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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Illinois (May 23)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Illinois. *** Texas Technology Ventures Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Texas Technology Ventures, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,447,022) developed by Arnold M. Lund, Sleepy Hollow, Ill., for a "method and system for providing to a second party, computer-network related information about a first party." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for providing computer-network related information about a second party. First, the second party receives a telephone number of a first party. The second party's customer premises equipment (CPE) or elements in a telephone network then use the telephone number to index a database, which contains combinations of telephone numbers and computer-network addresses. Once the first party's computer-network address is retrieved, computer network information present at the computer-network location specified by the computer-network address can be sent to and displayed on the second party's CPE. Also, the first party's telephone number can be sent to an application in the computer network, causing the first-party-customized information to be automatically displayed on the second party's CPE." The patent application was filed on March 29, 2012 (13/434,209). 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=8,447,022&OS=8,447,022&RS=8,447,022 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Eastman Kodak Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Eastman Kodak, Rochester, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,447,099) developed by Sen Wang, Rochester, N.Y., and Lulu He, Evanston, Ill., for "forming 3D models using two images." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for determining a three-dimensional model from two images comprising: receiving first and second images captured from first and second viewpoints, respectively, each image including a two-dimensional image together with a corresponding range map; identifying a set of corresponding features in the first and second two-dimensional images; removing any extraneous corresponding features in the set of corresponding features responsive to the first and second range maps to produce a refined set of corresponding features; determining a geometrical transform for transforming three-dimensional coordinates for the first image to be consistent three-dimensional coordinates for the second image responsive to three-dimensional coordinates for the refined set of corresponding features, the three-dimensional coordinates comprising two-dimensional pixel coordinates from the corresponding two-dimensional image together with a range coordinate from the corresponding range map; and determining a three-dimensional model responsive to the first image, the second image and the geometrical transform." The patent application was filed on Jan. 11, 2011 (13/004,186). 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=8,447,099&OS=8,447,099&RS=8,447,099 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Adobe Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Adobe Systems, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,447,098) developed by Scott D. Cohen, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Qingxiong Yang, Urbana, Ill., for a model-based stereo matching. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Model-based stereo matching from a stereo pair of images of a given object, such as a human face, may result in a high quality depth map. Integrated modeling may combine coarse stereo matching of an object with details from a known 3D model of a different object to create a smooth, high quality depth map that captures the characteristics of the object. A semi-automated process may align the features of the object and the 3D model. A fusion technique may employ a stereo matching confidence measure to assist in combining the stereo results and the roughly aligned 3D model. A normal map and a light direction may be computed. In one embodiment, the normal values and light direction may be used to iteratively perform the fusion technique. A shape-from-shading technique may be employed to refine the normals implied by the fusion output depth map and to bring out fine details. The normals may be used to re-light the object from different light positions." The patent application was filed on Nov. 23, 2010 (12/952,431). 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=8,447,098&OS=8,447,098&RS=8,447,098 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Caterpillar Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Caterpillar, Peoria, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,447,568) developed by David J. Doddek, Decatur, Ill., and Giles K. Sorrells, Forsyth, Ill., for a "system and method for analyzing and reporting machine operating parameters." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for analyzing and providing exception-based reports for machine data. The machine data is relayed to a remote system for automated analysis based on tests and parameters defined by an owner. If any exceptions are detected in the data based on the operator-defined input, output is generated. The output may take the form of exception-based printed or electronic reports, or the exception information may be relayed to a hand held device, preferably maintained by service personnel at the work site." The patent application was filed on Sept. 6, 2011 (13/225,595). 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=8,447,568&OS=8,447,568&RS=8,447,568 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Ifbyphone Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Ifbyphone, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (8,447,016) developed by Joshua Kugler, Buffalo Grove, Ill., Frederick Marshall Feldman, Evanston, Ill., and Irvin M. Shapiro, Skokie, Ill., for a "system and method for emulating call center screen-pop application." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method are provided for establishing interactive communications between a customer and an agent of a merchant using a third-party. The customer is provided with a link that accesses a data entry element, such as a form, via which the customer can provide additional information to the agent. The third-party receives the entered customer information and forwards it on to the agent via, e.g., a screen pop. If the agent determines that the call should be accepted, the third-party facilitates connecting the agent with the customer." The patent application was filed on Feb. 13, 2009 (12/371,081). 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=8,447,016&OS=8,447,016&RS=8,447,016 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** University of Illinois Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- The University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,447,373) developed by Stephen A. Boppart, Champaign, Ill., for an "apparatus and method for measuring a characteristic of a composition reactive to a magnetic field." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a sensor having a pulse oximeter sensor to measure an oxygen saturation level in a liquid, a magnetic source coupled to the pulse oximeter sensor, and a controller to control the pulse oximeter sensor and the magnetic source, and to measure a mechanical effect on the liquid responsive to the magnetic source applying a magnetic field to the liquid. Additional embodiments are disclosed." The patent application was filed on May 11, 2009 (12/464,020). 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=8,447,373.PN.&OS=PN/8,447,373&RS=PN/8,447,373 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Motorola Mobility Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Motorola Mobility, Libertyville, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,447,344) developed by Rapeepat Ratasuk, Hoffman Estates, Ill., and Amitabha Ghosh, Buffalo Grove, Ill., for an "uplink power control for channel aggregation in a communication network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for uplink power control for aggregated channels in a communication network includes a step 300 of defining power scaling parameters to be used to derive power scaling factors to be applied to associated aggregated uplink channels. A next step 302 includes providing the power scaling parameters to user equipment. A next step 304 includes applying power scaling factors derived from the power scaling parameters to the associated aggregated uplink channels when the user equipment will exceed a maximum transmit power." The patent application was filed on Dec. 20, 2010 (12/972,956). 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=8,447,344.PN.&OS=PN/8,447,344&RS=PN/8,447,344 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Motorola Solutions Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Motorola Solutions, Schaumburg, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,447,349) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for inter-technology handoff of a multi-mode mobile station." The co-inventors are Peter J. McCann, Naperville, Ill., George Cherian, San Diego, Poornima A. Lalwaney, San Diego, and Philip R. Roberts, Palatine, Ill. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A communication system reduces set up time for an inter-technology handoff of a multi-mode mobile station (MS) from a source network associated with a first radio frequency (RF) technology to a target network associated with a second RF technology by pre-establishing, prior to a determination to handoff the MS, a registration state of the MS and an authentication of the MS in association with the target network and second RF technology In order to pre-establish the registration state and authentication, the MS exchanges messaging of the second RF technology with the second network via the first network and first RF technology. To facilitate the exchange, the MS includes shims in a second protocol stack associated with the second technology, which shims intercept second protocol stack signaling and redirect the intercepted signaling to a first protocol stack of the MS, associated with the first technology, for tunneling to the source network." The patent application was filed on Feb. 2, 2009 (12/363,847). 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=8,447,349.PN.&OS=PN/8,447,349&RS=PN/8,447,349 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Cleversafe Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Dispersed torage Memory Device Selection ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Cleversafe, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (8,448,020) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for dispersed storage memory device selection." The co-inventors are Steven Mark Hoffman, Chicago, Jason K. Resch, Chicago, Gary W. Grube, Barrington Hills, Ill., and Timothy W. Markison, Mesa, Ariz. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method begins when a dispersed storage (DS) processing unit of a DS unit has at least one of DS unit operational data and DS unit operating system algorithm to store. The method continues with the DS processing unit encoding at least a portion of the at least one of DS unit operational data and DS unit operating system algorithm in accordance with an error coding dispersal storage function to produce a plurality of data slices. The method continues with the DS processing unit storing at least some of the plurality of data slices in memory devices of the DS unit in accordance with the error coding dispersal storage function." The patent application was filed on June 15, 2012 (13/524,346). 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=8,448,020.PN.&OS=PN/8,448,020&RS=PN/8,448,020 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Tellabs Operations Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Tellabs Operations, Naperville, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,447,183) developed by Mark E. Boduch, Geneva, Ill., Kimon Papakos, Chicago, and Yajun Wang, Naperville, Ill., for "methods and apparatus for performing directionless and contentionless wavelength addition and subtraction." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In today's reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) based optical node, ROADMs multiplex (and demultiplex) colored optical signals to form wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM) signals. Transponders connected to the ROADMs' add/drop ports convert noncolored optical signals to colored optical signals (and vice versa). Dedicating transponders to given ports degrades the node's ability to route around network failures. Example embodiments of the invention include an optical node and corresponding method for routing optical signals within an optical node that compensate for this inflexibility. The optical node may include two ROADMs to transmit respective WDM signals onto at least two internode network paths and a routing module that can direct channels of the same wavelength along different internode network paths. Advantageously, a transponder may transmit (receive) different signals at the same wavelength to (from) different network node interfaces within the optical node, thereby improving the optical node's ability to route around network failures." The patent application was filed on Aug. 25, 2009 (12/583,764). 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=8,447,183.PN.&OS=PN/8,447,183&RS=PN/8,447,183 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** GoGo LLC Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- GoGo LLC, Itasca, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,447,292) developed by six co-inventors for a "multi-link aircraft cellular system for simultaneous communication with multiple terrestrial cell sites." The co-inventors are Anand K. Chari, Bartlett, Ill., Harold Grant Saroka, Ashburn, Va., Tim Joyce, Naperville, Ill., Patrick J. Walsh, Naperville, Ill., Yong Liu, Schaumburg, Ill., and Daniel Bernard McKenna, Vail, Colo. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The Multi-Link Aircraft Cellular System makes use of multiple physically separated antennas mounted on the aircraft, as well as the use of additional optional signal isolation and optimization techniques to improve the call handling capacity of the Air-To-Ground cellular communications network. These additional techniques can include polarization domain and ground antenna pattern shaping (in azimuth, in elevation, or in both planes). Further, if code domain separation is added, dramatic increases in capacity are realized. Thus, the Air-To-Ground cellular communications network can increase its capacity on a per aircraft basis by sharing its traffic load among more than one cell or sector and by making use of multiple physically separated antennas mounted on the aircraft, as well as the use of additional optional signal isolation and optimization techniques." The patent application was filed on Oct. 31, 2006 (11/590,379). 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=8,447,292.PN.&OS=PN/8,447,292&RS=PN/8,447,292 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Tellabs Operations Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Displaying and Identifying Available Wavelength Paths Across a Network ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Tellabs Operations, Naperville, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,447,181) developed by five co-inventors for "method and apparatus for displaying and identifying available wavelength paths across a network." The co-inventors are David W. Jenkins, North Aurora, Ill., Ramasubramanian Anand, Plainfield, Ill., Hector Ayala, Chicago, Dion Kwun Kit Leung, Aurora, Ill., and Kenneth M. Fisher, Aurora, Ill. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Due to demand for more network bandwidth, a need for multi-user optical network topologies has, and will continue to, increase. A method or corresponding apparatus in embodiments of the present invention provide for an availability determination tool for determining and displaying wavelength and subrate availabilities within a network. Benefits of embodiments of a tool include allowing a user to identify the availability and capacity of any wavelength on any network, via an interactive graphical user interface, such as by using three-dimensional representations. In one embodiment, the disclosed availability determination tool allows users to locate and view any combination of available wavelengths between nodes in an optical network topology, and generate graphical and tabular reports of the availability in order to maintain an efficient and organized method or apparatus for determining and controlling wavelengths in a network. Consequently, service providers using the tool can keep performance rates high and costs low." The patent application was filed on Aug. 15, 2008 (12/228,776). 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=8,447,181.PN.&OS=PN/8,447,181&RS=PN/8,447,181 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. 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