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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Colorado (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 Colorado. *** Google Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,447,765) developed by four co-inventors for height based indexing. The co-inventors are Emil C. Praun, Fremont, Calif., Costa Touma, Santa Clara, Calif., Paul S. Strauss, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Tushar Udeshi, Broomfield, Colo. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments provide a system and method for height based indexing of data. In an embodiment, the present invention parses indexed data by (1) storing a geo-spatial multi-resolution data structure that represents a three dimensional environment, where at least a portion of the three dimensional environment lies within a view frustum; (2) traversing recursively the geo-spatial multi-resolution data structure, where the traversal is based on a range of coordinates that lie within the view frustum; and (3) extracting the indexed data from at least one vertical slice of at least one node of the geo-spatial multi-resolution data structure, where the extracted indexed data is displayed in the view frustum." The patent application was filed on Jan. 6, 2012 (13/344,854). 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=84,47,765.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,765&RS=PN/84,47,765 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Intelligent Power and Energy Research Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Intelligent Power and Energy Research, Fort Montgomery, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,447,707) developed by Darrell D. Massie, Fort Montgomery, N.Y., Michael A. Miller, Shreveport, La., and Peter S. Curtiss, Boulder, Colo., for an "automated control of a power network using metadata and automated creation of predictive process models." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Automated control of a power network is provided by: providing multiple intelligent power controllers (IPCs) associated with multiple components of the power network, each IPC being associated with a different component; obtaining at least one raw data stream representative of at least one operational aspect of at least one component of the multiple components; and automatically associating, by at least one intelligent power controller associated with at least one component, metadata with the at least one raw data stream to produce at least one self-identifying data stream. The associated metadata describes one or more characteristics of the at least one raw data stream, and the at least one self-identifying data stream facilitates automated creation of predictive process models to assist in automated control of the power network by an IPC manager of the power network." The patent application was filed on June 17, 2010 (12/817,651). 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=84,47,707.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,707&RS=PN/84,47,707 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Implementing Net Routing with Enhanced Correlation of Pre-buffered and Post-buffered Routes ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,448,123) developed by Paul G. Curtis, Fort Collins, Colo., and Timothy D. Helvey, Rochester, Minn., for "implementing net routing with enhanced correlation of pre-buffered and post-buffered routes." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system and computer program product are provided for implementing enhanced net routing with improved correlation of pre-buffered and post-buffered routes on a hierarchical design of an integrated circuit chip. In initial wiring steps the nets are routed, and then buffers are add along the net route based upon predetermined electrical parameters. Responsive to adding the buffers, distance based constraints are added to the nets. Then the nets that have been modified are rerouted." The patent application was filed on Oct. 22, 2010 (12/910,214). 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=8,448,123&OS=8,448,123&RS=8,448,123 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent for Compilation of Causal Rules into Continuations ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,447,719) developed by Bob Bethke, Fort Collins, Colo., and Srikanth Natarajan, Fort Collins, Colo., for a "compilation of causal rules into continuations." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of compiling causal rules into continuations for use in root cause analysis of a system comprising a plurality of inter-related elements, comprising defining observable events occurring on system elements; defining at least one of a cause and a result of each of the events; defining causal rules, each rule describing a causal relationship between an event and one of its cause and its result; and compiling the causal relationships as continuations in a continuation passing style (CPS) for use in analyzing the root cause of subsequent observed events symptomatic of at least one problem on the system." The patent application was filed on Sept. 27, 2008 (12/239,755). 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=84,47,719.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,719&RS=PN/84,47,719 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Apple Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Apple, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,447,895) developed by four co-inventors for "methods and apparatus for decreasing power consumption and bus activity." The co-inventors are J. Rhoads Hollowell II, Lafayette, Colo., Barry Twycross, Mountain View, Calif., Arul Paramasivam, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Fernando Urbina, Colorado Springs, Colo. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus for enhancing efficiency (e.g., reducing power consumption and bus activity) in a data bus. In an exemplary embodiment, methods and apparatus for intelligently trimming (and adding or re-adding) queue heads resident in a host device associated with various client device processes are disclosed. By selectively trimming inactive or dormant queue heads, the host expends less resources and time polling the queue heads during routine operations. Similarly, queue heads which are newly active, or acquired are intelligently added to ensure proper bus operation. Inactive queue heads are brought back into the polling process only when requested, thereby keeping the list of queue heads to be polled or examined as short as possible at all times." The patent application was filed on Oct. 19, 2010 (12/907,929). 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=8,447,895&OS=8,447,895&RS=8,447,895 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** EchoStar Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- EchoStar Technologies, Englewood, Colo., has been assigned a patent (8,448,210) developed by Ryan Gorsuch, Parker, Colo., William Norris Moran, Highlands Ranch, Colo., and Jason Michael Anguiano, Castle Rock, Colo., for "apparatus, systems and methods for rich media electronic program guides." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Electronic program guide (EPG) systems and methods are operable to incorporate image information into an EPG generated at a media device. An exemplary embodiment receives an image associated with a program, processes the received image into a rich media EPG image, receives program presentation schedule information that specifies a presentation schedule of a plurality of programs, wherein the program is one of the plurality of programs scheduled for presentation, associates an identifier with the rich media EPG image and the program, and generates a rich media EPG schedule based upon the received program presentation schedule information and the identifier." The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2009 (12/571,159). 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=8,448,210&OS=8,448,210&RS=8,448,210 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Accessing a Database ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,447,773) developed by Brian P. Doyle, Boulder, Colo., for accessing a database. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "For accessing a database, a request attribute module constructs a request attribute list for a data value name received in a request block. The request attribute list associates the data value name with an attribute name and with a schema name. A schema name module adds the schema name from the request attribute list to a schema names list in response to the schema name not being included in the schema names list. An attribute name module adds the attribute name from the request attribute list to an attribute names list in response to the attribute name not being included in the attribute names list. A query build module builds a query statement directed to a target database from the schema names list and the attribute names list." The patent application was filed on April 9, 2012 (13/442,670). 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=8,447,773&OS=8,447,773&RS=8,447,773 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** United Video Properties Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- United Video Properties, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,448,215) developed by five co-inventors for an "electronic program guide with digital storage." The co-inventors are Joel G. Hassell, Arvada, Colo., Edward B. Knudson, Littleton, Colo., L. Joe Hedges, Tulsa, Okla., Michael D. Ellis, Boulder, Colo., and David M. Berezowski, Tulsa, Okla. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An interactive television program guide system with digital storage is provided. The program guide gives users the ability to store information associated with recorded programs in a directory in the digital storage device thereby providing easy access to program information. The program guide may also provide a global media library for indicating the programs stored on removable storage media used with the program guide. The guide may also allow the user to manage and maintain a user media library to do the same. Non-time-sensitive data associated with recorded programs may be stored in a way that allows the user to interact with the data on playback as if the program were being originally aired. The program guide also allows the user to define "super-programs" for playback of a sequence of stored programs or program segments." The patent application was filed on Dec. 22, 2011 (13/335,649). 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=8,448,215&OS=8,448,215&RS=8,448,215 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Seagate Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Seagate Technology, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,448,045) developed by seven co-inventors for an "outer code error correction." The co-inventors are Prafulla Bollampalli Reddy, Longmont, Colo., Peter Igorevich Vasiliev, Longmont, Colo., Hui Su, Longmont, Colo., Timothy Richard Feldman, Louisville, Colo., Mary Elizabeth Dunn, Denver, James Joseph Touchton, Boulder, Colo., and Bernardo Rub, Sudbury, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Values are grouped into a first set of groupings of values. Based on inner codes, the number of groupings in the first set of groupings that have at least one erroneous value is determined. If the number of groupings in the first set of groupings that have an erroneous value is fewer than a maximum number of groupings that can be corrected by outer codes, a seek operation is begun. During the seek operation, the outer codes are used to detect and correct the erroneous values that were produced during the reading of values. In other aspects, a parity section for a data section of a data storage device is dirtied before writing any data to the data section such that if writing to the data section is interrupted, the parity section will indicate that it should not be used to correct data read from the data section." The patent application was filed on May 26, 2011 (13/116,882). 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=8,448,045.PN.&OS=PN/8,448,045&RS=PN/8,448,045 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. -1125770 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |