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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in California (May 30)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in California. *** Intel Assigned Patent for Techniques to Assign Multiple Identifiers in a Wireless Network ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,451,777) developed by four co-inventors for "techniques to assign multiple identifiers in a wireless network." The co-inventors are Xiangying Yang, Hillsboro, Ore., Muthaiah Venkatachalam, Beaverton, Ore., Avishay Sharaga, Beit Nehemya, Israel, and Shantidev Mohanty, Santa Clara, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques are described that can be used to assign identifiers to mobile stations in a Network Access Provider (NAP) domain and a paging identifier. In some cases, the NAP identifier and paging identifier can be unique in the NAP domain and the paging group domain. The paging identifier can be derived from a NAP identifier." The patent application was filed on Aug. 6, 2010 (12/851,841). 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=84,51,777.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,777&RS=PN/84,51,777 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Compensating for Drifts Occurring During Sleep Times in Access Terminals ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,451,740) developed by four co-inventors for "compensating for drifts occurring during sleep times in access terminals." The co-inventors are Hemanth Sampath, San Diego, Ravi Palanki, San Diego, Jeremy H. Lin, San Diego, and Tamer A. Kadous, San Diego. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus are presented for compensating drifts in access terminals occurring during a sleep time. The method includes determining whether a sleep time exceeds a threshold, buffering time domain samples containing acquisition pilots and a paging channel, powering down RF circuitry in the access terminal after buffering samples, processing the samples to compensate for drift, and determining whether the access terminal was paged based upon the processed samples. The apparatus includes a digital front end, an FFT engine coupled to the digital front end, a symbol buffer coupled to the FFT engine, a processor coupled to the digital front end, FFT engine, and symbol buffer, and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory further comprising instructions for executing the method." The patent application was filed on March 19, 2009 (12/407,467). 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=84,51,740.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,740&RS=PN/84,51,740 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Soraa Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Soraa, Fremont, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,451,876) developed by James W. Raring, Fremont, Calif., Mathew C. Schmidt, Fremont, Calif., and Yu-Chia Chang, Fremont, Calif., for a "method and system for providing bidirectional light sources with broad spectrum." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for providing laser diodes with broad spectrum is described. GaN-based laser diodes with broad or multi-peaked spectral output operating are obtained in various configurations by having a single laser diode device generating multiple-peak spectral outputs, operate in superluminescene mode, or by use of an RF source and/or a feedback signal. In some other embodiments, multi-peak outputs are achieved by having multiple laser devices output different lasers at different wavelengths." The patent application was filed on May 16, 2011 (13/108,645). 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=84,51,876.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,876&RS=PN/84,51,876 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,451,837) developed by Michael L. Schuett, Fremont, Calif., Halsur V. Sreekantaswamy, San Jose, Calif., and Atulya Chandra, Sunnyvale, Calif., for a "discovery of MPLS VPN links." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for discovering MPLS VPN links includes receiving a plurality of virtual route forwarding (VRF) identification messages generated by respective VRF entities at a logical parent Multi-Protocol Border Gateway Protocol instance resident within a virtual network element in a network management system, aggregating in the logical parent Multi-Protocol Border Gateway Protocol instance the plurality of VRF identification messages into a single Multi-Protocol Border Gateway Protocol message encapsulating the plurality of VRF identification messages, and sending the single Multi-Protocol Border Gateway Protocol message encapsulating the plurality of VRF identification messages to a neighbor parent Multi-Protocol Border Gateway Protocol instance." The patent application was filed on June 16, 2010 (12/816,739). 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=84,51,837.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,837&RS=PN/84,51,837 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Verizon Patent and Licensing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Verizon Patent and Licensing, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,451,779) developed by four co-inventors for an "emergency support for voice over internet protocol (VoIP) over mixed macro and femto networks." The co-inventors are Mingxing Li, San Jose, Calif., Peter Hu, Pleasanton, Calif., Xuming Chen, San Ramon, Calif., and Priscilla Lau, Fremont, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A device receives, from an emergency call server (ECS), a query that includes a telephone number, a femto global positioning system (GPS) identifier, and an Internet protocol (IP) address associated with a user equipment (UE) placing an emergency call. The device obtains a serving cell E-UTRAN cell global identifier (ECGI) of the UE based on the query, and determines whether the ECGI is a macro ECGI associated with a base station or a femto ECGI associated with a femto cell." The patent application was filed on Jan. 24, 2011 (13/012,452). 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=84,51,779.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,779&RS=PN/84,51,779 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** UTBK Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- UTBK, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,451,825) developed by six co-inventors for "systems and methods to confirm initiation of a callback." The co-inventors are Ebbe Altberg, Mill Valley, Calif., Scott Faber, San Francisco, Ron Hirson, San Francisco, Sean Van Der Linden, Berkeley, Calif., Paul G. Manca, Oakland, Calif., and Virginia Hong-Jia Yang, Foster City, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatuses to initiate callback with confirmation. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving a reference (e.g., a callback phone number) in a request for a connection to a destination; providing a code via the reference in response to the request; receiving a code to confirm the request; determining whether the received code matches the provided code; and initiating a connection via the reference for the connection to the destination if the received code matches the provided code." The patent application was filed on Feb. 22, 2007 (11/678,012). 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=84,51,825.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,825&RS=PN/84,51,825 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent for Dynamic Lightweight Remote Management of Hybrid Femtocell Gateways ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,451,773) developed by Hua Jiao, San Ramon, Calif., Raghvendra Savoor, Walnut Creek, Calif., and Kapil Shrikhande, Berkeley, Calif., for a "dynamic lightweight remote management of hybrid femtocell gateways." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "System(s) and method(s) that facilitate dynamic remote management of consumer premise devices comprising femtocells integrated into broadband gateways are presented. A communication network platform is associated with a consumer premise device(s) and can include a remote management component that facilitates dynamic and remote management of consumer premise devices in a wireless communication network. The remote management component monitors and measures desired parameters respectively associated with a consumer premise devices and employs remote controls to remotely adjust parameters based on predetermined optimization criteria. The remote management component calculates channel capacity based on measured channel signal-to-noise ratio to facilitate determining whether to hand off a current cell to another cell, wherein at least one cell is associated with a consumer premise device. The remote management component can generate and store Quality of Service profiles respectively associated with the consumer premise devices to facilitate remote management of the consumer premise devices." The patent application was filed on Nov. 12, 2008 (12/269,400). 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=84,51,773.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,773&RS=PN/84,51,773 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent for Flow Control and Congestion Control in a Data Distribution Network ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,451,718) developed by K. R. Kishore, Saratoga, Calif., Mohan Kalkunte, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Chien-Hsien Wu, Cupertino, Calif., for a "flow control and congestion control in a data distribution network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, systems, and devices are provided for managing flow of datagram traffic, generally across networks. According to some of these methods, a flow control mechanism is used to avoid over-subscription of some ports without pausing extended areas of a network. According to other methods, a congestion control mechanism is used to minimize datagram traffic between a port sending datagrams to an over-subscribed port and the over-subscribed port itself." The patent application was filed on April 16, 2004 (10/825,654). 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=84,51,718.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,718&RS=PN/84,51,718 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent for System and Method for Identifying Upper Layer Protocol Message Boundaries ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,451,863) developed by Uri Elzur, Irvine, Calif., for a "system and method for identifying upper layer protocol message boundaries." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods that identify the Upper Layer Protocol (ULP) message boundaries are provided. In one example, a method that identifies ULP message boundaries is provided. The method may include one or more of the following steps: attaching a framing header of a frame to a data payload to form a packet, the framing header being placed immediately after the byte stream transport protocol header, the framing header comprising a length field comprising a length of a framing protocol data unit (PDU); and inserting a marker in the packet, the marker pointing backwards to the framing header and being inserted at a preset interval." The patent application was filed on April 12, 2010 (12/758,484). 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=84,51,863.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,863&RS=PN/84,51,863 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Xangati Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Xangati, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,451,731) developed by seven co-inventors for "network monitoring using virtual packets." The co-inventors are Rosanna Lee, Palo Alto, Calif., Hong Zhu, Diamond Bar, Calif., Rangaswamy Jagannathan, Sunnyvale, Calif., Xiaohong Pan, San Ramon, Calif., Derek Sanders, Saratoga, Calif., Kishor Kakatkar, Pune, India, and Jing Liu, Cupertino, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A network monitoring device includes a flow processing element, disposed to receive flow information relating to network flows, and to generate a set of virtual packets, each representing a portion of a network flow. The virtual packets are maintained in a time-sequential order, and read by elements of the network monitoring device to generate information relating to network traffic, such as symptoms affecting the communication network, problems affecting the communication network, and otherwise. The network monitoring device randomly samples virtual packets, with at least one of two effects: (1) flow information from traffic reporting devices that are themselves sampling at differing rates can be equalized, with the effect of standardizing information from all of them; (2) the network monitoring device itself can restrict its attention to a fraction of all virtual packets, with the effect of keeping up with a relatively large number of virtual packets." The patent application was filed on July 25, 2008 (12/180,193). 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=84,51,731.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,731&RS=PN/84,51,731 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Methods and Apparatus for Uplink Frame Synchronization in a Subscriber Station ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,451,819) developed by Tom Chin, San Diego, and Kuo-Chun Lee, San Diego, for "methods and apparatus for uplink frame synchronization in a subscriber station." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for uplink frame synchronization in a subscriber station may include recording a first time stamp corresponding to a first downlink frame and recording a second time stamp corresponding to a second downlink frame. The first time stamp and the second time stamp may be used to determine a propagation delay change. Uplink transmission timing may be adjusted based on the propagation delay change that is determined." The patent application was filed on March 26, 2008 (12/056,206). 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=84,51,819.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,819&RS=PN/84,51,819 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus to Facilitate Support for Multi-radio Coexistence ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,451,776) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and apparatus to facilitate support for multi-radio coexistence." The co-inventors are Pranav Dayal, San Diego, Ashok Mantravadi, San Diego, Tamer Adel Kadous, San Diego, and Parag Arun Agashe, San Diego. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method includes identifying coexistence issues among radios in a User Equipment (UE). The method also includes submitting a message to a base station that requests reconfiguring of a timing schedule of a first one of the supported radios to provide for periods of inactivity of the first one of the supported radios. The inactive periods provide operating periods for at least a second one of the supported radios. The inactive periods may be measurement gaps." The patent application was filed on Aug. 5, 2010 (12/851,334). 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=84,51,776.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,776&RS=PN/84,51,776 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,451,817) developed by David R. Cheriton, Palo Alto, Calif., for a "method and apparatus for processing duplicate packets." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for determining if a packet is a duplicate packet are disclosed. The method includes determining if a field of a duplicate packet map (DPM) indicates the packet is the duplicate packet. The determination is made using a packet summary value (PSV) corresponding to the packet. The apparatus (a network device, for example) includes a duplicate packet map (DPM), which can be used to make the foregoing determination." The patent application was filed on July 24, 2003 (10/626,792). 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=84,51,817.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,817&RS=PN/84,51,817 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** WiChorus Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- WiChorus, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,451,794) developed by Mustafa Ergen, Oakland, Calif., Rehan Jalil, San Jose, Calif., and Tony Mak, San Francisco, for a "heterogeneous access service network (ASN)-gateway in an ASN in a worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WIMAX) communication network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A heterogeneous Access Service Network-Gateway (ASN-GW) in an ASN in a WiMAX communication network. The heterogeneous ASN-GW includes a radio resource module and a handover module. The radio resource module provides Radio Resource Management (RRM) to a set of BTSs in the ASN. A BTS operates in one of the second-profile and the first-profile. The handover module is operatively coupled with the radio resource module. The handover module provides handover management to at least one BTS." The patent application was filed on Sept. 17, 2007 (11/856,067). 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=84,51,794.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,794&RS=PN/84,51,794 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Juniper Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Juniper Networks, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,451,715) developed by four co-inventors for "avoiding data loss in a multi-homed layer two bridging network." The co-inventors are Sanjiv Doshi, San Jose, Calif., Apurva Mehta, Cupertino, Calif., Jagadish Grandhi, Mountain View, Calif., and Bin Hong, San Jose, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A network system includes a provider backbone bridged network (PBBN) and a multi-homed provider bridge network (PBN) having a plurality of L2 switches that operate as backboned edge bridges (BEBs) to bridges L2 packets between the PBN and the PBBN. A first one of the L2 switches is configured to bridge L2 packets from a first backbone VLAN (B-VLAN) to the PBN when a physical link of the multi-homed PBN is operational. The L2 switch is further configured to shunt the L2 packets from the first backbone VLAN to a second one of the L2 switches operating as a secondary BEB of the multi-homed PBN via a second B-VLAN when the physical link is non-operational." The patent application was filed on June 30, 2010 (12/827,464). 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=84,51,715.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,715&RS=PN/84,51,715 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Laufer Teknik Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Laufer Teknik, Roxbury, Conn., has been assigned a patent (8,451,701) developed by Mark Porzilli, Los Angeles, and Sam Laufer, Roxbury, Conn., for a "system and method for suppressing jitter." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for suppressing jitter in a digital data signal in a signal processor system. The digital data signal has spaced apart byte allocation units wherein such spacing is increased such that unallocated bytes can be identified and removed from the digital data signal. The byte allocation units of the digital data signal are suppressed with a digital data signal being outputted from the signal processor system having suppressed byte allocation units to suppress the occurrence of jitter." The patent application was filed on Jan. 14, 2011 (13/007,074). 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=84,51,701.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,701&RS=PN/84,51,701 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Symmetricom Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Symmetricom, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,451,867) developed by Gregory Louis Dowd, San Jose, Calif., for a "network time protocol precision timestamping service." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the present invention set forth a method and system for reducing uncertainty in receive and transmit timestamps created by an NTP server. The uncertainty in the receive timestamps is removed by recording the time-of-arrival in the hardware clock of the NTP server before the incoming packets may be delayed by traversing the various layers of software in a timestamping system. The uncertainty in the transmit timestamps is removed by giving the outgoing packets a timestamp in the future using an estimate of the transmission latency calculated by the latency estimator filter. Subsequently, the actual time-of-departure is used to re-calculate and update the estimate of the transmission latency. In this fashion, superior control of the timestamping function may be implemented in existing NTP servers in a manner that retains interworking compatibility with the current NTP standards." The patent application was filed on May 16, 2007 (11/749,666). 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=84,51,867.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,867&RS=PN/84,51,867 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Altera Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Altera, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,451,883) developed by four co-inventors for an "on-chip full eye viewer architecture." The co-inventors are Weiqi Ding, Fremont, Calif., Mingde Pan, Morgan Hill, Calif., Sergey Shumarayev, Los Altos Hills, Calif., and Peng Li, Palo Alto, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems, methods, and devices for determining an eye diagram of a serial input signal to an integrated circuit without an oscilloscope are provided. For example, one embodiment of an integrated circuit device may be capable of determining an eye diagram associated with an equalized serial input signal. The device may include an equalizer and eye viewer circuitry. The equalizer may receive and perform equalization on a serial input signal to produce the equalized serial input signal, and the eye viewer circuitry may determine horizontal and vertical boundaries of the eye diagram associated with the equalized serial input signal." The patent application was filed on Dec. 3, 2009 (12/630,674). 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=84,51,883.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,883&RS=PN/84,51,883 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Oracle America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Oracle America, Redwood Shores, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,451,831) developed by Puneet Khanduri, Redwood City, Calif., for a "system and method for implementing a multistage network using a two-dimensional array of tiles." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A network, including: a first tile having a processor, a first top brick connected to the processor, a first bottom brick, and a first intermediate brick; a second tile having a second intermediate brick and a second bottom brick; multiple connections connecting the first top brick with the second intermediate brick and the first intermediate brick with the second bottom brick using a passthrough on an intermediate tile between the first and second tiles, where the first, the intermediate, and the second tiles are positioned in a row; and a third tile having a plurality of caches connected to a third bottom brick, where the second and third tiles are positioned in a column, and the first bottom brick, the second bottom brick, and the third bottom brick belong to a bottom layer of the network, and where the first and second intermediate bricks belong to an intermediate layer of the network." The patent application was filed on July 6, 2012 (13/542,932). 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=84,51,831.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,831&RS=PN/84,51,831 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Sub-packet Pulse-based Communications ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,451,710) developed by Chong U. Lee, San Diego, Amal Ekbal, San Diego, and David Jonathan Julian, San Diego, for sub-packet pulse-based communications. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Low power wireless communication techniques may be employed in devices that communicate via a wireless body area network, a wireless personal area network, or some other type of wireless communication link. In some implementations the devices may communicate via one or more impulse-based ultra-wideband channels. Inter-pulse duty cycling may be employed to reduce the power consumption of a device. Power may be provided for the transmissions and receptions of pulses by charging and discharging a capacitive element according to the inter-pulse duty cycling. Sub-packet data may be transmitted and received via a common frequency band. A cell phone may multicast to two or more peripherals via wireless communication links." The patent application was filed on April 26, 2007 (11/740,815). 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=84,51,710.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,710&RS=PN/84,51,710 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Handover in a Wireless Data Packet Communication System that Avoid User Data Loss ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,451,795) developed by six co-inventors for a "handover in a wireless data packet communication system that avoid user data loss." The co-inventors are Sai Yiu Duncan Ho, San Diego, Arnaud Meylan, San Diego, Peter Anthony Barany, San Diego, Francesco Grilli, La Jolla, Calif., Nathan Edward Tenny, Poway, Calif., and Rashid Ahmed Akbar Attar, San Diego. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus, method, processor(s), and computer program product avoids user data loss by network-controlled, user equipment assisted handover in a wireless data packet communication system. A wireless receiver receives radio link control (RLC) packet data units (PDUs) from user equipment (UE) being served by a source node. A wireless transmitter commands the UE to handover. A network communication interface transmits RLC Uplink (UL) context from the source node to the target node, and transmits RLC Downlink (DL) initialization message and buffered in-transit DL RLC PDUs from the source node to the target node." The patent application was filed on Aug. 6, 2008 (12/187,255). 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=84,51,795.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,795&RS=PN/84,51,795 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Rambus Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Rambus, Los Altos, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,451,674) developed by four co-inventors for a "clock synchronization in a memory system." The co-inventors are Jade M. Kizer, Windsor, Colo., John M. Wilson, Raleigh, N.C., John Eble III, Chapel Hill, N.C., and Frederick A. Ware, Los Altos Hills, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Synchronization is provided in a memory system. During memory write operations a timing reference signal is transmitted with control signals to a memory device, and a calibration signal is received from the memory device. An internal clock signal is adjusted based on the calibration signal, and a data signal is then transmitted according to the internal clock. In this manner, the data is synchronized such that the data is accurately sampled according to the local clock signal." The patent application was filed on April 13, 2012 (13/446,703). 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=84,51,674.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,674&RS=PN/84,51,674 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Juniper Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Juniper Networks, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,451,852) developed by four co-inventors for "systems and methods for selectively performing explicit congestion notification." The co-inventors are Pradeep Sindhu, Los Altos Hills, Calif., Debashis Basu, San Jose, Calif., Jayabharat Boddu, Santa Clara, Calif., and Avanindra Godbole, San Jose, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system provides congestion control and includes multiple queues that temporarily store data and a drop engine. The system associates a value with each of the queues, where each of the values relates to an amount of memory associated with the queue. The drop engine compares the value associated with a particular one of the queues to one or more programmable thresholds and selectively performs explicit congestion notification or packet dropping on data in the particular queue based on a result of the comparison." The patent application was filed on Sept. 1, 2010 (12/873,618). 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=84,51,852.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,852&RS=PN/84,51,852 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** MoSys Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- MoSys, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,451,675) developed by Richard S. Roy, Dublin, Calif., and Dipak K. Sikdar, Santa Clara, Calif., for "methods for accessing DRAM cells using separate bit line control." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A memory system that includes a first bit line coupled to a first set of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) cells, a second (complementary) bit line coupled to a second set of DRAM cells, and a sense amplifier coupled to the first and second bit lines. The sense amplifier includes a pair of cross-coupled inverters (or a similar latching circuit) coupled between the first and second bit lines, as well as a first select transistor coupling the first bit line to a first global bit line, and a second select transistor coupling the second bit line to a second global bit line. The first and second select transistors are independently controlled, thereby enabling improved read and write access sequences to be implemented, whereby signal loss associated with bit line coupling is eliminated, `read bump` conditions are eliminated, and late write conditions are eliminated." The patent application was filed on March 31, 2011 (13/077,811). 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=84,51,675.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,675&RS=PN/84,51,675 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent for Network Assessment and Short-term Planning Procedure ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,451,736) developed by six co-inventors for a "network assessment and short-term planning procedure." The co-inventors are Ali Zolfaghari, San Ramon, Calif., Christine Bouamalay, Oakland, Calif., Miguel Molina, San Ramon, Calif., Raghvendra G. Savoor, Walnut Creek, Calif., Stephen Sowell, Kearney, Mo., and Ronald D. Crawford, Lawrence, Kan. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for relieving network node congestion includes determining a moving average of an aggregated load on a network node that routes network traffic using historical data for a period of time for a portion of a communication network that includes the network node. Demand on the network node is projected based on the moving average. A current level of congestion on the network node is determined. A level of congestion on the network node is projected based on the projected demand and the current level of congestion. Available capacity of other network nodes in the portion of the communication network is estimated. A determination is made whether the projected level of congestion can be relieved using the estimated available capacity of the other network nodes. The communication network is reconfigured to relieve the projected level of congestion when the projected level of congestion can be relieved." The patent application was filed on July 5, 2012 (13/541,860). 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=84,51,736.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,736&RS=PN/84,51,736 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** HGST Netherlands Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- HGST Netherlands, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,451,696) developed by five co-inventors for a "temperature sensor in a thermally assisted magnetic recording head." The co-inventors are Fu-Ying Huang, San Jose, Calif., Lidu Huang, Danville, Calif., Chie Ching Poon, San Jose, Calif., Xinjiang Shen, Fremont, Calif., and Barry Cushing Stipe, San Jose, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for providing a signal for driving a heating element in a TAR or HAMR enabled disk storage system that includes an optical transducer (or near-field optical source) for further focusing the beamspot of a laser onto a magnetic media, thereby heating the media. The storage system includes a temperature sensor proximate to the near-field transducer which provides a feedback loop to the laser driver to adjust the power of the laser." The patent application was filed on Oct. 31, 2011 (13/285,769). 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=84,51,696.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,696&RS=PN/84,51,696 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent for Reading a Memory Element within a Crossbar Array ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,451,666) developed by Frederick Perner, Santa Barbara, Calif., for "reading a memory element within a crossbar array." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for reading a memory element within a crossbar array, the method including selecting a column line connected to a target memory element of the crossbar array by applying a supply voltage to a source follower, a gate terminal of the source follower connected to the column line; applying bias voltages to row lines of the crossbar array; storing an output voltage of the source follower in a storage element; applying a sense voltage to a row line connected to the target memory element; and outputting a difference between the voltage stored in the storage element and an output voltage of the source follower while the sense voltage is applied to the row line." The patent application was filed on May 26, 2010 (12/787,857). 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=84,51,666.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,666&RS=PN/84,51,666 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent for Medium Reservation Techniques for Multi-user Transmissions ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,451,771) developed by Ahmadreza Hedayat, Allen, Texas, and Brian D. Hart, Sunnyvale, Calif., for "medium reservation techniques for multi-user transmissions." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques are provided for a multi-user reservation sequence used when transmitting a multi-user transmission in a wireless network. At a wireless access point device configured to operate in a wireless network, a multi-user request-to-send packet is transmitted as part of a multi-user reservation sequence prior to a multi-user transmission from the wireless access point device to a plurality of wireless client devices that are the intended recipients for the multi-user transmission. The multi-user request-to-send packet comprises duration information and address information configured to address at least some of the plurality of wireless client devices. Clear-to-send packets transmitted from two or more of the plurality of wireless client devices in response to the multi-user request-to-send packet are received at the wireless access point device. Each clear-to-send packet comprises identical content. In some scenarios, the multi-user request-to-send packet is preceded by a single-user request-to-send packet directed to a designated wireless client device." The patent application was filed on Dec. 13, 2010 (12/966,118). 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=84,51,771.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,771&RS=PN/84,51,771 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Juniper Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Juniper Networks, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,451,846) developed by Arthi Ayyangar, Sunnyvale, Calif., for a "LSP hierarchy for MPLS networks." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system may define a first region that includes a first colored link of a multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) network, and may define a second region that includes a second colored link of the MPLS network. The system may define a boundary between the first and second regions based on the first colored link and the second colored link." The patent application was filed on April 19, 2006 (11/379,300). 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=84,51,846.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,846&RS=PN/84,51,846 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Motorola Mobility Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Motorola Mobility, Libertyville, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,451,833) developed by six co-inventors for a "system and method for transparent virtual routing." The co-inventors are Raja Kolli, Irvine, Texas, Garrett Mead, Las Vegas, John Reister, Palo Alto, Calif., Christopher J. Shaver, San Diego, Wendell Sun, San Diego, and Mark Tiedeman, Poway, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A transparent routing device disposed within an access network configured in accordance with one or more lower-layer protocols is disclosed herein. The device includes a set of subscriber-side ports. Each of the subscriber-side ports is associated with a plurality of virtual subscriber-side interfaces disposed to effectively terminate a corresponding plurality of subscriber-side connections with subscriber host devices served by the access network. The device further includes at least one network-side port through which communication occurs with an external network in accordance with a higher-layer protocol. A routing table is configured to establish a correspondence between network addresses of the subscriber host devices and the plurality of virtual subscriber-side interfaces. During operation of the device, packets received through the at least one network-side port are forwarded to corresponding ones of the virtual subscriber-side interfaces based upon network addresses of the packets." The patent application was filed on Dec. 14, 2007 (11/956,652). 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=84,51,833.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,833&RS=PN/84,51,833 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,451,895) developed by five co-inventors for a "method and system for decoding multiview videos with prediction dependencies." The co-inventors are Anthony Vetro, Arlington, Mass., Huifang Sun, Woburn, Mass., Jun Xin, Sunnyvale, Calif., Emin Martinian, Arlington, Mass., and Alexander Behrens, Aachen, Germany. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Multiview videos are acquired of a scene with corresponding cameras arranged at poses, such that there is view overlap between any pair of cameras. V-frames are generated from the multiview videos. The V-frames are encoded using only spatial prediction. Then, the V-frames are inserted periodically in an encoded bit stream to provide random temporal access to the multiview videos. Additional view dependency information enables the decoding of a reduced number of frames prior to accessing randomly a target frame for a specified view and time, and decoding the target frame. The method also decodes multiview videos by maintaining a reference picture list for a current frame of a plurality of multiview videos, and predicting each current frame of the plurality of multiview videos according to reference pictures indexed by the associated reference picture list." The patent application was filed on Aug. 30, 2010 (12/871,249). 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=84,51,895.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,895&RS=PN/84,51,895 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,451,885) developed by six co-inventors for a "multi-pair gigabit Ethernet transceiver having adaptive disabling of circuit elements." The co-inventors are Oscar E. Agazzi, Irvine, Calif., John L. Creigh, Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., Mehdi Hatamian, Mission Viejo, Calif., David E. Kruse, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Arthur Abnous, Irvine, Calif., and Henry Samueli, San Juan Capistrano, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various systems and methods providing high speed decoding, enhanced power reduction and clock domain partitioning for a multi-pair gigabit Ethernet transceiver are disclosed. ISI compensation is partitioned into two stages; a first stage compensates ISI components induced by characteristics of a transmitter's partial response pulse shaping filter in a demodulator, a second stage compensates ISI components induced by characteristics of a multi-pair transmission channel in a Viterbi decoder. High speed decoding is accomplished by reducing the DFE depth by providing an input signal from a multiple decision feedback equalizer to the Viterbi based on a tail value and a subset of coefficient values received from a unit depth decision-feedback equalizer. Power reduction is accomplished by adaptively truncating active taps in the NEXT, FEXT and echo cancellation filters, or by disabling decoder circuitry portions, as channel response characteristics allow. A receive clock signal is generated such that it is synchronous in frequency with analog sampling clock signals and has a particular phase offset with respect to one of the sampling clock signals. This phase offset is adjusted such that system performance degradation due to coupling of switching noise from the digital sections to the analog sections is substantially minimized." The patent application was filed on June 8, 2010 (12/796,431). 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=84,51,885.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,885&RS=PN/84,51,885 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent for Performing Handovers for Fixed Mobile Convergence Networks ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,451,802) developed by four co-inventors for "performing handovers for fixed mobile convergence networks." The co-inventors are Jayaraman R. Iyer, Sunnyvale, Calif., Timothy P. Stammers, Raleigh, N.C., Parviz Yegani, Danville, Calif., and Anand Oswal, Sunnyvale, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "According to one embodiment, an anchor access gateway receives packets from a home agent. The packets are destined for an access terminal, and the anchor access gateway serves the access terminal. The packets are forwarded to the access terminal. The anchor access gateway receives a handoff request from a target access gateway. The handoff request requests a handover from the anchor access gateway to the target access gateway. The packets are forwarded to the target access gateway in accordance with the handoff request." The patent application was filed on March 11, 2008 (12/045,750). 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=84,51,802.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,802&RS=PN/84,51,802 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent for Auto Probing Endpoints for Performance and Fault Management ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,451,745) developed by Wenwei Weng, Milpitas, Calif., Minghui Zhu, San Jose, Calif., and Vishnu Kant Varma, Santa Clara, Calif., for "auto probing endpoints for performance and fault management." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, a method for automatically probing endpoint in a network for performance and fault management is provided. The method may comprise receiving instructions to auto probe endpoints, the instructions comprising probe characteristics and endpoint indicators. The method may further comprise querying an information base to identify endpoints and to obtain information on the identified endpoints that conform to the endpoint indicators. Based on the instructions and the information obtained for the identified endpoints, one or more probe packets may be generating to be transmitted to the identified endpoints. The generated probe packets may further be scheduled for transmission to the identified endpoints. New endpoints may continue to get discovered based on a notification mechanism which exists. Likewise, endpoints leaving the discovery domain may be identified." The patent application was filed on Nov. 19, 2010 (12/950,916). 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=84,51,745.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,745&RS=PN/84,51,745 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Symbol Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Symbol Technologies, Holtsville, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,451,735) developed by Aihua Edward Li, Cupertino, Calif., for "systems and methods for dynamic load balancing in a wireless network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for dynamic load balancing in a wireless network, such as a wireless local area network (WLAN) and the like. Specifically, the present invention periodically provides dynamic load balancing of mobile devices associated with a plurality of wireless access devices. This may include determining an optimum load and instructing wireless access devices that are overloaded to disassociate some mobile devices based upon predefined criteria. This disassociation is performed in a manner to minimize disruption by disassociating mobile devices with low usage, with close proximity to underutilized wireless access devices, and mobile devices not currently operating critical applications, such as voice." The patent application was filed on Sept. 28, 2009 (12/567,928). 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=84,51,735.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,735&RS=PN/84,51,735 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Micron Technology Assigned Patent for Determining and Using Soft Data in Memory Devices and Systems ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Micron Technology, Boise, Idaho, has been assigned a patent (8,451,664) developed by William H. Radke, Los Gatos, Calif., Zhenlei Shen, Boise, Idaho, and Peter Feeley, Boise, Idaho, for "determining and using soft data in memory devices and systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present disclosure includes methods, devices, and systems for determining and using soft data in memory devices and systems. One or more embodiments include an array of memory cells and control circuitry coupled to the array. The control circuitry is configured to perform a number of sense operations on the memory cells using a number of sensing voltages to determine soft data associated with a target state of the memory cells, and adjust a sensing voltage used to determine the target state based, at least partially, on the determined soft data." The patent application was filed on May 12, 2010 (12/778,577). 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=84,51,664.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,664&RS=PN/84,51,664 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Boeing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Boeing, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (8,451,860) developed by Gary A. Kinstler, Torrance, Calif., for a "low-weight hybrid deterministic highspeed data bus." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Switchless deterministic data bus networks and interfaces are disclosed. In one embodiment, a network includes a switchless shared bandwidth data bus; a plurality of nodes in communication with the shared bandwidth data bus; and a deterministic transport layer hosted on each node of the plurality of nodes, the deterministic transport layer providing message scheduling and flow control, the message scheduling using a bandwidth allocation and physical layer prioritization access protocol for scheduling a packet. An embodiment of an interface includes a packager that packages data received from the host processor into packets compatible with a switchless shared bandwidth network; an un-packager that un-packs data packets received from the network, removes payload data, and transmits the payload data to the host processor; and a deterministic bus scheduler and controller that controls and schedules the transmission of data over the switchless shared bandwidth network such that the network is a deterministic network." The patent application was filed on Feb. 8, 2007 (11/672,628). 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=84,51,860.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,860&RS=PN/84,51,860 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for WCDMA Device and Method for Discontinuous Reception for Power Saving in Idle Mode and Flexible Monitoring of Neighboring Cells ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,451,759) developed by four co-inventors for a "WCDMA device and method for discontinuous reception for power saving in idle mode and flexible monitoring of neighboring cells." The co-inventors are Michael Kohlmann, San Francisco, Tae Hea Nahm, Los Altos, Calif., Beomsup Kim, Cupertino, Calif., and Cormac Conroy, Campbell, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A WCDMA enabled user equipment device configured to have functions collectively or selectively idle to conserve power. A discontinuous receiver is used to detect and read network messages and report the messages to the computer within the WCDMA enabled user equipment device. The computer then activates functions previously powered down to receive incoming messages for the user of the device. The discontinuous receiver is also used when the device is active to read network messages, freeing a modem of the device to operate on user messaging; and therefore, enhancing user related performance." The patent application was filed on May 19, 2008 (12/152,915). 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=84,51,759.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,759&RS=PN/84,51,759 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent for Validation of Routes Advertised by Border Gateway Protocol ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,451,750) developed by David Delano Ward, Somerset, Wis., and Pradosh Mohapatra, Fremont, Calif., for a "validation of routes advertised by border gateway protocol." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, computer-storage media, mechanisms, and means associated with validation of routes advertised by Border Gateway Protocol. One embodiment validates or invalidates a route received in a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) update message. A route is validated in response to determining that the originating autonomous system specified in the AS_Path attribute for the route in a received BGP update message has authority to advertise the route and/or whether or not multiple autonomous systems identified in the AS_Path attribute of the update message is authorized to advertise the route, possibly in a particular order." The patent application was filed on Oct. 1, 2008 (12/243,767). 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=84,51,750.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,750&RS=PN/84,51,750 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Silver Spring Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Silver Spring Networks, Redwood City, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,451,739) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and system for detecting failures of network nodes." The co-inventors are Jana Van Greunen, Redwood City, Calif., William E. San Filippo III, Los Altos Hills, Calif., Jay Ramasastry, Reno, Nev., and Kunal Pankaj Shah, Santa Clara, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for detecting device failures in a network having nodes coupled to a central controller, in which a first of the nodes communicates with the central controller via a second of the nodes. When the second node determines that the first node has not transmitted a predetermined number of messages over a predefined number of time periods, the second node provides a failure alert to the central controller. The central controller records a failure alert received from the second node in a log. Based on a set of failure alerts received from a number of nodes recorded in the log, the central controller determines whether the first node has failed." The patent application was filed on April 15, 2010 (12/760,826). 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=84,51,739.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,739&RS=PN/84,51,739 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Lattice Semiconductor Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Lattice Semiconductor, Hillsboro, Ore., has been assigned a patent (8,451,679) developed by four co-inventors for a "dual-port SRAM with bit line clamping." The co-inventors are Brad Sharpe-Geisler, San Jose, Calif., Timothy Scott Swensen, Santa Clara, Calif., Sam Tsai, Milpitas, Calif., and Fabiano Fontana, San Jose, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, a memory is provided that includes: a write driver for selectively driving a driven pair of bit lines selected from a plurality of bit line pairs during a write operation; a first stage clamping circuit operable to clamp a pair of internal nodes to a clamping voltage, wherein the first stage clamping circuit is further operable to unclamp the pair of internal nodes during the write operation; a bit line multiplexer for selectively coupling the driven bit line pair to the pair of internal nodes; and a second stage clamping circuit operable to clamp the plurality of bit line pairs to the clamping voltage, wherein the second stage clamping circuit is further operable to unclamp the driven bit line pair during the write operation." The patent application was filed on Aug. 17, 2011 (13/212,121). 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=84,51,679.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,679&RS=PN/84,51,679 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Qualcomm Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,451,862) developed by Xiaolong Huang, San Diego, and Soumya Das, San Diego, for "systems and methods for resource allocation serving communication requirements and fairness." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A demand aware fair resource allocation technique is operable to allocate communication resources in multi-hop networks under the joint consideration of communication requirements and fairness. Embodiments operate to provide allocation of time slot resources in TDMA based multi-hop wireless networks under the joint consideration of QoS and fairness. Embodiments operate with respect to information regarding maximal common slot set flow contention. An iterative process is applied with respect to the information regarding maximal common slot set flow contention to allocate communication resources providing a balance between meeting communication requirements and fairness. According to embodiments, an inter-graph process iteratively selects a maximal common slot set for which resource allocation with respect to various flows is to be performed and an intra-graph process assigns communication resources in the maximal common slot set providing a balancing between meeting communication requirements (e.g., QoS) and providing fairness." The patent application was filed on Jan. 8, 2010 (12/684,577). 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=84,51,862.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,862&RS=PN/84,51,862 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent for Collision Avoidance in Multiple Protocol Communication Networks Using a Shared Communication Medium ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,451,858) developed by Mark Gonikberg, Los Altos Hills, Calif., Matthew J. Fischer, Mountain View, Calif., and Manoj M. George, Bangalore, India, for a "collision avoidance in multiple protocol communication networks using a shared communication medium." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for collision avoidance in multiple protocol networks using a shared communication medium begins by determining a first protocol probable active time period. The method continues by determining a first protocol probable inactive time period. The method continues by generating a transmit blocking indication based on the first protocol probable active time period and the first protocol probable inactive time period." The patent application was filed on April 29, 2011 (13/097,163). 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=84,51,858.PN.&OS=PN/84,51,858&RS=PN/84,51,858 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Multi-media Broadcast and Multicast Service (MBMS) in a Wireless Communication System ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 30 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,451,770) developed by four co-inventors for a "multi-media broadcast and multicast service (MBMS) in a wireless communication system." The co-inventors are Tao Chen, La Jolla, Calif., Serge D. Willenegger, Onnens, Switzerland, Yongbin Wei, San Diego, and Alkinoos H. Vayanos, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques to implement MBMS services in a wireless communication system. In one aspect, a method is provided for processing data for transmission to a plurality of terminals. Frames of information bits (which may have variable rates) are provided to a buffer implementing a matrix. The matrix is padded with padding bits based on a particular padding scheme to support variable frame rates. The frames are then coded based on a particular block code to provide parity bits. The frame of information bits and the parity bits are then transmitted to the terminals. 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