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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in New Jersey (May 22)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in New Jersey. *** University of New York Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- The University of New York, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,448,242) developed by Salvatore J. Stolfo, Ridgewood, N.J., Ke Wang, New York, and Janak Parekh, Manhasset, N.Y., for "systems, methods, and media for outputting data based upon anomaly detection." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems, methods, and media for outputting data based on anomaly detection are provided. In some embodiments, methods for outputting data based on anomaly detection include: receiving a known-good dataset; storing distinct n-grams from the known-good dataset to form a binary anomaly detection model; receiving known-good new n-grams; computing a rate of receipt of distinct n-grams in the new n-grams; determining whether further training of the anomaly detection model is necessary based on the rate of receipt on distinct n-grams; using the binary anomaly detection model to determine whether an input dataset contains an anomaly; and outputting the input dataset based on whether the input dataset contains an anomaly." The patent application was filed on Feb. 28, 2007 (12/280,970). 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=8,448,242&OS=8,448,242&RS=8,448,242 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Eggzack Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Eggzack, Bethlehem, Pa., has been assigned a patent (8,447,642) developed by Jon Scott Zaccagnino, Flemington, N.J., and Richard Victor Morrison Jr., Philadelphia, for a "local content management and distribution system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for the publishing, management and distribution of local content via a plurality of Internet media types. The method and system provides for single entry of local content and automated mass distribution via the Internet. A key component of the method and system is the categorizing and organizing of local content at the point of publishing by the system and/or author of the local content which allows for delivery and/or placement of the local content to a more relevant reader across the plurality of Internet media types." The patent application was filed on April 16, 2009 (12/386,313). 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=84,47,642.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,642&RS=PN/84,47,642 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Bank of America Assigned Patent for Multi-stage Filtering for Fraud Detection with Customer History Filters ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Bank of America, Charlotte, N.C., has been assigned a patent (8,447,674) developed by five co-inventors for "multi-stage filtering for fraud detection with customer history filters." The co-inventors are Somnath Choudhuri, Newark, Del., Daniel Bodalski, Mullica Hill, N.J., Matthew Hoke, Audubon, N.J., Sethu V. Iyer, Kennett Square, Pa., and Charles Pigg, Plano, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A multi-stage filtering process and system for fraud detection is disclosed. The process includes one or more preliminary filtration stages followed by one or more additional filtration stages that may include customer history filters that provide for enhanced screening for fraudulent activity. Over a plurality of transactions, a portion of the transactions are cleared for processing (e.g., deemed not likely fraudulent or of too low value to continue processing) after each filtration stage. As such, acceptable transactions are not unnecessarily scrutinized." The patent application was filed on July 21, 2011 (13/188,130). 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=84,47,674.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,674&RS=PN/84,47,674 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Medco Health Solutions Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Medco Health Solutions, Franklin Lakes, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,447,738) developed by Edward S. Binkowski, New York, Andrew Rosenberg, Astoria, N.Y., and Moshe Rosenwein, Springfield, N.J., for a "computer system and method for de-identification of patient and/or individual health and/or medical related information, such as patient micro-data." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer-implemented method de-identifies data collected for patients. IN at least one embodiment, the method comprises the sequential, non-sequential and/or sequence independent steps of providing information representative of at least one patient, at least one medical characteristic associated with at least one patient thereto, and a geographic area of the at least one patient, and providing at least one organizational structure for organizing medical characteristics. The method also includes associating the at least one organizational structure with at least one geographical area and at least one medical characteristic, and aggregating, in the at least one organizational structure, said information by medical characteristic and the at least one geographic area therein. Various alternative embodiments are additionally disclosed." The patent application was filed on Nov. 17, 2004 (10/989,285). 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=84,47,738.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,738&RS=PN/84,47,738 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Semantic Verification of Multidimensional Data Sources ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,447,753) developed by Robin N. Grosset, Ottawa, Jose Vazquez, Piscataway, N.J., and Yu Zou, Piscataway, N.J., for a "semantic verification of multidimensional data sources." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An illustrative embodiment provides a computer-implemented process for semantic verification of multidimensional data sources that receives a trusted output from a trusted multidimensional expression engine, receives an un-trusted output from an un-trusted data source and determines whether a query produces a correct semantic result, wherein the correct semantic result is within a predetermined tolerance. Responsive to a determination that the query does not produce a semantically correct result, identifies queries having semantically incorrect results to form a local subset, notifies a query planner of semantically incorrect queries and determines whether to process queries locally. Responsive to a determination to not process queries locally, creates a set of simplified multidimensional expression queries for remote execution." The patent application was filed on Dec. 3, 2010 (12/959,552). 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=84,47,753.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,753&RS=PN/84,47,753 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** American Express Travel Related Services Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- American Express Travel Related Services, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,447,686) developed by five co-inventors for a "system and method for mitigating merchant debit balances." The co-inventors are Qingli Wang, Shanghai, China, David Yu, Peoria, Ariz., Salvator Nkunzimana, Phoenix, Jin Wu, Summit, N.J., and Weichiang Hu, Fort Lee, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for collecting data about merchants or service establishments that accept credit cards or charge cards as payment for goods and services, segmenting the merchants into groups, generating risk scores for the merchants based upon each merchants' group and, based upon the risk scores, providing information to a card issuer to take remedial action for merchants that are at higher risk for entering into a debit balance." The patent application was filed on Sept. 22, 2004 (10/946,751). 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=84,47,686.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,686&RS=PN/84,47,686 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** EMC Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,447,740) developed by seven co-inventors for a "stream locality delta compression." The co-inventors are Mark Huang, Seattle, Philip Shilane, Morrisville, Pa., Grant Wallace, Ewing, N.J., Nitin Garg, Mountain View, Calif., Edward K. Lee, San Jose, Calif., Ming Benjamin Zhu, Austin, Texas, and Kai Li, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Stream locality delta compression is disclosed. A previous stream indicated locale of data segments is selected. A first data segment is then determined to be similar to a data segment in the stream indicated locale." The patent application was filed on Nov. 14, 2008 (12/291,989). 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=84,47,740.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,740&RS=PN/84,47,740 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,447,879) developed by Hui Luo, Marlboro, N.J., for a "secure in-band signaling method for mobility management crossing firewalls." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An in-band signaling method that enables secure updates of a care-of-IP address for a mobile host that roams between access networks. In the illustrative embodiment described herein, a mobile host includes an intelligent interface that handles IP networking functions and tunnels IP packets between the mobile host and the mobile host's home agent/remote access server (HA/RAS) transparently, as if the mobile host established a connection to a communicating or destination host (DST) from the home network (where the HA/RAS resides). In accordance with an aspect of the invention, there is provided an in-band signaling method that employs encrypted three-way handshake signaling messages that are embedded in encapsulated IP packets to enable care-of IP address updates. This method can effectively protect mobile hosts from denial-of-service attacks and is transparent to NAT/NAPT firewalls. The signaling messages are communicated between the home agent and the mobile host, in a manner transparent to any NAT/NAPT firewall in the network." The patent application was filed on March 3, 2008 (12/041,021). 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=8,447,879&OS=8,447,879&RS=8,447,879 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** TTI Inventions C Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- TTI Inventions C, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,448,159) developed by Munir Cochinwala, Basking Ridge, N.J., Josephine Micallef, Maplewood, N.J., and John R. Wullert II, Martinsville, N.J., for a "method and system for policy enabled programming." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for allowing external execution-time adaptation of application behavior of an application in a telecommunication system without modification to the application code comprises an application having at least one break point and residing on an application server, at least one identifiable decision engine, and a listing of break points that has for each break point at least one identifier of the decision engine, such that at one of the break points, the application accesses the listing of break points, invokes the listed instances of the decision engine corresponding to the break point, and adapts application behavior based on the decision engine. In addition, each entry in the listing of break points can have a sequence number so that if two entries for the same break point have equal sequence numbers, the decision engines identified in these entries can be invoked in parallel." The patent application was filed on Nov. 2, 2007 (11/982,675). 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=8,448,159&OS=8,448,159&RS=8,448,159 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** CommVault Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- CommVault Systems, Oceanport, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,447,728) developed by Anand Prahlad, East Brunswick, N.J., and Srinivas Kavuri, Hyderabad, India, for a "system and method for storage operation access security." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for controlling access to stored data is provided. The storage access control system leverages a preexisting security infrastructure of a system to inform the proper access control that should be applied to data stored outside of its original location, such as a data backup. The storage access control system may place similar access control restrictions on the backup files that existed on the original files. In this way, the backed up data is given similar protection as that of the original data." The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2011 (13/250,997). 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=84,47,728.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,728&RS=PN/84,47,728 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Oracle International Assigned Patent for System and Method for Pause and Resume Message Operations on Destinations ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Oracle International, Redwood Shores, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,448,182) developed by Kathiravan Sengodan, Edison, N.J., for a "system and method for pause and resume message operations on destinations." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention enables messaging service users to programmatically and administratively control the system's behavior in the event of an external resource failure. A destination pause/resume feature enables the user to "pause" and "resume" the production and consumption of messages, that are newly produced or produced as a result of "in flight work" completion, on a given destination or all the destinations hosted by a single messaging service server programmatically. This description is not intended to be a complete description of, or limit the scope of, the invention. Other features, aspects, and objects of the invention can be obtained from a review of the specification, the figures, and the claims." The patent application was filed on Nov. 22, 2005 (11/284,689). 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=8,448,182&OS=8,448,182&RS=8,448,182 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Novell Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Novell, Provo, Utah, has been assigned a patent (8,448,219) developed by Kattiganehalli Y. Srinivasan, Princeton Junction, N.J., for "securely hosting workloads in virtual computing environments." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus involve securely hosting workloads. Broadly, computing workloads are classified according to security concerns and those with common concerns are deployed together on common hardware platforms. In one instance, security tags are bi-modally attached or not to workloads meeting a predetermined security threshold. Those with tags are deployed on a common machine while those without tags are deployed on other machines. Tags may be embedded in meta data of open virtual machine formats (OVF). Considerations for re-booting computing devices are also contemplated as are multiplexing workloads. Computer program products are further disclosed." The patent application was filed on April 23, 2009 (12/428,572). 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=8,448,219&OS=8,448,219&RS=8,448,219 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** NEC Laboratories America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,448,145) developed by Malay K. Ganai, Plainsboro, N.J., and Sudipta Kundu, Hillsboro, Ore., for "methods and systems for reducing verification conditions for concurrent programs using mutually atomic transactions." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for generating verification conditions and verifying the correctness of a concurrent system of program threads are described. The methods and systems determine and employ mutually atomic transactions to reduce verification problem sizes and state space for concurrent systems. The embodiments provide both an adequate and an optimal set of token-passing constraints for a bounded unrolling of threads." The patent application was filed on Sept. 29, 2009 (12/569,557). 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=8,448,145&OS=8,448,145&RS=8,448,145 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Google Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,447,886) developed by four co-inventors for a "collaborative online spreadsheet application." The co-inventors are Jonathan Rochelle, Chester, N.J., Micah Lemonik, New York, Farzad Khosrowshahi, Pleasantville, N.Y., and John Stephen Danaher, Brooklyn, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A distributed spreadsheet application executes at a server and a client in a network. The networked spreadsheet application can generally be used without requiring a user to install any specific spreadsheet software prior to using the application. In one implementation, the spreadsheet application may include a client engine that executes within browser programs of a plurality of client computing devices and server logic. The server logic may be configured to distribute the client engines to the plurality of client computing devices of the spreadsheet application when requested through the browser programs of each of the plurality of client computing devices. The server logic synchronizes a single spreadsheet document that is simultaneously open at the plurality of client computing devices." The patent application was filed on Sept. 14, 2012 (13/615,797). 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=8,447,886&OS=8,447,886&RS=8,447,886 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Virtual Presence Server ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,447,808) developed by seven co-inventors for a virtual presence server. The co-inventors are Arup Acharya, Nanuet, N.Y., Nilanjan Banerjee, West Bengal, India, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Kolkata, India, Koustuv Dasgupta, New Delhi, India, Archan Misra, Bridgewater, N.J., Xiping Wang, Scarsdale, N.Y., and Charles P. Wright, Cortlandt Manor, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques are disclosed for generating and managing presentities in accordance with a virtual presence server. By way of example, a method for requesting information from at least one server comprises the following steps. A client request, which expresses a request that can not be satisfied by a single existing presentity, is obtained at an intermediate server, wherein the intermediate server operates as a virtual presence server. The virtual presence server (i.e., intermediate server) creates a set of software objects for a virtual presentity, the set of objects embodying logic to combine presence information from one or more of existing presentities and external information sources, in accordance with at least one existing presence server. The virtual presence server creates an association between the request of the client and the created virtual presentity that allows the presence information to be propagated back to the client." The patent application was filed on Sept. 19, 2008 (12/233,795). 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=8,447,808&OS=8,447,808&RS=8,447,808 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** RPX Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- RPX, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,447,832) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for providing a web-based operating system." The co-inventors are Fredrik Malmer, Alingsas, Sweden, Erik Viktor Arvidsson, Jonkoping, Sweden, Drew E. Morris, Alpine, N.J., and Shervin Pishevar, Gaithersburg, Md. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for providing a web-based operating system is disclosed. A web-based operating system is downloaded from a server to a network-enabled device. The web-based operating system provides a platform from which to run web-based computer applications. Web-based computer applications are downloaded from the server onto the network-enabled device, and executed in conjunction with the web-based operating system. Those portions of the web-based operating system software and web-based computer application software are downloaded to the network-enabled device as needed. A component-based environment for the development and deployment of a web-based operating system and web-based computer applications is also provided. Components are deployed within library files as part of a component-based development model. The web-based operating system downloads those library files needed to execute the web-based computer applications." The patent application was filed on April 21, 2011 (13/091,993). 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=8,447,832&OS=8,447,832&RS=8,447,832 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Cadence Design Systems Assigned Patent for System, Method, and Computer Program Product for Automatic Power Management Verification ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Cadence Design Systems, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,448,112) developed by four co-inventors for a "system, method, and computer program product for automatic power management verification." The co-inventors are Yaron Kashai, Sunnyvale, Calif., John Paul Decker, Annandale, N.J., Neyaz Khan, Plano, Texas, and Efrat Shneydor, Modiin, Israel. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method for automatically generating a power management verification component. The method may include receiving one or more inputs including a power intent definition. The method may further include automatically generating a power management verification environment based upon, at least in part, the power intent definition, the power management verification environment including at least one of a driver and a monitor." The patent application was filed on April 8, 2011 (13/082,970). 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=8,448,112&OS=8,448,112&RS=8,448,112 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Parallel Pipelined Vector Reduction in a Data Processing System ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,447,954) developed by Bin Jia, West New York, N.J., for a "parallel pipelined vector reduction in a data processing system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A parallel processing data processing system builds at least one data structure indicating a communication schedule for a plurality of processes each having a respective one of a plurality of equal length vectors formed of multiple equal size chunks. The data processing system, based upon the at least one data structure, communicates chunks of the plurality of vectors among the plurality of processes and performs partial reduction operations on chunks in accordance with the communication schedule. The data processing system then stores a result vector representing reduction of the plurality of vectors." The patent application was filed on Sept. 4, 2009 (12/554,074). 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=8,447,954.PN.&OS=PN/8,447,954&RS=PN/8,447,954 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,448,026) developed by Chesla C. Wechsler, Shrewsbury, N.J., and John Sutton Robertson, Freehold, N.J., for a "selective logging based on set parameter." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Logging for a transaction is coordinated when provided by applications implemented on multiple nodes. An indicator is set, prior to activity occurring related to a transaction, to log information for a transaction based on specified criteria. A first application implemented on a first node generates, based on the set indicator, a first detailed log for activity occurring related to the transaction. A transaction identifier and the indicator are passed to a downstream second application implemented on a second node. A second detailed log for activity occurring related to the transaction is generated by the downstream second application based on the set indicator. The first detailed log is correlated with the second detailed log." The patent application was filed on Aug. 21, 2012 (13/590,542). 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=8,448,026.PN.&OS=PN/8,448,026&RS=PN/8,448,026 Written by Kusum Sangma; 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. -1125791 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |