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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in California (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 California. *** 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. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Processing Archive Content Based on Hierarchical Classification Levels ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,442,951) developed by six co-inventors for "processing archive content based on hierarchical classification levels." The co-inventors are Karen W. Brannon, Palo Alto, Calif., Wenling Cai, San Jose, Calif., Sangeeta T. Doraiswamy, San Jose, Calif., Ryan John Minniear, Folsom, Calif., David A. Pease, Redwood Estates, Calif., and Mark Andrew Smith, Los Gatos, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Processing archive content based on hierarchical classification levels is performed by indexing a first newly archived file of a current set of archive content at a first classification level defining a plurality of types of metadata to be derived, wherein the first classification level is selected from a hierarchy of classification levels having at least two classification levels, indexing a second newly archived file of the current set of archive content at a second classification level, wherein the second classification level includes fewer types of metadata than the first class of metadata, and flagging the second newly archived file of the current set of archive content. By classifying and flagging the second newly archived file differently than the first newly archived file, the system can easily retrieve such data at a later instance to update and/or change the data, re-index the data, and the like." The patent application was filed on Dec. 7, 2011 (13/313,348). 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=8,442,951&OS=8,442,951&RS=8,442,951 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Synchronoss Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Synchronoss Technologies, Bridgewater, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,442,943) developed by six co-inventors for a "data transfer and synchronization between mobile systems using change log." The co-inventors are David L. Multer, Santa Cruz, Calif., Robert E. Garner, Lawrenceville, Ga., Leighton A. Ridgard, Ellenwood, Ga., Liam J. Stannard, Lawrenceville, Ga., Donald W. Cash, Dunwoody, Ga., and Richard M. Onyon, San Jose, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for synchronizing devices which can couple to the Internet, or any network. In one aspect a system for synchronizing data between a first system and a second system is provided. The system includes a first sync engine on the first system interfacing with data on the first system to provide difference information. A data store is coupled to the network and in communication with the first and second systems. A second sync engine is provided on the second system coupled to receive the difference information from the data store via the network, and interface with data on the second system to update said data on the second system with said difference information. Difference information is transmitted to the data store by the first sync engine and received from the data store from the second sync engine." The patent application was filed on Aug. 18, 2008 (12/228,978). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,442,943&OS=8,442,943&RS=8,442,943 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Oracle International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Oracle International, Redwood Shores, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,442,980) developed by Blake Sullivan, Redwood Shores, Calif., for an "attribute change coalescing in order to deal with component moves on a page." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the invention provide for applying multiple attribute changes to components of a dataset. According to one embodiment, coalescing changes can comprise reading a definition of the dataset. For example, the definition can comprise an identity and a context for each of the plurality of components. A component tree can be generated representing the data set and based on the context and identity. An indication of one or more changes to the components of the data set can be received and the changes can be classified based on a type of each of the changes. For example, the type of the changes can comprise one or more of a single component change, a cross-component change, and a cross-component change the affects the identity of at least one of the components The changes can be coalesced based on the type of the changes." The patent application was filed on July 7, 2011 (13/177,655). 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=8,442,980&OS=8,442,980&RS=8,442,980 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Surf Canyon, University of Illinois Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Surf Canyon, Oakland, Calif., and the University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill., have been assigned a patent (8,442,973) developed by four co-inventors for a "real time implicit user modeling for personalized search." The co-inventors are Mark Cramer, San Francisco, ChengXiang Zhai, Champaign, Ill., Xuehua Shen, Urbana, Ill., and Bin Tan, Champaign, Ill. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for utilizing user behavior to immediately modify sets of search results so that the most relevant documents are moved to the top. In one embodiment of the invention, behavior data, which can come from virtually any activity, is used to infer the user's intent. The updated inferred implicit user model is then exploited immediately by re-ranking the set of matched documents to best reflect the information need of the user. The system updates the user model and immediately re-ranks documents at every opportunity in order to constantly provide the most optimal results. In another embodiment, the system determines, based on the similarity of results sets, if the current query belongs in the same information session as one or more previous queries. If so, the current query is expanded with additional keywords in order to improve the targeting of the results." The patent application was filed on May 1, 2007 (11/743,076). 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=8,442,973&OS=8,442,973&RS=8,442,973 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,442,970) developed by five co-inventors for "creating and editing user search queries." The co-inventors are Joseph Ollis, Kirkland, Wash., Derek D. Shaw, Bellevue, Wash., Neelima Chinthamani, Bellevue, Wash., Don Barnett, Monroe, Wash., and Hung Shek Ngan, Santa Clara, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods are provided for creating and modifying search queries. A query can be constructed by allowing a user to select from categories, facets, and/or facet values for addition to a query. A user can optionally supplement the categories, facets, and/or facet values with additional search terms entered by the user. The constructed query can then be submitted to a search engine to identify documents that match the search query. The systems and methods can allow a user to construct a search query using a reduced number of user input actions while still providing a user with the flexibility to enter any search terms desired by the user." The patent application was filed on Aug. 5, 2011 (13/204,126). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,442,970&OS=8,442,970&RS=8,442,970 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Gross Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- John Nicholas Gross, Berkeley, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,442,969) developed by John Nicholas Gross, San Francisco, Calif., for a "location based news and search engine." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A search engine and/or news aggregator considers temporal qualities of electronic documents, a location of a searcher/reviewer, and a situs associated with content of the document to determine how/if they should be presented to users." The patent application was filed on Aug. 14, 2008 (12/191,916). 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=8,442,969&OS=8,442,969&RS=8,442,969 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Wells Fargo Capital Finance Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Wells Fargo Capital Finance, Santa Monica, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,442,956) developed by Jeffrey Vincent Tofano, San Jose, Calif., for "sampling based data de-duplication." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Example apparatus, methods, and computers perform sampling based data de-duplication. One example method controls a data de-duplication computer to compute a sampling sequence for a sub-block of data and to use the sampling sequence to locate a stored sub-block known to the data de-duplication computer. Upon finding a stored sub-block to compare to, the method includes controlling the data de-duplication computer to determine a degree of similarity (e.g., duplicate, very similar, somewhat similar, very dissimilar, completely dissimilar, x % similar) between the sub-block and the stored sub-block and to control whether and how the sub-block is stored and/or transmitted based on the degree of similarity. The degree of similarity can also control whether and how the data de-duplication computer updates a dedupe data structure(s) that stores information for finding groups of similarity sampling sequence related sub-blocks." The patent application was filed on Jan. 16, 2012 (13/351,192). 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=8,442,956&OS=8,442,956&RS=8,442,956 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Virtual Machine Image Co-migration ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,442,955) developed by five co-inventors for a "virtual machine image co-migration." The co-inventors are Samer Al Kiswany, Vancouver, Canada, Comeliu Mihail Constantinescu, San Jose, Calif., Prasenjit Sarkar, San Jose, Calif., Mark J. Seaman, San Jose, Calif., and Dinesh K. Subhraveti, San Jose, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the invention relate to co-migration in a shared pool of resources with similarity across data sets of a migrating application. The data sets are processed and profiled. Metadata is reviewed to remove duplicate elements and to distribute the processing load across available nodes. At the same time, a ranking may be assigned to select metadata to support a prioritized migration. Non-duplicate data chunks are migrated across the shared pool of resources responsive to the assigned prioritization." The patent application was filed on March 30, 2011 (13/075,623). 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=8,442,955&OS=8,442,955&RS=8,442,955 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Mimosa Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Mimosa Systems, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,442,950) developed by four co-inventors for a "data surrogate generation for data management." The co-inventors are Roy P. D'Souza, Santa Clara, Calif., Sanjay Mehta, Santa Clara, Calif., Bhushan Pandit, Santa Clara, Calif., and Thirumalai Muppur Ravi, Santa Clara, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Multi-dimensional surrogation systems and methods are provided that generate at least one data surrogate using information of data and numerous data changes received from at least one data source. The multi-dimensional surrogation transforms data of each data surrogate from a format of the data source to at least one alternative format. Original metadata is extracted from each data surrogate. New metadata is generated by combining portions of the original metadata and components of each data surrogate. The multi-dimensional surrogation generates an extended data surrogate comprising the data surrogate and the new metadata." The patent application was filed on Aug. 16, 2010 (12/857,368). 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=8,442,950&OS=8,442,950&RS=8,442,950 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Yahoo! Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,442,978) developed by six co-inventors for a "trust propagation through both explicit and implicit social networks." The co-inventors are Pavel Berkhim, Sunnyvale, Calif., Zhichen Xu, San Jose, Calif., Jianchang Mao, San Jose, Calif., Daniel E. Rose, Cupertino, Calif., Abe Taha, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Farzin Maghoul, Hayward, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for trust propagation. The method according to one embodiment comprises calculating a first feature vector for a first user, calculating a second feature for a second user and comparing the first feature vector with the second feature vector to calculate a similarity value. A determination is made as to whether the similarity value falls within a threshold. If the similarity value falls within the threshold, a relationship is recorded between the first user and the second user in a first user profile and a second user profile." The patent application was filed on Aug. 2, 2006 (11/498,637). 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=8,442,978&OS=8,442,978&RS=8,442,978 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,442,958) developed by Patrick Glen Bose, San Francisco, and Ky Tong Vong, San Jose, Calif., for a server change management. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, methods and systems for change management are described. A server system may include a physical server and a virtual server capable of being deployed on the physical server. A server change group may include one or more server change objects. Each server change object may represent a server change to be made to at least one of the physical server or the virtual server. A change manager may receive a request for a change to the server system, select transitioning change objects from among the server change objects to transition the server system from a current state to an expected state after implementation of the change, and execute the transitioning change objects to implement the change to the server system." The patent application was filed on March 28, 2007 (11/692,736). 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=8,442,958&OS=8,442,958&RS=8,442,958 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Gross Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- John Nicholas Gross, Berkeley, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,442,923) developed by John Nicholas Gross, San Francisco, for a "temporal document trainer and method." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An electronic document sorter is trained to classify documents based on their temporal qualities. The invention can be used in environments such as automated news aggregators, search engines and other electronic systems which compile information having temporal qualities." The patent application was filed on Aug. 14, 2008 (12/191,830). 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=84,42,923.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,923&RS=PN/84,42,923 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Yahoo! Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,442,849) developed by five co-inventors for emotional mapping. The co-inventors are Darshan V. Kantak, Pasadena, Calif., Eric Theodore Bax, Pasadena, Calif., Tarun Bhatia, Burbank, Calif., Ayman Farahat, Santa Clara, Calif., and Dipika Bhatia, Simi Valley, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems are provided for emotional mapping, such as of online users, based at least in part on online activities of users. Techniques are provided in which information including a set of emotional states is generated or obtained, such as a hierarchical network of emotional states representing a spectrum of human emotions. Information regarding user online activities and content choices of a user is obtained. Based at least in part on this information, the user is classified into an emotional state of the set of emotional states, and advertisements or content may be targeted to the user accordingly." The patent application was filed on March 12, 2010 (12/723,520). 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=84,42,849.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,849&RS=PN/84,42,849 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Maxn Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Maxn Systems, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,442,847) developed by Rajeev Shrivastava, Santa Clara, Calif., for a "method of making insurance comparisons between different insurance plans." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computerized method of allowing insurance customers to make better informed insurance purchases. The invention allows customers, who may be unfamiliar with the chances that various types of losses will occur and/or the true costs associated with these losses, to enter in various insurance loss scenarios and scenario parameters into a computer database which also contains information on various insurance plans. The invention outputs comparative information as to how adequately the various insurance plans perform according to the various customer selected scenarios, and comparative plan costs. The method can be implemented using computerized servers and client devices communicating using standard internet protocols over the internet. The invention may be used for any type of insurance product, and is particularly well suited for situations where consumers may have an unusually low amount of information regarding risks and associated costs, such as online purchase of various foreign coverage medical insurance plans." The patent application was filed on Nov. 2, 2012 (13/667,972). 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=84,42,847.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,847&RS=PN/84,42,847 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Oracle America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Oracle America, Redwood City, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,442,779) developed by Ramakrishna C. Dhanekula, San Diego, and Kenneth C. Gross, San Diego, for "identifying degraded fans in datacenters." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for identifying a degraded fan measures acoustic data from an operating datacenter fan. A motor rotation frequency and a vane passing frequency are determined from the acoustic data. Amplitudes of the frequencies are determined from the acoustic data. If the amplitude of the motor rotation frequency is greater than the amplitude of the vane passing frequency, then it is determined that the fan is degraded." The patent application was filed on March 29, 2010 (12/748,705). 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=84,42,779.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,779&RS=PN/84,42,779 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** ContentGuard Holdings Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- ContentGuard Holdings, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,442,916) developed by Thanh Ta, Huntington Beach, Calif., and Guillermo Lao, Torrance, Calif., for a "digital rights management of content when content is a future live event." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for managing use of items having usage rights associated therewith including a point of capture system adapted to generate content of a future event when the event occurs, a content distributor adapted to generate a rights label having usage rights associated with content of the future event before the content is created, the rights label having a distribution key for encrypting the content as the content is generated, the distribution key being encrypted with a public key. The system also includes a license server adapted to generate a license associate with the content from the rights label before the content is generated, the license including the distribution key encrypted with the public key, and a content distributor adapted to distribute the license before the content is generated." The patent application was filed on March 6, 2012 (13/413,045). 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=84,42,916.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,916&RS=PN/84,42,916 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Google Assigned Patent for Multi-frame Prediction for Hybrid Neural Network/Hidden Markov Models ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,442,821) developed by Vincent Vanhoucke, San Francisco, for a "multi-frame prediction for hybrid neural network/hidden Markov models." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for multi-frame prediction in a hybrid neural network/hidden Markov model automatic speech recognition (ASR) system is disclosed. An audio input signal may be transformed into a time sequence of feature vectors, each corresponding to respective temporal frame of a sequence of periodic temporal frames of the audio input signal. The time sequence of feature vectors may be concurrently input to a neural network, which may process them concurrently. In particular, the neural network may concurrently determine for the time sequence of feature vectors a set of emission probabilities for a plurality of hidden Markov models of the ASR system, where the set of emission probabilities are associated with the temporal frames. The set of emission probabilities may then be concurrently applied to the hidden Markov models for determining speech content of the audio input signal." The patent application was filed on July 27, 2012 (13/560,706). 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=84,42,821.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,821&RS=PN/84,42,821 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** eBay Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- eBay, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,442,871) developed by Robert Dean Veres, Los Gatos, Calif., and Ching-Jye Liang, San Jose, Calif., for publishing user submissions. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "According to the present invention, there is provided a method to facilitate propagating a plurality of transaction listings to a network-based transaction facility. An input interface is presented at a seller application to receive from a user, a plurality of transaction listings, each transaction listing including an associated start time. Also, a data file is composed at the seller application to include the plurality of transaction listings. Moreover, the data file is propagated, using the seller application, from the client computer to the network-based transaction facility." The patent application was filed on June 6, 2012 (13/489,646). 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=84,42,871.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,871&RS=PN/84,42,871 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. *** Google Assigned Patent for Contextual Translation of Digital Content ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,442,811) developed by nine co-inventors for a "contextual translation of digital content." The co-inventors are Przemyslaw Broniek, Cracow, Poland, Joanna Chwastowska, Tamow, Poland, Brendan Clavin, Los Altos, Calif., Dawid Duda, Cracow, Poland, Terence Haddock, Cracow, Poland, Marcin Mikosik, Turek, Poland, Maciej Molerus, Zabrze, Poland, Michal Pociecha-Los, Cracow, Poland, and Jan Wrobel, Michalowice, Poland. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for translating digital content from a source language to a target language. A message is displayed to a user. The message contains digital content to be translated from the source language to the target language, as well as the context of the digital content in the source language and/or a reference to a context in which the digital content occurs. A proposed translation of the digital content into the target language is received from the user. The proposed translation is submitted to a translation server." The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2011 (13/250,641). 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=84,42,811.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,811&RS=PN/84,42,811 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Google Assigned Patent for Methods and Systems for Assessing the Quality of Automatically Generated Text ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,442,813) developed by Ashok C. Popat, Menlo Park, Calif., for "methods and systems for assessing the quality of automatically generated text." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A set of ordered characters is received in association with information specifying the locations of the characters within the image of the document. Language-conditional character probabilities for each character are determined based on a set of language models and the ordering of the characters. Neighbor characters associated with a target character are identified based on the locations of the characters. Language-conditional character probabilities associated with the neighbor characters and language-conditional character probabilities associated with the target character are combined to generate a local language-conditional likelihood associated with the target character, the local language-conditional likelihood representing a concordance of the target character to a language model." The patent application was filed on Feb. 5, 2009 (12/366,329). 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=84,42,813.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,813&RS=PN/84,42,813 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** QBotix Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- QBotix, Menlo Park, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,442,790) developed by five co-inventors for a "robotic heliostat calibration system and method." The co-inventors are Daniel Fukuba, Palo Alto, Calif., Jos Goble, Santa Clara, Calif., Salomon Trujillo, Redwood City, Calif., Thomas Joseph Currier, Rochester, Minn., and Wasiq Bokhari, Half Moon Bay, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A robotic controller for autonomous calibration and inspection of two or more solar surfaces wherein the robotic controller includes a drive system to position itself near a solar surface such that onboard sensors may be utilized to gather information about the solar surface. An onboard communication unit relays information to a central processing network, this processor combines new information with stored historical data to calibrate a solar surface and/or to determine its instantaneous health." The patent application was filed on Dec. 2, 2011 (13/310,520). 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=84,42,790.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,790&RS=PN/84,42,790 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Aggregation Commerce Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Aggregation Commerce, Northbrook, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,442,898) developed by Peter A. Alsberg, Lake Forest, Ill., and Andrew J. Wise, Los Altos Hills, Calif., for "methods and systems for market clearance." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In a marketplace, offers are processed that are intended to be associated with other offers in a pool. The offers specify conditions for acceptance. Improvable offers are received that are capable of being associated with offers having more favorable specifications than initial offers associated with the improvable offers. Nonimprovable offers that have more favorable specifications than initial offers associated with improvable offers are identified. The identified nonimprovable offers are associated with corresponding improvable offers. Straddles, which comprise a set of offers and a limit on the associations, may span multiple pools. Information about the marketplace may be obtained from data generated by the operation of the marketplace." The patent application was filed on Jan. 18, 2011 (13/008,218). 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=84,42,898.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,898&RS=PN/84,42,898 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Visa International Service Association Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Visa International Service Association, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,442,913) developed by Patrick Faith, Pleasanton, Calif., and Theodore D. Harris, San Francisco, for an evolving payment device. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer apparatus is provided that comprises processor and a computer-readable medium coupled to the processor. The computer readable medium comprises code executable by the processor for implementing a method that comprises receiving a first indication at a computer apparatus that an evolving token has been used in a first transaction. Use of the evolving token in the first transaction provides a first benefit. The method further comprises that in a subsequent transaction after the first transaction, the evolving token changes so that it is associated with a payment account and the evolving token can be used to make payments." The patent application was filed on May 10, 2011 (13/104,459). 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=84,42,913.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,913&RS=PN/84,42,913 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Fluential Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Fluential, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,442,812) developed by Farzad Ehsani, Sunnyvale, Calif., Eva M. Knodt, La Honda, Calif., and Demitrios L. Master, Cupertino, Calif., for "phrase-based dialogue modeling with particular application to creating a recognition grammar for a voice-controlled user interface." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The invention enables creation of grammar networks that can regulate, control, and define the content and scope of human-machine interaction in natural language voice user interfaces (NLVUI). The invention enables phrase-based modeling of generic structures of verbal interaction to be used for the purpose of automating part of the design of such grammar networks. Most particularly, the invention enables such grammar networks to be used in providing a voice-controlled user interface to human readable text data that is also machine-readable (such as a Web page, a word processing document, a PDF document, or a spreadsheet)." The patent application was filed on April 5, 2004 (10/818,219). 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=84,42,812.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,812&RS=PN/84,42,812 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Spendsmart Payments Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Spendsmart Payments, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,442,868) developed by four co-inventors for a "related party payment system." The co-inventors are James Collas, San Diego, Chris Nicolaidis, Carlsbad, Calif., Jonathan Shultz, Jamul, Calif., and Jeffery Hall, San Diego. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods are disclosed herein which that enable a first party, such as a child, to selected one or more items offered by an online retailer and to send a request to a second party, such as a parent or guardian, to request that the second party purchase the item or items for the first party. The systems and methods provide the second party with the ability to view requests received from the first party, to set limits on the number of requests and the amounts of the requests that the first party may make. The second party may also designate the parties to whom the first party may submit purchase requests. The child may also submit request to one or more non-parental contributors who may contribute money toward the purchase the one or more items for the child." The patent application was filed on Oct. 3, 2011 (13/251,972). 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=84,42,868.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,868&RS=PN/84,42,868 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Google Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,442,830) developed by Kaisuke Nakajima, San Jose, Calif., and Brian Strope, Palo Alto, Calif., for a "cross-lingual initialization of language models." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for initializing language models for automatic speech recognition. In one aspect, a method includes receiving logged speech recognition results from an existing corpus that is specific to a given language and a target context, generating a target corpus by machine-translating the logged speech recognition results from the given language to a different, target language, and estimating a language model that is specific to the different, target language and the same, target context, using the target corpus." The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2011 (13/250,436). 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=84,42,830.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,830&RS=PN/84,42,830 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Apple Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Apple, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,442,838) developed by Shyh-Shiaw Kuo, Cupertino, Calif., Hong Kaura, Sunnyvale, Calif., and William G. Stewart, Los Altos, Calif., for "bitrate constrained variable bitrate audio encoding." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A hybrid audio encoding technique incorporates both ABR, or CBR, and VBR encoding modes. For each audio coding block, after a VBR quantization loop meets the NMR target, a second quantization loop might be called to adaptively control the final bitrate. That is, if the NMR-based quantization loop results in a bitrate that is not within a specified range, then a bitrate-based CBR or ABR quantization loop determines a final bitrate that is within the range and is adaptively determined based on the encoding difficulty of the audio data. Excessive bitrates from use of conventional VBR mode are eliminated, while still providing much more constant perceptual sound quality than use of conventional CBR mode can achieve." The patent application was filed on Feb. 22, 2011 (13/031,963). 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=84,42,838.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,838&RS=PN/84,42,838 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Immersion Medical Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Immersion Medical, Baltimore, has been assigned a patent (8,442,806) developed by Milan Ikits, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Donald Douglas Nelson, Montgomery Village, Md., for "systems and methods for simulations utilizing a virtual coupling." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments include storing values of a first plurality of nodes in memory based on tracking the position of a plurality of points of a physical object and maintaining a second plurality of nodes in memory, each node of the second plurality of nodes corresponding to a node of the first plurality. The values of the second plurality of nodes can be used to model interactions with other objects and to render a view of a simulated object. The simulation can access data identifying a simulation boundary and selectively update values of the second plurality of nodes using the first plurality of nodes while ensuring that the simulation boundary is not violated. A value of the second plurality of nodes can be set to be different from the value of the corresponding one of the first plurality of nodes if using the first node's value would violate the boundary." The patent application was filed on March 3, 2010 (12/716,903). 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=84,42,806.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,806&RS=PN/84,42,806 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Visa USA Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Visa USA, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,442,909) developed by Howard Scott Debow, Piedmont, Calif., for a "transaction processing entity device support of an integrated offer network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method begins by generating, for each of a plurality of merchant devices, an offer data file to produce a plurality of offer data files. The method continues by: compiling, for one issuer device, an options data file for a group of credit cards based on at least one of the plurality of offer data files; transmitting the options data file to the issuer device; receiving, from the issuer device, at least one selection from the options data file to produce an options program file for the group of credit cards; receiving, from a card holder device associated with one of the group of credit cards, a selection of at least one option from the options program file to produce at least one selected option; and processing transactions of the one of the group of credit cards in accordance with the at least one selected option." The patent application was filed on April 3, 2012 (13/438,807). 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=84,42,909.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,909&RS=PN/84,42,909 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Visa USA Assigned Patent for Providing an Announcement about Transactions of a Target Merchant to a Consumer ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Visa USA, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,442,867) developed by Mark Carlson, Half Moon Bay, Calif., and May M. Mowzoon, Chandler, Ariz., for "providing an announcement about transactions of a target merchant to a consumer." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An announcement distributor distributes, or auctions an opportunity to distribute, an announcement to an announcement recipient such as a consumer, issuer, merchant, or acquirer within a payment processing system. The announcement is formed when there has been a satisfaction of an announcement condition, such as the consumer being determined to be located within a predetermined spatial zone. The content of the announcement may, in turn, facilitate a subsequent cashless transaction for resources of merchants. Implementations describe various permutations of the content of the announcement, the announcement condition, and the announcement recipient." The patent application was filed on March 23, 2011 (13/070,436). 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=84,42,867.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,867&RS=PN/84,42,867 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Runtime Dynamic Performance Skew Elimination ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,443,241) developed by Lawrence Y. Chiu, Saratoga, Calif., Paul H. Muench, San Jose, Calif., and Sangeetha Seshadri, Vancouver, Canada, for a "runtime dynamic performance skew elimination." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "For runtime dynamic performance skew elimination in a computer environment, an exemplary computer environment is configured for calculating a rank heats by utilizing a plurality of fine-grained statistics collected at an extent granularity, including considering bandwidth (BW) and input/outputs per second (IOPS) metrics. An adaptive data placement plan is generated to relocate the data. The data is placed among data storage ranks. The data storage ranks are balanced according to the adaptive data placement plan." The patent application was filed on June 25, 2012 (13/532,204). 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=8,443,241.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,241&RS=PN/8,443,241 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** LSI Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods for Hard Decision Assisted Decoding ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- LSI, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,443,267) developed by five co-inventors for "systems and methods for hard decision assisted decoding." The co-inventors are Hao Zhong, San Jose, Calif., Shaohua Yang, Santa Clara, Calif., Weijun Tan, Longmont, Colo., Changyou Xu, Fremont, Calif., and Yuan Xing Lee, San Jose, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for data processing. For example, a data processing system is disclosed that includes a processing loop circuit having a data detector and a soft decision decoder. The data detector provides a detected output, and the soft decision decoder applies a soft decoding algorithm to a derivative of the detected output to yield a soft decision output and a first hard decision output. The systems further include a queuing buffer and a hard decision decoder. The queuing buffer is operable to store the soft decision output, and the hard decision decoder accesses the soft decision output and applies a hard decoding algorithm to yield a second hard decision output. The data detector is operable to perform a data detection on a derivative of the soft decision output if the soft decision decoder and the hard decision decoder fail to converge." The patent application was filed on April 28, 2009 (12/430,927). 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=8,443,267.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,267&RS=PN/8,443,267 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Advanced Micro Devices, ATI Technologies ULC Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, Calif., and ATI Technologies ULC, Markham, Ontario, Canada, have been assigned a patent (8,443,225) developed by seven co-inventors for a "method and apparatus synchronizing integrated circuit clocks." The co-inventors are Aaron Nygren, San Francisco, Ming-Ju Edward Lee, San Jose, Calif., Shadi Barakat, San Mateo, Calif., Xiaoling Xu, Cupertino, Calif., Toan Duc Pham, San Jose, Calif., Warren Fritz Kruger, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Michael Litt, Toronto. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments described herein include a method and system for synchronizing clocks between coupled integrated circuits (ICs) in a computer system. According to an embodiment, a dedicated timing pin is provided on a first IC. The first IC configures a second IC to change a pin assignment, so that the second IC interprets a signal sent on the timing pin by the first IC and received on the reassigned pin as a request to transmit a return signal. The return signal is received on the timing pin. The return signal is used to determine whether timing should be adjusted by the first IC. In an embodiment a clock and data recover (CDR) circuit compares the signal sent to the signal received in order to make the determination. In an embodiment the first IC is a processor-based device, and the second IC is a memory device controlled by the first device." The patent application was filed on Aug. 13, 2012 (13/584,560). 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=8,443,225.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,225&RS=PN/8,443,225 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Rambus Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Rambus, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,443,223) developed by Aliazam Abbasfar, Campbell, Calif., for a "method and system for balancing receive-side supply load." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Described are digital communication systems that transmit and receive parallel sets of data symbols. Differences between successive sets of symbols induce changes in the current used to express the symbol sets, and thus introduce supply ripple. A receiver adds compensation current to reduce supply ripple. The compensation current is calculated based upon prior data samples rather than the current symbols, and consequently increases the maximum instantaneous current fluctuations between adjacent symbol sets as compared with circuits that do not include the compensation. The frequency response of the power-distribution network filters out the increased data dependence of the local supply current, however, and consequently reduces the fluctuations of total supply current. Some embodiments provide compensation currents for both transmitted and received symbols." The patent application was filed on July 7, 2009 (12/922,947). 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=8,443,223.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,223&RS=PN/8,443,223 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** LSI Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- LSI, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,443,271) developed by six co-inventors for "systems and methods for dual process data decoding." The co-inventors are Fan Zhang, Milpitas, Calif., Lei Chen, Santa Clara, Calif., Zongwang Li, San Jose, Calif., Shaohua Yang, San Jose, Calif., Yang Han, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Wu Chang, Santa Clara, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for data processing. For example, data processing systems are disclosed that include a data decoding system. The data decoding system includes a data decoder circuit and a simplified maximum likelihood value modification circuit. The data decoder circuit is operable to apply a data decode algorithm to a decoder input to yield a first decoded output and an indication of at least one point of failure of the first decoded output. The simplified maximum likelihood value modification circuit is operable to identify a symbol of the first decoded output associated with the point of failure, and to modify a subset of values associated with the identified symbol to yield a modified decoded output." The patent application was filed on Oct. 28, 2011 (13/284,730). 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=8,443,271.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,271&RS=PN/8,443,271 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Siebel Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Siebel Systems, San Mateo, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,442,883) developed by Taimur A. Rashid, San Mateo, Calif., for a "relationship management in an auction environment." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for providing relationship management in an auction environment can include a relationship management system and an auction system. The relationship management system and the auction system are communicatively coupled to one another. The relationship management system is configured to provide a relationship management function in conjunction with access to the auction system." The patent application was filed on June 30, 2005 (11/171,997). 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=84,42,883.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,883&RS=PN/84,42,883 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Apple Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Apple, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,443,285) developed by four co-inventors for a visual presentation composition. The co-inventors are William Martin Bachman, San Jose, Calif., Rachel A. Roth, San Francisco, Randy Ubillos, Los Altos, Calif., and G. Garrett Groszko, Oakland, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, systems and/or computer program products that help facilitate visual presentation composition may include, in one aspect, executing one or more processes executing on a computer system to present a user of a computer system with movie templates, each movie template having a corresponding theme and a sequence of shot placeholders, each shot placeholder including graphical indicia representing one or more desirable characteristics specific to that shot placeholder; receiving information from the user including a movie template selection and a selection of one or more video clips corresponding to desirable characteristics indicated by the shot placeholders; and generating a playable media file representing a movie based on the information received from the user." The patent application was filed on Aug. 24, 2010 (12/862,558). 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=8,443,285.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,285&RS=PN/8,443,285 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Stryker Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Stryker, Kalamazoo, Mich., has been assigned a patent (8,443,279) developed by six co-inventors for a "voice-responsive annotation of video generated by an endoscopic camera." The co-inventors are Salmaan Hameed, San Jose, Calif., Amit A. Mahadik, San Jose, Calif., Kiran A. Javadekar, San Jose, Calif., Prabhu Raghavan, San Jose, Calif., Nirali M. Verma, San Jose, Calif., and Anantharaman Balasubramanian, San Jose, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An image capture device in an endoscopic imaging system receives a video stream generated by an endoscopic video camera. In response to automatic recognition of a spoken utterance while the video stream is being received from the endoscopic video camera, the image capture device associates with the video stream an annotation that corresponds to the spoken utterance. The image capture device provides the video stream to a display device for display, such that the annotation can be overlaid on one or more frames of the video stream displayed on the display device." The patent application was filed on Oct. 13, 2004 (10/965,568). 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=8,443,279.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,279&RS=PN/8,443,279 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** SK hynix memory solutions Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- SK hynix memory solutions, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,443,257) developed by four co-inventors for a "rate-scalable, multistage quasi-cyclic LDPC coding." The co-inventors are Lingqi Zeng, San Jose, Calif., Yu Kou, San Jose, Calif., Kin Man Ng, Cupertino, Calif., and Kwok W. Yeung, Milpitas, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Encoding is performed by dividing a quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check (QC-LDPC) parity check matrix into a first sub-matrix and a second sub-matrix. The first sub-matrix includes a plurality of circulant vectors and the plurality of circulant vectors is associated with a circulant size. Input data is received having a length which is a product of an integer multiplier and the circulant size. A first stage of multi-stage LDPC encoding is performed using the input data and a subset of the plurality of circulant vectors; the number of circulant vectors in the subset equals the integer multiplier." The patent application was filed on March 2, 2011 (13/039,068). 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=8,443,257.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,257&RS=PN/8,443,257 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Apple Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods for Diagnosing and Fixing Electronic Devices ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Apple, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,443,226) developed by Svetlana Samoilova, Alameda, Calif., Wing Law, Cupertino, Calif., and Andrew Bart Hodge, Palo Alto, Calif., for "systems and methods for diagnosing and fixing electronic devices." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for reducing the cost and time required for diagnosing and fixing electronic devices are provided. A host electronic device may be configured to generate a log of events that it experiences. A help component may access the generated log and analyze the log to detect if the host device has experienced a problem. Data may then be exchanged between the help component and the host device in order to fix the detected problem." The patent application was filed on May 3, 2011 (13/099,824). 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=8,443,226.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,226&RS=PN/8,443,226 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Qualcomm Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,443,255) developed by six co-inventors for a "parity check matrix optimization and selection for iterative decoding." The co-inventors are Jing Jiang, San Diego, Tao Tian, San Diego, Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi, San Diego, Xinmiao Zhang, Broadview Heights, Ohio, Ashok Mantravadi, San Diego, and Krishna Mukkavilli, San Diego. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of generating a parity check matrix for iterative decoding of a linear block code includes: determining a set of parity check vectors for the linear block code; ordering according to Hamming weight non-zero parity check vectors of the set; selecting a criterion for generating the parity check matrix; and building the parity check matrix by incrementally selecting according to the criterion a parity check vector for each consecutive row of the parity check matrix, wherein the parity check vector is selected from the ordered non-zero parity check vectors remaining in the set." The patent application was filed on Aug. 26, 2010 (12/869,555). 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=8,443,255.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,255&RS=PN/8,443,255 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** LSI Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods for Out of Order Processing in a Data Retry ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- LSI, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,443,251) developed by Fan Zhang, Milpitas, Calif., Yang Han, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Shaohua Yang, San Jose, Calif., for "systems and methods for out of order processing in a data retry." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for data processing that includes selectively reporting results out of order or in order." The patent application was filed on Dec. 15, 2011 (13/326,363). 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=8,443,251.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,251&RS=PN/8,443,251 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** LSI Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods for Low Density Parity Check Data Encoding ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- LSI, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,443,249) developed by Zongwang Li, San Jose, Calif., Kiran Gunnam, San Jose, Calif., and Shaohua Yang, Santa Clara, Calif., for "systems and methods for low density parity check data encoding." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for encoding data. As an example, a data encoding circuit is disclosed that includes a first stage data encoder circuit and a second stage data encoder circuit. The first stage data encoder circuit is operable to provide a first stage output. The first stage data encoder circuit includes a first vector multiplier circuit operable to receive a data input and to multiply the data input by a first sparse matrix to yield a first interim value. The second stage encoder circuit includes a second vector multiplier circuit operable to multiply the first stage output by a second sparse matrix to yield a second interim value." The patent application was filed on April 26, 2010 (12/767,761). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1& 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. -1124926 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |