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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Washington (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 Washington. *** Groundspeak Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Groundspeak, Seattle, has been assigned a patent (8,442,963) developed by Jeremy A. Irish, Seattle, Sean E. Boots, Renton, Wash., and Elias C. Alvord, Seattle, for a "system and method for compiling geospatial data for on-line collaboration." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for compiling geospatial data for on-line collaboration is provided. A database of categories is maintained. Each category includes one or more waymarks and is associated with at least one variable having one or more attributes, which each specify a type of data storable under that variable. A search is performed and one of the categories is selected. A new waymark is formed under the selected category. First, geospatial data defining a location is received from a user. Second, metadata describing a physical object associated with a location is received. One or more of the attributes, which each specify the type of data in agreement with the metadata is defined. Third, the geospatial data is compiled with the metadata for the new waymark. The new waymark is stored under the selected category. The new waymark is published on-line." The patent application was filed on Dec. 15, 2008 (12/335,513). 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=8,442,963&OS=8,442,963&RS=8,442,963 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. *** 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. *** Boeing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Boeing, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (8,442,804) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for composite part data extraction." The co-inventors are Jamie A. Kessel, Kent, Wash., Phillip J. Fisher, Seattle, Paul J. Shirron, Black Diamond, Wash., and Donald M. Mullins, Shoreline, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer implemented method for generating a section cut in a model of a part. A location on the part is identified. An axis system is created at the location in the model of the part, wherein the axis system has an axis that is normal to a surface at the location in the model of the part. Section cuts intersecting the surface and plies below the surface are created. A plurality of sampling points on the surface is identified based on the section cuts. Core sampling is preformed using the plurality of sampling points to generate sampled data." The patent application was filed on Aug. 15, 2008 (12/192,168). 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=84,42,804.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,804&RS=PN/84,42,804 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Application-dependent Information for Recognition Processing ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,442,826) developed by five co-inventors for an "application-dependent information for recognition processing." The co-inventors are Jonathan E. Hamaker, Issaquah, Wash., Julian James Odell, Kirkland, Wash., Michael D. Plumpe, Seattle, Sandeep Manocha, Redmond, Wash., and Keith C. Herold, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Architecture for integrating application-dependent information into a constraints component at deployment time or when available. In terms of a general grammar, the constraints component can include or be a general grammar that comprises application-independent information and is structured in such a way that application-dependent information can be integrated into the general grammar without loss of fidelity. The general grammar includes a probability space and reserves a section of the probability space for the integration of application-dependent information. An integration component integrates the application-dependent information into the reserved section of the probability space for recognition processing. The application-dependent information is integrated into the reserved section of the probability space at deployment time or when available. The general grammar is structured to support the integration and improve the overall system." The patent application was filed on June 10, 2009 (12/481,612). 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=84,42,826.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,826&RS=PN/84,42,826 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Real-time-ready Behavioral Targeting in a Large-scale Advertisement System ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,442,863) developed by five co-inventors for "real-time-ready behavioral targeting in a large-scale advertisement system." The co-inventors are Badrish Chandramouli, Bellevue, Wash., Jonathan Goldstein, Kirkland, Wash., Xin Jin, Sammamish, Wash., Balan Sethu Raman, Redmond, Wash., and Songyun Duan, Hawthorne, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A "Real-Time-Ready Analyzer" combines a data stream management system (DSMS) with a map-reduce (M-R) framework to construct a streaming map-reduce framework that is suitable for real-time Behavioral Targeting (BT) (or other temporal queries). The Real-Time-Ready Analyzer allows users to write "dual-intent" temporal analysis queries for BT. These queries are succinct and easy to express, scale well on large-scale offline data, and can also work over real-time data. Further, the Real-Time-Ready Analyzer uses the aforementioned streaming map-reduce framework to provide dual-intent algorithms for end-to-end BT phases. Experiments using real data from an advertisement system show that the Real-Time-Ready Analyzer is very efficient and incurs orders-of-magnitude lower development effort than conventional systems." The patent application was filed on June 17, 2010 (12/818,100). 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=84,42,863.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,863&RS=PN/84,42,863 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Conditional Model for Natural Language Understanding ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,442,828) developed by four co-inventors for a "conditional model for natural language understanding." The co-inventors are Ye-Yi Wang, Redmond, Wash., Alejandro Acero, Bellevue, Wash., John Sie Yuen Lee, Redmond, Wash., and Milind V. Mahajan, Redmond, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A conditional model is used in spoken language understanding. One such model is a conditional random field model." The patent application was filed on March 17, 2006 (11/378,710). 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=84,42,828.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,828&RS=PN/84,42,828 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (8,442,875) developed by six co-inventors for "creating and maintaining electronic gift lists." The co-inventors are Jacob D. Cohen, Kirkland, Wash., Werner G. Koepf, Bellevue, Wash., Nasreen Abdul Jaleel, Seattle, Christopher E. Newell, Seattle, Natalie F. Gordon, Seattle, and Matthew R. Smith, Burien, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for maintaining gift lists for other persons is presented. The system includes a data store and a computing device. The data store stores at least information related to items available for purchase. The computing device is in communication with and has access to the data store. Moreover, the computing device is configured to create a gift list. The gift list includes references to items that are available for purchase by a user, and that are selected by a user as potential gifts for another. Additionally, access to the gift list is controlled by the user that created the gift list. The computing device is further configured in such a way as to add a reference to an item to the gift list while the user browses the items available for purchase." The patent application was filed on May 14, 2012 (13/471,298). 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=84,42,875.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,875&RS=PN/84,42,875 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,442,865) developed by four co-inventors for "ecommerce marketplace integration techniques." The co-inventors are Adam D. Wilson, Seattle, Bogdan Moldoveanu, Bothell, Wash., Sandeep Nain, Seattle, and Matthew G. Humphrey, Issaquah, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for integrating ecommerce marketplaces. An ecommerce integration framework has definitions for common data entities that are commonly used by multiple ecommerce marketplaces for listing items. Definitions for common operations that can manipulate the common data entities are provided. An application programming interface is provided that uses the common data entities and common operations to enable enterprise resource planning systems to exchange data in a standardized format with ecommerce marketplaces. Catalogs of items to be sold in ecommerce marketplaces can be created and managed using a customizable structure. The customizable structure enables catalogs to be created in a hierarchical manner with at least one parent catalog and zero or more child catalogs. Data values specified in a respective child catalog override data values specified in the parent catalog. A method for communicating with a particular ecommerce marketplace using an ecommerce integration framework is described." The patent application was filed on Sept. 29, 2011 (13/248,633). 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=84,42,865.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,865&RS=PN/84,42,865 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Fusion-io Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Fusion-io, Salt Lake City, has been assigned a patent (8,443,259) developed by six co-inventors for an "apparatus, system, and method for using multi-level cell solid-state storage as single level cell solid-state storage." The co-inventors are Jonathan Thatcher, Liberty Lake, Wash., David Flynn, Sandy, Utah, Ethan Barnes, Pleasant Grove, Utah, John Strasser, Syracuse, Utah, Robert Wood, Niwot, Colo., and Michael Zappe, Arvada, Colo. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for storing information in a storage device that includes multi-level memory cells. The method involves storing data that is written to the storage device in the LSBs of the multi-level memory cells, and storing audit data in the MSBs of the multi-level memory cells. The audit data can be read separately from the data and used to determine whether or not there has been any unintended drift between states in the multi-level cells. The audit data may be used to correct data when the errors in the data are too numerous to be corrected using error correction code (ECC). The audit data may also be used to monitor the general health of the storage device. The monitoring process may run as a background process on the storage device. The storage device may transition the multi-level memory cells to operate as single-level memory cells." The patent application was filed on June 22, 2012 (13/531,240). 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=8,443,259.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,259&RS=PN/8,443,259 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Method and System for Unified Audio Control on a Personal Computer ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,443,179) developed by six co-inventors for a "method and system for unified audio control on a personal computer." The co-inventors are Eric Gould Bear, Bellevue, Wash., Chad Magendanz, Issaquah, Wash., Aditha May Adams, Seattle, Carl Ledbetter, Mercer Island, Wash., Steve Kaneko, Medina, Wash., and Dale C. Crosier, Kirkland, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for improved audio controls on a personal computer is provided. The system and method provide a unified architecture for audio controls across hardware and software interfaces of the personal computer. An intelligent facility may automatically change audio controls for users to simply interact with various communications and media applications. To this end, a configurable audio controller intelligently handles various aspects of the system's audio devices by following various rules that may be based at least in part on user-configurable settings and a current operating state. The present invention also provides audio controls so that a user may easily change audio settings such as the volume of an audio output device. There are many applications that may use the present invention for automatic control of audio devices based upon the user's context." The patent application was filed on April 12, 2012 (13/445,221). 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=8,443,179.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,179&RS=PN/8,443,179 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Invention Science Fund I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Invention Science Fund I, Bellevue, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,443,197) developed by five co-inventors for a "voice-capable system and method for authentication using prior entity user interaction." The co-inventors are Edward K.Y. Jung, Bellevue, Wash., Royce A. Levien, Lexington, Mass., Robert W. Lord, Seattle, Mark A. Malamud, Seattle, and John D. Rinaldo Jr., Bellevue, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for use with a voice-capable system, includes but is not limited to a method including accessing by the voice-capable system of one or more entities computationally networked to the voice-capable system, obtaining one or more user interactions with the one or more entities and generating an authentication session using the one or more user interactions with the one or more entities." The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2005 (11/241,742). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,443,197.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,197&RS=PN/8,443,197 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,443,188) developed by seven co-inventors for a "using code access security for runtime accessibility checks." The co-inventors are Shrikrishna V. Borde, Redmond, Wash., Shawn Farkas, Kirkland, Wash., Haibo Luo, Kirkland, Wash., Michael D. Downen, Sammamish, Wash., Raja Krishnaswamy, Redmond, Wash., Thottam R. Sriram, Redmond, Wash., and Chris King, Bellevue, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that use code access security for providing runtime accessibility checks. A request is received from a first program to access at least one private member of a second program at runtime. If the first program has a greater than or equal security context than the second program, then the first program is granted access to the at least one private member of the second program. This code access security check can be provided in a framework environment that is responsible for managing programs that are from unknown or untrusted sources." The patent application was filed on Nov. 30, 2006 (11/606,671). 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=8,443,188.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,188&RS=PN/8,443,188 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,443,452) developed by Irina Koulinitch, Bellevue, Wash., Ram Viswanathan, Kirkland, Wash., and Hans Andersen, Seattle, for a "URL filtering based on user browser history." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A URL monitoring system may use a user's browsing history to generate a score for the user. The score may be used to permit or deny access to a URL. The score may be used to represent the user's intent when browsing, and based on that intent, the user may be allowed access to a URL with conflicting classifications. The score may be also be used as a trustworthiness score so that a user who browses responsibly may have their score increased over time, and a user who browses irresponsibly or inappropriately may have their score decreased. The scores may be calculated and maintained on a user's client device, edge device, or other device within a network." The patent application was filed on Jan. 28, 2010 (12/695,770). 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=8,443,452&OS=8,443,452&RS=8,443,452 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Determining a Merged Security Policy for a Computer System ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,443,433) developed by four co-inventors for "determining a merged security policy for a computer system." The co-inventors are David Abzarian, Kirkland, Wash., Gerardo Diaz Cuellar, Redmond, Wash., Mark Vayman, Redmond, Wash., and Eran Yariv, Redmond, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the invention described herein are directed to a mechanism for determining whether at least one operation will be effective in view of at least one security policy. In exemplary implementations, determining whether at least one operation will be effective in view of at least one security policy may comprise determining a merged security policy for a computer system by merging security policies for the computer system from two or more sources. The security policies may be security policies set by a user and/or an administrator of the computer system, may be security policies of a computer network to which the computer system is connected, or may be security policies of one or more other computer systems that are above the computer system in a computer network hierarchy." The patent application was filed on June 28, 2007 (11/823,837). 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=8,443,433&OS=8,443,433&RS=8,443,433 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Peek and Lock Using Queue Partitioning ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,443,379) developed by Affan Arshad Dar, Woodinville, Wash., and Sanjib Saha, Sammamish, Wash., for a "peek and lock using queue partitioning." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A queue management system may store a queue of messages in a main queue. When a message is processed by an application, the message may be moved to a subqueue. In the subqueue, the message may be locked from other applications. After processing the message, the application may delete the message from the subqueue and complete the action required. If the application fails to respond in a timely manner, the message may be moved from the subqueue to the main queue and released for another application to service the message. If the application responds after the time out period, a fault may occur when the application attempts to delete the message from the subqueue. Such an arrangement allows a "peek and lock" functionality to be implemented using a subqueue." The patent application was filed on June 18, 2008 (12/141,081). 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=8,443,379&OS=8,443,379&RS=8,443,379 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** salesforce.com Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- salesforce.com, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,443,085) developed by 11 co-inventors for "resolving information in a multitenant database environment." The co-inventors are Nathan Jensen-Horne, Walnut Creek, Calif., Dileep Burki, San Jose, Calif., Walter Sims Harley, Seattle, Matthew Small, San Francisco, Kenneth Douglas Scott, Alameda, Calif., David Andrew Brooks, San Jose, Calif., Prasad Peddada, Alameda, Calif., Hemang Patel, Pleasanton, Calif., Gaurav Chawla, Foster City, Calif., Theresa Vietvu, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Shriman Gurram, Pleasanton, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed herein are techniques for creating a representation of dependency relationships between computing resources within a computing environment. In some implementations, one or more sources for dependency analysis may be identified. Each source may be capable of being accessed to provide computing functionality via the computing environment. Each source may include one or more references to a respective one or more computing resources. Each computing resource may define a unit of the computing functionality available within the computing environment. A plurality of dependency relationships may be identified based on the one or more sources. A dependency relationship representation may be created based on the identified dependency relationships." The patent application was filed on April 26, 2011 (13/094,545). 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=8,443,085&OS=8,443,085&RS=8,443,085 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Translating Declarative Models ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,443,347) developed by seven co-inventors for translating declarative models. The co-inventors are Igor Sedukhin, Issaquah, Wash., Leo S. Vannelli III, North Bend, Wash., Girish Mittur Venkataramanappa, Redmond, Wash., Sumit Mohanty, Redmond, Wash., Cristian S. Salvan, Redmond, Wash., Anubhav Dhoot, Bothell, Wash., and Rama Rao Raghavendra Rao, Sammamish, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for translating declarative models. Embodiments of the present invention facilitate processing declarative models to perform various operations on applications, such as, for example, application deployment, application updates, application control such as start and stop, application monitoring by instrumenting the applications to emit events, and so on. Declarative models of applications are processed and realized onto a target environment, after which they can be executed, controlled, and monitored." The patent application was filed on Oct. 19, 2011 (13/277,057). 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=8,443,347&OS=8,443,347&RS=8,443,347 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Crowdgather Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Crowdgather, Woodland Hills, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,443,384) developed by Marcus G. Larner, Seattle, and Andrew M. Moeck, Long Beach, Calif., for "systems and methods for targeted advertising." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods of generating recommendations may include obtaining social network data from one or more network resources. Word relationships may be created between selected words in the social network data to produce relationship data. Advertisement or other asset recommendations may be generated for a target user by analyzing browse information of the target user to identify one or more words. Other words in the relationship data may be identified that are related to the words in the target user's browse information. One or more advertisements may be identified having at least one keyword that corresponds to the other words. At least a portion of these advertisements may be selected from a data repository to provide to the target user." The patent application was filed on Oct. 28, 2011 (13/284,799). 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=8,443,384&OS=8,443,384&RS=8,443,384 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Hypervisor Scheduler ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,443,376) developed by Aditya Bhandari, Redmond, Wash., Dmitry Meshchaninov, Maple Valley, Wash., and Shuvabrata Ganguly, Seattle, for a hypervisor scheduler. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques for configuring a hypervisor scheduler to make use of cache topology of processors and physical memory distances between NUMA nodes when making scheduling decisions. In the same or other embodiments the hypervisor scheduler can be configured to optimize the scheduling of latency sensitive workloads. In the same or other embodiments a hypervisor can be configured to expose a virtual cache topology to a guest operating system running in a virtual machine." The patent application was filed on June 1, 2010 (12/791,790). 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=8,443,376&OS=8,443,376&RS=8,443,376 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** 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. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Logical Extensions to Intermediate Code ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,443,338) developed by five co-inventors for "logical extensions to intermediate code." The co-inventors are Krzysztof J. Cwalina, Sammamish, Wash., Michael C. Fanning, Redmond, Wash., Brian M. Grunkemeyer, Redmond, Wash., Brent E. Rector, Redmond, Wash., and Barend H. Venter, Issaquah, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An assembly aggregate comprising a virtual, logical view of an arbitrarily defined collection of intermediate code and metadata can be authored, factored, accessed, modified, and distributed. Multiple physical containers of assembly information can be aggregated to create a single logical assembly called an assembly aggregate. An assembly can thus be redefined as a logical view against (or projection over) the assembly aggregate. Such an assembly can be targeted to the requester: that is, an assembly can be redefined according to tool and/or execution context rather than conforming to explicit or implicit requirements enforced by the runtime." The patent application was filed on Oct. 8, 2008 (12/247,304). 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=8,443,338&OS=8,443,338&RS=8,443,338 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Parallel Loops in a Workflow ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,443,351) developed by J. Kirk Haselden, Sammamish, Wash., and Sergei Ivanov, Issaquah, Wash., for "parallel loops in a workflow." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The subject disclosure pertains broadly to parallelization of workflow loops. More specifically, loop containers and related elements are cloned several times to match a desired number of parallel iterations or threads. The cloned containers are communicatively coupled or connected to a single enumerator component and can interact therewith to facilitate acquisition of collection elements. This arrangement, among other things, ensures that the correct number of iterations are executed as if the loop was processed sequentially." The patent application was filed on Feb. 23, 2006 (11/360,117). 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=8,443,351&OS=8,443,351&RS=8,443,351 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Static Analysis Using Interactive and Integration Tools ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,443,342) developed by Henning Korsholm Rohde, Renton, Wash., and Anna Gringauze, Redmond, Wash., for "static analysis using interactive and integration tools." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems, methods, and computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that facilitate static software program analysis using an interactive tool and/or a disassembly integration tool are provided. An interactive tool enables a user to view alternative error paths in association with an error such that the user can identify any valid errors within program code. A disassembly integration tool provides source code that is interleaved with an intermediate representation of such source code." The patent application was filed on June 1, 2010 (12/791,421). 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=8,443,342&OS=8,443,342&RS=8,443,342 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Method of Assigning Resources to Fulfill a Service Request by a Programming Model Abstraction Layer ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,443,370) developed by Burton J. Smith, Seattle, and James R. Hamilton, Bellevue, Wash., for "method of assigning resources to fulfill a service request by a programming model abstraction layer at a data center based at least in part on a reference of the requested resource class indicative of an abstract amount of resources." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An exemplary method includes hosting a service at a data center, the service relying on at least one software component developed according to a programming model and the data center comprising a corresponding programming model abstraction layer that abstracts resources of the data center; receiving a request for the service; and in response to the request, assigning at least some of the resources of the data center to the service to allow for fulfilling the request wherein the programming model abstraction layer performs the assigning based in part on reference to a resource class in the at least one software component, the resource class modifiable to account for changes in one or more resources of the data center. Various other devices, systems and methods are also described." The patent application was filed on Aug. 26, 2008 (12/198,784). 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=8,443,370&OS=8,443,370&RS=8,443,370 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Efficient Utilization of Idle Resources in a Resource Manager ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,443,373) developed by four co-inventors for "efficient utilization of idle resources in a resource manager." The co-inventors are Genevieve Fernandes, Redmond, Wash., Marko Radmilac, Bellevue, Wash., Donald James McCrady, Redmond, Wash., and Krishnan Varadarajan, Redmond, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments are directed to dynamically allocating processing resources among a plurality of resource schedulers. A resource manager dynamically allocates resources to a first resource scheduler. The resource manager is configured to dynamically allocate resources among a plurality of resource schedulers, and each scheduler is configured to manage various processing resources. The resource manager determines that at least one of the processing resources dynamically allocated to the first resource scheduler is idle. The resource manager determines that at least one other resource scheduler needs additional processing resources and, based on the determination, loans the determined idle processing resource of the first resource scheduler to a second resource scheduler." The patent application was filed on Jan. 26, 2010 (12/694,084). 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=8,443,373&OS=8,443,373&RS=8,443,373 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Quorum Based Transactionally Consistent Membership Management in Distributed Storage Systems ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,443,062) developed by four co-inventors for a "quorum based transactionally consistent membership management in distributed storage systems." The co-inventors are Santeri Olavi Voutilainen, Seattle, Gopala Krishna Reddy Kakivaya, Sammamish, Wash., Ajay Kalha, Redmond, Wash., and Lu Xun, Kirkland, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods that restore a failed reconfiguration of nodes in a distributed environment. By analyzing reports from read/write quorums of nodes associated with a configuration, automatic recovery for data partitions can be facilitated. Moreover, a configuration manager component tracks current configurations for replication units and determines whether a reconfiguration is required (e.g., due to node failures, node recovery, replica additions/deletions, replica moves, or replica role changes, and the like.) Reconfigurations of data activated as being replicated from an old configuration to being replicated on a new configuration may be performed in a transactionally consistent manner based on dynamic quorums associated with the new configuration and the old configuration." The patent application was filed on July 29, 2009 (12/511,525). 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=8,443,062&OS=8,443,062&RS=8,443,062 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Constructing an Inference Graph for a Network ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,443,074) developed by six co-inventors for "constructing an inference graph for a network." The co-inventors are Paramvir Bahl, Issaquah, Wash., Srikanth Kandula, Somervile, Mass., Ranveer Chandra, Kirkland, Wash., David A. Maltz, Bellevue, Wash., Ming Zhang, Redmond, Wash., and Albert Greenberg, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Constructing an inference graph relates to the creation of a graph that reflects dependencies within a network. In an example embodiment, a method includes determining dependencies among components of a network and constructing an inference graph for the network responsive to the dependencies. The components of the network include services and hardware components, and the inference graph reflects cross-layer components including the services and the hardware components. In another example embodiment, a system includes a service dependency analyzer and an inference graph constructor. The service dependency analyzer is to determine dependencies among components of a network, the components including services and hardware components. The inference graph constructor is to construct an inference graph for the network responsive to the dependencies, the inference graph reflecting cross-layer components including the services and the hardware components." The patent application was filed on Feb. 28, 2008 (12/039,714). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,443,074&OS=8,443,074&RS=8,443,074 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. For more information about Targeted News Service products and services, please contact: Myron Struck, editor, Targeted News Service LLC, Springfield, Va., 703/304-1897; [email protected]; http://targetednews.com. -1124959 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |