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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Florida (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 Florida. *** Evolved Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Evolved Machines, Palo Alto, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,447,712) developed by Paul A. Rhodes, West Palm Beach, Fla., for an invariant object recognition. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method of identifying the computing architecture used by the mammalian visual system and to implement it in simulations and software algorithms, and in hardware components, is described." The patent application was filed on Aug. 17, 2009 (12/542,069). 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=84,47,712.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,712&RS=PN/84,47,712 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Accident Fund Insurance Co. of America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Accident Fund Insurance Co. of America, Lansing, Mich., has been assigned a patent (8,447,671) developed by Jeffrey A. White, Miami, for a "system and method for provider evaluation and claimant direction." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for evaluating medical service providers, and before or after an initial medical service provider visit by a claimant, determining whether to direct that claimant on subsequent medical service provider visits to a different medical service provider to optimize efficiency of care and minimize cost at the claim level." The patent application was filed on Dec. 13, 2010 (12/966,259). 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=84,47,671.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,671&RS=PN/84,47,671 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Raytheon Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Raytheon, Waltham, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,448,246) developed by Richard Guerrero, Odessa, Fla., and Nicholas Sellier, Satellite Beach, Fla., for a protecting sensitive email. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "According to one embodiment, a plurality of components are located within an appliance configured to send and receive email. The appliance receives an email and selects one or more policies to apply based on a designation indicating that the email communicates sensitive information. The policies determine whether to allow or block the email according to rules for assuring email. If the email is allowed, the appliance directs the email to one or more recipients." The patent application was filed on July 8, 2010 (12/832,232). 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=8,448,246&OS=8,448,246&RS=8,448,246 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Signature Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Signature Systems, Miami Beach, Fla., has been assigned a patent (8,447,650) developed by Richard Postrel, Miami Beach, Fla., for a "system and method for designating accounts from which to trade rewards." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for operating a reward points accumulation and redemption program wherein a user earns rewards from a plurality of independent reward issuing entities, with each tracking the user's earned rewards. A trading server accumulates some or all of the user's earned rewards from the reward servers and credits the accumulated rewards into a single reward exchange account associated with the user. The user may then select an item for purchase with the accumulated rewards. The item is provided to the user in exchange for a subset or all of the rewards. Reward points may also be redeemed in exchange for services, such as the playing of a video game or Internet access." The patent application was filed on June 7, 2011 (13/154,610). 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=84,47,650.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,650&RS=PN/84,47,650 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Lockheed Martin Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Lockheed Martin, Orlando, Fla., has been assigned a patent (8,447,710) developed by Sreerupa Das, Oviedo, Fla., for a "method and system for reducing links in a Bayesian network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for reducing a number of links in a Bayesian network. A first modified Bayesian network based on a primary Bayesian network that has a plurality of links is generated, wherein the first modified Bayesian network does not include a first subset of the plurality of links. A second modified Bayesian network based on the primary Bayesian network is generated, wherein the second modified Bayesian network does not include a second subset of the plurality of links. The first modified Bayesian network and the second modified Bayesian network are validated using a first data set to generate a first validation result and a second validation result. The primary Bayesian network is substituted with the first modified Bayesian network or the second modified Bayesian network based on the first validation result and the second validation result." The patent application was filed on Aug. 2, 2010 (12/848,485). 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=84,47,710.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,710&RS=PN/84,47,710 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Efficient Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Efficient Systems, Cheyenne, Wyo., has been assigned a patent (8,447,751) developed by Scott Allen Stouffer, Bradenton, Fla., Maura Dennison Stouffer, Bradenton, Fla., and James Christian Fink, Bradenton, Fla., for a "navigable website analysis engine." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An optimization engine allows website publishers and other network document publishers to view and navigate statistics and scoring methodologies of a search engine. Publishers may thus gain a better understanding of how their website or network document is scored and how to optimize those documents to increase a search engine score. The user is thus able to navigate the network from the perspective of a search engine, viewing webpages, websites, and links in the same way a search engine would analyze them. Upon making changes to a website or network document, publishers may further request on-demand re-crawling of their website or network document to view changes in the score. Alerts may also be activated by a user to notify the user when certain conditions are met." The patent application was filed on Nov. 18, 2008 (12/273,004). 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=84,47,751.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,751&RS=PN/84,47,751 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** JumpStart Wireless Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- JumpStart Wireless, Delray Beach, Fla., has been assigned a patent (8,447,868) developed by six co-inventors for a "method for extending business systems to a mobile workforce." The co-inventors are Jeffrey G. Bonar, Delray Beach, Fla., Nancy B. Lehrer, Delray Beach, Fla., Kenneth G. Tomazin, Delray Beach, Fla., Subir Chhibber, Delray Beach, Fla., Adrian Pekarek, Delray Beach, Fla., and Bryan Tafel, Delray Beach, Fla. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems, software, and methods for reliable wireless communication are provided. In one aspect, a computer program control device, called a node, is configured to be transmitted from a first device for receipt and processing on a second, disparate device. The node comprises a collection of managed objects or managed object representations that is effective to control said disparate device. In one exemplary illustrative non-limiting implementation, the node is configured to control the processing of multiple data types. A session manager component within a task management component provides for intermittent connection to a disparate remote device." The patent application was filed on Jan. 13, 2012 (13/349,678). 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=8,447,868&OS=8,447,868&RS=8,447,868 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** McAfee Assigned Patent for Merge Rule Wizard ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- McAfee, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,448,220) developed by Jaideep Roy, Boca Raton, Fla., Scott DeLoach, Margate, Fla., and David Diehl, Minneapolis, for a merge rule wizard. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various embodiments include a system comprising an interface coupled to a computer network, the interface operable to provide a merge rule wizard operable to generate one or more displayable dialog boxes that include selectable criteria for merging a plurality of sets of security rules into a single security rule base." The patent application was filed on April 29, 2009 (12/432,045). 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=8,448,220&OS=8,448,220&RS=8,448,220 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 Execution of Work Units in a Heterogeneous Computing Environment ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,448,176) developed by four co-inventors for "execution of work units in a heterogeneous computing environment." The co-inventors are Ivan Jellinek, Hillsboro Beach, Fla., Alberto Poggesi, Palo Alto, Calif., Anthony C. Sumrall, San Jose, Calif., and Thomas A. Thackrey, San Jose, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Work units are transparently offloaded from a main processor to offload processing systems for execution. For a particular work unit, a suitable offload processing system is selected to execute the work unit. This includes determining the requirements of the work unit, including, for instance, the hardware and software requirements; matching those requirements against a set of offload processing systems with an arbitrary set of available resources; and determining if a suitable offload processing system is available. If a suitable offload processing system is available, the work unit is scheduled to execute on that offload processing system with no changes to the work unit itself. Otherwise, the work unit may execute on the main processor or wait to be executed on an offload processing system." The patent application was filed on Jan. 26, 2011 (13/014,123). 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=8,448,176&OS=8,448,176&RS=8,448,176 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Positional Effects in a Three-dimensional Desktop Environment ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,448,092) developed by Lisa Seacat Deluca, San Francisco, Lydia M. Do, Research Triangle Park, N.C., and Pamela A. Nesbitt, Tampa, Fla., for "positional effects in a three-dimensional desktop environment." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for arranging display elements in a three-dimensional desktop environment. In one embodiment, each display element may include an attribute. A user request may be received to apply the positional effect to the display elements. The positional effect may be applied to the display elements based on the attribute, responsive to the user request." The patent application was filed on Nov. 25, 2009 (12/625,907). 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=8,448,092&OS=8,448,092&RS=8,448,092 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent for Power Consumption Management in a Network Device ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,448,007) developed by Pavlo Bobrek, Bradenton, Fla., Stephen Wethington, Sarasota, Fla., and Hugh Barrass, Milpitas, Calif., for a "power consumption management in a network device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method includes buffering an initial amount of data of a data set transmitted from a MAC. When an amount of time for data associated with the data set to fill a PHY buffer approaches an amount of time for a far-end PHY to transition from a second far-end PHY power mode to a first far-end PHY power state, a remaining amount of data of the data set transmitted from the MAC is buffered and the data is transmitted to the far-end PHY after it transitions to the first far-end PHY power state. When the amount of time for data associated with the data set to fill the buffer exceeds the amount of time for the far-end PHY to transition to the first far-end PHY power state, a data delay indicator is transmitted to the MAC to preempt the MAC from transmitting the remaining amount of data." The patent application was filed on May 11, 2012 (13/469,433). 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=8,448,007.PN.&OS=PN/8,448,007&RS=PN/8,448,007 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. -1125774 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |