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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Massachusetts (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 Massachusetts. *** Sepaton Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Sepaton, Marlborough, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,447,741) developed by six co-inventors for a "system and method for providing data driven de-duplication services." The co-inventors are Timmie G. Reiter, Westborough, Mass., Carey Jay McMaster, Stow, Mass., Ronald Ray Trimble, Acton, Mass., Stefan Merrill King, Belmont, Mass., David Michael Biernacki, Woonsocket, R.I., and Jon Christopher Kennedy, Marlborough, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for removing redundant data from a storage system. In one example, a data delineation process delineates data targeted for de-duplication into regions using a plurality of markers. The de-duplication system determines which of these regions should be subject to further de-duplication processing by comparing metadata representing the regions to metadata representing regions of a reference data set. The de-duplication system identifies an area of data that incorporates the regions that should be subject to further de-duplication processing and de-duplicates this area with reference to a corresponding area within the reference data set." The patent application was filed on Sept. 8, 2010 (12/877,735). 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=84,47,741.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,741&RS=PN/84,47,741 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Oracle International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Oracle International, Redwood Shores, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,447,716) developed by Claire M. Bagley, Carlisle, Mass., Gao Chen, Beijing, and Joyce Ng, Sunnyvale, Calif., for a "dynamic constraint satisfaction problem solver with inferred problem association removal." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A constraint solver for solving a constraint satisfaction problem network that comprises a plurality of nodes and a plurality of constraints. The solver receives a request to remove an inferred problem association and determines one or more user decisions that triggered the inferred problem association." The patent application was filed on July 27, 2009 (12/509,546). 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=84,47,716.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,716&RS=PN/84,47,716 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** 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. *** Hartford Fire Insurance Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Hartford Fire Insurance, Hartford, Conn., has been assigned a patent (8,447,636) developed by Charles D. Tatro, Mendon, Mass., and David P. Wiland, Norristown, Pa., for a "method and system for processing data relating to investment products having a payment guarantee." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer system for processing data relating to an investment arrangement having an account value dependent on investment performance and available for withdrawal by an account owner includes a data storage device storing data indicative of a present account value, a withdrawal factor value, a present payment base value, and a guarantee of payments available periodically for a term without reduction of the payment base value; and a processor. The processor is configured to, for periods after a first withdrawal, determine the present payment base value by comparing a present account value to a prior period account value, a periodic increase in the payment base value being limited to a maximum percentage; and determine an available maximum withdrawal without reduction of the payment base value based on the withdrawal factor value and a greater of the present account value and the present payment base value." The patent application was filed on June 22, 2012 (13/530,359). 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=84,47,636.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,636&RS=PN/84,47,636 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Backing Up Data Objects Identified by Search Program and Corresponding to Search Query ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,447,735) developed by Jean X. Yu, Austin, Texas, Yan Xiao, Acton, Mass., and Thomas E. O'Brien, Round Rock, Texas, for "backing up data objects identified by search program and corresponding to search query." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A backup program running on a computing device receives a search query. The backup program transmits the search query to a search program. The backup program receives search results corresponding to the search query from the search program. The search results include a list of data objects stored on a storage device and that satisfy the search query. The backup program backs up one or more selected data objects of the list of data objects. The backup program can periodically and automatically without user interaction retransmit the search query to the search program, and receive updated search results corresponding to the search query from the search program. The updated search results include an updated list of data objects stored on the storage device that satisfy the search query. The backup program can then back up the data objects within the updated list of data objects." The patent application was filed on Dec. 14, 2010 (12/968,134). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=84,47,735.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,735&RS=PN/84,47,735 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Hartford Fire Insurance Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Hartford Fire Insurance, Hartford, Conn., has been assigned a patent (8,447,637) developed by nine co-inventors for a "system and method for processing data related to insurance coverage for multiple risks." The co-inventors are Katherine Read, Avon, Conn., Edward Jaworski, West Hartford, Conn., Steve McConnell, Marlborough, Mass., Ahmed Shaher, South Windsor, Conn., Theresa Wadsworth, Windsor Locks, Conn., Robert Lukawicz, Newington, Conn., Karen McQueeney Fisher, South Windsor, Conn., Bradley D. Molinsky, Bloomfield, Conn., and Richard Balboni, Manchester, Conn. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer system for processing of data associated with insurance coverage includes a data storage device storing data indicative of: an insured; a maximum benefit amount payable under the insurance coverage; a first category of risks; a second category of risks; a first benefit allocation corresponding to the first category of risks; and a second benefit allocation corresponding to the second category of risks; the benefit allocations being fractions of and totaling the maximum benefit amount. A processor of the system is configured to, responsive to the receipt of data indicative of a claim, determine eligibility for a benefit, and responsive to determining that the insured is eligible, provide output data indicative of a benefit amount, the benefit amount for each of the categories of risks having a maximum equal to the corresponding benefit allocation." The patent application was filed on Sept. 10, 2012 (13/608,208). 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=84,47,637.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,637&RS=PN/84,47,637 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** EMC Assigned Patent for Techniques for Performing Indication Management ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,447,729) developed by seven co-inventors for "techniques for performing indication management." The co-inventors are Yong Wang, Westborough, Mass., Lorenzo Bailey, Framingham, Mass., Ken Kim, Worcester, Mass., Utkarsh Vipul, Mansfield, Mass., Xuan Tang, Hopkinton, Mass., Muhamad Djunaedi, Northborough, Mass., and Sriram Krishnan, Shrewsbury, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Described are techniques for performing indication management. Registration criteria is received including information identifying a first set of data elements of a first data model about which a subscriber is registered to receive notifications. Operations are performed to a second set of data elements stored in a data store in accordance with a second data model. The second set of data elements in accordance with the second data model is mapped to a third set of data elements in accordance with the first data model. Using the first set and the third set, a first portion of the third set is determined which is identified in the first set. First processing is performed in accordance with the registration criteria and the first portion of the third set to determine notifications for a subscriber regarding data elements of the first set." The patent application was filed on Dec. 15, 2010 (12/928,653). 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=84,47,729.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,729&RS=PN/84,47,729 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Greenheart Farms Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Greenheart Farms, Arroyo Grande, Calif., has been assigned a patent (PP23,602) developed by Wendy R. White, Ipswich, Mass., for a "miniature rose plant named 'SAVaboo'." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "`SAVaboo` is a new and distinct variety of hardy miniature rose plant, identified by its bi-color blooms of a noticeable bright orange-red offset by the deep yellow at the center and covering the reverse of the petals. The plant is vigorous and a profuse bloomer, making it ideal as a specimen plant, in a border, or in a container." The patent application was filed on Oct. 11, 2011 (13/317,122). 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=PP23,602&OS=PP23,602&RS=PP23,602 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Alternative Investment Analytics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Alternative Investment Analytics, Amherst, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,447,694) developed by four co-inventors for a "commodity futures index and methods and systems of trading in futures contracts that minimize turnover and transactions costs." The co-inventors are Richard B. Spurgin, Amherst, Mass., Thomas R. Schneeweis, Amherst, Mass., Hossein B. Kazemi, Florence, Mass., and George A. Martin, Florence, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "This invention relates to methods and systems for reducing transaction costs and minimizes turnover in the trading of futures contracts. The invention further describes an algorithm whose output is a unique method of investing in futures contracts that reduces the rate of turnover, and thus the cost of trading, of certain common trading strategies. The primary application of this method is to a class of strategies referred to as indexing strategies that incorporate a dynamic asset allocation approach using futures contracts." The patent application was filed on Nov. 5, 2009 (12/613,356). 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=84,47,694.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,694&RS=PN/84,47,694 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Hartford Fire Insurance Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Hartford Fire Insurance, Hartford, Conn., has been assigned a patent (8,447,681) developed by Vernon Meyer, East Longmeadow, Mass., and Deborah Schunder, West Hartford, Conn., for a "system and method for administering a destination fund having an associated guarantee." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system is provided for administering a destination fund having a guarantee wrapper. The guarantee provides an income stream for life to one or more investors. The destination fund has a selected mix of equities and fixed income investments to provide for enhanced returns throughout retirement for the investor. The destination fund additionally provides income stream flexibility throughout the lifetime of the investor. Administration of a destination fund having a guarantee wrapper may include initiating a guarantee payment process if a value of the destination fund falls below a threshold." The patent application was filed on June 25, 2009 (12/491,562). 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=84,47,681.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,681&RS=PN/84,47,681 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Intel Assigned Patent for Load Balancing in a Storage System ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,447,872) developed by Vicky P. Duerk, Shrewsbury, Mass., and Pak-Lung Seto, Shrewsbury, Mass., for a "load balancing in a storage system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Link level load balancing is provided based on time utilization of a link or workload utilization of a device. Time utilization achieves load balancing by giving each device the same amount of connection time to perform Input/Output tasks. Workload utilization achieves load balancing by managing a number of frames or bytes transmitted to each device." The patent application was filed on Nov. 1, 2006 (11/591,873). 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=8,447,872&OS=8,447,872&RS=8,447,872 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** 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. *** Oracle International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Oracle International, Redwood Shores, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,447,874) developed by Blake Sullivan, Redwood City, Calif., Max Starets, Lexington, Mass., and Edward J. Farrell, Los Gatos, Calif., for a "web page data streaming." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system generates a web page that includes a plurality of embedded data windows. The system receives a request for the web page from a browser and in response generates and displays a frame for the web page on the browser. The frame includes holes for the embedded data windows. The system also receives a data streaming request for each of the embedded data windows and determines if the data streaming requests are thread-safe. For all the data streaming requests that are thread-safe, the system generates a parallel thread to fetch the data for each corresponding data streaming requests. When the data has been fetched for a particular data streaming requests, the data is rendered and streamed to the browser where it is displayed in place of the hole by the browser." The patent application was filed on Feb. 4, 2008 (12/025,234). 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=8,447,874&OS=8,447,874&RS=8,447,874 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Ab Initio Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Ab Initio Technology, Lexington, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,447,901) developed by Craig W. Stanfill, Lincoln, Mass., and Carl Richard Feynman, Waban, Mass., for "managing buffer conditions through sorting." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and techniques include, in some implementations, a computer implemented method storing a portion of data elements present in a first buffer in a second buffer in response to detecting an overflow condition of the first buffer, wherein the data elements in the first buffer are sorted according to a predetermined order, and inserting a proxy data element in the first buffer to represent the portion of data elements stored to the second buffer." The patent application was filed on Feb. 18, 2011 (13/031,034). 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=8,447,901&OS=8,447,901&RS=8,447,901 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Ab Initio Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Ab Initio Technology, Lexington, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,447,724) developed by four co-inventors for "managing metadata for graph-based computations." The co-inventors are Craig W. Stanfill, Lincoln, Mass., J. Skeffington Wholey, Belmont, Mass., Brond Larson, Sharon, Mass., and Glenn John Allin, Arlington, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Determining metadata associated with a graph-based computation includes functionally transforming metadata associated with a first portion of a graph to generate transformed metadata associated with a second portion of the graph; determining a third portion of the graph related to the second portion of the graph; and propagating the transformed metadata from the second portion of the graph to the third portion of the graph." The patent application was filed on Dec. 23, 2010 (12/977,545). 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=84,47,724.PN.&OS=PN/84,47,724&RS=PN/84,47,724 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** EMC Assigned Patent for Managing Object Model Communications ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,447,873) developed by Scott E. Joyce, Foxborough, Mass., Norman M. Miles, Bedford, Mass., and Pauline Boyong Chen, North Grafton, Mass., for a managing object model communications." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system are used in managing object model communications. In a Flex operating environment, an information set is received conforming to an object model representation. A client side normalization is performed in the flex operating environment on the information to derive another information set conforming to another object model representation. Based on the other object model representation, a dialog is generated that is sufficient for legacy and current object models of Flex and Java operating environments having network communications with data storage systems." The patent application was filed on June 29, 2011 (13/172,144). 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=8,447,873&OS=8,447,873&RS=8,447,873 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Gemstar Development Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Gemstar Development, Los Angeles, has been assigned a patent (8,448,209) developed by Thomas E. Ward III, Weston, Mass., Kenneth Hancock, Nashua, N.H., and Douglas B. Macrae, Weston, Mass., for a "system and method for displaying advertisements responsive to EPG information." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for utilizing data stored in an EPG database for modifying advertisement information. In this way, a service provider and/or an advertiser can transmit a single advertisement to all the television stations regardless of their geographic location and other user specific information, and need not re-transmit the advertisement even if there is a change in the show's program description. When the advertisement is displayed, the correct updated information is retrieved from the EPG database and inserted into the advertisement. In one aspect, the present invention describes a method for modifying an advertisement in an EPG comprising the steps of: storing television schedule information in a first database; storing advertisement information in a second database; incorporating a portion of the television schedule information into a portion of the advertisement information to form a modified advertisement; and displaying the modified advertisement on a screen." The patent application was filed on Aug. 20, 2007 (11/894,765). 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=8,448,209&OS=8,448,209&RS=8,448,209 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. *** EMC Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,447,892) developed by Mickey S. Felton, Sterling, Mass., and Simba M. Julian, Dorchester, Mass., for a "PCI-E extended reach with receive detect circuitry." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A type one protocol device transmitter performs a detection function to detect attached type one protocol receivers. The detection function operates such that receivers having type two termination are not detected as type one protocol receivers. A type two protocol device receiver has type two termination. Logic is coupled between the type two protocol device receiver and the type one protocol device transmitter so that the type one protocol device transmitter detection function detects the type two protocol device receiver as a type one protocol receiver. The type one protocol device can be a PCI-E device, and the type two protocol device can be a SAS/SATA device." The patent application was filed on Sept. 27, 2007 (11/862,491). 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=8,447,892&OS=8,447,892&RS=8,447,892 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Akamai Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Akamai Technologies, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,447,842) developed by Philip A. Lisiecki, Quincy, Mass., Cosmos Nicolaou, Palo Alto, Calif., and Kyle R. Rose, Cambridge, Mass., for a "scalable, high performance and highly available distributed storage system for internet content." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for content storage on behalf of participating content providers begins by having a given content provider identify content for storage. The content provider then uploads the content to a given storage site selected from a set of storage sites. Following upload, the content is replicated from the given storage site to at least one other storage site in the set. Upon request from a given entity, a given storage site from which the given entity may retrieve the content is then identified. The content is then downloaded from the identified given storage site to the given entity. In an illustrative embodiment, the given entity is an edge server of a content delivery network (CDN)." The patent application was filed on May 16, 2011 (13/108,533). 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=8,447,842&OS=8,447,842&RS=8,447,842 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Synopsys Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Synopsys, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,448,109) developed by Eduard Cerny, Worcester, Mass., Surrendra A. Dudani, Newton, Mass., and Samik Sengupta, Northborough, Mass., for "vector evaluation of assertions." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and techniques for evaluating assertions during circuit verification are described. During operation, m semantically equivalent assertions can be identified, wherein each of the m semantically equivalent assertions is evaluated using n logical expressions. Next, a set of vectors based on the m semantically equivalent assertions can be determined, wherein each vector element corresponds to a logical expression that is used for evaluating one of the m semantically equivalent assertions. The m semantically equivalent assertions can then be evaluated, in parallel, using the set of vectors." The patent application was filed on Jan. 31, 2012 (13/363,204). 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=8,448,109&OS=8,448,109&RS=8,448,109 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Adobe Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Adobe Systems, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,447,769) developed by five co-inventors for a "system and method for real-time image collection and sharing." The co-inventors are Sylvain Paris, Boston, Paul E. Green, Cambridge, Mass., Shmuel Avidan, Brookline, Mass., William T. Freeman, Acton, Mass., and Wojciech Matusik, Lexington, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various embodiments of a system and methods for real-time image collection and sharing are described. A group of geographically co-located mobile device users may capture images on the mobile devices during a session. The devices may send the images, during the same session, to a database where the images may be stored as a real-time image collection. The image collection may be shared, during the same session, among the mobile device users. The users may receive notification of new images in the image collection based on user preferences. The users may request, from the image collection, images containing particular content by identifying the content on an image and sending a search request which includes the identified content. A computation server may maintain a data set which associates similar images in the image collection. The data set may be updated for each new image that is added to the image collection." The patent application was filed on Aug. 25, 2010 (12/868,490). 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=8,447,769&OS=8,447,769&RS=8,447,769 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** EMC Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,447,782) developed by six co-inventors for a "data access layer having a mapping module for transformation of data into common information model compliant objects." The co-inventors are Utkarsh Vipul, Mansfield, Mass., Lorenzo Bailey, Framingham, Mass., Ken Kim, Worcester, Mass., Yong Wang, Westborough, Mass., Xuan Tang, Hopkinton, Mass., and Muhamad Djunaedi, Northborough, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In a storage processor having a provider framework, one embodiment is directed to a method for providing an object. The method includes receiving, by a data access layer of the provider framework, an object request from a client device, the object request identifying at least one object. The method includes applying, by the data access layer, a mapping module to the object request to access object data associated with the object request. The method includes generating, by the data access layer, the at least one object identified in the object request. The method includes forwarding, by the data access layer, the at least one object to the client device." The patent application was filed on Dec. 16, 2010 (12/969,893). 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=8,447,782&OS=8,447,782&RS=8,447,782 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Intel Assigned Patent for Apparatus with a Vector Generation Unit and Encoder for Receiving First and Second Inputs to Generate at Least Significant Zero (LSZ) ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,447,796) developed by Vinodh Gopal, Westborough, Mass., for an "apparatus with a vector generation unit and encoder for receiving first and second inputs to generate at least significant zero (LSZ)." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving a first and second inputs, calculating a sum/difference of the first and second inputs in parallel with determining a least significant zero (LSZ) vector using the first and second inputs, and determining a shift value based on the LSZ vector, where the shift value is used to perform a shift operation on the sum/difference. Other embodiments are described and claimed." The patent application was filed on Nov. 25, 2008 (12/313,841). 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=8,447,796&OS=8,447,796&RS=8,447,796 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** MathWorks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- MathWorks, Natick, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,448,130) developed by five co-inventors for an auto-generated code validation. The co-inventors are Aravind Pillarisetti, Natick, Mass., Peter Szpak, Newton, Mass., Jesung Kim, Westborough, Mass., Xiaocang Lin, Wayland, Mass., and Pieter J. Mosterman, Framingham, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A technique for generating an executable document that includes information for validating generated code is provided. The technique can include mapping an assumption to a portion of generated code, the portion containing functional code that is related to implementing the assumption, the mapping allowing at least the portion to be validated with respect to the assumption. The technique can include generating the executable document, where the executable document includes the mapping, and where the generated document validates the at least the portion of the generated code, where validating the at least the portion of the generated code validates the generated code." The patent application was filed on Aug. 20, 2007 (11/894,391). 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=8,448,130&OS=8,448,130&RS=8,448,130 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Managing In-line Store Throughput Reduction ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,447,930) developed by five co-inventors for "managing in-line store throughput reduction." The co-inventors are Deanna P. Berger, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Michael F. Fee, Cold Spring, N.Y., Christine C. Jones, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Diana L. Orf, Somerville, Mass., and Robert J. Sonnelitter III, Wappingers Falls, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various embodiments of the present invention manage a hierarchical store-through memory cache structure. A store request queue is associated with a processing core in multiple processing cores. At least one blocking condition is determined to have occurred at the store request queue. Multiple non-store requests and a set of store requests associated with a remaining set of processing cores in the multiple processing cores are dynamically blocked from accessing a memory cache in response to the blocking condition having occurred." The patent application was filed on June 22, 2010 (12/820,528). 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=8,447,930.PN.&OS=PN/8,447,930&RS=PN/8,447,930 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** CA Inc. Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- CA Inc., Islandia, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,448,012) developed by nine co-inventors for a network fault manager. The co-inventors are Lawrence A. Stabile, Cochituate, Mass., Mark W. Sylor, Nashua, N.H., Thomas Allen LaRosa, Tyngsboro, Mass., Bradley S. Carey, Wrentham, Mass., David William Russo, Princeton, Mass., Kevin M. Jackson, Hopkinton, Mass., Albert Briner, Hollis, N.H., Jeremiah David Small, Marlborough, Mass., and Matthew Eric Baddeley, Holden, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The network fault manager described herein may include one or more processors configured to detect alarms. For example, the one or more processors may periodically sample rates at which similar events that relate to occurrences on a network arrive, compare the periodically sampled rates to a first threshold, and determine whether a preexisting alarm exists. In response to a number of the periodically sampled rates that exceeded the first threshold within a preceding time window exceeding a second threshold and the preexisting alarm not existing, the one or more processors may assert a first alarm. Otherwise, if the number of periodically sampled rates that exceeded the first threshold within the preceding time window exceeds the second threshold but the preexisting alarm does exist, the one or more processors may maintain the preexisting alarm for a predetermined time period." The patent application was filed on July 14, 2011 (13/183,184). 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=8,448,012.PN.&OS=PN/8,448,012&RS=PN/8,448,012 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Pausing and Activating Thread State Upon Pin Assertion by External Logic Monitoring Polling Loop Exit Time Condition ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,447,960) developed by seven co-inventors for a "pausing and activating thread state upon pin assertion by external logic monitoring polling loop exit time condition." The co-inventors are Dong Chen, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., Mark Giampapa, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., Philip Heidelberger, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., Martin Ohmacht, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., David L. Satterfield, Tewksbury, Mass., Burkhard Steinmacher-Burow, Boeblingen, Germany, and Krishnan Sugavanam, Yorktown Heights, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for enhancing performance of a computer which includes a computer system including a data storage device. The computer system includes a program stored in the data storage device and steps of the program are executed by a processer. The processor processes instructions from the program. A wait state in the processor waits for receiving specified data. A thread in the processor has a pause state wherein the processor waits for specified data. A pin in the processor initiates a return to an active state from the pause state for the thread. A logic circuit is external to the processor, and the logic circuit is configured to detect a specified condition. The pin initiates a return to the active state of the thread when the specified condition is detected using the logic circuit." The patent application was filed on Jan. 8, 2010 (12/684,860). 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=8,447,960.PN.&OS=PN/8,447,960&RS=PN/8,447,960 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Dynamic Multi-level Cache Including Resource Access Fairness Scheme ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,447,905) developed by four co-inventors for a "dynamic multi-level cache including resource access fairness scheme." The co-inventors are Ekaterina M. Ambroladze, Wappingers Falls, N.Y., Deanna Postles Dunn Berger, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Diana Lynn Orf, Somerville, Mass., and Robert J. Sonnelitter III, Wappingers Falls, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus for controlling access to a resource includes a shared pipeline configured to communicate with the resource, a plurality of command queues configured to form instructions for the shared pipeline and an arbiter coupled between the shared pipeline and the plurality of command queues configured to grant access to the shared pipeline to a one of the plurality of command queues based on a first priority scheme in a first operating mode. The apparatus also includes interface logic coupled to the arbiter and configured to determine that contention for access to the resource exists among the plurality of command queues and to cause the arbiter to grant access to the shared pipeline based on a second priority scheme in second operating mode." The patent application was filed on June 23, 2010 (12/821,739). 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=8,447,905.PN.&OS=PN/8,447,905&RS=PN/8,447,905 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Recover Store Data Merging ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,447,932) developed by five co-inventors for a "recover store data merging." The co-inventors are Deanna P. Berger, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Michael F. Fee, Cold Spring, N.Y., Christine C. Jones, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Diana L. Orf, Somerville, Mass., and Robert J. Sonnelitter III, Wappingers Falls, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various embodiments of the present invention merge data in a cache memory. In one embodiment a set of store data is received from a processing core. A store merge command and a merge mask from are also received from the processing core. A portion of the store data to perform a merging operation thereon is identified based on the store merge command. A sub-portion of the portion of the store data to be merged with a corresponding set of data from a cache memory is identified based on the merge mask. The sub-portion is merged with the corresponding set of data from the cache memory." The patent application was filed on June 22, 2010 (12/820,511). 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=8,447,932.PN.&OS=PN/8,447,932&RS=PN/8,447,932 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** 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. *** BladeLogic Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- BladeLogic, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,447,963) developed by Thomas Martin Kraus, Natick, Mass., Vijay G. Manwani, Needham, Mass., and Sekhar Muddana, South Attleboro, Mass., for a "method and system for simplifying distributed server management." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for managing a large number of servers and their server components distributed throughout a heterogeneous computing environment is provided. In one embodiment, an authenticated user, such as a IT system administrator, can securely and simultaneously control and configure multiple servers, supporting different operating systems, through a "virtual server." A virtual server is an abstract model representing a collection of actual target servers. To represent multiple physical servers as one virtual server, abstract system calls that extend execution of operating-system-specific system calls to multiple servers, regardless of their supported operating systems, are used. A virtual server is implemented by a virtual server client and a collection of virtual server agents associated with a collection of actual servers." The patent application was filed on April 16, 2003 (10/414,959). 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=8,447,963&OS=8,447,963&RS=8,447,963 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Advanced Micro Devices Assigned Patent for Altering Performance of Computational Units Heterogeneously According to Performance Sensitivity ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,447,994) developed by Sebastien Nussbaum, Lexington, Mass., Alexander Branover, Chestnut Hill, Mass., and John Kalamatianos, Arlington, Mass., for an "altering performance of computational units heterogeneously according to performance sensitivity." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "One or more computational units of a computer system are selectively altered in terms of performance according to which of the one or more computational units has a higher performance sensitivity than others of the computational units." The patent application was filed on July 24, 2009 (12/508,929). 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=8,447,994.PN.&OS=PN/8,447,994&RS=PN/8,447,994 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Cambridge Interactive Development Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Cambridge Interactive Development, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,447,990) developed by Daniil Utin, Needham, Mass., for a password encryption key. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A password-encrypted key (PEK) is generated from a user-supplied password or other identifying data and then used to encrypt the user's password. The encrypted password is stored in a user record on a server. At login a would-be user's password is again used to make a key, which is then used to decrypt and compare the stored encrypted password with the would-be user's password to complete the login. The successful PEK is stored in a temporary session record and can be used to decrypt other sensitive user information previously encrypted and stored in the user record as well as to encrypt new information for storage in the user record. A public/private key system can also be used to maintain limited access for the host to certain information in the user record." The patent application was filed on Oct. 23, 2003 (10/532,541). 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=8,447,990.PN.&OS=PN/8,447,990&RS=PN/8,447,990 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Intel Assigned Patent for Gathering and Scattering Multiple Data Elements ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,447,962) developed by 19 co-inventors for a "gathering and scattering multiple data elements." The co-inventors are Christopher J. Hughes, Cupertino, Calif., Yen-Kuang (Y. K.) Chen, Cupertino, Calif., Mayank Bomb, Hillsboro, Ore., Jason W. Brandt, Austin, Texas, Mark J. Buxton, Chandler, Ariz., Mark J. Charney, Lexington, Mass., Srinivas Chennupaty, Portland, Ore., Jesus Corbal, Barcelona, Spain, Martin G. Dixon, Portland, Ore., Milind B. Girkar, Sunnyvale, Calif., Jonathan C. Hall, Hillsboro, Ore., Hideki (Saito) Ido, Sunnyvale, Calif., Peter Lachner, Heroldstatt, Germany, Gilbert Neiger, Portland, Ore., Chris J. Newburn, South Beloit, Ill., Rajesh S. Parthasarathy, Hillsboro, Ore., Bret L. Toll, Hillsboro, Ore., Robert Valentine, Kiryat Tivon, Israel, and Jeffrey G. Wiedemeier, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "According to a first aspect, efficient data transfer operations can be achieved by: decoding by a processor device, a single instruction specifying a transfer operation for a plurality of data elements between a first storage location and a second storage location; issuing the single instruction for execution by an execution unit in the processor; detecting an occurrence of an exception during execution of the single instruction; and in response to the exception, delivering pending traps or interrupts to an exception handler prior to delivering the exception." The patent application was filed on Dec. 22, 2009 (12/644,440). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,447,962.PN.&OS=PN/8,447,962&RS=PN/8,447,962 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. 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. -1125782 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |