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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in California (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 California. *** Google Assigned Patent for Suggesting Targeting Information for Ads, such as Websites and/or Categories of Websites for Example ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,468,048) developed by seven co-inventors for "suggesting targeting information for ads, such as websites and/or categories of websites for example." The co-inventors are Sumit Agarwal, San Carlos, Calif., Brian Axe, San Francisco, David Gehrking, Encino, Calif., Ching Law, Los Angeles, Andrew Maxwell, Los Angeles, Gokul Rajaram, Mountain View, Calif., and Leora Wiseman, Sunnyvale, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "One or more keywords and/or information about one or more properties may be accepted, and a set of one or more taxonomy categories may be determined using at least some of the keyword(s) and/or property information and perhaps term co-occurrence clusters. The determined taxonomy categories may be presented to an advertising user as an ad targeting suggestion. Each taxonomy category may have at least one associated property (e.g., Web document), that participates in an advertising network. An advertiser selection of a suggested taxonomy category may be accepted, and the serving of an ad of the advertiser may be targeted to each property associated with the selected suggested taxonomy category. Alternatively, such properties may be presented to an advertising user as an ad targeting suggestion." The patent application was filed on April 22, 2005 (11/112,732). 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=84,68,048.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,048&RS=PN/84,68,048 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Teradata U.S. Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Teradata U.S., Dayton, Ohio, has been assigned a patent (8,468,151) developed by Jeremy L. Branscome, Santa Clara, Calif., Joseph Irawan Chamdani, Santa Clara, Calif., and Rajasekhar Cherabuddi, Saratoga, Calif., for "methods and systems for hardware acceleration of database operations and queries based on multiple hardware accelerators." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the present invention provide a hardware accelerator that assists a host database system in processing its queries. The hardware accelerator comprises special purpose processing elements that are capable of receiving database query/operation tasks in the form of machine code database instructions, execute them in hardware without software, and return the query/operation result back to the host system." The patent application was filed on June 29, 2011 (13/172,790). 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=84,68,151.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,151&RS=PN/84,68,151 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** TaxNet Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- TaxNet, Oceanside, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,468,077) developed by David K. Murray, Carlsbad, Calif., for "distributed tax-return-preparation processing." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method includes providing to a tax-data provider a set of computer-executable instructions that, when executed by an electronic device, generate a user interface displayable on a display device coupled to the electronic device and operable to enable the tax-data provider to enter a tax-data set. The electronic system receives, but does not store, the tax-data set. A mathematical operation is performed using the received tax data, yielding a value. The electronic system provides the value to the electronic device." The patent application was filed on Jan. 17, 2006 (11/334,032). 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=84,68,077.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,077&RS=PN/84,68,077 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Palo Alto Research Center Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,468,112) developed by Johan De Kleer, Los Altos, Calif., and Sungwook Yoon, Palo Alto, Calif., for "factored envisioning for decision support." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method provides decision support for planning in an environment where a competition for use of resources exist and events affecting the planning are occurring dynamically. A system model of an actual system is provided. Then in a dynamic factored manner, an envisionment related to at least some aspects of the system model is built. From this envisionment output is generated related to at least some aspects of the system model. Finally, changes are made to the actual system, based on the generated output thereby changing a configuration and/or operation of the actual system." The patent application was filed on March 22, 2010 (12/728,503). 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=84,68,112.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,112&RS=PN/84,68,112 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Accommodating Gaps in Database Index Scans ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,468,150) developed by Gopi K. Attaluri, San Jose, Calif., and Michael J. Winer, Markham, Canada, for "accommodating gaps in database index scans." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "According to a present invention embodiment, a system conducts a scan on a database object index with one or more gaps. The system generates one or more combinations of values for the gaps within an index with respect to an operation. Each combination of values is generated by scanning the index based on a combination of one or more scan values, adjusting a value for a gap based on scan results, and adjusting the scan values for a succeeding scan based on the scan results to reduce a quantity of scans. The index includes at least two database object elements. One or more scans of the index utilizing the combinations of values are conducted to retrieve data from the database and accommodate each gap in the index. Present invention embodiments further include a method and computer program product for conducting the index scan." The patent application was filed on Oct. 31, 2011 (13/285,249). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=84,68,150.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,150&RS=PN/84,68,150 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Intuit Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Intuit, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,468,110) developed by six co-inventors for a "real-time user behavior prediction." The co-inventors are Igor A. Podgorny, San Diego, Fedor N. Dzegilenko, San Jose, Calif., Floyd J. Morgan, Carlsbad, Calif., Vineet Singh, Cupertino, Calif., Marc J. Attinasi, Ramona, Calif., and Troy D. Otillio, Carlsbad, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates use of an application. During operation, the system obtains an activity history of interaction between the user and the application during use of the application by the user. Next, the system applies a predictive model to the activity history to predict a probability of a user action in the application. Finally, the system facilitates subsequent real-time use of the application by the user based on the probability of the user action." The patent application was filed on July 22, 2010 (12/841,831). 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=84,68,110.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,110&RS=PN/84,68,110 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Google Assigned Patent for Ad Skip Feature for Characterizing Advertisement Effectiveness ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,468,056) developed by Matt Chalawsky, Los Angeles, for an "ad skip feature for characterizing advertisement effectiveness." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for characterizing effectiveness of online advertisements inserted into media streams based at least in part on monitoring events indicative of an audience skipping ad streams inserted into the media streams. The methods and systems described in this specification enable tracking the number of impressions prior to detecting events indicative of interest or disinterest for ad streams inserted into a media stream." The patent application was filed on April 21, 2010 (12/764,878). 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=84,68,056.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,056&RS=PN/84,68,056 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Xobni Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Xobni, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,468,168) developed by Matthew Brezina, San Francisco, and Adam Smith, San Francisco, for a "display of profile information based on implicit actions." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Among other disclosures, a method may include collecting historical communication data and personal data relating to a portion of a plurality of communications, a sender of one or more of the communications or one or more recipients of the communications. The method may include generating a profile based on the collected historical communication data and personal data and presenting the profile, in response to user behavior." The patent application was filed on July 25, 2008 (12/180,489). 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=84,68,168.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,168&RS=PN/84,68,168 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** salesforce.com Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- salesforce.com, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,468,117) developed by Doug Chasman, Pittsford, N.Y., and K. Andrew Waite, Novato, Calif., for a "system, method and computer program product for creating a visual component for tenants of an on-demand database service." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for creating visual components for tenants of an on-demand database service. These mechanisms and methods for creating visual components for tenants of an on-demand database service can enable embodiments to allow tenants to create reusable components for use in user defined interfaces, etc. The ability of embodiments to provide such feature may allow tenants to efficiently and effectively create interfaces." The patent application was filed on Jan. 22, 2009 (12/357,994). 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=84,68,117.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,117&RS=PN/84,68,117 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** American Master Lease Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- American Master Lease, Los Angeles, has been assigned a patent (8,468,084) developed by four co-inventors for "methods and investment instruments for performing tax-deferred real estate exchanges." The co-inventors are Neal Roberts, Santa Monica, Calif., Michael Franklin, Carlsbad, Calif., Charles Runnels, Scottsdale, Ariz., and James Andrews, Los Angeles. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and investment instruments for investing in real estate are described wherein a portfolio of investment real estate is divided into a plurality of tenant-in-common deeds of predetermined denominations, and which are subject to a master agreement and master lease to form "deedshares." Holders of the deedshares receive a guaranteed income stream from the master lease and yearly depreciation, without having to maintain or manage the real estate. The holders of deedshares are subject, under the master agreement, to a mechanism that enables the master tenant to purchase, or arrange for the purchase of the deedshares at fair market value (or some other calculable value) at the end of a specified term. Because the deedshares qualify as interests in investment real estate, they are eligible for tax-deferred treatment under .sctn.1031 of the Internal Revenue Code." The patent application was filed on March 26, 2012 (13/430,544). 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=84,68,084.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,084&RS=PN/84,68,084 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Google Assigned Patent for Advertisement Topic Diversification and Ranking ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,468,083) developed by Piotr Szulczewski, San Francisco, for an "advertisement topic diversification and ranking." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "One or more first groups of one or more first content items are identified. A first score is determined for each of the one or more first groups. A second group of one or more second content items is identified. At least one of the one or more second groups correspond to at least one of the one or more first groups. A second score is determined for each of the one or more second groups. A third score is determined for the first groups and the corresponding second group based on the first scores and second scores. An adjustment is made to a ranking of the one or more first content items based on the third scores." The patent application was filed on Aug. 10, 2007 (11/837,070). 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=84,68,083.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,083&RS=PN/84,68,083 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Oracle America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Oracle America, Redwood Shores, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,468,041) developed by David Vengerov, Sunnyvale, Calif., for "using reinforcement learning to facilitate dynamic resource allocation." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that allocates resources to projects in a computer system. During operation, the system determines a current demand by a project for a resource, and a current allocation of the resource to the project. The system also uses a computational model to compute an expected long-term utility of the project for the resource. Next, the system trades the resource between the project and other projects in the computer system to optimize expected long-term utilities. During this process, the system uses a reinforcement learning technique to update parameters of the computational model for the expected long-term utility of the project based on performance feedback." The patent application was filed on Dec. 22, 2004 (11/021,147). 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=84,68,041.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,041&RS=PN/84,68,041 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (8,468,164) developed by Ameesh Paleja, Irvine, Calif., Mekka C. Okereke, Irvine, Calif., and Matthew A. Jones, Ladera Ranch, Calif., for "personalized recommendations based on related users." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "This disclosure describes systems and associated processes for generating recommendations for users based on usage, among other things. These systems and processes are described in the context of an interactive computing system that enables users to download applications for mobile devices (such as phones) or for other computing devices. Users' interactions with applications once they are downloaded can be observed and tracked, with such usage data being collected and provided to the interactive computing system. The interactive computing system can include a recommendation system or service that processes the usage data from a plurality of users to detect usage patterns. Using these usage patterns, among possibly other data, such as data about related users' applications, the recommendation system can recommend applications to users for download." The patent application was filed on March 9, 2011 (13/044,235). 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=84,68,164.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,164&RS=PN/84,68,164 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Language Weaver Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Language Weaver, Los Angeles, has been assigned a patent (8,468,149) developed by Felix Lung, Los Angeles, William Wong, Huntington Beach, Calif., and Daniel Marcu, Hermosa Beach, Calif., for a multi-lingual online community. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system and computer readable medium for hosting a community in multiple languages is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a request from a first member of a community to post content within the community. The content is written in a first language. Next, the content is translated into a second language. Login information is received from a second member. The second member may be associated with a second language. Lastly, the translated content is displayed to the second member. The method may further comprise receiving feedback from the second member relating to the quality of the translation or post edited versions of the automatically produced translation." The patent application was filed on Jan. 26, 2007 (11/698,501). 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=84,68,149.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,149&RS=PN/84,68,149 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Yahoo! Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,468,049) developed by four co-inventors for "systems and methods for providing direct communication from personalized targeted advertisements." The co-inventors are Kenneth Quan, Oakland, Calif., Chon Fong Lei, Daly City, Calif., Kai Pong Lei, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Angelique Lausier, Mountain View, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of creating a personalized targeted advertisement for displaying on a webpage of a website is disclosed. The personalized targeted advertisement includes features to provide direct communication between a sender and a recipient of the personalized targeted advertisement. A selection of an advertisement template from a plurality of advertisement templates is detected. Then, a media file and a custom message are received to build the personalized targeted advertisement. The personalized targeted advertisement is then sent to the recipient identified by a unique identification. The advertising server is notified so that the personalized targeted advertisement can be displayed when the recipient identified by the unique identification logs into the website." The patent application was filed on Feb. 20, 2008 (12/034,583). 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=84,68,049.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,049&RS=PN/84,68,049 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Oracle International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Oracle International, Redwood Shores, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,468,166) developed by Tolga Bozkaya, Belmont, Calif., and Andrew Witkowski, Foster City, Calif., for "analytic enhancements to model clause in structured query language (SQL)." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for processing queries is provided. A database server receives and executes a query to generate a relation. The query comprises first one or more clauses and a model clause. The model clause comprises a rule that has a left-side expression and a right-side expression. In one embodiment, the right-side expression of the rule includes a window function, which specifies one or more partition columns. In an embodiment, the left-side expression comprises a for-loop predicate. The for-loop predicate is unfolded after the database server compiles the query. In one embodiment, the left-side expression of the rule comprises one or more existential predicates, where each existential predicate evaluates to a Boolean value." The patent application was filed on March 17, 2011 (13/050,883). 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=84,68,166.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,166&RS=PN/84,68,166 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Google Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,468,156) developed by Alon Y. Halevy, Los Altos, Calif., Jayant Madhavan, San Francisco, and David H. Ko, San Lorenzo, Calif., for "determining a geographic location relevant to a web page." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates searching through content which is accessible though web-based forms. During operation, the system receives a query containing keywords. Next, the system analyzes the query to create a structured query. The system then performs a lookup based on the structured query in a database containing entries describing the web-based forms. Next, the system ranks forms returned by the lookup, and uses the rankings and associated database entries to facilitate a search through content which is accessible through the forms." The patent application was filed on March 19, 2012 (13/424,050). 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=84,68,156.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,156&RS=PN/84,68,156 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Marketshare Partners Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Marketshare Partners, Santa Monica, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,468,045) developed by five co-inventors for an "automated specification, estimation, discovery of causal drivers and market response elasticities or lift factors." The co-inventors are David Cavander, Los Angeles, Wes Nichols, Los Angeles, Jon Vein, Los Angeles, Dominique Hanssens, Los Angeles, and Douglas A. Rae, Los Angeles. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In some embodiments, a software facility performs a method of automated specification of models, estimation of elasticities, and discovery of drivers using the framework(s) discussed elsewhere herein is provided. The facility first obtains the client, business, and/or brand goals in terms of profit optimization, volume or revenue goals, acquisition of new customers, retention of customers, share of wallet and upsell. In conjunction with these goals, the facility obtains cross-section meta-data related to the planning time horizon, markets, geographies, channels of trade and customer segments. In combination, the goals and meta-data define the structure of the data stack and the number of demand generation equations that are needed." The patent application was filed on July 9, 2012 (13/544,871). 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=84,68,045.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,045&RS=PN/84,68,045 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Intertainer Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Intertainer, Los Angeles, has been assigned a patent (8,468,099) developed by Kevin P. Headings, Pacific Palisades, Calif., and Steven M. Schein, Chino Hills, Calif., for a "digital entertainment service platform." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention is directed to an open business platform that provides an end-to-end solution for managing, distributing, and/or retailing digital media assets from various content suppliers. In one or more embodiments, the present invention provides an integrated system that permits media content suppliers to deposit their media assets with the system where they are prepared by a content management system for distribution to consumers via a secure distribution system. The media content suppliers may then track and control the use of their media assets through a subscriber management system for managing consumer accounts, a licensing server for issuing licenses restricting the use of media content, and a royalty reporter for determining and reporting royalties to the various content suppliers." The patent application was filed on Oct. 10, 2009 (12/587,667). 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=84,68,099.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,099&RS=PN/84,68,099 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** ContentGuard Holdings Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- ContentGuard Holdings, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,468,098) developed by Guillermo Lao, Torrance, Calif., and Thanh Ta, Huntington Beach, Calif., for a "method and system for subscription digital rights management." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for managing use of items having usage rights associated therewith. The system includes an activation device adapted to issue a software package having a public and private key pair, the public key being associated with a user, a license device adapted to issue a license, a usage device adapted to receive the software package, receive the license and allow the user to access the item in accordance with the license, and a subscription managing device adapted to maintain a subscription list including the public key associated with the user. License's is issued by the license device upon verifying presence of the public key in the subscription list corresponding to requested content." The patent application was filed on March 6, 2012 (13/412,819). 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=84,68,098.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,098&RS=PN/84,68,098 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Intuit Assigned Patent for Multiple Party Order Coordination Method and System ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Intuit, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,468,062) developed by Kiyanosh Kamdar, Carlsbad, Calif., for a "multiple party order coordination method and system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for providing a multiple party order coordination system includes a process for providing a multiple party order coordination system whereby a given consumer, i.e., a first party, is provided the opportunity to try and combine one or more of the given consumer's product and/or service orders with one or more other consumers' product and/or service orders, i.e., with one or more other parties' product and/or service orders, into a combined multiple party order. A communication system is provided whereby the multiple parties can communicate, and/or negotiate, and/or coordinate, the merger/combination of their respective orders and establish one or more operating parameters such as, but not limited to, purchase dates, delivery dates, delivery locations, purchase price, and payment method and timing. The multiple parties' individual product and/or service orders are then merged into a single combined multiple party order that is then placed through one or more purchase systems provided by, or otherwise associated with, the process for providing a multiple party order coordination system." The patent application was filed on April 28, 2008 (12/110,832). 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=84,68,062.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,062&RS=PN/84,68,062 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** UTBK Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- UTBK, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,468,050) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and system to connect consumers to information." The co-inventors are Scott Faber, San Francisco, Sean Van Der Linden, San Francisco, Patrick McKenna, San Francisco, and Peter Chen, Palo Alto, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for recruiting, communicating with, and paying participants of interactive advertising are described. The present invention is a system through which advertisers can recruit, communicate with, and pay their potential customers for their time. The system achieves these functions without the advertiser or the customer having to be in the same location--all logistics are handled through the system's web site, database, and communications interfaces. The system enables advertisers to promote interactive seminars in which they try to sell products to potential customers. Most importantly, the advertisers are able to offer their potential customers financial rewards for their time, such as 25 cents per minute to reward a customer for listening to a sales pitch. The system then provides a real-time communications link between the advertiser and customer. The system automatically bills the advertiser and rewards the customer for the time that they interact." The patent application was filed on Oct. 1, 2004 (10/956,571). 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=84,68,050.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,050&RS=PN/84,68,050 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** University of California Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- The University of California, Oakland, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,468,162) developed by Walid A. Najjar, Yorba Linda, Calif., Edward Bryann C. Fernandez, Moreno Valley, Calif., and Stefano Lonardi, Claremont, Calif., for "string matching in hardware using the FM-index." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "String matching is a ubiquitous problem that arises in a wide range of applications in computer science, e.g., packet routing, intrusion detection, web querying, and genome analysis. Due to its importance, dozens of algorithms and several data structures have been developed over the years. A recent breakthrough in this field is the FM-index, a data structure that synergistically combines the Burrows-Wheeler transform and the suffix array. In software, the FM-index allows searching (exact and approximate) in times comparable to the fastest known indices for large texts (suffix trees and suffix arrays), but has the additional advantage to be much more space-efficient than those indices. This disclosure discusses an FPGA-based hardware implementation of the FM-index for exact and approximate pattern matching." The patent application was filed on March 8, 2012 (13/415,784). 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=84,68,162.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,162&RS=PN/84,68,162 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** HRL Laboratories Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- HRL Laboratories, Malibu, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,468,104) developed by Suhas E. Chelian, Los Angeles, and Narayan Srinivasa, Oak Park, Calif., for a "system for anomaly detection." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Described is a system for anomaly detection to detect an anomalous object in an image, such as a concealed object beneath a person's clothing. The system is configured to receive, in a processor, at least one streaming peaked curve (R) representative of a difference between an input and a chosen category for a given feature. A degree of match is then generated between the input and the chosen category for all features. Finally, the degree of match is compared against a predetermined anomaly threshold and, if the degree of match exceeds the predetermined anomaly threshold, then the current feature is designated as an anomaly." The patent application was filed on Dec. 2, 2009 (12/592,837). 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=84,68,104.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,104&RS=PN/84,68,104 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** CoreLogic Solutions Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- CoreLogic Solutions, Santa Ana, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,468,088) developed by Dianna L. Serio, Irvine, Calif., and Felice J. Kesselring, El Dorado Hills, Calif., for "automated mining and processing of data associated with real estate." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Computer-based processes are disclosed for efficiently mining and analyzing information associated with particular mortgage loans, borrowers and properties. The disclosed processes use property-related data aggregated from multiple sources and jurisdictions to, among other tasks, identify properties owned by an individual." The patent application was filed on Sept. 7, 2010 (12/876,581). 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=84,68,088.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,088&RS=PN/84,68,088 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Facebook Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Facebook, Menlo Park, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,468,103) developed by Nicholas Galbreath, San Francisco, and Christopher Lunt, Mountain View, Calif., for a "system and method for managing information flow between members of an online social network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An online social network is provided in which members of the online social network control who may view their personal information and who may communicate with them. The members control who may view their personal information by setting a visibility preference. A member may not view another member's full personal profile if the measure of relatedness between the two is greater than the visibility preference of the other member. The members also control who may communicate with them by setting a contactability preference. A member may not communicate with another member if the measure of relatedness between the two is greater than the contactability preference of the other member." The patent application was filed on Dec. 22, 2010 (12/976,518). 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=84,68,103.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,103&RS=PN/84,68,103 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Guidewire Software Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Guidewire Software, Foster City, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,468,037) developed by Geoffrey Clarke, Foster City, Calif., Kenneth William Branson, Los Altos, Calif., and Minh Vu, Milpitas, Calif., for a reinsurance risk management. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Managing risks associated with reinsurance includes: obtaining a plurality of insurance policies, each of the plurality of insurance policies comprising a plurality of coverages; identifying, for each insurance policy in the plurality of insurance policies, a set of coverages that corresponds to a geographical location, a policy level liability, or a covered item; and evaluating, for each identified set of coverages, a corresponding reinsurable risk, the evaluation includes determining a total insured value associated with the corresponding reinsurable risk." The patent application was filed on March 28, 2012 (13/432,788). 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=84,68,037.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,037&RS=PN/84,68,037 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Apple Assigned Patent for Modifying Performance Parameters in Multiple Circuits According to a Performance State Table Upon Receiving a Request to Change a Performance State ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Apple, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,468,373) developed by Erik P. Machnicki, San Jose, Calif., Timothy J. Millet, Mountain View, Calif., and Josh P. de Cesare, Campbell, Calif., for a "modifying performance parameters in multiple circuits according to a performance state table upon receiving a request to change a performance state." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for coordinating performance parameters in multiple domains are described. In an embodiment, a method includes receiving a request to change a state of an electronic circuit, where the circuit includes a first domain and a second domain, causing a first parameter of a first circuit serving the first domain to be modified to a first modified parameter based on the request, and causing a second parameter of a second circuit serving the second domain to be modified to a second modified parameter based on the request. In some cases, a parameter may include a clock frequency. In other cases, a parameter may include a voltage. In some embodiments, a system may be implemented as a logic circuit and/or as a system-on-a-chip (SoC). Devices suitable for using these systems include, for example, desktop and laptop computers, tablets, network appliances, mobile phones, personal digital assistants, e-book readers, televisions, and game consoles." The patent application was filed on Jan. 14, 2011 (13/006,967). 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=8,468,373.PN.&OS=PN/8,468,373&RS=PN/8,468,373 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Avaak Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Avaak, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,468,066) developed by Bar-Giora Goldberg, San Diego, and Gioia Messinger, Encinitas, Calif., for an "inventory or asset management system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A network sensor system and protocol is provided. The network sensor system includes a sensor node that has a sensor for collecting high-resolution data, and a radio for transmitting that data to a central hub. The sensor node communicates to the hub with a wireless data link, and operators solely from a battery. Accordingly, the sensor node is autonomous, and has no wire connections, so may be discreetly and simply installed. The sensor node is normally operated in a power-saving sleep mode, and is minimally activated only for required periods of time. The sensor node may be activated responsive to a low power timer, or from another locally generated interrupt. The sensor node also implements power-saving transfer protocols to further reduce power needs. Many sensor nodes may be associated with a single central hub, and larger networked sensor systems may be arranged." The patent application was filed on Aug. 29, 2007 (11/846,764). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=84,68,066.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,066&RS=PN/84,68,066 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Workload Learning in Data Replication Environments ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,468,133) developed by five co-inventors for "workload learning in data replication environments." The co-inventors are Lawrence Yiumchee Chiu, Saratoga, Calif., Yang Liu, Shanghai, China, Matthew Joseph Kalos, Tucson, Ariz., Paul Henri Muench, San Jose, Calif., and Gail Andrea Spear, Tucson, Ariz. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for replicating I/O performance in data replication environments, such as PPRC environments, is described. In selected embodiments, such a method includes monitoring I/O workload at a primary storage device over a period of time, such as a period of hours, days, or months. The method then generates learning data at the primary storage device describing the I/O workload over the selected time period. The learning data is replicated from the primary storage device to a secondary storage device. The method uses the learning data to optimize the secondary storage device to handle the I/O workload of the primary storage device. This will enable the secondary storage device to provide substantially the same I/O performance as the primary storage device in the event a failover occurs." The patent application was filed on April 27, 2012 (13/458,714). 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=84,68,133.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,133&RS=PN/84,68,133 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Micron Technology Assigned Patent for Error Recovery Storage Along a Memory String ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Micron Technology, Boise, Idaho, has been assigned a patent (8,468,415) developed by William H. Radke, Los Gatos, Calif., for an "error recovery storage along a memory string." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Apparatus and methods store error recovery data in different dimensions of a memory array. For example, in one dimension, block error correction codes (ECC) are used, and in another dimension, supplemental error correction codes, such as convolutional codes, are used. By using separate dimensions, the likelihood that a defect affects both error recovery techniques is lessened, thereby increasing the probability that error recovery can be performed successfully. In one example, block error correction codes are used for data stored along rows, and this data is stored in one level of multiple-level cells of the array. Supplemental error correction codes are used for data stored along columns, such as along the cells of a string, and the supplemental error correction codes are stored in a different level than the error correction codes." The patent application was filed on Aug. 8, 2012 (13/570,180). 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=8,468,415.PN.&OS=PN/8,468,415&RS=PN/8,468,415 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Loyal3 Holdings Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Loyal3 Holdings, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,468,129) developed by Matthew Ho, San Francisco, Arthur M. Peel, San Francisco, and Alex Zuzin, San Francisco, for an "asynchronous replication of databases of peer networks." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "User data is shared among servers or server farms, referred to transaction nodes. A user is assigned to one of multiple transaction nodes as its home when the user enrolls in a web-based service. Each transaction nodes maintains records of the users assigned to it, including blocks which are formed when a specified number of new users are assigned. A block hash value is computed based on row hash values, where one row is provided for each user. A transaction node advertises its block identifiers when there is a changed full or partial block, or at other times, to allow other transaction nodes to request a block they do not have. Changed blocks can also be advertised with their recomputed block hash value. Advertisements can be provided to transaction nodes actively accepting new users, and to a subset of transaction nodes which are deactivated and not accepting new users." The patent application was filed on Sept. 23, 2011 (13/242,081). 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=84,68,129.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,129&RS=PN/84,68,129 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** ShoreTel Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- ShoreTel, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,468,121) developed by four co-inventors for "resolving resource time intervals in a distributed system." The co-inventors are Jerry Prusa, Saratoga, Calif., Jayaprakash Krishnan, San Jose, Calif., Bhupendra Singh, Fremont, Calif., and Raju Viswambharan, San Jose, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one example embodiment, a method can include determining resource time data for an update contact data record corresponding to a state of a given resource in a distributed contact center system. A repository can be queried for conflicting data records associated with the given resource based on the resource time data. Any inconsistency for the resource time data can be resolved based on results to the querying and the update contact data record." The patent application was filed on Sept. 29, 2011 (13/248,682). 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=84,68,121.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,121&RS=PN/84,68,121 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Red Hat Assigned Patent for Efficient Security Information Distribution ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Red Hat, Raleigh, N.C., has been assigned a patent (8,468,339) developed by Steven W. Parkinson, Mountain View, Calif., and Robert B. Crittenden, Mountain View, Calif., for an "efficient security information distribution." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and software for distributing several data objects containing status information about security certificates, and a directory of the data objects, through a peer-to-peer data distribution network. Other methods and software for preparing a certificate status object containing validity information about a security certificate, and a reaffirmation object identifying the certificate status object, both to be transmitted to a requesting client after an expiration time contained in the certificate status object." The patent application was filed on Nov. 30, 2006 (11/607,563). 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=8,468,339.PN.&OS=PN/8,468,339&RS=PN/8,468,339 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** KLA-Tencor Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- KLA-Tencor, Milpitas, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,468,471) developed by five co-inventors for a process aware metrology. The co-inventors are Xuefeng Liu, San Jose, Calif., Yung-Ho Alex Chuang, Cupertino, Calif., John Fielden, Los Altos, Calif., Bin-Ming Benjamin Tsai, Saratoga, Calif., and Jingjing Zhang, San Jose, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for process aware metrology are provided." The patent application was filed on March 2, 2012 (13/411,433). 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=8,468,471.PN.&OS=PN/8,468,471&RS=PN/8,468,471 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Apple Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Apple, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,468,465) developed by five co-inventors for a two-dimensional slider control. The co-inventors are Peter Warner, Paris, Andrew Bryant, Los Gatos, Calif., James Clinton Arndt, Livermore, Calif., Olivier Fedkiw, San Francisco, and Ryan Alan Gallagher, San Jose, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Some embodiments provide a computer program that provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for controlling an application. The GUI includes a contiguous two-dimensional sliding region for defining several values. The GUI also includes several sliders for moving within the sliding region. Each slider selects one or more values from the several values based on a position of the slider within the sliding region. The selected values are parameters for controlling one or more operations of the application." The patent application was filed on Aug. 9, 2010 (12/853,275). 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=8,468,465.PN.&OS=PN/8,468,465&RS=PN/8,468,465 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Google Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,468,469) developed by Indika C. Mendis, Mountain View, Calif., and Asif Zahir, San Francisco, for a "zooming user interface interactions." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer-implemented user interface method includes receiving a first user selection at a first location on a graphically-displayed object on a graphical user interface, receiving a subsequent user selection, separate from the first user selection, at a second location on the graphically-displayed object, determining a relative orientation between the first location and the second location, and zooming on the graphically-displayed object centered on a point that is along a line between the first location and the second location. A direction of the zooming is determined from the relative orientation of the first location to the second location." The patent application was filed on April 14, 2009 (12/423,084). 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=8,468,469.PN.&OS=PN/8,468,469&RS=PN/8,468,469 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Seven Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Seven Networks, Redwood City, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,468,126) developed by Robert Paul Van Gent, Redwood City, Calif., and Ido Ariel, Tel Aviv, Israel, for "publishing data in an information community." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for publishing information to a community of users is disclosed. Published information is inclusive of, for example, calendar data, blog data and photographs. Communities may be defined by PIM data or automatically generated by a data aggregation server in response to a user-defined rubric. Published information may be provided to a recipient or in conjunction with a notification delivered to the recipient. Published data may be subject to certain read/write limitations." The patent application was filed on Dec. 14, 2005 (11/303,048). 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=84,68,126.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,126&RS=PN/84,68,126 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Apple Assigned Patent for Multimedia-aware Quality-of-service and Error Correction Provisioning ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Apple, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,468,426) developed by Harry Bims, Menlo Park, Calif., for a "multimedia-aware quality-of-service and error correction provisioning." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus for associating each data packet in a media stream with logic corresponding to a particular quality-of-service (QoS) and/or error correction requirement. In an exemplary embodiment, each packet in the media stream is assigned a frame tag which designates a particular quality-of-service and/or error correction scheme for the corresponding packet. At least a portion of each packet is encoded according to the packet's designated quality-of-service as indicated by the frame tag. A receiver accesses the frame tags from within the transmitted media stream in order to determine the appropriate means for processing or decoding the encoded portion of each packet. In this manner, each packet within the media stream can have its own quality-of-service and/or error correction requirements and processing, thereby enhancing link efficiency and better enforcing QoS policy across the system." The patent application was filed on July 2, 2008 (12/217,308). 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=8,468,426.PN.&OS=PN/8,468,426&RS=PN/8,468,426 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Optimizing Data Transmission Bandwidth Consumption over a Wide Area Network ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,468,135) developed by Mihail Corneliu Constantinescu, San Jose, Calif., and Joseph Samuel Glider, Palo Alto, Calif., for "optimizing data transmission bandwidth consumption over a wide area network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An exemplary embodiment includes partitioning a data message to be communicated from a first data site to a second data site into data chunks; generating a data chunk identifier for each data chunk; determining whether the data chunks are stored at the second data site; when at least one data chunk is not stored at the second data site, adding the data chunk identifier for each data chunk not stored at the second data site to a data structure at the first data site; sending a transformed data message from the first date site to the second data site; wherein, when at least one data chunk is already stored at the second data site, rather than including that data chunk, the transformed data message instead includes at least one tuple to enable the data message to be reconstructed at the second data site without sending the previously stored data chunk, the transformed data message also includes each data chunk not stored at the second data site." The patent application was filed on April 14, 2010 (12/760,489). 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=84,68,135.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,135&RS=PN/84,68,135 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Intel Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,468,433) developed by Kuljit S. Bains, Olympia, Wash., and Joe H. Salmon, Placerville, Calif., for an "optimizing the size of memory devices used for error correction code storage." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to systems, methods, and apparatuses for optimizing the size of memory devices used for error correction code storage. An apparatus (such as a memory module) may include a number of memory devices to store data and a memory device to store error correction (ECC) bits. In some embodiments, the memory devices to store data may have a density of N and the memory device to store ECC bits has a density of 1/2 N." The patent application was filed on Jan. 26, 2012 (13/359,163). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,468,433.PN.&OS=PN/8,468,433&RS=PN/8,468,433 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** SanDisk Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- SanDisk Technologies, Plano, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,468,424) developed by Nima Mokhlesi, Los Gatos, Calif., Henry Chin, Palo Alto, Calif., and Dengtao Zhao, Sunnyvale, Calif., for a "method for decoding data in non-volatile storage using reliability metrics based on multiple reads." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Data stored in non-volatile storage is decoded using iterative probabilistic decoding and multiple read operations to achieve greater reliability. An error correcting code such as a low density parity check code may be used. In one approach, initial reliability metrics, such as logarithmic likelihood ratios, are used in decoding read data of a set of non-volatile storage element. The decoding attempts to converge by adjusting the reliability metrics for bits in code words which represent the sensed state. If convergence does not occur, e.g., within a set time period, the state of the non-volatile storage element is sensed again, current values of the reliability metrics in the decoder are adjusted, and the decoding again attempts to converge." The patent application was filed on Feb. 10, 2011 (13/024,676). 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=8,468,424.PN.&OS=PN/8,468,424&RS=PN/8,468,424 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Symantec Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Symantec, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,468,608) developed by Brian Hernacki, San Carlos, Calif., Sourabh Satish, Fremont, Calif., and William E. Sobel, Stevenson Ranch, Calif., for an "enforcing digital rights management in a heterogeneous environment." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A DRM server parses a request received from a client for a content identifier and client classification information. The content identifier identifies the requested content and client classification information describes the capabilities of the client. The DRM server determines a policy for the requested content. The policy specifies rules for determining access rights for the content responsive to the capabilities of the client. The DRM server determines access rights for the requested content responsive to the capabilities of the client and the policy. The DRM manager then provides the requested content and the determined access rights to the client." The patent application was filed on March 30, 2009 (12/414,466). 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=8,468,608&OS=8,468,608&RS=8,468,608 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Skyfire Labs Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Skyfire Labs, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,468,130) developed by nine co-inventors for an "assisted hybrid mobile browser." The co-inventors are Nitin Bhandari, Fremont, Calif., Erik R. Swenson, San Jose, Calif., Geoffrey Dale Benson, Sunnyvale, Calif., Ishika Paul, Mountain View, Calif., James Marzano, Sunnyvale, Calif., Jaime Heilpern, San Francisco, Robert Oberhofer, Belmont, Calif., Michael Guzewicz, Campbell, Calif., and Vijay Kumar, Santa Clara, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and a method are disclosed for identifying video files on a webpage and streaming video files to a client device. A server receives browsing data including uniform resource locator for a webpage and identifies missing videos on the webpage. The server identifies a source file for the missing videos including identifying a location for each missing video. The server retrieves a thumbnail for each missing video and provides it to a client device. Additionally, the server transcodes the video file responsive to a user input provided by a user. The transcoded video is streamed to the client device." The patent application was filed on April 4, 2011 (13/079,699). 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=84,68,130.PN.&OS=PN/84,68,130&RS=PN/84,68,130 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Mendel Biotechnology Assigned Patent for Miscanthus Plant Named 'MBS 1001' ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Mendel Biotechnology, Hayward, Calif., has been assigned a patent (PP23,680) developed by Martin Deuter, Wanzleben, Germany, for a "miscanthus plant named 'MBS 1001'." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A new and distinct cultivar of Miscanthus plant named `MBS 1001`, characterized by its vigorous growth rate, top leaf height, green-colored leaves, high biomass yield and high tiller density." The patent application was filed on July 12, 2011 (13/067,964). 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=PP23,680&OS=PP23,680&RS=PP23,680 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Apollo Group Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Apollo Group, Phoenix, has been assigned a patent (8,468,458) developed by four co-inventors for a "dynamic and local management of hierarchical discussion thread data." The co-inventors are Jongwoo Lee, San Francisco, Manish Upendran, San Jose, Calif., Locke D. Berkebile, Alamo, Calif., and Jason Brightman, Oakland, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques are described for display and navigation of hierarchical messages, which displays include contextual data for the messages. Context information for a current message includes reply messages, parent messages, and metadata representations. 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