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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Texas (May 16)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Texas. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,442,510) developed by Mostafa Tofighbakhsh, Cupertino, Calif., and David R. Wolter, Austin, Texas, for a "mobile point-of-presence for on demand network client services and security." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Devices, systems and methods are disclosed which relate to implementing a point-of-presence system on a mobile service network. Such a point-of-presence system includes a mobile device communications network; a mobile device; a point-of-presence logic installed on a mobile device; and an application server in communication with the point-of-presence logic via the communications network. Communications between the point-of-presence logic and the network and application server include network data, configuration, and/or installation of connection and device management applications. This point-of-presence system constitutes a mechanism for the service provider to best optimize network resources, even at the device level, while providing optimum network service to mobile users--even for mobile devices that have not been pre-configured for the mobile service network." The patent application was filed on Oct. 9, 2009 (12/576,470). 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=8,442,510.PN.&OS=PN/8,442,510&RS=PN/8,442,510 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** University of Texas Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- The University of Texas, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,442,698) developed by Babak Fahimi, Arlington, Texas, and Wei Jiang, Yangzhou, China, for "methods and apparatus for design and control of multi-port power electronic interface for renewable energy sources." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for energy management are disclosed. An example system includes a first port connected to an energy storage device for bidirectional flow of energy, a second port connected to an energy source device for unidirectional flow of energy, a third port connected to a utility grid for bidirectional flow of energy, and a unified control system with control logic configured to simultaneously control energy flow between the first, second, and third ports based on at least two factors from the group consisting of: a state of charge of the energy storage device, a state of the energy source device, and a state of the utility grid. Other embodiments are described and claimed." The patent application was filed on Jan. 29, 2010 (12/696,896). 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=8,442,698&OS=8,442,698&RS=8,442,698 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Lennox Industries Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Lennox Industries, Richardson, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,442,693) developed by Muhammad Ali Mirza, Farmers Branch, Texas, and Timothy H. Thorson, McKinney, Texas, for a "system and method of use for a user interface dashboard of a heating, ventilation and air conditioning network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The disclosure provides systems and methods of use of an HVAC graphical interface dashboard. In various embodiments, the dashboard includes a weather tab, wherein invoking the weather tab advances to a weather screen. The dashboard also includes an indoor humidity tab, wherein invoking the indoor humidity tab advances to a humidity screen which displays at least a current indoor humidity, wherein the humidity screen interprets a percentage of humidity for a user. A programs tab and a home tab are also provided. At least one attribute of a presentation of the home screen is selectable by a user." The patent application was filed on Oct. 21, 2009 (12/603,488). 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=8,442,693&OS=8,442,693&RS=8,442,693 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Fisher-Rosemount Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Round Rock, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,442,663) developed by Tom Aneweer, Georgetown, Texas, Dirk Thiele, Austin, Texas, and Noel Bell, Austin, Texas, for "methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to test process control systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to test process control systems are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes obtaining user inputs to a first process control system, obtaining process inputs and first process outputs of the first process control system, providing the user inputs and the process inputs to a second process control system to operate the second process control system, obtaining second process outputs of the second process control system operated with the user inputs and the process inputs, and comparing the first and second process outputs to determine whether the second process control system is implemented as intended." The patent application was filed on Aug. 23, 2010 (12/861,515). 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=8,442,663&OS=8,442,663&RS=8,442,663 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Siemens Industry Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Siemens Industry, Alpharetta, Ga., has been assigned a patent (8,442,749) developed by Dean W. Teffer, Austin, Texas, Michael C. Stricklin, Austin, Texas, and Alexander Sherwood, Marble Falls, Texas, for a "method for incorporating individual vehicle data collection and detection and recording of traffic violations in a traffic signal controller." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present disclosure teaches a software and hardware system capable of operating on a signal controller platform which detects and records individual vehicle data including but not limited to dangerous driving behavior such as red light running and speeding. The disclosure teaches sharing of the computing platform and infrastructure of the traffic control system. The disclosure also teaches receiving, interpreting, and organizing data collected through the traffic control system's vehicle detection infrastructure, and driving cameras, video, or other recording devices to provide additional evidence of an individual vehicle's behavior." The patent application was filed on May 19, 2004 (10/557,915). 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=8,442,749&OS=8,442,749&RS=8,442,749 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Allure Energy Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Allure Energy, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,442,695) developed by Kevin R. Imes, Austin, Texas, and James Hollister, Round Rock, Texas, for an "auto-adaptable energy management apparatus." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "According to an aspect of the disclosure, an apparatus includes a processor operable to manage energy use at a site wherein the processor is configured to detect a user interaction with the apparatus and create a personalized schedule automatically in response to the user interaction. The apparatus can also include a first profile accessible to the processor, wherein the first profile includes a first personalized schedule, and a second profile accessible to the processor, wherein the second profile is different from the first profile and includes a second personalized schedule. In addition, the processor can be configured to determine when to use the first profile or the second profile, initiate an outgoing message using the first or second personalized schedule, and update the first or second profile in response to a user interaction with an interface of the apparatus during use of the first or second personalized schedule." The patent application was filed on Nov. 22, 2011 (13/302,071). 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=8,442,695&OS=8,442,695&RS=8,442,695 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Enovation Controls Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Enovation Controls, San Antonio, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,442,664) developed by Kennon Guglielmo, San Antonio, and Eric Peterson, San Antonio, for "integrated wire harness batch production systems and methods." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Virtually-integrated wire harness design and automated production systems and methods that achieve completely integrated data management by automatically producing scripts to dynamically propagate production commands and data to various subsystems for handling assembling necessary circuits and wire harness layout boards to produce corresponding batches of wire harnesses while script-based methods control configuring, testing, and using wire harness layout boards, and assembling, testing, reworking, and delivering wire harnesses. As derived from CAD-created specifications, the production system uses a programmable, automated wire C&C center prepares individual wire circuits. While automatic wire indexing, sorting, and delivery systems transfer circuits into, and retrieve circuits from, a transportable programmable, automated, indexed storage system equipped with an array of individual circuit tubes, and a script-controlled assembly system sends visual, aural, and other cues to help an assembler populate and configure a wire harness layout board with connector blocks and turn posts, and guides the assembler in building, testing, reworking, and delivering the corresponding batch of wire harnesses." The patent application was filed on Sept. 10, 2010 (13/385,577). 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=8,442,664&OS=8,442,664&RS=8,442,664 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Futurewei Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Futurewei Technologies, Plano, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,442,399) developed by Young Lee, Plano, Texas, Greg Bernstein, Fremont, Calif., and Jianrui Han, Shenzhen, China, for a "port wavelength restriction encoding in wavelength switched optical network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: " An apparatus comprising a path computation element (PCE) coupled to a path computation client (PCC) and configured to perform a path computation using port wavelength restriction information for a network element (NE), wherein the port wavelength restriction information is encoded and received in a port wavelength restriction Type-Length-Value (TLV) that comprises a matrix identifier (ID), a restriction type, and the port wavelength restriction information. Also disclosed is a network component comprising at least one processor coupled to a memory and configured to receive a port wavelength restriction information TLV that corresponds to a NE, and obtain a restriction type and port wavelength restriction information based on the restriction type from the port wavelength restriction TLV, and use the port wavelength restriction information to calculate a path for the NE." The patent application was filed on July 6, 2010 (12/830,950). 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=8,442,399.PN.&OS=PN/8,442,399&RS=PN/8,442,399 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,442,377) developed by four co-inventors for an intelligent recording. The co-inventors are Kulvir S. Bhogal, Pflugerville, Texas, Gregory J. Boss, Saginaw, Mich., Andrew R. Jones, Round Rock, Texas, and Brian M. O'Connell, Research Triangle Park, N.C. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An audio/video recording method and system is provided. The method includes receiving by a processor of an audio/video recording device, a request for recording broadcast audio/video data. The processor analyzes audio/video presentation capabilities for audio/video presentation devices and formats of a first group of broadcast audio/video files associated with the broadcast audio/video data. Results of the analysis are compared and in response a first audio/video file is selected from the first group of broadcast audio/video files. The first audio/video file includes a first format requiring a first amount of storage space within a storage device of the audio/video recording device. The first format is associated with the audio/video presentation capabilities of a first audio/video presentation device and the first audio/video file is recorded." The patent application was filed on Aug. 18, 2011 (13/212,545). 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=8,442,377.PN.&OS=PN/8,442,377&RS=PN/8,442,377 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Verizon Services Organization Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Verizon Services Organization, Irving, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,441,924) developed by John C. Rollins, Southlake, Texas, for a "redundant capability in a fiber optic network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, a system includes a first gateway router and second gateway router that are communicatively coupled to an optical line terminal. The system further includes an optical network terminal communicatively coupled to the optical line terminal, wherein the optical network terminal is configured to direct communications from the first gateway router to the second gateway router when the operation of the first gateway router meets a predetermined threshold." The patent application was filed on July 20, 2006 (11/489,824). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=84,41,924.PN.&OS=PN/84,41,924&RS=PN/84,41,924 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** FutureWei Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- FutureWei Technologies, Plano, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,442,567) developed by six co-inventors for a "system and method for cooperative spectrum sensing in cognitive radio systems." The co-inventors are Dongdong Li, Frisco, Texas, Dandan Wang, Berkeley Heights, N.J., Mazin Al-Shalash, Frisco, Texas, Anthony C.K. Soong, Plano, Texas, Guodong Zhao, Beijing, and Chenyang Yang, Beijing. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for cooperative spectrum sensing in cognitive radio (CR) systems is provided. A method for CR user operation includes coordinating with partner CR users to share spectrum sensing information, combining spectrum sensing information from partner CR users, and determining if a transmission opportunity exists based on the combined spectrum sensing information. The method also includes transmitting a message to a CR user if the transmission opportunity exists, and storing the message if the transmission opportunity does not exist." The patent application was filed on March 19, 2010 (12/727,906). 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=8,442,567&OS=8,442,567&RS=8,442,567 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Baker Hughes Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Baker Hughes, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,441,889) developed by Dwight W. Swett, Houston, for a "self-stabilizing dynamic diaphragm for broad bandwidth acoustic energy source." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus for estimating a property in a borehole penetrating the earth, the apparatus having: a carrier configured to be disposed in the borehole; and an acoustic transducer disposed at the carrier and configured to at least one of transmit and receive an acoustic wave used to estimate the property, the acoustic transducer comprising an acoustic diaphragm; wherein the acoustic diaphragm includes a surface in communication with a plurality of structural members configured to increase the rigidity of the surface, the surface being configured to interface with a medium that propagates the acoustic wave." The patent application was filed on June 16, 2010 (12/816,452). 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=84,41,889.PN.&OS=PN/84,41,889&RS=PN/84,41,889 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Tektronix Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Tektronix, Beaverton, Ore., has been assigned a patent (8,441,955) developed by Robert Todd Wilkinson, Plano, Texas, and Aleksey G. Ivershen, Garland, Texas, for "determining mobile video quality of experience and impact of video transcoding." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Video data packets transmitted through a wireless network are captured by a network monitoring system. Video data sessions are detected from the video data packets. Key parameters are identified within the video data packets, such as video bit rate, resent or failed video packets, and video session duration. A Quality of Experience (QoE) is determined for some or all users associated with the video sessions based upon the key parameters. A header extension is added to the video data packets by a transcoding system. The header extension includes data associated with original and transcoded video data packets. The network monitoring system monitors the header extension and evaluates the effect of video transcoding upon the overall QoE for users. The monitoring system provides feedback to a transcoding policy engine based upon the effect of transcoding upon QoE." The patent application was filed on Jan. 24, 2011 (13/012,056). 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=84,41,955.PN.&OS=PN/84,41,955&RS=PN/84,41,955 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Texas Instruments Assigned Patent for Bit Plane Encoding/Decoding System and Method for Reducing Spatial Light Modulator Image Memory Size ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Texas Instruments, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (8,442,332) developed by Daniel J. Morgan, Denton, Texas, and William J. Sexton, The Colony, Texas, for a "bit plane encoding/decoding system and method for reducing spatial light modulator image memory size." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A bit plane generating system, a method of generating a bit plane and an integrated circuit incorporating the system or the method. In one embodiment, the bit plane generating system includes: (1) a memory configured to store pixel data pertaining to an image to be displayed and (2) bit plane decoding circuitry coupled to the memory and configured to transform the pixel data into at least a portion of a bit plane in accordance with a signal received from a sequence controller." The patent application was filed on Dec. 14, 2007 (11/956,456). 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=8,442,332.PN.&OS=PN/8,442,332&RS=PN/8,442,332 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Triune IP Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Triune IP, Richardson, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,441,866) developed by four co-inventors for a "method for programming a floating gate." The co-inventors are Ross E. Teggatz, McKinney, Texas, Wayne T. Chen, Plano, Texas, Eric Blackall, Richardson, Texas, and Brett Smith, Richardson, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The invention provides methods for programming a floating gate. A floating gate tunneling device is used with an analog comparing device in a circuit having a floating reference node and an offset-mitigating feedback loop for iteratively programming a floating gate, or multiple floating gates." The patent application was filed on Dec. 15, 2011 (13/327,364). 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=84,41,866.PN.&OS=PN/84,41,866&RS=PN/84,41,866 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Guardity Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Guardity Technologies, Plano, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,442,558) developed by Joseph Thomas Mader, Plano, Texas, Thomas Edward Mader, Plano, Texas, and Russell Carl McKown, Richardson, Texas, for "detecting, identifying, reporting and discouraging unsafe device use within a vehicle or other transport." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system, method and computer readable medium comprised of in-vehicle passive monitoring and information management system elements which together detect, identify, report and discourage unsafe wireless device use by the operator of a vehicle. An in-vehicle monitoring device determines the vehicle's operational state and location, identifies wireless device transmitter emissions within the vehicle and communicates to a remote information management system using a wireless network, or after-the-fact, using a local network to a locally-installed software version of the information management system. The information management system collects information retrieved from in-vehicle devices and correlates this information with other database information to provide users with timely alerts, tracking, and records of unsafe wireless device use." The patent application was filed on Oct. 6, 2011 (13/267,034). 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=8,442,558&OS=8,442,558&RS=8,442,558 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Schlumberger Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Schlumberger Technology, Sugar Land, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,442,769) developed by six co-inventors for a "method of determining and utilizing high fidelity wellbore trajectory." The co-inventors are Wayne J. Phillips, Houston, Georgiy Bordakov, Richmond, Texas, Alexander Kostin, Houston, Shyam Mehta, Missouri City, Texas, Denis Heliot, Missouri City, Texas, and John C. Rasmus, Richmond, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various methods are disclosed, comprising obtaining a plurality of raw depth measurements for a wellbore; obtaining survey data about a bottom hole assembly; obtaining depth compensation information; calculating a plurality of compensated depth measurements from the raw depth measurements and the depth compensation information and one or more additional corrections for residual pipe compliance, tide, and rig heave; calculating sag angle and correcting the survey data with the sag angle; determining a high fidelity wellbore trajectory from the compensated depth measurements and the survey data; and then employing the high fidelity wellbore trajectory in various drilling, formation evaluation, and production and reservoir analysis applications. Depth compensation information may comprise at least one of weight on bit, a friction factor, temperature profile, borehole profile, drill string mechanical properties, hookload, and drilling fluid property. The surveys may include both static and continuous surveys." The patent application was filed on Nov. 11, 2008 (12/742,514). 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=8,442,769&OS=8,442,769&RS=8,442,769 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent for System and Method for Measuring and Reporting Service Usage ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,442,485) developed by Kuntal Chowdhury, Plano, Texas, and Shaji E. Radhakrishnan, Nashua, N.H., for a "system and method for measuring and reporting service usage." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for measuring and reporting prepaid service usage are provided. More particularly, monitoring and reporting packet data session usage for purposes of charging for service usage are provided. In some embodiments, layer-3 data packet monitoring is used to determine usage. In other embodiments, the start and end of a packet data session are used to determine usage. The usage can be determined from the duration of the packet data session or from the size or amount of packets sent and received by a mobile node." The patent application was filed on June 19, 2006 (11/455,325). 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=8,442,485.PN.&OS=PN/8,442,485&RS=PN/8,442,485 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Micron Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Micron Technology, Boise, Idaho, has been assigned a patent (8,441,888) developed by Venkatraghavan Bringivijayaraghavan, Plano, Texas, and Jason Brown, Allen, Texas, for a "write command and write data timing circuit and methods for timing the same." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Circuits, memories, and methods for latching a write command and later provided write data including write command and write data timing circuits. One such timing circuit includes internal write command latch to latch an internal write command in response to write command latch signal. The internal write command latch releases the latched write command in response to the write command latch signal after a latency delay. The timing circuit further includes a write leveling flip-flop (FF) circuit and a write data register. One such method includes generating and latching an internal write command. The latched internal write command is released after a latency delay responsive to the memory clock signal. The internal write command is propagated over an internal write command path. Write data is captured and internal write command latched in response to a write clock signal. The captured write data is released to be written to memory." The patent application was filed on May 31, 2011 (13/149,435). 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=84,41,888.PN.&OS=PN/84,41,888&RS=PN/84,41,888 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** CSR Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- CSR Technology, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,442,471) developed by Carey Ritchey, Murphy, Texas, Kim E. Beumer, Richardson, Texas, and Marius Pop, Richardson, Texas, for a "broadband tuner for very wide signal conversion." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An agile RF tuner circuit capable of converting a wide portion of RF signal into an IF signal suitable for analog-to-digital conversion. The circuit up converts a received RF signal to a high IF signal and then down converts the high IF signal to a low IF signal. Embodiments of the RF circuit incorporate harmonic reject mixers to suppress harmonics and intermodulations typically associated with the frequency conversion process." The patent application was filed on Dec. 29, 2011 (13/339,549). 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=8,442,471.PN.&OS=PN/8,442,471&RS=PN/8,442,471 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Verizon Patent and Licensing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Verizon Patent and Licensing, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,442,498) developed by six co-inventors for "methods, systems and computer program products for remote DVR interface provisioning." The co-inventors are Fenglin Yin, Lexington, Mass., Diego Sebastian Rozensztejn, Brookline, Mass., Abhishek Gupta, Addison, Texas, Okeno Palmer, Woburn, Mass., Guillermo Ortiz, Brookline, Mass., and Jack Jianxiu Hao, Lexington, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "This disclosure details the implementation of methods, systems and computer program products for remote digital video recorder (DVR) interface provisioning (hereinafter, "DIP"). DIP systems allow for authentication, validation, and registration of users and/or user devices as well as management of identifiers associated with those users and devices. Through interaction with DIP systems, users may associate different devices with each other and/or with one or more underlying service systems and/or accounts to allow integrated use of multiple devices in association with those services. In one implementation, DIP systems may be employed to register one or more mobile and/or remote devices (e.g., mobile phones) with DVR systems to allow for remote manipulation of video recording schedules, content management, parental control management, and/or the like DVR features. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed, comprising: providing a provisioning interface for display to a user, the provisioning interface including an interface element configured to receive a mobile device identifier; receiving a mobile device identifier input to the provisioning interface; receiving a local media receiver device identifier; querying a service account based on the local media receiver device identifier; retrieving a service account activation code based on the query; and storing the mobile device identifier in association with the activation code in a database." The patent application was filed on Dec. 19, 2008 (12/339,240). 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=8,442,498.PN.&OS=PN/8,442,498&RS=PN/8,442,498 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Hart Communication Foundation Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Hart Communication Foundation, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,441,947) developed by five co-inventors for "simultaneous data packet processing." The co-inventors are Wallace A. Pratt Jr., Pflugerville, Texas, Chuck Middleton, Lago Vista, Texas, Mark M. Okamura, Austin, Texas, Daraius Hathiram, Austin, Texas, and Ronald E. Ham, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A packet controller for simultaneous processing of data packets transmitted via a plurality of communication channels includes a plurality of inputs to receive a respective plurality of signals, such that each of the plurality of signals is indicative of a presence of a data packet on a respective one of the plurality of communication channels, a clock source to supply a periodic clock signal, a plurality of independent processing modules coupled to the respective plurality of inputs to simultaneously process the plurality of signals, such that each of the plurality of independent processing modules implements a respective state machine driven by the periodic clock signal to process the respective signal independently of every other one of the plurality of processing modules, and an output to transmit an output signal indicative of a presence of at least one data packet on one or more of the plurality of communication channels." The patent application was filed on June 23, 2009 (12/490,205). 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=84,41,947.PN.&OS=PN/84,41,947&RS=PN/84,41,947 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Ideal Power Converters Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Ideal Power Converters, Spicewood, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,441,819) developed by William C. Alexander, Spicewood, Texas, for "power transfer devices, methods, and systems with crowbar switch shunting energy-transfer reactance." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present application discloses methods, circuits and systems for power conversion, using a universal multiport architecture. When a transient appears on the power input (which can be, for example, polyphase AC), the input and output switches are opened, and a crowbar switch shunts the inductance which is used for energy transfer. This prevents this inductance from creating an overvoltage when it is disconnected from outside lines." The patent application was filed on July 5, 2012 (13/541,902). 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=84,41,819.PN.&OS=PN/84,41,819&RS=PN/84,41,819 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** 3M Innovative Properties Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- 3M Innovative Properties, Saint Paul, Minn., has been assigned a patent (8,442,375) developed by eight co-inventors for an "assembly tool and optical connector assembly method." The co-inventors are James R. Bylander, Austin, Texas, Richard L. Simmons, Leander, Texas, Curtis L. Shoemaker, Round Rock, Texas, Joseph M. Van Allen, Cedar Park, Texas, Donald K. Larson, Cedar Park, Texas, Joseph C. Sawicki, Austin, Texas, Ronald P. Pepin, Georgetown, Texas, and Martin G. Afflerbaugh, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An assembly tool for installing an optical fiber in an optical connector includes a base and a protrusion setting station. The base includes a connector mount disposed in the base. The connector mount can be configured to receive and secure the optical connector on the base where the connector has a housing and a connector ferrule. The protrusion setting station enables the craftsperson to set distance (or protrusion) that a terminal end of the optical fiber extends from an end face of the connector ferrule. The protrusion station includes a light source to illuminate the terminal end of the optical fiber, at least one black body absorber to eliminate unwanted reflected light and a window to visualize the terminal end of the optical fiber protruding from the end face of the connector ferrule." The patent application was filed on May 28, 2010 (12/789,984). 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=8,442,375.PN.&OS=PN/8,442,375&RS=PN/8,442,375 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** NASA, GM Global Technology Operations, Oceaneeering Space Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- NASA, GM Global Technology Operations, Detroit, and Oceaneeering Space Systems, Houston, have been assigned a patent (8,442,684) developed by four co-inventors for an "integrated high-speed torque control system for a robotic joint." The co-inventors are Donald R. Davis, Brighton, Mich., Nicolaus A. Radford, League City, Texas, Frank Noble Permenter, Webster, Texas, Michael C. Valvo, League City, Texas, and R. Scott Askew, Houston. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A control system for achieving high-speed torque for a joint of a robot includes a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) having a collocated joint processor and high-speed communication bus. The PCBA may also include a power inverter module (PIM) and local sensor conditioning electronics (SCE) for processing sensor data from one or more motor position sensors. Torque control of a motor of the joint is provided via the PCBA as a high-speed torque loop. Each joint processor may be embedded within or collocated with the robotic joint being controlled. Collocation of the joint processor, PIM, and high-speed bus may increase noise immunity of the control system, and the localized processing of sensor data from the joint motor at the joint level may minimize bus cabling to and from each control node. The joint processor may include a field programmable gate array (FPGA)." The patent application was filed on Sept. 22, 2009 (12/564,076). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,442,684&OS=8,442,684&RS=8,442,684 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Provisioning a Device ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,442,433) developed by Feng Wang, Austin, Texas, and Huitao Liu, Round Rock, Texas, for a "method and apparatus for provisioning a device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An article (100) has a device (122), and a radio frequency identification (RFIdaho module (102) coupled to the device. The RFID module is programmed to receive (210) provisioning instructions from a wireless source (142), and transfer (212) to the device the provisioning instructions when said device is enabled." The patent application was filed on March 30, 2005 (11/093,510). 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=8,442,433.PN.&OS=PN/8,442,433&RS=PN/8,442,433 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Texas Instruments Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Texas Instruments, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (8,441,833) developed by four co-inventors for a "differential plate line screen test for ferroelectric latch circuits." The co-inventors are Scott R. Summerfelt, Garland, Texas, John Anthony Rodriguez, Dallas, Hugh P. McAdams, McKinney, Texas, and Steven Craig Bartling, Plano, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Non-volatile latch circuits, such as in memory cells and flip-flops, that are constructed for reliability screening. The non-volatile latch circuits each include ferroelectric capacitors coupled to storage nodes, for example at the outputs of cross-coupled inverters. Separate plate lines are connected to the ferroelectric capacitors of the complementary storage nodes. A time-zero test of the latch stability margin is performed by setting a logic state at the storage nodes, then programming the state into the ferroelectric capacitors by polarization. After power-down, the plate lines are biased with a differential voltage relative to one another, and the latch is then powered up to attempt recall of the programmed state. The differential voltage disturbs the recall, and provides a measure of the cell margin and its later-life reliability." The patent application was filed on April 12, 2012 (13/445,076). 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=84,41,833.PN.&OS=PN/84,41,833&RS=PN/84,41,833 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Empire Technology Development Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Empire Technology Development, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,443,034) developed by Farinaz Koushanfar, Houston, and Miodrag Potkonjak, Los Angeles, for an "input vector selection for reducing current leakage in integrated circuits." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques are generally described for selecting input vectors that reduce or minimize leakage current for a plurality of integrated circuits (ICs) with the same design, but that differ due to manufacturing variability. In various embodiments, the techniques include determining at least one starting input vector that reduces leakage current in a respective one of N instances of the ICs, and selecting from the determined at least one starting input vector of each respective one of the N instances, a set R of representative input vectors. Some of the embodiments then use each of the representative input vectors in the set R to determine at least a particular input vector to apply to input terminals of an IC in the plurality of ICs to reduce or minimize leakage current in the IC. Additional variants and embodiments may also be disclosed." The patent application was filed on June 5, 2009 (12/479,584). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,443,034&OS=8,443,034&RS=8,443,034 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Xilinx Assigned Patent for Systolic Array for Cholesky Decomposition ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Xilinx, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,443,031) developed by Raghavendar M. Rao, Austin, Texas, for a "systolic array for cholesky decomposition." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A systolic array for Cholesky decomposition of an N.times.N matrix is described. A plurality of processing cells, including a corner cell, N-1 boundary cells, and (N.sup.2-3N+2)/2 internal cells, are arranged into N-1 rows and N columns of processing cells. Each row of processing cells is configured to calculate elements of a respective column of a lower triangular output matrix. Each processing cell of each row is configured to determine a value of a respective element of the lower triangular output matrix using a value of an element calculated in a previous processing cell of the row." The patent application was filed on July 19, 2010 (12/839,198). 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=8,443,031&OS=8,443,031&RS=8,443,031 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Futurewei Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Futurewei Technologies, Plano, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,442,072) developed by four co-inventors for a "method of preventing transport leaks in hybrid switching networks by extension of the link layer discovery protocol (LLDP)." The co-inventors are Robert Sultan, Somers, N.Y., Linda Dunbar, Plano, Texas, Lucy Yong, Tulsa, Okla., and T. Benjamin Mack-Crane, Downers Grove, Ill. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus comprising a processor configured to implement a method comprising receiving a first data structure comprising a first virtual local area network identifier (VID) and a first forwarding type, comparing the first VID and a first forwarding type with a second VID and a second forwarding type in a second data structure, and reporting a misprovisioned data structure if the first VID is the same as the second VID and the first forwarding type is not the same as the second forwarding type. Also disclosed is a method comprising implementing a network protocol to forward provisioning information in a plurality of VID Tables corresponding to a plurality of nodes, and analyzing the provisioning information to detect misprovisioned nodes." The patent application was filed on March 27, 2008 (12/057,190). 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=8,442,072&OS=8,442,072&RS=8,442,072 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** University of Illinois Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- The University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,442,091) developed by five co-inventors for a "microchannel laser having microplasma gain media." The co-inventors are Sung-Jin Park, Champaign, Ill., J. Gary Eden, Champaign, Ill., Paoyei Chen, McKinney, Texas, Paul A. Tchertchian, Mission Viejo, Calif., and Thomas M. Spinka, Urbana, Ill. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The invention provides microchannel lasers having a microplasma gain medium. Lasers of the invention can be formed in semiconductor materials, and can also be formed in polymer materials. In a microlaser of the invention, high density plasmas are produced in microchannels. The microplasma acts as a gain medium with the electrodes sustaining the plasma in the microchannel. Reflectors are used with the microchannel for obtaining optical feedback to obtain lasing in the microplasma gain medium in devices of the invention for a wide range of atomic and molecular species. Several atomic and molecular gain media will produce sufficiently high gain coefficients that reflectors (mirrors) are not necessary. Microlasers of the invention are based on microplasma generation in channels of various geometries. Preferred embodiment microlaser designs can be fabricated in semiconductor materials, such as Si wafers, by standard photolithographic techniques, or in polymers by replica molding." The patent application was filed on Oct. 27, 2008 (12/682,977). 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=8,442,091&OS=8,442,091&RS=8,442,091 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Lockheed Martin Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Lockheed Martin, Bethesda, Md., has been assigned a patent (8,442,090) developed by four co-inventors for an "efficient burst mode optical parametric source." The co-inventors are G. Paul Perryman, Arlington, Texas, James Richard Wood, Grapevine, Texas, Mark K. Browder, Frisco, Texas, and Edward Miesak, Windermere, Fla. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus recycle residual energy in an optical parametric burst source." The patent application was filed on Sept. 29, 2011 (13/248,961). 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=8,442,090&OS=8,442,090&RS=8,442,090 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Slacker Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Slacker, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,443,007) developed by Bradley D. Kindig, San Diego, and Celite Milbrandt, Austin, Texas, for "systems and devices for personalized rendering of digital media content." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods are disclosed for providing devices capable of the reception and playback of one or more crafted media channels transmitted over an intermittent connection. The one or more channels may be customized by the end user to bias the programming towards individual tastes or moods. The channels may be delivered over an intermittent, unidirectional link, for example a Satellite Radio receiver in a home or car. Content may also be delivered over an intermittent, bidirectional link, for example to a portable media player via a wireless 802.11 or other networked connection." The patent application was filed on May 12, 2011 (13/106,754). 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=8,443,007&OS=8,443,007&RS=8,443,007 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Xilinx Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Xilinx, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,442,105) developed by Christopher H. Dick, San Jose, Calif., and Raghavendar M. Rao, Austin, Texas, for an "equalization for minimum mean-square-error successive-interference-cancellation." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In an embodiment of an equalizer, a demodulator for MMSE-SIC receives a symbol vector to provide first information. A decoder receives the first information to provide second information to the demodulator. The decoder iteratively processes the first information to provide the second information. The demodulator and decoder are coupled in a loop for feeding back the second information for iteratively refining the first information. A detection-cancellation block of the demodulator receives the symbol vector to provide an equalized vector. A channel pre-processor block of the demodulator receives an initial vector output of the detection-cancellation block for the symbol vector for a demodulating-decoding iterative sequence to provide a weight vector. The channel pre-processor block provides an approximation using a fixed matrix to generate the weight vector. The detection-cancellation block receives the weight vector for equalization of the symbol vector in order to provide the equalized vector." The patent application was filed on Nov. 2, 2011 (13/287,943). 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=8,442,105&OS=8,442,105&RS=8,442,105 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. -1125110 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |