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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Massachusetts (June 19)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Massachusetts. *** Raytheon Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Raytheon, Waltham, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,468,111) developed by nine co-inventors for "determining confidence of object identification." The co-inventors are Nora T. Tgavalekos, Tewksbury, Mass., Brian J. Scannell, Cambridge, Mass., Elizabeth M. Begin, Billerica, Mass., George C. Adams, Holliston, Mass., Samuel H. Rosenthal, Lowell, Mass., Seanna J. Gittler, Denver, Eric Scheid, Wilmington, Mass., Arthur B. Johnson, Andover, Mass., and Kenric P. Nelson, Hollis, N.H. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The technology described herein includes a system and/or a method for determining confidence of object identification. The technology includes selecting at least one confidence rule from a plurality of confidence rules based on a first discrimination identification and a second discrimination identification. The technology further includes generating an object confidence weight based on one or more first identification parameters, one or more second identification parameters, and the selected at least one confidence rule. The technology further includes fusing the received set of data based on an alpha parameter, a beta parameter, and the object confidence weight. The technology further includes generating a probability of identification of a classification of the object based on the fused data." The patent application was filed on Nov. 30, 2010 (12/956,515). 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=84,68,111.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,111&RS=PN/84,68,111 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Recorded Future Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Recorded Future, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,468,153) developed by Staffan Truve, Alingsas, Sweden, and Christopher Ahlberg, Watertown, Mass., for an "information service for facts extracted from differing sources on a wide area network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one general aspect, a wide area network fact information service method is disclosed. This method includes storing a plurality of canonical fact entries, storing one or more fact descriptor entries for each of the canonical fact entries, and ranking the canonical fact entries relative to each other based on the descriptor entries." The patent application was filed on Jan. 21, 2010 (12/691,687). 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=84,68,153.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,153&RS=PN/84,68,153 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Market Shield Capital Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Market Shield Capital, Natick, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,468,079) developed by Allan N. Weiss, Medfield, Mass., and Neil R. Gordon, Waltham, Mass., for an "index-based liquidity system and method." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for creating liquidity relative to one or more small businesses or assets provides liquidity to the small business or asset holder in return for a payment stream that comprises at least one payment that is adjustable relative to at least one relevant index." The patent application was filed on May 5, 2008 (12/115,287). 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=84,68,079.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,079&RS=PN/84,68,079 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Juniper Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Juniper Networks, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,468,590) developed by Ross W. Callon, Westford, Mass., and Frank Kastenholz, Arlington, Mass., for a "rate limiting data traffic in a network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A network device coordinates with other devices in a network to create a distributed filtering system. The device detects an attack in the network, such as a distributed denial of service attack, and forwards attack information to the other devices. The devices may categorize data into one or more groups and rate limit the amount of data being forwarded based on rate limits for the particular categories. The rate limits may also be updated based on the network conditions. The rate limits may further be used to guarantee bandwidth for certain categories of data." The patent application was filed on Feb. 25, 2011 (13/035,781). 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=8,468,590&OS=8,468,590&RS=8,468,590 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Invention Science Fund I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Invention Science Fund I, Bellevue, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,468,073) developed by seven co-inventors for "facilitating compensation arrangements providing for data tracking components." The co-inventors are Gary W. Flake, Bellevue, Wash., Royce A. Levien, Lexington, Mass., Robert W. Lord, Seattle, William Henry Mangione-Smith, Kirkland, Wash., Richard F. Rashid, Redmond, Wash., Clarence T. Tegreene, Bellevue, Wash., and Lowell L. Wood Jr., Bellevue, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for data brokering, and more specifically, data brokering regarding a data provider's search-related activities, are described. In particular implementations, various aspects of facilitating a compensation arrangement between a data provider and a data consumer regarding one or more data-provider-related search activities, including aspects of arranging for compensation to be received from the data consumer in exchange for at least one of installation of or access of a data tracking component related to at least one user interface associated with the data provider, are described." The patent application was filed on July 28, 2008 (12/220,918). 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=84,68,073.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,073&RS=PN/84,68,073 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Invention Science Fund I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Invention Science Fund I, Bellevue, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,468,440) developed by 12 co-inventors for a "look ahead of links/alter links." The co-inventors are Gary W. Flake, Bellevue, Wash., William H. Gates III, Redmond, Wash., Roderick A. Hyde, Redmond, Wash., Edward K.Y. Jung, Bellevue, Wash., Royce A. Levien, Lexington, Mass., Robert W. Lord, Seattle, Richard F. Rashid, Redmond, Wash., Clarence T. Tegreene, Bellevue, Wash., Charles Whitmer, North Bend, Wash., Lowell L. Wood Jr., Bellevue, Wash., John D. Rinaldo Jr., Bellevue, Wash., and Mark A. Malamud, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computationally-implemented method comprising retrieving at least a portion of data from a data source, determining an effect of the data, determining an acceptability of the effect of the data at least in part via a virtual machine representation of at least a part of a real machine having one or more end-user specified preferences and providing at least one data display option based on the determining acceptability of the effect of the data." The patent application was filed on May 22, 2008 (12/154,436). 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=8,468,440.PN.&OS=PN/8,468,440&RS=PN/8,468,440 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Oracle America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Oracle America, Redwood City, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,468,422) developed by Stephen A. Chessin, Mountain View, Calif., and Louis Tsien, Watertown, Mass., for a "prediction and prevention of uncorrectable memory errors." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for predicting and preventing uncorrectable errors that may occur while accessing memory in a computer system. The method involves detecting two or more correctable errors from two or more different physical addresses on each of two or more different bit positions from the same DIMM within a specified period of time, with all of the correctable errors occurring within the same checkword. The method also involves detecting two or more correctable errors from two or more different physical addresses on each of three or more different outputs from the same DRAM within a specified period of time, as long as the three outputs do not all correspond to the same relative bit position in their respective checkwords. This allows a computer system which encounters correctable errors to continue to reliably operate without the unnecessary replacement of functioning memory systems." The patent application was filed on Dec. 21, 2007 (11/963,559). 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=8,468,422.PN.&OS=PN/8,468,422&RS=PN/8,468,422 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** EMC Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,468,604) developed by Christopher Hercules Claudatos, San Jose, Calif., Jason A. Baim, Providence, R.I., and Daniel S. Cobb, Shrewsbury, Mass., for a "method and system for detecting malware." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for protecting objects in a computer system against malware is disclosed. An object is analyzed to determine whether it is infected by malware, and if it is determined to be infected, a backup copy of the object is located in a backup of the objects. The infected object is replaced with the backup copy." The patent application was filed on Sept. 29, 2006 (11/541,413). 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=8,468,604&OS=8,468,604&RS=8,468,604 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Virtual Environment for Server Applications, Such as Web Applications ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,468,542) developed by Neil A. Jacobson, Arlington, Mass., John Sheehan, Cambridge, Mass., and Eric Jewart, Waltham, Mass., for a "virtual environment for server applications, such as web applications." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An application virtualization system enables server applications, such as web applications to be easily deployable, separates an application and its state from the system, and allows applications to be easily moved to another server. The application virtualization system provides a way to isolate conflicts and allow multiple applications that provide conflicting information to run independently and avoid conflicts. The application virtualization system receives notification of an application preparation session and monitors the session to collect configuration information that the application uses to run on a client. The application virtualization system stores the collected information until the application to be virtualized is deployed. When an administrator later deploys the application, the system retrieves the stored information and uses the information and information from the client to reconstitute the metadata and virtualize the application." The patent application was filed on March 4, 2010 (12/717,146). 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=8,468,542&OS=8,468,542&RS=8,468,542 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Red Hat Assigned Patent for Delaying Initiation of Maintenance Process for Running VM by Delay Value Based on Random Number Function Seeded with Unique ID ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Red Hat, Raleigh, N.C., has been assigned a patent (8,468,525) developed by Henri Han Van Riel, Nashua, N.H., and Daniel Berrange, Cambridge, Mass., for a "delaying initiation of maintenance process for running VM by delay value based on random number function seeded with unique ID." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of managing resources in a virtual environment based on identifiers is disclosed. The method includes detecting an instantiation of a virtual machine and determining a delay value based on a unique identifier. The method also includes delaying an initiation of at least one support process for the virtual machine by the delay value." The patent application was filed on Jan. 23, 2012 (13/356,250). 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=8,468,525&OS=8,468,525&RS=8,468,525 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Bandwidth Consumption Usage Reporting of Non-managed Sources ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,468,558) developed by Theodore Grevers Jr., Milford, Mass., for a "method and apparatus for bandwidth consumption usage reporting of non-managed sources." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the present invention may establish a set top box client based apparatus. The set top box client based apparatus may actively monitor content playback by the set top box. The set top box client based apparatus may subsequently report client playback state for non-managed sources to a service provider's policy or operation support systems (OSS). Embodiments of the invention may recognize that some service providers may use a policy system and OSS, while others will only utilize an OSS for resource management." The patent application was filed on March 29, 2010 (12/749,145). 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=8,468,558&OS=8,468,558&RS=8,468,558 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Kurzweil CyberArt Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Kurzweil CyberArt Technologies, Wellesley Hills, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,468,520) developed by Raymond C. Kurzweil, Newton, Mass., John A. Keklak, Sudbury, Mass., and Jules A. Yasuna, Upton, Mass., for a "technique for distributing software." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer program product and method for installing downloaded software on a client system over a network is described. The product and method include generating an access key by receiving an installation key produced using a random number generated from a seed that is the value of a client system internal clock at the exact moment in time to the millisecond at which a software installation program was run on the client produce the access code by modulo combining the installation key and user name received by the client system." The patent application was filed on Dec. 3, 2010 (12/959,490). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,468,520&OS=8,468,520&RS=8,468,520 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** General Instrument Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- General Instrument, Horsham, Pa., has been assigned a patent (8,468,571) developed by four co-inventors for an "enabling trick plays during VBR playback of a CBR transmitted media file." The co-inventors are Gerald Joyce, Newton, Mass., Chris Brown, Warrington, Pa., Michael Patrick, Assonet, Mass., and John Ulm, Pepperell, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for enabling trick plays during a variable bit rate (VBR) playback of a media file transmitted to a user media device as a constant bit rate (CBR) flow includes determining a plurality of access points within the media file. The media file is configured to be played back from each of the plurality of access points. A minimum buffer value is calculated for each of the plurality of access points. The minimum buffer value identifies a minimum amount of the media file to transmit to the user media device before beginning playback of the media file from each of the plurality of access points to substantially ensure that the media file is configured to be played back from each of the plurality of access points continuously and uninterruptedly at a variable bit rate." The patent application was filed on Dec. 21, 2007 (11/962,986). 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=8,468,571&OS=8,468,571&RS=8,468,571 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** NetApp Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- NetApp, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,468,304) developed by Peter F. Corbett, Lexington, Mass., for a "concentrated parity technique for handling double failures and enabling storage of more than one parity block per stripe on a storage device of a storage array." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for constructing an array of storage devices is disclosed. A number of storage devices is selected. Each storage device stores data in data blocks. A redundancy is established, the redundancy being a number of data blocks for a parity block. A plurality of parity sets is established, a parity set having the number of data blocks for a parity block and having a set parity block. The set parity block for each parity set is computed. Each set parity block is stored on one of the data storage devices that does not store one of the data-block members of the parity set, to store more than one parity block on each storage device, with an exception that two parity blocks for the same data storage location are precluded from being stored on the same data storage device." The patent application was filed on June 7, 2011 (13/155,229). 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=8,468,304&OS=8,468,304&RS=8,468,304 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Multiple Level Linked LRU Priority ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,468,536) developed by four co-inventors for a "multiple level linked LRU priority." The co-inventors are Deanna Postles Dunn Berger, S Hyde Park, N.Y., Ekaterina M. Ambroladze, Wappingers Falls, N.Y., Michael Fee, Cold Spring, N.Y., and Diana Lynn Orf, Somerville, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method that includes providing LRU selection logic which controllably pass requests for access to computer system resources to a shared resource via a first level and a second level, determining whether a request in a request group is active, presenting the request to LRU selection logic at the first level, when it is determined that the request is active, determining whether the request is a LRU request of the request group at the first level, forwarding the request to the second level when it is determined that the request is the LRU request of the request group, comparing the request to an LRU request from each of the request groups at the second level to determine whether the request is a LRU request of the plurality of request groups, and selecting the LRU request of the plurality of request groups to access the shared resource." The patent application was filed on June 24, 2010 (12/822,514). 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=8,468,536&OS=8,468,536&RS=8,468,536 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,468,308) developed by Simon C. Steely Jr., Hudson, N.H., Stephen R. Van Doren, Northborough, Mass., and Gregory Edward Tierney, Chelmsford, Mass., for a "system and method for non-migratory requests in a cache coherency protocol." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system comprises a first node including data having an associated state. The associated state of the data at the first node is a modified state. The system also comprises a second node operative to provide a non-migratory source broadcast request for the data. The first node is operative in response to the non-migratory source broadcast request to provide the data to the second node and to transition the associated state of the data at the first node from the modified state to an owner state without updating memory. The second node is operative to receive the data from the first node and assign a shared state to an associated state of the data at the second node." The patent application was filed on Jan. 20, 2004 (10/760,659). 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=8,468,308&OS=8,468,308&RS=8,468,308 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Raytheon Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Raytheon, Waltham, Mass., has been assigned a patent (RE44,303) developed by five co-inventors for a "passivation layer for a circuit device and method of manufacture." The co-inventors are John Bedinger, Garland, Texas, Michael A. Moore, Fort Worth, Texas, Robert B. Hallock, Newton, N.H., Kamal Tabatabaie, Sharon, Mass., and Thomas E. Kazior, Sudbury, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "According to one embodiment of the disclosure, a method for passivating a circuit device generally includes providing a substrate having a substrate surface, forming an electrical component on the substrate surface, and coating the substrate surface and the electrical component with a first protective dielectric layer. The first protective dielectric layer is made of a generally moisture insoluble material having a moisture permeability less than 0.01 gram/meter.sup.2/day, a moisture absorption less than 0.04 percent, a dielectric constant less than 10, a dielectric loss less than 0.005, a breakdown voltage strength greater than 8 million volts/centimeter, a sheet resistivity greater than 10.sup.15 ohm-centimeter, and a defect density less than 0.5/centimeter.sup.2." The patent application was filed on Aug. 2, 2012 (13/565,302). 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=RE44,303&OS=RE44,303&RS=RE44,303 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Pegasystems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Pegasystems, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,468,492) developed by Benjamin A. Frenkel, Cambridge, Mass., for a "system and method for creation and modification of software applications." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Described herein is a system comprising an App Generator (application generator) comprising executable program instructions that define one or more constraints. The one or more constraints embody one or more rules for converting an information structure into one or more components of a software application. The system also includes a digital data processor executing said executable program instructions to: i. provide a user interface; ii. accept input data that defines the information structure; and iii. apply the one or more constraints to said input data to generate the one or more components of the software application." The patent application was filed on March 30, 2010 (12/798,161). 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=8,468,492&OS=8,468,492&RS=8,468,492 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Red Hat Assigned Patent for Multiple Organization Support in a Networked System ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Red Hat, Raleigh, N.C., has been assigned a patent (8,468,519) developed by five co-inventors for a "multiple organization support in a networked system." The co-inventors are Shannon Ray Hughes, Fuquay Varina, N.C., Maureen E. Duffy, Somerville, Mass., Michael B. McCune, Beaverton, Ore., Pradeep Kilambi, Raleigh, N.C., and James S. Slagle, Raleigh, N.C. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Some embodiments of multiple organization support in a networked system have been presented. In one embodiment, a centralized server manages a networked system, which includes the centralized server and a set of computing machines coupled to each other within an internal network of a customer. The centralized server segregates data within the networked system by grouping data into the concept of an organization created by the customer in order to isolate the organizations." The patent application was filed on Aug. 27, 2008 (12/199,646). 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=8,468,519&OS=8,468,519&RS=8,468,519 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Intel Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,468,309) developed by four co-inventors for an "optimized ring protocols and techniques." The co-inventors are Meenakshisundaram R. Chinthamani, Hillsboro, Ore., R. Guru Prasadh, Austin, Texas, Hari K. Nagpal, Southborough, Mass., and Phanindra K. Mannava, Folsom, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus relating to ring protocols and techniques are described. In one embodiment, a first agent generates a request to write to a cache line of a cache over a first ring of a computing platform. A second agent that receives the write request forwards it to a third agent over the first ring of the computing platform. In turn, a third agent (e.g., a home agent) receives data corresponding to the write request over a second, different ring of the computing platform and writes the data to the cache. Other embodiments are also disclosed." The patent application was filed on Sept. 25, 2010 (12/890,650). 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=8,468,309&OS=8,468,309&RS=8,468,309 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Concurrent Upgrade of All Components in Storage Subsystems ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,468,517) developed by four co-inventors for "concurrent upgrade of all components in storage subsystems." The co-inventors are Haim Helman, Tel Aviv, Israel, Kariel Sandler, Tel Aviv, Israel, Shemer Schwartz, Tel Aviv, Israel, and Moshe Yanai, Waltham, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A plurality of upgraded components associated with an upgraded storage subsystem replaces a plurality of existing components associated with an existing storage subsystem. Support for a verify I/O command is created. A target volume is created in the upgraded storage subsystem having a same volume identification as a source volume. For a command received on the at least one of the plurality of upgraded components, the verify I/O command is invoked on at least one of a comparable one of the plurality of existing components. If the command is verified, the command is driven. The at least one of the plurality of upgraded components disguises a true volume identification of the target volume from the at least one of the plurality of existing components." The patent application was filed on April 19, 2012 (13/451,346). 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=8,468,517&OS=8,468,517&RS=8,468,517 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Transformation of Sequential Access Control Lists Utilizing Certificates ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,468,579) developed by six co-inventors for a "transformation of sequential access control lists utilizing certificates." The co-inventors are Carl Melvin Ellison, Seattle, Paul J. Leach, Seattle, Butler Wright Lampson, Cambridge, Mass., Melissa W. Dunn, Woodinville, Wash., Ravindra Nath Pandya, Clyde Hill, Wash., and Charles William Kaufman, Sammamish, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The subject disclosure pertains to systems and methods that facilitate managing access control utilizing certificates. The systems and methods described herein are directed to mapping an access policy as expressed in an access control list to a set of certificates. The set of certificates can be used to grant access to resources in the manner described by the ACL. The certificates can be distributed to entities for use in obtaining access to resources. Entities can present certificates to resources as evidence of their right to access the resources. The access logic of the sequential ACL can be transformed or mapped to a set of order independent certificates. In particular, each entry, position of the entry in the list and any preceding entries can be analyzed. The analysis can be used to generate order independent certificates that provide access in accordance with the access policy communicated in the ACL." The patent application was filed on June 15, 2007 (11/764,034). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,468,579&OS=8,468,579&RS=8,468,579 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** BRIDGE Energy Group Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- BRIDGE Energy Group, Marlborough, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,468,272) developed by Sudhir K. Giroti, Wellesley, Mass., for an "enterprise smart grid and demand management platform and methods for application development and management." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer-implemented platform server and method is provided for energy management operations in a Smart Grid environment. The platform server includes an application module configured to operate any of a plurality of Smart Grid Applications. A consumer-side module is configured for bi-directional communication with a plurality of consumer-side intelligent appliances. An Operations Technology (OT) module is configured for communication with an electrical grid Energy Management System (EMS). A translation module is coupled to, and configured to translate data received from, the application, consumer-side, and OT modules, so that the platform is configured to selectively receive, translate, and transmit data from and among any of said application, consumer-side, and OT modules, to facilitate automated energy management operations in a Smart Grid environment." The patent application was filed on July 7, 2010 (12/831,371). 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=8,468,272&OS=8,468,272&RS=8,468,272 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Protonex Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Protonex Technology, Southborough, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,465,569) developed by five co-inventors for a "membrane support module for permeate separation in a fuel cell." The co-inventors are David Edlund, Hopkinton, Mass., Paul Osenar, Westford, Mass., Nathan Palumbo, West Boylston, Mass., Ronald Rezac, Bolton, Mass., and Matt Steinbroner, Grafton, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A gas separation unit 102, 200, 300 for permeating a gas out from a pressurized feed mixture includes an input manifold 104, 204, an exhaust manifold, 106, 206 and a permeate assembly 108, 208, 303. The permeate assembly supports one or more permselective foils 130, 132, 218, 232, 318 over a hollow cavity 134, 272, 306 supported by a microscreen element 142, 144, 228, 230, 326. The microscreen element includes non-porous perimeter walls 190, 192, 278 supported on a frame surface and a porous central area 194, 280 supported over the hollow cavity. A porous spacer 138, 140, 174, 234 disposed inside the hollow cavity structurally supports the entire microscreen surface spanning the hollow cavity while also providing a void volume for receiving fluid passing through the porous central area and for conveying the fluid through the hollow cavity." The patent application was filed on Sept. 16, 2008 (12/283,807). 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=8,465,569&OS=8,465,569&RS=8,465,569 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. For more information about Targeted News Service products and services, please contact: Myron Struck, editor, Targeted News Service LLC, Springfield, Va., 703/304-1897; [email protected]; http://targetednews.com. -1128801 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |