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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Colorado (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 Colorado. *** Wal-Mart Stores Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Wal-Mart Stores, Bentonville, Ark., has been assigned a patent (8,442,974) developed by six co-inventors for a "method and system for ranking web pages in a search engine based on direct evidence of interest to end users." The co-inventors are David L. Young, Boulder, Colo., Ioannis Pavlidis, Boulder, Colo., William Randall Watler, Evergreen, Colo., Kimbal J. Musk, Boulder, Colo., Peter J. Newcomb, Erie, Colo., and Robert Reich, Boulder, Colo. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for ranking Web pages in a Web search engine is described. One illustrative embodiment receives a Web search query from a particular user, the query including at least one keyword; identifies one or more Web pages that contain the at least one keyword; determines, for each of the one or more Web pages, a raw page ranking; adjusts the raw page ranking of each of at least one Web page among the one or more Web pages based on direct evidence of how interesting that Web page is to users to produce an adjusted page ranking, the direct evidence being derived from clickstream data collected from the users; and presents, as search results, the at least one Web page to the particular user in accordance with the adjusted page rankings." The patent application was filed on June 24, 2009 (12/491,104). 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=8,442,974&OS=8,442,974&RS=8,442,974 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Advanced Micro Devices Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,442,786) developed by four co-inventors for "flexible power reporting in a computing system." The co-inventors are Samuel D. Naffziger, Fort Collins, Colo., John P. Petry, San Diego, Kiran K. Bondalapati, Los Altos, Calif., and Mom-Eng Ng, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for efficient reporting of power usage. A power reporting unit within a processor receives a power consumption number once every sample interval from a power monitor. The power monitor determines a power consumption number based on sampled signals within one or more functional blocks in the processor, rather than based on temperature. An average power consumption number is computed based on received power consumption numbers for a running time interval, wherein the running time interval is larger than the sample interval. This value is conveyed to an external agent. Responsive to receiving and processing the average power consumption number, the external agent may cause changes in a cooling system." The patent application was filed on June 2, 2010 (12/792,308). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=84,42,786.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,786&RS=PN/84,42,786 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** LSI Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods for Hard Decision Assisted Decoding ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- LSI, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,443,267) developed by five co-inventors for "systems and methods for hard decision assisted decoding." The co-inventors are Hao Zhong, San Jose, Calif., Shaohua Yang, Santa Clara, Calif., Weijun Tan, Longmont, Colo., Changyou Xu, Fremont, Calif., and Yuan Xing Lee, San Jose, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for data processing. For example, a data processing system is disclosed that includes a processing loop circuit having a data detector and a soft decision decoder. The data detector provides a detected output, and the soft decision decoder applies a soft decoding algorithm to a derivative of the detected output to yield a soft decision output and a first hard decision output. The systems further include a queuing buffer and a hard decision decoder. The queuing buffer is operable to store the soft decision output, and the hard decision decoder accesses the soft decision output and applies a hard decoding algorithm to yield a second hard decision output. The data detector is operable to perform a data detection on a derivative of the soft decision output if the soft decision decoder and the hard decision decoder fail to converge." The patent application was filed on April 28, 2009 (12/430,927). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,443,267.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,267&RS=PN/8,443,267 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** 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. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent for Run-time Updating of Prediction Hint Instructions ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,443,171) developed by Dale Morris, Steamboat Springs, Colo., and James E. McCormick, Fort Collins, Colo., for a "run-time updating of prediction hint instructions." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention provides a system and method for runtime updating of hints in program instructions. The invention also provides for programs of instructions that include hint performance data. Also, the invention provides an instruction cache that modifies hints and writes them back. As runtime hint updates are stored in instructions, the impact of the updates is not limited by the limited memory capacity local to a processor. Also, there is no conflict between hardware and software hints, as they can share a common encoding in the program instructions." The patent application was filed on July 30, 2004 (10/903,155). 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=8,443,171.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,171&RS=PN/8,443,171 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. *** Seagate Technology Assigned Patent for Data Management in a Data Storage System ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Seagate Technology, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,443,165) developed by four co-inventors for a "data management in a data storage system." The co-inventors are Jonathan Williams Haines, Boulder, Colo., Brett Alan Cook, Westminster, Colo., Timothy Richard Feldman, Louisville, Colo., and Paul Michael Wiggins, Longmont, Colo. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An exemplary method includes receiving a command for storing data to a plurality of data storage resources, storing the data in a set of buffer storage locations, defining a plurality of jobs for the command, each of the plurality of jobs having an associated data operation with at least one of the data storage resources, and reallocating a subset of the buffer storage locations that stored the data for a completed job prior to completion of at least one other job." The patent application was filed on May 8, 2012 (13/466,397). 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=8,443,165.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,165&RS=PN/8,443,165 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** EchoStar Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- EchoStar Technologies, Englewood, Colo., has been assigned a patent (8,443,407) developed by Jason Gaede, Denver, and Germar Schaefer, Monument, Colo., for a "facilitating placeshifting using matrix code." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for providing a user of a target device with placeshifted content. The method includes detecting, utilizing the target device, a matrix code associated with an audio/visual program. Data encoded in the matrix code includes program identifying information and elapsed time information with respect to the program. The method further includes generating, utilizing the target device, a request for the program based at least in part on the encoded data. The method also includes transmitting, utilizing the target device, the program request across a network." The patent application was filed on Feb. 28, 2011 (13/037,333). 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=8,443,407&OS=8,443,407&RS=8,443,407 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Intel Assigned Patent for Context-sensitive Slicing for Dynamically Parallelizing Binary Programs ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,443,343) developed by Joseph Blomstedt, Boulder, Colo., Cheng Wang, San Jose, Calif., and Youfeng Wu, Palo Alto, Calif., for a "context-sensitive slicing for dynamically parallelizing binary programs." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment of the invention a method comprising (1) receiving an unstructured binary code region that is single-threaded; (2) determining a slice criterion for the region; (3) determining a call edge, a return edge, and a fallthrough pseudo-edge for the region based on analysis of the region at a binary level; and (4) determining a context-sensitive slice based on the call edge, the return edge, the fallthrough pseudo-edge, and the slice criterion. Embodiments of the invention may include a program analysis technique that can be used to provide context-sensitive slicing of binary programs for slicing hot regions identified at runtime, with few underlying assumptions about the program from which the binary is derived. Also, in an embodiment a slicing method may include determining a context-insensitive slice, when a time limit is met, by determining the context-insensitive slice while treating call edges as a normal control flow edges." The patent application was filed on Oct. 28, 2009 (12/607,589). 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=8,443,343&OS=8,443,343&RS=8,443,343 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. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,443,093) developed by five co-inventors for a "connection management system for multiple connections." The co-inventors are Roland M. Hochmuth, Fort Collins, Colo., Byron A. Alcorn, Fort Collins, Colo., Jeffrey Joel Walls, Fort Collins, Colo., Thomas J. Flynn, Magnolia, Texas, and Quoc P. Pham, Spring, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment a computing system comprises one or more processors, a display device coupled to the computing system, a connection client module, at least one remote access client module, a memory module communicatively connected to the one or more processors and comprising logic to; receive a service request from a user via a remote connection client coupled to the connection server, wherein the service request comprises at least one user credential, authenticate the at least one user credential, retrieve at least one user profile associated with the user, connection data for at least one remote system and at least one policy associated with the at least one user profile, transmit the at least one user profile, at least one remote system and the connection data for at least one remote system and at least one policy associated with the at least one user profile from the connection server to the remote connection client." The patent application was filed on Sept. 24, 2008 (12/236,664). 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=8,443,093&OS=8,443,093&RS=8,443,093 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Time Warner Cable Enterprises Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Time Warner Cable Enterprises, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,443,383) developed by John B. Carlucci, Boulder, Colo., and Michael L. DeHart, Lilburn, Ga., for "use of messages in program signal streams by set-top terminals." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods of operating a communications system comprise inserting advertising in a program stream by a receiving device based, at least in part, on an embed, encrypted segmentation message embedded in the program stream. The at least one segmentation message defines an expanse of the program stream to receive the advertising. At least one embedded decoy message is included in the program stream, as well. The receiving device, which may be a set-top terminal, for example, is coupled to a display device, such as a television, at a user location. A method of operating a receiving device coupled to a display device at a user location is also disclosed, comprising programming the receiving device to record a program and recording the program based, at least in part, on at least one segmentation message in a program stream. Systems are disclosed, as well." The patent application was filed on May 1, 2003 (10/428,900). 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=8,443,383&OS=8,443,383&RS=8,443,383 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Fluke Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Fluke, Everett, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,443,075) developed by Morris C. Galbreath, Wooland Park, Colo., and Dan Prescott, Elbert, Colo., for a "transaction storage determination via pattern matching." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A network analyzer, system and method determine whether or not network transaction data derived from network analysis should be stored, based on a configuration. Configuration strings (patterns) are entered via a configuration file, including specifying whether the string should be a prefix, suffix, other location or exist anyplace in the data. Storage enabling/disabling is provided for network transaction data. Configuration strings (patterns) can be specified for request/response summary/detail, and for specified parameters." The patent application was filed on Oct. 29, 2009 (12/608,822). 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=8,443,075&OS=8,443,075&RS=8,443,075 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. -1124927 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |