U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Washington (Jan. 9)

(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Washington.

*** Sharp Laboratories of America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Sharp Laboratories of America, Camas, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,353,047) developed by Andrew Rodney Ferlitsch, Camas, Wash., for "methods and systems for digital image data tracking." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for notification handling in a processing server and an imaging device." The patent application was filed on Dec. 8, 2006 (11/608,572). 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=8,353,047&OS=8,353,047&RS=8,353,047 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

*** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Transparently Extensible Firewall Cluster ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,353,020) developed by four co-inventors for a "transparently extensible firewall cluster." The co-inventors are Amit Finkelstein, Haifa, Israel, Avihai Lifschitz, Bellevue, Wash., Yosef Dinerstein, Haifa, Israel, and Ziv Caspi, Tel Aviv, Israel.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A generic master-slave mechanism enables a single processor of a cluster of firewall processors to define the behavior of the other processors in the cluster for a specific logical connection. The cluster of firewall processors utilizes virtual adapters representing physical adapters on other processors in the firewall cluster. This virtualization allows each cluster member to act as though it is a standalone machine that owns all local IP addresses of the entire cluster. When traffic is received by a firewall processor, the firewall processor determines if there is a master associated with the logical connection for the traffic. If so, the traffic is routed to the master. If no master is associated, in an example configuration, the receiving firewall processor becomes the master. A message traffic logical connection has a single master. A master remains the master of a logical connection until the connection is terminated." The patent application was filed on June 14, 2006 (11/453,778). 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=8,353,020&OS=8,353,020&RS=8,353,020 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

*** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (8,352,615) developed by four co-inventors for a content management. The co-inventors are Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Seattle, David R. Richardson, Seattle, Bradley E. Marshall, Bainbridge Island, Wash., and Christopher L. Scofield, Seattle.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for management and processing of resource requests is provided. A content delivery network service provider determines a class associated with a set of client computing devices and monitors resources requests for the determined class. The content delivery network service provider then identifies at least one cache component for providing additional content, such as advertisement content or other additional content provided in anticipation of future resource requests, to client computing devices as a function of the determined class. In other embodiments, instead of cache components, the content delivery network service provider identifies a second set of client computing devices as a function of the determined class for providing the additional content information." The patent application was filed on Nov. 30, 2010 (12/956,823). 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=8,352,615&OS=8,352,615&RS=8,352,615 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Microsoft Assigned Patent for on Demand Protection Against Web Resources Associated with Undesirable Activities ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,353,029) developed by six co-inventors for "on demand protection against web resources associated with undesirable activities." The co-inventors are Bruce A. Morgan, Bellevue, Wash., Cornelis K. Van Dok, Bellevue, Wash., Daniel M. Saimo, Redmond, Wash., Govind Varshney, Bellevue, Wash., Sebastien Zimmermann, Redmond, Wash., and Tariq Sharif, Redmond, Wash.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various embodiments provide protection against web resources associated with one or more undesirable activities. In at least some embodiments, a method detects and responds to a user-initiated activity on a computing device. Responding can include, by way of example and not limitation, checking locally, on the computing device, whether a web resource that is associated with the user-initiated activity has been identified as being associated with a safe site. If the web resource is not associated with a safe site, the user will be notified and given the option to check remotely, away from the computing device, whether the web resource is identified as being at least possibly associated with one or more undesirable activities." The patent application was filed on Nov. 10, 2005 (11/272,464). 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=8,353,029&OS=8,353,029&RS=8,353,029 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

*** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,353,049) developed by Dennis N. Bromley, Issaquah, Wash., and Quintin S. Burns, Fort Mills, S.C., for "separating keys and policy for consuming content." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In accordance with one or more aspects of the separating keys and policy for consuming content, content has a corresponding leaf license, and the leaf license has one or more associated root policy addenda. Each root policy addenda includes policy identifying when it is permissible to decrypt and consume the content, but excludes a content key to decrypt the content. The content can be decrypted and consumed only if the policy identifies that it is permissible to decrypt and consume the content." The patent application was filed on April 17, 2008 (12/105,260). 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=8,353,049&OS=8,353,049&RS=8,353,049 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

*** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,352,658) developed by Mihail Gavril Tarta, Sammamish, Wash., and Gopala Krishna R. Kakivaya, Sammamish, Wash., for a "fabric based lock manager service." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A replicated finite state machine lock service facilitates resource sharing in a distributed system. A lock request from a client identifies a resource and a lock-mode, and requests a leaseless lock on the resource. The service uses client instance identifiers to categorize requests as duplicate, stale, abandoned, or actionable. A lock may be abandoned when a client holding the lock goes down. After a per-client abandonment timer expires, the lock service may treat any exclusive lock granted to the client as abandoned, and treat any non-exclusive lock granted to the client as unlocked. The service tries to notify a lock-holding client if another client requests the same lock, and treats the lock as abandoned if the notification attempt fails. An abandoned read lock is granted to a different client on request. An abandoned write lock is granted or refused depending on whether the requesting client accepts abandoned write locks." The patent application was filed on May 27, 2010 (12/788,371). 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=8,352,658&OS=8,352,658&RS=8,352,658 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent for Content Management ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (8,352,613) developed by four co-inventors for a content management. The co-inventors are Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Seattle, David R. Richardson, Seattle, Bradley E. Marshall, Bainbridge Island, Wash., and Christopher L. Scofield, Seattle.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for management and processing of resource requests is provided. A content delivery network service provider determines a class associated with a set of client computing devices and monitors resources requests for the determined class. The content delivery network service provider then identifies at least one cache component for providing additional content, such as advertisement content or other additional content provided in anticipation of future resource requests, to client computing devices as a function of the determined class. In other embodiments, instead of cache components, the content delivery network service provider identifies a second set of client computing devices as a function of the determined class for providing the additional content information." The patent application was filed on Nov. 30, 2010 (12/956,566). 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=8,352,613&OS=8,352,613&RS=8,352,613 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Unified Management Policy ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,353,005) developed by four co-inventors for an unified management policy. The co-inventors are Jack Kabat, Sammamish, Wash., Vadim Meleshuk, Seattle, Jasjeet Gill, Seattle, and Alexander T. Weinert, Seattle.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Defining a unified access management policy expression that unifies access control policy with events or workflows. Unified management policy information is stored. The unified management policy information defines permissions for access to resources together with events or workflows. A request is received to execute the one or more operations on one or more objects. The requested operation is verified against the unified management rules. Verifying includes performing a single retrieval, retrieving both the access control information and the events or workflows and calculating the applicability of the rule to the conditions represented by the request. Matching rules are applied, access control decisions performed and associated workflows are executed." The patent application was filed on June 27, 2008 (12/163,791). 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=8,353,005&OS=8,353,005&RS=8,353,005 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

*** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Trusted Internet Identity ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,353,015) developed by Todd L. Carpenter, Monroe, Wash., David Steeves, Seattle, and David Abzarian, Kirkland, Wash., for a trusted internet identity.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A token or other storage device uses Internet identities to set file access attribute rights. Subsequently, requests to access a file can be controlled by confirming the Internet identity of the requester by either validating the request with a known public key or retrieving the public key from an Internet identity provider. Files may be stored encrypted and may be re-encrypted with the public key associated with Internet identity making the request." The patent application was filed on Jan. 9, 2008 (11/971,215). 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=8,353,015&OS=8,353,015&RS=8,353,015 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

*** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Adaptive Video Switching for Variable Network Conditions ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,352,996) developed by six co-inventors for an "adaptive video switching for variable network conditions." The co-inventors are Gilles Khouzam, Bothell, Wash., Donald Karlov, North Bend, Wash., Wenbo Zhang, Redmond, Wash., Federico Schliemann, Redmond, Wash., Sam George, Kenmore, Wash., and Mike Harsh, Redmond, Wash.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for video playback switching in response to changing network conditions. The method includes accessing a server to retrieve respective index files for a low bit rate version and a high bit rate version of the video file, and instantiating a low bit rate media player and a high bit rate media. Playback of the video file is begun by the high bit rate media player streaming the high bit rate version from the server. Upon an indication of impeded network conditions, a transition point is selected, wherein the transition point indicates where downloading of the high bit rate version stops and where downloading of the low bit rate version begins. The low bit rate media player is then positioned to begin playback at the transition point. Playback of the video file is then switched to the low bit rate player upon encountering the transition point." The patent application was filed on June 27, 2008 (12/147,512). 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=8,352,996&OS=8,352,996&RS=8,352,996 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

*** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent for Content Management ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (8,352,614) developed by four co-inventors for a content management. The co-inventors are Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Seattle, David R. Richardson, Seattle, Bradley E. Marshall, Bainbridge Island, Wash., and Christopher L. Scofield, Seattle.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for management and processing of resource requests is provided. A content delivery network service provider determines a class associated with a set of client computing devices and monitors resources requests for the determined class. The content delivery network service provider then identifies at least one cache component for providing additional content, such as advertisement content or other additional content provided in anticipation of future resource requests, to client computing devices as a function of the determined class. In other embodiments, instead of cache components, the content delivery network service provider identifies a second set of client computing devices as a function of the determined class for providing the additional content information." The patent application was filed on Nov. 30, 2010 (12/956,647). 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=8,352,614&OS=8,352,614&RS=8,352,614 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Microsoft Assigned Patent for System and Method for Delivery of a Modular Operating System ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,353,046) developed by Bohdan Raciborski, Redmond, Wash., for a "system and method for delivery of a modular operating system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An operating system and method for use include a core function module, or basic kernel, providing fundamental operating system support and one or more add-on modules that allow customization of the operating system as desired. Add-on modules may provide support or extended capability to the computer including hardware, applications, peripherals, and support. A digital signature may be used to confirm the integrity of an add-on module prior to installation. Certification may be verified to determine if installation of the add-on module is authorized. By withholding certification, a service provider may manage illegal or undesired modifications to a provided computer. Digital rights management may be used to enforce terms of use of the add-on module in keeping with licensing arrangements." The patent application was filed on June 8, 2005 (11/147,539). 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=8,353,046&OS=8,353,046&RS=8,353,046 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

*** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Dynamically Provisioning Virtual Machines ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,352,953) developed by four co-inventors for "dynamically provisioning virtual machines." The co-inventors are James J. Bozek, Bothell, Wash., Bruce A. Smith, Austin, Texas, Edward S. Suffern, Chapel Hill, N.C., and James L. Wooldridge, Fall City, Wash.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Virtual machines are managed on the basis of data obtained from a management information database of a network switch having a plurality of Ethernet links coupled to compute nodes running a plurality of virtual machines. A management entity, such as a provisioning manager, determines the amount of network bandwidth being utilized through each of the first and second Ethernet links and the amount of network bandwidth being utilized by the Internet Protocol addresses attributable to each of the virtual machines. Accordingly, one of the virtual machines may be migrated from one compute node to another compute node coupled to an Ethernet link having a greater amount of unutilized network bandwidth. Virtual machines may be dynamically migrated in order to provide each virtual machine with a required amount of network bandwidth." The patent application was filed on Dec. 3, 2009 (12/630,607). 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=8,352,953&OS=8,352,953&RS=8,352,953 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

*** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (8,352,382) developed by Akshay Kumar Reddy Katta, Seattle, and Russell Allgor, Seattle, for "heuristic methods for customer order fulfillment planning." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques for heuristic customer order fulfillment planning. A method may include iteratively partitioning ordered items into shipment groups according to a set partition algorithm. Of a working set including the unassigned items, the algorithm may determine the subset that optimizes fulfillment cost per member of the subset, and may assign this subset to a shipment group. To determine the subset, the algorithm may iterate over the set of combinations of fulfillment decision variables. For each combination, a list of members of the working set that may be shipped according to the combination is generated. The subset of this list that optimizes, per member of the subset, the costs of shipping according to the combination is then identified." The patent application was filed on Aug. 15, 2008 (12/192,523). 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=83,52,382.PN.&OS=PN/83,52,382&RS=PN/83,52,382 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Microsoft Assigned Patent for System and Method for Optimizing Under Notifications for Small Computer Devices ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,352,961) developed by Kathryn L. Parker, Fall City, Wash., and Peter Vale, Seattle, for a "system and method for optimizing under notifications for small computer devices." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for notifying users in a manner that is appropriate for the event and the environment for the user. The method of the present invention relates to determining the desired properties of an event and assigning varying notification characteristics to that event. Profiles are created of the various events, wherein each profile relates to a different mode or situational environment, such as a meeting environment, an office or normal environment, a louder outside-type environment, etc. The invention further relates to placing the small computer device in a particular mode, either automatically or manually. Once in a particular mode the device provides notifications according to that mode." The patent application was filed on Nov. 5, 2008 (12/265,557). 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=8,352,961&OS=8,352,961&RS=8,352,961 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

*** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Producer/Consumer Optimization ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,352,456) developed by John J. Duffy, Renton, Wash., and Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, Mercer Island, Wash., for a producer/consumer optimization.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods facilitate efficient data processing in a computer environment. Data producers and consumers are considered in aggregate rather than in isolation. In one instance, interaction between data producers and consumers is improved by integrating producers and consumers. Optimization can subsequently be performed over the combination to produce synergistic results." The patent application was filed on May 11, 2007 (11/747,772). 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=83,52,456.PN.&OS=PN/83,52,456&RS=PN/83,52,456 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Integrated Full Text Search System and Method ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,352,463) developed by Tapas Kumar Nayak, Sammamish, Wash., and Nimish Khanolkar, Kirkland, Wash., for an "integrated full text search system and method." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention relates to an integrated full-text search architecture that integrates full text search with database server applications in a tight manner so that it becomes part of the server in all aspects including storage, metadata, query processing, back/up restore and resource management. This provides improved performance with respect to queries as well as improved manageability. Furthermore, the subject architecture is open and schema directed unlike other conventional full-text search architectures. Accordingly, the full-text search architecture enables expert users (e.g., search providers) to define their own index structures as well as ranking algorithms." The patent application was filed on May 19, 2008 (12/122,896). 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=83,52,463.PN.&OS=PN/83,52,463&RS=PN/83,52,463 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Facilitating the Automated Testing of Daily Builds of Software ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,352,916) developed by four co-inventors for "facilitating the automated testing of daily builds of software." The co-inventors are Vikas Ahluwalia, Kirkland, Wash., Arun Batish, Beaverton, Ore., Thomas M. Carlier, Beaverton, Ore., Manoj K. Negi, Beaverton, Ore., and Vipul Paul, Hillsboro, Ore.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Automated testing of software builds having updated signature required modules, such as plug and play devices, is facilitated. A build (e.g., a daily build) of the software is performed, which includes one or more updated signature required modules. These modules are included within the build, even though the modules are unsigned. Automated testing is then performed against the daily builds." The patent application was filed on Feb. 17, 2006 (11/357,549). 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=8,352,916&OS=8,352,916&RS=8,352,916 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

*** Battelle Memorial Institute Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Battelle Memorial Institute, Richland, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,352,469) developed by Stuart J. Rose, Richland, Wash., for an "automatic generation of stop word lists for information retrieval and analysis." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for automatically generating lists of stop words for information retrieval and analysis. Generation of the stop words can include providing a corpus of documents and a plurality of keywords. From the corpus of documents, a term list of all terms is constructed and both a keyword adjacency frequency and a keyword frequency are determined. If a ratio of the keyword adjacency frequency to the keyword frequency for a particular term on the term list is less than a predetermined value, then that term is excluded from the term list. The resulting term list is truncated based on predetermined criteria to form a stop word list." The patent application was filed on Sept. 9, 2009 (12/555,962). 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=83,52,469.PN.&OS=PN/83,52,469&RS=PN/83,52,469 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent for System and Method for Authorization of Transactions ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (8,352,376) developed by Philip Yuen, Bellevue, Wash., Chih-Jen Huang, Kirkland, Wash., and Gerald Yuen, Pasadena, Calif., for a "system and method for authorization of transactions." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "System and method for authorizing transactions, such as payments or money transfers. A transaction authorization mechanism may be provided through which a transaction initiated via a first communications channel may be authorized through a second, separate communications channel or mechanism. A source entity may initiate a transaction to a target entity via a first communications channel to a transaction authorization service. The transaction authorization service may confirm the transaction with the source entity via a second communications channel. Various embodiments may use different communications channels, for example conventional telephone systems, mobile/cellular phone systems, and text messaging systems as the first or second communications channels. After the transaction has been authorized via the second communications channel, the transaction authorization service and/or the source entity may contact the target entity to inform the target entity of the transaction. The target entity may then complete the transaction." The patent application was filed on Oct. 10, 2006 (11/546,030). 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=83,52,376.PN.&OS=PN/83,52,376&RS=PN/83,52,376 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,352,473) developed by eight co-inventors for a "product synthesis from multiple sources." The co-inventors are Ariel Fuxman, Redmond, Wash., Hoa Nguyen, Salt Lake City, Juliana Freire De Lima E. Silva, Salt Lake City, Stelios Paparizos, Redmond, Wash., Rakesh Agrawal, Redmond, Wash., Zhimin Chen, Redmond, Wash., Lawrence William Colagiovanni, Issaquah, Wash., and Prakash Sikchi, Redmond, Wash.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for automatically synthesizing product information from multiple data sources into an on-line catalog are disclosed, and in particular, for automatically synthesizing the product information based on attribute-value pairs. Information for a product may be obtained, via entity extraction, feed ingestion, and other mechanisms, from a plurality of structured and unstructured data sources having different taxonomies and schemas. Product information may additionally or alternatively be obtained or derived based on popularity data. The product information may be cleansed, segmented and normalized. The product information may be clustered so closest products, attribute names and attribute values are associated. A representative value for an attribute name may be determined, and the on-line catalog may be updated so that entries are comprehensive, meaningful and useful to a catalog user. Updates from at least 500 million different data sources may be scheduled to occur as frequently as several times daily." The patent application was filed on April 21, 2010 (12/764,676). 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=83,52,473.PN.&OS=PN/83,52,473&RS=PN/83,52,473 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Organization of Application State and Configuration Settings ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,352,915) developed by four co-inventors for "organization of application state and configuration settings." The co-inventors are Jose M. Bernabeu-Auban, Sammamish, Wash., Stephen E. Dossick, Redmond, Wash., Frank V. Peschel-Gallee, Redmond, Wash., and Stephan J. Zachwieja, Redmond, Wash.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The operating system manages software entities by creating a construct called a context that organizes and manages software-related state and configuration settings of applications. A context may comprise an installation service, a configuration service and an activation service. Contexts can be linked or arranged hierarchically to form parent-child relationships. Hierarchies may be used to affect accessibility of software items, to satisfy dependencies, to control the visibility/invisibility of software items, to provide access to configuration settings and to override software availability, dependencies and configuration settings. An override may be applied to set policy when more than one context has a configuration setting, dependency or access to a software entity." The patent application was filed on Aug. 8, 2011 (13/205,111). 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=8,352,915&OS=8,352,915&RS=8,352,915 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

*** Invention Science Fund I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Invention Science Fund I, Bellevue, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,352,420) developed by Edward K. Y. Jung, Bellevue, Wash., and Clarence T. Tegreene, Bellevue, Wash., for "using federated mote-associated logs." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems or methods may utilize one or more mote-related content logs. By way of example, but not limitation, a system using one or more processing components may be configured (i) to accept input defining a mote-appropriate network search and (ii) to search at least one mote content log of at least one federated log in response to the accepted input, with the at least one federated log stored by a memory, wherein the search may include searching a time series of at least two mote logs that correspond to at least a first mote and a second mote for the accepted input. In certain example implementations, a time series may include at least a portion of at least one mote content log of at least one federated log, or a first mote may correspond to a first physical location and a second mote may correspond to a second physical location." The patent application was filed on Dec. 4, 2007 (11/999,094). 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=83,52,420.PN.&OS=PN/83,52,420&RS=PN/83,52,420 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Client Side Locking ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,352,418) developed by ten co-inventors for a client side locking. The co-inventors are Jonathan Beckett Bailor, Bellevue, Wash., Ethan Joseph Bernstein, Mercer Island, Wash., Mark Rolland Knight, Bellevue, Wash., Christopher James Antos, Bellevue, Wash., Andrew Richard Simonds, Newcastle, Wash., Brian Michael Jones, Redmond, Wash., Simon Peter Clarke, Seattle, Edgar Mark Sunderland, Seattle, David Benjamin Robins, Duvall, Wash., and Miko Arnab Sakhya Singha Bose, Seattle.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A collaborative authoring application provides an authoring environment in which two or more users can edit a document concurrently. Each user edits a copy of the document, sends updates to a master copy of the document, and receives updates from the master copy of the document. The authoring environment generally inhibits the users from providing conflicting editing instructions to the master copy of the document. For example, each user can generate a content lock about one or more data units within the document. The authoring environment may synchronize content locks automatically and content only at the request of the user." The patent application was filed on April 4, 2011 (13/079,605). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=83,52,418.PN.&OS=PN/83,52,418&RS=PN/83,52,418 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Conflict Resolution ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,352,870) developed by five co-inventors for a conflict resolution. The co-inventors are Jonathan Beckett Bailor, Bellevue, Wash., Ethan Joseph Bernstein, Mercer Island, Wash., Kelly Michael Krout, Redmond, Wash., Matthew Eric Mizulo, Kirkland, and Jonathan Ian Gordner, Seattle.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of a collaborative authoring environment enable a user to resolve editing conflicts arising when synchronizing a user copy of a data file with a master copy of the data file. Content updates may be synchronized separately from metadata updates. Metadata updates may be synchronized automatically, whereas content updates may be synchronized only when any identified editing conflicts are resolved. When an editing conflict is identified, the user interface of the authoring application may be configured to toggle between displaying and hiding the identified editing conflicts." The patent application was filed on April 28, 2008 (12/111,174). 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=8,352,870&OS=8,352,870&RS=8,352,870 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

*** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods for Improving Web Site User Experience ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,352,396) developed by George Forman, Port Orchard, Wash., and Evan R. Kirshenbaum, Mountain View, Calif., for "systems and methods for improving web site user experience." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for personalizing web sites. A model based on mining web usage data is accessed. The model defines associations between web sites. Interest associations extracted from web interactions are stored. The interest associations comprise interest indications and web sites associated with the interest indications. An interest indication from the interest associations is selected. The interest indication is associated with an associated web site. The associated web site has an association with a target web site as defined by the model. The interest indication is sent to the target web site." The patent application was filed on Sept. 8, 2009 (12/555,638). 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=83,52,396.PN.&OS=PN/83,52,396&RS=PN/83,52,396 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Adjustment of Range of Content Displayed on Graphical User Interface ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 - Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,352,877) developed by Bryan Beatty, Sammamish, Wash., and Bogdan Popp, Sammamish, Wash., for an "adjustment of range of content displayed on graphical user interface." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various embodiments related to the adjustment of a displayed range of a portion of a content selection are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computing device with an interactive display is configured to display a portion of a content selection and a control associated with the content selection. The control comprises a track and an indicator that indicates a location and a range of the portion of the content selection within the content selection as a whole. A first type of input associated with the control alters the range of the portion of the content selection displayed relative to the content selection as a whole and adjusts an appearance of the indicator, while a second type of touch input associated with the control alters a portion of the content selection displayed and moves the indicator on the track." The patent application was filed on March 6, 2008 (12/043,931). 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=8,352,877&OS=8,352,877&RS=8,352,877 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

*** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Development Environment Integration with Version History Tools ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,352,445) developed by Andrew B. Begel, Seattle, Gina D. Venolia, Bellevue, Wash., and Reid T. Holmes, Calgary, Canada, for a "development environment integration with version history tools." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Instructions within an instruction set (such as source code for a software application) may be documented within many separate tools, such as a development environment, a version control system, and a bug report database. However, it may be inefficient to search for such information in many locations and through many interfaces while investigating the version history of an instruction. Instead, the development environment may be configured to retrieve relevant information (such as bug reports, versioning, and version release notes) and to display the version history information for a selected instruction together within the development environment." The patent application was filed on May 23, 2008 (12/126,251). 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=83,52,445.PN.&OS=PN/83,52,445&RS=PN/83,52,445 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Dependency Graph in Data-driven Model ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,352,397) developed by four co-inventors for a "dependency graph in data-driven model." The co-inventors are Darryl E. Rubin, Duvall, Wash., Vijay Mital, Sammamish, Wash., Brian C. Beckman, Newcastle, Wash., and G. Shon Katzenberger, Fall City, Wash.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The inference of a dependency graph that represents a graph of solves that leads from input model parameter(s) to output model parameters using analytics. In one embodiment, the dependency graph is part of visually driven analytics in which the output model parameter(s) are used to formulate data-drive scenes. As the identity of the input and/or output model parameter(s) change, or as the analytics themselves change, the dependency graph may also change. This might trigger a resolve of the analytics. In one embodiment, the intermediate parameters involved in the dependency graph may be viewed and evaluated by the user." The patent application was filed on Sept. 10, 2009 (12/557,297). 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=83,52,397.PN.&OS=PN/83,52,397&RS=PN/83,52,397 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Visual Group Interface for Group Connectivity ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 - Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,352,874) developed by 11 co-inventors for a "visual group interface for group connectivity." The co-inventors are Melora Zaner, Seattle, Eugene Mesgar, Seattle, Neel Ishwar Murarka, Seattle, Asta Glatzer, Redmond, Wash., Kathleen Mulcahy, Seattle, Rama Ranganath, Seattle, Erica Sanders, Seattle, Cesare John Saretto, Seattle, Tammy Savage, Seattle, John Vert, Seattle, and Eugene Zarakhovsky, Seattle.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A communication icon represents a shared connection allowing members of an online group to interact with each other and participate in different activities together. The icon through which the group interacts resides on each group member's desktop and has many attributes including click activation modes and drag and drop functionality. The icon provides each group member with a representation of the group's shared relationship. Any group member can change the group icon and have that change propagated to the computers of the other members of the group. The icon can be activated for both non-verbal and verbal communications as well as activity sharing. Online members of the group are kept apprised of the group's status and activities via a displayed status bar." The patent application was filed on April 1, 2010 (12/752,278). 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=8,352,874&OS=8,352,874&RS=8,352,874 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

*** Boeing, University of Missouri Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Boeing, Chicago, and the University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo., have been assigned a patent (8,352,392) developed by Douglas K. Swift, Puyallup, Wash., and Cihan H. Dagli, Wildwood, Mo., for "methods and system for modeling network traffic." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system are provided for modeling network traffic in which an artificial neural network architecture is utilized in order to intelligently and adaptively model the capacity of a network. Initially, the network traffic is decomposed into a plurality of categories, such as individual users, application usage or common usage groups. Inputs to the artificial neural network are then defined such that a respective combination of inputs permits prediction of bandwidth capacity needs for that input condition. Outputs of the artificial neural network are representative of the network traffic associated with the respective inputs. For example, a plurality of bandwidth profiles associated with respective categories may be defined. An artificial neural network may then be constructed and trained with those bandwidth profiles and then utilized to relate predict future bandwidth needs for the network." The patent application was filed on Nov. 28, 2007 (11/946,371). 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=83,52,392.PN.&OS=PN/83,52,392&RS=PN/83,52,392 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Composition of Local Media Playback with Remotely Generated User Interface ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,352,544) developed by Nicholas J. Fang, Redmond, Wash., Todd Bowra, Redmond, Wash., and Ashley C. Speicher, Redmond, Wash., for a "composition of local media playback with remotely generated user interface." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A media server in a home entertainment network coordinates with a media player connected with the network to provide a media presentation with a combined user interface (UI) on an attached display device. Media content is sourced locally on a networked media player. The media player extracts metadata related to the media content and transmits the metadata to the media server. The media server creates the UI to include components related to the media content rendered by the media player. The media server then transmits the UI to the media player for combination with the rendered media content for a composite output to a presentation device. The media server may further develop and transmit compositing instructions and additional media content to the media player for inclusion in the composite output." The patent application was filed on Nov. 29, 2010 (12/955,896). 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=8,352,544&OS=8,352,544&RS=8,352,544 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,352,553) developed by four co-inventors for an electronic mail connector. The co-inventors are Dominic J. Pouzin, Sammamish, Wash., Ilana Rae Smith, Frederiksberg, Germany, Shashi Ranjan, Redmond, Wash., and David Robert Shutt, Seattle.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Technologies are described herein for providing a bi-direction e-mail transport between a management ("CRM") server computer and an e-mail server computer. An e-mail connector communicates with a CRM server computer to determine whether any e-mail messages are pending send at the CRM server computer. If any e-mail messages are pending send, the e-mail connector retrieves the e-mail messages from the CRM server computer. The e-mail connector then communicates with an e-mail server computer to send the retrieved e-mail messages to their intended recipients. The e-mail connector may also retrieve e-mail messages from the e-mail server computer and determine whether the e-mail messages are CRM related. If the e-mail messages are CRM related, the e-mail connector is operative to transmit the CRM-related e-mails to the CRM server." The patent application was filed on April 30, 2007 (11/796,788). 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=8,352,553&OS=8,352,553&RS=8,352,553 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Teamon Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Teamon Systems, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,352,548) developed by Steven J. McCarthy, Bellevue, Wash., for a "communications system providing enhanced client-server communications and related methods." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A communications system may include an application server and at least one communications device for processing requests from one another. The communications device may process requests using an HTTP client application, for example. Furthermore, the system may also include an HTTP server for interfacing the HTTP client application with the application server. The HTTP server and the HTTP client application may format requests to be communicated therebetween via the Internet in an HTTP format, and each may provide additional state information with the HTTP formatted requests recognizable by the other for authenticating the application server and the HTTP client application to one another. Furthermore, the HTTP client application may request a first universal resource locator (URL) from the HTTP server for accepting work requests from the application server, and a second URL different from the first URL for responding to work requests from the application server." The patent application was filed on March 19, 2012 (13/423,992). 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=8,352,548&OS=8,352,548&RS=8,352,548 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Cypress Semiconductor Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Cypress Semiconductor, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,352,527) developed by David Van Ess, Arlington, Wash., for a "statistical method for filter convergence without accumulating residual error." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed is a filter circuit, comprising a signal to be filtered, a difference circuit coupled to the signal to be filtered, a filter having an input coupled to the difference circuit, an integrator (or accumulator) having a first input coupled to an output of the filter circuit, and having a second input, and an accumulator coupled to an output of the integrator. A method of filtering is described also." The patent application was filed on Sept. 29, 2006 (11/541,068). 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=8,352,527&OS=8,352,527&RS=8,352,527 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Maintaining Large Random Sample with Semi-random Append-only Operations ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,352,519) developed by Suman Kumar Nath, Redmond, Wash., for "maintaining large random sample with semi-random append-only operations." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods are provided for online maintenance, processing, and querying of large random samples of data from a large/infinite data stream. In an illustrative implementation an exemplary computing environment comprises at least one data store, a data storage and management engine operable to process and/or store data according to a selected data processing and storage management paradigm on a cooperating data store (e.g., flash media). The exemplary data storage and management engine can deploy the exemplary sampling algorithm to perform and/or provide one or more of the following operations/features comprising the algorithm is operable for streaming data (or a single pass through the dataset), allows for the semi-random data write operations, the algorithm avoids operations (e.g., in-place updates) that are expensive on flash storage media, and the algorithm is tunable to both the amount of flash storage and the amount of standard memory (DRAM) available to the algorithm." The patent application was filed on July 31, 2008 (12/184,213). 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=8,352,519&OS=8,352,519&RS=8,352,519 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Device Settings Restore Point ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,352,784) developed by David Burg, Bellevue, Wash., and Vlad Sadovsky, Redmond, Wash., for a "device settings restore point." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and a device may be provided for saving and restoring one or more settings associated with the device. The one or more settings may be saved and changed before performing a task. After completion of the task, or after a determined failure of the task to complete, the one or more settings may be restored. Communications may be exchanged between a host and the device to create a restore point for saving the one or more settings, to change any of the one or more settings before performing the task, and to restore the one or more settings after completion of the task, or after determining the failure of the task to complete. The device may create and store the one or more settings in a restore point in the device, or may send the one or more settings to the host for storing." The patent application was filed on Dec. 17, 2007 (11/957,514). 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=8,352,784.PN.&OS=PN/8,352,784&RS=PN/8,352,784 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Retrieval and Storage of Localized Instances of Data Objects ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,352,507) developed by Raymond R. Patch, Redmond, Wash., Rajeev S. Chauhan, Issaquah, Wash., and Daniel K. Lin, Redmond, Wash., for a "retrieval and storage of localized instances of data objects." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method includes receiving, at a first computing device, a request to retrieve a localized instance of a data object. The request is received from a second computing device and includes an object name. A locale applicable to the request is identified, and the localized instance of the data object is retrieved based on the object name and the identified locale. The localized instance includes a plurality of data elements specific to the identified locale. The method includes transmitting the localized instance to the second computing device." The patent application was filed on Oct. 29, 2010 (12/915,044). 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=8,352,507&OS=8,352,507&RS=8,352,507 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Microsoft Assigned Patent for XML Schema Collection Objects and Corresponding Systems and Methods ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,352,512) developed by seven co-inventors for an "XML schema collection objects and corresponding systems and methods." The co-inventors are Dragan Tomic, Redmond, Wash., Joseph Xavier, Bellevue, Wash., Shankar Pal, Redmond, Wash., Istvan Cseri, Redmond, Wash., Gideon Schaller, Bellevue, Wash., Michael Rys, Sammamish, Wash., and Oliver Nicholas Seeliger, Sammamish, Wash.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention provides "XML Schema Collections" and methods and systems for using the same. XML data is typically stored as an XML instance, each of which should conform to a "schema" according to a desired goal. An XML schema provides identification and organization for the data supplied by an XML instance. XML Schema Collections are collections of one or more XML schema namespaces. An storage location designated for storage of XML data, such as an XML column in a relational database, can be "typed" with an XML Schema Collection object, allowing that storage location to store XML instances that conform to more than one XML schema. XML Schema Collections provide increased data storage versatility, and facilitation of data searches." The patent application was filed on Sept. 8, 2010 (12/877,386). 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=8,352,512&OS=8,352,512&RS=8,352,512 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,352,797) developed by eight co-inventors for a "software fault isolation using byte-granularity memory protection." The co-inventors are Richard John Black, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Paul Barham, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Manuel Costa, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Marcus Peinado, Bellevue, Wash., Jean-Philippe Martin, Mountain view, Wash., Periklis Akritidis, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Austin Donnelly, Cambridge, United Kingdom, and Miguel Castro, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Software fault isolation methods using byte-granularity memory protection are described. In an embodiment, untrusted drivers or other extensions to a software system are run in a separate domain from the host portion of the software system, but share the same address space as the host portion. Calls between domains are mediated using an interposition library and access control data is maintained for substantially each byte of relevant virtual address space. Instrumentation added to the untrusted extension at compile-time, before load-time, or at runtime and added by the interposition library enforces the isolation between domains, for example by adding access right checks before any writes or indirect calls and by redirecting function calls to call wrappers in the interposition library. The instrumentation also updates the access control data to grant and revoke access rights on a fine granularity according to the semantics of the operation being invoked." The patent application was filed on Dec. 8, 2009 (12/633,326). 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=8,352,797.PN.&OS=PN/8,352,797&RS=PN/8,352,797 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Intel Assigned Patent for Performing Redundant Memory Hopping ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,352,779) developed by Mallik Bulusu, Olympia, Wash., and Robert C. Swanson, Olympia, Wash., for "performing redundant memory hopping." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving an indication of a loss of redundancy with respect to a pair of mirrored memory regions of a partially redundant memory system, determining new mirrored memory regions, and dynamically migrating information stored in the original mirrored memory regions to the new mirrored memory regions. Other embodiments are described and claimed." The patent application was filed on Nov. 30, 2011 (13/307,547). 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=8,352,779.PN.&OS=PN/8,352,779&RS=PN/8,352,779 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Dynamic Multi-scale Schema ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,352,524) developed by nine co-inventors for a dynamic multi-scale schema. The co-inventors are Gary W. Flake, Bellevue, Wash., Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Seattle, Brett D. Brewer, Sammamish, Wash., Anthony T. Chor, Bellevue, Wash., Steven Drucker, Bellevue, Wash., Karim Farouki, Seattle, Stephen L. Lawler, Redmond, Wash., Ariel J. Lazier, Seattle, and Donald James Lindsay, Mountain View, Calif.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates organizing and presenting data within a database. A data store can store a portion of data accessible to a user. A real time monitor component can dynamically track an amount of access for the portion of data within the data store. A display engine can render a multi-scaled view of the portion of data, wherein the multi-scaled view is based on the amount of access in which a size representation of the data is correlated with the amount of access." The patent application was filed on April 30, 2008 (12/112,639). 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=8,352,524&OS=8,352,524&RS=8,352,524 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent for Dynamically Modifying Program Execution Capacity ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (8,352,609) developed by nine co-inventors for a "dynamically modifying program execution capacity." The co-inventors are Alex Maclinovsky, Bellevue, Wash., Blake Meike, Seattle, Chiranjeeb Buragohain, Seattle, Christopher Reddy Kommareddy, Lynnwood, Wash., Geoffry Scott Pare, Seattle, John W. Heitmann, Seattle, Sumit Lohia, Seattle, Liang Chen, Mercer Island, Wash., and Zachary S. Musgrave, Seattle.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques are described for managing program execution capacity, such as for a group of computing nodes that are provided for executing one or more programs for a user. In some situations, dynamic program execution capacity modifications for a computing node group that is in use may be perf For more information about Targeted News Service products and services, please contact: Myron Struck, editor, Targeted News Service LLC, Springfield, Va., 703/304-1897; editor@targetednews.com; http://targetednews.com.

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