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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in North Carolina (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 North Carolina. *** Bank of America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Bank of America, Charlotte, N.C., has been assigned a patent (8,447,692) developed by sixteen co-inventors for a personal financial network. The co-inventors are Susan S. Thomas, Gastonia, N.C., William F. Borowski, Millbury, Mass., Kazi M. Ariff, Quincy, Mass., Carol A. Smith, Edgartown, Mass., Judith M. Anderson, East Walpole, Mass., Steven K. Hayes, Bemus Point, N.Y., Thomas D. Kelley, Hingham, Mass., Neal G. Wolfson, Lexington, Mass., Sean M. O'Connor, Scituate, Mass., Russell W. Tipper, Boston, Jeffrey P. Judd, Boston, William J. Aheron, Charlotte, N.C., Yicong Li, Lexington, Mass., Shane A. Johnson, Charlotte, N.C., James P. Kirkman, Acton, Mass., and Jeffrey H. Bierer, Charlotte, N.C. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Apparatus and methods for providing a personal financial network service are provided. The method may use an electronic information processing platform. The method may include storing information relating to a first participant account. The method may also include storing information relating to a second participant account. The systems and methods of the invention may further include storing information relating to a group of accounts containing the first participant and the second participant account, wherein first said account and second said account are stored independently of one another." The patent application was filed on March 20, 2009 (12/407,877). 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=84,47,692.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,692&RS=PN/84,47,692 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Bank of America Assigned Patent for Transaction Range Comparison for Financial Investigation ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Bank of America, Charlotte, N.C., has been assigned a patent (8,447,677) developed by Daniel C. Kern, Charlotte, N.C., for a "transaction range comparison for financial investigation." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for determining the likelihood that a group of transactions may be structured to avoid a limit or reporting requirement, such as a government reporting requirement, are disclosed. The frequency distributions of a customer's transactions for different value ranges are compared to determine whether transactions within a target range occur randomly or at an unexpected level. In another embodiment, the frequency distribution of a customer's transactions is compared to a frequency distribution created by randomly sampling a distribution of similar transactions to determine whether the customer's transactions occur randomly." The patent application was filed on June 11, 2012 (13/493,453). 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=84,47,677.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,677&RS=PN/84,47,677 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Bank of America Assigned Patent for Calculating Credit Worthiness Using Transactional Data ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Bank of America, Charlotte, N.C., has been assigned a patent (8,447,689) developed by seven co-inventors for "calculating credit worthiness using transactional data." The co-inventors are Debashis Ghosh, Charlotte, N.C., William A. Nobili, Charlotte, N.C., Arun R. Pinto, Charlotte, N.C., Kurt D. Newman, Matthews, N.C., David N. Joffe, Charlotte, N.C., Sudeshna Banerjee, Waxhaw, N.C., and Marc Douglas Halsted, Charlotte, N.C. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Aspects of the invention provide for the use of transactional data in determining credit and product offerings. Further aspects of the invention provide for generating financial statements and indices using transactional data for use by users and/or financial institutions. The transactional based financial statements and indices may be used for making underwriting and financial planning decisions." The patent application was filed on April 6, 2012 (13/441,309). 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=84,47,689.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,689&RS=PN/84,47,689 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** JPMorgan Chase Bank Assigned Patent for Universal Payment Protection ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- JPMorgan Chase Bank, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,447,670) developed by John Mark DeLoach, Wilmington, N.C., for a universal payment protection. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for and method of providing payment protection upon the occurrence of trigger events. The system and method include an account, which may be associated with a credit card or other financial product. An accountholder may select trigger events and associated benefits. Upon the occurrence of a trigger event, the issuing entity will evaluate whether the accountholder is entitled to receive an associated benefit. Each benefit is intended to address at least one payment obligation. For example, an account may include payment protection in the form of automatic payment of minimum monthly credit card fees should the accountholder involuntarily become unemployed." The patent application was filed on Dec. 23, 2009 (12/645,927). 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=84,47,670.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,670&RS=PN/84,47,670 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** JPMorgan Chase Bank Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- JPMorgan Chase Bank, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,447,672) developed by John Mark DeLoach, Wilmington, N.C., for a universal payment protection. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for and method of providing payment protection upon the occurrence of trigger events. The system and method include an account, which may be associated with a credit card or other financial product. An accountholder may select trigger events and associated benefits. Upon the occurrence of a trigger event, the issuing entity will evaluate whether the accountholder is entitled to receive an associated benefit. Each benefit is intended to address at least one payment obligation. For example, an account may include payment protection in the form of automatic payment of minimum monthly credit card fees should the accountholder involuntarily become unemployed." The patent application was filed on April 7, 2011 (13/082,165). 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=84,47,672.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,672&RS=PN/84,47,672 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** North Carolina State University Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N.C., has been assigned a patent (PP23,613) developed by G. Craig Yencho, Raleigh, N.C., Kenneth V. Pecota, Raleigh, N.C., and Meri K. Reeber, Apex, N.C., for a "sweetpotato plant named 'NCORNSP-015SCPI'." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "`NCORNSP-015SCPI` is new and distinct variety of ornamental sweetpotato. `NCORNSP-015SCPI` is a compact, semi-upright; mounding, cultivar producing many short shoots. This ornamental sweetpotato variety is distinguishable from other cultivars by its dark purple leaves that have 3-5 moderate lobes, a more compact habit, and semi-erect mounding plant architecture. The leaves of `NCORNSP-015SCPI` are slightly upright resulting in a more attractive appearance, and it has a very good plant vigor and is very well branched, making it very suitable for production as a landscape or containerized plant." The patent application was filed on March 22, 2011 (13/065,463). 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=PP23,613&OS=PP23,613&RS=PP23,613 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** North Carolina State University Assigned Patent for Sweetpotato Plant Named 'NCORNSP-013GNLC' ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N.C., has been assigned a patent (PP23,612) developed by G. Craig Yencho, Raleigh, N.C., Kenneth V. Pecota, Raleigh, N.C., and Meri K. Reeber, Apex, N.C., for a "sweetpotato plant named 'NCORNSP-013GNLC'." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "`NCORNSP-013GNLC` is new and distinct variety of ornamental sweetpotato. It is a compact, semi-upright; mounding, spreading, cultivar producing many short shoots. This ornamental sweetpotato variety is distinguishable from other cultivars by its burgundy red leaves that have 5-7 extremely deep lobes; a compact habit and semi-erect mounding plant architecture. Furthermore, `NCORNSP-013GNLC` has a very good vigor, is very well branched and is desirable for production as a landscape or containerized plant. The production of flowers by `NCORNSP-013GNLC` is moderate under short day conditions." The patent application was filed on March 22, 2011 (13/065,468). 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=PP23,612&OS=PP23,612&RS=PP23,612 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Bank of America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Bank of America, Charlotte, N.C., has been assigned a patent (8,448,237) developed by Joseph Allen Rice, Ballston Lake, N.Y., and Brandon Matthew Castagna, Mount Holly, N.C., for a virtual private internet. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A virtual private internet may include various network components, including an enhanced service domain name server (DNS), an enhanced service router, and an enhanced service gateway, which all access service policy information stored in an enhanced service repository. The network components in the virtual private internet perform common service processing tasks for routing service requests across firewalls and other network boundaries. The network components also execute other service policies, such as logging, message format translation, and protocol bridging for each service request processed by the network. Updates to services may be implemented in the virtual private internet via changes to service policy information stored in the enhanced service repository." The patent application was filed on July 12, 2011 (13/181,151). 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=8,448,237&OS=8,448,237&RS=8,448,237 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Bank of America Assigned Patent for Business Transaction Facilitation System ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Bank of America, Charlotte, N.C., has been assigned a patent (8,447,680) developed by Mayur Dhanj Chheda, Charlotte, N.C., Jeffrey Addison Grant, Charlotte, N.C., and John Marshall McKeever, Charlotte, N.C., for a "business transaction facilitation system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to methods, systems and computer program products for facilitating a business relationship between a customer and at least one provider. The methods, systems and computer program products allow for a system for conducting business transactions and/or facilitating business relationships wholly electronically via an e-vault system. The e-vault system provides at least one interface for one or more client systems to upload data to and from an storage system via a network." The patent application was filed on Sept. 14, 2012 (13/619,455). 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=84,47,680.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,680&RS=PN/84,47,680 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** RGB Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- RGB Systems, Anaheim, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,447,893) developed by Brian E. Tauscher, Apex, N.C., and Michael Izquierdo, Cary, N.C., for a "USB peripheral device comprising limited function USB host controller." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A USB peripheral device comprising a limited function Universal Serial Bus (USB) host controller configured to control HID compliant USB peripheral devices on a downstream facing USB port is disclosed. The port is also capable of dynamically interfacing to any USB compliant peripheral device." The patent application was filed on June 13, 2012 (13/495,850). 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=8,447,893&OS=8,447,893&RS=8,447,893 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Deploying J2EE Web Applications in an OSGI Environment ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,448,163) developed by Richard Andrew Backhouse, Apex, N.C., for "deploying J2EE web applications in an OSGI environment." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Web applications are deployed for execution within the existing framework of Open Services Gateway initiative (OSGi) when they are written in the commonly-employed Java.TM. (trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc) 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) language. The intended deployment of J2EE web applications is detected and the J2EE application contents are converted into appropriate OSGi bundles using a provisioner. The provisioner employs its list of available provision providers to create the OSGi bundles that correspond to the J2EE application contents." The patent application was filed on Aug. 15, 2006 (11/464,543). 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=8,448,163&OS=8,448,163&RS=8,448,163 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Dell Products Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Dell Products, Round Rock, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,447,860) developed by four co-inventors for a "storage area network with target side recognition and routing table upload." The co-inventors are Daniel E. Suman, Chapel Hill, N.C., Eric R. Schott, Epsom, N.H., Lazarus J. Vekiarides, West Roxbury, Mass., and Neil A. Swinton, Northborough, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A network of data processors for providing access to a resource, such as implemented a Storage Area Network that uses iSCSI and Microsoft MPIO-based network communication protocols. In preferred embodiments, the system or method uses (a) target-side consideration of MPIO disk structures, such as by having iSCSI initiators in from iSCSI targets via an iSCSI session object that is settable by a service action; and/or (b) uploading of routing tables from iSCSI targets to iSCSI initiator(s), such as to a Device Specific Module (DSM). Implementations may also involve, in a preferred embodiment: (1) requesting that the contents of the routing table be provided from the iSCSI target side storage servers to the iSCSI initiators, and using this as one of the factors influencing path selection as performed in the MPIO DSM on the initiator side; and/or (2) transmitting information from the iSCSI initiator to the iSCSI target storage server identifying connections as belonging to the same MPIO disk, and then receiving back from the iSCSI target storage server, information about the connections that should be created, and further then having a connection load balancer on the storage server handle those connections as related connections that need to be assigned each to a different Network Interface (NIC) on the storage servers." The patent application was filed on June 25, 2008 (12/215,194). 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=8,447,860&OS=8,447,860&RS=8,447,860 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** MFV.com Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- MFV.com, Cary, N.C., has been assigned a patent (8,448,190) developed by William B. Lineberger, Cary, N.C., for "methods, systems, and computer readable media for high reliability downloading of background assets using a manifest in a virtual world application." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer readable media for predictively downloading background assets with file-not-present tolerance in a virtual world application. According to one aspect for high reliability downloading of background assets using a manifest in a virtual world application, the method includes compiling a manifest of assets potentially needed for execution by a first instance of a virtual world application (VWA), wherein each of the assets is associated with a priority. Using the manifest and while executing the VWA, assets listed in the manifest are downloaded based on the priorities indicated in the manifest. The VWA is executed for displaying a virtual world by loading at least a subset of the assets listed in the manifest." The patent application was filed on March 24, 2008 (12/053,959). 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=8,448,190&OS=8,448,190&RS=8,448,190 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Qurio Holdings Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Qurio Holdings, Raleigh, N.C., has been assigned a patent (8,447,828) developed by Alfredo C. Issa, Apex, N.C., for a "system and method for hosting images embedded in external websites." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method are provided for hosting digital images embedded in an external website, wherein the digital images are modified to include additional content such as advertisements when served to a guest of the external website. In general, a host website including a web server and an image database operates to host digital images for external websites. When the web server associated with the host website receives a request for a digital image embedded within a webpage of the external website, the web server analyzes metadata associated with the digital image to produce selection criteria and selects additional content to add to the digital image based on the selection criteria. The web server then modifies the digital image to include the additional content, thereby generating a modified image, and provides the modified image to the requesting node." The patent application was filed on Sept. 21, 2005 (11/231,836). 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=8,447,828&OS=8,447,828&RS=8,447,828 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** CopperEgg Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- CopperEgg, Pflugerville, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,447,851) developed by five co-inventors for a "system for monitoring elastic cloud-based computing systems as a service." The co-inventors are Eric Paul Anderson, Pflugerville, Texas, Scott Conrad Johnson, Austin, Texas, David Perdue, Austin, Texas, Luke Ehresman, Holly Springs, N.C., and Robert B. Gordon, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Provided is a computing-system monitor configured to monitor a plurality of computing-systems each having a plurality of monitored computing-instances. The computing-system monitor may include a plurality of collectors, each collector executed by one of a plurality of monitored computing-instances, wherein the plurality of monitored computing-instances each are part of one of a plurality of separately monitored computing systems, and wherein each of the collectors is operable to output metrics of a corresponding monitored computing-instance executing that collector. The computing-system monitor may also include an analytics platform, the analytics platform having a plurality of analytic computing-instances, the analytics platform being operable to receive metrics output by the plurality of collectors, calculate statistics with the analytic computing-instances based on the received metrics, and output the calculated statistics." The patent application was filed on Nov. 10, 2011 (13/293,751). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,447,851&OS=8,447,851&RS=8,447,851 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Bank of America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Bank of America, Charlotte, N.C., has been assigned a patent (8,448,126) developed by six co-inventors for a "compliance program assessment tool." The co-inventors are Kimberly Laight, Greensboro, N.C., Jennifer G. Ackerman, Charlotte, N.C., Burl Edwin Allen Jr., Charlotte, N.C., Anita W. Sabol, Huntersville, N.C., Dennis J. McInerney, Monroe, N.C., and Janine D. Thomas, Broadbrook, Conn. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "This invention provides a compliance assessment system and tool for efficiently assessing compliance programs and managing compliance program assessments across an organization. Compliance activities are measured against a group of Compliance Program Element Requirements (CPR's) that are used to assess LOB compliance programs. The CPR's define the minimum standards for the LOB's documentation and execution of its compliance program. Assessment results are documented and a compliance program assessment data sheet is developed. A rating is also provided for the status of the documentation supporting the compliance program and the effectiveness of the execution of the compliance program. From these inputs the tool of the invention automatically calculates a score representative of the adequacy and effectiveness of the compliance program. The tool also assigns a color code based at least in part on the score. Reports may be generated that can be used to determine compliance trends." The patent application was filed on Jan. 11, 2006 (11/306,784). 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=8,448,126&OS=8,448,126&RS=8,448,126 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Progress Software Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Progress Software, Bedford, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,447,774) developed by Jonathan Robie, Durham, N.C., Peter Coppens, Antwerp, Belgium, and Marc Van Cappellen, Meise, Belgium, for a "database-independent mechanism for retrieving relational data as XML." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques are disclosed for retrieving both data stored in relational form and data stored in XML form responsive to a single XQuery query. The techniques allow applications to retrieve relational data residing in various relational database management systems by using XQuery and XQuery for Java. In one such embodiment, an embeddable serverless computer component implements the techniques, and includes a combination of one more relational adaptors and a mediator to access relational data and transform it into appropriate XML. The techniques are embeddable, and can be standards-based, database-independent, and operating-system independent. Optimized performance and scalability from desktop to enterprise applications are enabled as the number of users and/or database size increases." The patent application was filed on Nov. 18, 2005 (11/283,224). 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=8,447,774&OS=8,447,774&RS=8,447,774 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,448,080) developed by four co-inventors for a "target server identification in a virtualized data center." The co-inventors are Keith Barber, Durham, N.C., Adam J. Friedlander, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Robert Hagan, Durham, N.C., and John M. Lake, Cary, N.C. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for identifying target server computers for consolidating virtual machines in a virtualized data center includes measuring load constraints for different server computers in a virtualized data center. The method also include rendering in a load graph in a graphical user interface (GUI) for the target identification module different icons, each representative of a corresponding one of the different server computers, each icon in the load graph including a position in the load graph according to measured load constraints for a corresponding one of the different server computers. The method further includes selecting a server computer from amongst the different server computers. Finally, the method includes filtering the load graph in the GUI to exclude icons corresponding to server computers that are over-utilized, so that icons remaining visible in the load graph represent server computers that are suitable as a target server computer for server consolidation of virtual machines executing in the selected server computer." The patent application was filed on Dec. 31, 2009 (12/650,849). 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=8,448,080.PN.&OS=PN/8,448,080&RS=PN/8,448,080 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Qualcomm Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,447,800) developed by Kenneth Alan Dockser, Cary, N.C., and Pathik Sunil Lall, Raleigh, N.C., for a "mode-based multiply-add recoding for denormal operands." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In a denormal support mode, the normalization circuit of a floating-point adder is used to normalize or denormalized the output of a floating-point multiplier. Each floating-point multiply instruction is speculatively converted to a multiply-add instruction, with the addend forced to zero. This preserves the value of the product, while normalizing or denormalizing the product using the floating-point adder's normalization circuit. When the operands to the multiply operation are available, they are inspected. If the operands will not generate an unnormal intermediate product or a denormal final product, the add operation is suppressed, such as by operand-forwarding. Additionally, each non-fused floating-point multiply-add instruction is replaced with a multiply-add instruction having a zero addend, and a floating-point add instruction having the addend of the original multiply-add instruction is inserted into the instruction stream. Upon inspection of the operands, if an unnormal intermediate result or a denormal final result will not occur, the addend may be restored to the multiply-add instruction and the add instruction converted to a NOP." The patent application was filed on Feb. 14, 2011 (13/026,335). 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=8,447,800&OS=8,447,800&RS=8,447,800 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** 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. *** Cadence Design Systems Assigned Patent for Method and System for Parallel Processing of IC Design Layouts ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Cadence Design Systems, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,448,096) developed by 10 co-inventors for a "method and system for parallel processing of IC design layouts." The co-inventors are Xiaojun Wang, Cary, N.C., Roland Ruehl, San Carlos, Calif., Li-Ling Ma, San Jose, Calif., Mathew Koshy, San Mateo, Calif., Tianhao Zhang, Raleigh, N.C., Udayan Gumaste, San Jose, Calif., Krzysztof Antoni Kozminski, San Jose, Calif., Haifang Liao, San Joso, Calif., Xinming Tu, Sunnyvalo, Calif., and Xu Zhu, Santa Clara, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed is a method and system for processing the tasks performed by an IC layout processing tool in parallel. In some approaches, the IC layout is divided into a plurality of layout portions and one or more of the layout portions are processed in parallel, where geometric select operations are performed in which data for different layout portions may be shared between different processing entities. One approach includes the following actions: select phase one operation for performing initial select actions within layout portions; distributed regioning action for local regioning; distributed regioning action for global regioning and binary select; count select aggregation for count-based select operations; and select phase two operations for combining results of selecting of internal shapes and interface shapes." The patent application was filed on June 30, 2006 (11/479,600). 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=8,448,096&OS=8,448,096&RS=8,448,096 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Reducing Current Draw of a Plurality of Solid State Drives at Computer Startup ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,447,998) developed by Mark E. Andresen, Cary, N.C., and Joaquin F. Pacheco, Cary, N.C., for "reducing current draw of a plurality of solid state drives at computer startup." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Reducing current draw of solid state drives from a shared power supply of a computer at computer startup, each SSD including computer memory, a capacitor, a disk controller, and a charge controller, the disk controller configured to enable the charge controller to charge the capacitor upon receiving a charge command, the SSDs organized into startup groups characterized by a position in a predefined startup order. Upon startup of the computer, beginning with a first startup group in the predefined startup order and until the last startup group in the predefined startup order has received a charge command, embodiments include, sending, by a storage device initiator, a charge command to a startup group to initiate charging of the capacitor of each solid state drive in the startup group and waiting a predefined period of time before sending another charge command to a next startup group in the predefined startup order." The patent application was filed on May 22, 2012 (13/477,257). 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=8,447,998.PN.&OS=PN/8,447,998&RS=PN/8,447,998 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Self-healing Failover Using a Repository and Dependency Management System ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,448,014) developed by Jaroslaw Gawor, Apex, N.C., Lin Sun, Morrisville, N.C., and Paul Franklin McMahan, Apex, N.C., for a "self-healing failover using a repository and dependency management system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems, devices, methods, and articles of manufacture employing repair modules are provided. The modules may be automatically deployed in conjunction with dependency mechanisms upon identifying a malfunctioning application. The modules may be specifically tailored for certain diagnosis or repair and may be selected for deployment to a second application using information regarding the malfunction of a first application." The patent application was filed on April 23, 2010 (12/766,123). 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=8,448,014.PN.&OS=PN/8,448,014&RS=PN/8,448,014 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** NetApp Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- NetApp, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,448,004) developed by Dean Kalman, Cary, N.C., for a "power savings using dynamic storage cluster membership." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for controlling power usage in a storage cluster by dynamically controlling membership in the storage cluster is disclosed. The storage cluster includes multiple storage servers that provide access to one or more storage subsystems. The power management system uses a power management policy to set parameters for controlling membership in the storage cluster and monitors the storage cluster based on the policy. Based on the monitoring, the system detects when the number of storage servers in the storage cluster should be reduced or increased. To reduce the number, the system selects a storage server to deactivate and directs the selected storage server to migrate storage resources (e.g. data, metadata) associated with the server to a different storage server. The system then deactivates the selected storage server by directing it to transition to a low power mode. The system may increase the number of servers in the storage cluster by reversing these steps." The patent application was filed on Oct. 27, 2008 (12/259,163). 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=8,448,004.PN.&OS=PN/8,448,004&RS=PN/8,448,004 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. -1125788 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |