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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in California (June 5)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in California. *** Scripps Research Institute Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, Calif., has been assigned a patent (RE44,266) developed by Stephen P. Mayfield, Cardiff, Calif., for "expression of eukaryotic polypeptides in chloroplasts." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention relates to a gene expression system in eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells, preferably plant cells and intact plants. In particular, the invention relates to an expression system having a RB47 binding site upstream of a translation initiation site for regulation of translation mediated by binding of RB47 protein, a member of the poly(A) binding protein family. Regulation is further effected by RB60, a protein disulfide isomerase. The expression system is capable of functioning in the nuclear/cytoplasm of cells and in the chloroplast of plants. Translation regulation of a desired molecule is enhanced approximately 100 fold over that obtained without RB47 binding site activation." The patent application was filed on Jan. 16, 1998 (11/197,730). 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=RE44,266&OS=RE44,266&RS=RE44,266 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Dolby Laboratories Licensing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- Dolby Laboratories Licensing, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (RE44,261) developed by Stephen M. Jacobs, Cupertino, Calif., for a "volume control for audio signals." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A motion picture soundtrack reproduction system has a center front soundtrack channel and a plurality of other soundtrack channels. A volume control adjusts the gain of all the channels. The volume control has a range of settings from a minimum to a maximum, the gain of the center front channel having substantially a first relationship to the volume control settings and the gain of the other channels having substantially a second relationship to the volume control settings, the relationships being such that for a range of volume control settings less than a first setting the gain of the center front channel remains substantially constant while the gain of the other channels decreases as the setting decreases or decreases more gradually than the gain of the other channels as the setting decreases." The patent application was filed on Dec. 30, 2011 (13/341,861). 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=RE44,261&OS=RE44,261&RS=RE44,261 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** McAfee Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- McAfee, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,458,794) developed by Ahmed Said Sallam, Sunnyvale, Calif., for a "system, method, and computer program product for determining whether a hook is associated with potentially unwanted activity." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system, method, and computer program product are provided for determining whether a hook is associated with potentially unwanted activity. In use, a hook is identified in a data section or a code section. Additionally, a first enumeration of objects associated with the data section or the code section is performed, and a second enumeration of objects associated with the data section or the code section is performed. Further, results of the first enumeration and results of the second enumeration are compared for determining whether the hook is associated with potentially unwanted activity." The patent application was filed on Sept. 6, 2007 (11/851,308). 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=8,458,794&OS=8,458,794&RS=8,458,794 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** SafeNet Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- SafeNet, Belcamp, Md., has been assigned a patent (8,458,801) developed by Michael Masaji Furusawa, Chino Hills, Calif., and Chieu The Nguyen, Irvine, Calif., for a "high-assurance secure boot content protection." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for high assurance boot processing is disclosed. A trusted processor is used to authenticate a trusted boot program and in conjunction with a selector, to provide the authenticated boot program to a boot memory where it can be accessed by a main processor to execute the bootup sequence. The trusted processor also provides a command for the main processor to write a data sequence to a hard drive or similar device, and monitors the data written by the main processor to verify that the data has not been tampered with or otherwise compromised." The patent application was filed on Dec. 16, 2010 (12/970,163). 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=8,458,801&OS=8,458,801&RS=8,458,801 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Sony Assigned Patent for System and Method for Presenting Location Data for Broadcasted Media ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- Sony, Tokyo, and Sony Electronics, Park Ridge, N.J., have been assigned a patent (8,458,760) developed by Libiao Jiang, San Diego, for a "system and method for presenting location data for broadcasted media." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "System and method for providing location data associated with broadcasted media to a display device. In one embodiment, the method may include receiving broadcasted media data over a communication network connection, displaying the received media data on a display device and receiving location data associated with the broadcasted media data. The method may further include displaying a graphical representation of the location data on the display." The patent application was filed on April 2, 2008 (12/061,129). 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=8,458,760&OS=8,458,760&RS=8,458,760 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** PurpleComm Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- PurpleComm, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,458,746) developed by Jack H. Chang, Saratoga, Calif., William H. Sheu, Fremont, Calif., and Sherman Tuan, Cupertino, Calif., for a "meta channel caching and instant viewing related technology." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Caching related technology, in which a time needed to begin rendering network-based video content without caching a decoded version of the content is determined and, the determined time to begin rendering the network-based video content is compared to a threshold time. When the determined time to begin rendering the network-based video content exceeds the threshold time, an initial portion of the network-based video content is pre-transcoded to a faster video codec format, and the pre-transcoded initial portion of the network-based video content is stored in electronic storage associated with a media system of a user." The patent application was filed on Feb. 5, 2009 (12/366,337). 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=8,458,746&OS=8,458,746&RS=8,458,746 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Authentify Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- Authentify, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (8,458,774) developed by Ravi Ganesan, Half Moon Bay, Calif., for a "method for secure site and user authentication." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention provides a new method of site and user authentication. This is achieved by creating a pop-up window on the user's PC that is in communication with a security server, and where this communication channel is separate from the communication between the user's browser and whichever web site they are at. A legitimate web site embeds code in the web page which communicates to the security server from the user's desktop. The security server checks the legitimacy of the'web site and then signals both the web page on the user's browser, as well as the pop-up window to which it has a separate channel. The security server also sends a random image to both the pop-up window and the browser. If user authentication is requested by the web site the user is first authenticated by the security server for instance by out of band authentication. Then the security server computes a one time password based on a secret it shares with the web site and sends it to the pop up window. The user copies this one time password into their browser which sends it to the web site, which can re-compute the one time password to authenticate the user." The patent application was filed on Nov. 2, 2010 (12/938,161). 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=8,458,774&OS=8,458,774&RS=8,458,774 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Sony Assigned Patent for System and Method for Neighborhood Optimization for Content Recommendation ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- Sony, Tokyo, and Sony Electronics, Park Ridge, N.J., have been assigned a patent (8,458,747) developed by Nikolaos Georgis, San Diego, Paul Jin Hwang, Burbank, Calif., and Frank Li-De Lin, Escondido, Calif., for a "system and method for neighborhood optimization for content recommendation." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A cost function is stochastically optimized using, e.g., simulated annealing to render a neighborhood of entities based on which content recommendations can be provided to a user of a home entertainment system. The cost function represents a normalized sum of rating similarity scores from entities of the neighborhood that are related to content items viewed by the user." The patent application was filed on Nov. 16, 2010 (12/947,135). 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=8,458,747&OS=8,458,747&RS=8,458,747 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Synaptics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- Synaptics, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,458,788) developed by David W. Gillespie, Los Gatos, Calif., and Raymond Alexander Trent Jr., San Jose, Calif., for a "system and method for authentication of input devices." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods are provided for authenticating an input device subsystem for operation with a host. One method includes storing a table comprising challenges and a plurality of values indicative of authentic responses to the plurality of challenges. A selected challenge is then communicated between the input device subsystem and the host. A challenge response is derived based on the selected challenge and a hashing algorithm, and the challenge response is communicated between the input device subsystem and the host. The challenge response and one or more of the values is used to determine whether the challenge response is authentic. Functionality of the input device subsystem with the host is selectively enabled if the challenge response is authentic." The patent application was filed on Oct. 20, 2010 (12/908,543). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,458,788&OS=8,458,788&RS=8,458,788 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Zscaler Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- Zscaler, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,458,786) developed by Kailash Kailash, San Jose, Calif., Jose Raphel, Austin, Texas, and Srikanth Devarajan, San Jose, Calif., for an "automated dynamic tunnel management." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems, methods and apparatus for tunneling in a cloud based security system. In an aspect, tunnel session data describing authentication and unauthenticated sessions, and location data describing tunnel identifiers for tunnels, locations, and security policies specific to the locations are accessed. Tunnel packets are received, and for each tunnel packet it is determined, from the tunnel identifier associated with the packet, whether a session entry in the session data exists for the tunnel identified by the tunnel identifier. In response to determining that a session entry does not exist in the session data, then a session entry is created for the tunnel identifier, an authentication process to determine a location to be associated with the session entry is performed, and an entry in the location data for the location is associated with the session entry." The patent application was filed on Aug. 13, 2010 (12/856,425). 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=8,458,786&OS=8,458,786&RS=8,458,786 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** 802 Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- 802 Systems, Marshall, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,458,784) developed by Andrew K. Krumel, San Jose, Calif., for "data protection system selectively altering an end portion of packets based on incomplete determination of whether a packet is valid or invalid." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for firewall/data protection that filters data packets in real time and without packet buffering are disclosed. A data packet filtering hub, which may be implemented as part of a switch or router, receives a packet on one link, reshapes the electrical signal, and transmits it to one or more other links. During this process, a number of filters checks are performed in parallel, resulting in a decision about whether each packet should or should not be invalidated by the time that the last bit is transmitted. To execute this task, the filtering hub performs rules-based filtering on several levels simultaneously, preferably with a programmable logic or other hardware device. Various methods for packet filtering in real time and without buffering with programmable logic are disclosed. The system may include constituent elements of a stateful packet filtering hub, such as microprocessors, controllers, and integrated circuits. The system may be reset, enabled, disabled, configured, and/or reconfigured with toggles or other physical switches. Audio and visual feedback may be provided regarding the operation and status of the system." The patent application was filed on Sept. 10, 2010 (12/807,641). 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=8,458,784&OS=8,458,784&RS=8,458,784 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** LSI Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods for Utilizing Circulant Parity in a Data Processing System ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- LSI, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,458,553) developed by six co-inventors for "systems and methods for utilizing circulant parity in a data processing system." The co-inventors are Hao Zhong, Milpitas, Calif., Weijun Tan, Longmont, Colo., Yang Han, Santa Clara, Calif., Zongwang Li, San Jose, Calif., Shaohua Yang, Santa Clara, Calif., and Yuan Xing Lee, San Jose, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for data processing. For example, a method for data processing is disclosed that includes receiving a codeword that has at least a first circulant with a plurality of data bits and a first circulant parity bit, a second circulant with a plurality of data bits and a second circulant parity bit, and one or more codeword parity bits. The methods further include decoding the codeword using the one or more codeword parity bits to access the first circulant and the second circulant, performing a first circulant parity check on the first circulant, and performing a second circulant parity check on the second circulant." The patent application was filed on July 28, 2009 (12/510,885). 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=8,458,553.PN.&OS=PN/8,458,553&RS=PN/8,458,553 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Automatic Mutual Exclusion ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,458,724) developed by Andrew David Birrell, Los Altos, Calif., and Michael Acheson Isard, San Francisco, for an automatic mutual exclusion. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An automatic mutual exclusion computer programming system is disclosed which allows a programmer to produce concurrent programming code that is synchronized by default without the need to write any synchronization code. The programmer creates asynchronous methods which are not permitted make changes to shared memory that they cannot reverse, and can execute concurrently with other asynchronous methods. Changes to shared memory are committed if no other thread has accessed shared memory while the asynchronous method executed. Changes are reversed and the asynchronous method is re-executed if another thread has made changes to shared memory. The resulting program executes in a serialized order. A blocking system method is disclosed which causes the asynchronous method to re-execute until the blocking method's predicate results in an appropriate value. A yield system call is disclosed which divides asynchronous methods into atomic fragments. When a yield method call is made, shared memory changes are committed if possible or reversed and the atomic fragment is re-executed." The patent application was filed on June 15, 2007 (11/763,964). 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=8,458,724&OS=8,458,724&RS=8,458,724 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Apple Assigned Patent for Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Managing Folders ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- Apple, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,458,615) developed by Imran Chaudhri, San Francisco, for a "device, method, and graphical user interface for managing folders." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A multifunction device displays a plurality of selectable user interface objects on the display. In response to detecting the first input, the device moves a first object in the plurality of selectable user interface objects across the display to a location on the display that is proximate to a second object in the plurality of selectable user interface objects. In response to detecting that the first input meets predefined folder-creation criteria while the first object is proximate to the second object, the device creates a folder that contains the first object and the second object." The patent application was filed on Sept. 22, 2010 (12/888,377). 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=8,458,615.PN.&OS=PN/8,458,615&RS=PN/8,458,615 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Oracle International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- Oracle International, Redwood Shores, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,458,530) developed by six co-inventors for a "continuous system health indicator for managing computer system alerts." The co-inventors are Prashanth Kini, San Mateo, Calif., Richard Tauriello, Belmont, Calif., Marcos M. Campos, Billerica, Mass., Boriana Milenova, Reading, Mass., Andres V. Lubomirsky, Fremont, Calif., and Charlie Sum, Cupertino, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method is provided for detecting when users are being adversely impacted by poor system performance. A system health indicator is determined that is based on the amount of work that is blocked waiting for each of a set of an external events and combined with a heuristic that is based on the number of users waiting for the work to complete. The system health indicator is compared to a threshold such that an alert is generated when the system health indicator crosses the threshold. However, the system health indicator is designed so that an alert is only generated when a significant user base is or will in the near future experience a problem with the system. Furthermore, the system health indicator is designed to vary smoothly to maintain its suitability for the application of predictive technology." The patent application was filed on Sept. 21, 2010 (12/886,891). 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=8,458,530.PN.&OS=PN/8,458,530&RS=PN/8,458,530 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Intel Assigned Patent for Bus Frequency Adjustment Circuitry for Use in a Dynamic Random Access Memory Device ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,458,507) developed by Joe Salmon, Placerville, Calif., and Kuljit Bains, Olympia, Wash., for a "bus frequency adjustment circuitry for use in a dynamic random access memory device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A clock divider circuitry and method for use in a dynamic random access memory device. The method may include receiving a clock input signal having a first frequency from a clock input receiver at clock divider circuitry, the clock divider circuitry including a flip-flop configured to generate an output signal, based at least in part, on an inverted output signal and the clock input signal. The output signal may have a second frequency that is a fraction of the first frequency. The method may further include receiving the clock input signal and the output signal at a multiplexer and generating a multiplexed output. The method may additionally include receiving the multiplexed output at a first bus configured to receive the multiplexed output and to reduce an operational frequency of the first bus in response to an increase in an operational frequency of a second bus associated with the memory device." The patent application was filed on June 27, 2008 (12/163,663). 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=8,458,507.PN.&OS=PN/8,458,507&RS=PN/8,458,507 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Symantec Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods for Secure Third-party Data Storage ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- Symantec, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,458,494) developed by Walter Bogorad, Danville, Calif., for "systems and methods for secure third-party data storage." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer-implemented method for secure third-party data storage may include 1) identifying, at a server-side computing device, a request from a client system to access an encrypted file stored under a user account, 2) identifying, in response to the request, an asymmetric key pair designated for the user account that includes an encryption key and a decryption key that has been encrypted with a client-side key, 3) receiving, from the client system, the client-side key, 4) decrypting the decryption key with the client-side key, and 5) using the decryption key to access an unencrypted version of the encrypted file. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed." The patent application was filed on March 26, 2012 (13/430,607). 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=8,458,494.PN.&OS=PN/8,458,494&RS=PN/8,458,494 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Digital Fountain Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- Digital Fountain, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,458,567) developed by four co-inventors for an "FEC-based reliability control protocols." The co-inventors are Michael Luby, Berkeley, Calif., Matt Doucleff, Berkeley, Calif., Avi Wigderson, Princeton, N.J., and Soren Lassen, San Francisco. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In a transport system, data is reliably transported from a sender to a receiver by organizing the data to be transported into data blocks, wherein each data block comprises a plurality of encoding units, transmitting encoding units of a first data block from the sender to the receiver, and detecting, at the sender, acknowledgments of receipt of encoding units by the receiver. At the sender, a probability that the receiver received sufficient encoding units of the first data block to recover the first data block at the receiver is detected and the probability is tested against a threshold probability to determine whether a predetermined test is met. Following the step of testing and prior to the sender receiving confirmation of recovery of the first data block at the receiver, when the predetermined test is met, transmitting encoding units of a second data block from the sender. If an indication of failure to recover the first data block is received at the sender, sending further encoding units for the first data block from the sender to the receiver. In some embodiments, the predetermined test is a comparison of the probability against the threshold probability and the predetermined test is met when the probability is greater than the threshold probability." The patent application was filed on Oct. 31, 2008 (12/263,098). 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=8,458,567.PN.&OS=PN/8,458,567&RS=PN/8,458,567 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Advanced Micro Devices Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- Advanced Micro Devices, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,458,538) developed by Kay Hesse, Dresden, Germany, Suresh Periyacheri, Santa Clara, Calif., for a "latency detection in a memory built-in self-test by using a ping signal " The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In a complex semiconductor device including embedded memories, the round trip latency may be determined during a memory self-test by applying a ping signal having the same latency as control and failure signals used during the self-test. The ping signal may be used for controlling an operation counter in order to obtain a reliable correspondence between the counter value and a memory operation causing a specified memory failure." The patent application was filed on Feb. 22, 2010 (12/709,605). 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=8,458,538.PN.&OS=PN/8,458,538&RS=PN/8,458,538 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Adobe Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- Adobe Systems, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,458,614) developed by Albert Gordon Smith, San Francisco, for a "rendition-based graphical layout management." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods which implement rendition-based graphical layout management techniques are shown. According to an embodiment, desired resizing of items within a program's user interface is managed through a developer graphically describing a plurality of different sized renditions of a desired user interface and other different sized renditions of the user interface being dynamically interpolated and/or extrapolated through operation of the program. According to embodiments, linear interpolation and/or extrapolation is provided with respect to windows sized differently than constraint images provided by a developer. In embodiments where more than 2 constraint images are provided, piece-wise liner interpolation and/or extrapolation may be provided. Non-linear interpolation and/or extrapolation may be implemented." The patent application was filed on Oct. 4, 2010 (12/897,166). 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=8,458,614.PN.&OS=PN/8,458,614&RS=PN/8,458,614 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Amulet Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- Amulet Technologies, Campbell, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,458,605) developed by Kenneth J. Klask, San Jose, Calif., and Manohar Kashyap, Fremont, Calif., for an "image file as container for widgets in GUI authoring tool." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for authoring a graphical user interface (GUI) includes providing a widget builder interface for editing a template widget and receiving user input of widget properties for the template widget. The widget properties including a widget type, one or more widget parameters, and one or more images. The method further includes saving the widget properties and the one or more images into a widget file conforming to a standard image file format." The patent application was filed on Feb. 26, 2010 (12/713,749). 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=8,458,605.PN.&OS=PN/8,458,605&RS=PN/8,458,605 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Symantec Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- Symantec, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,458,515) developed by Tariq Saeed, Sunnyvale, Calif., for a "raid5 recovery in a high availability object based file system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for supporting asynchronous write operations within data storage systems and repairing a failed component within data storage subsystems without interruption of service. A data storage cluster is coupled to a client. The cluster comprises a plurality of data storage locations addressable as rows and columns in an array. Each column of the array comprises a separate computer of a plurality of computers interconnected to each other via a network. A coordinating column corresponding to a particular row receives data from the client for storage in the row and sends an indication of storage completion to the client, in response to forwarding the received data to data storage locations within the row. Although the client receives a write complete status before the data is actually written in corresponding computers, the cluster has sufficient information to complete the write operation even in the event of a column being temporarily offline." The patent application was filed on Nov. 16, 2009 (12/619,314). 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=8,458,515.PN.&OS=PN/8,458,515&RS=PN/8,458,515 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Google Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,458,702) developed by Yuguang Wu, Santa Clara, Calif., and Jianming He, Cupertino, Calif., for a "method for implementing user space up-calls on java virtual machine before/after garbage collection." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed are apparatus and methods for reporting garbage collection operations. A virtual machine that is executable on a computing device can receive a request to be informed prior to execution of garbage collection software on the computing device via a prior up-call. The virtual machine can receive a request to be informed upon completion of execution of the garbage collection software on the computing device via a post up-call. Prior to the execution of the garbage collection software, the virtual machine can initiate execution of the prior up-call to indicate the garbage collection software is to be executed. After the garbage collection software has completed execution, the virtual machine can initiate execution of the post up-call to indicate the garbage collection software has completed execution." The patent application was filed on April 10, 2012 (13/443,493). 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=8,458,702&OS=8,458,702&RS=8,458,702 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Yahoo! Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,458,599) developed by Adam Chang, Newport Beach, Calif., and Zur Nehushtan, Mountain View, Calif., for a "multi-user interactive web-based searches." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for multiple users to jointly interact with web-based search results is provided. Selections of the search results by a user are immediately communicated to other users. Viewing options may be customized on a per-user basis for greater individual control over viewing the results. Results may be further acted upon to complete transactions. Individual results are easily referenced in chat windows. Status of query and transactions are communicated to all users." The patent application was filed on May 8, 2007 (11/801,203). 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=8,458,599.PN.&OS=PN/8,458,599&RS=PN/8,458,599 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent for Method for Constructing a Histogram ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,458,547) developed by Krishnamurthy Viswanathan, Mountain View, Calif., and Ram Swaminathan, Cupertino, Calif., for a "method for constructing a histogram." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for constructing a histogram can include sampling attributes in a column of a database on a server and determining a bucket set for the histogram based on a number of buckets that represents a distribution of the attributes with minimum error. A bucket in the bucket set includes boundaries and an approximation of a count of attributes falling within the boundaries. The method further includes determining a precision for encoding the approximation, such that the histogram having the bucket set fits within a storage limit on a tangible computer-readable medium. The histogram can then be stored for the database on a tangible computer-readable medium by encoding the approximation with the precision." The patent application was filed on Oct. 26, 2010 (12/912,688). 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=8,458,547.PN.&OS=PN/8,458,547&RS=PN/8,458,547 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Oracle International Assigned Patent for Application Requesting Management Function Based on Metadata for Managing Enabler or Dependency ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- Oracle International, Redwood Shores, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,458,703) developed by Stephane H. Maes, Fremont, Calif., for an "application requesting management function based on metadata for managing enabler or dependency." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for managing an enabler and dependencies of the enabler. According to one embodiment, a method of managing an enabler can comprise requesting a management function via a management interface of the enabler. The management interface can provide an abstraction of one or more management functions for managing the enabler and/or dependencies of the enabler. In some cases, prior to requesting the management function metadata associated with the management interface can be read and a determination can be made as to whether the management function is available or unavailable. Requesting the management function via the management interface of the enabler can be performed in response to determining the management function is available. In response to determining the management function is unavailable, one or more alternative functions can be identified based on the metadata and the one or more alternative functions can be requested." The patent application was filed on June 24, 2009 (12/490,540). 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=8,458,703&OS=8,458,703&RS=8,458,703 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Summit Data Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- Summit Data Systems, Frisco, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,458,495) developed by four co-inventors for a "disk array controller capable of detecting and correcting for unexpected disk drive power-on-reset events." The co-inventors are Christophe Therene, Livermore, Calif., Paul R. Stonelake, Santa Clara, Calif., Alex Ga Hing Tang, Fremont, Calif., and Richard L. Harris, San Jose, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A disk array controller detects disk drive power-on-reset events that may cause a disk drive to lose uncommitted write data stored in its cache. When an unexpected disk drive power-on-reset event is detected, the disk array controller may initiate an appropriate corrective action. For example, the disk array controller may initiate a disk drive rebuild operation, or may re-send a set of write commands to the disk drive." The patent application was filed on Aug. 5, 2009 (12/536,405). 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=8,458,495.PN.&OS=PN/8,458,495&RS=PN/8,458,495 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Western Digital Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- Western Digital Technologies, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,458,526) developed by Lawrence J. Dalphy, Mission Viejo, Calif., and Curtis E. Stevens, Irvine, Calif., and Daniel K. Blackburn, Irvine, Calif., for a "data storage device tester." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A data storage device (DSD) tester for testing a DSD is disclosed. The DSD tester comprises control circuitry operable to receive a DSD log from the DSD, wherein the DSD log comprises at least one entry identifying at least one error condition. A sequence of commands associated with the error condition is executed in order to determine whether the DSD is defective." The patent application was filed on March 29, 2010 (12/749,309). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,458,526.PN.&OS=PN/8,458,526&RS=PN/8,458,526 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Adobe Systems Assigned Patent for Video Editing Including Simultaneously Displaying Timelines and Storyboards ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- Adobe Systems, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,458,595) developed by Vlad Margulis, San Francisco, for a "video editing including simultaneously displaying timelines and storyboards." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Video editing including simultaneously displaying timelines and storyboards is described, including displaying a timeline of a video presentation, displaying a storyboard of the video presentation including scenes of the video presentation simultaneously to the displaying the timeline, and navigating the timeline in response to receiving an input to select a individual scene of the video presentation." The patent application was filed on April 20, 2011 (13/090,968). 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=8,458,595.PN.&OS=PN/8,458,595&RS=PN/8,458,595 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Google Assigned Patent for Method and System for Optimizing the Object Code of a Program ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,458,681) developed by Cary A. Coutant, Saratoga, Calif., and Christopher G. Demetriou, Redwood City, Calif., for a "method and system for optimizing the object code of a program." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for optimizing the object code of a program is disclosed. A compiler generates, respectively, first and second object code segments for first and second source code segments of the program. If the two object code segments are determined to be identical, the compiler generates first and second debugging information entries in a compilation unit of the program and both entries include information for locating the first object code segment. The compiler inserts two entries into a call table in the compilation unit, each entry including information for locating a respective call site that invokes a respective source code segment within a call stack of the program and information for locating a respective debug information entry. The call table is used for associating an operation within the first object code segment with one of the first and second source code segments at runtime." The patent application was filed on June 30, 2009 (12/495,649). 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=8,458,681&OS=8,458,681&RS=8,458,681 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Google Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods for Dynamically Choosing a Processing Element for a Compute Kernel ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,458,680) developed by William Y. Crutchfield, Pleasanton, Calif., Brian K. Grant, Cupertino, Calif., and Matthew N. Papakipos, Palo Alto, Calif., for "systems and methods for dynamically choosing a processing element for a compute kernel." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A runtime system implemented in accordance with the present invention provides an application platform for parallel-processing computer systems. Such a runtime system enables users to leverage the computational power of parallel-processing computer systems to accelerate/optimize numeric and array-intensive computations in their application programs. This enables greatly increased performance of high-performance computing (HPC) applications." The patent application was filed on Jan. 12, 2012 (13/349,427). 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=8,458,680&OS=8,458,680&RS=8,458,680 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Goldmail Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- Goldmail, Santa Rosa, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,458,598) developed by Thomas Hakel, Santa Rosa, Calif., David Andrew Simpson, San Francisco, and Paul N. Vilevac, Pleasanton, Calif., for a "customized advertising for online slideshow." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Example embodiments provide apparatuses and methods directed to a system for presenting customized advertisements and branding in conjunction with an audio-visual presentation, e.g., an online slideshow with audio enhancement, played on a player module on an access device. In example embodiments, the online slideshow includes a customized pre-roll advertisement, a customized post-roll advertisement, and/or a customized banner advertisement on the final slide of the slideshow. The system also might customize the GUI views displayed by the player module which plays the online slideshow and/or the player landing page on the CDN that hosts the player module. In example embodiments, the system might base the customization on branding (e.g., in support of "white labeling"), seasonal themes, and/or personalization." The patent application was filed on Jan. 23, 2009 (12/359,239). 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=8,458,598.PN.&OS=PN/8,458,598&RS=PN/8,458,598 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for May-constant Propagation ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,458,679) developed by Roch G. Archambault, North York, Calif., Shimin Cui, Toronto, and Yaoqing Gao, North York, Calif., for a may-constant propagation. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "May-constant propagation is a technique used to propagate a constant through the call graph and control flow graph by ignoring possible kills and re-definitions with low probability. Variables associated with constants in program code are determined. Execution flow probabilities are executed for code segments of the program code that comprise the variables. The execution flow probabilities are calculated based on flow data for the program code. At least a first of the code segments is determined to have a high execution flow probability. The first of the constants associated with the first variable are propagated through the flow data to generate modified flow data." The patent application was filed on Sept. 22, 2010 (12/888,230). 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=8,458,679&OS=8,458,679&RS=8,458,679 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Adobe Systems Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods that Facilitate the Sharing of Electronic Assets ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- Adobe Systems, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,458,597) developed by Remon Tijssen, Mill Valley, Calif., for "systems and methods that facilitate the sharing of electronic assets." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for sharing electronic assets. A first device can present a boundary across which an electronic asset can be passed. When user input moves an electronic asset partially across the boundary, the first device displays the electronic asset in a way that indicates that it is being shared and the first device provides information that allows the electronic asset to be displayed on a second device in a manner indicating that it is being shared. For example, a portion of the electronic asset crossing the first device boundary may not be displayed on the first device but may be displayed on the second device, for example, adjacent to a corresponding boundary. As an electronic asset is moved across the first boundary on the first device, the portion of the electronic asset passing into the boundary appears to emerge from the corresponding boundary on the second device." The patent application was filed on Feb. 4, 2010 (12/700,256). 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=8,458,597.PN.&OS=PN/8,458,597&RS=PN/8,458,597 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** NextAxiom Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- NextAxiom Technology, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,458,660) developed by Arash Massoudi, San Francisco, and Sandra Irene Zylka, Granite Bay, Calif., for a "semantic-based, service-oriented system and method of developing, programming and managing software modules and software solutions." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, systems, frameworks, and software products are disclosed for building well-defined software modules through the optionally nested, aggregation of other similar modules at any depth. The invention provides visual methods of aggregation and nesting of software interfaces within composite software services with an automated runtime platform. Other aspects of the invention include, but are not limited to, innovative methods for routing the flow of invocation, inter-service communication, and exception handling. Industry standards are leveraged to integrate the methods discussed in this invention to any computer system, programming language or software platform. The semantic-based and visual nature of the inventions discussed can significantly reduce the complexity of building, maintaining and deploying computer systems and software products." The patent application was filed on Jan. 10, 2012 (13/347,651). 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=8,458,660&OS=8,458,660&RS=8,458,660 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Displaying Relatedness of Media Items ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,458,606) developed by David H. Sloo, Menlo Park, Calif., for "displaying relatedness of media items." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In a method in a computer system for displaying on a display device a plurality of media items as selectable media tiles, a focus media item and a plurality of related media items are received. The plurality of related media items are related to the focus media item. Relatedness information pertaining to the plurality of related media items is received. The relatedness information identifies a relationship strength between at least one of the plurality of related media items and the focus media item. A spatially oriented relatedness arrangement of selectable media tiles physically positioned to indicate said relationship strength between the focus media item and the at least one of the plurality of related media items is displayed on the display device. The selectable media tiles represent the focus media item and at least one of the plurality of related media items." The patent application was filed on Dec. 18, 2006 (11/640,728). 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=8,458,606.PN.&OS=PN/8,458,606&RS=PN/8,458,606 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Hamilton Sundstrand Space Systems International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- Hamilton Sundstrand Space Systems International, Windsor Locks, Conn., has been assigned a patent (8,458,525) developed by Andrew Pargellis, Pomona, Calif., and Brian M. Sutin, Claremont, Calif., for a "bayesian approach to identifying sub-module failure." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A diagnostic device identifies failed sub-modules within a larger system based on error codes received from the system. The device stores a likelihood matrix that correlates each sub-module with each possible error code and maintains a likelihood value corresponding to the probability of a failed sub-module generating a corresponding error code and stores a prior probability of failure associated with each sub-module based on prior observational data. In response to received error codes, the device calculates a posterior probability of failure for each of the plurality of sub-modules based on a product of the likelihood values corresponding to the received error codes and the prior probability of failure associated with each sub-module. Based on the calculated posterior probability, the device identifies the sub-module with the highest posterior probability of failure as the failed sub-module." The patent application was filed on March 19, 2010 (12/727,437). 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=8,458,525.PN.&OS=PN/8,458,525&RS=PN/8,458,525 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** HRL Laboratories Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- HRL Laboratories, Malibu, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,458,715) developed by Deepak Khosla, Camarillo, Calif., and James Guillochon, San Diego, for a "system for allocating resources to optimize transition from a current state to a desired state." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Described is a Distributed Resource Allocation System (DRAS) for sensor control and planning. The DRAS comprises an information framework module that is configured to specify performance goals, assess current performance state, and includes sensor models to achieve the performance goals. The DRAS is configured to further allocate the sensors to achieve the performance goals. Once allocated, the DRAS then reassesses the current performance state and continues reallocating the sensors until the current performance state is most similar to the performance goals." The patent application was filed on Feb. 21, 2008 (12/070,865). 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=8,458,715&OS=8,458,715&RS=8,458,715 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Google Assigned Patent for Extraction and Analysis of User-generated Content ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,458,584) developed by Jonathan D. Wilson, Santa Clara, Calif., Tomislav Nad, Mountain View, Calif., and Xinjie Zheng, Shanghai, China, for an "extraction and analysis of user-generated content." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A page splitter may be configured to split a first page of a site into first boilerplate and first posts, and a second page of the site into second boilerplate and second posts. An aggregator may be configured to associate the first page with the second page, based on a similarity of the first boilerplate and the second boilerplate, and configured to associate at least one of the first posts and at least one of the second posts with a first post-type, and at least one of the second posts with a second post-type. A merger may be configured to merge the first boilerplate and the second boilerplate into a boilerplate template, posts of the first post-type from the first page and from the second page into a first post-type template, and posts of the second post-type from the second page into a second post-type template, and further configured to merge the boilerplate template, the first post-type template, and the second post-type template into a site template associated with the site." The patent application was filed on Nov. 18, 2010 (12/949,485). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,458,584.PN.&OS=PN/8,458,584&RS=PN/8,458,584 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** LSI Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- LSI, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,458,555) developed by Kiran Gunnam, San Jose, Calif., for a "breaking trapping sets using targeted bit adjustment." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, an LDPC decoder performs a targeted bit adjustment method to recover a valid codeword after the decoder has failed. In a first stage, a post processor initializes the decoder by saturating LLR values output by the decoder during the last (i.e., failed) iteration to a relatively small value. Then, two-bit trials are performed, wherein LLR values corresponding to two bits of the codeword are adjusted in each trial. Decoding is performed with the adjusted values, and if the number of unsatisfied check nodes exceeds a specified threshold, then a second stage is performed. The post processor initializes the decoder by saturating the LLR values output by the decoder during the last (i.e., failed) iteration of the first stage to a relatively small value. The second stage then performs single-bit adjustment trials, wherein one LLR value corresponding to one bit of the codeword is adjusted in each trial." The patent application was filed on June 30, 2010 (12/827,652). 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=8,458,555.PN.&OS=PN/8,458,555&RS=PN/8,458,555 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Smith Micro Software Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- Smith Micro Software, Aliso Viejo, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,458,611) developed by Konstantin Othmer, Mountain View, Calif., for "displaying a map on a handheld wireless telecommunication device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Tickers are populated with location-based information that is selected according to the geographic location of communication devices. The location of a communication device is identified based on a GPS system, proximity to transmitters in a wireless network, user input, or using other techniques. Location-appropriate content is obtained either in real-time from the network or from a local data store at the communication device. In general location-based, context-aware content can be displayed on tickers associated with a variety of communication devices, including mobile communication devices and "immobile" or stationary personal computers. When a ticker item is selected from the ticker, a location associated with the selected ticker item and/or a location of the communication device is used to generate a map that is displayed on the display of the device to the user." The patent application was filed on July 6, 2012 (13/543,352). 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=8,458,611.PN.&OS=PN/8,458,611&RS=PN/8,458,611 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Red Hat Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- Red Hat, Raleigh, N.C., has been assigned a patent (8,458,534) developed by Allan Havemose, Arroyo Grande, Calif., for a "method and system for providing high availability to computer applications." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for distributed fault detection. In an exemplary method, unplanned application exits and crashes may be detected at a node local level. Further, application hangs may be detected using at least one of a script and a binary at the node local level. Also, node crashes and operating system crashes may be detected using node to node heart-beating." The patent application was filed on Sept. 12, 2011 (13/229,864). 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=8,458,534.PN.&OS=PN/8,458,534&RS=PN/8,458,534 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Oracle International Assigned Patent for Fault Isolation Using Code Paths ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- Oracle International, Redwood Shores, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,458,511) developed by five co-inventors for a "fault isolation using code paths." The co-inventors are Tsz Him (Adrian) Ng, Menlo Park, Calif., Alex Tsukerman, Foster City, Calif., Kothanda Umamageswaran, Sunnyvale, Calif., Roger Hansen, San Francisco, and Umesh Panchaksharaiah, Richmond, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques are provided for isolating faults in a software program by providing at least two code paths that are capable of performing the same operation. When a fault occurs while the one of the code paths is being used to perform an operation, data that indicates the circumstances under which the fault occurred is stored. For example, a fault-recording mechanism may store data that indicates the entities that were involved in the failed operation. Because they were involved in an operation that experienced a fault, one or more of those entities may be "quarantined". When subsequent requests arrive to perform the operation, a check may be performed to determine whether the requested operation involves any of the quarantined entities. If the requested operation involves a quarantined entity, a different code path is used to perform the operation, rather than the code path from which the entity is quarantined." The patent application was filed on Sept. 17, 2010 (12/885,323). 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=8,458,511.PN.&OS=PN/8,458,511&RS=PN/8,458,511 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Dell Products Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- Dell Products, Round Rock, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,458,731) developed by Yi Qi Xu, Shanghai, China, Yi Ming Hua, Shanghai, China, and Ka Ki Yeung, Fremont, Calif., for "methods, systems and media for installing peripheral software drivers." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for installing peripheral software drivers including storing a first identifier for a peripheral device meant for compatible operation with an information handling system (IHS) in the non-volatile memory of the basic input/output system (BIOS) of the IHS, matching the peripheral device represented 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. -1127252 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |