[May 15, 2013] U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Virginia (May 15) Tweet (Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Virginia. *** Activision Publishing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Activision Publishing, Santa Monica, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,442,946) developed by six co-inventors for "controlling and using virtual universe wish lists." The co-inventors are Rick A. Hamilton II, Charlottesville, Va., James R. Kozloski, New Fairfield, Conn., Brian M. O'Connell, Cary, N.C., Clifford A. Pickover, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., James W. Seaman, Falls Church, Va., and Keith R. Walker, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Described herein are examples of a virtual universe wish list as well as its control and use. Some embodiments are directed to determining a selection of an object in a virtual universe that is a desired by a user, which user is represented by a first avatar. Some embodiments are further directed to designating the object as a desired item in a wish list for the first avatar. The wish list may be stored in the avatar's virtual universe inventory. Some embodiments are further directed to determining a second avatar in the virtual universe that possesses an instance of the virtual object. Some embodiments are further directed to generating an advertisement to obtain the instance of the virtual object from the second avatar on behalf of the first avatar." The patent application was filed on March 29, 2012 (13/433,593). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,442,946&OS=8,442,946&RS=8,442,946 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Safadi Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Rami B. Safadi, Vienna, Va., has been assigned a patent (8,442,964) developed by Rami B. Safadi, and Ibrahim M. Hallaj, Waltham, Mass., for an "information retrieval based on partial machine recognition of the same." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for capturing and recognizing at least a portion of a source document, whether written or audible, then searching for information, or other documents, that correspond to the captured and recognized portion of the source document. Various techniques for adding translation and/or searching are also disclosed. In some instances, an iterative machine learning process is applied to improve the performance of an aspect of the system." The patent application was filed on Dec. 30, 2010 (12/982,315). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,442,964&OS=8,442,964&RS=8,442,964 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Mcmcap Partners Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Mcmcap Partners, Bethesda, Md., has been assigned a patent (8,442,908) developed by five co-inventors for "systems and methods for asset valuation." The co-inventors are Michael Niccolini, Baltimore, Kevin Kirkbride, Washington, James Jedediah Williams, Boyds, Md., Walter Hancock, Leesburg, Va., and William L. Newcomb, Washington. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for asset valuation, whole loan processing and inventory management is described. The systems and methods may include modules. An asset valuation tool may use multiple data sources for producing current and predicted future values and historical and intermediate data points on a requested timeline. A loan information pricing tool may perform unlimited volumes of loan program eligibility and multi-variable pricings on a user desktop. A workout activity tracking tool may capture, monitor, measure and report on a loan workout process including direct hosting and integration of the asset valuation tool and the loan information pricing tool. The present invention may offer diverse and competitive modular components as well as an integrated and innovative platform that does not exist in the market." The patent application was filed on June 11, 2010 (12/813,657). 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=84,42,908.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,908&RS=PN/84,42,908 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** PaperCardShop.com Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- PaperCardShop.com, Arlington, Va., has been assigned a patent (8,442,870) developed by Glen A. Homan, Arlington, Va., for "systems and methods for selling or offering paper or electronic greeting cards on the internet." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for generating a greeting card selection interface is provided. In some embodiments, the greeting card selection interface may be used to electronically sell or offer paper greeting cards or electronic greeting cards. The greeting card selection interface may overcome design challenges and improve the shopping experience by allowing the user to shop for cards in a quicker and more intuitive fashion, reducing the time that the user needs to select one or more cards of interest while providing appropriate detail that consumers of greeting cards typically require before making a purchase. Various improvements to the shopping experience include sizing, formatting (including layout), positioning, obtaining appropriate images, and obtaining information related to greeting cards that optimize the electronic shopping experience." The patent application was filed on Nov. 16, 2012 (13/679,540). 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=84,42,870.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,870&RS=PN/84,42,870 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Capital One Financial Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Capital One Financial, McLean, Va., has been assigned a patent (8,442,872) developed by Jonathan Turner, Richmond, Va., and Arthur Koeppel, Richmond, Va., for a "system and methods for providing financial account information over a network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for providing financial account messages to customers while accessing web sites is disclosed. Methods, systems and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention enable a financial account issuer to provide an application to customer's computer system over a network. The application may be configured to provide various messages associated with the customer's financial account provided by the financial account issuer while the customer browses web sites. The financial account messages may be configured to provide interactive and dynamically changing account status information based on attempted purchases of goods and/or services by the customer at merchants' web sites. The application may also be configured to provide rating information associated with web sites accessed by the customer." The patent application was filed on Dec. 6, 2006 (11/634,288). 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=84,42,872.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,872&RS=PN/84,42,872 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Thermodynamic Design, Meso Scale Diagnostics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Thermodynamic Design, Potomac, Md., and Meso Scale Diagnostics, Gaithersburg, Md., have been assigned a patent (8,442,921) developed by five co-inventors for a "real property information management, retention and transferal system and methods for using same." The co-inventors are Jacob Wohlstadter, Potomac, Md., Bradley Christiansen, Centreville, Va., Craig Philip Lovell, Fairfax, Va., Michael Osganian, Fairfax, Va., and Michael Vock, Vienna, Va. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention is in the field of computer systems and processes for managing real and personal property. One aspect of the invention is directed to capturing history of a (real) property, which may include a description of the property, the personal property located on the real property, the projects and maintenance performed or to be performed on the property and their impact on the owner's tax basis in the property. Another aspect of invention allows for sharing of this history with an online community and for transferring the history (or portions thereof) on sale to a buyer." The patent application was filed on June 6, 2008 (12/451,946). 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=84,42,921.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,921&RS=PN/84,42,921 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Verizon Business Global Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Verizon Business Global, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,443,239) developed by Kaustubh Phaltankar, Springfield, Va., for a "high resiliency network infrastructure." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The invention provides a highly resilient network infrastructure that provides connectivity between a main network such as the Internet and a subnetwork such as a server-based (e.g., web server) local area network. In accordance with the invention, a network interface incorporated into a server hosting center provides a resilient architecture that achieves redundancy in each of three different layers of the Open System Interconnect (OSI) stack protocol (i.e., physical interface, data link, and network layers). For every network device that is active as a primary communication tool for a group of subnetworks, the same device is a backup for another group of subnetworks. Based on the same connection-oriented switching technology (e.g., asynchronous transfer mode (ATM)) found in high-speed, broadband Internet backbones such as that provided by InternetMCI, the network interface architecture provides a high degree of resiliency, reliability and scalability. In accordance with the invention, interface network routers which provide routing functionality and connectivity between the Internet backbone and the customer subnetworks are fully meshed with those deployed in the Internet backbone. Permanent virtual circuits (PVCs) providing a multitude of logical transmission paths between each hosting center router and every router in the Internet backbone, greatly reduces processing delays of data traffic through the infrastructure as only a single "hop" routing step is required between any external access point on the Internet backbone and a hosting center router." The patent application was filed on May 12, 2011 (13/106,440). 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=8,443,239.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,239&RS=PN/8,443,239 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, Washington, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., have been assigned a patent (8,442,892) developed by four co-inventors for "REIT-based pure property return indexes." The co-inventors are David Geltner, Carlisle, Mass., Henry Pollakowski, Belmont, Mass., Holly Horrigan, Needham, Mass., and Bradford Case, McLean, Va. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present disclosure is directed to generating REIT-based pure property return indexes. First, REIT return data is compiled from each REIT of a plurality of REITs at a predetermined frequency. Then, the generated REIT return data is de-levered and processed according to exposures to each of a plurality of target characteristics to obtain coefficients reflecting each REIT's weight in an index. Finally, an index is generated according to the REITs, the obtained coefficients, and the weights." The patent application was filed on Dec. 29, 2009 (12/648,449). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=84,42,892.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,892&RS=PN/84,42,892 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Objective Interface Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Objective Interface Systems, Herndon, Va., has been assigned a patent (8,443,191) developed by Reynolds Wiliam Beckwith, Great Falls, Va., Jeffrey Grant Marshall, Herndon, Va., and Jeffrey William Chilton, Reston, Va., for a "system and method for accessing information resources using cryptographic authorization permits." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for securing information associates a party with a node that communicates messages over one or more channels based on a channel access privilege. One or more authorities sign a cryptographic authorization permit (CAP) to authorize the channel access privilege, which can be a write privilege or a read privilege. In one embodiment, the authorization for the channel access privilege is based on a public key issued by an authority and the CAP comprises a cryptographic certificate digitally signed by the authority." The patent application was filed on April 9, 2007 (11/783,359). 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=8,443,191.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,191&RS=PN/8,443,191 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Xilinx Assigned Patent for Methods and Systems with Transaction-level Lockstep ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Xilinx, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,443,230) developed by five co-inventors for "methods and systems with transaction-level lockstep." The co-inventors are Philip B. James-Roxby, Longmont, Colo., Ralph D. Wittig, Menlo Park, Calif., Brendan K. Bridgford, Vienna, Va., Robert M. McGee, Placitas, N.M., and Richard DeFelice, Pikesville, Md. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for redundant operation of a first and second processor are provided. A set of instructions is executed in parallel on the first and second processors. In response to a first access transaction for a peripheral device being issued from execution of an instruction by the first processor, the first processor suspends operation. In response to the first access transaction being a write transaction, the write transaction is not issued to the peripheral device until the second processor executes the instruction and issues a second access transaction that is equal to the write transaction. In response to the first access transaction being a read transaction, the read transaction is not issued to the peripheral device until the second processor executes the instruction." The patent application was filed on Dec. 15, 2010 (12/969,355). 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=8,443,230.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,230&RS=PN/8,443,230 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Verizon Patent and Licensing Assigned Patent for Access Controls for Multimedia Systems ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Verizon Patent and Licensing, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,443,382) developed by Eugene W. Taylor, Chesapeake, Va., for "access controls for multimedia systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A media client stores separate account settings for multiple user accounts, where each of the separate user accounts includes access time limits for use of devices associated with the media client. The media client also receives a login request for one of the user accounts, and retrieves, based on account settings for the active account, interactive content for the active account. The media client presents to a user of the active account the interactive content and receives user input responding to the interactive content. The media client adjusts the access time limits for the devices, based on the user input and the account settings for the active account, and monitors usage time of the devices by the user of the active account. The media client blocks access to one of the devices when a monitored usage time exceeds the adjusted access time limit for the corresponding device." The patent application was filed on March 25, 2010 (12/731,336). 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=8,443,382&OS=8,443,382&RS=8,443,382 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Interactive Social Internetworks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Interactive Social Internetworks, Falls Church, Va., has been assigned a patent (8,443,082) developed by Hien Van Nguyen, Chantilly, Va., for a "network communication systems and methods." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for communicating via a network may employ communication devices capable of functioning in a server mode and a client mode. Communication may begin by activating a server mode for a first communication device. The first communication device in the server mode may receive a message from a second communication device, the message comprising an identity associated with the second communication device. The first communication device may retrieve a key associated with the second communication device and verify the identity associated with the second communication device by comparing data in the message from the second communication device with data in the key. A client mode may be activated for the first communication device. The first communication device in client mode may send a message to an address associated with the second communication device, the message comprising an identity associated with the first communication device." The patent application was filed on Feb. 28, 2012 (13/407,411). 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=8,443,082&OS=8,443,082&RS=8,443,082 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** U.S. Navy Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- The U.S. Navy has been assigned a patent (8,443,101) developed by William Karl Geissler, Stafford, Va., and John Colin McEachen, Carmel, Calif., for a "method for identifying and blocking embedded communications." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for steganography and steganalytic techniques are provided for effecting embedded communications in a variety of communication environments. One aspect may include an embedded transmitter for inserting embedded data into a packet and an embedded receiver for receiving the packet via, for example, a packetized communication network such as the Internet. Various aspects of the present invention provide robust communications with optimized throughput and may include various error handlers to maximize performance and ensure transfer of incorrupt data. A method for identifying and blocking embedded communications is also provided." The patent application was filed on April 9, 2010 (12/757,429). 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=8,443,101&OS=8,443,101&RS=8,443,101 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** AOL Assigned Patent for Server Evaluation of Client-side Script ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- AOL, Dulles, Va., has been assigned a patent (8,443,346) developed by four co-inventors for a "server evaluation of client-side script." The co-inventors are Richard M. Sanford, Seattle, Jennifer L. Kolar, Seattle, Anthony Wiegering, Seattle, and Abdur Chowdhury, Oakton, Va. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A facility is described for server-side evaluation of client-side script, such as to crawl and index dynamically generated links. In various embodiments, the facility provides an object that emulates a browser object. The provided object exposes a function for performing steps comprising receiving a first link and storing the received first link in a list of links to be processed. The facility receives a second link to be processed, loads a second document identified by the received second link, and assigns the provided object to a global variable so that a script associated with the loaded second document invokes the function exposed by the provided object instead of a function with a similar name that is exposed by the emulated browser object. The function with the similar name exposed by the emulated browser object handles the received first link without storing it in the list of links to be processed." The patent application was filed on April 17, 2007 (11/736,467). 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=8,443,346&OS=8,443,346&RS=8,443,346 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Verisign Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Verisign, Reston, Va., has been assigned a patent (8,443,375) developed by Roberto Rodrigues, Herndon, Va., and Suresh Bhogavilli, Gaithersburg, Md., for lockless queues. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for passing data from a first processing thread to a second processing thread, wherein the first processing thread produces data to be processed by the second processing thread. The data from the first processing thread may be inserted into objects that in turn are inserted into a queue of objects to be processed by the second thread. The queue may be a circular array, wherein the array includes a pointer to a head and a pointer to a tail, wherein only the first processing thread modifies the tail pointer and only the second processing thread modifies the head pointer." The patent application was filed on Dec. 14, 2009 (12/637,166). 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=8,443,375&OS=8,443,375&RS=8,443,375 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Time Warner Cable Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Time Warner Cable, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,443,403) developed by four co-inventors for "methods and apparatus for providing voice mail services." The co-inventors are David G. Bell, Broomfield, Colo., Matthew Cannon, Sterling, Va., Chad Enney, Broomfield, Colo., and Tom Gonder, Tega Cay, S.C. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus for retrieving and providing voice mail messages from a server are described. In accordance with the invention voice mail messages may be retrieved via requests made via a set top box. Voice mail messages are retrieved in response to the request from a voice mail server which is also accessible via the telephone network. Retrieved voice mail is transcoded and included in a video on demand (VOD) file. Text, call ID information and/or other information as, e.g., an automatically generated transcript of the voice mail message, may be included in the VOD file. The VOD file is supplied to a VOD server which provides the file including the message to the set top box for display. A user can view the messages and switch from viewing one message to the next by using video play back commands." The patent application was filed on Sept. 4, 2009 (12/554,126). 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=8,443,403&OS=8,443,403&RS=8,443,403 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Sprint Communications Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Sprint Communications, Overland Park, Kan., has been assigned a patent (8,443,429) developed by Robert S. Johnson Sr., Louisburg, Kan., and Elton Tila, Herndon, Va., for an integrated sign on. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of integrated signon is provided comprising receiving a login request to begin a desktop session, the login request comprising a first user identification and a first user password. The method comprises authenticating the first user identification and the first user password using data stored in a first authentication domain. The method comprises starting the desktop session and receiving a request from the desktop session to access an application associated with a second authentication domain. The method comprises retrieving authorization data associated with the second authentication domain from the first authentication domain based on the first user identification and the user password. The method comprises sending the request to access the application associated with the second authentication domain with the authorization data to the application associated with the second authentication domain. The method comprises the application associated with the second authentication domain authorizing the requested access." The patent application was filed on May 24, 2010 (12/786,277). 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=8,443,429&OS=8,443,429&RS=8,443,429 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. -1124957 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]