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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Massachusetts (May 15)(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 Massachusetts. *** Safadi Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Rami B. Safadi, Vienna, Va., has been assigned a patent (8,442,964) developed by Rami B. Safadi, and Ibrahim M. Hallaj, Waltham, Mass., for an "information retrieval based on partial machine recognition of the same." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for capturing and recognizing at least a portion of a source document, whether written or audible, then searching for information, or other documents, that correspond to the captured and recognized portion of the source document. Various techniques for adding translation and/or searching are also disclosed. In some instances, an iterative machine learning process is applied to improve the performance of an aspect of the system." The patent application was filed on Dec. 30, 2010 (12/982,315). 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=8,442,964&OS=8,442,964&RS=8,442,964 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** EMC Assigned Patent for Recovering in Deduplication Systems ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,442,952) developed by five co-inventors for "recovering in deduplication systems." The co-inventors are Philippe Armangau, Acton, Mass., Sorin Faibish, Newton, Mass., Christopher A. Seibel, Walpole, Mass., John F. Gillono, Chelmsford, Mass., and Srinivasa R. Vempati, Upton, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method is used in recovering in deduplication systems. Metadata of a data object is evaluated for determining deduplication status for the data object. Based on the deduplication status, the data object is recovered." The patent application was filed on March 30, 2011 (13/075,661). 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=8,442,952&OS=8,442,952&RS=8,442,952 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** CashStar Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- CashStar, Portland, Maine, has been assigned a patent (8,442,866) developed by David D. Stone, Falmouth, Maine, Glenn Snyder, Sudbury, Mass., and Phelps Peeler, South Portland, Maine, for "systems and methods for implementing and managing virtual gift cards." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "According to one aspect, embodiments of the invention provide a method for administering a virtual gift card, the method comprising acts of receiving a request from a server of a retailer, providing, in response to the request, an interface to a terminal operated by a purchaser, the interface comprising fields for receiving a value and a recipient for the virtual gift card, receiving from the terminal, in response to input from the purchaser, the value and the recipient for the virtual gift card, generating a code for the virtual gift card, and sending a message to the recipient of the virtual gift card, the message including the code for the virtual gift card." The patent application was filed on Oct. 27, 2009 (12/606,674). 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=84,42,866.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,866&RS=PN/84,42,866 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,442,851) developed by Corinne M. Ryan, Westford, Mass., and Ruthie D. Lyle, Durham, N.C., for "providing feedback to a chairperson in an electronic meeting scheduling system in order to enable improved meeting resource management." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for providing feedback to a chairperson in an electronic meeting scheduling system to enable improved meeting resource management, in which a chairperson can indicate the attendance modes that are permitted for specific invitees to a meeting. The meeting invitations indicate to the invitees the attendance modes they are permitted to use. Meeting invitees are presented with user interface options allowing them to select from potentially multiple attendance modes, determined in response to inputs from the chairperson, and/or in response to information describing resources. As meeting resources are allocated to accepting invitees, those resources become unavailable for selection by subsequently accepting invitees. Meeting acceptances are collected such that indications of how accepting attendees will attend the meeting are made available in a chairperson interface so that the chairperson can adjust resources allocated for the meeting to reflect how accepting attendees are planning to attend." The patent application was filed on July 20, 2007 (11/780,566). 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=84,42,851.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,851&RS=PN/84,42,851 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** ABL IP Holding Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- ABL IP Holding, Conyers, Ga., has been assigned a patent (8,442,785) developed by five co-inventors for a "system and method for streetlight monitoring diagnostics." The co-inventors are Jeff Walters, Marshfield, Mass., Michael Dorogi, Newark, Ohio, Szabolcs Zigovski, Mableton, Ga., Voicu Cristian, Marietta, Ga., and Ion Ticus, Bucharest, Romania. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "One or more example diagnostics may be implemented as part of an intelligent luminaire manager or other radio frequency (RF) device that is in communication with an equipment or fixture such as a luminaire. Example diagnostics can determine a status such as a fixture malfunction, a cycling condition, a miswiring configuration, or another condition. The determined status can be wirelessly transmitted from the intelligent luminaire manager or other radio frequency device to a network server via a network. The network may be a network of intelligent luminaire managers and/or RF devices." The patent application was filed on Nov. 21, 2011 (13/301,208). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=84,42,785.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,785&RS=PN/84,42,785 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Bin1 ATE Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Bin1 ATE, Boxborough, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,442,795) developed by seven co-inventors for a "system and method for performing processing in a testing system." The co-inventors are Barry E. Blancha, Boxborough, Mass., Leszek Janusz Lechowicz, Bridgewater, Mass., Stephen S. Helm, Marlborough, Mass., Sean Patrick Adam, Wrentham, Mass., Jorge Camargo, Westford, Mass., Carlos Heil, Norwood, Mass., and Paulo Mendes, Hopkinton, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Test systems and methodologies are provided and may include platforms for developing test programs for automated testing. In one example, tester and instruments are isolated from the tester OS, permitting any OS to be used. In another, a user layer is isolated from the physical layer, permitting hardware-independent development and usability among different tester platforms. In another, test program execution is isolated from a tester platform OS, permitting test program function independent from tester platform. In another embodiment, functions are only added, existing links to functions are not broken, ensuring continued operation with new software, hardware and/or features. Systems may be non-deterministic. In one example, the non-deterministic computer is required to execute computer instructions within a constant execution time. A deterministic engine, may be used to wait a variable amount of time to ensure constant execution time. Execution over constant time is deterministic permitting applications requiring deterministic behavior." The patent application was filed on July 10, 2007 (11/827,105). 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=84,42,795.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,795&RS=PN/84,42,795 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Tykhe Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Tykhe, Boston, has been assigned a patent (8,442,897) developed by Henry Evan C. Schulman, Boston, for a "securitization of sales participation certificates." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The invention relates to financial products that provide a return that is a function of future sales/revenues, preferably gross sales/revenue, over a specified period of time. One embodiment of a method for creating such a financial product includes providing standard forms to an issuer and underwriter and standard terms to an issuer and investors. The terms to the issuer include providing capital to the issuer in exchange for a return that is a function of future sales over a specified period of time. The process further includes creating instruments representing investment in the financial product. The process creates the instruments in sufficient numbers and in appropriate denominations to facilitate trading in the financial product." The patent application was filed on Feb. 14, 2005 (11/057,552). 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=84,42,897.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,897&RS=PN/84,42,897 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Beckman Coulter Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Beckman Coulter, Brea, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,442,924) developed by five co-inventors for "systems and methods for detecting the presence of a biological status using clustering." The co-inventors are Jiuliu Lu, Homestead, Fla., Zihua Wang, Newton, Mass., Antonio Arevalo Reyes, Middleton, Mass., Erik Alan Gustafson, Norwood, Mass., and John Steven Riley, Miami. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for determining the presence of a biological entity. The method may include entering into a digital computer, at least a plurality of first input values associated with a first genetic element (e.g., mecA), a plurality of second input values associated with a second genetic element (femA), and a plurality of third input values associated with a third genetic element (e.g., orfX) associated with a plurality of samples. Each sample includes a first input value in the plurality of first input values, a second input value in the plurality of second input values, and a third input value in the plurality of third input values. The method also includes determining a threshold value associated with the third genetic element, separating the samples using the threshold value into a first set of samples and a second set of samples, clustering the first set of samples in a feature space defined by the first genetic element and the second genetic element, defining a first boundary space using the first set of samples, and defining a second boundary space using the second set of samples. The first and second boundary spaces differentiate a biological entity from other biological statuses. Other embodiments may also include the use of a genetic element such as SCCmec." The patent application was filed on Nov. 12, 2010 (12/944,992). 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=84,42,924.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,924&RS=PN/84,42,924 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, Washington, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., have been assigned a patent (8,442,892) developed by four co-inventors for "REIT-based pure property return indexes." The co-inventors are David Geltner, Carlisle, Mass., Henry Pollakowski, Belmont, Mass., Holly Horrigan, Needham, Mass., and Bradford Case, McLean, Va. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present disclosure is directed to generating REIT-based pure property return indexes. First, REIT return data is compiled from each REIT of a plurality of REITs at a predetermined frequency. Then, the generated REIT return data is de-levered and processed according to exposures to each of a plurality of target characteristics to obtain coefficients reflecting each REIT's weight in an index. Finally, an index is generated according to the REITs, the obtained coefficients, and the weights." The patent application was filed on Dec. 29, 2009 (12/648,449). 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=84,42,892.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,892&RS=PN/84,42,892 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Symantec Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Symantec, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,443,231) developed by four co-inventors for "updating a list of quorum disks." The co-inventors are Sara Abraham, Los Altos, Calif., Craig Harmer, San Francisco, Prasanta Dash, San Jose, Calif., and Vishal Kher, Auburndale, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A node in a server cluster is designated as a quorum disk. The node stores a list of other nodes in the server cluster also designated as quorum disks. The node can replace the first list with a second and more recent list of quorum disks only if the second list is updated on at least a simple majority of quorum disks on the first list." The patent application was filed on April 12, 2010 (12/758,201). 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=8,443,231.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,231&RS=PN/8,443,231 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,443,281) developed by four co-inventors for "constructing a labeled treemap with balanced layout." The co-inventors are Hao Lu, Shanghai, China, Shi Xia Liu, Beijing, Martin M. Wattenberg, Winchester, Mass., and Xi Jun Ma, Beijing. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention provides a method and system for constructing a labeled treemap with balanced layout. A range of possible densities of leaf nodes based on designated weights of the leaf nodes and a designated treemap region is determined. A range of possible densities is then searched for a density that could be fitted on and a labeled treemap that could fit on the density. The labeled treemap is presented on a specified display region. By introducing the concept of density into labeled treemap, the present invention ensures the area of region occupied by each leaf node in the constructed labeled treemap is approximately corresponding to the weight of the node, and avoids the case of invisible leaf node in a treemap." The patent application was filed on April 10, 2007 (11/733,239). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,443,281.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,281&RS=PN/8,443,281 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Spanlocal News Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Spanlocal News, Medfield, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,443,277) developed by Richard Goldman, Cedarburg, Wis., Christopher Stephenson, Medfield, Mass., and Robert A. Bailie, Mequon, Wis., for a "digital content enhancement platform." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer-based system provides a user interface for displaying hyperlinked content (such as web content) and for enabling users to navigate the hyperlinks contained within such content. One benefit of various embodiments of the present invention is that they enable primary hyperlinked content to be rendered, and for associated content (i.e., content located at the destinations of hyperlinks within the primary content) to be rendered without replacing, overwriting, or otherwise obscuring the rendering of the primary content. As a result, the rendering of the primary content remains fully visible after the associated content is rendered and while the rendering of the associated content is visible. For example, the associated content may be rendered in an existing display area that does not overlap with the display area containing the rendering of the primary content." The patent application was filed on June 13, 2011 (13/159,145). 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=8,443,277.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,277&RS=PN/8,443,277 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** EMC Assigned Patent for Data Storage System having Associated Situational Analysis Framework for Automatic Response to Movement in a State Space ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,443,157) developed by David Stephen Reiner, Lexington, Mass., for a "data storage system having associated situational analysis framework for automatic response to movement in a state space." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The operation of a data storage system is controlled by determining dimensions of a situational state space characterizing operating conditions of the data storage system, associating policy sets with respective states of the state space, monitoring system operation in the state space, selecting a particular one of the policy sets based on an identified current state in the state space, and controlling the operation of the system in accordance with the selected policy set. These operations are performed by a processing device incorporated in or otherwise associated with the system, with the processing device implementing a situational analysis framework comprising a learning module coupled to a production module. The situational analysis framework may be part of a policy engine. The dimensions of the situational state space in an illustrative embodiment may comprise two or more dimensions selected from one or more dimension categories such as load, performance, time and event state." The patent application was filed on Dec. 16, 2009 (12/639,668). 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=8,443,157.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,157&RS=PN/8,443,157 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Intel Assigned Patent for System-wide Quiescence and Per-thread Transaction Fence in a Distributed Caching Agent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,443,148) developed by James R. Vash, Littleton, Mass., Bongjin Jung, Westford, Mass., and Rishan Tan, Shrewsbury, Mass., for a "system-wide quiescence and per-thread transaction fence in a distributed caching agent." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus relating to system-wide quiescence and per-thread transaction fence in a distributed caching agent are described. Some embodiments utilize messages, counters, and/or state machines that support system-wide quiescence and per-thread transaction fence flows. Other embodiments are also disclosed." The patent application was filed on Dec. 26, 2010 (12/978,588). 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=8,443,148.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,148&RS=PN/8,443,148 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** VMware Assigned Patent for SCSI Protocol Emulation for Virtual Storage Device Stored on NAS Device ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- VMware, Palo Alto, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,443,139) developed by four co-inventors for an "SCSI protocol emulation for virtual storage device stored on NAS device." The co-inventors are Michael Nelson, Alamo, Calif., Hao Xu, Sunnyvale, Calif., Daniel J. Scales, Mountain View, Calif., and Matthew B. Amdur, Cambridge, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A virtualization technique, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, includes emulating the small computing system interface (SCSI) protocol to access a virtual SCSI storage device backed by a file stored on network attached storage (NAS). " The patent application was filed on March 26, 2012 (13/430,468). 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=8,443,139.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,139&RS=PN/8,443,139 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Invention Science Fund I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Invention Science Fund I, Bellevue, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,443,197) developed by five co-inventors for a "voice-capable system and method for authentication using prior entity user interaction." The co-inventors are Edward K.Y. Jung, Bellevue, Wash., Royce A. Levien, Lexington, Mass., Robert W. Lord, Seattle, Mark A. Malamud, Seattle, and John D. Rinaldo Jr., Bellevue, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for use with a voice-capable system, includes but is not limited to a method including accessing by the voice-capable system of one or more entities computationally networked to the voice-capable system, obtaining one or more user interactions with the one or more entities and generating an authentication session using the one or more user interactions with the one or more entities." The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2005 (11/241,742). 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=8,443,197.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,197&RS=PN/8,443,197 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Advanced Micro Devices Assigned Patent for Throttling Computational Units According to Performance Sensitivity ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,443,209) developed by Sebastien Nussbaum, Lexington, Mass., Alexander Branover, Chestnut Hill, Mass., and John Kalamatianos, Arlington, Mass., for a "throttling computational units according to performance sensitivity." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A power allocation strategy limits performance of a subset of a plurality of computational units in a computer system according to performance sensitivity of each of the plurality of computational units to a change performance capability, e.g., frequency change. The performance of the subset of computational units may be limited by setting a power state in which the subset may be operated and/or reducing a current power state of the subset to a lower power state. The subset whose performance is limited includes computational units that are least performance sensitive according to stored sensitivity data. The subset may include one or more processing cores and performance of the one or more processing cores may be limited in response to a CPU-bounded application or graphics processing unit (GPU)-bounded application being executed." The patent application was filed on July 24, 2009 (12/508,935). 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=8,443,209.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,209&RS=PN/8,443,209 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. *** NetApp Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- NetApp, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,443,153) developed by four co-inventors for a "dynamic balancing of performance with block sharing in a storage system." The co-inventors are John K. Edwards, Sunnyvale, Calif., Keith A. Smith, Cambridge, Mass., Jiri Schindler, Jamaica Plain, Mass., and Steven R. Kleiman, Los Altos, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A storage system provides highly flexible data layouts that can be tailored to various different applications and use cases. The system dynamically balances performance with block sharing, based on service level objectives (SLOs). The system defines several types of data containers, including "regions", "logical extents" and "slabs". Each region includes one or more logical extents. Allocated to each logical extent is at least part of one or more slabs allocated to the region that includes the extent. Each slab is a set of blocks of storage from one or more physical storage devices. The slabs can be defined from a heterogeneous pool of physical storage. The system also maintains multiple "volumes" above the region layer. Each volume includes one or more logical extents from one or more regions. Layouts of the extents within the regions are not visible to any of the volumes." The patent application was filed on Jan. 6, 2010 (12/683,385). 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=8,443,153.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,153&RS=PN/8,443,153 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Synopsys Assigned Patent for Transformation of IC Designs for Formal Verification ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Synopsys, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,443,317) developed by Muzaffer Hiraoglu, Chelmsford, Mass., and Peter Wilhelm Josef Zepter, Mountain View, Calif., for "transformation of IC designs for formal verification." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A non-transitory computer readable storage media, a computer-implemented method and apparatus for electronic design automation are disclosed. A reference integrated circuit (IC) design and a remitted IC design are received. Instances of cells of the reference IC design and the retimed IC designed are replaced with replacement circuits based on a description of moves of retiming associated with the reference IC design and the synthesized IC design. A comparison of the reference IC design and the retimed IC designed is performed to determine whether the retimed IC design is equivalent to the transformed IC design." The patent application was filed on July 29, 2009 (12/511,987). 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=8,443,317&OS=8,443,317&RS=8,443,317 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Zeevee Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Zeevee, Littleton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,443,409) developed by eight co-inventors for a "system and method for channel selection for local broadcasting." The co-inventors are Scott J. Bleiweiss, Upton, Mass., Victor Odryna, Acton, Mass., Stephen D. Metzger, Harvard, Mass., David J. Feng, Westford, Mass., Preston C. Shimer, Westborough, Mass., Jeremy L. Mordkoff, Pepperell, Mass., Oscar Purwin, Carlisle, Mass., and Jeffrey Bacon, Shrewsbury, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A video controller selects a channel for premises broadcasting to a premises television based on a fast scan of signal strength in channels available over a premises media. The signal strength of certain filtered channel frequencies can be evaluated to determine if a channel is occupied. Unoccupied channels can be ranked in relation to nearby occupied or unoccupied channels. The nearby channels may be ranked in terms of the signal strength content in relation to the channel being evaluated. The video controller can select an unoccupied channel with an optimal ranking to permit premises broadcasting with reduced interference or conflict with other channels." The patent application was filed on April 30, 2009 (12/433,677). 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=8,443,409&OS=8,443,409&RS=8,443,409 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Verizon Laboratories Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Verizon Laboratories, Waltham, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,443,089) developed by Ali Mosleh, Marlboro, Mass., and Richard A. Stanley, Wayland, Mass., for a "method and apparatus for integrated communication services provisioning for health care community." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for providing an integrated communication services (ICS) network that permits data subscribers to share information on a hospital campus using wireless or wireline local area networks, or to seamlessly tap into the facility's central database while in transit away from the hospital. The central database, referred to as the integrated communications clearinghouse (ICC) is adapted to store a communication profile for every network server on the ICS network. The ICC also maintains a Global Patient Profile (GPP), consisting of a patient profile for every patient on the network. The GPP provides the ICC with the capability of providing aggregated data and demographic information, creating "live" public health statistics through a single query to a central server. The actual selection of a particular channel to access the ICS will be service-dependent and a function of user whereabouts, desired quality of the connection, and costs of the connection." The patent application was filed on Feb. 28, 2011 (13/036,483). 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=8,443,089&OS=8,443,089&RS=8,443,089 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Advanced Micro Devices Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,443,331) developed by Sophocles R. Metsis, Wakefield, Mass., and Michael Ricchetti, Nashua, N.H., for a "synchronizing TAP controller after power is restored." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system includes multiple TAP controllers that can be independently powered up and down. When a first TAP controller is powered up from a powered-down state while a second TAP controller is already in a powered-up state, the first TAP controller is reset causing the first TAP controller to enter a reset state in response to the power-up of a module on which the first TAP controller is disposed. The first TAP controller enters an idle state and its control signal is gated to hold the first TAP controller in the idle state until the second TAP controller enters the idle state. Subsequently, the first TAP controller is released such that the control signal supplied to the first and second TAP controllers are equal, thereby synchronizing the first TAP controller and the second TAP controller." The patent application was filed on Aug. 10, 2010 (12/853,940). 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=8,443,331&OS=8,443,331&RS=8,443,331 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** EMC Assigned Patent for Risk-aware Scanning of Objects ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,443,445) developed by four co-inventors for "risk-aware scanning of objects." The co-inventors are William Andruss, Minneapolis, Christopher Claudatos, San Jose, Calif., Bruce Leetch, Mason, Ohio, and Steven Terwilliger, Foster City, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Scanning is disclosed. A system is monitored to detect object events. A risk level is determined for an object event, and a scan is scheduled for an object associated with the object event according to the risk level. The risk level may be based on the risk level of the object type, and on the risk level of the operation. An immediate on access scan may be scheduled for a first risk range, a differential scan may be scheduled for a second risk range, and an incremental scan may be scheduled for a third risk range. The scheduled scan is performed." The patent application was filed on June 28, 2006 (11/477,634). 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=8,443,445&OS=8,443,445&RS=8,443,445 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. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Constructing an Inference Graph for a Network ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,443,074) developed by six co-inventors for "constructing an inference graph for a network." The co-inventors are Paramvir Bahl, Issaquah, Wash., Srikanth Kandula, Somervile, Mass., Ranveer Chandra, Kirkland, Wash., David A. Maltz, Bellevue, Wash., Ming Zhang, Redmond, Wash., and Albert Greenberg, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Constructing an inference graph relates to the creation of a graph that reflects dependencies within a network. In an example embodiment, a method includes determining dependencies among components of a network and constructing an inference graph for the network responsive to the dependencies. The components of the network include services and hardware components, and the inference graph reflects cross-layer components including the services and the hardware components. In another example embodiment, a system includes a service dependency analyzer and an inference graph constructor. The service dependency analyzer is to determine dependencies among components of a network, the components including services and hardware components. The inference graph constructor is to construct an inference graph for the network responsive to the dependencies, the inference graph reflecting cross-layer components including the services and the hardware components." The patent application was filed on Feb. 28, 2008 (12/039,714). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,443,074&OS=8,443,074&RS=8,443,074 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. For more information about Targeted News Service products and services, please contact: Myron Struck, editor, Targeted News Service LLC, Springfield, Va., 703/304-1897; [email protected]; http://targetednews.com. -1124937 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |