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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Washington (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 Washington. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Grammar Compression ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,447,736) developed by six co-inventors for a grammar compression. The co-inventors are Stelios Paparizos, San Jose, Calif., Christopher Walter Anderson, Redmond, Wash., Wei Liu, Bellevue, Wash., Ajay Nair, Redmond, Wash., Alexandros Ntoulas, Mountain View, Calif., and Naga Srinivas Vemuri, Redmond, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Compression of extensive, rule-based grammars used to facilitate search queries is provided herein. Rule-based grammars include a list of rules that each comprise a sequence of token classes. Each token class is a logical grouping of tokens, and each token is a string of characters. A grammar is parsed to identify rules and token classes. Unimportant token classes are identified and sets of unimportant token classes are merged to generated merged token classes. A compressed grammar is generated by substituting the merged token classes into the grammar for corresponding unimportant token classes used to generate the merged token classes." The patent application was filed on Aug. 30, 2011 (13/221,227). 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=84,47,736.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,736&RS=PN/84,47,736 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent for Method and System for Managing Inventory by Expected Profitability ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (8,447,664) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and system for managing inventory by expected profitability." The co-inventors are Craig J. Pape, Lynnwood, Wash., Denise M. Stecconi, Seattle, Suresh Kumar, Issaquah, Wash., and Joseph K. Hall, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for managing inventory by expected profitability. In one embodiment, a method may include individually evaluating a respective expected profitability for each of a number of inventory items, and individually determining a disposition of each of the number of items dependent upon its respective expected profitability. In one particular implementation of the method, individually evaluating the respective expected profitability of a given item may include forecasting an estimated date of transaction corresponding to the given item, forecasting an estimated revenue corresponding to the given item as of the estimated date of transaction, estimating accrued costs of holding the given item until the estimated date of transaction, and comparing a total cost of the given item against the estimated revenue, where the total cost may include the accrued costs of holding the given item until the estimated date of transaction." The patent application was filed on March 10, 2005 (11/077,432). 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=84,47,664.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,664&RS=PN/84,47,664 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,447,759) developed by Daniel G. Zarzar, Bellevue, Wash., Mark David Huentelman, Bellevue, Wash., and Joel W. Varland, Carnation, Wash., for "assets suggestion across applications." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Suggesting to a user most likely search assets that address a searched topic in each of a number of different software applications is provided. In response to a search for help or general information content associated with a given application, suggested help or general information content associated with a number of different applications or different versions of a given application is provided." The patent application was filed on March 13, 2008 (12/048,207). 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=84,47,759.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,759&RS=PN/84,47,759 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Recognizing Gestures from Forearm EMG Signals ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,447,704) developed by four co-inventors for "recognizing gestures from forearm EMG signals." The co-inventors are Desney Tan, Kirkland, Wash., Dan Morris, Bellevue, Wash., Scott Saponas, Seattle, and Ravin Balakrishnan, Toronto. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A machine learning model is trained by instructing a user to perform proscribed gestures, sampling signals from EMG sensors arranged arbitrarily on the user's forearm with respect to locations of muscles in the forearm, extracting feature samples from the sampled signals, labeling the feature samples according to the corresponding gestures instructed to be performed, and training the machine learning model with the labeled feature samples. Subsequently, gestures may be recognized using the trained machine learning model by sampling signals from the EMG sensors, extracting from the signals unlabeled feature samples of a same type as those extracted during the training, passing the unlabeled feature samples to the machine learning model, and outputting from the machine learning model indicia of a gesture classified by the machine learning model." The patent application was filed on June 26, 2008 (12/146,471). 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=84,47,704.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,704&RS=PN/84,47,704 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Query Analysis for Geographic-based Listing Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,447,661) developed by Garry R. Wiseman, Snoqualmie, Wash., and Mark Atherton, Ware, United Kingdom, for a "query analysis for geographic-based listing service." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A unique system and method facilitates analyzes searches or queries that are geographic based. In particular, a user can submit a geo-tag based search for items posted on a listing service according to the item's location or geo-tag information. The geo-tag information for each item can be approximate such as the city, state, or zip code or more specific such as the street address where the item is located. The amount of geo-tag information disclosed to any other user can depend on the type of item being offered. Geo-tag information is analyzed to facilitate determining item matches. In addition, users that post items can employ query results to analyze the quality of their items such as from the buyer's perspective." The patent application was filed on Nov. 30, 2011 (13/307,686). 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=84,47,661.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,661&RS=PN/84,47,661 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (8,447,665) developed by eight co-inventors for a "removal of expiring items from inventory." The co-inventors are Timothy W. Schoenharl, Bellevue, Wash., Chun-Ning Poon, Seattle, Andrew T. Bass, Auburn, Wash., Youjiang Wu, Seattle, Bhagyalaxmi Bethala, Bellevue, Wash., Bhaskar Maddala, Seattle, Dongui Zhuo, Seattle, and Oley Y. Palyvoda, Bellevue, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for the removal of expiring items from inventory are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method includes determining a breakeven holding time for an inventory item and calculating, based at least in part on a demand forecast for the inventory item and on the breakeven holding time, a first quantity of the inventory item to be removed from the inventory. The method also includes identifying an expiration time corresponding to the given inventory item and, in response to the expiration time being shorter than the breakeven holding time, calculating a second quantity of the inventory item, where a difference between the second and first quantities represents an additional quantity of the inventory item to be removed from the inventory. The method further includes causing at least one portion of the additional quantity of the inventory item to be removed from the inventory according to an inventory removal function." The patent application was filed on March 30, 2011 (13/076,215). 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=84,47,665.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,665&RS=PN/84,47,665 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent for Bidding on Pending, Query Term-based Advertising Opportunities ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (8,447,651) developed by Nathaniel B. Scholl, Seattle, and Stephan G. Betz, Seattle, for "bidding on pending, query term-based advertising opportunities." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A facility for bidding on a pending advertising opportunity is described. The facility receives at an advertiser a notification from a publisher. The notification contains keywords relating to a content request received by the publisher, and is sent by the publisher between its receipt of the content request and its dispatch of a content response responsive to the content request. In response to receiving the notification, the facility sends to the publisher a dynamic bid. The dynamic bid specifies an advertising message and a bid amount that the advertiser is willing to pay to present the advertising message in connection with a content response responsive to the content request produced by the publisher." The patent application was filed on Jan. 25, 2005 (11/043,503). 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=84,47,651.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,651&RS=PN/84,47,651 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Adobe Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Adobe Systems, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,448,244) developed by Tim Kukulski, Oakland, Calif., Robert Benson Walton, San Francisco, and Allan Padgett, Seattle, for "methods and systems for fused files comprising logic and content data." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments allow for use of fused files that comprise executable code and content data in a more user-friendly and flexible manner. For example, a fused file can include content data and application logic for editing the content data within the file. Security through the use of digital signatures can be supported, but with at least part of a file recognized as extensible so that the file can be edited without "breaking" the signature. Additionally, a computing device can be configured to utilize a "sandbox" environment so that extensible (and/or other) portions of a fused file do not introduce unacceptable security issues even if the digital signature is valid. In some embodiments, the support of extensibility and sandboxing allows a runtime environment to utilize installer-free operation, which can represent a significant advantage in that fused files can be widely distributed to any device utilizing the runtime environment." The patent application was filed on Jan. 8, 2010 (12/684,282). 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=8,448,244&OS=8,448,244&RS=8,448,244 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (8,447,747) developed by Jin Y. Yi, Seattle, Dany Miguel Yannick Houde, Seattle, and Douglas Tak-Lai Wong, Seattle, for a "system for generating behavior-based associations for multiple domain-specific applications." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and processes are described for generating a generic relationship dataset that can be adapted for use by multiple domain-specific applications. Such applications can include recommendation applications, search applications, optimization applications, and/or other applications. These systems and processes can analyze some or all actions of users with respect to a network application, such as a web application. Data representing user actions occurring in a time window can be paired together in the relationship dataset, together with one or more metrics related to the user actions. These metrics can represent general measurements that in certain embodiments are not customized for an individual application. As a result, separate domain-specific applications can independently analyze the relationship data according to different criteria without maintaining separate sets of the relationship data." The patent application was filed on Sept. 14, 2010 (12/882,112). 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=84,47,747.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,747&RS=PN/84,47,747 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. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (8,447,700) developed by Philip Yuen, Bellevue, Wash., Chih-Jen Huang, Kirkland, Wash., and Gerald Yuen, Pasadena, Calif., for a transaction authorization service. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "System and method for authorizing transactions, such as payments or money transfers. A source entity may initiate a transaction with a target entity via a first communications channel. In initiating the transaction, the source entity may indicate that the transaction is to be performed through a transaction authorization service. The target entity may send a transaction initiation message to the transaction authorization service. In response to receiving the transaction initiation message, the service may authorize the transaction with the source entity via a second communications channel. To authorize the transaction, the source entity may provide a PIN number or other identifier via the second communications channel. After receiving and validating the response from the source entity, the transaction authorization service may inform the target entity that the transaction is authorized. The target entity may then complete the transaction with the transaction authorization service and the source entity." The patent application was filed on Oct. 10, 2006 (11/546,534). 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=84,47,700.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,700&RS=PN/84,47,700 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Metajure Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Metajure, Seattle, has been assigned a patent (8,447,758) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for identifying documents matching a document metaprint." The co-inventors are Dennis R. Adler, Seattle, Martin F. Smith, Bainbridge Island, Wash., Richard J. Corbett, Seattle, and Kevin J. Harrang, Kirkland, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for identifying documents matching a document metaprint is provided. A search query comprising one or more search terms is received from a user. One or more metadata keywords matching the one more search terms is identified. A metaprint is retrieved for each of the matching metadata keywords. A metaprint query is generated from the retrieved metadata fingerprints. The metaprint query is executed against a corpus of documents. Search results comprising documents matching the metaprint query are obtained." The patent application was filed on Feb. 2, 2011 (13/019,959). 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=84,47,758.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,758&RS=PN/84,47,758 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Intel Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,447,888) developed by 19 co-inventors for a "PCI express enhancements and extensions." The co-inventors are Jasmin Ajanovic, Portland, Ore., Mahesh Wagh, Portland, Ore., Prashant Sethi, Folsom, Calif., Debendra Das Sharma, Santa Clara, Calif., David Harriman, Portland, Ore., Mark Rosenbluth, Uxbridge, Mass., Ajay Bhatt, Portland, Ore., Peter Barry, Ardnacrusha, Ireland, Scott Dion Rodgers, Hillsboro, Ore., Anil Vasudevan, Portland, Ore., Sridhar Muthrasanallur, Puyallup, Wash., James Akiyama, Beaverton, Ore., Robert Blankenship, Tacoma, Wash., Ohad Falik, Kfar-Saba, Israel, Abraham Mendelson, Haifa, Israel, Ilan Pardo, Ramat-Hasharon, Israel, Eran Tamari, Ramat Gan, Israel, Eliezer Weissmann, Haifa, Israel, and Doron Shamia, Modiin, Israel. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for enhancing/extending a serial point-to-point interconnect architecture, such as Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) is herein described. Temporal and locality caching hints and prefetching hints are provided to improve system wide caching and prefetching. Message codes for atomic operations to arbitrate ownership between system devices/resources are included to allow efficient access/ownership of shared data. Loose transaction ordering provided for while maintaining corresponding transaction priority to memory locations to ensure data integrity and efficient memory access. Active power sub-states and setting thereof is included to allow for more efficient power management. And, caching of device local memory in a host address space, as well as caching of system memory in a device local memory address space is provided for to improve bandwidth and latency for memory accesses." The patent application was filed on Dec. 9, 2011 (13/316,349). 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=8,447,888&OS=8,447,888&RS=8,447,888 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** F5 Networks Assigned Patent for Simplified Method for Processing Multiple Connections from the Same Client ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- F5 Networks, Seattle, has been assigned a patent (8,447,871) developed by Paul I. Szabo, Seattle, for a "simplified method for processing multiple connections from the same client." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus is related to connection management for a communications network. A control component receives a data flow requesting a resource from a client, identifies the client, and determines when the data flow is unassociated with a connection to a requested resource. The control component selects a new content server for an unassociated resource request when either the identified client was previously unknown or the identified client has exceeded a maximum number of connections with a previously selected content server. The control component selects the previously selected content server when the identified client has not exceeded the maximum number of connections. A switch component is employed to maintain a connection between the client and the selected content server such that the client receives the requested resource. Utilizing cached connection information for up to "N" connections enhances the speed of connections between the client and the selected content server." The patent application was filed on April 25, 2008 (12/110,129). 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=8,447,871&OS=8,447,871&RS=8,447,871 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** F5 Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- F5 Networks, Seattle, has been assigned a patent (8,447,884) developed by William R. Baumann, Seattle, for "methods for mapping virtual addresses to physical addresses in a network device and systems thereof." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, computer readable medium, and system for handling network packets at an application delivery controller includes receiving a packet from a communication network at a network interface controller within the application delivery controller and associating the received packet with a logical interface selected from a plurality of logical interfaces in at least one processing system using a mapping engine at the network interface controller, where each of the plurality of logical interfaces associated with a different physical address. At the network interface controller a physical address is assigned to the received packet corresponding to the selected logical interface to which data in the received packet is to be sent and a virtual address associated with the physical address in the network interface controller is retrieved. Data in the received packet and the retrieved virtual address is transmitted to the at least one processing system." The patent application was filed on Dec. 1, 2009 (12/628,441). 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=8,447,884&OS=8,447,884&RS=8,447,884 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Load Balancing for Services ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,447,881) developed by eight co-inventors for a "load balancing for services." The co-inventors are Kartik Paramasivam, Redmond, Wash., Stuart J. Langley, Redmond, Wash., Vinod Shanbhag, Redmond, Wash., Pan Wang, Bellevue, Wash., Ramasubramaniam Poornalingam, Redmond, Wash., Brent Schmaltz, Redmond, Wash., Jayteerth Katti, Redmond, Wash., and Govindaraj Ramanathan, Redmond, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for load balancing for services. Embodiments of the invention facilitate load balancing between instances of a service based on affinitization of messages, based on content of the message. For example, messages in the same session can be dispatched to the same service instance. A sequence or series of related messages associated with long running and/or stateful services are more likely to be dispatched to the same instance of the service. Thus, if the service instance has persisted client state, there is an increased likely of utilizing the persisted client state and not having another service instance recreate the client state." The patent application was filed on Sept. 2, 2008 (12/203,024). 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=8,447,881&OS=8,447,881&RS=8,447,881 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,447,898) developed by four co-inventors for a "task offload to a peripheral device." The co-inventors are Avnish Kumar Chhabra, Redmond, Wash., Aditya Dube, Redmond, Wash., Sanjay Kaniyar, Redmond, Wash., and James T. Pinkerton, Sammamish, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, to determine what tasks may be offloaded to a peripheral hardware device (e.g., to be performed in hardware on the peripheral device, rather than on the CPU(s) of the host computer), an indication from the at least one peripheral hardware device may be provided, without the peripheral hardware device first being queried to determine the task offload capabilities provided by the peripheral hardware device. In one embodiment, a large packet that includes a plurality of extension headers may be offloaded to the peripheral hardware device for segmentation. An indication of the offset where the extension headers end may be provided in connection with the large packet. In another embodiment, a packet with extension headers that come before an encryption header in the packet are not offloaded to peripheral hardware device for encryption, while packets with no extension headers before the encryption header may be offloaded." The patent application was filed on Oct. 28, 2005 (11/261,982). 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=8,447,898&OS=8,447,898&RS=8,447,898 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Optimal Source Interface Selection ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,447,865) developed by Deepak Bansal, Redmond, Wash., Murari Sridharan, Sammamish, Wash., and Narasimhan Agrahara Venkataramaiah, Redmond, Wash., for an "optimal source interface selection." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to selecting a source interface with which to establish a connection. In aspects, a profile for each network location a host has seen is maintained in a data store. The profile includes information about the network interfaces available to a source host at the network location. This information indicates, among other things, the reliability of each interface of the source host. Based on the profile, an interface is selected with which to establish a connection. If the interface is unsuccessful in establishing the connection, the interface is de-prioritized and another interface may be selected." The patent application was filed on June 20, 2008 (12/143,748). 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=8,447,865&OS=8,447,865&RS=8,447,865 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Control of Sensor Networks ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,447,847) developed by four co-inventors for a "control of sensor networks." The co-inventors are Scott C. Forbes, Redmond, Wash., Gregory Baribault, Lynnwood, Wash., Ruston John David Panabaker, Bellevue, Wash., and William Jefferson Westerinen, Issaquah, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus is provided for generating an index and creating a network of devices based on the index. Information and data may be provided via the network. In one example, a request may be received from a user at a service. The service may maintain an index containing characteristics of devices. Any number or type of devices may be selected to participate in the network. Also, the network may be subsequently modified by the addition or removal of any device from the network. Information or data received from the network devices may be returned to the user requesting the information via the service." The patent application was filed on June 28, 2007 (11/770,017). 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=8,447,847&OS=8,447,847&RS=8,447,847 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Remote Control Using Instant Messaging ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,447,814) developed by Sergey Solyanik, Seattle, Lee Linden, Bellevue, Wash., and Charles Kindel, Bellevue, Wash., for a "remote control using instant messaging." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An instant messaging client may operate on a device and enable various forms of control of the device via instant messaging commands. The instant messaging client may connect to an instant messaging service using a user name and having a list of authorized users. The client may be able to sense that a user is on line and initiate a message session with the user. The user may also be able to initiate a session with the device through the instant messaging client and perform a variety of functions through the instant messaging session." The patent application was filed on Dec. 7, 2006 (11/635,190). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,447,814&OS=8,447,814&RS=8,447,814 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (8,447,831) developed by Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Seattle, David R. Richardson, Seattle, and Bradley E. Marshall, Bainbridge Island, Wash., for an "incentive driven content delivery." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for management and processing of resource requests are provided. A content delivery network service provider receives a DNS query from a client computing device corresponding to a requested resource from the client computing device. The content delivery network service provider associates the requested content into a set of content segments. For each content segment, the content delivery network service provider identifies the network address of a registered content provider, such as peer computing device, and a cache component of the content delivery service provider. The content delivery network service provider also provides tokens for requesting the content from a registered content provider. The client computing device obtains the content from the registered content providers and/or the cache component of the content delivery network service provider. Thereafter, the content delivery network service provider reconciles with the registered content providers for content provided to client computing devices." The patent application was filed on March 31, 2008 (12/060,143). 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=8,447,831&OS=8,447,831&RS=8,447,831 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent for System and Method for Controlling Access to Web Services Resources ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (8,447,829) developed by Alan S. Geller, Redmond, Wash., and Rahul Singh, Seattle, for a "system and method for controlling access to web services resources." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for controlling access to web services resources. A system may include a storage medium configured to store instructions and one or more processors configured to access the storage medium. The instructions may be executable by at least one of the processors to implement a web services access control system (ACS) configured to receive requests. Each request specifies an access operation to be performed with respect to a corresponding resource. Each of the requests is associated with a corresponding principal. For each received request, the ACS may be further configured to determine whether an access control entry exists that is associated with both the resource and principal associated with the request and that specifies an access type sufficient to perform the access operation. If no such entry exists, the ACS may deny the request." The patent application was filed on Feb. 10, 2006 (11/351,904). 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=8,447,829&OS=8,447,829&RS=8,447,829 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Associating Multiple Physical Mailboxes with Same User Object in Messaging System ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,447,817) developed by Lauren B. Lavoie, Seattle, Karim M. Batthish, Seattle, and Sidney Lee Taylor, Roswell, Ga., for "associating multiple physical mailboxes with same user object in messaging system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Architecture that employs an abstraction of a mailbox store that allows clients to connect to alternate mailboxes associated with a single mail-enabled user, using the same mechanism the user utilizes to connect to the user's main mailbox. On top of this basic infrastructure, new features can be built, including server-hosted e-mail archives and mailboxes mirrored from other e-mail systems. In support thereof, the architecture also includes a mechanism for mailboxes to expose all or only a subset of mailbox features, and to advertise which mailbox features are supported." The patent application was filed on Feb. 20, 2009 (12/389,380). 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=8,447,817&OS=8,447,817&RS=8,447,817 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Boeing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Boeing, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (8,447,805) developed by James J. Troy, Issaquah, Wash., and Scott W. Lea, Renton, Wash., for a "distributed operation of a local positioning system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Presented is a system and method for distributed operation of Local Positioning Systems (LPS). A method includes establishing a network connection with a local controller and providing a user interface for sending device commands to an LPS associated with the local controller, and may include requesting a network address of a server for streaming video. The user interface can control a plurality of LPS units and the local controller can accept device commands from a plurality of user interfaces. A system includes a local system with interfaces to an LPS and a network that directs device control messages to the LPS from one or more remote systems, and a remote system that establishes network connections with one or more local systems and provides a user interface for sending device control messages to the one or more LPS units." The patent application was filed on Feb. 28, 2011 (13/036,619). 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=8,447,805&OS=8,447,805&RS=8,447,805 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Reading and Writing During Cluster Growth Phase ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,447,833) developed by Edmund B. Nightingale, Redmond, Wash., Jeremy E. Elson, Seattle, and Jonathan R. Howell, Seattle, for "reading and writing during cluster growth phase." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A client device configured to write to both a growth server and a live server replica that the growth server is replacing during a growth phase is described herein. The client device first determines the growth server designated to replace a corresponding live server replica of a set of server replicas associated with a storage index. The client device then transmits a write request associated with the storage index to the set of server replicas and to the growth server. The client device may perform the determining based on storage assignment mappings. The storage assignment mappings are provided to the client device by a metadata server while the growth server retrieves data associated with the storage index from the live server replica." The patent application was filed on March 6, 2012 (13/412,944). 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=8,447,833&OS=8,447,833&RS=8,447,833 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Social Yantra Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Social Yantra, Sammamish, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,447,852) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for brand management using social networks." The co-inventors are Srinivas Penumaka, Sammamish, Wash., Mihir Anil Vaidya, Redmond, Wash., Tankala Vinod Kumar Gupta, Redmond, Wash., and Dennis O'Malley, San Carlos, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for brand management using social networks comprising an application server, social network crawler software modules, third party service integration software modules, an analytics server, a report generator, a search engine, a behavioral analysis engine, a recommendation engine, and a database. A user registers and provides data pertaining to a brand. Upon retrieving content from a plurality of social networks pertaining to the brand, the analytics server module analyzes the content to a content value specific to the brand among members of the social networks. The behavioral analysis engine obtains content elements generated by a first member a social network and analyzes the first member's behavior to compute an audience value of the first member. The report generator prepares reports specific to the brand, the reports comprising at least indicia of content value, indicia of audience value, and recommendations for improving member engagement with the brand." The patent application was filed on Sept. 27, 2012 (13/629,596). 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=8,447,852&OS=8,447,852&RS=8,447,852 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Mapping a Natural Input Device to a Legacy System ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,448,094) developed by eight co-inventors for a "mapping a natural input device to a legacy system." The co-inventors are Alex Kipman, Redmond, Wash., R. Stephen Polzin, San Jose, Calif., Kudo Tsunoda, Seattle, Darren Bennett, Seattle, Stephen Latta, Seattle, Mark Finocchio, Redmond, Wash., Gregory G. Snook, Sammamish, Wash., and Relja Markovic, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for mapping natural input devices to legacy system inputs are disclosed. One example system may include a computing device having an algorithmic preprocessing module configured to receive input data containing a natural user input and to identify the natural user input in the input data. The computing device may further include a gesture module coupled to the algorithmic preprocessing module, the gesture module being configured to associate the natural user input to a gesture in a gesture library. The computing device may also include a mapping module to map the gesture to a legacy controller input, and to send the legacy controller input to a legacy system in response to the natural user input." The patent application was filed on March 25, 2009 (12/411,276). 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=8,448,094&OS=8,448,094&RS=8,448,094 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Application Programming Interface for Identifying, Downloading and Installing Applicable Software Updates ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,448,160) developed by four co-inventors for an "application programming interface for identifying, downloading and installing applicable software updates." The co-inventors are Joshuah Vincent, Seattle, Korukonda Naveen Kumar, Ponduru, India, Chung Yiu Chow, Kirkland, Wash., and Kenneth A. Showman, Redmond, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An application programming interface (API) provides a set of functions for application developers to build software programs that automatically detect, download, and install desired software updates." The patent application was filed on July 7, 2011 (13/178,356). 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=8,448,160&OS=8,448,160&RS=8,448,160 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Intel Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,448,063) developed by Jeffrey Martin Chasen, Seattle, and Jeffrey D. Leitner, Shoreline, Wash., for a "web media asset ID system and method." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods of dynamically identifying a server provided media asset on a client device are provided herein." The patent application was filed on Feb. 14, 2011 (13/026,960). 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=8,448,063.PN.&OS=PN/8,448,063&RS=PN/8,448,063 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,447,775) developed by four co-inventors for a "database query user interface to assist in efficient and accurate query construction." The co-inventors are David P. Vronay, Beijing, Cezary Marcjan, Redmond, Wash., Andrzej Turski, Redmond, Wash., and Ryszard Kott, Redmond, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A database query user interface combines the user convenience of simple text searching with the expressive refinements of powerful query language. The database query user interface includes a query text string input from a user including one or more terms of a chunk expression language format. The database query user interface further includes a syntactical prompt for constructing a multi-element chunk expression language database query that is syntactically correct and complete and includes the text string input from the user. For example, the syntactical prompt is selected from the database based upon a weighted analysis of database information relating to database elements included in the text string input from the user. A database query formed according to the present user interface may then be persisted or stored as a database query object." The patent application was filed on June 13, 2003 (10/461,832). 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=8,447,775&OS=8,447,775&RS=8,447,775 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Oracle International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Oracle International, Redwood Shores, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,447,785) developed by six co-inventors for "providing context aware search adaptively." The co-inventors are Zhen Hua Liu, San Mateo, Calif., Thomas Baby, Maple Valley, Wash., Sukhendu Chakraborty, San Francisco, Junyan Ding, Palo Alto, Calif., Anguel Novoselsky, Foster City, Calif., and Vikas Arora, San Francisco. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, computing device, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium is provided for facilitating a context-aware search on documents stored in an unstructured database column. The database server determines whether a document stored in an unstructured database object is marked up according to a recognized markup language. Documents that conform to the markup language are indexed with value-to-node mappings and node-to-physical-location mappings to provide a context-aware search of marked up nodes within the documents. Documents that do not conform to the markup language are indexed with value-to-document mappings to provide a full-text search of the documents. The database server evaluates a context-aware search against documents that conform to the markup language within the unstructured column without requiring the user identify the documents as XML documents and store the documents in an XMLType structured column." The patent application was filed on June 2, 2010 (12/792,659). 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=8,447,785&OS=8,447,785&RS=8,447,785 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Automated State Migration While Deploying an Operating System ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,448,166) developed by four co-inventors for an "automated state migration while deploying an operating system." The co-inventors are Sukanta Kumar Nanda, Redmond, Wash., Daniel N. Drew, Valencia, Calif., Anthony Baron, Woodinville, Wash., and Shantanu Sardesai, Sammamish, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Migration of a user state from a source computing device to a destination computing device using a state migration point (SMP) is disclosed. The destination computing device may be the same as the source computing device but with a different operating system. The user state is securely stored by the SMP until the user state is restored on the destination computing device or a predetermined period of time has elapsed. Additional SMPs can be added without an architectural change. SMPs can be used to simultaneously migrate the states of multiple users of the source computing device to multiple destination computing devices. The SMPs can be restricted to migrate only the user states of computing devices with particular IP subnets. The SMPs can retain user states for a period of time after restoration in order to provide a backup, if necessary." The patent application was filed on Feb. 17, 2011 (13/029,387). 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=8,448,166&OS=8,448,166&RS=8,448,166 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Separating Authorization Identity from Policy Enforcement Identity ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,448,228) developed by 11 co-inventors for a "separating authorization identity from policy enforcement identity." The co-inventors are Yuhui Zhong, Sammamish, Wash., Gregory Kostal, Kirkland, Wash., Tejas D. Patel, Seattle, Scott C. Cottrille, Sammamish, Wash., Vladimir Yarmolenko, Duvall, Wash., Pankaj Mohan Kamat, Kirkland, Wash., Sunitha Samuel, Kirkland, Wash., Frank D. Byrum, Seattle, Mayank Mehta, Redmond, Wash., Chandresh Kumar Jain, Sammamish, Wash., and Edward Banti, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for separating authorization identity from policy enforcement identity. Embodiments of the invention extend the consumption phase for protected information. Two identities, an authorization identity and a policy enforcement identity, are used for acquiring, issuing and enforcing usage license instead of one identity certificate. The authorization identity is used to evaluate against usage policy. The authorization identity is similar to identification information in an identity certificate. The policy enforcement identity is used to ensure the confidentiality of granted permissions and content key. The policy enforcement identity enforces a usage license on an authorization principal's (e.g., recipient's) machine. The policy enforcement identity's enforcement of a usage license is similar use of a cryptographic key in an identity certificate." The patent application was filed on Sept. 29, 2010 (12/893,763). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,448,228&OS=8,448,228&RS=8,448,228 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Recording User-driven Events Within a Computing System ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,448,138) developed by nine co-inventors for "recording user-driven events within a computing system." The co-inventors are Wen-Chieh Chang, Taipei, China, Shu-Fang Huang, Taipei, China, Yan-Mei Jiang, Taipei, China, Ling-Ya Huang, Taichung, China, Li Wen, Redmond, Wash., Chih-Yung Chen, Taipei, China, Michael Jen-Chiung Chang, Taipei, China, Hung Ju King, Sindian, China, and Yuli Huang, Taipei, China. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Technologies are described herein for recording user-driven events within a computing system. An interface is established between a recorder application and an input method editor ("IME") executing on the computer system. Through the use of the interface, the recorder application can obtain and record data identifying user-driven events that are performed within the IME. An interface is also established between the recorder application and a UI control that does not expose data regarding user-driven events through standard system calls. Through the use of the interface, the recorder application can obtain and record data identifying user-driven events detected at the UI control. The recorder application can also provide data identifying the recorded user-driven events directly to a bug tracking application program for inclusion in a bug database." The patent application was filed on Jan. 15, 2008 (12/014,756). 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=8,448,138&OS=8,448,138&RS=8,448,138 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Validation Analysis of Human Target ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,448,056) developed by 17 co-inventors for a "validation analysis of human target." The co-inventors are Jon D. Pulsipher, North Bend, Wash., Parham Mohadjer, Redmond, Wash., Nazeeh Amin ElDirghami, Redmond, Wash., Shao Liu, Bellevue, Wash., Patrick Orville Cook, Monroe, Wash., James Chadon Foster, Redmond, Wash., Ronald Omega Forbes Jr., Seattle, Szymon P. Stachniak, Kirkland, Wash., Tommer Leyvand, Seattle, Joseph Bertolami, Seattle, Michael Taylor Janney, Sammamish, Wash., Kien Toan Huynh, Redmond, Wash., Charles Claudius Marais, Duvall, Wash., Spencer Dean Perreault, Bellevue, Wash., Robert John Fitzgerald, Kirkland, Wash., Wayne Richard Bisson, Seattle, and Craig Carroll Peeper, Kirkland, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Technology for testing a target recognition, analysis, and tracking system is provided. A searchable repository of recorded and synthesized depth clips and associated ground truth tracking data is provided. Data in the repository is used by one or more processing devices each including at least one instance of a target recognition, analysis, and tracking pipeline to analyze performance of the tracking pipeline. An analysis engine provides at least a subset of the searchable set responsive to a request to test the pipeline and receives tracking data output from the pipeline on the at least subset of the searchable set. A report generator outputs an analysis of the tracking data relative to the ground truth in the at least subset to provide an output of the error relative to the ground truth." The patent application was filed on Dec. 17, 2010 (12/972,341). 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=8,448,056.PN.&OS=PN/8,448,056&RS=PN/8,448,056 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (8,447,948) developed by five co-inventors for a "dynamic selective cache compression." The co-inventors are Ozgun A. Erdogan, Seattle, Giuseppe deCandia, Seattle, Tobias L. Holgers, Seattle, Vishal Parakh, Seattle, and Benjamin W.S. Redman, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Management of a data cache having a compressed portion and an uncompressed portion by adaptively and dynamically allocating the relative amount space each portion receives. The relative sizes are defined based on one or more cost metrics and benefit metrics. The metrics are selected based on the performance of an application utilizing the cache. An optimized benefit relative to the cost is defined. Application operations on the cache are sampled and the relative cost and benefit is determined for different ratios of uncompressed to compressed cache sizes. The size of the uncompressed portion relative to the compressed portion is then re-adjusted based on an optimal cost-to-benefit ratio for the application." The patent application was filed on April 25, 2008 (12/110,121). 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=8,447,948.PN.&OS=PN/8,447,948&RS=PN/8,447,948 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Interfaces that Facilitate Solid State Storage Configuration ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,447,916) developed by Trenton P. Rambo, Seattle, and Sean Nicholas McGrane, Sammamish, Wash., for "interfaces that facilitate solid state storage configuration." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to storage configuration. In aspects, an interface is used to discover the existence, capacity, and characteristics of solid state storage. This information may be provided to a user or storage management process which may use the information to configure the solid state storage. When appropriate, bus bandwidth to the solid state storage as well as bandwidth to memory components of the solid state storage may be configured. Configuration and re-configuration may be performed automatically according to one or more policies maintained locally or remotely." The patent application was filed on Feb. 17, 2010 (12/706,715). 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=8,447,916.PN.&OS=PN/8,447,916&RS=PN/8,447,916 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Module State Management in a Virtual Machine Environment ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,447,936) developed by Douglas A. Watkins, Bellevue, Wash., and Idan Avraham, Seattle, for a "module state management in a virtual machine environment." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for managing software modules of at least two operating systems sharing physical resources of a computing environment, but running in different partitions separated by a virtualization boundary comprises accumulating module information in a virtualization subsystem that directs the creation and management of the partitions. The accumulated module information is used across the virtualization boundary to manage the use of the software modules. Also, a method for managing software modules comprises making at least two operating systems aware that they are being hosted in a virtualized computing environment." The patent application was filed on June 30, 2006 (11/480,228). 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=8,447,936.PN.&OS=PN/8,447,936&RS=PN/8,447,936 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Business to Business Secure Mail ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,447,976) developed by 17 co-inventors for a "business to business secure mail." The co-inventors are Chandresh K. Jain, Sammamish, Wash., Mayank Mehta, Redmond, Wash., Frank D. Byrum, Seattle, Edward Banti, Seattle, Ayse Yesim Koman, Seattle, James R. Knibb, Kirkland, Wash., Michael A. Nelte, Redmond, Wash., Christopher Barnes, Redmond, Wash., Hao Zhang, Sammamish, Wash., Victor Boctor, Redmond, Wash., Tejas D. Patel, Seattle, Yuhui Zhong, Sammamish, Wash., Gregory Kostal, Kirkland, Wash., Vladimir Yarmolenko, Duvall, Wash., Pankaj M. Kamat, Kirkland, Wash., Amit K. Fulay, Kirkland, Wash., and Krassimir E. Karamfilov, Bellevue, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Business to business secure mail may be provided. Consistent with embodiments of the invention, a protected message may be received. The recipient may request a token from a trust broker, submit the token to an authorization server associated with the sender, receive a user license from the authorization server; and decrypt the protected message using the user license. The protected message may restrict actions that may be taken by the recipient, such as forwarding to other users." The patent application was filed on June 1, 2009 (12/476,049). 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=8,447,976&OS=8,447,976&RS=8,447,976 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Securing Out-of-band Messages ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,447,970) developed by nine co-inventors for a securing out-of-band messages. The co-inventors are Johannes Klein, Sammamish, Wash., Aurelio Navarro Belletti Garcia, Braga, Portuguese , Ernesto Miranda Pedrosa da Silva, Braga, Portuguese , Rafael Alberto Marques Torres, Barcelos, Portuguese , William Qian, Seattle, Eduard Ostrovsky, Kirkland, Wash., Oliver Bruno Colbert, Seattle, Ganapathy Raman, Redmond, Wash., and Edgar Pereira Alves, Braga, Portuguese . The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Securing an out-of-band message from a server to a mobile computing device. After requesting a service ticket from a trusted third party (e.g., via a pre-existing ticketing infrastructure), the requested service ticket and a shared secret are obtained from the trusted third party via a first channel. The mobile computing device thereafter sends the service ticket with the shared secret to a server via a second channel. The server encrypts a message (e.g., an SMS message) using the shared secret. The mobile computing device receives the encrypted message from the server via a third channel that is out-of-band relative to the first channel. The encrypted message is decrypted via the shared secret and the decrypted message is provided to a user of the mobile computing device. In some embodiments, the message includes commands for controlling the mobile computing device." The patent application was filed on Feb. 9, 2010 (12/702,632). 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=8,447,970.PN.&OS=PN/8,447,970&RS=PN/8,447,970 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Accessing Restricted Content Based on Proximity ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,447,986) developed by five co-inventors for an "accessing restricted content based on proximity." The co-inventors are Karon A. Weber, Kirkland, Wash., Thaddeus C. Pritchett, Edmonds, Wash., Cesare John Saretto, Seattle, Boyd Cannon Multerer, Bellevue, Wash., and Arnold Blinn, Hunts Point, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A license to use content (e.g., a movie, song, application, etc.) is provided to a consumer. The license allows for use of the content by the device the consumer is using (e.g., logged into) and devices near the device the consumer is using. For example, a first computing device obtains a license to restricted content. A second computing device obtains a copy of the restricted content; however, the second computing device is not licensed to use the content and may not be able to access the content because the content is encrypted or otherwise restricted. The first computing device is brought into proximity with the second computing device. In response to detecting that the first computing device is in proximity with the second computing device, the second computing device is provided with 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. -1125804 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |