[May 22, 2013] U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Texas (May 22) Tweet (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 Texas. *** Global Dataguard Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Global Dataguard, Addison, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,448,247) developed by Michael Stute, Plano, Texas, for "adaptive behavioral intrusion detection systems and methods." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for analyzing historical network traffic and determining which traffic does not belong in a network are disclosed. Intrusion detection is performed over a period of time, looking for behavioral patterns within networks or information systems and generating alerts when these patterns change. The intrusion detection system intelligently forms correlations between disparate sources to find traffic anomalies. Over time, behaviors are predictive, and the intrusion detection system attempts to predict outcomes, becoming proactive instead of just reactive. Intrusions occur throughout whole information systems, including both network infrastructure and application servers. By treating the information system as a whole and performing intrusion detection across it, the chances of detection are increased significantly." The patent application was filed on April 23, 2012 (13/453,879). 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=8,448,247&OS=8,448,247&RS=8,448,247 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Micron Technology Assigned Patent for Secure Controller for Block Oriented Storage ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Micron Technology, Boise, Idaho, has been assigned a patent (8,448,239) developed by Dennis M. O'Connor, Chandler, Ariz., Mark N. Fullerton, Austin, Texas, and Ray Richardson, Chandler, Ariz., for a "secure controller for block oriented storage." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A storage controller includes a command pointer register. The command pointer register points to a chain of commands in memory, and also includes a security status field to indicate a security status of the first command in the command chain. Each command in the command chain may also include a security status field that indicates the security status of the following command in the chain." The patent application was filed on March 5, 2011 (13/041,379). 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=8,448,239&OS=8,448,239&RS=8,448,239 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** 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. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Backing Up Data Objects Identified by Search Program and Corresponding to Search Query ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,447,735) developed by Jean X. Yu, Austin, Texas, Yan Xiao, Acton, Mass., and Thomas E. O'Brien, Round Rock, Texas, for "backing up data objects identified by search program and corresponding to search query." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A backup program running on a computing device receives a search query. The backup program transmits the search query to a search program. The backup program receives search results corresponding to the search query from the search program. The search results include a list of data objects stored on a storage device and that satisfy the search query. The backup program backs up one or more selected data objects of the list of data objects. The backup program can periodically and automatically without user interaction retransmit the search query to the search program, and receive updated search results corresponding to the search query from the search program. The updated search results include an updated list of data objects stored on the storage device that satisfy the search query. The backup program can then back up the data objects within the updated list of data objects." The patent application was filed on Dec. 14, 2010 (12/968,134). 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=84,47,735.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,735&RS=PN/84,47,735 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** United Services Automobile Association Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- United Services Automobile Association, San Antonio, has been assigned a patent (8,447,678) developed by Michael Roger Baublit, San Antonio, for "systems and methods for application processing." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of utilizing voice authorization includes providing a processor and receiving demographic information related to an applicant for an insurance policy. The method also includes receiving a voice authentication from the applicant related to the demographic information, receiving, from the applicant, insurance information, and underwriting, using the processor and the insurance information, the insurance policy. The method further includes providing policy information to the applicant, receiving a voice authorization from the applicant related to the policy information, and issuing the insurance policy." The patent application was filed on June 29, 2012 (13/537,919). 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=84,47,678.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,678&RS=PN/84,47,678 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,448,249) developed by Jason D. Preston, Austin, Texas, for "methods and systems for using lambda transitions for processing regular expressions in intrusion-prevention systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems are provided for using lambda transitions for processing regular expressions in intrusion-prevention systems. In an embodiment, a state-transition table is provided, said table being representative of a predetermined data pattern, and including states having egress events defining transitions to other states. A subject is received for evaluation for the presence of the predetermined data pattern. While using the state-transition table for said evaluation, a first state is transitioned into, the first state having an egress event defining a transition to a second state, a state count corresponding to a number of times the first state has been transitioned into, a state-count threshold, and a state-count condition. After transitioning into the first state, the state count is incremented. Responsive to determining that the state-count condition is satisfied by comparing the incremented state count with the state-count threshold, the transition to the second state is taken." The patent application was filed on July 29, 2008 (12/181,511). 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=8,448,249&OS=8,448,249&RS=8,448,249 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Gold Innovations Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Gold Innovations, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,447,675) developed by Omar Besim Hakim, Austin, Texas, for "methods and apparatus for recording legal tender decomposition of accounting system entries." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus for recording decomposition of accounting system entries are disclosed. In one embodiment, one or more processors are employed to perform recording a legal tender value of an accounting system entry and recording a legal tender decomposition of the accounting system entry." The patent application was filed on Oct. 26, 2011 (13/282,197). 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=84,47,675.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,675&RS=PN/84,47,675 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Aquire Solutions Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Aquire Solutions, Irving, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,447,755) developed by Ross Melbourne, Irving, Texas, Brad Winsor, Lake Bluff, Ill., and Lois Melbourne, Irving, Texas, for "systems and methods of analyzing changes and data between hierarchies." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "There is disclosed various embodiments of computer systems and methods for analyzing multi-dimensional trends from two dimensional hierarchical data by comparing and analyzing two hierarchies and their associated attributes. Certain embodiments may comprise: providing a database of previous time slice data, receiving new time slice data, comparing the new time slice data to the database of previous time slice data, generating additional attributes, incorporating the additional attributes and the new time slice data into the database so that analysis may be performed between the two hierarchies." The patent application was filed on Sept. 29, 2010 (12/893,890). 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=84,47,755.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,755&RS=PN/84,47,755 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. *** Cadence Design Systems Assigned Patent for Analog/digital Partitioning of Circuit Designs for Simulation ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Cadence Design Systems, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,448,116) developed by Chandrashekar L. Chetput, San Jose, Calif., Abhijeet Kolpekwar, Austin, Texas, and Srinivasan Iyengar, Round Rock, Texas, for "analog/digital partitioning of circuit designs for simulation." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "For increasing user control and insight into preparing a mixed-signal semiconductor design specification for simulation, there are provided methods responsive to commands that provide control over resolution of disciplines and partitioning of the design into analog and digital portions. In some aspects, the methods provide block-based assignment of disciplines, as well as design partitioning. In other aspects, the methods provide for resolving a discipline to apply in a block from among multiple possible disciplines. In some aspects, error flagging may be available for detecting disciplines different from what provided for assignment in a block. Assignments may be indicated based on instance, cell, terminal, or library names and may be specified with wild cards. In still other aspects, the methods may be embodied by instructions on computer readable media, and in systems comprising general and special purpose computer hardware that may communicate with various storage facilities and over various networks." The patent application was filed on Aug. 31, 2010 (12/873,162). 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=8,448,116&OS=8,448,116&RS=8,448,116 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Verizon Data Services Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Verizon Data Services, Temple Terrace, Fla., has been assigned a patent (8,447,869) developed by Brian Roberts, Dallas, Don Relyea, Dallas, and Heath Stallings, Colleyville, Texas, for a "feature set based content communications systems and methods." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An exemplary method includes an access device 1) transmitting a profile request signal to a profile management subsystem over a network, the profile request signal representing a request for profile data representative of a feature set corresponding to an additional access device, 2) receiving the profile data from the profile management subsystem in accordance with the profile request signal, 3) storing the profile data within a data store included within the access device, 4) using the stored profile data to display one or more graphics representing the feature set corresponding to the additional access device, and 5) establishing, based on the stored profile data and after the one or more graphics representing the feature set corresponding to the additional access device are displayed, a communications channel between the access device and the additional access device. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed." The patent application was filed on July 3, 2012 (13/541,242). 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=8,447,869&OS=8,447,869&RS=8,447,869 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Verizon Patent and Licensing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Verizon Patent and Licensing, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,448,206) developed by Brian F. Roberts, Dallas, Greg Johns, Irving, Texas, and Shafiq Kassam, Lewisville, Texas, for an "augmenting interactive television content utilizing a dynamic cloud activity guide." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A server device configured to store settings information, the settings information indicating which type of operations are permitted by a user of a video client; receive a request to perform an operation associated with television content; perform a first operation to obtain program information associated with the television content when the settings information permits the first operation, the program information being a measure of popularity regarding the television content; perform the second operation to obtain performer information associated with the television content when the settings information permits the second operation, the performer information being a measure of popularity regarding the performer; perform the third operation to obtain review information associated with the television content when the settings information permits the third operation, the review information including reviews associated with the television content; and present, to the video client, the program information, the performer information, or the review information for display." The patent application was filed on May 17, 2010 (12/781,560). 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=8,448,206&OS=8,448,206&RS=8,448,206 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Raytheon Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Raytheon, Waltham, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,448,127) developed by Joe H. Lindley, Garland, Texas, and Gary D. Thomas, Richardson, Texas, for a "software forecasting system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "According to one embodiment, a software forecasting system includes a software forecasting tool coupled to a user interface and a software cost estimation tool. The software forecasting tool generates a software development metric according to attributes derived from one or more previous software development projects. The software forecasting tool receives a similar software development metric from the software cost estimation tool and calculates a difference between the received metric and that of its own and displays the result on the user interface." The patent application was filed on Jan. 30, 2009 (12/363,417). 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=8,448,127&OS=8,448,127&RS=8,448,127 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Freescale Semiconductor Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Freescale Semiconductor, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,447,897) developed by Kun Xu, Austin, Texas, Tommi M. Jokinen, Austin, Texas, and David B. Kramer, Cedar Park, Texas, for a "bandwidth control for a direct memory access unit within a data processing system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for controlling bandwidth in a direct memory access (DMA) unit of a computer processing system, the method comprising: assigning a DMA job to a selected DMA engine; starting a source timer; and issuing a request to read a next section of data for the DMA job. If a sufficient amount of the data was not obtained, allowing the DMA engine to wait until the source timer reaches a specified value before continuing to read additional data for the DMA job." The patent application was filed on June 24, 2011 (13/168,331). 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=8,447,897&OS=8,447,897&RS=8,447,897 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** National Instruments Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- National Instruments, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,448,135) developed by Jeffrey L. Kodosky, Austin, Texas, for a "race structure for a graphical program." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "System and method for executing a graphical program. A first structure in a graphical program is displayed on a display. The first structure includes two or more frames, each configured to contain a respective portion of the graphical program. The respective portions of the graphical program are included in the two or more frames. During execution of the graphical program, the first structure executes the respective portions of the graphical program in the two or more frames in parallel via respective execution processes. When a first portion of the respective portions completes execution prior to all others of the portions, execution of the other portions is terminated." The patent application was filed on April 1, 2010 (12/752,606). 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=8,448,135&OS=8,448,135&RS=8,448,135 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** United Services Automobile Association Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- United Services Automobile Association, San Antonio, has been assigned a patent (8,448,177) developed by Randy Ray Morlen, San Antonio, for "task prioritization based on users' interest." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems, methods and computer readable media can include prioritizing tasks associated with a group of users based on number of times the users have monitored the status of a task. In addition to the general system, systems, methods and computer readable media for task prioritizing, the tasks may be prioritized based on the number of users associated with a task, the importance of each user associated with a task, and the way the task was identified." The patent application was filed on April 10, 2008 (12/100,704). 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=8,448,177&OS=8,448,177&RS=8,448,177 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Incremental Runtime Compliance Validation of Renderable Objects ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,448,142) developed by Michael A. Squillace, Austin, Texas, for an "incremental runtime compliance validation of renderable objects." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Mechanisms are provided for debugging a graphical user interface (GUI) of a computer application code. The mechanisms detect a user interaction with a first renderable object of the GUI during execution of the computer application code. The mechanisms identify one or more second renderable objects of the GUI that are reachable from the first renderable object based on an identity of the first renderable object and a type of the user interaction. Moreover, the mechanisms apply one or more compliance rules to the first renderable object and one or more second renderable objects, the compliance rules specifying requirements for at least one relationship between the first renderable object and the one or more second renderable objects. Additionally, the mechanisms output results of the application of the one or more compliance rules to the first renderable object and one or more second renderable objects." The patent application was filed on Aug. 25, 2009 (12/546,984). 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=8,448,142&OS=8,448,142&RS=8,448,142 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** CopperEgg Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- CopperEgg, Pflugerville, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,447,851) developed by five co-inventors for a "system for monitoring elastic cloud-based computing systems as a service." The co-inventors are Eric Paul Anderson, Pflugerville, Texas, Scott Conrad Johnson, Austin, Texas, David Perdue, Austin, Texas, Luke Ehresman, Holly Springs, N.C., and Robert B. Gordon, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Provided is a computing-system monitor configured to monitor a plurality of computing-systems each having a plurality of monitored computing-instances. The computing-system monitor may include a plurality of collectors, each collector executed by one of a plurality of monitored computing-instances, wherein the plurality of monitored computing-instances each are part of one of a plurality of separately monitored computing systems, and wherein each of the collectors is operable to output metrics of a corresponding monitored computing-instance executing that collector. The computing-system monitor may also include an analytics platform, the analytics platform having a plurality of analytic computing-instances, the analytics platform being operable to receive metrics output by the plurality of collectors, calculate statistics with the analytic computing-instances based on the received metrics, and output the calculated statistics." The patent application was filed on Nov. 10, 2011 (13/293,751). 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=8,447,851&OS=8,447,851&RS=8,447,851 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Using Unique Local Unicast Addresses in a Global Domain Name Server by Providing a Centralized Registry ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,447,846) developed by Seth D. Jennings, Austin, Texas, Roocha K. Pandya, Mumbai, India, and Prashant A. Paranjape, Bangalore, India, for "using unique local unicast addresses in a global domain name server by providing a centralized registry." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Mechanisms are provided for assigning addresses for use in communications between computing devices. With these mechanisms, a centralized domain name registrar server assigns a unique global identifier to a domain of a site such that the unique global identifier uniquely identifies the domain. The unique global identifier is received in a data processing system from the centralized domain name registrar server. The site is divided into a plurality of sub-domains and a unique sub-domain identifier is assigned to each sub-domain in the site such that the unique sub-domain identifier uniquely identifies a corresponding sub-domain in the site. The global identifier for the domain of the site and the sub-domain identifiers of the sub-domains in the plurality of sub-domains are provided by the data processing system to routers of the site for use in associating addresses with devices of the site." The patent application was filed on Aug. 6, 2010 (12/851,737). 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=8,447,846&OS=8,447,846&RS=8,447,846 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Apple Assigned Patent for Method for Piecewise Hierarchical Sequential Verification ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Apple, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,448,107) developed by four co-inventors for a "method for piecewise hierarchical sequential verification." The co-inventors are Nathan Francis Sheeley, Austin, Texas, Mark H. Nodine, Austin, Texas, Nicolas Xavier Pena, Austin, Texas, Irfan Waheed, Austin, Texas, Patrick Peters, Austin, Texas, and Adrian J. Isles, Alameda, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "This disclosure describes a method for accomplishing sequential logical equivalence verification using a hierarchical piecewise approach. Initially, the method provides a reference semiconductor design and a second semiconductor design with logic edits relative to it. The method submits both to formal verification to check the reference design against the second semiconductor design with all edits disabled 200. The semiconductor design is partitioned 202 and associated input constraints 204. The edits are further grouped 206 and ordered 208. The invention also discovers a set of dependencies of the logic edits 210 and checks that the ordering of groups obeys the dependencies 212. Each group of edits is further submitted to formal verification 214 and any input constraints assumed for any partitions are verified in their enclosing partition 216. Finally, the method reports success if formal verification succeeds on each group of logic edits and on each set of input constraints 218." The patent application was filed on July 8, 2009 (13/127,936). 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=8,448,107&OS=8,448,107&RS=8,448,107 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Viewplicity Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Viewplicity, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (8,448,073) developed by four co-inventors for a "multiple camera group collaboration system and method." The co-inventors are Robert E. Nimon, Dallas, Gregory L. Mayhan, Richardson, Texas, Charles Eric Langford, Dallas, and Samuel R. Langford, Dallas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An improved group collaboration system providing control and management of multiple cameras for multiple users (members). The system includes a server for system management and a server for video data. Multiple clients, each having multiple cameras, may access the system simultaneously. Each client has a browser interface that allows a user to access multiple member cameras. Each selected camera is displayed simultaneously in the selecting user's interface. A bandwidth distribution algorithm provides quality of service for the multiple camera feeds." The patent application was filed on Sept. 9, 2010 (12/878,905). 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=8,448,073.PN.&OS=PN/8,448,073&RS=PN/8,448,073 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Matching Systems with Power and Thermal Domains ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,448,108) developed by Charles Robert Lefurgy, Austin, Texas, and Freeman Leigh Rawson III, Austin, Texas, for "matching systems with power and thermal domains." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system, and computer program product for matching systems with power and thermal domains are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A subset of the set of systems is sorted according to size to form a sorted list of systems. The smallest remaining system in the sorted list of systems is selected. The smallest remaining system is allocated to a domain responsive to a determination that the domain can service the smallest remaining system. A system from a second subset is allocated to a plurality of domains such that the plurality of domains includes a smallest number of domains from the set of domains." The patent application was filed on June 28, 2011 (13/170,864). 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=8,448,108&OS=8,448,108&RS=8,448,108 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** BMC Software Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods for Altering Limit Key Values ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- BMC Software, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,447,791) developed by Timothy J. Patriquin, Austin, Texas, for "systems and methods for altering limit key values." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one aspect, a computer-implemented method for generating commands used to modify a plurality of limit key values includes determining a current value for each of the plurality of limit keys, determining a new value for each of the plurality of limit keys, and generating a normalized internal key for the current values and the new values of each of the limit keys. The method further includes iteratively determining a sequence order for each limit key using the current normalized internal keys and the new normalized limit keys and using the sequence order of each limit key to generate commands used to change the value of each limit key from the current value to the new value. The method may also include generating data used to indicate that a sequence order could not be determined." The patent application was filed on April 2, 2012 (13/437,757). 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=8,447,791&OS=8,447,791&RS=8,447,791 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Security Classification Based on User Interaction ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,448,258) developed by four co-inventors for a "security classification based on user interaction." The co-inventors are Tamer E. Abuelsaad, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., John H. Handy-Bosma, Cedar Park, Texas, Yael Ravin, Mount Kisco, N.Y., and William D. Morrison, Old Greenwich, Conn. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An embodiment of the invention includes a method and system for content management. More specifically, the system includes a user interface for receiving content from a user and a data repository connected to the user interface for storing the content. The user interface also receives a request to access the content from the user. A program processor is connected to the data repository, wherein the program processor determines whether the content includes a security classification. A communications module is connected to the program processor, wherein the communications module sends an alert to the user interface when the content does not include a security classification. The alert includes a request to assign a security classification to the content." The patent application was filed on Jan. 28, 2011 (13/016,677). 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=8,448,258&OS=8,448,258&RS=8,448,258 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Methods, Systems, and Computer Program Products for Viewing File Information ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,447,794) developed by Keith B. Cowden, Houston, and Kevin L. Miner, Apopka, Fla., for "methods, systems, and computer program products for viewing file information." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A data processing method for a memory system of a computer includes: determining one or more volume locations of a file; determining one or more locations of extents of the file associated with each of the one or more volume locations; retrieving data attributes for each of the extents of the file at each of the one or more volume locations; formatting the data attributes; and generating an output including the formatted data attributes." The patent application was filed on May 6, 2008 (12/115,862). 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=8,447,794&OS=8,447,794&RS=8,447,794 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Managing Unique Electronic Identification for Kernel Extensions in Isolated Virtual Space ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,448,169) developed by five co-inventors for a "managing unique electronic identification for kernel extensions in isolated virtual space." The co-inventors are Khalid Filali-Adib, Austin, Texas, Kevin L. Fought, Round Rock, Texas, David W. Sheffield, Austin, Texas, Nathaniel S. Tomsic, Austin, Texas, and Sungjin Yook, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Some embodiments of the inventive subject matter are directed to detecting a file that a first instance of an operating system is configured to load where the file is configured to extend functionality of a kernel when loaded. In some embodiments, the first instance of the operating system is managed by a second instance of the operating system (e.g., the first instance of the operating system is a virtual operating system and the second instance is a global operating system). The first and second instances of the operating system share the kernel. Some embodiments are further directed to generating a unique electronic identifier based on properties of the file. The unique electronic identifier uniquely identifies the file. Some embodiments are further directed to providing a copy of the file to the first instance of the operating system, and some time later, receiving a request from the first instances of the operating system to load the copy of the file. Some embodiments are further directed to determining, using the unique electronic identifier, that the copy of the file from the first instance of the operating system is equivalent to the file. Some embodiments are further directed to loading the copy of the file in response to determining, using the unique electronic identifier, that the copy of the file is equivalent to the file. The loading extends the functionality of the kernel." The patent application was filed on July 12, 2010 (12/834,483). 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=8,448,169&OS=8,448,169&RS=8,448,169 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,447,777) developed by Scott White, Austin, Texas, and Ian C. Schmehl, San Antonio, for a "system for tracking media content transactions." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a web server having a controller adapted to manage an archive of media content for a subscriber, and record a transaction description and a corresponding tracking identifier for a transaction that manipulates the archive. Other embodiments are disclosed." The patent application was filed on Sept. 9, 2011 (13/228,529). 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=8,447,777&OS=8,447,777&RS=8,447,777 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Fracturing Continuous Photolithography Masks ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,448,098) developed by four co-inventors for "fracturing continuous photolithography masks." The co-inventors are Ying Liu, Austin, Texas, David Osmond Melville, Watson, N.Y., Alan E. Rosenbluth, Watson, N.Y., and Kehan Tian, Fishkill, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system, and computer usable program product for fracturing a continuous mask usable in photolithography are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A first origin point is selected from a set of points on an edge in the continuous mask. A first end point is identified on the edge such that a separation metric between the first origin point and the first end point is at least equal to a threshold value. Several alternatives are determined for fracturing using the first origin point and the first end point. A cost associated with each of the several alternatives is computed and one of the alternatives is selected as a preferred fracturing. Several pairs of origin points and end points are formed from the set of points. Each pair has a cost of a preferred fracturing between the pair. The continuous mask is fractured using a subset of the several pairs." The patent application was filed on April 23, 2012 (13/453,262). 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=8,448,098&OS=8,448,098&RS=8,448,098 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Identifying Intrusions into a Network Data Processing System ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,448,189) developed by five co-inventors for "identifying intrusions into a network data processing system." The co-inventors are Dolapo Martin Falola, Round Rock, Texas, Vinit Jain, Austin, Texas, Shannon Marie MacAlpine, Round Rock, Texas, Shawn Patrick Mullen, Buda, Texas, and James Stanley Tesauro, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, apparatus and computer instructions for handling intrusions. A tracer packet is sent back to an intruder causing the intrusion in response to receiving notification of an intrusion from a particular node in a network data processing system. Nodes in the network data processing system are notified of the tracer packet. Identification of the node is stored for use in tracing a route of the tracer packet through the data processing system in response to receiving a message from a node indicating receipt of the tracer packet." The patent application was filed on June 21, 2010 (12/819,502). 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=8,448,189&OS=8,448,189&RS=8,448,189 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** 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. *** Versata Development Group Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Versata Development Group, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,447,784) developed by Kevin R. Plain, Pflugerville, Texas, for a "context subsystems for system configurations." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the present invention utilize context subsystems to logically group resources according to context. Such context subsystems can be nested (i.e. hierarchical), and thus further simplify the complex configuration relationships encountered with complex systems. Higher level (i.e. parent) context subsystems contain at least one resource that is utilized by a lower level (i.e. child) component, subsystem, or context subsystem. Context subsystems can be hierarchically arranged in single- and multi-parent arrangements and single- and multi-child arrangements. The number of context subsystem hierarchical levels is virtually unlimited and is generally dictated by the complexity of the system and the corresponding simplification needs of the configuration technology being utilized to configure the system. Context subsystems are applicable and useful in a configuration environment for virtually any configurable system amenable to contextual groupings of resources." The patent application was filed on Feb. 25, 2008 (12/036,460). 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=8,447,784&OS=8,447,784&RS=8,447,784 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** National Instruments Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- National Instruments, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,448,155) developed by four co-inventors for an "automatically creating parallel iterative program code in a graphical data flow program." The co-inventors are Adam L. Bordelon, Austin, Texas, Robert E. Dye, Austin, Texas, Haoran Yi, Austin, Texas, and Mary E. Fletcher, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "System and method for automatically parallelizing iterative functionality in a data flow program. A data flow program is stored that includes a first data flow program portion, where the first data flow program portion is iterative. Program code implementing a plurality of second data flow program portions is automatically generated based on the first data flow program portion, where each of the second data flow program portions is configured to execute a respective one or more iterations. The plurality of second data flow program portions are configured to execute at least a portion of iterations concurrently during execution of the data flow program. Execution of the plurality of second data flow program portions is functionally equivalent to sequential execution of the iterations of the first data flow program portion." The patent application was filed on June 1, 2009 (12/475,835). 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=8,448,155&OS=8,448,155&RS=8,448,155 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Fisher-Rosemount Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,448,076) developed by four co-inventors for a "configuring animations and events for operator interface displays in a process control system." The co-inventors are Stephen Gerard Hammack, Austin, Texas, Bruce Hubert Campney, Pflugerville, Texas, Jose Amilcar G. Reyes, Bedok, Singapore, and Ryan G. Valderama, General Trias, Philippines. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A graphical editor for creating operator displays and configuring control strategies in a process control plant or system may present a coherent view for the multiple graphical or control strategy items depicted within or associated with the display and strategy. For each graphical item, the view may hierarchically show default and modified values, animation expressions, and event handler scripts. The view may allow a configuration engineer to group, order, and filter various graphical or control strategy items within a single display to present a cohesive view of how the multiple items within the display are capable of being configured for events, animations, and control strategies within the operator display. Providing this cohesive view may allow the user to view and configure graphical items and control strategies without having to open and dismiss dialogs for each configuration task." The patent application was filed on April 27, 2009 (12/430,190). 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=8,448,076.PN.&OS=PN/8,448,076&RS=PN/8,448,076 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Performing Virtual and/or Physical Resource Management for Power Management ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,448,006) developed by seven co-inventors for a "performing virtual and/or physical resource management for power management." The co-inventors are Michael S. Floyd, Cedar Park, Texas, Christopher Francois, Shakopee, Minn., Naresh Nayar, Rochester, Minn., Karthick Rajamani, Austin, Texas, Freeman L. Rawson III, Austin, Texas, Randal C. Swanberg, Round Rock, Texas, and Malcolm S. Ware, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A mechanism is provided for directed resource folding for power management. The mechanism receives a set of static platform characteristics and a set of dynamic platform characteristics for a set of resources associated with the data processing system thereby forming characteristic information. The mechanism determines whether one or more conditions have been met for each resource in the set of resources using the characteristic information. Responsive to the one or more conditions being met, the mechanism performs a resource optimization to determine at least one of a first subset of resources in the set of resources to keep active and a second subset of resources in the set of resources to dynamically fold. Based on the resource optimization, the mechanism performs either a virtual resource optimization to optimally schedule the first subset of resources or a physical resource optimization to dynamically fold the second subset of resources." The patent application was filed on Oct. 19, 2010 (12/907,190). 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=8,448,006.PN.&OS=PN/8,448,006&RS=PN/8,448,006 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** University of Texas System Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- The University of Texas System, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,447,911) developed by five co-inventors for an unordered load/store queue. The co-inventors are Douglas C. Burger, Austin, Texas, Stephen W. Keckler, Austin, Texas, Robert McDonald, Austin, Texas, Lakshminarasimhan Sethumadhavan, Austin, Texas, and Franziska Roesner, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and processor for providing full load/store queue functionality to an unordered load/store queue for a processor with out-of-order execution. Load and store instructions are inserted in a load/store queue in execution order. Each entry in the load/store queue includes an identification corresponding to a program order. Conflict detection in such an unordered load/store queue may be performed by searching a first CAM for all addresses that are the same or overlap with the address of the load or store instruction to be executed. A further search may be performed in a second CAM to identify those entries that are associated with younger or older instructions with respect to the sequence number of the load or store instruction to be executed. The output results of the Address CAM and Age CAM are logically ANDed." The patent application was filed on July 2, 2008 (12/166,491). 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=8,447,911.PN.&OS=PN/8,447,911&RS=PN/8,447,911 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Advanced Micro Devices Assigned Patent for Reducing Cache Probe Traffic Resulting from False Data Sharing ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,447,934) developed by Shrinivas B. Joshi, Austin, Texas, for "reducing cache probe traffic resulting from false data sharing." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed herein are a processing unit and a multi-processing unit system that implement a cache-coherency method. Such a multi-processing unit system includes a main memory, a first processing unit, and a second processing unit. The first processing unit and the second processing unit are coupled to the main memory. The first processing unit includes a cache and logic. The cache is configured to store data from the main memory. The logic is configured to maintain an entry in a directory of the cache. The entry indicates whether either of the first processing unit and the second processing unit accesses a data object of a cache line for which the first processing unit is a home node." The patent application was filed on June 30, 2010 (12/827,719). 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=8,447,934.PN.&OS=PN/8,447,934&RS=PN/8,447,934 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Efficient Memory Update Process for Well Behaved Applications Executing on a Weakly-ordered Processor ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,447,955) developed by Andrew Dunshea, Austin, Texas, Satya Prakash Sharma, Austin, Texas, and Mysore Sathyanarayana Srinivas, Austin, Texas, for an "efficient memory update process for well behaved applications executing on a weakly-ordered processor." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A multiprocessor data processing system (MDPS) with a weakly-ordered architecture providing processing logic for substantially eliminating issuing sync instructions after every store instruction of a well-behaved application. Instructions of a well-behaved application are translated and executed by a weakly-ordered processor. The processing logic includes a lock address tracking utility (LATU), which provides an algorithm and a table of lock addresses, within which each lock address is stored when the lock is acquired by the weakly-ordered processor. When a store instruction is encountered in the instruction stream, the LATU compares the target address of the store instruction against the table of lock addresses. If the target address matches one of the lock addresses, indicating that the store instruction is the corresponding unlock instruction (or lock release instruction), a sync instruction is issued ahead of the store operation. The sync causes all values updated by the intermediate store operations to be flushed out to the point of coherency and be visible to all processors." The patent application was filed on Oct. 28, 2008 (12/259,699). 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=8,447,955.PN.&OS=PN/8,447,955&RS=PN/8,447,955 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Workstation Application Server Programming Protection via Classloader Policy Based Visibility Control ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,447,975) developed by Keys D. Botzum, Columbia, Md., Ching-Yun Chao, Austin, Texas, and Glyn Normington, Winchester, United Kingdom, for a "workstation application server programming protection via classloader policy based visibility control." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Provided is a method for providing Java modularity class loader protection by controlling the visibility of WebSphere, service provider, library and utility code interfaces. Interface access authorization is checked once, during module and class loading to effectively protect vulnerable programming interfaces, eliminating permission checking during execution. Code in a WebSphere Application server (WAS) computing environment is categorized into a finite number of sets in which one permission type is assigned to each set and the code in each set runs at the same privilege zone. Each set exposes programming interfaces to provide functional service and code in a particular set can only access code in the same or a lower security zone set. Also provided is a technique for explicitly providing to specific modules in lower security zones access to modules or designated interfaces of modules in higher security zones." The patent application was filed on July 7, 2005 (11/176,813). 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=8,447,975.PN.&OS=PN/8,447,975&RS=PN/8,447,975 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Energy-efficient Failure Detection and Masking ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,448,027) developed by Elmootazbellah Nabil Elnozahy, Austin, Texas, and Mark William Stephenson, Austin, Texas, for an "energy-efficient failure detection and masking." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system, and computer usable program product for energy-efficient soft error failure detection and masking are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A soft error is injected to occur during execution of a set of instructions. If an output of the execution of the set of instructions is incorrect, a record is made of the instruction that was affected by the injected soft error and led to the incorrect result. This identified instruction is designated as vulnerable to the soft error. Several soft errors are injected with different input data sets over several executions of the same set of instructions, and a probability of each instruction in the instruction set is computed, the probability of an instruction accounting for the vulnerability of the execution of the instruction sets to errors that affect the instruction. A report including several probabilities of instruction vulnerabilities is produced." The patent application was filed on May 27, 2010 (12/789,045). 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=8,448,027.PN.&OS=PN/8,448,027&RS=PN/8,448,027 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Intel Assigned Patent for Gathering and Scattering Multiple Data Elements ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,447,962) developed by 19 co-inventors for a "gathering and scattering multiple data elements." The co-inventors are Christopher J. Hughes, Cupertino, Calif., Yen-Kuang (Y. K.) Chen, Cupertino, Calif., Mayank Bomb, Hillsboro, Ore., Jason W. Brandt, Austin, Texas, Mark J. Buxton, Chandler, Ariz., Mark J. Charney, Lexington, Mass., Srinivas Chennupaty, Portland, Ore., Jesus Corbal, Barcelona, Spain, Martin G. Dixon, Portland, Ore., Milind B. Girkar, Sunnyvale, Calif., Jonathan C. Hall, Hillsboro, Ore., Hideki (Saito) Ido, Sunnyvale, Calif., Peter Lachner, Heroldstatt, Germany, Gilbert Neiger, Portland, Ore., Chris J. Newburn, South Beloit, Ill., Rajesh S. Parthasarathy, Hillsboro, Ore., Bret L. Toll, Hillsboro, Ore., Robert Valentine, Kiryat Tivon, Israel, and Jeffrey G. Wiedemeier, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "According to a first aspect, efficient data transfer operations can be achieved by: decoding by a processor device, a single instruction specifying a transfer operation for a plurality of data elements between a first storage location and a second storage location; issuing the single instruction for execution by an execution unit in the processor; detecting an occurrence of an exception during execution of the single instruction; and in response to the exception, delivering pending traps or interrupts to an exception handler prior to delivering the exception." The patent application was filed on Dec. 22, 2009 (12/644,440). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,447,962.PN.&OS=PN/8,447,962&RS=PN/8,447,962 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Demand Based Partitioning of Microprocessor Caches ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,447,929) developed by Bret Ronald Olszewski, Austin, Texas, and Steven Wayne White, Austin, Texas, for a "demand based partitioning of microprocessor caches." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Associativity of a multi-core processor cache memory to a logical partition is managed and controlled by receiving a plurality of unique logical processing partition identifiers into registration of a multi-core processor, each identifier being associated with a logical processing partition on one or more cores of the multi-core processor; responsive to a shared cache memory miss, identifying a position in a cache directory for data associated with the address, the shared cache memory being multi-way set associative; associating a new cache line entry with the data and one of the registered unique logical processing partition identifiers; modifying the cache directory to reflect the association; and caching the data at the new cache line entry, wherein said shared cache memory is effectively shared on a line-by-line basis among said plurality of logical processing partitions of said multi-core processor." The patent application was filed on Feb. 16, 2012 (13/398,292). 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=8,447,929.PN.&OS=PN/8,447,929&RS=PN/8,447,929 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. -1125800 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]