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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in New Jersey (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 New Jersey. *** Identix Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Identix, Bloomington, Minn., has been assigned a patent (8,442,967) developed by Michael Brauckmann, Witten, Germany, Ernst Mucke, Jersey City, N.J., and Michael Petrov, Princeton, N.J., for an "operator-assisted iterative biometric search." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Biometric search methods, apparatus, and systems using operator input for an operator-assisted iterative biometric search are provided. In certain embodiments, a set of candidate records is received at a computing device. At least a first portion of the set of candidate records is displayed. An indication that a first candidate record in the set of candidate records is not a match to the probe record is received. A first search of the set of candidate records using the first candidate record is performed. A score assigned to a second candidate record in the set of candidate records is modified when the second candidate record is more likely to be a match to the first candidate record than a match to the probe record. At least a second portion of the set of candidate records is displayed." The patent application was filed on Jan. 31, 2011 (13/018,261). 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=8,442,967&OS=8,442,967&RS=8,442,967 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Goldman Sachs Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Goldman Sachs, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,442,953) developed by David Lawrence, New York, Peter Nitze, Morristown, N.J., and Alasdair MacDonald, Incline Village, Nev., for a "method, system, apparatus, program code and means for determining a redundancy of information." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Some embodiments include a system, method, apparatus and means for determining that first information in an input data packet is not redundant with second information previously stored in a database system, includes receiving the input data packet, generating a database query based on one or more tagged portions in the input data packet, comparing second information retrieved by the database query with the first information to identify at least a first portion of the first information that is different than the second information, and causing storage of the at least a first portion of the first information in the database system." The patent application was filed on Sept. 15, 2004 (10/941,584). 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=8,442,953&OS=8,442,953&RS=8,442,953 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** CommVault Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- CommVault Systems, Oceanport, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,442,944) developed by five co-inventors for a "system and method for generating and managing quick recovery volumes." The co-inventors are Anand Prahlad, East Brunswick, N.J., Andreas May, Marlboro, N.J., Ivan Pittaluga, Kirkland, Wash., John Alexander, Bellevue, Wash., and Jeremy A. Schwartz, Red Bank, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The invention relates to computer readable medium storing program code which when executed on a computer causes the computer to perform a method for creating a quick recovery volume of a primary data set used by a first computer in a backup storage system, which includes identifying a snapshot image of the primary data set generated by a snapshot application, creating the quick recovery volume of the primary data set from the snapshot image of the primary data set and controlling transfer of data from the first computer to an archival storage unit. In one embodiment, the invention provides a method for creating a quick recovery volume of a primary data set that includes creating a snapshot image of the primary data set and creating a quick recovery volume of the primary data set from the snapshot image of the primary data set." The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2011 (13/250,763). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,442,944&OS=8,442,944&RS=8,442,944 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent for System and Method of Providing a Spoken Dialog Interface to a Website ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,442,834) developed by Srinivas Bangalore, Morristown, N.J., Junlan Feng, Basking Ridge, N.J., and Mazin G. Rahim, Warren, N.J., for a "system and method of providing a spoken dialog interface to a website." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed is a method for training a spoken dialog service component from website data. Spoken dialog service components typically include an automatic speech recognition module, a language understanding module, a dialog management module, a language generation module and a text-to-speech module. The method includes selecting anchor texts within a website based on a term density, weighting those anchor texts based on a percent of salient words to total words, and incorporating the weighted anchor texts into a live spoken dialog interface, the weights determining a level of incorporation into the live spoken dialog interface." The patent application was filed on Aug. 16, 2012 (13/587,554). 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=84,42,834.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,834&RS=PN/84,42,834 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Goldman, Sachs Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Goldman, Sachs, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,442,907) developed by Mel Gunewardena, New York, Michael Pinedo, Brooklyn, N.Y., and William R. Egan, Short Hills, N.J., for a "method, software program, and system for ranking relative risk of a plurality of transactions." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for ranking relative risk of a plurality of transactions, wherein each of the transactions has associated therewith a plurality of variables. In one embodiment the method includes assigning a value to each of the variables associated with each of the transactions, aggregating the values assigned to each of the variables on a transaction by transaction basis to produce an aggregate risk level for each transaction, and ranking each of the transactions relative to one another based upon the aggregate risk level corresponding to each transaction. A corresponding software program and system are also disclosed." The patent application was filed on Aug. 5, 2009 (12/536,397). 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=84,42,907.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,907&RS=PN/84,42,907 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** New York Mercantile Exchange Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- New York Mercantile Exchange, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,442,904) developed by Andrew Ferguson Milne, Maplewood, N.J., and Aleksandr Sedlin, Brooklyn, N.Y., for a "determination of implied orders in a trade matching system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer implemented method for determining implied orders in an electronic trading system is provided. The method comprises receiving a first set of one or more real orders, wherein the orders are not tradable against each other. One or more implied orders are identified within the first set of real orders. Market data corresponding to the implied orders can also be identified. At least one additional order is received and the tradability of the additional order is determined against the real or implied orders within the first set of real orders. A resting set of orders is determined from those real and implied orders within the first set of orders not affected by the tradability of the additional order. Implied orders are determined from within the set of resting orders." The patent application was filed on June 25, 2012 (13/532,352). 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=84,42,904.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,904&RS=PN/84,42,904 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Draeger Medical Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Draeger Medical Systems, Telford, Pa., has been assigned a patent (8,442,843) developed by seven co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for controlling a warming therapy device." The co-inventors are Harald Kneuer, Ambler, Pa., Thorsten Waloschek, Flemington, N.J., Peter Medico, Breinigsville, Pa., John Richards, Warrington, Pa., Ines Poggensee, Heilshoop, Germany, Nancy Files, Perkasie, Pa., and Philip Moehring, Luebeck, Germany. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus and method for controlling a warming therapy device (e.g., incubator, warmer, etc.) is described. In one exemplary embodiment, the apparatus includes a Graphical User Interlace (GUI) coupled to the warming therapy device for monitoring patient medical information, and for controlling various aspects of the warming therapy device accordingly." The patent application was filed on Nov. 14, 2008 (12/271,225). 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=84,42,843.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,843&RS=PN/84,42,843 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Goldman, Sachs Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods for Issuing and Maintaining a Bond ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Goldman, Sachs, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,442,899) developed by Lisa M. Recupero, Summit, N.J., for "systems and methods for issuing and maintaining a bond." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "According to some embodiments, a bond is issued to an investor in exchange for value. The bond may be, for example, a tax-free municipal bond associated with (i) a spread to a pre-determined index, (ii) a nominal maturity date, (iii) an initial mandatory tender date prior to the nominal maturity date, and/or (iv) an option for the investor to extend the initial mandatory tender date during an initial decision period. According to some embodiments an indication is received, during the initial decision period, indicating that the investor will extend the initial mandatory tender date. It may then be arranged for the initial mandatory tender date to be extended such that the bond will be associated with a subsequent option for the investor to extend an extended tender date during a subsequent decision period." The patent application was filed on Sept. 2, 2011 (13/224,544). 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=84,42,899.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,899&RS=PN/84,42,899 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,442,835) developed by Lusheng Ji, Randolph, N.J., Hisao Chang, Cedar Park, Texas, and Robert R. Miller II, Convent Station, N.J., for "methods, systems, and products for measuring health." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, systems, and products measure health data related to a user. A spoken phrase is received and time-stamped. The user is identified from the spoken phrase. A window of time is determined from a semantic content of the spoken phrase. A sensor measurement is received and time-stamped. A difference in time between the time-stamped spoken phrase and the time-stamped sensor measurement is determined and compared to the window of time. When the difference in time is within the window of time, then the sensor measurement is associated with the user." The patent application was filed on June 17, 2010 (12/817,255). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=84,42,835.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,835&RS=PN/84,42,835 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent for System and Method for Customized Voice Response ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,442,827) developed by Nicholas Duffield, Summit, N.J., for a "system and method for customized voice response." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for approximating an accent source. A system practicing the method collects data associated with customer specific services, generates country-specific or dialect-specific weights for each service in the customer specific services list, generates a summary weight based on an aggregation of the country-specific or dialect-specific weights, and sets an interactive voice response system language model based on the summary weight and the country-specific or dialect-specific weights. The interactive voice response system can also change the user interface based on the interactive voice response system language model. The interactive voice response system can tune a voice recognition algorithm based on the summary weight and the country-specific weights. The interactive voice response system can adjust phoneme matching in the language model based on a possibility that the speaker is using other languages." The patent application was filed on June 18, 2010 (12/818,821). 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=84,42,827.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,827&RS=PN/84,42,827 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Agere Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Agere Systems, Allentown, Pa., has been assigned a patent (8,442,819) developed by Christof Faller, Murray Hill, N.J., for a "distortion-based method and apparatus for buffer control in a communication system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus are disclosed for controlling a buffer in a communication system, such as a digital audio broadcasting (DAB) communication system. A more consistent perceptual quality over time provides for a more pleasing auditory experience to a listener. The disclosed bit allocation process determines, for each frame, a distortion d[k] at which the frame is to be encoded. The distortion d[k] is determined to minimize (i) the probability for a buffer overflow, and (ii) the variation of perceived distortion over time. A buffer level is controlled by partitioning a signal into a sequence of successive frames; estimating a distortion rate for a number of frames; and selecting a distortion such that the variance of the buffer level is bounded by a specified value." The patent application was filed on April 13, 2006 (11/403,530). 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=84,42,819.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,819&RS=PN/84,42,819 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** NEC Laboratories America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,442,927) developed by four co-inventors for a "dynamically configurable, multi-ported co-processor for convolutional neural networks." The co-inventors are Srimat Chakradhar, Manalapan, N.J., Murugan Sankaradas, Dayton, N.J., Venkata S. Jakkula, Bordentown, N.J., and Srihari Cadambi, Princeton, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A coprocessor and method for processing convolutional neural networks includes a configurable input switch coupled to an input. A plurality of convolver elements are enabled in accordance with the input switch. An output switch is configured to receive outputs from the set of convolver elements to provide data to output branches. A controller is configured to provide control signals to the input switch and the output switch such that the set of convolver elements are rendered active and a number of output branches are selected for a given cycle in accordance with the control signals." The patent application was filed on Feb. 1, 2010 (12/697,823). 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=84,42,927.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,927&RS=PN/84,42,927 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** ITG Software Solutions Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- ITG Software Solutions, Culver City, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,442,902) developed by Hitesh Mittal, Edison, N.J., for a "system, method and program for preventing gaming in a trading system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "System, method, and program for preventing gaming in a trading system. The systems, methods and programs can receive an order from a trader to trade securities in an alternative trading system, determine if gaming is occurring, set a price collar for the order, and submit the order to the alternative trading system with the price collar." The patent application was filed on Feb. 17, 2012 (13/399,429). 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=84,42,902.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,902&RS=PN/84,42,902 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Bank of New York Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Bank of New York, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,442,905) developed by John Morik, Old Bridge, N.J., for a "system and method facilitating whole loan tri-party repurchase agreement transactions." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method facilitates tri-party repurchase transactions for whole loans. The system and method obtain details regarding a whole loan to be used for collateral in a tri-party agreement transaction with an investor, from both the dealer or trader offering the whole loan as collateral and one or more third parties with access to those details. Based on the received details, the system formulates a valuation of the whole loan collateral and posts a whole loan collateral entry to facilitate tri-party repurchase of the whole loan collateral." The patent application was filed on Nov. 20, 2006 (11/561,747). 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=84,42,905.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,905&RS=PN/84,42,905 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent for Systems, Methods, and Computer Program Products for Estimating Crowd Sizes ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,442,807) developed by Jayaraman Ramachandran, Plainsboro, N.J., for "systems, methods, and computer program products for estimating crowd sizes using information collected from mobile devices in a wireless communications network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems, methods, and computer program products are for estimating crowd size at a location. An exemplary method includes determining, at a crowd size analyzer, a number of wireless service users at the location, and estimating, at the crowd size analyzer, a total number of people at the location based upon the number of wireless service users determined to be at the location." The patent application was filed on June 1, 2010 (12/791,463). 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=84,42,807.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,807&RS=PN/84,42,807 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** JPMorgan Chase Bank Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- JPMorgan Chase Bank, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,442,885) developed by five co-inventors for an "algorithmic trading management system and method." The co-inventors are Carl Carrie, Manhasset Hills, N.Y., Deepak Nautiyal, Princeton Junction, N.J., Jarrett Sydell, White Plains, N.Y., Bryce Byers, Orem, Utah, and Greg Cook, Salem, Utah. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the invention are directed to a computer-implemented system and method for facilitating electronic market participation of traders. The algorithmic trading management system may comprise an algorithm and/or sequence usage and construction module providing conditional user interface features for allowing traders to construct algorithms or sequences to structure trading orders. The system may additionally include sequence modification components for allowing traders to modify algorithms collected from external sources in order to customize trading orders. The system may further include operator intervention tools for allowing traders to manually influence sequence execution through a user interface." The patent application was filed on Feb. 4, 2009 (12/365,451). 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=84,42,885.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,885&RS=PN/84,42,885 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent for Asymmetric Data Mirroring ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,443,229) developed by James A. Gardner, Holmdel, N.J., and Darrell G. Freeman, Breckenridge, Texas, for an asymmetric data mirroring. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An asymmetric data mirroring method with a local storage device and a remote storage device being separated by large distances is disclosed. A server determines a predetermined time period associated with a round trip latency between the server and a remote storage device. The server submits a request to a local storage device, a remote storage device and a memory device disposed between the server and the remote storage device. The server submits additional requests to the local and remote storage devices during the predetermined time period. The server stores a copy of each request submitted by the server to the remote storage device in a memory disposed between the server and the remote storage device while the server waits for whether an acknowledgement associated with the request has been received from the remote storage device during the predetermined time period. The server resubmits the request and the additional requests to the remote storage device if the acknowledgement is not received. If an acknowledgement is received, the server continues submission of additional new requests to the local and remote storage devices." The patent application was filed on March 31, 2011 (13/077,370). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,443,229.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,229&RS=PN/8,443,229 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,443,276) developed by Christopher J. O'Brien, Brooklyn, N.Y., and Andrew Wason, Atlantic Highlands, N.J., for a "system and data model for shared viewing and editing of time-based media." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention provides a system and method for enabling shared viewing and editing of time-based media with improved speed by avoiding manipulation and re-manipulation of a stored underlying video data format through the use of metadata processes and cross-linked multi-level metadata processes and systems for operating with a decision list tracking device." The patent application was filed on March 28, 2007 (12/294,583). 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=8,443,276.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,276&RS=PN/8,443,276 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** CommVault Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- CommVault Systems, Oceanport, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,443,142) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and system for grouping storage system components." The co-inventors are Srinivas Kavuri, South Plainfield, N.J., Anand Prahlad, East Brunswick, N.J., Anand Vibhor, Eatontown, N.J., and Parag Gokhale, Ocean, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems are provided for associating a storage system component, e.g. a server, client, machine, sub-client, or other storage system component, with one or more other storage system components into a group. Storage preferences are defined for the group which is automatically associated with each component in the group. The storage preferences define how storage operations are to be performed on the storage system components." The patent application was filed on May 31, 2011 (13/149,647). 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=8,443,142.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,142&RS=PN/8,443,142 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,443,076) developed by four co-inventors for a "prefix hijacking detection device and methods thereof." The co-inventors are Lusheng Ji, Randolph, N.J., Dan Pei, Jersey City, N.J., Tonqing Qiu, Smyrna, Ga., and Jia Wang, Randolph, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of placing prefix hijacking detection modules in a communications network includes selecting a set of candidate locations. For each candidate location, a detection coverage ratio with respect to a target Autonomous System is calculated. Based on the relative size of the coverage ratios, proposed locations for the prefix hijacking detection modules are determined." The patent application was filed on Dec. 17, 2009 (12/640,663). 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=8,443,076&OS=8,443,076&RS=8,443,076 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Siemens Assigned Patent for System and Method for Applying Model-based Testing to Train Control Systems ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Siemens, Iselin, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,443,336) developed by Marlon E.R. Vieira, East Windsor, N.J., Klaus Didrich, Teltow, Germany, and Stefan Herbst, Gorlitz, Germany, for a "system and method for applying model-based testing to train control systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for model-based testing of an industrial system includes modeling functionality of an industrial system using a modeling computer language, enhancing the model by adding functionality or refining existing functionality, generating test suites from the system model, and executing the test suites. The modeling computer language is the Unified Modeling Language (UML), wherein modeling includes defining UML use case diagrams to describe relationships among use cases specified for the system and actors who interact with the system according to the use cases, defining UML activity diagrams to model process logic of each use case, wherein the activity diagrams comprise a sequence of activities and transitions, and defining UML class diagrams to specify data categories and attributes that are inputs to the activities of the activity diagrams, wherein data categories relevant for a use case are modeled as test variables in the activity diagram." The patent application was filed on Oct. 3, 2007 (11/866,566). 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=8,443,336&OS=8,443,336&RS=8,443,336 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent for Mitigating Low-rate Denial-of-service Attacks in Packet-switched Networks ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,443,444) developed by four co-inventors for "mitigating low-rate denial-of-service attacks in packet-switched networks." The co-inventors are Jia Wang, Randolph, N.J., Chia-Wei Chang, San Diego, Seungjoon Lee, Basking Ridge, N.J., and Bill Lin, La Jolla, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method includes determining, at a network routing device, an average packet drop rate for a plurality of aggregations of packet flows. The method also determines a threshold packet drop rate based on the average packet drop rate, a current packet drop rate for a select aggregation of the plurality of aggregations, and whether at least one packet flow of the select aggregation is potentially subject to a denial-of-service attack based on a comparison of the current packet drop rate to the threshold packet drop rate." The patent application was filed on Nov. 18, 2009 (12/621,212). 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=8,443,444&OS=8,443,444&RS=8,443,444 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Federal Reserve Bank of New York Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,443,448) developed by Danny Brando, Livingston, N.J., Joonho Lee, New York, and Jia Ye, Brooklyn, N.Y., for a "system and method for detection of non-compliant software installation." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for performing a security check may include using at least one processor to periodically check a status of a flag, generate and store a baseline representation of modules stored on the device where the flag is determined to be set to a first state, and, where the flag is determined to be set to a second state, generate an active representation of modules stored on the first device, compare the active representation of modules to the baseline representation of modules, and, responsive to a determination in the comparing step of a difference between the baseline and active representations of modules, output an alert. The flag status may depend on an association of the device with one of a plurality of authorization policies, each mapped to one of the two states. Results of the comparison may be appended to an activity log of the device." The patent application was filed on Aug. 20, 2009 (12/544,652). 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=8,443,448&OS=8,443,448&RS=8,443,448 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** University of New York Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- The University of New York, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,443,441) developed by four co-inventors for "system and methods for detecting malicious email transmission." The co-inventors are Salvatore J. Stolfo, Ridgewood, N.J., Eleazar Eskin, Santa Monica, Calif., Shlomo Herskop, Brooklyn, N.Y., and Manasi Bhattacharyya, Flushing, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and methods of detecting an occurrence of a violation of an email security policy of a computer system. A model relating to the transmission of prior emails through the computer system is defined which is derived from statistics relating to the prior emails. For selected emails to be analyzed, statistics concerning the selected email are gathered. Such statistics may refer to the behavior or other features of the selected emails, attachments to emails, or email accounts. The determination of whether a violation of an email security policy has occurred is performed by applying the model of prior email transmission to the statistics relating to the selected email. The model may be statistical or probabilistic. A model of prior email transmission may include grouping email recipients into cliques. A determination of a violation of a security policy may occur if email recipients for a particular email are in more than one clique." The patent application was filed on Dec. 8, 2009 (12/633,493). 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=8,443,441&OS=8,443,441&RS=8,443,441 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent for System and Method to Distribute Video-on-demand Content ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,443,411) developed by Andrew Gauld, Middletown, N.J., for a "system and method to distribute video-on-demand content." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Method, system and computer-readable medium to distribute VOD content are disclosed. A method of displaying video content includes accessing an association table for video-on-demand (VOD) content. The association table includes a first segment entry associated with a first video segment of a first length and a second segment entry associated with a second video segment of a second length that is longer than the first length. The first segment entry includes a first multicast group ID and the second segment entry includes a second multicast group ID. The method further includes receiving the first video segment via the first multicast group ID, displaying the received first video segment, and receiving the second video segment via the second multicast group ID within a period of time of displaying the first video segment." The patent application was filed on Nov. 26, 2008 (12/324,262). 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=8,443,411&OS=8,443,411&RS=8,443,411 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** NEC Laboratories America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,443,080) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for determining application dependency paths in a data center." The co-inventors are Min Ding, Chalfont, Pa., Vishal Singh, Plainsboro, N.J., Yueping Zhang, Princeton, N.J., and Guofei Jiang, Princeton, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and a system are disclosed for determining application dependency paths in a data center. The method and the system captures application traffic volume data on the servers with switches and monitoring agents; generates an application traffic matrix of all the components of the applications based on the application traffic volume data; estimates the number of the applications in the data center from the traffic matrix with a Rank Estimation via Singular Value Decomposition or Power Factorization Residue Errors process; and decomposes the traffic matrix into a first matrix and a second matrix with a non-negative matrix factorization process using the estimated number of applications. The first matrix represents a set of the components belonging to each of the applications and the second matrix represents the amount of traffic generated by each application over time. Any noise in the first and second matrices is removed with a concurrent volumes ratios based correlation process." The patent application was filed on May 4, 2011 (13/100,805). 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=8,443,080&OS=8,443,080&RS=8,443,080 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** NGNA Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- NGNA, Denver, has been assigned a patent (8,443,415) developed by five co-inventors for "system and method of supporting transport and playback of signals." The co-inventors are John G. Hildebrand, Philadelphia, Francisco Gonzalez, Atlanta, Mark Francisco, Clarksburg, N.J., Weidong Mao, West Windsor, N.J., and Saifur Rahman, Philadelphia. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system of supporting transport and playback of signals, such as audio, video, and data signals. A reference model configured to support transport of signals according to a baseline, extended mode (1), and extended mode (2) architecture, and a subscriber video device (SVD) configured to support playback of the signals transported according to any of the architectures." The patent application was filed on Jan. 31, 2005 (10/597,576). 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=8,443,415&OS=8,443,415&RS=8,443,415 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. 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. -1124946 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |