford A. Pickover, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., James W. Seaman, Falls Church, Va., and Keith R. Walker, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Described herein are examples of a virtual universe wish list as well as its control and use. Some embodiments are directed to determining a selection of an object in a virtual universe that is a desired by a user, which user is represented by a first avatar. Some embodiments are further directed to designating the object as a desired item in a wish list for the first avatar. The wish list may be stored in the avatar's virtual universe inventory. Some embodiments are further directed to determining a second avatar in the virtual universe that possesses an instance of the virtual object. Some embodiments are further directed to generating an advertisement to obtain the instance of the virtual object from the second avatar on behalf of the first avatar." The patent application was filed on March 29, 2012 (13/433,593). 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=8,442,946&OS=8,442,946&RS=8,442,946 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,442,979) developed by Leugim A. Bustelo, Austin, Texas, Andrew D. Hately, Austin, Texas, and Julio E. Ruano, Austin, Texas, for a "system for creating markup language documents at a receiving display station from multiple sources with markup for displaying the state of sets of content reviews." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Creating, i.e. rendering, markup language documents having multiple content portions, respectively, from multiple sources. A set of displayable non-alphanumeric visual indicators, e.g. colors, is associated with each content portion, each indicator respectively representing the status of one of said set of content reviews. Then an implementation is provided enabling a user at the receiving display station to sequentially and collectively proceed through said sets of content reviews to which the content portions in the multiple content displayed may have been subjected, and displaying at each content review step only the indicators representing the status of said content review for all of the content portions subjected to said content review step." The patent application was filed on Sept. 1, 2005 (11/218,264). 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=8,442,979&OS=8,442,979&RS=8,442,979 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Verizon Patent and Licensing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Verizon Patent and Licensing, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,442,959) developed by Sachith Sebastian, Carrollton, Texas, for "methods and systems for automated processing of fallout orders." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method may include receiving an order and an error identifier, indexing a database based on the error identifier to identify a rule identifier, and indexing the database based on the rule identifier to identify a rule. The system and method may further include applying the rule to modify the order to generate a modified order, and submitting the modified order for processing." The patent application was filed on Dec. 19, 2007 (11/959,651). 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=8,442,959&OS=8,442,959&RS=8,442,959 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,442,873) developed by five co-inventors for an "order processing system, method and program product." The co-inventors are Douglas N. Breaux, Webster, Texas, Michael F. Cipriani, Webster, Texas, Richard C. Jaworski, Houston, Steven L. Martin, Houston, and Michael L. Williams, Seabrook, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An order processing system, method, and program product that generates an order receipt based on an order request. The system, method, and program product include a plurality of request handlers for processing different types of order requests. One of the plurality of request handlers is selected to process the order request based on the type of order request. Once processing is complete, an order receipt is generated." The patent application was filed on Oct. 31, 2002 (10/286,291). 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=84,42,873.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,873&RS=PN/84,42,873 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Hyperion Biotechnology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Hyperion Biotechnology, San Antonio, has been assigned a patent (8,442,808) developed by John E. Kalns, San Antonio, and Darren J. Michael, San Antonio, for a "method of guiding a physical training program using biomarkers of fatigue." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention provides methods and compositions for identifying a subject in a fatigued state, a subject recovering from a fatigued state and/or a subject having an increased likelihood of performing a physical activity at a sufficient level by detecting and/or quantitating, in a sample from the subject, one or more biomarkers associated with fatigue and/or physical performance capability." The patent application was filed on Sept. 10, 2010 (12/879,551). 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=84,42,808.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,808&RS=PN/84,42,808 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Advanced Micro Devices Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,442,786) developed by four co-inventors for "flexible power reporting in a computing system." The co-inventors are Samuel D. Naffziger, Fort Collins, Colo., John P. Petry, San Diego, Kiran K. Bondalapati, Los Altos, Calif., and Mom-Eng Ng, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for efficient reporting of power usage. A power reporting unit within a processor receives a power consumption number once every sample interval from a power monitor. The power monitor determines a power consumption number based on sampled signals within one or more functional blocks in the processor, rather than based on temperature. An average power consumption number is computed based on received power consumption numbers for a running time interval, wherein the running time interval is larger than the sample interval. This value is conveyed to an external agent. Responsive to receiving and processing the average power consumption number, the external agent may cause changes in a cooling system." The patent application was filed on June 2, 2010 (12/792,308). 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=84,42,786.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,786&RS=PN/84,42,786 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,442,835) developed by Lusheng Ji, Randolph, N.J., Hisao Chang, Cedar Park, Texas, and Robert R. Miller II, Convent Station, N.J., for "methods, systems, and products for measuring health." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, systems, and products measure health data related to a user. A spoken phrase is received and time-stamped. The user is identified from the spoken phrase. A window of time is determined from a semantic content of the spoken phrase. A sensor measurement is received and time-stamped. A difference in time between the time-stamped spoken phrase and the time-stamped sensor measurement is determined and compared to the window of time. When the difference in time is within the window of time, then the sensor measurement is associated with the user." The patent application was filed on June 17, 2010 (12/817,255). 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=84,42,835.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,835&RS=PN/84,42,835 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Ambit Holdings Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Ambit Holdings, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (8,442,917) developed by John Burke, Dallas, for an "energy distribution and marketing backoffice system and method." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A retail energy provider system comprising a market transaction manager, business rules and requirements processor, usage rater, customer analysis and quality control auditor, customer billing processor and collection manager, customer payment processor, third party sales and marketing application programming interface, customer acquisition and residual income interface, having a wholesale forecaster, interactive voice response system, intranet web services, internet web services and network based external customer service and executive management systems and financial services functions, all said functions and systems interacting with a robust SQL database engine for which the novel database schema is taught herein." The patent application was filed on Sept. 4, 2007 (11/899,197). 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=84,42,917.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,917&RS=PN/84,42,917 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** United States Automobile Association Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- United States Automobile Association, San Antonio, has been assigned a patent (8,442,911) developed by Andrew J. Higgins, San Antonio, for "systems and methods for a prepaid interest credit card account." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for charging fees to a card holder of a credit card account may comprise at least one subsystem that calculates a prepaid interest amount and at least one subsystem that charges the prepaid interest amount to the credit card account in lieu of charging interest on the actual balance of the account." The patent application was filed on April 10, 2012 (13/443,165). 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=84,42,911.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,911&RS=PN/84,42,911 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Transitional Replacement of Operations Performed by a Central Hub ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,443,228) developed by four co-inventors for a "transitional replacement of operations performed by a central hub." The co-inventors are Douglas Lee Lehr, Austin, Texas, Franklin Emmert McCune, Tucson, Ariz., David Charles Reed, Tucson, Ariz., and Max Douglas Smith, Tucson, Ariz. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A central hub is coupled to a plurality of computational devices. The central hub stores a data structure that grants locks for accessing common data stored at the central hub, wherein the common data is shared by the plurality of computational devices. Each computational device maintains locally those locks that are held by the computational device in the data structure stored at the central hub. In response to a failure of the data structure stored at the central hub, a selected computational device of the plurality of computational devices is determined to be a manager system. Other computational devices besides the manager system communicate to the manager system all locks held by the other computational devices in the data structure stored at the central hub. The data structure and the common data are generated and stored at the manager system. Transactions are performed with respect to the data structure stored at the manager system, until the data structure stored at the central hub is operational." The patent application was filed on June 29, 2011 (June 29, 2011). 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=8,443,228.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,228&RS=PN/8,443,228 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent for Asymmetric Data Mirroring ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,443,229) developed by James A. Gardner, Holmdel, N.J., and Darrell G. Freeman, Breckenridge, Texas, for an asymmetric data mirroring. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An asymmetric data mirroring method with a local storage device and a remote storage device being separated by large distances is disclosed. A server determines a predetermined time period associated with a round trip latency between the server and a remote storage device. The server submits a request to a local storage device, a remote storage device and a memory device disposed between the server and the remote storage device. The server submits additional requests to the local and remote storage devices during the predetermined time period. The server stores a copy of each request submitted by the server to the remote storage device in a memory disposed between the server and the remote storage device while the server waits for whether an acknowledgement associated with the request has been received from the remote storage device during the predetermined time period. The server resubmits the request and the additional requests to the remote storage device if the acknowledgement is not received. If an acknowledgement is received, the server continues submission of additional new requests to the local and remote storage devices." The patent application was filed on March 31, 2011 (13/077,370). 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=8,443,229.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,229&RS=PN/8,443,229 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Aashirvad Holdings Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Aashirvad Holdings, Arlington, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,442,881) developed by Samir Kiritkumar Patel, Arlington, Texas, for "systems and methods of processing and classifying a financial transaction." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present disclosure generally provides systems and methods of classifying financial transactions. In one embodiment, the present disclosure may generally include a system of classifying financial transactions. The system may include a processor coupled to a database. The processor may be programmed to receive transaction information and a source document associated with a financial transaction. The transaction information and source data associated with the source document may be stored in the database. The stored transaction information and the source data may be retrieved from the database and may form a basis for a determination of a code associated with the financial transaction." The patent application was filed on Aug. 20, 2010 (12/860,794). 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=84,42,881.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,881&RS=PN/84,42,881 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Dell Products Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Dell Products, Round Rock, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,443,184) developed by Aaron Merkin, Round Rock, Texas, and Fahd Pirzada, Austin, Texas, for a "system and method for personalizing devices." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for personalizing a device is disclosed herein. A user configures a plurality of settings associated with a device. Each setting is identified as a user setting or a platform setting. The user settings are stored in a personalization virtual object with the user. Platform settings are stored separately from the personalization virtual object. Software for personalizing a device provided on a computer readable medium is disclosed herein. The software comprises a code for execution on a central processing unit operable to configure a plurality of settings associated with a device by a user. The software identifies each setting as a user setting or a platform setting. The user settings are stored in a personalization virtual object associated with the user, and the platform settings are stored separately from the personalization virtual object." The patent application was filed on Jan. 14, 2010 (12/687,537). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,443,184.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,184&RS=PN/8,443,184 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Convey Computer Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Convey Computer, Richardson, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,443,147) developed by Tony M. Brewer, Plano, Texas, Terrell Magee, Carrollton, Texas, and J. Michael Andrewartha, Plano, Texas, for a "memory interleave for heterogeneous computing." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A memory interleave system for providing memory interleave for a heterogeneous computing system is provided. The memory interleave system effectively interleaves memory that is accessed by heterogeneous compute elements in different ways, such as via cache-block accesses by certain compute elements and via non-cache-block accesses by certain other compute elements. The heterogeneous computing system may comprise one or more cache-block oriented compute elements and one or more non-cache-block oriented compute elements that share access to a common main memory. The cache-block oriented compute elements access the memory via cache-block accesses (e.g., 64 bytes, per access), while the non-cache-block oriented compute elements access memory via sub-cache-block accesses (e.g., 8 bytes, per access). A memory interleave system is provided to optimize the interleaving across the system's memory banks to minimize hot spots resulting from the cache-block oriented and non-cache-block oriented accesses of the heterogeneous computing system." The patent application was filed on Dec. 5, 2011 (13/311,378). 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=8,443,147.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,147&RS=PN/8,443,147 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Protecting Data Using Variable Size Page Stripes in a FLASH-based Storage System ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,443,136) developed by Holloway H. Frost, Houston, James A. Fuxa, Houston, and Charles J. Camp, Sugar Land, Texas, for a "method and apparatus for protecting data using variable size page stripes in a FLASH-based storage system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatuses for enhanced protection of data stored in a FLASH memory system involve a controller capable of using variable size page stripes in the memory system. The controller is configured to store data such that each page stripe comprises a plurality of data pages, with each data page in the page stripe being stored in a different FLASH memory chip. The controller is also configured to maintain one or more buffers containing information reflecting blocks of memory within the FLASH memory chips that have been erased and are available for information storage, and to dynamically determine the number of data pages to be included in a page stripe based on the information in the one or more buffers such that a first page stripe and a second page stripe can have different numbers of data pages." The patent application was filed on Dec. 17, 2010 (12/971,286). 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=8,443,136.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,136&RS=PN/8,443,136 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Processor Boot Security Device and Methods ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,443,181) developed by Harlan T. Beverly, McDade, Texas, for a "processor boot security device and methods thereof." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Securing network authentication information at a data processing device includes determining a boot source from which to boot the device and comparing the boot source to an expected source. If the boot source is not the expected source, access to the network authentication information is inhibited, such as by disabling access to the portion of memory that stores the network authentication information. Further, if the boot source is the expected source, boot code authentication information is retrieved from memory and verified during the boot sequence. If the boot code authentication information is not authenticated, access to the network authentication information is inhibited. Accordingly, access to the network authentication information is allowed only if the data processing device is booted from an expected source, and only if the boot code is authenticated, thereby reducing the likelihood of unauthorized access to the network authentication information." The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2009 (12/570,338). 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=8,443,181.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,181&RS=PN/8,443,181 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Techniques for Cache Injection in a Processor System Responsive to a Specific Instruction Sequence ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,443,146) developed by Lakshminarayana Baba Arimilli, Austin, Texas, Ravi K. Arimilli, Austin, Texas, and Balaram Sinharoy, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., for "techniques for cache injection in a processor system responsive to a specific instruction sequence." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A technique for performing cache injection includes monitoring an instruction stream for a specific instruction sequence. Addresses on a bus are then monitored, at a cache, in response to detecting the specific instruction sequence a determined number of times. Ownership of input/output data on the bus is then acquired by the cache when an address on the bus (that is associated with the input/output data) corresponds to an address of a data block stored in the cache." The patent application was filed on Sept. 18, 2008 (12/212,961). 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=8,443,146.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,146&RS=PN/8,443,146 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Texas Instruments Assigned Patent for Exhaustive Parameter Search Algorithm for Interface with Nand Flash Memory ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Texas Instruments, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (8,443,135) developed by Gaurav Agarwal, Houston, and Daniel J. Allred, Missouri City, Texas, for an "exhaustive parameter search algorithm for interface with nand flash memory." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The Exhaustive Parameter Search (EPS) algorithm of this invention enables communicating devices to access to a large variety of NAND Flash memories. The EPS algorithm exploits the fact that the parameters needed for successful initial communication with NAND Flash memory (block Size and page Size) have only few possible values. The EPS algorithm tries all possible values to find a magic number stored in the NAND Flash memory. The correct parameters for the particular NAND Flash memory are read after detection of the magic number. This ensures that accurate parameters are used after successful detection of the magic number detection. The OEM must write the known parameters of the NAND Flash memory in a predetermined location following the magic number." The patent application was filed on Oct. 27, 2010 (12/913,040). 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=8,443,135.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,135&RS=PN/8,443,135 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Xilinx Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Implementing a Data Bus Interface ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Xilinx, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,443,129) developed by James J. Murray, Los Gatos, Calif., and Ting Lu, Austin, Texas, for a "method and apparatus for implementing a data bus interface." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A data bus interface channel controller circuit for an N-bit data bus is described. A FIFO command queue is coupled to receive and buffer one or more commands formatted for M-bit transactions. A FIFO data queue is coupled to receive and buffer N-bit formatted data packets. A first translation circuit is coupled to the FIFO command queue and configured to translate the each commands into a selected one of a plurality of transaction formats. A transmission control circuit is coupled and configured to receive and transmit commands removed from the FIFO command queue. The transmission control circuit is configured to track a number of outstanding transmitted commands and, in response to receiving a command having a transaction format different from the previously received command, delay transmission of commands on the N-bit data bus until the number of outstanding transmitted commands equals zero." The patent application was filed on July 21, 2010 (12/841,013). 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=8,443,129.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,129&RS=PN/8,443,129 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Dell Products Assigned Patent for System and Method for Mapping a Logical Drive Status to a Physical Drive Status for Multiple Storage Drives having Different Storage Technologies within a Server ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Dell Products, Round Rock, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,443,114) developed by Timothy M. Lambert, Austin, Texas, and Indrani Paul, Round Rock, Texas, for a "system and method for mapping a logical drive status to a physical drive status for multiple storage drives having different storage technologies within a server." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An information handling system includes a backplane, a storage drive, and a board management controller. The board management controller is configured to discover a physical drive status of the drive from a storage enclosure processor, to receive a logical drive status of the drive, to read a backplane bay identification for the drive from a peripheral connector interface express extender or serial attached small computer system interface chipset logical drive number, and to construct a routing table for the drive to map the logical drive status with the physical drive status of the drive." The patent application was filed on Dec. 9, 2010 (12/964,465). 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=8,443,114.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,114&RS=PN/8,443,114 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Power Management Module Enforcing Computer Power Capping By Reading Power Cap Information from Nameplate having Both Machine Readable Module and Human Readable Designation for Providing Such Information ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,443,210) developed by five co-inventors for a "power management module enforcing computer power capping by reading power cap information from nameplate having both machine readable module and human readable designation for providing such information." The co-inventors are Justin P. Bandholz, Cary, N.C., Thomas M. Brey, Cary, N.C., Nickolas J. Gruendler, Pflugerville, Texas, William G. Pagan, Durham, N.C., and William J. Piazza, Holly Springs, N.C. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A nameplate for power capping a computer including a mounting surface; a module integrated in the mounting surface for providing a machine-readable designation of a power cap for a particular computer; a human readable designation of a power cap for the particular computer integrated in the mounting surface; and a mount for attaching the mounting surface to a chassis of the particular computer such that the human readable designation of a power cap is exposed." The patent application was filed on Sept. 17, 2009 (12/561,591). 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=8,443,210.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,210&RS=PN/8,443,210 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Trust Event Notification and Actions Based on Thresholds and Associated Trust Metadata Scores ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,443,189) developed by five co-inventors for a "trust event notification and actions based on thresholds and associated trust metadata scores." The co-inventors are Chung-Sheng Li, Edgemont, N.Y., Ivan Matthew Milman, Austin, Texas, Guenter Anton Sauter, Ridgefield, Conn., Harald Clyde Smith, Groveland, Mass., and Charles Daniel Wolfson, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An approach is provided for selecting one or more trust factors from trust factors included in a trust index repository. Thresholds are identified corresponding to one or more of the selected trust factors. Actions are identified to perform when the selected trust factors reach the corresponding threshold values. The identified thresholds, identified actions, and selected trust factors are stored in a data store. The selected trust factors are monitored by comparing one or more trust metadata scores with the stored identified thresholds. The stored identified actions that correspond to the selected trust factors are performed when one or more of the trust metadata scores reach the identified thresholds. At least one of the actions includes an event notification that is provided to a trust data consumer." The patent application was filed on Oct. 24, 2008 (12/257,878). 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=8,443,189.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,189&RS=PN/8,443,189 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent for Automated Battery Calibration ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,443,212) developed by John A. Landry, Spring, Texas, and Robert D. Matthews, Sugarland, Texas, for an automated battery calibration. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computing device executes a boot process. During boot process execution, the computing device initiates automatic calibration of a battery connected to the computing device." The patent application was filed on Dec. 18, 2009 (12/641,654). 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=8,443,212.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,212&RS=PN/8,443,212 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Texas Instruments Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Texas Instruments, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (8,443,413) developed by Todd C. Hiers, Houston, for a "low-latency multichannel video port aggregator." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A video port aggregator receives plural asynchronous video data streams. Corresponding input buffers generate video data and a status signal. A memory controller writes the video data in corresponding locations within an external memory. A channel triggers the memory controller to read data out of the external memory for transmission to a single video output port when said corresponding status signal indicates receipt of a predetermined portion of data. This read out of the external memory being faster than the writing. The channel sequencer triggers the memory controller to read data out of the external memory video data of a highest priority asynchronous video data stream having a received next portion of data." The patent application was filed on Dec. 15, 2008 (12/334,807). 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=8,443,413&OS=8,443,413&RS=8,443,413 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Circuit Design Optimization ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,443,313) developed by four co-inventors for a circuit design optimization. The co-inventors are Samuel I. Ward, Austin, Texas, Kevin F. Reick, Round Rock, Texas, Bryan J. Robbins, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Thomas E. Rosser, Austin, Texas, and Robert J. Shadowen, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method comprises generating a first behavioral model of a circuit describing a physical circuit in a first configuration. The first configuration comprises a first master latch, a first fanout path, and a logic cone. The first master latch couples to the first fanout path and is configured to receive a first data input signal. The first fanout path comprises a plurality of output sinks, each coupled to the logic cone. The first behavioral model is modified to generate a second behavioral model describing the physical circuit in a second configuration. The second configuration comprises an error circuit and an abstract latch clone based on the first master latch. A configuration file is generated based on the second behavioral model. The configuration file comprises information representing a plurality of instantiated latch clones based on the abstract latch clone, each configured to couple to the first data input signal and to one or more output sinks of the plurality of output sinks. The second behavioral model and the configuration file are together configured for input to a synthesis tool." The patent application was filed on Aug. 18, 2010 (12/858,522). 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=8,443,313&OS=8,443,313&RS=8,443,313 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Covidien Assigned Patent for Visual Indication of Alarms on a Ventilator Graphical User Interface ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Covidien, Mansfield, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,443,294) developed by John Skidmore, San Diego, Mark Brecht, Imperial Beach, Calif., and Jim Fissel, Dallas, for "visual indication of alarms on a ventilator graphical user interface." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "This disclosure describes systems and methods for displaying alarms to a clinician in a ventilatory system. Specifically, embodiments described herein seek to optimize the informative presentation of alarms on a ventilator interface. Embodiments of the present disclosure may provide one or more selection elements, each selection element indicating a ranked alarm event. The ranking of an alarm event may be determined by alarm level. If two alarm events are associated with the same alarm level, the ranking of the alarm events may be determined by parameter priority. Alarm event ranking is communicated by display in a hierarchical structure. When an alarm event ranking changes, the alarm event may shift up or down the hierarchical structure, depending on whether the ranking increased or decreased." The patent application was filed on Dec. 16, 2010 (12/970,696). 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=8,443,294&OS=8,443,294&RS=8,443,294 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Abstraction Level-preserving Conversion of Flip-flop-Inferred Hardware Description Language (HDL) to Instantiated HDL ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,443,314) developed by Ali S. El-Zein, Austin, Texas, Wolfgang Roesner, Austin, Texas, and Robert J. Shadowen, Austin, Texas, for an "abstraction level-preserving conversion of flip-flop-inferred hardware description language (HDL) to instantiated HDL." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A logic design and synthesis program, method and system provides intelligibility and independence of separate blocks in digital logic designs at the synthesis level. The sequential and combinational logic are separated and the sequential logic is then mapped to flip-flop library components. State-retaining elements, i.e., flip-flops detected in the input hardware description language (HDL) are represented in the sequential logic HDL output. The combinational logic HDL and the sequential logic HDL are connected only by signals, so signals are introduced to represent the flip-flop signals and variables detected in the input HDL. The sequential and combinational logic HDL are then synthesized to produce the design." The patent application was filed on Feb. 23, 2012 (13/403,388). 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=8,443,314&OS=8,443,314&RS=8,443,314 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,443,427) developed by Gerald Dolan, Melissa, Texas, John Couchot, McKinney, Texas, and Robert Astle, Sherman, Texas, for a "method and apparatus for controlling access to a network resource." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "According to one aspect, there is provided a method of controlling access to a network resource. The method comprises receiving a request to grant a user access to the network resource, the request including a user identifier, determining whether the received user identifier is stored in a local user data store associated with the resource, and where it is not so determined determining, from user details stored in a master user data store, whether the user is authorized to access the resource, and where it is so determined obtaining a password, and storing the obtained password and user details in the local data store associated with the network resource." The patent application was filed on Jan. 27, 2010 (12/694,570). 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=8,443,427&OS=8,443,427&RS=8,443,427 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Routing and Timing Using Layer Ranges ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,443,324) developed by four co-inventors for "routing and timing using layer ranges." The co-inventors are Charles Jay Alpert, Austin, Texas, Shiyan Hu, Houghton, Mich., Zhuo Li, Austin, Texas, and Chin Ngaiv, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system, and computer program product for improved routing using layer ranges in the design of an integrated circuit (IC) are provided in the illustrative embodiments. Using an application executing in a data processing system, a score is computed for a net in a set of nets routed using a set of layers in the design. The set of nets is sorted according to scores associated with nets in the set of nets. A layer range from a set of layer ranges is assigned to a net in the sorted list such that a net with a higher than threshold score is assigned a high layer range." The patent application was filed on March 14, 2011 (13/047,492). 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=8,443,324&OS=8,443,324&RS=8,443,324 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Intel Assigned Patent for Apparatus, Method, and System for Providing a Decision Mechanism for Conditional Commits in an Atomic Region ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,443,353) developed by six co-inventors for an "apparatus, method, and system for providing a decision mechanism for conditional commits in an atomic region." The co-inventors are Mauricio Breternitz Jr., Austin, Texas, Youfeng Wu, Palo Alto, Calif., Cheng Wang, San Ramon, Calif., Edson Borin, San Jose, Calif., Shiliang Hu, Los Altos, Calif., and Craig B. Zilles, Champaign, Ill. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus and method is described herein for conditionally committing and/or speculative checkpointing transactions, which potentially results in dynamic resizing of transactions. During dynamic optimization of binary code, transactions are inserted to provide memory ordering safeguards, which enables a dynamic optimizer to more aggressively optimize code. And the conditional commit enables efficient execution of the dynamic optimization code, while attempting to prevent transactions from running out of hardware resources. While the speculative checkpoints enable quick and efficient recovery upon abort of a transaction. Processor hardware is adapted to support dynamic resizing of the transactions, such as including decoders that recognize a conditional commit instruction, a speculative checkpoint instruction, or both. And processor hardware is further adapted to perform operations to support conditional commit or speculative checkpointing in response to decoding such instructions." The patent application was filed on Sept. 25, 2010 (12/890,639). 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=8,443,353&OS=8,443,353&RS=8,443,353 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Apple Assigned Patent for Method for Preparing Re-architected Designs for Sequential Equivalence Checking ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Apple, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,443,319) developed by Mark H. Nodine, Austin, Texas, for a "method for preparing re-architected designs for sequential equivalence checking." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "This disclosure describes a method illustrated in FIG. 7 to prepare re-architected digital logic designs for sequential equivalence checking. This method initially begins with a description of an electrical design module that includes a plurality of ports, and a description of an electrical reference model that comprises a hierarchy of one or more reference modules where each said reference module comprises a plurality of internal signals. In addition, this method includes a configuration file with additional initial information. The method then processes 100 a configuration file. Then, the method 105 computes one or more output files. Finally, the method 110 writes the output files." The patent application was filed on Oct. 28, 2009 (13/128,153). 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=8,443,319&OS=8,443,319&RS=8,443,319 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** IntelePeer Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- IntelePeer, San Mateo, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,443,104) developed by Jeffrey S. Wall, Dallas, for "routing engine with filtering capabilitiess." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A routing engine functions to respond to a request for routing options for a communication session from a querying node by providing a list of routing options. The original request includes signaling information that is utilized by the routing engine to determine a preliminary list of routing options that identifies vendors capable of handling the communication session. Pre-defined routing definitions may be applied to alter the list of vendors as identified in the preliminary list. Filtering processes may be applied to remove undesirable vendors from the preliminary routing options, resulting in a list of routing options for the communication session. The preliminary list may be ordered according to some parameter, and when a filtering process is applied the process may end upon reaching a first non-compliant vendor." The patent application was filed on Sept. 7, 2011 (13/227,237). 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=8,443,104&OS=8,443,104&RS=8,443,104 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Verizon Patent and Licensing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Verizon Patent and Licensing, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,443,079) developed by Nandagopal Venugopal, Plano, Texas, and Thomas P. Newcomer, Rowlett, Texas, for a "mixed integer programming model for minimizing leased access network costs." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A device receives network configuration information from a network, determines a logical network based on the network configuration information, and constructs a mixed integer programming (MIP) model based on the logical network. The device also calculates an optimal solution, which minimizes network costs, using the mixed integer programming (MIP) model, performs a post-optimization mapping procedure on the optimal solution to produce an optimal network configuration mapping, and outputs the optimal network configuration mapping for implementation." The patent application was filed on April 27, 2011 (13/095,383). 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=8,443,079&OS=8,443,079&RS=8,443,079 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent for Ethernet Over Coaxial Coupling System, Method and Apparatus ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,443,406) developed by Vernon Reed, Austin, Texas, Ahmad C. Ansari, Cedar Park, Texas, and David Rackley, Austin, Texas, for an "ethernet over coaxial coupling system, method and apparatus." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A device that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a controller to provide low loss connectivity to a plurality of coaxial ports over a broadband range of frequencies in a coaxial network providing Ethernet networking, detune secondary coaxial splitters in the coaxial network that reduces an output-to-output isolation loss among secondary coaxial splitter output ports, and enable re-distribution of modulated radio frequency video signals from a point on the coaxial network to any alternative point on the coaxial network. Other embodiments are disclosed." The patent application was filed on Dec. 2, 2008 (12/326,666). 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=8,443,406&OS=8,443,406&RS=8,443,406 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,443,093) developed by five co-inventors for a "connection management system for multiple connections." The co-inventors are Roland M. Hochmuth, Fort Collins, Colo., Byron A. Alcorn, Fort Collins, Colo., Jeffrey Joel Walls, Fort Collins, Colo., Thomas J. Flynn, Magnolia, Texas, and Quoc P. Pham, Spring, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment a computing system comprises one or more processors, a display device coupled to the computing system, a connection client module, at least one remote access client module, a memory module communicatively connected to the one or more processors and comprising logic to; receive a service request from a user via a remote connection client coupled to the connection server, wherein the service request comprises at least one user credential, authenticate the at least one user credential, retrieve at least one user profile associated with the user, connection data for at least one remote system and at least one policy associated with the at least one user profile, transmit the at least one user profile, at least one remote system and the connection data for at least one remote system and at least one policy associated with the at least one user profile from the connection server to the remote connection client." The patent application was filed on Sept. 24, 2008 (12/236,664). 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=8,443,093&OS=8,443,093&RS=8,443,093 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Verizon Patent and Licensing Assigned Patent for Gesture-based Navigation ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Verizon Patent and Licensing, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,443,303) developed by Daniel S. Dunnam, Brooklyn, N.Y., and Heath Stallings, Colleyville, Texas, for a gesture-based navigation. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method includes detecting an area of a touch screen that is touched by an instrument and determining a gesture corresponding to the area touched. The method further includes performing a crossover operation when it is determined that the gesture corresponds to a crossover gesture and displaying on the touch screen a content that includes a first child content and a second child content that is associated with the crossover operation, where the crossover operation includes navigating between the first child content to the second child content in response to the crossover gesture. The first child content is accessible via a first parent content and the second child content is accessible via a second parent content, and when navigating between the first child content to the second child content, the first parent content and the second parent content is not displayed." The patent application was filed on Dec. 22, 2008 (12/341,670). 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=8,443,303&OS=8,443,303&RS=8,443,303 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Rockstar Consortium US Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Rockstar Consortium US, Plano, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,443,087) developed by Ameel Kamboh, Billerica, Mass., Lava Lavu, North Billerica, Mass., and Stewart Hodde Maxwell, Dallas, for a "system for managing sessions and connections in a network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A modular architecture for use in a network device such as a Remote Authentication Server (RAS) includes a number of interconnected objects associated with processes, services, access protocols and other functionality provided on the device. Objects may also be associated with users, sessions or other data structures that may be accessed by any of the functional objects in the device. Additional services and updates may easily be implemented into this architecture without disrupting user connections. Redundant copies of the objects may be maintained in memory to facilitate the provision of carrier grade performance by swapping out failed components in the event of a fault." The patent application was filed on Oct. 8, 2004 (10/961,630). 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=8,443,087&OS=8,443,087&RS=8,443,087 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. 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